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a-perio, peruī, pertum, īre ( aus *ap-verio, vgl. litauisch àt-veriu, ›öffne, mache auf‹, altind. apavrnōti, ›deckt auf, öffnet‹), zum Vorschein bringen, bloß-, offen machen (Ggstz. operire), I) Verdecktes, Verhülltes sichtbar machen, sehen lassen, aufdecken, entblößen, bloßlegen (Ggstz. operire, tegere, contegere), a) eig.: aperit ramum, qui veste latebat, Verg.: unda dehiscens aperit terram, läßt den Grund sehen, Verg. – Körperteile, durch Enthüllung, corporis partes quasdam, Cic.: caput (auch als Höflichkeitsbezeigung gegen höhere Magistrate), Cic. u.a.: u. caput alci (vor jmd.), Sall. fr.: u. capita aspectu magistratuum, Plin.: aperto pectore, Ov.: apertae pectora matres, die Brust entblößt, Ov. – durch Nebel, Nacht usw. Verhülltes, dispulsa sole nebula aperuit diem, Liv.: liquidior lux aperit hostem, Curt. – u. so refl. se aperire u. medial aperiri, sichtbar werden, sich sehen lassen, zum Vorschein kommen, v. Gestirnen, v. Örtl., die uns näher treten u. dgl. (Ggstz. delitescere, occultari), Cic. – b) übtr., gleichs. Verhülltes, Verborgenes, Unbekanntes an das Licht bringen, -ziehen, an den Tag geben, -bringen, offenbaren, enthüllen (dah. auch verraten), eröffnen, darlegen (Ggstz. occulere, occultare, tegere), α) m. Acc.: istaec tua flagitia, Plaut.: occulta quaedam et quasi involuta, Cic.: involutae rei notitiam definiendo, Cic.: sententiam

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suam, Cic.: dissidentes suos sensus, Nep.: frontes hominum (Ggstz. tegere mentes), Cic.: errorem, Liv.: causam consilii sui, Sall.: consilium suum, Sall.: coniurationem, Sall.: rem omnem, Sall.: omnia, Liv.: futura, Verg.: casus futuros, Ov.: utriusque naturam et mores, Sall.: socios sceleris, Sall.: lux deinde aperuit bellum ducemque belli, gab Aufschluß über usw., Liv.: quo pacto hoc occipiam (accipiam!), aperi, *Plaut. mil. 1025 Br. – refl. se aperire u. medial aperiri, v. Pers., sich (seine wahre Gesinnung) offenbaren u. sich (wer man ist) verraten, coacti necessario se aperiunt, zeigen sich in ihrem wahren Lichte, Ter.: tum sumus incauti studioque aperimur in ipso, Ov. – u. ap. alqm, jmd. aufspüren, nec uspiam ruris aperitur ille, Apul. met. 7, 26. – v. Lebl., exspectandum (putabant), dum se ipsa res aperiret, an den Tag käme, Nep. Paus. 3, 7. – β) m. de u. Abl.: deinceps de insinuatione aperiendum est, Cornif. rhet. 1, 9; vgl. ibid. 2, 50. – γ) m. folg. Acc. u. Infin.: se non fortunae, sed hominibus solere esse amicum, Nep. – v. Lebl., cum et concitatio remorum directaeque in se prorae hostes appropinquare aperuissent, Liv. – δ) m. folg. indirekt. Fragesatz: aperio, qui sim, Nep.; vgl. memet ipse aperio, quis sim, Liv.: aperio, quid sentiam, Nep.

II) Verschlossenes, Besetztes sichtbar u. offen u. dah. auch zugänglich machen, öffnen, eröffnen, er-

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schließen, aufmachen, aufbrechen (Ggstz. operire, claudere), a) eig.: α) durch Wegziehen eines Vorhangs, einer Verhüllung, Decke, ostium, fores, Ter. u.a. (u. im Bilde quā commendatione quasi amicitiae fores aperiuntur, Cic.): ianuam, Ov. (vgl. unten no. δ, αα): portam, Caes.: domum, Catull.: tabernas, Liv.: fenestram, Cels. (u. im Bilde hanc fenestram, diesen Weg einschlagen, Suet.): aerarium, Caes. (u. im Bilde nec ita claudenda est res familiaris, ut eam benignitas aperire non possit, Cic.): carceres (in der Rennbahn), Varr.: eas arcas (Särge), Liv.: sepulcrum, Curt.: patinas, Plaut.: vas, Cato: florem, v. Gewächsen, Plin.: os (Mund), Scrib.: fauces, Quint.: oculos, pupulas, Cic.: u. (sprichw.) alci oculos aperire, ut volgo dicitur, M. Caes. b. Fronto ad M. Caes. ep. 3, 18. p. 56, 13 N.: apertas aures praebe ad nomen memoriamque filii tui, Sen. ad Marc. 5, 2. – refl., se aperire, sich öffnen, aufgehen, in templo Herculis valvae clausae repagulis subito se ipsae aperuerunt, Cic.: patris sepulchrum diruptis ianuis se aperuit, Vopisc.: flos numquam se aperit nisi vento spirante, Plin. – β) durch Abnahme eines Bandes, Siegels usw. öffnen, erbrechen, fasciculum litterarum, epistulam, litteras, Cic.: testamentum, Suet. – γ) durch Hauen, Schneiden, Graben, Stechen, Brennen usw. etw. öffnen, bloßlegen, αα) in etwas eine Öffnung machen, parietem, durchbrechen, ICt.: murum ab imo ad summum crebris cubita-

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libus fere cavis, Liv. – bes. als mediz. t. t., sowohl v. Arzte, cutem, Cels.: cutem latius, Cels.: vulnus latius, Cels.: pustulas acu, Cels.: locum candenti ferro, Cels. – als v. Heilmitteln, omnes vomicas celerius, Scrib.: strumas, Scrib. – u. Passiv aperiri medial = sich öffnen, aufgehen, v. Geschwüren usw., donec ea suppurent et per se aperiantur, Cels.: ubi vel per se vel per medicamenta vel etiam ferro aperta est suppuratio, Cels. – ββ) eine Örtlichkeit öffnen, eröffnen = zugänglich machen, saltum caedendo, Curt.: u. bl. saltum, Liv. – δ) prägn.: αα) eröffnen, = eine Öffnung, einen Durchgang, eine Mündung usw. bilden, sowohl durch Graben, aufgraben, graben, bloßlegen, locum, Cic.: fundamenta templi, Liv.: cavernas, Ov.: viam rectam in cuniculum, Liv.: ianuam in publico, nach der Straße zu durchbrechen, ICt.: puteum, graben, ICt. – als auch durch andere Mittel, iter ferro, mit dem Schwerte einen Weg durch die Reihen der Feinde, Sall. (u. im Bilde ap. viam potentiae, Vell.). – v. Lebl., ventus aperuit incendio viam, Liv.: mare quoque novum in Pamphyliam iter aperuerat, Curt.: aperit os aliud amnis, Curt. – ββ) eröffnen = einen Ausgang, Ausfluß verschaffen, fließen machen, fontium lacus, Varr. fr.: fontes maximos, penitus absconditos, Cornif. rhet. (u. im Bilde fontes philosophiae, eloquentiae, Cic. u. Quint.): novas venas (aquarum), ICt. – u. als mediz. t. t., cataplasmatibus

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efficere, ut per se pus aperiatur, Cels. – b) übtr.: α) gleichs. Verschlossenes, Unzugängliches eröffnen, erschließen, zugänglich machen, αα) bisher unzugängliche Länder, Völker usw. dem Zutritt, dem Verkehr, der Eroberung usw., Pontum, Cic.: Britanniam tam diu clausam Mela; vgl. quod pace omnis Italia erat aperta, dem freien Verkehr geöffnet war, Liv.: u. ver aperit navigantibus maria, Plin. – incognitum famae orbem terrarum armis, Liv.: reges et gentes, Tac.: Asiam regi, Curt.: mors alcis aperit Syriam, die sichere Rückkehr nach S., Tac. – ββ) bisher nicht erreichbare Zustände usw., toreuticen, anbahnen, Plin.: alci pristinae vitae consuetudinem interclusam, Cic.: alci reditum ad suos, Cic. – occasionem, Liv.: occasionem ad invadendum (v. einem Umstande), Liv.: insidiantibus casum, eine Gelegenheit, eine Blöße geben, Tac.: u. ebenso locum suspicioni aut crimini, Cic. – γγ) eine gleichs. bisher verschlossene Zeit eröffnen, ap. annum, das Jahreröffnen, erschließen, poet. v. Sternbilde Stier (weil beim Eintritt der Sonne in den Stier für den Landmann das neue Jahr begann), Verg. georg. 1, 217; u. zur Kaiserzeit von denen, die zur Benennung des Jahres das Konsulat für den ersten Januar übernahmen, Plin. pan. 58, 4. Stat. silv. 4, 1, 2. – alci vacuos honoris menses, jmdm. freie Monate der Ehre eröffnen, d.i. für jmd. M. offen machen, in denen er als Konsul

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eintreten kann, Tac. ann. 2, 72. – β) eine Anstalt eröffnen, d.i. allgemeiner Benutzung zugänglich machen, ludum (eine Schule), Cic.: u. so ludum dicendi, Suet.: scholam, Suet.: u. locum... asylum (einen Ort als As.), Liv. – γ) eine Geldsumme jmdm. eroffnen = jmdm. zur freien Verfügung stellen, quod DCCC (800000 Sesterze) aperuisti, Cic. ad Att. 5, 1, 2. – ⇒ Archaist. Imperf. aperibat, Ven. Fort. 5, 5, 100: Fut. aperibo, Plaut. truc. 763 ( aber Pompon. com. 173 liest Ribbeck nach Fleckeisens Vermutung a peribo).

