not to fear

con-temno (also contempno; cf. Ritschl Prol. ad Plaut. p. 103), tempsi (-temsi), temptum (-temtum), 3, v. a., to consider a person or thing as unimportant or of small value, to value little, esteem lightly, contemn, despise, disdain, defy, not to fear, etc. (very freq. in connection with irridere, despicere, non curare, pro nihilo ducere, etc.; opp.: expetere, efferre, timere, metuere, etc.; v. the foll. and cf. aspernor; fre[qacute]. and class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

With things as objects:

quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetunt, contemnant et pro nihilo ducant,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28; id. Fin. 3, 9, 29:

corporis voluptatem contemni et reici oportere,

id. Off. 1, 30, 106:

illum exercitum prae Gallicanis legionibus... magno opere contemno,

id. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

Romam prae suā Capuā irridebunt atque contemnent,

id. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

non usque eo L. Catilina rem publicam despexit atque contempsit, ut, etc.,

id. Mur. 37, 78; cf. id. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

quam (virtutem)... reliquā ex collatione facile est conterere atque contemnere,

in consequence of, id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85:

Isocrates videtur testimonio Platonis aliorum judicia debere contemnere,

id. Or. 13, 41:

magna sunt ea, quae dico: noli haec contemnere (= levia habere),

esteem lightly, id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39: nullam rem in me esse quam ille contemnat (= non timeat), nullam in se quam pertimescat, id. ib. 7, 23; cf.

opp. metuere,

id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

neque enim refutanda tantum, quae e contrario dicuntur, sed contemnenda, elevanda, ridenda sunt,

Quint. 6, 4, 10 Spald.; cf. id. 4, 1, 38 al. (cf. under II.):

imperium meum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 10:

tuum consilium,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 15:

mea dona,

Lucr. 1, 48:

murmura ponti,

id. 3, 1045:

praeclare res humanas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 1:

parva ista,

Liv. 6, 41, 8:

laborem bene dicendi,

Quint. 1, prooem. 14:

metum jurisjurandi,

id. 5, 6, 3:

populi voces,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 65:

honores,

id. ib. 2, 7, 85:

cantus Apollineos prae se,

Ov. M. 11, 155:

Antoni gladios potuit contemnere (Cicero),

Juv. 10, 123:

paucitatem in hoste,

Curt. 3, 3, 28.— Poet.:

nullas illa suis contemnet fletibus aras,

neglect, leave unvisited, Prop. 1, 4, 23. —

With inf.:

non contemnas lippus inungi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 29; so,

coronari Olympia,

id. ib. 1, 1, 50:

mori,

Sen. Phoen. 197. —

Absol.:

ut irascatur judex... faveat, contemnat,

Cic. Or. 38, 131; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 23.—

In part. fut. pass.:

quae (amplitudo animi) maxime eminet contemnendis et despiciendis doloribus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

documenta in contemnendis animalibus,

despicable, contemptible, Plin. 8, 29, 43, § 104. —Esp. freq. with a negative:

(orationes) non contemnendae saneque tolerabiles,

Cic. Brut. 79, 273; cf. under II.—

Poet., of things as subjects, to defy, be safe from, not to fear, to make light of:

adamantina saxa ictus contemnere sueta,

Lucr. 2, 448; cf. id. 5, 380; 5, 1216; Tib. 1, 3, 37:

contemnere ventos, of the island of Delos, because protected from the winds by the surrounding islands,

Verg. A. 3, 77; cf. id. G. 2, 360:

contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim,

Juv. 5, 102.—

With personal objects: a te contemni ac despici ac pro nihilo haberi senatum volunt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 436, 27:

contemni se putant (senes), despici, illudi,

id. Sen. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 10, 36:

omnes istos deridete atque contemnite,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 54; Sall. H. 1, 41, 24 Dietsch; Liv. 22, 39, 20; Quint. 6, 2, 3:

contemnere miser,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 14 et saep. —Se contemnere, to put a small value upon one's self, to have an humble or low opinion of one's self. (opp.:

sibi satisplacere),

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 41; id. Mil. 4, 6, 21; and inversely: se non contemnere, to have a high regard for or estimate of one's self, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5; id. Phil. 13, 7, 15; Liv. 4, 35, 9:

nec (Batavi) tributis contemnuntur,

are humiliated, Tac. G. 29.—

Absol.:

quae res illis contemnentibus perniciei fuit,

Nep. Thras. 2, 2.—

In part. fut. pass.:

ne T. quidem Postumius contemnendus in dicendo,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269; 13, 51; id. Or. 69, 231:

copiae neque numero neque genere hominum contemnendae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

manus,

i. e. considerable, Suet. Tib. 25.—

Esp., to slight, speak contemptuously of, disparage:

contempsisti L. Murenae genus, extulisti tuum,

Cic. Mur. 7, 15; id. de Or. 1, 17, 75; 3, 16, 59: populi contemnere voces, Sic. Hor. S. 1, 1, 65.—Hence, contemptus ( - temtus), a, um, P. a., despised, despicable, contemptible, vile, abject (class.):

comtemptus et abjectus homo,

Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

contempta ac sordida vita,

id. Planc. 5, 12:

a vili contemptoque,

Quint. 6, 1, 16:

res,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 25 et saep.—With dat.:

Trebellius per avaritiam ac sordes contemptus exercitui invisusque,

Tac. H. 1, 60.— Comp.:

quae vox potest esso contemptior, quam Milonis Crotoniatae?

Cic. Sen. 9, 27; id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; id. Div. 2, 57, 117; Suet. Tib. 13; id. Ter. 2.— Sup.:

contemptissimorum consulum levitas,

Cic. Sest. 16, 36; so Quint. 12, 2, 2; Suet. Dom. 15.— Adv.: contemptē ( - temtē), contemptibly, despicably; only in comp. contemptius, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 1; Suet. Dom. 11 (but not Tac. H. 3, 47; v. contemptim).

con-temno (also contempno; cf. Ritschl Prol. ad Plaut. p. 103), tempsi (-temsi), temptum (-temtum), 3, v. a., to consider a person or thing as unimportant or of small value, to value little, esteem lightly, contemn, despise, disdain, defy, not to fear, etc. (very freq. in connection with irridere, despicere, non curare, pro nihilo ducere, etc.; opp.: expetere, efferre, timere, metuere, etc.; v. the foll. and cf. aspernor; fre[qacute]. and class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

With things as objects:

quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetunt, contemnant et pro nihilo ducant,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28; id. Fin. 3, 9, 29:

corporis voluptatem contemni et reici oportere,

id. Off. 1, 30, 106:

illum exercitum prae Gallicanis legionibus... magno opere contemno,

id. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

Romam prae suā Capuā irridebunt atque contemnent,

id. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

non usque eo L. Catilina rem publicam despexit atque contempsit, ut, etc.,

id. Mur. 37, 78; cf. id. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

quam (virtutem)... reliquā ex collatione facile est conterere atque contemnere,

in consequence of, id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85:

Isocrates videtur testimonio Platonis aliorum judicia debere contemnere,

id. Or. 13, 41:

magna sunt ea, quae dico: noli haec contemnere (= levia habere),

esteem lightly, id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39: nullam rem in me esse quam ille contemnat (= non timeat), nullam in se quam pertimescat, id. ib. 7, 23; cf.

opp. metuere,

id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

neque enim refutanda tantum, quae e contrario dicuntur, sed contemnenda, elevanda, ridenda sunt,

Quint. 6, 4, 10 Spald.; cf. id. 4, 1, 38 al. (cf. under II.):

imperium meum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 10:

tuum consilium,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 15:

mea dona,

Lucr. 1, 48:

murmura ponti,

id. 3, 1045:

praeclare res humanas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 1:

parva ista,

Liv. 6, 41, 8:

laborem bene dicendi,

Quint. 1, prooem. 14:

metum jurisjurandi,

id. 5, 6, 3:

populi voces,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 65:

honores,

id. ib. 2, 7, 85:

cantus Apollineos prae se,

Ov. M. 11, 155:

Antoni gladios potuit contemnere (Cicero),

Juv. 10, 123:

paucitatem in hoste,

Curt. 3, 3, 28.— Poet.:

nullas illa suis contemnet fletibus aras,

neglect, leave unvisited, Prop. 1, 4, 23. —

With inf.:

non contemnas lippus inungi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 29; so,

coronari Olympia,

id. ib. 1, 1, 50:

mori,

Sen. Phoen. 197. —

Absol.:

ut irascatur judex... faveat, contemnat,

Cic. Or. 38, 131; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 23.—

In part. fut. pass.:

quae (amplitudo animi) maxime eminet contemnendis et despiciendis doloribus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

documenta in contemnendis animalibus,

despicable, contemptible, Plin. 8, 29, 43, § 104. —Esp. freq. with a negative:

(orationes) non contemnendae saneque tolerabiles,

Cic. Brut. 79, 273; cf. under II.—

Poet., of things as subjects, to defy, be safe from, not to fear, to make light of:

adamantina saxa ictus contemnere sueta,

Lucr. 2, 448; cf. id. 5, 380; 5, 1216; Tib. 1, 3, 37:

contemnere ventos, of the island of Delos, because protected from the winds by the surrounding islands,

Verg. A. 3, 77; cf. id. G. 2, 360:

contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim,

Juv. 5, 102.—

With personal objects: a te contemni ac despici ac pro nihilo haberi senatum volunt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 436, 27:

contemni se putant (senes), despici, illudi,

id. Sen. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 10, 36:

omnes istos deridete atque contemnite,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 54; Sall. H. 1, 41, 24 Dietsch; Liv. 22, 39, 20; Quint. 6, 2, 3:

contemnere miser,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 14 et saep. —Se contemnere, to put a small value upon one's self, to have an humble or low opinion of one's self. (opp.:

sibi satisplacere),

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 41; id. Mil. 4, 6, 21; and inversely: se non contemnere, to have a high regard for or estimate of one's self, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5; id. Phil. 13, 7, 15; Liv. 4, 35, 9:

nec (Batavi) tributis contemnuntur,

are humiliated, Tac. G. 29.—

Absol.:

quae res illis contemnentibus perniciei fuit,

Nep. Thras. 2, 2.—

In part. fut. pass.:

ne T. quidem Postumius contemnendus in dicendo,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269; 13, 51; id. Or. 69, 231:

copiae neque numero neque genere hominum contemnendae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

manus,

i. e. considerable, Suet. Tib. 25.—

Esp., to slight, speak contemptuously of, disparage:

contempsisti L. Murenae genus, extulisti tuum,

Cic. Mur. 7, 15; id. de Or. 1, 17, 75; 3, 16, 59: populi contemnere voces, Sic. Hor. S. 1, 1, 65.—Hence, contemptus ( - temtus), a, um, P. a., despised, despicable, contemptible, vile, abject (class.):

comtemptus et abjectus homo,

Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

contempta ac sordida vita,

id. Planc. 5, 12:

a vili contemptoque,

Quint. 6, 1, 16:

res,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 25 et saep.—With dat.:

Trebellius per avaritiam ac sordes contemptus exercitui invisusque,

Tac. H. 1, 60.— Comp.:

quae vox potest esso contemptior, quam Milonis Crotoniatae?

