s self away

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ăbĭcĭo or abjĭc- (in the best MSS. abicio; cf.

ăbĭci,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 37;

ăbĭcit,

Juv. 15, 17), ĕre, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [ab-jacio], to cast away, to throw away, throw down.

Lit.:

in sepulcrum ejus abjecta gleba non est,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 23 Müll.:

scutum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23:

insigne regium de capite,

id. Sest. 27:

socer ad pedes abjectus,

id. ib. 34; so,

se ad pedes,

id. Phil. 2, 34, 86:

se e muro in mare,

id. Tusc. 1, 34; so,

corpus in mare,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

impelluntur, feriuntur, abiciuntur, cadunt,

id. Tusc. 2, 15, 36:

se abjecit exanimatus,

he threw himself down as if lifeless, id. Sest. 37.— Absol.:

si te uret sarcina, abicito,

throw it down, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 7.—Also with in and abl., when the place from which a thing is thrown is designated:

anulum in mari,

Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 92 Madv. N. cr.; so, ut se abiceret in herba, id. de Or. 1, 7, 28:

statuas in propatulo domi,

Nep. Hann. 9, 3:

cadaver in viā,

Suet. Ner. 48; cf.:

ubi cadaver abjeceris,

Tac. A. 1, 22.

Fig.

In gen., to cast off, throw away, give up, etc.:

ut primum tenebris abjectis inalbabat,

as soon as the day, having dispelled the darkness, was beginning to brighten, Enn. Ann. v. 219 Vahl.: nusquam ego vidi abjectas aedīs, nisi modo hasce, thrown away, i.e. sold too low, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 3: psaltria aliquo abiciendast, must be got rid off ( il faut se defaire d'elle, Dacier), Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:

vitam,

Cic. Att. 3, 19:

salutem pro aliquo,

id. Planc. 33:

memoriam beneficiorum,

id. Phil. 8, 11:

versum,

to declaim it carelessly, id. de Or. 3, 26 (cf. with id. ib. 3, 59: ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, the period must be brought gradually to a close, not broken off abruptly).

In partic.

To throw off, cast aside care for, remembrance of, etc., to give up, abandon:

abicimus ista,

we let that go, Cic. Att. 13, 3:

fama ingenii mihi est abicienda,

I must renounce, id. ib. 9, 16: domum Sullanam desperabam jam... sed tamen non abjeci, but yet I have not abandoned it, i. e. its purchase, id. Fam. 9, 15:

abjectis nugis,

nonsense apart, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 141 (cf. amoto ludo, id. S. 1, 1, 27).

To cast down to a lower grade, to degrade, humble, Cic. Leg. 1, 9: hic annus senatus auctoritatem abjecit, degraded or lowered the authority of the Senate, id. Att. 1, 18; so also id. Tusc. 5, 18; id. de Or. 3, 26, 104.—Hence, abjectae res, reduced circumstances (opp. florentes), Nep. Att. 8; Cic. Quint. 30; Tac. A. 4, 68.

Abicere se, to throw one's self away, degrade one's self, v. Cic. Tusc. 2, 23: ut enim fit, etc.—Hence, abjectus, a, um, P. a., downcast, disheartened, désponding; low, mean, abject, worthless, unprincipled.

Quo me miser conferam? An domum? matremne ut miseram lamentantem videam et abjectam? Gracch. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 214:

plura scribere non possum, ita sum animo perculso et abjecto,

Cic. Att. 3, 2.—

Nihil abjectum, nihil humile cogitare, Cic. Fin. 5, 20:

contemptum atque abjectum,

id. Agr. 2, 34:

verbis nec inops nec abjectus,

id. Brut. 62, 222 al. — Comp.:

animus abjectior,

Cic. Lael. 16; Liv. 9, 6.— Sup.:

animus abjectissimus,

Quint. 11, 1, 13 al. — Adv.: abjectē.

Dispiritedly, despondingly:

in dolore est providendum, ne quid abjecte, ne quid timide, ne quid ignave faciamus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 55; id. Phil. 3, 11, 28.—

Low, meanly:

quo sordidius et abjectius nati sunt,

Tac. Or. 8:

incuriose et abjecte verbum positum,

improperly, Gell. 2, 6, 1.

sub-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 ( perf. sync. subduxti, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 25; inf. subduxe, Poët. ap. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6), v. a., to draw from under or from below.

Without the idea of removal.

In gen., to draw or pull up; to lift up, raise (rare):

brassicam ad nasum admoveto: ita subducito susum animam, quam plurimum poteris,

Cato, R. R. 157, 15:

aliquid sursum,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 4:

cataractam funibus,

Liv. 27, 28, 10: subductis (tunicis) usque ad inguen, pulled up (opp. demissis), Hor. S. 1, 2, 26: supercilia, Turp. ap. Non. 399, 30; Varr. ib. 399, 33; Sen. Ep. 48, 5; id. Ben. 1, 1, 6 al.; cf.:

subducto voltu,

Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 9.—

In partic., naut. t. t., to draw or haul up on land (a ship out of the water;

class. and freq.): navim in pulvinarium,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 27:

longas naves in aridum,

Caes. B. G. 4, 29:

navis subducta in terrā,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 50:

naves regiae in campo Martio subductae sunt,

Liv. 45, 42:

ab classe, quae Corcyrae subducta erat,

id. 31, 22:

classis, quae subducta esset ad Gytheum,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 49; so,

naves,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11; id. B. C. 2, 23; 3, 23 fin.; Liv. 27, 17, 6; 37, 10; 42, 27:

classem,

id. 45, 2 al.; Vulg. Luc. 5, 11.—

With the idea of removal implied, to draw away from among; to take away, lead away, carry off; to withdraw, remove, etc. (class.; syn. subtraho).

In gen.:

ubi bullabit vinum, ignem subducito,

Cato, R. R. 105, 1:

lapides ex turri,

Caes. B. C. 2, 11:

rerum fundamenta,

Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 42:

conjux fidum capiti subduxerat ensem,

Verg. A. 6, 524:

subduc cibum unum diem athletae,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40:

et sucus pecori et lac subducitur agnis,

Verg. E. 3, 6:

pugnae Turnum,

id. A. 10, 615;

so,

id. ib. 10, 50:

aliquem manibus Graium,

id. ib. 10, 81:

aliquem praesenti periculo,

Vell. 2, 72, 5:

se pedibus (terra),

Lucr. 1, 1106:

se ab ipso Vulnere (fera),

Ov. M. 7, 781 et saep. —

Esp.

To purge, evacuate:

quoniam is cibus subduceret sensim alvum,

Gell. 4, 11, 4; so,

alvum,

Cels. 3, 4.—

Vela celeriter, to take in, furl, Auct. B. Alex. 45, 3:

rem de judicio,

Dig. 10, 2, 14.—

Milit. t. t., to draw off forces from one position to another (class.):

cohortes aliquot subductas ex dextro cornu post aciem circumducit,

Liv. 27, 48:

Numidas ex mediā acie,

id. 22, 48:

triarios ex postremā acie,

id. 44, 37:

subductis ordinibus,

id. 36, 18; cf. id. 40, 30:

ab his centuriones omnes lectos et evocatos... in primam aciem subducit,

Sall. C. 59, 3:

copias in proximum collem subducit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 22:

milites pleno gradu in collem,

Sall. J. 98, 4:

agmen in aequiorem locum,

Liv. 7, 34.—

With the idea of stealth or secrecy.

To take away secretly or by stealth, to steal, hide: Atreus quam (pecudem auream) sibi Thyestem subduxe queritur, Poët. ap. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6:

alicui anulum,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 81:

subducta viatica plorat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 54:

post ignem aethereā domo Subductum,

id. C. 1, 3, 30:

nec mihi rivalis subducit certos amores,

Prop. 1, 8, 45:

saccularii partem subducunt, partem subtrahunt,

Dig. 47, 11, 7:

obsides furto,

Liv. 9, 11:

cubiculum subductum omnibus ventis,

secured against, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 10.—

Esp., with se, me, etc., to take one's self away by stealth, withdraw, steal away:

tempus est subducere hinc me,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 62:

clam te subduxti mihi,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 25:

de circulo se subduxit,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 1:

modo se subducere ab ipso Vulnere visa fera est,

Ov. M. 7, 781:

se clam,

Nep. Alcib. 4, 4;

Auct. B. Afr. 93, 1: at nos quaerimus illa (verba), tamquam lateant semper seseque subducant,

Quint. 8, prooem. § 21.— Poet.:

neve terra se pedibus subducat,

Lucr. 1, 1106:

quā se subducere colles Incipiunt,

i. e. to slope down gradually, Verg. E. 9, 7; cf.

mid.: fons subducitur,

i. e. loses itself, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 39.—

Trop.

Rationem, to draw up, cast up, reckon, compute, calculate, or balance an account (by subtracting one set of items from another; class.;

esp. freq. in Cic.): subduxi ratiunculam, Quantum aeris mihi sit, quantumque alieni siet,

Plaut. Curc. 3, 1; cf.:

intus subducam ratiunculam, quantillum argenti mi siet,

id. Capt. 1, 2, 89:

subducamus summam,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11; cf.:

assidunt, subducunt: ad numum convenit,

id. ib. 5, 21, 12.—

In gen.: rationem, to deliberate, calculate:

rationibus subductis summam feci cogitationum mearum,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 10:

Medea et Atreus... initā subductāque ratione nefaria scelera meditantes,

id. N. D. 3, 29, 71; cf.: ineundis subducendisque rationibus, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 399, 16;

for which also, calculis subductis,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 60:

bene subductā ratione,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 1:

hoc quid intersit, si tuos digitos novi, certe habes subductum,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 31. —Hence, subductus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to I. A.) Raised, elevated, upturned: quod vituperones suos subducti supercilii carptores appellavit (Laevius), Gell. 19, 7, 16.—

(Acc. to II. A. 1.) Withdrawn, removed, remote, = remotus (post-Aug. and very rare):

terra subductior,

Mart. Cap. 6, § 591.

ā-vello, velli or vulsi, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a. ( pluperf. avellerat, Curt. 5, 6, 5; perf. avulsi, Luc. 9, 764), to tear off or away, to pull or rend off (syn.: abripio, eximo).

In gen. (class.):

avellere tigna trabesque,

to tear away planks and beams, Lucr. 6, 241:

avolsaque saxa Montibus,

the rocks rent from the mountains, id. 4, 141:

avolsum umeris caput,

Verg. A. 2, 558; so Ov. M. 3, 727; 2, 358:

avolsos silices a montibus altis,

Lucr. 5, 313:

avolsus radicibus oculus,

id. 3, 563: poma ex arboribus, si cruda sunt, vix avelluntur;

si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71; id. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.:

Cum ripa simul avolsos ferat Aufidus acer,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 58; 2, 8, 89:

Avellit frondes,

Ov. M. 2, 351:

summitatem frondium ejus avulsit,

Vulg. Ezech. 17, 4 al.:

Ex eā avolsa postea Therasia,

Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 70:

Euboea avolsa Boeotiae,

id. 4, 12, 21, § 63.—

Esp.

