_in culpa esse_—to be at fault; to blame; culpable.
_culpa alicuius rei est in aliquo_—some one is to blame in a matter;
it is some one's fault.
_mea culpa est_—it is my fault.
_culpa carere, vacare_—to be free from blame.
_extra culpam esse_—to be free from blame.
_abesse a culpa_—to be free from blame.
_prope abesse a culpa_—to be almost culpable.
_affinem esse culpae_—to be almost culpable.
_culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere_—to put the blame on
another.
_culpam alicui attribuere, assignare_—to attribute the fault to some
one.
_aliquid alicui crimini dare, vitio vertere_ (Verr. 5. 50)—to
reproach, blame a person for...
_culpam committere, contrahere_—to commit some blameworthy action.
_facinus, culpam in se admittere_—to commit some blameworthy action.
_non committere, ut..._—to take care not to...
_culpam alicuius rei sustinere_—to bear the blame of a thing.
_culpam a se amovere_[1]—to exonerate oneself from blame.
_veniam dare alicui_—to pardon a person.
[1] Note _purgare aliquid_, to justify oneself in a matter; _se alicui
purgare de aliqua re_ (Fam. 12. 25); _alicui purgatum esse_ (B. G. 1.
28).