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excogitatio

excogitatio · f

a thinking out

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Where it lives

De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

excōgĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

excōgĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.excogito,

I a thinking out, a contriving, devising, inventing (syn. inventio): quid? illa vis quae tandem est, quae investigat occulta, quae inventio atque excogitatio dicitur? Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61: excogitationem non habent difficilem, may be thought out without difficulty, id. de Or. 2, 27, 120: hominum malae artis, Vulg. Sap. 15, 4.

In the wild

excogitatio Cicero, De Inventione 2.18
excogitatio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.2.p154
excogitatio Cicero, De Inventione 1.9.p1
excogitatio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.2.p74
excogitationem Cicero, De Oratore 2.120
excogitatio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.62

Where it came from

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