The corpus record — Latin

saxeus

saxeus · adj

of rock

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 2 · 15.16/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

saxĕus — Lewis & Short

saxĕus, a, um, adj.id..

I Lit., of rock, of stone, rocky, stony: saxea est verruca in summo montis vertice, Auct. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 48: moles, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89; Ov. M. 12, 283: scopulus, id. ib. 14, 73: saepta, Lucr. 4, 699: strata viarum, id. 1, 315: tecta, id. 5, 984; Ov. H. 10, 128: crepido, Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9: effigies bacchantis, Cat. 64, 61: umbra, of the rocks, Verg. G. 3, 145 et saep.: mater ad auditas stupuit ceu saxea voces, Ov. M. 5, 509: Niobe saxea facta, id. P. 1, 2, 32: pons, Luc. 4, 15: juga, id. 4, 157: imber, Sil. 13, 181: ipse Anien, infraque superque Saxeus, rocky in its shores and bed, Stat. S. 1, 3, 20: vasa, Vulg. Exod. 7, 19.—

B Transf., as hard as stone: dentes (asini), App. M. 10, p. 249, 10: durities jecoris, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 6, 81.—*

II Trop., stony, i.e. hard, unfeeling, obdurate: saxeus ferreusque es, Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 7.

In the wild

saxea Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.316
saxea Statius, Thebais 5.723
saxeo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.12.p1
saxeus Statius, Thebais 6.352
saxeum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.4.10
saxeis Prudentius, Cathemerina 12.155

6 of 65 attestations shown.

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