efficaciously

ef-fĭcĭo ( ecfacio), fēci, fectum, 3 ( perf. subj. effexis, Plaut. As. 3, 5, 63; id. Poen. 1, 3, 19; inf. pass. ecfiĕri, id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Lucr. 6, 761), v. a., to make out, work out; hence, to bring to pass, to effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form (very freq. in all periods and sorts of writing).

In gen.

With acc.:

male quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id ecficere perpetrat,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12 sq.; cf. id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.; 1, 61, 2:

magna facinora,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 16; so,

facinora,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109; cf.

opus,

id. ib. 4, 1, 6; Plaut. Truc. 5, 17; Caes. B. G. 4, 18, 1; 7, 35, 4 et saep.:

pontem,

id. ib. 6, 6, 1; id. B. C. 1, 40, 1; 1, 62 fin.:

ligneas turres, tormenta,

id. ib. 3, 9, 3; 3, 39 fin.:

castella,

id. ib. 3, 44, 3:

panes ex hoc (genere radicis),

id. ib. 3, 48, 3:

sphaeram (Archimedes),

Cic. Rep. 1, 17:

columnam,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56 et saep.:

Mosa insulam efficit Batavorum,

Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 2; id. ib. § 4; id. B. C. 3, 40, 4; cf.:

portum (insula),

id. ib. 3, 112, 2; Verg. A. 1, 160:

magnum numerum cratium, scalarum, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 1:

aliquid dignum dono deorum,

Cic. Rep. 3, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 26, 120:

civitatem,

id. Rep. 2, 30; cf. id. ib. 3, 32:

varios concentus, septem sonos,

id. ib. 6, 18:

magnas rerum commutationes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 68, 1:

tantos progressus,

Cic. Brut. 78, 272:

clamores et admirationes in bonis oratoribus,

id. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3 et saep.:

XIII. cohortes,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 5; cf.:

delectu habito duas legiones,

id. ib. 1, 31, 2:

unam ex duabus (legionibus),

id. ib. 3, 89, 1:

ad duo milia ferme boum,

Liv. 22, 16 et saep.:

lepide meum officium,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 1 sq.; cf.:

nostra munia,

id. Stich. 5, 4, 13:

munus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46 fin.; id. Leg. 1, 5, 16:

nuptias alicui,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 16:

aurum alicui,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 55; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 57; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 23:

hanc mulierem tibi,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 110 et saep.:

quod a Curione effeceram,

had procured, obtained, Cic. Att. 10, 10:

amor mores hominum moros et morosos ecficit,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 43.—With two accs.:

fortuna eos efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; id. Rep. 2, 42; Caes. B. G. 3, 24 fin. et saep.; cf.:

hunc (montem) murus circumdatus arcem efficit,

id. ib. 1, 38, 6:

aliquem consulem,

Cic. Lael. 20, 73:

aliquem dictatorem,

id. Att. 15, 21; cf.

also: quae res immani corporum magnitudine homines efficit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 9; and:

id (genus radicis) ad similitudinem panis efficiebant,

id. B. C. 3, 48, 1.—

With ut:

eniti et efficere, ut, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 16, 59; id. Rep. 1, 20; 3, 31; Caes. B. G. 2, 5, 5; 2, 17, 4 et saep.; cf.:

hoc si efficiam plane, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 62:

si id efficere non posset, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 50, 3:

neque polliceor me effecturum, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 24 fin. —Ellips. of ut:

effice, di coëamus in unum,

Ov. F. 3, 683.—

With ne (rare):

efficio ne cui molesti sint publicani,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16:

qui efficiant, ne quid inter privatum et magistratum differat,

id. Rep. 1, 43, 67; id. Fin. 4, 4, 10; Liv. 8, 7, 6:

efficiam, posthac ne quemquam voce lacessas,

Verg. E. 3, 51; Dig. 3, 3, 78; cf.:

aliquem or aliquid, ne, etc.,

ib. 19, 2, 35; Quint. 3, 6, 102; 8, 3, 20.—

With quominus (very seldom), Lucr. 1, 977; Quint. 11, 1, 48; Dig. 49, 14, [p. 630] 29; so with quo magis:

saevitia collegae quo is magis ingenio suo gauderet effecit,

Liv. 2, 60, 1.—

With obj. acc. and inf. (very rare, and not ante-Aug.):

vehementer efficit ea coire, etc.,

Vitr. 2, 6; Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 8; 47, 11, 10.—

Absol. (freq. and class.):

si effecero, Dabin' mihi argentum?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 121; cf. id. ib. 4, 1, 39 sq.; 4, 8, 5; id. Pers. 1, 3, 87; Caes. B. G. 7, 26, 2 et saep.:

se a scientiae delectatione ad efficiendi utilitatem referre,

Cic. Rep. 5, 3.

In partic.

In econom. lang., to produce, bear, yield:

(ager Leontinus) plurimum efficit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63 fin.; cf.:

ager efficit cum octavo, cum decumo,

id. ib. 2, 3, 47:

si (vineae) centenos sestertios in singula jugera efficiant,

Col. 3, 3, 3:

cum matres binae ternos haedos efficiunt,

id. 7, 6, 7.— Transf. to persons:

liciti sunt usque eo, quoad se efficere posse arbitrabantur,

i. e. to make a profit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33 fin. —

Of numbers, to make out, yield, amount to a certain sum:

ea (tributa) vix, in fenus Pompeii quod satis sit, efficiunt,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3 (cf. shortly before:

nec id satis efficit [al. efficitur] in usuram menstruam),

Plin. 6, 33, 38, § 206; cf. ib. § 209; Col. 5, 2, 6; 8 sq.—

In philos. lang., to make out, show, prove (with acc. and inf., ut, ne, or absol.):

quod proposuit efficit, Cic. Par. prooem. § 2: in quibus (libris) vult efficere animos esse mortales,

id. Tusc. 1, 31 fin. —In the pass. impers.: efficitur, it follows (from something):

ita efficitur, ut omne corpus mortale sit,

id. N. D. 3, 12, 30:

ex quo efficitur, hominem naturae obedientem homini nocere non posse,

id. Tusc. 3, 5, 25; cf.:

ex quo illud efficitur, ne justos quidem esse natura,

id. Rep. 3, 11:

quid igitur efficitur?

what follows from that? id. ib. 3, 12.—Hence,

effĭcĭens, entis, P. a.

Adj., effecting, effective, efficient. —In philos. lang.:

proximus est locus rerum efficientium, quae causae appellantur: deinde rerum effectarum ab efficientibus causis,

Cic. Top. 14 fin.; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 24; id. Fin. 3, 16, 55; id. Div. 1, 55, 125; id. Fat. 14, 33; Quint. 5, 10, 86. —

Subst., with gen.: virtus efficiens utilitatis, the producer = effectrix, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 12; so,

voluptatis (virtus),

id. ib. 3, 33; cf.:

ea, quae sunt luxuriosis efficientia voluptatum,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; and:

(causae) efficientes pulcherrimarum rerum,

id. Univ. 14 fin. —

* Adv.: effĭcĭenter, efficiently (for which in the post-Aug. per., efficaciter):

ut id ei causa sit, quod cuique efficienter antecedat,

Cic. Fat. 15, 34.—

effectus, a, um, P. a., worked out, i. e.

Effected, completed:

una (materia) diligenter effecta plus proderit quam plures inchoatae et quasi degustatae,

Quint. 10, 5, 23; cf. id. 5, 13, 34; 8, 3, 88.—In the comp.:

aliquid nitidius atque effectius,

Quint. 12, 10, 45.—

Effected, in philos. lang. (opp. causa efficiens), Cic. Top. 18; cf.

res,

id. ib. 4; 14 fin.; and subst.: effectum, i, n., an effect, id. ib. 3; Quint. 6, 3, 66; 5, 10, 94. — Adv.: effecte.

