The weather

tempestas, ātis (collat. form tempe-stūs, ūtis; v. in the foll.; gen. plur. tempestatium, Vitr. 9, 6, 3), f. [tempus].

A [p. 1850] portion, point, or space of time, a time, season, period, hôra (so mostly ante-class. and poet.; syn. tempus): SOL OCCASVS SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 10; cf.:

in duodecim tabulis: SOLIS OCCASV DIEI SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO: libri augurum pro tempestate tempestutem dicunt, supremum augurii tempus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 51 Müll. N. cr.: jam quā tempestate vivo certe sine ad me recipio, Lucil. ap. Non. 407, 31:

eā tempestate flos poëtarum fuit,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 18:

verum tempestas quondam cum vixi fuit, Quom, etc.,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 29:

eādemque tempestate multis signis Lacedaemoniis calamitas denuntiabatur,

Cic. Div. 1, 34, 75:

quā tempestate juvencos egerat a stabulis,

Prop. 4, 9, 1:

non ego pro mundi regno magis anxius illā Tempestate fui, qua, etc.,

Ov. M. 1, 183: tertia te Phthiae tempestas laeta locabit, the third day (a translation of the Homeric êmati ken tritatôi, Il. 9, 363), Cic. poët. Div. 1, 25, 52:

quā tempestate Poenus in Italiam venit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; cf. id. Or. 49, 164:

fuere item eā tempestate, qui crederent, etc.,

Sall. C. 17, 7; Curt. 4, 2, 11; 6, 2, 15:

illā tempestate,

Liv. 27, 37, 13; Curt. 3, 1, 2:

hac tempestate,

Sall. J. 3, 1; 13, 7; Vell. 2, 78; Just. 19, 2, 3; 25, 2, 8: sic omnia nimia, cum vel in tempestate vel in agris vel in corporibus laetiora fuerunt, in contraria fere convertuntur (a transl. of the Platonic en hôrais te kai en phutois kai en sômasi), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.— In plur.: quam te post multis tueor tempestatibus, Pac. ap. Non. 407, 33:

cis paucas tempestates, augebis, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 18:

multis tempestatibus haud sane quisquam Romae virtute magnus fuit,

Sall. C. 53, 5:

Sulla sollertissimus omnium in paucis tempestatibus factus est,

id. J. 96, 1:

Evander, qui multis ante tempestatibus ea tenuerat loca,

Liv. 1, 5, 2.—

Time, with respect to its physical qualities, weather (the predom. and class. signif. of the word).

Lit., of good as well as of bad weather: tum tonuit laevum bene tempestate serenā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82 (Ann. v. 517 Vahl.; cf. infra, in plur.); Varr. ap. Non. 408, 5:

liquida,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 64; cf.:

liquidissima caeli,

Lucr. 4, 169:

nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

secunda,

Tac. Agr. 38:

fuit pridie Quinquatrus egregia tempestas,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 2:

tempestatem praetermittere,

id. Fam. 14, 4, 5:

cum tempestas arridet,

Lucr. 2, 32; cf. id. 5, 1395:

unde haec tam clara repente Tempestas?

Verg. A. 9, 20.—In plur.: tempestates serenae riserunt risu Jovis, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 254 (Ann. v. 445 Vahl.):

dum tempestates assunt,

Lucr. 1, 178:

et comites et tempestates et navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis,

Cic. Fam. 16, 1, 2; Cels. 2, 1.—

Esp., of bad or stormy weather, a storm, tempest (cf.:

procella, hiemps): turbida tempestas heri fuit,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 3; so,

turbida,

Lucr. 6, 376; Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

saeva,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 12; Lucr. 6, 458:

perfrigida,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86:

turbulenta,

id. ib. 2, 5, 10, §

26: foeda,

Liv. 2, 62; Verg. G. 1, 323:

horrida,

Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

demissa ab Euro,

id. C. 3, 17, 11:

tempestas venit, Confringit tegulas imbricesque,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 27:

tanta tempestas cooritur, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 48:

tempestas naves adflixit,

id. ib. 3, 27:

vis tempestatis,

Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 8:

maximo imbri, tempestate, ventis, procellis, etc.,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

nautae cum adversā tempestate in alto jactarentur,

id. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

si segetibus tempestas nocuerit,

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

si tempestas a vertice silvis Incubuit,

Verg. G. 2, 310:

tempestas sine more furit,

id. A. 5, 694.—In plur.:

duo genera esse caelestis injuriae meminisse debemus: unum quod tempestates vocamus, in quibus grandines, procellae, ceteraque similia intelleguntur, etc.,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 278:

magnis commotis tempestatibus, fluvius ita magnus factus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 86:

etiam summi gubernatores in magnis tempestatibus a vectoribus admoneri solent,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

ut tempestates saepe certo aliquo caeli signo commoventur,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

procellae, tempestates,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19; Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3:

autumni,

Verg. G. 1, 311; Caes. B. G. 4, 34. —

Personified: Tempestātes, the weather-goddesses, the weather: (Lucius Scipio) CEPIT. CORSICA. ALERIAQVE. VRBE. DEDET TEMPESTATIBVS AIDE MERITO, Inscrr. Scip. in Inscr. Orell. 552; Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51; Hor. Epod. 10, 24; cf. in sing. Tempestas, Ov. F 6, 193. —

Trop. (like our storm, tempest, =), commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune:

qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus,

Cic. Planc. 4, 11:

comitiorum,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

video quanta tempestas invidiae nobis impendeat,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

periculi tempestas,

id. Sest. 47, 101:

tempestas horribilis Gallici adventus,

id. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

quanta per Idaeos tempestas ierit campos,

Verg. A. 7, 223:

eā ipsā tempestate eversam esse rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 5:

tempestas popularis,

id. Sest. 67, 140:

vis illa fuit et ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam judicium,

id. Clu. 35, 96:

communis Siculorum tempestas (i. e. Verres),

id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

haud ignari quanta invidiae immineret tempestas,

Liv. 3, 38, 6:

(scurra) Pernicies et tempestates barathrumque macelli,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31:

belli,

Stat. Th. 3, 229; Sen. Agam. 63.—In plur.:

in his undis et tempestatibus ad summam senectutem maluit jactari quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

immoderatae tempestates,

id. N. D. 1, 2, 4:

navis rei publicae fluitans in alto tempestatibus,

id. Sest. 20, 46; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; id. Fam. 9, 6, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85 al.—

A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.:

querelarum,

Cic. Pis. 36, 89:

turbida telorum,

Verg. A. 12, 284; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 102.

tempestas, ātis (collat. form tempe-stūs, ūtis; v. in the foll.; gen. plur. tempestatium, Vitr. 9, 6, 3), f. [tempus].

A [p. 1850] portion, point, or space of time, a time, season, period, hôra (so mostly ante-class. and poet.; syn. tempus): SOL OCCASVS SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 10; cf.:

in duodecim tabulis: SOLIS OCCASV DIEI SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO: libri augurum pro tempestate tempestutem dicunt, supremum augurii tempus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 51 Müll. N. cr.: jam quā tempestate vivo certe sine ad me recipio, Lucil. ap. Non. 407, 31:

eā tempestate flos poëtarum fuit,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 18:

verum tempestas quondam cum vixi fuit, Quom, etc.,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 29:

eādemque tempestate multis signis Lacedaemoniis calamitas denuntiabatur,

Cic. Div. 1, 34, 75:

quā tempestate juvencos egerat a stabulis,

Prop. 4, 9, 1:

non ego pro mundi regno magis anxius illā Tempestate fui, qua, etc.,

Ov. M. 1, 183: tertia te Phthiae tempestas laeta locabit, the third day (a translation of the Homeric êmati ken tritatôi, Il. 9, 363), Cic. poët. Div. 1, 25, 52:

quā tempestate Poenus in Italiam venit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; cf. id. Or. 49, 164:

fuere item eā tempestate, qui crederent, etc.,

Sall. C. 17, 7; Curt. 4, 2, 11; 6, 2, 15:

illā tempestate,

Liv. 27, 37, 13; Curt. 3, 1, 2:

hac tempestate,

Sall. J. 3, 1; 13, 7; Vell. 2, 78; Just. 19, 2, 3; 25, 2, 8: sic omnia nimia, cum vel in tempestate vel in agris vel in corporibus laetiora fuerunt, in contraria fere convertuntur (a transl. of the Platonic en hôrais te kai en phutois kai en sômasi), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.— In plur.: quam te post multis tueor tempestatibus, Pac. ap. Non. 407, 33:

cis paucas tempestates, augebis, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 18:

multis tempestatibus haud sane quisquam Romae virtute magnus fuit,

Sall. C. 53, 5:

Sulla sollertissimus omnium in paucis tempestatibus factus est,

id. J. 96, 1:

Evander, qui multis ante tempestatibus ea tenuerat loca,

Liv. 1, 5, 2.—

Time, with respect to its physical qualities, weather (the predom. and class. signif. of the word).

Lit., of good as well as of bad weather: tum tonuit laevum bene tempestate serenā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82 (Ann. v. 517 Vahl.; cf. infra, in plur.); Varr. ap. Non. 408, 5:

liquida,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 64; cf.:

liquidissima caeli,

Lucr. 4, 169:

nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

secunda,

Tac. Agr. 38:

fuit pridie Quinquatrus egregia tempestas,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 2:

tempestatem praetermittere,

id. Fam. 14, 4, 5:

cum tempestas arridet,

Lucr. 2, 32; cf. id. 5, 1395:

unde haec tam clara repente Tempestas?

Verg. A. 9, 20.—In plur.: tempestates serenae riserunt risu Jovis, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 254 (Ann. v. 445 Vahl.):

dum tempestates assunt,

Lucr. 1, 178:

et comites et tempestates et navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis,

Cic. Fam. 16, 1, 2; Cels. 2, 1.—

Esp., of bad or stormy weather, a storm, tempest (cf.:

procella, hiemps): turbida tempestas heri fuit,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 3; so,

turbida,

Lucr. 6, 376; Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

saeva,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 12; Lucr. 6, 458:

perfrigida,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86:

turbulenta,

id. ib. 2, 5, 10, §

26: foeda,

Liv. 2, 62; Verg. G. 1, 323:

horrida,

Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

demissa ab Euro,

id. C. 3, 17, 11:

tempestas venit, Confringit tegulas imbricesque,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 27:

tanta tempestas cooritur, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 48:

tempestas naves adflixit,

id. ib. 3, 27:

vis tempestatis,

Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 8:

maximo imbri, tempestate, ventis, procellis, etc.,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

nautae cum adversā tempestate in alto jactarentur,

id. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

si segetibus tempestas nocuerit,

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

si tempestas a vertice silvis Incubuit,

Verg. G. 2, 310:

tempestas sine more furit,

id. A. 5, 694.—In plur.:

duo genera esse caelestis injuriae meminisse debemus: unum quod tempestates vocamus, in quibus grandines, procellae, ceteraque similia intelleguntur, etc.,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 278:

magnis commotis tempestatibus, fluvius ita magnus factus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 86:

etiam summi gubernatores in magnis tempestatibus a vectoribus admoneri solent,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

ut tempestates saepe certo aliquo caeli signo commoventur,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

procellae, tempestates,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19; Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3:

autumni,

Verg. G. 1, 311; Caes. B. G. 4, 34. —

Personified: Tempestātes, the weather-goddesses, the weather: (Lucius Scipio) CEPIT. CORSICA. ALERIAQVE. VRBE. DEDET TEMPESTATIBVS AIDE MERITO, Inscrr. Scip. in Inscr. Orell. 552; Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51; Hor. Epod. 10, 24; cf. in sing. Tempestas, Ov. F 6, 193. —

Trop. (like our storm, tempest, =), commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune:

qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus,

Cic. Planc. 4, 11:

comitiorum,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

video quanta tempestas invidiae nobis impendeat,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

periculi tempestas,

id. Sest. 47, 101:

tempestas horribilis Gallici adventus,

id. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

quanta per Idaeos tempestas ierit campos,

Verg. A. 7, 223:

eā ipsā tempestate eversam esse rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 5:

tempestas popularis,

id. Sest. 67, 140:

vis illa fuit et ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam judicium,

id. Clu. 35, 96:

communis Siculorum tempestas (i. e. Verres),

id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

haud ignari quanta invidiae immineret tempestas,

Liv. 3, 38, 6:

(scurra) Pernicies et tempestates barathrumque macelli,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31:

belli,

Stat. Th. 3, 229; Sen. Agam. 63.—In plur.:

in his undis et tempestatibus ad summam senectutem maluit jactari quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

immoderatae tempestates,

id. N. D. 1, 2, 4:

navis rei publicae fluitans in alto tempestatibus,

id. Sest. 20, 46; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; id. Fam. 9, 6, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85 al.—

A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.:

querelarum,

Cic. Pis. 36, 89:

turbida telorum,

Verg. A. 12, 284; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 102.

sīdus, ĕris, n. [cf. Sanscr. svid, to sweat, melt; Gr. sidêros (molten) iron; Lat. sudo].

