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repto

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Silvae 5 · 2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

repto — Lewis & Short

repto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. freq. n. and a. [id.], to creep, crawl (mostly poet. and postAug.; a favorite word with Claud.).

I Neutr.

A Lit., of animals and men, Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95: chamaeleon humi reptans, Gell. 10, 12, 2: anguis reptans, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. 172; id. III. Cons. Hon. 22; id. Rufin. 1, 93; id. Eutr. 2, 443 al.—

B Transf., of persons walking slowly or lazily: major pars populi aridi reptant fame, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5.— Of beasts: pecudes, Lucr. 2, 318: an tacitum silvas inter reptare salubris, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 4: per limitem, Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 4; 9, 26, 2.— Of plants, Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 69.—

II Act., to creep or crawl through. So only in part. perf.: rep-tātus, a, um, crept or crawled through: ager (ab angue), Stat. Th. 5, 581: Creta tenero Tonanti, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 134; cf.: amnis tenero Achilli, id. Rufin. 2, 180: Delos geminis numinibus, Pac. Pan. Theod. 4 fin.

In the wild

reptasti Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.22
reptasse Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.798
reptat Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 49.4
reptantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.29.p2
reptantem Silius Italicus, Punica 7.272
reptat Statius, Thebais 6.245

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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