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măgister, tri (old orthog., ‡ magester, like ‡ leber, ‡ Menerva, for liber, Minerva, acc. to Quint. 1, 4, 17), m. [a double comparative in form, from magis, and comparative ending -ter; cf.: minister, sinister], a master, chief, head, superior, director, president, leader, commander, conductor, etc.:

quibus praecipua cura rerum incumbit, et qui magis quam ceteri diligentiam et sollicitudinem rebus, quibus praesunt, debent, hi magistri appellantur,

Dig. 50, 16, 57.

Lit.

In gen., the dictator in the earliest times was called magister populi, the chief of the people:

in Magistro populi faciendo, qui vulgo dictator appellatur... qui primus Magister a populo creatus est, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. optima lex, p. 198 Müll.: (sapiens) rectius appellabitur rex quam Tarquinius, qui nec se nec suos regere potuit: rectius magister populi (is enim dictator est) quam Sulla, qui trium pestiferorum vitiorum, luxuriae, avaritiae, crudelitatis magister fuit,

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 75; cf.

also below the passage,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 82 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

dictator quidem ab eo appellatur, quia dicitur: sed in nostris libris (sc. auguralibus) vides eum magistrum populi appellari,

id. Rep. 1, 40, 63 Creuz.; cf.

, with reference to this passage,

Sen. Ep. 108, 31:

Larcum moderatorem et magistrum consulibus appositum,

Liv. 2, 18, 5.—Magister equitum, the chief of the cavalry, appointed by the dictator:

magister equitum, quod summa potestas hujus in equites et accensos, ut est summa populi dictator, a quo is quoque magister populi appellatus,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 82 Müll.:

dictator magistrum equitum dicit L. Tarquitium,

Liv. 3, 27; 7, 21 fin.;

23, 11: fumosi equitum magistri,

in a family tree, Juv. 8, 8.—So, magister peditum (analogous to magister equitum), chief of the infantry, Amm. 21, 12, 16. —The censor is called magister morum, master of morals, Cic. Fam. 3, 13, 2:

magister sacrorum,

the chief priest, Liv. 39, 18 fin.; v. Drak. ad loc.; so,

PVBLICVS SACRORVM (or SACERDOTVM),

Inscr. Orell. 2351:

FRATRVM ARVALIVM,

ib. 2426:

SALIORVM,

ib. 2247; 2419:

LARVM AVGVSTI,

ib. 1661 et saep.:

curiae,

the overseer of a curia, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 29: vici, the overseer of a quarter or ward, Suet. Aug. 30:

chori canentium,

a head-chorister, leader of a choir, Col. 12, 2:

officiorum and operarum,

a superintendent, bailiff, id. 1, 18:

scripturae and in scripturā,

a director of a company of farmers-general, Cic. Att. 5, 15, 3; id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169; cf.: P. Terentius operas in portu et scripturā Asiae pro magistro dedit, i. e. has performed the functions of a magister, was vice-director, id. Att. 11, 10, 1:

quaesivi, qui per eos annos magistri illius societatis fuissent,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 182:

P. Rupilius, qui est magister in ea societate,

id. Fam. 13, 9, 2:

maximarum societatum auctor, plurimarum magister,

id. Planc. 13, 32:

pecoris,

a chief herdsman, Varr. R. R. 2, 10; cf. Verg. G. 3, 445:

elephanti,

conductor, Sil. 4, 616:

auctionis,

the director, superintendent, conductor of an auction, Cic. Quint. 15, 50; cf.:

is quem putabant magistrum fore, si bona venirent,

id. Att. 1, 1, 3; 6, 1, 15; an officer charged with distributing money among the people, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 3.—Law t. t., an agent or assignee to dispose of a debtor's goods:

praetor jubet convenire creditores, et ex eo numero magistrum creari, id est eum per quem bona veneant,

