adversus aliquem

dē-fendo, di, sum ( infin. pass. parag.: defendier, Verg. A. 8, 493: Juv. 15, 157.— Part. gen. plur. sync.:

defendentum,

Verg. A. 11, 886), 3, v. a. [arch.: FENDO; cf. Sanscr. han (ghan), to smite; Gr. theinô; hence, also offendo, infensus, infestus, mani-festus; cf. fustis], to fend or ward off any thing hostile or injurious; to repel, avert, keep off: propulsando arcere (for syn. cf.: tueor, tutor, servo, conservo. propugno, protego, vindico, caveo—freq. and class.); regularly constr. with acc. alone (so in Cic. and Caes.); very rarely aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo, and in poets also aliquid alicui; cf. Zumpt. Gr. § 469.

Aliquid (aliquem):

ut tu morbos calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis, defendas averruncesque,

Cato R. R. 141, 2: serva cives, defende hostes, cum potes defendere, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21; cf.

bellum (opp. inferre),

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 13; 2, 29 fin.:

ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,

id. B. C. 2, 9, 3; cf.:

ignis jactus et lapides,

id. ib. 2, 2, 4:

frigus et solem,

Cato R. R. 48, 2; cf.:

nimios solis ardores,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 53;

and frigus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 14;

also: sitim fonte et purā lymphā,

to quench, Sil. 7, 170:

qui non defendit injuriam neque propulsat,

Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so,

injuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 1:

noxiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

imperatoris sui tribunorumque plebis injurias,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7 fin.:

vim suorum,

id. ib. 3, 110, 4; cf.:

vim illatam vi,

Cic. Mil. 4:

pericula,

id. Mur. 3; Tac. A. 13, 56:

hunc furorem,

Verg. A. 10, 905:

dedecus manu,

Sil. 13, 99 et saep.:

crimen,

to answer, defend against an accusation, Liv. 42, 48, 2.—

With ab: (milites) a pinnis hostes defendebant facillime, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. ib. 8:

hostem a fossa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

ignem a tectis,

Ov. R. Am. 625.—

Aliquid alicui (cf. arceo, no. II. d.):

iniuriam foribus,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 20:

solstitium pecori,

Verg. E. 7, 47; cf.:

aestatem capellis,

Hor. Od. 1, 17, 3; Prop. 1, 20, 11:

tela misero,

Sil. 17, 432:

dedecus morti,

id. 5, 490:

senium famae,

Stat. Th. 9, 318.—

Absol., to put a stop (to a fire), to check the flames:

nec quisquam defendere audebat, crebris minis restinguere prohibentium,

Tac. A. 15, 38; cf.:

urbem incendere, feris in populum immissis, quo difficilius defenderentur,

Suet. Ner. 43.—

Transf., like prohibere, with acc. of that from which any thing is warded off or averted, to defend, guard, protect, cover.

In gen. (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition), constr. with acc. alone; with acc. and ab aliquo (contra aliquid), or merely ab aliquo; and absol.

With simple acc.:

Aeduos ceterosque amicos populi Rom.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 35 fin.:

eos,

id. ib. 2, 10, 4; id. B. C. 1, 6, 2:

se armis,

id. B. G. 6, 34:

se manu,

id. ib. 5, 7, 8;

6, 40, 6 et saep.: castra,

id. ib. 3, 3 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 67, 5; 3, 94, 6 (with tueri):

oppidum,

id. B. G. 3, 16, 3 et saep.:

eum defendo, quem tu accusas,

Cic. Sull. 17:

aliquem apud praetores,

id. Clu. 45, 126:

aliquem de ambitu,

id. Sull. 2, 6: cf.

causam,

id. Clu. 27, 74; id. Sull. 31, 86; id. Lael. 25, 96 et passim:

d. ac tegere scelus,

id. Sull. 31, 86; cf.

with protegere,

id. ib. 18, 50:

justitiam,

id. Lael. 7, 25:

communem salutem,

id. Rep. 1, 1; id. Mur. 2 fin. et saep.:

locum,

to preserve, maintain, id. Quint. 13, 43; cf.:

vicem modo rhetoris atque poëtae,

to sustain, Hor. S. 1, 10, 12:

actorum partes,

id. A. P. 194:

aedes Vestae vix defensa est (sc. ab incendio),

preserved, Liv. 26, 27.—

Aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo:

Aedui cum se suaque ab iis defendere non possent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 11, 2:

se a finitimis,

id. ib. 2, 31, 5; id. B. C. 1, 75, 3; Sall. C. 45, 4 et saep.:

Galliam omnem ab Ariovisti injuria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31 fin.; so,

aliquem ab injuria,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3; Sall. C. 35 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 22, 5:

se regnumque suum ab Romanorum avaritia,

Sall. J. 49, 2:

provinciam non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 6, 14: Italiam a vastatione, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15 fin.:

vitam ab inimicorum audacia telisque,

Cic. Mil. 2 fin.:

libertatis causam ab regio praesidio,

Liv. 39, 24 et saep.:

teneras myrtos a frigore,

Verg. E. 7, 6:

frondes ab acutae vulnere falcis, a pecoris morsu,

Ov. M. 9, 384 et saep.—

With ab aliquo:

quod et ab incendio lapis et ab ariete materia defendit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 5; so id. B. C. 1, 25 fin.; 3, 63, 7.—

Aliquem (aliquid) contra, or adversus aliquem:

me scio a te contra iniquos meos solere defendi,

Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 7:

sese adversus populum Romanum defendere,

id. Phil. 1, 6, 13:

me adversus Abrupolim,

Liv. 42, 41, 10; Just. 2, 4, 32; Suet. Caes. 71; Liv. 5, 35, 4:

auctoritatem contra invidiam,

Cic. Phil, 8, 4; 13, 11; id. Fam. 5, 2, 6; id. Sest. 67, 141; 23, 51; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45.—

Absol.:

filii qui et sentire et defendere possent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64 fin.:

cum jam defenderet nemo,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 6:

defendentibus civibus Romanis,

id. B. C. 3, 40, 6; cf. in the abl. absol., id. B. G. 2, 12, 3; id. B. C. 3, 68 fin.; Cic. Lael. 25, 96 et saep.:

quibus eae partes ad defendendum obvenerunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81 fin. —

In partic.

Of speech, to defend, support, maintain; to bring forward, allege in defence (so repeatedly in Cic.; elsewhere rare).

With acc.:

(Carneades) nullam umquam in illis suis disputationibus rem defendit, quam non probarit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38 fin.; cf. id. Fam. 4, 14:

me id maxime defendisse, ut, etc.,

have chiefly striven for, id. Rosc. Am. 47; id. Verr. 2, 3, 37; 2, 5, 58.—

With acc. and inf.:

gravissimeque et verissime defenditur, numquam aequitatem ab utilitate posse sejungi, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 71; id. Verr. 2, 3, 90 fin.; id. Tull. 13, 32:

ille nihil ex his sponte susceptum sed principi paruisse defendebat,

Tac. A. 13, 43:

sed id solitum esse fieri defendebat,

Gell. 10, 19; so with verb pass. and inf., Cic. Inv. 2, 32 init. —

With a relative clause:

(quae turpitudines) cur non cadant in sapientem, non est facile defendere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117. —

In the later jurid. Lat., to claim, vindicate, or prosecute at law:

quia libertatem et hereditatem ex testamento sibi defendebat,

Dig. 5, 3, 7:

si patris mortem defendere necesse habuerit,

i. e. legally to avenge his death, ib. 38, 2, 14, § 7; 48, 2, 11.

con-tendo, di, tum, 3, v. a. and n., to stretch, stretch out vigorously, to draw tight, strain.

Lit. (rare and mostly poet.):

arcum,

Verg. A. 12, 815; Ov. M. 6, 286; id. R. Am. 435: tormenta, Sisen. ap. Non. p. 258, 27; Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: muscipula, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 181, 31:

tenacia vincla,

Verg. G. 4, 412:

ilia risu,

Ov. A. A. 3, 285: pontem in alto, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 21 Müll. (Ann. v. 358 Vahl.):

oculi contendunt se,

Lucr. 4, 810.— Of stringed instruments, to tune by stretching the strings:

ut in fidibus pluribus, si nulla earum ita contenta nervis sit, ut concentum servare possit,

Cic. Fin. 4, 27, 75; cf. infra, P. a.—

Meton.

(Causa pro effectu.) Of weapons, to shoot, hurl, dart, throw:

infensam hastam,

Verg. A. 10, 521:

tela,

id. ib. 12, 815:

sagittas nervo,

Sil. 1, 323:

telum aërias in auras,

Verg. A. 5, 520. —

Of places, neutr., to stretch, reach, extend:

haec patulum vallis contendit in orbem,

Calp. Ecl. 7, 30:

Cappadocum gens usque ad Cyrresticam ejus regionem parte suā, quae vocatur Cataonia, contendit,

Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—

Trop. (freq. in prose and poetry); act., to strain eagerly, to stretch, exert, to direct one's mental powers to something, to pursue or strive for earnestly; or neutr., to exert one's self, to strive zealously for something, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

magnum fortasse onus, verum tamen dignum, in quo omnis nervos aetatis industriaeque meae contenderem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 12, 35; cf.:

contendit omnis nervos Chrysippus, ut persuadeat, etc.,

id. Fat. 10, 21:

summas vires de palmā,

Lucr. 4, 990:

animum in curas,

Ov. P. 1, 5, 11:

quo se dira libido,

Lucr. 4, 1043:

tamen id sibi contendendum aut aliter non transducendum exercitum existimabat,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17; cf.:

id contendere et laborare, ne ea, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 31; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52: et petere imperium populi et contendere honores, Varr. ap. Non. p. 259, 32.—

With inf., to exert one's self vigorously to do something, to apply one's self with zeal to, to go to:

hunc locum duabus ex partibus oppugnare contendit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 21:

summā vi transcendere in hostium naves,

id. ib. 3, 15:

fugā salutem petere,

id. ib. al.; Quint. 10, 1, 125:

neque ego nunc hoc contendo... mutare animum, sed, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.—

Neutr.:

quantum coniti animo potes, quantum labore contendere... tantum fac ut efficias,

Cic. Off. 3, 2, 6.— With ut:

quántum potero voce contendam, ut populus hoc Romanus exaudiat,

Cic. Lig. 3, 6; so,

remis, ut eam partem insulae caperet,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8 et saep.:

contende quaeso atque elabora, ut, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42.— Absol.:

vociferarer et, quantum maxime possem, contenderem,

Cic. Fl. 16, 38 al.:

non possis oculo quantum contendere Lynceus (= collineare),

to aim at, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 28.—

In partic.,

To direct or bend one's course eagerly somewhere; or, neutr., to strive to get to a place, to seek to arrive at, to go, march, or journey hastily to, etc.

With acc. (very rare):

rectā plateā cursum suum,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58:

nocte unā tantum itineris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97.—

With inf. (freq.):

Bibracte ire,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23; so,

ire cum his legionibus,

id. ib. 1, 10:

in Britanniam proficisci,

id. ib. 4, 20:

in provinciam reverti,

id. ib. 3, 6 fin.:

Dyrrhachium petere,

Cic. Planc. 41, 97; cf.:

proxima litora petere cursu,

Verg. A. 1, 158; and:

iter a Vibone Brundisium terrā petere,

Cic. Planc. 40, 96 Wund.—

Neutr. (so most freq.):

in Italiam magnis itineribus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 10; cf.:

huc magnis itineribus,

id. ib. 1, 38 fin.:

huc magno cursu,

id. ib. 3, 19:

inde in Italiam,

id. ib. 1, 33:

in fines Sigambrorum,

id. ib. 4, 18:

in castra,

id. ib. 4, 37:

ex eo loco ad flumen,

id. ib. 2, 9:

ad Rhenum finesque Germanorum,

id. ib. 1, 27 fin.:

ad oppidum Noviodunum,

id. ib. 2, 12:

ad castra,

id. ib. 2, 19 fin.; 3, 24 fin.:

ad hostes,

id. ib. 5, 9:

ad Amanum,

Cic. Att. 5, 20, 3: Tarentum ad Heraclidem Ponticum, Varr. ap. Non. p. 260, 19:

Lacedaemonem,

Nep. Cim. 3, 3:

domum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 24 fin. et saep.:

ad ultimum animo,

Cic. Mur. 31, 65; cf.:

magna spectare atque ad ea rectis studiis contendere,

id. Off. 2, 13, 44:

ad summam laudem gloriamque maximis laboribus et periculis,

id. Phil. 14, 12, 32:

ad salutem,

Caes. B. G. 3, 3 fin. —

( Neutr.) To measure or try one's strength with, with weapons, by words, in action, etc.; to strive, dispute, fight, contend against, vie with; constr. with cum aliquo, contra or adversus aliquem, the dat., inter se, or absol.

Cum aliquo:

neque post id tempus umquam summis nobiscum copiis hostes contenderunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17 fin.; 1, 36:

cum Sequanis bello,

id. ib. 7, 67 fin.:

cum eo armis,

Cic. Att. 7, 9, 2:

cum magnis legionibus parvā manu,

Sall. C. 53, 3:

cum barbaro,

Nep. Con. 4, 3:

cum victore,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 42:

mecum ingenio et arte,

Prop. 2 (3), 24, 23 al.:

cum eo de principatu,

Nep. Arist. 1, 1; cf. id. Ages. 1, 4 al.:

divitiis et sumptibus, non probitate neque industriā cum majoribus suis,

Sall. J. 4, 7:

humilitas cum dignitate et amplitudine,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 136.—So with acc. of neutr. pron.:

tamenne vereris, ut possis haec contra Hortensium contendere?

Cic. Quint. 25, 78.—

Contra aliquem:

contra populum Romanum armis,

Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

tauri pro vitulis contra leones summā vi impetuque contendunt,

Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 66:

contra vim gravitatemque morbi,

id. Phil. 9, 7, 15:

nihil contra naturam universam,

id. Off. 1, 31, 110; Cat. 64, 101.—

Adversus aliquem: non contendam ego adversus te, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A, 2.—

With dat. ( poet.):

hirundo cycnis,

Lucr. 3, 6:

Homero,

Prop. 1, 7, 3; 1, 14, 7:

Pindaricis plectris,

Stat. S. 1, 3, 101.—

Inter se:

hi cum tantopere de potentatu inter se multos annos contenderent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 4; 1, 5, 3:

viribus inter se,

Lucr. 3, 784.— Impers.:

interim proelio equestri inter duas acies contendebatur,

the contest was carried on, Caes. B. G. 2, 9.—

Absol.:

proelio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; 1, 50 fin.;

3, 28 al.: magis virtute quam dolo,

id. ib. 1, 13; Nep. Epam. 2, 5:

translatio non habet quaestionem, de quā contendit orator, sed propter quam contendit,

Quint. 3, 6, 72; cf. id. 6, 1, 50; 7, 9, 3 al.— Impers.:

summo jure contenditur,

Cic. Caecin. 23, 65:

de his lite contenditur,

Quint. 3, 4, 8:

de personis judicatur, sed de rebus contenditur,

id. 10, 5, 13.—

In auctions, to vie with in bidding, to bid against: is liceri non destitit;

illi quoad videbatur ferri aliquo modo posse, contenderunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 99.—

( Act.) To place together in comparison, to compare, contrast; constr. with cum, ad, the dat., or acc. only.

