The corpus record — Latin

justitium

justitium · n

a cessation from business in the courts of justice, a legal vacation

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 4 · 3.03/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 2 · 2.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 5 · 2.48/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 3 · 1.98/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 2 · 1.49/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 2 · 1.19/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

justĭtĭum — Lewis & Short

justĭtĭum, ii, n.2. jus-sisto,

I a cessation from business in the courts of justice, a legal vacation, Cic. Phil. 5, 12, 31: justitium per aliquot dies servatum est, Liv. 3, 5: justitiumque in foro sua sponte coeptum prius quam indictum, id. 9, 7: prope justitium omnium rerum futurum videbatur, id. 26, 26, 9: remittere, to put an end to a suspension of legal proceedings, to cause the courts to resume their business, id. 10, 21. —

II In gen., a cessation of public business, a public mourning: hos mors (Germanici) adeo incendit, ut, sumpto justitio, deserentur foro, Tac. A. 2, 82: arcis triste tyrannicae, Prud. Cath. 5, 80; so, in a household, a suspension of business for mourning the dead, Sid. Ep. 2, 8.

In the wild

iustitio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p1
iustitium Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.5.13
iustitio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 p3
iustitio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 p7
iustitio Tacitus, Annales 2.p83
iustitium Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.21.6

6 of 62 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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