frĕquentātĭo, ōnis, f. [frequento], frequency, frequent use, a crowding together.
- I. In gen. (very rare): matrimoniorum, Gell. 1, 6, 6.
- II. In partic., in rhet. lang. (esp. in Cic.): densa et continens verborum, Auct. Her. 4, 19, 27: argumentorum et coacervatio universa, Cic. Part. 35, 122: consequentium, id. ib. 16, 55.
- B. As a flg. of speech, a condensed recapitulation of the arguments already stated separately, a recapitulation, summing up: frequentatio est, cum res in tota causa dispersae coguntur in unum, quo gravior aut criminosior oratio sit, Auct. Her. 4, 40, 52.