The corpus record — Latin

dictito

to say often

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Where it lives

Lysander 1 · 18.52/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 4 · 3.8/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Annales 20 · 2.25/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dictĭto — Lewis & Short

dictĭto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. intens. a. [dicto], to say often or emphatically; to declare, maintain, assert repeatedly (good prose).

I In gen.: non, obsecro, es, quem semper te esse dictitasti, Ter. Ph. 5, 1, 16.; cf. Liv. 3, 20; 9, 18: qui ita dictitat, iis esse metuendum, etc., Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 4; 1, 3, 8; 1, 10, 28; 2, 1, 8: ut Lacedaemonii suos omnes agros esse dictitarint, quos spiculo possent attingere, id. Rep. 3, 9: Caelius profectus, ut dictitabat, ad Caesarem pervenit, as he alleged, or pretended, Caes. B. C. 3, 22, 3; cf. id. ib. 3, 32, 4 and 6; Sall. C. 22, 2 Kritz.; Nep. Lys. 1, 4; Liv. 1, 49; 5, 2; Tac. A. 1, 72 al.—Pass. impers.: male dictitatur tibi volgo in sermonibus, there are bad rumors about you, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 62.—*

II In partic., in jurid. lang.: causas, to plead frequently, Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56.

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