Symplēgădes

Symplēgădes, um, f., = Sumplêgades (that strike together).

Two rocky islands in the Euxine that, according to the fable, floated about dashing against and rebounding from each other, until at length they became fixed on the passage of the Argo between them, Mel. 2, 7, 11; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 92; 6, 12, 13, § 32; Ov. M. 15, 338; Hyg. Fab. 19.—In sing. Symplegas, Val. Fl. 4, 221; Luc. 2, 718; gen. Symplegados, Val. Fl. 5, 300; acc. Symplegada, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 30.—

Transf.: symplēgas, ădis, f.; as an appellative, a joining together, cohesion:

praebente algam densi symplegade limi,

Rutil. Itin. 1, 461.—Of the buttocks, Mart. 11, 99, 5; Aus. Epigr. 108, 8.

Symplēgădes, um, f., = Sumplêgades (that strike together).

Two rocky islands in the Euxine that, according to the fable, floated about dashing against and rebounding from each other, until at length they became fixed on the passage of the Argo between them, Mel. 2, 7, 11; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 92; 6, 12, 13, § 32; Ov. M. 15, 338; Hyg. Fab. 19.—In sing. Symplegas, Val. Fl. 4, 221; Luc. 2, 718; gen. Symplegados, Val. Fl. 5, 300; acc. Symplegada, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 30.—

Transf.: symplēgas, ădis, f.; as an appellative, a joining together, cohesion:

praebente algam densi symplegade limi,

Rutil. Itin. 1, 461.—Of the buttocks, Mart. 11, 99, 5; Aus. Epigr. 108, 8.

con-curro, curri, cursum, 3 ( perf. redupl. concucurrit, Flor. 4, 2, 33 Duker N. cr.: concucurrisse, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 901 P., and Suet. Caes. 15; cf. Liv. 1, 12 Oud., and Ind. Flor. s. h. v. Duker), v. n.

To run together (of several persons), to come or assemble together in multitudes, to rush or flock together in crowds (very freq., and class.).

Prop.

Absol.:

tota Italia concurret,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16: video hac tempestate concurrisse omnis adversarios, Cato ap. Prisc. 10, p. 901 P.:

concurrunt jussu meo plures uno tempore librarii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13:

cum omnes, ut mos est, concurrerent,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65:

licet concurrant omnes plebei philosophi, nihil tam eleganter explicabunt, etc.,

unite, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 55:

multi concurrerant,

Nep. Dion, 10, 1; Sall. J. 60, 6:

concurrite, concurrite, cives,

Val. Max. 4, 1, 12.— Impers.: contionem inprimis advocari jubet;

summā cum expectatione concurritur,

Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 13.—

Designating the place from which, or the place or purpose to or for which:

non solum qui in urbe erant, sed etiam undique ex agris concurrerunt,

Nep. Pelop. 3, 3:

undique gentes,

Luc. 3, 321:

concurrunt laeti mi obviam cupedinarii omnes,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 25: ad hos (sc. Druides) magnus adulescentium numerus disciplinae causā concurrit, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; cf. Quint. 1, 2, 16:

ad eum magnae copiae,

Sall. C. 56, 5:

ad eum homines omnium ordirum corruptissimi,

id. H. 1, 48, 7 Dietsch:

ad curiam,

Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 18 (corresp. to convolare ad Rostra); Liv. 4, 60, 1; Suet. Tit. 11:

domum tuam cuncta civitas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 80:

ad arma milites,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22 fin.; so id. ib. 5, 39 fin.:

ad non dubiam mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89:

ad auxilium sociae,

Luc. 3, 663:

signum dedit, ut ad me restituendum Romam concurrerent,

Cic. Mil. 15, 39:

omnes concurrerunt ad Perdiccam opprimendum,

united together, Nep. Eum. 3, 1; id. Phoc. 2, 5:

ad aliquem audiendum,

Suet. Caes. 32. — Impers.:

concurritur undique ad commune incendium restinguendum,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 21:

concurrendum ad curiam putare,

id. Rab. Post. 7, 18:

cum ad arma concurri oporteret,

Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

ex proximis castellis eo concursum est,

id. ib. 2, 33:

concursum ad curiam esse,

Liv. 4, 60, 1: Suet. Calig. 6; Quint. 1, 2, 16.—

Poet., to run in attendance upon, to accompany:

est quibus Eleae concurrit palma quadrigae, as it were,

follows him on foot, accompanies, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 17.—

