The corpus record — Latin

cautela

cautela · f

caution

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Where it lives

Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Res Gestae 6 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

cautēla — Lewis & Short

cautēla, ae, f.cautus, caveo (mostly post - class.),

I caution, precaution.

I In gen.: si minus cum curā aut cautelā locus loquendi lectus est, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 6 dub. (bracketed by Brix); App. M. 2, p. 117, 7; 5, p. 160, 36.—

II Esp., in the jurists, = cautio, a surety, security, Dig. 3, 3, 15; 13, 7, 6; 16, 3, 14.

Where it came from

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