Stars united in a figure, a group of stars, a constellation (and hence mostly plur.;

only so ap. Cic., Cæs., and Quint.): sunt stellae quidem singulares, ut erraticae quinque et ceterae, quae non admixtae aliis solae feruntur: sidera vero, quae in aliquod signum stellarum plurium compositione formantur, ut Aries, Taurus, Andromeda, Perseus, vel Corona et quaecumque variarum genera formarum in caelum recepta creduntur. Sic et apud Graecos aster et astron diversa significant et aster stella una est, astron signum stellis coactum, quod nos sidus vocamus,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 14 med.

Plur.:

illi sempiterni ignes, quae sidera et stellas vocatis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 15, 15:

signis sideribusque caelestibus,

id. N. D. 1, 13, 35:

circuitus solis et lunae reliquorumque siderum,

id. ib. 2, 62, 155; cf.:

solem lunamque praecipua siderum,

Quint. 2, 16, 6; and:

in sole sidera ipsa desinunt cerni,

id. 8, 5, 29:

siderum regina bicornis Luna,

Hor. C. S. 35:

Arcturi sidera,

Verg. G. 1, 204:

solis, i. e. sol,

Ov. M. 14, 172:

sidera, quae vocantur errantia,

Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89; so,

errantia,

Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 32:

siderum motus,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3; id. Lael. 23, 88:

sidera viderit innumerabilia,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69; id. Fin. 2, 31, 102; id. N. D. 2, 15, 39 et saep.; * Caes. B. G. 6, 14 fin.; Quint. 1, 4, 4; 2, 17, 38; 12, 11, 10 al.; Lucr. 1, 231; 1, 788; 1, 1065:

candida,

id. 5, 1210:

alta,

Verg. A. 3, 619:

surgentia,

id. ib. 6, 850:

radiantia,

Ov. M. 7, 325:

turbata,

Stat. Th. 12, 406 al.:

lucida,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 2; 3, 1, 32; id. Epod. 3, 15; 5, 45; 17, 5.—

Sing., a heavenly body, a star; and collect., a group of stars, a constellation:

clarum Tyndaridae sidus,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 31:

fervidum,

Sirius, id. Epod. 1, 27;

nivosum sidus Pleiadum,

Stat. S. 1, 1, 95:

insana Caprae sidera,

Hor. C. 3, 7, 6:

Baccho placuisse coronam, Ex Ariadnaeo sidere nosse potes,

Ov. F. 5, 346;

so of the constellation Arcturus,

Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 311 (for which, in the plur.:

Arcturi sidera,

Verg. G. 1, 204); of Capella, Ov. M. 3, 594; of the Vergiliae, Liv. 21, 35, 6; Curt. 5, 6, 12; of Saturn, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 32 sq.; Juv. 6, 569; of Venus, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 36; Luc. 1, 661; of the Moon:

sidus lunae,

Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 41; of the Sun:

calidi sideris aestu,

Tib. 2, 1, 47:

aetherium,

Ov. M. 1, 424; Plin. 7, 60, 60, § 212:

solstitiale,

Just. 13, 7 fin.; cf.: sidus utrumque, for the rising and setting sun, Petr. poët. 119, 2; and also for the sun and moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, §§ 56 and 57.— Poet., collect.:

nec sidus fefellit,

i. e. through ignorance, Verg. A. 7, 215.—

Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

The sky, the heavens, = caelum. (Juppiter) terram, mare, sidera movit, Ov. M. 1, 180: (Hercules) flammis ad sidera missus, Juv.11,63; cf.:

abrupto sidere nimbus It,

Verg. A. 12, 451:

sidera observare,

Curt. 7, 4, 28.—

Like caelum, to denote a very great height:

Pyramidum sumptus ad sidera ducti,

Prop. 3, 2 (4, 1), 17:

evertunt actas ad sidera pinus,

Verg. A. 11, 136; cf. Juv. 11, 63:

ad sidera Erigitur,

Verg. A. 9, 239:

aves, quas naturalis levitas ageret ad sidera,

Curt. 4, 5, 3:

domus quae vertice sidera pulsat,

Mart. 8, 36, 11; 9, 62, 10; Verg. G. 2, 427; id. A. 3, 243; id. E. 5, 62 al.—

Trop. (also like caelum), as the summit or height of fame, fortune, success, etc.:

quodsi me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 36:

vertice sidera tangere,

Ov. M. 7, 61; cf.:

tuum nomen... Cantantes sublime ferent ad sidera cygni,

Verg. E. 9, 29:

usque ad sidera notus,

id. ib. 5, 43: contingere sidera plantis, to walk upon the stars (like the gods) (of one exceedingly fortunate), Prop. 1, 8, 43 (1, 8 b, 17); cf.:

celerique fugā sub sidera lapsae,

Verg. A. 3, 243.—

For night:

exactis sideribus,

Prop. 1, 3, 38:

sidera producere ludo,

Stat. Th. 8, 219; cf.:

sideribus dubiis,

at dawn, Juv. 5, 22.—

A star, as a comparison for any thing bright, brilliant, shining, beautiful, etc. (syn.:

stella, astrum): oculi, geminae, sidera nostra, faces,

Prop. 2, 3, 14;

so of the eyes,

Ov. Am. 2, 16, 44; 3, 3, 9; id. M. 1, 499:

sidere pulchrior Ille,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 21; cf. id. ib. 1, 12, 47;

of form, beauty,

Stat. S. 3, 4, 26; Val. Fl. 5, 468.—

Concr., ornament, pride, glory:

o sidus Fabiae, Maxime, gentis ades,

Ov. P. 3, 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 6, 9;

Col. poët, 10, 96: puerum egregiae praeclarum sidere formae,

Stat. S. 3, 4, 26:

Macedoniae columen ac sidus,

Curt. 9, 6, 8.—As a term of endearment, my star, Suet. Calig. 13 fin.; Hor. Epod. 17, 41.—

Season of the year:

quo sidere terram Vertere Conveniat,

Verg. G. 1, 1; cf.:

hiberno moliris sidere classem?

id. A. 4, 309:

sidere aequinoctii quo maxime tumescit Oceanus,

Tac. A. 1, 70; cf.:

brumale sidus,

Ov. P. 2, 4, 25:

sidere flagrante brumali,

Amm. 27, 12, 12.—

Climate, weather, etc.:

ut patrios fontes patriumque sidus ferre consuevisti,

Plin. Pan. 15, 3; so,

sub nostro sidere,

Juv. 12, 103:

tot inhospita saxa Sideraque emensae,

i.e. regions, Verg. A. 5, 628:

grave sidus et imbrem vitare,

tempest, storm, Ov. M. 5, 281:

triste Minervae (raised by Minerva),

Verg. A. 11, 260.—Colloquially, with confectus: intellegitur sidus confectum, i. e. that the weather ( occasioned by a constellation) is ended, Plin. 16, 23, 36, § 87; 18, 25, 57, § 207:

fertur in abruptum casu, non sidere, puppis,

Claud. in Eutr. 2, 424.—

With allusion to the influence which the ancients believed the constellations to have upon the health or the destiny of men, star, destiny, etc.:

pestifero sidere icti,

Liv. 8, 9, 12: sidere afflari, to be blasted or palsied by a constellation, to be planet-struck or sunstruck, astroboleisthai, Plin. 2, 41, 41, § 108; Petr. 2, 7; cf.:

sidere percussa lingua,

Mart. 11, 85, 1:

subito fias ut sidere mutus,

id. 7, 92, 9;

v. sideror and sideratio: sidera natalicia,

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91; cf.:

o sidere dextro Edite,

Stat. S. 3, 4, 63:

adveniet fausto cum sidere conjux,

Cat. 64, 330:

vivere duro sidere,

Prop. 1, 6, 36:

grave sidus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 45 Jahn:

per alias civitates ut sidus salutare susciperetur,

as arbiter of their destiny, Amm. 21, 10, 2.

lăcerna, ae, f. [cf. Gr. rhakos, and lacer], a kind of cloak which the Romans wore over the toga on journeys, or in damp and cold weather. To wear a lacerna in common was regarded as disgraceful:

cum calceis et toga, nullis nec Gallicis nec lacerna,

Cic. Phil. 2, 30, 76:

negotium aedilibus dedit, ne quem paterenter in foro circove, nisi positis lacernis, togatum consistere,

Suet. Aug. 40:

cum Gallicis, inquit, et lacerna cucurristi,

Gell. 13, 21, 6. Worn in the theatre as a protection against the weather, but thrown off on the appearance of the emperor, Suet. Claud. 6; Mart. 14, 137 lemm. Sometimes wrapped around the head:

odoratum caput obscurante lacerna,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 55; Vell. 2, 70, 2. Usually of white cloth, rarely black, Mart. 4, 2, 2 sqq.; Sen. Ep. 114, 21; v. also Amm. 14, 6, 9:

foeda et scissa,

Juv. 3, 148. Also used in the army, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 18; Ov. F. 2, 745; Vell. 2, 80, 3; Isid. Orig. 19, 24, 14:

comitem trita donare lacerna,

Pers. 1, 54; cf. Becker's Gallus, 3, p. 123 sq.; and v. Dict. Antiq. s. v.

Lăcerna, ae, m., the name of a rich charioteer, Juv. 7, 114.

lăcerna, ae, f. [cf. Gr. rhakos, and lacer], a kind of cloak which the Romans wore over the toga on journeys, or in damp and cold weather. To wear a lacerna in common was regarded as disgraceful:

cum calceis et toga, nullis nec Gallicis nec lacerna,

Cic. Phil. 2, 30, 76:

negotium aedilibus dedit, ne quem paterenter in foro circove, nisi positis lacernis, togatum consistere,

Suet. Aug. 40:

cum Gallicis, inquit, et lacerna cucurristi,

Gell. 13, 21, 6. Worn in the theatre as a protection against the weather, but thrown off on the appearance of the emperor, Suet. Claud. 6; Mart. 14, 137 lemm. Sometimes wrapped around the head:

odoratum caput obscurante lacerna,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 55; Vell. 2, 70, 2. Usually of white cloth, rarely black, Mart. 4, 2, 2 sqq.; Sen. Ep. 114, 21; v. also Amm. 14, 6, 9:

foeda et scissa,

Juv. 3, 148. Also used in the army, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 18; Ov. F. 2, 745; Vell. 2, 80, 3; Isid. Orig. 19, 24, 14:

comitem trita donare lacerna,

Pers. 1, 54; cf. Becker's Gallus, 3, p. 123 sq.; and v. Dict. Antiq. s. v.

Lăcerna, ae, m., the name of a rich charioteer, Juv. 7, 114.

* * *

sĕrēnĭtas, ātis, f. [serenus], clearness, serenity.

Lit., of the weather, clear, fair, or serene weather; with gen.: cum sit tum serenitas, tum perturbatio caeli, * Cic. Div. 2, 45, 94:

diei solisque, Auct. B. Hisp. 29, 4: auctumni,

Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 353.— Absol.:

tranquilla serenitas (opp. foeda tempestas),

Liv. 2, 62, 2; 2, 26, 11:

serenitatem praesagire,

Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 362; 10, 67, 86, § 188.— Plur.:

(vinea) imbribus magis quam serenitatibus offenditur,

Col. 3, 1, 10.—

Trop.

Fairness, serenity of fortune, of disposition, etc. (rare;

perh. not ante-Aug.): praesentis fortunae,

Liv. 42, 62, 4:

minor es, quam ut serenitatem meam obducas,

Sen. Ira, 3, 25, 4:

quantam tempestatem subitā serenitate discussit (principis ortus),

Curt. 10, 9, 5.—

Serenitas, a title of the Roman emperors, = Serene Highness, Veg. Mil. 3 epil.; Inscr. Grut. 286, 2.

dĭes (dīes, Liv. Andron. Fragm. Odys. 7), ēi ([etilde]ī, Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. S. 1, 8, 35 et saep.;

dissyl.: di-ei,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 31; also gen. dies, die, and dii—dies, as in acies, facies, pernicies, etc., Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Ann. v. 401 Vahl.; Cic. Sest. 12, 28 ap. Gell. l. l.:

die,

Prisc. p. 780 P.; even in Verg. G. 1, 208, where Gellius reads dies, v. Wagner ad loc., nearly all MSS. have die; cf. Rib. and Forbig. ad loc.; so,

die,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 59; id. Capt. 4, 2, 20; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5; id. B. C. 1, 14, 3; 3, 76, 2; Just. 2, 11, 17; cf. Oud. ad B. G. 2, 23, 1. Die appears to be certain in Sall. J. 52, 3; 97, 3. Also in Cic. Sest. 12, 28, Gellius reads dies, where our MSS., except the Cod. Lamb., have diei;

perh. those words do not belong to Cicero himself. Form dii,

Verg. A. 1, 636, Rib. and Forbig. after Serv. and Gell. l. l.— Dat., diēī, saep. die, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 120, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 208; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 48; id. Capt. 3, 1, 4; id. Trin. 4, 2, 1;

once dii,

id. Merc. 1, Prol. 13; cf. Roby, Gram. 1, 121 sq.); m. (in sing. sometimes f., esp. in the signif. no. I. B. 1.) [root Sanscr. dī, gleam: dinas, day; Gr. dios, heavenly; cf. Lat. Jovis (Diovis), Diana, deus, dīvus, etc. Old form, dius (for divus); cf.: nudius, diu, etc. The word also appears in composition in many particles, as pridem, hodie, diu, etc., v. Corss. Auspr. 2, 855 sq.], a day (cf.: tempus, tempestas, aetas, aevum, spatium, intervallum).

