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ovatio

ovatio · f

an ovation

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Where it lives

Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ŏvātĭo — Lewis & Short

ŏvātĭo, ōnis, f.ovo,

I an ovation, i. e. a lesser triumph, in which the general, after an easy, bloodless victory, or after a victory over slaves, made his public entrance into the city, not in a chariot, as in the greater triumph, but simply on horseback or on foot. The token of a bloodless victory was a wreath of myrtle around his brows; cf. Fest. p. 195 Müll.; Gell. 5, 6, 20; Plin. 15, 29, 38, § 125: fuit de servis ovatione contentus, Flor. 3, 19, 8.

In the wild

ovatione Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.7.19.8
ovationes Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.6.27

Where it came from

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