Lar familiaris

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fămĭlĭāris, e ( abl. sing. regularly familiari; familiare, Varr. and P. Rutil. ap. Charis. p. 105 P.), adj. [familia].

Of or belonging to servants (rare; only as subst.): fămĭlĭāris, is, m., a servant:

majores nostri servos (quod etiam in mimis adhuc durat) familiares appellaverunt,

Sen. Ep. 47 med.:

hujus familiae familiarem,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 203; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2.—

Of or belonging to a house, household, or family; household, domestic, family, private (freq. and class.):

fundus,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 24; cf.

focus,

Col. 11, 1, 19:

filius,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 23:

negotiis familiaribus impediti,

Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

res domesticae ac familiares,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; so,

res,

the household, family affairs, property, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 88; Caes. B. G. 1, 18, 4; Quint. 12, 1, 6; 12, 7, 9:

ab domo ab re familiari, diutius abesse,

Liv. 5, 4, 6 al.; cf.

copiae,

Liv. 2, 16, 7:

pecuniae,

Tac. A. 4, 15:

rationes,

id. ib. 6, 16:

curae,

id. ib. 11, 7:

referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,

Suet. Aug. 61:

vita,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 46:

quis umquam in luctu domestico, quis in funere familiari cenavit cum toga pulla?

Cic. Vatin. 13, 31: parricidium, i. e. committed on a member of the same family, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

maeror,

a family grief, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 60:

Lar,

Cic. Quint. 27, 85; id. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 27; id. Rep. 5, 5 Mos. N. cr., v. Lar; cf.:

numen Minerva,

Quint. 10, 1, 91.—

Transf.

Familiar, intimate, friendly, and (more freq.) subst., a familiar acquaintance, friend (syn.: amicus, familiaris, intimus, necessarius).

With substt.:

videmus Papum Aemilium C. Luscino familiarem fuisse, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 11, 39:

biduo factus est mihi familiaris,

id. Fam. 3, 1, 2; id. Phil. 2, 32, 78; id. Rep. 2, 20; cf. id. Fam. 7, 8, 1:

amici,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1; 9, 37, 1:

sermones,

Cic. Off. 2, 11, 39; id. Fam. 15, 15, 1; id. Att. 1, 9, 1; cf.

epistolae,

Quint. 1, 1, 29:

minus familiari vultu respexisse,

friendly, Suet. Caes. 78:

voltus ille,

Cic. Att. 1, 11, 1:

colloquium,

Liv. 25, 18, 5:

jam inde a puero in omnia familiaria jura assuetus,

the rights of intimacy, id. 24, 5, 9:

voluntas,

Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 1; cf.:

vox auribus meis familiaris,

Petr. 100:

familiaribus magis ei aetati exemplis,

Quint. 5, 10, 96:

exempla,

id. 7, 2, 17; 9, 4, 44:

verba regionibus quibusdam magis familiaria,

id. 8, 2, 13:

litterae,

Suet. Tib. 62.— Comp.:

qui familiarior nobis propter scriptorum multitudinem est,

Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71:

aditus in domum,

Liv. 24, 5, 7:

frater ei (with carior),

Nep. Att. 16, 2:

quo boves familiariores bubulco fiant,

Col. 6, 2, 6:

color argenti militaribus signis,

Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 58. — Sup.:

homo amantissimus familiarissimus, conjunctissimus officiis,

Cic. Sull. 20, 57; cf. id. Att. 16, 16, F. 17:

luna terris familiarissimum sidus,

Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 41; 16, 18, 30, § 75; 16, 31, 57, § 131.—

Absol.:

est ex meis domesticis atque intimis familiaribus,

Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 3:

familiaris meus,

id. Lael. 24, 89:

per C. Valerium Procillum familiarem suum cum eo colloquitur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 19, 3:

Caelii,

Cic. Cael. 25, 61:

pauci familiares,

id. Lael. 1, 2.— Sup.:

quod M. Aemulius unus est ex meis familiarissimis atque intimis maxime necessarius,

Cic. Fam. 13, 27, 2; cf.:

intimus, proximus, familiarissimus quisque,

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

familiarissimus meus,

id. Fam. 13, 13, 1:

familiarissimi ejus,

id. Rep. 1, 9.—

Of or belonging to one's self, to one's own people or country (cf. domesticus); only in the lang. of the haruspices, of those parts of the animal which related to the party that sacrificed (opp. hostilis):

(haruspices) fissum familiare et vitale tractant,

Cic. Div. 2, 13, 32; cf.:

Decio caput jecinoris a familiari parte caesum haruspex dicitur ostendisse,

Liv. 8, 9, 1; cf.:

mater procurans familiare ostentum,

Liv. 26, 6, 14.—

Familiar, customary, habitual:

mihi familiare est omnes cogitationes meas tecum communicare,

Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 7; 2, 5, 10:

familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere,

Vell. 2, 30, 3:

fuisse statuariam artem familiarem Italiae quoque indicant,

Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 33; 35, 7, 31, § 49.—

Fitting, appropriate, adapted:

quae peregrina... transferuntur, minus sunt familiaria nostro solo quam vernacula,

Col. 3, 4, 1:

familiarissimum hoc platanis,

Plin. 16, 31, 57, § 131:

hipposelinum sabulosis familiarissimum,

id. 19, 8, 48, § 163.—Hence, fămĭlĭārĭter, adv.

