The corpus record — Latin

saepes

a hedge

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

saepes — Lewis & Short

saepes (sēp-), is (

nom. saeps, Cic. acc. to Aus. Idyll. in Grammaticom. 12, 11; Val. Fl. 6, 537;

I but, saepes, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2; Verg. E. 1, 54; Col. 10, 374; Pall. 1, 34, 6; Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 56), f. root svak-, to make firm; Sanscr. sag, to cling; cf. sa/ttw; p for k, as in lupus.

I Prop., a hedge, fence; sing., besides the passages above cited, Pac. ap. Non. 179, 15; Verg. G. 1, 270; Col. 11, 3, 3 sq.; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101; Ov. H. 20, 144: viva saepis, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: saepes ex agresti ligno, id. ib. 1, 14, 2.—Plur., Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; Caes. B. G. 2, 17; 2, 22; Verg. G. 2, 371; id. E. 8, 37; Ov. M. 1, 493.—

II Meton., of any enclosure (poet.): scopulorum, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: portarum, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 81.

In the wild

saepes Ovid, Fasti 3.267
sepibus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.31
sepibus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.13
sepe Seneca, Phoenissae 1
saepes Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.56
saepes Vergil, Georgicon 2.371

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. saepés (scan p. 612; entry #10017).

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