established himself

col-lŏco ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to place together, to arrange, to station, lay, put, place, set, set up, erect, etc., a thing (or person) somewhere (class. in prose and poetry; cf.: statuo, pono, sisto).

Lit.

In gen.; constr. usu. with in and abl. (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 467 sq.; Zumpt, Gr. § 489); more rarely with in and acc.; also with other prepositions, or absol.

With in and abl.:

istam conloca cruminam in collo plane,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 67:

in rostris collocati,

Cic. Sest. 38, 83:

aliquem in cubili,

id. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

in navi,

id. Planc. 41, 97:

in custodiā,

id. Phil. 7, 7, 19; id. Par. 3, 2, 25:

in solitudine,

id. Lael. 23, 87:

uno quidque in loco,

id. de Or. 1, 35, 163:

Herculem in concilio caelestium,

id. Off. 3, 5, 25:

legiones in cervicibus nostris,

id. Fam. 12, 23, 2; id. Agr. 2, 27, 74:

legionem in eis locis hiemandi causā,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf.:

exercitum in hibernis,

id. ib. 3, 29 fin.:

me in gremio Veneris,

Cat. 66, 56:

pedem grabati In collo sibi,

id. 10, 23:

insidias bipertito in silvis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 32:

quas (copias) in convalle in insidiis,

id. ib. 3, 20:

juvenem in latebris,

Verg. G. 4, 424 al.:

tabulas bene pictas in bono lumine,

Cic. Brut. 75, 261; id. Pis. 25, 61:

supremo In monte saxum,

Hor. Epod. 17, 68:

corpus in vestibulo,

Suet. Aug. 100; Cat. 10, 23:

praesidia in litore,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4.—With locat. proper names;

of towns: classem Miseni et alteram Ravennae,

Suet. Aug. 49:

singulas cohortes, Puteolis et Ostiae,

id. Claud. 25:

se Athenis collocavit,

established himself, settled there, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 4.—So also with adv. of place:

occupato oppido, ibi praesidium collocavit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38; 7, 9:

ubi iste castra collocarat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96. —

With in and acc.:

in tabernam vasa et servos,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 27:

me in arborem,

id. Aul. 4, 8, 6:

eam in lectum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 45 (ipsum verbum collocant proprium est, et ascribitur pronubis, Don.):

exercitum in provinciam hiemandi gratia,

Sall. J. 61, 2; cf.

supra,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1, and 3, 29; cf. also id. ib. 1, 18, B. 1. infra:

maxilla ubi in suam sedem collocata est,

Cels. 8, 7.—

With simple abl.:

oculos pennis,

Ov. M. 1, 723.—

With other prepositions (freq. in Suet.): comites apud ceteros hospites, to lodge, quarter, Cic. Verr. [p. 368] 2, 1, 24, §

63: ut ante suum fundum Miloni insidias conlocaret,

to lay an ambush for, id. Mil. 10, 27:

cohortis legionarias quattuor advorsum pedites hostium,

Sall. J. 51, 3:

legiones propius Armeniam,

Tac. A. 13, 7; cf.:

ipse propior montem suos conlocat,

Sall. J. 49, 1:

obsides super se,

Suet. Aug. 43:

singulas infra se,

id. Calig. 24:

juxta se,

id. Ner. 13:

circa se,

id. Tit. 9, consulares super pulpitum, id. Calig. 54:

lecticam pro tribunali,

id. Aug. 33.—

Absol.: sine tumultu praesidiis conlocatis: Sall. C. 45, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 4; 4, 33:

tabulis et signis propalam collocatis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

columnas neque rectas, neque e regione,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 2:

lecticae collocabantur,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 18:

signum Jovis,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

sedes ac domicilium,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6:

postquam impedimenta collocata animadvertit,

Liv. 44, 37, 1 (cf.:

constituere impedimenta,

id. 44, 36, 6):

chlamydem, ut pendeat apte,

Ov. M. 2, 734:

collocat hasta sues,

lays prostrate, kills, Mart. 5, 65, 10:

reliqua signa in subsidio (i. e. ad subsidium) artius conlocat,

Sall. C. 59, 2; so,

ceterum exercitum in subsidiis,

id. ib. § 5 Kritz N. cr.:

vos, bonae feminae, collocate puellulam (cf. B. 1. infra),

Cat. 61, 184.—

Esp.

