sacramentum
Short definition (Lewis Elementary): a sum deposited by a party in a civil process, as security for a future judgment, forfeit money, guaranty; you may assert under forfeit; lay a wager. ; A wager of law, civil process in which the loser forfeits a deposit, law-suit; on equal terms. ; An oath; The voluntary oath of recruits,…
Full entry: Lexicon.
26 occurrences of this form in 11 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Histories
- The Golden Ass
- Annals
- Civil War
- Odes
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- On the Happy Life
- Life of Claudius
- Life of Nero
- Agricola
- Germania
Example passages
……segni adulatione vocibus, sed ut quemque adfluentium militum aspexerant, prensare manibus, complecti armis, conlocare iuxta, praeire sacramentum, modo imperatorem militibus, modo milites imperatori commendare. nec deerat Otho protendens manus adorare vulgum, iacere oscula et omnia serviliter pro dominatione. postquam universa classicorum……
……nihil impunitum nocentibus permittit, priusquam iste clandestinis itineribus elaberetur, mane praestolatus ad gravissimum iudicii vestri sacramentum eum curavi perducere. Habetis itaque reum tot caedibus impiatum, reum coram deprensum, reum peregrinum: constanter itaque in hominem alienum ferte sententias de eo crimine, quodetiam in vestrum……
……legum latarum tituli, victarum ab eo gentium vocabula anteferrentur L. Arruntius censuere. addebat Messala Valerius renovandum per annos sacramentum in nomen Tiberii; interrogatusque a Tiberio num se mandante eam sententiam prompsisset, sponte dixisse respondit, neque in iis quae ad rem publicam pertinerent consilio nisi suo usurum vel cum……