The corpus record — Latin

sepultura

sepultura · f

a burial

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Anima 6 · 2.52/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 5 · 2.21/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 4 · 1.87/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 13 · 1.64/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sĕpultūra — Lewis & Short

sĕpultūra, ae, f.id.,

I a burial, interment, funeral obsequies, sepulture (freq. and class.; syn.: exsequiae, funus, humatio): mos sepulturae, Lucr. 6, 1278: mihi quidem antiquissimum sepulturae genus illud fuisse videtur, quo apud Xenophontem Cyrus utitur. Redditur enim terrae corpus, etc., Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 56: mercedem funeris ac sepulturae constituere, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 134: is, quem sepultura adfecerat, id. Div 1, 27, 56: honore sepulturae carere, id. Sen. 20, 75: corpus ad sepulturam dare, id. Phil. 2, 7, 17: locum sepulturae dare, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 3; so, locus sepulturae, Tac. A. 2, 73 fin.; for which: locus ad sepulturam, Suet. Tib. 1: caput periculis pro sepulturā objecit, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 5: sepulturae causā, Dig. 11, 7, 2.—Plur.: ab Euhemero et mortes et sepulturae demonstrantur deorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119. —

II Esp., the burning of the dead body: corpus antequam cremaretur nudatum in foro, qui locus sepulturae destinabatur, Tac. A. 2, 73: corpora sepulturae reddidit, Just. 9, 4, 4.

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