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  • 1 abnuo

    ab-nŭo, ŭi, ŭĭtum (hence abnŭĭturus, Sall. Fragm. 1, 37 Kritz), or ūtum, 3, v. a. and n. (abnueo, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 378 P. or Ann. v. 283 Vahl.:

    abnuebunt,

    id. ib. or Trag. v. 371 id.), lit., to refuse by a nod (cf. Nigid. ap. Gell. 10, 4 fin.); hence, to deny, refuse, to decline doing a thing, to reject.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen. (syn. recuso; opp. concedo), constr. absol., with the acc., the inf., quin, or de.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    non recuso, non abnuo,

    Cic. Mil. 36, 100; so Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 21; id. Truc. prol. 6; Hor. S. 2, 5, 52; Tac. A. 11, 12; id. Agr. 4 al.—
    (β).
    With acc. (in Cic. only with general objects, as quid, nihil):

    cum intellegas, quid quisque concedat, quid abnuat,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3:

    nihil umquam abnuit meo studio voluntas tua,

    refused, id. Fat. 2, 3; so,

    aliquid alicui: regi pacem neque abnuere neque pollicere,

    Sall. J. 47 fin.:

    alia (opp. probo),

    id. ib. 83 fin.:

    abnuere cognomen Bruti,

    Liv. 1, 56, 8:

    imperium,

    id. 3, 66, 3; cf.:

    imperium auspiciumque,

    to reject, id. 28, 27, 4:

    regulae rationem,

    Quint. 1, 6, 33:

    omen,

    Verg. A. 5, 531:

    aliquem comitem inceptis,

    Sil. 3, 110. —
    (γ).
    With inf.:

    certare abnueo, Enn. l. l.: nec abnuebant melioribus parere,

    Liv. 22, 13 fin.; so id. 22, 37, 4.—With acc. and inf.:

    aeternam sibi naturam abnuit esse,

    Lucr. 3, 641; cf.:

    abnueret a se commissum esse facinus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 14, 40; and:

    haud equidem abnuo egregium ducem fuisse Alexandrum,

    Liv. 9, 17, 5; so id. 5, 33, 4; 30, 20, 6; Quint. 5, 8, 3; 6, 2, 11 (opp. concedo); Verg. A. 10, 8 al.; cf.

    also: manu abnuit quidquam opis in se esse,

    Liv. 36, 34, 6.— Impers.:

    nec abnuitur ita fuisse,

    Liv. 3, 72, 6. —
    * (δ).
    With quin:

    non abnuere se quin cuncta mala patefierent,

    Tac. A. 13, 14.—
    * (ε).
    With de:

    neque illi senatus de ullo negotio abnuere audebat,

    Sall. J. 84, 3.
    B.
    Esp., abnuens, like the Gr. apeipôn, declining service, giving up (very rare):

    milites fessos itineris magnitudine et jam abnuentes omnia,

    Sall. J. 68, 3; cf.:

    fessos abnuentesque taedio et labore,

    declining the combat, Liv. 27, 49, 3.
    II.
    Transf., of abstract subjects, not to admit of, to be unfavorable ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    quod spes abnuit,

    Tib. 4, 1, 25:

    quando impetus et subita belli locus abnueret,

    Tac. H. 5, 13:

    hoc videretur, nisi abnueret duritia,

    Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 145.

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  • 2 praecipito

    praecĭpĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [praeceps], to throw or cast down headlong, to precipitate (class.; syn.. deicio, deturbo, proruo).
    I.
    Act.
    A.
    Lit.:

    pilae in mare praecipitatae,

    Nep. Alcib. 6 fin.:

    truncas rupes in tecta domosque,

    Stat. Th. 10, 881: currum scopulis, hurl or dash against, Ov. M. 15, 518:

    pinus,

    Stat. Achill. 2, 546.— Freq. with se or pass. in middle sense:

    se e Leucade,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41:

    se a tecto,

    Sen. Ep. 4, 4:

    se de turri,

    Liv. 23, 37:

    sese in fossas,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 69:

    praecipitasse se quosdam constabat (sc. de muro),

    threw themselves from the wall, Liv. 23, 19, 6; Hor. S. 2, 3, 277:

    plerique semet ipsi praecipitaverunt,

    Liv. 21, 14, 1:

    se in Tiberim,

    id. 4, 12, 11; Caes. B. G. 4, 15; Curt. 4, 16, 16; 6, 6, 32;

    Auct. B. Alex. 18: ubi Nilus praecipitans se fragore auditum accolis aufert,

    Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 118:

    praecipitare volens etiam pulcherrima,

    to throw overboard, Juv. 12, 38.—Mid.:

    cum alii super vallum praecipitarentur,

    threw themselves down, Sall. J. 58, 6; Ov. F. 4, 164; id. M. 7, 760; 11, 556:

    lux Praecipitatur aquis,

    sinks in the ocean, sets, id. ib. 4, 92; cf.:

    hac te praecipitato,

    run this way, for life! Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 36.— Absol.: si quando iis (parvis) ludentes minamur, praecipitaturos alicunde, extimescunt, that we will throw them down from any place (= nos eos dejecturos), Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31.—
    2.
    Transf., in gen., to bend a thing down:

    vitem,

    Cato, R. R. 32, 2:

    partem (vitis),

    Col. 4, 20, 4:

    palmitem,

    id. 5, 6, 33.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To throw, hurl, or cast down, to precipitate: [p. 1414] praecipitari ex altissimo dignitatis gradu, Cic. Dom. 37, 98; cf.:

    in tanta mala praeeipitatus ex patrio regno,

    Sall. J. 14, 23.— Esp. with reflex. pron.:

    semet ipse praecipitare,

    to hasten to ruin, destroy one's self, Sall. J. 41, 9:

    se in exitium,

    Cels. 3, 21:

    se in insidias,

    Liv. 3, 18, 7 dub. (Madv. omits se):

    furor iraque mentem Praecipitant,

    carry away, urge onward, sway violently, Verg. A. 2, 317:

    spem festinando praecipitare,

    Ov. P. 3, 1, 140:

    in senectam praecipitare,

    to cause to grow old prematurely, Plin. 17, 12, 19, § 94:

    quosdam praecipitat subjecta potentia magnae Invidiae,

    Juv. 10, 56.—In pass., Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 43: nox praecipitata, declining, i. e. drawing to a close, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 47; cf.: aetas praecipitata (opp. adulescens), declining age, Mat. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 5.—
    2.
    To hasten, hurry a thing (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    quae Praecipitent obitum,

    hasten their setting, Cic. Arat. 349:

    vindemiam,

    Col. 3, 21, 10:

    consulta viri,

    Sil. 3, 166:

    ne praecipitetur editio,

    Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 2:

    consilia raptim praecipitata,

    precipitate, Liv. 31, 32.— Poet.:

    moras,

    i. e. exchange delay for haste, Verg. A. 8, 443; 12, 699:

    Tiphyn pelago parari praecipitat,

    Val. Fl. 2, 390:

    cursum,

    Juv. 15, 78.—
    3.
    With acc. and inf., to hasten, press, urge to do any thing ( poet.):

    dare tempus Praecipitant curae,

    Verg. A. 11, 3:

    si praecipitant miserum cognoscere curae,

    Stat. Th. 1, 679. —
    II.
    Neutr., to hasten or rush down, to throw one's self down, rush headlong, sink rapidly, to fall (class., but only of involuntary falling; cf. I. A.).
    A.
    Lit.:

    praecipitare istuc quidem est, non descendere,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

    de montibus altis ad terram,

    Lucr. 4, 1021:

    ubi Nilus praecipitat ex altissimis montibus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 19; cf.:

    Fibrenus... statim praecipitat in Lirem,

    id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: and:

    in amni praecipitante,

    id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

    nimbi In vada praecipitant,

    Verg. A. 9, 670; 11, 617:

    in fossam,

    Liv. 25, 11, 6; 7, 6, 9; 38, 2, 14;

    39, 2, 3: in insidias,

    id. 2, 51; 5, 18; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 82:

    non fugis hinc praeceps, dum praecipitare potestas?

    Verg. A. 4, 565:

    sol praecipitans,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 209:

    jam nox caelo Praecipitat,

    is sinking, draws to a close, Verg. A. 2, 9:

    hiems jam praecipitaverat,

    had closed, come to an end, Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To fall down, to fall, rush, or sink to ruin:

    qui in amorem Praecipitavit, pejus perit quam si saxo saliat,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 31:

    praecipitantes impellere, certe est inhumanum,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 1, 2; so,

    praecipitantem impellamus,

    id. Clu. 26, 70:

    ubi non subest, quo praecipitet ac decidat,

    he may tumble down, id. Rep. 1, 45, 69:

    praecipitante re publicā,

    id. Sull. 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 31, 87; and:

    cum ad Cannas praecipitasset Romana res,

    Liv. 27, 40:

    ad exitium praecipitans,

    Cic. Att. 3, 15, 7.—
    2.
    To be too hasty:

    cum vitiosum sit adsentiri quicquam aut falsum aut incognitum, sustinenda est potius omnis adsensio, ne praecipitet, si temere processerit,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 21, 68.—Hence, praecĭpĭ-tanter, adv., hastily, precipitately:

    agens mannos ad villam,

    Lucr. 3, 1063.

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  • 3 proclivis

    prōclīvis, e (ante- and post-class. and poet.; collat. form prōclīvus, a, um, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 27; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 7; Cat. 64, 270; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 2; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 91), adj. [proclivus], sloping, steep, going downwards or downhill.
    I.
    Lit. (rare;

    not in Cic. or Cæs.: solum,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 7:

    per proclivem viam duci,

    Liv. 35, 30: omnia procliva sunt;

    facile descenditur,

    Sen. Apoc. 13.— Subst.: prō-clīve, is (or prōclīvum, i), n., a slope, descent, declivity:

    pelli per proclive,

    downhill, downwards, Liv. 5, 43, 2:

    adjuvante proclivo impetum militum,

    Front. Strat. 2, 2, 2 (al. proclivio):

    in proclive detrudi, Auct. B. Alex. 76: per proclivia devolare,

    Col. 9, 5, 1.—Of persons, going downwards or downhill ( poet.), Claud. III. Cons. Honor. 178.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Downwards, descending, downhill, declining (rare but class.):

    proclivi cursu et facili delabi,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44:

    jam proclivi senectute,

    declining, drawing to a close, App. Fl. 4, p. 361; cf.:

    Junius mensis est jam proclivus in Julium,

    Sen. Ep. 86, 16.— Absol.:

    proclivi currit oratio,

    flows precipitately, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; v. Madv. ad h. l.—
    B.
    Inclined or disposed to a thing, liable, prone, subject; ready, willing (freq. and class.; mostly in a bad sense; cf. Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 27, s. v. proclivitas; syn. propensus); constr. usually ad aliquid, more rarely with dat. or circa.
    (α).
    With ad:

    ingenium Hominum proclive ad lubidinem,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 50:

    ad aliquem morbum proclivior,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 81:

    ergo et invidi et malevoli...quia proclives ad eas perturbationes,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 28:

    amicitia debet esse ad omnem comitatem facilitatemque proclivior,

    id. Lael. 18, 66.—
    (β).
    With dat. ( poet.):

    sceleri proclivis egestas,

    Sil. 13, 585.—
    (γ).
    With circa (post-Aug.):

    eritque judex circa modestiam juris probatione proclivior,

    Quint. 4, 5, 21.—
    C.
    Steep, unsafe, untrustworthy; and hence, obscure, unintelligible:

    fecisti modo mi ex proclivo planum,

    you make it plain, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 28:

    faciam hanc rem planam ex proclivā tibi,

    id. Rud. 4, 4, 90:

    nam iste proclive'st quod jubes me plane conlocare,

    id. As. 3, 3, 73.—
    2.
    Transf., easy to be done:

    proclivia anteponuntur laboriosis,

    Cic. Top. 18, 69:

    illa facilia, proclivia, jucunda,

    id. Part. 27, 95:

    ut fingendi proclivis esset ratio,

    id. Rep. 2, 10, 17:

    proclivus impetus,

    Lucr. 6, 728:

    cum proclivior faciliorque jactus sit ex supernis in infima,

    Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    dictu quidem est proclive,

    easy to be said, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 69:

    quod est multo proclivius,

    much easier, id. Rep. 1, 6, 11.— Absol.: in proclivi, easy:

    tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi, quam imber est, quando pluit,

    as easy, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 86:

    id. faciam, in proclivi quod est,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 18:

    alia omnia in proclivi erunt,

    will be easy, Sall. Or. ad Caes. 2, 8; v. planum.—Hence, adv., in two forms, prōclīvē and prō-clīvĭter (cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4).
    A.
    Downwards:

    proclive labuntur,

    rush downwards, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42 Kühn. and Moser N. cr. (B. and K. proclivi); Lucr. 2, 455 Lachm.; cf. sublime ferri, under sublimis.— Comp.:

    labi verba proclivius,

    i. e. more rapidly, Cic. Or. 57, 191; cf.:

    quin proclivius hic iras decurrat ad acris,

    Lucr. 3, 311.—
    B.
    Easily: facile et procliviter persuadere, Castric. ap. Gell. 1, 6, 6.— Comp.:

    multo proclivius,

    Lucr. 2, 792.

