To touch

at-tingo (not adt-), tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. [tango] (ante-class. form attĭgo, ĕre, v. infra; attinge = attingam, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.; concerning attigo, āre, v. fin.), to touch, come in contact with; constr. with the acc.; poet. with ad.

Lit.

In gen.: mento summam aquam, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: vestem, Att. ap. Non. p. 75, 32:

Egone Argivum imperium attingam,

id. Trag. Rel. p. 166 Rib.:

suaviter (omnia) attingunt,

Lucr. 4, 623:

nec enim ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

prius quam aries murum attigisset,

Caes. B. G. 2, 32:

pedibus terram,

Nep. Eum. 5, 5:

quisquis (vas) attigerit,

Vulg. Lev. 15, 23:

nos nihil tuorum attigimus,

id. Gen. 26, 29:

(medicus) pulsum venarum attigit,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

se esse possessorem soli, quod primum Divus Augustus nascens attigisset,

Suet. Aug. 5 (cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 46: Tactaque nascenti corpus haberet humus, acc. to the practice of laying new-born children upon the ground; v. tollo).— Poet.: (Callisto) miles erat Phoebes, nec Maenalon attigit ( nor did there touch, set foot on) ulla Gratior hac Triviae, Ov. M. 2, 415:

usque ad caelum attingebat stans in terrā,

Vulg. Sap. 18, 16.—

With partic. access. ideas.

To touch by striking, to strike; rarely in a hostile manner, to attack, assault:

ne me attingas,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 106;

ne attigas me,

id. Truc. 2, 2, 21:

ne attigas puerum istac caussā,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 41 (quoted by Non. p. 75, 33):

Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignumst liberam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 91.—Of lightning: ICTV. FVLMINIS. ARBORES. ATTACTAE. ARDVERINT., Fragm. Fratr. Arval. Inscr. Orell. 961; cf.

Fest. s. v. scribonianum, p. 333 Müll., and s. v. obstitum, p. 193: si Vestinus attingeretur, i. e. ei bellum indiceretur,

Liv. 8, 29; so Suet. Ner. 38.—

In mal. part., aliquam, to touch:

virginem,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 61; Cat. 67, 20.—

To touch in eating, to taste, crop:

nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam,

Verg. E. 5, 26.—

Of local relations, to come to a place, to approach, reach, arrive at (class.;

esp. freq. in the histt.): aedīs ne attigatis,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 37:

ut primum Asiam attigisti,

Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

cum primis navibus Britanniam attigit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23:

Siciliam,

Nep. Dion, 5, 3:

Syriam ac legiones,

Tac. A. 2, 55:

saltuosos locos,

id. ib. 4, 45:

Urbem,

id. Or. 7 fin.:

In paucis diebus quam Capreus attigit etc.,

Suet. Tib. 60; id. Calig. 44; id. Vesp. 4 al.—

Transf., to touch, lie near, border upon, be contiguous to:

Theseus... Attigit injusti regis Gortynia tecta,

Cat. 64, 75:

Cappadociae regio, quae Ciliciam attingeret,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4; id. Pis. 16 fin.:

(stomachus) utrāque ex parte tonsillas attingens, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 54, 135:

eorum fines Nervii attingebant,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

ITEM. COLLEGIA. QVAE. ATTINGVNT. EIDEM. FORO,

Inscr. Orell. 3314:

attingere parietem,

Vulg. Ezech. 41, 6.—

Trop.

In gen., to touch, affect, reach:

nec desiderium nos attigit,

Lucr. 3, 922 ( adficit, Lachm.):

ante quam voluptas aut dolor attigerit,

Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

nimirum me alia quoque causa delectat, quae te non attingit,

id. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

quo studio providit, ne qua me illius temporis invidia attingeret,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 10:

si qua de Pompeio nostro tuendo... cura te attingit,

id. Att. 9, 11, A:

erant perpauci, quos ea infamia attingeret, Liv 27, 11, 6: cupidus attingere gaudia,

to feel, Prop. 1, 19, 9:

vox, sonus, attigit aures,

Val. Fl. 2, 452; Claud. B. Get: 412; Manil. 1, 326.—

Esp.

To touch upon in speaking, etc., to mention slightly:

paucis rem,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 11:

summatim attingere,

Lucr. 3, 261:

ut meos quoque attingam,

Cat. 39, 13:

quod perquam breviter perstrinxi atque attigi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201; id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.:

si tantummodo summas attigero,

Nep. Pelop. 1, 1:

invitus ea, tamquam vulnera, attingo, sed nisi tacta tractataque sanari non possunt,

Liv. 28, 27:

ut seditionem attigit,

Tac. A. 1, 35:

familiae (Galbae) breviter attingam,

Suet. Galb. 3 al. —

To touch, i. e. to undertake, enter upon some course of action (esp. mental), to apply one's self to, be occupied with, engage in, to take in hand, manage:

quae isti rhetores ne primoribus quidem labris attigissent,

Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12; id. Arch. 8:

egomet, qui sero ac leviter Graecas litteras attigissem,

id. de Or. 1, 18, 82:

orationes,

id. Or. 13, 41:

poëticen,

Nep. Att. 18, 5; so Suet. Aug. 85:

liberales disciplinas omnes,

id. Ner. 52:

studia,

id. Gram. 9:

ut primum forum attigi, i. e. accessi, adii,

applied myself to public affairs, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3:

arma,

Liv. 3, 19:

militiam resque bellicas,

Suet. Calig. 43:

curam rei publicae,

id. Tib. 13:

ad Venerem seram,

Ov. A. A. 2, 701.—

(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To arrive somewhere:

quod ab illo attigisset nuntius,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 19 (cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 3: si a me tetigit nuntius).—

(Acc. to I. B. 5.) To come near to in quality, to be similar; or to belong to, appertain to, to concern, relate to:

quae nihil attingunt ad rem nec sunt usui,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 32:

haec quemque attigit,

id. ib. 1, 1, 20:

attingit animi naturam corporis similitudo,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30; id. Fam. 13, 7, 4; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1:

quae non magis legis nomen attingunt, quam si latrones aliqua sanxerint,

id. Leg. 2, 5:

Segestana, Centuripina civitas, quae cum officiis, fide, vetustate, tum etiam cognatione populi Romani nomen attingunt,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 32:

(labor) non attingit deum,

id. N. D. 1, 9, 22:

primus ille (locus), qui in veri cognitione consistit, maxime naturam attingit humanam,

id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Tusc. 5, 33, 93; id. Fin. 5, 9.—

Si quid eam humanitus attigisset (for the usu. euphemism, accidisset), if any misfortune had happened to her, App. Mag. p. 337.

ap. Non. p. 75, 30 dub. (Rib. here reads attigas, Com. Rel. p. 98): custodite istunc, ne attigat, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 105 Rib.

at-tingo (not adt-), tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. [tango] (ante-class. form attĭgo, ĕre, v. infra; attinge = attingam, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.; concerning attigo, āre, v. fin.), to touch, come in contact with; constr. with the acc.; poet. with ad.

