professio

prŏfessĭo, ōnis, f. [profiteor], a public acknowledgment, declaration, expression, profession, promise (mostly post-Aug.).

In gen.: professio bonae voluntatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 2:

Canidius timidius decessit, quam professioni ejus congruebat,

Vell. 2, 87, 3: memores professionis, of our promise ( of brevity), id. 2, 89, 6:

aperta,

Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9:

suae opinionis,

expression, Gell. 7, 3, 24:

summa stultitiae,

id. 7, 3, 24:

flagitii,

Tac. A. 2, 85:

pietatis,

id. Agr. 3.—

Transf., a sign, token (post-class.):

vitiorum,

Pall. 3, 9.—

In partic., a public declaration or specification of one's person, name, property, business, etc. (class.): IS. APVD. QVEM. EA. PROFESSIO FIET, etc., Tab. Her. in Haubold, Mon. Leg. p. 101 sq.; Liv. 35, 7:

tu vero confice professionem, si potes. Etsi haec pecunia ex eo genere est, ut professione non egeat,

Cic. Fam. 16, 23, 1:

post professionem de fideicommisso factam,

Dig. 49, 14, 2; Tert. Apol. 42; Vulg. Act. 5, 37.—

Transf.

A public register of persons or property thus given in (class.):

in Leontino jugerum subscriptio ac professio non est plus triginta millium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 113.—

A business or profession which one publicly avows (class.):

professio bene dicendi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 21:

grammaticae,

Suet. Gram. 8:

sapientiae,

Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112:

magicae artis,

Curt. 7, 4, 8:

professionem honestarum artium malis corruperant moribus,

id. 8, 5, 7: ista salutaris, the art of healing, medicine, Cels. praef.:

ultimae professionis homines, i. e. vilissimi artificii,

Lampr. Elag. 20; Dig 2, 13, 9.

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declaration, profession/ trade, art, craft, profession.

dēnuntĭātĭo ( - ciatio), ōnis, f. [denuntio], an indication, intimation, announcement, declaration.

With gen. obj. = significatio:

quae est enim ista a deis profecta significatio et quasi denuntiatio calamitatum?

Cic. Div. 2, 25, 54:

belli,

id. Phil. 6, 2, 4; cf. Liv. 21, 19:

armorum,

id. 45, 3 fin.:

testimonii,

threatening to summon as a witness, Cic. Fl. 6, 14; cf. denuntio, no. I.: denuntiatione periculi permovere aliquem, by a menacing, *Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

ingentis terroris,

Liv. 3, 36: accusatorum, i. e. information, an informing, = delatio, Suet. Aug. 66.—With gen. subj.:

Catilinae,

Cic. Sull. 18, 52: boni civis (i. e. professio, promissio), Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

quietis,

warning in a dream, Vell. 2, 70, 1.—

Absol.: huic denuntiationi ille pareat? Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5; Quint. 4, 55 al.

dēnuntĭātĭo ( - ciatio), ōnis, f. [denuntio], an indication, intimation, announcement, declaration.

With gen. obj. = significatio:

quae est enim ista a deis profecta significatio et quasi denuntiatio calamitatum?

Cic. Div. 2, 25, 54:

belli,

id. Phil. 6, 2, 4; cf. Liv. 21, 19:

armorum,

id. 45, 3 fin.:

testimonii,

threatening to summon as a witness, Cic. Fl. 6, 14; cf. denuntio, no. I.: denuntiatione periculi permovere aliquem, by a menacing, *Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

ingentis terroris,

Liv. 3, 36: accusatorum, i. e. information, an informing, = delatio, Suet. Aug. 66.—With gen. subj.:

Catilinae,

Cic. Sull. 18, 52: boni civis (i. e. professio, promissio), Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

quietis,

warning in a dream, Vell. 2, 70, 1.—

Absol.: huic denuntiationi ille pareat? Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5; Quint. 4, 55 al.

histŏrĭcē, adv., v. historicus fin.

histŏrĭcē, ēs, f., = historikê, explanation, interpretation of an author: finitae quidem sunt partes duae, quas haec professio pollicetur, id est ratio loquendi et enarratio auctorum:

quarum illam methodicen, hanc historicen vocant,

Quint. 1, 9, 1.

rĕcessus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. recedo.

