cubitum

ancōn, ōnis, m. [v. ango], = ankôn (the bend of the arm), t. t., for the pure Lat. cubitum.

The arm of a workman's square, Vitr. 3, 3 fin.; 8, 6.—

A stone in a wall, which projects above more than below, and supports something; a console or volute, Vitr. 4, 6.—

The knobbed bars of a hydraulic engine, Vitr. 10, 13.—

Forked poles for spreading nets (pure Lat., ames, Hor. Epod. 2, 33), Grat. Cyn. 87.—

The arm of a chair, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1.—

A kind of drinking-vessel in an alehouse, Dig. 33, 7, 13.

Ancōn, ōnis, f. [v. ango], a headland and bay, as the name implies, on the coast of Pontus, east of Amisus, now Derbend Bournow, Val. Fl. 4, 600; cf. Apoll. Rhod. 2, 369.

Ancōn, ōnis, or Ancōna, ae, f. [v. ango], = Ankôn, an ancient seaport town in the north of Picenum, situated on a promontory forming a remarkable curve or elbow, as the name implies, founded by the Syracusans, still called Ancona; form Ancōna, Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 23; id. Fam. 16, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 11; Plin. 2, 72, 74, § 182; 3, 13, 18, § 111 sq. al.—Form Ancōn, Mel. 2, 4, 5; Cat. 36, 13; Sil. 8, 438; Juv. 4, 40 al.; and in a pun: Cingulum nos tenemus;

Anconem amisimus,

Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1.

assus, a, um, adj. [qs. artus, then arsus, then assus; cf.: areo, ardeo, Van.], roasted.

Lit.:

elixus esse quam assus soleo suavior,

Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 66:

mergi,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 51:

turdi,

id. ib. 2, 2, 73:

passeris assi,

id. ib. 2, 8, 29 Bentl. (K. and H., atque):

quibus (piscibus) assis Languidus in cubitum jam se conviva reponet,

id. ib. 2, 4, 38; so Vulg. Luc. 24, 42: res eadem magis alit jurulenta quam assa;

magis assa quam elixa,

Cels. 2, 18; so,

pulmo,

Plin. 30, 15, 51, § 145:

carnes assae igni,

Vulg. Exod. 12, 8:

assa caro bubula,

ib. 1 Par. 16, 3:

assum (quid) igni,

ib. Exod. 12, 9:

ova,

Scrib. Comp. 221.—Also, subst.: assum, i, n., a roast, roasted meat:

vitulinum,

roast veal, Cic. Fam. 9, 20.—On the pun with assum = adsum, v. adsum init. —

Meton. (prop. dried with heat, hence), dry, simple, mere: sudatio, a steam or sweating-bath, Gr. xêroi hidrôtes, Cels. 3, 27; also, subst.: assa, ōrum, n., = sudatorium, a sweating - bath, sudatory (without bathing), Cic. ad Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1; cf.: assa cella: aphidrôtêrion, Gloss. Vet.: sol, a simple basking in the sun without a previous anointing, Cic. Att. 12, 6.— Absol. or with nutrix, a dry-nurse:

Hoc monstrant vetulae pueris repentibus assae,

Juv. 14, 208:

assae nutricis est infantem magis diligere quam adultum,

Front. Ep. ad Ant. 1, 5:

VOLVMNIAE DYNAMIDI NVTRICI ASSAE ET LIB....,

Inscr. Murat. 1512, 6:

lapides,

rough, unhewn stone, Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 417: vox, the simple voice, unaccompanied by any instrument, Non. pp. 76 and 77; cf. Ascon. ad Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17; inversely, assae tibiae, [p. 183] pipes not accompanied by the voice, Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 417.

con-cumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n.

Lit., to lie together, lie in numbers (very rare):

Evandri profugae concubuere boves,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 4.—

To lie with (for sexual intercourse).

In tempp. pres. (rare).

With dat.: Cinyrae. Ov. M. 10, 338.—

Absol.:

concumbunt Graece,

Juv. 6, 191:

dicet... quibus verbis concumbat quaeque,

id. 6, 406: mulier oppressa concumbenti nullā voluntate consenserit, Aug. Civ. Dei, 1, 19.—

In tempp. perf. (referred by some to a present concubo, which is not found).

With cum:

num aiunt (Eam) tecum post duobus concubuisse mensibus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 33; Cic. Fat. 13, 30:

cum viro,

id. Inv. 1, 29, 44:

cum matre,

Ov. M. 7, 386:

cum vestris viris,

id. A. A. 3, 522; Dig. 1, 6, 6.—

With dat.:

Egeriam justo concubuisse Numae,

Ov. Am. 2, 17, 18:

nudae deae,

Prop. 2 (3), 15, 16.

cŭbĭtus, ūs, m. [id.], a lying down (very rare).

Prop.:

supini, proni, in latera,

Plin. 28, 4, 14, § 54.—

Esp., of coitus (for concubitus), in plur., Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 70.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a bed, couch:

foliis cubitus sibi sternunt,

Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 59.

cŭbĭtus, i, m., v. cubitum.

dis-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( perf. sync. discesti, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3), v. n.

(With the notion of dis predominating.)

To part asunder, divide, separate (rare but class.; cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, desum, destituo, deficio).

Lit.:

cum terra discessisset magnis quibusdam imbribus,

Cic. Off. 3, 9:

caelum,

opens, id. Div. 1, 43, 97; 1, 44, 99, i. e. clears off, Verg. A. 9, 20 (this last is quoted in Sen. Q. N. 7, 20):

sulcus vomere,

Luc. 6, 382: VT SODALITATES DECVRIATIQVE DISCEDERENT, SC. ap. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5; cf.:

cum discedere populum jussissent tribuni,

Liv. 3, 11:

populus ex contione,

Sall. J. 34 fin.: armati in latitudinem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 99, 7:

in duas partes,

Sall. J. 13, 1:

in partes,

Tac. A. 1, 49; cf.:

in manipulos,

id. ib. 1, 34:

fumus in auras,

Lucr. 3, 436:

ad semina rerum,

id. 2, 833:

palus multos discessit in amnes,

Luc. 6, 360:

citius paterer caput hoc discedere collo,

Prop. 2, 6, 7.—

Trop.:

divisio in tres partes,

Quint. 12, 10, 58:

haec in duo genera,

id. 3, 6, 86.—

To part from one's connection with one, i. e. to leave, forsake, desert (rare but class.).—With a or ab: uxor a Dolabella discessit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6:

ab amicis in re publica peccantibus,

Cic. Lael. 12, 42:

ab amicis,

id. ib. 20, 75:

a nobis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 3:

milites in itinere ab eo discedunt,

id. ib. 1, 12, 2:

a Perseo,

Liv. 43, 6.

(With the notion of cedere predominating.) To depart from any place or person, to go away from, to leave (cf.: proficiscor, abeo; so most frequently in all periods and sorts of composition).

Lit.

In gen.: constr. with ab, ex, or absol., rarely with de —With ab: cum discesti ab [p. 586] hero, atque abisti ad forum, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3;

so with abire,

id. ib. 3, 3, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 2 fin.:

quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 1:

ab suis,

id. ib. 5, 3, 6:

ab exercitu,

id. ib. 7, 9, 1; id. B. C. 1, 9, 3 et saep.:

a senis latere numquam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

a vallo,

Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 3:

ab loco,

id. ib. 5, 34, 1:

a litore,

id. ib. 5, 8 fin. et saep.—With ex:

non modo illum e Gallia non discessisse, sed ne a Mutina quidem recessisse,

Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21:

ex contione,

Caes. B. C. 2, 33, 2:

e medio,

Suet. Caes. 1:

e patria,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 85 et saep.—With de:

de foro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147; 2, 4, 22, § 49; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79:

de colloquio,

Liv. 32, 40.—With abl. without a prep.:

templo,

Ov. M. 1, 381:

finibus Ausoniae,

id. Tr. 1, 3, 5:

lecto,

id. H. 1, 81:

Tarracone,

Caes. B. C. 2, 21, 5:

Capua,

Cic. Att. 7, 21.— Absol.:

ille discessit, ego somno solutus sum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 26 fin.;

so,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 3; id. B. C. 1, 22 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 8 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

ne longius ab agmine discedi pateretur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 3:

ab concilio disceditur,

id. ib. 7, 2 fin.:

de colloquio discessum,

Liv. 32, 40; Caes. B. C. 3, 87 fin.; Tac. A. 6, 44 fin. —

Designating the term. ad quem, to go away to any place:

in silvas,

Caes. B. G. 5, 39, 2:

ex fuga in civitates,

id. ib. 7, 88 fin.:

in castra,

id. B. C. 1, 83, 3:

in proximos colles,

Sall. J. 54 fin.:

in loca occulta,

id. ib. 56, 3:

ad urbem,

Verg. A. 12, 184 et saep.:

Capreas,

Tac. A. 6, 20:

ex castris domum,

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

simply domum,

id. B. C. 1, 13, 3; 3, 87, 3:

domos suas,

Nep. Them. 4, 2 al.:

cubitum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 10.—

In partic.

