exaggeratio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

exaggĕrātĭo, ōnis, f. [exaggero], a heaping or raising up. *

I Lit. concr., in plur., Just. 2, 1 fin. (al. aggerationes).—

II Trop., elevation , exaltation (very seldom); amplitudinem et quasi quandam exaggerationem quam altissimam animi, * Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: aliqua speciosa orationis, cumulation , exaggeration , Gell. 13, 24, 9; cf. ib. § 16.

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