constĭtūtĭo

constĭtūtĭo, ōnis, f. [constituo].

In gen., a constitution, disposition, nature:

firma corporis,

Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117 (as transl. of the Gr. eustatheia tês sarkos); so Sen. Ep. 121, 10 and 14:

prima naturae,

Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15.—

In partic.

A definition:

ea constitutio summi boni, quae est proposita,

Cic. Fin. 5, 16, 45.—

In rhet., the issue in a cause, the point in dispute:

constitutio est prima conflictio causarum ex depulsione intentionis profecta, hoc modo: Fecisti: Non feci, aut: Jure feci, etc.,

Cic. Inv. 1, 8, 10; Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18 and 19; cf. Quint. 3, 6, 2 sq.—

A regulation, order, arrangement:

nec temporis unius nec hominis esse constitutionem rei publicae,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37, cf. id. ib. 1, 45, 69;

2, 31, 53: constitutio est in lege, more, judicato, pacto,

Quint. 7, 4, 6; cf. id. 7, 4, 5; 5, 2, 5:

religionum,

Cic. Leg. 2, 10, 23:

senatus,

Liv. 39, 53, 10; Plin. 34, 9, 21, § 99 al.—

Esp., an imperial regulation, order: quodcumque ergo imperator per epistulam promulgavit, vel cognoscens decrevit, vel edicto praecepit, legem esse constat;

hae sunt quae constitutiones appellantur,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 6; Gai Inst. 2, 5, § 3 al.

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cīvĭtas, ātis ( gen. plur. civitatium, Cic. Rep. 1, 34, 51; id. Leg. 2, 4, 9; Caes. B. G. 4, 3; 5, 22; Sall. C. 40, 2; Liv. 1, 17, 4; 2, 6, 5; 33, 20, 11 Drak.; 42, 30, 6; 42, 44, 1; 45, 34, 1; Vell. 2, 42, 2; Quint. 2, 16, 4 N. cr.; Suet. Tit. 8 Oud.; Cornut. ap. Charis. p. 100 P.; cf. Varr. L. L. 8, § 66; Prisc. p. 771 P.; Neue, Formenl. 1, 268), f. [civis].

Abstr., the condition or privileges of a ( Roman) citizen, citizenship, freedom of the city (upon its conditions, v. Zimmern, Rechtsgesch. 2, § 123 sq.;

Dict. of Antiq. p. 260 sqq.): Cato, cum esset Tusculi natus, in populi romani civitatem susceptus est: ita, cum ortu Tusculanus esset, civitate Romanus, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 5:

donare aliquem civitate,

id. Balb. 13, 20; Suet. Caes. 24; 42; 76; id. Aug. 47; id. Tib. 51; id. Ner. 24:

dare civitatem alicui,

Cic. Arch. 4, 7; 5, 10; Liv. 1, 28, 7; 8, 14, 8; Suet. Aug. 40; id. Galb. 14: accipere aliquem in civitatem, [p. 347] Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35:

adsciscere in civitatem,

Liv. 6, 40, 4:

ascribere aliquem in civitatem,

Cic. Arch. 4, 6:

aliquem foederatis civitatibus ascribere,

id. ib. 4, 7:

in aliis civitatibus ascriptus,

id. ib. 5, 10:

assequi,

Tac. A. 11, 23:

consequi,

Cic. Balb. 13, 31:

deponere,

id. Caecin. 34, 100:

decedere de civitate,

id. Balb. 5, 11:

dicare se civitati,

id. ib. 11, 28:

in civitatem,

id. ib. 12, 30:

eripere,

id. Caecin. 34, 99:

habere,

id. Balb. 13, 31:

impertiri civitatem,

id. Arch. 5, 10:

furari civitatem,

id. Balb. 2, 5:

petere,

Suet. Caes. 8:

Romanam assequi,

Tac. A. 11, 23:

adipisci,

Suet. Aug. 40:

Romanam usurpare,

id. Calig. 38; id. Claud. 25:

amittere civitatem,

Cic. Caecin. 34, 98:

adimere,

id. ib.; Suet. Caes. 28:

petere,

id. ib. 8:

negare,

id. Aug. 40:

jus civitatis,

Cic. Caecin. 34, 98; id. Arch. 5, 11:

recipere aliquem in civitatem,

id. Caecin. 34, 100; id. Arch. 10,22; id. Balb. 13, 31:

relinquere,

id. Caecin. 34, 100:

retinere civitatem,

id. Balb. 12, 30:

retinere aliquem in civitate,

id. Lig. 11, 33:

ademptio civitatis,

id. Dom. 30, 78:

commemoratio,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 162:

nomen,

id. ib.:

ereptor,

id. Dom. 30, 81.—

Trop.:

ut oratio Romana plane videatur, non civitate donata,

Quint. 8, 1, 3; cf.:

civitate Romanā donare agricolationem,

Col. 1, 1, 12:

verbum hoc a te civitate donatum,

naturalized, Gell. 19, 3, 3; Sen. Ep. 120, 4; id. Q. N. 5, 16, 4.—More freq.,

Concr., the citizens united in a community, the body - politic, the state, and as this consists of one city and its territory, or of several cities, it differs from urbs, i.e. the compass of the dwellings of the collected citizens;

but sometimes meton., = urbs, v. B.: concilia coetusque hominum jure sociati, quae civitates appellantur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

tum conventicula hominum, quae postea civitates nominatae sunt, tum domicilia conjuncta, quas urbes dicimus, etc.,

id. Sest. 42, 91; cf.: omnis populus, qui est talis coetus multitudinis, qualem exposui; omnis civitas, quae est constitutio populi;

omnis res publica, quae populi res est, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 26, 41:

quia sapiens non sum, nec haec urbs nec in eā civitas... non dubitavisset, quin et Roma urbs (esset), et eam civitas incoleret,

id. Ac. 2, 45, 137:

aucta civitate magnitudine urbis,

Liv. 1, 45, 1:

Orgetorix civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 2 Oud.; so id. ib. 1, 4; 1, 19; 1, 31; cf. Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 429, 15:

civitates aut nationes devictae,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35; Sall. C. 31, 1; Liv. 21, 1, 2:

io triumphe non semel dicemus civitas omnis,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 51; cf. id. Epod. 16, 36 and 18:

cum civitas in foro exspectatione erecta staret,

Liv. 3, 47, 1; so id. 2, 37, 5; 26, 18, 6; 34, 41, 1; Tac. A. 3, 11; Suet. Calig. 6; id. Tib. 17; 42:

civitates aut condere novas aut conservare jam conditas,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12; id. Sull. 9, 28; id. Rep. 1, 8, 13; 1, 3, 5:

omnis civitas Helvetia in quattuor pagos divisa est,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

quae pars civitatis Helvetiae, etc.,

id. ib.:

non longe a Tolosatium finibus, quae civitas est in provinciā,

id. ib. 1, 10:

Ubii, quorum fuit civitas ampla atque florens,

id. ib. 4, 3:

Rhodiorum civitas, magna atque magnifica,

Sall. C. 51, 5; cf. id. J. 69, 3:

Heraclea quae est civitas aequissimo jure ac foedere,

Cic. Arch. 4, 6 et saep.:

administrare civitatem,

id. Off. 1, 25, 88:

mutari civitatum status,

id. Leg. 3, 14, 32; so,

civitatis status,

Quint. 6, 1, 16; 11, 1, 85:

(legibus) solutis stare ipsa (civitas) non possit,

id. 11, 1, 85:

lege civitatis,

id. 12, 10, 26; cf. id. 5, 10, 25:

mos civitatis,

id. 10, 1, 107; 12, 3, 7; 1, 2, 2.—Of Plato's ideal republic:

si in illā commenticiā Platonis civitate res ageretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 230.—

Trop.:

civitas caelitum,

Plaut. Rud. prol. 2:

ut jam universus hic mundus una civitas sit communis deorum atque hominum existimanda,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 23.—

Meton., = urbs, a city (rare and mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic. or Cæs.): civitatem incendere, Enn. ap. Non. p. 429, 5 (Trag. 382 Vahl.):

cum errarem per totam civitatem,

Petr. 8, 2; cf. id. 8, 141 fin.:

Lingonum,

Tac. H. 1, 54; 1, 64:

ab excidio civitatis,

id. ib. 1, 63;

1, 69: circumjectae civitates,

id. ib. 3, 43:

muri civitatis,

id. ib. 4, 65; id. A. 6, 42:

pererrata nocturnis conversationibus,

Sen. Ben. 6, 32, 1:

expugnare civitatem,

Quint. 8, 3, 67; cf.:

expugnandae civitates,

id. 12, 9, 2:

plurimas per totum orbem civitates, terrae motu aut incendio afflictas restituit in melius,

Suet. Vesp. 17; cf. id. Tit. 8; id. Tib. 84 fin.; Lact. 2, 7, 19.—

Esp., the city, i. e. Rome and its inhabitants, Tac. H. 1, 19; 2, 92; 4, 2.

dēfīnītīvus, a, um, adj. [definio].

Definitive, explanatory. So in the rhet. lang. of Cicero: constitutio, Inv. 2, 17; cf. ib. 1, 13:

causa,

id. Top. 24 fin. And in the later jurid. Lat.:

sententia,

a decisive, definitive sentence, Cod. Just. 7, 45, 3; 7, 64, 10 al.—

In late Lat. = definitus, definite, distinct, plain:

materia,

Tert. adv. Herm. 38.— Adv.: dēfīnītīvē, definitively, plainly, distinctly:

pronuntiare,

Tert. Car. Christ. 18:

loqui,

Cael. Aur. Acut. 1 praef.

firmĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [firmus], firmness, durability, strength (less freq. than firmitas, but class.).

Lit.:

tanta in eis (navibus) erat firmitudo,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 8; cf.:

tanta erat operis (i. e. pontis) firmitudo,

id. ib. 4, 17, 7:

vocis,

Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20. —

Trop., firmness, constancy, stability, strength of mind:

animi,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54; cf.:

quod firmitudinem gravitatemque animi tui perspexi,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3:

quantum esset hominibus praesidii in animi firmitudine,

Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 4:

animi,

Tac. A. 4, 8:

in patientia firmitudinem simulans,

id. ib. 6, 46 fin.; cf. ib. 15, 62:

non quod salus ab isto data quicquam habitura sit firmitudinis,

Cic. Att. 11, 14, 2:

haec constitutio habet firmitudinem,

id. Rep. 1, 45:

(translationes) per se minus habeant firmitudinis,

id. Inv. 2, 19, 58.

firmus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. dhar-, dharā-mi, hold, support; Gr. thra-, thrê-sasthai, to sit down, thrênus, thronos; cf.: frētus, frēnum], firm (in opp. to frail, destructible), steadfast, stable, strong, powerful (freq. and class.; esp. in the trop. sense; syn.: constans, stabilis, solidus).

Lit.:

nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor: Quae tulit Aesoniden, firma carina fuit,

Ov. P. 1, 4, 35:

robora,

Verg. A. 2, 481:

arbor,

Ov. A. A. 2, 652:

vincula,

id. F. 1, 370:

janua,

i. e. shut fast, id. Am. 2, 12, 3; cf.

sera,

id. P. 1, 2, 24:

solum,

Curt. 5, 1:

firmioris testae murices,

Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102: sunt et Amineae vites, firmissima vina. Verg. G. 2, 97:

firmo cibo pasta pecus,

strengthening, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 2:

firmius est triticum quam milium: id ipsum quam hordeum: ex tritico firmissima siligo,

Cels. 2, 18:

effice ut valeas, et ut ad nos firmus ac valens quam primum venias,

Cic. Fam. 16, 8, 1 and 2; cf.:

mihi placebat, si firmior esses, etc.,

id. ib. 16, 5, 1:

nondum satis firmo corpore,

id. ib. 11, 27, 1:

hinc remiges firmissimi, illinc inopia affectissimi,

Vell. 2, 84, 2.—With dat.:

area firma templis sustinendis,

Liv. 2, 5, 4:

testa in structura oneri ferendo firma,

Vitr. 2, 8, 19:

adversis,

Tac. Agr. 35 fin.

