Meaning of spatium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. space, room, extent
   declension-2, neuter
2. distance between points
   declension-2, neuter
3. a square, walk, or promenade
   declension-2, neuter
4. racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
   declension-2, neuter
5. period or interval of time
   declension-2, neuter
6. quantity of length
   declension-2, neuter
7. time or leisure, as with opportunity
   declension-2, neuter

Equivalents

Examples

“gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō:”

To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit. The extent of the Roman city and of the world is the same. Or, in more natural English: Though other nations have been granted land with a border, the city of Rome's extent equals that of the world.

“Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.”

Yet, in order that a period might intervene, until the soldiers whom he had ordered [to be furnished] should assemble, he replied to the ambassadors, that he would take time to deliberate; if they wanted any thing, they might return on the day before the ides of April.

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