A keeping vp: also condition, place, fortune, stace, maner, way, or meanes. A propertre or nature. Election or choise A couenant, law, or offer cõdittonal. vt, Frugum conditio. The keeping of graine. Cic. Conditio bumana. Cic. The state or condition of. Fortuna atque conditio. Cic. Communitas conditionis cum aliquo. Cic. Multi laque legum & conditiooum propositi. Cic. Inris conditio. Cic The state of the law. Loci alicuius conditio Ouid. The nature of the place. Metri conditio. Quint. The qualitie or fashion of the metre. Adempta mortis conditio. Virg. He was made immortall. Conditio regionis. Col. The nature of the countrey. Seruiendi conditio. Cic. The slate of a seruaunt. Non communi conditione seruitutis vti. Cic. Sortis conditio. Ouid. Temporum condione aliquid mutari. Quint. With the stat of cime. Victoriæ conditio Cic. Conditio vitæ. Cic. Mortalis conditio vitæ. Cic. Easdem viræ conditiones non perferre. Cic. Sequi aliquam viræ conditionÊ. Cic To follow a maner of life. Viuendi conditio. Hor. Bona conditio. Cic. Communis. Hor. Dulcis. Horat. Fœda. Hor. Humana. Cic. Insima conditio & fortuna seruorum. Cic. Iniqua Cic. Insidosissima. Plin. Tristis. Claud. Æqua conditione causam dicere. Cic. When one hath equalltie with an aduersarie in pleading. Iniqua conditione causam dicere. Cic. When one hath more aduantage then the other. Commodiore conditione esse dicuntur prædia. Cic. Fermes not very chargeable. Meliore conditione est senex qum adole/cens. Cic. Longè alta conditione esse ac cæten. Vatimus Cicer. To be in state farre diuers from other men Conuellee conditionem anucitiæ. Cic. Excutere conditionem alicuius. Ouid. To eramine ones slate diligently. Faceie disparem conditionem. Cic Vnlike state. Mortali conditione generari. Cic. To be borne mortall. Ea cõditione na sumus. vt nihil quod homun accieie possir, recusare d beamus. Cic We be borne in such condition that. Immortalium conditionem postularc Cic. Prouidere condition cum contia periculosissinias hominum potentias. Cic. Conditio Plaut. An offer or condition in a conenaunt. Luculenta conditio. Plaut. A great or large offer. Ea conditione date aliquid. Cecinua Cicioni. To giue vnder that condition. Sub ea conditione. Cic. Idem. Optima conditione prædia. Videl vs. Cic. Fermas priuileged, or charged with nothing. Valde bona conditiosi suerit fortasse non omittam. Cicer. If the offer shall be very good. Controuersiæ conditio. Quint. Pacis conditio cum aliquo. Cic. Præsentis diseriminis conditio. Quint. Nulla conditione. Cic. In no meanes. Accedere ad conditionem & pactionem. Cic. To agree to. Accipere conditionem. Cic. Vide ACCIPIO. Conditionibus accipere populos in societatem. Liu. Vnder certaine conenaunts or conditions. Ad aliquam conditionem adducere aliquem. Balbus Cicero. To perswade to a certaine condition. Astringere aliquem suis conditionibus Cic To wrap in such coueants and conditions as he will himselfe. Capere conditionem, & In conditionem. Vide CAPIO. Dare alicuius rei conditionÊ alicui. Cic. To offer the cõvition. Ad conditionem defcendere. Cælius Cic. To condiscen to. Conditio noua & luculenta ferrur per me interprerem Ter. Is offered. Ferre conditiones, est victoris & superioris: Accipere conditiones, victi. Cic. To appoynr the couenaimts. Conditiones ferie, legés imponere. Cic. To appoynt the couenaunts. Fugere conditionibus. Cic. Not to keepe coueuaunts. Manere in conditione. Cic. Manet conditio. Cic. Mutare conditionem. Quint. Offerre conditionem pacis, apud Iauium. To offer meanes of peace. Perducere aliquem ad suas conditiones. Cic. To bring to such conditions as he will himselfe. Producere aliquem conditionibus. Cic. To delay with offers. Proponere conditionem supplicij alicui. Cic. Imquam conditronem recipere. Quint. Nothing reasonable. Repudiare æquissimam conditionem. Cic. To refufe a very indiffcrent offer. Respuere conditionem aliquam. Cic. State conditionibus. Cic. To stande to couenaunts. Statuere duliorem conditionem sibi. Cic. To make an agreement smally to his owne aduantage. In eandem conditionem vocari. Cælius Ciceroni. Vti conditione alicuius. Cic. Not to refuse his offer. Conditionem, pro Creatura sæpe viurpauit Tertul. Conditionâlis. & hoc conditionâle, pen. prod. AdiectiuÛ. Perreyning to condition or offer. vt, Pars conditionalis. Martial. Contractus conditionalis Vlp. A conditionall bargayne.

