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delegatio

delegatio · f

an assignment, substitution, delegation

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Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

dēlēgātĭo — Lewis & Short

dēlēgātĭo, ōnis, f.delego, no. II.,

I an assignment, substitution, delegation of one person by another.

I Prop.: a mancipe, Cic. Att. 12, 3, 2; of one thing for another: delegatione perfecta solutio, Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 2; cf. context.—

II Trop.: necesse est ipse laborem impendas: delegationem res ista non recipit, Sen. Ep. 27, 4.

In the wild

delegatione Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 1.3
delegationem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.3.1
Delegationem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.27.4
delegatione Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.5.2

Where it came from

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