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1 error

error, ōris, m. [id.], a wandering.
I.
In gen., a wandering, straying or strolling about (rare and mostly poet.).
A.
Lit.:
ad quos Ceres m illo errore venisse dicitur,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 108:
error ac dissipatio civium (sc. mercatorum),
id. Rep. 2, 4, 7 Mos. (cf. erratio, I.): navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, Auct. B. Afr. 11; cf. Ov. H. 16, 29; id. M. 14, 484; id. Tr. 4, 10, 100; Verg. A. 1, 755; 6, 532 et saep.— Transf., of the motion of atoms, Lucr. 2, 132; of the meanderings of rivers, Ov. M. 1, 582; of the mazes of the labyrinth, id. ib. 8, 161; 167.—
B.
Trop., a wavering, uncertainty:
fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum,
Lucr. 4, 1077: [p. 658] nec, quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio, tantus cum cura meo est error animo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 15; 45; 27, 47; Ov. F. 5, 362 al.; so, too, with obj. gen.:
viarum,
uncertainty, ignorance, Liv. 24, 17; cf.
veri,
Tac. H. 2, 72.—
II.
In partic., a wandering from the right way, a going astray.
A.
Lit. (very seldom):
reduxit me usque ex errore in viam,
Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 13 fin. —
B.
Trop., a departing from the truth, an error, mistake, delusion (class.; cf.:
erratum, vitium, peccatum): erroris ego illos et. dementiae complebo,
Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 8:
opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem nec vera cernimus,
Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43; cf.:
inducere imperitos in errorem,
id. Brut. 85, 293; Nep. Hann. 9, 3:
errore quodam fallimur in disputando,
Cic. Rep. 3, 35:
si errorem velis tollere,
id. ib. 1, 24:
errorem tollere,
id. ib. 2, 10; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37:
deponere,
id. Phil. 8, 11, 32:
eripere alicui,
id. Att. 10, 4, 6:
demere,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140 et saep.:
mentis,
i. e. distraction, insanity, Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2; cf. Hor. A. P. 454; Verg. G. 3, 513; so poet. of other kinds of mental perturbation, as fear, Ov. F. 3, 555;
love,
Verg. E. 8, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 9; cf. ib. 1, 2, 35; id. M. 10, 342: aut aliquis latet error;
equo ne credite, Teucri,
some deception, Verg. A. 2, 48; cf. Liv. 22, 1:
par forma aut aetas errorem agnoscentibus fecerat,
Tac. A. 4, 63:
jaculum detulit error in Idam,
Ov. M. 5, 90.—
(β).
Esp., an error in language, a solecism, Quint. 1, 5, 47.—
(γ).
Rarely a moral error, fault (cf. erro, I. B. 2.), Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 20; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 57; 2, 3, 92.—
(δ).
Error, personif., = Atê, the inspirer of folly or judicial blindness, Ov. M. 12, 59.

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2 error

error ōris, m [cf. 1 erro], a wandering, straying, strolling: ad quos Ceres in illo errore venisse dicitur: civium: dic Errores tuos, V.: finem rogant erroris, O.: pelagi erroribus actus, V.— A going astray, missing the way: iumenta errore delata per quattuor stadia, Cu.: (iaculum) detulit error in Idan, O.— A winding, meandering, maze, intricacy: fessae erroribus undae, O.: flexus, O. —Fig., a doubt, uncertainty, ambiguity: nominum, L.: errores abstulit illa meos, O.: viarum, ignorance, L.: Graiarum iubarum, confusion, V. — A going astray, going wrong, error, mistake, delusion: mentis: rapi in errorem: errorem tollere: cui demptus per vim mentis error, H.: pro errore venia, Ta.: me malus abstulit error, infatuation, V.: quoniam novus incidit error, Pr.: aliquis latet error, snare, V.—Person., delusion, O.
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erroris N M

wandering; error; winding, maze; uncertainty; deception

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3 error

, erroris

error, mistake, going astray / uncertainty / deception

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4 Lapsus alumni

• Error made

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5 errātum

errātum ī, n [1 erro], an error, mistake, fault: commune: nullum ob erratum: minimum: errata officiis superes, S.: errata aetatis meae.
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errati N N

error, mistake (in thought/action); moral error, lapse

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6 culpa

culpa ae, f [SCARP-], a fault, error, blame, guilt, failure, defect: delicti: omnes culpae istius avaritiae, maiestatis, crudelitatis: quicquid huius factumst culpā, T.: In culpā est, to blame, T.: non est ista mea culpa, sed temporum: qui in eādem culpā sint, share: in quo est tua culpa nonnulla, you are not without fault: a culpā vacuus, S.: conscia culpae, O.: ne penes ipsos culpa esset cladis, L.: culpa, quae te est penes, T.: extra culpam esse: eius rei culpam in multitudinem coniecerunt, Cs.: suam culpam ad negotia transferre, S.: in culpā ponere aliquem: Si mora pro culpā est, O.: tua aetas emovit culpas, H.: fata, quae manent culpas, H.—Person.: ludus erat culpā potare magistrā (i. e. a game in which the loser must drink), H.: Culpam Poena premit comes, H.—Poet.: Huic uni succumbere culpae, temptation, V.— Unchastity: Virginum, H.: hoc praetexit nomine culpam, V.—Remissness, neglect: rem facere culpā minorem, H.—The mischievous thing, mischief: continuo culpam (sc. ovem aegram) ferro compesce, V.
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culpae N F

fault/blame/responsibility (w/GEN); crime (esp. against chastity); negligence; offense; error; (sense of) guilt; fault/defect (moral/other); sickness/injury

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7 fallō

fallō fefellī, falsus, ere [1 FAL-], to trip, cause to fall: glacies fallit pedes, L.: alqm, Cu.—Fig., to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude, fail, disappoint: alquem dolis, T.: falli te sinas Techinis, T.: Nec sidus regione viae (nos) fefellit, misled, V.: credentem puellam, O.: sui fallendi causā factum, Cs.: nisi me forte fallo: nisi me fallit animus: nisi me omnia fallunt, unless I utterly mistake: neque eum prima opinio fefellit, Cs.: nisi quid me fallit: mentīs monstro, V.: cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut, etc.: non in sortitione fallere: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, lead into error, L.: ut de indutiis fallendo impetrarent, Cs.: numquam fallentis termes olivae, H.: nescia fallere vita, without guile, V.: eas fallam, ut ab illis fallimur, T.— Pass reflex., to be deceived, err, mistake, deceive oneself: Falsus es, T.: neque ea res falsum me habuit, did not deceive me, S.: errore quodam fallimur: quā (spe) possumus falli: deus falli quo potuit?: nisi fallor, V.: aut ego fallor, or I am far wrong, H.—Impers., with acc, to mistake, be deceived: nisi me fallit: nec eum fefellit.— To violate, break, betray, deceive, disappoint: fidem hosti datam: meam spem: si res opinionem meam fefellerit: mandata mariti, O.: foedus ac fidem, L.: promissum, Cu.: tu faciem illius Falle dolo, put on, V.: retia, avoid, O.: quā signa sequendi Falleret error, confound, V.— To deceive in swearing, swear falsely, be perjured: si sciens fallo: si falleret, precatus Deos, ita se mactarent, L.: expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere, swear falsely by, H.: dominorum dextras, faith pledged to, etc., V.— To lie concealed, be unseen, escape notice, remain undiscovered, elude: per biennium, L.: ne quid falleret Volturno ad urbem missum, L.: ne falleret ad urbem incedens, arrive secretly, L.: qui natus moriensque fefellit, in obscurity, H.: veneno, infuse undetected, V.: bonus longe fallente sagittā, V.: nequiquam fallis dea, escape recognition, V.: neque hoc te fallit, quam multa sint, etc., nor do you fail to see: custodes, L.: deos, O.: nec nos via fallet euntīs, V.: me nec fallunt iussa Iovis, nor do I fail to recognize, V.: nec quicquam eos fallebat, L.: segetis fides meae Fulgentem Falli sorte beatior, i. e. is a happier lot, though he knows it not, etc., H.: neutros fefellit hostīs appropinquare, L.: in lege nullā esse eiusmodi caput te non fallit: neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc., Cs.— To lighten, appease, silence, beguile: medias sermonibus horas, O.: somno curam, H.: austerum studio fallente laborem, H.
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fallere, fefelli, falsus V

deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat

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8 mendum

mendum ī, n [3 MAN-], a fault, error, blunder: quod mendum ista litura conrexit?: librariorum.— A blemish, defect: Rara mendo facies caret, O.—Fig., a mistake, omission: Idūs Martiae magnum mendum continent.
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mendi N N

bodily defect, blemish; fault, error (usu. in writing)

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9 peccātum

peccātum ī, n [pecco], a fault, error, mistake, transgression, sin: pro huius peccatis ego supplicium sufferam? T.: si peccato locus esset, S.: peccatum est patriam prodere: stultitiae: paucis verbis tria magna peccata, blunders: peccatis poenas aequas inrogare, H.
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peccati N N

sin; moral offense; error, mistake; lapse, misdemeanor

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10 calcularius

calcularia, calcularium ADJ

of/pertaining to calculations

calcularius error -- error in reckoning/calculation

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11 calcularius

calcŭlārĭus, a, um, adj. [calculus], of or pertaining to calculation:
error,
an error in reckoning, Dig. 50, 8, 8.

