The corpus record — Latin

verax

verax · adj

speaking truly

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vērax — Lewis & Short

vērax, ācis, adj.verus,

I speaking truly, true, veracious (very rare): si eris verax, tuā ex re facies, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 6; 5, 2, 15: oraculum, Cic. Div. 1, 19, 38: saga, Tib. 1, 2, 41: signa, id. 4, 1, 119: sensus, Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 79: visa quietis tranquilla atque veracia, id. Div. 1, 29, 61: Liber, Hor. S. 1, 4, 89.— With inf.: vosque veraces cecinisse Parcae, Hor. C. S. 25.—Comp.: Herodotum cur veraciorem ducam Ennio? Cic. Div. 2, 56, 116.—Sup.: veracissima promissio, Aug. Ep. 6.—Adv.: vērācĭter, truly, veraciously (opp. simulatorie), Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P.; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 4; 6, 10; id. ap. Hier. Ep. 56, 3; Ambros. Ep. 17, 1: Platonem acutius atque veracius intellexisse, Aug. Civ. Dei, 8, 4; 5, 8.

In the wild

verax Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 24.3
verax Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.4.89
verax Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 22
verax Plautus, Poenulus 1.2
veraces Horace, Carmen Saeculare 1.25
verax Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.62

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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