The corpus record — Latin

imprecatio

imprecatio · f

an invoking of evil

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

imprĕcātĭo — Lewis & Short

imprĕcātĭo (inpr-), ōnis, f.imprecor,

I an invoking of evil, imprecation (postAug.): exsecraris illum et caput sanctum tibi dira imprecatione defigis, curse, Sen. Ben. 6, 35, 1; id. Ep. 94, 52: imprecationes nefariae, Amm. 29, 1, 25: dira, Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 45.—

II In late Lat., in a good sense, a prayer: pontificis, Hier. Ep. 130, n. 2.

In the wild

inprecatio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.94.53
imprecationibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.25
imprecationis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.41
imprecationibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.29

Where it came from

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