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repagula

repagula · n

bolts

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕ-pāgŭla — Lewis & Short

rĕ-pāgŭla, ōrum, n.pag, pango, that which is thrust back again,

I bolts or bars of a door.

A Lit.: occludite aedes pessulis, repagulis, Plaut. Cist. 3, 18: valvae clausae repagulis, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74: convulsis repagulis (templi) effractisque valvis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: sola Venus portae cecidisse repagula sensit, Ov. M. 14, 783: pedibusque repagula pulsant, 2, 155; 5, 120; Sil. 16, 318: laxare, Luc. 1, 295; App. M. 1, p. 108, 23; cf. Fest. p. 280 Müll.—

B Trop., bars, restraints, limits: repagula, quibus ego iram omnem recludam, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 66: omnia repagula juris pudoris officiique perfringere, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39.

In the wild

repagula Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.14.p1
repagula Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.120
repagula Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.242
repagula Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.155
repagula Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.66
repagula Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.39

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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