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demonstratio

demonstratio · f

a showing

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Where it lives

De Inventione 10 · 3.02/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēmonstrātĭo — Lewis & Short

dēmonstrātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a showing or pointing out, as with the finger, an indication, description, designation.

I In gen. (good prose): gestus universam rem et sententiam non demonstratione sed significatione declarans, Cic. de Or. 3, 59: conversam habere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 59: hujus generis demonstratio est, et doctrina ipsa vulgaris, id. de Or. 3, 55, 209: temporum horum, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93.—In plur., Cic. Fin. 4, 5, 13.—

II In partic.

A In rhetor.

1 The demonstrative or laudatory kind of oratory, i. q. demonstrativum genus, Cic. Inv. 1, 9, 12; Quint. 3, 4, 13; 11, 3, 115.—

2 A vivid delineation, picturesque presentation, Gr. diatu/pwsis e)ne/rgeia, Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 40.—

B In jurisprud., a clear and complete declaration of one's will, Dig. 35, tit. 1: de condicionibus et demonstrationibus, Gai. ib. 17; ib. 30, 1, 74.—

b The bounding or limiting of a place, Dig. 8, 1, 13; 10, 1, 12.

In the wild

demonstratione Cicero, De Oratore 3.220
demonstratio Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.pr.4
demonstrationem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.29.2
demonstratio Cicero, De Inventione 1.12
demonstratio Cicero, De Inventione 1.13
demonstrationem Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 25

6 of 58 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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