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dioecesis

dioecesis · f

A governor's jurisdiction, a district

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

dĭœcēsis — Lewis & Short

dĭœcēsis, is, f., = dioi/khsis.

I A governor's jurisdiction, a district, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 4 (ib. 13, 53 and 67, written as Greek); Cod. Theod. 7, 6, 3; Amm. 17, 7, 6.—

II In eccl. Lat., a bishop's jurisdiction, a diocese, Sid. Ep. 7, 6 med.; sometimes also a parish, id. ib. 9, 16.

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