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  • 1 expello

    ex-pello, pulī, pulsum, ere
    1)
    а) выгонять ( vaccas stabulis Tib); вырывать, вышибать, выбивать ( oculos genis O); прогонять ( expulsi monte juvenci O); отталкивать ( ab litore navem in altum L); выталкивать ( aliquem manibus O); оттеснять ( aliquem in provinciam Cs); свергать (regem, tyrannum C); изгонять (aliquem ex urbe C; domo C; hostes finibus Cs)
    naturam expellas furcā, tamen usque recurret H — можешь природу хоть вилами гнать, она всё же вернётся
    e. se in auras O — появиться на свет, родиться
    2) разгонять ( somnum V); удалять, устранять, рассеивать (curas pectore Lcn; dubitationem Cs); утолять ( famem T); побеждать ( paupertatem Pt); исцелять ( morbum H); изглаживать ( memoriam alicujus rei Cs); уничтожать, разрушать ( spem metus expulerat O)
    e. aliquem aliquā re C, O, Su etc. — лишить кого-л. чего-л.
    expelli aliquā re bAfr — утратить что-л.

    Латинско-русский словарь > expello

  • 2 sepono

    sē-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( part. perf. sync. sepostus, Sil. 8, 378; 17, 281; but, sepositus, Hor. S. 2, 6, 84), v. a., to lay apart or aside; to put by, separate, pick out, select, etc. (class.; not in Cæs.; syn.: sejungo, segrego, recondo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    seponi et occultari,

    Cic. Att. 11, 24, 2; cf.:

    aliquid habere sepositum et reconditum,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23; so (with conditus) id. Div. 2, 54, 112; cf.:

    ornamenta seposita (for which, just before, recondita),

    id. de Or. 1, 35, 162:

    id ego ad illud fanum (sc. ornandum) sepositum putabam,

    id. Att. 15, 15, 3:

    captivam pecuniam in aedificationem templi,

    Liv. 1, 53, 3:

    primitias magno Jovi,

    Ov. F. 3, 730:

    nonnullos ex principibus legit ac seposuit ad pompam,

    Suet. Calig. 47:

    se et pecuniam et frumentum in decem annos seposuisse,

    Liv. 42, 52, 12:

    sors aliquem seponit ac servat, qui cum victore contendat,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 21:

    interesse pugnae imperatorem an seponi melius foret, dubitavere,

    to place himself at a distance, withdraw, Tac. H. 2, 33:

    de mille sagittis Unam seposuit,

    picked out, selected, Ov. M. 5, 381.—
    B.
    In partic., to send into banishment, to banish, exile (post-Aug.; cf.

    relego): aliquem a domo,

    Tac. A. 3, 12:

    aliquem in provinciam specie legationis,

    id. H. 1, 13 fin.:

    aliquem in secretum Asiae,

    id. ib. 1, 10:

    in insulam,

    id. ib. 1, 46 fin.; 1, 88; 2, 63; id. A. 4, 44; Suet. Aug. 65; id. Tib. 15; id. Oth. 3; id. Tit. 9.—
    II.
    Trop., to lay or set aside mentally:

    id quod primum se obtulerit,

    Quint. 7, 1, 27.—
    B.
    To set apart, assign, appropriate, reserve, for any purpose, etc.:

    ut alius aliam sibi partem, in quā elaboraret, seponeret,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 132:

    sibi ad eam rem tempus,

    to fix, id. Or. 42, 143; cf.:

    quod temporis hortorum aut villarum curae seponitur,

    Tac. A. 14, 54:

    materiam senectuti seposui,

    have set apart, reserved for my old age, id. H. 1, 1:

    seposuit Aegyptum,

    he sequestered Egypt, made it forbidden ground, id. A. 2, 59 fin.:

    sepositus servilibus poenis locus,

    id. ib. 15, 60:

    quā de re sepositus est nobis locus,

    made it a special division of the subject, Quint. 1, 10, 26.—
    C.
    To remove, take away from others, exclude, select, etc.: Jovem diffusum nectare curas Seposuisse graves, had laid aside, i. e. had discarded for a while, Ov. M. 3, 319:

    (Graecos) seposuisse a ceteris dictionibus eam partem dicendi, quae, etc.,

    to have separated, Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 22:

    ratio suadendi ab honesti quaestione seposita est,

    Quint. 12, 2, 16.— Poet. with simple abl.: si modo Scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, to separate, i. e. distinguish, Hor. A. P. 273.—Hence, sē-pŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a. (only poet. and rare).
    A.
    Distant, remote, = remotus:

    fons,

    Prop. 1, 20, 24:

    gens,

    Mart. Spect. 3, 1:

    mare,

    Sen. Med. 339.—
    B.
    Distinct, special:

    mea seposita est et ab omni milite dissors Gloria,

    Ov. Am. 2, 12, 11.—
    C.
    Select, choice:

    vestis,

    sumptuous garments, Tib. 2, 5, 8:

    seposito de grege,

    Mart. 2, 43, 4.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sepono

  • 3 redigo

    rĕdĭgo, ĕre, ēgi, actum [red + ago] - tr. - [st1]1 [-] pousser pour faire revenir, ramener, faire rentrer.    - tauros in gregem redigere, Varr. R. 2, 5, 12: faire revenir les taureaux dans le troupeau.    - hostium equitatum in castra redigere, Liv. 26, 10, 4: forcer la cavalerie ennemie à rentrer dans son camp.    - redigere rem ad pristinam belli rationem, Caes. BC. 1, 76, 5: ramener les choses aux anciennes méthodes de guerre.    - in memoriam nostram redigere + prop. inf. Cic. Phil. 2, 18: rappeler à notre souvenir que... [st1]2 [-] ramener à un état inférieur, réduire à qqch de moindre.    - ea facilia ex difficillimis redigere, Caes. BG. 3, 5: ramener à la facilité ces choses très difficiles (les rendre faciles).    - ex hominum milibus sexaginta vix ad quingentos sese redactos esse dixerunt, Caes. BG. 2, 28, 2: ils déclarèrent que de soixante mille hommes ils avaient été réduits à peine à cinq cents.    - ad nihilum redigi, Lucr. 1, 791: être anéanti.    - ad internecionem redigi, Caes. BG. 2, 28, 1: être anéanti.    - eos multo humiliores redegerunt, Caes. BG. 4, 3, 4: ils les réduisirent à un état beaucoup plus faible. [st1]3 [-] faire rentrer [de l'argent], retirer.    - redigere pecuniam ex bonis alicujus, Cic. Caecil. 56: retirer de l'argent des biens de qqn. --- cf. Cic. Phil. 13, 10; Agr. 2, 98.    - quicquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit ac redegit in publicum, Liv. 2, 42: tout le butin pris sur l'ennemi, il le mit en vente et fit rentrer (versa) l'argent au trésor public.    - pars maxima praedae ad quaestorem redacta, Liv. 5, 19: la plus grande partie du butin fut remise au questeur.    - in ararium redigi, Cic. Phil. 5, 12: être versé au trésor.    - omnis frumenti copia penes istum redacta, Cic. Verr. 3, 171: toute la masse du froment amenée entre ses mains.    - pecuniam redigere, Hor. Epo. 2, 69: faire rentrer son argent, en exiger le remboursement. [st1]4 [-] amener dans un autre état, amener à, réduire à.    - redigere + in ou ad ou sub.    - aliquem, aliquid in suam potestatem redigere, Cic. Phil, 5, 46: soumettre qqn, qqch à sa puissance.    - in potestatem alicujus redigere, Cic. Off. 3, 79: soumettre à la puissance de qqn.    - aliquem in servitutem redigere, Caes. BG. 2, 14, 3: réduire qqn en servitude.    - redigere disciplinam militarem ad priscos mores, Liv. 8, 6: ramener la discipline militaire à celle d'autrefois.    - Arvernos in provinciam redigere, Caes. BG. 1, 45, 2: réduire le pays des Arvernes en province romaine. --- cf. Tac. Agr. 14.    - redigere aliquem ad inopiam, Ter. Haut. 929: réduire qqn à la misère.    - ad incitas aliquem redigere, Plaut.: amener qqn dans une impasse.    - redigere aliquem eo, ut... Ter. Eun. 690: amener qqn à un point tel que...    - redigere aliquem, ut... Ter. Haut. 946: amener qqn à un point tel que...    - redigere Galliam sub populi Romani imperium, Caes. BG. 5, 29, 4: soumettre la Gaule à la domination romaine.    - cf. Nep. Tim. 2, 1; Milt. 1, 4; Liv. 28, 21, 1.
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    rĕdĭgo, ĕre, ēgi, actum [red + ago] - tr. - [st1]1 [-] pousser pour faire revenir, ramener, faire rentrer.    - tauros in gregem redigere, Varr. R. 2, 5, 12: faire revenir les taureaux dans le troupeau.    - hostium equitatum in castra redigere, Liv. 26, 10, 4: forcer la cavalerie ennemie à rentrer dans son camp.    - redigere rem ad pristinam belli rationem, Caes. BC. 1, 76, 5: ramener les choses aux anciennes méthodes de guerre.    - in memoriam nostram redigere + prop. inf. Cic. Phil. 2, 18: rappeler à notre souvenir que... [st1]2 [-] ramener à un état inférieur, réduire à qqch de moindre.    - ea facilia ex difficillimis redigere, Caes. BG. 3, 5: ramener à la facilité ces choses très difficiles (les rendre faciles).    - ex hominum milibus sexaginta vix ad quingentos sese redactos esse dixerunt, Caes. BG. 2, 28, 2: ils déclarèrent que de soixante mille hommes ils avaient été réduits à peine à cinq cents.    - ad nihilum redigi, Lucr. 1, 791: être anéanti.    - ad internecionem redigi, Caes. BG. 2, 28, 1: être anéanti.    - eos multo humiliores redegerunt, Caes. BG. 4, 3, 4: ils les réduisirent à un état beaucoup plus faible. [st1]3 [-] faire rentrer [de l'argent], retirer.    - redigere pecuniam ex bonis alicujus, Cic. Caecil. 56: retirer de l'argent des biens de qqn. --- cf. Cic. Phil. 13, 10; Agr. 2, 98.    - quicquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit ac redegit in publicum, Liv. 2, 42: tout le butin pris sur l'ennemi, il le mit en vente et fit rentrer (versa) l'argent au trésor public.    - pars maxima praedae ad quaestorem redacta, Liv. 5, 19: la plus grande partie du butin fut remise au questeur.    - in ararium redigi, Cic. Phil. 5, 12: être versé au trésor.    - omnis frumenti copia penes istum redacta, Cic. Verr. 3, 171: toute la masse du froment amenée entre ses mains.    - pecuniam redigere, Hor. Epo. 2, 69: faire rentrer son argent, en exiger le remboursement. [st1]4 [-] amener dans un autre état, amener à, réduire à.    - redigere + in ou ad ou sub.    - aliquem, aliquid in suam potestatem redigere, Cic. Phil, 5, 46: soumettre qqn, qqch à sa puissance.    - in potestatem alicujus redigere, Cic. Off. 3, 79: soumettre à la puissance de qqn.    - aliquem in servitutem redigere, Caes. BG. 2, 14, 3: réduire qqn en servitude.    - redigere disciplinam militarem ad priscos mores, Liv. 8, 6: ramener la discipline militaire à celle d'autrefois.    - Arvernos in provinciam redigere, Caes. BG. 1, 45, 2: réduire le pays des Arvernes en province romaine. --- cf. Tac. Agr. 14.    - redigere aliquem ad inopiam, Ter. Haut. 929: réduire qqn à la misère.    - ad incitas aliquem redigere, Plaut.: amener qqn dans une impasse.    - redigere aliquem eo, ut... Ter. Eun. 690: amener qqn à un point tel que...    - redigere aliquem, ut... Ter. Haut. 946: amener qqn à un point tel que...    - redigere Galliam sub populi Romani imperium, Caes. BG. 5, 29, 4: soumettre la Gaule à la domination romaine.    - cf. Nep. Tim. 2, 1; Milt. 1, 4; Liv. 28, 21, 1.
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        Redigo, redigis, pe. cor. redegi, pen. prod. redactum redigere, Ex re et ago compositum, a in i conuersa, et d interposita. Mener à force.
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        Redigere bona alicuius. Cic. Amasser en un.
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        Redigere penes aliquem copiam frumenti. Cic. Amasser.
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        Eo redigis me, vt quid egerim, egomet nesciam. Terent. Tu me mets en tel estat que, etc.
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        - in id redactus sum loci, Vt quid agam, nesciam prorsus. Terent. Je suis mis en tel estat que, etc.
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        - hem Quo redactus sum! Terent. En quel estat suis je venu!
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        Redigere ad aequalitatem. Plin. Faire egual et tout uni, Remettre à equalité, Rediger ou Reduire à, etc.
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        In aerarium redigere. Liu. Convertir en deniers, et iceulx mettre au thresor public.
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        In concordiam redigere. Plaut. Mettre d'accord.
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        In deditionem imperii Romani redigere. Cic. Contraindre de se rendre à l'empire Romain, Mettre en l'obeissance des Romains.
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        In ditionem suam redigere. Cic. Mettre soubz sa seigneurie.
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        In gratiam redigere aliquos. Terent. Accorder aucuns, Faire leur appoinctement, Les appoincter.
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        Sub imperium Romanum redigere. Caes. Rediger, Reduire.
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        Ad inopiam redigere. Terent. Mettre à povreté.
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        Ad sex libros redigere. Varro. Reduire à six livres.
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        Ad vltimam maciem redigi. Columel. Devenir si maigre, qu'on n'en puisse plus.
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        In antiqua mala redigere. Liu. Remettre.
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        In memoriam redigere. Cic. Ramentevoir, Faire souvenir.
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        Ad miseriam redigere aliquem. Plaut. Le mettre en misere.
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        Ad nihilum redigi. Lucret. Estre mis ou reduict à neant, Estre annichilé.
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        In ordinem redigere. Author ad Heren. Mettre du rang des autres.
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        Ad vel in peregrinitatem redigere. Sueton. Bannir hors de son pays.
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        In prouinciam redigere. Caesar. En faire une province.
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        Rem ad pristinam belli retionem redigere. Caesar. Reduire et ramener.
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        Manibus praecisis Capuam rediguntur. Liu. Sont menez, ou ramenez. \ In vrbem redigere. Plin. iunior. Remener.
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        Hostem in castra redigere. Liu. Repoulser jusques dedens, etc.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > redigo

