290

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(conj.) and yet, still.

Flensburg (Germany) [gw]

ENG unspotted saw-whet owl

frīgĭdus, a, um, adj. [frigeo], cold, cool, chill, chilling (opp. calidus; syn.: gelidus, algidus, glacialis; corresp. in most of its senses to the Gr. psuchros).

Lit.:

calida et frigida, et amara et dulcia,

Cic. Rep. 3, 8 fin.:

fons luce diurnā Frigidus, et calidus nocturno tempore,

Lucr. 6, 849:

fons,

id. ib. 6, 873; 879; cf.:

frigidior umor,

id. 6, 840; 844:

nec ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

ut nec frigidior Thracam ambiat Hebrus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 13:

loca frigidissima,

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

rura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 9:

Praeneste,

id. C. 3, 4, 22:

Tempe,

Verg. G. 2, 469:

aquilo,

id. ib. 2, 404:

aura,

Ov. Am. 2, 16, 36; cf.:

manet sub Jove frigido Venator,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 25:

umbra noctis,

Verg. E. 8, 14:

caelum est hieme frigidum et gelidum,

cold and frosty, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 4:

frigidus aëra vesper Temperat,

Verg. G. 3, 336:

frigidus latet anguis in herba,

id. E. 3, 93:

anguis,

id. ib. 8, 71 (cf. psuchron ophin, Theogn. 602;

Theocr. 15, 58): pellis duraque,

Lucr. 6, 1194:

febris,

an ague, Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 289; so,

quartana,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 290:

fomenta,

id. Ep. 1, 3, 26.— Poet.:

ille frigidas Noctes non sine multis Insomnis lacrimis agit,

i. e. without a bedfellow, lonely, Hor. C. 3, 7, 6:

frigidus annus,

winter, Verg. A. 6, 311; Tib. 4, 8, 4 Huschke (al. amnis).—Prov.: aquam frigidam suffundere, to pour cold water over for to slander, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; v. suffundo.—

As subst.

frīgĭdum, i, n., the cold: obaequalitas ferventis ac frigidi, Apul. Dog. Plat. 1, p. 11, 24.— Plur.:

frigida (opp. calida),

Ov. M. 1, 19.—

frī-gĭda, ae, f. (sc. aqua), cold water (like calida or calda, ae, warm water):

frigida lavare lubenter,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 1:

frigidam bibere,

Cels. 1, 5:

frigidam aegro dare,

Suet. Claud. 40:

frigidā lavari,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

noxia ut frigidam febri,

Quint. 5, 11, 31.—

In a contracted form: FRIDVM, i, n.: DA FRIDVM PVSILLVM, i. e. a little ice-water, Inscr. Pompej. in Mus. Borbon. IV. p. 5 (cf.:

solve nives,

Mart. 5, 64).—

In partic., cold, chilled, of a dead person, or one stiffened with fright (for the latter cf.:

est et frigida multa, comes formidinis aura,

Lucr. 3, 290; poet.):

illa (Eurydice) Stygiā nabat jam frigida cymbā,

Verg. G. 4, 506; Ov. M. 7, 136; also,

transf.: Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Ah, miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat,

Verg. G. 4, 525:

membra nati,

Ov. M. 14, 743:

mors,

Verg. A. 4, 385; Val. Fl. 5, 26; cf.:

pausa vitaï,

Lucr. 3, 930:

stricto Aesonides stans frigidus ense,

stiffened with fright, Val. Fl. 7, 530:

miles nec frigidus aspicit hostem,

i. e. fearless, Sil. 9, 49; cf.:

formidine turpi Frigida corda tremunt,

id. 2, 339:

frigida mens criminibus,

Juv. 1, 166:

mihi frigidus horror Membra quatit,

Verg. A. 3, 29.

Trop.

Without ardor or encrgy, cold, frigid, indifferent, inactive, remiss, indolent, feeble:

nimis lentus in dicendo et paene frigidus,

Cic. Brut. 48, 178:

accusatoribus frigidissimis utitur,

lukewarm, indolent, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3:

non frigida virgo,

i. e. glowing with love, Ov. Am. 2, 1, 5; cf.:

frigidus aevo Laomedontiades,

Juv. 6, 325: (equus) Frigidus in Venerem senior, Verg. [p. 782] G. 3, 97:

(Empedocles) ardentem Frigidus Aetnam Insiluit,

in cold blood, Hor. A. P. 465:

in re frigidissima cales, in ferventissima friges,

Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21:

frigidae litterae,

cold, frigid, Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1:

solacia,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 45; cf.

cura,

Lucr. 4, 1060 (with which cf.:

curarum frigus,

Ov. P. 3, 9, 25):

frigida bello Dextera,

feeble, Verg. A. 11, 338:

ensis,

inactive, idle, Luc. 5, 245; 7, 502:

(apes) Contemnuntque favos et frigida tecta relinquunt,

i. e. not animated by labor, Verg. G. 4, 104 (cf. opp. fervet opus, id. ib. 169).—

Without force or point, flat, insipid, dull, trivial, frigid, vain (syn.: jejunus, inanis;

opp. salsus, facetus, esp. in post-Aug. prose): cave in ista tam frigida, tam jejuna calumnia delitescas,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 61; cf.:

haec aut frigida sunt, aut tum salsa, cum aliud est exspectatum,

id. de Or. 2, 64, 260:

(sententias) dicere leves, frigidas ineptas,

Quint. 8, 5, 30:

verba frigidiora vitare,

Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256; cf. id. Or. 26, 89:

frigidi et arcessiti joci,

Suet. Claud. 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 69:

illud frigidum et inane,

id. 10, 2, 17:

illud apud Euripidem frigidum sane, quod, etc.,

id. 5, 10, 31:

frigida et puerilis affectatio,

id. 4, 1, 77:

frigida et inanis affectatio,

id. 7, 3, 74:

genus acuminis in reprehendendis verbis, nonnumquam frigidum, interdum etiam facetum,

Cic. Brut. 67, 236:

in salibus aliquando frigidus,

Quint. 12, 10, 12:

dies frigidis rebus absumere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3:

negotia,

id. ib. 9, 2, 1; cf.:

omnia ista frigida et inania videntur,

id. ib. 4, 17, 4; Sen. de Ira, 2, 11.— With a subject-clause:

leve ac frigidum sit his addere, quo propinquos amicosque pacto tractaverit,

Suet. Calig. 26.—

With active meaning, causing cold or fright, frightening:

frigidus a rostris manat per compita rumor,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 50.—Hence, adv.: frīgĭde (only acc. to II. and very rare; not in Cic.).

