The corpus record — Latin

fragmen

fragmen · n

A fracture

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fragmen — Lewis & Short

fragmen, ĭnis, n.FRAG, frango. *

I A fracture: percussit subito deceptum fragmine pectus, Val. Fl. 3, 477.—

II Mostly in plur.: fragmina, um, pieces broken off, fragments, ruins, wreck (poet. and in postAug. prose for the class. fragmenta).

(a) Plur.: silvarum, Lucr. 1, 284; 5, 1284: remorum, Verg. A. 10, 306: mucronis, id. ib. 12, 741: navigii, Ov. M. 11, 561; cf. ratis, id. ib. 14, 563: adjacebant fragmina telorum equorumque artus, Tac. A. 1, 61: subselliorum, Suet. Ner. 26: panis, crumbs, id. Claud. 18: favorum, quae in sacco remanserunt, Col. 9, 15 fin.—Absol. of bits of wood, chips: taedas et fragmina poni Imperat, Ov. M. 8, 459.—

(b) Sing.: Ilioneus saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis Lucetium sternit, fragment of a mountain, piece of rock, Verg. A. 9, 569; 10, 698; Vulg. Judic. 9, 53 al.

In the wild

fragmina Silius Italicus, Punica 3.470
fragmine Minucius Felix, Octavius 2.1
fragmina Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.561
fragmina Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.563
fragmine Silius Italicus, Punica 1.372
fragmina Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.15.13

6 of 42 attestations shown.

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