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dedisco

has unlearned the general

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 3 · 5.72/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Tristia 3 · 1.32/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-disco — Lewis & Short

dē-disco, dĭdĭci, 3,

I v. a., to unlearn, to forget, sc. what one has learned (rare, but class.).

(a) With acc.: qui, quod didicit, id dediscit, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 56; cf.: multa oportet discat atque dediscat, Cic. Quint. 17 fin.; so, haec verba, id. Brut. 46, 171; cf. id. de Or. 3, 24, 93: nomen disciplinamque populi Romani, * Caes. B. C. 3, 110: sermonem, Quint. 1, 1, 5: cordaque languentem dedidicere metum, Claud. Praef. Rapt. Pros. 1, 10: dedidicit jam pace ducem, has unlearned the general, i. e. lost his military character, Luc. 1, 131: dedisce captam, Sen. Troad. 887.—Prov.: dediscit animus sero quod didicit diu, id. ib. 631.—

(b) With inf.: (eloquentia) loqui dedisceret, Cic. Brut. 13, 51; so loqui, Ov. Tr. 3, 14, 46: amare, id. R. Am. 297 al.

In the wild

dediscitur Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.50.8
dedidicique Ovid, Tristia 3.14.46
dedisceret Cicero, Brutus 51
dediscere Seneca, De Clementia 2.5.3
dediscit Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2
dediscuntur Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.8.5

6 of 35 attestations shown.

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