ad+voluntatem

ē-nuntĭo ( enuncio), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to say out (esp. something that should be kept secret), to divulge, disclose, to report, tell.

Prop. (good prose):

ut, quod meae concreditumst taciturnitati clam, ne enuntiarem, quoiquam,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 106:

sociorum consilia adversariis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 17, 5:

rem Helvetiis per indicium,

id. ib. 1, 4, 1; cf.:

dolum Ciceroni per Fulviam,

Sall. C. 28, 2:

mysteria,

Cic. Mur. 11, 25; id. de Or. 1, 47, 206; cf. Liv. 10, 38; 23, 35; Caes, B. G. 1, 31, 2; 5, 58, 1 et saep.— With acc. and inf., Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 66.— Absol., Caes. B. G. 1, 30 fin. —

Transf., in gen., to speak out, say, express, declare (for the most part only in Cic. and Quint. in the rhetor., dialect., and gram. signif.):

cum inflexo commentatoque verbo res eadem enuntiatur ornatius,

Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 168:

sententias breviter,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 20:

obscena nudis nominibus,

Quint. 8, 3, 38:

voluntatem aliquam,

id. 3, 3, 1; cf. id. 9, 1, 16; 8, 3, 62: fundamentum dialecticae est, quicquid enuntietur (id autem appellant axiôma, quod est quasi effatum) aut verum esse, aut falsum, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 29 fin. —Cf. in the part. subst.: ēnuntiā-tum, i, n., a proposition, = enuntiatio, Cic. Fat. 9, 19, and 12, 28.—

To pronounce, utter:

(litterae) quae scribuntur aliter quam enuntiantur,

Quint. 1, 7, 28; cf. id. 1, 5, 18; 1, 11, 4; 2, 11, 4 al.: masculino genere cor, ut multa alia, enuntiavit Ennius, Caesell. ap. Gell. 7, 2, 4.

ex-tendo, di, tum (also extensum, Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145; Ov. A. A. 3, 302; Stat. Th. 6, 902 al.; cf. the forms extensio, extensor, etc.), 3, v. a., to stretch out, spread outextend (class.).

Lit.:

(vincla escaria) quam magis extendas, tanto astringunt artius,

Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 19: idem Crassus, Per tuas statuas cum dixit et extento bracchio paululum etiam de gestu addidit, vehementius risimus, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242;

for which: (Zeno) cum extensis digitis adversam manum ostenderet,

id. Ac. 2, 47, 145:

manum,

Quint. 11, 3, 119; cf. Cels. 7, 23 fin.:

cervicem,

Vell. 2, 70, 2: crura ad [p. 707] longitudinem, Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183:

cutem,

to stretch out, smooth out, id. 32, 6, 21, § 65:

chartam malleo,

id. 13, 12, 26, § 82:

lineam,

id. 9, 59, 85, § 182:

capita tignorum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 1:

cornua aciei,

Curt. 4, 13 fin.; cf.:

agmen ad mare,

id. 3, 9 fin.:

majores pennas nido,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 21:

extendit pectitque comas,

Juv. 6, 496: labellum, to stretch as in pouting, id. 14, 325:

gladios,

to forge, id. 15, 168.—Mid.:

jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles,

to extend themselves, spread out, Ov. M. 1, 43:

ignis extenditur per campos,

spreads, Verg. A. 10, 407; and:

cum ad summum palum vitis extenta est,

Col. 4, 20, 3:

fusus humi totoque ingens extenditur antro,

stretches himself out, Verg. A. 6, 423.—Prov.: ire per extentum funem, to walk on a tight rope, i. e. to perform a very difficult feat, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 210 (Gr. epi schoiniou peripatein).

Trop., to extend, increase, enlarge, lengthen, spread.

In gen.:

epistolam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 20:

agros (populus Rom. victor),

to extend, Hor. A. P. 208:

verba (opp. corripere),

Quint. 10, 1, 29:

perculit et multa moribundum extendit arenā,

stretched out, extended, Verg. A. 5, 374; 9, 589:

tam immodice epistulam extendi, ut, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 16; 3, 5, 20; 5, 15, 7:

famam factis,

Verg. A. 10, 468; cf.:

nomen in ultimas oras,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 45:

cupiditatem gloriae,

Liv. 28, 43, 5:

spem in Africam quoque,

id. 24, 48, 1:

artem suam per hanc successionem,

Petr. 140:

pretia usque eo extendens, ut, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 38:

extentis itineribus,

by forced marches, Liv. 30, 19, 1:

cursus,

to proceed, Verg. A. 12, 909:

partitionem ultra tres propositiones,

Quint. 4, 5, 3:

voluntatem suam ad ulteriores,

Dig. 32, 1, 33:

officium suum ad lapidum venditionem,

ib. 20, 4, 21:

cum se magnis itineribus extenderet,

i. e. was exerting himself, Caes. B. C. 3, 77 fin.:

se supra vires,

Liv. 34, 4, 15:

magis ille extenditur,

is excited, Juv. 11, 169.—

In partic., of time, to extend, prolong, continue; to spend, pass:

ab hora tertia cum ad noctem pugnam extendissent,

Liv. 27, 2, 6:

comissationes ad mediam noctem,

Suet. Tit. 7:

labores in horam quintam,

Mart. 4, 8, 3:

luctus suos,

Val. Max. 1, 1, 15:

curas venientem in annum,

extends his thoughts to the coming year, Verg. G. 2, 405:

tempus epularum,

Plin. Pan. 49, 5;

consulatum,

id. ib. 61, 6;

extento aevo vivere,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 5; Sil. 3, 95:

suam aetatem,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 26:

se ad centesimum annum, i. e. vitam,

Val. Max. 5, 2 ext. 4.— Hence,

extentus, a, um, P. a., extended, extensive, wide:

mare, fontes extentaque longe flumina,

Lucr. 1, 230 Lachm. N. cr. (al. externa):

stagna latius Lucrino lacu,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 3:

oculi,

wide open, Quint. 11, 3, 76:

sonus (lusciniae),

drawn out, prolonged, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82.— Sup.:

castra inter confragosa omnia praeruptaque quam extentissima potest valle locat,

Liv. 21, 32, 9 Drak. N. cr.:

spatia,

Sol. 52.— Adv.: ex-tente, widely; only comp.:

quadratus eminet stilus extentius,

Amm. 23, 4, 2 (dub.):

porrecto extentius brachio,

id. 18, 6, 13.—

extense, adv., at length, extensively (post-class.):

dominus extensius ista disponit,

Tert. Idol. 2.

extrārĭus, a, um, adj. [extra], outward, external, extrinsic (rare but class.).

In gen.:

lux,

Lucr. 4, 277:

utilitas aut in corpore posita est aut in extrariis rebus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 56, 168:

res,

id. ib. 2, 59, 177; cf.:

aut in extrariam aut in ipsius qui periit voluntatem,

Quint. 7, 2, 9:

defensio,

Auct. Her. 2, 13, 19.—

In partic., as respects one's family, strange, unrelated; and subst., a stranger (cf. extraneus):

hanc condicionem si cui tulero extrario,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 13:

extrarii (opp. mei),

App. Flor. p. 359:

sub extrario accusatore et legibus agente (opp. in domesticis disceptationibus),

Quint. 7, 4, 9:

extrarios reliquit heredes,

Dig. 38, 2, 36 et saep.—Connected with ab: ut me esse in hac re ducat abs te extrarium? Afran. ap. Non. 103, 11.

flŭo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic form of the sup.: FLUCTUM, acc. to Prisc. p. 817 P.; cf.: fluo, fluctum, Not. Tir. From this form are derived fluctio and fluctus. In Lucr. 6, 800, the correct read. is laveris, not flueris, v. Lachm. ad h. l.), v. n. [Gr. phlu-, phlusai, anaphluô, etc.; Lat. fleo, fletus; flumen, fluctus, etc.; orig. one root with fla-, to blow, q. v. and cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 302], to flow (cf.: mano, labor, etc.).

Lit.: per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint,

Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78:

flumen quod inter eum et Domitii castra fluebat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1; cf.

also: aurea tum dicat per terras flumina vulgo Fluxisse,

Lucr. 5, 911:

fluvius Eurotas, qui propter Lacedaemonem fluit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

Helvetiorum inter fines et Allobrogum Rhodanus fluit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 2:

Arar in utram partem fluat,

id. ib. 1, 12, 1:

ea, quae natura fluerent atque manarent, ut aqua,

Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 39: fluens unda, water from a stream (opp.: putealis unda, spring-water), Col. 1, 5, 1:

in foveam,

Lucr. 2, 475; cf. id. 5, 271:

fluxit in terram Remi cruor,

Hor. Epod. 7, 19; cf. Luc. 6, 61:

imber,

Ov. P. 4, 4, 2:

sanguis,

id. M. 12, 312:

fluit de corpore sudor,

id. ib. 9, 173; cf.:

sudor fluit undique rivis,

Verg. A. 5, 200:

aes rivis,

id. ib. 8, 445:

nudo sub pede musta fluunt,

Ov. R. Am. 190:

madidis fluit unda capillis,

drips, id. M. 11, 656:

cerebrum molle fluit,

id. ib. 12, 435:

fluunt lacrimae more perennis aquae,

id. F. 2, 820:

fluens nausea,

Hor. Epod. 9, 35; cf.:

alvus fluens,

Cels. 2, 6:

fluit ignibus aurum,

becomes fluid, melts, Ov. M. 2, 251.—

Transf.

