routine (adj.) Copy link • routine (adj.): perh. best expr. by translāticius (trāl.), denoting that which follows common precedent: cf. Gell. 3, 18, fin., servandae consuetudinis causa tralaticio [edicto] utuntur, as a mere matter of routine: so, Cic. Verr. 1, 44, 114, in re tam usitata satis est ostendere ... hoc vetus edictum tr.que esse. Also [solitus] ordo, consuetudo, etc., will often be sufficiently near: v. order, custom. Phr.: contrary to r., extraordinarius, id. Brut. 63, 226.