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  • 4 proclivum

    prōclīvis, e (ante- and post-class. and poet.; collat. form prōclīvus, a, um, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 27; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 7; Cat. 64, 270; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 2; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 91), adj. [proclivus], sloping, steep, going downwards or downhill.
    I.
    Lit. (rare;

    not in Cic. or Cæs.: solum,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 7:

    per proclivem viam duci,

    Liv. 35, 30: omnia procliva sunt;

    facile descenditur,

    Sen. Apoc. 13.— Subst.: prō-clīve, is (or prōclīvum, i), n., a slope, descent, declivity:

    pelli per proclive,

    downhill, downwards, Liv. 5, 43, 2:

    adjuvante proclivo impetum militum,

    Front. Strat. 2, 2, 2 (al. proclivio):

    in proclive detrudi, Auct. B. Alex. 76: per proclivia devolare,

    Col. 9, 5, 1.—Of persons, going downwards or downhill ( poet.), Claud. III. Cons. Honor. 178.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Downwards, descending, downhill, declining (rare but class.):

    proclivi cursu et facili delabi,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44:

    jam proclivi senectute,

    declining, drawing to a close, App. Fl. 4, p. 361; cf.:

    Junius mensis est jam proclivus in Julium,

    Sen. Ep. 86, 16.— Absol.:

    proclivi currit oratio,

    flows precipitately, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; v. Madv. ad h. l.—
    B.
    Inclined or disposed to a thing, liable, prone, subject; ready, willing (freq. and class.; mostly in a bad sense; cf. Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 27, s. v. proclivitas; syn. propensus); constr. usually ad aliquid, more rarely with dat. or circa.
    (α).
    With ad:

    ingenium Hominum proclive ad lubidinem,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 50:

    ad aliquem morbum proclivior,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 81:

    ergo et invidi et malevoli...quia proclives ad eas perturbationes,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 28:

    amicitia debet esse ad omnem comitatem facilitatemque proclivior,

    id. Lael. 18, 66.—
    (β).
    With dat. ( poet.):

    sceleri proclivis egestas,

    Sil. 13, 585.—
    (γ).
    With circa (post-Aug.):

    eritque judex circa modestiam juris probatione proclivior,

    Quint. 4, 5, 21.—
    C.
    Steep, unsafe, untrustworthy; and hence, obscure, unintelligible:

    fecisti modo mi ex proclivo planum,

    you make it plain, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 28:

    faciam hanc rem planam ex proclivā tibi,

    id. Rud. 4, 4, 90:

    nam iste proclive'st quod jubes me plane conlocare,

    id. As. 3, 3, 73.—
    2.
    Transf., easy to be done:

    proclivia anteponuntur laboriosis,

    Cic. Top. 18, 69:

    illa facilia, proclivia, jucunda,

    id. Part. 27, 95:

    ut fingendi proclivis esset ratio,

    id. Rep. 2, 10, 17:

    proclivus impetus,

    Lucr. 6, 728:

    cum proclivior faciliorque jactus sit ex supernis in infima,

    Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    dictu quidem est proclive,

    easy to be said, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 69:

    quod est multo proclivius,

    much easier, id. Rep. 1, 6, 11.— Absol.: in proclivi, easy:

    tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi, quam imber est, quando pluit,

    as easy, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 86:

    id. faciam, in proclivi quod est,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 18:

    alia omnia in proclivi erunt,

    will be easy, Sall. Or. ad Caes. 2, 8; v. planum.—Hence, adv., in two forms, prōclīvē and prō-clīvĭter (cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4).
    A.
    Downwards:

    proclive labuntur,

    rush downwards, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42 Kühn. and Moser N. cr. (B. and K. proclivi); Lucr. 2, 455 Lachm.; cf. sublime ferri, under sublimis.— Comp.:

    labi verba proclivius,

    i. e. more rapidly, Cic. Or. 57, 191; cf.:

    quin proclivius hic iras decurrat ad acris,

    Lucr. 3, 311.—
    B.
    Easily: facile et procliviter persuadere, Castric. ap. Gell. 1, 6, 6.— Comp.:

    multo proclivius,

    Lucr. 2, 792.

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  • 5 dētrectātiō (dētrāct-)

        dētrectātiō (dētrāct-) ōnis, f    [detrecto], a declining, refusing: militiae, L.: sine detrectatione, L.

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  • 6 excūsātiō

        excūsātiō ōnis, f    [excuso], an excusing, excuse: turpis: iusta: Aeduis dat veniam excusationemque accipit, Cs.: iniuriae: Pompei, Cs.: excusatio Sulpici legationis obeundae, a declining: aetatis: valetudinis: excusatio, quā usus es, cur, etc.: ulla, quo minus adesset, etc.: habent excusationem legitimam, exsili causā solum vertisse.
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  • 7 praeceps