To take away by force, to tear away:

rus ab aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 14:

pretium alicui,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 104:

fatale sacrato avellere templo Palladium,

Verg. A. 2, 165:

fundum emptori,

Dig. 23, 7, 17; 40, 7, 3:

avellamus eum ad nos,

Vulg. Isa. 7, 6;

so of carrying off the bride,

Cat. 62, 21 Ellis.—

To separate from something by pulling, to part, to remove:

aliquem de matris complexu avellere atque abstrahere,

Cic. Font. 17:

ab uberibus avellere,

to wean, Vulg. Isa. 28, 9:

ut sperem posse (eum) avelli,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 21:

Non potes avelli! simul, ah, simul ibimus, inquit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 81:

complexu avolsus Iuli,

Verg. A. 4, 616:

ut avellerentur castris,

Tac. A. 1, 44: se, to tear one ' s self away, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 39.— And in pass. without the notion of violence, to withdraw:

Et ipse avulsus est ab eis,

Vulg. Luc. 22, 41 Tisch.— Trop.:

aliquem a tanto errore,

Cic. Off. 3, 4, 83.

ā-mōlĭor, ītus, 4, v. dep., to remove a person or thing from a place (with effort or difficulty), to move or carry away: amoliri dicuntur ea, quae cum magnā difficultate et molimine summoventur et tolluntur e medio, Don. ad Ter. And. 4, 2, 24 (never in Cic. or Hor.).

Lit., Att. ap. Non. 75, 31:

amoliri omnia,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 67; so id. Most. 2, 1, 44: impedimentum omne, Sisenn. ap. Non. 73, 15:

omnia e medio,

Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 25:

obstantia silvarum,

Tac. A. 1, 50:

onus,

Luc. 5, 354.—Hence, amoliri se (ante-class.), to take one's self away, to go away: non tu te e conspectu hinc amolire? Pac. ap. Non. 73, 13; Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 68; so id. Ps. 1, 5, 144;

hinc vos amolimini,

begone, Ter. And. 4, 2, 24.—

Trop., to put away, avert; in rhet., to refute, repel:

religiosum id gestamen amoliendis periculis arbitrantur,

Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 23;

invidiam crimenque ab aliquo,

Tac. H. 3, 75:

dedecus,

id. A. 14, 14: amolior et amoveo nomen meum, i. e. omitto, I pass over, lay no stress on, Liv 28, 28:

videndum etiam, simul nobis plura aggredienda sint, an amolienda singula, i. e. refutanda,

to be refuted, rebutted, Quint. 5, 13, 11; so id. 4, 1, 29; 4, 2, 27 al.

► Pass.:

Jube haec hinc omnia amolirier,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 24:

cum amolita objecta onera armatis dedissent viam,

Liv. 25, 36.

rē-ĭcĭo (better than rē-jĭcĭo), rejēci, jectum, 3 (reicis, dissyl., Stat. Th. 4, 574;

and likewise reice,

Verg. E. 3, 96;

and perh. also,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6; scanned elsewhere throughout rēĭcio, etc.), v. a. [jacio], to throw, cast, or fling back (freq. and class.; cf.: remitto, retorqueo).

Lit.

In gen.

Of inanim. objects:

imago nostros oculos rejecta revisit,

Lucr. 4, 285; 4, 107; cf. id. 4, 570:

telum in hostes,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46: tunicam reicere, i. e. to fling back, fling over the shoulder (whereas abicere is to throw off, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4), Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 69 Müll.; cf.:

togam in umerum,

Quint. 11, 3, 131; 140:

togam a sinistro,

id. 11, 3, 144:

togam ab umero,

Liv. 23, 8 fin.:

amictum ex umeris,

Verg. A. 5, 421:

ex umeris' vestem,

Ov. M. 2, 582:

de corpore vestem,

id. ib. 9, 32:

penulam,

Cic. Mil. 10, 29; Phaedr. 5, 2, 5 Burm.:

sagulum,

Cic. Pis. 23, 55; Suet. Aug. 26:

amictum,

Prop. 2, 23 (3, 17), 13:

vestem,

Cat. 66, 81 al.:

ab ore colubras,

Ov. M. 4, 474:

capillum circum caput neglegenter,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 50: manibus ad tergum rejectis, thrown back or behind, Asin. Pol. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

manus post terga,

Plin. 28, 4, 11, § 45: scutum, to throw over one ' s back (in flight), Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294; Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

parmas,

Verg. A. 11, 619:

ut janua in publicum reiceretur,

might be thrown back, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 112:

fatigata membra rejecit,

i. e. stretched on the ground, Curt. 10, 5, 3:

voluit... Reicere Alcides a se mea pectora,

to push back, Ov. M. 9, 51:

librum e gremio suo,

to fling away, id. Tr. 1, 1, 66:

sanguinem ore,

to cast up, vomit, Plin. 26, 12, 82, § 131; so,

sanguinem,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 6; 8, 1, 2:

bilem,

Plin. 23, 6, 57, § 106:

vinum,

Suet. Aug. 77:

aliquid ab stomacho,

Scrib. Comp. 191.— Poet.:

oculos Rutulorum reicit arvis,

turns away, averts, Verg. A. 10, 473:

pars (vocum) solidis adlisa locis rejecta sonorem Reddit,

echoed, Lucr. 4, 570.—

Of living objects, to drive back, chase back, force back, repel (so in gen. not found in class. prose authors):

hominem,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 19:

aliquem,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 69:

in bubilem reicere (boves),

id. Pers. 2, 5, 18:

pascentes a flumine capellas,

Verg. E. 3, 96:

in postremam aciem,

to place in the rear, Liv. 8, 8.—

Reicere se, to throw or cast one ' s self back or again; or, in gen., to throw or fling one ' s self anywhere:

tum illa Rejecit se in eum,

flung herself into his arms, Ter. And. 1, 1, 109:

se in gremium tuom,

Lucr. 1, 34:

se in grabatum,

Petr. 92, 3; cf.:

in cubile rejectus est,

id. 103, 5; cf.:

fatigata membra rejecit,

leaned back, Curt. 10, 5, 3.—

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to force back, beat back, repel, repulse the enemy (cf.:

repello, reprimo, refuto): eos, qui eruptionem fecerant, in urbem reiciebant,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2 fin.:

reliqui in oppidum rejecti sunt,

id. B. G. 2, 33; 1, 24 fin.:

Tusci rejecti armis,

Verg. A. 11, 630:

ab Antiocheā hostem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 2; cf.:

praesidia adversariorum Calydone,

Caes. B. C. 3, 35 (where, however, as id. ib. 3, 46, the MSS. vacillate between rejecti and dejecti; v. Oud. N. cr.).—

Nautical t. t.: reici, to be driven back by a storm (while deferri or deici signifies to be cast away, and eici to be thrown on the shore, stranded; v. Liv. 44, 19, 2 Drak.): naves tempestate rejectas eodem, unde erant profectae, revertisse, Caes. B. G. 5, 5; so,

naves,

id. ib. 5, 23:

a Leucopetrā profectus... rejectus sum austro vehementi ad eandem Leucopetram,

Cic. Att. 16, 7, 1; cf. id. Phil. 1, 3, 7; id. Caecin. 30, 88:

sin reflantibus ventis reiciemur,

id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119; id. Att. 3, 8, 2.

Trop.

In gen., to cast off, remove, repel, reject:

abs te socordiam omnem reice,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6: abs te religionem, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 65 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 430 Rib.):

quam ut a nobis ratio verissima longe reiciat,

Lucr. 6, 81:

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

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153:

ab his reicientur plagae balistarum,

Vitr. 10, 20:

foedum contactum a casto corpore,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 9; Ter. Phorm. prol. 18:

ferrum et audaciam,

Cic. Mur. 37, 79; cf.

ictus,

Stat. Th. 6, 770; and:

minas Hannibalis retrorsum,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 16:

(in Verrinis) facilius quod reici quam quod adici possit invenient,

Quint. 6, 3, 5.—

In partic.

Pregn., to reject contemptuously; to refuse, scorn, disdain, despise; esp. of a lover, etc.:

forsitan nos reiciat,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 5:

petentem,

Ov. M. 9, 512:

Lydiam,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 20:

Socratem omnem istam disputationem rejecisse et tantum de vitā et moribus solitum esse quaerere,

Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

refutetur ac reiciatur ille clamor,

id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55:

qui Ennii Medeam spernat aut reiciat,

id. Fin. 1, 2, 4;

of an appeal to the Senate: quae cum rejecta relatio esset,

Liv. 2, 31, 9:

recens dolor consolationes reicit ac refugit,

Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11:

ad bona deligenda et reicienda contraria,

Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 60; cf.

(vulgares reïce taedas, deligere),

Ov. M. 14, 677:

rejectā praedā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 68:

condiciones, Auct. B. Alex. 39: rejecit dona nocentium,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 42.—

In jurid. lang.: judices reicere, to set aside, challenge peremptorily, reject the judges appointed by lot:

cum ex CXXV. judicibus quinque et LXX. reus reiceret,

Cic. Planc. 17, 41; 15, 36; id. Att. 1, 16, 3; id. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 18; 2, 3, 11, § 28; 2, 3, 13, § 32; 2, 3, 59, § 146; id. Vatin. 11, 27; Plin. Pan. 36, 4.—

In the philosoph. lang. of the Stoics: reicienda and rejecta (as a transl. of the Gr. apoproêgmena), rejectable things, i. e. evils to be rejected, Cic. Fin. 5, 26, 78; 3, 16, 52; id. Ac. 1, 10, 37; cf. rejectaneus.—

With a designation of the term. ad quem, to refer to, make over to, remand to:

ad ipsam te epistulam reicio,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 8:

in hunc gregem vos Sullam reicietis?

id. Sull. 28, 77 (with transferre).—

Publicists' t. t.: reicere aliquid or aliquem ad senatum (consules, populum, pontifices, etc.), to refer a matter, or the one whom it concerns, from one ' s self to some other officer or authorized body (esp. freq. in Liv.; v. the passages in Liv. 2, 22, 5 Drak.):

totam rem ad Pompeium,

Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

senatus a se rem ad populum rejecit,

Liv. 2, 27, 5; cf.:

ab tribunis ad senatum res est rejecta,

id. 40, 29; and:

rem ad senatum,

id. 5, 22, 1:

aliquid ad pontificum collegium,

id. 41, 16; so, rem ad pontifices, Ver. Flac. ap. Gell. 5, 17, 2:

rem ad Hannibalem,

Liv. 21, 31; id. 2, 28:

tu hoc animo esse debes, ut nihil huc reicias,

Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 2.—Of personal objects:

legati ab senatu rejecti ad populum, deos rogaverunt, etc.,

Liv. 7, 20; so id. 8, 1; 9, 43; 24, 2; 39, 3.— Absol.:

tribuni appellati ad senatum rejecerunt,

Liv. 27, 8; 42, 32 fin. —

With respect to time, to put off to a later period, to defer, postpone (Ciceronian):

a Kal. Febr. legationes in Idus Febr. reiciebantur,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1:

reliqua in mensem Januarium,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

repente abs te in mensem Quintilem rejecti sumus,

id. Att. 1, 4, 1.—

Reicere se aliquo, to fling one ' s self on a thing, i. e. apply one ' s self to it (very rare): crede mihi, Caesarem... maximum beneficium te sibi dedisse judicaturum, si huc te reicis, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, § 1.

ef-fĕro or ecfĕro (cf. Neue, Formenl. 2, 766), extŭli, ēlatum, efferre or ecferre, v. a., to bring or carry out, to bring forth (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

ex navi,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 82; cf.

tela, etc., ex aedibus Cethegi,

Cic. Cat. 3, 3 fin.:

argentum jubeo jam intus efferri foras,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 62; cf. id. ib. 4, 9, 127; id. Most. 2, 1, 58; id. Mil. 4, 8, 4:

argentum ad aliquem,

id. Epid. 5, 1, 27; id. Truc. 3, 1, 16:

machaeram huc,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 53; cf. id. Stich. 2, 2, 28:

puerum extra aedes usquam,

Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 48:

cistellam domo,

id. Eun. 4, 6, 15; cf.:

cibaria sibi quemque domo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5, 3:

frumentum ab Ilerda,

id. B. C. 1, 78, 1:

piscem de custodia,

Col. 8, 17 fin.:

litteras,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45, 4:

mucronem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

vexilla, signa, arma (e castris, extra fines, etc.),

Liv. 10, 19; 27, 2; 29, 21; Tac. H. 3, 31 al.:

ferrum a latere deripuit, elatumque deferebat in pectus,

id. A. 1, 35 fin.: Colchis pedem, Enn. ap. Non. 297, 20; so,

pedem,

Verg. A. 2, 657; cf.

pedem aedibus,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 19:

pedem portā,

Cic. Att. 6, 8, 5; 7, 2, 6; Suet. Tib. 38:

pedem quoquam,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 97:

se hinc (ignis),

Lucr. 6, 89 and 385:

se vallo (equus),

Tac. A. 15, 7:

Furium longius extulit cursus,

Liv. 3, 5; cf.:

Messium impetus per hostes extulit,

id. 4, 29.—

In partic.

