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testificatio

testificatio · f

a bearing witness

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Where it lives

De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
In C. Verrem 3 · 0.3/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

testĭfĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

testĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.testificor,

I a bearing witness, giving testimony, testifying, testification (Ciceron.; whereas testatio is found in the jurists and in Quint.; v. testatio, I.).

I Lit.: si ejus rei testificatio tolleretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 42, § 92; 2, 5, 39, § 102.—In plur., Cic. Mur. 24, 49; id. Brut. 80, 277.—

II Transf., a giving evidence, attestation, proof, evidence: egit causam tuam . . . cum summā testificatione tuorum in se officiorum et amoris erga te sui, Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 2: sempiterna repudiatae legationis, id. Phil. 9, 6, 15.

In the wild

testificatio Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.92
testificatio Cicero, Philippicae 9.15.p1
testificationes Cicero, Pro L. Murena 49
testificatione Tertullian, De idolatria 21
testificatione Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 1.1.2
testificationem Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.103

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Where it came from

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