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12 capio

1.
căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:
capsimus,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:
sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,
Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:
cape hoc flabellum,
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:
cepit manibus tympanum,
Cat. 6, 3, 8:
tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,
Verg. A. 2, 717:
cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,
id. G. 3, 420:
flammeum,
Cat. 61, 8:
acria pocula,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:
lora,
Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:
baculum,
Ov. M. 2, 789:
colum cum calathis,
id. ib. 12, 475:
florem ternis digitis,
Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:
pignera,
Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:
ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,
Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:
rem pignori,
Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:
scutum laeva,
Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:
capias tu illius vestem,
Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;
and of particular weapons: ensem,
Ov. M. 13, 435:
tela,
id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:
quicum una cibum Capere soleo,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:
lauti cibum capiunt,
Tac. G. 22.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of living objects.
a.
To take into possession, take captive, seize, make prisoner.
(α).
Of persons:
oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):
quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,
Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
reges capiuntur,
Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:
capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,
Liv. 22, 49, 18:
quos Byzantii ceperat,
Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:
captos ostendere civibus hostes,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:
captus Tarento Livius,
Cic. Brut. 18, 72:
servus ex hoste captus,
Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:
in captos clementia uti,
Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:
inludere capto,
Verg. A. 2, 64:
quae sit fiducia capto,
id. ib. 2, 75:
ex captorum numero,
Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:
dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
(β).
Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:
si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,
id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:
hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,
Ov. A. A. 1, 763:
neque quicquam captum'st piscium,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:
nisi quid concharum capsimus,
id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:
cervum,
Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:
hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,
Verg. G. 4, 396.—
b.
To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:
quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,
Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:
quamvis voluptate capiatur,
id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:
quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:
secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,
id. Att. 4, 1:
nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,
Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;
erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,
Hor. A. P. 362:
hunc capit argenti splendor,
id. S. 1, 4, 28:
te conjux aliena capit,
id. ib. 2, 7, 46:
Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,
Prop. 1, 1, 1:
carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,
Tib. 3, 1, 7:
munditiis capimur,
Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;
14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,
Liv. 30, 12, 18:
dulcedine vocis,
Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:
voce nova,
id. ib. 1, 678:
temperie aquarum,
id. ib. 4, 344:
(bos) herba captus viridi,
Verg. E. 6, 59:
amoenitate loci,
Tac. A. 18, 52:
auro,
Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:
neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,
Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:
splendore hominis,
id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;
nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
c.
To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:
sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,
Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:
injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?
Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:
eodem captus errore quo nos,
involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:
ne quo errore milites caperentur,
Liv. 8, 6, 16:
capere ante dolis Reginam,
Verg. A. 1, 673:
captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),
id. ib. 2, 196:
ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,
Sall. J. 14, 11:
adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,
id. C. 14, 5:
capi alicujus dolo,
Nep. Dat. 10, 1:
dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,
Liv. 23, 35, 2:
quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,
Ov. M. 7, 301.—
d.
To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):
tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:
tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),
Cic. Mur. 9, 22:
callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),
id. Brut. 48, 178.—
e.
To deprive one of his powers or faculties, to harm.
(α).
Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):
mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:
ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,
loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:
captus omnibus membris,
id. 2, 36, 8:
capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,
id. 21, 58, 5:
oculis membrisque captus,
Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:
congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:
si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,
id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:
habuit filium captum altero oculo,
Suet. Vit. 6:
censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,
Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:
lumine,
Ov. F. 6, 204:
princeps pedibus captus,
Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:
captum leto posuit caput,
Verg. A. 11, 830;
and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,
id. G. 1, 183.—
(β).
Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:
labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,
Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:
vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,
id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;
rarely mentibu' capti,
Lucr. 4, 1022; so,
animo,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:
captus animi,
Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:
virgines captae furore,
Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:
viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,
Liv. 39, 13, 12:
captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,
id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:
capti et stupentes animi,
id. 6, 36, 8.—
f.
To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:
de istac sum judex captus,
Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:
Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,
Liv. 3, 71, 2:
me cepere arbitrum,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:
te mihi patronam capio, Thais,
id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:
quom illum generum cepimus,
id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:
non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,
make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:
si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,
id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:
plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,
Gell. 1, 12, 15:
jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,
Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:
religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:
C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,
Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
2.
Of places.
a.
To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:
loca capere, castra munire,
Caes. B. G. 3, 23:
castris locum capere,
Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:
locum capere castris,
Quint. 12, 2, 5:
ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,
Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:
ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,
Nep. Ages. 6, 2:
nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,
Liv. 34, 14, 1:
neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,
id. 35, 14, 9:
erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,
id. 35, 28, 1:
locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,
Sall. J. 58, 3:
duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,
Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,
of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 25:
tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,
Liv. 7, 26, 5:
quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,
Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:
tumulum suis cepit,
Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;
for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,
Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:
Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,
Liv. 1, 6, 4;
for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,
id. 9, 43, 20:
Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,
Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:
ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),
Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
b.
To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:
invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:
MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,
Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:
CORSICAM,
Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):
ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,
Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:
Troja capta,
Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:
urbem opulentissimam,
id. 5, 20, 1:
ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,
Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:
castra hostium,
Nep. Dat. 6, 7:
concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,
Liv. 42, 63, 6:
plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,
id. 28, 39, 10:
sedem belli,
Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:
oppressa captaque re publica,
Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
c.
To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):
insulam capere non potuerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:
onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,
id. ib. 4, 36:
accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,
id. ib. 5, 23:
nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,
id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:
qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,
Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
3.
Of things of value, property, money, etc.
a.
In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:
AVRVM, ARGENTVM,
Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:
de praedonibus praedam capere,
Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:
agros de hostibus,
Cic. Dom. 49, 128:
ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,
Liv. 4, 48, 2:
quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,
Nep. Con. 4, 4:
classem,
id. Cim. 2, 2:
magnas praedas,
id. Dat. 10, 2:
ex hostibus pecuniam,
Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:
e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:
signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §
82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:
cape cedo,
id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:
ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,
Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:
majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,
id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:
te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,
Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:
paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,
Nep. Epam. 3, 4:
ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,
id. Att. 7, 2:
quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,
assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:
quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,
Caes. B. G. 1, 13:
regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,
succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
b.
In particular connections.
(α).
With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:
his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:
HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,
id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:
quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,
id. ib. §
27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,
id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §
91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?
id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §
218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?
id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §
71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,
id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:
ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,
id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:
quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,
id. Clu. 42, 120:
nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,
id. Pis. 16, 38:
si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,
id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:
ab regibus Illyriorum,
Liv. 42, 45, 8:
saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,
Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
(β).
Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:
si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,
Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:
qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,
id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:
abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,
Quint. 3, 6, 96:
aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,
id. 5, 14, 16:
si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,
Juv. 1, 55:
qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,
Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:
qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,
ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
(γ).
Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:
capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,
Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:
stipendium jure belli,
Caes. B. G. 1, 28:
quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:
vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,
Liv. 28, 39, 13:
quadragena annua ex schola,
Suet. Gram. 23:
si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,
Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
C.
Trop.
1.
Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):
metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:
honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,
Cic. Sen. 18, 62:
ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,
id. Div. 2, 5:
ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,
id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:
multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,
id. Att. 1, 4, 2:
fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,
id. Pis. 14, 31:
aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,
Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:
quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:
utilitates ex amicitia maximas,
Cic. Lael. 9, 32:
usuram alicujus corporis,
Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
2.
Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:
gestum atque voltum novom,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:
figuras Datque capitque novas,
id. ib. 15, 309:
formam capit quam lilia,
id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:
duritiam ab aere,
id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:
radicem capere,
to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:
cum pali defixi radices cepissent,
Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:
siliculam capere,
Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:
maturitatem capere,
Col. 4, 23, 1:
radix libere capit viris,
Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:
vires cepisse nocendi,
Ov. M. 7, 417:
(telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,
Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
3.
Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:
cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:
qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,
Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:
aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,
id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:
consuetudinem exercitationemque,
id. Off. 1, 18, 59:
misericordiam,
id. Quint. 31, 97:
quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,
Ov. A. A. 2, 346:
disciplinam principum,
Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:
quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,
Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
4.
Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:
nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:
o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,
Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:
in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,
took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:
consulatum,
id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:
honores,
Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:
imperium,
id. Claud. 10:
magistratum,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:
magistratus,
Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:
capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),
Ov. M. 3, 644:
rerum moderamen,
id. ib. 6, 677:
pontificatum maximum,
Suet. Vit. 11:
rem publicam,
Sall. C. 5, 6:
neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,
Liv. 2, 33, 1:
ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,
id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:
patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,
Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
5.
In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:
augurium ex arce,
Liv. 10, 7, 10:
augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,
Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:
omen,
Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:
in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,
Liv. 9, 4, 1:
rursus impetu capto enituntur,
id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:
a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:
experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,
Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):
nec vestra capit discordia finem,
Verg. A. 10, 106:
fugam,
to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:
ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,
Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:
expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,
suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:
ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,
Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:
eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,
Caes. B. G. 1, 1:
a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,
Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
6.
Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:
si occassionem capsit,
Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:
si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,
Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:
quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:
si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,
Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
7.
Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:
quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:
cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35:
hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,
Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:
conjecturam capere,
Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:
nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,
Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:
capti consili memorem mones,
id. Stich 4, 1, 72:
quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:
temerarium consilium,
Liv. 25, 34, 7:
tale capit consilium,
Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:
confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,
Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:
subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,
Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):
legionis opprimendae consilium capere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 2:
obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,
Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:
si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,
Caes. B. C. 2, 20:
ut ego rationem oculis capio,
Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:
cepi rationem ut, etc.,
Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
8.
Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:
ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,
Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:
quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,
Cic. Lael. 10, 33:
praesagia a sole,
Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:
illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?
Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
9.
Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:
tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?
Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:
omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,
id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:
laborem inanem ipsus capit,
id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:
ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!
id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;
hic potitur gaudia,
id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:
satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,
Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:
plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,
id. ib. 2, 2, 9:
cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,
id. ib. prol. 114:
angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,
Cic. Lael. 13, 48:
quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,
id. Off. 2, 9, 32:
laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,
id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:
lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,
id. Sen. 15, 54:
opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,
id. Brut. 1, 1:
itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,
id. ib. 40, 147:
ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,
Liv. 27, 40, 9:
ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,
id. 5, 20, 2:
ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,
id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):
laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,
id. ib. 14, 14, 4:
ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,
lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:
maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,
Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:
et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,
Liv. 33, 27, 10:
voluptatem animi,
Cic. Planc. 1, 1:
malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),
id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:
quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,
Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
10.
Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):
edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,
Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:
numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,
id. ib. 4, 2, 4:
sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,
id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:
nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,
Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:
te cepisse odium regni videbatur,
id. ib. 2, 36, 91:
Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,
Liv. 1, 6, 3:
cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,
id. 40, 21, 2:
etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,
id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:
qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?
Liv. 27, 13, 2:
oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,
id. 38, 46, 12:
tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?
Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:
ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,
Liv. 27, 8, 6:
hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,
id. 44, 12, 1:
tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,
Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;
I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,
Verg. A. 2, 384:
infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!
id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:
cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,
id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;
I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,
Liv. 1, 57, 10:
ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,
id. 25, 22, 1:
tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,
id. 23, 20, 7:
senatum metus cepit,
id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):
quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,
Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
11.
Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:
calamitatem,
Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:
detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,
Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;
videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,
Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:
Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,
Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:
quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,
Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
II.
To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
A.
Lit.
1.
In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:
parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),
Lucr. 6, 1030:
jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,
Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:
terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,
id. ib. 1, 75:
dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,
id. ib. 8, 558:
cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,
id. ib. 5, 324.—
2.
Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:
di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:
qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;
volat vapor ater ad auras,
Verg. A. 7, 466:
non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,
Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:
non capit se mare,
Sen. Agam. 487:
neque enim capiebant funera portae,
Ov. M. 7, 607:
officium populi vix capiente domo,
id. P. 4, 4, 42:
si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,
Curt. 7, 8, 12:
ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,
Just. 2, 10, 19.—
B.
Trop.
1.
To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):
tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
2.
To contain, hold, be large or strong enough for, bear.
a.
Affirmatively (rare):
quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,
Curt. 9, 3, 7:
si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,
Quint. 2, 4, 17:
dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,
Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
b.
With negatives:
non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),
Cic. Pis. 11, 24:
leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,
Lucr. 3, 298:
nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,
Ov. M. 6, 466:
vix spes ipse suas animo capit,
id. ib. 11, 118:
ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,
id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:
sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,
Curt. 7, 8, 13:
majora quam capit spirat,
id. 6, 9, 11:
ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,
id. 3, 12, 20:
infirma aetas majora non capiet,
Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
3.
Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):
rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,
Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:
molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,
id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:
res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,
Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
4.
With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):
nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),
Prud. Apoth. 154:
crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,
Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
5.
Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):
sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,
Quint. 11, 1, 45:
nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,
id. 2, 6, 2:
quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,
Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:
senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,
Liv. 9, 17, 14:
somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,
id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
2.
căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
I.
A taking:
dominii,
Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
II.
= usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > capio
13 Capta

