The corpus record — Latin

rebello

rebello · v. n

to wage war again

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

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 20s 3 · 180.72/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
Clodius Albinus 2 · 7.4/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 7 · 4.62/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 5 · 3.87/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 4 · 3.47/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 4 · 3.17/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-bello — Lewis & Short

rĕ-bello, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.,

I to wage war again (said of the conquered), to make an insurrection, to revolt, rebel (mostly postAug.; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: descisco).

I Lit.: Volsci rebellarunt, Liv. 2, 42; 4, 31; 40, 35; 8, 14, 5: crebrius, Suet. Aug. 21; Quint. 8, 5, 16 (but very dub. ap. Hirt. B. G. 8, 44, 1).—Poet.: tauro mutatus membra rebello, renew the combat, Ov. M. 9, 81; so id. ib. 13, 619.—

II Trop.: credunt rebellare quae curaverint vitia, to break out again, Plin. 25, 13, 109, § 174: rebellat saepe umor, offers resistance (to writing), id. 13, 12, 25, § 81; cf.: Pudor rebellat, resists, Sen. Agam. 138: ille divus callidi monstri cinis in nos rebellat, i. e. the sphinx, id. Oedip. 106.

In the wild

rebellem Vergil, Aeneid 6.858
rebellem Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 5
rebellat Seneca, Agamemnon 1
rebellandum Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.31.15.10
rebellasse Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.16.5
rebellantium Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.28.32.2

6 of 197 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.