ius
Short definition (Lewis Elementary): that which is binding, right, justice, duty; maintain; lay down the law; sits as judge; common right; equal rights; universal law; the law of nations; civil law; on the same principle as; adverb., by right, rightfully, with justice, justly; with the utmost rigor; A place where justice is…
Full entry: Lexicon.
408 occurrences of this form in 36 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Annals
- Letters
- De Officiis
- De Oratore
- Letters to Atticus
- Letters to Friends
- Letters to Lucilius
- Histories
- Philippics
- Satires
- De Re Publica
- Life of Claudius
- Gallic War
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Epigrams
- Metamorphoses
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Life of Augustus
- The Jugurthine War
- Satires
- Life of Tiberius
- The Golden Ass
- On the Happy Life
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- Ars Poetica
- Civil War
- Life of Caligula
- Life of Nero
- Life of Vespasian
- Germania
- Aeneid
- Epistles
- Ars Amatoria
- On the Shortness of Life
- Life of Domitian
Example passages
……esse Troianos, duobus, Aeneae Antenorique, et uetusti iure hospitii et quia pacis reddendaeque Helenae semper auctores fuerant, omne ius belli Achiuos abstinuisse;…
……L. Brutus instituit. dictaturae ad tempus sumebantur; neque decemviralis potestas ultra biennium, neque tribunorum militum consulare ius diu valuit. non Cinnae, non Sullae longa dominatio; et Pompei Crassique potentia cito in Caesarem, Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere, qui cuncta discordiis civilibus fessa nomine……
…Heus tu! Promittis ad cenam, nec venis? Dicitur ius: ad assem impendium reddes, nec id modicum.…