subscriptĭo, ōnis, f. [subscribo].
I Any thing written underneath , a subscription (class.).
A In gen.: Serapionis subscriptio, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 17.—
B In partic.
1 Jurid. t. t., a subscription to an accusation: si cui crimen obiciatur, praecedere debet in crimen subscriptio, quae res ad id inventa est, ne facile quis prosiliat ad accusationem, cum sciat inultam sibi non futuram, Dig. 48, 2, 7: componere, Sen. Ben. 3, 26, 2: consecratur subscriptio, id. Cons. ad Marc. 22, 5: edere, id. Apoc. 14, 1; Gell. 2, 4, 1: tanti sceleris, Quint. Decl. 15, 6.—Also of a joint subscription , by one who seconds the accusation (cf. subscribo, I. B. 1.): subscriptionem sibi postularunt, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49.—
2 Publicists’ t. t., of the censor, a noting down , note of the offence censured: subscriptio censoria, Cic. Clu. 44, 123: censoriae, id. ib. 44, 123; cf. id. ib. 42, 118.—
3 A signature of a document (consisting of the subscription of one's name or the appending of a formula of greeting; v. subscribo, I. B. 3.): si testator specialiter subscriptione suā declaraverit, dictasse, etc., Dig. 48, 10, 15: quodcumque imperator per epistolam et subscriptionem statuit, legem esse constat, ib. 1, 4, 1: cum Rhodiorum magistratus, quod litteras publicas sine subscriptione ad se dederant, evocasset, etc., Suet. Tib. 32 Wolf (cf. Dio, 57, 11).—
4 Hence, a warrant of the emperor (late Lat.), Amm. 15, 7, 9.—*
II A list , register : jugerum subscriptio ac professio, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 113.