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decessio

decessio · f

a going away, departure

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēcessĭo — Lewis & Short

dēcessĭo, ōnis, f.decedo,

I a going away, departure (opp. accessio—good prose).

I Lit.

A In gen.: is mecum saepe de tua mansione aut decessione communicat, Cic. Fam. 4, 4 fin.—

B Esp.

1 The withdrawal, retirement of a magistrate from the province he has governed, Cic. Pis. 36, 89; id. Att. 6, 5 fin.; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1.—

2 Pregn., the decrease, diminution, abatement, or entire disappearance of an object: neque enim ulla decessio fieri poterat neque accessio, Cic. Univ. 6: utrum accessionem decumae an decessionem de summa fecerit, id. Rab. Post. 11, 30 sq.; Dig. 29, 4, 28 fin.: decessio capitis aut accessio, Cic. Div. 2, 15, 36: accessio et decessio febris, Cels. 3, 3 fin.; so id. 2, 4 et saep.—

3 Decease: Juliani, Spart. Did. Jul. 7 fin.— *

II Trop.: verborum, the transition, transferring of words from their primary to a derivative meaning, Gell. 13, 29, 1.

In the wild

decessione Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 4.4.5
decessione Celsus, De Medicina 3.5
decessione Celsus, De Medicina 3.3.p4
decessionem Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus 7
decessionis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.5.3
decessionem Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 31

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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