A foreign land

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ălĭēnĭgĕna, ae, m. (also, ălĭēnĭgĕ-nus, a, um, adj.; cf. Prisc. p. 677 P., and advena) [alienus-gigno], born in a foreign land; hence,

In gen., foreign, alien; and subst., a stranger, a foreigner, an alien.

Of persons (very freq. in Cic., esp. in his orations):

homo longinquus et alienigena,

Cic. Deiot. 3:

alienigenae hostes,

id. Cat. 4, 10; cf. Liv. 26, 13:

testes,

Cic. Font. 10:

dii,

id. Leg. 2, 10:

mulieres,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 1.— Subst.:

quid alienigenae de vobis loqui soleant,

Cic. Fl. 27:

si ipse alienigena summi imperii potiretur,

Nep. Eum. 7, 1; Curt. 5, 11; 6, 3; Vulg. Lev. 22, 10; ib. Luc. 17, 18.—

Of things:

vino alienigenā utere,

Gell. 2, 24; and with the adj. form: ălĭēnĭgĕnus, a, um:

pisces alienigeni,

Col. 8, 16, 9:

fetus,

id. 8, 5, 10:

semina,

id. 3, 4, 1:

ALIENIGENVM CORPVS,

Inscr. Orell. 5048:

ne alienigenae justitiae obliti videamur,

Val. Max. 6, 5, 1 ext.:

exempla,

id. 1, 5, 1 ext.:

studia,

id. 2, 1 fin.:

sanguis,

id. 6, 2, 1 ext.:

conversationis,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 13.—

In Lucr., produced from different materials, heterogeneous:

scire licet nobis venas et sanguen et ossa [et nervos alienigenis ex partibus esse],

Lucr. 1, 860; 1, 865; 1, 869; 1, 874; 5, 880.

barbărĭcus, a, um, adj., = barbarikos [barbarus].

Foreign, strange, outlandish, barbarous, in opp. to Grecian or Roman ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose).

In gen.:

alae,

Luc. 1, 476:

sermo,

Amm. 18, 2, 1:

pyra,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 56:

equi,

Veg. 6, 7, 1.—Hence,

Subst.: barbărĭcum, i, n.

A foreign land (post-class.):

Albis in barbarico, longe ultra Rhenum est,

Eutr. 7, 8; 9, 4; Spart. Sev. 47.—

Barbaricum appellatur clamor exercitus, quod eo genere barbari utantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 31 Müll.—

Esp., of a particular country, in opp. to Greece or Rome.

Freq. for Phrygian (v. barbarus): astante ope barbaricā, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 120 Müll.):

vestes,

Lucr. 2, 500:

barbarico postes auro spoliisque superbi,

Verg. A. 2, 504.—

(In the mouth of a Greek.) For Italian, Roman (only in Plaut.):

urbes,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 104:

lex,

id. ib. 3, 1, 32:

cenare lepide nitideque volo: nihil moror barbarico ritu esse,

after the frugal manner of the ancient Romans, id. Cas. 3, 6, 19.—

For German, Germanic:

nomina,

Suet. Calig. 47.—

(Acc. to barbarus, II.) Rough, rude, unpolished (very rare):

vita,

Claud. Eutr. 2, 226. — Trop.:

silva barbarica id est conseminea,

Col. 11, 2, 83; cf. Mart. 3, 58, 5.—Hence, adv.

barbărĭcum, barbarously:

barbaricum atque immane gemens,

Sil. 12, 418.—

barbărĭcē, like a foreigner:

barba barbarice demissa,

Capitol. Ver. 10, § 6.

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ăger, gri, m. [agros; Germ. Acker, Eng. acre, Sanscr. agras = surface, floor; Grimm conjectured that it was connected with ago, agô, a pecore agendo, and this was the ancient view; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 34 Müll., and Don. ad Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 47; so the Germ. Trift = pasture, from treiben, to drive].

In an extended sense, territory, district, domain, the whole of the soil belonging to a community (syn.: terra, tellus, arvum, solum, rus, humus; opp. terra, which includes [p. 70] many such possessions taken together; cf.

Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, 694 sq.): Ager Tusculanus,... non terra,

Varr. L. L. 7, 2, 84:

praedā atque agro adfecit familiares suos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 38:

abituros agro Achivos,

id. ib. 1, 53, 71:

ut melior fundus Hirpinus sit, sive ager Hirpinus (totum enim possidet), quam, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2: fundum habet in agro Thurino, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 131 (pro Tull. 14):

Rhenus, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit,

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

ager Noricus,

id. ib. 1, 5:

in agro Troade,

Nep. Paus. 3:

in agro Aretino,

Sall. C. 36, 1:

his civitas data agerque,

Liv. 2, 16:

in agro urbis Jericho,

Vulg. Josue, 5, 13.—In the Roman polity: ager Romanus, the Roman possessions in land (distinguished from ager peregrinus, foreign territory) was divided into ager publicus, public property, domains, and ager privatus, private estates; v. Smith's Dict. Antiq., and Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, 695 and 696; cf. with 153 sq.—

In a more restricted sense.

