seditiosus

sēdĭtĭōsus, a, um, adj. [seditio].

I.

Full of civil discord, factious, turbulent, mutinous, seditious (freq. and class.;

syn.: tumnltuosus, turbulentus): adhortari adulescentes, ut turbulenti, ut seditiosi, ut perniciosi cives velint esse,

Cic. Phil. 1, 9, 22; so,

seditiosus et turbulentus civis,

id. de Or. 2, 11, 48; cf. id. ib. 2, 31, 135:

qui pro republicā seditiosum civem toties compescuisset,

Quint. 11, 1, 40:

seditiosi tribuni plebis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 19, 44; cf.:

triumviri seditiosissimi,

id. Rep. 1, 19, 31:

seditiosissimus quisque,

Tac. A. 1, 44; id. H. 2, 66; 4, 34; Suet. Caes. 70.—Esp. of language:

in summam invidiain contionibus cum cottidianis seditiosis et turbulentis adduxerat,

Cic. Clu. 37, 103:

seditiosa atque improba oratio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 17:

seditiosissima oratio, Auct. B. Afr. 28, 2: seditiosae voces,

Liv. 6, 20; Tac. H. 3, 50:

seditiosis vocibus regem increpare,

Curt. 9, 4, 16; 10, 2, 12:

seditiosior contio (Q. Pompeii),

Ascon. Cic. Mil. 17, 45, p. 49 Orell.:

tribunatus L. Saturnini,

Suet. Caes. 12.—

II.

Transf.

a.

In gen., quarrelsome:

ego illam (Clodiam) odi. Ea est enim seditiosa: ea cum viro bellum gerit, etc.,

Cic. Att. 2, 1, 5.—

b.

Exposed to discord, troubled:

seditiosa ac tumultuosa vita,

Cic. Inv. 1, 3, 4.— Adv.: sēdĭtĭōsē, seditiously (acc. to I.), Cic. Clu. 1, 2; id. Mil. 3, 8; Liv. 4, 6; Tac. A. 3, 12.— Comp., Tac. H. 5, 12.— Sup., Cic. Att. 2, 21, 5.