just ten years

ad-mŏdum, adv. [modus], prop., to the measure or limit (scarcely found in the poets, except the comic poets);

as, postea ubi occipiet fervere, paulisper demittito, usque admodum dum quinquies quinque numeres,

quite to the limit till you count, until you count, Cato, R. R. 156, 2 (like fere and omnino, freq. put after its word).— Hence,

To a (great) measure, in a high degree, much, very. —With adj., P. adj., vbs., and adv.

With adj.:

admodum causam gravem,

Lucil. 29, 19 Müll.:

admodum antiqui,

Cic. Phil. 5, 47:

admodum amplum et excelsum,

id. Verr. 4, 74:

utrique nostrum gratum admodum feceris,

id. Lael. 4, 16; so id. Verr. 2, 3, 10:

nec admodum in virum honorificum,

Liv. 6, 34, 8:

in quo multum admodum fortunae datur,

Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12:

neque admodum sunt multi,

Nep. Reg. 1, 1:

admodum magnis itineribus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 56:

admodum pauci,

Cic. Phil. 3, 36; 14, 27; id. N. D. 3, 69; Tac. G. 18:

pauci admodum,

Liv. 10, 41:

iter angustum admodum,

Sall. J. 92:

admodum nimia ubertas,

very excessive, Col. 4, 21:

admodum dives,

Suet. Caes. 1:

brevis admodum,

id. ib. 56.—And strengthened by quam, q. v. (only before and after the class. per.):

hic admodum quam saevus est,

very cruel indeed, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 43:

voce admodum quam suavi,

Gell. 19, 9 (on this use of quam, cf. Rudd. II. p. 307, n. 15).—

With part. adj.:

admodum iratum senem,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 13:

iratum admodum,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 49:

natio admodum dedita religionibus,

Caes. B. G. 6, 16:

prorae admodum erectae,

id. ib. 3, 13:

admodum mitigati,

Liv. 1, 10:

munitus admodum,

Tac. A. 2, 80:

admodum fuit militum virtus laudanda,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8.—Esp. is it joined (like komidêi in Dem.) with words denoting age; as, puer, adulescens, juvenis, senex, to enhance the idea (for which in some cases the dim. or the prefix per- is used;

as, puellus, adulescentulus, peradulescentulus): Catulus admodum tum adulescens,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21; id. Off. 2, 13, 47; Tac. A. 1, 3:

puer admodum,

Liv. 31, 28; Sen. Brev. Vit. 7, 3; Quint. 12, 6, 1:

admodum infans,

Tac. A. 4, 13:

juvenis admodum,

id. H. 4, 5:

fratres admodum juvenes,

Curt. 7, 2, 12:

admodum senex,

Eutr. 8, 1:

admodum parvulus,

Just. 17, 3:

non admodum grandem natu,

Cic. Sen. 4, 10.— Also with dim.: neque admodum adulescentulus est, Naev. ap. Sergium ad Don. Keil, Gr. Lat. IV. p. 559 (Rib. Com. Fragm. p. 11):

hic admodum adulescentulus est,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90; so Nep. Ham. 1, 1 (cf. peradulescentulus, id. Eum. 1, 4), and Tac. A. 4, 44.—

With verbs (in earlier Latin, mostly with delectare, diligere, placere): haec anus admodum frigultit, Enn. ap. Fulg. p. 175:

irridere ne videare et gestire admodum,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 125:

neque admodum a pueris abscessit,

Naev. Rib. Com. Fragm. p. 11:

me superiores litterae tuae admodum delectaverunt,

Cic. Fam. 5, 19; id. Att. 7, 24:

ejus familiarissimos, qui me admodum diligunt,

id. Fam. 4, 13:

stomacho admodum prodest,

Plin. 20, 3, 7, § 13:

bucinum pelagio admodum adligatur,

id. 9, 38, 62, § 134:

(familia) ipsa admodum floruit,

Suet. Tib. 3:

Marius auctis admodum copiis... vicit,

Flor. 1, 36, 13 Halm.—

With adv.:

haec inter nos nuper notitia admodum est,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 1: si quando demersimus, aut nihil superum aut obscure admodum cernimus, Cic. Ac. ap. Non. 7, 57: acipenser, qui admodum raro capitur, id. de Fato ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

raro admodum admonitu amicorum... uti solebat,

Curt. 4, 13, 25:

ubi satis admodum suorum animos est expertus,

Liv. 34, 13, 4 Weissenb. (Hertz cancels satis): quae maxime admodum oratori accommodata est, Auct. ad Her. 4, 12, 17 (Oudendorp regarded this as a mere pleonasm, and Hand seems to agree with him; Klotz and B. and K. adopt after Goerenz the reading maxime ad modum oratoris, but Hand condemned this form).—

To a (full) measure, fully, completely, wholly, quite, absolutely.

Of number (not used in this way by Cic., Tac., or Suet.): noctu turres admodum CXX. excitantur, full 120, Caes. B. G. 5, 40: sex milia hostium caesa;

quinque admodum Romanorum,

Liv. 22, 24. 14; 42, 65, 3;

44, 43, 8: mille admodum hostium utràque pugnā occidit,

id. 27, 30, 2:

in laevo cornu Bactriani ibant equites, mille admodum,

a round thousand, Curt. 4, 12, 3: mille admodum equites praemiserat, quorum paucitate Alexander, etc., a thousand, but not more (as the context requires), id. 4, 9, 24:

congregati admodum quingenti sponsos hostes consectantur, trucidatisque admodum novem milibus, etc.,

Just. 24, 1.

24, 26, Gronovius ad Liv. 27, 30, 2, is rejected by recent scholars, as Hand, Turs. I. p. 175 sq., and by Corradini, Lex. Lat. s. h. v.

Of time:

legati ex Macedonia exacto admodum mense Februario redierunt,

when February was fully ended, Liv. 43, 11, 9:

Alexandri filius, rex Syriae, decem annos admodum habens,

just ten years, Liv. Epit. 55:

post menses admodum septem occiditur,

Just. 17, 2, 3.—

With negatives, just, at all, absolutely:

equestris pugna nulla admodum fuit,

no engagement with the cavalry at all, Liv. 23, 29, 14:

armorum magnam vim transtulit, nullam pecuniam admodum,

id. 40, 59, 2:

horunc illa nibilum quidquam facere poterit admodum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 65:

Curio litterarum admodum nihil sciebat,

Cic. Brut. 58, 210:

oratorem plane quidem perfectum et cui nihil admodum desit, Demosthenem facile dixeris,

id. 9, 35: alter non multum, alter nihil admodum scripti reliquit (by the latter is meant Antonius, who indeed, acc. to Brut. 44, 163, left a treatise de ratione dicendi, but no written oration at all, by which his eloquence could be judged), id. Or. 38, 132; id. Clu. 50, 140; id. Or. 2, 2, 8; eirôneia a tropo genere ipso nihil admodum distat, Quint. 9, 2, 44;

quia nihil admodum super vite aut arbore colenda sciret,

Gell. 19, 12. —

In emphatic affirmative or corroborative answers, = maxime (Gr. panu ge), exactly, just so, quite so, certainly, yes (freq. in Plaut., only twice in Ter.); cf. the remark of Cic.: scis solere, frater, in hujusmodi sermone, ut transiri alio possit, dici Admodum aut Prorsus ita est, Leg. 3, 11, 26: nempe tu hanc dicis, quam esse aiebas dudum popularem meam. Tr. Admodum, Certainly, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 36: num quidnam ad filium haec aegritudo attinet? Ni. Admodum, It does, id. Bacch. 5, 1, 24; 4, 1, 40; id. Rud. 1, 5, 10; 1, 2, 55; 3, 6, 2; id. Ps. 4, 7, 54: Advenis modo? Pa. Admodum, Yes, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 8; id. Phorm. 2, 2, 1.

may have the same force as in II., in:

quandam formam ingenii, sed admodum impolitam et plane rudem,

absolutely without polish and altogether rude, Cic. Brut. 85, 294, compared with:

(oratorem) plane perfectum et cui nihil admodum desit,

id. ib. 9, 35, where the same adverbs occur.

quis-que, quaeque, quodque, and subst. quicque (quidque), pron. indef., whoever or whatever it be, each, every, every body, every one, every thing (prop. of more than two persons or things; cf.

uterque): non tute incommodam rem, ut quaeque est, in animum induces pati?

