deserts

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aedīlis, is, m. (abl. aedili, Tac. A. 12, 64; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 4; Dig. 18, 6, 13;

but aedile is more usual,

Charis. p. 96 P.; Varr. 1, 22; Cic. Sest. 44, 95; Liv. 3, 31; Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158; Inscr. Orell. 3787, 8; cf. Schneid. Gr. II. p. 221; Koffm. s. v.) [aedes], an œdile, a magistrate in Rome who had the superintendence of public buildings and works, such as temples, theatres, baths, aqueducts, sewers, highways, etc.; also of private buildings, of markets, provisions, taverns, of weights and measures (to see that they were legal), of the expense of funerals, and other similar functions of police. The class. passages applying here are: Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 42; Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 3, 3; id. Verr. 2, 5, 14; id. Phil. 9, 7; Liv. 10, 23; Tac. A. 2, 85; Juv. 3, 162; 10, 101; Fest. s. h. v. p. 12; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 3 and 6.—Further, the aediles, esp. the curule ædiles (two in number), were expected to exhibit public spectacles; and they often lavished the most exorbitant expenses upon them, in order to prepare their way toward higher offices, Cic. Off. 2, 16; Liv. 24, 33; 27, 6. They inspected the plays before exhibition in the theatres, and rewarded or punished the actors according to their deserts, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 148; id. Cist. ep. 3;

for this purpose they were required by oath to decide impartially,

Plaut. Am. prol. 72.—It was the special duty of the aediles plebeii (of whom also there were two) to preserve the decrees of the Senate and people in the temple of Ceres, and in a later age in the public treasury, Liv. 3, 55. The office of the aediles curules (so called from the sella curulis, the seat on which they sat for judgment (v. curulis), while the aediles plebeii sat only on benches, subsellia) was created A.U.C. 387, for the purpose of holding public exhibitions, Liv. 6, 42, first from the patricians, but as early as the following year from the plebeians also, Liv. 7, 1.—

Julius Cæsar created also the office of the two aediles Cereales, who had the superintendence of the public granaries and other provisions,

Suet. Caes. 41.—The free towns also had ædiles, who were often their only magistrates, Cic. Fam. 13, 11; Juv. 3, 179; 10, 102; Pers. 1, 130; v. further in Smith's Dict. Antiq. and Niebuhr's Rom. Hist. 1, 689 and 690.

uses the word once adject.: aediles ludi, œdilic sports, Poen. 5, 2, 52.

capsa, ae, f. [capio; Fr. caisse; Engl. case], a repository, box, esp. for books, bookcase, satchel, * Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; Hor. S. 1, 4, 22; 1, 10, 63; id. Ep. 2, 1, 268; Juv. 10, 117;

also for fruit,

Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 65; 15, 19, 21, § 82; Mart. 11, 8.

Capsa, ae, f., a town in Africa, in the districl of Byzacium, surrounded by vast deserts, plundered by Marius in the Jugurthine war, Sall. J. 89, 4; 91 sq.; Flor. 3, 1, 14.—Hence,

Capsenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Capsa, Sall. J. 92, 3 sq.; in Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30, called Capsĭtāni.

capsa, ae, f. [capio; Fr. caisse; Engl. case], a repository, box, esp. for books, bookcase, satchel, * Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; Hor. S. 1, 4, 22; 1, 10, 63; id. Ep. 2, 1, 268; Juv. 10, 117;

also for fruit,

Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 65; 15, 19, 21, § 82; Mart. 11, 8.

Capsa, ae, f., a town in Africa, in the districl of Byzacium, surrounded by vast deserts, plundered by Marius in the Jugurthine war, Sall. J. 89, 4; 91 sq.; Flor. 3, 1, 14.—Hence,

Capsenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Capsa, Sall. J. 92, 3 sq.; in Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30, called Capsĭtāni.

capsa, ae, f. [capio; Fr. caisse; Engl. case], a repository, box, esp. for books, bookcase, satchel, * Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; Hor. S. 1, 4, 22; 1, 10, 63; id. Ep. 2, 1, 268; Juv. 10, 117;

also for fruit,

Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 65; 15, 19, 21, § 82; Mart. 11, 8.

