ad+infinītum

in-fīnītus, a, um, adj., not enclosed within boundaries, boundless, unlimited.

Lit.:

quod finitum est habet extremum... nihil igitur cum habeat extremum, infinitum sit necesse est,

Cic. Div. 2, 50, 103:

aër, materia,

id. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

imperium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 91: potestas, id: Agr. 2, 13, 33; Liv. 3, 9: magnitudines infinitissimae, Boëth. Inst. Arithm. 1, 4. — Subst.: infī-nītum, i, n., boundless space, the infinite:

ex infinito coorta,

Lucr. 5, 367.—

Transf.

Without end, endless, infinite:

altitudo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48:

spes,

id. Deiot. 5, 13:

odium,

id. Balb. 27, 62:

labor,

id. de Or. 1, 1:

licentia,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 94, § 220:

imperium,

id. ib. 2, 3, 91, §

213: potestas,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33:

occupationes,

Nep. Att. 20, 2:

pretium,

immoderate, Dig. 35, 2, 61:

sin cuipiam nimis infinitum videtur,

too prolix, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 65. — Subst.: infīnītum, i, n., an infinitude, an endless amount or number:

infinitum auri,

Eutr. 9, 9: ad or in infinitum, to infinity, without end:

haec (ars statuaria) ad infinitum effloruit,

Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 35:

crescere,

id. 34, 2, 3, § 5:

durescere,

id. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

sectio in infinitum,

Quint. 1, 10 fin.:

ne in infinitum abeamus,

Plin. 17, 25, 38, § 243:

infinitum quantum,

beyond all measure, exceedingly, extraordinarily, Plin. 18, 28, 68, n. 3, §

277: infinito plus or magis,

infinitely more, far more, Quint. 3, 4, 25; 11, 3, 172.—

Innumerable, countless:

multitudo librorum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 6:

multitudo,

id. Off. 1, 16, 52:

causarum varietas,

id. de Or. 1, 5, 16; Caes. B. G. 5, 12, 3:

legum infinita multitudo,

Tac. A. 3, 25:

numerus annorum,

Gell. 14, 1, 18:

pietatis exempla,

Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 121: pecunia ex infinitis rapinis, Auct. B. Alex. 64, 4; Spart. Hadr. 20, 5; Eutr. 1, 3; 3, 20 al.—

In gen.: infinitior distributio, where no person or time is mentioned or implied, Cic. Top. 8:

quaestio,

id. Part. Or. 18:

res,

id. de Or. 1, 31:

conexa,

indefinite conclusions, id. Fat. 8.— Adv.:

in infinito,

to infinity, everywhere, at pleasure, Dig. 8, 2, 24; 8, 1, 9.—

In gram.:

verbum,

i. e. the infinitive, Quint. 9, 3, 9; also absol., id. 1, 6, 7 and 8:

articulus,

an indefinite pronoun, Varr. L. L. 8, § 45; 50 Müll.: vocabula, appellative nouns (as vir, mulier), ib. § 80.— Adv.

infīnītē.

Without bounds, without end, infinitely:

ne infinite feratur ut flumen oratio,

Cic. Or. 68, 228:

concupiscere,

excessively, id. Par. 6, 3:

dividere,

id. Ac. 1, 7:

perorare,

without cessation, constantly, id. Or. 36 fin. —

Indefinitely, in general:

referre de re publica,

Gell. 14, 7, 9.—

in-fīnītō (rare), immensely, vastly:

magis delectare,

Quint. 11. 3, 4:

magis flexa sunt,

id. 8, 4, 25:

plus cogitare,

id. ib.:

infinito praestare,

Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94.

• To infinity without end

• To infinity; without end

in-fīnītus, a, um, adj., not enclosed within boundaries, boundless, unlimited.

Lit.:

quod finitum est habet extremum... nihil igitur cum habeat extremum, infinitum sit necesse est,

Cic. Div. 2, 50, 103:

aër, materia,

id. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

imperium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 91: potestas, id: Agr. 2, 13, 33; Liv. 3, 9: magnitudines infinitissimae, Boëth. Inst. Arithm. 1, 4. — Subst.: infī-nītum, i, n., boundless space, the infinite:

ex infinito coorta,

Lucr. 5, 367.—

Transf.

Without end, endless, infinite:

altitudo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48:

spes,

id. Deiot. 5, 13:

odium,

id. Balb. 27, 62:

labor,

id. de Or. 1, 1:

licentia,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 94, § 220:

imperium,

id. ib. 2, 3, 91, §

213: potestas,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33:

occupationes,

Nep. Att. 20, 2:

pretium,

immoderate, Dig. 35, 2, 61:

sin cuipiam nimis infinitum videtur,

too prolix, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 65. — Subst.: infīnītum, i, n., an infinitude, an endless amount or number:

infinitum auri,

Eutr. 9, 9: ad or in infinitum, to infinity, without end:

haec (ars statuaria) ad infinitum effloruit,

Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 35:

crescere,

id. 34, 2, 3, § 5:

durescere,

id. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

sectio in infinitum,

Quint. 1, 10 fin.:

ne in infinitum abeamus,

Plin. 17, 25, 38, § 243:

infinitum quantum,

beyond all measure, exceedingly, extraordinarily, Plin. 18, 28, 68, n. 3, §

277: infinito plus or magis,

infinitely more, far more, Quint. 3, 4, 25; 11, 3, 172.—

Innumerable, countless:

multitudo librorum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 6:

multitudo,

id. Off. 1, 16, 52:

causarum varietas,

id. de Or. 1, 5, 16; Caes. B. G. 5, 12, 3:

legum infinita multitudo,

Tac. A. 3, 25:

numerus annorum,

Gell. 14, 1, 18:

pietatis exempla,

Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 121: pecunia ex infinitis rapinis, Auct. B. Alex. 64, 4; Spart. Hadr. 20, 5; Eutr. 1, 3; 3, 20 al.—

In gen.: infinitior distributio, where no person or time is mentioned or implied, Cic. Top. 8:

quaestio,

id. Part. Or. 18:

res,

id. de Or. 1, 31:

conexa,

indefinite conclusions, id. Fat. 8.— Adv.:

in infinito,

to infinity, everywhere, at pleasure, Dig. 8, 2, 24; 8, 1, 9.—

In gram.:

verbum,

i. e. the infinitive, Quint. 9, 3, 9; also absol., id. 1, 6, 7 and 8:

articulus,

an indefinite pronoun, Varr. L. L. 8, § 45; 50 Müll.: vocabula, appellative nouns (as vir, mulier), ib. § 80.— Adv.

infīnītē.

Without bounds, without end, infinitely:

ne infinite feratur ut flumen oratio,

Cic. Or. 68, 228:

concupiscere,

excessively, id. Par. 6, 3:

dividere,

id. Ac. 1, 7:

perorare,

without cessation, constantly, id. Or. 36 fin. —

Indefinitely, in general:

referre de re publica,

Gell. 14, 7, 9.—

in-fīnītō (rare), immensely, vastly:

magis delectare,

Quint. 11. 3, 4:

magis flexa sunt,

id. 8, 4, 25:

plus cogitare,

id. ib.:

infinito praestare,

Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94.

in-fīnītus, a, um, adj., not enclosed within boundaries, boundless, unlimited.

Lit.:

quod finitum est habet extremum... nihil igitur cum habeat extremum, infinitum sit necesse est,

Cic. Div. 2, 50, 103:

aër, materia,

id. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

imperium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 91: potestas, id: Agr. 2, 13, 33; Liv. 3, 9: magnitudines infinitissimae, Boëth. Inst. Arithm. 1, 4. — Subst.: infī-nītum, i, n., boundless space, the infinite:

ex infinito coorta,

Lucr. 5, 367.—

Transf.