With cum: tuam iram contra cum ira Liberi, Naev. ap. Non. p. 259, 7; Caecil. ib. p. 259, 1:

id cum defensione nostrā,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 33, 93:

rationem meam cum tuā ratione,

id. N. D. 3, 4, 10; Tac. A. 4, 32 al.: suam vitam mecum, Licinius, Macer. ap. Non. p. 259, 3.—

With ad: ut vim contendas tuam ad majestatem viri, Att. ap. Non. p. 259, 5 (Trag. Rel. v. 648 Rib.).—

With dat.: Thestiadas Ledae, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 258, 30:

vellera potantia Aquinatem fucum Sidonio ostro,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 26; Aus. Grat. Act. 14 al.—

With [p. 447] acc. only: anulum, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 258, 29:

ipsas causas, quae inter se confligunt,

Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

leges,

id. Inv. 2, 49, 145:

suam quaeque nobilitatem, formam, opes,

Tac. A. 12, 1:

vetera et praesentia,

id. ib. 13, 3.—

( Act.) To demand, ask, solicit, entreat, beg earnestly, to seek to gain:

cum a me peteret et summe contenderet, ut suum propinquum defenderem,

Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

verecundius a te, si quae magna res mihi petenda esset, contenderem,

id. Fam. 2, 6, 1; so,

ab aliquo,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131; id. de Or. 1, 36, 166; id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4; id. Fam. 13, 7, 3; cf.:

a magistris de proferendo die,

id. ib. 12, 30, 5; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 15:

ne quid contra aequitatem,

id. Off. 2, 20, 71:

omni opere, ut, etc.,

Suet. Dom. 2:

magno opere, ne, etc.,

id. Aug. 27; id. Vit. 3:

pertinaciter,

id. Caes. 1.—

( Act.) To assert, affirm earnestly, to maintain or contend energetically.

With acc. and inf.:

sic ego hoc contendo, me tibi ipsi adversario cujuscumque tribus rationem poposceris redditurum,

Cic. Planc. 19, 48; id. Sest. 50, 107; id. Arch. 7, 15:

apud eos contendit falsa esse delata,

Nep. Them. 7, 2; id. Epam. 8, 1:

illud pro me majoribusque meis contendere ausim, nihil nos... scientes fuisse,

Liv. 6, 40, 5; Quint. prooem. § 11; 1, 2, 25; Suet. Calig. 15; id. Dom. 6; Lucr. 5, 1343; Cat. 44, 4; Ov. M. 2, 855; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 37 al.—

Absol. (very rare):

si manantia corpuscula iter claudunt, ut Asclepiades contendit,

Cels. 1, praef. § 28.—Hence, contentus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., stretched, strained, tense, tight:

qui jam contento, jam laxo fune laborat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 20:

acies oculorum,

Lucr. 1, 325; cf.:

contentis oculis prosequi aliquem,

Suet. Tib. 7:

contentis corporibus facilius feruntur onera (opp. remissa),

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54; cf.:

contentā cervice trahunt plaustra (boves),

Verg. G. 3, 536:

Placideiani contento poplite miror Proelia,

with the knee stiffly bent, Hor. S. 2, 7, 97.—

Trop., eager, intent:

contenta mens fuit in eā ratione,

Lucr. 4, 965; cf. Ov. M. 15, 515:

et contentā voce atrociter dicere et summissā leniter,

Cic. Or. 17, 56:

ad tribunatum contento studio cursuque veniamus,

id. Sest. 6, 13.— Sup.:

contentissimā voce clamitans,

App. M. 4, p. 147.— Adv.: con-tentē, earnestly, with great exertion, vehemently:

pro se dicere... mittere contentius,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57; cf.:

acriter atque contente pro suis decretis propugnare,

Gell. 18, 1, 2:

contentissime clamitare, App. Flor. n. 8: contentius ambulare,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97:

ornamentis iisdem uti fere licebit, alias contentius, alias summissius,

id. de Or. 3, 55, 212:

aliquid curiose atque contente lectitare,

Gell. 3, 3, 1.

făcĭo, feci, factum, 3, v. a. and n.; in pass.: fio, factus, fieri ( imper. usually fac, but the arch form face is freq., esp. in Plaut. and Ter., as Plaut. As. prol. 4; 1, 1, 77; id. Aul. 2, 1, 30; id. Cist. 2, 1, 28; id. Ep. 1, 1, 37; 2, 2, 117; id. Most. 3, 2, 167 et saep.; Ter. And. 4, 1, 57; 4, 2, 29; 5, 1, 2; 14; id. Eun. 1, 2, 10 al.; Cato, R. R. 23, 1; 26; 32 al.; Cat. 63, 78; 79; 82; Ov. Med. fac. 60; Val. Fl. 7, 179 al.; futur. facie for faciam, Cato ap. Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. dico, init., and the letter e:

faxo,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199; 2, 1, 42; 3, 3, 17; 3, 4, 14; 5, 1, 55 et saep.; Ter. And. 5, 2, 13; id. Eun. 2, 2, 54; 4, 3, 21 al.; Verg. A. 9, 154; 12, 316; Ov. M. 3, 271; 12, 594: faxim, Enn. ap. Non. 507, 23; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 13; id. Aul. 3, 2, 6; 3, 5, 20 al.; Ter. And. 4, 4, 14; id. Heaut. 1, 2, 13:

faxis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 38; Sil. 15, 362: faxit, Lex Numae in Paul. ex Fest. s. v. ALIVTA, p. 6 Mull.; Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 12; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 90; 3, 5, 54; id. Cas. 3, 5, 6 al.; Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 24; id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:

faximus,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 40: faxitis, an old form in Liv. 23, 11, 2; 25, 12, 10; 29, 27, 3:

faxint,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85; id. Aul. 2, 1, 27; 2, 2, 79 al.; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 109; id. Hec. 1, 2, 27; 3, 2, 19; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 35, § 81; id. Fam. 14, 3, 3.—In pass. imper.:

fi,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 87; Hor. S. 2, 5, 38; Pers. 1, 1, 39:

fite,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 89 al. — Indic.: facitur, Nigid. ap. Non. 507, 15: fitur, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 789:

fiebantur,

id. ib.: fitum est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 475, 16.— Subj.: faciatur, Titin. ib.— Inf.: fiere, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 75 P.; Ann. v. 15, ed. Vahl.; Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 10.—On the long i of fit, v. Ritschl, prol. p. 184, and cf. Plaut. Capt. prol. 25: ut fit in bello) [prob. root bha-; Sanscr. bhasas, light; Gr. pha-, in phainô, phêmi; cf. fax, facetiae, facilis, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 423.—But Curt. refers facio to root the- (strengthened THEK), Griech. Etym. p. 64], to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion, etc. (cf. in gen.:

ago, factito, reddo, operor, tracto): verbum facere omnem omnino faciendi causam complectitur, donandi, solvendi, judicandi, ambulandi, numerandi,

Dig. 50, 16, 218.

In gen.

With acc.: ut faber, cum quid aedificaturus est, non ipse facit materiam, sed ea utitur, quae sit parata, etc.... Quod si non est a deo materia facta, ne terra quidem et aqua et aer et ignis a deo factus est, Cic. N. D. Fragm. ap. Lact. 2, 8 (Cic. ed. Bait. 7, p. 121):

sphaera ab Archimede facta,

Cic. Rep. 1, 14:

fecitque idem et sepsit de manubiis comitium et curiam,

id. ib. 2, 17:

aedem,

id. ib. 2, 20:

pontem in Arari faciundum curat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 1:

castra,

id. ib. 1, 48, 2; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4:

faber vasculum fecit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

classem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 21, 4:

cenas et facere et obire,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6:

ignem lignis viridibus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45:

poema,

to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70:

carmina,

Juv. 7, 28:

versus,

id. 7, 38:

sermonem,

Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf.

litteram,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit = edere, id. Rep. 2, 20; id. Att. 15, 10;

also i. q. ludificari,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 47:

sementes,

i. e. to sow, Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 1:

messem,

Col. 2, 10, 28:

pecuniam,

to make, acquire, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

manum (with parare copias),

to collect, prepare, id. Caecin. 12, 33; so,

cohortes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 4:

exercitum,

Vell. 2, 109, 2; and:

auxilia mercede,

Tac. A. 6, 33:

iter,

Cic. Att. 3, 1; id. Planc. 26, 65; id. Div. 1, 33, 73 et saep.; cf.

also the phrases: aditum sibi ad aures,

Quint. 4, 1, 46:

admirationem alicujus rei alicui,

to excite, Liv. 25, 11, 18; Sen. Ep. 115:

aes alienum,

Cic. Att. 13, 46, 4; Liv. 2, 23, 5; Sen. Ep. 119, 1:

alienationem disjunctionemque,

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

animum alicui,

Liv. 25, 11, 10:

arbitrium de aliquo,

to decide, Hor. C. 4, 7, 21;

opp. arbitrium alicui in aliqua re,

i. e. to leave the decision to one, Liv. 43, 15, 5:

audaciam hosti,

id. 29, 34, 10:

audientiam orationi,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42:

auspicium alicui,

Liv. 1, 34, 9; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 86:

auctoritatem,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

bellum,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 2:

multa bona alicui,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 46:

castra,

to pitch, Tac. H. 5, 1:

caulem,

to form, Col. Arb. 54:

clamores,

to make, raise, Cic. Brut. 95, 326:

cognomen alicui,

to give, Liv. 1, 3, 9:

commercium sermonis,

id. 5, 15, 5:

concitationes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 106 fin.:

conjurationes,

to form, id. B. G. 4, 30 fin.:

consuetudinem alicui cum altero,

Cic. Fam. 13, 23, 1:

consilia alicui,

Liv. 35, 42, 8:

contentionem cum aliquo,

Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

controversiam,

to occasion, id. Or. 34, 121:

convicium magnum alicui,

id. Fam. 10, 16, 1:

copiam pugnandi militibus,

Liv. 7, 13, 10:

corpus,

to grow fat, corpulent, Cels. 7, 3 fin.; Phaedr. 3, 7, 5:

curam,

Tac. A. 3, 52:

damnum,

to suffer, Cic. Brut. 33, 125:

detrimentum,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 20:

desiderium alicujus, rei alicui,

Liv. 3, 34, 7; 7, 24, 10:

dicta,

Ov. F. 2, 375; 3, 515:

difficultatem,

Quint. 10, 3, 10 and 16:

discordiam,

to cause, Tac. H. 3, 48:

discrimen,

Quint. 7, 2, 14; 11, 1, 43:

disjunctionem (with alienationem),

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

dolorem alicui,

id. Att. 11, 8, 2:

dulcedinem,

Sen. Ep. 111:

eloquentiam alicui (ira),

Quint. 6, 2, 26:

epigramma,

to write, Cic. Arch. 10, 25:

errorem,

Sen. Ep. 67:

eruptiones ex oppido,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2, 5:

exemplum,

Quint. 5, 2, 2: exempla = edere or statuere, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 66. exercitum, to raise, muster, Tac. A. 6, 33:

exspectationem,

Quint. 9, 2, 23:

facinus,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 1; Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 95; Tac. A. 12, 31:

facultatem recte judicandi alicui,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 73, § 179:

fallaciam,

Ter. And. 1, 8, 7:

famam ingenii,

Quint. 11, 2, 46:

fastidium,

Liv. 3, 1, 7:

favorem alicui,

id. 42, 14, 10; Quint. 4, 1, 33:

fidem alicui,

Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 4; id. Att. 7, 8, 1; Quint. 6, 2, 18:

finem,

Cic. Att. 16, 16, 16; id. Rep. 2, 44:

formidinem,

to excite, Tac. H. 3, 10:

fortunam magnam (with parare),

Liv. 24, 22, 9:

fraudem,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 9; Cic. Att. 4, 12:

fugam fecerunt, stronger than fugerunt,

Liv. 8, 9, 12 Weissenb.; Sall. J. 53, 3;

but: cum fugam in regia fecisset (sc. ceterorum),

Liv. 1, 56, 4; so,

fugam facere = fugare,

id. 21, 5, 16; 21, 52, 10:

fugam hostium facere,

id. 22, 24, 8; 26, 4, 8 al.:

gestum vultu,

Quint. 11, 3, 71:

gradum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 249; id. Verr. 2, 2, 1, § 3; Quint. 3, 6, 8:

gratiam alicujus rei,

Liv. 3, 56, 4; 8, 34, 3:

gratulationem alicui,

Cic. Fam. 11, 18, 3; Sen. Ep. 6:

gratum alicui,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 56; Cic. Rep. 1, 21; cf.:

gratissimum alicui,

id. Fam. 7, 21 fin.:

histrioniam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 152:

homicidium,

to commit, Quint. 5, 9, 9:

hospitium cum aliquo,

Cic. Balb. 18, 42:

imperata,

Caes. B. G. 2, 3, 3:

impetum in hostem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34; Liv. 25, 11, 2:

incursionem,

Liv. 3, 38, 3:

indicium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 57, § 150:

inducias,

id. Phil. 8, 7, 20:

initium,

to begin, id. Agr. 2, 29, 79; cf.:

initia ab aliquo,

id. Rep. 1, 19:

injuriam,

id. ib. 3, 14 (opp. accipere); Caes. B. G. 1, 36, 4; Quint. 3, 6, 49; 10, 1, 115:

insidias alicui,

Cic. Mil. 9, 23:

iram,

Quint. 6, 1, 14:

jacturam,

Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89; id. Fin. 2, 24, 79; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 7:

judicium,

Cic. Att. 7, 23, 2:

judicatum,

to execute, id. Fl. 20, 48:

jus alicui,

Liv. 32, 13, 6:

jussa,

Ov. F. 1, 379:

laetitiam,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

largitiones,

id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

locum poetarum mendacio,

Curt. 3, 1, 4:

locum alicui rei,

Cels. 2, 14 fin.; 7, 4, 3; Curt. 4, 11, 8; Sen. Ep. 91, 13 et saep.:

longius,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22 al.:

valde magnum,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 7:

medicinam alicui,

to administer, id. Fam. 14, 7:

memoriam,

Quint. 11, 2, 4:

mentionem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 2:

metum,

to excite, Tac. A. 6, 36:

turbida lux metum insidiarum faciebat,

suggested, Liv. 10, 33, 5:

metum alicui,

id. 9, 41, 11:

missum aliquem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

modum irae,

Liv. 4, 50, 4:

moram,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 72:

morem alicujus rei sibi,

Liv. 35, 35, 13:

motus,

id. 28, 46, 8: multam alicui, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 1, 6:

munditias,

id. R. R. 2, 4:

mutationem,

Cic. Sest. 12, 27; id. Off. 1, 33, 120:

multa alicui,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 16:

naufragium,

to suffer, id. Fam. 16, 9, 1:

negotium alicui,

to give to do, make trouble for, Quint. 5, 12, 13; Just. 21, 4, 4:

nomen alicui,

Liv. 8, 15, 8; cf.

nomina,

to incur debts, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59:

odium vitae,

Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 199:

officium suum,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 12:

omnia amici causa,

Cic. Lael. 10, 35; id. Fam. 5, 11, 2:

opinionem alicui,

id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 45:

orationem,

id. de Or. 1, 14, 63; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 51, 172:

otia alicui,

to grant, Verg. E. 1, 6:

pacem,

to conclude, Cic. Off. 3, 30, 109:

pecuniam ex aliqua re,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

periculum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 23; id. Heaut. 2, 1, 9; Tac. A. 13, 33; 16, 19; Sall. C. 33, 1: perniciem alicui, to cause, = parare, Tac. H. 2, 70:

planum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, 54:

potestatem,

id. Cat. 3, 5, 11; id. Rep. 2, 28:

praedam,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60, § 156; Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 8:

praedas ab aliquo,

Nep. Chabr. 2, 2:

proelium,

to join, Caes. B. G. 1, 13; Cic. Deiot. 5, 13; Liv. 25, 1, 5; Tac. H. 4, 79; id. A. 12, 40:

promissum,

Cic. Off. 3, 25, 95:

pudorem,

Liv. 3, 31, 3:

ratum,

id. 28, 39, 16:

rem,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12:

reum,

to accuse, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38: risum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 40; 48:

scelus,

to commit, Tac. H. 1, 40:

securitatem alicui,

Liv. 36, 41, 1:

sermonem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66:

significationem ignibus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 3:

silentium,

Liv. 24, 7, 12:

somnum,

to induce, Juv. 3, 282:

spem,

Cic. Att. 3, 16; Liv. 30, 3, 7:

spiritus,

id. 30, 11, 3:

stercus,

Col. 2, 15:

stipendia,

Sall. J. 63, 3; Liv. 3, 27, 1; 5, 7, 5:

stomachum alicui,

Cic. Att. 5, 11, 2; id. Fam. 1, 9, 10:

suavium alicui,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 53:

suspicionem,

Cic. Fl. 33, 83:

taedium alicujus rei,

Liv. 4, 57, 11:

terrorem iis,

to inflict, id. 10, 25, 8:

timorem,

to excite, id. 6, 28, 8:

mihi timorem,

Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

totum,

Dig. 28, 5, 35:

transitum alicui,

Liv. 26, 25, 3:

turbam,

Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 2:

urinam,

Col. 6, 19:

usum,

Quint. 10, 3, 28:

vadimonium,

Cic. Quint. 18, 57:

verbum, verba,

to speak, talk, id. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147:

verbum,

to invent, id. Fin. 3, 15, 51:

versus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5:

vestigium,

id. Rab. Post. 17, 47: viam [p. 717] sibi, Liv. 3, 5, 6:

vim alicui or in aliquem,

id. 38, 24, 4; 3, 5, 5:

vires,

to get, acquire, Quint. 10, 3, 3:

vitium,

Cic. Top. 3, 15 al. —

With ut, ne, quin, or the simple subj.:

faciam, ut ejus diei locique meique semper meminerit,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 20:

facere ut remigret domum,

id. Pers. 4, 6, 3; id. Capt. 3, 4, 78; 4, 2, 77:

ea, quantum potui, feci, ut essent nota nostris,

Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

facito, ut sciam,

id. Att. 2, 4, 4:

non potuisti ullo modo facere, ut mihi illam epistolam non mitteres,

id. ib. 11, 21, 1:

si facis ut patriae sit idoneus,

Juv. 14, 71:

ut nihil ad te dem litterarum facere non possum,

Cic. Ac. 8, 14, 1; for which, with quin:

facere non possum, quin ad te mittam,

I cannot forbear sending, id. ib. 12, 27, 2:

fecisti, ut ne cui maeror tuus calamitatem afferret,

id. Clu. 60, 168:

fac, ne quid aliud cures,

id. Fam. 16, 11, 1:

domi assitis, facite,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 53:

fac fidele sis fidelis,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

fac cupidus mei videndi sis,

Cic. Fam. 5, 21, 5:

fac cogites,

id. ib. 11, 3, 4.—In pass.:

fieri potest, ut recte quis sentiat, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 6: potest fieri, ut iratus dixerit, etc., Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 285:

nec fieri possit, ut non statim alienatio facienda sit,

id. Lael. 21, 76; so with ut non, id. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 190 (Zumpt, Gram. § 539).—

With inf. = efficere, curare, to cause (rare):

nulla res magis talis oratores videri facit,

Cic. Brut. 38, 142; Pall. 6, 12:

aspectus arborum macrescere facit volucres inclusas,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 3; Sall. Fragm. ap. Sen. Ep. 114:

qui nati coram me cernere letum Fecisti,

Verg. A. 2, 539; Ov. H. 17, 174:

mel ter infervere facito,

Col. 12, 38, 5 (perh. also in Ov. H. 6, 100, instead of favet, v. Loers. ad h. l.; cf. infra, B. 4.).—

Absol.:

ego plus, quam feci, facere non possum,

Cic. Fam. 11, 14, 3:

faciam, ut potero, Laeli,

id. de Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. Rep. 1, 24:

noli putare, pigritia me facere, quod non mea manu scribam,

id. Att. 16, 15, 1; so,

facere = hoc or id facere,

Lucr. 4, 1112 (cf. Munro ad loc.); 1153: vereor ne a te rursus dissentiam. M. Non facies, Quinte, Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33;

so after scribam,

id. Att. 16, 16, 15:

nominaverunt,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 50;

after disserere: tu mihi videris utrumque facturus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 22;

after fingere: ut facit apud Platonem Socrates,

id. ib.:

necesse erit uti epilogis, ut in Verrem Cicero fecit,

Quint. 6, 1, 54:

qui dicere ac facere doceat,

id. 2, 3, 11:

faciant equites,

Juv. 7, 14; Liv. 42, 37, 6:

petis ut libellos meos recognoscendos curem. Faciam,

Plin. Ep. 4, 26, 1; 5, 1, 4 et saep. (cf. the use of facio, as neutr., to resume or recall the meaning of another verb, v. II. E. infra; between that use and this no line can be drawn).

In partic.

With a double object, to make a thing into something, to render it something:

senatum bene firmum firmiorem vestra auctoritate fecistis,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

te disertum,

id. ib. 2, 39 fin.:

iratum adversario judicem,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 220:

heredem filiam,

to appoint, constitute, id. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 111:

aliquem regem,

Just. 9, 6:

aliquem ludos,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 75:

aliquem absentem rei capitalis reum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 93:

animum dubium,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 27:

injurias irritas,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

vectigalia sibi deteriora,

Caes. B. G. 1, 36, 4:

hi consules facti sunt,

Cic. de Sen. 5, 14:

disciplina doctior facta civitas,

id. Rep. 2, 19:

di ex hominibus facti,

id. ib. 2, 10; cf.:

tua virtute nobis Romanos ex amicis amicissimos fecisti,

Sall. J. 10, 2.—In pass.:

quo tibi sumere depositum clavum fierique tribuno?

to become a tribune, Hor. S. 1, 6, 25.—

to value, esteem, regard a person or thing in any manner (like the Engl. make, in the phrase to make much of).—Esp. with gen. pretii:

in quo perspicere posses, quanti te, quanti Pompeium, quem unum ex omnibus facio, ut debeo, plurimi, quanti Brutum facerem,

Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 2:

te quotidie pluris feci,

id. ib. 3, 4, 2:

voluptatem virtus minimi facit,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 42:

dolorem nihili facere,

to care nothing for, to despise, id. ib. 27, 88:

nihili facio scire,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 42:

negat se magni facere, utrum, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 38:

parum id facio,

Sall. J. 85, 31: si illi aliter nos faciant quam aequum sit. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 43.—

With gen., to make a thing the property of a person, subject it to him: omnia, quae mulieris fuerunt, viri fiunt, Cic. Top. 4, 23.—Esp.: facere aliquid dicionis alicujus, to reduce to subjection under a person or power:

omnem oram Romanae dicionis fecit,

Liv. 21, 60, 3:

dicionis alienae facti,

id. 1, 25, 13; 5, 27, 14; cf.: ut munus imperii beneficii sui faceret, to make it ( seem) his own bounty, Just. 13, 4, 9:

ne delecto imperatore alio sui muneris rempublicam faceret,

Tac. A. 15, 52.—

To represent a thing in any manner, to feign, assert, say. —Constr. with acc. and adj. or part., or with acc. and inf.

Acc. and part.:

in eo libro, ubi se exeuntem e senatu et cum Pansa colloquentem facit,

id. Brut. 60, 218:

Xenophon facit... Socratem disputantem,

id. N. D. 1, 12, 31; cf.:

ejus (Socratis) oratio, qua facit eum Plato usum apud judices,

id. Tusc. 1, 40 fin. al.—

Acc. and inf.:

qui nuper fecit servo currenti in via decesse populum,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 31:

fecerat et fetam procubuisse lupam,

Verg. A. 8, 630; cf. Ov. M. 6, 109, v. Bach ad h. l.:

poetae impendere apud inferos saxum Tantalo faciunt,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 35:

quem (Herculem) Homerus apud inferos conveniri facit ab Ulixe,

id. N. D. 3, 16, 41:

Plato construi a deo mundum facit,

id. ib. 1, 8, 19:

Plato Isocratem laudari fecit a Socrate,

id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17; id. Brut. 38, 142:

M. Cicero dicere facit C. Laelium,

Gell. 17, 5, 1:

caput esse faciunt ea, quae perspicua dicunt,

Cic. Fia. 4, 4, 8, v. Madv. ad h. l.—

In double construction:

Polyphemum Homerus cum ariete colloquentem facit ejusque laudare fortunas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 39 fin. —

To make believe, to pretend:

facio me alias res agere,

Cic. Fam. 15, 18:

cum verbis se locupletem faceret,

id. Fl. 20:

me unum ex iis feci, qui, etc.,

id. Planc. 27, 65.—

Hypothetically in the imper. fac, suppose, assume:

fac, quaeso, qui ego sum, esse te,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1; cf.:

fac potuisse,

id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

fac animos non remanere post mortem,

id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82; 1, 29, 70:

fac velit,

Stat. Ach. 2, 241:

fac velle,

Verg. A. 4, 540.—

In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession:

cum mercaturas facerent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 72:

naviculariam,

id. ib. 2, 5, 18, §

46: argentariam,

id. ib. 2, 5, 49, § 155; id. Caecin. 4, 10:

topiariam,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 5:

haruspicinam,

id. Fam. 6, 18, 1:

praeconium,

id. ib.; so,

piraticam,

id. Post. Red. in Sen. 5, 11:

medicinam,

Phaedr. 1, 14, 2.—

In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

res illum divinas apud eos deos in suo sacrario quotidie facere vidisti,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 8, § 18:

sacra pro civibus,

id. Balb. 24, 55:

sacrificium publicum,

id. Brut. 14, 56.— Absol.:

a sacris patriis Junonis Sospitae, cui omnes consules facere necesse est, consulem avellere,

Cic. Mur. 41, 90.—With abl.:

cum faciam vitula pro frugibus,

Verg. E. 3, 77:

catulo,

Col. 2, 22, 4.— Pass. impers.:

cum pro populo fieret,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3:

quibus diis decemviri ex libris ut fieret, ediderunt,

Liv. 37, 3, 5.—

In gram., to make, form in inflecting:

cur aper apri et pater patris faciat?

Quint. 1, 6, 13; so id. 14; 15; 27; cf.:

sic genitivus Achilli et Ulixi fecit,

id. 1, 5, 63; 1, 6, 26:

eadem (littera) fecit ex duello bellum,

id. 1, 4, 15.—

In late Lat., (se) facere aliquo, to betake one's self to any place:

intra limen sese facit,

App. 5, p. 159, 25;

without se: homo meus coepit ad stelas facere,

Petr. 62:

ad illum ex Libya Hammon facit,

Tert. Pall. 3.—

Peculiar phrases.

Quid faciam (facias, fiet, etc.), with abl., dat., or (rare) with de, what is to be done with a person or thing? quid hoc homine facias? Cic. Sest. 13, 29; id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40:

nescit quid faciat auro,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 100:

quid tu huic homini facias?

Cic. Caecin. 11, 30; cf.:

quid enim tibi faciam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 2: quid faceret huic conclusioni, i. e. how should he refute, etc., id. Ac. 2, 30, 96:

quid facias illi?

Hor. S. 1, 1, 63:

miserunt Delphos consultum quidnam facerent de rebus suis,

Nep. Them. 2: quid fecisti scipione? what have you done with the stick? or, what has become of it? Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 6; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9.—In pass.:

quid Tulliola mea fiet?

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 3:

quid illo fiet? quid me?

id. Att. 6, 1, 14:

quid fiet artibus?

id. Ac. 2, 33, 107:

quid mihi fiet?

Ov. A. A. 1, 536:

quid de illa fiet fidicina igitur?

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 48: de fratre quid fiet? Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 39.— Absol.:

quid faciat Philomela? fugam custodia claudit?

Ov. M. 6, 572:

quid facerem? neque servitio me exire licebat, etc.,

Verg. E. 1, 41 al. —

Fit, factum est aliquo or aliqua re, it happens to, becomes of a person or thing:

volo Erogitare, meo minore quid sit factum filio,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 32:

nec quid deinde iis (elephantis) factum sit, auctores explicant,

Plin. 8, 6, 6, § 17:

quid eo est argento factum?

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 106.—Hence,

Esp., si quid factum sit aliquo, if any thing should happen to one (i. q. si quid acciderit humanitus), euphemistically for if one should die:

si quid eo factum esset, in quo spem essetis habituri?

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 20, 59; cf.:

eum fecisse aiunt, sibi quod faciendum fuit,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 23. —

Ut fit, as it usually happens, as is commonly the case:

praesertim cum, ut fit, fortuito saepe aliquid concluse apteque dicerent,

Cic. Or. 53, 177:

queri, ut fit, incipiunt,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 56:

dum se uxor, ut fit, comparat,

id. Mil. 10, 28:

fecit statim, ut fit, fastidium copia,

Liv. 3, 1, 7.—

Fiat, an expression of assent, so be it! very good! fiat, geratur mos tibi, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 146; id. As. 1, 1, 27; id. Am. 2, 2, 138; id. Most. 4, 3, 44 al.—

Dictum ac factum, no sooner said than done, without delay, at once; v. dictum under dico, A. d.—

In certain phrases the ellipsis of facere is common, e. g. finem facere:

Quae cum dixisset, Cotta finem,

Cic. N. D. 3, 40, 94; id. Fin. 4, 1 init. —With nihil aliud quam, quid alium quam, nihil praeterquam, which often = an emphatic Engl. only (but not in Cic.):

Tissaphernes nihil aliud quam bellum comparavit,

Nep. Ages. 2:

per biduum nihil aliud quam steterunt parati,

Liv. 34, 46; Suet. Caes. 20; id. Aug. 83; Liv. 2, 63; 4, 3; 3, 26.—So with nihil amplius quam, nihil prius quam, nihil minus quam, Liv. 26, 20; 35, 11; Suet. Dom. 3.

