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dictĭo (noun F) : 2. dico
* A saying, speaking, uttering, delivery.
* In gen.
* (Good prose, for the most part only in jurid. and rhetor. lang.) Sententiae, Cic. Inv. 2, 4: testimonii, i. e. the right of giving testimony, *Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 63: causae,a defending, pleading,Cic. Quint. 10, 35; id. Sest. 17 fin.; * Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; Liv. 7, 5 al.: multae ovium et boum,Cic. Rep. 2, 9 fin.
* Esp.
* The use of a word or phrase, a mode of expression, Quint. 9, 1, 17; 9, 1, 4; Gell. 7, 9, 13; 11, 3, 5.
* A word, = verbum, vocabulum (late Lat.), Prisc. II. p. 51, 10 al.
* (Cf. dictum, B. 4.) An oracular response, prediction (rare; not in Cic.): flexa, non falsa autumare dictio Delphis solet, Pac. ap. Non. 237, 4 (Rib. Trag. v. 308); Att. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42; Liv. 8, 24, 2.
* The art of speaking, oratory: dictioni operam dare,Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 9.
* A saying, speaking, uttering, delivery.
* In gen.
* (Good prose, for the most part only in jurid. and rhetor. lang.) Sententiae, Cic. Inv. 2, 4: testimonii, i. e. the right of giving testimony, *Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 63: causae,a defending, pleading,Cic. Quint. 10, 35; id. Sest. 17 fin.; * Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; Liv. 7, 5 al.: multae ovium et boum,Cic. Rep. 2, 9 fin.
* Esp.
* The use of a word or phrase, a mode of expression, Quint. 9, 1, 17; 9, 1, 4; Gell. 7, 9, 13; 11, 3, 5.
* A word, = verbum, vocabulum (late Lat.), Prisc. II. p. 51, 10 al.
* (Cf. dictum, B. 4.) An oracular response, prediction (rare; not in Cic.): flexa, non falsa autumare dictio Delphis solet, Pac. ap. Non. 237, 4 (Rib. Trag. v. 308); Att. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42; Liv. 8, 24, 2.
* The art of speaking, oratory: dictioni operam dare,Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 9.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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