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laudatio

laudatio · f

a praising, praise, commendation; a eulogy, panegyric

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Where it lives

Pro L. Flacco 9 · 8.25/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Pro Fonteio 2 · 4.41/10k
Topica 3 · 4.38/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 3 · 3.23/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 3 · 3.06/10k
De Oratore 18 · 2.99/10k
In C. Verrem 24 · 2.39/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

laudātĭo — Lewis & Short

laudātĭo, ōnis, f.laudo,

I a praising, praise, commendation; a eulogy, panegyric.

I In gen.: quam lauream cum tua laudatione conferrem? with your eulogy, i. e. that pronounced by you, Cic. Fam. 15, 6, 1: felicitatem ipsam deorum immortalium judicio tribui laudationis est, id. de Or. 2, 85, 347: quae quidem laudatio hominis turpissimi mihi ipsi erat paene turpis, id. Pis. 29, 72: in omnibus laudationibus, Quint. 11, 3, 153.—With object.-gen.: laudationes eorum, qui sunt ab Homero laudati, Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 116: legis, Quint. 7, 1, 47: laudationes modulatae, songs of praise, Suet. Ner. 20.—

II In partic.

A In a court of justice, a favorable testimony to a person's character, a eulogy, panegyric: lectissimos viros cum legatione ad hoc judicium, et cum gravissima atque ornatissima laudatione miserunt, Cic. Cael. 2, 5; id. Fl. 15, 36; id. Font. 2, 4: judicialis, Suet. Aug. 56.—

B A funeral oration, eulogy: funebris, Cic. Mil. 13, 33; Quint. 3, 7, 2: est in manibus laudatio, quam cum legimus, etc., Cic. de Sen. 4, 12: nonnullae mortuorum laudationes, id. Brut. 16, 61.—With object.-gen.: matronarum, Liv. 5, 50.

In the wild

laudationes Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.147
laudationibus Cicero, De Oratore 2.333
laudatio Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.21
laudationibus Cicero, De Oratore 1.141
laudatio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.38.p2
laudationibus Cicero, Topica 94

6 of 147 attestations shown.

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