With adverbs, to do, deal, or act in any manner:

recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7;

v. recte under rego: bene fecit Silius, qui transegerit,

Cic. Att. 12, 24, 1:

seu recte seu perperam,

to do right or wrong, id. Quint. 8, 31:

Dalmatis di male faciant,

id. Fam. 5, 11 fin.:

facis amice,

in a friendly manner, id. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

per malitiam,

maliciously, id. Rosc. Com. 7, 21:

humaniter,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

imperite,

id. Leg. 1, 1, 4:

tutius,

Quint. 5, 10, 68:

voluit facere contra huic aegre,

Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10: bene facere, to profit, benefit (opp. male facere, to hurt, injure), Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 25; 5, 7, 19; Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 22; id. Capt. 5, 2, 23; v. also under benefacio and benefactum.—

Facere cum or ab aliquo, to take part with one, to side with one; and opp. contra (or adversus) aliquem, to take part against one:

si respondisset, idem sentire et secum facere Sullam,

Cic. Sull. 13, 36; cf.:

cum illo consulem facere,

id. Att. 6, 8, 2; and:

secum consules facere,

id. Planc. 35, 86:

auctoritatem sapientissimorum hominum facere nobiscum,

id. Caecin. 36, 104; cf.:

rem et sententiam interdicti mecum facere fatebatur,

id. ib. 28, 79:

cum veritas cum hoc faciat,

is on his side, id. Quint. 30, 91:

commune est, quod nihilo magis ab adversariis quam a nobis facit,

id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

omnes damnatos, omnes ignominia affectos illac (a or cum Caesare) facere,

id. Att. 7, 3, 5:

quae res in civitate duae plurimum possunt, eae contra nos ambae faciunt in hoc tempore,

id. Quint. 1, 1:

neque minus eos cum quibus steterint quam adversus quos fecerint,

Nep. Eum. 8, 2:

cum aliquo non male facere,

to be on good terms with, Ov. Am. 3, 762.—

In late Lat. facere cum aliqua = vivere cum aliqua, to live in matrimony, to be married, Inscr. Orell. 4646. —

Ad aliquid, alicui, or absol., to be good or of use for any thing; to be useful, of service:

chamaeleon facit ad difficultatem urinae,

Plin. 22, 18, 21, § 46; Scrib. Comp. 122:

ad talem formam non facit iste locus,

Ov. H. 16, 190; cf. id. ib. 6, 128; id. Am. 1, 2, 16 al.:

radix coronopi coeliacis praeclare facit,

Plin. 22, 19, 22, § 48; so with dat., Plin. Val. 2, 1; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 20:

facit autem commode ea compositio, quam, etc.,

Col. 7, 5, 7; 8, 17, 13:

nec caelum, nec aquae faciunt, nec terra, nec aurae,

do not benefit me, Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 23:

mire facit in peroratione confessio,

Quint. 11, 3, 173; 171; cf. with a subject-clause: plurimum facit, totas diligenter [p. 718] nosse causas, id. 6, 4, 8: ad aliquid or alicui signifies also to suit, fit:

non faciet capiti dura corona meo,

Prop. 3, 1, 19; cf. Ov. H. 16, 189.—

Like the Gr. poiein or dran, and the Engl. to do, instead of another verb (also for esse and pati):

factum cupio (sc. id esse),

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 24:

factum volo,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 91; id. Most. 3, 2, 104:

an Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo pecuniam ducere, nostrates philosophi facere non potuerunt?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90:

nihil his in locis nisi saxa et montes cogitabam: idque ut facerem, orationibus inducebar tuis,

id. Leg. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

Demosthenem, si illa pronuntiare voluisset, ornate splendideque facere potuisse,

id. Off. 1, 1 fin.; and:

cur Cassandra furens futura prospiciat, Priamus sapiens hoc idem facere nequeat?

id. Div. 1, 39, 85; so id. Ac. 2, 33, 107; id. Att. 1, 16, 13; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2; Nep. Chabr. 3, 4; 4, 3 al.:

vadem te ad mortem tyranno dabis pro amico, ut Pythagoreus ille Siculo fecit tyranno (here also with the case of the preceding verb),

Cic. Fin. 2, 24 fin. (v. Madv. ad h. l. p. 278):

jubeas (eum) miserum esse, libenter quatenus id facit (i. e. miser est),

what he is doing, Hor. S. 1, 1, 64:

in hominibus solum existunt: nam bestiae simile quiddam faciunt (i. q. patiuntur or habent),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 14; so,

ne facias quod Ummidius quidam (= ne idem experiaris, ne idem tibi eveniat),

Hor. S. 1, 1, 94. —

Facere omitted, especially in short sentences expressing a judgment upon conduct, etc.:

at stulte, qui non modo non censuerit, etc.,

Cic. Off. 3, 27, 101.—Hence,

factus, a, um, P. a.

As adjective ante-class. and very rare:

factius nihilo facit, sc. id, i. e. nihilo magis effectum reddit,

is no nearer bringing it about, Plaut. Trin. 2, 3, 6; cf. Lorenz ad loc.—Far more freq.,

In the neutr. as subst.: factum, i ( gen. plur. factum, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 Trag. 81), that which is done, a deed, act, exploit, achievement (syn.: res gestae, facinus).

In gen.:

depingere,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 5, 38:

facere factum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 5; id. Mil. 3, 1, 139:

dicta et facta,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 19; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 12:

opus facto est,

id. Phorm. 4, 5, 4:

ecquod hujus factum aut commissum non dicam audacius, sed, etc.,

Cic. Sull. 26, 72: meum factum probari abs te triumpho gaudio, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 1;

14, 9, 2: quod umquam eorum in re publica forte factum exstitit?

id. ib. 8, 14, 2:

praeclarum atque divinum,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 114:

egregium,

id. Fam. 10, 16, 2; id. Cael. 10, 23:

factum per se improbabile,

Quint. 7, 4, 7; 6, 1, 22:

illustre,

Nep. Arist. 2, 2; cf.:

illustria et gloriosa,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

forte,

id. Att. 8, 14, 2:

dira,

Ov. M. 6, 533:

nefanda,

id. H. 14, 16 al.; but also with the adv.:

recte ac turpiter factum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 80, 5; cf.:

multa huius (Timothei) sunt praeclare facta sed haec maxime illustria,

Nep. Timoth. 1, 2;

v. Zumpt, Gram. § 722, 2: dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 40:

quo facto aut dicto adest opus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 15 et saep.:

famam extendere factis,

Verg. A. 10, 468: non hominum video. non ego facta boum, doings, i. e. works, Ov. H. 10, 60.—

In partic., bonum factum, like the Gr. agathê tuchê, a good deed, i. e. well done, fortunate (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

bonum factum'st, edicta ut servetis mea,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 16; cf. id. ib. 44; cf.:

hoc factum est optimum, ut, etc.,

id. Ps. 1, 2, 52:

majorum bona facta,

Tac. A. 3, 40; cf. id. ib. 3, 65. —At the commencement of edicts, Suet. Caesar, 80; id. Vit. 14; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 49, 17; Tert. Pudic. 1.—(But in the class. per. factum in this sense is a participle, and is construed with an adv.:

bene facta,

Sall. C. 8, 5; id. J. 85, 5; Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

recte, male facta,

id. Off. 2, 18, 62:

male facto exigua laus proponitur,

id. Leg. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Brut. 43, 322; Quint. 3, 7, 13; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 460).—

facteon, a word jestingly formed by Cicero, after the analogy of the Greek, for faciendum: quare, ut opinor, philosophêteon, id quod tu facis, et istos consulatus non flocci facteon, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 13 Orell. N. cr. (for facteon, Ernesti has eateon).

cōgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [contr. from cŏ-ăgito, acc. to Varr. L. L. 6, § 43 Müll.; but more prob. from con and root of aio, Sanscr. ah; cf.: nego, adagium], to pursue something in the mind (cf. agito, II.), i. e.

To consider thoroughly, to ponder, to weigh, reflect upon, think (class. in prose and poetry); constr. absol., with aliquid, de aliquo, or de aliquā re, sic, ita, or a rel. -clause: cogitate cum animis vestris si quid, etc., Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4; so Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 13; Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 55; 5, 3, 32; Cic. Agr. 2, 24, 64; cf.:

in animo cogitare,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 5:

toto animo,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 3:

coepi egomet mecum Aliam rem ex aliā cogitare,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 3; so id. ib. 4, 2, 8; 1, 1, 19; id. Ad. 5, 3, 22:

placuit tum id mihi. Sic cogitabam: hic, etc.,

id. And. 1, 1, 83; cf. id. Eun. 1, 1, 11; 3, 3, 1; 4, 6, 21; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4:

sic cogitabam! fore uti, etc.,

Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

severā fronte curas cogitans (i. e. animo volvens),

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 46; cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 2:

nec, aequum anne iniquum imperet, cogitabit,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 19; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 291:

quid agam cogito,

Ter. And. 2, 2, 21; cf. id. ib. 5, 1, 7 sq.; id. Ad. 4, 2, 30; Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 10; Lucr. 4, 789; cf. id. 4, 782; Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 29:

ad haec igitur cogita, vel potius excogita,

id. Att. 9, 6, 7.—With acc. of person:

Regulum cogita,

think, imagine, picture to yourself, Plin. Ep. 4, 2, 2:

tamquam in eo tragoediae argumento sui oblitus tantum Catonem cogitasset,

Tac. Or. 2:

matrem, patrem, propinquos,

Quint. Decl. 22 fin.; cf.:

o felicem illum, qui non praesens tantum, sed etiam cogitatus emendat,

Sen. Ep. 11, 9.—With two accs.:

quem ultimae gentes castiorem non modo viderunt sed cogitaverunt?

Cic. Balb. 4, 9:

Scipionem, Laelium, avum,

to think of, call to mind, id. Fin. 5, 1, 2:

et majores et posteros cogitate,

Tac. Agr. 32 fin.:

si principem cogitares,

Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 31:

cum Persas cogitaret,

Flor. 2, 8, 2; Sen. Cons. Marc. 3, 4. —

cōgĭtāta, ōrum, n. subst., reflections, thoughts, ideas:

postquam ad judices Ventum est, non potuit cogitata proloqui,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 53:

so cogitata (mentis) eloqui,

Cic. Brut. 72, 253:

perficere,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

patefacere,

Nep. Paus. 3, 1:

sapientium,

Cic. Agr. 1, 1, 1:

Naevii,

id. Quint. 29, 90.—Rare in sing.:

quo neque acutius ullius imperatoris cogitatum neque celerius factum usquam legimus,

Nep. Dat. 6, 8.—

Cogitare in, adversus aliquem, with an adv., to think in some way in respect to one, to be disposed towards (very rare): si humaniter et sapienter et amabiliter in me cogitare vis, etc., Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A, 2:

adversus se,

Suet. Caes. 75 Bremi; cf. with de aliquo:

si quid amice de Romanis cogitabis,

Nep. Hann. 2, 6: ut multi mihi renuntiarent... male eum de me cogitare, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 1; and absol.: male cogitantes, Cato, R. R. praef. 4; cf.:

Karthagini male jam diu cogitanti bellum multo ante denuntio,

Cic. Sen. 6, 18.—

In respect to a work to be undertaken or a conclusion to be made, to have something in mind, to intend, meditate, design, plan, purpose, etc.

With inf.:

praedium parare,

Cato, R. R. 1, 1; 3, 1; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 163:

cogitat recipere hunc in aedes,

Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 58:

facere,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 46:

recipere me,

Cic. Att. 2, 9, 4:

cenare,

id. ib. 4, 12, 1:

uti,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 50:

ex fumo dare lucem,

id. A. P. 144:

deducere exercitum,

Suet. Ner. 18 al. —

With acc.:

proscriptiones et dictaturas cogitare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 20:

caedem principis et res novas,

Tac. A. 4, 28 fin.:

cogitatum facinus,

Suet. Tib. 19;

and parricidium,

id. Calig. 12:

mecum rem pulcherrimam,

Curt. 8, 7, 9:

tantum nefas in aliquem,

id. 6, 7, 30; 8, 6, 3; cf.:

si qua cogitarentur, gravius adversus se,

Suet. Caes. 75:

quid bellicosus Cantaber et Scythes cogitet,

what he plots, devises, Hor. C. 2, 11, 2; and so poet. of the (personified) wind:

quid cogitet humidus Auster,

Verg. G. 1, 462 Heyne.—

With ut and subj.:

neque jam, ut aliquid acquireret... cogitabat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 59:

quid... viros cogitasse arbitramur? Ut nomen suum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 32; Nep. Dion, 9, 2.—

With de:

cogitavit etiam de Homeri carminibus abolendis,

Suet. Calig. 34:

de reddendā republicā,

id. Aug. 28:

de consciscendā morte,

id. Caes. 36; id. Claud. 31:

de quo,

id. Caes. 9:

cum spiritus coepit de exitu cogitare,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 25, 1.—In epistolary style, with ellipsis,

Of ire:

in Pompeianum cogitabam inde Aeculanum,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 4; 9, 1, 2; id. Fam. 7, 4 init.; id. Att. 2, 8, 2; 5, 15, 3.—

Of manere:

eo die cogitabam in Anagnino, postero autem in Tusculano,

Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1; cf.:

ut eo die apud T. Titium in Anagnino manerem. Postridie autem in Laterio cogitabam,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 5, 4 (2, 7, 1).—Hence, *

P. a.: cōgĭtātus, a, um, deliberate:

utrum perturbatione aliquā animi, an consulto et cogitata fiat injuria,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27 B. and K. (al. cogitato).—

cōgĭtātē, adv., with mature reflection, considerately (rare):

tractare rem suam,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 45:

meditari,

id. Mil. 3, 3, 69:

quae vero accurate cogitateque scripsisset,

Cic. Arch. 8, 18.

ex-cĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3, v. a. [capio].

(With the notion of the ex predominating.) To take or draw out.

Lit. (rarely): aliquem e mari, to draw out, fish out, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 293, 26 (Rep. 4, 8, 8 Baiter):

vidulum (e mari),

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 140 sq.:

dens manu, forcipe,

Cels. 7, 12, 1:

telum (e vulnere),

id. 7, 5, 1:

clipeum cristasque rubentes Excipiam sorti,

to withdraw, exempt, Verg. A. 9, 271.—

Trop.

In gen.: servitute exceptus, withdrawn, i. e. rescued from slavery, Liv. 33, 23, 2:

nihil jam cupiditati, nihil libidini exceptum,

exempt, Tac. Agr. 15.—

In partic.

