The corpus record — Latin

rabidus

rabidus · adj

raving

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

Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Oedipus 4 · 6.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Carmina 9 · 4.01/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
De Ira 7 · 3.14/10k
Thebais 19 · 3.04/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Ars Amatoria 4 · 2.69/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

răbĭdus — Lewis & Short

răbĭdus, a, um, adj.1. rabo,

I raving, furious, enraged, savage, fierce, mad, rabid (as adj. mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: furens, furiosus, insanus): canes, Lucr. 5, 892; Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 98; Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 6; 1, 15, 2; 3, 30, 1; id. Ep. 99, 24: catuli, Sil. 10, 127: corpus (Canis), Cic. Arat. 110: tigres, Verg. G. 2, 151; cf. leones, Lucr. 4, 712; Hor. A. P. 393: lupa, Ov A. A. 3, 8: bimembres, id. M. 12, 494: alios age incitatos, alios age rabidos, Cat. 63, 93: non impulsus et rabidus, Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 4. —

II Transf., of things: Pelorum (on account of the neighboring Scylla), Luc. 6, 66 Cort. N. cr.: lingua, Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 11; cf. murmur, Val. Fl. 4, 239: ut rabida ora quierunt, Verg. A. 6, 102; cf. id. ib. 6, 80: aspectus (draconis), Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62: certamen, Sil. 16, 410; cf. arma, id. 7, 253: fames (Cerberi), Verg. A. 6, 421; cf.: sitis (Tantali), Sen. Herc. Oet. 1077: rabies, Cat. 63, 44.—

III Trop., impulsive, passionate, impetuous: impulsus et rabidus, Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 5: adfectus, id. ib. 3, 16, 2: furor animi, Cat. 63, 38: mores, Ov. A. A. 3, 501: rabida et jurgiosa facundia, Gell. 19, 9, 7.—Adv.: răbĭ-dē, ravingly, madly, furiously, rabidly: omnia rabide appetentem, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16. — Comp.: raptari, Aug. Mor. Manich. 2, 14.

In the wild

rabidae Vergil, Aeneid 7.493
rabidi Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.494
rabidos Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.374
rabidam Silius Italicus, Punica 10.357
rabidam Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
rabidas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.7.9

6 of 142 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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