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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- sons, sontis, adj. (nom. sing., Fest. p. 297; Aus. Idyll. 12) [Part. from root as-, es-; Sanscr. as-mi; Gr. ei\mi/; Lat. esum, sum; cf. Gr. e)teo/s, e)th/tumos; prop. he who was it, the real person, the guilty one]. I. Guilty, criminal; subst., a guilty person, an offender, malefactor, criminal (freq. and class., esp. as subst.; syn.:
reus, nocens): anima
, Verg. A. 10, 854; Ov. M. 6, 618: ulni
, id. ib. 7, 847: di
, Stat. Th. 5, 610: manus foedata sanguine sonti (poet. for sontis), Ov. M. 13, 563: morae ab igne supremo
, Stat. Th. 4, 641.—Subst.: sontes condemnant reos, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 16: (minores magistratus) vincla sontium servanto
, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6: punire sontes
, id. Off. 1, 24, 82: insontes, sicuti sontes
, Sall. C. 16, 3: manes Virginiae nullo relicto sonte tandem quieverunt
, Liv. 3, 58 fin.; Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; id. Fam. 4, 13, 3; Ov. M. 2, 522; 10, 697; 11, 268.—Gen. plur.: sontum
, Stat. Th. 4, 475.—II. Hurtful, noxious, acc. to Fest. p. 297, 22 (but no example is preserved).— III. Neutr. sing., sin, offence (eccl. Lat.), Aldh. Ep. 3.
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