The corpus record — Latin

oblectamen

oblectamen · n

a delight

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

ob-lectāmen — Lewis & Short

ob-lectāmen, ĭnis, n.id.,

I a delight (poet. for oblectamentum, and perh. only in plur.), Ov. M. 9, 342: vitae, Stat. S. 3, 5, 95: consulat ut sacras, hominum oblectamina, sortes, sources of consolation, Ov. M. 11, 412.

In the wild

oblectamina Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.342
oblectamina Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.162
oblectamina Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.412
oblectamina Statius, Silvae 3.5.95
oblectamina Statius, Achilleis 1.185

Where it came from

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