Significatio vocis poena | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. penalty, punishment
   declension-1, feminine
2. hardship, torment
   declension-1, feminine
3. execution
   declension-1, feminine, figuratively
4. Equivalent to 'punishment': The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a...

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Exempla

“Ut … magnitudine poenae perterreant alios”

In order to terrify others by the severity of punishment

“Post mihi nōn similī poenā commissa luētis.”

“Hereafter, [believe] me, you will atone by no similar penalty [for] having committed [such misdeeds].” (In other words, another transgression will earn the winds far worse than a verbal warning, says Neptune.)

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