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cognātĭo , ōnis, f. cognatus.
I. Lit., blood relationship, kindred, connection by birth.
A. Of men.
1. Absol.: societas ... quae nata a primo satu... serpit sensim foras, cognationibus primum, tum adfinitatibus, deinde amicitiis, post vicinitatibus, tum civibus, Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 65: “frater noster cognatione patruelis,id. ib. 5, 1, 1: “ut quisque te maxime cognatione, adfinitate, necessitudine aliquā attingebat,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 27: “cognationem commemorare,id. ib. 2, 2, 26, § “64: cognationis jura inpetrare,Plin. Pan. 37, 3: propinqua, a near or close relationship: “cujus gloriae faveo propter propinquam cognationem,Cic. Lig. 3, 8: “Barcina, propinquā cognatione Hannibali junctus,Liv. 23, 41, 2; cf. id. 6, 39, 4 (infra 2); Nep. praef. 7; Suet. Ner. 3; Curt. 5, 3, 12; 6, 11, 20; “for which: artissimā cognatione alicui junctum esse,Just. 5, 6, 4: longa or longinqua, a distant relationship: “longā quidem cognatione stirpi regiae adnexus,Curt. 4, 1, 19: “Alexandrum etiam longinquā cognatione contingere,id. 10, 10, 19. —
2. With cum: “dicere, sibi cum eo amicitiam cognationemque esse,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 64: “nulla tibi cum isto cognatio, nulla necessitudo,id. ib. 2, 5, 68, § 176; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 33, § “72: agere mecum per cognationem quae mihi secum esset,id. Att. 12, 49, 1.—
II. Transf., concr., kindred, relations, persons, allied by descent: “homo summae potentiae et magnae cognationis,Caes. B. G. 7, 32: “hoc commune dedecus familiae, cognationis, nominis,Cic. Clu. 6, 16: cum tibi tota cognatio sarraco advehatur, id. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 21.—
III. Trop.
B. Transf., concr., of works of art: “Pamphili cognatio et proelium ad Phliuntem ac victoria Atheniensium,the allied commanders painted by Pamphilus, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 76; 35, 11, 40, § 136.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (28):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 12.49.1
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.32
    • Cicero, For Ligarius, 3.8
    • Cicero, Philippics, 5.2.6
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.64
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.81
    • Cicero, For Archias, 1.2
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.27
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 6.16
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 20.59
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.7
    • Suetonius, Nero, 3
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.61
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 41
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 39.4
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.23
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.32
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.30
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.14
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.36
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 4.12
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.21
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.105
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 10.10.19
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.1.19
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 5.3.12
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.11.20
    • Cicero, Orator, 56.187
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