By families:

agros in montibus Romani acceperunt familiariter,

Front. de Colon. p. 119 Goes.—

Familiarly, intimately, on friendly terms (freq. and class.):

hominem ignotum compellare familiariter,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 23; cf.:

nimium familiariter Me attrectas,

id. Rud. 2, 4, 6; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2:

nihil turpius quam cum eo bellum gerere, quicum familiariter vixeris,

Cic. Lael. 21, 77:

familiariter amicus,

Quint. 1, 2, 15:

amatum a me,

id. 10, 3, 12:

dilectus,

Plin. Ep. 9, 19, 5 et saep.:

loqui,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37:

scribere,

id. Att. 9, 4, 1: nosse causas, i. e. to be familiarly or intimately, accurately acquainted with, Quint. 6, 4, 8; 5, 7, 7:

quod ex longinquo petitur, parum familiariter nostro solo venit,

i. e. suitable, adapted, Col. Arb. 1, 3.— Comp.:

licentius, liberius, familiarius cum domina vivere,

Cic. Cael. 23, 57:

factum,

id. de Or. 2, 3, 14; Quint. 2, 7, 3.— Sup.:

cum Verre familiarissime et amicissime vivere,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29; Nep. Ages. 1, 1.

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ἥρως, ὁ (also ἡ in signf. 111), gen. ἥρωος ( ἥρως codd. in Od.6.303, fort. leg. ἥρω?ἥρωςXος), IG22.1641.6 (iv B.C.), etc.; also

A

ἥρω D.19.249

, IG2.1191 (iii B.C.), Paus.10.4.10: dat. ἥρωϊ, mostly in form

ἥρῳ Il.7.453

, Od.8.483, Pl.Com.174.18, Orac. ap. D.43.66: acc.

ἥρωα Pl.Lg. 738d

, IG3.810 (

ἥρω?ἥρωςXα Epigr.Gr.774

([place name] Priene)); usu. in form

ἥρω IG2.1058.25

(iv B.C.), Pl.R. 391d, A.R.2.766, etc., also

ἥρων Hdt.1.167

:—Plur., nom. ἥρωες ([pron. full] ω?ἥρωςX Pi.P.4.58), rarely [var] contr. ἥρως, as in Ar.Fr. 304: dat.

ἥρωσιν A.Fr.55

, Ar.Av. 1485;

ἡρώνεσσι Sophr.154

: acc. ἥρωας ([pron. full] ω?ἥρωςX Pi.P.1.53), rarely ἥρως, as in A.Ag. 516, Luc.Dem.Enc.4:— hero, ἥρωες Δαναοί, Ἀχαιοί, Il.2.110,19.34;

στίχας ἀνδρῶν ἡρώων Od.1.101

; ἡρώων ἀγοράς, of the Phaeacians, 7.44;

ἥρῳ Δημοδόκῳ 8.483

;

οἱ ἡγεμόνες τῶν ἀρχαίων μόνοι ἦσαν ἥρωες, οἱ δὲ λαοὶ ἄνθρωποι Arist.Pr. 932b18

, but cf. Il. cc.

2 the Fourth Age of men, between δαίμονες and ἄνθρωποι, Hes.Op. 172, cf. Pl.Cra. 398c.

3 heroes, as objects of worship,

ἥ. ἀντίθεοι Pi.P.1.53

,4.58; ἥ. θεός, of Heracles, Id.N.3.22; but [

Ἡρακλέϊ] τῷ μὲν ὡς Ὀλυμπίῳ θύουσι, τῷ δὲ ἑτέρῳ ὡς ἥρωι ἐναγίζουσι Hdt.2.44

; Σίσυφος ἥ. Thgn.711; twice in A., Ag. 516, Fr.55; once in E., Fr. 446(lyr.);

οὔτε θεοὺς οὔθ' ἥρωας αἰσχυνθεῖσα Antipho 1.27

; esp. of local deities, founders of cities, patrons of tribes, etc., Hdt.1.168, Th.4.87, Pl.Lg.l.c., Arist.Pol. 1332b18, etc.; at Athens, ἥ. ἐπώνυμοι heroes after whom the φυλαί were named, Paus.1.5.1,2, cf. Hdt.5.66; of historical persons to whom divine honours were paid, as Brasidas at Amphipolis, Th.5.11, cf. Hdt.5.114,7.117: hence,= Lat. divus, ἥρωα ἀπεδείξατε [τὸν Αὔγουστον] D.C.56.41; also,= Lares, D.H.4.14; ὁ κατ' οἰκίαν ἥ.,= Lar familiaris, ib.2.

