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transgressio

transgressio, a going across, going over, passing over, passage

transgressĭo, ōnis, f. [transgredior], a going across, going over, passing over, passage (rare but class.).
  • I Lit.: Gallorum, Cic. Pis. 33, 81: tua in Germaniam, Mamert. Pan. ap. Maxim. 7, 2; over the sea, Gell. 10, 26, 6.—
  • II Trop.
    • A In rhet., i. q. the Gr. ὑπέρβατον, transposition: transgressio est, quae verborum perturbat ordinem, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 44: transgressio concinna verborum, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 207; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 34; 9, 4, 28; 8, 6, 66.—*
    • B A transition in speaking, Quint. 4, 1, 78. —
    • C A transgression of the law, Aug. Quaest. in Exod. n. 108; Ambros. in Luc. 7, § 164.

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