Sponsio, sponsiônis, Verbale. Paulus. A promise: a bargaine, an agreement: a couenant: euery promise made by demaunding and asking of an other.Audax sponsio. luuen. An hardie wager or bargaine. Sponsio.Cic.A certaine sute or wager in the law, whereby the prouoking of the one part, a certain summe of money was pawned before a Iudge, to abide the trial of the matter, whiche snmme was forfeited by him that was condemned in the sute. Stipulation.In sponsionem deponere.To lay downe in wager that which he will leese, if he be ouercome: to stake down, or lay down gage.Sponsiones sacere. Plin. To lay wagers: to wage the law in that sorte.Quanti placet sponsionem facere? How much will you lay?Sponsionem facere cum aliquo. Pli. To lay a wager against one. Fit sponsio. Iuuen.A wager is laide.Sponsione prouocare. Valer. Max. To wil and prouoke one to abide the triall of a matter, vnder the perill to leese a certaine summe of money, if he be condemned.Sponsio quæ in verba sacta est? Cic.What were the words of the wager, or stipulation.Sponsio voti. Ci. A vowe or promise made to God.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sponsĭo, ōnis, f. [spondeo], jurid. and publicists' t. t., a solemn promise or engagement to some performance (in bargains, covenants, treaties, etc.); a promise, guarantee, security, sponsion for any one (freq. and class.; cf.: pactio, foedus). I. In gen.: sponsio appellatur omnis stipulatio promissioque, Dig. 50, 16, 7: voti sponsio, quā obligamur deo, Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 41: Scandilium cogis sponsionem acceptam facere, id. Verr. 2, 3, 60, 139: per inducias sponsionem faciunt, uti, etc.,
made an agreement
, Sall. J. 79, 4: non foedere pax Caudina sed per sponsionem facta est,
by giving surety
, Liv. 9, 5, 2: sponsione se obstringere, id. 9, 8, 4: sponsionem interponere, id. 9, 9, 4; and: tunc sponsio et pax repudietur ... nec populus Romanus consulum sponsionem nec nos fidem populi Romani accusemus, id. 9, 11, 5: Ocriculani sponsione in amicitiam accepti, id. 9, 41, 20; 39, 43, 5 (but Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 26, is spurious; v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—II. In partic., in civil suits, a mutual agreement or stipulation of the parties, that he who loses should pay a certain sum to him who gains the cause, a sort of wager at law: per sponsionem hoc modo agimus; provocamus adversarium tali sponsione: si homo quo de agitur ex jure Quiritium meus est, sestertios XXV. nummos dare spondes?Gai. Inst. 4, 93: condicio Quintio fertur, ut, si id factum negaret ceteraque, quae objecisset, sponsione defenderet sese, Liv. 39, 43, 5: in probrum suum sponsionem factam, id. 40, 46, 14; hence, sponsio (sponsionem facere) si non (ni), a wager that, to agree to make a payment if not: ut sponsionem facere possent, ni adversus edictum praetoris vis facta esset, Cic. Caecin. 16, 45: sponsio est, ni te Apronius socium in decumis esse dicat, id. Verr. 2, 3, 59, 135: sponsionem milium nummūm facere cum lictore suo, ni furtis quaestum faceret, id. ib. 2, 5, 54, 131; cf.: jubet Quinctium sponsionem cum Sex. Naevio facere, si bona sua ex edicto dies XXX. possessa non essent, id. Quint. 8, 30; id. Fam. 7, 21 init.; id. Pis. 23, 55: sponsione optime facere posse, id. Caecin. 16, 45; id. Off. 3, 19, 77: Apronium sponsione lacessivit, id. Verr. 2, 3, 57, 132: sponsione vincere, id. Quint. 27, 84.—Post-class., with quod: de sponsione quam is cum adversario, quod vir bonus esset, fecerat, Val. Max. 7, 2, 4: sponsionem provocare, quod, etc., id. 2, 8, 2; 6, 1, 10.—With acc. and inf.: Cleopatra sponsione revocavit, insumere se posse, etc., Macr. S. 2, 13.—2. Hence, in gen., a bet, betting: audax, Juv. 11, 202.— B.Meton., a sum of money deposited according to agreement, a stake, acc. to Varr L. L. 6, 70 Müll.