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a river of Britain

  • 1 river

    'rivə
    (a large stream of water flowing across country: The Thames is a river; the river Thames; the Hudson River; (also adjective) a river animal.) río
    - riverside
    river n río
    tr['rɪvəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 río
    river ['rɪvər] n
    : río m
    adj.
    fluvial adj.
    n.
    rio s.m.
    río s.m.
    'rɪvər, 'rɪvə(r)
    noun río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    to sell somebody down the river — traicionar a alguien; (before n) <traffic, port> fluvial; <mouth, basin> del río; < fish> de río or de agua dulce

    ['rɪvǝ(r)]
    1.
    N río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    - sell sb down the river
    2.
    CPD

    river basin Ncuenca f de río

    river fish Npez m de río

    river fishing Npesca f de río

    river mouth Ndesembocadura f del río

    river police Nbrigada f fluvial

    river traffic Ntráfico m fluvial

    * * *
    ['rɪvər, 'rɪvə(r)]
    noun río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    to sell somebody down the river — traicionar a alguien; (before n) <traffic, port> fluvial; <mouth, basin> del río; < fish> de río or de agua dulce

    English-spanish dictionary > river

  • 2 Auvona

    Auvŏna, ae, m., a river in Britain, now the Avon, Tac. A. 12, 31; cf. Mann. Brit. p. 179.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Auvona

  • 3 Sabrina

    Sabrīna, ae, f., a river of Britain, now the Severn, Tac. A. 12, 31.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Sabrina

  • 4 Tamesa

    Tămĕsis, is, m., a river in Britain, now the Thames, Caes. B. G. 5, 11; 5, 18.— Called also Tămĕsa, ae, Tac. A. 14, 32.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Tamesa

  • 5 Tamesis

    Tămĕsis, is, m., a river in Britain, now the Thames, Caes. B. G. 5, 11; 5, 18.— Called also Tămĕsa, ae, Tac. A. 14, 32.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Tamesis

  • 6 Port Wine

       Portugal's most famous wine and leading export takes its name from the city of Oporto or porto, which means "port" or "harbor" in Portuguese. Sometimes described as "the Englishman's wine," port is only one of the many wines produced in continental Portugal and the Atlantic islands. Another noted dessert wine is Madeira wine, which is produced on the island of Madeira. Port wine's history is about as long as that of Madeira wine, but the wine's development is recent compared to that of older table wines and the wines Greeks and Romans enjoyed in ancient Lusitania. During the Roman occupation of the land (ca. 210 BCE-300 CE), wine was being made from vines cultivated in the upper Douro River valley. Favorable climate and soils (schist with granite outcropping) and convenient transportation (on ships down the Douro River to Oporto) were factors that combined with increased wine production in the late 17th century to assist in the birth of port wine as a new product. Earlier names for port wine ( vinho do porto) were descriptive of location ("Wine of the Douro Bank") and how it was transported ("Wine of [Ship] Embarkation").
       Port wine, a sweet, fortified (with brandy) aperitif or dessert wine that was designed as a valuable export product for the English market, was developed first in the 1670s by a unique combination of circumstances and the action of interested parties. Several substantial English merchants who visited Oporto "discovered" that a local Douro wine was much improved when brandy ( aguardente) was added. Fortification prevented the wine from spoiling in a variety of temperatures and on the arduous sea voyages from Oporto to Great Britain. Soon port wine became a major industry of the Douro region; it involved an uneasy alliance between the English merchant-shippers at Oporto and Vila Nova de Gaia, the town across the river from Oporto, where the wine was stored and aged, and the Portuguese wine growers.
       In the 18th century, port wine became a significant element of Britain's foreign imports and of the country's establishment tastes in beverages. Port wine drinking became a hallowed tradition in Britain's elite Oxford and Cambridge Universities' colleges, which all kept port wine cellars. For Portugal, the port wine market in Britain, and later in France, Belgium, and other European countries, became a vital element in the national economy. Trade in port wine and British woolens became the key elements in the 1703 Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal.
       To lessen Portugal's growing economic dependence on Britain, regulate the production and export of the precious sweet wine, and protect the public from poor quality, the Marquis of Pombal instituted various measures for the industry. In 1756, Pombal established the General Company of Viticulture of the Upper Douro to carry out these measures. That same year, he ordered the creation of the first demarcated wine-producing region in the world, the port-wine producing Douro region. Other wine-producing countries later followed this Portuguese initiative and created demarcated wine regions to protect the quality of wine produced and to ensure national economic interests.
       The upper Douro valley region (from Barca d'Alva in Portugal to Barqueiros on the Spanish frontier) produces a variety of wines; only 40 percent of its wines are port wine, whereas 60 percent are table wines. Port wine's alcohol content varies usually between 19 and 22 percent, and, depending on the type, the wine is aged in wooden casks from two to six years and then bottled. Related to port wine's history is the history of Portuguese cork. Beginning in the 17th century, Portuguese cork, which comes from cork trees, began to be used to seal wine bottles to prevent wine from spoiling. This innovation in Portugal helped lead to the development of the cork industry. By the early 20th century, Portugal was the world's largest exporter of cork.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Port Wine

  • 7 grande

    adj.
    1 big, large.
    un gran artista a great artist
    el gran favorito the firm favorite
    una gran figura a big name
    una gran parte de mi trabajo implica… a large part of my job involves…
    una gran responsabilidad a heavy responsibility
    a lo grande in a big way, in style
    grandes almacenes department store
    Gran Bretaña Great Britain
    el Gran Cañón the Grand Canyon
    gran danés great Dane
    gran éxito smash (hit) (disco, libro)
    los Grandes Lagos the Great Lakes
    la Gran Muralla (China) the Great Wall (of China)
    el gran público the general public
    2 old (de edad). (Mexican Spanish, River Plate)
    3 fantastic(informal). ( River Plate)
    4 magnus, Mag, magnum.
    5 grand, formidable, majestical, stately.
    m.
    grandee (noble).
    * * *
    1 (tamaño) large, big
    2 (fuerte, intenso) great
    3 (mayor) grown-up, old, big
    \
    a lo grande on a grand scale, in a big way
    estar grande una cosa a alguien to be too big on somebody
    pasarlo en grande familiar to have a great time
    vivir a lo grande figurado to live in style
    Grande de España grandee Table 1 NOTA See also gran/Table 1
    * * *
    adj.
    1) big
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    ( antes de sm sing gran)
    1) [de tamaño] big, large; [de estatura] big, tall; [número, velocidad] high, great

    ¿cómo es de grande? — how big o large is it?, what size is it?

    en cantidades más grandesin larger o greater quantities

    grandísimo — enormous, huge

    un esfuerzo grandísimo — an enormous effort, a huge effort

    ¡grandísimo tunante! — you old rogue!

    hacer algo a lo grande — to do sth in style, make a splash doing sth *

    2) (=importante) [artista, hazaña] great; [empresa] big
    3) (=mucho, muy) great

    se estrenó con gran éxito — it was a great success, it went off very well

    4) [en edad]
    (=mayor)

    ya eres grande, Raúl — you are a big boy now, Raúl

    ¿qué piensas hacer cuando seas grande? — what do you want to do when you grow up?

    5)

    ¡qué grande! — Arg * how funny!

