contrectatio

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εἰ μὴ μάλα γέ τινες ὀλίγοι ὧν ἐγὼ ἐντετύχηκα → apart from a very few whom I've met

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

contrectātĭo: (contract-), ōnis. f. id.,
I a touching, touch, contact (very rare).
I Prop.: equae, vaccae, Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 77: quam contrectationes et amores soluti et liberi, id. Rep. 4, 4, 4; cf. Dig. 41, 2, 3, § 18.—
II In the jurists, an illegal appropriation of a thing to one's self, stealing, theft, Dig. 47, 2, 1, § 2; Paul. Sent. 2, 31, 29.