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An Elementary Latin Dictionary

A. a. as an abbreviation,

1 for the praenomen Aulus.

2 for Absolvo, on the voting-tablet of a judge; hence C. calls A littera salutaris.

3 for Antiquo on a voting-tablet in the Comitia.

4 a. d.for ante diem.

5 a.v.c. or a. u. c.for anno urbis conditae, or ab urbe conditā.

6 in the Tusculan Disputations of Cicero probably for Audītor.

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