CONDITION Copy link • CONDITION 1. State, status: conditio (conditio is lasting, status transient): locus (the situation of a person or thing as brought about by circumstances; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 2, 26): causa (any unusual, embarrassing condition, of which it is still uncertain how it may end): res (circumstances in the widest sense): a good or flourishing condition, bonus status: bona conditio: bonus locus: res bonae, or secundae or florentes: to be in the same or in a similar condition, in eodem loco esse; in eadem causa esse; eadem est mea causa: imagine yourself in my condition, eum te esse finge, qui ego sum: to find one’s self in a better condition, in meliore conditione or in meliore causa esse; meliore loco res meae sunt: to be in a wretched condition, in summa infelicitate versari; pessimo loco esse: to be in a bad condition or state, deteriore statu esse: to keep anything in a good condition or state, aliquid integrum et incolume servare; aliquid tueri: to restore anything to its former condition, in pristinum restituere: in antiquum statum restituere (general term): in integrum restituere (especially in juridical matters): reficere: restituere (to mend): to remain in its condition, statum suum tenere (to remain as it was): integrum manere (to remain uninjured by another): a hopeless condition, res pessimae, perditae: in their desperate condition, in extremis suis rebus: my condition is not one of the best, res meae sunt minus secundae: Planius is in nearly the same condition, eadem fere causa est Planii: to be in an embarrassing condition on account of anything, premi aliqua re (e.g., from want of corn, re frumentaria; Vid: Möb., Caes., B.G., 1, 52, p: 96): nobody is satisfied with his own condition, suae quemque fortunae maxime poenitet (Cic., ad Div., 6, 1, in.): to drive anybody from his (advantageous) condition, loco suo or gradu movere; statu suo or gradu dejicere: the condition of affairs, rerum status: the condition of affairs is entirely changed, magna facta est rerum commutatio; versa sunt omnia: the unfavorable condition of affairs, iniquitas rerum or temporum: according to the condition of affairs (circumstances), pro re; pro re nata; pro rei conditione or statu; ut res se habet; ut res fert. Rank, position in society, vitae genus (general term): conditio (with regard to occupation, e.g., infimi generis conditio atque fortuna, Cic.): ars (art, profession): to choose one’s condition in life, vitae genus deligere or suscipere. Natural disposition, indoles, natura, naturae habitus (innate capacities). Stipulation, conditio: lex (the prescribed rule or clause contained in a contract): pactum: conventum (the agreement or compact itself): conventus, us (Auct. ad Her., 2, 13, extr.): exceptio (the exception, limitation: the condition of excluding anything): adjunctio (a restricting clause, Cic., de Invent., 2, 57, 171): causa (as philosophical technical term, the condition as that by which anything becomes comprehensible or possible; as Plin., Ep., 5, 5, 4: qui voluptatibus deditiquasi in diem vivunt, vivendi causas quotidie finiunt): conditions (= terms): to offer or propose conditions, conrlitiones ferre, proponere; leges proponere: to establish, to fix conditions, conrlitiones statuere, constituere: to prescribe conditions to anybody, conditiones ferre, dicere alicui; astringere aliquem conditionibus: to accept the conditions, conditiones accipere, recipere; ad conditiones accedere; ad conditiones venire (to come to terms) or descendere (to submit to them): not to accept the conditions, to reject the conditions, conditiones recusare, repudiare, respuere, aspernari, rejicere: to observe the conditions, in conditione manere; conditionibus stare; conventis stare: not to observe the conditions, conditiones omittere: on this condition, ea conditione; sub ea conditione; cum conditione; ea lege; his conditionibus; his legibus: on condition that etc., (sub) ea conditione, ut or ne etc. cum eo, ut etc.; ita... ut or si; sic... si etc. (only in so far as or if): to make peace on the following conditions, pacem facere (constituere) his conditionibus (legibus): the peace was established on the following conditions, pax in eas conditiones convenit: that he would not come on any other condition, alia ratione se esse non venturum (Caes., B.G., 1, 42, Herzog). 2. v. To provide with a condition, circumscribere. To stipulate, pacisci: depacisci: aliquid convenit alicui cum aliquo or inter aliquos (to agree with anybody about anything or among one another): sibi depacisci (to reserve to one’s self, to condition for one’s self): sibi excipere (to exempt one’s self): stipulari (to cause formally to be promised to one’s self).