  • 4 do

    do, dăre, dĕdi, dătum - tr. -    - Quelques formes archaïques:    - danunt = dant    - duim = dem    - duis = des    - duit = det    - duint = dent    - duas = des    - dane = dasne.    - voir datum.    - voir datus.    - voir dato. [st1]1 [-] donner, offrir, confier, remettre, admettre, accorder, permettre, concéder, présenter.    - Ea causa illam (= ancillam) emi, dono quam darem matri meae - Ne duas (illam), neve te advexisse dixeris, Plaut. Merc.: Je l'ai achetée pour la donner à ma mère - Ne la lui donne pas et ne dis pas que tu l'as ramenée.    - dare alicui aliquid in manus: donner qqch à qqn en mains propres.    - dare alicui copiam: donner à qqn la possibilité.    - manus dare: se rendre.    - dare terga: tourner le dos, fuir.    - dare ut: - [abcl]a - accorder de (que). - [abcl]b - admettre que.    - id certe non dant ut... Cic.: ils n'admettent certainement pas que...    - dabat et famae, ut... Tac.: il tenait aussi à faire croire que...    - da femina ne sim, Ov. M. 12: accorde-moi de n'être pas femme.    - dare iter alicui per provinciam: permettre à qqn de passer par la province.    - dare + adj. verbal: donner à (l’adjectif verbal a le sens de l’infinitif de but.)    - agros locupletium colendos dedit, Cic.: il donna les terres des riches à cultiver.    - dare id alicui cogitendum, Cic.: soumettre cela aux réflexions de qqn.    - dare operam alicui rei: se consacrer à qqch.    - dare operam ut + subj.: faire en sorte que.    - dare bibere: donner à boire.    - da mihi castra sequi: permets-moi de suivre le camp.    - dare inter sese: [donner entre eux]= échanger mutuellement.    - dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus, Mart. 5, 81, 2: on ne prête qu'aux riches.    - dare nomen: donner son nom, s’enrôler (pour le service militaire).    - impers. - datur: il est donné, il est permis, on permet, on peut.    - interim recedere sensim datur, Quint. 11, 3, 127: on peut toutefois se reculer tout doucement.    - nonne cernere datur...? Plin-jn.: ne nous est-il pas donné de voir...?    - dari sibi diem postulabat, Plin. Ep. 9: il demanda qu'on lui accordât un délai.    - locus se dat: l’occasion se présente.    - ut res dant sese, Ter.: selon que les choses se présentent, selon les circonstances. [st1]2 [-] mettre, remettre, livrer, abandonner; jeter, placer; servir (à table).    - data pridie Kal. Decembr.: (lettre) datée de la veille des calendes de décembre.    - hostes in fugam dare: mettre les ennemis en fuite.    - aliquem in custodiam dare: mettre qqn en prison.    - ad terram aliquem dare: jeter qqn à terre.    - dare se aegritudini: s'abandonner à la tristesse.    - dare aliquem leto, Phaedr.: mettre à mort qqn.    - dare diripiendam urbem, Cic.: livrer la ville au pillage.    - dare praedae, Liv.: livrer au pillage.    - dare funera in rogos, Ov.: jeter des cadavres sur les bûchers.    - dare alicui turdum, Hor.: servir une grive à qqn. [st1]3 [-] attribuer, imputer; fixer (un jour); imposer.    - avec double dat. - vitio alicui aliquid dare: reprocher qqch à qqn.    - crimini dedit mihi meam fidem: il m’a reproché ma bonne foi.    - dare aliquid alicui laudi: louer qqn pour qqch.    - dare diem colloquio: fixer un jour pour un entretien.    - dare diem alicui: assigner qqn en justice.    - dare alicui negotium ut...: donner à qqn la mission de...    - Fabio datum ut... Liv.: on chargea Fabius de... [st1]4 [-] causer, provoquer, produire.    - alicui damnum dare: causer du dommage à qqn.    - dare foras librum (= edere librum), Cic. Att. 13: publier un livre.    - dabat omnia tellus, Ov.: la terre produisait tout. [st1]5 [-] dire, exposer, raconter.    - iste deus qui sit, da nobis, Virg.: dis-nous quel est ce dieu.    - quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo, Ter. Heaut.: pourquoi ai-je appris ce rôle? Je vais le dire en peu de mots.    - Thessalici da bella ducis, Val. Fl. 5: chante les combats du héros thessalien. [st1]6 [-] nommer, prononcer (un jugement); juger.    - dare sententiam: prononcer une sentence.    - absentibus secundum praesentes dabat, Suet.: il donnait gain de cause aux parties présentes contre les absents.    - dare litem secundum aliquem: donner gain de cause à qqn.    - si contra te lis data erit, Gell.: si c'est à toi qu'on donne tort. [st1]7 [-] faire jouer, jouer, représenter une pièce (de théâtre).    - dare fabulam: jouer une pièce. [st1]8 [-] locutions diverses.    - in pedes se dare: s’enfuir.    - se dare alicui, alicui rei: se consacrer à qqn, à qqch.    - dare operam alicui rei: s'adonner à qqch, s'appliquer à qqch.    - dare operam valetudini: s'occuper de sa santé.    - poenas dare: subir un châtiment, être puni.    - sic datur, Plaut.: tel est ton destin! tu as ce que tu mérites: attrape!    - dare tabellam de aliquo: **donner au juge un bulletin pour qu'il prononce la sentence de qqn** = faire prononcer une sentence.
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    do, dăre, dĕdi, dătum - tr. -    - Quelques formes archaïques:    - danunt = dant    - duim = dem    - duis = des    - duit = det    - duint = dent    - duas = des    - dane = dasne.    - voir datum.    - voir datus.    - voir dato. [st1]1 [-] donner, offrir, confier, remettre, admettre, accorder, permettre, concéder, présenter.    - Ea causa illam (= ancillam) emi, dono quam darem matri meae - Ne duas (illam), neve te advexisse dixeris, Plaut. Merc.: Je l'ai achetée pour la donner à ma mère - Ne la lui donne pas et ne dis pas que tu l'as ramenée.    - dare alicui aliquid in manus: donner qqch à qqn en mains propres.    - dare alicui copiam: donner à qqn la possibilité.    - manus dare: se rendre.    - dare terga: tourner le dos, fuir.    - dare ut: - [abcl]a - accorder de (que). - [abcl]b - admettre que.    - id certe non dant ut... Cic.: ils n'admettent certainement pas que...    - dabat et famae, ut... Tac.: il tenait aussi à faire croire que...    - da femina ne sim, Ov. M. 12: accorde-moi de n'être pas femme.    - dare iter alicui per provinciam: permettre à qqn de passer par la province.    - dare + adj. verbal: donner à (l’adjectif verbal a le sens de l’infinitif de but.)    - agros locupletium colendos dedit, Cic.: il donna les terres des riches à cultiver.    - dare id alicui cogitendum, Cic.: soumettre cela aux réflexions de qqn.    - dare operam alicui rei: se consacrer à qqch.    - dare operam ut + subj.: faire en sorte que.    - dare bibere: donner à boire.    - da mihi castra sequi: permets-moi de suivre le camp.    - dare inter sese: [donner entre eux]= échanger mutuellement.    - dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus, Mart. 5, 81, 2: on ne prête qu'aux riches.    - dare nomen: donner son nom, s’enrôler (pour le service militaire).    - impers. - datur: il est donné, il est permis, on permet, on peut.    - interim recedere sensim datur, Quint. 11, 3, 127: on peut toutefois se reculer tout doucement.    - nonne cernere datur...? Plin-jn.: ne nous est-il pas donné de voir...?    - dari sibi diem postulabat, Plin. Ep. 9: il demanda qu'on lui accordât un délai.    - locus se dat: l’occasion se présente.    - ut res dant sese, Ter.: selon que les choses se présentent, selon les circonstances. [st1]2 [-] mettre, remettre, livrer, abandonner; jeter, placer; servir (à table).    - data pridie Kal. Decembr.: (lettre) datée de la veille des calendes de décembre.    - hostes in fugam dare: mettre les ennemis en fuite.    - aliquem in custodiam dare: mettre qqn en prison.    - ad terram aliquem dare: jeter qqn à terre.    - dare se aegritudini: s'abandonner à la tristesse.    - dare aliquem leto, Phaedr.: mettre à mort qqn.    - dare diripiendam urbem, Cic.: livrer la ville au pillage.    - dare praedae, Liv.: livrer au pillage.    - dare funera in rogos, Ov.: jeter des cadavres sur les bûchers.    - dare alicui turdum, Hor.: servir une grive à qqn. [st1]3 [-] attribuer, imputer; fixer (un jour); imposer.    - avec double dat. - vitio alicui aliquid dare: reprocher qqch à qqn.    - crimini dedit mihi meam fidem: il m’a reproché ma bonne foi.    - dare aliquid alicui laudi: louer qqn pour qqch.    - dare diem colloquio: fixer un jour pour un entretien.    - dare diem alicui: assigner qqn en justice.    - dare alicui negotium ut...: donner à qqn la mission de...    - Fabio datum ut... Liv.: on chargea Fabius de... [st1]4 [-] causer, provoquer, produire.    - alicui damnum dare: causer du dommage à qqn.    - dare foras librum (= edere librum), Cic. Att. 13: publier un livre.    - dabat omnia tellus, Ov.: la terre produisait tout. [st1]5 [-] dire, exposer, raconter.    - iste deus qui sit, da nobis, Virg.: dis-nous quel est ce dieu.    - quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo, Ter. Heaut.: pourquoi ai-je appris ce rôle? Je vais le dire en peu de mots.    - Thessalici da bella ducis, Val. Fl. 5: chante les combats du héros thessalien. [st1]6 [-] nommer, prononcer (un jugement); juger.    - dare sententiam: prononcer une sentence.    - absentibus secundum praesentes dabat, Suet.: il donnait gain de cause aux parties présentes contre les absents.    - dare litem secundum aliquem: donner gain de cause à qqn.    - si contra te lis data erit, Gell.: si c'est à toi qu'on donne tort. [st1]7 [-] faire jouer, jouer, représenter une pièce (de théâtre).    - dare fabulam: jouer une pièce. [st1]8 [-] locutions diverses.    - in pedes se dare: s’enfuir.    - se dare alicui, alicui rei: se consacrer à qqn, à qqch.    - dare operam alicui rei: s'adonner à qqch, s'appliquer à qqch.    - dare operam valetudini: s'occuper de sa santé.    - poenas dare: subir un châtiment, être puni.    - sic datur, Plaut.: tel est ton destin! tu as ce que tu mérites: attrape!    - dare tabellam de aliquo: **donner au juge un bulletin pour qu'il prononce la sentence de qqn** = faire prononcer une sentence.
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        Do, das, dedi, datum, dare. Donner, et faire celuy à qui l'on donne, seigneur de la chose donnee.
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        Da te mihi. Terent. Fay ce que je te diray.
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        Alicui se dare. Cic. S'addonner à suyvre aucun et le hanter, et aucunement s'assubjectir à luy.
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        Si viuo, adeo exornatum dabo, vt dum viuat, meminerit semper mei. Terent. Je l'accoustreray en telle sorte.
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        Oculos natura nobis ad motus animorum declarandos dedit. Cic. Nous a donné pour, etc.
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        Quis enim tibi dederit aut Deum omnia posse, aut, etc. Qui est ce qui t'accordera que, etc.
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        Puero quoque hoc a me dabis. Cic. De par moy.
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        Sed do hoc vobis et concedo, esse multos, etc. Cic. Je vous donne, accorde, et concede cela que, etc.
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        Da hoc illi mortuae, da caeteris amicis Cic. Fay cela pour l'amour et en faveur de la trespassee et de tes autres amis.
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        Exinde me ilico protinam dedi. Plaut. Je suis saillie incontinent hors de là.
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        Dare, Dicere. Plaut. Declarer, Dire.
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        Paucis dabo. Terent. Je declareray en brief.
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        Dare, Facere. Terent. Pol haud paternum istud dedisti. Ton pere ne t'avoit pas monstré de faire ceci, Tu as faict ici un tour que tu n'as pas apprins de ton pere.
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        Dabo statuam faciendam. Plaut. Je bailleray à faire.
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        Datur haec sexaginta minis. Plaut. On te la laisse pour, etc.
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        Vt res dant sese. Terent. Selon que les choses s'addonnent, ou viennent à poinct.
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        Vt se initia dederint, perscribas. Cic. Comme s'est porté le commencement.
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        Quod datur, accipio. Cic. Je me contente de ce qu'on me baille.
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        Dare actionem dicitur iudex, quando actiorem ad intendendam actionem admittit. Dicitur et Dare iudicium. Vlp. Vide actionem dare in AGO. Presenter ou mettre en barbe.
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        Dare aditum. Colum. Donner ou faire entree, Donner accez.
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        Adiumentum. Plaut. Aider, Faire avance.
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        Adiutorem ad rem aliquam. Terent. Donner aucun pour aide.
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        In adoptionem filium. Quintil. Donner son fils pour estre adopté par un autre.
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        In aequor se dare. Virgil. Se jecter en la mer.
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        Amplexus dare. Virgil. Embrasser.
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        Animam sub fasce dare. Virgil. Mourir soubs le fardeau.
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        Animos dare. Virgil. Donner courage, Encourager.
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        Animum suum alicui. Plaut. Mettre son cueur et son affection en luy.
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        Dant animum ad loquendum libere. Liu. Me donnent cueur et hardiesse de parler librement.
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        Animum moerori. Cic. Se contrister.
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        Annos venatibus. Valer. Flac. User ou employer son aage à la chasse.
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        Ansam ad reprehendendum. Cic. Bailler occasion.
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        Dare aquam in aluum. Celsus. Jecter dedens le ventre, comme un clystere.
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        Aquam manibus. Plaut. Verser de l'eaue sur les mains, Bailler à laver.
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        Arbitros dare. Caesar. Prouvoir les parties d'arbitres.
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        Auribus alicuius dare. Trebonius Ciceroni. Flatter aucun.
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        Aures dare. Seneca. Escouter, Prester l'oreille.
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        Aures suas alicui. Cic. Prester l'oreille, Donner audience.
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        Rem authorem. Plaut. Vide AVTHOR. Monstrer par effect.
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        Auxilia dare. Liu. Donner ou envoyer secours.
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        Beneficium dare. Cic. Faire plaisir.
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        Dare bibere. Terent. Donner à boire.
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        Boni multum alicui dare. Plaut. Faire grand bien.
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        Brachia dare ad funes. Ouid. Tendre les bras pour empoigner les chordes.
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        Brachia collo. Virgil. Accoller.
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        Caliginem dare. Liu. Donner obscurité.
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        Campo se dare. Virgil. Se mettre en plain champ.
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        Cantus dare. Virgil. Chanter.
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        Ad carnuficem dare. Plaut. Mettre entre les mains du bourreau.
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        Dare se in casum. Liu. Se mettre à l'adventure, et au hazard, Se hazarder.
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        Rem in casum dare, praelioque experiri statuit. Tacit. Adventurer.
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        In caueam dabo te. Plaut. Je te mettray en une cage.
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        Causam recusandi dare. Cic. Donner occasion.
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        Cibum ouibus dare. Varro. Donner à manger.
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        Ciuitatem alicui dare. Cic. Octroyer le droict de citoyen et de bourgeois en une ville.
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        Clamorem ad astra dare. Sil. Crier hault à merveilles.
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        Claritatem alicui dare. Plin. Le mettre en reputation, et luy donner bruit.
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        Claritatem arti alicui. Plin. La mettre en bruit.
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        Coenam alicui. Plaut. Donner à soupper.
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        Cognitionem Consulibus dat lex. Cic. Leur donne povoir et authorité d'en congnoistre.
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        Lacertis colla dare. Stat. Se laisser accoller.
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        Retro colla dare. Ouid. Tourner le col derriere.
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        Colloquium alicui dare. Liu. Le laisser parlementer avec soy.
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        Se comitem alicui. Liu. L'accompaigner, Luy faire compagnie.
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        Commeatum militi dare. Liu. Vide COMMEATVS. Luy donner congé pour quelque temps.
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        Connubia gentibus. Ouid. Donner des femmes en mariage.
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        Consilium dare. Terent. Donner conseil.
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        In conspectum dare. Terent. Presenter aucun, Mettre devant les yeulx, Mettre en barbe.
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        Se in conspectum alicuius dare. Cic. Se monstrer.
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        Se in consuetudinem vel familiaritatem alterius. Cic. Le hanter ordinairement, Prendre familiarité avec luy, Estre grandement son familier.
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        Copiam dare. Terent. Donner permission, Permettre.
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        Crimini dare. Cic. Accuser aucun, Mettre sus quelque cas à quelqu'un.
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        Crucibus. Plaut. Crucifier.
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        Curam alicui dare. Cic. Luy bailler charge.
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        In custodiam vel custodias dare. Liu. Emprisonner, Mettre en prison.
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        Se in custodiam dare. Cic. S'emprisonner soymesme.
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        Damnum dare. Plaut. Nuire et faire dommage.
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        Auxilia decus id non dant. Plin. Ne font pas avoir cest honneur.
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        Vos illi fugati exercitus dedistis decus. Liu. Vous luy avez donné l'honneur d'avoir mis en fuite, etc.
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        Defensionem dare. Suet. Ouir quelqu'un en ses defenses.
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        Dare se in delicias. Seneca. S'addonner à delices.
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        Dare dexteras. Plaut. Toucher en la main d'un autre.
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        Dextris inter se datis. Liuius. Ayant touché en la main l'un de l'autre.
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        Dexteram dare misero. Virgil. Aider et secourir.
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        Dare dextras, fidemque, haud impune adultero fore. Liu. Promettez en touchant en la main l'un de l'autre.
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        Haec vbi dicta dedit, stringit gladium. Liu. Apres avoir dict ces parolles.
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        Dicta dulcia dare. Plaut. Parler doulcement.
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        Diem. Cic. Donner jour, Adjourner.
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        Dari sibi diem ad diluenda crimina postulant. Plin. iunior. Ils demandent delay.
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        In discrimen legiones dare. Tacit. Mettre en danger.
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        Dare in diuitias filiam. Plaut. Marier richement.
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        Quo documentum dedistis hostibus, non cum Scipionibus extinctum esse nomen Romanum. Liu. Vous leur avez donné à congnoistre.
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        Dolorem alicui dare. Cic. Contrister aucun, Luy donner et faire ennuy.
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        Dolores ingentes. Horat. Donner et faire grans ennuis.
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        Se dolori dare. Plin. iunior. Se contrister.
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        Dare dono. Virgil. Donner en pur don.
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        Dotem dare. Terent. Donner dot, Assigner.
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        Dubitationem alicui. Caesar. Mettre en doubte et en crainte.
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        Duras alicui dare. Sub. poenas. Terent. Luy bailler fort à faire.
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        Epulas oculis dare. Plaut. Repaistre ses yeulx.
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        Esui dare. Plin. Bailler à manger.
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        Exceptionem alicui dare. Cic. Bailler exception.
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        Excidio ac ruinis opus aliquod dare. Liu. Destruire et ruiner, Demolir.
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        Da me excruciatum. Plaut. Tormente moy.
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        Exercitum ducendum dare. Liu. Donner la charge de conduire l'armee. \ Exilium dare alicui. Tacit. Bannir.
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        Exitio dare. Tacit. Faire mourir.
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        Expectationem dare. Cic. Mettre les gens en esperance.
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        Experimentum insignis artificii. Sueton. Faire preuve, Faire chef d'oeuvre.
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        Exuuias ad hostes dare. Plaut. Estre despouillé des ennemis.
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        Fabulam dare. Cic. Jouer une farce, ou Bailler une farce pour estre jouee. \ Factum dare. Plaut. Rendre faict.
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        Dare facere. Cic. Donner ou faire.
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        - dare facultatem obsecro Huic pariundi. Terent. Donnez luy l'aisance d'enfanter, Donnez luy le moyen.
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        His ego duobus generibus facultatem ad se aere alieno liberandas aut leuandas dedi. Cic. Je leur donnay le moyen.
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        Data est mihi facultas, vt meo arbitratu facerem. Cic. On m'a donné permission.
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        Famae aliquid dare. Horat. Faire quelque chose pour acquerir bruit et renommee.
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        Famae dare. Tacit. Publier, Divulguer, Semer par tout.
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        Famam celeritatis dare. Plin. Donner bruit.
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        Fidem dare. Cic. Promettre, Asseurer, Jurer.
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        Dare fiduciam. Liu. Asseurer, Donner hardiesse.
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        Flammas. Ouid. Jecter flamme.
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        Fluctibus dare se. Valer. Flac. Aller sur la mer, Se mettre sur mer.
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        Foenore dare. Plaut. Prester à usure, ou à interest.
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        In foenus. Varro. Bailler à usure, ou à interest.
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        Foras se dare. Lucret. Sortir dehors.
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        Foras vestem dare. Plaut. Prester sa robbe à quelqu'un qui n'est point de nostre maison.
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        Dare fraenos impotenti naturae et indomito animali. Liu. Bailler un mors pour donter, Bailler une bride, Tenir en bride et subjection.
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        Fructum meliorem arbores dare dicuntur. Columel. Porter meilleur fruict.
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        Fugam, stragemque. Liu. Mettre en fuite et tuer beaucoup de gens.
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        Dare aliquem in fugam. Caesar. Le faire fuir, Le mettre en fuite, Luy donner la chasse.
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        Gemitum dare. Virgil. Gemir.
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        Se gemitui dare. Cic. Se prendre à escrier doloreusement, et Mener dueil.
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        Gemmas digitis dare. Ouidius. Mettre en ses doigts des anneaux garniz de pierreries.
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        Dare aliquid gratiae alicuius. Liu. Faire quelque chose pour l'amour d'aucun.
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        Gustum dare. Senec. Donner une preuve ou essay, Faire une monstre de quelque chose parquoy on puist juger du reste, Donner à gouster et taster.
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        Gyros. Virgil. Apprendre à voltiger un cheval.
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        Habenas laxas dare. Virgil. Lascher la bride.
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        Quin te hilarem das mihi? Plautus. Que ne te resjouis tu, et fais bonne chere avec moy?
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        Dare aliquid honori alicuius. Senec. Faire quelque chose pour l'honneur d'aucun.
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        Hospitium dare. Ouid. Loger quelqu'un.
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        Hostem. Tacit. Presenter en barbe.
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        Iacturam dare. Plaut. Porter dommage.
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        Immunitatem muneris alicuius. Cic. Donner exemption d'aucune charge, Exempter.
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        Impetum dare. Liu. Donner dedens les ennemis, Courir de grand force et randon dedens les ennemis.
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        Impressionem. Liu. Donner de grande puissance dedens les ennemis, Choquer.
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        Impunitatem dare. Cic. Remettre la peine, Donner grace et remission ou pardon.
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        Incommodum. Cic. Faire dommage.
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        Indicia. Cic. Donner signes ou enseignes.
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        Inducias. Liu. Donner treves.
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        Insidias alicui dare. Plaut. Guetter, Espier, Tromper.
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        Iter. Liu. Donner passage.
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        Dare se itineribus. Cic. Se mettre à cheminer, S'acheminer.
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        Iucunditati se dare. Cic. S'esjouir.
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        Iugulum. Cic. Presenter le gosier pour souffrir et endurer la mort.
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        Iumentum. Terent. Donner aide, Aider et secourir.
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        Quum ius mihi dederis referendi ad te de quibus dubito. Plin. iunior. Veu que tu m'as donné loy et permission.
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        Iusiurandum. Plaut. Promettre par son serment, Promettre avec jurement.
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        Labem dare. Lucret. Cheoir, Tomber.
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        Se labori dare. Cic. Se mettre à travailler.
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        Lachrymas dare. Virgil. Larmoyer, Pleurer.
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        Me haec deambulatio ad languorem dedit. Terent. M'a fort lassé. \ Se in laqueum dare. Plaut. Se pendre.
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        Dat nemo largius. Terent. Il n'y a homme qui donne plus liberalement que luy.
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        Laudem alicui rei dare. Plin. La louer et priser.
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        Laudi dare. Cic. Louer.
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        Laxamentum legi dare. Cic. Donner quelque relasche.
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        Do lego. Iabolenus. Je luy donne et laisse.
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        Letho dare. Virgil. Tuer, Mettre à mort.
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        Libellos de re aliqua dare. Quintil. Composer et publier.
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        Pueris licentiam ludendi. Cic. Donner congé.
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        Linamentum dare in plagam. Celsus. Mettre de la charpie dedens la playe, ou une tente.
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        Lintea ventis dare. Ouid. Mettre la voile au vent.
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        Literas alicui dare. Cic. Bailler.
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        Literas alicui per aliquem. Cic. Envoyer par aucun.
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        Literas alicui ad aliquem. Cic. Bailler à quelqu'un pour porter à un autre.
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        Ad tuas literas ego eo ipso die dederam. Cic. Ce mesme jour j'avoye faict response à tes lettres.
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        Se alicui generi literarum dare. Cic. S'addonner, etc.
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        Locum dare. Plaut. Donner lieu.
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        Dare locum, pro Cedere. Terent. Faire place.
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        Ad ludendum se dare. Cic. S'addonner à jouer.
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        Magistros rerum esse dedit. Virg. Il les a faict et establi maistres et gouverneurs.
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        Malum alicui dare. Plaut. Faire du mal.
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        Mammam. Terent. Allaicter.
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        Dare mancipio, vel mancupio. Plaut. Vendre avec promesse de garantir.
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        Mandata dare. Cic. Bailler charge et commission.
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        Aliquid in mandatis. Plaut. Donner charge de quelque chose specialement parmi d'autres.
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        De manu pabulum porcis dare, cui opponitur Foris. Columel. De celuy qu'on ha de provision en sa maison, quand ils ne trouvent dequoy paistre aux champs.
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        Manum alicui dare. Plaut. Toucher en la main d'aucun en signe d'accord.
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        Manus alicui. Cic. Luy bailler ses mains, confessant estre vaincu, Se rendre et consentir à aucun, Luy donner gaigné.
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        Do manus. Cic. J'ay tort, Je le quicte, Je le vous donne gaigné.
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        Manus intus dare. Celsus. Mettre dedens, Fourrer dedens.
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        In manu dare. Cic. Bailler entre les mains, ou manuellement.
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        Aliquid in manum. Terent. Donner à aucun quelque chose secrettement, et sans tesmoing: comme à un juge qu'on veult corrompre, Mettre dedens la main.
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        Aliquid in manus hominum. Plin. iunior. Publier et mettre entre les mains des hommes quelque chose qu'on a faict.
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        Dare virginem alicui in manum. Terent. Quand un pere ou les tuteurs donnoyent une fille à aucun en mariage pour estre sa mere de famille et en puissance du mari, ce que toutes femmes n'estoyent pas.
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        Manu plena dare. Senec. Donner largement et beaucoup.
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        Dare manibus alterius. Liu. Faire quelque chose pour l'amour d'un trespassé. \ Materiam inuidiae. Cic. Donner occasion.
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        Ei filiam suam in matrimonium dat. Caesar. Il luy baille sa fille en mariage.
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        Super medicamentum glutinans dandum. Cels. Il fault mettre le medicament ou emplastre dessus.
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        Memoriae dare. Gell. Mettre par memoire et escrire.
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        Merita. Cic. Faire plaisir.
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        Modum alicui. Horat. Donner mesure.
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        Ad mortem dare. Plaut. Faire mourir, Mettre à mort.
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        Mores suos alteri dare. Plin. Luy apprendre sa facon de faire.
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        Motus dare. Virgil. Danser.
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        Muneri dare aliquid. Quintil. Donner en don.
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        Murmura dare. Ouid. Murmurer.
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        Mutuum. Terent. Cic. Prester.
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        Natalia dare. Cic. Faire banquet le jour de sa nativité.
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        Animal neci dare. Virgil. Tuer.
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        Dare negotium. Terent. Bailler charge.
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        Corpus in neruum ac supplicia dare. Liu. Pour estre mis au sep, et estre tormenté.
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        Nomen militiae et ad militiam dare. Liu. Se faire enrouler.
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        Nomen dare suo authori dicitur libellus. Ouid. Donner bruit et renommee.
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        Nomen alicui rei. Plin. Luy bailler nom, ou imposer.
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        Nouitatem vetustis dare. Plin. Faire une vieille chose neufve.
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        In nuptias dare. Terent. Bailler en mariage.
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        Nuptum dare filiam. Plaut. Bailler sa fille en mariage.
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        Obliuioni dare. Liu. Oublier.
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        Obsides dare. Caesar. Bailler ostage.
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        Obsidio datus alicui. Tacit. Baillé en ostage.
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        Obuiam dari. Terent. Estre rencontré.
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        Nihil est quod malim, quam illam totam familiam dari mihi obuiam. Terent. Rencontrer.
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        Operam. Terent. Mettre peine.
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        Operam alicui dare. Plaut. Luy aider.
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        Da mihi paulum operae. Terent. Aide moy un petit.
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        Ei rei operam dabant. Plaut. Ils ne taschoyent qu'à cela.
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        Ne te abduceret, operam dedi. Plaut. J'ay mis peine, J'ay donné ordre que, etc.
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        Benigne vt operam detis ad nostrum gregem. Plaut. Que vous nous oyez paisiblement.
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        Operam amori et desidiae. Plaut. Estre amoureux et s'addonner à paresse.
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        Operam aurium alicui dare. Plaut. L'escouter.
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        Operam auscultando. Plaut. Escouter.
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        Dare operam fabulae. Plaut. Escouter une fable.
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        Operam dare Platoni, et caeteris, pro Discipulum ei esse. Cic. L'ouir et estudier soubs luy, Estre son disciple.
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        Operam veteri domino. Plaut. Servir.
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        Id operam do vt, etc. Terent. Je mets peine à cela que, etc.
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        Operam liberis. Cic. Engendrer enfants.
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        Operam malam alicui dare. Plaut. Nuire.
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        Operam mutuam. Gell. Aider pour la pareille, A la charge d'en faire autant pour eulx, Prester une corvee.
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        Operam promissam. Plaut. Aider comme on a promis.
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        Operam rei. Terent. Mettre peine à acquerir des biens.
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        Operam sermoni reliquo. Cic. Parachever le reste de quelque propos.
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        Operam sermoni alicuius. Plaut. Escouter ce qu'il dit.
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        Operam somno. Plaut. Liu. Dormir.
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        Dare operam iuris ciuilis studio Q. Scaeuolae. Cic. Apprendre le droict civil soubs Scevola.
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        Operam tonsoribus. Suet. Faire accoustrer sa barbe et ses cheveuls et se faire peigner par le barbier.
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        Operam virtuti. Cic. Estudier à vertu.
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        - da mihi operam, vt Narrem quae volo. Plaut. Laisse moy raconter ce que je veulx.
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        Si des operam vt cum ratione insanias. Terent. Si tu mets peine, etc. \ Dabitur opera. Plaut. On y mettra peine.
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        Operas in portu dare. Cic. Avoir charge et entendre au faict du peage des ports et passages.
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        Operas in scriptura pro magistro. Cic. Entendre au faict de la ferme des forests et herbages pour le fermier.
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        Optionem dare. Liu. Donner le cheois.
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        Orationem alicui. Plaut. Donner audience, Laisser parler.
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        Oratorem. Plaut. Envoyer embassade.
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        Osculum dare, Osculari. Plaut. Baiser.
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        Se otio dare. Plaut. Se reposer.
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        Pacem dare. Plaut. Donner paix.
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        Danda palma docto oratori. Cic. Luy fault donner le pris.
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        Dare palmam alicui rei. Plin. La priser par dessus une autre.
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        Do palmam huic consilio. Terent. Ce conseil est le meilleur, Je luy donne le pris.
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        Partes alicui dare. Liu. Luy bailler charge.
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        Eloquentia, varietate, copia quam se cunque in partem dedisset, omnium fuit facile princeps. Cic. De quelque part qu'il se tournast.
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        Pausam conciliis. Lucret. Donner repos, Mettre fin.
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        Pectus dare ensibus. Seneca. Presenter et exposer sa poictrine aux espees.
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        In sumptum pecunias. Terent. Pour faire la despence.
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        Se in pedes dare. Terent. S'enfuir, Gaigner aux pieds.
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        Perniciem alicui dare. Cic. Donner malencontre.
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        Nae ego cum illo pignus haud ausim dare. Plaut. Je n'oseroye pas gager contre luy.
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        Da pignus, ni nunc peieres. Plaut. Fay gajure à moy que tu te parjures.
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        Pignori dare. Plaut. Bailler en gage, Engager.
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        Plagas dare. Plaut. Estre fouetté et batu.
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        Plausum. Cic. Heurter ou Frapper des pieds, Claquer des mains en signe de faveur.
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        Plausum pennis dare. Virgil. Battre des aelles.
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        Poculum alicui. Cic. Luy bailler quelque bruvage.
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        Poenas. Cic. Estre puni pour quelque meffaict, Comparoir quelque faulte.
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        Dedit poenas populo Romano. Cic. Le peuple romain a esté vengé de luy.
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        Potestatem. Plaut. Donner povoir et puissance.
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        In potestatem. Liu. Livrer entre les mains.
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        Potui dare. Celsus. Donner pour bruvages.
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        Potum arenti solo. Plin. Arrouser.
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        Praecipitem dare. Terent. Ruer du hault en bas, Precipiter.
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        In praeceps. Liu. Jecter du hault en bas. Et per translationem, Ruiner et destruire.
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        Praecepta dare. Virgil. Donner enseignements et doctrine.
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        Praeceptum. Liu. Faire commandement.
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        Ad eas res ab Epicuro praecepta dantur. Cic. Enseignements sont donnez.
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        In praemium. Liu. Pour remuneration et guerdon.
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        Quod praesens, tanquam in manu datur, iucundius est. Cic. Ce qu'on donne et qu'on livre quand et quand.
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        Dare praestare. Scaeuola. Bailler et delivrer.
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        Prandium. Plaut. Donner à disner.
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        Dare precibus alicuius. Plin. iunior. Octroyer la requeste à aucun, Faire quelque chose pour les prieres d'aucun.
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        Primas alicui rei dare. Cic. L'estimer la plus excellente de toutes les autres, Luy donner le premier lieu, La priser sur toutes les autres.
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        Principatum. Cic. Donner le premier lieu.
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        - quod dedit Principium adueniens? Terent. Quelle entree a il faicte?
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        Principium alicui rei dare. Lucret. Donner commencement.
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        Prolem dare. Virgil. Engendrer lignee.
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        Promissa. Catullus. Promettre.
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        Prouincias magistratibus, aut iis qui magistratu abierunt. Cic. Assigner et bailler à un d'iceulx le gouvernement de quelque province.
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        In publicum aliquid dare. Plin. iunior. Publier.
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        Pugnam. Plaut. Donner un assault, et faire quelque fascherie.
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        Ad purgationes cloacarum dare. Plin. iunior. Condemner à curer et nettoyer les esgousts de la ville.
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        In quaestionem dare seruos dicebatur dominus. Author ad Heren. Quand le maistre anciennement livroit ses serfs, et consentoit qu'on leur baillast la torture pour enquerir la verité de quelque faict concernant l'interest d'autruy.
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        Quietem membris dare. Virgil. Donner repos.
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        Quieti corpora. Liu. Reposer et dormir.
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        Se dare quieti ex labore. Caes. Se reposer apres avoir travaillé.
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        Rationem dare. Plaut. Donner le moyen de faire quelque chose.
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        Receptum facilem aut celerem. Caesar. Bailler aisee retraicte à gens de guerre.
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        Recessum. Caesar. Donner lieu pour reculer.
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        Reditum gloriosum alicui. Cic. Donner retour honorable.
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        Seruos ad remum dabamus. Liu. Nous fournissions chascun d'un nombre de serfs pour tirer à la rame.
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        Requiem nullam dare. Plin. iunior. Ne cesser.
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        Responsum dare. Cic. Faire response.
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        Risus alicui dare. Horat. Luy donner occasion de rire, le faire rire.
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        Oculis ruborem dare. Ouid. Faire rougir.
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        Dare in ruborem. Plaut. Faire devenir rouge.
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        Ruinam dare. Virgil. Tomber impetueusement.
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        Dare saltus. Ouid. Saulter.
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        Salutem alicui. Cic. Luy sauver la vie.
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        Salutem aduenienti. Plaut. Le saluer.
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        Quaenam vnquam ob mortem Myrtili poenis luendis dabitur satietas supplicii? Cic. Quand sera on saoul de, etc.
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        Dare se alicui. Terent. Se donner à aucun, et se mettre en sa sauvegarde. C'est aussi se laisser gouverner par aucun, et faire tout ce qu'il vouldra.
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        Alicui se dare ad docendum. Cic. Prendre la peine d'enseigner aucun.
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        Senatum legatis dare. Liu. Assembler le Senat pour donner audience aux embassadeurs.
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        Sententiam dare. Cic. Dire sa sentence.
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        Ad sepulturam dare. Cic. Enterrer.
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        Se sermonibus vulgi dare. Cic. Tascher à avoir la grace du peuple, et estre haultement loué de luy.
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        Se in sermonem aliorum dare familiariter. Cic. Se mesler parmi leur propos.
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        Seruandum dare. Terent. Donner en garde, Donner à garder.
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        Signum dare. Terent. Faire signe.
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        Signum oculis. Plautus, Oculis mihi signum dedit ne se appellarem. Il me feit signe des yeulx que je ne disse point son nom.
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        Signum tuba. Caes. Sonner la trompette.
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        Signum receptui. Liu. Sonner la retraicte.
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        Signi satis dedit, siquid esset quod posset dicere, se tacere non posse. Cic. Il a assez monstré et donné à congnoistre que, etc.
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        Silentium dare. Terent. Se taire, Faire silence, Ne faire point de bruit.
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        Solatia. Cic. Donner grand soulas et passetemps.
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        Se somno dare. Cic. Se mettre à dormir.
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        Membra sopori dare. Horat. Dormir.
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        Spatium conglobandi se, respirandi, aut docendi aliquem: et ad se colligendum et deliberandum. Liu. Caesar. Cic. Donner le temps et le loisir.
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        Speciem indolis clarum dare. Plin. iunior. Donner quelque grand signe et enseigne de bonté naturelle.
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        Specimen sui. Liu. Faire preuve de soy.
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        Spectandum dare. Plaut. Monstrer à quelqu'un, Bailler à regarder.
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        Spem dare. Plaut. Cic. Donner esperance.
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        Spiramentum. Plin. Bailler air.
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        In splendorem bullas forium dare. Plaut. Les brunir et faire reluire.
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        In stipendium pecuniam dare. Caesar. Pour la soulde des gensd'armes.
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        Stragem dare, pro Facere. Liu. Faire grande tuerie de gens.
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        Studii plurimum in literis dare. Quintil. Mettre grande estude aux lettres.
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        Suauium dare. Cic. Atticae meis verbis suauium des. Baise la à ma requeste.
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        Supplicium alicui de se dare. Plaut. Estre puni par aucun.
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        Suspicionem timoris dare. Caes. Faire semblant qu'on ha crainte, Mettre les gens en souspecon qu'on ha crainte d'eulx.
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        Symbolum dare. Terent. Contribuer à l'escot pour sa part avec les autres.
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        Da te hodie mihi. Terent. Je te prie fay aujourd'huy à ma fantasie, Fay ce que je vouldray.
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        Tempus, menses, diem alicui rei dare. Cic. Employer.
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        Tempus colloquio non dare. Caes. N'assigner point jour pour parlementer.
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        Nesciebas quam eiusmodi homini raro tempus se daret? Plaut. Combien peu souvent l'opportunite et occasion s'addonnoit.
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        Dum tempus datur. Terentius. Ce pendant que nous avons le temps.
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        Terga dare. Liu. Monstrer les talons, Tourner le dos et s'enfuir.
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        Ad terram dare. Suet. Jecter par terre.
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        Testes in aliquem dare. Cic. Produire tesmoings.
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        Testem Iouem dare. Plaut. Jurer par Jupiter.
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        Testimonium dare. Cic. Porter tesmoignage.
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        Testimonium quod ei apud me dederas. Cic. Le tesmoignage que tu m'avois porté de luy.
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        In timorem dare. Plaut. Faire peur à quelqu'un, Espovanter.
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        Se in tormenta dare. Cic. Aller franchement aux torments.
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        Transitum. Liu. Donner passage.
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        Tribunali reliquam partem diei dare. Plin. iunior. Employer certaines heures du jour à ouir les plaids, et dire droict, et rendre justice.
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        Turbas dare. Plaut. Faire troubles, Fascheries, Grandes crieries.
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        Vadem. Cic. Donner caution en matiere capitale de se representer au jour.
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        Vbera. Ouid. Allaicter, Donner la mammelle.
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        Vela. Ouid. Faire voile.
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        Vela in altum dare. liu. Desployer les voiles pour aller en haulte mer.
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        Vela dare, per translationem. Cic. Faire voile.
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        Ad id, vnde aliquis flatus ostenditur, vela do. Cic. Je fay voile à touts vents.
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        Vela indignationi dare. Plin. iunior. Parler de grande vehemence et cholere, et se laisser quasi emporter à son affection.
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        Veniam. Plaut. Pardonner.
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        Age, da veniam. Terent. Accorde luy sa requeste, Ne le tiens plus en si grand transe.
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        Da mihi hanc veniam. Cic. Fay moy ce bien de me laisser, etc. Octroye moy ceste requeste.
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        Veniam alicuius diei dare. Liu. Dispenser aucun de povoir faire en un jour, ce qui ne se povoit faire par les loix, Dispenser aucun contre la rigueur d'un jour qui est festé ou ferié.
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        Verbera Ponto dare. Ouid. Battre la mer.
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        Verba dare alicui. Valer. Flac. Le laisser parler.
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        In verba dare recuperatores. Cic. Quaerebant quae in verba recuperatores daret. Ils demandoyent la teneur de la commission addressant à ceulx qui devoyent congnoistre de la cause.
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        Verba alicui dare. Plaut. Paistre aucun de parolles et le tromper.
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        Viam. Plaut. Liu. Faire voye.
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        Dare viam, per translationem. Cic. Donner le moyen.
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        In viam se dare. Cic. Se mettre en chemin, S'acheminer.
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        Victum dare. Plaut. Donner à manger.
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        In vincula dare. Liu. Mettre en prison.
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        Vitio dare. Cic. Blasmer ou reprendre.
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        Voces dare. Ouid. Parler, Prononcer parolles.
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        Alicui voluptatem. Plaut. Resjouir aucun et bailler esbat.
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        Voluptatibus se dare. Cic. S'addonner à voluptez.
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        Vsum nominis dare. Ouid. Permettre qu'on use de quelque nom.
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        Vsuram horae gladiatori isti ad viuendum non dedissem. Cic. Je ne l'eusse pas laissé vivre une heure.
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        Vsuram lucis dare. Cic. Laisser vivre aucun, Ne le tuer point.
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        Vtendum aliquid dare. Plaut. Prester quelque chose.
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        Vxorem alicui dare. Terent. Luy bailler sa fille ou parente à femme.
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        Datum. Teren. Est istuc datum profecto, vt grata mihi sint quae facio omnia. C'est un don que Dieu m'a donné, etc.
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        Datum III Idus Iunii. Cic. Donné le, etc. ou Ces lettres furent donnees aux messagiers le, etc.
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        Siccine oportet ire amicos homini amanti operam datum? Plaut. L'aider en ceste maniere?
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        Quantum mihi cernere datur. Plin. iunior. Autant que je puis veoir, Selon que je puis veoir et juger.
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        Si dabitur. Quintil. Si je puis, S'il m'est permis.

