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Books of Kings

  • 1 Books of Kings

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  • 2 Books of Samuel

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  • 3 Books of Samuel (Two Old Testament books that, along with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Kings, belong to the tradition of Deuteronomic history first committed to writing about 550 BC during the Babylonian Exile)

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  • 4 Lives of the Prophets (Pseudepigraphal collection of folk stories and legends about the major and minor biblical prophets and a number of other prophetic figures from the Old Testament books of I Kings, II Chronicles, and Nehemiah)

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  • 5 Первая книга царей и Вторая книга царей

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  • 6 Третья книга Царств и Четвёртая книга Царств

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  • 7 βασιλικός

    A royal, kingly,

    ποιέεις οὐδαμῶς -κά Hdt.2.173

    ;

    β. γένος A.Pr. 869

    ; β. [μοναρχία] Pl.Plt. 291e; opp. τυραννικός, Arist.Pol. 1285b3; βασιλικοὶ ἀπέβησαν proved themselves truly kingly, Plb.8.10.10;

    βασιλικόν [ἐστι] πράττειν μὲν εὖ, κακῶς δ' ἀκούειν Arr.Epict.4.6.20

    ;

    ἦθος β. X. Oec.21.10

    ;

    τὸ β. Id.Cyr.1.3.18

    : βασιλική (sc. τέχνη), ἡ, art of ruling, Andronic.Rhod.p.574M.: [comp] Comp.

    - ώτερος Herm.

     ap. Stob.1.49.45, Jul.Or.2.54d: [comp] Sup.

    βασιλικώτατος καὶ ἄρχειν ἀξιώτατος X.An.1.9.1

    , cf. Isoc.2.29;

    - ωτάτη χάρις Plu.Alex.21

    . Adv.

    -κῶς, παρών

     as a king, with kingly authority,

    X.Cyr.1.4.14

    ;

    β. ἄρχειν Arist.Pol. 1259b1

    .
    2 of or belonging to a king, οἱ β. the king's friends or officers, Plb.8.12.10; ἐγκλήματα β. charges of high-treason, Id.25.3.1; ὀφειλήματα β. debts to the king, ib.3;

    β. πρόσοδοι PPetr.3p.56

    ; γραμματεύς (cf. 11.1 ) Wilcken Chr.233.2 (ii B.C.), etc.;

    γεωργοί PTeb.5.200

     (ii B.C.), etc.; ὁδὸς β. the king's highway, LXXNu.20.17, PPetr.3p.65(iii B.C.); μὴ εἶναι β. ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν no royal road, Euc. ap.Procl.in Euc.p.68F.;

    β. νόμος OGI483.1

    , Ep.Jac.2.8; αἱ β. βίβλοι the books of Kings, Ph.1.427.
    4

    κάρυα β.

     walnuts,

    Dsc.1.125

    ;

    καρύαι PSI4.428.65

    (iii B.C.).
    b β. κύμινον, = ἄμι, Dsc.3.62.
    II as Subst.,
    1 βασιλικός (sc. γραμματεύς), ὁ, official in Egyptian νομοί, POxy.1219.15 (iii A. D.).
    b (sc. οἶκος) basilica, CIG2782.25 ([place name] Aphrodisias).
    d (sc. ἀστήρ) = βασιλίσκος v, Cat.Cod.Astr.7.201.23.
    2 βασιλικὴ στοά hall divided into aisles by columns, IG12(3).326.18 ([place name] Thera), Str.5.3.8 (pl.); β. alone, OGI511.15 ([place name] Aezani), Lat. basilica, Vitr.5.1.4,6.3.9, cf. Plu.Publ.15, Cat.Mi.5, App.BC2.26.
    3 βασιλικόν (sc. ταμιεῖον), τό, treasury, εἰς τὸ β. ἀπομετρῆσαι, τελεῖν, PSI4.344.17 (iii B.C.), D.S.2.40, etc.;

    ὀφείλειν PRev.Laws5.1

    , al.; royal bank, OGI90.29 ([place name] Rosetta), PRein.13.19, al., BGU830.18 (i A. D.).
    b (sc. δῶμα) palace, D.C. 60.4.
    c (sc. πρόσταγμα) royal decree, LXX Es.1.19.
    d (sc. φάρμακον) name for various remedies, = τετραφάρμακον, Gal.12.601; of other compounds, ibid.; a plaster, Id.13.184; an eyesalve, Id.12.782 (also -κός, ὁ, a bandage, Id.18(1).777).
    e (sc. φυτόν) basil, Ocimum basilicum, Suid.
    f βασιλικά, τά, communications received from kings, SIG333.23 ([place name] Samos), 426.26 ([place name] Teos); also, interests or revenues of the crown, PRev.Laws 15.4 (iii B. C.), PTeb.5.256 (ii B. C.), LXX 1 Ma.10.43; prerogatives, ib.15.8.

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  • 8 praetereo

    praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To go by or past, to pass by:

    si nemo hac praeteriit,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

    ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

    id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

    praeteriens modo,

    in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

    quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

    te praetereunte,

    Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

    redire potest,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

    nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

    biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

    Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

    tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—
    B.
    To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

    aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

    Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

    figura hujus mundi,

    id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—
    II.
    Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.
    A.
    Lit.:

    praeterire pistrinum,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

    jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

    id. As. 3, 4, 15:

    hortos,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

    jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

    Verg. A. 4, 157:

    Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

    Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

    praeterita est virgo,

    Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

    ripas Flumina praetereunt,

    flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

    nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—
    2.
    With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

    non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

    Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

    sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

    id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—
    3.
    To pass by or over, i. e.
    a.
    To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

    quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

    ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

    178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

    id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

    et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

    what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

    aliquid silentio,

    id. Brut. 22, 88:

    praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

    Ov. F. 6, 319:

    ut nihil praeteream,

    Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

    ne quid praetereatur,

    id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—
    b.
    To pass over, omit, make no use of:

    locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—
    c.
    To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

    litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

    Suet. Aug. 88.—
    d.
    To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

    verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

    quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

    App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

    nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

    to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

    tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

    left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—
    e.
    In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

    populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

    cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

    id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

    Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

    were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

    fratris filium praeteriit,

    has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

    me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

    neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

    quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

    Mart. 7, 86, 5:

    si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—
    f.
    To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

    hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

    virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

    Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

    ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

    Juv. 14, 214.—
    g.
    To transgress:

    justum praeterit ira modum,

    due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,
    A.
    praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

    loqui,

    Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—
    B.
    praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

    nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

    aetas,

    id. ib. 2, 4:

    anni,

    Verg. A. 8, 560:

    nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

    Ov. H. 20, 187:

    labor,

    Quint. 10, 7, 4:

    secula,

    id. 12, 4, 2:

    vita,

    Just. 42, 1:

    viri,

    dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

    negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

    for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

    praeteritā noc. te,

    last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

    quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

    Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

    sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

    Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

    monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

    Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

    praeterita mutare non possumus,

    Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > praetereo

  • 9 Praeterita

    praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To go by or past, to pass by:

    si nemo hac praeteriit,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

    ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

    id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

    praeteriens modo,

    in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

    quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

    te praetereunte,

    Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

    redire potest,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

    nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

    biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

    Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

    tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—
    B.
    To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

    aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

    Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

    figura hujus mundi,

    id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—
    II.
    Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.
    A.
    Lit.:

    praeterire pistrinum,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

    jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

    id. As. 3, 4, 15:

    hortos,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

    jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

    Verg. A. 4, 157:

    Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

    Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

    praeterita est virgo,

    Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

    ripas Flumina praetereunt,

    flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

    nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—
    2.
    With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

    non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

    Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

    sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

    id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—
    3.
    To pass by or over, i. e.
    a.
    To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

    quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

    ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

    178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

    id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

    et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

    what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

    aliquid silentio,

    id. Brut. 22, 88:

    praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

    Ov. F. 6, 319:

    ut nihil praeteream,

    Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

    ne quid praetereatur,

    id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—
    b.
    To pass over, omit, make no use of:

    locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—
    c.
    To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

    litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

    Suet. Aug. 88.—
    d.
    To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

    verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

    quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

    App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

    nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

    to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

    tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

    left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—
    e.
    In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

    populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

    cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

    id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

    Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

    were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

    fratris filium praeteriit,

    has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

    me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

    neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

    quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

    Mart. 7, 86, 5:

    si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—
    f.
    To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

    hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

    virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

    Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

    ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

    Juv. 14, 214.—
    g.
    To transgress:

    justum praeterit ira modum,

    due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,
    A.
    praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

    loqui,

    Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—
    B.
    praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

    nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

    aetas,

    id. ib. 2, 4:

    anni,

    Verg. A. 8, 560:

    nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

    Ov. H. 20, 187:

    labor,

    Quint. 10, 7, 4:

    secula,

    id. 12, 4, 2:

    vita,

    Just. 42, 1:

    viri,

    dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

    negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

    for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

    praeteritā noc. te,

    last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

    quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

    Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

    sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

    Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

    monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

    Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

    praeterita mutare non possumus,

    Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Praeterita

  • 10 praeterita

    praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To go by or past, to pass by:

    si nemo hac praeteriit,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

    ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

    id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

    praeteriens modo,

    in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

    quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

    te praetereunte,

    Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

    redire potest,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

    nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

    biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

    Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

    tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—
    B.
    To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

    aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

    Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

    figura hujus mundi,

    id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—
    II.
    Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.
    A.
    Lit.:

    praeterire pistrinum,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

    jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

    id. As. 3, 4, 15:

    hortos,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

    jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

    Verg. A. 4, 157:

    Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

    Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

    praeterita est virgo,

    Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

    ripas Flumina praetereunt,

    flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

    nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—
    2.
    With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

    non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

    Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

    sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

    id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—
    3.
    To pass by or over, i. e.
    a.
    To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

    quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

    ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

    178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

    id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

    et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

    what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

    aliquid silentio,

    id. Brut. 22, 88:

    praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

    Ov. F. 6, 319:

    ut nihil praeteream,

    Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

    ne quid praetereatur,

    id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—
    b.
    To pass over, omit, make no use of:

    locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—
    c.
    To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

    litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

    Suet. Aug. 88.—
    d.
    To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

    verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

    quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

    App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

    nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

    to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

    tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

    left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—
    e.
    In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

    populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

    cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

    id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

    Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

    were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

    fratris filium praeteriit,

    has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

    me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

    neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

    quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

    Mart. 7, 86, 5:

    si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—
    f.
    To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

    hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

    virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

    Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

    ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

    Juv. 14, 214.—
    g.
    To transgress:

    justum praeterit ira modum,

    due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,
    A.
    praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

    loqui,

    Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—
    B.
    praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

    nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

    aetas,

    id. ib. 2, 4:

    anni,

    Verg. A. 8, 560:

    nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

    Ov. H. 20, 187:

    labor,

    Quint. 10, 7, 4:

    secula,

    id. 12, 4, 2:

    vita,

    Just. 42, 1:

    viri,

    dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

    negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

    for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

    praeteritā noc. te,

    last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

    quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

    Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

    sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

    Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

    monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

    Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

    praeterita mutare non possumus,

    Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > praeterita

  • 11 παραλείπω

    παραλείπ-ω, [tense] fut. [suff] παραλείπ-ψω X.HG4.6.4: [tense] pf.
    A

    - λέλοιπα Isoc.4.171

     :—[voice] Pass., [tense] pf. - λέλειμμαι ib.74:—leave on one side, leave remaining, Il.cc.:— [voice] Pass.,

    ὅσα παρελέλειπτο Th.3.26

     ; τοῖς ἐχθροῖς παραλείπεται is reserved for enemies, D.21.118.
    II leave to another, λόγον τινὶ π. leave him time for speaking,

    οὐδενὶ τῶν ἄλλων -λιπὼν λόγον Aeschin.3.71

     ; permit, allow,

    π. τινὶ ποιεῖν τι Plu.Arat.28

    .
    III leave on one side, pass over, in an invitation, in a will, etc., τινα Ar.Ec. 1145, Lys.31.21, etc. ;

    τὸ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγωνίζεσθαι D.18.16

     ; as dogs a hare, X. Cyn.3.6, etc.
    2 neglect, E.Tr.43, Ar.Ra. 1494, Av. 456 ([voice] Pass.) ;

    τι τῶν τεταγμένων X.Cyr.8.6.16

     ; opportunities, duties, etc., D.2.23, PHib.1.82.21 (iii B. C.), etc.:—[voice] Pass., τὰ παραλειπόμενα omissions, deficiencies, Pl.R. 401e, cf.Lg. 772c, Arist.Pol. 1329b34 ; εἴ τις παραλείπεται [ πρόσοδος] if the revenue is insufficient, Id.Rh. 1359b25, cf. X. Mem.3.6.5.
    3 pass over, leave untold, omit, E.Hel. 773, And.1.8, Pl.Smp. 188e, al. ;

    πολλὰ -λιπόντι ἀτοπίας Th.2.51

     ;

    μυρία τοίνυν ἕτερ' εἰπεῖν ἔχων.. παραλείπω D.18.138

     ; περί τινος π. D.S.5.26 ;

    πλείω τὰ παραλελειμμένα τῶν εὶρημένων Isoc.10.67

    , 6.68 ; omit from a schedule, Lys. 17.4 ; τὰ παραλειπόμενα events omitted from the Books of Kings, title of the Books of Chronicles: abs., make an omission, Arist.EN 1137b21.

