• PARDON

1. s. venia; remissio poenae: to beg pardon, veniam ab aliquo petere; petere ut mihi ignoscatur; deprecari aliquid ab aliquo (of or from anyone): postulare ut delicto ignoscatur; erroris veniam petere (for a fault): postulare ut delicto ignoscat aliquis (for anyone): a begging of pardon, deprecatio (in defence of anything wrong): ignoscendi postulatio (prayer for forgiveness): to grant pardon; Vid. PARDON, v.

2. v. ignoscere (to overlook a fault; between equals): concedere (not to be severe or strict): condonare (as it were, to make a present of anything), alicui aliquid; veniam dare alicui (of superiors; not to inflict punishment): veniam et impunitatem dare alicui; gratiam alicujus rei facere. Pardon me, ignoscas quaeso. ☞ “To pardon anybody his precipitate conduct, “, etc., should be, not ignoscere alicui festinationem (which is Ov., Liv.), but ignoscere alicujus festinationi: but “to pardon this, that,” etc., is ignoscere hoc, illud, id, etc. “Pardon my boldness in doing so and so,” is ignoscere quod hoc mihi sumo (Vid: Cic., Fam., 7, 5; 13, 51, Krebs).