lĭēn

lĭēn, ēnis, and liēnis, is, m. ( gen. plur. lienum, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 121) [for plien; Sanscr. plīhan; Gr. splên], the milt or spleen.

Lit.:

lienes turgent, Cato. R. R. 157: seditionem facit lien (of a stitch in the side),

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 14:

jam quasi sona liene cinctus ambulo,

id. Curc. 2, 1, 6: equisetum lienes cursorum exstinguit, Plin. 26, 13, 83, § 132:

at lienis, ubi affectus est, intumescit,

Cels. 4, 9:

lienis bubulus,

id. ib.:

lienem coërcere,

id. ib.:

extenuare,

id. ib.:

consumere,

Plin. 26, 8, 48, § 76.—

Transf., of the fiscus:

(Trajanus) fiscum lienem vocavit, quod eo crescente artus reliqui tabescunt,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 42 fin.

lĭēn, ēnis, and liēnis, is, m. ( gen. plur. lienum, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 121) [for plien; Sanscr. plīhan; Gr. splên], the milt or spleen.

Lit.:

lienes turgent, Cato. R. R. 157: seditionem facit lien (of a stitch in the side),

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 14:

jam quasi sona liene cinctus ambulo,

id. Curc. 2, 1, 6: equisetum lienes cursorum exstinguit, Plin. 26, 13, 83, § 132:

at lienis, ubi affectus est, intumescit,

Cels. 4, 9:

lienis bubulus,

id. ib.:

lienem coërcere,

id. ib.:

extenuare,

id. ib.:

consumere,

Plin. 26, 8, 48, § 76.—

Transf., of the fiscus:

(Trajanus) fiscum lienem vocavit, quod eo crescente artus reliqui tabescunt,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 42 fin.

di-ērectus (in Plaut. always trisyllabic), a um, P. a. [erigo], qs. stretched out and raised on high, i. e. crucified (only in Plautus and Varro; not in Terence), an abusive expression, like the English Go and be hanged! gallowsbird, etc. (cf. furcifer, and v. Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 457; Lorence ad Plaut. Most. 837):

i hinc dierectus,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 72:

abin dierectus,

id. ib. 4, 4, 16; id. Cas. 1, 15; id. Poen. 1, 1, 32:

recede hinc dierecte,

id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7:

abi dierecte,

id. Most. 1, 1, 8; id. Trin. 2, 4, 56:

i dierecte in maxumam malam crucem,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 134:

i dierectum, cor meum, ac suspende te,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 103:

abi hinc dierecte. Abin hinc in malam crucem?

id. Most. 3, 2, 163:

quin tu i dierecta cum sucula et cum porculis,

id. Rud. 4, 4, 126.—

Transf.:

ducit lembum jam dierectum navis praedatoria,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 87:

lien dierectu'st,

is gone to the crows, is destroyed, id. Curc. 2, 1, 29: apage in dierectum a domo nostra istam insanitatem, Varr. ap. Non. 49, 26.

lĭēnĭcus, a, um, adj. [lien], = splênikos, splenetic.—Subst.

lĭēnĭci, ōrum, m., splenetic persons, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 56; 57; 64.—

lĭēnĭca, ōrum, n., remedies for spleen, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 58.

lĭēnĭcus, a, um, adj. [lien], = splênikos, splenetic.—Subst.

lĭēnĭci, ōrum, m., splenetic persons, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 56; 57; 64.—

lĭēnĭca, ōrum, n., remedies for spleen, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 58.

lĭēnĭcus, a, um, adj. [lien], = splênikos, splenetic.—Subst.

lĭēnĭci, ōrum, m., splenetic persons, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 56; 57; 64.—

lĭēnĭca, ōrum, n., remedies for spleen, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 4, 58.

nĕco, āvi, ātum ( perf. necuit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P.; v. infra; part. nectus, Ser. Samm. 33, 627; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. naç, disappear; Gr. nekus, corpse, nekros, dead], to kill, slay, put to death, destroy (usually without a weapon, by poison, hunger, etc.; cf.: occido, interficio, interimo, perimo).

