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oraculum

a divine announcement

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Where it lives

Lysander 1 · 18.52/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Divinatione 17 · 6.18/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Fato 2 · 4.04/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ōrācŭlum — Lewis & Short

ōrācŭlum (sync. oraclum: ex oraclo, Enn. ap.

Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42, or Trag. v. 65 Vahl.;

I plur, oracla, Att. ap. Non. 488, 2, or Trag. Rel. p. 185 Rib.; Ov. M. 1, 321), i, n. oro, a divine announcement, an oracle (class.).

I Lit.: oracula ex eo ipso appellata sunt, quod inest in his deorum oratio, Cic. Top. 20, 77: quid est enim oraculum? nempe voluntas divina hominis ore enuntiata, Sen. Contr. 1 praef.: edere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116: petere a Dodonā, id. Div. 1, 43, 95: quaerere, Verg. G. 4, 449: poscere, id. A. 3, 456: consulere, Ov. M. 3, 8: Delphis oracula cessant, Juv. 6, 555.—

II Transf.

A In gen., a prophetic declaration, a prophecy: exposui somnii et furoris oracula, Cic. Div. 1, 32, 70; 1, 50, 115.—

B A place where oracular responses were given, an oracle: illud oraculum Delphis tam celebre, Cic. Div. 1, 19, 37: Hammonis, Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107: Delphicum, Macr. S. 1, 18, 4.—

2 Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the mercy-seat, the place in the tabernacle in which the presence of God was manifest, Vulg. Exod. 25, 18; 40, 18: oraculum templi, sanctum sanctorum, id. 3 Reg. 8, 6.—

C An oracular saying, oracle pronounced by a man: haec ego nunc physicorum oracula fundo, Cic. N. D. 1, 24, 66: inde illa reliqua oracula: nequam agricolam esse, etc., Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 40.—

D An imperial rescript, Just. Inst. 1, 11, 11.

In the wild

oraculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.1.p2
oracla Cicero, De Divinatione 1.18
oracla Cicero, De Divinatione 1.96
oracula Cicero, De Divinatione 1.70
oraculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.23.p1
oracla Cicero, De Fato 33

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