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detestatio

detestatio · f

Execration, cursing, detestation

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Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Noctes Atticae 8 · 0.72/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. dētestātĭo — Lewis & Short

dētestātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I In relig. lang.

A Execration, cursing, detestation, Liv. 10, 38; Hor. Epod. 5, 89; Sen. Ep. 117 med.; Gell. 2, 6, 3; Vulg. Dan. 9, 11. —

B A keeping off, averting, Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135: scelerum, Cic. Dom. 55, 140.—

II In judicial lang., a formal renunciation under oath: detestatio est denuntiatio facta cum testatione, Dig. 50, 16, 40; cf. detestor, no. II.—So detestatio sacrorum, the solemn renunciation of the family sacred rites, and thereby of the gens itself, which in arrogatio was made by the son, Gell. 15, 27, 3; cf.: Liber (Servii Sulpicii) de sacris detestandis, id. 6, 12, 1.

2. dē-testātĭo — Lewis & Short

dē-testātĭo, ōnis, f.2. testis,

I the removal of the testes, castration, Ap. M. 7, p. 198, 7.

In the wild

detestatione Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.a
detestatione Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.38.12
detestationem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.3.6.p2
detestatio Horace, Epodon 5.89
detestatione Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.6.3
detestatione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.3

6 of 21 attestations shown.

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