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The corpus record — Latin

revinco

revinco · v. a

to conquer

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-vinco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-vinco, vīci, victum, 3, v. a.,

I to conquer, subdue.
I Lit. (only poet., and in Tac.): victrices catervae Consiliis juvenis revictae, Hor. C. 4, 4, 24; cf.: revicta conjuratio, repressed, checked, Tac. A. 15, 73: primordia rerum aliquā ratione, Lucr. 1, 593: vires (ignis), id. 5, 410.—
II Trop., to convict; to refute, disprove (class.; syn.: convinco, refuto), Lucr. 4, 488: numquam hic neque suo neque amicorum judicio revincetur, * Cic. Arch. 6, 11: aliquem, Tac. A. 6, 5: aliquem in mendacio, Dig. 26, 10, 3: aliquem in culpā et in maleficio, Gell. 6, 2, 13: crimina rebus revicta, disproved, Liv. 6, 26, 7 (with confutare verbis); Vulg. Act. 18, 28: crimen, Liv. 40, 16: testimoniis revinci, Lact. 4, 15 fin.

Where it came from

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