ward

to defend, ward off, protect, shelter.

orphan, ward.

orphan, ward.

carpo, psi, ptum, 3 [cf.: rapio, harpazô, karpos; Engl. grab, grip, grasp].

Lit., of plants, flowers, fruits, etc., to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather (class.; in prose and poetry, esp. in the latter very freq.; syn. decerpere).

In gen.:

(flos) tenui carptus ungui,

Cat. 62, 43; Hor. C. 3, 27, 44; Ov. M. 9, 342:

ab arbore flores,

id. ib. 9, 380; cf.

infra, II.: rosam, poma,

Verg. G. 4, 134:

violas et papavera,

id. E. 2, 47:

violas, lilia,

Ov. M. 5, 392:

frondes uncis manibus,

id. G. 2, 366:

plenis pomaria ramis,

Ov. H. 4, 29:

vindemiam de palmite,

Verg. G. 2, 90:

fructus,

id. ib. 2, 501:

frumenta manu,

id. ib. 3, 176.—

Esp.

Of animals, to take something as nourishment (cf. Burm. ad Phaedr. 1, 28, 4); first, of nourishment from plants, to crop, pluck off, browse, graze on, etc. (syn. depascere); also of flesh, to eat, devour (rare):

alia (animalia) sugunt, alia carpunt, alia vorant, alia mandunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

carpunt gramen equi,

Verg. A. 9, 353; id. G. 2, 201; Ov. M. 1, 299:

herbam,

Verg. G. 3, 296; 3, 465; Ov. M. 13, 927:

pabula,

id. ib. 4, 217; id. F. 4, 750:

alimenta,

id. M. 15, 478:

apes carpunt ex oleā arbore ceram, e fico mel, etc.,

gather, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 24 sq.; cf.:

apis carpens thyma,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 29.— Poet.:

Invidia (personif. envy) summa cacumina carpit,

Ov. M. 2, 792:

nec carpsere jecur volucres,

id. ib. 10, 43; cf. Phaedr. 1, 28, 4.—Sometimes transf., of men:

prandium,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 52:

carpe cibos digitis,

Ov. A. A. 3, 755: pisces, pulles, Mart. 3, 13, 1.—Also, to carve; hence the pun in Petr. 36 fin. —

Poet., of other things, to tear off, tear away:

summas carpens media inter cornua saetas,

Verg. A. 6, 245.—Of wool, to pluck; hence, poet., to spin:

vellera,

Verg. G. 4, 335:

pensa,

id. ib. 1, 390; Prop. 3 (4), 6, 16; Hor. C. 3, 27, 64:

lana carpta,

carded, Cels. 6, 6, 1 (hence, facete: stolidum pecus, to pluck, i. e. to fleece rich lovers, Prop. 2 (3), 16, 8; Ov. A. A. 1, 420):

ex collo furtim coronas,

to pull off, Hor. S. 2, 3, 256:

crinem genasque,

to tear, rend, lacerate, Val. Fl. 8, 7;

so acc. to Servius's inaccurate account, in a fragment of the Twelve Tables: mulier faciem ne carpito,

Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 606 (instead of the real words: MVLIERES. GENAS. NE. RADVNTO.; cf.

Dirks. Fragm. XII. Tab. p. 668): artus in parva frusta,

Sen. Thyest. 1061.—

Trop.

(Acc. to I. A.) To pluck, snatch, etc.:

ut omni ex genere orationem aucuper, et omnes undique flosculos carpam atque delibem,

Cic. Sest. 56, 119; id. de Or. 1, 42, 191:

atque in legendo carpsi exinde quaedam,

Gell. 9, 4, 5: oscula, to pluck, as it were, from the lips, to snatch, Prop. 1, 20, 27; Ov. H. 11, 117 Loers. N. cr.; id. M. 4, 358; Phaedr. 3, 8, 12 al.:

basia,

Mart. 5, 46, 1:

gaudia,

Ov. A. A. 3, 661:

dulcia,

Pers. 5, 151:

regni commoda carpe mei,

Ov. F. 3, 622:

fugitivaque gaudia carpe,

and snatch pleasures as they fly, Mart. 7, 47, 11:

delicias,

Prop. 2 (3), 34, 74.—

Esp.

(Acc. to I. B. 1.) In a good sense, to enjoy, use, make use of (mostly poet.;

syn.: fruor, capio): breve ver et primos carpere flores,

Ov. M. 10, 85 (cf.:

flore aetatis frui,

Liv. 21, 3, 4):

illa mihi sedes, illic mea carpitur aetas,

spent, lived, passed, Cat. 68, 35:

diem,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

honores virtutis,

Val. Fl. 1, 177:

auras vitales,

Verg. A. 1, 388; cf. Sil. 3, 712:

sub dio somnos,

Verg. G. 3, 435:

quietem,

id. A. 7, 414:

soporem,

id. ib. 4, 522:

noctes securas,

Val. Fl. 5, 48; a poet. circumlocution for vivere, degere, etc.—

In a bad sense.

To gnaw at or tear character or reputation, to carp at, slander, calumniate, revile:

more hominum invident, in conviviis rodunt, in circulis vellicant: non illo inimico, sed hoc maledico dente carpunt,

Cic. Balb. 26, 57:

nam is carpebatur a Bibulo, Curione, Favonio,

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

Paulum obtrectatio carpsit,

Liv. 45, 35, 5:

imperatorem,

id. 44, 38, 2:

quae non desierunt carpere maligni,

Quint. 11, 1, 24:

maligno sermone,

Suet. Aug. 27:

obliquis orationibus,

id. Dom. 2:

nonnihil vocibus,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17:

aliquem sermonibus,

Liv. 7, 12, 12:

sinistris sermonibus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 5:

Ciceronem in his,

Quint. 9, 4, 64:

te ficto quaestu,

Cat. 62, 36 and 37:

et detorquere recte facta,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 6:

famam vitamque,

id. Pan. 53, 4; Suet. Calig. 34.—

To rob of strength, to weaken, enfeeble, wear away, consume; or poet., with the idea extended (cf. absumo), to consume completely, to destroy:

vires,

Verg. G. 3, 215; Liv. 9, 27, 6:

quid si carpere singula (jura) et extorquere... patiemini,

id. 34, 3, 2;

esp. of in ward care, anxiety, longing, etc.: at regina, gravi jamdudum saucia curā, Volnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni,

Verg. A. 4, 2; Ov. M. 3, 490; 10, 370:

solane perpetua maerens carpere juventā?

Verg. A. 4, 32:

curā carpitur ista mei,

Ov. A. A. 3, 680:

aegra assiduo mens carpitur aestu,

Val. Fl. 3, 305; Lucr. 9, 744; Sil. 15, 1:

invidia carpit et carpitur unā,

Ov. M. 2, 781; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 3:

non ego Tot tuos patiar labores carpere lividas Obliviones,

to wear away, Hor. C. 4, 9, 33; cf.: otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis;

Inmodicus contra carpit utrumque labor,

Ov. P. 1, 4, 21 sq.:

aras etiam templaque demolitur et obscurat oblivio, neglegit carpitque posteritas,

Plin. Pan. 55, 9:

totum potest excedere quod potest carpi,

Sen. N. Q. 2, 13, 2.—So,

In milit. lang., to inflict injury upon an enemy (esp. by single, repeated attacks), to weaken, harass:

agmen adversariorum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 63:

hostes carpere multifariam vires Romanas,

Liv. 3, 5, 1; 22, 32, 2; 27, 46, 6; cf. id. 3, 61, 13 infra; Weissenb. ad Liv. 22, 16, 2; Tac. A. 12, 32; Luc. 4, 156:

novissimum agmen,

Caes. B. C. 1, 78 fin.:

novissimos,

Liv. 8, 38, 6:

extrema agminis,

id. 6, 32, 11. —

To separate a whole into single parts, to cut to pieces, divide (syn.: dividere, distribuere): neque semper utendum est perpetuitate, sed saepe carpenda membris minutioribus [p. 295] oratio est, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

in multas parvasque partes carpere exercitum,

Liv. 26, 38, 2:

summam unius belli in multa proelia parvaque,

id. 3, 61, 13:

Erymanthus... ab accolis rigantibus carpitur,

is drawn off into canals, Curt. 8, 9, 410. —With a reference to the meaning

supra:

si erunt plures qui ob innocentem condemnandum pecuniam acceperint, tu non animadvertes in omnis, sed carpes ut velis, et paucos ex multis ad ignominiam sortiere?

distinguish, single out, Cic. Clu. 46, 129; cf.:

in multorum peccato carpi paucos ad ignominiam,

id. ib. —

Viam, iter, etc., or with definite local substantives, terram, mare, litora, etc., to go, tread upon, pass over, navigate, sail along or through, to take or pursue one ' s way (syn. ire):

viam,

Verg. A. 6, 629; Hor. S. 2, 6, 93; Ov. M. 8, 208; 11, 139:

iter,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 95; Ov. H. 18, 34; id. M. 2, 549; 10, 709:

supremum iter = mori,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 12:

gyrum,

to go in a circle, Verg. G. 3, 191:

fugam,

to fly, Sil. 10, 62; cf.:

prata fugā,

Verg. G. 3, 142:

pede viam,

Ov. A. A. 2, 230:

pede iter,

id. F. 3, 604:

pedibus terras, pontum remis,

Prop. 1, 6, 33:

pede campos,

Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 23:

mare,

id. M. 11, 752:

litora,

id. ib. 12, 196;

15, 507: aëra alis,

id. ib. 4, 616; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311:

aethera,

Ov. M. 8, 219:

carpitur acclivis per muta silentia trames,

id. ib. 10, 53.

căvĕo, cāvi, cautum, (2 d pers. sing. scanned cavĕs, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 19; imper. cavĕ, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 61; id. Capt. 2, 3, 71; id. Most. 1, 4, 13 et saep.: Cat. 50, 19; Hor. S. 2, 3, 38; Prop. 1, 7, 25; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 435; old sup. CAVĬTVM, C. I. L. 1, 200, 6 sq.), 3, v. n. and a. [root SKOF- or KOF-, to be wary; whence Gr. thuoskoos, akouô, etc.; Lat. causa, cura; cf. also Germ. scheuen; Engl. shy], to be on one ' s guard, either for one's self or (more rarely) for another; hence,

In gen., with and without sibi, to be on one ' s guard, to take care, take heed, beware, guard against, avoid, = phulassomai, and the Fr. se garder, prendre garde, etc.; constr., absol., with ub, and in a course of action with ne or ut (also ellipt. with the simple subj.); or, as in Greek, with acc. (= phulassomai ti); hence also pass. and with inf., and once with cum.