Like the Gr. ekpherô, to carry out (of the house) for burial, to bear to the grave, to bury (cf.: cremo, humo, sepelio, prosequor): optumum'st Loces illum efferendum;

nam jam credo mortuus est,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 32; id. Most. 4, 3, 8 sqq.; Ter. And. 1, 1, 90 Don. and Ruhnk.; 1, 1, 101; Cic. N. D. 3, 32, 80; Nep. Att. 17; Liv. 2, 33; 3, 18 fin.; Quint. 8, 5, 21; Suet. Aug. 99; Hor. S. 2, 5, 85; Vulg. Luc. 7, 12.—

Transf.: meo unius funere elata populi Romani esset res publica, carried to burial, i. e. overthrown, destroyed, Liv. 28, 28; 24, 22; 31, 29.—

Of a fruit-bearing soil, to bring forth, bear, produce:

id, quod agri efferant,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4 fin.; id. Brut. 4, 16; cf. also id. Verr. 2, 3, 47 fin.; 86 al.—

Transf.:

ea, quae efferant aliquid ex sese, perfectiores habere naturas quam, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 33 fin.; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 109; poet.:

(Italia) genus acre virum,

Verg. G. 2, 169.—

Of motion in an upward direction (cf.: erigo and educo, II. B. 1.), to lift up, elevate, raise, exalt, Lucil. ap. Non. 297, 25:

aliquem in murum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 47 fin.:

pars operis in altitudinem turris elata,

id. B. C. 2, 8 fin.; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 103; and Suet. Calig. 32:

corvus e conspectu elatus,

Liv. 7, 26:

pulvis elatus,

id. 4, 33:

elata super capita scuta,

Tac. H. 3, 27: jubar (luna), Petron. Poët. 89, 2, 54; poet.:

caput Auctumnus agris extulit,

Hor. Epod. 2, 18.

Trop.

To set forth, spread abroad, utter, publish, proclaim:

clamorem,

to raise, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73:

quod neque in vulgum disciplinam efferri velint, neque, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 6, 14, 4; cf. Plin. 2, 12, 9:

vocem ejus in vulgus,

Tac. A. 12, 21:

tuum peccatum foras,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 65 Ruhnk.:

hoc foras,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3; so,

clandestina consilia,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1, 6:

rem,

id. ib. 7, 2, 2:

has meas ineptias,

Cic. de Or. 1, 24, 111:

divinitus dicta,

id. ib. 3, 1 fin. et saep.—With a rel. clause:

posteaquam in volgus militum elatum est, qua arrogantia in colloquio Ariovistus usus, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46, 4.—

In partic., of speech, to utter, pronounce, express, declare:

verbum de verbo expressum extulit,

Ter. Ad. prol. 11:

ut verba inter se ra tione conjuncta sententiam efferant,

Varr. L. L. 8, § 1 Müll.:

si graves sententiae inconditis verbis efferuntur,

Cic. Or. 44, 150; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 13:

quae incisim aut membratim efferuntur, ea, etc.,

Cic. Or. 67; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 33; 8, 3, 40; 10, 2, 17: pleraque utroque modo efferuntur, luxuriatur, luxuriat, etc., id. 9, 3, 7; cf. id. 1, 5, 16; 64; 2, 14, 2.—

In the pass., qs. to be carried out of one's self by passions, feelings, etc.; to be carried away, transported, hurried away: usque adeo studio atque odio illius efferor ira, Lucil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 21 fin.; so,

studio,

Cic. de Sen. 23, 83; id. Att. 1, 8, 2; id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.; Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 2; cf.

cupiditate,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

vi naturae atque ingenii,

id. Mur. 31, 65:

laetitia,

id. Deiot. 9, 26 (cf. act.:

comitia ista praeclara, quae me laetitia extulerunt,

id. Fam. 2, 10):

incredibili gaudio,

id. Fam. 10, 12, 2; cf. id. Rep. 3, 30; Suet. Caes. 22:

voluptate canendi ac saltandi,

id. Calig. 54:

popularitate,

id. Ner. 53.—

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) To raise, elevate, exalt:

pretia alicujus rei,

Varr. R. R. 3, 6 fin.:

quorum animi altius se extulerunt,

Cic. Rep. 3, 3:

aliquem ad summum imperium per omnes honorum gradus,

id. Cat. 1, 11, 28; cf.:

aliquem supra leges,

Tac. A. 2, 34; and:

aliquem geminatis consulatibus,

id. ib. 1, 3; cf. also id. ib. 4, 40:

aliquem pecunia aut honore,

Sall. J. 49, 4:

patriam demersam extuli,

Cic. Sull. 31, 87; cf. Nep. Dion. 6; Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 34:

aliquem maximis laudibus,

id. Off. 2, 10, 36; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 87:

aliquem summis laudibus ad caelum,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14; cf. Nep. Dion. 7 fin.:

aliquid maximis laudibus,

Cic. Lael. 7, 24:

aliquem laudibus,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

aliquem verbis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

aliquid versibus,

id. Rep. 1, 14;

and simply aliquid,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 56; Tac. A. 2, 63:

aliquem in summum odium,

id. H. 4, 42; cf.:

rem in summam invidiam,

Quint. 8, 4, 19.—

In partic., with se, to raise, elevate one's self; to rise, advance (cf.:

appareo, eluceo, exsisto): cum (virtus) se extulit et ostendit suum lumen,

Cic. Lael. 27; cf.

so with a figure borrowed from the heavenly bodies: qua in urbe (Athenis) primum se orator extulit,

id. Brut. 7, 26:

volo se efferat in adolescente fecunditas,

id. de Or. 2, 21.—

In a bad sense, with se, or in the [p. 629] pass., to lift up one's self, to carry one's self high; to be puffed up, haughty, proud on account of any thing (the figure being borrowed from a prancing horse; cf. Liv. 30, 20; and Quint. 10, 3, 10):

nec cohibendo efferentem se fortunam, quanto altius elatus erat, eo foedius corruit (Atilius),

Liv. 30, 30:

quod aut cupias ardenter aut adeptus ecferas te insolenter,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 39:

qui enim victoria se ecferunt, quasi victos nos intuentur,

id. Fam. 9, 2, 2; cf.:

se altius et incivilius,

Flor. 1, 26, 8:

sese audacia, scelere atque superbia,

Sall. J. 14, 11:

hic me magnifice effero,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 31:

(fortunati) efferuntur fere fastidio et contumacia,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54:

se efferre in potestate,

to be insolent in office, id. de Or. 2, 84, 342.—Esp. freq. in the part. perf.:

stulta ac barbara arrogantia elati,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59, 3:

recenti victoria,

id. B. G. 5, 47, 4:

spe celeris victoriae,

id. ib. 7, 47, 3:

gloria,

id. B. C. 3, 79, 6:

elatus et inflatus his rebus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

secunda fortuna magnisque opibus,

Nep. Alcib. 7, 3; id. Milt. 7, 2:

elatus ad vanam fiduciam,

Curt. 3, 19, 10;

but also: ad justam fiduciam,

Liv. 27, 8, 7 et saep.—In the act. (rare, and with a fig. perh. borrowed from the wind): is demum vir erit, cujus animum nec prospera (fortuna) flatu suo efferet ( elates, inflates), nec adversa infringet, Liv. 45, 8 fin. —

Ante-class. and very rare, to carry out to the end, to support, endure: laborem, Att. ap. Cic. Sest. 48; cf.: malum patiendo, to get rid of, do away with, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 4, 29, 63 (but not in Lucr. 1, 141, where the better reading is sufferre).—Hence, ēlā-tus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 3. and II. C. 2.), exalted, lofty, high (rare; cf.: superbus, insolens, arrogans, etc.).

Lit.:

modo in elatiora modo in depressiora clivi,

Col. 2, 4, 10:

elatissimae lucernae,

Tert. Apol. 53.—

Trop.:

animus magnus elatusque,

Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96:

verba,

high-sounding, id. Or. 36, 124;

hoc casu elatior Julianus,

Amm. 21, 4, 7; Vulg. Rom. 1, 30:

insula opibus,

Nep. Milt. 7, 2. — Adv.: ēlāte, loftily, proudly:

elate et ample loqui, opp. humiliter demisseque sentire,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 9:

dicere (opp. summisse),

id. Opt. Gen. 4, 10.— Comp.:

se gerere,

Nep. Paus. 2, 3:

elatius et arrogantius praefatur,

Gell. 9, 15, 4.

ef-fĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ex-ferus], to make wild, savage, fierce (class.; most freq. since the Aug. per.).

Physically:

terram immanitate beluarum efferari,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99:

speciem oris,

Liv. 2, 23; cf.

vultum,

Suet. Calig. 50:

efferantia sese ulcera,

becoming aggravated, malignant, Plin. 26, 14, 87, § 146.— Poet.:

Mars efferat aurum,

i. e. works up into weapons, Stat. Achill. 1, 425; cf.:

homo qui magnae artis subtilitate tantum efferavit argentum,

i. e. wrought into the figures of beasts, App. M. 5, p. 159, 14.—

Mentally:

gentes sic immanitate efferatae,

Cic. N. D. 1, 23; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 14, 32:

militem dux ipse efferavit,

Liv. 23, 5; cf. id. 2, 29:

animos,

id. 1, 19; 25, 26:

ingenia,

Curt. 8, 2; 9, 19:

efferavit ea caedes Thebanos omnes ad exsecrabile odium Romanorum,

exasperated, Liv. 33, 29; cf. Vulg. Dan. 8, 7.—Hence, effĕrātus, a, um, P. a., wild, savage, fierce:

sunt enim multa ecferata et immania, quaedam autem humanitatis quoque habent primam speciem,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 32:

vultus,

Petr. 82, 1:

animi,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 5, 11.— Comp.:

mores ritusque,

Liv. 34, 24.— Sup.:

effectus,

Sen. Ep. 121, 4:

canes in homines,

Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. M. 3, 18.— Adv.: effĕrāte, fiercely:

saevire,

Lact. 5, 20, 10.

prō-ĭcĭo ( projĭcĭo), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [jacio].

Lit.