    2. SMF
    1) (=personaje importante)
    2) LAm (=adulto) adult
    3. SF
    1) Arg [de lotería] first prize, big prize
    2) And ** (=cárcel) clink **, jail
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo [ gran is used before singular nouns]
    1)
    a) ( en dimensiones) large, big; <boca/nariz> big
    b) ( en demasía) too big

    me queda or me está grande — it's too big for me

    quedarle grande a alguienpuesto/responsabilidad to be too much for somebody

    2) ( alto) tall
    3) (Geog)
    4) ( en edad)

    los más grandes pueden ir solosthe older o bigger ones can go on their own

    a) (notable, excelente) great

    un gran hombre/vino — a great man/wine

    b) ( poderoso) big
    6)
    a) (en intensidad, grado) great

    me llevé un susto más grande...! — I got such a fright!

    una temporada de gran éxitoa very o a highly successful season

    7)
    a) ( en número) < familia> large, big; < clase> big

    la gran parte or mayoría de los votantes — the great o vast majority of the voters

    b) ( elevado)

    a gran velocidadat high o great speed

    en grande: lo pasamos en grande — we had a great time (colloq)

    II
    masculino, femenino
    1) (de la industria, el comercio) big o leading name
    2)
    a) ( mayor)

    quiero ir con los grandes — I want to go with the big boys/girls

    b) ( adulto)
    * * *
    = vast [vaster -comp., vastest -sup.], big [bigger -comp., biggest -sup.], bulky, considerable, deep [deeper -comp., deepest -sup.], extensive, great [greater -comp., greatest -sup.], heavy [heavier -comp., heaviest -sup.], high [higher -comp., highest -sup.], huge, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], large scale [large-scale], tremendous, wide [wider -comp., widest -sup.], goodly [goodlier -comp., goodliest -sup.], abysmal, heavyweight [heavy weight], broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], of the highest order.
    Ex. If you add to this other access points, such as collections housed in old people's homes or day centres, prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, playgroups etc the coverage is vast.
    Ex. Fiction is a big item for children and also just for ordinary public library users.
    Ex. Like all enumerative schedules, the LC schedules are bulky, extending to some 8000 pages.
    Ex. The need to become familiar with different command languages for different hosts is a considerable barrier to effective retrieval.
    Ex. The world's largest processing department's plans and policies are always of deep interest.
    Ex. The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex. Clearly, great variations can be expected between different indexing languages for different databases.
    Ex. In fact, the area was well served by a very good neighbourhood advice centre which had a heavy workload of advice and information-giving.
    Ex. Lower specificity will be associated with lower precision but high recall.
    Ex. A user searching for Smith's 'History as Argument' who was not sure under which subject it would be entered, would have to prowl through a huge number of cards in a card catalog to find the entry under SMITH.
    Ex. Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex. It is in the development of such large-scale services that problems are seen most acutely.
    Ex. There has been tremendous growth in libraries since then, but, fundamentally, it has been possible to build on the foundation that nineteenth-century heroes constructed.
    Ex. The method is sufficiently flexible to allow for wide modifications.
    Ex. However, we must not forget the book which the critics acclaim and which also sells in goodly numbers.
    Ex. The major problem encountered in encouraging young adults to use public libraries is the abysmal lack of specialist young adult librarians = El principal problema que se encuentra para es incentivar a los jóvenes a usar las bibliotecas públicas es la enorme falta de bibliotecarios especialistas en temas relacionados con los adolescentes.
    Ex. Heavyweight information technology firms such as IBM are appearing in the market and challenging traditional players.
    Ex. In 'upper town' streets are broad, quiet, and tree-shaded; the homes are tall and heavy and look like battleships, each anchored in its private sea of grass.
    Ex. I've got to tell you, and I do say this affectionately, but we're talking about a geek of the highest order.
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    * a grandes rasgos = broadly, rough draft.
    * a gran escala = large scale [large-scale], massive, on a wide scale, high-volume, wide-scale, on a broad scale, in a big way, on a grand scale.
    * a gran velocidad = at great speed.
    * a lo grande = in a big way, big time, grandly, on a grand scale.
    * armar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * a un gran coste = at (a) great expense.
    * avanzar con gran dificultad = grind on.
    * bastante grande = largish.
    * calabacín grande = marrow, marrow squash.
    * causar una gran sensación = make + a splash.
    * causar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * causar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons, make + a splash.
    * celebrar a lo grande = make + a song and dance about.
    * con gran capacidad = capacious.
    * con gran colorido = brightly coloured.
    * con gran densidad de población = densely populated.
    * con gran dificultad = with great difficulty.
    * con gran esplendor = grandly.
    * con gran iluminación = brightly illuminated.
    * con gran motivación = highly-motivated.
    * con gran sentimiento = earnestly.
    * conseguir en gran medida + Infinitivo = go + a long way (towards/to/in) + Gerundio.
    * contribuir en gran medida a + Infinitivo = go + a long way (towards/to/in) + Gerundio, go far in + Gerundio, go far towards + Gerundio.
    * con una gran cultura = well-read.
    * con una gran diferencia = by a huge margin.
    * con una gran tradición = long-standing.
    * con un gran número de lectores = widely-read.
    * con un gran suspiro = with a deep sigh.
    * convertirse en un gran problema = grow to + a crisis.
    * correr un gran riesgo = play (for) + high stakes.
    * crear con gran destreza = craft.
    * dar un gran paso adelante = reach + milestone.
    * de gran ahorro energético = energy-saving.
    * de gran belleza = scenic.
    * de gran calibre = high-calibre.
    * de gran calidad = high-quality, high-grade [high grade], high-calibre.
    * de gran capacidad = large-capacity, high capacity.
    * de gran colorido = brightly coloured.
    * de gran corazón = big-hearted.
    * de gran efecto = wide-reaching.
    * de gran éxito comercial = high selling.
    * de gran formato = oversized.
    * de gran impacto = high impact [high-impact].
    * de gran influencia = seminal.
    * de gran lucidez = clear-sighted.
    * de gran lujo = top-class.
    * de gran potencia = high-powered.
    * de gran repercusión = far-reaching, wide-reaching, far-ranging.
    * de gran talento = talented.
    * de gran valor = highly valued, highly valuable.
    * de gran valor histórico = of great historical value.
    * de gran venta = high selling.
    * demasiado grande = oversized.
    * describir a grandes rasgos = paint + a broad picture.
    * desplazarse grandes distancias = travel + long distances.
    * ejercer una gran influencia en = play + a strong hand in.
    * el gran hermano = big brother.
    * el todo es más grande que la suma de sus partes = the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
    * empresa de grandes derroches = high roller.
    * en gran cantidad = prodigiously.
    * en grandes cantidades = en masse, in good number, in bulk.
    * en grandes números = in record numbers, in record numbers.
    * en gran formato = oversize, oversized.
    * en gran medida = by and large, extensively, greatly, heavily, largely, to a considerable extent, to a high degree, to a large extent, tremendously, vastly, very much, to a great extent, in no small way, to any great degree, in many ways, in large part, in large measure, in no small measure, to a large degree, to a great degree.
    * en gran número = numerously.
    * en gran parte = largely, in large part, in large measure, for the most part, to a great extent, to a great degree.
    * en un gran aprieto = in dire straits.
    * en un gran apuro = in dire straits.
    * esperar una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * expresión típica de Gran Bretaña = Briticism.
    * extra grande = extra-large.
    * gestión de grandes extensiones para la cría de ganado = range management.
    * gran altura = high altitude.
    * gran aumento = heavy increase.
    * gran bebedor = heavy drinker.
    * gran belleza = scenic beauty.
    * Gran Bretaña = Britain, Great Britain.
    * gran calidad = high standard.
    * gran cantidad de = large crop of, mass of.
    * gran categoría = high standard.
    * gran cosa = big deal.
    * gran danés = Great Dane.
    * Gran Depresión, la = Depression, the, Great Depression, the.
    * grandes almacenes = department store.
    * grandes cantidades de = storerooms of, huge numbers of, huge numbers of, great numbers of.
    * grandes escritores, los = great imaginative writers, the.
    * grandes robles nacen de pequeñas bellotas = great oaks from little acorns grow.
    * grandes sumas de dinero = vast sums of money.
    * grande superficie = shopping mall, shopping complex, shopping centre.
    * grandes y pequeños = great and small.
    * grande y tenebroso = cavernous.
    * gran ducado = grand-duchy.
    * gran espectáculo = extravaganza.
    * gran extensión de tierra dedicada a la cría de animales de pasto = rangeland.
    * gran grupo = constellation.
    * gran mentira = big fat lie.
    * gran nivel = high standard.
    * gran número de = great numbers of.
    * gran pantalla de televisión = large-screen television.
    * gran parte = much.
    * gran parte de = much of.
    * gran peso = heavy weight.
    * gran placer = great pleasure.
    * gran potencia = great power.
    * gran salto adelante = giant leap, great leap forward.
    * gran tiburón blanco = great white shark.
    * gran titular = headline banner.
    * hacer grandes esfuerzos por = take + (great) pains to.
    * hacer grandes progresos = make + great strides.
    * hacer un gran esfuerzo = go out of + Posesivo + way to + Infinitivo.
    * hacer un gran negocio = make + a killing.
    * IGE (Integración a Gran Escala) = LSI (Large Scale Integration).
    * influir en gran medida = become + a force.
    * jaula grande para pájaros = aviary.
    * jugador de grandes apuestas = high roller.
    * la Gran Manzana = the Big Apple.
    * la gran mayoría de = the vast majority of, the bulk of.
    * levantar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * llevarse una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * lo suficientemente grande = large enough, big enough.
    * más grande = greater.
    * muy grande = big time.
    * Nombre + a gran escala = broad scale + Nombre.
    * no ser gran cosa = not add up to much, add up to + nothing.
    * no ser una gran pérdida = be no great loss.
    * no significar gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no valer gran cosa = be no great shakes.
    * pago único y bien grande = fat lump sum.
    * para + Posesivo + gran sorpresa = much to + Posesivo + surprise.
    * pasarlo a lo grande = have + a ball, have + a whale of a time.
    * pasarlo en grande = have + a ball, have + a whale of a time.
    * pasárselo en grande = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * Pedro el Grande = Peter the Great.
    * pensar a lo grande = think + big.
    * Pie Grande = Bigfoot, Sasquatch.
    * por un gran margen = by a huge margin.
    * producir con gran destreza = craft.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * que le presta gran importancia a la cultura = culture-conscious.
    * recorrer grandes distancias = travel + long distances.
    * revista que tiene una gran demanda popular = mass-market journal.
    * ser de gran ayuda para = be a boon to.
    * ser de gran beneficio para = be of great benefit to.
    * ser una gran ayuda = be a tower of strength.
    * ser un gran alivio = be a welcome relief.
    * ser un gran apoyo = be a tower of strength.
    * ser un gran avance = be half the battle.
    * ser un gran paso adelante = be half the battle.
    * taza grande = mug.
    * tener en gran estima = have + a very high regard for.
    * tener gran éxito = hit + a home run, hit it out of + the park, knock it out of + the park.
    * tener gran importancia = be of high significance.
    * tener gran repercusión = be far reaching.
    * tener una gran tradición = have + a long ancestry.
    * tener un gran impacto = have + a big impact.
    * tomar un gran riesgo = play (for) + high stakes.
    * una gran cantidad de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a large degree of, a mass of, a plethora of, a supply of, a vast amount of, a city of, a wealth of, a sea of, a cascade of, an army of, a good many, a huge number of, a great number of, a multitude of, scores of, a host of, a vast corpus of, a whole host of.
    * una gran cantidad y variedad de = a wealth and breadth of.
    * una gran diversidad de = a wide range of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of.
    * una gran experiencia = a wealth of experience.
    * una gran extensión de = a sea of.
    * una gran gama de = a wide range of, a rich tapestry of, a wide band of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a whole gamut of.
    * una gran mayoría de = a large proportion of.
    * una gran parte de = a broad population of, a lion's share of.
    * una gran pérdida = a great loss.
    * una gran proporción de = a large proportion of.
    * una gran variedad de = a wide range of, a multiplicity of, a rich tapestry of, a plurality of, a broad variety of, a broad range of, a whole gamut of.
    * un gran espectro de = a wide band of.
    * un gran número de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of.
    * un gran repertorio de = an arsenal of, an armoury of [armory].
    * un gran volumen de = a vast corpus of.
    * venirle Algo grande a Alguien = get + too big for + Posesivo + breeches.
    * WAN (red de gran alcance) = WAN (wide area network).
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo [ gran is used before singular nouns]
    1)
    a) ( en dimensiones) large, big; <boca/nariz> big
    b) ( en demasía) too big