Cic. Sen. 9, 27; id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; id. Div. 2, 57, 117; Suet. Tib. 13; id. Ter. 2.— Sup.:

contemptissimorum consulum levitas,

Cic. Sest. 16, 36; so Quint. 12, 2, 2; Suet. Dom. 15.— Adv.: contemptē ( - temtē), contemptibly, despicably; only in comp. contemptius, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 1; Suet. Dom. 11 (but not Tac. H. 3, 47; v. contemptim).

con-temno (also contempno; cf. Ritschl Prol. ad Plaut. p. 103), tempsi (-temsi), temptum (-temtum), 3, v. a., to consider a person or thing as unimportant or of small value, to value little, esteem lightly, contemn, despise, disdain, defy, not to fear, etc. (very freq. in connection with irridere, despicere, non curare, pro nihilo ducere, etc.; opp.: expetere, efferre, timere, metuere, etc.; v. the foll. and cf. aspernor; fre[qacute]. and class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

With things as objects:

quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetunt, contemnant et pro nihilo ducant,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28; id. Fin. 3, 9, 29:

corporis voluptatem contemni et reici oportere,

id. Off. 1, 30, 106:

illum exercitum prae Gallicanis legionibus... magno opere contemno,

id. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

Romam prae suā Capuā irridebunt atque contemnent,

id. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

non usque eo L. Catilina rem publicam despexit atque contempsit, ut, etc.,

id. Mur. 37, 78; cf. id. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

quam (virtutem)... reliquā ex collatione facile est conterere atque contemnere,

in consequence of, id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85:

Isocrates videtur testimonio Platonis aliorum judicia debere contemnere,

id. Or. 13, 41:

magna sunt ea, quae dico: noli haec contemnere (= levia habere),

esteem lightly, id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39: nullam rem in me esse quam ille contemnat (= non timeat), nullam in se quam pertimescat, id. ib. 7, 23; cf.

opp. metuere,

id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

neque enim refutanda tantum, quae e contrario dicuntur, sed contemnenda, elevanda, ridenda sunt,

Quint. 6, 4, 10 Spald.; cf. id. 4, 1, 38 al. (cf. under II.):

imperium meum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 10:

tuum consilium,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 15:

mea dona,

Lucr. 1, 48:

murmura ponti,

id. 3, 1045:

praeclare res humanas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 1:

parva ista,

Liv. 6, 41, 8:

laborem bene dicendi,

Quint. 1, prooem. 14:

metum jurisjurandi,

id. 5, 6, 3:

populi voces,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 65:

honores,

id. ib. 2, 7, 85:

cantus Apollineos prae se,

Ov. M. 11, 155:

Antoni gladios potuit contemnere (Cicero),

Juv. 10, 123:

paucitatem in hoste,

Curt. 3, 3, 28.— Poet.:

nullas illa suis contemnet fletibus aras,

neglect, leave unvisited, Prop. 1, 4, 23. —

With inf.:

non contemnas lippus inungi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 29; so,

coronari Olympia,

id. ib. 1, 1, 50:

mori,

Sen. Phoen. 197. —

Absol.:

ut irascatur judex... faveat, contemnat,

Cic. Or. 38, 131; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 23.—

In part. fut. pass.:

quae (amplitudo animi) maxime eminet contemnendis et despiciendis doloribus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

documenta in contemnendis animalibus,

despicable, contemptible, Plin. 8, 29, 43, § 104. —Esp. freq. with a negative:

(orationes) non contemnendae saneque tolerabiles,

Cic. Brut. 79, 273; cf. under II.—

Poet., of things as subjects, to defy, be safe from, not to fear, to make light of:

adamantina saxa ictus contemnere sueta,

Lucr. 2, 448; cf. id. 5, 380; 5, 1216; Tib. 1, 3, 37:

contemnere ventos, of the island of Delos, because protected from the winds by the surrounding islands,

Verg. A. 3, 77; cf. id. G. 2, 360:

contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim,

Juv. 5, 102.—

With personal objects: a te contemni ac despici ac pro nihilo haberi senatum volunt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 436, 27:

contemni se putant (senes), despici, illudi,

id. Sen. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 10, 36:

omnes istos deridete atque contemnite,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 54; Sall. H. 1, 41, 24 Dietsch; Liv. 22, 39, 20; Quint. 6, 2, 3:

contemnere miser,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 14 et saep. —Se contemnere, to put a small value upon one's self, to have an humble or low opinion of one's self. (opp.:

sibi satisplacere),

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 41; id. Mil. 4, 6, 21; and inversely: se non contemnere, to have a high regard for or estimate of one's self, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5; id. Phil. 13, 7, 15; Liv. 4, 35, 9:

nec (Batavi) tributis contemnuntur,

are humiliated, Tac. G. 29.—

Absol.:

quae res illis contemnentibus perniciei fuit,

Nep. Thras. 2, 2.—

In part. fut. pass.:

ne T. quidem Postumius contemnendus in dicendo,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269; 13, 51; id. Or. 69, 231:

copiae neque numero neque genere hominum contemnendae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

manus,

i. e. considerable, Suet. Tib. 25.—

Esp., to slight, speak contemptuously of, disparage:

contempsisti L. Murenae genus, extulisti tuum,

Cic. Mur. 7, 15; id. de Or. 1, 17, 75; 3, 16, 59: populi contemnere voces, Sic. Hor. S. 1, 1, 65.—Hence, contemptus ( - temtus), a, um, P. a., despised, despicable, contemptible, vile, abject (class.):

comtemptus et abjectus homo,

Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

contempta ac sordida vita,

id. Planc. 5, 12:

a vili contemptoque,

Quint. 6, 1, 16:

res,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 25 et saep.—With dat.:

Trebellius per avaritiam ac sordes contemptus exercitui invisusque,

Tac. H. 1, 60.— Comp.:

quae vox potest esso contemptior, quam Milonis Crotoniatae?

Cic. Sen. 9, 27; id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; id. Div. 2, 57, 117; Suet. Tib. 13; id. Ter. 2.— Sup.:

contemptissimorum consulum levitas,

Cic. Sest. 16, 36; so Quint. 12, 2, 2; Suet. Dom. 15.— Adv.: contemptē ( - temtē), contemptibly, despicably; only in comp. contemptius, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 1; Suet. Dom. 11 (but not Tac. H. 3, 47; v. contemptim).

con-temno (also contempno; cf. Ritschl Prol. ad Plaut. p. 103), tempsi (-temsi), temptum (-temtum), 3, v. a., to consider a person or thing as unimportant or of small value, to value little, esteem lightly, contemn, despise, disdain, defy, not to fear, etc. (very freq. in connection with irridere, despicere, non curare, pro nihilo ducere, etc.; opp.: expetere, efferre, timere, metuere, etc.; v. the foll. and cf. aspernor; fre[qacute]. and class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

With things as objects:

quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetunt, contemnant et pro nihilo ducant,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28; id. Fin. 3, 9, 29:

corporis voluptatem contemni et reici oportere,

id. Off. 1, 30, 106:

illum exercitum prae Gallicanis legionibus... magno opere contemno,

id. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

Romam prae suā Capuā irridebunt atque contemnent,

id. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

non usque eo L. Catilina rem publicam despexit atque contempsit, ut, etc.,

id. Mur. 37, 78; cf. id. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

quam (virtutem)... reliquā ex collatione facile est conterere atque contemnere,

in consequence of, id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85:

Isocrates videtur testimonio Platonis aliorum judicia debere contemnere,

id. Or. 13, 41:

magna sunt ea, quae dico: noli haec contemnere (= levia habere),

esteem lightly, id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39: nullam rem in me esse quam ille contemnat (= non timeat), nullam in se quam pertimescat, id. ib. 7, 23; cf.

opp. metuere,

id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

neque enim refutanda tantum, quae e contrario dicuntur, sed contemnenda, elevanda, ridenda sunt,

Quint. 6, 4, 10 Spald.; cf. id. 4, 1, 38 al. (cf. under II.):

imperium meum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 10:

tuum consilium,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 15:

mea dona,

Lucr. 1, 48:

murmura ponti,

id. 3, 1045:

praeclare res humanas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 1:

parva ista,

Liv. 6, 41, 8:

laborem bene dicendi,

Quint. 1, prooem. 14:

metum jurisjurandi,

id. 5, 6, 3:

populi voces,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 65:

honores,

id. ib. 2, 7, 85:

cantus Apollineos prae se,

Ov. M. 11, 155:

Antoni gladios potuit contemnere (Cicero),

Juv. 10, 123:

paucitatem in hoste,

Curt. 3, 3, 28.— Poet.:

nullas illa suis contemnet fletibus aras,

neglect, leave unvisited, Prop. 1, 4, 23. —

With inf.:

non contemnas lippus inungi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 29; so,

coronari Olympia,

id. ib. 1, 1, 50:

mori,

Sen. Phoen. 197. —

Absol.:

ut irascatur judex... faveat, contemnat,

Cic. Or. 38, 131; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 23.—

In part. fut. pass.:

quae (amplitudo animi) maxime eminet contemnendis et despiciendis doloribus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

documenta in contemnendis animalibus,

despicable, contemptible, Plin. 8, 29, 43, § 104. —Esp. freq. with a negative:

(orationes) non contemnendae saneque tolerabiles,

Cic. Brut. 79, 273; cf. under II.—

Poet., of things as subjects, to defy, be safe from, not to fear, to make light of:

adamantina saxa ictus contemnere sueta,

Lucr. 2, 448; cf. id. 5, 380; 5, 1216; Tib. 1, 3, 37:

contemnere ventos, of the island of Delos, because protected from the winds by the surrounding islands,

Verg. A. 3, 77; cf. id. G. 2, 360:

contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim,

Juv. 5, 102.—

With personal objects: a te contemni ac despici ac pro nihilo haberi senatum volunt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 436, 27:

contemni se putant (senes), despici, illudi,

id. Sen. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 10, 36:

omnes istos deridete atque contemnite,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 54; Sall. H. 1, 41, 24 Dietsch; Liv. 22, 39, 20; Quint. 6, 2, 3:

contemnere miser,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 14 et saep. —Se contemnere, to put a small value upon one's self, to have an humble or low opinion of one's self. (opp.:

sibi satisplacere),

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 41; id. Mil. 4, 6, 21; and inversely: se non contemnere, to have a high regard for or estimate of one's self, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5; id. Phil. 13, 7, 15; Liv. 4, 35, 9:

nec (Batavi) tributis contemnuntur,

are humiliated, Tac. G. 29.—

Absol.:

quae res illis contemnentibus perniciei fuit,

Nep. Thras. 2, 2.—

In part. fut. pass.:

ne T. quidem Postumius contemnendus in dicendo,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269; 13, 51; id. Or. 69, 231:

copiae neque numero neque genere hominum contemnendae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

manus,

i. e. considerable, Suet. Tib. 25.—

Esp., to slight, speak contemptuously of, disparage:

contempsisti L. Murenae genus, extulisti tuum,

Cic. Mur. 7, 15; id. de Or. 1, 17, 75; 3, 16, 59: populi contemnere voces, Sic. Hor. S. 1, 1, 65.—Hence, contemptus ( - temtus), a, um, P. a., despised, despicable, contemptible, vile, abject (class.):

comtemptus et abjectus homo,

Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

contempta ac sordida vita,

id. Planc. 5, 12:

a vili contemptoque,

Quint. 6, 1, 16:

res,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 25 et saep.—With dat.:

Trebellius per avaritiam ac sordes contemptus exercitui invisusque,

Tac. H. 1, 60.— Comp.:

quae vox potest esso contemptior, quam Milonis Crotoniatae?

Cic. Sen. 9, 27; id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; id. Div. 2, 57, 117; Suet. Tib. 13; id. Ter. 2.— Sup.:

contemptissimorum consulum levitas,

Cic. Sest. 16, 36; so Quint. 12, 2, 2; Suet. Dom. 15.— Adv.: contemptē ( - temtē), contemptibly, despicably; only in comp. contemptius, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 1; Suet. Dom. 11 (but not Tac. H. 3, 47; v. contemptim).

aspernor (wrongly ads-), ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [for ab-spernor, as as-pello for abpello, as-porto for ab-porto; cf. ab init.; Doed. Syn. II. p. 179, and Vanicek, p. 1182], lit., to cast off a person or thing (ab se spernari; cf. sperno and spernor); hence, to disdain, spurn, reject, despise (simply with the accessory idea of aversion = recuso, respuo, reicio, and opp. to appeto, concupisco; on the other hand, contemnere, not to fear, is opp. to metuere, timere; and despicere, not to value a thing, is opp. to revereri; cf. Doed. Syn. cited supra; class.; very freq. in Cic.;

more rare in the poets): alicujus familiam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 24 (aspernari = recusare, avertere, non agnoscere, Don.).

Lit.:

gustatus id, quod valde dulce est, aspernatur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

nemo bonus... qui vos non oculis fugiat, auribus respuat, animo aspernetur,

id. Pis. 20; so id. Fat. 20, 47:

regem ut externum aspernari,

Tac. A. 2, 1:

matrem,

id. ib. 4, 57:

de pace legatos haud aspernatus,

id. ib. 15, 27:

hanc (proscriptionem) nisi hoc judicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53:

voluptatem appetit, ut bonum: aspernatur dolorem, ut malum,

id. Fin. 2, 10, 31; so,

ut quodam ab hospite conditum oleum pro viridi adpositum, aspernantibus ceteris, solum etiam largius appetisse scribat,

Suet. Caes. 53:

si voluptatem aspernari ratione et sapientiā non possemus,

Cic. Sen. 12, 42:

querimonias alicujus aspernari, contemnere ac neglegere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

regis liberalitatem,

id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91 al.; Sall. C. 3, 4:

diis aspernantibus placamina irae,

Liv. 7, 3:

deditionem alicujus,

id. 8, 2; 9, 41 et saep.:

consilia,

Tac. G. 8:

sententiam,

id. ib. 11:

honorem,

id. ib. 27:

militiam,

id. H. 2, 36:

disciplinam,

id. A. 1, 16:

virtutem,

id. ib. 13, 2:

panem,

Suet. Ner. 48 fin.:

imperium,

Curt. 10, 5, 13 et saep.:

Interea cave sis nos aspernata sepultos,

Prop. 3, 5, 25: aspernabantur ceteros, * Vulg. Luc. 18, 9:

haud aspernanda precare,

Verg. A. 11, 106; Phaedr. 5, 4, 4.—With inf. as object:

illa refert vultu non aspernata rogari,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 105:

dare aspernabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 46. —In Cic. once, to turn away, avert (not from one's self, but from something pertaining to one's self): furorem alicujus atque crudelitatem a suis aris atque templis, Clu. 68 fin. —

Trop.:

qui colore ipso patriam aspernaris,

deny, Cic. Pis. 1.—

► Pass.: qui habet, ultro appetitur; qui est pauper, aspernatur, is held in contempt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

regem ab omnibus aspernari, Auct. B. Afr. 93: aspernata potio,

Arn. 5, p. 175.—Hence, aspernanter, adv. (qs. from the part. aspernans, which does not occur), with contempt, contemptuously:

aliquid accipere,

Amm. 31, 4; so Sid. Ep. 7, 2.— Comp., Aug. Mus. 4, 9.— Sup. prob. not used.

aspernor (wrongly ads-), ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [for ab-spernor, as as-pello for abpello, as-porto for ab-porto; cf. ab init.; Doed. Syn. II. p. 179, and Vanicek, p. 1182], lit., to cast off a person or thing (ab se spernari; cf. sperno and spernor); hence, to disdain, spurn, reject, despise (simply with the accessory idea of aversion = recuso, respuo, reicio, and opp. to appeto, concupisco; on the other hand, contemnere, not to fear, is opp. to metuere, timere; and despicere, not to value a thing, is opp. to revereri; cf. Doed. Syn. cited supra; class.; very freq. in Cic.;

more rare in the poets): alicujus familiam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 24 (aspernari = recusare, avertere, non agnoscere, Don.).

Lit.:

gustatus id, quod valde dulce est, aspernatur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

nemo bonus... qui vos non oculis fugiat, auribus respuat, animo aspernetur,

id. Pis. 20; so id. Fat. 20, 47:

regem ut externum aspernari,

Tac. A. 2, 1:

matrem,

id. ib. 4, 57:

de pace legatos haud aspernatus,

id. ib. 15, 27:

hanc (proscriptionem) nisi hoc judicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53:

voluptatem appetit, ut bonum: aspernatur dolorem, ut malum,

id. Fin. 2, 10, 31; so,

ut quodam ab hospite conditum oleum pro viridi adpositum, aspernantibus ceteris, solum etiam largius appetisse scribat,

Suet. Caes. 53:

si voluptatem aspernari ratione et sapientiā non possemus,

Cic. Sen. 12, 42:

querimonias alicujus aspernari, contemnere ac neglegere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

regis liberalitatem,

id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91 al.; Sall. C. 3, 4:

diis aspernantibus placamina irae,

Liv. 7, 3:

deditionem alicujus,

id. 8, 2; 9, 41 et saep.:

consilia,

Tac. G. 8:

sententiam,

id. ib. 11:

honorem,

id. ib. 27:

militiam,

id. H. 2, 36:

disciplinam,

id. A. 1, 16:

virtutem,

id. ib. 13, 2:

panem,

Suet. Ner. 48 fin.:

imperium,

Curt. 10, 5, 13 et saep.:

Interea cave sis nos aspernata sepultos,

Prop. 3, 5, 25: aspernabantur ceteros, * Vulg. Luc. 18, 9:

haud aspernanda precare,

Verg. A. 11, 106; Phaedr. 5, 4, 4.—With inf. as object:

illa refert vultu non aspernata rogari,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 105:

dare aspernabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 46. —In Cic. once, to turn away, avert (not from one's self, but from something pertaining to one's self): furorem alicujus atque crudelitatem a suis aris atque templis, Clu. 68 fin. —

Trop.:

qui colore ipso patriam aspernaris,

deny, Cic. Pis. 1.—

► Pass.: qui habet, ultro appetitur; qui est pauper, aspernatur, is held in contempt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

regem ab omnibus aspernari, Auct. B. Afr. 93: aspernata potio,

Arn. 5, p. 175.—Hence, aspernanter, adv. (qs. from the part. aspernans, which does not occur), with contempt, contemptuously:

aliquid accipere,

Amm. 31, 4; so Sid. Ep. 7, 2.— Comp., Aug. Mus. 4, 9.— Sup. prob. not used.

pōno, pŏsŭi (Plaut. posīvi), pŏsĭtum, 3 (old form of perf. POSEIVEI, Inscr. Orell. 3308:

posivi,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 35: posivimus, id. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.:

posiverunt, Cato, R. R. praef. 1: posiveris,

id. ib. 4, 1; Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 108: POSIER unt, Inscr. Orell. 5061:

POSIT, contr. from posivit,

ib. 71; 732; 1475; 3087 al.; part. perf. sync. postus, a, um, Lucr. 1, 1059; 3, 87; 6, 965), v. a. [for posno, posino, from old prep. port, = proti, pros, and sino; cf.: porricio, pollingo, etc., and v. pro, sino], to put or set down a person or thing, to put, place, set, lay, etc. (syn.: colloco, statuo); constr. with acc. alone, or with in and abl., or with adv. of place; sometimes with in and acc., or absol.; v. infra.

