The corpus record — Latin

persecutio

persecutio · f

a following after

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Fuga in Persecutione 58 · 108.98/10k
De Scorpiace 19 · 23.85/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

persĕcūtĭo — Lewis & Short

persĕcūtĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a following after, a chasing, pursuing; a chase, pursuit.

I Lit.: bestiae, Dig. 41, 1, 44; so ib. 41, 1, 4; App. M. 4, p. 155, 1: pluviis persecutionem passi, Vulg. Sap. 16, 16; 11, 21.—

II Transf.

A A prosecution, action, suit, Cic. Or. 41, 141 (dub.; al. praescriptionum); Dig. 46, 4, 18, § 1.—

B A persecution, esp. of Christians, Tert. Spect. 27: De Fuga in Persecutione, the title of a treatise by Tertullian, Vulg. Matt. 5, 10 et saep.—

C A following up, prosecution of an affair: negotii, App. M. 10, p. 252, 9.

In the wild

persecutionem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.27
persecutionem Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 7
persecutio Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 4
persecutionem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 14.4
persecutio Tertullian, De Scorpiace 10
persecutionem Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 4

6 of 110 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. persecutio (scan p. 640; entry #10570).

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.