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dicacitas

dicacitas · f

biting wit, raillery, banter

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

dĭcācĭtas — Lewis & Short

dĭcācĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I biting wit, raillery, banter (for syn. cf.: sal, facetiae, cavillatio, lepos, urbanitas): dicacitas sine dubio a dicendo, quod est omni generi commune, ducta est; proprie tamen significat sermonem cum risu aliquos incessentem, Quint. 6, 3, 21; cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 218; 2, 60, 244; id. Or. 26; Quint. 6, 3, 29 al.

In the wild

dicacitas Cicero, De Oratore 2.218
dicacitas Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.29
dicacitas Cicero, De Oratore 2.244
dicacitate Cicero, Brutus 172.p1
dicacitatis Cicero, De Oratore 2.219
dicacitatis Cicero, De Oratore 2.247

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Where it came from

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