an absent person

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an-nŏto (better adn-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to put a note to something, to write down something, to note down, remark, comment on (only in post-Aug. prose, like its derivatives annotatio, annotator, annotamentum, etc.).

A.. In gen.:

ut meminisset atque adnotaret, quid et quando et cui dedisset,

Col. 12, 3, 4:

in scriptis adnotare quaedam ut tumida,

Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 5:

liber legebatur, adnotabatur,

id. ib. 3, 5, 10; so Suet. Gram. 24:

quā in re et aliud adnotare succurrit,

Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 157:

quod annales adnotavere,

id. 34, 6, 11, § 24:

de quibus in orthographiā pauca adnotabo,

Quint. 1, 14, 7 al. —Hence,

= animadvertere, to observe, perceive:

cum adnotāsset insculptum monumento militem Gallum, etc.,

Suet. Ner. 41.—

Adnotare librum, to give a book some title, to entitle, denominate: ausus est libros suos philalêtheis adnotare, Lact. 5, 3 fin. —

Annotari, to be distinguished, noted for something:

haec litora pisce nobili adnotantur,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 60.—

Judic. t. t.

To enter or register an absent person among the accused:

absens requirendus, adnotandus est, ut copiam sui praestet,

Dig. 48, 17, 1.—

To note or designate one, already condemned, for punishment:

quos, quia cives Romani erant, adnotavi in urbem remittendos,

Plin. Ep. 10, 97; so id. ib. 3, 16; 7, 20; id. Pan. 56 Schwarz; Suet. Calig. 27.

an-nŏto (better adn-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to put a note to something, to write down something, to note down, remark, comment on (only in post-Aug. prose, like its derivatives annotatio, annotator, annotamentum, etc.).

A.. In gen.:

ut meminisset atque adnotaret, quid et quando et cui dedisset,

Col. 12, 3, 4:

in scriptis adnotare quaedam ut tumida,

Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 5:

liber legebatur, adnotabatur,

id. ib. 3, 5, 10; so Suet. Gram. 24:

quā in re et aliud adnotare succurrit,

Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 157:

quod annales adnotavere,

id. 34, 6, 11, § 24:

de quibus in orthographiā pauca adnotabo,

Quint. 1, 14, 7 al. —Hence,

= animadvertere, to observe, perceive:

cum adnotāsset insculptum monumento militem Gallum, etc.,

Suet. Ner. 41.—

Adnotare librum, to give a book some title, to entitle, denominate: ausus est libros suos philalêtheis adnotare, Lact. 5, 3 fin. —

Annotari, to be distinguished, noted for something:

haec litora pisce nobili adnotantur,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 60.—

Judic. t. t.

To enter or register an absent person among the accused:

absens requirendus, adnotandus est, ut copiam sui praestet,

Dig. 48, 17, 1.—

To note or designate one, already condemned, for punishment:

quos, quia cives Romani erant, adnotavi in urbem remittendos,

Plin. Ep. 10, 97; so id. ib. 3, 16; 7, 20; id. Pan. 56 Schwarz; Suet. Calig. 27.

cūrātor (old orthog. COERATOR, v. the foll.), ōris, m. [id.], he who cares for or takes charge of a thing, a manager, overseer, superintendent, keeper.

In gen.:

ludorum,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 36:

suntoque aediles coeratores urbis annonae ludorumque solemnium,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

viae Flaminiae,

id. Att. 1, 1, 2:

aviarii,

a bird-keeper, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; cf.

apum,

Col. 9, 9, 1:

pavonini gregis,

id. 8, 11, 2;

and gallinarius,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 7:

fidus negotiorum,

Sall. J. 71, 3:

munerum ac venationum,

Suet. Calig. 27:

restituendae Campaniae,

id. Tit. 8:

restituendi Capitolii,

Gell. 2, 10, 2 et saep.:

muris reficiendis,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 7, 19:

legibus agrariis,

id. Agr. 2, 7, 17:

curator, qui statuis faciundis praeesset,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 144:

reipublicae,

Sall. J. 110, 6:

urbis,

Amm. 14, 7, 17.—

In partic., a legal t. t., a guardian, curator, trustee (of a minor, an imbecile, an absent person, etc.), Gai Inst. 1, 200; Dig. libb. 26 et 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 102; Sen. Contr. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 4, 11; Jul. Cap. Vit. M. Aur. 10 et saep.; v. Dict. of Antiq.

ab-sum, āfui (better than abfui), āfŭtārus (aforem, afore), v. n., in its most general signif., to be away from, be absent.