Lit.

In gen.: mento summam aquam, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: vestem, Att. ap. Non. p. 75, 32:

Egone Argivum imperium attingam,

id. Trag. Rel. p. 166 Rib.:

suaviter (omnia) attingunt,

Lucr. 4, 623:

nec enim ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

prius quam aries murum attigisset,

Caes. B. G. 2, 32:

pedibus terram,

Nep. Eum. 5, 5:

quisquis (vas) attigerit,

Vulg. Lev. 15, 23:

nos nihil tuorum attigimus,

id. Gen. 26, 29:

(medicus) pulsum venarum attigit,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

se esse possessorem soli, quod primum Divus Augustus nascens attigisset,

Suet. Aug. 5 (cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 46: Tactaque nascenti corpus haberet humus, acc. to the practice of laying new-born children upon the ground; v. tollo).— Poet.: (Callisto) miles erat Phoebes, nec Maenalon attigit ( nor did there touch, set foot on) ulla Gratior hac Triviae, Ov. M. 2, 415:

usque ad caelum attingebat stans in terrā,

Vulg. Sap. 18, 16.—

With partic. access. ideas.

To touch by striking, to strike; rarely in a hostile manner, to attack, assault:

ne me attingas,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 106;

ne attigas me,

id. Truc. 2, 2, 21:

ne attigas puerum istac caussā,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 41 (quoted by Non. p. 75, 33):

Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignumst liberam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 91.—Of lightning: ICTV. FVLMINIS. ARBORES. ATTACTAE. ARDVERINT., Fragm. Fratr. Arval. Inscr. Orell. 961; cf.

Fest. s. v. scribonianum, p. 333 Müll., and s. v. obstitum, p. 193: si Vestinus attingeretur, i. e. ei bellum indiceretur,

Liv. 8, 29; so Suet. Ner. 38.—

In mal. part., aliquam, to touch:

virginem,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 61; Cat. 67, 20.—

To touch in eating, to taste, crop:

nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam,

Verg. E. 5, 26.—

Of local relations, to come to a place, to approach, reach, arrive at (class.;

esp. freq. in the histt.): aedīs ne attigatis,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 37:

ut primum Asiam attigisti,

Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

cum primis navibus Britanniam attigit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23:

Siciliam,

Nep. Dion, 5, 3:

Syriam ac legiones,

Tac. A. 2, 55:

saltuosos locos,

id. ib. 4, 45:

Urbem,

id. Or. 7 fin.:

In paucis diebus quam Capreus attigit etc.,

Suet. Tib. 60; id. Calig. 44; id. Vesp. 4 al.—

Transf., to touch, lie near, border upon, be contiguous to:

Theseus... Attigit injusti regis Gortynia tecta,

Cat. 64, 75:

Cappadociae regio, quae Ciliciam attingeret,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4; id. Pis. 16 fin.:

(stomachus) utrāque ex parte tonsillas attingens, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 54, 135:

eorum fines Nervii attingebant,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

ITEM. COLLEGIA. QVAE. ATTINGVNT. EIDEM. FORO,

Inscr. Orell. 3314:

attingere parietem,

Vulg. Ezech. 41, 6.—

Trop.

In gen., to touch, affect, reach:

nec desiderium nos attigit,

Lucr. 3, 922 ( adficit, Lachm.):

ante quam voluptas aut dolor attigerit,

Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

nimirum me alia quoque causa delectat, quae te non attingit,

id. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

quo studio providit, ne qua me illius temporis invidia attingeret,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 10:

si qua de Pompeio nostro tuendo... cura te attingit,

id. Att. 9, 11, A:

erant perpauci, quos ea infamia attingeret, Liv 27, 11, 6: cupidus attingere gaudia,

to feel, Prop. 1, 19, 9:

vox, sonus, attigit aures,

Val. Fl. 2, 452; Claud. B. Get: 412; Manil. 1, 326.—

Esp.

To touch upon in speaking, etc., to mention slightly:

paucis rem,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 11:

summatim attingere,

Lucr. 3, 261:

ut meos quoque attingam,

Cat. 39, 13:

quod perquam breviter perstrinxi atque attigi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201; id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.:

si tantummodo summas attigero,

Nep. Pelop. 1, 1:

invitus ea, tamquam vulnera, attingo, sed nisi tacta tractataque sanari non possunt,

Liv. 28, 27:

ut seditionem attigit,

Tac. A. 1, 35:

familiae (Galbae) breviter attingam,

Suet. Galb. 3 al. —

To touch, i. e. to undertake, enter upon some course of action (esp. mental), to apply one's self to, be occupied with, engage in, to take in hand, manage:

quae isti rhetores ne primoribus quidem labris attigissent,

Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12; id. Arch. 8:

egomet, qui sero ac leviter Graecas litteras attigissem,

id. de Or. 1, 18, 82:

orationes,

id. Or. 13, 41:

poëticen,

Nep. Att. 18, 5; so Suet. Aug. 85:

liberales disciplinas omnes,

id. Ner. 52:

studia,

id. Gram. 9:

ut primum forum attigi, i. e. accessi, adii,

applied myself to public affairs, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3:

arma,

Liv. 3, 19:

militiam resque bellicas,

Suet. Calig. 43:

curam rei publicae,

id. Tib. 13:

ad Venerem seram,

Ov. A. A. 2, 701.—

(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To arrive somewhere:

quod ab illo attigisset nuntius,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 19 (cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 3: si a me tetigit nuntius).—

