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admotio

admotio · f

a putting

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What it meant

admōtĭo — Lewis & Short

admōtĭo, ōnis, f.admoveo,

I a putting, moving, or bringing to, an applying; in music: digitorum, the application of the fingers: itaque ad pingendum, ad scalpendum, ad nervorum eliciendos sonos apta manus est admotione digitorum, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150; cf.: animis judicum admovere orationem tamquam fidibus manum, id. Brut. 54, 200: spongiarum cum aqua frigida expressarum admotio gutturi, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 6.

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