In gen., to throw forth or before; to fling away, throw down; to throw, thrust, drive, or put out; to stretch out, hold out, extend: projectum odoraris cibum, thrown before or to you, Hor. Epod. 6, 10:

frusto cibarii panis ei projecto,

App. M. 6, p. 177, 36:

cadavera projecta,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 25 Müll.:

crates,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81:

aquilam intra vallum,

id. ib. 5, 37:

aurum in mediā Libyā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 100:

aliquid in ignem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 25:

geminos cestus in medium,

Verg. A. 5, 402:

tela manu,

id. ib. 6, 835:

arma, of one in flight (cf.: abicere arma,

Just. 8, 2, 4), Caes. B. C. 3, 98; id. B. G. 7, 40; 8, 29; Hirt. B. Alex. 76:

omnibus projectis fugae consilium capere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 20:

insepultos,

Liv. 29, 9; Suet. Vesp. 21, 3, 19:

Diogenes proici se jussit inhumatum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 104:

parvam,

to cast out, expose, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 74:

artus,

to stretch out, Val. Fl. 7, 141:

hastam,

to hold out, extend, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2:

strato graves artus,

Val. Fl. 7, 141: scutum, to hold in front, to oppose, Sisenn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4; Liv. 7, 10; cf.:

projecto prae se clipeo,

id. 32, 25:

proicere se ad pedes alicujus,

Cic. Sest. 11, 26; Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

ad genua alicujus se proicere,

Liv. 26, 32, 8:

se ex navi,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

se super exanimem amicum,

Verg. A. 9, 444:

se in forum,

Liv. 2, 23; cf.:

projecturus semet in flumen,

Curt. 9, 4, 12; Gai. Inst. 3, 219.—

In partic.

To cast out, expel; to exile, banish:

tantam pestem evomere et proicere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2:

in exilium proici,

Sen. Prov. 3, 2:

aliquem ab urbe,

Ov. M. 15, 504:

vix duo projecto (mihi) tulistis opem,

id. P. 2, 3, 30:

Agrippam in insulam,

Tac. A. 1, 3; 4, 71:

a facie tuā,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 12. —

In architecture, to let any part of a building jut out, to cause to project:

tectum,

Cic. Top. 4, 24:

jus immittendi tigna in parietem vicini, proiciendi, protegendi, etc.,

Dig. 8, 2, 1.—

Trop.

To throw away, i. e. to give up, yield, resign, renounce, reject, disdain, etc. (cf. depono):

nec pro his libertatem, sed pro libertate haec proicias,

Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Rab. Post. 12, 33:

patriam virtutem,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

spem salutis,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 3:

ampullas et sesquipedalia verba,

Hor. A. P. 97:

pudorem,

Ov. M. 6, 544:

senatūs auctoritatem,

Tac. A. 1, 42; cf. Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 8:

diem,

to deprive one's self of the light of day, to blind one's self, Stat. Th. 2, 237.—Esp. of life:

animas,

Verg. A. 6, 436:

vitam,

Luc. 4, 526.—With personal objects:

aliquem,

to neglect, desert, forsake, abandon, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 8:

Deum,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 10, 19.—

With se, to rush into any thing:

si qui se in hoc judicium forte projecerint,

Cic. Cael. 9, 22.—

In partic.

To rush into danger:

epistulae tuae monent et rogant, ne me proiciam,

Cic. Att. 9, 6, 5:

non integrā re, sed certe minus infractā, quam si una projeceris te,

id. ib. 9, 10, 8; cf.:

in miserias projectus sum,

Sall. J. 14, 21.—

To degrade one's self:

se in muliebres et inutiles fletus,

Liv. 25, 37, 10.—

To obtrude itself:

quae libido non se proripiet ac proiciet occultatione propositā,

Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73.—

To put off as to time, to defer, delay (post-Aug.):

quantum odii fore ab iis qui ultra quinquennium proiciantur,

Tac. A. 2, 36.— Hence, prōjectus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., stretched out, extended, jutting out, projecting:

urbs projecta in altum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 21:

projecta saxa,

Verg. A. 3, 699:

ova,

Liv. 22, 20; and:

insula a septentrione in meridiem projecta,

Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 80:

ventre projecto,

projecting, prominent, Suet. Ner. 51; cf. in comp.:

ventre paulo projectiore,

id. Tit. 3.—Hence,

Subst.: prō-jectum, i, n., a jutty, projection, projecture in a building, Dig. 50, 16, 242; 43, 17, 6; 43, 24, 22.—

Trop.

Prominent, manifest:

projecta atque eminens audacia,

Cic. Clu. 65, 183; id. Rep. 3, 7, 11 (from Non. 373, 25):

cupiditas,

id. Dom. 44, 115.—

Inclined, addicted to any thing, immoderate in any thing:

homo ad audendum projectus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2:

homines in verba projecti,

Gell. 1, 15, 20: in libidinem, [p. 1462] Just. 41, 3, 9.— Sup.:

projectissima ad libidinem gens,

Tac. H. 5, 5.—

Thrown away; hence, abject, mean, base, contemptible, = abjectus, contemptus:

non esse projectum consulare imperium,

Liv. 2, 27:

projecta patientia,

Tac. A. 3, 65 fin.:

projectā vilior algā,

Verg. E. 7, 42.— Comp.: quid esse vobis aestimem projectius? Prud. steph. 10, 153.—

Downcast:

vultus projectus et degener,

Tac. H. 3, 65.—Hence, adv.: prō-jectē, carelessly, indifferently (post-class.): Tert. Pud. 13.

prō-ĭcĭo ( projĭcĭo), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [jacio].

Lit.

In gen., to throw forth or before; to fling away, throw down; to throw, thrust, drive, or put out; to stretch out, hold out, extend: projectum odoraris cibum, thrown before or to you, Hor. Epod. 6, 10:

frusto cibarii panis ei projecto,

App. M. 6, p. 177, 36:

cadavera projecta,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 25 Müll.:

crates,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81:

aquilam intra vallum,

id. ib. 5, 37:

aurum in mediā Libyā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 100:

aliquid in ignem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 25:

geminos cestus in medium,

Verg. A. 5, 402:

tela manu,

id. ib. 6, 835:

arma, of one in flight (cf.: abicere arma,

Just. 8, 2, 4), Caes. B. C. 3, 98; id. B. G. 7, 40; 8, 29; Hirt. B. Alex. 76:

omnibus projectis fugae consilium capere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 20:

insepultos,

Liv. 29, 9; Suet. Vesp. 21, 3, 19:

Diogenes proici se jussit inhumatum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 104:

parvam,

to cast out, expose, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 74:

artus,

to stretch out, Val. Fl. 7, 141:

hastam,

to hold out, extend, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2:

strato graves artus,

Val. Fl. 7, 141: scutum, to hold in front, to oppose, Sisenn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4; Liv. 7, 10; cf.:

projecto prae se clipeo,

id. 32, 25:

proicere se ad pedes alicujus,

Cic. Sest. 11, 26; Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

ad genua alicujus se proicere,

Liv. 26, 32, 8:

se ex navi,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

se super exanimem amicum,

Verg. A. 9, 444:

se in forum,

Liv. 2, 23; cf.:

projecturus semet in flumen,

Curt. 9, 4, 12; Gai. Inst. 3, 219.—

In partic.

To cast out, expel; to exile, banish:

tantam pestem evomere et proicere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2:

in exilium proici,

Sen. Prov. 3, 2:

aliquem ab urbe,

Ov. M. 15, 504:

vix duo projecto (mihi) tulistis opem,

id. P. 2, 3, 30:

Agrippam in insulam,

Tac. A. 1, 3; 4, 71:

a facie tuā,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 12. —

In architecture, to let any part of a building jut out, to cause to project:

tectum,

Cic. Top. 4, 24:

jus immittendi tigna in parietem vicini, proiciendi, protegendi, etc.,

Dig. 8, 2, 1.—

Trop.

To throw away, i. e. to give up, yield, resign, renounce, reject, disdain, etc. (cf. depono):

nec pro his libertatem, sed pro libertate haec proicias,

Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Rab. Post. 12, 33:

patriam virtutem,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

spem salutis,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 3:

ampullas et sesquipedalia verba,

Hor. A. P. 97:

pudorem,

Ov. M. 6, 544:

senatūs auctoritatem,

Tac. A. 1, 42; cf. Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 8:

diem,

to deprive one's self of the light of day, to blind one's self, Stat. Th. 2, 237.—Esp. of life:

animas,

Verg. A. 6, 436:

vitam,

Luc. 4, 526.—With personal objects:

aliquem,

to neglect, desert, forsake, abandon, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 8:

Deum,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 10, 19.—

With se, to rush into any thing:

si qui se in hoc judicium forte projecerint,

Cic. Cael. 9, 22.—

In partic.

To rush into danger:

epistulae tuae monent et rogant, ne me proiciam,

Cic. Att. 9, 6, 5:

non integrā re, sed certe minus infractā, quam si una projeceris te,

id. ib. 9, 10, 8; cf.:

in miserias projectus sum,

Sall. J. 14, 21.—

To degrade one's self:

se in muliebres et inutiles fletus,

Liv. 25, 37, 10.—

To obtrude itself:

quae libido non se proripiet ac proiciet occultatione propositā,

Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73.—

To put off as to time, to defer, delay (post-Aug.):

quantum odii fore ab iis qui ultra quinquennium proiciantur,

Tac. A. 2, 36.— Hence, prōjectus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., stretched out, extended, jutting out, projecting:

urbs projecta in altum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 21:

projecta saxa,

Verg. A. 3, 699:

ova,

Liv. 22, 20; and:

insula a septentrione in meridiem projecta,

Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 80:

ventre projecto,

projecting, prominent, Suet. Ner. 51; cf. in comp.:

ventre paulo projectiore,

id. Tit. 3.—Hence,

Subst.: prō-jectum, i, n., a jutty, projection, projecture in a building, Dig. 50, 16, 242; 43, 17, 6; 43, 24, 22.—

Trop.

Prominent, manifest:

projecta atque eminens audacia,

Cic. Clu. 65, 183; id. Rep. 3, 7, 11 (from Non. 373, 25):

cupiditas,

id. Dom. 44, 115.—

Inclined, addicted to any thing, immoderate in any thing:

homo ad audendum projectus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2:

homines in verba projecti,

Gell. 1, 15, 20: in libidinem, [p. 1462] Just. 41, 3, 9.— Sup.:

projectissima ad libidinem gens,

Tac. H. 5, 5.—

Thrown away; hence, abject, mean, base, contemptible, = abjectus, contemptus:

non esse projectum consulare imperium,

Liv. 2, 27:

projecta patientia,

Tac. A. 3, 65 fin.:

projectā vilior algā,

Verg. E. 7, 42.— Comp.: quid esse vobis aestimem projectius? Prud. steph. 10, 153.—

Downcast:

vultus projectus et degener,

Tac. H. 3, 65.—Hence, adv.: prō-jectē, carelessly, indifferently (post-class.): Tert. Pud. 13.

prō-volvo, volvi, vŏlūtum, 3, v. a.

Lit.

In gen., to roll or tumble forwards, to roll along, roll over and over, roll away (class., but not in Cic.):

aliquem in viam mediam,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 37:

corpora,

Lucr. 6, 1264:

ubi glaeba e terrā provolvitur ingens,

id. 6, 553:

cupas ardentes in opera,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 42:

congestas lapidum moles,

Tac. A. 4, 51:

Galba projectus e sellā ac provolutus est,

id. H. 1, 41; Verg. A. 12, 533; 10, 556.—

In partic., with se or mid., to cast one's self down, fall down, prostrate one's self at another's feet (syn. prosterno):

se alicui ad pedes,

Liv. 6, 3:

flentes ad genua consulis provolvuntur,

id. 34, 11:

provolutae ad pedes,

Curt. 3, 12, 11:

genibus ejus provolutus,

Tac. A. 12, 18; 11, 30; Just. 11, 9, 14.—

Trop., to snatch away, carry away, hurry on (post-Aug.):

multi fortunis provolvebantur,

i. e. are ruined, Tac. A. 6, 17.—

Mid., to humble one's self:

usque ad libita Pallantis provoluta,

submitting to the desires of, Tac. A. 14, 2:

provolutus effususque in iram,

Gell. 1, 26, 7.

rĕ-condo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a., to put up again, put back again; to lay up, put or stow away, hoard; to shut up, close; to hide, conceal, bury, etc. (cf.: abscondo, occulo, retrudo, abdo).

