The corpus record — Latin

sacrilegium

sacrilegium · n

The robbing of a temple

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 6 · 2.8/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Ad Nationes 3 · 2.01/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 2 · 1.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 2 · 1.58/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

să_crĭlĕgĭum — Lewis & Short

să_crĭlĕgĭum, ii, n.sacrilegus (not ante-Aug.).

I The robbing of a temple, stealing of sacred things, sacrilege: sacrilegium est, rem sacram de templo surripere, Quint. 7, 3, 10; cf. id. 7, 3, 22; 5, 10, 39; Liv. 29, 8; 29, 18; 32, 1; 42, 3 al.; Quint. 5, 14, 11; 7, 3, 21; Tac. Agr. 6 fin.; Phaedr. 4, 11, 3 al. —In plur., Suet. Caes. 54 fin. (with rapinae). —

II Violation or profanation of sacred things, sacrilege (post-Aug.): cum in caelum insanitis, non dico sacrilegium facitis, sed operam perditis, Sen. Vit. Beat. 27, 1: non sine quodam sacrilegi metu, Flor. 2, 17, 12: aliquem sacrilegii damnare, Nep. Alcib. 6, 4: parum se grate gerere sacrilegium est, Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 4; Curt. 4, 3, 23.

In the wild

sacrilegia Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.17
sacrilegium Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.3.3
sacrilegio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.26
sacrilegium Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.23
sacrilegium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.13
sacrilegium Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.3.10

6 of 101 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.