The corpus record — Latin

veneficium

veneficium · n

A poisoning

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Where it lives

Excerpta Controversiae 15 · 7/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 3 · 2.03/10k
Apologia 3 · 1.4/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
Controversiae 9 · 1.36/10k
Annales 12 · 1.35/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 15 · 0.87/10k
Naturalis Historia 34 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k

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

What it meant

vĕnēfĭcĭum — Lewis & Short

vĕnēfĭcĭum, ii, n.veneficus.

I A poisoning: de veneficiis accusare, Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 90: qui tuis veneficiis remedia invenit, id. Phil. 13, 11, 25; id. Clu. 1, 1 sq.; Liv. 8, 18, 11; Val. Max. 2, 5, 3; Quint. 5, 7, 37; 5, 9, 11; 7, 3, 7: venefici damnari, Tac. A. 12, 66: deferre aliquem venefici reum, Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 8 al.—

II The preparation of magic potions, magic, sorcery: subito totam causam oblitus est: idque veneficiis et cantionibus Titiniae factum esse dicebat, Cic. Brut. 60, 217; cf.: quosque veneficiis abstulit illa (Medea) suis, Ov. H. 6, 150; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 41 sq.; 25, 2, 5, § 10; Petr. 128.

In the wild

ueneficii Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.11.39
veneficiis Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 90
ueneficii Suetonius, Divus Augustus 56.3
veneficium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.25.p2
ueneficio Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.6
veneficiis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.19.p2

6 of 128 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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