Lit.: neci datus proprie dicitur, qui sine vulnere interfectus est, ut veneno aut fame, Paul. ex Fest. p. 162 Müll.:

occisum a necato distingui quidam volunt, quod alterum a caedendo atque ictu fieri dicunt, alterum sine ictu, id. s. v. occisum, p. 178 ib.: necare aliquem odore taetro,

Lucr. 6, 787:

plebem fame,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

legatum P. R. vinculis ac verberibus necavit,

id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

aliquem igni,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53:

aliquem ferro,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 58; Verg. A. 8, 488:

veneno,

Suet. Ner. 43: securi Gell. 17, 21, 17; Juv. 10, 316:

suspendiosa fame,

Plin. 8, 37, 56, § 134:

vidissem nullos, matre necante, dies,

Ov. Am. 2, 14, 22:

homines in ventre necandos conducit,

Juv. 6, 596:

colubra necuit hominem,

Phaedr. 4, 14, 4.—Of impersonal subjects: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.):

lien necat, renes dolent,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21:

radices herbarum vomere,

Col. 2, 4, 1:

salsi imbres necant frumenta,

Plin. 31, 4, 29, § 52:

hedera arbores,

id. 16, 44, 92, § 243; cf. Laber. ap. Macr. Sat. 2, 7:

aquae flammas necant,

quench, Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 2; to drown (late Lat.):

deducti ad torrentem necati sunt,

Sulp. Sev. Hist. 1.—

Trop.:

quid te coërces et necas rectam indolem,

i. e. thwart, check, Sen. Hippol. 454.—So to worry or bore to death with talking, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 43 (cf.:

occidis saepe rogando,

Hor. Epod. 14, 5).

sēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [sed, i. e. sine (v. h. v.), and itio; thus, orig., a going aside, going apart; hence],

Lit., an insurrectionary separation (political or military); dissension, civil discord, insurrection, mutiny, sedition (very freq. and class.;

syn.: secessio, defectus): ea dissensio civium, quod seorsum eunt alii ad alios, seditio dicitur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 1, 3 (ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 149, and Non. 25, 6):

duobus tribunis plebis per seditionem creatis,

id. ib. 2, 34, 59; cf. Liv. 2, 31 fin. sq.:

si qui in seditione non alterius utrius partis fuisset,

Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2; cf. Gell. 2, 12, 1:

ne qua seditio oriretur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28 fin.; Sall. C. 34, 2:

seditione factā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 87, 3:

seditionem inter Poenos et Siculos milites esse factam,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; cf.:

seditio inter belli pacisque auctores orta,

Liv. 2, 16:

seditionem ac discordiam concitare,

Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

commovere,

id. Att. 2, 1, 8:

movere,

Vell. 2, 68, 2:

coeptare,

Tac. A. 1, 38; 1, 45; 2, 81 et saep.:

componere,

id. H. 4, 14:

magno in populo cum saepe coörta est Seditio, etc.,

Verg. A. 1, 149; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 15:

seditione potens,

Verg. A. 11, 340.— Plur.:

cum hominem seditiosum defenderet, non dubitavit seditiones ipsas ornare,

Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124; 2, 48, 199; Sall. J. 37, 1; Liv. 4, 2; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 16, 2; Hor. C. 3, 3, 29; 3, 6, 13; Tac. A. 4, 68 et saep.—Seditio, personified as one of the attendants of Fama, Ov. M. 12, 61.—

Transf., in gen., dissension, discord, strife, quarrel (very rare; mostly poet.; in Cic. only as a transl. of the Greek stasis):

Amphitruo uxori turbas conciet...tum meus pater Eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16:

ut homini adulescentulo Filiam darem in seditionem atque in incertas nuptias,

Ter. And. 5, 1, 11 Ruhnk.:

cui studeat, deus omnis habet, crescitque favore Turbida seditio, donec Juppiter, etc.,