Absol.:

qui consulte, docte, atque astute cavet,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 14:

faciet, nisi caveo,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 8:

ego cavebo,

id. Ad. 4, 2, 12; 1, 1, 45:

erunt (molesti) nisi cavetis. Cautum est, inquit,

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 93; Quint. 8, 3, 47:

cum animum attendisset ad cavendum,

Nep. Alcib. 5, 2; Suet. Claud. 37:

metues, doctusque cavebis,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 68.—Esp. freq. in the warning cave, look out! be careful! Ter. And. 1, 2, 34; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 51; Hor. C. 1, 14, 16; Ov. M. 2, 89.—

With ab and abl.:

eo mi abs te caveo cautius,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 42; id. Ps. 1, 5, 59; 4, 7, 128:

si abs te modo uno caveo,

id. Most. 3, 3, 24; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 44:

sibi ab eo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 87:

navis Aps quă cavendum nobis sane censeo,

id. Men. 2, 2, 70:

pater a me petiit Ut mihi caverem a Pseudolo servo suo,

id. Ps. 3, 2, 108:

a crasso infortunio,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 53:

ille Pompeium monebat, ut meam domum metueret, atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133:

caveo ab homine impuro,

id. Phil. 12, 10, 25:

a Cassio,

Suet. Calig. 57:

a veneno,

Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64:

ab insidiis,

Sall. J. 108, 2:

monitum ut sibi ab insidiis Rufini caveret,

App. Mag. 87, p. 329, 16; id. M. 2, p. 117, 3.—

With the simple abl.:

caveo malo,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 39:

infortunio,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 48: id. Cas. 2, 6, 59; id. Men. 1, 2, 13; id. Pers. 3, 1, 41:

ipsus sibi cavit loco,

i. e. got out of the way, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 12.—

With cum (rare):

Hercle, mihi tecum cavendum est,

with you, I must look out for myself, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 21.—

With adversus, Quint. 9, 1, 20. —

Followed by a final clause.

With ne, to take heed that... not, to be on one ' s guard lest: qui cavet ne decipiatur, vix cavet;

cum etiam cavet, etiam cum cavisse ratus est, saepe is cautor captus est,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 5 and 6:

caves, ne videat, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

ego me scio cavisse, ne ulla merito contumelia Fieri a nobis posset,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 20; Afran. ap. Non. p. 111, 14; Lucr. 4, 1141:

cavete, judices, ne nova... proscriptio instaurata esse videatur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153; id. Div. 2, 40, 84; id. Fam. 3, 12, 4; 11, 21, 4; Sall. J. 55, 3; Suet. Tib. 37:

cave, ne,

Cat. 61, 152; Hor. C. 3, 7, 24; id. S. 2, 3, 177; id. Ep. 1, 6, 32; 1, 13, 19; Ov. M. 2, 89; 10, 685:

cave sis, ne,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 215:

caveto ne,

Cato, R. R. 5, 6:

caveas, ne,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 80:

caveant, ne,

id. A. P. 244:

cavendum est, ne,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 140; Quint. 4, 3, 8; 12, 11, 2; Suet. Tib. 67; Quint. 9, 4, 23; 5, 11, 27.—

With ut ne (rare):

quod ut ne accidat cavendum est,

Cic. Lael. 26, 99.—

With a simple subj.; so only imper.: cave or cavete (cf. age), beware of, take care not, etc.:

cave geras,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

dixeris,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 12:

faxis cave,

id. And. 4, 4, 14; id. Heaut. 1, 2, 13; Hor. S. 2, 3, 38:

sis,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 29:

contingas,

Lucr. 2, 755:

despuas,

Cat. 50, 19:

ignoscas,

Cic. Lig. 5, 14:

existimes,

id. Fam. 9, 24, 4:

putes,

id. ib. 10, 12, 1 al.—Rarely with 1 st pers.:

cave posthac, si me amas, umquam istuc verbum ex te audiam,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 8; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9.—With 3 d pers.:

resciscat quisquam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 37:

te fratrum misereatur,

Cic. Lig. 5, 14:

roget te,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 75:

cave quisquam flocci fecerit,

Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 5:

armis concurrant arma cavete,

Verg. A. 11, 293.—And like age, cave with a verb in plur.:

cave dirumpatis,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 117.—

With ut, to take care that:

cauto opu'st, Ut sobrie hoc agatur,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 29; cf.

D. 2, infra: tertium est, ut caveamus, ut ea, quae, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 141:

quaero quid sit, quod... tam accurate caveat et sanciat, ut heredes sui dent, etc.,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 101:

caverat sibi ille adulter omnium ut suorum scelerum socium te adjutoremque praebeas,

id. Pis. 12, 28; Liv. 3, 10, 14; Plin. Pan. 39, 1:

cavebitur ut, etc.,

Col. 2, 8, 3; cf. under II. A.—Very rarely with ut omitted, take care to, be sure to (late Lat.):

sed heus tu... cave regrediare cenā maturius,

App. M. 2, p. 122, 32; 2, p. 124, [p. 306] 35.—

As act.

With acc. of pers. or thing against which warning is given or beed taken, to guard against, to be aware of, to beware of, etc.:

profecto quid nunc primum caveam, nescio,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 104:

tu, quod cavere possis, stultum admittere'st,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 23; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 437, 23:

caveamus fulminis ictum,

Lucr. 6, 406: cave canem, Varr. ap. Non. p. 153, 1; Inscr. Orell. 4320;

v. canis: interventum alicujus,

Cic. Att. 16, 11, 1:

omnia,

id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

me,

id. Dom. 11, 28:

vallum caecum fossasque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 28:

quam sit bellum cavere malum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

vim atque opes,

Tac. A. 11, 1; cf. Suet. Tib. 72:

male praecinctum puerum,

id. Caes. 456:

periculum,

id. ib. 81; id. Galb. 19:

insidias,

id. Caes. 86; Tac. A. 13, 13:

exitum,

Suet. Tib. 83:

annum,

id. Ner. 40:

maculas,

Hor. A. P. 353:

jurgia,

Ov. A. A. 1, 591:

hunc tu caveto,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 85:

proditorem,

Quint. 7, 1, 30:

hoc caverat mens provida Reguli,

had prevented, Hor. C. 3, 5, 13:

cave quicquam,

be a little careful, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 61.—

Pass.: quid cavendum tibi censere, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 437, 22:

cavenda est etiam gloriae cupiditas,

Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68:

cetera, quae quidem consilio provideri poterunt, cavebuntur,

id. Att. 10, 16, 2; Quint. 8, 2, 2; 9, 4, 143; 11, 3, 27 (cf. id. 6, 5, 2):

in hoc pestifero bello cavendo,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1:

quod multis rationibus caveri potest,

id. Off. 2, 24, 84; Sall. J. 67, 2:

prius quod cautum oportuit, Postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 14:

ego tibi cautum volo,

id. Pers. 3, 1, 41:

satis cautum tibi ad defensionem fore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 35, § 88:

quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis Cautum est,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 14:

id modo simul orant ac monent, ut ipsis ab invidiā caveatur,

Liv. 3, 52, 11; cf.

B. 1. supra: cauto opus est,

care must be taken, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 64; id. Most. 4, 2, 21; id. Merc. 2, 3, 133.—

With inf.:

in quibus cave vereri ( = noli),

Cic. Att. 3, 17, 3:

caveret id petere a populo Romano, quod, etc.,

Sall. J. 64, 2:

caveto laedere,

Cat. 50, 21:

occursare capro caveto,

Verg. E. 9, 25:

commisisse cavet, quod, etc.,

Hor. A. P. 168:

cave Spem festinando praecipitare meam,

Ov. P. 3, 1, 139:

ut pedes omnino caveant tinguere,

Plin. 8, 42, 68, § 169.

Esp.

Law t. t., to take care for, provide, order something, legally, or (of private relations) to order, decree, dispose of in writing, by will, to stipulate, etc.:

cum ita caverent, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31:

duae sunt praeterea leges de sepulcris, quarum altera privatorum aedificiis, altera ipsis sepulcris cavet,

id. Leg. 2, 24, 61:

cautum est in Scipionis legibus ne plures essent, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 50, § 123:

cautum est lege XII. Tab., ut, etc.,

Plin. 16, 5, 6, § 15:

cavebatur ut, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 1;

so,

id. ib. 65; id. Tib. 75:

quae legibus cauta sunt,

Quint. 5, 10, 13:

aliā in lege cautum,

Cic. Inv. 2, 41, 119:

cautum est de numero,

Suet. Caes. 10; cf. id. Aug. 40:

heredi caveri,

Cic. Inv. 2, 41, 120; cf. id. Fam. 7, 6, 2:

si hoc, qui testamentum faciebat, cavere noluisset,

id. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

testamento cavere ut dies natalis ageretur,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 103; cf. Suet. Aug. 59; id. Dom. 9; id. Tib. 50:

sibi se privatim nihil cavere... militibus cavendum, quod apud patres semel plebi, iterum legionibus cautum sit ne fraudi secessio esset,

to make conditions, stipulate, Liv. 7, 41, 2.—

In the lang. of business.

Cavere ab aliquo, to make one ' s self secure, to procure bail or surety:

tibi ego, Brute, non solvam, nisi prius a te cavero, amplius, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 5, 18; id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 55; cf. infra 2.; and cautio, II.—So absol.:

quid ita Flavio sibi cavere non venit in mentem,

to take security, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 35.—

To make one secure by bail or surety (either written or oral), to give security, to guarantee (cf. supra 1., and cautio;

syn.: spondeo, cautionem praesto),

Cic. Clu. 59, 162; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142:

pecunia, quam mihi Stichus Titii servus caverat,

Dig. 46, 3, 89:

cavere summam,

ib. 29, 2, 97:

chirographum,

ib. 46, 3, 89:

cautionem,

ib. 46, 8, 6:

civitates obsidibus de pecuniā cavent,

Caes. B. G. 6, 2:

quoniam de obsidibus inter se cavere non possent,

id. ib. 7, 2; cf. Liv. 9, 42; 24, 2:

cavere capite pro re aliquā,

Plin. 34, 7, 17, § 38:

jurejurando et chirographo de eā re,

Suet. Calig. 12:

cavere in duplum,

id. Aug. 41; Tac. A. 6, 17.—Rarely, cavere personae publicae, to give security before a public authority, Just. Inst. 1, 11, 3.—

In boxing, etc., to parry, to ward off a blow:

adversos ictus cavere ac propulsare,

Quint. 9, 1, 20; 5, 13, 54; cf. id. 9, 4, 8; 4, 2, 26.—

Cavere alicui.