Without end, endless, infinite:

altitudo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48:

spes,

id. Deiot. 5, 13:

odium,

id. Balb. 27, 62:

labor,

id. de Or. 1, 1:

licentia,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 94, § 220:

imperium,

id. ib. 2, 3, 91, §

213: potestas,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33:

occupationes,

Nep. Att. 20, 2:

pretium,

immoderate, Dig. 35, 2, 61:

sin cuipiam nimis infinitum videtur,

too prolix, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 65. — Subst.: infīnītum, i, n., an infinitude, an endless amount or number:

infinitum auri,

Eutr. 9, 9: ad or in infinitum, to infinity, without end:

haec (ars statuaria) ad infinitum effloruit,

Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 35:

crescere,

id. 34, 2, 3, § 5:

durescere,

id. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

sectio in infinitum,

Quint. 1, 10 fin.:

ne in infinitum abeamus,

Plin. 17, 25, 38, § 243:

infinitum quantum,

beyond all measure, exceedingly, extraordinarily, Plin. 18, 28, 68, n. 3, §

277: infinito plus or magis,

infinitely more, far more, Quint. 3, 4, 25; 11, 3, 172.—

Innumerable, countless:

multitudo librorum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 6:

multitudo,

id. Off. 1, 16, 52:

causarum varietas,

id. de Or. 1, 5, 16; Caes. B. G. 5, 12, 3:

legum infinita multitudo,

Tac. A. 3, 25:

numerus annorum,

Gell. 14, 1, 18:

pietatis exempla,

Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 121: pecunia ex infinitis rapinis, Auct. B. Alex. 64, 4; Spart. Hadr. 20, 5; Eutr. 1, 3; 3, 20 al.—

In gen.: infinitior distributio, where no person or time is mentioned or implied, Cic. Top. 8:

quaestio,

id. Part. Or. 18:

res,

id. de Or. 1, 31:

conexa,

indefinite conclusions, id. Fat. 8.— Adv.:

in infinito,

to infinity, everywhere, at pleasure, Dig. 8, 2, 24; 8, 1, 9.—

In gram.:

verbum,

i. e. the infinitive, Quint. 9, 3, 9; also absol., id. 1, 6, 7 and 8:

articulus,

an indefinite pronoun, Varr. L. L. 8, § 45; 50 Müll.: vocabula, appellative nouns (as vir, mulier), ib. § 80.— Adv.

infīnītē.

Without bounds, without end, infinitely:

ne infinite feratur ut flumen oratio,

Cic. Or. 68, 228:

concupiscere,

excessively, id. Par. 6, 3:

dividere,

id. Ac. 1, 7:

perorare,

without cessation, constantly, id. Or. 36 fin. —

Indefinitely, in general:

referre de re publica,

Gell. 14, 7, 9.—

in-fīnītō (rare), immensely, vastly:

magis delectare,

Quint. 11. 3, 4:

magis flexa sunt,

id. 8, 4, 25:

plus cogitare,

id. ib.:

infinito praestare,

Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94.

quaestĭo, ōnis, f. [quaero], a seeking.

In gen. (Plautin.):

cave, fuas mi in quaestione,

lest you suffer yourself to be to seek, lest I have to look after you, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 52:

tibi ne in quaestione essemus,

id. Capt. 2, 2, 3; id. Ps. 2, 2, 68.—

In partic., an inquiry, investigation, a questioning, question, subject of inquiry:

quaestio est appetitio cognitionis, quaestionisque finis inventio,

Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 26; 2, 36, 115:

quae veri simillima (sententia sit), magna quaestio est,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; id. Fin. 2, 11, 34:

rem in disceptationem quaestionemque vocare,

to investigate, id. de Or. 3, 32, 129:

res in quaestione versatur,

is under investigation, id. Clu. 58, 159:

de moribus ultima fiet quaestio,

Juv. 3, 141:

res in quaestionem venit,

comes under investigation, Quint. 5, 14, 16:

modo aliquam quaestionem poëticam ei proponeret,

Nep. Att. 20, 2; cf. Cic. Att. 7, 19 fin.; Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 6; id. Ep. 48, 1; Suet. Tib. 56:

quaestionem instituere,

to institute an investigation, Quint. 7, 1, 6:

quaestionem solvere,

Sen. Ep. 48, 11; Quint. 5, 10, 26.—

A public judicial investigation, examination by torture, a criminal inquiry, inquisition; the crime is usu. constr. with de:

cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset,

instituted a trial for assassination, Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

verberibus ac tormentis quaestionem habuit pecuniae publicae,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

quaestionem mortis paternae de servis paternis habere,

id. Rosc. Am. 28, 78:

quaestionem fugitare,

id. ib. 28, 78:

servos in quaestionem polliceri,

id. ib. 28, 77:

quaestionem ferre in aliquem,

to appoint, institute, make a motion for, id. de Or. 1, 53, 227:

habere ex aliquo,

Liv. 33, 28:

facere alicui,

against any one, Dig. 34, 3, 20:

quaestionem de furto constituere,

Cic. Clu. 64, 181:

quaestionem instituere de morte alicujus,

id. ib. 64, 181:

quaestionem de morte viri habere,

id. ib. 65, 182;

63, 176: quaestionem habere de servis in caput filii,

id. ib. 63, 176:

ad quaestionem abripi,

to examination by torture, id. ib. 33, 89:

alicui servum in quaestionem ferre,

id. ib. 64, 181:

postulare servum in quaestionem,

id. ib. 64, 181:

quaestiones severius exercere,

Liv. 9, 34:

quaestioni praeesse,

to conduct a trial as judge, Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11: quaestiones perpetuae, the inquisitions concerning certain crimes (repetundarum, majestatis, de falso, de sicariis, de injuriis, etc.), conducted annually, after 605 A. U. C., by a standing commission, and presided over by the prætor, Cic. Brut. 27, 106:

judex quaestionis,

the director of the criminal court under the presidency of the prætor, id. Clu. 54, 148; 33, 89; id. Brut. 76, 264:

quaestiones extraordinariae,

trials out of the common course, held under a special commission, Liv. 39, 14; so,

quaestio nova,

Cic. Mil. 5, 13:

A QVAESTIONIBVS,

an attendant in examinations, a torturer, inquisitor, Inscr. Grut. 545, 6; 560, 1. —

Transf.

The court, the judges:

dimittere eo tempore quaestionem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30, § 74:

totam quaestionem a severitate ad clementiam transtulit,

Val. Max. 8, 1, 6.—

The subject of investigation, the matter, case, question:

perdifficilis et perobscura quaestio est de naturā deorum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1:

dividere totam de dis immortalibus quaestionem in partis quattuor,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

quaestio proposita,

Quint. 9, 2, 39.—

In partic., in rhet.

The rhetorical subject of debate: quaestionum duo sunt genera: alterum infinitum, alterum definitum. Definitum est, quod hupothesin Graeci, nos causam: infinitum, quod thesin illi appellant, nos propositum possumus nominare, Cic. Top. 21, 79. —

The main point in a disputed matter, the issue in a cause: quaestio est quae ex conflictione causarum gignitur controversia, hoc modo: Non jure fecisti: jure feci. Causarum autem haec est conflictio, in quā constitutio constat;

ex eā igitur nascitur controversia, quam quaestionem dicimus, hoc modo: jurene fecerit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 13, 18; cf. id. ib. 1, 6, 8.—

A question, a disputed point, quaestio est, it is doubtful, may be disputed:

sapientia efficit sapientis sola per se: beatos efficiat necne sola per se quaestio est,

Cic. Top. 15, 60; id. Tusc. 4, 13, 29; id. Inv. 2, 20, 60:

quaestio est, an, etc.,

Quint. 7, 3, 22; cf.:

nulla quaestio est,

Aug. Retract. 1, 19, 6; cf.

also: in quaestione est,

Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 57; 10, 22, 27, § 52:

quaestionis est immensae,

id. 7, 28, 29, § 101; 28, 2, 3, § 10.

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ăn, conj. [etym. very obscure; v. the various views adduced in Hand, I. p. 296, with which he seems dissatisfied; if it is connected with the Sanscr. anjas, = Germ. ander, = Engl. other, we may comp. the Engl. other and or with the Germ. oder, = or]. It introduces the second part of a disjunctive interrogation, or a phrase implying doubt, and thus unites in itself the signif. of aut and num or -ne, or, or whether (hence the clause with an is entirely parallel with that introduced by num, utrum, -ne, etc., while aut forms only a subdivision in the single disjunctive clause; utrum... aut—an... aut, whether... or, etc.; cf. Ochsn. Eclog. p. 150; v. also aut).