Inactively, slowly, feebly: quae cupiunt, tamen ita frigide agunt, ut nolle existimentur, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3.—

Flatly, trivially, insipidly, frigidly:

verbis inepte et frigide uti,

Gell. 13, 24, 7;

so with inaniter,

id. 7, 3, 43;

with exigue, opp. graviter,

id. 19, 3, 1; cf.

also: quae sunt dicta frigidius,

Quint. 6, 3, 4:

transire in diversa subsellia, parum verecundum est... Et si aliquando concitate itur, numquam non frigide reditur,

i. e. in a silly, ridiculous manner, id. 11, 3, 133:

tum ille infantem suam frigidissime reportavit,

id. 6, 1, 39.

frīgĭdus, a, um, adj. [frigeo], cold, cool, chill, chilling (opp. calidus; syn.: gelidus, algidus, glacialis; corresp. in most of its senses to the Gr. psuchros).

Lit.:

calida et frigida, et amara et dulcia,

Cic. Rep. 3, 8 fin.:

fons luce diurnā Frigidus, et calidus nocturno tempore,

Lucr. 6, 849:

fons,

id. ib. 6, 873; 879; cf.:

frigidior umor,

id. 6, 840; 844:

nec ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

ut nec frigidior Thracam ambiat Hebrus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 13:

loca frigidissima,

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

rura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 9:

Praeneste,

id. C. 3, 4, 22:

Tempe,

Verg. G. 2, 469:

aquilo,

id. ib. 2, 404:

aura,

Ov. Am. 2, 16, 36; cf.:

manet sub Jove frigido Venator,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 25:

umbra noctis,

Verg. E. 8, 14:

caelum est hieme frigidum et gelidum,

cold and frosty, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 4:

frigidus aëra vesper Temperat,

Verg. G. 3, 336:

frigidus latet anguis in herba,

id. E. 3, 93:

anguis,

id. ib. 8, 71 (cf. psuchron ophin, Theogn. 602;

Theocr. 15, 58): pellis duraque,

Lucr. 6, 1194:

febris,

an ague, Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 289; so,

quartana,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 290:

fomenta,

id. Ep. 1, 3, 26.— Poet.:

ille frigidas Noctes non sine multis Insomnis lacrimis agit,

i. e. without a bedfellow, lonely, Hor. C. 3, 7, 6:

frigidus annus,

winter, Verg. A. 6, 311; Tib. 4, 8, 4 Huschke (al. amnis).—Prov.: aquam frigidam suffundere, to pour cold water over for to slander, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; v. suffundo.—

As subst.

frīgĭdum, i, n., the cold: obaequalitas ferventis ac frigidi, Apul. Dog. Plat. 1, p. 11, 24.— Plur.:

frigida (opp. calida),

Ov. M. 1, 19.—

frī-gĭda, ae, f. (sc. aqua), cold water (like calida or calda, ae, warm water):

frigida lavare lubenter,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 1:

frigidam bibere,

Cels. 1, 5:

frigidam aegro dare,

Suet. Claud. 40:

frigidā lavari,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

noxia ut frigidam febri,

Quint. 5, 11, 31.—

In a contracted form: FRIDVM, i, n.: DA FRIDVM PVSILLVM, i. e. a little ice-water, Inscr. Pompej. in Mus. Borbon. IV. p. 5 (cf.:

solve nives,

Mart. 5, 64).—

In partic., cold, chilled, of a dead person, or one stiffened with fright (for the latter cf.:

est et frigida multa, comes formidinis aura,

Lucr. 3, 290; poet.):

illa (Eurydice) Stygiā nabat jam frigida cymbā,

Verg. G. 4, 506; Ov. M. 7, 136; also,

transf.: Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Ah, miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat,

Verg. G. 4, 525:

membra nati,

Ov. M. 14, 743:

mors,

Verg. A. 4, 385; Val. Fl. 5, 26; cf.:

pausa vitaï,

Lucr. 3, 930:

stricto Aesonides stans frigidus ense,

stiffened with fright, Val. Fl. 7, 530:

miles nec frigidus aspicit hostem,

i. e. fearless, Sil. 9, 49; cf.:

formidine turpi Frigida corda tremunt,

id. 2, 339:

frigida mens criminibus,

Juv. 1, 166:

mihi frigidus horror Membra quatit,

Verg. A. 3, 29.

Trop.

Without ardor or encrgy, cold, frigid, indifferent, inactive, remiss, indolent, feeble:

nimis lentus in dicendo et paene frigidus,

Cic. Brut. 48, 178:

accusatoribus frigidissimis utitur,

lukewarm, indolent, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3:

non frigida virgo,

i. e. glowing with love, Ov. Am. 2, 1, 5; cf.:

frigidus aevo Laomedontiades,

Juv. 6, 325: (equus) Frigidus in Venerem senior, Verg. [p. 782] G. 3, 97:

(Empedocles) ardentem Frigidus Aetnam Insiluit,

in cold blood, Hor. A. P. 465:

in re frigidissima cales, in ferventissima friges,

Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21:

frigidae litterae,

cold, frigid, Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1:

solacia,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 45; cf.

cura,

Lucr. 4, 1060 (with which cf.:

curarum frigus,

Ov. P. 3, 9, 25):

frigida bello Dextera,

feeble, Verg. A. 11, 338:

ensis,

inactive, idle, Luc. 5, 245; 7, 502:

(apes) Contemnuntque favos et frigida tecta relinquunt,

i. e. not animated by labor, Verg. G. 4, 104 (cf. opp. fervet opus, id. ib. 169).—

Without force or point, flat, insipid, dull, trivial, frigid, vain (syn.: jejunus, inanis;

opp. salsus, facetus, esp. in post-Aug. prose): cave in ista tam frigida, tam jejuna calumnia delitescas,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 61; cf.:

haec aut frigida sunt, aut tum salsa, cum aliud est exspectatum,

id. de Or. 2, 64, 260:

(sententias) dicere leves, frigidas ineptas,

Quint. 8, 5, 30:

verba frigidiora vitare,

Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256; cf. id. Or. 26, 89:

frigidi et arcessiti joci,

Suet. Claud. 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 69:

illud frigidum et inane,

id. 10, 2, 17:

illud apud Euripidem frigidum sane, quod, etc.,

id. 5, 10, 31:

frigida et puerilis affectatio,

id. 4, 1, 77:

frigida et inanis affectatio,

id. 7, 3, 74:

genus acuminis in reprehendendis verbis, nonnumquam frigidum, interdum etiam facetum,

Cic. Brut. 67, 236:

in salibus aliquando frigidus,

Quint. 12, 10, 12:

dies frigidis rebus absumere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3:

negotia,

id. ib. 9, 2, 1; cf.:

omnia ista frigida et inania videntur,

id. ib. 4, 17, 4; Sen. de Ira, 2, 11.— With a subject-clause:

leve ac frigidum sit his addere, quo propinquos amicosque pacto tractaverit,

Suet. Calig. 26.—

With active meaning, causing cold or fright, frightening:

frigidus a rostris manat per compita rumor,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 50.—Hence, adv.: frīgĭde (only acc. to II. and very rare; not in Cic.).

