vindicta

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vindico, a rod, a touch of which in the presence of a magistrate was the ceremony of manumission, liberating-rod, manumissionstaff : vindictā liberatus, L.: vindictā liber factus: quem ter vindicta quaterque Inposita haud umquam formidine privet, H.: vindictae quisque favete suae, i. e. his own champion , O.— A means of asserting, vindication, protection, defence : libertatis, L.: mors, inquit, una vindicta est, L.: legis severae, O.— Vengeance, revenge, satisfaction, redress : facilis vindicta est mihi, Ph.: gravior quam iniuria, Iu.: legis severae, O.