The corpus record — Latin

reluctor

to struggle against

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕluctor — Lewis & Short

rĕluctor, ātus, 1 (

I abl. part. pres. reluctanti, Ov Am. 3, 4, 14), v. dep. n., to struggle against any thing, to resist (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: repugno, renitor, adversor).

I Lit.: visit cubiculum, in quo reluctantis et impulsae (uxoris) vestigia cernebantur, Tac. A. 4, 22: huic spiritus oris Multa reluctanti obstruitur, Verg. G. 4, 301: reluctantes dracones, Hor. C. 4, 4, 11; Ov. Am. 3, 4, 14: hostis reluctans, id. ib. 2, 9, 12; Curt. 6, 2, 6.— Poet., with inf.: equites illic poscentia cursum Ora reluctantur pressis sedare lupatis, Claud. in Ruf 2, 354. —

2 Transf., of inanimate subjects: Mycale, quam deduxisse canendo Saepe reluctatae constabat cornua lunae, Ov. M. 12, 264: inter obstantia saxa fractis aquis ac reluctantibus, Quint. 9, 4, 7: reluctantur faces, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1729: domitare ventos reluctantes, Plin. Pan. 81, 4.—

II Trop., to oppose, resist; to be adverse or reluctant: reluctatus invitusque revertens in Italiam, Vell. 2, 102, 5; cf.: diu sum equidem reluctatus, Quint. prooem. § 1: diuque precibus ipsum reluctatum aegre vicerunt, ut, etc., Curt. 8, 2, 11; cf. Mart. 5, 35, 5: his tot tantisque rationibus, quamquam multum reluctata verecundia Principis nostri, tandem tamen, cessit, Plin. Pan. 60, 4: fatis reluctantibus, Petr. 111.?*!

1 Act. collat. form: faucibus ipsis hiantis Cerberi reluctabat, App. M. 4, p. 151, 28: pectus et venter reluctabat, id. ib. 7, p. 189, 38; Fulg. contr Verg.—

2 Reluctatus, in a pass. signif., Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 42.

In the wild

reluctantis Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.264
reluctanti Vergil, Georgicon 4.301
reluctante Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.7
reluctans Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.5.10
reluctantes Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.95
reluctantibus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.46.11.9

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