That makes

pervĭus, a, um, adj. [per-via], that has a passage through; hence,

Lit., that may be passed through or crossed, affording a passage through, passable, pervious (class.):

aedes,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 14:

transitiones,

thoroughfares, passages, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67:

hostes saltus pervios ceperant,

Liv. 9, 43:

usus Tectorum inter se,

Verg. A. 2, 453:

Phoebo non pervia taxus,

i. e. impervious to the sun's rays, Luc. 6, 645:

pervius hastis,

id. 2, 310:

rima pervia flatibus,

Ov. M. 15, 301:

non ulli pervia vento,

id. ib. 2, 762:

equo loca pervia,

id. ib. 8, 377:

Baianae pervia cymbae stagna,

Juv. 12, 80:

unde maxime pervius amnis,

is most fordable, Tac. A. 12, 12:

Phasis pontibus CXX. pervius,

Plin. 6, 4, 4, § 13:

sacraria Fauni pervia,

i. e. accessible to all, not set apart by consecration, Calp. Ecl. 1, 15.—Hence, subst.: pervĭum, ii, n., a thoroughfare, passage:

ne pervium illa Germanis exercitibus esset,

Tac. H. 3, 8.—

Transf.

Act., that makes a passage through, penetrating:

ensis,

Sil. 10, 249.—

Pass., perforated, pierced: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 6.—

Trop.: cor meum mihi nunc pervium est, my heart is now open, i. e. light or easy, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 70 (760 Ritschl):

nihil ambitioni pervium,

accessible, Tac. A. 13, 4.

pervĭus, a, um, adj. [per-via], that has a passage through; hence,

Lit., that may be passed through or crossed, affording a passage through, passable, pervious (class.):

aedes,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 14:

transitiones,

thoroughfares, passages, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67:

hostes saltus pervios ceperant,

Liv. 9, 43:

usus Tectorum inter se,

Verg. A. 2, 453:

Phoebo non pervia taxus,

i. e. impervious to the sun's rays, Luc. 6, 645:

pervius hastis,

id. 2, 310:

rima pervia flatibus,

Ov. M. 15, 301:

non ulli pervia vento,

id. ib. 2, 762:

equo loca pervia,

id. ib. 8, 377:

Baianae pervia cymbae stagna,

Juv. 12, 80:

unde maxime pervius amnis,

is most fordable, Tac. A. 12, 12:

Phasis pontibus CXX. pervius,

Plin. 6, 4, 4, § 13:

sacraria Fauni pervia,

i. e. accessible to all, not set apart by consecration, Calp. Ecl. 1, 15.—Hence, subst.: pervĭum, ii, n., a thoroughfare, passage:

ne pervium illa Germanis exercitibus esset,

Tac. H. 3, 8.—

Transf.

Act., that makes a passage through, penetrating:

ensis,

Sil. 10, 249.—

Pass., perforated, pierced: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 6.—

Trop.: cor meum mihi nunc pervium est, my heart is now open, i. e. light or easy, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 70 (760 Ritschl):

nihil ambitioni pervium,

accessible, Tac. A. 13, 4.

pĭger, gra, grum (late Lat. collat. form of sup. pigrissimus, Tert. Exhort. ad Castit. 13), adj. [piget].

Lit., unwilling, reluctant, averse (rare):

gens pigerrima ad militaria opera,

Liv. 21, 25, 6:

pigriores ad facinus,

id. 39, 13, 11:

pigriores ad cetera munia exequenda,

Curt. 6, 9, 29: ad litteras scribendas pigerrimus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 1:

ad conatus magnos piger,

Sen. Ira, 3, 3, 1.—

Transf.

Backward, slow, dull, lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive (of persons and things).