Lit.

In gen., the civil day of twenty-four hours.

Masc.:

dies primus est veris in Aquario... dies tertius... dies civiles nostros, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. Plin. 2, 77, 79, § 188; Macr. S. 1, 3; Gell. 3, 2: REBVS IVRE IVDICATIS TRIGINTA DIES IVSTI SVNTO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; and 15, 13 fin.; for which;

per dies continuos XXX., etc.,

Gai. Inst. 3, 78: multa dies in bello conficit unus, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 297 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

non uno absolvam die,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 73:

hic dies,

id. Aul. 4, 9, 11:

hic ille est dies,

id. Capt. 3, 3, 3:

ante hunc diem,

id. ib. 3, 4, 101:

illo die impransus fui,

id. Am. 1, 1, 98; cf.:

eo die,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22 fin.; 2, 6; 2, 32 fin.; 4, 11, 4; 5, 15 fin. et saep.:

postero die,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1; 3, 6, 3 et saep.; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17; Sall. J. 29, 5; 38, 9 et saep.:

in posterum diem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 41 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 65 fin. et saep.:

diem scito esse nullum, quo die non dicam pro reo,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

domi sedet totos dies,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34:

paucos dies ibi morati,

Caes. B. G. 7, 5, 4:

dies continuos XXX. sub bruma esse noctem,

id. ib. 5, 13, 3:

hosce aliquot dies,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 4; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 71 et saep.:

festo die si quid prodegeris,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10; so,

festus,

id. Cas. 1, 49; id. Poen. 3, 5, 13; 4, 2, 26 et saep.—

Fem. (freq. in poetry metri gratiā; rare in prose), postrema, Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14:

omnia ademit Una dies,

Lucr. 3, 912; cf. id. 3, 921; 5, 96 and 998: homines, qui ex media nocte ad proximam mediam noctem in his horis XXIV. nati sunt, una die nati dicuntur, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 2, 2 (uno die, Macr. S. 1, 3):

quibus effectis armatisque diebus XXX., a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.:

Varronem profiteri, se altera die ad colloquium venturum,

id. ib. 3, 19, 4 (for which, shortly before: quo cum esset postero die ventum); cf.:

postera die,

Sall. J. 68, 2 (for which, in the same author, more freq.:

postero die): pulchra,

Hor. Od. 1, 36, 10:

suprema,

id. ib. 1, 13, 20:

atra,

Verg. A. 6, 429:

tarda,

Ov. M. 15, 868 et saep.—(But Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 1; 3, 37, 1, read altero, tertio.)—

Connections:

postridie ejus diei, a favorite expression of Caesar,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23, 1: 1, 47, 2; 1, 48, 2 et saep., v. postridie;

and cf.: post diem tertium ejus diei,

Cic. Att. 3, 7; Sulpic. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 35:

diem ex die exspectabam,

from day to day, id. ib. 7, 26 fin.; cf.:

diem ex die ducere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; for which also: diem de die prospectans, Liv. 5, 48; and: diem de die differre, id. 25, 25: LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO, for every day, day by day, daily, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf.:

affatim est hominum, in dies qui singulas escas edunt,

Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 10; so,

in dies,

every day, Cic. Top. 16, 62; Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 5, 58, 1; 7, 30, 4; Vell. 2, 52, 2; Liv. 21, 11 Drak.; 34, 11 al.; less freq. in sing.:

nihil usquam sui videt: in diem rapto vivit,

Liv. 22, 39; cf.:

mutabilibus in diem causis (opp. natura perpetua),

id. 31, 29 (in another signif. v. the foll., no. II. A. 3); and: cui licet in diem ( = singulis diebus, daily) dixisse Vixi, etc., Hor. Od. 3, 29, 42. And still more rarely: ad diem, Treb. Gallien. 17; Vop. Firm. 4:

ante diem, v. ante.—Die = quotidie or in diem,

daily, Verg. E. 2, 42; 3, 34:

quos mille die victor sub Tartara misi,

id. A. 11, 397:

paucissimos die composuisse versus,

Quint. 10, 3, 8:

saepius die,

Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22: die crastini, noni, pristini, quinti, for die crastino, nono, etc., v. h. vv. crastinus, nonus, etc.; and cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4.—

In partic.

A set day, appointed time, term in the widest sense of the word (for appearing before court, in the army, making a payment, etc.).

Masc.: MORBVS SONTICVS... STATVS DIES CVM HOSTE... QVID HORVM FVIT VNVM IVDICI ARBITROVE REOVE DIES DIFFISVS ESTO, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12; Fest. p. 273, 26 Müll.; for which: STATVS CONDICTVSVE DIES CVM HOSTE, acc. to Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4;

and with comic reference to the words of this law,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5 (found also in Macr. S. 1, 16);

and freq.: status dies,

Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 1; Suet. Claud. 1; Flor. 1, 13, 16 et saep.:

hic nuptiis dictus est dies,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 75; cf.:

dies colloquio dictus est ex eo die quintus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 42, 4; so,

dictus,

id. ib. 5, 27, 5:

iis certum diem conveniendi dicit,

id. ib. 5, 57, 2:

die certo,

Sall. J. 79, 4; cf.

constituto,

id. ib. 13 fin.:

decretus colloquio,

id. ib. 113, 3:

praestitutus,

Liv. 3, 22:

praefinitus,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109; Gell. 16, 4, 3:

ascriptus,

Phaedr. 4, 11, 8 et saep.:

quoniam advesperascit, dabis diem nobis aliquem, ut contra ista dicamus,

Cic. N. D. 3, 40; Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; id. B. C. 1, 11, 2; Sall. J. 109, 3; Liv. 35, 35 et saep.:

dies ater,

an unlucky day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25.—

Fem. (so commonly in this sense in class. prose, but only in sing., v. Mützell ad Curt. 3, 1, 8):

ut quasi dies si dicta sit,

Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11; so,

dicta,

Cic. Fam. 16, 10 fin.; cf.:

edicta ad conveniendum,

Liv. 41, 10 fin.:

praestituta,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 140; 2, 2, 28; Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 38; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14 fin.; id. Vatin. 15, 37; id. Tusc. 1, 39; Liv. 45, 11 et saep.; cf.

constituta,

Cic. Caecin. 11, 32; Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; 1, 8, 3: certa eius rei constituta, id. B. C. 3, 33, 1:

pacta et constituta,

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24:

statuta,

Liv. 31, 29:

stata,

id. 27, 23 fin.:

certa,

Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 4, 5, 1, 8; id. B. C. 1, 2, 6; Nep. Chabr. 3 et saep.:

annua,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23; id. Att. 12, 3 fin.; cf.

longa,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 18:

die caecā emere, oculatā vendere,

i. e. to buy on credit and sell for cash, id. Ps. 1, 3, 67, v. caecus, no. II. B.:

haec dies summa hodie est, mea amica sitne libera, an, etc.,

id. Pers. 1, 1, 34:

puto fore istam etiam a praecone diem,

Cic. Att. 13, 3:

ubi ea dies venit (preceded by tempore ejus rei constituto),

Caes. B. G. 7, 3:

praeterita die, qua suorum auxilia exspectaverant,

id. ib. 7, 77, 1; cf. id. ib. 6, 33, 4:

esse in lege, quam ad diem proscriptiones fiant,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128 et saep.—

Both genders together:

diem dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant: is dies erat a. d. V. Kal. Apr., etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Att. 2, 11; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3; Liv. 34, 35 al.—

Hence: dicere diem alicui, to impeach, lay an accusation against:

diem mihi, credo, dixerat,

Cic. Mil. 14, 36:

Domitium Silano diem dixisse scimus,

id. Div. in Caec. 20, 67.—

A natural day, a day, as opp. to night: ut vel, quia est aliquid, aliud non sit, ut Dies est, nox non est; vel, quia est aliquid, et aliud sit: Sol est super terram, dies est, Quint. 5, 8, 7: pro di immortales, quis hic illuxit dies, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 76:

credibile non est, quantum scribam die, quin etiam noctibus,

in the daytime, id. Att. 13, 26:

negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

in a single day and night, id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.

in this signif.: die ac nocte,

Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 113:

nocte et die,

Liv. 25, 39;

and simply die,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 4; Quint. 10, 3, 8; cf.

also: currus rogat ille paternos, Inque diem alipedum jus et moderamen equorum,

Ov. M. 2, 48; and, connected with nox:

(Themistocles) diem noctemque procul ab insula in salo navem tenuit in ancoris,

Nep. Them. 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59; Liv. 22, 1 fin. —But more freq.: diem noctemque, like our day and night, i. q. without ceasing, uninterruptedly; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 11; 7, 42 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 62;

for which less freq.: diem et noctem,

Hirt. B. Hisp. 38, 1;

diem ac noctem,

Liv. 27, 4 and 45:

noctemque diemque,

Verg. A. 8, 94; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 23:

continuate nocte ac die itinere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 11, 1; 3, 36, 8; and in plur.:

dies noctesque,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 49; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113; Cic. Att. 7, 9 fin.; Nep. Dat. 4, 4 et saep.; also, reversing the order: noctesque diesque, Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 338 ed. Vahl.); Hor. S. 1, 1, 76:

noctesque et dies,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 52; id. Eun. 5, 8, 49:

noctes atque dies,

Lucr. 2, 12; 3, 62; Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51; Verg. A. 6, 127 al.:

noctes diesque,

id. ib. 9, 488:

noctes ac dies,

Cic. Arch. 11, 29:

noctes et dies,

id. Brut. 90, 308; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Tusc. 5, 25 and 39; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; cf.

also: neque noctem neque diem intermittit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 38:

Galli dies... sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur,

id. ib. 6, 18, 2 Herz ad loc. So, too, in gen.:

qui nocte dieque frequentat Limina,

Mart. 10, 58, 11:

cum die,

at break of day, Ov. M. 13, 677:

orto die ( = orta luce),

Tac. A. 1, 20; 1, 68; id. H. 2, 21:

ante diem ( = ante lucem),

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 35:

dies fit, late Lat. for lucescit,

Vulg. Luc. 22, 66: de die, in open day, broad day; v. de.—

Dies alicujus (like the Heb. ; v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v.).

I. q. dies natalis, a birthday:

diem meum scis esse III. Non. Jan. Aderis igitur,

Cic. Att. 13, 42, 2; cf.

in full: natali die tuo,

id. ib. 9, 5 al. So the anniversary day of the foundation of a city is, dies natalis urbis, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98.—

I. q. dies mortis, dying-day:

quandocumque fatalis et meus dies veniet statuarque tumulo,

Tac. Or. 13 fin. Called, also: supremus dies. Suet. Aug. 99; id. Tib. 67; cf.:

supremus vitae dies,

Cic. de Sen. 21, 78; Suet. Aug. 61. Hence:

diem suum obire,

to die, Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2;

and in the same sense: obire diem supremum,

Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Dion. 2 fin.; Suet. Claud. 1:

exigere diem supremum,

Tac. A. 3, 16:

explere supremum diem,

id. ib. 1, 6; 3, 76;

and simply: obire diem,

Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248; Suet. Tib. 4; id. Vesp. 1; id. Gr. 3; cf.

also: fungi diem,

Just. 19, 1, 1.—

I. q. dies febris, fever-day: etsi Non. Mart., [p. 574] die tuo, ut opinor, exspectabam epistolam a te longiorem, Cic. Att. 9, 2 init.; 7, 8, 2 al.

Transf.

In gen. (from no. I. A.).

