The corpus record — Latin

dictatura

dictatura · f

The office of a dictator, dictatorship

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Where it lives

Divus Julius 3 · 3.08/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4 · 0.5/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 6 · 0.12/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

dictātūra — Lewis & Short

dictātūra, ae, f.id..

I The office of a dictator, dictatorship, Cic. Phil. 1, 1 fin.; id. Off. 3, 31, 112; * Caes. B. C. 3, 2; Liv. 6, 39; 7, 3 fin.; Quint. 3, 8, 53; Suet. Caes. 76; id. Aug. 52 et saep.—*

II The work of dictating to pupils; only in a play upon the double meaning in the sentence: Sullam nescisse litteras, qui dictaturam deposuerit, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 77.

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