(Acc. to I. B. 5.) To come near to in quality, to be similar; or to belong to, appertain to, to concern, relate to:

quae nihil attingunt ad rem nec sunt usui,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 32:

haec quemque attigit,

id. ib. 1, 1, 20:

attingit animi naturam corporis similitudo,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30; id. Fam. 13, 7, 4; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1:

quae non magis legis nomen attingunt, quam si latrones aliqua sanxerint,

id. Leg. 2, 5:

Segestana, Centuripina civitas, quae cum officiis, fide, vetustate, tum etiam cognatione populi Romani nomen attingunt,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 32:

(labor) non attingit deum,

id. N. D. 1, 9, 22:

primus ille (locus), qui in veri cognitione consistit, maxime naturam attingit humanam,

id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Tusc. 5, 33, 93; id. Fin. 5, 9.—

Si quid eam humanitus attigisset (for the usu. euphemism, accidisset), if any misfortune had happened to her, App. Mag. p. 337.

ap. Non. p. 75, 30 dub. (Rib. here reads attigas, Com. Rel. p. 98): custodite istunc, ne attigat, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 105 Rib.

tango, tĕtĭgi, tactum, 3 (old collat. form tago, xi, 3:

tagit Pacuvius in Teucro: ut ego, si quisquam me tagit. Et tagam idem in Hermiona: aut non cernam, nisi tagam: sine dubio antiquā consuetudine usurpavit. Nam nunc ea sine praepositionibus non dicuntur, ut contigit, attigit,

Fest. p. 356 Müll.: PELLEX ARAM IVNONIS NE TANGITO, Lex Numae ap. Fest. p. 222 ib.: sed o Petruelle, ne meum taxis librum, Varr. ap. Non. 176, 18, and 180, 8), v. a. [root tag-; Gr. te-tag-ôn, grasping; tê, take; Lat. tago, tagax; Goth. tēkan, to touch; Engl. take; cf.: inter, contages], to touch (syn. tracto).

Lit.

In gen.:

tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest res, Lucr 1, 304: tange utramvis digitulo minimo modo,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 15:

genu terram tangere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

virgā Virginis os,

Ov. M. 11, 308:

aliquem cubito,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 42.—

In partic.

To touch, i. e.,

To take, take away, curry off: Sa. Tetigin' tui quidquam? Aes. Si attigisses, ferres infortunium, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 24:

de praedā meā teruncium nec attigit nec tacturus est quisquam,

Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 4:

quia tangam nullum ab invito,

id. Agr. 2, 25, 67; Liv. 29, 20. —

To taste, to eat, to drink:

salsa sunt, tangere ut non velis,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 35:

illa (corpora) Non cani tetigere lupi,

Ov. M. 7, 550:

saporem,

id. F. 3, 745:

cupiens varià fastidia cenā Vincere tangentis male singula dente superbo,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 87:

Superorum tangere mensas,

Ov. M. 6, 173:

tetigit calicem clanculum,

has emptied, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 10. —

Of places.

To reach, arrive at, come to a place (syn. pervenio):

Verres simul ac tetigit provinciam, statim, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27; cf. id. Att. 6, 1, 6:

portus,

Verg. A. 4, 612:

terminum mundi armis,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 54:

vada,

id. ib. 1, 3, 24:

lucum gradu,

Ov. M. 3, 36:

domos,

id. ib. 4, 779;

6, 601: quem (Nilum) simul ac tetigit,

id. ib. 1, 729:

ut tellus est mihi tacta,

id. Tr. 3, 2, 18:

limina,

id. M. 10, 456; Juv. 14, 44:

nocturno castra dolo,

Ov. H. 1, 42 et saep.—

To border on, be contiguous to:

qui (fundi) Tiberim fere omnes tangunt,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

haec civitas Rhenum tangit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 3:

quae (villa) viam tangeret,

Cic. Mil. 19, 51:

vertice sidera,

Ov. M. 7, 61. —

To touch, i. e.,

To strike, hit, beat (mostly poet.):

chordas,

Ov. R. Am. 336:

flagello Chloen,

Hor. C. 3, 26, 12:

quem tetigit jactu,

Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 60:

loca tangere fundā,

Tib. 4, 1, 97:

te hora Caniculae Nescit tangere,

to touch, affect, Hor. C. 3, 13, 10.—Euphem., to put to death:

quemquam praeterea oportuisse tangi,

Cic. Att. 15, 11, 2:

statua aut aera legum de caelo tacta,

i.e. struck by lightning, id. Div. 2, 21, 47; so, de caelo tactus, Liv. 25, 7, 7; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17:

e caelo tactum,

Plin. 36, 4, 4, § 10; cf.:

ulmus fulmine tacta,

Ov. Tr. 2, 144:

tacta aedes Junonis,

Plin. 2, 54, 55, § 144.—Prov.:

tetigisti acu (rem),

you have hit the nail on the head, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 19; cf.:

tangis en ipsos metus,

the thing you fear, Sen. Oedip. 795.—

To take hold of, to touch, handle, etc.;

esp. in mal. part.: virginem,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 52:

cur id ausus's facere ut id quod non tuom esset tangeres?

Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 14; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 15; id. Eun. 4, 7, 27 sq.; Cat. 21, 8; Hor. S. 1, 2, 28; 1, 2, 54.— Absol.:

cibum una capias, assis, tangas, ludas, propter dormias,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 81 (82):

si non tangendi copia'st,

id. ib. 4, 2, 10; id. Phorm. 5, 8 (9), 5.—

To besprinkle, moisten, wash, smear, anoint ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose;

syn. tingo): corpus aquā,

Ov. F. 4, 790:

comas tristi medicamine,

id. M. 6, 140:

oculos olivo,

Pers. 3, 44:

superiorem palpebram salivā,

Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 38:

caput igne sulfuris,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 86; cf.:

voluit tangi lucerna mero,

id. 4 (5), 3, 60:

luto corpora tangit amor,

Tib. 1, 8, 52.—

To color, dye:

supercilium madidā fuligine,

Juvenc. 2, 93. —

Trop.