    me queda or me está grande — it's too big for me

    quedarle grande a alguienpuesto/responsabilidad to be too much for somebody

    2) ( alto) tall
    3) (Geog)
    4) ( en edad)

    los más grandes pueden ir solosthe older o bigger ones can go on their own

    a) (notable, excelente) great

    un gran hombre/vino — a great man/wine

    b) ( poderoso) big
    6)
    a) (en intensidad, grado) great

    me llevé un susto más grande...! — I got such a fright!

    una temporada de gran éxitoa very o a highly successful season

    7)
    a) ( en número) < familia> large, big; < clase> big

    la gran parte or mayoría de los votantes — the great o vast majority of the voters

    b) ( elevado)

    a gran velocidadat high o great speed

    en grande: lo pasamos en grande — we had a great time (colloq)

    II
    masculino, femenino
    1) (de la industria, el comercio) big o leading name
    2)
    a) ( mayor)

    quiero ir con los grandes — I want to go with the big boys/girls

    b) ( adulto)
    * * *
    = vast [vaster -comp., vastest -sup.], big [bigger -comp., biggest -sup.], bulky, considerable, deep [deeper -comp., deepest -sup.], extensive, great [greater -comp., greatest -sup.], heavy [heavier -comp., heaviest -sup.], high [higher -comp., highest -sup.], huge, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], large scale [large-scale], tremendous, wide [wider -comp., widest -sup.], goodly [goodlier -comp., goodliest -sup.], abysmal, heavyweight [heavy weight], broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], of the highest order.

    Ex: If you add to this other access points, such as collections housed in old people's homes or day centres, prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, playgroups etc the coverage is vast.