To except, make an exception of (freq. and class.):

hosce ego homines excipio et secerno libenter,

Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15:

qui (Democritus) ita sit ausus ordiri: Haec loquor de universis. Nihil excipit, de quo non profiteatur,

id. Ac. 2, 23, 73; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 28:

Lacedaemonii ipsi, cum omnia concedunt in amore juvenum praeter stuprum, tenui sane muro dissaepiunt id, quod excipiunt,

id. Rep. 4, 4:

senex talos elidi jussit conservis meis: sed me excepit,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 13.—With ne:

Licinia lex, quae non modo eum, qui, etc.... sed etiam collegas ejus, cognatos, affines excipit, ne eis ea potestas curatiove mandetur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 8, 21;

so in legal limitations,

id. ib. 2, 9, 24; id. Balb. 14, 32; see also exceptio.—With ut, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, 26:

excepi de antiquis praeter Xenophanem neminem,

id. Div. 1, 39, 87:

ut in summis tuis laudibus excipiant unam iracundiam,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, 37:

dolia, in horreis defossa, si non sint nominatim in venditione excepta, etc.,

Dig. 18, 1, 76; so ib. 77.—In the abl. absol.:

omnium mihi videor, exceptis, Crasse, vobis duobus, eloquentissimos audisse Ti. et C. Sempronios,

you two excepted, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38; cf.:

vos hortor, ut ita virtutem locetis, ut eā exceptā nihil amicitia praestabilius esse putetis,

id. Lael. 27 fin.:

exceptā sapientiā,

id. ib. 6, 20. — Neutr. absol.:

excepto, quod non simul esses, cetera laetus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 50:

excepto, si obscena nudis nominibus enuntientur,

Quint. 8, 3, 38; Pers. 5, 90; Aug. Serm. 17, 3; 46, 2.—Hence,

Jurid. t. t., said of the defendant, to except, to make a legal exception to the plaintiff's statement:

verum est, quod qui excipit, probare debeat, quod excipitur,

Dig. 22, 3, 9; so ib. 18:

adversus aliquem,

ib. 16, 1, 17 et saep.; cf. exceptio and the authorities there cited.—

In an oration, a law, etc., to express by name, to make particular mention of, to state expressly (rare, and perh. not anteAug.):

cum Graecos Italia pellerent, excepisse medicos,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 16: vites in tantum sublimes, ut vindemitor auctoratus rogum ac tumulum excipiat, expressly stipulates for (in case he should fall and break his neck), id. 14, 1, 3, § 10.

(With the notion of the verb predominating.) To take a thing to one's self (in a good or bad sense), to catch, capture, take, receive.

Lit.

In gen.:

sanguinem paterā,

Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf. Col. 9, 15, 9:

e longinquo sucum,

Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 78:

labentem excepit,

Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 43: se in pedes, to take to one's feet, i. e. spring to the ground, Liv. 4, 19, 4:

filiorum extremum spiritum ore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118; cf.:

tunicis fluentibus auras,

Ov. A. A. 3, 301:

omnium tela,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 177; so,

tela,

Caes. B. G. 3, 5, 3:

vulnera,

Cic. Sest. 10, 23; cf.:

vulnus ore,

Quint. 6, 3, 75; and:

plagae genus in se,

Lucr. 2, 810:

o terram illam beatam, quae hunc virum exceperit!

Cic. Mil. 38, 105; cf.: hunc (Mithridatem) in timore et fuga Tigranes excepit, id de. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23:

aliquem benigno vultu,

Liv. 30, 14, 3; cf.

also: hic te polenta excipiet,

Sen. Ep. 21 med.:

aliquem epulis,

Tac. G. 21:

multos ex fuga dispersos excipiunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 6. alios vagos per hiberna milites excipiebant, Liv. 33, 29, 2: speculator, exceptus a juvenibus mulcatur, id. 40, 7, 4: cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 5:

servos in pabulatione,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 9:

incautum,

Verg. A. 3, 332:

(uri) mansuefieri ne parvuli quidem excepti possunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 28, 4:

aprum latitantem,

Hor. C. 3, 12, 10:

caprum insidiis,

Verg. E. 3, 18:

fugientes feras,

Phaedr. 1, 11, 6:

aprum, feram venabulo,

Quint. 4, 2, 17; Sen. Prov. 2 et saep.—

Of inanimate subjects:

postero die patenti itinere Priaticus campus eos excepit,

received them, Liv. 38, 41, 8:

silva tum excepit ferum,

Phaedr. 1, 12, 9; Quint. 2, 12, 2. —

In partic.

To come next to, to follow after, succeed a thing:

linguam ad radices ejus haerens excipit stomachus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135: quinque milia passuum proxima intercedere itineris campestris;

inde excipere loca aspera et montuosa,

Caes. B. C. 1, 66 fin.:

alios alii deinceps,

id. B. G. 5, 16 fin. — Poet.:

porticus excipiebat Arcton,

i. e. was turned to the north, looked towards the north, Hor. C. 2, 15, 16.—

In medic. lang.: aliquid aliqua re, to take something in something, i. e. mixed with something:

quae (medicamenta) excipiuntur cerato ex rosa facto,

Cels. 5, 18, 20; 5, 25, 5; 6; 12 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., to take or catch up, to intercept:

genus divinationis naturale, quod animus arripit aut excipit extrinsecus ex divinitate,

Cic. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.:

posteaquam vidit, illum excepisse laudem ex eo, quod,

i. e. obtained, id. Att. 1, 14, 3: subire coëgit et excipere pericula, to take upon one's self, to receive, support, sustain (the figure being taken from the reception of an enemy's blows or shots), Cic. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.:

Germani celeriter phalange facta impetus gladiorum exceperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52, 4; so,

impetus,

id. B. C. 1, 58, 1:

vim frigorum hiememque,

Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42:

labores magnos,

id. Brut. 69, 243 et saep.:

excipimus nova illa cum favore et sollicitudine,

receive, Quint. 10, 1, 15:

verba risu,

id. 1, 2, 7:

praecepta ad excipiendas hominum voluntates,

for taking captive, Cic. de Or. 2, 8, 32:

invidiam,

to draw upon one's self, Nep. Dat. 5, 2.—

Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

quae (sublicae) cum omni opere conjunctae vim fluminis exciperent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 9; 3, 13, 1:

quid reliquis accideret, qui quosque eventus exciperent,

i. e. would befall, overtake them, Caes. B. C. 1, 21 fin.; Verg. A. 3, 318; Liv. 1, 53, 4.—

In partic.

To catch with the ear, esp. eagerly or secretly, to catch up, listen to, overhear:

maledicto nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur,

Cic. Planc. 23, 57; id. Sest. 48, 102:

assensu populi excepta vox consulis,

Liv. 8, 6, 7:

ad has excipiendas voces speculator missus,

id. 40, 7, 4; 2, 4, 5; 4, 30, 3:

laudem avidissimis auribus excipit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 3:

notis quoque excipere velocissime solitum,

i. e. to write down in shorthand, Suet. Tit. 3:

rumores,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 25; cf.

voces,

Liv. 40, 7, 4:

sermonem eorum,

id. 2, 4, 5:

furtivas notas,

Ov. Am. 1, 4, 18.—

To follow after, to succeed a thing in time or the order of succession (cf. above, A. 2. a.):

tristem hiemem pestilens aestas excepit,

Liv. 5, 13, 4:

Herculis vitam et virtutem immortalitas excepisse dicitur,

Cic. Sest. 68, 143:

violis succedit rosa: rosam cyanus excipit, cyanum amarantus,

Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68:

excipit Pompilium Numam Tullus Hostilius,

Flor. 1, 3, 1:

hunc (locutum) Labienus excepit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 1.— Absol.:

turbulentior inde annus excepit,

succeeded, followed, Liv. 2, 61, 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 88, 2:

re cognita tantus luctus excepit, ut, etc.,

id. B. C. 2, 7, 3.—Hence,

Transf.: aliquid, to continue, prolong a thing:

memoriam illius viri excipient omnes anni consequentes,

Cic. de Sen. 6, 19; Liv. 38, 22, 3:

vices alicujus,

Just. 11, 5.— Poet. with inf., Sil. 13, 687.

grassor, ātus, 1 ( inf. pres. grassarier, Prud. Ham. 651; act. collat. form grassabamus, App. M. 7, 7), v. dep. n. and a. [gradior], to go, go about (not in Cic. and Cæs.; cf.: gradior, incedo, vado, pergo).

Lit.

In gen. (mostly ante-class.):

hoc grassari gradu,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 11:

siccine hic cum uvida veste grassabimur?

id. Rud. 1, 4, 31; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 19: sine eam pedibus grassari, Titin. ap. Non. 316, 3:

recte grassatur via,

Nov. ib. 5; Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

certum'st moriri, quam hunc pati grassari lenonem in me,

come about me, approach me, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 22.—

Of things:

(aranĕus) quanta arte celat pedicas scutulato rete grassantes,

going about, moving around, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81:

per omnes nervos articulosque humore pestifero grassante,

Just. 23, 2:

neque avaritia solum, sed etiam crudelitas in capta urbe grassata est,

Curt. 5, 6, 6.—

In partic.

To go loitering or rioting about (cf. grassator, I.): se in juventutem grassantem in Subura incidisse, Liv. 3, 13, 2:

per omnia clandestina grassari scelera latrociniorum, id 42, 18, 1: ubi Caesarem esse qui grassaretur pernotuit,

Tac. A. 13, 25.—Hence, of parasites, i. q. adulari, to pay one's court to, to flatter, fawn upon: grassari antiqui ponebant pro adulari, Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll.—

To go about with thievish designs, to lie in wait: grassari dicuntur latrones vias obsidentes, Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll. (cf. grassator, II.):

in umbris,

Anthol. Lat. 2, 186, 42 sq.:

silurus grassatur, ubicumque est, omne animal appetens,

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 45.—Hence,

With acc., to fall upon, assault, attack:

turmas,

Stat. Th. 8, 571.

Trop.

In gen., to go, proceed, or act in any manner: saepe hac eadem sum grassatus via, Nov. ap. Non. 316, 7; cf.:

consimili grassantur via,

Afran. ib. 9:

ubi animus ad gloriam virtutis via grassatur,

Sall. J. 1, 3:

grassandum ad clara periclis,

Sil. 1, 570:

(assertor) ait, se jure grassari, non vi,

that he was proceeding, Liv. 3, 44, 8:

longe alia via grassabantur,

id. 2, 27, 7:

consilio grassandum, si nihil vires juvarent, ratus,

id. 10, 14, 13:

mutua dissimulatione et iisdem, quibus petebatur, artibus grassatur,

Tac. H. 4, 56:

cupidine atque irā, pessimis consultoribus,

Sall. J. 64, 5:

obsequio,

to act obsequiously, Hor. S. 2, 5, 93:

dolo,

to act cunningly, Tac. H. 4, 16:

assentando multitudini grassari,

Liv. 45, 23, 9:

superbe avareque in provincia grassatos,

Suet. Aug. 67.—

In partic., to attack, proceed against; to proceed with violence, act harshly, rage, rage against. —Constr.: in aliquid and in or adversus aliquem:

trecenti conjuravimus principes juventutis Romanae, ut in te hac via grassaremur,

Liv. 2, 12, 15; cf.:

in possessionem agri publici grassari,

id. 6, 5, 4:

in externos grassari,

Suet. Ner. 36:

adversus omnis aevi hominum genus grassari,

id. Calig. 34; cf.:

qui cum contemptu religionis grassatus etiam adversus deos fuerat,

Just. 1, 9:

ita bacchantem atque grassantem adoriri,

Suet. Calig. 56:

omni rapinarum genere grassati,

id. Vesp. 6:

diverso vitiorum genere,

id. Galb. 14; cf.:

placuit veneno grassari,

Tac. H. 3, 39; id. A. 15, 60.— Absol.:

Ii (sagitarii) dum eminus grassabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 47.—

Of abstract subjects: accusatorum major in dies et infestior vis sine levamento grassabatur,

Tac. A. 4, 66:

ut clausis unam intra domum accusatoribus et reis, paucorum potentia grassaretur,

id. ib. 13, 4:

dicemus de his (malis), quae totis corporibus grassantur,

Plin. 26, 11, 67, § 107; cf.:

haec (vitia) in pueris grassari, illa in adultis,

id. 26, 1, 3, § 4:

mala vestra,... alia grassantia extrinsecus, alia in visceribus ipsis ardentia,

Sen. Vit. B. 27, 6:

rabidorum more luporum Crimina persultant toto grassantia campo,

Prud. Psych. 468:

grassandi in re familiari facultas,

of wasting, plundering, Dig. 26, 10, 6.—Fig.:

nec ferro grassatur saepius ullum mentis vitium quam cupido, etc.,

Juv. 14, 174.—

With acc. (cf. above, I. B. 2. b.):

simulque Romam pestilentia grassabatur,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 33, 5.— P. a.: grassans, ntis, m., as subst., a robber, thief:

quicquid Lycurgi villa grassantibus praebuisset,

Petr. 117, 3; App. M. 8, p. 209, 3:

sublatis susceptoribus grassantium cupido conquiescit,

Paul. Sent. 5, 3, 4.

grassor, ātus, 1 ( inf. pres. grassarier, Prud. Ham. 651; act. collat. form grassabamus, App. M. 7, 7), v. dep. n. and a. [gradior], to go, go about (not in Cic. and Cæs.; cf.: gradior, incedo, vado, pergo).

Lit.

In gen. (mostly ante-class.):

hoc grassari gradu,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 11:

siccine hic cum uvida veste grassabimur?

id. Rud. 1, 4, 31; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 19: sine eam pedibus grassari, Titin. ap. Non. 316, 3:

recte grassatur via,

Nov. ib. 5; Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

certum'st moriri, quam hunc pati grassari lenonem in me,

come about me, approach me, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 22.—

Of things:

(aranĕus) quanta arte celat pedicas scutulato rete grassantes,

going about, moving around, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81:

per omnes nervos articulosque humore pestifero grassante,

Just. 23, 2:

neque avaritia solum, sed etiam crudelitas in capta urbe grassata est,

Curt. 5, 6, 6.—

In partic.

To go loitering or rioting about (cf. grassator, I.): se in juventutem grassantem in Subura incidisse, Liv. 3, 13, 2:

per omnia clandestina grassari scelera latrociniorum, id 42, 18, 1: ubi Caesarem esse qui grassaretur pernotuit,

Tac. A. 13, 25.—Hence, of parasites, i. q. adulari, to pay one's court to, to flatter, fawn upon: grassari antiqui ponebant pro adulari, Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll.—

To go about with thievish designs, to lie in wait: grassari dicuntur latrones vias obsidentes, Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll. (cf. grassator, II.):

in umbris,

Anthol. Lat. 2, 186, 42 sq.:

silurus grassatur, ubicumque est, omne animal appetens,

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 45.—Hence,

With acc., to fall upon, assault, attack:

turmas,

Stat. Th. 8, 571.

Trop.

