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uxorius

uxorius · adj

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

uxōrĭus — Lewis & Short

uxōrĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to a wife or married woman.

I In gen.

A Adj.: in arbitrio rei uxoriae, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; id. Top. 17, 66: abhorrens ab re uxoriā, i. e. averse to marriage, Ter. And. 5, 1, 10: dos, Ov. A. A. 2, 155: quam formam modicam et modestam Favorinus non inscite appellabat uxoriam, appropriate for a wife, Gell. 5, 11, 13.—Poet.: imber, i. e. tears for the death of a wife, Stat. S. 5, 1, 31: jus, Dig. 32, 29 pr.: levamentum, Tac. A. 3, 34: nomen, Suet. Calig. 25.—

B Subst.: uxōrĭum, ii, n., a tax laid on old-bachelors, the old-bachelor tax, Fest. p. 379 Müll.—

II In partic., excessively fond of one's wife, uxorious: pulcramque uxorius urbem Exstruis, Verg. A. 4, 266: amnis (Tiberis), as the husband of Ilia, Hor. C. 1, 2, 19: Vulcanus, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 59: juvenis, Auct. Paneg. ad Maxim. et Constantin. 4.

In the wild

uxoriae Cicero, Topica 66
uxoriae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.4.11
uxoriae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.6.3
uxorius Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.59
uxoriam Historia Augusta, Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 17
uxorius Statius, Silvae 5.1.31

6 of 33 attestations shown.

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