Trop. = confugere, to run for refuge or help, to take refuge (rare):

ad C. Aquilium,

Cic. Quint. 16, 53 B. and K.:

nulla sedes, quo concurrant,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4:

ne darem perditis civibus hominem, quo concurrerent,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 2, 3:

interea servitia repudiabat (Catilina), opibus conjurationis fretus,

Sall. C. 56, 5; Just. 19, 1, 9.—

Of words, as under military command:

ante enim circumscribitur mente sententia confestimque verba concurrunt, quae mens eadem... statim dimittit, ut suo quodque loco respondeat,

Cic. Or. 59, 200.—

To run upon one another, to meet or dash together (class.).

Of corporeal objects.

In gen.:

concurrunt nubes ventis,

Lucr. 6, 97; cf. id. 6, 116:

ne prorae concurrerent,

Liv. 37, 30, 4 (al. prorā; cf. Weissenb. ad loc.); cf. id. 44, 42, 5; Luc. 3, 663:

mediis concurrere in undis (montes, viz., the Symplegades),

Ov. M. 7, 62; cf. id. Am. 2, 11, 3:

concurrere montes duo inter se,

Plin. 2, 83, 85, § 199: actor cum stetit in scaenā, concurrit dextera laevae (viz., in applauding), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205:

labra concurrunt,

draw together, close, Sen. Ep. 11, 2: os concurrit, id. Ira, 3, 15, 1; id. Ben. 2, 1, 3:

os,

Quint. 10, 7, 8; 11, 3, 121.— Transf., of letters and words:

aspere concurrunt litterae,

Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 172 (opp. diduci); so id. Or. 45, 154.—Hence,

In partic., milit. t. t., to rush together in hostility, to engage in combat, to join battle, to fight (most freq. in the histt.); constr. inter se, cum aliquo, adversus, in, contra aliquem, alicui, and absol.

Inter se:

concurrunt equites inter se,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25; so Liv. 26, 51, 4; 29, 18, 10; Suet. Oth. 12; Verg. G. 1, 489; id. A. 10, 436.—

Cum aliquo:

cum hoc concurrit ipse Eumenes,

Nep. Eum. 4, 1; so Liv. 8, 8, 15; Vell. 2, 70, 1; Suet. Oth. 10; Ov. M. 13, 87.—

Adversus, in, or contra aliquem:

recenti milite adversus fessos longo itinere concurrerat,

Liv. 35, 1, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

in aliquem,

Sall. J. 97, 4; Just. 4, 1, 10: equites contra tantam multitudinem audacissime concurrunt, run upon, against, etc., Auct. B. Afr. 6.—

Alicui (freq. in the poets):

audet viris concurrere virgo,

Verg. A. 1, 493; 10, 8; Ov. M. 5, 89; 12, 595 al.:

quibus (equitibus) cum inpigre, Numidae concurrissent,

Liv. 24, 15, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.—

Absol.: repente Antonius in aciem suas copias de vico produxit et sine morā concurrit, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

cum infestis signis concurrunt,

Sall. C. 60, 2; so Liv. 6, 7, 6; 8, 7, 9 al.; Tac. A. 6, 35; id. H. 2, 42; Suet. Claud. 21:

ex insidiis,

Liv. 9, 25, 8; 2, 11, 9:

mutuis vulneribus,

Sen. Suas. 7, 14.— Impers. pass.:

ubi propius ventum est, utrimque magno clamore concurritur,

Sall. J. 53, 2; so Liv. 10, 40, 13; Hor. S. 1, 1, 7.— Transf.:

adversus has concurrentis belli minas, legati vallum murosque firmabant,

Tac. H. 4, 22 init. —

Not in war; in the jurists, to make the same claim, enter into competition with:

si non sit, qui ei concurrat, habeat solus bonorum possessionem,

Dig. 37, 1, 2:

in hereditatem fratri concurrere,

ib. 5, 2, 16:

in pignus,

ib. 20, 4, 7: in pignore, ib.—

Trop. (rare): in tantā causarum varietate cum alia colligantur vel ipsa inter se concurrant, vel in diversum ambiguitate ducantur, Quint. 12, 2, 15:

cum dolore,

Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 2:

concurrit illinc publica, hinc regis salus,

Sen. Oedip. 830.—

Of abstract objects (occurrences, circumstances, points of time, etc.), to meet, concur, fall out at the same time, happen:

multa concurrunt simul,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 31; so,

concurrunt multae opiniones,

id. Heaut. 2, 2, 3:

tot verisimilia,

id. Ad. 4, 4, 19:

res contrariae,

Cic. Fin. 5, 10, 28:

ista casu,

id. Div. 2, 68, 141:

quae ut concurrant omnia, optabile est,

id. Off. 1, 14, 45:

saepe concurrunt aliquorum bene de me meritorum inter ipsos contentiones,

id. Planc. 32, 78:

si quid tale accidisset, ut non concurrerent nomina,

that the reciprocal accounts do not meet, become due on the same day, id. Att. 16, 3, 5; cf.:

sponsalia in idem tempus,

Dig. 3, 2, 13:

concurrit actio legis Aquiliae et injuriarum,

to have place together, to be coincident, ib. 9, 2, 5.—

Pregn., to accord, agree with (in jurid. Lat.):

concurrit cum veritate,

Dig. 29, 2, 30:

cum summā,

ib. 29, 30, 53.

cyănĕus, a, um, adj., = kuaneos.

Dark-blue, sea-blue:

cyaneo colore avis,

Plin. 10, 32, 47, § 89:

stagna,

Prud. Psych. 858.—

Cyănĕae, ārum, f., = Kuaneai, the two small rocky islands at the entrance of the Pontus Euxinus, called also Symplegades, q. v., Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 34; Mel. 2, 7, 3:

errantes,

Val. Fl. 4, 561.—Hence,

Cyă-nĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Cyaneæ:

cautes,

Luc. 2, 716:

montes,

Val. Fl. 2, 381:

rupes,

id. 4, 637:

ruinae,

Mart. 7, 19, 3:

insulae,

Mel. 2, 7, 3; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 92 al.—

Transf., like the Cyaneæ:

nates,

Mart. 11, 99, 6.

cyănĕus, a, um, adj., = kuaneos.

Dark-blue, sea-blue:

cyaneo colore avis,

Plin. 10, 32, 47, § 89:

stagna,

Prud. Psych. 858.—

Cyănĕae, ārum, f., = Kuaneai, the two small rocky islands at the entrance of the Pontus Euxinus, called also Symplegades, q. v., Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 34; Mel. 2, 7, 3:

errantes,

Val. Fl. 4, 561.—Hence,

Cyă-nĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Cyaneæ:

cautes,

Luc. 2, 716:

montes,

Val. Fl. 2, 381:

rupes,

id. 4, 637:

ruinae,

Mart. 7, 19, 3:

insulae,

Mel. 2, 7, 3; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 92 al.—

Transf., like the Cyaneæ:

nates,

Mart. 11, 99, 6.

rĕ-sisto, stĭti, 3, v. n.

To stand back, remain standing anywhere (cf. resideo); to stand still, halt, stop, stay; to stay behind, remain, continue (class.; less freq. than consistere).

Lit.: dabo mega kakon, nisi resistis... Mane... Mane atque asta, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 10; cf. id. Truc. 4, 2, 38; 41:

Resiste!

Stop! Halt! Ter. And. 2, 2, 7; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 10; Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 89, 6:

quaeso ubinam illic restitit miles modo?