Lit.:

gladium cruentatum in vaginam recondidit,

put up again, sheathe, Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

gladium in vaginā,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

cum Lepidus flammae vi e rogo ejectus recondi propter ardorem non potuisset,

put back again, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186: reliquias (ciborum) aliquo, * Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 78; cf.:

uvas in amphoras,

Col. 12, 16, 3:

uvas in vasis,

id. 12, 15 fin.:

victum tectis,

id. ib. prooem. §

12: Caecubum,

Hor. C. 3, 28, 2:

opes aerario,

Quint. 10, 3, 3:

frumentum in annos,

Col. 2, 20, 6: se, to bury one ' s self, Sen. Ep. 8, 1: se in locum, ex quo, etc., to hide one ' s self, Quint. 10, 3, 25:

quod celari opus erat, habebant sepositum et reconditum,

hid away, concealed, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 24; cf.:

nihil tam clausum neque tam reconditum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 20, §

40: recondita alia invenerunt,

Liv. 8, 18:

imo reconditus antro,

Ov. M. 1, 583; cf.

nube,

id. ib. 3, 273:

silvā,

id. ib. 4, 339; Flor. 1, 13, 11 Duk. (cf. Liv. 5, 51, 9 Drak., and v. the foll.).— Poet.: oculos, to close again (opp. erigere), Ov. M. 4, 146: avidā recondidit alvo, hid, i. e. swallowed, id. ib. 12, 17; cf.: cum subito Triton ore recondit aquam, sucks in, i. q. absorbet, Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 16:

ensem in pulmone,

to bury, sheathe, plunge, Verg. A. 10, 387; so,

gladium lateri,

Ov. M. 12, 482. —

Trop.:

mens alia visa sic arripit, ut his statim utatur, alia recondit, e quibus memoria oritur,

lays up, stores away, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 30; cf.:

verba, vultus in crimen detorquens recondebat,

Tac. A. 1, 7 fin.;

and, odia,

id. ib. 1, 69 fin.:

Venerem interius recondere,

Verg. G. 3, 137:

quos fama obscura recondit,

id. A. 5, 302:

voluptates,

to keep secret, Tac. A. 4, 57:

in hoc me recondidi... ut prodesse pluribus possem,

went into retirement, Sen. Ep. 8, 1; cf.:

penitus quicquid arcani apparo, id Herc. Oet. 478: praecepta mea reconde,

Vulg. Prov. 7, 1.— Hence, rĕcondĭtus, a, um, P. a., put away, out of the way, hidden, concealed, retired, sequestered.

Lit.:

neque tabulis et signis propalam collocatis, sed his omnibus rebus constructis ac reconditis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

quid Aegyptus? ut occulte latet! ut recondita est!

id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; cf.

locus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 207; so,

saltus,

Cat. 34, 11:

venae auri argentique,

deep-lying, concealed, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

habemus senatus consultum, verum inclusum in tabulis, tamquam in vaginā reconditum,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4.— Subst.: rĕcondĭtum, i, n., a secret place, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 25.— Plur.: rĕ-condĭta, ōrum, n., remote, sequestered places: Pergami in occultis ac reconditis templi, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 4.—

Trop., hidden, profound, abstruse, recondite:

litterae,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf.:

reconditae abstrusaeque res,

id. Brut. 11, 44;

and, reconditiora, opp. quae in promptu sunt,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 10:

artes,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 8; cf. id. Off. 1, 27, 95:

causae,

Tac. Or. 28:

reconditae exquisitaeque sententiae,

profound, recondite, Cic. Brut. 97, 274: verba, unusual, August. ap. Suet. Aug. 86:

(natura) speciem ita formavit oris, ut in eā penitus reconditos mores effingeret,

concealed, hidden, Cic. Leg. 1, 9, 26; cf.:

Quinctius naturā tristi ac reconditā fuit,

of a reserved disposition, id. Quint. 18, 59.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

rĕ-condo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a., to put up again, put back again; to lay up, put or stow away, hoard; to shut up, close; to hide, conceal, bury, etc. (cf.: abscondo, occulo, retrudo, abdo).

Lit.:

gladium cruentatum in vaginam recondidit,

put up again, sheathe, Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

gladium in vaginā,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

cum Lepidus flammae vi e rogo ejectus recondi propter ardorem non potuisset,

put back again, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186: reliquias (ciborum) aliquo, * Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 78; cf.:

uvas in amphoras,

Col. 12, 16, 3:

uvas in vasis,

id. 12, 15 fin.:

victum tectis,

id. ib. prooem. §

12: Caecubum,

Hor. C. 3, 28, 2:

opes aerario,

Quint. 10, 3, 3:

frumentum in annos,

Col. 2, 20, 6: se, to bury one ' s self, Sen. Ep. 8, 1: se in locum, ex quo, etc., to hide one ' s self, Quint. 10, 3, 25:

quod celari opus erat, habebant sepositum et reconditum,

hid away, concealed, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 24; cf.:

nihil tam clausum neque tam reconditum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 20, §

40: recondita alia invenerunt,

Liv. 8, 18:

imo reconditus antro,

Ov. M. 1, 583; cf.

nube,

id. ib. 3, 273:

silvā,

id. ib. 4, 339; Flor. 1, 13, 11 Duk. (cf. Liv. 5, 51, 9 Drak., and v. the foll.).— Poet.: oculos, to close again (opp. erigere), Ov. M. 4, 146: avidā recondidit alvo, hid, i. e. swallowed, id. ib. 12, 17; cf.: cum subito Triton ore recondit aquam, sucks in, i. q. absorbet, Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 16:

ensem in pulmone,

to bury, sheathe, plunge, Verg. A. 10, 387; so,

gladium lateri,

Ov. M. 12, 482. —

Trop.:

mens alia visa sic arripit, ut his statim utatur, alia recondit, e quibus memoria oritur,

lays up, stores away, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 30; cf.:

verba, vultus in crimen detorquens recondebat,

Tac. A. 1, 7 fin.;

and, odia,

id. ib. 1, 69 fin.:

Venerem interius recondere,

Verg. G. 3, 137:

quos fama obscura recondit,

id. A. 5, 302:

voluptates,

to keep secret, Tac. A. 4, 57:

in hoc me recondidi... ut prodesse pluribus possem,

went into retirement, Sen. Ep. 8, 1; cf.:

penitus quicquid arcani apparo, id Herc. Oet. 478: praecepta mea reconde,

Vulg. Prov. 7, 1.— Hence, rĕcondĭtus, a, um, P. a., put away, out of the way, hidden, concealed, retired, sequestered.

Lit.:

neque tabulis et signis propalam collocatis, sed his omnibus rebus constructis ac reconditis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

quid Aegyptus? ut occulte latet! ut recondita est!

id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; cf.

locus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 207; so,

saltus,

Cat. 34, 11:

venae auri argentique,

deep-lying, concealed, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

habemus senatus consultum, verum inclusum in tabulis, tamquam in vaginā reconditum,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4.— Subst.: rĕcondĭtum, i, n., a secret place, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 25.— Plur.: rĕ-condĭta, ōrum, n., remote, sequestered places: Pergami in occultis ac reconditis templi, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 4.—

Trop., hidden, profound, abstruse, recondite:

litterae,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf.:

reconditae abstrusaeque res,

id. Brut. 11, 44;

and, reconditiora, opp. quae in promptu sunt,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 10:

artes,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 8; cf. id. Off. 1, 27, 95:

causae,

Tac. Or. 28:

reconditae exquisitaeque sententiae,

profound, recondite, Cic. Brut. 97, 274: verba, unusual, August. ap. Suet. Aug. 86:

(natura) speciem ita formavit oris, ut in eā penitus reconditos mores effingeret,

concealed, hidden, Cic. Leg. 1, 9, 26; cf.:

Quinctius naturā tristi ac reconditā fuit,

of a reserved disposition, id. Quint. 18, 59.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

rĕ-condo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a., to put up again, put back again; to lay up, put or stow away, hoard; to shut up, close; to hide, conceal, bury, etc. (cf.: abscondo, occulo, retrudo, abdo).

Lit.:

gladium cruentatum in vaginam recondidit,

put up again, sheathe, Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

gladium in vaginā,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

cum Lepidus flammae vi e rogo ejectus recondi propter ardorem non potuisset,

put back again, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186: reliquias (ciborum) aliquo, * Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 78; cf.:

uvas in amphoras,

Col. 12, 16, 3:

uvas in vasis,

id. 12, 15 fin.:

victum tectis,

id. ib. prooem. §

12: Caecubum,

Hor. C. 3, 28, 2:

opes aerario,

Quint. 10, 3, 3:

frumentum in annos,

Col. 2, 20, 6: se, to bury one ' s self, Sen. Ep. 8, 1: se in locum, ex quo, etc., to hide one ' s self, Quint. 10, 3, 25:

quod celari opus erat, habebant sepositum et reconditum,

hid away, concealed, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 24; cf.:

nihil tam clausum neque tam reconditum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 20, §

40: recondita alia invenerunt,

Liv. 8, 18:

imo reconditus antro,

Ov. M. 1, 583; cf.

nube,

id. ib. 3, 273:

silvā,

id. ib. 4, 339; Flor. 1, 13, 11 Duk. (cf. Liv. 5, 51, 9 Drak., and v. the foll.).— Poet.: oculos, to close again (opp. erigere), Ov. M. 4, 146: avidā recondidit alvo, hid, i. e. swallowed, id. ib. 12, 17; cf.: cum subito Triton ore recondit aquam, sucks in, i. q. absorbet, Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 16:

ensem in pulmone,

to bury, sheathe, plunge, Verg. A. 10, 387; so,

gladium lateri,

Ov. M. 12, 482. —

Trop.:

mens alia visa sic arripit, ut his statim utatur, alia recondit, e quibus memoria oritur,

lays up, stores away, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 30; cf.:

verba, vultus in crimen detorquens recondebat,

Tac. A. 1, 7 fin.;

and, odia,

id. ib. 1, 69 fin.:

Venerem interius recondere,

Verg. G. 3, 137:

quos fama obscura recondit,

id. A. 5, 302:

voluptates,

to keep secret, Tac. A. 4, 57:

in hoc me recondidi... ut prodesse pluribus possem,

went into retirement, Sen. Ep. 8, 1; cf.:

penitus quicquid arcani apparo, id Herc. Oet. 478: praecepta mea reconde,

Vulg. Prov. 7, 1.— Hence, rĕcondĭtus, a, um, P. a., put away, out of the way, hidden, concealed, retired, sequestered.

