to bring to recollection

com-mŏnĕo ( conm-), ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a., to remind one forcibly of something, to put in mind, to impress upon, to bring to recollection (in good prose); constr. (cf. admoneo).

With aliquem:

ut commoneri nos satis sit, nihil attineat doceri,

Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 3:

meretricem,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 8:

me,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 57; Quint. 11, 3, 130: commonito pro rostris populo, * Suet. Claud. 22; cf.:

quarum (notarum) recordatio commoneat et quasi excitet memoriam,

Quint. 11, 2, 28.—

With aliquem alicujus rei:

mearum me absens miseriarum conmones,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 38:

grammaticos officii sui,

Quint. 1, 5, 7:

te ejus matrimonii,

Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44; cf.:

ut hic modo me commonuit anulus quod totum effluxerat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 57.—

With aliquem de aliquā re:

de avaritiā tuā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154:

de periculo,

id. Part. Or. 27, 96. —

With aliquem aliquid:

officium vostrum ut vos malo cupiatis conmonerier,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 17.—Simply with aliquid:

cum amice aliquid commonemus,

Quint. 6, 1, 50:

quae commonet usus,

Sil. 13, 111.—

With rel.-clause:

quam hic mihi sit facile atque utile, Aliorum exempla commonent,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 17; so,

commonere aliquem cur, etc.,

Quint. 11, 2, 30; and pass.:

hoc qui venerit mi in mentem, re conmonitus sum modo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 47 Fleck. (Brix.: hoc qui in mentem venerit mi? Re ipsā conmonitus sum).—

With ut or ne:

ut neque me consuetudo, neque amor commoneat, ut servem fidem,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 45:

qui ut ordini rerum animum intendat, etiam commonendus est,

Quint. 4, 1, 78:

commoneo tamen, ne quis hoc cottidianum habeat,

Cels. 1, 3.—

With alicujus rei: horum tamen utcumque commonet locus, Quint. 11, 2, 24.

com-mŏnĕo ( conm-), ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a., to remind one forcibly of something, to put in mind, to impress upon, to bring to recollection (in good prose); constr. (cf. admoneo).

With aliquem:

ut commoneri nos satis sit, nihil attineat doceri,

Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 3:

meretricem,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 8:

me,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 57; Quint. 11, 3, 130: commonito pro rostris populo, * Suet. Claud. 22; cf.:

quarum (notarum) recordatio commoneat et quasi excitet memoriam,

Quint. 11, 2, 28.—

With aliquem alicujus rei:

mearum me absens miseriarum conmones,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 38:

grammaticos officii sui,

Quint. 1, 5, 7:

te ejus matrimonii,

Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44; cf.:

ut hic modo me commonuit anulus quod totum effluxerat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 57.—

With aliquem de aliquā re:

de avaritiā tuā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154:

de periculo,

id. Part. Or. 27, 96. —

With aliquem aliquid:

officium vostrum ut vos malo cupiatis conmonerier,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 17.—Simply with aliquid:

cum amice aliquid commonemus,

Quint. 6, 1, 50:

quae commonet usus,

Sil. 13, 111.—

With rel.-clause:

quam hic mihi sit facile atque utile, Aliorum exempla commonent,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 17; so,

commonere aliquem cur, etc.,

Quint. 11, 2, 30; and pass.:

hoc qui venerit mi in mentem, re conmonitus sum modo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 47 Fleck. (Brix.: hoc qui in mentem venerit mi? Re ipsā conmonitus sum).—

With ut or ne:

ut neque me consuetudo, neque amor commoneat, ut servem fidem,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 45:

qui ut ordini rerum animum intendat, etiam commonendus est,

Quint. 4, 1, 78:

commoneo tamen, ne quis hoc cottidianum habeat,

Cels. 1, 3.—

With alicujus rei: horum tamen utcumque commonet locus, Quint. 11, 2, 24.

canto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cano], freq. in form, but mostly agrees in meaning with cano.

Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).