Ov. M. 9, 426; so,

domestica (opp. fraterna concordia),

Liv. 45, 19:

pantomimorum,

Suet. Ner. 26:

non illaudata (with magno certatur amore),

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 226.—

Of inanimate and abstract things:

seditio maris,

uproar, turbulence, Stat. Th. 9, 142:

pelagi,

Manil. 2, 90:

siderum,

id. 2, 196:

flammasque rebelles Seditione tori (Eteoclis et Polynicis),

Stat. Th. 1, 36:

intestina corporis,

Liv. 2, 32, 12.—Comically:

seditionem facit lien, occupat praecordia,

rebels, and takes possession of my stomach, Plaut. Merc. 1, 14:

Archytas iracundiam, videlicet dissidentem a ratione, seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat, et eam consilio sedari volebat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60.

suspendo, di, sum, 3, v. a. [sus, from subs, for sub; v. sub, III., and pendo], to hang up, hang, suspend (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

pernas suspendito in vento biduum... suspendito in fumo biduum... suspendito in carnario,

Cato, R. R. 162, 3:

aliquid in fumo,

Plin. 30, 4, 11, § 31:

suspensae in litore vestes,

Lucr. 1, 305:

religata ad pinnam muri reste suspensus,

Liv. 8, 16, 9:

oscilla ex altā pinu,

Verg. G. 2, 389:

columbam malo ab alto,

id. A. 5, 489:

tignis nidum suspendat hirundo,

id. G. 4, 307:

habilem arcum umeris,

id. A. 1, 318:

stamina telā,

Ov. M. 6, 576:

aliquid collo,

Plin. 37, 9, 40, § 124:

(ranae) suspensae pedibus,

id. 32, 8, 29, § 92; Col. 7, 10, 3:

aliquid e collo,

Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 125:

allium super prunas,

id. 19, 6, 34, § 115:

vitem sub ramo,

id. 17, 23, 35, § 209:

cocleam in fumo,

id. 30, 4, 11, § 31: aliquid lance, to weigh, Pert. 4, 10; cf.:

in trutinā Homerum,

Juv. 6, 438:

suspendi a jugulis suis gladios obsecrantes,

Amm. 17, 12, 16:

se suspendit fenestrā,

i. e. to look out, App. M. p. 148, 6.— Poet.:

nec sua credulitas piscem suspenderat hamo,

had hung, caught, Ov. M. 15, 101.—In a Greek construction: [p. 1820] (pueri) laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto, with their satchels hanging on their arms, Hor. S. 1, 6, 74; id. Ep. 1, 1, 56.—

In partic.

Pregn., of persons.

To choke to death by hanging, to hang (cf.:

suffoco, strangulo): capias restim ac te suspendas,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 184; cf. id. Pers. 5, 2, 34:

nisi me suspendo, occidi,

id. Rud. 5, 3 59:

se suspendere,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 135; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, § 129; id. Att. 13, 40, 1: caput obnubito: arbori infelici suspendito, Lex. ap. Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 6:

uxorem suam suspendisse se de ficu,

Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278:

se e ficu,

Quint. 6, 3, 88:

hominem in oleastro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57:

more vel intereas capti suspensus Achaei,

Ov. Ib. 297:

aliquem in furcā,

Dig. 48, 13, 6; cf.:

virgines, quae corporibus suspensis demortuae forent,

Gell. 15, 10, 2.—

To hang at the whipping-post; pass., to be flogged, Amm. 15, 7, 4.—

Of offerings in a temple, to hang up, dedicate, consecrate:

votas vestes,

Verg. A. 12, 769; cf. id. ib. 9, 408:

arma capta patri Quirino,

id. ib. 6, 859:

vestimenta maris deo,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 15:

insignia,

Tib. 2, 4, 23.—

Esp., of buildings, to build upon arches or vaults, to arch or vault: primus balneola suspendit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 194, 14; cf. id. Top. 4, 22:

pavimenta,

Pall. 1, 20, 2:

cameras harundinibus,

to arch over, Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 156:

castra saxis praeruptis,

to build on, Sil. 3, 556:

velabra,

Amm. 14, 6, 25:

duo tigna... suspenderent eam contignationem,

propped up, supported, Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2; cf. id. ib. § 5.—