Of bodies, to flow, overflow, run down, drip with any fluid.— With abl.:

cum fluvius Atratus sanguine fluxit,

Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98; Ov. M. 8, 400:

cruore fluens,

id. ib. 7, 343:

sudore fluentia brachia,

id. ib. 9, 57; cf.:

fluunt sudore et lassitudine membra,

Liv. 38, 17, 7; 7, 33, 14; cf. id. 10, 28, 4:

pingui fluit unguine tellus,

Val. Fl. 6, 360:

vilisque rubenti Fluxit mulctra mero,

overflows, Sil. 7, 190. —Without abl.:

madidāque fluens in veste Menoetes,

Verg. A. 5, 179:

fluentes cerussataeque buccae,

dripping with paint, Cic. Pis. 11, 25 (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266, 2. b. infra):

Graeculae vites acinorum exiguitate minus fluunt,

i. e. yield but little wine, Col. 3, 2, 24; 3, 2, 5; 12, 52, 1.—With acc. of kin. signif.:

Oenotria vina fluens,

Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 264.—

To move in the manner of fluids, to flow, stream, pour:

inde alium (aëra) supra fluere,

to flow, Lucr. 5, 514 and 522:

unde fluens volvat varius se fluctus odorum,

id. 4, 675 sq.; cf.:

principio omnibus a rebus, quascumque videmus, Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora, quae feriant oculos visumque lacessant: Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor a sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris,

id. 6, 922 sq.:

aestus e lapide,

id. 6, 1002:

venti,

id. 1, 280:

fluit undique victor Mulciber,

Sil. 17, 102:

comae per levia colla fluentes,

flowing, spreading, Prop. 2, 3, 13; cf.:

blanditiaeque fluant per mea colla rosae,

id. 4 (5), 6, 72:

vestis fluens,

flowing, loose, id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 32:

tunicisque fluentibus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 301:

nodoque sinus collecta fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320; cf.

also: balteus nec strangulet nec fluat,

Quint. 11, 3, 140:

nec mersa est pelago, nec fluit ulla ratis,

floats, is tossed about, Mart. 4, 66, 14:

ramos compesce fluentes,

floating around, spreading out, Verg. G. 2, 370:

ad terram fluit devexo pondere cervix,

droops, id. ib. 3, 524:

omnisque relictis Turba fluit castris,

pour forth, id. A. 12, 444:

olli fluunt ad regia tecta,

id. ib. 11, 236;

so of a multitude or crowd of men: densatis ordinibus effuse fluentem in se aciem excepere,

Curt. 6, 1, 6.—

Pregn., of bodies, to pass away, fall away, to fall off or out, to vanish:

excident gladii, fluent arma de manibus,

Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8:

capilli fluunt,

Cels. 6, 1; Plin. 27, 4, 5, § 17:

sponte fluent (poma) matura suā,

Ov. Am. 2, 14, 25:

quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo,

Lucr. 2, 69; cf.:

cuncta fluunt omnisque vagans formatur imago,

Ov. M. 15, 178: dissolvuntur enim tum demum membra fluuntque, Lucr. 4, 919:

surae fluxere,

Luc. 9, 770:

buccae fluentes,

fallen in, lank, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266.

Trop.

In gen., to flow, spring, arise, come forth; to go, proceed:

ex ejus (Nestoris) lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio,

Cic. de Sen. 10, 31:

carmen vena pauperiore fluit,

Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 20:

Calidii oratio ita libere fluebat, ut nusquam adhaeresceret,

Cic. Brut. 79, 274:

in Herodoto omnia leniter fluunt,

Quint. 9, 4, 18; cf.

also: grammatice pleno jam satis alveo fluit,

id. 2, 1, 4:

quae totis viribus fluit oratio,

id. 9, 4, 7:

oratio ferri debet ac fluere,

id. 9, 4, 112.— Transf., of the writer himself:

alter (Herodotus) sine ullis salebris quasi sedatus amnis fluit,

Cic. Or. 12, 39; cf.:

(Lucilius) cum flueret lutulentus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 11; 1, 10, 50; 1, 7, 28:

facetiis,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 12:

multa ab ea (luna) manant et fluunt, quibus animantes alantur augescantque,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50:

haec omnia ex eodem fonte fluxerunt,

id. ib. 3, 19, 48:

dicendi facultatem ex intimis sapientiae fontibus fluere,

Quint. 12, 2, 6; 5, 10, 19; 5, 9, 14:

omnia ex natura rerum hominumque fluere,

id. 6, 2, 13:

nomen ex Graeco fluxisse,

id. 3, 4, 12:

ab isto capite fluere necesse est omnem rationem bonorum et malorum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 34; Quint. 1, 1, 12:

unde id quoque vitium fluit,

id. 11, 3, 109; 7, 3, 33:

Pythagorae doctrina cum longe lateque flueret,

spread itself, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2:

multum fluxisse video de libris nostris variumque sermonem,

id. N. D. 1, 3, 6:

sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora,

flow, pass, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23:

in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem nostram fluentibus,

going, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: rebus supra votum fluentibus, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 169 (Hist. 1, 101 Dietsch); Tac. H. 3, 48; Just. 23, 3; cf.:

rebus prospere fluentibus,

succeeding, prospering, Tac. Or. 5; id. A. 15, 5: illius rationes quorsum fluant, proceed, Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 4; cf.:

res fluit ad interregnum,

Cic. Att. 4, 16, 11;

cuncta in Mithridatem fluxere,

Tac. A. 11, 9.—

In partic.

Of speech, etc., to flow uniformly, be monotonous:

efficiendum est ne fluat oratio, ne vagetur, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

quod species ipsa carminum docet, non impetu et instinctu nec ore uno fluens,

Tac. A. 14, 16; cf. Cic. Brut. 79.—Pregn., to dissolve, vanish, perish:

qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus fluimusque mollitia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

fluens mollitiis,

Vell. 1, 6, 2; 2, 88, 2:

cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi, nec diutius esse uno et eodem statu,

Cic. Or. 3, 10:

fluit voluptas corporis et prima quaeque avolat,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 106:

fluentem procumbentemque rem publicam populi Romani restituere,

Vell. 2, 16 fin. —Hence,

fluens, entis, P. a.

Lax, relaxed, debauched, enervated, effeminate:

inde soluti ac fluentes non accipiunt e scholis mala ista, sed in scholas afferunt,

Quint. 1, 2, 8:

Campani fluentes luxu,

Liv. 7, 29, 5:

incessu ipso ultra muliebrem mollitiem fluentes,

Sen. Tranq. 15:

fluentibus membris, incessu femineo,

Aug. Civ. D. 7, 26.—

Of speech,

Flowing, fluent:

sed in his tracta quaedam et fluens expetitur, non haec contorta et acris oratio,

Cic. Or. 20, 66:

lenis et fluens contextus,

Quint. 9, 4, 127.—

Lax, unrestrained:

ne immoderata aut angusta aut dissoluta aut fluens sit oratio,

Cic. Or. 58, 198:

dissipata et inculta et fluens oratio,

id. ib. 65, 220;

and transf. of the speaker: in locis ac descriptionibus fusi ac fluentes sumus,

Quint. 9, 4, 138.— Adv.: flŭenter, in a flowing, waving manner (very rare):

res quaeque fluenter fertur,

Lucr. 6, 935 (but not ib. 520, where the correct read. is cientur;

v. Lachm.): capillo fluenter undante,

App. M. 2, p. 122, 7. —

fluxus, a, um, P. a. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit., flowing, fluid:

elementa arida atque fluxa, App. de Mundo: sucus,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

vas fluxum pertusumque,

i. e. leaking, Lucr. 6, 20.—

Transf., flowing, loose, slack:

ipsa crine fluxo thyrsum quatiens,

Tac. A. 11, 31:

habena,

Liv. 38, 29, 6:

amictus,

Luc. 2, 362; cf.:

ut cingeretur fluxiore cinctura,

Suet. Caes. 45 fin.:

fluxa arma,

hanging slack, loose, Tac. H. 2, 99.—

Pregn., frail, perishable, weak:

corpora,

Tac. H. 2, 32; cf.:

spadone eviratior fluxo,

Mart. 5, 41, 1:

(murorum) aevo fluxa,

Tac. H. 2, 22. —

Trop.

Lax, loose, dissolute, careless:

animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

Sall. C. 14, 5: cf.:

animi fluxioris esse,

Suet. Tib. 52:

duces noctu dieque fluxi,

Tac. H. 3, 76:

spectaculum non enerve nec fluxum,

Plin. Pan. 33, 1:

fluxa atque aperta securitas,

Gell. 4, 20, 8.—

Pregn., frail, weak, fleeting, transient, perishable:

res nostrae ut in secundis fluxae, ut in adversis bonae,

decayed, impaired, disordered, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 1: hujus belli fortuna, ut in secundis, fluxa;

ut in adversis, bona,

id. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2:

res humanae fluxae et mobiles,

Sall. J. 104, 2:

divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,

id. C. 1, 4; cf.:

instabile et fluxum,

Tac. A. 13, 19:

fluxa auctoritas,

id. H. 1, 21:

cave fidem fluxam geras,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

fides,

Sall. J. 111, 2; Liv. 40, 50, 5; cf.:

fluxa et vana fides,

unreliable, unstable, id. 28, 6, 11; Tac. H. 2, 75; 4, 23:

studia inania et fluxa,

id. A. 3, 50 fin.:

fluxa senio mens,

id. ib. 6, 38.— Adv.: fluxē, remissly, negligently (post-class. and rare):

more vitae remissioris fluxius agens,

Amm. 18, 7.

fŏvĕo, fōvi, fōtum, 2, v. a. [Corss. assumes a root bhag-, to be hot; Gr. phôgein, to roast; O. H. Germ. bachan; Germ. backen; Engl. bake; hence, fovere for fog-vēre; favilla for fag-villa; and to this refers: favere, faustus, etc., Ausspr. 1, 142; 2, 1004; but cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 188, and v. faveo], to warm, keep warm (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.; syn.: calefacio: faveo, studeo, adjuvo, etc.).

Lit.:

nisi sol sua pro parte fovet tribuitque calorem,

Lucr. 1, 807; cf. id. 1, 1033:

ut et pennis (pullos) foveant, ne frigore laedantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf.:

pulli a matribus exclusi fotique,

id. ib. 2, 48, 124:

fetus rigentes apprimendo pectori,

Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 127:

laridum atque epulas foveri foculis ferventibus,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 67:

quos sancta fovet ille manu, bene vivitis ignes,

i. e. keeps up, Ov. F. 3, 427;

for which, in a different construction: fovet ignibus aras,

id. M. 7, 427:

nomen in marmore lectum Perfudit lacrimis et aperto pectore fovit,

warmed the name with her naked breast, id. ib. 2, 339.—

Transf., to cherish, foster any thing.