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > παραλείπω

  • 12 Basilia

    1.
    Băsĭlīa, ōrum, n., = basileia, ta (regal), the name of the books of Kings in the Bible, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 14.
    2.
    Băsĭlīa, ae, f., another name for the island Balcia, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 95; 37, 2, 11, § 36.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Basilia

  • 13 מלכים א'

    Kings I, one of the books of the Bible

    Hebrew-English dictionary > מלכים א'

  • 14 book

    A n
    1 ( reading matter) livre m, bouquin ○ m (about sur) ; history book livre d'histoire ; a book of un recueil de [quotations, poems, proverbs] ; ‘Carlton Books’ ( title of firm) ‘Éditions fpl Carlton’ ;
    2 (division, part) (of novel, trilogy) livre m, tome m ; (of poem, epic, bible) livre m ; the Book of Genesis/of Kings le livre de la Genèse/des Rois ;
    3 Fin (for recording deposits, withdrawals) livret m bancaire ;
    4 Sch ( exercise book) cahier m ; drawing book cahier de dessin ;
    5 (of cheques, tickets, vouchers, stamps) carnet m ; book of matches pochette f d'allumettes ; book of needles porte-aiguilles m ;
    6 ( in betting) to keep a book on prendre des paris sur ; to open ou start a book on ouvrir les paris sur ;
    7 ( directory) annuaire m ; our number's ou we're in the book on est dans l'annuaire ;
    8 ( rulebook) règlement m ; to do things by the book fig suivre le règlement ;
    9 ( opera libretto) livret m.
    1 Accts, Comm livres mpl de comptes, comptabilité f ¢ ; to keep the firm's books tenir les livres or les comptes de l'entreprise, s'occuper de la comptabilité de l'entreprise ;
    2 Admin ( records) registre m ; to be on the books of être inscrit à [club, organization] ; we have many small businesses on our books nous avons beaucoup de petites entreprises dans nos fichiers.
    C vtr
    1 ( reserve) réserver, retenir [table, seat, room, cabin, ticket] ; faire les réservations pour [holiday] ; réserver [taxi] ; engager [babysitter, driver, entertainer] ; to book sth for sb, to book sb sth réserver qch pour qn ; to book sb into a hotel réserver une chambre dans un hôtel pour qn ; I've booked him a room, I've booked him into a hotel je lui ai reservé une chambre (dans un hôtel) ; to be fully booked être complet/-ète ; Saturday's performance is fully booked c'est complet pour samedi soir, on joue à guichets fermés samedi soir ; my Tuesday afternoons are booked je suis pris le mardi après-midi ; I'm fully booked this week je suis pris tous les jours cette semaine ;
    2 ( charge) [policeman] dresser un procès-verbal or un P.V. ○ à [motorist, offender] ; US ( arrest) arrêter [suspect] ; he was booked for speeding il a été poursuivi pour excès de vitesse ;
    3 GB Sport [referee] donner un carton jaune à [player] ; two players were booked deux joueurs ont reçu un carton jaune ;
    4 Comm, Fin inscrire [order] ; to book goods to sb's account mettre des marchandises sur le compte de qn.
    D vi réserver ; you are advised to book il est conseillé de réserver.
    I can read her like a book, she is (like) an open book to me elle ne peut rien me cacher ; his past is an open book il n'a rien à cacher sur son passé ; economics is a closed book to me je ne connais rien à l'économie ; she is a closed book to me je n'arrive pas à la comprendre ; to throw the book at sb ( reprimand) passer un savon ○ à qn ; ( accuse) n'omettre aucun chef d'accusation (quand on arrête qn) ; ( punish or sentence) donner le maximum à qn ; to be in sb's good books être dans les petits papiers de qn ○ ; to be in sb's bad books ne pas avoir la cote avec qn ; in my book ○ it's a crime à mon avis or d'après moi c'est un crime ; to bring sb to book demander des comptes à qn, faire rendre des comptes à qn (for pour) ; here's one for the book! on s'en souviendra! ; you shouldn't judge a book by its cover ≈ l'habit ne fait pas le moine.
    ■ book in:
    ▶ book in GB ( at hotel) ( check in) se présenter à la réception ; ( make reservation) réserver une chambre ; we booked into the hotel at 3 o'clock nous sommes arrivés à l'hôtel à trois heures ;
    ▶ book [sb] in réserver une chambre pour.
    ■ book up: tourists have booked up all the rooms avec les touristes, il n'y a plus une chambre de libre ; to be booked up être complet/-ète ; the hotel is booked up until next month l'hôtel est complet jusqu'au mois prochain ; I'm booked up every evening next week je suis pris tous les soirs la semaine prochaine.

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  • 15 alfarería

    f.
    1 pottery, ceramics, potter's ware.
    2 pottery shop, pottery's workshop.
    * * *
    1 (arte) pottery
    2 (taller) potter's workshop
    3 (tienda) pottery shop
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF (=arte) pottery; (=tienda) pottery shop
    * * *
    femenino pottery
    * * *
    = pottery, ceramics factory, ceramics.
    Nota: Véanse bajo la entrada "-ics" otras palabras con la misma terminación y usadas en el singular.
    Ex. This article provides a summary of the discoveries related to the storage of documents from the period of the Israelite and Judaean kings (circa 1000-587 B.C.), including ostraca (broken pieces of pottery with writing on them) and seals and seal impressions.
    Ex. The new library has been constructed on the site of a former ceramics factory.
    Ex. The collection of books remained essentially the reference library of a 19th century collector whose special interests were the decorative arts, particularly glass and ceramics.
    * * *
    femenino pottery
    * * *
    = pottery, ceramics factory, ceramics.
    Nota: Véanse bajo la entrada "-ics" otras palabras con la misma terminación y usadas en el singular.

    Ex: This article provides a summary of the discoveries related to the storage of documents from the period of the Israelite and Judaean kings (circa 1000-587 B.C.), including ostraca (broken pieces of pottery with writing on them) and seals and seal impressions.

    Ex: The new library has been constructed on the site of a former ceramics factory.
    Ex: The collection of books remained essentially the reference library of a 19th century collector whose special interests were the decorative arts, particularly glass and ceramics.

