The corpus record — Latin

torpor

torpor · m

numbness

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Where it lives

Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Pharsalia 7 · 1.37/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

torpor — Lewis & Short

torpor, ōris, m.torpeo,

I numbness, stupefaction, torpor (syn.: languor, veternus).

I Lit.: tutantur se torpore torpedmes, * Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; cf. Cels. 2, 8 med.; Plin. 2, 101, 104, § 223; 19, 8, 44, § 155; 29, 4, 28, § 90: illi membra novus solvit formidine torpor, Verg. A. 12, 867: torpor gravis illigat artus, Ov. M. 1, 548; id. P. 1, 2, 30 al. —

II Trop., sluggishness, listlessness, inactivity (post-Aug.): implicitas magno torpore cohortes vidit, Luc. 3, 432: torpor recens nimiā fortunae indulgentiā, Tac. H. 2, 99 med.: torpor Vitellii (opp. vigilantia Vespasiani), id. ib. 2, 77 fin.: procerum, id. G. 46: utraque res detestabilis est, contractio et torpor, Sen. Ep. 82, 3.

Where it came from

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