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carmen, ĭnis, n. (old form cas-men, Varr. L. L. p. 86 Bip.) [Sanscr. çasto [p. 293] declaim, praise; cf.: camilla, censeo], a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (mostly poet.; in prose, instead of it, cantus; cf.

also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),

Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.:

carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,

Ov. M. 11, 317; cf.

vocum,

id. ib. 12, 157:

per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis,

id. ib. 1, 518; cf. id. ib. 11, 5;

5, 340: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri,

Verg. A. 4, 462; so id. G. 4, 514; Ov. M. 10, 453:

cygnorum,

id. ib. 5, 387; cf. id. ib. 14, 430; Mart. 13, 77:

citharae liquidum carmen,

Lucr. 4, 981; cf. id. 2, 506; Hor. C. 1, 15, 15:

lyrae carmen,

Prop. 2, 1, 9 Hertzb.:

canere miserabile carmen,

Ov. M. 5, 118:

harundineum,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 12:

socialia carmina,

id. H. 12, 139:

barbaricum,

id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:

hoc carmen hic tribunus plebis non vobis sed sibi intus canit,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 68; cf. Aspendius.—Also the sound of waves, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 319; cf. Auct. Aetn. 295.—

Esp., a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song, whether in a broader sense, of every kind of poetic production, epic, dramatic, lyric (opp. to prose and to cantus, the melody), or, in a more restricted sense, for lyric poetry.

Cum hanc felicitatem non prosa modo multi sint consecuti sed etiam carmine, Quint. 10, 7, 19; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 8, 6, 27; 10, 1, 95:

perspicuum est, et cantus (melodies) tum fuisse rescriptos vocum sonis et carmina (words),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 34; 3, 51, 197:

carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae Tradere,

Lucr. 5, 1444:

Maeonii carminis alite,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 2:

epicum carmen,

Quint. 10, 1, 62:

heroici sublimitas,

id. 1, 8, 5; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 3, 16:

Iliacum,

Hor. A. P. 129:

historia quodammodo carmen solutum,

Quint. 10, 1, 31:

Pierium,

Lucr. 1, 946; 4, 21:

tragicum,

Hor. A. P. 220:

carmina Livi,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 69; cf. Tac. A. 11, 13:

Saliorum carmina,

Varr. L. L. 3, 26; 9, 61; Quint. 1, 6, 40; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 86 Schmid.; cf. Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

lyricorum carmina,

Quint. 9, 4, 53; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 32:

Aeolium,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 13:

Lydis remixto carmine tibiis,

id. ib. 4, 15, 30; cf. id. Epod. 9, 5:

carmen funebre proprie Naenia,

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

carmina quae in Phaeacum epulis canuntur,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; cf. id. ib. 19, 75:

lascivum,

Quint. 9, 4, 108:

obscena,

satirical, abusive poems, libels, Prop. 1, 16, 10;

the same: famosum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31 Schmid.:

malum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 153; id. S. 2, 1. 82 Heind.:

obliquum,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 27:

probrosum,

Tac. A. 4, 31; cf.:

si quis carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri,

Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; and Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 259 sq.; Fischer ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4.—Phrases:

canere,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

cantare cui,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

cantitare,

Cic. Brut. 19, 75: CONDERE, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; Lucr. 5, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. A. P. 436:

contexere,

Cic. Cael. 8, 18:

disponere,

Lucr. 3, 420:

pangere,

id. 1, 934; 4, 9:

fingere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 32; id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331:

dicere,

id. C. 4, 12, 10; id. C. S. 8:

dictare,

id. S. 1, 10, 75; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

docere,

id. C. 2, 19, 1:

ad umbilicum adducere,

id. Epod. 14, 7:

deducere ad sua tempora,

Ov. M. 1, 4:

fundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64:

componere ad lyram,

Quint. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. 11, 2, 11.—

Esp.

