The corpus record — Latin

miseratio

miseratio · f

a pitying, pity, compassion, commiseration

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Where it lives

Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 2 · 2.04/10k
Annales 18 · 2.03/10k
Metamorphoses 9 · 1.69/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Institutio Oratoria 27 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĭsĕrātĭo — Lewis & Short

mĭsĕrātĭo, ōnis, f.miseror,

I a pitying, pity, compassion, commiseration (class.).

I Lit.: cum quādam miseratione delectare, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5: miserationem commovere, Quint. 6, 1, 46: miseratione mens judicum permovenda, Cic. Or. 38, 131: miserationem petere, i. e. to pray for pity and forgiveness, Plin. 9, 8, 10, § 33: infantis, Just. 7, 2.—

II Transf., rhetor., a pathetic speech: miserationibus uti, Cic. Brut. 21, 82: judicem inclinat miseratio, Quint. 4, 1, 14; 6, 1, 23; 4, 1, 27; 4, 3, 15 et saep.

Where it came from

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