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flagellum

flagellum · n

a whip

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Saturae 7 · 2.81/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 18 · 2.29/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flăgellum — Lewis & Short

flăgellum, i, n.dim.flagrum,

I a whip, scourge; more severe than scutica.

I (Cf. also: flagrum, verber, lorum.) Lit.: nec scuticā dignum horribili sectere flagello, Hor. S. 1, 3, 119; cf.: ille flagellis Ad mortem caesus, id. ib. 1, 2, 41; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; Dig. 48, 19, 10; Hor. Epod. 4, 11; Cat. 25, 11; Ov. Ib. 185; Juv. 6, 479.—

B Transf.

1 A riding-whip, Verg. A. 5, 579; Sil. 4, 441; a whip for driving cattle, Col. 2, 2, 26.—

2 The thong of a javelin, Verg. A. 7, 731.—

3 A young branch or shoot, a vine-shoot, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3; Verg. G. 2, 299; Cat. 62, 52; Col. 3, 6, 3 al.—

4 The arm of a polypus, Ov. M. 4, 367.—

5 In late Lat., a threshing-flail, Hier. Isa. 28.—

6 A tuft of hair, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—

II Trop., the lash or stings of conscience (poet.), Lucr. 3, 1019; Juv. 13, 195; cf. of the goad of love, Hor. C. 3, 26, 11.

In the wild

flagellis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 10.7
flagellorum Petronius, Satyricon 126
flagello Martial, Epigrammata 1.104.3
flagellumque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p5
flagello Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.6.3
flagellis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.1.13

6 of 111 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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