Gai. Inst. 3, 79: convivii, the master or president of a feast, Varr. L. L. 5, § 122 Müll.; App. Mag. p. 336, 11: navis, the master or captain of a ship, Dig. 14, 1, 1; Gai. Inst. 4, 71;

so without navis,

Juv. 12, 79:

gubernatores et magistri navium,

Liv. 29, 25, 7; 45, 42, 3; the steersman, pilot:

ipse gubernaclo rector subit, ipse magister,

Verg. A. 5, 176; 1, 115; 6, 353; Val. Fl. 1, 18; 1, 382; Luc. 2, 696; Sil. 4, 719:

samnitium,

i. e. of the gladiators, a fencing-master, Cic. de Or. 3, 23, 86:

magistri tabernae,

innkeepers, Paul. Sent. 2, 8, 3.—In inscrr. are found also: fani, horreorum, collegii, memoriae, munerum, Augustalis, admissionum, epistolarum, libellorum, etc.; likewise: a bibliothecā, ab marmoribus, etc.—

In partic.

A teacher, instructor, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 8:

pueri apud magistros exercentur,

id. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

artium lberalium magistri,

id. Inv. 1, 25, 35; cf.:

virtutis magistri,

id. Mur. 31, 65; id. N. D. 1, 26, 72:

rarum ac memorabile magni Gutturis exemplum conducendusque magister,

Juv. 2, 114.— Transf., of inanim. things:

magister mihi exercitor animus nunc est,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 4; id. Curc. 2, 2, 8:

stilus optimus dicendi effector ac magister,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150; Pers. prol. 10:

timor, non diuturnus magister officii,

Cic. Phil. 2, 36, 90.—

An educator of children, a tutor, pedagogue:

senes me filiis relinquunt quasi magistrum,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 21:

docendis publice juvenibus magister,

Gell. 19, 9, 2. —

A master, owner, keeper:

trepidumque magistrum In cavea magno fremitu leo tollet alumnus,

Juv. 14, 246.—

A master of his art, professor:

a tonsore magistro Pecteris,

Juv. 6, 26.—

Trop., an adviser, instigator, author of any thing (very rare):

si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem improbum,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 21:

magister ad despoliandum Dianae templum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 21, § 54.—As adj.:

rituque magistro Plurima Niliacis tradant mendacia biblis,

Sedul. 1, 15.

perductor, ōris, m. [id.], a leader, conductor; in partic., a pimp, pander (cf. perduco, I. B. 1.):

lenonum, aleatorum, perductorum nulla mentio fiat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 34 (lenones sunt scortorum: perductores etiam invitarum personarum, et in quibus stupra exercita legibus vindicantur, Ascon. ad h. l.); Lact. 6, 17, 19.—

A guide, conductor, in a double sense with the [p. 1338] preced. signif.: Si. Eho istum, puer, circumduce hasce aedes et conclavia. Th. Apage istum a me perductorem:

nihil moror ductarier,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 159 sq.

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dux, dŭcis, com. [duco], a leader, conductor, guide (for syn. cf.: imperator, ductor, tyrannus, rex, princeps, praetor, auctor).

In gen.:

illis non ducem locorum, non exploratorem fuisse,

Liv. 9, 5, 7; cf.

itineris,

Curt. 5, 4:

itinerum,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17, 1:

regendae civitatis (with auctor publici consilii),

Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63:

dux isti quondam et magister ad despoliandum Dianae templum fuit,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 21:

nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 27:

tu dux et comes es,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 119; id. P. 4, 12, 23 et saep. —In the fem., Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 71; id. Lael. 5, 19; id. Div. 2, 40; id. Tusc. 1, 12, 27; Verg. A. 1, 364; Ov. M. 3, 12; 14, 121 et saep.—

In partic., in milit. lang., a leader, commander, general-in-chief.

Prop., Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 2; 2, 23, 4 (with qui summam imperii tenebat); 3, 18, 7;

3, 23, 3 et saep.—Prov.: ducis in consilio posita est virtus militum,

Pub. Syr. 136 (Rib.). Also a lieutenant-general, general of division (cf. duco, I. B. 5. b., and imperator), as opp. to the imperator, Caes. B. G. 3, 21, 1; Cic. Off. 3, 26, 99; id. Fl. 12, 27; Tac. H. 3, 37 al.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, a leader, chief, head:

dux regit examen,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 23; cf.

gregis, i. e. aries,

Ov. M. 5, 327; 7, 311; so,

pecoris,

Tib. 2, 1, 58;

but dux gregis = pastor,

id. 1, 10, 10:

armenti, i. e. taurus,

Ov. M. 8, 884;

of the head of a sect of philosophers,

Lucr. 1, 638; cf. Quint. 5, 13, 59; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 13.

