comissatione
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comissatio, comissationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carousing, merry-making, feasting, revelry; Bacchanal procession/rioting (L+S);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...abundantia, lubido permanet. Quodsi in vino et alea comissationes solum et scorta quaererent, essent illi quidem desperandi..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...perdere iste sciet, donare nesciet. stupra nunc et comissationes et feminarum coetus volvit animo: haec principatus praemia putat..."