The corpus record — Latin

epoto

to drink out

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-pōto — Lewis & Short

ē-pōto (ex-poto,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5,

I v. infra), āvi, pōtum (in late Lat. potatum, v. fin.), 1, v. a., to drink out, off, or up, to drain, quaff, swallow (in the verb. finit. rare, and only post-Aug.; in the part. perf. class.): epotum venenum, Cic. Clu. 62, 173: medicamentum, Liv. 8, 18: potionem, Quint. 7, 2, 17; 25; Ov. M. 5, 453 al.: epoto poculo, Cic. Clu. 60, 168: poculum, Liv. 40, 24: amphoram, Suet. Tib. 42; Phaedr. 3, 1, 1; Vulg. Ezech. 23, 34: remedia, Amm. 16, 5, 8: argentum expotum, wasted in drinking, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5.— Poet., to suck up, swallow up, etc.: omnibus epotis umoribus, Lucr. 5, 384: ter licet epotum ter vomat illa fretum (Charybdis), Ov. P. 4, 10, 28: epoto Sarmata pastus equo (i. e. sanguine equino), Mart. Spect. 3: ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu, Ov. M. 15, 273: Tyron (i. e. purpuram Tyriam) epotavere lacernae, Mart. 2, 29, 3: naumachias videbar epotaturus, Sid. Ep. 1, 5.

In the wild

epota Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p17
epoto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.18
epota Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.453
epoto Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.18.9
epota Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.2.17
epotam Suetonius, Tiberius 42.2

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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