In gen.

Absol. without designating the distance (opp. adsum):

num ab domo absum?

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 16:

me absente atque insciente,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 130:

domini ubi absunt,

are not at home, not present, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53: facile aerumnam ferre possum, si inde abest injuria, Caecil. ap. Non. 430, 18.—

With reference to the distance in space or time; which is expressed either by a definite number, or, in gen., by the advs. multum, paulum (not parum, v. below) longe, etc.:

edixit, ut ab urbe abesset milia pass. ducenta,

Cic. Sest. 12, 29:

castra, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43:

haud longe abesse oportet,

he ought not to be far hence, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 166:

legiones magnum spatium aberant,

Caes. B. G. 2, 17:

menses tres abest,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 66:

haud permultum a me aberit infortunium,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 1; Cic. Fam. 2, 7.—With the simple abl. for ab:

paulumque cum ejus villa abessemus,

Cic. Ac. 1, 1 Görenz; but, ab ejus villa, B. and K.; cf.:

nuptā abesse tuā,

Ov. R. Am. 774.— With inter:

nec longis inter se passibus absunt,

Verg. A. 11, 907.—With prope, propius, proxime, to denote a short distance:

nunc nobis prope abest exitium,

is not far from, Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 8;

so with est: prope est a te Deus, tecum est,

Sen. Ep. 41:

loca, quae a Brundisio propius absunt, quam tu, biduum,

Cic. Att. 8, 14:

quoniam abes propius,

since you are nearer, id. ib. 1, 1:

existat aliquid, quod... absit longissime a vero,

id. Ac. 2, 11, 36; so id. Deiot. 13; Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16 al.—Hence the phrase: tantum abest, ut—ut, so far from — that, etc. (Zumpt, §

779), the origin of which is evident from the following examples from Cic. (the first two of which have been unjustly assailed): id tantum abest ab officio, ut nihil magis officio possit esse contrarium, Off. 1, 14 (with which comp. the person. expression: equidem tantum absum ab ista sententia, ut non modo non arbitrer... sed, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 60, 255):

tantum abest ab eo, ut malum mors sit, ut verear, ne, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 31, 76: ego vero istos tantum abest ut ornem, ut effici non possit, quin eos oderim, so far am I from — that, id. Phil. 11, 14; sometimes etiam or quoque is added to the second clause, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 2; Suet. Tib. 50; more rarely contra, Liv. 6, 31, 4. Sometimes the second ut is left out:

tantum afuit, ut inflammares nostros animos: somnum isto loco vix tenebamus,

Cic. Brut. 80, 278; on the contrary, once in Cic. with a third ut: tantum abest ut nostra miremur, ut usque eo difficiles ac morosi simus, ut nobis non satisfaciat ipse Demosthenes, Or. 29, 104.

Hence,

To be away from any thing unpleasant, to be freed or free from:

a multis et magnis molestiis abes,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3:

a culpa,

id. Rosc. Am. 20: a reprehensione temeritatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.

To be removed from a thing by will, inclination, etc.; to be disinclined to (syn. abhorreo)' a consilio fugiendi, Cic. Att. 7, 24:

ab istis studiis,

id. Planc. 25:

ceteri a periculis aberant,

kept aloof from, avoided, Sall. C. 6, 3. toto aberant bello, Caes. B. G. 7, 63.

To be removed from a thing in regard to condition or quality, i. e. to be different from, to differ = abhorrere abest a tua virtute et fide, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 2: istae kolakeiai non longe absunt a scelere, id. Att. 13, 30:

haec non absunt a consuetudine somniorum,

id. Divin. 1, 21, [p. 13] 42.—Since improvement, as well as deterioration, may constitute the ground of difference, so absum may, according to its connection, designate the one or the other:

nullā re longius absumus a naturā ferarum,

in nothing are we more elevated above the nature of the brute, Cic. Off. 1, 16, 50;

so also the much-contested passage,

Cic. Planc. 7, 17: longissime Plancius a te afuit, i. e. valde, plurimis suffragiis, te vicit, was far from you in the number of votes, i. e. had the majority; v. Wunder ad Planc. proleg. p. 83 sq.; on the other hand, to be less, inferior: longe te a pulchris abesse sensisti, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 339, 23:

multum ab eis aberat L. Fufius,

id. Brut. 62, 222; so Hor. A. P. 370.