com-perio, perī, pertum, īre (vgl. peritus, periculum u. reperio, experior), einer Sache od. Person von allen Seiten beikommen, a) einer Sache = etwas durch Sehen, Hören, Erkundigen usw. genau inne werden, deutlich ersehen, etwas genau, sicher erfahren, in Erfahrung bringen, von etwas sichere Nachricht erhalten (Ggstz. audire, bloß hören), bei Ang. von wem? oder woraus? m. ab oder ex u. Abl.; bei Ang. durch wen? m. per u. Akk., od. m. bl. Abl., α) m. Acc.: hoc, id, Nep.: haec omnia, Cic.: facinus, Caes.: indicia mortis comperisse manifesto et manu tenere, Cic.: haec certis nuntiis, certis auctoribus comperisse, Cic.: nihil testibus, nihil tabulis, nihil gravi aliquo argumento comperisse, Cic.: rem gestam c. ab alqo, Nep.: quod ex multis audivi et comperi, Cic.: huic ille quid ex litteris comperisset aperit, Nep. – im Pass., im Abl. absol., hāc re compertā manifestoque deprehensā, Cic.: u. hoc mulierum errore comperto, Curt. – u. sonst im Partic. Perf., deutsch oft = gewiß, zuverlässig, exponam vobis Oppianici facinus manifesto compertum atque deprehensum, Cic.: levem auditionem pro re comperta habere, Caes.: non ego haec incertis iactata rumoribus affero, sed comperta et explorata, Liv.: ea quoque, quae vulgata sermonibus de cultu ac desidia imperatoris, comperta oculis referrent Romam, Liv. – u. alqd compertum habere, zB. cum ea

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dicimus quae comperta habemus, quae vidimus, Cic.: id. se ab ipsis per eorum nuntios compertum habere, Caes. – u. alqd alci compertum est, parum compertum est, zB. quae postquam Metello comperta sunt, Sall.: nobis ea res pro magnitudine rerum parum comperta est, Sall.: quae praesentis Deae numine saepe comperta nobis maioribusque nostris referebantur, Liv. – u. neutr. subst., compertum narrare, Sall.: comperta narrare, Curt.: comperta nuntiare, Tac.: res enim indicat nihil ipsos habuisse comperti, nihil cogniti, Cic.: pro comperto polliceri m. folg. Akk. u. Infin., Suet.: u. pro comperto est m. folg. Akk. u. Infin., Curt. – m. dopp. Acc., im Passiv m. dopp. Nom., a quo cum quaereret Pyrrhus, qualem Romam comperisset (gefunden hätte), Eutr. 2, 12: omnia falsa atque insidiose ficta comperta sunt, Cic. Mil. 67. – β) m. Acc. u. Infin. od. m. bl. Infin., quae ego cuncta esse fluxa in mea re crepera comperi, Acc. fr.: posteaquam comperit eum posse vivere, Cic.: ubi certis auctoribus comperit minus V et XX milibus longe ab Utica eius copias abesse, Caes.: ex captivo comperit Correum milia sex peditum delegisse, Caes.: postquam per Ubios exploratores comperit Suebos sese in silvas recepisse, Caes.: hanc gentem Clusium Romamque inde venisse comperio, Liv. – Pass., compertum est, zB. tum demum periculo atque negotiis compertum est in bello plurimum ingenium posse, Sall.: mox compertum a

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transfugis nongentos Romanorum pugnā in posterum extractā confectos, Tac.: Didymo accidisse compertum est, ut etc., Quint. – u. compertum habeo, zB. compertum ego habeo verba virtutem non addere, Sall.: certis indiciis compertum se habere nocte totā coetus in urbe factos esse, Liv. – u. Abl. absol. comperto, nachdem man genau erfahren, satis comperto Eordaeam petituros Romanos, Liv.: comperto Plautum et Sullam maxime timeri, Tac. – γ) m. folg. indir. Fragesatz, id misericordiāne hospitis an pactione aut casu ita evenerit, parum comperimus, Sall.: an ab ipso id genus exercitationis sit inventum, parum comperi, Quint. – u. compertum habere, zB. interrogatus a rege auditune an oculis comperta haberet, quae diceret, Liv.: quae se absente acta essent, se quoque famā comperta habere, Liv. – u. Abl. absol. conperto, nachdem man genau erfahren, nondum conperto, quam regionem hostes petissent, Liv. 31, 39, 4: nondum conperto, quam in regionem venisset, Liv. 33, 5, 4. – δ) m. bl. Ang. in betreff wessen? (worüber?) durch de mit Abl., de amore hoc, Ter.: de scelere filii, Nep.: de rebus Vagae actis, Sall.: nihil de hoc comperi, nihil suspicatus sum, nihil audivi, Cic. – ε) ganz absol., mit aus dem Zshg. zu ergänzender Ang. was?, zB. qui comperisti? Cic.: atqui certo comperi, Ter.: ubi comperi ex iis, qui fuere ei conscii, Ter.: ut postea ex captivis comperit, Caes. – u. im Pass., si