Trop., firm in strength or durability, also in opinion, affection, etc., fast, constant, steadfast, immovable, powerful, strong, true, faithful:

quae enim domus tam stabilis, quae tam firma civitas est, quae non odiis et discidiis funditus possit everti?

Cic. Lael. 7, 23:

res publica firma atque robusta,

id. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf.:

civitas imprimis firma,

Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 2:

Trinobantes prope firmissima earum regionum civitas,

id. ib. 5, 20, 1; cf.

also: Mutina firmissima et splendidissima colonia,

Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 24:

tres potentissimi ac firmissimi populi,

id. ib. 1, 3 fin.; and:

evocatorum firma manus,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 3: Antonius ab equitatu firmus esse dicebatur, strong in cavalry, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15, 2.— With ad and acc.: satis firmus ad castra facienda, Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 1:

Chrysippi consolatio ad veritatem firmissima est,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 33, 79:

exercitus satis firmus ad tantum bellum,

Liv. 23, 25, 6; cf.:

cohortes minime firmae ad dimicandum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 60, 2; Sall. H. 4, 62, 16.— With contra: Jugurtha nihil satis firmum contra Metellum putat, Sall. J. 80, 1.—With adversus:

firmus adversus militarem largitionem,

Tac. H. 2, 82:

firmior adversus fortuita,

id. ib. 4, 51:

adversus convicia malosque rumores,

Suet. Tib. 28.— Absol.:

cum neque magnas copias neque firmas haberet,

Nep. Eum. 3, 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 8; Sall. J. 56, 2:

concordi populo nihil esse immutabilius, nihil firmius,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32:

praesidia firmissima,

id. Fin. 1, 10, 35:

fundamenta defensionis firmissima,

id. Cael. 2, 7:

firmior fortuna,

id. Rep. 1, 17:

constitutio Romuli,

id. ib. 2, 31 (ap. Non. 526, 10):

illud ratum, firmum, fixum fuisse vis,

Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141:

officii praecepta firma, stabilia,

id. Off. 1, 2, 6; cf.:

opinio, firma et stabilis,

id. Brut. 30, 114:

firma et constans assensio,

id. Ac. 1, 11, 42:

ne in maximis quidem rebus quicquam adhuc inveni firmius,

id. Or. 71, 237:

spem firmissimam habere,

id. Fam. 6, 5, 4; cf.

, transf.: firmior candidatus,

i. e. who has stronger, greater hopes of being elected, id. Att. 1, 1, 2:

litterae,

i. e. containing news that may be relied upon, id. ib. 7, 25; cf. id. ib. 16, 5:

senatum sua sponte bene firmum firmiorem vestra auctoritate fecistis,

id. Phil. 6, 7, 18; cf.:

vir in suscepta causa firmissimus,

id. Mil. 33, 91:

accusator firmus verusque,

id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29;

with this cf.: vir pro veritate firmissimus,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 19:

sunt fortasse in sententia firmiores,

id. Balb. 27, 61:

firmus in hoc,

Tib. 3, 2, 5:

non firmus rectum defendis et haeres,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 26:

firmus proposito,

Vell. 2, 63 fin.; so,

firmissimus irā,

Ov. M. 7, 457: firmo id constantique animo facias licet, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 2:

nunc opus pectore firmo,

Verg. A. 6, 261:

firmi amici sunt (opp.: amici collabascunt),

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 16:

firmi et stabiles et constantes (amici),

Cic. Lael. 17, 62:

ex infidelissimis sociis firmissimos reddere,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 14:

non brevis et suffragatoria, sed firma et perpetua amicitia,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 7, 26:

firmissimae amicitiae,

Quint. 1, 2, 20:

fides firma nobis,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 6.—

Poet. with inf.:

fundus nec vendibilis nec pascere firmus,

able, capable, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 47. —Hence, adv., firmly, steadily, lastingly, powerfully; in two (equally common) forms: firme and firmĭter.

