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|lshtext=<b>condĭcĭo</b>: (in [[many]] MSS. and edd. [[incorrectly]] condĭtĭo, and [[hence]] [[falsely]] [[derived]] from [[condo]]; cf. 2. [[conditio]]), ōnis, f. [[condico]],<br /><b>I</b> an [[agreement]], [[stipulation]], [[condition]], [[compact]], [[proposition]], terms, [[demand]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Absol.: alicui condicionem ferre, to [[offer]] terms, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 51; cf. id. ib. 4, 3, 91 sq.; id. Mil. 4, 1, 6; id. Men. 4, 2, 24; Liv. 37, 45, 13 al.: cognitis suis postulatis [[atque]] aequitate condicionum perspectā, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Cic. Caecin. 14, 40: non respuit condicionem, Caes. B. G. 1, 42; so Cic. Cael. 6, 14: ne si pax cum Romanis fieret, [[ipse]] per condiciones ad [[supplicium]] traderetur, Sall. J. 61 fin.: condiciones pacis, quas adfertis, si accepero, Curt. 4, 11, 19: posse condicionibus [[bellum]] poni, Sall. J. 112, 1: dum de condicionibus tractat, Nep. Eum. 5 fin.: his condicionibus conpositā [[pace]], Liv. 2, 13, 4: [[aliquot]] populos aut vi subegit aut condicionibus in societatem accepit, id. 9, 15, 2: ex quā condicione, in [[consequence]] of, id. 23, 35, 9: sub condicionibus eis pacem agere, id. 21, 12, 4: accipe sub certā condicione [[preces]], Ov. F. 4, 320: sub condicione, [[conditionally]], Liv. 6, 40, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.; usu. [[without]] a prep.: eā [[enim]] condicione acceperas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: eādem condicione, id. Div. 2, 44, 93; id. Or. 71, 235; id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12; Sall. J. 79, 8: istā [[quidem]] condicione, id. de Or. 2, 7, 27: nullā condicione, id. Verr. 2, 1, 52, § 137: ullā condicione, id. Fl. 18, 43: his legibus, his condicionibus erit [[quisquam]] tam [[stultus]], etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 29, § 70.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With ut or ne: fert illam condicionem, ut [[ambo]] [[exercitus]] tradant, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 2: eā accepisse condicione, ut, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 24, 34: hac condicione, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 38; Phaedr. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Galb. 15; id. Vit. 15: jubere ei [[praemium]] tribui sed eā condicione, ne [[quid]] [[postea]] scriberet, Cic. Arch. 10, 25 B. and K.: permisit eā solā condicione, ne, etc., Suet. Tib. 26: fecit pacem his condicionibus: ne qui, etc., Nep. Thras. 3, 1; so Liv. 23, 7, 1; Suet. Tib. 13 al.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> With si ([[rare]]; not in Cic.): librum [[tibi]] eā condicione daret, si reciperes te correcturum, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4; Suet. Caes. 68; id. Claud. 24; id. Vit. 6.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> With dum ([[rare]]): jam [[vero]] istā condicione, dum mihi liceat negare, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 101.— Also transf. [[subject]]., [[free]] [[choice]], [[option]]: quorum [[condicio]] erat, [[who]] had [[their]] [[choice]], Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 20.—From the conditions made in [[marriage]],<br /> <b>B</b> Esp., a [[marriage]], [[match]]; [[sometimes]], by meton., = the [[person]] married (freq. and [[class]].).<br /> <b>1</b> In an honorable [[sense]], in [[full]]: [[condicio]] uxoria, Cic. Lael. 10, 34; usu. [[alone]]: tu condicionem hanc accipe; ausculta mihi, Atque eam desponde mihi, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 60; so id. ib. 3, 5, 2; id. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem, id. Trin. 1, 2, 122: hanc condicionem si [[quoi]] tulero extrario, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 13: aliam quaerere, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 99: condicionem filiae quaerendam esse, Liv. 3, 45, 11; Nep. Att. 12, 1: alicui deferre, Suet. Caes. 27; id. Aug. 63; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 8; 1, 14, 9; Mart. 3, 33; 5, 17; Just. 11, 7, 8.