In a restricted sense for lyric or epic poetry:

carmine tu gaudes, hic delectatur iambis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 59 Schmid.; cf.:

carmina compono, hic elegos,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91: amabile carmen, i. e. a love poem or song, id. ib. 1, 3, 24.—And opp. to the drama for an epic or lyric poem:

fabula, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus,

Quint. 2, 4, 2.—

A part of a great epic poem, a book, canto:

in primo carmine,

Lucr. 6, 937. —

A poetic inscription:

et tumulum facite et tumulo superaddite carmen: Daphnis ego, etc.,

Verg. E. 5, 42; id. A. 3, 287; Ov. M. 14, 442; id. F. 3, 547 al.—

A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction:

ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas,

Verg. E. 4, 4; so Ov. M. 6, 582; Liv. 1, 45, 5; 23, 11, 4; 25, 12, 4; 29, 10, 6; 38, 45, 3; Tac. A. 3, 63; 4, 43; 6, 12 al.—

A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf.

Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,

Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 10: carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam;

Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Verg. E. 8, 69 sq.; so id. A. 4, 487; Hor. Epod. 5, 72; 17, 4; id. S. 1, 8, 19; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 35; Ov. M. 7, 137; 14, 58; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 69; 4, 22 al.—

On account of the very ancient practice of composing forms of religion and law in Saturnian verse, also a formula in religion or law, a form:

diro quodam carmine jurare,

Liv. 10, 38, 10; 10, 41, 3; 31, 17, 9; 1, 24, 6 and 9; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12:

cruciatus carmina,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. id. Mur. 12, 26:

lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem judicent, etc.,

of a dreadful form, Liv. 1, 26, 6:

rogationis carmen,

id. 3, 64, 10.—

Moral sentences composed in verses:

Appii Caeci carmen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

liber Catonis qui inscriptus est Carmen de moribus,

Gell. 11, 2, 2:

ut totum illud, VTI. LINGVA. NVNCVPASSIT., non in XII. tabulis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

necessarium,

id. Leg. 2, 23, 59.

carmen, ĭnis, n. [1. caro], a card, for wool or flax, Venant. Ep. Praem. Carm. 6, 5.

fūco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [1. fucus], to color, paint, dye.

In gen.:

Alba nec Assyrio fucatur lana veneno,

Verg. G. 2, 465; so,

vellera Milesia saturo hyali colore,

id. ib. 4, 334:

tabulas colore,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

pinnas vario veneno,

Nemes. Cyneg. 309:

frena spumis sanguineis (equus),

Claud. Laud. Stil. 3, 350:

humida creta colorque Stercore fucatus crocodili,

i. e. paint made of crocodile's dung, Hor. Epod. 12, 11 (cf. Plin. 28, 8, 28, § 109).—

In partic., with cosmetics, to paint, to rouge.

Lit.:

fucandi cura coloris,

Ov. Tr. 2, 487:

corpora vulsa atque fucata,

Quint. 8 praef. § 19.—

Trop.:

unumquodque genus (dicendi) cum fucatur atque praelinitur, fit praestigiosum,

is embellished too much, Gell. 7, 14, 11.—Hence, fūcātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II. B.), painted, colored, beautified, falsified, counterfeit (a favorite word of Cic.; syn.: simulatus;

opp. sincerus, verus, naturalis): secerni blandus amicus a vero et internosci tam potest adhibita diligentia quam omnia fucata et simulata a sinceris atque veris,

Cic. Lael. 25, 95:

naturalis non fucatus nitor,

id. Brut. 9, 36; cf.:

fucati medicamenta candoris et ruboris omnia repellentur: elegantia modo et munditia remanebit,

id. Or. 23, 79:

signa probitatis non fucata forensi specie, sed domesticis inusta notis veritatis,

id. Planc. 12, 29:

iisdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia,

id. Mur. 12, 26:

puer subdolae ac fucatae vernilitatis,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 79.— Comp.:

versus Homeri fucatior (opp. simplicior et sincerior),

Gell. 13, 26, 3.—

* Adv.: fūcāte, with paint or color: fucatius concinnata carmina, Aus. in prosa post Idyll. 3.

mĕmŏrĭa, ae, f. [memor].

