disciplina
Short definition (Lewis & Short): instruction, tuition, teaching in the widest sense of the word (for syn. cf.: ars, litterae, doctrina, scientia, cognitio, humanitas—very freq. and good prose).
Full entry: Lexicon.
72 occurrences of this form in 20 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- De Re Publica
- Letters to Lucilius
- De Oratore
- Gallic War
- De Officiis
- Annals
- The Golden Ass
- Letters to Atticus
- Letters to Friends
- Philippics
- Histories
- Civil War
- The Jugurthine War
- Life of Augustus
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Vespasian
- Life of Vitellius
- Agricola
- Germania
Example passages
……quae uita, qui mores fuerint, per quos uiros quibusque artibus domi militiaeque et partum et auctum imperium sit; labente deinde paulatim disciplina uelut desidentes primo mores sequatur animo, deinde ut magis magisque lapsi sint, tum ire coeperint praecipites, donec ad haec tempora quibus nec uitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus peruentum est.…
……an aspero serviant; quin serviant quidem, fieri non potest. Quo autem modo adsequi poterat Lacedaemo illa tum, cum praestare putabatur disciplina rei publicae, ut bonis uteretur iustisque regibus, cum esset habendus rex, quicumque genere regio natus esset? Nam optimatis quidem quis ferat, qui non populi concessu, sed suis comitiis hoc sibi……
……et aestuantibus solet, quibusdam tremunt genua dicturis, quorundam dentes colliduntur, lingua titubat, labra concurrunt. Haec nec disciplina nec usus umquam excutit, sed natura vim suam exercet et illo vitio sui etiam robustissimos admonet.…