The corpus record — Latin

leto

leto · v. a

to kill, slay

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

lēto — Lewis & Short

lēto (lētho), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to kill, slay: Lycurgiden letavit, Ov. Ib. 505: Paris hunc letat, Verg. Cul. 323: letata corpora, Ov. M. 3, 55 (the conjectural reading letatus, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19, is very dub.; v. Orell. ad loc., where leto datus is proposed; B. and K., necatus).

In the wild

letataque Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.55
letavit Ovid, Ibis 503
letat Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 325

Where it came from

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