To give in marriage:

filiam alicui,

Tac. Agr. 9 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 27; so Cic. Brut. 26, 98; Nep. Att. 19, 4; Suet. Caes. 21; id. Aug. 64; id. Calig. 24; id. Dom. 22 al.:

matrem homini nobilissimo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

aliquam in matrimonium,

Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104;

together with in matrimonio,

Dig. 36, 1, 77:

eam in se dignam condicionem,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 122:

sororem ex matre et propinquas suas nuptum in alias civitates,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18; so,

nuptum,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 7; Col. 4, 3, 6; Dig. 3, 2, 11.—Less freq. absol.:

virginem,

Nep. Epam. 3, 5:

filiam alicujus,

id. Arist. 3, 3; cf.:

in collocandā filiā,

Tac. A. 4, 39:

collocantis filiam,

Just. 9, 6, 2.—

Collocare pecuniam, dotem, faenus, etc., a mercantile t. t., to give, lay out, invest, advance, place money, a dowry, wealth, etc.:

rem herilem,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 2:

in eā provinciā pecunias magnas collocatas habent,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18; cf.:

pecunias in emptiones praediorum,

Dig. 17, 1, 2:

pecunias graviore faenore,

Suet. Aug. 39:

curavit, ut in eo fundo dos collocaretur,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

nusquam posse eam (pecuniam) melius conlocari,

id. ib. 5, 15:

duas patrimonii partes in solo,

Suet. Tib. 48; cf.:

duas faenoris partes in agris,

Tac. A. 6, 17:

pecuniam idoneis nominibus,

Dig. 35, 2, 88.— Hence,

In gen., to employ, invest money in some way:

patrimonium suum non effudit: in rei publicae salute collocavit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 3:

miliens sestertium eā munificentiā collocatum,

Tac. A. 6, 45.—

(Like the Gr. protithenai.) To lay out a dead body in state in the vestibulum:

aliquem sancte ac reverenter in hortis Domitiis,

Capitol. Anton. p. 5; v. Casaub. ad h. l.—

Trop. (in good prose; most freq. in Cic. and Quint.).

In gen., acc. to I. A., to place, set, station, dispose of, occupy, employ, put.

With in and abl.:

illum multa in pectore suo conlocare oportet,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 8:

res est videnda in tuto ut conlocetur,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 11; 4, 3, 17:

ut totos se in optimo vitae statu exquirendo collocarent,

employed, occupied themselves, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 2; cf.:

totum se in cognitione et scientiā,

id. Off. 1, 44, 158:

sese palam in meretriciā vitā,

id. Cael. 20, 49:

philosophiam in urbibus,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 10:

in animis ego vestris omnes triumphos meos condi et collocari volo,

to be placed, deposited, id. Cat. 3, 11, 26:

omne suum studium in doctrinā ac sapientiā,

to apply, employ, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10, § 29:

spem in incerto reliqui temporis eventu,

id. Quint. 26, 83:

adulescentiam suam in amore et voluptatibus,

to employ, spend, id. Cael. 17, 39:

bonas horas male,

Mart. 1, 113, 3:

omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis judicium ipsa natura in auribus nostris collocavit,

placed, Cic. Or. 51, 173:

in conspectu,

Quint. 7, 1, 4:

famam in tuto,

id. 12, 11, 7. —

With in and acc.:

in otium se,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 10:

homines quattuor In soporem,

to put into the sleep of death, id. Am. 1, 1, 148.—

With simple abl.:

et propriis verbis et ordine collocatis,

Quint. 9, 1, 7:

ordine collocati sensus,

id. 7, 10, 16. —

With other prepositions: est et in nominibus ex diverso collocatis sua gratia, Quint. 9, 3, 86.—

