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răpĭo, pŭi, ptum, 3 (old perf. subj. rapsit, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; part. perf. fem. ex raptabus, Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), v. a. [root harp; Gr. harpê, a bird of prey, harpagê, harpazô; Lat. rapidus, rapax, rapina, etc.; cf. Sanscr. lup-, lumpāmi, rumpo; Gr. lupê], to seize and carry off, to snatch, tear, drag, draw, or hurry away, = violenter sive celeriter capio (freq. and class.; in Cæs. not at all, and in Cic. mostly in the trop. signif.; cf.: ago, fero, traho, capio, sumo).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 15; 30; 31:
quo rapitis me? quo fertis me?
id. Men. 5, 7, 10; cf. Verg. A. 6, 845; Ov. M. 9, 121:
quo me cunque rapit tempestas?
Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 15; cf. id. C. 3, 25, 1:
sumasne pudenter an rapias,
snatch, id. Ep. 1, 17, 45; cf. id. S. 1, 5, 76:
hostes vivos rapere soleo ex acie: ex hoc nomen mihi est (sc. Harpax),
Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 60:
te ex lustris uxor,
id. As. 5, 2, 84:
volucri spe et cogitatione rapi a domo,
Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 7:
ab aede rapuit funale,
Ov. M. 12, 247:
torrem ab aris,
id. ib. 12, 271:
deque sinu matris ridentem... Learchum... rapit,
id. ib. 4, 516 (for which, simply sinu, id. ib. 13, 450):
hastam, de vulnere,
id. ib. 5, 137:
telum,
Verg. A. 10, 486:
repagula de posti,
Ov. M. 5, 120:
(frondes) altā rapit arbore ventus,
id. ib. 3, 730:
vi atque ingratis... rapiam te domum,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 40:
aliquem sublimem domum,
id. As. 5, 2, 18; cf.:
sublimem,
id. Mil. 5, 1; id. Men. 5, 7, 6; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20:
commeatum in naves rapiunt,
Liv. 41, 3:
aliquem in jus,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 21; so,
in jus,
id. Poen. 5, 5, 56; Hor. S. 1, 9, 77; 2, 3, 72; cf.:
in jus ad regem,
Liv. 1, 26:
in carcerem,
Suet. Tib. 11; 61:
aliquem ad cornuficem,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 156; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 37:
ad praetorem,
id. Aul. 4, 10, 30:
ad supplicium ob facinus,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 238:
ad mortem,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 138; id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:
ad tortorem,
id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:
ad poenam,
Suet. Claud. 10; 37; id. Vit. 14:
ad consulem,
Liv. 10, 20:
matres, virgines, pueros ad stuprum,
id. 26, 13:
teneram virginem ad virum,
Cat. 61, 3 (cf.:
rapi simulatur virgo ex gremio matris, aut, si ea non est, ex proximā necessitudine, cum ad virum traditur, quod videlicet ea res feliciter Romulo cessit,
Fest. p. 289 Müll.):
illum (sc. lembum) in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni,
Verg. G. 1, 203:
nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divum rapiam,
drag into open day, Hor. C. 1, 18, 13. — Poet.:
Nasonis carmina rapti,
i. e. torn from his home, borne far away, Ov. P. 4, 16, 1; cf. id. H. 13, 9; Stat. S. 3, 5, 6. —
B.
With the idea of swiftness predominating:
Turnus rapit Totam aciem in Teucros,
Verg. A. 10, 308:
rapit agmina ductor,
Luc. 1, 228:
agmina cursu,
Sil. 7, 116:
legiones,
Plin. Pan. 14:
curru rapi,
Sil. 1, 134:
quattuor hinc rapimur raedis,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 86:
Notus rapit biremes,
Sil. 17, 276:
carinas venti rapuere,
Luc. 3, 46:
rapit per aequora navem,
hurries it away, Verg. A. 10, 660; cf.:
ventis per aequora,
Ov. M. 14, 470:
missos currus,
Hor. S. 1, 1, 114:
pedes quo te rapiunt,
id. C. 3, 11, 49:
arma rapiat juventus,
snatch up, Verg. A. 7, 340; so,
arma,
Ov. M. 2, 603:
arma manu,
Verg. A. 8, 220:
bipennem dextrā,
id. ib. 11, 651:
cingula,
id. ib. 9, 364.—
2.
With reflex. pron., to hasten, hurry, tear one ' s self, etc.:
ocius hinc te Ni rapis,
Hor. S. 2, 7, 118; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 5, 29:
se ad caedem optimi cujusque,
Cic. Phil. 13, 8, 18.—
C.
In partic.
1.
To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, etc. (very freq.; cf.
praedor),
Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 11:
erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,
Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:
tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranm ab regibus,
id. Rep. 1, 44, 68:
virgines rapi jussit... quae raptae erant, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 7, 12; 2, 8, 14; so,
virgines,
to carry off, abduct, Sall. C. 51, 9; Liv. 1, 9; Quint. 7, 7, 3; 9, 2, 70; Hor. C. 2, 4, 8; Ov. M. 12, 225; id. A. A. 1, 680:
raptus a dis Ganymedes,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65:
ab Idā,
Hor. C. 3, 20, 16:
omne sacrum rapiente dextrā,
id. ib. 3, 3, 52:
alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama,
pillage and plunder, Verg. A. 2, 374 (the Homeric agousi kai pherousi; for which, in prose, ferre et agere; v. ago); cf.:
rapturus moenia Romae,
Luc. 3, 99:
Theumeson,
to seize by force, Stat. Th. 4, 370:
Armeniam,
to plunder, lay waste, Tac. A. 13, 6:
Karthaginem,
Sil. 15, 401:
urbem,
Stat. Th. 7, 599:
raptas ad litora vertere praedas,
Verg. A. 1, 528.— Absol.:
rapio propalam,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 10:
ut Spartae, rapere ubi pueri et clepere discunt,
Cic. Rep. 4, 5, 11 (Non. 20, 14):
agunt, rapiunt, tenent,
id. Rep. 3, 33, 45 Mos.; cf.
along with trahere,
Sall. C. 11, 4; id. J. 41, 5;
with congerere, auferre,
Mart. 8, 44, 9.— With the idea of rapidity predominating: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, to conquer rapidly (= raptim capere), Liv. 6, 23, 5 Drak.; so,
castra,
Flor. 3, 20, 4; 4, 12, 34:
Bithyniam,
id. 3, 5, 6:
Hispaniam,
id. 2, 17, 6:
arces,
Luc. 6, 14.— Part. perf. subst.
(α).
rapta, ae, f., the ravished one, the seduced:
gratus raptae raptor fuit,
Ov. A. A. 1, 680; id. H. 5, 97; 13, 55; 16, 339; id. F. 4, 607.—
(β).
raptum, i, n., the plunder, that which is stolen:
rapto vivere,
to live by robbery, Liv. 7, 25 fin.; 22, 39; 28, 24: Quint. 3, 7, 24; Sen. Ep. 70 fin.; Curt. 3, 10 fin.; Just. 41, 4, 7; Verg. A. 7, 749; Ov. M. 11, 291; id. Tr. 5, 10, 16;
for which: ex rapto vivere,
id. M. 1, 144; so,
rapto gaudere,
Liv. 29, 6, 3 Drak.:
rapto potiri,
Verg. A. 4, 217:
rapto uti,
Vell. 2, 73, 3:
sine rapto vivere,
id. 2, 32 fin. —
2.
To cut off, mutilate ( poet.):
caput,
Sil. 15, 807:
ora gladio,
id. 7, 704:
rapuit non dente ferarum,
Luc. 10, 517.—
3.
To carry off suddenly or prematurely by death, to snatch away ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 20; so id. ib. 2, 17, 5; 4, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 14, 7; Verg. A. 6, 428; Ov. P. 4, 11, 5; Stat. S. 2, 1, 208; 5, 3, 16; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 46; Suet. Calig. 7; Just. 2, 2, 13 (but Liv. 3, 50, 8: fato erepta, v. Drak.)— Absol.:
et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis,
i. e. hurries on, Verg. G. 3, 68:
RAPTA EST = obiit,
Inscr. Orell. 4475.
II.
Transf. ( poet.), of any action or motion which resembles seizing, snatching, etc.:
flammanm,
to catch quickly, Verg. A. 1, 176; Ov. M. 3, 374; cf.:
incendia,
id. ib. 15, 350: nigrum colorem, to take or assume quickly, id. ib. 7, 289; cf.:
vim monstri,
id. ib. 4, 744;
and v. III.: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populos,
leads hastily on, Verg. A. 7, 725; cf. id. ib. 10, 178: rapiuntque ruuntque; Litora deseruere, take hold, seize in haste (the cables, etc.), id. ib. 4, 581; cf.:
scalas, Auct. B. Alex. 20, 4.—Of the gliding movement of a serpent nec rapit immensos orbes per humum,
sweeps along, Verg. G. 2, 153:
pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit,
i. e. range quickly through, Verg. A. 6, 8 Heyne; cf.:
acrior et campum sonipes rapit,
Stat. Th. 5, 3.
III.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to snatch, force, or hurry away:
fertur quasi torrens oratio, quamvis multa cujusquemodi rapiat,
Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3:
ipsae res verba rapiunt,
carry along with them, id. ib. 3, 5, 19: aspice me quanto rapiat Fortuna periclo, carries away (the figure taken from a storm at sea), Prop. 1, 15, 3:
aliquem in deteriorem viam,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 54; cf.:
(comoediam) in pejorem partem,
i. e. to put a bad construction upon, to misconstrue, misrepresent, Ter. Ad. prol. 3: consilium meum in contrariam partem, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2:
aliquem in invidiam,
Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7:
opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem,
id. Leg. 2, 17, 43:
si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve,
Verg. A. 9, 211; Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:
cum aliqua his ampla et honesta res objecta est, totos ad se convertit et rapit,
seizes upon, appropriates, id. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf.:
commoda ad se,
id. ib. 3, 5, 22:
victoriae gloriam in se,
Liv. 33, 11 fin.:
almum Quae rapit hora diem,
snatches away, Hor. C. 4, 7, 8; cf.:
simul tecum solatia rapta,
Verg. E. 9, 18:
impetus rapit huc, rapit illuc,
Stat. Th. 12, 794.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing (usually in a bad sense):
impetu raptus,
Quint. 7, 2, 44:
judicem rapere,
id. 6, 2, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 110; 12, 10, 61:
praedae ac rapinarum cupiditas caeca te rapiebat,
Cic. Pis. 24, 57:
amentiā rapi,
id. Fam. 16, 12, 2:
furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa?
Hor. Epod. 7, 13; cf.:
in medias res auditorem,
id. A. P. 149:
utraque forma rapit,
Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 44:
quem (sc. leonem) cruenta Per medias rapit ira caedes,
Hor. C. 3, 2, 12:
rapit omnes ira,
Sil. 14, 299: hormê, quae hominem huc et illuc rapit, Cic. Off. 1, 28 fin.; cf. Verg. A. 4, 286; 8, 21:
ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur,
Cic. Off. 2, 11, 38:
animus cupidine caecus ad inceptum scelus rapiebat,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
ea (cupiditas) ad oppugnandam Capuam rapit,
Liv. 7, 30 et saep.—In a good sense:
qui ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā omni studioque rapiantur,
Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111:
rapi ad opes augendas generis humani,
id. Rep. 1, 2, 3. — Poet., with inf. (for ad aliquid):
(mundus) rapit aetherios per carmina pandere census,
Manil. 1, 12.—
2.
To seize by violence, to snatch, steal ( poet.): Hippodameam raptis nactu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. v. 398 Vahl.):
oscula,
Hor. C. 2, 12, 28; Tib. 1, 4, 53; 55; [p. 1524] 1, 8, 58; cf.:
Venerem incertam,
Hor. S. 1, 3, 109; cf.:
sed rapiat sitiens Venerem,
but may eagerly seize upon, Verg. G. 3, 137:
illicitas voluptates,
Tac. H. 3, 41:
spem adoptionis acrius in dies,
id. ib. 1, 13 fin.:
quo facinore dominationem raptum ierit expediam,
id. A. 4, 1; cf. id. H. 2, 6.—
3.
With the idea of rapidity or haste predominating, to snatch, seize, or lay hold of quickly, to hasten, precipitate ( poet.; in prose only since the Aug. per.): vive, Ulixes, dum licet: Oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape: non dixit cape, non pete; haberet enim moram sperantis diutius sese victurum;
sed rape,
Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162 (from an old poet.):
rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die,
Hor. Epod. 13, 3; so,
occasionem,
Juv. 15, 39:
viam,
to hasten, Ov. H. 19, 74 Loers; cf.
iter,
Sil. 12, 471:
gressus,
Luc. 3, 116:
cursus,
id. 5, 403:
letum,
id. 4, 345:
bellum,
to wage suddenly, id. 5, 403:
nefas,
to hasten, precipitate, id. 10, 428:
ut limis rapias, quid prima secundo Cera velit versu,
may hastily note, Hor. S. 2, 5, 53 al. —In prose:
raptae prope inter arma nuptiae,
Liv. 30, 14, 2 Drak.:
repente impetu facto transitum rapuit,
Front. Strat. 1, 4, 8:
inter rapienda momenta periculorum communium,
Amm. 18, 7, 7 et saep.—
4.
In late Lat., to strive for in purchasing:
exemplaria litterarum certatim,
Hier. Ep. 57, 2:
librum totā certatim urbe,
Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 23.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rapio
2 rapta

