I.mistrust, distrust, suspicion.
I. Lit.: improborum facta primo suspitio insequitur, deinde sermo atque fama, tum accusator, tum judex, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50: “suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,” Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42: “tanta nunc suspitio de me incidit,” Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 7: redeunti ex ipsā re mi incidit suspitio; “hem, etc.,” id. And. 2, 2, 22: “in quā re nulla subest suspitio,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 10, 28: “erat porro nemo, in quem ea suspitio conveniret,” id. ib. 23, 65: “in quem ne si insidiis quidem interfectus esset, ulla caderet suspitio,” id. Att. 13, 10, 3: “suspitionem populi sensit moveri,” id. Rep. 2, 31, 54; cf. id. Fam. 2, 16, 2: “in suspitionem alicui venire,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 15; id. Fl. 33, 81; cf. Suet. Tib. 12: “in suspitionem cadere,” Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24: “augetur Gallis suspicio,” Caes. B. G. 7, 45: “suspitionem levare atque ab se removere,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 59, § 136: “aliquem suspitione exsolvere,” Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 26: “omnem offensionem suspitionis de aliquo deponere,” Cic. Fam. 13, 24, 2: suspitionem falsam saeviter ferre, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5 (Trag. v. 349 Vahl.): “maligna insontem deprimit suspicio,” Phaedr. 3, 10, 36: “suspicione si quis errabit suā,” id. 3, prol. 45: audimus eum venisse in suspitionem Torquato de morte Pansae, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 6, 2.—Plur.: “in amore haec omnia insunt vitia: injuriae, Suspitiones, inimicitiae,” Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 15: “multae causae suspitionum offensionumque dantur,” Cic. Lael. 24, 88: “cum ad has suspiciones certissimae res accederent,” Caes. B. G. 1, 19: “si minus honestas suspitiones injectas diluemus,” Cic. Inv. 1, 16, 22.—
(β).
With gen. obj.: “ne in suspitione ponatur stupri,” Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 27 (Ussing, suspicione): “in aliquem suspitionem amoris transferre,” Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 52: “alicui suspitionem ficte reconciliatae gratiae dare,” Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4: “in suspitionem avaritiae venire,” id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 14: “in suspitionem conjurationis vocari,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 4, § 10: “qui in suspitionem incidit regni appetendi,” id. Mil. 27, 72: “belli subita suspitio,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 15: “expellere aliquem suspitione cognationis,” id. Rep. 2, 31, 54: “belli suspicione interpositā,” Caes. B. G. 4, 32: “dare timoris aliquam suspicionem,” id. ib. 7, 54: “habebit enim suspicionem adulterii,” Nep. Epam. 5, 5: “ea res minime firmam suspitionem veneni habet,” excites, Cic. Clu. 62, 174.—
(γ).
With subject-clause: “suspitio est mihi, nunc vos suspicarier, etc.,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 149: “jam tum erat suspitio, Dolo malo haec fieri omnia,” Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 8: “addit fuisse suspitionem, veneno sibi conscivisse mortem,” Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf. with quasi: “unde nata suspicio est, quasi desciscere a patre temptasset,” Suet. Tit. 5.—
II. Transf., in gen.
1. A notion, idea, suggestion (very rare; cf.: “opinio, conjectura): deorum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 62: suspitione attingere intellegentiam aut maris aut terrae, id ib. 3, 25, 64: “suspitionem nullam habebam te rei publicae causā mare transiturum,” id. Att. 8, 11, D, 1.—
2. Objectively, an appearance, indication: “ne quam suspicionem infirmitatis daret,” Suet. Tib. 72: “nullā suspicione vulneris laesus,” Petr. 94 fin.: “mulsa quae suspicionem tantum possit habere dulcedinis,” Pall. Jan. 15, 8.
