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  • 1 primordium

    first beginning, origin

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  • 2 primordius

    prīmordĭus, a, um, adj. [primus-ordior], original (post-Aug.):

    primordii seminis mistu,

    Col. 6, 37, 7 dub. (al. primordiis seminum).—Hence, as subst.: prīmor-dĭum, n., and more usually plur.: prī-mordĭa ( gen. not in use; principiorum takes its place, Munro ad Lucr. 3, 262; separated and transposed, ordĭa prīma, Lucr. 4, 28), n.
    I.
    The first beginnings, origin, commencement (class.; syn.: principium, initium): primordia rerum, Cic. Part. [p. 1444] 2, 7:

    a Jove Musarum primordia, id. poët. Leg. 2, 3, 7: mundi,

    Ov. M. 15, 67:

    gentis,

    Luc. 10, 177:

    veterum vocum,

    Pers. 6, 3:

    inquieta a primordiis vita,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 6, 1:

    artis,

    Lact. 12, 10, 3:

    eloquentiae,

    Tac. Or. 12; Gell. 12, 1, 9; 17; Lact. 3, 29, 16; Just. 31, 5, 7:

    dicendi,

    Quint. 1, 9, 1:

    terrena,

    Col. 3, 10, 10:

    mundi,

    Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 4, 1:

    in primordiis,

    Pall. 4, 12.—In sing.: a primordio urbis, Liv. init.; Col. 1, 1:

    in operum suorum primordio stare,

    in the first beginning, Curt. 9, 2, 11; Just. 2, 1:

    tam tenues primordio imperi fuere fines,

    Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 56.—
    II.
    Absol., the beginning of a new reign, Tac. A. 1, 7.

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  • 3 tirocinium

    tīrōcĭnĭum, ii, n. [tiro].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In milit. lang., the first military service or first campaign of a young soldier, military rawness or inexperience, = rudimentum (perh. not ante-Aug.):

    juvenis,

    Liv. 39, 47, 3:

    propter exercitūs paucitatem et tirocinium, Auct. B. Afr. 31, 6: aetatis infirmitas aut militiae tirocinium,

    Val. Max. 5, 4, 2:

    tirocinii rudimenta deponere,

    Just. 9, 1, 8. —In plur.:

    si non solum tirocinia, verum et incunabula in ipsis castris posuissent,

    Just. 12, 4, 6; Flor. 2, 3.—
    B.
    Concr., the young troops, raw forces, recruits:

    contemptum tirocinium,

    Liv. 40, 35, 12.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen., the first beginning of any thing, the first trial, attempt, or essay:

    si in L. Paulo accusando tirocinium ponere et documentum eloquentiae dare voluit,

    Liv. 45, 37, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf.:

    nec differendum est tirocinium in senectutem,

    Quint. 12, 6, 3; and:

    tirocinii metum transire,

    id. 12, 6, 7: filios suo quemque tirocinio deducere in forum, i. e. after putting on the toga virilis, Suet. Aug. 26:

    dies tirocinii,

    id. Tib. 54:

    togam sumpsit barbamque posuit, sine ullo honore, qualis contigerat tirocinio fratrum ejus,

    id. Calig. 10.—Of inanim. things:

    navium,

    i. e. their first voyage, Plin. 24, 7, 26, § 41.—
    B.
    Inexperience:

    senatus cum simul et tirocinio et perturbatione juvenis moveretur,

    Liv. 39, 47, 3:

    nec tirocinio peccet,

    Manil. 1, 189.

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  • 4 primordium

    first beginning, origin, commencement, beginnings

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  • 5 stirpis

    stirps (collat. form of the nom. stir-pes or stirpis, in the best MSS., Liv. 1, 1 fin.; 41, 8, 10; 26, 13, 16; v. Drak. ad locc.), pis, f. ( poet. and post-Aug.; also m., Enn. ap. Fest. p. 313 Müll., and ap. Non. 226, 32 (Ann. 184); Pac. ap. Non. 227, 2 (Trag. Fragm. 421), and ap. Charis. p. 85 P.; Cato, R. R. 40, 2; Verg. G. 2, 379; id. A. 12, 208; 12, 770; 12, 781; Col. 5, 9, 13; Plin. 8, 26, 40, § 96; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 2) [root star-; cf. sternere; Gr. storennumi; prop. that which extends or spreads].
    I.
    Lit., the lower part of the trunk of plants, including the roots; a stock, stem, stalk; a root (class. and very freq.; cf.

    radix): arborum altitudo nos delectat. radices stirpesque non item,

    Cic. Or. 43, 147:

    terra stirpes amplexa alat,

    id. N. D. 2, 33, 83; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 26; 2, 47, 120;

    2, 51, 127: ut tantum modo per stirpis alantur suas,

    id. ib. 2, 32, 81:

    sceptrum in silvis imo de stirpe recisum,

    Verg. A. 12, 208: harundo omnis ex unā stirpe numerosa, Plin. 16, 36, 65, §

    163: palmarum stirpibus ali,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, § 99; so,

    palmarum,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 50, §

    131 (for which: radices palmarum,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 33, § 87); cf.:

    lento in stirpe moratus,

    Verg. A. 12, 781 (for which, just before:

    lentā in radice): stirpes raptas volvere,

    Hor. C. 3, 29, 37:

    validis amplexae stirpibus ulmos,

    Verg. G. 2, 367:

    hic stirpes obruit arvo,

    id. ib. 2, 24:

    domos avium cum stirpibus imis Eruit,

    id. ib. 2, 209; cf.

    of hair: vellere albos ab stirpe capillos,

    Prop. 3 (4), 25, 13; Tib. 1, 8, 45:

    ex hac nimiā licentiā, ut ex stirpe quādam, exsistere, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of vegetables.
    a.
    A plant, shrub (esp. freq. in plur.):

    stirpium naturae,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 4, 10; cf.:

    cum arborum et stirpium eadem paene natura sit,

    id. ib. 5, 11, 33; so (with arbores) id. Phil. 2, 22, 55; (with herbae) id. N. D. 2, 64, 161:

    pati (terram) stirpium asperitate vastari,

    id. ib. 2, 39, 99:

    stirpes tenent,

    Luc. 4, 42:

    internatas saxis stirpes et herbas vellentes,

    Tac. H. 4, 60.—
    b.
    A shoot, sprout:

    rami stirpesque,

    Lucr. 5, 1100:

    stirpem praecisum circumligato, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 40, 2:

    probatissimum genus stirpis deponere, i. e. malleolos,

    Col. 3, 5, 4:

    stirpem post annum praecidi,

    id. 5, 6, 13:

    stirpis committere ramis,

    engraft, Lucr. 5, 1365.—
    2.
    Of persons.
    a.
    A stem, stock, race, family, lineage (cf.:

    genus, familia): ignoratio stirpis et generis,

    Cic. Lael. 19, 70:

    stirpis ac gentilitatis jus,

    id. de Or. 1, 39, 176:

    qui sunt ejusdem stirpis,

    id. Rab. Post. 1, 2: a stirpe supremo, Enn. ap. Non. 226, 32 (Ann. v. 184 Vahl.):

    divinae stirpis Acestes,

    Verg. A. 5, 711:

    Priami de stirpe,

    id. ib. 5, 297:

    Herculis stirpe generatus,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 12, 24:

    hinc orti stirpe antiquissimā sumus,

    id. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    hominum sceleratorum,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 34:

    ab stirpe socius et amicus populi Romani,

    Sall. J. 14, 2 et saep.:

    unum relictum, stirpem genti Fabiae futurum,

    Liv. 2, 50 fin. —
    b.
    Like Engl. scion, = offspring, descendant, progeny (mostly poet.; not in Cic.): stirps liberum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 317 Vahl.); so,

    liberum,

    Liv. 45, 11; cf.:

    aliquis magnā de stirpe nepotum,

    Verg. A. 6, 864:

    stirps et genus omne futurum,

    id. ib. 4, 622; cf.:

    en stirps et progenies tot consulum, tot dictatorum,

    Tac. A. 2, 37 fin.:

    stirpis virilis,

    Liv. 1, 1, 11; cf.:

    qui stirpem ex sese domi relinquerent,

    id. 41, 8, 9.—
    II.
    Trop., source, origin, foundation, first beginning, cause, etc.:

    altae stirpes stultitiae,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

    superstitionis stirpes,

    id. Div. 2, 72, 149:

    virtutis,

    id. Cael. 32, 79:

    quā ex stirpe orirentur amicitiae cognationum,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

    quodsi exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    populum a stirpe repetere,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 12, 21 Mos.:

    repetam stirpem juris a naturā,

    id. Leg. 1, 6, 20:

    stirps ac semen malorum omnium,

    id. Cat. 1, 12, 30; cf.:

    ea pars, quae quasi stirps est hujus quaestionis,

    id. Fin. 4, 2, 5:

    non ingenerantur hominibus mores tam a stirpe generis ac seminis, quam, etc.,

    original nature, id. Agr. 2, 35, 95; cf.:

    exoletā stirpe gentis,

    Liv. 37, 8, 4.—So esp. in phrase ab stirpe, utterly:

    Karthago ab stirpe interiit,

    Sall. C. 10, 1:

    gens ab stirpe exstincta est,

    Liv. 9, 34, 19:

    omne genus ab stirpe sublatum esse,

    id. 34, 2, 3; cf.:

    omnis intra annum cum stirpe exstinctos,

    id. 9, 29, 10:

    velut ab stirpibus renata urbs,

    id. 6, 1, 3.

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  • 6 stirps

    stirps (collat. form of the nom. stir-pes or stirpis, in the best MSS., Liv. 1, 1 fin.; 41, 8, 10; 26, 13, 16; v. Drak. ad locc.), pis, f. ( poet. and post-Aug.; also m., Enn. ap. Fest. p. 313 Müll., and ap. Non. 226, 32 (Ann. 184); Pac. ap. Non. 227, 2 (Trag. Fragm. 421), and ap. Charis. p. 85 P.; Cato, R. R. 40, 2; Verg. G. 2, 379; id. A. 12, 208; 12, 770; 12, 781; Col. 5, 9, 13; Plin. 8, 26, 40, § 96; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 2) [root star-; cf. sternere; Gr. storennumi; prop. that which extends or spreads].
    I.
    Lit., the lower part of the trunk of plants, including the roots; a stock, stem, stalk; a root (class. and very freq.; cf.

    radix): arborum altitudo nos delectat. radices stirpesque non item,

    Cic. Or. 43, 147:

    terra stirpes amplexa alat,

    id. N. D. 2, 33, 83; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 26; 2, 47, 120;

    2, 51, 127: ut tantum modo per stirpis alantur suas,

    id. ib. 2, 32, 81:

    sceptrum in silvis imo de stirpe recisum,

    Verg. A. 12, 208: harundo omnis ex unā stirpe numerosa, Plin. 16, 36, 65, §

    163: palmarum stirpibus ali,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, § 99; so,

    palmarum,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 50, §

    131 (for which: radices palmarum,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 33, § 87); cf.:

    lento in stirpe moratus,

    Verg. A. 12, 781 (for which, just before:

    lentā in radice): stirpes raptas volvere,

    Hor. C. 3, 29, 37:

    validis amplexae stirpibus ulmos,

    Verg. G. 2, 367:

    hic stirpes obruit arvo,

    id. ib. 2, 24:

    domos avium cum stirpibus imis Eruit,

    id. ib. 2, 209; cf.

    of hair: vellere albos ab stirpe capillos,

    Prop. 3 (4), 25, 13; Tib. 1, 8, 45:

    ex hac nimiā licentiā, ut ex stirpe quādam, exsistere, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of vegetables.
    a.
    A plant, shrub (esp. freq. in plur.):

    stirpium naturae,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 4, 10; cf.:

    cum arborum et stirpium eadem paene natura sit,

    id. ib. 5, 11, 33; so (with arbores) id. Phil. 2, 22, 55; (with herbae) id. N. D. 2, 64, 161:

    pati (terram) stirpium asperitate vastari,

    id. ib. 2, 39, 99:

    stirpes tenent,

    Luc. 4, 42:

    internatas saxis stirpes et herbas vellentes,

    Tac. H. 4, 60.—
    b.
    A shoot, sprout:

    rami stirpesque,

    Lucr. 5, 1100:

    stirpem praecisum circumligato, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 40, 2:

    probatissimum genus stirpis deponere, i. e. malleolos,

    Col. 3, 5, 4:

    stirpem post annum praecidi,

    id. 5, 6, 13:

    stirpis committere ramis,

    engraft, Lucr. 5, 1365.—
    2.
    Of persons.
    a.
    A stem, stock, race, family, lineage (cf.:

    genus, familia): ignoratio stirpis et generis,

    Cic. Lael. 19, 70:

    stirpis ac gentilitatis jus,

    id. de Or. 1, 39, 176:

    qui sunt ejusdem stirpis,

    id. Rab. Post. 1, 2: a stirpe supremo, Enn. ap. Non. 226, 32 (Ann. v. 184 Vahl.):

    divinae stirpis Acestes,

    Verg. A. 5, 711:

    Priami de stirpe,

    id. ib. 5, 297:

    Herculis stirpe generatus,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 12, 24:

    hinc orti stirpe antiquissimā sumus,

    id. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    hominum sceleratorum,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 34:

    ab stirpe socius et amicus populi Romani,

    Sall. J. 14, 2 et saep.:

    unum relictum, stirpem genti Fabiae futurum,

    Liv. 2, 50 fin. —
    b.
    Like Engl. scion, = offspring, descendant, progeny (mostly poet.; not in Cic.): stirps liberum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 317 Vahl.); so,

    liberum,

    Liv. 45, 11; cf.:

    aliquis magnā de stirpe nepotum,

    Verg. A. 6, 864:

    stirps et genus omne futurum,

    id. ib. 4, 622; cf.:

    en stirps et progenies tot consulum, tot dictatorum,

    Tac. A. 2, 37 fin.:

    stirpis virilis,

    Liv. 1, 1, 11; cf.:

    qui stirpem ex sese domi relinquerent,

    id. 41, 8, 9.—
    II.
    Trop., source, origin, foundation, first beginning, cause, etc.:

    altae stirpes stultitiae,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

    superstitionis stirpes,

    id. Div. 2, 72, 149:

    virtutis,

    id. Cael. 32, 79:

    quā ex stirpe orirentur amicitiae cognationum,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

    quodsi exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    populum a stirpe repetere,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 12, 21 Mos.:

    repetam stirpem juris a naturā,

    id. Leg. 1, 6, 20:

    stirps ac semen malorum omnium,

    id. Cat. 1, 12, 30; cf.:

    ea pars, quae quasi stirps est hujus quaestionis,

    id. Fin. 4, 2, 5:

    non ingenerantur hominibus mores tam a stirpe generis ac seminis, quam, etc.,

    original nature, id. Agr. 2, 35, 95; cf.:

    exoletā stirpe gentis,

    Liv. 37, 8, 4.—So esp. in phrase ab stirpe, utterly:

    Karthago ab stirpe interiit,

    Sall. C. 10, 1:

    gens ab stirpe exstincta est,

    Liv. 9, 34, 19:

    omne genus ab stirpe sublatum esse,

    id. 34, 2, 3; cf.:

    omnis intra annum cum stirpe exstinctos,

    id. 9, 29, 10:

    velut ab stirpibus renata urbs,

    id. 6, 1, 3.

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  • 7 primo

    first, at first, at the beginning, at the start.

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  • 8 prima

    prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

    but primus is rarely used for prior,

    Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

    primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

    verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

    primae litterae,

    id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

    primus inter homines nobilissimos,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    primi ex omnibus philosophis,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

    primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

    Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

    primus de mille fuisses,

    Ov. H. 17, 105:

    in primis,

    among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

    in primis stetit,

    id. Epam. 10, 3:

    in primis pugnantes,

    Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

    primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

    Quint. 3, 1, 8.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

    in primā provinciā,

    at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

    digitus,

    the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

    ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

    the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

    primā statim nocte,

    at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

    sol,

    i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

    luna,

    i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

    primo quoque tempore,

    at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

    primo quoque die,

    id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

    me tibi primum quidque concedente,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

    fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

    id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

    quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

    Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

    prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

    Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

    multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

    in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

    id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

    hoc a primo cogitavit,

    id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

    id a primo rectissime dicitur,

    id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

    equites in primo late ire jubet,

    in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

    qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

    Cic. Or. 64, 215. —
    B.
    First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

    princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    sui municipii facile primus,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

    homo,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

    primis urbis placuisse,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

    juvenum primi,

    Verg. A. 9, 785:

    est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

    quia sum apud te primus,

    I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

    primus humani generis,

    Sil. 17, 255:

    urbem Italiae primam,

    Petr. 116:

    praedium,

    Cato, R. R. 1:

    suavia prima habere,

    to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

    otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

    Sall. C. 36, 4:

    cura,

    a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

    peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

    primas partes, or primas agere,

    to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

    Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

    actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

    amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

    i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

    si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

    primas tenere,

    to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

    homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

    in primis lautus eques,

    Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

    homo in primis improbissimus,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

    68: vir magnus in primis,

    id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

    in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

    id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

    in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

    id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

    in primis... dein,

    first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).
    A. 1.
    In gen.:

    aedes primo ruere rebamur,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

    neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

    primo non accredidit,

    Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

    Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

    id. Them. 6, 5:

    contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

    id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—
    2.
    With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

    primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

    primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

    Sall. C. 10, 3:

    primo... deinde... tum... tum,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

    primo... deinde,

    Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

    primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

    Cels. 5, 26, 34:

    primo... inde,... hinc,

    Liv. 30, 11, 6:

    haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

    Sall. C. 10, 6:

    dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

    primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

    Liv. 26, 39:

    primo... mox,

    id. 1, 50:

    primo... mox deinde,

    Just. 1, 3:

    primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—
    3.
    (Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

    primo... iterum,

    Liv. 2, 51:

    primo... rursus,

    Suet. Aug. 17:

    primo... secundo,

    Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—
    B. 1.
    In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

    Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    primum... deinde... deinde,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

    primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

    primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

    id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

    primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

    primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

    id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

    primum... subinde,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

    primum... mox,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—
    2.
    Without other adverbs.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    quaerenda pecunia primum est,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

    te Quicumque primum Produxit,

    id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—
    (β).
    Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

    primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—
    3.
    With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.
    (α).
    Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

    ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

    ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

    simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—
    (β).
    Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

    post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—
    (γ).
    With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

    primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

    omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

    id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

    primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—
    (δ).
    With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

    hodie primum ire in ganeum,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

    quo die primum convocati su mus,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—
    * C.
    prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—
    D.
    prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

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  • 9 primumdum

    prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

    but primus is rarely used for prior,

    Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

    primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

    verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

    primae litterae,

    id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

    primus inter homines nobilissimos,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    primi ex omnibus philosophis,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

    primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

    Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

    primus de mille fuisses,

    Ov. H. 17, 105:

    in primis,

    among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

    in primis stetit,

    id. Epam. 10, 3:

    in primis pugnantes,

    Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

    primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

    Quint. 3, 1, 8.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

    in primā provinciā,

    at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

    digitus,

    the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

    ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

    the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

    primā statim nocte,

    at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

    sol,

    i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

    luna,

    i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

    primo quoque tempore,

    at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

    primo quoque die,

    id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

    me tibi primum quidque concedente,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

    fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

    id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

    quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

    Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

    prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

    Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

    multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

    in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

    id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

    hoc a primo cogitavit,

    id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

    id a primo rectissime dicitur,

    id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

    equites in primo late ire jubet,

    in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

    qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

    Cic. Or. 64, 215. —
    B.
    First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

    princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    sui municipii facile primus,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

    homo,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

    primis urbis placuisse,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

    juvenum primi,

    Verg. A. 9, 785:

    est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

    quia sum apud te primus,

    I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

    primus humani generis,

    Sil. 17, 255:

    urbem Italiae primam,

    Petr. 116:

    praedium,

    Cato, R. R. 1:

    suavia prima habere,

    to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

    otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

    Sall. C. 36, 4:

    cura,

    a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

    peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

    primas partes, or primas agere,

    to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

    Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

    actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

    amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

    i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

    si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

    primas tenere,

    to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

    homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

    in primis lautus eques,

    Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

    homo in primis improbissimus,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

    68: vir magnus in primis,

    id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

    in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

    id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

    in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

    id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

    in primis... dein,

    first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).
    A. 1.
    In gen.:

    aedes primo ruere rebamur,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

    neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

    primo non accredidit,

    Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

    Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

    id. Them. 6, 5:

    contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

    id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—
    2.
    With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

    primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

    primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

    Sall. C. 10, 3:

    primo... deinde... tum... tum,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

    primo... deinde,

    Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

    primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

    Cels. 5, 26, 34:

    primo... inde,... hinc,

    Liv. 30, 11, 6:

    haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

    Sall. C. 10, 6:

    dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

    primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

    Liv. 26, 39:

    primo... mox,

    id. 1, 50:

    primo... mox deinde,

    Just. 1, 3:

    primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—
    3.
    (Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

    primo... iterum,

    Liv. 2, 51:

    primo... rursus,

    Suet. Aug. 17:

    primo... secundo,

    Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—
    B. 1.
    In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

    Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    primum... deinde... deinde,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

    primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

    primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

    id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

    primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

    primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

    id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

    primum... subinde,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

    primum... mox,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—
    2.
    Without other adverbs.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    quaerenda pecunia primum est,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

    te Quicumque primum Produxit,

    id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—
    (β).
    Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

    primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—
    3.
    With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.
    (α).
    Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

    ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

    ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

    simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—
    (β).
    Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

    post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—
    (γ).
    With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

    primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

    omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

    id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

    primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—
    (δ).
    With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

    hodie primum ire in ganeum,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

    quo die primum convocati su mus,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—
    * C.
    prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—
    D.
    prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

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  • 10 primus

    prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

    but primus is rarely used for prior,

    Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

    primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

    verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

    primae litterae,

    id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

    primus inter homines nobilissimos,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    primi ex omnibus philosophis,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

    primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

    Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

    primus de mille fuisses,

    Ov. H. 17, 105:

    in primis,

    among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

    in primis stetit,

    id. Epam. 10, 3:

    in primis pugnantes,

    Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

    primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

    Quint. 3, 1, 8.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

    in primā provinciā,

    at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

    digitus,

    the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

    ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

    the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

    primā statim nocte,

    at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

    sol,

    i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

    luna,

    i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

    primo quoque tempore,

    at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

    primo quoque die,

    id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

    me tibi primum quidque concedente,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

    fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

    id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

    quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

    Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

    prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

    Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

    multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

    in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

    id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

    hoc a primo cogitavit,

    id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

    id a primo rectissime dicitur,

    id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

    equites in primo late ire jubet,

    in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

    qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

    Cic. Or. 64, 215. —
    B.
    First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

    princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    sui municipii facile primus,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

    homo,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

    primis urbis placuisse,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

    juvenum primi,

    Verg. A. 9, 785:

    est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

    quia sum apud te primus,

    I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

    primus humani generis,

    Sil. 17, 255:

    urbem Italiae primam,

    Petr. 116:

    praedium,

    Cato, R. R. 1:

    suavia prima habere,

    to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

    otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

    Sall. C. 36, 4:

    cura,

    a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

    peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

    primas partes, or primas agere,

    to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

    Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

    actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

    amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

    i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

    si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

    primas tenere,

    to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

    homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

    in primis lautus eques,

    Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

    homo in primis improbissimus,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

    68: vir magnus in primis,

    id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

    in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

    id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

    in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

    id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

    in primis... dein,

    first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).
    A. 1.
    In gen.:

    aedes primo ruere rebamur,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

    neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

    primo non accredidit,

    Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

    Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

    id. Them. 6, 5:

    contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

    id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—
    2.
    With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

    primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

    primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

    Sall. C. 10, 3:

    primo... deinde... tum... tum,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

    primo... deinde,

    Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

    primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

    Cels. 5, 26, 34:

    primo... inde,... hinc,

    Liv. 30, 11, 6:

    haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

    Sall. C. 10, 6:

    dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

    primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

    Liv. 26, 39:

    primo... mox,

    id. 1, 50:

    primo... mox deinde,

    Just. 1, 3:

    primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—
    3.
    (Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

    primo... iterum,

    Liv. 2, 51:

    primo... rursus,

    Suet. Aug. 17:

    primo... secundo,

    Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—
    B. 1.
    In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

    Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    primum... deinde... deinde,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

    primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

    primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

    id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

    primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

    primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

    id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

    primum... subinde,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

    primum... mox,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—
    2.
    Without other adverbs.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    quaerenda pecunia primum est,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

    te Quicumque primum Produxit,

    id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—
    (β).
    Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

    primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—
    3.
    With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.
    (α).
    Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

    ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

    ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

    simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—
    (β).
    Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

    post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—
    (γ).
    With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

    primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

    omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

    id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

    primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—
    (δ).
    With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

    hodie primum ire in ganeum,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

    quo die primum convocati su mus,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—
    * C.
    prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—
    D.
    prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

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  • 11 prīncipium

        prīncipium ī, n    [princeps], a beginning, commencement, origin: origo principi nulla est: motūs: principio orationis hoc pono, in beginning my speech: omnium rerum magnarum ab dis inmortalibus principia ducuntur: Scribendi recte sapere est principium, H.: Ab Iove principium, V.: imperi, L.: a sanguine Teucri Ducere principium, O.— Abl adverb., at the beginning, in the beginning, at first, in the first place: Principio vementer velim, etc., T.: principio ausus est dicere: Principio... tum, V.—In the phrase, a principio (rarely de principio), from the beginning, from the first: ut a principio dixi: de principio studuit occurrere, etc.— Plur, beginnings, foundations, principles, elements: diligenter explorata principia ponantur: naturalia: principia rerum, e quibus omnia constant, elements.—Prov.: obsta principiis, O.— That which begins, a leader, founder: Faucia curia fuit principium, i. e. was the first to vote, L.: Graecia principium moris fuit, O.—In the army, plur, the foremost ranks, front lines of soldiers, front, van: ero post principia, in the rear, T.: Marium post principia habere, S.: post principia tutus receptus fuit, to the rear, L.—In a camp, the headquarters, principal place, general's quarters (an open space, for councils and assemblies): iura reddere in principiis, L.: in principiis statuit tabernaculum, N.
    * * *

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  • 12 initium

        initium ī, n    [1 in + 1 I-], a going in, entrance: Remorum, i. e. of the country, Cs.—Fig., a beginning, commencement: Narrationis, T.: annorum, Cs.: bonis initiis orsus tribunatus, tristīs exitus habuit consulatus: belli, S.: dicendi initium sumere: initium fugae factum a Dumnorige, was the first to flee, Cs.: caedis initium facere a me: quod ab initio petivi: querellae ab initio tantae ordiendae rei absint, L.— Abl sing. abverb., in the beginning, at first: tametsi initio laetus, tamen postquam, etc., at first, S.: initio locum tenere, Cs.: dixi initio, iudices.— Plur, constituent parts, elements: initia, et tamquam semina, unde essent omnia orta.—First principles, elements: illa initia mathematicorum: operum initia tradere, Cs.— Auspices: novis initiis et ominibus opus est, i. e. a new reign, Cu.—Secret sacred rites, sacred mysteries: initia Cereris, L.: mysteria initiaque ut appellantur: tua, mater, initia, i. e. instruments used in celebrating the rites, Ct.
    * * *
    beginning, commencement; entrance

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  • 13 principia

    princĭpĭum, ii, n. [princeps], a beginning, commencement, origin (class.; syn.: primordia, initium).
    I.
    In gen.:

    origo principii nulla est: nam ex principio oriuntur omnia,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54:

    quid est cujus principium aliquod sit, nihil sit extremum?

