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narratio

narratio · f

a relating, narrating, a narration, narrative

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Where it lives

De Partitione Oratoria 11 · 11.23/10k
Institutio Oratoria 101 · 5.88/10k
De Inventione 14 · 4.23/10k
Controversiae 26 · 3.94/10k
De Oratore 18 · 2.99/10k
Topica 2 · 2.92/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

narrātĭo — Lewis & Short

narrātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a relating, narrating, a narration, narrative.

I In gen.: narrationes credibiles, nec historico, sed prope cotidiano sermone explicatae dilucide, Cic. Or. 26, 124: rem narrare ita ut verisimilis narratio sit, id. de Or. 2, 19, 80: si exponenda est narratio, id. Or. 62, 210; Phaedr. 4, 5, 2.—

II In partic., in rhet.: narratio est rerum gestarum, aut ut gesta rum, expositio: narrationum genera sunt tria, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 19, 27; id. de Or. 2, 19, 80; id. Part. Or. 9, 31; Auct. Her. 1, 8, 12; Quint. 4, 2, 1 sq.; Mart. Cap. 5, § 550.

In the wild

narratione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.111
narrationem Cicero, De Oratore 2.83
narrationem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.10
narrationem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.20
narrationum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.11
narratio Minucius Felix, Octavius 3.4

6 of 206 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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