Mercŭrĭus, ii, m., = Hermês, Mercury, the son of Jupiter and Maia, the messenger of the gods; as a herald, the god of dexterity; in speaking, of eloquence; the bestower of prosperity; the god of traders and thieves; the presider over roads, and conductor of departed souls to the Lower World: Mercurius a mercibus est dictus. Hunc etenim negotiorum omnium aestimabant esse deum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 124 Müll.; Cic. N. D. 3, 22 sq.; id. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 185; id. Arat. 277; Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Verg. A. 4, 222; Hor. C. 1, 10, 1; Ov. F. 5, 663 sqq.: stella Mercurii, the planet Mercury: infra hanc autem stella Mercurii est, ea stilbôn appellatur a Graecis, Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 54; so,

stella Mercurii,

id. Univ. 9;

also simply Mercurius,

id. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

dies Mercurii or Mercuris,

Wednesday, Inscr. Murat. 402, 7.— Appel. gen. plur.:

Mercuriorum,

Tert. Spect. 1, 11 fin. —

Transf., the withers of draught-cattle, between the neck and the back (post-class.), Veg. Vet. 2, 59; 4, 3.—

In partic.

Aqua Mercurii, a fountain in the via Appia, Ov. F. 5, 673.—

Tumulus Mercurii, near Carthago nova, Liv. 26, 44.—

Promontorium Mercurii, in Africa, in Zeugitana, near Carthage, now Capo Bon, Liv. 29, 27; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 87.

rĕdemptor, ōris, m. [id.].

In all periods of the lang., one who undertakes a thing by way of contract; a contractor, undertaker, purveyor, farmer (syn. conductor); absol.:

redemptor qui columnam illam de Cottā et de Torquato conduxerat faciendam,

Cic. Div. 2, 21, 47; so Cato, R. R. 107 in lemm.; Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

redemptori tuo dimidium pecuniae curavi,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 2; Liv. 34, 9 fin.; Hor. C. 3, 1, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 72 et saep.— With gen.:

tutelae Capitolii,

Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 14:

pontis,

one who farmed the tolls of a bridge, Dig. 19, 2, 60 fin.:

vectigalium,

ib. 50, 5, 8 et saep.; cf. Fest. p. 270 Müll., and Becker, Antiq. 2, 1, p. 270 and 3, 2, p. 217.—

In jurid. Lat.: redemptor litis.

One who releases a debtor from a demand, by paying his creditor, Dig. 17, 1, 6 fin. —

One who, for a consideration, undertakes the risk of a suit (freq.), Dig. 1, 16, 9; Cod. Just. 2, 14 fin. —

In eccl. Lat., the Redeemer (of the world from sin), Aug. Serm. 130, 2; Hier. Ep. 66, 8 fin.; Vulg. Job, 19, 25; id. Act. 7, 35 et saep.

saltus, ūs, m. [2. salio], a leaping, leap, spring, bound (class.), Sen. Ep. 15, 4: saltu uti, * Cic. Sen. 6, 19: cum alacribus saltu, cum velocibus cursu certabat, Sall. Fragm. ap. Veg. Mil. 1, 9 fin.:

saltu pernici tollere corpus,

Lucr. 5, 559; cf.:

(monocoli) mirae pernicitatis ad saltum,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23:

corpora saltu Subiciunt in equos,

Verg. A. 12, 287:

saltu Emicat in currum,

id. ib. 12, 326;

9, 553: saltu superare viam,

id. G. 3, 141:

saltum dare,

to make a leap, Ov. M. 4, 551; so in plur.:

dare saltus,

id. ib. 2, 165; 3, 599; 3, 683; 11, 524; cf.:

praeceps saltu sese In fluvium dedit,

Verg. A. 9, 815:

ut eadem (sc. crura ranarum) sint longis saltibus apta,

Ov. M. 15, 377.—

Trop.:

ab egestate infimā ad saltum sublati divitiarum ingentium,

Amm. 22, 4, 3.

saltus, ūs ( gen. salti, Att. ap. Non. 486, 1), m. [etym. dub.; perh. akin to Sanscr. sar-, sal-, to go; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, 71], a woody district, uncultivated but used for pasture, a forest-pasture, woodland-pasture, woodland (level or mountainous); freq. and class.; cf.: silva, nemus, lucus).

