The corpus record — Latin

oblimo

oblimo · v. a

to cover with mud

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

oblīmo — Lewis & Short

oblīmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.ob-limus,

I to cover with mud or slime.

I Lit. (rare but class.): Aegyptum Nilus irrigat, mollitosque et oblimatos ad serendum agros relinquit, * Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130: fossae oblimatae, Suet. Aug. 18: sulcos (i. e. partes genitales), Verg. G. 3, 136.—*

B Transf., qs. to scatter one's fortune as if it were slime, to lavish, squander, dissipate: rem patris oblimare, Hor. S. 1, 2, 62 Heind.—

II Trop., to darken, obscure, confuse (poet. and in post-class. prose): humanas oblimat copia mentes, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 29: universa, Sol. 11.

In the wild

oblimet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.8
oblimet Vergil, Georgicon 3.136
oblimatas Suetonius, Divus Augustus 18.2
oblimat Lucan, Pharsalia 6.364
oblimatos Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.130.p2
oblimat Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.29

Where it came from

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