demonstrationes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demonstratio, demonstrationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demonstration, clear proof; description, definition by features; such oratory;; indication; identification; act of pointing out/showing; (boundary of estate);
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...magis quam admonendi gratia scripta existiment et quasi demonstratione vestigiorum contenti persequantur ea post, si libebit, vel libris..."Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...dicimus, motu quodam oris conveniente cum ipsius verbi demonstratione utimur et labeas sensim primores emovemus ac spiritum atque..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...gestus) summittimus sive adorantes attollimus sive aliqua demonstratione aut invocatione protendimus: CXV. "vos Albani tumuli atque luci..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...sint hi adeo notum probatumque est, ut demonstratione non egeat; et alioqui tam immodice epistulam extendi..."