allurement

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lēnōcĭnĭum, ĭi, n. [leno], the trade of a pander, pimping, pandering.

Lit.:

ait praetor: Qui lenocinium fecerit. Lenocinium facit, qui quaestuaria mancipia habet. Sed et qui in liberis hunc quaestum exercet, in eadem causa est, etc.,

Dig. 3, 2, 4:

quid? ego lenocinium facio?

Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 11:

uxori meae Mihique objectent lenocinium facere,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 76:

profiteri,

to profess to be a bawd, Suet. Tib. 35:

praebere uxori,

to be a pander to, Dig. 24, 3, 47:

eum qui in adulterio deprehensam uxorem non statim dimiserit, reum lenocinii postulari placuit,

Paul. Sent. 2, 26, 8; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 12, 4.—

Transf.

An allurement, enticement, Cic. Mur. 35, 74:

cupiditatum,

id. Sest. 66, 138.—

Excessive or artificial ornament, finery or nicety in dress:

corporum lenocinia,

Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

omnis lenocinii negligens,

Suet. Aug. 79:

lenocinium est muneris antecedens metus,

adds a charm to the benefit, Sen. Ben. 1, 11, 3; cf.:

in lenocinio commendationis dolor est,

Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 145.—

In partic., of speech, meretricious or nament or allurement (postAug.), Tac. H. 1, 18:

nos quibus sordent omnia, quae natura dictavit: qui non ornamenta quaerimus, sed lenocinia,

Quint. 8 prooem. § 26; cf. id. 12, 1, 30:

caret lenociniis expositio,

id. 4, 2, 118; Suet. Calig. 38.

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blandishments, attractions, allurement, charm.

enticement, allurement.

blandīmentum, i, n. [blandior].

flattering words, blandishment, complimentary speech, flattery (class.; most freq. in plur. and in Tac.):

nec eam (virtutem) minis aut blandimentis corrupta deseret,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87:

pessum dedisti me blandimentis tuis,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 23; id. Truc. 2, 2, 63:

multa igitur blandimenta plebi per id tempus ab senatu data,

Liv. 2, 9, 6:

captus blandimentis,

Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 4:

per blandimenta juvenem aggredi,

Tac. A. 13, 13; 12, 64:

muliebribus blandimentis infectae epistulae,

id. H. 1, 74.—In sing., Tac. A. 14, 4.—And in poet. exuberance:

cui blandimenta precesque Verbaque jactanti mitissima, desine, dixit, etc.,

Ov. M. 2, 815.—

Trop.

Any thing that pleases the senses, an object that charms, an allurement, a pleasure, charm, delight:

multa nobis blandimenta natura ipsa genuit,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41: blandimenta vitae [p. 241] = res, quae vitam jucundam reddunt), Tac. A. 15, 64; id. H. 2, 53 (cf.:

delinimenta vitae,

id. A. 15, 63):

aestivi caloris,

Pall. Sept. 17:

vecturae,

Veg. 2, 28, 37.—Of the spices, seasoning, condiments in food, Petr. 141, 8; Tac. G. 23.—

Healing applications, cures:

alia quoque blandimenta excogitabat,

Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 14.—

Careful culture:

hoc blandimento (i. e. blanda cultura) impetratis radicibus,

Plin. 17, 13, 21, § 98.

blandĭtĭa, ae ( blandĭtĭes, ēi, in abl., App. M. 9, p. 230, 11), f. [blandus].

The quality of one blandus; a caressing, flattering, flattery (mostly in an honorable sense; cf. on the contrary, assentatio and adulatio; class in prose and poetry; most freq. in plur.).

Sing.:

haec meretrix meum erum blanditiā intulit in pauperiem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 21:

viscus merus vostra'st blanditia,

id. Bacch. 1, 1, 16:

in cive excelso atque homine nobili blanditiam, ostentationem, ambitionem notam esse levitatis,

Cic. Rep. 4, 7, 7 (ap. Non. p. 194, 27):

nullam in amicitiā pestem esse majorem quam adulationem, blanditiam, adsentationem,

id. Lael. 25, 91:

occursatio et blanditia popularis,

id. Planc. 12, 29; cf. Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 11, 41; Prop. 1, 16, 16 al. —

Plur., flatteries, blandishments, allurements, = blandimenta: puerique parentum blanditiis facile ingenium fregere superbum, caresses, * Lucr. 5, 1018; Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 8:

quot illic (sc. in amore) blanditiae, quot illic iracundiae sunt!

