brĕvĭlŏquentĭa — Lewis & Short
brĕvĭlŏquentĭa, ae, f.brevis-loquentia,
I brevity of speech: breviloquentiam in dicendo colat, an expression of Cicero, censured by Seneca ap. Gell. 12, 2, 7.
The corpus record — Latin
breviloquentia
breviloquentia · f
brevity
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Where it lives
- De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
- Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- breviloquentiam Cicero, De Republica 5.11
- breviloquentiam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.2.7
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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