Percussio, ônis, f. g. aliud Verbale. Cic.A striking or hitting.Digitorum percussio.Cic. Percussio, pro Ictu. de dimensione temporum in pedibus aut musica. The tune and measure of a foot in meeter, cõtaining both the eleuating and depressing of the voice.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
percussĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a beating, striking (class.). I.Lit.: capitis percussiones,
beatings on the head
, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: digitorum,
a snapping
, id. Off. 3, 19, 75. —II.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.
