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persuasio

Latin term · 11 occurrences · 5 works

Short definition (Lewis & Short): a convincing, persuading, persuasion.

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11 occurrences of this form in 5 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

Example passages

……et artus refrigescent? Et quicquid aliud non ex imperio animi, sed inconsulte quodam naturae impetu geritur. Fateor; sed manebit illi persuasio eadem, nihil illorum malum esse nec dignum, ad quod mens sana deficiat. Omnia, quae facienda erunt, audaciter facit et prompte.…

Seneca — Letters to Lucilius · Read in context

……aeternos putant: hinc generandi amor et moriendi contemptus. corpora condere quam cremare e more Aegyptio, eademque cura et de infernis persuasio, caelestium contra. Aegyptii pleraque animalia effigiesque compositas venerantur, Iudaei mente sola unumque numen intellegunt: profanos qui deum imagines mortalibus materiis in species hominum……

Tacitus — Histories · Read in context

……nec exspectandus est in iis bonus princeps, quibus illum intellegi satis est, cum hoc sibi civium meorum spondere possit vel non admonita persuasio, me securitatem omnium quieti meae praetulisse, ut et nova beneficia conferrem et ante me concessa servarem.…

Pliny the Younger — Letters · Read in context

Subjects

Rhetoric & oratory

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