The corpus record — Latin

rabies

rage

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Historiae 2 · 4.93/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 8 · 3.04/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. răbĭes — Lewis & Short

răbĭes, em, e (

I gen. rabies, Lucr. 4, 1083; the other cases do not occur), f. rabio.

I Lit., rage, madness (cf.: furor, insania).

1 Of dogs, Col. 7, 12, 14; Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64; 29, 5, 32, § 99.—

2 Of other animals, Col. 6, 35; Plin. 8, 18, 26, § 68: ursina, id. 8, 36, 54, § 130.—

3 Of men, madness, frenzy, Plin. 7, prooem. fin. 1, § 5; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 26; cf.: contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros, Liv. 21, 48, 4.—

II Trop., of any violent emotion, rage, anger, fury, fierceness, eagerness: Hecubam putant propter animi acerbitatem quandam et rabiem fingi in canem esse conversam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63: sine rabie, id. ib. 4, 24, 53; Tac. H. 1, 63: Archilochum proprio rabies armavit iambo, Hor. A. P. 79; cf. id. Ep. 2, 1, 149: non dico horrendam rabiem, id. S. 2, 3, 323; Vell. 2, 64, 2: civica, fierce civil war, Hor. C. 3, 24, 26; cf. Tac. H. 2, 38; 5, 25; id. A. 1, 31; 39: hostilis, Liv. 29, 8 fin.: edendi, Verg. A. 9, 64. — Of the madness of love. Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 10; Lucr. 4, 1079; Hor. Epod. 12, 9. — Of the Sibyl's inspiration, Verg. A. 6, 49. —

b Of things: rabies fatalis temporis, Liv. 28, 34: ventorum, Ov. M. 5, 7; cf. Noti, Hor. C. 1, 3, 14: caelique marisque, Verg. A. 5, 802: pelagi, Sil. 2, 290: Canis, the fierce heat of the dogstar, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 16: ventris, i. e. ravenous hunger, voracity, Verg. A. 2, 357; Sil. 2, 472.

2. rabiés — Walde–Hofmann

rabiés, -es, -& (Dat), -em, -& (rabia Serv., Gl., rom., Heraeus Kl. Schr. 254) „Wut, Tollheit, Toben, Raserei (seit Plaut), rabidus, -a, -um „wütend, toll, rasend* (seit Rhet. Her. Cic. Catull, Lucr., rom. [hss. oft verwechselt mit rapidus, Calonghi RICI. 19, 47 f£.), rabio, -ere ,rase, tobe“ seit Enn., rabiósus „wütend, toll* seit Pit. [rabiósulus ,halbtoll* Cic. epist. 7, 16, 1j, rabidosus ,rasend* (Koflmane … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. rabiés, p. 1319]

In the wild

rabiem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.15
rabie Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 25.4
rabie Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.48.3
rabie Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.M2
rabiem Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.30.1
rabiem Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.97

6 of 206 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. rabiés (scan p. 1319; entry #2228). Root candidates: *rabh-, *labh-, *grabh-.

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