Not to be suitable, proper, or fit for a thing:

quae absunt ab forensi contentione,

Cic. Or. 11, 37:

ab principis personā,

Nep. Ep. 1, 2.

To be wanting, = desum, Pac. ap. Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 122 Rib.):

unum a praeturā tuā abest,

one thing is wanting to your praetorship, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 25: quaeris id quod habes;

quod abest non quaeris,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 16; cf. Lucr. 3, 970 and 1095.—After Cicero, constr. in this signif. with dat.:

quid huic abesse poterit de maximarum rerum scientiā?

Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 48:

abest enim historia litteris nostris,

history is yet wanting to our literature, id. Leg. 2, 5.—So esp. in the poets:

donec virenti canities abest morosa,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 17; 3, 24, 64; Ov. M. 14, 371.—Hence the phrase non multum (neque multum), paulum, non (haud) procul, minimum, nihil abest, quin. not much, little, nothing is wanting that (Zumpt, Gr. § 540); but not parum, since parum in good classical authors does not correspond in meaning with non multum, but with non satis (v. parum):

neque multum abesse ab eo, quin, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 2, 2; and absol.:

neque multum afuit quin,

id. B. C. 2, 35, 4:

paulumque afuit quin, ib. § 2: legatos nostros haud procul afuit quin violarent,

Liv. 5, 4 fin.:

minimum afuit quin periret,

was within a little of, Suet. Aug. 14:

nihil afore credunt quin,

Verg. A. 8, 147 al.

Abesse alicui or ab aliquo, to be wanting to any one, to be of no assistance or service to (opp. adsum):

ut mirari Torquatus desinat, me, qui Antonio afuerim, Sullam defendere,

Cic. Sull. 5: facile etiam absentibus nobis ( without our aid) veritas se ipsa defendet, id. Ac. 2, 11, 36:

longe iis fraternum nomen populi Romani afuturum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 36. So also Cic. Planc. 5, 13: et quo plus intererat, eo plus aberas a me, the more I needed your assistance, the more you neglected me, v. Wunder ad h. l.; cf. also Sall. C. 20 fin.

Cicero uses abesse to designate his banishment from Rome (which he would never acknowledge as such):

qui nullā lege abessem,

Cic. Sest. 34, 37; cf.: discessus. —Hence, absens, entis ( gen. plur. regul. absentium;

absentum,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 5), P. a., absent (opp. praesens).

In gen.:

vos et praesentem me curā levatis et absenti magna solatia dedistis,

Cic. Brut. 3, 11; so id. Off. 3, 33, 121; id. Verr. 2, 2, 17:

quocirca (amici) et absentes adsunt et egentes abundant,

id. Lael. 7, 23:

ut loquerer tecum absens, cum coram id non licet,

id. Att. 7, 15:

me absente,

id. Dom. 3; id. Cael. 50:

illo absente,

id. Tull. 17; id. Verr. 2, 60:

absente accusatore,

id. ib. 2, 99 al.— Sup.:

mente absentissimus,

Aug. Conf. 4, 4.—Of things (not thus in Cic.):

Romae rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem tollis ad astra,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 28; so,

Rhodus,

id. Ep. 1, 11, 21:

rogus,

Mart. 9, 77, 8:

venti,

Stat. Th. 5, 87:

imagines rerum absentium,

Quint. 6, 2, 29:

versus,

Gell. 20, 10.—

In partic.

In conversat. lang.

Praesens absens, in one's presence or absence:

postulo ut mihi tua domus te praesente absente pateat,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 29.—

Absente nobis turbatumst, in our absence (so also:

praesente nobis, v. praesens),

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 7; Afran. ap. Non. 76, 19 (Com. Rel. p. 165 Rib.).—

In polit. lang., not appearing in public canvassings as a competitor:

deligere (Scipio) iterum consul absens,

Cic. Rep. 6, 11; so Liv. 4, 42, 1; 10, 22, 9.—

= mortuus, deceased, Plaut. Cas. prol. 20; Vitr. 7, praef. § 8.—

Ellipt.: absens in Lucanis, absent in Lucania, i. e. absent and in Lucania, Nep. Hann. 5, 3; so id. Att. 8, 6.

