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perhorresco

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Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 2 · 5.64/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Pro M. Caelio 2 · 2.36/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 2 · 1.9/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
In L. Catilinam 2 · 1.59/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pĕr-horresco — Lewis & Short

pĕr-horresco, rui, 3,

I v. inch. n. and a.

I Neutr., to tremble or shudder greatly (class.): toto corpore perhorresco, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 41: recordatione consulatūs vestri, id. Pis. 20, 45: clamore perhorruit Aetne, trembled, shook, Ov. M. 13, 877: latumque perhorruit aequor (ventorum jactatibus), id. ib. 6, 704.—

II Act., to shudder greatly at, to have a great horror of any thing (class.): hanc tantam religionem non perhorrescis? Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 78: vexationem virginum Vestalium perhorresco, id. Cat. 4, 6: Bosporum, Hor. C. 2, 13, 15.

Where it came from

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