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răpĭo, pŭi, ptum, 3 (old perf. subj. rapsit, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; part. perf. fem. ex raptabus, Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), v. a. [root harp; Gr. harpê, a bird of prey, harpagê, harpazô; Lat. rapidus, rapax, rapina, etc.; cf. Sanscr. lup-, lumpāmi, rumpo; Gr. lupê], to seize and carry off, to snatch, tear, drag, draw, or hurry away, = violenter sive celeriter capio (freq. and class.; in Cæs. not at all, and in Cic. mostly in the trop. signif.; cf.: ago, fero, traho, capio, sumo).

Lit.

In gen., Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 15; 30; 31:

quo rapitis me? quo fertis me?

id. Men. 5, 7, 10; cf. Verg. A. 6, 845; Ov. M. 9, 121:

quo me cunque rapit tempestas?

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 15; cf. id. C. 3, 25, 1:

sumasne pudenter an rapias,

snatch, id. Ep. 1, 17, 45; cf. id. S. 1, 5, 76:

hostes vivos rapere soleo ex acie: ex hoc nomen mihi est (sc. Harpax),

Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 60:

te ex lustris uxor,

id. As. 5, 2, 84:

volucri spe et cogitatione rapi a domo,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 7:

ab aede rapuit funale,

Ov. M. 12, 247:

torrem ab aris,

id. ib. 12, 271:

deque sinu matris ridentem... Learchum... rapit,

id. ib. 4, 516 (for which, simply sinu, id. ib. 13, 450):

hastam, de vulnere,

id. ib. 5, 137:

telum,

Verg. A. 10, 486:

repagula de posti,

Ov. M. 5, 120:

(frondes) altā rapit arbore ventus,

id. ib. 3, 730:

vi atque ingratis... rapiam te domum,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 40:

aliquem sublimem domum,

id. As. 5, 2, 18; cf.:

sublimem,

id. Mil. 5, 1; id. Men. 5, 7, 6; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20:

commeatum in naves rapiunt,

Liv. 41, 3:

aliquem in jus,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 21; so,

in jus,

id. Poen. 5, 5, 56; Hor. S. 1, 9, 77; 2, 3, 72; cf.:

in jus ad regem,

Liv. 1, 26:

in carcerem,

Suet. Tib. 11; 61:

aliquem ad cornuficem,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 156; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 37:

ad praetorem,

id. Aul. 4, 10, 30:

ad supplicium ob facinus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 238:

ad mortem,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 138; id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:

ad tortorem,

id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

ad poenam,

Suet. Claud. 10; 37; id. Vit. 14:

ad consulem,

Liv. 10, 20:

matres, virgines, pueros ad stuprum,

id. 26, 13:

teneram virginem ad virum,

Cat. 61, 3 (cf.:

rapi simulatur virgo ex gremio matris, aut, si ea non est, ex proximā necessitudine, cum ad virum traditur, quod videlicet ea res feliciter Romulo cessit,

Fest. p. 289 Müll.):

illum (sc. lembum) in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni,

Verg. G. 1, 203:

nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divum rapiam,

drag into open day, Hor. C. 1, 18, 13. — Poet.:

Nasonis carmina rapti,

i. e. torn from his home, borne far away, Ov. P. 4, 16, 1; cf. id. H. 13, 9; Stat. S. 3, 5, 6. —

With the idea of swiftness predominating:

Turnus rapit Totam aciem in Teucros,

Verg. A. 10, 308:

rapit agmina ductor,

Luc. 1, 228:

agmina cursu,

Sil. 7, 116:

legiones,

Plin. Pan. 14:

curru rapi,

Sil. 1, 134:

quattuor hinc rapimur raedis,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 86:

Notus rapit biremes,

Sil. 17, 276:

carinas venti rapuere,

Luc. 3, 46:

rapit per aequora navem,

hurries it away, Verg. A. 10, 660; cf.:

ventis per aequora,

Ov. M. 14, 470:

missos currus,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 114:

pedes quo te rapiunt,

id. C. 3, 11, 49:

arma rapiat juventus,

snatch up, Verg. A. 7, 340; so,

arma,

Ov. M. 2, 603:

arma manu,

Verg. A. 8, 220:

bipennem dextrā,

id. ib. 11, 651:

cingula,

id. ib. 9, 364.—

With reflex. pron., to hasten, hurry, tear one ' s self, etc.:

ocius hinc te Ni rapis,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 118; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 5, 29:

se ad caedem optimi cujusque,

Cic. Phil. 13, 8, 18.—

In partic.

To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, etc. (very freq.; cf.

praedor),

Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 11:

erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,

Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:

tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranm ab regibus,

id. Rep. 1, 44, 68:

virgines rapi jussit... quae raptae erant, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 7, 12; 2, 8, 14; so,

virgines,

to carry off, abduct, Sall. C. 51, 9; Liv. 1, 9; Quint. 7, 7, 3; 9, 2, 70; Hor. C. 2, 4, 8; Ov. M. 12, 225; id. A. A. 1, 680:

raptus a dis Ganymedes,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65:

ab Idā,

Hor. C. 3, 20, 16:

omne sacrum rapiente dextrā,

id. ib. 3, 3, 52:

alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama,

pillage and plunder, Verg. A. 2, 374 (the Homeric agousi kai pherousi; for which, in prose, ferre et agere; v. ago); cf.:

rapturus moenia Romae,

Luc. 3, 99:

Theumeson,

to seize by force, Stat. Th. 4, 370:

Armeniam,

to plunder, lay waste, Tac. A. 13, 6:

Karthaginem,

Sil. 15, 401:

urbem,

Stat. Th. 7, 599:

raptas ad litora vertere praedas,

Verg. A. 1, 528.— Absol.:

rapio propalam,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 10:

ut Spartae, rapere ubi pueri et clepere discunt,

Cic. Rep. 4, 5, 11 (Non. 20, 14):

agunt, rapiunt, tenent,

id. Rep. 3, 33, 45 Mos.; cf.

along with trahere,

Sall. C. 11, 4; id. J. 41, 5;

with congerere, auferre,

Mart. 8, 44, 9.— With the idea of rapidity predominating: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, to conquer rapidly (= raptim capere), Liv. 6, 23, 5 Drak.; so,

castra,

Flor. 3, 20, 4; 4, 12, 34:

Bithyniam,

id. 3, 5, 6:

Hispaniam,

id. 2, 17, 6:

arces,

Luc. 6, 14.— Part. perf. subst.

rapta, ae, f., the ravished one, the seduced:

gratus raptae raptor fuit,

Ov. A. A. 1, 680; id. H. 5, 97; 13, 55; 16, 339; id. F. 4, 607.—

raptum, i, n., the plunder, that which is stolen:

rapto vivere,

to live by robbery, Liv. 7, 25 fin.; 22, 39; 28, 24: Quint. 3, 7, 24; Sen. Ep. 70 fin.; Curt. 3, 10 fin.; Just. 41, 4, 7; Verg. A. 7, 749; Ov. M. 11, 291; id. Tr. 5, 10, 16;

for which: ex rapto vivere,

id. M. 1, 144; so,

rapto gaudere,

Liv. 29, 6, 3 Drak.:

rapto potiri,

Verg. A. 4, 217:

rapto uti,

Vell. 2, 73, 3:

sine rapto vivere,

id. 2, 32 fin. —

To cut off, mutilate ( poet.):

caput,

Sil. 15, 807:

ora gladio,

id. 7, 704:

rapuit non dente ferarum,

Luc. 10, 517.—

To carry off suddenly or prematurely by death, to snatch away ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 20; so id. ib. 2, 17, 5; 4, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 14, 7; Verg. A. 6, 428; Ov. P. 4, 11, 5; Stat. S. 2, 1, 208; 5, 3, 16; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 46; Suet. Calig. 7; Just. 2, 2, 13 (but Liv. 3, 50, 8: fato erepta, v. Drak.)— Absol.:

et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis,

i. e. hurries on, Verg. G. 3, 68:

RAPTA EST = obiit,

Inscr. Orell. 4475.

Transf. ( poet.), of any action or motion which resembles seizing, snatching, etc.:

flammanm,

to catch quickly, Verg. A. 1, 176; Ov. M. 3, 374; cf.:

incendia,

id. ib. 15, 350: nigrum colorem, to take or assume quickly, id. ib. 7, 289; cf.:

vim monstri,

id. ib. 4, 744;

and v. III.: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populos,

leads hastily on, Verg. A. 7, 725; cf. id. ib. 10, 178: rapiuntque ruuntque; Litora deseruere, take hold, seize in haste (the cables, etc.), id. ib. 4, 581; cf.:

scalas, Auct. B. Alex. 20, 4.—Of the gliding movement of a serpent nec rapit immensos orbes per humum,

sweeps along, Verg. G. 2, 153:

pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit,

i. e. range quickly through, Verg. A. 6, 8 Heyne; cf.:

acrior et campum sonipes rapit,

Stat. Th. 5, 3.

Trop.

In gen., to snatch, force, or hurry away:

fertur quasi torrens oratio, quamvis multa cujusquemodi rapiat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3:

ipsae res verba rapiunt,

carry along with them, id. ib. 3, 5, 19: aspice me quanto rapiat Fortuna periclo, carries away (the figure taken from a storm at sea), Prop. 1, 15, 3:

aliquem in deteriorem viam,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 54; cf.:

(comoediam) in pejorem partem,

i. e. to put a bad construction upon, to misconstrue, misrepresent, Ter. Ad. prol. 3: consilium meum in contrariam partem, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2:

aliquem in invidiam,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7:

opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 43:

si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve,

Verg. A. 9, 211; Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

cum aliqua his ampla et honesta res objecta est, totos ad se convertit et rapit,

seizes upon, appropriates, id. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf.:

commoda ad se,

id. ib. 3, 5, 22:

victoriae gloriam in se,

Liv. 33, 11 fin.:

almum Quae rapit hora diem,

snatches away, Hor. C. 4, 7, 8; cf.:

simul tecum solatia rapta,

Verg. E. 9, 18:

impetus rapit huc, rapit illuc,

Stat. Th. 12, 794.—

In partic.

To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing (usually in a bad sense):

impetu raptus,

Quint. 7, 2, 44:

judicem rapere,

id. 6, 2, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 110; 12, 10, 61:

praedae ac rapinarum cupiditas caeca te rapiebat,

Cic. Pis. 24, 57:

amentiā rapi,

id. Fam. 16, 12, 2:

furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa?

