sensus+videndi

sensus, a, um, Part. of sentio.

sensus, ūs, m. [sentio], the faculty or power of perceiving, perception, feeling, sensation, sense, etc.

Corporeal, perception, feeling, sensation:

omne animal sensus habet: sentit igitur et calida et frigida et dulcia et amara, nec potest ullo sensu jucunda accipere et non accipere contraria: si igitur voluptatis sensum capit, doloris etiam capit. etc.,

Cic. N. D. 3, 13, 32:

moriendi sensum celeritas abstulit,

id. Lael. 3, 12:

si quis est sensus in morte,

id. Phil. 9, 6, 13:

(Niobe) posuit sensum saxea facta mali,

Ov. P. 1, 2, 32:

sensum voluptatemque percipere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12. [p. 1671] —

A sense, capacity for feeling:

ut idem interitus sit animorum et corporum nec ullus sensus maneat, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 4, 14:

tactus corporis est sensus,

Lucr. 2, 435:

oculorum,

id. 3, 361; so,

oculorum, aurium,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 111; id. Fin. 2, 16, 52; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; cf.

videndi,

id. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

audiendi,

id. Rep. 6, 18, 19:

quod neque oculis neque auribus neque ullo sensu percipi potest,

id. Or. 2, 8:

quamquam oriretur (tertia philosophiae pars) a sensibus, tamen non esse judicium veritatis in sensibus,

id. Ac. 1, 8, 30:

res subjectae sensibus,

id. ib. 1, 8, 31:

gustatus, qui est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius,

id. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

sensus autem interpretes ac nuntii rerum in capite et facti et conlocati sunt,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 140:

omne animal sensus habet,

id. ib. 3, 13, 32:

carent conchae visu, omnique sensu alio quam cibi et periculi,

Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 90:

ab eā parte opus orsus, ut a sensu ejus, averteret,

Curt. 4, 6, 9.—

Mental, feeling, sentiment, emotion, affection; sense, understanding, capacity; humor, inclination, disposition, frame of mind, etc.:

ipse in commovendis judicibus eis ipsis sensibus, ad quos illos adducere vellem, permoverer,

Cic. de Or. 2, 45, 189:

an vos quoque hic innocentium cruciatus pari sensu doloris adficit?

id. Verr. 2, 5, 46, § 123:

vestri sensus ignarus,

id. Mil. 27, 72:

humanitatis,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 47; id. Rosc. Am. 53, 154:

applicatio animi cum quodam sensu amandi... ut facile earum (bestiarum) sensus appareat... sensus amoris exsistit, etc.,

id. Lael. 8, 27; cf.:

ipsi intellegamus naturā gigni sensum diligendi,

id. ib. 9, 32:

meus me sensus, quanta vis fraterni sit amoris, admonet,

id. Fam. 5, 2, 10:

utere argumento ipse sensus tui,

id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

nihil est tam molle, tam aut fragile aut flexibile quam voluntas erga nos sensusque civium,

id. Mil. 16, 42:

quae mihi indigna et intolerabilia videntur, ea pro me ipso et animi mei sensu ac dolore pronuntio,

id. Rosc. Am. 44, 129.—

Opinion, thought, sense, view:

animi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 148:

valde mihi placebat sensus ejus de re publicā,

id. Att. 15, 7:

(orator) ita peragrat per animos hominum, ita sensus mentesque pertractat, ut, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 222 sq.:

qui est iste tuus sensus, quae cogitatio? Brutos ut non probes, Antonios probes?

