The corpus record — Latin

noctivagus

noctivagus · adj

night-wandering; that wanders about by night

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

noctĭvăgus — Lewis & Short

noctĭvăgus, a, um, adj.nox-vagus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 68,

I night-wandering; that wanders about by night (poet.): noctivagae faces caeli, Lucr. 5, 1191: currus (sc. Phoebes), Verg. A. 10, 216: deus, i. e. sleep, Stat. Th. 10, 158: iter, Val. Fl. 2, 44.

In the wild

noctivagus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.68
noctivagum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.44
noctivagaeque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1191
noctivago Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.582
noctivago Vergil, Aeneid 10.216
noctivago Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.331

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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