The corpus record — Latin

freno

to furnish with a bridle

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 4 · 4.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

frēno — Lewis & Short

frēno (fraeno), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic

I inf. pres. pass. frenarier, Prud. Psych. 191), v. a. frenum, to furnish with a bridle, to bridle (mostly in poets).

I Lit.: frenati equi, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15, 4: equos, Verg. A. 5, 554; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 13; cf. Liv. 21, 27: ora cervi capistris, Ov. M. 10, 125: colla draconum (Medea), id. ib. 7, 220; cf. dracones, id. Tr. 3, 8, 3: frenato delphine sedens Thetis, id. M. 11, 237; cf.: vecta est frenato pisce Thetis, Tib. 1, 5, 46: frenata acies, i. e. the cavalry (opp. pedestris), Sil. 11, 266.—

II Transf., in gen., to bridle, curb, restrain, check (syn.: coerceo, comprimo, etc.).

A Prop.: (Aeolus ventos) Imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat, Verg. A. 1, 54: agmina ductor, Sil. 9, 418: cum tristis hiems glacie cursus frenaret aquarum, Verg. G. 4, 136: alvum frenat brassica, Ser. Samm. 29: tussim medicamine, id. 17.—

B Trop., to bridle, curb, check, restrain, govern: frenatam tot malis linguam resolvimus, Plin. Pan. 66, 5: qui eas (voluptates) sua temperantia frenavit ac domuit, Liv. 30, 14, 7: ejus (Clodii) furores, quos nullis jam legibus, nullis judiciis frenare poteramus, Cic. Mil. 28, 77: spes avidas, Sil. 10, 341: impetum (scribendi), Phaedr. 4, 25, 7: dolores corde, to shut up, Sil. 8, 290: gentes superbas justitiā (Dido), Verg. A. 1, 523; cf.: Aemoniam (Pelias), Val. Fl. 1, 22: ne quis temere frenari eos dicere posset, quominus de eo libere querantur, Liv. 26, 29, 7.

In the wild

frenabat Silius Italicus, Punica 8.288
frenat Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 25.89
frenavit Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae appendix.23.5
frenet Statius, Achilleis 1.431
frenantem Silius Italicus, Punica 8.501
freno Ovid, Fasti 6.772

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