The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.):

ubi me fugiet memoria,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 2:

Edepol, memoria's optumad,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 45:

bona,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

segnis ac lenta,

Sen. Ep. 74, 1:

tenacissima,

Quint. 1, 1, 19:

Hortensius memoriā tantā fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 88, 301:

hoc in memoria mea penitus insedit,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 122:

in memoriam redigere,

to recall to mind, recollect, id. Fam. 1, 9, 9; so,

in memoriam reducere,

id. Inv 1, 52, 98 memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154:

memoriā tenere,

id. Sen. 4, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

memoriā custodire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127:

memoriam agitare,

to exercise the memory, Quint. 1, 8, 14:

habere in memoriā,

to remember, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hoc est mihi in memoriā,

in my recollection, Cic. Sull. 13, 37:

deponere aliquid ex memoriā,

to forget a thing, id. ib. 6, 18:

memoriam alicujus deponere,

to forget, Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

si memoria fefellerit,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

hoc fugit memoriam meam,

has escaped my recollection, id. 4, 5, 3:

Carthaginem excidisse de memoriā,

Liv. 29, 19, 12; cf.:

memoriā cedere,

id. 2, 33, 9:

memoriā abire,

id. 2, 4, 2 ut mea memoria est, Cic. Att. 13, 31, 4:

ex memoriā exponam,

from memory, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13.—

Memory, remembrance:

si quid faciendumst mulieri male... Ibi ei inmortalis memoriast meminisse,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: verterunt sese memoriae, remembrances are altered, i. e. times are changed, id. Truc. 2, 1, 10:

memoriā dign' viri,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 2:

nostrae,

id. Fam. 8, 3, 3:

memoriae prodere sermonem alicujus,

to hand down to posterity, to leave in writing, to record, id. de Or. 3, 4, 14:

memoriam prodere,

to transmit, hand down, Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

traditur memoriae, prolapsum cecidisse,

it is related, Liv. 5, 21:

vivit, vivetque per omnium saeculorum memoriam,

Vell. 2, 66, 5:

(oratio) ad memoriam laudum domesticarum,

Cic. Brut. 16, 62:

quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit,

id. ib. 2, 9:

memoria immortalis,

Nep. Att. 11, 5.—

Transf.

The time of remembrance, period of recollection, time:

multi superiori memoriā se in alias civitates contulerunt,

in earlier times, Cic. Balb. 12, 28:

Cratippus princeps hujus memoriae philosophorum,

in our time, at the present time, id. Off. 3, 2, 5:

quod persaepe et nostrā, et patrum memoriā acci dit,

id. Font. 7, 13:

usque ad nostram memoriam,

id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54:

quod in omni memoriā est omnino inauditum,

id. Vatin. 14, 33:

post hominum memoriam,

since the memory of man, id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

paulo supra hanc memoriam,

a little before this, a short time since, Caes. B. G. 6, 19.—

An historical account, relation, narration:

liber, quo iste omnium rerum memoriam breviter complexus est,

Cic. Brut. 3, 14:

de Magonis interitu duplex memoria prodita est,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

memoriam vitae prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin. —

Concr., a written account, narrative, memoir:

quispiam ex his, qui se ad litteras memoriasque veteres dediderat,

Gell. 2, 21, 6:

in veteribus memoriis scriptum legimus,

id. 4, 6, 1; 7, 8, 1:

sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,

Suet. Dom. 5.—

(Eccl. Lat.) A monument, esp. a Christian church as a memorial of a saint or monument of a martyr:

in memoriā Cypriani manere,

Aug. Conf 5, 8, 3: memoriae martyrum templis deorum succedunt, id. Civ. Dei, 26, 5;

22, 8, 11 and 12 al.: memoriam sibi et suis com parare,

Inscr. Grut. 827, 8.—

Personified, the goddess of memory, = Mnemosyne, Afran. ap. Gell. 13, 8, 3:

Jovis (filias, ex memoria uxore,

Arn. 3, c. 37.

pĕdester, tris, tre ( masc. pedestris, Nep. Eum. 4, 3; Vop. Prob. 21, 1), adj. [id.], on foot, that goes, is done, etc., on foot, pedestrian.

