comminatio

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Τί γὰρ γένοιτ' ἂν ἕλκος μεῖζονφίλος κακός; → What wound is greater than a false friend?

Sophocles, Antigone, 651-2

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

commĭnātĭo: ōnis, f. id.,
I a threatening, menacing (rare, but in good prose): orationis tamquam armorum, * Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206 (cf. Quint. 9, 1, 33): taurorum, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 181; Dig. 26, 7, 7, § 7.—In plur.: imperiosae, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 13: Hannibalis, Liv. 26, 8, 3: Tiberii, Suet. Tib. 37.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

commĭnātĭō,¹⁴ ōnis, f. (comminor), démonstration menaçante, menace : Cic. de Or. 3, 206 ; comminatio taurorum est in pedibus Plin. 8, 181, les dispositions menaçantes du taureau se révèlent au mouvement de ses pieds || démonstration [en t. de guerre] : Liv. 26, 8, 3 || [au plur.] menaces : Suet. Tib. 37, 4.