the populace

vulgus ( volg-), i, n. ( masc., Att., Sisenn., and Varr. ap. Non. p. 230, 27 sq.; Verg. A. 2, 99; Phaedr. 4, 14; Liv. 6, 34, 5; 24, 32, 1; Lucr. 2, 920 et saep.) [Sanscr. várga, a group], the great mass, the multitude, the people, public (class.; cf.: plebs, turba).

In [p. 2016] gen.:

non est consilium in vulgo, non ratio, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 4, 9; Sall. J. 66, 2; Verg. A. 2, 39:

quod in vulgus gratum esse sentimus,

with the people, with the public, generally, Cic. Att. 2, 22, 3:

in vulgus notus,

id. ib. 9, 5, 2; Liv. 22, 3, 14; Tac. H. 1, 71; 2, 26 fin.;

2, 93 al.: apio gratia in vulgo est,

Plin. 20, 11, 44, § 112.—

In partic.

A mass, crowd, throng, multitude of persons or animals:

vulgus servorum,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 4:

mulierum,

id. Hec. 4, 2, 24:

patronorum,

Cic. Brut. 97, 332:

insipientium,

id. Tusc. 2, 26, 63:

densum (umbrarum),

Hor. C. 2, 13, 32:

inane (animarum),

Ov. F. 2, 554:

femineum,

Luc. 7, 39:

incautum (ovium),

Verg. G. 3, 469:

aequoreum,

of sea-monsters, Sen. Hippol. 957.—

With an accessory idea of contempt, the crowd, the vulgar, mob, rabble, populace:

sapientis judicium a judicio vulgi discrepat,

Cic. Brut. 53, 198:

ceteri omnes strenui, boni, nobiles atque ignobiles, vulgus fuimus sine gratiā, sine auctoritate,

Sall. C. 20, 7:

gratiam ad vulgum quaesierat,

Liv. 6, 34, 5:

quid oportet Nos facere, a vulgo longe lateque remotos?

Hor. S. 1, 6, 18:

odi profanum vulgus et arceo,

id. C. 3, 1, 1:

malignum Spernere vulgus,

id. ib. 2, 16, 40:

infidum,

id. ib. 1, 35, 25:

mobile,

Stat. S. 2, 2, 123: fani pulchritudo et vetustas Praenestinarum etiam nunc retinet sortium nomen: atque id in vulgus;

quis enim magistratus aut quis vir illustrior utitur sortibus?

among the common people, among the populace, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86:

spargere voces In volgum ambiguas,

Verg. A. 2, 99:

alio pane procerum, alio volgi,

Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53:

vulgus proceresque gemunt,

Ov. M. 8, 526.—

Militari gratiora vulgo, the common soldiery, Curt. 3, 6, 19:

vulgo militum acceptior,

id. 7, 2, 33.— Hence, vulgō ( volg-), abl. adv., prop. among the multitude; hence, in gen., before every body, before all the world, generally, universally, everywhere, all over, commonly, openly, publicly (syn.:

palam, publice, aperte): num locum ad spectandum dare? aut ad prandium invitare? Minime, sed vulgo, passim. Quid est vulgo? Universos,

Cic. Mur. 35, 73:

ejusmodi tempus erat, ut homines vulgo impune occiderentur,

id. Rosc. Am. 29, 80:

vulgo totis castris testamenta obsignabantur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

accidit, ut vulgo milites ab signis discederent,

id. ib. 5, 33:

vulgo nascetur amomum,

everywhere, Verg. E. 4, 25:

vituli volgo moriuntur in herbis,

id. G. 3, 494:

vulgo loquebantur, Antonium mansurum esse Casilini,

generally, Cic. Att. 16, 10, 1:

aliquid vulgo ostendere ac proferre,

before all the world, openly, id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64; cf.:

quas (litteras) vulgo ad te mitto,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 21:

verum illud verbum est, vulgo quod dici solet, Omnes, etc.,

usually, Ter. And. 2, 5, 15; cf.:

ut vulgo uti solemus,

Quint. 9, 2, 8:

hoc quod vulgo sententias vocamus,

id. 12, 10, 48:

victum vulgo quaerere,

i. e. by prostitution, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 38; so,

vulgo concepti,

Dig. 1, 5, 23.

plebs (in inscriptions often PLEPS), -bis, and archaic plēbēs (‡ plēbis), is and ĕi (plebium, Prud. steph. 10, 709:

plebibus,

Aug. Ep. 166), f. [root ple-, fill; whence Gr. pimplêmi, plêrês; cf. plê thos, multitude].