—Hence, in the jurists, the [[formula]] of [[separation]]: condicione tuā non [[utor]], I [[will]] not [[have]] [[you]], Dig. 24, 2, 2. —<br /> <b>2</b> In a [[bad]] [[sense]], an amour, the [[relation]] of [[lover]] or [[mistress]]: accepit condicionem, [[dein]] quaestum occipit, Ter. And. 1, 1, 52; cf.: quae [[tibi]] Condicio nova, luculenta, fertur per me, id. Mil. 4, 1, 5; and [[hence]], meton., a [[lover]], [[paramour]]: [[habeo]] hortos ... [[hinc]] [[licet]] condiciones [[cottidie]] legas, Cic. Cael. 15, 36; Suet. Aug. 69; [[Capitol]]. Anton. Phil. 19; Lampr. Elag. 5, 8.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen., the [[external]] [[position]], [[situation]], [[condition]], [[rank]], [[place]], circumstances ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].).<br /> <b>A</b> Of persons: est haec [[condicio]] liberorum populorum. etc., Cic. Planc. 4, 11: [[condicio]] infirma et [[fortuna]] servorum, id. Off. 1, 13, 41; cf.: [[tolerabilis]] servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: condicione eo meliore est [[senex]] [[quam]] [[adulescens]], id. Sen. 19, 68: humana, id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: ista [[condicio]] est testium, ut quibus [[creditum]] non [[sit]] negantibus, eisdem credatur dicentibus, id. Rab. Post. 12, 35: [[alia]] oratoris, Quint. 10, 3, 8; 3, 8, 37: alicujus [[condicio]] vitaque, id. 3, 8, 50: abjectae extremaeque [[sortis]]. Suet. Calig. 35: fuit intactis [[quoque]] [[cura]] condicione [[super]] communi, [[solicitude]] [[concerning]] [[their]] [[common]] [[condition]] or circumstances, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 152; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sen. Ot. Sap. 31, 1; Quint. Decl. 308; Lact. 3, 28, 5.—<br /> <b>B</b> Of things, a [[situation]], [[condition]], [[nature]], [[mode]], [[manner]]: quae consuerint gigni gignentur eādem Condicione, Lucr. 2, 301: agri, Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: frumenti, Plin. 24, 17, 101, § 158: [[aliquam]] vitae sequi, [[mode]] or [[manner]] of [[living]], Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 16: earum (frugum) [[cultus]] et condiciones tradere, id. Div. 1, 51, 116 B. and K.; cf.: haec vivendi, Hor. S. 2, 8, 65: diversa causarum [[inter]] ipsas, Quint. 10, 2, 23: [[duplex]] ejus disceptationis, id. 7, 5, 2: litium, id. 5, 1, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 36: vel temporum vel locorum, id. 12, 10, 2 et saep. | |lshtext=<b>condĭcĭo</b>: (in [[many]] MSS. and edd. [[incorrectly]] condĭtĭo, and [[hence]] [[falsely]] [[derived]] from [[condo]]; cf. 2. [[conditio]]), ōnis, f. [[condico]],<br /><b>I</b> an [[agreement]], [[stipulation]], [[condition]], [[compact]], [[proposition]], terms, [[demand]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Absol.: alicui condicionem ferre, to [[offer]] terms, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 51; cf. id. ib. 4, 3, 91 sq.; id. Mil. 4, 1, 6; id. Men. 4, 2, 24; Liv. 37, 45, 13 al.: cognitis suis postulatis [[atque]] aequitate condicionum perspectā, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Cic. Caecin. 14, 40: non respuit condicionem, Caes. B. G. 1, 42; so Cic. Cael. 6, 14: ne si pax cum Romanis fieret, [[ipse]] per condiciones ad [[supplicium]] traderetur, Sall. J. 61 fin.: condiciones pacis, quas adfertis, si accepero, Curt. 4, 11, 19: posse condicionibus [[bellum]] poni, Sall. J. 112, 1: dum de condicionibus tractat, Nep. Eum. 5 fin.: his condicionibus conpositā [[pace]], Liv. 2, 13, 4: [[aliquot]] populos aut vi subegit aut condicionibus in societatem accepit, id. 9, 15, 2: ex quā condicione, in [[consequence]] of, id. 23, 35, 9: sub condicionibus eis pacem agere, id. 21, 12, 4: accipe sub certā condicione [[preces]], Ov. F. 4, 320: sub condicione, [[conditionally]], Liv. 6, 40, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.; usu. [[without]] a prep.: eā [[enim]] condicione acceperas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: eādem condicione, id. Div. 2, 44, 93; id. Or. 71, 235; id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12; Sall. J. 79, 8: istā [[quidem]] condicione, id. de Or. 2, 7, 27: nullā condicione, id. Verr. 2, 1, 52, § 137: ullā condicione, id. Fl. 18, 43: his legibus, his condicionibus erit [[quisquam]] tam [[stultus]], etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 29, § 70.