In gen., to go, proceed, or act in any manner: saepe hac eadem sum grassatus via, Nov. ap. Non. 316, 7; cf.:

consimili grassantur via,

Afran. ib. 9:

ubi animus ad gloriam virtutis via grassatur,

Sall. J. 1, 3:

grassandum ad clara periclis,

Sil. 1, 570:

(assertor) ait, se jure grassari, non vi,

that he was proceeding, Liv. 3, 44, 8:

longe alia via grassabantur,

id. 2, 27, 7:

consilio grassandum, si nihil vires juvarent, ratus,

id. 10, 14, 13:

mutua dissimulatione et iisdem, quibus petebatur, artibus grassatur,

Tac. H. 4, 56:

cupidine atque irā, pessimis consultoribus,

Sall. J. 64, 5:

obsequio,

to act obsequiously, Hor. S. 2, 5, 93:

dolo,

to act cunningly, Tac. H. 4, 16:

assentando multitudini grassari,

Liv. 45, 23, 9:

superbe avareque in provincia grassatos,

Suet. Aug. 67.—

In partic., to attack, proceed against; to proceed with violence, act harshly, rage, rage against. —Constr.: in aliquid and in or adversus aliquem:

trecenti conjuravimus principes juventutis Romanae, ut in te hac via grassaremur,

Liv. 2, 12, 15; cf.:

in possessionem agri publici grassari,

id. 6, 5, 4:

in externos grassari,

Suet. Ner. 36:

adversus omnis aevi hominum genus grassari,

id. Calig. 34; cf.:

qui cum contemptu religionis grassatus etiam adversus deos fuerat,

Just. 1, 9:

ita bacchantem atque grassantem adoriri,

Suet. Calig. 56:

omni rapinarum genere grassati,

id. Vesp. 6:

diverso vitiorum genere,

id. Galb. 14; cf.:

placuit veneno grassari,

Tac. H. 3, 39; id. A. 15, 60.— Absol.:

Ii (sagitarii) dum eminus grassabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 47.—

Of abstract subjects: accusatorum major in dies et infestior vis sine levamento grassabatur,

Tac. A. 4, 66:

ut clausis unam intra domum accusatoribus et reis, paucorum potentia grassaretur,

id. ib. 13, 4:

dicemus de his (malis), quae totis corporibus grassantur,

Plin. 26, 11, 67, § 107; cf.:

haec (vitia) in pueris grassari, illa in adultis,

id. 26, 1, 3, § 4:

mala vestra,... alia grassantia extrinsecus, alia in visceribus ipsis ardentia,

Sen. Vit. B. 27, 6:

rabidorum more luporum Crimina persultant toto grassantia campo,

Prud. Psych. 468:

grassandi in re familiari facultas,

of wasting, plundering, Dig. 26, 10, 6.—Fig.:

nec ferro grassatur saepius ullum mentis vitium quam cupido, etc.,

Juv. 14, 174.—

With acc. (cf. above, I. B. 2. b.):

simulque Romam pestilentia grassabatur,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 33, 5.— P. a.: grassans, ntis, m., as subst., a robber, thief:

quicquid Lycurgi villa grassantibus praebuisset,

Petr. 117, 3; App. M. 8, p. 209, 3:

sublatis susceptoribus grassantium cupido conquiescit,

Paul. Sent. 5, 3, 4.

com-pōno ( conp-), posui (COMPOSEIVERVNT, C. I. L. 1, 199, 2), positum (compostus, Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21 Lorenz; Verg. A. 1, 249; Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171; Varr ap. Sen. Ep. 56, 6), 3, v. a., to put, place, lay, bring or set together, to unite, join, connect, collect, aggregate, compose, to order, arrange, adjust, etc. (class. and very freq.).

In gen., of different objects.

To bring into union, gather, collect, put together.

Of things in gen.:

aridum lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 14:

composita fronde,

Prop. 1, 20, 22:

uvas in tecto in cratibus,

Cato, R. R. 112, 2:

in quo (loco) erant ea conposita, quibus rex te numerare constituerat,

Cic. Deiot. 6, 17:

(amomum) manipulatim leniter componitur,

Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48:

amphoras in culleum,

Cato, R. R. 113, 2:

ligna in caminum,

id. ib. 37, 5.—

To bring into contact, fit together, join:

quid... in operibus manu factis tam compositum tamque compactum et coagmentatum inveniri potest?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74: cum poclo bibo eodem, amplector, labra labellis conpono, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 260, 28:

tum latus conponit lateri et cum pectore pectus,

id. ib. p. 260, 30:

conponens manibusque manus atque ori bus ora,

Verg. A. 8, 486:

Mercurio Sais fertur Virgineum conposuisse latus,

Prop. 2, 2, 12; cf.

caput,

Tib. 1, 5, 8.—Hence, of broken limbs, etc., med. t. t., to set:

ossa,

Cels. 8, 10, 2:

jugulum,

id. 8, 8, 8 et saep.—

Esp., to pack up for a journey, etc.:

omnia composta sunt quae donavi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21:

i ergo intro et compone quae tecum simul Ferantur,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 5:

dum tota domus raeda componitur una,

Juv. 3, 10.—

Of persons:

is (Saturnus) genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis Composuit,

Verg. A. 8, 322:

et tabula una duos poterit componere amantes,

Prop. 2, 26, 33 (3, 22, 13); cf. II. C. 5. infra.—

To bring together in hostility, to oppose, to couple, pair, match in combat (cf. compositio, III.); esp. of gladiators, etc.: Samnis, spurcus homo, cum Pacideiano conponitur, optimus multo Post homines natos gladiator qui fuit unus, Lucil. Sat. ap. Non. p. 257, 18; cf. Cic. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

Rupili et Persi par pugnat, uti non Compositum melius cum Bitho Bacchius,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 20 Orell. ad loc.:

staturam habere Threcis cum Threce conpositi,

Sen. Q. N. 4, praef. 8;

and in gen.: si quis casus duos inter se bonos viros composuerit,

Quint. 2, 17, 34:

cuive virum mallem memet componere,

Sil. 10, 70:

componimur Vecordi Decio,

id. 11, 212:

hunc fatis,

id. 1, 39:

cum ventis, pelagique furentibus undis Composuit mortale genus,

Luc. 3, 196;

and fig.: pergis pugnantia secum Frontibus adversis componere,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 103:

ecce par deo dignum, vir fortis cum fortuna mala conpositus,

Sen. Prov. 1, 2, 9:

non illa (rhetorice) secum ipsa componitur,

Quint. 2, 17, 33;

and of a judicial contest: accita Epicharis et cum indice composita,

confronted, Tac. A. 15, 51; 16, 10.—

To oppose by way of comparison, to compare, contrast.

With acc. and dat.: quid est, cur componere ausis mihi te aut me tibi? Att. ap. Non. p. 257, 15 (Trag. Rel. v. 147 Rib.):

nec divis homines componier aequom'st,

Cat. 68, 141: composita dicta evolvunt, Quae cum componas, dicta factis discrepant, Att. ap. Non. p. 260, 21 (Trag. Rel. v. 48 Rib.):

si parva licet conponere magnis,

Verg. G. 4, 176:

parvis conponere magna solebam,

id. E. 1, 23; Ov. M. 5, [p. 392] 416:

audes cladi componere nostrae, Nympha, tuam?

id. ib. 15, 530:

divinis humana,

Aus. Ecl. 1, 10.—

With acc. and cum:

ubi Metelli dicta cum factis conposuit,

Sall. J. 48, 1: causam suam cum causa adversarii. Quint. 7, 2, 22.

In partic.

Of the parts of a whole, or of a whole as made up of parts.

To bring together, compose, compound, make up, mix, construct.

With ex:

exercitus ejus conpositus ex variis gentibus,

Sall. J. 18, 3:

genus humanum ex corpore et anima conpositum,

id. ib. 2, 1:

liber ex alienis orationibus compositus,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47:

antidoton... ex multis atque interim contrariis quoque inter se effectibus,

Quint. 1, 10, 6:

ex quo (umore) componi debet (medicamentum),

Cels. 6, 7, 1 fin. —

With abl.:

mensam gramine,

Sil. 15, 51.—

With acc. alone:

medicamentum,

Col. 6, 4, 1; Scrib. Comp. 10.—

Esp., of buildings, etc., to construct, build:

qui cuncta conposuit,

i. e. the Creator, Cic. Univ. 13:

urbem,

Verg. A. 3, 387:

illa (templa) deis,

Ov. F. 1, 708 Burm. ad loc.:

aggere conposito tumuli,

Verg. A. 7, 6:

deletas Thebas,

Prop. 2, 6, 5.—

Of words, to compound:

vitilitigatores ex vitiis et litigatoribus, Plin. praef. § 32: verba composita (opp. simplicia),

Quint. 1, 5, 3.—

Of writings, speeches, etc.

To compose, write, construct (very freq.):

leges,

Lucr. 4, 966:

compone hoc, quod postulo, de argento: de reliquo videro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 36:

quartum librum,

id. de Or. 2, 55, 224:

libros,

id. Fam. 16, 20; Plin. Ep. 9, 9, 1:

libellos,

Quint. 12, 8, 5:

actiones,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 8; Quint. 11, 3, 68:

argumentum,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 3:

edictum eis verbis,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:

edictum eorum arbitratu,

id. ib. 2, 1, 46, §

119: artes,

books of instruction, id. Brut. 12, 48; id. Ac. 2, 13, 40:

artificium,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83:

commentarium consulatus mei,

id. Att. 1, 19, 10; Quint. 1, 8, 19:

quarum (litterarum) exemplum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 20, 53:

quandam disciplinae formulam,

id. Ac. 1, 4, 17:

stipulationum et judiciorum formulas,

id. Leg. 1, 4, 14:

interdictum,

id. Caecin. 21, 59:

poema,

id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 77; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 60:

senatus consultum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 22, 2:

testimonium,

id. Att. 15, 15, 1:

verba ad religionem deorum immortalium,

id. Dom. 47, 124:

de judicialibus causis aliqua,

Quint. 3, 6, 104:

aliquid de ratione dicendi, id. prooem. 1: quae de ortu vitaque Scapulae composita erant,

Tac. A. 16, 14:

Apion... inmortalitate donari a se scripsit ad quos aliqua conponebat, Plin. praef. § 25: carmen,

Cic. Mur. 12, 26:

carmina,

Tac. Or. 12; id. A. 3, 49:

epistulas,

id. ib. 2, 70:

litteras nomine Marcelli,

Liv. 27, 28, 4; Tac. A. 11, 20:

orationem habere ad conciliandos plebis animos conpositam,

Liv. 1, 35, 2:

blanditias tremula voce,

Tib. 1, 2, 91:

meditata manu verba trementi,

Ov. M. 9, 521:

versus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 8:

mollem versum,

Prop. 1, 7, 19:

cantus,

Tib. 1, 2, 53:

in morem annalium,

Tac. Or. 22:

orationes adversus aliquem,

id. ib. 37:

litteras ad aliquem,

id. A. 15, 8; 14, 22:

probra in Gaium,

id. ib. 6, 9;

14, 50: multa et atrocia in Macronem,

id. ib. 6, 44 (38) et saep.—

Transf., of the subjects, etc., treated, to write about, treat, celebrate:

tuas laudes,

Tib. 4, 1, 35:

res gestas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 251:

tempora Iliaca,

Vell. 1, 3, 2:

bellum Troicum,

id. 1, 5, 3:

Juli Africani vitam componendo, spem hominibus fecisti plurium ejus modi librorum,

Tac. Or. 14:

veteres populi Romani res,

id. A. 4, 32:

Neronis res,

id. ib. 1, 1; 11, 11.—

From the notion of closing.

To put away, put aside, put in place:

armamentis conplicandis, conponendis studuimus,

i. e. folding up the sails and lowering the masts, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 80:

(tempus) ad componenda armamenta expediendumque remigem,

Liv. 26, 39, 8:

vela contrahit malosque inclinat et simul armamenta componens, etc.,

id. 36, 44, 2:

arma,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 52:

tristes istos conpone libellos,

put aside, Prop. 1, 9, 13.—

To store up, put away, collect:

nec... Aut conponere opes norant aut parcere parto,

Verg. A. 8, 317:

ego conposito securus acervo Despiciam dites,

Tib. 1, 1, 77;

so fig.: condo et compono quae mox depromere possim,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12.— So esp. to preserve, pack, put up fruits, meat, etc., for future use:

pernas,

Cato, R. R. 162, 12:

tergora (suis),

Col. 12, 55, 2: siccatos coliculos, id. 12, 9, 1:

caepam in fidelia,

id. 12, 10, 2:

herbas,

id. 12, 13, 2:

poma,

id. 12, 47, 5:

olivas,

Pall. Nov. 22, 5:

herbam olla nova,

Scrib. Comp. 60:

faenum,

Dig. 19, 2, 11, § 4:

fructus in urceis, capsellis,

ib. 33, 7, 12, §1.—

Of the ashes or remains of the dead, to adjust, lay out, to collect and inurn, inter, bury:

tu mea conpones et dices, ossa, Properti, Haec tua sunt,

Prop. 2, 24, 35 (3, 19, 19):

cinerem,

Ov. F. 3, 547:

cinerem ossaque,

Val. Fl. 7, 203:

sic ego conponi versus in ossa velim,

Tib. 3, 2, 26.—Hence, in gen., of persons, to bury:

quem... prope cognatos conpositum cineres,

Cat. 68, 98:

omnes composui (meos),

Hor. S. 1, 9, 28:

compositi busta avi,

Ov. F. 5, 426:

Pisonem Verania uxor... T. Vinium Crispina filia composuere,

Tac. H. 1, 47:

componi tumulo eodem,

Ov. M. 4, 157:

toro Mortua componar,

id. ib. 9, 504:

alto Conpositus lecto,

Pers. 3, 104:

aliquem terra,

Sil. 9, 95.—

To lay at rest, compose, quiet.

Of things: omnia noctis erant placida composta quiete, Varr. Atac. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 16:

cum mare compositum est,

Ov. A. A. 3, 259:

aquas,

id. H. 13, 136:

fessum tumentes Composuit pelagus ventis patientibus undas,

Luc. 5, 702.—

Of persons:

nec vigilantibus, sed etiam quiete compositis,

Quint. 11, 2, 5:

ubi jam thalamis se conposuere,

Verg. G. 4, 189:

defessa membra,

id. ib. 4, 438:

si bene conpositus somno vinoque jacebit,

Ov. Am. 1, 4, 53.—

To end strife, confusion, etc., to compose, pacify, allay, settle, calm, appease, quiet, tranquillize, reconcile, etc., that which is disturbed or at variance.

With personal object:

aversos amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

ceteros clementia,

Tac. A. 12, 55:

comitia praetorum,

id. ib. 14, 28; id. H. 1, 85:

juvenes concitatos,

Quint. 1, 10, 32; cf.:

barbarum animos,

Tac. A. 14, 39:

gentem,

Sil. 17, 356.—Esp. of the mind:

prima (pars philosophiae) conponit animum,

Sen. Ep. 89, 9:

argumentum conpositae mentis,

id. ib. 2, 1; Cels. 3, 18; Sil. 11, 352:

mentem somno,

id. 3, 162:

religio saevas componit mentis,

id. 13, 317.—

Of places, countries, etc.:

C. Caesar componendae Armeniae deligitur,

Tac. A. 2, 4:

Campaniam,

id. H. 4, 3:

Daciam,

id. ib. 3, 53.—

With abstr. or indef. objects:

si possum hoc inter vos conponere,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 23; cf.:

vides, inter nos sic haec potius cum bona Ut componamus gratia quam cum mala?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17:

gaudens conponi foedere bellum,

Verg. A. 12, 109; so,

bellum,

Sall. J. 97, 2; Nep. Hann. 6, 2; id. Alcib. 8, 3; Vell. 2, 25, 1; Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 3:

bella,

Tac. A. 3, 56:

cum vellet pro communi amico controversias regum componere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 109:

uti per colloquia omnes controversiae componantur,

id. ib. 1, 9 fin.:

curas,

Verg. A. 4, 341; Sil. 12, 682:

lites,

Verg. E. 3, 108:

seditionem civilem,

Suet. Caes. 4:

statum Orientis,

id. Calig. 1:

Romanus Ardeae turbatas seditione res... composuit,

Liv. 4, 10, 6; 3, 53, 1:

legatorum res et bello turbatas,

id. 45, 16, 2:

res Germanicas,

Suet. Vit. 9:

discordias,

Tac. H. 4, 50:

compositis praesentibus,

id. A. 1, 45:

odia et certamina,

id. ib. 15, 2.—Less freq. transf., with the result as object:

pacem componi volo Meo patri cum matre,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 113:

si pax cum Carthaginiensibus componi nequisset,

Liv. 30, 40, 13:

at me conposita pace fefellit Amor,

Prop. 2, 2, 2:

pax circa Brundusium composita,

Vell. 2, 75, 3:

pacem cum Pyrrho,

Just. 18, 2, 6; cf. D. 2. infra.—

Absol.:

coheredes mei conponere et transigere cupiebant,

Plin. Ep. 5, 1, 7; and so impers. pass.:

posteaquam id quod maxime volui fieri non potuit, ut componeretur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:

Pompei summam esse... voluntatem, ut componeretur atque ab armis discederetur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 16.—

Hence, to set right, to set in or restore to the proper place or condition, to adjust, etc.

