I.a communion, mutual participation (several times in Cicero, elsewhere rare).
I. In gen.: “inter quos est communio legis, inter eos communio juris est,” Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 23: “sanguinis,” id. Rosc. Am. 22, 63: “litterarum et vocum,” id. Tusc. 5, 2, 5: sermonis, * Suet. Aug. 74: “parietum,” Tac. A. 15, 43: “victoriae,” id. ib. 12, 19: “temporum alicujus,” Cic. Mil. 36, 100: “beneficiorum, praemiorum civitatis,” id. Balb. 12, 29: “visorum,” id. Ac. 2, 14, 44: “plures partes communione complecti,” id. de Or. 1, 42, 189: “in pristinā communione manere,” id. ib. 3, 19, 72: “sagariam communionem inire,” Dig. 17, 2, 52.—
II. In eccl. Lat.
A. Church communion, Sulp. Sev. Hist. Sacr. 2, 45; 2, 37; Aug. in Ps. 57, n. 15.—Hence,
B. The sacrament of the Lord's supper, communion: “sancti altaris,” Aug. Ep. 54, 6.
