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compărātĭo , ōnis, f. 2. comparo.
I. A preparing, providing for, preparation, etc. (rare, but in good prose): “novi belli,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; cf. “pugnae, Auct. B. Afr. 35: veneni,” Liv. 42, 17, 6: “comparatio disciplinaque dicendi,” Cic. Brut. 76, 263: “novae amicitiae,” Sen. Ep. 9, 6.—
II. A procuring, gaining, acquiring: “testium,” Cic. Mur. 21, 44: “voluptatis,” id. Fin. 2, 28, 92: “criminis,” i. e. of all the materials for an accusation, id. Clu. 67, 191: “quibus ego ita credo, ut nihil de meā comparatione deminuam,” id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16.—Hence,
B. In late Lat., a purchasing, purchase, Dig. 5, 1, 52; 41, 3, 41.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.2.5
    • Cicero, On Pompey's Command, 4.9
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 67.191
    • Cicero, For Lucius Murena, 21.44
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 17
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.28
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 9.6
    • Cicero, Brutus, 76.263
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