The corpus record — Latin

refreno

refreno · v. a

To hold in with a bridle

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
De Rerum Natura 8 · 1.64/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rē^-frēno — Lewis & Short

rē^-frēno (refraeno), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. *

I To hold in with a bridle, to check, curb: equos, Curt. 4, 16, 3.—

II In gen., to bridle, check, curb, restrain, hold back.

A Lit.: fluvios, Lucr. 6, 531; cf. aquas, Ov. H. 6, 87: materiem per membra, Lucr. 2, 276; cf.: copiam materiaï, id. 2, 283.—

B Trop. (class.): religione refrenari, Lucr. 5, 114: blanda refrenat morsus voluptas, id. 4, 1085: adulescentes a gloriā, Cic. Cael. 31, 76; cf.: a reditu refrenavit, id. Phil. 11, 2, 4: juventutem, id. Div. 2, 2, 4: libidines, id. Par. 5, 1, 33: libidinem, id. Agr. 2, 20, 55: indomitam audeat Refrenare licentiam, Hor. C. 3, 24, 29: animum conscientiă sceleris avaritiaeque suae, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 130: omnium opibus refrenare ac coërcere, id. Div. 2, 2, 4: cursum dicendi, Quint. 8, prooem. § 27: neque hac re severitas Papirii refrenari potest, Val. Max. 2, 7, 8: linguam, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 26.

In the wild

refrenet Apuleius, Florida 17
refrenavit Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.104.13
refrenandi Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 76
refrenet Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 5.33
refrenatur Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.16
refrenat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1121

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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