homicida: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>hŏmĭcīda</b>: ae, comm. [[homo]]-[[caedo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[man]]-[[slayer]], [[homicide]], a [[murderer]], murderess (syn.: [[interfector]], [[sicarius]], [[percussor]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: statuendum [[tibi]] esse, [[utrum]] [[illi]], qui istam rem gesserunt, homicidaene sint, an vindices libertatis ... Confiteor eos [[plus]] [[quam]] sicarios, [[plus]] [[quam]] homicidas, [[plus]] [[etiam]] [[quam]] parricidas esse, Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30 sq.; Juv. 2, 26; Quint. 7, 3, 34: an, qui se interficit, [[homicida]] [[sit]], id. 7, 3, 7: mandatores caedis [[perinde]] ut homicidae puniuntur, Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 11: qui, cum vellet occidere, id casu [[aliquo]] perpetrare non potuit, ut [[homicida]] punitur, id. 5, 23, 3; cf. Gai Inst. 3, 194.—Of a [[woman]]: [[quid]] si [[tantum]] [[homicida]]? [[quid]] si [[tantum]] rea fuisses? Sen. Contr. 1, 2.—*<br /><b>II</b> In a [[good]] [[sense]], as a transl. of the Homeric [[ἀνδροφόνος]]>, an epithet of [[Hector]], [[slayer]] of men, Hor. Epod. 17, 12.