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effligo

effligo · v. a

to strike dead

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Where it lives

Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ef-flīgo — Lewis & Short

ef-flīgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,

I to strike dead, to kill, destroy (very rare): qui filium misit ad effligendum Pompeium, Cic. Att. 9, 19, 2: nisi pedatu tertio omnis efflixero (with obtruncavero and occidero), Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 50; cf.: rabidos canes (with caedere), Sen. Ira, 1, 15: viperas et natrices, id. ib. 2, 31 fin.; Plaut. As. 4, 2, 9.—Hence,

1 efflictim, adv., to death, desperately. —With amare, deperire, etc., i. e. amare usque donicum effligatur, Prob. ap. Charis. p. 178 (ante-class.); Naev. ap. Charis. l. l.; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19 (twice); id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Poen. prol. 96; 5, 2, 15; Laber. and Pompon. ap. Non. 104, 24 sq.—

2 efflicte, in like sense (post-class.): cupere aliquid, App. M. 5, p. 171, 36: diligere, Symm. Ep. 1, 84.

In the wild

effligere Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.6
effligi Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.57.8
efflixero Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1
effligeremus Seneca, De Ira 2.31.8
effliges Plautus, Asinaria 4.2
efflicte Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.28

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