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castigatio

castigatio · f

a correcting

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Pudicitia 3 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Ira 4 · 1.79/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 2 · 1.15/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

castīgātĭo — Lewis & Short

castīgātĭo, ōnis, f.castigo,

I a correcting, chastising, punishment, correction, etc. (in good prose).

A Lit.

1 In gen., of blows. etc. (rare, and always with gen.: fustium, Dig. 1, 15, 3: flagellorum, ib. 48, 19, 7.—

2 Of verbal chastisement, reproof, etc. (class. and freq.): omnis et animad. versio et castigatio contumeliā vacare debet, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88; cf. id. ib. 1, 38, 137: admonitio frequens, interdum et castigatio, vindicta rarissima, Vell. 2, 114, 3; Quint. 1, 3, 14; 3, 8, 54: tacita, Liv. 27, 10, 10; Sen. Ira, 1, 6, 1; 1, 15, 1; 2, 27, 3; id. Ep. 94, 36: censoria, Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 32; Vulg. Psa. 72, 14.—In plur., Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45; Liv. 31, 46, 11 al.—With gen.: verborum, Liv. 27, 15, 2.—

B Transf., in gardening, a trimming, lopping of plants, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 173.—Of the exposure of their roots to the cold, Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 262.—

II Trop.: loquendi, the tempering, moderating of the speech, Macr. S. 2, 4, 12.

In the wild

castigatione Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p29
castigationis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.7.14
castigationem Tertullian, De Paenitentia 11
castigatione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.14
castigatione Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.47.19.p1
castigationes Tertullian, Apologeticum 39.3

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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