With in and abl.:

interdum piger, interdum timidus in re militari videbare,

Cic. Fam. 7, 17, 1.—

Absol.:

taurus ipsā mole piger,

Juv. 12, 12:

mare pigrum ac prope immotum,

i. e. flowing slowly, sluggish, Tac. G. 45:

pigrum mare et grave,

id. Agr. 10:

palus,

Ov. P. 4, 10, 61:

annus,

that moves lazily, passes slowly, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 21:

bellum,

that advances slowly, Ov. F. 2, 727:

campus,

unfruitful, Hor. C. 1, 22, 17:

pigriora sunt ista remedia,

operate too slowly, Col. 2, 17, 3.—Prov.:

vult et non vult piger,

Vulg. Prov. 13, 4:

dicit piger, leo est in viā,

id. ib. 26, 13:

pigrā munire castra dolabrā,

lazily handled, Juv. 8, 248. —

With gen. ( poet.):

militiae piger et malus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 124:

pericli,

Sil. 14, 264:

serpit Arar per rura pigerrimus undae,

id. 15, 504.—

With inf. ( poet.):

piger scribendi ferre laborem,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 12 (cf. the opp.:

impiger hostium Vexare turmas,

id. C. 4, 14, 22).— Absol.:

pigrum et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare,

Tac. G. 14 fin. —Hence, poet. transf.,

Sluggish, i. e. that makes sluggish, benumbing:

sopor,

Cat. 63, 37:

frigora,

Tib. 1, 2, 29:

senecta,

id. 1, 10, 40.—

Dull, dispirited, dejected, sad ( poet. and in postclass. prose):

vultus,

Mart. 2, 11, 3:

pigrum aliquem facere,

id. 10, 104, 15:

piger tristisque,

App. M. 4, p. 157 fin. —

Dull, unfeeling ( poet.):

hinc fessos subrepsit in artus Insidiosa quies et pigrae oblivio vitae,

Stat. S. 1, 4, 56 sq.; cf.:

indigna est pigro forma perire situ,

Ov. Am. 2, 3, 14.—Hence, adv.: pĭgrē, slowly, sluggishly (post-Aug.):

in servitutem transiens,

Sen. Ira, 3, 17:

pigre ac segniter agere,

Col. 7, 5, 3.— Comp.:

pigrius,

Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; Luc. 5, 434.

sălūtātrix, īcis, f. [salutator] (postAug.), she that salutes; occurring only in apposition.

In gen.:

pica,

Mart. 7, 87, 6:

charta,

i. e. a letter of greeting, id. 9, 99, 2.—

In partic., she that makes complimentary visits, that pays court:

turba,

i. e. the crowd of clients who come to salute their patron in the morning, Juv. 5, 21.

flēbĭlis, e, adj. [fleo].

Pass., to be wept over, to be lamented, lamentable (class.):

ponite ante oculos miseram illam et flebilem speciem,

Cic. Phil. 11, 3, 7:

o flebiles vigilias!

id. Planc. 42, 101:

Hector,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 32:

Ino,

Hor. A. P. 123:

flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est,

Ov. M. 7, 518.—With dat. pers.:

multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, Nulli flebilior, quam tibi, Vergili,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 9.—

That makes or causes to weep, that brings tears ( poet. and rare): cepe, Lucil. ap. Non. 201, 2:

ultor,

Ov. H. 13, 48:

flebile dictu,

Sil. 9, 502.—

Weeping, tearful, doleful (class.): gemitus elamentabilis;

imbecillus, abjectus, flebilis,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

maeror (est) aegritudo flebilis,

id. ib. 4, 8, 18; cf.:

affectus vel concitati vel flebiles,

Quint. 11, 3, 162:

vox,

id. ib. 64:

elegia,

Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:

modi,

Hor. C. 2, 9, 9:

suavitas,

Quint. 11, 3, 170:

spargebat tepidos flebilis imbre sinus,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 68:

sponsa,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 21:

matrona,

App. M. 6, p. 125, 2 Elm.—In neut.:

flebile, adverbially: exclusus flebile cantet amans,

dolefully, plaintively, sadly, Ov. R. Am. 36:

gavisae,

Stat. Th. 12, 426; Sil. 7, 648.—Hence, adv.: flēbĭlĭter (acc. to II. B.), mournfully, dolefully:

vide, quam non flebiliter respondeat,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

lamentari,

id. ib. 2, 21, 49:

canere,

id. ib. 1, 35, 85:

gemere,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 5.— Comp.:

daemones flebilius ululant,

Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 57.

flēbĭlis, e, adj. [fleo].