    id. N. D. 1, 8, 20:

    nec principium, nec finem habere,

    id. Sen. 21, 78:

    cujus criminis neque principium invenire, neque evolvere exitum possum,

    id. Cael. 23, 56:

    hic fons, hoc principium est movendi,

    id. Rep. 6, 25, 27:

    bellorum atque imperiorum,

    id. Balb. 3, 9:

    principium pontis,

    Tac. A. 1, 69:

    principio lucis,

    at daybreak, Amm. 25, 5, 1:

    in principiis dicendi,

    at the commencement of a speech, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121;

    so of a declaration in a lawsuit,

    Juv. 6, 245:

    suave quoddam principium dicendi,

    Amm. 30, 4, 19: principia ducere ab aliquo, to derive, deduce:

    omnium rerum magnarum principia a dis immortalibus ducuntur,

    id. Vatin. 6, 14:

    principium urbis,

    id. Off. 1, 17, 54:

    scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons,

    Hor. A. P. 309:

    omne principium huc refer,

    id. C. 3, 6, 6:

    a Jove principium,

    Verg. E. 3, 60:

    anni,

    Liv. 1, 4:

    a sanguine Teucri Ducere principium,

    Ov. M. 13, 705:

    capessere,

    to begin, Tac. A. 15, 49.—Adverb.: principio, a principio, in principio, at or in the beginning, at first:

    principio... postea, etc.,

    Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75:

    principio generi animantium omni est a naturā tributum, ut se tueatur,

    id. Off. 1, 4, 11; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; id. Fin. 1, 6, 17; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 39; id. And. 3, 3, 38; Verg. A. 6, 214; Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; so,

    a principio: ac vellem a principio te audissem, etc.,

    id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

    dixeram a principio, de re publicā ut sileremus,

    id. Brut. 42, 157:

    in principio,

    id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

    principio ut,

    as soon as, Plaut. Merc. prol. 40; v. Ritschl ad h. l.— Rarely of the boundaries of a country or people:

    adusque principia Carmanorum,

    Amm. 23, 6, 74.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Plur., beginnings, foundations, principles, elements (class.):

    bene provisa et diligenter explorata principia ponantur,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

    juris,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 18:

    naturae,

    id. Off. 3, 12, 52;

    for which: principia naturalia,

    id. Fin. 3, 5, 17; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 35:

    principia rerum, ex quibus omnia constant,

    first principles, elements, id. Ac. 2, 36, 117.—

    Prov.: obsta principiis (cf. the French: ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute),

    Ov. R. Am. 91.—
    B.
    That makes a beginning, that votes first: tribus principium fuit, pro tribu Q. Fabius primus scivit, Lex Thoria, Rudorff. p. 142; Lex Appar. ap. Haubold, Moment. Leg. p. 85; Plebissc. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129:

    Faucia curia fuit principium,

    was the first to vote, Liv. 9, 38 fin. —
    2.
    In gen., a beginner, originator, founder, ancestor ( poet.):

    Graecia principium moris fuit,

    Ov. F. 2, 37:

    mihi Belus avorum Principium,

    ancestor, progenitor, Sil. 15, 748.—Here, too, prob. belongs PRINCIPIA SACRA, Æneas and [p. 1446] his successors in Lavinium, ancestors whom the Latins and Romans honored as deities, Inscr. Orell. 2276.—
    C.
    In milit. lang.: princĭpĭa, ōrum, n.
    1.
    The foremost ranks, the front line of soldiers, the front or van of an army:

    post principia,

    behind the front, Liv. 2, 65; cf.:

    hic ero post principia, inde omnibus signum dabo,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 11: post principia paulatim recedunt, Sisenn. ap. Non. 135, 31: deinde ipse paulatim procedere;

    Marium post principia habere,

    Sall. J. 50, 2:

    traversis principiis, in planum deducit,

    id. ib. 49, 6:

    equites post principia collocat,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. H. 2, 43. —
    2.
    The staff-officers, members of the council of war (post-class.):

    mittere principia,

    Front. Strat. 2, 5, 30:

    a principiis salutari,

    Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10:

    advocatis legionum principiis et turmarum,

    Amm. 25, 5, 1; Cod. 12, 47, 1.—
    3.
    A large open space in a camp, in which were the tents of the general, lieutenants, and tribunes, together with the standards, and where speeches were made and councils held; the general's quarters:

    jura reddere in principiis,

    Liv. 28, 24:

    in principiis ac praetorio in unum sermones confundi,

    id. 7, 12:

    castrorum,

    Just. 11, 6, 6:

    in castris,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 1:

    in principiis statuit tabernaculum, eoque omnes cotidie convenire (jussit), ut ibi de summis rebus consilia caperentur,

    Nep. Eum. 7, 2; Suet. Oth. 1; 6; Flor. 3, 10, 12:

    primores centurionum et paucos militum in principia vocat,

    Tac. H. 3, 13; 1, 48; Dig. 49, 16, 12; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 1, 16.—
    D.
    Precedence, preference, the first place:

    principium ergo, columenque omnium rerum preti margaritae tenent,

    Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106. —
    E.
    Plur., selections, selected passages:

    principiorum libri circumferuntur, quia existimatur pars aliqua etiam sine ceteris esse perfecta,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 12.—
    2.
    In partic., mastery, dominion (post-class.): archê, magisterium, magistratus, praesidatus, principium, Gloss. Philox.: in Graeco principii vocabulum, quod est archê, non tantum ordinativum, sed et potestativum capit principatum, Tert. adv. Hermog. 19.

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  • 14 principium

    princĭpĭum, ii, n. [princeps], a beginning, commencement, origin (class.; syn.: primordia, initium).
    I.
    In gen.:

    origo principii nulla est: nam ex principio oriuntur omnia,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54:

    quid est cujus principium aliquod sit, nihil sit extremum?

    id. N. D. 1, 8, 20:

    nec principium, nec finem habere,

    id. Sen. 21, 78:

    cujus criminis neque principium invenire, neque evolvere exitum possum,

    id. Cael. 23, 56:

    hic fons, hoc principium est movendi,

    id. Rep. 6, 25, 27:

    bellorum atque imperiorum,

    id. Balb. 3, 9:

    principium pontis,

    Tac. A. 1, 69:

    principio lucis,

    at daybreak, Amm. 25, 5, 1:

    in principiis dicendi,

    at the commencement of a speech, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121;

    so of a declaration in a lawsuit,

    Juv. 6, 245:

    suave quoddam principium dicendi,

    Amm. 30, 4, 19: principia ducere ab aliquo, to derive, deduce:

    omnium rerum magnarum principia a dis immortalibus ducuntur,

    id. Vatin. 6, 14:

    principium urbis,

    id. Off. 1, 17, 54:

    scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons,

    Hor. A. P. 309:

    omne principium huc refer,

    id. C. 3, 6, 6:

    a Jove principium,

    Verg. E. 3, 60:

    anni,

    Liv. 1, 4:

    a sanguine Teucri Ducere principium,

    Ov. M. 13, 705:

    capessere,

    to begin, Tac. A. 15, 49.—Adverb.: principio, a principio, in principio, at or in the beginning, at first:

    principio... postea, etc.,

    Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75:

    principio generi animantium omni est a naturā tributum, ut se tueatur,

    id. Off. 1, 4, 11; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; id. Fin. 1, 6, 17; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 39; id. And. 3, 3, 38; Verg. A. 6, 214; Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; so,

    a principio: ac vellem a principio te audissem, etc.,

    id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

    dixeram a principio, de re publicā ut sileremus,

    id. Brut. 42, 157:

    in principio,

    id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

    principio ut,

    as soon as, Plaut. Merc. prol. 40; v. Ritschl ad h. l.— Rarely of the boundaries of a country or people:

    adusque principia Carmanorum,

    Amm. 23, 6, 74.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Plur., beginnings, foundations, principles, elements (class.):

    bene provisa et diligenter explorata principia ponantur,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

    juris,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 18:

    naturae,

    id. Off. 3, 12, 52;

    for which: principia naturalia,

    id. Fin. 3, 5, 17; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 35:

    principia rerum, ex quibus omnia constant,

    first principles, elements, id. Ac. 2, 36, 117.—

    Prov.: obsta principiis (cf. the French: ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute),