II later,= μακαρίτης, deceased, Alciphr.3.37, Hld.7.13: pl., PMag.Par.1.1390: freq. in Inscrr.,

ἥρως χρηστέ, χαῖρε IG9(2).806

, cf. 14.223, etc.; even of women, ib.9(2).961 ([place name] Larissa), al.; θεοῖς ἥρωσι,= Dis Manibus, ib.14.1795 ([place name] Rome), etc.;

ὑβρίσαντας τοὺς ἥρωας τῶν τέκνων ἡμῶν SIG1243.23

(Acraeph.).

III ἥ. ποικίλος, = στιγματίας, Hsch., Phot.

IV βοῦς ἥ., = ἡγεμών, IG22.1126.32.

V v. Ἥρων.

Lăres (old form ‡ Lăses, Inscr. Fratr. Arval.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.), um and ĭum (Larum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 49 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. N. D. 3, 25, 63; id. Leg. 2, 8, 19; Inscr. Orell. 961:

Larium,

Liv. 40, 52), m. [old Lat. Lases; Etrusc. Laran, Lalan; root las-; cf. lascivus], tutelar deities, Lares, belonging orig. to the Etruscan religion, and worshipped especially as the presiders over and protectors of a particular locality (cf. Otfr. Müll. Etrusc. 2, p. 90 sq.):

praestites,

the tutelar deities of an entire city, Ov. F. 5, 129 sq.:

mille Lares geniumque ducis, qui tradidit illos, urbs habet,

id. ib. 5, 145:

Puteolanae civitatis,

Inscr. Orell. 1670:

civitatum, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 10, 2: vicorum,

Arn. 3, 41:

rurales, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 251: compitales,

of cross - roads, Suet. Aug. 31; called also Lares compitalicii, Philarg. ad Verg. G. 2, 381:

viales,

worshipped by the road-side, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 24:

permarini,

tutelar deities of the sea, Liv. 40, 52: caelipotentes, Inscr. ap. Tert. de Spect. 5.— Sing.:

Lari viali,

Inscr. Orell. 1762; 1894:

eundem esse Genium et Larem, multi veteres memoriae prodiderunt,

Censor. 3, 2.—

Most commonly the Lares (as familiares or domestici), the tutelar deities of a house, household gods, domestic Lares (whose images stood on the hearth in a little shrine, aedes, or in a small chapel, lararium); as the tutelar deities of each particular dwelling, also in sing.: Lar, Laris, m.

In plur.:

rem divinam facere Laribus familiaribus,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 1, 17:

sanctis Penatium deorum Larumque familiarium sedibus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. Quint. 27 fin.:

ad aedem Larum,

id. N. D. 3, 25, 63:

immolet aequis porcum Laribus,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 164:

Laribus tuum Miscet numen,

id. C. 4, 5, 34. —

In sing.:

ego Lar sum familiaris, ex hac familia,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 2:

haec imponuntur in foco nostro dari,

id. ib. 2, 8, 16:

familiae Lar pater, alium Larem persequi,

id. Merc. 5, 1, 5 sq. —

Meton., a hearth, dwelling, home (class.; usually in sing.):

larem corona nostrum decorari volo,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 1:

relinquent larem familiarem suum?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 27:

ad suum larem familiarem redire,

id. ib. 2, 3, 54, §

125: nobis larem familiarem nusquam ullum esse?

Sall. C. 20:

paternus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51:

patrius,

id. S. 1, 2, 56; cf.:

avitus apto Cum lare fundus,

id. C. 1, 12, 43:

gaudens lare certo,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 58:

parvo sub lare,

id. C. 3, 29, 14:

conductus,

Mart. 11, 82, 2:

deserere larem,

to abandon one's home, Ov. F. 1, 478:

pelli lare,

to be driven from a place, id. ib. 6, 362:

alumnus laris Antenorei,

i. e. of the city of Padua, Mart. 1, 77, 2: ob eam rem tibi Lare commercioque interdico, Vet. Formul. ap. Paul. Sent. 3, 4, 7.—

In plur., Ov. R. Am. 302:

jussa pars mutare lares,

Hor. C. S. 39.— Poet., of a bird's nest:

avis in ramo tecta laremque parat,

Ov. F. 3, 242:

cum rapit Halcyones miserae fetumque laremque,

Val. Fl. 4, 45.

Lăres, ĭum, f., a city in Numidia, Sall. J. 90 Kritz N. cr.