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(Christianity) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See alsoosculatory.
Fortune is Bardolphs foe, and frownes on him: for he hath ſtolne a Pax, and hanged muſt a be: […]Exeter hath giuen the doome of death, for Pax of little price.
“pax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
pax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to treat with some one about peace: agere cum aliquo de pace
to propose terms of peace: pacis condiciones ferre (not proponere)
to dictate the terms of peace to some one: pacis condiciones dare, dicere alicui (Liv. 29. 12)
to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
deep peace: summa pax
allow me to say: pace tua dixerim or dicere liceat
(ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
(ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
(ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
“pax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“pax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray