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concordĭa , ae, f. concors,
I.an agreeing together, union, harmony, concord (opp. discordia, Sall. J. 10, 6; Sen. Ep. 94, 46; “opp. bellum,” Lucr. 1, 457; “opp. repugnantia,” Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61; freq. and class. in prose and poetry).
I. Of persons: “redigere aliquem in antiquam concordiam alicujus,” Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 13; cf.: “redire in concordiam,” id. ib. 3, 3, 7: “conjunctio atque concordia,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23: conspiratio atque concordia omnium ordinum ad defendendam libertatem, Lentulus ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 3: “equites concordiā conjunctissimi,” Cic. Clu. 55, 152: “de equestri concordiā, de consensione Italiae,” id. Att. 1, 14, 4; Liv. 4, 43, 11: “quorum perpetuam vitae concordiam mors quoque miscuit,” id. 40, 8, 15: “de reconciliandā concordiā agere,” id. 41, 25, 2: “concordiam confirmare cum aliquo,” Cic. Phil. 13, 1, 2: “ut (dissensiones) non reconciliatione concordiae, sed internicione civium dijudicatae sint,” id. Cat. 3, 10, 25: “agi deinde de concordiā coeptum,” Liv. 2, 33, 1: aliquos in pristinam concordiam reducere, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 1: “ad concordiam hortare,” Quint. 6, 1, 50; cf.: “concordiam suadere,” Suet. Oth. 8: “ordinum concordiam disjunxit,” Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3: “si Caesar ejus aspernaretur concordiam,” his friendship, alliance, Vell. 2, 65, 1: “Temporis angusti mansit concordia discors,” i. e. feigned friendship, Luc. 1, 98; cf. II. infra.—
B. Poet., meton. (abstr. pro concr.), an intimate friend: “et cum Pirithoo, felix concordia, Theseus,” Ov. M. 8, 303.—
II. Of inanim. and abstr. things: “vocum,” Col. 12, 2, 4 (acc. to Cic. Oecon.); cf.: “concordia sociata nervorum,” Quint. 5, 10, 124: “concordia quam magnes cum ferro habet,” Plin. 34, 14, 42, § 147: illa dissimilium concordia, quam vocant ἁρμονίαν, Quint. 1, 10, 12; cf. thus discors (rerum), νεῖκος καὶ φιλία, Ov. M. 1, 433; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 19: “poëtae discordiā concordiā mundum constare dixerunt,” Lact. 2, 9, 17: “rerum agendarum ordo et, ut ita dicam, concordia,” Cic. Fin. 3, 6, 21: “quia (temperantia) pacem animis adferat et eos quasi concordiā quādam placet ac leniat,” by a certain equanimity, id. ib. 1, 14, 47: “Sirenum,” the harmonious singing, Petr. 127 al.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 12.15.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.14.4
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 8.15
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 3.10.25
    • Cicero, Philippics, 13.1.2
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.23
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 55.152
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.303
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.433
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.2
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 10
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.457
    • Suetonius, Otho, 8
    • Lucan, Civil War, 1.98
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 43.11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 8.15
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 25.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 33.1
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.6
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.12
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 10.124
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 1.50
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 94.46
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