The corpus record — Latin

decessor

decessor · m

one who retires from a province he has governed

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

dēcessor — Lewis & Short

dēcessor, ōris, m.decedo, no. I. B. 2,

I one who retires from a province he has governed; hence, with reference to his successor, a retiring officer (rare): successori decessor invidit, Cic. Scaur. Fragm. § 33, p. 187 ed. Beier; so Tac. Agr. 7; Dig. 1, 16, 4, § 4.—

II In gen., a predecessor in office (late Lat.), August. in Psal. 43, 16 al.

In the wild

decessori Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.3.2
decessori Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.6.1
decessor Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 7.5
decessor Cicero, Pro M. Scauro 33
decessor Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 4
decessore Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 26.3

Where it came from

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