a thing possessed

possessĭo, ōnis, f. [possido].

A taking possession of, seizing, occupying, taking (= ktêsis), bonorum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 9, 24:

regni,

Liv. 33, 41, 3:

mittere in possessionem,

to send to take possession, Cic. Quint. 26, 83:

Monam insulam, a cujus possessione revocatum Paulinum memoravi, etc.,

Tac. Agr. 18:

si mare intretur, promptam ipsis possessionem,

id. A. 2, 5.—

Transf.

In abstr., a possessing, holding, possession, occupation:

possessio est, ut definit Gallus Aelius, usus quidam agri, aut aedificii, non ipse fundus, aut ager,

Fest. p. 233 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 ib.: possessio appellata est, ut Labeo ait, a sedibus, quasi positio, quia naturaliter tenetur ab eo, qui ei insistit, quam Graeci katochên dicunt, Dig. 41, 21:

certā re et possessione deturbari,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25:

hortorum,

id. Mil. 27, 75:

fundi,

id. ib. 27, 75:

in possessionem proficisci,

to come into possession, id. Quint. 27, 85:

in possessionem venire,

id. Att. 4, 2, 3:

possessionem restituere,

id. Fam. 10, 27, 1:

in possessionem dare,

Vulg. Lev. 14, 34:

esse in possessione bonorum,

Cic. Caecin. 7, 19:

possessionem bonorum dare alicui,

id. Fam. 7, 21:

tradere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

tenere,

Nep. Tim. 2, 4:

ponere se in possessione,

to take possession, Sen. Ira, 1, 7, 2:

si ignis prima possessio rerum fuit, qui paulatim exstinctus, sedem terris dedit,

if at first fire possessed the world, Just. 2, 1, 15.—

In concr., a thing possessed, a possession, property, esp. an estate:

possessiones appellantur agri late patentes, publici privatique: qui non mancipatione, sed usu tenebantur, et, ut quisque occupaverat, possidebat,

Fest. p. 241 Müll.:

prata et areas quasdam magno aestimant, quod ei generi possessionum minime noceri potest,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51; Caes. B. C. 1, 17:

qui trans Rhodanum vicos possessionesque habebant,

id. B. G. 1, 11:

urbanae,

Nep. Att. 14, 3:

aes alienum meis nominibus ex possessionibus solvere possem,

Sall. C. 35, 3.—

Trop., possession:

prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122:

judicii ac defensionis,

id. ib. 2, 49, 200: laud is, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 7, 2: res publica in possessione victoriae permanebit, id. ap. ib. 10, 21, 6.

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mĕmor, ŏris (anciently memoris, memore, acc. to Prisc. p. 772 P.; comp. memorior, id. p. 699 P.), adj. [Sanscr. root smar-, in smarti, memory; smara, love; Gr. martus, witness; merimna, care; cf.: memoria, mora, etc., not from memini], mindful of a thing, remembering; constr. with gen., with acc. and inf., with a rel,clause, and absol.

In gen.

With gen.:

ut memor esses sui,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 46:

se eorum facti memorem fore,

Caes. B. C. 1, 13:

generis,

Sall. C. 60, 7:

pristinarum virtutum,

Nep. Hann. 12 fin.:

quique sui memores alios fecere merendo,

Verg. A. 6, 664:

nostri,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 14; 1, 33, 1:

vale nostri memor,

Juv. 3, 318.—

With acc. and inf.:

memor Lucullum periisse,

Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25:

memor objectum ab eo sibi,

Suet. Aug. 28.—

With a rel. -clause:

memor, quo ordine quisque discubuerat,

Quint. 11, 2, 13:

vive memor, quam sis aevi brevis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 97.—

Absol.:

memorem et gratum esse,

Cic. Fam. 13, 25: et bene apud memores veteris stat gratia facti, grateful. Verg. A. 4, 539: cf. 6, 664 supra:

ipsa memor praecepta canam,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 11; id. A. P. 368:

pectus,

Juv. 11, 28.—Prov.:

mendacem memorem esse oportet,

a liar should have a good memory, Quint. 4, 2, 91.—

Trop., of inanim. things et cadum Marsi memorem duelli, which remembers the Marsian war, i. e. was made during that war, Hor. C. 3, 14, 18:

medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,

Liv. 1, 32:

lingua,

Ov. Am. 3, 14, 48:

pectus,

id. H. 13, 66:

auris,

id. ib. 20, 98:

cura,

id. P 4, 2, 7:

manus,

id. ib. 1, 4, 56:

saevae Junonis ira,

vindictive, avenging, Verg. A. 1, 4:

supplicium exempli parum memoris legum humanarum,

unmindful of, not observing, Liv. 1, 28.—

Esp.

