The corpus record — Latin

agitatio

agitatio · f

the state of being in motion

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
De Officiis 3 · 0.89/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăgĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

ăgĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I the state of being in motion, motion, movement, agitation (in good class. prose).

I Lit.: agitationes fluctuum, Cic. Mur. 17: agitatio et motus linguae, id. N. D. 2, 54: lecticae, Liv. 27, 29: agitatione agitabitur terra, Vulg. Isa. 24, 20.—

II Trop. (mostly in philos. lang.), activity: numquam animus agitatione et motu esse vacuus potest, Cic. Div. 2, 62, 128: adhibenda est actio quaedam, non solum mentis agitatio, contemplation, thought, id. Off. 1, 5 fin.: magnarum rerum agitatio et administratio, id. Inv. 2, 54: studiorum, prosecution, id. Sen. 7: opus est sapienti agitatione virtutum, the practice, exercise, Sen. Ep. 109: agitatione rerum ad virtutem capessendam excitari, Val. Max. 7, 2, 1.

Where it came from

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