In milit. lang., to march off, march away, decamp:

discessit a Brundisio obsessionemque nostrorum omisit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.:

ab Gergovia,

id. B. G. 7, 43 fin.:

a mari Dyrrhachioque,

id. B. C. 3, 44, 1:

ab Zama,

Sall. J. 61 al.:

ex ea parte vici,

Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 1:

ex hibernis,

id. ib. 5, 28, 3:

ex eo loco,

id. B. C. 3, 30, 7; cf.:

ex iis locis cum classe,

id. ib. 3, 101 fin.:

Tarracone,

id. ib. 2, 21, 5 et saep.:

dispersi ac dissipati discedunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 3; so absol., id. ib. 5, 53 fin.; 6, 33, 4 et saep.;

so milit.: discedere ab signis,

to quit the standard, leave the order of battle, Caes. B. G. 5, 16, 1; id. B. C. 1, 44, 4; Liv. 25, 20:

qui discedere et abire cœptabant,

i. e. to break ranks and go away, Suet. Oth. 11; cf.: ab ordinibus signisque Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3:

ab armis,

to lay down one's arms, Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 8; id. B. C. 1, 9, 5; Sall. C. 34, 1; Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; Liv. 9, 14 al.—

Also in milit. lang., to get away, come away, come off in any manner from the battle (victorious, conquered, wounded, etc.); and sometimes to be translated simply to become, to be, etc.:

superiores,

Caes. B. C. 1, 47, 1; so,

superior,

Sall. C. 39, 4:

victor,

Caes. B. C. 3, 47, 6; cf.:

victor ab hoste,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 37:

victus,

to be conquered, Sall. C. 49, 2:

graviter vulneratus,

id. ib. 61, 7 et saep.:

aequo proelio,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 7; cf.:

aequa manu,

Sall. C. 39, 4:

aequo Marte cum Volscis,

Liv. 2, 40:

sine detrimento,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46, 6 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

a proelio disceditur,

Just. 6, 7, 12.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq. into the judicial sphere, on account of its analogy to the former):

ut spoliis Sexti Roscii hoc judicio ornati auctique discedant,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 3 fin.:

superiorem,

id. Caecin. 1, 2; so,

liberatus,

Nep. Phoc. 2, 3:

omnium judicio probatus,

Cic. Brut. 64, 229:

impunita (tanta injuria),

id. Verr. 2, 4, 30 et saep.:

discessisses non male,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 70; cf.:

pulchre et probe et praeter spem,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 58:

aut cum summa gloria aut sine molestia,

Cic. Att. 2, 21 fin.; cf.:

a judicio capitis maximā gloriā,

Nep. Epam. 8 fin.:

ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam Neget daturum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 121; cf.:

si possum discedere, ne causa optima in senatu pereat,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16 fin.

Trop.

In gen., to depart, deviate, swerve from; to leave, forsake, give up:

nihil a statu naturae, nihil a dignitate sapientis,

Cic. Off. 1, 20, 67:

a fide justitiaque,

id. ib. 3, 20, 79:

longe ab consuetudine mea et cautione ac diligentia,

id. Font. 1, 2:

a constantia atque a mente, atque a se ipse,

id. Div. 2, 55, 114; cf.:

a se,

id. Brut. 79, 273; id. Fin. 5, 11, 33; 4, 5, 41; id. Tusc. 4, 6, 11: a recta conscientia, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 20:

a sua sententia,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 5: ab officio, id. B. G. 1, 40, 3:

ab oppugnatione castrorum,

id. B. C. 2, 31, 3 et saep.:

a judiciisque causisque,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:

a litteris,

id. Fam. 9, 26:

ab illa acerrima contentione,

id. Or. 31:

ab illa cavillatione,

Quint. 12, 2, 14:

a suscepta semel persuasione,

id. 12, 2, 26 et saep.—

In partic.

Pregn., to pass away, to vanish, to cease (very rarely):

modo audivi, quartanam a te discessisse,

had left you, Cic. Att. 8, 6:

ex animo memoria alicujus,

id. Rep. 6, 9: hostibus spes potiundi oppidi discessit (opp. studium propugnandi accessit), Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2:

ubi hae sollicitudines discessere,

Liv. 4, 52 fin. —

In alicujus sententiam, in polit. lang., to pass or go over to another's opinion, Sall. C. 55, 1; Liv. 3, 41; 28, 45; cf.

the opp., in alia omnia,

Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 3 (v. alius). In like manner:

decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum SC., quo nisi paene in ipso urbis incendio... numquam ante discessum est,

which had never before been resorted to, Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3;

so perh.: ex oratione Caesaris... hanc in opinionem discessi, ut, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 6, 14 fin. —

Ab aliquo, in Cicero's letters in the sense of to leave out of consideration, i. e. to except:

cum a vobis meae salutis auctoribus discesserim, neminem esse, cujus officiis me tam esse devinctum confitear,

if I except you, you excepted, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 18:

ut cum ab illo discesserint, me habeant proximum,

id. ib. 6, 12, 2:

amoris erga me, cum a fraterno amore domesticoque discessi, tibi primas defero,

id. Att. 1, 17, 5.

perf.: custodibus discessis, Cael. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.

dis-cumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n., to lie down.

More freq., to recline at table for the purpose of eating (cf. accumbo—so esp. freq. since the Aug. per.):

discubuimus omnes praeter illam,

Cic. Att. 5, 1, 4; Lucr. 3, 912; Quint. 11, 2, 13; Suet. Caes. 48; Tib. 2, 5, 95; Verg. A. 1, 708; Ov. M. 8, 566; Vulg. Johan. 12, 2 al.—Sometimes of a single person (yet always with the accessory idea of a number reclining at the same time):

in convivio Germanici cum super eum Piso discumberet,

Tac. A. 3, 14; 6, 50; Suet. Aug. 74; Curt. 8, 5, 6; Juv. 5, 12.— Pass. impers.:

discumbitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Verg. A. 1, 700; Gell. 3, 19 al.—

Rarely, to lie down to sleep:

discubitum noctu ire,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 100:

cenati discubuerunt ibidem,

Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14.

ĕo, īvi or ii (īt, Verg. A. 9, 418 al.; cf.

Lachm. ad Lucr. vol. 2, p. 206 sq.: isse, issem, etc., for ivisse, etc.,

Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 25; Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64; id. Phil. 14, 1, 1; Ov. M. 7, 350 et saep.: isti, Turp. ap. Non. 4, 242:

istis,

Luc. 7, 834, etc., v. Neue Formenl. 2, 515), īre ( inf. pass. irier, Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 16), ĭtum, v. n. [root i-, Sanscr. ēmi, go; Gr. eimi; causat. hiêmi = jacio, Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 403], to go (of every kind of motion of animate or inanimate things), to walk, ride, sail, fly, move, pass, etc. (very freq. in all periods and sorts of writing).

Lit.

In gen.:

eo ad forum,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 95:

i domum,

id. ib. 5, 2, 71 sq.:

nos priores ibimus,

id. Poen. 3, 2, 34:

i in crucem,

go and be hanged! id. As. 5, 2, 91; cf.:

i in malam crucem,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 17; id. Ps. 3, 2, 57; 4, 7, 86:

i in malam rem hinc,

Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 37:

iens in Pompeianum,

Cic. Att. 4, 9 fin.:

subsidio suis ierunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 62, 8:

quom it dormitum,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 23; id Most. 3, 2, 4; 16; Hor. S. 1, 6, 119 et saep, cf.:

dormitum, lusum,

id. ib. 1, 5, 48:

cubitum,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 27; 5, 4, 8; id. Ps. 3, 2, 57; Cic. Rosc. Am. 23; id. Div. 2, 59, 122 et saep.— Poet. with the acc. of the terminus:

ibis Cecropios portus,

Ov. H. 10, 125 Loers.:

Sardoos recessus,

Sil. 12, 368; cf.:

hinc Afros,

Verg. E. 1, 65.—With a cognate acc.:

ire vias,

Prop. 1, 1, 17:

exsequias,

Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 37:

pompam funeris,

Ov. F. 6, 663 et saep.:

non explorantur eundae vitandaeque viae,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 419:

animae ad lumen iturae,

Verg. A. 6, 680:

ego ire in Piraeum volo,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 63; cf.:

visere ad aliquam,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 114; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 52:

videre,

Prop. 1, 1, 12:

ire pedibus,

on foot, Liv. 28, 17:

equis,

id. 1, 15:

curru,

id. 28, 9; Ov. H. 1, 46; cf.:

in equis,

id. A. A. 1, 214:

in raeda,

Mart. 3, 47:

super equos,

Just. 41, 3;

and with equis to be supplied,

Verg. A. 5, 554:

puppibus,

Ov. H. 19, 180; cf.:

cum classe Pisas,

Liv. 41, 17 et saep.:

concedere quo poterunt undae, cum pisces ire nequibunt?

