The corpus record — Latin

tractim

tractim · adv

by drawing along

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tractim — Lewis & Short

tractim, adv.tractus,

I by drawing along, i. e. little by little, by degress; in a drawling way, at length, slowly (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 418 Vahl.): quid, si ego illum tractim tangam, ut dormiat? i. e. should stroke him, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 157: ire, Lucr. 3, 530; 6, 118: susurrant, Verg. G. 4, 260; so, sonat jucundo hiatu, Gell. 7, 20, 3: tractim pronuntiata littera i, i. e. pronounced long, id. 4, 6, 6; cf. also, dicere (opp. festinanter), slowly, Sen. Ep. 40, 9.

In the wild

tractim Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.453
tractim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.118
tractimque Vergil, Georgicon 4.260
tractim Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.10.1
tractim Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.20.3
tractim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.530

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Where it came from

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