răpĭo, pŭi, ptum, 3 (old perf. subj. rapsit, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; part. perf. fem. ex raptabus, Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), v. a. [root harp; Gr. harpê, a bird of prey, harpagê, harpazô; Lat. rapidus, rapax, rapina, etc.; cf. Sanscr. lup-, lumpāmi, rumpo; Gr. lupê], to seize and carry off, to snatch, tear, drag, draw, or hurry away, = violenter sive celeriter capio (freq. and class.; in Cæs. not at all, and in Cic. mostly in the trop. signif.; cf.: ago, fero, traho, capio, sumo).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 15; 30; 31:
quo rapitis me? quo fertis me?
id. Men. 5, 7, 10; cf. Verg. A. 6, 845; Ov. M. 9, 121:
quo me cunque rapit tempestas?
Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 15; cf. id. C. 3, 25, 1:
sumasne pudenter an rapias,
snatch, id. Ep. 1, 17, 45; cf. id. S. 1, 5, 76:
hostes vivos rapere soleo ex acie: ex hoc nomen mihi est (sc. Harpax),
Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 60:
te ex lustris uxor,
id. As. 5, 2, 84:
volucri spe et cogitatione rapi a domo,
Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 7:
ab aede rapuit funale,
Ov. M. 12, 247:
torrem ab aris,
id. ib. 12, 271:
deque sinu matris ridentem... Learchum... rapit,
id. ib. 4, 516 (for which, simply sinu, id. ib. 13, 450):
hastam, de vulnere,
id. ib. 5, 137:
telum,
Verg. A. 10, 486:
repagula de posti,
Ov. M. 5, 120:
(frondes) altā rapit arbore ventus,
id. ib. 3, 730:
vi atque ingratis... rapiam te domum,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 40:
aliquem sublimem domum,
id. As. 5, 2, 18; cf.:
sublimem,
id. Mil. 5, 1; id. Men. 5, 7, 6; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20:
commeatum in naves rapiunt,
Liv. 41, 3:
aliquem in jus,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 21; so,
in jus,
id. Poen. 5, 5, 56; Hor. S. 1, 9, 77; 2, 3, 72; cf.:
in jus ad regem,
Liv. 1, 26:
in carcerem,
Suet. Tib. 11; 61:
aliquem ad cornuficem,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 156; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 37:
ad praetorem,
id. Aul. 4, 10, 30:
ad supplicium ob facinus,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 238:
ad mortem,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 138; id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:
ad tortorem,
id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:
ad poenam,
Suet. Claud. 10; 37; id. Vit. 14:
ad consulem,
Liv. 10, 20:
matres, virgines, pueros ad stuprum,
id. 26, 13:
teneram virginem ad virum,
Cat. 61, 3 (cf.:
rapi simulatur virgo ex gremio matris, aut, si ea non est, ex proximā necessitudine, cum ad virum traditur, quod videlicet ea res feliciter Romulo cessit,
Fest. p. 289 Müll.):
illum (sc. lembum) in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni,
Verg. G. 1, 203:
nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divum rapiam,
drag into open day, Hor. C. 1, 18, 13. — Poet.:
Nasonis carmina rapti,
i. e. torn from his home, borne far away, Ov. P. 4, 16, 1; cf. id. H. 13, 9; Stat. S. 3, 5, 6. —
B.
With the idea of swiftness predominating:
Turnus rapit Totam aciem in Teucros,
Verg. A. 10, 308:
rapit agmina ductor,
Luc. 1, 228:
agmina cursu,
Sil. 7, 116:
legiones,
Plin. Pan. 14:
curru rapi,
Sil. 1, 134:
quattuor hinc rapimur raedis,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 86:
Notus rapit biremes,
Sil. 17, 276:
carinas venti rapuere,
Luc. 3, 46:
rapit per aequora navem,
hurries it away, Verg. A. 10, 660; cf.:
ventis per aequora,
Ov. M. 14, 470:
missos currus,
Hor. S. 1, 1, 114:
pedes quo te rapiunt,
id. C. 3, 11, 49:
arma rapiat juventus,
snatch up, Verg. A. 7, 340; so,
arma,
Ov. M. 2, 603:
arma manu,
Verg. A. 8, 220:
bipennem dextrā,
id. ib. 11, 651:
cingula,
id. ib. 9, 364.—
2.
With reflex. pron., to hasten, hurry, tear one ' s self, etc.:
ocius hinc te Ni rapis,
Hor. S. 2, 7, 118; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 5, 29:
se ad caedem optimi cujusque,
Cic. Phil. 13, 8, 18.—
C.
In partic.
1.
To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, etc. (very freq.; cf.
praedor),
Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 11:
erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,
Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:
tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranm ab regibus,
id. Rep. 1, 44, 68:
virgines rapi jussit... quae raptae erant, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 7, 12; 2, 8, 14; so,
virgines,
to carry off, abduct, Sall. C. 51, 9; Liv. 1, 9; Quint. 7, 7, 3; 9, 2, 70; Hor. C. 2, 4, 8; Ov. M. 12, 225; id. A. A. 1, 680:
raptus a dis Ganymedes,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65:
ab Idā,
Hor. C. 3, 20, 16:
omne sacrum rapiente dextrā,
id. ib. 3, 3, 52:
alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama,
pillage and plunder, Verg. A. 2, 374 (the Homeric agousi kai pherousi; for which, in prose, ferre et agere; v. ago); cf.:
rapturus moenia Romae,
Luc. 3, 99:
Theumeson,
to seize by force, Stat. Th. 4, 370:
Armeniam,
to plunder, lay waste, Tac. A. 13, 6:
Karthaginem,
Sil. 15, 401:
urbem,
Stat. Th. 7, 599:
raptas ad litora vertere praedas,
Verg. A. 1, 528.— Absol.:
rapio propalam,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 10:
ut Spartae, rapere ubi pueri et clepere discunt,
Cic. Rep. 4, 5, 11 (Non. 20, 14):
agunt, rapiunt, tenent,
id. Rep. 3, 33, 45 Mos.; cf.
along with trahere,
Sall. C. 11, 4; id. J. 41, 5;
with congerere, auferre,
Mart. 8, 44, 9.— With the idea of rapidity predominating: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, to conquer rapidly (= raptim capere), Liv. 6, 23, 5 Drak.; so,
castra,
Flor. 3, 20, 4; 4, 12, 34:
Bithyniam,
id. 3, 5, 6:
Hispaniam,
id. 2, 17, 6:
arces,
Luc. 6, 14.— Part. perf. subst.
(α).
rapta, ae, f., the ravished one, the seduced:
gratus raptae raptor fuit,
Ov. A. A. 1, 680; id. H. 5, 97; 13, 55; 16, 339; id. F. 4, 607.—
(β).
raptum, i, n., the plunder, that which is stolen:
rapto vivere,
to live by robbery, Liv. 7, 25 fin.; 22, 39; 28, 24: Quint. 3, 7, 24; Sen. Ep. 70 fin.; Curt. 3, 10 fin.; Just. 41, 4, 7; Verg. A. 7, 749; Ov. M. 11, 291; id. Tr. 5, 10, 16;
for which: ex rapto vivere,
id. M. 1, 144; so,
rapto gaudere,
Liv. 29, 6, 3 Drak.:
rapto potiri,
Verg. A. 4, 217:
rapto uti,
Vell. 2, 73, 3:
sine rapto vivere,
id. 2, 32 fin. —
2.
To cut off, mutilate ( poet.):
caput,
Sil. 15, 807:
ora gladio,
id. 7, 704:
rapuit non dente ferarum,
Luc. 10, 517.—
3.
To carry off suddenly or prematurely by death, to snatch away ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 20; so id. ib. 2, 17, 5; 4, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 14, 7; Verg. A. 6, 428; Ov. P. 4, 11, 5; Stat. S. 2, 1, 208; 5, 3, 16; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 46; Suet. Calig. 7; Just. 2, 2, 13 (but Liv. 3, 50, 8: fato erepta, v. Drak.)— Absol.:
et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis,
i. e. hurries on, Verg. G. 3, 68:
RAPTA EST = obiit,
Inscr. Orell. 4475.
II.
Transf. ( poet.), of any action or motion which resembles seizing, snatching, etc.:
flammanm,
to catch quickly, Verg. A. 1, 176; Ov. M. 3, 374; cf.:
incendia,
id. ib. 15, 350: nigrum colorem, to take or assume quickly, id. ib. 7, 289; cf.:
vim monstri,
id. ib. 4, 744;
and v. III.: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populos,
leads hastily on, Verg. A. 7, 725; cf. id. ib. 10, 178: rapiuntque ruuntque; Litora deseruere, take hold, seize in haste (the cables, etc.), id. ib. 4, 581; cf.:
scalas, Auct. B. Alex. 20, 4.—Of the gliding movement of a serpent nec rapit immensos orbes per humum,
sweeps along, Verg. G. 2, 153:
pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit,
i. e. range quickly through, Verg. A. 6, 8 Heyne; cf.:
acrior et campum sonipes rapit,
Stat. Th. 5, 3.
III.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to snatch, force, or hurry away:
fertur quasi torrens oratio, quamvis multa cujusquemodi rapiat,
Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3:
ipsae res verba rapiunt,
carry along with them, id. ib. 3, 5, 19: aspice me quanto rapiat Fortuna periclo, carries away (the figure taken from a storm at sea), Prop. 1, 15, 3:
aliquem in deteriorem viam,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 54; cf.:
(comoediam) in pejorem partem,
i. e. to put a bad construction upon, to misconstrue, misrepresent, Ter. Ad. prol. 3: consilium meum in contrariam partem, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2:
aliquem in invidiam,
Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7:
opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem,
id. Leg. 2, 17, 43:
si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve,
Verg. A. 9, 211; Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:
cum aliqua his ampla et honesta res objecta est, totos ad se convertit et rapit,
seizes upon, appropriates, id. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf.:
commoda ad se,
id. ib. 3, 5, 22:
victoriae gloriam in se,
Liv. 33, 11 fin.:
almum Quae rapit hora diem,
snatches away, Hor. C. 4, 7, 8; cf.:
simul tecum solatia rapta,
Verg. E. 9, 18:
impetus rapit huc, rapit illuc,
Stat. Th. 12, 794.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing (usually in a bad sense):
impetu raptus,
Quint. 7, 2, 44:
judicem rapere,
id. 6, 2, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 110; 12, 10, 61:
praedae ac rapinarum cupiditas caeca te rapiebat,
Cic. Pis. 24, 57:
amentiā rapi,
id. Fam. 16, 12, 2:
furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa?
Hor. Epod. 7, 13; cf.:
in medias res auditorem,
id. A. P. 149:
utraque forma rapit,
Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 44:
quem (sc. leonem) cruenta Per medias rapit ira caedes,
Hor. C. 3, 2, 12:
rapit omnes ira,
Sil. 14, 299: hormê, quae hominem huc et illuc rapit, Cic. Off. 1, 28 fin.; cf. Verg. A. 4, 286; 8, 21:
ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur,
Cic. Off. 2, 11, 38:
animus cupidine caecus ad inceptum scelus rapiebat,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
ea (cupiditas) ad oppugnandam Capuam rapit,
Liv. 7, 30 et saep.—In a good sense:
qui ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā omni studioque rapiantur,
Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111:
rapi ad opes augendas generis humani,
id. Rep. 1, 2, 3. — Poet., with inf. (for ad aliquid):
(mundus) rapit aetherios per carmina pandere census,
Manil. 1, 12.—
2.
To seize by violence, to snatch, steal ( poet.): Hippodameam raptis nactu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. v. 398 Vahl.):
oscula,
Hor. C. 2, 12, 28; Tib. 1, 4, 53; 55; [p. 1524] 1, 8, 58; cf.:
Venerem incertam,
Hor. S. 1, 3, 109; cf.:
sed rapiat sitiens Venerem,
but may eagerly seize upon, Verg. G. 3, 137:
illicitas voluptates,
Tac. H. 3, 41:
spem adoptionis acrius in dies,
id. ib. 1, 13 fin.:
quo facinore dominationem raptum ierit expediam,
id. A. 4, 1; cf. id. H. 2, 6.—
3.
With the idea of rapidity or haste predominating, to snatch, seize, or lay hold of quickly, to hasten, precipitate ( poet.; in prose only since the Aug. per.): vive, Ulixes, dum licet: Oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape: non dixit cape, non pete; haberet enim moram sperantis diutius sese victurum;
sed rape,
Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162 (from an old poet.):
rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die,
Hor. Epod. 13, 3; so,
occasionem,
Juv. 15, 39:
viam,
to hasten, Ov. H. 19, 74 Loers; cf.
iter,
Sil. 12, 471:
gressus,
Luc. 3, 116:
cursus,
id. 5, 403:
letum,
id. 4, 345:
bellum,
to wage suddenly, id. 5, 403:
nefas,
to hasten, precipitate, id. 10, 428:
ut limis rapias, quid prima secundo Cera velit versu,
may hastily note, Hor. S. 2, 5, 53 al. —In prose:
raptae prope inter arma nuptiae,
Liv. 30, 14, 2 Drak.:
repente impetu facto transitum rapuit,
Front. Strat. 1, 4, 8:
inter rapienda momenta periculorum communium,
Amm. 18, 7, 7 et saep.—
4.
In late Lat., to strive for in purchasing:
exemplaria litterarum certatim,
Hier. Ep. 57, 2:
librum totā certatim urbe,
Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 23.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rapta
3 compraehendo