Pass., to be wept over, to be lamented, lamentable (class.):

ponite ante oculos miseram illam et flebilem speciem,

Cic. Phil. 11, 3, 7:

o flebiles vigilias!

id. Planc. 42, 101:

Hector,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 32:

Ino,

Hor. A. P. 123:

flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est,

Ov. M. 7, 518.—With dat. pers.:

multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, Nulli flebilior, quam tibi, Vergili,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 9.—

That makes or causes to weep, that brings tears ( poet. and rare): cepe, Lucil. ap. Non. 201, 2:

ultor,

Ov. H. 13, 48:

flebile dictu,

Sil. 9, 502.—

Weeping, tearful, doleful (class.): gemitus elamentabilis;

imbecillus, abjectus, flebilis,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

maeror (est) aegritudo flebilis,

id. ib. 4, 8, 18; cf.:

affectus vel concitati vel flebiles,

Quint. 11, 3, 162:

vox,

id. ib. 64:

elegia,

Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:

modi,

Hor. C. 2, 9, 9:

suavitas,

Quint. 11, 3, 170:

spargebat tepidos flebilis imbre sinus,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 68:

sponsa,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 21:

matrona,

App. M. 6, p. 125, 2 Elm.—In neut.:

flebile, adverbially: exclusus flebile cantet amans,

dolefully, plaintively, sadly, Ov. R. Am. 36:

gavisae,

Stat. Th. 12, 426; Sil. 7, 648.—Hence, adv.: flēbĭlĭter (acc. to II. B.), mournfully, dolefully:

vide, quam non flebiliter respondeat,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

lamentari,

id. ib. 2, 21, 49:

canere,

id. ib. 1, 35, 85:

gemere,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 5.— Comp.:

daemones flebilius ululant,

Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 57.

formīdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [v. 2. formido], to fear, dread any thing; to be afraid, terrified, frightened (class.; syn.: metuo, timeo, vereor, trepido, tremo, paveo).

With acc.:

illum,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 5:

et illud paveo et hoc formido,

id. Cist. 2, 1, 58:

malum (shortly after: metuo malum),

id. Am. prol. 27:

ipse se cruciat omniaque formidat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 53:

illius iracundiam formidant,

id. Att. 8, 16, 2: apoteugma formido et timeo, ne, etc., id. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2:

cum formidet te mulier,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 65:

fures,

id. ib. 1, 1, 77:

acumen judicis,

id. A. P. 364:

nocturnos tepores,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 93. —In pass.:

hic classe formidatus,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 15:

formidata Parthis Roma,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 256:

nautis formidatus Apollo (i. e. the temple of Apollo on the Leucadian promontory),

Verg. A. 3, 275; cf.:

nec formidatis auxiliatur aquis,

i. e. the hydrophobia, Ov. P. 1, 3, 24:

quo etiam satietas formidanda est magis,

Cic. Or. 63, 213.—

With inf.:

si isti formidas credere,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 82; cf.:

ad haec ego naribus uti Formido,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 46:

meus formidat animus, nostrum tam diu ibi sedere filium,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 4.—

With ut or ne:

aliquem non formido, ut, etc.,

Vop. Tac. 2, § 2:

formido miser, ne, etc.,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 55.—

With dat.: auro formidat Euclio: abstrudit foris, fears for the gold, Plaut. Aul. argum. 6.—

With si:

male formido, si hera mea sciat tam socordem esse quam sum,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 4.—

Absol.:

intus paveo et foris formido,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 20:

ne formida,

id. Mil. 4, 2, 20; id. As. 2, 4, 56; 3, 3, 48; id. Mil. 3, 3, 20: neque prius desinam formidare, quam tetigisse te Italiam audiero, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1.

formīdo, ĭnis, f. [Sanscr. root dhar-, whence firmus; prop. the fear that makes rigid, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 148], fearfulness, fear, terror, dread (class.).

