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vicissitudo

vicissitudo · f

change

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 7 · 1.96/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭcissĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

vĭcissĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.vicis, I.,

I change, interchange, alternation, vicissitude (class.; used alike in sing. and plur.): omnium rerum vicissitudo est, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 44: ex alio in aliud vicissitudo atque mutatio, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: in sermone communi, id. Off. 1, 37, 134: nihil vicissitudine studiorum officiorumque jucundius, id. Lael. 14, 49: eorum (generum), reciprocal influence, id. N. D. 2, 33, 84.—Plur.: dierum noctiumque, Cic. Leg. 2, 7, 16: diurnae nocturnaeque, id. Inv. 1, 34, 59: fortunae (with temporum varietates), id. Fam. 5, 12, 4: alternae digitorum vicissitudines, the interlocking of the fingers, App. M. 3 praef.

In the wild

vicissitudines Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 83.p2
vicissitudines Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.97
vicissitudines Cicero, De Oratore 3.193
vicissitudo Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.125
vicissitudinibus Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.15
vicissitudinem Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 130

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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