A day, for that which is done in it (cf. the Hebr., the Gr. eleutheron êmar, etc.):

is dies honestissimus nobis fuerat in senatu,

Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3:

non tam dirus ille dies Sullanus C. Mario,

id. Att. 10, 8, 7:

equites Romanos daturos illius diei poenas,

id. Sest. 12, 28:

hic dies et Romanis refecit animos et Persea perculit,

Liv. 42, 67 Drak.; cf. id. 9, 39 fin.; Vell. 2, 35 Ruhnk.; 2, 86; Just. 9, 3 fin.; Flor. 2, 6, 58 Duker.:

imponite quinquaginta annis magnum diem,

Tac. Agr. 34:

quid pulchrius hac consuetudine excutiendi totum diem?... totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior, etc., Sen. de Ira, 3, 36: dies Alliensis, i. q. pugna Alliensis,

Liv. 6, 1; Suet. Vit. 11:

Cannensis,

Flor. 4, 12, 35 al. And so even of one's state of mind on any particular day:

qualem diem Tiberius induisset,

what humor, temper, Tac. A. 6, 20. —

A day's journey:

hanc regionem, dierum plus triginta in longitudinem, decem inter duo maria in latitudinem patentem,

Liv. 38, 59; Just. 36, 2, 14 al.—

In gen. (like, hêmera, and our day, for) time, space of time, period:

diem tempusque forsitan ipsum leniturum iras,

Liv. 2, 45;

so with tempus,

id. 22, 39; 42, 50: amorem intercapedine ipse lenivit dies, Turp. ap. Non. 522, 7;

so in the masc. gender: longus,

Stat. Th. 1, 638; Luc. 3, 139;

but also longa,

Plaut. Epid. 4, 1, 18; Plin. Ep. 8, 5 fin.; cf.

perexigua,

a brief respite, Cic. Verr. 1, 2 fin.:

nulla,

Ov. M. 4, 372 al.:

ex ea die ad hanc diem quae fecisti, in judicium voco,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12 fin.:

ut infringatur hominum improbitas ipsa die, quae debilitat cogitationes, etc.,

id. Fam. 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 7, 28 fin.; id. Tusc. 3, 22, 53 al.: indutiae inde, non pax facta;

quarum et dies exierat, et ante diem rebellaverant,

i. e. the term of the truce, Liv. 4, 30 fin.; 30, 24; 42, 47 fin. (for which: quia tempus indutiarum cum Veienti populo exierat, id. 4, 58).—Prov.:

dies adimit aegritudinem,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 13: dies festus, festival-time, festival:—diem festum Dianae per triduum agi, Liv. 25, 23 et saep.:

die lanam et agnos vendat,

at the right time, Cato R. R. 150, 2:

praesens quod fuerat malum, in diem abiit,

to a future time, Ter. Ph. 5, 2, 16; so in diem, opp. statim, Q. Cic. Pet. cons. 12, 48;

and simply in diem,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 48; Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 19; Cic. Cael. 24.—Esp. freq. in diem vivere, to live on from day to day, regardless of the future, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 169; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 33; Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 4 et saep; cf. the equivoque with de die, under de.—

In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2— poet., and in postAug. prose).

Light of day, daylight:

contraque diem radiosque micantes Obliquantem oculos,

Ov. M. 7, 411; 5, 444; 13, 602:

multis mensibus non cernitur dies,

Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 70; Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 6; 9, 36, 2 al.; also of the eyesight, Stat. Th. 1, 237;

and trop. of the conscience: saeva dies animi scelerumque in pectore Dirae,

id. ib. 1, 52.—

For caelum, the sky, the heavens:

sub quocumque die, quocumque est sidere mundi,

Luc. 7, 189; 1, 153:

incendere diem nubes oriente remotae,

id. 4, 68; 8, 217; Stat. Th. 1, 201.—Hence, like caelum,

The weather:

totumque per annum Durat aprica dies,

Val. Fl. 1, 845:

tranquillus,

Plin. 2, 45, 44, § 115:

mitis,

id. 11, 10, 10, § 20:

pestilens,

id. 22, 23, 49, § 104.—

The air:

nigrique volumina fumi Infecere diem,

Ov. M. 13, 600:

cupio flatu violare diem,

Claud. in Ruf. 1, 63.

Dies personified.

I. q. Sol, opp. Luna, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21;

coupled with Mensis and Annus,

Ov. M. 2, 25.—

As fem., the daughter of Chaos, and mother of Heaven and Earth, Hyg. Fab. praef.; of the first Venus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59.

mundus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. mund, purificari], clean, cleanly, nice, neat, elegant.

Lit. (class.;

syn.: lautus, nitidus, purus): supellex,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7:

caena,

id. C. 3, 29, 14:

ager,

Gell. 19, 12, 8:

mundissimum cubile desiderat (animal),

Col. 7, 9, 14:

jam intus mundissimumst,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 7.— Poet., with abl., = ornatus: Ostia munita est: idem loca navibus pulchris Munda facit, adorned, Enn. ap. Tert. p. 258 Müll. (Ann. v. 146 Vahl.).—

Transf.

Of mode of living, neat, fine, elegant, smart, genteel:

cultus justo mundior,

too elegant dress, Liv. 8, 15.— As subst.: mundus, i, m. (sc. homo), an elegant or nice person, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23.—

Of quality, not coarse, fine (post-class.):

annonae, of wheat,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 42, 3:

panis,

id. ib. 37, 3.—

Trop.

Of speech, neat, fine, elegant ( poet. and in postclass. prose):

verba, Ov A. A. 3, 479: versus, quibus mundius nihil reperiri puto,

Gell. 19, 9, 10:

in Gallos mundius subtiliusque est, quam cum Gallis aut contra Gallos,

id. 17, 2 med. —

Subst.: mun-dum, i. n., only in the phrase: in mundo (esse or habere), in readiness (ante-class.): tibi vita seu mors in mundo est, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 181 P. (Ann. v. 457 Vahl.:

in mundo pro palam et in expedito ac cito, Charis.): nempe habeo in mundo,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 46:

mihi in mundo sunt virgae,

id. As. 2, 1, 16; 2, 2, 50:

nescio quid vero habeo in mundo,

id. Stich. 3, 2, 23; id. Ps. 1, 5, 85 Ritschl.—

In eccl. Lat., morally pure, upright, free from sin:

cor mundum crea in me, Deus,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 12:

beati mundo corde,

id. Matt. 5, 8.—Hence, adv., in two forms (both, for the most part, anteand post-class.).—

mundē, cleanly, neatly, prettily:

(copia) in suo quaeque loco sita munde,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 5: verrite aedes, spargite munde, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 183 P.:

parum munde et parum decenter,

Sen. Ep. 70, 20:

munde facti versus,

Gell. 10, 17, 2:

quam mundissime purissimeque fiat,

Cato, R. R. 66, 1.—

mun-dĭter, cleanly, neatly.

Lit.:

cum sedulo munditer nos habeamus,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 26.—

Trop., decently, with propriety:

dicere,

App. Mag. p. 296, 14.

mundus, i, m. ( neutr. collat. form, mundum: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, all her toilet, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3, and ap. Non. 214, 17) [1. mundus], toilet ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman).

Lit.:

mundus muliebris est, quo mulier mundior fit: continentur eo specula, matulae, unguenta, vasa unguentaria, et si qua similia dici possunt, veluti lavatio, riscus... Unguenta, quibus valetudinis causā unguimur, mundo non continentur,

Dig. 34, 2, 25:

munditiae et ornatus et cultus, haec feminarum insignia sunt: hunc mundum muliebrem appellārunt majores nostri,

Liv. 34, 7, 9: virginalis, Att. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 142 Müll.:

quamvis auro, veste, gemmis, omnique cetero mundo exornata mulier incedat,

App. M. 2, p. 118. —

Transf.

In gen., an implement (ante- and post-class.):

operae messoriae mundus,

implements for the harvest work, App. M. 6 init.:

Cereris,

the mystical casket of Ceres, id. Mag. p. 282 (the expression in mundo esse and habere belongs to the adj. mundus, v. mundus, II. B.).—

Like the Gr. kosmos, the universe, the world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies: ut hunc hac varietate distinctum bene Graeci kosmon, nos lucentem mundum nominaremus, the heavens, Cic. Univ. 10: nam quem kosmos Graeci, nomine ornamenti appellaverunt. eum nos a perfectā absolutāque elegantiā, mundum, Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 8: concussit micantia sidera mundus, heaven shook, Cat. 64, 206:

aetherius,

Tib. 3, 4, 17:

arduus,

Verg. G. 1, 240:

aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi,

Juv. 10, 169. Also: mundus caeli, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Sat. v. 10, p. 156 Vahl.):

o clarissima mundi Lumina,

Verg. G. 1, 5 sq.:

immensi copia mundi,

Ov. M. 2, 157:

ipse mundus deorum hominumque causā factus est...Est enim mundus quasi communis deorum atque hominum domus, aut urbs utrorumque,

the world, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 154:

innumerabiles,

id. Ac. 2, 17, 55:

e tabulā pictos ediscere mundos,

parts of the world, Prop. 5, 3, 37.—

Transf.

The world, i. e. the earth, the inhabitants of the earth, mankind ( poet.):

quicumque mundo terminus obstitit,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 53:

spes miseri mundi,

Luc. 5, 469; Stat. S. 3, 3, 87:

fastos evolvere mundi,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 112:

mundum laedere,

mankind, Claud. Ruf. 1, 87:

nullā in parte mundi cessat ebrietas,

Plin. 14, 22, 29, § 149; 30, 1, 2, § 8; Flor. 2, 12, 1; Just. 30, 4, 9:

(Alexander) scrutatur maria ignota, et, ut ita dicam, mundi claustra perrumpit,

Sen. Ep. 119, 7:

mundi principio,

Juv. 15, 147.—

The heavens, i. e. the sky, the weather (post-class.):

tepida indulget terris clementia mundi,

Grat. Fal. 288:

ad Eoos tractūs mundique teporem,

Luc. 8, 365.—

The sun (perh. only in Manilius):

quā mundus redit,

Manil. Astron. 1, 36; id. ib. 3, 591.—

Euphemistically for the Lower World, the infernal regions. The opening into this mundus was at Rome, in the Comitium, and was kept covered with a stone (lapis manalis); three times in the year, on the 24th of August, the 5th of October, and the 8th of November, days sacred to the gods of the infernal regions, this round pit was opened, and all sorts of fruits were thrown into it as offerings, Varr. ap. Macr. S. 1, 16, 18; Paul. ex Fest. s. v mundus, p. 154 Müll., and s. v. manalem lapidem, p. 128 ib.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the world as opposed to the church; this world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of holiness and life:

non pro mundo rogo,

Vulg. Johan. 17, 9:

de mundo non sunt,

id. ib. 17, 16:

princeps hujus mundi (i. e. Satan),

id. ib. 12, 31;

14, 30: regnum meum non est de hoc mundo,

id. ib. 18, 36; cf. id. Eph. 2, 2; 6, 12.

sūdus, a, um, adj. [se-udus; cf.: sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo, Fest. pp. 294 and 295 Müll.], without moisture, dry; and of the weather, cloudless, bright, clear (class.; cf. serenus).

Adj.: ventorum flamina suda, Lucil. ap. Non. 31, 19:

flamen venti,

Varr. ib. 234, 7:

ver,

Verg. G. 4, 77:

tempestas,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 42, 27:

splendor luminis,

id. M. 11, p. 260, 30:

cuncta specula vel uda vel suda videre,

id. Mag. p. 283, 37.—Adverb.:

sudum,

brightly, Prud. Cath. 7, 79.—

Subst.: sūdum, i, n., bright, clear weather:

cum sudum est,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2:

horologium mittam et libros, si erit sudum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

dum sudum est,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 35:

arma Per sudum rutilare vident,

Verg. A. 8, 529; Val. Fl. 2, 115.—

Somewhat moist = subudus;

ardentia viscera adhuc suda de sanguine,

Arn. 7, 3.

sūdus, a, um, adj. [se-udus; cf.: sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo, Fest. pp. 294 and 295 Müll.], without moisture, dry; and of the weather, cloudless, bright, clear (class.; cf. serenus).

Adj.: ventorum flamina suda, Lucil. ap. Non. 31, 19:

flamen venti,

Varr. ib. 234, 7:

ver,

Verg. G. 4, 77:

tempestas,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 42, 27:

splendor luminis,

id. M. 11, p. 260, 30:

cuncta specula vel uda vel suda videre,

id. Mag. p. 283, 37.—Adverb.:

sudum,

brightly, Prud. Cath. 7, 79.—

Subst.: sūdum, i, n., bright, clear weather:

cum sudum est,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2:

horologium mittam et libros, si erit sudum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

dum sudum est,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 35:

arma Per sudum rutilare vident,

Verg. A. 8, 529; Val. Fl. 2, 115.—

Somewhat moist = subudus;

ardentia viscera adhuc suda de sanguine,

Arn. 7, 3.

tam, adv. [orig. acc. fem. of the demonstrative root ta-; cf.: tum, tamen], correlative of quam, so, so much, as.

As comparative adverb, demonstrative with correlative quam, introducing comparative clauses of like intensity.

As adjunct of adjectives or participles the intensity of which is expressed by a comparative clause, tam... quam = as... as; negatively, non (neque, nihil, etc.) tam... quam = not so... as.

