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cŏrō̆na (in the ante-Aug. per. sometimes written chorona, acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 20; cf. the letter C), ae, f., = korônê, a garland, chaplet, wreath.

Lit., of natural or artificial flowers, etc. (very freq. used for personal adornment at festivals, when sacrificing, or as a gift for friends, etc., for ornamenting the images of the gods, edifices, victims, the dead, etc.), Lucr. 5, 1399; Lex XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5, § 7; Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 16; Cic. Fl. 31, 75; id. Leg. 2, 24, 60; Liv. 23, 11, 5; 38, 14, 5; Curt. 4, 2, 2; 4, 4, 5; Hor. C. 1, 26, 8; id. Ep. 2, 2, 96; Tac. A. 2, 57; 15, 12; 16, 4; id. H. 2, 55 et saep.:

coronas bibere,

i. e. to throw into the cup leaves plucked from the garlands, Plin. 21, 3, 9, § 12. Vid. the artt. sacerdotalis, funebris, sepulchralis, convivialis, nuptialis, natalitia, Etrusca, pactilis, plectilis, sutilis, tonsa or tonsilis, radiata, and pampinea.— Poet.:

perenni fronde corona,

i. e. immortal, poetic renown, Lucr. 1, 119.—As emblem of royalty, a crown:

regni corona = diadema,

Verg. A. 8, 505. —Concerning the different kinds of garlands or crowns given to soldiers as a prize of bravery (castrensis or vallaris, civica, muralis, navalis or rostrata, obsidionalis, triumphalis, oleagina, etc.), v. Gell. 5, 6; Dict. of Antiq.; and the artt. castrensis, civicus, muralis, etc.—

Esp.: corona fidei, the crown of martyrdom (eccl. Lat.), Cypr. Ep. 58; 60; Lact. Epit. 72, 23;

and corona alone,

Lact. 4, 25, 10; id. Mort. Pers. 16, 11.—

Sub coronā vendere, t. t. of the lang. of business, to sell captives as slaves (since they were crowned with chaplets; cf. Caelius Sabinus ap. Gell. 7, 4, 3;

and corono, I.),

Caes. B. G. 3, 16; Liv. 42, 63, 12; so,

sub coronā venire,

id. 9, 42, 8; 38, 29, 11; 41, 11, 8:

sub coronā venundari,

Tac. A. 13, 39; id. H. 1, 68:

sub coronā emere,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4.—

As a constellation.

The northern crown (according to the fable, the crown of Ariadne transferred to heaven;

v. Ariadna),

Cic. Arat. 351 sq.; Caes. German. Arat. 71;

called Gnosia stella Coronae,

Verg. G. 1, 222:

Cressa Corona,

Ov. A. A. 1, 558:

Ariadnea Corona,

Manil. 5, 21; cf. also Ov. M. 8, 181; Plin. 18, 26, 60, § 224 al.—

The southern crown, Caes. German. Arat. 391.—

Meton., of objects in the form of a crown.

Most freq., a circle of men, an assembly, crowd, multitude (esp. of judicial assemblies), Cic. Fl. 28, 69; id. Phil. 2, 44, 112; id. Mil. 1, 1; id. Fin. 2, 22, 74; Quint. 12, 10, 74; Suet. Aug. 93 al.; Cat. 53, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53; Ov. M. 13, 1 al.—Hence,

Milit. t. t., the besiegers round a hostile place, the line of siege or circumvallation, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; Liv. 10, 43, 1; 23, 44, 3; Curt. 4, 6, 10 al.—Also, a circle of men for the defence of a place, Liv. 4, 19, 8.—

In arch., the cornice, Vitr. 5, 2; Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 183.—

In the agrimensores, an elevated ridge of land as a boundary line, Cato, R. R. 6, 3; Front. Col. 114 and 131 Goes.—

The hairy crown over the horse's hoof, Col. 6, 29, 3; Veg. Art. Vet. 1, 13, 1.—

Montium, a circular ridge of mountains, Plin. 6, 20, 23, [p. 472] § 73.—

The halo round the sun (for the Gr. halôs), Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 1.

gĕnĭus, i (voc. geni, Tib. 4, 5, 9 M. dub.), m. [root GEN, gigno; prop., the superior or divine nature which is innate in everything, the spiritual part, spirit; hence], the tutelar deity or genius of a person, place, etc. (cf.: lares, penates).

