latrocinium

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

latrōcinium ī, n

latrocinor, freebooting, robbery, highway-robbery, piracy : apertum: domesticum: latrocinium potius quam bellum: latrocini modo caeca militia, etc., L.: in latrocinio comprehensi, robbery , Cs.: latrocinii imago, i. e. the game of war (chess or draughts), O.— Villany, roguery, outrage : furtim et per latrocinia ad inperia niti, S.: latrocinium, non iudicium, futurum. — A band of robbers : si ex tanto latrocinio iste unus tolletur.