        praeceps cipitis, abl. cipitī, adj.    [prae+ caput], headforemost, headlong: praecipitem (me) in pistrinum dabit, T.: ut Sopatrum praecipitem deiciant: praeceps ad terram datus, dashed to the ground, L.: Desilit, O.: se praecipitem tecto dedit, leaped headlong from the roof, H.—As subst n.: in praeceps deferri, headlong, L.— Headforemost, headlong, in haste, suddenly: ab inimicis circumventus praeceps agor, S.: ab equo praeceps decidit, O.: (apes) praecipites Cadunt, V.: praecipites fugae sese mandabant, Cs.— Downhill, steep, precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular: in declivi ac praecipiti loco, Cs.: saxa, L.: fossae, V.: iter, O.; cf. iter ad malum praeceps ac lubricum.—As subst n., a steep place, precipice: turrim in praecipiti stantem, V.: immane, Iu.— Sinking, declining, falling: sol Praecipitem lavit aequore currum, V.: in occasum sol, L.: senectus, Cu.— Swift, rapid, rushing, violent: Anio, H.: Boreas, O.: nox, fleeting, O.: remedium, Cu.—Fig., headlong, hasty, rash, precipitate: agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium, pursue fiercely: praecipitem amicum ferri sinere, rush into the abyss: Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur, i. e. was hurried to ruinous heights of glory, Ta.— Rash, hasty, inconsiderate: quis potest esse tam praeceps?: cupiditas dominandi.— Inclined, prone, hasty: naturā ad explendam cupidinem, S.: praeceps ingenio in iram, L. — Dangerous, critical: in tam praecipiti tempore, O.—As subst n., great danger, extremity, extreme danger, critical circumstances: se et prope rem p. in praeceps dederat, exposed to extreme danger, L.: levare Aegrum ex praecipiti, H.: Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit, i. e. at its extreme, Iu.
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    (gen.), praecipitis ADJ
    head first, headlong; steep, precipitous

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  • 8 praecipitō

        praecipitō āvī, ātus, āre    [praeceps], to throw headlong, cast down, hurl down, precipitate: p<*>ae in mare praecipitatae, N.: currum scopulis, hurl against, O.: se ex altissimo muro: sese in fossas, Cs.: se (sc. de muro), L.: se in Tiberim, L.: se in medios ignīs, Cu.: etiam pulcherrima, throw overboard, Iu.: cum alii super vallum praecipitarentur, threw themselves down, S.: lux Praecipitatur aquis, sets in the ocean, O.: hac te praecipitato, run this way for life! T.: iis (parvis) minari, praecipitaturos alicunde, threaten to throw them down.—To rush down, throw oneself down, rush headlong, sink rapidly, drop, tumble, fall (of involuntary falling): statim praecipitat in Lirem: nimbi In vada praecipitant, V.: in fossam, L.: sol praecipitans: iam nox caelo Praecipitat, is sinking, V.: hiems iam praecipitaverat, had come to an end, Cs.—Fig., to throw down, hurl down, precipitate: praecipitari ex altissimo dignitatis gradu: semet ipse praecipitare, destroy oneself, S.: se in insidias, L.: furor iraque mentem Praecipitant, carry headlong, V.: quosdam praecipitat potentia Invidiae, Iu.: nox praecipitata, declining, O.— To hasten, hurry: quae Praecipitent obitum, hasten their setting: praecipitata raptim consilia, precipitate, L.: moras, i. e. exchange for haste, V.: dare tempus Praecipitant curae, hasten, V.— To fall down, fall, sink, be ruined: ubi non subest, quo praecipitet, may tumble down: cum ad Cannas praecipitasset Romana res, L.: ad exitium praecipitans.— To be too hasty, be precipitate: sustinenda est adsensio, ne praecipitet: praecipitare istuc quidem est, non descendere, to jump at a conclusion.
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    praecipitare, praecipitavi, praecipitatus V
    throw headlong, cast down

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  • 9 prōclīvis

        prōclīvis e, adj. with comp.    [pro + clivus], sloping, steep, going downward, downhill: per proclivem viam duci, L.: undae, Ct.—As subst n.: pelli per proclive, downhill, L.—Fig., downwards, descending, downhill, declining: proclivi cursu delabi.— Inclined, disposed, liable, prone, subject, ready, willing: proclives ad eas perturbationes feruntur: ingenium ad lubidinem, T.: ad aliquem morbum proclivior.— Easy: fingendi ratio: quae utroque proclivia esse, si fortunā uti vellet, L.: dictu proclive, easy to say: quod est multo proclivius, much easier: quibus erat proclive tranare flumen, Cs.— As subst n.: in proclivi esse, T.: ut anteponantur proclivia laboriosis.
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    proclivis, proclive ADJ
    sloping down; downward; prone (to); easy

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  • 10 prōnus

        prōnus adj. with comp.    [PRO-], turned forward, bent over, inclined, leaning, hanging, stooping, bending: pecora, quae natura prona finxit, S.: pronus pendens in verbera, leaning forward to strike, V.: pronus magister Volvitur in caput, V.: carcere emicat, i. e. in swift flight, O.: leporem pronum catulo sectare sagaci, flying swiftly, O.: ilex paulum modo prona, dein flexa, S.: motus corporis.—As subst n.: montium prona, slopes, Cu.: amnis, rushing, V.: rivi, tumbling, H.: currus, headlong, O.— Sinking, reaching down: urbs in paludes, L.: via, steep, O.—As subst n.: nihil habent proni, no downward tendency.—Of heavenly bodies, setting, sinking, declining: Orion, H.: Titan, O.—Of time, hurrying, fleet: menses, H.: anni, H.—Fig., inclined, disposed, prone: rei p. genus ad perniciosissimum statum: anxitudo ad luctum: in obsequium, H.: pronior in vitia sua, L.: deterioribus, Ta.— Easy, without difficulty: omnia virtuti suae prona esse, S.: omnia victoribus, Ta.: facile et pronum est agere, Iu.: id pronius ad fidem est, is easier to believe, L.
    * * *
    prona, pronum ADJ
    leaning forward; prone

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  • 11 recūsātiō

        recūsātiō ōnis, f    [recuso], a declining, refusal: quod ubi sine recusatione fecerunt, Cs.: sine ullā recusatione.—In law, an objection, protest: haec tua.— A plea in defence, counter-plea (opp. petitio).
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  • 12 tergiversātiō

        tergiversātiō ōnis, f    [tergiversor], a declining, refusing, subterfuge, tergiversation.

