seditio

sēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [sed, i. e. sine (v. h. v.), and itio; thus, orig., a going aside, going apart; hence],

I.

Lit., an insurrectionary separation (political or military); dissension, civil discord, insurrection, mutiny, sedition (very freq. and class.;

syn.: secessio, defectus): ea dissensio civium, quod seorsum eunt alii ad alios, seditio dicitur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 1, 3 (ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 149, and Non. 25, 6):

duobus tribunis plebis per seditionem creatis,

id. ib. 2, 34, 59; cf. Liv. 2, 31 fin. sq.:

si qui in seditione non alterius utrius partis fuisset,

Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2; cf. Gell. 2, 12, 1:

ne qua seditio oriretur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28 fin.; Sall. C. 34, 2:

seditione factā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 87, 3:

seditionem inter Poenos et Siculos milites esse factam,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; cf.:

seditio inter belli pacisque auctores orta,

Liv. 2, 16:

seditionem ac discordiam concitare,

Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

commovere,

id. Att. 2, 1, 8:

movere,

Vell. 2, 68, 2:

coeptare,

Tac. A. 1, 38; 1, 45; 2, 81 et saep.:

componere,

id. H. 4, 14:

magno in populo cum saepe coörta est Seditio, etc.,

Verg. A. 1, 149; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 15:

seditione potens,

Verg. A. 11, 340.— Plur.:

cum hominem seditiosum defenderet, non dubitavit seditiones ipsas ornare,

Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124; 2, 48, 199; Sall. J. 37, 1; Liv. 4, 2; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 16, 2; Hor. C. 3, 3, 29; 3, 6, 13; Tac. A. 4, 68 et saep.—Seditio, personified as one of the attendants of Fama, Ov. M. 12, 61.—

II.

Transf., in gen., dissension, discord, strife, quarrel (very rare; mostly poet.; in Cic. only as a transl. of the Greek stasis):

Amphitruo uxori turbas conciet...tum meus pater Eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16:

ut homini adulescentulo Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias,

Ter. And. 5, 1, 11 Ruhnk.:

cui studeat, deus omnis habet, crescitque favore Turbida seditio, donec Juppiter, etc.,

Ov. M. 9, 426; so,

domestica (opp. fraterna concordia),

Liv. 45, 19:

pantomimorum,

Suet. Ner. 26:

non illaudata (with magno certatur amore),

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 226.—

B.

Of inanimate and abstract things:

seditio maris,

uproar, turbulence, Stat. Th. 9, 142:

pelagi,

Manil. 2, 90:

siderum,

id. 2, 196:

flammasque rebelles Seditione tori (Eteoclis et Polynicis),

Stat. Th. 1, 36:

intestina corporis,

Liv. 2, 32, 12.—Comically:

seditionem facit lien, occupat praecordia,

rebels, and takes possession of my stomach, Plaut. Merc. 1, 14:

Archytas iracundiam, videlicet dissidentem a ratione, seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat, et eam consilio sedari volebat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60.