I. A lifting up, raising, elevating: “onerum levationes facere,” Vitr. 10, 8; a metrical t. t. = ἄρσις, Aug. Mas. II. 18.—
II. Trop.
A. An alleviation, mitigation, relief (class.): “alicui esse levationi,” Cic. Fam. 6, 4, 5: “ea, quae levationem habeant aegritudinum,” may produce an alleviation, may alleviate, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: “levationem invenire acerbissimis doloribus,” id. ib. 5, 41, 121: “doloris at officii debiti,” id. Att. 12, 23, 3.—