The corpus record — Latin

licitatio

licitatio · f

an offering of a price, a bidding

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lĭcĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

lĭcĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.licitor,

I an offering of a price, a bidding for any thing, at sales and auctions: exquisitis palam pretiis et licitationibus factis, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 133; id. Att. 11, 15, 4: praedam ad licitationem dividere, to the highest bidders, Suet. Ner. 26: licitatione maxima comparare aliquid, id. Calig. 22: ad licitationem rem deducere, Dig. 10, 2, 6: licitatione vincere, to bid highest, ib. 10, 2, 6: penes quem licitatio remansit, to whom it was knocked down, ib. 10, 3, 19: cum contentio fructus licitationis est, Gai. Inst. 4, 244.

In the wild

licitatione Suetonius, C. Caligula 22.3
licitationem Suetonius, Nero 26.1
licitatione Cicero, Letters to Atticus 11.15.4
licitatione Seneca, De Beneficiis 1.9.5
licitatio Suetonius, Divus Augustus 75.1
licitationibus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.133

Where it came from

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