mōtĭo, ōnis, f. [moveo], a moving, motion; a removing (class.).
- I. Lit.: principium motionis, Cic. Fat. 19, 43: corporum, id. N. D. 2, 58, 145: ab ordine motio, a removing, Dig. 47, 20, 3.
Abstr., motion: ipsum animum … quasi quamdam continuatam motionem, Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 22.
- B. In partic., in medicine, an ague-fit, Cels. 3, 5, 28.
- II. Trop.: motiones animi, emotions or affections of the soul (old reading), Cic. Ac. 1, 8; better, notionibus.