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|lshtext=<b>auctōrĭtas</b>: (not autōr- [[nor]] authōr-), ātis, f. [[auctor]], acc. to the [[different]] signiff. of [[that]] [[word]],<br /><b>I</b> In gen., a producing, [[production]], [[invention]], [[cause]] ([[very]] [[rare]]; syn.: [[auctoramentum]], [[sententia]], judicium, [[consilium]], vis, [[pondus]], [[favor]], [[gratia]]): [[quod]] si exquiratur [[usque]] ab stirpe [[auctoritas]] (sc. rumoris), [[originator]], [[inventor]], Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180: ejus facti qui sint principes et inventores, qui [[denique]] auctoritatis ejus et inventionis comprobatores, Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 43: [[utrum]] poëtae Stoicos depravārint, an Stoici poëtis dederint auctoritatem, non [[facile]] dixerim, id. N. D. 3, 38, 91.—<br /><b>II</b> Esp.,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[view]], [[opinion]], [[judgment]]: errat [[vehementer]], si [[quis]] in orationibus nostris auctoritates [[nostras]] consignatas se habere arbitratur, Cic. Clu. 50, 139: reliquum est, ut de Q. Catuli auctoritate et sententiā dicendum esse videatur, id. Imp. Pomp. 20; 22: Mihi [[quidem]] ex [[animo]] eximi non potest, esse deos, id [[tamen]] ipsum, [[quod]] mihi persuasum est auctoritate majorum, [[cur]] ita [[sit]], [[nihil]] tu me doces, id. N. D. 3, 3, 7: [[plus]] [[apud]] me antiquorum [[auctoritas]] valet, id. Lael. 4, 13.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Counsel, [[advice]], [[persuasion]], [[encouragement]] to [[something]] (esp. if made [[with]] [[energy]] and sustained by the [[authority]] and [[influence]] of the [[counsellor]]; cf. [[auctor]], I. C.): auctoritatem defugere, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 19: Jubeo, [[cogo]] [[atque]] [[impero]]. Numquam defugiam auctoritatem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 99 Ruhnk.: attende jam, Torquate, [[quam]] ego defugiam auctoritatem consulatūs mei, [[how]] [[little]] [[pleased]] ([[ironically]]) I am [[that]] the occurrences of my [[consulship]] are ascribed to my exertions, my [[influence]], Cic. Sull. 11, 33: cujus (Reguli) cum valuisset [[auctoritas]], captivi retenti sunt, id. Off. 3, 27, 100: jure, legibus, auctoritate omnium, qui consulebantur, [[testamentum]] fecerat, id. Verr. 2, 1, 42: ejus (Sexti) mihi vivit [[auctoritas]], id. Att. 10, 1, 1: his rebus adducti et auctoritate Orgetorigis permoti etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 3: ut per auctoritatem earum civitatium suae [[preces]] [[nuper]] repudiatae faciliorem aditum ad senatum haberent, i. e. agentibus, intervenientibus, Liv. 38, 3 al.—Also consolatory [[exhortation]], [[consolation]], [[comfort]]: his [[autem]] litteris animum tuum...amicissimi hominis auctoritate confirmandum [[etiam]] [[atque]] [[etiam]] [[puto]], Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Will, [[pleasure]], [[decision]], [[bidding]], [[command]], [[precept]], [[decree]]: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus, [[consilium]] [[autem]] eorum, qui scripserunt, et rationem et auctoritatem relinquamus? Cic. Caecin. 18, 51: verba servire hominum consiliis et auctoritatibus, id. ib. 18, 52: [[legio]] auctoritatem Caesaris persecuta est, id. Phil. 3, 3: [[nisi]] legiones ad Caesaris auctoritatem se contulissent, under his [[command]], [[guidance]], id. Fam. 10, 28 fin.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., in [[political]] lang., t. t.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Senatūs [[auctoritas]],<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[will]] of the [[senate]]: agrum [[Picenum]] [[contra]] senatūs auctoritatem dividere, Cic. Sen. 4, 11.