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responsio

responsio · f

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Where it lives

Ad Nationes 4 · 2.68/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 6 · 1.3/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rēsponsĭo — Lewis & Short

rēsponsĭo, ōnis, f.respondeo.

1 An answer, reply; a refutation (rare but class.; syn. responsum): in quo erat accusatoris interpretatio indigna responsione, Cic. Balb. 16, 36; Gell. 12, 12, 1: responsio mollis frangit iram, Vulg. Prov. 15, 1.— In plur., Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 63.—

2 In rhet.: sibi ipsi responsio, a replying to one's own argument, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 207; Quint. 9, 1, 35; 9, 3, 90 (cf.: ut quasi ad interrogata sibi ipse respondeat, Cic. Or. 40, 137).

Where it came from

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