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descensio

descensio · f

a going down, descending

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Where it lives

de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

dēscensĭo — Lewis & Short

dēscensĭo, ōnis, f.descendo (postAug.),

I a going down, descending.

I Prop.: balinearum, into the bath, Plin. 20, 17, 69, § 178: Tiberina, the sail down the Tiber, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 70: grando in descensione saltus, upon the thickets, Vulg. Isa. 32, 19.—Hence, *

II Meton., the bath itself, Gr. e)mba/seis, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 26.

Where it came from

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