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Prop.
A.
In gen.:
quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?
Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:
(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,
Cels. 4, 1 fin.:
cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,
id. 7, 12, 1:
mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),
Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:
morsu guttura,
Luc. 4, 727:
nuces modio,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
naves,
to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:
oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,
Cels. 7, 4, 3:
comprehendunt utrumque et orant,
Caes. B. G. 5, 31:
ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,
Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.
aures,
Tib. 2, 5, 92:
nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,
let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:
naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,
assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:
ignem,
to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;
and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,
Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:
opera flammā comprehensa,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:
avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,
Ov. M. 9, 234:
loca vallo,
Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:
comprehensa aedificia,
Liv. 26, 27, 3.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:
aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:
tam capitalem hostem,
Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:
hominem,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:
nefarios duces,
id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
Virginium,
Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:
praesidium Punicum,
id. 26, 14, 7:
hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:
in fugā,
id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:
comprehensus morbo,
Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:
comprehensi pestiferā lue,
id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:
aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —
* b.
Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—
2.
To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:
fures,
Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,
b.
Transf. to the crime:
nefandum adulterium,
to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:
res ejus indicio,
id. Clu. 16, 47.—
3.
Of plants, to take root; of a graft:
cum comprehendit (surculus),
Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,
in gen.,
Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—
4.
Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:
si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,
Cels. 5, 21 fin. —
5.
Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:
ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,
Curt. 6, 6, 24. —
6.
In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:
aliquid melle,
Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—
7.
Of the range of a missile:
quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,
Sil. 4, 102.—
8.
Of the reach of a surgical instrument:
si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,
Cels. 8, 3 init. —
II.
Trop.
A.
To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):
aliquid visu,
Sil. 3, 408;
and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,
Gell. 13, 30, 10.—
B.
To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:
omnes animo virtutes,
id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:
animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:
omnia animis et cogitatione,
id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:
aliquid mente,
id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:
aliquid memoriā,
id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:
qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,
id. ib. 1, 22, 50:
aliquid certis signis,
Col. 6, 24, 3:
aliquid experimentis assiduis,
Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:
esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,
Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:
virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,
id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—
C.
To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:
breviter paucis comprendere multa,
Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:
breviter comprehensa sententia,
Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:
comprehendam brevi,
Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:
perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,
id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:
(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,
id. Att. 12, 21, 1:
ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,
id. Brut. 8, 34:
in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:
emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,
Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:
ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,
Cic. Brut. 5, 19:
aliquid dictis,
Ov. M. 13, 160:
quae si comprendere coner,
id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —
2.
Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:
neque enim numero comprendere refert,
Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:
numerum quorum comprendere non est,
id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—
D.
To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;
mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,
to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
adulescentem humanitate tuā,
id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:
quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,
id. Planc. 19. 47.—
E.
To shut in, include (late Lat.):
spiritum in effigiem,
Lact. 4, 8, 9:
elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,
id. 2, 6, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > compraehendo
4 compraendo

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Prop.
A.
In gen.:
quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?
Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:
(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,
Cels. 4, 1 fin.:
cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,
id. 7, 12, 1:
mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),
Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:
morsu guttura,
Luc. 4, 727:
nuces modio,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
naves,
to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:
oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,
Cels. 7, 4, 3:
comprehendunt utrumque et orant,
Caes. B. G. 5, 31:
ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,
Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.
aures,
Tib. 2, 5, 92:
nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,
let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:
naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,
assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:
ignem,
to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;
and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,
Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:
opera flammā comprehensa,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:
avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,
Ov. M. 9, 234:
loca vallo,
Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:
comprehensa aedificia,
Liv. 26, 27, 3.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:
aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:
tam capitalem hostem,
Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:
hominem,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:
nefarios duces,
id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
Virginium,
Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:
praesidium Punicum,
id. 26, 14, 7:
hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:
in fugā,
id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:
comprehensus morbo,
Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:
comprehensi pestiferā lue,
id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:
aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —
* b.
Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—
2.
To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:
fures,
Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,
b.
Transf. to the crime:
nefandum adulterium,
to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:
res ejus indicio,
id. Clu. 16, 47.—
3.
Of plants, to take root; of a graft:
cum comprehendit (surculus),
Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,
in gen.,
Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—
4.
Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:
si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,
Cels. 5, 21 fin. —
5.
Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:
ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,
Curt. 6, 6, 24. —
6.
In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:
aliquid melle,
Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—
7.
Of the range of a missile:
quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,
Sil. 4, 102.—
8.
Of the reach of a surgical instrument:
si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,
Cels. 8, 3 init. —
II.
Trop.
A.
To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):
aliquid visu,
Sil. 3, 408;
and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,
Gell. 13, 30, 10.—
B.
To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:
omnes animo virtutes,
id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:
animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:
omnia animis et cogitatione,
id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:
aliquid mente,
id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:
aliquid memoriā,
id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:
qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,
id. ib. 1, 22, 50:
aliquid certis signis,
Col. 6, 24, 3:
aliquid experimentis assiduis,
Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:
esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,
Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:
virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,
id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—
C.
To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:
breviter paucis comprendere multa,
Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:
breviter comprehensa sententia,
Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:
comprehendam brevi,
Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:
perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,
id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:
(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,
id. Att. 12, 21, 1:
ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,
id. Brut. 8, 34:
in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:
emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,
Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:
ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,
Cic. Brut. 5, 19:
aliquid dictis,
Ov. M. 13, 160:
quae si comprendere coner,
id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —
2.
Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:
neque enim numero comprendere refert,
Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:
numerum quorum comprendere non est,
id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—
D.
To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;
mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,
to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
adulescentem humanitate tuā,
id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:
quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,
id. Planc. 19. 47.—
E.
To shut in, include (late Lat.):
spiritum in effigiem,
Lact. 4, 8, 9:
elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,
id. 2, 6, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > compraendo
5 comprehendo

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Prop.
A.
In gen.:
quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?
Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:
(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,
Cels. 4, 1 fin.:
cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,
id. 7, 12, 1:
mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),
Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:
morsu guttura,
Luc. 4, 727:
nuces modio,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
naves,
to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:
oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,
Cels. 7, 4, 3:
comprehendunt utrumque et orant,
Caes. B. G. 5, 31:
ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,
Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.
aures,
Tib. 2, 5, 92:
nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,
let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:
naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,
assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:
ignem,
to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;
and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,
Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:
opera flammā comprehensa,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:
avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,
Ov. M. 9, 234:
loca vallo,
Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:
comprehensa aedificia,
Liv. 26, 27, 3.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:
aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:
tam capitalem hostem,
Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:
hominem,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:
nefarios duces,
id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
Virginium,
Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:
praesidium Punicum,
id. 26, 14, 7:
hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:
in fugā,
id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:
comprehensus morbo,
Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:
comprehensi pestiferā lue,
id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:
aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —
* b.
Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—
2.
To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:
fures,
Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,
b.
Transf. to the crime:
nefandum adulterium,
to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:
res ejus indicio,
id. Clu. 16, 47.—
3.
Of plants, to take root; of a graft:
cum comprehendit (surculus),
Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,
in gen.,
Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—
4.
Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:
si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,
Cels. 5, 21 fin. —
5.
Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:
ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,
Curt. 6, 6, 24. —
6.
In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:
aliquid melle,
Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—
7.
Of the range of a missile:
quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,
Sil. 4, 102.—
8.
Of the reach of a surgical instrument:
si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,
Cels. 8, 3 init. —
II.
Trop.
A.
To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):
aliquid visu,
Sil. 3, 408;
and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,
Gell. 13, 30, 10.—
B.
To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:
omnes animo virtutes,
id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:
animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:
omnia animis et cogitatione,
id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:
aliquid mente,
id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:
aliquid memoriā,
id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:
qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,
id. ib. 1, 22, 50:
aliquid certis signis,
Col. 6, 24, 3:
aliquid experimentis assiduis,
Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:
esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,
Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:
virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,
id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—
C.
To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:
breviter paucis comprendere multa,
Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:
breviter comprehensa sententia,
Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:
comprehendam brevi,
Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:
perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,
id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:
(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,
id. Att. 12, 21, 1:
ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,
id. Brut. 8, 34:
in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:
emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,
Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:
ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,
Cic. Brut. 5, 19:
aliquid dictis,
Ov. M. 13, 160:
quae si comprendere coner,
id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —
2.
Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:
neque enim numero comprendere refert,
Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:
numerum quorum comprendere non est,
id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—
D.
To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;
mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,
to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
adulescentem humanitate tuā,
id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:
quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,
id. Planc. 19. 47.—
E.
To shut in, include (late Lat.):
spiritum in effigiem,
Lact. 4, 8, 9:
elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,
id. 2, 6, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > comprehendo
6 conprehendo

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Prop.
A.
In gen.:
quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?
Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:
(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,
Cels. 4, 1 fin.:
cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,
id. 7, 12, 1:
mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),
Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:
morsu guttura,
Luc. 4, 727:
nuces modio,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
naves,
to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:
oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,
Cels. 7, 4, 3:
comprehendunt utrumque et orant,
Caes. B. G. 5, 31:
ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,
Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.
aures,
Tib. 2, 5, 92:
nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,
let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:
naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,
assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:
ignem,
to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;
and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,
Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:
opera flammā comprehensa,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:
avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,
Ov. M. 9, 234:
loca vallo,
Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:
comprehensa aedificia,
Liv. 26, 27, 3.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:
aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:
tam capitalem hostem,
Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:
hominem,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:
nefarios duces,
id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:
Virginium,
Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:
praesidium Punicum,
id. 26, 14, 7:
hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,
Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:
in fugā,
id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:
comprehensus morbo,
Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:
comprehensi pestiferā lue,
id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:
aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —
* b.
Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—
2.
To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:
fures,
Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,
b.
Transf. to the crime:
nefandum adulterium,
to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:
res ejus indicio,
id. Clu. 16, 47.—
3.
Of plants, to take root; of a graft:
cum comprehendit (surculus),
Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,
in gen.,
Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—
4.
Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:
si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,
Cels. 5, 21 fin. —
5.
Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:
ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:
circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,
Curt. 6, 6, 24. —
6.
In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:
aliquid melle,
Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—
7.
Of the range of a missile:
quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,
Sil. 4, 102.—
8.
Of the reach of a surgical instrument:
si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,
Cels. 8, 3 init. —
II.
Trop.
A.
To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):
aliquid visu,
Sil. 3, 408;
and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,
Gell. 13, 30, 10.—
B.
To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:
omnes animo virtutes,
id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:
animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:
omnia animis et cogitatione,
id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:
aliquid mente,
id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:
aliquid memoriā,
id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:
qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,
id. ib. 1, 22, 50:
aliquid certis signis,
Col. 6, 24, 3:
aliquid experimentis assiduis,
Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:
esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,
Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:
virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,
id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—
C.
To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:
breviter paucis comprendere multa,
Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:
breviter comprehensa sententia,
Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:
comprehendam brevi,
Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:
perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,
id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:
(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,
id. Att. 12, 21, 1:
ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,
id. Brut. 8, 34:
in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1:
emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,
Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:
ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,
Cic. Brut. 5, 19:
aliquid dictis,
Ov. M. 13, 160:
quae si comprendere coner,
id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —
2.
Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:
neque enim numero comprendere refert,
Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:
numerum quorum comprendere non est,
id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—
D.
To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;
mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,
to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
adulescentem humanitate tuā,
id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:
quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,
id. Planc. 19. 47.—
E.
To shut in, include (late Lat.):
spiritum in effigiem,
Lact. 4, 8, 9:
elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,
id. 2, 6, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > conprehendo
7 ūsūrpō