Lit.

In gen.:

tabulas in aerario ponere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 108:

castra,

to pitch, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.:

castra iniquo loco,

id. ib. 1, 81:

milia passuum tria ab eorum castris castra ponit,

id. B. G. 1, 22 fin.: qui indicabantur, in senatu sunt positi, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 50:

tabulas obsignatas in publico,

Cic. Fl. 9, 21:

sejuges in Capitolio aurati a P. Cornelio positi,

Liv. 38, 35, 4:

tyrannicidae imago in gymnasio ponatur,

Quint. 7, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 7, 12:

collum in Pulvere,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 11; cf.:

artus in litore ponunt,

Verg. A. 1, 173; and with simple abl.:

saxo posuit latus,

Val. Fl. 4, 378:

in curulibus sellis sese posuerunt,

seated themselves, Flor. 1, 13.—With in and acc.: hodierno die primum longo intervallo in possessionem libertatis pedem ponimus, Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28 B. and K. (Klotz, possessione):

Cyzici in Prytaneum vasa aurea mensae unius posuit,

Liv. 41, 20, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

stipes erat, quem... in flammam triplices posuere sorores,

Ov. M. 8, 452:

omnia pone feros in ignes,

id. R. Am. 719:

oleas in solem,

Cato, R. R. 7:

coronam in caput,

Gell. 3, 15, 3.—With sub and abl.:

pone sub curru nimium propinqui,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 21:

fundamenta,

Vulg. 1 Esd. 6, 3:

ubi pedem poneret non habebat,

might set his foot, Cic. Fin. 4, 25, 69:

genu or genua,

to bow the knee, to kneel, Ov. F. 2, 438; 5, 507; Curt. 8, 7, 13:

num genu posuit? num vocem supplicem misit?

id. 4, 6, 28:

oculos,

to cast one's eyes on, Vulg. Jer. 24, 6:

faciem,

to turn one's face, id. ib. 42, 15.—

In partic.

In milit. lang., to place, post, set, station a body of troops:

ibi praesidium ponit,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5:

praesidium ibi,

id. B. C. 1, 47 fin.:

legionem tuendae orae maritimae causā,

id. ib. 3, 34:

insidias contra aliquem,

Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 49.—

To set up, erect, build (mostly poet.):

opus,

Ov. M. 8, 160:

templa,

Verg. A. 6, 19:

aras,

id. ib. 3, 404:

tropaeum,

Nep. Dat. 8, 3; so,

in inscrr., of erecting monuments of any kind: POSVIT, PONENDVM CVRAVIT (usu. abbreviated P. C.), etc.: columna rostrata quae est Duilio in foro posita,

in honor of Duilius, Quint. 1, 7, 12.—

Hence, poet., to form, fashion works of art:

Alcimedon duo pocula fecit... Orpheaque in medio posuit,

Verg. E. 3, 46:

hic saxo liquidis ille coloribus Sollers nunc hominem ponere, nunc deum,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 8.—

To set, set out, plant trees, etc. ( poet. and in postAug. prose;

syn.: planto, sero): pone ordine vites,

Verg. E. 1, 74:

vitem,

Col. 4, 1; cf.:

ille et nefasto te (arbor) posuit die,

planted thee, Hor. C. 2, 13, 1.—

To lay, stake, wager, as a forfeit; to lay down, propose, as a prize: pono pallium;

Ille suum anulum opposuit,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 76:

pocula fagina,

Verg. E. 3, 36:

invitat pretiis animos et praemia ponit,

id. A. 5, 292:

praemia,

id. ib. 5, 486:

praemium,

Liv. 41, 23, 10.—

In business lang., to put out at interest, to loan, to invest (less freq. than collocare): pecuniam in praedio ponere, Cic. Tull. § 15 Orell.; cf.:

pecuniam apud aliquem,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 165:

dives positis in fenore nummis,

Hor. A. P. 421:

pecuniam Quaerit Kalendis ponere,

id. Epod. 2, 70.—

To place, set, appoint a person as a watch or guard, accuser, etc. (less freq. than apponere):

Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, quae agat, scire possit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

custos frumento publico est positus,

Cic. Fl. 19, 45: alicui accusatorem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3:

puer super hoc positus officium,

Petr. 56, 8.—

To serve up, set before one at table (rare for the class. apponere), Cato, R. R. 79; so id. ib. 81:

posito pavone,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 23; 2, 4, 14; 2, 6, 64; 2, 8, 91; id. A. P. 422:

positi Bacchi cornua,

Ov. A. A. 1, 231:

vinum,

Petr. 34, 7:

calidum scis ponere sumen,

Pers. 1, 53:

porcum,

Mart. 8, 22, 1:

da Trebio, pone ad Trebium,

Juv. 5, 135.—

To lay aside, take off, put down, lay down, etc. (as clothing, arms, books, the hair or beard, etc., = deponere):

cum pila ludere vellet tunicamque poneret,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60; cf.:

veste positā,

id. ib. 1, 47, 113:

velamina,

Ov. A. A. 2, 613; cf.:

velamina de corpore,

id. M. 4, 345:

arma,

Caes. B. G. 4, 37:

sarcinam,

Petr. 117, 11:

barbam,

Suet. Calig. 5; cf.:

bicolor positis membrana capillis,

Pers. 3, 10:

libros de manibus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 23; cf.:

cum posui librum, et mecum ipse coepi cogitare,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24.—

To lay out for the grave:

toroque Mortua componar, positaeque det oscula frater,

Ov. M. 9, 503; Verg. A. 2, 644.—Also, to lay in the grave, to bury, inter ( poet. and in post-class. prose;

syn.: sepelio, condo): corpore posto,

Lucr. 3, 871:

te... patriā decedens ponere terrā,

Verg. A. 6, 508; Ov. F. 5, 480:

ubi corpus meum positum fuerit,

Dig. 34, 1, 18 fin.; Inscr. Orell. 4370:

IN HAC CVPA MATER ET FILIVS POSITI SVNT,

ib. 4550; 4495:

HIC POSITVS EST, Inscr. in Boeckh. C. I. Gr. 4156: CINERES,

Inscr. Orell. 4393; 4489.—

Ponere calculum or calculos, transf., to weigh carefully, to ponder, consider:

si bene calculum ponas,

Petr. 115, 16:

examina tecum, omnesque, quos ego movi, in utrāque parte calculos pone,

Plin. Ep. 2, 19 fin. —

To arrange, deck, set in order (cf. compono):

qui suas ponunt in statione comas,

Ov. A. A. 3, 434:

quid totiens positas fingis, inepta, comas?

id. ib. 1, 306; cf. id. H. 4, 77; id. M. 1, 477.—

To subdue, calm, allay, quiet:

quo non arbiter Hadriae Major, tollere seu ponere vult freta,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 16:

magnos cum ponunt aequora motus,

Prop. 4 (5), 14, 31.—Hence, neutr., of the winds, to fall, abate ( poet. and late Lat.):

cum venti posuere omnisque repente resedit Flatus,

Verg. A. 7, 27:

tum Zephyri posuere,

id. ib. 10, 103:

simul ac ventus posuit,

Gell. 2, 30, 2.

Trop.

In gen., to set, place, put, lay a thing anywhere: noenum ponebat rumores ante salutem, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 314 Vahl.):

pone ante oculos laetitiam senatūs,

Cic. Phil. 2, 45, 115:

at te apud eum, di boni! quantā in gratiā posui,

id. Att. 6, 6, 4; cf. id. ib. 5, 11, 6; 6, 1, 22: ponite me ei (Appio) in gratiā, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5:

apud Lentulum ponam te in gratiā,

Cic. Att. 5, 3, 3 B. and K. (Orell. gratiam):

se quoque in gratiā reconciliatae pacis ponere,

Liv. 44, 14, 7:

in laude positus,

Cic. Sest. 66, 139:

aliquem in metu non ponere,

i. e. not to fear, id. Top. 13, 55:

virtutum fundamenta in voluptate tamquam in aquā ponere,

id. Fin. 2, 22, 72; cf. id. Pis. 4, 9:

aliquid in conspectu animi,

id. de Or. 3, 40, 161; cf.:

sub uno aspectu ponere,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 1, 1: ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, to lay down gently, i. e. close gracefully, Cic. Or. 59, 199:

super cor,

to lay to heart, Vulg. Mal. 2, 2.—With in and acc.:

te in crimen populo ponat atque infamiam,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 11.—Elliptically: et quidem cum in mentem venit, ponor ad scribendum, when it occurs to Cœsar, he sets me (i. e. my name) to the Senate's decrees, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 4.—

In partic.

