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pavito

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

păvĭto — Lewis & Short

păvĭto, āre,

I v. freq. n. and a. [paveo].

I In gen., to tremble or quake with fear, to be very fearful, be greatly afraid; to tremble at (ante-class. and poet.): quae pueri in tenebris pavitant, Lucr. 2, 58: prosequitur pavitans, Verg. A. 2, 107: effusis pavitantem fletibus, Val. Fl. 7, 410: pavitante gressu sequere fallaces vias, Sen. Oed. 1047.—

II In partic., to shake or shiver with the ague, to have the ague, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 41.

In the wild

pavitant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.58
pavitans Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.121
pavitantem Vergil, Aeneid 11.813
pavitans Petronius, Satyricon 122
pauitant Silius Italicus, Punica 13.142
pauitantem Silius Italicus, Punica 5.279

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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