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  • 13 declinatus

    inflection, manner of inflecting/declining/modifing words; inflected form

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  • 14 declinis

    declinis, decline ADJ
    moving/bending/drooping down; declining/ebbing; turning/bending; skewed/averted

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  • 15 detractatio

    refusal (of a task), evasion, declining; renunciation; dispargement/detraction

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  • 16 detrectatio

    refusal (of a task), evasion, declining; renunciation; dispargement/detraction

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  • 17 declinatio

    a turning aside / declining / avoiding / inflection, declension

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  • 18 benignus

    bĕnignus, a, um, adj. [as if benigenus, from bonus genus, anal. with malignus and privignus], of a good kind or nature, beneficent, kind.
    I.
    Of feeling or deportment towards others, kind, good, friendly, pleasing, favorable, benignant:

    nam generi lenonio, Numquam ullus deus tam benignus fuit qui fuerit propitius,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34:

    benignus et lepidus et comis,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 39:

    boni et benigni,

    id. Phorm. 5, 2, 2:

    comes, benigni, faciles, suaves homines esse dicuntur,

    Cic. Balb. 16, 36:

    Apelles in aemulis benignus,

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88;

    id. praef. § 21: divi,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 52:

    numen,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 74; cf. Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34 al.—
    B.
    Of things, friendly, favorable, pleasant, mild:

    animus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 22:

    oratio,

    Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48:

    sociorum comitas vultusque benigni,

    Liv. 9, 6, 8; 30, 14, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 20:

    verba,

    Prop. 1, 10, 24:

    benigniora verba,

    Liv. 21, 19, 11.—In the jurists, interpretatio, a mild, favorable interpretation (opp. dura, which follows the strictness of the letter; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31 sq.), Dig. 39, 5, 16:

    semper in dubiis benigniora praeferenda sunt,

    ib. 50, 17, 56:

    benignior sententia,

    ib. 37, 6, 8.—
    C.
    Poet., = faustus, lucky, propitious, favorable:

    dies,

    Stat. S. 5, 1, 108:

    nox,

    id. Th. 10, 216.—
    II.
    More freq. of action, beneficent, obliging, that gives or imparts freely, liberal, bounteous, etc.:

    erga te benignus fui, atque opera mea Haec tibi sunt servata,

    Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 33; id. Trin. 3, 3, 12; 2, 4, 58:

    fortuna... Nunc mihi, nunc alii benigna,

    Hor. C. 3, 29, 52:

    qui benigniores volunt esse, quam res patitur, peccant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44:

    qui liberalis benignusque dicitur,

    id. Leg. 1, 18, 48:

    facilius in timore benigni quam in victoriā grati reperiuntur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 15, 8.— Poet., with gen.:

    vini somnique benignus,

    a hard drinker and a lover of sleep, Hor. S. 2, 3, 3.—Opp. to bonae frugi = prodigus, prodigal, lavish:

    est benignus potius quam bonae frugi,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 20.—
    B.
    Of things (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; cf. malignus), yielding liberally, abundant, fruitful, fertile, copious, rich: et magnas messes terra benigna daret, Tib [p. 233] 3, 3, 6:

    ager,

    Ov. Am. 1, 10, 56:

    tellus,

    Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 1:

    vepres,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 8:

    cornu,

    id. C. 1, 17, 15:

    egens benignae Tantalus semper dapis,

    id. Epod. 17, 66:

    ingenī Benigna vena est,

    id. C. 2, 18, 10:

    praeda,

    Ov. F. 5, 174:

    benigna materia gratias agendi Romanis,

    Liv. 42, 38, 6: quem (ordinem) persequi longa est magis quam benigna materia, fruitful, or suitable for exhibition, Mel. prooem. § 1;

    so Seneca: primus liber.. benigniorem habuit materiem,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 1:

    ipse materiā risūs benignissima,

    id. Const. 18, 1 (cf. also in Gr. aphthonos):

    aestivam sermone benigno tendere noctem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 11 (sermone multo et liberali et largo, Lamb.):

    benignissimum inventum, i. e. beneficentissimum,

    Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 11. —Hence, adv.: bĕnignē (ante-class. collat. form bĕnignĭter).
    1.
    In a friendly manner, kindly, benevolently, courteously, benignly:

    benigne et amice facere,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 109:

    me benignius Omnes salutant quam salutabant prius,

    id. Aul. 1, 2, 36:

    ecquid ego possiem Blande dicere aut benigne facere,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24:

    viam monstrare,

    courteously, politely, Cic. Balb. 16, 36:

    salutare,

    id. Phil. 13, 2, 4:

    audire,

    id. Clu. 3, 8:

    polliceri,

    id. Fam. 4, 13, 3:

    servire alicui,

    Cat. 76, 3:

    respondere,

    Sall. J. 11, 1; Liv. 27, 4, 7:

    milites adpellare,

    Sall. J. 96, 2:

    habere,

    id. ib. 113, 2:

    alloqui,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    audire aliquem,

    id. 1, 9, 4:

    excipere aliquem,

    id. 2, 35, 6; 21, 19, 7; Tac. A. 1, 57:

    arma capere,

    readily, willingly, Liv. 3, 26, 1:

    audire,

    Suet. Aug. 89.—In the ante-class. form benigniter, Titin. ap. Non. p. 510, 13, and Prisc. p 1010 P.—
    b.
    Mildly, indulgently (in jurid. Lat.):

    in poenalibus causis benignius interpretandum est,

    Dig. 50, 17, 155; ib. 44, 7, 1, § 13:

    benignissime rescripserunt,

    ib. 37, 14, 4.—
    c.
    Benigne dicis, or absol. benigne, used in colloquial lang. in thanking one for something, both when it is taken and when it is refused (the latter a courtly formula like the Gr. ainô se, zêlô se, kalôs, kallista; cf. recte), you are very kind, I thank you very much, am under great obligation; no, I thank you.
    (α).
    In receiving: As. Peregre cum advenis, cena detur. Di. Benigne dicis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 27; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 62.—
    (β).
    In declining:

    frumentum, inquit, me abs te emere oportet. Optime. Modium denario. Benigne ac liberaliter: nam ego ternis HS non possum vendere, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 85, § 196:

    dic Ad cenam veniat.. Benigne Respondet. Neget ille mihi? etc.,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 62; id. ib. 1, 7, 16 Schmid.—
    2.
    Abundantly, liberally, freely, generously:

    pecuniam praebere,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 37; id. Aul. 4, 4, 20; Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 1; Cic. Off. 2, 15, 52 and 53; Sall. J. 68, 3; Liv. 9, 31, 5; 9, 32. 2:

    benignius Deprome quadrimum,

    Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

    paulo benignius ipsum Te tractare voles,

    id. Ep. 1, 17, 11. —
    b.
    Benigne facere alicui = bene facere, to do a favor, to show favor, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24 Ruhnk.; Cat. 73, 3:

    qui plurimis in istā provinciā benigne fecisti,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 67, 1; id. Off. 1, 14, 42; id. Inv. 1, 55, 109; Liv. 4, 14, 5; 28, 39, 18; Gell. 17, 5, 10 al.; cf. Rutil. Lup. p. 127 Ruhnk. (175 Frotscher).