id. Phil. 10, 2, 4:

dissidenti sensus suos aperire,

Nep. Dion, 8, 2:

sensus reconditi,

Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 2.—

Esp., the common feelings of humanity, the moral sense, taste, discretion, tact in intercourse with men, often called in full sensus communis (sometimes with hominum), and often in other phrases of similar force:

ut in ceteris (artium studiis) id maxime excellat, quod longissime sit ab imperitorum intellegentiā sensuque disjunctum, in dicendo autem vitium vel maximum sit a volgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis sensus abhorrere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

quae versantur in sensu hominum communi,

id. ib. 2, 16, 68; id. Planc. 13, 31:

communis ille sensus in aliis fortasse latuit,

id. ib. 14, 34; Hor. S. 1, 3, 66:

sit in beneficio sensus communis,

Sen. Ben. 1, 12, 3; id. Ep. 5, 4; 105, 3; Quint. 1, 2, 20:

rarus sensus communis in illā fortunā,

Juv. 8, 73. — Plur., Cic. Clu. 6, 17:

ea sunt in communibus infixa sensibus,

id. de Or. 3, 50, 195; so,

vulgaris popularisque sensus,

id. ib. 1, 23, 108:

haec oratio longe a nostris sensibus abhorrebat,

id. ib. 1, 18, 83; cf.:

mirari solebam istum in his ipsis rebus aliquem sensum habere, quem scirem nullā in re quicquam simile hominis habere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 33.—

Transf. (in the poets, and also in prose after the Aug. per.), of the thinking faculty, sense, understanding, mind, reason (syn.: mens, ratio).

In gen. (rare):

misero quod omnes Eripit sensus mihi,

Cat. 51, 6; cf.:

tibi sensibus ereptis mens excidit,

id. 66, 25; Ov. M. 3, 631; 14, 178:

(quibus fortuna) sensum communem abstulit,

common sense, Phaedr. 1, 7, 4 (in another signif., v. supra, II. A. fin., and infra, 2. fin.):

eam personam, quae furore detenta est, quia sensum non habet, etc.,

Dig. 24, 3, 22, § 7:

nec potest animal injuriam fecisse, quod sensu caret,

ib. 9, 1, 1, § 3.—

In partic., of discourse.

Abstr., sense, idea, notion, meaning, signification (syn.: sententia, notio, significatio, vis; poet. and post-Aug.; freq. in Quint.): nec testamenti potuit sensus colligi, Phaedr. 4, 5, 19:

verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 103:

is verbi sensus,

Ov. F. 5, 484:

quae verbis aperta occultos sensus habent,

Quint. 8, 2, 20:

ambiguitas, quae turbare potest sensum,

id. 8, 2, 16:

verba duos sensus significantia,

id. 6, 3, 48: allêgoria aliud verbis, aliud sensu ostendit, id. 8, 6, 44:

Pomponium sensibus celebrem, verbis rudem,

Vell. 2, 9, 5:

horum versuum sensus atque ordo sic, opinor, est,

Gell. 7, 2, 10:

egregie dicta circa eumdem sensum tria,

Sen. Ep. 7, 10.—Introducing a quotation:

erat autem litterarum sensus hujusmodi,

Amm. 20, 8, 4.—With gen. person:

salvo modo poëtae sensu,

the meaning, Quint. 1, 9, 2.—

Concr., a thought expressed in words, a sentence, period (postAug.):

sensus omnis habet suum finem, poscitque naturale intervallum, quo a sequentis initio dividatur,

Quint. 9, 4, 61; 7, 10, 16; cf. id. 11, 2, 20:

puer ut sciat, ubi claudatur sensus,

id. 1, 8, 1:

ridendi, qui velut leges prooemiis omnibus dederunt, ut intra quattuor sensus terminarentur,

id. 4, 1, 62:

verbo sensum cludere multo optimum est,

id. 9, 4, 26 et saep.—Hence, communes sensus (corresp. with loci), commonplaces, Tac. Or. 31.

ăcer, ĕris, n. [kindred with Germ. Ahorn] (f. Serv. ap. Prisc. p. 698 P.), the maple-tree, Plin. 16, 15, 26, § 66 sq.—

Transf., the wood of the maple-tree, maplewood, used, on account of its hardness and firmness, for writing-tablets, Plin. 33, 11, 52, § 146; Ov. Am. 1, 11, 28.

