The corpus record — Latin

obtego

obtego · v. a

to cover over

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Where it lives

Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-tĕgo — Lewis & Short

ob-tĕgo (collat. form obtĭgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 8),

I to cover over, cover up (for protection or concealment) (syn.: obtendo, velo, celo; class.).

I Lit.: insuper lingua bubula obtegito, Cato, R. R. 40: in pectus perpluit meum, neque jam umquam obtigere possum, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 8: domus arboribus obtecta, Verg. A. 2, 300: armis, Caes. B. C. 3, 19: se servorum et libertorum corporibus, Cic. Sest. 35, 76: os obtegendum, fauces velandae, Cels. 3, 22. —

II Trop., to veil, hide, conceal, keep secret: obtegere errata, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 23: vitia multis virtutibus obtecta, Cic. Cael. 18, 43: ut adulescentiae turpitudo obscuritate obtegatur, id. Vatin. 5, 11: nihil, id. Att. 1, 18, 1: scelera nuper reperta priscis verbis, Tac. A. 4, 19: flagitia, id. ib. 13, 33.— With gen.: animus audax, sui obtegens in alios criminator, Tac. A. 4, 1.—

B To protect: aegre precibus meliorum obtectus, Tac. A. 16, 5.

In the wild

obtegebat Tacitus, Annales 13.p33
obtectus Seneca, Troades 1
obtexit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.19.p2
obtectis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.11
obtectam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.5.11
obtecti Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.12

6 of 51 attestations shown.

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