Hor. Epod. 7, 13; cf.:

in medias res auditorem,

id. A. P. 149:

utraque forma rapit,

Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 44:

quem (sc. leonem) cruenta Per medias rapit ira caedes,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 12:

rapit omnes ira,

Sil. 14, 299: hormê, quae hominem huc et illuc rapit, Cic. Off. 1, 28 fin.; cf. Verg. A. 4, 286; 8, 21:

ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur,

Cic. Off. 2, 11, 38:

animus cupidine caecus ad inceptum scelus rapiebat,

Sall. J. 25, 7:

ea (cupiditas) ad oppugnandam Capuam rapit,

Liv. 7, 30 et saep.—In a good sense:

qui ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā omni studioque rapiantur,

Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111:

rapi ad opes augendas generis humani,

id. Rep. 1, 2, 3. — Poet., with inf. (for ad aliquid):

(mundus) rapit aetherios per carmina pandere census,

Manil. 1, 12.—

To seize by violence, to snatch, steal ( poet.): Hippodameam raptis nactu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. v. 398 Vahl.):

oscula,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 28; Tib. 1, 4, 53; 55; [p. 1524] 1, 8, 58; cf.:

Venerem incertam,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 109; cf.:

sed rapiat sitiens Venerem,

but may eagerly seize upon, Verg. G. 3, 137:

illicitas voluptates,

Tac. H. 3, 41:

spem adoptionis acrius in dies,

id. ib. 1, 13 fin.:

quo facinore dominationem raptum ierit expediam,

id. A. 4, 1; cf. id. H. 2, 6.—

With the idea of rapidity or haste predominating, to snatch, seize, or lay hold of quickly, to hasten, precipitate ( poet.; in prose only since the Aug. per.): vive, Ulixes, dum licet: Oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape: non dixit cape, non pete; haberet enim moram sperantis diutius sese victurum;

sed rape,

Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162 (from an old poet.):

rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die,

Hor. Epod. 13, 3; so,

occasionem,

Juv. 15, 39:

viam,

to hasten, Ov. H. 19, 74 Loers; cf.

iter,

Sil. 12, 471:

gressus,

Luc. 3, 116:

cursus,

id. 5, 403:

letum,

id. 4, 345:

bellum,

to wage suddenly, id. 5, 403:

nefas,

to hasten, precipitate, id. 10, 428:

ut limis rapias, quid prima secundo Cera velit versu,

may hastily note, Hor. S. 2, 5, 53 al. —In prose:

raptae prope inter arma nuptiae,

Liv. 30, 14, 2 Drak.:

repente impetu facto transitum rapuit,

Front. Strat. 1, 4, 8:

inter rapienda momenta periculorum communium,

Amm. 18, 7, 7 et saep.—

In late Lat., to strive for in purchasing:

exemplaria litterarum certatim,

Hier. Ep. 57, 2:

librum totā certatim urbe,

Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 23.

rēs, rei (rēi with e long; gen., Lucr. 2, 112; 548; 6, 918; dat., id. 1, 688; 2, 236; rei, gen., monosyl. at the end of the verse, Lucr. 3, 918;

and in the middle of the verse,

id. 4, 885, and Poët. ap. Lact. 6, 6), f. [ etym. dub.; perh. root ra- of reor, ratus; cf. Germ. Ding; Engl. thing, from denken, to think; prop., that which is thought of; cf. also logos, Lid. and Scott, 9], a thing, object, being; a matter, affair, event, fact, circumstance, occurrence, deed, condition, case, etc.; and sometimes merely = something (cf.: causa, ratio, negotium).

In gen.:

unde initum primum capiat res quaeque movendi,

Lucr. 1, 383; cf. id. 1, 536:

in partes res quaeque minutas Distrahitur,

id. 2, 826: summe Sol, qui omnes res inspicis, Enn. ap. Prob. Verg. E. 6, 31 (Trag. v. 321 Vahl.):

versus, quos ego de Rerum Naturā pangere conor,

Lucr. 1, 25; cf. id. 1, 126; 5, 54:

rerum natura creatrix,

id. 2, 1117:

divinarum humanarumque rerum, tum initiorum causarumque cujusque rei cognitio,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7 (v. divinus):

haeret haec res,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 182:

profecto, ut loquor, ita res est,

id. ib. 2, 1, 19:

haud mentior, resque uti facta dico,

id. ib. 2, 1, 23:

de Alcumenā ut rem teneatis rectius,

id. ib. prol. 110:

in tantis rebus (sc. in re publicā defendendā),

Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4 et saep.:

quo Averna vocantur nomine, id ab re Impositum est, quia sunt avibus contraria cunctis,

from the nature of the thing, Lucr. 6, 740; cf. id. 6, 424; Liv. 1, 17:

si res postulabit,

the condition of the case, Cic. Lael. 13, 44: scaena rei totius haec, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3:

fugam in se nemo convertitur Nec recedit loco, quin statim rem gerat,

does his duty, stands his ground, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 84; so, res gerere, v. gero; hence, too, rerum scriptor, for a historian, v. scriptor, and cf. II. H. infra.—

With adj. of quality, to express condition, etc.:

illic homo a me sibi malam rem arcessit,

is bringing a bad business on himself, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 171; so,

res mala,

a wretched condition, Sall. C. 20, 13; and more freq. in plur.:

bonis tuis rebus meas res irrides malas,

circumstances, condition, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 45; id. Rud. 3, 3, 12:

res secundae,

good fortune, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30; cf. Liv. 3, 9:

res prosperae,

Nep. Dion, 6, 1; id. Eum. 5, 1:

in secundissimis rebus,

Cic. Off. 1, 26, 91:

adversae res,

id. ib. 1, 26, 90; Hor. S. 2, 2, 136; 2, 8, 73:

res belli adversae,

Liv. 10, 6:

res dubiae,

Sall. C. 10, 2; 39, 3; Liv. 2, 50; 7, 30;

v. bonus, florens, salvus, adversus, dubius, novus, arduus, etc.— Freq. in curses, etc.: in malam rem,

go to the bad, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 37; id. And. 2, 1, 17:

malam rem hinc ibis?

id. Eun. 3, 3, 30.—

With an adj. in a periphrasis:

abhorrens ab re uxoriā,

matrimony, Ter. And. 5, 1, 10:

in arbitrio rei uxoriae,

dowry, Cic. Off. 1, 15, 61:

rem divinam nisi compitalibus... ne faciat,

a religious act, act of worship, a sacrifice, Cato, R. R. 5, 4:

bellicam rem administrari majores nostri nisi auspicato noluerunt,

Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76; Hor. C. 4, 3, 6:

erat ei pecuaria res ampla et rustica,

Cic. Quint. 3, 12: res rustica, agriculture:

rei rusticae libro primo,

Col. 11, 1, 2; id. 1, praef. §

19: liber, quem de rebus rusticis scripsi,

Cic. Sen. 15, 54:

navalis rei certamina,

naval battles, Amm. 26, 3, 5:

res militaris,

Cic. Rab. Post. 1, 2:

rei militaris gloria,

id. Mur. 9, 22; Nep. Milt. 8, 4:

res frumentaria,

forage, Caes. B. C. 3, 16; id. B. G. 1, 23; 4, 7:

armatae rei scientissimus,

Amm. 25, 4, 7:

peritus aquariae rei,

id. 28, 2, 2:

res judicaria,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 12, § 31:

res ludicra,

play, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 180:

uti rebus veneriis,

Cic. Sen. 14, 47; Nep. Alc. 11, 4:

res Veneris,

Lucr. 2, 173; Ov. R. Am. 431; v. also familiaris, judiciaria, militaris, navalis, etc., and cf. II. G. infra. —

With pronouns or adjectives, as an emphatic periphrase for the neutr.:

ibi me inclamat Alcumena: jam ea res me horrore afficit,

this now, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16; cf.: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam:

Ea res est,

it is even so, id. As. 1, 1, 40:

de fratre confido ita esse ut semper volui. Multa signa sunt ejus rei,

of it, Cic. Att. 1, 10, 5: quos (melittônas) alii melittotropheia appellant, eandem rem quidam mellaria. Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 12:

sunt ex te quae scitari volo, Quarum rerum, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 13; cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 4:

quibus de rebus quoniam nobis contigit ut aliquid essemus consecuti,

Cic. Rep. 1, 8, 13:

quā super re interfectum esse Hippotem dixisti? Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. superescit, p. 244: resciscet Amphitruo rem omnem,

every thing, all, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 30:

nulla res tam delirantes homines concinat cito,

nothing, id. Am. 2, 2, 96; cf.:

neque est ulla res, in quā, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12; 1, 5, 9; cf.

also: sumptu ne parcas ullā in re, quod ad valetudinem opus sit,

id. Fam. 16, 4, 2:

magna res principio statim bello,

a great thing, a great advantage, Liv. 31, 23 fin.:

nil admirari prope res est una Solaque, quae, etc.,

the only thing, only means, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 1 et saep. — Emphatically with sup.:

scilicet rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma,

the most beautiful thing in the world, Verg. G. 2, 534; Quint. 1, 12, 16 Spald. p. 81. —

Of persons, etc.: est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

maxime rerum,

Ov. H. 9, 107; cf.:

maxima rerum Roma,

Verg. A. 7, 602; Ov. M. 13, 508:

fortissima rerum animalia,

id. ib. 12, 502:

pulcherrime rerum,

id. H. 4, 125; id. A. A. 1, 213; id. M. 8, 49:

dulcissime rerum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 4.—

In adverb. phrases:

e re natā melius fieri haud potuit,

after what has happened, Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 8:

pro re natā,

according to circumstances, Cic. Att. 7, 8, 2; 14, 6, 1:

pro tempore et pro re,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

factis benignus pro re,

according to circumstances, Liv. 7, 33, 3; Sall. J. 50, 2:

pro re pauca loquar,

Verg. A. 4, 337; Lucr. 6, 1280:

ex re et ex tempore,

Cic. Fam. 12, 19, 3:

e re respondi,

Cat. 10, 8.

In partic.

Pregn., an actual thing, the thing itself, reality, truth, fact; opposed to appearance, mere talk, the mere name of a thing:

ecastor, re experior, quanti facias uxorem tuam,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 10:

desiste dictis nunc jam miseram me consolari: Nisi quid re praesidium apparas, etc.,

id. Rud. 3, 3, 21: rem ipsam loqui. Ter. And. 1, 2, 31:

rem fabulari,

Plaut. Trin 2, 4, 87:

nihil est aliud in re,

in fact, Liv. 10, 8, 11 Weissenb. ad loc.:

se ipsa res aperit,

Nep. Paus. 3, 7:

ex re decerpere fructus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 79;

opp. verbum, vox, opinio, spes, nomen, etc.: rem opinor spectari oportere, non verba,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; cf.: te rogo, ut rem potiorem oratione ducas, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 5:

non modo res omnes, sed etiam rumores cognoscamus,

Cic. Att. 5, 5, 1:

qui hos deos non re, sed opinione esse dicunt,

id. N. D. 3, 21, 53:

Peripateticos et Academicos nominibus differentes, re congruentes,

id. Ac. 2, 5, 15:

quod nos honestum, illi vanum... verbis quam re probabilius vocant,

Quint. 3, 8, 22; Sen. Ep. 120, 9:

eum, tametsi verbo non audeat, tamen re ipsā de maleficio suo confiteri,

id. Rosc. Am. 42, 123; cf. Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 15:

vides quantum distet argumentatio tua ab re ipsā atque a veritate,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 44. — Hence, abl. sing., often strengthened by verā (sometimes as one word, reverā), in fact, really, in truth, indeed, in reality:

haec ille, si verbis non audet, re quidem verā palam loquitur,

Cic. Quint. 17, 56; so,

re quidem verā,

id. Clu. 19, 54; id. Sest. 7, 15:

re autem verā,

id. Fam. 1, 4, 2;

and simply re verā,

id. Quint. 2, 7; id. Div. 2, 54, 110; id. Balb. 3, 7:

re verāque,

Lucr. 2, 48; cf.:

et re verā,

indeed, in fact, Cic. Fam. 3, 5, 1; Liv. 33, 11, 3; 35, 31, 12; 36, 6, 1; Nep. Ages. 2, 3; id. Phoc. 3, 3; Curt. 3, 13, 5; 4, 16, 19; Val. Max. 9, 13, ext. 1; Just. 5, 1, 8; 12, 13, 10; Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 1.—