ācer, cris, cre, adj. (m. acris, Enn.; f. acer, Naev. and Enn.; acrus, a um, Pall.; Veg.; cf. Charis. 63 and 93 P.) [cf. akis, akôn, akmê, akros, ôkus, oxus; Sanscr. acan = dart, acus = swift; Germ. Ecke; Engl. edge, to egg; and with change of quantity, ăcus, acuo, ăceo, ăcies, ăcerbus], sharp, pointed, piercing, and the like.

Prop., of the senses and things affecting them, sharp, dazzling, stinging, pungent, fine, piercing:

praestans valetudine, viribus, formā, acerrimis integerrimisque sensibus,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45. So,

Of the sight:

acerrimus sensus videndi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

acres oculi,

id. Planc. 27:

splendor,

Lucr. 4, 304:

quidam colores ruboris acerrimi,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 14 al. —

Of the hearing:

voce increpet acri?

Lucr. 3, 953:

aurium mensura, quod est acrius judicium et certius,

Cic. de Or. 3, 47:

acrem flammae sonitum,

Verg. G. 4, 409:

acri tibiā,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 1.—

Of smell, Lucr. 4, 122:

exstinctum lumen acri nidore offendit nares,

id. 6, 792; cf. ib. 1216:

unguentis minus diu delectemur summa et acerrima suavitate conditis, quam his moderatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

odor,

Plin. 12, 17, 40.—

Of taste: ut vitet acria, ut est sinapi, cepa, allium, Var. ap. Non. 201, 13:

acres humores,

sharp juices, Cic. N. D. 2, 23:

lactuca innatat acri stomacho,

an acid stomach, Hor. S. 2, 4, 59; cf. ib. 2, 8, 7:

dulcibus cibis acres acutosque miscere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 3 al. —

Of sensation in its widest extent: aestatem auctumnus sequitur, post acer hiems fit, sharp, severe, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 647 P. (Ann. v. 406 ed. Vahl.—cf. Lucr. 3, 20; 4, 261); and so Hor.: solvitur acris hiems, C. 1. 4, 1. —

Of the internal states of the human system, violent, sharp, severe, gnawing:

fames, Naev. ap. Prisc. l. l. (B. Punic. p. 18 ed. Vahl.): somnus, Enn. ap. Prisc. l. l. (Ann. v. 369): morbus,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 119:

dolor,

Lucr. 6, 650:

sitis,

Tib. 1, 3, 77 al.

Of the states of mind: violent, vehement, passionate, consuming: mors amici subigit, quae mihi est senium multo acerrimum, Att. ap. Non. 2, 22:

acri ira percitus,

Lucr. 5, 400: cf. 3, 312;

6, 754 (on the contrary, 5, 1194: iras acerbas): acres curae,

Lucr. 3, 463, and Var. ap. Non. 241:

luctus,

ib. 87:

dolor,

Verg. A. 7, 291:

metus,

Lucr. 6, 1211; Verg. A. 1, 362:

amor,

Tib. 2, 6, 15:

acrior ad Venerem cupido,

Curt. 6, 5 al. (Among unpleasant sensations, acer designates a piercing, wounding by sharpness; but acerbus the rough, harsh, repugnant, repulsive.)—

Applied to the intellectual qualities, subtle, acute, penetrating, sagacious, shrewd:

acrem irritat virtutem animi,

Lucr. 1, 70:

acri judicio perpende,

id. 2, 1041:

memoria,

strong, retentive, Cic. de Or. 2, 87:

vir acri ingenio,

id. Or. 5; cf. id. Sest. 20 al. —

Applied to moral qualities.

