non+pote+minoris

hospĕs, ĭtis ( gen. plur. hospitium, Liv. 4, 35, 4), m.; hospĭta, ae, f. (cf. antistita from antistes, sospita from sospes, sacerdota from sacerdos, etc., but hospes, f., Att. ap. Non. 279, 11;

Trag. Fragm. v. 51 Rib.: hospes amica,

Ov. F. 6, 510:

Aurora,

Stat. Th. 6, 272; Sen. Agam. 318 al.) [= hostipets, hostis, a stranger; pa-, root of pasco, pater, to feed, hence],

He who entertains a stranger, a host (one who entertains gratuitously, as a friend: caupo, one who entertains for pay);

form hospes: alterum ad cauponem devertisse, ad hospitem alterum,

Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57; so id. Fin. 5, 2, 4:

tendimus hinc recta Beneventum, ubi sedulus hospes Paene macros, arsit, dum turdos versat in igne, etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

succinctus,

id. ib. 2, 6, 107:

amabilis,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 132:

hospitis affectu salutare,

with a host's politeness, Juv. 8, 161.—Esp., one upon whom soldiers are quartered, Tac. H. 2, 66; 3, 41.—Hence repeated of both host and guest:

per dexteram istam te oro, quam regi Deiotaro hospes hospiti porrexisti,

Cic. Deiot. 3, 8; so,

non hospes ab hospite tutus,

Ov. M. 1, 144:

Juppiter, = hospitalis,

id. ib. 10, 224.— Fem., hospita, she who entertains a guest, a hostess:

femina primaria, Servilia, vetere Dionis hospita,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 24:

figura et lineamenta hospitae,

id. ib. 2, 2, 36, §

89: Helene,

Hor. C. 1, 15, 2.—In late Lat., for a concubine, Inscr. Orell. 2669; 4996. —

Transf.

A sojourner, visitor, guest, friend, xenos. Lit.:

in domo clari hominis, in quam et hospites multi recipiendi et admittenda hominum cujusque modi multitudo,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139:

libri inter Cratippi commentarios tamquam hospites recipiendi,

id. ib. 3, 33, 121:

recipere hospites,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 25, § 65:

accipere hospitem,

id. Fam. 9, 26 fin.:

non hospites, sed peregrini atque advenae,

id. Agr. 2, 34, 94:

habuisses non hospitem, sed contubernalem,

id. Fam. 9, 20, 1:

et hostem et hospitem vidit,

id. Div. 2, 37, 79; 6, 6, 2:

is qui nuper Romae fuit Menedemus hospes meus,

id. de Or. 1, 19, 85; cf. id. Lael. 7, 24:

Polybius noster hospes,

id. Rep. 4, 3:

id factum ex suis hospitibus Caesar cognoverat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 6, 2:

in suos notos hospitesque quaerebant,

id. B. C. 1, 74, 5:

hospes familiae vestrae,

Cic. Lael. 11, 36: homo multorum [p. 867] hospitum, id. Clu. 59, 163:

mihi seu longum post tempus venerat hospes Sive, etc.,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 118:

si vespertinus subito te oppresserit hospes,

id. ib. 2, 4, 17:

hospite venturo, cessabit nemo tuorum,

Juv. 14, 59: in officiis apud majores ita observatum est: primum tutelae, deinde hospiti, deinde clienti, tum cognato, postea adfini, Sabin. ap. Gell. 5, 13, 5.—In fem.:

meamne hic in via hospitam, Quae heri huc Athenis cum hospite advenit meo, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 8; id. ib. 71; Ter. And. 2, 6, 8; Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3.—

Opp. to a native, a stranger, foreigner (syn.:

advena, peregrinus, peregrinator, alienus): adeone hospes hujusce urbis, adeone ignarus es disciplinae consuetudinisque nostrae, ut haec nescias?

Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 28:

nec peregrinus atque hospes in agendo,

id. de Or. 1, 50, 218:

nos in nostra urbe peregrinantes errantesque tamquam hospites tui libri quasi domum deduxerunt,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 9.—So in addressing a foreigner, like the Gr. xene, stranger:

cum (Theophrastus) percontaretur ex anicula quadam, quanti aliquid venderet, et respondisset illa atque addidisset, Hospes, non pote minoris: tulisse eum moleste, se non effugere hospitis speciem, cum aetatem ageret Athenis optimeque loqueretur,

id. Brut. 46, 172; Quint. 8, 1, 2: dic, hospes, Spartae, nos te hic vidisse jacentes, Cic. poët. Tusc. 1, 42, 101 (a transl. of the Gr. Ô xein, angellein Aakedaimoniois, etc., Herod. 7, 228): hospes, quid miras curare Serapin? Varr. ap. Non. 480, 30; Prop. 4, 1, 1.— Fem., hospita, a female stranger:

hanc hospitam crepidula ut graphice decet,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 3.—

Hence, a stranger in any matter, ignorant of, unacquainted with:

si erit idem in consuetudine civitatis hospes,

Cic. de Or. 2, 30, 131:

vos ignoretis, vos hospites in hac urbe versamini,

id. Mil. 12, 33.—

Of inanim. or abstr. things adjectively, hospitable; strange, foreign.

Form hospes (only in post-Aug. poets): gemma, Pall. Insit. init.:

tecta, etc.,

Stat. Th. 12, 479:

cymba,

id. S. 5, 1, 252:

honor,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 650.—

Form hospita (in the fem. and neutr. plur. mostly poet.): hirundines hospitae, Varr. ap. Arn. 6, 207:

navis,

Ov. F. 1, 340:

quo tutior hospita lustres Aequora,

Verg. A. 3, 377:

conjunx hospita Teucris,

id. ib. 6, 93:

terra hospita,

id. ib. 3, 539:

tecta,

Val. Fl. 2, 650:

flumina,

Stat. Th. 4, 842:

litora mundo,

id. S. 3, 5, 75:

unda plaustris,

bearing wagons on its frozen surface, Verg. G. 3, 362:

vina,

Val. Fl. 1, 44.