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firmamentum

firmamentum · n

a strengthening

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Where it lives

De Partitione Oratoria 4 · 4.09/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 4 · 3.6/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 2 · 3/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

firmāmentum — Lewis & Short

firmāmentum, i, n.id.,

I a strengthening, support, prop (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense and in Cic.).

I Lit.: transversaria tigna iniciuntur, quae firmamento esse possint, Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 2: ossa nervique et articuli, firmamenta totius corporis, Sen. de Ira, 2, 1, 2: vincula et firmamenta membrorum, Gell. 13, 22, 9.—

B Transf., the sky fixed above the earth, the firmament (late Lat.), Tert. Bapt. 3; Aug. de Genes. ad lit. 2 et saep.—

II Trop.

A In gen., a support, prop, stay: eum ordinem, qui exercet vectigalia, firmamentum ceterorum ordinum recte esse dicemus, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 7, 17: firmamentum ac robur totius accusationis, id. Mur. 28, 58; cf.: multo plus firmamenti ac roboris, id. de Imp. Pomp. 4, 10: parum firmamenti et parum virium, id. Clu. 2, 5: rei publicae, id. Planc. 9, 23; cf.: imperii populi Romani, id. Phil. 3, 5, 13: stabilitatis constantiaeque fides est, id. Lael. 18, 65: dignitatis, id. Tusc. 4, 3, 7: honor sacerdotii firmamentum, potentiae adsumebatur, Tac. H. 5, 8: si ullum firmamentum in illo teste posuisses, Cic. Fl. 37, 92: legionem ex subsidiis in primam aciem firmamentum ducit, as a support, Liv. 29, 2, 9.—In plur.: Romulus cum haec egregia duo firmamenta rei publicae peperisset, auspicia et senatum, Cic. Rep. 2, 10.—

B In partic., rhet. t. t., the chief support of an argument, the main point, to\ sune/xon, Cic. Inv. 1, 14, 19; id. Part. 29, 103; Auct. Her. 1, 16, 26; Quint. 3, 11, 1; 9; 12 sq.

In the wild

firmamentum Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 26
firmamentum Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 26
firmamenti Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 5
firmamentum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16.22
firmamentum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.8.2
firmamenta Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.11.18

6 of 60 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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