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lapideus

lapideus · adj

Of stone, consisting of stones, stone-

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De Architectura 12 · 2.08/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăpĭdĕus — Lewis & Short

lăpĭdĕus, a, um, adj.id..

I Of stone, consisting of stones, stone-.

A Lit. (class.): flumen marginibus lapideis, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45: imber, a shower of stones, id. Div. 2, 28, 60; so, pluit lapideo imbri, Liv. 30, 38, 8: murus, id. 1, 38 fin.: in lapideo mortario terere, Plin. 34, 18, 50, § 169: duritia, id. 27, 11, 74, § 98: suggestus, Col. 9, 7, 1.—

B Trop. (ante-class.): lapideo sunt corde multi, quos non miseret neminis, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 162 Müll. (Trag. v. 174 Vahl.): lapideus sum, I am petrified: commovere me miser non audeo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 44.—

II For lapidosus, full of stones, stony (post-Aug.): lapidei campi, Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57: litus, Mel. 2, 5, 4.

In the wild

lapidea Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40s
lapideam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.2.p9
lapideis Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.17
lapideis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 10.4
lapideus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.7.1
lapideo Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.30.38.8

6 of 66 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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