OFFICE Copy link • OFFICEBusiness, function; particular employment, especially public, munus (general term); munia, -um, neuter (acts of duty, obligations): officium (like the preceding, that which one has to do): partes (the share or part of a duty or obligation imposed on anyone, one’s own sphere of action): provincia (that which is conferred on anyone, especially a public office): sors (that which has fallen to anyone by lot): locus (a definite position): magistratus (the office of a magistrate; opposed to imperium, command in war): honos (an office of honor). An honorable office, munus magnificum, dignitas, honos: a public office, officium publicum: a civic office, officium civile: an important office, munus amplum or grave (opposed to munus exiguum, vile, servile, sordidum): to seek an office, petere honores, ambire magistratum; (earnestly) inservire or operam dare honoribus: to obtain an office, munus alicui defertur, mandatur, muneri praeficior: to enter upon an office, munus or magistratum inire, munus suscipere, provinciam capere or accipere: to bear, hold, or administer an office, munus obire, sustinere, munere fungi, magistratum gerere, potestatem gerere or potestati praeesse (of a consul or praetor): to perform one’s office well, implere officii sui partes, colere et facere officium suum, laute administrare munus suum: to have filled all offices in the state, omnibus honoribus et reipublicae muneribus perfunctum esse: to undertake or discharge the office of anyone, suscipere officia et partes alicujus: to discharge one’s office badly, male administrare munus suum: to confer an office on anyone, munus alicui deferre, mandare, assignare: to hold office, munus habere, sustinere: to hold no office, vacare munere, vacare a publico munere et officio, or ab omni reipublicae administratione: to refuse or decline an office, munus deprecari or recusare; munus defugere (to shun): to succeed to anybody’s office, partes alicujus sibi sumere, munus alicujus occupare: this is my office, hoc meum est: this is not your office, hae non sunt tuae partes, hoc a te non exigitur: in virtue of my office, pro auctoritate: robe of office, vestis forensis: seal of office, praefecturae signum: when he was in office, dum functus est munere: air of office, potestatis persona (of a governor, Tac., Agr., 9, 3); gravitas censoria, supercilium censorium (severity, sternness; Cic., Cat., 15, 35; Valerius Max., 2, 9, praef.): to put on an air of office, vultum componere (Plin., Ep., 2, 20, 3): out of office, (a) generally, that holds no office, privatus, qui ab omni reipublicae administratione vacat; (b) retired or removed from office, a munere remotus; cui munus abrogatum est. Place of business, sedes praefecturae (where business is transacted); domus, quae ad habitandum semper datur ei qui quaesitoris obtinet munus (official residence).