The corpus record — Latin

liquo

to strain, filter, clarify

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Pallio 3 · 8.75/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 16 · 6.51/10k
Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
Peristephanon Liber 7 · 3.98/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Elegiae 7 · 2.77/10k

Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lĭquo — Lewis & Short

lĭquo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to make liquid, to melt, dissolve, liquefy.

I Lit.: pila, Luc. 7, 159: vitrum, Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 194: lapis liquatur igni, id. 36, 8, 13, § 62: liquatum aes, id. 34, 13, 36, § 134: liquatae guttae, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 25.—

B Transf., to strain, filter, clarify: vina liques, Hor. C. 1, 11, 6: liquatum vinum, Plin. 15, 29, 37, § 124: liquatae aquae, id. 31, 3, 22, § 36: saccus, quo vinum liquatur, Col. 9, 15, 12: silicem rivo saliente, Manil. 5, 534: voces liquatae, i. e. clear voices, Auct. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3.—*

II Trop., to make clear, simplify: quae (verba) cum sex et viginti natus annos summis audientium clamoribus dixerit, defervisse tempore et annis liquata jam senior idem fatetur, Quint. 12, 6, 4.

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