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an instrument of villainy

  • 1 facinus

    făcĭnus, ŏris, n. [facio], a deed, act, action (class., most freq. in the special signif.).
    I.
    In gen. (syn.:

    factum, res gestae): Atridae duo fratres cluent fecisse facinus maximum, Cum Priami patriam Pergamum... subegerunt,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 1; 4, 4, 2; id. Trin. 1, 1, 2: tuum nefarium facinus pejore facinore operire, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 24, 12:

    nefario facinore admisso,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 38, 8:

    magnum et memorabile,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 73:

    praeclarissimum,

    Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68:

    hic pulcherrimum facinus adivi,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 30:

    pulcherrimum,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19: rectissimum, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 17 fin.: quantum, Poët. ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 9, 2:

    rarum,

    Tac. A. 3, 21:

    suasit amor facinus,

    Ov. M. 8, 90 al. —In plur.:

    inaudita et singularia facinora sceleris, audaciae, perfidiae, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 189:

    mirabilia facinora,

    id. Phil. 2, 42, 109:

    ingenii egregia facinora,

    Sall. J. 2, 2. —
    B.
    Transf. in Plautus for thing:

    nimis mirum est facinus, quomodo haec hinc potuerit transire!

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 24:

    quod facinus video? etc.,

    id. Rud. 1, 2, 73.—
    II.
    In partic., a bad deed, misdeed, outrage, villainy, crime (syn.:

    culpa, peccatum, delictum, flagitium, scelus, crimen, etc.): facinus est vincire civem Romanum, scelus verberare, prope parricidium necare: quid dicam in crucem tollere?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170; cf.:

    scelus et facinus,

    id. Mil. 16, 43:

    ad vim, facinus caedemque delecti,

    id. Agr. 2, 28, 77:

    nec in facinore, nec in libidine,

    id. Mil. 27, 73:

    nihil facinoris, nihil flagitii praetermittere,

    Liv. 39, 13, 10:

    ne facinus facere,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 95:

    jacere humi ad facinus obeundum,

    id. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

    committere,

    id. Fam. 3, 10, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 4:

    in se admittere,

    id. B. G. 3, 9, 3; cf. id. ib. 6, 13, 5:

    patrare,

    Sall. C. 18, 8: ad omne facinus impellere aliquem, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 424, 31 (Rep. 6, 1 ed. Mos.):

    crimen facinusque libidinis,

    Juv. 6, 294:

    transi gymnasia atque audi facinus majoris abollae,

    i. e. of a teacher, id. 3, 115 al. —Esp. in exclamations:

    O facinus indignum,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 15; Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 19:

    O indignum facinus,

    id. Eun. 1, 1, 25; cf. Quint. 5, 12, 12; Cic. Att. 2, 13 init. —In plur.:

    furiae vindices facinorum et sceleris,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 66:

    homo flagitiis atque facinoribus coopertus,

    Sall. C. 23, 1:

    talia facinora impune suscepisse,

    id. J. 31, 9.—
    B.
    Transf., concr. ( poet.), an instrument of villainy, said of the poisoned cup:

    facinusque excussit ab ore,

    Ov. M. 7, 423.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > facinus

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