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cessatio

cessatio · f

A tarrying

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Where it lives

Epistularum 3 · 3.3/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

cessātĭo — Lewis & Short

cessātĭo, ōnis, f.cesso.

I A tarrying, delaying: non datur cessatio, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 103.—Hence,

II Inactivity, idling, cessation, omission, idleness: furtum cessationis quaerere, Q. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2: cessatio libera atque otiosa, Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 10 Orell. N. cr.: pugnae, Gell. 1, 25, 8: Epicurus nihil cessatione melius existimat... deum sic feriatum volumus cessatione torpere, etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 102; 1, 37, 102.— So in jurid. lang., a punishable delay, Dig. 37, 2, 6.—And of ground, a lying fallow, Col. 2, 1, 3.

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