The corpus record — Latin

sicarius

sicarius · m

an assassin

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Where it lives

Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 16 · 12.08/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Pro P. Sestio 5 · 2.98/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
In L. Catilinam 2 · 1.59/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sīcārĭus — Lewis & Short

sīcārĭus, i, m.sica,

I an assassin, murderer (syn.: percussor, homicida): per abusionem sicarios etiam omnes vocamus, qui caedem telo quocumque commiserint, Quint. 10, 1, 12: vetus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39; * Hor. S. 1, 4, 4; Cic. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 9; Suet. Caes. 72: jam sexcenti sunt, qui inter sicarios et de veneficiis accusabant, of assassination, Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 90; so, quaestio inter sicarios, id. Clu. 53, 147; id. Fin. 2, 16, 54; and: inter sicarios defendere, id. Phil. 2, 4, 8: lex Cornelia (Sullae) de sicariis, Just. Inst. 4, 18, § 5: lege de sicariis condemnari, Tac. A. 13, 44 fin.; cf. Orell. Ind. Legum, in his edit. of Cic., vol. viii. 3, p. 162: in exercendā de sicariis quaestione, etc., Suet. Caes. 11.

In the wild

sicariorum Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 80
sicarium Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 47
sicarius Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.4.4
sicariis Cicero, Pro L. Murena 49
sicarium Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.9
sicarium Cicero, Philippicae 13.23

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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