Physically. So of diseased parts of the body, to foment (whether with warm or cold remedies):

dumque manet corpus, corpus refoventque foventque,

Ov. M. 8, 536:

nares exulceratas fovere oportet vapore aquae calidae,

Cels. 6, 8:

multa aqua prius calida, post egelida fovendum os caputque,

id. 4, 2, 4:

genua calido aceto,

Col. 6, 12, 4:

nervos cortice et foliis in vino decoctis,

Plin. 24, 9, 37, § 58; 32, 9, 34, § 106:

cutem lacte asinino,

id. 28, 12, 50, § 183:

os quoque multa frigida aqua fovendum est,

Cels. 1, 5; 1, 3 init.:

cutem frigida et ante et postea,

Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 184:

vulnus lymphă,

Verg. A. 12, 420.— Poet., in gen. (a favorite word with Vergil): interdum gremio fovet inscia Dido (puerum), cherishes, holds in her lap, Verg. A. 1, 718:

germanam sinu,

id. ib. 4, 686:

cunctantem lacertis amplexu molli,

i. e. to embrace, enfold, id. ib. 8, 388:

animas et olentia Medi ora fovent,

id. G. 2, 135:

ipse aeger, anhelans Colla fovet,

i. e. leans against the tree, id. A. 10, 838: castra fovere, to remain in the camp (the figure being that of a bird brooding over its nest), id. ib. 9, 57:

(coluber) fovit humum,

id. G. 3, 420;

and transf. to a period of time: nunc hiemem inter se luxu, quam longa, fovere, Regnorum immemores,

sit the winter through, pass the winter, id. A. 4, 193.—

Mentally, to cherish, caress, love, favor, support, assist, encourage:

scribis de Caesaris summo in nos amore. Hunc et tu fovebis et nos quibuscumque poterimus rebus augebimus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9; cf.:

inimicum meum sic fovebant, etc.,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 10:

Vettienum, ut scribis, et Faberium foveo,

id. Att. 15, 13, 3:

et eo puto per Pomponium fovendum tibi esse Hortensium,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 8; cf. also Quint. 1, 2, 16:

(duo duces) pugnantes hortabantur et prope certa fovebant spe,

encouraged, animated, Liv. 38, 6, 5:

tribuni plebis in cooptandis collegis patrum voluntatem foverunt,

id. 3, 65, 1; cf.:

res alicujus,

id. 24, 36, 9; 26, 36, 6:

spem potentioris,

id. 40, 5, 5:

rex statuerat utram foveret partem,

id. 42, 29, 11; cf. id. 5, 3, 9:

consilia alicujus,

Tac. H. 1, 46:

spectator populus hos, rursus illos clamore et plausu fovebat,

id. ib. 3, 83:

tu mihi gubernacula rei publicae petas fovendis hominum sensibus et deleniendis animis et adhibendis voluptatibus?

by pampering, Cic. Mur. 35, 74:

partes alicujus,

Tac. H. 1, 8; 1, 14:

adolescentiam alicujus exhortationibus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1; cf.:

ut propria naturae bona doctrina foverent,

Quint. 2, 8, 3:

ingenia et artes,

Suet. Vesp. 18:

quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet,

i. e. dwell upon, think over, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1:

vota animo,

Ov. M. 7, 633:

spem,

Mart. 9, 49, 4:

nequiquam eos perditam spem fovere,

Liv. 22, 53, 4; cf. Tac. H. 1, 62; Val. Max. 6 praef. § 9; cf. conversely: ut spes vos foveat, may sustain you, Just. Inst. prooem. 7:

hoc regnum dea gentibus esse, jam tum tenditque fovetque,

cherishes, Verg. A. 1, 18: dum illud tractabam, de quo antea scripsi ad te, quasi fovebam dolores meos (the fig. being taken from the fomenting of diseased parts of the body;

v. above, II. A.),

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

pantomimos fovebat effusius,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 4.

in-cĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to set in rapid motion, to hasten, urge forwards; and with se, to put one ' s self in rapid motion, to hasten, rush (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

vehementius equos incitare,

Caes. B. C. 2, 41, 4:

saxa per pronum,

Sall. H. 3, 22 Dietsch:

hastas,

Val. Fl. 1, 409:

stellarum motus tum incitantur, tum retardantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103:

naves longas remis,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 1; cf.:

lintres magno sonitu remorum incitatae,

id. ib. 7, 60, 4:

navigio remis incitato,

id. ib. 3, 14, 6:

alii ex castris sese incitant,

sally out, id. B. C. 2, 14, 3; cf.:

cum ex alto se aestus incitavisset,

had rushed in, id. B. G. 3, 12, 1; and:

quo major vis aquae se incitavisset,

id. ib. 4, 17, 7: duabus ex partibus sese (naves) in eam (navem) incitaverant, id. B. C. 2, 6, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 24, 3.—Prov.: incitare currentem, to spur a willing horse, i. e. to urge a person who does not need urging, Cic. Phil. 3, 8, 19; cf. id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16; v. curro.—

In partic., to cause to grow larger, i. e. to augment, increase, to promote the growth of (not ante-Aug.; cf.

excito, I. B.): hibernis (Enipeus amnis) incitatus pluviis,

swollen, Liv. 44, 8, 6:

frequentibus fossuris terra permiscetur, ut incitari vitis possit,

Col. 4, 22, 3; 4, 33. fin.; 3, 21, 7.—

Trop., to incite, encourage, stimulate, rouse, excite, spur on.

In gen.:

aliquem imitandi cupiditate,

Cic. Brut. 92, 317:

quibus (causis) mentes aut incitantur aut reflectuntur,

id. de Or. 1, 32, 53:

animos, opp. sedare,

id. Or. 19, 63:

ipsum ingenium diligentia etiam ex tarditate incitat,

id. ib. 2, 35, 147:

quorum studio legendi meum scribendi studium in dies incitatur,

id. Div. 2, 2, 5:

quamquam ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi,

id. de Or. 3, 60, 226:

stultas cogitationes,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 10, 4:

quoniam ad hanc voluntatem ipsius naturae stimulis incitamur,

Cic. Rep. 1, 2 fin.; cf.:

juvenes ad studium et ad laborem,

id. de Or. 1, 61, 262:

aliquem ad servandum genus hominum,

id. Fin. 3, 20, 66:

multa Caesarem ad id bellum incitabant,

Caes. B. G. 3, 10, 1:

aliquem ad bellum atque arma,

Liv. 1, 27, 3:

aliquem ad amplissimam spem,

Suet. Caes. 7:

cujus voluptatis avidae libidines temere et effrenate ad potiundum incitarentur,

Cic. de Sen. 12, 39:

incitabant (animum ferocem) praeterea conrupti civitatis mores,

Sall. C. 5, 8:

cum tibia lumbos incitat,

Juv. 6, 315. —

In partic.

To inspire. nam terrae vis Pythiam Delphis incitabat, naturae Sibyllam, Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79:

mente incitati,

id. Ac. 2, 5, 14; id. Cat. 63, 93.—

In a bad sense, to excite, arouse, stir up:

neque enim desunt, qui istos in me atque in optimum quemque incitent,

Cic. Fl. 28, 66; cf. id. Fam. 12, 2, 1:

et consules senatum in tribunum et tribunus populum in consules incitabat,

Liv. 4, 2, 1:

his vocibus cum in se magis incitarent dictatorem,

id. 8, 33, 1:

opifices facile contra vos incitabuntur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 144 (shortly before, concitentur); Hirt. B. G. 8, 35 fin.:

milites nostri pristini diei perfidiā incitati,

Caes. B. G. 4, 14, 3:

civitas ob eam rem incitata,

id. ib. 1, 4:

judices,

Quint. 6, 4, 10.—

(Acc. to I. B.) To augment, increase, enhance:

consuetudo exercitatioque et intellegendi prudentiam acuit et eloquendi celeritatem incitat,

Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90; so,

caelibum poenas,

Tac. A. 3, 25.—Hence, incĭtātus, a, um, P. a. (set in rapid motion; hence), swiftly running, flowing, sailing, flying, etc.; in gen., rapid, swift.

Lit.:

imperator equo incitato se in hostes immittens,

at full speed, Cic. N. D. 3, 6, 15:

equo incitato,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12 fin. (for which: citato equo;

v. cito): milites cursu incitato in summo colle ab hostibus conspiciebantur,

advancing rapidly, id. ib. 2, 26, 3; cf.

in the foll. B.: mundi incitatissima conversio,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18 (shortly before: conversio concitatior).—

Trop.:

cursus in oratione incitatior,

Cic. Or. 59, 201; cf.

so of speech: Herodotus sine ullis salebris quasi sedatus amnis fluit: Thucydides incitatior fertur,

id. ib. 12, 39.— Adv.: incĭtātē (acc. to B.), of speech, quickly, rapidly, violently:

fluit incitatius,

Cic. Or. 63, 212:

quod incitatius feratur (locutio),

id. ib. 20, 67.

incumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, ĕre, v. n. [1. incubo], to lay one ' s self upon, to lean or recline upon a thing (cf. ingruo; class., partic. in the trop. sense).

Lit., constr. with in, ad, super, or dat.; also with the simple acc.:

olivae,

Verg. E. 8, 16:

in parietem,

Dig. 39, 2, 28:

densis ordinibus nunc alii in alios, nunc in scuta incumbentes sustinebant impetus Romanorum,

Liv. 35, 5, 7:

toro,

Verg. A. 4, 650:

materiae,

Curt. 8, 10, 25:

terrae,

Tac. A. 2, 17:

super praedam,

to lie upon, Petr. 80:

in eum,

Curt. 6, 9: ad vos, Ov. M. 9, 385:

cumulatis in aqua sarcinis insuper incumbebant,

Liv. 22, 2, 8:

validis incumbere remis,

Verg. A. 5, 15; 10, 294; Curt. 9, 9, 4.—Of the heavens:

cava in se convexitas vergit, et cardini suo, hoc est terrae, undique incumbit,

Plin. 2, 64, 64, § 160:

mare,

to cast itself into the sea, id. 5, 32, 40, § 141: fessi arma sua, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 229:

tecto incubuit bubo,

perched on, Ov. M. 6, 432:

gladium faciam culcitam, camque incumbam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 29.—

Transf., to lean or incline towards, to overhang; to rush towards:

silex prona jugo laevum incumbebat ad amnem,

Verg. A. 8, 236:

laurus incumbens arae,

id. ib. 2, 514: in gladium, to fall on one ' s sword, Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

gladio,

Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18:

ferro,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 33:

in hostem,

to press upon the enemy, Liv. 30, 34, 2; cf.:

duo duces circumstare urbem... et unum in locum totam periculi molem, omne onus incubuisse,

id. 27, 40, 6.—

Trop.

To press upon, burden, oppress, weigh upon:

incubuere (venti) mari,

Verg. A. 1, 84:

tempestas a vertice silvis incubuit,

id. G. 2, 311:

gravis incumbens scopulis aestas,

id. ib. 2, 377:

febrium terris incubuit cohors,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 30:

(aestus) incubuit populo,

Lucr. 6, 142. — Absol.:

saevior armis Luxuria incubuit,

Just. 6, 292.—

To bend one ' s attention to, to apply or devote one ' s self to, to exert one ' s self, or take pains with, pay attention to; constr. with in, ad, or dat.:

rogandis legibus,

Flor. 3, 16:

ceris et stilo,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 9:

labori,

Sil. 4, 820:

toto pectore novae cogitationi,

Tac. Or. 3:

et animo et opibus in bellum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

ut jam inclinato (judici) reliqua incumbat oratio,

press upon, exert influence on, Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 324; cf.:

invidia mihi incumbit,

Tac. A. 14, 54:

in aliquod studium,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

in causam,

id. Phil. 4, 5, 12:

acrius graviusque ad ulciscendas rei publicae injurias,

id. ib. 6, 1, 2:

tota mente in aliquam curam et cogitationem,

id. Fam. 10, 3, 3:

toto pectore ad laudem,

id. ib. 10, 12, 2:

omni cogitatione curaque in rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 2:

fato urguenti incumbere,

to press on, hasten, Verg. A. 2, 653.—With inf.:

sarcire ruinas,

Verg. G. 4, 249:

delatorem pervertere,

Tac. H. 2, 10.—With ut and subj.:

Appius Claudius... cum suis tum totius nobilitatis viribus incubuit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 10, 15, 8.— Absol.:

nunc, nunc incumbere tempus,

Ov. M. 10, 657.—

To incline, choose, be inclined to, lean towards:

hoc servi esse officium reor,... non quo incumbat eum (i. e. erum) inpellere,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 8:

ut eos, qui audiunt, quocumque incubuerit, possit impellere,

whithersoever he may incline, choose, Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 55:

eodem incumbunt municipia,

are inclined the same way, id. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

ad voluntatem perferendae legis,

id. Att. 1, 19, 4:

voluntatum inclinatio ad virum bonum,

to lean towards, turn to, id. Mur. 26, 53: in causam, Cael. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3:

in cupiditatem,

Cic. Att. 5, 13, 3:

in illo,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6.—

To be incumbent upon one as a duty (post-class.):

accusandi necessitas domino,

Dig. 48, 2, 5:

ei probatio,

ib. 22, 3, 2:

judici omnium rerum officium,

ib. 21, 1, 25.

ingĕnĭum, ii, n. [in-geno, from gigno], innate or natural quality, nature.