Ponere aliquid in aliquā re, to put or place a thing in something, to cause a thing to rest or depend upon:

credibile non est, quantum ego in consiliis et prudentiā tuā, quantum in amore et fide ponam,

Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3:

spem in aliquo,

id. ib. 6, 1, 11:

salutis auxilium in celeritate,

Caes. B. G. 5, 48; cf.:

spem salutis in virtute,

id. ib. 5, 34, 2:

ut in dubio poneret, utrum, etc.,

regarded as doubtful, doubted, Liv. 34, 5, 3: sed haec haud in magno equidem ponam discrimine, I shall attach no great importance to it, id. prooem. § 8.—In pass.: positum esse in aliquā re, to be based or founded upon, to rest upon, depend upon:

ut salutem praesentium, spem reliquorum in vestris sententiis positam esse et defixam putetis,

Cic. Fl. 1, 3; id. Agr. 2, 9, 22:

omnia posita putamus in Planci tui liberalitate,

id. Att. 16, 16, F, 2; id. Or. 8, 27:

in te positum est, ut, etc.,

id. Att. 16, 16, B, § 8. —

To lay out, spend, employ a thing, esp. time, in any thing:

tempus in cogitatione ponere,

Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

si in hac curā vita mihi ponenda sit,

id. Fam. 9, 24, 4:

diem totum in considerandā causā,

id. Brut. 22, 87; cf. id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; id. Att. 6, 2, 6:

sumptum,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2; id. Fam. 13, 54 fin.; cf.:

totum animum atque omnem curam, operam diligentiamque suam in petitione,

id. Mur. 22, 45:

id multo tum faciemus liberius totosque nos in contemplandis rebus perspiciendisque ponemus,

id. Tusc. 1, 19, 44:

apud gratissimum hominem beneficium ponere,

id. Fam. 13, 55 fin.:

itinera enim ita facit, ut multos dies in oppidum ponat,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2.—

To put, place, count, reckon, consider a thing in or among certain things:

mortem in malis,

Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 29:

in beneficii loco,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 12; id. Cat. 2, 9, 20:

si quis motus populi factus esset, id C. Norbano in fraude capitali esse ponendum,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 199:

in laude,

to regard as praiseworthy, id. Top. 18, 71:

in vitiis poni,

to be regarded as a fault, Nep. Epam. 1, 2.—

To appoint, ordain, make something:

leges,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28:

festos laetosque ritus,

Tac. H. 5, 5 fin.:

ut male posuimus initia, sic cetera sequentur,

Cic. Att. 10, 18, 2:

ne tu in spem ponas me bonae frugi fore,

to hope for, reckon upon, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 4 Fleck.: nomen, to apply or give a name (= imponere):

sunt enim rebus novis nova ponenda nomina,

Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 44; id. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Verg. A. 7, 63:

qui tibi nomen Insano posuere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 48: rationem, to furnish an account, to [p. 1397] reckon, Suet. Oth. 7; cf. Col. 1, 3:

pecuniae,

Dig. 46, 3, 89.—

To make or render vows or votive offerings to the gods:

Veneri ponere vota,

Prop. 3, 12, 18:

nunc ego victrices lauro redimire tabellas, Nec Veneris mediā ponere in aede morer,

Ov. Am. 1, 11, 25:

hic ponite lucida Funalia et vectes,

Hor. C. 3, 26, 6:

libatum agricolae ponitur ante deo,

Tib. 1, 1, 14; Ov. M. 3, 506:

ex praedā tripodem aureum Delphi posuit,

Nep. Paus. 2, 3.—

In speaking or writing, to lay down as true, to state, assume, assert, maintain, allege, take for granted, etc.:

quamobrem, ut paulo ante posui, si, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Fin. 2, 31, 100:

recte Magnus ille noster, me audiente, posuit in judicio, rem publicam, etc.,

id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: verum pono, esse victum eum;

at, etc.,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 25:

positum sit igitur in primis, etc.,

Cic. Or. 4, 14:

hoc posito atque concesso, esse quandam vim divinam, etc.,

id. Div. 1, 52, 118; cf.:

quo posito, et omnium sensu adprobato,

id. Fin. 3, 8, 29; id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

pono satis in eo fuisse orationis atque ingenii,

id. Brut. 45, 165:

aliquid pro certo ponere,

Liv. 10, 9 fin.:

nunc rem ipsam ponamus quam illi non negant... Est haec res posita, quae ab adversario non negatur,

Cic. Caecin. 11, 32.—

Esp.: exemplum ponere, to cite an instance:

eorum quae constant exempla ponemus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 38, 68:

perspicuo et grandi vitio praeditum posuimus exemplum,

id. ib. 1, 47, 88:

ab adjunctis antea posui exemplum,

id. Top. 11, 50:

horum exempla posui ex jure civili,

id. ib. 14, 58:

horum generum ex Cicerone exempla ponamus,

Quint. 5, 11, 11; 6, 3, 108 al.—

To set before the mind, represent, describe:

nec ponere lucum Artifices, nec, etc.,

Pers. 1, 70:

pone Tigellinum,

Juv. 1, 155.—

To propose, offer, fix upon a theme for discussion (= proponere):

mihi nunc vos quaestiunculam, de quā meo arbitratu loquar, ponitis?

Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 102; 2, 1, 2:

ponere aliquid, ad quod audiam, si tibi non est molestum, volo,

id. Fat. 2, 4; cf.:

ponere jubebam, de quo quis audire vellet,

id. Tusc. 1, 4, 7:

ponere praemium,

Liv. 39, 17, 1; and impers. pass.:

doctorum est ista consuetudo eaque Graecorum, ut iis ponatur, de quo disputent quamvis subito,

id. Lael. 5, 17; so,

cum ita positum esset, videri, etc.,

id. Tusc. 3, 22, 54.—

To put away, leave off, dismiss, forego, lay down, surrender (= deponere):

vitam propera ponere,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 3, 4:

vitia,

Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46:

dolorem,

id. Tusc. 3, 28, 66: inimicitias, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6:

curas,

Liv. 1, 19:

metum,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6:

iram,

Hor. A. P. 160:

moras,

id. C. 4, 12, 25; Ov. F. 2, 816:

animos feroces,

Liv. 8, 1:

corda ferocia,

Verg. A. 1, 302:

vires (flammae),

id. ib. 5, 681:

ipsum rudimentum adulescentiae bello lacessentem Romanos posuisse,

had obtained his first experience, Liv. 31, 11 fin.; Suet. Ner. 22; also,

tirocinium,

Just. 12, 4, 6:

animam,

to lay down life, Vulg. Johan. 10, 15; 17.—Esp., milit. t. t.: arma ponere (= deponere), to lay down arms, yield, surrender:

Nepesinis inde edictum ut arma ponant,

Liv. 6, 10, 5:

dedi imperatorem, arma poni jubet,

id. 4, 10, 3; cf.:

positis armis,

id. 35, 36, 4; id. Epit. 88.—

To make, cause to be (eccl. Lat.):

cornu tuum ponam ferreum,

Vulg. Mich. 4, 13:

posuit me desolatam,

id. Thren. 3, 11; with quasi:

ponam Samariam quasi acervum,

id. Mich. 1, 6; with in and acc.:

posuerunt eam in ruinam,

id. Isa. 23, 13.—

To assume, suppose, put a case (of mere suppositions; only late Lat.; cf. 6 supra): pone tamen ab evangelistis scriptum, Ambros. de Fide, 5, 16, 194; Ps.-Quint. Decl. 273.—Hence, pŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., of localities, placed, situated; situate, standing, lying anywhere:

Roma in montibus posita,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

Delos in Aegaeo mari posita,

id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55:

portus ex adverso urbi positus,

Liv. 45, 5:

tumulus opportune ad id positus,

id. 28, 13:

urbs alieno solo posita,

id. 4, 17.— Poet.:

somno positus = sopitus,

lulled to sleep, Verg. A. 4, 527.

mĕtŭo, ŭi, ūtum (cf.:

nimis ante metutum,

Lucr. 5, 1140), 3, v. a. and n. [metus], to fear, be afraid of a person or thing; to hesitate, not to venture, not to wish (syn.: vereor, formido, timeo); with inf., with ne, to fear lest; with ui or ne non, to fear that not; also of inanimate things, with acc., to fear, revere, reverence one; as a v. n., to fear, be afraid, be in fear, be apprehensive, esp. as the effect of the idea of threatening evil (whereas timere usually denotes the effect of some external cause of terror); to dread, apprehend; with an indirect interrogation: non metuo quin, for non dubito quin, I doubt not but; to be anxious about any one; with dat. (class.).

Act.: quem metuont oderunt, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23 (Trag. v. 403 Vahl.):

deos et amo et metuo,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 73:

male ego metuo milvos,

id. ib. 5, 5, 13:

metuebant (senem) servi, verebantur liberi,

Cic. Sen. 11, 37:

tu, qui crimen ais te metuisse,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 30, § 78: nec pol istae metuunt Deos, Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 6:

absentem patrem,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 68:

nec metuit quemquam,

id. Ad. 1, 2, 5.—With ab:

quid a nobis metuit?

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 12:

a me insidias,

Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2:

supplicia a vobis metuere debent,

to fear from you, id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8:

a quo (Ajace) sibi non injuriā summum periculum metuebat,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29:

a quo domino sibi metuebat graves cruciatus,

Aug. Lib. Arbitr. 1, 4, 9; Gregor. M. Homil. 1, 14, 2; Aug. cont. Acad. 2, 8.—With ex:

si periculum ex illis metuit,

Sall. C. 52, 16.—With de:

de lanificio neminem metuo, una aetate quae sit,

i. e. no one's competition in spinning, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 22.—Of inanim. subjects:

quae res cotidie videntur, minus metuunt furem,

Varr. R. R. 1, 22.—

With inf.:

metuont credere omnes,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 70:

ut tentare spem certaminis metuunt,

Liv. 32, 31:

nil metuunt jurare,

Cat. 64, 146:

reddere soldum,

not to wish, be averse to, Hor. S. 2, 5, 65:

praebere,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 1.—Of nonpersonal subjects:

illum aget pennā metuente solvi Fama superstes,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 7. —

With ne:

nimis metuebam male, ne abiisses,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 8:

male metuo ne... morbus aggravescat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 2:

fratrem, ne intus sit (Gr. construction),

id. Eun. 3, 5, 62.—

With ut:

ornamenta, quae locavi, metuo, ut possim recipere,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 3:

metuo ut hodie possim emolirier,

id. Bacch. 4, 5, 2:

metuo ut substet hospes,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 11:

ut sis vitalis,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 61.—

With ne non:

metuo ne non sit surda,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 12; id. Pers. 4, 6, 4:

metuis ne non, quom velis, convincas esse illum tuom?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 15.—

With quin:

non metuo meae quin uxori latae suppetiae sient,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 54.—

With object-clause, to await with fear, anxiety; to be in apprehension, concerned about:

metuo, patres quot fuerint,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 35:

metui, quid futurum denique esset,

I dreaded, awaited with fear, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 8: metuo quid agam. Sy. Metuis? quasi non ea potestas sit tua, etc., id. ib. 4, 3, 42:

metuo qualem tu me esse hominem existumes,

id. Eun. 4, 6, 20.—

Pass. with dat.:

jam maturis metuendus Juppiter uvis,

Verg. G. 2, 419. —

Absol.:

se e contempto metuendum fecit,

Sall. H. 1, 48, 3.—

(Eccl. Lat.) Of religious fear, to revere, dread, hold in reverence:

Deum,

Vulg. Lev. 25, 43:

Dominum Deum nostrum,

id. Jer. 5, 24:

sanctuarium meum,

id. Lev. 19, 30.—

Neutr., to fear, be afraid, be apprehensive, etc.

