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Sanctio

Sanctio · f

an establishing

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Where it lives

Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 2 · 2.94/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

sanctĭo — Lewis & Short

sanctĭo, ōnis, f.sancio,

I an establishing, ordaining, or decreeing as inviolable under penalty of a curse; a decree, ordinance, sanction: sanctiones sacrandae sunt ...poenā, cum caput ejus qui contra fecerit consecratur, Cic. Balb. 14, 33; 16, 36; cf.: legis sanctio poenaque, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 149: sanctio legum, quae novissime certam poenam irrogat iis, qui praeceptis legis non obtemperaverint, Dig. 48, 19, 41; cf.: interdum in sanctionibus adicitur, ut qui ibi aliquid commisit, capite puniatur, ib. 1, 8, 9: neque vero leges Porciae quicquam praeter sanctionem attulerunt novi, Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 54: plus valet sanctio permissione, Auct. Her. 2, 10, 15: jacere irritas sanctiones, Liv. 4, 51: pragmatica, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 10.

In the wild

Sanctionem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.3.3
sanctionem Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.149
sanctione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.7.p5
sanctiones Cicero, Letters to Atticus 3.23.2
sanctionem Cicero, De Republica 2.54
sanctionibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.24.1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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