The corpus record — Latin

ultio

ultio · f

a taking vengeance

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
De Patientia 6 · 13.25/10k
Otho 2 · 12.68/10k
De Clementia 6 · 7.19/10k
De Ira 16 · 7.17/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 16 · 6.08/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Annales 33 · 3.71/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ultĭo — Lewis & Short

ultĭo, ōnis, f.ulciscor,

I a taking vengeance, avenging, revenge (not ante-Aug.; cf. vindicta): quamquam serum auxilium perditis erat, tamen ultionem petens, Liv. 31, 24, 1: ultionem violatae per vim pudicitiae confessa viro est, id. 38, 24, 10: inhumanum verbum est et quidem pro isto receptum, ultio, Sen. Ira, 2, 32, 2: voluptas ultionis, Quint. 5, 13, 6; cf. id. 7, 4, 33; Sen. Ira, 2, 32, 3; 3, 3, 3; 3, 4, 4; 3, 5, 8; 3, 27, 1; id. Clem. 1, 27, 1; 1, 27, 2; Tac. A. 2, 13; 3, 7; 4, 25 fin.; Suet. Tib. 25; Juv. 13, 2; 191 al.—Personified as a deity: aram Ultioni statuendam, Tac. A. 3, 18.—With gen. of the passion, indulgence: si ultio irae haec et non occasio cupiditatis explendae esset, Liv. 7, 30, 14.

In the wild

ultionem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.3.11
ultio Tacitus, Annales 12.p9
ultio Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.5.35
ultionem Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.22.6.2
ultione Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.P4.p1
ultionem Tacitus, Annales 2.p63

6 of 232 attestations shown.

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.