The corpus record — Latin

torpedo

torpedo · f

stiffness

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Historiae 3 · 7.39/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

torpēdo — Lewis & Short

torpēdo, ĭnis, f.torpeo,

I stiffness, numbness, inflexibility, sluggishness, torpidity.

I Lit. (rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn. torpor): inertia atque torpedo plus detrimenti facit quam exercitio, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 6: occupavit nescio qua vos torpedo, qua non gloria movemini neque flagitio, Sall. H. 3, 61, 26 Dietsch: si tanta torpedo animos obrepsit, ut, etc., id. ib. 1, 48, 19 ib.: tanta torpedo invaserat animum, ut, etc., Tac. H. 3, 63.—

II Transf., the torpedo, crampfish, or electric ray: Raia torpedo, Linn.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.; Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 143; 32, 1, 2, § 7.

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