“execution” in Latin

Performance, exsecutio (post-Augustan; e.g., operis, Plin.): effectio (e.g., artis, Cic.): confectio (e.g., the drawing up of a book, libri): exaedificatio (the building up of anything very rare, Cic.): ☞ absolutio, perfectio, not found in this sense. It will often be necessary to use circumlocution, e.g., for “the execution of commissions,” mandata exsequi, perficere, efficere, facere (Curt.), perficere (Liv.); exhaurire mandata alicujus: your careful execution of that important commission, cura tua de illo meo primo et maximo mandato (Cic.): to attend to the execution of anybody’s commissions, alicujus mandata persequi, conficere, etc. To attend to the minutest details of its execution (of a work of art), argutias operis custodire quoque in minimis rebus: to despair of its execution, desperare effectum operis: to prevent the execution of anything, ne res conficiatur, obsistere: to follow up deliberation by the rapid execution of his resolves, consultis facta conjungere: the careful execution of anything, res diligenter effecta (e.g., una [materia] diligenter effecta plus proderit quam plures inchoatae et quasi degustatae, Quint., 10, 5, 23) :

Writ of execution, bonorum emptio (a sale of this kind was, in effect, as to a living debtor, an execution, Dict., Antiqq., p. 165; with reference to the debtor, it was bonorum venditio): manus injectio ( “was, in effect, in some cases, a kind of execution” Dict. Antiqq., p. 617; it was a sort of arrest, and is fully explained at the page referred to): acerbissima exactio vectigalium (Vid: Cic., ad Div., 3, 8, 5): to put an execution in anybody’s house, in possessionem bonorum debitoris mittere (Vid: Dict. Antiqq., p. 165); *bona alicujus propter vectigalia non soluta vendere; *ex alicujus bonis ad solvenda vectigalia pecuniam exigere (after Vitr., ex ejus bonis ad perficiendum pecuniam exigere, of an architect who has greatly exceeded his estimate, and has to pay the excess out of his own pocket, Praef., lib. 10).

Capital punishment, (capitis) supplicium: anybody’s execution, supplicium de aliquo sumtum. To be led to execution, ad mortem duci: to have anybody tortured before his execution, aliquem omni supplicio excruciatum necare (Cic.): to send anybody to execution, aliquem ad mortem ducere; aliquem morte afficere; supplicium de aliquo sumere.

Destruction, slaughter, strages: clades: caedes: To do great execution, strages facere (Cic.), edere (Liv.); cladem facere (Sall.): magnam cladem afferre alicui (Cic.); caedes facere, afficere (Cic.; all with magnus, quautus, etc.): Sometimes nocere, etc., will do.