Lit.:

gratior illi videtur statua pedestris futura, quam equestris,

Cic. Phil. 9, 6:

equestres et pedestres copiae,

foot-soldiers, infantry, id. Fin. 2, 34, 112:

copiae,

Caes. B. G. 2, 17 al.; Tac. H. 2, 11 fin.; so,

pedester exercitus,

Nep. Eum. 4, 3:

pedestre scutum,

of a foot-soldier, Liv. 7, 10:

pugna,

id. 22, 47:

proelium duplex equestre ac pedestre commisit,

Suet. Dom. 4:

pedestris acies,

Tac. A. 2, 17.—

In plur. subst. pedestres, foot-soldiers, Just. 11, 9; people on foot, Vulg. Matt. 14, 13; id. Marc. 6, 33.—

Pedestria auspicia nominabantur, quae dabantur a vulpe, lupo, equo, ceterisque animalibus quadrupedibus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.—

Transf., on land, by land:

pedestres navalesque pugnae,

Cic. Sen. 5:

pedestria itinera,

the roads by land, Caes. B. G. 3, 9; cf. id. B. C. 2, 32:

proelia pedestria,

Just. 4, 4, 4:

transitus,

Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 101; Mart. Spect. 28. —

Trop., of style, like the Gr. pezos, not rising above the ground, not elevated.

Written in prose, prose (Gr. idiom;

Lat. prosa oratio): Plato multum supra prosam orationem et quam pedestrem Graeci vocant, surgit,

Quint. 10, 1, 81:

pedestres historiae,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 9.—

Plain, common, without poetic flights, without pathos, prosaic:

dolet sermone pedestri Telephus,

Hor. A. P. 95:

quid prius inlustrem satiris musāque pedestri,

id. S. 2, 6, 17 (for which:

sermones Repentes per humum,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 251):

opus,

Aus. Ep. 16, 78:

fabulae,

Ter. Maur. p. 2433 P.

prōsăĭcus, a, um, adj. [1. prosa].

Prosaic, in prose (post-class.): prosaico relatu, Ven. Carm. 7, 11, 1; id. Vit. S. Mart. 1, 13.—

Subst.: prōsăĭcus, i, m., a prose writer, prosaist (post-class.), Ven. Vit. S. Mart. 2, 469.

rĕd-ĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a. [ago].

To drive, lead, or bring back (syn. reduco).

Lit.:

(Sol) Disjectos redegit equos,

Lucr. 5, 403:

si materiem nostram collegerit aetas Post obitum, rursumque redegerit, ut sita nunc est,

bring it back, restore it to its present condition, id. 3, 848:

filia parva duas redigebat rupe capellas,

Ov. F. 4, 511:

tauros in gregem,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; cf.:

in sua rura boves,

Ov. F. 3, 64:

oppidani (hostem) fusum fugatumque in castra redigunt,

Liv. 21, 9:

hostium equitatum in castra,

id. 26, 10:

turbam ferro in hostes,

id. 37, 43:

aliquem Capuam,

id. 26, 12 fin.:

aliquem in exsilium,

Just. 9, 4, 7. —

Trop.:

rem ad pristinam belli rationem redegit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 76 fin.:

annum neglegentia conturbatum ad pristinam rationem,

Suet. Aug. 31:

disciplinam militarem ad priscos mores,

Liv. 8, 6 fin.: aliquid ad ultimam sui generis formam speciemque, Cic. Or. 3, 10:

omnia redegit in singulas rationes praeceptionis,

Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3:

aliquem in concordiam,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 13:

vos in gratiam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 73:

tu, qui ais, redige in memoriam,

recall it to my mind, id. ib. 2, 3, 36:

in memoriam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 7, 18; id. Fam. 1, 9, 9:

(poëtae) formidine fustis Ad bene dicendum delectandumque redacti,

brought back, reduced, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 155.—Far more freq.,

(With the idea of agere predominant; cf. recido and redeo, II.) To get together, call in, collect, raise, receive, take a sum of money or the like by selling, etc.:

cum omnem pecuniam ex aerario exhausissetis, ex vectigalibus redegissetis, ab omnibus regibus coëgissetis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 98; cf.:

pecuniam ex bonis patriis,

id. Phil. 13, 5, 10;

and simply pecuniam,

id. Rab. Post. 13, 37; Hor. Epod. 2, 69:

omne argentum tibi,

to scrape together, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 23:

bona vendit, pecuniam redigit... pecunia, quam ex Agonidis bonis redegisset,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 56; cf. Liv. 5, 16:

quod omnis frumenti copia decumarum nomine penes istum esset redacta, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 73, § 171:

fructus,

Dig. 36, 4, 5, § 22 (after colere agros); 22, 1, 46; cf.:

pars maxima (praedae) ad quaestorem redacta est,

Liv. 5, 19:

fructus ad eum,

Dig. 10, 2, 51:

quicquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit Fabius, consul, ac redegit in publicum,

paid it into the public treasury, Liv. 2, 42:

venditum sub hastā in aerarium,

id. 4, 53:

(patres) victi irā vetuere reddi (bona regia), vetuere in publicum redigi,

id. 2, 5, 1; cf.:

praedam in fiscum,

Tac. H. 4, 72:

aliquid in commune,

Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 6.—

To bring or reduce a thing to any condition, circumstance, etc.; to make or render it so and so (cf. reddo); constr. with in (so most freq.), ad, sub, an adv. of place, absol., or with a double acc.

With in:

viros in servitutem,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 47:

Aeduos in servitutem,

Caes. B. G. 2, 14, 3:

in pristinam sortem servitutis,

Just. 6, 5, 1:

vidulum in potestatem alicujus,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 22:

civitatem in potestatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 13 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 24 fin.; 45; Cic. Quint. 55, 152; id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; id. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 33; Tac. Agr. 18; Vell. 2, 94, 4; cf.:

civitatem in dicionem potestatemque populi Romani,

Caes. B. G. 2, 34 fin.:

aliquos in dicionem,

Cic. Balb. 10, 25; Liv. 41, 19:

gentes in dicionem hujus imperii,

Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 13:

Arvernos in provinciam,

to reduce to a province, Caes. B. G. 1, 45; 7, 77 fin.; cf.:

partem Britanniae, etc., in formam provinciae,

Tac. Agr. 14; Suet. Caes. 25; id. Aug. 18; id. Tib. 37 fin.; id. Calig. 1; Liv. Epit. 45; 93:

in formulam provinciae,

Vell. 2, 38, 1:

in formam praefecturae,

id. 2, 44, 4:

in id redactus sum loci, Ut, etc.,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 86; cf.:

republicā in tranquillum redactā,

Liv. 3, 40; and:

mentem in veros timores,

Hor. C. 1, 37, 15:

si hoc genus (pecuniarum) in unum redigatur,

be brought into one mass, Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 13:

dispositio est, per quam illa, quae invenimus, in ordinem redigimus,

reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; cf.:

arbores in ordinem certaque intervalla,

Quint. 8, 3, 9; but: ut veteres grammatici auctores alios in ordinem redegerint, alios omnino exemerint numero, brought, admitted into the rank of classics (cf. Gr. enkrinein; opp. numero eximere = ekkrinein):

libertinos in equestrem ordinem,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 18; Just. 5, 6, 5; Quint. 1, 4, 3;