In disjunctive interrogations.

Direct.

Introd. by utrum (in Engl. the introd. particle whether is now obsolete, and the interrogation is denoted simply by the order of the words):

Utrum hac me feriam an ab laevā latus?

Plaut. Cist. 3, 10:

sed utrum tu amicis hodie an inimicis tuis Daturu's cenam?

id. Ps. 3, 2, 88; id. Pers. 3, 1, 13; id. Trin. 1, 2, 138; id. Cas. 2, 4, 11:

Utrum sit annon voltis?

id. Am. prol. 56:

quid facies? Utrum hoc tantum crimen praetermittes an obicies?

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 30 sq.:

in plebem vero Romanam utrum superbiam prius commemorem an crudelitatem?

id. Verr. 1, 122; id. Deiot. 23; id. Fam. 7, 13:

Utrum enim defenditis an impugnatis plebem?

Liv. 5, 3. —And with an twice:

Utrum hoc signum cupiditatis tuae an tropaeum necessitudinis atque hospitii an amoris indicium esse voluisti?

Cic. Verr. 2, 115; id. Imp. Pomp. 57 sq.; id. Rab. 21.—With an three times:

Utrum res ab initio ita ducta est, an ad extremum ita perducta, an ita parva est pecunia, an is (homo) Verres, ut haec quae dixi, gratis facta esse videantur?

Cic. Verr. 2, 61; 3, 83; id. Clu. 183; Liv. 21, 10; and seven times in Cic. Dom. 56-58.—With -ne pleon. (not to be confounded with cases where utrum precedes as pron.; as Cic. Tusc. 4, 4, 9):

sed utrum tu masne an femina es, qui illum patrem voces?

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 16; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 42; id. Stich. 5, 4, 26:

Utrum studione id sibi habet an laudi putat Fore, si etc.,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 28:

Utrum igitur tandem perspicuisne dubia aperiuntur an dubiis perspicua tolluntur?

Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 67.—And affixed to utrum, but rarely:

Utrumne jussi persequemur otium... an hunc laborem etc.,

Hor. Epod. 1, 7; Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 4; Quint. 12, 1, 40.—

Introduced by -ne:

quid fit? seditio tabetne an numeros augificat suos?

Enn. Trag. Rel. p. 23 Rib.:

servos esne an liber?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 186:

idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

Cic. Lig. 18; 23:

custosne urbis an direptor et vexator esset Antonius?

id. Phil. 3, 27; id. Mur. 88; id. Sull. 22.—

So with an twice,

Cic. Cat. 1, 28; id. Att. 16, 8;

and five times,

id. Balb. 9.—

Introduced by nonne:

Nonne ad servos videtis rem publicam venturam fuisse? An mihi ipsi fuit mors aequo animo oppetenda?

Cic. Sest. 47; id. Sex. Rosc. 43 sq.; id. Dom. 26; 127.—So with an twice, Cic. Phil. 11, 36.—

Introduced by num:

si quis invidiae metus, num est vehementius severitatis invidia quam inertiae pertimescenda?

Cic. Cat. 1, 29; id. Mur. 76; id. Sest. 80:

Num quid duas habetis patrias an est illa patria communis?

id. Leg. 2, 2.—

Without introductory particle:

quid igitur? haec vera an falsa sunt?

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95:

quid enim exspectas? bellum an tabulas novas?

id. Cat. 2, 18:

ipse percussit an aliis occidendum dedit?

id. Sex. Rosc. 74; id. Verr. 2, 106; id. Imp. Pomp. 53; id. Phil. 2, 27:

eloquar an sileam?

Verg. A. 3, 37:

auditis an me ludit amabilis Insania?

Hor. C. 3, 4, 5.—So an twice, Cic. Mil. 54;

three times,

Plin. Ep. 2, 8;

and six times,

Cic. Rab. 14; id. Pis. 40.—

Indirect.

Introduced by utrum:

quid tu, malum, curas, Utrum crudum an coctum edim?

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 16; id. Cist. 4, 2, 11; id. Bacch. 3, 4, 1; id. Mil. 2, 3, 74:

quaero, si quis... utrum is clemens an inhumanissimus esse videatur,

Cic. Cat. 4, 12:

agitur, utrum M. Antonio facultas detur an horum ei facere nihil liceat,

id. Phil. 5, 6; id. Sex. Rosc. 72; id. Imp. Pomp. 42; id. Verr. 1, 105.

aut for an: Loquimini de me utrum bovem cujusquam tulerim aut asinum, 1 Reg. 12, 3.—And with -ne pleon.:

res in discrimine versatur, utrum possitne se contra luxuriem parsimonia defendere an deformata cupiditati addicatur,

Cic. Quinct. 92:

numquamne intelleges statuendum tibi esse, utrum illi, qui istam rem gesserunt, homicidaene sint an vindices libertatis?

id. Phil. 2, 30.—

Introduced by -ne:

Fortunāne an forte repertus,

Att. Trag. Rel. p. 159 Rib. agitur autem liberine vivamus an mortem obeamus, Cic. Phil. 11, 24; id. Verr. 4, 73; id. Mil. 16:

nunc vero non id agitur, bonisne an malis moribus vivamus etc.,

Sall. C. 52, 10.—So with an three times, Cic. Or. 61.—

Introduced by an:

haud scio an malim te videri... an amicos tuos plus habuisse,

Cic. Pis. 39.—

Without introd. particle:

... vivam an moriar, nulla in me est metus,

Enn. Trag. Rel. p. 72 Rib.:

vivat an mortuus sit, quis aut scit aut curat?

Cic. Phil. 13, 33; 3, 18; id. Sex. Rosc. 88; id. Red. in Sen. 14.—

Sometimes the opinion of the speaker or the probability inclines to the second interrogative clause (cf. infra, II. E.). and this is made emphatic, as a corrective of the former, or rather, or on the contrary:

ea quae dixi ad corpusne refers? an est aliquid, quod te suā sponte delectet?

Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 107:

Cur sic agere voluistis? An ignoratis quod etc.,

Vulg. Gen. 44, 15.—Hence, in the comic poets, an potius:

cum animo depugnat suo, Utrum itane esse mavelit ut... An ita potius ut etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 31: id. Stich. 1, 2, 18; id. Trin. 2, 2, 25:

an id flagitium est, An potius hoc patri aequomst fieri, ut a me ludatur dolis?

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 94.—

The first part of the interrogation is freq. not expressed, but is to be supplied from the context; in this case, an begins the interrog., or, or rather, or indeed, or perhaps (but it does not begin an absolute, i. e. not disjunctive, interrog.): De. Credam ego istuc, si esse te hilarem videro. Ar. An tu esse me tristem putas? (where nonne me hilarem esse vides? is implied), Plaut. As. 5, 1, 10: Ch. Sed Thaïs multon ante venit? Py. An abiit jam a milite? Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 7:

An ego Ulixem obliscar umquam?

Att. Trag. Rel. p. 199 Rib.:

An parum vobis est quod peccatis?

Vulg. Josh. 22, 17:

est igitur aliquid, quod perturbata mens melius possit facere quam constans? an quisquam potest sine perturbatione mentis irasci?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 24, 54; cf. id. Clu. 22; id. Off. 3, 29: Debes hoc etiam rescribere, sit tibi curae Quantae conveniat Munatius; an male sarta Gratia nequiquam coit...? or is perhaps, etc., Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 31 K. and H. —So esp. in Cic., in order to make the truth of an assertion more certain, by an argumentum a minore ad majus:

cur (philosophus) pecuniam magno opere desideret vel potius curet omnino? an Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo pecuniam ducere, nostrates philosophi non potuerunt?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 89 sq.:

An vero P. Scipio T. Gracchum privatus interfecit, Catilinam vero nos consules perferemus?

id. Cat. 1, 1; so id. Rab. Perd. 5; id. Phil. 14, 5, 12 Muret.; id. Fin. 1, 2, 5, ubi v. Madv.—It sometimes introduces a question suggested by the words of another: He. Mane. Non dum audisti, Demea, Quod est gravissimum? De. An quid est etiam anplius? Is there then etc., Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 21:

sed ad haec, nisi molestum est, habeo quae velim. An me, inquam, nisi te audire vellem censes haec dicturum fuisse?

Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 28; 2, 22, 74; id. Tusc. 5, 26, 73; 5, 12, 35; id. Brut. 184; id. Fat. 2, 4; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 28.—It sometimes anticipates an answer to something going before: At vero si ad vitem sensus accesserit, ut appetitum quendam habeat et per se ipsa moveatur, quid facturam putas? An ea, quae per vinitorem antea consequebatur, per se ipsa curabit? shall we not say that, must we not think that etc., Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 38, ubi v. Madv.—

An non. and in one word, annon (in direct questions more freq. than necne):

isne est quem quaero an non?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 12:

Hocine agis an non?

id. And. 1, 2, 15:

Tibi ego dico an non?

id. ib. 4, 4, 23:

utrum sit an non voltis?

Plaut. Am. prol. 56:

utrum cetera nomina in codicem accepti et expensi digesta habes annon?

Cic. Rosc. Com. 3 al. —Also in indirect questions = necne, q. v.:

abi, vise redieritne jam an non dum domum,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 4, 5:

videbo utrum clamorem opere conpleverint, an non est ita,

Vulg. Gen. 18, 21; 24, 21.—

An ne, usually written anne, pleon. for an.

In direct questions:

anne tu dicis quā ex causā vindicaveris?

Cic. Mur. 26. —

In indirect questions:

nec. aequom anne iniquom imperet, cogitabit,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 19; id. Ps. 1, 1, 122:

percontarier, Utrum aurum reddat anne eat secum simul,

id. Bacch. 4, 1, 4:

Nam quid ego de consulato loquar, parto vis, anue gesto?

Cic. Pis. 1, 3:

cum interrogetur, tria pauca sint anne multa,

id. Ac. 2, 29:

Gabinio dicam anne Pompeio, an utrique,

id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 57; so id. Or. 61, 206:

Quid enim interest, divitias, opes, valetudinem bona dicas anne praeposita, cum etc.,

id. Fin. 4, 9, 23 Madv.; August. ap. Suet. Aug. 69 al. (for the omission of the second disjunctive clause or the particle necne representing it, v. utrum;

instances of this usage in eccl. Lat. are,

Vulg. Lev. 13, 36; 14, 36; ib. Num. 11, 23 al.).—

In disjunctive clauses that express doubt, or.

Utrum stultitiā facere ego hunc an malitiā Dicam, scientem an imprudentem, incertus sum. Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 54:

ut nescias, utrum res oratione an verba sententiis illustrentur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56:

honestumne factu sit an turpe, dubitant,

id. Off. 1, 3, 9:

nescio, gratulerne tibi an timeam,

id. Fam. 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 7, 5:

pecuniae an famae minus parceret, haud facile discerneres,

Sall. C. 25, 3; so id. ib. 52, 10; Suet. Aug. 19; id. Tib. 10; id. Claud. 15:

cognoscet de doctrinā, utrum ex Deo sit an ego a me ipso loquar,

Vulg. Joan. 7, 17; ib. Eccl. 2, 19 al.—

An sometimes denotes uncertainty by itself, without a verb of doubting (dubito, dubium or incertum est, etc., vet in such cases the editors are divided between an and aut; cf. Mos. and Orell. ad Cic. Rep. 1, 12): verene hoc memoriae proditum est [p. 115] regem istum Numam Pythagorae ipsius discipulum, an certe Pythagoreum fuisse? Cic. Rep. 2, 15, where B. and K. read aut certe: Cn. Octavius est an Cn. Cornelius quidam tuus familiaris, summo genere natus, terrae filius;

is etc.,

id. Fam. 7, 9 B. and K.:

Themistocles quidem, cum ei Simonides an quis alius artem memoriae polliceretur, Oblivionis, inquit, mallem,

Simonides or some other person, id. Fin. 2, 32, 104; id. Fam. 7, 9, 3; id. Att. 1, 3, 2; 2, 7, 3; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 104.—

It often stands for sive (so esp. in and after the Aug. per.):

quod sit an non, nihil commovet analogiam,

whether this be so or not, Varr. L. L. 9, § 105 Müll.; Att. ap. Prisc. p. 677 P.; Ov. R. Am. 797:

saucius an sanus, numquid tua signa reliqui,

id. F. 4, 7:

Illa mihi referet, si nostri mutua curast, An minor, an toto pectore deciderim,

Tib. 3, 1, 20; Tac. A. 11, 26:

sive nullam opem praevidebat inermis atque exul, seu taedio ambiguae spei an amore conjugis et liberorum,

id. ib. 14, 59.—

The first disjunctive clause is freq. to be supplied from the gen. idea or an may stand for utrum—necne (cf. supra, I. D.):

qui scis, an, quae jubeam, sine vi faciat? (vine coactus is to be supplied),

how knowest thou whether or not he will do it without compulsion? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 20:

An dolo malo factum sit, ambigitur,

Cic. Tull. 23:

quaesivi an misisset (periplasmata),

id. Verr. 4, 27:

Vide an facile fieri tu potueris, cum etc.,

id. Fragm. B. 13, 2, 1:

praebete aurem et videte an mentiar,

Vulg. Job, 6, 28: de L. Bruto fortasse dubitaverim an propter infinitum odium tyranni effrenatius in Aruntem invaserit, I might doubt whether or not, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 50; id. Verr. 3, 76:

Quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae Tempora di superi?

Hor. C. 4, 7, 17; Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 3; Quint. 2, 17, 38:

Sine videamus an veniat Elias,

Vulg. Matt. 27, 49:

tria sine dubio rursus spectanda sunt, an sit, quid sit, quale sit,

Quint. 5, 10, 53:

dubium an quaesitā morte,

Tac. A. 1, 5; 6, 50; 4, 74:

Multitudo an vindicatura Bessum fuerit, incertum est,

Curt. 7, 5:

diu Lacedaemonii, an eum summae rei praeponerent, deliberaverunt,

Just. 6, 2, 4 et saep.—

Since in such distrib. sentences expressive of doubt, the opinion of the speaker or the probability usually inclines to the second, i. e. to the clause beginning with an, the expressions haud scio an, nescio an, dubito an (the latter through all pers. and tenses), incline to an affirmative signification, I almost know, I am inclined to think, I almost think, I might say, I might assert that, etc., for perhaps, probably (hence the opinion is incorrect that an, in this situation, stands for an non; for by an non a negation of the objective clause is expressed, e. g. nescio an non beatus sit, I am almost of the opinion that he is not happy, v. infra, and cf. Beier ad Cic. Off. 1, Exc. XI. p. 335 sq.; Cic. uses haud scio an eleven times in his Orations;

nescio an, four times): atque haud scio an, quae dixit sint vera omnia,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 45:

crudele gladiatorum spectaculum et inhumanum non nullis videri solet: et haud scio an ita sit, ut nunc fit,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41; id. Fl. 26:

testem non mediocrem, sed haud scio an gravissimum,

perhaps, id. Off. 3, 29:

constantiam dico? nescio an melius patientiam possim dicere,

id. Lig. 9; id. Fam. 9, 19:

ingens eo die res, ac nescio an maxima illo bello gesta sit,

Liv. 23, 16; Quint. 12, 11, 7 al.:

si per se virtus sine fortunā ponderanda sit, dubito an Thrasybulum primum omuium ponam,