Of men:

Pamphilam Cantatum provocemus,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:

saltare et cantare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

neque enim vocum suavitate videntur aut novitate quădam cantandi revocare eos solitae (sirenes),

id. Fin. 5, 18, 49:

Arcades ambo Et cantare pares,

Verg. E. 7, 5; 10, 32:

cantando victus,

id. ib. 3, 21; Tib. 2, 1, 66:

adimam cantare severis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9:

ut (cantores) numquam inducant animum cantare rogati,

id. S. 1, 3, 2; Suet. Tit. 3: non est Cantandum, there is no occasion for singing, i. e. for imagination, fiction, Juv. 4, 35.—Of an actor:

cantante eo (Nerone) ne necessariă quidem causă excedere theatro licitum erat,

Suet. Ner. 23; 20; id. Vesp. 4 al.; cf.

under II. B. 2.: conducta veni, ut fidibus cantarem seni,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 64:

structis avenis,

Ov. M. 1, 677:

ad chordarum sonum,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1.—Less freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument (cf. cano):

tibiis,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1; id. ib. praef. § 1; Vulg. Luc. 7, 32:

lituo, tubă,

Gell. 20, 2, 2:

calamo,

Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 5: ad manum histrioni, in comedy, to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, Liv. 7, 2, 10; cf. Val. Max. 2, 4, 4.— Pass. impers.:

in caelo cantatur et psallitur,

Arn. 3, 21.—Prov.:

surdo,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 47, and ad surdas aures, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 61, to preach to deaf ears; cf. cano, II. B.—

Of the singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim in a singing tone, to sing, drawl: si cantas, male cantas, si legis, cantas, C. Caesar ap. Quint. 1, 8, 2; 11, 1, 56; 11, 3, 57; 11, 3, 58; 11, 3, 59; 11, 3, 60; cf. Juv. 10, 178.—Hence, to recite, declaim:

quaecumque sedens modo legerat, haec eadem... cantabit versibus isdem,

Juv. 7, 153.—

Of birds and fowls:

prius quam galli cantent,

crow, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 96; so,

deos gallis signum dedisse cantandi,

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 57:

cantantes aves,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 30.—

Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound:

pastoris bucina cantat,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30:

cantabat fanis, cantabat tibia ludis,

Ov. F. 6, 659 sq. —

Act., to make some person or thing the subject of one ' s singing, playing, or song (cf. cano, II.).

With the song itself, carmen, versus, etc., as object, to sing, play, recite:

carmina non prius Audita canto,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

rustica verba,

Tib. 2, 1, 52:

Hymen cantatus,

Ov. H. 12, 137; cf.:

Hymenaeum qui cantent,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7:

obscena,

Ov. F. 3, 676.—

With particular persons or things, the subjects of song, as objects, to sing, to celebrate or praise in song, sing of, write poetry upon, etc.:

celebrem deum,

Tib. 2, 1, 83:

absentem amicam,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 15:

rivos,

id. C. 2, 19, 11:

convivia, proelia virginum,

id. ib. 1, 6, 19:

Augusti tropaea,

id. ib. 2, 9, 19:

Pythia (sc. certamina),

id. A. P. 414:

cantari dignus,

Verg. E. 5, 54:

per totum cantabimur orbem,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 25; 2, 17, 33; cf.:

illa meis multum cantata libellis,

Mart. 9, 50, 1:

cantatus Achilles,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 29:

laudes tuas,

id. F. 2, 658. —Esp.,

Of an actor, to represent a part, to act (cf. supra, I. A.):

cantavit (Nero) Orestem matricidam, Oedipodem excaecatum, etc.,

Suet. Ner. 21:

Nioben,

id. ib. 21:

tragoedias,

id. ib. 21:

fabulam,

id. ib. 46 fin.:

epinicia,

id. ib. 43 fin. —

Hence, because the oracles were of old uttered in verse, of any mysterious, prophetic, or warning utterance, to predict, warn, point out, indicate, make known, say:

vera cantas? vana vellem,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 64. —Of inanimate things:

urna haec litterata est: ab se cantat cuja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21:

civi inmoeni scin quid cantari solet?

id. Trin. 2, 2, 69; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 61.—

To bring something repeatedly to recollection, to reiterate, harp upon, forewarn of or against:

haec dies noctes canto, ut caveas,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 12:

harum mores,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 19:

nam, ut scis, jam pridem istum canto Caesarem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 1:

quid fati provida cantet avis,

Tib. 2, 5, 12:

quae me juvene utique cantare solebant,

Quint. 8, 3, 76.—

In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27:

frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,

Verg. E. 8, 71:

cantata Luna,

exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13:

falx,

Ov. H. 6, 84:

herbae,

id. M. 7, 98:

ignis,

Sil. 1, 430:

tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,

an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—

To call forth, produce by charms:

et chelydris cantare soporem,

Sil. 8, 498:

cantata umbra,

Luc. 6, 767.

com-mĕmŏro ( conm-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to recall an object to memory in all its particulars.

