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opilio

opilio · m

a shepherd

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ōpĭlĭo — Lewis & Short

ōpĭlĭo and ūpĭlĭo, ōnis, m.for ovilio, from ovis,

I a shepherd: etiam opilio, qui pascit alienas oves, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 36.— Form upilio, Verg. E. 10, 19; Col. 7, 3, 13; Dig. 32, 1, 60; Vulg. Gen. 38, 12.—

II A kind of bird, otherwise unknown, Fest. p. 191 Müll.

In the wild

upilio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.25
upilio Apuleius, Florida 3
opilioni Cato, De agri cultura 56
opiliones Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.6.11
opilionem Cato, De agri cultura 10
Opilionem Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.M4.p2

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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