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compertum est, wenn die Sache ergründet ist, Caes. b. G. 6, 19, 3: desinant ultra opinari mihique, qui compertum habeo, credant, Caes. bei Suet. Caes. 66. – b) einer Pers., nur im Partic. compertus, α) = überführt, mit Genet. (wessen?) (vgl. Fabri Liv. 22, 57, 2. Nipperd. u. Otto Tac. ann. 1, 3. Benecke Iustin. 11, 11, 5), incesti, Varr. fr. bei Prisc. 8, 18 (Varr. fr. p. 337 B.): sacrilegii, Liv.: stupri, Liv. u. Iustin.: nullius probri, Liv.: nullius flagitii, Tac.: noxae, Apul. met. 10, 8. – m. in (bei) u. Abl., uxor in stupro generi comperta, Suet. Tib. 35, 1. – mit Nom. u. Infin., compertus publicam pecuniam avertisse, Tac. hist. 1, 53. – β) = fleischlich erkannt, Bersaben quandam stupro compertam habuit, Sulp. Sev. chron. 1, 38, 1. ⇒ Perf. comperii, Diom. 372, 6: comperui, Gloss. IV, 320, 3.

ex-perio, s. experior ⇒.

per-eo, iī (selten īvī), itūrus, īre, ganz weggehen, verloren gehen, sich verlieren, verschwinden, I) im allg.: a) v. Pers.: e patria, Plaut.: ecqua inde perisset soror, Ter. – b) v. Lebl.: pereunt imbres, Lucr.: pereunt victae sole tepente nives, schmilzt, Ov.: u. so perit nix in ferculo, Plin. ep.: dolium lymphae pereuntis, schwindenden, Hor.: ne fecundae vena periret aquae, Ov. – v. Abstr., secretum inter nos periturum, das Geheimnis werde unter uns sich verlieren, unter uns bleiben, Petron.: ebenso fatum, Petron. II) prägn., verloren gehen = umkommen, untergehen, zugrunde gehen, A) eig., a) v. Pers., umkommen, ums Leben kommen, sterben, α) im Kampfe von Feindes Hand, foede, praeclare, Cic.: fortiter, Sen. rhet.: dispersos perituros, Nep. – ab Hannibale, Plin. 11, 189: und im Schachspiele, fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus, laß deinen Bauer schlagen, Ov. art. am. 2, 208. – β) durch Schiffbruch, Krankheit usw., naufragio, Cic.: morbo, Hirt. b. Alex. u. Suet., u. a morbo, Nep.: vulnere, Cic.: ex vulnere, Suet.: ex vulneribus, Liv.: summo cruciatu supplicioque, Cic. – absol., Cic.: si pertulisset (epistulam), sibi esse pereundum, sei verloren, ein Kind des Todes, Nep. – γ) durch Selbstmord, eodem sibi leto, quo ipse interiisset, esse pereundum, Cic.: fame p., Cic.: liceat perire poëtis, Hor.: ut periturus, Tac. – δ) durch Henkers-

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schwert, ferro poenali, Amm. 28, 1, 5. b) v. Lebl.: pereunda puppis est probe, muß untergehen, Plaut.: quin aedes cum fundamento perierint, Plaut.: urbes pereunt funditus, Hor.: peritura regna, Verg.: tantam pecuniam tam brevi perire potuisse, Null für Null aufgehen, Cic.: qui patriam pro se perire censent, Liv. – B) übtr.: 1) vor Liebe vergehen, sterblich verliebt sein, amore, Verg.: nudā Lacaenā, Prop. – m. Acc., alteram efflictim perit, liebt zum Sterben, Plaut. – 2) politisch od. bürgerlich untergehen, zugrunde gehen, fertig werden, meo vitio pereo, Cic.: Moeragenes certe periit, Cic.: peristis (ihr seid des Todes), nisi etc., Plaut.: quod si fit, pereo funditus, Ter. – dah. der Ausdruck der Verzweiflung und Klage: pereo od. perii, ich bin verloren! ich bin des Todes! o jerum! o jemine! alle Wetter! perii, Plaut. u. Ter.: pereo probe, Plaut.: pereo od. perii miser (misera), Plaut.: perii plane, planissume, Plaut.: prorsus perii, Plaut.: verb. interii, perii, Plaut.: perii, interii, occĭdi, Plaut.: u. so periimus, actum est, o jemine, es ist um uns geschehen! Ter. – und als Beteuerung: peream, si, nisi, ni, ich will des Todes sein, wenn, wenn nicht usw., m. si, Ov., m. nisi, Cass. (b. Cic.) u.a., m. ni, Varro. – 3) v. Lebl., verloren gehen, a) übh. v. dem, was ohne Erfolg, ohne Nutzen bleibt, opera et impensa periit, Auct. b. Macr.: ne oleum et opera philologiae nostrae perierit, Cic.: dum languet

