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ăd-ulter, ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f. [alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll.], orig. one who approaches another ( from unlawful or criminal love), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).

Prop.:

quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 2, 4:

sororis adulter Clodius,

id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22:

adultera,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22;

and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae,

ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals:

adulter,

Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304:

adultera,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.— Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour:

Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—

Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—

The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.):

adulteri et non filii estis,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.

ădulter, - tĕra, - tĕrum, adj. (Rudd. I. p. 51, n. 36), for adulterinus, adulterous, unchaste:

crines,

finely-curled hair, like that of a full-dressed paramour, Hor. C. 1, 15, 19:

mens,

that thinks only of illicit love, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 5:

clavis,

a key to the chamber of a courtesan, id. A. A. 3, 643.—

Transf., counterfeit, false: imitatio solidi, Cod. Th. 9, 22, 1.

ăd-ulter, ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f. [alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll.], orig. one who approaches another ( from unlawful or criminal love), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).

Prop.:

quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 2, 4:

sororis adulter Clodius,

id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22:

adultera,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22;

and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae,

ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals:

adulter,

Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304:

adultera,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.— Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour:

Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—

Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—

The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.):

adulteri et non filii estis,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.

ădulter, - tĕra, - tĕrum, adj. (Rudd. I. p. 51, n. 36), for adulterinus, adulterous, unchaste:

crines,

finely-curled hair, like that of a full-dressed paramour, Hor. C. 1, 15, 19:

mens,

that thinks only of illicit love, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 5:

clavis,

a key to the chamber of a courtesan, id. A. A. 3, 643.—

Transf., counterfeit, false: imitatio solidi, Cod. Th. 9, 22, 1.

ădultĕrĭum, ii, n. [adulter].

Adultery:

Adulterium est cum aliena uxore coire,

Quint. 7, 3, 10:

qui in adulterio deprehenditur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 275:

mulierem in adulterio deprehensam,

Vulg. Joan. 8, 3:

cum aliqua facere,

Cat. 67, 36:

inire,

Vell. 2, 45:

adulteria exercere,

Suet. Aug. 69:

adulterio cognoscere alicujus uxorem,

Just. 22, 1:

vasa adulteriis caelata,

decorated with immodest figures, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140.—Of brutes:

nec (elephanti) adulteria novere,

Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13; id. 10, 34, 52, § 104.—Of plants, an ingrafling, inoculating, Manil. 5, 266.—

Adulteration:

omnia in adulterium mellis excogitata,

Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80:

mercis,

id. 19, 3, 15, § 44.

ădultĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [id.], to commit adultery, to pollute, defile.

Lit., absol. or with acc.:

latrocinari, fraudare, adulterare,

Cic. Off. 1, 35:

jus esset latrocinari: jus adulterare: jus testamenta falsa supponere,

id. de Leg. 16, 43:

qui dimissam duxerit, adulterat,

Vulg. Matt. 5, 32:

matronas,

Suet. Aug. 67; cf. id. Caes. 6.—Also of brutes:

adulteretur et columba milvio,

Hor. Epod. 16, 32.—As verb. neutr. of a woman:

cum Graeco adulescente,

Just. 43, 4.—Freq.,

Fig., to falsify, adulterate, or give a foreign nature to a thing, to counterfeit:

laser adulteratum cummi aut sacopenio aut fabā fractā,

Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40:

jus civile pecuniā,

Cic. Caecin. 26:

simulatio tollit judicium veri idque adulterat,

id. Lael. 25, 92; id. Part. 25, 90:

adulterantes verbum,

Vulg. 2 Cor. 2, 17.— Poet. of Proteus:

faciem,

changes his form, Ov. F. 1, 373.

ăd-ulter, ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f. [alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll.], orig. one who approaches another ( from unlawful or criminal love), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).

Prop.:

quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 2, 4:

sororis adulter Clodius,

id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22:

adultera,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22;

and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae,

ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals:

adulter,

Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304:

adultera,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.— Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour:

Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—

Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—

The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.):

adulteri et non filii estis,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.

