The corpus record — Latin

obequito

Absol

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏb-ĕquĭto — Lewis & Short

ŏb-ĕquĭto, āvi, 1,

I v. n., to ride towards, ride up to (not ante-Aug.).

(a) With dat.: obequitando castris, Liv. 2, 45: portis, id. 21, 54; 29, 34: moenibus, Curt. 8, 10, 6: peditibus, id. 10, 9, 16: agmini, id. 3, 10, 4: ordinibus, Amm. 24, 1, 1.—

(b) With acc.: obequitans moenia, Amm. 24, 2, 9.—

(g) Absol.: insolentissime, Val. Max. 3, 2, 21: voces obequitantis acceptae, Flor. 4, 2, 50. —*

II Trop.: non obequitabit nec illis vibrantibus concitatisque sententiis velut missilibus utetur, Quint. 12, 9, 3.

In the wild

obequitabit Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.9.3
obequitaret Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.34.4
obequitat Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.10.6
obequitando Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p56
obequitat Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 p12
obequitavit Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26s

6 of 34 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.