Effects, substance, property, possessions:

mihi Chrysalus Perdidit filium, me atque rem omnem Meam,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 26; cf.: Ph. Habuitne rem? Ly. Habuit. Ph. Qui eam perdidit... Mercaturamne an venales habuit, ubi rem perdidit? id. Trin. 2, 2, 49 sq.:

quibus et re salvā et perditā profueram,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 27:

rem talentum decem,

id. Phorm. 2, 3, 46; Juv. 3, 16:

avidior ad rem,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 51:

rem facere,

to make money, Cic. Att. 2, 2, 12:

res eos jampridem, fides deficere nuper coepit,

id. Cat. 2, 5, [p. 1576] 10:

qui duo patrimonia accepisset remque praeterea bonis et honestis rationibus auxisset,

id. Rab. Post. 14, 38:

libertino natum patre et in tenui re,

in narrow circumstances, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 20 et saep.; v. also familiaris.— In plur.: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 396 Vahl.):

privatae res,

Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5.—

Hence, law t. t., whatever may be the subject of a right, whether corporeal or incorporeal (v. Sandars, Introd. to Just. Inst. p. 42 sqq.):

res corporales,

Just. Inst. 2, 2, 1 sq.; Gai. Inst. 2, 12; Dig. 1, 8, 1:

res in patrimonio, res extra patrimonium,

Just. Inst. 2, 1 pr.; Gai. Inst. 2, 1:

res sanctae,

Just. Inst. 2, 1, 10; v. also mancipium, privatus, etc.—

Benefit, profit, advantage, interest, weal:

res magis quaeritur, quam, etc.,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 6:

melius illi consulas quam rei tuae,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 98:

haec tuā re feceris,

to your advantage, id. Capt. 2, 2, 46.— Most freq. with the prepositions in, ex, ob, ab, etc.:

quasi istic minor mea res agatur quam tua,

is interested, affected, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113 (v. ago):

si in rem tuam esse videatur,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 2:

vide si hoc in rem deputas,

id. ib. 3, 3, 19:

quod in rem recte conducat tuam,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 26:

si in remst utrique,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 14:

quid mihi melius est, quid magis in rem est, quam? etc.,

useful, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 1:

tamen in rem fore credens universos adpellare,

Sall. C. 20, 1:

omnia quae in rem videbantur esse,

Curt. 6, 2, 21:

ad conparanda ea quae in rem erant,

Liv. 30, 4, 6:

imperat quae in rem sunt,

id. 26, 44, 7; 22, 3, 2:

ex tuā re non est, ut ego emoriar,

for your advantage, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 102: An. Non pudet Vanitatis? Do. Minime, dum ob rem, to the purpose, with advantage, Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 41: ob rem facere, usefully, with advantage or profit, Sall. J. 31, 5: subdole blanditur, ab re Consulit blandiloquentulus, contrary to his interest, i. e. to his injury, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12 Brix ad loc.:

haud id est ab re aucupis,

id. As. 1, 3, 71:

haec haud ab re duxi referre,

Liv. 8, 11, 1:

non ab re esse Quinctio visum est interesse, etc.,

id. 35, 32, 6; Plin. 27, 8, 35, § 57; Suet. Aug. 94; Gell. 18, 4, 6; 1, 26, 4; Macr. S. 1, 4, 19.—

Cause, reason, ground, account; only in the connection eā (hac) re, and eam ob rem, adverb., therefore, on that account:

eā re tot res sunt, ubi bene deicias,

Cato, R. R. 158, 2:

hac re nequeunt ex omnibus omnia gigni, Quod, etc.,

Lucr. 1, 172; cf.:

illud eā re a se esse concessum, quod, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 111:

patrem exoravi, tibi ne noceat, neu quid ob eam rem succenseat,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 39; cf.:

quoi rei?

for what purpose? id. As. 3, 2, 43; id. Poen. 2, 3, 3.—Hence (by uniting into one word) the causal adverbs quare and quamobrem, v. h. vv.—

An affair, matter of business, business:

cum et de societate inter se multa communicarent et de totā illā ratione atque re Gallicanā,

Cic. Quint. 4, 15:

rem cum aliquo transigere,

id. Clu. 13, 39. —

Hence, transf., in gen.: res alicui est cum aliquo,

to have to do with any one, Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 84; id. Sest. 16, 37; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 77; cf.:

famigeratori res sit cum damno et malo,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 182 Brix ad loc.— Also without a dat.:

quoniam cum senatore res est,

Cic. Fam. 13, 26, 3;

esp., in mal. part.: rem habere cum aliquo or aliquā,

to have to do with any one, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 35; id. Merc. 3, 1, 37; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 39; 58. —Ellipt.:

jam biennium est, quom mecum rem coepit,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 15. —

A case in law, a lawsuit, cause, suit (more gen. than causa):

ubi res prolatae sunt,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 10:

res agi,

id. Men. 4, 2, 19; id. Aul. 3, 4, 13:

quibus res erat in controversiā, ea vocabatur lis,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 93; cf.

(prob. in allusion to this legal form): tot homines... statuere non potuisse, utrum diem tertium an perendinum... rem an litem dici oporteret,

Cic. Mur. 12, 27; cf.

also: quarum rerum litium causarum condixit pater patratus, etc., an ancient formula,

Liv. 1, 32:

de rebus ab aliquo cognitis judicatisque dicere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 118:

pecunias capere ob rem judicandam,

id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

si res certabitur olim,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 27; 1, 10, 15; 1, 9, 41; id. Ep. 1, 16, 43:

tractu temporis futurum, ut res pereat,

Dig. 3, 3, 12:

rem differre,

ib. 43, 30, 3: res judicata dicitur, quae finem controversiarum pronuntiatione judicis accipit, ib. 42, 1, 1 et saep.—

An affair, esp. a battle, campaign, military operations; in phrase rem (or res) gerere:

res gesta virtute,

Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 66:

ut res gesta est ordine narrare,

Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 3:

his rebus gestis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

res gerere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:

rem bene gerere,

id. ib. 1, 8, 1; Ter. Ad. 5, 1, 13:

comminus rem gerunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

res gestae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 7; 2, 1, 251:

adversus duos simul rem gerere,

Liv. 21, 60:

rem male gerere,

Nep. Them. 3, 3; Hor. S. 2, 3, 74:

in relatione rerum ab Scythis gestarum,

Just. 2, 1, 1; cf.:

rem agere,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 4; id. A. P. 82:

ante rem,

before the battle, Liv. 4, 40:

cum Thebanis sibi rem esse existimant,

Nep. Pel. 1, 3; Cic. Sest. 16, 37.—

Acts, events, as the subject of narration, a story, history:

res in unam sententiam scripta,

Auct. Her. 1, 12, 20:

cui lecta potenter erit res,

Hor. A. P. 40; id. S. 1, 10, 57; id. Ep. 1, 19, 29:

in medias res auditorem rapere,

id. A. P. 148; 310:

agitur res in scaenis,

id. ib. 179; cf.:

numeros animosque secutus, non res,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 25; Phaedr. 5, 1, 12:

sicut in rebus ejus (Neronis) exposuimus,

Plin. 2, 83, 85, § 199:

litterae, quibus non modo res omnis, sed etiam rumores cognoscamus,

Cic. Att. 5, 5, 1:

res populi Romani perscribere, Liv. praef. § 1: res Persicae,

history, Nep. Con. 5, 4; id. Cat. 3, 2.—

Res publica, also as one word, respublica, the common weal, a commonwealth, state, republic (cf. civitas); also, civil affairs, administration, or power, etc.: qui pro republicā, non pro suā obsonat, Cato ap. Ruf. 18, p. 210; cf.:

erat tuae virtutis, in minimis tuas res ponere, de re publicā vehementius laborare,

Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 3:

dummodo ista privata sit calamitas et a rei publicae periculis sejungatur,

id. Cat. 1, 9; cf.:

si re publicā non possis frui, stultum est nolle privatā,

id. Fam. 4, 9, 4:

egestates tot egentissimorum hominum nec privatas posse res nec rem publicam sustinere,

id. Att. 9, 7, 5 (v. publicus); Cato ap. Gell. 10, 14, 3: auguratum est, rem Romanam publicam summam fore, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

quo utiliores rebus suis publicis essent,

Cic. Off. 1, 44, 155:

commutata ratio est rei totius publicae,

id. Att. 1, 8, 4: pro republicā niti, Cato ap. Charis. p. 196 fin.:

merere de republicā,

Plaut. Am. prol. 40:

de re publicā disputatio... dubitationem ad rem publicam adeundi tollere, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

oppugnare rem publicam,

id. Cael. 1, 1; id. Har. Resp. 8, 15; id. Sest. 23, 52:

paene victā re publicā,

id. Fam. 12, 13, 1:

delere rem publicam,

id. Sest. 15, 33; Lact. 6, 18, 28.—Esp. in the phrase e re publicā, for the good of the State, for the public benefit:

senatūs consultis bene et e re publicā factis,

Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 30:

ea si dicam non esse e re publicā dividi,

id. Fam. 13, 8, 2; id. Mil. 5, 14; Liv. 8, 4, 12; 25, 7, 4; 34, 34, 9; Suet. Rhet. 1 init. —Post-class. and rare, also ex republicā, Gell. 6, 3, 47; 11, 9, 1;

but exque is used for euphony (class.): id eum recte atque ordine exque re publicā fecisse,

Cic. Phil. 3, 15, 38; 5, 13, 36; 10, 11, 26.— In plur.:

eae nationes respublicas suas amiserunt, C. Gracch. ap. Fest. s. h. v. p. 286 Müll.: hoc loquor de tribus his generibus rerum publicarum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44:

circuitus in rebus publicis commutationum,

id. ib. 1, 29, 45 et saep.—

Sometimes simply res, the State (in the poets, and since the Aug. per. in prose): unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84 (Ann. v. 313 Vahl.):

hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam sistet,

Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.:

nec rem Romanam tam desidem umquam fuisse,

Liv. 21, 16; 1, 28:

parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt,

id. 6, 41 fin.:

Romana,

Hor. C. S. 66; id. Ep. 1, 12, 25; Ov. M. 14, 809; Sall. C. 6, 3; cf.:

ut paulo ante animum inter Fidenatem Romanamque rem ancipitem gessisti,

Liv. 1, 28 fin.:

Albana,

id. 1, 6.— In plur.:

res Asiae evertere,

Verg. A. 3, 1:

custode rerum Caesare,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 17; cf.:

res sine discordiā translatae,

Tac. H. 1, 29; so (also in Cic.), rerum potiri, v. potior. —

Res novae, political changes, a revolution, etc.; v. novus.

rustĭcĭtas, ātis, f. [rusticus] (not anteAug.).

Lit.

Country life and occupations, i. e. tillage, husbandry, Pall. Insit. 11.—

Concr., country people, Pall. 1, 31; Cod. Just. 1, 55, 3.—

Transf., the manners of the country or of country people, rustic behavior, rusticity (opp. urbanitas);

in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense: patria est ei Brixia, ex illā nostrā Italiā, quae multum adhuc verecundiae, frugalitatis atque etiam rusticitatis antiquae retinet ac servat,

Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 4; cf. Plin. 35, 4, 9, § 26; Calp. Ecl. 4, 4.—In a bad sense:

cultus adest, nec nostros mansit in annos Rusticitas priscis illa superstes avis,

Ov. A. A. 3, 128:

rusticitas, non pudor ille fuit,

id. ib. 1, 672:

vultus sine rusticitate pudentes,

id. H. 20, 59:

(urbanitas) cui contraria sit rusticitas,

Quint. 6, 3, 17; cf.:

et imperitia, et rusticitas, et rigor,

id. 6, 1, 37:

in quo (ore) nulla neque rusticitas neque peregrinitas resonet,

id. 11, 3, 30:

verborum atque ipsius etiam soni,

id. 11, 3, 10:

aliquem rusticitatis arguere,

Suet. Caes. 53:

ignorare propter rusticitatem jus suum,

Dig. 49, 14, 2 fin.

sā̆cro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [sacer], to declare or set apart as sacred; to consecrate, dedicate, or devote to a divinity (class.; cf. consecro).