Form firme, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 24; id. Trin. 2, 2, 54:

insistere,

Suet. Calig. 26:

firme graviterque aliquid comprehendere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 71; cf.:

satis firme aliquid concipere animo,

id. ib. 2, 2, 6:

continere multa,

Quint. 11, 2, 2:

sustinere assensus suos,

Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 31:

graviter et firme respondere,

Plin. Ep. 6, 13, 3.—

Form firmiter: firmiter hoc tuo sit pectore fixum, Lucil. ap. Non. 512, 20:

nisi suffulcis firmiter,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 77:

insistere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 26, 1:

in suo gradu collocari,

Cic. Rep. 1, 45 fin.: stabilita matrimonia, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 512, 23 (Rep. 6, 2 ed. Mos.):

promisisse,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2 111:

meminisse,

Gell. 13, 8, 2.—

Comp.:

firmius durare,

Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 165:

firmius coire,

Ov. H. 19, 67.—

Sup.:

asseverare,

Cic. Att. 10, 14 fin.:

pulvinus quam firmissime statuatur,

Vitr. 5, 12.

gĕnĕrālis, e, adj. [genus].

Of or belonging to a kind or species, generic (very rare): variae volucres ut in ordine cunctae Ostendant maculas generales corpore inesse, etc., of their species, Lucr. 1, 590:

cum qualis sit res, quaeritur, quia et de vi et de genere negotii controversia est, constitutio generalis vocatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 8, 10. —

Of or relating to all, general (opp. singuli and specialis; cf. universalis;

freq. only since the Aug. per.): et generale quoddam decorum intelligimus, quod in omni honestate versatur, et aliud huic subjectum, quod pertinet ad singulas partes honestatis,

Cic. Off. 1, 27, 96:

causae, opp. singulae lites,

Quint. 7, 1, 64; Sen. Ep. 58 med.:

cum sit omnis generalis quaestio speciali potentior,

Quint. 12, 2, 18; cf.:

illud generale, hoc speciale,

id. 5, 10, 44:

tractatus, opp. specialis,

id. 5, 7, 35; cf.:

ab generali tractatu ad quasdam deduci species,

id. 2, 4, 22:

de re et generales quaestiones sunt et definitae,

id. 7, 2, 1:

definitio,

Dig. 28, 5, 4:

pactum,

ib. 2, 14, 40: lex est generale jussum populi aut plebis, rogante magistratu, At. Cap. ap. Gell. 10, 20, 2.—Hence, adv.: gĕnĕrālĭter (acc. to II.), in general, generally (mostly post-Aug.; cf.:

generatim, communiter): tempus est, id quo nunc utimur (nam ipsum quidem generaliter definire difficile est), pars quaedam aeternitatis,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39:

quaedam adnotasse, sed generaliter (opp. particulas etiam persequi),

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 3:

tempus generaliter et specialiter accipitur, etc.,

Quint. 5, 10, 42 sq.;

so opp. specialiter,

id. 5, 7, 4; 5, 11, 1;

opp. proprie,

id. 3, 7, 7:

legare,

Gai. Inst. 2, 238:

stipulari,

id. ib. 4, 53:

universi,

Vulg. Jer. 25, 20.

pragmătĭcus, a, um, adj., = pragmatikos, prop., skilled in business, esp. experienced in matters of law:

pragmatici homines omnibus historiis cavere jubent et vetant credere,

Cic. Att. 2, 20, 1.—Hence,

Subst.

pragmătĭcus, i, m., = pragmatikos, one skilled in the law, who furnished orators and advocates with the principles on which they based their speeches:

itaque illi disertissimi homines (Graeci) ministros habent in causis juris peritos, cum ipsi sint imperitissimi, et qui pragmatici vocantur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 253 (dub.;

bracketed by B. and K.): oratori pragmaticum adjutorem dare,

id. ib. 1, 59, 253 (1, 45, 198, written as Greek); Quint. 12, 3, 4; Juv. 7, 123; Dig. 48, 17, 9.—

Pragmătĭca, ōrum, n., the title of a work by Attius, Gell. 20, 3;

perh. the same which is called by Pliny Praxidica and Praxidicum,

Plin. 1, ind. lib. 18; 18, 24, 55, § 200.—

Adj., relating to civil affairs. So in late jurid. Lat.:

pragmatica sanctio, or jussio, or annotatio, or constitutio,

an imperial decree that referred to the affairs of a community, a pragmatic sanction, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 10; called pragmaticum rescriptum, Aug. Collat. cum Donatist. 3, c. 2; and absol.: pragmătĭcum, i, n., Cod. Th. 6, 23, 3; 16, 5, 52.