Absol., to set in order, arrange, etc.:

rem militarem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3:

aedilitas recte collocata,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 37:

tuā nobis auctoritate opus est ad collocandum aliquem civitatis statum,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 15, 12:

vix ut iis rebus, quas constituissent, conlocandis atque administrandis tempus daretur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4: omnibus rebus confectis et collocatis, Auct. B. Alex. 33 fin. —In rhet.: verba collocata, i. e. in their relative positions (opp. simplicia), Cic. Or. 24, 80 sq.:

ut apte collocentur (verba),

Quint. 8, prooem. § 26; cf. id. § 31; 10, 2, 13; 8, 1, 1; 10. 1, 4;

9, 4, 1 al. —Rare: de cujus moderatione... in prioribus libris satis collocavi (= scripsi, dixi),

have brought forward, put forth, Tac. A. 6, 27 fin. —

Acc. to I. B. 2.: quamobrem melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto, to put or place, as at interest, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70; id. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

bene,

id. Fam. 13, 28, 3; cf.:

ut pecuniae non quaerendae solum ratio est, verum etiam conlocandae... sic gloria et quaerenda et conlocanda ratione est,

id. Off. 2, 12, 42.

col-lŏco ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to place together, to arrange, to station, lay, put, place, set, set up, erect, etc., a thing (or person) somewhere (class. in prose and poetry; cf.: statuo, pono, sisto).

Lit.

In gen.; constr. usu. with in and abl. (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 467 sq.; Zumpt, Gr. § 489); more rarely with in and acc.; also with other prepositions, or absol.

With in and abl.:

istam conloca cruminam in collo plane,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 67:

in rostris collocati,

Cic. Sest. 38, 83:

aliquem in cubili,

id. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

in navi,

id. Planc. 41, 97:

in custodiā,

id. Phil. 7, 7, 19; id. Par. 3, 2, 25:

in solitudine,

id. Lael. 23, 87:

uno quidque in loco,

id. de Or. 1, 35, 163:

Herculem in concilio caelestium,

id. Off. 3, 5, 25:

legiones in cervicibus nostris,

id. Fam. 12, 23, 2; id. Agr. 2, 27, 74:

legionem in eis locis hiemandi causā,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf.:

exercitum in hibernis,

id. ib. 3, 29 fin.:

me in gremio Veneris,

Cat. 66, 56:

pedem grabati In collo sibi,

id. 10, 23:

insidias bipertito in silvis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 32:

quas (copias) in convalle in insidiis,

id. ib. 3, 20:

juvenem in latebris,

Verg. G. 4, 424 al.:

tabulas bene pictas in bono lumine,

Cic. Brut. 75, 261; id. Pis. 25, 61:

supremo In monte saxum,

Hor. Epod. 17, 68:

corpus in vestibulo,

Suet. Aug. 100; Cat. 10, 23:

praesidia in litore,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4.—With locat. proper names;

of towns: classem Miseni et alteram Ravennae,

Suet. Aug. 49:

singulas cohortes, Puteolis et Ostiae,

id. Claud. 25:

se Athenis collocavit,

established himself, settled there, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 4.—So also with adv. of place:

occupato oppido, ibi praesidium collocavit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38; 7, 9:

ubi iste castra collocarat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96. —

With in and acc.:

in tabernam vasa et servos,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 27:

me in arborem,

id. Aul. 4, 8, 6:

eam in lectum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 45 (ipsum verbum collocant proprium est, et ascribitur pronubis, Don.):

exercitum in provinciam hiemandi gratia,

Sall. J. 61, 2; cf.

supra,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1, and 3, 29; cf. also id. ib. 1, 18, B. 1. infra:

maxilla ubi in suam sedem collocata est,

Cels. 8, 7.—

With simple abl.:

oculos pennis,

Ov. M. 1, 723.—

With other prepositions (freq. in Suet.): comites apud ceteros hospites, to lodge, quarter, Cic. Verr. [p. 368] 2, 1, 24, §

