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obscuratio

obscuratio · f

a darkening, obscuring, obscuration

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Where it lives

De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3 · 0.6/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

obscūrātĭo — Lewis & Short

obscūrātĭo, ōnis, f.obscuro,

I a darkening, obscuring, obscuration (class.).

I Lit.: solis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 5, 15; Quint. 1, 10, 47; Plin. 36, 27, 69, § 202: in illā obscuratione, darkness, obscurity, Auct. B. Hisp. 6.—

II Trop.: in quibus (voluptatibus) propter earum exiguitatem, obscuratio consequitur, an obscuring, a rendering invisible, Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 29; cf. id. ib. 4, 13, 32; cf. obscuro.

In the wild

obscuratione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.27.p2
obscuratio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.29.p2
obscuratione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.8.p1
obscuratione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.47
obscurationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.1.11
obscurationibus Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.32

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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