DETERMINATION Copy link • DETERMINATIONAct of determining, definitio (act of marking out, defining, etc., hominum et temporum definitio, determination of the particular persons meant, and of the times when the events were to occur): limitatio (the marking out the boundaries or limits; Vitrvius, Col.). Act of determining a cause: determination of a cause, dijudicatio (act of deciding a question): disceptatio (PROP., the discussion that precedes the determination, but also = determination; e.g., disceptatio arbitrorum, Quint., 11, 1, 43): judicium: sententia (determination formally declared by a judge, etc.): arbitrium (decision of an arbiter). To come to a determination in the case of anybody, de aliquo constituere (Nep.). The determination of that question is very difficult, magna est ista dijudicatio (Cic.). Resolution, decision, consilium (purpose; resolve): sententia (opinion): judicium (deliberate judgement). A sudden determination, repentina voluntas: to adopt a determination or come to a determination, consilium capere or inire: to come to the determination, in animo habere: to adhere to one’s determination, in proposito susceptoque consilio permanere: it is my fixed determination, certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: not to be able to come to any determination, animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo, quid faciam; in incerto habeo, quidnam consilii capiam: with the determination to, etc., eo animo, ut: with the same determination as, etc., ea mente, quam, etc. End; the putting an end to, etc., determinatio (e.g., mundi, orationis, Cic.). Direction; act of directing (e.g., in “the determination of the will to an object”). [Vid: DIRECTION.] Decision of character, constantia: animi constantia (Ov.): constantia morum (Tac.): animus certus or confirmatus (firmness): animus praesens: animi praesentia (quickness and presence of mind to decide according to circumstances).