The corpus record — Latin

ferocio

ferocio · v. n

to be fierce

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 3 · 2.27/10k
De Lege Agraria 2 · 1.45/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Annales 9 · 1.01/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Res Gestae 7 · 0.55/10k
Noctes Atticae 6 · 0.54/10k

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

What it meant

fĕrōcĭo — Lewis & Short

fĕrōcĭo, īvi or ĭi, 4, v. n.id.,

I to be fierce, unruly, ungovernable; to rage, be furious: Ferocio, a)griai/nomai, Gloss. Labb. (perh. only ante- and post - class.; for in Quint. 10, 3, 10, ferocientes equos is, acc. to the MSS., to be read efferentis se equos): ferocit apud Catonem ferociter agit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 7 Müll.: si permulcti sonis mitioribus non immodice ferocirent, Gell. 1, 11, 2: oratio ferociens saeviensque, id. ib. § 15: in aliquam sectam, Tert. Apol. 5: ferociens, Amm. 14, 9, 9.

In the wild

ferociam Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 9.7.18
ferociam Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.28.12.3
ferociam Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.12.11
ferociam Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.91
ferociamque Sallust, Catilina 61
ferociam Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p12

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Where it came from

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