rĕprĕhensĭo — Lewis & Short
rĕprĕhensĭo, ōnis, f.id.,
I a holding back, trop. *
I A checking, check, in speaking:
(orationem) concinnam ... festivam, sine intermissione, sine reprehensione, sine varietate,Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 100.—
II Blame, censure, reprimand, reproof, reprehension (freq. and class.).
(a) With gen.:
gloriam in morte debent ii, qui in re publicā versantur, non culpae reprehensionem et stultitiae vituperationem relinquere,Cic. Phil. 12, 10, 25:
vitae,id. Mur. 5, 11: temeritatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 1:
brevis neglegentiae,Quint. 5, 13, 10:
personarum,id. 9, 2, 68:
vereri reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,Cic. Or. 1, 1.— In plur.:
obscuritatis, infantiae, inscitiae rerum verborumque, et insulsitatis etiam,Quint. 5, 13, 38; cf.:
dissentientium inter se reprehensiones non sunt vituperandae,Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 27.—
(b) Absol.:
reprehensionem non fugere,Cic. Att. 10, 3, a, 1:
justā reprehensione carere,id. Off. 1, 40, 144:
sine reprehensione,Quint. 1, 5, 14; 1, 11, 18; 9, 2, 68; Plin. 3, 1, praef. § 1; Tac. H. 1, 49:
citra reprehensionem,Quint. 1, 5, 64; 8, 5, 34:
cum reprehensione,id. 11, 3, 165:
reprehensionem capere,to be found fault with, id. 5, 7, 1.— In plur.:
fore ut hic noster labor in varias reprehensiones incurreret,Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 1.—
B Transf.
1 Like our blame for the thing blamed, a fault:
Hermagoras, in plurimis admirandus, tantum diligentiae nimium solicitae, ut ipsa ejus reprehensio laude aliquā non indigna sit,Quint. 3, 11, 22; cf.: usque ad emacitatis reprehensionem. Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 7.—
2 Rhet. t. t., a refutation, Cic. Inv. 1, 42, 78; id. Part. Or. 12, 44; id. de Or. 3, 54, 207; Quint. 9, 1, 34 (cf. reprehendo, II. B. 2.).