latrocinium

latrocinium
lā̆trōcĭnĭum, ĭi, n. [id.].
* I.
Military service for pay: apud regem in latrocinio fuisti, Plaut. ap. Non. 134, 28.—
II.
Transf.
A.
Freebooting, robbery, highway-robbery, piracy (class.):

cum illum ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium conjecimus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

fines suos ab latrociniis tueri,

id. Deiot. 8, 22:

pugna latrocinio magis, quam proelio similis,

a contest with robbers, Sall. J. 97:

latrociniis magis quam justo bello gerebantur res,

Liv. 29, 6:

latrocinium potius quam bellum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

latrociniis ac praedationibus infestatum mare,

piracies, Vell. 2, 73, 3; Just. 43, 3:

latrocinia nullam habent infamiam (apud Germanos),

Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6:

qui in furto aut in latrocinio aut aliqua noxa comprehensi,

in robbery, id. ib. 6, 16 fin.
B.
In gen., villany, roguery, fraud:

furtim et per latrocinia potius, quam bonis artibus, ad imperia et honores nituntur,

Sall. J. 4, 7; cf. Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 61.—
2.
Abstr. pro concreto, a band of robbers:

si ex tanto latrocinio unus tolletur,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
C.
Latrocinii imago, the semblance of freebooting, i. e. the game of draughts or chess, which imitates freebooting:

sive latrocinii sub imagine calculus ibit,

Ov. A. A. 2, 207.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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