remissio

rĕmissĭo, ōnis, f. [id.] (acc. to remitto, I. A. and B.), a sending back or away, releasing

I.

Lit. (rare).

1.

A sending back, returning; of persons:

obsidum captivorumque,

Liv. 27, 17, 1.—Of things, a throwing back, reflecting:

splendoris,

Vitr. 7, 3, 9.—

2.

A letting down, lowering:

ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—

II.

Trop.

A.

A slackening, relaxing, abating, diminishing, remitting; remission, relaxation, abatement (syn. relaxatio):

animus intentione suā depellit pressum omnem ponderum, remissione autem sic urgetur, ut se nequeat extollere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54:

contentiones vocis et remissiones,

id. de Or. 1, 61, 261; cf. id. Brut. 91, 314; so,

vocis,

Quint. 1, 10, 25: sphugmos est intentio motūs et remissio in corde et in arteria, Gell. 18, 10, 10:

remissio lenitatis quādam gravitate et contentione firmatur,

laxity, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212:

operis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 7; cf.

laboris,

id. ib. 2, 6, 4; Quint. 3, 8, 29:

tales igitur amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae,

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

senescentis morbi remissio,

id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; so,

febris,

Suet. Tib. 73:

doloris,

Scrib. Comp. 99.—

2.

Slackness, laxness, want of spirit:

in acerbissimā injuriā remissio animi ac dissolutio,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.—

3.

Relaxation, recreation:

ad omnem animi remissionem ludumque descendere,

Cic. de Or 2, 6, 22; so,

animorum,

id. Fam. 9, 24, 3; id. Arch. 7, 16.— Absol.:

quem non quies, non remissio, non aequalium studia, non ludi delectarent,

Cic. Cael. 17, 39:

danda est omnibus aliqua remissio,

Quint. 1, 3, 8.— Absol. in plur., Quint. 1, 3, 8, § 11; Gell. 15, 2, 5; Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 1, id. Pan. 49, 4:

tempora curarum remissionumque,

Tac. Agr. 9; id. Or. 28.—

4.

Mildness, gentleness, lenity:

(Adversarius) tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquen dus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72 (cf. remissus, B. 1.): so,

remissione poenae,

by a relaxing, diminishing of punishment, by a milder punishment, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13.—

B.

(Acc. to remitto, I. B. 2. b.) A remitting of a penalty, etc., a remission, Col. 1, 7, 1; Suet. Caes. 20; Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6; 10, 8, 5:

remissio tributi in triennium,

Tac. A. 4, 13:

nuntiationis,

remission, abrogation, Dig. 39, 1, 8, § 4.— Plur.:

post magnas remissiones,

reduction of rent, Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 2.—

C.

In eccl. Lat., remission, forgiveness of sin, etc.:

delicti,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 28: peccatorum, Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 1, 1; Vulg. Matt. 26, 28; id. Act. 2, 38.—

* III.

A repetition:

nova ludorum remissio,

Petr. 60, 5.