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verbero1

to lash

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 11 · 11.19/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Asinaria 7 · 8.66/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Poenulus 7 · 6.35/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Miles Gloriosus 7 · 5.52/10k
Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k

Densest 12 of 127 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. verbĕro — Lewis & Short

verbĕro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form verberit for verberarit,

Fest. p. 230, 15 e leg. Serv. ad Tull.;

I inf. verberarier, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 7; id. Most. 3, 1, 92), v. a. verber, to lash, scourge, whip, flog, beat, drub (class.; syn.: ferio, pulso).

I Lit.: So. Sum obtusus pugnis pessume. Am. Quis te verberavit? Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 60: pulsare verberareque homines, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142; so (with pulsare) id. ib. 2, 3, 26, § 66: civem Romanum, id. Rep. 2, 31, 54: matrem, id. Vatin. 5, 11; cf.: parentem, servum injuriā, id. Fin. 4, 27, 76: oculos virgis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112: laterum costas ense, Ov. M. 4, 727; Mart. 7, 94, 6; Dig. 47, 10, 5 proöem.—Absol.: quo firme verberaturi insisterent, Suet. Calig. 26: caudā verberando excutere cibum, Plin. 32, 2, 5, § 12. —Prov.: noli verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 41.—

b Transf., of inanimate things, to beat, strike, lash, knock, etc.: locum coaequato et paviculis verberato, Cato, R. R. 91: tormentis Mutinam verberavit, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 20: aquila aethera verberat alis, Verg. A. 11, 756: verberat ictibus auras, id. ib. 5, 377: fundā amnem, id. G. 1, 141; cf.: sidera (unda), id. A. 3, 423: agros nive (Juppiter), Stat. Th. 5, 390: undas (Aufidus), to lash, Luc. 2, 407; cf.: navem (Auster), Hor. Epod. 10, 3: puppim (Eurus), Val. Fl. 1, 639.—In a comic pun, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 177.—

II Trop., to lash, chastise, plague, torment, harass with words: aliquem verbis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 17: ne me ut surdo verbera aures, id. Mil. 4, 1, 204: senatus convicio verberari, Cic. Pis. 26, 63; cf.: verberavi te cogitationis tacito duntaxat convicio, id. Fam. 16, 26, 1: orator in dicendo exercitatus hac ipsā exercitatione istos verberabit, id. de Or. 3, 21, 79: aures sermonibus, Tac. Agr. 41; Petr. 132.

2. verbĕro — Lewis & Short

verbĕro, ōnis, m.1. verbero,

I one worthy of stripes, a scoundrel, rascal: ain' tu vero verbero? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 128; Cic. Att. 14, 6, 1; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 187; id. Ps. 4, 7, 63; id. As. 2, 4, 10; 2, 4, 78; 3, 3, 79; id. Capt. 3, 4, 19 al.; Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 3; 5, 6, 10.

In the wild

verbero Plautus, Amphitruo 2.1
verbera Tacitus, Annales 1.p17
Verberat Tibullus, Elegiae 1.10.60
verberavit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p8
verbera Statius, Silvae 5.3.184
uerbera Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.25

6 of 373 attestations shown.

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