With de:

neque tam de suā vitā, quam de me metuit,

fears not so much for his own life as for me, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6.—

With ab:

metuens ab Hannibale,

afraid of Hannibal, Liv. 23, 36.—

With pro:

metuere pro aliquo,

Petr. 123.—

With dat., to be anxious about or for a person or thing:

metuens pueris,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 60:

inopi metuens formica senectae,

Verg. G. 1, 186:

tum decuit metuisse tuis,

id. A. 10, 94.—Hence, mĕtŭens, entis, P. a., fearing, afraid of any thing; anxious for any person or thing; with gen. or absol. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

contentus parvo metuensque futuri,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 110:

metuens virgae,

Juv. 7, 210.— Comp.:

quo non metuentius ullum Numinis ingenium,

Ov. F. 6, 259:

Nero metuentior in posterum,

Tac. A. 13, 25.

vĕrĕor, ĭtus ( part. pres. verens; rare in histt.; not in Cæs., Liv., Sall., or Curt., veritus being used instead; but freq. in Cic., Nep., and Just.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 1192), 2, v. dep. a. and n. [Greek root or-, Wor; ouros, epiouros, guardian; horaô, to see; O. H. Germ. warten, to see; Engl. ward], to feel awe of, to reverence, revere, respect; to fear, be afraid of any thing (good or bad); to fear or be afraid to do a thing, etc. (not so strong as metuo, v. Cic. Quint. 1, 1 infra; cf. also timeo); constr. with acc., with an inf., the gen., a foll. ne, ut, a rel.-clause, or absol.

With acc.:

vereri aliquem,

Plaut. Am. prol. 23; so,

vereri et metuere Junonem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 202: contra nos ambae faciunt, summa gratia et eloquentia;

quarum alteram vereor, alteram metuo,

Cic. Quint. 1, 1:

metuebant eum servi, verebantur liberi,

id. Sen. 11, 37; cf.:

quid? veteranos non veremur? nam timeri se ne ipsi quidem volunt,

id. Phil. 12, 12, 29:

veremur vos, Romani, et, si ita vultis, etiam timemus,

Liv. 39, 37, 17:

ut majorem fratrem vereri,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 3:

quem discipuli et amant et verentur,

Quint. 2, 2, 8 Spald. N. cr.:

non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

patris conspectum,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 1:

reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,

Cic. Or. 1, 1:

Gallica bella,

id. Att. 14, 4, 1:

periculum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 48; id. B. C. 3, 21; Hirt. B. G. 8, 39:

desidiam in hoc,

Quint. 1, 3, 7:

opinionem jactantiae,

id. 9, 2, 74:

pauperiem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 39:

majus,

id. S. 2, 8, 57:

supplicium ab aliquo,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28:

hoc verens in hanc tarditatem incidi,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 5:

quae verens Epicurus... commentus est, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

invidiam verens,

Nep. Eum. 7, 1.—

With inf.:

vereri introire in alienam domum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 32:

vereor dicere,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 23:

vereor committere, ut, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

quos interficere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 6:

insanos qui inter vereare insanus haberi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 40:

verear magis, Me amoris causā hoc ornatu incedere,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 2:

judex verebar non omnes causam vincere posse suam,

Ov. H. 16, 75 sq. — Impers.:

Cyrenaici, quos non est veritum in voluptate summum bonum ponere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 39.—

With gen. (mostly ante-class.): uxor, quae non vereatur viri, Afran. ap. Non. 496, 29:

tui progenitoris,

Att. ib. 497, 2:

feminae primariae,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 78:

tui testimonii,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 1.— Impers.: nihilne te populi veretur, Pac. ap. Non. 497, 2.—

With dat. (very rare):

eo minus veritus navibus, quod, etc.,

for the ships, Caes. B. G. 5, 9.—

With ne, lest or that:

sed vereor, ne videatur oratio mea, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46, 70; 3, 5, 70; id. de Or. 1, 55, 234; id. Sull. 23, 66; Caes. B. G. 1, 19; 1, 42; 2, 1; Sall. J. 14, 20; Hor. S. 1, 2, 127; id. Ep. 1, 16, 19:

veritus, ne licentia invidiam adcenderet,

Sall. J. 15, 3:

agebamus verentes ne quid accideret,

Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 2:

tum me inquit collegi, verens ne... noceret,

id. Att. 15, 21, 1; id. Fam. 9, 16, 1; id. de Or 2, 3, 14; 3, 9, 33; Nep. Dion, 4, 1; 8, 5; id. Them. 5, 1.—To introduce an expression of opinion, like dubito an:

si, ut Graeci dicunt, omnes aut Graios esse aut barbaros, vereor ne barbarorum rex fuerit (Romulus),

then I am afraid that, I suspect that, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58:

non vereor, ne assentatiunculā quādam aucupari tuam gratiam videar,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 6; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 58; id. Mil. 3, 3, 68; Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8.—

With ne... non:

accepi tuas litteras, quibus intellexi te vereri ne superiores mihi redditae non essent,

Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1.—So usu. after non vereor, ne non is used instead of ut (cf. ê, infra):

non vereor ne hoc officium meum P. Servilio non probem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82; 2, 2, 47, § 118:

non vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 1; 2, 5, 2; 2, 6, 2; 11, 28, 8; Cels. 5, 28, 12.—

So after questions implying a negative: quid est cur verear ne ad eam non possim accommodare Torquatos nostros?

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34;

and in ironical concessions or assumptions: si meis horis in accusando uti voluissem, vererer ne mihi crimina non suppeterent,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31; id. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 19.—

With ut, that not:

veritus ut hostium impetum sustinere posset,

Caes. B. G. 5, 47:

illa duo, Crasse, vereor, ut tibi possim concedere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35; id. Fam. 14, 14, 1; id. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 11:

ut ferulā caedas meritum majora subire Verbera non vereor,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 121.—

With a rel.-clause, to await with fear, to fear, dread:

heri semper lenitas verebar quorsum evaderet,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 5:

Pomptinum quod scribis in urbem introisse, vereor, quid sit,

Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3: hoc quomodo acciperent homines, vereor etiam nunc, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

vereor, num hic aliud sit dicendum,

Dig. 20, 4, 11.—

With de and abl. (very rare):

de quā (Carthagine) vereri non ante desinam quam illam excisam esse cognovero,

Cic. Sen. 6, 18.—

Absol.:

hic vereri perdidit,

i. e. he has lost all sense of shame, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 50:

ne vereamini, Quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

id. Capt. prol. 58: ne vereare;

meo periculo hujus ego experiar fidem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 99.—Hence,

vĕrenter, adv., with reverence, reverently, Sedul. 1, 8.—

vĕrendus, a, um, P. a., that is to be feared or reverenced, awful, venerable; fearful, terrible ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Adj.:

majestas,

Ov. M. 4, 540:

patres,

id. P. 3, 1, 143; cf. id. Tr. 5, 6, 31:

ossa (viri),

id. H. 3, 104:

Alexander Partho verendus,

Luc. 10, 46:

fluctus classibus,

id. 5, 502.—

Subst.: vĕrenda, ōrum, m., the private parts, Plin. 28, 15, 60, § 213; 32, 9, 34, § 107; 36, 21, 42, § 156; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 14;

called also partes verendae,

Veg. Vet. 1, 7.

signif.: ubi malunt metui quam vereri se ab suis, Afran. ap. Gell. 15, 13, 3; cf. also the impersonal use above, b and g.

vĕrĕor, ĭtus ( part. pres. verens; rare in histt.; not in Cæs., Liv., Sall., or Curt., veritus being used instead; but freq. in Cic., Nep., and Just.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 1192), 2, v. dep. a. and n. [Greek root or-, Wor; ouros, epiouros, guardian; horaô, to see; O. H. Germ. warten, to see; Engl. ward], to feel awe of, to reverence, revere, respect; to fear, be afraid of any thing (good or bad); to fear or be afraid to do a thing, etc. (not so strong as metuo, v. Cic. Quint. 1, 1 infra; cf. also timeo); constr. with acc., with an inf., the gen., a foll. ne, ut, a rel.-clause, or absol.