Of the mind or feelings, to touch, move, affect, impress:

minae Clodii contentionesque modice me tangunt,

Cic. Att. 2, 19, 1:

si vos urbis, si vestri nulla cura tangit,

Liv. 3, 17, 3:

Numitori tetigerat animum memoria nepotum,

id. 1, 5:

mentem mortalia tangunt,

Verg. A. 1, 462:

si curat cor spectantis tetigisse querela,

Hor. A. P. 98:

nec formā tangor, poteram tamen hac quoque tangi,

Ov. M. 10, 614:

vota tamen tetigere deos, tetigere parentes,

id. ib. 4, 164:

nymphas tetigit nova res,

id. ib. 15, 552:

nec amor nos tangit habendi,

id. A. A. 3, 541:

exemplo tangi,

id. H. 15 (16), 326; id. F. 5, 489; Prop. 1, 9, 17:

religione tactus hospes,

Liv. 1, 45, 7:

tetigerat animum memoria nepotum,

id. 1, 5, 6:

si quem gloria tangit,

Sen. Hippol. 27.—

Qs. to prick or stick one, i. e.,

To take in, trick, dupe; to cozen or cheat out of any thing (anteclass.):

tuom tangam patrem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 118; cf.:

probe tactus Ballio est,

id. ib. 5, 2, 13:

tangere hominem volt bolo,

id. Poen. prol. 101:

istis adeo te tetigi triginta minis,

id. Ep. 5, 2, 40: senem triginta minis, Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 257:

lenunculum aere militari,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 7: patrem talento argenti, Turp. ap. Non. 408, 28:

tactus sum vehementer visco,

I am limed, caught, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 39:

volucres harundinibus,

Petr. 109.—

To sting or nettle any one by something said:

quo pacto Rhodium tetigerim in convivio,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 30; cf.

maledictis,

Fest. p. 356 Müll.—

Of speech, to touch upon, mention, speak of, refer to, cite:

non tango, quod avarus homo est, quodque improbu' mitto, Lucil. ap. Rufin. Schem. Lex. § 12 (p. 274 Frotsch.): leviter unum quodque tangam,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 83:

ubi Aristoteles ista tetigit?

id. Ac. 2, 44, 136:

illud tertium, quod a Crasso tactum est,

id. de Or. 2, 10, 43: ne tangantur rationes ad Opis, be discussed, examined, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 8, 9, 26:

si tacta loquar,

Manil. 3, 21; cf.:

quid minus utibile fuit quam hoc ulcus tangere Aut nominare uxorem?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 9.—

To take in hand, undertake (rare):

carmina,

Ov. Am. 3, 12, 17: quis te Carminis heroi tangere jussit opus? prop. 4, 2 (3, 3), 16.

* * *

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).

Lit.

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.—

With partic. access. ideas.

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.—

To touch impurely (very rare):

corpus corpore,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—

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.—

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.—

Trop.

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.,

In partic.

(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.—

(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.—

(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.—

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).

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. —

With acc. (very rare):

sors Tyrrhenum contigit,

fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:

Italiam palma frugum,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—

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.

con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).

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. —

Trop.:

musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,

Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

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).

Lit.

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.—

With partic. access. ideas.

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.—

To touch impurely (very rare):

corpus corpore,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—

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.—

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.—

Trop.

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.,

In partic.

(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.—

(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.—

(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.—

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).

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. —

With acc. (very rare):

sors Tyrrhenum contigit,

fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:

Italiam palma frugum,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—

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.

con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).

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. —

Trop.:

musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,

Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

stringo, inxi, ictum, 3, v. a. [root strig; Gr. strang-, to squeeze; stranx, a drop; cf. O. H. Germ. streng; Engl. strong], to draw tight, to bind or tie tight; to draw, bind, or press together, etc. (syn. ligo).

Lit.:

te stringam ad carnarium,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66:

stringit vitta comas,

Luc. 5, 143: caesariem crinali cultu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 85:

stricta matutino frigore vulnera,

Liv. 22, 51:

pectora pigro gelu,

Luc. 4, 652:

strictos insedimus amnes,

Val. Fl. 1, 414:

mare gelu stringi et consistere,

Gell. 17, 8, 16:

quercus in duas partes diducta, stricta denuo et cohaesa,

having closed together, id. 15, 16, 4:

habenam,

to draw tight, Stat. Th. 11, 513:

ferrum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6.—

Transf. (through the intermediate idea of drawing close), to touch, touch upon, touch lightly or slightly, to graze (syn. tango):

litus ama, et laevas stringat sine palmula cautes,

Verg. A. 5, 163; cf.:

stringebat summas ales miserabilis undas,

Ov. M. 11, 733:

aequor (aurā),

id. ib. 4, 136:

metas interiore rotā,

id. Am. 3, 2, 12:

latus,

Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 24:

vestigia canis rostro,

Ov. M. 1, 536 et saep.:

equos,

to stroke, Charis. 84 P.:

tela stringentia corpus,

i. e. slightly touching, Verg. A. 10, 331; cf. Sen. Ben. 2, 6, 1:

coluber Dente pedem strinxit,

Ov. M. 11, 776:

strictus ac recreatus ex vulnere in tempus,

Flor. 4, 12, 44.—

To pull or strip off, to pluck off, cut off, clip off, prune, etc. (cf. destringo):

oleam ubi nigra erit, stringito,

Cato, R. R. 65, 1; so,

oleam,

Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 12:

bacam,

Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 2:

quernas glandes,

Verg. G. 1, 305:

folia ex arboribus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58; Liv. 23, 30, 3:

frondes,

Verg. E. 9, 61; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28:

hordea,

Verg. G. 1, 317:

arbores,

Col. 6, 3, 7:

celeriter gladios strinxerunt,

drew from the sheath, unsheathed, Caes. B. C. 3, 93:

strictam aciem offerre,

Verg. A. 6, 291:

ensem,

id. ib. 10, 577; so,

gladios,

id. ib. 12, 278; Ov. M. 7, 333:

ensem,

id. ib. 8, 207;

14, 296: ferrum,

Liv. 7, 40 al.:

cultrum,

id. 7, 5, 5; 3, 50, 3; and poet. transf.:

manum,

to bare, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 14; id. Tr. 5, 2, 30 al.—

Trop.

