The corpus record — Latin

pegma

pegma · n

a fixture

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

pēgma — Lewis & Short

pēgma, ătis, n., = ph=gma,

I a fixture made of boards, for use or ornament, belonging to a house.

I In gen.: atricrum pegmata, Aus. Epigr. 26: in emptionem domus et specularia et pegmata cedere solent, Dig. 33, 7, 12.—

II In partic.

A A bookcase, Cic. Att. 4, 8, a fin.—

B A piece of wooden machinery in the theatre, which rose and fell, opened and shut of itself, and with which players were suddenly raised aloft, Sen. Ep. 88, 19; Plin. 33, 3, 16, § 53: si automatum vel pegma vel quid tale aliud parum cessisset, Suet. Claud. 34; Phaedr 5, 7, 7; Juv. 4, 122; Mart. 8, 33, 3; Vop. Carin. 19.

In the wild

pegma Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 19
pegmata Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.22
pegmata Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.8.2
pegma Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 5.7.7
pegma Suetonius, Divus Claudius 34.2
pegmata Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 45.10

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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