The corpus record — Latin

scitor

to seek to know; to ask

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

scītor — Lewis & Short

scītor, ātus, 1 (old

I inf. scitarier, Ov. M. 2, 741), v. freq. dep. a. [scio], to seek to know; to ask, inquire (poet. and late Lat.; in Cic. Or. 16, 52, read sciscitari; cf.: interrogo, percunctor): scitari et quaerere causas, Verg. A. 2, 105: causam viae, Ov. M. 2, 511: causam adventūs, id. ib. 2, 741: omnia, id. ib. 2, 548: digna relatu, id. ib. 4, 793: scitanti deus huic de conjuge dixit, id. ib. 10, 564: quid veniat, scitatur, id. ib. 11, 622: Eurypylum scitatum oracula Phoebi Mittimus, i. e. to consult, Verg. A. 2, 114: sunt quae ex te solo scitari volo, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 13; so, ex aliquo, to ask, inquire, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 60: ab aliquo, Ov. M. 1, 775; 10, 357: consulta numinum, Amm. 24, 8, 4: scitari, quid molirentur, id. 18, 2, 2.

In the wild

scitatur Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.357
scitantem Vergil, Aeneid 2.114
scitantibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.41
scitetur Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.548
scitabere Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.775
sciter Ovid, Fasti 4.191

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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