Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, dīvīnātĭo

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I. The faculty of foreseeing, predicting, divination, μαντική (cf.: “augurium, auspicium, vaticinium, praesagium, praedictio),” Cic. Div. 1, 1; 2, 5, 13; 2, 63, 130; id. N. D. 1, 22, 55; id. Leg. 2, 13, 32; id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96; Nep. Att. 9, 1; 16 fin.: “animi,” Cic. Fam. 3, 13: “mendax,” Vulg. Ezech. 13, 7.—

II. Jurid. t. t., an examination, as to which of several accusers presenting themselves was the most proper to conduct the accusation. So the title of Cicero's oration against Caecilius: Divinatio in Caecilium; cf. Ascon. Argum.; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 7, 4, 33; Gell. 2, 4; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 1; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3; Suet. Caes. 55.

A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
- Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 3.13
- Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 8.8.3
- Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.2.1
- Old Testament, Ezekiel, 13.7
- Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 34.96
- Suetonius, Divus Julius, 55
- Cornelius Nepos, Atticus, 9.1
- Cicero, De Legibus, 2.13
- Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.22
- Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.1
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 10.3
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 4.33
- Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.4

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