ădulter, - tĕra, - tĕrum, adj. (Rudd. I. p. 51, n. 36), for adulterinus, adulterous, unchaste:

crines,

finely-curled hair, like that of a full-dressed paramour, Hor. C. 1, 15, 19:

mens,

that thinks only of illicit love, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 5:

clavis,

a key to the chamber of a courtesan, id. A. A. 3, 643.—

Transf., counterfeit, false: imitatio solidi, Cod. Th. 9, 22, 1.

crīmen, ĭnis, n. [contr. for cernimen, from cerno, II. C.]; lit., a judicial decision, verdict, judgment; hence, transf., like the Gr. krima, of the subject of such a decision, and with partieular reference either to the accuser or to the accused.

Subject., or with reference to the accuser, a charge, accusation, reproach; esp. when unfounded, a calumny, slander (very freq. in every period and species of composition):

criminin' me habuisse fidem?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 15; cf. Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 13:

hae litterae fidem Persei criminibus fecerunt,

Liv. 40, 23, 9:

cum respondero criminibus,

Cic. Planc. 2, 4:

se falsis criminibus circumventum,

Sall. C. 34, 2; cf.:

crimen falsum,

Cic. Quint. 2, 8; Hor. C. 3, 7, 14:

criminibus adversariorum in invidiam venire,

Nep. Epam. 7, 3:

sermones pleni criminum in Patres,

Liv. 6, 14, 11:

crimina et suspiciones,

id. 40, 15, 3:

tanti maleficii crimen probare te censes posse talibus viris, si, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

sceleris maximi,

id. Cael. 23, 56; cf. id. ib. 27, 65; id. Sull. 24, 8:

istius conjurationis,

id. ib. 4, 12:

avaritiae,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192; 2, 5, 1, § 2:

veneficii,

Quint. 5, 7, 37:

ubi est crimen quod reprehenditis?

i. e. the point of the accusation, Cic. Sest. 38, 80 Halm ad loc.:

quo enim illi crimine peccatoque perierunt?

id. Cael. 30, 71:

haec causa est omnium horum scelerum atque criminum,

id. ib. 25, 61;

so (approaching the signif. II. A. infra), id C. Norbano in nefario crimine atque in fraude capitali esse ponendum,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 199 Sorof ad loc.:

era in crimen veniet,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 55 (era male audiet, Don.):

quid? sciebas tibi crimini datum iri?

would be made a reproach? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 74; cf. Ov. M. 1, 766:

crimen adferre,

Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27; cf.:

crimen inferre, offerre,

id. Lael. 18, 65:

in quos crimen intendebatur,

Liv. 9, 26, 11:

esse in crimine,

to stand charged with, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 100:

propulsare,

id. Sull. 4, 12:

defendere,

to repel, confute, id. ib.; Ov. M. 13, 303;

and opp. obicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 69:

repellere, transferre,

id. 4, 2, 26 et saep.— Poet.: belli, pretexts (causae), Verg. A. 7, 339.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), an object of reproach or invective:

perpetuae crimen posteritatis eris,

Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 26.—

Object., or with reference to the accused, the fault complained of, a crime, fault, offence (freq., but rare in ante-Aug. prose).

Lit.

Ingen.:

foedati crimine turpi,

Lucr. 3, 49:

cum haec (causa) non in crimine aliquo, quod ille posset infitiari... consisteret,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182 Sorof ad loc.:

crimen meum indicare,

Liv. 40, 12, 10; 41, 25, 6:

carendum non solum crimine turpitudinis, verum etiam suspicione,

Quint. 2, 2, 14:

cum quidam crimen ultro faterentur,

Suet. Claud. 36:

velut crimen taedas exosa jugales,

Ov. M. 1, 483:

non prodere vultu,

id. ib. 2, 447:

scire,

id. ib. 2, 614:

hoc si crimen erit, crimen amoris erit,

Prop. 2 (3), 30, 24; cf.:

tuum crimen erit,

thy fault, id. 2 (3), 28, 2:

crimina et innoxios discernere,

Tac. A. 1, 55.—Ovid in his Tristia very freq. calls the offence on account of which he was banished crimina or crimen, interchanging it with error, e. g. 1, 9, 64; 2, 3; 2, 207; 3, 5, 52; 3, 6, 26 al.—

Of inanim. objects:

crimina brassicae sunt, animae gravitatem facere, etc.,

fault, defect, Plin. 20, 9, 35, § 91.—

In partic., the crime of lewdness, adultery, Ov. M. 9, 24; Sil. 6, 634.—

Meton.