Lit.:

parasitus, qui me conplevit flagiti et formidinis,

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 3: popolo formidinem inicere, Furius ap. Macr. S. 3, 9, 8:

Stoici definiunt formidinem metum permanentem,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8 fin.:

ut aliqua in vita formido improbis esset posita, apud inferos antiqui supplicia constituta esse voluerunt,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

quae tanta formido,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 5:

neque miser me commovere possum prae formidine,

Plaut. Am. 1. 1, 181:

subita atque improvisa,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43:

formidinem suam alicui inicere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 68:

formidinem inferre,

Tac. H. 2, 15:

intendere,

id. ib. 2, 54:

facere,

id. ib. 3, 10:

mortis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 207:

poenae,

id. ib. 1, 16, 53:

fustis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 154.—In plur.:

pericula intendantur, formidines opponantur,

Cic. Quint. 14, 47:

ex ignoratione rerum ipsa horribiles exsistunt formidines,

id. Fin. 1, 19, 63:

contra formidines pavoresque,

Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 115.—

In partic., awe, reverence:

(portae) religione sacrae et saevi formidine Martis,

Verg. A. 7, 608; Sil. 1, 83.—

Transf., concr., that which produces fear, a frightful thing, a fright, horror.

In gen.:

alta ostia Ditis Et caligantem nigrā formidine lucum Ingressus,

Verg. G. 4, 468; Front. de Fer. Als. 3:

defensoribus moenium praemia modo, modo formidinem ostentare,

Sall. J. 23, 1; 66, 1.—

In partic., a scarecrow made of differentcolored feathers, a bugbear: cum maximos ferarum greges linea pennis distincta contineat et in insidias agat, ab ipso effectu dicta formido, Sen. de 1ra, 2, 12 (cf. Nemes. Cyneg. 303 sq.):

cervum puniceae septum formidine pennae,

Verg. A. 12, 750; cf. Luc. 4, 437:

furum aviumque Maxima formido,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 4.—Personified, as a goddess, Hyg. Fab. prooem. p. 10 Munk.

princĭpĭum, ii, n. [princeps], a beginning, commencement, origin (class.; syn.: primordia, initium).

In gen.:

origo principii nulla est: nam ex principio oriuntur omnia,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54:

quid est cujus principium aliquod sit, nihil sit extremum?

id. N. D. 1, 8, 20:

nec principium, nec finem habere,

id. Sen. 21, 78:

cujus criminis neque principium invenire, neque evolvere exitum possum,

id. Cael. 23, 56:

hic fons, hoc principium est movendi,

id. Rep. 6, 25, 27:

bellorum atque imperiorum,

id. Balb. 3, 9:

principium pontis,

Tac. A. 1, 69:

principio lucis,

at daybreak, Amm. 25, 5, 1:

in principiis dicendi,

at the commencement of a speech, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121;

so of a declaration in a lawsuit,

Juv. 6, 245:

suave quoddam principium dicendi,

Amm. 30, 4, 19: principia ducere ab aliquo, to derive, deduce:

omnium rerum magnarum principia a dis immortalibus ducuntur,

id. Vatin. 6, 14:

principium urbis,

id. Off. 1, 17, 54:

scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons,

Hor. A. P. 309:

omne principium huc refer,

id. C. 3, 6, 6:

a Jove principium,

Verg. E. 3, 60:

anni,

Liv. 1, 4:

a sanguine Teucri Ducere principium,

Ov. M. 13, 705:

capessere,

to begin, Tac. A. 15, 49.—Adverb.: principio, a principio, in principio, at or in the beginning, at first:

principio... postea, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75:

principio generi animantium omni est a naturā tributum, ut se tueatur,

id. Off. 1, 4, 11; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; id. Fin. 1, 6, 17; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 39; id. And. 3, 3, 38; Verg. A. 6, 214; Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; so,

a principio: ac vellem a principio te audissem, etc.,

id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

dixeram a principio, de re publicā ut sileremus,

id. Brut. 42, 157:

in principio,

id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

principio ut,

as soon as, Plaut. Merc. prol. 40; v. Ritschl ad h. l.— Rarely of the boundaries of a country or people:

adusque principia Carmanorum,

Amm. 23, 6, 74.—

In partic.

