The corpus record — Latin

seps

seps · comm

A venomous serpent

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k

What it meant

1. seps — Lewis & Short

seps, sēpis, comm., = sh/y.

I A venomous serpent, whose bite occasioned putrefaction, Luc. 9, 764 sq.; 9, 723.—Acc. sing. sepa, Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 102.—Acc. Plur. sepas, Plin. 23, 2, 29, § 61; Tert. Carm. adv. Marc. 1, 1 fin.; Aus. Idyll. Grammat. 12, 14.—

II An insect, perh. the wood-louse, milleped, Plin. 20, 2, 6, § 12; 29, 6, 39, § 137.

2. seps — Lewis & Short

seps, v. 1. saepes.

In the wild

Seps Lucan, Pharsalia 9.723
Seps Lucan, Pharsalia 9.764
seps Ausonius, Technopaegnion 14.14
seps Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.pr.74

Where it came from

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