Lucr. 1, 380.—

Of things:

alvus non it,

Cato R. R. 157, 7; so,

sanguis naribus,

Lucr. 6, 1203:

Euphrates jam mollior undis,

Verg. A. 8, 726:

sudor per artus,

id. ib. 2, 174:

fucus in artus,

Lucr. 2, 683:

telum (with volare),

id. 1, 971:

trabes,

i. e. to give way, sink, id. 6, 564 et saep.:

in semen ire (asparagum),

to go to seed, Cato, R. R. 161, 3; so Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 159; cf.:

in corpus (juvenes),

Quint. 2, 10, 5:

sanguis it in sucos,

turns into, Ov. M. 10, 493.—

In partic.

To go or proceed against with hostile intent, to march against:

quos fugere credebant, infestis signis ad se ire viderunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 6:

ad hostem,

Liv. 42, 49:

contra hostem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 67, 2; cf. id. B. C. 3, 31 fin.:

adversus hostem,

Liv. 42, 49:

in hostem,

id. 2, 6; Verg. A. 9, 424 et saep.; cf.:

in Capitolium,

to go against, to attack, Liv. 3, 17.—

Pregn., to pass away, disappear (very rare):

saepe hominem paulatim cernimus ire,

Lucr. 3, 526; cf. ib. 530; 594.

Trop.

In gen., to go, pass, proceed, move, advance:

ire in opus alienum,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 6:

in dubiam imperii servitiique aleam,

Liv. 1, 23 fin.:

in alteram causam praeceps ierat,

id. 2, 27:

in rixam,

Quint. 6, 4, 13:

in lacrimas,

Verg. A. 4, 413; Stat. Th. 11, 193:

in poenas,

Ov. M. 5, 668 et saep.:

ire per singula,

Quint. 6, 1, 12; cf. id. 4, 2, 32; 7, 1, 64; 10, 5, 21:

ad quem (modum) non per gradus itur,

id. 8, 4, 7 et saep.:

dicite qua sit eundum,

Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 19:

ire infitias, v. infitiae: Latina debent cito pariter ire,

Quint. 1, 1, 14:

aliae contradictiones eunt interim longius,

id. 5, 13, 54: in eosdem semper pedes ire (compositio), [p. 649] id. 9, 4, 142:

cum per omnes et personas et affectus eat (comoedia),

id. 1, 8, 7; cf. id. 1, 2, 13; Juv. 1, 142:

Phrygiae per oppida facti Rumor it,

Ov. M. 6, 146:

it clamor caelo,

Verg. A. 5, 451:

factoque in secula ituro, Laetantur tribuisse locum,

to go down to posterity, Sil. 12, 312; cf.

with a subject-sentence: ibit in saecula, fuisse principem, cui, etc.,

Plin. Pan. 55.—

In partic.

Pub. law t. t.

Pedibus ire, or simply ire in aliquam sententiam, in voting, to go over or accede to any opinion (opp. discedere, v. h. v. II. B. 2. b.):

cum omnes in sententiam ejus pedibus irent,

Liv. 9, 8, 13:

pars major eorum qui aderant in eandem sententiam ibat,

id. 1, 32 fin.; 34, 43; 42, 3 fin.—Pass. impers.:

in quam sententiam cum pedibus iretur,

Liv. 5, 9, 2:

ibatur in eam sententiam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1 fin.:

itum in sententiam,

Tac. A. 3, 23; 12, 48.—And opp. to the above,

Ire in alia omnia, to vote against a bill, v. alius, II.—

Mercant. t. t. for vēneo, to go for, be sold at a certain price, Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 194:

tot Pontus eat, tot Lydia nummis,

Claud. Eutr. 1, 203.—

Pregn., of time, to pass by, pass away:

it dies,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 12; Hor. C. 2, 14, 5; 4, 5, 7:

anni,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 55; cf.:

anni more fluentis aquae,

Ov. A. A. 3, 62.—

With the accessory notion of result, to go, proceed, turn out, happen:

incipit res melius ire quam putaram,

Cic. Att. 14, 15; cf. Tac. A. 12, 68:

prorsus ibat res,

Cic. Att. 14, 20 fin.; Curt. 8, 5:

postquam omnia fatis Caesaris ire videt,

Luc. 4, 144.—Hence the wish: sic eat, so may he fare:

sic eat quaecunque Romana lugebit hostem,

Liv. 1, 26; Luc. 5, 297 Cort.; 2, 304; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 155. —

Constr. with a supine, like the Gr. mellein, to go or set about, to prepare, to wish, to be about to do any thing:

si opulentus it petitum pauperioris gratiam, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 69; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 36: quod uti prohibitum irem, quod in me esset, meo labori non parsi, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. PARSI, p. 242 Müll.; so,

perditum gentem universam,

Liv. 32, 22:

ultum injurias, scelera,

id. 2, 6; Quint. 11, 1, 42:

servitum Grais matribus,

Verg. A. 2, 786 et saep.:

bonorum praemia ereptum eunt,

Sall. J. 85, 42.—Hence the construction of the inf. pass. iri with the supine, in place of an inf. fut. pass.:

mihi omne argentum redditum iri,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 5:

mihi istaec videtur praeda praedatum irier,

id. Rud. 4, 7, 16 et saep.— Poet. also with inf.:

seu pontum carpere remis Ibis,

Prop. 1, 6, 34:

attollere facta regum,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 11:

fateri,

id. Th. 3, 61 al. —

Imp. i, eas, eat, etc., since the Aug. period more freq. a mocking or indignant expression, go then, go now:

i nunc et cupidi nomen amantis habe,

Ov. H. 3, 26; so,

i nunc,

id. ib. 4, 127; 9, 105; 17, 57; id. Am. 1, 7, 35; Prop. 2, 29, 22 (3, 27, 22 M.); Verg. A. 7, 425; Juv. 6, 306 al.:

i, sequere Italiam ventis,

Verg. A. 4, 381; so,

i,

id. ib. 9, 634:

fremunt omnibus locis: Irent, crearent consules ex plebe,

Liv. 7, 6 fin.

ĕō, adv. [old dat. and abl. form of pron. stem i; cf. is].

In locat. and abl. uses,

Of place=in eo loco, there, in that place (rare):

quid (facturus est) cum tu eo quinque legiones haberes?

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 2, 1:

quo loco... ibi... eoque,

Cels. 8, 9, 1:

eo loci,

Tac. A. 15, 74; Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 136; so trop.: eo loci, in that condition:

res erat eo jam loci, ut, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 13, 68; Tac. A. 14, 61; Dig. 5, 1, 52, § 3.—

Of cause=eā re.