Plur., beginnings, foundations, principles, elements (class.):

bene provisa et diligenter explorata principia ponantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

juris,

id. ib. 1, 6, 18:

naturae,

id. Off. 3, 12, 52;

for which: principia naturalia,

id. Fin. 3, 5, 17; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 35:

principia rerum, ex quibus omnia constant,

first principles, elements, id. Ac. 2, 36, 117.—

Prov.: obsta principiis (cf. the French: ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute),

Ov. R. Am. 91.—

That makes a beginning, that votes first: tribus principium fuit, pro tribu Q. Fabius primus scivit, Lex Thoria, Rudorff. p. 142; Lex Appar. ap. Haubold, Moment. Leg. p. 85; Plebissc. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129:

Faucia curia fuit principium,

was the first to vote, Liv. 9, 38 fin. —

In gen., a beginner, originator, founder, ancestor ( poet.):

Graecia principium moris fuit,

Ov. F. 2, 37:

mihi Belus avorum Principium,

ancestor, progenitor, Sil. 15, 748.—Here, too, prob. belongs PRINCIPIA SACRA, Æneas and [p. 1446] his successors in Lavinium, ancestors whom the Latins and Romans honored as deities, Inscr. Orell. 2276.—

In milit. lang.: princĭpĭa, ōrum, n.

The foremost ranks, the front line of soldiers, the front or van of an army:

post principia,

behind the front, Liv. 2, 65; cf.:

hic ero post principia, inde omnibus signum dabo,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 11: post principia paulatim recedunt, Sisenn. ap. Non. 135, 31: deinde ipse paulatim procedere;

Marium post principia habere,

Sall. J. 50, 2:

traversis principiis, in planum deducit,

id. ib. 49, 6:

equites post principia collocat,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. H. 2, 43. —

The staff-officers, members of the council of war (post-class.):

mittere principia,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 30:

a principiis salutari,

Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10:

advocatis legionum principiis et turmarum,

Amm. 25, 5, 1; Cod. 12, 47, 1.—

A large open space in a camp, in which were the tents of the general, lieutenants, and tribunes, together with the standards, and where speeches were made and councils held; the general's quarters:

jura reddere in principiis,

Liv. 28, 24:

in principiis ac praetorio in unum sermones confundi,

id. 7, 12:

castrorum,

Just. 11, 6, 6:

in castris,

Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 1:

in principiis statuit tabernaculum, eoque omnes cotidie convenire (jussit), ut ibi de summis rebus consilia caperentur,

Nep. Eum. 7, 2; Suet. Oth. 1; 6; Flor. 3, 10, 12:

primores centurionum et paucos militum in principia vocat,

Tac. H. 3, 13; 1, 48; Dig. 49, 16, 12; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 1, 16.—

Precedence, preference, the first place:

principium ergo, columenque omnium rerum preti margaritae tenent,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106. —

Plur., selections, selected passages:

principiorum libri circumferuntur, quia existimatur pars aliqua etiam sine ceteris esse perfecta,

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 12.—

In partic., mastery, dominion (post-class.): archê, magisterium, magistratus, praesidatus, principium, Gloss. Philox.: in Graeco principii vocabulum, quod est archê, non tantum ordinativum, sed et potestativum capit principatum, Tert. adv. Hermog. 19.

princĭpĭum, ii, n. [princeps], a beginning, commencement, origin (class.; syn.: primordia, initium).

In gen.:

origo principii nulla est: nam ex principio oriuntur omnia,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54:

quid est cujus principium aliquod sit, nihil sit extremum?

id. N. D. 1, 8, 20:

nec principium, nec finem habere,

id. Sen. 21, 78:

cujus criminis neque principium invenire, neque evolvere exitum possum,

id. Cael. 23, 56:

hic fons, hoc principium est movendi,

id. Rep. 6, 25, 27:

bellorum atque imperiorum,

id. Balb. 3, 9:

principium pontis,

Tac. A. 1, 69:

principio lucis,

at daybreak, Amm. 25, 5, 1:

in principiis dicendi,

at the commencement of a speech, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121;

so of a declaration in a lawsuit,

Juv. 6, 245:

suave quoddam principium dicendi,

Amm. 30, 4, 19: principia ducere ab aliquo, to derive, deduce:

omnium rerum magnarum principia a dis immortalibus ducuntur,

id. Vatin. 6, 14:

principium urbis,

id. Off. 1, 17, 54:

scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons,

Hor. A. P. 309:

omne principium huc refer,

id. C. 3, 6, 6:

a Jove principium,

Verg. E. 3, 60:

anni,

Liv. 1, 4:

a sanguine Teucri Ducere principium,

Ov. M. 13, 705:

capessere,

to begin, Tac. A. 15, 49.—Adverb.: principio, a principio, in principio, at or in the beginning, at first:

principio... postea, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75:

principio generi animantium omni est a naturā tributum, ut se tueatur,

id. Off. 1, 4, 11; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; id. Fin. 1, 6, 17; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 39; id. And. 3, 3, 38; Verg. A. 6, 214; Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; so,

a principio: ac vellem a principio te audissem, etc.,

id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

dixeram a principio, de re publicā ut sileremus,

id. Brut. 42, 157:

in principio,

id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

principio ut,

as soon as, Plaut. Merc. prol. 40; v. Ritschl ad h. l.— Rarely of the boundaries of a country or people:

adusque principia Carmanorum,

Amm. 23, 6, 74.—

In partic.

Plur., beginnings, foundations, principles, elements (class.):

bene provisa et diligenter explorata principia ponantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

juris,

id. ib. 1, 6, 18:

naturae,

id. Off. 3, 12, 52;

for which: principia naturalia,

id. Fin. 3, 5, 17; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 35:

principia rerum, ex quibus omnia constant,

first principles, elements, id. Ac. 2, 36, 117.—

Prov.: obsta principiis (cf. the French: ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute),

Ov. R. Am. 91.—

That makes a beginning, that votes first: tribus principium fuit, pro tribu Q. Fabius primus scivit, Lex Thoria, Rudorff. p. 142; Lex Appar. ap. Haubold, Moment. Leg. p. 85; Plebissc. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129:

Faucia curia fuit principium,

was the first to vote, Liv. 9, 38 fin. —

In gen., a beginner, originator, founder, ancestor ( poet.):

Graecia principium moris fuit,

Ov. F. 2, 37:

mihi Belus avorum Principium,

ancestor, progenitor, Sil. 15, 748.—Here, too, prob. belongs PRINCIPIA SACRA, Æneas and [p. 1446] his successors in Lavinium, ancestors whom the Latins and Romans honored as deities, Inscr. Orell. 2276.—

In milit. lang.: princĭpĭa, ōrum, n.

The foremost ranks, the front line of soldiers, the front or van of an army:

post principia,

behind the front, Liv. 2, 65; cf.:

hic ero post principia, inde omnibus signum dabo,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 11: post principia paulatim recedunt, Sisenn. ap. Non. 135, 31: deinde ipse paulatim procedere;

Marium post principia habere,

Sall. J. 50, 2:

traversis principiis, in planum deducit,

id. ib. 49, 6:

equites post principia collocat,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. H. 2, 43. —

The staff-officers, members of the council of war (post-class.):

mittere principia,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 30:

a principiis salutari,

Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10:

advocatis legionum principiis et turmarum,

Amm. 25, 5, 1; Cod. 12, 47, 1.—

A large open space in a camp, in which were the tents of the general, lieutenants, and tribunes, together with the standards, and where speeches were made and councils held; the general's quarters:

jura reddere in principiis,

Liv. 28, 24:

in principiis ac praetorio in unum sermones confundi,

id. 7, 12:

castrorum,

Just. 11, 6, 6:

in castris,

Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 1:

in principiis statuit tabernaculum, eoque omnes cotidie convenire (jussit), ut ibi de summis rebus consilia caperentur,

Nep. Eum. 7, 2; Suet. Oth. 1; 6; Flor. 3, 10, 12:

primores centurionum et paucos militum in principia vocat,

Tac. H. 3, 13; 1, 48; Dig. 49, 16, 12; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 1, 16.—

Precedence, preference, the first place:

principium ergo, columenque omnium rerum preti margaritae tenent,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106. —

Plur., selections, selected passages:

principiorum libri circumferuntur, quia existimatur pars aliqua etiam sine ceteris esse perfecta,

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 12.—

In partic., mastery, dominion (post-class.): archê, magisterium, magistratus, praesidatus, principium, Gloss. Philox.: in Graeco principii vocabulum, quod est archê, non tantum ordinativum, sed et potestativum capit principatum, Tert. adv. Hermog. 19.

tardus, a, um, adj., slow, not swift, sluggish, tardy (freq. and class.; syn.: lentus, languidus).

