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optatio

optatio · f

a wishing

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Where it lives

De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

optātĭo — Lewis & Short

optātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a wishing, a wish (class.).

I In gen.: Theseo cum tres optationes Neptunus dedisset, Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94.—

II Rhet. fig., the expression of a wish: optatio atque exsecratio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 32; 9, 2, 3.—

III A choosing, choice, Symm. Ep. 1, 1.

In the wild

optatio Cicero, De Oratore 3.205
optatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.3
optationes Cicero, De Officiis 3.94
optatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.1.32

Where it came from

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