That easily remembers, possessed of a good memory:

homo ingeniosus ac memor,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194.—

Poet., transf., that reminds one of a thing:

nostri memorem sepulcro Scalpe querelam,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 51:

impressit memorem dente labris notam,

id. ib. 1, 13, 12:

indicii memor poena,

Ov. M. 4, 190:

tabellae,

id. ib. 8, 744:

versus,

id. P. 2, 7, 33.—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĕmŏre, by heart, readily (ante-class.): cum ista memore meministi, Pompon. ap. Non. 514, 23 (Com. Rel. v. 109 Rib.).—

mĕmŏrĭter.

From memory, by personal recollection:

oratio est habita memoriter,

Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

omnes ordines memoriter salutavit,

Suet. Ner. 10:

Q. Mucius multa narrare de Laelio memoriter et jucunde solebat,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1.—

Esp.

With a good memory, by ready recollection:

ista exposuisti, ut tam multa, memoriter, ut tam obscura, dilucide,

Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1:

ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 38:

hic quidem quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter,

id. Am. 1, 1, 261:

hem istuc si potes memoriter meminisse,

id. Capt. 2, 1, 53; cf. Afran. ap. Charis. 1, p. 89 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 365 Rib.).—

Fully, accurately, correctly, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 6; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47:

memoriter respondeto ad ea quae rogāro,

Cic. Vatin. 4, 10:

nostra Aratea memoriter a te pronuntiata sunt,

id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. ad Her. 3, 17, 30:

tu, qui tam memoriter tenes omnes,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 11 (cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34).

Mĕmor, ŏris, m., a Roman surname, lnscr. Mur. 1128, 5.

mĕmor, ŏris (anciently memoris, memore, acc. to Prisc. p. 772 P.; comp. memorior, id. p. 699 P.), adj. [Sanscr. root smar-, in smarti, memory; smara, love; Gr. martus, witness; merimna, care; cf.: memoria, mora, etc., not from memini], mindful of a thing, remembering; constr. with gen., with acc. and inf., with a rel,clause, and absol.

In gen.

With gen.:

ut memor esses sui,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 46:

se eorum facti memorem fore,

Caes. B. C. 1, 13:

generis,

Sall. C. 60, 7:

pristinarum virtutum,

Nep. Hann. 12 fin.:

quique sui memores alios fecere merendo,

Verg. A. 6, 664:

nostri,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 14; 1, 33, 1:

vale nostri memor,

Juv. 3, 318.—

With acc. and inf.:

memor Lucullum periisse,

Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25:

memor objectum ab eo sibi,

Suet. Aug. 28.—

With a rel. -clause:

memor, quo ordine quisque discubuerat,

Quint. 11, 2, 13:

vive memor, quam sis aevi brevis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 97.—

Absol.:

memorem et gratum esse,

Cic. Fam. 13, 25: et bene apud memores veteris stat gratia facti, grateful. Verg. A. 4, 539: cf. 6, 664 supra:

ipsa memor praecepta canam,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 11; id. A. P. 368:

pectus,

Juv. 11, 28.—Prov.:

mendacem memorem esse oportet,

a liar should have a good memory, Quint. 4, 2, 91.—

Trop., of inanim. things et cadum Marsi memorem duelli, which remembers the Marsian war, i. e. was made during that war, Hor. C. 3, 14, 18:

medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,

Liv. 1, 32:

lingua,

Ov. Am. 3, 14, 48:

pectus,

id. H. 13, 66:

auris,

id. ib. 20, 98:

cura,

id. P 4, 2, 7:

manus,

id. ib. 1, 4, 56:

saevae Junonis ira,

vindictive, avenging, Verg. A. 1, 4:

supplicium exempli parum memoris legum humanarum,

unmindful of, not observing, Liv. 1, 28.—

Esp.