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  • 5 adopto

    ădopto, āre, āvi, ātum, tr. [st1]1 [-] choisir, adopter, adjoindre.    - defensorem sibi adoptare, Cic.: se choisir un défenseur.    - quem adoptem, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5: à qui aurai-je recours?    - Etruscas Turnus adoptat opes, Ov. F. 4: Turnus s'adjoint les forces d'Etrurie.    - se adoptare alicui ordini, Plin.: s'associer à une compagnie. [st1]2 [-] adopter (légalement).    - adoptare aliquem sibi filium, Cic.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem pro filio, Cic.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem in nomen, Suet.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem ab aliquo: adopter le fils d'un autre.    - adoptare in regnum, Sall.: adopter pour son successeur au trône.    - adoptare in successionem, Just.: adopter pour successeur.    - adoptare in divitias, Plaut.: adopter pour héritier.    - se ipse adoptaverat et de Staleno Aelium fecerat, Cic. Brut. 68: il s'était adopté lui-même, et de Stalénus s'était fait Aélius. [st1]3 [-] au fig.: associer à; adopter (par la greffe).    - servi in bona libertatis nostrae adoptantur, Flor. 3, 20: les esclaves sont associés aux bienfaits de notre liberté.    - ramus ramum adoptet, Ov.: qu'une branche adopte une branche.    - fac ramum ramus adoptet, Ov. Rem. 195: tâche que le rameau adopte la greffe du rameau. [st1]4 [-] donner son nom à; appeler.    - Baetis provinciam adoptat, Plin. 3: le Bétis donne son nom à la province.    - regis in nomen adoptant, Stat.: ils lui donnent le nom de roi.
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    ădopto, āre, āvi, ātum, tr. [st1]1 [-] choisir, adopter, adjoindre.    - defensorem sibi adoptare, Cic.: se choisir un défenseur.    - quem adoptem, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5: à qui aurai-je recours?    - Etruscas Turnus adoptat opes, Ov. F. 4: Turnus s'adjoint les forces d'Etrurie.    - se adoptare alicui ordini, Plin.: s'associer à une compagnie. [st1]2 [-] adopter (légalement).    - adoptare aliquem sibi filium, Cic.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem pro filio, Cic.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem in nomen, Suet.: adopter qqn pour fils.    - adoptare aliquem ab aliquo: adopter le fils d'un autre.    - adoptare in regnum, Sall.: adopter pour son successeur au trône.    - adoptare in successionem, Just.: adopter pour successeur.    - adoptare in divitias, Plaut.: adopter pour héritier.    - se ipse adoptaverat et de Staleno Aelium fecerat, Cic. Brut. 68: il s'était adopté lui-même, et de Stalénus s'était fait Aélius. [st1]3 [-] au fig.: associer à; adopter (par la greffe).    - servi in bona libertatis nostrae adoptantur, Flor. 3, 20: les esclaves sont associés aux bienfaits de notre liberté.    - ramus ramum adoptet, Ov.: qu'une branche adopte une branche.    - fac ramum ramus adoptet, Ov. Rem. 195: tâche que le rameau adopte la greffe du rameau. [st1]4 [-] donner son nom à; appeler.    - Baetis provinciam adoptat, Plin. 3: le Bétis donne son nom à la province.    - regis in nomen adoptant, Stat.: ils lui donnent le nom de roi.
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        Adopto, adoptas, adoptare. Cic. Eslire, Prendre, choisir, et appeler aucun pour se defendre.
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        Adoptare, est verbum iuris. Cic. Adopter, Prendre à filz.
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        Adoptare se alicui ordini. Plin. Se donner ou rendre à quelque bande, Se mettre au ranc et de la compagnie des gents de quelque estat, Se mettre de l'ordre.
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        Adoptare aliquem ab aliquo. Cic. Adopter le filz de quelcun.
    \
        Adoptare sibi nomen. Mart. Changer son nom, et en prendre un autre.
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        Adoptare herbam aliquam. Pli. Donner, ou luy imposer son nom.
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        Adoptat ramus ramum, quum inseritur ramus ramo. Ouid. Quand l'un est enté dedens l'autre.

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  • 6 adigo

    ădĭgo, ĕre, ēgi, actum [ad + ago], tr. [st1]1 [-] pousser vers, pousser jusqu’à, amener, faire avancer, faire pénétrer, enfoncer, lancer.    - adigere equos per publicum, Suet.: pousser ses chevaux à travers la foule.    - adigere cuneum arbori, Plin.: enfoncer un coin dans un arbre.    - adigere ferrum in viscera, Sil.: plonger le fer dans les entrailles.    - adigere classem Byzantium, Tac.: pousser une flotte vers Byzance.    - tantum a vallo ejus prima acies aberat uti ne telo tormentove adigi posset, Caes. BC, 3, 55, 1: sa première ligne était assez éloignée du retranchement [pour qu'elle ne pût être atteinte par des traits et des projectiles] = pour être hors de portée...    - vulnus per galeam adigere, Tac. An. 6, 35: porter un coup à travers le casque, transpercer le casque.    - adigere ignem turri, Caes.: mettre le feu à une tour.    - adigere aliquem fulmine ad umbras, Virg.: précipiter qqn d'un coup de foudre dans les enfers.    - ne sit solvendi tempus adactum, Lucr.: de peur que le temps d'expier ne soit venu. [st1]2 [-] contraindre, obliger, forcer, réduire.    - adigere ad mortem, Tac.: contraindre à mourir.    - adigere in furorem, Lact.: rendre fou.    - tu adigis me ad insaniam, Ter.: tu me rends fou.    - adigi + inf.: être réduit à.    - adigit ita Postumia, Cic.: telle est la volonté de Postumia.    - jurejurando adigere + prop. inf.: faire jurer que (litt. contraindre par serment).    - (ad) jusjurandum aliquem adigere: faire prêter serment à quelqu’un.    - adigere aliquem, Tac.: faire prêter serment à qqn.    - adigere aliquem arbitrum (ad arbitrum): citer qqn devant un arbitre.    - provinciam omnem in sua et Pompei verba jus jurandum adigebat, Caes. BC. 2, 18, 5: il contraignait toute la province [à prêter serment suivant sa formule et celle de Pompée] = à prêter serment de fidélité à Pompée et à lui-même.
    * * *
    ădĭgo, ĕre, ēgi, actum [ad + ago], tr. [st1]1 [-] pousser vers, pousser jusqu’à, amener, faire avancer, faire pénétrer, enfoncer, lancer.    - adigere equos per publicum, Suet.: pousser ses chevaux à travers la foule.    - adigere cuneum arbori, Plin.: enfoncer un coin dans un arbre.    - adigere ferrum in viscera, Sil.: plonger le fer dans les entrailles.    - adigere classem Byzantium, Tac.: pousser une flotte vers Byzance.    - tantum a vallo ejus prima acies aberat uti ne telo tormentove adigi posset, Caes. BC, 3, 55, 1: sa première ligne était assez éloignée du retranchement [pour qu'elle ne pût être atteinte par des traits et des projectiles] = pour être hors de portée...    - vulnus per galeam adigere, Tac. An. 6, 35: porter un coup à travers le casque, transpercer le casque.    - adigere ignem turri, Caes.: mettre le feu à une tour.    - adigere aliquem fulmine ad umbras, Virg.: précipiter qqn d'un coup de foudre dans les enfers.    - ne sit solvendi tempus adactum, Lucr.: de peur que le temps d'expier ne soit venu. [st1]2 [-] contraindre, obliger, forcer, réduire.    - adigere ad mortem, Tac.: contraindre à mourir.    - adigere in furorem, Lact.: rendre fou.    - tu adigis me ad insaniam, Ter.: tu me rends fou.    - adigi + inf.: être réduit à.    - adigit ita Postumia, Cic.: telle est la volonté de Postumia.    - jurejurando adigere + prop. inf.: faire jurer que (litt. contraindre par serment).    - (ad) jusjurandum aliquem adigere: faire prêter serment à quelqu’un.    - adigere aliquem, Tac.: faire prêter serment à qqn.    - adigere aliquem arbitrum (ad arbitrum): citer qqn devant un arbitre.    - provinciam omnem in sua et Pompei verba jus jurandum adigebat, Caes. BC. 2, 18, 5: il contraignait toute la province [à prêter serment suivant sa formule et celle de Pompée] = à prêter serment de fidélité à Pompée et à lui-même.
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        Adigo, adigis, pen. cor. adegi. pen. prod. adactum, adigere. Colum. Plin. Poulser avant, Coigner, Faire entrer à force.
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        Adigere. Cesar. Jecter jusques à quelque chose.
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        Adigere naues. Tacit. Amener, Approcher.
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        Vulnus per galeam adegit. Tacit. Il l'a navré atravers de son heaulme.
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        Adigere ensem in pectus. Ouid. Fourrer l'espee dedens la poictrine.
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        Adigo, cum infinitiuo. Virg. Haec limina tendere adegit. M'a contrainct de venir ici.
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        Adigere, per metaphoram. Terent. Tu homo adiges me ad insaniam. Tu me feras enrager, Devenir fol.
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        Adigere quempiam arbitrum pro socio. Cic. Contraindre un homme de venir plaider devant un arbitre.
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        Adigere sacramento, vel iureiurando, siue ad iusiurandum. Caesar. Liuius. Faire faire le serment, Faire jurer, Adjurer, Assermenter, Prendre le serment.
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        Sacramento alicuius adigere legiones. Tacit. Leur faire faire le serment à quelcun.
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        Adigere in verba alicuius. Plinius iunior. Luy faire jurer et promettre d'obeir, et de faire ce qu'on luy commandera.
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        In sua et Pompeii verba per iusiurandum adigebat. Caesar. Leur faisoit faire le serment à luy et à Pompee, de le servir et Pompee: aussi au faict de leurs guerres.
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        Adigi iureiurando in verba principis. Prester ou faire le serment de fidelité.
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        Adigere, pro Agere: vt Adigere oues. Plaut. Chasser, Mener.

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  • 7 coicio

    cōnĭcĭo (also conjĭcio and cōicio; cf. Munro ad Lucr. 2, 1061; Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 5), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. (arch. temp. perf. conjexi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99) [jacio].
    I.
    To throw or bring together, to unite, = cogo, colligo.
    A.
    Lit. (very rare):

    cum semina rerum coaluerint quae, conjecta repente, etc.,

    Lucr. 2, 1061; cf. id. 2, 1073 sq.:

    palliolum in collum,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 10; id. Capt. 4, 1, 12 (cf. id. ib. 4, 2, 9:

    collecto pallio): sarcinas in medium,

    Liv. 10, 36, 1 Weissenb. (MSS. in medio); ib. § 13; 31, 27, 7: tecta, quae conjectis celeriter stramentis erant inaedificata, Auct. B. G. 8, 5. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To throw together in speaking, to dispute, contend, discuss, manage judicially (ante-class.): verba inter sese, to bandy words, Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 28;

    so without verba: noli, mea mater, me praesente cum patre, conicere,

    id. ib. p. 267, 30;

    p. 268, 3: causam conicere hodie ad te volo (conicere, agere, Non.),

    id. ib. p. 267, 32; cf. the law formula: ante meridiem causam coiciunto, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20; and Gell. 17, 2, 10.—
    2.
    Like the Gr. sumballein (v. Lidd. and Scott in h. v. III. 2.), to put together logically, connect, unite; hence (causa pro effectu), to draw a conclusion from collected particulars, to conclude, infer, conjecture (not in Quint., who very freq. employed the synon. colligo):

    aliquid ex aliquā re,

    Lucr. 1, 751; 2, 121; Nep. Eum. 2, 2; id. Timoth. 4, 2:

    annos sexaginta natus es aut plus, ut conicio,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:

    quid illud mali est? nequeo satis mirari, neque conicere,

    id. Eun. 3, 4, 9:

    cito conjeci, Lanuvii te fuisse,

    Cic. Att. 14, 21, 1:

    de futuris,

    Nep. Them. 1, 4:

    quam multos esse oporteret, ex ipso navigio,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71:

    conicito, possisne necne, etc.,

    Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 6:

    tu conicito cetera, Quid ego ex hac inopiā capiam,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 15.—
    b.
    In partic., t. t. of the lang. of augury, to prophesy, foretell, divine from omens, signs ( a dream, oracle, etc.); to interpret an omen, a dream, an oracle, etc.:

    somnium huic,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 3:

    qui de matre suaviandā ex oraculo Apollinis tam acute arguteque conjecerit,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 53:

    male conjecta maleque interpretata falsa sunt, etc.,

    id. Div. 1, 52, 119; cf. id. ib. 2, 31, 66:

    num igitur quae tempestas impendeat vatis melius coniciet quam gubernator? etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 12:

    bene qui coniciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optumum (transl. of a Greek verse),

    id. ib. 2, 5, 12; cf. conjectura, II., conjector, and conjectrix.—
    II.
    To throw, cast, urge, drive, hurl, put, place, etc., a person or thing with force, quickly, etc., to or towards; and conicere se, to betake, cast, or throw one's self hastily or in flight somewhere (very freq. and class. in prose and poetry).
    A.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With in:

    tela in nostros,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26; 1, 46; Nep. Dat. 9, 5:

    pila in hostes,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 52: aliquem in carcerem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 17; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; Suet. Caes. 17:

    in vincula,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 27; Sall. C. 42, 3; Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Paus. 3, 5; id. Pelop. 5, 1; Liv. 29, 9, 8, and id. 19, 2, 4 et saep.:

    in catenas,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 47 fin.; Liv. 29, 21, 2:

    in compedes,

    Suet. Vit. 12:

    in custodiam,

    Nep. Phoc. 3, 4; Gai Inst. 1, 13; Suet. Aug. 27 al.: incolas vivos constrictosque in flammam, Auct. B. Afr. 87; cf.:

    te in ignem,

    Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64:

    in eculeum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

    hostem in fugam,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    exercitum in angustias,

    Curt. 5, 3, 21:

    navem in portum (vis tempestatis),

    Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 98:

    serpentes vivas in vasa fictilia,

    Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

    cultros in guttura velleris atri,

    to thrust into, Ov. M. 7, 245; cf.:

    ferrum in guttura,

    id. ib. 3, 90:

    se in signa manipulosque,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 40:

    se in paludem,

    Liv. 1, 12, 10:

    se in sacrarium,

    Nep. Them. 8, 4:

    se in ultimam provinciam Tarsum usque,

    Cic. Att. 5, 16, 4:

    se in fugam,

    id. Cael. 26, 63; so,

    se in pedes,

    to take to one's heels, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 13 (cf.: se conferre in pedes, Enn. ap. Non. p. 518, 20, and Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 7; and:

    quin, pedes, vos in curriculum conicitis?

    id. Merc. 5, 2, 91):

    se intro,

    Lucil. 28, 47; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 36.—
    (β).
    With dat. (rare):

    alii spolia... Coniciunt igni,

    Verg. A. 11, 194:

    huic dea unum anguem Conicit,

    id. ib. 7, 347:

    facem juveni conjecit,

    id. ib. 7, 456:

    conjectaque vincula collo accipit,

    thrown about the neck, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 83.—
    (γ).
    With ad:

    animus domicilia mutet ad alias animalium formas conjectus,

    removed, transposed, Sen. Ep. 88, 29.—
    (δ).
    With acc. alone (mostly poet.):

    magnus decursus aquaï Fragmina coniciens silvarum arbustaque tota,

    bearing down, prostrating, Lucr. 1, 284:

    jaculum,

    Verg. A. 9, 698:

    tela,

    Ov. M. 5, 42:

    cultros,

    id. ib. 15, 735:

    thyrsos,

    id. ib. 11, 28:

    venabula manibus,

    id. ib. 12, 454:

    domus inflammata conjectis ignibus,

    Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2:

    telum inbelle sine ictu,

    Verg. A. 2, 544.—
    (ε).
    With inter:

    jaculum inter ilia,

    Ov. M. 8, 412.—
    B.
    Trop., to bring, direct, turn, throw, urge, drive, force something eagerly, quickly to or towards, etc.
    (α).
    With in:

    aliquem in morbum ex aegritudine,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 69:

    aliquem in laetitiam,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 51:

    (hostes) in terrorem ac tumultum,

    Liv. 34, 28, 3:

    in metum,

    id. 39, 25, 11:

    in periculum,

    Suet. Oth. 10:

    rem publicam in perturbationes,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1:

    aliquem in nuptias,

    Ter. And. 3, 4, 23; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 14;

    4, 1, 43: (Catilinam) ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

    aliquem in tricas,

    Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 18; Liv. 36, 12, 4:

    se in saginam ad regem aliquem,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: se mirificam in latebram, to fly to (in disputing), Cic. Div. 2, 20, 46:

    se in noctem,

    to commit one's self to the night, travel by night, id. Mil. 19, 49: se mente ac voluntate in versum, to devote or apply one's self with zeal to the art of poetry, id. de Or. 3, 50, 194:

    oculos in aliquem,

    id. Clu. 19, 54; id. Lael. 2, 9; Tac. H. 1, 17:

    orationem tam improbe in clarissimos viros,

    Cic. Sest. 18, 40:

    tantam pecuniam in propylaea,

    to throw away, squander, id. Off. 2, 17, 60; cf.:

    cum sestertium milies in culinam conjecisset (Apicius),

    Sen. Cons. Helv. 10, 9:

    culpam in unum vigilem,

    Liv. 5, 47, 10:

    crimina in tuam nimiam diligentiam,

    Cic. Mur. 35, 73:

    maledicta in ejus vitam,

    id. Planc. 12, 31: causas tenues simultatum in gregem locupletium, i. e. to cause, occasion, Auct. B. Alex. 49:

    crimen in quae tempora,

    Liv. 3, 24, 5:

    omen in illam provinciam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 18.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    oculos,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 225:

    petitiones ita conjectae (the fig. taken from aiming at a thing with weapons),

    id. Cat. 1, 6, 15: in disputando conjecit illam vocem Cn. Pompeius, omnes oportere senatui dicto audientes esse, threw out or let fall, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4.—
    * (γ).
    With sub:

    id vos sub legis superbissimae vincula conicitis,

    Liv. 4, 4, 10.—
    2.
    Of a verbal bringing forward, etc., to urge, press, treat, adduce: rem ubi paciscuntur, in comitio aut in foro causam coiciunto, XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: causam coicere ad te volo, Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 32 (Com. Rel. v. 216 Rib.):

    verba inter se acrius,

    id. ib. p. 267, 27 (Com. Rel. v. 309 ib.): is cum filio Cojecerat nescio quid de ratiunculā, id. ap. Suet. Vit. Ner. 11 (Com. Rel. v. 191 ib.).—
    3.
    To throw, place, put into, include in, etc.: eum fasciculum, quo illam (epistulam) conjeceram, Cic. Att. 2, 13, 1:

    ex illo libello, qui in epistulam conjectus est,

    id. ib. 9, 13, 7:

    conjeci id (prooemium) in eum librum, quem tibi misi,

    id. ib. 16, 6, 4:

    pluraque praeterea in eandem epistulam conjeci,

    id. ib. 7, 16, 1; cf.:

    quod multos dies epistulam in manibus habui... ideo multa conjecta sunt aliud alio tempore,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 23:

    legem in decimam tabulam,

    id. Leg. 2, 25, 64; id. Caecin. 22, 63.

