Significatio vocis iniūria | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. injury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong
   declension-1
2. injustice, wrongdoing
   declension-1
3. damage, harm, hurt, injury
   declension-1
4. slander
   declension-1

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“SĪMŌ: Sī propter amōrem uxōrem nōlet dūcere, / ea prīmum ab illō animum advortenda injūriast.”

SIMO: If [my son] refuses to marry because of love, that is the first wrong of his which [I could have him] reconsider. (Elision: iniuriast = iniuria + est. Idiom: “uxorem ducere,” literally “to lead a wife”, i.e., to marry. Another idiom: “animum advortenda” means, more literally, “attention must be turned away from”. In this context, Simo is implying that he will rebuke his son for acting this way.)

“Nec hoc ignōrant, sed occāsiōnem nocendī captant querendō; accēpērunt iniūriam ut facerent.”

They aren’t unaware of this [tendency], but they seize the opportunity to do harm by complaining; they [let it be known that they] received an injury in order to inflict one. (In other words, an arrogant slave-master, angered by some offense to his pride, retaliates by torturing his slave. Seneca here plays off two meanings of iniuria: a mere “insult” becomes the excuse to inflict a physical “injury.”)

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