SENTENCE Copy link • SENTENCE 1. s. Judgement, judicatio (Cic., Tusc., 4, 11, 26): arbitrium (the decision of an umpire; then any decision): decretum (a legal opinion): responsum ac decretum: judicium (sentence of a judge): decisio (the decision of a person conversant with a matter): pronunciatio (the pronouncing of a judicial sentence; Cic., Cluent., 20, 56; Petronius, 80, 7): Sentence of condemnation, damnatorium judicium; *sententia, qua aliquis capitis condemnatur (of death): to pronounce sentence of condemnation on anybody (i. e., of condemnation to death), capitis or capite damnare aliquem; capitis condemnare aliquem; supplicium constituere in aliquem: to give or pass sentence, respondere; responsum dare or edere (general term); decernere (to give a decision on any subject; of magistrates or private persons); oraculum dare, edere, fundere (of an oracle); judicare; sententiam dicere (of a judge); disceptare; arbitrari (as an umpire; the latter, Scaevola, Dig., 4, 8, 44, and Paullus, Dig., 6, 1, 35): to reverse a sentence, rem judicatam rescindere (Cic.): to leave or refer to the sentence of anyone, arbitrio alicujus permittere; subjicere; conferre ad arbitrium alicujus: a definitive sentence, *sententia, qua omnis controversia dirimitur, or qua lis dijudicatur (☞ in the late Latin of the lawyers, sententia terminalis, Cod. Just., 4, 31, 14): to pass a definitive sentence, litem dijudicare (Vid: Hor., Od. 3, 5, 54). Opinion, Vid: Period, sententia (e.g., sententiam detornare; Gell.): periodus. Vid: PERIOD 2. v. damnare or condemnare aliquem (with either genitive of the crime, if that is mentioned, with or without nomine or crimine, or with de and ablative: the punishment, however, is generally put in the genitive, seldom in the ablative, or with ad or in with accusative; Vid: Zumpt, § 447). To sentence anybody to death, aliquem capite, or capitis damnare or condemnare; aliquem poenae capitalis damnare; aliquem morti addicere: to sentence anybody to eightfold damages, aliquem octupli damnare: to sentence anybody to hard labor, aliquem damnare ad or in opus publicum: to sentence to pay the costs, damnare in expensas: to sentence anybody without trial, or unheard, aliquem indicta causa damnare or condemnare