The corpus record — Latin

excubiae

excubiae · f

a lying out of the house

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Elegiae 4 · 1.58/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

excŭbĭae — Lewis & Short

excŭbĭae, ārum, f.id.,

I a lying out of the house.

I In gen., Plaut. Cas. prol. 54.—Far more freq. and class.,

II In partic., a lying out on guard, a watching, keeping watch (cf.: custodia, vigiliae, insomnia): si haec arma, si Capitolinae cohortes, si excubiae, si vigiliae, etc., Cic. Mil. 25, 67; id. Phil. 7, 9, 24; id. Planc. 42, 101; Tac. A. 13, 18; id. H. 4, 11; Suet. Aug. 23; 30; Verg. A. 9, 159 et saep.: tristes (i. e. severae) vigilum canum, Hor. C. 3, 16, 3: grues excubias habent nocturnis temporibus, Plin. 10, 23, 30, § 59.—Poet.: centum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem, Excubias divum aeternas, Verg. A. 4, 200. —

B Transf., concr., persons keeping watch, a watch, guard: num excubias transiret, Tac. A. 14, 44: inter excubias militum pernoctavit, Suet. Claud. 10.

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