Improdued or productive land, a field, whether pasture, arable, nursery ground, or any thing of the kind; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, 7 sq.; 1, 71; Hab. Syn. 68, and Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 13:

agrum hunc mercatus sum: hic me exerceo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94:

agrum de nostro patre colendum habebat,

id. Phorm. 2, 3, 17:

ut ager quamvis fertilis, sine culturā fructuosus esse non potest,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 5; id. Fl. 29:

agrum colere,

id. Rosc. Am. 18:

conserere,

Verg. E. 1, 73:

agrum tuum non seres,

Vulg. Lev. 19, 19:

(homo) seminavit bonum semen in agro suo,

ib. Matt. 13, 24; ib. Luc. 12, 16. —

19, 12, 8.—Of a place of habitation in the country, estate, villa:

in tuosne agros confugiam,

Cic. Att. 3, 15 (so agros, Hom. Od. 24, 205).—

The fields, the open country, the country (as in Gr. agros or agroi), like rus, in opp. to the town, urbs (in prose writers generally only in the plur.), Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 2:

homines ex agris concurrunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44:

non solum ex urbe, sed etiam ex agris,

id. Cat. 2, 4, 8:

annus pestilens urbi agrisque,

Liv. 3, 6; id. 3, 32:

in civitatem et in agros,

Vulg. Marc. 5, 14.—And even in opp. to a village or hamlet, the open field:

sanum hominem modo ruri esse oportet, modo in urbe, saepiusque in agro,

Cels. 1, 1.—

Poet., in opp. to mountains, plain, valley, champaign:

ignotos montes agrosque salutat,

Ov. M. 3, 25.—

As a measure of length (opp. frons, breadth):

mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat,

in depth, Hor. S. 1, 8, 12.

laetus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. root prī-, to cheer; prētis, joy, love; cf. Gr. praüs, praios; Germ. Friede, Freude; cf. also Latin gentile name, Plaetorius], joyful, cheerful, glad, gay, joyous, rejoicing, pleased, delighted, full of joy.

Lit., constr. absol., with de, the gen., the inf., or acc. and inf.

Absol.:

laeti atque erecti,

Cic. Font. 11, 33:

alacres laetique,

id. Sest. 1, 1:

vultus,

id. Att. 8, 9, 2:

dies laetissimi,

id. Lael. 3, 12.—In neutr. plur. as subst.:

litterae tuae partim laeta partim tristia continent,

Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 1.—

With de:

laetus est de amica,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 45.—

With gen.:

laetus animi et ingenii,

Vell. 2, 93, 1; Tac. A. 2, 26:

laborum,

Verg. A. 11, 73:

irae,

Sil. 17, 308.—

With inf.:

laetus uterque Spectari superis,

Sil. 9, 453.—

With acc. and inf.:

laetus sum, fratri obtigisse quod volt,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 1:

laeta est abs te (donum) datum esse,

id. Eun. 3, 1, 2.—

Transf.

Doing a thing with joy, cheerful, ready, willing:

senatus supplementum etiam laetus decreverat,

Sall. J. 84, 3:

descendere regno,

Stat. Th. 2, 396:

fatebere laetus nec surdum esse, etc.,

Juv. 13, 248.—

Delighting or taking pleasure in a thing; with abl. or inf.

With abl.:

et laetum equino sanguine Concanum,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 34:

laetus stridore catenae,

Juv. 14, 23:

plantaribus horti,

id. 13, 123.—

With inf.:

et ferro vivere laetum Vulgus,

Sil. 9, 223.—

Pleased, satisfied with any thing; delighting in; with abl.:

classis Romana haudquaquam laeta praedā rediit,

Liv. 27, 31:

contentus modicis, meoque laetus,

Mart. 4, 77, 2.—With gen.:

laeta laborum,

Verg. A. 11, 73:

laetissimus viae,

indulging to the full, Sil. 17, 308.—

Pleasing, pleasant, grateful:

omnia erant facta hoc biduo laetiora,

Cic. Att. 7, 26, 1:

laetique nuntii vulgabantur,

Tac. A. 1, 5:

vitium laetissimi fructus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

virtus haud laeta tyranno,

Val. Fl. 1, 30:

militibus id nomen,

Tac. H. 4, 68.—

Favorable, propitious, prosperous:

venti,

Val. Fl. 4, 31:

sors,

id. 4, 540:

bellum,

Sil. 10, 552; Plaut. Am. prol. 2:

saecula,

Verg. A. 1, 605:

exta,

Suet. Caes. 77:

cujus (proelii) initium ambiguum, finis laetior,

Tac. A. 12, 40.—

Fortunate, auspicious, lucky:

prodigium,

Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197:

augurium,

Tac. H. 1, 62:

laeta et congruentia exta,

id. ib. 2, 4:

omina,

Petr. 122.—

Joyous in appearance, delightful, pleasing, beautiful:

vite quid potest esse cum fructu laetius, tum aspectu pulchrius?