Effectively, in fact, Mart. 2, 27, 3; Amm. 16, 5, 7.—

Effectually, efficaciously:

effectius,

App. Flor. 16, p. 357.— Sup. does not occur.

ef-fĭcĭo ( ecfacio), fēci, fectum, 3 ( perf. subj. effexis, Plaut. As. 3, 5, 63; id. Poen. 1, 3, 19; inf. pass. ecfiĕri, id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Lucr. 6, 761), v. a., to make out, work out; hence, to bring to pass, to effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form (very freq. in all periods and sorts of writing).

In gen.

With acc.:

male quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id ecficere perpetrat,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12 sq.; cf. id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.; 1, 61, 2:

magna facinora,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 16; so,

facinora,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109; cf.

opus,

id. ib. 4, 1, 6; Plaut. Truc. 5, 17; Caes. B. G. 4, 18, 1; 7, 35, 4 et saep.:

pontem,

id. ib. 6, 6, 1; id. B. C. 1, 40, 1; 1, 62 fin.:

ligneas turres, tormenta,

id. ib. 3, 9, 3; 3, 39 fin.:

castella,

id. ib. 3, 44, 3:

panes ex hoc (genere radicis),

id. ib. 3, 48, 3:

sphaeram (Archimedes),

Cic. Rep. 1, 17:

columnam,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56 et saep.:

Mosa insulam efficit Batavorum,

Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 2; id. ib. § 4; id. B. C. 3, 40, 4; cf.:

portum (insula),

id. ib. 3, 112, 2; Verg. A. 1, 160:

magnum numerum cratium, scalarum, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 1:

aliquid dignum dono deorum,

Cic. Rep. 3, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 26, 120:

civitatem,

id. Rep. 2, 30; cf. id. ib. 3, 32:

varios concentus, septem sonos,

id. ib. 6, 18:

magnas rerum commutationes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 68, 1:

tantos progressus,

Cic. Brut. 78, 272:

clamores et admirationes in bonis oratoribus,

id. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3 et saep.:

XIII. cohortes,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 5; cf.:

delectu habito duas legiones,

id. ib. 1, 31, 2:

unam ex duabus (legionibus),

id. ib. 3, 89, 1:

ad duo milia ferme boum,

Liv. 22, 16 et saep.:

lepide meum officium,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 1 sq.; cf.:

nostra munia,

id. Stich. 5, 4, 13:

munus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46 fin.; id. Leg. 1, 5, 16:

nuptias alicui,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 16:

aurum alicui,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 55; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 57; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 23:

hanc mulierem tibi,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 110 et saep.:

quod a Curione effeceram,

had procured, obtained, Cic. Att. 10, 10:

amor mores hominum moros et morosos ecficit,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 43.—With two accs.:

fortuna eos efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; id. Rep. 2, 42; Caes. B. G. 3, 24 fin. et saep.; cf.:

hunc (montem) murus circumdatus arcem efficit,

id. ib. 1, 38, 6:

aliquem consulem,

Cic. Lael. 20, 73:

aliquem dictatorem,

id. Att. 15, 21; cf.

also: quae res immani corporum magnitudine homines efficit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 9; and:

id (genus radicis) ad similitudinem panis efficiebant,

id. B. C. 3, 48, 1.—

With ut:

eniti et efficere, ut, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 16, 59; id. Rep. 1, 20; 3, 31; Caes. B. G. 2, 5, 5; 2, 17, 4 et saep.; cf.:

hoc si efficiam plane, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 62:

si id efficere non posset, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 50, 3:

neque polliceor me effecturum, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 24 fin. —Ellips. of ut:

effice, di coëamus in unum,

Ov. F. 3, 683.—

With ne (rare):

efficio ne cui molesti sint publicani,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16:

qui efficiant, ne quid inter privatum et magistratum differat,

id. Rep. 1, 43, 67; id. Fin. 4, 4, 10; Liv. 8, 7, 6:

efficiam, posthac ne quemquam voce lacessas,

Verg. E. 3, 51; Dig. 3, 3, 78; cf.:

aliquem or aliquid, ne, etc.,

ib. 19, 2, 35; Quint. 3, 6, 102; 8, 3, 20.—

With quominus (very seldom), Lucr. 1, 977; Quint. 11, 1, 48; Dig. 49, 14, [p. 630] 29; so with quo magis:

saevitia collegae quo is magis ingenio suo gauderet effecit,

Liv. 2, 60, 1.—

With obj. acc. and inf. (very rare, and not ante-Aug.):

vehementer efficit ea coire, etc.,

Vitr. 2, 6; Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 8; 47, 11, 10.—

Absol. (freq. and class.):

si effecero, Dabin' mihi argentum?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 121; cf. id. ib. 4, 1, 39 sq.; 4, 8, 5; id. Pers. 1, 3, 87; Caes. B. G. 7, 26, 2 et saep.:

se a scientiae delectatione ad efficiendi utilitatem referre,

Cic. Rep. 5, 3.

In partic.

In econom. lang., to produce, bear, yield:

(ager Leontinus) plurimum efficit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63 fin.; cf.:

ager efficit cum octavo, cum decumo,

id. ib. 2, 3, 47:

si (vineae) centenos sestertios in singula jugera efficiant,

Col. 3, 3, 3:

cum matres binae ternos haedos efficiunt,

id. 7, 6, 7.— Transf. to persons:

liciti sunt usque eo, quoad se efficere posse arbitrabantur,

i. e. to make a profit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33 fin. —

Of numbers, to make out, yield, amount to a certain sum:

ea (tributa) vix, in fenus Pompeii quod satis sit, efficiunt,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3 (cf. shortly before:

nec id satis efficit [al. efficitur] in usuram menstruam),

Plin. 6, 33, 38, § 206; cf. ib. § 209; Col. 5, 2, 6; 8 sq.—

In philos. lang., to make out, show, prove (with acc. and inf., ut, ne, or absol.):

quod proposuit efficit, Cic. Par. prooem. § 2: in quibus (libris) vult efficere animos esse mortales,

id. Tusc. 1, 31 fin. —In the pass. impers.: efficitur, it follows (from something):

ita efficitur, ut omne corpus mortale sit,

id. N. D. 3, 12, 30:

ex quo efficitur, hominem naturae obedientem homini nocere non posse,

id. Tusc. 3, 5, 25; cf.:

ex quo illud efficitur, ne justos quidem esse natura,

id. Rep. 3, 11:

quid igitur efficitur?

what follows from that? id. ib. 3, 12.—Hence,

effĭcĭens, entis, P. a.

Adj., effecting, effective, efficient. —In philos. lang.:

proximus est locus rerum efficientium, quae causae appellantur: deinde rerum effectarum ab efficientibus causis,

Cic. Top. 14 fin.; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 24; id. Fin. 3, 16, 55; id. Div. 1, 55, 125; id. Fat. 14, 33; Quint. 5, 10, 86. —

Subst., with gen.: virtus efficiens utilitatis, the producer = effectrix, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 12; so,

voluptatis (virtus),

id. ib. 3, 33; cf.:

ea, quae sunt luxuriosis efficientia voluptatum,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; and:

(causae) efficientes pulcherrimarum rerum,

id. Univ. 14 fin. —

* Adv.: effĭcĭenter, efficiently (for which in the post-Aug. per., efficaciter):

ut id ei causa sit, quod cuique efficienter antecedat,

Cic. Fat. 15, 34.—

effectus, a, um, P. a., worked out, i. e.

Effected, completed:

una (materia) diligenter effecta plus proderit quam plures inchoatae et quasi degustatae,

Quint. 10, 5, 23; cf. id. 5, 13, 34; 8, 3, 88.—In the comp.:

aliquid nitidius atque effectius,

Quint. 12, 10, 45.—

Effected, in philos. lang. (opp. causa efficiens), Cic. Top. 18; cf.

res,

id. ib. 4; 14 fin.; and subst.: effectum, i, n., an effect, id. ib. 3; Quint. 6, 3, 66; 5, 10, 94. — Adv.: effecte.

