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redemptio

redemptio · f

A buying back

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Where it lives

De Fuga in Persecutione 7 · 13.15/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 2 · 1.38/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 3 · 1.32/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Controversiae 6 · 0.91/10k
De Beneficiis 4 · 0.88/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕdemptĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕdemptĭo, ōnis, f.redimo.

I A buying back, buying off; a releasing, ransoming, redemption: cum captivis redemptio negabatur, Liv. 25, 6: ducis (capti), Quint. 7, 1, 29: puellae, Val. Max. 4, 3, 1: sacramenti, i. e. the purchase of one's military oath, i. e. of his discharge, Auct. B. Alex. 56, 4 (cf. id. ib. 55, 4: qui se pecuniā redemerunt).— Absol.: quia mercede pactā accesserat ad talem redemptionem, i. e. a releasing or release of the debtor from the demand, by paying the creditor, Dig. 17, 1, 6 fin.; v. redemptor.—

II A buying up of a court of justice, bribing: judicii, Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 16. — Plur. and absol.: reorum pactiones, redemptiones, Cic. Pis. 36, 87.—

III A farming of the revenue, Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 11.—

IV Esp. (eccl. Lat.), a release from sin or from its penalties, a rescuing from death, etc.: animae suae, Vulg. Psa. 48, 8; absol., id. Eph. 1, 7.

In the wild

redemptione Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.19.15
redemptione Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.7.2
redemptionis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.25
redemptio Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.10
redemptione Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.13.4
redemptionem Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.7.11

6 of 48 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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