digressio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →digressio, digressionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
separation, parting, departure, going away; G:digression;; place of retirement/holiday;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...cuiusmodi declinatio esse ista debeat qualisque ad adiuvandum digressio et in quanta voluntatis amici iniquitate, non dicit. Quid..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...coeperunt, liberari: quanto celerior debet fieri in stellis digressio tanto minoribus? Atqui cometae senis mensibus manent, quod..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...praeceptis Caesaris non abhorrens, et ab re digressio, in qua cum fuerit delectatio, tum reditus ad rem aptus..."