I am not certain whether I should not prefer Thrasybulus to all others, Nep. Thras. 1 Dähne:

dicitur acinace stricto Darius dubitāsse an fugae dedecus honestā morte vitaret,

i. e. was almost resolved upon, Curt. 4, 5, 30:

ego dubito an id improprium potius appellem,

Quint. 1, 5, 46; Gell. 1, 3 al.—Hence, a neg. objective clause must contain in this connection the words non, nemo, nullus, nihil, numquam, nusquam, etc.:

dubitet an turpe non sit,

he is inclined to believe that it is not bad, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50:

haud scio an ne opus quidem sit, nihil umquam deesse amicis,

id. Am. 14, 51:

eloquentiā quidem nescio an habuisset parem neminem,

id. Brut. 33: quod cum omnibus est faciendum tum haud scio an nemini potius quam tibi, to no one perhaps more, id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

meā sententiā haud scio an nulla beatior esse possit,

id. Sen. 16; id. Leg. 1, 21:

non saepe atque haud scio an numquam,

id. Or. 2, 7 al. —

Sometimes the distributive clause beginning with an designates directly the opposite, the more improbable, the negative; in which case nescio an, haud scio an, etc., like the Engl. I know not whether, signify I think that not, I believe that not, etc.; hence, in the object. clause, aliquis, quisquam, ullus, etc., must stand instead of nemo, nullus, etc. (so for the most part only after Cic.): an profecturus sim, nescio, I know not (i. e. I doubt, I am not confident) whether I shall effect any thing, Sen. Ep. 25:

opus nescio an superabile, magnum certe tractemus,

id. Q. N. 3, praef. 4; Caecil. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 6: haud scio an vivere nobis liceret, I know not whether we, etc., Cic. Har. Resp. 11, 22: doleo enim maximam feminam eripi oculis civitatis, nescio an aliquid simile visuris, for I know not whether they will ever see any thing of this kind, Plin. Ep. 7, 19; Val. Max. 5, 2, 9:

nescio an ullum tempus jucundius exegerim,

I do not know whether I have ever passed time more pleasantly, id. 3, 1:

namque huic uni contigit, quod nescio an ulli,

Nep. Timol. 1, 1; Sen. Contr. 3 praef.; Quint. 9, 4, 1:

nostri quoque soloecum, soloecismum nescio an umquam dixerint,

Gell. 5, 20 al. Cf. upon this word Hand, Turs. I. pp. 296-361, and Beier, Exc. ad Cic. Am. pp. 202-238.

an-, v. ambi.

- ăn. This word appears in forsan, forsitan, and fortasse an (Att. Trag. Rel. p. 151 Rib.) or fortassan, seeming to enhance the idea of uncertainty and doubt belonging to fors, etc., and is regarded by some as the Greek conditional particle an, and indeed one of these compounds, forsitan, sometimes in the Vulgate, translates an; as, Joan. 4, 10; 5, 46; 8, 19; and in 3, Joan. 9, it still represents the various reading, an.

augĕo, auxi, auctum, 2, v. a. and n. ( perf subj. auxitis = auxeritis, Liv. 29, 27: auceta: saepe aucta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.) [Gr. auxô auxanô; Lith. augu, and augmu = growth; Sanscr. vaksh; Goth. vahsjan, and auka = growth; Germ. wachsen; Engl. wax; also allied to vegeo vegetus, vigeo vigor, vigil [p. 204] v. Curt. pp. 67, 186 sq., and Bopp, Gloss. p. 304 b].

Act., to increase, to nourish (orig., to produce, bring forth that not already in existence; in which signification only the derivative auctor is now found).

1.. To increase, enlarge, augment, strengthen, advance that which is already in existence (class. in prose and poetry; syn.: adaugeo, amplio, amplifico): Quicquid est hoc, omnia animat, format, alit, auget, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131:

cibus auget corpus alitque,

Lucr. 1, 859:

redductum (animale genus) daedala tellus alit atque auget generatim pabula praebens,

id. 1, 229; 5, 220; 5, 322;

6, 946: virīs,

id. 6, 342:

in augendā re,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2; 14; so,

in augendā obruitur re,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 68:

rem strenuus auge,

increase your gains, id. ib. 1, 7, 71:

opes,

Nep. Thras. 2, 4:

possessiones,

id. Att. 12, 2:

divitias,

Vulg. Prov 22, 16:

dotem et munera,

ib. Gen. 34, 12:

rem publicam agris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18; so Tac. H 1, 79:

aerarium,

id. A. 3, 25:

vallum et turres,

id. H. 4, 35:

classem,

Suet. Ner. 3:

tributa,

id. Vesp. 16:

pretium,

Vulg. Ezech. 16, 31:

numerum,

Suet. Aug. 37, and Vulg. Deut. 20, 19 al.:

morbum,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 54:

suspitionem,

id. Eun. 3, 1, 46; Suet. Tit. 5:

industriam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 25:

molestiam,

Cic. Fl. 12:

dolorem alicui,

id. Att. 11, 22 vitium ventris, id. Cael. 19:

peccatum,

Vulg. Exod. 9, 34:

furorem,

ib. Num. 32, 14:

benevolentiam,

Cic. Lael. 9, 30: animum alicujus, to increase one ' s courage, id. Att. 10, 14; so,

animos,

Stat. Th. 10, 23:

vocem,

to strengthen, raise, Suet. Claud. 33; id. Ner. 20' hostias, to increase, multiply, id. Aug. 96:

ego te augebo et multiplicabo,

Vulg. Gen. 48, 4 al. — Poet.:

nuper et istae Auxerunt volucrum victae certamine turbam,

i. e. have been changed into birds, Ov. M. 5, 301.—

Trop., to magnify, to exalt, to extol, embellish, to praise (syn.:

laudo, laude afficere, verbis extollere, orno): homo tenuis non verbis auget suum munus, sed etiam extenuat,

Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70:

aliquid augere atque ornare,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94; so,

rem laudando,

id. Brut. 12, 47:

munus principis,

Plin. Pan. 38 al. —

Aliquem (aliquid) aliquā re, to furaish abundantly with something, to heap upon, give to, to enrich, endow, bless, load with: lunae pars ignibus aucta, the part that is entirely filled with fire, Lucr 5, 722: 3. 630: Tantā laetitiā auctus sum, ut nil constet, poët, ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 14 oaque vos omnia bene juvetis, bonis auctibus auxitis, old form of prayer in Liv. 29, 27:

alter te scientia augere potest, altera exemplis,

the one can enrich you with learning, the other furnish you with examples, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 1:

aliquid divitiis,

id. Agr. 2, 26, 69:

commodis,

id. Phil. 11, 14 fin.:

senectus augeri solet consilio, auctoritate, sententiā,

id. Sen. 6, 17:

gratulatione,

id. Phil. 14, 6:

honore,

id. ib. 9, 6:

honoribus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 11; so Tac. A. 6, 8:

honoribus praemiisque,

Suet. Caes. 52; id. Vit. 5: augeri damno, to be enriched with a loss (said comically), Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 15:

liberalitate,

Tac. A. 3, 8:

largitione,

id. ib. 13, 18:

nomine imperatorio,

id. ib. 1, 3:

cognomento Augustae,

id. ib. 12, 26 et saep.—Also without abl.:

Di me equidem omnes adjuvant, augent, amant,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 27, and id. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

aliquem augere atque ornare,

to advance, Cic. Fam. 7, 17:

aut augendi alterius aut minuendi sui causā aliquid dicere,

id. Part. Or. 6, 22 solum te commendat augetque temporis spatium, honors, Plin. Pan. 24; so id. ib. 26; Suet. Claud. 12.—

In the lang. of religion, t. t. (like mactare, adolere, etc.), to honor, reverence, worship by offerings:

Aliquid cedo, Qui vicini hanc nostram augeam aram [Apoliinis],

Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 10:

si quā ipse meis venatibus auxi, etc.,

Verg. A. 9, 407.—

Neutr., to grow, increase, become greater (rare; syn.: augesco, cresco, incresco; on this use of vbs. com. act., v. Ellis ad Cat. 22, 11): eo res eorum auxit, Cato ap. Gell. 18, 12, 7:

usque adeo parcunt fetus augentque labore,

Lucr. 2, 1163:

ignoscendo populi Romani magnitudinem auxisse,

Sall. H. 1 (Fragm. Orat. Philipp. contra Lepid. §

6): O decus eximium magnis virtutibus augens,

Cat. 64, 323:

balnea Romae ad infinitum auxere numerum,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 122; 2, 16, 13, § 71:

veram potentiam augere,

Tac. A. 4, 41 (Halm, augeri).—Hence, auctus, a, um, P. a., enlarged, increased, great, abundant; in posit. only as subst.:

auctum vocabatur spatium, quod super definitum modum victoriae adjungitur,

Paul. Ex Fest. p. 14 Müll. — Comp.:

tanto mi aegritudo auctior est in animo,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 2:

auctior est animi vis,

Lucr. 3, 450:

auctior et amplior majestas,

Liv. 4, 2; 3, 68; 25, 16:

auctius atque Di melius fecere,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 3.—

* Sup.: auctissima basis, Treb. Gall. 18.— Adv. probably not in use, for in App. Met. 4, p. 290 Oud., altius is the correct reading.

dēfīnĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a.

