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causidicus

causidicus · m

a pleader

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 3 · 11.07/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Saturae 8 · 3.22/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Epigrammata 15 · 2.67/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

causĭdĭcus — Lewis & Short

causĭdĭcus (causs-), i, m.causadico,

I a pleader, advocate (in a contemptuous sense in distinction from orator; cf. Burm. Petr. 46, 7): in somnis videmur ... Causidici causas agere, Lucr. 4, 966: litium advocatus, Quint. 12, 1, 25 Spald.; connected with proclamator and rabula, Cic. de Or. 1, 46, 202; cf. id. Or. 9, 30; Suet. Claud. 15; Tac. Or. 1 al.; with praeco, Juv. 6, 439; Petr. 46, 7; App. Mag. p. 305, 20; Cod. Th. 2, 10, 1 sqq.

In the wild

causidici Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.966
causidici Seneca, De Ira 3.37.2
causidici Martial, Epigrammata 6.8.2
causidicus Martial, Epigrammata 14.219.1
causidicos Martial, Epigrammata 4.8.2
causidicum Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.136

6 of 42 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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