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occasus

Part., from occĭdo

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 5 · 3.8/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 132 · 3.33/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Bello Africo 3 · 2.31/10k

Densest 12 of 80 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. occāsus — Lewis & Short

occāsus, a, um,

Part., from occĭdo.

2. occāsus — Lewis & Short

occāsus, ūs, m.occĭdo.

I A falling, going down (class.; cf. obitus).

A Lit., a going down, setting, of the heavenly bodies; esp. of the sun: ante occasum Maiae, Verg. G. 1, 225: ortus occasusque signorum, the rising and setting of the constellations, Quint. 1, 4, 4: solis, Caes. B. G. 1, 50; 2, 11; 3, 15; Liv. 9, 32.—Absol.: praecipiti in occasum die, Tac. H. 3, 86.—

B Transf., the quarter of the heavens in which the sun sets, sunset, the west: inter occasum solis et septentriones, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: ab ortu ad occasum, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49. —Plur., Ov. M. 2, 190: ager Longus in occasum, Verg. A. 11, 317: de terrā occasus solis, Vulg. Zach. 8, 7.—

C Trop., downfall, ruin, destruction, end, death: post obitum occasumque vestrum, Cic. Pis. 15, 34: occasus interitusque rei publicae, id. ib. 8, 18: id. Sull. 11, 33: Iliaci cineres et flamma extrema meorum, Testor, in occasu vestro, etc., Verg. A. 2, 432; cf. Trojae, id. ib. 1, 238: post L. Aelii nostri occasum, death, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8: odii, Quint. Decl. 9, 18.— *

II For occasio, an occasion, opportunity, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 178 Müll. (Ann. v. 164; 171; 292 Vahl.).

In the wild

occasum Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.80.7
occasu Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.47.p1
occasu Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.24.p3
occasum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.3.24
occasu Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p15
occasum Suetonius, Domitianus 21.1.p2

6 of 322 attestations shown.

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