    * * *
    1 (actividad) pottery
    2 (taller) pottery
    * * *

    alfarería sustantivo femenino
    pottery
    alfarería sustantivo femenino
    1 (oficio) pottery
    2 (taller) pottery
    (tienda) pottery shop
    ' alfarería' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barro
    - vidriar
    - vidriada
    - vidriado
    English:
    pottery
    * * *
    1. [técnica] pottery
    2. [lugar] potter's, pottery shop
    * * *
    m, alfarería f pottery
    * * *
    : pottery

    Spanish-English dictionary > alfarería

  • 16 cerámica

    adj.&f.
    feminine of CERÁMICO.
    f.
    ceramics, pottery.
    * * *
    1 (arte) ceramics, pottery
    2 (objeto) piece of pottery
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Arte) ceramics sing, pottery
    2) (=conjunto de objetos) ceramics pl, pottery
    * * *
    femenino ( arte) ceramics, pottery; ( pieza) piece of pottery
    * * *
    = ceramics, pottery, crockery.
    Ex. The collection of books remained essentially the reference library of a 19th century collector whose special interests were the decorative arts, particularly glass and ceramics.
    Ex. This article provides a summary of the discoveries related to the storage of documents from the period of the Israelite and Judaean kings (circa 1000-587 B.C.), including ostraca (broken pieces of pottery with writing on them) and seals and seal impressions.
    Ex. This is a collection of crockery pertaining to bedroom activities, such as jug and basin sets, chamber pots, and dressing table sets.
    ----
    * cerámica de gres = stoneware.
    * cuenco rectangular de cerámica = terrine.
    * de cerámica = ceramic.
    * fábrica de cerámica = ceramics factory.
    * * *
    femenino ( arte) ceramics, pottery; ( pieza) piece of pottery
    * * *
    = ceramics, pottery, crockery.

    Ex: The collection of books remained essentially the reference library of a 19th century collector whose special interests were the decorative arts, particularly glass and ceramics.

    Ex: This article provides a summary of the discoveries related to the storage of documents from the period of the Israelite and Judaean kings (circa 1000-587 B.C.), including ostraca (broken pieces of pottery with writing on them) and seals and seal impressions.
    Ex: This is a collection of crockery pertaining to bedroom activities, such as jug and basin sets, chamber pots, and dressing table sets.
    * cerámica de gres = stoneware.
    * cuenco rectangular de cerámica = terrine.
    * de cerámica = ceramic.
    * fábrica de cerámica = ceramics factory.

    * * *
    1 (arte) ceramics, pottery
    2 (pieza) piece of pottery, ceramic
    cerámicas pottery, ceramics (pl)
    * * *

     

    cerámica sustantivo femenino ( arte) ceramics, pottery;
    ( pieza) piece of pottery
    cerámica sustantivo femenino ceramics sing
    ' cerámica' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cocción
    - cocer
    - horno
    - delicado
    - esmaltar
    - esmalte
    - greda
    - raja
    - rajar
    - tarro
    - trozo
    English:
    ceramic
    - ceramics
    - glaze
    - kiln
    - pottery
    - take
    * * *
    1. [arte] ceramics [singular], pottery
    2. [objeto] piece of pottery;
    un jarrón de cerámica a ceramic o pottery vase;
    una colección de cerámica precolombina a collection of pre-Colombian pottery o ceramics
    * * *
    f ceramics sg
    * * *
    1) : ceramics pl
    2) : pottery
    * * *
    cerámica n pottery

    Spanish-English dictionary > cerámica

  • 17 escondite

    m.
    1 hiding place (place).
    2 hide-and-seek (game).
    3 hiding-place, hideaway, hideout, hide-out.
    * * *
    1 (lugar) hiding place
    2 (juego) hide-and-seek
    \
    jugar al escondite to play hide-and-seek
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=escondrijo) hiding place; (Caza, Orn) hide, blind (EEUU)
    2) (=juego) hide-and-seek

    jugar al escondite con algn — (lit, fig) to play hide-and-seek with sb

    * * *
    a) ( para personas) hideout; ( para cosas) hiding place
    b) (Jueg)
    * * *
    = hiding hole, hideout, hiding, hideaway, hidden storage place, secret storage location, secret storage place, secret holding location, secret cell, hiding spot.
    Ex. He was to remain in his refuge for one hundred and twenty-one days, an urban Robinson Crusoe, venturing forth from his hiding hole to retrieve salvageable materials from the jettisoned impedimenta of restless travelers.
    Ex. Seditious books continued to appear, nevertheless, both from secret presses in England moving furtively from hideout to hideout.
    Ex. He is hounded by hired assassins and eventually flushed out of hiding for a final confrontation with his nemesis.
    Ex. This the perfect hideaway for newlyweds.
    Ex. The excavations uncovered a hidden storage place that contained 26 well-preserved statues of kings, queens, and deities.
    Ex. The investigation also uncovered the existence of a secret storage location used since 1990.
    Ex. Her chest has a secret storage place that can hold a heart shaped lip gloss or eye shadow that comes with the doll.
    Ex. The captured crews were transported to secret holding locations where they were eventually interrogated until they told everything they knew.
    Ex. He was held as a secret prisoner and hidden in a secret cell.
    Ex. Saddam Hussein, the tyrant of Iraq, was pitiful when he was discovered in his hiding spot dirty, hungry and in tatters.
    ----
    * escondite, el = hide and seek.
    * salir de + Posesivo + escondite = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.
    * * *
    a) ( para personas) hideout; ( para cosas) hiding place
    b) (Jueg)
    * * *
    el escondite

    Ex: The best sequence in the movie takes place at a deserted train station where the children play hide and seek amongst the abandoned train cars.

    = hiding hole, hideout, hiding, hideaway, hidden storage place, secret storage location, secret storage place, secret holding location, secret cell, hiding spot.

    Ex: He was to remain in his refuge for one hundred and twenty-one days, an urban Robinson Crusoe, venturing forth from his hiding hole to retrieve salvageable materials from the jettisoned impedimenta of restless travelers.

    Ex: Seditious books continued to appear, nevertheless, both from secret presses in England moving furtively from hideout to hideout.
    Ex: He is hounded by hired assassins and eventually flushed out of hiding for a final confrontation with his nemesis.
    Ex: This the perfect hideaway for newlyweds.
    Ex: The excavations uncovered a hidden storage place that contained 26 well-preserved statues of kings, queens, and deities.
    Ex: The investigation also uncovered the existence of a secret storage location used since 1990.
    Ex: Her chest has a secret storage place that can hold a heart shaped lip gloss or eye shadow that comes with the doll.
    Ex: The captured crews were transported to secret holding locations where they were eventually interrogated until they told everything they knew.
    Ex: He was held as a secret prisoner and hidden in a secret cell.
    Ex: Saddam Hussein, the tyrant of Iraq, was pitiful when he was discovered in his hiding spot dirty, hungry and in tatters.
    * escondite, el = hide and seek.
    * salir de + Posesivo + escondite = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.

