The corpus record — Latin

liceo1

liceo1 · v. n

to be for sale; to have a price put upon

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 30.82/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 6 · 15.36/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 7 · 10.3/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 3 · 9.71/10k
De Spectaculis 5 · 7.86/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 4 · 7.05/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
De Lege Agraria 7 · 5.08/10k

Densest 12 of 164 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lĭcĕo — Lewis & Short

lĭcĕo, cŭi, cĭtum, 2, v. n.Sanscr. root rik-, riktas, empty; Gr. lip-, lei/pw, leave; Lat. lic-, linquo, licet, liceor; cf. Germ. leihen, verleihen,

I to be for sale; to have a price put upon it, to be valued, esteemed at so much.

I Lit. (rare but class.): omnia vaenibunt, quiqui licebunt, praesenti pecunia, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 97: quanti licuisse tu scribis (hortos), how much they were valued at, Cic. Att. 12, 23, 5: unius assis Non umquam pretio pluris licuisse, Hor. S. 1, 6, 13. —

II Transf., of the seller, to offer for sale, to fix the price, to value at so much (only post-Aug.): percontanti quanti liceret opera effecta, parvum nescio quid dixerat, how much he asked for them, what he held them at, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88: parvo cum pretio diu liceret, Mart. 6, 66, 4.

2. liceo — Lewis & Short

liceo, v. licet.

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