63: ut ante suum fundum Miloni insidias conlocaret,

to lay an ambush for, id. Mil. 10, 27:

cohortis legionarias quattuor advorsum pedites hostium,

Sall. J. 51, 3:

legiones propius Armeniam,

Tac. A. 13, 7; cf.:

ipse propior montem suos conlocat,

Sall. J. 49, 1:

obsides super se,

Suet. Aug. 43:

singulas infra se,

id. Calig. 24:

juxta se,

id. Ner. 13:

circa se,

id. Tit. 9, consulares super pulpitum, id. Calig. 54:

lecticam pro tribunali,

id. Aug. 33.—

Absol.: sine tumultu praesidiis conlocatis: Sall. C. 45, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 4; 4, 33:

tabulis et signis propalam collocatis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

columnas neque rectas, neque e regione,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 2:

lecticae collocabantur,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 18:

signum Jovis,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

sedes ac domicilium,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6:

postquam impedimenta collocata animadvertit,

Liv. 44, 37, 1 (cf.:

constituere impedimenta,

id. 44, 36, 6):

chlamydem, ut pendeat apte,

Ov. M. 2, 734:

collocat hasta sues,

lays prostrate, kills, Mart. 5, 65, 10:

reliqua signa in subsidio (i. e. ad subsidium) artius conlocat,

Sall. C. 59, 2; so,

ceterum exercitum in subsidiis,

id. ib. § 5 Kritz N. cr.:

vos, bonae feminae, collocate puellulam (cf. B. 1. infra),

Cat. 61, 184.—

Esp.

To give in marriage:

filiam alicui,

Tac. Agr. 9 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 27; so Cic. Brut. 26, 98; Nep. Att. 19, 4; Suet. Caes. 21; id. Aug. 64; id. Calig. 24; id. Dom. 22 al.:

matrem homini nobilissimo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

aliquam in matrimonium,

Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104;

together with in matrimonio,

Dig. 36, 1, 77:

eam in se dignam condicionem,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 122:

sororem ex matre et propinquas suas nuptum in alias civitates,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18; so,

nuptum,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 7; Col. 4, 3, 6; Dig. 3, 2, 11.—Less freq. absol.:

virginem,

Nep. Epam. 3, 5:

filiam alicujus,

id. Arist. 3, 3; cf.:

in collocandā filiā,

Tac. A. 4, 39:

collocantis filiam,

Just. 9, 6, 2.—

Collocare pecuniam, dotem, faenus, etc., a mercantile t. t., to give, lay out, invest, advance, place money, a dowry, wealth, etc.:

rem herilem,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 2:

in eā provinciā pecunias magnas collocatas habent,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18; cf.:

pecunias in emptiones praediorum,

Dig. 17, 1, 2:

pecunias graviore faenore,

Suet. Aug. 39:

curavit, ut in eo fundo dos collocaretur,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

nusquam posse eam (pecuniam) melius conlocari,

id. ib. 5, 15:

duas patrimonii partes in solo,

Suet. Tib. 48; cf.:

duas faenoris partes in agris,

Tac. A. 6, 17:

pecuniam idoneis nominibus,

Dig. 35, 2, 88.— Hence,

In gen., to employ, invest money in some way:

patrimonium suum non effudit: in rei publicae salute collocavit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 3:

miliens sestertium eā munificentiā collocatum,

Tac. A. 6, 45.—

(Like the Gr. protithenai.) To lay out a dead body in state in the vestibulum:

aliquem sancte ac reverenter in hortis Domitiis,

Capitol. Anton. p. 5; v. Casaub. ad h. l.—

Trop. (in good prose; most freq. in Cic. and Quint.).

In gen., acc. to I. A., to place, set, station, dispose of, occupy, employ, put.

With in and abl.:

illum multa in pectore suo conlocare oportet,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 8:

res est videnda in tuto ut conlocetur,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 11; 4, 3, 17:

ut totos se in optimo vitae statu exquirendo collocarent,

employed, occupied themselves, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 2; cf.:

totum se in cognitione et scientiā,

id. Off. 1, 44, 158:

sese palam in meretriciā vitā,

id. Cael. 20, 49:

philosophiam in urbibus,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 10:

in animis ego vestris omnes triumphos meos condi et collocari volo,

to be placed, deposited, id. Cat. 3, 11, 26:

omne suum studium in doctrinā ac sapientiā,

to apply, employ, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10, § 29:

spem in incerto reliqui temporis eventu,

id. Quint. 26, 83:

adulescentiam suam in amore et voluptatibus,

to employ, spend, id. Cael. 17, 39:

bonas horas male,

Mart. 1, 113, 3:

omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis judicium ipsa natura in auribus nostris collocavit,

placed, Cic. Or. 51, 173:

in conspectu,

Quint. 7, 1, 4:

famam in tuto,

id. 12, 11, 7. —

With in and acc.:

in otium se,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 10:

homines quattuor In soporem,

to put into the sleep of death, id. Am. 1, 1, 148.—

With simple abl.:

et propriis verbis et ordine collocatis,

Quint. 9, 1, 7:

ordine collocati sensus,

id. 7, 10, 16. —

With other prepositions: est et in nominibus ex diverso collocatis sua gratia, Quint. 9, 3, 86.—

Absol., to set in order, arrange, etc.:

rem militarem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3:

aedilitas recte collocata,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 37:

tuā nobis auctoritate opus est ad collocandum aliquem civitatis statum,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 15, 12:

vix ut iis rebus, quas constituissent, conlocandis atque administrandis tempus daretur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4: omnibus rebus confectis et collocatis, Auct. B. Alex. 33 fin. —In rhet.: verba collocata, i. e. in their relative positions (opp. simplicia), Cic. Or. 24, 80 sq.:

ut apte collocentur (verba),

Quint. 8, prooem. § 26; cf. id. § 31; 10, 2, 13; 8, 1, 1; 10. 1, 4;

9, 4, 1 al. —Rare: de cujus moderatione... in prioribus libris satis collocavi (= scripsi, dixi),

have brought forward, put forth, Tac. A. 6, 27 fin. —

Acc. to I. B. 2.: quamobrem melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto, to put or place, as at interest, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70; id. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

bene,

id. Fam. 13, 28, 3; cf.:

ut pecuniae non quaerendae solum ratio est, verum etiam conlocandae... sic gloria et quaerenda et conlocanda ratione est,

id. Off. 2, 12, 42.

T, t. indecl. n. or (to agree with littera) f., the nineteenth letter of the Lat. alphabet ( i and j being counted as one), = Gr. T (tau). It is very freq. as a final letter, esp. in verbal endings of the third person.

As an initial, it is, in pure Lat. words, followed by no consonant except r: traho, tremo, tribuo, etc.; the combinations tl and tm are found only in words borrowed from the Greek: Tlepolemus, tmesis, Tmolus. Hence an initial t occurring in the ancient language before l (like an initial d before v, v. letter D) is rejected in classical Lat.: lātus (Part. of fero) for tlatus, from root tol- of tollo, tuli; cf. with TLAÔ, tlêtos; even when softened by a sibilant, the combination of t and l in stlata (genus navigii), stlembus (gravis, tardus), stlis, stlocus, was avoided, and, except in the formal lang. of law, which retained stlitibus judicandis, the forms lis, locus remained the only ones in use, though the transitional form slis occurs twice in very old inscriptions. Before a vowel or r, the original Indo-European t always retained its place and character. Between two vowels t and tt were freq. confounded, and in some words the double letter became established, although the original form had but one t; thus, quattuor, cottidie, littera, stand in the best MSS. and inscriptions; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 174 sqq.—

The sibilant pronunciation of a medial t before i and a following vowel, is a peculiarity of a late period. Isidorus (at the commencement of the seventh century after Christ) is the first who expresses himself definitely on this point: cum justitia sonum z litterae exprimat, tamen quia Latinum est, per t scribendum est, sicut militia, malitia, nequitia et cetera similia (Orig. 1, 26, 28); but the commutation of ci and ti, which occurs not unfrequently in older inscriptions, shows the origin of this change in pronunciation to have been earlier. In the golden age of the language, however, it was certainly [p. 1831] unknown.—

The aspiration of t did not come into general use till the golden age; hence, CARTACINIENSIS, on the Columna Rostrata; whereas in Cicero we have Carthago, like Cethegus, etc.; v. Cic. Or. 48, 160; and cf. letter C.—