1.
căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:
capsimus,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:
sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,
Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:
cape hoc flabellum,
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:
cepit manibus tympanum,
Cat. 6, 3, 8:
tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,
Verg. A. 2, 717:
cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,
id. G. 3, 420:
flammeum,
Cat. 61, 8:
acria pocula,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:
lora,
Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:
baculum,
Ov. M. 2, 789:
colum cum calathis,
id. ib. 12, 475:
florem ternis digitis,
Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:
pignera,
Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:
ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,
Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:
rem pignori,
Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:
scutum laeva,
Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:
capias tu illius vestem,
Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;
and of particular weapons: ensem,
Ov. M. 13, 435:
tela,
id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:
quicum una cibum Capere soleo,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:
lauti cibum capiunt,
Tac. G. 22.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of living objects.
a.
To take into possession, take captive, seize, make prisoner.
(α).
Of persons:
oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):
quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,
Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
reges capiuntur,
Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:
capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,
Liv. 22, 49, 18:
quos Byzantii ceperat,
Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:
captos ostendere civibus hostes,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:
captus Tarento Livius,
Cic. Brut. 18, 72:
servus ex hoste captus,
Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:
in captos clementia uti,
Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:
inludere capto,
Verg. A. 2, 64:
quae sit fiducia capto,
id. ib. 2, 75:
ex captorum numero,
Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:
dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
(β).
Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:
si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,
id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:
hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,
Ov. A. A. 1, 763:
neque quicquam captum'st piscium,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:
nisi quid concharum capsimus,
id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:
cervum,
Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:
hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,
Verg. G. 4, 396.—
b.
To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:
quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,
Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:
quamvis voluptate capiatur,
id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:
quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:
secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,
id. Att. 4, 1:
nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,
Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;
erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,
Hor. A. P. 362:
hunc capit argenti splendor,
id. S. 1, 4, 28:
te conjux aliena capit,
id. ib. 2, 7, 46:
Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,
Prop. 1, 1, 1:
carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,
Tib. 3, 1, 7:
munditiis capimur,
Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;
14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,
Liv. 30, 12, 18:
dulcedine vocis,
Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:
voce nova,
id. ib. 1, 678:
temperie aquarum,
id. ib. 4, 344:
(bos) herba captus viridi,
Verg. E. 6, 59:
amoenitate loci,
Tac. A. 18, 52:
auro,
Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:
neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,
Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:
splendore hominis,
id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;
nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
c.
To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:
sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,
Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:
injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?
Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:
eodem captus errore quo nos,
involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:
ne quo errore milites caperentur,
Liv. 8, 6, 16:
capere ante dolis Reginam,
Verg. A. 1, 673:
captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),
id. ib. 2, 196:
ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,
Sall. J. 14, 11:
adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,
id. C. 14, 5:
capi alicujus dolo,
Nep. Dat. 10, 1:
dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,
Liv. 23, 35, 2:
quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,
Ov. M. 7, 301.—
d.
To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):
tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:
tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),
Cic. Mur. 9, 22:
callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),
id. Brut. 48, 178.—
e.
To deprive one of his powers or faculties, to harm.
(α).
Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):
mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:
ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,
loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:
captus omnibus membris,
id. 2, 36, 8:
capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,
id. 21, 58, 5:
oculis membrisque captus,
Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:
congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:
si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,
id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:
habuit filium captum altero oculo,
Suet. Vit. 6:
censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,
Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:
lumine,
Ov. F. 6, 204:
princeps pedibus captus,
Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:
captum leto posuit caput,
Verg. A. 11, 830;
and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,
id. G. 1, 183.—
(β).
Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:
labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,
Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:
vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,
id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;
rarely mentibu' capti,
Lucr. 4, 1022; so,
animo,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:
captus animi,
Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:
virgines captae furore,
Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:
viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,
Liv. 39, 13, 12:
captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,
id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:
capti et stupentes animi,
id. 6, 36, 8.—
f.
To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:
de istac sum judex captus,
Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:
Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,
Liv. 3, 71, 2:
me cepere arbitrum,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:
te mihi patronam capio, Thais,
id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:
quom illum generum cepimus,
id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:
non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,
make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:
si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,
id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:
plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,
Gell. 1, 12, 15:
jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,
Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:
religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:
C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,
Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
2.
Of places.
a.
To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:
loca capere, castra munire,
Caes. B. G. 3, 23:
castris locum capere,
Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:
locum capere castris,
Quint. 12, 2, 5:
ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,
Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:
ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,
Nep. Ages. 6, 2:
nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,
Liv. 34, 14, 1:
neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,
id. 35, 14, 9:
erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,
id. 35, 28, 1:
locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,
Sall. J. 58, 3:
duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,
Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,
of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 25:
tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,
Liv. 7, 26, 5:
quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,
Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:
tumulum suis cepit,
Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;
for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,
Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:
Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,
Liv. 1, 6, 4;
for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,
id. 9, 43, 20:
Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,
Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:
ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),
Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
b.
To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:
invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:
MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,
Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:
CORSICAM,
Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):
ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,
Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:
Troja capta,
Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:
urbem opulentissimam,
id. 5, 20, 1:
ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,
Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:
castra hostium,
Nep. Dat. 6, 7:
concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,
Liv. 42, 63, 6:
plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,
id. 28, 39, 10:
sedem belli,
Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:
oppressa captaque re publica,
Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
c.
To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):
insulam capere non potuerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:
onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,
id. ib. 4, 36:
accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,
id. ib. 5, 23:
nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,
id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:
qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,
Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
3.
Of things of value, property, money, etc.
a.
In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:
AVRVM, ARGENTVM,
Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:
de praedonibus praedam capere,
Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:
agros de hostibus,
Cic. Dom. 49, 128:
ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,
Liv. 4, 48, 2:
quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,
Nep. Con. 4, 4:
classem,
id. Cim. 2, 2:
magnas praedas,
id. Dat. 10, 2:
ex hostibus pecuniam,
Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:
e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:
signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §
82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:
cape cedo,
id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:
ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,
Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:
majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,
id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:
te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,
Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:
paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,
Nep. Epam. 3, 4:
ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,
id. Att. 7, 2:
quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,
assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:
quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,
Caes. B. G. 1, 13:
regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,
succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
b.
In particular connections.
(α).
With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:
his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:
HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,
id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:
quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,
id. ib. §
27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,
id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §
91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?
id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §
218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?
id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §
71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,
id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:
ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,
id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:
quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,
id. Clu. 42, 120:
nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,
id. Pis. 16, 38:
si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,
id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:
ab regibus Illyriorum,
Liv. 42, 45, 8:
saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,
Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
(β).
Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:
si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,
Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:
qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,
id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:
abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,
Quint. 3, 6, 96:
aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,
id. 5, 14, 16:
si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,
Juv. 1, 55:
qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,
Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:
qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,
ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
(γ).
Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:
capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,
Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:
stipendium jure belli,
Caes. B. G. 1, 28:
quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:
vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,
Liv. 28, 39, 13:
quadragena annua ex schola,
Suet. Gram. 23:
si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,
Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
C.
Trop.
1.
Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):
metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:
honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,
Cic. Sen. 18, 62:
ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,
id. Div. 2, 5:
ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,
id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:
multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,
id. Att. 1, 4, 2:
fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,
id. Pis. 14, 31:
aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,
Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:
quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:
utilitates ex amicitia maximas,
Cic. Lael. 9, 32:
usuram alicujus corporis,
Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
2.
Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:
gestum atque voltum novom,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:
figuras Datque capitque novas,
id. ib. 15, 309:
formam capit quam lilia,
id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:
duritiam ab aere,
id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:
radicem capere,
to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:
cum pali defixi radices cepissent,
Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:
siliculam capere,
Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:
maturitatem capere,
Col. 4, 23, 1:
radix libere capit viris,
Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:
vires cepisse nocendi,
Ov. M. 7, 417:
(telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,
Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
3.
Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:
cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:
qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,
Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:
aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,
id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:
consuetudinem exercitationemque,
id. Off. 1, 18, 59:
misericordiam,
id. Quint. 31, 97:
quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,
Ov. A. A. 2, 346:
disciplinam principum,
Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:
quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,
Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
4.
Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:
nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:
o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,
Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:
in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,
took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:
consulatum,
id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:
honores,
Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:
imperium,
id. Claud. 10:
magistratum,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:
magistratus,
Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:
capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),
Ov. M. 3, 644:
rerum moderamen,
id. ib. 6, 677:
pontificatum maximum,
Suet. Vit. 11:
rem publicam,
Sall. C. 5, 6:
neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,
Liv. 2, 33, 1:
ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,
id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:
patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,
Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
5.
In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:
augurium ex arce,
Liv. 10, 7, 10:
augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,
Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:
omen,
Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:
in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,
Liv. 9, 4, 1:
rursus impetu capto enituntur,
id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:
a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:
experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,
Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):
nec vestra capit discordia finem,
Verg. A. 10, 106:
fugam,
to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:
ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,
Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:
expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,
suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:
ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,
Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:
eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,
Caes. B. G. 1, 1:
a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,
Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
6.
Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:
si occassionem capsit,
Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:
si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,
Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:
quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:
si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,
Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
7.
Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:
quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:
cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35:
hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,
Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:
conjecturam capere,
Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:
nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,
Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:
capti consili memorem mones,
id. Stich 4, 1, 72:
quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:
temerarium consilium,
Liv. 25, 34, 7:
tale capit consilium,
Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:
confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,
Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:
subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,
Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):
legionis opprimendae consilium capere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 2:
obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,
Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:
si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,
Caes. B. C. 2, 20:
ut ego rationem oculis capio,
Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:
cepi rationem ut, etc.,
Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
8.
Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:
ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,
Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:
quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,
Cic. Lael. 10, 33:
praesagia a sole,
Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:
illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?
Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
9.
Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:
tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?
Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:
omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,
id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:
laborem inanem ipsus capit,
id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:
ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!
id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;
hic potitur gaudia,
id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:
satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,
Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:
plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,
id. ib. 2, 2, 9:
cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,
id. ib. prol. 114:
angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,
Cic. Lael. 13, 48:
quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,
id. Off. 2, 9, 32:
laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,
id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:
lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,
id. Sen. 15, 54:
opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,
id. Brut. 1, 1:
itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,
id. ib. 40, 147:
ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,
Liv. 27, 40, 9:
ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,
id. 5, 20, 2:
ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,
id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):
laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,
id. ib. 14, 14, 4:
ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,
lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:
maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,
Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:
et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,
Liv. 33, 27, 10:
voluptatem animi,
Cic. Planc. 1, 1:
malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),
id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:
quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,
Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
10.
Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):
edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,
Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:
numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,
id. ib. 4, 2, 4:
sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,
id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:
nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,
Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:
te cepisse odium regni videbatur,
id. ib. 2, 36, 91:
Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,
Liv. 1, 6, 3:
cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,
id. 40, 21, 2:
etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,
id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:
qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?
Liv. 27, 13, 2:
oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,
id. 38, 46, 12:
tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?
Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:
ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,
Liv. 27, 8, 6:
hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,
id. 44, 12, 1:
tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,
Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;
I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,
Verg. A. 2, 384:
infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!
id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:
cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,
id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;
I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,
Liv. 1, 57, 10:
ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,
id. 25, 22, 1:
tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,
id. 23, 20, 7:
senatum metus cepit,
id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):
quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,
Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
11.
Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:
calamitatem,
Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:
detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,
Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;
videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,
Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:
Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,
Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:
quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,
Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
II.
To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
A.
Lit.
1.
In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:
parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),
Lucr. 6, 1030:
jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,
Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:
terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,
id. ib. 1, 75:
dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,
id. ib. 8, 558:
cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,
id. ib. 5, 324.—
2.
Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:
di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:
qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;
volat vapor ater ad auras,
Verg. A. 7, 466:
non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,
Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:
non capit se mare,
Sen. Agam. 487:
neque enim capiebant funera portae,
Ov. M. 7, 607:
officium populi vix capiente domo,
id. P. 4, 4, 42:
si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,
Curt. 7, 8, 12:
ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,
Just. 2, 10, 19.—
B.
Trop.
1.
To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):
tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
2.
To contain, hold, be large or strong enough for, bear.
a.
Affirmatively (rare):
quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,
Curt. 9, 3, 7:
si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,
Quint. 2, 4, 17:
dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,
Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
b.
With negatives:
non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),
Cic. Pis. 11, 24:
leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,
Lucr. 3, 298:
nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,
Ov. M. 6, 466:
vix spes ipse suas animo capit,
id. ib. 11, 118:
ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,
id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:
sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,
Curt. 7, 8, 13:
majora quam capit spirat,
id. 6, 9, 11:
ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,
id. 3, 12, 20:
infirma aetas majora non capiet,
Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
3.
Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):
rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,
Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:
molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,
id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:
res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,
Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
4.
With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):
nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),
Prud. Apoth. 154:
crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,
Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
5.
Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):
sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,
Quint. 11, 1, 45:
nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,
id. 2, 6, 2:
quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,
Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:
senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,
Liv. 9, 17, 14:
somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,
id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
2.
căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
I.
A taking:
dominii,
Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
II.
= usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Capta
14 convinco

