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exceptio

exceptio · f

an exception

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 4 · 6.77/10k
De Inventione 11 · 3.32/10k
De Lege Agraria 4 · 2.9/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Pro A. Caecina 2 · 1.93/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

exceptĭo — Lewis & Short

exceptĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I an exception, restriction, limitation [good prose and very freq., esp. in Cic.).

I In gen.: consiliorum, voluntatum sine ulla exceptione communitas, Cic. Lael. 17; so, sine (ulla) or cum exceptione, id. Fam. 6, 5, 1; id. Caecin. 8 fin.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31; id. Att. 8, 4, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13; id. Inv. 2, 57, 172; Quint. 7, 1, 50; Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 5 et saep.; cf. in plur.: unus imperitat nullis jam exceptionibus, Tac. G. 44: quod si exceptio facit, ne liceat, ibi necesse est licere, ubi non est exceptum, etc., Cic. Balb. 14: sunt in tota lege exceptiones duae, id. Agr. 1, 4 et saep.—

II Esp., in jurid. Lat., the exception of the defendant to the plaintiff's statements, inserted in the praetor's edict, Gai. Inst. 4, 116 sq.; Just. Inst. 4, 13; Dig. 44, 1; Cod. Just. 8, 36; Cic. Inv. 2, 19; id. de Or. 1, 37; cf. Rein's Röm. Privatr. p. 448 sq.

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