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illecebra

illecebra · f

an enticement

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Psychomachia 3 · 5/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. illĕcĕbra — Lewis & Short

illĕcĕbra (inl-), ae, f.illicio,

I an enticement, in a good or bad sense, an inducement, attraction, charm, allurement, bait, lure.

I Lit. (class.; in sing. and plur.; a favorite word of Cic.; cf.: invitatio, invitamentum).

(a) With gen. (subj. or obj.): quae tanta in ullo homine juventutis illecebra fuit, quanta in illo? Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 8: maxima est illecebra peccandi impunitatis spes, id. Mil. 16, 43: voluptas est illecebra turpitudinis, id. Leg. 1, 11, 31: fallax illecebra admirationum, Gell. 10, 12, 4: quaestionis, id. 12, 5, 5.—In plur.: habet etiam amoenitas ipsa vel sumptuosas vel desidiosas illecebras multas cupiditatum, Cic. Rep. 2, 4: voluptatis, id. de Sen. 12, 40; id. Fam. 15, 16, 3: vitiorum (with lenocinia cupiditatum), id. Sest. 66, 138: corruptelarum, id. Cat. 1, 6, 13.—

(b) Absol.: munditia illecebra animo est amantūm, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 4: ad quam illecebiam cum commoveretur nemo, etc., Liv. 10, 4.—In plur.: suis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus, Cic. Rep. 6, 23; 6, 1: jocum tentavit, eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator, Hor. A. P. 223.—

II Transf., concr.

A Of an alluring, seductive person, an enticer, a decoy-bird, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 25; id. Truc. 1, 2, 82; 4, 2, 46.—

B A plant, called also andrachne agria, Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 162; 26, 12, 79, § 128.

2. illecebra — Walde–Hofmann

illecebra (lecebra Gl., Niedermann Ess. 61"), illex, illectat s. laeiö. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. illecebra, p. 712]

In the wild

illecebris Cicero, De Senectute 40
inlecebris Suetonius, Divus Claudius 26.3
inlecebris Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.6.1
inlecebras Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.36
inlecebris Cicero, De Republica 6.1
inlecebris Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.2.2

6 of 126 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. illecebra (scan p. 712; entry #1360).

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