Transf. (with esp. reference to the thing beneath), to prop up, hold up, support:

muro suspenso furculis,

Liv. 38, 7, 9:

agentem ex imo rimas insulam,

Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 5:

tellus ligneis columnis suspenditur,

Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 68:

dolia subjectis parvis tribus lapidibus suspenduntur,

Col. 12, 18, 6; cf. id. 2, 15, 6; 3, 13, 8:

orbis Libycos Indis dentibus,

tables with ivory feet, Mart. 2, 43, 9:

cum terra levis virgultaque molem suspendant,

Luc. 3, 397; Petr. 135:

pes summis digitis suspenditur,

is raised on tiptoe, Quint. 11, 3, 125.—

Esp., of ploughing, etc., to lift up, raise:

si non fuerit tellus fecunda... tenui sat erit suspendere sulco,

Verg. G. 1, 68:

ripas... litora multo vomere suspendere,

Stat. Th. 4, 181; cf.:

vineam in summā terrā suspendere,

Col. 3, 13.—

Trop.; pass. suspendi, to depend, rest, etc.

In gen. (very rare):

extrinsecus aut bene aut male vivendi suspensas habere rationes,

dependent upon externals, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 1:

cui viro ex se ipso apta sunt omnia, nec suspensa aliorum aut bono casu aut contrario pendere, etc.,

id. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

genus, ex quo ceterae species suspensae sunt,

Sen. Ep. 58, 7:

numquam crediderim felicem ex felicitate suspensum,

id. ib. 98, 1.—

In partic., to cause to be suspended, i. e.,

To make uncertain or doubtful, to keep in suspense:

medio responso rem suspenderunt,

Liv. 39, 29, 1:

illa Suspendit animos fictā gravitate rogantum,

Ov. M. 7, 308:

ea res omnium animos exspectatione suspenderat,

Curt. 9, 7, 20:

aliquem exspectatione,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 3:

diu judicum animos,

Quint. 9, 2, 22; cf.:

senatum ambiguis responsis,

Suet. Tib. 24:

suspensa ac velut dubitans oratio,

Quint. 10, 7, 22:

exspectationem,

Curt. 7, 4, 14; cf. infra, in the P. a. —

To stay, stop, check, interrupt, suspend (syn. supprimo):

nec jam suspendere fletum Sustinet,

Ov. F. 4, 849:

lacrimas,

id. Am. 1, 7, 57:

spiritum,

Quint. 1, 8, 1:

sermonem,

Quint. 11, 3, 35 sq.:

fluxiones oculorum,

Plin. 28, 7, 21, § 73:

epiphoras,

id. 25, 12, 91, § 143:

causas morbi,

Veg. Vet. 3, 65, 5:

gressum,

id. ib. 2, 55, 3:

manum tuam,

id. ib. 2, 40, 3; cf. P. a. 2. infra. —

To hang or fix upon something:

suspendit pictā vultum mentemque tabellā,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 97.—

Aliquem or aliquid naso (adunco), to turn up one ' s nose at, to sneer at a person or thing (Horatian):

naso suspendis adunco Ignotos,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 5:

Balatro suspendens omnia naso,

id. ib. 2, 8, 64.—

Of a temporary removal from office, to suspend:

duobus hunc (episcopum) mensibus, Greg. M. Ep. 3, 46: ab officio suspensus,

id. ib. —Hence, suspen-sus, a, um, P. a.

Lit. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug-prose).

