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The corpus record — Latin

obduco

obduco

draw before, lead

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Where it lives

  • Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
  • Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
  • Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
  • Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
  • Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Marciam 3 · 3.56/10k
  • Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
  • de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
  • Peristephanon Liber 5 · 2.85/10k
  • Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
  • De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-dūco — Lewis & Short

ob-dūco, xi, ctum (

I inf. perf. sync. obduxe, Arg. ad Plaut. Merc. 7), 3, v. a., to lead or draw before, lead or conduct against or towards, to draw or bring forward or around, draw over (class. and very freq.; syn.: obtendo, obtego).
I Lit.: ad oppidum exercitum, Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 13: vim Gallicam obduc contra in acie, Att. ap. Non. 224, 13: Curium, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 2: ab utroque latere collis transversam fossam obduxit, drew forward, drew, made, or extended a trench, Caes. B. G. 2, 8: vela, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: vestem, to draw on or over, Tac. A. 4, 70; Curt. 6, 5, 27: seram, to draw, close, fasten, Prop. 5, 5, 48: callum, to draw over, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 3.—
B Transf.
1 To cover by drawing over; to cover over, overspread, surround, envelop: trunci obducuntur libro, aut cortice, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120: operimento, id. Leg. 2, 22, 56; Verg. E. 1, 49: vultus, of the sun, Ov. M. 2, 330: caput, Luc. 9, 109: semina cortice, Plin. 19, 7, 36, § 119: obducta cicatrix, a closed, healed scar, Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 4; Curt. 8, 10, 31: obductā nocte, overcast, cloudy, dark, Nep. Hann. 5, 2; Curt. 8, 13, 25.—
2 To close, shut up (poet.): obducta penetralia Phoebi, Luc. 5, 67: fores, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1548. mors oculos coepit obducere, Petr. S. 19.—
3 To draw in, drink down, swallow: venenum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96: potionem, Sen. Prov. 3, 12: pultarium mulsi, to drink up, Petr. 42.—
4 To swallow up, overwhelm: uti eos, eum exercitum, eos hostes, eosque homines, urbes agrosque eorum ... obducatis (an imprecation to the gods below), Macr. S. 3, 9, 10.—
5 To contract, wrinkle, knit the brow: obductā solvatur fronte senectus, Hor. Epod. 13, 5: frontem, Juv. 9, 2: vultum, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 5.—
6 To injure, harm (late Lat.): stomachum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 2, 28.—
7 To bring home in opposition or rivalry to another: eum putat uxor sibi Obduxe scortum, Plaut. Merc. Arg. 1, 7.—
II Trop.
A To draw or spread over: obsidionem, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 198 Müll. (Trag. v. 11 Vahl.): clarissimis rebus tenebras obducere, i. e. to darken, obscure, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 16: paulatim tenebris sese obducentibus, Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 143.—
B Transf.
1 To cover, conceal: obductus verbis dolor, Verg. A. 10, 64: obductos rescindere luctus, Ov. M. 12, 543: rei publicae obducere cicatricem, Cic. Leg. Agr. 3, 2, 4.—
2 Qs., to draw out, i. e. to pass, spend time: itaque obduxi posterum diem, Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1.

In the wild

6 of 150 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.