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
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..."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..."