In gen. (so mostly poet.; in Sall. and in postAug. prose;

not in Cic. or Cæs.): pro ingenio ego me liberum esse ratus sum, pro imperio tuo tibi servire aequom censeo,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 22: ite in frundiferos locos Ingenio arbusta ubi nata sunt, non obsita, by their own nature, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1 (Trag. Rel. v. 28 Rib.); so,

loci,

Sall. H. 3, 18 Dietsch:

locorum hominumque ingenia,

Liv. 28, 12, 11; Tac. A. 6, 41; id. H. 1, 51; Flor. 2, 6, 16 al.:

terrae,

Liv. 37, 54, 21:

montis,

Tac. H. 2, 4; cf.:

campi suopte ingenio humentes,

id. ib. 5, 14:

arvorum,

Verg. G. 2, 177;

and, portūs,

Sil. 14, 283:

arbores sui cujusque ingenii poma ferunt,

Col. 3, 1, 2:

lactis ingenia et proprietates,

Gell. 12, 1, 14:

ingenium velox igni, Sev. Aetn. 214: crines ingenio suo flexi,

naturally, Petr. 126:

ut magistratus imperio suo vehemens mansueto permitteretur ingenio,

Liv. 2, 30, 4; cf.:

cum honesta suopte ingenio peterentur,

in consequence of its own nature, Tac. A. 3, 26:

mitis ingenio,

id. ib. 6, 15:

cunctator ingenio,

id. ib. 15, 1:

ingenio trux,

id. H. 1, 21.—

Rarely of beasts: mitior ad feras bestias, praecipitia ingenia sortitas,

Curt. 8, 1, 35.—

In partic., of persons.

Natural disposition, temper, mode of thinking, character, bent, inclination:

feci ego ingenium meum,

have acted out, Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 2:

ita ingenium meumst,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

ut ingenium est omnium hominum ab labore proclive ad lubidinem,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 50:

liberale,

id. ib. 4, 5, 59:

pium ac pudicum,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 77:

durum atque inexorabile,

id. Phorm. 3, 2, 12:

inhumanum,

id. Eun. 5, 2, 41:

lene in liberos,

id. Heaut. 1, 1, 99:

utinam nunc matrescam ingenio,

Pac. Con. Rel. v. 139 Rib. (1 Rib., maturescam):

mobile,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 22:

cicur et mansuetum,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 91 Müll.:

inverecundum animi,

Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 83: vera loqui etsi meum ingenium non moneret. Liv. 3, 68, 9:

ingenio suo vivere,

id. 3, 36, 1: redire ad ingenium, to return to one ' s natural bent, to one ' s old courses, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 46:

Volscis levatis metu suum rediit ingenium,

Liv. 2, 22, 3: quae maxime ad muliebre ingenium efficaces preces sunt, id. 1, 9, 16:

vanum dictatoris,

id. 1, 27, 1:

mitis ingenii juvenem,

id. 1, 46, 4:

Turni ferox,

id. 1, 51, 7:

temperare suum,

to control his temper, id. 8, 36, 5:

horrida,

Curt. 4, 6, 3:

molliora,

id. 5, 6, 18:

humana,

id. 5, 10, 13:

felix,

Sen. Ep. 95, 36:

rapax,

id. ad Helv. 17, 4:

atrox,

Tac. A. 4, 50:

procax,

id. H. 3, 32: ingenium ingeni, in Plautus, signifies peculiarity of disposition, Stich. 1, 2, 69.—

Concr. collect.:

tanto corruptius iter immixtis histrionibus et spadonum gregibus et cetero Neronianae aulae ingenio,

the people who gave character to the court, Tac. H. 2, 71.—

With respect to intelligence.

Natural capacity, talents, parts, abilities, genius:

docilitas, memoria, quae fere appellantur uno ingenii nomine,

Cic. Fin. 5, 13, 36:

ingenium ad fingendum,

id. Font. 14, 30:

excellens ac singulare,

id. de Or. 2, 74, 298:

vir acerrimo ingenio,

id. Or. 5, 18:

cujus tanta vis ingenii est, ut, etc.,

id. de Or. 2, 74, 299:

tardum,

id. ib. 2, 27, 117:

acutum aut retusum,

id. de Div. 1, 36, 72:

eximium,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

praestantissimum,

id. Fin. 2, 16, 51:

magnum,

id. Ac. 2, 1, 1:

illustre,

id. Cael. 1, 1:

oratorium,

Tac. Dial. 10:

pulcherrimum et maximum,

Plin. Ep. 8, 12, 4:

hebetatum, fractum, contusum,

id. ib. 8, 14, 9:

celeres ingenii motus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 113:

ingenii acies,

id. ib. 3, 5, 20:

ingenii lumen,

id. Brut. 15, 59:

ingenii vis,

id. Phil. 5, 18, 49:

ingenii vena,

Hor. C. 2, 18, 9:

ingenii vigor,

Ov. M. 8, 254:

ingenii celeritas,

Nep. Eum. 1:

ingenii docilitas,

id. Att. 1:

ingenio abundare,

Cic. Fam. 4, 8, 1:

ingenio valere,

Quint. 1, 8, 8:

ingenio divino esse,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117:

ingenio hebeti esse,

id. Phil. 10, 8, 17:

in eo ingenium ejus elucere videbatis,

id. Cael. 19, 45:

colere et imbuere ingenium artibus,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 16:

acuere,

Quint. 1, 4, 7:

alere,

id. 1, 8, 8:

exercere multiplici variāque materiā,

id. 2, 4, 20:

versabatur in hoc nostro studio cum ingenio,

with cleverness, Cic. Fam. 13, 10, 2; so,

cum ingenio,

Dig. 1, 16, 9:

ingenii memoria immortalis est,

Sen. Polyb. 18, 2.— Plur.:

acutiora ingenia et ad intellegendum aptiora eorum, qui, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 16, 42:

aliae (partes agrorum) quae acuta ingenia gignant, aliae quae retusa,

intellects, id. Div. 1, 36, 79 fin. —

Transf.

A genius, i. e. a man of genius, a clever, ingenious person:

excepi voluntatem tam excellens ingenium fuisse in civitate,

Cic. Brut. 40, 147; id. Rep. 2, 1, 2; Liv. 41, 4, 3:

nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit,

Sen. Tranq. An. 17, 10. — Plur.:

ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 62:

decora,

Tac. A. 1, 1:

magna,

id. H. 1, 1:

nostra (i. e. oratores,

id. Dial. 1; id. Agr. 2; Sen. Ep. 2, 1; id. ad Polyb. 27, 1:

candidissimus omnium magnorum ingeniorum aestimator Livius,

id. Suas. 6, 22:

ingenia et artes vel maxime fovit,

Suet. Vesp. 18; id. Aug. 89:

id in magnis animis ingeniisque plerumque contingit,

Cic. Off. 1, 22, 74.—

Of things, an invention, a clever thought:

exquisita ingenia cenarum,

Plin. Pan. 49, 7; cf. Tac. H. 3, 28:

noctium suarum ingenia (= flagitiosae libidinis inventiones),

voluptuous inventions, id. A. 16, 20.

in-sĭnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to put, place, or thrust into the bosom (post-class.):

sicine vacuus et otiosus insinuatis manibus ambulabis,

with folded arms, App. M. 9, p. 219, 23:

manum in sinum,

Tert. Res. Carn. 28.—

To bring in by windings or turnings, to insinuate into; to cause a person or thing to get to a place by windings or turnings; and, in gen., to cause to arrive at or get to a place.

In gen.:

ratem terris,

to land, Avien. Arat. 312:

suum aestum per saepta domorum,

Lucr. 6, 860:

Romani quacumque data intervalla essent, insinuabant ordines suos,

pushed forward their files into the open spaces of the enemy, Liv. 44, 41.— Poet.:

et (tibi) omni tempore tam faciles insinuentur opes,

come to you, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 28.—

Esp., with se, to wind one ' s way into, to steal into; to insinuate or ingratiate one ' s self:

se inter equitum turmas,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33:

quā te insinuaveris, retro via repetenda,

Liv. 9, 2, 8:

cum (Romanus) insinuasset se inter corpus armaque,

id. 7, 10, 10:

qua se inter valles flumen insinuat,

winds along, id. 32, 31, 1:

Tigris Persico mari se insinuat,

Curt. 5, 3.—

Trop., to make favorably known to, to introduce, recommend.

In gen.:

Augusto insinuatus est,

Suet. Gramm. 21; id. Calig. 10; id. Oth. 2:

hoc est quod penitus illos animo Caesaris insinuavit,

Plin. Pan. 62; cf.:

vitam moresque feris mentibus,

Aur. Vict. de Orig. Gent. 3, 3.—

Esp., reflex. with se, etc.

With ad or in and acc.:

his nos rebus insinuabimus ad causam,

will make our way to, get to, Auct. Her. 1, 6, 10:

se in antiquam philosophiam,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 34:

se ad aliquam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 27:

se in familiaritatem alicujus,

Cic. Caecin. 5, 13:

se in amicitiam cum aliquo,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 94; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, § 157:

se in forum,

id. Phil. 5, 3, 8:

se in familiarem usum,

Liv. 40, 21, 11:

se in eorum sermonem,

Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 12.—

Absol.:

callidus ille ne se insinuet, studiose cavendum est,

Cic. Lael. 26, 99:

eadem qua te insinuaveris via retro repetenda est,

Liv. 9, 2, 8:

celeriter dato loco cum se insinuasset, Auct. B. Alex. 52, 2: praefecto regis se,

Just. 5, 2, 5:

plebi se,

Liv. 3, 15, 2.—

To introduce to, initiate into:

adest tibi dies, quo per istas meas manus piissimis sacrorum arcanis insinueris,

App. M. 11, p. 268.—

To make known, publish (post-class.):

voluntatem suam heredibus,

Dig. 32, 1, 11, § 2; Rutil. Nam. 1, 590.—

Neutr., to wind or steal into, to make one ' s way or get into, to penetrate, enter, reach, arrive at; constr. with in and acc. or dat.: inde in amicitiam insinuavit cum matre et mecum simul. Blanditiis, etc., Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 93:

penitus insinuare in causam,

to penetrate thoroughly into, to acquire a complete knowledge of, Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 149; cf.:

ad causam,

Auct. Her. 1, 6, 10:

in ipsius consuetudinem insinuabo,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6:

novus per pectora cunctis Insinuat pavor,

Verg. A. 2, 229:

Italiaeque urbes dextram insinuantis in undam,

winding, reaching to, Manil. 4, 602: et blandiri suppliciter et subtiliter insinuare eis, a quibus, etc., i. e. to steal into favor with, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90.

inter, adv., and prep. with acc. [kindred to in, intra; Sanscr. antar; Goth. undar; Germ. unter; Engl. under].