Capsa, ae, f., a town in Africa, in the districl of Byzacium, surrounded by vast deserts, plundered by Marius in the Jugurthine war, Sall. J. 89, 4; 91 sq.; Flor. 3, 1, 14.—Hence,

Capsenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Capsa, Sall. J. 92, 3 sq.; in Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30, called Capsĭtāni.

dē-sĕro, no perf., sĭtum, 3, v. a., to sow, plant:

desitis seminibus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 6.

dē-sĕro, rŭi, rtum, 3, v. a. Lit., to undo or sever one's connection with another; hence, with esp. reference to the latter, to leave, forsake, abandon, desert, give up (cf. derelinquere; more restricted in signif. than relinquere, which denotes, in general, to depart from, to leave any one. Deserere, orig. in milit. lang., implies a cowardly running away; frequently used with prodere; also in the flg. phrase: deserere vitam; and later, absol. in the sense of to desert, etc.; cf. also: linquere, destituere, deficere, discedere—freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

ut jurent omnes, se exercitum ducesque non deserturos neque prodituros,

Caes. B. C. 1, 76, 2; cf. id. ib. 2, 32, 7:

deseritur a suis Varus,

id. ib. 1, 13, 3; cf. id. ib. 1, 15, 3; id. B. G. 5, 3, 6 al.:

pignus,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 75 et saep.:

te amantem non deseram,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 101; cf. id. Mil. 4, 8, 53 et saep.:

cum amici partim deseruerint me, partim etiam prodiderint,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

me deseruisti ac dereliquisti,

id. Planc. 5, 13; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 51, and v. the foll.:

Avaricum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 30, 2; cf.:

cunctis oppidis castellisque desertis,

id. ib. 2, 29:

fratrem ne desere frater,

Verg. A. 10, 600:

thalamos ne desere pactos,

id. ib. 10, 649:

bellum,

Just. 5, 2, 10:

victoriam,

id. 14, 3, 6:

milites insepultos,

Curt. 5, 13, 3:

metu locum,

Tac. A. 1, 65 et saep.—

Absol., in milit. lang., to desert, Nep. Eum. 5, 1; Sen. de Ira, 2, 10, 1; Tac. A. 13, 35; Quint. 9, 2, 85; Amm. Marc. 31, 7, 4; Dig. 49, 16, 3, § 7 sq. al.—

Trop., to leave, desert, abandon:

Petreius non deserit sese, armat familiam, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 75, 2:

suum jus,

Cic. Caecin. 35 fin.; cf.:

desertarum derelictarumque rerum patrocinium suscipere,

id. N. D. 1, 5, 11:

preces, promissa, spem, obsecrationem et fideles litteras alicujus,

id. Att. 3, 19, 2:

causam,

id. Sull. 20, 58; cf.:

desertam ac proditam causam queri,

Liv. 2, 54:

ullam officii partem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 24; cf.

officium (with praetermittere defensionem),

id. Off. 1, 9: susceptum officium, Caes. B. C. 3, 18:

vitam,

Cic. Sest. 22 fin.; cf. id. de Sen. 20, 72:

deditionem,

Sall. J. 70, 1:

studia sapientiae,

Quint. 12, 2, 8:

viam virtutis,

Hor. Od. 3, 24, 44:

vestigia Graeca,

id. A. P. 287:

fastidiosam copiam,

id. Od. 3, 29, 9.—

Esp., leg. t. t.:

vadimonia deserere,

to forfeit recognizance, fail to appear, Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5; id. Quint. 23, 75 et saep.—So absol.:

deserui, tempestatibus impeditus,

Quint. 3, 6, 78.—

Of subjects not personal, to fail, forsake, etc.:

genua hunc cursorem deserunt,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 13; cf.:

aliquem corpus, vires,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

donec te deseret aetas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 10:

me lucerna,

Cic. Att. 7, 7 fin.:

fama Curium Fabricium,

id. Tusc. 1, 46, § 110; cf.:

nec facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo,

Hor. A. P. 41 et saep.— Poet.:

mensa deserit toros,

is removed from, Ov. H. 12, 52.— Pass.:

deseremur potius a re familiari, quam a republica,

Cic. Att. 16, 3; cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 34, 2; Cic. Att. 3, 15:

a tribunitia voce,

id. Clu. 40, 110; Vell. 2, 80; Just. 2, 4, 29 al.; and poet. with simple abl.:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; Prop. 2, 7, 17:

desertus viribus leo,

Phaedr. 1, 21, 3; Stat. Th. 4, 707; cf.

suis,

Tac. A. 3, 20 fin.; Suet. Cal. 12.— With gen.:

deserta natorum,

Stat. Th. 5, 608.—Hence, dēsertus, a, um, P. a., deserted; esp. of places, desert, solitary, waste.

Adj. (cf.:

vastus, inanis, solitarius): in locis desertis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 53, 4:

urbes dirutae ac pene desertae,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

deserta via et inculta,

id. Cael. 18:

frequens an desertus locus,

Quint. 5, 10, 37:

terra,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 33 et saep.—Of objects in solitary places:

stipes,

Tib. 1, 1, 12 (21 M.):

arbores,

Prop. 1, 20, 36.— Subst.: dē-serta, ae, f., the abandoned wife:

multi filii desertae,

Vulg. Gal. 4, 27.— Comp.:

reditus desertior,

Cic. Pis. 23, 55:

nihil turpius ac desertius,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5.— Sup.:

orae desertissimae,

id. Sest. 22, 50:

solitudo,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 67 al. —

Since the Aug. per. subst.: dēserta, ōrum, n., desert places, deserts, wastes, Verg. E. 6, 81; id. G. 3, 342; Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 26 al.—With gen.:

Libyae deserta,

Verg. A. 1, 384; so id. G. 3, 291; Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7; Vulg. Isa. 52, 9 al.—In sing.: dēsertum, i, n. (eccl. Lat.):

in deserto,

Prud. Apoth. 774; Hier. Ep. 125, 2; Vulg. Num. 1, 1; Luc. 3, 2 et saep.

dē-sĕro, no perf., sĭtum, 3, v. a., to sow, plant:

desitis seminibus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 6.

dē-sĕro, rŭi, rtum, 3, v. a. Lit., to undo or sever one's connection with another; hence, with esp. reference to the latter, to leave, forsake, abandon, desert, give up (cf. derelinquere; more restricted in signif. than relinquere, which denotes, in general, to depart from, to leave any one. Deserere, orig. in milit. lang., implies a cowardly running away; frequently used with prodere; also in the flg. phrase: deserere vitam; and later, absol. in the sense of to desert, etc.; cf. also: linquere, destituere, deficere, discedere—freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

ut jurent omnes, se exercitum ducesque non deserturos neque prodituros,

Caes. B. C. 1, 76, 2; cf. id. ib. 2, 32, 7:

deseritur a suis Varus,

id. ib. 1, 13, 3; cf. id. ib. 1, 15, 3; id. B. G. 5, 3, 6 al.:

pignus,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 75 et saep.:

te amantem non deseram,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 101; cf. id. Mil. 4, 8, 53 et saep.:

cum amici partim deseruerint me, partim etiam prodiderint,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

me deseruisti ac dereliquisti,

id. Planc. 5, 13; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 51, and v. the foll.:

Avaricum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 30, 2; cf.:

cunctis oppidis castellisque desertis,

id. ib. 2, 29:

fratrem ne desere frater,

Verg. A. 10, 600:

thalamos ne desere pactos,

id. ib. 10, 649:

bellum,

Just. 5, 2, 10:

victoriam,

id. 14, 3, 6:

milites insepultos,

Curt. 5, 13, 3:

metu locum,

Tac. A. 1, 65 et saep.—

Absol., in milit. lang., to desert, Nep. Eum. 5, 1; Sen. de Ira, 2, 10, 1; Tac. A. 13, 35; Quint. 9, 2, 85; Amm. Marc. 31, 7, 4; Dig. 49, 16, 3, § 7 sq. al.—

Trop., to leave, desert, abandon:

Petreius non deserit sese, armat familiam, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 75, 2:

suum jus,

Cic. Caecin. 35 fin.; cf.:

desertarum derelictarumque rerum patrocinium suscipere,

id. N. D. 1, 5, 11:

preces, promissa, spem, obsecrationem et fideles litteras alicujus,

id. Att. 3, 19, 2:

causam,

id. Sull. 20, 58; cf.:

desertam ac proditam causam queri,

Liv. 2, 54:

ullam officii partem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 24; cf.

officium (with praetermittere defensionem),

id. Off. 1, 9: susceptum officium, Caes. B. C. 3, 18:

vitam,

Cic. Sest. 22 fin.; cf. id. de Sen. 20, 72:

deditionem,

Sall. J. 70, 1:

studia sapientiae,

Quint. 12, 2, 8:

viam virtutis,

Hor. Od. 3, 24, 44:

vestigia Graeca,

id. A. P. 287:

fastidiosam copiam,

id. Od. 3, 29, 9.—

Esp., leg. t. t.:

vadimonia deserere,

to forfeit recognizance, fail to appear, Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5; id. Quint. 23, 75 et saep.—So absol.:

deserui, tempestatibus impeditus,

Quint. 3, 6, 78.—

Of subjects not personal, to fail, forsake, etc.:

genua hunc cursorem deserunt,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 13; cf.:

aliquem corpus, vires,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

donec te deseret aetas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 10:

me lucerna,

Cic. Att. 7, 7 fin.:

fama Curium Fabricium,

id. Tusc. 1, 46, § 110; cf.:

nec facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo,

Hor. A. P. 41 et saep.— Poet.:

mensa deserit toros,

is removed from, Ov. H. 12, 52.— Pass.:

deseremur potius a re familiari, quam a republica,

Cic. Att. 16, 3; cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 34, 2; Cic. Att. 3, 15:

a tribunitia voce,

id. Clu. 40, 110; Vell. 2, 80; Just. 2, 4, 29 al.; and poet. with simple abl.:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; Prop. 2, 7, 17:

desertus viribus leo,

Phaedr. 1, 21, 3; Stat. Th. 4, 707; cf.

suis,

Tac. A. 3, 20 fin.; Suet. Cal. 12.— With gen.:

deserta natorum,

Stat. Th. 5, 608.—Hence, dēsertus, a, um, P. a., deserted; esp. of places, desert, solitary, waste.

Adj. (cf.:

vastus, inanis, solitarius): in locis desertis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 53, 4:

urbes dirutae ac pene desertae,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

deserta via et inculta,

id. Cael. 18:

frequens an desertus locus,

Quint. 5, 10, 37:

terra,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 33 et saep.—Of objects in solitary places:

stipes,

Tib. 1, 1, 12 (21 M.):

arbores,

Prop. 1, 20, 36.— Subst.: dē-serta, ae, f., the abandoned wife:

multi filii desertae,

Vulg. Gal. 4, 27.— Comp.:

reditus desertior,

Cic. Pis. 23, 55:

nihil turpius ac desertius,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5.— Sup.:

orae desertissimae,

id. Sest. 22, 50:

solitudo,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 67 al. —

Since the Aug. per. subst.: dēserta, ōrum, n., desert places, deserts, wastes, Verg. E. 6, 81; id. G. 3, 342; Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 26 al.—With gen.:

Libyae deserta,

Verg. A. 1, 384; so id. G. 3, 291; Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7; Vulg. Isa. 52, 9 al.—In sing.: dēsertum, i, n. (eccl. Lat.):

in deserto,

Prud. Apoth. 774; Hier. Ep. 125, 2; Vulg. Num. 1, 1; Luc. 3, 2 et saep.

dēsertor, ōris, m. [id.], one who forsakes, abandons, deserts any one.—

Prop.

