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regressio

regressio · f

a going back

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

rĕgressĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕgressĭo, ōnis, f.regredior,

I a going back, return; a retiring, retreat (postAug.).

I Lit.: maturata, App. M. 2, p. 122, 39: vespertina, id. ib. 9, p. 227, 17: non incruenta, Front. Princ. Hist. —

II Trop., a fig. of rhetoric, repetition, the Gr. e)pa/nodos, Quint. 9, 3, 35; Rufin. Schem. Lex. 19 (p. 252 Frotsch.).

In the wild

regressionem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.35
regressione Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.18
regressione Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.22

Where it came from

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