    Ex: Fiction is a big item for children and also just for ordinary public library users.
    Ex: Like all enumerative schedules, the LC schedules are bulky, extending to some 8000 pages.
    Ex: The need to become familiar with different command languages for different hosts is a considerable barrier to effective retrieval.
    Ex: The world's largest processing department's plans and policies are always of deep interest.
    Ex: The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex: Clearly, great variations can be expected between different indexing languages for different databases.
    Ex: In fact, the area was well served by a very good neighbourhood advice centre which had a heavy workload of advice and information-giving.
    Ex: Lower specificity will be associated with lower precision but high recall.
    Ex: A user searching for Smith's 'History as Argument' who was not sure under which subject it would be entered, would have to prowl through a huge number of cards in a card catalog to find the entry under SMITH.
    Ex: Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex: It is in the development of such large-scale services that problems are seen most acutely.
    Ex: There has been tremendous growth in libraries since then, but, fundamentally, it has been possible to build on the foundation that nineteenth-century heroes constructed.
    Ex: The method is sufficiently flexible to allow for wide modifications.
    Ex: However, we must not forget the book which the critics acclaim and which also sells in goodly numbers.
    Ex: The major problem encountered in encouraging young adults to use public libraries is the abysmal lack of specialist young adult librarians = El principal problema que se encuentra para es incentivar a los jóvenes a usar las bibliotecas públicas es la enorme falta de bibliotecarios especialistas en temas relacionados con los adolescentes.
    Ex: Heavyweight information technology firms such as IBM are appearing in the market and challenging traditional players.
    Ex: In 'upper town' streets are broad, quiet, and tree-shaded; the homes are tall and heavy and look like battleships, each anchored in its private sea of grass.
    Ex: I've got to tell you, and I do say this affectionately, but we're talking about a geek of the highest order.
    * a grandes rasgos = broadly, rough draft.
    * a gran escala = large scale [large-scale], massive, on a wide scale, high-volume, wide-scale, on a broad scale, in a big way, on a grand scale.
    * a gran velocidad = at great speed.
    * a lo grande = in a big way, big time, grandly, on a grand scale.
    * armar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * a un gran coste = at (a) great expense.
    * avanzar con gran dificultad = grind on.
    * bastante grande = largish.
    * calabacín grande = marrow, marrow squash.
    * causar una gran sensación = make + a splash.
    * causar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * causar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons, make + a splash.
    * celebrar a lo grande = make + a song and dance about.
    * con gran capacidad = capacious.
    * con gran colorido = brightly coloured.
    * con gran densidad de población = densely populated.
    * con gran dificultad = with great difficulty.
    * con gran esplendor = grandly.
    * con gran iluminación = brightly illuminated.
    * con gran motivación = highly-motivated.
    * con gran sentimiento = earnestly.
    * conseguir en gran medida + Infinitivo = go + a long way (towards/to/in) + Gerundio.
    * contribuir en gran medida a + Infinitivo = go + a long way (towards/to/in) + Gerundio, go far in + Gerundio, go far towards + Gerundio.
    * con una gran cultura = well-read.
    * con una gran diferencia = by a huge margin.
    * con una gran tradición = long-standing.
    * con un gran número de lectores = widely-read.
    * con un gran suspiro = with a deep sigh.
    * convertirse en un gran problema = grow to + a crisis.
    * correr un gran riesgo = play (for) + high stakes.
    * crear con gran destreza = craft.
    * dar un gran paso adelante = reach + milestone.
    * de gran ahorro energético = energy-saving.
    * de gran belleza = scenic.
    * de gran calibre = high-calibre.
    * de gran calidad = high-quality, high-grade [high grade], high-calibre.
    * de gran capacidad = large-capacity, high capacity.
    * de gran colorido = brightly coloured.
    * de gran corazón = big-hearted.
    * de gran efecto = wide-reaching.
    * de gran éxito comercial = high selling.
    * de gran formato = oversized.
    * de gran impacto = high impact [high-impact].
    * de gran influencia = seminal.
    * de gran lucidez = clear-sighted.
    * de gran lujo = top-class.
    * de gran potencia = high-powered.
    * de gran repercusión = far-reaching, wide-reaching, far-ranging.
    * de gran talento = talented.
    * de gran valor = highly valued, highly valuable.
    * de gran valor histórico = of great historical value.
    * de gran venta = high selling.
    * demasiado grande = oversized.
    * describir a grandes rasgos = paint + a broad picture.
    * desplazarse grandes distancias = travel + long distances.
    * ejercer una gran influencia en = play + a strong hand in.
    * el gran hermano = big brother.
    * el todo es más grande que la suma de sus partes = the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
    * empresa de grandes derroches = high roller.
    * en gran cantidad = prodigiously.
    * en grandes cantidades = en masse, in good number, in bulk.
    * en grandes números = in record numbers, in record numbers.
    * en gran formato = oversize, oversized.
    * en gran medida = by and large, extensively, greatly, heavily, largely, to a considerable extent, to a high degree, to a large extent, tremendously, vastly, very much, to a great extent, in no small way, to any great degree, in many ways, in large part, in large measure, in no small measure, to a large degree, to a great degree.
    * en gran número = numerously.
    * en gran parte = largely, in large part, in large measure, for the most part, to a great extent, to a great degree.
    * en un gran aprieto = in dire straits.
    * en un gran apuro = in dire straits.
    * esperar una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * expresión típica de Gran Bretaña = Briticism.
    * extra grande = extra-large.
    * gestión de grandes extensiones para la cría de ganado = range management.
    * gran altura = high altitude.
    * gran aumento = heavy increase.
    * gran bebedor = heavy drinker.
    * gran belleza = scenic beauty.
    * Gran Bretaña = Britain, Great Britain.
    * gran calidad = high standard.
    * gran cantidad de = large crop of, mass of.
    * gran categoría = high standard.
    * gran cosa = big deal.
    * gran danés = Great Dane.
    * Gran Depresión, la = Depression, the, Great Depression, the.
    * grandes almacenes = department store.
    * grandes cantidades de = storerooms of, huge numbers of, huge numbers of, great numbers of.
    * grandes escritores, los = great imaginative writers, the.
    * grandes robles nacen de pequeñas bellotas = great oaks from little acorns grow.
    * grandes sumas de dinero = vast sums of money.
    * grande superficie = shopping mall, shopping complex, shopping centre.
    * grandes y pequeños = great and small.
    * grande y tenebroso = cavernous.
    * gran ducado = grand-duchy.
    * gran espectáculo = extravaganza.
    * gran extensión de tierra dedicada a la cría de animales de pasto = rangeland.
    * gran grupo = constellation.
    * gran mentira = big fat lie.
    * gran nivel = high standard.
    * gran número de = great numbers of.
    * gran pantalla de televisión = large-screen television.
    * gran parte = much.
    * gran parte de = much of.
    * gran peso = heavy weight.
    * gran placer = great pleasure.
    * gran potencia = great power.
    * gran salto adelante = giant leap, great leap forward.
    * gran tiburón blanco = great white shark.
    * gran titular = headline banner.
    * hacer grandes esfuerzos por = take + (great) pains to.
    * hacer grandes progresos = make + great strides.
    * hacer un gran esfuerzo = go out of + Posesivo + way to + Infinitivo.
    * hacer un gran negocio = make + a killing.
    * IGE (Integración a Gran Escala) = LSI (Large Scale Integration).
    * influir en gran medida = become + a force.
    * jaula grande para pájaros = aviary.
    * jugador de grandes apuestas = high roller.
    * la Gran Manzana = the Big Apple.
    * la gran mayoría de = the vast majority of, the bulk of.
    * levantar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * llevarse una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * lo suficientemente grande = large enough, big enough.
    * más grande = greater.
    * muy grande = big time.
    * Nombre + a gran escala = broad scale + Nombre.
    * no ser gran cosa = not add up to much, add up to + nothing.
    * no ser una gran pérdida = be no great loss.
    * no significar gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no valer gran cosa = be no great shakes.
    * pago único y bien grande = fat lump sum.
    * para + Posesivo + gran sorpresa = much to + Posesivo + surprise.
    * pasarlo a lo grande = have + a ball, have + a whale of a time.
    * pasarlo en grande = have + a ball, have + a whale of a time.
    * pasárselo en grande = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * Pedro el Grande = Peter the Great.
    * pensar a lo grande = think + big.
    * Pie Grande = Bigfoot, Sasquatch.
    * por un gran margen = by a huge margin.
    * producir con gran destreza = craft.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * que le presta gran importancia a la cultura = culture-conscious.
    * recorrer grandes distancias = travel + long distances.
    * revista que tiene una gran demanda popular = mass-market journal.
    * ser de gran ayuda para = be a boon to.
    * ser de gran beneficio para = be of great benefit to.
    * ser una gran ayuda = be a tower of strength.
    * ser un gran alivio = be a welcome relief.
    * ser un gran apoyo = be a tower of strength.
    * ser un gran avance = be half the battle.
    * ser un gran paso adelante = be half the battle.
    * taza grande = mug.
    * tener en gran estima = have + a very high regard for.
    * tener gran éxito = hit + a home run, hit it out of + the park, knock it out of + the park.
    * tener gran importancia = be of high significance.
    * tener gran repercusión = be far reaching.
    * tener una gran tradición = have + a long ancestry.
    * tener un gran impacto = have + a big impact.
    * tomar un gran riesgo = play (for) + high stakes.
    * una gran cantidad de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a large degree of, a mass of, a plethora of, a supply of, a vast amount of, a city of, a wealth of, a sea of, a cascade of, an army of, a good many, a huge number of, a great number of, a multitude of, scores of, a host of, a vast corpus of, a whole host of.
    * una gran cantidad y variedad de = a wealth and breadth of.
    * una gran diversidad de = a wide range of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of.
    * una gran experiencia = a wealth of experience.
    * una gran extensión de = a sea of.
    * una gran gama de = a wide range of, a rich tapestry of, a wide band of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a whole gamut of.
    * una gran mayoría de = a large proportion of.
    * una gran parte de = a broad population of, a lion's share of.
    * una gran pérdida = a great loss.
    * una gran proporción de = a large proportion of.
    * una gran variedad de = a wide range of, a multiplicity of, a rich tapestry of, a plurality of, a broad variety of, a broad range of, a whole gamut of.
    * un gran espectro de = a wide band of.
    * un gran número de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of.
    * un gran repertorio de = an arsenal of, an armoury of [armory].
    * un gran volumen de = a vast corpus of.
    * venirle Algo grande a Alguien = get + too big for + Posesivo + breeches.
    * WAN (red de gran alcance) = WAN (wide area network).

