1. sēdĭtĭo — Lewis & Short
sēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f.sed, i. e. sine (v. h. v.), and itio; thus, orig., a going aside, going apart; hence,
I Lit., an insurrectionary separation (political or military); dissension, civil discord, insurrection, mutiny, sedition (very freq. and class.;
syn.: secessio, defectus): ea dissensio civium, quod seorsum eunt alii ad alios, seditio dicitur,Cic. Rep. 6, 1, 3 (ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 149, and Non. 25, 6):
duobus tribunis plebis per seditionem creatis,id. ib. 2, 34, 59; cf. Liv. 2, 31 fin. sq.:
si qui in seditione non alterius utrius partis fuisset,Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2; cf. Gell. 2, 12, 1:
ne qua seditio oriretur,Caes. B. G. 7, 28 fin.; Sall. C. 34, 2:
seditione factā,Caes. B. C. 1, 87, 3:
seditionem inter Poenos et Siculos milites esse factam,Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; cf.:
seditio inter belli pacisque auctores orta,Liv. 2, 16:
seditionem ac discordiam concitare,Cic. Mur. 39, 83:
commovere,id. Att. 2, 1, 8:
movere,Vell. 2, 68, 2:
coeptare,Tac. A. 1, 38; 1, 45; 2, 81 et saep.:
componere,id. H. 4, 14:
magno in populo cum saepe coörta est Seditio, etc.,Verg. A. 1, 149; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 15:
seditione potens,Verg. A. 11, 340.—Plur.:
cum hominem seditiosum defenderet, non dubitavit seditiones ipsas ornare,Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124; 2, 48, 199; Sall. J. 37, 1; Liv. 4, 2; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 16, 2; Hor. C. 3, 3, 29; 3, 6, 13; Tac. A. 4, 68 et saep.—Seditio, personified as one of the attendants of Fama, Ov. M. 12, 61.—
II Transf., in gen., dissension, discord, strife, quarrel (very rare; mostly poet.; in Cic. only as a transl. of the Greek sta/sis):
Amphitruo uxori turbas conciet ...tum meus pater Eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet,Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16:
ut homini adulescentulo Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias,Ter. And. 5, 1, 11 Ruhnk.:
cui studeat, deus omnis habet, crescitque favore Turbida seditio, donec Juppiter, etc.,Ov. M. 9, 426; so,
domestica (opp. fraterna concordia),Liv. 45, 19:
pantomimorum,Suet. Ner. 26:
non illaudata (with magno certatur amore),Claud. in Rufin. 2, 226.—
B Of inanimate and abstract things:
seditio maris,uproar, turbulence, Stat. Th. 9, 142:
pelagi,Manil. 2, 90:
siderum,id. 2, 196:
flammasque rebelles Seditione tori (Eteoclis et Polynicis),Stat. Th. 1, 36:
intestina corporis,Liv. 2, 32, 12.—Comically:
seditionem facit lien, occupat praecordia,rebels, and takes possession of my stomach, Plaut. Merc. 1, 14:
Archytas iracundiam, videlicet dissidentem a ratione, seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat, et eam consilio sedari volebat,Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60.