Dear Colleagues,
Has any of you ever come across the (Latin) word "obripilatio"? I can't
make head nor tail of it nor find it in OLD or or Niermeyer. It occurs in
the context of a girl stricken suddenly with a seizure and afterward
rendered hysterical. While working in the garden, she has just fallen to
the ground:
"Tum quoque, cum subita obripilatione, tremor membrorum continuus illi
exstitit."
I can provide more context if you like. My best guess is that the author
has contructed it from "repello", so that it would connote being struck a
blow, but it seems an awfully inflated word, and the spelling is bizarre.
(This comes from a miracle collection from AASS, which in the volume I'm
using is usually pretty careful to comment on, or to standardize, bizarre
orthography.) Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Patrick Nugent.
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Patrick J. Nugent
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
(765) 983-1413
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