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Scepsis

Scepsis · f

a town in Mysia

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Where it lives

De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

Scēpsis — Lewis & Short

Scēpsis, is, f., = *skh=yis,

I a town in Mysia, Plin. 5, 30, 32, § 122.—Hence, Scēp-sĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Scepsis: Metrodorus, of Scepsis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 59; Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 34; also called simply Scepsius, Ov. P. 4, 14, 38.

In the wild

Scepsis Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p451
Scepsis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p41
Scepsium Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.6.4
Scepsium Cicero, De Oratore 2.365
Scepsis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.30.p1
Scepsium Cicero, De Oratore 2.360

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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