a board to play on

tăbŭla, ae, f. [root ta-, tab; whence also taberna, q. v.], a board, plank.

In gen.:

si tabulam de naufragio stultus arripuerit,

Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89; cf. id. Att. 4, 18, 3; Verg. A. 1, 119:

laceras tabulas in litore vidi,

Ov. M. 11, 428:

tabula navis,

Juv. 14, 289; Verg. A. 9, 537:

inauratae,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 114:

latera (fossarum) cluduntur tabulis,

id. 33, 4, 21, § 76:

perforatae,

Col. 7, 4, 5.—Esp., a board to play on, Ov. de Nuce, 77; Sen. Tranq. An. 14, 7; Juv. 1, 90.—

In partic.

A writing-tablet; also, a tablet written upon, a writing, as a letter, contract, account, list, will, etc. (cf. tabella):

tabulae litteris Graecis confectae,

Caes. B. G. 1, 29:

cerata,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 18: litteraria, a writing-tablet for children, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 10; cf.:

laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 74; id. Ep. 1, 1, 56:

ponatur calculus assint Cum tabula pueri,

Juv. 9, 41: tabula calculatoria, Schol. Juv. 7, 73.—

Plur., a book of account:

pro tabulis, Ubi aera perscribuntur usuraria,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 52; cf.:

multum differt, in arcāne positum sit argentum, an in tabulis debeatur,

Cic. Top. 3, 16:

litterae lituraeque omnes assimulatae, expressae, de tabulis in libros transferuntur,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 189:

aliquid in tabulas referre,

id. Fl. 9, 20:

tabulas conficere,

id. de Or. 2, 23, 97; id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 60; id. Rosc. Com. 2, 5:

unae tabulae proferantur, in quibus vestigium sit aliquod, quod, etc.,

id. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2): novae, new account-books (by substituting which for the old ones debts were abolished in whole or in part), id. Phil. 6, 4, 11; id. Att. 5, 21, 13; 14, 21, 4; id. Off. 2, 23, 84; Caes. B. C. 3, 1; 3, 21; cf. Sall. C. 21, 2. —

A counter, office where records are kept:

suos necessarios conrogat, ut ad tabulam Sextiam sibi adsint horā secundā,

Cic. Quint. 6, 25. —

Adest ad tabulam: licetur Aebutius (a tablet on which an auction was advertised);

hence,

an auction, Cic. Caecin. 6, 16; cf.:

sin ad tabulam venimus, vincemus facultates Othonis,

id. Att. 12, 40, 4. —

Of public records, etc.:

tabula praerogativae,

a list of votes, Cic. Pis. 5, 11; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18; 3, 17, 1; Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 2, 8:

qui de tabulis publicis recitat,

public records, State papers, Cic. Fl. 17, 40; so,

publicae,

id. Arch. 4, 8; Liv. 26, 36, 11.—Esp., the censor ' s lists:

tabularum cura,

Liv. 4. 8, 4:

memoria publica recensionis tabulis publicis impressa,

Cic. Mil. 27, 74; Flor. 1, 6, 3; cf.:

tabulae aereae, in quibus publicae constitutiones inciduntur,

Plin. 34, 9, 21, § 99:

XII. tabulae,

the Twelve Tables, Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 54; so of the tables of the laws:

decem tabulas conscripsisse,

id. ib. 2, 36, 61:

duabus tabulis additis,

id. ib. 2, 37, 63; id. de Or. 1, 43, 193; 1, 44, 195 al.; v. duodecim; cf.:

nequa tabula ullius decreti Caesaris aut beneficii figeretur,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

tabula Sullae,

the list of proscribed persons, Juv. 2, 28; Mart. 5, 69, 2; Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21; 9, 26.—

Of any formal or solemn writing:

in tabulas multis haec via fecit iter,

i. e. a will, testament, Ov. A. A. 2, 332; Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 11; Juv. 2, 58; 4, 19; 12, 123; 14, 55; Mart. 5, 39, 2:

Dicaearchi tabulae,

maps, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 3:

lapideae,

Vulg. Exod. 24, 12; id. 2 Cor. 3, 3. —

A painted tablet or panel, a painting, picture:

tabula picta,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 34; Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 36; Cic. Brut. 75, 261:

imago in tabulis,

id. Fin. 5, 1, 3; id. de Or. 1, 35, 161; id. Par. 5, 2, 37; Prop. 1, 2, 22; 2, 3, 41; Plin. 35, 9, 36, § 64. — Prov.: manum de tabulā, take your hand from the picture! enough! it is finished! sed heus tu, manum de tabulā, Cic. Fam. 7, 25, 1; cf.:

dixit (Apelles)... uno se praestare, quod manum de tabulā sciret tollere,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 80. —

A votive-tablet (on which a shipwreck was painted):

me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat, etc.,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 13:

largire inopi, ne pictus oberret Caeruleā in tabulā,

Pers. 6, 32 (cf.:

mersā rate naufragus assem Dum rogat et pictā se tempestate tuetur,

Juv. 14, 301). —

A bed or plot of ground in a vineyard, Pall. Jan. 11; id. Febr. 10, 1; 9, 9; Auct. Limit. p. 311 Goes.—

A fold in a garment, Tert. Pall. 1 and 5.

ālĕa, ae, f. [of uncer. origin; Curtius asserts an obscure connection with the words for bone; Sanscr. asthi; Zend, açti; Gr. osteon; Lat. os (ossis)].

A game with dice, and in gen., a game of hazard or chance. There were among the Romans two kinds of dice, tesserae and tali, Cic. Sen. 16, 58. The tesserae had six sides, which were marked with I. II. III. IV. V. VI.; the tali were rounded on two sides, and marked only on the other four. Upon one side there was one point, unio, an ace, like the ace on cards, called canis; on the opp. side, six points called senio, six, sice; on the two other sides, three and four points, ternio and quaternio. In playing, four tali were used, but only three tesserae. They were put into a box made in the form of a tower, with a strait neck, and wider below than above, called fritillus, turris, turricula, etc. This box was shaken, and the dice were thrown upon the gaming-board. The highest or most fortunate throw, called Venus, jactus Venereus or basilicus, was, of the tesserae, three sixes, and of the tali when they all came out with different numbers. The worst or lowest throw, called jactus pessimus or damnosus, canis or canicula, was, of the tesserae, three aces, and of the tali when they were all the same. The other throws were valued acc. to the numbers. When one of the tali fell upon the end (in caput) it was said rectus cadere, or assistere, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54, and the throw was repeated. While throwing the dice, it was customary for a person to express his wishes, to repeat the name of his mistress, and the like. Games of chance were prohibited by the Lex Titia et Publicia et Cornelia (cf. Hor. C. 3, 24, 58), except in the month of December, during the Saturnalia, Mart. 4, 14, 7; 5, 85; 14, 1; Suet. Aug. 71; Dig. 11, 5. The character of gamesters, aleatores or aleones, was held as infamous in the time of Cicero, cf. Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; id. Phil. 2, 23, although there was much playing with aleae, and old men were esp. fond of this game, because it required little physical exertion, Cic. Sen. 16, 58; Suet. Aug. 71; Juv. 14, 4; cf.

Jahn,

Ov. Tr. 2, 471; Rupert. ad Tac. G. 24, 5:

provocat me in aleam, ut ego ludam,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 75.—Ludere aleā or aleam, also sometimes in aleā:

in foro aleā ludere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 23, 56; Dig. 11, 5, 1: ludit assidue aleam, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70:

aleam studiosissime lusit,

Suet. Claud. 33; so id. Ner. 30; Juv. 8, 10:

repetitio ejus, quod in aleā lusum est,

Dig. 11, 5, 4.—Hence, in aleā aliquid perdere, Cic. Phil. 2, 13:

exercere aleam,

Tac. G. 24:

indulgere aleae,

Suet. Aug. 70:

oblectare se aleā,

id. Dom. 21:

prosperiore aleā uti,

to play fortunately, id. Calig. 41.— Trop.: Jacta alea esto, Let the die be cast! Let the game be ventured! the memorable exclamation of Cæsar when, at the Rubicon, after long hesitation, he finally decided to march to Rome, Suet. Caes. 32, ubi v. Casaub. and Ruhnk.—