—More freq.,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[decree]] of the [[senate]], = Senatūs [[consultum]]: Senatūs [[vetus]] [[auctoritas]] de Bacchanalibus, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 37: [[sine]] senatūs auctoritate [[foedus]] facere, id. Off. 3, 30, 109: Senatūs [[auctoritas]] gravissima intercessit, id. Fam. 1, 2 fin.: responditque ita ex auctoritate senatūs [[consul]], Liv. 7, 31: imperio non populi jussu, non ex auctoritate patrum [[dato]], id. 26, 2: Neminem exulum [[nisi]] ex Senatūs auctoritate restituit, Suet. Claud. 12: [[citra]] senatūs populique auctoritatem, id. Caes. 28 al. —Hence the [[superscription]] to the decrees of the Senate: SENATVS. CONSVLTI. AVCTORITAS., abbrev., S. C. A., Cic. Fam. 8, 8.—Sometimes [[between]] senatūs [[auctoritas]] and senatūs [[consultum]] this [[distinction]] is to be made, [[that]] the [[former]] designates a [[decision]] of the [[senate]], invalidated by the [[protestation]] of the [[tribune]] of the [[people]] or by the [[people]] [[themselves]]; the [[latter]], one [[that]] is passed [[without]] [[opposition]], Cic. Fam. 8, 8; Liv. 4, 57.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Auctoritas populi, the [[popular]] [[will]] or [[decision]]: [[isti]] principes et sibi et ceteris populi universi auctoritati parendum esse fateantur, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22; so, publica, Vell. 2, 62, 3; Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> Auctoritas collegii (pontificum), Liv. 34, 44; cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 19 and 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Liberty, [[ability]], [[power]], [[authority]] to do according to one's [[pleasure]]: qui habet [[imperium]] a [[populo]] Romano auctoritatem legum dandarum ab senatu, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49: [[Verres]] [[tantum]] sibi auctoritatis in re publicā suscepit, ut, etc., id. ib. 2, 5, 58: Invita in hoc [[loco]] versatur [[oratio]]; videtur [[enim]] auctoritatem adferre peccandi, id. N. D. 3, 35, 85: Senatūs faciem [[secum]] attulerat auctoritatemque populi Romani, id. Phil. 8, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> Might, [[power]], [[authority]], [[reputation]], [[dignity]], [[influence]], [[weight]] ([[very]] freq.): ut vostra [[auctoritas]] Meae auctoritati [[fautrix]] adjutrixque [[sit]], Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 40: aequitate causae et auctoritate suā aliquem commovere, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48: id maximā auctoritate philosophi adfirmant, id. Off. 3, 29, 105: Digna est memoriā Q. Catuli cum [[auctoritas]] tum [[verecundia]], Vell. 2, 32: optimatium auctoritatem deminuere, Suet. Caes. 11; so, auctoritatem habere, Cic. Phil. 11, 10 fin.; id. Sen. 17, 60: adripere, id. ib. 18, 62; id. N. D. 3, 35, 85: facere, to [[procure]], [[obtain]], id. Imp. Pomp. 15: Grandis auctoritatis es et [[bene]] regis [[regnum]] Israël, * Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 7: imminuere, Cic. de Or. 2, 37 fin.: levare, id. Ac. 2, 22, 69: [[fructus]] capere auctoritatis, id. Sen. 18, 62: Quae sunt voluptates corporis cum auctoritatis praemiis comparandae? id. ib. 18, 64 et saep. —Transf. to things, [[importance]], [[significance]], [[weight]], [[power]], [[worth]], [[value]], [[estimation]]: bos in pecuariā maximā debet esse auctoritate, Varr. R. R. 2, 5: sunt certa legum verba... quo [[plus]] auctoritatis habeant, [[paulo]] antiquiora, [[more]] [[weight]], [[force]], Cic. Leg. 2, 7, 18: totius hujusce rei quae [[sit]] vis, quae [[auctoritas]], [[quod]] [[pondus]], [[ignorant]], id. Fl. 4: utilitatis [[species]] falsa ab honestatis