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hŏmĭcīda, ae, comm. [homo-caedo], a man-slayer, homicide, a murderer, murderess (syn.: interfector, sicarius, percussor).
- I. Lit.: statuendum tibi esse, utrum illi, qui istam rem gesserunt, homicidaene sint, an vindices libertatis … Confiteor eos plus quam sicarios, plus quam homicidas, plus etiam quam parricidas esse, Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30 sq.; Juv. 2, 26; Quint. 7, 3, 34: an, qui se interficit, homicida sit, id. 7, 3, 7: mandatores caedis perinde ut homicidae puniuntur, Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 11: qui, cum vellet occidere, id casu aliquo perpetrare non potuit, ut homicida punitur, id. 5, 23, 3; cf. Gai Inst. 3, 194.
Of a woman: quid si tantum homicida? quid si tantum rea fuisses? Sen. Contr. 1, 2.
- * II. In a good sense, as a transl. of the Homeric ἀνδροφόνος, an epithet of Hector, slayer of men, Hor. Epod. 17, 12.