for which: redigere aliquem (poëtam) in numerum,

id. 10, 1, 54;

also,

to lower, degrade, Suet. Vesp. 15; v. ordo; cf. Liv. ap. Prisc. 1173 P.; Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5:

quod prosa scriptum redigere in quaedam versiculorum genera,

Quint. 9, 4, 52:

in hanc consuetudinem memoriā exercitatione redigendā,

id. 11, 2, 45:

servos, in dominium nostrum,

Dig. 1, 5, 5:

in nihilum redigam te, et non eris,

Vulg. Ezech. 26, 21:

in cinerem,

id. 2 Pet. 2, 6: provinciam in solitudinem, Lact. de Ira Dei, 5, 4.—

With ad:

aliquem ad inopiam redigere,

to reduce to poverty, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 56:

aliquem ad incitas,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 85; id. Trin. 2, 4, 136:

genus id ad interitum,

Lucr. 5, 877; Cic. ap. Lact. 7, 11, 5; cf.:

prope ad internecionem gente ac nomine Nerviorum redacto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28:

ad nihilum redigere,

Vulg. Psa. 72, 20:

victoriam ad vanum et irritum,

to render empty and useless, Liv. 26, 37 fin.: cf.: [p. 1541] spem ad irritum, id. 28, 31:

aliquid ante dubium ad certum,

to render certain, id. 44, 15:

carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem,

Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113 (shortly afterwards reducunt); cf.:

cicatrices ad planum,

id. 20, 9, 36, § 93:

aliquem ad desperationem,

Suet. Aug. 81; Just. 6, 5, 7 et saep.:

redegit se ad pallium et crepidas,

Suet. Tib. 13.—

With sub:

Galliam sub populi Romani imperium,

Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 4:

Corcyram sub imperium Atheniensium,

Nep. Timoth. 2, 1:

barbaros sub jus dicionemque,

Liv. 28, 21:

incolas ejus insulae sub potestatem Atheniensium,

Nep. Milt. 1, 4; 2 fin.; id. Paus. 2, 4; id. Pelop. 5:

totam Italiam sub se,

id. Flor. 1, 9, 8:

GENTES SVB IMPERIVM,

Inscr. Grut. 226.—

With adv. of place:

eo redigis me, ut, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 23:

eo, ut,

Flor. 1, 2, 4:

hem! Quo redactus sum!

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 7.—

Absol.: ut credam, redigunt animum mihi argumenta, Att. ap. Non. 174, 10 (Trag. Rel. v. 516 Rib.): ut ejus animum retundam, redigam, ut, quo se vortat, nesciat, bring it down, so that, etc., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 73; Lucr. 1, 553.—

With double acc., to make or render a thing something (very rare;

more freq. reddere): quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 27 fin.:

(Ubios) Suevi multo humiliores infirmioresque redegerunt,

id. ib. 4, 3 fin.; Aus. Mos. 224.—

In designations of number, etc., pregn., to bring within a number or extent; to lessen, diminish, reduce:

familiam jam ad paucos redactam paene ab interitu vindicasti,

Cic. Marcell. 4, 10; cf.:

redigere omnis fere in quadrum numerumque sententias,

id. Or. 61, 208:

hosce ipsos (libros octo) utiliter ad sex libros redegit Diophanes,

reduced, abridged, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 10:

ex hominum milibus LX. vix ad D.... sese redactos esse dixerunt,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28:

ad semuncias redacta,

Tac. A. 6, 16:

judicia ad duo genera judicum redegit,

Suet. Caes. 41; id. Vesp. 10:

non ad numerum redigar duorum,

Ov. M. 6, 199:

quod si comminuas vilem redigatur ad assem,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 43:

ne res ad nilum redigantur funditus omnes,

Lucr. 1, 791; 2, 752; cf. Ov. M. 14, 149:

rem maximam redigere ad minimum,

Lact. 3, 9, 15.

tectum, i, n. [tego].