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libertus, patrono operae pereunt, ICt.: omne discrimen perit, Sen. – u. v. der Zeit, die unbenutzt verstreicht, nullus perit otio dies, Plin.: ne quis, cum in urbem rediero, contubernio nostro dies pereat, Plin. ep.: qui dies interea cesserint, patrono perire, ICt.: si auxilii perierunt tempora primi, Ov. – b) als jurist. t. t., verloren gehen, erlöschen, quia multis actiones et res (Klagerecht und Anspruch) peribant, Liv. 39, 18, 1: perit lis, causa, ICt.: perit legatum, ICt.: perit privilegium, ICt. – ⇒ Imperf. peribat, Plaut. Bacch. 469. Verg. Aen. 4, 696: peribant, Cic. Verr. 5, 116: Perf. perivit, Apul. met. 4, 21. – Synk. Perf. peristi, Prop. 2, 33, 31: perit, Lucr. 4, 769. Stat. Theb. 10, 323. Iuven. 8, 85. Spart. Hadr. 23, 16 Peter. Lact. 3, 20, 17: perissent, Lact. 3, 23, 14: perisse, Ov. am. 2, 19, 56. Liv. 1, 49, 1 u.a. Plin. ep. 2, 14, 12. – Fut. periet, Vulg. Sirach 23, 7. Orest. trag. 169: perient, Coripp. Ioann. 7, 27. – vulg. Nbf. perio, wovon periat, Corp. inscr. Lat. 4, 1173 u. 1839. Vgl. übh. Georges Lexik. der lat. Wortf. S. 508 u. 509.

re-perio, repperī, repertum, īre (re u. per -io; vgl. comperio u.a.), wiederfinden, auffinden, finden, antreffen, I) eig.: parentes suos, Ter.: mortui sunt reperti, Cic. – II) übtr.: 1) übh.: a) ausfindig machen, ermitteln, entdecken, wahrnehmen, erfahren, sehen, causas duas, Cic.: verum, Ter.: quibus (armis) quemadmodum salutariter uterentur, non reperiebant, Cic.: neque reperire poterat, quanta esset etc., erfahren, Caes. – m. dopp. Acc., alqm fidelem r. amatorem, Plaut.: transgressos r. consules, Vell.: alqm percussorem cum ferro, als Mörder ertappen, Tac.: im Passiv m. dopp. Nom. = erfunden od. gefunden werden = erscheinen, sich zeigen, ni grato ingratus repertus est, Plaut.: Stoici... inopes reperiuntur, Cic.: improbissimus reperiebare, Cic.: mea ratio in tota amicitia nostra constans et gravis reperietur, Cic. – mit Acc. u. Infin. = historisch berichtet finden, quem Tarentum venisse L. Camillo Appio Claudio consulibus reperio, Cic.: im Passiv m. Nom. u. Infin., quartum annum regnante L. Tarquinio Superbo in eas Italiae partes Pythagoras venisse reperitur, Cic. de rep. 2, 28. – b) finden, erlangen, sich erwerben, rem et gloriam, Ter. sibi salutem, Caes., nomen, Plaut.: v. Lebl., nomen ex inventore, Cic. – 2) etw. Neues ausfindig machen, erfinden, erdenken, ersinnen, aliquid callidi consilii, Plaut.: nihil novi, Cic.: viam, quā

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etc., Cic.: causam, Ter.: m. folg. Infin., Plin. – Partiz. subst., repertum, ī, n., die Erfindung, Lucr. 1, 732 u.a. Auct. de pond. 15. – ⇒ Archaist. Fut. reperibit, Caecil. com. 120: reperibitur, Pompon. com. 9. Plaut. Epid. 151 G. – Parag. Infin. reperirier, Plaut. truc. 699 Sch. Lucr. 4, 478. – Perf. repperi, s. L. Müller de re metr. p. 361. Ellendt zu Cic. de orat. 2, 100. Lachmann zu Lucr. p. 210 sq.

ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

abs chorago,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

ab eo magistratu,

after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

a pueritia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

a pueris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

a parvis,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

a parvulo,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

ab parvulis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

quid hoc ab illo differt,

from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

subdole ab re consulit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

si postulatur a populo,

if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

and in prose,

Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

Turnus ab Aricia,

Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

el metul a Chryside,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

locus copiosus a frumento,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

ab honore,

id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

a longe,

Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

com-pĕrĭo, pĕri, pertum, 4, v. a. [root par-, of paro, pario; cf. 2. comparo, and aperio, operio, etc.; by others separated from these words and referred to root per-, of peiraô, peritus, periculum; but cf. Corss. Ausspr. II. 410], lit., to disclose wholly, lay open (a fact), without the access. idea of communicating the thing disclosed (which aperio expresses; v. aperio); to obtain a knowledge of a thing, to find out with certainty, to have or gain certain information, to ascertain, learn, etc. (class. in prose and poetry):

certo comperi,

Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 9:

cum indicia mortis se comperisse manifesto et manu tenere diceret,

Cic. Brut. 80, 277:

hoc,

Nep. Eum. 8, 4:

stellarum ortus,

Cat. 66, 2:

de amore hoc comperit,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 6:

nihil de hoc (Sullā) consul comperi,

Cic. Sull. 31, 86; Sall. J. 68, 1:

postquam de scelere filii comperit,

Nep. Paus. 5, 3; Suet. Dom. 6 al.—With inf. and acc., Ter. And. 1, 1, 63:

posteaquam comperit eum posse vivere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 12, 33:

hanc gentem Clusium inde venisse comperio,

Liv. 5, 35, 3; Quint. 1, 7, 24: diram qui contudit hydram, comperit invidiam supremo fine domari, * Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 12:

ubi comperi ex eis qui, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 69:

aliquid ex multis,

Cic. Clu. 68, 192:

ex litteris,

Nep. Paus. 4, 5:

per exploratores,

Caes. B. G. 4, 19; 6, 28; Nep. Alcib. 8, 6:

certis auctoribus,

Cic. Att. 14, 8, 1:

nihil testibus, nihil tabulis, nihil aliquo gravi argumento,

id. Clu. 45, 126; Caes. B. C. 2, 37:

a quo ut rem gestam comperit,

Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

quae ex fratre compererat nuntiari regi jubet,

Curt. 6, 7, 18:

ut postea ex captivis comperit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22; Hirt. B. G. 8, 17; 8, 36.—Cicero, on account of the frequent repetition of the phrase omnia comperi, in the trial of Catiline, was often bantered by his contemporaries;

hence: (Clodius) me tantum comperisse omnia criminabatur,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5; cf. id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—With depend. question:

dolo an vere cunctatus, parum comperimus,

Sall. J. 113, 1; 67, 3.—

Esp. freq. in part. perf. pass.:

Oppianici facinus manifesto compertum atque deprehensum,

Cic. Clu. 14, 43:

non ego haec incertis jacta rumoribus adfero ad vos, sed comperta et explorata,

Liv. 42, 13, 1; cf. id. 29, 18, 7; 29, 21, 13:

sintne haec investigata, comperta, patefacta per me,

Quint. 9, 3, 49:

pecuniam ex aerario scribae viatoresque aedilicii clam egessisse per indicem comperti,

discovered, Liv. 30, 39, 7: compertus adulterare matronas, Suet. Aug. 67:

uxorem in stupro generi compertam,

detected, id. Tib. 35.—Also with the gen. of the crime:

compertus stupri,

Liv. 22, 57, 2; Just. 11, 11, 5:

probri,

Liv. 7, 4, 4:

sacrilegii,

id. 32, 1, 8:

flagitii,

Tac. A. 1, 3; 4, 11:

de his haud facile compertum narraverim,

give certain information, Sall. J. 17, 2:

qui ex fratre comperta ipsi nuntiasset,

Curt. 6, 8, 11:

haec ex vate comperta nuntiabat,

id. 7, 7, 22.— In abl. absol.: comperto lege Gabiniā Bithyniam et Pontum consuli datam, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 1130 P.; so Liv. 31, 39, 4 and 7; 33, 5, 4; Tac. A. 1, 66; 4, 36; 11, 13 fin.; 14, 57.—So, also, compertum habeo and compertum mihi est, I know full well:

quod de his duobus habuerint compertum,

Cic. Clu. 45, 127; so Sall. C. 2, 2; 22 fin.:

pro comperto polliceri,

as certain, Suet. Ner. 31.—Hence, compertē, adv., on good authority; only Gell. 1, 22, 9; and in comp., id. 1, 11, 12.

rĕ-pĕrĭo, repperi (less correctly reperi), rĕpertum, 4 (old fut. reperibit, Caecil. ap. Non. 508, 16:

reperibitur,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 48; Pompon. ap. Non. 1. 1.; inf. reperirier, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 1; Lucr. 4, 480), v. a. [pario] (orig., perh., to procure or find again; hence), in gen., to find, meet with, find out, either by searching or by accident (cf.: invenio, offendo, nanciscor).

Lit.:

ego illam reperiam,

will find her again, will find her out, Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 32:

Glycerium suos parentes repperit,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 11; 5, 6, 5:

perscrutabor fanum, si inveniam uspiam Aurum: sed si repperero, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 14:

quid repperisti? Non quod pueri clamitant in fabā se repperisse,

id. ib. 5, 10; cf. id. Bacch. 3, 6, 33:

facile invenies pejorem... meliorem neque tu reperies, etc.,

id. Stich. 1, 2, 53:

curculiones in tritico,

id. Curc. 4, 4, 31; cf. Ov. M. 1, 654:

aliquem hominem,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 8:

multos,

Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 28:

mortui sunt reperti,

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 114:

puerum aut puellam sibi recens natum,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 16:

ibi quoque equi caput repertum,

Just. 18, 5, 16:

ceterarum artium repertos antistites agriculturae neque discipulos neque praeceptores inventos,

Col. 11, 1, 10:

divitiis incubare repertis,

Verg. A. 6, 610. —

Trop.

In gen., to find, find out, discern; to get, procure, obtain:

occasionem,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 9:

propter paupertatem nomen,

id. Stich. 11, 3, 22:

gloriam armis,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 60:

quamvis malam rem quaeris, illic reperias,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 153; cf.:

si quaerimus, cur, etc.... causas reperiemus verissimas duas,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325:

rem repperi omnem ex tuo magistro, ne nega,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 37:

verae amicitiae difficillime reperiuntur in iis, qui, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 17, 64:

nec quicquam difficilius quam reperire, quod sit omni ex parte in suo genere perfectum,

id. ib. 21, 79:

nec vos exitum reperitis,

id. N. D. 1, 38, 107:

perpauci lintribus inventis sibi salutem reppererunt,

found, obtained, Caes. B. G. 1, 53 Oud. N. cr.:

aristolochia nomen ex inventore reperit,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16: sollicitudinis finem, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15, 4:

cujus praeclara apud Vergilium multa exempla reperio,

Quint. 8, 3, 79; cf. in pass., id. 1, 5, 43:

quibus (armis) quemadmodum salutariter uterentur, non reperiebant,

Cic. Brut. 2, 8. —

In partic.