In gen.:

genium dicebant antiqui naturalem deum uniuscujusque loci vel rei aut hominis,

Serv. Verg. G. 1, 302; cf. Voss ad loc.; Verg. A. 5, 95; Juv. 6, 22; Liv. 21, 62, 9; Mart. 7, 12, 10:

eundem esse genium et larem, multi veteres memoriae prodiderunt, in queis etiam Granius Flaccus,

Censor. de Die Nat. 3, 2; Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 369; 444:

scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat astrum, Naturae deus humanae, mortalis in unum Quodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus et ater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 187:

genius tuus malus,

Flor. 4, 7, 8. —In urgent petitions and in oaths appeals were made to the Genius of the person addressed, or to that of some eminent person:

te per Genium... Obsecro et obtestor,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 94; cf. Sen. Ep. 12, 12; Tib. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Calig. 27; Dig. 12, 2, 13, § 6.—

On festal occasions the Genius was propitiated: cras Genium mero Curabis et porco bimestri,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; id. A. P. 210; Pers. 2, 3; Ov. Am. 1, 8, 94 et saep.; cf. Tib. 1, 7, 49:

magne Geni, cape dona libens votisque faveto,

id. 4, 5, 9:

acceptus Geniis December (because the Saturnalian festivals occurred in it),

Ov. F. 3, 58:

genium loci... precatur,

Verg. A. 7, 136:

GENIO LOCI,

Inscr. Orell. 343 sq.; 1697; 1701:

COLONIAE,

ib. 367; 1693 sq.:

MVNICIPII,

ib. 689; 1690 sq.:

CVRIAE,

ib. 1120:

FORI VINARII,

ib. 4087:

THEATRI,

ib. 1713:

Lateranus deus est focorum et Genius,

Arn. 4, 6 et saep.:

Priapi,

Petr. 21:

Famae,

Mart. 7, 12, 10:

JOVIS,

Inscr. Orell. 1730; 2488:

DEORVM,

ib. 1730.—

In partic.

With respect to the enjoyment of life.

The spirit of social enjoyment, fondness for good living, taste, appetite, inclination:

isti qui cum geniis suis belligerant, parcipromi,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 81; cf.:

egomet me defraudavi Animumque meum geniumque meum,

id. Aul. 4, 9, 15; and:

suum defrudans genium,

sacrificing his inclinations, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 10 Ruhnk.:

sapis multum ad genium,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 28:

hic quidem meliorem Genium tuum non facies,

id. Stich. 4, 2, 42:

nunc et amico meo prosperabo et genio meo multa bona faciam,

id. Pers. 2, 3, 11:

indulge genio: carpamus dulcia,

id. ib. 5, 151.—Hence,

A term used by parasites for entertainer, patron:

ecquis est, qui mihi commonstret Phaedromum genium meum?

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 22; 5, 2, 29; id. Capt. 4, 2, 99; id. Men. 1, 2, 29. —

Of the intellect, wit, talents, genius (very rare):

nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit,

Juv. 6, 562:

victurus genium debet habere liber,

Mart. 6, 60, 10. —Hence, in a pun with the preced. signif., Mart. 7, 78, 7.

immŏlātĭo ( inm-), ōnis, f. [id.], a sacrificing, a sacrifice (rare but class.):

in ipso immolationis tempore,

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

in ipsa,

id. ib. 2, 16, 37:

Iphigeniae,

Quint. 2, 13, 13.—In plur.:

nefandae,

Tac. A. 3, 13.—

Concr., a sacrifice, offering, Aug. Ep. 36, 30.

immŏlātĭo ( inm-), ōnis, f. [id.], a sacrificing, a sacrifice (rare but class.):

in ipso immolationis tempore,

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

in ipsa,

id. ib. 2, 16, 37:

Iphigeniae,

Quint. 2, 13, 13.—In plur.:

nefandae,

Tac. A. 3, 13.—

Concr., a sacrifice, offering, Aug. Ep. 36, 30.

līmus, a, um ( līmis, e, Amm. 20, 9, 2; v. infra), adj. [Gr. lechrios, lechris, loxos; Lat. licinus, ob-liquus, luxus], sidelong, askew, aslant, askance.

