accūsātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], complaint, accusation, indictment. I. In abstr.: ratio judiciorum ex accusatione et defensione constat
, Cic. Off. 2, 14: comparare and constituere accusationem
, to bring in
, Cic. Verr. 1, 1: intentare
, Tac. A. 6, 4: capessere
, id. ib. 4, 52: exercere
, id. H. 2, 10: factitare, to pursue or urge, Cic. Brut. 34: accusatione desistere, to desist from, give up, id. Fragm. Corn. ap. Ascon.; later, demittere
, Aur. Vict. 28, 2: accusationi respondere
, to answer
, Cic. Clu. 3.—II. In concr., the bill of indictment, the action or suit: in accusationis septem libris
, i. e. in the Orations against Verres
, Cic. Or. 29, 103; so Plin. 7, 30, 31, 110.