limitation Copy link Outline 1. circumscriptio2. exceptio (a special exception with respect to anything) • limitation: 1. circumscriptio: Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 21. Or expr. by verb: v. limit. 2. exceptio (a special exception with respect to anything): to be praised with a l., cum ex. laudari, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13: without any l., nullis exceptionibus, Tac. G. 44.