The corpus record — Latin

perjurium

perjurium · n

a false oath

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Where it lives

Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
De Officiis 3 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.86/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

perjūrĭum — Lewis & Short

perjūrĭum, ii, n.perjurus,

I a false oath, perjury.

I Lit. (class.): perjuri caput, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 129: fons viti et perjuri, id. Truc. 2, 7, 50: quod ex animi tui sententiā juraris, id non facere perjurium est, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 108: perjurii poena, id. Leg. 2, 9, 22: sceleratorum hominum perjuria, id. Font. 16, 35: Deum genitor fraudem et perjuria Cercopum exosus, Ov. M. 14, 91; id. F. 5, 681: perjuras merito perjuria fallunt, id. A. A. 1, 657: luimus perjuria Trojae, Verg. G. 1, 502; cf. id. A. 4, 542; Ov. H. 20, 185: perjuria dictare, Juv. 8, 82: vendere, id. 14, 218.—

II Transf., concr.: perjuria Graia (poet. for perjuri Graii), the perjured or perfidious Greeks, Sil. 17, 425.

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