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|lshtext=<b>cognĭtĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[cognosco]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen., a [[becoming]] acquainted [[with]], [[learning]] to [[know]], acquiring [[knowledge]], [[knowledge]] as a [[consequence]] of [[perception]] or of the [[exercise]] of [[our]] [[mental]] powers, [[knowing]], [[acquaintance]], cognition (in [[good]] [[prose]]; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Abstr.: [[cognitio]] contemplatioque naturae, Cic. Off. 1, 43, 153: rerum occultarum, id. ib. 1, 4, 13: rerum, id. Fin. 3, 5, 17: animi, id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: deorum, id. N. D. 2, 56, 140: urbis, id. Imp. Pomp. 14, 40: in studiis sententiae cognitionisque versabitur, id. Off. 1, 6, 19; cf. id. ib. 1, 44, 158; id. Fin. 5, 12, 34: [[illi]], quorum studia vitaque [[omnis]] in rerum cognitione versata est, id. Off. 1, 44, 155; cf. id. ib. § 157: quorum ego copiam magnitudinem cognitionis [[atque]] artis non [[contemno]], [[culture]], id. de Or. 1, 51, 219; Quint. 1, 10, 10; 12, 11, 17 al.: omnia, quae cognitione digna sunt, Cic. Off. 1, 43, 153; 2, 2, 5: cognitione [[atque]] hospitio [[dignus]], id. Arch. 3, 5; id. Fin. 3, 11, 37; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 90: [[cognitio]] et [[aestimatio]] rerum, id. 2, 18, 1; 4, 2, 40.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Concr.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ( = [[notio]], [[κατάληψις]]>.) A [[conception]], [[notion]], [[idea]]: intellegi [[necesse]] est esse deos, [[quoniam]] insitas eorum vel [[potius]] innatas cognitiones habemus, Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 44; 1, 14, 36; id. Fin. 2, 5, 16 Madv.; 3, 5, 17.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Knowledge, a [[branch]] of [[learning]] ([[late]] Lat.): [[studiosus]] cognitionum omnium [[princeps]], Amm. 21, 1, 7: 25, 4, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Specif., a [[legal]] t. t., a [[judicial]] [[examination]], [[inquiry]], cognizance, [[trial]] ([[very]] freq.): ne [[quod]] judicium, [[neve]] ipsius [[cognitio]] [[illo]] absente de existimatione ejus constitueretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, § 60: lex earum rerum consulibus cognitionem dedit, id. Att. 16, 16, C, 11; cf. id. ib. § 12: captorum agrorum, id. Agr. 2, 22, 60; so, principum et senatūs, Quint. 3, 10, 1; 7, 2, 20: patrum, Tac. A. 1, 75: magistratuum, Suet. Claud. 12: praetoria, Quint. 3, 6, 70: rerum capitalium, Liv. 1, 49, 4: falsi testamenti, Suet. Claud. 9: caedis, id. Rhet. 6: vacantium militiae munere, Liv. 4, 26, 12: de Christianis, Plin. Ep. 10, 97: de famosis libellis, Tac. A. 1, 72: de ejusmodi criminibus ac reis, Suet. Tib. 28: de Votieno Montano, Tac. A. 4, 42: [[inter]] patrem et filium, Liv. 1, 50, 9: [[dies]] cognitionis, the [[day]] of [[trial]], Cic. Brut. 32, 87.—<br /><b>III</b> In Terence [[twice]] for [[agnitio]], [[recognition]], [[discovery]] (cf. [[cognosco]]), Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 33; id. Eun. 5, 3, 12.