con-vinco, vīci, victum, 3, v. a., to overcome, conquer; always beyond the circle of milit. lang.
I.
With personal objects, to convict of crime or error, refute (very freq. and class.).
(α).
With simple acc.:
quem ego jam hic convincam palam,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 147:
hujus si causa non manifestissimis rebus teneretur, tamen eum mores ipsius ac vita convincerent,
Cic. Sull. 25, 71:
verum enim invenire volumus, non tamquam adversarium aliquem convincere,
id. Fin. 1, 5, 13:
Aristonis jam fracta et convicta secta,
id. Leg. 1, 13, 38:
si negem, quo me teste convincas?
id. Phil. 2, 4, 8; id. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 104; Liv. 26, 12, 17; Quint. 1, 6, 10 et saep.—
(β).
With the designation of the crime, error, etc., commonly in the gen., more rarely in the simple abl., or with de, in, or inf.:
teque in isto ipso convinco non inhumanitatis solum, sed etiam amentiae,
Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 9:
haec duo levitatis et infirmitatis plerosque convincunt,
id. Lael. 17, 64:
aliquem summae neglegentiae (with coarguere),
id. Sull. 15, 44:
quae (supplicia) in convictos maleficii servos constituta sunt,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 53, § 139:
repetundarum,
Suet. Caes. 43: latrocinii, caedis. id. Tib. 1 al.:
manifestis criminibus,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:
multis avaritiae criminibus,
id. Fl. 39, 98:
convicti et condemnati falsis de pugnis,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 5:
scelere convictus,
Suet. Ner. 31; Lact. de Ira, 17, 6; cf.:
istius vita tot vitiis flagitiisque convicta,
Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 10:
in pari peccato,
id. Inv. 2, 10, 32:
in hoc scelere,
id. Sull. 30, 83; so,
in homicidio,
Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 12:
in majore fraude,
Suet. Claud. 15:
in adfectatione imperii,
id. Tit. 9.—With inf.:
aliquid fecisse convinci,
Liv. 45, 10, 14:
convictus pecuniam cepisse,
Tac. A. 4, 31; 13, 44; Suet. Calig. 40; Curt. 9, 8, 9; cf. Sall. C. 52, 36.—
II.
With things as objects, to prove something incontestably (esp. as criminal, false, punishable), to show clearly, demonstrate (freq. and class.).
(α).
With acc.:
inauditum facinus ipsius qui commisit voce convinci,
Cic. Quint. 25, 79; so,
peccata argumentis,
id. Part. Or. 33, 116; cf.:
falsum veris convincere rebus,
Lucr. 4, 764:
alios sensus,
id. 4, 495:
haec poëtarum et pictorum portenta,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11:
orationem (with redargui),
id. Univ. 3 init.:
errores Epicuri,
id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:
falsa,
id. ib. 1, 32, 91:
avaritiam,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 12:
furorem,
Ov. M. 13, 58:
quod obicitur,
Quint. 5, 10, 35:
quod (crimen) apud patres convictum,
Tac. A. 14, 40 al.:
convicta (praedia),
proved not to belong to you, Cic. Fl. 32, 79.—
(β).
With acc. and inf.:
nihil te didicisse... nihil scire convincerent,
Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Par. 5, 3, 41; id. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Quint. 2, 15, 14 al.

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15 credulitas

crēdŭlĭtas, ātis, f. [credulus], easiness of belief, credulity (first freq. after the Aug. per.; never in Cic.): credulitas error est magis quam culpa, Plancus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 1; Quint. 5, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 40; Curt. 7, 7, 8; Ov. M. 15, 498; id. P. 1, 1, 44.—Of fishes trusting themselves to the hook, Ov. M. 13, 934; 15, 101; cf.
credulus.—As a person, together with Error,
Ov. M. 12, 59.