Lit.:

neque tabulis et signis propalam collocatis, sed his omnibus rebus constructis ac reconditis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

quid Aegyptus? ut occulte latet! ut recondita est!

id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; cf.

locus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 207; so,

saltus,

Cat. 34, 11:

venae auri argentique,

deep-lying, concealed, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

habemus senatus consultum, verum inclusum in tabulis, tamquam in vaginā reconditum,

id. Cat. 1, 2, 4.— Subst.: rĕcondĭtum, i, n., a secret place, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 25.— Plur.: rĕ-condĭta, ōrum, n., remote, sequestered places: Pergami in occultis ac reconditis templi, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 4.—

Trop., hidden, profound, abstruse, recondite:

litterae,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf.:

reconditae abstrusaeque res,

id. Brut. 11, 44;

and, reconditiora, opp. quae in promptu sunt,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 10:

artes,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 8; cf. id. Off. 1, 27, 95:

causae,

Tac. Or. 28:

reconditae exquisitaeque sententiae,

profound, recondite, Cic. Brut. 97, 274: verba, unusual, August. ap. Suet. Aug. 86:

(natura) speciem ita formavit oris, ut in eā penitus reconditos mores effingeret,

concealed, hidden, Cic. Leg. 1, 9, 26; cf.:

Quinctius naturā tristi ac reconditā fuit,

of a reserved disposition, id. Quint. 18, 59.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

verto ( vorto), ti, sum, 3 ( inf. vortier, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 48; Lucr. 1, 710; 2, 927; 5, 1199 al.), v. a. and n. [Sanscr. root vart-, to apply one's self, turn; cf. vart-ukas, round].

Act., to turn, to turn round or about (syn.: verso, contorqueo).

Lit.:

(luna) eam partem, quaecumque est ignibus aucta, Ad speciem vertit nobis,

Lucr. 5, 724:

speciem quo,

id. 4, 242:

ora huc et huc,

Hor. Epod. 4, 9:

terga,

Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 6:

gradu discedere verso,

id. M. 4, 338:

verso pede,

id. ib. 8, 869:

pennas,

i. e. to fly away, Prop. 2, 24, 22 (3, 19, 6):

cardinem,

Ov. M. 14, 782:

fores tacito cardine,

Tib. 1, 6, 12: cadum, to turn or tip up, Hor. C. 3, 29, 2:

versā pulvis inscribitur hastā,

inverted, Verg. A. 1, 478:

verte hac te, puere,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 29; cf.:

verti me a Minturnis Arpinum versus,

Cic. Att. 16, 10, 1:

cum haesisset descendenti (virgini) stola, vertit se et recollegit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 9:

ante tuos quotiens verti me, perfida, postes,

Prop. 1, 16, 43:

Pompeiani se verterunt et loco cesserunt,

turned about, wheeled about, fled, Caes. B. C. 3, 51; cf.:

vertere terga,

to turn one's back, run away, betake one's self to flight, id. B. G. 1, 53; 3, 21; id. B. C. 1, 47; 3, 63 fin.; Liv. 1, 14, 9; cf.

also: hostem in fugam,

to put to flight, rout, id. 30, 33, 16;

Auct. B. Afr. 17: iter retro,

Liv. 28, 3, 1:

hiems (piscis) ad hoc mare,

Hor. Epod. 2, 52: fenestrae in viam versae, turned or directed towards, looking towards, Liv. 1, 41, 4; cf.:

mare ad occidentem versum,

id. 36, 15, 9:

Scytharum gens ab oriente ad septentrionem se vertit,

Curt. 7, 7, 3:

(Maeander) nunc ad fontes, nunc in mare versus,

Ov. M. 8, 165: terram aratro, to turn up or over, to plough, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 28:

ferro terram,

Verg. G. 1, 147:

glaebas (aratra),

Ov. M. 1, 425; 5, 477:

solum bidentibus,

Col. 4, 5:

agros bove,

Prop. 3, 7, 43 (4, 6, 43):

collem,

Col. 3, 13, 8:

freta lacertis (in rowing),

Verg. A. 5, 141:

ex illā pecuniā magnam partem ad se vortit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 57.—Mid.: vertier ad lapidem, to turn or incline one's self towards, Lucr. 5, 1199:

congressi... ad caedem vertuntur,

Liv. 1, 7, 2; so,

versi in fugam hostes,

Tac. H. 2, 26; cf.:

Philippis versa acies retro,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 26:

sinit hic violentis omnia verti Turbinibus,

to whirl themselves about, Lucr. 5, 503:

magnus caeli si vortitur orbis,

id. 5, 510:

vertitur interea caelum,

revolves, Verg. A. 2, 250:

squamarum serie a caudā ad caput versā,

reaching, Plin. 28, 8, 30, § 119.—

Trop.

In gen., to turn:

ne ea, quae reipublicae causa egerit, in suam contumeliam vertat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 8:

in suam rem litem vertendo,

Liv. 3, 72, 2:

usum ejus (olei) ad luxuriam vertere Graeci,

Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19; cf.:

aliquid in rem vertere,

turn to account, make profitable, Dig. 15, 3, 1 sqq.:

edocere, quo sese vertant sortes,

Enn. Trag. v. 64 Vahl.; Verg. A. 1, 671:

ne sibi vitio verterent, quod abesset a patriā,

Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1:

idque omen in Macedonum metum verterunt Tyrii,

Curt. 4, 2, 13:

in religionem vertentes comitia biennic habita,

making a matter of religious scruple, Liv. 5, 14, 2:

aquarum insolita magnitudo in religionem versa,

id. 30, 38, 10; cf. id. 26, 11, 3:

id ipsum quod iter belli esset obstructum, in prodigium et omen imminentium cladium vertebatur,

Tac. H. 1, 86 fin.:

vertere in se Cotyi data,

to appropriate, id. A. 2, 64:

perii! quid agam? quo me vertam?

Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 1:

quo se verteret, non habebat,

Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 74; id. Div. 2, 72, 149:

Philippus totus in Persea versus,

inclined towards him, Liv. 40, 5, 9:

toti in impetum atque iram versi,

id. 25, 16, 19:

si bellum omne eo vertat,

id. 26, 12, 13:

di vortant bene, Quod agas,

cause to turn out well, prosper, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 121; cf. infra, II. B.; so,

in melius somnia,

Tib. 3, 4, 95.—

In partic.

To turn, i. e. to change, aller, transform (syn. muto):

Juppiter In Amphitruonis vortit sese imaginem,

Plaut. Am. prol. 121:

in anginam ego nunc me velim vorti,

id. Most. 1. 3, 61:

omnes natura cibos in corpora viva Vertit,

Lucr. 2, 880: vertunt se fluvii frondes et pabula laeta In pecudes; vertunt pecudes [p. 1978] in corpora nostra Naturam, id. 2, 875 sq.; cf.:

cum terra in aquam se vertit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 31:

verte omnis tete in facies,

Verg. A. 12, 891:

ego, quae memet in omnia verti,

id. ib. 7, 309:

tot sese vertit in ora,

id. ib. 7, 328:

inque deum de bove versus erat,

Ov. F. 5, 616:

Auster in Africum se vertit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 26 fin.; cf. Liv. 30, 24, 7:

semina malorum in contrarias partes se vertere,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33:

omnia versa et mutata in pejorem partem,

id. Rosc. Am. 36, 103:

cur nunc tua quisquam Vertere jussa potest,

Verg. A. 10, 35:

hic continentiam et moderationem in superbiam ac lasciviam vertit,

Curt. 6, 6, 1; cf.:

fortuna hoc militiae probrum vertit in gloriam,

id. 9, 10, 28:

versus civitatis status,

Tac. A. 1, 4:

versis ad prospera fatis,

Ov. H. 16, 89: solum, to change one's country, i. e. to emigrate or go into exile, Cic. Balb. 11, 28; Amm. 15, 3, 11 et saep.; v. solum. —With abl. (rare and poet.):

nullā tamen alite verti Dignatur,

Ov. M. 10, 157; cf.

muto.—Prov.: in fumum et cinerem vertere,

to turn into smoke, dissipate, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 39.—Mid.:

omnia vertuntur: certe vertuntur amores,

Prop. 2, 8, 7 (9):

saevus apertam In rabiem coepit verti jocus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 149.—

To exchange, interchange: nos divitem istum meminimus adque iste pauperes nos;

vorterunt sese memoriae,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 11; cf.:

vorsis gladiis depugnarier,

id. Cas. 2, 5, 36.—

Of literary productions, to turn into another language, to translate (syn.:

transfero, interpretor, reddo): Philemo scripsit, Plautus vortit barbare,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 19:

si sic verterem Platonem, ut verteruntnostri poëtae fabulas,

Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7:

verti etiam multa de Graecis,

id. Tusc. 2, 11, 26:

annales Acilianos ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem vertit,

Liv. 25, 39, 12.—

To ply:

stimulos sub pectore vertit Apollo,

i. e. stimulates the fury, Verg. A. 6, 101.—

In partic., like our to turn upside down, i. e. to overturn, overthrow, subvert, destroy (= everto):

Callicratidas cum multa fecisset egregie, vertit ad extremum omnia,

Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84:

agerent, verterent cuncta,

Tac. H. 1, 2; id. A. 2, 42; 3, 36:

Cycnum Vi multā,

Ov. M. 12, 139:

fluxas Phrygiae res fundo,

Verg. A. 10, 88; 1, 20; 2, 652:

vertere ab imo moenia Trojae,

id. ib. 5, 810:

Ilion fatalis incestusque judex... vertit in pulverem,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 20:

proceras fraxinos,

id. ib. 3, 25, 16:

ab imo regna,

Sen. Hippol. 562:

Penates,

id. Troad. 91:

puppem,

Luc. 3, 650:

fortunas,

Amm. 28, 3, 1.—

Mid., from the idea of turning round in a place, to be engaged in, to be in a place or condition; also to turn, rest, or depend upon a thing:

jam homo in mercaturā vortitur,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 109:

res in periculo vortitur,

id. Merc. 1, 2, 12; Phaedr. 2, 8, 19; so,

res vertitur in majore discrimine,

Liv. 6, 36, 7:

ipse catervis Vertitur in mediis,

Verg. A. 11, 683:

omnia in unius potestate ac moderatione vertentur,

Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 20; so,

spes civitatis in dictatore,

Liv. 4, 31, 4:

totum id in voluntate Philippi,

id. 37, 7, 8:

causa in jure,

Cic. Brut. 39, 145:

hic victoria,

Verg. A. 10, 529:

cum circa hanc consultationem disceptatio omnis verteretur,

Liv. 36, 7, 1:

puncto saepe temporis maximarum rerum momenta verti,

id. 3, 27, 7.— Impers.:

vertebatur, utrum manerent in Achaico concilio Lacedaemonii, an, etc.,

Liv. 39, 48, 3.—

To ascribe, refer:

quae fuerunt populis magis exitio quam fames morbique, quaeque alia in deum iras velut ultima malorum vertunt,

Liv. 4, 9, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

cum omnium secundorum adversorumque in deos verterent,

id. 28, 11, 1.—

= considero; exercitum majorum more vortere, Sall. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 408 dub. (Sall. H. inc. 51 Dietsch ad loc.).

Neutr., to turn one's self, direct one's way, to turn about, to turn.

Lit.:

depulsi aemulatione alio vertunt,

Tac. A. 1, 18:

eoque audaciae provectum ut verteret, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 10:

utinam mea vocula dominae vertat in auriculas!

