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vicarius

vicarius · adj

that supplies the place

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Divus Aurelianus 3 · 3.84/10k
Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Res Gestae 20 · 1.57/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭcārĭus — Lewis & Short

vĭcārĭus, a, um, adj.vicis,

I that supplies the place of a person or thing, substituted, delegated, vicarious.

I Adj.: vicaria fides amicorum supponitur, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111: manus, Quint. Decl. 6, 21: corpus, id. ib. 16, 7: mors, Hyg. Fab. 243; Quint. Decl. 9 fin.—

II Substt.

A vĭcārĭus, ii, m., a substitute, deputy, proxy, a locum tenens, vicegerent, vicar: succedam ego vicarius tuo muneri, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; 2, 3, 38, § 86; id. Mur. 37, 80; id. Sull. 9, 26; id. Fam. 16, 22, 2; Liv. 29, 1, 8; Hor. C. 3, 24, 16; Dig. 26, 7, 39, § 16: diligentiae meae, Col. 11, 1, 5.—Esp., an adjutant or lieutenant to a military commander, Cod. Just. 12, 51, 9: tribuni, a vice - tribune, Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10, 4.—An under-servant, underslave kept by another slave, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 28; Hor. S. 2, 7, 79; Mart. 2, 18, 7; Dig. 9, 4, 19; 15, 1, 17; Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. 687; cf. of the vicarii of such vicarii, ib. 775.—

B vĭcārĭa, ae, f.

1 A female under-slave of another slave, Inscr. Fabr. 304, n. 297; Inscr. Murat. 972, 11.—

2 The post of deputy of the praefectus praetorio, Cod. Th. 6, 26, 4.—

3 A substitute: se pro conjuge vicariam dare, Sen. ad Helv. 19, 5.

In the wild

vicaria Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 111
uicarium Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.1
vicarium Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 48
vicarium Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 24
uicaria Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.2.1
vicarius Historia Augusta, Tyranni Triginta 10

6 of 67 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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