Absistere bello
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Latin Construction
- To end or avoid war.
Loci
- αʹ Horace, Sermones 1.3:
| Nōmĭnă|qu(e) īnvē|nērĕ; dĕ|hīnc āb|sīstĕrĕ | bēllō, ōppĭdă | cōepē|rūnt mū|nīr(e) ēt | pōnĕrĕ | lēgēs, nē quĭ(s) fŭr | ēssēt | nēu lătrŏ | nēu quĭs ă|dūltēr. | And they discovered names; from then on they began to avoid war, and to fortify their towns and to set up laws that no one should be a thief or a robber or an adulterer. |
- βʹ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 21.6:
| Haec sententia, quae tutissima videbatur, vicit; legatique eo maturius missi, P. Valerius Flaccus et Q. Baebius Tamphilus, Saguntum ad Hannibalem atque inde Carthaginem si non absisteretur bello ad ducem ipsum in poenam foederis rupti deposcendum. | This opinion, which seemed safest, prevailed; and so the envoys, Publius Valerius Flaccus and Quintus Baebius Tamphilus, were sent all the sooner to Hannibal at Sagunto—and then to Carthage, if the war were not ended, to demand the general himself as punishment for the treaty being broken. |
