Significatio vocis piratica | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. piracy
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2. Equivalent to 'Piracy': Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.

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Exempla

“pīrāticam facere, exercēre”

to commit piracy

“Qui in magistratu nisi rogationem de piratico bello⟳ tulisset, profecto egestate et improbitate coactus piraticam ipse fecisset”

If he [Aulus Gabinius] hadn't brought that law through on the Pirate War [the Lex Gabinia], of course he himself would have committed piracy due to his own poverty and wickedness

“Quaedam tamen perdurant. Nam et quae uetera nunc sunt fuerunt olim noua, et quaedam sunt in usu perquam recentia, … 'Piraticam' quoque ut 'musicam' et 'fabricam' dici adhuc dubitabant mei praeceptores, 'fauorem' et 'urbanum' Cicero noua credit. Some [words] stay, however, as words that are now old were new long time ago⟳, and there are also words that only very recently became in common use … My own teachers still hesitated to use pīrātica, mūsica, and fabrica, and Cicero thinks favor and urbānus are new.”

“maxime Dani, occidentis regionibus nimium vicini, quoniam circa eas piratycam exercent frequentibus latrociniis”

of these, most of all the Danish, who are too close to the Western regions as they commit piracy in the area, with frequent assaults

“Cilices enim ob piraticam, quam exercebant, et assiduas hostium depraedationes, infames erant immanitatis et crudelitatis nomine.”

Due to piracy, which they committed, and their terrible pillaging of their enemies, the Cilicians were infamous for their brutality and cruelty.

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