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  • 1 potis

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 2 potissimum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 3 potissimus

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 4 potissume

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 5 potissumum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 6 praecipuus

        praecipuus adj.    [prae+CAP-], taken before others, particular, peculiar, especial: hanc rem habere praeter alios praecipuam, this special distinction, T.: non praecipuam, sed parem cum ceteris fortunae condicionem subire.— Special, chief, principal, excellent, distinguished, extraordinary: ius: quos praecipuo semper honore habuit, Cs.: ad pericula, eminent in meeting, Ta.: ad scelera, Ta.—As subst n.: homini praecipui a naturā nihil datum esse, excellence: praecipua rerum, important events, Ta.: praecipua (in the language of Stoics), things preferred (opp. reiecta).
    * * *
    praecipua, praecipuum ADJ
    particular, especial

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  • 7 praepositus

        praepositus adj.    [P. of praepono], preferable, preferred.—As subst n., that which is desirable (opp. both to the absolete good, and to evil).

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  • 8 sī-ve or seu

        sī-ve or seu     conj, or if (cf. vel si): postulo, sive aequomst, te oro, ut, etc., T.: ut mihi Platonis illud, seu quis dixit alius (i. e. vel si quis), or whoever else said it: Bis denas Italo texamus robore navīs, Seu plurīs complere valent, etc., V.: turdus, Sive aliud privum dabitur tibi, devolet illuc, H.— When, of two or more suppositions, it is indifferent which is true or accepted; in the formula, si... sive, or si... seu, if... or if: Si ista uxor sive amica est, T.: si nocte sive luce, si servus sive liber faxit, L.: si arborum trunci, sive naves essent a barbaris missae, Cs.—In the formula, sive... sive, or seu... seu (poet. also sive... seu, or seu... sive), be it that... or that, if... or if, whether... or: sive retractabis; sive properabis: sive regi sive optimatibus serviant: seu periculi magnitudine seu animi mobilitate inpulsi, S.: Sive deae seu sint dirae volucres, V.—Often more than twice: sive Sulla sive Marius sive uterque sive Octavius sive qui alius... eum detestabilem iudico.—With ellips. of sive in the first clause (poet.): Quo non arbiter Hadriae Maior, tollere seu ponere volt freta, H.—The suppositions are sometimes followed, each by its own conclusion: nam sive timuit, quid ignavius? sive meliorem suam causam fore putavit, quid iniustius?: eos seu dedi placeat, dedere se paratos esse, seu supplicio adfici, daturos poenas, L.—When the second supposition is presented as contrary to the first, it may be introduced, after sive, by sin or si vero: sive sensus exstinguitur... quis me beatior? sin vera sunt, etc.: sive enim abscedant, cui dubium esse quin... sin autem manendum ibi nihilo minus sit, L.: sive enim Zenonem sequare, magnum est efficere... si vero Academiam veterem persequamur, etc.—Correl. with aut or ne (poet.): (saxum) seu turbidus imber Proluit, aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas, whether... or, V.: Substitit, erravitne viā, seu lassa resedit, Incertum, whether... or, V.—As a simple disjunctive, or: quid perturbatius hoc ab urbe discessu, sive potius turpissimā fugā?: remotis sive omnino missis lictoribus: te rogo... resistas sive etiam occurras negotiis.— Introducing an alternative which is preferred, or rather, or more accurately, or as I should say: eiecto sive emisso iam ex urbe Catilinā, ille arma misit: urbem matri seu novercae relinquit, L.: quam (sagittam) Parthus sive Cydon torsit, V.

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  • 9 accendo

    1.
    accendo, ōnis, m. [2. accendo], an inciter, instigator; read by Salmasius in Tert. de Pall. 6, where the old reading cerdo is to be preferred.
    2.
    ac-cendo, ndi, nsum, 3, v. a. [cf. candeo], prop. to kindle any thing above, so that it may burn downwards (on the contr., succendere, to kindle underneath, so that it may burn upwards; and incendere, to set fire to on every side) (class., esp. in the trop. signif., very freq.).
    I.
    Lit., to set on fire, to kindle, light: ut Pergama accensa est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 1):

    faces accensae,

    Cic. Pis. 5: lumen de suo lumine, to kindle, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51 (Trag. v. 388 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

    ita res accendent lumina rebus,

    Lucr. 1 fin.; and:

    Deus solem quasi lumen accendit,

    Cic. Univ. 9, 28; so,

    ignem,

    Verg. A. 5, 4 al.
    B.
    Meton., to light up, to illuminate:

    luna radiis solis accensa,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 17 (cf. id. N. D. 1, 31, 87);

    so of the lustre of gold: et gemmis galeam clypeumque accenderat auro,

    Sil. 15, 681 (but in Cic. Arch. 6, 14, the correct read. is accederet, v. Halm a. h. l.).
    II.
    Fig., to inflame a person or thing (by any thing), to set on fire, to kindle, to incite, rouse up; aliquem or aliquid aliqua re: placare hostem ferocem inimiciterque accensum, Att. ap. Non. 514, 22:

    quos meritā accendit Mezentius irā,

    Verg. A. 8, 50:

    nunc prece nunc dictis virtutem accendit amaris,

    id. ib. 10, 368 (7, 482, bello animos accendit, is more properly dat.). That to which one is excited is denoted by ad:

    ad dominationem accensi sunt,

    Sall. Jug. 31, 16; the person against whom one is excited, by in or contra:

    in maritum accendebat,

    Tac. A. 1, 53:

    quae res Marium contra Metellum vehementer accenderat,

    Sall. J. 64, 4; with quare c. subj.:

    accendis quare cupiam magis illi proximus esse,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 53. The historians use this word very often, esp. with abstract substt.:

    certamen,

    Liv. 35, 10:

    discordiam,

    id. 2, 29:

    spem,

    Tac. Ann. 12, 34 (cf. Verg. A. 5, 183):

    dolorem,

    id. ib. 15, 1 al. In Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 114, praeclare enim se res habeat, si haec accendi aut commoveri arte possint, accendi is obviously the first enkindling, rousing, of talent (syn. with commoveri); cf. id. de Or. 2, 47; id. Phil. 3, 7. And so perhaps Sen. Ben. 7, 9: crystallina... quorum accendit fragilitas pretium, signifies vessels of crystal, whose fragility gives them value (in the eyes of luxurious men).

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  • 10 adulor

    ădūlor, ātūs, 1, v. dep. [acc. to Lobeck, the -ulo, -ulor is connected with illein (cf. eiluô, eluô, and volvo), and thus denoted orig. the wagging of the tail and fawning of brutes; Fest. p. 21 Müll., thought adulor was a form of adludo, to play with; cf. Ger. wedeln and Eng. to wheedle], to cling to one fawningly, to fawn as a dog; and trop., of cringing flattery, which is exhibited in words and actions, to flatter in a cringing manner, to fawn upon (while assentari signified to yield to one in everything, to assent to what he says, and is used only of men; and blandiri, to be soft and pleasing in manner, to flatter by honeyed words as well as by captivating manners; cf. Cic. Lael. 25).— Constr. with acc., more rarely with dat., Rudd. II. p. 136; Zumpt, § 389.
    I.
    In gen.:

    ferarum Agmen adulantum,

    Ov. M. 14, 45:

    Quin etiam blandas movere per aëra caudas, Nostraque adulantes comitant vestigia,

    id. ib. 14, 257. caudam more adulantium canum blande movet, Gell. 5, 14:

    hi (canes) furem quoque adulantur,

    Col. 7, 12.— Meton.:

    horrentem, trementem, adulantem omnīs videre te volui: vidi,

    Cic. Pis. 41:

    aperte adulantem nemo non videt,

    id. Lael. 26:

    aut adulatus aut admiratus fortunam sum alterius,

    id. Div. 2, 2, 6;

    Liv 45, 31: quemcunque principem,

    Tac. H. 1, 32:

    Neronem aut Tigellium,

    id. A. 16, 19: dominum, Sen. de Ira, 2, 31; Nep., Liv., and Curt. have the dat.: Antonio, Nep. [p. 47] Att. 8:

    praesentibus,

    Liv. 36, 7:

    singulis,

    Curt. 4, 1, 19.—In the time of Quint. the use of the dat. was predominant: huic non hunc adulari jam dicitur, 9, 3, 1; yet Tac. preferred the acc., v. the passages cited above.—
    II.
    Esp. of the servile reverence paid to Asiatic kings, proskunein; cf.

    adulatio: more adulantium procubuerunt: conveniens oratio tam humili adulationi fuit,

    Liv. 30, 16:

    more Persarum,

    Val. Max. 4, 7, ext. 2; so id. ib. 6, 3, ext. 2.—Hence, ădū-lans, antis, P. a., flattering, adulatory:

    verba,

    Plin. Pan. 26:

    quid adulantius?

    Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 27.— Sup. is wanting.—
    * Adv.: ădūlanter, flatteringly, fawningly, Fulg. Contin. Verg. p. 153.

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  • 11 Caecilius

    1.
    C. Caecilius, Cic. Fl. 36.—
    2.
    Q. Caecilius Metellus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5; Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 82.—
    3. 4.
    Caia (Gaia) Caecilia, the Roman name of Tanaquil, Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194.—
    5.
    Caeciliae, daughters of Q. Cœcilius Metellus the elder, Cic. Dom. 47, 123.—
    6.
    Caecilia, daughter of Metellus Balearicus, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99, and 2, 40, 83.—
    7.
    Caecilius Statius, a Roman comic poet, of the ante-class. per., of Gallic origin, contemporary with Ennius; his comedies were by the ancients considered equal to those of Plaut. and Ter., and by many even preferred to them, Varr. ap. Non. p. 374, 8; Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 10, 40; id. Att. 7, 3, 10; id. Brut. 74, 258; Hor. A. P. 54 sq.; Quint. 10, 1, 99; Vulcatius Sedigitus ap. Gell. 15, 24.—
    II.
    Derivv.
    A.
    Cae-cĭlĭus, a, um, adj., Cœcilian, of Cœcilius:

    familia,

    Vell. 2, 11; cf.:

    lex de ambitu,

    Cic. Sull. 22, 62:

    lex de repetundis,

    Val. Max. 6, 9, 10:

    et Didia lex de legibus ferendis,

    Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1; id. Phil. 5, 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41; 20, 53; id. Sest. 64, 135.—
    B.
    Caecĭlĭā-nus, a, um, adj., Cœcilian:

    fabula,

    Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15:

    senex (in a comedy of Cæcilius),

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 46:

    pater,

    Quint. 11, 1, 39; Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56:

    cerasa,

    Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 102:

    lactuca (named after Q. Cæcilius Metellus),

    id. 19, 8, 38, § 127; cf. Col. 10, 182.—Also,
    2.
    Caecĭlĭānus, i, m., a Roman cognomen, Tac. A. 3, 37; 6, 7; 16, 34.

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  • 12 coeo

    cŏ-ĕo, īvi or ii (e. g. coierunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 22:

    coiere,

    Lucr. 6, 452; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 18; Ov. M. 4, 83 al.:

    cŏĭisse,

    Verg. A. 12, 709:

    coisse,

    Prop. 3 (4), 15, 8; Ov. F. 6, 94; Quint. 5, 9, 5; 5, 11, 35;

    pedants preferred conire to coire,

    Quint. 1, 6, 17; cf. id. 1, 5, 69, and Lachm. ad Lucr. p. 137), ĭtum, īre, v. a. and n.
    I.
    To go or come together, to meet, assemble, collect together (so mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose); constr. absol., with ad aliquem, ad or in locum, more rar. in loco:

    matronae ad Veturiam Volumniamque frequentes coëunt,

    Liv. 2, 40, 1:

    in porticum,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

    ad solitum locum,

    Ov. M. 4, 83:

    ad aliquem,

    Curt. 7, 2, 21: Pharsaliam, * Cat. 64, 37:

    quo (sc. in sedilia theatri) populus coibat,

    Hor. A. P. 207:

    in regiam,

    Curt. 6, 8, 17:

    in quem (locum) coibatur,

    Tac. A. 4, 69:

    apud aram ejus dei in cujus templo coiretur,

    Suet. Aug. 35:

    cum rege in insulā,

    Vell. 2, 101, 1:

    in foro,

    Just. 5, 7, 6:

    milia crabronum coeunt,

    Ov. F. 3, 753; id. H. 7, 123 Loers.:

    coivere amicis animis,

    Curt. 8, 12, 9; 10, 3, 6:

    agmina coibant,

    id. 10, 9, 15; Tac. A. 16, 5; id. H. 1, 27; 2, 52.—
    b.
    Poet.:

    vix memini nobis verba coisse decem,

    i. e. have passed between us, Prop. 3 (4), 15, 8.—
    B.
    Specif., to go or come together in a hostile manner, to encounter:

    inter se coiisse viros et cernere ferro,

    Verg. A. 12, 709; cf. id. G. 4, 73; Ov. M. 3, 236; Luc. 2, 225; Manil. 4, 83; Val. Fl. 5, 635; Stat. Th. 16, 408.—
    II.
    Pregn., to form a whole by coming together, to be united into a whole, to unite, combine (the usu. class. signif.); constr. absol., with cum, or dat.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    Of living beings:

    neque se conglobandi coëundique in unum datur spatium,

    Liv. 6, 3, 6; so Verg. A. 9, 801; 10, 410:

    ut vaga illa multitudo coiret in populos,

    Quint. 2, 16, 9:

    qui una coierunt,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 22:

    reliqui (milites) coëunt inter se,

    assemble, id. B. C. 1, 75; so Liv. 7, 37, 15:

    in formam justi exercitūs,

    Vell. 2, 61, 2:

    ut coëat par Jungaturque pari,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 25.—
    b.
    Of the coition of the sexes (both of men and animals), to copulate, Lucr. 4, 1055; cf. Ov. M. 11, 744:

    cum alienā uxore,

    Quint. 7, 3, 10:

    coisse eam cum viro,

    id. 5, 9, 5:

    dominum cum ancillā,

    id. 5, 11, 35:

    cum hospitibus stupro,

    Curt. 5, 1, 37 al.:

    privigno,

    Ov. H. 4, 129:

    simul binis,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 17, 5:

    sic et aves coëunt,

    Ov. M. 9, 733; 10, 324; id. A. A. 2, 615; Col. 6, 27, 3 sq.; Ov. F. 3, 193 al.; cf., of marriage, [p. 359]
    B.
    b.. infra.—
    2.
    Transf., of things: membra. Ov. M. 4, 377; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 96: ignes coire globum quasi in unum, roll together, as into a ball, etc., Lucr. 5, 665; cf. id. 2, 563:

    sanguenque creari Sanguinis inter se multis coëuntibu' guttis,

    out of many little drops running together, id. 1, 838; cf.:

    ut coëat lac,

    to curdle, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 4; Col. 12, 20, 4:

    bitumen spissatur et in densitatem coit,

    thickens, Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 178; cf.:

    gelidus coit formidine sanguis,

    Verg. A. 3, 30:

    semina,

    Lucr. 3, 395; cf. id. 1, 770; 5, 190; 5, 425:

    tum digiti coëunt,

    Ov. M. 2, 670; Quint. 11, 3, 21:

    ut cornua tota coirent Efficerentque orbem,

    Ov. M. 7, 179; cf. Verg. A. 11, 860:

    palpebrae dormientis non coëunt,

    do not close, Cels. 2, 8:

    labris coëuntibus,

    Quint. 8, 3, 45 et saep.:

    perfectum quiddam fieri, cum omnia coierunt, necesse est,

    id. 11, 3, 9; 9, 1, 9; 2, 19, 2; cf. id. 1, 5, 67:

    quae littera cum quāque optime coëat,

    id. 9, 4, 91:

    ut placidis coëant immitia,

    Hor. A. P. 12.—Of wounds, to close:

    arteria incisa neque coit neque sanescit,

    Cels. 2, 10; cf.:

    potest os coire et vulnus sanescere,

    id. 8, 10; so Plin. 11, 39, 93, § 227; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 18; Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 41; 5, 2, 9; and poet.:

    an male sarta Gratia nequicquam coit et rescinditur?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 32; Petr. 113, 8.—
    B.
    Trop., to unite for some object, in feeling, will, conclusions, etc., to join together, assimilate, combine, agree, ally one ' s self:

    Caesar cum eo coire per Arrium cogitat,

    Cic. Att. 1, 17, 11:

    cum hoc tu coire ausus es, ut... addiceres, etc.,

    id. Red. in Sen. 7, 16; id. Dom. 18, 47:

    principes, quitum unā coierunt, quantum visum est agri adtribuunt,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 22: heri aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeo (Piraeum ap. Cic. Att. 7, 3, 10), Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 1 (consensimus ac pepigimus, Don.):

    duodecim adulescentuli coierunt ex his, qui exsilio erant multati, etc.,

    conspired together, Nep. Pelop. 2, 3; cf.:

    sed neque cum quoquam de eā re collocuturum neque coiturum: sic, ille consensionis globus hujus unius dissensione disjectus est,

    id. Att. 8, 4:

    patricii coiere et interregem creavere,

    Liv. 4, 7, 7:

    mos est regibus, quotiens in societatem coëant, implicare dextras, etc.,

    Tac. A. 12, 47; hence poet.:

    coëant in foedera dextrae,

    Verg. A. 11, 292; Tac. H. 3, 12:

    ad nullius non facinoris societatem coibant,

    Suet. Aug. 32; and, like this, with changed construction.—
    b.
    Esp. of the marriage contract ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose); cf.:

    taedae quoque jure coissent,

    Ov. M. 4, 60:

    conubio,

    Curt. 8, 1, 9:

    nuptiis,

    id. 9, 1, 26; Quint. 5, 11, 32:

    matrimonio,

    Dig. 24, 1, 27:

    in matrimonium,

    ib. 45, 1, 134; cf.:

    hac gener atque socer coëant mercede suorum,

    i. e. in the marriage of Æneas with Lavinia, Verg. A. 7, 317.—
    2.
    Act.: coire societatem ( cum aliquo or absol.), to enter into an alliance, to make a compact, form a league (with some one;

    several times in Cic.): utinam, Pompei, cum Caesare societatem aut numquam coisses aut numquam diremisses!

    Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 24; Nep. Con. 2, 2:

    societatem sceleris,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

    de municipis fortunis,

    id. ib. 31, 87; Dig. 17, 2, 65, § 10:

    qui societatem in tempus coiit,

    ib. 17, 2, 65, § 6.—
    3.
    Pass.:

    ad eam rem societas coitur,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

    ad coëundam societatem,

    id. Fam. 5, 19, 2; so Gell. 1, 9 fin.:

    si unius rei societas coita sit,

    Dig. 17, 2, 65 init.; cf. ib. 17, 2, 65, §§ 2, 9, 10, 15.

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  • 13 convicium

    con-vīcĭum (less correctly, acc. to Brambach, convītĭum, but preferred by B. and K., and by recent editors of Plaut. and Ter.), ii, n. [most prob. kindr. with vox; cf. Dig. 47, 10, 15, § 4; Paul. ex Fest. p. 41, 20], a loud noise, a cry, clamor, outcry (class.).
    I.
    In gen.:

    ne clamorem hic facias neu convitium,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 33; cf.:

    erant autem convivia non illo silentio... sed cum maximo clamore atque convitio,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28:

    facere,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 26 Ruhnk.:

    cantorum,

    Cic. Sest. 55, 118:

    mulierum, id. Fragm. ap. Aquil. Rom. p. 144 (187 Frotsch.): humanae linguae,

    Ov. M. 11, 601.—Of frogs (with clamor), Phaedr. 1, 6, 5; Col. 10, 12. —Of the cicadæ, Phaedr. 3, 16, 3.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    The sound of wrangling, the cry of altercation or contention:

    ubi et animus ex hoc forensi strepitu reficiatur et aures convitio defessae conquiescant,

    Cic. Arch. 6, 12.—
    B.
    An urgent, clamorous importunity:

    epistulam hanc convitio efflagitarunt codicilli tui,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 1; imitated by Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 1; cf. also id. ib. 4, 5, 10.—
    C.
    A loud, violent disapprobation or contradiction:

    omnium vestrum,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125:

    senatūs,

    id. Pis. 26, 63.— Most freq.,
    D.
    Loud, violent reproaching, abuse, reviling, insult: maledictio nihil habet propositi praeter contumeliam: quae si petulantius jactatur, convitium; si facetius urbanitas nominatur, Cic. Cael. 3, 6: Pompeius apud populum... cum pro Milone diceret, clamore convitioque jactatus est. id. Fam. 1, 5, b, 1:

    cum ei magnum convitium fieret cuncto a senatu,

    id. ib. 10, 16, 1:

    alicui convitium facere,

    id. Att. 1, 14, 5 bis; Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 11; Cic. Off. 3, 21, 83; Liv. 3, 48, 1; Sen. Ep. 15, 8; id. Ben. 7, 25, 2; Quint. 4, 2, 27; 6, 2, 16 al.; Hor. S. 1, 5, 11; Ov. M. 6, 210 et saep.—
    2.
    Of inanim. subjects:

    aurium,

    censure, reproof, correction, Cic. Or. 48, 160: tacitum cogitationis, in thought, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 1:

    cave ne eosdem illos libellos... convicio scazontes extorqueant,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 11, 2.—
    III.
    Meton.
    A.
    The object of reproach:

    convitium tot me annos jam se pascere,

    Plaut. Merc. prol. 55.—
    B.
    Of mockingbirds:

    nemorum convicia, picae,

    Ov. M. 5, 676.