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  • 19 de

    1.
    dē, adv.: of place, down, only in the phrase susque deque, q. v.
    2.
    dē, prep. [perh. for ded; cf. Oscan dat, old abl. of pronom. stem da; cf. also Lith. praep. da, as far as; and the suffixes, old case-forms, -dam, -dem, -dum, -do, with the locative -de; v. Ribbeck, Beitr. z. L. v. d. Lat. Part. p. 4 sq.] (with abl., denotes the going out, departure, removal, or separating of an object from any fixed point. Accordingly, it occupies a middle place between ab, away from, which denotes a mere external departure, and ex, out of, which signifies from the interior of a thing. Hence verbs compounded with de are constr. not only with de, but quite as freq. with ab and ex; and, on the other hand, those compounded with ab and ex often have the terminus a quo indicated by de), from, away from, down from, out of, etc.
    A.
    In space, lit. and trop. with verbs of motion: animam de corpore mitto, Enn. ap. Non. p. 150, 6 (Ann. v. 216 Vahl.):

    aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit,

    Lucr. 3, 224:

    (quod Ariovistus) de altera parte agri Sequanos decedere juberet,

    to depart, withdraw from, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10; cf.:

    civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent,

    id. ib. 1, 2:

    decedere de provincia,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 49 ( = ex provincia, id. ib. 2, 2, 65, §

    147): de vita decedere,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:

    exire de vita,

    id. Lael. 4, 15 (cf.:

    excedere e vita,

    id. ib. 3, 12):

    de triclinio, de cubiculo exire,

    id. de Or. 2, 65 fin.:

    hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 7, 4:

    de castris procedere,

    Sall. C. 61, 8 et saep.:

    brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet,

    Cato R. R. 157, 6:

    de digito anulum detraho,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 38; cf.:

    de matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere,

    Cic. Font. 17:

    nomen suum de tabula sustulit,

    id. Sest. 33, 72:

    ferrum de manibus extorsimus,

    id. Cat. 2, 1, 2:

    juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest,

    id. de Or. 1, 59, 252 et saep.:

    ... decido de lecto praeceps,

    Plaut. Casin. 5, 2, 50:

    de muro se deicere,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 18, 3:

    de sella exsilire,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30 fin.:

    nec ex equo vel de muro, etc., hostem destinare,

    Tert. adv. Jud. 9, p. 192:

    de caelo aliquid demittere,

    Lucr. 2, 1155; cf. Cato R. R. 14, 3 et saep.—
    b.
    In gen., to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds; cf.:

    emere de aliquo,

    Cato R. R. 1, 4:

    aliquid mercari de aliquo,

    Cic. Fl. 20 et saep.:

    de aliquo quaerere, quid, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2:

    saepe hoc audivi de patre,

    id. de Or. 3, 33, 133; cf.:

    de mausoleo exaudita vox est,

    Suet. Ner. 46:

    ut sibi liceret discere id de me,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 31;

    so with petere, of place (class.): de vicino terra petita solo,

    Ov. F. 4, 822;

    so of persons (late Lat.): peto de te,

    Dig. 36, 1, 57, § 2; Apul. M. 6, p. 179, 40.
    2.
    To point out the place from which any thing is brought; and hence, trop., to indicate its origin, derivation, etc.: of, from: de circo astrologi, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58; so,

    caupo de via Latina,

    Cic. Clu. 59, 163:

    nescio qui de circo maximo,

    id. Mil. 24, 65:

    declamator aliqui de ludo aut rabula de foro,

    id. Or. 15, 47:

    homo de schola atque a magistro... eruditus,

    id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:

    nautae de navi Alexandrina,

    Suet. Aug. 98:

    aliquis de ponte,

    i. e. a beggar, Juv. 14, 134:

    Libyca de rupe leones,

    Ov. F. 2, 209:

    nostro de rure corona,

    Tib. 1, 1, 15:

    Vaticano fragiles de monte patellas,

    Juv. 6, 344 al.:

    de summo loco Summoque genere eques,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 30; cf. id. Aul. prol. 28; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13:

    genetrix Priami de gente vetusta,

    Verg. A. 9, 284; cf. id. ib. 10, 350; Stat. S. 5, 3, 126:

    de Numitore sati,

    Ov. F. 5, 41:

    de libris,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 252:

    de Philocteta, id,

    ib. 3, 35, 141 (cf.:

    e Philocteta versus,

    Quint. 3, 1, 14).
    3.
    Transf., to indicate the quarter from which motion proceeds (cf. ab), from, and because motion is so often and naturally downwards, down from:

    haec agebantur in conventu, palam, de sella ac de loco superiore,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40; cf. ib. 2, 2, 38:

    quem ad se vocari et de tribunali citari jussit,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 7:

    qui nihil ex occulto, nihil de insidiis, agendum putant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109; cf.

    de tergo plagas dare,

    from behind, Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 10; Just. 20, 5, 5:

    de paupere mensa dona,

    Tib. 1, 1, 37 et saep.—In jurid. Latin: de plano discutere, interloqui, cognoscere, etc., i. e. on level ground, not on the tribunal (cf. chamothen, opp. pro bêmatos, Dig. 27, 1, 13, § 10), Dig. 1, 4, 1; 1, 16, 9; 14. 3, 11 et saep.; so, de plano, off-hand, without formal consideration, Lucr. 1, 411;

    v. planus.—And with pendeo, etc. (the motion in the eye transferred to the object): deque viri collo dulce pependit onus,