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  • 8 conicio

    cōnĭcĭo (also conjĭcio and cōicio; cf. Munro ad Lucr. 2, 1061; Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 5), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. (arch. temp. perf. conjexi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99) [jacio].
    I.
    To throw or bring together, to unite, = cogo, colligo.
    A.
    Lit. (very rare):

    cum semina rerum coaluerint quae, conjecta repente, etc.,

    Lucr. 2, 1061; cf. id. 2, 1073 sq.:

    palliolum in collum,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 10; id. Capt. 4, 1, 12 (cf. id. ib. 4, 2, 9:

    collecto pallio): sarcinas in medium,

    Liv. 10, 36, 1 Weissenb. (MSS. in medio); ib. § 13; 31, 27, 7: tecta, quae conjectis celeriter stramentis erant inaedificata, Auct. B. G. 8, 5. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To throw together in speaking, to dispute, contend, discuss, manage judicially (ante-class.): verba inter sese, to bandy words, Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 28;

    so without verba: noli, mea mater, me praesente cum patre, conicere,

    id. ib. p. 267, 30;

    p. 268, 3: causam conicere hodie ad te volo (conicere, agere, Non.),

    id. ib. p. 267, 32; cf. the law formula: ante meridiem causam coiciunto, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20; and Gell. 17, 2, 10.—
    2.
    Like the Gr. sumballein (v. Lidd. and Scott in h. v. III. 2.), to put together logically, connect, unite; hence (causa pro effectu), to draw a conclusion from collected particulars, to conclude, infer, conjecture (not in Quint., who very freq. employed the synon. colligo):

    aliquid ex aliquā re,

    Lucr. 1, 751; 2, 121; Nep. Eum. 2, 2; id. Timoth. 4, 2:

    annos sexaginta natus es aut plus, ut conicio,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:

    quid illud mali est? nequeo satis mirari, neque conicere,

    id. Eun. 3, 4, 9:

    cito conjeci, Lanuvii te fuisse,

    Cic. Att. 14, 21, 1:

    de futuris,

    Nep. Them. 1, 4:

    quam multos esse oporteret, ex ipso navigio,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71:

    conicito, possisne necne, etc.,

    Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 6:

    tu conicito cetera, Quid ego ex hac inopiā capiam,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 15.—
    b.
    In partic., t. t. of the lang. of augury, to prophesy, foretell, divine from omens, signs ( a dream, oracle, etc.); to interpret an omen, a dream, an oracle, etc.:

    somnium huic,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 3:

    qui de matre suaviandā ex oraculo Apollinis tam acute arguteque conjecerit,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 53:

    male conjecta maleque interpretata falsa sunt, etc.,

    id. Div. 1, 52, 119; cf. id. ib. 2, 31, 66:

    num igitur quae tempestas impendeat vatis melius coniciet quam gubernator? etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 12:

    bene qui coniciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optumum (transl. of a Greek verse),

    id. ib. 2, 5, 12; cf. conjectura, II., conjector, and conjectrix.—
    II.
    To throw, cast, urge, drive, hurl, put, place, etc., a person or thing with force, quickly, etc., to or towards; and conicere se, to betake, cast, or throw one's self hastily or in flight somewhere (very freq. and class. in prose and poetry).
    A.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With in:

    tela in nostros,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26; 1, 46; Nep. Dat. 9, 5:

    pila in hostes,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 52: aliquem in carcerem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 17; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; Suet. Caes. 17:

    in vincula,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 27; Sall. C. 42, 3; Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Paus. 3, 5; id. Pelop. 5, 1; Liv. 29, 9, 8, and id. 19, 2, 4 et saep.:

    in catenas,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 47 fin.; Liv. 29, 21, 2:

    in compedes,

    Suet. Vit. 12:

    in custodiam,

    Nep. Phoc. 3, 4; Gai Inst. 1, 13; Suet. Aug. 27 al.: incolas vivos constrictosque in flammam, Auct. B. Afr. 87; cf.:

    te in ignem,

    Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64:

    in eculeum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

    hostem in fugam,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    exercitum in angustias,

    Curt. 5, 3, 21:

    navem in portum (vis tempestatis),

    Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 98:

    serpentes vivas in vasa fictilia,

    Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

    cultros in guttura velleris atri,

    to thrust into, Ov. M. 7, 245; cf.:

    ferrum in guttura,

    id. ib. 3, 90:

    se in signa manipulosque,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 40:

    se in paludem,

    Liv. 1, 12, 10:

    se in sacrarium,

    Nep. Them. 8, 4:

    se in ultimam provinciam Tarsum usque,

    Cic. Att. 5, 16, 4:

    se in fugam,

    id. Cael. 26, 63; so,

    se in pedes,

    to take to one's heels, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 13 (cf.: se conferre in pedes, Enn. ap. Non. p. 518, 20, and Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 7; and:

    quin, pedes, vos in curriculum conicitis?

    id. Merc. 5, 2, 91):

    se intro,

    Lucil. 28, 47; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 36.—
    (β).
    With dat. (rare):

    alii spolia... Coniciunt igni,

    Verg. A. 11, 194:

    huic dea unum anguem Conicit,

    id. ib. 7, 347:

    facem juveni conjecit,

    id. ib. 7, 456:

    conjectaque vincula collo accipit,

    thrown about the neck, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 83.—
    (γ).
    With ad:

    animus domicilia mutet ad alias animalium formas conjectus,

    removed, transposed, Sen. Ep. 88, 29.—
    (δ).
    With acc. alone (mostly poet.):

    magnus decursus aquaï Fragmina coniciens silvarum arbustaque tota,

    bearing down, prostrating, Lucr. 1, 284:

    jaculum,

    Verg. A. 9, 698:

    tela,

    Ov. M. 5, 42:

    cultros,

    id. ib. 15, 735:

    thyrsos,

    id. ib. 11, 28:

    venabula manibus,

    id. ib. 12, 454:

    domus inflammata conjectis ignibus,

    Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2:

    telum inbelle sine ictu,

    Verg. A. 2, 544.—
    (ε).
    With inter:

    jaculum inter ilia,

    Ov. M. 8, 412.—
    B.
    Trop., to bring, direct, turn, throw, urge, drive, force something eagerly, quickly to or towards, etc.
    (α).
    With in:

    aliquem in morbum ex aegritudine,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 69:

    aliquem in laetitiam,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 51:

    (hostes) in terrorem ac tumultum,

    Liv. 34, 28, 3:

    in metum,

    id. 39, 25, 11:

    in periculum,

    Suet. Oth. 10:

    rem publicam in perturbationes,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1:

    aliquem in nuptias,

    Ter. And. 3, 4, 23; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 14;

    4, 1, 43: (Catilinam) ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

    aliquem in tricas,

    Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 18; Liv. 36, 12, 4:

    se in saginam ad regem aliquem,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: se mirificam in latebram, to fly to (in disputing), Cic. Div. 2, 20, 46:

    se in noctem,

    to commit one's self to the night, travel by night, id. Mil. 19, 49: se mente ac voluntate in versum, to devote or apply one's self with zeal to the art of poetry, id. de Or. 3, 50, 194:

    oculos in aliquem,

    id. Clu. 19, 54; id. Lael. 2, 9; Tac. H. 1, 17:

    orationem tam improbe in clarissimos viros,

    Cic. Sest. 18, 40:

    tantam pecuniam in propylaea,

    to throw away, squander, id. Off. 2, 17, 60; cf.:

    cum sestertium milies in culinam conjecisset (Apicius),

    Sen. Cons. Helv. 10, 9:

    culpam in unum vigilem,

    Liv. 5, 47, 10:

    crimina in tuam nimiam diligentiam,

    Cic. Mur. 35, 73:

    maledicta in ejus vitam,

    id. Planc. 12, 31: causas tenues simultatum in gregem locupletium, i. e. to cause, occasion, Auct. B. Alex. 49:

    crimen in quae tempora,

    Liv. 3, 24, 5:

    omen in illam provinciam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 18.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    oculos,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 225:

    petitiones ita conjectae (the fig. taken from aiming at a thing with weapons),

    id. Cat. 1, 6, 15: in disputando conjecit illam vocem Cn. Pompeius, omnes oportere senatui dicto audientes esse, threw out or let fall, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4.—
    * (γ).
    With sub:

    id vos sub legis superbissimae vincula conicitis,

    Liv. 4, 4, 10.—
    2.
    Of a verbal bringing forward, etc., to urge, press, treat, adduce: rem ubi paciscuntur, in comitio aut in foro causam coiciunto, XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: causam coicere ad te volo, Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 32 (Com. Rel. v. 216 Rib.):

    verba inter se acrius,

    id. ib. p. 267, 27 (Com. Rel. v. 309 ib.): is cum filio Cojecerat nescio quid de ratiunculā, id. ap. Suet. Vit. Ner. 11 (Com. Rel. v. 191 ib.).—
    3.
    To throw, place, put into, include in, etc.: eum fasciculum, quo illam (epistulam) conjeceram, Cic. Att. 2, 13, 1:

    ex illo libello, qui in epistulam conjectus est,

    id. ib. 9, 13, 7:

    conjeci id (prooemium) in eum librum, quem tibi misi,

    id. ib. 16, 6, 4:

    pluraque praeterea in eandem epistulam conjeci,

    id. ib. 7, 16, 1; cf.:

    quod multos dies epistulam in manibus habui... ideo multa conjecta sunt aliud alio tempore,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 23:

    legem in decimam tabulam,

    id. Leg. 2, 25, 64; id. Caecin. 22, 63.

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  • 9 redigo

    rĕd-ĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a. [ago].
    I.
    To drive, lead, or bring back (syn. reduco).
    A.
    Lit.:

    (Sol) Disjectos redegit equos,

    Lucr. 5, 403:

    si materiem nostram collegerit aetas Post obitum, rursumque redegerit, ut sita nunc est,

    bring it back, restore it to its present condition, id. 3, 848:

    filia parva duas redigebat rupe capellas,

    Ov. F. 4, 511:

    tauros in gregem,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; cf.:

    in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64:

    oppidani (hostem) fusum fugatumque in castra redigunt,

    Liv. 21, 9:

    hostium equitatum in castra,

    id. 26, 10:

    turbam ferro in hostes,

    id. 37, 43:

    aliquem Capuam,

    id. 26, 12 fin.:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Just. 9, 4, 7. —
    B.
    Trop.:

    rem ad pristinam belli rationem redegit,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 76 fin.:

    annum neglegentia conturbatum ad pristinam rationem,

    Suet. Aug. 31:

    disciplinam militarem ad priscos mores,

    Liv. 8, 6 fin.: aliquid ad ultimam sui generis formam speciemque, Cic. Or. 3, 10:

    omnia redegit in singulas rationes praeceptionis,

    Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3:

    aliquem in concordiam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 13:

    vos in gratiam,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 73:

    tu, qui ais, redige in memoriam,

    recall it to my mind, id. ib. 2, 3, 36:

    in memoriam,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 7, 18; id. Fam. 1, 9, 9:

    (poëtae) formidine fustis Ad bene dicendum delectandumque redacti,

    brought back, reduced, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 155.—Far more freq.,
    II.
    (With the idea of agere predominant; cf. recido and redeo, II.) To get together, call in, collect, raise, receive, take a sum of money or the like by selling, etc.:

    cum omnem pecuniam ex aerario exhausissetis, ex vectigalibus redegissetis, ab omnibus regibus coëgissetis,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 98; cf.:

    pecuniam ex bonis patriis,

    id. Phil. 13, 5, 10;

    and simply pecuniam,

    id. Rab. Post. 13, 37; Hor. Epod. 2, 69:

    omne argentum tibi,

    to scrape together, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 23:

    bona vendit, pecuniam redigit... pecunia, quam ex Agonidis bonis redegisset,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 56; cf. Liv. 5, 16:

    quod omnis frumenti copia decumarum nomine penes istum esset redacta, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 73, § 171:

    fructus,

    Dig. 36, 4, 5, § 22 (after colere agros); 22, 1, 46; cf.:

    pars maxima (praedae) ad quaestorem redacta est,

    Liv. 5, 19:

    fructus ad eum,

    Dig. 10, 2, 51:

    quicquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit Fabius, consul, ac redegit in publicum,

    paid it into the public treasury, Liv. 2, 42:

    venditum sub hastā in aerarium,

    id. 4, 53:

    (patres) victi irā vetuere reddi (bona regia), vetuere in publicum redigi,

    id. 2, 5, 1; cf.:

    praedam in fiscum,

    Tac. H. 4, 72:

    aliquid in commune,

    Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 6.—
    B.
    To bring or reduce a thing to any condition, circumstance, etc.; to make or render it so and so (cf. reddo); constr. with in (so most freq.), ad, sub, an adv. of place, absol., or with a double acc.
    (α).
    With in:

    viros in servitutem,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 47:

    Aeduos in servitutem,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 14, 3:

    in pristinam sortem servitutis,

    Just. 6, 5, 1:

    vidulum in potestatem alicujus,

    Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 22:

    civitatem in potestatem,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 13 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 24 fin.; 45; Cic. Quint. 55, 152; id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; id. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 33; Tac. Agr. 18; Vell. 2, 94, 4; cf.:

    civitatem in dicionem potestatemque populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 34 fin.:

    aliquos in dicionem,

    Cic. Balb. 10, 25; Liv. 41, 19:

    gentes in dicionem hujus imperii,

    Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 13:

    Arvernos in provinciam,

    to reduce to a province, Caes. B. G. 1, 45; 7, 77 fin.; cf.:

    partem Britanniae, etc., in formam provinciae,

    Tac. Agr. 14; Suet. Caes. 25; id. Aug. 18; id. Tib. 37 fin.; id. Calig. 1; Liv. Epit. 45; 93:

    in formulam provinciae,

    Vell. 2, 38, 1:

    in formam praefecturae,

    id. 2, 44, 4:

    in id redactus sum loci, Ut, etc.,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 86; cf.:

    republicā in tranquillum redactā,

    Liv. 3, 40; and:

    mentem in veros timores,

    Hor. C. 1, 37, 15:

    si hoc genus (pecuniarum) in unum redigatur,

    be brought into one mass, Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 13:

    dispositio est, per quam illa, quae invenimus, in ordinem redigimus,

    reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; cf.:

    arbores in ordinem certaque intervalla,

    Quint. 8, 3, 9; but: ut veteres grammatici auctores alios in ordinem redegerint, alios omnino exemerint numero, brought, admitted into the rank of classics (cf. Gr. enkrinein; opp. numero eximere = ekkrinein):

    libertinos in equestrem ordinem,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 18; Just. 5, 6, 5; Quint. 1, 4, 3;

    for which: redigere aliquem (poëtam) in numerum,

    id. 10, 1, 54;

    also,

    to lower, degrade, Suet. Vesp. 15; v. ordo; cf. Liv. ap. Prisc. 1173 P.; Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5:

    quod prosa scriptum redigere in quaedam versiculorum genera,

    Quint. 9, 4, 52:

    in hanc consuetudinem memoriā exercitatione redigendā,

    id. 11, 2, 45:

    servos, in dominium nostrum,

    Dig. 1, 5, 5:

    in nihilum redigam te, et non eris,

    Vulg. Ezech. 26, 21:

    in cinerem,

    id. 2 Pet. 2, 6: provinciam in solitudinem, Lact. de Ira Dei, 5, 4.—
    (β).
    With ad:

    aliquem ad inopiam redigere,

    to reduce to poverty, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 56:

    aliquem ad incitas,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 85; id. Trin. 2, 4, 136:

    genus id ad interitum,

    Lucr. 5, 877; Cic. ap. Lact. 7, 11, 5; cf.:

    prope ad internecionem gente ac nomine Nerviorum redacto,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 28:

    ad nihilum redigere,

    Vulg. Psa. 72, 20:

    victoriam ad vanum et irritum,

    to render empty and useless, Liv. 26, 37 fin.: cf.: [p. 1541] spem ad irritum, id. 28, 31:

    aliquid ante dubium ad certum,

    to render certain, id. 44, 15:

    carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem,

    Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113 (shortly afterwards reducunt); cf.:

    cicatrices ad planum,

    id. 20, 9, 36, § 93:

    aliquem ad desperationem,

    Suet. Aug. 81; Just. 6, 5, 7 et saep.:

    redegit se ad pallium et crepidas,

    Suet. Tib. 13.—
    (γ).
    With sub:

    Galliam sub populi Romani imperium,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 4:

    Corcyram sub imperium Atheniensium,

    Nep. Timoth. 2, 1:

    barbaros sub jus dicionemque,

    Liv. 28, 21:

    incolas ejus insulae sub potestatem Atheniensium,

    Nep. Milt. 1, 4; 2 fin.; id. Paus. 2, 4; id. Pelop. 5:

    totam Italiam sub se,

    id. Flor. 1, 9, 8:

    GENTES SVB IMPERIVM,

    Inscr. Grut. 226.—
    (δ).
    With adv. of place:

    eo redigis me, ut, etc.,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 23:

    eo, ut,

    Flor. 1, 2, 4:

    hem! Quo redactus sum!

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 7.—
    (ε).
    Absol.: ut credam, redigunt animum mihi argumenta, Att. ap. Non. 174, 10 (Trag. Rel. v. 516 Rib.): ut ejus animum retundam, redigam, ut, quo se vortat, nesciat, bring it down, so that, etc., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 73; Lucr. 1, 553.—
    (ζ).
    With double acc., to make or render a thing something (very rare;

    more freq. reddere): quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 27 fin.:

    (Ubios) Suevi multo humiliores infirmioresque redegerunt,

    id. ib. 4, 3 fin.; Aus. Mos. 224.—
    2.
    In designations of number, etc., pregn., to bring within a number or extent; to lessen, diminish, reduce:

    familiam jam ad paucos redactam paene ab interitu vindicasti,

    Cic. Marcell. 4, 10; cf.:

    redigere omnis fere in quadrum numerumque sententias,

    id. Or. 61, 208:

    hosce ipsos (libros octo) utiliter ad sex libros redegit Diophanes,

    reduced, abridged, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 10:

    ex hominum milibus LX. vix ad D.... sese redactos esse dixerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 28:

    ad semuncias redacta,

    Tac. A. 6, 16:

    judicia ad duo genera judicum redegit,

    Suet. Caes. 41; id. Vesp. 10:

    non ad numerum redigar duorum,

    Ov. M. 6, 199:

    quod si comminuas vilem redigatur ad assem,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 43:

    ne res ad nilum redigantur funditus omnes,

    Lucr. 1, 791; 2, 752; cf. Ov. M. 14, 149:

    rem maximam redigere ad minimum,

    Lact. 3, 9, 15.