To keep something from one, to protect, have a care for, make safe, take care of (cf.:

prohibeo, defendo, provideo): scabiem pecori et jumentis caveto,

Cato, R. R. 5, 7:

melius ei cavere volo, quam ipse aliis solet,

Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 3:

mihi meisque,

id. Top. 1, 4; id. Fam. 7, 6, 2:

veterani, quibus hic ordo diligentissime caverat,

id. Phil. 1, 2, 6; cf.: qui in Oratore tuo caves tibi per Brutum, Caes. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

quique aliis cavit, non cavet ipsi sibi,

Ov. A. A. 1, 84:

securitati,

Suet. Tit. 6:

concordiae publicae,

Vell. 2, 48, 5; Petr. 133; Sil. 8, 493.—

Affirmatively, to take care for, attend to a thing for a person, provide: Ba. Haec ita me orat sibi qui caveat aliquem ut hominem reperiam... Id, amabo te, huic caveas. Pi. Quid isti caveam? Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 8; 1, 1, 10; cf. I. C. 3. supra.—Hence, cautus, a, um, P. a.

Neutr., careful, circumspect, wary, cautious, provident (syn.: providus, prudens;

class. in prose and poetry): ut cautus est, ubi nihil opu'st,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 3:

parum cauti providique,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117:

cauti in periculis,

id. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

in scribendo,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 3:

in credendo,

id. Att. 10, 9, 3:

in verbis serendis,

Hor. A. P. 46:

mensor,

Ov. M. 1, 136:

mariti,

id. ib. 9, 751:

lupus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 50:

vulpes,

id. ib. 1, 1, 73 et saep.:

quem certi homines monuerunt, ut cautior esset,

Cic. Sest. 18, 41:

dubium cautior an audentior,

Suet. Caes. 58.—Constr. with ad:

ad praesentius malum cautiores,

Liv. 24, 32, 3; Tib. 1, 9, 46; Quint. 6, 1, 20. —With adversus:

parum cautus adversus colloquii fraudem,

Liv. 38, 25, 7.—With erga:

erga bona sua satis cautus,

Curt. 10, 1, 40.—With contra:

contra quam (fortunam) non satis cauta mortalitas est,

Curt. 8, 4, 24.—With inf.:

cautum dignos assumere,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 51.—With gen.:

rei divinae,

Macr. S. 1, 15.—

Transf. to inanimate things:

consilium,

Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 6; Tac. A. 11, 29:

cautissima senectus,

id. H. 2, 76:

pectus,

Prop. 3 (4), 5, 8:

manus,

Ov. F. 2, 336:

terga,

id. Tr. 1, 9, 20:

arma,

Sil. 14, 188:

timor,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 65.— Subst.: cauta, ōrum, n.:

legum,

the provisions, Cassiod. Var. 5, 14.—

Pass. (acc. to I. B. 1., and II. B.), made safe, secured:

cautos nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105:

cautus ab incursu belli,

Luc. 4, 409: quo mulieri esset res cautior ( that her property might be made more secure), curavit, ut, etc., Cic. Caecin. 4, 11.—

Trop., safe, secure (rare):

in eam partem peccare, quae est cautior,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56:

(civitates) murorum firmitate cautissimae,

Amm. 14, 8, 13.— Adv.: cau-tē.

(Acc. to caveo, I. A.) Cautiously:

caute et cogitate rem tractare,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 46:

pedetentimque dicere,

Cic. Clu. 42, 118:

et cum judicio,

Quint. 10, 2, 3 et saep. — Comp., Cic. Deiot. 6, 18; Quint. 2, 15, 21; 9, 2, 76; Hor. C. 1, 8, 10 al.— Sup., Cic. Att. 15, 26, 3.—

(Acc. to caveo, I. B. 1.) With security, cautiously, Cic. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

aliter nec caute nec jure fieri potest,

id. Att. 15, 17, 1.

căvĕo, cāvi, cautum, (2 d pers. sing. scanned cavĕs, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 19; imper. cavĕ, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 61; id. Capt. 2, 3, 71; id. Most. 1, 4, 13 et saep.: Cat. 50, 19; Hor. S. 2, 3, 38; Prop. 1, 7, 25; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 435; old sup. CAVĬTVM, C. I. L. 1, 200, 6 sq.), 3, v. n. and a. [root SKOF- or KOF-, to be wary; whence Gr. thuoskoos, akouô, etc.; Lat. causa, cura; cf. also Germ. scheuen; Engl. shy], to be on one ' s guard, either for one's self or (more rarely) for another; hence,

In gen., with and without sibi, to be on one ' s guard, to take care, take heed, beware, guard against, avoid, = phulassomai, and the Fr. se garder, prendre garde, etc.; constr., absol., with ub, and in a course of action with ne or ut (also ellipt. with the simple subj.); or, as in Greek, with acc. (= phulassomai ti); hence also pass. and with inf., and once with cum.

Absol.:

qui consulte, docte, atque astute cavet,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 14:

faciet, nisi caveo,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 8:

ego cavebo,

id. Ad. 4, 2, 12; 1, 1, 45:

erunt (molesti) nisi cavetis. Cautum est, inquit,

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 93; Quint. 8, 3, 47:

cum animum attendisset ad cavendum,

Nep. Alcib. 5, 2; Suet. Claud. 37:

metues, doctusque cavebis,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 68.—Esp. freq. in the warning cave, look out! be careful! Ter. And. 1, 2, 34; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 51; Hor. C. 1, 14, 16; Ov. M. 2, 89.—

With ab and abl.:

eo mi abs te caveo cautius,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 42; id. Ps. 1, 5, 59; 4, 7, 128:

si abs te modo uno caveo,

id. Most. 3, 3, 24; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 44:

sibi ab eo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 87:

navis Aps quă cavendum nobis sane censeo,

id. Men. 2, 2, 70:

pater a me petiit Ut mihi caverem a Pseudolo servo suo,

id. Ps. 3, 2, 108:

a crasso infortunio,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 53:

ille Pompeium monebat, ut meam domum metueret, atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133:

caveo ab homine impuro,

id. Phil. 12, 10, 25:

a Cassio,

Suet. Calig. 57:

a veneno,

Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64:

ab insidiis,

Sall. J. 108, 2:

monitum ut sibi ab insidiis Rufini caveret,

App. Mag. 87, p. 329, 16; id. M. 2, p. 117, 3.—

With the simple abl.:

caveo malo,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 39:

infortunio,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 48: id. Cas. 2, 6, 59; id. Men. 1, 2, 13; id. Pers. 3, 1, 41:

ipsus sibi cavit loco,

i. e. got out of the way, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 12.—

With cum (rare):

Hercle, mihi tecum cavendum est,

with you, I must look out for myself, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 21.—

With adversus, Quint. 9, 1, 20. —

Followed by a final clause.

With ne, to take heed that... not, to be on one ' s guard lest: qui cavet ne decipiatur, vix cavet;

cum etiam cavet, etiam cum cavisse ratus est, saepe is cautor captus est,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 5 and 6:

caves, ne videat, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

ego me scio cavisse, ne ulla merito contumelia Fieri a nobis posset,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 20; Afran. ap. Non. p. 111, 14; Lucr. 4, 1141:

cavete, judices, ne nova... proscriptio instaurata esse videatur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153; id. Div. 2, 40, 84; id. Fam. 3, 12, 4; 11, 21, 4; Sall. J. 55, 3; Suet. Tib. 37:

cave, ne,

Cat. 61, 152; Hor. C. 3, 7, 24; id. S. 2, 3, 177; id. Ep. 1, 6, 32; 1, 13, 19; Ov. M. 2, 89; 10, 685:

cave sis, ne,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 215:

caveto ne,

Cato, R. R. 5, 6:

caveas, ne,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 80:

caveant, ne,

id. A. P. 244:

cavendum est, ne,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 140; Quint. 4, 3, 8; 12, 11, 2; Suet. Tib. 67; Quint. 9, 4, 23; 5, 11, 27.—

With ut ne (rare):

quod ut ne accidat cavendum est,

Cic. Lael. 26, 99.—

With a simple subj.; so only imper.: cave or cavete (cf. age), beware of, take care not, etc.:

cave geras,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

dixeris,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 12:

faxis cave,

id. And. 4, 4, 14; id. Heaut. 1, 2, 13; Hor. S. 2, 3, 38:

sis,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 29:

contingas,

Lucr. 2, 755:

despuas,

Cat. 50, 19:

ignoscas,

Cic. Lig. 5, 14:

existimes,

id. Fam. 9, 24, 4:

putes,

id. ib. 10, 12, 1 al.—Rarely with 1 st pers.:

cave posthac, si me amas, umquam istuc verbum ex te audiam,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 8; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9.—With 3 d pers.:

resciscat quisquam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 37:

te fratrum misereatur,

Cic. Lig. 5, 14:

roget te,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 75:

cave quisquam flocci fecerit,

Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 5:

armis concurrant arma cavete,

Verg. A. 11, 293.—And like age, cave with a verb in plur.:

cave dirumpatis,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 117.—

With ut, to take care that:

cauto opu'st, Ut sobrie hoc agatur,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 29; cf.

D. 2, infra: tertium est, ut caveamus, ut ea, quae, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 141:

quaero quid sit, quod... tam accurate caveat et sanciat, ut heredes sui dent, etc.,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 101:

caverat sibi ille adulter omnium ut suorum scelerum socium te adjutoremque praebeas,

id. Pis. 12, 28; Liv. 3, 10, 14; Plin. Pan. 39, 1:

cavebitur ut, etc.,

Col. 2, 8, 3; cf. under II. A.—Very rarely with ut omitted, take care to, be sure to (late Lat.):

sed heus tu... cave regrediare cenā maturius,

App. M. 2, p. 122, 32; 2, p. 124, [p. 306] 35.—

As act.

With acc. of pers. or thing against which warning is given or beed taken, to guard against, to be aware of, to beware of, etc.:

profecto quid nunc primum caveam, nescio,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 104:

tu, quod cavere possis, stultum admittere'st,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 23; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 437, 23:

caveamus fulminis ictum,

Lucr. 6, 406: cave canem, Varr. ap. Non. p. 153, 1; Inscr. Orell. 4320;

v. canis: interventum alicujus,

Cic. Att. 16, 11, 1:

omnia,

id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

me,

id. Dom. 11, 28:

vallum caecum fossasque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 28:

quam sit bellum cavere malum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

vim atque opes,

Tac. A. 11, 1; cf. Suet. Tib. 72:

male praecinctum puerum,

id. Caes. 456:

periculum,

id. ib. 81; id. Galb. 19:

insidias,

id. Caes. 86; Tac. A. 13, 13:

exitum,

Suet. Tib. 83:

annum,

id. Ner. 40:

maculas,

Hor. A. P. 353:

jurgia,

Ov. A. A. 1, 591:

hunc tu caveto,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 85:

proditorem,

Quint. 7, 1, 30:

hoc caverat mens provida Reguli,

had prevented, Hor. C. 3, 5, 13:

cave quicquam,

be a little careful, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 61.—

Pass.: quid cavendum tibi censere, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 437, 22:

cavenda est etiam gloriae cupiditas,

Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68:

cetera, quae quidem consilio provideri poterunt, cavebuntur,

id. Att. 10, 16, 2; Quint. 8, 2, 2; 9, 4, 143; 11, 3, 27 (cf. id. 6, 5, 2):

in hoc pestifero bello cavendo,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1:

quod multis rationibus caveri potest,

id. Off. 2, 24, 84; Sall. J. 67, 2:

prius quod cautum oportuit, Postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 14:

ego tibi cautum volo,

id. Pers. 3, 1, 41:

satis cautum tibi ad defensionem fore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 35, § 88:

quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis Cautum est,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 14:

id modo simul orant ac monent, ut ipsis ab invidiā caveatur,

Liv. 3, 52, 11; cf.

