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immūnis (inm- and archaic in-moenis), e, adj. [in-munus], free or exempt from a public service, burāen, or charge (class.; cf.: expers, exsors).

  1. I. Lit.: melius hi quam nos, qui piratas immunes, socios vectigales habemus, Cic. Off. 3, 11, 49: quid immunes? hi certe nihil debent, id. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53: sine foedere immunes civitates ac liberae, id. ib. 2, 3, 6, § 13; id. Font. 4, 7: immunis militiā, Liv. 1, 43, 8: Ilienses ab omni onere immunes praestitit, Suet. Claud. 25: qui agros immunes liberosque arant, i. e., free from taxes, tax-free, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 166; cf. id. Agr. 3, 2, 9: duo milia jugerum Sexto Clodio rhetori assignasti, et quidem immunia, Suet. Rhet. 5.
          1. (β) With gen.: immunes portoriorum, Liv. 38, 14: ceterorum immunes nisi propulsandi hostis, Tac. A. 1, 36.
    1. B. Transf., beyond the polit. and milit. sphere, free or exempt from, that contributes or gives nothing (mostly poet.): non cnim est inhumana virtus neque immunis neque superba, inactive, Cic. Lael. 14, 50: quem scis inmunem Cinarae placuisse rapaci, who made no presents, without presents, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 33; id. C. 4, 12, 23: Enipeus, Ov. M. 7, 229: immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus, doing nothing, idle, Verg. G. 4, 244: ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta, without compulsion, free, Ov. M. 1, 101.
      In a play on the word: Ly. Civi inmuni scin quid cantari solet? … Ph. Verum, gnate mi, is est inmunis, quoi nihil est qui munus fungatur suum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 69; 73.
          1. (β) With gen.: bos curvi immunis aratri, Ov. M. 3, 11: immunes operum, id. ib. 4, 5.
  2. II. Trop., not sharing or partaking in, free from, devoid of, without any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose); constr. with gen., abl., with ab, or absol.
          1. (α) With gen.: aspicit urbem Immunem tanti belli, Verg. A. 12, 559: tanti boni, Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 62: mali, id. M. 8, 691: necis, exempt from, id. ib. 9, 253: caedis manus, free from, unstained with, id. H. 14, 8: delictorum paternorum, Vell. 2, 7: aequoris Arctos, not setting in, Ov. M. 13, 293 (an imitation of the Homeric ἄμμορος λοετρῶν Ὠκεανοῖο, Il. 18, 489); Ov. F. 4, 575.
          2. (β) With abl.: animum immunem esse tristitiā, Sen. Ep. 85: Cato omnibus humanis vitiis, Vell. 2, 35, 2: exercitum immunem tanta calamitate servavit, id. 2, 120, 3.
          3. (γ) With ab: immunis ab omnibus arbitris esse, Vell. 2, 14 fin.: dentes a dolore, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 37.
          4. (δ) Absol.: immunis aram si tetigit manus, stainless, pure, Hor. C. 3, 23, 17: amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam, Inmoenest facinus, a thankless office, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 1; cf.: inmoene, improbum, culpandum, vel interdum munere liberatum, Gloss. Plac. p. 476.