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16 erro

1.
erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [root er-, to go; desiderative forms, erchomai (ersk-); and Lat. (ers-o) erro, to seek to reach; hence, to wander; cf. Germ. irren; Engl. err, etc., v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 546 sq.].
I.
Neutr.
A.
In gen.
1.
Prop., to wander, to wander or stray about, to wander up and down, to rove (freq. and class.; cf.
vagor, palor): propter te errans patria careo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; cf.:
cum vagus et exsul erraret,
Cic. Clu. 62, 175:
ignari hominumque locorumque Erramus vento huc et vastis fluctibus acti,
Verg. A. 1, 333; cf. id. ib. 1, 32; 3, 200; Ov. M. 3, 175; id. F. 2, 335 et saep.:
circum villulas nostras,
Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3:
pios per lucos,
Hor. C. 3, 4, 7:
inter audaces lupus errat agnos,
id. ib. 3, 18, 13; cf.
of beasts,
id. S. 1, 8, 35; id. Epod. 2, 12; Verg. E. 1, 9; 2, 21; 6, 40; id. G. 4, 11 et saep.— Pass. impers.:
male tum Libyae solis erratur in agris,
Verg. G. 3, 249.—Prov.:
in media luce errare,
Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 3.—
b.
Transf., of inanimate things:
(stellae) quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur,
Cic. Rep. 1, 14;
so of the planets,
id. N. D. 2, 20; 3, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 12; Vulg. Jud. 13; cf.
of the motion of the stars in gen.,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17:
Cocytus errans flumine languido,
id. C. 2, 14, 18; cf. Verg. G. 3, 14:
errantesque per altum Cyaneae,
Val. Fl. 4, 561:
hic lintres errare videres,
Ov. F. 2, 391:
vidi ad frontem sparsos errare capillos,
i. e. flying about, Prop. 2, 1, 7; cf. id. 2, 22, 9:
errantia lumina,
i. e. moving fitfully about, Prop. 3, 14, 27 (4, 13, 27 M.); cf. Stat. Th. 10, 150:
pulmonibus errat Ignis edax,
i. e. spreads, runs about, Ov. M. 9, 201 et saep.—
2.
Trop., to wander, stray at random: ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio, Cic. de Or., 48, 209; cf.: erraus et vaga sententia (opp. stabilis certaque), id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:
eo fit, ut errem et vager latius,
id. Ac. 2, 20, 66:
ut ingredi libere, non ut licenter videatur errare,
id. Or. 23, 77:
errans opinio (opp. stabilis conscientia),
id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:
dubiis affectibus errat,
Ov. M. 8, 473:
ne tuus erret honos,
be in doubt, uncertain, id. F. 1, 468; cf. id. ib. 3, 543.— Poet., with a rel.-clause:
erro, quam insistas viam,
I am uncertain, in doubt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; cf.:
inter recens et vetus sacramentum,
i. e. to hesitate, vacillate, Tac. H. 4, 58.—
B.
In partic., to miss the right way, to lose one's self, go astray (in the literal sense rarely, but in the trop. freq. and class.).
1.
Lit.: homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51:
errare viā,
Verg. A. 2, 739:
maledictus qui errare facit caecum in itinere,
Vulg. Deut. 27, 18.—
2.
Trop., to wander from the truth, to err, mistake:
avius errat Saepe animus,
Lucr. 3, 463; cf. id. 2, 740:
totā erras viā,
Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14; cf.:
in eo non tu quidem totà re, sed temporibus errasti,
Cic. Phil. 2, 9 fin.:
longe,
Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; cf.
procul,
Sall. J. 85, 38 Kritz. N. cr.:
errant probe,
Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 20:
vehementer,
Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103:
valde,
id. de Or. 2, 19, 83 et saep.:
errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; cf. id. Balb. 28, 64:
erras, si id credis,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 53; so with si, id. Hec. 4, 4, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5; 7, 29, 2 et saep.:
de nostris verbis errat,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 22:
in aliqua re,
Quint. 6, 3, 112; 10, 2, 21; 11, 1, 81 al.:
in alteram partem,
id. 10, 1, 26; cf.:
in alienos fetus,
Liv. 31, 12, 8.—Less freq. with acc. of a neutr. pronoun:
mone, quaeso, si quid erro,
Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 30; so with quid, Ter. And. 3, 2, 18; Quint. 2, 5, 16; 2, 3, 11; 2, 6, 6:
hoc,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 21.— Poet. also with the acc. of a noun:
errabant tempora,
i. e. in chronology, Ov. F. 3, 155.— Pass. impers.:
si fuit errandum,
Ov. H. 7, 109:
si nihil esset erratum,
Quint. 6, 5, 7:
si erratur in nomine,
Cic. Fin. 4, 20 fin.; cf.:
tutius circa priores erratur,
Quint. 2, 5, 26:
uno verbo esse erratum,
id. 7, 3, 17. —Sometimes, in a palliative manner, of moral error, to err through mistake:
pariter te errantem et illum sceleratissimum persequi,
Sall. J. 102, 5; cf. id. ib. 104, 4. —Hence,
b.
errātum, i, n., an error, mistake, fault:
illud de Flavio et fastis, si secus est, commune erratum est,
Cic. Att. 6, 1, 18; cf. id. ib. 13, 44 fin.:
cujus errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus proponitur,
id. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Fam. 5, 20, 8:
nullum ob totius vitae non dicam vitium, sed erratum,
id. Clu. 48; cf. id. Lig. 1; id. Sull. 23; and in plur., id. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Sall. J. 102, 10; Ov. Pont. 2, 3, 66.—
II.
Act. in Aug. poets (only in part. perf.), to wander over or through:
immensum est erratas dicere terras,
Ov. F. 4, 573:
ager,
id. ib. 3, 655:
orbis,
Val. Fl. 4, 447:
litora,
Verg. A. 3, 690.
2.
erro, ōnis, m. [1. erro], a wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, Tib. 2, 6, 6; Ov. H. 15, 53.—Used esp. of slaves:
ut errones aliquem cujus dicantur invenient,
Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 5; Edict. Aedil. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 1; Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 14; 49, 16, 4 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 113.—Of the queen-bee:
dux,
Col. 9, 10 fin. —Of the planets, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11.— Of vagabond soldiers:
nec nostros servire sinant errorribus agros,
Verg. Dir. 70 Rib.

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17 frustra

frustrā ( - tră, Prud. steph. 1, 13), adv. [orig. acc. plur. neutr., afterwards abl. sing. fem. of frusterus, for frud-; v. fraus; hence].
I.
In deception, in error (so mostly anteclass. and in historians;
not in Cic. and Caes.): ambo, et servus et era, frustra sunt duo, Qui me Amphitruonem rentur esse: errant probe,
are deceived, in error, Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 19; cf. id. Bacch. 4, 7, 42:
nunc, mulier, nei frustra sies, mea non es: ne arbitrere,
id. Merc. 3, 1, 30:
quo mihi acrius annitendum est, ut neque vos capiamini, et illi frustra sint,
Sall. J. 85, 6:
frustra esse,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 74: hilarus est;
frustrast homo,
id. Most. 3, 1, 40 Lorenz:
ne frustra sis,
id. Men. 4, 3, 18 sq.; id. Mil. 5, 29 al.; cf. in the foll. II. A.—With animi:
erras, Aemiliane, et longe hujus animi frustra es,
App. Mag. p. 286.—Frustra habere aliquem, to deceive, cheat one (= eludere):
Corbulo quaesito diu proelio frustra habitus,
Tac. A. 13, 37; 51:
si Persae frustra habitae redissent ad sua,
Amm. 18, 6, 6: servom ac dominum, Plaut. Am. argument. 5.— [p. 786]
II.
Transf., according as particular respect is had to the effect, the aim, or the reason of an action, without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing (freq. and class.; the predom. signif. in prose and poetry; cf.: in cassum, nequiquam).
A.
Without effect, in vain:
alii parasiti frustra obambulabant in foro, i. e. they got no dinner,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 31:
praesagibat mihi animus, frustra me ire, quom exibam domo,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 1: nemo dabit;
frustra egomet mecum has rationes puto,
Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 53:
frustra operam opinor sumo,
id. Heaut. 4, 3, 15:
neque ipse auxilium suum saepe a viris bonis frustra implorari patietur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:
haec si verbis explicare conemur, frustra suscipiatur labor,
id. Univ. 10:
fortissima frustra pectora,
Verg. A. 1, 348; 5, 389:
multum frustraque rogatus,
Luc. 4, 735:
peritura frustra agmina,
id. 7, 736; Ov. M. 8, 140:
frustra telum mittere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 25, 1:
frustra tantum laborem sumere,
id. ib. 3, 14, 1:
cujus neque consilium neque inceptum ullum frustra erat,
Sall. J. 7, 6 Kritz.; ib. 14, 11 Dietsch; 61, 1; 71, 5; 73 fin. al.; cf.:
ita frustra id inceptum Volscis fuit,
Liv. 2, 25, 2:
neque frustrabor ultra cives meos, neque ipse frustra dictator ero,
id. 2, 31, 10; Quint. 10, 1, 2:
frustra cruento Marte carebimus, frustra metuemus Austrum: Visendus ater Cocytus, etc.,
Hor. C. 2, 14, 13 and 15:
nam frustra vitium vitaveris illud, si te alio pravum detorseris,
id. S. 2, 2, 54:
tam frustra (expressere) quam recusaverat (= aeque frustra fuit et sine eventu),
likewise without effect, Tac. H. 2, 90 fin. (see the passage in conn.).—With nequiquam, Cat. 77, 1; App. M. 8, p. 208, 40.—With sic: ego astabo hic tantisper cum hac forma et factis sic frustra; cf. Gr. houtôs allôs, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30.—In a pun with frustra esse (v. supra, I.) and frustrari: qui lepide postulat alterum frustrari, quom frustra'st, frustra illum dicit frustra esse. Nam qui se frustrari quem frustra sentit, Qui frustratur, frustra'st, si ille non est frustra, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 7 (Sat. 33, p. 158 sq. Vahl.).—
2.
Ellipt.:
equites et auxiliarios pedites in omnes partes mittit... Nec frustra. Nam, etc.,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 5, 3; so,
frustra: nam, etc.,
Hor. C. 3, 7, 21; Flor. 4, 11, 9.—
B.
Without reason or cause, groundlessly:
frustra ac sine causa quid facere indignum deo est,
Cic. Div. 2, 60, 125:
frustra tempus contero,
id. Rosc. Com. 14, 41:
quae disputatio ne frustra haberetur,
id. Rep. 1, 7:
quae (res) prima impulit etiam, ut suspiceremus in caelum nec frustra siderum motus intueremur,
id. ib. 3, 2; 4, 3; id. Tusc. 1, 10, 21; id. Fin. 2, 12, 36; v. Madv. ad h. l. p. 210: non igitur frustra Plato civili viro, quem politikon vocant, necessariam musicen credidit, Quint. 1, 10, 15; 10, 1, 56:
ut multi, nec frustra, opinantur,
Suet. Oth. 9:
ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat,
Verg. A. 4, 415 Forbig. ad loc.—
2.
Ellipt.:
hanc quidam aposiopesin putant. Frustra. Nam, etc.,
Quint. 9, 3, 60.

