The corpus record — Latin

percussio

percussio · f

a beating

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Where it lives

De Officiis 2 · 0.59/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

percussĭo — Lewis & Short

percussĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a beating, striking (class.).

I Lit.: capitis percussiones, beatings on the head, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: digitorum, a snapping, id. Off. 3, 19, 75. —

II Transf., in music and rhetoric, a beating time; hence, concr., time: percussiones numerorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182: percussionum modi, id. Or. 58, 198; Quint. 9, 4, 51; 11, 3, 108 al.

In the wild

percussio Cicero, De Oratore 3.186
percussionum Cicero, Orator 198.p1
percussione Cicero, De Officiis 3.75.p2
percussiones Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.108
percussio Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.15.7
percussiones Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.75

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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