Rarely of one's self, to call to mind, be mindful of, keep in mind, remember; with acc. and inf. or rel. -clause:

quid quoque die dixerim, audierim, egerim, commemoro vesperi,

Cic. Sen. 11, 38.—With acc. and inf.:

cottidie commemorabam te unum in tanto exercitu mihi fuisse adsensorem,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

vitandi rumoris causā, quo patrem Caesarem vulgo reprehensum commemorabam,

Suet. Aug. 45.—More freq.,

Of others, to bring something to one ' s recollection by speaking of it, to remind of:

aliquid,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 36; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 14:

ad commemorandam renovandamque amicitiam missi,

Liv. 27, 4, 10:

beneficia meminisse debet is, in quem collata sunt, non commemorare qui contulit,

Cic. Lael. 20, 71.—Hence (and so most freq.),

Without the access. idea of remembering, to make mention of something, to recount, relate; constr. with acc., acc. and inf., rel.clause, or with de.

With acc.:

id interdum furtim nomen commemorabitur,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 29:

res,

Lucr. 6, 938:

causas,

Caes. B. C. 3, 66:

humanam societatem,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 31:

Xenophontis illam jucunditatem,

Quint. 10, 1, 82:

o commemoranda judicia!

Cic. Verr. 1, 14, 42; cf. id. Fam. 1, 9, 18.—

With acc. and inf., Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160; cf. Nep. Alcib. 2, 2.—

With rel.clause:

quid ego nunc commemorem Singillatim, qualis ego in hunc fuerim?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 42; 4, 5, 3:

chlamydem hanc commemores quanti conducta'st?

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 88.—

With de:

omnes de tuā virtute commemorant,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 37; so id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; id. Font. 14, 30; Nep. Dion, 6, 2 al.; cf.:

multa de aliqua re,

id. Hann. 2, 3; id. Att. 17, 1.—

With in:

quae si in privatis gloriosa sunt, multo magis commemorabuntur in regibus,

Cic. Deiot. 14, 40; cf.: cum legent in ejus virtutibus commemorari saltasse eum commode, Nep. praef. § 1.

com-mĕmŏro ( conm-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to recall an object to memory in all its particulars.

Rarely of one's self, to call to mind, be mindful of, keep in mind, remember; with acc. and inf. or rel. -clause:

quid quoque die dixerim, audierim, egerim, commemoro vesperi,

Cic. Sen. 11, 38.—With acc. and inf.:

cottidie commemorabam te unum in tanto exercitu mihi fuisse adsensorem,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

vitandi rumoris causā, quo patrem Caesarem vulgo reprehensum commemorabam,

Suet. Aug. 45.—More freq.,

Of others, to bring something to one ' s recollection by speaking of it, to remind of:

aliquid,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 36; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 14:

ad commemorandam renovandamque amicitiam missi,

Liv. 27, 4, 10:

beneficia meminisse debet is, in quem collata sunt, non commemorare qui contulit,

Cic. Lael. 20, 71.—Hence (and so most freq.),

Without the access. idea of remembering, to make mention of something, to recount, relate; constr. with acc., acc. and inf., rel.clause, or with de.

With acc.:

id interdum furtim nomen commemorabitur,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 29:

res,

Lucr. 6, 938:

causas,

Caes. B. C. 3, 66:

humanam societatem,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 31:

Xenophontis illam jucunditatem,

Quint. 10, 1, 82:

o commemoranda judicia!

Cic. Verr. 1, 14, 42; cf. id. Fam. 1, 9, 18.—

With acc. and inf., Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160; cf. Nep. Alcib. 2, 2.—

With rel.clause:

quid ego nunc commemorem Singillatim, qualis ego in hunc fuerim?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 42; 4, 5, 3:

chlamydem hanc commemores quanti conducta'st?

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 88.—

With de:

omnes de tuā virtute commemorant,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 37; so id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; id. Font. 14, 30; Nep. Dion, 6, 2 al.; cf.:

multa de aliqua re,

id. Hann. 2, 3; id. Att. 17, 1.—

With in:

quae si in privatis gloriosa sunt, multo magis commemorabuntur in regibus,

Cic. Deiot. 14, 40; cf.: cum legent in ejus virtutibus commemorari saltasse eum commode, Nep. praef. § 1.

mŏnĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2 ( inf. pres. pass. monerier, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 36; perf. subj. moneris pro monueris, Pac. ap. Non. 507, 24 sq.; cf. Trag. Rel. p. 66 Rib.; likewise: di monerint meliora, Pac. ap. Non. l. l. p. 74 Rib.), v. a. [causative from the root men; whence memini, q. v., mens, mentio; lit. to cause to think].

