LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

oblivio

oblivio · f

a being forgotten, forgetfulness, oblivion

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
  • Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
  • De Brevitate Vitae 4 · 6.47/10k
  • De Anima 12 · 5.05/10k
  • Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
  • Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Marciam 3 · 3.56/10k
  • Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
  • De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
  • Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
  • Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
  • Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k

Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

oblīvĭo — Lewis & Short

oblīvĭo, ōnis, f.obliviscor.

I Lit., a being forgotten, forgetfulness, oblivion (class.): oblivio veteris belli, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4 init.: laudem alicujus ab oblivione atque a silentio vindicare, to rescue from oblivion, id. de Or. 2, 2, 7: meam tuorum erga me meritorum memoriam nulla umquam delebit oblivio, id. Fam. 2, 1, 2: dare aliquid oblivioni, to consign to oblivion, Liv. 1, 31, 3: oblivione obruere, Cic. Brut. 15, 60; for which (late Lat.): oblivioni tradere, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 31, 2; Hier. in Psa. 68, 1 al.: omnes ejus injurias voluntariā quādam oblivione contriveram, had consigned to oblivion, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 20: in oblivionem negoti venire, to forget, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 79: satius erat ista in oblivionem ire, to be forgotten, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 7 init.: in oblivionem diuturnitate adduci, Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 54: capit me oblivio alicujus rei, I forget something, id. Off. 1, 8, 26: per oblivionem, through forgetfulness, Suet. Caes. 28: in oblivione est, is forgotten, Vulg. Luc. 12, 6.—In plur.: carpere lividas Obliviones, Hor. C. 4, 9, 34; Gell. 9, 5, 6; Quint. Decl. 306.—
II Transf.
A Subject., a forgetting, forgetfulness (post-Aug.): in eo (Claudio) mirati sunt homines et oblivionem et inconsiderantiam, Suet. Claud. 39, Tac. A. 11, 38.—
B Concr
1 Oblivio litterarum, a poet. designation of Orbilius Pupillus, a grammarian, who lost his memory in his old age, Bibacul. ap. Suet. Gram. 9.—
2 Flumen Oblivionis, an appellation of the river Limia, in Hispania Tarraconensis, acc. to the Gr. o( th=s lh/qhs, Mel. 3, 1, 8; Flor. 2, 17, 12; called flumen Oblivio, Liv Epit. 55.

In the wild

6 of 163 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.