Of speech, to touch upon, treat briefly, Sil. 8, 48.—Hence, to compress, abridge:

narrationis loco rem stringat,

Quint. 4, 2, 128 Spald.—

To hold in check, to rule, sway (syn. coërceo):

quaecumque meo gens barbara nutu Stringitur, adveniat,

Claud. B. Get. 371.—

To waste, consume, reduce:

praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 8.—

(Acc. to I. B.) To touch, move, affect; esp. to affect painfully, to wound, pain:

atque animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago,

Verg. A. 9, 294:

quam tua delicto stringantur pectora nostro,

Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 21:

nomen alicujus,

id. ib. 2, 350.—

To draw in hostility, attack with:

in hostes stringatur iambus,

Ov. R. Am. 377:

bellum,

Flor. 3, 21, 1.—Hence, strictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), drawn together, close, strait, tight, etc.

Lit.:

laxaret pedem a stricto nodo,

Liv. 24, 7, 5:

duriora genti corpora, stricti artus,

Tac. G. 30:

strictissima janua,

Ov. R. Am. 233:

si strictior fuerit pedatura,

Hyg. Grom. 3, 1:

emplastrum,

thick, Scrib. Comp. 45 fin.:

venter,

i. e. bound up, costive, Veg. 3, 16:

strictior aura,

more severe, colder, Aus. Idyll. 14, 3.—

Trop.

Of language, brief, concise:

quo minus (Aeschines) strictus est,

Quint. 10, 1, 77:

qui (Demosthenes) est strictior multo (quam Cicero),

id. 12, 10, 52.—

Of character, severe, strict:

Catones,

Manil. 5, 106:

mentes,

id. 1, 769:

lex,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 87.—

Rigid, exact (law Lat.):

restitutio stricto jure non competebat,

Dig. 29, 2, 85; 39, 3, 3 al.— Adv.: strictē and strictim, closely, tightly:

in foramen conicies,

Pall. Mart. 8, 2.— Comp., Pall. 1, 6.— Sup., Gell. 16, 3, 4.—

Fig., accurately:

strictius interpretari,

Dig. 8, 2, 20.

* * *

* * *

con-trecto ( contracto), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [tracto], to touch, handle, come in contact with, feel (class.; most freq. after the Aug. per.).

Lit.

In gen.:

nudum corpus aquaï,

Lucr. 6, 854:

pectora,

Ov. M. 8, 607:

omnes partes corporis inspectare et contrectare,

Sen. Contr. 1, 2; cf.:

membra mortuae,

Suet. Ner. 34:

obscena,

Sen. Const. 13, 2:

filium Demaeneti,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 17: librum manibus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 11:

vulnus,

to meddle with, Ov. P. 2, 2, 60:

pocula vel cibos,

Col. 12, 4, 3:

pecuniam,

Suet. Calig. 42; cf.: pecunias vetitas, Cod. Th. 9, 23, 1, § 2.—

In partic.

To touch in examining, to search:

ne feminae praetextatique pueri et puellae contrectarentur,

Suet. Claud. 35.—

To touch carnally, to have illicit intercourse with, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 32; id. Mil. 4, 2, 61:

multorum uxores,

Suet. Dom. 1; Just. 7, 3, 4.—

Transf.:

contrectata filiarum pudicitia,

violated, dishonored, Tac. A. 14, 35.—

In the Lat. of the jurists, to appropriate: rem alienam, Gai Inst. 3, 195; Dig. 13, 1, 20.—

Esp.:

aliquid,

to take by stealth, to steal, purloin, Dig. 41, 2, 3; 25, 2, 3 al.—

Trop., to contemplate, look at, consider, dwell upon:

nudare corpus et contrectandum vulgi oculis permittere,

Tac. A. 3, 12:

mente varias voluptates,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 33; cf. id. de Or. 3, 6, 24:

studia et disciplinas philosophiae,

to apply one's self to, Gell. 17, 19, 3.

dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.

Germ. Finger, from fangen,

Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.

Prop.:

tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—

Special connections:

attingere aliquem digito (uno),

to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.

with tangere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:

attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),

to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:

attingere caelum digito,

to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:

computare digitis,

to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:

numerare per digitos,

Ov. F. 3, 123:

in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,

Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:

si tuos digitos novi,

thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.

also: digerere argumenta in digitos,

to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.

also: digitus crepans,

Mart. 3, 82, 15:

digitorum crepitus,

id. 14, 119:

digitorum percussio,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:

intendere digitum ad aliquid,

to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:

liceri digito,

to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;

for which also: tollere digitum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;

and Schol,

Pers. 5, 119:

loqui digitis nutuque,

to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;

different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,

i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:

ad digiti sonum,

id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:

digito compesce labellum,

hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;

for which: demonstrari digito,

Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:

nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:

in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,

i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:

exserere digitum,

Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;

and in like manner: proferre digitum,

to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:

scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,

Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)

Transf.

A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—

A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—

As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;

digitus transversus,

a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;

48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,

not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.

without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;

and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 11.

Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus.

dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.

Germ. Finger, from fangen,

Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.

Prop.:

tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—

Special connections:

attingere aliquem digito (uno),

to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.

with tangere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:

attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),

to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:

attingere caelum digito,

to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:

computare digitis,

to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:

numerare per digitos,

Ov. F. 3, 123:

in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,

Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:

si tuos digitos novi,

thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.

also: digerere argumenta in digitos,

to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.

also: digitus crepans,

Mart. 3, 82, 15:

digitorum crepitus,

id. 14, 119:

digitorum percussio,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:

intendere digitum ad aliquid,

to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:

liceri digito,

to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;

for which also: tollere digitum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;

and Schol,

Pers. 5, 119:

loqui digitis nutuque,

to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;

different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,

i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:

ad digiti sonum,

id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:

digito compesce labellum,

hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;

for which: demonstrari digito,

Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:

nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:

in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,

i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:

exserere digitum,

Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;

and in like manner: proferre digitum,

to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:

scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,

Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)

Transf.