auctoritate superata est, id. Off. 3, 30, 109: cum [[antea]] per aetatem [[nondum]] hujus auctoritatem loci attingere auderem, of this honorable [[place]], i. e. the [[rostra]], id. Imp. Pomp 1: bibliothecas omnium philosophorum mihi videtur XII. tabularum [[libellus]] auctoritatis pondere superare, id. de Or. 1, 44, 195; id. Fam. 1, 7; Dolab. ap. Cic. ib. 9, 9 fin.: [[auctoritas]] praecipua lupo (pisci), Plin. 9, 17, 28, § 61: Post eum (Maecenatum) interiit [[auctoritas]] sapori (pullorum asinorum), id. 8, 43, 68, § 170 Jan: unguentorum, id. 13, 1, 2, § 4: [[auctoritas]] dignitasque formae, Suet. Claud. 30.—Also of [[feigned]], [[assumed]] [[authority]]: nec cognovi quemquam, qui majore auctoritate [[nihil]] diceret, [[that]] said [[nothing]] [[with]] a greater [[air]] of [[authority]], Cic. Div. 2, 67, 139.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> An [[example]], [[pattern]], [[model]]: omnium superiorum auctoritatem repudiare, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19: memoriā digna juventuti rei publicae capessendae [[auctoritas]] disciplinaque, id. Sest. 6, 14: valuit [[auctoritas]], id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 3, 93; 2, 5, 32: tu is es qui in disputando non tuum judicium sequare, sed auctoritati aliorum [[pareas]], id. Leg. 1, 13, 36; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16 al.—<br /> A [[warrant]], [[security]] for establishing a [[fact]], [[assertion]], etc., [[credibility]]: cum ea (justitia) [[sine]] prudentiā [[satis]] habeat auctoritatis, Cic. Off. 2, 9, 34: desinant putare, auctoritatem esse in eo testimonio, cujus [[auctor]] [[inventus]] est [[nemo]], id. Fl. 22, 53: Quid [[vero]] habet auctoritatis [[furor]] [[iste]], quem divinum vocatis? id. Div. 2, 54, 110: tollitur [[omnis]] [[auctoritas]] somniorum, id. ib. 2, 59, 123: cum ad vanitatem accessit [[auctoritas]], id. Lael. 25, 94.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Meton]]., the things [[which]] [[serve]] for the [[verification]] or [[establishment]] of a [[fact]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> A [[record]], [[document]]: videt legationes, cum publicis auctoritatibus convenisse, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 7: [[nihil]] putas valere in judiciis civitatum auctoritates ac litteras, id. ib. 2, 3, 62, § 146.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> The [[name]] of a [[person]] [[who]] is [[security]] for [[something]], [[authority]]: cum auctoritates principum conjurationis colligeret, Cic. Sull. 13, 37: sed tu auctoritates contemnis, ratione pugnas, id. N. D. 3, 4, 9.—Hence for the names of persons [[present]] at the [[drawing]] up of a [[decree]] of the [[senate]]: [[quod]] in auctoritatibus praescriptis exstat, Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 5: Senatūs [[consultum]], [[quod]] [[tibi]] misi, [[factum]] est auctoritatesque perscriptae, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8.—<br /> Right of [[possession]] (cf. [[auctor]], II. F. 1.): lex usum et auctoritatem fundi jubet esse [[biennium]], Cic. Caecin. 19, 54: usūs [[auctoritas]] fundi [[biennium]] est, id. Top. 4, 23; so id. Caecin. 26, 74; id. Har. Resp. 7; Lex Atin. ap. Gell. 17, 6; cf. Hugo, Rechtsgesch. p. 217 sq.—So in the laws of the XII. Tables: ADVERSVS. HOSTEM. AETERNA. AVCTORITAS., [[against]] a [[stranger]] the [[right]] of [[possession]] is [[perpetual]] (i. e. a [[stranger]] cannot, by [[prescription]], [[obtain]] the [[right]] of [[possession]] to the [[property]] of a Roman), ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37.—<br /> In jurid. lang., a guaranty, [[security]], Paul. Sent. 2, 17.

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