Adv., in the midst, in between ( poet. and rare):

dumque pii petit ora patris stetit arduus inter pontus,

Val. Fl. 5, 337:

tot montibus inter diviso,

id. 6, 220; 8, 382. —

Prep., with acc., between, belwixt, among, amid, surrounded by.

Lit., in space.

Of position only.

Referring to two places or objects, between:

qui (mons Jura) est inter Sequanos et Helvetios,

Caes. B. G. 1, 2:

cum inter me et Brundisium Caesar esset,

Cic. Att. 9, 2:

inter Padum atque Alpes,

Liv. 5, 35:

ager Tarquiniorum, qui inter urbem ac Tiberim fuit,

id. 2, 5:

locus inter duos lucos,

id. 1, 8, 5:

apud Artemisium inter Euboeam continentemque terram,

id. 2, 5, 2; so,

inter haec maria Asia,

Curt. 3, 1, 13.—

Referring to more than two places or objects, among, in the midst of:

inter hostium tela versari,

Cic. de Or. 1, 46:

inter multos saucios spe incertae vitae relictus,

Liv. 2, 17, 4:

rex inter primos constiterat,

Curt. 5, 3, 9:

inter multitudinem,

Liv. 22, 13, 2:

inter lignarios,

id. 35, 41, 10:

repertae inter spolia catenae,

Tac. A. 2, 18:

vicos aut inter vias manere,

Suet. Caes. 39:

inter ingentes solitudines,

Sall. J 89, 4:

inter deserta ferarum Lustra domosque,

Verg. A. 3, 646.— So, even with a noun in the sing., in the midst of, surrounded by:

erat inter ceteram planitiem mons,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

tibicines inter exercitum positi,

Gell. 1, 11, 3:

inter caedem aquila,

Tac. A. 1, 60; cf.:

inter ceteram praedam,

Liv. 22, 16, 7; 8, 10, 10:

inter purpuram atque aurum,

id. 9, 17, 16. —

With verbs of motion.

Between, through, among:

inter medias stationes hostium erupere,

Liv. 35, 11:

acies inter bina castra procedunt,

id. 4, 18, 3; Tac. A. 14, 33:

inter oppositas classes transmisit,

Suet. Caes. 58:

spatiabatur in nemore Parmenion medius inter duces,

Curt. 7, 2, 23:

medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit,

Tac. A. 14, 33.—

Pregn., including motion to and position between or among things mentioned, among, into the midst of:

inter densas, umbrosa cacumina, fagos Adsidue veniebat,

Verg. E. 2, 3:

te mea dextera magna inter praemia ducet,

id. A. 12, 437:

dico te priore nocte venisse inter falcarios in Laecae domum,

among the scythe-makers, into the street of the scythe-makers, Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 8.—

Transf., of relations conceived as local.

In discrimination (doubt, choice, etc.), between two or more objects:

judicium inter deas tres,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 114; cf.:

inter Marcellos et Claudios patricios judicare,

id. de Or. 1, 39, 176:

inter has sententias dijudicare,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

inter diversas opiniones electio, Quint. prooem. 2: discrimen inter gratiosos cives atque fortes,

id. Balb. 21, 49:

inter optime valere et gravissime aegrotare nihil prorsus interesse,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 43:

qui bellum et pacem inter dubitabant,

Tac. A. 12, 32:

trepidare inter scelus metumque,

id. H. 3, 39:

inter pugnae fugaeque consilium,

Liv. 1, 27.—So, with inter repeated:

ut nihil inter te atque inter quadrupedem aliquam putes interesse,

Cic. Par. 1; id. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

quid intersit inter popularem civem et inter constantem, severum et gravem,

id. Lael. 25, 95.—

In expressing any relation which connects two or more persons, conceived as between or among them (strife, rivalry, friendship, intercourse, etc.).

In gen.:

quos inter magna fuit contentio,

Nep. Mil. 4, 4:

Nestor componere lites Inter Peliden festinat et inter Atriden,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 12:

certamen inter primores civitates,

Liv. 10, 6.—Esp., with pronouns, to express all reciprocal relations, among, with, or between one another; mutually, together:

quasi nunc non norimus nos inter nos,

Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 7; Cic. Div. 1, 28, 58; id. Att. 10, 4, 10; id. N. D. 1, 26, 51:

quod colloquimur inter nos,

with one another, id. de Or. 1, 8, 32; cf.:

inter nos naturā ad civilem communitatem conjuncti sumus,

id. Fin. 3, 20, 66:

vobis inter vos voluntatem fuisse conjunctam,

id. Div. in Caecil. 11, 34: Ciceronis pueri amant inter se, love one another (like the Fr. s ' entr ' aimer), id. Att. 6, 1, 12:

inter se consultare,

id. de Or. 2, 3, 13:

inter se amare,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 1:

neque solum se colent inter se ac diligent,

id. Lael. 22, 82:

Di inter se diligunt,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 122:

furtim inter se aspiciebant,

id. Cat. 3, 5, 13:

complecti inter se lacrimantes milites coepisse,

Liv. 7, 42:

haec inter se cum repugnent, plerique non vident,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, 72:

inter se nondum satis noti,

Liv. 21, 39:

ratio et oratio conciliat homines inter se,

Cic. Off. 1, 16, 50:

ne nostra nobiscum aut inter nos cessatio vituperetur,

id. Fam. 9, 3, 4:

quae res eos in magno diuturnoque bello inter se habuit,

Sall. J. 79, 3.—Sometimes pleon., the reciprocal relation being sufficiently expressed by the context:

manus conserentis inter se Romanos exercitus,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch:

Ulixes cum Ajace summa vi contendere inter se,

Dict. Cret. 5, 14:

conferti inter se,

id. 2, 46.—

So of things:

ita effici complexiones atomorum inter se,

mutual, reciprocal, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19:

colles duos inter se propinquos occupat,

near one another, Sall. J. 98, 3:

haud procul inter se erant,

id. ib. 41, 2:

multum inter se distant istae facultates,

Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 215:

res inter se similes,

Quint. 9, 2, 51:

inter se dissimilis,

id. 9, 4, 17.—

Of a common privacy, secrecy, etc.: inter nos, between or among ourselves, confidentially, like the Fr. entre nous:

nec consulto dicis occulte, sed quod inter nos liceat, ne tu quidem intellegis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 74:

quod inter nos liceat dicere,

id. Att. 2, 4:

quod inter nos sit,

but let that be between ourselves, Sen. Ep. 12, 2. —

With nouns denoting a multitude of persons, like apud (not ante-Aug.):

haudquaquam inter id genus contemptor habebatur,

Liv. 6, 34, 5:

inter hostes variae fuere sententiae,

id. 4, 18, 1:

credula fama inter gaudentes,

Tac. H. 1, 34:

more inter veteres recepto,

id. ib. 2, 85.—

Of a class of persons or things to which the subject is referred.

In gen., among:

homines inter suos nobiles,

Cic. Fl. 22, 52:

inter suos et honestus et nobilis,

id. Clu. 5, 11:

in oratoribus vero admirabile est, quantum inter omnes unus excellat,

id. Or. 2, 6:

inter philosophos (Xenophon) reddendus est,

Quint. 10, 1, 37:

ille Croesus, inter reges opulentissimus,

Sen. Contr. 2, 9:

Borysthenes inter Scythiae amnes amoenissimus,

Mel. 2, 1, 6.— So freq. with sup., inter and acc. take the place of a gen.:

honestissimus inter suos numerabatur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

plurimum inter eos valere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 4:

maximum imperium inter finitimos,

Liv. 5, 3, 10:

inter Atheniensīs longe clarissimi,

Curt. 4, 13, 15; Plin. 34, 8, 21, § 81; Petr. 78; Sen. Suas. 2, 7; 2, 12; Just. 12, 7, 2; 36, 2, 6.

Esp.: inter paucos, etc., [p. 977] among few, i. e. among the few select ones, eminently, especially:

pingunt et vestes in Aegypto inter pauca mirabili genere,

Plin. 35, 11, 42, § 150; cf.:

sternutamento utilis inter pauca,

id. 24, 11, 58, § 97:

pugna inter paucas memorata populi Romani clades,

Liv. 22, 7; cf.:

inter paucos disertus,

Quint. 10, 3, 13:

inter paucos familiarium Neroni assumptus est,

Tac. A. 16, 18:

claritudine paucos inter senum regum,

id. ib. 11, 10; so, inter alios: judicatur inter alios omnes beatus, qui in proelio profuderit animam, among all others to be noticed, i. e. especially, in the highest degree, Amm. 2, 3, 6; so,

inter cuncta,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 96:

inter omnia,

Curt. 3, 3, 18:

inter cetera,

Liv. 37, 12.—

In judic. lang., t. t.: inter sicarios, on the charge of assassination:

cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset,

Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54; id. Clu. 53, 147; cf.:

in recuperatorio judicio ejus maleficii, de quo inter sicarios quaeritur,

id. Inv. 2, 20, 60:

longo intervallo judicium inter sicarios hoc primum committitur,

id. Rosc. Am. 5, 11:

sexcenti sunt, qui inter sicarios et de veneficiis accusabant,

id. ib. 32, 90:

si ostenderis, quomodo sis eos inter sicarios defensurus,

id. Phil. 2, 4, 8.—

In some idiomatic phrases.

Inter manus, within reach, i. e. close at hand:

ante oculos interque manus sunt omnia vestras,

Verg. A. 11, 311; also, upon or in the hands:

inter manus domum ablatus,

Liv. 3, 13:

inter quas (manus) collapsus extinguitur,

Curt. 8, 2, 39:

inter manus auferri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28:

inter manus meas crevit,

under my hands, Sen. Ep. 12:

manus inter maestorumque ora parentum,

before their faces and within their reach, Verg. A. 2, 681.—

Inter viam, vias, on the way:

dum rus eo, coepi egomet mecum inter vias,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1; Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 43:

si se inter viam obtulerit,

Cic. Att. 4, 3, 5. —

Of time.