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18 frutra

frustrā ( - tră, Prud. steph. 1, 13), adv. [orig. acc. plur. neutr., afterwards abl. sing. fem. of frusterus, for frud-; v. fraus; hence].
I.
In deception, in error (so mostly anteclass. and in historians;
not in Cic. and Caes.): ambo, et servus et era, frustra sunt duo, Qui me Amphitruonem rentur esse: errant probe,
are deceived, in error, Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 19; cf. id. Bacch. 4, 7, 42:
nunc, mulier, nei frustra sies, mea non es: ne arbitrere,
id. Merc. 3, 1, 30:
quo mihi acrius annitendum est, ut neque vos capiamini, et illi frustra sint,
Sall. J. 85, 6:
frustra esse,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 74: hilarus est;
frustrast homo,
id. Most. 3, 1, 40 Lorenz:
ne frustra sis,
id. Men. 4, 3, 18 sq.; id. Mil. 5, 29 al.; cf. in the foll. II. A.—With animi:
erras, Aemiliane, et longe hujus animi frustra es,
App. Mag. p. 286.—Frustra habere aliquem, to deceive, cheat one (= eludere):
Corbulo quaesito diu proelio frustra habitus,
Tac. A. 13, 37; 51:
si Persae frustra habitae redissent ad sua,
Amm. 18, 6, 6: servom ac dominum, Plaut. Am. argument. 5.— [p. 786]
II.
Transf., according as particular respect is had to the effect, the aim, or the reason of an action, without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing (freq. and class.; the predom. signif. in prose and poetry; cf.: in cassum, nequiquam).
A.
Without effect, in vain:
alii parasiti frustra obambulabant in foro, i. e. they got no dinner,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 31:
praesagibat mihi animus, frustra me ire, quom exibam domo,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 1: nemo dabit;
frustra egomet mecum has rationes puto,
Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 53:
frustra operam opinor sumo,
id. Heaut. 4, 3, 15:
neque ipse auxilium suum saepe a viris bonis frustra implorari patietur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:
haec si verbis explicare conemur, frustra suscipiatur labor,
id. Univ. 10:
fortissima frustra pectora,
Verg. A. 1, 348; 5, 389:
multum frustraque rogatus,
Luc. 4, 735:
peritura frustra agmina,
id. 7, 736; Ov. M. 8, 140:
frustra telum mittere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 25, 1:
frustra tantum laborem sumere,
id. ib. 3, 14, 1:
cujus neque consilium neque inceptum ullum frustra erat,
Sall. J. 7, 6 Kritz.; ib. 14, 11 Dietsch; 61, 1; 71, 5; 73 fin. al.; cf.:
ita frustra id inceptum Volscis fuit,
Liv. 2, 25, 2:
neque frustrabor ultra cives meos, neque ipse frustra dictator ero,
id. 2, 31, 10; Quint. 10, 1, 2:
frustra cruento Marte carebimus, frustra metuemus Austrum: Visendus ater Cocytus, etc.,
Hor. C. 2, 14, 13 and 15:
nam frustra vitium vitaveris illud, si te alio pravum detorseris,
id. S. 2, 2, 54:
tam frustra (expressere) quam recusaverat (= aeque frustra fuit et sine eventu),
likewise without effect, Tac. H. 2, 90 fin. (see the passage in conn.).—With nequiquam, Cat. 77, 1; App. M. 8, p. 208, 40.—With sic: ego astabo hic tantisper cum hac forma et factis sic frustra; cf. Gr. houtôs allôs, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30.—In a pun with frustra esse (v. supra, I.) and frustrari: qui lepide postulat alterum frustrari, quom frustra'st, frustra illum dicit frustra esse. Nam qui se frustrari quem frustra sentit, Qui frustratur, frustra'st, si ille non est frustra, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 7 (Sat. 33, p. 158 sq. Vahl.).—
2.
Ellipt.:
equites et auxiliarios pedites in omnes partes mittit... Nec frustra. Nam, etc.,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 5, 3; so,
frustra: nam, etc.,
Hor. C. 3, 7, 21; Flor. 4, 11, 9.—
B.
Without reason or cause, groundlessly:
frustra ac sine causa quid facere indignum deo est,
Cic. Div. 2, 60, 125:
frustra tempus contero,
id. Rosc. Com. 14, 41:
quae disputatio ne frustra haberetur,
id. Rep. 1, 7:
quae (res) prima impulit etiam, ut suspiceremus in caelum nec frustra siderum motus intueremur,
id. ib. 3, 2; 4, 3; id. Tusc. 1, 10, 21; id. Fin. 2, 12, 36; v. Madv. ad h. l. p. 210: non igitur frustra Plato civili viro, quem politikon vocant, necessariam musicen credidit, Quint. 1, 10, 15; 10, 1, 56:
ut multi, nec frustra, opinantur,
Suet. Oth. 9:
ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat,
Verg. A. 4, 415 Forbig. ad loc.—
2.
Ellipt.:
hanc quidam aposiopesin putant. Frustra. Nam, etc.,
Quint. 9, 3, 60.

