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venditatio

venditatio · f

a specious display

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Where it lives

Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

vendĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

vendĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.vendito, an offering for sale; hence, trop.,

I a specious display, a boasting, vaunting, blazoning: quin etiam mihi quidem laudabiliora videntur omnia, quae sine venditatione et sine populo teste fiunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: venditatio atque ostentatio, id. Lael. 23, 86: ostentatio artis et portentosa scientiae venditatio, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 25.

In the wild

venditatione Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.64
venditatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.1.p7
venditatio Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 86

Where it came from

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