The corpus record — Latin

certatio

certatio · f

a contending

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Where it lives

Pro P. Quinctio 2 · 2.31/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Noctes Atticae 5 · 0.45/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

certātĭo — Lewis & Short

certātĭo, ōnis, f.2. certo,

I a contending, striving, a combat, strife, contest, etc. (in good prose, most freq. in Cic.).

I Lit.

A In gen.: jam ludi publici sint corporum certatione, cursu, etc., Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 22; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 4: certationes xysticorum, Suet. Aug. 45.—

B Esp., a military contest, a fight (very rare), Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 196, 1.—

II Trop.: Medea nequaquam istuc istac ibit: magna inest certatio, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 25, 65 (Trag. Rel. v. 304 Vahl.): relinquitur non mihi cum Torquato sed virtuti cum voluptate certatio, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 44: haec inter eos (amicos) fit honesta certatio, id. Lael. 9, 32: ingenia exercere certationibus, Vitr. 2, 1, 3.—Of a judicial contest: haec est iniqua certatio, Cic. Quint. 22, 73: non par, id. ib. 21, 68; hence: per populum multae poenae certatio esto, Lex ap. Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 8.—So in the lang. of political life: certatio multae, a public discussion concerning a punishment to be inflicted, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 8 (cf. id. 25, 3, 13).

In the wild

certationem Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.pr.6
certatio Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio 73.p1
certatione Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.57.2
certationibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae pr.1.19
certationis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.3.10
certatione Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.4.8

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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