plagiarism Copy link • plagiarism: furtum (the context defining): to be guilty of p., f. facere, Ter. Eun. prol. 28: id. Ad. prol. 13: critics should approve not p.s but (original) works, oportet judicantes non furta sed scripta probare, Vitr. 7, pref. § 7. (Where the context does not define, f. litterarium, litteratum, may be used.) Phr.: to be guilty of p. on any one, furari ab aliquo, Cic. Att. 2, 1, init.; de aliquo, Vitr. l. c.: also, intercipere, Suet. Gr. 5: more fully, scripta (aliena) furantem pro suis praedicare, ib. § 3: faceté, scrinia alicujus compilare (i. e. aliena scripta compilare), Hor. S. 1, 1, extr.