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semivivus

semivivus · adj

half-alive

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Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
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Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Pro M. Tullio 1 · 2.91/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
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Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-vīvus — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-vīvus, a, um, adj.,

I half-alive, half-dead, almost dead (class.; syn. semianimis).

I Lit.: ibi hominem fumo excruciatum, semivivum reliquit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45: Bibulum semivivum reliquerunt, id. Att. 7, 2, 8; id. Pis. 14, 31; Sen. Brev. Vit. 13; Nep. Eum. 4, 4; Vulg. Luc. 10, 30.—

II Trop.: cum erat reclamatum semivivis mercenariorum vocibus, with half-expiring words, Cic. Sest. 59, 126.

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