The corpus record — Latin

incesto

incesto · v. a

to pollute

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Where it lives

De Pudicitia 12 · 8.93/10k
Octavia 4 · 7.65/10k
Ad Nationes 8 · 5.35/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
Apologeticum 4 · 2/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

incesto — Lewis & Short

incesto, āvi, 1, v. a.incestus,

I to pollute, defile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I In gen.: totamque incestat funere classem, Verg. A. 6, 150: aras, Stat. S. 5, 5, 4: diem (Furiae), id. Th. 11, 120; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 267.—

II In partic., to dishonor, defile with lust: puellam, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 136: filiam, Tac. A. 6, 19: se, Suet. Tib. 43: thalamos novercae, Verg. A. 10, 389.

Where it came from

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