In a good sense, active, ardent, eager, spirited, brave, zealous:

milites,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10:

civis acerrimus,

an ardent patriot, id. Fam. 10, 28:

defensor,

id. ib. 1, 1:

studio acriore esse,

id. de Or. 1, 21:

jam tum acer curas venientem extendit in annum rusticus,

Verg. G. 2, 405 al. —

In a bad sense, violent, hasty, hot, passionate, fierce, severe (very freq.):

uxor acerrima,

enraged, angry, Plaut. Merc. 4, 4, 56; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 32:

dominos acres,

Lucr. 6, 63; Nep. Tim. 3, 5; cf. Bremi Nep. Eum. 11, 1. Also, of animals, Lucr. 4, 421; 5, 860; Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. Epod. 12, 6; 2, 31; Nep. Eum. 11, 1. —

Of abstract things (mostly poet.), Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 32:

egestas,

Lucr. 3, 65:

poenas,

id. 6, 72:

impetus,

ib. 128; 392:

acerrimum bellum,

Cic. Balb. 6:

nox acerrima atque acerbissima,

id. Sull. 18:

acrius supplicium,

id. Cat. 1, 1; in Quint.: acres syllabae, which proceed from short to long, 9, 4.—Acer is constr. with abl., and also (esp. in the histt. of the silv. age) with gen., Vell. 1, 13; Tac. H. 2, 5 al.; cf. Ramsh. § 107, 6 note. With in, Cic. Fam. 8, 15; with inf., Sil. 3, 338.— Adv.: ācrĭter, sharply, strongly, vehemently, eagerly, zealously, etc., in all the signif. of the adj., Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 110; id. Ps. 1, 3, 39; Lucr. 6, 783; Cic. Tusc. 1, 30 al.— Comp., Lucr. 3, 54; 5, 1147; Hor. S. 2, 3, 92; Tac. A. 6, 45; 13, 3.— Sup., Cic. Fl. 11; id. Fam. 10, 28; 15, 4.—Also, ācre, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 132, 25; App. M. 10, 32; and perh. Pers. 4, 34.

tū (old form of the gen. sing. tis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 42; id. Trin. 2, 2, 62; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 87; id. Ps. 1, 1, 6; acc. ted, id. As. 2, 2, 33 et saep.; gen. plur. vestrorum or vostrorum, Pac. ap. Non. 85, 5; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 123; fem. vostrarum, Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 6; v. ego init.), pers. pron. [Sanscr. tva, tvam; Gr. su; Dor. tu; Goth. thu; Germ. du; Engl. thou, etc.], thou.

In gen.: nec pol homo quisquam faciet impune animatus Hoc nisi tu, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 101 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. A. 9, 422: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli Templa, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.):

tu mihi etiam legis Portiae, tu C. Gracchi, tu horum libertatis, tu cujusquam denique hominis popularis mentionem facis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13:

nec dulces amores Sperne puer, neque tu choreas,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 16:

ego tu sum, tu es ego: uni animi sumus,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 49:

mei te rogandi et tui respondendi mihi (labor),

id. Ps. 1, 1, 4.— Fem.:

cum tui videndi est copia,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 19:

neque mei neque te tui intus puditum est,

id. Bacch. 3, 1, 12; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 19:

quia tis egeat, quia te careat,

id. Mil. 4, 2, 42:

tibi aras. tibi occas, tibi seris, tibi eidem metis,

id. Merc. 1, 1, 71:

quot pondo ted esse censes nudum?

id. As. 2, 2, 33 et saep.: vosne velit an me regnare era, Fors, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 203 Vahl.):

si quis quid vostrum Epidamnum curari sibi Velit,

Plaut. Men. prol. 51:

vestri adhortandi causā,

Liv. 21, 41, 1:

istanc tecum conspicio simul,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 112:

stulta multum, quae vobiscum fabuler,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 33.—

Emphatic.

