căpax

căpax, ācis, adj. [capio], that can contain or hold much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious (in poets and in post-Aug. prose freq.; in Cic. perh. only once, and then trop; v. infra).

Lit.: mundus, * Lucr. 6, 123:

conchae,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 22:

urna,

id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Ov. M. 3, 172:

capaciores scyphos,

Hor. Epod. 9, 33:

pharetram,

Ov. M. 9, 231:

putei,

id. ib. 7, 568:

urbs,

id. ib. 4, 439:

ripae,

id. Am. 3, 6, 19:

uterus,

Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 93:

portus,

id. 4, 7, 12, § 26:

spatiosa et capax domus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 5:

villa usibus capax,

id. ib. 2, 17, 4:

forma capacissima,

Quint. 1, 10, 40:

moles,

Tac. A. 2, 21.—With gen.:

circus capax populi,

Ov. A. A. 1, 136:

cibi vinique capacissimus,

Liv. 9, 16, 13:

flumen onerariarum navium capax,

Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99; 12, 1, 5, § 11:

magnae sedis insula haud capax est,

Curt. 4, 8, 2.—

Trop.

Capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for: Demosthenes non semper implet aures meas: ita sunt avidae et capaces, etc., * Cic. Or. 29, 104:

ingenium,

great, Ov. M. 8, 533:

animi ad praecepta,

id. ib. 8, 243:

animo majora capaci,

id. ib. 15, 5:

capax est animus noster,

Sen. Ep. 92, 30.—With gen.:

animal mentis capacius altae (i.e. homo),

Ov. M. 1, 76:

imperii,

Tac. H. 1, 49; cf. id. A. 1, 13:

aetas honorum nondum capax,

id. H. 4, 42:

molis tantae mens,

id. A. 1,11: secreti, that can keep or conceal, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 7:

capacia bonae spei pectora,

Curt. 8, 13, 11:

magnorum operum,

id. 6, 5, 29:

ingenium omnium bonarum artium capacissimum,

Sen. Contr. 2, praef. §

4: cujusque clari operis capacia ingenia,

Vell. 1, 16, 2:

bonum et capax recta discendi ingenium,

id. 2, 29, 5:

laboris ac fidei,

id. 2, 127, 3:

ingenia fecunda et totius naturae capacissima,

Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 190:

doli,

fit, suitable for, Dig. 43, 4, 1.—

In the Lat. of the jurists (cf. capio, II. F.), that has a right to an inheritance, Dig. 34, 3, 29.— Adv.: căpācĭter, Aug. Trin. 11, 2.

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căpācĭtas, ātis, f. [capax], a capability of holding much, capacity (rare).

In gen.:

utrum capacitatem aliquam in animo putamus esse, quo tamquam in aliquod vas, ea, quae meminimus, infundantur?

Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61:

uteri,

Plin. 10, 47, 66, § 131; Col. 12, 43, 10:

moduli,

Front. Aquaed. 26. —

Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists. a capability of entering upon an inheritance, right of inheritance (cf. capio, I. B. 2. b. b;

capax, II. B.),

Dig. 31, 55, § 1; Cod. Th. 9, 42, 1 pr.—

Intellectually, capacity, comprehension, Aug. Conf. 10, 9; Cod. Just. 1, 17, 1, § 1.

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argentum, i, n. [argêeis, argês, Dor. argas, white, like Tarentum, from Taras, Doed. Syn. III. p. 193; prop. white metal; cf. Sanscr. arǵunas = bright; raǵatam = silver; hence], silver, whose mineralogical description is found in Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95.

A.. Lit.:

argenti metalla,

Plin. 33, 6, 33, § 101:

argenti aerisque metalla,

Vulg. Exod. 35, 24:

argenti vena,

Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95: argenti fodina, v. argenti-fodina;

argenti scoria,

id. 3, 6, 5, § 105:

spuma argenti,

id. 33, 6, 35, § 106:

argenti duae differentiae (sunt),

id. 33, 10, 44, § 127:

argentum candidum, rufum, nigrum,

id. ib.:

argentum infectum,

unwrought silver, Liv. 26, 47; Dig. 34, 2, 19:

argenti montes,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73: argentum purum, Foedus ap. Gell. 6, 5:

argento circumcludere cornua,

Caes. B. G. 6, 28:

Concisum argentum in titulos faciesque minutas,

Juv. 14, 291:

quod usquam est Auri atque argenti,

id. 8, 123:

argentum et aurum,

Tac. G. 5; id. A. 2, 60, id. H. 4, 53; Vulg. Gen. 24, 35:

aurum argentumque,

Tac. H. 2. 82:

aurum et argentum,

Vulg. Gen. 13, 2.—

Meton.

