The corpus record — Latin

fulmineus

fulmineus · adj

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Thebais 9 · 1.44/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fulmĭnĕus — Lewis & Short

fulmĭnĕus, a, um, adj.fulmen,

I of or belonging to lightning (poet.).

I Lit.: ignis, Lucr. 2, 382; Ov. M. 11, 524; id. P. 2, 2, 118: ictus, Hor. C. 3, 16, 11; Ov. M. 14, 618: fragor, Val. Fl. 2, 501.—

II Trop. *

A Sparkling, splendid, brilliant: Mnestheus (i. e. with sparkling arms), Verg. A. 9, 812 (cf. ib. 733): fulminea in casside, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 194.—

B (Acc. to fulmen, II.) Destructive, murderous, killing: dextra, Val. Fl. 4, 167: os (apri), Ov. F. 2, 232; cf.: dentes (apri), Phaedr. 1, 21, 5: rictus lupi, Ov. M. 11, 36: ensis, Verg. A. 4, 580; 9, 442: ira, Sil. 11, 99: iter, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 200.

In the wild

fulmineis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.583
fulmineis Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1.73
fulmineam Silius Italicus, Punica 3.319
fulmineus Silius Italicus, Punica 17.548
Fulmineo Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.374
fulmineum Vergil, Aeneid 9.442

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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