With acc.:

vereri aliquem,

Plaut. Am. prol. 23; so,

vereri et metuere Junonem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 202: contra nos ambae faciunt, summa gratia et eloquentia;

quarum alteram vereor, alteram metuo,

Cic. Quint. 1, 1:

metuebant eum servi, verebantur liberi,

id. Sen. 11, 37; cf.:

quid? veteranos non veremur? nam timeri se ne ipsi quidem volunt,

id. Phil. 12, 12, 29:

veremur vos, Romani, et, si ita vultis, etiam timemus,

Liv. 39, 37, 17:

ut majorem fratrem vereri,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 3:

quem discipuli et amant et verentur,

Quint. 2, 2, 8 Spald. N. cr.:

non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

patris conspectum,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 1:

reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,

Cic. Or. 1, 1:

Gallica bella,

id. Att. 14, 4, 1:

periculum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 48; id. B. C. 3, 21; Hirt. B. G. 8, 39:

desidiam in hoc,

Quint. 1, 3, 7:

opinionem jactantiae,

id. 9, 2, 74:

pauperiem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 39:

majus,

id. S. 2, 8, 57:

supplicium ab aliquo,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28:

hoc verens in hanc tarditatem incidi,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 5:

quae verens Epicurus... commentus est, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

invidiam verens,

Nep. Eum. 7, 1.—

With inf.:

vereri introire in alienam domum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 32:

vereor dicere,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 23:

vereor committere, ut, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

quos interficere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 6:

insanos qui inter vereare insanus haberi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 40:

verear magis, Me amoris causā hoc ornatu incedere,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 2:

judex verebar non omnes causam vincere posse suam,

Ov. H. 16, 75 sq. — Impers.:

Cyrenaici, quos non est veritum in voluptate summum bonum ponere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 39.—

With gen. (mostly ante-class.): uxor, quae non vereatur viri, Afran. ap. Non. 496, 29:

tui progenitoris,

Att. ib. 497, 2:

feminae primariae,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 78:

tui testimonii,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 1.— Impers.: nihilne te populi veretur, Pac. ap. Non. 497, 2.—

With dat. (very rare):

eo minus veritus navibus, quod, etc.,

for the ships, Caes. B. G. 5, 9.—

With ne, lest or that:

sed vereor, ne videatur oratio mea, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46, 70; 3, 5, 70; id. de Or. 1, 55, 234; id. Sull. 23, 66; Caes. B. G. 1, 19; 1, 42; 2, 1; Sall. J. 14, 20; Hor. S. 1, 2, 127; id. Ep. 1, 16, 19:

veritus, ne licentia invidiam adcenderet,

Sall. J. 15, 3:

agebamus verentes ne quid accideret,

Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 2:

tum me inquit collegi, verens ne... noceret,

id. Att. 15, 21, 1; id. Fam. 9, 16, 1; id. de Or 2, 3, 14; 3, 9, 33; Nep. Dion, 4, 1; 8, 5; id. Them. 5, 1.—To introduce an expression of opinion, like dubito an:

si, ut Graeci dicunt, omnes aut Graios esse aut barbaros, vereor ne barbarorum rex fuerit (Romulus),

then I am afraid that, I suspect that, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58:

non vereor, ne assentatiunculā quādam aucupari tuam gratiam videar,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 6; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 58; id. Mil. 3, 3, 68; Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8.—

With ne... non:

accepi tuas litteras, quibus intellexi te vereri ne superiores mihi redditae non essent,

Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1.—So usu. after non vereor, ne non is used instead of ut (cf. ê, infra):

non vereor ne hoc officium meum P. Servilio non probem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82; 2, 2, 47, § 118:

non vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 1; 2, 5, 2; 2, 6, 2; 11, 28, 8; Cels. 5, 28, 12.—

So after questions implying a negative: quid est cur verear ne ad eam non possim accommodare Torquatos nostros?

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34;

and in ironical concessions or assumptions: si meis horis in accusando uti voluissem, vererer ne mihi crimina non suppeterent,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31; id. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 19.—

With ut, that not:

veritus ut hostium impetum sustinere posset,

Caes. B. G. 5, 47:

illa duo, Crasse, vereor, ut tibi possim concedere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35; id. Fam. 14, 14, 1; id. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 11:

ut ferulā caedas meritum majora subire Verbera non vereor,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 121.—

With a rel.-clause, to await with fear, to fear, dread:

heri semper lenitas verebar quorsum evaderet,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 5:

Pomptinum quod scribis in urbem introisse, vereor, quid sit,

Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3: hoc quomodo acciperent homines, vereor etiam nunc, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

vereor, num hic aliud sit dicendum,

Dig. 20, 4, 11.—

With de and abl. (very rare):

de quā (Carthagine) vereri non ante desinam quam illam excisam esse cognovero,

Cic. Sen. 6, 18.—

Absol.:

hic vereri perdidit,

i. e. he has lost all sense of shame, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 50:

ne vereamini, Quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

id. Capt. prol. 58: ne vereare;

meo periculo hujus ego experiar fidem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 99.—Hence,

vĕrenter, adv., with reverence, reverently, Sedul. 1, 8.—

vĕrendus, a, um, P. a., that is to be feared or reverenced, awful, venerable; fearful, terrible ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Adj.:

majestas,

Ov. M. 4, 540:

patres,

id. P. 3, 1, 143; cf. id. Tr. 5, 6, 31:

ossa (viri),

id. H. 3, 104:

Alexander Partho verendus,

Luc. 10, 46:

fluctus classibus,

id. 5, 502.—

Subst.: vĕrenda, ōrum, m., the private parts, Plin. 28, 15, 60, § 213; 32, 9, 34, § 107; 36, 21, 42, § 156; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 14;

called also partes verendae,

Veg. Vet. 1, 7.

signif.: ubi malunt metui quam vereri se ab suis, Afran. ap. Gell. 15, 13, 3; cf. also the impersonal use above, b and g.

ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

abs chorago,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

ab eo magistratu,

after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

a pueritia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

a pueris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

a parvis,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

a parvulo,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

ab parvulis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

quid hoc ab illo differt,

from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

subdole ab re consulit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

si postulatur a populo,

if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

and in prose,

Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

Turnus ab Aricia,

Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

el metul a Chryside,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

locus copiosus a frumento,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

ab honore,

id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

a longe,

Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

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păvĕo, pāvi ( part. pres. gen. plur. paventūm, Ov. M. 14, 412), 2, v. n. and a. [etym. dub.; perh. akin with pavio].

Neutr., to be struck with fear or terror, to tremble or quake with fear, to be afraid, be terrified (perh. not used by Cic.; not in Cæs.;

syn.: tremo, trepido, timeo, metuo): nam et intus paveo et foris formido,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 20:

mihi paveo,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 10; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 10:

ne pave,

id. Am. 5, 1, 58; id. Mil. 3, 3, 21:

quaeres, quando iterum paveas,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 69:

paventes ad omnia,

Liv. 5, 42, 4:

repente Maurus incerto vultu pavens ad Sullam accurrit,

in great fear, Sall. J. 106, 2; Ov. M. 8, 89:

admiratione paventibus cunctis,

seized with astonishment, Liv. 7, 34, 7; cf.:

speque metuque pavent,

Ov. F. 3, 362:

in alieno discrimine sibi pavens, ne adlevasse videretur,

Tac. H. 2, 63; cf.

venae,

id. ib. 5, 6:

hoc sermone pavent,

i. e. express their fears, Juv. 6, 189.—With prepp. (eccl. Lat.):

pavete ad sanctuarium meum,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 2; cf. id. Deut. 31, 6:

pavens pro arcā Dei,

id. 1 Reg. 4, 13:

pavebit a facie consilii Domini,

id. Isa. 19, 17; cf. id. ib. 30, 31;

31, 4: super quo pavet anima,

id. Ezech. 24, 21.—

Act., to fear, dread, be terrified at:

et illud paveo et hoc formido,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 59;

so with a general object: ad hoc mulieres... miserari parvos liberos, rogitare, omnia pavere,

Sall. C. 31, 3: noctem paventes, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23:

quis Parthum paveat, quis gelidum Scythen?

Hor. C. 4, 5, 25:

ut pavet acres Agna lupos capreaeque leones!

id. Epod. 12, 25:

tristiorem casum,

Tac. H. 1, 29:

mores alicujus,

id. ib. 1, 50:

saturam serpentibus ibin,

Juv. 15, 3:

mortem,

Plin. 2, 12, 9, § 54:

funera,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 49:

(Castanea) pavet novitatem,

Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 149.— Pass. (in Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 104, read batuerentur):

nec pedibus tantum pavendas serpentes,

Plin. 8, 23, 35, § 85.—Perh. here too belongs: paveri frumenta dicebant antiqui, quae de vaginā non bene exibant, Fest. p 251 and 253 Müll.; v. Müll. ad loc.—

With inf. ( poet.):

pavetque Laedere jactatis maternas ossibus umbras,

Ov. M. 1, 386:

nec illae numerare aut exigere plagas pavent,

Tac. G. 7.

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păvĭdus, a, um, adj. [paveo], trembling, quaking, fearful, terrified, alarmed, timid, timorous (perhaps not in Cic.).

Lit.:

timida atque pavida,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 49; Lucr. 5, 973:

castris se pavidus tenebat,

Liv. 3, 26:

matres,

Verg. A. 2, 489:

miles,

Tac. A. 2, 23:

pavidus semper atque anxius,

Suet. Dom. 4:

lepus,

Hor. Epod. 2, 35:

aves,

Ov. F. 1, 400:

pavida ex somno mulier,

startled out of her sleep, Liv. 1, 58, 3:

ad omnes suspiciones pavidus,

Tac. H. 2, 68:

oppidani pavidi, ne jam facta in urbem via esset, fossam ducere instituunt,

Liv. 37, 7, 7.— Comp.: quos pavidiores accepimus, Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 144.— Sup.:

intra mens pavidissima,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 27; Sil. 10, 65.—

With gen.:

nandi pavidus,

Tac. H. 4, 14:

offensionum non pavidus,

id. A. 4, 38:

maris,

Luc. 8, 811:

lucis,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 293:

leti,

id. ib. 1076.—

With inf. ( poet.):

Carthalo non pavidus fetas mulcere leaenas,

Sil. 1, 406.—

In neutr. adverbially:

pavidum blandita,

with fear, timorously, Ov. M. 9, 568.—

Transf.