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19 labor

1.
lābor, lapsus ( inf. parag. labier, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94; part. labundus, Att. ap. Non. 504, 31; Trag. Fragm. v. 570 Rib.), 3, v. dep. n. [cf. lăbo; Sanscr. lamb- (ramb-), to glide, fall], to move gently along a smooth surface, to fall, slide; to slide, slip, or glide down, to fall down, to sink as the beginning of a fall; constr. absol., or with ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex, or with abl. alone.
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.
1.
Of living beings:
non squamoso labuntur ventre cerastae,
Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27:
per sinus crebros et magna volumina labens,
Ov. M. 15, 721:
pigraque labatur circa donaria serpens,
Ov. Am. 2, 13, 13:
ille inter vestes et levia pectora lapsus volvitur,
Verg. A. 7, 349: (angues) in diversum lapsi, Jul. Obseq. 119.—Of floating:
ut rate felice pacata per aequora labar,
Ov. H. 10, 65:
dum Stygio gurgite labor,
id. M. 5, 504:
tua labens navita aqua,
Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 8.—Of flying:
tollunt se celeres, liquidumque per aera lapsae,
Verg. A. 6, 202:
vade, age, nate, voca Zephyros et labere pennis,
id. ib. 4, 223:
pennis lapsa per auras,
Ov. M. 8, 51:
labere, nympha, polo,
Verg. A. 11, 588.—Of sinking, slipping down:
labor, io! cara lumina conde manu,
Ov. A. A. 7, 342:
labitur infelix (equus),
Verg. G. 3, 498; cf. Luc. 5, 799:
labitur exsanguis,
Verg. A. 11, 818; 5, 181:
super terram,
Ov. M. 13, 477:
equo,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 15:
temone,
Verg. A. 12, 470 [p. 1024] limite, Luc. 9, 712:
in vulnera,
id. 7, 604:
in colla mariti,
Val. Fl. 2, 425:
alieno vulnere,
Luc. 2, 265:
in rivo,
Cic. Fat. 3, 5:
pondere lapsi pectoris arma sonant,
Luc. 7, 572.—
Of gliding upwards: celeri fuga sub sidera,
Verg. A. 3, 243.—
2.
Of things:
splendida signa videntur labier,
Lucr. 4, 445; Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42:
umor in genas Furtim labitur,
Hor. C. 1, 13, 7:
stellas Praecipites caelo labi,
Verg. G. 1, 366:
perque genas lacrimae labuntur,
Ov. H. 7, 185; id. M. 2, 656:
lapsi de fontibus amnes,
id. ib. 13, 954; cf.:
catenae lapsae lacertis sponte sua,
id. ib. 3, 699:
lapsuram domum subire,
about to tumble down, id. Ib. 511; Luc. 1, 25; cf.
with cado: multa in silvis Lapsa cadunt folia,
Verg. A. 6, 310:
ipsaque in Oceanum sidera lapsa cadunt,
Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:
lapsis repente saxis,
Tac. A. 4, 59:
ab arbore ramus,
Ov. M. 3, 410.—Of the eyes, to fall, close:
labentes, oculos condere,
Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44:
lumina,
Verg. A. 11, 818; Prop. 1, 10, 7; 2, 5, 17.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To glide away, glide along, slip or haste away: labitur uncta carina: volat super impetus undas, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 379 Vahl.); so id. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 1 (Ann. v. 476 Vahl.); cf.:
labitur uncta vadis abies,
Verg. A. 8, 91; Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31:
sidera, quae vaga et mutabili ratione labuntur,
id. Univ. 10.—Esp., of a transition in discourse, to pass:
a dispositione ad elocutionis praecepta labor,
Quint. 7, 10, 17.—
2.
To slip away, escape:
lapsus custodiā,
Tac. A. 5, 10; 11, 31:
e manibus custodientium lapsus,
Curt. 3, 13, 3; Prop. 1, 11, 5; Amm. 26, 3, 3.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to come or go gently or insensibly, to glide, glide or pass away:
ilico res foras labitur,
Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21:
brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius,
Cic. Or. 57; 56:
sed labor longius, ad propositum revertor,
id. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Leg. 1, 19, 52:
labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas,
Ov. Am. 1, 8, 49:
labi somnum sensit in artus,
id. M. 11, 631:
nostro illius labatur pectore vultus,
Verg. E. 1, 64.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of speech, to die away, be lost, not be heard (very rare):
ne adjectae voces laberentur atque errarent,
Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 114; cf. Sil. 7, 745.—
2.
Of time, to glide, pass away, elapse:
eheu fugaces labuntur anni,
Hor. C. 2, 14, 2:
anni tacite labentis origo,
Ov. F. 1, 65:
labentia tempora,
id. Tr. 3, 11; id. F. 6, 771; id. Tr. 4, 10, 27:
aetas labitur,
Tib. 1, 8, 48; cf.: labente officio, when the attendance or service is ended, Juv. 6, 203.—
3.
Pregn., to sink, incline, begin to fall, go to ruin, perish: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus lapsa fortuna accidat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 396 Vahl.); cf.:
cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi,
Cic. Or. 3, 10:
labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire,
id. Phil. 2, 21, 51:
equitem Romanum labentem excepit, fulsit, sustinuit,
id. Rab. Post. 16, 43; id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 18, 2:
sustinuit labentem aciem Antonius,
Tac. H. 3, 23:
vidi labentes acies,
Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:
eo citius lapsa res est,
Liv. 3, 33: mores lapsi sunt, id. praef.; Tac. A. 6, 50:
fides lapsa,
Ov. H. 2, 102:
labentur opes,
will be lost, Tib. 1, 6, 53:
res,
Lucr. 4, 1117:
hereditas lapsa est,
Dig. 4, 4, 11, § 5.—
4.
To slip or fall away from a thing, to lose it: hac spe lapsus, deceived or disappointed in this hope, Caes. B. G. 5, 55, 3:
hoc munere,
Sil. 7, 740:
facultatibus,
to lose one's property, become poor, Dig. 27, 8, 2, § 11; 26, 7, 9, § 1:
mente,
to lose one's senses, go mad, Cels. 5, 26, 13; Suet. Aug. 48; cf.:
lapsae mentis error,
Val. Max. 5, 3, 2.—Hence, lapsus, a, um, ruined, unfortunate, Prop. 1, 1, 25. —
5.
To fall into or upon, to come or turn to:
labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro,
Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 139; id. Att. 4, 5, 2:
ad opinionem,
id. Ac. 2, 45, 138:
in adulationem,
Tac. A. 4, 6:
in gaudia,
Val. Fl. 6, 662:
in vitium,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94.—
6.
To fall into error, to be mistaken, to err, mistake, commit a fault:
labi, errare, nescire, decipi et malum et turpe ducimus,
Cic. Off. 1, 6, 18:
in aliqua re labi et cadere,
id. Brut. 49, 185:
in minimis tenuissimisque rebus,
id. de Or. 1, 37, 169; id. Fam. 2, 7, 1:
lapsus est per errorem suum,
id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 8:
consilio,... casu,
id. Agr. 2, 3, 6:
propter inprudentiam,
Caes. B. G. 5, 3:
in officio,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12:
in verbo,
Ov. Am. 2, 8, 7:
ne verbo quidem labi,
Plin. Ep. 2, 3:
it vera ratione,
Lucr. 2, 176.—
7.
Esp., to fall away from the true faith, to become apostate (eccl. Lat.):
lapsorum fratrum petulantia,
Cypr. Ep. 30, 1 al.
2.
lăbor (old form lăbos, like arbos, honos, etc., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 35; id. Truc. 2, 6, 40; Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6; Varr. ap. Non. 487, 13; Cat. 55, 13; Sall. C. 7, 5; id. J. 100, 4; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. root rabh, to grasp, ā-rabh, to undertake; Gr. alph- in êlphon, earned, alphêma, wages; Germ. Arbeit], labor, toil, exertion (cf.: contentio, opera).
I.
Lit.:
ut ingenium est omnium Hominum a labore proclive ad libidinem,
Ter. And. 1, 1, 51:
haud existimans quanto labore partum,
id. Phorm. 1, 1, 12:
interest aliquid inter laborem et dolorem: sunt finitima omnino, sed tamen differt aliquid. Labor est functio quaedam vel animi vel corporis, gravioris operis et muneris: dolor autem motus asper in corpore alienus a sensibus,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35:
corporis,
id. Cael. 17, 39:
res est magni laboris,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
laborem sibi sumere et alteri imponere,
id. Mur. 18, 38:
sumptum et laborem insumere in rem aliquam,
id. Inv. 2, 38, 113; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
multum operae laborisque consumere,
id. de Or. 1, 55, 234:
laborem sustinere,
id. Att. 1, 17, 6:
exantlare,
id. Ac. 2, 34, 108:
suscipere,
id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 13:
subire,
id. Att. 3, 15, 7:
capere,
id. Rosc. Com. 16, 49:
labores magnos excipere,
id. Brut. 69, 243:
se in magnis laboribus exercere,
id. Arch. 11, 28:
summi laboris esse,
capable of great exertion, Caes. B. G. 4, 2, 2:
laborem levare alicui,
Cic. Or. 34, 120:
detrahere,
id. Fam. 3, 6, 5:
ex labore se reficere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 5; 5, 11:
victus suppeditabatur sine labore,
Cic. Sest. 48, 103:
non est quod existumes, ullam esse sine labore virtutem,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 5; Suet. Ner. 52; Quint. 2, 12, 12; cf.:
nullo labore,
Cic. Dom. 34, 91; id. Sest. 40, 87; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 51:
quantum meruit labor,
Juv. 7, 216:
reddere sua dona labori,
id. 16, 57:
numerenter labores,
be valued, id. 9, 42.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Pregn., drudgery, hardship, fatigue, distress, trouble, pain, suffering (mostly poet. and late Lat.; syn. aerumna): decet id pati animo aequo;
si id facietis, levior labos erit,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 2:
propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo,
id. ib. 5, 1, 25:
cum labore magno et misere vivere,
id. Aul. prol. 14; id. Ps. 2, 4, 2:
hoc evenit in labore atque in dolore,
id. ib. 2, 3, 20:
vel in labore meo vel in honore,
Cic. Fam. 15, 18:
Iliacos audire labores,
Verg. A. 4, 78:
mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos Esset rubigo,
id. G. 1, 150:
belli labores,
id. A. 11, 126; cf. id. ib. 2, 619;
12, 727: labor militiae,
Juv. 16, 52:
castrorum labores,
id. 14, 198:
Lucinae labores,
Verg. G. 4, 340:
cor de labore pectus tundit,
Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 63:
hoc medicamentum sine magno labore cadere cogit haemorrhoidas,
Scrib. 227:
litterarius, = opus,
Aug. Conf. 9, 2;
id. cont. Jul. 6, 21: meos labores legere,
id. de Don. Pers. 68.—Of sickness: valetudo crescit, accrescit labor. Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:
sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,
Vitr. 8, 3, 4.—Of danger:
maximus autem earum (apium) labor est initio veris,
Col. 9, 13, 2.—Prov.:
jucundi acti labores,
Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105:
suavis laborum est praeteritorum memoria,
id. ib. —
2.
Poet.
a.
Labores solis, eclipses of the sun, Verg. A. 1, 742 Forbig. ad loc.; so,
defectus solis varios lunaeque labores,
id. G. 1, 478; Sil. 14, 378. —
b.
Of plants:
hunc laborem perferre,
i. e. growth, Verg. G. 2, 343.—
3.
Personified: Lăbos, toil, in the lower world, Verg. A. 6, 277.—
II.
Meton., of the products of labor.
a.
Work, workmanship of an artist ( poet.):
operum,
Verg. A. 1, 455:
hic labor ille domūs,
id. ib. 6, 27:
nec non Polycleti multus ubique labor,
Juv. 8, 104. —
b.
Of cultivated plants, crops, etc.:
ruit arduus aether et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores Diluit,
Verg. G. 1, 325; cf.:
haec cum sint hominumque boumque labores,
id. ib. 1, 118: Juppiter Grandine dilapidans hominumque boumque labores, Col. poët. 10, 330; Verg. A. 2, 284; 306.—
c.
Labores uteri, i. e. children, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 193.