Referring to a cause or reason before given, therefore, on that account, for that reason:

is nunc dicitur venturus peregre: eo nunc commenta est dolum,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 66; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 41:

dederam litteras ad te: eo nunc ero brevior,

Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1; Sall. C. 21, 3; Liv. 8, 8, 8; Tac. H. 2, 65; Nep. Pelop. 1, 3; id. Milt. 2, 3 et saep.—So with conjunctions, eoque, et eo, eo quoque, in adding any thing as a consequence of what precedes, and for that reason:

absolute pares, et eo quoque innumerabiles,

Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 55:

impeditius eoque hostibus incautum,

Tac. A. 1, 50:

per gentes integras et eo feroces,

Vell. 2, 115, 2; Quint. 4, 1, 42 al. —

Referring to a foll. clause, giving

a cause or reason, with quia, quoniam, quod, etc.; so with quia:

eo fit, quia mihi plurimum credo,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 124; id. Capt. 1, 1, 2:

nunc eo videtur foedus, quia, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 17; 3, 1, 25:

quia scripseras, eo te censebam, etc.,

Cic. Att. 10, 17, 4; Sall. C. 20, 3; Tac. Agr. 22.—With quoniam:

haec eo notavi, quoniam, etc.,

Gell. 7, 13.—With quod:

quod... non potueritis, eo vobis potestas erepta sit,

Cic. Verr. 1, 8, 22; Nep. Eum. 11, 5; Liv. 9, 2, 4; Caes. B. G. 1, 23; so,

neque eo... quod,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 43; Varr. R. R. 1, 5.—

A purpose, motive or reason, with quo, ut, ne; and after negatives, with quo, quin, and subj. —So with quo:

eo scripsi, quo plus auctoritatis haberem,

Cic. Att. 8, 9, 1; Sall. C. 22, 2; so,

non eo... quo,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 16:

neque eo... quo,

Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 18, 51.—With ut:

haec eo scripsi, ut intellegeres,

Cic. Fam. 13, 69, 2; id. de Or. 3, 49, 187; Lact. 4, 5, 9.—With ne: Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 63; Ter. Ph. 5, 1, 17:

quod ego non eo vereor, ne mihi noceat,

Cic. Att. 9, 2; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 9.—With quin:

non eo haec dico, quin quae tu vis ego velim,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 60; id. As. 5, 1, 16. —

Of measure or degree—with words of comparison, so much, by so much —followed by quo (= tanto... quanto):

quae eo fructuosiores fiunt, quo calidior terra aratur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 32, 1:

eo gravior est dolor, quo culpa major,

Cic. Att. 11, 11, 2; id. Fam. 2, 19, 1; so with quantum:

quantum juniores patrum plebi se magis insinuabant, eo acrius contra tribuni tendebant, etc.,

Liv. 3, 15, 2; id. 44, 7, 6:

quanto longius abscederent, eo, etc.,

id. 30, 30, 23. —Esp. freq. the formulae, eo magis, eo minus, so much the worse ( the less), followed by quo, quod, quoniam, si, ut, ne:

eo magis, quo tanta penuria est in omni honoris gradu,

Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 7:

eo minus veritus navibus, quod in littore molli, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 9; Cic. Off. 3, 22, 88; id. Att. 15, 9 fin.:

eo magis, quoniam, etc., Cels. praef. p. 14, 12 Müll.: nihil admirabilius fieri potest, eoque magis, si ea sunt in adulescente,

Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94:

eo diligentius ut ne parvula quidem titubatione impediremur,

Auct. Her. 2, 8, 12; Cic. Rab. Perd. 3, 9:

ego illa extuli et eo quidem magis, ne quid ille superiorum meminisse me putaret,

id. Att. 9, 13, 3.—

In this combination eo often expresses also the idea of cause (cf. B. 1. supra): hoc probis pretiumst. Eo mihi magis lubet cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 37: solliciti tamen et anxii sunt;

eoque magis, quod se ipsi continent et coercent,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 70;

and some passages may be classed under either head: dederam triduo ante litteras ad te. Eo nunc ero brevior,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1; id. Inv 1, 4, 5; id. Off. 2, 13, 45; id. Fam. 9, 16, 9; Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 8.

In dat. uses.

With the idea of motion, to that place, thither (=in eum locum):

eo se recipere coeperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 5:

uti eo cum introeas, circumspicias, uti inde exire possit,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

eo tela conicere, Auct. B. Afr. 72: eo respicere,

Sall. J. 35, 10; so,

followed by quo, ubi, unde: non potuit melius pervenirier eo, quo nos volumus,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 35:

venio nunc eo, quo me fides ducit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 83:

ibit eo quo vis, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 40:

(venit) eo, ubi non modo res erat, etc.,

Cic. Quint. 11; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 21; Vell. 2, 108, 2:

eo, unde discedere non oportuit, revertamur,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 3; Liv. 6, 35, 2; Sall. C. 60, 2;

so (late Lat.) with loci: perducendum eo loci, ubi actum sit,

Dig. 10, 4, 11, § 1; ib. 47, 2, 3, § 2.—

Transf.

With the idea of addition, thereto, in addition to that, besides:

accessit eo, ut milites ejus, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 4:

accedit eo, quod, etc.,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1.—

With the idea of tendency, to that end, with that purpose, to this result:

hoc autem eo spectabat, ut eam a Philippo corruptam diceret,

Cic. Div. 2, 57, 118:

haec eo pertinet oratio, ut ipsa virtus se sustentare posse videretur,

id. Fam. 6, 1, 12:

hoc eo valebat, ut, etc.,

Nep. Them. 4, 4.—

With the idea of degree or extent, to that degree or extent, so far, to such a point:

eo scientiae progredi,

Quint. 2, 1, 6:

postquam res publica eo magnificentiae venerit, gliscere singulos,

Tac. A. 2, 33; id. H. 1, 16; id. Agr. 28:

eo magnitudinis procedere,

Sall. J. 1, 5; 5, 2; 14, 3:

ubi jam eo consuetudinis adducta res est, ut, etc.,

Liv. 25, 8, 11; 28, 27, 12; 32, 18, 8 al.; Just. 3, 5:

eo insolentiae processit,

Plin. Pan. 16:

eo rerum ventum erat, ut, etc.,

Curt. 5, 12, 3; 7, 1, 35.— With gen., Val. Max. 3, 7, 1 al.; Flor. 1, 24, 2; 2, 18, 12; Suet. Caes. 77; Plin. Pan. 16, 5; Sen. Q. N. 4 praef. §

9: eo rem jam adducam, ut nihil divinationis opus sit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

res eo est deducta, ut, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 18, 2; Hor. C. 2, 1, 226; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18.—

Of time, up to the time, until, so long, usually with usque, and followed by dum, donec:

usque eo premere capita, dum illae captum amitterent,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 124; Liv. 23, 19, 14; Tac. A. 4, 18:

eo usque flagitatus est, donec ad exitium dederetur,

id. ib. 1, 32; Quint. 11, 3, 53:

eo usque vivere, donec, etc.,

Liv. 40, 8; cf. Col. 4, 24, 20; 4, 30, 4.—Rarely by quamdiu:

eo usque, quamdiu ad fines barbaricos veniretur,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 45.

incumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, ĕre, v. n. [1. incubo], to lay one ' s self upon, to lean or recline upon a thing (cf. ingruo; class., partic. in the trop. sense).

Lit., constr. with in, ad, super, or dat.; also with the simple acc.:

olivae,

Verg. E. 8, 16:

in parietem,

Dig. 39, 2, 28:

densis ordinibus nunc alii in alios, nunc in scuta incumbentes sustinebant impetus Romanorum,

Liv. 35, 5, 7:

toro,

Verg. A. 4, 650:

materiae,

Curt. 8, 10, 25:

terrae,

Tac. A. 2, 17:

super praedam,

to lie upon, Petr. 80:

in eum,

Curt. 6, 9: ad vos, Ov. M. 9, 385:

cumulatis in aqua sarcinis insuper incumbebant,

Liv. 22, 2, 8:

validis incumbere remis,

Verg. A. 5, 15; 10, 294; Curt. 9, 9, 4.—Of the heavens:

cava in se convexitas vergit, et cardini suo, hoc est terrae, undique incumbit,

Plin. 2, 64, 64, § 160:

mare,

to cast itself into the sea, id. 5, 32, 40, § 141: fessi arma sua, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 229:

tecto incubuit bubo,

perched on, Ov. M. 6, 432:

gladium faciam culcitam, camque incumbam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 29.—

Transf., to lean or incline towards, to overhang; to rush towards:

silex prona jugo laevum incumbebat ad amnem,

Verg. A. 8, 236:

laurus incumbens arae,

id. ib. 2, 514: in gladium, to fall on one ' s sword, Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

gladio,

Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18:

ferro,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 33:

in hostem,

to press upon the enemy, Liv. 30, 34, 2; cf.:

duo duces circumstare urbem... et unum in locum totam periculi molem, omne onus incubuisse,

id. 27, 40, 6.—

Trop.