B. 1. supra: cauto opus est,

care must be taken, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 64; id. Most. 4, 2, 21; id. Merc. 2, 3, 133.—

With inf.:

in quibus cave vereri ( = noli),

Cic. Att. 3, 17, 3:

caveret id petere a populo Romano, quod, etc.,

Sall. J. 64, 2:

caveto laedere,

Cat. 50, 21:

occursare capro caveto,

Verg. E. 9, 25:

commisisse cavet, quod, etc.,

Hor. A. P. 168:

cave Spem festinando praecipitare meam,

Ov. P. 3, 1, 139:

ut pedes omnino caveant tinguere,

Plin. 8, 42, 68, § 169.

Esp.

Law t. t., to take care for, provide, order something, legally, or (of private relations) to order, decree, dispose of in writing, by will, to stipulate, etc.:

cum ita caverent, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31:

duae sunt praeterea leges de sepulcris, quarum altera privatorum aedificiis, altera ipsis sepulcris cavet,

id. Leg. 2, 24, 61:

cautum est in Scipionis legibus ne plures essent, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 50, § 123:

cautum est lege XII. Tab., ut, etc.,

Plin. 16, 5, 6, § 15:

cavebatur ut, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 1;

so,

id. ib. 65; id. Tib. 75:

quae legibus cauta sunt,

Quint. 5, 10, 13:

aliā in lege cautum,

Cic. Inv. 2, 41, 119:

cautum est de numero,

Suet. Caes. 10; cf. id. Aug. 40:

heredi caveri,

Cic. Inv. 2, 41, 120; cf. id. Fam. 7, 6, 2:

si hoc, qui testamentum faciebat, cavere noluisset,

id. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

testamento cavere ut dies natalis ageretur,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 103; cf. Suet. Aug. 59; id. Dom. 9; id. Tib. 50:

sibi se privatim nihil cavere... militibus cavendum, quod apud patres semel plebi, iterum legionibus cautum sit ne fraudi secessio esset,

to make conditions, stipulate, Liv. 7, 41, 2.—

In the lang. of business.

Cavere ab aliquo, to make one ' s self secure, to procure bail or surety:

tibi ego, Brute, non solvam, nisi prius a te cavero, amplius, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 5, 18; id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 55; cf. infra 2.; and cautio, II.—So absol.:

quid ita Flavio sibi cavere non venit in mentem,

to take security, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 35.—

To make one secure by bail or surety (either written or oral), to give security, to guarantee (cf. supra 1., and cautio;

syn.: spondeo, cautionem praesto),

Cic. Clu. 59, 162; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142:

pecunia, quam mihi Stichus Titii servus caverat,

Dig. 46, 3, 89:

cavere summam,

ib. 29, 2, 97:

chirographum,

ib. 46, 3, 89:

cautionem,

ib. 46, 8, 6:

civitates obsidibus de pecuniā cavent,

Caes. B. G. 6, 2:

quoniam de obsidibus inter se cavere non possent,

id. ib. 7, 2; cf. Liv. 9, 42; 24, 2:

cavere capite pro re aliquā,

Plin. 34, 7, 17, § 38:

jurejurando et chirographo de eā re,

Suet. Calig. 12:

cavere in duplum,

id. Aug. 41; Tac. A. 6, 17.—Rarely, cavere personae publicae, to give security before a public authority, Just. Inst. 1, 11, 3.—

In boxing, etc., to parry, to ward off a blow:

adversos ictus cavere ac propulsare,

Quint. 9, 1, 20; 5, 13, 54; cf. id. 9, 4, 8; 4, 2, 26.—

Cavere alicui.

To keep something from one, to protect, have a care for, make safe, take care of (cf.:

prohibeo, defendo, provideo): scabiem pecori et jumentis caveto,

Cato, R. R. 5, 7:

melius ei cavere volo, quam ipse aliis solet,

Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 3:

mihi meisque,

id. Top. 1, 4; id. Fam. 7, 6, 2:

veterani, quibus hic ordo diligentissime caverat,

id. Phil. 1, 2, 6; cf.: qui in Oratore tuo caves tibi per Brutum, Caes. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

quique aliis cavit, non cavet ipsi sibi,

Ov. A. A. 1, 84:

securitati,

Suet. Tit. 6:

concordiae publicae,

Vell. 2, 48, 5; Petr. 133; Sil. 8, 493.—

Affirmatively, to take care for, attend to a thing for a person, provide: Ba. Haec ita me orat sibi qui caveat aliquem ut hominem reperiam... Id, amabo te, huic caveas. Pi. Quid isti caveam? Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 8; 1, 1, 10; cf. I. C. 3. supra.—Hence, cautus, a, um, P. a.

Neutr., careful, circumspect, wary, cautious, provident (syn.: providus, prudens;

class. in prose and poetry): ut cautus est, ubi nihil opu'st,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 3:

parum cauti providique,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117:

cauti in periculis,

id. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

in scribendo,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 3:

in credendo,

id. Att. 10, 9, 3:

in verbis serendis,

Hor. A. P. 46:

mensor,

Ov. M. 1, 136:

mariti,

id. ib. 9, 751:

lupus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 50:

vulpes,

id. ib. 1, 1, 73 et saep.:

quem certi homines monuerunt, ut cautior esset,

Cic. Sest. 18, 41:

dubium cautior an audentior,

Suet. Caes. 58.—Constr. with ad:

ad praesentius malum cautiores,

Liv. 24, 32, 3; Tib. 1, 9, 46; Quint. 6, 1, 20. —With adversus:

parum cautus adversus colloquii fraudem,

Liv. 38, 25, 7.—With erga:

erga bona sua satis cautus,

Curt. 10, 1, 40.—With contra:

contra quam (fortunam) non satis cauta mortalitas est,

Curt. 8, 4, 24.—With inf.:

cautum dignos assumere,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 51.—With gen.:

rei divinae,

Macr. S. 1, 15.—

Transf. to inanimate things:

consilium,

Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 6; Tac. A. 11, 29:

cautissima senectus,

id. H. 2, 76:

pectus,

Prop. 3 (4), 5, 8:

manus,

Ov. F. 2, 336:

terga,

id. Tr. 1, 9, 20:

arma,

Sil. 14, 188:

timor,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 65.— Subst.: cauta, ōrum, n.:

legum,

the provisions, Cassiod. Var. 5, 14.—

Pass. (acc. to I. B. 1., and II. B.), made safe, secured:

cautos nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105:

cautus ab incursu belli,

Luc. 4, 409: quo mulieri esset res cautior ( that her property might be made more secure), curavit, ut, etc., Cic. Caecin. 4, 11.—

Trop., safe, secure (rare):

in eam partem peccare, quae est cautior,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56:

(civitates) murorum firmitate cautissimae,

Amm. 14, 8, 13.— Adv.: cau-tē.

(Acc. to caveo, I. A.) Cautiously:

caute et cogitate rem tractare,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 46:

pedetentimque dicere,

Cic. Clu. 42, 118:

et cum judicio,

Quint. 10, 2, 3 et saep. — Comp., Cic. Deiot. 6, 18; Quint. 2, 15, 21; 9, 2, 76; Hor. C. 1, 8, 10 al.— Sup., Cic. Att. 15, 26, 3.—

(Acc. to caveo, I. B. 1.) With security, cautiously, Cic. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

aliter nec caute nec jure fieri potest,

id. Att. 15, 17, 1.

cŏ-hĭbĕo, ui ( perf. subj. cohibessit, Lucr. 3, 444 Lachm.), ĭtum, 2, v. a. [habeo].

To hold together, to hold, contain, confine, embrace, comprise (class.;

syn. contineo): omnes naturas ipsa (universa natura) cohibet et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35; Lucr. 3, 441 sq.; 1, 517; 1, 536:

(nubes) ut fumus constare nequirent, Nec cohibere nives gelidas et grandinis imbres,

id. 6, 107:

aliquid in se,

id. 2, 1031; cf. Cic. Fat. 9, 19:

at Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris,

Verg. A. 3, 424:

semen occaecatum,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 51:

nodo crinem,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 22:

namque marem cohibent callosa (ova) vitellum,

id. S. 2, 4, 14:

auro lacertos,

to encircle, Ov. H. 9, 59:

bracchium togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11:

deos parietibus,

Tac. G. 9.—

Trop. (very rare): sed interest inter causas fortuito antegressas, et inter causas cohibentis in se efficientiam naturalem, Cic. Fat. 9, 19.—

With the access. idea of hindering free motion, to hold, keep, keep back, hinder, stay, restrain, stop, etc. (in a lit. sense in prose rare, but trop. very freq.).

Prop.:

cohibete intra limen etiam vos parumper,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 1:

nec muris cohibet patriis media Ardea Turnum,

Verg. A. 9, 738:

carcere ventos,

Ov. M. 14, 224:

ventos in antris,

id. ib. 15, 346: cervos arcu, to stop, poet. for to kill, Hor. C. 4, 6, 34:

nec Stygiā cohibebor undā,

id. ib. 2, 20, 8:

tempestatibus in portibus cohiberi, Auct. B. Afr. 98: cohiberi in vinculis,

Curt. 6, 2, 11:

Pirithoum cohibent catenae,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 80:

claustra cohibentia Janum,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 255:

ab aliquā re,

Liv. 22, 3, 9; Tac. A. 1, 56:

sanguis spongiā in aceto tinctā cohibendus est,

Cels. 8, 4; cf. Plin. 27, 11, 69, § 93:

alvum,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 49:

milites intra castra,

Curt. 10, 3, 6:

aquilones jugis montium,

id. 8, 9, 12.—

Trop.