Between two dates or periods specified:

dies XLV. inter binos ludos,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52 fin.; Liv. 1, 3.—

During, in the course of, within; for which, in English, we sometimes use by or at:

quot prandia inter continuum perdidi triennium,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 61:

omnia agentur, quae inter decem annos nefarie flagitioseque facta sunt,

Cic. Verr. 1, 13; cf.:

qui inter annos tot unus inventus sit, quem, etc.,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 23, 68:

inter ipsum pugnae tempus,

Liv. 36, 20:

inter noctem lux orta,

id. 32, 29:

qui plus cernant oculis per noctem quam inter diem,

Gell. 9, 4.—

Freq., with substt., to denote an act performed at a certain time, in the course of, while:

haec inter cenam Tironi dictavi,

at table, Cic. Quint. Fragm. 3, 1, 6; cf.:

illuseras heri inter scyphos,

id. Fam. 7, 22:

inter fulmina et tonitrua,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

promptior inter tenebras affirmatio,

Tac. A. 2, 82:

inter initia,

at the beginning, Cels. 3, 25.—

During, and hence under the circumstances described, i. e. in spite of, notwithstanding:

nobis inter has turbas senatus tamen frequens flagitavit triumphum,

amid, in spite of these commotions, Cic. Fam. 16, 11:

utrumque consilium aspernatus, quod inter ancipitia deterrimum est, dum media sequitur,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

senum coloniae inter male parentes et injuste imperantes aegra municipia et discordantia,

id. Agr. 32; cf.:

ita neutris cura posteritatis inter infensos vel obnoxios,

id. H. 1, 1.—

Inter haec, inter quae, meanwhile, during this time:

= interea, inter haec major alius terror,

in the mean time, Liv. 2, 24; cf.:

inter haec jam praemissi Albam erant equites,

id. 1, 29; 3, 57, 7; 44, 10, 5; Curt. 3, 1, 1; Suet. Tib. 8; 63:

inter quae tribuni plebei petivere, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 15; 2, 34; 58; 3, 33; id. H. 1, 78; Curt. 4, 2, 10:

inter quae unctione uti licet,

Cels. 4, 2, 3.—

So with gerunds and gerundives: inter agendum,

at, while, Verg. E. 9, 24; Quint. 12, 3, 10:

inter disceptandum,

id. 12, 7, 6:

inter res agendas,

Suet. Caes. 45.—

In composition its final r is assimilated in intellego and its derivatives.

Between; as, intercedere, interponere. —

At intervals, from time to time; as, interaestuare, intermittere, intervisere.—

Under, down, to the bottom; as, interire, interficere.

in-tŭĕor, ĭtus, 2, v. dep. (in tmesi:

inque tueri,

Lucr. 4, 713; archaic form indo tuetur, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 18 = Ann. 73 Vahl.;

and intuor,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 150; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 23; Turp. ap. Non. 470, 30; Sen. Hippol. 898, and in the act. form intŭo, ĕre, Commod. 31, 1; 39, 5), to look at, upon, or towards (syn.: adspicio, contemplor, specto).

Lit., constr. with simple acc., or in and acc.

With simple acc.:

terram intuens modeste,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 32:

solem,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 19; id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

aliquid oculis,

id. Fam. 5, 17, 4:

ornamenta rei publicae,

id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

cum intueor et contemplor unumquemque vestrum,

id. Planc. 1:

huc atque illuc,

id. de Or. 1, 40: lasciviam piscium, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24:

terram,

Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 13:

me omnes intueri,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

ora omnium atque oculos,

id. Mil. 16, 42:

quid, ut noverca, me intueris?

Hor. Epod. 5, 9:

faciem alicujus,

Nep. Ages. 8, 1:

caelum,

Suet. Aug. 17:

nutum illius diligenter,

to watch, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61.—

Of situation: cubiculum montes intuentur,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 28.—

With in and acc.:

in speciem rerum intuens,

Cic. Univ. 10:

in te intuens,

id. Brut. 97, 331.—

Trop.

Of the mind, to regard, observe, contemplate, consider, give attention to.

With acc. (so most freq.):

ut tota mente Crassum atque omni animo intueretur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 89; cf.:

intentis oculis omnes rei publicae partes,

id. Agr. 2, 28:

voluntatem eorum qui audiunt,

id. Or. 8, 24:

mentis acies seipsam intuens,

id. Tusc. 1, 30:

oratores,

id. de Or. 1, 34, 156: potius, quid se facere par esset, intuebatur, quam quid alii laudaturi forent. he regarded more, had more respect for, Nep. Att. 9, 5; cf. id. Them. 7, 6:

rationem,

Quint. 3, 6, 83; 3, 8, 35 al.:

tempestatem impendentem,

Cic. Sest. 9:

id ille intuens,

Nep. Alcib. 4, 1. — In pass. part.:

intuendum quid affectet quisque,

Quint. 5, 10, 28:

non tam veteranos intuendos nobis,

Cic. Phil. 11, 15, 39.—

With adv.:

quo intuens,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 145.—

With in and acc.:

in summos homines,

Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 6:

tu in tuā mtuens te continebis,

id. Tusc. 2, 13, 31:

in aliquod majus malum,

id. ib. 3, 13, 28; id. Univ. 10 init.; Plin. Pan. 58, 8.—

With ad (rare):

ad finiendum bellum,

Liv. 36, 45.—

Esp., to regard with admiration, admire, wonder at:

Graeci sic te intuebuntur, ut quendam ex annalium memoria esse delapsum putent,

Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2, § 7:

sicut aliquem de caelo delapsum,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41.

sense, Amm. 23, 5, 13.

in-tŭĕor, ĭtus, 2, v. dep. (in tmesi:

inque tueri,

Lucr. 4, 713; archaic form indo tuetur, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 18 = Ann. 73 Vahl.;

and intuor,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 150; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 23; Turp. ap. Non. 470, 30; Sen. Hippol. 898, and in the act. form intŭo, ĕre, Commod. 31, 1; 39, 5), to look at, upon, or towards (syn.: adspicio, contemplor, specto).

Lit., constr. with simple acc., or in and acc.

With simple acc.:

terram intuens modeste,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 32:

solem,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 19; id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

aliquid oculis,

id. Fam. 5, 17, 4:

ornamenta rei publicae,

id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

cum intueor et contemplor unumquemque vestrum,

id. Planc. 1:

huc atque illuc,

id. de Or. 1, 40: lasciviam piscium, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24:

terram,

Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 13:

me omnes intueri,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

ora omnium atque oculos,

id. Mil. 16, 42:

quid, ut noverca, me intueris?

Hor. Epod. 5, 9:

faciem alicujus,

Nep. Ages. 8, 1:

caelum,

Suet. Aug. 17:

nutum illius diligenter,

to watch, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61.—

Of situation: cubiculum montes intuentur,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 28.—

With in and acc.:

in speciem rerum intuens,

Cic. Univ. 10:

in te intuens,

id. Brut. 97, 331.—

Trop.

Of the mind, to regard, observe, contemplate, consider, give attention to.

With acc. (so most freq.):

ut tota mente Crassum atque omni animo intueretur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 89; cf.:

intentis oculis omnes rei publicae partes,

id. Agr. 2, 28:

voluntatem eorum qui audiunt,

id. Or. 8, 24:

mentis acies seipsam intuens,

id. Tusc. 1, 30:

oratores,

id. de Or. 1, 34, 156: potius, quid se facere par esset, intuebatur, quam quid alii laudaturi forent. he regarded more, had more respect for, Nep. Att. 9, 5; cf. id. Them. 7, 6:

rationem,

Quint. 3, 6, 83; 3, 8, 35 al.:

tempestatem impendentem,

Cic. Sest. 9:

id ille intuens,

Nep. Alcib. 4, 1. — In pass. part.:

intuendum quid affectet quisque,

Quint. 5, 10, 28:

non tam veteranos intuendos nobis,

Cic. Phil. 11, 15, 39.—

With adv.:

quo intuens,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 145.—

With in and acc.:

in summos homines,

Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 6:

tu in tuā mtuens te continebis,

id. Tusc. 2, 13, 31:

in aliquod majus malum,

id. ib. 3, 13, 28; id. Univ. 10 init.; Plin. Pan. 58, 8.—

With ad (rare):

ad finiendum bellum,

Liv. 36, 45.—

Esp., to regard with admiration, admire, wonder at:

Graeci sic te intuebuntur, ut quendam ex annalium memoria esse delapsum putent,

Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2, § 7:

sicut aliquem de caelo delapsum,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41.

sense, Amm. 23, 5, 13.

călumnĭātor ( kălumnĭātor; v. the foreg.), ōris, m. [calumnior]; mostly t. t., a contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17;

Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus,

Dig. 50, 16, 223:

scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere,

Cic. Caecil. 23, 65:

calumniatores apponere,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27:

calumniatorem quaerere,

id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22;

2, 2, 10, § 26: egens,

id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.—

Trop.:

calumniator sui,

one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B. [p. 273]

mănĭfestō, adv., v. manifestus fin.

mănĭfesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [manifestus], to make public, discover, show clearly, exhibit, manifest ( poet. and postclass.):

aliquem latentem,

Ov. M. 13, 105:

gratam voluntatem,

Just. 24, 6, 10.—In pass.: quod vel ex eo manifestari, quod, was plain from the fact that, etc., Just. 11, 3, 10:

per se ipsa manifestata delectant,

revelations, Aug. Doctr. Chr. 4, 12 fin.

mitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (contr. form, misti for misisti, Cat. 14, 14: archaic inf. pass. mittier, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 78), v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. math-, to set in motion], to cause to go, let go, send, to send off, despatch, etc.

In gen.: ad Trojam cum misi ob defendendam Graeciam, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 28 (Trag. v. 362 Vahl.):

filium suum foras ad propinquum suum quendam mittit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66:

signa... quam plurima quam primumque mittas,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2:

legatos de deditione ad eum miserunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

pabulatum mittebat,

id. B. C. 1, 40:

scitatum oracula,

Verg. A. 2, 114:

Delphos consultum,

Nep. Them. 2, 6:

missus sum, te ut requirerem,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 42:

ego huc missa sum ludere,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 48:

equitatum auxilio Caesari Aedui miserant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

alicui subsidium,

id. ib. 2, 6:

ad subsidium,

Hirt. Balb. Hisp. 9, 1:

misi, pro amicitiā, qui hoc diceret,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

qui solveret,

id. Att. 1, 3, 2:

mittite ambo hominem,

Gai. Inst. 4, 16.—With acc. and inf.:

Deiotarus legatos ad me misit, se cum omnibus copiis esse venturum,

sent me word that, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 5:

ad collegam mittit, opus esse exercitu,

Liv. 24, 19, 3:

Publilius duo milia militum recepta miserat,

id. 8, 23, 1:

Dexagoridas miserat ad legatum Romanum traditurum se urbem,

id. 34, 29, 9:

statim Athenas mittit se cum exercitu venturum,

Just. 5, 3, 7. Missum facere is also used for mittere, to send: ut cohortis ad me missum facias, Pompei. ap. [p. 1153] Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 2:

aliquem morti,

to put to death, despatch, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 34; so,

ad mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 97:

in possessionem,

to put in possession, id. Quint. 26, 83:

aliquem ad cenam,

to invite one to dinner, id. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 65: sub jugum mittere, to send or cause to go under the yoke, Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

sub jugo,

Liv. 3, 28 fin. —

In partic.

