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|lshtext=<b>dŭbĭtātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[dubito]].<br /><b>I</b> A [[wavering]] in [[opinion]] or [[judgment]]; a [[being]] [[uncertain]], a doubting; [[uncertainty]], [[doubt]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen. (freq. and [[good]] [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: nec [[tibi]] sollicitudinem ex dubitatione mea, nec spem ex affirmatione, afferre volui, Cic. Fam. 9, 17 fin.: cum res non conjecturā, sed oculis ac manibus teneretur, [[neque]] in [[causa]] ulla [[dubitatio]] posset esse, id. Cluent. 7, 20: in ea obscuritate ac dubitatione omnium, id. ib. 27: [[quod]] [[quamquam]] dubitationem non habet, [[tamen]] rationes afferendas [[puto]], etc., id. Fin. 5, 10; cf. id. Agr. 1, 4, 11; Quint. 4, 3, 6: dubitationem afferre, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 147; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 18: eo sibi [[minus]] dubitationis dari, [[quod]], etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 14, 1: ad tollendam dubitationem sola non sufficiunt, Quint. 5, 9, 8; cf. id. 5, 13, 51; Cic. Att. 12, 6 fin. al. So in [[Cicero]] a [[few]] times: [[sine]] ulla dubitatione, [[without]] [[any]] [[doubt]], i. e. per litoten, [[most]] [[certainly]] (an [[emphatic]] [[sine]] dubio, v. [[dubius]], I. B. 2. b. ε), Cic. Tusc. 3, 3, 5; id. Balb. 13, 31; id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39; id. Cat. 4, 3, 5; so [[too]], [[sine]] dubitatione, Col. 3, 6, 2 ([[but]] [[far]] [[more]] freq. in signif. II.,<br /> v. [[infra]]).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: omnem dubitationem [[adventus]] legionum expellere, Caes. B. G. 5, 48 fin.; cf. juris (i. e. [[dubitatio]], [[penes]] quem esset jus), Cic. Caecin. 4, 9: generum, id. de Or. 2, 31, 134: hujus utilitatis, Quint. 1, 10, 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With de: [[illa]] Socratica, de omnibus rebus, Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 17; Auct. B. Afr. 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With rel. or interrog. [[clause]]: si [[quando]] [[dubitatio]] accidit, quale [[sit]] id, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 4, 18; id. Cluent. 28, 76; id. Fam. 15, 21: alterum potest habere dubitationem, adhibendumne fuerit hoc [[genus]] ... an, etc., id. Off. 3, 2, 9; id. Fam. 3, 5, 3; Quint. 11, 2, 44.—（ε) With [[quin]]: cum hic [[locus]] [[nihil]] habeat dubitationis, [[quin]], etc., Cic. Off. 2, 5, 17; cf. id. N. D. 2, 63, 158.—（ζ) With a [[subject]] acc. and inf.: hoc a rustico [[factum]] [[extra]] dubitationem est, Quint. 7, 1, 48.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., as a [[fig]]. of [[speech]], i. q. Gr. [[διαπόρησις]], i. e. [[hesitation]], [[embarrassment]] of the [[speaker]], [[because]] [[unable]] to do [[justice]] to the [[greatness]] of his [[theme]] (e. g. Cic. Rosc. Am. 11; id. de Or. 3, 56, § 214), Auct. Her. 4, 29, 40; cf. Ernest. Lex. Technol. Lat. p. 136.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. ([[dubito]], I. B.), a [[doubt]], [[question]], considering: indigna [[dubitatio]] homine! Cic. Lael. 19, 67; so, ad rem publicam adeundi, id. Rep. 1, 7, 12.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[wavering]], [[hesitating]] in [[coming]] to a [[conclusion]]; [[hesitancy]], [[irresolution]], [[delay]]: aestuabat dubitatione, versabat se in utramque partem non [[solum]] mente, [[verum]] [[etiam]] corpore, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30; cf.: qui [[timor]]! quae [[dubitatio]]! quanta [[haesitatio]] tractusque verborum! id. de Or. 2, 50: [[inter]] dubitationem et moras senati, Sall. J. 30, 3; cf. id. ib. 62, 9: aluit dubitatione [[bellum]], Tac. A. 3, 41 fin. et saep.: ([[Caesar]]) nulla interposita dubitatione legiones ex castris educit, [[without]] [[any]] [[hesitation]], [[promptly]], Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 1; in this signif. [[very]] freq. in [[Cicero]]: [[sine]] ulla dubitatione, Cic. Cluent. 28, 75; id. Verr. 2, 3, 12; id. Pis. 3; 21 fin.; id. N. D. 1, 1; id. de Or. 2, 28, 122; id. Fam. 1, 5, b. 2. et saep.; cf.: [[absque]] ulla dubitatione, Vulg. Ruth, 3, 13; [[less]] freq. [[merely]] [[sine]] dubitatione, [[without]] [[hesitation]], [[unhesitatingly]], Cic. Agr. 2, 9, 23; id. N. D. 3, 34, 84; id. Ac. 2, 29, 94; id. Top. 15 fin.; id. Att. 11, 16, 3; so Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21; Auct. B. Alex. 63, 2; Vulg. Act. 10, 29.