Effectively, in fact, Mart. 2, 27, 3; Amm. 16, 5, 7.—

Effectually, efficaciously:

effectius,

App. Flor. 16, p. 357.— Sup. does not occur.

ef-fĭcĭo ( ecfacio), fēci, fectum, 3 ( perf. subj. effexis, Plaut. As. 3, 5, 63; id. Poen. 1, 3, 19; inf. pass. ecfiĕri, id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Lucr. 6, 761), v. a., to make out, work out; hence, to bring to pass, to effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form (very freq. in all periods and sorts of writing).

In gen.

With acc.:

male quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id ecficere perpetrat,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12 sq.; cf. id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.; 1, 61, 2:

magna facinora,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 16; so,

facinora,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109; cf.

opus,

id. ib. 4, 1, 6; Plaut. Truc. 5, 17; Caes. B. G. 4, 18, 1; 7, 35, 4 et saep.:

pontem,

id. ib. 6, 6, 1; id. B. C. 1, 40, 1; 1, 62 fin.:

ligneas turres, tormenta,

id. ib. 3, 9, 3; 3, 39 fin.:

castella,

id. ib. 3, 44, 3:

panes ex hoc (genere radicis),

id. ib. 3, 48, 3:

sphaeram (Archimedes),

Cic. Rep. 1, 17:

columnam,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56 et saep.:

Mosa insulam efficit Batavorum,

Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 2; id. ib. § 4; id. B. C. 3, 40, 4; cf.:

portum (insula),

id. ib. 3, 112, 2; Verg. A. 1, 160:

magnum numerum cratium, scalarum, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 1:

aliquid dignum dono deorum,

Cic. Rep. 3, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 26, 120:

civitatem,

id. Rep. 2, 30; cf. id. ib. 3, 32:

varios concentus, septem sonos,

id. ib. 6, 18:

magnas rerum commutationes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 68, 1:

tantos progressus,

Cic. Brut. 78, 272:

clamores et admirationes in bonis oratoribus,

id. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3 et saep.:

XIII. cohortes,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 5; cf.:

delectu habito duas legiones,

id. ib. 1, 31, 2:

unam ex duabus (legionibus),

id. ib. 3, 89, 1:

ad duo milia ferme boum,

Liv. 22, 16 et saep.:

lepide meum officium,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 1 sq.; cf.:

nostra munia,

id. Stich. 5, 4, 13:

munus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46 fin.; id. Leg. 1, 5, 16:

nuptias alicui,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 16:

aurum alicui,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 55; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 57; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 23:

hanc mulierem tibi,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 110 et saep.:

quod a Curione effeceram,

had procured, obtained, Cic. Att. 10, 10:

amor mores hominum moros et morosos ecficit,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 43.—With two accs.:

fortuna eos efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; id. Rep. 2, 42; Caes. B. G. 3, 24 fin. et saep.; cf.:

hunc (montem) murus circumdatus arcem efficit,

id. ib. 1, 38, 6:

aliquem consulem,

Cic. Lael. 20, 73:

aliquem dictatorem,

id. Att. 15, 21; cf.

also: quae res immani corporum magnitudine homines efficit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 9; and:

id (genus radicis) ad similitudinem panis efficiebant,

id. B. C. 3, 48, 1.—

With ut:

eniti et efficere, ut, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 16, 59; id. Rep. 1, 20; 3, 31; Caes. B. G. 2, 5, 5; 2, 17, 4 et saep.; cf.:

hoc si efficiam plane, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 62:

si id efficere non posset, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 50, 3:

neque polliceor me effecturum, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 24 fin. —Ellips. of ut:

effice, di coëamus in unum,

Ov. F. 3, 683.—

With ne (rare):

efficio ne cui molesti sint publicani,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16:

qui efficiant, ne quid inter privatum et magistratum differat,

id. Rep. 1, 43, 67; id. Fin. 4, 4, 10; Liv. 8, 7, 6:

efficiam, posthac ne quemquam voce lacessas,

Verg. E. 3, 51; Dig. 3, 3, 78; cf.:

aliquem or aliquid, ne, etc.,

ib. 19, 2, 35; Quint. 3, 6, 102; 8, 3, 20.—

With quominus (very seldom), Lucr. 1, 977; Quint. 11, 1, 48; Dig. 49, 14, [p. 630] 29; so with quo magis:

saevitia collegae quo is magis ingenio suo gauderet effecit,

Liv. 2, 60, 1.—

With obj. acc. and inf. (very rare, and not ante-Aug.):

vehementer efficit ea coire, etc.,

Vitr. 2, 6; Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 8; 47, 11, 10.—

Absol. (freq. and class.):

si effecero, Dabin' mihi argentum?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 121; cf. id. ib. 4, 1, 39 sq.; 4, 8, 5; id. Pers. 1, 3, 87; Caes. B. G. 7, 26, 2 et saep.:

se a scientiae delectatione ad efficiendi utilitatem referre,

Cic. Rep. 5, 3.

In partic.

In econom. lang., to produce, bear, yield:

(ager Leontinus) plurimum efficit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63 fin.; cf.:

ager efficit cum octavo, cum decumo,

id. ib. 2, 3, 47:

si (vineae) centenos sestertios in singula jugera efficiant,

Col. 3, 3, 3:

cum matres binae ternos haedos efficiunt,

id. 7, 6, 7.— Transf. to persons:

liciti sunt usque eo, quoad se efficere posse arbitrabantur,

i. e. to make a profit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33 fin. —

Of numbers, to make out, yield, amount to a certain sum:

ea (tributa) vix, in fenus Pompeii quod satis sit, efficiunt,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3 (cf. shortly before:

nec id satis efficit [al. efficitur] in usuram menstruam),

Plin. 6, 33, 38, § 206; cf. ib. § 209; Col. 5, 2, 6; 8 sq.—

In philos. lang., to make out, show, prove (with acc. and inf., ut, ne, or absol.):

quod proposuit efficit, Cic. Par. prooem. § 2: in quibus (libris) vult efficere animos esse mortales,

id. Tusc. 1, 31 fin. —In the pass. impers.: efficitur, it follows (from something):

ita efficitur, ut omne corpus mortale sit,

id. N. D. 3, 12, 30:

ex quo efficitur, hominem naturae obedientem homini nocere non posse,

id. Tusc. 3, 5, 25; cf.:

ex quo illud efficitur, ne justos quidem esse natura,

id. Rep. 3, 11:

quid igitur efficitur?

what follows from that? id. ib. 3, 12.—Hence,

effĭcĭens, entis, P. a.

Adj., effecting, effective, efficient. —In philos. lang.:

proximus est locus rerum efficientium, quae causae appellantur: deinde rerum effectarum ab efficientibus causis,

Cic. Top. 14 fin.; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 24; id. Fin. 3, 16, 55; id. Div. 1, 55, 125; id. Fat. 14, 33; Quint. 5, 10, 86. —

Subst., with gen.: virtus efficiens utilitatis, the producer = effectrix, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 12; so,

voluptatis (virtus),

id. ib. 3, 33; cf.:

ea, quae sunt luxuriosis efficientia voluptatum,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; and:

(causae) efficientes pulcherrimarum rerum,

id. Univ. 14 fin. —

* Adv.: effĭcĭenter, efficiently (for which in the post-Aug. per., efficaciter):

ut id ei causa sit, quod cuique efficienter antecedat,

Cic. Fat. 15, 34.—

effectus, a, um, P. a., worked out, i. e.

