_accusatio_ (Cael. 3. 6)—a criminal accusation.
_actio, petitio_—a private, civil prosecution.
_nomen alicuius deferre (apud praetorem)_ (Verr. 2. 38. 94)—to accuse,
denounce a person.
_referre in reos aliquem_—to put some one on the list of the accused.
_eximere de reis aliquem_—to strike a person's name off the list of
the accused.
_aliquis reus fit_ (Fam. 13. 54)—some one is accused.
_iudices reicere_ (Verr. 3. 11. 28)—to challenge, reject jurymen.
_crimina diluere, dissolvere_—to refute charges.
_accusare aliquem rei capitalis (rerum capitalium)_—to charge some one
with a capital offence.
_caput alicuius agitur_ (_vid._ sect. V. 8)—a person's life is in
jeopardy.
_accusare aliquem peculatus, pecuniae publicae_—to accuse some one of
malversation, embezzlement of public money.
_accusare aliquem falsarum tabularum_[1]—to accuse a person of forging
the archives.
_postulare aliquem repetundarum_[2] or _de repetundis_—to accuse a
person of extortion (to recover the sums extorted).
_accusare aliquem perduellionis_—to charge a person with treason
(hostile conduct against the state generally).
_accusare aliquem maiestatis_—to accuse a person of high treason (more
specific than the preceding).
_accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambitu_—to accuse some one of illegal
canvassing.
_accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis_—to accuse a person of
violence, poisoning.
_accusare aliquem inter sicarios_ (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)—to accuse a
person of assassination.
_sententiae iudicum_—the finding of the jury.
_sententiam ferre, dicere_ (Off. 3. 16. 66)—to give sentence (of the
judge, cf. sect. VI. 4, note _Not..._).
_iudicare causam (de aliqua re)_—to decide on the conduct of the case.
_iudicium rescindere_—to rescind a decision.
_res iudicatas rescindere_ (Cic. Sull. 22. 63)—to rescind a decision.
_lege Plautia damnari_ (Sall. Cat. 31. 4)—to be condemned under the
Lex Plautia.
[1] Cf. _tabulas publicas corrumpere_ (Rosc. Am. 128); _commutare_, to
falsify public records.
[2] Extortion generally can be rendered by _violenta exactio
pecuniarum_, or some verbal periphrasis (e.g. _per vim capere
pecunias_, etc.)