pragmătĭcus, a, um, adj., = pragmatikos, prop., skilled in business, esp. experienced in matters of law:

pragmatici homines omnibus historiis cavere jubent et vetant credere,

Cic. Att. 2, 20, 1.—Hence,

Subst.

pragmătĭcus, i, m., = pragmatikos, one skilled in the law, who furnished orators and advocates with the principles on which they based their speeches:

itaque illi disertissimi homines (Graeci) ministros habent in causis juris peritos, cum ipsi sint imperitissimi, et qui pragmatici vocantur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 253 (dub.;

bracketed by B. and K.): oratori pragmaticum adjutorem dare,

id. ib. 1, 59, 253 (1, 45, 198, written as Greek); Quint. 12, 3, 4; Juv. 7, 123; Dig. 48, 17, 9.—

Pragmătĭca, ōrum, n., the title of a work by Attius, Gell. 20, 3;

perh. the same which is called by Pliny Praxidica and Praxidicum,

Plin. 1, ind. lib. 18; 18, 24, 55, § 200.—

Adj., relating to civil affairs. So in late jurid. Lat.:

pragmatica sanctio, or jussio, or annotatio, or constitutio,

an imperial decree that referred to the affairs of a community, a pragmatic sanction, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 10; called pragmaticum rescriptum, Aug. Collat. cum Donatist. 3, c. 2; and absol.: pragmătĭcum, i, n., Cod. Th. 6, 23, 3; 16, 5, 52.

pragmătĭcus, a, um, adj., = pragmatikos, prop., skilled in business, esp. experienced in matters of law:

pragmatici homines omnibus historiis cavere jubent et vetant credere,

Cic. Att. 2, 20, 1.—Hence,

Subst.

pragmătĭcus, i, m., = pragmatikos, one skilled in the law, who furnished orators and advocates with the principles on which they based their speeches:

itaque illi disertissimi homines (Graeci) ministros habent in causis juris peritos, cum ipsi sint imperitissimi, et qui pragmatici vocantur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 253 (dub.;

bracketed by B. and K.): oratori pragmaticum adjutorem dare,

id. ib. 1, 59, 253 (1, 45, 198, written as Greek); Quint. 12, 3, 4; Juv. 7, 123; Dig. 48, 17, 9.—

Pragmătĭca, ōrum, n., the title of a work by Attius, Gell. 20, 3;

perh. the same which is called by Pliny Praxidica and Praxidicum,

Plin. 1, ind. lib. 18; 18, 24, 55, § 200.—

Adj., relating to civil affairs. So in late jurid. Lat.:

pragmatica sanctio, or jussio, or annotatio, or constitutio,

an imperial decree that referred to the affairs of a community, a pragmatic sanction, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 10; called pragmaticum rescriptum, Aug. Collat. cum Donatist. 3, c. 2; and absol.: pragmătĭcum, i, n., Cod. Th. 6, 23, 3; 16, 5, 52.

quaestĭo, ōnis, f. [quaero], a seeking.

In gen. (Plautin.):

cave, fuas mi in quaestione,

lest you suffer yourself to be to seek, lest I have to look after you, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 52:

tibi ne in quaestione essemus,

id. Capt. 2, 2, 3; id. Ps. 2, 2, 68.—

In partic., an inquiry, investigation, a questioning, question, subject of inquiry:

quaestio est appetitio cognitionis, quaestionisque finis inventio,

Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 26; 2, 36, 115:

quae veri simillima (sententia sit), magna quaestio est,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; id. Fin. 2, 11, 34:

rem in disceptationem quaestionemque vocare,

to investigate, id. de Or. 3, 32, 129:

res in quaestione versatur,

is under investigation, id. Clu. 58, 159:

de moribus ultima fiet quaestio,

Juv. 3, 141:

res in quaestionem venit,

comes under investigation, Quint. 5, 14, 16:

modo aliquam quaestionem poëticam ei proponeret,

Nep. Att. 20, 2; cf. Cic. Att. 7, 19 fin.; Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 6; id. Ep. 48, 1; Suet. Tib. 56:

quaestionem instituere,

to institute an investigation, Quint. 7, 1, 6:

quaestionem solvere,

Sen. Ep. 48, 11; Quint. 5, 10, 26.—

A public judicial investigation, examination by torture, a criminal inquiry, inquisition; the crime is usu. constr. with de:

cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset,

instituted a trial for assassination, Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

verberibus ac tormentis quaestionem habuit pecuniae publicae,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

quaestionem mortis paternae de servis paternis habere,

id. Rosc. Am. 28, 78:

quaestionem fugitare,

id. ib. 28, 78:

servos in quaestionem polliceri,

id. ib. 28, 77:

quaestionem ferre in aliquem,

to appoint, institute, make a motion for, id. de Or. 1, 53, 227:

habere ex aliquo,

Liv. 33, 28:

facere alicui,

against any one, Dig. 34, 3, 20:

quaestionem de furto constituere,

Cic. Clu. 64, 181:

quaestionem instituere de morte alicujus,

id. ib. 64, 181:

quaestionem de morte viri habere,

id. ib. 65, 182;

63, 176: quaestionem habere de servis in caput filii,

id. ib. 63, 176:

ad quaestionem abripi,

to examination by torture, id. ib. 33, 89:

alicui servum in quaestionem ferre,

id. ib. 64, 181:

postulare servum in quaestionem,

id. ib. 64, 181:

quaestiones severius exercere,

Liv. 9, 34:

quaestioni praeesse,

to conduct a trial as judge, Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11: quaestiones perpetuae, the inquisitions concerning certain crimes (repetundarum, majestatis, de falso, de sicariis, de injuriis, etc.), conducted annually, after 605 A. U. C., by a standing commission, and presided over by the prætor, Cic. Brut. 27, 106:

judex quaestionis,

the director of the criminal court under the presidency of the prætor, id. Clu. 54, 148; 33, 89; id. Brut. 76, 264:

quaestiones extraordinariae,

trials out of the common course, held under a special commission, Liv. 39, 14; so,

quaestio nova,

Cic. Mil. 5, 13:

A QVAESTIONIBVS,

an attendant in examinations, a torturer, inquisitor, Inscr. Grut. 545, 6; 560, 1. —

Transf.

The court, the judges:

dimittere eo tempore quaestionem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30, § 74:

totam quaestionem a severitate ad clementiam transtulit,

Val. Max. 8, 1, 6.—

The subject of investigation, the matter, case, question:

perdifficilis et perobscura quaestio est de naturā deorum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1:

dividere totam de dis immortalibus quaestionem in partis quattuor,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

quaestio proposita,

Quint. 9, 2, 39.—

In partic., in rhet.

The rhetorical subject of debate: quaestionum duo sunt genera: alterum infinitum, alterum definitum. Definitum est, quod hupothesin Graeci, nos causam: infinitum, quod thesin illi appellant, nos propositum possumus nominare, Cic. Top. 21, 79. —

The main point in a disputed matter, the issue in a cause: quaestio est quae ex conflictione causarum gignitur controversia, hoc modo: Non jure fecisti: jure feci. Causarum autem haec est conflictio, in quā constitutio constat;

ex eā igitur nascitur controversia, quam quaestionem dicimus, hoc modo: jurene fecerit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 13, 18; cf. id. ib. 1, 6, 8.—

A question, a disputed point, quaestio est, it is doubtful, may be disputed:

sapientia efficit sapientis sola per se: beatos efficiat necne sola per se quaestio est,

Cic. Top. 15, 60; id. Tusc. 4, 13, 29; id. Inv. 2, 20, 60:

quaestio est, an, etc.,

Quint. 7, 3, 22; cf.:

nulla quaestio est,

Aug. Retract. 1, 19, 6; cf.

also: in quaestione est,

Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 57; 10, 22, 27, § 52:

quaestionis est immensae,

id. 7, 28, 29, § 101; 28, 2, 3, § 10.