migratio

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

mī̆grātĭo, ōnis, f. [migro], a removal, a changing of one's habitation, migration (class.).

I Lit.: haec migratio nobis misera, Liv. 5, 53: migrationem esse mortem in eas oras, quas, qui vitā excesserunt, incolunt, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; cf. id. ib. 1, 12, 27; id. Cael. 8, 18.—*

II Trop.: cui verbo (fideliter) domicilium est proprium in officio, migrationes in alienum multae, transfers, metaphorical uses , Cic. Fam. 16, 17, 1.

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