The corpus record — Latin

deprecatio

deprecatio · f

a warding off

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Where it lives

Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Inventione 8 · 2.42/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēprĕcātĭo — Lewis & Short

dēprĕcātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a warding off or averting by prayer; a deprecating, deprecation.

I Prop.

A In gen.: periculi. Cic. Rab. perd. 9, 26: venia deprecationis, Quint. prooem. § 2.—

b Esp., in relig. lang., an imprecation: defigi diris deprecationibus, Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19: deorum, an invoking of the gods to send punishment on the perjurer, Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46; Petr. 18, 1.—More freq.,

II Transf., a prayer for pardon, deprecation: ejus facti, Cic. Part. Or. 37 fin.; cf. inertiae, Hirt. B. G. 8 prooem. § 1; Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 7: assidua, Vulg. Jacob. 5, 16.—So in rhetoric, like the Gr. proparai/thsis or suggnw/mh, Cic. Inv. 2, 34; id. de Or. 3, 53 fin.; Auct. Her. 1, 14; Quint. 9, 1, 32 al.

Where it came from

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