The corpus record — Latin

obstupefacio

to astonish, amaze, astound, stupefy; to render senseless, deprive of feeling, benumb

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Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 3 · 1.68/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5 · 0.63/10k

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

What it meant

ob-stŭpĕ-făcĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-stŭpĕ-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3,

I v. a.; in pass. obstŭpĕfīo, factus, fieri, to astonish, amaze, astound, stupefy; to render senseless, deprive of feeling, benumb (class.): eum timidum obstupefecit pudor, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 54: ipso miraculo audaciae obstupefecit hostes, Liv. 2, 10: nisi metus maerorem obstupefaceret, id. 25, 38; cf. Tac. H. 4, 72.—Pass.: obstupefactis hominibus, Cic. Deiot. 12, 34: obstupefacti hostes, Tac. Agr. 18: obstupefactis nervis, Val. Max. 3, 8, ext. 6.

In the wild

obstupefactus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 p15
obstupefacti Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.59.6
obstupefecerat Tacitus, Historiae 4.76
obstupefecit Terence, Phormio 2.1
obstupefactus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.115.4
obstupefactus Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.12.5

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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