Prop. 1, 16, 28:

versuros extemplo in fugam omnes ratus,

Liv. 38, 26, 8 (but in Lucr. 5, 617 the correct read. is cancri se ut vortat).—

Trop., to turn, change, etc.:

jam verterat fortuna,

Liv. 5, 49, 5:

libertatem aliorum in suam vertisse servitutem conquerebantur,

id. 2, 3, 3:

totae solidam in glaciem vertere lacunae,

Verg. G. 3, 365: verterat pernicies in accusatorem, Tac. A. 11, 37:

quod si esset factum, detrimentum in bonum verteret,

Caes. B. C. 3, 73 fin.:

ea ludificatio veri in verum vertit,

Liv. 26, 6, 16: talia incepta, ni in consultorem vertissent, reipublicae pestem factura, against, Sall. H. inc. 89 Dietsch:

neque inmerito suum ipsorum exemplum in eos versurum,

Liv. 7, 38, 6:

si malus est, male res vortunt, quas agit,

turn out badly, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 5; so,

quae res tibi vertat male,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 37:

quod bene vertat, castra Albanos Romanis castris jungere jubet (= cum bonis omnibus),

Liv. 1, 28, 1; 3, 62, 5; 3, 35, 8:

quod bene verteret,

Curt. 5, 4, 12; 7, 11, 14:

hos illi (quod nec vertat bene), mittimus haedos,

Verg. E. 9, 6.—

Annus, mensis vertens, the course or space of a year, of a month:

anno vertente sine controversiā (petisses),

Cic. Quint. 12, 40; so,

anno vertente,

id. N. D. 2, 20, 53; Nep. Ages. 4, 4; cf.:

apparuisse numen deorum intra finem anni vertentis,

Cic. Phil. 13, 10, 22:

tu si hanc emeris, Numquam hercle hunc mensem vortentem, credo, servibit tibi,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 76; Macr. S. 1, 14.—

Pregn.: annus vertens, the great year or cycle of the celestial bodies (a space of 15,000 solar years), Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24.—Hence, ver-sus ( vors-), or (much less freq.) ver-sum ( vors-), adv., turned in the direction of, towards a thing; usu. after the name of a place to which motion is directed (orig. a part., turned towards, facing, etc., and so always in Livy; cf. Liv. 1, 18, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; 1, 41, 4; 9, 2, 15).

Form versus (vors-).

After ad and acc.:

T. Labienum ad Oceanum versus... proficisci jubet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 33: ad Alpes versus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2:

ad Cercinam insulam versus, Auct. B. Afr. 8, 3: ad Cordubam versus, Auct. B. Hisp. 11: modo ad Urbem, modo in Galliam versus,

Sall. C. 56, 4. —

After in and acc.:

in agrum versus,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 10:

in forum versus,

Cic. Lael. 25, 96:

in Arvernos versus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 8: si in urbem versus venturi erunt, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 78 (82), 3.—

After acc. alone (class. only with names of towns and small islands):

verti me a Minturnis Arpinum versus,

Cic. Att. 16, 10, 1:

Brundisium versus,

id. Fam. 11, 27, 3:

Ambraciam versus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 36:

Massiliam versus,

id. ib. 2, 3:

Narbonem versus,

id. B. G. 7, 7.—

After other advv.:

deorsum versus,

Cato, R. R. 156, 4:

sursum versus,

Cic. Or. 39, 135:

dimittit quoquo versus legationes,

Caes. B. G. 7, 4:

ut quaedam vocabula utroque versus dicantur,

Gell. 5, 12, 10; cf. the adverbs deorsum, sursum, etc.—

Form versum (vors-).

After ad and acc.:

animadvertit fugam ad se versum fieri,

Sall. J. 58, 4.—

After other advv.:

cunas rursum vorsum trahere,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 60 (63):

lumbis deorsum versum pressis,

Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5:

vineam sursum vorsum semper ducito,

Cato, R. R. 33, 1:

cum undique versum circumfluat,

Gell. 12, 13, 20:

utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 8.

, but no ancient authority can be safely cited for this use. The true readings are:

in Italiam versus,

Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 1:

adversus aedem,

Liv. 8, 20, 8:

in forum versus,

Plin. 10, 43, 60, § 121; and perh. in oppidum, Auct. B. Hisp. 21.

rĕ-cĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3 ( fut. apoc. recipie, for recipiam, Cato ap. Fest. p. 138 and 236 Müll.; v. dico init.:

recepso, for recepero,

Cat. 44, 19), v. a. [capio].

To take back, get back, bring back; to retake, regain, recover.

Lit. (very freq. and class.):

dandis recipiendisque meritis,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26:

tu me sequere ad trapezitam... recipe actutum,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 49 (just before, ni argentum refers); cf.:

centum talenta et credidisse eos constat, et non recepisse,

Quint. 5, 10, 111; and (opp. mutuum dare) Mart. 3, 40, 4:

si velit suos recipere, obsides sibi remittat,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8 fin.:

obsides,

Suet. Aug. 21:

reges,

Liv. 2, 15:

recepto amico,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 27; 4, 2, 47. — Freq. of places, etc., once captured and lost, to retake:

cum Tarento amisso... aliquot post annos Maximus id oppidum recepisset... nunquam ego (Tarentum) recepissem, nisi tu perdidisses,

Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 273; cf. id. Sen. 4, 11:

Lavinium,

Liv. 2, 39;

so of other things: recipere suas res amissas,

Liv. 3, 63:

praeda omnis recepta est,

id. 3, 3:

signa, quae ademerant Parthi,

Suet. Tib. 9:

arma,

Liv. 9, 11; Curt. 4, 12, 17: pectore in adverso totum cui comminus ensem Condidit assurgenti, et multā morte recepit, drew out again, = retraxit, Verg. A. 9, 348; so,

sagittam ab alterā parte,

Cels. 7, 5, 2: suos omnes incolumes receperunt (sc. ex oppido in castra), drew off, withdrew, = reduxerunt, Caes. B. G. 7, 12 fin.; so,

milites defessos,

id. B. C. 1, 45 fin.:

exercitum,

Liv. 10, 42:

equitatum navibus ad se intra munitiones,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58:

illum ego... medio ex hoste recepi,

bore away, rescued, Verg. A. 6, 111.—

With se, to draw back, withdraw from or to any place, to betake one ' s self anywhere; in milit. lang., to retire, retreat:

se ex eo loco,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 10; cf.:

se e fano,

id. Poen. 4, 1, 5:

se ex opere,

id. Men. 5, 3, 7:

se ex hisce locis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 21:

se e Siciliā,

id. Brut. 92, 318:

se ex fugā,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 102:

se inde,

id. B. G. 5, 15:

se hinc,

id. B. C. 1, 45 et saep.:

recipe te,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 8:

se,

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45 (just before, reverti); Caes. B. C. 3, 45 (coupled with loco excedere); 3, 46; cf.:

sui recipiendi facultas,

id. B. G. 3, 4 fin.; 6, 37;

for which: se recipiendi spatium,

Liv. 10, 28:

recipe te ad erum,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 20:

se ad dominum,

id. ib. 4, 3, 1:

se ad nos,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 2:

se ad suos,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46; 7, 82; id. B. C. 3, 38; 3, 50; 3, 52 fin.:

se ad Caesarem (Allobroges, legati),

id. B. G. 1, 11; 4, 38:

se ad agmen,

id. ib. 7, 13; id. B. C. 3, 75 fin.:

se penitus ad extremos fines,

id. B. G. 6, 10:

se ad legionem,

id. ib. 7, 50 fin.:

se ad oppidum llerdam,

id. B. C. 1, 45:

se ad ordines suos,

id. ib. 2, 41:

se ad signa,

id. B. G. 5, 34 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 43 fin.:

se a pabulo ad stabulum,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 33:

inde se in currus,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin.:

se ex castris in oppidum,

id. B. C. 2, 35:

se in castra,

id. B. G. 2. 11 fin.; 2, 24; 3, 6; 3, 26 fin.;

4, 15 et saep.: se in fines,

id. ib. 4, 16:

se in Galliam,

id. ib. 4, 19 fin.:

se in montem,

id. ib. 1, 25: se in antiquas munitiones, id. B. C. 3, 54 fin.:

se in silvas ad suos,

id. B. G. 2, 19:

se in castra ad urbem,

id. B. C. 2, 25; 2, 26; cf.:

se retro in castra,

Liv. 23, 36;

and with this cf.: sese retro in Bruttios,

id. 23, 37;

and so, se, with rursus,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 25; id. Pers. 4, 5, 6; id. Rud. 4, 6, 19; Caes. B. G. 5, 34 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 41 et saep.:

se in novissimos,

Liv. 7, 40:

se intra munitiones,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44; cf.:

se intra montes,

id. B. C. 1, 65:

se per declive,

id. ib. 3, 51:

se sub murum,

id. ib. 2, 14:

se trans Rhenum,

id. B. G. 6, 41:

se Larissam versus,

id. B. C. 3, 97:

se domum ex hostibus,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 52:

se domum,

id. ib. 2, 2, 31; id. Capt. 1, 2, 25; id. Aul. 2, 1, 55:

se Adrumetum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 23:

se Hispalim,

id. ib. 2, 20:

se Dyrrhachium ad Pompeium,

id. ib. 3, 9 fin.:

se illuc,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 10; id. Merc. 5, 2, 40; id. Ps. 3, 1, 23 al.; cf.:

se huc esum ad praesepim suam,

id. Curc. 2, 1, 13:

se eo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25 et saep. — In the same meaning, without se: neque sepulcrum, quo recipiat, habeat portum corporis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 415 Vahl.); cf.

of a military retreat: si quo erat longius prodeundum aut celerius recipiendum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48 fin.; so without se after the verbum finitum several times in Plaut.:

rursum in portum recipimus,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 60:

dum recipis,

id. Rud. 3, 6, 42:

actutum face recipias,

id. Merc. 2, 4, 30. —

Transf.

In business lang., to keep back, retain, reserve (cf. Gell. 17, 6, 6):

posticulum hoc recepit, quom aedis vendidit,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 157; so in a sale, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 226; Cic. Top. 26, 100; Dig. 19, 1, 53; 8, 4, 10: mulier magnam dotem dat et magnam pecuniam recipit, Cato ap. Gell. 17, 6, 8. — With object-clause, Cato, R. R. 149, 2. — With dat.:

aqua, itinere, actu domini usioni recipitur,

Cato, R. R. 149, 2.—

To restore (late Lat.):

urbem munitissimam,

to fortify anew, Amm. 16, 3, 2. —

Trop., to get back, bring back; to receive again, regain, recover:

ut antiquam frequentiam recipere vastam ac desertam bellis urbem paterentur,

Liv. 24, 3:

jus,

Quint. 5, 10, 118:

et totidem, quot dixit, verba recepit,

got back, Ov. M. 3, 384:

quam (vitam) postquam recepi,

received again, id. ib. 15, 535: anhelitum, to recover one ' s breath, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 21; id. Merc. 3, 4, 16; cf.

spiritum,

Quint. 11, 3, 55:

animam,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 26; Quint. 6, prooem. §

13: a tanto pavore recipere animos,

Liv. 21, 5, 16 Weissenb.:

a pavore animum,

id. 2, 50, 10:

e pavore recepto animo,

id. 44, 10, 1;

for which: animos ex pavore,

id. 21, 5 fin.:

recepto animo,

Curt. 6, 9, 2; 9, 5, 29:

animum vultumque,

Ov. F. 4, 615:

mente receptā,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 104:

(vocem) ab acutissimo sono usque ad gravissimum sonum recipere,

to bring it back, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —

In zeugma (cf. I. A. supra): arma et animos,

Curt. 4, 12, 17.—

With se.