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With ut or ne: fert illam condicionem, ut [[ambo]] [[exercitus]] tradant, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 2: eā accepisse condicione, ut, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 24, 34: hac condicione, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 38; Phaedr. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Galb. 15; id. Vit. 15: jubere ei [[praemium]] tribui sed eā condicione, ne [[quid]] [[postea]] scriberet, Cic. Arch. 10, 25 B. and K.: permisit eā solā condicione, ne, etc., Suet. Tib. 26: fecit pacem his condicionibus: ne qui, etc., Nep. Thras. 3, 1; so Liv. 23, 7, 1; Suet. Tib. 13 al.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> With si ([[rare]]; not in Cic.): librum [[tibi]] eā condicione daret, si reciperes te correcturum, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4; Suet. Caes. 68; id. Claud. 24; id. Vit. 6.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> With dum ([[rare]]): jam [[vero]] istā condicione, dum mihi liceat negare, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 101.— Also transf. [[subject]]., [[free]] [[choice]], [[option]]: quorum [[condicio]] erat, [[who]] had [[their]] [[choice]], Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 20.—From the conditions made in [[marriage]],<br /> <b>B</b> Esp., a [[marriage]], [[match]]; [[sometimes]], by meton., = the [[person]] married (freq. and [[class]].).<br /> <b>1</b> In an honorable [[sense]], in [[full]]: [[condicio]] uxoria, Cic. Lael. 10, 34; usu. [[alone]]: tu condicionem hanc accipe; ausculta mihi, Atque eam desponde mihi, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 60; so id. ib. 3, 5, 2; id. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem, id. Trin. 1, 2, 122: hanc condicionem si [[quoi]] tulero extrario, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 13: aliam quaerere, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 99: condicionem filiae quaerendam esse, Liv. 3, 45, 11; Nep. Att. 12, 1: alicui deferre, Suet. Caes. 27; id. Aug. 63; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 8; 1, 14, 9; Mart. 3, 33; 5, 17; Just. 11, 7, 8.—Hence, in the jurists, the [[formula]] of [[separation]]: condicione tuā non [[utor]], I [[will]] not [[have]] [[you]], Dig. 24, 2, 2. —<br /> <b>2</b> In a [[bad]] [[sense]], an amour, the [[relation]] of [[lover]] or [[mistress]]: accepit condicionem, [[dein]] quaestum occipit, Ter. And. 1, 1, 52; cf.: quae [[tibi]] Condicio nova, luculenta, fertur per me, id. Mil. 4, 1, 5; and [[hence]], meton., a [[lover]], [[paramour]]: [[habeo]] hortos ... [[hinc]] [[licet]] condiciones [[cottidie]] legas, Cic. Cael. 15, 36; Suet. Aug. 69; [[Capitol]]. Anton. Phil. 19; Lampr. Elag. 5, 8.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen., the [[external]] [[position]], [[situation]], [[condition]], [[rank]], [[place]], circumstances ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].).<br /> <b>A</b> Of persons: est haec [[condicio]] liberorum populorum. etc., Cic. Planc. 4, 11: [[condicio]] infirma et [[fortuna]] servorum, id. Off. 1, 13, 41; cf.: [[tolerabilis]] servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: condicione eo meliore est [[senex]] [[quam]] [[adulescens]], id. Sen. 19, 68: humana, id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: ista [[condicio]] est testium, ut quibus [[creditum]] non [[sit]] negantibus, eisdem credatur dicentibus, id. Rab. Post. 12, 35: [[alia]] oratoris, Quint. 