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scurrilis

scurrilis · adj

buffoonlike

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Oratore 6 · 1/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

scurrīlis — Lewis & Short

scurrīlis, e, adj.scurra, II.,

I buffoonlike, jeering, scurrilous.

I Lit. (class.): jocus (with mimicus), Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 239: dicacitas, id. ib. 2, 60, 244; Quint. 6, 3, 29; Suet. Vesp. 22 (with sordida); Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 245; Quint. 6, 3, 48; Val. Max. 7, 8, 9.—*

II In gen., jesting, facetious, ludicrous: lusus (opp. res seriae), Val. Max. 8, 8, 2.— Adv.: scurrīlĭter (acc. to I.), like a buffoon: ludere, Plin. Ep. 4, 25, 3: jocari, Just. 24, 6, 4.

In the wild

scurrilibus Tacitus, Annales 15.p35
scurrilis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.20.6
scurrilis Cicero, De Oratore 2.239.p1
scurrile Cicero, De Oratore 2.246
scurriliter Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.25.3
scurrilis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.29

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Where it came from

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