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tumultuosus

tumultuosus · adj

full of bustle

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita 25 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tŭmultŭōsus — Lewis & Short

tŭmultŭōsus, a, um, adj.tumultus,

I full of bustle, confusion, or tumult, restless, turbulent, tumultuous (class.): qui homo tam tumultuoso sonitu me excivit foras? Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 52: seditiosa ac tumultuosa vita, Cic. Inv. 1, 3, 4: contiones, id. Fam. 2, 12, 1: actio, Quint. 11, 1, 29: nuntius, Liv. 2, 24, 1: turba, id. 6, 14, 6: multitudo, id. 24, 29, 1: genus pugnae, id. 1, 14, 7; 28, 15, 5: proelia, id. 27, 2, 11: excursiones, id. 30, 8, 4: somnia, Cels. 1, 2; 8, 4: mare, Hor. C. 3, 1, 26: in otio tumultuosi, in bello segnes, Liv. 4, 28, 4.—Comp.: iter tumultuosius, Liv. 42, 66, 6: ex Syriā tumultuosiora nuntiata sunt, Cic. Fam. 12, 17, 1: Caesar Italiam tumultuosiorem repperit, Vell. 2, 74, 1: litterae, i. e. announcing disturbances, Suet. Ner. 40 fin.: tumultuosius atque turbidius, Quint. 3, 8, 60.—Sup.: quod tumultuosissimum pugnae erat, Liv. 2, 10, 7.—Adv.: tŭmultŭōsē, with bustle or confusion, tumultuously: tumultuose et cunctis copiis, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 197 P.; Liv. 2, 28, 2; 2, 29, 5.—Comp., Caes. B. G. 7, 45; Liv. 2, 29, 5; Suet. Caes. 16.—Sup., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 14, § 37; Suet. Calig. 45.

In the wild

tumultuosius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.9.6
tumultuose Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.27.9
tumultuosa Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.29
tumultuosa Seneca, De Providentia 1.1.3
tumultuoso Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.14.7
tumultuoso Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.7

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