A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—

A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—

As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;

digitus transversus,

a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;

48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,

not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.

without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;

and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 11.

Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus.

fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, smear; Gr. thig, thinganô, touch; whence figulus, figura, etc.; prop., to handle].

Lit.

To touch, handle, stroke, touch gently (rare):

mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua,

Verg. A. 8, 634:

saepe manus aegras manibus fingebat amicis,

Ov. F. 5, 409.—

Esp., to form, shape, fashion, frame, make (class.), whence also figulus:

esse aliquam vim, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem,

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.:

ab aliquo deo ficti esse videantur,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

fingere et construere nidos,

build, id. ib. 2, 6, 23:

favos,

id. Off. 1, 44, 157:

ut illa bestia fetum ederet informem, lambendo postgea fingeret, etc.,

Gell. 17, 10, 3.—

In partic.

Of the plastic art, to form or fashion by art (in wax, clay, stone, etc.), to mould or model, as a statuary:

quorum alterum fingere opinor e cera solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, § 30; cf.:

in ceris aut fictilibus figuris,

id. N. D. 1, 26, 71:

similitudines ex argilla,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151; cf.

, sarcastically: hic homullus, ex argilla et luto fictus Epicurus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59:

pocula de humo,

Ov. Tr. 2, 489:

Alexander ab Apelle potissimum pingi et a Lysippo fingi volebat... qui neque pictam neque fictam imaginem suam passus est esse, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; cf.:

fingendi ars,

of making statues, statuary, id. de Or. 3, 7, 26:

corpora fingendo pingendove efficere,

Quint. 5, 12, 21.—

With the access. notion of arranging, adorning, etc., to set to rights, arrange; to adorn, dress, trim ( poet. syn.:

componere, excolere, ornare): Bene cum lauta est (mulier), tersa, ornata, ficta est: infecta est tamen,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 4:

cum se non finxerit ulli,

Ov. R. Am. 341:

isti ficti, compositi, crispi cincinni,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; cf.:

canas fingere comas,

Tib. 1, 2, 92:

comas presso pollice,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 306; Mart. 6, 57; cf.:

comas auro,

Stat. Th. 5, 228:

crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 148; cf. also Phaedr. 2, 2, 9:

vitem putando,

Verg. G. 2, 407 Forbig.—

With the access. notion of untruth, to alter, change, for the purpose of dissembling:

hi neque vultum fingere, neque interdum lacrimas tenere poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf.:

vultus quoque hominum fingit scelus,

i. e. makes men change countenance, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14.

Trop.

In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae [p. 751] volt, quae nevolt. Ph. Mentire, gnate, nam sapiens quidem pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 84; cf.

the vv. foll.: natura fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos,

Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219:

animos fingere, formare,

id. Brut. 38, 142: cf.:

moderari et fingere mentem ac voluntates,

id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

ea quae nobis non possumus fingere, vultus, facies, sonus,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: formam totius rei publicae velim mittas, ex qua me fingere possim, regulate myself, i. e. proceed, act, id. Att. 6, 3, 4; cf.:

ad eorum (qui audiunt) arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt et accommodant,

id. Or. 8, 24:

ea (verba) nos sicut mollissimam ceram ad nostrum arbitrium formamus et fingimus,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.

also: arbitrio fingere,

id. Brut. 79, 274:

fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 54; cf.:

vitam subito flecti fingique posse,

shaped, directed, Cic. Sull. 28, 79; cf. id. ib. 25, 69:

jure erat semper idem voltus, cum mentis, a qua is fingitur, nulla fieret mutatio,

id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.:

circumspexit amictus et finxit vultum,

composed, Ov. M. 4, 318:

lingua vocem immoderate profusam fingit et terminat,

forms, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149; cf.:

Peripateticorum institutis commodius fingeretur oratio,

id. Brut. 31, 119: ego apis Matinae more modoque operosa parvus carmina fingo (like the Gr. plattô), make, compose, Hor. C. 4, 2, 32:

carmina,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331; 240:

versus,

id. ib. 382:

poëmata,

Suet. Tit. 3:

opprobria in quemvis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 30.—

In partic.

With a double predicate, to form, make into something or in a certain manner:

finxit te ipsa natura ad honestatem, gravitatem... ad omnes denique virtutes magnum hominem et excelsum,

Cic. Mur. 29, 60:

nec, si miserum fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget,

Verg. A. 2, 79:

(illum) spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 12:

di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli Finxerunt animi,

id. S. 1, 4, 18: timui, mea me finxisse minora putarer Dissimulator opis propriae, to have lessened, i. e. purposely disparaged it, id. Ep. 1, 9, 8.—

To form by instruction, to instruct, teach, train:

idem mire finxit filium,

i. e. caused him to play his part, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 25; cf.:

voce paterna Fingeris ad rectum,

Hor. A. P. 367:

fingitur artibus,

id. C. 3, 6, 22:

fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister Ire viam, qua monstret eques,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 64.—

To form mentally or in speech, to represent in thought, to imagine, conceive, think, suppose; to sketch out:

fingite animis... fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus condicionis meae, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 29, 79; cf.:

omnia quae cogitatione nobismet ipsi possumus fingere,

id. N. D. 3, 18, 47:

fingere animo,

id. de Sen. 12, 41: cf.

also: animo et cogitatione,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

ex sua natura ceteros,

to conceive of, id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

quid magis exercitum dici aut fingi potest?

id. Mil. 2, 5:

maleficium,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

tu, stulta, deos, tu fingis inania vera,

Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 5:

qui utilitatum causa fingunt amicitias,

suppose, Cic. Lael. 14, 51:

principatum sibi ipse opinionis errore finxerat,

had imagined to himself, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

in summo oratore fingendo,

in representing, sketching out, id. Or. 2, 7:

finge tamen te improbulum,

Juv. 5, 72.—

With double acc.:

quod si qui me astutiorem fingit,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