ūsūrpō āvī, ātus, āre [usus+RAP-], to seize for use, grasp for enjoyment, seize upon, take into use, make use of, use, employ, adopt, apply, practise, exercise, enjoy. hoc genus poenae saepe in improbos civīs esse usurpatum recordatur: ex tanto intervallo rem desuetam, L.: consolationes a sapientissimis viris usurpatae: ex usurpatā libertate in servitutem adserendi, i. e. after experience of liberty, L.: Curi cum caritate aliquā benevolā memoriam usurpare, cherish the memory of: ius, exercise, L.—In law, to seize, become seized, take possession, acquire, obtain: surculo defringendo, i. e. by breaking off a twig (as a symbol of ownership). — To seize wrongfully, usurp, trespass on: cuius ius tyranni quoque usurparunt, appropriated, L.: usurpandae alienae possessionis causā, L.—In language, to name, call, speak of, talk of, adopt, assume: Graecum verbum: admonet saepe usurpatae Dionysi vocis, quā, etc., L.: Laelius, is, qui Sapiens usurpatur: quae (via) antea silebatur, eadem nunc crebro usurpatur, is on everybody's tongue.
* * *

usurpare, usurpavi, usurpatus V

seize upon, usurp; use

Latin-English dictionary > ūsūrpō
8 conripio

cor-rĭpĭo ( conr-), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize or snatch up, to collect, to seize upon, take hold of (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
hominem conripi ac suspendi jussit in oleastro,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57; Caes. B. C. 3, 109; cf. Ov. M. 9, 217 al.:
arcumque manu celeresque sagittas,
Verg. A. 1, 188; cf.:
lora manu,
Ov. M. 2, 145:
fasces,
Sall. C. 18, 5:
arma,
Vell. 2, 110 et saep.: corpus, to rise up quickly, start up:
ex somno,
Lucr. 3, 164; Verg. A. 4, 572:
de terrā,
Lucr. 4, 1000:
e stratis,
Verg. A. 3, 176: se, to get or rise up hastily, to betake one's self somewhere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 76; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 6, 472.— Poet.: viam, gradum, spatium, etc., to set out quickly, to pursue hastily, to hasten, hasten through or over:
viam,
Verg. A. 1, 418; Ov. M. 2, 158; Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 6:
gradum,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 33:
spatia,
Verg. A. 5, 316:
campum,
id. G. 3, 104:
aequora,
Val. Fl. 1, 132 al.:
correptā luce diei,
collected, Lucr. 4, 81.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of robbery, etc., to carry off, rob, plunder, take possession of, usurp:
pecunias undique quasi in subsidium,
Tac. A. 13, 18; cf.:
bona vivorum ac mortuorum usquequaque,
Suet. Dom. 12:
pecunias,
Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Tac. A. 13, 31 fin.:
sacram effigiem,
Verg. A. 2, 167:
praefecturas,
Tac. A. 11, 8 al. —
2.
In Tac. freq. of accusations, to bring to trial, accuse, inform against:
Vitellius accusatione corripitur, deferente Junio Lupo senatore,
Tac. A. 12, 42; 2, 28; 3, 49; 6, 40 al.—
3.
Of fire, etc., or of diseases, to attack, seize, sweep, or carry away (freq. after the Aug. per.):
turbine caelesti subito correptus et igni,
Lucr. 6, 395; cf. Verg. A. 1, 45:
flamma Corripuit tabulas,
id. ib. 9, 537; so Ov. M. 2, 210 al.;
and transf. to the person: ipsas ignes corripuere casas,
id. F. 2, 524:
nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt,
Verg. G. 3, 472; Cels. 6, 18, 9; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 172:
morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est,
Suet. Caes. 45:
pedum dolore,
Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4;
rarely of death: subitā morte,
Flor. 3, 17, 2:
(ales) caeco correpta veneno,
Lucr. 6, 823:
(segetes) modo sol nimius, nimius modo corripit imber,
Ov. M. 5, 483.— Absol.:
si (paralytici) correpti non sunt, diutius quidem vivunt, sed, etc.,
Cels. 3, 47, 4.—
4.
With the access. idea of lessening by compressing, to draw together, draw in, contract, shorten, abridge, diminish (rare; mostly post-Aug.): singulos a septenis spatiis ad quina corripuit. Suet. Dom. 4:
impensas,
id. Tib. 34;
of discourse: quae nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas,
Quint. 4, 2, 44;
of words in the number of syllables (trabs from trabes),
Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll.;
or in the length of syllables,
Quint. 9, 4, 89; 10, 1, 29;
and so of syllables (opp. producere),
id. 1, 5, 18;
opp. porrigere,
id. 1, 6, 32, and later grammarians.—In time:
numina corripiant moras,
shorten, Ov. M. 9, 282:
ut difficiles puerperiorum tricas Juno mulceat corripiatque Lucina?
Arn. 3, 21.—
II.
Trop.
A.
To reproach, reprove, chide, blame (first freq. after the Aug. per.;
not in Cic.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,
Caes. B. C. 1, 2: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so with abl., Suet. Aug. 53:
impransi correptus voce magistri,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 257:
hunc cetera turba suorum corripiunt dictis,
Ov. M. 3, 565 al.:
ut eum non inimice corripere, sed paene patrie monere videatur,
Quint. 11, 1, 68; Liv. 2, 28, 5; Suet. Calig. 45; Ov. M. 13, 69 al.:
corripientibus amicis,
Suet. Ner. 35.—As a figure of speech, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104.—
B.
Of the passions, emotions, etc., to seize upon, attack (rare, [p. 474] and mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):
hunc plausus hiantem... plebisque patrumque Corripuit ( = animum commovit),
Verg. G. 2, 510:
correpta cupidine,
Ov. M. 9, 734; so id. ib. 9, 455:
duplici ardore (sc. amoris et vini),
Prop. 1, 3, 13:
misericordiā,
Suet. Calig. 12:
irā,
Gell. 1, 26, 8: militiā ( poet. for militiae studio), Verg. A. 11, 584:
imagine visae formae,
seized, fascinated, Ov. M. 4, 676.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > conripio
9 corripio

cor-rĭpĭo ( conr-), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize or snatch up, to collect, to seize upon, take hold of (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
hominem conripi ac suspendi jussit in oleastro,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57; Caes. B. C. 3, 109; cf. Ov. M. 9, 217 al.:
arcumque manu celeresque sagittas,
Verg. A. 1, 188; cf.:
lora manu,
Ov. M. 2, 145:
fasces,
Sall. C. 18, 5:
arma,
Vell. 2, 110 et saep.: corpus, to rise up quickly, start up:
ex somno,
Lucr. 3, 164; Verg. A. 4, 572:
de terrā,
Lucr. 4, 1000:
e stratis,
Verg. A. 3, 176: se, to get or rise up hastily, to betake one's self somewhere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 76; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 6, 472.— Poet.: viam, gradum, spatium, etc., to set out quickly, to pursue hastily, to hasten, hasten through or over:
viam,
Verg. A. 1, 418; Ov. M. 2, 158; Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 6:
gradum,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 33:
spatia,
Verg. A. 5, 316:
campum,
id. G. 3, 104:
aequora,
Val. Fl. 1, 132 al.:
correptā luce diei,
collected, Lucr. 4, 81.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Of robbery, etc., to carry off, rob, plunder, take possession of, usurp:
pecunias undique quasi in subsidium,
Tac. A. 13, 18; cf.:
bona vivorum ac mortuorum usquequaque,
Suet. Dom. 12:
pecunias,
Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Tac. A. 13, 31 fin.:
sacram effigiem,
Verg. A. 2, 167:
praefecturas,
Tac. A. 11, 8 al. —
2.
In Tac. freq. of accusations, to bring to trial, accuse, inform against:
Vitellius accusatione corripitur, deferente Junio Lupo senatore,
Tac. A. 12, 42; 2, 28; 3, 49; 6, 40 al.—
3.
Of fire, etc., or of diseases, to attack, seize, sweep, or carry away (freq. after the Aug. per.):
turbine caelesti subito correptus et igni,
Lucr. 6, 395; cf. Verg. A. 1, 45:
flamma Corripuit tabulas,
id. ib. 9, 537; so Ov. M. 2, 210 al.;
and transf. to the person: ipsas ignes corripuere casas,
id. F. 2, 524:
nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt,
Verg. G. 3, 472; Cels. 6, 18, 9; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 172:
morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est,
Suet. Caes. 45:
pedum dolore,
Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4;
rarely of death: subitā morte,
Flor. 3, 17, 2:
(ales) caeco correpta veneno,
Lucr. 6, 823:
(segetes) modo sol nimius, nimius modo corripit imber,
Ov. M. 5, 483.— Absol.:
si (paralytici) correpti non sunt, diutius quidem vivunt, sed, etc.,
Cels. 3, 47, 4.—
4.
With the access. idea of lessening by compressing, to draw together, draw in, contract, shorten, abridge, diminish (rare; mostly post-Aug.): singulos a septenis spatiis ad quina corripuit. Suet. Dom. 4:
impensas,
id. Tib. 34;
of discourse: quae nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas,
Quint. 4, 2, 44;
of words in the number of syllables (trabs from trabes),
Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll.;
or in the length of syllables,
Quint. 9, 4, 89; 10, 1, 29;
and so of syllables (opp. producere),
id. 1, 5, 18;
opp. porrigere,
id. 1, 6, 32, and later grammarians.—In time:
numina corripiant moras,
shorten, Ov. M. 9, 282:
ut difficiles puerperiorum tricas Juno mulceat corripiatque Lucina?
Arn. 3, 21.—
II.
Trop.
A.
To reproach, reprove, chide, blame (first freq. after the Aug. per.;
not in Cic.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,
Caes. B. C. 1, 2: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so with abl., Suet. Aug. 53:
impransi correptus voce magistri,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 257:
hunc cetera turba suorum corripiunt dictis,
Ov. M. 3, 565 al.:
ut eum non inimice corripere, sed paene patrie monere videatur,
Quint. 11, 1, 68; Liv. 2, 28, 5; Suet. Calig. 45; Ov. M. 13, 69 al.:
corripientibus amicis,
Suet. Ner. 35.—As a figure of speech, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104.—
B.
Of the passions, emotions, etc., to seize upon, attack (rare, [p. 474] and mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):
hunc plausus hiantem... plebisque patrumque Corripuit ( = animum commovit),
Verg. G. 2, 510:
correpta cupidine,
Ov. M. 9, 734; so id. ib. 9, 455:
duplici ardore (sc. amoris et vini),
Prop. 1, 3, 13:
misericordiā,
Suet. Calig. 12:
irā,
Gell. 1, 26, 8: militiā ( poet. for militiae studio), Verg. A. 11, 584:
imagine visae formae,
seized, fascinated, Ov. M. 4, 676.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > corripio
10 rapiō

rapiō puī (old fut perf. rapsit, C.), raptus, ere [RAP-], to seize and carry off, snatch, tear, pluck, drag, hurry away: sublimen intro hunc rape, T.: quo fessum rapitis? V.: Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, H.: sumasne pudenter An rapias, snatch, H.: ab aede rapuit funale, O.: de volnere telum, V.: commeatum in navīs rapiunt, L.: pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit, i. e. break off boughs of trees (in collecting wood), V.: in ius, drag before a court, H.: ob facinus ad supplicium, hale: alii ad necem rapiebantur: ad stuprum matres, L.: (infantes) ab ubere rapti, V.: nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divom rapiam, drag into open day, H.: Nasonis carmina rapti, i. e. torn from his home, O.— To hurry, impel, drive, cause to hasten: Quattuor hinc rapimur raedis, H.: per aequora navem, V.: ventis per aequora, O.: missos currūs, H.: arma rapiat iuventus, snatch, V.: arma, O.: bipennem dextrā, V.: rapiuntque ruuntque, hurry and bustle, V.—With pron reflex., to make haste, hasten, hurry, fly: ocius hinc te Ni rapis, H.: se ad caedem optimi cuiusque.— To carry off by force, seize, rob, ravish, plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by storm: spes rapiendi occaecat animos: semper rapiens, semper ebrius: raptas ad litora vertere praedas, V.: rapere omnes trahere, S.: vivere latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset: virgines, to abduct, S.: Arsit Atrides Virgine raptā, H.: Omne sacrum rapiente dextrā, H.: alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama, pillage and plunder, V.: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, L.— To carry off suddenly, snatch away, destroy: improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes, H.: rapto de fratre dolens, H.: Et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis, i. e. hurries on, V.— To take, catch, assume: flammam, catch quickly, V.: nigrum colorem, O.: Virga... Vim rapuit monstri, imbibed, O.— To lead on hurriedly: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populus, leads hastily on, V.: Nec rapit inmensos orbīs per humum, sweeps along, V.—Fig., to snatch away, carry along, hurry away: ipsae res verba rapiunt, carry along with them: (comoediam) in peiorem partem, i. e. misrepresent, T.: Si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve, V.: almum Quae rapit hora diem, snatches away, H.: simul tecum solacia rapta, V. — To drive, impel, carry away, precipitate, transport, ravish, captivate, overwhelm, draw irresistibly: ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā studioque rapi: semper eo tractus est, quo libido rapuit: amentiā rapi: Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa? H.: animum In partīs rapit varias, turns hurriedly, V.: ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur.— To seize by violence, snatch, steal: Hippodameam raptis nanctu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. C.: Venerem incertam, H.: sed rapiat sitiens Venerem, but may eagerly seize upon, V.— To snatch, seize quickly, hasten, precipitate: rapienda occasio, Iu.: viam, hasten, O.: ut limis rapias, quid velit, etc., may hastily note, H.: raptae prope inter arma nuptiae, L.
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rapere, rapui, raptus V

