The corpus record — Latin

efflagito

efflagito · v. a

to demand

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ef-flāgĭto — Lewis & Short

ef-flāgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to demand or ask urgently, to request earnestly (class.; for syn. cf.: posco, flagito, exigo, obsecro, etc.): epistolam, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11: libros, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 3: judicio rum desiderio tribunicia potestas efflagitata est, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 8: collationes, Suet. Ner. 38: notum ensem, Verg. A. 12, 759; Suet. Tib. 12 fin.: signum pugnae, Liv. 3, 60: misericordiam alicujus (with requirere), Cic. Mil. 34 et saep.—With ut: cum iste a Cn. Dolabella efflagitasset, ut, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 24; Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 1; cf.: aliquem, ut, Auct. B. Hisp. 29, 7; and with simple subj., Suet. Tit. 5.—Absol.: a multis efflagitatus, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, 92 Zumpt N. cr.; Quint. 4, 5, 10; Suet. Dom. 3.

In the wild

efflagitasset Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.63
efflagitatus Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario 4
efflagitata Tacitus, Annales 6.p16
efflagitatus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.92
efflagitauit Suetonius, Divus Julius 7.1
efflagitatu Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.75

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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