In comparison between two adjj.:

tam esse clemens tyrannus quam rex importunus potest,

a tyrant may be as mild as a king may be harsh, Cic. Rep. 1, 33, 50 (B. and K. bracket rex):

non tam solido quam splendido nomine,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 61:

tam culpae hostium justus existimator quam gloriosus victor,

Val. Max. 3, 8, 1:

adjuro, tam me tibi vera referre Quam veri majora fide,

things as true as they are beyond belief, Ov. M. 3, 659:

quorum vires quam repentinae tam breves,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 7, 2.—Negatively:

non enim tam praeclarum est scire Latine quam turpe nescire,

Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

ut illa... non tam mirabilia sunt, quam conjecta belle,

id. Div. 2, 31, 66; 2, 36, 76: nec tam Turpe fuit vinci [p. 1836] quam contendisse decorum est, Ov. M. 9, 5. —Tam preceded by comp. clause:

maximeque eam pestilentiam insignem mors quam matura tam acerba M. Furi fecit,

Liv. 7, 1, 8:

quam magni nominis bellum est, tam difficilem existimaritis victoriam fore,

id. 21, 43, 11:

donec quam felices seditiones, tam honorati seditionum auctores essent,

id. 4, 2, 4. —

In a comparison between degrees of intensity, etc., of the same adjective.

As in relative clauses, the adjective repeated (so esp. in Plaut.;

not repeated in English): tam liquidus est quam liquida tempestas esse solet,

as serene as the weather is wont to be, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 64:

quam placida'st aqua,

id. ib. 3, 2, 165:

tam frictum ego illum reddam quam frictum est cicer,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 7.—Negatively:

nemo orator tam multa scripsit quam multa sunt nostra,

Cic. Or. 30, 168:

tametsi non tam multum in istis rebus intellego quam multa vidi,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94.—

The adjective not repeated.

The terms of comparison being nouns or pronouns:

tam ego fui ante liber quam gnatus tuus ( = quam liber gnatus tuus est),

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 60:

fieret corium tam maculosum quam est nutricis pallium,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 30:

tam mihi mea vita quam tua Tibi cara est,

id. Cas. 3, 6, 43:

ni illam mihi tam tranquillam facis quam mare est,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 145:

tam crebri ad terram decidebant quam pira,

id. ib. 2, 38:

tam excoctam reddam atque atram quam carbo'st,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63:

quom fervit maxume, tam placidum (eum) quam ovem reddo,

id. ib. 4, 1, 18:

tam sum misericors quam vos, tam mitis quam qui lenissimus,

Cic. Sull. 31, 87:

tam gratum mihi id erit quam quod gratissimum,

id. Fam. 13, 3:

nulla ingenia tam prona ad invidiam sunt quam eorum qui genus ac fortunam suam animis non aequant,

Liv. 45, 22:

nihil est tam violentum quam magna vis aquae,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 30, 6:

(cum sit) tam aurum et argentum quam aes Corinthium ( = cum aurum et argentum tam sit Corinthium quam aes),

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

(ira) tam inutilis animi minister est quam miles qui signum receptui neglegit,

Sen. Ira, 1, 9, 2.—

Negatively: neque opes nostrae tam sunt validae quam tuae,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 20:

nihil esse tam detestabile tamque pestiferum quam voluptatem,

Cic. Sen. 12, 41:

neque tam condenso corpore nubes esse queunt quam sunt lapides, neque autem tam tenues quam nebulae,

Lucr. 6, 101.—Virtually negative:

quod enim tam infidum mare quam blanditiae principum? ( = nullum tam infidum mare, etc.),

Plin. Pan. 66. — With comp. pregn. (very rare): istam dextram non tam in bellis et proeliis quam in promissis et fide firmiorem, i. e. whose superior trustworthiness is not so much in wars, etc., Cic. Deiot. 3, 8:

vectigal ex agro eorum capimus, quod nobis non tam fructu jucundius est, quam ultione,

Liv. 28, 39, 13. —

With quam in subst.-clause:

quicquid mali hic Pisistratus non fecerit, tam gratum est quam si alium facere prohibuerit,

Cic. Att. 8, 16, 2.—Negatively:

juris interpretatio, quae non tam mihi molesta sit propter laborem quam quod dicendi cogitationem auferat,

Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 12. —

Virtually negative: quid autem tam exiguum quam est munus hoc eorum qui consuluntur?

Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 14.—

With quam in adverb.-clause:

cupam facito tam crassam quam modioli postulant,

Cato, R. R. 21, 1:

si era mea sciat tam socordem esse quam sum,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 5:

tua est imago: tam consimili'st quam potest,

id. Men. 5, 9, 4:

sororem tam similem quam lacte lacti est,

id. Mil. 2, 2, 87.—

Tam with advv.: tam... quam = as ( so)... as; negatively = not so... as.

Comparing an adv. with another adv. or adverb. clause: satin' istuc mihi exquisitum est...? Ar. Tam satis quam numquam hoc invenies secus, with as full certainty as that you will never find this otherwise, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 106.—Virtually negative:

quis umquam obeundi negotii studio tam brevi tempore tot loca adire potuit, quam celeriter Cn. Pompejo duce tanti belli impetus navigavit?

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34. —After quam:

nam dictaturam quam pertinaciter ei deferebat populus, tam constanter repulit,

Vell. 2, 89, 5 (the repetition of the adverb is especially frequent in tam diu... quam diu; v. tamdiu).—

The adverb understood after quam: sed tu novisti fidicinam? Tr. Tam facile quam me (quam facile me novi), Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 72:

tam facile vinces quam pirum volpes comest,

id. Most. 3, 1, 26:

tam hercle certe quam ego ted, ac tu me vides,

id. Merc. 1, 2, 77:

tam audacter (ibis intro) quam domum ad te,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 109:

tam facile quam tu arbitraris,

Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10:

tam cito evertetur quam navis, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 34, 51:

nihil tam cito redditur quam a speculo imago,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 4, 2. —

Negatively: (ira) quia non tam cito in alium quam vult erumpit,

Sen. Ira, 1, 19, 4.—Virtually negative (very freq.):

quasi vero quidquam sit tam valde, quam nihil sapere, vulgare,

Cic. Div. 2, 39, 81. — With sup. adv.: quam potes tam verba confer maxime ad compendium = as much as you can (hence the idiomatic expression: quam maxime = as much as possible), Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 184. —

With verbs: tam... quam = as much... as, as well... as; negatively: non tam... quam, not so much... as.

One verb compared with another:

nam quod edit tam duim quam perduim,

for what he can eat I would give as much as lose, Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6:

vellem tam domestica ferre possem quam ista contemnere,

Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

utinam tam non pigeat ista facere quam non displicebit,

Quint. 2, 5, 17:

Tyrus et ipsa tam movetur quam diluitur,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 26, 5.—Negatively:

fit quoque enim interdum ut non tam concurrere nubes frontibus adversis possint quam de latere ire,

Lucr. 6, 115.—

The same verb repeated or understood after quam; the compared terms being,

Nouns or pronouns: tam mihi quam illi libertatem hostilis eripuit manus;

tam ille apud nos servit quam ego hic apud te servio,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 61:

tam hic scit me habere (pecuniam) quam egomet (i. e. scio),

id. Aul. 3, 6, 12:

quam tu filium tuum, tam me pater me meus desiderat,

id. Capt. 2, 2, 6:

tam huic loqui licere oportet quam isti,

id. Cas. 2, 6, 58:

tam tibi istuc credo quam mihi,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 25:

haec tibi tam sunt defendenda quam moenia,

Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 137:

tam moveor quam tu, Luculle,

id. ib. 2, 46, 141:

tamque id... tuendum conservandumque nobis est quam illud, etc.,

id. Off. 3, 4, 17: amurcam periti agricolae tam in doliis condunt quam oleum aut vinum ( as well as), Varr. R. R. 1, 61:

tam natura putarem vitam hominis sustentari quam vitis, quam arboris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 56:

sicut pueris, qui tam parentibus amissis flebunt quam nucibus,

Sen. Ira. 1, 12, 4:

meliorque tam sibi quam aliis faciendus (est),

id. ib. 1, 15, 1:

tam solstitium quam aequinoctium suos dies rettulit (i. e. solstitium tam rettulit dies quam rettulit aequinoctium),

id. Q. N. 3, 16, 3:

quoniam orationis tam ornatus quam perspicuitas aut in singulis verbis est aut in pluribus positus (i. e. ornatus tam positus est quam perspicuitas),

Quint. 8, 3, 15. — This construction passes into mere co - ordination: tam vera quam falsa cernimus, as well... as, almost = both... and, Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 111: repentina res, quia quam causam nullam tam ne fidem quidem habebat ( = ut causam nullam, sic ne fidem quidem; cf.

sic),

Liv. 8, 27, 10; so Sall. J. 31, 16; id. H. 1, 41, 24 Dietsch; cf. Liv. 33, 17, 9; Sen. Q. N. 4, 13, 4. —

Negatively: non tam meapte causa Laetor quam illius,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 8:

nihil est quod tam obtundat elevetque aegritudinem... quam meditatio condicionis humanae,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 34:

quae compararat non tam suae delectationis causa quam ad invitationes adventusque nostrorum hominum,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 83:

cujus me facti paenituit non tam propter periculum meum quam propter vitia multa quae,

id. Fam. 7, 3, 2:

qua nulla in re tam utor quam in hac civili et publica,

id. Att. 2, 17, 2:

neque eos tam istius hominis perditi subita laetitia quam hominis amplissimi nova gratulatio movebat,

id. Verr. 1, 8, 21:

Iliensibus Rhoeteum addiderunt, non tam ob recentia ulla merita quam originum memoria,

Liv. 38, 39, 10.—

Object-inff.:

qualis est istorum oratio qui omnia non tam esse quam videri volunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 14, 44:

quid enim tam pugnat, quam non modo miserum, sed omnino quidquam esse qui non sit,

id. Tusc. 1, 7, 13:

virtute ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt,

id. Lael. 26, 98.—

Subject-inff. or dependent clauses:

ego illud argentum tam paratum filio Scio esse, quam me hunc scipionem contui ( = tam scio, argentum paratum esse, quam scio me, etc.),

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 109:

Parmenonis tam scio esse hanc techinam quam me vivere,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 51:

tam teneor dono quam si dimittar onustus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 18:

Acrisium Tam violasse deum quam non agnosse nepotem Paenitet,

Ov. M. 4, 613:

tam perdis operam cum illi irasceris, quam cum illum alteri precaris iratum,

Sen. Ira, 2, 30, 2.—Negatively (so most freq.):

nihil est quod tam deceat quam in omni re gerenda servare constantiam,

Cic. Off. 1, 34, 125:

eundum igitur est, nec tam ut belli quam ut fugae socii simus,

id. Att. 9, 2, a, 3:

nec tam quaerendum est, dolor malumne sit, quam firmandus animus ad dolorem ferendum,

id. Tusc. 2, 12, 28:

non tam ut prosim causis elaborare soleo, quam ut ne quid obsim,

id. Or. 2, 72, 295:

cum ego te non tam vitandi laboris mei causa quam quia tua id interesse arbitrarer, hortatus essem,

id. Top. 1, 2:

auxilia convenerant non tam Vejentium gratia concitata, quam quod in spem ventum erat, etc.,

Liv. 2, 44, 7:

Boji defecerunt, nec tam ob veteres in populum Romanum iras, quam quod, etc.,

id. 21, 25, 2. — So with causal clauses, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; id. Or. 3, 30, 119; id. Sest. 64, 135; Liv. 8, 19, 3. —

With quam in adverb.-clause:

tam confido quam poti'st,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 1; and in Cicero's epistolary style, tam esse with predicative force (like ita esse, sic esse;

v. sic): atque ego haec tam esse quam audio non puto ( = tam male esse),

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 9.—

Tam with a neg. is sometimes followed by sed with an independent clause, instead of a comp. clause:

quidam autem non tam id reprehendunt, si remissius agatur, sed tantum studium tamque multam operam ponendam in eo non arbitrantur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 1 Madv. ad loc.; cf.:

quae (suaviloquentia) quidem non tam est in plerisque... sed est ea laus eloquentiae certe maxima,

id. Brut. 15, 58.—

With esse and predic. noun:

tam ea est quam poti'st nostra erilis concubina,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 47:

equidem tam sum servos quam tu,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 11:

tam ego homo sum quam tu,

id. As. 2, 4, 83:

nam id nobis tam flagitium'st quam illa Non facere,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 68:

tam es tu judex quam ego senator,

Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 17:

tam sum amicus rei publicae quam qui maxime,

id. Fam. 5, 2, 6.—With prep. and its case as predicate:

tam hoc quidem tibi in proclivi quam imber quando pluit,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 86:

qui non defendit, nec obsistit, si potest, injuriae, tam est in vitio quam si parentes, etc., deserat,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 23. —

