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|lshtext=<b>văcātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[vaco]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[being]] [[free]] from a [[duty]], [[service]], etc.; [[freedom]], [[exemption]], [[immunity]]; a freeing, exempting, [[dispensation]] ([[class]].; syn. [[immunitas]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen. obj.: [[vacatio]] omnium munerum, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 53: publici muneris, id. Fam. 9, 6, 5: [[sumptus]], laboris, militiae, rerum [[denique]] omnium, id. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23: militiae, Caes. B. G. 6, 14; Cic. Phil. 5, 19, 53; Just. 1, 9, 12: quinquennii militiae [[vacatio]], Liv. 23, 20, 2; 42, 33, 4: rerum omnium, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 58: malorum, Sen. Ep. 85, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab: a causis [[vacatio]], Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 11: ab belli administratione, Liv. 23, 32, 15: ab opere, Col. 6, 14, 3: a sacerdotio, Gell. 1, 12, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[quominus]]: vacationem augures, [[quominus]] judiciis operam darent, non habere, Cic. Brut. 31, 117.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: falsum est, ob vacationem [[pretium]] datum, Cic. Font. 4, 7: cum sacerdotes deorum vacationem habeant, [[quanto]] est aequius habere ipsos deos, id. Ac. 2, 38, 121: deprecari vacationem adulescentiae, id. Cael. 12, 30: rerum gestarum, id. Sull. 9, 26: aetatis, Nep. Att. 7, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Sc. militiae.) Exemption from [[military]] [[service]]: P. [[Vatinius]] ... et agro a senatu et vacatione donatus est, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6: delectum habere sublatis vacationibus, id. Phil. 5, 12, 31: [[senatus]] decrevit, ut ... [[dilectus]] haberetur, vacationes ne valerent, id. Att. 1, 19, 2: scribere exercitum [[sine]] ullā vacationis veniā, Liv. 8, 20, 3; 7, 28, 3; 27, 38, 3: locupletissimus [[quisque]] [[miles]] labore fatigari, [[donec]] vacationem emeret, Tac. H. 1, 46.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Sc. culpae.) Neque ei suam vacationem [[eripio]], quā [[ille]] [[apud]] [[omnis]] utitur, ut [[nihil]] [[malitiose]] fecisse videntur, [[freedom]] from [[blame]], Cic. Verr. 2, 7, 68, § 164 B. and K. (dub.; al. purgationem; al. culpae vacationem).—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[sum]] paid for [[exemption]] from [[military]] [[service]]: vacationes annuas exsolvere, Tac. H. 1, 46: vacationes centurionibus ex fisco numerat, id. ib. 1, 58.
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