Inactively, slowly, feebly: quae cupiunt, tamen ita frigide agunt, ut nolle existimentur, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3.—

Flatly, trivially, insipidly, frigidly:

verbis inepte et frigide uti,

Gell. 13, 24, 7;

so with inaniter,

id. 7, 3, 43;

with exigue, opp. graviter,

id. 19, 3, 1; cf.

also: quae sunt dicta frigidius,

Quint. 6, 3, 4:

transire in diversa subsellia, parum verecundum est... Et si aliquando concitate itur, numquam non frigide reditur,

i. e. in a silly, ridiculous manner, id. 11, 3, 133:

tum ille infantem suam frigidissime reportavit,

id. 6, 1, 39.

rĕ-linquo, līqui, lictum, 3, v. a.

(With the idea of the re predominating.) To leave behind (cf. desero, omitto).

In gen., to leave behind by removing one's self; to leave, move away from; to leave, abandon (a person or thing).

Lit.:

puerum apud matrem domi,

Plaut. Men. prol. 28:

ipse abiit foras, me reliquit pro atriensi in sedibus,

id. Poen. 5, 5, 4:

me filiis Relinquont quasi magistrum,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 22:

dicerent non me plane de provinciā decessisse, quoniam alterum me reliquissem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 15, 4:

C. Fabium legatum cum legionibus II. castris praesidio relinquit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

cum me servum in servitute pro te hic reliqueris,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 75; cf. id. ib. 5, 1, 18:

fratrem, sc. in provinciā,

Cic. Fam. 2, 15, 4:

post tergum hostem relinquere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22; cf. id. ib. 7, 11:

ille omnibus precibus petere contendit, ut in Galliā relinqueretur,

might be left behind, id. ib. 5, 6:

greges pecorum... sub opacā valle reliquit,

Ov. M. 11, 277 et saep.:

ea causa miles hic reliquit symbolum,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 53:

hic exemplum reliquit ejus,

id. ib. 2, 2, 56:

(Hecuba) Hectoris in tumulo canum de vertice crinem... relinquit,

leaves behind, Ov. M. 13, 428:

(cacumina silvae) limum tenent in fronde relictum,

left behind, remaining, id. ib. 1, 347.— To leave behind one's self by moving away:

longius delatus aestu, sub sinistrā Britanniam relictam conspexit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

jamque hos, jamque illos, populo mirante, relinquit,

Sil. 16, 503; cf. in pass., to remain or be left behind, Lucr. 5, 626.—

Trop.: hanc eram ipsam excusationem relicturus ad Caesarem, was about to leave behind me just this excuse (for my departure), Cic. Att. 9, 6, 1:

aculeos in animis,

id. Brut. 9, 38:

quod coeptum est dici, relinquitur in cogitatione audientium,

Auct. Her. 4, 30, 41:

aetate relictā,

Ov. M. 7, 170:

repetat relicta,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 97.—

Of rank or merit: (Homerus) omnes sine dubio et in omni genere eloquentiae procul a se reliquit,

Quint. 10, 1, 51.—

In partic.

To leave behind one by death; to leave, bequeath, etc.

Lit.:

ea mortua est: reliquit filiam adulescentulam,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 41:

cum pauper cum duobus fratribus relictus essem,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 2; cf.:

pauper jam a majoribus relictus,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1:

agri reliquit ei non magnum modum,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 13:

heredem testamento reliquit hunc P. Quintium,

Cic. Quint. 4, 15:

cum ei testamento sestertiūm milies relinquatur,

id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

non, si qui argentum omne legavit, videri potest signatam quoque pecuniam reliquisse,

Quint. 5, 11, 33:

qui mihi reliquit haec quae habeo omnia,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 40:

cedo, quid reliquit Phania,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 and 13:

fundos decem et tres reliquit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

aliquantum aeris alieni,

id. Quint. 4, 15:

servus aut donatus aut testamento relictus,

Quint. 5, 10, 67:

alicui arva, greges, armenta,

Ov. M. 3, 585:

se testamento liberum relictum,

Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 16.—

Trop., to leave, leave behind one:

consiliorum ac virtutum nostrarum effigiem,

Cic. Arch. 12, 30:

qui sic sunt, haud multum heredem juvant, Sibi vero hanc laudem relinquont: vixit, dum vixit, bene,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 11:

rem publicam nobis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 46, 70; cf.:

statum civitatis,

id. ib. 1, 21, 34; id. Par. 1, 2, 10:

opus alicui,

id. Rep. 1, 22, 35: memoriam [p. 1558] aut brevem aut nullam, id. Off. 2, 16, 55:

monumentum audaciae suae aeternum,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 129:

quae scripta nobis summi ex Graeciā sapientissimique homines reliquerunt,

id. Rep. 1, 22, 35:

scriptum in Originibus,

id. Brut. 19, 75:

scripta posteris,

Quint. 1, praef. 1:

in scriptis relictum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 194:

orationes reliquit et annales,

id. Brut. 27, 106:

duo tantum volumina,

Suet. Gram. 7:

librum de suis rebus imperfectum,

id. ib. 12; cf.:

si non omnia vates Ficta reliquerunt,

Ov. M. 13, 734:

pater, o relictum Filiae nomen,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 34.—

To leave a thing behind; to leave remaining; to allow or permit to remain, to let remain, leave; pass., to be left, to remain.

