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dissension, quarrel, insurrection, mutiny, rising.

conspīrātĭo, ōnis, f. [1. conspiro], prop. a blowing or breathing together.

Lit., of unison in wind instruments:

canentium,

Col. 12, 2, 4.—Far more freq.,

Trop., an agreement in feeling or opinion, union, unanimity, concord, harmony.

In a good sense:

conspiratione hominum atque consensu,

Cic. Off. 2, 5, 16:

bonorum omnium,

id. Cat. 4, 10, 22:

optimatium,

Suet. Caes. 15: omnium ordinum ad defendendam libertatem (with concordia), Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 3:

(amici) quantā amoris conspiratione consentientis,

Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 65:

conspiratio consensusque virtutum,

id. ib. 5, 23, 66:

in re publicā bene gerendā,

id. Dom. 11, 28:

civitatium,

Just. 34, 1, 1. —

In a bad sense, a plotting, plot, mutiny, conspiracy, Cic. Scaur. 10, 20; 16, 37; id. Deiot. 4, 11; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, a, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 9; 12, 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 19; id. Calig. 56 et saep.—

Meton., the conspirators, body of conspirators:

cum tota ejus conspiratio late quaereretur,

Val. Max. 4, 7, 2.

consternātĭo, ōnis, f. [2. consterno] (not ante-Aug.; mostly in histt.), confusion, dismay, consternation, alarm, disquietude, disturbance.

In gen.:

pavor et consternatio mentis,

Tac. A. 13, 16:

quae causa irae consternationisque subitae foret,

Liv. 28, 25, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.:

muliebris,

id. 34, 2, 6:

creditorum,

Val. Max. 9, 7, 4:

populi,

id. 9, 15, 4; Suet. Calig. 51; id. Claud. 12.—

Transf., of the fright of horses (with pavor), Liv. 37, 42, 1.—

In partic., mutiny, tumult, disorder, sedition, Liv. 34, 2, 6; Tac. A. 1, 39:

neque plures consternatione proximā insanisse crediderim,

id. H. 1, 83 fin.; 2, 49; 4, 50:

excusare apud regem consternationem suam,

Curt. 5, 10, 8:

interfectis consternationis auctoribus,

id. 7, 10, 13; 8, 1, 24.

lăbĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum (labefactarier, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 5), 3, v. a.; pass.: lăbĕfīo, factus, fieri [labo-facio], to cause to totter, to shake, loosen, to make ready to fall (Cic. uses only labefactus).

Lit.:

dentes alicui,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 36:

partem muri,

Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

labefactae aedes,

Tac. A. 1, 75:

labefacta ictibus arbor Corruit,

Ov. M. 8, 776; id. ib. 3, 69:

charta (i. e. epistola) a vinclis non labefacta suis,

loosened, opened, id. P. 3, 7, 6:

munimenta incussu arietis labefieri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 6.— Poet.:

ignes labefacti aëre multo,

weakened, Lucr. 5, 653:

membra voluptatis dum vi labefacta liquescunt,

id. 4, 1108:

calor labefacta per ossa cucurrit,

Verg. A. 8, 390.—

Trop.

To cause to waver, to shake a person in his mind, principles, or fidelity: aliquem, Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7:

quem nulla umquam vis, nullae minae, nulla invidia labefecit,

Cic. Sest. 47, 101. primores classiariorum, to shake their fidelity, excite them to mutiny, Tac. A. 15, 51:

sic animus vario labefactus vulnere nutat,

Ov. M. 10, 375; cf.

in Greek construction: magno animum labefactus amore,

shaken, disquieted, Verg. A. 4, 395. —

To shake, weaken; to overthrow, ruin, destroy:

haec (res publica) jam labefacta,

Cic. Har. Resp. 27, 60:

quo, per contumeliam consulum, jura plebis labefacta essent,

Liv. 3, 64:

nihil hunc amicitia Sejani, sed labefacit haud minus ad exitia Macronis odium,

Tac. A. 6, 29 (35):

si priorem aetate et jam labefactum demovisset,

id. ib. 4, 60:

ne quis contagione ceteros labefaciat,

Col. 6, 5, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 93: fidem, to shake or weaken one's credit, Suet. Vesp. 4.

sēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [sed, i. e. sine (v. h. v.), and itio; thus, orig., a going aside, going apart; hence],

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.—

Transf., in gen., dissension, discord, strife, quarrel (very rare; mostly poet.; in Cic. only as a transl. of the Greek stasis):

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.—

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.