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Lewis Short
percussĭo (noun F) : id.
* A beating, striking (class.).
* Lit.: capitis percussiones,beatings on the head,Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: digitorum,a snapping,id. Off. 3, 19, 75.
* Transf., in music and rhetoric, a beating time; hence, concr., time: percussiones numerorum,Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182: percussionum modi,id. Or. 58, 198; Quint. 9, 4, 51; 11, 3, 108 al.
* A beating, striking (class.).
* Lit.: capitis percussiones,beatings on the head,Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: digitorum,a snapping,id. Off. 3, 19, 75.
* Transf., in music and rhetoric, a beating time; hence, concr., time: percussiones numerorum,Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182: percussionum modi,id. Or. 58, 198; Quint. 9, 4, 51; 11, 3, 108 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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