theft Copy link • theft: furtum: manifest t., f. apertum, Cic. Rosc. Com. 9, 26: a sportive t., f. jocosum, Hor. Od. 1, 10, 8: to be guilty of t., furti se alligare, astringere, Pl. Rud. 4, 7, 34; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 39: to be taken in the act of t., in furto comprehendi, Caes. B. G. 6, 16: v. also plagiarism.