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1 contumacia
contŭmācĭa, ae, f. [contumax], perseverance in one's purpose or opinion, generally in a bad sense, arrogance, inflexibility, contumacy, obstinacy, stubbornness.I.Prop.A.In gen. (in good prose, and very freq.):B.illa tua singularis insolentia, superbia, contumacia,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 41, § 89; so,contumacia et adrogantia,
id. Rosc. Com. 15, 44:contumacia et ferocitas,
Suet. Vit. 2 al.:inter abruptam contumaciam et deforme obsequium pergere iter,
Tac. A. 4, 20 fin.:oris oculorumque illa contumacia ac superbia,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 5:adversus principem,
Tac. H. 4, 3:parendi,
Plin. Pan. 18:eadem in vultu,
Liv. 2, 61, 6; cf. Tac. A. 1, 24 fin.:responsi tui,
Cic. Pis. 31, 78.— Sometimes in a good sense, firmness, constancy, self-confidence (cf. contumax):Socrates adhibuit liberam contumaciam,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; so,maxima innocentiae,
Quint. Decl. 2, 5.—Esp., jurid. t. t., an obstinate disobedience to a judicial order, an obstinate refusal to appear in court, contumacy, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 57 (65), 2:II.contumacia eorum, qui jus dicenti non temperant, litis damno coërcetur,
Dig. 42, 1, 53 pr.; cf. contumax, I. B.—Transf., of animals:contumacia pervicax boum,
Col. 6, 2, 11.—Of inanim. things:arborum (with fastidium),
obstinacy in growth, Plin. 16, 32, 58, § 134.
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