Lit.:

nihil relinquo in aedibus, Nec vas, nec vestimentum,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 88:

multis autem non modo granum nullum, sed ne paleae quidem ex omni fructu atque ex annuo labore relinquerentur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114:

nihil de tanto patrimonio,

id. Rosc. Am. 3, 10:

equitatus partem illi adtribuit, partem sibi reliquit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 34:

angustioribus portis relictis,

id. ib. 7, 70;

41: unam (filiam) minimamque relinque,

leave to me, Ov. M. 6, 299:

jam pauca aratro jugera regiae Moles relinquent,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 2:

dapis meliora relinquens,

id. S. 2, 6, 89:

magis apta tibi tua dona relinquam,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 43:

haec porcis hodie comedenda relinquis,

id. ib. 1, 7, 19; cf.:

habitanda fana Apris reliquit,

id. Epod. 16, 20:

relinquebatur una per Sequanos via,

remained, Caes. B. G. 1, 9; cf.:

unā ex parte leniter acclivis aditus relinquebatur,

id. ib. 2, 29:

se cum paucis relictum videt,

Sall. C. 60, 7:

nec aliud dicionis Atheniensium praeter ipsam urbem reliquit,

Just. 5, 7, 3.—

Trop.:

quasi corpori reliqueris Tuo potestatem coloris ulli capiendi mala,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 37:

quam igitur relinquis populari rei publicae laudem?

Cic. Rep. 3, 35, 48:

ut vobis non modo dignitatis retinendae, sed ne libertatis quidem recuperandae spes relinquatur,

id. Agr. 1, 6, 17:

ceterorum sententiis semotis, relinquitur non mihi cum Torquato, sed virtuti cum voluptate certatio,

id. Fin. 2, 14, 44; cf.:

ne qua spes in fugā relinqueretur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 51:

nullā provocatione ad populum contra necem et verbera relicta,

Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 62; Hor. S. 1, 10, 51:

quis igitur relictus est objurgandi locus?

Ter. And. 1, 1, 127; cf.:

nihil est preci loci relictum,

id. ib. 3, 4, 22; id. Phorm. 3, 3, 14;

and, in another sense: plane nec precibus nostris nec admonitionibus relinquit locum,

i. e. he leaves no occasion for them, renders them superfluous, Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 2:

ne cui iniquo relinqueremus vituperandi locum,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 1:

Aedui nullum sibi ad cognoscendum spatium relinquunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 42:

spatium deliberandi,

Nep. Eun, 12, 3:

vita turpis ne morti quidem honestae locum relinquit,

Cic. Quint. 15, 49; Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 33; cf. Cic. Brut. 72, 253 (v. Bernhardy ad loc.):

vita relicta est tantum modo,

Ov. P. 4, 16, 49:

quod munitioni castrorum tempus relinqui volebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 9 fin.:

mihi consilium et virtutis vestrae regimen relinquite,

Tac. H. 1, 84:

suspicionem alicui relinquere,

Suet. Caes. 86:

aliquem veniae vel saevitiae alicujus,

Tac. H. 1, 68 fin.:

aliquem poenae,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 20:

aliquem poenae,

Ov. M. 7, 41: leto, poenaeque, id. id. 14, 217; cf.:

urbem direptioni et incendiis,

to give up, surrender, abandon, Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 2:

neu relinquas hominem innocentem ad alicujus tui dissimilis quaestum,

do not leave, id. ib. 13, 64:

aliquid in alicujus spe,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 4, 16. — Poet., with obj.-clause:

(metus) Omnia suffundens mortis nigrore, neque ullam Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit,

Lucr. 3, 40; 1, 703; Ov. M. 14, 100:

dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 52; Sil. 3, 708: nihil relinquitur nisi fuga, there is nothing left, nothing remains, but, etc., Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 6:

relinquitur illud, quod vociferari non destitit, non debuisse, etc.,

Cic. Fl. 34, 85; cf.:

mihi nihil relicti quicquam aliud jam esse intellego,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 81.— Impers. relinquitur, with ut (Zumpt, Gram. §

621): relinquitur, ut, si vincimur in Hispaniā, quiescamus,

it remains, that, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2; cf.: relinquebatur, ut neque longius ab agmine legionum discedi Caesar pateretur, Caes. B. G. 5, 19 fin. — In a logical conclusion: relinquitur ergo, ut omnia tria genera sint causarum, hence it follows that, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 9, 12; id. Div. 2, 5, 14.—

With double predicate, to leave a thing behind in a certain state; to leave, let remain, suffer to be, etc.:

eum Plautus locum Reliquit integrum,

has left untouched, Ter. Ad. prol. 10:

praesertim cum integram rem et causam reliquerim,

have left unaltered, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.:

Scaptius me rogat, ut rem sic relinquam,

id. ib. 5, 21, 13, §

12: Morini, quos Caesar in Britanniam proficiscens pacatos reliquerat,

Caes. B. G. 4, 37; cf.:

amici, quos incorruptos Jugurtha reliquerat,

Sall. J. 103, 2:

reliquit (eam) Incertam et tristi turbatam volnere mentis,

Verg. A. 12, 160:

(naves) in litore deligatas ad ancoram relinquebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 9:

erat aeger in praesidio relictus,

id. ib. 6, 38:

in mediis lacerā nave relinquor aquis,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 28:

quod insepultos reliquissent eos, quos, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 26; 2, 11, 21:

aliquid incohatum,

id. ib. 1, 35, 55; cf.:

inceptam oppugnationem,

to give up, abandon, quit, Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

incoepta fila,

Ov. M. 6, 34:

infecta sacra,

id. ib. 6, 202:

opus incoeptum,

id. A. A. 2, 78:

verba imperfecta,

id. H. 13, 13:

pro effectis relinquunt, vixdum incohata,

Quint. 5, 13, 34:

aliquid injudicatum,

id. 10, 1, 67:

aliquid neglectum,

id. 1, 1, 29:

incertum,

id. 2, 10, 14:

tantas copias sine imperio,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20 init.; cf.:

sine ture aras,

Ov. M. 8, 277:

verbum in ambiguo,

Lucr. 4, 1137:

mulierem nullam nominabo: tantum in medio relinquam,

Cic. Cael. 20, 48; cf.:

correptio in dubio relicta,

Quint. 7, 9, 13.

(With the idea of the verb predominant.) To leave behind one, to leave, go away from; to forsake, abandon, desert a person or thing.

In gen.

