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effrenus

effrenus · adj

free from the bridle

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Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ef-frēnus — Lewis & Short

ef-frēnus, a, um (also effrenis mula, adj.ex-frenum,

Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 171; Sen. de Ira, 3, 15, 2),

I free from the bridle, unbridled (not ante Aug., and mostly poet. for effrenatus; cf. also: infrenus, infrenatus).

I Lit.: equus, Liv. 4, 33, 7.—

II Trop., unbridled, unrestrained: gens, Verg. G. 3, 382: amor, Ov. M. 6, 465: juventa, Stat. Achill. 1, 277: profatu, id. Silv. 5, 3, 103.

In the wild

effrenae Statius, Achilleis 1.277
effreni Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.179
effrenae Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.966
effrenum Silius Italicus, Punica 14.687
effrenae Statius, Thebais 4.657
effreni Statius, Thebais 7.30

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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