In gen.:

amicorum (opp. conservator inimicorum),

Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3:

communis utilitatis aut salutis,

id. Fin. 3, 19, 64.—Esp. freq.,

Milit. t. t., a runaway, deserter (opp. transfuga, one who joins the enemy, Dig. 48, 16, 5, § 8), * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 8 (with proditor, as in Tac. H. 1, 72); Liv. 3, 69, 7; 23, 18, 16; Tac. A. 1, 21; Vell. 2, 85; 119; Flor. 4, 2, 52; Suet. Caes. 68; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 29; Dig. 48, 16, 3 init. al. et saep.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, a deserter, one who abandons:

Amoris,

Ov. H. 19, 157: Asiae, *Verg. A. 12, 15.—

Trop.:

usus corporis desertor animi,

a forsaker, Stat. Th. 8, 739.

squālĕo, ŭi, 2, v. n. [squalor], to be stiff or rough with any thing, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. sordeo).

Lit.

In gen.:

squalentes infode conchas,

i. e. rough, Verg. G. 2, 348:

per tunicam squalentem auro,

id. A. 10, 314; cf.:

auro squalens lorica,

id. ib. 12, 87:

maculis auro squalentibus,

id. G. 4, 91; Sil. 2, 585:

picti squalentia terga lacerti,

Verg. G. 4, 13: squalentia tela venenis, Ov. F. 5, 397.—

In partic.

To be stiff or rough from dryness or drought, to be dry, parched:

squalebant pulvere fauces,

Luc. 9, 503:

oraque projecta squalent arentia linguā,

id. 4, 755:

tellus squalet,

Sil. 14, 592.—Hence,

Of lands, etc., to be desert, untilled, waste:

squalentes campi,

Sil. 3, 655; 4, 376:

squalens litus,

Tac. A. 15, 42:

squalentia arva Libyes,

Luc. 1, 205; 5, 39:

sterilis profundi vastitas squalet soli,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 697.—

To be stiff or rough from slovenliness or want of care; to be filthy, neglected, squalid:

squalenti Dido comā,

Ov. F. 3, 640:

squalens barba,

Verg. A. 2, 277:

crines squalent a pulvere effuso,

Sil. 2, 452:

barba cruore,

id. 10, 512:

vestes squalentes atro pulvere,

Luc. 8, 37:

neque ego arma squalere situ ac rubigine velim, sed fulgorem inesse,

Quint. 10, 1, 30; Gell. 9, 4, 2:

mihi supellex squalet atque aedes meae,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 2:

invidiae nigro squalentia tabo Tecta petit,

Ov. M. 2, 760; cf. id. ib. 15, 627:

squalent abductis arva colonis,

lie untilled, Verg. G. 1, 507; cf. 1. b, supra.—

Transf., to mourn in filthy or squalid garments (cf. sordes and sordidatus;

in Cic. only so): erat in luctu senatus: squalebat civitas publico consilio mutatā veste,

Cic. Sest. 14, 32:

luget senatus, maeret equester ordo, tota civitas confecta senio est, squalent municipia, afflictantur coloniae,

id. Mil. 8, 20. —P. a. as subst.: squālĕntĭa, ōrum, n., deserts, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 52.

ENG Chinese desert cat

NLD gobikat, Gobi-kat

GER Gobikatze, Graukatze

FRA chat de Mgr. Biet, (chat des deserts de Chine)