contiones

contiones is a Latin form of contio, meaning “assembly, public meeting; speech to an assembly”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.18: … o Gadibus praefecit; arma omnia privata ac publica in domum Gallonii contulit. Ipse habuit graves in Caesarem contiones. Saepe ex tribunali praedicavit adversa Caesarem proelia fecisse, magnum numerum ab eo militum ad Afranium pe …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.7.8: … ncursus est populi factus; item significare coetum populi adsistentis, sicuti idem M. Tullius in Oratore ait: Contiones saepe exclamare vidi, cum apte verba cecidissent. Etenim expectant aures, ut verbis conligetur sententia; ite …

All forms of contio (declension table)

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.