Lit.:

ne quis agrum consecrato. Auri, argenti, eboris sacrandi modus esto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22:

eum praedam Veientanam publicando sacrandoque ad nihilum redegisse, ferociter increpant,

Liv. 5, 25:

(agrum) Cypriae,

Ov. M. 10, 644:

Capitolino Jovi donum ex auro,

Suet. Tib. 53 fin.:

(laurum) Phoebo,

Verg. A. 7, 62:

aras,

id. ib. 5, 48:

vigilem ignem,

id. ib. 4, 200:

votum immortale,

id. ib. 8, 715:

inter haec auream aquilam pinnis extendenti similem sacraverant,

Curt. 3, 3, 16:

templum, in quo Helena sacravit calicem ex electro,

Plin. 33, 4, 23, § 81.—In part. perf.:

duabus aris ibi Jovi et Soli sacratis cum immolasset,

Liv. 40, 22:

arae,

Suet. Tib. 14:

sacratas fide manus,

Liv. 23, 9:

sacrata Crotonis Ossa tegebat humus,

Ov. M. 15, 55:

rite pecudes,

Verg. A. 12, 213:

templum,

id. ib. 2, 165 al. —

With a bad accessory signif. (cf. sacer, II.), to devote or doom to destruction, to declare accursed, to condemn:

de sacrando cum bonis capite ejus, qui regni occupandi consilia inisset, gratae in vulgus leges fuere,

Liv. 2, 8; cf.:

caput Jovi,

id. 10, 38.—

Transf., in gen., to set apart, consecrate, devote, give, dedicate a thing to any one ( poet. and rare):

quod patriae vocis studiis nobisque sacrasti, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 13, 22: hunc illi honorem Juppiter sacravit,

Verg. A. 12, 141:

tibi sacratum opus,

Ov. Tr. 2, 552.—In a bad sense:

injecere manum Parcae, telisque sacrarunt Evandri (Halaesum),

Verg. A. 10, 419.—

Meton.

To render sacred or inviolable by consecration; to hallow, consecrale:

hoc nemus aeterno cinerum sacravit honore Faenius,

Mart. 1, 117, 1:

foedus, quod in Capitolio sacratum fuisset, irritum per illos esse,

that had been decreed inviolable, Liv. 38, 33; cf.:

sanctiones sacrandae sunt genere ipso aut obtestatione legis, aut, etc.,

Cic. Balb. 14, 33:

sacrata lex,

a law whose violation was punished by devoting the offender to the infernal gods, id. Sest. 7, 16; id. Dom. 17, 43; Liv. 2, 33; 3, 17; 7, 41; 9, 39; 36, 38; cf.:

sacratae leges sunt, quibus sanctum est, qui quid adversus eas fecerit, sacer alicui deorum sit cum familia pecuniaque,

Fest. p. 318 Müll.—

Of a deity, to hold sacred, to worship or honor as sacred:

haud frustra te patrem deum hominumque hac sede sacravimus,

Liv. 8, 6:

Vesta sacrata,

Ov. M. 15, 864.—

Transf., in gen., to render imperishable, to immortalize (rare):

aliquem Lesbio plectro,

Hor. C. 1, 26, 11; cf.:

miratur nihil, nisi quod Libitina sacravit,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 49:

vivit vigetque eloquentia ejus (Catonis), sacrata scriptis omnis generis,

Liv. 39, 40:

avum Sacrārunt carmina tuum,

Ov. P. 4, 8, 64.—Hence, sā̆crātus, a, um, P. a., hallowed, consecrated, holy, sacred:

sacrata jura parentum,

Ov. M. 10, 321:

jura Graiorum,

Verg. A. 2, 157:

vittae Sacrati capitis,

id. ib. 3, 371:

dux,

i. e. Augustus, Ov. F. 2, 60; cf.:

manus (Tiberii),

id. ib. 1, 640:

dies sacratior,

Mart. 4, 1, 1:

numen gentibus sacratissimum,

Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 82:

homines,

devoted to the gods, Macr. S. 3, 7;

Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 26.—At a later per., Sacratissimus,

an epithet of the emperors, Most Worshipful, Dig. 38, 17, 9; Mamert. Pan. ad Maxim. 1 et saep.— Adv.: sā̆crātē, in eccl. Lat.,

Holily, piously:

vivere,

Aug. Ep. 22 fin. —

Mysteriously, mystically, Aug. Doctr. Chr. 2, 16.

scĕlĕro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to pollute, defile, contaminate, desecrate (in the verb. finit. rare, and only poet.;

syn.: temero, polluo): impia non verita est divos scelerare parentes,

Cat. 64, 405; cf. Stat. Th. 2, 663:

sanguine fauces,

id. ib. 8, 761:

parce pias scelerare manus,

Verg. A. 3, 42:

Cererem,

Juv. 9, 25:

animum,

Sil. 16, 122; cf.:

dextram sanguine,

Stat. Th. 9, 666. —Hence, scĕlĕrātus, a, um, P. a., polluted, profaned by crime.

Lit. (appellatively;

only in the poets): terra,

Verg. A. 3, 60:

terrae,

Ov. P. 1, 6, 29:

limina Thracum,

id. M. 13, 628.—

In partic., as an adj. prop., denoting places where crimes had been committed or criminals punished. So,

Sceleratus Vicus, that part of the Vicus Cyprius, on the Esquiline, in which Tullia, daughter of Servius Tullius, drove over her father ' s corpse, Liv. 1, 48; Varr. L. L. 5, § 159 Müll.; Ov. F. 6, 609; Fest. pp. 332 and 333 Müll.—

Sceleratus Campus, under the city will hard by the porta Collina, where unchaste Vestals were buried alive, Liv. 8, 15; Fest. l. l.; Serv. Verg. A. 11, 206.—

Scelerata sedes, the place of punishment for the wicked in Tartarus, Tib. 1, 3, 67; Ov. M. 4, 455;

also called Sceleratum limen,

Verg. A. 6, 563.—For Scelerata Porta and Castra, v. infra, B. 2. b.—

Transf.

Subjectively, bad, impious, wicked, ac-cursed, infamous, vicious, flagitious; in the masc. subst., a bad, impious, or vicious person; a wretch, miscreant (the predom. signif.; freq. with nefarius, impious, etc.; cf. consceleratus);

of persons: virum sceleratum, facinorosum, nefarium,

Cic. Rep. 3, 17, 27:

deliberantium genus totum sceleratum et impium,

id. Off. 3, 8, 37; id. Mur. 30, 62 (with nefarius); id. Att. 9, 15, 5 (with impurus); Caes. B. G. 6, 13 (with impius); Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 4; Ter. And. 1, 1, 132; id. Ad. 4, 2, 14; Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Caes. B. G. 6, 34; Sall. C. 52, 36:

facto plus et sceleratus eodem,

Ov. M. 3, 5:

puella,

id. R. Am. 299; Liv. 1, 59; 31, 31; Suet. Ner. 46; Hor. S. 2, 3, 71; 2, 3, 221 al.— Comp.:

homo sceleratior,

Ov. M. 11, 781.— Sup.:

refertam esse Graeciam sceleratissimorum hominum,

Cic. Planc. 41, 98; Sall. J. 14, 2; 31, 12; Liv. 4, 32 et saep.—Of things:

sceleratas ejus preces et nefaria vota cognovimus,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194:

contra patriam scelerata arma capere,

id. Phil. 11, 1, 1; Ov. M. 5, 102:

conjuratio,

Liv. 2, 6:

insania belli,

Verg. A. 7, 461:

caput,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 33:

vox (with inhumana),

Cic. Fin. 3, 19, 64:

consilia,

Vell. 2, 130, 3:

amor habendi,

Ov. M. 1, 131:

munera,

id. ib. 8, 94:

ignes,

id. F. 6, 439.— Comp.:

a sceleratiore hastā,

Cic. Off. 2, 8, 29:

causa parricidii,

Just. 10, 2, 1. — Sup.:

res,

Quint. 3, 8, 45:

fraus humani ingenii,

Plin. 34, 14, 39, § 138.— Poet.:

subit ira sceleratas sumere poenas,

i.e. to take satisfaction for her crimes, Verg. A. 2, 576. —

(As a result of viciousness or criminality; cf. scelus, II. C.) Hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unhappy, unfortunate, calamitous, etc. (only poet. and in postAug. prose):

teritur sinapis scelerata: qui terunt, oculi ut exstillent, facit,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 28:

herba,

App. Herb. 8.— Sup.:

sceleratissimis serpentium haemorrhoidi et presteri,

Plin. 24, 13, 73, § 117:

frigus,

Verg. G. 2, 256:

lues,

Mart. 1, 102, 6:

poëmata,

id. 3, 50, 9 et saep.: MATER, Inscr. Rein. cl. 12, 122; so Inscr. Fabr. p. 237, 631:

PARENTES,

Inscr. Murat. 1187, 2.—

Made hurtful, i. e. poisoned:

scelerata sucis spicula,

Sil. 3, 272.—

As an adj. prop.

Scelerata Porta, the gate (also called Porta Carmentalis) through which the three hundred Fabii marched on their fatal expedition, Fest. pp. 334 and 335 Müll.; Serv. Verg. A. 8, 337; Flor. 1, 12, 2.—

Scelerata Castra, the camp in which D. Drusus died, Suet. Claud. 1.—Hence, adv.: scĕlĕrātē (acc. to B. 1.), impiously, wickedly, nefariously (Ciceronian):

peccavi scelerateque feci,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 2:

facere (with audacter),

id. Sull. 24, 67:

dicere (opp. pie),

id. Mil. 38, 103:

susceptum bellum,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 27.— Comp.:

sceleratius,

Vulg. Ezech. 16, 52. — Sup.:

sceleratissime machinatus omnes insidias,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

scĕlus, ĕris, n. [Sanscr. root skhal, to fall, akin to khal-, to deceive; cf. Goth. skal, to owe], an evil deed; a wicked, heinous, or impious action; a crime, sin, enormity, wickedness (the strongest general term for a morally bad act or quality; very freq. both in sing. and plur.; cf. nefas).

Lit.

Absol.:

facinus est vincire civem Romanum, scelus verberare, prope parricidium necare,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170; cf. so (opp. to flagitia and delicta) Tac. G. 12:

majus in sese scelus concipere nefariis sceleribus coöpertus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 9; id. Rosc. Am. 13, 37:

detestabile scelus,

id. Lael. 8, 27:

scelus atque perfidia,

id. Rosc. Am. 38, 109; so (with perfidia) id. Phil. 11, 2, 5; id. Att. 2, 22, 2; 3, 13, 2; Sall. J. 107, 2; Liv. 40, 39 al.; cf. (with audacia) Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170; (with furor) id. ib. 2, 5, 62, § 161; (with avaritia) id. ib. 2, 5, 9, § 24; id. Clu. 8, 23:

documentum Persarum sceleris,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

ex hac parte pudor pugnat, illinc petulantia... hinc pietas, illinc scelus,

id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

scelus est igitur, nocere bestiae, quod scelus qui velit, etc.,

id. Rep. 3, 11, 19:

quid mali aut sceleris fingi aut excogitari potest, quod, etc.,

id. Cat. 2, 4, 7:

nefario scelere concepto,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 32, § 72:

concipere in se,

id. ib. 2, 1, 4, §

9 (v. supra): tantum sceleris admittere,

id. Att. 9, 10, 3:

scelus nefarium facere,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 221; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25:

perficere,

id. Clu. 68, 194:

scelus an-helare,

id. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

moliri,

id. Att. 7, 11, 1:

edere,

id. Phil. 13, 9, 21; cf.:

edere in aliquem,

id. Sest. 27, 58:

suscipere,

id. Phil. 11, 1, 2:

scelere se alligare,

id. Fl. 17, 41:

scelere astringi,

id. Sest. 50, 108:

scelere obstringi,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 32, § 71:

obrui,

Liv. 3, 19 et saep.—

With gen. obj.:

scelus legatorum contra jus gentium interfectorum,

the crime of murdering their deputies, Liv. 4, 32.—Prov.:

vulgo dicitur: Scelera non habere consilium,

Quint. 7, 2, 44.—

Transf.