Lit.:

limis oculis aspicere,

to look sideways, look askance, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 2:

limis subrisit ocellis,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 33:

(leones) nec limis intuentur oculis aspicique simili modo nolunt,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52:

limibus oculis eos contuens,

Amm. 20, 9.—So, limis aspicere (sc. oculis), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53:

limi, et ut sic dicam venerei (sc. oculi),

Quint. 11, 3, 76:

oculi contuitu quoque multiformes, truces et limi,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145:

limi Di,

the guardian gods of obliquities, Arn. 4, 132.—

Transf., of persons, looking sideways: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, sed limus intra limites culinae, Varr. ap. Non. 133, 31; cf. id. ib. 442, 33.—Hence, adv.: līmō, sideways, askance:

leones numquam limo vident,

Sol. 27, 20; for which: limis oculis in Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52 (v. the passage above).

līmus, i, m. [root lib-; Gr. leibô, to pour; cf. Lat. lino; Gr. limnê, limên], slime, mud, mire.

Lit.:

atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum Confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 496: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 212, 16:

frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo,

Liv. 2, 5:

profundo limo cum ipsis equis hausti sunt,

id. 31, 27:

amnis abundans Exit et obducto late tenet omnia limo,

Verg. G. 1, 116:

amnes Felicem trahunt limum,

id. ib. 2, 188:

limo Turbata aqua,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 59:

veteri craterae limus adhaesit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 80.—

Transf.

Excrement in the intestines, Pall. 3, 31.—

Dirt, mire:

limumque inducere monstrat,

Ov. F. 3, 759.—

Trop., filth, pollution, etc.:

pectora sic mihi sunt limo vitiata malorum,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 17.

līmus, i, m. [perh. for lig-mus, from ligo], a girdle or apron trimmed with purple, which the sacrificing priests and other servants of the magistrates wore about the abdomen:

velati limo,

Verg. A. 12, 120; cf.: limus autem est vestis, qua ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudenda poparum. Haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam, i. e. flexuosam habet. Unde et nomen accepit. Nam limum obliquum dicimus, Serv. ad Verg. l. l.: licio transverso, quod limum appellatur, cincti erant, Tiro ap. Gell. 12, 3, 3.

Līmus, i, m., the god of oblique glances, Arn. 4, cap. 9.

līmus, a, um ( līmis, e, Amm. 20, 9, 2; v. infra), adj. [Gr. lechrios, lechris, loxos; Lat. licinus, ob-liquus, luxus], sidelong, askew, aslant, askance.

Lit.:

limis oculis aspicere,

to look sideways, look askance, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 2:

limis subrisit ocellis,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 33:

(leones) nec limis intuentur oculis aspicique simili modo nolunt,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52:

limibus oculis eos contuens,

Amm. 20, 9.—So, limis aspicere (sc. oculis), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53:

limi, et ut sic dicam venerei (sc. oculi),

Quint. 11, 3, 76:

oculi contuitu quoque multiformes, truces et limi,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145:

limi Di,

the guardian gods of obliquities, Arn. 4, 132.—

Transf., of persons, looking sideways: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, sed limus intra limites culinae, Varr. ap. Non. 133, 31; cf. id. ib. 442, 33.—Hence, adv.: līmō, sideways, askance:

leones numquam limo vident,

Sol. 27, 20; for which: limis oculis in Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52 (v. the passage above).

līmus, i, m. [root lib-; Gr. leibô, to pour; cf. Lat. lino; Gr. limnê, limên], slime, mud, mire.

Lit.:

atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum Confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 496: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 212, 16:

frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo,

Liv. 2, 5:

profundo limo cum ipsis equis hausti sunt,

id. 31, 27:

amnis abundans Exit et obducto late tenet omnia limo,

Verg. G. 1, 116:

amnes Felicem trahunt limum,

id. ib. 2, 188:

limo Turbata aqua,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 59:

veteri craterae limus adhaesit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 80.—

Transf.

Excrement in the intestines, Pall. 3, 31.—

Dirt, mire:

limumque inducere monstrat,

Ov. F. 3, 759.—

Trop., filth, pollution, etc.:

pectora sic mihi sunt limo vitiata malorum,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 17.

līmus, i, m. [perh. for lig-mus, from ligo], a girdle or apron trimmed with purple, which the sacrificing priests and other servants of the magistrates wore about the abdomen:

velati limo,

Verg. A. 12, 120; cf.: limus autem est vestis, qua ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudenda poparum. Haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam, i. e. flexuosam habet. Unde et nomen accepit. Nam limum obliquum dicimus, Serv. ad Verg. l. l.: licio transverso, quod limum appellatur, cincti erant, Tiro ap. Gell. 12, 3, 3.

