studia adulescentiam alunt C

1) старание, усердие, рвение (s. laudis C)

2) влечение, стремление, страсть

3) деятельное участие (s. favorque transibit PJ); приверженность, привязанность, расположение, преданность ( studiis odiisque carēre Lcn); благожелательность, благосклонность (alicujus rei или in aliquid, in или erga aliquem C etc.)

4) (тж. s. partium C) пристрастие, пристрастность

5) занятие, профессия (s. rerum rusticarum Col); любимое занятие (suo quisque studio maxime ducitur C)

6) научные занятия, изучение (s. litterarum C; in studiis vitam agere O)

7) наука, отрасль науки ( studia adulescentiam alunt C)

ălo, ălŭi, altum, and ălĭtum, 3, v. a. (the ante-class. and class. form of the part. perf. from Plautus until after Livy is altus (in Cic. four times); alitus seems to have been first used in the post-Aug. per. to distinguish it from altus, the adj. Altus is found in Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36; Varr. ap. Non. 237, 15; Cic. Planc. 33, 81; id. Brut. 10, 39; id. N. D. 2, 46, 118; id. Fam. 6, 1; Sall. J. 63, 3;

on the contrary, alitus,

Liv. 30, 28; Curt. 8, 10, 8; Val. Max. 3, 4, 4; 5, 4, 7; 7, 4, 1; 9, 3, 8; Sen. Contr. 3, praef. 10; Just. 44, 4, 12; Dig. 27, 3, 1; cf. Prisc. 897; Diom. 371; Charis. 220 P.; Wund. ad Cic. Planc. p. 201) [cf.: an-altos = insatiable, alsos = growth (of wood), 1. ad-oleo, ad-olesco, elementum; Goth. alan = to bring up; Germ. alt = old; Engl. old, eld, elder, and alderman], to feed, to nourish, support, sustain, maintain (in gen. without designating the means, while nutrire denotes sustenance by animal food; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 18; 7, 32; Doed. Syn. II. p. 99).

Lit.:

quem ego nefrendem alui, Liv. And. ap. Fest. s. v. nefrendes, p. 163 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 5 Rib.): Athenis natus altusque,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36:

alebat eos,

Vulg. Gen. 47, 12:

esurientes alebat,

ib. Tob. 1, 20.—With natus, educatus, or a similar word, several times: Alui, educavi, Att. ap. Non. 422, 14 (Trag. Rel. p. 150 Rib.):

cum Hannibale alto atque educato inter arma,

Liv. 30, 28 (cf. II. infra):

aut equos Alere aut canes ad venandum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 30; id. Hec. 4, 4, 49:

alere nolunt hominem edacem,

id. Phorm. 2, 2, 21:

quoniam cibus auget corpus alitque,

Lucr. 1, 859; 5, 221 al.:

quae etiam aleret adulescentes,

Cic. Cael. 38:

milites,

id. Verr. 5, 80:

nautas,

id. ib. 5, 87:

exercitum,

id. Deiot. 24:

magnum numerum equitatus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

cum agellus eum non satis aleret,

Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72; so Nep. Phoc. 1, 4:

locus ille, ubi altus aut doctus est,

Cic. Planc. 33, 81:

quibus animantes aluntur,

id. N. D. 2, 19:

(animus) aletur et sustentabitur isdem rebus, quibus astra sustentantur et aluntur,

id. Tusc. 1, 19, 43 al.:

latrociniis se suosque alebat,

Caes. B. G. 8, 47; 1, 18:

quos manus aut lingua perjurio aut sanguine civili alebat,

Sall. C. 14, 3; cf. Kritz ad Sall. C. 37, 3; Nep. Arist. 3 fin.:

ut nepotem elephantos alere prohiberet,

Cic. Phil. 9, 4:

canes,

id. Sex. Rosc. 56:

quod alerentur regiones eorum ab illo,

Vulg. Act. 12, 20:

velut amnis imbres Quem super notas aluere ripas,

have swollen, Hor. C. 4, 2, 5:

rhombos aequora alebant,

id. S. 2, 2, 48 al.; Ov. M. 9, 339; 3, 411; and in a paradoxical phrase: infelix minuendo corpus alebat, and sustained his body by consuming it, i. e. nourished himself by his own flesh, id. ib. 8, 878 al.—Hence in pass. with the abl. = vesci, to be nourished or sustained with or by something, to live or feed upon:

panico vetere atque hordeo corrupto omnes alebantur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

quia viperinis carnibus alantur,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 27:

locustis eos ali, etc.,

id. 7, 2, 2, § 29:

hoc cibo aliti sunt,

Vulg. Exod. 16, 35.—

Fig., to nourish, cherish, promote, increase, strengthen:

honos alit artes,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4:

in eā ipsā urbe, in quā et nata et alta sit eloquentia,

id. Brut. 10, 39:

hominis mens alitur discendo et cogitando,

id. Off. 1, 30:

haec studia adulescentiam alunt,

id. Arch. 7, 16; cf.

Ochsn. Eclog. 134 al.: civitas, quam ipse semper aluisset,

i. e. whose prosperity he had always promoted, Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

vires,

id. ib. 4, 1:

nolo meis impensis illorum ali augerique luxuriam,

Nep. Phoc. 1 fin.:

alere morbum,

id. Att. 21 fin.:

insita hominibus libido alendi de industriā rumores,

Liv. 28, 24:

regina Vulnus alit venis,

Verg. A. 4, 2:

divitiis alitur luxuriosus amor,

Ov. R. Am. 746:

alitur diutius controversia,

Caes. B. G. 7, 32:

quid alat formetque poëtam,

Hor. A. P. 307 al. —Hence, altus, a, um.

ob-lecto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [2. lacto], to delight, please, divert, entertain, amuse (class.; most freq. with se and mid.; syn. delecto); constr. usually aliquem (aliquid, se), with abl., with cum, with in and abl.

With abl.:

ut quam diutissime te jucundā opinione oblectarem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 1:

cum eorum inventis scriptisque se oblectent,

id. Rep. 1, 17, 28:

se agri cultione,

id. Sen. 16, 56; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 115:

aliquem falso gaudio,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 102:

Musae me oblectant carmine,

Cat. 66, 8.—With an impers. object:

legentium animos fictis oblectare,

Tac. H. 2, 50; so,

ironically: paulum praesidii, qui familiarem suam vitam oblectet modo,

cheer, comfort, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 46:

vitam sordido pane,

id. As. 1, 2, 16.—Mid.:

in communibus miseriis hac tamen oblectabar speculā,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 5:

ludis oblectamur,

id. Mur. 19, 39.—

With cum:

oblecta te cum Cicerone quam bellissime,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4:

cum his me oblecto, qui res gestas scripserunt,

id. de Or. 2, 14, 61; cf.

elliptically: ego me interea cum libellis,

id. Att. 12, 3, 1.—

With in:

in eo me oblecto,

I delight in him, he is my delight, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 24:

se in hortis,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 58:

ego me in Cumano et Pompeiano satis commode oblectabam,

i. e. amused myself excellently well in Cumanum, id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 1.—

With acc.:

minime equidem me oblectavi,

id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

hortulos emere ubi se oblectare posset,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58:

ut te oblectes scire cupio,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 7:

populum,

Hor. A. P. 321.—With an impers. object:

haec studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant,

Cic. Arch. 7, 16; Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 87:

animos,

Ov. R. Am. 169; Tac. H. 2, 50:

animum,

Juv. 14, 265.—

Transf., to spend or pass time agreeably:

studio lacrimabile tempus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 1:

iners otium,

Tac. A. 12, 49:

inter cenam oblectamus otium temporis,

Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 15.—

Hence, to delay, detain:

ego illum interea hic oblectabo,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 83:

dic mi ubi, Philotis, te oblectāsti tam diu,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 9.