Cic. de Sen. 15, 53:

segetes,

Verg. G. 1, 1:

lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine,

id. A. 1, 275:

ferarum exuviis,

Ov. M. 1, 475:

indoles,

Quint. 2, 4, 4:

colles frondibus laeti,

Curt. 5, 4, 9.—

In partic., in econom. lang., fertile, rich, of soil:

ager,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23:

laeta Clitumni pascua,

Juv. 12, 13.—Of cattle, fat:

glande sues laeti redeunt,

Verg. G. 2, 520.—

Abundant, copious:

laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis,

Verg. G. 3, 310; 3, 494:

lucus laetissimus umbrae,

id. A. 1, 441.—Of style, etc., rich, copious, agreeable:

nitidum quoddam genus est verborum et laetum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 81.—Of the author:

(Homerus) laetus ac pressus,

Quint. 10, 1, 46.—

Pleasant, agreeable:

dicendi genus tenue laetioribus numeris corrumpere,

Quint. 9, 4, 17.—In neutr. sing., adverbially:

laetumque rubet,

with joy, with pleasure, Stat. Ach. 1, 323.— Hence, adv.: laetē, joyfully, gladly, cheerfully.

Lit. (class.):

auctorem senatus exstinctum laete atque insolenter tulit,

Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 7:

laete an severe dicere,

Quint. 8, 3, 40.— Comp., Vell. 2, 45, 3:

neque refert cujusquam Punicas Romanasve acies laetius extuleris,

more eagerly, Tac. A. 4, 33:

aliquid ausi laetius aut licentius,

Quint. 2, 4, 14.— Sup.:

laetissime gaudere,

Gell. 3, 15, 2.—

Transf., fruitfully, abundantly, luxuriantly:

seges laete virens,

Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 89.— Comp.:

truncus laetius frondet,

more fruitfully, more luxuriantly, Col. 5, 9, 10; cf. Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130.—

Lightly, not severely, without seriousness:

si quis putet nos laetius fecisse quam orationis severitas exigat,

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 6.

laetus, i, m., in late Lat., a foreign bondman who received a piece of land to cultivate, for which he paid tribute to his master, a serf, Amm. 20, 8, 13; Eum. Pan. 21, 1.—Hence,

laeta, ōrum, n., the land so cultivated, Cod. Th. 7, 20, 10.—

laetĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a laetus: laeticae terrae, Cod. Th. 13, 11, 9.

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brācātus, a, um, adj. [id.].

Wearing trowsers or breeches.

A gen. epithet for foreign, barbarian, effeminate:

sic existimatis eos hic sagatos bracatosque versari,

Cic. Font. 15, 33 (11, 23):

nationes,

id. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

miles,

Prop. 3 (4), 4, 17:

turba Getarum,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 47 Jahn:

Medi,

Pers. 3, 53.—

As a geog. designation of the land and the people beyond the Alps, = transalpinus, in distinction from togatus (q. v.):

Gallia Bracata, afterwards called Gallia Narbonensis,

Mel. 2, 5, 1; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 31; cf.:

bracatis et Transalpinis nationibus,

Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2.—Hence, sarcastically:

O bracatae cognationis dedecus (kindr. with the people of Gallia Bracata, through his maternal grandfather, Calventius),

Cic. Pis. 23, 53: bracatorum pueri, boys from Gallia Narbonensis, Juv. 8, 234.—

In gen., wearing broad garments:

Satarchae totum bracati corpus,

Mel. 2, 1, 10.

prŏsēlytus, a, um, = prosêlutos, come from abroad, foreign, strange (late Lat.):

numeravit Salomon omnes viros proselytos,

Vulg. 2 Par. 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.,

prŏsēlytus, i, m.

A sojourner, a stranger in the land:

proselyti et advenae,

Vulg. Tob. 1, 7; id. Ezech. 14, 7.—

Esp., one that has come over from heathenism to the Jewish religion, a proselyte (postclass.), Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 21; Hier. Ep. 64, n. 8; Vulg. Matt. 23, 15; Inscr. Fabr. p. 465, n. 101.—

prŏsēlyta, ae, f., a female proselyte, converted woman, Inscr. Orell. 25, 22.

prŏsēlytus, a, um, = prosêlutos, come from abroad, foreign, strange (late Lat.):

numeravit Salomon omnes viros proselytos,

Vulg. 2 Par. 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.,

prŏsēlytus, i, m.

A sojourner, a stranger in the land:

proselyti et advenae,

Vulg. Tob. 1, 7; id. Ezech. 14, 7.—

Esp., one that has come over from heathenism to the Jewish religion, a proselyte (postclass.), Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 21; Hier. Ep. 64, n. 8; Vulg. Matt. 23, 15; Inscr. Fabr. p. 465, n. 101.—

prŏsēlyta, ae, f., a female proselyte, converted woman, Inscr. Orell. 25, 22.