Līmus, i, m., the god of oblique glances, Arn. 4, cap. 9.

supplĭcĭum ( subpl-), ii, n. [supplex; prop. a kneeling down, either as a suppliant or to receive punishment].

As a suppliant.

In relig. lang., humiliation, a public prayer or supplication, an act of worship (mostly ante-Aug. and in prose after the Aug. period; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: supplicatio, obsecratio): nunc pergam, ut suppliciis placans caelitum aras expleam, Att. ap. Non. 398, 19; cf.:

deos suppliciis, sumptu, votis, donis, Precibus plorans, obsecrans,

Afran. ib. 398, 22:

suppliciis votisque fatigare deos,

Liv. 27, 50, 5:

non votis neque suppliciis muliebribus auxilia deorum parantur,

Sall. C. 52, 29.—

Esp., a sacrificing, offering:

nihil ei (Jovi) acceptum est a perjuris supplicii,

offering, sacrifice, Plaut. Rud. prol. 25:

in suppliciis deorum magnifici,

Sall. C. 9, 2; id. J. 55, 1:

precibus suppliciisque deos placare,

Liv. 22, 57, 5; cf.:

quos (boves) ad deorum servant supplicia,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 10:

tum supplicia dis ludique magni ab senatu decernuntur,

Tac. A. 3, 64 Nipperd. ad loc.:

vannos onustas aromatis et hujuscemodi suppliciis congerunt,

App. M. 11, p. 265, 3; id. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 5: supplicia veteres quaedam sacrificia a supplicando vocabant, Fest. pp. 308 and 309 Müll. —

Transf., out of the relig. sphere, an humble entreaty or petition, a supplication in gen. (very rare):

Vagenses fatigati regis suppliciis,

Sall. J. 66, 2:

igitur legatos ad consulem cum suppliciis mittit, qui tantummodo ipsi liberisque vitam peterent,

id. ib. 46, 2.—

To receive punishment; hence, punishment, penalty, torture, torment, pain, distress, suffering (class. and freq.; usu. of the penalty of death; syn. poena).

Sing.:

dabitur pol supplicium mihi de tergo vestro,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75 sq.; cf.:

illi de me supplicium dabo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 86; id. Eun. 1, 1, 24; Cat. 116, 8; Nep. Paus. 5, 5:

de homine nobili virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91; 2, 5, 45, § 117:

sumere (de aliquo),

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; id. Merc. 5, 4, 31; Ter. And. 3, 5, 17; Cic. Inv. 2, 28, 84; id. Rep. 3, 33, 45; Caes. B. G. 1, 39; Liv. 2, 5, 5; 3, 18, 10:

aliquem hostibus ad supplicium dedere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

aliquem tradi ad supplicium jubere,

Tac. A. 11, 35:

rapi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 138:

supplicio affici,

to be put to death, Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

ne ad ultimum supplicium progredi necesse habeant,

to take their own lives, id. B. C. 1, 84:

aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciatum necare,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

summo cruciatu supplicioque perire,

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

gravissimum ei rei supplicium cum cruciatu constitutum est,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17: [p. 1815] talis improborum consensio supplicio omni vindicanda (est), Cic. Lael. 12, 43:

satis supplicii tulisse,

Caes. B. C. 1, 84:

supplicio culpa reciditur,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 34:

suā manu supplicium persolvere,

Tac. A. 6, 32 (26):

luere,

Just. 2, 5, 6; Tac. A. 15, 60:

supplicium redimere opimā mercede,

Amm. 26, 3, 4.—

Plur.:

ad exquisita supplicia proficisci,

Cic. Off. 3, 27, 100:

semper iis (improbis) ante oculos judicia et supplicia versentur,

id. Rep. 3, 16, 26:

ad innocentum supplicia descendunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

supplicia annua pendere,

Plin. 29, 4, 14, § 57:

subire,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 12, 1:

suppliciis delicta coërcere,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 79:

subplicia in post futuros conposuit,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch:

domant impios saeva supplicia,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 749:

supplicia haurire,

Verg. A. 4, 383.