6. Choice—Doubt—Scruple

_optionem alicui dare_ (Acad. 2. 7. 19)—to give a person his choice.

_optionem alicui dare, utrum...an_—to offer a person the alternative

of... or...

_in dubium vocare_—to throw doubt upon a thing.

_in dubio ponere_—to throw doubt upon a thing.

_in dubium venire_—to become doubtful.

_quod aliquam (magnam) dubitationem habet_ (Leg. Agr. 1. 4. 11)—a

thing which is rather (very) dubious.

_dubitatio mihi affertur, inicitur_—a doubt arises in my mind.

_dubitationem alicui tollere_—to relieve a person of his doubts.

_aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere_ (Cael. 20. 48)—to leave a

thing undecided.

_aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere_—to leave a thing undecided.

_sine dubio_ (not _sine ullo dubio_)—without doubt, beyond all doubt.

_sine ulla dubitatione_—without any hesitation; without the least

scruple.

_scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere_ (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)—to relieve a

man of his scruple.

_unus mihi restat scrupulus_ (Ter. Andr. 5. 4. 37) (cf. too _religio_,

sect. XI. 2)—one thing still makes me hesitate.

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