With a double predicate, to find, discover, perceive, learn, ascertain a thing to be in any manner:

qui invident, omnes inimicos mihi istoc facto repperi,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 6:

hoc si secus reperies, nullam causam dico,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 92:

quam paucos reperias meretricibus Fideles evenire amatores,

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

re ipsā repperi, Facilitate nihil esse homini melius,

id. Ad. 5, 4, 6; cf.:

cum transgressos repperisset consules,

Vell. 2, 50, 1:

quorum de moribus Caesar cum quaereret, sic reperiebat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

neque, quanta esset insulae magnitudo, reperire poterat,

id. ib. 4, 20;

1, 50: Caesar repperit ab Suevis auxilia missa,

id. ib. 6, 9:

repperit esse vera,

id. ib. 1, 18:

quem Tarentum venisse reperio,

Cic. Sen. 4, 10.— So pass., with a double subject (i.e. with a predicate nom.), to be found, discovered, recognized to be any thing:

quos cum censeas Esse amicos, reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3. 6, 12:

ingrato ingratus repertus est,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 59:

improbissimus reperiebare,

Cic. Quint. 20, 56:

ceteris rebus aut pares aut etiam inferiores reperiemur, religione multo superiores,

id. N. D. 2, 3, 8; id. Fl. 38, 94.— With inf.:

quoniam duplex natura duarum Dissimilis rerum longe constare reperta'st,

Lucr. 1, 504:

Sybarim et Crotonem et in eas Italiae partes Pythagoras venisse reperitur,

Cic. Rep. 2, 15, 28:

nec ulli periisse nisi in proelio reperiuntur,

Suet. Caes. 75.—

To find out, hit upon, invent, devise, discover (freq. after the Aug. period; cf. repertor;

whereas invenire is used in this signif. in all periods): reperi, comminiscere, cedo calidum consilium cito,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 71; cf.:

aliquid calidi consilii,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:

sibi aliquam astutiam,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 7:

repperisti tibi quod placeat,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 35; 3, 2, 22:

consilium,

id. Phorm. 1, 4, 1:

causam,

id. ib. 2, 1, 4:

mihimet ineunda ratio et via reperiunda est, quā, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 110:

nihil novi reperiens,

id. Ac. 2, 6, 16:

hoc reperire difficilius, quam, cum inveneris, argumentis adjuvare,

Quint. 5, 10, 116:

reperta verba (opp. nativa),

id. 8, 3, 36:

medicina ex observatione salubrium reperta est,

id. 2, 17, 4; 9, 4, 114:

ludusque (scaenicus) repertus,

Hor. A. P. 405:

serrae reperit usum,

Ov. M. 8, 246; 1, 687:

repertā nuper conjuratione,

discovered, Tac. A. 16, 15; cf.:

posterius res inventa est aurumque repertum,

Lucr. 5, 1112; 1240:

in quarum exercitationem reperta est (declamatio),

Quint. 2, 10, 4; 4, 2, 21; 4, 3, 2; 8, 3, 72; 12, 10, 72; Tac. Agr. 19.— With dat., Quint. 8, 6, 19.— With object-clause:

Indi gemmas crystallum tingendo adulterare repererunt,

Plin. 35, 5, 20, § 79 (where, however, Jahn reads invenerunt).—Hence, rĕperta, ōrum, n., inventions (mostly in Lucr.):

exponunt praeclara reperta,

Lucr. 1, 732; 136; 5, 2; 13; 6, 7;

and (perh. in imitation),

Rhem. Fan. Pond. 15.

rĕ-pĕrĭo, repperi (less correctly reperi), rĕpertum, 4 (old fut. reperibit, Caecil. ap. Non. 508, 16:

reperibitur,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 48; Pompon. ap. Non. 1. 1.; inf. reperirier, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 1; Lucr. 4, 480), v. a. [pario] (orig., perh., to procure or find again; hence), in gen., to find, meet with, find out, either by searching or by accident (cf.: invenio, offendo, nanciscor).

Lit.:

ego illam reperiam,

will find her again, will find her out, Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 32:

Glycerium suos parentes repperit,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 11; 5, 6, 5:

perscrutabor fanum, si inveniam uspiam Aurum: sed si repperero, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 14:

quid repperisti? Non quod pueri clamitant in fabā se repperisse,

id. ib. 5, 10; cf. id. Bacch. 3, 6, 33:

facile invenies pejorem... meliorem neque tu reperies, etc.,

id. Stich. 1, 2, 53:

curculiones in tritico,

id. Curc. 4, 4, 31; cf. Ov. M. 1, 654:

aliquem hominem,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 8:

multos,

Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 28:

mortui sunt reperti,

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 114:

puerum aut puellam sibi recens natum,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 16:

ibi quoque equi caput repertum,

Just. 18, 5, 16:

ceterarum artium repertos antistites agriculturae neque discipulos neque praeceptores inventos,

Col. 11, 1, 10:

divitiis incubare repertis,

Verg. A. 6, 610. —

Trop.

