The corpus record — Latin

perbrevis

perbrevis · adj

very short

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 1 · 1.5/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 4 · 0.34/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

per-brĕvis — Lewis & Short

per-brĕvis, e, adj.,

I very short, very brief or concise: orator perornatus et perbrevis, Cic. Brut. 43, 158: perbrevi tempore, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 22.—Separate: altera pars per mihi brevis videtur, id. Clu. 1, 2.—In abl.: perbrevi, adverbially, in a very short time, Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 3.—Adv.: perbrĕ-vĭter, very briefly, very concisely: quid sentiam, perbreviter exponam, Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 235 al.

In the wild

perbrevis Cicero, Brutus 158
perbrevi Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.15.6
perbreve Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.41.20.9
perbrevi Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.142
perbrevis Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 3.10.2
perbreviter Cicero, De Republica 2.9

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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