To betake one ' s self, withdraw, retire from or to any place:

ad ingenium vetus versutum te recipis tuum,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 7:

ad frugem bonam,

Cic. Cael. 12, 28:

ad reliquam cogitationem belli,

Caes. B. C. 3, 17 fin.:

se a voluptatibus in otium,

Plin. Pan. 82, 8:

se in principem,

to resume his princely air, id. ib. 76, 5.— More freq.,

To recover, to collect one ' s self:

difficulter se recipiunt,

regain strength, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 17:

quae cum intuerer stupens, ut me recepi, Quis hic, inquam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18:

nullum spatium respirandi recipiendique se dedit,

Liv. 10, 28:

se ex terrore ac fugā,

Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

se ex timore,

id. ib. 4, 34:

se ex fugā,

id. ib. 4, 27:

nondum totā me mente recepi,

Ov. M. 5, 275.

(Acc. to re, I. b.) To take to one ' s self, admit, accept, receive; constr. with the simple acc., with ad, or in and acc., in and abl., with simple abl., with a local acc.

Lit.

With simple acc.:

quos homines quondam Laurentis terra recepit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p 762 P. (Ann. v. 35 Vahl.): (ego) excludor, ille recipitur,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 79:

aliquem,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 48:

hic nulla munitio est, quae perterritos recipiat,

Caes. B. G. 6, 39; cf.:

hos tutissimus portus recipiebat,

id. B. C. 3, 27; 1, 15; cf. id. ib. 3, 11 fin.;

3, 35: eum Jugurtha accuratissime recepit,

Sall. J. 16, 3:

neque quisquam aut expulsus invidiosius aut receptus est laetius,

Vell. 2, 45, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 14; 9, 2, 89:

nisi nos vicina Trivici Villa recepisset,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 80 [p. 1533] et saep.:

quisnam istic fluvius est, quem non recipiat mare?

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 86; cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 10; and:

(Peneus) accipit amnem Orcon nec recipit,

i. e. does not take it to itself, does not mingle with it, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 31:

equus frenum recepit,

received, submitted to, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 36:

necesse erat, ab latere aperto tela recipi,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35. —

With ad:

recipe me ad te,

Plaut. Cist. 3, 9; id. Am. 3, 2, 11; id. Rud. 2, 3, 20; id. Ps. 3, 6, 6; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 6; Suet. Caes. 63:

aliquem ad epulas,

Cic. Top. 5, 25; cf.:

ad lusum,

Suet. Ner. 11. —

With in and acc.:

recipe me in tectum,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 16:

concubinam in aedes,

id. Mil. 4, 3, 3:

nos in custodiam tuam,

id. Rud. 3, 3, 34:

Tarquinium in civitatem,

Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35; id. Balb. 13, 31; Liv. 2, 5; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 6:

aliquem in ordinem senatorium,

Cic. Phil. 7, 5, 15:

aliquem in fidem,

id. Fam. 13, 19, 2; id. Att. 15, 14, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 15; 4, 22:

aliquem in civitatem,

Cic. Balb. 12, 29:

aliquem in caelum,

id. N. D. 3, 15, 39:

aliquem in deditionem,

Caes. B. G. 3, 21 fin.; Liv. 8, 13; Suet. Calig. 14 al.:

aliquem in jus dicionemque,

Liv. 21, 61:

aliquem in amicitiam,

Sall. J. 14, 5; 5, 4 Kritz N. cr.:

aliquam in matrimonium,

Suet. Caes. 50; Just. 9, 5, 9 et saep. —

With in and abl. (rare and in purely local relations; v. Kritz ad Sall. J. 5, 4):

aliquem in loco,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 3:

loricati in equis recipiuntur, Auct. B. Hisp. 4, 2: sidera in caelo recepta,

Ov. M. 2, 529 (but in Liv. 24, 32, 6, the correct read. is tuto Hexapylo, without in; v. Weissenb. ad h. l.). —

With simple abl. (mostly in purely local relations):

ut tuo recipias tecto servesque nos,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 18; so,

aliquem tecto,

Caes. B. G. 7, 66 fin.:

exercitum tectis ac sedibus suis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 90:

aliquem suis urbibus,

id. Fl. 25, 61:

aliquem civitate,

id. Balb. 14, 32:

aliquem finibus suis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 6; 7, 20 fin.:

aliquem oppido ac portu,

id. B. C. 3, 12; 3, 102 fin.:

aliquem moenibus,

Sall. J. 28, 2:

Romulus caelo receptus,

Quint. 3, 7, 5:

receptus Terra Neptunus,

Hor. A. P. 63 et saep. —

With local acc.:

me Acheruntem recipere Orcus noluit,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 68:

aliquem domum suam,

Cic. Arch. 3, 5; cf.:

aliquem domum ad se hospitio,

Caes. B. C. 2, 20.—

Absol.:

plerosque hi, qui receperant, celant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 76.—

Transf.

In business lang., to take in, receive as the proceeds of any thing:

dena milia sestertia ex melle,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 11:

pecuniam ex novis vectigalibus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

pecunia, quae recipi potest,

id. ib. 2, 18, 47. —

In gladiator's lang.: recipe ferrum, receive your death-blow, the cry of the people to a vanquished gladiator whom they were not inclined to spare, Cic. Sest. 37, 80; id. Tusc. 2, 17, 41 Kühn.; Sen. Tranq. 11, 1;

for which: totum telum corpore,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 12, 33; and:

ense recepto,

Luc. 2, 194 Corte.—

Milit. t. t., to seize, capture, take possession of, occupy: mittit in Siciliam Curionem pro praetore cum legionibus duo;

eundem, cum Siciliam recepisset, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 30:

Praeneste non vi, sed per deditionem receptum est,

Liv. 6, 29:

Aegyptum sine certamine,

Just. 11, 11, 1:

eo oppido recepto,

Caes. B. G. 7, 13 fin.:

civitatem,

id. ib. 6, 8; 7, 90; id. B. C. 1, 12; 1, 16; 1, 30;

3, 16: Aetoliam,

id. ib. 3, 55:

rempublicam armis,

Sall. C. 11, 4:

Alciden terra recepta vocat,

the subjugated earth, Prop. 5, 9, 38. —

In the later medical lang., of medicines, to receive, i. e. be compounded of various ingredients:

antidotos recipit haec: stoechados, marrubii, etc.,

Scrib. Comp. 106; so id. ib. 27; 28; 37; 52 al. (hence the mod. Lat. receptum, receipt, and recipe).—

Trop.

To take to or upon one ' s self, to assume; to receive, accept, admit, allow, endechomai:

non edepol istaec tua dicta nunc in aures recipio,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 34; cf. Quint. 11, 1, 91:

jusjurandum,

id. 5, 6, 1; 3; cf. id. 7, 1, 24: in semet ipsum religionem recipere, to draw upon one ' s self, Liv. 10, 40:

quae legibus cauta sunt, quae persuasione in mores recepta sunt,

admitted, Quint. 5, 10, 13; cf. id. 10, 7, 15:

antiquitas recepit fabulas... haec aetas autem respuit,

Cic. Rep. 2, 10; cf. Quint. 6, 4, 19:

nec inconstantiam virtus recipit nec varietatem natura patitur,

Cic. Rep. 3, 11, 18; cf. Vell. 2, 130, 3: non recipit istam Conjunctionem honestas, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119:

assentatio nocere nemini potest, nisi ei, qui eam recipit atque eă delectatur,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

timor misericordiam non recipit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

casus recipere (res),

to admit, be liable to, id. B. C. 1, 78; so,

aliquem casum (res),

id. ib. 3, 51:

re jam non ultra recipiente cunctationem,

Liv. 29, 24; Vell. 2, 52, 3:

sed hoc distinctionem recipit,

Just. Inst. 1, 12 pr.:

si recipiatur poëtica fabulositas,

Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 101:

in hoc genere prorsus recipio hanc brevem annotationem,

Quint. 10, 7, 31; cf. id. 8, 3, 31:

nos necessarios maxime atque in usum receptos (tropos) exequemur,

id. 8, 6, 2; cf. id. 8, 6, 32; 5, 11, 20; 11, 3, 104; so with a subj.-clause, id. 1, 3, 14; 6, 3, 103; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 24 al.—

Of opinions, etc., to adopt, embrace (late Lat.):

alicujus sententiam,

Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 39, 1:

opinionem,

id. Dial. 1, 17, 5.—

In partic.

To take upon one ' s self, undertake, accept the performance of a task consigned or intrusted to one (whereas suscipio denotes, in gen., the voluntary undertaking of any action; cf.:

spondeo, stipulor, polliceor): recepi causam Siciliae... ego tamen hoc onere suscepto et receptā causā Siciliensi amplexus animo sum aliquanto amplius. Suscepi enim causam totius ordinis, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 1, § 1:

in hoc judicio mihi Siculorum causam receptam, populi Romani susceptam esse videor,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26; and:

in quo est illa magna offensio vel neglegentiae susceptis rebus vel perfidiae receptis,

id. de Or. 2, 24, 101; cf. also Quint. 12, 1, 39:

verebamini, ne non id facerem, quod recepissem semel?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 9:

causam Sex. Roscii,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 2:

mandatum,

id. ib. 38, 112:

officium,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 71, § 183:

curam ad se,

Suet. Tit. 6.—

To take an obligation upon one ' s self, to pledge one ' s self, pass one ' s word, be surety for a thing, to warrant, promise, engage a thing to any one, = anadechomai (a favorite word of Cic., esp. in his Epistles): Pe. Tute unus si recipere hoc ad te dicis... Pa. Dico et recipio Ad me, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 74; cf.:

ad me recipio: Faciet,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 12:

promitto in meque recipio, fore eum, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 13, 10, 3; cf.:

spondeo in meque recipio eos esse, etc.,

id. ib. 13, 17, 3.—With obj.-clause:

promitto, recipio, spondeo, C. Caesarem talem semper fore civem, qualis hodie sit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 51; so with hoc, id. Fam. 13, 50, 2 (with spondeo); 6, 12, 3; 13, 41, 2 (with confirmo); id. Att. 5, 13, 2; Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4; Liv. 7, 14 Drak.; 33, 13 fin.:

pro Cassio et te, si quid me velitis recipere, recipiam,

Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 4. — With de:

de aestate polliceris vel potius recipis,

Cic. Att. 13, 1, 2; Liv. 40, 35; cf.

also: sed fidem recepisse sibi et ipsum et Appium de me,

had given him a solemn assurance, Cic. Att. 2, 22, 2.— With dat. (after the analogy of promitto, polliceor, spondeo):

ea, quae tibi promitto ac recipio,

Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 5; cf.: omnia ei et petenti recepi et ultro pollicitus sum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 1; 7, 1:

mihi,

id. ib. 10, 13, 3; Caes. B. C. 3, 82 fin.:

quid sibi is de me recepisset, in memoriam redegit,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 9.—With dat. and obj.-clause:

mihi in Cumano diligentissime se, ut annui essemus, defensurum receperat,

Cic. Att. 5, 17, 5;

so,

id. Fam. 6, 12, 3 Manut. (with confirmare); 13, 72, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17, 1; Caes. B. C. 3, 17; Suet. Caes. 23 fin. —

In jurid. lang.: recipere nomen, of the prætor, to receive or entertain a charge against one, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 94; 2, 2, 42, § 102; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 2; Val. Max. 3, 7, 9;

for which: recipere reum,

Tac. A. 2, 74 fin.; 4, 21:

aliquem inter reos,

id. ib. 3, 70; 13, 10. —Hence,

rĕceptus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II. B. 1.), received, usual, current, customary (post-class. and very rare):

auctoritas receptior,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 5: scriptores receptissimi, Sol. praef.—