In gen., to find, find out, discern; to get, procure, obtain:

occasionem,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 9:

propter paupertatem nomen,

id. Stich. 11, 3, 22:

gloriam armis,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 60:

quamvis malam rem quaeris, illic reperias,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 153; cf.:

si quaerimus, cur, etc.... causas reperiemus verissimas duas,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325:

rem repperi omnem ex tuo magistro, ne nega,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 37:

verae amicitiae difficillime reperiuntur in iis, qui, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 17, 64:

nec quicquam difficilius quam reperire, quod sit omni ex parte in suo genere perfectum,

id. ib. 21, 79:

nec vos exitum reperitis,

id. N. D. 1, 38, 107:

perpauci lintribus inventis sibi salutem reppererunt,

found, obtained, Caes. B. G. 1, 53 Oud. N. cr.:

aristolochia nomen ex inventore reperit,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16: sollicitudinis finem, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15, 4:

cujus praeclara apud Vergilium multa exempla reperio,

Quint. 8, 3, 79; cf. in pass., id. 1, 5, 43:

quibus (armis) quemadmodum salutariter uterentur, non reperiebant,

Cic. Brut. 2, 8. —

In partic.

With a double predicate, to find, discover, perceive, learn, ascertain a thing to be in any manner:

qui invident, omnes inimicos mihi istoc facto repperi,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 6:

hoc si secus reperies, nullam causam dico,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 92:

quam paucos reperias meretricibus Fideles evenire amatores,

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

re ipsā repperi, Facilitate nihil esse homini melius,

id. Ad. 5, 4, 6; cf.:

cum transgressos repperisset consules,

Vell. 2, 50, 1:

quorum de moribus Caesar cum quaereret, sic reperiebat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

neque, quanta esset insulae magnitudo, reperire poterat,

id. ib. 4, 20;

1, 50: Caesar repperit ab Suevis auxilia missa,

id. ib. 6, 9:

repperit esse vera,

id. ib. 1, 18:

quem Tarentum venisse reperio,

Cic. Sen. 4, 10.— So pass., with a double subject (i.e. with a predicate nom.), to be found, discovered, recognized to be any thing:

quos cum censeas Esse amicos, reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3. 6, 12:

ingrato ingratus repertus est,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 59:

improbissimus reperiebare,

Cic. Quint. 20, 56:

ceteris rebus aut pares aut etiam inferiores reperiemur, religione multo superiores,

id. N. D. 2, 3, 8; id. Fl. 38, 94.— With inf.:

quoniam duplex natura duarum Dissimilis rerum longe constare reperta'st,

Lucr. 1, 504:

Sybarim et Crotonem et in eas Italiae partes Pythagoras venisse reperitur,

Cic. Rep. 2, 15, 28:

nec ulli periisse nisi in proelio reperiuntur,

Suet. Caes. 75.—

To find out, hit upon, invent, devise, discover (freq. after the Aug. period; cf. repertor;

whereas invenire is used in this signif. in all periods): reperi, comminiscere, cedo calidum consilium cito,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 71; cf.:

aliquid calidi consilii,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:

sibi aliquam astutiam,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 7:

repperisti tibi quod placeat,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 35; 3, 2, 22:

consilium,

id. Phorm. 1, 4, 1:

causam,

id. ib. 2, 1, 4:

mihimet ineunda ratio et via reperiunda est, quā, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 110:

nihil novi reperiens,

id. Ac. 2, 6, 16:

hoc reperire difficilius, quam, cum inveneris, argumentis adjuvare,

Quint. 5, 10, 116:

reperta verba (opp. nativa),

id. 8, 3, 36:

medicina ex observatione salubrium reperta est,

id. 2, 17, 4; 9, 4, 114:

ludusque (scaenicus) repertus,

Hor. A. P. 405:

serrae reperit usum,

Ov. M. 8, 246; 1, 687:

repertā nuper conjuratione,

discovered, Tac. A. 16, 15; cf.:

posterius res inventa est aurumque repertum,

Lucr. 5, 1112; 1240:

in quarum exercitationem reperta est (declamatio),

Quint. 2, 10, 4; 4, 2, 21; 4, 3, 2; 8, 3, 72; 12, 10, 72; Tac. Agr. 19.— With dat., Quint. 8, 6, 19.— With object-clause:

Indi gemmas crystallum tingendo adulterare repererunt,

Plin. 35, 5, 20, § 79 (where, however, Jahn reads invenerunt).—Hence, rĕperta, ōrum, n., inventions (mostly in Lucr.):

exponunt praeclara reperta,

Lucr. 1, 732; 136; 5, 2; 13; 6, 7;

and (perh. in imitation),

Rhem. Fan. Pond. 15.