In gen., to arrange, adjust, order, set in order:

aulaeis se superbis Aurea sponda, of one's attitude on a couch,

Verg. A. 1, 697:

ad ictum militaris gladii conposita cervice,

Sen. Cons. Marc. 26, 2:

diductis aedificia angulis vidimus moveri iterumque conponi,

id. Q. N. 6, 30, 4:

si ad rem pertinet, quomodo caelo adfecto conpositisque sideribus quodque animal oriatur,

Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98:

tibi enim gratias agebat, quod signa componenda suscepisses,

id. Att. 4, 9, 1.—

Esp., milit. t. t.:

se ad confligendum, Sisenn. ap. Non p. 257, 13: exercitum in hibernaculis, Sali J. 103, 1: in secunda (acie) cohortis, id. H. inc. Fragm. 44 Dietsch: stabant conpositi suis quisque ordinibus (opp. incompositi),

Liv. 44, 38, 11:

conpositi numero in turmas,

Verg. A. 11, 599:

cunctos licentia vagos compositus invadit = compositis ordinibus,

Tac. H. 4, 35:

agmen,

id. ib. 2, 89; 5, 1; id. A. 12, 16:

ordines,

id. H. 4, 33:

vagos paventesque Vitellianos, sua quemque apud signa, componunt,

id. ib. 3, 35:

pugnae exercitum,

id. A. 13, 40:

auxilia in numerum legionis,

id. ib. 2, 80 Nipp. ad loc.:

equitem per turmas,

id. ib. 15, 29:

insidias in montibus,

Just. 1, 3, 11.—

Of the order of words in language: quam lepide lexeis compostae! ut tesserulae omnes Arte pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato, Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171; id. ap. Cic. Or. 44, 149; cf. id. ib. sq.:

ut aptior sit oratio, ipsa verba compone,

id. Brut. 17, 68.—

With reference to orderly appearance, etc., of the clothing, hair; the expression of the countenance, etc., to lay, smooth, adjust:

suon quisque loco'st? Vide capillum, satin compositu'st commode?

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97:

composito et delibuto capillo,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135:

comas,

Ov. R. Am. 679:

crines,

Verg. G. 4, 417:

ne turbarentur comae, quas componi, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 148:

togam,

to lay in proper folds, Hor. S. 2, 3, 77; Quint. 11, 3, 156; cf.:

nec tamen ante adiit... Quam se composuit, quam circumspexit amictus,

Ov. M. 4, 318:

pulvinum facili manu,

id. A. A. 1, 160; cf.

torum,

id. F. 3, 484:

jam libet componere voltus,

id. M. 13, 767:

vultu composito, ne laeti excessu principis, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 7; Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 5; cf.:

(Tiberius) compositus ore,

id. ib. 2, 34:

vultum natura horridum... efferabat, componens ad speculum in omnem terrorem,

distorting, Suet. Calig. 50.—

In gen., to adjust, arrange, regulate, for the expression of something, or to accord with something; usu. ad aliquid:

ad abstinentiam rursus, non secus ac modo ad balineum animum vultumque conposui,

Plin. Ep. 7, 1, 6:

orationis ipsius vultus ad id, quod efficere intendimus, compositus,

Quint. 9, 1, 21:

utraque manu ad modum aliquid portantium composita,

id. 11, 3, 120:

ge. stum oratoris ad similitudinem saltationis,

id. 1, 11, 19:

figuram ad imitationem alterius scripturae,

id. 9, 2, 34:

nec ad votum composita civitas,

Tac. Or. 41:

cuncta ad decorem inperi conposita,

id. H. 1, 71:

cunctis ad tristitiam conpositis,

id. A. 3, 1. —Less freq. with dat.:

voltus conponere famae Taedet,

to adapt, Tib. 4, 7, 9:

venturis carbasa ventis,

Luc. 3, 596:

me quoque mittendis rectum componite telis,

id. 3, 717. —With in:

Nero itinera urbis... veste servili in dissimulationem sui compositus pererrabat,

disguised, made up, Tac. A. 13, 25. —

To bring to a particular form or condition, to dispose, arrange, set in order, contrive, devise, prepare.

With acc.:

ego itinera sic composueram, ut Nonis Quinctilibus Puteolis essem,

Cic. Att. 15, 26, 3:

quod adest memento Componere aequus,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 33:

conposita atque constituta re publica,

Cic. Leg. 3, 18, 42:

necdum compositis maturisve satis consiliis,

Liv. 4, 13, 5:

(diem) totum in consideranda causa componendaque posuisse,

Cic. Brut. 22, 87:

tempus in cognoscendis componendisque causis consumere,

id. Or. 42, 143:

ex sententia omnibus rebus paratis conpositisque,

Sall. J. 43, 5; 94, 1:

in senatu cuncta longis aliorum principatibus composita statim decernuntur,

Tac. H. 2, 55:

dum quae forent firmando Neronis imperio componuntur,

id. A. 12, 68.—

With ad or in and acc. of the purpose for which, or the example according to which, etc.:

cum alteri placeat auspicia ista ad utilitatem esse rei publicae conposita,

Cic. Leg. 2, 13, 32:

omnia ad voluptatem multitudinis inperitae,

Quint. 10, 1, 43:

animum ad omnes casus,

id. 12, 9, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 321:

satis igitur in hoc nos componet multa scribendi exercitatio,

Quint. 9, 4, 114:

cultum victumque non ad nova exempla conponere, sed ut majorum mores suadent,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 2. —

To arrange in agreement with others, to agree upon, contrive, devise, invent, conspire to make, etc.

In gen.: eum allegaverunt, suom qui servom diceret Cum auro esse apud me: conposita est fallacia, [p. 393] Ut, etc., Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 29:

quin jam virginem Despondi: res composita'st,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 17:

ita causa componitur, ut item palaestritae Bidini peterent ab Epicrate hereditatem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 22, § 54:

societatem praedarum cum latronibus conposuisse,

Sall. H. 4, 11 Dietsch:

crimen ab inimicis Romae conpositum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 141:

conpositis inter se rebus,

Sall. J. 66, 2:

ita conposito dolo digrediuntur,

id. ib. 111, 4:

conposito jam consilio,

Liv. 3, 53, 3: ceteri proditores ea quae composita erant exspectabant;

convenerat autem, etc.,

id. 25, 9, 8:

sub noctem susurri Composita repetantur hora,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 20:

ictum jam foedus, et omnes Conpositae leges,

Verg. A. 12, 315:

compositis notis,

Tib. 1, 2, 22:

crimen ac dolum ultro,

Tac. H. 1, 34:

proditionem,

id. ib. 2, 100:

seditionem,

id. ib. 4, 14:

insidias,

id. ib. 5, 22; id. A. 12, 54; 13, 47: pacem componere, v. B. 5. supra.—

With rel.-clause:

cum summa concordia, quos dimitterent, quos retinerent, composuerunt,

Liv. 40, 40, 14.—

With inf.:

ii, secretis conloquiis conponunt Gallos concire,

Tac. A. 3, 40.—

Pass. impers.:

ut domi compositum cum Marcio erat,

Liv. 2, 37, 1.—

With ut and subj.:

compositum inter ipsos ut Latiaris strueret dolum,

Tac. A. 4, 68; cf. P. a. subst. —

In gen., to feign, invent, devise, contrive, in order to deceive or delude, etc.: composita dicta, Att. ap. Non. p. 260, 22 (Trag. Rel. v. 47 Rib.):

ne tu istic hodie malo tuo conpositis mendaciis Advenisti,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 211:

nec bene mendaci risus conponitur ore,

Tib. 3, 6, 35 (3, 7, 3):

sed vobis facile'st verba et conponere fraudes,

Prop. 2, 9, 31:

insidias in me conponis inanes,

id. 2, 32 (3, 30), 19:

compositas insidias fatoque evitatas ementitur,

Tac. A. 13, 47:

si haec fabulosa et composita videntur,

id. Or. 12; id. Agr. 40:

quae ut augendae famae composita, sic reliqua non in obscuro habentur,

id. A. 15, 16; cf.:

vetustatem, ut cetera, in majus conponentem altores Jovis celebravisse,

exaggerating, Sall. H. 3, 60 Dietsch.— Part. perf. with in and acc., pretending, assuming the appearance or expression:

(Domitianus) paratus simulatione, in adrogantiam compositus audiit preces,

Tac. Agr. 42:

is in maestitiam compositus,

id. H. 2, 9; 1, 54:

in securitatem,

id. A. 3, 44.—Rarely with ad:

tunc compositus ad maestitiam,

Tac. A. 13, 20.— Hence, P. a.: compŏsĭtus ( - postus), a, um.

Well-arranged, ordered, or constituted, orderly, regular:

quae (injuria) dum foris sunt, nil videtur mundius, Nec magis compositum quicquam nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 13: admiratus sum... sunchusin litterularum, quae solent tuae compositissimae et clarissimae esse, Cic. Att. 6, 9, 1:

acrior impetu atque animis quam compositior ullo ordine pugna fuit,

Liv. 28, 22, 13:

intellegitur, etiamsi non adjecero, conpositum ordinatumque fore talem virum,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 3:

composita et quieta et beata respublica,

Tac. Or. 36. —Of writings:

quare in his quoque libris erant eadem aliqua... omnia vero compositiora et elaborata,

Quint. 1, pr. § 8; cf.:

illa quae curam fatentur et ficta atque composita videri etiam volunt,

elaborate, id. 8, pr. § 23.— Transf., of the orator himself:

si aut compositi oratoris bene structam collocationem dissolvas permutatione verborum,

Cic. Or. 70, 232.—

Fitly disposed for any purpose, prepared, apt, fit, adapted, qualified, suitable, ready:

perficiam ut nemo umquam paratior, vigilantior, compositior ad judicium venisse videatur,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 11; so,

equus bene natura compositus,

Auct. Her. 4, 46, 59.— With ad or in and acc., or with dat.:

arte quadam ab juventa in ostentationem (virtutum) compositus,

Liv. 26, 19, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

alius historiae magis idoneus, alius compositus ad carmen,

Quint. 2, 8, 7:

aeque in adulationem compositus (sacerdos),

Curt. 4, 7, 26:

(Attici) non maxime ad risum compositi,

Quint. 6, 3, 18:

natura atque arte compositus alliciendis etiam Muciani moribus,

Tac. H. 2, 5.—

Quiet, peaceful, undisturbed, calm, composed, unimpassioned, etc.:

ut peractis quae agenda fuerint salvo jam et composito die possis ibi manere,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2:

lenis et nitidi et compositi generis amatores,

Quint. 10, 1, 44:

actio,

id. 11, 3, 110:

aetas,

mature, sedate, Tac. A. 13, 1: adfectus mites atque compositi, Quint. 6, 2, 9:

supercilium (opp. erectum),

id. 11, 3, 74:

repetitio eorum (civium) labefactabat compositam civitatem,

Flor. 3, 23, 3.—

Compound, composite, made up of parts (opp. simplex):

verba,

Quint. 1, 5, 3; 1, 6, 38; 7, 9, 5:

voces,

id. 1, 5, 65; cf. id. 1, 5, 9; 2, 12, 3.—Hence, subst.: compŏsĭtum ( conp-), i, n., that which is agreed, an agreement, compact, etc.; only abl. in the phrases,

Ex composito, according to agreement, by agreement, in concert, Sall. H. 2, 12 Dietsch:

tum ex composito orta vis,

Liv. 1, 9, 10; 5, 14, 2; 36, 25, 1; 40, 48, 4; Suet. Claud. 37; Tac. H. 4, 66.—

De composito, by agreement, App. Mag. 1, p. 273; and,

More rarely in the same sense, composito alone, Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 29; Nep. Dat. 6, 6; Verg. A. 2, 129.—Hence also adv.: compŏsĭtē ( conp-), in an orderly, regular, or skilful manner, orderly, regularly, properly (class. but rare;

not in Quint.): ambulare,

Col. 6, 2, 5:

indutus,

Gell. 1, 5, 2:

composite et apte dicere,

Cic. Or. 71, 236:

composite, ornate, copiose eloqui,

id. De Or. 1, 11, 48:

composite atque magnifice casum reipublicae miserati,

Sall. C. 51, 9:

bene et composite disseruit,

id. Ib. 52.— Comp.:

compositius cuncta quam festinantius agerent,

Tac. A. 15, 3.

com-pōno ( conp-), posui (COMPOSEIVERVNT, C. I. L. 1, 199, 2), positum (compostus, Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21 Lorenz; Verg. A. 1, 249; Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171; Varr ap. Sen. Ep. 56, 6), 3, v. a., to put, place, lay, bring or set together, to unite, join, connect, collect, aggregate, compose, to order, arrange, adjust, etc. (class. and very freq.).

In gen., of different objects.

To bring into union, gather, collect, put together.

Of things in gen.:

aridum lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 14:

composita fronde,

Prop. 1, 20, 22:

uvas in tecto in cratibus,

Cato, R. R. 112, 2:

in quo (loco) erant ea conposita, quibus rex te numerare constituerat,

Cic. Deiot. 6, 17:

(amomum) manipulatim leniter componitur,

Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48:

amphoras in culleum,

Cato, R. R. 113, 2:

ligna in caminum,

id. ib. 37, 5.—

To bring into contact, fit together, join:

quid... in operibus manu factis tam compositum tamque compactum et coagmentatum inveniri potest?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74: cum poclo bibo eodem, amplector, labra labellis conpono, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 260, 28:

tum latus conponit lateri et cum pectore pectus,

id. ib. p. 260, 30:

conponens manibusque manus atque ori bus ora,

Verg. A. 8, 486:

Mercurio Sais fertur Virgineum conposuisse latus,

Prop. 2, 2, 12; cf.

caput,

Tib. 1, 5, 8.—Hence, of broken limbs, etc., med. t. t., to set:

ossa,

Cels. 8, 10, 2:

jugulum,

id. 8, 8, 8 et saep.—

Esp., to pack up for a journey, etc.:

omnia composta sunt quae donavi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21:

i ergo intro et compone quae tecum simul Ferantur,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 5:

dum tota domus raeda componitur una,

Juv. 3, 10.—

Of persons:

is (Saturnus) genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis Composuit,

Verg. A. 8, 322:

et tabula una duos poterit componere amantes,

Prop. 2, 26, 33 (3, 22, 13); cf. II. C. 5. infra.—

To bring together in hostility, to oppose, to couple, pair, match in combat (cf. compositio, III.); esp. of gladiators, etc.: Samnis, spurcus homo, cum Pacideiano conponitur, optimus multo Post homines natos gladiator qui fuit unus, Lucil. Sat. ap. Non. p. 257, 18; cf. Cic. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

Rupili et Persi par pugnat, uti non Compositum melius cum Bitho Bacchius,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 20 Orell. ad loc.:

staturam habere Threcis cum Threce conpositi,

Sen. Q. N. 4, praef. 8;

and in gen.: si quis casus duos inter se bonos viros composuerit,

Quint. 2, 17, 34:

cuive virum mallem memet componere,

Sil. 10, 70:

componimur Vecordi Decio,

id. 11, 212:

hunc fatis,

id. 1, 39:

cum ventis, pelagique furentibus undis Composuit mortale genus,

Luc. 3, 196;

and fig.: pergis pugnantia secum Frontibus adversis componere,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 103:

ecce par deo dignum, vir fortis cum fortuna mala conpositus,

Sen. Prov. 1, 2, 9:

non illa (rhetorice) secum ipsa componitur,

Quint. 2, 17, 33;

and of a judicial contest: accita Epicharis et cum indice composita,

confronted, Tac. A. 15, 51; 16, 10.—

To oppose by way of comparison, to compare, contrast.