T is interchanged with d, c, and s; v. these letters.—

T is assimilated to s in passus from patior, quassus from quatio, fassus from fateor, missus from mitto, equestris from eques (equit-), etc. It is wholly suppressed before s in usus, from utor; in many nominatives of the third declension ending in s: civitas (root civitat, gen. civitatis), quies (quiet, quietis), lis (lit, litis), dos (dot, dotis), salus (salut, salutis), amans (amant, amantis), mens (ment, mentis), etc.; and likewise in flexi, flexus, from flecto, and before other letters, in remus, cf. ratis; Gr. eretmos; in penna; root pat-, to fly; Gr. petomai, etc. In late Lat. the vulgar language often dropped t before r and before vowels; hence such forms as mari, quaraginta, donaus, are found for matri, quatriginta (quad-), donatus, in inscriptions; cf. the French mère, quarante, donné.—

As an abbreviation, T. stands for Titus; Ti. Tiberius; TR. Tribunus; T. F. Testamenti formula; T. F. C. Titulum faciendum curavit; T. P. Tribunicia potestas, etc.

T, t. indecl. n. or (to agree with littera) f., the nineteenth letter of the Lat. alphabet ( i and j being counted as one), = Gr. T (tau). It is very freq. as a final letter, esp. in verbal endings of the third person.

As an initial, it is, in pure Lat. words, followed by no consonant except r: traho, tremo, tribuo, etc.; the combinations tl and tm are found only in words borrowed from the Greek: Tlepolemus, tmesis, Tmolus. Hence an initial t occurring in the ancient language before l (like an initial d before v, v. letter D) is rejected in classical Lat.: lātus (Part. of fero) for tlatus, from root tol- of tollo, tuli; cf. with TLAÔ, tlêtos; even when softened by a sibilant, the combination of t and l in stlata (genus navigii), stlembus (gravis, tardus), stlis, stlocus, was avoided, and, except in the formal lang. of law, which retained stlitibus judicandis, the forms lis, locus remained the only ones in use, though the transitional form slis occurs twice in very old inscriptions. Before a vowel or r, the original Indo-European t always retained its place and character. Between two vowels t and tt were freq. confounded, and in some words the double letter became established, although the original form had but one t; thus, quattuor, cottidie, littera, stand in the best MSS. and inscriptions; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 174 sqq.—

The sibilant pronunciation of a medial t before i and a following vowel, is a peculiarity of a late period. Isidorus (at the commencement of the seventh century after Christ) is the first who expresses himself definitely on this point: cum justitia sonum z litterae exprimat, tamen quia Latinum est, per t scribendum est, sicut militia, malitia, nequitia et cetera similia (Orig. 1, 26, 28); but the commutation of ci and ti, which occurs not unfrequently in older inscriptions, shows the origin of this change in pronunciation to have been earlier. In the golden age of the language, however, it was certainly [p. 1831] unknown.—

The aspiration of t did not come into general use till the golden age; hence, CARTACINIENSIS, on the Columna Rostrata; whereas in Cicero we have Carthago, like Cethegus, etc.; v. Cic. Or. 48, 160; and cf. letter C.—

T is interchanged with d, c, and s; v. these letters.—

T is assimilated to s in passus from patior, quassus from quatio, fassus from fateor, missus from mitto, equestris from eques (equit-), etc. It is wholly suppressed before s in usus, from utor; in many nominatives of the third declension ending in s: civitas (root civitat, gen. civitatis), quies (quiet, quietis), lis (lit, litis), dos (dot, dotis), salus (salut, salutis), amans (amant, amantis), mens (ment, mentis), etc.; and likewise in flexi, flexus, from flecto, and before other letters, in remus, cf. ratis; Gr. eretmos; in penna; root pat-, to fly; Gr. petomai, etc. In late Lat. the vulgar language often dropped t before r and before vowels; hence such forms as mari, quaraginta, donaus, are found for matri, quatriginta (quad-), donatus, in inscriptions; cf. the French mère, quarante, donné.—

As an abbreviation, T. stands for Titus; Ti. Tiberius; TR. Tribunus; T. F. Testamenti formula; T. F. C. Titulum faciendum curavit; T. P. Tribunicia potestas, etc.