Tiresiam sapientem fingunt poetae... at vero Polyphemum Homerus immanem finxit,

id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—

With an object-clause, and in pass., with a subject-clause:

finge, aliquem nunc fierisapientem, nondum esse,

suppose, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117:

finge solum natum nothum,

Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti aliqui sunt;

finge a nobis,

assume, grant, Liv. 39, 37, 11:

fingamus Alexandrum dari nobis,

Quint. 1, 1, 24:

non omnia corpora fingunt in medium niti,

Lucr. 1, 1083; cf. id. 2, 175:

qui naufragus fingitur se suspendisse,

Quint. 8, 5, 22:

qui suos artus morsu lacerasset, fingitur in scholis supra se cubasse,

id. 8, 2, 20.—

Pregn., with the access. notion of creating by thinking, to contrive, devise, invent, feign something (esp. untrue):

argento comparando fingere fallaciam,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 2; 4:

fallacias,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 22:

fallaciam,

id. And. 1, 3, 15; cf.: nonne ad senem aliquam fabricam fingit? id. Heaut. 3, 2, 34:

fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,

id. Eun. 1, 2, 58:

falsas causas ad discordiam,

id. Hec. 4, 4, 71:

si mihi aliquam (rem publicam), ut apud Platonem Socrates, ipse finxero,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 11:

ex eventis fingere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 4:

(crimina) in istum fingere,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 15:

ea quae sunt in usu vitaque communi, non ea, quae finguntur aut optantur,

id. Lael. 5, 18:

in faciem moresque meos nova crimina fingis,

Ov. H. 12, 177:

fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 84:

quaelibet in quemvis opprobria fingere,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 30:

finguntur et testamenta,

Quint. 7, 4, 39:

nemo dolorem fingit in hoc casu,

Juv. 13, 132: qui sub obtentu monituum deorum scientes eos fingunt, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 6. —With double acc.:

bonois se ac liberales,

Sen. Ben. 4, 17, 3.—With inf.:

ignorare fingit,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 306.—Hence, fic-tus, a, um, P. a., feigned, fictitious, false:

in amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 18, 65:

ficto officio et simulata sedultiate conjunctus,

id. Caecin. 5, 14:

in re ficta (opp. in vera),

id. Lael. 7, 24:

falsum est id totum neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

id. Rep. 2, 15:

commenticii et ficti dii,

id. N. D. 2, 28, 70:

fabula,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

in rebus fictis et adumbratis,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

amor,

Lucr. 4, 1192:

gemitus,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

cunctatio,

Tac. A. 1, 46:

ficto pectore fatur,

Verg. A. 2, 107.— Poet. and in post-Aug. prose also, of persons:

pro bene sano Ac non incauto fictum astutumque vocamus,

dissembling, false, Hor. S. 1, 3, 62:

alii fictum (eum), ingratum, immemorem loquuntur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 3;

but: ficta pellice plorat,

imaginary, Juv. 6, 272.— Poet., subst.: fictum, i, n., deception, fiction:

ficti pravique tenax,

Verg. A. 4, 188:

jam consumpserat omnem Materiam ficti,

Ov. M. 9, 767.—Adverb.:

fictumque in colla minatus, Crura subit,

Stat. Th. 6, 876.— Adv.: ficte, feignedly, fictitiously:

ficte et simulate quaestus causa insusurrare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13:

ficte reconciliata gratia,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 4.

fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, smear; Gr. thig, thinganô, touch; whence figulus, figura, etc.; prop., to handle].

Lit.

To touch, handle, stroke, touch gently (rare):

mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua,

Verg. A. 8, 634:

saepe manus aegras manibus fingebat amicis,

Ov. F. 5, 409.—

Esp., to form, shape, fashion, frame, make (class.), whence also figulus:

esse aliquam vim, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem,

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.:

ab aliquo deo ficti esse videantur,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

fingere et construere nidos,

build, id. ib. 2, 6, 23:

favos,

id. Off. 1, 44, 157:

ut illa bestia fetum ederet informem, lambendo postgea fingeret, etc.,

Gell. 17, 10, 3.—

In partic.

Of the plastic art, to form or fashion by art (in wax, clay, stone, etc.), to mould or model, as a statuary:

quorum alterum fingere opinor e cera solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, § 30; cf.:

in ceris aut fictilibus figuris,

id. N. D. 1, 26, 71:

similitudines ex argilla,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151; cf.

, sarcastically: hic homullus, ex argilla et luto fictus Epicurus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59:

pocula de humo,

Ov. Tr. 2, 489:

Alexander ab Apelle potissimum pingi et a Lysippo fingi volebat... qui neque pictam neque fictam imaginem suam passus est esse, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; cf.:

fingendi ars,

of making statues, statuary, id. de Or. 3, 7, 26:

corpora fingendo pingendove efficere,

Quint. 5, 12, 21.—

With the access. notion of arranging, adorning, etc., to set to rights, arrange; to adorn, dress, trim ( poet. syn.:

componere, excolere, ornare): Bene cum lauta est (mulier), tersa, ornata, ficta est: infecta est tamen,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 4:

cum se non finxerit ulli,

Ov. R. Am. 341:

isti ficti, compositi, crispi cincinni,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; cf.:

canas fingere comas,

Tib. 1, 2, 92:

comas presso pollice,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 306; Mart. 6, 57; cf.:

comas auro,

Stat. Th. 5, 228:

crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 148; cf. also Phaedr. 2, 2, 9:

vitem putando,

Verg. G. 2, 407 Forbig.—

With the access. notion of untruth, to alter, change, for the purpose of dissembling:

hi neque vultum fingere, neque interdum lacrimas tenere poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf.:

vultus quoque hominum fingit scelus,

i. e. makes men change countenance, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14.

Trop.

