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sententiosus

sententiosus · adj

full of meaning

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

sententĭōsus — Lewis & Short

sententĭōsus, a, um, adj.sententia, II. B. 2.,

I full of meaning, pithy, sententious (rare but Ciceron.): sententiosum et argutum genus dictionis, Cic. Brut. 95, 325.— Adv.: sententĭōsē.

A Full of meaning, suggestively: sententiose (dicere) sine verborum et ordine et modo (opp. composite) et apte sine sententiis, Cic. Or. 71, 236: oratione habitā graviter et sententiose, id. Inv. 1, 55, 106.—

B Sententiously: saepe sententiose ridicula dicuntur, Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 286.

In the wild

sententiosum Cicero, Brutus 325
sententiose Cicero, Orator 236.p1
sententiose Cicero, De Oratore 2.286
sententiose Cicero, De Inventione 1.106.p2

Where it came from

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