To bound, to set bounds to; to limit, terminate, define (for syn. v. decerno—freq. in Cic.).

Lit.:

ejus fundi extremam partem oleae directo ordine definiunt,

Cic. Caecin. 8, 22; cf. id. Rep. 2, 6:

orbes caeli aspectum nostrum definiunt,

id. Div. 2, 44; cf. id. N. D. 2, 40:

orbem terrarum (loca),

id. Balb. 28, 64;

imperium populi R.,

id. Sest. 31, 67 al. —

Trop.

To designate by limiting; to limit, define, determine; to explain (cf. circumscribo, no. II. A.):

genus universum brevi circumscribi et definiri potest,

Cic. Sest. 45, 97; cf. id. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

universam et propriam oratoris vim,

id. ib. 1, 15:

definienda res erit verbis et breviter describenda,

id. Inv. 1, 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 24; 2, 31 fin.: omitto innumerabiles viros, etc.... unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis, etc., this only I declare, etc., id. ib. 1, 1 fin.: probe definitur a Stoicis fortitudo, cum eam virtutem esse dicunt propugnantem pro aequitate, id. Off. 1, 19; 1, 27, 96; id. Fin. 2, 2 et saep.:

nec uno modo definitur res eadem,

Quint. 7, 3, 16; Tac. A. 6, 28 et saep.:

aedes sibi optimas, hortos, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 8, 3, 9; cf.:

ut suus cuique locus erat definitus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 4:

tempus adeundi,

id. ib. 7, 83, 5: cf.:

ante quem diem iturus sit,

id. B. C. 1, 11, 2:

annos,

Quint. 12, 6, 1:

consulatum in annos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 82, 4; cf.:

potestatem in quinquennium,

Cic. Agr. 2, 13:

ut quam vitam ingrediar, definias,

id. Ac. 2, 36; cf. id. Quint. 27:

non remittam: definitum est,

it is determined, decided, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 43; Cic. Fat. 5, 9; Vulg. 1 Reg. 20, 33.—

In opposition to breadth or laxity (cf. circumscribo, no. II. 2), to limit within certain bounds, to restrict, confine:

non vagabitur oratio mea longius atque eis fere ipsis definietur viris, qui, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 3:

quae sententia definit amicitiam paribus officiis ac voluntatibus,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58; cf. id. de Or. 3, 28, 109: ex perduellium numero definitus, included in the definition of, Off. 3, 29, 107 (dub.). —

To terminate, finish (very rare;

perh. only in the foll. places): ut totam hujus generis orationem concludam atque definiam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52 Zumpt; id. Or. 19 fin.: definito juvene, ended, i. e. slain, Apul. M. 8, p. 203, 20.—Hence, dēfīnītus, a, um, P. a. (according to no. I. B. 1), definite, limited, distinct, precise; plain, perspicuous (rare, but good prose): quaestionum duo sunt genera: alterum infinitum, alterum definitum. Definitum est, quod hupothesin Graeci, nos causam, etc., Cic. Top. 21;

so opp. generales,

Quint. 7, 2, 1:

certum esse in caelo ac definitum locum, ubi, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13;

so with certus,

id. Fam. 3, 8; Quint. 7, 10, 7:

quaestiones,

Cic. Top. 24 fin.—Adv.: dē-fīnītē, definitely, precisely, distinctly, [p. 531] etc., Cic. Balb. 14; de Or. 2, 27, 118; Plin. Pan. 88, 6; Gell. 1, 257 al.— Comp. and sup. do not occur.

dēfīnĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a.

To bound, to set bounds to; to limit, terminate, define (for syn. v. decerno—freq. in Cic.).

Lit.:

ejus fundi extremam partem oleae directo ordine definiunt,

Cic. Caecin. 8, 22; cf. id. Rep. 2, 6:

orbes caeli aspectum nostrum definiunt,

id. Div. 2, 44; cf. id. N. D. 2, 40:

orbem terrarum (loca),

id. Balb. 28, 64;

imperium populi R.,

id. Sest. 31, 67 al. —

Trop.

To designate by limiting; to limit, define, determine; to explain (cf. circumscribo, no. II. A.):

genus universum brevi circumscribi et definiri potest,

Cic. Sest. 45, 97; cf. id. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

universam et propriam oratoris vim,

id. ib. 1, 15:

definienda res erit verbis et breviter describenda,

id. Inv. 1, 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 24; 2, 31 fin.: omitto innumerabiles viros, etc.... unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis, etc., this only I declare, etc., id. ib. 1, 1 fin.: probe definitur a Stoicis fortitudo, cum eam virtutem esse dicunt propugnantem pro aequitate, id. Off. 1, 19; 1, 27, 96; id. Fin. 2, 2 et saep.:

nec uno modo definitur res eadem,

Quint. 7, 3, 16; Tac. A. 6, 28 et saep.:

aedes sibi optimas, hortos, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 8, 3, 9; cf.:

ut suus cuique locus erat definitus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 4:

tempus adeundi,

id. ib. 7, 83, 5: cf.:

ante quem diem iturus sit,

id. B. C. 1, 11, 2:

annos,

Quint. 12, 6, 1:

consulatum in annos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 82, 4; cf.:

potestatem in quinquennium,

Cic. Agr. 2, 13:

ut quam vitam ingrediar, definias,

id. Ac. 2, 36; cf. id. Quint. 27:

non remittam: definitum est,

it is determined, decided, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 43; Cic. Fat. 5, 9; Vulg. 1 Reg. 20, 33.—

In opposition to breadth or laxity (cf. circumscribo, no. II. 2), to limit within certain bounds, to restrict, confine:

non vagabitur oratio mea longius atque eis fere ipsis definietur viris, qui, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 3:

quae sententia definit amicitiam paribus officiis ac voluntatibus,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58; cf. id. de Or. 3, 28, 109: ex perduellium numero definitus, included in the definition of, Off. 3, 29, 107 (dub.). —

To terminate, finish (very rare;

perh. only in the foll. places): ut totam hujus generis orationem concludam atque definiam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52 Zumpt; id. Or. 19 fin.: definito juvene, ended, i. e. slain, Apul. M. 8, p. 203, 20.—Hence, dēfīnītus, a, um, P. a. (according to no. I. B. 1), definite, limited, distinct, precise; plain, perspicuous (rare, but good prose): quaestionum duo sunt genera: alterum infinitum, alterum definitum. Definitum est, quod hupothesin Graeci, nos causam, etc., Cic. Top. 21;

so opp. generales,

Quint. 7, 2, 1:

certum esse in caelo ac definitum locum, ubi, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13;

so with certus,

id. Fam. 3, 8; Quint. 7, 10, 7:

quaestiones,

Cic. Top. 24 fin.—Adv.: dē-fīnītē, definitely, precisely, distinctly, [p. 531] etc., Cic. Balb. 14; de Or. 2, 27, 118; Plin. Pan. 88, 6; Gell. 1, 257 al.— Comp. and sup. do not occur.

ē-vādo, si, sum, 3 ( perf. sync. evasti, Hor. S. 2, 7, 68; Sil. 15, 796; perf. evadi. Treb. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 5, 6), v. n. and a.