Accompanied with fear or anxiety, anxious, disturbed:

pavidum murmur,

Luc. 5, 255:

furtum,

id. 2, 168:

fuga,

Sil. 13, 133:

quies pavida imaginibus,

Suet. Calig. 50. —

That produces fear, fearful, terrible, dreadful:

metus,

Ov. F. 1, 16:

lucus,

Stat. Th. 5, 567.— Adv.: păvĭdē, with fear, fearfully, timorously (rare):

timefactae religiones effugiunt animo pavide,

Lucr. 2, 45:

fugere,

Liv. 5, 39:

dicere,

Quint. 11, 3, 49.

păvor (old nom. pavos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 8; Fragm. Trag. 45 Rib.; Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155; Fragm. Trag. v. 82 Rib.; B. and K. read pavor), ōris, m. [paveo], a trembling, quaking, throbbing, panting with fear, desire, joy, etc., anxiety, fear, dread, alarm, etc. (perh. not used by Cic.; syn.: metus, timor, tremor): pavorem, metum mentem loco moventem;

ex quo illud Enni: tum pavor sapientiam omnem mi exanimato expectorat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19 (this verse of Ennius is also cited in Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 154; cf. also Enn. p. 96 Vahl., and Trag. Rel. p. 17 Rib.):

hic exsultat enim pavor ac metus,

Lucr. 3, 141; Hirt. B. G. 8, 13, 3:

tantus terror pavorque omnes occupavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 24, 20:

pavor ceperat milites ne, etc.,

id. 24, 42:

pavorem inicere,

id. 28, 3:

incutere,

id. 27, 42; Verg. G. 1, 331:

pavorem deponere,

Ov. M. 10, 117:

pellere,

Luc. 7, 732:

lenire,

Sil. 8, 77.—Of expectant or joyful trembling:

cum spes arrectae juvenum, exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans,

Verg. G. 3, 106; id. A. 5, 138:

laeto pavore proditus,

Sil. 16, 432.—Of religious fear, awe, Sil. 3, 691:

pavor aquae,

dread of water, hydrophobia, Plin. 25, 2, 6, § 17; 29, 5, 32, § 98 (in Cels. 5, 27, 2, aquae timor; Gr. hudrophobia).—

Plur.:

venia est tantorum danda pavorum,

Luc. 1, 521; Val. Fl. 7, 147:

contra formidines pavoresque,

Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 115:

repentini,

id. 32, 10, 48, § 137:

nocturni,

id. 28, 8, 27, § 98; Tac. H. 4, 38; 2, 76.—

Păvor, personified, the god of fear, Liv. 1, 27; Lact. 1, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 799; v. pallor fin.—His priests are called Pavorii, Serv. Verg. A. 8, 285.

păvor (old nom. pavos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 8; Fragm. Trag. 45 Rib.; Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155; Fragm. Trag. v. 82 Rib.; B. and K. read pavor), ōris, m. [paveo], a trembling, quaking, throbbing, panting with fear, desire, joy, etc., anxiety, fear, dread, alarm, etc. (perh. not used by Cic.; syn.: metus, timor, tremor): pavorem, metum mentem loco moventem;

ex quo illud Enni: tum pavor sapientiam omnem mi exanimato expectorat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19 (this verse of Ennius is also cited in Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 154; cf. also Enn. p. 96 Vahl., and Trag. Rel. p. 17 Rib.):

hic exsultat enim pavor ac metus,

Lucr. 3, 141; Hirt. B. G. 8, 13, 3:

tantus terror pavorque omnes occupavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 24, 20:

pavor ceperat milites ne, etc.,

id. 24, 42:

pavorem inicere,

id. 28, 3:

incutere,

id. 27, 42; Verg. G. 1, 331:

pavorem deponere,

Ov. M. 10, 117:

pellere,

Luc. 7, 732:

lenire,

Sil. 8, 77.—Of expectant or joyful trembling:

cum spes arrectae juvenum, exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans,

Verg. G. 3, 106; id. A. 5, 138:

laeto pavore proditus,

Sil. 16, 432.—Of religious fear, awe, Sil. 3, 691:

pavor aquae,

dread of water, hydrophobia, Plin. 25, 2, 6, § 17; 29, 5, 32, § 98 (in Cels. 5, 27, 2, aquae timor; Gr. hudrophobia).—

Plur.:

venia est tantorum danda pavorum,

Luc. 1, 521; Val. Fl. 7, 147:

contra formidines pavoresque,

Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 115:

repentini,

id. 32, 10, 48, § 137:

nocturni,

id. 28, 8, 27, § 98; Tac. H. 4, 38; 2, 76.—

Păvor, personified, the god of fear, Liv. 1, 27; Lact. 1, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 799; v. pallor fin.—His priests are called Pavorii, Serv. Verg. A. 8, 285.

tĭmĕo, ŭi, 2, v. a. and n. [root tam-; Sanscr. tam-yati, to be stupefied; tamas, darkness; cf. temulentus], to fear, be afraid of, to dread, apprehend; to be afraid or in fear, to be fearful, apprehensive, or anxious; constr. with acc., rel.-clause, inf., ne or ut, and absol.

With acc. (class.;

syn.: vereor, metuo, paveo): quamquam omnia sunt metuenda, nihil magis quam perfidiam timemus,

Cic. Fam. 1, 5, a, 2:

timeo meos,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 63; cf.:

quos aliquamdiu inermes timuissent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

oppidanos,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 27:

saxum Tantalus,

Lucr. 3, 981 sq.:

portus omnes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 6:

reliquos casus,

id. ib. 3, 10:

nomen atque imperium absentis,

id. ib. 1, 61:

numinis iram,

Ov. M. 6, 314:

flagitium pejus leto,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 50:

cuncta (amantes),

Ov. M. 7, 719:

aeternas poenas timendum'st,

Lucr. 1, 111.—In pass.:

morbos esse timendos,

Lucr. 3, 41; so, si ipse fulgor timeretur, Quint. 8, 3, 5:

si Cn. Pompeius timeretur,

id. 4, 2, 25. — Pregn., to have to fear, i. e. to be exposed to, contend against:

pro telis gerit quae timuit et quae fudit,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 40 sq.; 793:

feras,

id. Herc. Oet. 270. — With dat. of the object for which one fears something:

nostrae causae nihil nos timere,

Quint. 11, 1, 75:

patronum justitiae suae,

id. 4, 1, 9:

furem caulibus aut pomis,

Juv. 6, 17:

noxiam vini aegris,

Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 101. — With de:

de suo ac legionis periculo nihil timebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 57:

nihil de bello,

id. ib. 3, 3:

de se nihil timere,

Cic. Sest. 1, 1. — With pro and abl.:

quid pro quoque timendum, aut a quoque timendum sit,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 16, 2: pro amicis omnia timui, pro me nihil. Sen. Q. N. 4, praef. § 15. —

With rel.-clause (class.):

misera timeo, quid hoc sit negotii,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 79:

timeo, quid rerum gesserim,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 44:

quid possem, timebam,

Cic. Att. 12, 24, 1:

nunc istic quid agatur, magnopere timeo,

id. ib. 3, 8, 2;

jam nunc timeo, quidnam... pro exspectatione omnium eloqui possim,

id. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42:

misera timeo, incertum hoc quorsum accidat,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 29; cf.:

haec quo sint eruptura timeo,

Cic. Att. 2, 20, 5. — With dat.:

nunc nostrae timeo parti, quid hic respondeat,

Ter. And. 2, 5, 8. —

With inf. (freq. since the Aug. per.;

not in Cic.): Caesar etsi timebat tantae magnitudinis flumini exercitum obicere, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 64:

equites cum intrare fumum et flammam densissimam timerent,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 16:

timebant prisci truncum findere,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 102:

nec jurare time,

Tib. 1, 4, 21; Hor. C. 1, 8, 8; 3, 24, 56; id. S. 1, 4, 23; id. Ep. 1, 5, 2; 1, 7, 4; 1, 19, 27; 2, 1, 114; id. A. P. 170; 197; Ov. M. 1, 593; 12, 246.— Rarely with acc. and inf.:

ni cedenti instaturum alterum timuissent,

Liv. 10, 36, 3.—

With ne or ut (class.):

metuo et timeo, ne hoc tandem propalam fiat,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 38:

timeo, ne malefacta mea sint inventa omnia,

id. Truc. 4, 2, 61: haec timeo ne impediantur, D. Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 4:

neque timerent, ne circumvenirentur,

Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

non times, ne locum perdas,

Quint. 6, 3, 63:

timuit, ne non succederet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 37:

timere, ne non virtute hostium, sed lassitudine suā vincerentur,

Curt. 3, 17, 9:

timeo, ut sustineas,

Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 3:

ut satis commode supportari posset (res frumentaria), timere dicebant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39. —

Absol. (freq. in prose and poetry):

fac, ego ne metuam igitur et ut tu meam timeas vicem,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 24:

salva est navis, ne time,

id. Merc. 1, 2, 64; so,

ne time,

id. Am. 2, 2, 42; 5, 1, 12; id. Cas. 4, 4, 13; id. Curc. 4, 2, 34:

timentibus ceteris propter ignorationem locorum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 29; cf.:

timentes confirmat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 7:

cottidie aliquid fit lenius quam timebamus,

Cic. Fam. 6, 10, 5:

timere et admirari,

Quint. 9, 2, 26; 9, 2, 86.—With de:

de re publicā valde timeo,

Cic. Att. 7, 6, 2.—With ab:

a quo quidem genere ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59. — With pro ( poet. and post-Aug.):

pro eo timebam,

Curt. 6, 10, 27:

timentem pro capite amicissimo,

Plin. Ep. 3, 17, 3:

quamvis pericliter, plus tamen pro te timeo,

Sen. Contr. 7, 20, 1:

indulgentia pro suis timentium,

id. ib. 9, 26, 2, B:

qui pro illo nimium timet,

id. Ep. 14, 1:

qui eget divitiis timet pro illis,

id. ib. 14, 18;

90, 43: pro Aristippi animā,

Gell. 19, 1, 10:

timuere dei pro vindice terrae,

Ov. M. 9, 241.—Pregn., with abl. ( poet.):

timuit exterrita pennis Ales,

expressed its fear, Verg. A. 5, 505. — Freq. with dat. of the object for which one fears:

tibi timui,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 20; cf.:

qui sibi timuerant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 27:

alicui,

Quint. 8, 5, 15; Verg. A. 2, 729; Hor. C. 3, 27, 7; id. S. 2, 1, 23:

suis rebus,

Caes. B. G. 4, 16:

huic loco,

id. ib. 7, 44:

receptui suo,

id. B. C. 3, 69:

urbi,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 26.— Impers. pass.:

urbi timetur,

Luc. 7, 138: Sen. Med. 885.—

Timens like timidus, with gen.:

mortis timentes,

Lucr. 6, 1239.