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pedetemptim

pedetemptim · adv

step by step

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pĕdĕtemptim — Lewis & Short

pĕdĕtemptim or pĕdĕtentim, adv.pes-tendo; qs. by stretching out the feet; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 98; hence,

I step by step, slowly (syn.: paulatim, sensim).

I Lit.: expectando excrucior. Pa. Pedetemptim, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 32: pedetemptim et sedato nisu, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 48 (Trag. Rel. p. 91 Rib.).—Of elephants: quaerendis pedetentim vadis, in terram evasere, Liv. 21, 28 fin.—

II Trop., by degrees, gradually, cautiously (class.): sensim et pedetemptim, Lucil. ap. Non. 29, 7; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 33, 120: pedetemptim et gradatim accessus, id. Fam. 9, 14, 7; cf.: paulatim et ut dicitur pedetentim interrogando, Quint. 5, 7, 20: timide et pedetemptim istuc descendunt, Cic. Quint. 16; cf.: caute pedetemptimque omnia dicere, id. Clu. 42: viam tentare, Cato ap. Charis. p. 190 P.: di bene vortant quod agas! pedetemptim tamen, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 19.—Comp.: pedetemptius tibi consulam, M. Aur. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 3, 2.

In the wild

pedetemptim Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.40.7
pedetemptimque Cicero, De Officiis 1.120
pedetemptim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1453
pedetemptim Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.18
pedetemptim Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.54.p1
pedetemptim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.533

6 of 19 attestations shown.

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