10, 3, 8; 3, 8, 37: alicujus [[condicio]] vitaque, id. 3, 8, 50: abjectae extremaeque [[sortis]]. Suet. Calig. 35: fuit intactis [[quoque]] [[cura]] condicione [[super]] communi, [[solicitude]] [[concerning]] [[their]] [[common]] [[condition]] or circumstances, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 152; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sen. Ot. Sap. 31, 1; Quint. Decl. 308; Lact. 3, 28, 5.—<br /> <b>B</b> Of things, a [[situation]], [[condition]], [[nature]], [[mode]], [[manner]]: quae consuerint gigni gignentur eādem Condicione, Lucr. 2, 301: agri, Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: frumenti, Plin. 24, 17, 101, § 158: [[aliquam]] vitae sequi, [[mode]] or [[manner]] of [[living]], Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 16: earum (frugum) [[cultus]] et condiciones tradere, id. Div. 1, 51, 116 B. and K.; cf.: haec vivendi, Hor. S. 2, 8, 65: diversa causarum [[inter]] ipsas, Quint. 10, 2, 23: [[duplex]] ejus disceptationis, id. 7, 5, 2: litium, id. 5, 1, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 36: vel temporum vel locorum, id. 12, 10, 2 et saep. | ||
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|gf=<b>condĭcĭō</b>,⁷ ōnis, f. ([[condico]]),<br /><b>1</b> condition, situation, état, sort, qualité, manière d’être [d’une pers. ou d’une chose] : liberorum populorum Cic. Planc. 11 ; servorum Cic. Off. 1, 41 ; humana Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, la condition des peuples libres, des esclaves, la condition humaine || nascendi [[condicio]] Cic. Cat. 3, 2, la situation qui nous [[est]] dévolue à notre naissance, notre destinée, cf. [[eadem]] condicione nasci Cic. Div. 2, 93, naître avec la même destinée ; [[pro]] mortali condicione vitæ immortalitatem estis consecuti Cic. Phil. 14, 33, en échange d’une condition de vie mortelle, vous avez obtenu l’immortalité ; [[condicio]] externæ victoriæ Cic. Cat. 4, 22, la condition de vainqueur dans une guerre étrangère ; o condicionem miseram administrandæ [[rei]] publicæ Cic. Cat. 2, 14, le [[triste]] lot que celui de tenir les rênes du gouvernement ; [[est]] ([[senex]]) meliore condicione [[quam]] [[adulescens]] Cic. CM 68, la condition du vieillard [[est]] meilleure que celle du jeune homme ; iniqua pugnandi [[condicio]] Cæs. G. 6, 10, 2, conditions de combat désavantageuses ; cum esset hæc ei proposita [[condicio]], ut [[aut]]... [[aut]]... Cic. Clu. 42, [[cette]] alternative lui étant proposée de... ou de...; ea videtur [[condicio]] impendere legum, judiciorum, temporum, ut... Cic. Fam. 5, 18, 1, nous sommes menacés d’avoir des lois, des tribunaux, des moments d’une nature telle que...<br /><b>2</b> condition, disposition, stipulation, engagement, [[clause]] : [[mihi]] si hæc [[condicio]] [[consulatus]] data [[est]], ut Cic. Cat. 4, 1, si les conditions de mon consulat sont que...; iniqua [[condicio]] [[pacis]] Cic. Phil. 2, 37, mauvaises conditions de paix ; deditionis nullam [[esse]] condicionem [[nisi]] armis traditis Cæs. G. 2, 32, 1, [il répondit] qu’il ne pouvait y avoir aucune stipulation de paix, si les armes n’étaient pas livrées ; solduriorum hæc [[est]] [[condicio]] ut... Cæs. G. 3, 22, 2, les soldures sont liés par les engagements suivants... ; condiciones dedendæ urbis Liv. 25, 28, 2, les conditions (les clauses) de la reddition de la ville ; condicionibus [[hunc]] producit Cic. Quinct. 