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latrocinium

latrocinium · n

Military service

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lā^trōcĭnĭum — Lewis & Short

lā^trōcĭnĭum, ĭi, n.id.. *

I Military service for pay: apud regem in latrocinio fuisti, Plaut. ap. Non. 134, 28.—
II Transf.
A Freebooting, robbery, highway-robbery, piracy (class.): cum illum ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium conjecimus, Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1: fines suos ab latrociniis tueri, id. Deiot. 8, 22: pugna latrocinio magis, quam proelio similis, a contest with robbers, Sall. J. 97: latrociniis magis quam justo bello gerebantur res, Liv. 29, 6: latrocinium potius quam bellum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26: latrociniis ac praedationibus infestatum mare, piracies, Vell. 2, 73, 3; Just. 43, 3: latrocinia nullam habent infamiam (apud Germanos), Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6: qui in furto aut in latrocinio aut aliqua noxa comprehensi, in robbery, id. ib. 6, 16 fin.
B In gen., villany, roguery, fraud: furtim et per latrocinia potius, quam bonis artibus, ad imperia et honores nituntur, Sall. J. 4, 7; cf. Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 61.—
2 Abstr. pro concreto, a band of robbers: si ex tanto latrocinio unus tolletur, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
C Latrocinii imago, the semblance of freebooting, i. e. the game of draughts or chess, which imitates freebooting: sive latrocinii sub imagine calculus ibit, Ov. A. A. 2, 207.

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