The corpus record — Latin

acroasis

acroasis · f

a hearing

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ācrŏāsis — Lewis & Short

ācrŏāsis, is, f., = a)kro/asis (

I a hearing, a listening to), the discourse delivered before an assembly, public lecture (cf. the use of contio among Eng. and collegium among Germ. scholars, for discourse, etc.): ut eas vel in acroasi audeam legere, in a public lecture, Cic. Att. 15, 17, 2: Callias acroasin fecit, Vitr. 10, 22: plurimas acroases fecit, Suet. Gram. 2 (al. a)kroa/seis).

In the wild

acroasin Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.16.3
acroasi Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.17.2

Where it came from

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