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LNS

lātrōcinium, lātrōciniī

(latrōcinium, latrōciniī)

noun (n., 2^nd declension)

Military service
Freebooting, robbery, highway-robbery, piracy
villany, roguery, fraud
a band of robbers
the semblance of freebooting, the game of draughts or chess, which imitates freebooting

Abbreviations

lā^trōcinium, ii, n. id.. * Military service for pay: apud regem in latrocinio fuisti, Plaut. ap. Non. 134, 28.

— Transf. 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.

— 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.

— Abstr. pro concreto, a band of robbers: si ex tanto latrocinio unus tolletur, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.

— 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.