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  • 14 derigo

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 15 designator

    dēsignātor or dissignātor (the latter form freq. in inscrr., and preferred by Brambach; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Corp. Inscr. Lat. pp. 597, 768), ōris, m. [id.], one who regulates or arranges; a regulator.—As a t. t.,
    I. II.
    A master of ceremonies at funerals; an undertaker, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Sen. Ben. 6, 38; Tert. Spectac. 10; Inscr. Orell. 934; cf. Don. Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7.—
    III.
    An umpire at public spectacles, i. q. Gr. brabeutês, Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 1; Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2.

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  • 16 designatus

    dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

    Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

    moenia fossā,

    id. ib. 7, 157:

    moenia sulco,

    Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

    oppidum sulco,

    Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

    finis templo Jovis,

    Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

    locum circo,

    id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

    nubila ingenti gyro,

    id. ib. 1, 311.—
    * B.
    Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

    Europen,

    Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

    haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

    affectus velut primis lineis designare,

    Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

    aliquem aliqua oratione,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

    notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

    aliquem digito,

    Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

    decumam ex praeda,

    Liv. 5, 25:

    aliquem nota ignaviae,

    id. 24, 16:

    turpitudinem aliquam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

    quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

    id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

    multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

    exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

    modo quid designavit!

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

    quid non ebrietas designat,

    effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—
    2.
    With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

    constituere et designare aliquid,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

    Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

    to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

    aliquem praetorem,

    Suet. Cal. 18:

    Mamertinum Consulem,

    Amm. 21, 12, 25:

    ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

    Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

    Sall. C. 26.—Hence,
    b.
    Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

    consul,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

    tribunus plebis,

    id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

    quaestor,

    Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

    Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

    Gell. 14, 7, 1.—
    (β).
    Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

    designatus civis,

    Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

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  • 17 designo

    dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

    Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

    moenia fossā,

    id. ib. 7, 157:

    moenia sulco,

    Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

    oppidum sulco,

    Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

    finis templo Jovis,

    Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

    locum circo,

    id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

    nubila ingenti gyro,

    id. ib. 1, 311.—
    * B.
    Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

    Europen,

    Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

    haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

    affectus velut primis lineis designare,

    Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

    aliquem aliqua oratione,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

    notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

    aliquem digito,

    Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

    decumam ex praeda,

    Liv. 5, 25:

    aliquem nota ignaviae,

    id. 24, 16:

    turpitudinem aliquam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

    quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

    id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

    multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

    exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

    modo quid designavit!

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

    quid non ebrietas designat,

    effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—
    2.
    With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

    constituere et designare aliquid,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

    Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

    to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

    aliquem praetorem,

    Suet. Cal. 18:

    Mamertinum Consulem,

    Amm. 21, 12, 25:

    ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

    Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

    Sall. C. 26.—Hence,
    b.
    Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

    consul,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

    tribunus plebis,

    id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

    quaestor,

    Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

    Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

    Gell. 14, 7, 1.—
    (β).
    Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

    designatus civis,

    Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

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  • 18 directum

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 19 dirigo

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 20 dissigno

    dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

    Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

    moenia fossā,

    id. ib. 7, 157:

    moenia sulco,

    Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

    oppidum sulco,

    Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

    finis templo Jovis,

    Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

    locum circo,

    id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

    nubila ingenti gyro,

    id. ib. 1, 311.—
    * B.
    Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

    Europen,

    Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

    haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

    affectus velut primis lineis designare,

    Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

    aliquem aliqua oratione,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

    notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

    aliquem digito,

    Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

    decumam ex praeda,

    Liv. 5, 25:

    aliquem nota ignaviae,

    id. 24, 16:

    turpitudinem aliquam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

    quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

    id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

    multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

    exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

    modo quid designavit!

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

    quid non ebrietas designat,

    effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—
    2.
    With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

    constituere et designare aliquid,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

    Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

    to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

    aliquem praetorem,

    Suet. Cal. 18:

    Mamertinum Consulem,

    Amm. 21, 12, 25:

    ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

    Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

    Sall. C. 26.—Hence,
    b.
    Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

    consul,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

    tribunus plebis,

    id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

    quaestor,

    Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

    Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

    Gell. 14, 7, 1.—
    (β).
    Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

    designatus civis,

    Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

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