treason
treason
subs.
Treachery: P. and V. ἀ̆πιστία, ἡ.
Betrayal: P. and V. προδοσία, ἡ (Eur. Hel. 1633).
Plot: P. ἐπιβουλή, ἡ.
Plot to upset the gevernment: P. νεωτερισμός, ὁ.
subs.
Treachery: P. and V. ἀ̆πιστία, ἡ.
Betrayal: P. and V. προδοσία, ἡ (Eur. Hel. 1633).
Plot: P. ἐπιβουλή, ἡ.
Plot to upset the gevernment: P. νεωτερισμός, ὁ.
TREASON
proditio (treachery). High treason perduellio (the crime of one who undertakes anything against the freedom of the citizens and the public safety); crimen majestatis or (in later writers) crimen laesae majestatis (the offence of one who wrongs the dignity and disturbs the tranquillity of the Roman people and the government; as by betraying an army to the enemy by sedition etc; Vid: Tac. Ann. 1 72 2: in later times an offence against the sacred person of the prince; ☞ Johann Gottlieb Heineccius Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma 4 18 46 and the followings. In the time of the republic the Romans especially the orators expressed “high treason” against the state by paricidium patriae or by the more general term scelus; both opposed to pietas; Vid: Cic. Sull. 2 6; Off. 3 21 83; Cat. 2 1 1; 11 25): to commit or be guilty of high treason (agist the Roman people) majestatem populi Romani minuere or laedere: to commit treason against one’s native country patriae paricidio obstringi or se obstringere: to declare anything to be treason against the state indicare aliquid contra rempublicam factum esse.
proditio (treachery). High treason perduellio (the crime of one who undertakes anything against the freedom of the citizens and the public safety); crimen majestatis or (in later writers) crimen laesae majestatis (the offence of one who wrongs the dignity and disturbs the tranquillity of the Roman people and the government; as by betraying an army to the enemy by sedition etc; Vid: Tac. Ann. 1 72 2: in later times an offence against the sacred person of the prince; ☞ Johann Gottlieb Heineccius Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma 4 18 46 and the followings. In the time of the republic the Romans especially the orators expressed “high treason” against the state by paricidium patriae or by the more general term scelus; both opposed to pietas; Vid: Cic. Sull. 2 6; Off. 3 21 83; Cat. 2 1 1; 11 25): to commit or be guilty of high treason (agist the Roman people) majestatem populi Romani minuere or laedere: to commit treason against one’s native country patriae paricidio obstringi or se obstringere: to declare anything to be treason against the state indicare aliquid contra rempublicam factum esse.
treason:
1. expr. by mājestas (the supreme greatness or dignity of the state): to be guilty of the crime of high t. [lit. of impairing the majesty of the state], majestatem minuere, laedere, Cic. Inv. 2, 17: hence, charge or crime of high t., majestatis crimen, i. e. laesae s. minutae [imminutae] majestatis crimen, Cic. Verr. 4, 41, 88: the law concerning t., lex majestatis, Cic. Clu. 35, 97 (lex Julia majestatis, Ulp. Dig. 48, 4, 10): to be brought in guilty of t., majestatis condemnari, ib.: trial for t., laesae majestatis quaestio, Papin. Dig. 48, 4, 8.
2. perduellio (hostile conduct towards the state: such offences being more usually dealt with under the lex majestatis): trial for t., perduellionis judicium, Cic. C. Rab. 3, 10: to accuse of t., actionem perduellionis alicui intendere, id. Mil. 14, 36: to charge with t., perduellionem alicui judicare, Liv. 26, 3. [N.B.--Perduellio denotes the nature of the illegal act more explicitly than majestas, which might indicate a lighter shade of guilt: cf. Ulp. Dig. 48, 4, 11, from which it appears that perduellio was always a capital charge, majestas not necessarily so.]
3. prōdĭtio (act of betrayal): v.TREACHERY .
4. rhetor. expr.: patriae parrĭcīdium: Cic. Ph. 2, 7, 17. Phr.: to be guilty of t., contra rempublicam facere, Sall. Cat. 50.
1. expr. by mājestas (the supreme greatness or dignity of the state): to be guilty of the crime of high t. [lit. of impairing the majesty of the state], majestatem minuere, laedere, Cic. Inv. 2, 17: hence, charge or crime of high t., majestatis crimen, i. e. laesae s. minutae [imminutae] majestatis crimen, Cic. Verr. 4, 41, 88: the law concerning t., lex majestatis, Cic. Clu. 35, 97 (lex Julia majestatis, Ulp. Dig. 48, 4, 10): to be brought in guilty of t., majestatis condemnari, ib.: trial for t., laesae majestatis quaestio, Papin. Dig. 48, 4, 8.
2. perduellio (hostile conduct towards the state: such offences being more usually dealt with under the lex majestatis): trial for t., perduellionis judicium, Cic. C. Rab. 3, 10: to accuse of t., actionem perduellionis alicui intendere, id. Mil. 14, 36: to charge with t., perduellionem alicui judicare, Liv. 26, 3. [N.B.--Perduellio denotes the nature of the illegal act more explicitly than majestas, which might indicate a lighter shade of guilt: cf. Ulp. Dig. 48, 4, 11, from which it appears that perduellio was always a capital charge, majestas not necessarily so.]
3. prōdĭtio (act of betrayal): v.
4. rhetor. expr.: patriae parrĭcīdium: Cic. Ph. 2, 7, 17. Phr.: to be guilty of t., contra rempublicam facere, Sall. Cat. 50.
Treason
See maiestas.