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antīquĭtas, ātis, f. [antiquus], the quality of being antiquus, age, antiquity (class., but only in prose).

In gen.:

antiquitas generis,

Cic. Font. 14, 31; so Nep. Milt. 1, 1:

non vestra (urbs) haec est, quae gloriabatur a diebus pristinis in antiquitate suā?

Vulg. Isa. 23, 7.—

Spec., ancient time, antiquity.

Lit.:

fabulae ab ultimā antiquitate repetitae,

Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 65:

habet ut in aetatibus auctoritatem senectus, sic in exemplis antiquitas,

id. Or. 50, 169:

antiquitas dat dignitatem verbis,

Quint. 8, 3, 24; Suet. Ner. 38 al.—

Meton.

The occurrences of antiquity, the history of ancient times, antiquity:

tenenda est omnis antiquitas,

Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 18:

memoria antiquitatis,

id. Brut. 59, 214:

antiquitatis iter,

id. de Or. 1, 60, 256 al.:

antiquitatis amator,

Nep. Att. 18, 1 Bremi and Dähne; cf. id. ib. 20 al.—In plur., a title of historical or archœological works, antiquities; cf. Plin. praef.; Gell. 5, 13:

Varro in antiquitatibus rerum humanarum scripsit, etc.,

id. 11, 1 et saep. —

Men of former times, the ancients:

errabat multis in rebus antiquitas,

Cic. Div. 2, 33; cf. Hand, Wopk. Lectt. Tull. p. 209; Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 27:

antiquitas melius ea, quae erant vera, cernebat,

id. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

fabulose narravit antiquitas,

Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 85; 19, 4, 19, § 1 al.—

The condition [p. 133] or state of former times (eccl. Lat.):

Et soror tua Sodoma et filiae ejus revertentur ad antiquitatem suam,

Vulg. Ezech. 16, 55 ter. —

Esp., with the access. idea of moral excellence (cf. antiquus, II. C.), the good old times, the honesty of the good old times, integrity, uprightness, etc.:

P. Rutilius documentum fuit virtutis, antiquitatis, prudentiae,

Cic. Rab. Post. 10:

his gravissimae antiquitatis viris probatus,

id. Sest. 3:

haec plena sunt antiquitatis,

id. Planc. 18, 45; Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 209:

exemplar antiquitatis,

Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 1.

ĕgō̆ (ŏ always in poets of the best age, as Cat., Verg., Hor., etc.; ō ante-class. and post-Aug., as Juv. 17, 357; Aus. Epigr. 54, 6, v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, 483; gen. mei; dat. mihi; acc. and abl. me; plur., nom., and acc. nos; gen., mostly poet., nostrum; gen. obj. nostri, rarely nostrum; for the gen. possess. the adj. noster was used, q. v.; cf. Roby, Gram. 1, § 388; dat. and abl. nobis; mi in dat. for mihi, part., Varr. R. R. 2, 5; Lucr. 3, 106; Verg. A. 6, 104;

in prose,

Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 2; id. Att. 1, 8, 3 et saep.; old form also MIHEI, C. I. L. 1, 1016 al.; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 180; old form of the acc. MEHE, acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 21 med.; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 45; id. Am. 1, 1, 244; Inscr. Orell. 2497; gen. plur. nostrorum, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 110; id. Poen. 3, 1, 37; 4, 2, 39; id. Am. Fragm. ap. Non. 285, 26; dat. and abl. NIS = nobis, acc. to Fest. S. V. CALLIM, p. 47, 3 Müll.; acc. ENOS, Carm. Arval., Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 160.—But as to me = mihi, cited in Fest. p. 181, 6 sq. Müll., me is there not dat., but acc., v. Vahl. ad Enn. p. 21), pron. pers. [Gr. egô; Sanscr. aham; Goth. ik; Germ. ich; Engl. I, etc.; plur. nos; Gr. nôï, nôïn, from same stem with acc. sing. me, Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 533], I.

Prop.:

meruimus et ego et pater de vobis,

Plaut. Am. prol. 40:

tum te audes Sosiam esse dicere, Qui ego sum?

id. ib. 1, 1, 218; cf.:

ego tu sum, tu es ego: unanimi sumus,

id. Sticn. 5, 4, 49; the combination alter ego v. under alter.—

Emphasized.

By the suffixes met and pte: Am. Quis te verberavit? So. Egomet memet, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 60:

credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

id. ib. 2, 1, 50:

quasi per nebulam nosmet scimus,

id. Ps. 1, 5, 48:

med erga,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 56:

cariorem esse patriam nobis quam nosmetipsos,

Cic. Fin. 3, 19 fin. et saep.: mihipte, Cato ap. Fest. p. 103:

mepte fieri servom,

Plaut. Men. 5, 8, 10.—

By repetition:

meme ad graviora reservat,

Sil. 9, 651 (but Verg. A. 9, 427, is written me, me); cf.: met and pte.—

Esp. to be noted are,

Mihi and nobis as dativi ethici (Zumpt Gr. § 408;

A. and S. Gr. § 228 N.): quid enim mihi L. Pauli nepos quaerit,

Cic. Rep. 1, 19; cf. id. Par. 5, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 15; and in the plur.:

quid ait tandem nobis Sannio?

Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 12:

sit mihi (orator) tinctus litteris, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf. Liv. praef. § 9; 2, 29 fin.; Quint. 1, 11, 14; 2, 4, 9; 12, 2, 31; Verg. G. 1, 45; Sil. 1, 46 Drak.; and in the plur.:

nobis jam paulatim accrescere puer incipiat,

Quint. 1, 2, 1:

hic mihi Q. Fufius pacis commoda memorat,

Cic. Phil. 8, 4; cf. Sall. C. 52, 11 Kritz; Cat. 24, 4:

tu mihi seu magni superas jam saxa Timavi, etc.,

Verg. E. 8, 6 et saep.—

Mecum, nobiscum (v. cum, II. fin.).—

Ad me veni, i. e. ad meam domum, Cic. Att. 16, 10, v. ad, A. 2. a.

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Nos, etc., for ego, etc., in grave or official lang., etc.:

nobis consulibus,

Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4; cf. Verg. E. 1, 4; so with sing. constr.:

nec merito nobis inimica merenti,

Tib. 3, 6, 55; cf. Cat. 107, 5:

absente nobis,

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 7; Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.

grandis, e, adj. [cf. gradus; also Germ. gross; Engl. great], full-grown, large, great, full, abundant (class.; most freq. of things; for syn. cf.: magnus, ingens, amplus, procerus, vastus, enormis).

Lit.

In gen.:

ita, quicquid (olerum) erat, grande erat,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 35; cf.:

ager novatus et iteratus, quo meliores fetus possit et grandiores edere,

Cic. de Or. 2, 30, 131:

quae seges grandissima atque optima fuerit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52; 1: farra, old poet. ap. Macr. S. 5, 20 fin.:

frumenta,

Verg. A. 4, 405:

hordea,

id. E. 5, 36:

lilia,

id. ib. 10, 25:

ilex,

Sall. J. 93, 4; cf.:

et antiqua robora,

Quint. 10, 1, 88:

grandissimum alicae genus,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112:

grandissimae olivae,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 15 et saep.:

litterae (opp. minutae),

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 68; cf.:

epistola sane grandis,

Cic. Att. 13, 21, 1:

sane grandes libri,

id. Rep. 3, 8:

grandiores libri,

id. Att. 13, 13, 1:

verbosa et grandis epistula,

Juv. 10, 71:

erat incisum grandibus litteris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

corpora,

Lucr. 6, 303:

saxa,

id. 1, 289; Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 2; 7, 46, 3; cf.:

cervi eminentes,

id. ib. 7, 72, 4:

tumulus terrenus,

id. ib. 1, 43, 1:

vas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 47; cf.

patella,

id. ib. §

46: speculum,

Quint. 11, 3, 68:

cothurni,

Hor. A. P. 80:

lumina,

Ov. M. 5, 545; cf.

membra,

id. ib. 10, 237:

ossa,

id. ib. 9, 169:

conchae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

rhombi,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 95; cf.:

opes grandiores,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 47:

smaragdi,

Lucr. 4, 1126:

divitiae,

id. 5, 1118; cf.:

alicui grandem pecuniam credere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

pecunia,

id. Verr. 1, 9, 24; id. Fam. 13, 61; Sall. C. 49, 3; Liv. 10, 46, 10; 27, 20, 7; 32, 40, 9; Suet. Aug. 12; id. Ner. 24; cf.

faenus,

Cic. Fl. 21, 51:

aes alienum,

Sall. C. 14, 2; 24, 3; Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; cf.

also: donativum grandius solito,

Suet. Galb. 16:

cenae,

Quint. 10, 1, 58; cf.

convivium,

id. 11, 2, 12:

amiculum grandi pondere,

Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83; cf.:

grande pondus argenti,

id. Caecin. 4, 12:

grande onus exiguo formicas ore gerentes,

Ov. M. 7, 625:

elementa,

bulky, massive, heavy, id. ib. 1, 29.—In neutr. as grandia ingrediens, advancing with great strides: makra bibas, Gell. 9, 11, 5:

grandia incedens,

Amm. 22, 14.—

Of persons, grown up, big, tall; and more freq. pregn., advanced in years, aged, old; also with natu or aevo.

Absol.:

an sedere oportuit domi virginem tam grandem,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 39:

videras grandis jam puer bello Italico, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 36, 87:

nobilis ut grandi cecinit Centaurus alumno (i. e. Achilli),

Hor. Epod. 13, 11:

(Q. Maximus) et bella gerebat ut adolescens, cum plane grandis esset, etc.,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10; cf. Lucr. 2, 1164:

legibus annalibus cum grandiorem aetatem ad consulatum constituebant, adolescentiae temeritatem verebantur, etc. (shortly after: progressus aetatis),

a more advanced age, Cic. Phil. 5, 17, 47; so,

grandior aetas,

Ov. M. 6, 28; 7, 665:

quandoquidem grandi cibus aevo denique defit,

Lucr. 2, 1141:

metuens virgae jam grandis Achilles cantabat,

Juv. 7, 210.—

With natu or aevo:

non admodum grandis natu, sed tamen jam aetate provectus,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10; so,

grandis natu,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 128; id. Rosc. Com. 15, 44; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7; Suet. Ner. 34; id. Aug. 89; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 49; cf.:

in aetate consideratur puer an adolescens, natu grandior an senex,

Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; so,

grandior natu,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 37:

grandi jam natu vexatus,

Suet. Aug. 53:

grandis aevo parens,

Tac. A. 16, 30 fin.; cf.:

jam grandior aevo genitor,

Ov. M. 6, 321.—

Trop.

