The corpus record — Latin

impexus

impexus · adj

uncombed

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

impexus — Lewis & Short

impexus (inp-), a, um, adj.2. inpexus,

I uncombed (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis, Verg. G. 3, 366: caput impexa foedum porrigine, Hor. S. 2, 3, 126: Tisiphoneque impexa feros pro crinibus angues, Tib. 1, 3, 69: tegumen immane leonis Terribili impexum seta, Verg. A. 7, 666.— *

II Trop., = incultus, unpolished, rude: antiquitas tristis et impexa, Tac. Or. 20.

In the wild

impexa Seneca, Hercules 1
inpexa Tacitus, Annales 16.p10
inpexam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.42
impexum Vergil, Aeneid 7.667
inpexa Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.126
impexis Vergil, Georgicon 3.366

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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