vespillo — Lewis & Short
vespillo, ōnis, m.dim.2. vespa,
I a corpse-bearer who carried out the bodies of the poor at night, Suet. Dom. 17 fin.; Mart. 1, 48, 1; cf. vespae.
The corpus record — Latin
vespillo
vespillo · m
a corpse-bearer
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Where it lives
- De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
- De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- vespillones Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.13
- Vespillo Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.7.1
- vespillo Tertullian, De Pallio 4
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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