    * * *
    A
    1 (en dimensiones) large, big
    se mudaron a una casa más grande they moved to a larger o bigger house
    sus grandes ojos negros her big dark eyes
    un tipo grande, ancho de hombros a big, broad-shouldered guy
    una chica grandota, fortachona ( fam); a big, strong girl, a strapping lass ( BrE colloq)
    tiene la boca/nariz grande she has a big mouth/nose
    2 (en demasía) too big
    ¿esto será grande para Daniel? do you think this is too big for Daniel?
    estos zapatos me quedan or me están grandes these shoes are too big for me
    quedarle or ( Esp) venirle grande a algn «puesto/responsabilidad» to be too much for sb
    B (alto) tall
    ¡qué grande está Andrés! isn't Andrés tall!, hasn't Andrés gotten* tall!
    C ( Geog):
    el Gran Buenos Aires/Bilbao Greater Buenos Aires/Bilbao
    D
    1
    ( esp AmL) ‹niño/chico› (en edad): los más grandes pueden ir solos the older o bigger ones can go on their own
    ya eres grande y puedes comer solito you're a big boy now and you can feed yourself
    cuando sea grande quiero ser bailarina when I grow up I want to be a ballet dancer
    mis hijos ya son grandes my children are all grown up now
    2
    ( Arg) (maduro, mayor): es una mujer grande she isn't a young woman o she's a mature woman
    está saliendo con un tipo grande she's going out with an older guy
    1 (notable, excelente) great
    un gran hombre/artista/vino a great man/artist/wine
    la gran dama del teatro the grande dame of the theater
    los grandes bancos/industriales the big banks/industrialists
    los grandes señores feudales the great feudal lords
    a lo grande in style
    3
    (en importancia): son grandes amigos they're great friends
    grandes fumadores heavy smokers
    F ( fam)
    (increíble): ¡qué cosa más grande! ¡ya te he dicho 20 veces que no lo sé! this is unbelievable! I've told you 20 times already that I don't know!
    ¿no es grande que ahora me echen la culpa a mí? ( iró); and now they blame me; great, isn't it? ( iro)
    G
    1 (en intensidad, grado) great
    me causó una gran pena it caused me great sadness
    me has dado una gran alegría you have made me very happy
    comió con gran apetito she ate hungrily o heartily
    un día de gran calor a very hot day
    los grandes fríos del 47 the great o big freeze of '47
    me llevé un susto más grande … I got such a fright
    para mi gran vergüenza to my great embarrassment
    se produjo una gran explosión there was a powerful explosion
    es un gran honor para mí it is a great honor* for me
    ha sido una temporada de gran éxito it has been a very o a highly successful season
    no corre gran prisa it is not very urgent
    las paredes tienen gran necesidad de una mano de pintura the walls are very much in need of a coat of paint
    2
    (uso enfático): eso es una gran verdad that is absolutely o very true
    ésa es la mentira más grande que he oído that's the biggest lie I've ever heard
    ¡qué gran novedad! ( iró); you don't say! o what a surprise! ( iro)
    H
    1 (en número) ‹familia› large, big; ‹clase› big
    la gran mayoría de los votantes the great o vast majority of the voters
    dedican gran parte de su tiempo a la investigación they devote much of o a great deal of their time to research
    esto se debe en gran parte a que … this is largely due to the fact that …
    2
    (elevado): a gran velocidad at high o great speed
    volar a gran altura to fly at a great height
    un edificio de gran altura a very tall building
    un gran número de personas a large number of people
    objetos de gran valor objects of great value
    en grande: lo pasamos or nos divertimos en grande we had a great time ( colloq)
    Compuestos:
    masculine wide-angle lens
    el gran capital big business
    masculine Great Dane
    la Gran Depresión the Great Depression
    ( Astron): la gran explosión the Big Bang
    la Gran Guerra the Great War
    masculine Big Brother
    el gran hermano te observa or te vigila Big Brother is watching you
    masculine Grand Master
    masculine grand master
    masculine international grand master
    feminine grand opera
    masculine Grand Prix
    el gran público the general public
    el gran simpático the sympathetic nervous system
    feminine ( Esp) large supermarket, hypermarket ( BrE)
    mpl department store
    masculine, feminine
    A (de la industria, el comercio) big o leading name, leading player
    uno de los tres grandes de la industria automovilística one of the big three names o one of the big three in the car industry
    B ( esp AmL)
    1
    (mayor): quiero ir con los grandes I want to go with the big boys/girls
    la grande ya está casada their eldest (daughter) is already married
    2 (adulto) grown-up
    Compuesto:
    (Spanish) grandee o nobleman
    ( RPl)
    la grande the big prize, the jackpot
    sacarse la grande (literal) to win the big prize o the jackpot
    se sacó la grande con ese marido she hit the jackpot with that husband
    * * *

     

    grande adjetivo
    gran is used before singular nouns

    1
    a) ( en dimensiones) ‹casa/área/nariz big, large;


    unos grande almacenes a department store


    c) ( en número) ‹ familia large, big;

    clase big;
    la gran parte or mayoría the great majority
    2
    a) ( alto) tall;

    ¡qué grande está Andrés! isn't Andrés tall!

    b) ( en edad):


    ya son grandes they are all grown up now
    3 (Geog):

    4 ( delante del n)
    a) (notable, excelente) great;


    b) ( poderoso) big;


    a lo grande in style
    5
    a) (en intensidad, grado) ‹pena/honor/ventaja great;

    explosión powerful;
    ¡me llevé un susto más grande … ! I got such a fright!;

    una temporada de gran éxito a very o a highly successful season;
    son grandes amigos they're great friends;
    eso es una gran verdad that is absolutely true;
    ¡qué mentira más grande! that's a complete lie!
    b) ( elevado):

    a gran velocidad at high o great speed;

    volar a gran altura to fly at a great height;
    un gran número de personas a large number of people;
    objetos de gran valor objects of great value;
    en grande: lo pasamos en grande we had a great time (colloq)
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    a) ( mayor):


    b) ( adulto):


    grande adjetivo
    1 (tamaño) big, large
    grandes almacenes, department stores
    2 (cantidad) large
    3 fig (fuerte, intenso) great: es un gran músico, he is a great musician
    ♦ Locuciones: a lo grande, in style
    figurado pasarlo en grande, to have a great time
    ' grande' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abarcar
    - alfombra
    - ampliar
    - ampliación
    - armatoste
    - así
    - bastante
    - bestial
    - bloque
    - buena
    - bueno
    - cabezón
    - cabezona
    - cabezudo
    - cajón
    - calabacín
    - campeonato
    - cantidad
    - canto
    - ciudad
    - colosal
    - consideración
    - fenomenal
    - formidable
    - gran
    - hermosa
    - hermoso
    - incalculable
    - ingeniosa
    - ingenioso
    - mía
    - mío
    - monstruosa
    - monstruoso
    - monumental
    - nuestra
    - nuestro
    - pila
    - puerta
    - quedar
    - señor
    - suficientemente
    - suma
    - sumo
    - terraza
    - tirada
    - tremenda
    - tremendo
    - venir
    - bailar
    English:
    abnormally
    - above
    - ample
    - army
    - awful
    - bag
    - baggy
    - bay
    - big
    - boat
    - border
    - box
    - breaker
    - brush
    - bulk
    - carve
    - cauldron
    - cushion
    - deposit
    - enough
    - extend
    - grand
    - great
    - grow
    - hers
    - in
    - integrate
    - large
    - lion
    - manufacturer
    - marrow
    - mighty
    - mine
    - outrank
    - overgrown
    - paving stone
    - place
    - roller
    - set on
    - set upon
    - slight
    - spanking
    - style
    - tablespoonful
    - tea urn
    - temptation
    - terrific
    - time
    - to
    - tub
    * * *
    grande gran is used instead of grande before singular nouns (e.g. gran hombre great man).
    adj
    1. [de tamaño] big, large;
    este traje me está o [m5] me queda grande this suit is too big for me;
    el gran Buenos Aires/Santiago greater Buenos Aires/Santiago, the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires/Santiago;
    Fig
    el cargo le viene grande he's not up to the job;
    Fam
    pagó con un billete de los grandes he paid with a large note
    grandes almacenes department store; Fot gran angular wide-angle lens;
    la Gran Barrera de Coral the Great Barrier Reef;
    Gran Bretaña Great Britain;
    gran danés Great Dane;
    Hist la Gran Depresión the Great Depression;
    gran ducado grand duchy;
    la Gran Explosión the Big Bang;
    la Gran Guerra the Great War;
    los Grandes Lagos the Great Lakes;
    gran maestro [en ajedrez] grand master;
    Hist Gran Mogol Mogul;
    la Gran Muralla (China) the Great Wall (of China);
    Dep Gran Premio Grand Prix; Hist el Gran Salto Adelante the Great Leap Forward;
    gran slam [en tenis] grand slam;
    Esp Com gran superficie hypermarket
    2. [de altura] tall;
    ¡qué grande está tu hermano! your brother's really grown!
    3. [en importancia] great;
    una gran mujer a great woman;
    los grandes bancos the major banks;
    la gran mayoría está a favor del proyecto the great o overwhelming majority are in favour of the project;
    el éxito se debe en gran parte a su esfuerzo the success is largely due to her efforts, the success is in no small measure due to her efforts
    4. [en intensidad] great;
    es un gran mentiroso he's a real liar;
    ¡qué alegría más grande! what joy!
    5. Fam [adulto]
    cuando sea grande quiere ser doctora she wants to be a doctor when she grows up;
    me dijeron que todavía no soy grande como para salir solo they told me I'm not big enough to go out on my own yet
    6. Méx, RP [de edad]
    cuando se casó ya era grande she was already quite old when she got married;
    siempre se llevó bien con gente más grande he always got on well with older people
    7. RP Fam [fantástico] fantastic, Br brilliant
    8. RP Irónico [genial] great;
    ayer le hice un favor y hoy me vuelve la espalda, ¡grande! great! I did him a favour and now he doesn't want to know!
    9. Comp
    Fam
    hacer algo a lo grande to do sth in a big way o in style;
    vivir a lo grande to live in style;
    pasarlo en grande to have a great time
    nm
    1. [noble] grandee
    Grande de España = one of highest-ranking members of Spanish nobility
    2. [persona, entidad importante]
    uno de los grandes del sector one of the major players in the sector;
    los tres grandes de la liga the big three in the league;
    uno de los grandes de la literatura mexicana one of the big names in Mexican literature
    3. Fam
    grandes [adultos] grown-ups
    nf
    RP [en lotería] first prize, jackpot;
    sacarse la grande [en lotería] to win first prize o the jackpot;
    se sacó la grande con ese trabajo [tuvo buena suerte] she hit the jackpot with that job;
    con esa nuera que tiene le tocó la grande [tuvo mala suerte] you've got to feel sorry for her having a daughter-in-law like that
    interj
    RP Fam [fantástico] great!
    * * *
    I adj
    1 big, large;
    me viene grande the jacket is too big for me;
    el cargo le viene grande the job is too much for him
    2
    :
    a lo grande in style;
    pasarlo en grande have a great time
    II m/f
    1 L.Am. ( adulto) grown-up, adult;
    grandes y pequeños young and old
    2 ( mayor) eldest
    * * *
    1) : large, big
    un libro grande: a big book
    2) alto: tall
    3) notable: great
    un gran autor: a great writer
    con gran placer: with great pleasure
    5) : old, grown-up
    hijos grandes: grown children
    * * *
    grande adj
    1. (tamaño) big [comp. bigger; superl. biggest]
    ¿es muy grande el jardín? is the garden very big?
    2. (número, cantidad) large
    3. (importante) great