Jam tibi cerebrum Dispercutiam, excetra tu, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 24 sq.:

neque postulem abs te, ni ipsa res moneat,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 19:

nec enim illa studia deserui, quibus etiam te incendi,

Cic. Fat. 2, 3:

tu si hic sis aliter sentias,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 10.—

Esp. in opp. to another pron. pers.:

id mihi da negoti: tu tamen Perge, etc.,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 41:

an mihi potest quicquam esse molestum quod tibi gratum futurum sit?

Cic. Fat. 2, 4:

nos patriam fugimus... tu, Tityre, lentus, etc.,

Verg. E. 1, 4; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6.—

Poet., in second clause of a command, etc.:

solve metus, et tu Trojanos exue caestus,

Verg. A. 5, 420; cf. id. ib. 5, 691; 6, 365; Hor. C. 1, 9, 16.—

With an emphatic -te or -met suffixed (only in the forms tute or tutemet, tibimet, tete, vosmet, and vobismet): o Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 947 P. (Ann. v. 113 Vahl.): bene mones: tute ipse cunctas, id. ap. Non. 469, 25 (Com. v. 3 Vahl. p. 153): Al. Quae ex te audivi: ut urbem maximam Expugnavisses regemque Pterelam tute occideris. Am. Egone istuc dixi? Al. Tute istic, etiam astante hoc Sosia, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 114 sq.:

tute ipse his rebus finem praescripsisti, pater,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 124:

utere igitur argumento, Laeli, tute ipse sensus tui,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

tute,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27; 10, 31:

ut tute mihi praecepisti,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2:

tute scis—si modo meministi—me tibi tum dixisse, etc.,

id. Att. 12, 18, a, 2.— Acc.:

uxor, si cesses, aut te amare cogitat Aut tete amari,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 8; so,

tete,

id. Phorm. 3, 1, 3:

tibi si recta probanti placebis, tum non modo tete viceris, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 63:

nisi quid tibi in tete auxilii est, absumptus es,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 76:

tutemet mirabere,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 133:

tutemet in culpā cum sis,

Lucr. 4, 915:

tutemet a nobis... quaeres,

id. 1, 102:

tibimet ipse supplicia irroga,

Sen. Hippol. 1222:

ita vosmet aiebatis,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 18:

atque hoc vosmet ipsi, scio... haud aliter id dicetis,

id. Most. 1, 2, 13: vos quoque in eā re consilio me adjuvate:

nullum libentius sequor quam quod vosmet ipsi attuleritis,

Liv. 34, 17, 9; 3, 56, 3 Drak. N. cr. —

In partic.

Tibi, as a dativus ethicus (cf. Ruddim. II. p. 126, n. 44):

alter tibi descendit de palatio et aedibus suis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133:

ecce tibi exortus est Isocrates,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 94; so,

ecce tibi,

id. Sest. 41, 89; id. Att. 2, 15, 3:

hic Marius veniet tibi origine parva,

Sil. 13, 854:

haec vobis ipsorum per biduum militia fuit,

Liv. 22, 60 et saep.—

Vos, addressed to one person as a representative of more than one, or with a collective noun in the sing.:

vos, vero, Attice, et praesentem me curā levatis, et, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 3, 11:

sed quid hoc loco vos inter vos, Catule?

id. de Or. 2, 73, 295; id. Dom. 31, 83:

vos, Romanus exercitus, ne destiteritis impio bello?

Liv. 7, 40, 12 Drak.:

vos, Gaetulia sueta, etc.,

Sil. 3, 287:

vos, o Calliope, precor aspirate canenti,

i. e. you, Muses, Verg. A. 9, 525; imitated by Sil. 12, 390.—

Gen. plur. for poss. pron.:

majores vostrum,

Sall. C. 33, 3:

hac vestrum frequentiā,

Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 55; id. Phil. 4, 1, 1:

quantus consensus vestrum,

id. ib. 5, 1, 2:

contra urbis salutem omniumque vestrum,

id. Cat. 2, 12, 27.—

Mea tu, my love, my dear, my darling, in familiar language, Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 22.