Cohibere aliquid or cohibere se, to stop something (or one ' s self), to hold in check, to restrain, limit, confine, keep back, repress, tame, subdue (syn.:

contineo, refreno, arceo, coerceo): motus animi perturbatos,

Cic. Off. 2, 5, 18:

furentis impetus crudelissimosque conatus,

id. Phil. 3, 2, 5; cf.:

furorem alicujus,

id. ib. 5, 13, 37:

temeritatem,

id. Ac. 1, 12, 45:

gaudia clausa in sinu tacito,

Prop. 2 (3), 25, 30:

iras,

Verg. A. 12, 314:

pravas aliorum spes,

Tac. A. 3, 56:

ac premeret sensus suos,

id. ib. 3, 11:

bellum,

Liv. 9, 29, 5:

malum,

Tac. A. 6, 16:

sumptus,

Arn. 2, p. 91:

violentias effrenati doloris,

Gell. 12, 5, 3:

altitudinem aedificiorum,

Tac. A. 15, 43:

(provinciae) quae procuratoribus cohibentur,

i. e. are ruled, id. H. 1, 11: non tu te cohibes? be moderate in grief, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 46; so Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Gell. 4, 9, 3.—

With quominus:

vix cohibuere amici, quominus eodem mari oppeteret,

Tac. A. 2, 24.— Pass.:

ne flumine quidem interjecto, cohiberi quominus, etc.,

Tac. A. 2, 10.—

With inf., Calp. Ecl. 4, 20 (but in Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 60; id. Caecin. 23, 66; Auct. B. G. 8, 23, prohibere is the true reading).—

Aliquid ab aliquā re or aliquo, to keep something from something (or somebody), to ward off:

manus ab alieno,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 12:

manus, oculos, animum ab auro gazāque regiā,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 66:

effrenatas suas libidines a liberis et a conjugibus vestris,

id. Mil. 28, 76:

adsensionem a rebus incertis,

id. N. D. 1, 1, 1.—Hence, cŏhĭbĭtus, a, um, P. a., confined, limited, moderate:

dicendi genus,

Gell. 7, 14, 7.— Comp.:

habitudo cohibitior,

Aus. Grat. Act. 27, 2.

cūro (old orthog. COERO and COIRO, Inscr. Orell. 31; 560; 570:

coeret, coerari, coerandi,

Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 10), āvi, ātum, 1 ( perf. subj. curassis, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 93; id. Ps. 1, 3, 3; id. Poen. 3, 1, 50; inf. pass. curarier, id. Capt. 3, 5, 79), v. a. [cura], to care for, take or have care of, to be solicitous for, to look or attend to, trouble one's self about, etc. (very freq. in every period and species of composition); constr. with the acc., the acc. with the gerundive, the inf. with ut, ne, the simple subj., the dat. or absol.

In gen.

Of persons.

With acc.:

curare omnia studiosissime ac diligentissime,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 7; cf.:

diligenter praeceptum,

Nep. Eum. 9, 5:

magna di curant, parva neglegunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

negotia aliena,

id. Top. 17, 66; Hor. S. 2, 3, 19:

mandatum,

Cic. Att. 5, 7 init.:

cenam,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 11; cf.

opsonium,

id. Merc. 3, 3, 22:

domum,

to cleanse, Petr. 71, 7:

vestimenta curare et polire,

Dig. 47, 2, 12 pr.:

funus,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 81 Ruhnk.; cf.

in this sense, cadaver,

Suet. Ner. 49; and:

Aegyptii jussi corpus Alexandri suo more curare,

Curt. 10, 10, 13; in other connections, curare corpus means to nourish, take care of one's self, to refresh, invigorate one's self, Lucr. 2, 31; 5, 937:

nunc corpora curare tempus est,

Liv. 21, 54, 2; 3, 2, 10; 26, 48, 3; Curt. 3, 8, 22 al.;

in the same sense, membra,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 81:

cutem,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 29; 1, 4, 15:

pelliculam,

id. S. 2, 5, 38:

se,

Ter. Ad. 5, 1, 1; Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6; id. de Or. 3, 61, 230; cf.:

se suamque aetatem,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 34:

virum,

Tib. 1, 5, 33; and in part. perf.:

curati cibo,

Liv. 9, 37, 7:

omnes vinoque et cibo curatos domos dimisit,

id. 34, 16, 5: vineam, to tend, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 195; cf.

apes,

Col. 9, 14 et saep.:

res rationesque eri,

to superintend, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 32:

pensa ac domos, of the women of the family,

Mel. 1, 9, 6:

sociorum injurias,

Sall. J. 14, 19:

sublimia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 4, 5:

preces (Diana),

id. C. S. 71:

prodigia,

to endeavor to avert, ward off, Liv. 1, 20, 7 et saep.:

munus te curaturum scio, Ut mittas mihi,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 79; cf.:

aquam mulsam prope ut sit,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 28:

te multum amamus, quod ea (signa) abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt,

provided, Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; cf.

II. C. infra: ego illum cum curā magnā curabo tibi,

Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 7 and 9; so,

aliquem,

id. Stich. 1, 2, 39; 5, 3, 9; Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121: curatur a multis, timetur a pluribus, is courted (cf. therapeuein), Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 15 et saep.—With a negative: quos peperisti ne cures, be unconcerned, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 656; Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 50:

alii, quasi corpus nullum sit hominis, ita praeter animum nihil curant,

care for nothing except the mind, Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 36:

viri nihil perjuria curant (with nihil metuere),

Cat. 64, 148:

non ego istuc curo, qui sit, unde sit,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 95: alia cura, a conversational expression (lit. trouble yourself about something else;

hence),

do not trouble yourself, never mind, id. Mil. 3, 3, 55 and 60;

and in like sense, aliud cura,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 5.—

With acc. and gerundive, to cause something to be done, to order, to urge on, etc. (in good prose and very freq.;

predominant in Cæsar): pontem in Arari faciundum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

obsides inter eos dandos,

id. ib. 1, 19; 3, 11;

4, 29 et saep.: buculam faciendam,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48:

epistulam mihi referendam,

id. Att. 8, 5, 1:

fratrem interficiendum,

Nep. Timol. 1, 4 al. —

With part. perf pass.:

inventum tibi curabo et mecum adductum Tuom Pamphilum,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 1.—

With inf. (most freq. with a negative):

ea nolui scribere, quae nec indocti intellegere possent, nec docti legere curarent,

would take the trouble, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 4;

so negatively,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 91; id. Fam. 1, 9, 16; cf.:

nihil Romae geritur, quod te putem scire curare,

id. ib. 9, 10, 1; 3, 8, 7; Suet. Caes. 86; Hor. C. 2, 13, 39; id. Ep. 1, 17, 58; id. A. P. 133; 297; Ov. M. 11, 370; 11, 682 et saep.—Affirmatively:

si qui sunt, qui illud curent defendere,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87:

qui istas res scire curavit,

id. Fl. 27, 64:

mando tibi, uti cures lustrare,

Cato, R. R. 141:

aspice, si quid Et nos, quod cures proprium fecisse, loquamur,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 5; 1, 16, 17; id. A. P. 35; 460 sq.; Suet. Dom. 20; id. Gram. 24.—

With acc. and inf. pass.:

neque vero haec inter se congruere possent, ut natura et procreari vellet et diligi procreatos non curaret,

Cic. Fin. 3, 19, 62:

symbolos proponi et saxis proscribi curat,

Just. 2, 12, 2; 3, 5, 12.—

With nom. and inf.:

ego capitis mei periculo patriam liberavi, vos liberi sine periculo esse non curatis,

Auct. Her. 4, 53, 66. —

With ut, ne, or a simple subj.:

pater curabit ut, etc.,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 25 sq.:

si fecisset, se curaturam, ut, etc.,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48; Quint. 4, 2, 47; Suet. Aug. 92.—So in concluding letters: cura ut valeas, take care of yourself, be careful of your health (for which da operam ut valeas, fac valeas, et al. sim.), Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 3; 7, 6, 2; 7, 15, 2; 7, 20, 3; id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 6; 3, 8, 6; id. Att. 1, 5, 8; 2, 2, 3 et saep.:

omnibus rebus cura et provide, ne quid ei desit,

id. ib. 11, 3, 3; Quint. 1, 1, 34; 2, 5, 24; Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.:

ne illa quidem curo mihi scribas, quae, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1:

jam curabo sentiat, quos attentarit,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 6; Petr. 58, 2:

curare uti Romae ne essent,

Suet. Rhet. 1 init. —

With dat. (ante-and post-class.):

illis curandum censeo,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 92; so, omnibus, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:

rebus publicis,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 50:

rebus alienis,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 41:

rebus meis,

App. Mag. p. 297.—

With quod:

nam quod strabonus est, non curo,

Petr. 68, 8.—

With de:

vides, quanto hoc diligentius curem quam aut de rumore aut de Pollione,

Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3.—

Absol.:

curasti probe,

Ter. And. 5, 2, 6; cf. Plant. Rud. 2, 3, 50: abi intro;

ego hic curabo,

id. Bacch. 2, 2, 49; id. Pers. 1, 3, 5:

ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat,

commanded, Sall. J. 60, 1; cf.:

in eā parte,

id. ib. 60, 5:

in postremo loco cum equitibus,

id. ib. 46, 7.—

Impers.:

curabitur,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 70; id. Men. 3, 3, 15; Ter. And. 2, 3, 29:

curetur,

id. Hec. 2, 2, 15. —

Of things ( poet.):

quae causa suscipienda curarit sollemnia sacra,

Lucr. 5, 1163:

nec vera virtus Curat reponi deterioribus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30; with ut, Lucr. 5, 1015; 3, 127; 6, 231 Lachm.; with ne:

quod ne miremur sopor atque oblivia curant,

id. 4, 826 (822).—

In partic., t. t.

In state affairs, to take the charge of, to manage the business of, to do a thing in behalf of the state, to administer, govern, preside over, command, etc.

With acc.:

bellum maritimum curare,

Liv. 7, 26, 10; so,

Asiam,

Tac. A. 4, 36:

Achaiam,

id. ib. 5, 10:

superioris Germaniae legiones,

id. ib. 6, 30; cf. id. ib. 1, 31; cf.:

duabus his artibus... se remque publicam curabant,

Sall. C. 9, 3. —

Absol.:

Faesulanum in sinistrā parte curare jubet,

Sall. C. 59, 3; cf. id. J. 46, 7:

duo additi qui Romae curarent,

Tac. A. 11, 22.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure.

With acc.:

an quod corpora curari possint, animorum medicina nulla sit?

Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 4; id. Clu. 14, 40:

adulescentes gravius aegrotant, tristius curantur,

id. Sen. 19, 67; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 5:

aegrum,

Liv. 5, 5, 12:

quadrupedes,

Quint. 2, 10, 6:

aliquem frigidis,

Suet. Aug. 81:

aliquem radice vel herbā,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 151 et saep.: morbos, Cels. prooem.; Quint. 2, 3, 6; Curt. 5, 9, 3; 7, 1, 22:

vulnus,

Liv. 2, 17, 4; Quint. 4, 2, 84 et saep.:

apparentia vitia,

Quint. 12, 8, 10. —Rarely, to operate:

qui ferrum medici prius quam curetur aspexit,

Quint. 4, 5, 5. —

Absol.:

medicinae pars, quae manu curat,

Cels. 7 praef.; so Quint. 2, 17, 39 al. —Hence, P. a. as subst.: cūrans, antis, m., = medicus, a physician:

plurimi sub alterutro curantis errore moriuntur,

Cels. 3, 8, 5.—Also cūrandus, i, m., the patient:

nisi festinare curandi imbecillitas cogit,

Col. 7, 2, 12.—

Trop. (ironically):

cum provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, mihi tradiderit enectam, etc.,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2:

reduviam (corresp. with capiti mederi),

id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128.—

In mercantile lang., to take care of money matters, to adjust or settle, pay, etc.:

(nummos) pro signis,

Cic. Att. 1, 8, 2; cf.:

pecuniam pro eo frumento legatis,

Liv. 44, 16, 2:

dimidium pecuniae redemptori tuo,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 2; id. Quint. 4, 15:

me cui jussisset curaturum,

that I would make payment according to his direction, id. Fam. 16, 9, 3.— Hence, cūrātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.).

Earnest, anxious (post-Aug.):

curatissimae preces,

Tac. A. 1, 13 fin.: interim me [p. 503] quidam... secreto curatoque sermone corripit, monet, etc., Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 10.—

Taken care of, managed, attended to:

boves curatiores,

Cato, R. R. 103:

sacra,

Cic. Balb. 24, 55:

nitida illa et curata vox,

Quint. 11, 3, 26.— Adv.: cūrātē, carefully, diligently; only in comp.:

curatius disserere,

Tac. A. 2, 27; 14, 21; 16, 22; Plin. Ep. 1, 1, 1.

dē-fendo, di, sum ( infin. pass. parag.: defendier, Verg. A. 8, 493: Juv. 15, 157.— Part. gen. plur. sync.:

defendentum,

Verg. A. 11, 886), 3, v. a. [arch.: FENDO; cf. Sanscr. han (ghan), to smite; Gr. theinô; hence, also offendo, infensus, infestus, mani-festus; cf. fustis], to fend or ward off any thing hostile or injurious; to repel, avert, keep off: propulsando arcere (for syn. cf.: tueor, tutor, servo, conservo. propugno, protego, vindico, caveo—freq. and class.); regularly constr. with acc. alone (so in Cic. and Caes.); very rarely aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo, and in poets also aliquid alicui; cf. Zumpt. Gr. § 469.

Aliquid (aliquem):

ut tu morbos calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis, defendas averruncesque,

Cato R. R. 141, 2: serva cives, defende hostes, cum potes defendere, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21; cf.

bellum (opp. inferre),

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 13; 2, 29 fin.:

ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,

id. B. C. 2, 9, 3; cf.:

ignis jactus et lapides,

id. ib. 2, 2, 4:

frigus et solem,

Cato R. R. 48, 2; cf.:

nimios solis ardores,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 53;

and frigus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 14;

also: sitim fonte et purā lymphā,

to quench, Sil. 7, 170:

qui non defendit injuriam neque propulsat,

Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so,

injuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 1:

noxiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

imperatoris sui tribunorumque plebis injurias,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7 fin.:

vim suorum,

id. ib. 3, 110, 4; cf.:

vim illatam vi,

Cic. Mil. 4:

pericula,

id. Mur. 3; Tac. A. 13, 56:

hunc furorem,

Verg. A. 10, 905:

dedecus manu,

Sil. 13, 99 et saep.:

crimen,

to answer, defend against an accusation, Liv. 42, 48, 2.—

With ab: (milites) a pinnis hostes defendebant facillime, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. ib. 8:

hostem a fossa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

ignem a tectis,

Ov. R. Am. 625.—

Aliquid alicui (cf. arceo, no. II. d.):

iniuriam foribus,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 20:

solstitium pecori,

Verg. E. 7, 47; cf.:

aestatem capellis,

Hor. Od. 1, 17, 3; Prop. 1, 20, 11:

tela misero,

Sil. 17, 432:

dedecus morti,

id. 5, 490:

senium famae,

Stat. Th. 9, 318.—

Absol., to put a stop (to a fire), to check the flames:

nec quisquam defendere audebat, crebris minis restinguere prohibentium,

Tac. A. 15, 38; cf.:

urbem incendere, feris in populum immissis, quo difficilius defenderentur,

Suet. Ner. 43.—

Transf., like prohibere, with acc. of that from which any thing is warded off or averted, to defend, guard, protect, cover.

In gen. (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition), constr. with acc. alone; with acc. and ab aliquo (contra aliquid), or merely ab aliquo; and absol.

With simple acc.:

Aeduos ceterosque amicos populi Rom.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 35 fin.:

eos,

id. ib. 2, 10, 4; id. B. C. 1, 6, 2:

se armis,

id. B. G. 6, 34:

se manu,

id. ib. 5, 7, 8;

6, 40, 6 et saep.: castra,

id. ib. 3, 3 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 67, 5; 3, 94, 6 (with tueri):

oppidum,

id. B. G. 3, 16, 3 et saep.:

eum defendo, quem tu accusas,

Cic. Sull. 17:

aliquem apud praetores,

id. Clu. 45, 126:

aliquem de ambitu,

id. Sull. 2, 6: cf.

causam,

id. Clu. 27, 74; id. Sull. 31, 86; id. Lael. 25, 96 et passim:

d. ac tegere scelus,

id. Sull. 31, 86; cf.

with protegere,

id. ib. 18, 50:

justitiam,

id. Lael. 7, 25:

communem salutem,

id. Rep. 1, 1; id. Mur. 2 fin. et saep.:

locum,

to preserve, maintain, id. Quint. 13, 43; cf.:

vicem modo rhetoris atque poëtae,

to sustain, Hor. S. 1, 10, 12:

actorum partes,

id. A. P. 194:

aedes Vestae vix defensa est (sc. ab incendio),

preserved, Liv. 26, 27.—

Aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo:

Aedui cum se suaque ab iis defendere non possent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 11, 2:

se a finitimis,

id. ib. 2, 31, 5; id. B. C. 1, 75, 3; Sall. C. 45, 4 et saep.:

Galliam omnem ab Ariovisti injuria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31 fin.; so,

aliquem ab injuria,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3; Sall. C. 35 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 22, 5:

se regnumque suum ab Romanorum avaritia,

Sall. J. 49, 2:

provinciam non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 6, 14: Italiam a vastatione, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15 fin.:

vitam ab inimicorum audacia telisque,

Cic. Mil. 2 fin.:

libertatis causam ab regio praesidio,

Liv. 39, 24 et saep.:

teneras myrtos a frigore,

Verg. E. 7, 6:

frondes ab acutae vulnere falcis, a pecoris morsu,

Ov. M. 9, 384 et saep.—

With ab aliquo:

quod et ab incendio lapis et ab ariete materia defendit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 5; so id. B. C. 1, 25 fin.; 3, 63, 7.—

Aliquem (aliquid) contra, or adversus aliquem:

me scio a te contra iniquos meos solere defendi,

Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 7:

sese adversus populum Romanum defendere,

id. Phil. 1, 6, 13:

me adversus Abrupolim,

Liv. 42, 41, 10; Just. 2, 4, 32; Suet. Caes. 71; Liv. 5, 35, 4:

auctoritatem contra invidiam,

Cic. Phil, 8, 4; 13, 11; id. Fam. 5, 2, 6; id. Sest. 67, 141; 23, 51; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45.—

Absol.:

filii qui et sentire et defendere possent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64 fin.:

cum jam defenderet nemo,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 6:

defendentibus civibus Romanis,

id. B. C. 3, 40, 6; cf. in the abl. absol., id. B. G. 2, 12, 3; id. B. C. 3, 68 fin.; Cic. Lael. 25, 96 et saep.:

quibus eae partes ad defendendum obvenerunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81 fin. —

In partic.

Of speech, to defend, support, maintain; to bring forward, allege in defence (so repeatedly in Cic.; elsewhere rare).

With acc.:

(Carneades) nullam umquam in illis suis disputationibus rem defendit, quam non probarit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38 fin.; cf. id. Fam. 4, 14:

me id maxime defendisse, ut, etc.,

have chiefly striven for, id. Rosc. Am. 47; id. Verr. 2, 3, 37; 2, 5, 58.—

With acc. and inf.:

gravissimeque et verissime defenditur, numquam aequitatem ab utilitate posse sejungi, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 71; id. Verr. 2, 3, 90 fin.; id. Tull. 13, 32:

ille nihil ex his sponte susceptum sed principi paruisse defendebat,

Tac. A. 13, 43:

sed id solitum esse fieri defendebat,

Gell. 10, 19; so with verb pass. and inf., Cic. Inv. 2, 32 init. —

With a relative clause:

(quae turpitudines) cur non cadant in sapientem, non est facile defendere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117. —

In the later jurid. Lat., to claim, vindicate, or prosecute at law:

quia libertatem et hereditatem ex testamento sibi defendebat,

Dig. 5, 3, 7:

si patris mortem defendere necesse habuerit,

i. e. legally to avenge his death, ib. 38, 2, 14, § 7; 48, 2, 11.

dēfenso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. intens. [defendo].

To fend off diligently, ward off:

metus,

Stat. S. 5, 2, 105.—

To defend diligently, protect (rare; mostly ante-class. and poet., not in Cic. or Caes.):

moenia,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 30; Sall. J. 26, 1; 60, 3:

alios ab hostibus,

id. ib. 97:

humeros,

Ov. M. 12, 376:

se ipsa moenia,

Liv. 26, 45 (al. defendebant):

se injuria,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 39.— Absol.:

dum defensamus (sc. armentum),

Ov. M. 11, 374. [p. 529]

dē-prĕcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a.

To avert, ward off (from one's self or others) by earnest prayer; to deprecate; also to pray, to intercede for the averting of any evil, or to obtain pardon for any transgression (cf. Gell. 6, 16, 3).

In gen. (for syn. cf.: averto, averrunco, avoco, revoco —freq. and class.), constr. with the acc. (rei v. personae), the inf., the acc. and inf., ne, quominus, quin, and absol.