    * * *
    1 (lugar — para personas) hideout; (— para cosas) hiding place
    2 ( Jueg):
    jugar al escondite to play hide-and-seek
    * * *

    escondite sustantivo masculino

    ( para cosas) hiding place
    b) (Jueg):


    escondite sustantivo masculino
    1 (escondrijo) hiding place
    2 (juego) hide-and-seek
    ' escondite' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    madriguera
    English:
    hide-and-seek
    - hide
    - hiding
    * * *
    1. [lugar] hiding place
    2.
    el escondite [juego] hide-and-seek;
    jugar al escondite to play hide-and-seek
    * * *
    m
    1 lugar hiding place
    2 juego hide-and-seek
    * * *
    1) encondrijo: hiding place
    2) escondidas: hide-and-seek
    * * *
    1. (lugar) hiding place
    2. (juego) hide and seek

    Spanish-English dictionary > escondite

  • 18 line

    I
    1.
    noun
    1) ((a piece of) thread, cord, rope etc: She hung the washing on the line; a fishing-rod and line.) cuerda, cordel, sedal
    2) (a long, narrow mark, streak or stripe: She drew straight lines across the page; a dotted/wavy line.) línea
    3) (outline or shape especially relating to length or direction: The ship had very graceful lines; A dancer uses a mirror to improve his line.) línea
    4) (a groove on the skin; a wrinkle.) arruga
    5) (a row or group of objects or persons arranged side by side or one behind the other: The children stood in a line; a line of trees.) fila, hilera
    6) (a short letter: I'll drop him a line.) cuatro líneas
    7) (a series or group of persons which come one after the other especially in the same family: a line of kings.) linaje
    8) (a track or direction: He pointed out the line of the new road; a new line of research.) trazado
    9) (the railway or a single track of the railway: Passengers must cross the line by the bridge only.) vía
    10) (a continuous system (especially of pipes, electrical or telephone cables etc) connecting one place with another: a pipeline; a line of communication; All (telephone) lines are engaged.) cable, línea
    11) (a row of written or printed words: The letter contained only three lines; a poem of sixteen lines.) línea
    12) (a regular service of ships, aircraft etc: a shipping line.) compañía
    13) (a group or class (of goods for sale) or a field of activity, interest etc: This has been a very popular new line; Computers are not really my line.) línea, gama
    14) (an arrangement of troops, especially when ready to fight: fighting in the front line.) línea

    2. verb
    1) (to form lines along: Crowds lined the pavement to see the Queen.) ponerse en fila, hacer cola
    2) (to mark with lines.) dibujar rayas
    •
    - linear
    - linesman
    - hard lines!
    - in line for
    - in
    - out of line with
    - line up
    - read between the lines
    II
    verb
    1) (to cover on the inside: She lined the box with newspaper.) llenar, forrar
    2) (to put a lining in: She lined the dress with silk.) forrar, revestir
    •
    line1 n
    1. línea / raya
    2. fila / hilera
    3. tendedero
    line2 vb
    1. ponerse en fila
    2. forrar
    tr[laɪn]
    1 (in general) línea
    ■ hold the line, please un momento, por favor, no cuelgue
    3 (of text) línea, renglón nombre masculino; (of poetry) verso
    4 (row) fila, hilera
    5 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL (queue) cola
    6 (wrinkle) arruga
    8 (route) vía
    ■ that's not my line! ¡eso no es especialidad mía!
    ■ what's your line? ¿qué haces?, ¿de qué trabajas?
    10 familiar (story) rollo
    1 (draw lines on) dibujar rayas en
    ■ the crowds lined the streets to greet the local hero la multitud se alineaba a lo largo de las calles para aclamar al héroe local
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    all along the line (from the beginning) desde el principio 2 (in detail) con todo detalle
    hard lines! familiar ¡qué mala suerte!
    to be in line for estar a punto de recibir
    to be on the right lines ir por buen camino
    to be out of line figurative use no coincidir ( with, con)
    to bring somebody into line familiar pararle los pies a alguien
    to draw the line at something decir basta a algo
    to drop somebody a line familiar mandar cuatro líneas a alguien
    to fall into line cerrar filas
    to learn one's lines SMALLTHEATRE/SMALL aprenderse el papel
    to read between the lines leer entre líneas
    to stand in line SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL hacer cola
    to step out of line salirse de la fila 2 figurative use saltarse las reglas
    to take a tough line with somebody tener mano dura con alguien
    dotted line línea de puntos
    line drawing dibujo lineal
    line of fire línea de fuego
    line of vision campo visual
    line printer impresora de líneas
    ————————
    tr[laɪn]
    1 (with material) forrar; (pipes) revestir
    2 (walls) llenar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    line ['laɪn] v, lined ; lining vt
    1) : forrar, cubrir
    to line a dress: forrar un vestido
    to line the walls: cubrir las paredes
    2) mark: rayar, trazar líneas en
    3) border: bordear
    4) align: alinear
    line vi
    to line up : ponerse in fila, hacer cola
    line n
    1) cord, rope: cuerda f
    2) wire: cable m
    power line: cable eléctrico
    3) : línea f (de teléfono)
    4) row: fila f, hilera f
    5) note: nota f, líneas fpl
    drop me a line: mándame unas líneas
    6) course: línea f
    line of inquiry: línea de investigación
    7) agreement: conformidad f
    to be in line with: ser conforme a
    to fall into line: estar de acuerdo
    8) occupation: ocupación f, rama f, especialidad f
    9) limit: línea f, límite m
    dividing line: línea divisoria
    to draw the line: fijar límites
    10) service: línea f
    bus line: línea de autobuses
    11) mark: línea f, arruga f (de la cara)
    n.
    • andana s.f.
    • cola s.f.
    • cordel s.m.
    • fila s.f.
    • línea (Electrónica) s.f.
    • línea s.f.
    • ramo s.m.
    • raya s.f.
    • renglón s.m.
    • retahila s.f.
    • sarta s.f.
    • trazo s.m.
    • verso s.m.
    v.
    • aforrar v.
    • alinear v.
    • arrugar v.
    • forrar v.
    • frisar v.
    • rayar v.

    I laɪn
    1) c
    a) (mark, trace) línea f, raya f; ( Math) recta f

    to draw a line — trazar* una línea

    to put o draw a line through something — tachar algo

    to be on the line — (colloq) estar* en peligro, peligrar

    to lay it on the line — (colloq) no andarse* con rodeos

    to lay o put something on the line — (colloq) jugarse* algo; (before n)

    line drawing — dibujo m lineal

    b) (on face, palm) línea f; ( wrinkle) arruga f
    2)
    a) c (boundary, border) línea f

    the county/state line — (AmE) (la línea de) la frontera del condado/estado

    to draw the line (at something): I don't mind untidiness, but I draw the line at this no me importa el desorden, pero esto es intolerable or esto ya es demasiado; one has to draw the line somewhere — en algún momento hay que decir basta

    b) c ( Sport) línea f; (before n)

    line judge — juez mf de línea

    c) c u ( contour) línea f
    3)
    a) c u (cable, rope) cuerda f; ( clothes o washing line) cuerda (de tender la ropa); ( fishing line) sedal m

    power line — cable m eléctrico

    b) c ( Telec) línea f

    hold the line, please — no cuelgue or (CS tb) no corte, por favor

    4) c ( Transp)
    a) (company, service) línea f

    shipping line — línea de transportes marítimos, (compañía f) naviera f

    b) ( Rail) línea f; ( track) (BrE) vía f
    5) u c
    a) (path, direction) línea f

    it was right in my line of vision — me obstruía la visual; resistance

    b) (attitude, policy) postura f, línea f

    to take a firm/hard line (with somebody/on something) — adoptar una postura or línea firme/dura (con algn/con respecto a algo)

    she takes the line that... — su actitud es que...

    to toe o (AmE also) hew the line — acatar la disciplina

    c) (method, style)

    line of inquiry — línea f de investigación

    I was thinking of something along the lines of... — pensaba en algo del tipo de or por el estilo de...

