exaggeratio

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.

exaggerātio, ōnis, f. (exaggero), Erhöhung von Erde, dah. übtr., I) die Auf- od. Anhäufung, a) übh.: exaggerationes calamitatum, Augustin. serm. 38, 11. – b) die Häufung der Ausdrücke, Gell. 13, 25 (24), 9. – u. die Steigerung des Ausdrucks, die hyperbolische Rede, Augustin. serm. 101, 8. – II) die Erhebung der Seele, amplitudo et quasi quaedam exaggeratio quam altissima animi, Cic. Tusc. 2, 64.

exaggeratio [CL] 1 (rhet.) heaping up (fig.), intensifying (by repetition). Gl. Leid. 28. 69 (v. emphasis a); ‘si linguis hominum loquar et’ etiam ‘angelorum’ ~o Lanfr. Comment. Paul. (1 Cor. xiii 1) 199; quid sibi velit hec verborum ~o [Matth. xxii 37], hec inculcatio tam ‥ exacta Bald. Cant. Tract. 3. 417D. 2 increase. insoliti vectigalis gravi ~one ‥ plebes ‥ oppressit Ord. Vit. VIII 8 p. 312. 3 exaggeration, overstatement. opus enim, quod tuis exhortationibus et inconsulta, fateor, pollicitatione suscepi, majus est et crebrescentium cotidie malorum innovatione profusum ~onibus, permutationibus, permixturis, ex oppositis, ex adjunctis, verum circumstanciis, contingentium modis (Quad., dedic.) GAS 529; ~one rerum (ut qui nominant et promittunt grit[h]breche vel hamsocnam ‥) (Leg. Hen. 22. 1) Ib. 561.

exaggĕrātĭō, ōnis, f. (exaggero), accumulation de terre ; [dʼoù, fig.] élévation (dʼâme) : Cic. Tusc. 2, 64 || amplification [rhét.] : Gell. 13, 24, 9.

exaggeratio , onis. f.
過實。— animi 量大。

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exaggerātiō ōnis, f

• exaggero.—Only fig., elevation, exaltation: animi.