confiscate Copy link Outline 1. publĭco, 12. confisco, 13. proscrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (as an act of arbitrary power, by public announcement, not as a legal sentence)4. Partial confiscation may be expr. by commissum • confiscate: 1. publĭco, 1: to c. any one's property, alicujus bona p., Caes.; pecunias. Sall.: also with acc. of person: aliquem cum bonis omnibus p., Cic.: cf. Nägels. p. 50. 2. confisco, 1: late, and with ref. to the imperial fiscus: Suet.: for which, in fiscum vertere, avertere, Tac. 3. proscrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (as an act of arbitrary power, by public announcement, not as a legal sentence): to c. possessions, possessiones p., Cic.: Plin.: like publico, with personal object: to c. the property of Pompey, P. proscribere, Cic. 4. Partial confiscation may be expr. by commissum: to be c.d, in commissa cadere (venire), Ulp. Dig.