With acc. rei:

ullam ab sese calamitatem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60 fin.; cf.:

ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer,

id. Cat. 1, 11: quibus servitutem mea miseria deprecor? Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 9; cf.:

ego meae cum vitae parcam, letum inimico deprecer?

id. ib. §

10: qui nullum genus supplicii deprecatus est neque recusavit,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

mortem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 6; cf.:

non jam mortem neque aerumnas, tantummodo inimici imperium et cruciatus corporis deprecor,

Sall. J. 24, 10:

periculum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5; Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 3 (with refugere), Liv. 3, 58:

poenam,

id. 40, 15:

ignominiam,

id. 27, 20 fin.:

iram senatus,

id. 39, 35:

praecipiendi munus,

Quint. 2, 12, 12 et saep.—Of abstract subjects:

Claudii invidiam Gracchi caritas deprecabatur,

averted, Cic. Rep. 6, 2 (ap. Gell. 6, 16, 11; and Non. 290, 17).—

With acc. pers., usually in the sense of praying:

quem deprecarentur, cum omnes essent sordidati?

Cic. Sest. 12: in hoc te deprecor, ne, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1:

Patres, ne festinarent decernere, etc.,

Liv. 34, 59:

senatum litteris deprecatus est, ne, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 29:

dispensatorem deprecati sumus, ut, etc.,

Petr. 30, 9:

deos mala (opp. bona rogare),

Sen. Q. N. 2, 33; cf.:

hoc superos, hoc te quoque deprecor,

Val. Fl. 8, 53:

numina versu,

Petr. 133, 2: Dominum, Vulg. [p. 552] Esth. 14, 3 et saep.—Less freq. in the sense of averting:

lecto te solum, lecto te deprecor uno,

Prop. 2, 34, 17 (3, 32, 7 M.).—

With inf.:

umbram accipere,

Stat. Th. 8, 116; Luc. 9, 213.—

With acc. and inf., to plead in excuse:

postquam errasse regem et Jugurthae scelere lapsum deprecati sunt,

Sall. J. 104, 4.—

With ne:

primum deprecor, ne me, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 1:

unum petere ac deprecari... ne se armis despoliaret,

Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4:

spem ne nostram fieri patiare caducam, deprecor,

Ov. H. 15 (16), 170; cf. no., b; so,

opp. to postulo ut,

Liv. 40, 15, 8.—And with the dat. of the person for whom one entreats: deprecari alicui ne vapulet, Plaut. As. grex 5.—

With quominus:

neque illum se deprecari, quominus pergat,

Liv. 3, 9, 10 (but non precarere is the true reading in Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79 fin.).—So very rarely

with quin:

quin gravedinem ipsi ferat frigus,

Cat. 44, 18.—

With ut (rarely):

deprecatus esse dicitur, ut se tertium in amicitiam reciperent,

Lact. 5, 17, 23; cf.

supra,

Petr. 30, 9.—

Absol.:

pro amico, pro republica deprecari,

Cic. Sest. 12 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 21; id. Vit. 14:

arma deponat, roget, deprecetur,

Cic. Phil. 5, 1, 3; id. Or. 40, 138; Caes. B. G. 4, 7, 3; Quint. 5, 13, 2; *Verg. A. 12, 931 al.—

In relig. lang., to imprecate: diras devotiones in eum deprecata, Ap. M. 9, p. 227.—

Transf.:

quasi non totidem mox deprecor illi Assidue,

execrate, Cat. 92, 3 (dictum est quasi detestor vel exsecror vel depello vel abominor, Gell. 6, 16, 5).—

To pray for, intercede in behalf of (that which is in danger):

vitam alicujus ab aliquo,

Cic. Sull. 26; cf. vitam sibi, Auct. B. Afr. 89, 3;

paucos dies exsolvendo donativo deprecatum,

Tac. H. 1, 41:

quos senatus non ad pacem deprecandam, sed ad denuntiandum bellum miserat,

Cic. Fam. 12, 24. Also with personal objects:

a vobis deprecor custodem salutis meae,

Cic. Planc. 42, 102:

nullae sunt imagines, quae me a vobis deprecentur,

id. Agr. 2, 36 fin.:

te assiduae lacrimae C. Marcelli deprecantur,

id. Fam. 4, 7 fin. —Sometimes, by zeugma, deprecor is used in both senses, I. and II., with different objects: non mortem sed dilationem mortis deprecantur, Justin. 11, 9, 14; Gronov. ad loc.

► dēprĕcātus, in pass. signif.:

deprecatum bellum,

Just. 8, 5, 4: deprecato summo numine, Ap. M. 11, p. 270.

dē-prĕcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a.

To avert, ward off (from one's self or others) by earnest prayer; to deprecate; also to pray, to intercede for the averting of any evil, or to obtain pardon for any transgression (cf. Gell. 6, 16, 3).

In gen. (for syn. cf.: averto, averrunco, avoco, revoco —freq. and class.), constr. with the acc. (rei v. personae), the inf., the acc. and inf., ne, quominus, quin, and absol.

With acc. rei:

ullam ab sese calamitatem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60 fin.; cf.:

ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer,

id. Cat. 1, 11: quibus servitutem mea miseria deprecor? Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 9; cf.:

ego meae cum vitae parcam, letum inimico deprecer?

id. ib. §

10: qui nullum genus supplicii deprecatus est neque recusavit,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

mortem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 6; cf.:

non jam mortem neque aerumnas, tantummodo inimici imperium et cruciatus corporis deprecor,

Sall. J. 24, 10:

periculum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5; Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 3 (with refugere), Liv. 3, 58:

poenam,

id. 40, 15:

ignominiam,

id. 27, 20 fin.:

iram senatus,

id. 39, 35:

praecipiendi munus,

Quint. 2, 12, 12 et saep.—Of abstract subjects:

Claudii invidiam Gracchi caritas deprecabatur,

averted, Cic. Rep. 6, 2 (ap. Gell. 6, 16, 11; and Non. 290, 17).—

With acc. pers., usually in the sense of praying:

quem deprecarentur, cum omnes essent sordidati?

Cic. Sest. 12: in hoc te deprecor, ne, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1:

Patres, ne festinarent decernere, etc.,

Liv. 34, 59:

senatum litteris deprecatus est, ne, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 29:

dispensatorem deprecati sumus, ut, etc.,

Petr. 30, 9:

deos mala (opp. bona rogare),

Sen. Q. N. 2, 33; cf.:

hoc superos, hoc te quoque deprecor,

Val. Fl. 8, 53:

numina versu,

Petr. 133, 2: Dominum, Vulg. [p. 552] Esth. 14, 3 et saep.—Less freq. in the sense of averting:

lecto te solum, lecto te deprecor uno,

Prop. 2, 34, 17 (3, 32, 7 M.).—

With inf.:

umbram accipere,

Stat. Th. 8, 116; Luc. 9, 213.—

With acc. and inf., to plead in excuse:

postquam errasse regem et Jugurthae scelere lapsum deprecati sunt,

Sall. J. 104, 4.—

With ne:

primum deprecor, ne me, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 1:

unum petere ac deprecari... ne se armis despoliaret,

Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4:

spem ne nostram fieri patiare caducam, deprecor,

Ov. H. 15 (16), 170; cf. no., b; so,

opp. to postulo ut,

Liv. 40, 15, 8.—And with the dat. of the person for whom one entreats: deprecari alicui ne vapulet, Plaut. As. grex 5.—

With quominus:

neque illum se deprecari, quominus pergat,

Liv. 3, 9, 10 (but non precarere is the true reading in Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79 fin.).—So very rarely

with quin:

quin gravedinem ipsi ferat frigus,

Cat. 44, 18.—

With ut (rarely):

deprecatus esse dicitur, ut se tertium in amicitiam reciperent,

Lact. 5, 17, 23; cf.

supra,

Petr. 30, 9.—

Absol.:

pro amico, pro republica deprecari,

Cic. Sest. 12 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 21; id. Vit. 14:

arma deponat, roget, deprecetur,

Cic. Phil. 5, 1, 3; id. Or. 40, 138; Caes. B. G. 4, 7, 3; Quint. 5, 13, 2; *Verg. A. 12, 931 al.—

In relig. lang., to imprecate: diras devotiones in eum deprecata, Ap. M. 9, p. 227.—

Transf.:

quasi non totidem mox deprecor illi Assidue,

execrate, Cat. 92, 3 (dictum est quasi detestor vel exsecror vel depello vel abominor, Gell. 6, 16, 5).—

To pray for, intercede in behalf of (that which is in danger):

vitam alicujus ab aliquo,

Cic. Sull. 26; cf. vitam sibi, Auct. B. Afr. 89, 3;

paucos dies exsolvendo donativo deprecatum,

Tac. H. 1, 41:

quos senatus non ad pacem deprecandam, sed ad denuntiandum bellum miserat,

Cic. Fam. 12, 24. Also with personal objects:

a vobis deprecor custodem salutis meae,

Cic. Planc. 42, 102:

nullae sunt imagines, quae me a vobis deprecentur,

id. Agr. 2, 36 fin.:

te assiduae lacrimae C. Marcelli deprecantur,

id. Fam. 4, 7 fin. —Sometimes, by zeugma, deprecor is used in both senses, I. and II., with different objects: non mortem sed dilationem mortis deprecantur, Justin. 11, 9, 14; Gronov. ad loc.

► dēprĕcātus, in pass. signif.:

deprecatum bellum,

Just. 8, 5, 4: deprecato summo numine, Ap. M. 11, p. 270.

dē-testor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a.

In relig. lang.

To curse while calling a deity to witness, i. e. to execrate, abominate (for syn. cf.:

abominari, adversari, abhorrere, horrere, devovere, execrari): cum (te) viderunt, tamquam auspicium malum detestantur,

Cic. Vatin. 16, 39: omnibus precibus detestatus Ambiorigem, * Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin.; cf.:

caput euntis hostili prece,

Ov. M. 15, 505:

dira exsecratio ac furiale carmen detestandae familiae stirpique compositum,

Liv. 10, 41:

exitum belli civilis,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2 fin. et saep.—

To call to witness, = testor, obtestor:

summum Jovem, deosque,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 60. —

To call down upon, denounce while invoking a deity:

minas periculaque in caput eorum,

Liv. 39, 10, 2:

deorum iram in caput infelicis pueri,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 6.—

To hate intensely, detest, abominate, abhor:

causam auctoremque cladis,

Tac. H. 2, 35 fin.:

civilia arma adeo detestari,

felt such abhorrence for, Suet. Oth. 10:

sortem populi Romani,

id. Claud. 3: viam pravam Vulg. Prov. 3, 13.—

Transf., to avert from one's self by entreaty, to ward off, avert, remove, sc. an evil from one's self or others, = deprecari, to deprecate:

ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer,

Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

memoriam consulatus tui a republica,

id. Pis. 40, 96:

invidiam,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 123:

o di immortales, avertite ac detestamini hoc omen,

id. Phil. 4, 4, 10.—

In judic. lang., to renounce solemnly or under oath:

detestatum est testatione denuntiatum,

Dig. 50, 16, 238; cf.

ib. § 40, and detestatio, II.: Servius Sulpicius in libro de sacris detestandis, etc.,

Gell. 7, 12, 1.

sense, Ap. Mag. p. 307, 24; August. Ep. ad Macr. 255.—Esp., in the part. perf., detested, abominated:

detestata omnia ejusmodi repudianda sunt,

Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28:

bella matribus detestata,

Hor. Od. 1, 1, 25.

ex-ĕo, ĭi (rarely īvi, Gell. 12, 12, 3; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 50; perf. exit, for exiit, id. Ps. 2, 4, 40; Verg. A. 2, 497), ĭtum, īre ( fut. [p. 683] exibo, but exies, exiet, Sen. Ep. 113, 20; id. Apocol. 3, 1 al.;

exiet for exibit,

Tert. adv. Jud. 13; Vulg. Matt. 2, 6; 5, 26 al.; perh. also in Hor. C. 4, 4, 65; acc. to some MSS. al. evenit; v. Orell. ad h. l.), v. n. and a.

