The corpus record — Latin

accusatio

accusatio · f

complaint

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pro M. Scauro 6 · 20.2/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 8 · 13.75/10k
Pro L. Murena 13 · 12.32/10k
Pro M. Caelio 9 · 10.63/10k
Apologia 21 · 9.77/10k
Pro L. Flacco 7 · 6.42/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 12 · 5.78/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 2 · 5.12/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 4 · 4.3/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 4 · 4.09/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

accūsātĭo — Lewis & Short

accūsātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I complaint, accusation, indictment.

I In abstr.: ratio judiciorum ex accusatione et defensione constat, Cic. Off. 2, 14: comparare et constituere accusationem, to bring in, Cic. Verr. 1, 1: intentare, Tac. A. 6, 4: capessere, id. ib. 4, 52: exercere, id. H. 2, 10: factitare, to pursue or urge, Cic. Brut. 34: accusatione desistere, to desist from, give up, id. Fragm. Corn. ap. Ascon.; later, demittere, Aur. Vict. 28, 2: accusationi respondere, to answer, Cic. Clu. 3.—

II In concr., the bill of indictment, the action or suit: in accusationis septem libris, i. e. in the Orations against Verres, Cic. Or. 29, 103; so Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 110.

In the wild

accusatione Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.17
accusationis Apuleius, Apologia 90
accusationis Cicero, Orator 210
accusatio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 p46
accusationes Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 36.3
accusatione Cicero, De Officiis 2.49.p2

6 of 287 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.