The corpus record — Latin

saepis

saepis · adj

that happens often

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 16s 1 · 125/10k
Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 6 · 10.88/10k
Valeriani Duo 1 · 9.82/10k
Commodus Antoninus 3 · 8.66/10k
Gallieni Duo 3 · 8.17/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Nero 6 · 7.68/10k
Clodius Albinus 2 · 7.4/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 53 · 6.73/10k

Densest 12 of 175 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

saepis — Lewis & Short

saepis, e, adj., = suxno/s [akin with saepes, q. v.],

I that happens often, frequent. —As an adj. cited only once in the comp. saepior, by Prisc. p. 1016 P.; and once in the sup.: saepissimam discordiam fuisse, Cato Nep. ap. Prisc. p. 602 P.

In the wild

saepius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.4.14
saepius Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.9.22
saepius Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p11
saepissime Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.4.27
saepius Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 9.3
saepius Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.16s

6 of 952 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.