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|lshtext=<b>perdŭellĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[perduellis]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—*<br /><b>II</b> 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.

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