That easily remembers, possessed of a good memory:

homo ingeniosus ac memor,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194.—

Poet., transf., that reminds one of a thing:

nostri memorem sepulcro Scalpe querelam,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 51:

impressit memorem dente labris notam,

id. ib. 1, 13, 12:

indicii memor poena,

Ov. M. 4, 190:

tabellae,

id. ib. 8, 744:

versus,

id. P. 2, 7, 33.—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĕmŏre, by heart, readily (ante-class.): cum ista memore meministi, Pompon. ap. Non. 514, 23 (Com. Rel. v. 109 Rib.).—

mĕmŏrĭter.

From memory, by personal recollection:

oratio est habita memoriter,

Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

omnes ordines memoriter salutavit,

Suet. Ner. 10:

Q. Mucius multa narrare de Laelio memoriter et jucunde solebat,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1.—

Esp.

With a good memory, by ready recollection:

ista exposuisti, ut tam multa, memoriter, ut tam obscura, dilucide,

Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1:

ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 38:

hic quidem quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter,

id. Am. 1, 1, 261:

hem istuc si potes memoriter meminisse,

id. Capt. 2, 1, 53; cf. Afran. ap. Charis. 1, p. 89 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 365 Rib.).—

Fully, accurately, correctly, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 6; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47:

memoriter respondeto ad ea quae rogāro,

Cic. Vatin. 4, 10:

nostra Aratea memoriter a te pronuntiata sunt,

id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. ad Her. 3, 17, 30:

tu, qui tam memoriter tenes omnes,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 11 (cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34).

Mĕmor, ŏris, m., a Roman surname, lnscr. Mur. 1128, 5.

mĕmor, ŏris (anciently memoris, memore, acc. to Prisc. p. 772 P.; comp. memorior, id. p. 699 P.), adj. [Sanscr. root smar-, in smarti, memory; smara, love; Gr. martus, witness; merimna, care; cf.: memoria, mora, etc., not from memini], mindful of a thing, remembering; constr. with gen., with acc. and inf., with a rel,clause, and absol.

In gen.

With gen.:

ut memor esses sui,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 46:

se eorum facti memorem fore,

Caes. B. C. 1, 13:

generis,

Sall. C. 60, 7:

pristinarum virtutum,

Nep. Hann. 12 fin.:

quique sui memores alios fecere merendo,

Verg. A. 6, 664:

nostri,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 14; 1, 33, 1:

vale nostri memor,

Juv. 3, 318.—

With acc. and inf.:

memor Lucullum periisse,

Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25:

memor objectum ab eo sibi,

Suet. Aug. 28.—

With a rel. -clause:

memor, quo ordine quisque discubuerat,

Quint. 11, 2, 13:

vive memor, quam sis aevi brevis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 97.—

Absol.:

memorem et gratum esse,

Cic. Fam. 13, 25: et bene apud memores veteris stat gratia facti, grateful. Verg. A. 4, 539: cf. 6, 664 supra:

ipsa memor praecepta canam,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 11; id. A. P. 368:

pectus,

Juv. 11, 28.—Prov.:

mendacem memorem esse oportet,

a liar should have a good memory, Quint. 4, 2, 91.—

Trop., of inanim. things et cadum Marsi memorem duelli, which remembers the Marsian war, i. e. was made during that war, Hor. C. 3, 14, 18:

medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,

Liv. 1, 32:

lingua,

Ov. Am. 3, 14, 48:

pectus,

id. H. 13, 66:

auris,

id. ib. 20, 98:

cura,

id. P 4, 2, 7:

manus,

id. ib. 1, 4, 56:

saevae Junonis ira,

vindictive, avenging, Verg. A. 1, 4:

supplicium exempli parum memoris legum humanarum,

unmindful of, not observing, Liv. 1, 28.—

Esp.

That easily remembers, possessed of a good memory:

homo ingeniosus ac memor,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194.—

Poet., transf., that reminds one of a thing:

nostri memorem sepulcro Scalpe querelam,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 51:

impressit memorem dente labris notam,

id. ib. 1, 13, 12:

indicii memor poena,

Ov. M. 4, 190:

tabellae,

id. ib. 8, 744:

versus,

id. P. 2, 7, 33.—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĕmŏre, by heart, readily (ante-class.): cum ista memore meministi, Pompon. ap. Non. 514, 23 (Com. Rel. v. 109 Rib.).—

mĕmŏrĭter.