Of animals or inanimate things (post-Aug.; perh. only in Plin.), a bad quality, vicious nature, a vice, fault: nec bestiarum solum ad nocendum scelera [p. 1641] sunt, sed interim aquarum quoque et locorum, Plin. 25, 3, 6, § 20:

maximum salamandrae,

id. 29, 4, 23, § 74:

Scythae sagittas tingunt viperină sanie... inremediabile id scelus,

id. 11, 53, 115, § 279.—

Concr., in vulgar lang. as a term of reproach, rascal, scoundrel, villain, rogue; and of women, drab, baggage, etc.: minime miror, navis si fracta tibi, Scelus te et sceleste parta quae vexit bona, Plant. Rud. 2, 6, 22; id. Am. 2, 1, 7; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 9; id. Mil. 3, 2, 14; 3, 2, 27; id. Pers. 4, 9, 6; Ter. And. 2, 1, 17; 4, 1, 42; id. Eun. 5, 4, 19; id. Ad. 5, 1, 6; 5, 1, 12 al.; cf.:

scelus viri,

you scoundrel of a man, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 60.— With a masc. pron.:

is me scelus attondit, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 9:

ubi illic est scelus, quid me perdidit?

Ter. And. 3, 5, 1; cf.:

scelus, quemnam hic laudat?

id. ib. 5, 2, 3.—

In Plaut., Ter., and Mart., a mishap (qs. arising from wickedness), a misfortune, calamity (cf. sceleratus, B. 2., and scelestus, II.):

perdidi unum filium puerum quadrimum... Major potitus hostium est: quod hoc est scelus!

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 104: Pa. Quid hoc est sceleris? Ch. Perii, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 34 Ruhnk.; Mart. 7, 14, 1.—

A natural catastrophe: scelera naturae, i. e. earthquakes, inundations, etc., Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 206.

singŭlāris, e, adj. [singuli].

Lit.

In gen., one by one, one at a time, alone, single, solitary; alone of its kind, singular (class.;

syn.: unus, unicus): non singulare nec solivagum genus (sc. homines),

i. e. solitary, Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 39:

hostes ubi ex litore aliquos singulares ex navi egredientes conspexerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 26:

homo,

id. ib. 7, 8, 3; so,

homo (with privatus, and opp. isti conquisiti coloni),

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

singularis mundus atque unigena,

id. Univ. 4 med.:

praeconium Dei singularis facere,

Lact. 4, 4, 8; cf. Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 26:

natus,

Plin. 28, 10, 42, § 153:

herba (opp. fruticosa),

id. 27, 9, 55, § 78: singularis ferus, a wild boar (hence, Fr. sanglier), Vulg. Psa. 79, 14:

hominem dominandi cupidum aut imperii singularis,

sole command, exclusive dominion, Cic. Rep. 1, 33, 50; so,

singulare imperium et potestas regia,

id. ib. 2, 9, 15:

sunt quaedam in te singularia... quaedam tibi cum multis communia,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 88, § 206:

singulare beneficium (opp. commune officium civium),

id. Fam. 1, 9, 4:

odium (opp. communis invidia),

id. Sull. 1, 1:

quam invisa sit singularis potentia et miseranda vita,

Nep. Dion, 9, 5:

pugna,

Macr. S. 5, 2:

si quando quid secreto agere proposuisset, erat illi locus in edito singularis,

particular, separate, Suet. Aug. 72.—

In partic.

In gram., of or belonging to unity, singular:

singularis casus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll.;

10, § 54 ib.: numerus,

Quint. 1, 5, 42; 1, 6, 25; 8, 3, 20; Gell. 19, 8, 13:

nominativus,

Quint. 1, 6, 14:

genitivus,

id. 1, 6, 26 et saep. —Also absol., the singular number:

alii dicunt in singulari hac ovi et avi, alii hac ove et ave,

Varr. L. L. 8, § 66 Müll.; Quint. 8, 6, 28; 4, 5, 25 al.—

In milit lang., subst.: singŭlāris, is, m.

In gen., an orderly man (ordonance), assigned to officers of all kinds and ranks for executing their orders (called apparitor, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 52):

SINGVLARIS COS (consulis),

Inscr. Orell. 2003; cf. ib. 3529 sq.; 3591; 6771 al.—

Esp., under the emperors, equites singulares Augusti, or only equites singulares, a select horse body-guard (selected from barbarous nations, as Bessi, Thraces, Bæti, etc.), Tac. H. 4, 70; Hyg. m. c. §§ 23 and 30; Inscr. Grut. 1041, 12 al.; cf. on the Singulares, Henzen, Sugli Equiti Singolari, Roma, 1850; Becker, Antiq. tom. 3, pass. 2, p. 387 sq.—

In the time of the later emperors, singulares, a kind of imperial clerks, sent into the provinces, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; cf. Lyd. Meg. 3, 7.—

Trop., singular, unique, matchless, unparalleled, extraordinary, remarkable (syn.: unicus, eximius, praestans;

very freq. both in a good and in a bad sense): Aristoteles meo judicio in philosophiā prope singularis,

Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132:

Cato, summus et singularis vir,

id. Brut. 85, 293:

vir ingenii naturā praestans, singularis perfectusque undique,

Quint. 12, 1, 25; so,

homines ingenio atque animo,

Cic. Div. 2, 47, 97:

adulescens,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 2.—Of things:

Antonii incredibilis quaedam et prope singularis et divina vis ingenii videtur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 172:

singularis eximiaque virtus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 1, 3; so,

singularis et incredibilis virtus,

id. Att. 14, 15, 3; cf. id. Fam. 1, 9, 4:

integritas atque innocentia singularis,

id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 27:

Treviri, quorum inter Gallos virtutis opinio est singularis,

Caes. B. G. 2, 24:

Pompeius gratias tibi agit singulares,

Cic. Fam. 13, 41, 1; cf.:

mihi gratias egistis singularibus verbis,

id. Cat. 4, 3:

fides,

Nep. Att. 4:

singulare omnium saeculorum exemplum,

Just. 2, 4, 6.—In a bad sense:

nequitia ac turpitudo singularis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106; so,

nequitia,

id. ib. 2, 2, 54, § 134; id. Fin. 5, 20, 56:

impudentia,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 18: audacia (with scelus incredibile), id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 105:

singularis et nefaria crudelitas,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77.— Hence, adv.: singŭlārĭter ( singlā-rĭter, Lucr. 6, 1067).

One by one, singly, separately.

In gen. (ante- and post-class.):

quae memorare queam inter se singlariter apta, Lucr. l. l. Munro (Lachm. singillariter): a juventā singulariter sedens,

apart, separately, Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 727.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 1.), in the singular number:

quod pluralia singulariter et singularia pluraliter efferuntur,

Quint. 1, 5, 16; 1, 7, 18; 9, 3, 20:

dici,

Gell. 19, 8, 12; Dig. 27, 6, 1 al.—

(Acc. to II.) Particularly, exceedingly:

aliquem diligere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 117:

et miror et diligo,

Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 1:

amo,

id. ib. 4, 15, 1.

sŏdālĭcĭus ( - tĭus), a, um, adj. [sodalis].

Of or belonging to a sodalis; of or belonging to fellowship or companionship (as adj. very rare):

jure sodalicio mihi junctus,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 46 (al. sodalicii); Just. 20, 4, 14:

Druidae sodaliciis astricti consortiis,

Amm. 15, 9, 8.—

In a bad sense, secret:

collegia sodalicia,

pertaining to an unlawful secret association, Dig. 47, 22, 1.—

Subst.: sŏdālĭcĭum ( - tĭum), ii, n.

Lit., a fellowship, friendly intercourse or intimacy, brotherhood, companionship, etc. (syn. sodalitas):

fraternum vere dulce sodalicium,

Cat. 100, 4; cf. Val. Max. 4, 7, 1 ext. —

Transf.

An association, company, society, or college of any kind:

CVLTORVM HERCVLIS,

Inscr. Orell. 2404; cf. ib. 2402:

FVLLONVM,

ib. 4056.—

A company assembled for feasting, a banquetingclub, Auct. Her. 4, 51, 64.—

In a bad sense, an unlawful secret society (for buying votes, plotting against the State, etc.; cf.

hetaeriae): lex Licinia, quae est de sodaliciis,

Cic. Planc. 15, 36: in hos sodaliciorum tribuario crimine, id. ib. 19, 47:

Mariana sodalicia,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 116.

sŏdālĭcĭus ( - tĭus), a, um, adj. [sodalis].

Of or belonging to a sodalis; of or belonging to fellowship or companionship (as adj. very rare):

jure sodalicio mihi junctus,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 46 (al. sodalicii); Just. 20, 4, 14:

Druidae sodaliciis astricti consortiis,

Amm. 15, 9, 8.—

In a bad sense, secret:

collegia sodalicia,

pertaining to an unlawful secret association, Dig. 47, 22, 1.—

Subst.: sŏdālĭcĭum ( - tĭum), ii, n.

Lit., a fellowship, friendly intercourse or intimacy, brotherhood, companionship, etc. (syn. sodalitas):

fraternum vere dulce sodalicium,

Cat. 100, 4; cf. Val. Max. 4, 7, 1 ext. —

Transf.

An association, company, society, or college of any kind:

CVLTORVM HERCVLIS,

Inscr. Orell. 2404; cf. ib. 2402:

FVLLONVM,

ib. 4056.—

A company assembled for feasting, a banquetingclub, Auct. Her. 4, 51, 64.—

In a bad sense, an unlawful secret society (for buying votes, plotting against the State, etc.; cf.

hetaeriae): lex Licinia, quae est de sodaliciis,

Cic. Planc. 15, 36: in hos sodaliciorum tribuario crimine, id. ib. 19, 47:

Mariana sodalicia,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 116.

tālis, e, adj. [demonstr. stem to-, cf. Gr. têlikos], such, of such a kind, nature, or quality, such like; with a corresp. qualis, atque, ut, qui, or absol.

Ingen.

With correlatives.

