peace (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. pax, pācis, f.2. ōtium (poet.) • peace (subs.): 1. pax, pācis, f.: to have p., p. habere, Cic. Att. 7., 14: to live in p., pacem agitare, Sall. Jug. 14: to bring about p. between citizens, p. inter cives conciliare, Cic. Fam. 10, 27: to offer conditions of p., pacis conditiones ferre, Liv. 2, 13, init.: p. being concluded on these terms, his conditionibus composita pace, ib.: p. was granted to Philip on these terms, p. data Philippo in has leges est, Liv. 33, 30, init.: they concluded p. on these terms, p. his legibus constituerunt, Nep. Timoth. 2. Hence, to make (overtures for) p., pacificari, Sall. Jug. 66: Liv. (N.B.--Not used = compact, treaty; which is foedus: v. treaty.) 2. ōtium (poet.): p. with open gates, apertis otia portis, Hor. A. P. 199. See also quiet, tranquillity. Phr.: a breach of the p., vis: the penalties for breach of the p., poena quae est de vi, S. C. in Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 4, fin.: to be guilty of a breach of the p. upon any one, vim afferre in aliquem, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 37: also, vim afferre, adhibere (v. violence): to bind over to keep the p., pecuniâ de vi cavere, cf. Caes. B. G. 6, 2 (obsidibus cavere de pecunia): leave me in p., omitte me! Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 5; *quin desinis mihi molestiam exhibere! (v. annoyance): p. to my patron's ashes! patrono meo ossa bene quiescant! Petr. 39: usu. with gen., ossa ejus bene quiescant! Inscr. in Burm. Petr. l. c. (abbreviated, O. E. B. Q.): so, molliter (ejus) ossa cubent! Ov. Her. 7, 162.