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cancelli

cancelli · m

a lattice

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Where it lives

Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cancelli — Lewis & Short

cancelli, ōrum (m.dim.2. cancer,

sing. cancellus, Dig. 43, 24, 9, § 1),

I a lattice, enclosure, grating, grate, balustrade, bars, railings: ( = kigkli/des; Latini tamen cancellos non tantum fores tou= dikasthri/ou, sed etiam omne consaeptum appellant, Salmas. Hist. Aug. p. 483) scenici et theatri, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 4: aenei rivorum, Col. 8, 17, 6; the bar in a court of justice, Cic. Verr 2, 3, 59, § 135: tantus ex fori cancellis plausus excitatus, the barrier in public spectacles, id. Sest. 58, 124: circi, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 64: aedium, Dig. 30, 41, § 10; 33, 7, 12, § 26: fenestrarum, Aug. Trin. 11, 2: saepta cancellorum, Amm. 30, 4, 19.—Of the reticulated skin of the elephant, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 30; cf. cancello.—

B Trop., boundaries, limits (so perh. only in Cic.): si extra hos cancellos egredi conabor, quos mihi ipse circumdedi, Cic. Quint. 10, 36: esse certam rerum forensibus cancellis circumscriptam scientiam, id. de Or. 1, 12, 52: severitatis, Cod. Th. 1, 12, 8.—

II Meton., the space enclosed by boundaries, Auct. B. Afr. 15 fin.

In the wild

cancellos Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio 36
cancellis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.10
cancellis Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.97
cancellorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.19
cancellis Tertullian, De Scorpiace 10
cancellos Tertullian, De Pallio 5.p2

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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