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respergo1

respergo1 · v. a

to sprinkle over

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 11 · 1.4/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rē-spergo — Lewis & Short

rē-spergo, si, sum, 3, v. a.,

I to sprinkle over any thing; to besprinkle, bestrew (rare but class.).

I Lit.: praetoris oculos, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, § 100: manus, os, simulacrum sanguine, id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68: morientium sanguine os uxoris respersum, id. Phil. 3, 2, 4; id. de Or. 3, 3, 10; cf.: aliquem cruore, Liv. 21, 63: sanguine dextram, Cat. 64, 230; Curt. 8, 3, 11: comae respersae sanguine, Ov. F. 3, 452: caede fraternā juvenis respersus, Cat 64, 181; Suet. Ner. 12; id. Calig. 57: se sanguine nefando, Liv. 1, 13: quidquid fuerat mortale aquis, Ov. M. 14, 604: vino rogum ne respargito, Lex Numae ap. Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88; cf. Fest. p. 262 Müll.: alicubi labi necesse est, alicubi respergi, to be splashed, spattered, Sen. Ira, 3, 6: pelagus respergit, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89. — Poet.: cum primum Aurora respergit lumine terras, Lucr. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 25 (cf. spargit, Lucr. 2, 144): nullā nube respersus jubar, i. e. beclouded, dimmed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 723. — *

B Transf., to spread out: ut nux repercussa radicem respergat, Pall. Jan. 15, 15. —

II Trop., to besprinkle, bespatter, defile, etc.: servili probro respersus est, Tac. H. 1, 48: aliquem infamiā, Quint. Decl. 18, 3.

2. rēspergo — Lewis & Short

rēspergo, ĭnis, f.1. respergo,

I a besprinkling (late Lat.): marmoris, Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 503.

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