The corpus record — Latin

occupatio

occupatio · f

a taking possession of

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 6 · 9.71/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 4 · 5.91/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 3 · 5.29/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 23 · 1.93/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

occŭpātĭo — Lewis & Short

occŭpātĭo, ōnis, f.occupo,

I a taking possession of a thing; a seizing, occupying (class.).

I Lit. (very rare): fori, Cic. Dom. 3: vetus, a taking possession, seizure, id. Off. 1, 7, 21.—

II Transf.

A Rhet. t. t.: ante occupatio, an anticipation of an opponent's objections, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205 (but in Auct. Her. 4, 27, 37, the true reading is occultatio, q. v.).—

B A business, employment, occupation (the usual meaning, esp. of public service; cf. studium): in maximis occupationibus tuis numquam intermittis studia doctrinae, Cic. Or. 10, 34: maximis occupationibus distinebar, id. Fam. 12, 30, 2: nullis occupationibus inplicatus, id. N. D. 1, 19, 51: ille aut occupatione aut difficultate tardior tibi erit visus, id. Fam. 7, 17, 2: ab omni occupatione se expedire, id. Att. 3, 20, 2: relaxare se occupatione, id. ib. 16, 16, 2.—With gen.: neque has tantularum rerum occupationes sibi Britanniae anteponendas judicabat, engaging in such trivial affairs, Caes. B. G. 4, 22.

In the wild

occupatio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 3.22.1
occupationes Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 10.16.3
occupationis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.9.3
occupatio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.41
occupatio Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 10.12.2
occupationibus Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 4.16.6

6 of 132 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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