Transf., any thing uncertain or contingent, an accident, chance, hazard, venture, risk:

alea domini vitae ac rei familiaris,

Varr. R. R. 1, 4:

sequentes non aleam, sed rationem aliquam,

id. ib. 1, 18:

aleam inesse hostiis deligendis,

Cic. Div. 2, 15:

dare summam rerum in aleam,

to risk, Liv. 42, 59:

in dubiam imperii servitiique aleam ire,

fortune, chance, id. 1, 23:

alea belli,

id. 37, 36:

talibus admissis alea grandis inest,

Ov. A. A. 1, 376:

periculosae plenum opus aleae,

Hor. C. 2, 1, 6: M. Tullius extra omnem ingenii aleam positus, raised above all doubt of his talents, Plin. praef. § 7: emere aleam, in the Pandects, to purchase any thing uncertain, contingent, e. g. a draught of fishes, Dig. 18, 1, 8; so ib. 18, 4, 7.

tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3, v. a. ( perf. tollit, Pers. 4, 2:

tollisse,

Dig. 46, 4, 13) [root Sanscr. tul-, tulajāmi, lift up, weigh; Gr. tal-, tel, in tlênai, talanton; cf.: tuli, tlātus (latus), tolerare], to lift or take up, to raise, always with the predom. idea of motion upwards or of removal from a former situation.

To lift up, raise up, elevate, exalt, etc. (syn.: effero, elevo).

Lit.

In gen.: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli templa, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.): pileum ad caelum tollit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 220, 15:

fulgor ibi ad caelum se tollit,

Lucr. 2, 325;

for which also: aliquem tollere in caelum,

Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

quem (Herculem) in caelum ista ipsa sustulit fortitudo,

id. Tusc. 4, 22, 50; id. Rep. 1, 16, 25:

tollam ego ted in collum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 42:

Phaëthon optavit, ut in currum patris tolleretur: sublatus est,

Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94; cf. id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

aliquem in equum,

id. Deiot. 10, 28:

quos in crucem sustulit,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7:

aliquem in crucem,

id. ib. 2, 1, 5, §

13: aquila in sublime sustulit testudinem,

Phaedr. 2, 6, 4:

in arduos Tollor Sabinos,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 22 et saep.:

ut me hic jacentem aliquis tollat,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 2; so,

jacentes,

id. Most. 1, 4, 17: mulum suum tollebat Fufius, lifted up, raised up, Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

nequeo caput tollere,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45:

sustulimus manus et ego et Balbus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

manus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5:

gradum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: scorpius caudā sublatā, Lucil. ap. Non. 385, 31:

lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga (coluber),

Verg. A. 2, 474:

terrā,

Ov. M. 15, 192:

de terrā,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

se tollere a terrā,

id. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

ignis e speculā sublatus,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 93.—

In partic.

Tollere liberos, to take up, i. e. to accept, acknowledge; and so, to raise up, bring up, educate as one's own (from the custom of laying new-born children on the ground at the father's feet; cf.

suscipio): quod erit natum, tollito,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 3:

puerum,

id. Men. prol. 33; Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 67 Vahl.):

natum filium,

Quint. 4, 2, 42:

nothum,

id. 3, 6, 97:

puellam,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 15; cf. id. And. 1, 3, 14.—Also of the mother:

si quod peperissem, id educarem ac tollerem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 45.—

Transf., in gen., to get, beget a child:

qui ex Fadiā sustulerit liberos,

Cic. Phil. 13, 10, 23:

decessit morbo aquae intercutis, sublato filio Nerone ex Agrippinā,

Suet. Ner. 5 fin. —

Nautical t. t.: tollere ancoras, to lift the anchor, weigh anchor; esp. in part. pass.:

sublatis ancoris,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 1, 31; Liv. 22, 19, 6. —

Transf. out of the nautical sphere, to break up, proceed:

si vultis ancoras tollere,

Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 1.—

To build, raise, erect:

tollam altius tectum,

Cic. Har. Resp. 15, 33:

si juxta habeas aedificia, eaque jure tuo altius tollas,

Dig. 39, 2, 26.—

To take on board, carry, of vessels or vehicles:

navem, metretas quae trecentas tolleret, parasse,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 75:

naves, quae equites sustulerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 28:

altera navis ducentos ex legione tironum sustulerat,

id. B. C. 3, 28;

Auct. B. Afr. 54: tollite me, Teucri,

Verg. A. 3, 601:

ut se sublatum in lembum ad Cotym deveheret,

Liv. 45, 6, 2:

Maecenas me tollere raedā vellet,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 42:

Talem te Bacchus... sustulit in currus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 157. —

Trop.

To raise, lift, lift up, elevate, set up, etc.: tollitur in caelum clamor exortus utrimque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 422 Vahl.):

clamorem in caelum,

Verg. A. 11, 745:

clamores ad sidera,

id. ib. 2, 222; cf.:

clamor magnus se tollit ad auras,

rises, id. ib. 11, 455:

clamor a vigilibus tollitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94:

clamorem,

Flor. 3, 8, 6:

cachinnum,

Cic. Fat. 5, 10:

risum,

Hor. A. P. 381: litterulae meae tui desiderio oblanguerunt: hac tamen epistulā oculos paulum sustulerunt, have opened [p. 1877] their eyes again, have reanimated them, Cic. Fam. 16, 10, 2.—Esp. with animos: ne in secunda tollere animos et in mala demittere, to elevate, Lucil. ap. Non. 286, 6:

animos,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 10; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 57:

animos alicui,

to raise, excite, animate, Liv. 3, 67, 6:

nec dubium est quin omnis Hispania sublatura animos fuerit,

id. 35, 1, 3;

opp. abicere animos,

Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 7:

aliquid dicendo augere et tollere altius (opp. extenuare et abicere),

Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 104:

ad caelum te tollimus verissimis ac justissimis laudibus,

id. Fam. 15, 9, 1:

monumentum illud, quod tu tollere laudibus solebas,

id. Att. 4, 16, 8 (14):

nostras laudes in astra,

id. ib. 2, 25, 1:

Daphnim tuum ad astra,

Verg. E. 5, 51:

tergeminis tollere honoribus,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 8:

vos Tempe tollite laudibus,

id. ib. 1, 21, 9 (cf. also Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1; v. infra, II. A. 2.):

supra modum se tollens oratio,

Quint. 4, 2, 61; cf.:

se eadem geometria tollit ad rationem usque mundi,

id. 1, 10, 46; 1, 2, 26:

amicum Tollere (i. q. consolari),

to cheer up, console, Hor. S. 2, 8, 61.—

To take on one, assume, bear, endure:

providere non solum quid oneris in praesentia tollant,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

at Apollodorus poenas sustulit,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 82. —

To take up a thing from its place, to take away, remove, to bear or carry away, make way with, take away with one (syn.: aufero, adimo).

Lit.