Lit.:

ubi illaec obsecrost quae me hic reliquit,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 32: relinquamus nebulonem hunc, Scip. Afr. ap. Gell. 4, 18, 3; cf.:

non ego te hic lubens relinquo neque abeo abs te,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 33:

domum propinquosque reliquisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44; cf. id. ib. 1, 30:

relictis locis superioribus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36:

loci relinquendi facultas,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4 fin.:

Ilio relicto,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 14:

urbes,

id. ib. 2, 20, 5:

moenia,

id. Epod. 17, 13:

litus relictum Respicit,

Ov. M. 2, 873:

Roma relinquenda est,

id. Tr. 1, 3, 62:

colles clamore relinqui (sc.: a bubus),

were left behind, Verg. A. 8, 216 Wagn.:

limen,

id. ib. 5, 316:

mensas,

id. ib. 3, 213:

dominos,

Cat. 61, 51:

volucres Ova relinquebant,

Lucr. 5, 802 et saep.—

Trop.: me somnu' reliquit, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 52 Vahl.); cf.:

quem vita reliquit,

Lucr. 5, 63: reliquit aliquem vita, for to die, Ov. M. 11, 327:

ubi vita tuos reliquerit artus,

id. Ib. 339;

for which, also, reversely: animam relinquam potius, quam illas deseram,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 52; so,

vitam,

Verg. G. 3, 547; cf. Tac. A. 4, 34:

lucem,

Verg. A. 4, 452:

lumen vitale,

Ov. M. 14, 175:

consitus sum senectute, vires Reliquere,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6:

aliquem animus,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 37; Caes. B. G. 6, 38:

animus reliquit euntem,

Ov. M. 10, 459:

aliquem anima,

Nep. Eum. 4, 2:

ab omni honestate relictus,

abandoned, destitute of, Cic. Rab. Perd. 8, 23:

ab alterā (quartanā) relictum esse,

id. Att. 8, 6, 3; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 290.—

In partic., pregn., to leave in the lurch; to forsake, abandon, desert, etc. (v. desero, destituo, prodo).

Lit.:

qui... Reliquit deseruitque me,

has forsaken me, has given me the slip, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 45; cf.:

reliquit me homo atque abiit,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 5:

succurrere relictae,

Verg. A. 9, 290.—

Of the forsaking of a lover by his mistress,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 64; Tib. 3, 6, 40; Prop. 1, 6, 8; Ov. H. 10, 80; id. M. 8, 108:

paucos, qui ex fugā evaserant, reliquerunt,

i. e. let them escape, Caes. B. G. 3, 19. — Of things, to leave, give up, abandon, etc.:

argentum si relinquo ac non peto, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 31:

auctores signa relinquendi et deserendi castra,

Liv. 5, 6; cf.:

relictā non bene parmulā,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 10.—

Trop., to leave, let alone, give up, resign, neglect, forsake, abandon, relinquish:

rem et causam et utilitatem communem non relinquere solum, sed etiam prodere,

Cic. Caecin. 18, 50 (for which:

derelinquo jam communem causam,

id. ib. 35, 103):

jus suum dissolute,

id. ib. 36, 103:

affectum, cum ad summum perduxerimus,

Quint. 6, 1, 29:

(puella) Quod cupide petiit, mature plena reliquit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 100: eum rogato, ut relinquat alias res et huc veniat, to leave or lay aside every thing else, Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 8; cf.:

omnibus relictis rebus,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 6; so,

relictis rebus (omnibus),

id. Ep. 4, 2, 35; id. Truc. 2, 1, 25; Ter. And. 2, 5, 1; id. Eun. 1, 2, 86; id. Heaut. 4, 7, 12; Lucr. 3, 1071; Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 51; Caes. B. C. 3, 102; cf.

also: res omnes relictas habeo prae quod tu velis,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 38:

omnia relinques, si me amabis, cum, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 2, 14:

et agrorum et armorum cultum,

to give up, abandon, neglect, id. Rep. 2, 4, 7:

si tu ea relinquis et deseris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 36, § 80:

studium exquirendi,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 7:

agrum alternis annis,

to suffer to lie fallow, Varr. R. R. 1, 44, 3:

loca relicta,

uncultivated, wild lands, Front. Limit. p. 42 Goes.; so,

relictae possessiones,

Cic. Agr. 1, 1, 3:

milites bellum illud, quod erat in manibus, reliquisse,

abandoned, relinquished, id. Rep. 2, 37, 63; cf. possessionem, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:

obsidionem,

to raise the siege, Liv. 5, 48:

caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo,

leave unmentioned, Cic. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

consulto relinquere (locum), opp. praetermittere,

id. Off. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

hoc certe neque praetermittendum neque relinquendum est,

id. Cat. 3, 8, 18; and:

audistis haec, judices, quae nunc ego omnia praetereo et relinquo,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106;

in this sense also,

id. Brut. 45, 165; cf. id. ib. 19, 76; Hor. A. P. 150:

cur injurias tuas conjunctas cum publicis reliquisti?

left unnoticed, uncensured, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 33, § 84; cf.:

vim et causam efficiendi reliquerunt,

id. Fin. 1, 6, 18:

vos legatum omni supplicio interfectum relinquetis?

id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

quis est, qui vim hominibus armatis factam relinqui putet oportere,

id. Caecin. 3, 9.— Poet., with obj.clause:

quod si plane contueare, mirari multa relinquas,

leave off, cease, Lucr. 6, 654.

sontĭcus, a, um, adj. [sons].

Lit., dangerous, serious, critical, in the connection morbus sonticus, of a serious disorder that excuses one from duty, etc., Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Fest. p. 290 Müll.; cf. Gell. 20, 1, 27; Dig. 21, 1, 65; 42, 1, 60; 2, 11, 2; 5, 1, 46; Plin. 36, 19, 34, § 142; Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4.—

Transf.: sontica causa, arising from a morbus sonticus; hence, in gen., serious, weighty, important, Cato ap. Fest. p. 344 Müll.; Naev. ib. p. 290; Tib. 1, 8, 51.

ăb-ĕo, ĭvi or ii, ītum, īre, v. n. (abin= abisne, Plaut. and Ter.; abiit, dissyl., v. Herm. Doctr. Metr. p. 153), to go from a place, to go away, depart.

Lit..