From memory, by personal recollection:

oratio est habita memoriter,

Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

omnes ordines memoriter salutavit,

Suet. Ner. 10:

Q. Mucius multa narrare de Laelio memoriter et jucunde solebat,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1.—

Esp.

With a good memory, by ready recollection:

ista exposuisti, ut tam multa, memoriter, ut tam obscura, dilucide,

Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1:

ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 38:

hic quidem quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter,

id. Am. 1, 1, 261:

hem istuc si potes memoriter meminisse,

id. Capt. 2, 1, 53; cf. Afran. ap. Charis. 1, p. 89 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 365 Rib.).—

Fully, accurately, correctly, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 6; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47:

memoriter respondeto ad ea quae rogāro,

Cic. Vatin. 4, 10:

nostra Aratea memoriter a te pronuntiata sunt,

id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. ad Her. 3, 17, 30:

tu, qui tam memoriter tenes omnes,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 11 (cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34).

Mĕmor, ŏris, m., a Roman surname, lnscr. Mur. 1128, 5.

dēsīdĕrĭum, ii, n. [desidero], a longing, ardent desire or wish, properly for something once possessed; grief, regret for the absence or loss of any thing (for syn. cf.: optio, optatio, cupido, cupiditas, studium, appetitio, voluntas—freq. and class.).

Prop.

With gen. object.:

te desiderium Athenarum cepisset,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 13; cf.:

me desiderium tenet urbis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 22;

and, locorum,

Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 21:

rerum earum,

Lucr. 3, 901; cf. id. 3, 922; 918:

esse in desiderio alicujus,

Cic. Fam. 2, 12 fin.:

desiderium conjunctissimi viri ferre,

id. Lael. 27, 104:

Scipionis desiderio moveri,

id. ib. 3, 10:

tam cari capitis,

Hor. Od. 1, 24, 1:

defuncti,

Suet. Calig. 6 et saep.:

desiderio id fieri tuo (for tui),

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 66; cf.:

voluntas, in qua inest aliqua vis desiderii ad sanandum volnus injuriae,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 14.—

Absol.: pectora dura tenet desiderium, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41:

alicui esse magno desiderio,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 5:

explere exspectationem diuturni desiderii,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205:

quo (desiderio) conficior,

id. Or. 10:

ex desiderio laborare,

id. Fam. 6, 11:

facere aliquid cum desiderio,

id. Lael. 21, 81:

demus hoc desiderio jam pene publico,

Quint. 8, 4, 29 et saep. In plur.: desideria alicujus commovere, Cic. Rab. perd. 9, 24; Hor. Od. 4, 5, 15 et saep.

Trop., of a person, as the object of longing:

nunc desiderium, curaque non levis,

Hor. Od. 1, 14, 18: desiderio meo nitenti, Catull. 2, 5;

and as a term of endearment: mea lux, meum desiderium... valete, mea desideria, valete,

Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 2 fin.; Catull. 2, 5.—

Transf.

Want, need, necessity, [p. 557] in general (rare;

not ante-Aug.): cibi potionisque desiderium naturale,

Liv. 21, 4 et saep.:

pro desiderio corporum,

Plin. 11, 50, 111, § 264:

desideria scabendi,

id. 30, 14, 43, § 127 al. —

In the time of the empire, a request, petition on the part of inferiors:

desideria militum ad Caesarem ferenda,

Tac. A. 1, 19; 1, 26; Suet. Aug. 17; Plin. Pan. 79, 6; Dig. 1, 16, 9; 25, 3, 5.—

Desires, pleasures (late Lat.):

servientibus desideriis et voluptatibus,

Vulg. Tit. 3, 3:

carnis,

id. Ephes. 2, 3.

dē-sīdĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. considero], to long for, greatly wish for, to desire something not possessed (freq. and class.—for syn. cf.: opto, requiro, expeto, appeto, affecto, cupio, concupisco, aveo, gestio, capto, volo).

