sempĭ-ternum

sempĭternus, a, um, adj. [semper; like hesternus and aeternus, from heri and aevum], everlasting, ever-during, perpetual, continual, imperishable, eternal, sempiternal (cf. aeternus init.;

very freq. and class.): fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26; cf. id. N. D. 3, 12, 29:

immortalis memoria et sempiterna,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15:

deorum vita sempiterna,

Ter. And. 5, 5, 3; cf.:

aevo sempiterno frui,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

ignes,

id. ib. 6, 15, 15; cf.:

cursus stellarum,

id. ib. 6, 17, 17:

gratias agere sempiternas,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 84:

amicus,

id. Most. 1, 3, 90; id. Pers. 1, 1, 36; cf.:

verae amicitiae,

Cic. Lael. 9, 32; so,

hiemes,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4:

ignis Vestae,

Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18:

documentum Persarum sceleris,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

memoria amicitiae nostrae,

id. Lael. 4, 15:

odia,

id. ib. 10, 35:

consilium senatus,

id. Sest. 65, 137:

potentia,

Tac. A. 3, 30 et saep.:

nihil umquam nisi sempiternum et divinum animo volutare,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 28:

nihil nisi sempiternum spectare,

id. Rab. Perd. 10, 29:

in sempiternum,

forever, Vulg. Deut. 5, 29 et saep. — Adv., in three forms (not in Cic.), always, forever, perpetually. *

sempĭ-ternum, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 26.—

sem-pĭternō, Cato ap. Charis. p. 194 P.:

sempiterno permanet ea materia,

Vitr. 1, 5; 9, 1, 2; Sol. 35, 5.—

sempĭternē, Pac. ap. Non. 170, 20; Claud. Mam. Stat. An. 1, 3.