I. Prop.

(a). Absol.: alicui condicionem ferre, to offer terms, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 51; cf. id. ib. 4, 3, 91 sq.; id. Mil. 4, 1, 6; id. Men. 4, 2, 24; Liv. 37, 45, 13 al.: cognitis suis postulatis atque aequitate condicionum perspectā, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Cic. Caecin. 14, 40: non respuit condicionem, Caes. B. G. 1, 42; so Cic. Cael. 6, 14: ne si pax cum Romanis fieret, ipse per condiciones ad supplicium traderetur, Sall. J. 61 fin.: condiciones pacis, quas adfertis, si accepero, Curt. 4, 11, 19: posse condicionibus bellum poni, Sall. J. 112, 1: dum de condicionibus tractat, Nep. Eum. 5 fin.: his condicionibus conpositā pace, Liv. 2, 13, 4: aliquot populos aut vi subegit aut condicionibus in societatem accepit, id. 9, 15, 2: ex quā condicione, in consequence of, id. 23, 35, 9: sub condicionibus eis pacem agere, id. 21, 12, 4: accipe sub certā condicione preces, Ov. F. 4, 320: sub condicione, conditionally, Liv. 6, 40, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.; usu. without a prep.: eā enim condicione acceperas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: eādem condicione, id. Div. 2, 44, 93; id. Or. 71, 235; id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, 12; Sall. J. 79, 8: istā quidem condicione, id. de Or. 2, 7, 27: nullā condicione, id. Verr. 2, 1, 52, 137: ullā condicione, id. Fl. 18, 43: his legibus, his condicionibus erit quisquam tam stultus, etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 29, 70.—

(b). With ut or ne: fert illam condicionem, ut ambo exercitus tradant, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 2: eā accepisse condicione, ut, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 24, 34: hac condicione, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 38; Phaedr. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Galb. 15; id. Vit. 15: jubere ei praemium tribui sed eā condicione, ne quid postea scriberet, Cic. Arch. 10, 25 B. and K.: permisit eā solā condicione, ne, etc., Suet. Tib. 26: fecit pacem his condicionibus: ne qui, etc., Nep. Thras. 3, 1; so Liv. 23, 7, 1; Suet. Tib. 13 al.—

(g). With si (rare; not in Cic.): librum tibi eā condicione daret, si reciperes te correcturum, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4; Suet. Caes. 68; id. Claud. 24; id. Vit. 6.—

(d). With dum (rare): jam vero istā condicione, dum mihi liceat negare, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 101.— Also transf. subject., free choice, option: quorum condicio erat, who had their choice, Plin. 36, 5, 4, 20.—From the conditions made in marriage,

B. Esp., a marriage, match; sometimes, by meton., = the person married (freq. and class.).

1. In an honorable sense, in full: condicio uxoria, Cic. Lael. 10, 34; usu. alone: tu condicionem hanc accipe; ausculta mihi, Atque eam desponde mihi, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 60; so id. ib. 3, 5, 2; id. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem, id. Trin. 1, 2, 122: hanc condicionem si quoi tulero extrario, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 13: aliam quaerere, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 99: condicionem filiae quaerendam esse, Liv. 3, 45, 11; Nep. Att. 12, 1: alicui deferre, Suet. Caes. 27; id. Aug. 63; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 8; 1, 14, 9; Mart. 3, 33; 5, 17; Just. 11, 7, 8.—Hence, in the jurists, the formula of separation: condicione tuā non utor, I will not have you, Dig. 24, 2, 2. —

2. In a bad sense, an amour, the relation of lover or mistress: accepit condicionem, dein quaestum occipit, Ter. And. 1, 1, 52; cf.: quae tibi Condicio nova, luculenta, fertur per me, id. Mil. 4, 1, 5; and hence, meton., a lover, paramour: habeo hortos ... hinc licet condiciones cottidie legas, Cic. Cael. 15, 36; Suet. Aug. 69; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 19; Lampr. Elag. 5, 8.—

II. In gen., the external position, situation, condition, rank, place, circumstances (very freq. and class.).

A. Of persons: est haec condicio liberorum populorum. etc., Cic. Planc. 4, 11: condicio infirma et fortuna servorum, id. Off. 1, 13, 41; cf.: tolerabilis servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: condicione eo meliore est senex quam adulescens, id. Sen. 19, 68: humana, id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15: ista condicio est testium, ut quibus creditum non sit negantibus, eisdem credatur dicentibus, id. Rab. Post. 12, 35: alia oratoris, Quint. 10, 3, 8; 3, 8, 37: alicujus condicio vitaque, id. 3, 8, 50: abjectae extremaeque sortis. Suet. Calig. 35: fuit intactis quoque cura condicione super communi, solicitude concerning their common condition or circumstances, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 152; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sen. Ot. Sap. 31, 1; Quint. Decl. 308; Lact. 3, 28, 5.—

B. Of things, a situation, condition, nature, mode, manner: quae consuerint gigni gignentur eādem Condicione, Lucr. 2, 301: agri, Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: frumenti, Plin. 24, 17, 101, 158: aliquam vitae sequi, mode or manner of living, Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 16: earum (frugum) cultus et condiciones tradere, id. Div. 1, 51, 116 B. and K.; cf.: haec vivendi, Hor. S. 2, 8, 65: diversa causarum inter ipsas, Quint. 10, 2, 23: duplex ejus disceptationis, id. 7, 5, 2: litium, id. 5, 1, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 36: vel temporum vel locorum, id. 12, 10, 2 et saep.