To press upon, burden, oppress, weigh upon:

incubuere (venti) mari,

Verg. A. 1, 84:

tempestas a vertice silvis incubuit,

id. G. 2, 311:

gravis incumbens scopulis aestas,

id. ib. 2, 377:

febrium terris incubuit cohors,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 30:

(aestus) incubuit populo,

Lucr. 6, 142. — Absol.:

saevior armis Luxuria incubuit,

Just. 6, 292.—

To bend one ' s attention to, to apply or devote one ' s self to, to exert one ' s self, or take pains with, pay attention to; constr. with in, ad, or dat.:

rogandis legibus,

Flor. 3, 16:

ceris et stilo,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 9:

labori,

Sil. 4, 820:

toto pectore novae cogitationi,

Tac. Or. 3:

et animo et opibus in bellum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

ut jam inclinato (judici) reliqua incumbat oratio,

press upon, exert influence on, Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 324; cf.:

invidia mihi incumbit,

Tac. A. 14, 54:

in aliquod studium,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

in causam,

id. Phil. 4, 5, 12:

acrius graviusque ad ulciscendas rei publicae injurias,

id. ib. 6, 1, 2:

tota mente in aliquam curam et cogitationem,

id. Fam. 10, 3, 3:

toto pectore ad laudem,

id. ib. 10, 12, 2:

omni cogitatione curaque in rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 2:

fato urguenti incumbere,

to press on, hasten, Verg. A. 2, 653.—With inf.:

sarcire ruinas,

Verg. G. 4, 249:

delatorem pervertere,

Tac. H. 2, 10.—With ut and subj.:

Appius Claudius... cum suis tum totius nobilitatis viribus incubuit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 10, 15, 8.— Absol.:

nunc, nunc incumbere tempus,

Ov. M. 10, 657.—

To incline, choose, be inclined to, lean towards:

hoc servi esse officium reor,... non quo incumbat eum (i. e. erum) inpellere,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 8:

ut eos, qui audiunt, quocumque incubuerit, possit impellere,

whithersoever he may incline, choose, Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 55:

eodem incumbunt municipia,

are inclined the same way, id. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

ad voluntatem perferendae legis,

id. Att. 1, 19, 4:

voluntatum inclinatio ad virum bonum,

to lean towards, turn to, id. Mur. 26, 53: in causam, Cael. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3:

in cupiditatem,

Cic. Att. 5, 13, 3:

in illo,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6.—

To be incumbent upon one as a duty (post-class.):

accusandi necessitas domino,

Dig. 48, 2, 5:

ei probatio,

ib. 22, 3, 2:

judici omnium rerum officium,

ib. 21, 1, 25.

littĕra (less correctly lītĕra), ae, f. [lino, q. v.], a letter, a written sign or mark signifying a sound.

Lit.:

cubitum hercle longis litteris signabo jam usquequaque, si quis, etc.,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 7:

quid hae locuntur litterae?

id. Bacch. 4, 7, 3; cf.: quid istae narrant? Tox. Perconctare ex ipsis;

ipsae tibi narrabunt,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 29:

sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

priscarum litterarum notae,

id. ib. 2, 41, 85:

maximis litteris incisum,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 63, § 154 fin.:

lenis appellatio litterarum,

id. Brut. 74, 159:

suavis appellatio litterarum,

Quint. 11, 3, 35:

quae si nostris litteris scribantur,

id. 12, 10, 28 litterarum ordine, in alphabetical order, Plin. 37, 9, 54, § 138:

verba primis litteris notare, Prob. de Not. Signif. 1 Huschke: digerere in litteram,

to arrange alphabetically, Sen. Ep. 68, 18: scire litteras, [p. 1072] to be able to read and write, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 23; Vitr. 1, 1, 14:

nescire litteras,

not to be able to read and write, id. Clem. 2, 1, 2; Suet. Ner. 10:

scribere aureis litteris,

Gai. Inst. 2, 77:

scientia litterarum,

the art of writing, Dig. 29, 2, 93:

facere litteram or litteras,

to write, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 22; Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 6.—In the language of comedy:

homo trium litterarum, i. e. fur,

a thief, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 46: litteram ex se longam facere, i. e. to make an I by hanging perpendicularly, to hang one's self:

neque quicquam meliust mihi, ut opinor, quam ex me ut faciam litteram longam, meum laqueo collum quando obstrinxero,

id. ib. 1, 1, 37:

littera salutaris, i. e. A. (absolvo) and tristis, i. e. C. (condemno), which were put on the voting-tablets,

Cic. Mil. 6, 15.—

Transf.

A word, a line:

ad me litteram numquam misit,

Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 6: ad litteram, word for word, literally:

locum ad litteram subjeci,

Quint. 9, 1, 15.—

A handwriting:

Alexidis manum amabam, quod tam prope accedebat ad similitudinem tuae litterae,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3; cf.:

arguit ipsorum quos littera,

Juv. 13, 138 (v. also infra B. 1. fin.).—

Usually plur.

Littĕrae, ārum, f., a letter, epistle: litteras resignare, to unseal or open a letter, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 65:

ut litterarum ego harum sermonem audio,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 97; Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1:

dare alicui litteras ad aliquem,

id. Cat. 3, 4, 9:

litteras mittere,

id. Att. 5, 21, 2:

reddere alicui,

id. ib. 5, 21, 4:

accipere,

id. ib. 5, 21, 7:

remittere,

id. ib. 11, 16, 4:

nullas iis praeterquam ad te et ad Brutum dedi litteras,

id. Fam. 3, 7, 1:

queri apud aliquem per litteras,

id. Att. 5, 21, 13: invitare aliquem perlitteras id. ib. 13, 2, 2:

civitatum animos litteris temptare,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40, 1: litterae missae, a letter sent by a person: litterae allatae, a letter received: hence, liber litterarum missarum et allatarum, a letter-book:

L. M. (i. e. litterae missae)... L. A. (i. e. litterae allatae), etc.,

Cic. Font. 4, 8; id. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 167.—In poets also sometimes in sing.:

quam legis a rapta Briseide littera venit,

Ov. H. 3, 1; 5, 2; id. M. 9, 515; Tib. 3, 2, 27; Mart. 10, 73 al.—

A writing, document, paper:

litterae publicae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 63, § 140; 2, 4, 16, § 35; esp. a written acknowledgment:

littera poscetur,

Ov. A. A. 1, 428.—

An account-book:

ratio omnis et litterae,

Cic. Quint. 11, 37; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12, § 27.—

An edict, ordinance:

praetoris litterae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

litteras revocavit,

letter of appointment, commission, Suet. Vesp. 8. —

Written monuments, records, literature:

abest historia litteris nostris,

is wanting in our literature, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 5:

Graecae de philosophia litterae,

philosophical literature, id. Div. 2, 2, 5:

genus hoc scriptionis nondum satis Latinis litteris illustratae,

id. Brut. 64, 228; id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1; id. Fin. 1, 2, 4:

Graecis litteris studere,

id. Brut. 20, 78:

damnum Hortensii interitu Latinae litterae fecerunt,

id. ib. 33, 125:

nullam artem litteris sine interprete et sine aliqua exercitatione percipi posse,

merely from books, id. Fam. 7, 19:

quod litteris exstet, Pherecydes primum dixit animos hominum esse sempiternos,

id. Tusc. 1, 16, 38:

parvae et rarae per eadem tempora litterae fuere,

Liv. 6, 1, 2; 7, 3, 6:

Etruscae,

id. 9, 36, 3:

paucissimos adhuc eloquentes litterae Romanae tulerunt,

Quint. 10, 1, 123: amor litterarum, id. prooem. 6.—

History, inasmuch as it is derived from written monuments:

cupidissimus litterarum fuit,

Nep. Cat. 3, 1; id. Pelop. 1:

parvae et rarae per eadem tempora litterae fuere,

Liv. 6, 1.—

Literary labor, composition:

omnis varietas litterarum mearum,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 12:

non nihil temporis tribuit litteris,

Nep. Hann. 13, 2.—

An inscription, Ov. M. 11, 706.—

Learning, the sciences, liberal education, scholarship, letters:

sit mihi orator tinctus litteris: audierit aliquid, legerit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85:

erant in eo plurimae litterae,

id. Brut. 76, 265:

homo communium litterarum, et politioris humanitatis non expers,

id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:

homo sine ingenio, sine litteris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 98:

fuit in illo ingenium, ratio, memoria, litterae, cura, cogitatio, diligentia,

id. Phil. 2, 45, 116:

mihi nihil libri, nihil litterae, nihil doctrina prodest,

id. Att. 9, 10, 2:

litterarum scientia,

id. Brut. 42, 153:

litterarum coguitio,

id. de Or. 3, 32, 127: nescire litteras, to be without a liberal education, id. Brut. 74, 259:

altiores litterae,

magic, Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 51.—Comically of the art of love: Litteras didicisti;

quando scis, sine alios discere,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 22.

littĕra (less correctly lītĕra), ae, f. [lino, q. v.], a letter, a written sign or mark signifying a sound.

