The corpus record — Latin

excaeco

excaeco · v. a

to blind

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Where it lives

Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 6 · 2.8/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Adversus Marcionem 5 · 0.6/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ex-caeco — Lewis & Short

ex-caeco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to blind, make blind (rare).

I Lit.: num ergo is excaecat nos aut orbat sensibus? etc., * Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74; Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 200; Flor. 2, 20, 5.—

B Transf.

1 To deprive a plant of the eyes or buds, Col. 11, 3, 45; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 175.—

2 To stop up a river, a channel, etc., Ov. M. 15, 272; id. Pont. 4, 2, 17; Cels. 7, 7 fin.—*

3 To darken or dull a bright color: fulgor (argenti) excaecatus, Plin. 33, 9, 46, § 131.—

II Trop.: oculos animosque (fama), Petr. 141, 5: formam, i. e. to render uncomely, to disfigure, id. 128, 3: nec accipies munera quae excaecant prudentes, Vulg. Exod. 23, 8.

Where it came from

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