To send word, announce, tell, report any thing to any one:

ut mihi vadimonia dilata et Chresti conpilationem mitteres,

Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1:

Curio misi, ut medico honos haberetur,

id. ib. 16, 9, 3:

mitti ad principes placuit, ut secernerent se ab Etruscis,

Liv. 6, 10, 2:

hodie Spintherem exspecto: misit enim Brutus ad me,

Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:

salutem alicui,

to send greeting to, to greet one, Ov. Tr. 5, 13, 1:

ita existimes velim, me antelaturum fuisse, si ad me misisses, voluntatem tuam commodo meo,

i. e. if you had sent to me for aid, applied to me, Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 1.—

To send as a compliment, to dedicate to any one, of a book or poem:

liber Antiochi, qui ab eo ad Balbum missus est,

Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16:

hunc librum de Senectute ad te misimus,

id. Sen. 1, 3.—

To send, yield, produce, furnish, export any thing (as the product of a country):

India mittit ebur, molles sua tura Sabaei,

Verg. G. 1, 57:

(Padus) electra nuribus mittit gestanda Latinis,

Ov. M. 2, 366; cf.:

quos frigida misit Nursia,

Verg. A. 7, 715:

hordea, quae Libyci ratibus misere coloni,

Ov. Med. Fac. 53:

quas mittit dives Panchaia merces,

Tib. 3, 2, 23; Ov. A. A. 3, 213; id. Am. 1, 12, 10.—

To dismiss a thing from the mind:

maestumque timorem Mittite,

Verg. A. 1, 203:

mittere ac finire odium,

Liv. 40, 46:

leves spes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 8:

missam iram facere,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 14.—

To put an end to, end:

certamen,

Verg. A. 5, 286.—

Esp. in speaking, etc., to pass over, omit, to give over, cease, forbear (cf.:

praetermitto, praetereo, relinquo): quin tu istas mittis tricas?

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 45:

mitto proelia, praetereo oppugnationes oppidorum,

omit, Cic. Mur. 15, 33:

maledicta omnia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 9.—With inf.:

jam scrutari mitto,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 24:

mitte male loqui,

Ter. And. 5, 3, 2:

cetera mitte loqui,

Hor. Epod. 13, 7:

illud dicere,

Cic. Quint. 27, 85:

quaerere,

id. Rosc. Am. 19, 53:

mitto iam de rege quaerere,

id. Sull. 7, 22:

hoc exsequi mitto,

Quint. 5, 10, 18:

incommoda mortalium deflere,

Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 2.— With quod:

mitto, quod omnes meas tempestates subire paratissimus fueris,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 12.—With de. mitto de amissā maximā parte exercitūs (sc. dicere), Cic. Pis. 20, 47:

verum, ut haec missa faciam, quae, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 45, 132:

missos facere quaestus triennii,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 104.—

To let go, let loose, to quit, release, dismiss: mitte rudentem, sceleste, Tr. Mittam, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 77:

unde mittuntur equi, nunc dicuntur carceres,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Müll.:

quadrijuges aequo carcere misit equos,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 66; Plaut. Poen. prol. 100:

mittin' me intro?

will you let me go in? id. Truc. 4, 2, 43:

cutem,

to let go, quit, Hor. A. P. 476:

mitte me,

let me alone, Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 5:

nos missos face,

id. And. 5, 1, 14:

missum fieri,

to be let loose, set at liberty, Nep. Eum. 11: eum missum feci, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, G, 2:

nec locupletare amicos umquam suos destitit, mittere in negotium,

to set up in business, Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4: sub titulum lares, to put a bill on one's house, i. e. to offer it for sale or to be let, Ov. R. Am. 302: in consilium, to let the judges go and consult, i. e. to send the judges to make out their verdict, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

sues in hostes,

to set upon, Lucr. 5, 1309: se in aliquem, to fall upon, assail, attack:

vota enim faceretis, ut in eos se potius mitteret, quam in vestras possessiones,

Cic. Mil. 28, 76 (B. and K. immitteret):

se in foedera,

to enter into, conclude, make, Verg. A. 12, 190:

missos faciant honores,

to let go, renounce, not trouble one's self about, Cic. Sest. 66, 138:

vos missos facio, et quantum potest, abesse ex Africā jubeo,

Hirt. B. Afr. 54:

missam facere legionem,

to dismiss, Suet. Caes. 69:

remotis, sive omnino missis lictoribus,

Cic. Att. 9, 1, 3:

Lolliam Paulinam conjunxit sibi, brevique missam fecit,

put her away, Suet. Calig. 25; Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 70.—

To let or bring out, to put forth, send out, emit: sanguinem incisā venā, to let blood, to bleed, Cels. 2, 10:

sanguinem alicui,

id. ib.; Petr. 91.— Trop.: mittere sanguinem provinciae, to bleed, i. e. drain, exhaust, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2; cf.:

missus est sanguis invidiae sine dolore,

id. ib. 1, 16, 11:

radices,

to put forth roots, to take root, Col. 3, 18:

folium,

to put forth leaves, Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 58:

florem,

to blossom, bloom, id. 24, 9, 38, § 59:

membranas de corpore,

to throw off, shed, Lucr. 4, 57:

serpens horrenda sibila misit,

gave forth, emitted, Ov. M. 3, 38: mittere vocem, to utter a sound, raise one's voice, speak, say:

vocem pro me ac pro re publica nemo mittit,

speaks a word, Cic. Sest. 19, 42:

vocem liberam,

to speak with freedom, Liv. 35, 32:

flens diu vocem non misit,

id. 3, 50, 4:

adeo res miraculo fuit, ut unus ex barbaris miserit vocem, etc.,

Flor. 4, 10, 7:

repente vocem sancta misit Religio,

Phaedr. 4, 11, 4:

nec labra moves, cum mittere vocem debueras,

Juv. 13, 114:

haec Scipionis oratio ex ipsius ore Pompeii mitti videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2:

Afranios sui timoris signa misisse,

have showed signs of fear, id. ib. 71:

signa,

Verg. G. 1, 229:

signum sanguinis,

to show signs of blood, look bloody, Lucr. 1, 882.—

To send, throw, hurl, cast, launch:

hastam,

Ov. M. 11, 8:

pila,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93:

lapides in aliquem,

to throw, Petr. 90:

fulmina,

to hurl, Hor. C. 1, 12, 59:

aliquid igni,

Val. Fl. 3, 313:

de ponte,

to cast, precipitate, Cat. 17, 23:

praecipitem aliquem ex arce,

Ov. M. 8, 250:

se saxo ab alto,

to cast one's self down, id. ib. 11, 340:

se in rapidas aquas,

id. Am. 3, 6, 80:

se in medium,

to plunge into the midst, Quint. 11, 1, 54. —Of nets:

retia misit,

Juv. 2, 148.—Of dice, to throw: talis enim jactatis, ut quisque canem, aut senionem miserat, etc., Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

talos in phimum,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 17:

panem alicui,

to throw to, Phaedr. 1, 22, 3:

Alexandrum manum ad arma misisse,

laid his hand on his weapons, Sen. Ira, 2, 2:

pira in vasculo,

Pall. 3, 25, 11:

fert missos Vestae pura patella cibos,

Ov. F. 6, 310:

accidere in mensas ut rosa missa solet,

which one has let fall, id. ib. 5, 360.—

= pempein, to attend, guide, escort:

alias (animas) sub Tartara tristia mittit (Mercurius),

Verg. A. 4, 243; cf.:

sic denique victor Trinacriā fines Italos mittēre relictā,

id. ib. 3, 440.—Hence, P. a.: Missus, a, um; as subst.: Missus, i, m., he that is sent, the messenger or ambassador of God, i. e. Christ, Arn. 2, 73; Isid. 7, 2, 35.

mitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (contr. form, misti for misisti, Cat. 14, 14: archaic inf. pass. mittier, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 78), v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. math-, to set in motion], to cause to go, let go, send, to send off, despatch, etc.

In gen.: ad Trojam cum misi ob defendendam Graeciam, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 28 (Trag. v. 362 Vahl.):

filium suum foras ad propinquum suum quendam mittit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66:

signa... quam plurima quam primumque mittas,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2:

legatos de deditione ad eum miserunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

pabulatum mittebat,

id. B. C. 1, 40:

scitatum oracula,

Verg. A. 2, 114:

Delphos consultum,

Nep. Them. 2, 6:

missus sum, te ut requirerem,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 42:

ego huc missa sum ludere,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 48:

equitatum auxilio Caesari Aedui miserant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

alicui subsidium,

id. ib. 2, 6:

ad subsidium,

Hirt. Balb. Hisp. 9, 1:

misi, pro amicitiā, qui hoc diceret,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

qui solveret,

id. Att. 1, 3, 2:

mittite ambo hominem,

Gai. Inst. 4, 16.—With acc. and inf.:

Deiotarus legatos ad me misit, se cum omnibus copiis esse venturum,

sent me word that, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 5:

ad collegam mittit, opus esse exercitu,

Liv. 24, 19, 3:

Publilius duo milia militum recepta miserat,

id. 8, 23, 1:

Dexagoridas miserat ad legatum Romanum traditurum se urbem,

id. 34, 29, 9:

statim Athenas mittit se cum exercitu venturum,

Just. 5, 3, 7. Missum facere is also used for mittere, to send: ut cohortis ad me missum facias, Pompei. ap. [p. 1153] Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 2:

aliquem morti,

to put to death, despatch, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 34; so,

ad mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 97:

in possessionem,

to put in possession, id. Quint. 26, 83:

aliquem ad cenam,

to invite one to dinner, id. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 65: sub jugum mittere, to send or cause to go under the yoke, Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

sub jugo,

Liv. 3, 28 fin. —

In partic.

