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sibilo

sibilo · v. n

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Punica 10 · 1.31/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sībĭlo — Lewis & Short

sībĭlo (collat. form sīfĭlo, āre, v. n. and

Non. 531, 2),

I a. [sibilus] (class. but rare).

I Neutr., to hiss, to whistle: imitationis hoc modo, ut majores rudere et vagire et mugire et murmurare et sibilare appellaverunt, Auct. Her. 4, 31, 42: (serpens) sibilat ore, * Verg. A. 11, 754; so of a serpent, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 54. Ov M. 4, 588.—Of gossips: contemplent, conspiciant omnes, nutent, nictent, sibilent, * Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 72.—Of things: illud (ferrum igne rubens) Stridet et in trepidā submersum sibilat undā, Ov. M. 12, 279: stridor rudentum sibilat, whistles, Sil. 17, 258; cf. aura, Luc. 2, 698: tempestas, Quint. Decl. 12, 16: horrendo fragore sibilantibus armis, Amm. 31, 12, 12.—

II Act., to hiss, i. e. to hiss at, hiss down a person, Cic. Att. 2, 19, 2: populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, Hor. S. 1, 1, 66.

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