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prĕhensĭo or prensĭo, ōnis, f. [prehendo], a seizing, apprenending.
Lit. (ante-class.): tribuni plebis prensionem habent, the right of arresting any one, Atei. Cap. ap. Gell. 13, 12, 4: in magistratu habent alii vocationem, alii prensionem, Varr. ib. (in Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 6, the true reading is pressionibus).

prensĭo, ōnis, f. [prendo], a seizing, grasping, taking hold of: quoniam moribus majorum tribuni plebis prensionem haberent, had the right or office of seizure, Att. Cap. ap. Gell. 12, 12, 4; 6.