In gen., constr. with ab, ex, the simple abl., the acc. with in, the local adv. hinc, and absol.:

abeo ab illo,

Plaut. Cure. 2, 3, 70:

abi in malam rem maxumam a me,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 72 (v. infra); so id. Bacch. 4, 9, 107:

abin e conspectu meo?

id. Am. 1, 3, 20 (but also abin ab oculis? id. Trin. 4, 2, 140: id. Truc. 2, 5, 24):

ablturos agro Argivos,

id. Am. 1, 1, 53:

abire in aliquas terras,

Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

insanus, qui hinc abiit modo,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 61:

abi prae, jam ego sequar,

go on, I will soon follow, id. Am. 1, 3, 45. —With supine:

abiit exsulatum,

into exile, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 6; Liv. 2, 15 fin.; cf.:

abi deambulatum,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 26. — Absol.:

(Catilina) abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

praetor de sellā surrexit atque abiit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 65 fin.:

quae dederat abeuntibus,

Verg. A. 1, 196 al.:

sub jugum abire,

Liv. 3, 2, 8 fin. — With inf.:

abi quaerere,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 26. —Of things:

cornus sub altum pectus abit,

penetrates deeply, Verg. A. 9, 700.

In partic.

To pass away, so that no trace remains; to disappear, vanish, cease.

Of man, to die:

qui nune abierunt hinc in communem locum (i.e. in Orcum),

Plaut. Cas. prol. 19; cf.:

ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 30; so also Cic.: abiit e vitā, Tusc. 1, 30, 74 al. —

Of time, to pass away, elapse:

dum haec abiit hora,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 50:

menses,

id. Ad. 4, 5, 57:

annus,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

abit dies,

Cat. 61, 195:

tota abit hora,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 14. —

Of other things:

per inane profundum,

Lucr. 1, 1108:

nausea jam plane abiit?

Cic. Att. 14, 10, 2; so id. Fam. 9, 20; Ov. M. 7, 290 al.

To be changed from one's own ways or nature into something else, to be transformed, metamorphosed; always constr. with in (chiefly poet., esp. in Ov. M., as a constant expression for metamorphosis): terra abit in nimbos imbremque, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 24 Mūll.:

in corpus corpore toto,

to pass with their whole body into another, Lucr. 4, 1111:

aut abit in somnum,

is, as it were, wholly dissolved in sleep, is all sleep, id. 3, 1066: E in V abiit. Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Mūll.:

in villos abeunt vestes, in crura lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 236; id. ib. 2, 674:

jam barba comaeque in silvas abeunt,

id. ib. 4, 657; 4, 396; so id. ib. 3, 398; 8,555; 14, 499;

14, 551 al.: in vanum abibunt monentium verba,

will dissolce into nothing, Sen. Ep. 94 med.;

hence, in avi mores regem abiturum,

would adopt the ways of, Liv. 1, 32.

Trop.

In gen., to depart from, to leave off, to turn aside:

ut ab jure non abeat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 44, § 114; so,

ab emptione,

Dig. 2, 14, 7, § 6; 18, 2, 14, § 2 sq.:

a venditione,

ib. 18, 5, 1: sed abeo a sensibus, leave, i. e. speak no more of, Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 9; so often with longe: non longe abieris, you need not go far to seek for examples, id. Fam. 7, 19; cf.:

ne longius abeam,

id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47; id. Caec. 33, 95 al.:

quid ad istas ineptias abis?

why do you have recourse to —? id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47:

abit causa in laudes Cn. Pompeii,

Quint. 9, 2, 55:

illuc, unde abii, redeo,

I set out, Hor. S. 1, 1, 108:

pretium retro abiit,

has fallen, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 7.

In partic.

With abl., to retire from an office or occupation:

abiens magistratu,

Cic. Pis. 3, 6; id. Fam. 5, 2, 7: Liv. 2, 27 fin.; 3, 38 fin. al.; so,

abire consulatu,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; cf.

flaminio,

Liv. 26, 23 fin.:

sacerdotio,

Gell. 6, 7, 4:

honore,

Suet. Aug. 26:

tutelā,

Dig. 26, 4, 3, § 8; cf.:

tutelā vel curā,

ib. 26, 10, 3, § 18 al.

Of the consequence or result of an action, to turn out, end, terminate:

mirabar hoc si sic abiret,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 4: cf.:

non posse ista sic abire,

Cic. Att. 14, 1; so id. Fin. 5, 3, 7; Cat. 14, 16 al.

In auctions, t. t., not to be knocked down to one:

si res abiret ab eo mancipe,

should not fall to him, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54; cf.:

ne res abiret ab eo,

that he may purchase it, id. 2, 3, 64; so Dig. 18, 2, 1; 50, 17, 205.

The imper. abi is often a simple exclamation or address, either with a friendly or reproachful signif.

Abi, Indis me, credo, Begone, you are fooling me! Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 32; so Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 25; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 205. —

Begone! be off! abi modo, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 20:

abi, nescis inescare homines,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12;

bence in the malediction, abi in malam rem!

go be hanged! Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 17:

abin hine in malam crucem?

id. Most. 3, 2, 163 (ef. Cic.: quin tu abis in malam pestem malumque cruciatum? Phil. 13, 21); v. crux and cruciatus.

admīrātĭo, ōnis, f. [admiror].

An admiring, admiration.—Absol.:

tua divina virtus admirationis plus habet quam gloriae,

Cic. Marcell. 26:

qui (plausus) non numquam ipsa admiratione compressus est,

id. Deiot. 34:

perspicua admiratione declaratur,

id. Balb. 2; id. Off. 2, 10, 36.— More freq. with gen. of object:

copiose sapienterque dicentis,

Cic. Off. 2, 14:

si quid fuit in isto studio admirationis,

id. Mur. 25:

admiratione afficiuntur ii,

id. ib. 2, 10:

admiratio nonnulla in bestiis aquatilibus,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 124 al.:

cuivis inicere admirationem sui,

Nep. Iph. 3:

hominis admiratio,

Cic. Arch. 4:

admiratio viri,

Liv. 9, 8; so id. 7, 34; Suet. Ner. 52 al.:

in magna admiratione esse,

to be greatly admired, Plin. 36, 5, 10, § 32.—In plur.:

haec sunt, quae admirationes in bonis oratoribus efficiunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33; so id. Brut. 84, 290; Vitr. 7, 13.—

Wonder, surprise, astonishment (cf.:

admiror, admirabilis): hoc mihi maximam admirationem movet,

Cic. Phil. 10, 2; so,

habere,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 18:

divitiarum,

id. Off. 2, 20; id. de Or. 2, 62; id. Or. 3 al.:

admiratio ancipitis sententiae,

Liv. 21, 3:

non sine admiratione,

Suet. Calig. 19; so Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 56; 16, 26, 44, § 107:

ut admirationem faciam populo,

Vulg. Isa. 29, 14:

miratus sum illam admiratione magna,

ib. Apoc. 17, 6.—Also with quod:

(Decium) admiratio incessit, quod nec pugnam inirent, etc.,

Liv. 7, 34, 12.

ad-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to call or summon one to a place, esp. for counsel, aid, etc.; constr. absol., with ad, in, or dat.

