conventione
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conventio, conventionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
assembly of the people; [in manum ~o => wife passing into control of husband];; assembly/meeting; suing/prosecuting a defendant; agreement, compact, covenant;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...ferrum. 10. Et cum defixum videret nec ex conventione iam, sed ex conscientia tacentem: 'Quo' inquit 'hoc animo..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...pendet. Nihil socordia claudicabat. Quae pacta in conventione non praestitissent. Atque ea cogentis non coactos, scelestos magis quam..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...donarem portionem meam seque praeiudicio iuvarem; eandem tacita conventione salvam mihi pollicebatur. Respondebam non convenire moribus meis aliud..."