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exceptĭo , ōnis, f. id.,
I.an exception, restriction, limitation [good prose and very freq., esp. in Cic.).
I. In gen.: “consiliorum, voluntatum sine ulla exceptione communitas,” Cic. Lael. 17; so, “sine (ulla) or cum exceptione,” id. Fam. 6, 5, 1; id. Caecin. 8 fin.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31; id. Att. 8, 4, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13; id. Inv. 2, 57, 172; Quint. 7, 1, 50; Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 5 et saep.; cf. in plur.: “unus imperitat nullis jam exceptionibus,” Tac. G. 44: “quod si exceptio facit, ne liceat, ibi necesse est licere, ubi non est exceptum, etc.,” Cic. Balb. 14: “sunt in tota lege exceptiones duae,” id. Agr. 1, 4 et saep.—
II. Esp., in jurid. Lat., the exception of the defendant to the plaintiff's statements, inserted in the praetor's edict, Gai. Inst. 4, 116 sq.; Just. Inst. 4, 13; Dig. 44, 1; Cod. Just. 8, 36; Cic. Inv. 2, 19; id. de Or. 1, 37; cf. Rein's Röm. Privatr. p. 448 sq.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 6.5.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 8.4.2
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.1.13
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 1.4
    • Cicero, For Aulus Caecina, 8
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.80
    • Cicero, For Cornelius Balbus, 14
    • Tacitus, Germania, 44
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.37
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.2.5
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 17
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 1.50
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.19
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.57
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