Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, dēmĭnūtĭo

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I. Lit.: “accretio et deminutio luminis,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 28: “civium,” id. Cat. 3, 10, 24: “vectigalium,” id. Agr. 1, 7, 21: “de bonis privatorum,” id. Off. 2, 21, 73; cf.: tanta de imperio, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4: “multari imperatorem deminutione provinciae,” i. e. by shortening his term of command, Cic. Prov. Cons. 15 fin.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen.: “alicujus libertatis,” Cic. Agr. 2, 7: muliebre fastigium in deminutionem sui accipiens (sui, i. e. his own dignity), Tac. A. 1, 14: mentis, a being out of one's senses (shortly before, alienata mens), Suet. Aug. 99 fin.: “honor aut deminutio,” i. e. dishonor, Plin. 34, 13, 38, § 137.—

B. Esp. (legal t. t.), the right of alienation of one's estate: “uti Feceniae Hispalae datio deminutio esset,” Liv. 39, 19, 5 (Weissenb. ad loc.).—

C. Public. t. t.: capitis deminutio, the loss or forfeiture of civil rights, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 9; Gai. Inst. 1, 160 sq.; Dig. 28, 3, 6, § 6; 25, 3, 7, § 1; Ulp. Reg. 10, 3; cf. Dig. 38, 17, 1: Poste Gai. p. 108; Sandars, Just. Inst. Introd. 40 sq.; v. Caput, III. 1. b. —

D. In grammat. lang., a diminutive form, Quint. 1, 6, 6; cf. ib. 4; Charis. p. 73 P.; 128 P. et saep.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
- Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 4.5.4
- Cicero, Against Catiline, 3.10.24
- Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 1.7.21
- Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.7
- Cicero, On the Consular Provinces, 15
- Caesar, Civil War, 2.32.9
- Tacitus, Annales, 1.14
- Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 99
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 19
- Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.28
- Cicero, De Officiis, 2.21
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.6
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.4

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