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  • 10 data

    1.
    do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre (also in a longer form, dănunt = dant, Pac., Naev., and Caecil. ap. Non. 97, 14 sq.; Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 48; id. Ps. 3, 1, 1 et saep.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 12 Müll.— Subj.:

    duim = dem,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 38:

    duis,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 81; id. Men. 2, 1, 42:

    duas = des,

    id. Merc. 2, 3, 67; id. Rud. 5, 3, 12; an old formula in Liv. 10, 19:

    duit,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 54; id. Aul. 1, 1, 23; an old formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

    duint,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 126; id. Ps. 4, 1, 25; id. Trin. 2, 4, 35; Ter. And. 4, 1, 43; id. Phorm. 3, 2, 34 al.— Imper.: DVITOR, XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5 ex conject.—Inf.: DASI = dari, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 13 Müll.:

    dane = dasne,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 22.—The pres. pass., first pers., dor, does not occur), v. a. [Sanscr. dā, da-dā-mi, give; Gr. di-dô-mi, dôtêr, dosis; cf.: dos, donum, damnum], to give; and hence, with the greatest variety of application, passing over into the senses of its compounds, derivatives, and synonyms (edere, tradere, dedere; reddere, donare, largiri, concedere, exhibere, porrigere, praestare, impertire, suppeditare, ministrare, subministrare, praebere, tribuere, offerre, etc.), as, to give away, grant, concede, allow, permit; give up, yield, resign; bestow, present, confer, furnish, afford; offer, etc. (very freq.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    eam carnem victoribus danunt, Naev. ap. Non. l. l.: ea dona, quae illic Amphitruoni sunt data,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 138; cf.:

    patera, quae dono mi illic data'st,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 36:

    dandis recipiendisque meritis,

    Cic. Lael. 8; cf.:

    ut par sit ratio acceptorum et datorum,

    id. ib. 16, 58: ut obsides accipere non dare consuerint, Caes. B. G. 1, 4 fin.:

    obsides,

    id. ib. 1, 19, 1;

    1, 31, 7 et saep.: patriam (sc. mundum) dii nobis communem secum dederunt,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    hominibus animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus,

    id. ib. 6, 15; cf. ib. 6, 17:

    ea dant magistratus magis, quae etiamsi nolint, danda sint,

    id. ib. 1, 31; cf.

    imperia,

    id. ib. 1, 44:

    centuria, ad summum usum urbis fabris tignariis data,

    id. ib. 2, 22:

    Lycurgus agros locupletium plebi, ut servitio, colendos dedit,

    id. ib. 3, 9 fin.:

    ei filiam suam in matrimonium dat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 5:

    litteras ad te numquam habui cui darem, quin dederim,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 19: litteras (ad aliquem), to write to one, saep.; cf. id. Att. 5, 11;

    and in the same signif.: aliquid ad aliquem,

    id. ib. 10, 8 fin.:

    litteras alicui, said of the writer,

    to give one a letter to deliver, id. ib. 5, 15 fin.;

    of the bearer, rarely,

    to deliver a letter to one, id. ib. 5, 4 init.: colloquium dare, to join in a conference, converse ( poet.), Lucr. 4, 598 (Lachm.;

    al. videmus): colloquiumque sua fretus ab urbe dedit,

    parley, challenge, Prop. 5, 10, 32:

    dare poenas,

    to give satisfaction, to suffer punishment, Sall. C. 18:

    alicui poenas dare,

    to make atonement to any one; to suffer for any thing, Ov. M. 6, 544; Sall. C. 51, 31;

    v. poena: decus sibi datum esse justitia regis existimabant,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 41:

    quoniam me quodammodo invitas et tui spem das,

    id. ib. 1, 10:

    dabant hae feriae tibi opportunam sane facultatem ad explicandas tuas litteras,

    id. ib. 1, 9; cf.:

    ansas alicui ad reprehendendum,

    id. Lael. 16, 59:

    multas causas suspicionum offensionumque,

    id. ib. 24:

    facultatem per provinciam itineris faciundi,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7, 5;

    for which: iter alicui per provinciam,

    id. ib. 1, 8, 3; Liv. 8, 5; 21, 20 al.:

    modicam libertatem populo,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    consilium,

    id. Lael. 13:

    praecepta,

    id. ib. 4 fin.:

    tempus alicui, ut, etc.,

    id. Rep. 1, 3:

    inter se fidem et jusjurandum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3 fin.:

    operam,

    to bestow labor and pains on any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 55:

    operam virtuti,

    id. Lael. 22, 84;

    also: operam, ne,

    id. ib. 21, 78:

    veniam amicitiae,

    id. ib. 17:

    vela (ventis),

    to set sail, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187:

    dextra vela dare,

    to steer towards the right, Ov. 3, 640:

    me librum L. Cossinio ad te perferendum dedisse,

    Cic. Att. 2, 1:

    sin homo amens diripiendam urbem daturus est,

    id. Fam. 14, 14 et saep.: ita dat se res, so it is circumstanced, so it is, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 26; cf.:

    prout tempus ac res se daret,

    Liv. 28, 5 et saep.— Impers.: sic datur, so it goes, such is fate, i. e. you have your reward, Plaut. Truc. 4, 8, 4; id. Ps. 1, 2, 22; id. Men. 4, 2, 40; 64; id. Stich. 5, 6, 5.— Part. perf. sometimes (mostly in poets) subst.: dăta, ōrum, n., gifts, presents, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 72; Prop. 3, 15, 6 (4, 14, 6 M.); Ov. M. 6, 363 (but not in Cic. Clu. 24, 66, where dona data belong together, as in the archaic formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

    DATVM DONVM DVIT, P. R. Q.).— Prov.: dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus,

    Mart. 5, 81, 2; cf.:

    dat census honores,

    Ov. F. 1, 217.—
    (β).
    Poet. with inf.:

    da mihi frui perpetuā virginitate,

    allow me, Ov. M. 1, 486; id. ib. 8, 350:

    di tibi dent captā classem reducere Trojā,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 191; so id. ib. 1, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 16, 61; id. A. P. 323 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With ne:

    da, femina ne sim,

    Ov. M. 12, 202.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In milit. lang.
    1.
    Nomina, to enroll one's self for military service, to enlist, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13; Liv. 2, 24; 5, 10; cf.

    transf. beyond the military sphere,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 38.—
    2.
    Manus (lit., as a prisoner of war, to stretch forth the hands to be fettered; cf. Cic. Lael. 26, 99;

    hence),

    to yield, surrender, Nep. Ham. 1, 4;

    and more freq. transf. beyond the milit. sphere,

    to yield, acquiesce, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; Cic. Lael. 26, 99; id. Att. 2, 22, 2; Caes. B. G. 5, 31, 3; Ov. H. 4, 14; id. F. 3, 688; Verg. A. 11, 568; Hor. Epod. 17, 1 al.—
    3.
    Terga, for the usual vertere terga; v. tergum.—
    B.
    To grant, consent, permit.
    1.
    Esp. in jurid. lang.: DO, DICO, ADDICO, the words employed by the praetor in the execution of his office; viz. DO in the granting of judges, actions, exceptions, etc.; DICO in pronouncing sentence of judgment; ADDICO in adjudging the property in dispute to one or the other party; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 30 Müll.;

    hence called tria verba,

    Ov. F. 1, 47.—
    2.
    Datur, it is permitted, allowed, granted; with subj. clause: quaesitis diu terris, ubi sistere detur, Ov. M. 1, 307:

    interim tamen recedere sensim datur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 127:

    ex quo intellegi datur, etc.,

    Lact. 5, 20, 11.—
    C.
    In philos. lang., to grant a proposition:

    in geometria prima si dederis, danda sunt omnia: dato hoc, dandum erit illud (followed by concede, etc.),

    Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 25; id. Inv. 1, 31 fin. —
    D.
    Designating the limit, to put, place, carry somewhere; and with se, to betake one's self somewhere:

    tum genu ad terram dabo,

    to throw, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17; cf.:

    aliquem ad terram,

    Liv. 31, 37; Flor. 4, 2 fin.:

    me haec deambulatio ad languorem dedit!

    has fatigued me, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

    hanc mihi in manum dat,

    id. And. 1, 5, 62:

    praecipitem me in pistrinum dabit,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 9:

    hostes in fugam,

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

    hostem in conspectum,

    to bring to view, Liv. 3, 69 fin.:

    aliquem in vincula,

    to cast into prison, Flor. 3, 10, 18; cf.:

    arma in profluentes,

    id. 4, 12, 9:

    aliquem usque Sicanium fretum,

    Val. Fl. 2, 28:

    aliquem leto,

    to put to death, to kill, Phaedr. 1, 22, 9:

    se in viam,

    to set out on a journey, Cic. Fam. 14, 12:

    sese in fugam,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 43 fin.; cf.:

    se fugae,

    id. Att. 7, 23, 2:

    Socrates, quam se cumque in partem dedisset, omnium fuit facile princeps,

    id. de Or. 3, 16, 60 et saep.—
    E.
    Designating the effect, to cause, make, bring about, inflict, impose:

    qui dederit damnum aut malum,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 116:

    nec consulto alteri damnum dari sine dolo malo potest,

    Cic. Tull. 14, 34; 16, 39; cf.:

    malum dare,

    id. N. D. 1, 44, 122:

    hoc quī occultari facilius credas dabo,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 29:

    inania duro vulnera dat ferro,

    Ov. M. 3, 84:

    morsus,

    Prop. 5, 5, 39; cf.:

    motus dare,

    to impart motion, Lucr. 1, 819 al. (but motus dare, to make motion, to move, be moved, id. 2, 311):

    stragem,

    id. 1, 288:

    equitum ruinas,

    to overthrow, id. 5, 1329.—With part. fut. pass.:

    pectora tristitiae dissolvenda dedit,

    caused to be delivered from sadness, Tib. 1, 7, 40.—

    Prov.: dant animos vina,

    Ov. M. 12, 242. —
    F.
    Aliquid alicui, to do any thing for the sake of another; to please or humor another; to give up, sacrifice any thing to another (for the more usual condonare): da hoc illi mortuae, da ceteris amicis ac familiaribus, da patriae, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5 fin.: aliquid auribus alicujus, Trebon. ib. 12, 16:

    Caere hospitio Vestalium cultisque diis,

    Liv. 7, 20:

    plus stomacho quam consilio,

    Quint. 10, 1, 117 et saep.:

    ut concessisti illum senatui, sic da hunc populo,

    i. e. forgive him, for the sake of the people, Cic. Lig. 12, 37:

    dabat et famae, ut, etc.,

    Tac. A. 1, 7.—Hence,
    b.
    Se alicui, to give one's self up wholly, to devote, dedicate one's self to a person or thing, to serve:

    dedit se etiam regibus,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4; so Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 10; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 10; Poëta ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; Nep. Att. 9; Tac. A. 1, 31:

    mihi si large volantis ungula se det equi,

    Stat. Silv, 2, 2, 38; 1, 1, 42; 5, 3, 71 al.; Aus. Mosel. 5, 448; cf. Ov. H. 16, 161:

    se et hominibus Pythagoreis et studiis illis,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 111:

    se sermonibus vulgi,

    id. ib. 6, 23:

    se jucunditati,

    id. Off. 1, 34 al.:

    se populo ac coronae,

    to present one's self, appear, id. Verr. 2, 3, 19; cf.:

    se convivio,

    Suet. Caes. 31 et saep.:

    si se dant (judices) et sua sponte quo impellimus inclinant,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 187.—
    G.
    Of discourse, to announce, tell, relate, communicate (like accipere, for to learn, to hear, v. accipio, II.; mostly ante-class. and poet.):

    erili filio hanc fabricam dabo,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 132:

    quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 10; cf. Verg. E. 1, 19:

    imo etiam dabo, quo magis credas,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 37:

    da mihi nunc, satisne probas?

    Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

    Thessalici da bella ducis,

    Val. Fl. 5, 219:

    is datus erat locus colloquio,

    appointed, Liv. 33, 13:

    fixa canens... Saepe dedit sedem notas mutantibus urbes,

    i. e. foretold, promised, Luc. 5, 107.—In pass., poet. i. q.: narratur, dicitur, fertur, etc., is said:

    seu pius Aeneas eripuisse datur,

    Ov. F. 6, 434; Stat. Th. 7, 315; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 337.—
    H.
    Fabulam, to exhibit, produce a play (said of the author; cf.:

    docere fabulam, agere fabulam),

    Cic. Brut. 18 fin.; id. Tusc. 1, 1 fin.; Ter. Eun. prol. 9; 23; id. Heaut. prol. 33; id. Hec. prol. 1 Don.;

    and transf.,

    Cic. Clu. 31, 84; cf.

    also: dare foras librum = edere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 22, 3.—
    I.
    Verba (alicui), to give [p. 605] empty words, i. e. to deceive, cheat, Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 25; id. Ps. 4, 5, 7; id. Rud. 2, 2, 19; Ter. And. 1, 3, 6 Ruhnk.; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 24; Cic. Phil. 13, 16 fin.; id. Att. 15, 16 A.; Hor. S. 1, 3, 22; Pers. 4, 45; Mart. 2, 76 et saep.—
    K.
    Alicui aliquid (laudi, crimini, vitio, etc.), to impute, assign, ascribe, attribute a thing to any one, as a merit, a crime, a fault, etc.:

    nunc quam rem vitio dent, quaeso animum attendite,

    Ter. And. prol. 8:

    hoc vitio datur,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 64:

    inopiā criminum summam laudem Sex. Roscio vitio et culpae dedisse,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48; id. Off. 1, 21, 71; 2, 17, 58; id. Div. in Caecil. 10; id. Brut. 80, 277 et saep.—
    L.
    Alicui cenam, epulas, etc., to give one a dinner, entertain at table (freq.):

    qui cenam parasitis dabit,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 4, 1, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 45; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2; id. Mur. 36, 75:

    prandium dare,

    id. ib. 32, 67; cf. Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 1; Tac. A. 2, 57 al.—
    M.
    To grant, allow, in gen. (rare, but freq. as impers.; v. B. 2. supra):

    dari sibi diem postulabat,

    a respite, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 32.
    2.
    - do, -dāre ( obsol., found only in the compounds, abdo, condo, abscondo, indo, etc.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. root dhā-, da-dhāmi, set, put, place; Gr. the-, tithêmi; Ger. thun, thue, that; Eng. do, deed, etc.]. This root is distinct from 1. do, Sanscr. dā, in most of the Arian langg.; cf. Pott. Etym. Forsch. 2, 484; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 410;

    but in Italy the two seem to have been confounded, at least in compounds,

    Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 254 sq.; cf. Max Müller, Science of Lang. Ser. 2, p. 220, N. Y. ed.; Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 100.
    3.
    do, acc. of domus, v. domus init.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > data

  • 11 do

    1.
    do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre (also in a longer form, dănunt = dant, Pac., Naev., and Caecil. ap. Non. 97, 14 sq.; Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 48; id. Ps. 3, 1, 1 et saep.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 12 Müll.— Subj.:

    duim = dem,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 38:

    duis,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 81; id. Men. 2, 1, 42:

    duas = des,

    id. Merc. 2, 3, 67; id. Rud. 5, 3, 12; an old formula in Liv. 10, 19:

    duit,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 54; id. Aul. 1, 1, 23; an old formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

    duint,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 126; id. Ps. 4, 1, 25; id. Trin. 2, 4, 35; Ter. And. 4, 1, 43; id. Phorm. 3, 2, 34 al.— Imper.: DVITOR, XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5 ex conject.—Inf.: DASI = dari, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 13 Müll.:

    dane = dasne,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 22.—The pres. pass., first pers., dor, does not occur), v. a. [Sanscr. dā, da-dā-mi, give; Gr. di-dô-mi, dôtêr, dosis; cf.: dos, donum, damnum], to give; and hence, with the greatest variety of application, passing over into the senses of its compounds, derivatives, and synonyms (edere, tradere, dedere; reddere, donare, largiri, concedere, exhibere, porrigere, praestare, impertire, suppeditare, ministrare, subministrare, praebere, tribuere, offerre, etc.), as, to give away, grant, concede, allow, permit; give up, yield, resign; bestow, present, confer, furnish, afford; offer, etc. (very freq.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    eam carnem victoribus danunt, Naev. ap. Non. l. l.: ea dona, quae illic Amphitruoni sunt data,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 138; cf.:

    patera, quae dono mi illic data'st,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 36:

    dandis recipiendisque meritis,

    Cic. Lael. 8; cf.:

    ut par sit ratio acceptorum et datorum,

    id. ib. 16, 58: ut obsides accipere non dare consuerint, Caes. B. G. 1, 4 fin.:

    obsides,

    id. ib. 1, 19, 1;

    1, 31, 7 et saep.: patriam (sc. mundum) dii nobis communem secum dederunt,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    hominibus animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus,

    id. ib. 6, 15; cf. ib. 6, 17:

    ea dant magistratus magis, quae etiamsi nolint, danda sint,

    id. ib. 1, 31; cf.

    imperia,

    id. ib. 1, 44:

    centuria, ad summum usum urbis fabris tignariis data,

    id. ib. 2, 22:

    Lycurgus agros locupletium plebi, ut servitio, colendos dedit,

    id. ib. 3, 9 fin.:

    ei filiam suam in matrimonium dat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 5:

    litteras ad te numquam habui cui darem, quin dederim,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 19: litteras (ad aliquem), to write to one, saep.; cf. id. Att. 5, 11;

    and in the same signif.: aliquid ad aliquem,

    id. ib. 10, 8 fin.:

    litteras alicui, said of the writer,

    to give one a letter to deliver, id. ib. 5, 15 fin.;

    of the bearer, rarely,

    to deliver a letter to one, id. ib. 5, 4 init.: colloquium dare, to join in a conference, converse ( poet.), Lucr. 4, 598 (Lachm.;

    al. videmus): colloquiumque sua fretus ab urbe dedit,

    parley, challenge, Prop. 5, 10, 32:

    dare poenas,

    to give satisfaction, to suffer punishment, Sall. C. 18:

    alicui poenas dare,

    to make atonement to any one; to suffer for any thing, Ov. M. 6, 544; Sall. C. 51, 31;

    v. poena: decus sibi datum esse justitia regis existimabant,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 41:

    quoniam me quodammodo invitas et tui spem das,

    id. ib. 1, 10:

    dabant hae feriae tibi opportunam sane facultatem ad explicandas tuas litteras,

    id. ib. 1, 9; cf.:

    ansas alicui ad reprehendendum,

    id. Lael. 16, 59:

    multas causas suspicionum offensionumque,

    id. ib. 24:

    facultatem per provinciam itineris faciundi,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7, 5;

    for which: iter alicui per provinciam,

    id. ib. 1, 8, 3; Liv. 8, 5; 21, 20 al.:

    modicam libertatem populo,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    consilium,

    id. Lael. 13:

    praecepta,

    id. ib. 4 fin.:

    tempus alicui, ut, etc.,

    id. Rep. 1, 3:

    inter se fidem et jusjurandum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3 fin.:

    operam,

    to bestow labor and pains on any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 55:

    operam virtuti,

    id. Lael. 22, 84;

    also: operam, ne,

    id. ib. 21, 78:

    veniam amicitiae,

    id. ib. 17:

    vela (ventis),

    to set sail, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187:

    dextra vela dare,

    to steer towards the right, Ov. 3, 640:

    me librum L. Cossinio ad te perferendum dedisse,

    Cic. Att. 2, 1:

    sin homo amens diripiendam urbem daturus est,

    id. Fam. 14, 14 et saep.: ita dat se res, so it is circumstanced, so it is, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 26; cf.:

    prout tempus ac res se daret,

    Liv. 28, 5 et saep.— Impers.: sic datur, so it goes, such is fate, i. e. you have your reward, Plaut. Truc. 4, 8, 4; id. Ps. 1, 2, 22; id. Men. 4, 2, 40; 64; id. Stich. 5, 6, 5.— Part. perf. sometimes (mostly in poets) subst.: dăta, ōrum, n., gifts, presents, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 72; Prop. 3, 15, 6 (4, 14, 6 M.); Ov. M. 6, 363 (but not in Cic. Clu. 24, 66, where dona data belong together, as in the archaic formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

    DATVM DONVM DVIT, P. R. Q.).— Prov.: dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus,

    Mart. 5, 81, 2; cf.:

    dat census honores,

    Ov. F. 1, 217.—
    (β).
    Poet. with inf.:

    da mihi frui perpetuā virginitate,

    allow me, Ov. M. 1, 486; id. ib. 8, 350:

    di tibi dent captā classem reducere Trojā,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 191; so id. ib. 1, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 16, 61; id. A. P. 323 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With ne:

    da, femina ne sim,

    Ov. M. 12, 202.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In milit. lang.
    1.
    Nomina, to enroll one's self for military service, to enlist, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13; Liv. 2, 24; 5, 10; cf.

    transf. beyond the military sphere,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 38.—
    2.
    Manus (lit., as a prisoner of war, to stretch forth the hands to be fettered; cf. Cic. Lael. 26, 99;

    hence),

    to yield, surrender, Nep. Ham. 1, 4;

    and more freq. transf. beyond the milit. sphere,

    to yield, acquiesce, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; Cic. Lael. 26, 99; id. Att. 2, 22, 2; Caes. B. G. 5, 31, 3; Ov. H. 4, 14; id. F. 3, 688; Verg. A. 11, 568; Hor. Epod. 17, 1 al.—
    3.
    Terga, for the usual vertere terga; v. tergum.—
    B.
    To grant, consent, permit.
    1.
    Esp. in jurid. lang.: DO, DICO, ADDICO, the words employed by the praetor in the execution of his office; viz. DO in the granting of judges, actions, exceptions, etc.; DICO in pronouncing sentence of judgment; ADDICO in adjudging the property in dispute to one or the other party; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 30 Müll.;

    hence called tria verba,

    Ov. F. 1, 47.—
    2.
    Datur, it is permitted, allowed, granted; with subj. clause: quaesitis diu terris, ubi sistere detur, Ov. M. 1, 307:

    interim tamen recedere sensim datur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 127:

    ex quo intellegi datur, etc.,

    Lact. 5, 20, 11.—
    C.
    In philos. lang., to grant a proposition:

    in geometria prima si dederis, danda sunt omnia: dato hoc, dandum erit illud (followed by concede, etc.),

    Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 25; id. Inv. 1, 31 fin. —
    D.
    Designating the limit, to put, place, carry somewhere; and with se, to betake one's self somewhere:

    tum genu ad terram dabo,

    to throw, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17; cf.:

    aliquem ad terram,

    Liv. 31, 37; Flor. 4, 2 fin.:

    me haec deambulatio ad languorem dedit!

    has fatigued me, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

    hanc mihi in manum dat,

    id. And. 1, 5, 62:

    praecipitem me in pistrinum dabit,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 9:

    hostes in fugam,

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

    hostem in conspectum,

    to bring to view, Liv. 3, 69 fin.:

    aliquem in vincula,

    to cast into prison, Flor. 3, 10, 18; cf.:

    arma in profluentes,

    id. 4, 12, 9:

    aliquem usque Sicanium fretum,

    Val. Fl. 2, 28:

    aliquem leto,

    to put to death, to kill, Phaedr. 1, 22, 9:

    se in viam,

    to set out on a journey, Cic. Fam. 14, 12:

    sese in fugam,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 43 fin.; cf.:

    se fugae,

    id. Att. 7, 23, 2:

    Socrates, quam se cumque in partem dedisset, omnium fuit facile princeps,

    id. de Or. 3, 16, 60 et saep.—
    E.
    Designating the effect, to cause, make, bring about, inflict, impose:

    qui dederit damnum aut malum,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 116:

    nec consulto alteri damnum dari sine dolo malo potest,

    Cic. Tull. 14, 34; 16, 39; cf.:

    malum dare,

    id. N. D. 1, 44, 122:

    hoc quī occultari facilius credas dabo,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 29:

    inania duro vulnera dat ferro,

    Ov. M. 3, 84:

    morsus,

    Prop. 5, 5, 39; cf.:

    motus dare,

    to impart motion, Lucr. 1, 819 al. (but motus dare, to make motion, to move, be moved, id. 2, 311):

    stragem,

    id. 1, 288:

    equitum ruinas,

    to overthrow, id. 5, 1329.—With part. fut. pass.:

    pectora tristitiae dissolvenda dedit,

    caused to be delivered from sadness, Tib. 1, 7, 40.—

    Prov.: dant animos vina,

    Ov. M. 12, 242. —
    F.
    Aliquid alicui, to do any thing for the sake of another; to please or humor another; to give up, sacrifice any thing to another (for the more usual condonare): da hoc illi mortuae, da ceteris amicis ac familiaribus, da patriae, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5 fin.: aliquid auribus alicujus, Trebon. ib. 12, 16:

    Caere hospitio Vestalium cultisque diis,

    Liv. 7, 20:

    plus stomacho quam consilio,

    Quint. 10, 1, 117 et saep.:

    ut concessisti illum senatui, sic da hunc populo,

    i. e. forgive him, for the sake of the people, Cic. Lig. 12, 37:

    dabat et famae, ut, etc.,

    Tac. A. 1, 7.—Hence,
    b.
    Se alicui, to give one's self up wholly, to devote, dedicate one's self to a person or thing, to serve:

    dedit se etiam regibus,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4; so Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 10; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 10; Poëta ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; Nep. Att. 9; Tac. A. 1, 31:

    mihi si large volantis ungula se det equi,

    Stat. Silv, 2, 2, 38; 1, 1, 42; 5, 3, 71 al.; Aus. Mosel. 5, 448; cf. Ov. H. 16, 161:

    se et hominibus Pythagoreis et studiis illis,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 111:

    se sermonibus vulgi,

    id. ib. 6, 23:

    se jucunditati,

    id. Off. 1, 34 al.:

    se populo ac coronae,

    to present one's self, appear, id. Verr. 2, 3, 19; cf.:

    se convivio,

    Suet. Caes. 31 et saep.:

    si se dant (judices) et sua sponte quo impellimus inclinant,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 187.—
    G.
    Of discourse, to announce, tell, relate, communicate (like accipere, for to learn, to hear, v. accipio, II.; mostly ante-class. and poet.):

    erili filio hanc fabricam dabo,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 132:

    quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 10; cf. Verg. E. 1, 19:

    imo etiam dabo, quo magis credas,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 37:

    da mihi nunc, satisne probas?

    Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

    Thessalici da bella ducis,

    Val. Fl. 5, 219:

    is datus erat locus colloquio,

    appointed, Liv. 33, 13:

    fixa canens... Saepe dedit sedem notas mutantibus urbes,

    i. e. foretold, promised, Luc. 5, 107.—In pass., poet. i. q.: narratur, dicitur, fertur, etc., is said:

    seu pius Aeneas eripuisse datur,

    Ov. F. 6, 434; Stat. Th. 7, 315; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 337.—
    H.
    Fabulam, to exhibit, produce a play (said of the author; cf.:

    docere fabulam, agere fabulam),

    Cic. Brut. 18 fin.; id. Tusc. 1, 1 fin.; Ter. Eun. prol. 9; 23; id. Heaut. prol. 33; id. Hec. prol. 1 Don.;

    and transf.,

    Cic. Clu. 31, 84; cf.

    also: dare foras librum = edere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 22, 3.—
    I.
    Verba (alicui), to give [p. 605] empty words, i. e. to deceive, cheat, Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 25; id. Ps. 4, 5, 7; id. Rud. 2, 2, 19; Ter. And. 1, 3, 6 Ruhnk.; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 24; Cic. Phil. 13, 16 fin.; id. Att. 15, 16 A.; Hor. S. 1, 3, 22; Pers. 4, 45; Mart. 2, 76 et saep.—
    K.
    Alicui aliquid (laudi, crimini, vitio, etc.), to impute, assign, ascribe, attribute a thing to any one, as a merit, a crime, a fault, etc.:

    nunc quam rem vitio dent, quaeso animum attendite,

    Ter. And. prol. 8:

    hoc vitio datur,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 64:

    inopiā criminum summam laudem Sex. Roscio vitio et culpae dedisse,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48; id. Off. 1, 21, 71; 2, 17, 58; id. Div. in Caecil. 10; id. Brut. 80, 277 et saep.—
    L.
    Alicui cenam, epulas, etc., to give one a dinner, entertain at table (freq.):

    qui cenam parasitis dabit,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 4, 1, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 45; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2; id. Mur. 36, 75:

    prandium dare,

    id. ib. 32, 67; cf. Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 1; Tac. A. 2, 57 al.—
    M.
    To grant, allow, in gen. (rare, but freq. as impers.; v. B. 2. supra):

    dari sibi diem postulabat,

    a respite, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 32.
    2.
    - do, -dāre ( obsol., found only in the compounds, abdo, condo, abscondo, indo, etc.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. root dhā-, da-dhāmi, set, put, place; Gr. the-, tithêmi; Ger. thun, thue, that; Eng. do, deed, etc.]. This root is distinct from 1. do, Sanscr. dā, in most of the Arian langg.; cf. Pott. Etym. Forsch. 2, 484; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 410;

    but in Italy the two seem to have been confounded, at least in compounds,

    Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 254 sq.; cf. Max Müller, Science of Lang. Ser. 2, p. 220, N. Y. ed.; Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 100.
    3.
    do, acc. of domus, v. domus init.

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  • 12 iter

    ĭter, ĭtĭnĕris (archaic forms: nom. ĭtĭner, Enn. Pac. Att. Varr. ap. Non. 482, 20; Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 72; Lucr. 6, 339; Mart. Cap. 9, § 897.— Gen. iteris, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 695 P.; id. ap. Non. 485, 3; Jul. Hyg. ap. Charis. p. 108 P.; also, iteneris, Lex Agr., C. I. L. 1, 200, 26.— Abl. itere, Att. and Varr. ap. Non. 485, 8; Lucr. 5, 653), n. [for itiner, from īre, ĭtum], a going, a walk, way.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    dicam in itinere,

    on the way, as we go along, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 34:

    hoc ipsa in itinere dum narrat,

    id. Heaut. 2, 3, 30:

    huc quia habebas iter,

    Plaut. As. 2, 3, 6:

    iter illi saepius in forum,

    Plin. Pan. 77:

    in diversum iter equi concitati,

    Liv. 1, 28. — Hence,
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    A going to a distant place, a journey; and of an army, a march:

    cum illi iter instaret et subitum et longum,

    Cic. Att. 13, 23, 1; 3, 2 init.:

    ut in itinere copia frumenti suppeteret,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3:

    qui eo itineris causa convenerant,

    id. ib. 7, 55:

    sine ullo maleficio iter per provinciam facere,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    in ipso itinere confligere,

    Liv. 29, 36, 4; Nep. Eum. 8, 1; Hirt. B. G. 8, 27, 5; Just. 11, 15, 4:

    Catilina ex itinere plerisque consularibus litteras mittit,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    committere se itineri,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 10:

    ingredi pedibus,

    id. de Sen. 10:

    conficere pulverulentā viā,

    id. Att. 5, 14:

    iter mihi est Lanuvium,

    id. Mil. 10:

    iter habere Capuam,

    id. Att. 8, 11:

    facere in Apuliam,

    id. ib.:

    agere,

    Dig. 47, 5, 6; Salv. Gub. Dei, 1, 9: contendere iter, to hasten one ' s journey, Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97; so,

    intendere,

    Liv. 21, 29:

    maturare,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 63:

    properare,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    conficere,

    Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1; 4, 14, 2; id. Vatin. 5, 12:

    constituere,

    to determine upon, id. Att. 3, 1 init.:

    urgere,

    Ov. F. 6, 520: convertere in aliquem locum, to direct one ' s journey to a certain place, Caes. B. G. 7, 56: dirigere ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11:

    agere in aliquam partem,

    Ov. M. 2, 715: flectere, to change one ' s course, Verg. A. 7, 35:

    convertere,

    to direct, Cic. Att. 3, 3:

    facere,

    id. ib. 8, 11, C; Nep. Pel. 2, 5; Suet. Ner. 30 fin.; id. Aug. 64:

    comparare,

    to prepare for a journey, Nep. Alc. 10; Claud. Eutr. 2, 97:

    supprimere,

    to stop, break off, Caes. B. C. 1, 66:

    retro vertere,

    Liv. 28, 3:

    ferre per medium mare,

    Verg. A. 7, 810:

    ferre Inachias urbes,

    Stat. Th. 1, 326:

    continuare die ac nocte,

    to march day and night, Caes. B. C. 3, 36:

    desistere itinere,

    id. B. G. 5, 11:

    coeptum dimittere,

    Ov. M. 2, 598:

    frangere,

    Stat. Th. 12, 232:

    impedire,

    Ov. H. 21, 74:

    instituere,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 5:

    peragere,

    Verg. A. 6, 381; Hor. S. 2, 6, 99; Ov. F. 1, 188:

    rumpere,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 5:

    itinere prohibere aliquem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 9:

    ex itinere redire,

    Cic. Att. 15, 24; Suet. Tit. 5:

    revertere,

    Cic. Div. 1, 15, 26:

    Boii ex itinere nostros adgressi,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 6:

    tutum alicui praestare,

    Cic. Planc. 41.—
    2.
    Iter terrestre, iter pedestre, a journey by land, a land route (not ante-Aug.):

    iter terrestre facturus,

    Just. 12, 10, 7:

    inde terrestri itinere frumentum advehere,

    Tac. H. 4, 35:

    terrestri itinere ducere legiones,

    Liv. 30, 36, 3; 44, 1, 4; Curt. 9, 10, 2:

    pedestri itinere confecto,

    Suet. Claud. 17:

    pedestri itinere Romam pervenire,

    Liv. 36, 21, 6; 37, 45, 2; Amm. 31, 11, 6.—
    3.
    A journey, a march, considered as a measure of distance: cum abessem ab Amano iter unius diei, a day ' s journey, Cic. Fam. 15, 4:

    cum dierum iter quadraginta processerit,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 24: quam maximis itineribus potest in Galliam contendit, by making each day ' s journey as long as possible, i. e. forced marches, id. ib. 1, 7:

    magnis diurnis nocturnisque itineribus contendere,

    id. ib. 1, 38:

    itinera multo majora fugiens quam ego sequens,

    making greater marches in his flight, Brut. ad Cic. Fam. 11, 13.— Hence, justum iter diei, a day's march of a proper length:

    confecto justo itinere ejus diei,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 76. —
    4.
    The place in which one goes, travels, etc., a way, passage, path, road: qua ibant ab itu iter appellarant, Varr. L. L. 5, § 35 Müll.; cf.

    5, § 22: itineribus deviis proticisci in provinciam,

    Cic. Att. 14, 10:

    erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6:

    pedestria itinera concisa aestuariis,

    id. ib. 3, 9:

    patefacere alicui iter in aliquem locum,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 11:

    in diversum iter equi concitati,

    Liv. 1, 28:

    ut deviis itineribus milites duceret,

    Nep. Eum. 3, 5:

    itinere devio per ignorantiam locorum retardati,

    Suet. Galb. 20:

    exercitum per insidiosa itinera ducere,

    id. Caes. 58:

    qua rectum iter in Persidem ducebat,

    Curt. 13, 11, 19:

    ferro aperire,

    Sall. C. 58, 7:

    fodiendo, substruendo iter facere,

    Dig. 8, 1, 10.— Of the corridors in houses, Vitr. 6, 9.—Of any passage:

    iter urinae,

    the urethra, Cels. 7, 25:

    iter vocis,

    Verg. A. 7, 534:

    itinera aquae,

    Col. 8, 17: carpere iter, to pursue a journey:

    Rubos fessi pervenimus utpote longum carpentes iter,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 95:

    non utile carpis iter,

    Ov. M. 2, 550: alicui iter claudere, to block one ' s way, close the way for him:

    ne suus hoc illis clauserit auctor iter,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 6; id. F. 1, 272; id. M. 14, 793: iter ingredi, to enter on a way or road, Suet. Caes. 31:

    iter patefacere,

    to open a way, Caes. B. G. 3, 1.—
    5.
    A privilege or legal right of going to a place, the right of way:

    aquaeductus, haustus, iter, actus a patre sumitur,

    Cic. Caecin. 26, 74:

    negat se posse iter ulli per provinciam dare,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 3; cf. Dig. 8, 3, 1, § 1; 8, 3, 7; 12.—
    II.
    Trop., a way, course, custom, method of a person or thing:

    patiamur illum ire nostris itineribus,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

    verum iter gloriae,

    id. Phil. 1, 14, 33:

    videmus naturam suo quodam itinere ad ultimum pervenire,

    id. N. D. 2, 13, 35:

    iter amoris nostri et officii mei,

    id. Att. 4, 2, 1:

    salutis,

    Verg. A. 2, 387:

    fecit iter sceleri,

    Ov. M. 15, 106:

    labi per iter declive senectae,

    id. ib. 15, 227:

    vitae diversum iter ingredi,

    Juv. 7, 172:

    duo itinera audendi,

    Tac. H. 4, 49:

    novis et exquisitis eloquentiae itineribus opus est,

    id. Or. 19:

    pronum ad honores,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 10 fin.; cf.:

    novum ad principatum,

    id. Pan. 7, 1.

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  • 13 provincia

    prōvincĭa, ae (old gen. PROVINCIAI, Inscr. Grut. 376, 6) [etym. dub.; perh. contr. for pro-noventia (cf. nuntius), the charge or government of a legate].
    I.
    A province, i. e. a territory out of Italy, acquired by the Romans (chiefly by conquest), and brought under Roman government; freq., also, to be rendered provincial administration, employment, etc.:

    Sicilia prima omnium provincia est appellata,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 1, § 2:

    defendo provinciam Siciliam,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 5:

    provincia Syria,

    id. Fam. 15, 2, 1:

    Asia provincia,

    id. Fl. 34, 85:

    provincia Gallia,

    id. Font. 1, 2:

    praeponere, praeficere aliquem provinciae,

    id. Fam. 2, 15, 4:

    tradere alicui provinciam,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 1:

    in provinciam cum imperio proficisci,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 1:

    administrare provinciam,

    id. ib. 15, 4, 1:

    provinciam consulari imperio obtinere,

    id. Fl. 34, 85; cf. id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    de provinciā decedere,

    to retire from the administration of a province, id. Fam. 2, 15, 4:

    provinciam Lentulus deposuit,

    gave up, resigned, id. Pis. 21, 50: provincia consularis, governed by a former consul (proconsul), id. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 34:

    praetoria,

    governed by a former prœtor, id. Phil. 1, 8, 19.—
    2.
    In gen., a province, division of a kingdom or empire:

    Judaea,

    Vulg. 1 Esdr. 5, 8:

    Babylonis,

    id. Dan. 2, 48.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen., official duty, office, business, charge, province (class.):

    parasitorum,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 14:

    hanc tibi impero provinciam,

    id. Mil. 4, 4, 23:

    abi in tuam provinciam,

    id. Cas. 1, 15:

    duram capere provinciam,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 22:

    sibi provinciam depoposcit, ut me in meo lectulo trucidaret,

    Cic. Sull. 18, 52:

    qui eam provinciam susceperint, ut in balneas contruderentur,

    id. Cael. 26, 63:

    Sicinio Volsci, Aquilio Hernici provincia evenit,

    i. e. were given into his charge, were assigned to him to be subdued, Liv. 2, 40 fin.:

    cum ambo consules Appuliam provinciam haberent,

    id. 26, 22.—In plur., Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 15:

    ipsi inter se provincias partiuntur,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 35.

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  • 14 depono

    depōno, ĕre, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum - tr. - [st2]1 [-] mettre à terre, déposer, laisser de côté, ôter de, retrancher; débarquer. [st2]2 [-] au fig. mettre de côté, abandonner, quitter, laisser, se défaire de, renoncer à. [st2]3 [-] enfouir, planter. [st2]4 [-] enfanter, mettre bas. [st2]5 [-] mettre en dépôt, mettre en sûreté, remettre à, confier. [st2]6 [-] inhumer, enterrer. [st2]7 [-] abattre, démollir. [st2]8 [-] baisser (le ton).    - onera jumentis deponere, Caes. B. C. 1, 80: décharger les bêtes de somme.    - exercitum in terram deponere (= exponere), Just. 4, 5, 8: débarquer une armée.    - deponere fetum (deponere onus naturae), Phaedr.: mettre bas.    - vitulam deponere, Virg. B. 3, 31: mettre une génisse pour enjeu.    - deponere liberos in silvas, Caes. B. G. 4, 19: cacher ses enfants dans les forêts.    - ut me deponat vino, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 39: pour me faire rouler sous la table en buvant.    - depositus: étendu à terre, expirant, moribond, défunt, mort.    - provinciam deponere: renoncer au gouvernement d’une province.    - deponere imperium: se démettre du pouvoir.
    * * *
    depōno, ĕre, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum - tr. - [st2]1 [-] mettre à terre, déposer, laisser de côté, ôter de, retrancher; débarquer. [st2]2 [-] au fig. mettre de côté, abandonner, quitter, laisser, se défaire de, renoncer à. [st2]3 [-] enfouir, planter. [st2]4 [-] enfanter, mettre bas. [st2]5 [-] mettre en dépôt, mettre en sûreté, remettre à, confier. [st2]6 [-] inhumer, enterrer. [st2]7 [-] abattre, démollir. [st2]8 [-] baisser (le ton).    - onera jumentis deponere, Caes. B. C. 1, 80: décharger les bêtes de somme.    - exercitum in terram deponere (= exponere), Just. 4, 5, 8: débarquer une armée.    - deponere fetum (deponere onus naturae), Phaedr.: mettre bas.    - vitulam deponere, Virg. B. 3, 31: mettre une génisse pour enjeu.    - deponere liberos in silvas, Caes. B. G. 4, 19: cacher ses enfants dans les forêts.    - ut me deponat vino, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 39: pour me faire rouler sous la table en buvant.    - depositus: étendu à terre, expirant, moribond, défunt, mort.    - provinciam deponere: renoncer au gouvernement d’une province.    - deponere imperium: se démettre du pouvoir.
    * * *
        Depono, deponis, pen. prod. deposui, depositum, pe. corr. deponere. Plaut. Mettre bas.
    \
        Deponere in gremio alicuius. Plin. Mettre dedens le giron.
    \
        Caput deponere et recondere stratis. Ouid. Coucher, ou Mettre la teste sur le chevet.
    \
        Corpora sub ramis deponunt arboris altae. Virgil. Ils se couchent soubs un arbre.
    \
        Deponere vitem. Columel. Planter de la vigne.
    \
        Deponere semina sulco. Colum. Provigner une vigne, Mettre les prouvins soubs terre pour avoir nouveau sep de vigne, Planter.
    \
        Deponere malleolum in terram. Colum. Coucher en terre, et en faire un prouvin, Planter.
    \
        Deponere in syluas liberos, vxores, et sua omnia. Caesar. Cacher.
    \
        Deponere aedificationem. Cic. Oster sa fantasie de bastir, Cesser de bastir.
    \
        Deponere amicitias. Cic. Laisser les amitiez, N'aymer plus.
    \
        Amorem. Plin. Delaisser l'amitié.
    \
        Animam. Propert. Mourir.
    \
        Arma. Pli. Mettre jus les armes, Se desarmer, Ne faire plus la guerre.
    \
        Bellum. Cic. Se deporter de la guerre.
    \
        Relinquere et deponere ciuitatem. Cice. Delaisser de son bon gré et quicter le droict et privilege de bourgeoisie.
    \
        Cogitationem reparandae classis. Hirt. Delaisser quelque pensement qu'on avoit de, etc.
    \
        Comam. Stat. Oster la perruque.
    \
        Crines deponere. Mart. Abbatre ses cheveulx, Oster ses cheveulx.
    \
        Dictaturam. Quintil. Se desposer et demettre de tel Magistrat.
    \
        Dolorem susceptum. Cic. Oster toute melancholie.
    \
        Exercitum. Cic. Quand un chef de guerre se desmet de sa charge.
    \
        Fastigia supplex deposui. Claud. J'ay rabbaissé et ravallé ma grande auctorité jusques à user de prieres.
    \
        Deponere pecuniam pupillarem in fidem publicam. Liu. Croire ou prester l'argent des enfants mineurs, et employer pour les affaires de la chose publique soubs l'asseurance de la foy et fiance qu'on ha au peuple.
    \
        Deponere libertum apud fidem alicuius. Traianus ad Plinium. Le mettre en la baillie d'aucun, soubs l'esperance qu'on ha de sa foy, et du bon traictement.
    \
        Furtim deponere. Horat. Cacher secretement.
    \
        Deponere aliquem imperio. Suet. Desposer et priver de la couronne imperiale.
    \
        Imperium accipere et Deponere, contraria. Ci. Se desmettre.
    \
        Educati pulli, deponunt ingenia syluestria. Colum. S'apprivoisent, Oublient leur ramage.
    \
        Inimicitias susceptas Reipub. nomine deponere. Cic. Ne tenir point de rancune et d'inimitié contre aucun.
    \
        Ius populi in fide iudicum. Cice. Se rapporter et fier aux juges d'ordonner du droict public.
    \
        Deponere aliquid de leuitate. Cic. Delaisser de sa legiereté.
    \
        Magistratum. Caesar. Se desmettre.
    \
        Memoriam sacramenti. Caesar. Oublier.
    \
        Ex memoria deponere. Cic. Oublier.
    \
        Deponere quodammodo apud memoriam. Quintil. Bailler en garde à la memoire, et mettre comme en depost, pour le repeter d'elle et redemander quand on en aura à faire.
    \
        Mentem, mentumque in gremio mimarum deponere. Cic. Mettre son entendement, et le laisser.
    \
        Metum. Ouid. Oster, Laisser.
    \
        Molestias. Cic. Delaisser tous ennuis, ou oster.
    \
        Negotium. Cic. Delaisser un affaire.
    \
        Oculos in aliquem. Horat. Ficher, Planter.
    \
        Mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam offensionem. Cice. Un cueur aisé à se courroucer, et à laisser son courroux.
    \
        Deponere officium, magistratum, praeturam, prouinciam. Plin. iunior. Caesar. Cic. Se desmettre de son office.
    \
        Iumentis onera deponunt. Caesar. Ils deschargent leurs bestes.
    \
        Onus deponere, per translationem. Cic. Delaisser quelque charge et affaire.
    \
        Pecuniam. Plin. iunior. Mettre en main sequestre.
    \
        Pudorem. Ouid. Perdre toute honte, Devenir eshonté.
    \
        Rem susceptam. Cic. Delaisser une entreprinse.
    \
        Inhumanae senium depone camoenae. Horat. Delaisse la rude et fascheuse severité.
    \
        Sitim. Ouid. Oster la soif, Estancher la soif.
    \
        Soleas. Martial. Laisser ses souliers, Se deschausser.
    \
        Studium pristinum. Cic. Delaisser.
    \
        Vim suam deponunt venti. Ouid. S'appaisent.
    \
        Voluntatem suam erga aliquem deponere. Cic. Oublier l'affection qu'on ha envers aucun.
    \
        Deponere aliquem vino. Plaut. Abbatre de vin, Enyvrer.
    \
        Deponere aliquid apud aliquem. Plin. Bailler en garde, Mettre en depost.
    \
        Deponere aliquid. Virgil. Mettre en gaige, Faire gajure, Bailler gaige en main sequestre sur quelque different qu'on ha, Consigner, Deposer.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > depono

