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lucubratio

lucubratio · f

a working by lamp-light, night-work, nocturnal study, lucubration

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lūcū^brātĭo — Lewis & Short

lūcū^brātĭo, ōnis, f.lucubro,

I a working by lamp-light, night-work, nocturnal study, lucubration.

I Lit.: per hiemem lucubratione haec facito, Cato, R. R. 37: lucubrationes detraxi, Cic. Div. 2, 68, 142: ista sunt tota commenticia, vix digna lucubratione anicularum, hardly worth the evening gossip of old women, id. N. D. 1, 34, 94: cannabis lucubrationibus decorticata purgatur, Plin. 19, 9, 56, § 174: est enim lucubratio, quoties ad eam integri ac refecti venimus, optimum secreti genus, Quint. 10, 3, 27: et vigilandae noctes, et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda, id. 11, 3, 23. —

II Transf., any thing done or composed at night, night-work, lucubration: perire lucubrationem meam nolui, i. e. epistolam noctu scriptam, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 1.—As title of a work by Bibaculus, Plin. praef. § 24.

Where it came from

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