Lit., the common people, the commons or commonalty, the plebeians (opp. the patricians, senators, and knights;

whereas populus signifies the collective people, including, therefore, the Senate),

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 10: plebes in hoc regi antistat loco, licet Lacrumare plebi, regi honeste non licet, Enn. ap. Hier. Epit. Nep. p. 590 Mign. (Trag. v. 271 Vahl.):

plebs a populo eo differt quo species a genere: nam appellatione populi universi cives significantur, connumeratis etiam patriciis et senatoribus: plebis autem appellatione sine patribus et senatu ceteri cives significantur,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 4; cf. Gai. Inst. 1, 3:

plebes dominandi studio permota a patribus secessit,

Sall. C. 33, 3:

ita tribuni plebei creati duo,

Liv. 2, 33, 2:

dum decem tribunos plebi faceret,

id. 3, 65, 4:

non enim populi, sed plebis eum (sc.: tribunum plebis) magistratum esse,

Liv. 2, 56:

populo plebique Romanae,

Cic. Mur. 1, 1:

in duas partes ego civitatem divisam arbitror in patres, et plebem,

Sall. Or. ad Caes. 2, 5; Liv. 2, 56:

Martia Roma triplex equitatu, plebe, senatu,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 78.—

Transf., in gen.

The great mass, the multitude:

in Hyrcaniā, plebs publicos alit canes, optimates domesticos,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108:

plebem et infimam multitudinem delinire,

id. Mil. 35, 95.—

With accessory notion of contempt, the populace, the lower class or order, the mass ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

multitudo de plebe,

Liv. 5, 39:

si quadringentis sex septem millia desunt, Plebs eris,

you shall be plebeian, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 59:

misera,

id. S. 1, 8, 10:

ventosa,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 37:

immensa nimiaque,

Juv. 11, 194.—Among the gods:

plebs Superūm, Fauni, Satyrique, Laresque, Fluminaque, et Nymphae, Semideūmque genus,

Ov. Ib. 81.—Of bees, a stock, swarm, hive (meaning the great mass, opp. to the queen); in plur. (rare):

tres alveorum plebes,

Col. 9, 11, 1: corona plebium, Prud. steph. 10, 709.—

The whole people, nation, community, = populus (late Lat.), Vulg. Gen. 23, 13:

plebs tua Israel,

id. Luc. 2, 32 et saep.

pŏpŭlus (contr. POPLVS, Inscr. Column. Rostr. in Corp. Inscr. Lat. 195, 17, Plaut. Am. prol. 101; 1, 1, 103; id. Aul. 2, 4, 6; id. Cas. 3, 2, 6 et saep.—Also written POPOLVS, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 197, 15 al.; nom. plur. poploe, Carm. Sal. ap. Fest. p. 205 Müll.; v. pilumnoe) [from root pleof pleo; v. plenus], i, m., a people, the people.

Lit.

In gen. (cf.:

gens, natio): res publica res populi: populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis juris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 39:

populus Romanus,

id. Phil. 6, 5, 12: exspectabat populus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 90 Vahl.):

tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 27: casci populi Latini, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll. (Ann. v. 24 Vahl.):

hi populi: Atellani, Calatini, etc.,

Liv. 22, 61 fin. —

Esp.

The people, opp. to the Senate, in the formula senatus populusque Romanus (abbreviated S. P. Q. R.), saep.; cf.:

et patres in populi fore potestate,

Liv. 2, 56.—

Opp. to the plebs:

non enim populi, sed plebis eum (tribunum) magistratum esse,

Liv. 2, 56:

ut ea res populo plebique Romanae bene eveniret,

Cic. Mur. 1, 1.—

Rarely for plebs, the populace:

dat populus, dat gratus eques, dat tura senatus,

Mart. 8, 15, 3: urbanus, the citizens (opp. to the military), Nep. Cim. 2, 1.—

Transf.

A region, district, regarded as inhabited:

frequens cultoribus alius populus,

Liv. 21, 34, 1 (cf. Gr. dêmos).—

A multitude, host, crowd, throng, great number of persons or things ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

ratis populo peritura recepto,

i. e. with the great multitude of passengers, Luc. 3, 665:

fratrum,

Ov. H. 14, 115:

in tanto populo sileri parricidium potuit,

Just. 10, 1:

sororum,

Ov. H. 9, 52; App. Mag. p. 304:

apum,

Col. 9, 13, 12:

populus totidem imaginum,

Plin. 33, 9, 45, § 129; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5:

spicarum,

Pall. 7, 2:

scelerum,

Sid. Ep. 6, 1 fin.:

concursus in forum populi,

Liv. 22, 7, 6.—

The public, i. e. the open street ( poet.): omnis habet geminas janua frontis, E quibus haec populum spectat;

at illa Larem,

Ov. F. 1, 136.

pōpŭlus, i, f. [root pamp-, pap-, to swell; Lat. papula, papilla, pampinus], a poplar, poplar-tree, Plin. 16, 23, 35, § 85; 16, 18, 31, § 77; 17, 11, 15, § 78; Ov. H. 5, 27;

sacred to Hercules,

Verg. E. 7, 61; Ov. H. 9, 64; Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 3:

alba,

the silver-poplar, Hor. C. 2, 3, 9.

