I. A coming or meeting together, a meeting: “prima coitio est acerrima,” Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 32.—
II. Esp.
A. A uniting, banding together.
1. In gen. (rare): “societatis,” Dig. 17, 2, 70.—
2. In partic., in a bad sense, a conspiracy, plot, coalition (several times in Cic. and Liv.; “elsewh. rare): suspitio coitionis,” Cic. Planc. 22, 53; id. Clu. 54, 148: “non factionibus modo nec per coitiones usitatas nobilibus, etc.,” Liv. 7, 32, 12; cf. id. 2, 35, 4; 3, 35, 9: “candidatorum consularium,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 16: “Memmii,” id. ib. 2, 14 (15), 4: “tribunorum,” Liv. 3, 65, 8: “facere,” Cic. Planc. 22, 53; Liv. 9, 26, 9: “dirimere,” Cic. Att. 4, 18, 3.—
B. Sexual intercourse, coition (post-class. for coitus), Macr. S. 7, 16; Cod. Th. 15, 8, 2; Sol. 49 fin.; Lact. 1, 8, 6.