Negatively: nihil est tam contra naturam quam turpitudo,

Cic. Off. 3, 8, 35. —

With quasi in place of quam:

tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 51. —

Quam... tam with compp. = quanto... tanto or quo... eo (ante-class. and poet.): quam magis aerumna urget, tam magis ad malefaciendum viget, Enn. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 15 (Trag. Rel. v. 303 Vahl.):

quam magis adspecto, tam magis est nimbata,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 138:

magis quam id reputo, tam magis uror quae meus filius turbavit,

id. Bacch. 5, 1, 5:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

id. As. 1, 3, 6:

quo quaeque magis sunt aspera semina eorum, Tam magis in somnis eadem saevire necessust,

Lucr. 4, 999:

quae quanto magis inter se perplexa coibant, Tam magis expressa ea quae mare... efficerent,

id. 5, 453:

tam magis illa fremens et tristibus effera flammis, Quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae,

Verg. A. 7, 787.—With quanto for quam:

quanto magis aetheris aestus cogebant terram, Tam magis, etc.,

Lucr. 5, 484. —With rel. adv. for quam:

verum ubicumque magis denso sunt agmine nubes, tam magis hinc... fremitus fit,

Lucr. 6, 99. — Ellips. of tam:

quam magis specto. minus placet mihi hominis facies,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 19.—

Quam... tam with superll. = quanto... tanto or quo... eo (mostly anteclass.; cf.

the class.: ut quisque maxime... ita maxime): quam citissime conficies, tam maxime expediet,

Cato, R. R. 64 (65):

oleum quam diutissime in amurca erit, tam deterrimum erit,

id. ib. 64 (65):

quam acerbissima olea oleum facies, tam oleum optumum erit,

id. ib. 65 (66): quam plurimum [p. 1837] erit, tam citissime canus fiet, id. ib. 157 (158) med.:

quam ad probos propinquitate proxume te adjunxeris, tam optumum est,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 59:

quam maxime huic vana haec suspicio erit, tam facillime patris pacem in leges conficiet suas,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 44:

quam vos facillime agitis, quam estis maxume Potentes, dites, fortunati, nobiles: tam maxime vos aequo animo aequa noscere Oportet,

id. Ad. 3, 4, 56:

quam paucissimos reliqueris, tam optimi fiunt in alendo,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9:

quam quisque pessume fecit, tam maxume tutus est,

Sall. J. 31, 14. —

With quam in immediate succession (to be distinguished from the conj. tamquam, as if):

nam, si a mare abstinuissem, tam quam hoc uterer ( = tam illo uterer quam hoc),

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 26:

tam quam proserpens bestia (iste) est bilinguis et scelestus ( = tam bilinguis quam, etc.),

id. Fers. 2, 4, 28: esne tu huic amicus? To. Tam quam di omnes qui caelum colunt, id. ib. 4, 4, 32: vide, homo ut hominem noveris. Sy. Tam quam me, id. Trin. 4, 2, 68: nostine? Da. Tam quam te, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 15 (for tam diu, with or without quam, quam diu, etc., v. tamdiu).

With a comp. clause understood.

With a comp. clause to be supplied from a preceding sentence:

quae faciliora sunt philosophis... quia tam graviter cadere non possunt (sc. quam alii),

Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73:

cur corporis curandi causa quaesita sit ars, animi autem medicina nec tam desiderata sit..., nec tam culta (i. e. quam corporis medicina),

id. Tusc. 3, 1, 1:

nihil umquam tam eleganter explicabunt (i. e. quam Plato),

id. ib. 1, 23, 55:

non conturbat me expectatio tua, etsi nihil est eis, qui placere volunt, tam adversarium,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 10:

sed ea (plebs) nequaquam tam laeta Quinctium vidit (i. e. quam ejus amici),

Liv. 3, 26, 12: nec minora consequi potuit (Maecenas);

sed non tam concupivit (sc. quam Agrippa),

Vell. 2, 88, 2: nec tibi tam longis opus est ambagibus usquam, nec me tam multam hic operam consumere par est (i. e. quam consumere opus sit, si haec tractare velim), Lucr 6, 1079; so, tam gratia est (colloq.) = non accipio, sed tam gratia est quam esset si acciperem, I thank you just as much; no, thank you:

bene vocas (ad prandium): tam gratia'st,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 36: cenabis apud me. Ep. Locata'st opera nunc quidem:

tam gratia'st,

id. Stich. 3, 2, 18: quin tu, quidquid opus'st, audacter imperas? Ps. Tam gratia'st. Bene est tibi;

nolo tibi molestos esse nos,

id. Ps. 2, 4, 23 (in this formula, however, tam is explained by some as a shortened form for tamen; cf. Brix ad Plaut. Men. 386, and v. IV. infra).—

With a general comp. clause understood ( = sic, ita), so ( so much) as I do, as you do, as he did, as I said before, as he is, as you are, etc.

With adjj.: ut vos servem sedulo, quos tam grandi sim mercatus pecunia, have bought you at so high a price, i. e. as I have, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 8: qui nummi exciderunt quod terram sic obtuere? quid vos maestos tam tristisque conspicor? (sc. as I do, as you are), id. Bacch. 4, 4, 17:

equidem miror, tam catam, tam doctam te et bene eductam, non scire stulte facere,

id. Most. 1, 3, 29:

ordine cum videas tam certo multa creari,

Lucr. 5, 735:

deus ille fuit qui ista in tam tranquillo et tam clara luce locavit,

id. 5, 12:

quorsum igitur tam multa de voluptate?

Cic. Sen. 12, 44:

ut mihi quidem, qui tam magno animo fuerit innocens damnatus esse videatur,

id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100:

inter ista tam magnifica verba tamque praeclara,

id. Fin. 2, 23, 77:

quis est qui complet aures meas tantus et tam dulcis sonus?

as I hear, id. Rep. 6, 18, 18:

tollite hanc: nullam tam pravae sententiae causam reperietis,

id. Phil. 14, 1, 3: et tamen veremur ut hoc quod a tam multis perferatur natura patiatur? ( as it is, sc. suffered), id. Tusc. 2, 20, 46:

ut tam in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere,

id. Ac. 2, 21, 68:

tam necessario tempore, tam propinquis hostibus,

at so urgent a time as this, Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 6:

supra triginta quinque milia hostium fuerant, ex quibus tam exigua pars pugnae superfuit,

Liv. 39, 31, 14:

tam constantem defensionem Scipionis universus senatus comprobavit,

Val. Max. 3, 7, 1: ceterum... ne tam praeclara lex... oblitteraretur, id. 2, 8, 1:

qui tam crudelem tyrannum occideret,

id. 3, 1, 2:

ne illo quidem tam misero tamque luctuoso tempore civitas nostra virtutis suae oblita est,

id. 3, 2, 7:

tam contraria est pestis,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

tam parvo distat ibi tanta rerum naturae diversitas,

id. 5, 11, 12, § 65; so, tamne (cf. sicine):

tamne indignus videar?

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 77.—And with sup.:

nondum erat vestris tam gravissimis tamque multis judiciis concisus,

of so great weight, Cic. Phil. 12, 5, 11.—

With advv.:

alienus quom ejus incommodum tam aegre feras, quid me patrem par facere est?

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 37:

quid est negotii quod tu tam subito domo abeas?

id. Am. 1, 3, 4:

unde ego nunc tam subito huic argentum inveniam miser?

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 1:

quia (anima cum corpore) tam conjuncta atque leniter apta'st,

Lucr. 5, 559:

jam mallem Cerberum metueres quam ista tam inconsiderata diceres,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 12:

ista tam aperte et per versa et falsa,

id. Ac. 2, 18, 60:

cum ex co quaereretur cur tam diu vellet esse in vita,

id. Sen. 5, 13:

me pudet tam cito de sententia esse dejectum,

id. Tusc. 2, 5, 14:

etsi hoc quidem est in vitio, dissolutionem naturae tam valde perhorrescere,

id. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

an melius fuerit rationem non dari omnino, quam tam munifice et tam largiter,

as I have shown, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69:

nam quod jus civile tam vehementer amplexus es,

id. Or. 1, 55, 274:

quid tu, inquit, tam mane?

id. Rep. 1, 9, 14: cur hunc tam temere ( as mentioned before) quisquam ab officio discessurum judicaret? Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

quod sua victoria tam insolenter gloriarentur,

id. ib. 1, 14:

cum tam procul a finibus Macedoniae absint,

Liv. 39, 27, 6: non digna exempla quae tam breviter ( as I am going to do) nisi majoribus urgerer, referrentur, Val. Max. 2, 7, 5:

qualis esset quem tam diu tamque valde timuissent,

Nep. Eum. 11, 2; and with sup.: tam maturrime comparavisse, Cato ap. Charis. p. 184 P.—With adverb. abl.: tam crepusculo fere ut amant, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 77; cf.:

tam vesperi,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15; v. III. B. 3. infra.—

With verbs:

ut, ni meum gnatum tam amem, tua jam virgis latera lacerentur probe,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 10:

quid, cedo, te, obsecro, tam abhorret hilaritudo?

id. Cist. 1, 1, 55:

quid tam properas?

id. Pers. 4, 6, 11:

cum te video nostrae familiae Tam ex animo factum velle ( = te tam velle nostrae familiae ex animo factum),

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 21:

age, quaeso, ne tam obfirma te, Chreme,

id. Heaut. 5, 5, 8:

non pol temere'st quod tu tam times,

id. Phorm. 5, 8 (9), 9: Sy. Eamus, namque hic properat in Cyprum. Sa. Ne tam quidem, implying a corresponding gesture, id. Ad. 2, 4, 14:

quam si explicavisset, non tam haesitaret,

i. e. as he does, Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 18.—Sometimes with an adv. to be supplied:

quid ergo hanc, quaeso, tractas tam ( = tam male, or implying a corresponding gesture),

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 31:

Graecos in eo reprehendit quod mare tam secuti sunt ( = tam vulgo. or tam temere),

Cic. Att. 6, 2, 3; cf. id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 9; v. I. C. 2. d, supra. — With esse and predic. noun:

numquam ego te tam esse matulam credidi,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 72.—

Preceded and strengthened by a demonstrative adjective (order: 1. demonstr., 2. tam, 3. adjective, 4. noun; or, 1. demonstr., 2. noun, 3. tam, 4. adjective).

After hic:

etiamne haec tam parva civitas, tam procul a manibus tuis remota, praedae tibi et quaestui fuit?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 37, § 85:

hunc hominem tam crudelem, tam sceleratum, tam nefarium nolunt judicare,

id. ib. 2, 2, 31, §

77: hunc tamen hominem tam audacem, tam nefarium, tam nocentem,

id. Clu. 14, 42:

haec mea oratio tam longa aut tam alte repetita,

id. Sest. 13, 31:

in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo,

id. Arch. 11, 28:

hanc tam taetram, tam horribilem tamque infestam rei publicae pestem,

id. Cat. 1, 5, 11:

in hac tam clara re publica natus,

id. Rep. 1, 19, 31:

hanc rem publicam tam praeclare fundatam,

id. Par. 1, 2, 10:

haec tam crebra Etruriae concilia,

Liv. 5, 5, 8:

in his tam parvis atque tam nullis,

Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 2:

quorsum haec tam putida tendant,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 21:

hac tam prospera pugna nuntiata,

Curt. 3, 11, 16.—

After ille:

ille homo tam locuples, tam honestus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11: illud argentum tam praeclarum ac tam nobile, id. ib. 2, 4, 20, §

44: illud tam grave bellum,

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

ne illo quidem tam misero tamque luctuoso tempore,

id. 3, 2, 7.—

After iste:

tamenne ista tam absurda defendes?

Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 81:

ista admonitio tua tam accurata,

id. Att. 6, 1, 20:

quae est ista tam infesta ira?

Liv. 7, 30, 15:

iste tam justus hostis, tam misericors victor,

Curt. 4, 10, 34.—

After id ipsum:

id ipsum tam mite ac tam moderatum imperium,

Liv. 1, 48, 9.—

After tot:

jacere necesse sit tot tam nobiles disciplinas,

Cic. Ac. 2, 48, 147:

tot tam valida oppida,

Liv. 5, 54, 5:

tot tam opulenti tyranni regesque,

id. 25, 24, 13:

inter tot tam effrenatarum gentium arma,

id. 21, 9, 3:

tot tam praeclaris imperatoribus uno bello absumptis,

id. 28, 28, 12; 25, 27, 13; 26, 13, 17; cf.:

cum tot ac tam validae eluctandae manus essent,

id. 24, 26, 13; 8, 12, 4.—

After hic talis:

da operam ut hunc talem, tam jucundum, tam excellentem virum videas,

Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 3.

As demonstr. adv. of intensity, correlative with ut, that, and its equivalents (qui, quin); so only with adjj. and advv. (not with verbs).

