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1. 기회, 때, 인연

1. occasion, opportunity

예문

• His de causis uterque eorum celeritati studebat, et suis ut esset auxilio, et ad opprimendos adversarios ne occasioni temporis deesset. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO CIVILI, TERTIVS 79:1)

  (카이사르, 내란기, 3권 79:1)

• quorum fiducia Monam insulam ut vires rebellibus ministrantem adgressus terga occasioni patefecit. (Cornelius Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae, chapter 14 4:2)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 아그리콜라 전기, 14장 4:2)

• nec occasioni ulli ipse deerat, siqua ab hostibus daretur. (Francis Glass, Washingtonii Vita, CAPUT VICESIMUM PRIMUM. 23:90)

  (프란키스 글라스, , 23:90)

• Ipse currum regis sequebatur occasioni inminens adloquendi eum: (Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, book 5, chapter 11 2:1)

  (쿠르티우스 루푸스, 퀸투스, 알렉산드로스 대왕 전기, 5권, 11장 2:1)

• veteris Antisti talis animus est in rem publicam ut non dubitem quin et in Caesare et in Antonio se praestaturus fuerit acerrimum propugnatorem communis libertatis, si occasioni potuisset occurrere. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus, LIBER PRIMVS, letter 11 1:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 브루투스와 주고 받은 편지들, , 1:1)

유의어 사전

Occasio and opportunitas are the opportunities which fortune and chance offer; occasio, the opportunity to undertake something in a general sense, like καιρός; opportunitas, the opportunity to undertake something with facility and the probability of success, like εὐκαιρία; whereas potestas and copia are opportunities offered by men, and through their complaisance; potestas denotes the possibility of doing something with legal authority; copia the possibility of doing something with convenience; lastly, facultas, as the most general expression, the possibility to do something in a general sense.

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein