The corpus record — Latin

latito

to be hid

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Where it lives

Pro P. Quinctio 6 · 6.94/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lătĭto — Lewis & Short

lătĭto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. freq. n. [lateo], to be hid or concealed, to lie hid, hide, lurk (rare but class.).

I In gen.: ille ignavissimus Mihi latitabat, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 83: latitans Oppianicus, Cic. Clu. 13, 38: latitans aper, Hor. C. 3, 12, 11.—Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, Lucr. 1, 875 sq.: in terram latitare minute, id. 1, 890; 1, 642: invisis atque latitantibus rebus confidere, * Caes. B. C. 2, 14.—

B Latitare aliquem, to hide from any one (post-class.), Dig. 35, 1, 8.—

II In partic., jurid., to lie hid, keep out of the way, in order not to appear before court: qui fraudationis causa latitarit, Edict. Praet. ap. Cic. Quint. 19, 60; Gai. Inst. 3, 78: si latitare ac diutius ludificare videatur, Cic. Quint. 17, 54; id. Dom. 31, 83; Dig. 42, 4, 7, § 3 sq.

In the wild

latitantes Ovid, Tristia 1.1.111
latitant Seneca, Thyestes 1
latitarit Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio 60
latitante Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.538
latitant Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.405
latitantia Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.449

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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