Neutr., to go or come out, go forth (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

si (apes) ex alvo minus frequentes evadunt,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 36:

ex aqua,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 86:

ex balineis,

Cic. Cael. 27, 65:

oppido,

Sall. J. 56, 5:

undis,

Verg. A. 9, 99:

puteo,

Phaedr. 4, 9, 11:

abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1:

per praeruptum saxum in Capitolium,

Liv. 5, 46:

in terram,

to disembark, to land, id. 29, 27 fin. —

In an upward direction:

ex abditis sedibus evadere atque exire,

Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95:

evado ad summi fastigia culminis,

mount up, ascend, Verg. A. 2, 458:

ad parietem,

Suet. Ner. 48:

in murum, muros, moenia,

Liv. 2, 17; 4, 34; 10, 17:

in jugum,

id. 33, 8:

in cacumen,

Curt. 7, 11:

super capita hostium,

id. 5, 3 et saep.—

In partic., to get away, escape:

aut e morbo evasurum aegrotum, aut e periculo navem, aut ex insidiis exercitum,

Cic. Div. 2, 5, 13: ex fuga, * Caes. B. G. 3, 19, 4:

e manibus hostium,

Liv. 22, 49:

ex judicio,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5:

e tanto periculo,

Liv. 42, 18:

periculo,

id. 21, 33:

adverso colle, sicuti praeceptum fuerat, evadunt,

Sall. J. 52, 3; cf. id. ib. 50 fin.; Liv. 1, 12 fin.; 10, 1 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., to go or come out, pass out, escape:

accedit, ut eo facilius animus evadat ex hoc aëre eumque perrumpat, quod, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19; cf.:

ex corpore (animus),

id. de Sen. 22, 80; and:

cum ab iis... evaseris, id Tusc. 1, 41, 98: ad conjecturam,

to arrive at, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 20:

ne in infinitum quaestio evadat,

Quint. 2, 17, 16. —

In an upward direction:

nitamur semper ad optima: quod facientes aut evademus in summum, aut certe multos infra nos videbimus,

Quint. 12, 11, 30.—

In partic., to turn out, fall out, end in some manner, to have an issue of some kind, to result, to turn to or become something:

ex communibus proprii, ex fucosis firmi suffragatores evadunt,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 9, 35; cf. Cic. Or. 27, 95; id. Fin. 4, 25, 69:

quos judicabat non posse oratores evadere,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 126:

fuit autem Athenis adulescens, perfectus Epicureus evaserat,

id. Brut. 35, 131; 87, 299; id. Fin. 4, 28, 78:

ita molles mentes evadunt civium,

id. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.:

juvenis evasit vere indolis regiae,

Liv. 1, 39:

quod tu ejusmodi evasisti,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69:

nimis saepe secus videmus evadere,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 43.—Of abstract subjects:

ut ita fastidiosae mollesque mentes evadant civium, ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 43 fin.:

si quando aliquod somnium verum evaserit,

id. Div. 2, 53:

vereor ne haec quoque laetitia vana evadat,

Liv. 23, 12:

quoniam primum vanum inceptum evasisset,

id. 35, 47 et saep.:

intellego hercle: sed quo evadas nescio,

what you are driving at, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 44: quam timeo, quorsum evadas, where you are coming out in your story, Ter. And. 1, 1, 100; 1, 2, 5:

nimia illaec licentia Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum,

id. Ad. 3, 4, 64:

demiror quid sit, et quo evadat, sum in metu,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 68; cf. Cic. Att. 14, 19 fin.:

videamus, hoc quorsum evadat,

id. ib. 9, 18, 4; Nep. Dion. 8, 1:

huccine (beneficia),

to end in this, Sall. J. 14, 9:

in morbos longos,

Liv. 27, 33, 6.—

Pregn., to come to pass, be fulfilled:

aliquando id, quod somniarimus, evadere,

Cic. Div. 2, 59;

for which: si somnium verum evasit aliquod,

id. ib. 2, 71, 146.

Act. (mostly poet. and post-Aug.; not in Cic.), to pass over or pass a thing, to get over, pass beyond, leave behind.

Lit.

In gen.:

omnem videbar evasisse viam,

Verg. A. 2, 730:

tot urbes,

id. ib. 3, 282:

vada, arva,

Ov. M. 3, 19:

amnem,

Tac. A. 12, 35:

limen harae,

Col. 7, 9, 13:

vestibulum (apes),

id. 9, 12, 1 et saep.—

In an upward direction:

sic fata gradus evaserat altos,

had mounted the steps, Verg. A. 4, 685:

ardua,

to climb, ascend, Liv. 2, 65. —

In partic., to get away, flee, escape from, = effugere:

alicujus manus,

Verg. A. 9, 560:

loca mortis,

Ov. M. 14, 126:

flammam,

Verg. A. 5, 689:

angustias,

Liv. 21, 32; 38, 2:

nocturnas insidias,

Suet. Caes. 74: aliquem, Tiber. ap. Suet. Tib. 61.—

Trop.

In gen.: vitam, to depart from, i. e. to die, App. M. 4, p. 140.—

In an upward direction:

si haec quoque jam lenius supina perseverantibus studiis evaseris,

hast climbed, ascended, Quint. 12, 10, 79.—

In partic., to escape, get rid of: aegritudinem, Lucil. ap. Non. 294, 7:

necem,

Phaedr. 4, 6, 4:

gravem casum,

Tac. A. 14, 6:

sermones malignorum,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 3 et saep.

ex-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to draw out or forth, to drag out (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

rete ex aqua,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 124:

telum e corpore,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19:

gladium e vulnere,

Quint. 4, 2, 13;

for which: telum de vulnere,

Ov. M. 12, 119:

vivum puerum alvo,

Hor. A. P. 340; cf.:

filium exsecto ventre,

Dig. 5, 2, 6:

spinas, venena corpori,

Plin. 28, 18, 76, § 245; 7, 2, 2, § 13; cf.:

anulum sibi deficienti,

Suet. Tit. 73:

ut sine labore hanc (aquam) extraxi!

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 4:

vires humerorum (natae) ad aratra extrahenda,

to draw forward, draw, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159.—With personal objects:

aliquem e latebra,

Suet. Vit. 17; cf.: extrahitur domo latitans Oppianicus [p. 710] a Manilio, Cic. Clu. 13, 39:

rure in urbem,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 11:

senatores vi in publicum,

Liv. 26, 13, 1:

hostes invitos in aciem,

id. 8, 29, 11:

aliquem turba oppositis humeris,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 94.—

Esp., med. t. t.

Dentis extrahere, i. e. by medicinal means, Plin. 32, 7, 26, § 79 (cf.: dentem evellere, i. e. by force).—

Of cuppingglasses:

sanguinem extrahere,

Cels. 2, 11 init. —

Trop.

In gen., to withdraw, extricate, release; to draw out, extract, eradicate:

urbem ex periculis maximis,

Cic. Sest. 4, 11; cf.:

me inde,

Ter. Ph. 1, 4, 3:

nescis, Parmeno, Quantum hodie profueris mihi et ex quanta aerumna extraxeris,

id. Hec. 5, 4, 36:

imbecilliores adjuvabit malisque opinionibus extrahet,

Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

se rebus humanis,

to take one's own life, Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 3:

(scelera) ex occultis tenebris in lucem,

Liv. 39, 16, 11:

secreta mentis (verberum vis),

Sen. Hippol. 884:

Epicurus ex animis hominum extraxit radicitus religionem,

Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 121; id. Ac. 2, 34, 108: cf.:

hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus philosophia se extracturam pollicetur,

id. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.—

In partic., of time, to draw out, protract, prolong:

res variis calumniis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1:

se tergiversando in adventum ejus rem extracturum,

Liv. 34, 46, 5:

certamen usque ad noctem,

id. 4, 41, 5:

pugnam in posterum,

Tac. A. 4, 73:

bellum in tertium annum,

Liv. 3, 2, 2:

somnum plerumque in diem,

Tac. G. 22:

has materias in infinitum,

Quint. 4, 1, 43:

dicendi morā dies,

Caes. B. C. 1, 32, 3:

triduum disputationibus,

id. ib. 1, 33, 3:

diem de die,

Sen. Ben. 2, 5 fin.:

primum tempus noctis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 5:

aestatem,

id. B. G. 5, 22, 4; Liv. 32, 9, 10 et saep.:

eludi atque extrahi se multitudo putare,

Liv. 2, 23, 13; cf.:

populumque ducesque incertis,

Stat. Th. 3, 575:

mentem,

id. ib. 1, 323.

immensus ( inm-), a, um, adj. [inmensus], immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense (freq. and class.; syn.: infinitus, ingens, interminatus).