  • 15 infero

    infĕro, ferre, intŭli, illātum (inlātum) - tr. - [st1]1 [-] porter, jeter dans, vers, sur, contre.    - inferre in ignem aliquid, Caes. BG. 6, 19, 4: jeter qqch au feu.    - in equum aliquem inferre, Caes. BG. 6, 30, 4: jeter qqn sur un cheval.    - inferre scalas ad moenia, Liv. 32, 24, 5: appliquer des échelles contre les murs.    - aggeri ignem inferre, Caes. BG. 7, 22, 4: mettre le feu à la terrasse. --- cf. Cic. Cat. 3, 22.    - inferre fontes urbi, Tac An. 11, 13: amener des eaux de source dans la ville.    - inferre aerario, Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 20: verser au trésor.    - ne naves terrae inferrentur, Liv. 29, 27, 11: pour éviter que les navires ne fussent jetés à la côte. [st1]2 [-] porter au tombeau, ensevelir.    - Cic. Leg. 2, 64. [st1]3 [-] porter sur la table, servir.    - Plin. 9, 120. [st1]4 [-] produire des comptes (rationes).    - Cic. Flac. 20. [st1]5 [-] porter, inscrire sur des comptes (rationibus).    - Col. 1, 7, 7. [st1]6 [-] imputer.    - inferre sumptum civibus, Cic. Flac. 45: porter une dépense au compte des citoyens.    - inmodicas possedit opes, sed plura retentis intulit, Luc. 9, 197: il posséda des richesses excessives, mais il en porta plus au compte (du trésor) qu'il n'en garda pour lui. [st1]7 [-] verser une contribution, payer.    - Plin. Pan. 39, 6 ; Col. 1, 1, 11. [st1]8 [-] porter (la main), attaquer.    - inferre manus alicui, in aliquem ; vim alicui: porter les mains sur qqn, faire violence à qqn.    - inferre signa in hostem: porter les enseignes contre l'ennemi, attaquer l'ennemi. --- Caes. BG. 2, 26, 1, etc.    - inferre signa patriae, Cic. Flac. 5: attaquer sa patrie.    - inferre bellum alicui, Cic. Pis. 84 ; Italiae, Cic. Att. 9, 1, 3 ; contra patriam, Phil. 2, 53: porter, faire la guerre contre qqn, contre l'Italie, contre la patrie.    - de bello in provinciam Syriam illato, Cic. Fam. 15, 2, 1: au sujet de la guerre portée dans la province de Syrie.    - cf. Nep. Ham. 4, 2 ; Liv. 9, 25, 1.    - inferre arma Liv. 1, 30, 8: commencer les hostilités.    - alias bellum inferre alias illatum defendere, Caes. BG. 2: tantôt faire une guerre offensive, tantôt faire une guerre défensive.    - gradum inferre: marcher, aller de l'avant, attaquer. --- Liv. 10, 33, 4 ; Liv. 35, 1, 9.    - mais pedem inferre: porter le pied, poser le pied qq part, aller qq part. --- Cic. Caec. 39.    - se inferre ou inferri: se porter (se jeter) sur, dans, contre; se diriger.    - lucus quo se inferebat, Liv. 1, 21, 3: bois, où il se retirait. --- cf. Cic. Sull. 53.    - se inferre in mediam contionem, Liv. 5, 43, 8: se porter au milieu de l'assemblée. --- cf. Liv. 4, 33, 7; 7, 17, 5, etc.    - Galli in Fonteium inferuntur, Cic. Font. 44: les Gaulois se jettent contre Fontéius.    - lucustarum nubes in Apuliam inlatae sunt, Liv. 42, 10, 7: des nuées de sauterelles se jetèrent en Apulie.    - magnifice inferre sese, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 7: marcher fièrement.    - se inferre concilio, Liv. 33, 16, 8: se présenter dans l'assemblée.    - Tiberis illatus urbi, Liv. 35, 21, 5: le Tibre s'étant jeté (ayant débordé) dans la ville.    - mais se inferre: se mettre en avant, se faire valoir. --- Plaut. Mil. 1045; Cic. Caec. 13.    - fig. se inferre in periculum, Cic. Balb. 25: se jeter dans le danger.    - inferre eversionem, vastitatem tectis atque agris, Cic. Har. 3: porter le ravage, la dévastation dans les maisons et les propriétés.    - alicui proditionis crimen inferre, Cic. Verr. 5, 106: porter contre qqn l'accusation de trahison. [st1]9 [-] mettre en avant, produire.    - in re severa delicatum inferre sermonem, Cic. Off. 1, 144: dans une circonstance grave tenir des propos légers.    - mentio inlata, Liv. 4, 1, 2: la mention la proposition] mise en avant.    - causa illata, Caes. BG. 1, 39, 3: un prétexte étant mis en avant.    - inferre: mettre en avant (un raisonnement, une conclusion). --- Cic. Inv. 1, 73 ; 1, 89 ; Quint. 5, 11, 27.    - inferre aliquid ex alio, Cic.: conclure une chose d'une autre. [st1]10 [-] inspirer, causer, susciter.    - alicui terrorem, spem inferre, Caes. BG. 7, 8, 3; 2, 25, inspirer à qqn de la terreur, lui donner de l'espoir.    - alicui periculum inferre, Cic. Sest. 2: susciter à qqn des dangers.    - alicui rei moram inferre, Cic. Inv. 1, 12: apporter du retard à qqch.    - maestitiam alicui inferre: causer de la tristesse à qqn.
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    infĕro, ferre, intŭli, illātum (inlātum) - tr. - [st1]1 [-] porter, jeter dans, vers, sur, contre.    - inferre in ignem aliquid, Caes. BG. 6, 19, 4: jeter qqch au feu.    - in equum aliquem inferre, Caes. BG. 6, 30, 4: jeter qqn sur un cheval.    - inferre scalas ad moenia, Liv. 32, 24, 5: appliquer des échelles contre les murs.    - aggeri ignem inferre, Caes. BG. 7, 22, 4: mettre le feu à la terrasse. --- cf. Cic. Cat. 3, 22.    - inferre fontes urbi, Tac An. 11, 13: amener des eaux de source dans la ville.    - inferre aerario, Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 20: verser au trésor.    - ne naves terrae inferrentur, Liv. 29, 27, 11: pour éviter que les navires ne fussent jetés à la côte. [st1]2 [-] porter au tombeau, ensevelir.    - Cic. Leg. 2, 64. [st1]3 [-] porter sur la table, servir.    - Plin. 9, 120. [st1]4 [-] produire des comptes (rationes).    - Cic. Flac. 20. [st1]5 [-] porter, inscrire sur des comptes (rationibus).    - Col. 1, 7, 7. [st1]6 [-] imputer.    - inferre sumptum civibus, Cic. Flac. 45: porter une dépense au compte des citoyens.    - inmodicas possedit opes, sed plura retentis intulit, Luc. 9, 197: il posséda des richesses excessives, mais il en porta plus au compte (du trésor) qu'il n'en garda pour lui. [st1]7 [-] verser une contribution, payer.    - Plin. Pan. 39, 6 ; Col. 1, 1, 11. [st1]8 [-] porter (la main), attaquer.    - inferre manus alicui, in aliquem ; vim alicui: porter les mains sur qqn, faire violence à qqn.    - inferre signa in hostem: porter les enseignes contre l'ennemi, attaquer l'ennemi. --- Caes. BG. 2, 26, 1, etc.    - inferre signa patriae, Cic. Flac. 5: attaquer sa patrie.    - inferre bellum alicui, Cic. Pis. 84 ; Italiae, Cic. Att. 9, 1, 3 ; contra patriam, Phil. 2, 53: porter, faire la guerre contre qqn, contre l'Italie, contre la patrie.    - de bello in provinciam Syriam illato, Cic. Fam. 15, 2, 1: au sujet de la guerre portée dans la province de Syrie.    - cf. Nep. Ham. 4, 2 ; Liv. 9, 25, 1.    - inferre arma Liv. 1, 30, 8: commencer les hostilités.    - alias bellum inferre alias illatum defendere, Caes. BG. 2: tantôt faire une guerre offensive, tantôt faire une guerre défensive.    - gradum inferre: marcher, aller de l'avant, attaquer. --- Liv. 10, 33, 4 ; Liv. 35, 1, 9.    - mais pedem inferre: porter le pied, poser le pied qq part, aller qq part. --- Cic. Caec. 39.    - se inferre ou inferri: se porter (se jeter) sur, dans, contre; se diriger.    - lucus quo se inferebat, Liv. 1, 21, 3: bois, où il se retirait. --- cf. Cic. Sull. 53.    - se inferre in mediam contionem, Liv. 5, 43, 8: se porter au milieu de l'assemblée. --- cf. Liv. 4, 33, 7; 7, 17, 5, etc.    - Galli in Fonteium inferuntur, Cic. Font. 44: les Gaulois se jettent contre Fontéius.    - lucustarum nubes in Apuliam inlatae sunt, Liv. 42, 10, 7: des nuées de sauterelles se jetèrent en Apulie.    - magnifice inferre sese, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 7: marcher fièrement.    - se inferre concilio, Liv. 33, 16, 8: se présenter dans l'assemblée.    - Tiberis illatus urbi, Liv. 35, 21, 5: le Tibre s'étant jeté (ayant débordé) dans la ville.    - mais se inferre: se mettre en avant, se faire valoir. --- Plaut. Mil. 1045; Cic. Caec. 13.    - fig. se inferre in periculum, Cic. Balb. 25: se jeter dans le danger.    - inferre eversionem, vastitatem tectis atque agris, Cic. Har. 3: porter le ravage, la dévastation dans les maisons et les propriétés.    - alicui proditionis crimen inferre, Cic. Verr. 5, 106: porter contre qqn l'accusation de trahison. [st1]9 [-] mettre en avant, produire.    - in re severa delicatum inferre sermonem, Cic. Off. 1, 144: dans une circonstance grave tenir des propos légers.    - mentio inlata, Liv. 4, 1, 2: la mention la proposition] mise en avant.    - causa illata, Caes. BG. 1, 39, 3: un prétexte étant mis en avant.    - inferre: mettre en avant (un raisonnement, une conclusion). --- Cic. Inv. 1, 73 ; 1, 89 ; Quint. 5, 11, 27.    - inferre aliquid ex alio, Cic.: conclure une chose d'une autre. [st1]10 [-] inspirer, causer, susciter.    - alicui terrorem, spem inferre, Caes. BG. 7, 8, 3; 2, 25, inspirer à qqn de la terreur, lui donner de l'espoir.    - alicui periculum inferre, Cic. Sest. 2: susciter à qqn des dangers.    - alicui rei moram inferre, Cic. Inv. 1, 12: apporter du retard à qqch.    - maestitiam alicui inferre: causer de la tristesse à qqn.
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        Infero, pen. cor. infers, intuli, pen. cor. illatum. pen. prod. inferre. Plin. Porter ou mettre dedens.
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        Meretrix miserum sua blanditia intulit in pauperiem. Plau. L'a mis ou mené à povreté.
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        Inferre se in templum, vel In vrbem. Cic. Entrer dedens le temple.
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        Inferre se. Liu. Se jecter ou ruer dedens, Se fourrer dedens bien avant.
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        Inferre se. Plaut. Se marcher.
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        Inferre et intrudere se. Cic. Se ingerer.
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        Inferre, de mortuis dicitur. Cic. Enterrer.
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        Inferre. Paulus. Payer.
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        Inferre abortum. Plin. Faire avorter.
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        Actionem inferre cum aliquo. Plaut. Avoir action contre aucun, Agir contre luy en jugement, Le faire convenir.
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        Inferre arma. Liu. Faire guerre.
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        Caecitatem. Plin. Faire aveugle, Aveugler.
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        Calamitatem ciuitati. Caesar. Estre cause de la destruction d'une ville.
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        Caritatem annonae. Plin. Faire la cherté des vivres, Faire encherir.
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        Causam. Caes. Bailler une excuse, Alleguer raison pourquoy.
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        Causam alicui. Hirt. Luy donner occasion.
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        Certamen alicui, vt aliquid fiat. Liu. Prendre debat contre luy.
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        Cladem. Liu. Faire desconfiture des gens de guerre, Desconfire.
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        Crimen alicui. Cice. Luy imposer et mettre à sus d'avoir faict quelque cas.
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        Detrimentum. Caesar. Faire dommage, Porter dommage, Endommager.
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        Dolorem. Plin. Faire doleur.
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        Faces tectis. Cic. Mettre le feu dedens les maisons.
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        Famem ciuibus. Cic. Leur apporter famine, Estre cause de leur famine, Affamer.
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        Fraudem. Liu. Faire une tromperie.
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        Gradum. Liu. S'advancer de marcher, Poulser plus avant.
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        Ignominiam. Liu. Faire honte.
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        In periculum capitis se inferre. Cic. Se mettre en danger de perdre la vie.
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        Iniuriam sociis. Caes. Leur faire quelque desplaisir.
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        Litem capitis in aliquem. Cic. Intenter accusation à l'encontre d'aucun concernant l'estat ou la vie.
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        Mala. Plin. Faire maulx.
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        Manus alicui. Cic. Mettre la main sur luy, Le batre.
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        Memoriam sempiternam in domum suam inferre. Cic. Acquerir bruit et loz perpetuel à sa famille.
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        Mentionem. Liu. Faire mention, Mentionner.
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        Metum. Liu. Faire paour, Espovanter.
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        Moestitiam. Cic. Donner tristesse et ennuy, Contrister, Ennuyer.
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        Moram. Caes. Tarder, Retarder.
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        Morsus alicui. Ouid. Le mordre.
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        Mortem. Plin. Tuer. \ Necem. Plin. Faire mourir.
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        Oculos in curiam inferre. Cic. Regarder dedens, etc. Jecter les yeulx dedens.
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        Pedem. Cic. Mettre le pied en quelque lieu, Entrer.
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        Inferunt pedem, vrgentque, et impulsos semel terrore eodem agunt quo coeperunt. Liu. Entrent.
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        Periculum. Cic. Mettre en danger, et peril.
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        Praelium in castra. Liu. Aller donner le combat dedens le parc, ou le fort de l'ennemi.
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        Rationibus inferre. Colu. Mettre ou coucher parmi les comptes.
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        In re seuera conuiuio dignum aut delicatum inferre sermonem. Cic. Entremesler parolle legiere parmi choses graves.
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        Sermonem de re aliqua. Cic. Mettre en avant un propos, etc.
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        Signa. Caesar, Proximos colles capere vniuersos, atque eo inferri signa iubet. Il commanda et ordonna que les guidons et enseignes tournassent en icelle part.
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        Signa patriae. Cic. Venir à enseignes desployees à l'encontre de son pays, et luy faire la guerre.
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        Spem. Caes. Donner esperance.
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        Sumptum ciuibus. Cic. Faire coustange à ses citoyens, Les mettre en fraiz.
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        Supplicia vrbibus hostium. Cic. Punir, Destruire.
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        Suspicionem. Caes. Mettre en souspecon.
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        Terrorem. Cic. Espovanter.
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        Tributum studio alterius. Colum. Aider les estudes d'aucun.
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        Vestigia aliquo. Lucret. Aller en quelque lieu.
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        Vim et manus alicui. Cic. Luy faire violence et l'oultrager.
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        Vulnera alicui. Caesar. Luy bailler force coups et playes, Le navrer.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > infero

  • 16 obtineo

    obtinĕo (optinĕo), ēre, obtinŭi, obtentum A. - tr. [st1]1 [-] tenir dans les mains.    - obtinere aures, Plaut.: tenir par les oreilles. [st1]2 [-] tenir, occuper (un lieu), avoir en soi, posséder (une qualité); être en possession (d'un emploi).    - obtinere agros umbris, Plin.: couvrir les champs de son ombre, ombrager les champs.    - obtinere vada, Caes.: occuper un gué.    - obtinere oppidum, Tac.: tenir la ville (avec une garnison).    - proverbii locum obtinere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36: être passé en proverbe.    - criminis locum obtinere, Cic.: être regardé comme un crime.    - obtinere numerum caesorum, Cic.: être compté parmi les morts.    - caedes omnia obtinuit, Liv.: le massacre fut général.    - summam opinionem obtinere, Quint. 10, 5, 18: jouir de la plus haute réputation.    - regnum obtinere, Caes.: occuper le trône.    - curam obtinere, Tac.: occuper une charge.    - obtinere partes accusatoris, Cic.: être chargé du rôle d'accusateur.    - obtinere Academiam, Cic.: dominer dans l'Académie.    - obtinere provinciam, Liv.: administrer une province.    - obtinere Britannos, Tac.: gouverner la Bretagne.    - me obtinente, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: sous mon administration. [st1]3 [-] garder, conserver, maintenir, retenir; qqf. persévérer.    - obtinere iter ad... Stat.: poursuivre sa route vers...    - obtinere silentium, Liv.: garder le silence.    - obtinendis quae percurrerat, Tac.: pour s'assurer des pays qu'il avait parcourus.    - obtinere colorem, Plaut.: ne pas changer de couleur.    - obtinere venustatem, Ter.: conserver son attrait.    - obtinere famam: conserver son honneur.    - obtinere fortunas suas, Cic.: sauver sa fortune.    - obtinere necessitudinem, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35: continuer des relations.    - obtinere auctoritatem suam, Cic.: faire respecter son autorité.    - obtinere jus suum contra aliquem, Cic. Quint. 9.34: maintenir son droit contre qqn.    - obtine antiquam rationem, Ter.: n'oublie pas le vieux précepte.    - lex quae obtinebatur, Cic.: usage qui s'observait.    - obtinuit colere, Plaut.: il a persisté à pratiquer. [st1]4 [-] obtenir, gagner, acquérir.    - obtenta non sunt quae voluimus, Cic.: nous n'avons pas obtenu ce que nous voulions.    - rem obtinere, Caes. B. G. 7.85: remporter un succès, remporter la victoire.    - si minus id obtinebis, Cic.: si tu n'y réussis pas.    - obtinuit admitti, Just.: il obtint la faveur d'être admis.    - ab eo aegre obtentum est, ut... Just.: on eut de la peine à obtenir de lui que...    - obtinere sapientiam, Cic.: acquérir la sagesse.    - obtinere litem: gagner un procès.    - malas causas obtinere, Cic. Att. 7, 25, 1: gagner de mauvaises causes. [st1]5 [-] soutenir, défendre, démontrer, prouver, ratifier.    - contrarias sententias obtinere, Cic. Fin. 4, 28, 78: soutenir des propositions contraires.    - obtinere quod dicimus, Cic.: prouver ce que nous avançons.    - pugnare in iis, quae obtinere non possis, Quint. 6, 4, 15: s'acharner à soutenir ce qu'on ne peut démontrer.    - quod fama obtinuit, Liv. 21, 46, 10: l'opinion que la renommée a consacrée.    - obtinetur testamentum, Cic.: le testament est ratifié, le testament est valable. B. - intr. [st1]6 [-] se maintenir, se perpétuer, être admis, être établi, être tenu pour certain, être constant, être dominant, prévaloir.    - obtinuit regula, Petr.: cette règle a prévalu.    - obtinet (tournure impers.): il est reconnu.    - pro vero obtinebat, Sall. (tournure impers.): c'était une idée reçue.    - si vera obtinere non possunt, Quint.: si la vérité ne peut triompher.    - non ipsos quoque fuisse obtinebit...? Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9: ne reconnaîtra-t-on pas qu'eux aussi furent...?    - obtinuit sententia, Cic.: son avis prévalut.
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    obtinĕo (optinĕo), ēre, obtinŭi, obtentum A. - tr. [st1]1 [-] tenir dans les mains.    - obtinere aures, Plaut.: tenir par les oreilles. [st1]2 [-] tenir, occuper (un lieu), avoir en soi, posséder (une qualité); être en possession (d'un emploi).    - obtinere agros umbris, Plin.: couvrir les champs de son ombre, ombrager les champs.    - obtinere vada, Caes.: occuper un gué.    - obtinere oppidum, Tac.: tenir la ville (avec une garnison).    - proverbii locum obtinere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36: être passé en proverbe.    - criminis locum obtinere, Cic.: être regardé comme un crime.    - obtinere numerum caesorum, Cic.: être compté parmi les morts.    - caedes omnia obtinuit, Liv.: le massacre fut général.    - summam opinionem obtinere, Quint. 10, 5, 18: jouir de la plus haute réputation.    - regnum obtinere, Caes.: occuper le trône.    - curam obtinere, Tac.: occuper une charge.    - obtinere partes accusatoris, Cic.: être chargé du rôle d'accusateur.    - obtinere Academiam, Cic.: dominer dans l'Académie.    - obtinere provinciam, Liv.: administrer une province.    - obtinere Britannos, Tac.: gouverner la Bretagne.    - me obtinente, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: sous mon administration. [st1]3 [-] garder, conserver, maintenir, retenir; qqf. persévérer.    - obtinere iter ad... Stat.: poursuivre sa route vers...    - obtinere silentium, Liv.: garder le silence.    - obtinendis quae percurrerat, Tac.: pour s'assurer des pays qu'il avait parcourus.    - obtinere colorem, Plaut.: ne pas changer de couleur.    - obtinere venustatem, Ter.: conserver son attrait.    - obtinere famam: conserver son honneur.    - obtinere fortunas suas, Cic.: sauver sa fortune.    - obtinere necessitudinem, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35: continuer des relations.    - obtinere auctoritatem suam, Cic.: faire respecter son autorité.    - obtinere jus suum contra aliquem, Cic. Quint. 9.34: maintenir son droit contre qqn.    - obtine antiquam rationem, Ter.: n'oublie pas le vieux précepte.    - lex quae obtinebatur, Cic.: usage qui s'observait.    - obtinuit colere, Plaut.: il a persisté à pratiquer. [st1]4 [-] obtenir, gagner, acquérir.    - obtenta non sunt quae voluimus, Cic.: nous n'avons pas obtenu ce que nous voulions.    - rem obtinere, Caes. B. G. 7.85: remporter un succès, remporter la victoire.    - si minus id obtinebis, Cic.: si tu n'y réussis pas.    - obtinuit admitti, Just.: il obtint la faveur d'être admis.    - ab eo aegre obtentum est, ut... Just.: on eut de la peine à obtenir de lui que...    - obtinere sapientiam, Cic.: acquérir la sagesse.    - obtinere litem: gagner un procès.    - malas causas obtinere, Cic. Att. 7, 25, 1: gagner de mauvaises causes. [st1]5 [-] soutenir, défendre, démontrer, prouver, ratifier.    - contrarias sententias obtinere, Cic. Fin. 4, 28, 78: soutenir des propositions contraires.    - obtinere quod dicimus, Cic.: prouver ce que nous avançons.    - pugnare in iis, quae obtinere non possis, Quint. 6, 4, 15: s'acharner à soutenir ce qu'on ne peut démontrer.    - quod fama obtinuit, Liv. 21, 46, 10: l'opinion que la renommée a consacrée.    - obtinetur testamentum, Cic.: le testament est ratifié, le testament est valable. B. - intr. [st1]6 [-] se maintenir, se perpétuer, être admis, être établi, être tenu pour certain, être constant, être dominant, prévaloir.    - obtinuit regula, Petr.: cette règle a prévalu.    - obtinet (tournure impers.): il est reconnu.    - pro vero obtinebat, Sall. (tournure impers.): c'était une idée reçue.    - si vera obtinere non possunt, Quint.: si la vérité ne peut triompher.    - non ipsos quoque fuisse obtinebit...? Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9: ne reconnaîtra-t-on pas qu'eux aussi furent...?    - obtinuit sententia, Cic.: son avis prévalut.
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        Obtineo, obtines, pen. corr. obtinui, obtentum, obtinere. Cic. Obtenir et impetrer ce qu'on demandoit.
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        Academiam Carneades et Clitomachus obtinebant. Cic. Tenoyent, etc. Regnoyent en, etc.
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        Admirationem obtinere. Plin. Estre en admiration, Estre fort estimé.
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        Semper isthanc, quam habes, aetatulam obtinebis. Plaut. Tu garderas et entretiendras, etc. Tu retiendras, etc.
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        Causam. Cic. Gaigner sa cause.
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        Vt causam certissimam obtineret. Cic. Pour gaigner sa cause toute clere. Cic.
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        Dignitatem obtinere, pro Retinere et conseruare. Cic. Garder et maintenir.
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        Famam obtinere per aliquem. Cic. Garder sa renommee.
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        Fama obtinet. Liu. Le plus commun bruit l'emporte.
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        Firmitudinem animi obtinere. Plaut. Estre ferme et constant.
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        Obtinere summum atque altissimum gradum ciuitatis. Cic. Estre un des plus grands en honneur de la ville, Tenir le plus hault lieu.
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        Obtinemus ipsius Caesaris summam erga nos humanitatem. Cic. Il nous est doulx et debonnaire.
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        Haec apud te ne hoc quidem iuris obtinuit, vt, etc. Cic. Il n'a pas peu impetrer envers toy qu'il, etc.
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        Litem obtinere et Amittere, contraria. Cic. Gaigner ou perdre son proces.
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        Locum infimum seruitutis obtinere. Cic. Estre des moins estimez, et estre du dernier rang.
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        Tertium locum Milesiae oues obtinent. Plin. Apres ces deux là, les brebis de Milese sont les plus estimees.
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        Locum prouerbii obtinere. Cic. Servir de proverbe.
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        Obtinet magnum locum in medicaminibus haec herba. Plin. Est fort receue et estimee.
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        Secundum locum obtinet Cyprius, tertium Phoenicius. Plin. Apres ceste là on estime fort, etc.
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        Cuius legationis Numeius et Verodontinus principem locum obtinebant. Caes. Estoyent les principaulx de l'embassade.
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        Praecipuam obtinent nobilitatem syagri. Plin. Sont plus en bruit que tous les autres, et les plus estimez.
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        Noctem insequentem eadem caligo obtinuit. Liu. La nuict ensuyvant il feit pareille obscurité.
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        Patriae nomen obtinent. De ficubus. Plin. Elles ont le nom du pays, On les nomme du pays.
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        Nomen sapientia obtinere. Cic. Estre nommee sapience.
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        Noxiam veneni obtinere. Plin. Nuire comme venin.
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        Numerum obtinere iure caesorum. Cic. Estre nombré entre ceulx qui ont esté tuez à juste cause.
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        Ordinem suum obtinere. Col. Garder son ordre et son rang.
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        Partes accusatoris obtinere. Cic. Plaider pour l'accusateur.
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        Primatum obtinere apud regem. Plin. Estre des plus grands et des principaulx envers le roy.
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        Principatum. Plin. Estre le plus estimé.
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        Qui principatum in ciuitate multis annis obtinuerat. Caes. Qui avoit esté des principaulx de la ville, Qui avoit tenu et gardé le premier lieu.
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        In frigidis humidisque principatum obtinent. Plin. Sont les plus estimees et plus excellentes.
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        Prouinciam obtinere. Cic. Avoir la charge et gouvernement d'une province.
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        Hispaniam obtinere cum imperio. Cic. Avoir le gouvernement d'Espaigne, avec empire et souveraine puissance.
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        Regnum in Sequanis obtinere. Caes. Estre roy, etc.
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        Sententias contrarias obtinere. Cic. Soustenir et gaigner.
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        Sanguinis vicem obtinet. Plin. Est au lieu de sang.
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        Vim medicamenti obtinet. Plin. Ha la force, et sert de medicament.
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        Vitam et famam obtinere per aliquem. Cic. Tenir sa vie de luy, Quand il est cause qu'on est en vie.
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        Vrbem aliquam armis obtinere. Liu. Occuper par force et violence.
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        Obtinere. Tenir, ou Contenir et occuper le long de quelque place. Plin. Arbor agros longis obtinens vmbris.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > obtineo

