The corpus record — Latin

obtestatio

obtestatio · f

an adjuring

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Where it lives

Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 2 · 2.94/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-testātĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-testātĭo, ōnis, f.obtestor,

I an adjuring, conjuring; an engaging or obliging to any thing by calling God to witness (class.): obtestatio est, cum deus testis in meliorem partem vocatur: detestatio, cum in deteriorem, Paul. ex Fest. p. 184 Müll.: quid ergo illa tua obtestatio tibicinis? Cic. Dom. 48, 125: viri, Cic. Clu. 12, 35; id. Balb. 14, 33.—

II Transf., an earnest entreaty, adjuration (rare); in plur.: matronae in preces obtestationesque versae, supplications, Liv. 27, 50: senatus ad infimas obtestationes procumbens, Tac. A. 1, 12: quā obtestatione discedens, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 5; Cic. Fam. 13, 1, 4; Suet. Tib. 40.

In the wild

obtestatione Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 6.4.p2
obtestatione Cicero, Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 33
obtestatione Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.10.4
obtestatione Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 35
obtestatione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.7.7
obtestationibus Cornelius Nepos, Hamilcar 4

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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