Adj.

Lit.:

si immensam et interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videretis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54:

aëra deum statuit eumque gigni esseque immensum et infinitum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 26:

ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis,

id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

in mari immenso vehi,

id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

domus,

Ov. F. 6, 640:

mons,

Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 96:

via,

Ov. P. 3, 3, 78:

fines ingenii,

Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214:

series laborum,

Ov. H. 9, 5:

jacuitque per antrum Immensus,

Verg. A. 3, 632; cf.:

omnis eorum juventus infinita numero, immensa corporibus,

Vell. 2, 106, 1:

argenti pondus et auri,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17; Hor. S. 1, 1, 41: pretiis [p. 892] emere, Suet. Calig. 39:

observata sunt haec tempore immenso,

Cic. Div. 1, 7, 12:

nox,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 25.—

Trop., vast, measureless, boundless:

morae,

Ov. H. 1, 82:

fletus,

id. M. 10, 136:

immensa vorago aut gurges vitiorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

immensae, infinitae, immoderatae cupiditates,

Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34:

sitis cruoris,

Ov. M. 13, 768:

difficultas,

Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4:

differentia,

id. 36, 5, 4, § 20: fervet immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore, fathomless (the fig. being taken from a river), Hor. C. 4, 2, 7:

immensum est, erratas dicere terras,

there is no end of recounting, Ov. F. 4, 573; cf.:

quod persequi immensum est,

Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.— Sup. (very rare):

immensissimae voluptates,

Spart. Hadr. 19.—

Subst.: immensum, i, n., a boundless extent, immense size, boundlessness, immensity (rare;

not in Cic.): extra Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,

Lucr. 1, 74; cf. id. 1, 957:

loci,

Liv. 5, 37, 5:

per immensum ventis discordibus actus,

Ov. M. 4, 620:

proruta per immensum aedificia,

over a vast extent, Tac. A. 15, 40:

aliquid mercari immenso,

at an enormous price, Plin. 9, 40, 64, § 138:

mons saxeus in immensum editus,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

ardet in immensum geminatis ignibus Aetne,

Ov. M. 2, 220:

ad immensum aliquid augere,

Liv. 29, 25, 3:

aliquid immenso plus laudare,

immoderately, Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92. —

Adv.: immensum, without end, exceedingly, immensely (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

creverat immensum,

Ov. F. 5, 537:

immensum attolli,

Tac. A. 4, 40:

vigere,

id. ib. 3, 30:

luxus immensum proruperat,

id. ib. 3, 52:

immensum quantum hinc Oceano, illinc Hiberico mari conprimentibus,

exceedingly, Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 110; 16, 36, 66, § 172.

immensus ( inm-), a, um, adj. [inmensus], immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense (freq. and class.; syn.: infinitus, ingens, interminatus).

Adj.

Lit.:

si immensam et interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videretis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54:

aëra deum statuit eumque gigni esseque immensum et infinitum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 26:

ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis,

id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

in mari immenso vehi,

id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

domus,

Ov. F. 6, 640:

mons,

Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 96:

via,

Ov. P. 3, 3, 78:

fines ingenii,

Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214:

series laborum,

Ov. H. 9, 5:

jacuitque per antrum Immensus,

Verg. A. 3, 632; cf.:

omnis eorum juventus infinita numero, immensa corporibus,

Vell. 2, 106, 1:

argenti pondus et auri,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17; Hor. S. 1, 1, 41: pretiis [p. 892] emere, Suet. Calig. 39:

observata sunt haec tempore immenso,

Cic. Div. 1, 7, 12:

nox,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 25.—

Trop., vast, measureless, boundless:

morae,

Ov. H. 1, 82:

fletus,

id. M. 10, 136:

immensa vorago aut gurges vitiorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

immensae, infinitae, immoderatae cupiditates,

Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34:

sitis cruoris,

Ov. M. 13, 768:

difficultas,

Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4:

differentia,

id. 36, 5, 4, § 20: fervet immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore, fathomless (the fig. being taken from a river), Hor. C. 4, 2, 7:

immensum est, erratas dicere terras,

there is no end of recounting, Ov. F. 4, 573; cf.:

quod persequi immensum est,

Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.— Sup. (very rare):

immensissimae voluptates,

Spart. Hadr. 19.—

Subst.: immensum, i, n., a boundless extent, immense size, boundlessness, immensity (rare;

not in Cic.): extra Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,

Lucr. 1, 74; cf. id. 1, 957:

loci,

Liv. 5, 37, 5:

per immensum ventis discordibus actus,

Ov. M. 4, 620:

proruta per immensum aedificia,

over a vast extent, Tac. A. 15, 40:

aliquid mercari immenso,

at an enormous price, Plin. 9, 40, 64, § 138:

mons saxeus in immensum editus,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

ardet in immensum geminatis ignibus Aetne,

Ov. M. 2, 220:

ad immensum aliquid augere,

Liv. 29, 25, 3:

aliquid immenso plus laudare,

immoderately, Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92. —

Adv.: immensum, without end, exceedingly, immensely (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

creverat immensum,

Ov. F. 5, 537:

immensum attolli,

Tac. A. 4, 40:

vigere,

id. ib. 3, 30:

luxus immensum proruperat,

id. ib. 3, 52:

immensum quantum hinc Oceano, illinc Hiberico mari conprimentibus,

exceedingly, Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 110; 16, 36, 66, § 172.

immensus ( inm-), a, um, adj. [inmensus], immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense (freq. and class.; syn.: infinitus, ingens, interminatus).

Adj.

Lit.:

si immensam et interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videretis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54:

aëra deum statuit eumque gigni esseque immensum et infinitum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 26:

ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis,

id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

in mari immenso vehi,

id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

domus,

Ov. F. 6, 640:

mons,

Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 96:

via,

Ov. P. 3, 3, 78:

fines ingenii,

Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214:

series laborum,

Ov. H. 9, 5:

jacuitque per antrum Immensus,

Verg. A. 3, 632; cf.:

omnis eorum juventus infinita numero, immensa corporibus,

Vell. 2, 106, 1:

argenti pondus et auri,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17; Hor. S. 1, 1, 41: pretiis [p. 892] emere, Suet. Calig. 39:

observata sunt haec tempore immenso,

Cic. Div. 1, 7, 12:

nox,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 25.—

Trop., vast, measureless, boundless:

morae,

Ov. H. 1, 82:

fletus,

id. M. 10, 136:

immensa vorago aut gurges vitiorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

immensae, infinitae, immoderatae cupiditates,

Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34:

sitis cruoris,

Ov. M. 13, 768:

difficultas,

Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4:

differentia,

id. 36, 5, 4, § 20: fervet immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore, fathomless (the fig. being taken from a river), Hor. C. 4, 2, 7:

immensum est, erratas dicere terras,

there is no end of recounting, Ov. F. 4, 573; cf.:

quod persequi immensum est,

Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.— Sup. (very rare):

immensissimae voluptates,

Spart. Hadr. 19.—

Subst.: immensum, i, n., a boundless extent, immense size, boundlessness, immensity (rare;

not in Cic.): extra Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,

Lucr. 1, 74; cf. id. 1, 957:

loci,

Liv. 5, 37, 5:

per immensum ventis discordibus actus,

Ov. M. 4, 620:

proruta per immensum aedificia,

over a vast extent, Tac. A. 15, 40:

aliquid mercari immenso,

at an enormous price, Plin. 9, 40, 64, § 138:

mons saxeus in immensum editus,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

ardet in immensum geminatis ignibus Aetne,

Ov. M. 2, 220:

ad immensum aliquid augere,

Liv. 29, 25, 3:

aliquid immenso plus laudare,

immoderately, Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92. —

Adv.: immensum, without end, exceedingly, immensely (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

creverat immensum,

Ov. F. 5, 537:

immensum attolli,

Tac. A. 4, 40:

vigere,

id. ib. 3, 30:

luxus immensum proruperat,

id. ib. 3, 52:

immensum quantum hinc Oceano, illinc Hiberico mari conprimentibus,

exceedingly, Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 110; 16, 36, 66, § 172.