id. Truc. 1, 1, 7:

ut blanditiis suis suam voluptatem expleat,

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 11:

quam (benevolentiam civium) blanditiis et adsentando conligere turpe est,

Cic. Lael. 17, 61:

tantum apud te ejus blanditiae flagitiosae voluerunt, ut, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 65:

hereditates... malitiosis blanditiis quaesitae,

id. Off. 3, 18, 74; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 5:

blanditiis ab aliquo aliquid exprimere,

id. Att. 1, 19, 9:

muliebres,

Liv. 24, 4, 4:

virorum factum purgantium,

id. 1, 9, 16:

fallaces,

Tac. A. 14, 56:

verniles,

id. H. 2, 59; Suet. Aug. 53 al.; cf. also Tib. 1, 1, 72; 1, 2, 91; 1, 4, 71; 1, 9, 77; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 72; Ov. Am. 1, 4, 66; id. M. 1, 531; 4, 70; 6, 626; 6, 632; 6, 685; 7, 817; 10, 259; 12, 407; 14, 19; id. H. 13, 153; Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 14.—

Trop., pleasure, delight, enticement, charm, allurement (cf. blandus, II. A., and blandior, II. B.):

blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deliniti atque corrupti,

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 33: attrita cotidiano actu forensi ingenia optime rerum talium blanditia (i. e. lectione poëtarum) reparantur. Quint. 10, 1, 27.

dēlĭcĭae, ārum, f. (sing. dēlĭcĭa, ae, f.;

ante-and post-class.,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 29; id. Rud. 2, 4, 13; id. Poen. 1, 2, 152; Inscr. Grut. 1014, 5: dēlĭcĭum, ii, n., Phaedr. 4, 1, 8; Verg. Copa, 26; Mart. 7, 50, 2; 13, 98, 1; Inscr. Orell. 680; 1724; 2679 sq.; 4394; 4958. And dēlĭcĭus, ii, m., Inscr. Don. cl. 1, 132, and ap. Gorium Columb. Liv. p. 73, no. 4) [delicio; that which allures, flatters the senses], delight, pleasure, charm, allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, curiosities of art; sport, frolics, etc. (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: voluptas, libido, delectatio, oblectatio, delectamentum, oblectamentum).

Prop.:

cogitatio amoenitatum ad delectationem, aut supellectilis ad delicias, aut epularum ad voluptates,

Cic. Par. 1, 2; cf. Hor. Od. 4, 8, 10 et saep.:

deliciarum causa et voluptatis cives Romanos cum mitella saepe vidimus,

Cic. Rab. Post. 10:

multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio,

id. Mur. 6:

deliciis diffluentes,

id. Lael. 15; id. Verr. 2, 4, 57; Sall. C. 31, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 31 et saep.:

Herodotus Thucydidesque longissime a talibus deliciis vel potius ineptiis afuerunt,

Cic. Or. 12 fin.; cf. Quint. 1, 11, 6; 12, 8, 4: delicias facere, to play tricks, to joke, to make sport of one, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 30; id. Poen. 1, 2, 68; 83; on the contrary, to sport as lovers, Catull. 45, 24;

72, 2: amores et hae deliciae quae vocantur,

Cic. Cael. 19:

votorum,

a dallying with, fondly prolonging, Juv. 10, 291: ecce aliae deliciae ( pretensions) equitum vix ferendae, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 9:

esse in deliciis alicui,

to be any one's favorite, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1 fin.; so id. Vatin. 8 fin.; Lucr. 4, 1152:

aliquid in deliciis habere,

Cic. Div. 1, 34 fin.:

habere aliquem in deliciis,

Suet. Vit. 12:

in deliciis vivere,

Vulg. Apoc. 18, 9. —

Transf., of living beings: delight, darling, sweetheart, beloved:

tu urbanus scurra, deliciae popli,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 14:

mea voluptas, meae deliciae, mea vita, mea amoenitas,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 152:

amores ac deliciae tuae Roscius,

Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79; cf. id. Att. 16, 6 fin.; id. Phil. 6, 5;

and the well-known appellation of Titus: amor ac deliciae generis humani,

Suet. Tit. 1: C. Sempronium Rufum mel ac delicias tuas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8:

Corydon ardebat Alexim, Delicias domini,

Verg. E. 2, 2; cf. id. ib. 9, 22, Cat. 6, 1:

verba ne Alexandrinis quidem permittenda deliciis,

favorite slaves, Quint. 1, 2, 7:

aegrae solaque libidine fortes Deliciae,

a voluptuary, minion, Juv. 4, 4; Petr. 67; Stat. Silv. 5, 5, 67; cf.

