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lethargus

lethargus · adj

drowsy, lethargic

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

lēthargus — Lewis & Short

lēthargus, a, um, adj., Gr. lh/qargos,

I drowsy, lethargic: morbus, Plin. 23, 1, 6, § 10; Schol. Juv. 6, 613.—Esp. as subst.

A lēthargus, i, m. (sc. morbus), drowsiness, lethargy (in Cels. 3, 20, written as Greek): lethargo grandi est oppressus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 145; cf.: gravi lethargo oppressus, Serv. Sulp. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 106: olfactoriis excitatur, Plin. 30, 11, 29, § 97: in lethargum vergere, id. 32, 10, 38, § 116.—

(b) Plur.: ocimum facit lethargos, Plin. 20, 12, 48, § 119; 28, 8, 29, § 116.—

B (Sc. homo.) A lethargic person, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 37 sqq.

In the wild

lethargus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.22.p1
lethargo Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.145
lethargum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.11.p2
Lethargum Celsus, De Medicina 3.20.p1
lethargum Celsus, De Medicina 3.18.p2
lethargo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.106

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