I.a coming up, appearance, coming between, intervention.
I. Lit.
A. Of persons: “interventus alicujus,” Cic. Part. 8, 30: “Caleni et Calvenae,” id. Att. 16, 11, 1: “Pomptini,” id. Cat. 3, 3, 6: “hominum,” Liv. 26, 19: “Alexandri,” Just. 11, 1, 7. —
B. Of inanim. and abstr. things, a coming between, intervention, occurrence: “id proelium diremit nox interventu suo,” Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 99: “amnis alicujus interventu arceri,” Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52: “solem interventu lunae occultari,” id. 2, 10, 7, § 47: “noctis,” Caes. B. G. 3, 15: “malorum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 40: “interventu feriarum impediri,” Dig. 4, 6, 26, § 7.—
II. Transf., interposition, mediation, assistance: principis, Trajan. ad Plin. Ep. 10, 68: “judicis,” Dig. 33, 1, 7: “sponsorum,” i. e. bail, Suet. Caes. 18. —Esp., in a suit at law, the substitution of a new plaintiff or defendant, Gai. Inst. 3, 176.