Plutarch, Anton. 59: delicias hominis,

a precious fellow! Juv. 6, 47.

dēlĭcĭae, ārum, f. (sing. dēlĭcĭa, ae, f.;

ante-and post-class.,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 29; id. Rud. 2, 4, 13; id. Poen. 1, 2, 152; Inscr. Grut. 1014, 5: dēlĭcĭum, ii, n., Phaedr. 4, 1, 8; Verg. Copa, 26; Mart. 7, 50, 2; 13, 98, 1; Inscr. Orell. 680; 1724; 2679 sq.; 4394; 4958. And dēlĭcĭus, ii, m., Inscr. Don. cl. 1, 132, and ap. Gorium Columb. Liv. p. 73, no. 4) [delicio; that which allures, flatters the senses], delight, pleasure, charm, allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, curiosities of art; sport, frolics, etc. (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: voluptas, libido, delectatio, oblectatio, delectamentum, oblectamentum).

Prop.:

cogitatio amoenitatum ad delectationem, aut supellectilis ad delicias, aut epularum ad voluptates,

Cic. Par. 1, 2; cf. Hor. Od. 4, 8, 10 et saep.:

deliciarum causa et voluptatis cives Romanos cum mitella saepe vidimus,

Cic. Rab. Post. 10:

multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio,

id. Mur. 6:

deliciis diffluentes,

id. Lael. 15; id. Verr. 2, 4, 57; Sall. C. 31, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 31 et saep.:

Herodotus Thucydidesque longissime a talibus deliciis vel potius ineptiis afuerunt,

Cic. Or. 12 fin.; cf. Quint. 1, 11, 6; 12, 8, 4: delicias facere, to play tricks, to joke, to make sport of one, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 30; id. Poen. 1, 2, 68; 83; on the contrary, to sport as lovers, Catull. 45, 24;

72, 2: amores et hae deliciae quae vocantur,

Cic. Cael. 19:

votorum,

a dallying with, fondly prolonging, Juv. 10, 291: ecce aliae deliciae ( pretensions) equitum vix ferendae, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 9:

esse in deliciis alicui,

to be any one's favorite, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1 fin.; so id. Vatin. 8 fin.; Lucr. 4, 1152:

aliquid in deliciis habere,

Cic. Div. 1, 34 fin.:

habere aliquem in deliciis,

Suet. Vit. 12:

in deliciis vivere,

Vulg. Apoc. 18, 9. —

Transf., of living beings: delight, darling, sweetheart, beloved:

tu urbanus scurra, deliciae popli,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 14:

mea voluptas, meae deliciae, mea vita, mea amoenitas,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 152:

amores ac deliciae tuae Roscius,

Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79; cf. id. Att. 16, 6 fin.; id. Phil. 6, 5;

and the well-known appellation of Titus: amor ac deliciae generis humani,

Suet. Tit. 1: C. Sempronium Rufum mel ac delicias tuas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8:

Corydon ardebat Alexim, Delicias domini,

Verg. E. 2, 2; cf. id. ib. 9, 22, Cat. 6, 1:

verba ne Alexandrinis quidem permittenda deliciis,

favorite slaves, Quint. 1, 2, 7:

aegrae solaque libidine fortes Deliciae,

a voluptuary, minion, Juv. 4, 4; Petr. 67; Stat. Silv. 5, 5, 67; cf.

Plutarch, Anton. 59: delicias hominis,

a precious fellow! Juv. 6, 47.

hāmus, i, m. [kindr. with hap-, haptô], a hook.

Lit.

In gen.:

taleae pedem longae, ferreis hamis infixis, totae in terram infodiebantur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73 fin.:

hamis ferreis pectitur stupa,

heckles, Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 17:

loricam consertam hamis,

little hooks, Verg. A. 3, 467.—

In partic.

A fish-hook; hence, in gen., an angle (so most freq.):

hisce hami atque haec harundines sunt nobis quaestu,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 5: divine Plato escam malorum appellat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo, * Cic. de Sen. 13, 44 (al. om. hamo; cf.

Klotz in h. l.): occultum visus decurrere piscis ad hamum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 74; 1, 16, 51; Ov. M. 3, 586; 15, 101; id. H. 19, 13 et saep.:

instrumento piscatoris legato,... hami quoque et cetera ejusmodi usibus destinata debentur,

Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 66.—

Transf., as a figure of enticement, allurement, artifice ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

meus hic est: hamum vorat,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 21; id. Curc. 3, 61:

si vafer unus et alter Insidiatorem praeroso fugerit hamo,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 25:

munera magna quidem misit, sed misit in hamo,

Mart. 6, 63, 5; cf.:

munera illitos cibis hamos aemulabantur,

Plin. Pan. 43 fin. (for which:

viscata hamataque munera,

id. Ep. 9, 30, 2).—

A hook as a surgical instrument, Cels. 7, 7, 15.—

Transf., of things hooked or crooked, the talons of a hawk, Ov. M. 11, 342; thorns, id. de Nuce, 115; a kind of pastry. App. M. 10, p. 245. [p. 840]