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exempli_loco

exempli loco

Latin

Adverb

exemplī locō (not comparable)

  1. for instance, by way of example
    • 84 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Eduardus Stroebel (editor), De Inventione in Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur De inventione (1915), book ii, § 118:
      ut in hac lege — nihil enim prohibet fictam exempli loco ponere, quo facilius res intellegatur

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