Lit.: saltus est, ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causā casae quoque. Si qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causā aratur ea res non peremit nomen saltui, non magis quam fundi, qui est in agro culto, et ejus causā habet aedificium, si qua particula in eo habet silvam, Ael. Gall. ap. Fest. p. 302 Müll.; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 6, 10:

conductor saltūs, in quo fundus est,

Dig. 19, 1, 52:

in saltu habente habitationes,

ib. 3, 5, 27:

saltum pascuum locare,

ib. 19, 2, 19:

silvestribus saltibus delectantur,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 6:

saltibus in vacuis pascunt,

Verg. G. 3, 143:

floriferis in saltibus,

Lucr. 3, 11:

de saltu agroque vi detruditur,

Cic. Quint. 6, 28:

silvis aut saltibus se eripere,

Caes. B. G. 6, 43 fin.; cf.:

montium domina ut fores, Silvarumque virentium Saltuumque reconditorum,

Cat. 34, 11; so (with silvae) Verg. G. 3, 40; 4, 53; id. A. 4, 72; Ov. M. 2, 498; (with nemora) Verg. E. 10, 9; cf.:

in silvestrem saltum,

Curt. 4, 3, 21:

unde tot Quinctilianus habet saltus,

Juv. 7, 188; 10, 194; Hor. C. 2, 3, 17; 3, 4, 15; id. E. 2, 2, 178.—In the poets also as the abode of wild animals:

saepire plagis saltum canibusque ciere,

Lucr. 5, 1251; Verg. G. 1, 140; 2, 471; id. A. 4, 121:

saltus venatibus apti,

Ov. H. 5, 17; id. M. 2, 498.—

Esp., a narrow pass, ravine, mountain - valley:

omnia vada ac saltus hujus paludis certis custodiis obtinebat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19:

Pyrenaeos saltus occupari jubet,

id. B. C. 1, 37; cf. id. ib. 1, 37 fin.; 1, 38;

3, 19: saltu angusto superatis montibus,

Liv. 42, 53; cf.:

angustiae saltibus crebris inclusae,

id. 28, 1:

ante saltum Thermopylarum in septentrionem versa Epirus,

id. 36, 15:

premendo praesidiis angustos saltus inclusit,

id. 40, 40; cf.:

nemorum jam claudite saltus,

Verg. E. 6, 56:

saltibus degressi scrupulosis et inviis,

Amm. 19, 13, 1.—

In partic., in agriculture, a portion of the public lands, consisting of four centuriae, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—

Transf., = pudendum muliebre, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 41; id. Curc. 1, 1, 56.—

Trop.:

meumque erum ex hoc saltu damni salvum ut educam foras,

from this forest of danger, this ticklish situation, Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 28; v. Ritschl ad h. 1.

susceptor, ōris, m. [id.] (post-class.).

One who undertakes any thing, an undertaker, contractor (syn.:

conductor, redemptor): susceptores sollicitare,

Just. 8, 3, 8: nemo militantium fiat susceptor defensorve causarum, Cod. Th. 2, 12, 6.—

A receiver, collector of taxes, etc., Cod. Th. [p. 1819] 12, tit. 6; Cod. Just. 10, tit. 70; Amm. 17, 10, 4.—

One who takes into his house or harbors thieves, gamesters, etc., a receiver, gaming-house keeper, Dig. 11, 5, 1; Paul. Sent. 5, 3, 3.—

A guardian, protector, Vulg. Psa. 3, 4; 41, 10; 90, 2 al.