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sēdĭtĭo , ōnis, f. sed, i. e. sine (v. h. v.), and itio; thus, orig., a going aside, going apart; hence,
I. Lit., an insurrectionary separation (political or military); dissension, civil discord, insurrection, mutiny, sedition (very freq. and class.; “syn.: secessio, defectus): ea dissensio civium, quod seorsum eunt alii ad alios, seditio dicitur,” Cic. Rep. 6, 1, 3 (ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 149, and Non. 25, 6): “duobus tribunis plebis per seditionem creatis,” id. ib. 2, 34, 59; cf. Liv. 2, 31 fin. sq.: “si qui in seditione non alterius utrius partis fuisset,” Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2; cf. Gell. 2, 12, 1: “ne qua seditio oriretur,” Caes. B. G. 7, 28 fin.; Sall. C. 34, 2: “seditione factā,” Caes. B. C. 1, 87, 3: “seditionem inter Poenos et Siculos milites esse factam,” Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; cf.: “seditio inter belli pacisque auctores orta,” Liv. 2, 16: “seditionem ac discordiam concitare,” Cic. Mur. 39, 83: “commovere,” id. Att. 2, 1, 8: “movere,” Vell. 2, 68, 2: “coeptare,” Tac. A. 1, 38; 1, 45; 2, 81 et saep.: “componere,” id. H. 4, 14: “magno in populo cum saepe coörta est Seditio, etc.,” Verg. A. 1, 149; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 15: “seditione potens,” Verg. A. 11, 340.—Plur.: “cum hominem seditiosum defenderet, non dubitavit seditiones ipsas ornare,” Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124; 2, 48, 199; Sall. J. 37, 1; Liv. 4, 2; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 16, 2; Hor. C. 3, 3, 29; 3, 6, 13; Tac. A. 4, 68 et saep.—Seditio, personified as one of the attendants of Fama, Ov. M. 12, 61.—
II. Transf., in gen., dissension, discord, strife, quarrel (very rare; mostly poet.; in Cic. only as a transl. of the Greek στάσις): “Amphitruo uxori turbas conciet ...tum meus pater Eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet,” Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16: “ut homini adulescentulo Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias,” Ter. And. 5, 1, 11 Ruhnk.: “cui studeat, deus omnis habet, crescitque favore Turbida seditio, donec Juppiter, etc.,” Ov. M. 9, 426; so, “domestica (opp. fraterna concordia),” Liv. 45, 19: “pantomimorum,” Suet. Ner. 26: “non illaudata (with magno certatur amore),” Claud. in Rufin. 2, 226.—
B. Of inanimate and abstract things: “seditio maris,” uproar, turbulence, Stat. Th. 9, 142: “pelagi,” Manil. 2, 90: “siderum,” id. 2, 196: “flammasque rebelles Seditione tori (Eteoclis et Polynicis),” Stat. Th. 1, 36: “intestina corporis,” Liv. 2, 32, 12.—Comically: “seditionem facit lien, occupat praecordia,” rebels, and takes possession of my stomach, Plaut. Merc. 1, 14: “Archytas iracundiam, videlicet dissidentem a ratione, seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat, et eam consilio sedari volebat,” Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60.
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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