    Ov. R. Am. 91.—
    B.
    That makes a beginning, that votes first: tribus principium fuit, pro tribu Q. Fabius primus scivit, Lex Thoria, Rudorff. p. 142; Lex Appar. ap. Haubold, Moment. Leg. p. 85; Plebissc. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129:

    Faucia curia fuit principium,

    was the first to vote, Liv. 9, 38 fin. —
    2.
    In gen., a beginner, originator, founder, ancestor ( poet.):

    Graecia principium moris fuit,

    Ov. F. 2, 37:

    mihi Belus avorum Principium,

    ancestor, progenitor, Sil. 15, 748.—Here, too, prob. belongs PRINCIPIA SACRA, Æneas and [p. 1446] his successors in Lavinium, ancestors whom the Latins and Romans honored as deities, Inscr. Orell. 2276.—
    C.
    In milit. lang.: princĭpĭa, ōrum, n.
    1.
    The foremost ranks, the front line of soldiers, the front or van of an army:

    post principia,

    behind the front, Liv. 2, 65; cf.:

    hic ero post principia, inde omnibus signum dabo,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 11: post principia paulatim recedunt, Sisenn. ap. Non. 135, 31: deinde ipse paulatim procedere;

    Marium post principia habere,

    Sall. J. 50, 2:

    traversis principiis, in planum deducit,

    id. ib. 49, 6:

    equites post principia collocat,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. H. 2, 43. —
    2.
    The staff-officers, members of the council of war (post-class.):

    mittere principia,

    Front. Strat. 2, 5, 30:

    a principiis salutari,

    Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10:

    advocatis legionum principiis et turmarum,

    Amm. 25, 5, 1; Cod. 12, 47, 1.—
    3.
    A large open space in a camp, in which were the tents of the general, lieutenants, and tribunes, together with the standards, and where speeches were made and councils held; the general's quarters:

    jura reddere in principiis,

    Liv. 28, 24:

    in principiis ac praetorio in unum sermones confundi,

    id. 7, 12:

    castrorum,

    Just. 11, 6, 6:

    in castris,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 1:

    in principiis statuit tabernaculum, eoque omnes cotidie convenire (jussit), ut ibi de summis rebus consilia caperentur,

    Nep. Eum. 7, 2; Suet. Oth. 1; 6; Flor. 3, 10, 12:

    primores centurionum et paucos militum in principia vocat,

    Tac. H. 3, 13; 1, 48; Dig. 49, 16, 12; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 1, 16.—
    D.
    Precedence, preference, the first place:

    principium ergo, columenque omnium rerum preti margaritae tenent,

    Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106. —
    E.
    Plur., selections, selected passages:

    principiorum libri circumferuntur, quia existimatur pars aliqua etiam sine ceteris esse perfecta,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 12.—
    2.
    In partic., mastery, dominion (post-class.): archê, magisterium, magistratus, praesidatus, principium, Gloss. Philox.: in Graeco principii vocabulum, quod est archê, non tantum ordinativum, sed et potestativum capit principatum, Tert. adv. Hermog. 19.

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  • 15 initium

    ĭnĭtĭum, ĭi, n. [ineo], a going in, en trance.
    I.
    A beginning, commencement (syn.: principium, exordium).
    A.
    Lit.:

    bonis initiis orsus tribunatus, tristes exitus habuit consulatus,

    id. Brut. 34, 128:

    initio accusationis,

    id. de Or. 1, 26, 121:

    initium capere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    dicendi initium sumere,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 1:

    facere initium confligendi,

    id. Phil. 14, 14, 36:

    caedis initium ab aliquo facere,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 20:

    male ponere initia,

    id. Att. 10, 18, 2:

    ducere ab aliqua re,

    id. ib. 9, 9, 2:

    ab initio res quem ad modum facta sint, exponemus,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 14: ab ultimo initio [p. 956] repetere, Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14:

    seditionem ab altiore initio repetam,

    Tac. H. 2, 27:

    quia initio caedis orto difficilis modus,

    id. ib. 1, 39.— Pleon.: querellae ab initio tantae ordiendae rei absint, Liv. praef. § 12; cf.:

    prima initia incohare,

    id. 3, 54, 9:

    primum initium certaminis,

    id. 6, 12, 10. — The abl. sing. is used adverbially, in the beginning, at first:

    quemadmodum senatus initio censuit,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 4:

    redeo ad illud quod initio scripsi,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 5; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; id. Tim. 3, 1; id. Alc. 5, 3; Curt. 3, 8, 17 al.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 475. —
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Constituent parts, elements:

    inde est indagatio nata initiorum, et tamquam seminum, unde essent omnia orta, generata, concreta,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: illa initia, et, ut e Graeco vertam, elementa dicuntur ( = stoicheia), id. Ac. 1, 7, 26;

    so of death: Augustus in sua resolutus initia,

    Vell. 2, 123, 3. —
    2.
    First principles, elements cf a science:

    illa initia mathematicorum, quibus non concessis digitum progredi non possunt,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 116.—
    3.
    Beginning, origin:

    quomodo initium nobis rerum omnium ortus noster adferat, sic exitum mors, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

    natus obscurissimis initiis,

    Vell. 2, 761; cf.: pauca ab initio causisque talium facinorum non absurda, which relate to the origin, etc., Tac. H. 4, 48.—
    4.
    Auspices, because with them everything was begun; hence, the beginning of a reign:

    novis initiis et ominibus opus est,

    i. e. of a new king, Curt. 5, 9, 4.—
    II.
    Secret sacred rites, sacred mysteries, to which only the initiated were admitted:

    initia vocantur potissimum ea, quae Cereri fiunt sacra,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 5:

    initia Cereris,

    Liv. 31, 47, 2; cf.

    39, 8, 5: nihil melius illis mysteriis, quibus ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus, initiaque ut appellantur, ita re vera principia vitae cognovimus,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 36; Just. 2, 6:

    initia Samothracum,

    Curt. 8, 1, 12:

    initiis pacis, foedus cum feritur,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 9.—
    B.
    Things ( musical instruments) used in celebrating these mysteries:

    Typanum, tubam, Cybele, tua, mater, initia,

    Cat. 63, 9.

