breach Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. ViolationIII. Separation, difference1. disjunctio2. dissĭdĭum care must be taken that no b.s take place between friends., danda opera est ne qua amicorum dissidia fiant., Cic. • breach: I. Lit.: a break, gap, rent: q. v. Esp. an opening made in fortifications by battering: nearest word, rŭīna, or pl. ruinae: bodies of armed men were marching into the city through an opening afforded by the b., per patentia ruinis agmina armatorum in urbem vadebant, Liv.: by that b. the town was taken, captum est oppidum ea r., Liv.: the armies were drawn up between the b. in the wall and the buildings of the city, acies inter ruinas muri tectaque urbis constiterant, Liv.: the townspeople were building a new wall at the part where the town was exposed by the b., oppidani novum murum ab ea parte qua patefactum oppidum ruinis erat, reficiebant, Liv. Phr.: he made a small b. in the wall with three battering-rams, tribus arietibus aliquantulum muri discussit, Liv.: to make a b. in a wall by means of violent strokes (of a ram), vehementibus plagis murum dejicere, Vitr.: murum subruere, destruere, Veg. v. TO BATTER DOWN. Similarly of an opening made by an inundation in the banks of a river, etc.: the river over-flowed and made a b. in the dyke, *flumen exundans aliquantum aggeris disjecit; aggerem perrupit. II. Violation: Phr.: Regulus preferred returning to punishment to being guilty of a b. of the promise made to the enemy, Regulus ad supplicium redire maluit quam fidem hosti datam fallere, Cic.. to commit a b. of promise, fidem frangere, Cic.; promissum non servare, Cic.; promissis non stare, Cic.: to commit a b. of a treaty, foedus violare or rumpere, Cic.; contra foedus facere, Cic.. to commit a b. of friendship, amicitiam violare, Cic.. a public b. of faith, publica fidei violatio, Vell.. these things involve a b. of faith, haec contra fidem fiunt, Cic.: trials respecting b. of trust, judicia de fide mala, Cic.. to commit a b. of duty, officium deserere, Cic.; ab officio discedere, Cic.: Zeno placed certain things between duty and b. of duty, Zeno inter officium et contra officium media locabat quaedam, Cic.. a b. of the peace: v. riot, assault. III. Separation, difference: 1. disjunctio: alienation and b. between friends, alienatio d.que amicorum, Cic. 2. dissĭdĭum care must be taken that no b.s take place between friends., danda opera est ne qua amicorum dissidia fiant., Cic.