    6) c
    a) ( row) fila f, hilera f; ( queue) (AmE) cola f

    they formed a o fell into line behind their teacher — se pusieron en fila detrás del profesor

    to wait in line — (AmE) hacer* cola

    to get in line — (AmE) ponerse* en la cola

    to cut in line — (AmE) colarse* (fam), brincarse* or saltarse la cola (Méx fam)

    all/somewhere along the line: she's had bad luck all along the line ha tenido mala suerte desde el principio; we must have made a mistake somewhere along the line debemos de haber cometido un error en algún momento; in line with something: wages haven't risen in line with inflation los sueldos no han aumentado a la par de la inflación; the new measures are in line with government policy las nuevas medidas siguen la línea de la política del gobierno; out of line: that remark was out of line ese comentario estuvo fuera de lugar; their ideas were out of line with mine sus ideas no coincidían con las mías; to step out of line mostrar* disconformidad, desobedecer*; to bring somebody/something into line: he needs to be brought into line hay que llamarlo al orden or (fam) meterlo en vereda; the province was brought into line with the rest of the country la situación de la provincia se equiparó a la del resto del país; to fall in/into line: they had to fall in line with company policy tuvieron que aceptar or acatar la política de la compañía; to keep somebody in line — tener* a algn a raya; see also on line

    b) ( series) serie f
    c) ( succession) línea f
    7) c ( Mil) línea f
    8)
    a) c ( of text) línea f, renglón m; ( of poem) verso m

    new line — ( when dictating) punto y aparte

    to read between the lines — leer* entre líneas

    b) lines pl ( Theat)
    c) ( note)

    to drop somebody a line — escribirle* a algn unas líneas

    9) c

    what line are you in? — ¿a qué te dedicas?

    b) ( of merchandise) línea f

    II
    1)
    a) \<\<skirt/box\>\> forrar
    b) ( form lining along) cubrir*

    books lined the walls, the walls were lined with books — las paredes estaban cubiertas de libros

    2) ( mark with lines) \<\<paper\>\> rayar
    3) ( border)
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    I [laɪn]
    1. N
    1) (gen) línea f; (drawn) raya f

    • to draw a line — trazar una línea

    • there's a fine or thin line between genius and madness — la línea que separa la genialidad de la locura es muy sutil

    • line of latitude/ longitude — línea f de latitud/longitud

    • to put a line through sth — tachar or (LAm) rayar algo

    • the Line — (Geog) el ecuador

    - draw the line at sth
    - know where to draw the line
    - draw a line under

    to be on the line —

    his job is on the line — su puesto está en peligro, se expone a perder su puesto

    - lay it on the line

    to lay or put one's reputation on the line — arriesgar su reputación

    to put one's ass on the line — (US) ** jugársela *

    2) (=rope) cuerda f; (=fishing line) sedal m; (=clothes line, washing line) cuerda f para tender la ropa

    they threw a line to the man in the sea — le lanzaron un cable or una cuerda al hombre que estaba en el agua

    3) (=wrinkle) (on face etc) arruga f; (in palmistry) raya f, línea f
    4) [of print, verse] renglón m, línea f

    "new line" — (in dictation) "otra línea"

    • drop me a line * — (fig) escríbeme

    • to learn one's lines — (Theat) aprenderse el papel

    - read between the lines
    5) (=row) hilera f, fila f, línea f

    line of traffic — fila f or cola f de coches

    a line of winning numbers — (in bingo, lottery etc) una línea ganadora

    • to be in line with — estar de acuerdo con, ser conforme a

    • to bring sth into line with sth — poner algo de acuerdo con algo

    to fall or get into line — (abreast) meterse en fila

    • to be out of line with — no ser conforme con

    he was completely out of line to suggest that... * — estaba totalmente fuera de lugar que propusiera que...

    - reach or come to the end of the line
    step 2., 1)
    6) (=series) serie f
    7) (=lineage) linaje m

    • line of descent — linaje m

    • the title is inherited through the male/ female line — el título se hereda por línea paterna/materna

    • he comes from a long line of artists — proviene de un extenso linaje de artistas

    • the royal line — el linaje real

    8) (=hierarchy)

    • line of command — cadena f de mando

    9) (Mil) línea f

    • line of battle — línea de batalla

    the (battle) lines are drawn — (fig) la guerra está declarada

    • the first line of defence — (lit) la primera línea de retaguardia; (fig) el primer escudo protector

    • behind enemy lines — tras las líneas enemigas

    • ship of the line — navío m de línea

    front 5.
    10) (esp US) (=queue) cola f

    • to form a line — hacer una cola

    • to get into line — ponerse en la cola or a la cola

    • to stand in line — hacer cola

    11) (=direction) línea f

    the main or broad lines — [of story, plan] las líneas maestras

    • along or on the lines of — algo por el estilo de

    something along those or the same lines — algo por el estilo

    along or on political/racial lines — según criterios políticos/raciales

    • line of argument — argumento m

    • line of attack — (Mil) modo m de ataque; (fig) planteamiento m

    • in the line of duty — en cumplimiento de sus deberes

    • in the line of fire — (Mil) en la línea de fuego

    • line of flight — [of bird] trayectoria f de vuelo; [of object] trayectoria f

    • line of inquiry — línea f de investigación

    • line of sight or vision — visual f

    • line of thought — hilo m del pensamiento

    12) (Elec) (=wire) cable m

    to be/come on line — (Comput) estar/entrar en (pleno) funcionamiento

    13) (Telec) línea f

    can you get me a line to Chicago? — ¿me puede poner con Chicago?