Wrought silver, things made of silver; silver-plate, silver-work:

tu argentum eluito,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 29:

nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet,

Lucr. 2, 27; so,

ridet argento domus,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 6:

argenti quod erat solis fulgebat in armis,

Juv. 11, 109:

argentumque expositum in aedibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15:

navis plena argenti facti atque signati,

full of wrought and stamped silver, id. ib. 2, 5, 25; so Liv. 34, 25 and 26:

argentum caelatum,

Cic. Verr. 4, 23, 52; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61:

apponitur cena in argento puro et antiquo,

Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9:

argentum et marmor vetus aeraque et artīs Suspice,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 17; so id. ib. 1, 16, 76; 2, 2, 181; id. S. 1, 4, 28:

argenti vascula puri,

Juv. 9, 141; 10, 19:

vasa omnia ex argento,

Vulg. Num. 7, 85; ib. Act. 17, 29:

leve argentum,

Juv. 14, 62:

argentum paternum,

id. 6, 355:

argentum vetus,

id. 1, 76:

argentum mittere,

id. 12, 43:

Empturus pueros, argentum, murrina, villas,

id. 7, 133 et saep.—

Silver as weighed out for money, or money coined from silver, silver, silver money; and, as the most current coin, for money in gen.:

appendit pecuniam, quadringentos siclos argenti,

Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: Ratio quidem hercle adparet; argentum oichetai, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15 sq. (quoted by Cic., Pis. 25 fin.):

expetere,

id. Cist. 4, 2, 73:

adnumerare,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15; so id. Heaut. 4, 4, 15; id. Ad. 3, 3, 56; 4, 4, 20; 5, 9, 20 al.:

argenti sitis famesque,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23; id. S. 1, 1, 86:

quis audet Argento praeferre caput,

Juv. 12, 49:

tenue argentum venaeque secundae,

id. 9, 31:

hic modium argenti,

id. 3, 220:

venter Argenti gravis capax,

id. 11, 41:

Argentum et aurum non est mihi,

Vulg. Act. 3, 6; 20, 35 et saep.—

Argentum vivum, quicksilver, Plin. 33, 6, 32, § 100; Vitr. 7, 8, 1 sqq.; so,

argentum liquidum,

Isid. Orig. 16, 19, 2.

audax, ācis, adj. [from audeo, as ferax from fero, capax from capio], daring, in a good, but oftener in a bad sense, bold, courageous, spirited; audacious, rash, presumptuous, foolhardy (syn.: fortis, temerarius).

Lit.

Absol.:

qui me alter est audacior homo, aut qui me confidentior?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 1:

quae non deliquit, decet Audacem esse,

id. ib. 2, 2, 207:

o scelestum atque audacem hominem,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 42:

O hominem audacem!

id. And. 4, 4, 30:

rogitas, audacissime?

id. Eun. 5, 4, 26:

Verres homo audacissimus atque amentissimus,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 2 fin.; id. Rosc. Am. 1:

temerarius et audax,

id. Inv. 1, 3:

petulans et audax,

id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 4:

alii audaces, protervi,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 61:

audaces, sibi placentes,

Vulg. 2 Pet. 2, 10:

de improbis et audacibus,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3:

adulescentes quosdam eligit cum audacissimos tum viribus maximis,

Nep. Dion, 9, 3:

da facilem cursum atque audacibus annue coeptis,

Verg. G. 1, 40:

poëta,

a poet who remains unmoved amid praise and blame, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 182 Schmid:

audax Iapeti genus,

id. C. 1, 3, 25; 3, 27, 28:

conjunx timidi aut audacis Ulixis,

Ov. M. 14, 671:

furit audacissimus omni De numero Lycabas,

id. ib. 3, 623 al.—

Constr.,

With abl.:

viribus audax,

Verg. A. 5, 67:

audax juventā,

id. G. 4, 565.—

With gen.:

audax ingenii,

Stat. S. 3, 2, 64; 5, 3, 135:

animi,

id. Th. 10, 495; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 4; Sil. 14, 416.—

With inf.:

audax omnia perpeti,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 25:

leges inponere,

Prop. 5, 5, 13:

casus audax spondere secundos,

Luc. 7, 246.—

With ad:

ad facinus audacior,

Cic. Cat. 2, 5.—

Transf. to things:

audax facinus,

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 2; so id. And. 2, 3, 27; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 4; so,

animus,

Sall. C. 5, 4:

consilium,

Liv. 25, 38:

lingua,

Vulg. Eccli. 21, 8:

res,

Liv. 26, 38:

spes audacior,

Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35:

paupertas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51:

dithyrambi,

id. C. 4, 2, 10: verba, bold, i. e. unusual, poetic, Quint. 10, 5, 4:

hyperbole audacioris ornatūs,

id. 8, 6, 67:

volatus,

Ov. M. 8, 223 al. —

Meton., violent, fierce, proud: Nunc audax cave sis, *Cat. 50, 18:

ambitiosus et audax,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 165:

Cerberus,

Tib. 1, 10, 35:

leones,

Vulg. Sap. 11, 18:

Hecate,

Sen. Med. 844.— Adv., boldly, courageously, audaciously; in two forms,

audācĭter (the original but unusual form; cf.: licet omnes oratores aliud sequantur, i. e. the form audacter, Quint. 1, 6, 17): Multa scelerate, multa audaciter, multa improbe fecisti, Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104 B. and K.; cf. Prisc. p. 1014 P.;

Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. l. l.: audaciter se laturum fuisse de etc.,

Liv. 22, 25:

audaciter negantem,

id. 40, 55 Weissenb.; Sen. Prov. 4.—

audacter (the usu. class. form):

loquere audacter patri,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 82:

monere,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 6:

audacter inter reges versari,

Lucr. 2, 50; Cat. 55, 16; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, id. Rosc. Am. 11; id. Fin. 2, 9, 28; id. Ac. 2, 25, 81; Liv. 9, 34; 44, 4:

patrare,

Vulg. Gen. 34, 30; ib. Jud. 20, 31; ib. Marc. 15, 43 al.— Comp.:

quoi tuum concredat filium audacius,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 98; Cic. Or. 8, 26; 60, 202; Caes. B. G. 1, 15; 1, 18; Nep. Epam. 9, 1:

scribere,

Vulg. Rom. 15, 15.— Sup.:

audacissume oneris quid vis inpone,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 28; Caes. B. G. 2, 10; 5, 15; Liv. 30, 30 (on these forms, v. Neue, Formenl. II. p. 661 sq.).

căpābĭlis, e, adj. [capio], = capax (late Lat.):

infirmitatis capabilis (Dei virtus),

Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 14:

malitiae capabilis,

id. ib. 1, 14.—

Pass., comprehensible, Aug. contr. Maxim. 2, 9.

hăbĭlis, e, adj. [habeo, II. B. 2.], that may be easily handled or managed, manageable, suitable, fit, proper, apt, expert, light, nimble, swift (class.).

Lit.:

(calcei) habiles et apti ad pedem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 231; cf.:

(natura homini) figuram corporis habilem et aptam ingenio humano dedit,

id. Leg. 1, 9, 26;

res aptae, habiles et ad naturam accommodatae,

id. Fin. 4, 20, 56:

brevitate habiles gladii,

Liv. 22, 46, 5:

ensis,

Verg. A. 9, 305:

arcus,

id. ib. 1, 318:

pharetra ad tela,

Val. Fl. 3, 607:

frameae,

Tac. G. 6:

currus,

Ov. M. 2, 531:

aratrum,

Tib. 1, 9, 7:

naves velis,

Tac. A. 2, 6:

corpus habilissimum quadratum est, neque gracile neque obesum,

the most convenient for managing, treating, Cels. 2, 1; cf.:

materia levis est et ad hoc habilis,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 7:

atque habilis membris venit vigor,

i. e. making supple, Verg. G. 4, 418:

(bos) nec feturae habilis nec fortis aratris,

fit, proper for, id. ib. 3, 62:

terra frumentis,

Col. 2, 2, 20; cf.:

Aegyptum ut feraciorem habilioremque annonae urbicae redderet,

Suet. Aug. 18:

pinguibus hae (vites) terris habiles, levioribus illae,

Verg. G. 2, 92:

rudem ad pedestria bella Numidarum gentem esse, equis tantum habilem,

Liv. 24, 48, 5; cf.:

ducenta fere milia peditum, armis habilia,

able to bear arms, Vell. 2, 110, 3:

nondum portandis habiles gravioribus armis,

Sil. 11, 588.—

Trop.: sunt quidam ita in iisdem rebus habiles, ita naturae muneribus ornati, ut, etc., apt, expert, skilful (= capax), Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

acutior atque habilior ad inveniendum,

Quint. 6, 3, 12:

numquam ingenium idem ad res diversissimas habilius fuit,

Liv. 21, 4, 3:

exercitus non habilis gubernaculo,

not easy to govern, Vell. 2, 113, 2: negotia expedita et habilia sequuntur actorem, Sen. de Ira, 3, 7: et vicina seni non habilis Lyco, not suited (on account of her age), Hor. C. 3, 19, 24:

non habiles Colchi,

i. e. uncivilized, rude, Val. Fl. 7, 231.—

Poet., with inf.:

plaudentique habiles Caryae resonare Dianae,

Stat. Th. 4, 225; Luc. 3, 553.—Hence, adv.: hăbĭlĭter, handily, aptly, expertly, skilfully, easily (very rare):

scutum parvum habiliter ferens,

Liv. Epit. 57:

ut elephantis, sicut nos equis, facile atque habiliter utantur,

Mel. 3, 7; Dig. 34, 2, 20.

mĭnistĕrĭum, ii, n. [minister], the office or functions of a minister, attendance, service, ministry, in a good or bad sense; an office, occupation, work, labor, employment, administration, etc. (not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf.: munus, officium).

