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incitatio

incitatio · f

an inciting

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Where it lives

Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

incĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

incĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.incito,

I an inciting, incitement in an act. and pass. sense (Ciceron.).

I Act., an inciting, rousing, instigating: languentis populi, Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 35: acris et vehemens, id. ib. 2, 43, 183.—

II Pass., violent motion, rapidity, vehemence, ardor, energy.

A Lit.: qui (sol) tanta incitatione fertur, ut, celeritas ejus quanta sit, ne cogitari quidem possit, Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 82: ejaculari incitatione, Scrib. Comp. 84.—

B Trop.: est quaedam animi incitatio atque alacritas naturaliter innata omnibus, * Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 3: mentis, Cic. Div. 1, 40, 89: sic evolavit oratio, ut ejus vim atque incitationem aspexerim, id. de Or. 1, 35, 161.

In the wild

incitationem Cicero, De Oratore 1.161
incitatio Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 9
incitatio Cicero, De Oratore 2.35
incitatione Cicero, De Divinatione 1.89
incitatio Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.92.4
incitatione Cicero, Lucullus 82

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