The corpus record — Latin

sessio

sessio · f

a sitting

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Where it lives

de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

sessĭo — Lewis & Short

sessĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a sitting (Ciceronian).

I In gen.: status, incessus, sessio, accubitio, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128; id. N. D. 1, 34, 94; plur.: sessiones quaedam, id. Fin. 5, 12, 35.—

B Concr., a seat, sitting-place: sessiones gymnasiorum, Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20: Polemonis, id. Fin. 5, 1, 2.—

2 The seat of the body, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 3, 50.—

II In partic.

A A sitting idly, a loitering, a tarrying in a place: sessio Capitolina, Cic. Att. 14, 14, 2: pigra sessio, App. M. 4, p. 148 fin.—

B A sitting, session (syn. consessus); for discussion: pomeridiana sessio, Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 121; of a court: dies sessionum, Dig. 38, 15, 2, § 1.—

C A sittingbath, sitz - bath, = e)gka/qisma, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 4, 69.

Where it came from

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