    Spanish-English dictionary > grande

  • 8 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology

  • 9 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

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    b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, England
    d. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England
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    English civil and mechanical engineer.
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    The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.
    From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).
    Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).
    The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.
    Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.
    As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.
    The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).
    The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.
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    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.
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  • 10 by

    baɪ
    1. предл.
    1) а) у, при, около a home by a lake ≈ дом рядом с озером Syn: near to, next to б) мимо We drove by the church. ≈ Мы проезжали мимо церкви. Syn: past
    2) а) в течение by day (night) ≈ в течение дня( ночи) б) к, не позже чем( указывает предельный срок) I'll be done by five o'clock. ≈ Я буду готов к пяти часам.
    3) а) указывает на автора;
    передается тв. или род. падежом: a poem by Emily Dickinsonпоэма, написанная Эмили Дикинсон б) указывает на орган, учреждение и т. п., с помощью которого что-л. происходит: The booklet was issued by the government. ≈ Проспект был выпущен правительством.
    4) указывает на средство передвижения;
    передается тв. падежом She came by air. ≈ Она прилетела. by trainпоездом
    5) через, посредством, от, по (причина, источник) By his own account he was there. ≈ По его собственным словам он был там.
    6) в, на, по (указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п.;
    передается тж. тв. падежом) by the pound ≈ в фунтах, фунтами
    7) указывает на характер действия We met by chance. ≈ Мы встретились случайно.
    8) по;
    согласно( указывает на соответствие, согласованность) a bad movie by any standards ≈ по любым меркам плохой фильм
    9) на (указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами) taller by three inches ≈ выше на три дюймаby George ≈ ей-богу! by the byкстати, между прочим by and largeв общем и целом, в общем
    2. нареч.
    1) близко, возле, около, рядом The school is close by. ≈ Школа расположена рядом. Syn: at hand;
    near
    2) мимо The car drove by. ≈ Машина проехала мимо. Syn: past
    3) в сторону, отдельно to lay by money for retirementоткладывать деньги на пенсию Syn: aside;
    away
    4) внутрь, в дом, в офис( и т. п.) Syn: Stop by later. ≈ Зайди позже.
    5) указывает на конец чего-л. in times gone by ≈ в давно прошедшие времена Syn: past;
    over ∙ by and byвскоре лежащий в стороне второстепенный, необязательный мимо - he passed by without a word он прошел мимо, не сказав ни слова - I can't get by я не мог пройти - in days gone by в давние времена, очень давно - time went by время прошло близко, рядом - no one was by рядом никого не было - to stand by стоять рядом в сторону - stand /step/ by! отойдите!, посторонитесь! придает глаголам to put, to set, to lay значение: откладывать - to put by money копить деньги - put this work by for the moment отложите пока эту работу (американизм) (разговорное) внутрь, в дом - come by зайди, когда будешь проходить мимо - stop by загляни (устаревшее) кроме того в сочетаниях: - by and by вскоре;
    (устаревшее) немедленно, сразу - by and large( американизм) вообще говоря, в общем - stand by! (морское) приготовиться! - by the by кстати, между прочим в пространственном значении указывает на: местонахождение вблизи чего-л.: у, около, рядом, возле, при - by the fire у /около/ огня - by the sea у моря, на берегу моря - by the side of the road у обочины дороги - to sit by smb. /by smb.'s side/ сидеть рядом с кем-л. /около кого-л./ - to stand by smb. стоять рядом с кем-л.;
    поддерживать кого-л., помогать кому-л. движение мимо или вдоль предмета: мимо, вдоль - a path by the river тропинка вдоль реки - to walk by smb., smth. пройти мимо кого-л., чего-л. движение, прохождение через какой-л. пункт: через - to travel by Moscow ехать через Москву - to come by the door войти в дверь во временном значении указывает на приближение к какому-л. сроку или ограничение каким-л. сроком: к - by two o'clock к двум часам - by the end of the year к концу года - by then к тому времени - he ought to be here by now (теперь) он должен был уже быть здесь - by the time that... к тому времени, когда... в течение - by day днем - by night ночью (часто после глагола в пассиве) указывает на: деятеля;
    при отсутствии глагола передается твор. падежом, а тж. род. падежом - the play was written by Shakespeare эта пьеса была написана Шекспиром - a novel by Dickens роман Диккенса - a speech by the Foreign Secretary речь министра иностранных дел - the city was destroyed by fire город был уничтожен пожаром - the house was struck by lightning в дом ударила молния средство, орудие: посредством, при помощи( обыкн. передается тж. твор. падежом) - engines driven by electricity машины, приводимые в действие электричеством - roads linked by a bridge дороги, соединенные мостом - absorption of moisture by activated carbon поглощение влаги активированным углем - we broaden our outlook by learning langauges изучая языки, мы расширяем свой кругозор - to get one's living by teaching зарабатывать на жизнь преподаванием - he began the work by collecting material он начал работу со сбора материала указывает на: способ передвижения, пересылки и т. п.: по, на (передается тж. твор. падежом) - by air на самолете, самолетом - by bus на автобусе, автобусом - by rail по железной дороге - by water по воде - by post по почте - by airmail воздушной почтой, авиапочтой - by return post обратной почтой характер действия, условия или сопутствующие обстоятельства, при которых оно протекает;
    в сочетании с существительными часто передается наречием - by degress постепенно - by turns поочередно, попеременно - drop by drop по капле - one by one, man by man поодиночке, по одному, один за одним - day by day каждый день;
    день за днем;
    с каждым днем - step by step шаг за шагом - two by two, by twos по двое - by three по трое - to do smth. by the hour делать что-л. часами - by good luck, by fortune по счастью - by chance случайно - by (an) error по ошибке указывает на лицо, в интересах или в пользу которого совершается действие: по отношению к - to do one's duty by smb. выполнить( свой) долг по отношению к кому-л. - to act /to deal, to do/ well by smb. поступать хорошо по отношению к кому-л. указывает на соответствие чему-л. или соотнесенность с чем-л.: по, с, под - by right по праву - by the stipulations of the treaty по условиям договора - by smb.'s request по чьей-л. просьбе - by your permission /leave/ с вашего позволения - by your consent с вашего согласия - twenty dergees by F. двадцать градусов по Фаренгейту - by all accounts по сведениям - to judge by smb.'s appearance судить по чьему-л. виде - to know smb. by sight знать кого-л. в лицо - to call a child by the name of smb. давать ребенку имя /называть ребенка/ в честь кого-л. - he goes by the name of John он известен под именем Джон - to work by the rules работать по правилам отцовство, редк. материнство: от - two children by her first husband двое детей от первого мужа - he has one child by his first wife у него есть ребенок от первой жены - Lightning by Napoleon out of Linda (лошадь) Лайтнинг от (жеребца) Наполеона и (кобылы) Линды указывает на меры веса, длины, объема, по которым производится продажа на, по (передается тж. твор. падежом) - by the piece поштучно - by the dozen( редкое) by dozens дюжинами - to sell by the pound /by pounds/ продавать на фунты /фунтами/ срок найма или способ оплаты: - to pay by the month платить помесячно указывает на причину, источник: от - to die by starvation /by hunger/ умереть от голода - to die by sword умереть /погибнуть/ от меча - to know by experience знать по опыту указывает на количественное соотношение: на - older by two years старше на два года - taller by a foot выше на фут - a rise by 56 pounds увеличение на 56 фунтов - to lessen by a third уменьшить на одну треть - by far, by much намного - to be better by far быть гораздо лучше множитель или делитель: на - ten (multiplied) by two десять( помноженное) на два - ten divided by two десять, деленное на два - a hall twenty feet by ten зал площадью двадцать футов на десять отнесение суммы в кредит счета: на, в - by 200 pounds на 200 фунтов в адресах и названиях населенных пунктов: из - X by Dover X п/о Дувр указывает на отклонение стрелки компаса или движение к северу, югу и т. п. - North by East (морское) норд-тень-ост - the island lies North by East from here( морское) остров лежит на северо-северо-восток отсюда( морское) с дифферентом - (down) by the head с дифферентом на нос;
    на носу;
    носом вперед - by the stern с дифферентом на корму;
    на корме;
    кормой вперед (военное) выражает команду - by the right! направо! - by the numbers! по подразделениям! в сочетаниях: - by dint of путем, посредством;
    с помощью (чего-л.) - by dint of argument путем рассуждений - he succeded by dint of perseverance он добился своего благодаря упорству - by means of посредством - he achieved success by means of hard work он добился успеха упорным трудом - by virtue of посредством (чего-л.) ;
    благодаря (чему-л.) ;
    в силу /на основании/ (чего-л.) - by virtue of the treaty на основании договора - by way of через - we'll come back by way of mountains обратно мы пойдем через горы - by the bye, by the way между прочим;
    кстати - by land and by sea на суше и на море - (all) by oneself один, в одиночестве;