Plaut. Poen. 2, 22; cf.:

ubi restiteras?

id. Ps. 4, 1, 9:

heus! heus! tibi dico, Chaerea, inquit, restiti,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 46; 2, 3, 12:

ubi ille saepius appellatus aspexit ac restitit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf.:

ad haec revocantis verba resistit,

Ov. M. 1, 503:

ad omnes municipiorum villarumque amoenitates,

Tac. H. 2, 87:

restitere Romani, tamquam caelesti voce jussi,

Liv. 1, 12, 7:

neque certum inveniri poterat, obtinendine Brundisii causā ibi remansisset... an inopiā navium ibi restitisset,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25:

postero die cum duabus legionibus in occulto restitit,

id. B. G. 7, 35:

Jubam revocatum finitimo bello restitisse in regno,

id. B. C. 2, 38: Vettius negabat, se umquam cum Curione restitisse, that he had stopped (to talk), Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2 (al. constitisse):

nihil est ubi lapsi resistamus,

id. Mur. 39, 84:

hostes dat in fugam, sic ut omnino pugnandi causă restiterit nemo,

Caes. B. G. 5, 51 fin.:

qui restitissent (sc. in urbe),

Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 3; Liv. 37, 21:

nec ante restitit, quam, etc.,

id. 2, 59:

cernes saepe resistere equos,

Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 54.—

Transf., of things:

sidus nusquam resistens,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. med.:

rota,

id. Med. 744:

proluvies ventris,

Col. 6, 7, 4.—

Trop.:

nec resistet (vita) extra fores limenque carceris,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 28, 80:

quod optabile, id expetendum: quod expetendum, laudabile: deinde reliqui gradus. Sed ego in hoc resisto,

I stop at this, pause here, id. Fin. 4, 18, 50; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 55; cf.:

ad thalami clausas, Musa, resiste fores,

Ov. A. A. 2, 704:

incipit effari mediāque in voce resistit,

Verg. A. 4, 76:

cursus ad singula vestigia resistit,

Quint. 10, 7, 14:

resistens ac salebrosa oratio,

id. 11, 2, 46 Spald.:

verba resistunt,

Ov. H. 13, 121:

in secundo loco,

Plin. Pan. 10, 4.—

To withstand, oppose, resist; to make opposition or resistance (so most freq.; cf.: repugno, adversor).

Esp. in milit. lang., constr. usu. with dat. or absol.

With dat.:

cum legiones hostibus resisterent,

Caes. B. G. 2, 22:

paulisper nostris,

id. ib. 4, 14:

venientibus, signa inferentibus,

id. B. C. 1, 55; 1, 82 fin.:

eruptionibus,

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

repentinae Gallorum conjurationi,

id. ib. 5, 27.— Pass. impers.:

alicui in acie,

Nep. Hann. 5, 4:

neque ulla multitudine in unum locum coactā, resisti posse Romanis,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 2. —

Absol.:

resistere neque deprecari,

Caes. B. G. 4, 7; 2, 23; 4, 12;

5, 7 et saep.: acerrime,

id. ib. 7, 62:

audacius,

id. ib. 2, 26:

fortiter,

id. ib. 3, 21:

fortissime,

id. ib. 4, 12:

aegre,

id. B. C. 3, 63:

caeco Marte resistunt,

Verg. A. 2, 335:

nihil de resistendo cogitabat,

Caes. B. C. 2. 34: ibi resistere ac propulsare, Sall. J. 51, 1:

nedum resistendi occasionem fuerit habiturus,

Curt. 7, 4, 4.— Impers. pass.:

ab nostris eādem ratione quā pridie resistitur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40; so,

resisti,

id. ib. 1, 37; id. B. C. 3, 63.—

In gen.:

omnia consilia consulatūs mei, quibus illi tribuno plebis pro re publicā restitissem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 48:

alicui rei publicae causā,

id. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

injuriis,

id. ib. 1, 5, b, 2:

fortiter dolori ac fortunae,

id. ib. 5, 17, 3; cf.:

vix dolori,

id. ib. 4, 6, 1:

defensioni,

i. e. to reply to, id. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1:

factioni inimicorum,

Sall. C. 34, 2:

sceleri,

Ov. M. 10, 322:

resistere et repugnare contra veritatem non audet,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 17, 51.— Impers. pass.:

omnibus his (sententiis) resistitur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 4; Cic. Lael. 12, 41; Quint. 4, 2, 14; 6, 4, 10:

cui nec virtute resisti potest,

Ov. M. 9, 200 al. — Absol.: restitit et pervicit Cato, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 8; Caes. B. C. 3, 21:

resistentibus collegis,

Sall. J. 37, 2:

patricii contra vi resistunt,

Liv. 3, 13 Drak. N. cr.:

ne qua sibi statua poneretur, restitit,

Nep. Att. 3, 2.— Impers. pass.:

cum a Cottā primisque ordinibus acriter resisteretur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 30:

vix deorum opibus, quin obruatur Romana res, resisti posse,

Liv. 4, 43. —

Transf., of things:

(plaustra) adversus tempestatem nocentem non resistunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2; cf.:

(fundamenta) valenter resistent contra ea, quae, etc.,

Col. 1, 5, 9:

(Symplegades) Quae nunc immotae perstant ventisque resistunt,

Ov. M. 15, 339; cf.:

indejecta domus tanto malo,

id. ib. 1, 288:

radices frigori,

Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 68:

silex vehementer igni,

id. 36, 22, 49, § 169:

haec gemmarum genera scalpturae,

id. 37, 7, 30, § 104. — Hence, of medicines, to resist, act against a disease:

amiantus veneficiis resistit omnibus,

Plin. 36, 19, 31, § 139; 23, 8, 80, § 152; 30, 11, 28, § 93 al.:

vis tribunicia libidini restitit consulari,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6.— Absol.:

ut ripae fluminis cedunt aut prominentia montium resistunt,

projecting mountains advance into it, Tac. A. 2, 16:

ni vis humana resistat,

Lucr. 5, 207:

mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est,

Caes. B. G. 3, 19 fin. —

To rise again (very rare, and only trop.; syn. resurgo): post ex fluvio fortuna resistet, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 47 Vahl.):

nihil est jam, unde nos reficiamus, aut ubi lapsi resistamus,

we can raise ourselves up, rise again, Cic. Mur. 39, 84.

scŏpŭlus, i, m., = skopelos, a projecting point of rock; a rock, cliff, crag, esp. a rock, shelf, ledge in the sea.

Lit. (mostly poet.; not in Cic., but v. infra, II.; cf.:

rupes, cautes), in the sea: ut pars (remigum) ad scopulos allisa interficeretur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 27 fin.; id. B. G. 3, 13; Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 166; Verg. G. 3, 261; id. A. 1, 145; 5, 270; Ov. M. 4, 524; 9, 592:

frequentes,

Juv. 13, 246:

vomentes aequor,

Luc. 6, 24:

immanes,

Ov. M. 14, 182; cf.

of a promontory,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 20; Ov. F. 4, 419:

scopuli errantes, of the Symplegades,

Val. Fl. 3, 621; 4, 681.—On land:

scopuli rupesque cavae,

Verg. G. 3, 253; id. A. 4, 445; 12, 531; Sil. 10, 263; Stat. Th. 7, 665; Val. Fl. 6, 632;

of the cavern of Cacus,

Verg. A. 8, 192:

scopulus Mavortis, of the Areopagus,

Ov. M. 6, 70:

his inmobilior scopulis, of a man hard to move,

id. ib. 13, 801:

scopulis surdior,

Hor. C. 3, 7, 21; cf.:

ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde,

Ov. M. 7, 33:

natus es e scopulis,

id. Tr. 3, 11, 3.—

Trop., a rock, = a difficulty, danger, harm, evil, etc. (freq. in Cic.; also commended by him as a figure): cum neque Musarum scopulos quisquam superarat, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 19, 76 (Ann. v. 223 Vahl.):

qui te ad scopulum e tranquillo inferat,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 8:

Syrtim patrimonii scopulum libentius dixerim,

Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 163:

nec tuas umquam rationes ad eos scopulos, appulisses, ad quos Sex. Titii afflictam navem et in quibus C. Deciani naufragium fortunarum videres,

id. Rab. Perd. 9, 25; id. de Or. 2, 37, 154; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79:

in scopulos vitae incidere,

id. Consol. Fragm. 2, p. 489 Orell.:

(Piso et Gabinius) geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae,

id. Pis. 18, 41; cf. Flor. 4, 9, 1:

(Pompeius) Ille tremor Ponti et piratarum scopulus, Petr. poët. 123, 240: commeatum publicum in scopulos annonae impingere,

Quint. Decl. 12, 22:

cujus tribunal scopulus reorum dicebatur,

Val. Max. 3, 7, 9:

e scopulo cadere,

to be ruined, Amm. 30, 5, 10.