Working. Priuat deos omni procutatione atq; actione Epicurus. Cic. He sayth the Gods doe nothing. Mentis actio atque agitatio. Cic. The occupying. Actiones corporis naturales. Celf Naturall operations. Consentaneæ appetitionibus actiones. Cic. Honestæ actiones. Cic. Actio vitæ Cicero. The maner of his lyse: the leading of his life. Actío fabulæ. Cic. The playing of a comedie. Actiones; pro Actis. Cic. Actes done in ones office. Mandare sctiptls actiones suas. Cicer. To put in writing his owne actes. Actio de oratoris pronuntiatione. Cicer. The pleading or pronouncing of an oration. Actio pro Oratione, siue quum habetur, siue quum scripta est. Quint. The pleading or oration. Breuis & concisa actio. Quint. Clamosa actio. Quint. Actio facilis & fauorabilis: Quint. Actio varia, vehemens, plena animi, plena spiritus, plena doloris, plena veritatis. Cic. Actio apud lurisconsultos dicltur ius persequendi in indicio quod sibi debetur. lustin. An action in law: a plea. Formulæ atque actiones. Cic. Actoris actio. Cic. The plea or action of the plaintife. Actio est in authoré præsentem his verbis, &c. Cic. Ye may enter your action against the partie being present, &c. Actio in rem. Cansæ actio. Cic. The pleading of a cause. Ciuili actione aliquid repetere. Cic. By suite in the citie. Competit actio in cum. Quint. Componere actiones. Cic. To write certaine formes of sute. Actionem concipere. Papmian. To drawe out the action or derlaration. Constituere actiones. Cic. To appoint protesse. Dare actionem. Cic. To giue processe against one. Excludere actiones. Cic. To debarre processe. Excludere aliquem actionis iure, Quint. Not to suffer one to pleade. Eximere actionem, Vide EXIMO. Expositæ actiones. Quint. Habere actionem. Cic. To haue piocesse graunted. Inserre actionem cum aliquo, Vide INPERO. Iniuriarum actio. Cic. Artion or trespace. Instituere actionem, Vide INSTITVO. Instruere actionem. Cic. To giue instraction how one shall proceede. Intendere actionem perduellionis. Cic To sue of treason. Integram actionem relinquere. Cic. Mutare actionem. Cic. Postulare actionem. Cic. To require processe, or to enter his action. Restituere actionem. Tranq. To graunt processe againe. Suscipere actionem. Cic. To vndertake the defence.

I. In gen.: non modo deos spoliat motu et actione divina, sed etiam homines inertes efficit, Cic. N. D. 1, 37; 2, 16; virtutis laus omnis in actione consistit, id. Off. 1, 6; id. Fin. 5, 19, 54.—With subject. gen.: ad eas res parandas, quibus actio vitae continetur, active, practical life, id. Off. 1, 5: corporis, id. Div. 1, 32: mentis, id. N. D. 1, 17; and with object. gen.: itaque nec actio rerum illarum (the public performance of those things) apertā petulantiā vacat, id. ib. 1, 35, 127; ib. 1, 43: actio ullius rei, id. Ac. 2, 33, 108; and so plur.: periculosae rerum actiones sunt, Off. 1, 2, 4; hence: actio gratiarum, the giving of thanks, id. Fam. 10, 19 (cf.: gratias agere).—

II. Esp.

A. Public functions, civil acts, proceedings, or duties.

1. In gen., Cic. Fam. 9, 8: tribunorum, their official duties, Liv. 5, 11; so, consularis, id. 4, 55 al.: actiones nostras scriptis mandamus, Cic. Off. 2, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 5.—Hence negotiation, deliberation: discessu consulum actio de pace sublata est, Cic. Att. 9. 9.—Esp.

2. Of judicial proceedings.

a. An action, suit, process (in abstr.), with a gen. more precisely defining it, e. g. actio furti, injuriarum; also with de: actio de repetundis, de arboribus succisis, etc.: actionem alicui intendere, Cic. Mil. 14: instituere, to bring an action against one, id. Mur. 9: multis actiones (processes, suits) et res (the property in suit) peribant, Liv. 39, 18 al.—

b. The accusation (in concr.), the statement of the crime, the indictment, charge, accusation: Inde illa actio, OPE CONSILIOQVE TVO FVRTVM AIO FACTVM ESSE, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74; cf. id. Caecin. 3; id. de Or. 1, 36, 167.—Hence, in gen., judicial forms (the omission of which rendered a suit null and void): actiones Manilianae, forms relative to purchase and sale; cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 246: Hostilianae, ib. 1, 57, 245.—Hence,

c. A pleading of a case (spoken or written); so Cic. calls his Orats. against Verres, actiones, pleas, simply dividing them into actio prima and actio secunda: actio causae, Cic. Caecin. 2, 4; actiones litium, id. Phil. 9, 5, 11; so, Suet. continuae actiones, Ner. 15: in prima parte actionis, Quint. 10, 1, 20 al.—

d. Permission for a suit: dare alicui actionem (which was the right or duty of the praetor or judge), Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 27.—

e. The judicial management of a suit, the trial, the day of trial: prima, altera, tertia, Cic. Verr. 1, 30; 2, 2, 6.—

B. Gesticulation connected with oral delivery.

1. Of an orator; the exterior air or bearing, the action, delivery: Demosthenem ferunt ei qui quaesivisset quid primum esset in dicendo, actionem; quid secundum, idem et idem tertium respondisse, Cic. Brut. 38; cf. id. de Or. 1, 18; so that it often includes even the voice: actio ejus (Pompeii) habebat et in voce magnum splendorem et in motu summam dignitatem, id. Brut. 68; cf. id. Or. 17: est actio quasi sermo corporis, id. de Or. 3, 59; cf. ib. 2, 17 al.—Hence, also —

2. Of an actor, action: in quo tanta commoveri actio non posset, id. de Or. 3, 26.—

C. In dramatic lang., the action, the connection or series of events, the plot, in a play: habet enim (fabula) varios actus multasque actiones et consiliorum et temporum, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 6.