• RISK

1. alea: periculum: discrimen (attended with danger): at my risk, meo periculo; meo Marte (☞ not meo proprio Marte). Risk of one’s life, vitae or mortis periculum (general term): vitae or salutis discrimen (dangerous situation in which one is placed, involving risk of life): capitis periculum or discrimen (when one is in danger of suffering capital punishment): at the risk of one’s life, cum capitis periculo: to run the risk of losing anything, de aliqua re in dubium venire (e.g., de civitate, Cic., Caecin., 7, 18): to run or incur the risk of one’s life, adire vitae or capitis periculum; mortis periculo se committere: to be at the risk of one’s life, in capitis or vitae periculum vocatum esse, ad mortis periculum adductum esse (of an accused person): in praecipiti esse (of a sick person). To run a risk, periculum subire; fortunae se committere.

2. aliquid in aleam dare: ire in aleam alicujus rei (to peril or risk anything): aliquid audere (to dare anything): periculum alicujus rei or in aliqua re facere; aliquid tentare, experiri, periclitari (to try one’s luck in a dangerous business). (The words are found in this connection and order.) experiri et periclitari: one’s life, committere se periculo mortis: adire vitae or mortis periculum: to risk one’s life on anybody’s behalf, vitae or capitis periculum pro aliquo subire; inferre se in periculum capitis atque in vitae discrimen pro aliquo; vitae dimicationem subire pro aliquo: not to refuse to risk one’s life for anybody, pro aliquo vitae dimicationem non profugere.