cognitio

cognĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [cognosco].

I.

In gen., a becoming acquainted with, learning to know, acquiring knowledge, knowledge as a consequence of perception or of the exercise of our mental powers, knowing, acquaintance, cognition (in good prose; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.).

A.

Abstr.:

cognitio contemplatioque naturae,

Cic. Off. 1, 43, 153:

rerum occultarum,

id. ib. 1, 4, 13:

rerum,

id. Fin. 3, 5, 17:

animi,

id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71:

deorum,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 140:

urbis,

id. Imp. Pomp. 14, 40:

in studiis sententiae cognitionisque versabitur,

id. Off. 1, 6, 19; cf. id. ib. 1, 44, 158; id. Fin. 5, 12, 34:

illi, quorum studia vitaque omnis in rerum cognitione versata est,

id. Off. 1, 44, 155; cf. id. ib. §

157: quorum ego copiam magnitudinem cognitionis atque artis non contemno,

culture, id. de Or. 1, 51, 219; Quint. 1, 10, 10; 12, 11, 17 al.:

omnia, quae cognitione digna sunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 43, 153; 2, 2, 5:

cognitione atque hospitio dignus,

id. Arch. 3, 5; id. Fin. 3, 11, 37; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 90:

cognitio et aestimatio rerum,

id. 2, 18, 1; 4, 2, 40.—

B.

Concr.

1.

( = notio, katalêpsis.) A conception, notion, idea:

intellegi necesse est esse deos, quoniam insitas eorum vel potius innatas cognitiones habemus,

Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 44; 1, 14, 36; id. Fin. 2, 5, 16 Madv.; 3, 5, 17.—

2.

Knowledge, a branch of learning (late Lat.):

studiosus cognitionum omnium princeps,

Amm. 21, 1, 7: 25, 4, 7.—

II.

Specif., a legal t. t., a judicial examination, inquiry, cognizance, trial (very freq.):

ne quod judicium, neve ipsius cognitio illo absente de existimatione ejus constitueretur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, § 60:

lex earum rerum consulibus cognitionem dedit,

id. Att. 16, 16, C, 11; cf. id. ib. §

12: captorum agrorum,

id. Agr. 2, 22, 60; so,

principum et senatūs,

Quint. 3, 10, 1; 7, 2, 20:

patrum,

Tac. A. 1, 75:

magistratuum,

Suet. Claud. 12:

praetoria,

Quint. 3, 6, 70:

rerum capitalium,

Liv. 1, 49, 4:

falsi testamenti,

Suet. Claud. 9:

caedis,

id. Rhet. 6:

vacantium militiae munere,

Liv. 4, 26, 12:

de Christianis,

Plin. Ep. 10, 97:

de famosis libellis,

Tac. A. 1, 72:

de ejusmodi criminibus ac reis,

Suet. Tib. 28:

de Votieno Montano,

Tac. A. 4, 42:

inter patrem et filium,

Liv. 1, 50, 9:

dies cognitionis,

the day of trial, Cic. Brut. 32, 87.—

III.

In Terence twice for agnitio, recognition, discovery (cf. cognosco), Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 33; id. Eun. 5, 3, 12.