Lit.: sunt qui ita distinguant:

quaedam beneficia esse, quaedam officia, quaedam ministeria: beneficium esse, quod alienus det: officium esse filii, uxoris, etc.: ministerium esse servi, quem conditio sua eo loco posuit, ut nihil eorum, quae praestat, imputet superiori,

Sen. Ben. 3, 18, 1:

servorum,

Just. 2, 13, 10. ubi ego omnibus parvis magnisque ministeriis praefulcior, Plaut. Ps. 3, 1, 6: facere uxoribus, to wait or attend upon, id. 32, 3, 16:

praestare alicui,

Dig. 13, 5, 15:

exhibere,

ib. 50, 1, 17:

assuetos ministeriis talium facinorum,

Liv. 42, 15:

magis necessarium quam speciosi ministerii procurationem intueri,

id. 4, 8, 6:

praebere,

Dig. 47, 2. 51:

ministerium consilii sui afferre,

Just. 31, 5, 8:

fabrilia,

Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 230:

dura,

Ov. M. 11, 625:

diurna,

id. ib. 4, 216:

navis,

Petr. 108:

triste,

Verg. A. 6, 223; cf.

foeda,

id. ib. 7, 619; Sedul. 4, 130:

Quirinus acribus ministeriis consulatum adeptus,

Tac. A. 3, 48:

ministeria belli,

military service, id. ib. 2, 78:

ministerio Catonis... facta provincia Cyprus est,

agency, Vell. 2, 38, 6:

caedis,

Curt. 10, 1, 2: ministeris functi esse, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 13, 3, 2.—Esp., the Christian ministry, the office of a preacher of Christ or of religion:

verbi,

Vulg. Act. 6, 4:

reconciliationis,

id. 2 Cor. 6, 18:

melius,

id. Heb. 8, 6.—

Transf., concr.

A suite of attendants:

quindecim convivarum, ac ministerii capax triclinium,

Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 10:

ministeria magistratibus conscribere, i. e. lictores, viatores, etc.,

Tac. A. 13, 27:

aulicum,

court-servants, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 41:

atratum coquinae ministerium,

the kitchen-servants, Amm. 14, 6, 17:

varia arenae ministeria,

managers of the games, Suet. Ner. 12.—

A service of dishes, table-service (post-class.): ducentarum librarum argenti pondus ministerium, Lampr Alex. Sev. 34; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 86.

urna, ae, f. [prop. a vessel of burnt clay; root uro], a vessel for drawing water, a water-pot, water-jar, urn.

Lit.:

urnae dictae, quod urinant in aquā hauriendā ut urinator,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 126 Müll.; Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 16; 4 (5), 11, 28; Ov. F. 3, 14; id. M. 3, 37; 3, 172; Hor. C. 3, 11, 22; id. S. 1, 5, 91; 1, 1, 54.—As an attribute of personified rivers, Verg. A. 7, 792; Sil. 1, 407.—Of the constellation Aquarius, Ov. F. 2, 457; Sen. Thyest. 865.—

Transf., in gen., an urn used for any purpose.

Most freq., a vessel into which were thrown the voting-tablets or lots of any kind.

A voting-urn (syn. sitella):

senatorum urna copiose absolvit, equitum adaequavit,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 6; Ov. M. 15, 44; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 49; Hor. S. 2, 1, 47; Sil. 9, 27; Juv. 13, 4:

educit ex urnā tres (judices),

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 42; Suet. Ner. 21; Verg. A. 6, 22; Val. Fl. 2, 484; Sen. Contr. 1, 2, § 7; Just. 22, 3, 6; Plin. Ep. 10, 20, 2; Sen. Troad. 974; Tert. Spect. 16.—

The urn of fate, from which is drawn the lot of every one's destiny:

omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:

omne capax movet urna nomen,

id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Verg. A. 6, 432; Stat. S. 2, 1, 219:

nomina in urnam coicere,

Liv. 23, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 2.—

A vessel to hold the ashes of the dead, a cinerary urn, Ov. H. 11, 124; id. M. 4, 166; 11, 706; 12, 616; 14, 441; id. Tr. 3, 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 15; Luc. 7, 819; Sen. Troad. 375.—

A money-pot, money-jar:

argenti,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 10.—

A liquid measure containing half an amphora, an urn, Cato, R. R. 148, 1; Col. 12, 41; Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 263; Pers. 5, 144.—

A measure in gen., Cato, R. R. 10, 2; 13, 3; Juv. 15, 25.