In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae [p. 751] volt, quae nevolt. Ph. Mentire, gnate, nam sapiens quidem pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 84; cf.

the vv. foll.: natura fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos,

Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219:

animos fingere, formare,

id. Brut. 38, 142: cf.:

moderari et fingere mentem ac voluntates,

id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

ea quae nobis non possumus fingere, vultus, facies, sonus,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: formam totius rei publicae velim mittas, ex qua me fingere possim, regulate myself, i. e. proceed, act, id. Att. 6, 3, 4; cf.:

ad eorum (qui audiunt) arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt et accommodant,

id. Or. 8, 24:

ea (verba) nos sicut mollissimam ceram ad nostrum arbitrium formamus et fingimus,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.

also: arbitrio fingere,

id. Brut. 79, 274:

fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 54; cf.:

vitam subito flecti fingique posse,

shaped, directed, Cic. Sull. 28, 79; cf. id. ib. 25, 69:

jure erat semper idem voltus, cum mentis, a qua is fingitur, nulla fieret mutatio,

id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.:

circumspexit amictus et finxit vultum,

composed, Ov. M. 4, 318:

lingua vocem immoderate profusam fingit et terminat,

forms, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149; cf.:

Peripateticorum institutis commodius fingeretur oratio,

id. Brut. 31, 119: ego apis Matinae more modoque operosa parvus carmina fingo (like the Gr. plattô), make, compose, Hor. C. 4, 2, 32:

carmina,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331; 240:

versus,

id. ib. 382:

poëmata,

Suet. Tit. 3:

opprobria in quemvis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 30.—

In partic.

With a double predicate, to form, make into something or in a certain manner:

finxit te ipsa natura ad honestatem, gravitatem... ad omnes denique virtutes magnum hominem et excelsum,

Cic. Mur. 29, 60:

nec, si miserum fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget,

Verg. A. 2, 79:

(illum) spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 12:

di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli Finxerunt animi,

id. S. 1, 4, 18: timui, mea me finxisse minora putarer Dissimulator opis propriae, to have lessened, i. e. purposely disparaged it, id. Ep. 1, 9, 8.—

To form by instruction, to instruct, teach, train:

idem mire finxit filium,

i. e. caused him to play his part, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 25; cf.:

voce paterna Fingeris ad rectum,

Hor. A. P. 367:

fingitur artibus,

id. C. 3, 6, 22:

fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister Ire viam, qua monstret eques,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 64.—

To form mentally or in speech, to represent in thought, to imagine, conceive, think, suppose; to sketch out:

fingite animis... fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus condicionis meae, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 29, 79; cf.:

omnia quae cogitatione nobismet ipsi possumus fingere,

id. N. D. 3, 18, 47:

fingere animo,

id. de Sen. 12, 41: cf.

also: animo et cogitatione,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

ex sua natura ceteros,

to conceive of, id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

quid magis exercitum dici aut fingi potest?

id. Mil. 2, 5:

maleficium,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

tu, stulta, deos, tu fingis inania vera,

Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 5:

qui utilitatum causa fingunt amicitias,

suppose, Cic. Lael. 14, 51:

principatum sibi ipse opinionis errore finxerat,

had imagined to himself, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

in summo oratore fingendo,

in representing, sketching out, id. Or. 2, 7:

finge tamen te improbulum,

Juv. 5, 72.—

With double acc.:

quod si qui me astutiorem fingit,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

Tiresiam sapientem fingunt poetae... at vero Polyphemum Homerus immanem finxit,

id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—

With an object-clause, and in pass., with a subject-clause:

finge, aliquem nunc fierisapientem, nondum esse,

suppose, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117:

finge solum natum nothum,

Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti aliqui sunt;

finge a nobis,

assume, grant, Liv. 39, 37, 11:

fingamus Alexandrum dari nobis,

Quint. 1, 1, 24:

non omnia corpora fingunt in medium niti,

Lucr. 1, 1083; cf. id. 2, 175:

qui naufragus fingitur se suspendisse,

Quint. 8, 5, 22:

qui suos artus morsu lacerasset, fingitur in scholis supra se cubasse,

id. 8, 2, 20.—

Pregn., with the access. notion of creating by thinking, to contrive, devise, invent, feign something (esp. untrue):

argento comparando fingere fallaciam,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 2; 4:

fallacias,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 22:

fallaciam,

id. And. 1, 3, 15; cf.: nonne ad senem aliquam fabricam fingit? id. Heaut. 3, 2, 34:

fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,

id. Eun. 1, 2, 58:

falsas causas ad discordiam,

id. Hec. 4, 4, 71:

si mihi aliquam (rem publicam), ut apud Platonem Socrates, ipse finxero,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 11:

ex eventis fingere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 4:

(crimina) in istum fingere,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 15:

ea quae sunt in usu vitaque communi, non ea, quae finguntur aut optantur,

id. Lael. 5, 18:

in faciem moresque meos nova crimina fingis,

Ov. H. 12, 177:

fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 84:

quaelibet in quemvis opprobria fingere,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 30:

finguntur et testamenta,

Quint. 7, 4, 39:

nemo dolorem fingit in hoc casu,

Juv. 13, 132: qui sub obtentu monituum deorum scientes eos fingunt, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 6. —With double acc.:

bonois se ac liberales,

Sen. Ben. 4, 17, 3.—With inf.:

ignorare fingit,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 306.—Hence, fic-tus, a, um, P. a., feigned, fictitious, false:

in amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 18, 65:

ficto officio et simulata sedultiate conjunctus,

id. Caecin. 5, 14:

in re ficta (opp. in vera),

id. Lael. 7, 24:

falsum est id totum neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

id. Rep. 2, 15:

commenticii et ficti dii,

id. N. D. 2, 28, 70:

fabula,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

in rebus fictis et adumbratis,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

amor,

Lucr. 4, 1192:

gemitus,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

cunctatio,

Tac. A. 1, 46:

ficto pectore fatur,

Verg. A. 2, 107.— Poet. and in post-Aug. prose also, of persons:

pro bene sano Ac non incauto fictum astutumque vocamus,

dissembling, false, Hor. S. 1, 3, 62:

alii fictum (eum), ingratum, immemorem loquuntur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 3;

but: ficta pellice plorat,

imaginary, Juv. 6, 272.— Poet., subst.: fictum, i, n., deception, fiction:

ficti pravique tenax,

Verg. A. 4, 188:

jam consumpserat omnem Materiam ficti,

Ov. M. 9, 767.—Adverb.:

fictumque in colla minatus, Crura subit,

Stat. Th. 6, 876.— Adv.: ficte, feignedly, fictitiously:

ficte et simulate quaestus causa insusurrare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13:

ficte reconciliata gratia,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 4.

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