commissionibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →commissio, commissionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
commencement/holding (of games/other contests); event; speech opening games;; commission; committee;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...choro dico quem veteres philosophi noverant: in commissionibus nostris plus cantorum est quam in theatris olim spectatorum fuit..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...manebat ignarus, quum laudes imperatorum ludis etiam et commissionibus celebrarentur, saltarentur, atque in omne ludibrium effeminatis vocibus, modis..."