The corpus record — Latin

tergiversatio

tergiversatio · f

a declining

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Where it lives

De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tergĭversātĭo — Lewis & Short

tergĭversātĭo, ōnis, f.tergiversor,

I a declining, refusing; a shift, subterfuge, tergiversation: quid ergo erat morae et ter giversationis, Cic. Mil. 20, 54: tergiversationem istam probo, id. Att. 10, 7, 1; Auct B Afr 8, 4.—In plur., Front. Aquaed. 5.

In the wild

tergiversatio Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 8
tergiversatio Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 54
tergiversationem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 10.7.1
tergiversationem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.66.16
tergiversationis Tertullian, De Paenitentia 6
tergiversatione Tertullian, De Spectaculis 20.1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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