The corpus record — Latin

oberro

ramble about

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

Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏb-erro — Lewis & Short

ŏb-erro, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. n., to wander, rove, or ramble about a place (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: oberrare tentoriis, Tac. A. 1, 65: ignotis locis, Curt. 6, 5, 18: mustela quae in domibus nostris oberrat, Plin. 29, 4, 16, § 60: dives arat Curibus, quantum non milvus oberrat, Pers. 4, 26.—

B Transf.: crebris oberrantibus rivis, Curt. 3, 4, 12.—

II Trop.

A To flit, hover before one: mihi monstrum oberrat, hovers before my eyes, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1280: cum tanti periculi ... imago oculis oberraret, Curt. 8, 6, 26.—

B To err, mistake: ut citharoedus Ridetur, chordā qui semper oberrat eādem, blunders at, Hor. A. P. 356.

In the wild

oberrat Seneca, Hercules 1
oberraret Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.6.26
oberrant Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 10.4
oberrat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p4
oberres Persius, Saturae 5.156
oberrantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.14.p1

6 of 28 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.