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 27;

ut in quo quisque artificio excelleret, is in suo genere Roscius diceretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 130; id. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

tantum quisque laudat, quantum se posse sperat imitari,

id. Or. 7, 24:

quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat,

id. Off. 1, 7, 21:

magni est judicis statuere, quid quemque cuique praestare oporteat,

id. ib. 3, 17, 70:

sibi quoque tendente, ut periculo prius evaderet,

Liv. 21, 33:

ut quaeque stellae in iis, finitimisque partibus sint quoque tempore,

Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89:

quamcumque rem a quoque cognorit,

id. de Or. 1, 15, 67:

scrobes ternorum pedum in quamque partem,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 167:

proximis quibusque correptis,

Flor. 1, 9:

prout quique monitione indigerent,

Suet. Aug. 89.—With gen.:

tuorum quisque necessariorum,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 25:

quantulum enim summae curtabit quisque dierum, Si,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 124.—With comp.:

quo quisque est sollertior, hoc docet laboriosius,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31:

quo majus quodque animal, eo, etc.,

Cels. 2, 18:

ut quique (pedes) sunt temporibus pleniores, hoc, etc.,

Quint. 9, 4, 83:

bonus liber melior est quisque, quo major,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 4.—With sup., to express universality (quisque is then placed after the sup.; class. with sing. and neutr. plur.; rare with plur. masc. and fem.): doctissimus quisque, every learned man, i. e. all the learned, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 77:

recentissima quaeque sunt correcta et emendata maxime,

id. Ac. 1, 4, 13:

in omni arte optimum quidque rarissimum est,

id. Fin. 2, 25, 81:

asperrima quaeque ad laborem deposcimus,

Liv. 25, 6, 23; Suet. Caes. 44; Tac. A. 1, 24; Sen. Ep. 31, 1; Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 13:

summum quodque spectate, milites, decus,

Liv. 7, 32, 14; 23, 3, 14:

antiquissimum quodque tempus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 45:

gravissima quaeque grana serere,

Plin. 18, 8, 20, § 85.—With plur. masc. and fem.: optumi quique expetebant a me doctrinam sibi, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 76:

fortissimis quibusque amissis,

Just. 5, 6, 3; Lact. Epit. 51, 2:

multi mortales convenere... maxime proximi quique,

Liv. 1, 9, 8; cf.:

tot leges et proximae quaeque duriores,

Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75; id. Lael. 10, 34:

litterae longissimae quaeque,

id. Fam. 7, 33, 2; id. Att. 16, 11, 2.—

With ordinal numerals, to denote generality, universality (placed after the ordinal): vix decimus quisque est, qui ipsus se noverit,

scarcely one in ten, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 17:

tertio quoque verbo excitabatur,

at every other word, Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 34: quinto quoque anno, every fifth year, i. e. every four years, id. Verr. 2, 2, 56, § 139:

quinto quoque palo,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 169.—Rarely of time (days, years, etc.), without an ordinal numeral:

notentur, quae (ova) quoque die sint edita,

Col. 8, 5, 4:

annis quibusque,

every year, Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 52.—With primus, the very first, the first possible:

primo quoque tempore,

as soon as possible, Cic. Phil. 3, 15, 39:

primo quoque die,

at the earliest day, as soon as possible, id. ib. 8, 11, 33:

exercitui diem primam quamque dicere,

the earliest day possible, Liv. 42, 48:

primum quicque videamus,

the very first, Cic. N. D. 3, 3, 7.— Quisque stands freq. in app. with plur. subst.:

ubi quisque vident, eunt obviam,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 2, 2:

sibi quisque habeant, quod suom est,

id. Curc. 1, 3, 24:

decimus quisque ad supplicium lecti,

Liv. 2, 59:

octo delecti notissimus quisque,

id. 7, 19, 2:

(consules) in suas quisque provincias proficiscerentur,

id. 25, 12, 2; 1, 44, 1;

viri in vestibulo suarum quisque aedium stabant,

Curt. 4, 4, 14:

ultimi cum suis quisque ducibus,

id. 3, 3, 25; 5, 2, 6; 6, 11, 20.— Often in connection with se, suus (in good prose almost always placed after the pron., Zumpt, Gram. § 701; cf.

Krebs, Antibarb. p. 983): pro se quisque,

Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 26:

pro se quisque ad populum loquebatur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 68:

ut quanti quisque se ipse faciat, tanti fiat ab amicis,

id. Lael. 16, 56:

suam quisque homo rem meminit,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 5, 51:

cum suo cuique judicio sit utendum,

Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

edixit, ut quod quisque a sacris haberet, id in suum quidque fanum referret,

id. ib. 3, 34, 84:

quo feret natura sua quemque,

id. Brut. 56, 204:

dicere quos cupio nomine quemque suo,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 64:

quisque suos patimur Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 743:

suum quisque flagitium aliis objectantes,

Tac. H. 2, 44:

quos Poenus in civitates quemque suas dimisit,

Liv. 21, 48, 2; cf. Just. 13, 6, 2; 33, 2, 8; Tac. A. 6, 37.—Quisque, of two, for uterque, each:

oscula quisque suae matri properata tulerunt,

Ov. F 2, 715:

duas civitates ex unā factas: suos cuique parti magistratus, suas leges esse,

Liv. 2, 44, 9; 2, 7, 1; 10, 12, 3; 27, 35, 3;

for utercumque: ut cujusque populi cives vicissent, etc.,

id. 1, 24, 3 (dub. al. cujus) — Quisque as fem. for quaeque, like quis (ante - class.):

omnes meretrices, ubi quisque habitant, invenit,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 107:

quo quisque pacto hic vitam vostrarum exigat,

Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 19.—

Transf., for quicunque, whosoever, every one who, all that (ante- and postclass.):

quemque videritis hominem,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 5; id. As. 1, 3, 47; 2, 3, 24; Liv. 1, 24:

at tu, quisque doles, amice lector,

Sid. Ep. 4, 11 in carm.

ărista, ae, f. [perh. for acrista and akin to ācer, q. v., or perh. to aro, q. v.; cf. Germ. Aehre; Engl. ear (of corn); Germ. Ernte, harvest; Engl. earnest, fruit, pledge].

The awn or beard of grain: arista, quae ut acus tenuis longa eminete glumā;

proinde ut granitheca sit gluma, et apex arista,

Varr. R. R. 1, 48; * Cic. Sen. 15, 51; Ov. H. 5, 111; id. Tr. 4, 1, 57.—

Meton. (pars pro toto).

The ear itself:

maturae aristae,

Ov. F. 5, 357:

pinguis arista,

Verg. G. 1, 8; 1, 111; id. A. 7, 720.—Also, an ear of spikenard, Ov. M. 15, 398.—Hence,

Poet., summer:

Post aliquot, mea regna videns, mirabor aristas,

after some harvests, Verg. E. 1, 70:

necdum decimas emensus aristas Aggrederis metuenda viris,

having measured ten summers, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 371 (cf. at the next grass, for next summer, an expression still common in the north of England; so, seven years old at the next grass, Sylvester's Dubartas; just fifteen, coming summer's grass, Swift).—

Poet. transf.,

Of the hair of men, Pers. 3, 115. —

Of the bones of fishes, Aus. Mos. 85; 119.—

Of plants in gen., Val. Fl. 6, 365.