With qualis:

talis est quaeque res publica, qualis ejus aut natura aut voluntas, qui illam regit,

Cic. Rep. 1, 31, 47:

ut facillime, quales simus, tales esse videamur,

id. Off. 2, 13, 44:

cum esset talis, qualem te esse video,

id. Mur. 14, 32; id. Rep. 1, 26, 41:

quale solet viscum virere... Talis erat species,

Verg. A. 6, 208; cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 31, 47.—

With atque:

faxo tali eum mactatum, atque hic est, infortunio,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 8 (9), 39:

honos tali populi Romani voluntate paucis est delatus ac mihi,

Cic. Vatin. 4, 10.—

With ut:

tales nos esse putamus, ut jure laudemur,

Cic. Off. 1, 26, 91:

nunc rationem videtis esse talem, ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 2, 22, 39:

talia esse scio, ut, etc.,

Liv. 42, 42, 7.—

With qui:

talem te esse oportet, qui primum te ab impiorum civium societate sejungas,

Cic. Fam. 10, 6, 3:

ultima talis erit, quae mea prima fides,

Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 34; Stat. Th. 2, 170.—

In gen., such, the like: sin est probus (Cresphontes maritus meus), Cur talem invitam invitum cogis linquere? Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38 (Trag. v. 158 Vahl.):

quoi in re tali jam subvenisti antidhac,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 26:

aliquid tale putavi fore,

Cic. Att. 16, 8, 2:

tantum abest, ut et ipsi tale quicquam facturi fueritis,

Liv. 26, 31, 5:

a quo tale quid dictum referretur,

id. 5, 1, 7:

quod erit ejusmodi, nihil ut tale ullā in re publicā reperiatur,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 42:

omnem legem esse laudabilem, quibusdam talibus argumentis docent,

id. Leg. 2, 5, 11; cf. id. Univ. 7:

haec taliaque vociferantes,

Liv. 5, 2, 13; cf. Tac. A. 11, 24:

nil metuens tale,

Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 67.—

Esp., in discourse, etc., referring to something that follows, the following, as follows, such as this, etc.: talia commemorat lacrimans, exterrita somno: Eurydica, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 37 Vahl.):

talia fatur: Salve, etc.,

Verg. A. 5, 79; 1, 559; 6, 372:

talia tum placido Saturnius edidit ore: dicite, etc.,

Ov. M. 8, 703:

id tale est: occidisti hominem, etc.,

Quint. 7, 1, 6; cf. id. 5, 10, 82; 9, 2, 41:

quae talia,

Verg. A. 7, 21; 10, 298:

tali modo liberatus est,

as follows, Nep. Cim. 2, 1.—

In partic., pregn., like the Gr. toiosde or toioutos, of such an especial kind or nature (both in a good and a bad sense), so distinguished, great, excellent, good, beautiful, fine, etc., so great, extreme, bad, etc., such emphatically, = tantus:

ubi tu, talis vir, falsum autumas,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 2:

oculos corrumpis talis,

id. Merc. 3, 1, 3:

talem, tali genere atque animo natum ex tantā familiā,

Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 10:

istam times, ne illum talem praeripiat tibi,

id. Eun. 1, 2, 81; cf.:

quibus rebus tantis, talibus gestis, quid fuit causae, cur, etc.?

Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

quae tuā sponte faceres in hominem tantum et talem, calamitosum,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1:

urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92; id. Fam. 15, 4, 14:

quid negotii geritur, in quo ille tot et tales viros defatigat?

id. Quint. 13, 42: judices tali dignitate praediti, id. Clu. 53, 147; Caes. B. C. 1, 53:

pro tali facinore,

id. B. G. 6, 34 fin.; Sall. J. 10, 8:

tamen is ad id locorum talis vir consulatum petere non audebat,

id. ib. 63, 6: tali tempore, at so critical a time, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 1; Liv. 22, 35, 7; 30, 37, 8; Verg. A. 11, 303 al.—Hence, adv.: tālĭter, in such wise, in such sort, so (post-Aug.):

qualiter... taliter,

Mart. 5, 7, 3; Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 124; Pall. 9, 8, 1.

tempestas, ātis (collat. form tempe-stūs, ūtis; v. in the foll.; gen. plur. tempestatium, Vitr. 9, 6, 3), f. [tempus].

A [p. 1850] portion, point, or space of time, a time, season, period, hôra (so mostly ante-class. and poet.; syn. tempus): SOL OCCASVS SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 10; cf.:

in duodecim tabulis: SOLIS OCCASV DIEI SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO: libri augurum pro tempestate tempestutem dicunt, supremum augurii tempus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 51 Müll. N. cr.: jam quā tempestate vivo certe sine ad me recipio, Lucil. ap. Non. 407, 31:

eā tempestate flos poëtarum fuit,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 18:

verum tempestas quondam cum vixi fuit, Quom, etc.,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 29:

eādemque tempestate multis signis Lacedaemoniis calamitas denuntiabatur,

Cic. Div. 1, 34, 75:

quā tempestate juvencos egerat a stabulis,

Prop. 4, 9, 1:

non ego pro mundi regno magis anxius illā Tempestate fui, qua, etc.,

Ov. M. 1, 183: tertia te Phthiae tempestas laeta locabit, the third day (a translation of the Homeric êmati ken tritatôi, Il. 9, 363), Cic. poët. Div. 1, 25, 52:

quā tempestate Poenus in Italiam venit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; cf. id. Or. 49, 164:

fuere item eā tempestate, qui crederent, etc.,

Sall. C. 17, 7; Curt. 4, 2, 11; 6, 2, 15:

illā tempestate,

Liv. 27, 37, 13; Curt. 3, 1, 2:

hac tempestate,

Sall. J. 3, 1; 13, 7; Vell. 2, 78; Just. 19, 2, 3; 25, 2, 8: sic omnia nimia, cum vel in tempestate vel in agris vel in corporibus laetiora fuerunt, in contraria fere convertuntur (a transl. of the Platonic en hôrais te kai en phutois kai en sômasi), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.— In plur.: quam te post multis tueor tempestatibus, Pac. ap. Non. 407, 33:

cis paucas tempestates, augebis, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 18:

multis tempestatibus haud sane quisquam Romae virtute magnus fuit,

Sall. C. 53, 5:

Sulla sollertissimus omnium in paucis tempestatibus factus est,

id. J. 96, 1:

Evander, qui multis ante tempestatibus ea tenuerat loca,

Liv. 1, 5, 2.—

Time, with respect to its physical qualities, weather (the predom. and class. signif. of the word).

Lit., of good as well as of bad weather: tum tonuit laevum bene tempestate serenā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82 (Ann. v. 517 Vahl.; cf. infra, in plur.); Varr. ap. Non. 408, 5:

liquida,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 64; cf.:

liquidissima caeli,

Lucr. 4, 169:

nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

secunda,

Tac. Agr. 38:

fuit pridie Quinquatrus egregia tempestas,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 2:

tempestatem praetermittere,

id. Fam. 14, 4, 5:

cum tempestas arridet,

Lucr. 2, 32; cf. id. 5, 1395:

unde haec tam clara repente Tempestas?

Verg. A. 9, 20.—In plur.: tempestates serenae riserunt risu Jovis, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 254 (Ann. v. 445 Vahl.):

dum tempestates assunt,

Lucr. 1, 178:

et comites et tempestates et navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis,

Cic. Fam. 16, 1, 2; Cels. 2, 1.—

Esp., of bad or stormy weather, a storm, tempest (cf.:

procella, hiemps): turbida tempestas heri fuit,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 3; so,

turbida,

Lucr. 6, 376; Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

saeva,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 12; Lucr. 6, 458:

perfrigida,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86:

turbulenta,

id. ib. 2, 5, 10, §

26: foeda,

Liv. 2, 62; Verg. G. 1, 323:

horrida,

Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

demissa ab Euro,

id. C. 3, 17, 11:

tempestas venit, Confringit tegulas imbricesque,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 27:

tanta tempestas cooritur, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 48:

tempestas naves adflixit,

id. ib. 3, 27:

vis tempestatis,

Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 8:

maximo imbri, tempestate, ventis, procellis, etc.,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

nautae cum adversā tempestate in alto jactarentur,

id. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

si segetibus tempestas nocuerit,

id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

si tempestas a vertice silvis Incubuit,

Verg. G. 2, 310:

tempestas sine more furit,

id. A. 5, 694.—In plur.:

duo genera esse caelestis injuriae meminisse debemus: unum quod tempestates vocamus, in quibus grandines, procellae, ceteraque similia intelleguntur, etc.,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 278:

magnis commotis tempestatibus, fluvius ita magnus factus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 86:

etiam summi gubernatores in magnis tempestatibus a vectoribus admoneri solent,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

ut tempestates saepe certo aliquo caeli signo commoventur,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

procellae, tempestates,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19; Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3:

autumni,

Verg. G. 1, 311; Caes. B. G. 4, 34. —

Personified: Tempestātes, the weather-goddesses, the weather: (Lucius Scipio) CEPIT. CORSICA. ALERIAQVE. VRBE. DEDET TEMPESTATIBVS AIDE MERITO, Inscrr. Scip. in Inscr. Orell. 552; Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51; Hor. Epod. 10, 24; cf. in sing. Tempestas, Ov. F 6, 193. —

Trop. (like our storm, tempest, =), commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune:

qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus,

Cic. Planc. 4, 11:

comitiorum,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

video quanta tempestas invidiae nobis impendeat,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

periculi tempestas,

id. Sest. 47, 101:

tempestas horribilis Gallici adventus,

id. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

quanta per Idaeos tempestas ierit campos,

Verg. A. 7, 223:

eā ipsā tempestate eversam esse rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 5:

tempestas popularis,

id. Sest. 67, 140:

vis illa fuit et ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam judicium,

id. Clu. 35, 96:

communis Siculorum tempestas (i. e. Verres),

id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

haud ignari quanta invidiae immineret tempestas,

Liv. 3, 38, 6:

(scurra) Pernicies et tempestates barathrumque macelli,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31:

belli,

Stat. Th. 3, 229; Sen. Agam. 63.—In plur.:

in his undis et tempestatibus ad summam senectutem maluit jactari quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

immoderatae tempestates,

id. N. D. 1, 2, 4:

navis rei publicae fluitans in alto tempestatibus,

id. Sest. 20, 46; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; id. Fam. 9, 6, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85 al.—

A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.:

querelarum,

Cic. Pis. 36, 89:

turbida telorum,

Verg. A. 12, 284; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 102.

tempestas, ātis (collat. form tempe-stūs, ūtis; v. in the foll.; gen. plur. tempestatium, Vitr. 9, 6, 3), f. [tempus].

A [p. 1850] portion, point, or space of time, a time, season, period, hôra (so mostly ante-class. and poet.; syn. tempus): SOL OCCASVS SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 10; cf.:

in duodecim tabulis: SOLIS OCCASV DIEI SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO: libri augurum pro tempestate tempestutem dicunt, supremum augurii tempus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 51 Müll. N. cr.: jam quā tempestate vivo certe sine ad me recipio, Lucil. ap. Non. 407, 31:

eā tempestate flos poëtarum fuit,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 18:

verum tempestas quondam cum vixi fuit, Quom, etc.,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 29:

eādemque tempestate multis signis Lacedaemoniis calamitas denuntiabatur,

Cic. Div. 1, 34, 75:

quā tempestate juvencos egerat a stabulis,

Prop. 4, 9, 1:

non ego pro mundi regno magis anxius illā Tempestate fui, qua, etc.,

Ov. M. 1, 183: tertia te Phthiae tempestas laeta locabit, the third day (a translation of the Homeric êmati ken tritatôi, Il. 9, 363), Cic. poët. Div. 1, 25, 52:

quā tempestate Poenus in Italiam venit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; cf. id. Or. 49, 164:

fuere item eā tempestate, qui crederent, etc.,

Sall. C. 17, 7; Curt. 4, 2, 11; 6, 2, 15:

illā tempestate,

Liv. 27, 37, 13; Curt. 3, 1, 2:

hac tempestate,

Sall. J. 3, 1; 13, 7; Vell. 2, 78; Just. 19, 2, 3; 25, 2, 8: sic omnia nimia, cum vel in tempestate vel in agris vel in corporibus laetiora fuerunt, in contraria fere convertuntur (a transl. of the Platonic en hôrais te kai en phutois kai en sômasi), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.— In plur.: quam te post multis tueor tempestatibus, Pac. ap. Non. 407, 33:

cis paucas tempestates, augebis, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 18:

multis tempestatibus haud sane quisquam Romae virtute magnus fuit,

Sall. C. 53, 5:

Sulla sollertissimus omnium in paucis tempestatibus factus est,

id. J. 96, 1:

Evander, qui multis ante tempestatibus ea tenuerat loca,

Liv. 1, 5, 2.—

Time, with respect to its physical qualities, weather (the predom. and class. signif. of the word).