Raised, elerated, suspended: Roma cenaculis sublata atque suspensa, Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96; so,

saxis suspensam hanc aspice rupem,

Verg. A. 8, 190: equi illi Neptunii, qui per undas currus suspensos rapuisse dicuntur, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 27, 67; cf.:

vel mare per medium fluctu suspensa tumenti Ferret iter,

skimming lightly over the waters, Verg. A. 7, 810:

(corus) suspensum in terras portat mare,

raised on high, Sil. 1, 470:

suspensis auribus,

Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 8:

aura suspensa levisque,

Lucr. 3, 196:

terra,

loosened, loose, Col. 11, 3, 54:

suspensissimum pastinatum,

id. 3, 13, 7:

(oliva) inicitur quam mundissimis molis suspensis ne nucleus frangatur,

id. 12, 51, 2, and 54, 2:

radix suspensa pariter et mersa,

Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 6:

suspensum inter nubila corpus,

Sil. 12, 94; 1, 470:

loco ab umore suspenso,

Pall. 1, 40, 1:

alituum suspensa cohors,

Sen. Phoen. 77.—

Transf., suspended, i. e. pressing or touching lightly, light:

suspenso gradu placide ire perrexi,

on tiptoe, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28; so,

gradu,

Ov. F. 1, 426; 6, 338; cf.:

evagata noctu suspenso pede,

Phaedr. 2, 4, 18:

pedes,

Sen. Contr. 1 praef. fin.:

suspensa levans digitis vestigia primis,

Verg. Cir. 212:

vestigia,

Sil. 15, 617:

suspensā manu commendare aliquem,

slightly, Plin. Ep. 6, 12, 1:

suspensis dentibus,

Lucr. 5, 1069:

suspensis passibus,

Amm. 14, 2, 31:

molis suspensis,

Col. 12, 51, 2; 12, 54, 2.—

Trop.

Uncertain, hovering, doubtful, wavering, hesitating, in suspense, undetermined, anxious (the predom. and class. signif.;

syn.: incertus, dubius): nolo suspensam et incertam plebem Romanam obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere,

Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66; cf.:

civitas suspensa metu,

id. ib. 1, 8, 23:

suspensum me tenes,

id. Att. 10, 1, 2:

maneo Thessalonicae suspensus,

id. ib. 3, 8, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43:

tot populos inter spem metumque suspensos animi habetis,

Liv. 8, 13:

suspensus animus et sollicitus,

Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1:

suspenso animo exspectare, quod quis agat,

id. ib. 4, 15, 10:

animus,

id. de Or. 1, 56, 239; id. Fam. 16, 3, 2; id. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 14:

animus suspensus curis majoribus,

id. Phil. 7, 1, 1:

auditā inspectāque re, omnia suspensa neutro inclinatis sententiis reliquere,

Liv. 34, 62, 16:

dimissis suspensā re legatis,

id. 31, 32, 5.— Comp.:

exercitus suspensiore animo, Auct. B. Afr. 48, 3: suspensus incertusque vultus, coloris mutatio,

Cic. Clu. 19, 54; 3, 8; cf.: hominum exspectationem et spem rei publicae suspensam tenere, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 1; Cic. Fam. 11, 8, 1:

suspensam dubiamque noctem spe ac metu exegimus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 19:

pro homine amicissimo,

id. ib. 8, 5, 3:

munera suspensi plena timoris,

Ov. H. 16, 84 Ruhnk.:

suspensa et obscura verba,

Tac. A. 1, 11.— Neutr. absol.:

quare non semper illam (nequitiam) in suspenso relinquam?

Sen. Ep. 97, 14:

est suspensum et anxium, de eo, quem ardentissime diligas, interdum nihil scire,

Plin. Ep. 6, 4, 3:

rem totam in suspenso reliqui,

id. ib. 10, 31 (40), 4:

ipse in suspenso tenuit,

Tac. H. 1, 78 fin.:

si adhuc in suspenso sit statuta libertas,

Dig. 9, 4, 15; Just. Inst. 1, 12, 5.—

Of goods held under a lien or judgment:

suspensis amici bonis libellum deicio creditoribus ejus me obligaturus,

Sen. Ben. 4, 12, 3.—

Dependent:

qui fideles nobis socii, qui dubii suspensaeque ex fortunā fidei,

Liv. 44, 18, 4:

animos ex tam levibus momentis fortunae suspensos,

id. 4, 32, 2.