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laboriosus

laboriosus · adj

full of labor, laborious

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Where it lives

Timotheus 1 · 15.36/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 2 · 3.53/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăbōrĭōsus — Lewis & Short

lăbōrĭōsus, a, um, adj.2. labor,

I full of labor, laborious.

I Attended with much labor, laborious, toilsome, wearisome, difficult, troublesome (syn. operosus): deambulatio, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3: nihil laboriosius, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19: operum longe maximum ac laboriosissimum, Liv. 5, 19 fin.: si qua laboriosa est (fabula), ad me curritur, difficult to put on the stage, opp. lenis, Ter. Heaut. prol. 44.—

II Transf.

A Inclined to labor, laborious, industrious, for the Gr. filo/ponos (syn.: impiger, industrius): homines, Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35: bos laboriosissimus hominis socius in agricultura, Col. 6 praef. § 7.—

B That undergoes much trouble and hardship, troubled, harassed: quid enim nobis duobus laboriosius? Cic. Mil. 2, 5; id. Phil. 11, 4, 4.—Hence, adv.: lăbōrĭōsē, laboriously, wearisomely, with difficulty, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 9; Cels. 5, 17, 2; Cat. 38, 1.—Comp., Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31.—Sup.: laboriosissime, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 71; Suet. Caes. 43 al.

In the wild

laboriosior Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.2.13
laboriosam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.10
laborioso Martial, Epigrammata 7.39.7
laboriosam Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.32
laboriosum Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 40.1
laboriosus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.12.1

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