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hortamentum

hortamentum · n

an incitement

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

hortāmentum — Lewis & Short

hortāmentum, i, n.id.,

I an incitement, encouragement (not in Cic. or Cæs.) ea cuncta Romanis hortamento erant, Sall J. 98, 7: celeritatis, Gell. 13, 24, 21: virtutis Just. 3, 5, 9.—In plur.: in conspectu parentum conjugumque ac liberorum, quae magna etiam absentibus hortamenta animi, etc., Liv. 7, 11, 6: victoriae, Tac. H. 4, 18; Lact. 5, 19, 9; 4, 1, 8.

In the wild

hortamenta Tacitus, Historiae 4.19
hortamentum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.25.21
hortamentis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.2.p1
hortamento Sallust, Jugurtha 97.p2
hortamenta Silius Italicus, Punica 5.154
hortamenta Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.11.6

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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