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ostentatio

ostentatio · f

a showing

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Where it lives

Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 3 · 7.24/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ostentātĭo — Lewis & Short

ostentātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I In gen., a showing, exhibition, display (very rare). in armorum magis quam togarum ostentatione, Plin. Pan. 56 fin.: cognomen Imperiosi ... ab ostentatione saevitiae ascitum, from an open display, Liv. 7, 4.—

II In partic.

A An idle show, vain display, pomp, parade, ostentation (the predom. signif. of the word): vitanda etiam ingenii ostentationis suspicio, Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 333: magnifica et gloriosa, id. Fl. 22, 52: insolens, id. Par. 6, 1, 42: et gloria, id. Rab. Post. 14, 38: inanis et simulatio, id. Off. 2, 12, 43: et venditatio, id. Lael. 23, 86: sui, Caes. B. C. 1, 4.—In plur.: multorum annorum ostentationes meas nunc in discrimen esse adductas, that my many years' boastful promises (of an able administration) are now brought to the test, Cic. Att. 5, 13, 1.—

B A false, deceitful show, pretence, simulation, deception: consul veritate, non ostentatione popularis, Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 23; cf.: ut in fronte ostentatio sit, intus veritas occultetur, id. Fin. 2, 24, 77: doloris, feigned pain, Sen. Ep. 99, 15: (captivi) producti ostentationis causā, Caes. B. C. 3, 71 fin.: qui latius ostentationis causā vagarentur, id. B. G. 7, 45.

In the wild

ostentatio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.77.p2
ostentatio Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 40
ostentatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.4.14
ostentatione Cicero, Lucullus 65
ostentatio Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 86
ostentationem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.1.19

6 of 107 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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