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.
BREACH Copy link • BREACHof a fortification, munimentorum ruinae, jacentis muri ruinae. To make a breach in the wall, tormentis machinisque (with cannon, etc.) perfringere ac subruere murum, muri partem (ariete incusso) subruere. To enter the city by a breach, per apertum ruina ita in urbem invadere or transcendere. To repair the breaches, muros quassos reficere. Any opening caused by breaking, ruptum, scissum. To make a breach in a thing, aliquid frangere, rumpere, dirumpere. Violation, violatio. Breach of a league, foederis violatio; violatum or ruptum foedus. Breach of friendship, amicitae violatio; amicitia violata. To commit a breach of peace (make war), pacis fidem rumpere, pacem turbare. To consider it as a breach of the league, if, etc, pro rupto foedus habere, si, etc. Without a breach of duty, salvo officio. It is a breach of duty, contra officium est. To commit a breach of duty, ab officio discedere or recedere; officio suo deesse; officium praetermittere, negligere, deserere; ab religione officii in aliqua re declinare. Falling out, discordia, dissidium. It comes to a breach. res ad discordias deducitur, discordia oritur.