property Copy link Outline I. Special quality, peculiarityII. What is possessed1. bŏna, orum3. fortūnae (a larger and more comprehensive term than either of preced.)4. census, ūs • property: I. Special quality, peculiarity: proprĭĕtas (peculiarity or sum total of peculiarities); or expr. by proprius (esp. in phr., proprium est); etc.: v. feature (II.); quality. II. What is possessed: 1. bŏna, orum: to sell p. and confiscate the proceeds, bona vendere atque in publicum redigere, Liv. 4, 15, extr.: to squander one's hereditary p., b. patria abligurire, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4: cf. Cic. Par. 1, 1, 7. Join: bona, fortunae, possessiones, Cic. Caec. 13, 38. 2. res, rĕi, f.: esp. in phr., res familiaris, private p., Caes. B. G. 1, 18: also, res privata, Cic. Fam. 9, 7 (as opp. to state revenues). Or without adj., Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10 (res eos jam pridem, fides deficere nuper coepit): Hor. 3. fortūnae (a larger and more comprehensive term than either of preced.): money and p., pecunia fortunaeque, Cic. R. Am. 3, init.: cf. id. Tusc. 1, 6, 12, M. Crassum qui illas fortunas (all that wealth and position) morte dimiserit. Less freq. sing.: what avails me p., if I may not use it? quo mihi fortuna si non conceditur uti? Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 12. See also fortune, riches. 4. census, ūs: v. fortune (III., 2). (N.B.--Sometimes the word need not be expressed; as in the case of neut. pl. of possess. prons.: e. g., my p., thy p., etc., mea, tua, etc.: I carry all my p. with me, omnia mea porto mecum, Cic. Par. 1, 1, 8: also where a poss. case follows the verb sum: all things are the p. of the victors, omnia sunt victoris: L. G. § 266.)
PROPERTY Copy link • PROPERTYPeculiar quality, proprietas, proprium (the proper word): natura (nature or quality): ratio, vis (efficacy): qualitas (ποιότης, peculiar nature or quality; a new philosophical term coined by Cic.; Vid: Acad., 1, 6 and 7; N.D., 2, 37, 94). The Latins frequently use, in connection with esse, the simple genitive of the pronoun to which the property belongs, omitting proprium (with this difference, that proprium gives more prominence to the quality as characteristic; ☞ Grotef., §188, obs. 3; Herzog, Caes., B.G., 6, 23, in.): it is the property of a good orator, est boni oratoris, etc.: it is the property of a wise man to do nothing of which he may have to repent, sapientis est proprium (i. e., it is peculiar to him, it is a mark of his character) nihil, quod poenitere possit, facere: or we may put, instead of the noun in the genitive, the neuter of an adjective, answering to it; e.g., it is the property of mankind, humanum est: it is the property of a Roman, Romanum est (as Liv., 2, 12, Romanum est, et agere et pati fortia). So, also, “of what property” is expressed by qualis, and “of such property” by talis or by sic comparatus. Good properties, virtutes; animi bona, -orum, neuter; bona indoles: one possesses many distinguished properties, multa in aliquo eminent et elucent (Plin., Ep., 1, 10, 5): a bad property, malum; vitium. That which is one’s own, goods possessed, possessiones; bona, -orum, neuter (landed estates): fortunae (goods, effects); also by res (plur.); as, moveable property, res moventes; res, quae moveri possunt: or by proprius, -a, -um; also, from the context, by the possessive pronoun, proprius meus (tuus, etc.), and very often by the possessive pronoun alone; e.g., this is my property, hoc meum or meum proprium est: to consider anything as his own property, suum aliquid ducere: to give anybody anything as his property, aliquid proprium alicui tradere: to have some property, to be a person of property, opes habere; bona possidere; in bonis esse; in possessione bonorum esse: to have much property, to be a person of large property, magnas facultates habere; locupletem et pecuniosum esse; copiis rei familiaris abundare: to have no property, facultatibus carere; pauperem esse: to acquire property, bona sibi parare or sibi colligere: to be or become the property of anybody, alicujus esse; alicujus fieri: to disturb anybody in his property, to endeavor to deprive anybody of his property, vexare alicujus bona fortunasque: they take their property and go to Rome, sublatis rebus commigrant Romam: take your property and look for another place, res tuas tolle et alium locum quaere: right of property, dominium; auctoritas or jus auctoritatis (the right to a thing lawfully acquired): mancipium or jus mancipii (right of property by formal purchase).