I.a cessation of hostilities, a truce, armistice (class.).
I. Lit.: indutiae sunt belli feriae, Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 25, 2; cf. “the context: cum triginta dierum essent cum hoste pactae indutiae,” Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: “biennii,” Liv. 10, 5, 12: “indutias facere,” Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 20: “inire aequis condicionibus,” Plin. Pan. 11, 5: “petere,” Nep. Ages. 2: “conservare,” id. ib.: “tollere,” to put an end to, Liv. 30, 4, 8: “agitare,” Sall. J. 31, 4: “per indutias,” during the truce, Liv. 30, 37, 6.—
II. Transf., a cessation, pause (ante- and post-class.): “immo indutiae parumper fiant, si quid vis loqui,” Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 233: delay in paying a tax, Cassiod. Var. 5, 34: “noctis indutiae,” the stillness of night, App. M. 2, p. 126 init. —Of a truce in a lovers' quarrel: “injuriae, suspiciones, inimicitiae, indutiae, Bellum, pax rursum,” Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 15.