Lit.:

cubitum hercle longis litteris signabo jam usquequaque, si quis, etc.,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 7:

quid hae locuntur litterae?

id. Bacch. 4, 7, 3; cf.: quid istae narrant? Tox. Perconctare ex ipsis;

ipsae tibi narrabunt,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 29:

sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

priscarum litterarum notae,

id. ib. 2, 41, 85:

maximis litteris incisum,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 63, § 154 fin.:

lenis appellatio litterarum,

id. Brut. 74, 159:

suavis appellatio litterarum,

Quint. 11, 3, 35:

quae si nostris litteris scribantur,

id. 12, 10, 28 litterarum ordine, in alphabetical order, Plin. 37, 9, 54, § 138:

verba primis litteris notare, Prob. de Not. Signif. 1 Huschke: digerere in litteram,

to arrange alphabetically, Sen. Ep. 68, 18: scire litteras, [p. 1072] to be able to read and write, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 23; Vitr. 1, 1, 14:

nescire litteras,

not to be able to read and write, id. Clem. 2, 1, 2; Suet. Ner. 10:

scribere aureis litteris,

Gai. Inst. 2, 77:

scientia litterarum,

the art of writing, Dig. 29, 2, 93:

facere litteram or litteras,

to write, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 22; Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 6.—In the language of comedy:

homo trium litterarum, i. e. fur,

a thief, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 46: litteram ex se longam facere, i. e. to make an I by hanging perpendicularly, to hang one's self:

neque quicquam meliust mihi, ut opinor, quam ex me ut faciam litteram longam, meum laqueo collum quando obstrinxero,

id. ib. 1, 1, 37:

littera salutaris, i. e. A. (absolvo) and tristis, i. e. C. (condemno), which were put on the voting-tablets,

Cic. Mil. 6, 15.—

Transf.

A word, a line:

ad me litteram numquam misit,

Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 6: ad litteram, word for word, literally:

locum ad litteram subjeci,

Quint. 9, 1, 15.—

A handwriting:

Alexidis manum amabam, quod tam prope accedebat ad similitudinem tuae litterae,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3; cf.:

arguit ipsorum quos littera,

Juv. 13, 138 (v. also infra B. 1. fin.).—

Usually plur.

Littĕrae, ārum, f., a letter, epistle: litteras resignare, to unseal or open a letter, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 65:

ut litterarum ego harum sermonem audio,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 97; Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1:

dare alicui litteras ad aliquem,

id. Cat. 3, 4, 9:

litteras mittere,

id. Att. 5, 21, 2:

reddere alicui,

id. ib. 5, 21, 4:

accipere,

id. ib. 5, 21, 7:

remittere,

id. ib. 11, 16, 4:

nullas iis praeterquam ad te et ad Brutum dedi litteras,

id. Fam. 3, 7, 1:

queri apud aliquem per litteras,

id. Att. 5, 21, 13: invitare aliquem perlitteras id. ib. 13, 2, 2:

civitatum animos litteris temptare,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40, 1: litterae missae, a letter sent by a person: litterae allatae, a letter received: hence, liber litterarum missarum et allatarum, a letter-book:

L. M. (i. e. litterae missae)... L. A. (i. e. litterae allatae), etc.,

Cic. Font. 4, 8; id. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 167.—In poets also sometimes in sing.:

quam legis a rapta Briseide littera venit,

Ov. H. 3, 1; 5, 2; id. M. 9, 515; Tib. 3, 2, 27; Mart. 10, 73 al.—

A writing, document, paper:

litterae publicae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 63, § 140; 2, 4, 16, § 35; esp. a written acknowledgment:

littera poscetur,

Ov. A. A. 1, 428.—

An account-book:

ratio omnis et litterae,

Cic. Quint. 11, 37; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12, § 27.—

An edict, ordinance:

praetoris litterae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

litteras revocavit,

letter of appointment, commission, Suet. Vesp. 8. —

Written monuments, records, literature:

abest historia litteris nostris,

is wanting in our literature, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 5:

Graecae de philosophia litterae,

philosophical literature, id. Div. 2, 2, 5:

genus hoc scriptionis nondum satis Latinis litteris illustratae,

id. Brut. 64, 228; id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1; id. Fin. 1, 2, 4:

Graecis litteris studere,

id. Brut. 20, 78:

damnum Hortensii interitu Latinae litterae fecerunt,

id. ib. 33, 125:

nullam artem litteris sine interprete et sine aliqua exercitatione percipi posse,

merely from books, id. Fam. 7, 19:

quod litteris exstet, Pherecydes primum dixit animos hominum esse sempiternos,

id. Tusc. 1, 16, 38:

parvae et rarae per eadem tempora litterae fuere,

Liv. 6, 1, 2; 7, 3, 6:

Etruscae,

id. 9, 36, 3:

paucissimos adhuc eloquentes litterae Romanae tulerunt,

Quint. 10, 1, 123: amor litterarum, id. prooem. 6.—

History, inasmuch as it is derived from written monuments:

cupidissimus litterarum fuit,

Nep. Cat. 3, 1; id. Pelop. 1:

parvae et rarae per eadem tempora litterae fuere,

Liv. 6, 1.—

Literary labor, composition:

omnis varietas litterarum mearum,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 12:

non nihil temporis tribuit litteris,

Nep. Hann. 13, 2.—

An inscription, Ov. M. 11, 706.—

Learning, the sciences, liberal education, scholarship, letters:

sit mihi orator tinctus litteris: audierit aliquid, legerit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85:

erant in eo plurimae litterae,

id. Brut. 76, 265:

homo communium litterarum, et politioris humanitatis non expers,

id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:

homo sine ingenio, sine litteris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 98:

fuit in illo ingenium, ratio, memoria, litterae, cura, cogitatio, diligentia,

id. Phil. 2, 45, 116:

mihi nihil libri, nihil litterae, nihil doctrina prodest,

id. Att. 9, 10, 2:

litterarum scientia,

id. Brut. 42, 153:

litterarum coguitio,

id. de Or. 3, 32, 127: nescire litteras, to be without a liberal education, id. Brut. 74, 259:

altiores litterae,

magic, Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 51.—Comically of the art of love: Litteras didicisti;

quando scis, sine alios discere,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 22.

occumbo ( obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n. [ob-cumbo, cubo], to fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence,

To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.):

cometes cum oriretur occumberetque,

Just. 37, 2, 3:

cum sol occumberet,

Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.—

To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.

Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.):

aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus,

Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.:

circa se dimicans occubuerat,

id. Tit. 4:

fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 18:

dederat ne ferro occumbere posset,

id. M. 12, 207:

acie,

Suet. Ner. 2.—

With mortem or morte (the vacillation of MSS. between these two forms makes it difficult to ascertain which was the prevailing one; cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 387;

Krebs, Antibarb. p. 790): pro patriā mortem (al. morte) occumbere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102 (Kühner, Moser, Orelli, and Baiter have mortem, Klotz and Fischer morte):

quod liberata patria... mortem occubuisset,

Liv. 2, 7, 8; 3, 50, 8; 26, 25, 14:

qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent,

id. 31, 18, 6. —So, too, letum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 390 Vahl.):

necem voluntariam,

Suet. Aug. 13 (al., with inferior MSS., nece voluntariā):

ictus clavā morte occubuit,

Liv. 1, 7, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

morte occumbentis,

id. 8, 10, 4:

ambo pro republicā morte occubuisse,

id. 38, 58.—

With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so,

certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci,

Ov. M. 15, 499.—

To succumb to, fall by the hand of one ( poet.).—With dat.:

Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis,

Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per:

per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem,

Ov. M. 7, 437. —

Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.

occumbo ( obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n. [ob-cumbo, cubo], to fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence,

To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.):

cometes cum oriretur occumberetque,

Just. 37, 2, 3:

cum sol occumberet,

Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.—

To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.

Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.):

aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus,

Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.:

circa se dimicans occubuerat,

id. Tit. 4:

fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 18:

dederat ne ferro occumbere posset,

id. M. 12, 207:

acie,

Suet. Ner. 2.—

With mortem or morte (the vacillation of MSS. between these two forms makes it difficult to ascertain which was the prevailing one; cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 387;

Krebs, Antibarb. p. 790): pro patriā mortem (al. morte) occumbere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102 (Kühner, Moser, Orelli, and Baiter have mortem, Klotz and Fischer morte):

quod liberata patria... mortem occubuisset,

Liv. 2, 7, 8; 3, 50, 8; 26, 25, 14:

qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent,

id. 31, 18, 6. —So, too, letum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 390 Vahl.):

necem voluntariam,

Suet. Aug. 13 (al., with inferior MSS., nece voluntariā):

ictus clavā morte occubuit,

Liv. 1, 7, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

morte occumbentis,

id. 8, 10, 4:

ambo pro republicā morte occubuisse,

id. 38, 58.—

With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so,

certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci,

Ov. M. 15, 499.—

To succumb to, fall by the hand of one ( poet.).—With dat.:

Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis,

Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per:

per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem,

Ov. M. 7, 437. —

Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.

praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.

