memoria
Short definition (Lewis & Short): The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.): : ; so, memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154: ;: : : ; cf.: ut mea memoria est.
Full entry: Lexicon.
269 occurrences of this form in 28 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 Oratore
- Annals
- Letters to Friends
- Philippics
- Letters to Lucilius
- Histories
- Gallic War
- Letters
- Letters to Atticus
- De Re Publica
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- The Golden Ass
- De Officiis
- The Jugurthine War
- Life of Nero
- Medea
- Life of Augustus
- Civil War
- On the Happy Life
- On the Shortness of Life
- Life of Claudius
- Life of Domitian
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Tiberius
- Life of Titus
- Agricola
Example passages
……in custodia Remum haberet audissetque geminos esse fratres, comparando et aetatem eorum et ipsam minime seruilem indolem, tetigerat animum memoria nepotum; sciscitandoque eodem peruenit ut haud procul esset quin Remum agnosceret. ita undique regi dolus nectitur.…
…Cogitanti mihi saepe numero et memoria vetera repetenti perbeati fuisse, Quinte frater, illi videri solent, qui in optima re publica, cum et honoribus et rerum gestarum gloria florerent, eum vitae cursum tenere potuerunt, ut vel in……
……nepos, set anxius occultis in se patrui aviaeque odiis quorum causae acriores quia iniquae. quippe Drusi magna apud populum Romanum memoria, credebaturque, si rerum potitus foret, libertatem redditurus; unde in Germanicum favor et spes eadem. nam iuveni civile ingenium, mira comitas et diversa ab Tiberii sermone vultu, adrogantibus et……
Subjects
History & historiography, Letters & biography