  • 17 contendo

    contendo, ĕre, tendi, tentum - tr. et intr. -    - voir contentus. - tr. - [st1]1 [-] tendre (avec force), raidir, bander (un arc).    - contendere tormenta telorum, Cic. Tusc. 2, 57: tendre les machines à lancer des traits.    - (fides) contenta nervis, Cic. Fin. 4, 75: (lyre) tendue au moyen de ses cordes.    - nervos contendere, Varr. L. 8, 63: tendre les muscles (faire effort). --- Cic. Fat. 21 ; Fam. 15, 14, 5.    - contendere vires, Lucr. 4, 989: tendre ses forces.    - ilia perpetuo risu contendere, Ov. A. A. 3, 285: se presser les côtes à cause d'un rire perpétuel.    - contendere animum in tales curas Ov. P. 1, 5, 11: tendre son esprit vers de telles occupations.    - qui cursum huc contendit suum, Plaut. Cist. 534: celui qui dirige vivement sa course ici. --- cf. Virg. En. 5, 834. [st1]2 [-] lancer [un trait, un javelot].    - Virg. En. 10, 521 ; Sil. 1, 323. [st1]3 [-] chercher à atteindre, à obtenir qqch, prétendre à.    - contendere honores, Varr. Men. 450: solliciter les charges.    - hic magistratus a populo summa ambitione contenditur, Cic. Verr. 2, 131: cette magistrature, on la sollicite du peuple avec les plus vives compétitions.    - cf. Cic. Lael. 39 ; Att. 1, 8, 10, etc.    - absol. contendere ab aliquo: solliciter qqn avec insistance.    - cf. Cic. Amer. 4 ; Planc. 12 ; Att. 6, 2, 10, etc.    - a me valde contendit de reditu in gratiam, Cic. Q. 3, 1, 15: il m'entreprend vivement pour une réconciliation.    - [avec ut, ne]:    - contendit ab eo, ut causam cognosceret, Cic. Verr. 1, 73: il le pressa d'instruire la cause.    - pro suo jure contendet, ne patiamini... Cic. Verr. 5, 2: comme c'est son droit, il vous demandera avec insistance de ne pas souffrir... Caes. BC. 3, 97, 1.    - [avec inf.]    - hoc non contendo... mutare animum, Cic. Q. 1, 1, 38: je ne prétends pas modifier un caractère.    - [avec prop. inf.] Vell. 2, 48, 1. [st1]4 [-] soutenir énergiquement, affirmer, prétendre.    - contendere aliquid: soutenir qqch. --- Cic. Off. 2, 71; Amer. 47, etc.    - contendere + prop. inf.: soutenir que.    - cf. Verr. 5, 19 ; Font. 1; Arch. 15 ; Sest. 107, etc.; Caes. BG. 6, 37, 7, etc.    - apud eos contendit falsa iis esse delata, Nep. Them. 7, 2: devant eux, il affirme qu'on leur a fait de faux rapports. [st1]5 [-] comparer.    - contendere leges, Cic. Inv. 2, 145: comparer les lois.    - contendere causas, Cic. Cat. 2, 25: comparer les partis en présence.    - contendere rem cum re, Cic. Agr. 2, 96 ; Inv. 2, 173: comparer une chose avec une autre.    - vetera et praesentia contendere, Tac. An. 13, 3: comparer le présent avec le passé.    - poét. avec dat. contendere rem rei, aliquem alicui. --- Lucil. 24 ; 277 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 26; Aus. 160, 9; 419, 33. - intr. - [st1]6 [-] bander les ressorts, tendre son énergie, faire effort, se raidir.    - contendere lateribus, Cic. de Or. 1, 255: faire effort des poumons.    - contendere voce, Cic. Lig. 6, faire effort de la voix.    - contendere ad summam gloriam, Cic. Phil. 14, 32: tendre vers la gloire la plus haute.    - contendere ad ultimum animo, Cic. Mur. 65: tendre de toute son énergie vers le point le plus éloigné.    - avec inf. tranare contenderunt, Caes. BG. 1, 53, 2: ils s'efforcèrent de traverser à la nage.    - hunc locum duabus ex partibus oppugnare contendit, Caes. BG. 5, 21: il essaie d'attaquer ce lieu en deux endroits. --- Caes. BG. 3, 15; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.    - fugā salutem petere contenderunt, Caes. BG. 3, 15: ils cherchèrent leur salut dans la fuite.    - [avec ut, ne]:    - eos vidimus contendere ut... pervenirent, Cic. Verr. 5, 181: nous les avons vus s'efforcer de parvenir... Sest. 5 ; Phil. 9, 15, etc.    - remis contendit ut... Caes. BG. 5, 8, 2: il tente à force de rames de...    - ea ne fierent, contendit, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: il s'est opposé à cela de toutes ses forces.    - contende quaeso atque elabora, ut... Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42: travaillez, je vous prie, travaillez sans relâche à ce que...    - absol. vociferarer et, quantum maxime possem, contenderem, Cic. Fl. 16, 38: j'élèverais la voix, je m'expliquerais avec toute la véhémence dont je serais capable.    - non posse oculo quantum contendere Lynceus, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 28: ne pas avoir la vue perçante de Lyncée (*ne pas pouvoir fixer des yeux). [st1]7 [-] marcher vivement, faire diligence, se hâter.    - quae res eum nocte una tantum itineris contendere coegit? Cic. Amer. 97: qu'est-ce qui le forçait à fournir une telle course en une seule nuit [faire un si long parcours]?    - in Italiam magnis itineribus contendit, Caes. BG. 1, 10, 3: il se porte vivement en Italie par grandes étapes. --- BG. 1, 7, 1; 4, 18, 2.    - [avec ad] BG. 2, 7, 3, etc...    - statim exanimatus ad aedes contendit, Cic. Verr. 1, 67: aussitôt il se hâte à perdre haleine vers la maison.    - avec inf.: Bibracte ire contendit, Caes. BG. 1, 23, 1: il se hâte d'aller à Bibracte. --- Caes. BG. 1, 10; Caes. BG. 4, 20.    - in provinciam reverti contendit, Caes. BG. 3, 6: il se hâta de retourner dans la province. --- Cic. Planc. 41, 97; Virg. En. 1, 158; Cic. Planc. 40, 96. [st1]8 [-] se mesurer, lutter, rivaliser.    - contendere cum aliquo, cum aliqua re: se mesurer avec qqn, avec qqch.    - Cic. Flacc. 5 ; Balb. 59 ; Mil. 68 ; Off. 1, 38 ; Nat. 3, 10, etc.    - contendere ingenio cum aliquo, Cic. Verr. 5, 174: rivaliser de talent avec qqn.    - contendere de aliqua re cum aliquo, Cic Sull. 83: lutter avec qqn pour qqch.    - contendere proelio, Caes. BG. 1, 48, 3: engager le combat (se mesurer dans un combat, combattre).    - contendere contra populum Romanum armis, Caes. BG. 2, 13, 3: se mesurer les armes à la main contre le peuple romain.    - contendere cum aliquo, Caes. BG. 1, 31, 6, etc.: se mesurer avec qqn.    - inter se de potentatu contendebant, Caes. BG. 1, 31, 4: ils luttaient entre eux pour la suprématie.    - contendere de honore, de dignitate, etc.: lutter pour les magistratures, pour les honneurs, etc. --- Cic. Mur. 21; Sull. 24, etc.    - poét. contendere alicui: rivaliser, lutter avec qqn.    - cf. Lucr. 3, 6 ; Prop. 1, 7, 3 ; 1, 14, 7 ; Sen. Nat. 1, 11, 2. [st1]9 [-] discuter.    - contendere cum aliquo de mittendis legatis, Caes. BC. 3, 90, 2: discuter avec qqn pour l'envoi d'une ambassade.
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    contendo, ĕre, tendi, tentum - tr. et intr. -    - voir contentus. - tr. - [st1]1 [-] tendre (avec force), raidir, bander (un arc).    - contendere tormenta telorum, Cic. Tusc. 2, 57: tendre les machines à lancer des traits.    - (fides) contenta nervis, Cic. Fin. 4, 75: (lyre) tendue au moyen de ses cordes.    - nervos contendere, Varr. L. 8, 63: tendre les muscles (faire effort). --- Cic. Fat. 21 ; Fam. 15, 14, 5.    - contendere vires, Lucr. 4, 989: tendre ses forces.    - ilia perpetuo risu contendere, Ov. A. A. 3, 285: se presser les côtes à cause d'un rire perpétuel.    - contendere animum in tales curas Ov. P. 1, 5, 11: tendre son esprit vers de telles occupations.    - qui cursum huc contendit suum, Plaut. Cist. 534: celui qui dirige vivement sa course ici. --- cf. Virg. En. 5, 834. [st1]2 [-] lancer [un trait, un javelot].    - Virg. En. 10, 521 ; Sil. 1, 323. [st1]3 [-] chercher à atteindre, à obtenir qqch, prétendre à.    - contendere honores, Varr. Men. 450: solliciter les charges.    - hic magistratus a populo summa ambitione contenditur, Cic. Verr. 2, 131: cette magistrature, on la sollicite du peuple avec les plus vives compétitions.    - cf. Cic. Lael. 39 ; Att. 1, 8, 10, etc.    - absol. contendere ab aliquo: solliciter qqn avec insistance.    - cf. Cic. Amer. 4 ; Planc. 12 ; Att. 6, 2, 10, etc.    - a me valde contendit de reditu in gratiam, Cic. Q. 3, 1, 15: il m'entreprend vivement pour une réconciliation.    - [avec ut, ne]:    - contendit ab eo, ut causam cognosceret, Cic. Verr. 1, 73: il le pressa d'instruire la cause.    - pro suo jure contendet, ne patiamini... Cic. Verr. 5, 2: comme c'est son droit, il vous demandera avec insistance de ne pas souffrir... Caes. BC. 3, 97, 1.    - [avec inf.]    - hoc non contendo... mutare animum, Cic. Q. 1, 1, 38: je ne prétends pas modifier un caractère.    - [avec prop. inf.] Vell. 2, 48, 1. [st1]4 [-] soutenir énergiquement, affirmer, prétendre.    - contendere aliquid: soutenir qqch. --- Cic. Off. 2, 71; Amer. 47, etc.    - contendere + prop. inf.: soutenir que.    - cf. Verr. 5, 19 ; Font. 1; Arch. 15 ; Sest. 107, etc.; Caes. BG. 6, 37, 7, etc.    - apud eos contendit falsa iis esse delata, Nep. Them. 7, 2: devant eux, il affirme qu'on leur a fait de faux rapports. [st1]5 [-] comparer.    - contendere leges, Cic. Inv. 2, 145: comparer les lois.    - contendere causas, Cic. Cat. 2, 25: comparer les partis en présence.    - contendere rem cum re, Cic. Agr. 2, 96 ; Inv. 2, 173: comparer une chose avec une autre.    - vetera et praesentia contendere, Tac. An. 13, 3: comparer le présent avec le passé.    - poét. avec dat. contendere rem rei, aliquem alicui. --- Lucil. 24 ; 277 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 26; Aus. 160, 9; 419, 33. - intr. - [st1]6 [-] bander les ressorts, tendre son énergie, faire effort, se raidir.    - contendere lateribus, Cic. de Or. 1, 255: faire effort des poumons.    - contendere voce, Cic. Lig. 6, faire effort de la voix.    - contendere ad summam gloriam, Cic. Phil. 14, 32: tendre vers la gloire la plus haute.    - contendere ad ultimum animo, Cic. Mur. 65: tendre de toute son énergie vers le point le plus éloigné.    - avec inf. tranare contenderunt, Caes. BG. 1, 53, 2: ils s'efforcèrent de traverser à la nage.    - hunc locum duabus ex partibus oppugnare contendit, Caes. BG. 5, 21: il essaie d'attaquer ce lieu en deux endroits. --- Caes. BG. 3, 15; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.    - fugā salutem petere contenderunt, Caes. BG. 3, 15: ils cherchèrent leur salut dans la fuite.    - [avec ut, ne]:    - eos vidimus contendere ut... pervenirent, Cic. Verr. 5, 181: nous les avons vus s'efforcer de parvenir... Sest. 5 ; Phil. 9, 15, etc.    - remis contendit ut... Caes. BG. 5, 8, 2: il tente à force de rames de...    - ea ne fierent, contendit, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: il s'est opposé à cela de toutes ses forces.    - contende quaeso atque elabora, ut... Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42: travaillez, je vous prie, travaillez sans relâche à ce que...    - absol. vociferarer et, quantum maxime possem, contenderem, Cic. Fl. 16, 38: j'élèverais la voix, je m'expliquerais avec toute la véhémence dont je serais capable.    - non posse oculo quantum contendere Lynceus, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 28: ne pas avoir la vue perçante de Lyncée (*ne pas pouvoir fixer des yeux). [st1]7 [-] marcher vivement, faire diligence, se hâter.    - quae res eum nocte una tantum itineris contendere coegit? Cic. Amer. 97: qu'est-ce qui le forçait à fournir une telle course en une seule nuit [faire un si long parcours]?    - in Italiam magnis itineribus contendit, Caes. BG. 1, 10, 3: il se porte vivement en Italie par grandes étapes. --- BG. 1, 7, 1; 4, 18, 2.    - [avec ad] BG. 2, 7, 3, etc...    - statim exanimatus ad aedes contendit, Cic. Verr. 1, 67: aussitôt il se hâte à perdre haleine vers la maison.    - avec inf.: Bibracte ire contendit, Caes. BG. 1, 23, 1: il se hâte d'aller à Bibracte. --- Caes. BG. 1, 10; Caes. BG. 4, 20.    - in provinciam reverti contendit, Caes. BG. 3, 6: il se hâta de retourner dans la province. --- Cic. Planc. 41, 97; Virg. En. 1, 158; Cic. Planc. 40, 96. [st1]8 [-] se mesurer, lutter, rivaliser.    - contendere cum aliquo, cum aliqua re: se mesurer avec qqn, avec qqch.    - Cic. Flacc. 5 ; Balb. 59 ; Mil. 68 ; Off. 1, 38 ; Nat. 3, 10, etc.    - contendere ingenio cum aliquo, Cic. Verr. 5, 174: rivaliser de talent avec qqn.    - contendere de aliqua re cum aliquo, Cic Sull. 83: lutter avec qqn pour qqch.    - contendere proelio, Caes. BG. 1, 48, 3: engager le combat (se mesurer dans un combat, combattre).    - contendere contra populum Romanum armis, Caes. BG. 2, 13, 3: se mesurer les armes à la main contre le peuple romain.    - contendere cum aliquo, Caes. BG. 1, 31, 6, etc.: se mesurer avec qqn.    - inter se de potentatu contendebant, Caes. BG. 1, 31, 4: ils luttaient entre eux pour la suprématie.    - contendere de honore, de dignitate, etc.: lutter pour les magistratures, pour les honneurs, etc. --- Cic. Mur. 21; Sull. 24, etc.    - poét. contendere alicui: rivaliser, lutter avec qqn.    - cf. Lucr. 3, 6 ; Prop. 1, 7, 3 ; 1, 14, 7 ; Sen. Nat. 1, 11, 2. [st1]9 [-] discuter.    - contendere cum aliquo de mittendis legatis, Caes. BC. 3, 90, 2: discuter avec qqn pour l'envoi d'une ambassade.
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        Contendo, contendis, contendi, contensum et contentum, contendere. Tendre ou Estendre.
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        Contendere poplitem. Horat. Estendre, ou roidir bien fort le jarret.
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        Contendere vincla. Virgil. Estraindre, Serrer bien fort.
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        Contendere tormenta. Cic. Tendre, Bender comme un arc, ou arbaleste, ou semblable.
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        Contendere animum. Ouid. Employer la force de son esprit.
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        Contendere, proficisci. Caesar, Ad eos contendit. Il tire et va droict à eulx.
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        Contendere cursum aliquo. Plaut. Dresser sa course vers quelque lieu.
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        Contendere iter constitutum. Caesar. Aller le chemin qu'on a entreprins, Poursuyvre son chemin.
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        Contendit Romam. Sallust. Il va droict à Rome.
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        Contendere magnis itineribus in Italiam. Caesar. Aller à grandes journees droict en Italie.
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        In orbem diuersum fama contendere. Ouid. Aller par bruit et renommee jusques aux pais loingtains, Avoir grand bruit et renommee en loingtain pais.
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        Contendere agmen. Curt. Mener hastivement.
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        Contendere. Virgil. Tascher de tout son povoir.
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        Animo contendere. Cic. S'efforcer de tout son esprit.
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        Contendere omnibus neruis. Cic. S'efforcer de toute sa puissance, S'esvertuer.
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        Contendere neruos in re aliqua. Cic. Employer toute sa force.
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        Contendere rectis studiis ad magna. Cic. Tascher de parvenir à grande chose.
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        Frustra contendere. Virgil. S'efforcer en vain.
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        Contendere aliquid ab aliquo. Cic. Presser aucun de quelque chose, Luy demander affectueusement, Insister merveilleusement.
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        Omni studio a te mi Brute contendo, vt Ciceronem meum ne dimittas. Cic. Je te requiers le plus affectueusement que je puis, que, etc.
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        Quantum potero, voce contendam, vt hoc Pop. Rom. exaudiat. Cic. Je crieray tant que je pourray.
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        Vt Asclepiades contendit. Cels. Comme Asclepiades dit et afferme, ou Defend et soustient, ou Contend.
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        Contendere, Certure: vt Contendere aduersus aliquem. Cic. Se debatre contre aucun, Contendre, Estriver.
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        Contendunt verbis inter se, non pugnis. Cic. Ils estrivent.
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        Si causa cum causa contenderet. Cic. S'il n'estoit question que de regarder le merite des causes.
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        Contendere ciuiliter. Cic. Avoir different et contention avec aucun et le desmesler par justice, comme doibvent faire citoyens les uns avec les autres.
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        Nec cedere vult, nec contendere. Quintil. Il ne veult ne plaider ne payer. Bud.
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        Contendere de honore. Cic. Estre en debat ou different de l'honneur.
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        Contendere bello cum aliquo. Virgil. Quand deux s'entrefont la guerre. \ Cursu contendere. Ouid. A qui courra le mieulx.
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        Contendere summo iure. Cic. Traicter aucun en justice et à la rigueur.
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        Contendere iurgio cum aliquo. Cic. Tanser à aucun, Estriver contre aucun.
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        Lite de re aliqua contendere. Quintil. Plaider pour quelque chose.
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        Ludo contendere cum aliquo. Virgil. Jouer à luy ou contre luy.
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        Marte contendere. Virgil. Combatre.
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        Contendere muneribus cum aliquo. Martial. A qui fera plus de dons et de presens.
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        Pedibus contendere cum aliquo. Ouid. A qui courra le plus viste.
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        Pignore aliquo contendere. Catul. Gager, Faire gageure.
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        Sacramento contendere. Cic. Faire gageure judiciaire à l'encontre d'aucun à la facon ancienne.
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        Verbis contendere. Ouid. Estriver de parolles.
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        Contendere omnia. Cic. Ne laisser rien passer sur quoy on ne s'arreste et qu'on ne debatte.
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        Contendere duos. Tacit. Les mettre teste à teste l'un contre l'autre à qui gaignera la victoire.
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        Contendere rem aliquam cum alia. Apuleius. Comparer une chose à l'autre, Faire comparaison d'une chose à l'autre.
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        Magistratus a populo summa ambitione contenditur. Cic. L'office est demandé au peuple par grande brigue.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > contendo

  • 18 contra

    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
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    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
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    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

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  • 19 contra dicta

    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
    1.
    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
    a.
    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > contra dicta

  • 20 do

    I dō, dedī, datum, dare
    1)
    а) давать (d. alicui bibere Pl, Cato; d. pecuniam C)
    qui dedit beneficium, taceat Sen — кто сделал доброе дело, пусть молчит (об этом)
    б) подавать, протягивать (alicui manum O etc.; aliquid in manum Pl)
    перен. d. manus C, Cs, Nep — сдаваться, признавать себя побеждённым
    в) предлагать ( accipere quod datur C); раздавать ( frumentum plebi VP); выдавать ( praemium pro pietate C)
    г) даровать (vitam C, V; libertatem C); разрешать, позволять (d. bonum malumque dignoscere Sen)
    iter alicui per provinciam d. Cs — разрешить кому-л. проход через (свою) провинцию
    д) преподносить, дарить, приносить (в дар) (alicui dona Pl; alicui aliquid dono Ter, Nep); передавать, вручать ( alicui litteras ad aliquem C)
    d. fibellum C — подать жалобу
    oscula O (basia Ctl) d. — покрывать поцелуями, целовать
    aliquem defensum d. V — защитить кого-л.
    plus stomacho, quam consilio d. Q — руководствоваться больше своим пылом, чем рассудком
    2) приносить в жертву ( deo exta O); посвящать, воздвигать, строить (deo templum O)
    3) порождать, производить на свет (liberos Ctl; prolem V)
    d. impĕtum L — ворваться
    5) отправлять, посылать ( litteras ex Trebulano C)
    6) вносить, платить (aes и aera H, O etc.); понести (poenas C etc.); доставлять ( apes mella dant O)
    materiam d. invidiae C — давать пищу ненависти
    8) отпускать, ослаблять ( lora V)
    d. laxas habenas V — опустить поводья
    9) устраивать (alicui cenam Pl, Ter, C etc.; ludos populo L); ставить на сцене, инсценировать (fabulam Ter, C)
    10)
    а) наносить, причинять (alicui damnum Ter; vulnera ferro O)
    d. verba alicui Ter — надуть кого-л.
    d. alicui civitatem VP — предоставить кому-л. право гражданства
    11)
    а) проливать ( lacrimas O); наливать ( vinum in manūs Pt); испускать ( lucem H)
    d. fumos O — дымиться
    б) издавать (sonum V; gemitum O)
    12)
    а) произносить (voces, dicta O, V)
    б) сообщать, рассказывать, называть ( unum da mini ex oratoribus illis C)
    paucis dabo Ter — (почему это случилось), я расскажу в немногих словах
    iste qui sit, da nobis V — скажи нам, кто он
    quem mihi dabis, qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat? Sen — кого ты мне назовёшь, кто хоть сколько-нибудь умел бы ценить время?
    13) закидывать ( retro capillos O); класть, вкладывать, опускать (corpus tumulo O; urnae ossa Pers); погружать ( in fluvios ardentia membra Lcr)
    15) ставить, натягивать (vela carinae O; fila lyrae O); протягивать ( bracchia ad aliquid O)
    terga d. (= vertere) C, L, O etc. — обратиться в бегство
    quae dederam supra, relego Pers — то, что я допустил раньше, беру назад
    dasne animes morte interire? — Do vero C — признаёшь ли, что со смертью погибают (и) души? — Да, признаю
    19)
    а) вменять (aliquid laudi, crimini alicui C); назначать ( alicui diem PJ); обрекать (aliquem exitio Lcr, O; morbo mortique Lcr; urbem excidio ac ruinis L)
    d. aliquid famae H, T — сделать что-л. в интересах репутации
    б) повергать (aliquem in luctum O, in timorem Pl)
    20)
    а) бросать, швырять (aliquem in и ad terram Lcr, Pl)
    d. aliquem in ruborem Pl — вогнать кого-л. в краску (заставить покраснеть)
    21) помещать, отдавать ( aliquem in hanc domum Ter); отправлять ( aliquem Luceriam L)
    22) вверять, передавать (filiam genero V, O; infantem nutrīci O)
    23) внушать, вдохнуть (spem C; animos O); наводить, навеять ( alicui somnum O)
    25) назначать (aliquem comitem QC; arbitrum C); определять, класть (finem alicui и alicui rei O etc.)
    26)
    sese d. in fugam и fugae C — обращаться в бегство (см. тж. ниже sub dare se 4.)
    d. (litem) secundum aliquem C, L, Sen — решить судебный процесс в чью-л. пользу
    d. rationem alicujus rei Pl, rhH. — отдавать отчёт в чём-л.
    nomen d. C — явиться, за писаться, поступить (преим. на военную службу)
    do, dico, addico Vr, Macr — предоставляю (права), произношу (приговоры), присуждаю ( юридическая формула — « tria verba» O — которой претор официально выражал свои права и функции)
    II dō: как dare se (или dari)
    1) даваться или быть данным, разрешаться, быть возможным
    ubi sidĕre detur O — (облетая затопленную землю, птица ищет), где бы можно было сесть
    potestates, quas licet sentire, non datur cernere Ap — силы, которые можно ощущать, но которых нельзя видеть
    3) обнаруживать себя, выказать себя (d. se alicui placidum O)
    se obvium alicui d. L — повстречаться с кем-л.
    se d. alicui in conspectum C — предстать перед кем-л.
    se in viam d. C — пуститься в путь
    sese in pedes d. Pl — удирать
    5) принимать участие (convivio Su; in bella V)
    6) покоряться, подчиняться, уступать, поддаваться, сдаваться (alicui Pl, Ter, C etc.)
    7) представиться, быть в распоряжении
    8)
    а) предаваться (quieti, somno C, PJ etc.; voluptatibus C)
    б) посвящать себя (huic generi litterarum C; ad legendos libros C)
    turpiter se d. Ter — срамиться
    prout tempus ac res se daret L — в зависимости от того, как сложатся время и обстоятельства (смотря по обстоятельствам)
    III dō (греч.) Enn, Aus = domum (acc.)

    Латинско-русский словарь > do

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