The corpus record — Latin

questus2

Part., from queror

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Argonautica 11 · 2.96/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Annales 7 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. questus — Lewis & Short

questus, a, um,

Part., from queror.

2. questus — Lewis & Short

questus, ūs, m.queror,

I a complaining, complaint, plaint (class.).

I Lit.

A In gen., Cic. Quint. 30, 94: caelum questibus implet, Verg. A. 9, 480: tantos illa suo rumpebat pectore questus, id. ib. 4, 553: tales effundit in aëra questus, Ov. M. 9, 370: edere questus, id. ib. 4, 587: in questus effundi, Tac. A. 1, 11: creber, id. ib. 3, 7: quaestu vano clamitare, Phaedr. 1, 9, 7.—

B In partic., a complaint, accusation (poet.): questuque Jovem testatur acerbo, Val. Fl. 5, 624; 1, 113; Luc. 1, 247; 9, 880.—

II Transf., of the soft, plaintive note of the nightingale: maestis late loca questibus implet, Verg. G. 4, 515.

In the wild

questibus Statius, Thebais 11.646
questibus Seneca, Thyestes 1
questu Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.402
questu Seneca, Hercules 1
questibus Statius, Thebais 3.51
questu Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.291

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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