30, il l’amuse en lui faisant des propositions (Verr. 2, 3, 138 ; Agr. 2, 68, etc.) || his condicionibus Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70 ; ista condicione Cic. de Or. 1, 101, avec de telles conditions, à [[cette]] condition-là ; nulla condicione Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 137, à aucune condition (Verr. 2, 4, 17 ; Fin. 5, 55, etc.) || ea condicione ut subj., à condition que : Cic. Sest. 38 ; 39 ; Domo 145 ; Liv. 5, 32, 5, etc. || [[sub]] condicione Liv. 6, 40, 8, sous condition, conditionnellement || [[sub]] condicionibus iis Liv. 21, 12, 4, sous ces conditions ( Ov. F. 4, 320 ; Sen. Ben. 7, 12, 4 ) || [[sub]] ea condicione, ne [[quid]] [[postea]] scriberet Cic. Arch. 25 (mss), sous la condition qu’il n’écrivît [[plus]] [[rien]] désormais ( Plin. Min. Ep. 4, 13, 11 ) ; [[sub]] ea condicione, si... Plin. Min. Ep. 8, 18, 4, à la condition que... || [[per]] condiciones Sall. J. 61, 5 ; Liv. 6, 3, 10 ; 25, 25, 1, par stipulation, selon des clauses, par une capitulation ; in eas condiciones Liv. 29, 12, 14, conformément à ces clauses<br /><b>3</b> [en parl. de mariage] [[parti]] : [[contentio]] uxoriæ condicionis Cic. Læl. 34, rivalité au sujet d’un mariage ; aliam condicionem filio [[suo]] invenire Pl. Truc. 849, trouver un autre [[parti]] pour son fils ( Cic. Phil. 2, 99 ) ; condicionem filiæ quærere Liv. 3, 45, 11, chercher un [[parti]] pour sa fille ; alicui condicionem ferre Pl. Trin. 488 ; Ter. Phorm. 579, présenter un [[parti]] à qqn || [en mauv. part] bonne fortune, maîtresse : Cic. Cæl. 36 ; Suet. Aug. 69. | |||
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
condĭcĭo: (in many MSS. and edd. incorrectly condĭtĭo, and hence falsely derived from condo; cf. 2. conditio), ōnis, f. condico,
I an agreement, stipulation, condition, compact, proposition, terms, demand.
I Prop.
(a) Absol.: alicui condicionem ferre, to offer terms, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 51; cf. id. ib. 4, 3, 91 sq.; id. Mil. 4, 1, 6; id. Men. 4, 2, 24; Liv. 37, 45, 13 al.: cognitis suis postulatis atque aequitate condicionum perspectā, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Cic. Caecin. 14, 40: non respuit condicionem, Caes. B. G. 1, 42; so Cic. Cael. 6, 14: ne si pax cum Romanis fieret, ipse per condiciones ad supplicium traderetur, Sall. J. 61 fin.: condiciones pacis, quas adfertis, si accepero, Curt. 4, 11, 19: posse condicionibus bellum poni, Sall. J. 112, 1: dum de condicionibus tractat, Nep. Eum. 5 fin.: his condicionibus conpositā pace, Liv. 2, 13, 4: aliquot populos aut vi subegit aut condicionibus in societatem accepit, id. 9, 15, 2: ex quā condicione, in consequence of, id. 23, 35, 9: sub condicionibus eis pacem agere, id. 21, 12, 4: accipe sub certā condicione preces, Ov. F. 4, 320: sub condicione, conditionally, Liv. 6, 40, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.; usu. without a prep.: eā enim condicione acceperas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: eādem condicione, id. Div. 2, 44, 93; id. Or. 71, 235; id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12; Sall. J. 79, 8: istā quidem condicione, id. de Or. 2, 7, 27: nullā condicione, id. Verr. 2, 1, 52, § 137: ullā condicione, id. Fl. 18, 43: his legibus, his condicionibus erit quisquam tam stultus, etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 29, § 70.—
(b) With ut or ne: fert illam condicionem, ut ambo exercitus tradant, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 2: eā accepisse condicione, ut, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 24, 34: hac condicione, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 38; Phaedr. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Galb. 15; id. Vit. 15: jubere ei praemium tribui sed eā condicione, ne quid postea scriberet, Cic. Arch. 10, 25 B. and K.: permisit eā solā condicione, ne, etc., Suet. Tib. 26: fecit pacem his condicionibus: ne qui, etc., Nep. Thras. 3, 1; so Liv. 23, 7, 1; Suet. Tib. 13 al.—
(g) With si (rare; not in Cic.): librum tibi eā condicione daret, si reciperes te correcturum, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4; Suet. Caes. 68; id. Claud. 24; id. Vit. 6.—
(d) With dum (rare): jam vero istā condicione, dum mihi liceat negare, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 101.— Also transf. subject., free choice, option: quorum condicio erat, who had their choice, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 20.—From the conditions made in marriage,
B Esp., a marriage, match; sometimes, by meton., = the person married (freq. and class.).