Lit., of motion or action:

velox an tardus sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35:

tardi sumus nos,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 66:

aetate tardiores,

id. ib. 3, 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 1 and 4:

fatuus est, insulsus, tardus, stertit noctes et dies,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49:

redemptor non inertiā aut inopiā tardior fuit,

Cic. Div. 2, 21, 47:

qualem existimas, qui in adulterio deprehenditur? tardum,

id. de Or. 2, 68, 275:

nemo erat adeo tardus aut fugiens laboris,

Caes. B. C. 1, 69:

tarda aliqua et languida pecus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 40:

asellus,

Verg. G. 1, 273:

juvenci,

id. ib. 2, 206: aves, quas Hispania tardas appellat, Graecia ôtidas, Plin. 10, 22, 29, § 56:

Caesar ubi reliquos esse tardiores vidit,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25:

ad injuriam tardiores,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 33:

tardior ad judicandum,

id. Caecin. 4, 9:

ad deponendum imperium,

id. Rep. 2, 12, 23:

ad discedendum,

id. Att. 9, 13, 4; cf.:

Bibulus in decedendo erit, ut audio, tardior,

id. ib. 7, 3, 5:

proci loripedes, tardissimi,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 7:

Apollo,

i. e. unpropitious, Prop. 1, 8, 41. —

Of things concr. and abstr.:

tardiores tibicinis modi et cantus remissiores,

Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 254:

omnia tarda et spissa,

id. Att. 10, 18, 2:

fumus,

Verg. A. 5, 682:

frumenti tarda subvectio,

Liv. 44, 8, 1:

poena tardior,

Cic. Caecin. 3, 7; Quint. 7, 2, 42:

portenta deum tarda et sera nimis, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: sic mihi tarda fluunt tempora,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23:

noctes,

coming on late, Verg. G. 2, 482:

tardiora fata,

Hor. Epod. 17, 62:

anne novum tardis sidus te mensibus addas,

i. e. to the long summer months, Verg. G. 1, 32:

nox,

Ov. P. 2, 4, 26:

tarda Genua labant,

Verg. A. 5, 432:

podagra,

i. e. that makes one move slowly, Hor. S. 1, 9, 32:

senectus,

id. ib. 2, 2, 88; Tib. 2, 2, 19; cf.

passus,

Ov. M. 10, 49:

abdomen,

Juv. 4, 107:

onus,

Sen. Phoen. 568:

sapor,

i. e. that lingers long on the palate, Verg. G. 2, 126:

lingua,

Sen. Oedip. 293.— Poet., with gen.:

tardus fugae,

delaying his flight, Val. Fl. 3, 547; and with inf.:

nectere tectos Numquam tarda dolos,

Sil. 3, 234. —

Trop., slow of apprehension, dull, heavy, stupid.

In gen.: Ch. Prorsum nihil intellego. Sy. Hui, tardus es, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 28:

sensus hebetes et tardi,

Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31:

nimis indociles tardique,

id. N. D. 1, 5, 12:

si qui forte sit tardior,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 127:

tardi ingenii est, rivulos consectari, fontes rerum non videre,

id. ib. 2, 27, 117:

tardo ingenio esse,

id. Agr. 3, 2, 6:

mentes,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

ingenium,

Quint. 1, 3, 2.—

In partic., of speech or of a speaker, slow, not rapid, measured, deliberate:

in utroque genere dicendi principia tarda sunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 213:

stilus,

Quint. 10, 3, 5:

tardior pronuntiatio,

id. 10, 7, 22:

tarda et supina compositio,

id. 9, 4, 137:

tardus in cogitando,

Cic. Brut. 59, 216:

Lentulus non tardus sententiis,

id. ib. 70, 247.—Hence, adv.: tardē.

Slowly, tardily:

tarde percipere (opp. celeriter arripere),

Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31; Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 20; id. Ps. 4, 3, 15; Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1; id. Att. 3, 7, 3; 5, 15, 3; 11, 22, 2; id. Mil. 20, 54; Verg. G. 2, 3. — Comp.:

tardius moveri,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 51; id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75; 4, 14, 32; id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35; Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 3, 28 al.— Sup.:

tardissime judicare,

Cic. Caecin. 2, 7. —

Late, not in time, not early, Pall. 11, 14, 3.— Sup.:

tardissime,

at latest, Plin. 18, 7, 10, §§ 51 and 56: quam tardissime, as late as possible, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1.

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