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venditio

venditio · f

a selling

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Where it lives

Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 3 · 2.26/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De Lege Agraria 2 · 1.45/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
De Officiis 2 · 0.59/10k
De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vendĭtĭo — Lewis & Short

vendĭtĭo, ōnis, f.vendo,

I a selling, sale; a vending.

I Lit.: venditio alienatio est et rei suae jurisque in ea sui in alium translatio, Sen. Ben. 5, 10, 1: bonorum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110: proscriptiones venditionesque, id. ib. 44, 128: facere, Dig. 26, 7, 56; cf., on the laws relating thereto, Gai Inst. 3, 139; the title: De emptione et venditione, Just. Inst. 3, 23; Dig. 18, 1.—

II Transf.

A A thing sold: antequam venditio transferatur, Dig. 18, 2, 4, § 4; 43, 23, 11.—Plur., goods sold, Plin. Ep. 10, 108, 1.—

B Venditiones dicebantur olim censorum locationes, quod velut fructus publicorum locorum venibant, Fest. p. 376 Müll.

In the wild

venditione Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.2.2
venditionibus Tacitus, Annales 1.p74
venditionis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.14
venditiones Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.8.2
venditionis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.31
venditiones Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 74

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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