The corpus record — Latin

exaggeratio

exaggeratio · f

a heaping

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Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
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What it meant

exaggĕrātĭo — Lewis & Short

exaggĕrātĭo, ōnis, f.exaggero,

I a heaping or raising up. *

I Lit. concr., in plur., Just. 2, 1 fin. (al. aggerationes).—

II Trop., elevation, exaltation (very seldom); amplitudinem et quasi quandam exaggerationem quam altissimam animi, * Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: aliqua speciosa orationis, cumulation, exaggeration, Gell. 13, 24, 9; cf. ib. § 16.

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