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ad-sum (Ribbeck has written assum in Novius by conj. from suum of the MSS., Com. Trag. p. 262; in Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 67, adsum must be pronounced assum, as the pun on the word requires, Roby, I. p. 49), adfui (affui, Merkel, L. Müller), adesse, v. n. (arfui = adfui, S. C. de Bacch.; arf = adfuerunt, ib.; arfuise = adfuisse, ib.; v. ad init.;

adsiem = adsim,

Verg. Cat. 5, 6 ( dicam, Rib.):

adsiet,

Cato, R. R. 141, 4; Plaut. As. 2, 4, 9; Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 11:

adsient,

id. Phorm. 2, 18, 3: adfore now and then takes the place of adfuturus esse, and adforem of adessem, which is written with one s, adesent, in S. C. de Bacch.), to be at or near a person or place, to be somewhere, to be present (opp. absum, to be distant, removed, absent).

Lit.

Absol.: visus Homerus adesse poëta, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 51 (Ann. v. 6 Vahl.), imitated by Verg. A. 2, 271, and Ov. M. 7, 635; v. below: Hegio adsum;

si quid me vis, impera,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 1; so id. Truc. 2, 6, 33; 4, 3, 52:

quasi adfuerim simulabo,

id. Am. 1, 1, 45. —

With adv. or adj.:

etsi abest, hic adesse erum Arbitror,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 11:

Philolaches jam hic aderit,

id. Most. 5, 1, 29; and id. Ps. 1, 2, 48:

quod adest praesto,

Lucr. 5, 1412:

ut quasi coram adesse videare, cum scribo aliquid ad te,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16; id. Att. 5, 18, 3; Verg. A. 1, 595:

non quia ades praesens dico hoc,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 39.—

With prepp.:

ad exercitum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 6:

in tabernaculo,

id. ib. 1, 1, 269:

adsum apud te,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 67:

mulier ad eam rem divinam ne adsit,

Cato, R. R. 83:

ad portam,

Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57:

ante oculos maestissimus Hector Visus adesse mihi,

Verg. A. 2, 271:

ante oculos eadem mihi quercus adesse... visa est,

Ov. M. 7, 635. —

With dat.:

adsum praesens praesenti tibi,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 27:

DVM. NE. MINVS. SENATORIBVS. C. ADESENT. S. C. de Bacch. (see Append. to this dictionary): portis,

Verg. A. 2, 330:

senatui,

Tac. A. 4, 55:

convivio,

Suet. Tib. 61 fin.:

quaestioni,

id. ib. 62: pugnae. id. Oth. 9.

Trop.

Of time, to be present, be at hand:

dum tempestates adsunt,

Lucr. 1, 178:

Vesper adest,

Cat. 62, 1:

jamque dies aderit,

Ov. M. 3, 519; 9, 285; 12, 150:

aderat judicio dies,

Liv. 3, 12:

cum jam partus adesset,

Ov. M. 9, 674.—

Of other abstr. things, to be present, to be at hand (incorrectly made syn. with the simple esse).

Absol.:

nunc adest occasio benefacta cumulare,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 63:

ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

id. Men. prol. 16:

omnia adsunt bona, quem penes est virtus,

id. Am. 2, 2, 21:

ut tranquillitas animi et securitas adsit,

Cic. Off. 1, 20:

tanti aderant morbi vesicae et viscerum, ut, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30.—

With dat.:

hominum quīs pudor paulum adest,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 6:

vigilantibus hinc aderant solacia somni,

Lucr. 5, 1405:

vis ad resistendum nulli aderat,

Vell. 2, 61; 2, 21:

vim adfore verbo Crediderat,

Verg. A. 10, 547:

tantus decor adfuit arti,

Ov. M. 6, 18:

simplicitas puerilibus adfuit annis,

id. ib. 5, 400:

quantus adest equis Sudor,

Hor. C. 1, 15, 9:

uti mox Nulla fides damnis adsit,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 57:

quousque patieris, Caesar, non adesse caput reipublicae?

to be in his place, to be present, Tac. A. 1, 13 et saep.—

Animo or animis, to be present in mind, with attention, interest, sympathy; also, with courage (cf. animus); to give attention to something, to give heed, observe, attend to; also, to be fearless, be of good courage:

ut intellegeretis eum non adfuisse animo, oum ab illis causa ageretur,

Cic. Caecin. 10 fin.:

adestote omnes animis, qui adestis corporibus,

id. Sull. 11, 33; id. Phil. 8, 10, 30 (cf. Ter. And. prol. 24, and Phorm. prol. 30: adeste aequo animo): [p. 46] quam ob rem adeste animis, judices, et timorem, si quem habetis, deponite, Cic. Mil. 2, 4:

ades animo et omitte timorem,

id. Rep. 6, 10 fin. —

Poet., to be present with one, to be associated with, to attend:

Tu ducibus Latiis aderis, cum laeta Triumphum Vox canet,

Ov. M. 1, 560;

of the cypress: aderis dolentibus,

id. ib. 10, 142. —

To be present with one's aid or support; to stand by, to assist, aid, help, protect, defend, sustain (esp. freq. of advocati; cf.

absum): ibo ad forum atque aliquot mihi amicos advocabo, ad hanc rem qui adsient,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 82; id. Eun. 4, 6, 26:

omnes enim hi, quos videtis adesse in hac causa, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 1; id. Verr. 2, 2, 29; id. Sull. 29; id. Phil. 2, 37, 95; Quint. 1, 4; 8, 30 et saep.:

ego tamen tuis rebus sic adero ut difficillimis,

Cic. Fam. 6, 14 fin.; so id. Att. 1, 1:

Camulogenus suis aderat atque eos cohortabatur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 62:

dictator intercessioni adero,

Liv. 6, 38:

cui sententiae adest Dicaearchus,

Plin. 2, 65, 65:

Aderam Arrionillae, Timonis uxori,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 5; 2, 11, 2:

quod ille adversus privatum se intemperantius adfuisset,

had taken part, Suet. Claud. 38 Bremi.—With inf.:

non Teucros delere aderam,

Sil. 9, 532;

so of a protecting, aiding divinity, esp. in invocations, adsis, adsit, etc.: adsis, o Tegeaee, favens,

Verg. G. 1, 18; id. A. 4, 578:

adsis, o Cytherea,

id. Cat. 6, 11:

ades, Dea, muneris auctor,

Ov. M. 10, 673; so,

Huc ades,

Tib. 1, 7, 49:

di omnes nemorum, adeste,

Ov. M. 7, 198:

nostris querelis adsint (dii),

Liv. 3, 25:

frugumque aderit mea Delia custos,

Tib. 1, 5, 21:

si vocata partubus Lucina veris adfuit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 6:

origini Romanae et deos adfuisse et non defuturam virtutem,

Liv. 1, 9; 5, 51 al.— To be present as a witness:

(testes) adsunt cum adversariis,

Cic. Fl. 23;

promissi testis adesto,

Ov. M. 2, 45; hence the t. t. scribendo adesse, to be present as a witness to some writing or contract (usually placed at the beginning of the writing), S. C. de Bacch. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5 and 6 al.—

Involving the idea of motion, to come, to appear (most freq. in post-Aug. prose): adsum atque advenio Acherunte, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37;

jam ego hic adero,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 7; Ter. And. 4, 2, 32; id. Heaut. 3, 1, 96; id. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

hi ex Africa jam adfuturi videntur,

Cic. Att. 11, 15:

Hymen ades o Hymenaee,

Cat. 62, 5:

Galli per dumos aderant,

Verg. A. 8, 657; 11, 100:

huc ades, o formose puer,

id. E. 2, 45; 7, 9; Ov. M. 8, 598; 2, 513 (cf. also adesdum):

ecce Arcas adest,

appears, is arrived, id. ib. 2, 497; so 3, 102; 528; 4, 692; 5, 46; 8, 418; 9, 200, 304, 363, 760; 11, 349; 12, 341;

13, 73, 82, 662, 906: adfore tempus, quo, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 256;

cum hostes adessent, i. e. appropinquarent,

Liv. 2, 10:

truci clamore aderant semisomnos in barbaros,

Tac. A. 4, 25:

infensi adesse et instare,

Sall. J. 50:

quod serius adfuisset,

Suet. Aug. 94 al. —In App. with acc.:

cubiculum adero, Met. 2, p. 119 Elm.: scopulum aderunt,

ib. 5, p. 160.—

As judicial t. t., to appear before a tribunal:

C. Verrem altera actione responsurum non esse, neque ad judicium adfuturum... quod iste certe statuerat non adesse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1:

augures adsunt,

id. Dom. 34:

augurem adesse jusserunt,

Vell. 2, 10; cf. Brisson. de Form. V. p. 446.—

Of the senate, to attend, to convene:

edixit ut adesset senatus frequens a. d. viii. Kal. Decembris,

Cic. Phil. 3, 19:

ne sine causa videretur edixisse, ut senatus adcsset,

id. ib. 24.