An object representing a crime:

et rupit pictas, caelestia crimina, vestes, i. e. deorum adulteria,

Ov. M. 6, 131; cf.:

tum paries nullo crimine pictus erat,

Prop. 2, 6, 34 (2, 5, 26 Bip.):

impressā signat sua crimina gemmā,

a letter containing her crime, Ov. M. 9, 566.—

A cause of a crime, a criminal:

se causam clamat crimenque caputque malorum,

Verg. A. 12, 600; cf.:

a pereant Baiae, crimen amoris, aquae,

Prop. 1, 11, 30:

Crimen et illa fuit... Myrrha,

id. 3, 19 (4, 18), 15.

fūrātrīna, ae, f. [id.] (post-class.), a stealing, theft:

facilis,

App. M. 6, p. 178; 10, p. 245.—

Trop.:

conjugalis,

i. e. adultery, App. M. 8, p. 202.

nĕ-fas, n. indecl., something contrary to divine law, sinful, unlawful, execrable, abominable, criminal; an impious or wicked deed, a sin, a crime (cf.: scelus, flagitium, peccatum).

Lit.:

quicquid non licet, nefas putare debemus,

Cic. Par. 3, 2. 25; cf.:

officia tua mihi nefas est oblivisci,

id. Fam. 15, 21, 5:

Mercurius, quem Aegyptii nefas habent nominare,

id. N. D. 3, 22, 56: nefas est dictu, miseram fuisse talem senectutem, id. Sen. 5, 13:

eum, cui nihil umquam nefas fuit,

id. Mil. 27, 73:

quibus nefas est... deserere patronos,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

corpora viva nefas Stygiā vectare carinā,

Verg. A. 6, 391:

fas atque nefas,

right and wrong, id. G. 1, 505; Hor. Epod. 5, 87; cf. id. C. 1, 18, 10; Ov. M. 6, 585:

per omne fas ac nefas,

in every way, Liv. 6, 14, 10:

nefas triste piare,

Verg. A. 2, 184:

illa dolos dirumque nefas in pectore versat, Certa mori,

id. ib. 4, 563:

lex maculosum edomuit nefas,

i. e. adultery, Hor. C. 4, 5, 22:

in omne nefas se parare,

Ov. M. 6, 613:

summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori,

Juv. 8, 83:

belli,

civil war, Luc. 2, 507; cf.:

fugiens civile nefas,

id. 7, 432:

magnum nefas contrahere,

Just. 24, 3:

facere nefas,

Vulg. Deut. 22, 21:

operari,

ib. Lev. 20, 13.— Poet., of a wicked person, a wretch, monster:

exstinxisse nefas tamen... Laudabor (i. e. Helen, as the destroyer of Troy),

Verg. A. 2, 585.—Also inserted as an interjection, O horrid! shocking! dreadful! quātenus, heu nefas! virtutem incolumem odimus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 30; cf.:

heu nefas, heu!

id. ib. 4, 6, 17:

quosne, nefas! omnes infandā in morte reliqui?

Verg. A. 10, 673:

sequiturque, nefas! Aegyptia conjux,

id. ib. 8, 688:

Lavinia virgo Visa, nefas! longis comprendere crinibus ignem,

O horrible! id. ib. 7, 73.—Esp.:

est nefas,

it is forbidden, contrary to law, Varr. L. L. 6, 4. —

Poet., transf.

A horrible or monstrous thing:

Eumenides Stygiumque nefas,

Luc. 6, 695; 1, 626:

infernum,

id. 7, 170; Stat. Th. 6, 942.—

Impossible: levius fit patientiā Quicquid corrigere est nefas, an impossibility (= athemiton, adunaton), Hor. C. 1, 24, 20.