The corpus record — Latin

incubatio

incubatio · f

a lying upon eggs

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Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

incŭbātĭo — Lewis & Short

incŭbātĭo, ōnis, f.incubo,

I a lying upon eggs (in order to hatch them), a brooding, incubation.

I Lit.: incubationi datur initium post novam lunam, Plin. 10, 54, 75, § 152: noxia ovis, id. 10, 56, 77, § 156: derelicta, id. 10, 60, 80, § 166.—

II Trop., an unlawful possession: diuturna, Cod. Th. 10. 1, 15; id. Just. 7, 38, 3.

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