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  • 16 primores

    prīmōris, e ( nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.).
    I.
    In gen. (rare):

    imbres,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70:

    in primore pueritiā,

    in earliest childhood, Gell. 10, 19, 3:

    anni,

    first, earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143:

    primore aspectu,

    at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.;

    syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,

    with the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24:

    versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,

    is at my tongue's end, id. Trin. 4, 2, 65:

    aliquid primoribus labris attingere,

    to touch slightly, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3:

    surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,

    Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27:

    eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,

    id. ib. 427, 32:

    nasi primoris acumen,

    Lucr. 6, 1193:

    (pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,

    Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99:

    cauda late fusa primori parte,

    id. 8, 54, 80, § 216:

    vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,

    Gell. 16, 5, 2:

    in primore libro,

    at the beginning of the book, Gell. 1, 18, 3:

    usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,

    as far as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12:

    primori in acie versari,

    Tac. H. 3, 21.—
    B.
    The first in rank or dignity, chief, principal ( poet. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52):

    Argivorum viri,

    Cat. 68, 87:

    feminae,

    Tac. A. 2, 29:

    venti,

    chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.
    (α).
    The front rank in battle, etc.:

    dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,

    Curt. 4, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps):

    Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49:

    odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager,

    Liv. 1, 47, 11:

    primores populi arripuit,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 69:

    civitatum primores atque optimates,

    Col. 12, 3, 10:

    primores, ac duces,

    Juv. 15, 40:

    ex primoribus,

    Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > primores

  • 17 primoris

    prīmōris, e ( nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.).
    I.
    In gen. (rare):

    imbres,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70:

    in primore pueritiā,

    in earliest childhood, Gell. 10, 19, 3:

    anni,

    first, earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143:

    primore aspectu,

    at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.;

    syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,

    with the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24:

    versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,

    is at my tongue's end, id. Trin. 4, 2, 65:

    aliquid primoribus labris attingere,

    to touch slightly, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3:

    surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,

    Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27:

    eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,

    id. ib. 427, 32:

    nasi primoris acumen,

    Lucr. 6, 1193:

    (pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,

    Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99:

    cauda late fusa primori parte,

    id. 8, 54, 80, § 216:

    vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,

    Gell. 16, 5, 2:

    in primore libro,

    at the beginning of the book, Gell. 1, 18, 3:

    usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,

    as far as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12:

    primori in acie versari,

    Tac. H. 3, 21.—
    B.
    The first in rank or dignity, chief, principal ( poet. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52):

    Argivorum viri,

    Cat. 68, 87:

    feminae,

    Tac. A. 2, 29:

    venti,

    chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.
    (α).
    The front rank in battle, etc.:

    dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,

    Curt. 4, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps):

    Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49:

    odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager,

    Liv. 1, 47, 11:

    primores populi arripuit,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 69:

    civitatum primores atque optimates,

    Col. 12, 3, 10:

    primores, ac duces,

    Juv. 15, 40:

    ex primoribus,

    Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > primoris

  • 18 prīmō

        prīmō adv.    [primus], in the order of time, at first, at the beginning, first, in the first place: primo attente auditur eius oratio: Themistocles solus primo profectus est, N.: primo... deinde... tum... tum: dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente, Cs.: primo... postea... postremo, L.: primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc., S.: primo... iterum, L.: primo... Secundo, Ph.
    * * *
    at first; in the first place; at the beginning

    Latin-English dictionary > prīmō

  • 19 B

    B, b, indecl. n., designates, in the Latin alphabet, the soft, labial sound as in English, unlike the Gr. beta (B, b), which approached the Engl. v in sound; v. Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 124 sqq. At the beginning of words it represents an original dv or gv, and elsewhere an original gv, p, v, or bh ( v); v. Corss. Ausspr. I. pp. 134, 161. It corresponds regularly with Gr. b, but freq. also with p, and, in the middle of words, with ph; cf. brevis, brachus; ab, apo; carbasus, karpasos; ambo, amphi, amphô; nubes, nephos, etc.; v. Roby, Gram. I. p. 26; Kühner, Gram. § 34, 6. In Latin, as in all kindred languages, it was used in forming words to express the cry of different animals, as balare, barrire, baubari, blacterare, boare, bombitare, bubere, bubulare; children beginning to talk called their drink bua; so, balbus denoted the stammering sound, bambalio the stuttering, blatire and blaterare the babbling, blaesus the lisping, blandus the caressing. At the beginning of words b is found with no consonants except l and r (for bdellium, instead of which Marc. Emp. also wrote bdella, is a foreign word); but in the middle of words it is connected with other liquid and feeble consonants. Before hard consonants b is found only in compounds with ob and sub, the only prepositions, besides ab, which end in a labial sound; and these freq. rejected the labial, even when they are separated by the insertion of s, as abspello and absporto pass into aspello and asporto; or the place of the labial is supplied by u, as in aufero and aufugio (cf. ab init. and au); before f and p it is assimilated, as suffero, suppono; before m assimilated or not, as summergo or submergo; before c sometimes assimilated, as succedo, succingo, sometimes taking the form sus (as if from subs; cf. abs), as suscenseo; and sometimes su before s followed by a consonant, as suspicor. When b belonged to the root of a word it seems to have been retained, as plebs from plebis, urbs from urbis, etc.; so in Arabs, chalybs ( = Araps, chalups), the Gr. ps was represented by bs; as also in absis, absinthi-um, etc. But in scripsi from scribo, nupsi from nubo, etc., b was changed to p, though some grammarians still wrote bs in these words; cf. Prisc. pp. 556, 557 P.; Vel. Long. pp. 2224, 2261 ib. Of the liquids, l and r stand either before or after b, but m only before it, with the exception of abmatertera, parallel with the equally anomalous abpatruus (cf. ab init. and fin.), and n only after it; hence con and in before b always become com and im; as inversely b before n is sometimes changed to m, as Samnium for Sabinium and scamnum for scabnum, whence the dim. scabellum. B is so readily joined with u that not only acubus, arcubus, etc., were written for acibus, arcibus, etc., but also contubernium was formed from taberna, and bubile was used for bovile, as also in dubius ( = doios, duo) a b was inserted. B could be doubled, as appears not only from the foreign words abbas and sabbatum, but also from obba and gibba, and the compounds with ob and sub. B is reduplicated in bibo (cf the Gr. piô), as the shortness of the first syllable in the preterit bĭbi, compared with dēdi and stĕti or sti/ti, shows; although later bibo was treated as a primitive, and the supine bibitum formed from it. Sometimes before b an m was inserted, e. g. in cumbo for cubo kuptô, lambo for laptô, nimbus for nephos; inversely, also, it was rejected in sabucus for sambucus and labdacismus for lambdacismus. As in the middle, so at the beginning of words, b might take the place of another labial, e. g. buxis for pyxis, balaena for phalaina, carbatina for carpatina, publicus from poplicus, ambo for amphô; as even Enn. wrote Burrus and Bruges for Pyrrhus and Phryges; Naev., Balantium for Palatium (v. the latter words, and cf. Fest. p. 26).—In a later age, but not often before A.D. 300, intercourse with the Greeks caused the pronunciation of the b and v to be so similar that Adamantius Martyrius in Cassiod. pp. 2295-2310 P., drew up a separate catalogue of words which might be written with either b or v. So, Petronius has berbex for verbex, and in inscrr., but not often before A. D. 300, such errors as bixit for vixit, abe for ave, ababus for abavus, etc. (as inversely vene, devitum, acervus, vasis instead of bene, debitum, acerbus, basis), are found; Flabio, Jubentius, for Flavio, Juventius, are rare cases from the second century after Christ.—The interchange between labials, palatals, and linguals (as glans for balanos, bilis for fel or cholê) is rare at the beginning of words, but more freq. in the middle; cf. tabeo, têkô, and Sanscr. tak, terebra and teretron, uber and outhar; besides which the change of tribus Sucusana into Suburana (Varr. L. L. 5, § 48 Müll.; Quint. 1, 7, 29) deserves consideration. This interchange is most freq. in terminations used in forming words, as ber, cer, ter; brum or bulum, crum or culum, trum, bundus and cundus; bilis and tilis, etc.—Finally, the interchange of b with du at the beginning of words deserves special mention, as duonus for bonus, Bellona for Duellona, bellum for duellum, bellicus for duellicus, etc., and bis from duis.—As an abbreviation, B usually designates bonus or bene. Thus, B. D. = Bona Dea, Inscr. Orell. 1524; 2427; 2822:

    B. M. = bene merenti,

    ib. 99; 114; 506:

    B. M. P. = bene merenti posuit,

    ib. 255:

    B. D. S. M. = bene de se meritae,

    ib. 2437:

    B. V. V. = bene vale valeque,

    ib. 4816:

    B. M. = bonae memoriae,

    ib. 1136; 3385:

    B. M. = bonā mente,

    ib. 5033;

    sometimes it stands for beneficiarius, and BB. beneficiarii,

    ib. 3489; 3868; 3486 al.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > B

  • 20 b

    B, b, indecl. n., designates, in the Latin alphabet, the soft, labial sound as in English, unlike the Gr. beta (B, b), which approached the Engl. v in sound; v. Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 124 sqq. At the beginning of words it represents an original dv or gv, and elsewhere an original gv, p, v, or bh ( v); v. Corss. Ausspr. I. pp. 134, 161. It corresponds regularly with Gr. b, but freq. also with p, and, in the middle of words, with ph; cf. brevis, brachus; ab, apo; carbasus, karpasos; ambo, amphi, amphô; nubes, nephos, etc.; v. Roby, Gram. I. p. 26; Kühner, Gram. § 34, 6. In Latin, as in all kindred languages, it was used in forming words to express the cry of different animals, as balare, barrire, baubari, blacterare, boare, bombitare, bubere, bubulare; children beginning to talk called their drink bua; so, balbus denoted the stammering sound, bambalio the stuttering, blatire and blaterare the babbling, blaesus the lisping, blandus the caressing. At the beginning of words b is found with no consonants except l and r (for bdellium, instead of which Marc. Emp. also wrote bdella, is a foreign word); but in the middle of words it is connected with other liquid and feeble consonants. Before hard consonants b is found only in compounds with ob and sub, the only prepositions, besides ab, which end in a labial sound; and these freq. rejected the labial, even when they are separated by the insertion of s, as abspello and absporto pass into aspello and asporto; or the place of the labial is supplied by u, as in aufero and aufugio (cf. ab init. and au); before f and p it is assimilated, as suffero, suppono; before m assimilated or not, as summergo or submergo; before c sometimes assimilated, as succedo, succingo, sometimes taking the form sus (as if from subs; cf. abs), as suscenseo; and sometimes su before s followed by a consonant, as suspicor. When b belonged to the root of a word it seems to have been retained, as plebs from plebis, urbs from urbis, etc.; so in Arabs, chalybs ( = Araps, chalups), the Gr. ps was represented by bs; as also in absis, absinthi-um, etc. But in scripsi from scribo, nupsi from nubo, etc., b was changed to p, though some grammarians still wrote bs in these words; cf. Prisc. pp. 556, 557 P.; Vel. Long. pp. 2224, 2261 ib. Of the liquids, l and r stand either before or after b, but m only before it, with the exception of abmatertera, parallel with the equally anomalous abpatruus (cf. ab init. and fin.), and n only after it; hence con and in before b always become com and im; as inversely b before n is sometimes changed to m, as Samnium for Sabinium and scamnum for scabnum, whence the dim. scabellum. B is so readily joined with u that not only acubus, arcubus, etc., were written for acibus, arcibus, etc., but also contubernium was formed from taberna, and bubile was used for bovile, as also in dubius ( = doios, duo) a b was inserted. B could be doubled, as appears not only from the foreign words abbas and sabbatum, but also from obba and gibba, and the compounds with ob and sub. B is reduplicated in bibo (cf the Gr. piô), as the shortness of the first syllable in the preterit bĭbi, compared with dēdi and stĕti or sti/ti, shows; although later bibo was treated as a primitive, and the supine bibitum formed from it. Sometimes before b an m was inserted, e. g. in cumbo for cubo kuptô, lambo for laptô, nimbus for nephos; inversely, also, it was rejected in sabucus for sambucus and labdacismus for lambdacismus. As in the middle, so at the beginning of words, b might take the place of another labial, e. g. buxis for pyxis, balaena for phalaina, carbatina for carpatina, publicus from poplicus, ambo for amphô; as even Enn. wrote Burrus and Bruges for Pyrrhus and Phryges; Naev., Balantium for Palatium (v. the latter words, and cf. Fest. p. 26).—In a later age, but not often before A.D. 300, intercourse with the Greeks caused the pronunciation of the b and v to be so similar that Adamantius Martyrius in Cassiod. pp. 2295-2310 P., drew up a separate catalogue of words which might be written with either b or v. So, Petronius has berbex for verbex, and in inscrr., but not often before A. D. 300, such errors as bixit for vixit, abe for ave, ababus for abavus, etc. (as inversely vene, devitum, acervus, vasis instead of bene, debitum, acerbus, basis), are found; Flabio, Jubentius, for Flavio, Juventius, are rare cases from the second century after Christ.—The interchange between labials, palatals, and linguals (as glans for balanos, bilis for fel or cholê) is rare at the beginning of words, but more freq. in the middle; cf. tabeo, têkô, and Sanscr. tak, terebra and teretron, uber and outhar; besides which the change of tribus Sucusana into Suburana (Varr. L. L. 5, § 48 Müll.; Quint. 1, 7, 29) deserves consideration. This interchange is most freq. in terminations used in forming words, as ber, cer, ter; brum or bulum, crum or culum, trum, bundus and cundus; bilis and tilis, etc.—Finally, the interchange of b with du at the beginning of words deserves special mention, as duonus for bonus, Bellona for Duellona, bellum for duellum, bellicus for duellicus, etc., and bis from duis.—As an abbreviation, B usually designates bonus or bene. Thus, B. D. = Bona Dea, Inscr. Orell. 1524; 2427; 2822:

    B. M. = bene merenti,

    ib. 99; 114; 506:

    B. M. P. = bene merenti posuit,

    ib. 255:

    B. D. S. M. = bene de se meritae,

    ib. 2437:

    B. V. V. = bene vale valeque,

    ib. 4816:

    B. M. = bonae memoriae,

    ib. 1136; 3385:

    B. M. = bonā mente,

    ib. 5033;

    sometimes it stands for beneficiarius, and BB. beneficiarii,

    ib. 3489; 3868; 3486 al.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > b

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