(adj.adv.) : cīvīlis, e, adj.civis.
* Of or pertaining to citizens, civil, civic (class. in prose and poetry, and very freq.): sanguine civili rem conflant, by the blood of citizens, * Lucr. 3, 70; Cic. Fam. 15, 15, 1: conjuratio,id. ib. 5, 12, 2: bellum,id. Att. 7, 13, 1; id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: bella,Hor. Epod. 16, 1; Luc. 1, 1: genus belli,Cic. Att. 7, 13, 1; Sall. C. 47, 2; Quint. 12, 1, 16; Flor. 3, 22, 10; 3, 23, 7: facinus,Cic. Att. 7, 13, 1.—So De Bello Civili, the title of a portion of the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, Flor. 4, 2, 4: discordia,Sall. C. 5, 2: dissensio,id. J. 41 fin.: discidii specie,Tac. A. 14, 60: irae,id. ib. 1, 43: acies,Ov. M. 7, 142: arma,civil war,Cic. Div. 2, 2, 6; Tac. A. 1, 9: aestus,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 47: Mars,Ov. H. 6, 35: busta,Prop. 2, 1, 27: victoria,Nep. Epam. 10, 3; Sall. J. 95, 4; Tac. H. 4, 38 fin.: praeda,id. ib. 3, 15 et saep.: mos consuetudoque,Cic. Off. 1, 41,148; cf.just before: instituta civilia: conciliatio et societas,id. N. D. 2, 31, 78: facinus,id. Att. 7, 13, 1: clamor,Liv. 3, 28, 4; cf. robur,id. 28, 44, 5: curae,Hor. C. 3, 8, 17: quercus = corona civica (v. civicus, I.),Verg. A. 6, 772: civilis dies, the civil day (from midnight to midnight; opp. to the naturalis dies, from the rising to the setting of the sun), Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; Plin. 2, 77, 79, § 188; Macr. S. 1, 3: amor (opp. to naturalis),between citizens,Gell. 12, 1, 23.
* Esp.: jus civile.
* Trop. (cf. popularis, and the Gr. κοινός), demeaning one's self as a citizen; hence of distinguished persons, courteous, polite, civil, affable, urbane (so not before the Aug. per.; esp. freq. in Suet.; in Quint. only once): quid enim civilius illo?Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 13: sermo,Liv. 6, 40, 15: animus,id. 45, 32, 5; Tac. A. 1, 72; Suet. Caes. 75; id. Claud. 1; id. Dom. 12; cf. id. Calig. 3; id. Vesp. 12: parumque id non civile modo sed humanum etiam visum,unbecoming a private citizen,Liv. 5, 23, 5: et humano ingressu,Quint. 3, 8, 59 Spald.: incessu,Plin. Pan. 83, 7: civile ingenium, mira comitas,Tac. A. 1, 33; cf. id. ib. 2, 82: arma, id. H. 4, 3: civile rebatur, misceri voluptatibus vulgi,id. A. 1, 54; cf. id. ib. 2, 34; 3, 22; Plin. Pan. 78, 4; 87, 1: civilis circa amicos,Eutr. 7, 13: in cunctos,id. 10, 16.—Sup., Eutr. 8, 1; Spart. Had. 20, 1.—As subst.: cīvīle, is, n., courtesy: si quicquam in vobis non dico civilis sed humani esset,Liv. 5, 3, 9.—Hence, adv.: cīvīlĭter.
* Relating to public or political life, political, public, state-: scientia,politics, political science,Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 6; Quint. 2, 15, 33: quaestiones,id. 2, 15, 36: officia,id. 2, 15, 36, and 2, 4, 27: civilium rerum peritus,Tac. H. 2, 5: mersor civilibus undis,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16: vir, a statesman, πολιτικος, Quint. prooem. § 10; 11, 10, 15; 12, 2, 7; 12, 2, 21; 11, 1, 35.
* In narrower sense, the code of procedure, the forms of process in the Roman law: civile jus, repositum in penetralibus pontificum, evulgavit (Licinius),Liv. 9, 46, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.: jus civile per multa saecula inter sacra caerimoniasque deorum abditum, Cn. Flavius vulgavit,Val. Max. 2, 5, 2; cf. Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 5 sqq.; plur.: inteream si... novi civilia jura,Hor. S. 1, 9, 39.
* Esp. civil, opp. military (first in Livy): is gravis annis non militaribus solum sed civilibus quoque abscesserat muneribus,Liv. 9, 3, 5; cf.: civilis res haud magnopere obeuntem bella excitabant,id. 6, 22, 7.
* (Acc. to I.) Citizen-like: vivere, Cic. ap. Lact. 3, 14: certare, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 3; Liv. 38, 56, 9; 33, 46, 3; Juv. 5, 112; Gell. praef. § 13.
* In judicial language, civilly (opp. criminally): agere,Dig. 47, 2, 92; 11, 6, 1; 47, 10, 37.
* (Acc. to 2.) As becomes a citizen, courteously, kindly, Ov. M. 12, 583; id. Tr. 3, 8, 41; Tac. A. 3, 76; 4, 21; id. H. 2, 91.—Comp.: civilius,Plin. Pan. 29, 2; App. M. 9, p. 236, 10.—Sup.: civilissime,Eutr. 7, 8.

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