rĕcessus, ūs, m. [recedo], a going back, receding, retiring, retreat, departure; opp. accessus (class.; cf.

receptus): accessus ad res salutares, a pestiferis recessus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 34:

ut luna accessu et recessu suo lumen accipiat,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 178.— Of the ebb of the tide:

quid de fretis aut de marinis aestibus plura dicam? quorum accessus et recessus lunae motu gubernantur,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; so Col. 8, 17, 9: recessum primis ultimi non dabant, i. e. means of retreat, * Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

gemmae,

its removal from the eye, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 88: cum processui et recessui cani juberet, i. e. in going home, Treb. Gall. 17, 3; Amm. 20, 11, 8.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), a distant, retired, or secret spot, a nook, corner, retreat, recess (acc. to recedo, I. B. 2.;

syn.: secessus, secretum): mihi solitudo et recessus provincia est,

Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2; cf.:

nos terrarum ac libertatis extremos recessus ipse ac sinus famae in hunc diem defendit,

our remote position itself and our distant renown, Tac. Agr. 30:

nec, sicut aestivas aves, statim auctumno tecta ac recessum circumspicere,

Liv. 5, 6, 2:

cum vox quasi in recessu oris auditur,

Quint. 1, 5, 32:

hic spelunca fuit, vasto submota recessu,

in a deep recess, Verg. A. 8, 193; cf. Ov. M. 3, 157; 10, 691; 11, 592:

ubi marmoreo Superi sedere recessu,

in the marble hall, id. ib. 1, 177:

oculi in recessu cavo,

Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121.—In plur., Verg. A. 11, 527; Liv. 38, 45 (along with anguli); Vell. 2, 32, 4; Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5; Quint. 11, 2, 18; Ov. M. 7, 670; 13, 902; id. F. 1, 555; Curt. 7, 2, 22.—

Trop.:

tum accessus a te ad causam facti, tum recessus,

advances and retreats, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 7:

habeat illa in dicendo admiratio ac summa laus umbram aliquam et recessum, quo magis id, quod erit illuminatum, extare atque eminere videatur,

somewhat of shade and background, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101; cf.:

haec professio plus habet in recessu quam fronte promittit,

Quint. 1, 4, 2.—In plur.:

vita hominum altos recessus magnasque latebras habet,

Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 6:

in animis hominum tantae latebrae sunt et tanti recessus,

Cic. Marc. 7, 22:

strenua ingenia, quo plus recessus sumunt,

leisure, Val. Max. 3, 6, 1.

subscriptĭo, ōnis, f. [subscribo].

Any thing written underneath, a subscription (class.).

In gen.:

Serapionis subscriptio,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 17.—

In partic.

Jurid. t. t., a subscription to an accusation:

si cui crimen obiciatur, praecedere debet in crimen subscriptio, quae res ad id inventa est, ne facile quis prosiliat ad accusationem, cum sciat inultam sibi non futuram,

Dig. 48, 2, 7:

componere,

Sen. Ben. 3, 26, 2:

consecratur subscriptio,

id. Cons. ad Marc. 22, 5:

edere,

id. Lud. Mort. Claud. 14, 1; id. Apoc. 14, 1; Gell. 2, 4, 1:

tanti sceleris,

Quint. Decl. 15, 6.—Also of a joint subscription, by one who seconds the accusation (cf. subscribo, I. B. 1.):

subscriptionem sibi postularunt,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49.—

Publicists' t. t., of the censor, a noting down, note of the offence censured:

subscriptio censoria,

Cic. Clu. 44, 123:

censoriae,

id. ib. 44, 123; cf. id. ib. 42, 118.—

A signature of a document (consisting of the subscription of one's name or the appending of a formula of greeting;

v. subscribo, I. B. 3.): si testator specialiter subscriptione suā declaraverit, dictasse, etc.,

Dig. 48, 10, 15:

quodcumque imperator per epistolam et subscriptionem statuit, legem esse constat,

ib. 1, 4, 1:

cum Rhodiorum magistratus, quod litteras publicas sine subscriptione ad se dederant, evocasset, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 32 Wolf (cf. Dio, 57, 11).—

Hence, a warrant of the emperor (late Lat.), Amm. 15, 7, 9.—

A list, register:

jugerum subscriptio ac professio,

Cic. Verr 2, 3, 47, § 113.