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obsecratio

obsecratio · f

a beseeching, imploring, supplication, entreaty

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Where it lives

Pro Fonteio 2 · 4.41/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k

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

What it meant

obsĕcrātĭo — Lewis & Short

obsĕcrātĭo, ōnis, f.obsecro.

I In gen., a beseeching, imploring, supplication, entreaty (class.): prece et obsecratione humili uti, Cic. Inv. 1, 16, 22; id. Font. 17, 39: judicum, addressed to the judges, Quint. 6, 1, 33: percipe obsecrationem meam, Vulg. Psa. 142, 1: fit ad Deum pro illis, id. Rom. 10, 1.—

II In partic.

A An asseveration, protestation, accompanied by an invocation of the gods or of religious things, Gr. de/hsis, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 105; cf. Just. 24, 2, 5; cf. Macr. S. 1, 6, 13.—

B A public prayer: obsecrationem indicere, Liv. 27, 11; id. 4, 21; 26, 23; 31, 9; Cic. Har. Resp. 28 fin.: habere, Suet. Caes. 22.

In the wild

obsecratio Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.11.6
obsecrationibus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.16
obsecratio Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.23.6
obsecrationem Cicero, Pro Fonteio 48
obsecratio Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.21.5
obsecrationemque Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.20.3

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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