The corpus record — Latin

visio

visio · f

the act

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 12 · 10.69/10k
De Anima 11 · 4.63/10k
Adversus Praxean 4 · 2.71/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Lucullus 4 · 2.22/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Adversus Marcionem 11 · 1.33/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 5 · 1.08/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vīsĭo — Lewis & Short

vīsĭo, ōnis, f.video,

I the act or sense of seeing, sight, vision.

I Lit.: ignes ... nostrae visioni occurrunt, App. de Mundo, p. 63 fin.; id. M. 2, p. 120, 32; 8, p. 203, 37: in caelestis sponsi visione requiescere, Greg. Mag. Homil. 2, 2, 8; 2, 2, 12.—

B Transf., a thing seen, an appearance, apparition, a vision: adventicia, Cic. Div. 2, 58, 120; cf. Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 3.—

II Trop., an image of a thing in the mind; an idea, conception, notion: speciem dei percipi cogitatione ... eamque esse ejus visionem, ut, etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 105: veri falsique, id. Ac. 2, 11, 33: falsa doloris, id. Tusc. 2, 18, 42.—As a transl. of the Gr. fantasi/a, Quint. 6, 2, 29.—

B Transf., in jurid. lang., a supposition, a case: in propositā quaestione tribus visionibus relatis, etc., Dig. 5, 3, 25; so ib. 16, 1, 8; 17, 1, 29; 22, 3, 25 fin.; Tert. Anim. 9.

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