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reciprocatio

reciprocatio · f

a going back upon itself

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Where it lives

Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕcī^prŏcātĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕcī^prŏcātĭo, ōnis, f.reciproco.

I Lit., a going back upon itself, a returning by the same way, retrogression (postAug.): aestus, i. e. the reflux. ebb, Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 29: fili, id. 11, 24, 28, § 83: caprorum, id. 8, 50, 76, § 201: errantium siderum, Gell. 14, 1, 23.—

II Trop., alternation, reciprocation: talionum, retaliation, Gell. 20, 1, 18: animorum, the transmigration of souls, metempsychosis, Tert. ad Nat. 1, 19.—

2 In gram., reciprocal action, in the pron. recipr., Prisc. p. 940 P.

In the wild

reciprocatione Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.19
reciprocationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.50
reciprocationis Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 36
reciprocatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.24.p1
reciprocatio Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.18
reciprocatione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.28

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Where it came from

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