    один, без посторонней помощи - he did it (all) by himself он сделал это сам - to have /to keep/ smth. by one иметь что-л. при себе /с собой/ - he has no money by him у него при себе /с собой/ нет денег abide ~ соблюдать ~ prep указывает на автора;
    передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого;
    the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем ~ prep указывает на автора;
    передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого;
    the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем by близко, рядом ~ prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по;
    передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами;
    by the pound в фунтах, фунтами ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около;
    a house by the river дом у реки;
    a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо;
    we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома;
    we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню ~ prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к;
    by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню;
    by five o'clock к пяти часам;
    by then к тому времени ~ мимо;
    she passed by она прошла мимо;
    by and by вскоре ~ prep указывает на автора;
    передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого;
    the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем ~ prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по;
    to know by experience знать по опыту;
    to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода ~ prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по;
    согласно;
    by agreement по договору;
    by your leave с вашего разрешения ~ prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на;
    by two years older старше на два года;
    by George = ей-богу!;
    by the way кстати, между прочим;
    by and large в общем и целом, в общем ~ prep указывает на средство передвижения;
    передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом;
    by air mail воздушной почтой;
    авиапочтой ~ prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно;
    by the law по закону;
    by chute, by gravity самотеком ~ prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по;
    согласно;
    by agreement по договору;
    by your leave с вашего разрешения ~ prep указывает на средство передвижения;
    передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом;
    by air mail воздушной почтой;
    авиапочтой ~ мимо;
    she passed by она прошла мимо;
    by and by вскоре ~ prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на;
    by two years older старше на два года;
    by George = ей-богу!;
    by the way кстати, между прочим;
    by and large в общем и целом, в общем ~ prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно;
    by the law по закону;
    by chute, by gravity самотеком chance: ~ случай;
    случайность;
    by chance случайно;
    on the chance в случае ~ prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно;
    by the law по закону;
    by chute, by gravity самотеком ~ prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к;
    by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню;
    by five o'clock к пяти часам;
    by then к тому времени ~ prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на;
    by two years older старше на два года;
    by George = ей-богу!;
    by the way кстати, между прочим;
    by and large в общем и целом, в общем George: George ав. жарг. летчик;
    автопилот;
    by George! ей-богу!, честное слово!;
    вот так так! ~ prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно;
    by the law по закону;
    by chute, by gravity самотеком ~ prep указывает на средство передвижения;
    передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом;
    by air mail воздушной почтой;
    авиапочтой ~ prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно;
    by the law по закону;
    by chute, by gravity самотеком ~ prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по;
    передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами;
    by the pound в фунтах, фунтами ~ prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на;
    by two years older старше на два года;
    by George = ей-богу!;
    by the way кстати, между прочим;
    by and large в общем и целом, в общем ~ prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по;
    передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами;
    by the pound в фунтах, фунтами yard: ~ ярд (= 3 футам или 914,4 мм) ;
    by the yard в ярдах;
    can you still buy cloth by the yard in Britain? в Англии еще мерят ткани на ярды? ~ prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к;
    by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню;
    by five o'clock к пяти часам;
    by then к тому времени then: ~ то время;
    by then к тому времени;
    since then с того времени;
    every now and then время от времени ~ prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к;
    by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню;
    by five o'clock к пяти часам;
    by then к тому времени ~ prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на;
    by two years older старше на два года;
    by George = ей-богу!;
    by the way кстати, между прочим;
    by and large в общем и целом, в общем ~ prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по;
    согласно;
    by agreement по договору;
    by your leave с вашего разрешения leave: ~ разрешение, позволение;
    by (или with) your leave с вашего разрешения;
    I take leave to say беру на себя смелость сказать ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около;
    a house by the river дом у реки;
    a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки ~ prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по;
    to know by experience знать по опыту;
    to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода experience: ~ (жизненный) опыт;
    to know (smth.) by (или from) experience знать (что-л.) по опыту;
    to learn by experience познать( что-л.) на (горьком) опыте ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около;
    a house by the river дом у реки;
    a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки ~ prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по;
    to know by experience знать по опыту;
    to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода ~ мимо;
    she passed by она прошла мимо;
    by and by вскоре ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо;
    we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома;
    we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню ~ prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо;
    we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома;
    we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню

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  • 11 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 12 Salt, Sir Titus

    [br]
    b. 20 September 1803 Morley, Yorkshire, England
    d. 29 December 1876 Saltaire, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    English industrialist, social reformer and entrepreneur who made his fortune by overcoming the problems of utilizing alpaca wool in the production of worsted, and established the early model town at Saltaire.
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    Titus Salt arrived in Bradford with his father, who was a wool merchant in the town, in 1822. He soon set up his own company and it was there that he experimented with the textile worsted. Alpaca wool comes from an animal of the camel family that resembles the llama, and flocks of domesticated breeds of the animal had been raised in the high Andes since the days of the Incas. The wool was introduced into Europe via Spain and, later, Germany and France. The first attempts to spin and weave the yarn in England were made in 1808, but despite experimentation over the years the material was difficult to work. It was in 1836 that Salt evolved his method of utilizing a cotton warp with part alpaca weft. The method proved a great success and Bradford gained a reputation as a manufacturing centre for alpaca wool, exporting both yarn and cloth in quantity, especially to the USA. By 1850 Salt, who owned six mills, was Bradford's biggest employer and was certainly its richest citizen. He decided to move out of the city and built a new mill works, the architects of which were Lockwood and Mawson, on the banks of the River Aire a few miles from the city. Around the works, between 1851 and 1871, he built houses, a hospital, library, church, institute and almshouses for his workers. The buildings were solid, good-standard structures of local stone and the houses were pleasantly situated, with their amenities making them seem palaces compared to the slums in which other Bradford textile workers lived at the time. The collection of buildings was the first example in Britain of a "model new town", and was, indeed still is, a remarkable prototype of its kind. Apart from being a philanthropist and social reformer, Salt was also concerned with taking advantage of the technical developments of his time. His mill works, which eventually covered ten acres of land, was of fashionably Italianate architectural style (its chimney even a copy of the campanile of the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa in Venice), although its structure was of iron framing. The weaving shed held 1,200 looms and had capacity for 3,000 workers, who produced 30,000 yards of cloth per day. Water from the river was used to produce steam to power the matchinery used in the manufacturing processes of scouring, dyeing and finishing. For the export of goods, the nearby Leeds-Liverpool Canal linked the works to Britain's chief ports, and the Midland Railway (an extension of the LeedsBradford line which opened in 1846) was of great use for the same purpose.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created Baronet 1869.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography.
    Visitors Guide to Salt aire, Bradford City Council.
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  • 13 by

