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laesio

laesio · f

a hurting, injuring

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Where it lives

Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

laesĭo — Lewis & Short

laesĭo, ōnis, f.laedo,

I a hurting, injuring.

I Lit. (only in late Lat.): si quod, absente socio, ad laesionem fecit, Dig. 10, 3, 28: quae non ad publicam laesionem respiciunt, ib. 2, 14, 7, § 14: irritat laesio dolorem, Lact. Ira D. 17 med.: regis, Vulg. 1 Esdr. 4, 14: nulla laesio est in eo quia credidit Deo, id. Dan. 6, 23.—*

II Rhet. t. t., a personal attack by an orator on his opponent: purgatio, conciliatio, laesio, optatio atque exsecratio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205.

In the wild

laesionem Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.5
laesione Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 51.11
laesio Cicero, De Oratore 3.205
laesio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.1.32
laesio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.2

Where it came from

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