drag off; snatch; destroy; seize, carry off; pillage; hurry

Latin-English dictionary > rapiō
11 contingo

1.
con-tingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. and n. [tango], to touch on all sides. to touch, take hold of, seize (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
facile cibum terrestrem rostris,
Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:
funem manu,
Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. M. 2, 151:
munera Cerealia dextrā,
id. ib. 11, 122:
undas pede,
id. ib. 2, 457:
focos ore tremente,
id. Tr. 1, 3, 44:
terram osculo,
Liv. 1, 56, 12:
ora nati sacro medicamine,
Ov. M. 2, 123; cf. id. ib. 14, 607:
montes suo igni (sol),
Lucr. 4, 407; cf. Cat. 64, 408, and Suet. Ner. 6:
cibos sale modico,
to sprinkle, Cels. 2, 24: sidera comā ( poet. designation for a very great height), Ov. F. 3, 34; cf.:
nubes aërio vertice (Taurus),
Tib. 1, 7, 15: summa sidera plantis, to reach the stars (a poet. designation of great prosperity), Prop. 1, 8, 43:
mitem taurum,
Ov. M. 2, 860; cf. id. ib. 8, 423:
glebam,
id. ib. 11, 111:
paene terram (luna),
Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91:
caules (vitis),
id. N. D. 2, 47, 120:
dextras consulum (as a friendly greeting or congratulation),
Liv. 28, 9, 6; so,
manum,
Vell. 2, 104, 5; 2, 107, 4.—
B.
With partic. access. ideas.
1.
To eat, partake of, taste ( poet.):
neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 113:
cibos ore,
Ov. M. 5, 531:
aquas,
id. ib. 15, 281:
fontem,
id. ib. 3, 409.—
2.
To touch impurely (very rare):
corpus corpore,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—
3.
To touch, i. e. to be near, neighboring, or contiguous, to border upon, to reach, extend to; with acc., dat., or inter se; with acc.:
Helvi, qui fines Arvernorum contingunt,
Caes. B. G. 7, 7 fin.:
turri adactā et contingente vallum,
id. ib. 5, 43; cf.:
in saltu Vescino Falernum contingente agrum,
Liv. 10, 21, 8:
praesidium coloniarum Illyricum contingentium,
Suet. Aug. 25. —With dat.:
ut radices montis ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis contingant,
Caes. B. G. 1, 38.—With inter se:
ut (milites) contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant,
Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf. id. B. G. 7, 23.—
4.
With the idea of motion, to reach something by moving, to attain to, reach, come to, arrive at, meet with, etc. (mostly poet.); with acc.:
optatam metam cursu,
Hor. A. P. 412:
Ephyren pennis,
Ov. M. 7, 392:
Italiam,
Verg. A. 5, 18:
fines Illyricos,
Ov. M. 4, 568:
Creten,
id. ib. 8, 100:
Cadmeïda arcem,
id. ib. 6, 217:
rapidas Phasidos undas,
id. ib. 7, 6:
auras,
to come into the air, id. ib. 15, 416 al.:
avem ferro,
to hit, Verg. A. 5, 509; cf. Ov M. 8, 351: ullum mortalem (vox mea), id. id. 2, 578; cf.
thus aures,
id. ib. 1, 211; and aures fando, with the acc. and inf., id. ib. 15, 497: aevi florem, to come to or reach the flower of age, Lucr. 1, 565.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to touch, to seize upon, affect (rare). multitudo agrestium, quos in aliquā suā fortunā publica quoque contingebat cura, Liv. 22, 10, 8:
contactus nullis ante cupidinibus,
Prop. 1, 1, 2:
quam me manifesta libido contigit!
Ov. M. 9, 484: animum curā. Val. Fl. 7, 173; cf.:
aliquem (curā), contacti simili sorte,
Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 78. —Far more freq.,
B.
In partic.
1.
(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To touch with pollution, to pollute, stain, defile, etc.; so generally in part. perf. (as a verb. finit. the kindr. contamino was in use):
(Gallos) contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros,
Liv. 21, 48, 3; so,
contacta civitas rabie duorum juvenum,
id. 4, 9, 10:
omnes eā violatione templi,
id. 29, 8, 11 (for which id. 29, 18, 8:
nefandà praedā se ipsos ac domos contaminare suas): plebs regiā praedā,
id. 2, 5, 2; cf. id. 4, 15, 8:
equi candidi et nullo mortali opere contacti,
Tac. G. 10: dies (sc. Alliensis) religione, [p. 450] Liv. 6, 28, 6:
pectora vitiis,
Tac. Or. 12.—Once absol.:
contactus ensis,
Sen. Hippol. 714.—
2.
(Acc. to I. B. 3.) With aliquem aliquā re or only aliquem, to be connected with or related to, to concern:
ut quisque tam foede interemptos aut propinquitate aut amicitiā contingebat,
Liv. 25, 8, 2:
aliquem sanguine ac genere,
id. 45, 7, 3; 24, 22, 14:
aliquem artissimo gradu,
Suet. Aug. 4:
domum Caesarum nullo gradu,
id. Galb. 2; cf. absol.:
deos (i. e. Maecenatem et Augustum) quoniam propius contingis,
have more ready access to the great, Hor. S. 2, 6, 52:
Sabinum modico usu,
to have little intercourse with, Tac. A. 4, 68:
multis in Italiā contactis gentibus Punici belli societate,
Liv. 31, 8, 11; cf.:
si crĭmine contingantur,
have part in, Dig. 11, 4, 1:
haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit,
concerns not, Liv. 34, 22, 12; cf.:
quae (causa) nihil eo facto contingitur,
id. 40, 14, 9.—
3.
(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To attain to, reach, arrive at something, to come to (very rare):
quam regionem cum superavit animus naturamque sui similem contigit et agnovit,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43.—
b.
With and without dat. of person; of occurrences, to happen to one, to befall, fall to one's lot, to succeed in, obtain a thing; and absol., to happen, fall to, turn out, come to pass (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition; in gen., of favorable, but sometimes of indifferent, or even adverse occurrences).
(α).
With dat.:
cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda,
Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:
haec tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor,
id. Hec. 5, 3, 35:
quod isti (Crasso) contigit uni,
Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 228; 1, 35, 164; id. Off. 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1; Caes. B. G. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 115; 12, 11, 29; Suet. Caes. 35; id. Calig. 3, 10 et saep.; Ov. M. 3, 321; 11, 268; 15, 443; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 46; 1, 4, 10; 1, 17, 9 et saep.:
cum tanto plura bene dicendi exempla supersint quam illis contigerunt,
Quint. 10, 2, 28: quam mihi maxime hic hodie contigerit malum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 268, 12:
quod (sc. servitus) potentibus populis saepe contigit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:
cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret,
id. N. D. 1, 11, 27; id. Phil. 14, 8, 24; id. Fam. 5, 16, 5; id. Sen. 19, 71; id. Off. 2, 14, 50; 2, 19, 65; id. Fam. 11, 16, 2 al.: quoties ipsi testatori aliquid contingit, a misfortune befalls, etc., Dig. 28, 3, 6:
si quid ei humanitus contigerit,
ib. 34, 4, 30 fin. (cf. ib. § 2: sive in viā aliquid mihi humanitus acciderit, and v. 2. accido, II. B.).— Impers. with inf.:
non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36:
mihi Romae nutriri atque doceri,
id. ib. 2, 2, 41:
mihi recusare principatum,
Vell. 2, 124, 2:
mihi cognoscere (eos),
Quint. 12, 11, 3; 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25; 6, 1, 4 al.—And, at the same time, a dat. of the predicate (post-class. and rare):
quo tempore mihi fratrique meo destinari praetoribus contigit,
Vell. 2, 124, 4:
maximo tibi et civi et duci evadere contigit,
Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 2 (in Ov. M. 11, 220, the better read. is nepotem); cf. Haase in Reisig. Lect. p. 794 sq.—With ut:
volo hoc oratori contingat, ut, etc.,
Cic. Brut. 84, 290; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; Quint. 11, 2, 51 al. —
(β).
With acc. (very rare):
sors Tyrrhenum contigit,
fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:
Italiam palma frugum,
Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—
(γ).
Absol. (very freq.):
hanc mi expetivi, contigit,
Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:
magis adeo id facilitate quam aliā ullā culpā meā contigit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:
quod si nulla contingit excusatio,
Quint. 11, 1, 81:
ubi quid melius contingit et unctius,
Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 44 et saep.—With abl.:
quia memoria atque actio naturā non arte contingant,
Quint. 3, 3, 4; so id. 1, 1, 33; 2, 2, 11 al.—With ex:
gratia, quae continget ex sermone puro atque dilucido,
Quint. 11, 1, 53; so id. 8, 3, 70:
ex eādem brassicā contingunt aestivi autumnalesque cauliculi,
arise, spring, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 138 al.:
nihil horum nisi in complexu loquendi serieque contingit,
Quint. 1, 5, 3.—With inf.:
fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget,
Hor. A. P. 51; Quint. 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25:
concitare invidiam, etc.... liberius in peroratione contingit,
id. 6, 1, 14.—With ut:
quod nunquam opinatus fui... id contigit, ut salvi poteremur domi,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 32; so Quint. 4, 1, 7; 9, 3, 72; 11, 2, 39.
2.
con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).
I.
Lit.:
oras, pocula circum mellis liquore,
Lucr. 1, 938:
semina rerum colore,
id. 2, 755:
lac parco sale,
to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403:
tonsum corpus amurcā,
id. ib. 3, 448. —
II.
Trop.:
musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,
Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > contingo
12 continguo

1.
con-tingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. and n. [tango], to touch on all sides. to touch, take hold of, seize (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
facile cibum terrestrem rostris,
Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:
funem manu,
Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. M. 2, 151:
munera Cerealia dextrā,
id. ib. 11, 122:
undas pede,
id. ib. 2, 457:
focos ore tremente,
id. Tr. 1, 3, 44:
terram osculo,
Liv. 1, 56, 12:
ora nati sacro medicamine,
Ov. M. 2, 123; cf. id. ib. 14, 607:
montes suo igni (sol),
Lucr. 4, 407; cf. Cat. 64, 408, and Suet. Ner. 6:
cibos sale modico,
to sprinkle, Cels. 2, 24: sidera comā ( poet. designation for a very great height), Ov. F. 3, 34; cf.:
nubes aërio vertice (Taurus),
Tib. 1, 7, 15: summa sidera plantis, to reach the stars (a poet. designation of great prosperity), Prop. 1, 8, 43:
mitem taurum,
Ov. M. 2, 860; cf. id. ib. 8, 423:
glebam,
id. ib. 11, 111:
paene terram (luna),
Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91:
caules (vitis),
id. N. D. 2, 47, 120:
dextras consulum (as a friendly greeting or congratulation),
Liv. 28, 9, 6; so,
manum,
Vell. 2, 104, 5; 2, 107, 4.—
B.
With partic. access. ideas.
1.
To eat, partake of, taste ( poet.):
neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 113:
cibos ore,
Ov. M. 5, 531:
aquas,
id. ib. 15, 281:
fontem,
id. ib. 3, 409.—
2.
To touch impurely (very rare):
corpus corpore,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—
3.
To touch, i. e. to be near, neighboring, or contiguous, to border upon, to reach, extend to; with acc., dat., or inter se; with acc.:
Helvi, qui fines Arvernorum contingunt,
Caes. B. G. 7, 7 fin.:
turri adactā et contingente vallum,
id. ib. 5, 43; cf.:
in saltu Vescino Falernum contingente agrum,
Liv. 10, 21, 8:
praesidium coloniarum Illyricum contingentium,
Suet. Aug. 25. —With dat.:
ut radices montis ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis contingant,
Caes. B. G. 1, 38.—With inter se:
ut (milites) contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant,
Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf. id. B. G. 7, 23.—
4.
With the idea of motion, to reach something by moving, to attain to, reach, come to, arrive at, meet with, etc. (mostly poet.); with acc.:
optatam metam cursu,
Hor. A. P. 412:
Ephyren pennis,
Ov. M. 7, 392:
Italiam,
Verg. A. 5, 18:
fines Illyricos,
Ov. M. 4, 568:
Creten,
id. ib. 8, 100:
Cadmeïda arcem,
id. ib. 6, 217:
rapidas Phasidos undas,
id. ib. 7, 6:
auras,
to come into the air, id. ib. 15, 416 al.:
avem ferro,
to hit, Verg. A. 5, 509; cf. Ov M. 8, 351: ullum mortalem (vox mea), id. id. 2, 578; cf.
thus aures,
id. ib. 1, 211; and aures fando, with the acc. and inf., id. ib. 15, 497: aevi florem, to come to or reach the flower of age, Lucr. 1, 565.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to touch, to seize upon, affect (rare). multitudo agrestium, quos in aliquā suā fortunā publica quoque contingebat cura, Liv. 22, 10, 8:
contactus nullis ante cupidinibus,
Prop. 1, 1, 2:
quam me manifesta libido contigit!
Ov. M. 9, 484: animum curā. Val. Fl. 7, 173; cf.:
aliquem (curā), contacti simili sorte,
Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 78. —Far more freq.,
B.
In partic.
1.
(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To touch with pollution, to pollute, stain, defile, etc.; so generally in part. perf. (as a verb. finit. the kindr. contamino was in use):
(Gallos) contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros,
Liv. 21, 48, 3; so,
contacta civitas rabie duorum juvenum,
id. 4, 9, 10:
omnes eā violatione templi,
id. 29, 8, 11 (for which id. 29, 18, 8:
nefandà praedā se ipsos ac domos contaminare suas): plebs regiā praedā,
id. 2, 5, 2; cf. id. 4, 15, 8:
equi candidi et nullo mortali opere contacti,
Tac. G. 10: dies (sc. Alliensis) religione, [p. 450] Liv. 6, 28, 6:
pectora vitiis,
Tac. Or. 12.—Once absol.:
contactus ensis,
Sen. Hippol. 714.—
2.
(Acc. to I. B. 3.) With aliquem aliquā re or only aliquem, to be connected with or related to, to concern:
ut quisque tam foede interemptos aut propinquitate aut amicitiā contingebat,
Liv. 25, 8, 2:
aliquem sanguine ac genere,
id. 45, 7, 3; 24, 22, 14:
aliquem artissimo gradu,
Suet. Aug. 4:
domum Caesarum nullo gradu,
id. Galb. 2; cf. absol.:
deos (i. e. Maecenatem et Augustum) quoniam propius contingis,
have more ready access to the great, Hor. S. 2, 6, 52:
Sabinum modico usu,
to have little intercourse with, Tac. A. 4, 68:
multis in Italiā contactis gentibus Punici belli societate,
Liv. 31, 8, 11; cf.:
si crĭmine contingantur,
have part in, Dig. 11, 4, 1:
haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit,
concerns not, Liv. 34, 22, 12; cf.:
quae (causa) nihil eo facto contingitur,
id. 40, 14, 9.—
3.
(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To attain to, reach, arrive at something, to come to (very rare):
quam regionem cum superavit animus naturamque sui similem contigit et agnovit,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43.—
b.
With and without dat. of person; of occurrences, to happen to one, to befall, fall to one's lot, to succeed in, obtain a thing; and absol., to happen, fall to, turn out, come to pass (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition; in gen., of favorable, but sometimes of indifferent, or even adverse occurrences).
(α).
With dat.:
cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda,
Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:
haec tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor,
id. Hec. 5, 3, 35:
quod isti (Crasso) contigit uni,
Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 228; 1, 35, 164; id. Off. 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1; Caes. B. G. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 115; 12, 11, 29; Suet. Caes. 35; id. Calig. 3, 10 et saep.; Ov. M. 3, 321; 11, 268; 15, 443; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 46; 1, 4, 10; 1, 17, 9 et saep.:
cum tanto plura bene dicendi exempla supersint quam illis contigerunt,
Quint. 10, 2, 28: quam mihi maxime hic hodie contigerit malum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 268, 12:
quod (sc. servitus) potentibus populis saepe contigit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:
cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret,
id. N. D. 1, 11, 27; id. Phil. 14, 8, 24; id. Fam. 5, 16, 5; id. Sen. 19, 71; id. Off. 2, 14, 50; 2, 19, 65; id. Fam. 11, 16, 2 al.: quoties ipsi testatori aliquid contingit, a misfortune befalls, etc., Dig. 28, 3, 6:
si quid ei humanitus contigerit,
ib. 34, 4, 30 fin. (cf. ib. § 2: sive in viā aliquid mihi humanitus acciderit, and v. 2. accido, II. B.).— Impers. with inf.:
non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36:
mihi Romae nutriri atque doceri,
id. ib. 2, 2, 41:
mihi recusare principatum,
Vell. 2, 124, 2:
mihi cognoscere (eos),
Quint. 12, 11, 3; 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25; 6, 1, 4 al.—And, at the same time, a dat. of the predicate (post-class. and rare):
quo tempore mihi fratrique meo destinari praetoribus contigit,
Vell. 2, 124, 4:
maximo tibi et civi et duci evadere contigit,
Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 2 (in Ov. M. 11, 220, the better read. is nepotem); cf. Haase in Reisig. Lect. p. 794 sq.—With ut:
volo hoc oratori contingat, ut, etc.,
Cic. Brut. 84, 290; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; Quint. 11, 2, 51 al. —
(β).
With acc. (very rare):
sors Tyrrhenum contigit,
fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:
Italiam palma frugum,
Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—
(γ).
Absol. (very freq.):
hanc mi expetivi, contigit,
Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:
magis adeo id facilitate quam aliā ullā culpā meā contigit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:
quod si nulla contingit excusatio,
Quint. 11, 1, 81:
ubi quid melius contingit et unctius,
Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 44 et saep.—With abl.:
quia memoria atque actio naturā non arte contingant,
Quint. 3, 3, 4; so id. 1, 1, 33; 2, 2, 11 al.—With ex:
gratia, quae continget ex sermone puro atque dilucido,
Quint. 11, 1, 53; so id. 8, 3, 70:
ex eādem brassicā contingunt aestivi autumnalesque cauliculi,
arise, spring, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 138 al.:
nihil horum nisi in complexu loquendi serieque contingit,
Quint. 1, 5, 3.—With inf.:
fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget,
Hor. A. P. 51; Quint. 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25:
concitare invidiam, etc.... liberius in peroratione contingit,
id. 6, 1, 14.—With ut:
quod nunquam opinatus fui... id contigit, ut salvi poteremur domi,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 32; so Quint. 4, 1, 7; 9, 3, 72; 11, 2, 39.
2.
con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).
I.
Lit.:
oras, pocula circum mellis liquore,
Lucr. 1, 938:
semina rerum colore,
id. 2, 755:
lac parco sale,
to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403:
tonsum corpus amurcā,
id. ib. 3, 448. —
II.
Trop.:
musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,
Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > continguo
13 inicio

