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captatio

captatio · f

a reaching after

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Where it lives

De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

captātĭo — Lewis & Short

captātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a reaching after or catching at something (rare): verborum, Cic. Part. Or. 23, 81: puerilis vocum similium, Quint. 8, 3, 57: testamenti, legacy-hunting, Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 160; Quint. 8, 6, 51.—

II In fencing, t. t., a feint, Quint. 5, 13, 54.

In the wild

captationi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.14.p6
captatio Tertullian, De Paenitentia 2
captatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.praef.p1
captatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.13.54
captatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.51
captatioque Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 81

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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