    • it's a very bad line — se oye muy mal

    • lines of communication — líneas fpl de comunicación

    • the line's gone dead — se ha cortado la línea

    • the lines are down — no hay línea

    • the line is engaged or (US) busy — está comunicando

    • hold the line please — no cuelgue, por favor

    • Mr. Smith is on the line (for you) — El Sr. Smith está al teléfono (y quiere hablar con usted)

    • the lines are open from six o'clock onwards — las líneas están abiertas de seis en adelante

    hot 4.
    14) (=pipe) (for oil, gas) conducto m
    15) (=shape) (usu pl)

    the rounded lines of this car — la línea redondeada or el contorno redondeado de este coche

    16) (=field, area)

    what line (of business) are you in? — ¿a qué se dedica?

    we're in the same line (of business) — nos dedicamos a lo mismo, trabajamos en el mismo campo

    line of research — campo m de investigación

    it's not my line — (=speciality) no es de mi especialidad

    fishing's more (in) my line — me interesa más la pesca, de pesca sí sé algo

    17) (=stance, attitude) actitud f

    • to take a strong or firm line on sth — adoptar una actitud firme sobre algo

    to take the line that... — ser de la opinión que...

    what line is the government taking? — ¿cuál es la actitud del gobierno?

    to follow or take the line of least resistance — conformarse con la ley del mínimo esfuerzo

    - toe the line

    to toe or follow the party line — conformarse a or seguir la línea del partido

    hard 1., 5)
    18) (Comm) (=product) línea f

    a new/popular line — una línea nueva/popular

    19) (Rail) (=route) línea f; (=track) vía f

    the line to Palencia — el ferrocarril de Palencia, la línea de Palencia

    • to cross the line(s) — cruzar la vía

    • to leave the line(s) — descarrilar

    20) (also: shipping line) (=company) naviera f; (=route) línea f marítima, ruta f marítima
    21) (=clue, lead) pista f

    • to give sb a line on sth — poner a algn sobre la pista de algo

    the police have a line on the criminal — la policía anda or está sobre la pista del delincuente

    22) (=spiel)
    - feed sb a line about sth
    shoot 2., 4)
    23) (Ind) (=assembly line) línea f
    24) [of cocaine etc] raya f
    2.
    VT (=cross with lines) [+ paper] rayar; [+ field] surcar; [+ face] arrugar
    3.
    CPD

    line dancing N — danza folclórica en que los que bailan forman líneas y filas

    line drawing N — dibujo m lineal

    line editing N — corrección f por líneas

    line feed N — avance m de línea

    line fishing N — pesca f con caña

    line judge N — (Tennis) juez mf de fondo

    line manager N — (Brit) (Ind) jefe(-a) m / f de línea

    line printer N — impresora f de línea


    II
    [laɪn]
    VT
    1) (=put lining in) [+ garment] forrar ( with de); (Tech) revestir ( with de); [+ brakes] guarnecer; [bird] [+ nest] cubrir
    pocket 1., 1)
    2) (=border)

    streets lined with trees — calles fpl bordeadas de árboles

    * * *

    I [laɪn]
    1) c
    a) (mark, trace) línea f, raya f; ( Math) recta f

    to draw a line — trazar* una línea

    to put o draw a line through something — tachar algo

    to be on the line — (colloq) estar* en peligro, peligrar

    to lay it on the line — (colloq) no andarse* con rodeos

    to lay o put something on the line — (colloq) jugarse* algo; (before n)

    line drawing — dibujo m lineal

    b) (on face, palm) línea f; ( wrinkle) arruga f
    2)
    a) c (boundary, border) línea f

    the county/state line — (AmE) (la línea de) la frontera del condado/estado

    to draw the line (at something): I don't mind untidiness, but I draw the line at this no me importa el desorden, pero esto es intolerable or esto ya es demasiado; one has to draw the line somewhere — en algún momento hay que decir basta

    b) c ( Sport) línea f; (before n)

    line judge — juez mf de línea

    c) c u ( contour) línea f
    3)
    a) c u (cable, rope) cuerda f; ( clothes o washing line) cuerda (de tender la ropa); ( fishing line) sedal m

    power line — cable m eléctrico

    b) c ( Telec) línea f

    hold the line, please — no cuelgue or (CS tb) no corte, por favor

    4) c ( Transp)
    a) (company, service) línea f

    shipping line — línea de transportes marítimos, (compañía f) naviera f

    b) ( Rail) línea f; ( track) (BrE) vía f
    5) u c
    a) (path, direction) línea f

    it was right in my line of vision — me obstruía la visual; resistance

    b) (attitude, policy) postura f, línea f

    to take a firm/hard line (with somebody/on something) — adoptar una postura or línea firme/dura (con algn/con respecto a algo)

    she takes the line that... — su actitud es que...

    to toe o (AmE also) hew the line — acatar la disciplina

    c) (method, style)

    line of inquiry — línea f de investigación

    I was thinking of something along the lines of... — pensaba en algo del tipo de or por el estilo de...

    6) c
    a) ( row) fila f, hilera f; ( queue) (AmE) cola f

    they formed a o fell into line behind their teacher — se pusieron en fila detrás del profesor

    to wait in line — (AmE) hacer* cola

    to get in line — (AmE) ponerse* en la cola

    to cut in line — (AmE) colarse* (fam), brincarse* or saltarse la cola (Méx fam)

    all/somewhere along the line: she's had bad luck all along the line ha tenido mala suerte desde el principio; we must have made a mistake somewhere along the line debemos de haber cometido un error en algún momento; in line with something: wages haven't risen in line with inflation los sueldos no han aumentado a la par de la inflación; the new measures are in line with government policy las nuevas medidas siguen la línea de la política del gobierno; out of line: that remark was out of line ese comentario estuvo fuera de lugar; their ideas were out of line with mine sus ideas no coincidían con las mías; to step out of line mostrar* disconformidad, desobedecer*; to bring somebody/something into line: he needs to be brought into line hay que llamarlo al orden or (fam) meterlo en vereda; the province was brought into line with the rest of the country la situación de la provincia se equiparó a la del resto del país; to fall in/into line: they had to fall in line with company policy tuvieron que aceptar or acatar la política de la compañía; to keep somebody in line — tener* a algn a raya; see also on line

    b) ( series) serie f
    c) ( succession) línea f
    7) c ( Mil) línea f
    8)
    a) c ( of text) línea f, renglón m; ( of poem) verso m

    new line — ( when dictating) punto y aparte

    to read between the lines — leer* entre líneas

    b) lines pl ( Theat)
    c) ( note)

    to drop somebody a line — escribirle* a algn unas líneas

    9) c

    what line are you in? — ¿a qué te dedicas?

    b) ( of merchandise) línea f

    II
    1)
    a) \<\<skirt/box\>\> forrar
    b) ( form lining along) cubrir*

    books lined the walls, the walls were lined with books — las paredes estaban cubiertas de libros

    2) ( mark with lines) \<\<paper\>\> rayar
    3) ( border)
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > line

  • 19 ab

    ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

    AF VOBEIS,

    Inscr. Orell. 3114;

    AF MVRO,

    ib. 6601;

    AF CAPVA,

    ib. 3308;

    AF SOLO,

    ib. 589;

    AF LYCO,

    ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

    abs chorago,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

    abs quivis,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

    abs terra,

    Cato, R. R. 51;

    and in compounds: aps-cessero,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

    and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

    id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).
    I.
    In space, and,
    II.
    Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.
    I.
    Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

    Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

    fuga ab urbe turpissima,

    Cic. Att. 7, 21:

    ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

    Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

    illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

    all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

    venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

    Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.
    b.
    Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

    oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

    quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

    ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

    protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

    id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

    profecti a domo,

    Liv. 40, 33, 2;

    of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

    classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

    Liv. 8, 22, 6;

    of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

    Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

    legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

    id. 24, 40, 2.
    c.
    Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

    Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

    libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

    Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

    Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

    id. Att. 7, 24:

    cum a vobis discessero,

    id. Sen. 22:

    multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

    Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

    so a fratre,

    id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

    a Pontio,

    Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

    ab ea,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.
    B.
    Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.
    1.
    Of separation:

    ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

    tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

    Sall. C. 40, 5:

    absint lacerti ab stabulis,

    Verg. G. 4, 14.—
    2.
    Of distance:

    quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

    Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

    nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

    id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

    hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

    terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

    non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

    cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

    Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

    qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

    quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

    procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

    tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

    Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

    v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

    tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

    id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

    tam prope ab domo detineri,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

    onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

    eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

    duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

    id. 37, 38, 5). —
    3.
    To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

    picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

    Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

    pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

    on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

    at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

    erat a septentrionibus collis,

    on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    In time.
    1.
    From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

    Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

    Juv. 1,40:

    mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

    immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

    Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

    immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

    ab eo magistratu,

    after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

    a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

    after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

    ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

    Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

    confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

    Liv. 30, 36, 1:

    statim a funere,

    Suet. Caes. 85;

    and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

    id. ib. 60:

    protinus ab adoptione,

    Vell. 2, 104, 3:

    Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

    soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

    Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

    i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

    secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

    i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.
    2.
    With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

    ab hora tertia bibebatur,

    from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

    infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

    since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

    vixit ab omni aeternitate,

    from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

    cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

    Nep. Att. 5, 3:

    in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

    after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

    centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

    since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

    cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

    id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

    ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

    since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

    diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

    quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

    since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

    jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

    from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

    ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

    Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

    cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

    a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

    Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

    pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

    from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.
    b.
    Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

    qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

    from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

    mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

    a pueritia,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

    jam inde ab adulescentia,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

    ab adulescentia,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

    jam a prima adulescentia,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

    ab ineunte adulescentia,

    id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

    followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

    a primis temporibus aetatis,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    a teneris unguiculis,

    from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

    usque a toga pura,

    id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

    jam inde ab incunabulis,

    Liv. 4, 36, 5:

    a prima lanugine,

    Suet. Oth. 12:

    viridi ab aevo,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

    rarely of animals: ab infantia,

    Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

    qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

    a pausillo puero,

    id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

    a puero,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

    a pueris,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

    ab adulescente,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    ab infante,

    Col. 1, 8, 2:

    a parva virgine,

    Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

    a parvis,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

    a parvulo,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

    ab parvulis,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

    ab tenero,

    Col. 5, 6, 20;

    and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.
    B.
    In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.
    1.
    In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

    suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

    qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

    hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

    quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    condicionem quam ab te peto,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

    mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

    si quid ab illo acceperis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

    quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

    ab defensione desistere,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

    ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

    id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

    ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

    qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

    the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

    tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

    next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

    Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

    next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

    quid hoc ab illo differt,

    from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

    hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

    id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

    discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

    id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

    quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

    alieno a te animo fuit,

    id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

    subdole ab re consulit,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

    haut est ab re aucupis,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

    non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

    Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

    a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

    id. ib. 1, 3:

    disputata ab eo,

    id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

    illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

    id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

    ita generati a natura sumus,

    id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

    pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

    niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

    quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

    is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

    salvebis a meo Cicerone,

    i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

    a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

    i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

    ne vir ab hoste cadat,

    Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

    levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

    a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

    id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

    si calor est a sole,

    id. N. D. 2, 52:

    ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

    id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

    metu poenae a Romanis,

    Liv. 32, 23, 9:

    bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

    id. 3, 22, 2:

    ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

    id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

    lassus ab equo indomito,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

    Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

    Prop. 5, 1, 126:

    tempus a nostris triste malis,

    time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

    vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

    by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

    ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

    Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

    si postulatur a populo,

    if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

    deseror conjuge,

    Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

    and in prose,

    Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

    ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

    (urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.
    b.
    With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

    pastores a Pergamide,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

    Turnus ab Aricia,

    Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

    obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

    Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.
    c.
    In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

    (sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

    id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)
    d.
    With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

    da, puere, ab summo,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

    da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

    coepere a fame mala,

    Liv. 4, 12, 7:

    cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

    tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

    a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.
    e.
    With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

    a foliis et stercore purgato,

    Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

    tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

    Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

    Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

    Liv. 21, 11, 5:

    expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

    haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

    ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

    Sall. C. 32:

    ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

    Liv. 21, 35, 12:

    ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

    Cic. Sest. 64, 133.
    f.
    With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

    el metul a Chryside,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

    ab Hannibale metuens,

    Liv. 23, 36; and:

    metus a praetore,

    id. 23, 15, 7;

    v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

    Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

    postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

    you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.
    g.
    With verbs of fastening and holding:

    funiculus a puppi religatus,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

    cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

    Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.
    h.
    Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

    a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

    Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.
    i.
    Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

    id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22.
    j.
    Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

    doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

    a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

    a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

    a frigore laborantibus,

    Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

    laborare ab re frumentaria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.
    k.
    Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

    ab ingenio improbus,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

    a me pudica'st,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

    orba ab optimatibus contio,

    Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

    locus copiosus a frumento,

    Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

    sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

    id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

    ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

    id. Brut. 16, 63:

    ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

    Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

    so often in poets ab arte=arte,

    artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.
    l.
    In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

    linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

    thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

    ab honore,

    id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.
    m.
    Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

    ab illo injuria,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

    fulgor ab auro,

    Lucr. 2, 5:

    dulces a fontibus undae,

    Verg. G. 2, 243.
    n.
    In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

    scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    nonnuill ab novissimis,

    id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).
    o.
    In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

    qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

    ab eo qui sunt,

    id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

    nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

    id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).
    p.
    To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

    in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

    one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

    a manu servus,

    a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).
    q.
    The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

    a peregre,

    Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

    a foris,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

    ab intus,

    ib. ib. 7, 15:

    ab invicem,

    App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

    a longe,

    Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

    a modo,

    ib. ib. 23, 39;

    Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

    Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

    a sursum,

    ib. Marc. 15, 38.
    ► a.
    Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

    Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

    Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

    a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

    id. Sen. 6:

    a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

    id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

    res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

    id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—
    b.
    Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—
    c.
    It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

    a vitae periculo,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

    a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

    id. Arch. 6, 12:

    a minus bono,

    Sall. C. 2, 6:

    a satis miti principio,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4:

    damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

    Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—
    d.
    The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

    aque Chao,

    Verg. G. 4, 347:

    aque mero,

    Ov. M. 3, 631:

    aque viro,

    id. H. 6, 156:

    aque suis,

    id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

    a meque,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

    abs teque,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

    a teque,

    id. ib. 8, 11, §

    7: a primaque adulescentia,

    id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —
    e.
    A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.
    III.
    In composition ab,
    1.
    Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—
    2.
    It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

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  • 20 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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