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delatio

delatio · f

an accusation, denunciation

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Where it lives

Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 4 · 6.88/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Historiae 5 · 0.97/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

dēlātĭo — Lewis & Short

dēlātĭo, ōnis, f.defero, no. II. B. 2. b.,

I an accusation, denunciation: nominis, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64; id. ib. 3, 7; id. Cluent. 8, 25.—Absol.: cuicumque vos delationem dedissetis, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49; Tac. A. 4, 66; Curt. 6, 8, 13; in plural, Tac. H. 2, 10; 2, 84; Plin. Pan. 34, 5; 45, 2 et saep.

In the wild

delationis Tacitus, Annales 4.p66
delationibus Tacitus, Historiae 4.43
delationum Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.M4.p2
delationes Tacitus, Historiae 2.11
delationem Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 64
delatio Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 10

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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