perduellio

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

perdŭellĭo: ōnis, f. perduellis.
I Hostile conduct against one's country, treason, whether consisting of an attempt against the state, its institutions, and chief ruler, or of union with a foreign enemy, desertion, etc. (class.): qui perduellionis reus est, hostili animo adversus rempublicam vel principem animatus est, Dig. 48, 4, 11; Cic. Pis. 2, 4: (Clodius) actionem perduellionis intenderat (for causing the execution of the Catilinarians who were Roman citizens), id. Mil. 14, 36: perduellionis judicium, id. Rab. Perd. 3, 10: tum Sempronius, perduellionis se judicare Cn. Fulvio dixit, that he accused Fulvius of high-treason (for allowing himself to be defeated), Liv. 26, 3: duumviros, qui Horatio perduellionem judicent, secundum legem facio (for killing his sister, which was regarded as a usurpation of the prerogative of punishment, and hence as a crime against the state), Liv. 1, 26: diem perduellionis alicui dicere, Suet. Caes. 12; cf. Liv. 43, 16; Val. Max. 6, 5, 3.—*
II Transf., concr., a (foreign) enemy of one's country, a public enemy; for the usual hostis (censured as a bombastic expression), Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15; cf. Amm. 21, 16, 10.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

perdŭellĭō,¹³ ōnis, f., crime de haute trahison : Her. 4, 15 ; Cic. Mil. 36 ; Pis. 4 ; perduellionis alicui judicare Liv. 26, 3, 9, juger (déclarer) qqn coupable de haute trahison, cf. Liv. 1, 26, 5.

Latin > German (Georges)

perduellio, ōnis, f. (perduellis), die feindselige Handlung, I) gegen Auswärtige, mit denen man Krieg führt; dah. meton. perduelliones = perduelles, Feinde, als schwülstig angeführt bei Cornif. rhet. 4, 15; vgl. Placid. gloss. V, 38, 8 ›perduelliones‹ rebelliones, per quos bella oriuntur. – II) gegen das Vaterland, der Hochverrat, sowohl Gewalttat gegen den Staat, seine Einrichtungen, sein Oberhaupt, seine Bürger, als Verbindung mit dem auswärtigen Feind, Desertion, erlittene Niederlage u. dgl., Liv. u.a. Vgl. Mommsen Röm. Strafrecht S. 537 ff.