Effected, completed:

una (materia) diligenter effecta plus proderit quam plures inchoatae et quasi degustatae,

Quint. 10, 5, 23; cf. id. 5, 13, 34; 8, 3, 88.—In the comp.:

aliquid nitidius atque effectius,

Quint. 12, 10, 45.—

Effected, in philos. lang. (opp. causa efficiens), Cic. Top. 18; cf.

res,

id. ib. 4; 14 fin.; and subst.: effectum, i, n., an effect, id. ib. 3; Quint. 6, 3, 66; 5, 10, 94. — Adv.: effecte.

Effectively, in fact, Mart. 2, 27, 3; Amm. 16, 5, 7.—

Effectually, efficaciously:

effectius,

App. Flor. 16, p. 357.— Sup. does not occur.

prae-clārus, a, um, adj., very clear, very bright.

Lit. (only poet. and very rare):

lux,

Lucr. 2, 1032:

sol,

id. 5, 120:

iaspis,

Juv. 5, 42.—

Transf., very beautiful (physically or morally), magnificent, honorable, splendid, noble, remarkable, distinguished, excellent, famous, celebrated (class.):

vultus,

Lucr. 4, 1033: urbs situ praeclaro ad aspectum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 117: aries praeclarior, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

homo praeclarā virtute et formā,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 51:

praeclaris operibus laetari,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 7:

praeclara indoles ad dicendum,

id. de Or. 1, 29, 131:

genus dicendi magnificum atque praeclarum,

id. ib. 2, 21, 82:

eximia et praeclara,

id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

praeclara et magnifica,

id. Or. 4, 15:

multi praeclari in philosophiā et nobiles,

id. de Or. 1, 11, 46:

gens bello praeclara,

Verg. A. 8, 480; 12, 347:

nec quicquam est praeclarius aut praestantius,

Cic. Fam. 10, 5, 2:

praeclarissimum facinus,

Nep. Tim. 1, 5:

praeclarum est popularem me esse in populi salute,

Cic. ad Brut. 1, 3, 2 fin.:

res,

distinguished wealth, opulence, Hor. S. 2, 5, 46.— Of medicines that operate well, excellent, efficacious, etc.:

rubrica in medicinā res praeclara habetur,

Plin. 35, 6, 14, § 33; 20, 7, 26, § 61; 27, 4, 14, § 31; cf.

usus,

id. 23, 3, 36, § 73:

utilitas,

id. 22, 24, 51, § 110.—Ironically:

illa praeclara tua patientia famis,

Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26; cf.:

praeclaram populo Romano refers gratiam,

id. ib. 1, 11, 28.—In a bad sense, noted, notorious:

sceleribus suis ferox atque praeclarus,

Sall. J. 14, 21.—

With gen.:

T. Livius, eloquentiae ac fidei praeclarus in primis,

Tac. A. 4, 34.—Hence, adv., in two forms, praeclare and praeclariter.

Form praeclārē.

Very clearly, very plainly:

praeclare aliquid explicare,

Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 33:

praeclare intellego,

id. Fam. 13, 7, 1:

praeclare memini,

id. ib. 4, 7, 2:

invenire,

Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 3:

praeclare et apposite et facete scribere,

Gell. 2, 23, 11.—

Excellently, admirably, very well:

praeclare nobiscum actum iri, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 9; cf.:

omnino praeclare te habes, cum, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 2, 61, §

149: simulacrum praeclare factum e marmore,

id. ib. 2, 4, 44, §

96: praeclare facitis, qui, etc.,

id. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

praeclare dicere aliquid,

id. Rosc. Am. 13, 37:

gerere negotium,

id. Rosc. Com. 10, 34:

praeclarissime aliquid facere,

id. Mil. 35, 96.—Of medicines that operate well, excellently, efficaciously, etc.:

radix caeliacis praeclare facit,

Plin. 22, 19, 22, § 48; 26, 15, 90, § 161; 29, 4, 25, § 78;

32, 4, 14, § 35.—As an expression of assent: pacem vult M. Lepidus: praeclare, si, etc.,

very good, very well, Cic. Phil. 13, 4, 8 sq. —

Form prae-clārĭter, excellently: rebus praeclariter gestis, Quadrig. ap. Non. 516, 12; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P. (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.).