Neutr., to go out or forth, to go away, depart.

Lit.

In gen.:

dum intro eo atque exeo,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43:

jam ad te exeo,

id. Bacch. 4, 6, 24; 4, 9, 129:

foras,

id. Cas. 5, 2, 51; cf. id. Rud. 2, 2, 2:

ex urbe,

id. Am. 1, 3, 35:

ex urbe, oppido,

Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 2; Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 1:

e patria,

Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

e finibus suis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5, 1:

clam ex castris,

id. ib. 7, 20, 10:

ab aliquo,

from one's house, Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 7 (v. ab, I. a.):

ab urbe,

away from, Liv. 10, 37, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; 21, 13, 7; 23, 18, 14;

al. a villa sua,

Quint. 6, 3, 49:

de triclinio, de cubiculo,

Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 263:

de balneis,

id. de Or. 2, 55, 223:

de navi,

id. Att. 2, 7, 4:

(cornix) a cauda de ovo,

tail first, Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38:

portā,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 39:

domo,

Cic. Rep. 1, 12; cf.:

erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent,

i. e. withdraw from, leave their country, Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 1; so,

domo,

id. ib. 1, 12, 5;

1, 29, 1: castris,

id. B. C. 1, 69, 3:

in solitudinem,

to withdraw, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

in alias domos tamquam in colonias,

id. ib. 1, 17, 54:

in provinciam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 33, 4:

in terram,

i. e. to land, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 433:

in luminis oras,

i. e. to be born, Lucr. 1, 170:

ad aliquem,

i. e. to go from home to visit a person, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 6 et saep.—Prov.:

exeat aulā, qui vult esse pius,

Luc. 8, 493.— Poet., with inf.:

exierant dare veris opes,

Stat. Ach. 1, 288.—Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

cum de consularibus mea prima sors exisset,

Cic. Att. 1, 19, 3; so,

sors,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 27; cf.:

cujus nomen exisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

nummi, qui per simulationem ab isto exierant,

id. ib. 2, 2, 25, §

61: per septem portus in maris exit aquas (Nilus),

flows out, empties, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 10:

septem aquis (Ister),

Val. Fl. 8, 187:

populo albae folia vetustiora in angulos exeunt,

terminate, Plin. 16, 23, 35, § 86:

color in florem heliotropii,

id. 37, 6, 22, § 83; cf.:

masculina nomina in A atque S litteras,

to end, terminate, Quint. 1, 5, 61.— Pass. impers.:

uti inde exiri possit,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

crepuit ostium: exitur foras,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 15:

in Velabro, qua in Novam viam exitur,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 24 Müll.—

In partic.

In milit. lang., to move out, march out:

milites, qui de tertia vigilia exissent,

Caes. B. C. 1, 64 fin.:

ut paludati (praetores) exeant,

depart for the battle-field, id. ib. 1, 6, 6:

ad pugnam,

Liv. 44, 39, 2; Verg. G. 4, 67:

ex Italia ad bellum civile,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 3 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

non posse clam exiri,

Caes. B. C. 1, 67, 2:

postquam exitum est maximā copiā,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 64.—

In jurid. Lat.: potestate, de or a potestate alicujus, to get out of any one's power (potestas), to be emancipated, become free, Dig. 37, 4, 1, § 6; 62; 28, 6, 3 et saep. (cf. B. 1. infra).—

De vita, to depart from life, decease, die (for the usual excedere or decedere de vita):

quem (me) fuerat aequius ut prius introieram, sic prius exire de vita,

Cic. Cael. 4, 15; so,

de vita,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 5; cf.:

e vita tamquam e theatro,

Cic. Fin. 1, 15, 49:

vitā exire,

Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 1.—

To go out or forth in any manner, to issue, escape (very rare):

cujus (Isocratis) e ludo tamquam ex equo Trojano meri principes exierunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94:

hanc tamen Antonius fugam suam, quia vivus exierat, victoriam vocabat,

Vell. 2, 82, 3.—Of inanimate subjects:

currente rota cur urceus exit?

Hor. A. P. 22: libri quidem ita exierunt, ut, etc., turned out (the figure being borrowed from works of art which are cast and turned out of the mould), Cic. Att. 13, 13, 1.—

Of plants, to come up, spring forth, sprout out:

plerumque e terra exit hordeum diebus VII.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 45, 1:

ne semina in frugem exeant e terra,

Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 109:

folia a radice,

id. 25, 4, 9, § 28:

lupinus agro limoso,

Col. 2, 10, 3:

fabae in folia,

Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 57; and absol.:

ut vix ulla herba exeat,

Col. 2, 11, 3; so,

lens sata (with grandescere),

Pall. Febr. 4;

and, messis,

Val. Fl. 7, 549.—

To mount upwards, ascend, rise ( poet. and postAug. prose):

in auras (ignis),

Lucr. 6, 886:

ad caelum (arbor),

Verg. G. 2, 81:

in altitudinem (comae palmarum),

Plin. 13, 4, 8, § 37.—

Trop.

In gen.:

exisse ex potestate dicimus eos, qui effrenati feruntur aut libidine aut iracundia, etc.... Qui igitur exisse ex potestate dicuntur, idcirco dicuntur, quia non sunt in potestate mentis,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; cf.:

itaque iratos proprie dicimus exisse de potestate, id est de consilio, de ratione, de mente,

id. ib. 4, 36, 77;

for which: a se,

Petr. 90: ex hac aerumna, Lucil. ap. Non. 296, 16; cf.:

exire aere alieno,

Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13 (dub. al. se exserere):

quam nihil non consideratum exibat ex ore!

id. Brut. 76, 265; id. de Or. 2, 22 fin.:

nequaquam similiter oratio mea exire atque in vulgus emanare poterit,

id. Rosc. Am. 1, 3; Plin. Pan. 75, 3:

ea res prodita est et in vulgus exivit,

Gell. 12, 12, 3; cf. with object-clause:

exiit opinio, descensurum eum ad Olympia inter athletas,

Suet. Ner. 53; for which also with a subject-clause:

quod ante paucos dies exierat in vulgus, laudanti cuidam formam suam, respondisse eum, etc.,

id. Galb. 20:

ob hoc exivit proverbium, etc.,

became current, Vulg. Gen. 10, 9.—

In partic.

Of time, to run out, end, expire:

quinto anno exeunte,

Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53:

indutiarum dies exierat,

Liv. 4, 30, 14; 30, 25, 1; 42, 47, 10:

dies censurae, stipendii,

id. 9, 34, 22; 22, 33, 5:

nullus mihi per otium dies exit,

Sen. Ep. 8; Plin. Pan. 68, 2 et saep.—

To extend beyond a certain measure or limit (mostly post-Aug.):

extra aliquid,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25:

vestra vita, licet supra mille annos exeat,

run out, extend, Sen. Brev. Vit. 6:

probationes in tertium diem exierunt,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 18:

digressus in laudes Castoris ac Pollucis exierat,

Quint. 11, 2, 11; cf.:

continuus (translationis usus) in allegorias et aenigmata exit,

id. 8, 6, 14:

in longum exierit ordo rerum,

id. 4, 2, 51.—

To pass away, perish:

opus laudabile, numquam a memoria hominum exiturum,

Sen. Ben. 3, 38; so with a subjectclause:

an jam memoriā exisse, neminem ex plebe tribunum militum creatum esse?

Liv. 6, 37, 5.—

Act. ( poet. and in postAug. prose), to go or pass beyond a thing.

Lit.

In gen.:

limen,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 18:

Avernas valles,

Ov. M. 10, 52:

flumen,

Val. Fl. 4, 698:

quantum diurni itineris miliariorum numero in reda possit exiri,

Vitr. 10, 9, 3:

donec minor filius lubricum juventae exiret,

Tac. A. 6, 49 (55) fin. —

Pregn., to avoid, evade, ward off:

corpore tela atque oculis vigilantibus exit,

avoids the blows, Verg. A. 5, 438; cf.:

feros exibant dentis adactus (jumenta),

Lucr. 5, 1330; Stat. Th. 6, 802:

procul absiliebat, ut acrem exiret odorem,

Lucr. 6, 1217:

profluvium sanguinis,

id. 6, 1206:

vim viribus,

Verg. A. 11, 750 et saep.—

Trop.

To exceed:

modum,

Ov. M. 9, 632.—

Of time: ad exitam aetatem = ad ultimam aetatem, Paul. ex Fest. p. 28, 5 Müll.

Lū̆crīnus, i, m., with or without lacus, the Lucrine Lake, on the coast of Campania, in the neighborhood of Baiæ (now Lago Lucrino), Mel. 2, 4, 9; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 1; Hor. C. 2, 15, 3. Cæsar, or, acc. to Suetonius, Augustus, connected it with Lake Avernus, and threw up dikes to ward off the waves of the sea:

Lucrinoque addita claustra,

Verg. G. 2, 161; cf. Suet. Aug. 16; Tac. A. 14, 5. The surrounding scenery was celebrated for its beauty: dum nos [p. 1081] blanda tenent lascivi stagna Lucrini, Mart. 4, 57, 1:

hic mihi Baiani colles mollisque Lucrinus,

id. 6, 43, 5.—Hence,

Lū̆crīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lake Lucrinus, Lucrine:

aqua,

the Lucrine Lake, Prop. 1, 11, 10: ostrea Lucrina, the Lucrine oysters, celebrated for their delicious flavor, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; cf.:

Lucrinum ad saxum... ostrea,

Juv. 4, 141;

called also Lucrina conchylia,

Hor. Epod. 2, 49; and absol.: Lū̆crīna, ōrum, n., Mart. 6, 11, 5; 12, 48, 4.—Near the lake was a temple of Venus;

hence: Lucrina Venus,

Stat. S. 3, 1, 150.—

Lū̆crīnensis, e, adj., Lucrine:

res Puteolanae et Lucrinenses,

i. e. oysters, Cic. Att. 4, 10, 1.