Lit., a covering.

A roof:

quojus (villae) Deturbavit ventus tectum ac tegulas,

Plaut. Rud. prol. 78:

de tecto deturbavit tegulas,

id. ib. 1, 1, 5. tecta domorum, Lucr. 2, 191; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, § 14:

firma tecta in domiciliis habere,

id. Brut. 73, 257; cf.:

disturbata porticus Catuli, quae ad tectum paene pervenerat,

id. Att. 4, 3, 2:

hic se praecipitem tecto dedit,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 41:

culmina tecti,

Verg. A. 2, 695:

tecti a culmine,

Ov. M. 12, 480.—

A ceiling (usu. plain; opp. lacunar, a fretted ceiling): tectis caelatis, laqueatis, ceilings, rooms, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 121 Vahl.); cf.:

qui marmoreis tectis ebore et auro fulgentibus abundant,

Cic. Par. 1, 3, 13; so,

aurata,

id. ib. 6, 3, 49:

laqueata,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 12:

cubilia tectaque,

canopies, id. Epod. 12, 12. —

Transf., a roofed building for dwelling in, a roof, house, dwelling, abode; a cover, shelter, quarters, etc. (freq. and class.; cf.:

prosa, ut mucronem pro gladio, et tectum pro domo recipiet, etc.,

Quint. 8, 6, 20;

syn.: domus, aedes, habitatio): recipe me in tectum,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 16; cf.:

exercitus tectis ac sedibus suis recipere,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 90:

ne tecto recipiatur... qui non, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 66; Nep. Att. 13, 2:

exercitatissimi in armis, qui inter annos XIV. tectum non subissent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 36:

milites in tecta Gallorum contegit, Auct. B. G. 8, 5: vos, Quirites, in vestra tecta discedite,

Cic. Cat. 3, 12, 29:

tectis, juvenes, succedite nostris,

Verg. A. 1, 627:

ejusmodi conjunctionem tectorum oppidum vel urbem appellaverunt,

Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 41; id. Att. 5, 16, 3:

tum erat ager incultus sine tecto: nunc est cultissimus cum optimā villā,

id. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

si vacuum tepido cepisset villula tecto,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 10:

pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit silvas,

Verg. A. 6, 8:

columba plausum Dat tecto ingentem,

id. ib. 5, 216:

solidis Clauditur in tectis,

i. e. in prison, Ov. M. 3, 697:

sed quercus tecta cibumque dabat,

id. A. A. 2, 622: dolos tecti ambagesque resolvit, i. e. of the Labyrinth, Verg. A. 6, 29:

sub tecta Sibyllae,

id. ib. 6, 211.

vīta, ae ( gen. sing. vitaï, Lucr. 1, 415; 2, 79; 3, 396), f. [vivo; Sanscr. gīv, to live; Gr. bios, life], life.

Lit.

In gen.:

tribus rebus animantium vita tenetur, cibo, potione, spiritu,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

dare, adimere vitam alicui,

id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

necessaria praesidia vitae,

id. Off. 1, 17, 58:

in liberos vitae necisque potestatem habere,

Caes. B. G. 6, 19:

exiguum vitae curriculum,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30:

ego in vitā meā nullā umquam voluptate tantā sum adfectus, etc.,

id. Att. 5, 20, 6:

vitam agere honestissime,

id. Phil. 9, 7, 15; cf.:

degere miserrimam,

id. Sull. 27, 75:

vitam in egestate degere,

id. Rosc. Am. 49, 144:

tutiorem vivere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 118:

profundere pro aliquo,

id. Phil. 14, 11, 30 fin.:

amittere per summum dedecus,

id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

auferre alicui,

id. Sen. 19, 71:

in vitā manere,

id. Fam. 5, 15, 3:

in vitā diutius esse,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

e vitā discedere,

id. Fam. 2, 2; cf.

cedere,

id. Brut. 1, 4:

vitā cedere,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35:

de vitā decedere,

id. Rab. Perd. 11:

vitā se privare,

id. de Or. 3, 3, 9:

vitā aliquem expellere,

id. Mur. 16, 34:

si vita suppetet,

id. Fin. 1, 4, 11: si mihi vita contigerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1:

ne ego hodie tibi bonam vitam feci,

a pleasant life, Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 3:

bonam vitam dare,

id. Cas. 4, 4, 21; cf.

