conquestio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conquestio, conquestionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lament, action of complaining/bewailing; part of a speech to excite pity;; questioning;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...iniuriam ferre, uos facere uult, Quirites, ut hic conquestio, istic uituperatio relinquatur.' 'Honorem' inquit 'peiorem uobis habuit quam..." - L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quod uni accidit, omnibus restat; deinde desiderii stulta conquestio est, ubi minimum interest inter amissum et desiderantem..."
