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sarcina

bundle, pack

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 25 · 4.69/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 5 · 4.56/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
De Bello Africo 4 · 3.08/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 3 · 2.07/10k
Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sarcina — de Vaan

sarcina 'bundle, pack' (PL+), sarcinatus 'loaded with a pack' (P1.+), sarcinator 'mender of clothes' (P1.+), sarcinatnx 'woman who mends clothes' (Varro+); sarcta — [de Vaan, s.v. sarcina, p. 553]

2. sarcĭna — Lewis & Short

sarcĭna, ae, f.id..

I Lit., a package, bundle, burden, load, pack; more freq. in the plur., luggage (class. only in the plur.; not in Cic.); sing.: quid ego nunc agam? nisi uti sarcinam constringam et clipeum ad dorsum accommodem, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 93; 2, 4, 195: sarcinam inponam seni, id. Most. 2, 1, 83: essem militiae sarcina fida tuae, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 46. gravis, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 6; Petr. 117, 11.—In plur.: sarcinas colligere, Sall. J. 97, 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; Caes. B. G. 3, 24; 7, 18; id. B. C. 1, 59; 3, 76; Tac. A. 1, 23; Phaedr. 2, 7, 1; 4, 2, 5.—Esp. of the baggage of soldiers on the march, Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 2, 17; Liv. 44, 38; Hirt. B. Afr. 69: sub sarcinis aggredi, id. B. G. 8, 27.—Poet., of the fruit of the womb: Ismenos, qui matri sarcina quondam Prima suae fuerat, Ov. M. 6, 224: sarcinam effundere, Phaedr. 3, 15, 6.—

II Trop. (Ovid.), a burden, weight of cares, troubles, griefs, Ov. H. 4, 24; id. P. 3, 7, 14. —Of government, Ov. P. 1, 2, 101: sarcina sum (tibi), id. Tr. 5, 6, 5.

In the wild

sarcinam Plautus, Trinummus 3.2
sarcina Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.3.4
sarcinis Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.36.13
sarcinae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.12.p1
sarcinam Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.11.6
sarcinis Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.3.27

6 of 207 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. sarcina (scan p. 553; entry #1544).

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