In gen.

Lit.:

ego Tiresiam advocabo et consulam quid faciendum censeat,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 76:

contionem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 80:

aliquem ad obsignandum,

id. Att. 12, 18; so Liv. 1, 39:

viros primarios in consilium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 7, § 18; so Liv. 42, 33:

ego vos, quo pauca monerem, advocavi,

Sall. C. 60:

eo (i. e. in aedem Concordiae) senatum advocat,

id. ib. 47:

(Deus) advocabit caelum desursum,

Vulg. Psa. 49, 4:

advocari gaudiis,

to be invited, Hor. C. 4, 11, 13:

aegro,

Ov. R. Am. 110:

causis,

Quint. 11, 1, 38.—

Trop.:

animum ad se ipsum advocamus,

we turn the mind upon itself, call the thoughts home, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31:

non desiderat fortitudo advocatam iracundiam,

id. ib. 4, 23; so id. Ac. 2, 27; id. Tusc. 5, 38. —

Esp.

In judicial lang., t. t., to avail one's self of some one in a cause, as aid, assistant, witness, counsellor, etc., to call in:

aliquem alicui,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 6; so id. Bacch. 2, 3, 28; id. Ps. 4, 7, 59:

aliquot mihi Amicos advocabo,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 83:

viros bonos complures advocat,

Cic. Quint. 21:

in his, quos tibi advocasti,

id. ib. 2 al.—Also used of the friend of the plaintiff or defendant, who calls in his friends to aid in the suit:

Oppianicus in judicio Scamandri aderat, frequens advocabat,

Cic. Clu. 19.—Hence, transf. to other things, to call to one's aid, to call to for help, to summon:

desuper Alcides telis premit omniaque arma Advocat,

Verg. A. 8, 249:

secretas artes,

Ov. M. 7, 138:

ad conamina noctem,

Sil. 9, 82; Sen. Troad. 613:

aliquid in tutelam securitatis suae,

Vell. 2, 108:

vires suas,

Sen. Ben. 6, 2.—

To get a respite, to delay, Plin. Ep. 5, 8; v. advocatio, II. C. —

To give consolation, to console (in imitation of the Gr. parakalein), Tert. adv. Marc. 14.

(Gr. II. 290) explains advocapit as an old imperat., instead of advocabite.Hence, advŏcātus, i, m.

In the class. per., in judicial lang., one who is called by one of the parties in a suit to aid as a witness or counsel, a legal assistant, counsellor (diff. from patronus or orator, who spoke for a client engaged in a suit; from cognitor, who appeared in the name of such parties as had themselves been at first in court;

and from procurator, who appeared for such as were absent,

Ascon. ad Cic. Div. in Caecil. 4; Ruhnk. ad Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 48; Heind. ad Hor. S. 2, 5, 38;

v. Smith's Dict. Antiq.): quaeso, ut advocatus mihi adsis neve abeas,

Plaut. Am. 4, 3, 3; so id. Men. 5, 2, 47; id. Mil. 5, 26; id. Poen. 3, 1, 23; 6, 11; id. Trin. 5, 2, 37 al.:

adversusne illum causam dicerem, cui veneram advocatus?

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 43; so id. Eun. 2, 3, 49; 4, 6, 26; id. Ad. 4, 5, 11:

quis eum umquam non modo in patroni, sed in laudatoris aut advocati loco viderat,

Cic. Clu. 40; id. Phil. 1, 7:

venire advocatum alicui in rem praesentem,

id. Off. 1, 10, etc.; Liv. 42, 33, 1.—

In the post-Aug. per., for patronus, orator, etc., who conducted a process for any one, an advocate, attorney, etc., Quint. 12, 1, 13; cf. id. 12, 1, 25; 5, 6 fin.; 9, 3, 22; Plin. Ep. 7, 22; Tac. A. 11, 5, 6; Suet. Claud. 15 and 33.—

Esp., in eccl. Lat., of Christ as our intercessor, advocate:

advocatum habemus apud Patrem, Jesum Christum,

Vulg. 1 Joan. 2, 1.—

Transf., in gen., an assistant, helper, friend:

se in fugam conferunt unā amici advocatique ejus,

Cic. Caecin. 8, 22.

amnis, is, m. ( fem., Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 18; Naev. and Att. ap. Non. 191, 33; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9; cf. Prisc. pp. 652 and 658 P.; Rudd. I. p. 26, n. 37; Schneid. Gram. 2, 98; abl. regularly amne;

but freq. amni in the poets,

Verg. G. 1, 203; 3, 447; Hor. S. 1, 10, 62; Col. R. R. 10, 136;

also in prose,

Liv. 21, 5; 21, 27 al.; cf. Prisc. p. 766; Rhem. Pal. 1374 P.; Rudd. I. p. 85, n. 85) [qs. for apnis from Sanscr. ap = water; n. plur. āpas. Van.; v. aqua], orig., any broad and deep-flowing, rapid water; a stream, torrent, river (hence, esp. in the poets, sometimes for a rapidly-flowing stream or a torrent rushing down from a mountain = torrens; sometimes for a large river, opp. fluvius (a common river); sometimes also for the ocean as flowing round the land; it most nearly corresponds with our stream; in prose not often used before the histt. of the Aug. per.; in Cic. only in Aratus and in his more elevated prose; never in his Epistt.).