Lit., of good as well as of bad weather: tum tonuit laevum bene tempestate serenā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82 (Ann. v. 517 Vahl.; cf. infra, in plur.); Varr. ap. Non. 408, 5:

liquida,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 64; cf.:

liquidissima caeli,

Lucr. 4, 169:

nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

secunda,

Tac. Agr. 38:

fuit pridie Quinquatrus egregia tempestas,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 2:

tempestatem praetermittere,

id. Fam. 14, 4, 5:

cum tempestas arridet,

Lucr. 2, 32; cf. id. 5, 1395:

unde haec tam clara repente Tempestas?

Verg. A. 9, 20.—In plur.: tempestates serenae riserunt risu Jovis, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 254 (Ann. v. 445 Vahl.):

dum tempestates assunt,

Lucr. 1, 178:

et comites et tempestates et navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis,

Cic. Fam. 16, 1, 2; Cels. 2, 1.—

Esp., of bad or stormy weather, a storm, tempest (cf.:

procella, hiemps): turbida tempestas heri fuit,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 3; so,

turbida,

Lucr. 6, 376; Caes. B. C. 2, 22:

saeva,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 12; Lucr. 6, 458:

perfrigida,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86:

turbulenta,

id. ib. 2, 5, 10, §

26: foeda,

Liv. 2, 62; Verg. G. 1, 323:

horrida,

Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

demissa ab Euro,

id. C. 3, 17, 11:

tempestas venit, Confringit tegulas imbricesque,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 27:

tanta tempestas cooritur, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 48:

tempestas naves adflixit,

id. ib. 3, 27:

vis tempestatis,

Cic. Rep. 4, 8, 8:

maximo imbri, tempestate, ventis, procellis, etc.,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

nautae cum adversā tempestate in alto jactarentur,

id. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

si segetibus tempestas nocuerit,

id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

si tempestas a vertice silvis Incubuit,

Verg. G. 2, 310:

tempestas sine more furit,

id. A. 5, 694.—In plur.:

duo genera esse caelestis injuriae meminisse debemus: unum quod tempestates vocamus, in quibus grandines, procellae, ceteraque similia intelleguntur, etc.,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 278:

magnis commotis tempestatibus, fluvius ita magnus factus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 86:

etiam summi gubernatores in magnis tempestatibus a vectoribus admoneri solent,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

ut tempestates saepe certo aliquo caeli signo commoventur,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

procellae, tempestates,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19; Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3:

autumni,

Verg. G. 1, 311; Caes. B. G. 4, 34. —

Personified: Tempestātes, the weather-goddesses, the weather: (Lucius Scipio) CEPIT. CORSICA. ALERIAQVE. VRBE. DEDET TEMPESTATIBVS AIDE MERITO, Inscrr. Scip. in Inscr. Orell. 552; Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51; Hor. Epod. 10, 24; cf. in sing. Tempestas, Ov. F 6, 193. —

Trop. (like our storm, tempest, =), commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune:

qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus,

Cic. Planc. 4, 11:

comitiorum,

id. Mur. 17, 36:

video quanta tempestas invidiae nobis impendeat,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

periculi tempestas,

id. Sest. 47, 101:

tempestas horribilis Gallici adventus,

id. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

quanta per Idaeos tempestas ierit campos,

Verg. A. 7, 223:

eā ipsā tempestate eversam esse rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 5:

tempestas popularis,

id. Sest. 67, 140:

vis illa fuit et ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam judicium,

id. Clu. 35, 96:

communis Siculorum tempestas (i. e. Verres),

id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

haud ignari quanta invidiae immineret tempestas,

Liv. 3, 38, 6:

(scurra) Pernicies et tempestates barathrumque macelli,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31:

belli,

Stat. Th. 3, 229; Sen. Agam. 63.—In plur.:

in his undis et tempestatibus ad summam senectutem maluit jactari quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

immoderatae tempestates,

id. N. D. 1, 2, 4:

navis rei publicae fluitans in alto tempestatibus,

id. Sest. 20, 46; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; id. Fam. 9, 6, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85 al.—

A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.:

querelarum,

Cic. Pis. 36, 89:

turbida telorum,

Verg. A. 12, 284; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 102.

ūnĭcus, a, um, adj. [id.], one and no more, only, sole, single (class.).

Lit., of number:

tuus unicus gnatus,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 1:

gnatus,

id. Poen. prol. 68; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 79; 3, 2, 29:

gnata,

id. And. 3, 3. 8;

1, 1, 73: filius,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 65; id. Cas. 2, 3, 45; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 41; Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 41:

quid me patrem par facere'st, quoi ille'st unicus?

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 38 (44):

filia,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 41; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 104; Verg. Cir. 334; Just. 1, 4, 2:

consul,

Liv. 7, 25, 11:

maritus,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 5:

vestis,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 26:

anser erat,

Ov. M. 8, 684:

orbis,

id. ib. 13, 853:

ancillula,

App. M. 1, p. 112, 6.—Strengthened by unus:

qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit,

Cat. 73, 6:

idque unum et prae omnibus unicum effice,

App. M. 4, p. 156, 32.—By solus:

quamlubet esto Unica res quaedam nativo corpore sola,

Lucr. 2, 542:

unica solaque res,

id. 2, 1078.—

In partic., of abstract subjects:

spes unica imperii populi Romani, L. Quinctius,

Liv. 3, 26, 8:

unicum doloris levamentum studia,

Plin. Ep. 8, 19, 1:

satis tutum praesidium, quod unicum est,

Cels. 7, 33:

unicum afflictae mihi solamen hoc est,

Sen. Troad. 703; id. Phoen. 89.—

Trop., of nature, character, or quality, alone of its kind, singular, uncommon, unparalleled, unique (cf.: egregius, eminens): homo unica est natura ac singularia, Turp. ap. Non. 491, 3:

quis tam... ingenio unico? Afran. ap. Fest. s. v. sagaces, p. 321 Müll.: eximius imperator, unicus dux,

Liv. 7, 12, 13; so,

imperator,

id. 6, 6, 17:

vir unicus in omni fortunā,

id. 7, 1, 9:

juvenis,

id. 8, 32, 13:

dictator,

id. 22, 14, 9:

spectator caeli siderumque (Archimedes),

id. 24, 34, 2:

ultor Romanae ignominiae,

id. 9, 15, 10:

puer,

Ov. M. 3, 454:

volucris,

id. ib. 8, 239; cf. id. ib. 12, 531:

liberalitas,

Cic. Quint. 12, 41:

fides,

Liv. 33, 21, 4:

spes,

Quint. 6, praef. §

2: mors,

Luc. 4. 509:

concordia,

Liv. 3, 33, 8:

exemplum,

id. 1, 21, 21:

nam tu poëta es prorsus ad eam rem unicus,

singularly fit, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 3:

tibi ille unicu'st, mihi etiam unico magis unicus,

more than an orly one, more than a darling, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 47; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 3.—

Esp., in a bad sense, singularly bad, detestable (rare):

unica malitia atque nequitia,

Auct. Her. 3, 6, 11:

scelus,

Vell. 2, 7, 2: luxuria, Fest. s. v. Sardanapalus, p. 322 Müll.—Hence, adv.: ūnĭcē, alone, solely, singularly, especially, in an extraordinary degree:

aliquem unice diligere,

Cic. Or. 1, 1:

eximie et unice delectare,

Gell. 11, 13, 4:

eo ornamento P.Vergilius unice est usus,

Quint. 8, 3, 24:

cujus amator unice Vergilius fuit,

id. 9, 3, 14:

quid Tiridaten terreat, unice Securus,

i. e. utterly regardless, Hor. C. 1, 26, 5:

mammarum vitiis aizoum unice medetur,

Plin. 26, 15, 92, § 163.—In Plaut. with unus:

me unice unum ex omnibus te atque illam amare aiebas mihi,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 56:

immo unice unum plurimi pendit,

id. Bacch. 2, 2, 29; id. Stich. 1, 1, 12; id. Truc. 1, 2, 91.

urbānĭtas, ātis, f. [id.], a living in a city, city life.

Lit.:

desideria urbis et urbanitatis,

Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1:

in urbis urbanitatisque desiderio,

id. ib. 7, 17, 1.—

Transf., city fashion, city manners, both in a good and in a bad sense.

In a good sense.

Refinement, elegance of manner, politeness, courtesy, affability, urbanity:

addo urbanitatem, quae est virtus, ut Stoici rectissime putant,

Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 5.—

Refinement, delicacy, or elegance of speech:

urbanitate quādam quasi colorata oratio,

Cic. Brut. 46, 170; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 17 (opp. rusticitas); 6, 3, 103 sq.—

In partic., wit, humor, pleasantry, raillery: contumelia si petulantius jactatur, convicium;

si facetius, urbanitas nominatur,

Cic. Cael. 3, 6:

in quantam hominum facetorum urbanitatem incurratis, non dico,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 103:

ut aliquando subtilitatem veteris urbanitatis et humanissimi sermonis attingerem,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 2:

vides exaruisse jam veterem urbanitatem,

id. Fam. 7, 31, 2:

mancipiorum urbanitas in dominos contumeliosa,

Sen. Const. 11, 3:

in jocis,

Quint. 2, 5, 8:

oratoria,

id. 6, 3, 14:

risus si aptus est, urbanitatis nomen adsequitur,

id. 8, 6, 74; 10, 1, 115.—

In a bad sense, trickery, roguery, knavery:

incuriosos milites (vernaculā utebantur urbanitate) quidam spoliavere,

Tac. H. 2, 88; so,

vernula,

Petr. 24.

urbānus, a, um, adj. [urbs], of or belonging to the city or town, city-, town- (opp. rusticus; cf.: urbicus, oppidanus).

Lit.

Adj.:

nostri majores non sine causā praeponebant rusticos Romanos urbanis,

Varr. R. R. 2, praef. §

1: rustica et urbana vita,

id. ib. 3, 1, 1:

vita (opp. rustica),

Quint. 2, 4, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 17:

urbani assidui cives, quos scurras vocant,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 165:

scurra,

id. Most. 1, 1, 14:

leges,

id. Rud. 4, 3, 85:

tribus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

praetor,

Caes. B. C. 3, 20:

plebes,

Sall. C. 37, 4:

servitia,

id. ib. 24, 4:

exercitus,

Liv. 27, 3, 9:

administratio rei publicae (opp. provincialis),

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15, § 43:

res,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 13; Caes. B. G. 7, 6:

motus,

id. ib. 7, 1:

luxus,

Tac. A. 2, 44: praedia, land and houses, all land covered by buildings (v. praedium), Dig. 50, 16, 198; 8, 1, 1; cf. ib. 8, tit. 2:

fundus,

Cato, R. R. 8, 2:

rus,

Just. 31, 2:

cohortes,

Dig. 25, 1, 8, § 9.—

Subst.: urbā-nus, i, m., an inhabitant of a city, a city man, citizen:

urbani fiunt rustici,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 15 sq.:

omnes urbani, rustici,

Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 77:

sermo omnis non modo urbanorum, sed etiam rusticorum,

id. Or. 24, 81:

otiosi,

Liv. 5, 20, 6:

obrepere urbanis,

Plin. Ep. 9, 20, 2.—

Esp., devoted to the city, fond of city life:

diligere secessum, quem tu nimis urbanus es, nisi concupiscis,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 29.—

Transf., in the city fashion, in the city style, citizenlike, both in a good and a bad sense.

