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- caelicola
- The compound term caelicola is first attested, in its plural form, in Ennius’ Annales (445), where it refers to the dii superi. This meaning recurs in many poetic contexts, primarily epic, until the early Imperial age. Apuleius is the first known au…
- Andrea Arrighini
- July 30, 2025
- Conservation and religious conversion • Cultural and social trends
- captator
- In its earliest attestations, the noun captator, when used absolutely, generally refers to a legacy hunter; with this meaning, it is frequently attested in the satirical literature up to the early imperial age. In Late Antiquity, this meaning become…
- Andrea Arrighini
- Sept. 19, 2025
- Cultural and social trends
- conflagratio
- The noun conflagratio, firstly attested in the third book of Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones, is sometimes used as a synonym for incendium; however, it evokes more frequently the universal conflagration, a process which – in the Stoic perspective – e…
- Andrea Arrighini
- July 30, 2025
- Resilience and palingenesis • Conservation and religious conversion
- conuersio
- This entry analyses the different meanings that conuersio assumes in late-antique Latin: while maintaining the concrete meanings of ‘rotary movement’ or ‘change of direction’, it gradually becomes the technical term to indicate religious conversion,…
- Gianmario Cattaneo
- Sept. 19, 2025
- Conservation and religious conversion • Power management and political reforms
- impostor
- First attested in Varro (ling.) as a linguistic technical term, the noun impos(i)tor developed in Late Antiquity into the specialised meaning of ‘impostor’. In this sense, the term appears in two passages by Ulpian (dig. 21,1,4,2; 50,13,1,3); Jerome…
- Andrea Arrighini
- July 30, 2025
- Cultural and social trends
- legifer
- The compound legifer, likely a neologism in Verg. Aen. 4,58, is used mainly in poetry. Until the second century AD, it appears only in Ou. am. 3,10,41 and Apul. met. 10,33. In Late Latin literature, legifer becomes more frequent, often referring to …
- Andrea Arrighini
- July 30, 2025
- Power management and political reforms • War and pacification • Resilience and palingenesis
- postliminium
- Several juridical sources illustrate the notion of postliminium. This institution refers to the full reinstatement of rights for a Roman citizen returning home after being held as a military prisoner. The term postliminium is first attested in Cicer…
- Andrea Arrighini
- July 30, 2025
- Migrations and exiles • War and pacification
- renascor
- The verb renascor is widely attested in Latin literature. Originally used in agricultural language, it soon began to refer to nature, natural elements, and mythological figures. In Late Antiquity, the meaning of renascor expanded with two metaphoric…
- Andrea Arrighini
- Sept. 19, 2025
- Conservation and religious conversion • Resilience and palingenesis
- renouatio
- The noun renouatio, found exclusively in prose, first appears in Cicero and remains rare until Late Antiquity. During this period, it occurs primarily in the writings of Christian authors, for whom renouatio generally conveys the concept of spiritua…
- Andrea Arrighini
- Sept. 19, 2025
- Conservation and religious conversion • Cultural and social trends
- usurpatio
- In late antique authors, the noun usurpatio, which in classical authors can mean both ‘use’ and ‘misappropriation and misuse’, initially maintains a neutral value, but tends to assume only a negative value. In this entry, the evolution of the meanin…
- Gianmario Cattaneo
- Sept. 19, 2025
- Power management and political reforms • Cultural and social trends
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Vol. 1 | July 2025 |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Journal issue |
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2025-07-30 |
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2375-1355 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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Agapetae |
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Angels |
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Appropriation |
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Astronomy |
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Baptism |
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Captatio |
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Captatorius |
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Captiuitas |
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Chilperic |
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Christian literature |
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Christian literature |
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Christian literature |
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Christian literature |
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Christianity |
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Conflagration |
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Conversion |
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Dii superi |
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Faith |
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Fire |
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Flood myth |
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Fraud |
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Grammar |
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Heredipeta |
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Heresy |
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Impostor |
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Imprisonment |
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Last Judgement |
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Law |
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Legacy hunting |
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Legal language |
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Martyrdom |
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Metaphore |
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Moses |
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Mythology |
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Paganism |
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Personification |
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Politics |
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Regeneration |
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Religion |
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Repetance |
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Return |
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Rhetoric |
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Rights |
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Rome |
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Rome |
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Rutilius Namatianus |
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Satire |
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Semantic variations |
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Spiritual renewal |
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Stoicism |
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Subintroductae |
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Use |
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Usurpation |
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Venantius Fortunatus |
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Vergil |
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Wandering monks |
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War |
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