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haesitatio

haesitatio · f

a hesitating

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Letters 4 · 0.62/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

haesĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

haesĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a hesitating (rare but good prose).

I Of speech, a stammering: qui timor! quae dubitatio! quanta haesitatio tractusque verborum! Cic. de Or. 2, 50, 202: deformis, Quint. 11, 2, 48.—

II Mental uncertainty, irresolution, perplexity, embarrassment, hesitation (rare but class.): si facile inveneris quid dicas, noli ignoscere haesitationi meae, Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2: non mediocris haesitatio est, hinc justitiae proposita imagine, inde pietatis, Quint. 12, 1, 40; 11, 2, 48: haesitationem attulit tempus et locus, Tac. H. 1, 39; Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 5; Plin. Ep. 6, 27, 1.

In the wild

haesitationem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.2.48
haesitatione Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.7.1
haesitatione Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.1A.2
haesitationem Tacitus, Historiae 1.40
haesitatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.1.40
haesitationi Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 3.12.2

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Where it came from

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