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trajectio

trajectio · f

a crossing over

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

trājectĭo — Lewis & Short

trājectĭo, ōnis, f.traicio.

I Lit., a crossing over, passing over, passage: trajectiones incendiorum, Vitr. 2, 9 fin.: honestior existimatur trajectio, i. e. the going over sea to Pompey, Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2: trajectiones motusque stellarum, the shootings over, i. e., concr., shooting-stars, meteors, id. Div. 1, 1, 2; so, stellae trajectio, id. ib. 2, 6, 16.—

II Trop., of language.

A A transposition of words, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 44; Cic. Or. 69, 230; Quint. 8, 2, 14.—

B Exaggeration, hyperbole: tum augendi minuendive causā veritatis superlatio atque trajectio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203: superlatio veritatis et trajectio, Quint. 9, 2, 3.—

C A throwing or putting off upon another: in alium, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204.

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