īnĭcĭo (less correctly injĭcĭo, v. Brambach's Hilfsb. p. 19), jēci, jectum (endojacito for inicito, Leg. XII. Tab. ap. Fest. in struere, p. 313, a, Müll.:
injexit for injecerit,
Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 18), 3, v. a. [in-jacio].
A.
Lit., to throw, cast, or put in, on, or into:
cum mea domus ardebat ignibus injectis,
Cic. Pis. 11, 26:
ignem castris,
Liv. 40, 31, 9:
ignes tectis,
id. 25, 39, 3:
semen,
Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 173:
opus flammis,
Quint. 6 praef. 3:
foculo manum,
Liv. 2, 12, 13:
vestem flammae,
Suet. Caes. 84; hence: inicere se, to throw or fling one ' s self anywhere:
se in medios hostes ad perspicuam mortem,
Cic. Dom. 24, 64: se in ignem. Ter. And. 1, 1, 113:
sese medium in agmen,
Verg. A. 2, 408:
sese morti,
id. ib. 9, 553:
se flammae,
Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 143.—
B.
To throw or put on or upon, to throw at or over any thing.— In gen.: pallium inice in me huc, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 26:
eique laneum pallium injecit,
Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83:
togam ex integro,
Quint. 11, 3, 156:
bracchia collo,
Ov. M. 3, 389; cf.:
bracchia caelo,
i.e. to attack, id. ib. 1, 184:
securim alicui,
Cic. Mur. 24, 48:
pontem,
Liv. 26, 6, 2:
eo super tigna sesquipedalia iniciunt,
Caes. B. C. 2, 10:
taedas ad fastigia tectorum,
Val. Fl. 2, 235:
manicas alicui,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 1:
catenas alicui,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 106; cf.:
vincula alicui,
id. Fin. 3, 22, 76; Verg. E. 6, 19:
frenos alicui,
Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 20:
frena,
Hor. C. 4, 15, 11:
spiranti pulvinum,
Suet. Calig. 12:
cervicibus laqueum,
id. Vit. 17:
injecti umeris capilli,
i. e. falling over her shoulders, Ov. M. 11, 770.—
C.
Esp.
1.
Inicere manum alicui, to lay one ' s hand on, to take hold of any one, in order to make him stand still, Petr. 115. —
2.
In a jurid. sense, to seize, take possession of, as one's property, without a previous judicial decision (which was permitted, e. g. to a master on meeting with his runaway slave;
v. injectio): virgini venienti in forum minister decemviri manum injecit, servā suā natam appellans,
Liv. 3, 44, 6; so Dig. 18, 7, 9 al.—So too in summoning before a judge:
ubi quadruplator quempiam injexit (injecerit) manum,
Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 18; id. Truc. 4, 2, 49.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to bring into, inspire, infuse, occasion, cause:
inicere tumultum civitati,
Cic. Cat. 3, 3, 7:
alicui formidinem,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 68:
spem,
id. Att. 3, 22, 1:
terrorem mortis,
id. Fin. 5, 11, 31:
religionem,
id. Caecin. 33, 97:
scrupulum,
id. Clu. 28, 76:
alicui mentem ut audeat,
id. Mil. 31, 84:
alicui cogitationem de triumpho,
id. Att. 7, 3, 2:
curam, ne,
Liv. 27, 4, 2:
alacritatem et studium pugnandi exercitui,
Caes. B. G. 1, 46:
metum alicui in pectus,
Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 26:
vultis hoc certamen uxoribus vestris inicere?
to give occasion for, Liv. 34, 4, 14:
cunctationem,
to cause delay, id. 35, 25, 5:
arma regnis, i. e. bellum inferre,
Stat. Th. 1, 241:
frustrationem,
to produce deception, confusion, Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 15:
alicui causam deliberandi,
to furnish, Cic. Caecin. 2, 4:
plaga injecta petitioni,
given, Cic. Mur. 23, 48.—
b.
Of the mind, with se, to dwell upon, reflect on:
in quam (magnitudinem regionum) se iniciens animus, etc.,
Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Manus inicere (acc. to I. B.), to seize upon, take possession of, exercise power over:
animus sacer et aeternus est, et cui non possint inici manus,
Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 11 fin.:
quieti ejus injeci manum,
I have torn him away from his repose, Plin. Ep. 10, 19, 2:
injecere manum Parcae,
took possession of him, Verg. A. 10, 419.—
2.
Inicere, to throw out a hint, to mention, suggest:
quia nuper injecit,
Cic. Quint. 21, 68: Bruto cum saepe injecissem de homoploiai, id. Att. 16, 5, 3: cum mihi in sermone injecisset, se velle, etc., Trebon. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 2:
alicui nomen alicujus,
id. Dom. 6, 14.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > inicio
14 ad-ripiō (arr-)

ad-ripiō (arr-) ipuī, eptus, ere [ad + rapio], to snatch, catch hurriedly, grasp, seize: telum: arcūs, O.: manum, H.—To seize, lay hold of: alqm medium, T.: quem adripuit, has buttonholed, H.: alqm comā, O.: adreptus de pecuniis repetundis, arrested for: abeuntes magistratu, L.—To take, appropriate, seize, embrace: facultatem laedendi: sibi imperium, usurp, Cs.: tempore adrepto, V.: impedimentum pro occasione, L.: (tellurem) velis, make haste to, V.: aliquid ad reprehendendum: gestūs aliunde: cognomen sibi ex imaginibus: maledictum ex trivio: tu mihi id, etc., seize (as a reproach) to me, etc. — To seize upon, learn with avidity: haec: (litterarum) studium, N.: celeriter res: litteras adripui.—To ridicule, attack, satirize: primores populi, H.: Nomentanum mecum, H.

Latin-English dictionary > ad-ripiō (arr-)
15 adripio

ar-rĭpĭo ( adr-, B. and K.; arr-, Lachm., Ritschl, Fleck., Merk., Rib., K. and H., Weissenb., Halm), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize, snatch, lay hold of, draw a person or thing to one's self (esp. with haste).
I.
In gen.
A.
Lit.:
ut eum eriperet, manum arripuit mordicus: Vix foras me abripui atque effugi,
Plaut. Curc. 5, 1, 7; cf.
the first of the words following, formed by Plaut. after the manner of Aristophanes: Quodsemelarripides Numquampostreddonides,
Pers. 4, 6, 23 Ritschl:
gladium,
id. Capt. 4, 4, 7; Vulg. Gen. 22, 10:
pugionem,
ib. Num. 25, 7:
securim,
ib. Jud. 9, 48:
arma,
Liv. 35, 36:
cultrum,
id. 3, 48:
telum, vestimenta,
Nep. Alcib. 10, 5:
arcus Arripit,
Ov. M. 5, 64:
ensem,
id. ib. 13, 386:
saxum,
Curt. 6, 9:
pileum vel galerum,
Suet. Ner. 26:
scutum e strage,
Tac. A. 3, 23:
sagittam et scutum,
Vulg. Jer. 6, 23:
clipeum,
ib. Isa. 21, 5:
aliquem barbā,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64:
manu,
Liv. 6, 8:
aliquam comā,
Ov. M. 6, 552:
caput capillo,
Suet. Galb. 20: manum alicujus, Auct. B. G. 8, 23; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4.—
B.
Trop., to take to one's self, procure, appropriate, seize:
Arripe opem auxiliumque ad hanc rem,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 65:
vox et gestus subito sumi et aliunde adripi non potest,
Cic. Or. 1, 59, 252:
cognomen sibi ex Aeliorum imaginibus adripuit,
id. Sest. 32:
non debes adripere maledictum ex trivio aut ex scurrarum aliquo convicio,
id. Mur. 6:
libenter adripere facultatem laedendi,
id. Fl. 8, 19:
aliquid ad reprehendendum,
id. N. D. 2, 65, 162:
impedimentum pro occasione arripere,
Liv. 3, 35 al. —
II.
Transf.
A.
In gen., to seize, lay hold of, take possession of, secure:
Sublimem medium arriperem, et capite pronum in terram statuerem,
Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:
simul arripit ipsum Pendentem,
Verg. A. 9, 561:
medium arripit Servium,
Liv. 1, 48:
quando arripuerit te spiritus Domini malus,
Vulg. 1 Reg. 16, 16; so ib. Luc. 8, 29:
Existit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens, Quamcumque arripuit partim,
Lucr. 6, 661:
quemcumque patrem familias adripuissetis ex aliquo circulo,
you might have taken, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159:
nisi forte eum (dolorem) dicis, qui simul atque adripuit, interficit,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
vitulum,
Vulg. Deut. 9, 21:
leones,
ib. Dan. 6, 24:
navem,
ib. Act. 27, 15:
arrepto repente equo,
Liv. 6, 8:
cohortes arreptas in urbem inducit,
id. 34, 20.— Trop., of the mind, to seize upon with eagerness or haste, to learn quickly or with avidity:
pueri celeriter res innumerabiles adripiunt,
Cic. Sen. 21, 78:
quas (sc. Graecas litteras) quidem sic avide adripui, quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens,
id. ib. 8, 26; cf. id. Mur. 30:
Quarum studium etsi senior arripuerat,
Nep. Cato, 3, 2:
quaerit Socrates unde animum adripuerimus, si nullus fuerit in mundo,
Cic. N. D. 3, 11, 26:
quod animus adriperet aut exciperet extrinsecus ex divinitate,
id. Div. 2, 11, 26.—
B.
As a judicial t. t., to bring or summon before a tribunal, to complain of, accuse (cf. rapio;
esp. freq. of those who are complained of after leaving their office): eum te adripuisse, a quo non sis rogatus,
Cic. Planc. 22, 54:
ad quaestionem ipse adreptus est,
id. Clu. 33:
tribunus plebis consules abeuntes magistratu arripuit,
Liv. 2, 54:
arreptus a P. Numitorio Sp. Oppius,
id. 3, 58:
arreptus a viatore,
id. 6, 16:
quaestor ejus in praejudicium aliquot criminibus arreptus est,
Suet. Caes. 23:
inter Sejani conscios arreptus,
id. Vit. 2.—Hence,
C.
In Horace, to attack with ridicule or reproach, to ridicule, satirize: Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim, Sat. 2, 1, 69:
luxuriam et Nomentanum arripe mecum,
id. 2, 3, 224.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adripio
16 arripio

