The corpus record — Latin

dimicatio

dimicatio · f

a fight, combat, furious encounter

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Bello Alexandrino 6 · 5.75/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 2 · 4.62/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 2 · 2.94/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 3 · 2.58/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
Pro L. Murena 2 · 1.9/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 2 · 1.9/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dīmĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

dīmĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.dimico,

I a fight, combat, furious encounter (cf.: pugna, proelium, certamen, contentio, acies; freq. and good prose).

I Lit., Caes. B. C. 3, 111, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; Liv. 25, 6 fin.; 31, 35 fin.; Suet. Aug. 10; 17; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 18; Front. Strat. 2, 1, 11 et saep.—In plur., Caes. B. G. 7, 86, 3; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 12.—

(b) With gen.: proelii, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, § 5: universae rei, a pitched battle, general engagement, Liv. 1, 38; for which, universa, id. 22, 32. —

II Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, a combating, struggling; a contest: non modo contentione, sed etiam dimicatione elaborandum, Cic. Fam. 2, 6 fin.: talis in remp. nostram labor, assiduitas, dimicatio, id. Balb. 2 fin.; Liv. 10, 24; Quint. 5, 7, 3; 6, 4, 4 al.—

(b) With gen.: vitae, i. e. a perilous contest, Cic. Planc. 32: capitis, id. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.: capitis, famae, fortunarumque omnium, id. Rab. Perd. 2, 5: fortunae (c. c. discrimen), id. Sull. 28.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.