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immūnĭtas (inm- ), ātis (
I.gen. plur. immunitatium, Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 35), f. immunis, freedom or exemption from public services, burdens, or charges, immunity (class.).
I. Lit.: (Druides) militiae vacationem omniumque rerum habent immunitatem, * Caes. B. G. 6, 14, 1: “immunitas et libertas provinciae,” Cic. Font. 8, 17: “immunitatem (a tributis) obtulit,” Suet. Aug. 40; Tac. A. 12, 61; 13, 51; Curt. 5, 3, 15: personae quibus decimae immunitatem ipse (imperator) tribuit, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 16, 9, 3 et saep.—In plur., Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1; id. Phil. 1, 1, 3; Suet. Tib. 49; id. Galb. 15; Tac. H. 3, 55.—
II. Trop., freedom, exemption, or immunity from any thing (cf.: “vacatio, vacuitas): qui det isti deo immunitatem magni muneris,” Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121: “immunitates malorum,” Lampr. Commod. 14.
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 (11):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 6.14.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 12.1
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.14.35
    • Cicero, For Marcus Fonteius, 8.17
    • Cicero, Philippics, 1.1.3
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 40
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.61
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.55
    • Suetonius, Galba, 15
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 49
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 5.3.15
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