exception Copy link Outline 1. exceptio2. oftener expr. by excĭpio • exception: 1. exceptio: a sharing of all things without any e., [i. e. without reserving anything], omnium rerum sine ulla e. communitas, Cic. Am. 17, 61: v. reservation. (Exceptio is oftener used in legal sense: v. plea.) 2. oftener expr. by excĭpio: with this e., hac una re excepta excepto hoc: there are many e.s, *multa excipiuntur: v. to except. Phr.: (i). without e., ad unum, am, um: all without e. are of the same opinion, omnes ad unum idem sentiunt, Cic. Am. 23, 86: all (the ships) without e., ad unam omnes, sc. naves, Caes. (not sine ulla exceptione in this sense: v. supr.): without a single e., *ne uno quidem excepto (v. except, prep.). (ii). to take e. to anything: I take e. to your statement, *hoc mihi parum convenit (v. to agree): to take e. to a definition, finitionem impugnare, Quint. 7, 3, 22. (iii.) an e. proves (the existence of) a rule, *ubi nonnihil excipitur, sequitur ut cetera concludantur (?).