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imitatio

imitatio · f

imitation

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 3 · 5.18/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
Institutio Oratoria 46 · 2.68/10k
De Oratore 16 · 2.66/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 2 · 2.04/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭmĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

ĭmĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I imitation (class.; cf. aemulatio).

I In gen.: imitatio virtutis aemulatio dicitur, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 17; cf. Quint. 1, 2, 26: excellentium civium virtus imitatione digna, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 17: imitatione tantam ingenii praestantiam consequi, id. Off. 3, 1, 1: ut ad imitationem sui vocet alios, id. Rep. 2, 42: periculosa exempli, id. Fl. 11, 24: antiquitatis, Quint. 11, 3, 10: nostrorum dictorum factorumque, id. 9, 2, 59: fori consiliorumque, id. 2, 4, 41 al.: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas, Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 215: nihil ostentationis aut imitationis afferre, id. 3, 12, 45: longe difficillima est imitationis imitatio, the copying of a copy, Plin. Ep. 4, 28, 3: certatim haec omnis imitatio lacessivit, ut, etc., Macr. S. 7, 13, 11.—

B The faculty of imitation: ingenii signum in parvis praecipuum memoria est: ... proximum imitatio, Quint. 1, 3, 1.—

II In rhet. lang.

A Imitation of an orator: imitatio est, in qua impellimur cum diligenti ratione, ut aliquorum similes in dicendo velimus esse, Auct. Her. 1, 2, 3; cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 22 sq.; Quint. 10, 2.—

B Imitation of a natural sound, onomatopœia, Auct. Her. 4, 31, 42.

In the wild

imitationem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.3.15
imitatio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 16.99.16
imitatione Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.77.p2
imitationis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 24.6
imitatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.2.16
imitatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.2.3

6 of 155 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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