The corpus record — Latin

impeto

impeto · v. a

to rush upon

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Where it lives

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
De Rerum Natura 13 · 2.67/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

impĕto — Lewis & Short

impĕto (inp-), ĕre, v. a.in-peto,

I to rush upon, assail, attack (poet. and in anteand post-class. prose).

I Lit.: cedentem Acheloius heros Impetit, Stat. Th. 8, 523: aliquem arcu, Luc. 6, 394: os hastā, Sil. 5, 273; Luc. 6, 223; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 8.—Absol.: (apes) impetentes a se eiciunt fucos, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 8; cf. in a different orthog.: impite impetum facite, Paul. ex Fest. p. 109, 17 Müll. N. cr. (a contracted imper., like cette, ferte): impetiti confessio, Quint. Decl. 5.—

II Transf., to accuse: aliquem edacitatis, Sid. Ep. 7, 9.

In the wild

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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