alternātīo

I. an interchange, an alternation (post-class.).

I. In gen.: per vices successio, Paul. ex Fest. p. 7 Müll.; Macr. S. 7, 5: pedes incertis alternationibus commovere, App. M. 10, p. 243, 12.—

II. Esp., t. t. in the jurists, an alternative, this or that, Dig. 47, 10, 7; 13, 4, 2; 11, 3, 9.