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Levatio

Levatio · f

A lifting up, raising, elevating

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Where it lives

Tusculanae Disputationes 4 · 0.71/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

lĕvātĭo — Lewis & Short

lĕvātĭo, ōnis, f.id.. *

I A lifting up, raising, elevating: onerum levationes facere, Vitr. 10, 8; a metrical t. t. = a)/rsis, Aug. Mas. II. 18.—

II Trop.

A An alleviation, mitigation, relief (class.): alicui esse levationi, Cic. Fam. 6, 4, 5: ea, quae levationem habeant aegritudinum, may produce an alleviation, may alleviate, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: levationem invenire acerbissimis doloribus, id. ib. 5, 41, 121: doloris at officii debiti, id. Att. 12, 23, 3.—

B A diminishing (rare but class.): vitiorum, Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 67: periculi, Vell. 2, 130 fin.

In the wild

levatio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.121.p2
levationes Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.3.1
Levationem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.33
levationem Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.9
Levatio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.66
levationi Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.4.5

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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