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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- trājectĭo, ōnis, f. [traicio]. I. Lit., a crossing over, passing over, passage:
trajectiones incendiorum
, Vitr. 2, 9 fin.: honestior existimatur trajectio
, i. e. the going over sea to Pompey
, Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2: trajectiones motusque stellarum, the shootings over, i. e., concr., shooting-stars, meteors, id. Div. 1, 1, 2; so, stellae trajectio
, id. ib. 2, 6, 16.—II. Trop., of language. A. A transposition of words, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 44; Cic. Or. 69, 230; Quint. 8, 2, 14.—B. Exaggeration, hyperbole: tum augendi minuendive causā veritatis superlatio atque trajectio
, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203: superlatio veritatis et trajectio
, Quint. 9, 2, 3.—C. A throwing or putting off upon another: in alium
, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204.
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