Lit.: acervos altā in amni, Att., Trag. Rel. p. 178 Rib.: apud abundantem antiquam amnem et rapidas undas Inachi, Att. ap. Non. 192, 4 (Trag. Rel. p. 175 Rib.):

Sic quasi amnis celeris rapit, sed tamen inflexu flectitur,

Naev. Trag. Rel. p. 12 Rib.; Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 15:

molibus incurrit validis cum viribus amnis,

Lucr. 1, 288 (v. the whole magnificent description, 1, 282- 290):

Nilus unicus in terris, Aegypti totius amnis,

id. 6, 714:

ruunt de montibus amnes,

Verg. A. 4, 164:

amnes magnitudinis vastae,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 19.—Also in distinction from the sea:

cum pontus et amnes cuncti invicem commeant,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2.—On the contr. of the ocean, acc. to the Gr. Ôkeanos potamos (Hom. Od. 11, 639):

Oceani amnis,

the ocean-stream, Verg. G. 4, 233:

quā fluitantibus undis Solis anhelantes abluit amnis equos,

Tib. 2, 5, 60: Nox Mundum caeruleo laverat amne rotas, id. 3, 4, 18 al.—

Transf.

Poet., of the constellation Eridanus:

Eridanum cernes funestum magnis cum viribus amnem,

Cic. Arat. 145 (as a transl. of the Gr. leipsanon Êridanoio, poluklaustou potamoio, Arat. Phaenom. 360): Scorpios exoriens cum clarus fugerit amnis, Germanic. Arat. 648; cf. id. ib. 362. —

Also poet. and in post-class. prose, any thing flowing, liquid, Verg. A. 12, 417; 7, 465:

amnis musti,

Pall. 11, 14, 18.—

Of a writer, whose eloquence is thus compared to a flowing stream (v. flumen, II. B. and fluo, II. 2. B. 1.): alter (Herodotus) sine ullis salebris quasi sedatus amnis (i. e. a noiseless stream flowing on in majestic size and fulness) fluit;

alter (Thucydides) incitatior fertur,

Cic. Or. 12, 39.—

Like flumen, as abstr., a current, stream: secundo amni, down or with the stream, Verg. G. 3, 447:

adverso amne,

up the stream, Curt. 10, 1 al.

ămoenus, a, um, adj. [amo; some comp. ameinôn], lovely, delightful, pleasant, charming (in gen. of objects affecting the sense of sight only; as a beautiful landscape, gar dens, rivers, pictures, etc.: amoena loca.. quod solum amorem praestentetad se amanda adliciant, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 14:

amoena sunt loca solius voluptatis plena,

Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 734; while jucundus is used both in a phys. and mental sense; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p 36; class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.: amoena salicta, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): Ennius, qui primus amoeno Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, who first from the charming Helicon, etc., Lucr. 1, 117:

fons,

id. 4, 1024:

locus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 290:

praediola,

id. Att. 16, 3, 4:

loca amoena voluptaria,

Sall. C. 11, 5 Kritz:

amoena piorum Concilia,

Verg. A. 5, 734:

Devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas,

id. ib. 6, 638:

rus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6:

aquae, aurae,

id. C. 3, 4, 7: hae latebrae dulces, etiam, si credis, amoenae, delightful to me (subjectively), but also in and of themselves (objectively) pleasant, id. Ep. 1, 16, 15 Schmid.; cf.

Doed. Syn. III. p. 35: amoenae Farfarus umbrae,

Ov. M. 14, 330, where Merkel, opacae Farfarus undae:

amoenissima aedificia,

Tac. H. 3, 30:

pictura,

Plin. 35, 10, 37 fin. —In reproach: cultus amoenior, too showy, coquetting, Liv. 4, 44, 11.—As subst., ămoena, ōrum, n. (cf. abditus, etc.), pleasant places:

per amoena Asiae atque Achaiae,

Tac. A. 3, 7:

amoena litorum,

id. H. 3, 76. —

Transf. to other things (rare, and for the most part only post-Aug.):

vita,

Tac. A. 15, 55:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 64; so id. ib. 13, 3:

animus, i. e. amoenitatibus deditus,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 1:

amoenissima verba,

Gell. 2, 26; 16, 3; 18, 5 al.—Hence, adv.

Old form ămoenĭter:

hilare atque amoeniter vindemiam agitare,

joyfully and delightfully, Gell. 20, 8.—

Usu. form ămoenē;

* in respect to smell,

sweetly, fragrantly, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 2; of a dwelling, pleasantly (in sup.), Plin. Ep. 4, 23; of discourse (in comp.), Gell. 14, 1, 32.

ămoenus, a, um, adj. [amo; some comp. ameinôn], lovely, delightful, pleasant, charming (in gen. of objects affecting the sense of sight only; as a beautiful landscape, gar dens, rivers, pictures, etc.: amoena loca.. quod solum amorem praestentetad se amanda adliciant, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 14:

amoena sunt loca solius voluptatis plena,

Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 734; while jucundus is used both in a phys. and mental sense; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p 36; class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.: amoena salicta, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): Ennius, qui primus amoeno Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, who first from the charming Helicon, etc., Lucr. 1, 117:

fons,

id. 4, 1024:

locus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 290:

praediola,

id. Att. 16, 3, 4:

loca amoena voluptaria,

Sall. C. 11, 5 Kritz:

amoena piorum Concilia,

Verg. A. 5, 734:

Devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas,

id. ib. 6, 638:

rus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6:

aquae, aurae,

id. C. 3, 4, 7: hae latebrae dulces, etiam, si credis, amoenae, delightful to me (subjectively), but also in and of themselves (objectively) pleasant, id. Ep. 1, 16, 15 Schmid.; cf.

Doed. Syn. III. p. 35: amoenae Farfarus umbrae,

Ov. M. 14, 330, where Merkel, opacae Farfarus undae:

amoenissima aedificia,

Tac. H. 3, 30:

pictura,

Plin. 35, 10, 37 fin. —In reproach: cultus amoenior, too showy, coquetting, Liv. 4, 44, 11.—As subst., ămoena, ōrum, n. (cf. abditus, etc.), pleasant places:

per amoena Asiae atque Achaiae,

Tac. A. 3, 7:

amoena litorum,

id. H. 3, 76. —

Transf. to other things (rare, and for the most part only post-Aug.):

vita,

Tac. A. 15, 55:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 64; so id. ib. 13, 3:

animus, i. e. amoenitatibus deditus,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 1:

amoenissima verba,

Gell. 2, 26; 16, 3; 18, 5 al.—Hence, adv.

Old form ămoenĭter:

hilare atque amoeniter vindemiam agitare,

joyfully and delightfully, Gell. 20, 8.—

Usu. form ămoenē;

* in respect to smell,

sweetly, fragrantly, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 2; of a dwelling, pleasantly (in sup.), Plin. Ep. 4, 23; of discourse (in comp.), Gell. 14, 1, 32.