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oblectamentum

oblectamentum · n

a delight, pleasure, amusement

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10 · 0.84/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
De Beneficiis 3 · 0.66/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-lectāmentum — Lewis & Short

ob-lectāmentum, i, n.id.,

I a delight, pleasure, amusement (class.; cf.: voluptas, deliciae); with gen. obj.: requies oblectamentumque senectutis, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: oblectamenta puerorum, id. Par. 5, 2, 38: oblectamenta et solatia servitutis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134: gulae, Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68.—With gen. subj.: rerum rusticarum, Cic. Sen. 16, 55.—Absol.: erat ei in oblectamentis draco serpens, Suet. Tib. 72.

In the wild

oblectamenti Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.6.2
oblectamenta Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.12.2
oblectamenta Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.134
oblectamentum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.117.33.p1
oblectamenta Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.10.1
oblectamentis Tacitus, Annales 14.p53

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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