VICE Copy link • VICEvitiositas; turpitudo (κακία, as moral evil: respecting vitiositas, Vid: Cic., Tusc., 4, 15, init.): libidines (evil passions or desires): vitium (a fault; anything amiss): flagitium; scelus (a vicious or wicked act). To be a vice, in vitio esse (to be faulty): to give one’s self up to vice, dedere animum vitiis: dedere se libidinibus: to be a monster of vice, ingurgitare se in flagitia (Cic.): omnibus vitiis affinem esse (after Cic., De Invent., 2, 10, 33): omnibus vitiis teneri (after Hor., Sat., 1, 4, 130); omnibus flagitiis, omnibus libidinibus deditum esse. To avoid, flee from vice, a vitiis abstinere: vitia declinare. A kind of instrument, perhaps *retinaculum.