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The corpus record — Latin

jugulo

jugulo · v. a

to cut the throat, to kill, slay, murder

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

Where it lives

  • De Bello Hispaniensi 9 · 14.87/10k
  • De Scorpiace 5 · 6.28/10k
  • Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
  • Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
  • Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k
  • Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
  • Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
  • Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 4 · 3.02/10k
  • Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
  • Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
  • Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
  • Epistulae 6 · 2.35/10k

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jŭgŭlo — Lewis & Short

jŭgŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.jugulum,

I to cut the throat, to kill, slay, murder (class.).
I Lit.: cum jugulatur sus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116: cives optimos jugulari jussit, id. Phil. 3, 2, 4: se alicui tradere jugulandum, id. Mil. 11, 31: hominem crudeliter, Cels. 1 praef. § 70: qui unum hominem jugulat, Lact. 1, 18, 10.—Com. of hunger: ita mi auctores fuere, ut egomet me hodie jugularem fame, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 3.—Also of diseases: quartana neminem jugulat, Cels. 3, 15: id genus acutum est, et celeriter jugulat, id. 3, 20, 3.—In a pun: cur non Hunc Regem jugulas? Hor. S. 1, 7, 35.—Pregn.: tum rite sacratas in flammam jugulant pecudes, slaughter and throw, Verg. A. 12, 214. —
II Trop., to confute, convict, silence: aliquem factis decretisque, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 64: jugulari sua confessione, id. ib. 2, 5, 64, § 166: jugulari suo gladio, suoque telo, to be beaten with one's own weapons, foiled with one's own devices, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 35: gladio plumbeo, i. e. to overcome without difficulty, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2: Falernum, to adulterate, spoil, Mart. 1, 19, 5: curas, to drive away, banish, id. 8, 51, 26.

In the wild

6 of 185 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.