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20 Labos

1.
lābor, lapsus ( inf. parag. labier, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94; part. labundus, Att. ap. Non. 504, 31; Trag. Fragm. v. 570 Rib.), 3, v. dep. n. [cf. lăbo; Sanscr. lamb- (ramb-), to glide, fall], to move gently along a smooth surface, to fall, slide; to slide, slip, or glide down, to fall down, to sink as the beginning of a fall; constr. absol., or with ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex, or with abl. alone.
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.
1.
Of living beings:
non squamoso labuntur ventre cerastae,
Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27:
per sinus crebros et magna volumina labens,
Ov. M. 15, 721:
pigraque labatur circa donaria serpens,
Ov. Am. 2, 13, 13:
ille inter vestes et levia pectora lapsus volvitur,
Verg. A. 7, 349: (angues) in diversum lapsi, Jul. Obseq. 119.—Of floating:
ut rate felice pacata per aequora labar,
Ov. H. 10, 65:
dum Stygio gurgite labor,
id. M. 5, 504:
tua labens navita aqua,
Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 8.—Of flying:
tollunt se celeres, liquidumque per aera lapsae,
Verg. A. 6, 202:
vade, age, nate, voca Zephyros et labere pennis,
id. ib. 4, 223:
pennis lapsa per auras,
Ov. M. 8, 51:
labere, nympha, polo,
Verg. A. 11, 588.—Of sinking, slipping down:
labor, io! cara lumina conde manu,
Ov. A. A. 7, 342:
labitur infelix (equus),
Verg. G. 3, 498; cf. Luc. 5, 799:
labitur exsanguis,
Verg. A. 11, 818; 5, 181:
super terram,
Ov. M. 13, 477:
equo,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 15:
temone,
Verg. A. 12, 470 [p. 1024] limite, Luc. 9, 712:
in vulnera,
id. 7, 604:
in colla mariti,
Val. Fl. 2, 425:
alieno vulnere,
Luc. 2, 265:
in rivo,
Cic. Fat. 3, 5:
pondere lapsi pectoris arma sonant,
Luc. 7, 572.—
Of gliding upwards: celeri fuga sub sidera,
Verg. A. 3, 243.—
2.
Of things:
splendida signa videntur labier,
Lucr. 4, 445; Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42:
umor in genas Furtim labitur,
Hor. C. 1, 13, 7:
stellas Praecipites caelo labi,
Verg. G. 1, 366:
perque genas lacrimae labuntur,
Ov. H. 7, 185; id. M. 2, 656:
lapsi de fontibus amnes,
id. ib. 13, 954; cf.:
catenae lapsae lacertis sponte sua,
id. ib. 3, 699:
lapsuram domum subire,
about to tumble down, id. Ib. 511; Luc. 1, 25; cf.
with cado: multa in silvis Lapsa cadunt folia,
Verg. A. 6, 310:
ipsaque in Oceanum sidera lapsa cadunt,
Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:
lapsis repente saxis,
Tac. A. 4, 59:
ab arbore ramus,
Ov. M. 3, 410.—Of the eyes, to fall, close:
labentes, oculos condere,
Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44:
lumina,
Verg. A. 11, 818; Prop. 1, 10, 7; 2, 5, 17.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To glide away, glide along, slip or haste away: labitur uncta carina: volat super impetus undas, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 379 Vahl.); so id. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 1 (Ann. v. 476 Vahl.); cf.:
labitur uncta vadis abies,
Verg. A. 8, 91; Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31:
sidera, quae vaga et mutabili ratione labuntur,
id. Univ. 10.—Esp., of a transition in discourse, to pass:
a dispositione ad elocutionis praecepta labor,
Quint. 7, 10, 17.—
2.
To slip away, escape:
lapsus custodiā,
Tac. A. 5, 10; 11, 31:
e manibus custodientium lapsus,
Curt. 3, 13, 3; Prop. 1, 11, 5; Amm. 26, 3, 3.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to come or go gently or insensibly, to glide, glide or pass away:
ilico res foras labitur,
Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21:
brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius,
Cic. Or. 57; 56:
sed labor longius, ad propositum revertor,
id. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Leg. 1, 19, 52:
labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas,
Ov. Am. 1, 8, 49:
labi somnum sensit in artus,
id. M. 11, 631:
nostro illius labatur pectore vultus,
Verg. E. 1, 64.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of speech, to die away, be lost, not be heard (very rare):
ne adjectae voces laberentur atque errarent,
Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 114; cf. Sil. 7, 745.—
2.
Of time, to glide, pass away, elapse:
eheu fugaces labuntur anni,
Hor. C. 2, 14, 2:
anni tacite labentis origo,
Ov. F. 1, 65:
labentia tempora,
id. Tr. 3, 11; id. F. 6, 771; id. Tr. 4, 10, 27:
aetas labitur,
Tib. 1, 8, 48; cf.: labente officio, when the attendance or service is ended, Juv. 6, 203.—
3.
Pregn., to sink, incline, begin to fall, go to ruin, perish: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus lapsa fortuna accidat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 396 Vahl.); cf.:
cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi,
Cic. Or. 3, 10:
labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire,
id. Phil. 2, 21, 51:
equitem Romanum labentem excepit, fulsit, sustinuit,
id. Rab. Post. 16, 43; id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 18, 2:
sustinuit labentem aciem Antonius,
Tac. H. 3, 23:
vidi labentes acies,
Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:
eo citius lapsa res est,
Liv. 3, 33: mores lapsi sunt, id. praef.; Tac. A. 6, 50:
fides lapsa,
Ov. H. 2, 102:
labentur opes,
will be lost, Tib. 1, 6, 53:
res,
Lucr. 4, 1117:
hereditas lapsa est,
Dig. 4, 4, 11, § 5.—
4.
To slip or fall away from a thing, to lose it: hac spe lapsus, deceived or disappointed in this hope, Caes. B. G. 5, 55, 3:
hoc munere,
Sil. 7, 740:
facultatibus,
to lose one's property, become poor, Dig. 27, 8, 2, § 11; 26, 7, 9, § 1:
mente,
to lose one's senses, go mad, Cels. 5, 26, 13; Suet. Aug. 48; cf.:
lapsae mentis error,
Val. Max. 5, 3, 2.—Hence, lapsus, a, um, ruined, unfortunate, Prop. 1, 1, 25. —
5.
To fall into or upon, to come or turn to:
labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro,
Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 139; id. Att. 4, 5, 2:
ad opinionem,
id. Ac. 2, 45, 138:
in adulationem,
Tac. A. 4, 6:
in gaudia,
Val. Fl. 6, 662:
in vitium,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94.—
6.
To fall into error, to be mistaken, to err, mistake, commit a fault:
labi, errare, nescire, decipi et malum et turpe ducimus,
Cic. Off. 1, 6, 18:
in aliqua re labi et cadere,
id. Brut. 49, 185:
in minimis tenuissimisque rebus,
id. de Or. 1, 37, 169; id. Fam. 2, 7, 1:
lapsus est per errorem suum,
id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 8:
consilio,... casu,
id. Agr. 2, 3, 6:
propter inprudentiam,
Caes. B. G. 5, 3:
in officio,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12:
in verbo,
Ov. Am. 2, 8, 7:
ne verbo quidem labi,
Plin. Ep. 2, 3:
it vera ratione,
Lucr. 2, 176.—
7.
Esp., to fall away from the true faith, to become apostate (eccl. Lat.):
lapsorum fratrum petulantia,
Cypr. Ep. 30, 1 al.
2.
lăbor (old form lăbos, like arbos, honos, etc., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 35; id. Truc. 2, 6, 40; Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6; Varr. ap. Non. 487, 13; Cat. 55, 13; Sall. C. 7, 5; id. J. 100, 4; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. root rabh, to grasp, ā-rabh, to undertake; Gr. alph- in êlphon, earned, alphêma, wages; Germ. Arbeit], labor, toil, exertion (cf.: contentio, opera).
I.
Lit.:
ut ingenium est omnium Hominum a labore proclive ad libidinem,
Ter. And. 1, 1, 51:
haud existimans quanto labore partum,
id. Phorm. 1, 1, 12:
interest aliquid inter laborem et dolorem: sunt finitima omnino, sed tamen differt aliquid. Labor est functio quaedam vel animi vel corporis, gravioris operis et muneris: dolor autem motus asper in corpore alienus a sensibus,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35:
corporis,
id. Cael. 17, 39:
res est magni laboris,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
laborem sibi sumere et alteri imponere,
id. Mur. 18, 38:
sumptum et laborem insumere in rem aliquam,
id. Inv. 2, 38, 113; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
multum operae laborisque consumere,
id. de Or. 1, 55, 234:
laborem sustinere,
id. Att. 1, 17, 6:
exantlare,
id. Ac. 2, 34, 108:
suscipere,
id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 13:
subire,
id. Att. 3, 15, 7:
capere,
id. Rosc. Com. 16, 49:
labores magnos excipere,
id. Brut. 69, 243:
se in magnis laboribus exercere,
id. Arch. 11, 28:
summi laboris esse,
capable of great exertion, Caes. B. G. 4, 2, 2:
laborem levare alicui,
Cic. Or. 34, 120:
detrahere,
id. Fam. 3, 6, 5:
ex labore se reficere,
Caes. B. G. 3, 5; 5, 11:
victus suppeditabatur sine labore,
Cic. Sest. 48, 103:
non est quod existumes, ullam esse sine labore virtutem,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 5; Suet. Ner. 52; Quint. 2, 12, 12; cf.:
nullo labore,
Cic. Dom. 34, 91; id. Sest. 40, 87; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 51:
quantum meruit labor,
Juv. 7, 216:
reddere sua dona labori,
id. 16, 57:
numerenter labores,
be valued, id. 9, 42.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Pregn., drudgery, hardship, fatigue, distress, trouble, pain, suffering (mostly poet. and late Lat.; syn. aerumna): decet id pati animo aequo;
si id facietis, levior labos erit,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 2:
propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo,
id. ib. 5, 1, 25:
cum labore magno et misere vivere,
id. Aul. prol. 14; id. Ps. 2, 4, 2:
hoc evenit in labore atque in dolore,
id. ib. 2, 3, 20:
vel in labore meo vel in honore,
Cic. Fam. 15, 18:
Iliacos audire labores,
Verg. A. 4, 78:
mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos Esset rubigo,
id. G. 1, 150:
belli labores,
id. A. 11, 126; cf. id. ib. 2, 619;
12, 727: labor militiae,
Juv. 16, 52:
castrorum labores,
id. 14, 198:
Lucinae labores,
Verg. G. 4, 340:
cor de labore pectus tundit,
Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 63:
hoc medicamentum sine magno labore cadere cogit haemorrhoidas,
Scrib. 227:
litterarius, = opus,
Aug. Conf. 9, 2;
id. cont. Jul. 6, 21: meos labores legere,
id. de Don. Pers. 68.—Of sickness: valetudo crescit, accrescit labor. Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:
sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,
Vitr. 8, 3, 4.—Of danger:
maximus autem earum (apium) labor est initio veris,
Col. 9, 13, 2.—Prov.:
jucundi acti labores,
Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105:
suavis laborum est praeteritorum memoria,
id. ib. —
2.
Poet.
a.
Labores solis, eclipses of the sun, Verg. A. 1, 742 Forbig. ad loc.; so,
defectus solis varios lunaeque labores,
id. G. 1, 478; Sil. 14, 378. —
b.
Of plants:
hunc laborem perferre,
i. e. growth, Verg. G. 2, 343.—
3.
Personified: Lăbos, toil, in the lower world, Verg. A. 6, 277.—
II.
Meton., of the products of labor.
a.
Work, workmanship of an artist ( poet.):
operum,
Verg. A. 1, 455:
hic labor ille domūs,
id. ib. 6, 27:
nec non Polycleti multus ubique labor,
Juv. 8, 104. —
b.
Of cultivated plants, crops, etc.:
ruit arduus aether et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores Diluit,
Verg. G. 1, 325; cf.:
haec cum sint hominumque boumque labores,
id. ib. 1, 118: Juppiter Grandine dilapidans hominumque boumque labores, Col. poët. 10, 330; Verg. A. 2, 284; 306.—
c.
Labores uteri, i. e. children, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 193.

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Error — Er ror, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See {Err}.] 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. A wandering or deviation … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
error — error, mistake, blunder, slip, lapse, faux pas, bull, howler, boner are comparable when they denote something (as an act, statement, or belief) that involves a departure from what is, or what is generally held to be, true, right, or proper. Error … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Error — (englisch ‚Fehler‘) hat verschiedene Bedeutungen: Error, fachsprachlicher Begriff für eine Ausnahmesituation des Programmablaufs im Computerwesen, siehe Programmfehler Error, Name einer Band von Brett Gurewitz, siehe Error (Band) Error, Begriff… … Deutsch Wikipedia
error — [er′ər] n. [ME & OFr errour < L error < errare: see ERR] 1. the state of believing what is untrue, incorrect, or wrong 2. a wrong belief; incorrect opinion 3. something incorrectly done through ignorance or carelessness; mistake 4. a… … English World dictionary
error — sustantivo masculino 1. Concepto equivocado o falso: Decía que la otra teoría estaba llena de errores. Sinónimo: equivocación. 2. Dicho o hecho equivocado: Dejarle entrar en casa fue un error. Hay un error en las listas de aprobados. Murió por un … Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española
error — also, through 18c., errour, c.1300, from O.Fr. error mistake, flaw, defect, heresy, from L. errorem (nom. error) a wandering, straying, mistake, from errare to wander (see ERR (Cf. err)). Words for error in most I.E. languages originally meant… … Etymology dictionary
error — concepto equivocado o falso Diccionario ilustrado de Términos Médicos.. Alvaro Galiano. 2010. error 1. Cualquier fallo en un programa de ordenador (error de software) o un defecto de diseño en el … Diccionario médico

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