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Roscio

Roscio is a Latin form of Roscius, meaning “Roscius (Sex. Roscius, Cicero's client; Q. Roscius, the famous actor)”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.24.2: ex quibus unam in Morinos ducendam Gaio Fabio legato dedit, alteram in Nervios Quinto Ciceroni, tertiam in Esubios Lucio Roscio; quartam in Remis cum Tito Labieno in confinio Treverorum hiemare iussit. Tres in Belgis collocavit:

Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 37: … stimonium contra se cogo dicere. quid enim restipulatio clamat? qvod a flavio abstvlero, partem dimidiam inde roscio me solvtvrvm spondeo. tua vox est, Fanni.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.