1 In an honorable sense, in full: condicio uxoria, Cic. Lael. 10, 34; usu. alone: tu condicionem hanc accipe; ausculta mihi, Atque eam desponde mihi, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 60; so id. ib. 3, 5, 2; id. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem, id. Trin. 1, 2, 122: hanc condicionem si quoi tulero extrario, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 13: aliam quaerere, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 99: condicionem filiae quaerendam esse, Liv. 3, 45, 11; Nep. Att. 12, 1: alicui deferre, Suet. Caes. 27; id. Aug. 63; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 8; 1, 14, 9; Mart. 3, 33; 5, 17; Just. 11, 7, 8.—Hence, in the jurists, the formula of separation: condicione tuā non utor, I will not have you, Dig. 24, 2, 2. —
2 In a bad sense, an amour, the relation of lover or mistress: accepit condicionem, dein quaestum occipit, Ter. And. 1, 1, 52; cf.: quae tibi Condicio nova, luculenta, fertur per me, id. Mil. 4, 1, 5; and hence, meton., a lover, paramour: habeo hortos ... hinc licet condiciones cottidie legas, Cic. Cael. 15, 36; Suet. Aug. 69; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 19; Lampr. Elag. 5, 8.—
II In gen., the external position, situation, condition, rank, place, circumstances (very freq. and class.).
A Of persons: est haec condicio liberorum populorum. etc., Cic. Planc. 4, 11: condicio infirma et fortuna servorum, id. Off. 1, 13, 41; cf.: tolerabilis servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: condicione eo meliore est senex quam adulescens, id. Sen. 19, 68: humana, id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: ista condicio est testium, ut quibus creditum non sit negantibus, eisdem credatur dicentibus, id. Rab. Post. 12, 35: alia oratoris, Quint. 10, 3, 8; 3, 8, 37: alicujus condicio vitaque, id. 3, 8, 50: abjectae extremaeque sortis. Suet. Calig. 35: fuit intactis quoque cura condicione super communi, solicitude concerning their common condition or circumstances, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 152; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sen. Ot. Sap. 31, 1; Quint. Decl. 308; Lact. 3, 28, 5.—
B Of things, a situation, condition, nature, mode, manner: quae consuerint gigni gignentur eādem Condicione, Lucr. 2, 301: agri, Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: frumenti, Plin. 24, 17, 101, § 158: aliquam vitae sequi, mode or manner of living, Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 16: earum (frugum) cultus et condiciones tradere, id. Div. 1, 51, 116 B. and K.; cf.: haec vivendi, Hor. S. 2, 8, 65: diversa causarum inter ipsas, Quint. 10, 2, 23: duplex ejus disceptationis, id. 7, 5, 2: litium, id. 5, 1, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 36: vel temporum vel locorum, id. 12, 10, 2 et saep.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
condĭcĭō,⁷ ōnis, f. (condico),
1 condition, situation, état, sort, qualité, manière d’être [d’une pers. ou d’une chose] : liberorum populorum Cic. Planc. 11 ; servorum Cic. Off. 1, 41 ; humana Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, la condition des peuples libres, des esclaves, la condition humaine