    Ov. F. 2, 760:

    lucerna de camera pendebat,

    Petr. 30, 3; cf.:

    et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet,

    Ov. F. 1, 152:

    de qua pariens arbore nixa dea est,

    leaning downwards against the tree, id. H. 21, 100.
    B.
    In time.
    1.
    Immediately following a given moment of time, after, directly after (very rare):

    de concursu,

    Lucr. 1, 384 (cf. Munro, ad loc.):

    velim scire hodiene statim de auctione aut quo die venias,

    Cic. Att. 12, 3:

    non bonus somnus est de prandio,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

    de eorum verbis prosilui, etc.,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 178.—Hence, diem de die, from day to day, day after day, Liv. 5, 48:

    cum is diem de die differret, dum, etc.,

    id. 25, 25; cf.:

    diem de die proferendo,

    Just. 2, 15, 6: de die in diem, from day to day, daily (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 60, 8; 2 Pet. 2, 8; Cypr. Ep. 3, 11.
    2.
    De nocte, de vigilia, etc., to designate an act which begins or takes its origin from the night-time, Engl. during or in the course of the night, at night, by night, etc.: De. Rus cras cum filio Cum primo lucu ibo hinc. Mi. Imo de nocte censeo, to-night rather, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 55: in comitium Milo de nocte venit, in the night (cf. shortly before, Milo media nocte in campum venit), Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. Mur. 33, 69:

    vigilas tu de nocte,

    id. ib. 9, 22; cf.:

    de nocte evigilabat,

    Suet. Vesp. 21:

    ut jugulent homines, surgunt de nocte latrones,

    at night, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 32;

    and Hannibal surgere de nocte solitus, Frontin Strat. 4, 3, 7 et saep.: ut de nocte multa impigreque exsurrexi,

    late in the night, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 10; so,

    multa de nocte,

    Cic. Sest. 35, 75; id. Att. 7, 4 fin. (for which multa nocte, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9); cf.

    also: si de multa nocte (al. de nocte) vigilassent,

    id. Att. 2, 15, 2:

    Caesar mittit complures equitum turmas eo de media nocte,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 45; 7, 88; so,

    media de nocte,

    at midnight, Suet. Calig. 26; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 91:

    Caesar de tertia vigilia e castris profectus,

    in the third night-watch, Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

    de tertia vigilia,

    id. ib. 1, 21; Liv. 9, 44 Drak.; 40, 4 al.; cf.:

    de quarta vigilia,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21, 3 al.; v. vigilia. —As in this manner de nocte became adverbially = nocte, so de die was sometimes used for die or per diem:

    de die potare,

    by day, in the daytime, Plaut. Asin. 4, 2, 16:

    epulari de die,

    Liv. 23, 8; Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 8; Catull. 47, 6; Suet. Calig. 37; id. Domit. 21; cf.:

    bibulus media de luce Falerni,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34;

    and in a lusus verbb. with in diem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 34 fin. —Less freq., de mense:

    navigare de mense Decembri,

    in December, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1 fin. —And once de tempore for tempore: ipse de tempore coenavit, Auct. B. Hisp. 33, 5.
    C.
    In other relations, implying separation, departure from, etc.
    1.
    To designate the whole, from which a part is taken, or of which a part is separately regarded, etc., from among, out of, from:

    hominem certum misi de comitibus meis,

    Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2:

    gladio percussus ab uno de illis,

    id. Mil. 24, 65:

    si quis de nostris hominibus,

    id. Flacc. 4:

    quemvis de iis qui essent idonei,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 4 fin.:

    de tribus et decem fundis tres nobilissimi fundi,

    id. Rosc. Am. 35, 99 et saep.:

    accusator de plebe,

    id. Brut. 34, 131:

    pulsare minimum de plebe Quiritem,

    Ov. Am. 1, 7, 29; cf. Liv. 7, 17:

    malus poëta de populo,

    Cic. Arch. 10, 25 et saep.:

    partem solido demere de die,

    Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20:

    quantum de vita perdiderit,

    Petr. 26:

    praeteriine tuas de tot caelestibus aras,

    Ov. Her. 21, 179; Juv. 1, 138. —
    b.
    Sometimes de with abl. takes the place of the gen. partit. or gen. obj. In the best writers this occurs mainly
    (α).
    to avoid ambiguity where genitives would be multiplied:

    ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 39:

    ut aliquem partem de istius impudentia reticere possim,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 32;
    (β).
    for greater precision:

    si quae sunt de eodem genere,

    id. Tusc. 4, 7, 16:

    persona de mimo,

    id. Phil. 2, 27, 65;
    (γ).
    in the poets, metri gratiā:

    aliquid de more vetusto,

    Ov. F. 6, 309; Grat. Cyneg. 17:

    laudes de Caesare,

    Ov. Pont. 4, 13, 23:

    cetera de genere hoc,

    Hor. Sat. 1, 1, 13; Lucr. 4, 746. This circumlocution was freq. [p. 514] in comic writers and in vulgar lang., and became more common in the declining periods of the lang., so that in the Romance tongues de, di, etc., with a case represent the earlier genitive (so, conscius, conscientia, meminisse, mentionem facere, recordari, etc., de aliqua re for alicujus rei, v. h. vv.).
    2.
    To indicate the property from which the costs of any thing are taken:

    obsonat, potat, olet unguenta de meo,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 37; so,

    de tuo,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 65:

    de suo,

    Cic. Att. 16, 16, A, 5; Suet. Caes. 19:

    de nostro,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 11:

    de vestro,

    Liv. 6, 15, 10; cf.:

    de vestris,

    Ov. F. 3, 828:

    de alieno,

    Liv. 3, 1, 3; Just. 36, 3 fin.:

    de publico,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44; Liv. 1, 20; 2, 16; 4, 60. For de tuo, once de te:

    de te largitor puer,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—Also in a trop. sense:

    ad tua praecepta de meo nihil his novum apposivi,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; cf. id. Men. 1. 2, 40; Cic. Fam. 4, 3; Plin. Ep. 4, 13, 8.— Poet., to denote that out of which, or by which, one pays a penalty or suffers punishment:

    has vestro de sanguine poenas datis,

    Luc. 4, 805; cf.:

    cum de visceribus tuis satisfacturus sis quibus debes,

    Cic. Q. Frat. 1, 3, 7.
    3.
    To designate the material of which any thing is made, of, out of, from:

    niveo factum de marmore signum,

    Ov. M. 14, 313; cf. Verg. G. 3, 13:

    verno de flore corona,

    Tib. 2, 1, 59:

    sucus de quinquefolio,

    Plin. 26, 4, 11:

    cinis de fico,

    Pall. 1, 35, 3 et saep.:

    de templo carcerem fleri,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 7; cf. Flor. 2, 6, 32:

    captivum de rege facturi,

    Just. 7, 2, 11; cf.:

    inque deum de bove versus erat,

    Ov. F. 5, 616 et saep.:

    fles de rhetore consul,

    Juv. 7, 197.—Cf. trop. by means of:

    de eodem oleo et opera exaravi nescio quid ad te,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38.—Prov.:

    de nihilo nihilum,

    Pers. 3, 84; cf. Lucr. 1, 157 sq.
    4.
    In mental operations, to indicate the subject-matter or theme on which any mental act (thinking, considering, advising, determining, etc.; discoursing, informing, exhorting, deciding, disputing, doubting, etc.) is founded; of, about, concerning, Gr. peri:

    cogitare de aliqua re, etc. (the most common signification): multa narrare de Laelio,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    dubitare de re,

    id. Fam. 3, 10, 15:

    de suo adventu docere,

    Suet. Caes. 9:

    de moribus admonere,

    Sall. Cat. 5, 9 et saep.—With this, too, is connected its use,
    5.
    To indicate the producing cause or reason, for, on account of, because of:

    nam id nisi gravi de causa non fecisset,

    Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186; Cael ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15; Cic. Att. 11, 3:

    de quo nomine ad arbitrum adiisti, de eo ad judicium venisti,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12:

    flebat uterque non de suo supplicio, sed pater de filii morte, de patris filius,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 76:

    de labore pectus tundit,

    with pain, Plaut. Casin. 2, 6, 63:

    incessit passu de vulnere tardo,

    Ov. M. 10, 49:

    humus fervet de corpore,

    id. ib. 7, 560:

    facilius de odio creditur,

    Tac. H. 1, 34:

    quod erat de me feliciter Ilia mater,

    through me, Ov. F. 3, 233 et saep.
    6.
    To indicate the thing with reference to which any thing is done, with respect to, concerning:

    de istac re in oculum utrumvis conquiescito,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 121: nil peccat de savio, Caec. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 11 (v. 161 Ribbeck):

    credere de numero militum,

    Cic. Att. 9, 1, 2:

    de numero dierum fidem servare,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Sall. C. 50, 3:

    de ceteris senatui curae fore,

    id. Jug. 26, 1:

    concessum ab nobilitate de consule plebeio,

    Liv. 6, 42:

    solem de virgine rapta consule,

    Ov. F. 4, 581 et saep.—Ellipt.:

    de argento somnium,

    as for the money, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 50 (for which id. Heaut. 4, 2, 4: quod de argento sperem, nihil est): Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 1:

    de Dionysio sum admiratus,

    Cic. Att. 9, 12; id. Off. 1, 15, 47:

    de me autem suscipe paullisper meas partes,

    id. Fam. 3, 12, 2; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 36 et saep.:

    de Samnitibus triumphare,

    concerning, over, Cic. Sen. 16, 55; cf. Hor. 4, 2, 88:

    de Atheniensibus victoria,

    Curt. 8, 1, 33.
    7.
    To indicate the thing in conformity with which any thing is done, according to, after:

    secundum: DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD, S. C. de Bac.: fecisse dicas de mea sententia,

    Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 115; cf.:

    de suorum propinquorum sententia atque auctoritate fecisse dicatur,

    Cic. Cael. 29: de consilii sententia Mamertinis se frumentum non imperare pronunciat, id. Verr. 2, 5, 21 al.:

    de ejus consilio velle sese facere,

    Ter. Ph. 3, 1, 17:

    vix de mea voluntate concessum est,

    Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:

    de exemplo meo ipse aedificato,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 86:

    de more vetusto,

    Verg. A. 11, 142; Ov. M. 7, 606:

    de nomine,

    id. ib. 1, 447:

    patrioque vocat de nomine mensem,

    id. F. 3, 77.
    8.
    With adjectives to form adverbial expressions.
    a.
    De integro, anew ( = ab integro, ex integro; cf.: iterum, rursus, denuo), indidemque eadem aeque oriuntur de integro, atque eodem occidunt, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll. (v. 92 Ribb.):

    ratio de integro ineunda est mihi,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 7; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56; id. Att. 13, 27; id. Fam. 12, 30, 2 et saep. (The combination de novo appears only in the contracted form denuo, v. h. v.).—
    b.
    De improviso, unexpectedly:

    ubi de improviso interventum est mulieri,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 40; id. And. 2, 2, 23; id. Ad. 3, 3, 53; Caes. B. G. 2, 3; 5, 22; 5, 39 et saep.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 151 et saep.—
    c.
    De transverso, unexpectedly:

    ecce autem de transverso L. Caesar ut veniam ad se rogat,

    Cic. Att. 15, 4 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14.
    ► De is often put between an adj.
    or pron. and its substantive; cf.

    above multa de nocte, media de nocte, gravi de causa, etc.: qua de re,

    Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 13; esp. in the judic. formula: qua de re agitur; cf. Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6; Cic. Brut. 79 fin. Also freq. after a simple relative:

    quo de,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 41; 54, 104; 2, 11, 37:

    qua de,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 70 et saep.
    II.
    In composition the e becomes short before a vowel, as in dĕhisco, dĕhinc, dĕorsum, and coincides with it in the poets by synaeresis; cf.: dehinc, deinde, deinceps, deorsum; sometimes contraction takes place, as in debeo, debilis, dego, demo, from dehabeo, de-habilis, de-ago, de-emo.—
    2.
    Signif.
    a.
    Separation, departure, removal, taking away; off, away, down, out: decedo, demigro, demeto, depromo, descendo, devolvo, derivo, deflecto, etc.; and trop. dedico, denuntio; and in a downward direction, decido, decumbo, deprimo, demergo, delabor, defluo, demitto, desido, desideo, declivis, deculco, degredior, deicio, etc.—
    b.
    Cessation, removal of the fundamental idea ( = un-, de-, dis-): dearmo, deartuo, decresco, dedisco, dedecoro, dedignor, dedoceo, denascor, denormo, desum, etc.; and hence direct negation, as in dedecet, deformis, demens, etc.—
    c.
    With reference to the terminus of the action: defero, defigo, demitto, etc.; hence also trop., with reference to the extent of the action, to the uttermost, to exhaustion, through. out: debacchor, debello, dedolo, delino, delibuo, etc.: defatigo, delaboro, delasso, etc.; hence freq. a mere strengthening of the fundamental idea, = valde, thoroughly, much: demiror, demitigo, etc.—
    d.
    Giving a bad sense to the verb: decipio, delinquo, deludo, derideo, detestor.—
    e.
    Rarely, contraction from a broad into a narrow space, together: deligo, devincio. See also Hand Turs. II. p. 183-229.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > de

  • 20 detrectatio

    dētrectātĭo ( dētract-), ōnis, f. [detrecto], a declining, refusing (very rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.):

    militiae,

    Liv. 3, 69:

    heredis,

    Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 37:

    fidei,

    Tert. Pat. 3:

    sine detrectatione,

    Liv. 7, 28.

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