ar-rĭpĭo ( adr-, B. and K.; arr-, Lachm., Ritschl, Fleck., Merk., Rib., K. and H., Weissenb., Halm), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize, snatch, lay hold of, draw a person or thing to one's self (esp. with haste).
I.
In gen.
A.
Lit.:
ut eum eriperet, manum arripuit mordicus: Vix foras me abripui atque effugi,
Plaut. Curc. 5, 1, 7; cf.
the first of the words following, formed by Plaut. after the manner of Aristophanes: Quodsemelarripides Numquampostreddonides,
Pers. 4, 6, 23 Ritschl:
gladium,
id. Capt. 4, 4, 7; Vulg. Gen. 22, 10:
pugionem,
ib. Num. 25, 7:
securim,
ib. Jud. 9, 48:
arma,
Liv. 35, 36:
cultrum,
id. 3, 48:
telum, vestimenta,
Nep. Alcib. 10, 5:
arcus Arripit,
Ov. M. 5, 64:
ensem,
id. ib. 13, 386:
saxum,
Curt. 6, 9:
pileum vel galerum,
Suet. Ner. 26:
scutum e strage,
Tac. A. 3, 23:
sagittam et scutum,
Vulg. Jer. 6, 23:
clipeum,
ib. Isa. 21, 5:
aliquem barbā,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64:
manu,
Liv. 6, 8:
aliquam comā,
Ov. M. 6, 552:
caput capillo,
Suet. Galb. 20: manum alicujus, Auct. B. G. 8, 23; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4.—
B.
Trop., to take to one's self, procure, appropriate, seize:
Arripe opem auxiliumque ad hanc rem,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 65:
vox et gestus subito sumi et aliunde adripi non potest,
Cic. Or. 1, 59, 252:
cognomen sibi ex Aeliorum imaginibus adripuit,
id. Sest. 32:
non debes adripere maledictum ex trivio aut ex scurrarum aliquo convicio,
id. Mur. 6:
libenter adripere facultatem laedendi,
id. Fl. 8, 19:
aliquid ad reprehendendum,
id. N. D. 2, 65, 162:
impedimentum pro occasione arripere,
Liv. 3, 35 al. —
II.
Transf.
A.
In gen., to seize, lay hold of, take possession of, secure:
Sublimem medium arriperem, et capite pronum in terram statuerem,
Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:
simul arripit ipsum Pendentem,
Verg. A. 9, 561:
medium arripit Servium,
Liv. 1, 48:
quando arripuerit te spiritus Domini malus,
Vulg. 1 Reg. 16, 16; so ib. Luc. 8, 29:
Existit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens, Quamcumque arripuit partim,
Lucr. 6, 661:
quemcumque patrem familias adripuissetis ex aliquo circulo,
you might have taken, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159:
nisi forte eum (dolorem) dicis, qui simul atque adripuit, interficit,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
vitulum,
Vulg. Deut. 9, 21:
leones,
ib. Dan. 6, 24:
navem,
ib. Act. 27, 15:
arrepto repente equo,
Liv. 6, 8:
cohortes arreptas in urbem inducit,
id. 34, 20.— Trop., of the mind, to seize upon with eagerness or haste, to learn quickly or with avidity:
pueri celeriter res innumerabiles adripiunt,
Cic. Sen. 21, 78:
quas (sc. Graecas litteras) quidem sic avide adripui, quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens,
id. ib. 8, 26; cf. id. Mur. 30:
Quarum studium etsi senior arripuerat,
Nep. Cato, 3, 2:
quaerit Socrates unde animum adripuerimus, si nullus fuerit in mundo,
Cic. N. D. 3, 11, 26:
quod animus adriperet aut exciperet extrinsecus ex divinitate,
id. Div. 2, 11, 26.—
B.
As a judicial t. t., to bring or summon before a tribunal, to complain of, accuse (cf. rapio;
esp. freq. of those who are complained of after leaving their office): eum te adripuisse, a quo non sis rogatus,
Cic. Planc. 22, 54:
ad quaestionem ipse adreptus est,
id. Clu. 33:
tribunus plebis consules abeuntes magistratu arripuit,
Liv. 2, 54:
arreptus a P. Numitorio Sp. Oppius,
id. 3, 58:
arreptus a viatore,
id. 6, 16:
quaestor ejus in praejudicium aliquot criminibus arreptus est,
Suet. Caes. 23:
inter Sejani conscios arreptus,
id. Vit. 2.—Hence,
C.
In Horace, to attack with ridicule or reproach, to ridicule, satirize: Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim, Sat. 2, 1, 69:
luxuriam et Nomentanum arripe mecum,
id. 2, 3, 224.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > arripio
17 adpeto

1.
ap-pĕto ( adp-, Lachm., Baiter, Weissenb., Halm; app-, Ritschl, Kayser), īvi or ii, ītum, 3, v. a. and n. (class.; in poetry rare); act., to strive after a thing, to try to get, to grasp after (syn.: adfecto, nitor in aliquid).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
solem manibus adpetere,
Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46; so id. ib. 2, 41:
placentam,
Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 183; so, adpetere manum osculis, to seize upon the hand with kisses, i. e. in order to kiss it, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250;
hence, appeti, of old men whose hands one seizes and kisses: haec enim ipsa sunt honorabilia, salutari, adpeti, decedi, adsurgi, etc.,
Cic. Sen. 18, 63; hence (like accedere), to go or come somewhere, to approach, arrive at:
urbem,
Suet. Caes. 42.— Of things without life: mare terram adpetens, pressing or rushing on, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 100:
crescebat interim urbs, munitionibus alia atque alia adpetendo loca,
by continually advancing farther, Liv. 1, 8:
Thule, quam hactenus nix et hiems adpetebat,
only snow and frost had approached, Tac. Agr. 10.—
B.
Esp., to attack, to fall or seize upon, assault, assail (syn.:
peto, adgredior, adorior, invado): lapidibus appetere,
Cic. Dom. 5, 13:
ferro atque insidiis,
id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30; id. Planc. 29 fin.:
umerum gladio,
Caes. B. C. 2, 35; Liv. 7, 26:
aquila aquaticas aves adpetit,
Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 9:
morsu,
Tac. H. 4, 42; Dig. 38, 2, 14; 48, 5, 27 al.— Trop.:
ignominiis omnibus appetitis,
Cic. Quint. 31:
me amor appetit,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:
(uxor) falsā suspitione appetitur,
Vulg. Num. 5, 14.—
C.
Trop., [p. 142] to strive after earnestly, to desire eagerly, to long for (syn.: peto, cupio, expeto; opp. declino, aspernor; v. infra): aliut in dies magis adpetitur, * Lucr. 5, 1279:
ut bona naturā adpetimus, sic a malis naturā declinamus,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13; cf. id. N. D. 3, 13, 33:
idem non modo non recusem, sed appetam etiam atque deposcam,
id. Phil. 3, 14:
inimicitias potentium appetere,
id. Mil. 36; so id. Rosc. Am. 18; id. Verr. 2, 5, 2; id. Agr. 2, 23:
alterum esse adpetendum, alterum aspernandum,
id. Fin. 1, 9, 31 al.:
amicitiam,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:
adulescentium familiaritates,
Sall. C. 14, 5:
hereditates,
Suet. Aug. 60:
divitias,
Vulg. Sap. 8, 5; ib. 1 Tim. 6, 10:
nihil ornamentorum,
Suet. Vesp. 12 al.:
alienum,
Phaedr. 1, 4, 1:
nec abnuendum imperium nec adpetendum,
Sen. Thyest. 472 et saep.—Also of food, to have an appetite for (cf. appetitio, II. B.):
appetitur vilis oliva,
Mart. 9, 27:
pisciculos minutos, caseum,
Suet. Aug. 76.—Constr. with inf. as object:
ut adpetat animus agere semper aliquid,
Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 55; Stat. Th. 1, 234; Pall. 10, 13, 2.—
II.
Neutr., to draw on or nigh, to approach, be at hand (only of time and things having relation to it;
syn.: venio, advenio, adpropinquo, adsum): cum appetit meridies,
Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 116:
dies adpetebat,
Caes. B. G. 6, 35:
nox jam adpetebat,
Liv. 8, 38; so id. 5, 44; 10, 42:
tempus anni,
id. 34, 13; so id. 22, 1; 29, 10 al.:
lux,
Tac. A. 4, 51 al.:
partitudo cui appetit,
Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 36:
consularia comitia adpetebant,
Liv. 41, 28:
adpetit finis,
Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 23 fin. — Hence, appĕtens ( adp-), entis, P. a. (acc. to II.); pr. striving passionately after something; hence,
A.
In gen., desirous of, eager for; constr. with gen.:
appetens gloriae atque avidus laudis,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3:
nihil est adpetentius similium sui,
id. Lael. 14, 50:
studiosissimi adpetentissimique honestatis,
id. Tusc. 2, 24, 58; so Sall. C. 5, 4; id. J. 7, 1; Plin. 31, 6, 36, § 69:
turbidi et negotiorum adpetentes,
Tac. A. 14, 57; id. H. 1, 49; 3, 39; 4, 6; 4, 83; Gell. 16, 3.—
B.
Esp., eager for money (cf. abundans), avaricious:
homo non cupidus neque appetens,
Cic. Agr. 2, 8:
grati animi, non appetentis, non avidi signa,
id. de Or. 2, 43, 182.— Adv.: appĕtenter ( adp-), eagerly, in a grasping spirit or manner:
ne cupide quid agerent, ne adpetenter,
Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33; App. M. 7, p. 192, 40 Elm.— Comp. and sup. not used.
2.
appĕto ( adp-), ōnis, m. [1. appeto], he that strives eagerly for a thing, Laber. ap. Non. p. 74, 8 (Com. Rel. p. 251 Rib.).

