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pelicatus

pelicatus · m

the cohabiting with a kept mistress

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Where it lives

De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

pēlĭcātus — Lewis & Short

pēlĭcātus (pelli-, paeli-), ūs, m.paelex,

I the cohabiting with a kept mistress, concubinage: ab ea est propter pelicatus suspitionem interfectus, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25: Arinis uxorem pelicatus dolore concitatam, id. Scaur, 6, 9, B. and K. (Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 689 P.): matris, id. Clu. 5, 13; Just. 7, 4, 7; Vulg. Lev. 18, 18.

In the wild

pelicatus Cicero, De Officiis 2.25.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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