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divinatio

divinatio · f

The faculty of foreseeing

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 108 · 39.28/10k
De Fato 5 · 10.09/10k
Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
Pro M. Tullio 1 · 2.91/10k
De Anima 5 · 2.1/10k
de Natura Deorum 6 · 1.68/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dīvīnātĭo — Lewis & Short

dīvīnātĭo, ōnis, f.divino.

I The faculty of foreseeing, predicting, divination, mantikh/ (cf.: augurium, auspicium, vaticinium, praesagium, praedictio), Cic. Div. 1, 1; 2, 5, 13; 2, 63, 130; id. N. D. 1, 22, 55; id. Leg. 2, 13, 32; id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96; Nep. Att. 9, 1; 16 fin.: animi, Cic. Fam. 3, 13: mendax, Vulg. Ezech. 13, 7.—

II Jurid. t. t., an examination, as to which of several accusers presenting themselves was the most proper to conduct the accusation. So the title of Cicero's oration against Caecilius: Divinatio in Caecilium; cf. Ascon. Argum.; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 7, 4, 33; Gell. 2, 4; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 1; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3; Suet. Caes. 55.

In the wild

divinatio Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.55
divinatione Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.19.p2
divinationem Cicero, De Divinatione 1.132
divinationis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.166
divinatio Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.2.1
divinatio Cicero, De Divinatione 2.25

6 of 181 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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