To go by or past, to pass by:

si nemo hac praeteriit,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

praeteriens modo,

in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

te praetereunte,

Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

redire potest,

Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—

To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

figura hujus mundi,

id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—

Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.

Lit.:

praeterire pistrinum,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

id. As. 3, 4, 15:

hortos,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

Verg. A. 4, 157:

Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

praeterita est virgo,

Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

ripas Flumina praetereunt,

flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—

Trop.

To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—

With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—

To pass by or over, i. e.

To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

aliquid silentio,

id. Brut. 22, 88:

praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

Ov. F. 6, 319:

ut nihil praeteream,

Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

ne quid praetereatur,

id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—

To pass over, omit, make no use of:

locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—

To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

Suet. Aug. 88.—

To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—

In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

fratris filium praeteriit,

has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

Mart. 7, 86, 5:

si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—

To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

Juv. 14, 214.—

To transgress:

justum praeterit ira modum,

due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,

praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

loqui,

Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—

praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

aetas,

id. ib. 2, 4:

anni,

Verg. A. 8, 560:

nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

Ov. H. 20, 187:

labor,

Quint. 10, 7, 4:

secula,

id. 12, 4, 2:

vita,

Just. 42, 1:

viri,

dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

praeteritā noc. te,

last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

praeterita mutare non possumus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.

To go by or past, to pass by:

si nemo hac praeteriit,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

praeteriens modo,

in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

te praetereunte,

Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

redire potest,

Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—

To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

figura hujus mundi,

id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—

Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.

Lit.:

praeterire pistrinum,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

id. As. 3, 4, 15:

hortos,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

Verg. A. 4, 157:

Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

praeterita est virgo,

Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

ripas Flumina praetereunt,

flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—

Trop.

To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—

With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—

To pass by or over, i. e.

To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

aliquid silentio,

id. Brut. 22, 88:

praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

Ov. F. 6, 319:

ut nihil praeteream,

Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

ne quid praetereatur,

id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—

To pass over, omit, make no use of:

locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—

To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

Suet. Aug. 88.—

To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—

In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

fratris filium praeteriit,

has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

Mart. 7, 86, 5:

si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—

To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

Juv. 14, 214.—

To transgress:

justum praeterit ira modum,

due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,

praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

loqui,

Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—

praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

aetas,

id. ib. 2, 4:

anni,

Verg. A. 8, 560:

nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

Ov. H. 20, 187:

labor,

Quint. 10, 7, 4:

secula,

id. 12, 4, 2:

vita,

Just. 42, 1:

viri,

dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

praeteritā noc. te,

last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

praeterita mutare non possumus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre ( fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.

To go by or past, to pass by:

si nemo hac praeteriit,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15:

ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 46:

praeteriens modo,

in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18:

quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200:

te praetereunte,

Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora;

redire potest,

Ov. A. A. 3, 63:

nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time:

biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit,

Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc.,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—

To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):

aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege,

Vulg. Matt. 5, 8:

figura hujus mundi,

id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—

Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.

Lit.:

praeterire pistrinum,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27:

jam hunc non ausim praeterire,

id. As. 3, 4, 15:

hortos,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos,

Verg. A. 4, 157:

Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram,

Juv. 6, 308.— Pass.:

praeterita est virgo,

Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects:

ripas Flumina praetereunt,

flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—

Trop.

To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:

nescis, quid mali Praeterieris,

Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—

With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:

non me praeterit... me longius prolapsum esse,

Cic. Caecin. 35, 101:

sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—

To pass by or over, i. e.

To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:

quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106:

ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 3, 77, §

178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia,

what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5:

aliquid silentio,

id. Brut. 22, 88:

praeteream, referamne tuum... Dedecus?

Ov. F. 6, 319:

ut nihil praeteream,

Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220:

ne quid praetereatur,

id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—

To pass over, omit, make no use of:

locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est,

Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—

To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:

litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit,

Suet. Aug. 88.—

To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:

verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc.,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68:

quod sciscitari paene praeterivi,

App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.:

nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire,

to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.— Pass.:

tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,

left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—

In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:

populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 3, 8:

cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur,

were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

fratris filium praeteriit,

has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

me quoque Romani praeteriere patres,

neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312:

quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis?

Mart. 7, 86, 5:

si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—

To go beyond, to surpass, excel:

hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1:

virtus alios tua praeterit omnes,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 51:

ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem,

Juv. 14, 214.—

To transgress:

justum praeterit ira modum,

due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence,

praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):

loqui,

Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—

praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:

nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur,

Cic. Sen. 19, 69:

aetas,

id. ib. 2, 4:

anni,

Verg. A. 8, 560:

nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa,

Ov. H. 20, 187:

labor,

Quint. 10, 7, 4:

secula,

id. 12, 4, 2:

vita,

Just. 42, 1:

viri,

dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36):

negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit,

for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9:

praeteritā noc. te,

last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense:

quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito,

Quint. 1, 4, 29.— Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past:

sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14:

monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere,

Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.:

praeterita mutare non possumus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. paraleipomena), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.

prō-cumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n.

Lit., to fall forwards, fall or sink down, to prostrate one's self; of the wounded, the dying, suppliants, etc. (class.; cf.;

cado, ruo): procumbunt Gallis omnibus ad pedes Bituriges, ne pulcherrimam urbem succendere cogerentur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

genibus, Ov M. 13, 585: ad genua alicujus, Liv 25, 7: ad pedes alicujus,

Gell. 10, 15, 10:

ante pedes,

Ov. M. 10, 415; Petr. 30:

templis,

Tib. 1, 5, 41 (1, 2, 83):

qui vulneribus confecti procubuissent,

Caes. B. G. 2, 27; so,

in genua,

Curt. 9, 5, 13:

Coroebus Penelei dextrā Procumbit,

Verg. A. 2, 424.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

sibi tres legiones procubuisse,

had yielded, Tac. A. 1, 59:

veteranae cohortes, quibus nuper Othonis legiones procubuerint,

id. H. 4, 17.— Poet., to fall upon, attack, Mart. 1, 60, 3.— To lean or bend forwards:

olli certamine summo Procumbunt,

i.e. they bend to their oars, Verg. A. 5, 197.—

Transf., of inanimate subjects, to lean forwards, bend down, sink, to be beaten or broken down (class.):

tigna prona ac fastigiata, ut secundum naturam fluminis procumberent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17:

frumenta imbribus procubuerant,

i.e. were beaten down, id. ib. 6, 43:

ne gravidis procumbat culmus aristis,

Verg. G. 1, 111:

ulmus in aram ipsam procumbebat,

Plin. 16, 32, 57, § 132.—

Of buildings: (domus) in domini procubuit caput,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 14:

tecta super habitantes,

Quint. 2, 16, 6; Plin. Pan. 50, 3; Ov. M. 13, 176.—

To be upset, break down; of a vehicle: nam si procubuit qui saxa Ligustica portat Axis, Juv 3, 257.—

Trop., to fall or sink down ( poet. and post-Aug.): procumbere in voluptates, to sink into sen [p. 1454] suality, Sen. Ep. 18, 2:

procumbentem rem publicam restituere,

sinking, Vell. 2, 16, 4:

res procubuere meae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 2.—

To extend, spread:

mons Haemus vasto jugo procumbens in Pontum,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 45:

planities sub radicibus montium spatiosa procumbit,

Curt. 5, 4, 6.

rē̆-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [clino, klinô], to bend back, lean back, recline (class. but rare).

