solacium

sōlācĭum ( sōlāt- ), ii, n. [solor], a soothing, assuaging; a comfort, relief, consolation, solace (class.; used equally in sing. and plur.):

et vigilantibus hinc aderant solacia somni,

Lucr. 5, 1405:

permulcent animos solacia vitae,

id. 5, 21; 6, 4:

haec sunt solacia, haec fomenta summorum dolorum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 59:

oblectamenta et solacia servitutis,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134:

perfugium ac solacium praebere,

id. Arch. 7, 16:

praebere solacia,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 117:

id solacio est,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 13; Caes. B. C. 1, 22 fin.:

vacare culpā magnum est solacium,

Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 4:

me ipse consolor et maxime illo solacio, quod, etc.,

id. Lael. 3, 10:

frui solacio,

id. Prov. Cons. 7, 16 (corresp. to consolari): uti solacio, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 26:

nosque malo solacio, sed non nullo tamen, consolamur,

Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 1:

alicui solacia dare,

id. Brut. 3, 11:

magnum afferret mihi aetas ipsa solacium,

id. Lael. 27, 104:

surdae adhibere menti,

Ov. M. 9, 654:

dicere,

id. ib. 10, 132; 11, 329; id. P. 4, 11, 17:

hoc sibi solacii proponebant, quod, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

cujus luctus nullo solacio levari potest,

Cic. Phil. 9, 5, 12:

solacia luctus Exigua ingentis,

Verg. A. 11, 62:

egregium solacium suae morti invenire,

Liv. 25, 16, 20:

afficere aliquem solacio,

Tac. A. 3, 24:

adulescentulos sacerdotiis in solacium recolere,

id. H. 1, 77:

cineri atque ossibus alicujus solacium reportare,

i.e. an atonement, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 120; cf.:

tumulo solacia posco,

Ov. M. 7, 483:

vos et liberos Germanici et nos parentes justis solaciis afficite,

Tac. A. 3, 12; Phaedr. 1, 9, 8; Luc. 2, 91; 8, 469; Stat. Th. 1, 596; Just. 1, 8, 9:

solacium annonae,

Cic. Agr. 2, 29, 80; Val. Max. 4, 8, 2 ext.; Spart. Hadr. 9 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 39.— Poet.: aves, solacia ruris, consolers (because they cheer the laborers with their singing), Ov. F. 1, 441; cf.:

(musae) solacia frigida,

id. P. 4, 2, 45:

dicta, duri solacia casus,

Verg. A. 6, 377. —

II.

In jurid. Lat., a compensation, indemnification:

solacium pro aliquā re alicui praestare,

Dig. 8, 4, 13:

solacium certum ei constitutum est,

ib. 26, 7, 33 fin.