Lit., to remind, put in mind of, bring to one's recollection; to admonish, advise, warn, instruct, teach (syn.: hortor, suadeo, doceo): bene mones; tute ipse cunctas, Enn. ap. Non. 469, 25 (Com. v. 3 Vahl.):

ea (auctoritas) adhibeatur ad monendum non modo aperte, sed etiam acriter,

Cic. Lael. 13, 44:

melius nos Zenonis praecepta monent,

Juv. 15, 107.—

Aliquem de re:

oro, ut Terentiam moneatis de testamento,

Cic. Att. 11, 16, 5; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 6.—

Aliquem aliquid:

Fabius ea me ex tuis mandatis monuit,

Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1:

id ipsum, quod me mones,

id. Att. 14, 19, 1:

sed eos hoc moneo, desinant furere,

id. Cat. 2, 9, 20:

vos quo pauca monerem advocavi,

Sall. C. 58, 3; id. H. 2, 96, 8.— Hence also in pass., moneri aliquid:

ut moneatur semper servos homo officium suam,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 1:

nec ea, quae ab eā (naturā) monemur, audimus,

Cic. Lael. 24, 88; cf. infra. x.—

Aliquem alicujus rei (post-Aug., and only in Tac.; cf.:

admoneo, commonefacio): Caecina milites temporis ac necessitatis monet,

Tac. A. 1, 67 Nipperd. ad loc.:

Plancinam Augusta monuit Agrippinam insectandi,

id. ib. 2, 43.—

With ut, ne, or the simple subj.:

monere te atque hortari, ut in rem publicam incumberes,

Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2:

monet ut suspiciones vitet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: moneo, praedico, ante denuntio, abstineant, manus Cic. Verr. 1, 12, 36:

moneo obtestorque ut, etc.,

Sall. J. 10, 3; 49, 2; id. H. 4, 61, 23:

vos, ne amittatis, etc.,

id. J. 31, 25:

Macedonas monebat, ne multitudine hostium... moverentur,

Just. 11, 13:

quamquam edicto monuisset ne quis quietem ejus interrumperet,

Tac. A. 4, 67 init. —

With an object- or rel.-clause:

(Caesar) monuit ejus diei victoriam in earum cohortium virtute constare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 89, 4:

moneret rationem frumenti esse habendam,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 34:

Cerealis propinquos monebat fortunam belli mutare, etc.,

Tac. H. 5, 24:

Arminius colligi suos et propinquare silvis monitos vertit,

id. A. 1, 63:

ultro struebantur qui monerent perfugere ad Germaniae exercitus,

id. ib. 4, 67 fin.:

Radamistum obpugnationem celerare,

id. ib. 12, 46; 13, 37; 16, 11; id. H. 4, 33:

si te unum illud monuerimus, artem sine assiduitate dicendi non multum juvare,

Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1:

moneo, quid facto opus sit,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 65:

res monet cavere, consultare,

Sall. C. 52, 3:

alio properare tempus monet,

id. J. 19, 2.— Pass.:

cum Nicanorem insidiari Piraeo a Dercillo moneretur,

Nep. Phoc. 2, 4.—

Of inanim. and abstr. subjects:

res ipsa monebat tempus esse,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 1:

(sol) caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet,

Verg. G. 1, 464:

immortalia ne speres, monet annus,

Hor. C. 4, 7, 7:

natura monet festinare,

Plin. 18, 25, 60, § 227:

ut monet ira,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 8:

ratio ipsa monet amicitias comparare,

Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 66.—

Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Without the accessory notion of reminding or admonishing, in gen., to teach, instruct, tell, inform, point out; also, to announce, predict, foretell:

tu vatem, tu diva, mone,

instruct thy bard, Verg. A. 7, 42:

velut divinitus mente monitā,

Liv. 26, 19:

hoc moneas precor,

Ov. F. 4, 247:

amici somnio monitus,

Suet. Aug. 91:

reddebant parvuli, quae monebantur,

what they were taught, Plin. Pan. 26:

vates Helenus cum multa horrenda moneret,

announced, foretold, Verg. A. 3, 712; cf.:

ante sinistra cavā monuisset ab ilice cornix, etc.,

id. E. 9, 15:

quid augurales alites vel cantus monerent,

Amm. 28, 1:

recte monemur, causas non utique ab ultimo esse repetendas,

Quint. 5, 10, 83.—

To punish, chastise (only in Tacitus):

puerili verbere moneri,

Tac. A. 5, 9.