The corpus record — Latin

macies

macies · f

leanness, thinness, meagreness

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 18 · 2.29/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măcĭes — Lewis & Short

măcĭes, ēi, f.maceo,

I leanness, thinness, meagreness (class.).

I Lit.

A Of living beings and the parts of their bodies: profectus est (ad bellum) Hirtius consul: at quā imbecillitate? quā macie? Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 12; id. Agr. 2, 34, 93: hoc maciem facit, Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 60: reducere ad maciem, id. 24, 8, 30, § 46: equi macie corrupti, * Caes. B. C. 3, 58: corpus macie extabuit, Cic. poët. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: turpis macies decentes Occupet malas, Hor. C. 3, 27, 53: tenet ora profanae Foeda situ macies, Luc. 6, 515: macies aegri veteris, Juv. 9, 16; 15, 101.—

B Of inanim, things: macies soli, poorness, barrenness, Col. 1, 4, 3: lapidosa aurosi pulveris, Pall. 1, 5, 1: jejuna corticis, id. Mart. 10, 21; so, corticis, Plin. 17, 27, 42, § 252: seges macie deficit, Ov. F. 1, 689.—

II Transf., of water, diminution: aquarum, e. g. at the ebb, Sol. 23.— *

III Trop., meagreness, poverty of language, Tac. Or. 21, 1.

In the wild

maciem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.6
macie Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.660
maciem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.8.12
maciem Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.641
Macies Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 17
maciem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.2.14

6 of 104 attestations shown.

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