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I. a throwing of stones, a stoning (class.).

I. Lit.: fit magna lapidatio, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95: magna, id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Dom. 6, 14; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 73.—In plur.: lapidationes persaepe vidimus, Cic. Sest. 36, 77.—

II. A shower of stones (post-class.): non diu lapidatione terruere Romanos, Flor. 3, 9, 6.—Transf., a hail-storm: grandinis lapidatio, Imp. Constant. Cod. 9, 18, 4.