In a good sense.

Polished, refined, cultivated, courteous, affable, urbane (syn.:

comis, humanus): hominem non solum sapientem, verum etiam, ut nunc loquimur urbanum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 3; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 34 sq.; so Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 17.—

Transf., of plants, improved, cultivated, ornamental: sunt arborum quaedam urbaniores, quas his placet nominibus distinguere. Hae mites, quae fructu atque aliqua dote umbrarumve officio humaniusjuvant, non improbe dicantur urbanae. Plin. 16, 19, 32, § 78:

acanthi topiariae et urbanae herbae,

id. 22, 22, 34, § 76.—

Of speech.

In gen., refined, polished, elegant. nice, choice:

in vocibus nostrorum oratorum recinit quiddam et resonat urbanius,

Cic. Brut. 46, 171:

genus dicendi,

Quint. 2, 8, 4:

os facile, explanatum, jucundum, urbanum, id est, in quo nulla neque rusticitas neque peregrinitas resonet,

id. 11, 3, 30:

distinctior et urbanior et altior Cicero,

Tac. Or. 18.—

In [p. 1935] partic., of wit, witty, humorous, facetious: urbanus homo erit, cujus multa bene dicta responsaque erunt: et qui in sermonibus, circulis, conviviis, item in contionibus, omni denique loco ridicule commodeque dicet, Domit. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 105:

dictum per se urbanum,

id. 6, 3, 54:

circumfertur Marcii Philippi velut urbanissimum factum atque dictum,

Col. 8, 16, 3:

qui est in isto genere urbanissimus,

Cic. Cael. 15, 36:

Romani veteres atque urbani sales,

id. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

homines lauti et urbani,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 17:

hic tibi comis et urbanus liberque videtur,

witty, clever, Hor. S. 1, 4, 90:

urbanus coepit haberi,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 27:

in senatu dicax et urbanus et bellus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 25, 3:

urbanos qui illa censuerunt dicam an miseros? Dicerem urbanos, si senatum deceret urbanitas,

id. ib. 8, 6, 3.—

In a bad sense, bold, forward, impudent:

frontis ad urbanae descendi praemia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 11:

audacia,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.— Adv.: urbānē (acc. to II. A.).

Courteously, civilly, affably, politely, urbanely:

severe et graviter et prisce agere, an remisse ac leniter et urbane,

Cic. Cael. 14, 33:

urbanius agere,

id. ib. 15, 36: urbanissime et prudentissime adjuvit, Treb. Gallien. 14.—More freq.,

Of speech, wittily, acutely, elegantly, happily:

aliquem facete et urbane ridere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 39:

bene et urbane dicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 42; 5, 7, 26; 6, 1, 46 al.:

interrogare,

id. 11, 3, 126:

emendare,

id. 8, 3, 54:

urbanius elabi,

id. 2, 11, 2:

urbanissime respondere,

Gell. 15, 5, 3.

vălētūdo ( vălītūdo), ĭnis, f. [valeo], habit, state, or condition of body, state of health, health, whether good or bad.

Lit.

In gen.:

optimā valetudine uti,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

valetudine minus commodā uti,

id. ib. 3, 62:

integra,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47:

bona,

Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3:

melior,

Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120:

commodior,

Quint. 6, 3, 77:

incommoda,

Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1:

infirma atque etiam aegra,

id. Brut. 48, 180:

quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

id. Sen. 11, 35:

adversa,

Just. 41, 6:

dura,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 88:

confirmata,

Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265:

ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46:

multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.— Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—

In partic.

A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.:

salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10:

valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86:

melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram,

id. Fam. 9, 18, 3:

id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est,

Col. 7, 22:

hoc cibo... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri,

Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42; cf.:

Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa,

Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—

A bad state or condition, ill health, sickness, feebleness, infirmity, indisposition (syn.:

infirmitas, imbecillitas): curatio valetudinis,

Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123:

gravitas valetudinis, quā tamen jam paulum videor levari,

id. Fam. 6, 2, 1:

affectus valetudine,

Caes. B. C. 1, 31:

gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,

id. ib. 3, 2:

quodam valetudinis genere tentari,

Cic. Att. 11, 23, 1:

quod me propter valetudinem tuam... non vidisses,

id. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

quod his Nonis in collegio nostro non affuisses, valetudinem causam, non maestitiam fuisse,

id. Lael. 2, 8:

excusatione te uti valetudinis,

id. Pis. 6, 13:

quibus (latere, voce) fractis aut imminutis aetate seu valetudine,

Quint. 12, 11, 2:

medicus quid in quoque valetudinis genere faciendum sit, docebit,

id. 7, 10, 10:

Blaesus novissimā valetudine conflictabatur,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7:

major, i. e. morbus comitialis,

Just. 13, 2:

oculorum,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6:

calculorum,

Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.— Plur.:

medicus regere valetudines principis solitus,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

valetudinibus fessi,

id. H. 3, 2:

quod ad febrium valitudines attinet,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 48:

graves et periculosas valetudines experiri,

Suet. Aug. 81; id. Tib. 11; Vitr. 1, 4.—

Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity:

ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80:

roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis,

Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.:

valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit,

unsound state of mind, mental infirmity, Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi:

qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.—

Of style:

quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64. —

Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, § 55.

vălētūdo ( vălītūdo), ĭnis, f. [valeo], habit, state, or condition of body, state of health, health, whether good or bad.

Lit.

In gen.:

optimā valetudine uti,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

valetudine minus commodā uti,

id. ib. 3, 62:

integra,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47:

bona,

Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3:

melior,

Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120:

commodior,

Quint. 6, 3, 77:

incommoda,

Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1:

infirma atque etiam aegra,

id. Brut. 48, 180:

quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

id. Sen. 11, 35:

adversa,

Just. 41, 6:

dura,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 88:

confirmata,

Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265:

ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46:

multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.— Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—

In partic.

A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.:

salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10:

valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86:

melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram,

id. Fam. 9, 18, 3:

id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est,

Col. 7, 22:

hoc cibo... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri,

Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42; cf.:

Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa,

Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—

A bad state or condition, ill health, sickness, feebleness, infirmity, indisposition (syn.:

infirmitas, imbecillitas): curatio valetudinis,

Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123:

gravitas valetudinis, quā tamen jam paulum videor levari,

id. Fam. 6, 2, 1:

affectus valetudine,

Caes. B. C. 1, 31:

gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,

id. ib. 3, 2:

quodam valetudinis genere tentari,

Cic. Att. 11, 23, 1:

quod me propter valetudinem tuam... non vidisses,

id. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

quod his Nonis in collegio nostro non affuisses, valetudinem causam, non maestitiam fuisse,

id. Lael. 2, 8:

excusatione te uti valetudinis,

id. Pis. 6, 13:

quibus (latere, voce) fractis aut imminutis aetate seu valetudine,

Quint. 12, 11, 2:

medicus quid in quoque valetudinis genere faciendum sit, docebit,

id. 7, 10, 10:

Blaesus novissimā valetudine conflictabatur,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7:

major, i. e. morbus comitialis,

Just. 13, 2:

oculorum,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6:

calculorum,

Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.— Plur.:

medicus regere valetudines principis solitus,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

valetudinibus fessi,

id. H. 3, 2:

quod ad febrium valitudines attinet,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 48:

graves et periculosas valetudines experiri,

Suet. Aug. 81; id. Tib. 11; Vitr. 1, 4.—

Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity:

ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80:

roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis,

Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.:

valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit,

unsound state of mind, mental infirmity, Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi:

qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.—

Of style:

quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64. —

Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, § 55.

vĕnēnum, i, n., orig., like pharmakon, any thing, esp. any liquid substance, that powerfully affects or changes the condition of the body, a potion, juice, drug (cf. virus).

In gen.: qui venenum dicit, adicere debet, utrum malum an bonum; nam et medicamenta venena sunt: quia eo nomine omne continetur, quod adhibitum naturam ejus, cui adhibitum esset, mutat. Cum id quod nos venenum appellamus, Graeci pharmakon dicunt, apud illos quoque tam medicamenta, quam quae nocent hoc nomine continentur, etc., Dig. 50, 16, 236; cf. ib. 48, 8, 3.—Obsolete, however, in this general signif.: qui venenum malum fecit fecerit, an old legal formula in Cic. Clu. 54, 148:

avaritia pecuniae studium habet: ea quasi venenis malis imbuta corpus animum que virilem effeminat,

Sall. C. 11, 3.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, like pharmakon (freq. and class.).

A potion that destroys life, poison, venom (cf. toxicum).

Lit.:

ipsius veneni quae ratio fingitur? ubi quaesitum est? quem ad modum paratum? cui, quo in loco traditum?

Cic. Cael. 24, 58; 21, 51; id. Clu. 60, 165; 61, 169; id. Phil. 11, 6, 13; id. N. D. 3, 33, 81; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96:

nobis veratrum est acre venenum,

Lucr. 4, 638; Verg. A. 4, 514; Hor. C. 1, 37, 28; id. Epod. 3, 5; 5, 22; id. S. 2, 3, 131:

dare,

Liv. 40, 24, 5.—

Trop., mischief, evil, destruction (rare, and not in Cic.):

discordia ordinum est venenum urbis hujus,

Liv. 3, 67, 6: regis Rupili pus atque venenum, i e. [p. 1968] virulence, Hor. S. 1, 7, 1.—Of bad poems, Cat. 44, 12; 77, 5; cf.:

humili veneno laedere aliquem,

Stat. Th. 1, 171:

venena linguarum, Treb. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 30: lingua est suffusa veneno,

Ov. M. 2, 777.—

Lit., a magical potion, charm:

item ut Medea Peliam concoxit senem: Quem medicamento et suis venenis dicitur Fecisse rursus ex sene adulescentulum,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 81:

dira Medeae,

Hor. Epod. 5, 62:

Colcha,

id. C. 2, 13, 8:

Colchica,

id. Epod. 17, 35; Cic. Or. 37, 129; Hor. C. 1, 27, 22; id. Epod. 5, 22; 5, 87; id. S. 1, 8, 19; 2, 1, 48; Ov. M. 7, 209; 14, 55; 14, 403:

qui quodam quasi veneno perficiat, ut veros heredes moveat,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 76:

id quod amatorium appellatur, venenum est,

Dig. 48, 8, 3.—

Trop., charm, seduction: aetas et corpus tenerum et morigeratio, Haec sunt venena formosarum mulierum, Afran. ap. Non. 2, 7:

intactos isto satius tentare veneno (i. e. amore),

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 19:

blandum,

Sil. 7, 453; 11, 309:

occultum inspires ignem fallasque veneno (i. e. amoris),

Verg. A. 1, 688.—

In a good sense.

A coloring material, a color, dye, paint ( poet.):

alba nec Assyrio fucatur lana veneno,

Verg. G. 2, 465; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 207; Ov. R. Am. 351.—

A drug used in embalming, Luc. 8, 691.