Without a negation ( = ita, adeo;

rare before the Aug. period): ni erit tam sincerum (tergum), ut quivis dicat ampullarius Optumum esse operi faciundo corium et sincerissimum,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 51:

quae (maturitas) mihi tam jucunda est ut, quo propius ad mortem accedam, quasi terram videre videar,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71. de qua tam variae sunt doctissimorum hominum sententiae, ut magno argumento esse debeat, etc., id. N. D. 1, 1, 1:

ad eum pervenit tam opportuno tempore, ut simul Domitiani exercitus pulvis cerneretur, et primi antecursores Scipionis viderentur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 36:

tam parandus ad dimicandum animus, ut, etc.,

id. B. G. 2, 21:

tamen tam evidens numen rebus adfuit Romanis, ut putem, etc.,

Liv. 5, 51, 4: infimam plebem natura ipsa tam abjecto tamque imo loco collocavit ut nulla ratione erigi aut sublevari possit, Ps.-Cic. Cons. 6, 22:

tam multa sunt, tamque misera quae perferunt ut nemo sit quin mori saepissime cupiat,

id. ib. 16, 59:

quem constat tam certa acie luminum usum esse ut a Lilybaeo portu Carthaginienses egredientes classes intueretur,

Val. Max. 1, 8, ext. 14:

tam alacri animo suos ad id proelium cohortatus est ut diceret: Sic prandete, etc.,

id. 3, 2, ext. 3:

in Theophrasto tam est loquendi nitor ille divinus ( = tam divinus est) ut ex eo nomen quoque traxisse videatur,

Quint. 10, 1, 83:

(Scipio) bellum in Africam transtulit, tam lentus ut opinionem luxuriae segnitiaeque malignis daret,

Sen. Ira, 1, 11, 6; id. Q. N. 1, 15, 5:

3, 21, 1: tam parvulis in faucibus... ut non sit dubium, etc.,

Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82:

ipsum Macedonem tam graviter palma percussit ut paene concideret,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 7.—

With a negation, or in a question implying a negation.

Before ut (very freq. in the class. period; cf. adeo, poet., e.g. Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 39):

numquam tam dices commode ut tergum meum Tuam in fidem committam,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 33:

non tam viva tamen, calidus queat ut fieri fons,

Lucr. 6, 887:

quis umquam praedo fuit tam nefarius, quis pirata tam barbarus ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 146:

non sum tam stultus, ut te usura falsi gaudii frui velim,

id. Fam. 6, 12, 1:

nec, cum id faciebamus tam eramus amentes ut explorata nobis esset victoria,

id. ib. 6, 1, 3:

non essem tam inurbanus ac paene inhumanus uti in eo gravarer quod vos cupere sentirem,

id. Or. 2, 90, 365:

non puto tam expeditum negotium futurum ut non habeat aliquid morae,

id. Att. 13, 31, 1:

nec vero eram tam indoctus ignarusque rerum ut frangerer animo propter, etc.,

id. Phil. 2, 15, 37:

quis tam demens ut sua voluntate maereat?

id. Tusc. 3, 29, 71; so id. Off. 3, 20, 82; id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. Phil. 3, 4, 10:

non enim proferremus vino oppressos... tam absurde, ut tum diceremus, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 17, 53:

non se tam barbarum ut non sciret, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 17:

nulli sunt tam feri et sui juris affectus ut non disciplina perdomentur,

Sen. Ira, 2, 12, 3:

nemo tam divos habuit faventes, crastinum ut posset sibi polliceri,

id. Thyest. 619.—

With a negation (esp. nemo), followed by qui ( = ut is; class. and freq.); nec quisquam sit tam opulentus qui mihi obsistat in via, [p. 1838] Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 5:

generi lenonio Numquam deus ullus tam benignus fuit, qui fuerit propitius,

id. Pers. 4, 4, 34:

an ille tam esset stultus qui mihi mille nummum crederet?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 42:

nemo inventus est tam amens, qui illud argentum tam praeclarum ac tam nobile eriperet, nemo tam audax qui posceret, nemo tam impudens qui postularet ut venderet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 44:

nemo Agrigenti neque aetate tam affecta neque viribus tam infirmis fuit, qui non illa nocte surrexerit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 43, §

95: nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere,

id. Sen. 7, 24:

nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum,

id. Div. 2, 58, 119:

nulla gens tam immanis umquam fuit in qua tam crudelis hostis patriae sit inventus,

id. Sull. 27, 76:

quae est anus tam delira quae timeat ista?

id. Tusc. 1, 21, 48:

ecquem tam amentem esse putas qui illud quo vescatur deum esse credat?

id. N. D. 3, 16, 41:

sed neque tam docti tum erant, ad quorum judicium elaboraret, et sunt, etc.,

id. Fin. 1, 3, 7; so id. Sen. 19, 67; id. Lael. 7, 23; id. Tusc. 1, 6, 11; 1, 15, 33; 2, 17, 41; id. Sest. 14, 32; id. Fin. 2, 20, 63; id. Fam. 9, 2, 2; id. Off. 2, 5, 16:

neque tam remisso animo quisquam fuit qui ea nocte conquierit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21:

in bello nihil tam leve est quod non magnae interdum rei momentum faciat,

Liv. 25, 18, 3:

ut nemo tam humilis esset cui non aditus ad eum pateret,

Nep. Milt. 8, 4:

ecquid esse tam saevum potest quod superet illum?

Sen. Thyest. 196. —

With a negation, followed by quin ( = ut is non;

class. and freq.): nec sacrum nec tam profanum quidquam est quin ibi ilico adsit,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 27:

nihil mihi tam parvi est quin me id pigeat perdere,

id. Pers. 4, 6, 8:

nec quisquam est tam ingenio duro, neque tam firmo pectore quin sibi faciat bene,

id. As. 5, 2, 94:

numquam tam mane egredior, neque tam vesperi Domum revortor, quin te... conspicer Fodere,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15:

nil tam difficile'st quin quaerendo investigari possiet,

id. ib. 4, 2, 8:

ut nullus umquam dies tam magna tempestate fuerit, quin... solem homines viderint,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 26:

numquam tam male est Siculis quin aliquid facete et commode dicant,

id. ib. 2, 4, 43, §

95: nemo est tam afflictus quin possit navare aliquid et efficere,

id. Fam. 6, 1, 7:

ut nemo tam ferus fuerit, quin ejus causam lacrimarit,

Nep. Alcib. 6, 4.

Tam, ante-class., sometimes = tamen:

antiqui tam etiam pro tamen usi sunt,

Fest. p. 360: bene cum facimus, tam male cupimus...; quamquam estis nihili, tam ecastor simul vobis consului, Titin. ap. Fest. l. l.; so,

etsi illi aliter nos faciant quam aequom sit, tam pol noxiae nequid magis sit... nostrum officium meminisse decet,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 44 Fleck., Ritschl:

tam si nihil usus esset, jam non dicerem,

id. Merc. 4, 3, 32 Ritschl; v. Prol. Trin. p. 14 ib.; Brix ad Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 36; Curt. in Rhein. Mus. 6, 84; 6, 93; but cf. contra, Corss. Beitr. p. 272 sqq.

In the dialect of Praeneste: tam modo, just now ( = modo): ilico hic ante ostium;

Tam modo, inquit Praenestinus,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 8 Brix ad loc.; cf. Fest. s. v. tammodo, p. 359; Ritschl, opusc. 2, 372.

mŏdestĭa, ae, f. [modestus], moderateness, moderation; esp. in one's behavior, unassuming conduct, modesty (opp. immodestia, superbia, licentia; class.).

In gen.: eam virtutem Graeci sôphrosunên vocant:

quam soleo equidem tum temperantiam, tum moderationem appellare, nonnumquam etiam modestiam,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 8, 16; cf.:

modestia est in animo continens moderatio cupiditatum,

Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3:

rectum dividitur in prudentiam, justitiam, fortitudinem, modestiam,

id. ib.:

disserebat de suā modestiā,

want of confidence in himself, Tac. A. 1, 11 init. —

In partic.

Unassuming conduct, discretion, moderation, sobriety of behavior (the predom. signif. of the word):

sarta tecta tua precepta usque habui mea modestia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 36:

sine modo et modestia,

id. Bacch. 4, 3, 2:

temperantiae partes sunt continentia, clementia, modestia,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 164; cf.:

modestia est, per quam pudor honestus claram et stabilem comparat auctoritatem,

id. ib.:

non minus se in milite modestiam et continentiam, quam virtutem et animi magnitudinem desiderare,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52:

in dicendo,

Cic. Phil. 2, 5, 10:

modestia et humanitas,

id. Att. 7, 5, 2:

neque modum, neque modestiam victores habent,

Sall. C. 11, 4.—

Shame, shamefacedness, modesty:

et sententiarum et compositionis et vocis et vultūs modestia,

Quint. 4, 1, 55: virginalis, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66; cf.:

primaeque modestia culpae Confundit vultus,

Stat. Th. 2, 232; poet.: vacui lecti, i. e. (chaste) celibacy, id. Silv. 1, 2, 162.—

Sense of honor, honor, dignity:

neque sumptui, neque modestiae suae parcere,

Sall. C. 14, 6.—

As a transl. of the Gr. eutaxia, in the lang. of the Stoics, the quality of saying and doing everything in the proper place and at the proper time, correctness of conduct, propriety: sic fit, ut modestia haec, quam ita interpretamur, ut dixi, scientia sit opportunitatis idoneo rum ad agendum temporum, Cic. Off. 1, 40, 142 (v. the entire context).—

(Post-Aug)

Of the weather, mildness:

hiemis,

Tac. A. 12, 43 (cf.:

clementia hiemis,

Col. 5, 5, 6).—

Of the course of a stream, gentleness:

aquarum modestia,

gentle course, Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 71.

āēr, āĕris, m. (in Enn. once fem., Gell. 13, 20, 14, as also aêr in Gr., in the earliest per, was fem., Gr. gen. aëros, Stat. Th. 2, 693; Gr. acc. aëra, Cic., Sen., Plin.;

pure Lat. form, āĕrem,

Varr. L. L. 5, 10, 65; Cato ap. Serv ad Verg. A. 10, 184; Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 3; plur nom. and acc. āĕres, Vitr. 11; later āĕra, Ven. Fort. Carm 9, 1, 141, dat. āĕribus, Lucr. 4, 289; 5, 643), = aêr, the air, properly the lower atmosphere (in distinction from aether, the upper pure air):

istic est is Juppiter quem dico, quem Graeci vocant Aërem, qui ventus est et nubes, imber postea, Atque ex imbre frigus, ventus post fit, aër denuo, Enn. ap. Varr L. L. 5, § 65 Müll. (Epicharm. v. 9 Vahl.,: terra circumfusa undique est hac animall spirabilique naturā, cui nomen est aër, Graecum illud quidem, sed perceptum jam tamen usu a nostris, tritum est enim pro Latino,

Cic. N. D. 2, 36, 91:

itaque aër et ignis et aqua et terra primae sunt,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 26:

Anaximenes aëra Deum statuit,

id. N. D. 1, 10:

aërem in perniciem vertere,

Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 3 al. —Also in plur.: aëribus binis, Lucr 4, 291: aëres locorum salubres aut pestilentes, Vitr 1, 1 fin. —

Transf.

Poet.: aër summus arboris, the airy summit, for the highest point, Verg. G. 2, 123; cf. Juv. 6, 99.—

Also poet. for a cloud, vapor, mist:

Venus obscuro gradientes aëre sepsit,

Verg. A. 1, 411: aëre septus, Val Fl. 5,401—

With limiting adj. = the weather:

crassus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81. fusus et extenuatus, id. N. D. 2, 39 purus et tenuis, id. ib. 2, 16 temperatus, id. Div 2, 42

† aera (dissyl.), ae, f., = aira, a weed among grain; darnel, tare, or cockle, Lolium temulentum, Linn.; Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 156.

āēr, āĕris, m. (in Enn. once fem., Gell. 13, 20, 14, as also aêr in Gr., in the earliest per, was fem., Gr. gen. aëros, Stat. Th. 2, 693; Gr. acc. aëra, Cic., Sen., Plin.;

pure Lat. form, āĕrem,

Varr. L. L. 5, 10, 65; Cato ap. Serv ad Verg. A. 10, 184; Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 3; plur nom. and acc. āĕres, Vitr. 11; later āĕra, Ven. Fort. Carm 9, 1, 141, dat. āĕribus, Lucr. 4, 289; 5, 643), = aêr, the air, properly the lower atmosphere (in distinction from aether, the upper pure air):

istic est is Juppiter quem dico, quem Graeci vocant Aërem, qui ventus est et nubes, imber postea, Atque ex imbre frigus, ventus post fit, aër denuo, Enn. ap. Varr L. L. 5, § 65 Müll. (Epicharm. v. 9 Vahl.,: terra circumfusa undique est hac animall spirabilique naturā, cui nomen est aër, Graecum illud quidem, sed perceptum jam tamen usu a nostris, tritum est enim pro Latino,

Cic. N. D. 2, 36, 91:

itaque aër et ignis et aqua et terra primae sunt,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 26:

Anaximenes aëra Deum statuit,

id. N. D. 1, 10:

aërem in perniciem vertere,

Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 3 al. —Also in plur.: aëribus binis, Lucr 4, 291: aëres locorum salubres aut pestilentes, Vitr 1, 1 fin. —

Transf.

