The corpus record — Latin

tagax

tagax · adj

that is apt to touch

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

tăgax, ācis, adj.tago,

I that is apt to touch any thing; pregn., light - fingered, thievish (very rare): tagax furunculus a tangendo, Fest. p. 359 Müll.; cf. Non. 408, 33: manus, Lucil. ap. Fest. l. l. (Sat. Fragm. 30; 86): levis, libidinosus, tagax, * Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1.

In the wild

tagax Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.3.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.