    [baɪ]
    abide by соблюдать by prep указывает на автора; передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого; the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем by prep указывает на автора; передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого; the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем by близко, рядом by prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по; передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами; by the pound в фунтах, фунтами by prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около; a house by the river дом у реки; a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки by prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо; we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома; we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню by prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к; by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню; by five o'clock к пяти часам; by then к тому времени by мимо; she passed by она прошла мимо; by and by вскоре by prep указывает на автора; передается тв. или род. падежом: a book by Tolstoy книга, написанная Толстым, произведение Толстого; the book was written by a famous writer книга была написана знаменитым писателем by prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по; to know by experience знать по опыту; to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода by prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по; согласно; by agreement по договору; by your leave с вашего разрешения by prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на; by two years older старше на два года; by George = ей-богу!; by the way кстати, между прочим; by and large в общем и целом, в общем by prep указывает на средство передвижения; передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом; by air mail воздушной почтой; авиапочтой by prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно; by the law по закону; by chute, by gravity самотеком by prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по; согласно; by agreement по договору; by your leave с вашего разрешения by prep указывает на средство передвижения; передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом; by air mail воздушной почтой; авиапочтой by мимо; she passed by она прошла мимо; by and by вскоре by prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на; by two years older старше на два года; by George = ей-богу!; by the way кстати, между прочим; by and large в общем и целом, в общем by prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно; by the law по закону; by chute, by gravity самотеком chance: by случай; случайность; by chance случайно; on the chance в случае by prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно; by the law по закону; by chute, by gravity самотеком by prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к; by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню; by five o'clock к пяти часам; by then к тому времени by prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на; by two years older старше на два года; by George = ей-богу!; by the way кстати, между прочим; by and large в общем и целом, в общем George: George ав. жарг. летчик; автопилот; by George! ей-богу!, честное слово!; вот так так! by prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно; by the law по закону; by chute, by gravity самотеком by prep указывает на средство передвижения; передается тв. падежом: by plane самолетом; by air mail воздушной почтой; авиапочтой by prep указывает на характер действия: by chance случайно; by the law по закону; by chute, by gravity самотеком by prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по; передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами; by the pound в фунтах, фунтами by prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на; by two years older старше на два года; by George = ей-богу!; by the way кстати, между прочим; by and large в общем и целом, в общем by prep указывает на меры веса, длины и т. п. в, на, по; передается тж. тв. падежом: by the yard в ярдах, ярдами; by the pound в фунтах, фунтами yard: by ярд (= 3 футам или 914,4 мм); by the yard в ярдах; can you still buy cloth by the yard in Britain? в Англии еще мерят ткани на ярды? by prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к; by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню; by five o'clock к пяти часам; by then к тому времени then: by то время; by then к тому времени; since then с того времени; every now and then время от времени by prep во временном значении указывает на приближение к определенному моменту, сроку и т. п. к; by tomorrow к завтрашнему дню; by five o'clock к пяти часам; by then к тому времени by prep указывает на соотношение между сравниваемыми величинами на; by two years older старше на два года; by George = ей-богу!; by the way кстати, между прочим; by and large в общем и целом, в общем by prep указывает на соответствие, согласованность по; согласно; by agreement по договору; by your leave с вашего разрешения leave: by разрешение, позволение; by (или with) your leave с вашего разрешения; I take leave to say беру на себя смелость сказать by prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около; a house by the river дом у реки; a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки by prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по; to know by experience знать по опыту; to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода experience: by (жизненный) опыт; to know (smth.) by (или from) experience знать (что-л.) по опыту; to learn by experience познать (что-л.) на (горьком) опыте by prep в пространственном значении указывает на близость у, при, около; a house by the river дом у реки; a path by the river тропинка вдоль берега реки by prep указывает на причину, источник через, посредством, от, по; to know by experience знать по опыту; to perish by starvation погибнуть от голода by мимо; she passed by она прошла мимо; by and by вскоре by prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо; we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома; we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню by prep в пространственном значении указывает на прохождение мимо предмета или через определенное место мимо; we went by the house мы прошли мимо дома; we travelled by a village мы проехали через деревню

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  • 14 aqua

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 15 Aquae Apollinares

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 16 Aquae Aureliae

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 17 Aquae Baiae

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 18 Aquae Calidae

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 19 Aquae Ciceronianae

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

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  • 20 Aquae Cumanae

    ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;

    aquae, as trisyl.,

    Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].
    I.
    A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):

    aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,

    Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:

    pluvialis,

    rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,

    aquae pluviae,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,

    caelestes aquae,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,

    aquae de nubibus,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:

    fluvialis,

    river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,

    aqua fluminis,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    aquaï fons,

    Lucr. 5, 602:

    fons aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:

    fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,

    Verg. A. 11, 495:

    fluvius aquae,

    Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:

    rivus aquae,

    Verg. E. 8, 87:

    rivi aquarum,

    Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:

    torrens aquae,

    ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:

    fons aquae dulcis,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:

    aquae dulces,

    Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,

    aquae maris,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:

    dulcis et amara aqua,

    ib. Jac. 3, 11:

    perennis,

    never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:

    quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 107:

    aqua profluens,

    running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,

    currentes aquae,

    Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,

    aqua viva,

    living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:

    aquae vivae,

    ib. Num. 19, 17;

    and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,

    ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,

    vitae,

    ib. Apoc. 22, 17:

    aquae viventes,

    ib. Lev. 14, 5:

    stagna aquae,

    standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:

    aquae de puteis,

    well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:

    aqua de cisternā,

    cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,

    aqua cisternae,

    ib. Isa. 36, 16:

    aquae pessimae,

    ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:

    aqua recens,

    Verg. A. 6, 636:

    turbida,

    Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:

    crassa,

    ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:

    munda,

    ib. Heb. 10, 22:

    purissima,

    ib. Ezech. 34, 18:

    aquae calidae,

    warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:

    calida,

    Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;

    and contr.: calda,

    Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:

    aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 67:

    aqua frigida,

    cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:

    frigida,

    Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:

    decocta,

    Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—
    B.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—
    2.
    Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):

    ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—
    3.
    Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:

    non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:

    aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,

    Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.
    a.
    Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï

    sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,

    you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —
    b.
    In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:

    cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,

    Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—
    II.
    Water, in a more restricted sense.
    A.
    The sea:

    coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,

    on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:

    laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:

    findite remigio aquas!

    id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:

    To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),

    Ov. F. 2, 864.—
    B.
    = la. cus, a lake:

    Albanae aquae deductio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 44 fin.
    C.
    A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:

    alii in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    sonitus multarum aquarum,

    of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:

    lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

    along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—
    D.
    Rain:

    cornix augur aquae,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

    deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,

    Ov. F. 3, 286:

    multā terra madescit aquā,

    id. ib. 6, 198:

    aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,

    heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—
    E.
    In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ad aquas venire,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:

    aquae caldae,

    Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:

    aquae calidae,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    aquae medicatae,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:

    aquae Salutiferae,

    Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,
    2.
    As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.
    a.
    Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—
    b. c.
    Ăquae Baiae, in Campania, Prop. 1, 11, 30; earlier called Ăquae Cūmānae, Liv. 41, 16.—
    d. (α).
    In Britain, now Bath; also called Ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.—
    (β).
    In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—
    (γ).
    In Gallia, now Vichy on the Allier, Tab. Theod.—
    e. f.
    Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—
    g.
    Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—
    h.
    Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—
    F.
    The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,
    (α).
    Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—
    (β).
    Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—
    (γ).
    Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:

    in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—
    G.
    Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;

    hence, as med. t.,

    the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:

    medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—
    III.
    Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:

    hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,

    Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Aquae Cumanae

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