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amb-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3, v. a., to burn around, to scorch (opp. exurere, to burn entirely up); also, with an extension of the idea, to burn wholly up, to consume (most freq. in part. perf.; class.).

Lit.

Hadrianus vivus exustus est:

Verres sociorum ambustus incendio, tamen ex illā flammā periculoque evasit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27:

Herculis corpus ambustum,

id. Sest. 68, 143:

terret ambustus Phaëthon avaras spes,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 25 al. —So Cicero jestingly calls the tribune of the people Munacius Plancus, at whose suggestion the enraged populace set fire to the senate-house, tribunus ambustus, the singed tribune of the people, Cic. Mil. 5, 12 Moeb.—Of those whom the lightning had struck, but not killed: Sen. Agam. 537:

tot circa me jactis fulminibus quasi ambustus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 3; so Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 9; id. Mil. 3, 2, 22:

Cassius, quem fama est esse libris Ambustum propriis,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 64:

magna vis frumenti ambusta,

Tac. H. 5, 12:

ambustum theatrum,

Suet. Claud. 21 al. —Hence, ambu-stum, i, n., in medic. lang., a burn:

inflammatio recentis ambusti,

Plin. 24, 8, 35, § 51:

sedare ambusta,

id. 24, 4, 5, § 10:

ambusta sanare,

id. 20, 20, 82, § 217:

ambusta igne vel frigore,

id. 24, 8, 29, § 45 al. —

From the similarity of effect, to injure by cold, to nip, benumb (cf. aduro):

ambusti multorum artus vi frigoris,

Tac. A. 13, 35:

ambusta pruinis lumina, i. e. oculi,

Val. Fl. 4, 70.—

Trop.

Of property:

ambustas fortunarum mearum reliquias,

the charred remains, Cic. Dom. 43.—

Of one who, when tried for an offence, comes off with great trouble:

qui damnatione collegae et suā prope ambustus evaserat,

had come off scorched, Liv. 22, 35.

amb-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3, v. a., to burn around, to scorch (opp. exurere, to burn entirely up); also, with an extension of the idea, to burn wholly up, to consume (most freq. in part. perf.; class.).

Lit.

Hadrianus vivus exustus est:

Verres sociorum ambustus incendio, tamen ex illā flammā periculoque evasit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27:

Herculis corpus ambustum,

id. Sest. 68, 143:

terret ambustus Phaëthon avaras spes,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 25 al. —So Cicero jestingly calls the tribune of the people Munacius Plancus, at whose suggestion the enraged populace set fire to the senate-house, tribunus ambustus, the singed tribune of the people, Cic. Mil. 5, 12 Moeb.—Of those whom the lightning had struck, but not killed: Sen. Agam. 537:

tot circa me jactis fulminibus quasi ambustus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 3; so Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 9; id. Mil. 3, 2, 22:

Cassius, quem fama est esse libris Ambustum propriis,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 64:

magna vis frumenti ambusta,

Tac. H. 5, 12:

ambustum theatrum,

Suet. Claud. 21 al. —Hence, ambu-stum, i, n., in medic. lang., a burn:

inflammatio recentis ambusti,

Plin. 24, 8, 35, § 51:

sedare ambusta,

id. 24, 4, 5, § 10:

ambusta sanare,

id. 20, 20, 82, § 217:

ambusta igne vel frigore,

id. 24, 8, 29, § 45 al. —

From the similarity of effect, to injure by cold, to nip, benumb (cf. aduro):

ambusti multorum artus vi frigoris,

Tac. A. 13, 35:

ambusta pruinis lumina, i. e. oculi,

Val. Fl. 4, 70.—

Trop.

Of property:

ambustas fortunarum mearum reliquias,

the charred remains, Cic. Dom. 43.—

Of one who, when tried for an offence, comes off with great trouble:

qui damnatione collegae et suā prope ambustus evaserat,

had come off scorched, Liv. 22, 35.

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