In gen.:

frumentum de areā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 36:

solem e mundo tollere videntur, qui amicitiam e vitā tollunt,

id. Lael. 13, 47:

ut aliquis nos deus ex hac hominum frequentiā tolleret,

id. ib. 23, 87:

simulacra ex delubris,

id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 3; so,

pecunias e fano,

Caes. B. C. 3, 105:

sphaeram ex urbe (Syracusis),

Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21:

praedam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

posita,

id. ib. 6, 17:

patinam,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 80; cf.:

his sublatis,

id. ib. 2, 8, 10:

mensam tolli jubet,

Cic. Pis. 27, 67:

me per hostes Denso paventem sustulit aëre,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 14:

jubet sublata reponi Pocula,

Verg. A. 8, 175:

cuncta,

id. ib. 8, 439:

tecum me tolle per undas,

id. ib. 6, 370:

me quoque tolle simul,

Ov. M. 11, 441:

tollite me, Libyes, comitem poenaeque necisque,

Sil. 6, 500.—

In partic.

Pregn., to take off, carry off, make away with, to kill, destroy, ruin, etc.:

aliquem de medio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

aliquem e medio,

Liv. 24, 6, 1:

aliquem ferro, veneno,

Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

Titanas fulmine (Juppiter),

Hor. C. 3, 4, 44: quem febris una potuit tollere, Lucil. ap. Non. 406, 25:

me truncus illapsus cerebro Sustulerat, nisi, etc.,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 28:

tollet anum vitiato melle cicuta,

id. S. 2, 1, 56:

sorbitio tollit quem dira cicutae,

Pers. 4, 2:

majores nostri Carthaginem et Numantiam funditus sustulerunt,

laid waste, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35:

ademptus Hector Tradidit fessis leviora tolli Pergama Graiis,

Hor. C. 2, 4, 11.—In a play with I. B. supra: te dixisse, laudandum adulescentem (Caesarem), ornandum, tollendum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1; cf.:

se non esse commissurum, ut tolli posset,

id. ib. 11, 20, 1.—

Milit. t. t.: tollere signa, to break up for marching, to decamp, Caes. B. C. 2, 20; Auct. B. Alex. 57, 1.—

Trop., to do away with, remove; to abolish, annul, abrogate, cancel (very freq., esp. in Cic.;

syn.: oblittero, aboleo): rei memoriam tollere ac delere,

Cic. Quint. 21, 70; cf.

metum,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

sublatā benevolentiā amicitiae nomen tollitur,

id. Lael. 5, 19; cf.:

maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex eā tollit verecundiam,

id. ib. 22, 82:

dubitationem,

id. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

errorem,

id. ib. 1, 24, 38:

librariorum menda,

id. Att. 13, 23, 2:

ut id nomen ex omnibus libris tollatur,

id. ib. 13, 44, 3:

legem,

id. Leg. 2, 12, 31:

veteres leges novis legibus,

id. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

dictaturam funditus ex re publicā,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

sublato Areopago,

id. Rep. 1, 27, 43:

deos,

to deny the existence of, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85; id. Ac. 2, 11, 33:

diem,

to consume in speechmaking, id. Leg. 3, 18, 40; id. Dom. 17, 45:

morbus facile tollitur,

is removed, Cels. 2, 14; 4, 18; so,

dolores et tumores,

Plin. 26, 12, 75, § 122:

foeditates cicatricum maculasque,

id. 33, 6, 35, § 110:

muliebrem luctum,

Hor. Epod. 16, 39:

querelas,

id. Ep. 1, 12, 3.—Hence,

sublātus

, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), elated, proud, haughty (rare):

quo proelio sublati Helvetii,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

hac victoriā,

id. ib. 5, 38: quibus omnibus rebus, id. B. C. 2, 37:

rebus secundis,

Verg. A. 10, 502:

gloriā,

Tac. A. 13, 11 et saep.:

fidens magis et sublatior ardet,

Ov. Hal. 54. — Adv.:

sublātē

, highly, loftily. *

Lit.:

Nilus diebus centum sublatius fluens, minuitur postea,

higher, Amm. 22, 15, 12. —

Trop.:

sublate ampleque dicere (opp. attenuate presseque),

loftily, with elevation, Cic. Brut. 55, 201:

sublatius dicere,

more proudly, id. Dom. 36, 95:

sublatius insolescentes,

Amm. 15, 12, 1.