homicide Copy link Outline I. The slayerII. The deed1. hŏmĭcīdium2. caedes (hominis) • homicide: I. The slayer: hŏmĭcīda: Cic.: v. murderer. II. The deed: 1. hŏmĭcīdium: h. is atoned for by a certain number of cattle, luitur h. certo armentorum numero, Tac. G. 21: Petr.: v. murder. (N.B.--Homicidium had not the legal sense of the Eng., as distinguished from murder.) 2. caedes (hominis): Cic. Mil. 5, 13. Phr.: to bring in a verdict of justifiable h., *hominem recte ac jure caesum decernere, cf. Cic. Mil. 3, 8.
HOMICIDE Copy link • HOMICIDE 1. hominis caedes, or, from context, caedes only: homicidium (post-Augustan, Quint., Plin.): mors alicui sed non per scelus illata (after Cic., Mil., 7, 17; to distinguish it from the crime of murder). To be guilty of homicide, hominis caedem facere; hominem caedere, interficere. To be only guilty of homicide (not of murder), tantum homicidam esse (Sen., though not in our sense); perhaps mortem alicui, sed non per scelus, inferre (mortem per scelus inferre, Cic., Mil., 7, 17): to be put on his trial for homicide, homicidii accusari (Quint.). 2. (the person), homicida: qui hominem interfecit, etc. (Vid: preceding word): *qui mortem alicui, sed non per scelus intulit.