The corpus record — Latin

rabio

rabio · v. n

to rave

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
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
De Clementia 3 · 3.59/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Pharsalia 16 · 3.14/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

răbĭo — Lewis & Short

răbĭo, ĕre, v. n.etym. dub.,

I to rave, be mad (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Varr. and Caecil. ap. Non. 40, 2 sq.: oculis rabere visa es ardentibus, Poëta ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66; id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 207; 5, 222; Sen. Ep. 29, 7.

In the wild

rabies Lucan, Pharsalia 7.557
rabies Tacitus, Historiae 2.41
rabies Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.432
rabies Lucan, Pharsalia 7.245
rabies Apuleius, Apologia 28
rabies Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.2e.4

6 of 119 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.