Recusare judicem

    Eiuro, eiuras, pen. prod. eiurare. Plin. iunior. Resigner, Renoncer et quicter son office.

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    Eiurare, pro eo quod Recusare judicem barbare dicitur. Cic. Recuser un juge.

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    Imperium eiurare. Tacit. Renoncer et quicter l'empire.

rĕ-cūso, āvi, ātum, 1 ( gen. plur. of the part. pres. recusantūm, Verg. A. 7, 16), v. a. [causa].

In gen., to make an objection against, in statement or reply; to decline, reject, refuse, be reluctant or unwilling to do a thing, etc. (freq. and class.; cf.: abnuo, renuo, denego); constr. with acc., an inf., an object-clause, with de, ne, quin, quominus, or absol.

With acc.: uxorem, * Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 16; Hor. S. 1, 4, 50:

me judicem,

Tac. Or. 5 al.; cf.:

populum Romanum disceptatorem,

Cic. Fl. 38, 97:

populi Romani amicitiam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

nec quae pepigere recusent,

Verg. A. 12, 12:

nullum periculum communis salutis causā,

Caes. B. G. 7, 2; so,

nullum periculum,

id. ib. 7, 19; id. B. C. 3, 26:

laborem,

id. ib. 1, 68 fin.; Quint. 11, 3, 26; 12, 11, 10:

nihil nisi hiberna,

Caes. B. G. 5, 41:

legumina,

id. B. C. 3, 47 fin.:

servitutem,

Sall. J. 31, 20:

vincla (leones),

Verg. A. 7, 16:

jussa,

id. ib. 5, 749 et saep.:

nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo,

Cic. de Or. 2, 29, 128; so,

psalteria virginibus probis,

Quint. 1, 10, 31:

nihil de poenā,

Cic. Planc. 1, 3; cf.:

de stipendio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

qui quod ab altero postularent, in se recusarent,

id. B. C. 1, 32, 5:

Ptolemaeus recusabat regem Aridaeum,

rejected, Just. 13, 2, 11. —

Of things: terra numquam recusat imperium,

Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

genua impediunt cursumque recusant,

Verg. A. 12, 747:

rapax ignis non umquam alimenta recusat,

Ov. M. 8, 837:

(falsae gemmae) recusant limae probationem,

Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 200 et saep. —

With inf. (in class. prose, only in negative sentences or questions implying a negative):

mori recusare,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 6; 10, 17, 2; Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 25; Liv. 22, 60, 17:

hoc facere,

id. 5, 53, 9:

ad minora se demittere, Quint. prooem. § 5: prodere voce suā quemquam aut opponere morti,

Verg. A. 2, 126:

praeceptis parere,

id. ib. 2, 607:

quicquam tentare,

id. ib. 11, 437:

tibi comes ire,

id. ib. 2. 704:

facere ipse,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 208; Plin. [p. 1538] Pan. 5; Curt. 6, 11, 36; Just. 14, 1, 6.—

Of things: pedes vitiosum ferre recusant Corpus,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 108; so id. Ep. 2, 1, 259; id. A. P. 39.—

With object-clause:

non rem (medicam) antiqui damnabant, sed artem. Maxime vero quaestum esse manipretio vitae recusabant,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 16:

Velinum lacum obstrui recusantes,

refusing to permit, Tac. A. 1, 79; cf. infra, II.—

With de:

de judiciis transferendis recusare,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 2, § 6.—

With ne:

Servilius et recusare et deprecari, ne iniquis judicibus... judicium capitis in se constitueretur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 141:

sententiam ne diceret, recusavit,

id. Off. 3, 27, 100:

reliqui... ne unus omnes antecederet, recusarent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 82 fin. —

With quin:

si absim, haud recusem, quin mihi male sit,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 8:

non possumus, quin alii a nobis dissentiant, recusare,

Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 7:

non recuso quin, etc.,

id. Fam. 6, 18, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; Caes. B. C. 3, 45 fin.:

neque recusare... quin armis contendant,

id. B. G. 4, 7; Liv. 8, 7, 19.—

With quominus:

nec recusabo, quominus omnes mea legant,

Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7; id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 31:

... quominus perpetuo sub illorum dicione essent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

neque recusavit quo minus poenam subiret,

Nep. Epam. 8, 2.—

Absol.:

non recuso, non abnuo, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 36, 100:

recusandi aut deprecandi causā legatos mittere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 6; Verg. E. 3, 29 et saep. —

In partic.

To refute, disprove:

nativitatis mendacium,

Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 11.—

In jurid. lang., to protest against a complaint; to object, take exception, plead in defence:

causa omnis, in quā pars altera agentis est, altera recusantis,

Quint. 3, 10, 1:

numquid recusas contra me?

Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18:

tu me ad verbum vocas: non ante venio, quam recusaro... Quoniam satis recusavi, veniam jam quo vocas,

Cic. Caecin. 28, 8 sq.:

cum reus recusare vellet, sub usuris creditam esse pecuniam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 1, 48; cf. recusatio, II. B.