penalty Copy link Outline 1. damnum (esp. a fine; also in wider sense)2. poena3. multa or mulcta (rare in gen. sense) • penalty: 1. damnum (esp. a fine; also in wider sense): whoever compelled the attendance of a senator by such a p.? quis unquam tanto d. senatorem coegit? Cic. Ph. 1, 5, extr. 2. poena: esp. in phr., to pay the p., poenas solvere, Cic. Mil. 31, fin.: persolvere (pay the full p.), Caes. B. G. 1, 12; pendere, Cic. Att. 11, 8; dependere, id. Sext. 67, med.: to inflict (lit. take) the p., poenas capere, Sall. Jug. 71; poenam de aliquo capere, Liv. 2, 5, med. 3. multa or mulcta (rare in gen. sense): v. fine (subs.). See also punishment.