Lit.:

alces ad eas (arbores) se applicant atque ita paulum modo reclinatae quietem capiunt... Huc cum se consuetudine reclinaverunt, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 6, 27: caput, * Cic. Arat. 417:

non habet ubi caput reclinet,

Vulg. Matt. 8, 10: scuta, to lay aside, rest, * Verg. A. 12, 130:

corpora prona,

to turn over, Stat. Th. 9, 369.—Mid.:

reclinari ad suos (in dicendo),

Quint. 11, 3, 132:

te in remoto gramine reclinatum,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 7:

reclinatus in cubitum,

Petr. 39, 2; cf.:

in aliquod adminiculum,

Sen. Ep. 36, 9.—

Trop.:

nullum ab labore me reclinat otium,

removes, releases me, Hor. Epod. 17, 24:

in quem onus imperii reclinaret,

might lean, rest, be supported by, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 2, 3.— Absol., to revolt, become rebellious:

nec arrogantibus verbis quidquam scripsit (Julianus), ne videretur subito reclinasse,

Amm. 20, 8, 4.

rĕ-lĕvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To lift up, raise (very rare, and almost exclusively poet.; syn.: reficio, recreo, mitigo).

Lit.:

e terra corpus,

Ov. M. 9, 318:

umeros,

id. F. 4, 169:

in cubitum membra,

id. P. 3, 3, 11. —

Trop.: nec sic mea fata premuntur, Ut nequeam relevare caput, [p. 1556] Luc. 3, 268 Corte; so,

caput,

Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 4:

si forte relevet manum suam a nobis,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 6, 5: eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans, id. Job, 12, 21.—

Transf., to make light, to lighten (class.).

Lit.:

epistulam graviorem pellectione,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1: vimina curva favi (i. e. exonerare), Cv. R. Am. 186.— Poet.:

sic unquam longā relevere catenā,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 25:

minimo ut relevere labore Utque marem parias,

i. e. may be delivered, id. M. 9, 675. —

Trop., to relieve, free from any evil; or, to alleviate, mitigate, lessen, diminish, assuage, abate the evil itself; to ease, comfort, refresh, console:

videbimur... curā et metu esse relevati, periculum autem residebit... Ut saepe homines aegri morbo gravi... si aquam gelidam biberint, primo relevari videntur... sic hic morbus, qui est in re publicā, relevatus istius poenā, vehementius vivis reliquis ingravescet,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31; cf.:

animum molestiis,

id. ib. 2, 4, 7 (with recreata):

aegrum,

Ov. P. 1, 3, 17:

pectora sicca mero,

id. F. 3, 304:

membra sedili,

id. M. 8, 639:

mens a cura relevata est,

id. Tr. 1, 11, 12; cf.:

publicanos tertiā mercedum parte,

Suet. Caes. 20:

ut me relevares,

might comfort, console me, Cic. Att. 3, 10, 3:

nam et illic animum jam relevaris, quae dolore ac miseria Tabescit,

Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 11:

quia (pupilla) videtur in ceteris litis speciebus relevata fuisse,

i. e. to have been restored, Dig. 4, 4, 29. —

With things as objects: ut cibi satietas et fastidium aut subamara aliquā re relevatur aut dulci mitigatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 25:

ad relevandos castrenses sumptus,

Suet. Dom. 12:

communem casum misericordiā hominum,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 4; cf.:

casus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 43:

luctus,

id. R. Am. 586:

studium omnium laboremque,

Plin. Pan. 19, 3:

requie laborem,

Ov. M. 15, 16:

aestus,

id. ib. 7, 815; id. A. A. 3, 697; cf.

sitim,

id. M. 6, 354:

famem,

id. ib. 11, 129.

rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,

With the idea of the re predominant.

To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).

Lit.:

cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146:

quicque suo loco,

Col. 12, 3, 4:

humum,

the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231:

pecuniam in thesauris,

Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.:

ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 6:

infans repositus in cunas,

Suet. Aug. 94:

ossa in suas sedes,

Cels. 8, 10, 1:

femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,

set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39:

insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,

Cic. Sest. 27, 58:

columnas,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

tantundem inaurati aeris,

Suet. Caes. 54:

togam,

to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149:

capillum,

id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. §

22: excussus curru ac rursus repositus,

Suet. Ner. 24:

nos in sceptra,

to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.:

reges per bella pulsos,

Sil. 10, 487:

aliquem solio,

Val. Fl. 6, 742:

veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,

Sen. Ep. 36, 10:

ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.:

quosdam nihil reposuisse,

Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6:

donata,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39:

flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,

to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752:

aris ignem,

id. ib. 3, 231:

molem,

Sil. 1, 558:

ruptos vetustate pontes,

Tac. A. 1, 63:

fora templaque,

id. H. 3, 34:

amissa urbi,

id. A. 16, 13:

statuas a plebe disjectas,

Suet. Caes. 65:

cenam,

Mart. 2, 37, 10;

so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,

Verg. A. 8, 175:

plena pocula,

id. G. 4, 378:

vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),

id. A. 7, 134:

epulas,

id. G. 3, 527:

festas mensas,

Stat. Th. 2, 88:

cibi frigidi et repositi,

Quint. 2, 4, 29.—

Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew:

ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,

Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.:

excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,

id. 11, 2, 19:

nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—

To represent or describe again, to repeat:

fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,

Hor. A. P. 190:

Achillem (after Homer),

id. ib. 120; cf.:

dicta paterna,

Pers. 6, 66.—

To repay, requite, return:

cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,

Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19:

semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?

repay, Juv. 1, 1.—

To put back, put to rest, quiet:

pontum et turbata litora,

Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.:

post otiosam et repositam vitam,

Amm. 29, 1, 44.—

To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.);

imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,

Verg. G. 3, 76:

cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,

Quint. 4, 2, 39:

tereti cervice repostā,

Lucr. 1, 35:

interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,

Quint. 11, 3, 99:

hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,

id. 4, 2, 39:

membra (mortui) toro,

Verg. A. 6, 220:

membra stratis,

id. ib. 4, 392.—

To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).

Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi [p. 1571] percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

cibum,

Quint. 2, 4, 29:

formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,

Verg. A. 4, 403:

Caecubum ad festas dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mella in vetustatem,

Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7:

alimenta in hiemem,

Quint. 2, 16, 16:

(caseum) hiemi,

Verg. G. 3, 403:

omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,

id. ib. 1, 167:

thesaurum,

Quint. 2, 7, 4:

scripta in aliquod tempus,

id. 10, 4, 2.— Poet.:

eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,

buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.:

an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),

Prop. 1, 17, 11:

tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 17:

repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,

Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—

Trop.:

opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

29: aliquid scriptis,

id. 11, 2, 9:

manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,

Verg. A. 1, 26:

reponere odium,

Tac. Agr. 39 fin.:

sensibus haec imis... reponas,

Verg. E. 3, 54.—

To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).

Lit.:

non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2:

Aristophanem pro Eupoli,

id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49:

eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,

Col. 4, 26, 2:

dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,

Sen. Phoen. 122.—

Trop.:

at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—

To lay aside, to lay down, lay by, put away.

Lit.:

remum,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:

arma omnia,

Caes. B. C. 2, 14:

caestus artemque,

Verg. A. 5, 484:

feretro reposto,

id. ib. 11, 149:

onus,

Cat. 31, 8:

telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,

Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507:

rursus sumptas figuras,

Ov. M. 12, 557:

bracchia,

to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.— Poet.:

jam falcem arbusta reponunt,

i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—

Trop.:

brevem fugam,

to end the flight, Stat. Th. 6, 592:

iram,

Manil. 2, 649.—

With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).

Lit.:

grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

colla in plumis,

Ov. M. 10, 269:

litteras in gremio,

Liv. 26, 15:

hunc celso in ostro,

Val. Fl. 3, 339:

ligna super foco Large reponens,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

(nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,

Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.:

uvas in vasa nova,

Col. 12, 16:

data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 9:

anulos in locellum,

id. 7, 8, 9; cf.:

mergum altius in terram,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—

Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among:

in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,

Cic. Sull. 33, 92:

vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 198:

suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,

Caes. B. C. 2, 41:

in se omnem spem,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

nihil spei in caritate civium,

Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39:

salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,

id. 27, 45:

verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,

Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

plus in duce quam in exercitu,

Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37:

plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,

Just. 24, 8, 2:

fiduciam in re reponere,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14:

ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,

id. ib. 1, 8, 6:

quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,

place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so,

sidera in deorum numero,

id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.:

Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.:

homines morte deletos in deos,

Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

in deorum numerum reponemus,

id. ib. 3, 19, 47:

Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,

id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

aliquid in fabularum numerum,

id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and:

hanc partem in numerum,

id. ib. 1, 51, 97:

in ejus sinum rem publicam,

Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus ( rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.

Remote, distant (syn. remotus;

very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,

Verg. A. 6, 59:

terrae,

id. ib. 3, 364:

populi,

Sil. 3, 325:

convalles,

App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—

Laid aside, stored up:

spes,

Vulg. Col. 1, 5:

corona justitiae,

id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.