dē-sum, fŭi, esse (ee in deest, deesse, deerit, etc., in the poets per synaeresin as one syll., Lucr. 1, 44; Cat. 64, 151; Verg. G. 2, 233; id. A. 7, 262; 10, 378; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 24; Ov. M. 15, 354 et saep.; praes. subj., desiet, Cato R. R. 8; perf., defuerunt, trisyl., Ov. M. 6, 585; fut. inf., commonly defuturum esse, as Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2, etc.;

also defore,

id. Fam. 13, 63; Caes. B. G. 5, 56; Sil. 9, 248; imperf. subj., deforent, Ambros. Hexaem. 3, 13), v. n., to be away, be absent; to fail, be wanting (for syn. cf.: absum, deficio, descisco, negligo; freq. in all periods).

In gen.

Absol.:

non ratio, verum argentum deerat,

Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 69:

frigore enim desunt ignes ventique calore Deficiunt,

Lucr. 6, 360: cf. id. 3, 455; Cato R. R. 8:

omnia deerant, quae, etc.,

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

semper paullum ad summam felicitatem defuisse,

id. ib. 6, 43, 5:

ibi numquam causas seditionum et certaminis defore,

Liv. 45, 18:

quod non desit habentem, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 52 et saep.:

non desunt qui, for sunt qui,

Quint. 4, 5, 11; 8, 3, 85; Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248.—

With dat. (so most freq.):

metuo mihi in monendo ne defuerit oratio,

Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 3 and 4:

cui nihil desit, quod, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17; cf. id. Lael. 14, 51:

sive deest naturae quippiam, sive abundat atque affluit,

id. Div. 1, 29, 61:

quantum alteri sententiae deesset animi, tantum alteri superesse,

Caes. B. C. 2, 31; so,

opp. superesse,

Cic. Fam. 13, 63; cf.

opp. superare,

Sall. C. 20, 11:

neu desint epulis rosae,

Hor. Od. 1, 36, 15; id. Ep. 1, 1, 58 et saep.:

hoc unum ad pristinam fortunam Caesari defuit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.; cf. id. B. C. 3, 2, 2; 3, 96, 2. —

With in:

ut neque in Antonio deesset hic ornatus orationis, neque in Crasso redundaret,

Cic. de Or. 3, 4 fin.; id. Rep. 2, 33:

in C. Laenio commendando,

id. Fam. 13, 63 al. —

With inf. ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

et mihi non desunt turpes pendere corollae,

Prop. 1, 16, 7; Sil. 6, 10; Tac. H. 4, 1 al.—

With quominus:

duas sibi res, quominus in vulgus et in foro diceret, defuisse,

Cic. Rep. 3, 30 fin. (ap. Non. 262, 23); Tac. A. 14, 39.—

With quin:

nihil contumeliarum defuit, quin subiret,

Suet. Ner. 45.—

With ut:

non defuit, ut, etc.,

Capitol. Gord. III. 31.—

Pregn., to fail, be wanting in one's duty, as in rendering assistance, etc.; not to assist or serve, to desert one, to neglect a person or thing.

With dat.:

tantum enitor, ut neque amicis neque etiam alienioribus opera, consilio, labore desim,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17; cf. id. Mur. 4 fin.:

ne tibi desis,

that you be not wanting to yourself, neglect not your own advantage, id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; id. Fam. 5, 12, 2; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 56; 2, 1, 17; 1, 4, 134:

senatu reique publicae,

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

communi saluti nulla in re,

id. B. G. 5, 33, 2:

Timotheo de fama dimicanti,

Nep. Timoth. 4, 3:

huic rei,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93, 2:

negotio,

id. ib. 2, 41, 3:

decori vestro,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24:

officio et dignitati meae,

id. Att. 7, 17, 4; Liv. 3, 50:

tempori,

id. 21, 27; cf.:

occasioni temporis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79 et saep.—

Without dat.:

non deest reipublicae consilium... nos, nos, dico aperte, consules desumus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1 fin.; id. Rep. 3, 21:

qui non deerat in causis,

id. Brut. 34, 130:

nec deerat Ptolemaeus,

Tac. H. 1, 22 fin. —

To fall short of, miss, fail to obtain:

ne quis desit gratiae Dei,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 15.