The corpus record — Latin

Euge

Euge · interj

well done! good! bravo!

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Where it lives

Saturae 4 · 8.84/10k
Mostellaria 6 · 6.24/10k
Epidicus 4 · 6.14/10k
Persa 4 · 5.09/10k
Stichus 3 · 4.83/10k
Miles Gloriosus 4 · 3.15/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
Rudens 3 · 2.53/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Bacchides 2 · 2.03/10k
Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k

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

What it meant

eugĕ — Lewis & Short

eugĕ (eugē or eugae, interj., = eu)=ge, an exclamation of joy, applause, admiration, etc.,

Ter. And. 2, 2, 8),

I well done! good! bravo! (cf. eu; freq. in Plaut. and Ter., and in the Vulg.).

I In gen.: euge, euge, perbene, Ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 75; id. Aul. 4, 6, 11; id. Ep. 3, 2, 21; id. Stich. 5, 6, 5; id. Mil. 4, 1, 20 et saep.; Ter. And. 2, 2, 8; id. Heaut. 4, 2, 10; Pers. 5, 167; 1, 75; as an indecl. subst., n.: euge tuum, id. 1, 50; Mart. 2, 27, 3: euge, well done, Vulg. Psa. 34, 21; id. Matt. 25, 21.—So, eugepae (contracted from euge papae), Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 41; id. Capt. 2, 2, 24; id. Ep. 1, 1, 7; id. Ps. 2, 4, 53; id. Rud. 1, 2, 81; 2, 4, 24.—

II Esp., with an ironical signif. superadded, excellent! admirable! euge, optime, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 170; id. Pers. 1, 3, 10; Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 13. V. Hand, Turs. II. p. 610 sq.

Where it came from

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