In gen., with acc.:

Dies noctesque me ames, me desideres,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113:

quam tu filium tuom, tam pater me meus desiderat,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 66:

natura quid velit, anquirat, desideret,

Cic. Lael. 24:

nec sitio honores, nec desidero gloriam,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 3:

dum illa desideramus, ab aliis avertimur,

Quint. 10, 6, 7:

quid desideremus aut deprecemur,

id. 4, 1, 52:

nec nunc vires desidero adolescentis non plus quam adolescens tauri aut elephanti desiderabam,

Cic. de Sen. 9; Caes. B. C. 3, 74, 2:

desiderantem quod satis est,

Hor. Od. 3, 1, 25:

Sextilem totum mendax desideror,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 2 et saep.—

With acc. and inf.:

me gratiam aps te inire verbis nil desidero,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 10:

mihi dari haud desidero,

id. Merc. 1, 2, 37:

quo ullam rem ad se importari desiderent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 2.— With inf. alone:

mori,

Vulg. Apoc. 9, 6.—

With ab or in:

ab Chrysippo nihil magnum desideravi,

Cic. Rep. 3, 8; id. Att. 8, 14, 2; Quint. 3, 1, 2 al.:

ab milite modestiam et continentiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52 fin.:

in quo (Catone) summam eloquentiam,

Cic. Brut. 31, 118; id. Fin. 5, 5, 13; id. Fam. 8, 5, 1; id. Lael. 22, 82; Quint. 7, 2, 55 al.—

Absol.:

misere amans desiderat,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 30; id. Mil. 4, 6, 29; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 16 al.—

Of inanimate subjects:

desiderarunt te oculi mei,

Cic. Planc. 5, 13:

nullam virtus aliam mercedem laborum desiderat praeter, etc.,

id. Arch. 11, 28:

ut desiderat laus probationem, sic, etc.,

Quint. 3, 7, 4 et saep.:

desiderant rigari arbores,

Plin. 17, 26, 40, § 249.

With predominant idea of lacking, wanting, to miss any thing:

ex me audies, quid in oratione tua desiderem,

Cic. Rep. 2, 38:

si non est, nolis esse neque desideres,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 73:

quid a peritioribus rei militaris desiderari videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 61, 3 et saep.—Esp. with quominus:

praeter quercum Dodonaeam nihil desideramus, quo minus Epirum ipsum possidere videamur,

Cic. Att. 2, 4, 5. —

Meton. (effectus pro causa), to lose something; and more freq. pass., to be missing, to be lost:

in eo proelio non amplius CC milites desideravit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 99; cf. id. ib. 3, 71:

ut nulla navis desideraretur,

id. B. G. 5, 23, 3; 7, 11, 8 et saep.:

neque quicquam ex fano praeter unum signum desideratum est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44; Vell. 2, 52, 6:

ex peditibus triginta,

Curt. 3, 29, 27.—

With the notion of inquiring, searching; to investigate, examine, discuss (rare):

sequitur ut morbo laborantibus remedia desiderentur,

Col. 9, 13, 1:

examina,

id. 9, 8, 1.— Impers.:

antequam desideraretur,

before the question should be raised, Vitr. 2, 6, 4.—Hence,

dēsīdĕrans, antis, P. a., in Sup. desiderantissimus, in the later writers for desideratissimus, as a term of endearment, heart's desire, best beloved:

vale, domine dulcissime, desiderantissime,

Fronto Ep. 5, 40; M. Aur. ib. 1, 5;

L. Aur. Verus,

ib. 2, 8; Inscr. Orell. 4644.— Adv.: dēsīdĕranter, acc. to no. I., with desire, eagerly (late Lat.):

appetere,

Cassiod. Var. 1, 4.— Comp.:

quanto desiderantius desideras,

Fronto Ep. ad Ver. Imp. 13.—

dēsīdĕrātus, a, um, P. a., wished for, longed for, welcome (very rare):

et veniet desideratus cunctis gentibus,

Vulg. Aggaei, 2, 8: blandissima et desideratissimi promissa. Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 2:

fratres desideratissimi,

Vulg. Philip. 4, 1;

and in inscrr. applied to a beloved person: FILIO DESIDERATISSIMO,

Inscr. Orell. 5068; id. Grut. 681, 2 al.

mensūra. ae, f. [metior], a measuring, measure (class.).