In gen., great, strong, powerful: subsellia grandiorem et pleniorem vocem desiderant. Cic. Brut. 84, 289:

vox (opp. exigua),

Quint. 11, 3, 15:

perspicuo et grandi vitio praeditum exemplum,

Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:

exemplis grandioribus uti,

id. Div. 1, 20, 39:

de rebus grandioribus dicere,

id. Fin. 3, 5, 19:

supercilium,

lofty, Juv. 6, 169:

Maecenas, mearum Grande decus columenque rerum,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 4:

ingenium,

Ov. M. 6, 574:

certamen,

Hor. C. 3, 20, 7:

munus,

id. ib. 2, 1, 11:

praemia meritorum,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 38:

carmen,

Juv. 6, 636:

malum,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 49:

lethargus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 145:

alumnus,

noble, id. Epod. 13, 11:

si metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 179; so absol.:

grandia,

id. C. 1, 6, 9; id. A. P. 27.—

In partic., of style, great, grand, lofty, sublime:

genus quoque dicendi grandius quoddam et illustrius esse adhibendum videtur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 337:

grande atque robustum genus dicendi (opp. subtile),

Quint. 12, 10, 58:

causae (opp. pusillae),

id. 11, 3, 151:

antiqua comoedia,

id. 10, 1, 65:

grandia et tumida themata,

id. 2, 10, 6:

sententiae,

id. 2, 11, 3:

grandia elate, jucunda dulciter, moderata leniter canit,

id. 1, 10, 24.—Of the speaker: (oratores Thucydidi aequales) grandes erant verbis, crebri sententiis, compressione rerum breves, [p. 824] Cic. Brut. 7, 29; cf.:

Thucydides rerum gestarum pronunciator sincerus et grandis,

id. ib. 83, 287:

causidicus amplus atque grandis,

id. Or. 9, 30:

quo grandior sit et quasi excelsior orator,

id. ib. 34, 119:

oratores, alii grandes aut graves aut copiosi,

id. Opt. Gen. 1, 2:

multis locis grandior (Lysias),

id. ib. 3, 9:

fiunt pro grandibus tumidi,

Quint. 10, 2, 16; 10, 1, 77.— Adv.: in two forms.

grandĭter (acc. to II.), greatly, strongly, very ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

quamvis grandius ille (Alcaeus) sonet,

sublimely, Ov. H. 15, 30:

illud mihi inter maxima granditer cordi est,

exceedingly, Sid. Ep. 7, 4:

frugi pater,

id. ib. 2:

affectus,

Aug. Conf. 1, 9.—

grandō (rare and poet.), the same:

grande fremens,

strongly, aloud, Stat. Th. 12, 684: grande sonat. Juv. 6, 517.

in-vĕtĕrasco, rāvi, 3, v. n. inch. (in the form inveteresco, Inscr. ap. Att. dell' Acad. Rom. Archeol. 2, p. 46, n. 17), to grow old, to become fixed or established, to continue long (class.).

Lit.: quibus quisque in locis miles inveteravit, Caes. B. C. 1, 44:

equites, qui inveteraverant Alexah. driae bellis,

id. ib. 3, 10:

populi R. exercitum hiemare atque inveterascere in Gallia moleste ferebant,

to settle, establish themselves, id. B. G. 2, 1:

aes alienum inveterascit,

Nep. Att. 2:

res nostrae litterarum monumentis inveterascent et corroborabuntur,

Cic. Cat. 3, 11, 26.—In perf., Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 44.—Of wine, to ripen, age, Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 44.—

Transf., to become fixed, inveterate:

ut hanc inveterascere consuetudinem nolint,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40:

quae (macula) penitus insedit atque inveteravit in populi Romani nomine,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 3, 7:

inveteravit opinio perniciosa rei publicae,

id. Verr. 41, 1:

verbi significatio falsa,

became fixed in use, Gell. 1, 22, 1:

ulcus alendo,

Lucr. 4, 1068:

si malum inveteravit,

Cels. 3, 13:

intellego, in nostra civitate inveterasse, ut, etc.,

it has grown into use, become a custom, Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57; cf.:

si inveterarit, actum est,

id. Fam. 14, 3, 3.—

To grow old, decay, grow weak or feeble, become obsolete (post-Aug.):

inveterascet hoc quoque,

Tac. A. 11, 24:

inter amicos,

Vulg. Psa. 6, 18:

ossa mea,

id. ib. 31, 3:

vestimenta,

id. 2 Esdr. 9, 21.