• conscience: conscientia (often with animi or mentis, to show that the
faculty is meant):
great is the power of c., magna vis est conscientiae,
Cic.:
to take to oneself the comfort of a good c., consolari se conscientia optimae mentis,
Cic.; who has also, praeclara c.:
a bad (guilty) c., mala c.,
Sall.: the plural is often used
esp. in
bad sense:
bad reflections and an evil c., malae cogitationes conscientiaeque animi,
Cic.:
struck by a guilty c., maleficii conscientia perterritus,
Cic.:
remorse of c., angor conscientiae,
Cic.: the word is neutral, but occurs oftener in bad than in good sense:
stains on one's c., conscientiae labes,
Cic. Phr.:
a good c., mens conscia recti,
Virg.:
those who feel the terrors of a guilty c., diri quos conscia facti mens habet attonitos [et occulto verbere torquet],
Juv.:
to keep a good c., nil conscire (= conscium esse) sibi,
Hor.:
cases of c., *res dubiae:
to make a c. of doing something, *aliquid diligentissime observare et facere:
he had no c., nulla (ei) religio (erat),
Liv. (of Hannibal):
I have no scruple of c. in saying, nulla mihi religio est dicere,
Ter. (see
scruple):
a scruple of c. about falsehood, religio mendacii,
Liv.