To send word, announce, tell, report any thing to any one:

ut mihi vadimonia dilata et Chresti conpilationem mitteres,

Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1:

Curio misi, ut medico honos haberetur,

id. ib. 16, 9, 3:

mitti ad principes placuit, ut secernerent se ab Etruscis,

Liv. 6, 10, 2:

hodie Spintherem exspecto: misit enim Brutus ad me,

Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:

salutem alicui,

to send greeting to, to greet one, Ov. Tr. 5, 13, 1:

ita existimes velim, me antelaturum fuisse, si ad me misisses, voluntatem tuam commodo meo,

i. e. if you had sent to me for aid, applied to me, Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 1.—

To send as a compliment, to dedicate to any one, of a book or poem:

liber Antiochi, qui ab eo ad Balbum missus est,

Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16:

hunc librum de Senectute ad te misimus,

id. Sen. 1, 3.—

To send, yield, produce, furnish, export any thing (as the product of a country):

India mittit ebur, molles sua tura Sabaei,

Verg. G. 1, 57:

(Padus) electra nuribus mittit gestanda Latinis,

Ov. M. 2, 366; cf.:

quos frigida misit Nursia,

Verg. A. 7, 715:

hordea, quae Libyci ratibus misere coloni,

Ov. Med. Fac. 53:

quas mittit dives Panchaia merces,

Tib. 3, 2, 23; Ov. A. A. 3, 213; id. Am. 1, 12, 10.—

To dismiss a thing from the mind:

maestumque timorem Mittite,

Verg. A. 1, 203:

mittere ac finire odium,

Liv. 40, 46:

leves spes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 8:

missam iram facere,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 14.—

To put an end to, end:

certamen,

Verg. A. 5, 286.—

Esp. in speaking, etc., to pass over, omit, to give over, cease, forbear (cf.:

praetermitto, praetereo, relinquo): quin tu istas mittis tricas?

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 45:

mitto proelia, praetereo oppugnationes oppidorum,

omit, Cic. Mur. 15, 33:

maledicta omnia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 9.—With inf.:

jam scrutari mitto,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 24:

mitte male loqui,

Ter. And. 5, 3, 2:

cetera mitte loqui,

Hor. Epod. 13, 7:

illud dicere,

Cic. Quint. 27, 85:

quaerere,

id. Rosc. Am. 19, 53:

mitto iam de rege quaerere,

id. Sull. 7, 22:

hoc exsequi mitto,

Quint. 5, 10, 18:

incommoda mortalium deflere,

Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 2.— With quod:

mitto, quod omnes meas tempestates subire paratissimus fueris,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 12.—With de. mitto de amissā maximā parte exercitūs (sc. dicere), Cic. Pis. 20, 47:

verum, ut haec missa faciam, quae, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 45, 132:

missos facere quaestus triennii,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 104.—

To let go, let loose, to quit, release, dismiss: mitte rudentem, sceleste, Tr. Mittam, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 77:

unde mittuntur equi, nunc dicuntur carceres,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Müll.:

quadrijuges aequo carcere misit equos,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 66; Plaut. Poen. prol. 100:

mittin' me intro?

will you let me go in? id. Truc. 4, 2, 43:

cutem,

to let go, quit, Hor. A. P. 476:

mitte me,

let me alone, Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 5:

nos missos face,

id. And. 5, 1, 14:

missum fieri,

to be let loose, set at liberty, Nep. Eum. 11: eum missum feci, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, G, 2:

nec locupletare amicos umquam suos destitit, mittere in negotium,

to set up in business, Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4: sub titulum lares, to put a bill on one's house, i. e. to offer it for sale or to be let, Ov. R. Am. 302: in consilium, to let the judges go and consult, i. e. to send the judges to make out their verdict, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

sues in hostes,

to set upon, Lucr. 5, 1309: se in aliquem, to fall upon, assail, attack:

vota enim faceretis, ut in eos se potius mitteret, quam in vestras possessiones,

Cic. Mil. 28, 76 (B. and K. immitteret):

se in foedera,

to enter into, conclude, make, Verg. A. 12, 190:

missos faciant honores,

to let go, renounce, not trouble one's self about, Cic. Sest. 66, 138:

vos missos facio, et quantum potest, abesse ex Africā jubeo,

Hirt. B. Afr. 54:

missam facere legionem,

to dismiss, Suet. Caes. 69:

remotis, sive omnino missis lictoribus,

Cic. Att. 9, 1, 3:

Lolliam Paulinam conjunxit sibi, brevique missam fecit,

put her away, Suet. Calig. 25; Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 70.—

To let or bring out, to put forth, send out, emit: sanguinem incisā venā, to let blood, to bleed, Cels. 2, 10:

sanguinem alicui,

id. ib.; Petr. 91.— Trop.: mittere sanguinem provinciae, to bleed, i. e. drain, exhaust, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2; cf.:

missus est sanguis invidiae sine dolore,

id. ib. 1, 16, 11:

radices,

to put forth roots, to take root, Col. 3, 18:

folium,

to put forth leaves, Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 58:

florem,

to blossom, bloom, id. 24, 9, 38, § 59:

membranas de corpore,

to throw off, shed, Lucr. 4, 57:

serpens horrenda sibila misit,

gave forth, emitted, Ov. M. 3, 38: mittere vocem, to utter a sound, raise one's voice, speak, say:

vocem pro me ac pro re publica nemo mittit,

speaks a word, Cic. Sest. 19, 42:

vocem liberam,

to speak with freedom, Liv. 35, 32:

flens diu vocem non misit,

id. 3, 50, 4:

adeo res miraculo fuit, ut unus ex barbaris miserit vocem, etc.,

Flor. 4, 10, 7:

repente vocem sancta misit Religio,

Phaedr. 4, 11, 4:

nec labra moves, cum mittere vocem debueras,

Juv. 13, 114:

haec Scipionis oratio ex ipsius ore Pompeii mitti videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2:

Afranios sui timoris signa misisse,

have showed signs of fear, id. ib. 71:

signa,

Verg. G. 1, 229:

signum sanguinis,

to show signs of blood, look bloody, Lucr. 1, 882.—

To send, throw, hurl, cast, launch:

hastam,

Ov. M. 11, 8:

pila,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93:

lapides in aliquem,

to throw, Petr. 90:

fulmina,

to hurl, Hor. C. 1, 12, 59:

aliquid igni,

Val. Fl. 3, 313:

de ponte,

to cast, precipitate, Cat. 17, 23:

praecipitem aliquem ex arce,

Ov. M. 8, 250:

se saxo ab alto,

to cast one's self down, id. ib. 11, 340:

se in rapidas aquas,

id. Am. 3, 6, 80:

se in medium,

to plunge into the midst, Quint. 11, 1, 54. —Of nets:

retia misit,

Juv. 2, 148.—Of dice, to throw: talis enim jactatis, ut quisque canem, aut senionem miserat, etc., Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

talos in phimum,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 17:

panem alicui,

to throw to, Phaedr. 1, 22, 3:

Alexandrum manum ad arma misisse,

laid his hand on his weapons, Sen. Ira, 2, 2:

pira in vasculo,

Pall. 3, 25, 11:

fert missos Vestae pura patella cibos,

Ov. F. 6, 310:

accidere in mensas ut rosa missa solet,

which one has let fall, id. ib. 5, 360.—

= pempein, to attend, guide, escort:

alias (animas) sub Tartara tristia mittit (Mercurius),

Verg. A. 4, 243; cf.:

sic denique victor Trinacriā fines Italos mittēre relictā,

id. ib. 3, 440.—Hence, P. a.: Missus, a, um; as subst.: Missus, i, m., he that is sent, the messenger or ambassador of God, i. e. Christ, Arn. 2, 73; Isid. 7, 2, 35.

nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].

nĭhil, nothing:

nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—

Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

nil agis,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—

Of persons:

victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—

Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—

Nihil non, everything:

nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

nihil non arroget armis,

Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—

Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

haud nihil,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

haud nihil ambigam,

I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—

Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

Liv. 41, 20, 7:

si nihil aliud,

if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—

With gen.:

nihil mali,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

nihil novi,

id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

nihil humanarum rerum,

id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—

Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 16:

qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 19, 6:

si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

id. 30, 35, 8:

illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

Liv. 2, 29, 4:

is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

id. 2, 32, 8:

nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

id. 2, 49, 9 al. —

Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

Liv. 3, 54:

nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

id. Clu. 26, 70.—

Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

Juv. 3, 84.—

Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

nihil ad Persium,

Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

id. Deiot. 8, 24.—

Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

id. Font. 11, 23.—

Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—

Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—

Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

aliquem nihil putare,

to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—

Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

Cat. 68, 131.—

Adverb.

Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

me nihil poenitet,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

conjecturā nihil opus est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

Thebani nihil moti sunt,

Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

nihil miror,

Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—

To no purpose, in vain:

herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—

For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —

nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

id. Fat. 9, 18:

interire in nihilum,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

venire ad nihilum,

id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

ad nihilum recidere,

id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

aliquid pro nihilo putare,

id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—

Nihili, of no value, worthless:

quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

homo nihili factus,

unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—

De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—

Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

nihilo minus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

nihilo benevolentior,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

nihilo major,

id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

nihilo tamen setius,

Caes. B. G. 5, 4 and 7:

nihil segnius,

Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.

In gen.:

minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—

With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—

Strengthened by tamen:

nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—

Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—

Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

nihilum metuenda timere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —

nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

nil sanguinis,

no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

nil sui,

nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—

Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

nil opus est verbis,

Lucr. 5, 263:

ut nil umor abundet,

id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—

nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

ad nilum revorti,

Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

id. 1, 205; 266.

nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].

nĭhil, nothing:

nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—

Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

nil agis,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—

Of persons:

victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—

Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—

Nihil non, everything:

nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

nihil non arroget armis,

Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—

Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

haud nihil,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

haud nihil ambigam,

I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—

Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

Liv. 41, 20, 7:

si nihil aliud,

if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—

With gen.:

nihil mali,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

nihil novi,

id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

nihil humanarum rerum,

id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—

Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 16:

qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 19, 6:

si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

id. 30, 35, 8:

illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

Liv. 2, 29, 4:

is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

id. 2, 32, 8:

nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

id. 2, 49, 9 al. —

Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

Liv. 3, 54:

nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

id. Clu. 26, 70.—

Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

Juv. 3, 84.—

Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

nihil ad Persium,

Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

id. Deiot. 8, 24.—

Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

id. Font. 11, 23.—

Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—

Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—

Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

aliquem nihil putare,

to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—

Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

Cat. 68, 131.—

Adverb.

Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

me nihil poenitet,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

conjecturā nihil opus est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

Thebani nihil moti sunt,

Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

nihil miror,

Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—

To no purpose, in vain:

herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—

For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —

nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

id. Fat. 9, 18:

interire in nihilum,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

venire ad nihilum,

id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

ad nihilum recidere,

id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

aliquid pro nihilo putare,

id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—

Nihili, of no value, worthless:

quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

homo nihili factus,

unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—

De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—

Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

nihilo minus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

nihilo benevolentior,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

nihilo major,

id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

nihilo tamen setius,

Caes. B. G. 5, 4 and 7:

nihil segnius,

Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.

In gen.:

minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—

With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—

Strengthened by tamen:

nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—

Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—

Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

nihilum metuenda timere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —

nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

nil sanguinis,

no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

nil sui,

nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—

Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

nil opus est verbis,

Lucr. 5, 263:

ut nil umor abundet,

id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—

nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

ad nilum revorti,

Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

id. 1, 205; 266.