sĕquester | sĕ-questrum, i | sĕquestre, ae | sĕquestra (noun M.n) : (orig. form sequester, tri. ante- and post - class., and in the poets), id., jurid. t. t.
* A depositary, trustee, into whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled: sequester dicitur, apud quem plures eandem rem, de quă controversia est, deposuerunt,Dig. 50, 16, 110: nunc ut apud sequestrum vidulum posivimus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.; Dig. 16, 3, 33: tu istunc hodie non feres, nisi das sequestrum aut arbitrum, Quoius haec res arbitratu fiat,Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 65: jam sequestri placebant,Petr. 14, 4: cum sequestro recte agetur depositi sequestrariā actione,Dig. 16, 3, 12; cf.: in sequestrum depositi actio competit; si tamen cum sequestro convenit, ut, etc.,ib. 16, 3, 5.—Subst.: , (rarely , is), , the deposit of a subject of dispute with a third person: vitulum hic apponite: ego servabo quasi sequestro detis: neutri reddibo, donicum res judicata erit haec, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 692 P.: sequestro data,id. Merc. 4, 3, 36: sequestro ponere: quod apud sequestrem depositum erat, sequestro positum per adverbium dicebant,Gell. 20, 11, 5: aut ad arbitrum redditur aut sequestro ponitur,Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 79; and in later jurid. Lat.: in sequestro deponere (aliquid),to put in sequestration,Dig. 16, 3, 6. —Form sequestre: pecuniam sequestre ponere, Dig. 16, 3, 33: in sequestri deponere, Ps.-Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 12.
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* In cases of bribery of judges, electors, etc., an agent or go-between, with whom the money promised was deposited (so always in Cic.; cf. internuntius): aut sequestres aut interpretes corrumpendi judicii,Cic. Verr. 1, 12, 36; so (with interpres) id. ib. 2, 2, 44, § 108; Quint. 12, 8, 4: venditor et corruptor et sequester,Cic. Planc. 16, 38; 19, 48: aliquo sequestre in indice corrumpendo uti,id. Clu. 8, 25; 26, 72: adulter, impudicus, sequester, convicium est, non accusatio,id. Cael. 13, 30: candidatus per sequestrem agit,Sen. Ep. 118, 3: gregarii,Amm. 15, 5, 31.
* After the Aug. period, a mediator.
* Lit.: Menenius Agrippa, qui inter patres et plebem publicae gratiae sequester fuit,Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 12, 4: pacis,Sil. 6, 347; Luc. 10, 472: ego sequester et medius fui,Vulg. Deut. 5, 5.—In this sense also a fem. form, , , a mediatress: ubi nunc fidei pacisque sequestra Mater eras?Stat. Th. 7, 542: anus quaedam stupri sequestra et adulterorum internuntia,App. M. 9, p. 224, 1; and, in apposition: bis senos pepigere dies et pace sequestrā Per silvas Teucri mixtique impune Latini Erravere jugis,i. e. under the protection of the truce,Verg. A. 11, 133; so, pace sequestrā,Stat. Th. 2, 425.—*
* Trop., a means of negotiating, i. e. price, etc.: qui suam pudicitiam sequestrem perjurii fieri passi sunt,Val. Max. 9, 1, 7.