medicamina+quasso+imperio+sil

circum-specto, āvi, ātum, āre, v. freq. a., to look about with attention, precaution, desire, etc.; to cast a look around, to search around; and with acc., to look about one ' s self ( attentively, anxiously, etc.) after something, to look all around upon something (class.)

Prop.

Absol.:

dum circumspecto,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 45 (al.:

me circumspecto): quanto se opere custodiant bestiae, ut in pastu circumspectent,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126:

primum circumspectans tergiversari,

Liv. 4, 14, 4; Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 9:

circumspectans huc et illuc,

Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—

With acc.: te hercle ego circumspectabam, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 8:

alia,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 54; 2, 2, 60:

inter se,

Tac. H. 2, 29:

ora principum,

Liv. 26, 18, 6:

quousque me circumspectabitis?

id. 6, 18, 7; cf. Tac. H. 4, 8:

omnia,

to look about anxiously, Cic. Pis. 41, 99; Sall. J. 72, 2; cf.:

mare et silvas, ignota omnia circumspectantes,

Tac. Agr. 32 Ritter (Halm: circum spectantes).— Pass.:

muta atque inanima, tectum et parietes circumspectabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 69 fin. —

With a rel.-clause:

Nabis quanam ipse evaderet circumspectabat,

Liv. 34, 39, 8; cf. with foll. si, id. 25, 36, 5:

si quam reperiat,

Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—

With acc. and ut with subj.:

dum alius alium, ut proelium ineant, circumspectant,

Liv. 2, 10, 9.—

Reflex. (only in Plaut.; cf.

circumspicio, I. A.): loca contemplat, circumspectat sese, atque aedis noscitat,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 21; cf. id. Bacch. 2, 3, 45 supra.—

Trop.:

dubitans, circumspectans, haesitans, tanquam rate in mari immenso nostra vehitur oratio,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

circumspectantes defectionis tempus,

watching, waiting, on the look-out for, Liv. 21, 39, 5:

initium erumpendi,

Tac. H. 1, 55:

Vespasianus bellum armaque et procul vel juxta sitas vires circumspectabat,

carefully weighed, considered, id. ib. 2, 74; so,

fugam et fallendi artes,

id. ib. 3, 73:

medicamina quasso imperio,

Sil. 15, 7:

omnes argumentorum locos,

Quint. 12, 8, 14.

mĕdĭcāmen, ĭnis, n. [id.], a drug, medicament, in a good and a bad sense, meaning both a healing substance, remedy, medicine, and, as also medicamentum and the Gr. pharmakon, a poisonous drug, poison (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; only once in Cic.; cf., on the contrary, medicamentum).

Lit., a remedy, antidote, medicine: violentis medicaminibus curari, * Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

agrestia medicamina adhibent,

Tac. A. 12, 51:

facies medicaminibus interstincta,

plasters, id. ib. 4, 57:

medicamen habendum est,

Juv. 14, 254:

medicaminis datio vel impositio,

Cod. Just. 6, 23, 28:

potentia materni medicaminis,

Pall. 3, 28:

tantum (ejus) medicamina possunt quae steriles facit,

Juv. 6, 595.—

Trop., a remedy, antidote ( poet.):

iratae medica mina fortia praebe,

Ov. A. A. 2, 489 sq.. quasso medicamina Imperio circumspectare, Sil. 15, 7, 1.—

Transf.

A poisonous drug, poison:

infusum delectabili cibo boletorum venenum, nec vim medicaminis statim mtellectam,

Tac. A. 12, 67:

noxium,

id. ib. 14, 51:

impura,

Flor. 2, 20, 7; Val. Fl. 8, 17.—

A coloring-matter, tincture, dye, Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 135:

croceum,

Luc. 3, 238.—

In partic., a paint, wash, cosmetic: est mihi, quo dixi vestrae medicamina formae, Parvus, sed cura grande libellus opus, i. e. the treatise Medicamina faciei, Ov. A. A. 3, 205:

facies medicamine attrita,

Petr. 126.—

In gen., an artificial means of improving a thing:

qui (caseus) exiguum medicaminis habet,

i. e. rennet, Col. 7, 8:

vitiosum, i. e. conditura,

id. 12, 20:

vina medicamine instaurare,

Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 126:

seminum,

i. e. manure, id. 17, 14, 22, § 99. [p. 1123]