Lit.:

mensuram facere alicujus, Ov A. A. 3, 265: agere,

to measure, survey, Plin. Ep. 10, 28, 5:

inire. Col 5, 3: res (quae) pondere numero mensura constant,

Gai. Inst. 2, 196.—

Transf., a measure, by which any thing is measured:

majore mensurā reddere,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48:

qui modus mensurae medimnus appellatur,

kind of measure, Nep. Att. 2, 6:

mensuras et pondera invenit Phidon Argivus, aut Palamedes,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 198:

ex aquā, i. e. clepsydra,

Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

quicquid sub aurium mensuram aliquam cadit, numerus vocatur,

Cic. Or 20, 67:

de mensura jus dicere,

Juv. 10, 101. —

Trop., measure, quantity, proportion, capacity, power, extent, degree, etc.:

dare alicui mensuram bibendi,

to prescribe how much one may drink, Ov. A. A. 1, 589:

nostri orbis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

beneficii,

Plin. Ep. 10, 12, 2:

qui tanti mensuram nominis imples,

i. e. who answerest to its meaning, art worthy of it, Ov. P. 1, 2, 1:

ficti crescit,

measure, size, id. M. 12, 57: sui, one's own measure, i. e. capacity, Juv. 11, 35:

sed deerat pisci patinae mensura,

was too small, Juv. 4, 72: nuribus Argolicis fui Mensura voti, I was the measure of their wishes, i. e. they desired to have as much as I possessed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 400:

submittere se ad mensuram discentis,

to accommodate one's self to the capacity of the learner, Quint. 2, 3, 7: legati, character, standing. Tac. H. 1, 52:

mensura tamen quae sufficiat census,

how large a fortune, Juv. 14. 316.—In painting:

Apelles cedebat Asclepiodoro de mensuris, hoc est quanto quid a quoque distare deberet,

the degree of prominence, and relative distances, of parts of a picture, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 80.—In gram.:

mensurae verborum,

the quantities of their syllables, Quint. 10, 1, 10.

prae-dĭtus, a, um, Part. [do].

Endowed, gifted, or provided with, possessed of something (above others) (freq. and class.; syn.: instructus, ornatus); constr. with abl.:

legiones pulchris armis praeditas,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 63:

divino praedita sensu,

Lucr. 5, 144:

immortali sunt haec naturā praedita,

id. 1, 236:

parvis opibus ac facultatibus praeditus,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69: mundus praeditus animo et sensibus, id. N. D. 1, 8, 18:

spe,

id. Verr. 1, 3, 10:

parvo metu,

id. Tusc. 5, 14, 41:

singulari cupiditate, audaciā, scelere,

id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 6:

praeditus levitate, egestate, perfidiā,

id. Fl. 3:

singulari immanitate et crudelitate,

id. Sull. 3, 7:

vitio grandi et perspicuo,

id. Inv. 1, 47, 88.—

Of a deity, like praepositus, placed or set over, presiding over any thing (post-Aug.); constr. with dat.: deus ei rei praeditus, M. Aur. ap. Front. Ep. 3, 9 Mai: Mercurius nuntiis praeditus, Front. Eloqu. med.:

Venus praedita optimati amori,

App. Mag. p. 281 med.; id. de Deo Socr. p. 50.

scătūrĭo, īre ( imperf. scaturribat, App. M. 4, p. 145, 8), v. n. [scateo], to stream, flow, or gush out (not before the Aug. period, and very rare).

Lit.:

scaturiens aqua,

Pall. 1, 33 fin.:

de summo vertice fons scaturribat (i. e. -riebat),

App. M. 4, 6, p. 145, 8:

oleum de terrā,

Ampel. Lib. Mem. 8, § 5.—

Transf., like scateo.

To come forth in great numbers, to swarm, abound:

vermiculi,

Auct. Priap. 4, 6 fin.:

vermes,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 9, 9.—

To be full of, filled with, abound in a thing.

Lit.:

solum, quod fontibus non scaturiat,

Col. 3, 1, 8.—

Trop.: (Curio) totus, ut nunc est, hoc scaturit, he is all possessed with it, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 2: aurae scaturientes sermonis, Prud. steph. 10, 551.