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adpeto
18 appeto

1.
ap-pĕto ( adp-, Lachm., Baiter, Weissenb., Halm; app-, Ritschl, Kayser), īvi or ii, ītum, 3, v. a. and n. (class.; in poetry rare); act., to strive after a thing, to try to get, to grasp after (syn.: adfecto, nitor in aliquid).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
solem manibus adpetere,
Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46; so id. ib. 2, 41:
placentam,
Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 183; so, adpetere manum osculis, to seize upon the hand with kisses, i. e. in order to kiss it, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250;
hence, appeti, of old men whose hands one seizes and kisses: haec enim ipsa sunt honorabilia, salutari, adpeti, decedi, adsurgi, etc.,
Cic. Sen. 18, 63; hence (like accedere), to go or come somewhere, to approach, arrive at:
urbem,
Suet. Caes. 42.— Of things without life: mare terram adpetens, pressing or rushing on, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 100:
crescebat interim urbs, munitionibus alia atque alia adpetendo loca,
by continually advancing farther, Liv. 1, 8:
Thule, quam hactenus nix et hiems adpetebat,
only snow and frost had approached, Tac. Agr. 10.—
B.
Esp., to attack, to fall or seize upon, assault, assail (syn.:
peto, adgredior, adorior, invado): lapidibus appetere,
Cic. Dom. 5, 13:
ferro atque insidiis,
id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30; id. Planc. 29 fin.:
umerum gladio,
Caes. B. C. 2, 35; Liv. 7, 26:
aquila aquaticas aves adpetit,
Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 9:
morsu,
Tac. H. 4, 42; Dig. 38, 2, 14; 48, 5, 27 al.— Trop.:
ignominiis omnibus appetitis,
Cic. Quint. 31:
me amor appetit,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:
(uxor) falsā suspitione appetitur,
Vulg. Num. 5, 14.—
C.
Trop., [p. 142] to strive after earnestly, to desire eagerly, to long for (syn.: peto, cupio, expeto; opp. declino, aspernor; v. infra): aliut in dies magis adpetitur, * Lucr. 5, 1279:
ut bona naturā adpetimus, sic a malis naturā declinamus,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13; cf. id. N. D. 3, 13, 33:
idem non modo non recusem, sed appetam etiam atque deposcam,
id. Phil. 3, 14:
inimicitias potentium appetere,
id. Mil. 36; so id. Rosc. Am. 18; id. Verr. 2, 5, 2; id. Agr. 2, 23:
alterum esse adpetendum, alterum aspernandum,
id. Fin. 1, 9, 31 al.:
amicitiam,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:
adulescentium familiaritates,
Sall. C. 14, 5:
hereditates,
Suet. Aug. 60:
divitias,
Vulg. Sap. 8, 5; ib. 1 Tim. 6, 10:
nihil ornamentorum,
Suet. Vesp. 12 al.:
alienum,
Phaedr. 1, 4, 1:
nec abnuendum imperium nec adpetendum,
Sen. Thyest. 472 et saep.—Also of food, to have an appetite for (cf. appetitio, II. B.):
appetitur vilis oliva,
Mart. 9, 27:
pisciculos minutos, caseum,
Suet. Aug. 76.—Constr. with inf. as object:
ut adpetat animus agere semper aliquid,
Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 55; Stat. Th. 1, 234; Pall. 10, 13, 2.—
II.
Neutr., to draw on or nigh, to approach, be at hand (only of time and things having relation to it;
syn.: venio, advenio, adpropinquo, adsum): cum appetit meridies,
Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 116:
dies adpetebat,
Caes. B. G. 6, 35:
nox jam adpetebat,
Liv. 8, 38; so id. 5, 44; 10, 42:
tempus anni,
id. 34, 13; so id. 22, 1; 29, 10 al.:
lux,
Tac. A. 4, 51 al.:
partitudo cui appetit,
Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 36:
consularia comitia adpetebant,
Liv. 41, 28:
adpetit finis,
Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 23 fin. — Hence, appĕtens ( adp-), entis, P. a. (acc. to II.); pr. striving passionately after something; hence,
A.
In gen., desirous of, eager for; constr. with gen.:
appetens gloriae atque avidus laudis,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3:
nihil est adpetentius similium sui,
id. Lael. 14, 50:
studiosissimi adpetentissimique honestatis,
id. Tusc. 2, 24, 58; so Sall. C. 5, 4; id. J. 7, 1; Plin. 31, 6, 36, § 69:
turbidi et negotiorum adpetentes,
Tac. A. 14, 57; id. H. 1, 49; 3, 39; 4, 6; 4, 83; Gell. 16, 3.—
B.
Esp., eager for money (cf. abundans), avaricious:
homo non cupidus neque appetens,
Cic. Agr. 2, 8:
grati animi, non appetentis, non avidi signa,
id. de Or. 2, 43, 182.— Adv.: appĕtenter ( adp-), eagerly, in a grasping spirit or manner:
ne cupide quid agerent, ne adpetenter,
Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33; App. M. 7, p. 192, 40 Elm.— Comp. and sup. not used.
2.
appĕto ( adp-), ōnis, m. [1. appeto], he that strives eagerly for a thing, Laber. ap. Non. p. 74, 8 (Com. Rel. p. 251 Rib.).

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19 deprehendo

dē-prĕhendo or dēprendo (v. prehendo; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 59), di, sum, 3, v. a.
I.
To take or snatch away, esp. any thing which is in motion; to seize upon, catch (freq. and class.—For syn. cf.: invenio, reperio, nanciscor; offendo, aperio, patefacio, detego; incido, consequor, assequor, etc.).
A.
Lit.:
deprehensus ex itinere Cn. Magius,
Caes. B. C. 1, 24, 4:
in ipso fluminis vado deprehensus,
id. B. G. 5, 58, 6:
in agris,
id. ib. 6, 30:
in ponte,
Sall. C. 45:
nuntiorum pars deprehensa,
Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:
deprehensis internuntiis,
id. B. C. 3, 112 fin.: tabellarios deprendere litterasque intercipere, Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12; and:
litterae deprehensae,
intercepted, Liv. 2, 4:
onerarias naves,
to seize, take possession of, Caes. B. C. 1, 36, 2; so id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; id. B. C. 1, 26 al.:
volucres jaculis,
Sil. 16, 566:
cursu deprendere telum,
Stat. Th. 6, 568:
subito deprehensus locutus est,
taken by surprise, Sen. Ep. 11, 1.—
B.
Transf. of inanimate subjects. So, esp. freq. of storms:
deprensa navigia,
caught, overtaken by, Lucr. 6, 429; cf. Catull. 25, 13; Verg. A. 5, 52; id. G. 4, 421; Ov. M. 11, 663; Curt. 7, 4 et saep.—
II.
In a wider sense, to catch, overtake, surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover any one, esp. in doing any thing wrong.
A.
Lit.:
deprehendi in aliquo manifesto scelere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43; so,
in maximo scelere,
Sall. C. 46, 2; 50, 4:
in facinore manifesto,
Cic. Brut. 68 fin.:
in alio maleficio,
id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:
in adulterio,
id. de Or. 2, 68, 275; Vulg. Johan. 8, 3 et saep.:
dolis deprehensus,
Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 26:
nocte ferro deprehensus,
Quint. 7, 6, 8:
sine duce et sine equitatu deprehensis hostibus,
Caes. B. G. 7, 52, 2:
(mulier) deprensa,
caught in the act, Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; 134; 1, 4, 114:
in mendacio,
Quint. 5, 7, 30:
aliquos flentes,
id. ib. 7, 9, 11: agendi subita necessitate deprehensi, id. 1, 12, 4; 1, 8, 21:
aliquem occisum, Suet,
Caes. 35 et saep.—
b.
Of inanimate objects:
venenum,
Cic. Clu. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 16, 47 sq.; Liv. 42, 17:
res furtiva in domo deprehensa,
Quint. 5, 13, 49; cf.
sacrilegium,
id. 8, 6, 26.—
B.
Trop.
1. (α).
To comprehend, perceive, understand, detect, discover, discern, observe (chiefly post-Aug. in prose, esp. in Quint.):
cujus ego facinora oculis prius quam opinione, manibus ante quam suspicione deprehendi,
Cic. Cael. 6 fin.:
quid si me stultior ipso deprenderis?
Hor. S. 2, 7, 43:
hominum erga se mentes,
Suet. Calig. 60:
falsas gemmas,
Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 198:
quam naturam ejus Pythagoras Samius primus deprehendit,
id. 2, 8, 6, § 37; 2, 9, 6, § 43; 9, 28, 44, § 86; Cels. 3, 18; 7 praef.; Plin. Ep. 4, 20, 3:
falsa facilius deprehendere et refellere,
Quint. 12, 1, 34:
quod vix a lectore deprehenditur,
id. 4, 2, 59:
in Livio Patavinitatem,
id. 1, 5, 56; cf. id. 3, 8, 69; 5, 13, 23 et saep.—
(β).
With acc. et inf.:
species diversas esse facile est deprehendere,
Quint. 9, 2, 44:
quosdam mitti,
Suet. Aug. 44:
deprehenditur vitiose loqui,
Quint. 1, 6, 7.—
2.
To overtake, equal, imitate:
juvenemque puer deprehende parentem,
Stat. S. 4, 4, 74.—
3.
To find, discover, come upon (always implying mental action, post-Aug.):
extra carmen non deprendas,
Quint. 1, 5, 18:
quod in epistolis Augusti deprehenditur,
id. 1, 7, 22; 8, 6, 71:
apud Ciceronem mira figurarum mixtura deprehenditur,
id. 9, 3, 40.—
III.
With the predominant idea of restricting the free movement of an object, to impede, to check, to bring into a strait.
A.
Lit.:
inter quas (latebras) deprehensus hostis,
Curt. 7, 4, 4:
in fovea,
id. 5, 3, 19:
flamina deprensa silvis,
i. e. impeded, confined, Verg. A. 10, 98:
viae deprensus in aggere serpens,
id. ib. 5, 273; cf. id. ib. 8, 247; Quint. 12, 2, 14. —
B.
Trop., to bring into a strait, to embarrass:
deprehensum me plane video atque sentio,
Cic. de Or. 1, 48; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12 fin.:
deprensi pudorem explicant,
Quint. 6, 3, 100:
(testes) plus deprehensi nocent, quam firmi et interriti profuissent,
id. 5, 7, 11 al.

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20 deprendo

dē-prĕhendo or dēprendo (v. prehendo; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 59), di, sum, 3, v. a.
I.
To take or snatch away, esp. any thing which is in motion; to seize upon, catch (freq. and class.—For syn. cf.: invenio, reperio, nanciscor; offendo, aperio, patefacio, detego; incido, consequor, assequor, etc.).
A.
Lit.:
deprehensus ex itinere Cn. Magius,
Caes. B. C. 1, 24, 4:
in ipso fluminis vado deprehensus,
id. B. G. 5, 58, 6:
in agris,
id. ib. 6, 30:
in ponte,
Sall. C. 45:
nuntiorum pars deprehensa,
Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:
deprehensis internuntiis,
id. B. C. 3, 112 fin.: tabellarios deprendere litterasque intercipere, Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12; and:
litterae deprehensae,
intercepted, Liv. 2, 4:
onerarias naves,
to seize, take possession of, Caes. B. C. 1, 36, 2; so id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; id. B. C. 1, 26 al.:
volucres jaculis,
Sil. 16, 566:
cursu deprendere telum,
Stat. Th. 6, 568:
subito deprehensus locutus est,
taken by surprise, Sen. Ep. 11, 1.—
B.
Transf. of inanimate subjects. So, esp. freq. of storms:
deprensa navigia,
caught, overtaken by, Lucr. 6, 429; cf. Catull. 25, 13; Verg. A. 5, 52; id. G. 4, 421; Ov. M. 11, 663; Curt. 7, 4 et saep.—
II.
In a wider sense, to catch, overtake, surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover any one, esp. in doing any thing wrong.
A.
Lit.:
deprehendi in aliquo manifesto scelere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43; so,
in maximo scelere,
Sall. C. 46, 2; 50, 4:
in facinore manifesto,
Cic. Brut. 68 fin.:
in alio maleficio,
id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:
in adulterio,
id. de Or. 2, 68, 275; Vulg. Johan. 8, 3 et saep.:
dolis deprehensus,
Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 26:
nocte ferro deprehensus,
Quint. 7, 6, 8:
sine duce et sine equitatu deprehensis hostibus,
Caes. B. G. 7, 52, 2:
(mulier) deprensa,
caught in the act, Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; 134; 1, 4, 114:
in mendacio,
Quint. 5, 7, 30:
aliquos flentes,
id. ib. 7, 9, 11: agendi subita necessitate deprehensi, id. 1, 12, 4; 1, 8, 21:
aliquem occisum, Suet,
Caes. 35 et saep.—
b.
Of inanimate objects:
venenum,
Cic. Clu. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 16, 47 sq.; Liv. 42, 17:
res furtiva in domo deprehensa,
Quint. 5, 13, 49; cf.
sacrilegium,
id. 8, 6, 26.—
B.
Trop.
1. (α).
To comprehend, perceive, understand, detect, discover, discern, observe (chiefly post-Aug. in prose, esp. in Quint.):
cujus ego facinora oculis prius quam opinione, manibus ante quam suspicione deprehendi,
Cic. Cael. 6 fin.:
quid si me stultior ipso deprenderis?
Hor. S. 2, 7, 43:
hominum erga se mentes,
Suet. Calig. 60:
falsas gemmas,
Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 198:
quam naturam ejus Pythagoras Samius primus deprehendit,
id. 2, 8, 6, § 37; 2, 9, 6, § 43; 9, 28, 44, § 86; Cels. 3, 18; 7 praef.; Plin. Ep. 4, 20, 3:
falsa facilius deprehendere et refellere,
Quint. 12, 1, 34:
quod vix a lectore deprehenditur,
id. 4, 2, 59:
in Livio Patavinitatem,
id. 1, 5, 56; cf. id. 3, 8, 69; 5, 13, 23 et saep.—
(β).
With acc. et inf.:
species diversas esse facile est deprehendere,
Quint. 9, 2, 44:
quosdam mitti,
Suet. Aug. 44:
deprehenditur vitiose loqui,
Quint. 1, 6, 7.—
2.
To overtake, equal, imitate:
juvenemque puer deprehende parentem,
Stat. S. 4, 4, 74.—
3.
To find, discover, come upon (always implying mental action, post-Aug.):
extra carmen non deprendas,
Quint. 1, 5, 18:
quod in epistolis Augusti deprehenditur,
id. 1, 7, 22; 8, 6, 71:
apud Ciceronem mira figurarum mixtura deprehenditur,
id. 9, 3, 40.—
III.
With the predominant idea of restricting the free movement of an object, to impede, to check, to bring into a strait.
A.
Lit.:
inter quas (latebras) deprehensus hostis,
Curt. 7, 4, 4:
in fovea,
id. 5, 3, 19:
flamina deprensa silvis,
i. e. impeded, confined, Verg. A. 10, 98:
viae deprensus in aggere serpens,
id. ib. 5, 273; cf. id. ib. 8, 247; Quint. 12, 2, 14. —
B.
Trop., to bring into a strait, to embarrass:
deprehensum me plane video atque sentio,
Cic. de Or. 1, 48; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12 fin.:
deprensi pudorem explicant,
Quint. 6, 3, 100:
(testes) plus deprehensi nocent, quam firmi et interriti profuissent,
id. 5, 7, 11 al.

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