Poet.: aër summus arboris, the airy summit, for the highest point, Verg. G. 2, 123; cf. Juv. 6, 99.—

Also poet. for a cloud, vapor, mist:

Venus obscuro gradientes aëre sepsit,

Verg. A. 1, 411: aëre septus, Val Fl. 5,401—

With limiting adj. = the weather:

crassus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81. fusus et extenuatus, id. N. D. 2, 39 purus et tenuis, id. ib. 2, 16 temperatus, id. Div 2, 42

† aera (dissyl.), ae, f., = aira, a weed among grain; darnel, tare, or cockle, Lolium temulentum, Linn.; Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 156.

siccus, a, um, adj. [cf. Sanscr. cush, to dry up; Gr. auô], dry.

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.

aridus): arena,

Verg. G. 1, 389:

fauces fluminum,

id. ib. 4, 427:

siccāque in rupe resedit,

id. A. 5, 180:

litus,

id. ib. 6, 162:

siccum et sine umore ullo solum,

Quint. 2, 4, 8:

glebae,

Hor. Epod. 16, 55:

agri,

id. S. 2, 4, 15:

lacus,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 11:

regio,

Curt. 9, 10, 2:

via (opp. palustris),

Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 32 et saep.— Sup.:

horreum siccissimum,

Col. 12, 15, 2:

oculi,

tearless, Quint. 6, 2, 27; Prop. 1, 17, 11; Hor. C. 1, 3, 18; so,

lumina,

Tib. 1, 1, 66; Luc. 9, 1044:

genae,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 80; Ov. H. 11, 10:

decurrere pedibus super aequora siccis,

id. M. 14, 50;

and, transf.: siccus aerumnas tuli,

tearless, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1270:

pocula,

Tib. 3, 6, 18:

urna,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 23:

panis,

dry bread, Sen. Ep. 83, 6; Plin. 22, 25, 68, § 139:

agaricum manducatum siccum,

id. 26, 7, 18, § 32; Capitol. Anton. 13; Vop. Tac. 11:

spolia non sanguine sicca suo,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 12:

cuspis,

Stat. Th. 8, 383:

ensis,

Sen. Troad. 50.—With gen.:

sicci stimulabant sanguinis enses,

i. e. bloodless, Sil. 7, 213:

carinae,

standing dry, Hor. C. 1, 4, 2:

magna minorque ferae (i. e. ursa major et minor), utraque sicca,

i. e. that do not dip into, set beneath the sea, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 2; so,

signa,

id. ib. 4, 9, 18:

aquae,

i. e. snow, Mart. 4, 3, 7:

vox,

dried up with heat, husky, Ov. M. 2, 278 et saep.—

As subst.: siccum, i; and plur.: sicca, ōrum, n., dry land, a dry place; dry places:

donec rostra tenent siccum,

Verg. A. 10, 301:

in sicco,

on the dry land, on the shore, Prop. 3, 10 (9), 6; Verg. G. 1, 363; Liv. 1, 4; Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 27; 26, 7, 22, § 39:

ut aqua piscibus, ut sicca terrenis, circumfusus nobis spiritus volucribus convenit,

Quint. 12, 11, 13:

harundo, quae in siccis provenit,

Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 165; so,

in siccis,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 170.—

In partic.

Of the weather, dry, without rain:

sive annus siccus est... seu pluvius,

Col. 3, 20, 1:

ver,

Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 101:

aestivi tempora sicca Canis,

Tib. 1, 4, 6;

for which: incipit et sicco fervere terra Cane,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 4:

sole dies referente siccos,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 20:

siccis aër fervoribus ustus,

Ov. M. 1, 119:

caelum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

ventus,

id. 2, 47, 48, § 126; Luc. 4, 50:

luna,

Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 15; Plin. 17, 9, 8, § 57; cf. id. 17, 14, 24, § 112:

nubes,

i. e. without rain, Luc. 4, 331:

hiemps,

without snow, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 106.—

Of the human body, dry, as a healthy state (opp. rheumy, catarrhal, tumid, etc.), firm, solid, vigorous:

(mulier) sicca, succida,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 192; Petr. 37:

corpora sicciora cornu,

Cat. 23, 12:

corpora graciliora siccioraque,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 65:

(puella) Nec bello pede... nec ore sicco,

free from saliva, Cat. 43, 3; cf.

tussis,

without expectoration, Cels. 4, 6:

medicamentum,

causing dryness, Scrib. Comp. 71. —

Dry, thirsty:

nimis diu sicci sumus,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 41; cf.:

siti sicca sum,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 26; 1, 2, 22; id. Ps. 1, 2, 51; Hor. S. 2, 2, 14:

faucibus siccis,

fasting, Verg. A. 2, 358.—

Transf., abstemious, temperate, sober (syn. sobrius): Art. Ego praeter alios meum virum fui rata Siccum, frugi, continentem, etc. Pa. At nunc dehinc scito, illum ante omnes... Madidum, nihili, incontinentem, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 7; so (opp. vinolentus) Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 88; id. Agr. 1, 1, 1; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 4 (opp. vinolenti); Sen. Ep. 18, 3; Hor. S. 2, 3, 281; id. C. 4, 5, 39:

siccis omnia dura deus proposuit,

id. ib. 1, 18, 3; id. Ep. 1, 19, 9; 1, 17, 12.—

Trop.

Firm, solid (acc. to I. B. 2.):

(Attici) sani duntaxat et sicci habeantur,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 3, 8; cf.:

nihil erat in ejus oratione nisi sincerum, nihil nisi siccum atque sanum,

id. Brut. 55, 202; Quint. 2, 4, 6.—

Of style, dry, insipid, jejune (acc. to I. B. 3.):

siccum et sollicitum et contractum dicendi propositum,

Quint. 11, 1, 32:

sicca et incondita et propemodum jejuna oratio,

Gell. 14, 1, 32:

durus et siccus,

Tac. Or. 21:

ne sicci omnino atque aridi pueri rhetoribus traderentur,

ignorant, unformed, unprepared, Suet. Gram. 4.—

Dry, cold:

medullae,

i. e. void of love, cold, Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 17; so,

puella,

Ov. A. A. 2, 686; Mart. 11, 81, 2; cf. id. 11, 17, 8.—Hence, adv.: siccē, dryly, without wet or damp (very rare; perh. only in the two foll. passages).

Lit.:

ut bos sicce stabuletur,

Col. 6, 12, 2.—

Trop.:

eos solos Attice dicere, id est quasi sicce et integre,

firmly, solidly, Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 12; v. supra, II.

siccus, a, um, adj. [cf. Sanscr. cush, to dry up; Gr. auô], dry.

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.

aridus): arena,

Verg. G. 1, 389:

fauces fluminum,

id. ib. 4, 427:

siccāque in rupe resedit,

id. A. 5, 180:

litus,

id. ib. 6, 162:

siccum et sine umore ullo solum,

Quint. 2, 4, 8:

glebae,

Hor. Epod. 16, 55:

agri,

id. S. 2, 4, 15:

lacus,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 11:

regio,

Curt. 9, 10, 2:

via (opp. palustris),

Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 32 et saep.— Sup.:

horreum siccissimum,

Col. 12, 15, 2:

oculi,

tearless, Quint. 6, 2, 27; Prop. 1, 17, 11; Hor. C. 1, 3, 18; so,

lumina,

Tib. 1, 1, 66; Luc. 9, 1044:

genae,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 80; Ov. H. 11, 10:

decurrere pedibus super aequora siccis,

id. M. 14, 50;

and, transf.: siccus aerumnas tuli,

tearless, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1270:

pocula,

Tib. 3, 6, 18:

urna,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 23:

panis,

dry bread, Sen. Ep. 83, 6; Plin. 22, 25, 68, § 139:

agaricum manducatum siccum,

id. 26, 7, 18, § 32; Capitol. Anton. 13; Vop. Tac. 11:

spolia non sanguine sicca suo,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 12:

cuspis,

Stat. Th. 8, 383:

ensis,

Sen. Troad. 50.—With gen.:

sicci stimulabant sanguinis enses,

i. e. bloodless, Sil. 7, 213:

carinae,

standing dry, Hor. C. 1, 4, 2:

magna minorque ferae (i. e. ursa major et minor), utraque sicca,

i. e. that do not dip into, set beneath the sea, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 2; so,

signa,

id. ib. 4, 9, 18:

aquae,

i. e. snow, Mart. 4, 3, 7:

vox,

dried up with heat, husky, Ov. M. 2, 278 et saep.—

As subst.: siccum, i; and plur.: sicca, ōrum, n., dry land, a dry place; dry places:

donec rostra tenent siccum,

Verg. A. 10, 301:

in sicco,

on the dry land, on the shore, Prop. 3, 10 (9), 6; Verg. G. 1, 363; Liv. 1, 4; Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 27; 26, 7, 22, § 39:

ut aqua piscibus, ut sicca terrenis, circumfusus nobis spiritus volucribus convenit,

Quint. 12, 11, 13:

harundo, quae in siccis provenit,

Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 165; so,

in siccis,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 170.—

In partic.

Of the weather, dry, without rain:

sive annus siccus est... seu pluvius,

Col. 3, 20, 1:

ver,

Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 101:

aestivi tempora sicca Canis,

Tib. 1, 4, 6;

for which: incipit et sicco fervere terra Cane,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 4:

sole dies referente siccos,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 20:

siccis aër fervoribus ustus,

Ov. M. 1, 119:

caelum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

ventus,

id. 2, 47, 48, § 126; Luc. 4, 50:

luna,

Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 15; Plin. 17, 9, 8, § 57; cf. id. 17, 14, 24, § 112:

nubes,

i. e. without rain, Luc. 4, 331:

hiemps,

without snow, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 106.—

Of the human body, dry, as a healthy state (opp. rheumy, catarrhal, tumid, etc.), firm, solid, vigorous:

(mulier) sicca, succida,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 192; Petr. 37:

corpora sicciora cornu,

Cat. 23, 12:

corpora graciliora siccioraque,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 65:

(puella) Nec bello pede... nec ore sicco,

free from saliva, Cat. 43, 3; cf.

tussis,

without expectoration, Cels. 4, 6:

medicamentum,

causing dryness, Scrib. Comp. 71. —

Dry, thirsty:

nimis diu sicci sumus,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 41; cf.:

siti sicca sum,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 26; 1, 2, 22; id. Ps. 1, 2, 51; Hor. S. 2, 2, 14:

faucibus siccis,

fasting, Verg. A. 2, 358.—

Transf., abstemious, temperate, sober (syn. sobrius): Art. Ego praeter alios meum virum fui rata Siccum, frugi, continentem, etc. Pa. At nunc dehinc scito, illum ante omnes... Madidum, nihili, incontinentem, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 7; so (opp. vinolentus) Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 88; id. Agr. 1, 1, 1; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 4 (opp. vinolenti); Sen. Ep. 18, 3; Hor. S. 2, 3, 281; id. C. 4, 5, 39:

siccis omnia dura deus proposuit,

id. ib. 1, 18, 3; id. Ep. 1, 19, 9; 1, 17, 12.—

Trop.

Firm, solid (acc. to I. B. 2.):

(Attici) sani duntaxat et sicci habeantur,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 3, 8; cf.:

nihil erat in ejus oratione nisi sincerum, nihil nisi siccum atque sanum,

id. Brut. 55, 202; Quint. 2, 4, 6.—

Of style, dry, insipid, jejune (acc. to I. B. 3.):

siccum et sollicitum et contractum dicendi propositum,

Quint. 11, 1, 32:

sicca et incondita et propemodum jejuna oratio,

Gell. 14, 1, 32:

durus et siccus,

Tac. Or. 21:

ne sicci omnino atque aridi pueri rhetoribus traderentur,

ignorant, unformed, unprepared, Suet. Gram. 4.—

Dry, cold:

medullae,

i. e. void of love, cold, Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 17; so,

puella,

Ov. A. A. 2, 686; Mart. 11, 81, 2; cf. id. 11, 17, 8.—Hence, adv.: siccē, dryly, without wet or damp (very rare; perh. only in the two foll. passages).

Lit.:

ut bos sicce stabuletur,

Col. 6, 12, 2.—

Trop.:

eos solos Attice dicere, id est quasi sicce et integre,

firmly, solidly, Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 12; v. supra, II.