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detractio

detractio · f

a drawing off, taking away, withdrawal

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Where it lives

De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Medicina 11 · 1.07/10k
De Architectura 6 · 1.04/10k
Institutio Oratoria 15 · 0.87/10k
De Officiis 2 · 0.59/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dētractĭo — Lewis & Short

dētractĭo, ōnis, f.detraho,

I a drawing off, taking away, withdrawal.

I In gen. (good prose): alieni, opp. appetitio, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 30: doloris, id. ib. 3, 33, 118: loci, departure from, id. Att. 12, 35: sanguinis, Cels. 4, 4; Quint. 2, 10, 6; Plin. 17, 26, 39, § 246: illa ipsa (sc. Praxitelia capita) efficiuntur detractione, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48.—

II In partic.

A Medic. t. t., a purging: cibi, Cic. Univ. 6.—More freq. absol., Cels. 2, 10; Scrib. Comp. 101 et saep.—In plur., Vitr. 1, 6; Plin. 16, 44, 92, § 244; 22, 25, 64, § 133.—

B Rhet. t. t., a taking away, leaving out, ellipsis, Quint. 1, 5, 38; 9, 2, 37 al.—

C Detraction, slander, evil-speaking, Vulg. Sap. 1, 11.—Plur., id. 2 Cor. 12, 20.

Where it came from

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