, on the other hand: malae taedia vitae,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 31.—

In partic., life, as a period of time = aetas (post-Aug.):

ii quadragensimum annum vitae non excedunt,

Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 195; 7, 2, 2, § 30; 7, 49, 50, § 160:

periit anno vitae septimo et quinquagesimo,

Suet. Vit. 18:

septem et triginta annos vitae explevit,

Tac. A. 2, 88 fin.; Val. Max. 4, 1, 6; 8, 13, ext. 7; Gell. 15, 7, 1; Hier. in Dan. 6, 1.— Plur.:

nec vero, si geometrae et grammatici... omnem suam vitam in singulis artibus consumpserint, sequitur, ut plures quasdam vitas ad plura discenda desideremus,

Quint. 12, 11, 20; cf. also in the foll.—

Transf.

A living, support, subsistence (Plautinian;

syn. victus): vitam sibi repperire,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

neque illi concedam quicquam de vitā meā,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 76.—

A life, i. e. a way or mode of life (class.): vita hominis [p. 1999] ex ante factis spectabitur, Auct. Her. 2, 3, 4:

vita rustica honestissima atque suavissima,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48:

hanc usus, vita, mores respuit,

id. Mur. 35, 74; cf.:

inquirendo in utriusque vitam et mores,

Liv. 40, 16, 2; so (with mores) Ov. H. 17, 172 Ruhnk.:

neque ante philosophiam patefactam hac de re communis vita dubitavit,

nor was it doubted in common life, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86:

vita, victusque communis,

social life, id. Off. 1, 17, 58; cf.:

omni vitā atque victu excultus,

id. Brut. 25, 95.— Plur.:

inspicere, tamquam in speculum, in vitas omnium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61; cf.:

per omnium vitas amicitia serpit,

Cic. Leal. 23, 87:

(Minos) vitas et crimina discit,

Verg. A. 6, 433. —

Life, real life (opp. fancy or fiction):

ex quo est illud e vitā ductum ab Afranio,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45:

de vitā hominum mediā sumptum,

Gell. 2, 23, 12:

nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 60.—

Like our life, to denote a very dear object:

certe tu vita es mihi,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 33.—Hence, mea vita, or simply vita, my life, as a term of endearment, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 6; Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 3; 14, 4, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 1; 2, 20 (3, 13), 17.—

The living, i. e. mankind, the world; like Gr. bios ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

rura cano, rurisque deos, his vita magistris Desuevit quernā pellere glande famem,

Tib. 2, 1, 37:

agnoscat mores vita legatque suos,

Mart. 8, 3, 20:

verum falsumne sit, vita non decrevit,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48:

alias in tumultu vita erat,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 89.—

A life, i. e. a course of life, career, as the subject of biography: in hoc exponemus libro de vitā (al. vitam) excellentium imperatorum, Nep. praef. § 8; id. Epam. 4 fin.:

vitae memoriam prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin.:

propositā vitae ejus velut summā,

id. Aug. 9:

referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,

id. ib. 61; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 368:

qui vitas resque gestas clarorum hominum memoriae mandaverunt,

Gell. 1, 3, 1.—

The duration of life (in plants, etc.), duration:

arborum immensa,

Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 234; 16, 44, 90, § 241; Pall. 12, 7, 17.—

An existence, a being, of spirits in the infernal regions:

tenues sine corpore vitae,

Verg. A. 6, 292; cf. id. ib. 12, 952.

πεξὸν ἱμάτιον,

A prosa pexa tunica, Gloss.