With acc. and dat.: quid est, cur componere ausis mihi te aut me tibi? Att. ap. Non. p. 257, 15 (Trag. Rel. v. 147 Rib.):

nec divis homines componier aequom'st,

Cat. 68, 141: composita dicta evolvunt, Quae cum componas, dicta factis discrepant, Att. ap. Non. p. 260, 21 (Trag. Rel. v. 48 Rib.):

si parva licet conponere magnis,

Verg. G. 4, 176:

parvis conponere magna solebam,

id. E. 1, 23; Ov. M. 5, [p. 392] 416:

audes cladi componere nostrae, Nympha, tuam?

id. ib. 15, 530:

divinis humana,

Aus. Ecl. 1, 10.—

With acc. and cum:

ubi Metelli dicta cum factis conposuit,

Sall. J. 48, 1: causam suam cum causa adversarii. Quint. 7, 2, 22.

In partic.

Of the parts of a whole, or of a whole as made up of parts.

To bring together, compose, compound, make up, mix, construct.

With ex:

exercitus ejus conpositus ex variis gentibus,

Sall. J. 18, 3:

genus humanum ex corpore et anima conpositum,

id. ib. 2, 1:

liber ex alienis orationibus compositus,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47:

antidoton... ex multis atque interim contrariis quoque inter se effectibus,

Quint. 1, 10, 6:

ex quo (umore) componi debet (medicamentum),

Cels. 6, 7, 1 fin. —

With abl.:

mensam gramine,

Sil. 15, 51.—

With acc. alone:

medicamentum,

Col. 6, 4, 1; Scrib. Comp. 10.—

Esp., of buildings, etc., to construct, build:

qui cuncta conposuit,

i. e. the Creator, Cic. Univ. 13:

urbem,

Verg. A. 3, 387:

illa (templa) deis,

Ov. F. 1, 708 Burm. ad loc.:

aggere conposito tumuli,

Verg. A. 7, 6:

deletas Thebas,

Prop. 2, 6, 5.—

Of words, to compound:

vitilitigatores ex vitiis et litigatoribus, Plin. praef. § 32: verba composita (opp. simplicia),

Quint. 1, 5, 3.—

Of writings, speeches, etc.

To compose, write, construct (very freq.):

leges,

Lucr. 4, 966:

compone hoc, quod postulo, de argento: de reliquo videro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 36:

quartum librum,

id. de Or. 2, 55, 224:

libros,

id. Fam. 16, 20; Plin. Ep. 9, 9, 1:

libellos,

Quint. 12, 8, 5:

actiones,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 8; Quint. 11, 3, 68:

argumentum,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 3:

edictum eis verbis,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:

edictum eorum arbitratu,

id. ib. 2, 1, 46, §

119: artes,

books of instruction, id. Brut. 12, 48; id. Ac. 2, 13, 40:

artificium,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83:

commentarium consulatus mei,

id. Att. 1, 19, 10; Quint. 1, 8, 19:

quarum (litterarum) exemplum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 20, 53:

quandam disciplinae formulam,

id. Ac. 1, 4, 17:

stipulationum et judiciorum formulas,

id. Leg. 1, 4, 14:

interdictum,

id. Caecin. 21, 59:

poema,

id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 77; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 60:

senatus consultum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 22, 2:

testimonium,

id. Att. 15, 15, 1:

verba ad religionem deorum immortalium,

id. Dom. 47, 124:

de judicialibus causis aliqua,

Quint. 3, 6, 104:

aliquid de ratione dicendi, id. prooem. 1: quae de ortu vitaque Scapulae composita erant,

Tac. A. 16, 14:

Apion... inmortalitate donari a se scripsit ad quos aliqua conponebat, Plin. praef. § 25: carmen,

Cic. Mur. 12, 26:

carmina,

Tac. Or. 12; id. A. 3, 49:

epistulas,

id. ib. 2, 70:

litteras nomine Marcelli,

Liv. 27, 28, 4; Tac. A. 11, 20:

orationem habere ad conciliandos plebis animos conpositam,

Liv. 1, 35, 2:

blanditias tremula voce,

Tib. 1, 2, 91:

meditata manu verba trementi,

Ov. M. 9, 521:

versus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 8:

mollem versum,

Prop. 1, 7, 19:

cantus,

Tib. 1, 2, 53:

in morem annalium,

Tac. Or. 22:

orationes adversus aliquem,

id. ib. 37:

litteras ad aliquem,

id. A. 15, 8; 14, 22:

probra in Gaium,

id. ib. 6, 9;

14, 50: multa et atrocia in Macronem,

id. ib. 6, 44 (38) et saep.—

Transf., of the subjects, etc., treated, to write about, treat, celebrate:

tuas laudes,

Tib. 4, 1, 35:

res gestas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 251:

tempora Iliaca,

Vell. 1, 3, 2:

bellum Troicum,

id. 1, 5, 3:

Juli Africani vitam componendo, spem hominibus fecisti plurium ejus modi librorum,

Tac. Or. 14:

veteres populi Romani res,

id. A. 4, 32:

Neronis res,

id. ib. 1, 1; 11, 11.—

From the notion of closing.

To put away, put aside, put in place:

armamentis conplicandis, conponendis studuimus,

i. e. folding up the sails and lowering the masts, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 80:

(tempus) ad componenda armamenta expediendumque remigem,

Liv. 26, 39, 8:

vela contrahit malosque inclinat et simul armamenta componens, etc.,

id. 36, 44, 2:

arma,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 52:

tristes istos conpone libellos,

put aside, Prop. 1, 9, 13.—

To store up, put away, collect:

nec... Aut conponere opes norant aut parcere parto,

Verg. A. 8, 317:

ego conposito securus acervo Despiciam dites,

Tib. 1, 1, 77;

so fig.: condo et compono quae mox depromere possim,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12.— So esp. to preserve, pack, put up fruits, meat, etc., for future use:

pernas,

Cato, R. R. 162, 12:

tergora (suis),

Col. 12, 55, 2: siccatos coliculos, id. 12, 9, 1:

caepam in fidelia,

id. 12, 10, 2:

herbas,

id. 12, 13, 2:

poma,

id. 12, 47, 5:

olivas,

Pall. Nov. 22, 5:

herbam olla nova,

Scrib. Comp. 60:

faenum,

Dig. 19, 2, 11, § 4:

fructus in urceis, capsellis,

ib. 33, 7, 12, §1.—

Of the ashes or remains of the dead, to adjust, lay out, to collect and inurn, inter, bury:

tu mea conpones et dices, ossa, Properti, Haec tua sunt,

Prop. 2, 24, 35 (3, 19, 19):

cinerem,

Ov. F. 3, 547:

cinerem ossaque,

Val. Fl. 7, 203:

sic ego conponi versus in ossa velim,

Tib. 3, 2, 26.—Hence, in gen., of persons, to bury:

quem... prope cognatos conpositum cineres,

Cat. 68, 98:

omnes composui (meos),

Hor. S. 1, 9, 28:

compositi busta avi,

Ov. F. 5, 426:

Pisonem Verania uxor... T. Vinium Crispina filia composuere,

Tac. H. 1, 47:

componi tumulo eodem,

Ov. M. 4, 157:

toro Mortua componar,

id. ib. 9, 504:

alto Conpositus lecto,

Pers. 3, 104:

aliquem terra,

Sil. 9, 95.—

To lay at rest, compose, quiet.

Of things: omnia noctis erant placida composta quiete, Varr. Atac. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 16:

cum mare compositum est,

Ov. A. A. 3, 259:

aquas,

id. H. 13, 136:

fessum tumentes Composuit pelagus ventis patientibus undas,

Luc. 5, 702.—

Of persons:

nec vigilantibus, sed etiam quiete compositis,

Quint. 11, 2, 5:

ubi jam thalamis se conposuere,

Verg. G. 4, 189:

defessa membra,

id. ib. 4, 438:

si bene conpositus somno vinoque jacebit,

Ov. Am. 1, 4, 53.—

To end strife, confusion, etc., to compose, pacify, allay, settle, calm, appease, quiet, tranquillize, reconcile, etc., that which is disturbed or at variance.

With personal object:

aversos amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

ceteros clementia,

Tac. A. 12, 55:

comitia praetorum,

id. ib. 14, 28; id. H. 1, 85:

juvenes concitatos,

Quint. 1, 10, 32; cf.:

barbarum animos,

Tac. A. 14, 39:

gentem,

Sil. 17, 356.—Esp. of the mind:

prima (pars philosophiae) conponit animum,

Sen. Ep. 89, 9:

argumentum conpositae mentis,

id. ib. 2, 1; Cels. 3, 18; Sil. 11, 352:

mentem somno,

id. 3, 162:

religio saevas componit mentis,

id. 13, 317.—

Of places, countries, etc.:

C. Caesar componendae Armeniae deligitur,

Tac. A. 2, 4:

Campaniam,

id. H. 4, 3:

Daciam,

id. ib. 3, 53.—

With abstr. or indef. objects:

si possum hoc inter vos conponere,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 23; cf.:

vides, inter nos sic haec potius cum bona Ut componamus gratia quam cum mala?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17:

gaudens conponi foedere bellum,

Verg. A. 12, 109; so,

bellum,

Sall. J. 97, 2; Nep. Hann. 6, 2; id. Alcib. 8, 3; Vell. 2, 25, 1; Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 3:

bella,

Tac. A. 3, 56:

cum vellet pro communi amico controversias regum componere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 109:

uti per colloquia omnes controversiae componantur,

id. ib. 1, 9 fin.:

curas,

Verg. A. 4, 341; Sil. 12, 682:

lites,

Verg. E. 3, 108:

seditionem civilem,

Suet. Caes. 4:

statum Orientis,

id. Calig. 1:

Romanus Ardeae turbatas seditione res... composuit,

Liv. 4, 10, 6; 3, 53, 1:

legatorum res et bello turbatas,

id. 45, 16, 2:

res Germanicas,

Suet. Vit. 9:

discordias,

Tac. H. 4, 50:

compositis praesentibus,

id. A. 1, 45:

odia et certamina,

id. ib. 15, 2.—Less freq. transf., with the result as object:

pacem componi volo Meo patri cum matre,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 113:

si pax cum Carthaginiensibus componi nequisset,

Liv. 30, 40, 13:

at me conposita pace fefellit Amor,

Prop. 2, 2, 2:

pax circa Brundusium composita,

Vell. 2, 75, 3:

pacem cum Pyrrho,

Just. 18, 2, 6; cf. D. 2. infra.—

Absol.:

coheredes mei conponere et transigere cupiebant,

Plin. Ep. 5, 1, 7; and so impers. pass.:

posteaquam id quod maxime volui fieri non potuit, ut componeretur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:

Pompei summam esse... voluntatem, ut componeretur atque ab armis discederetur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 16.—

Hence, to set right, to set in or restore to the proper place or condition, to adjust, etc.

In gen., to arrange, adjust, order, set in order:

aulaeis se superbis Aurea sponda, of one's attitude on a couch,

Verg. A. 1, 697:

ad ictum militaris gladii conposita cervice,

Sen. Cons. Marc. 26, 2:

diductis aedificia angulis vidimus moveri iterumque conponi,

id. Q. N. 6, 30, 4:

si ad rem pertinet, quomodo caelo adfecto conpositisque sideribus quodque animal oriatur,

Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98:

tibi enim gratias agebat, quod signa componenda suscepisses,

id. Att. 4, 9, 1.—

Esp., milit. t. t.:

se ad confligendum, Sisenn. ap. Non p. 257, 13: exercitum in hibernaculis, Sali J. 103, 1: in secunda (acie) cohortis, id. H. inc. Fragm. 44 Dietsch: stabant conpositi suis quisque ordinibus (opp. incompositi),

Liv. 44, 38, 11:

conpositi numero in turmas,

Verg. A. 11, 599:

cunctos licentia vagos compositus invadit = compositis ordinibus,

Tac. H. 4, 35:

agmen,

id. ib. 2, 89; 5, 1; id. A. 12, 16:

ordines,

id. H. 4, 33:

vagos paventesque Vitellianos, sua quemque apud signa, componunt,

id. ib. 3, 35:

pugnae exercitum,

id. A. 13, 40:

auxilia in numerum legionis,

id. ib. 2, 80 Nipp. ad loc.:

equitem per turmas,

id. ib. 15, 29:

insidias in montibus,

Just. 1, 3, 11.—

Of the order of words in language: quam lepide lexeis compostae! ut tesserulae omnes Arte pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato, Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171; id. ap. Cic. Or. 44, 149; cf. id. ib. sq.:

ut aptior sit oratio, ipsa verba compone,

id. Brut. 17, 68.—

With reference to orderly appearance, etc., of the clothing, hair; the expression of the countenance, etc., to lay, smooth, adjust:

suon quisque loco'st? Vide capillum, satin compositu'st commode?

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97:

composito et delibuto capillo,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135:

comas,

Ov. R. Am. 679:

crines,

Verg. G. 4, 417:

ne turbarentur comae, quas componi, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 148:

togam,

to lay in proper folds, Hor. S. 2, 3, 77; Quint. 11, 3, 156; cf.:

nec tamen ante adiit... Quam se composuit, quam circumspexit amictus,

Ov. M. 4, 318:

pulvinum facili manu,

id. A. A. 1, 160; cf.

torum,

id. F. 3, 484:

jam libet componere voltus,

id. M. 13, 767:

vultu composito, ne laeti excessu principis, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 7; Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 5; cf.:

(Tiberius) compositus ore,

id. ib. 2, 34:

vultum natura horridum... efferabat, componens ad speculum in omnem terrorem,

distorting, Suet. Calig. 50.—

In gen., to adjust, arrange, regulate, for the expression of something, or to accord with something; usu. ad aliquid:

ad abstinentiam rursus, non secus ac modo ad balineum animum vultumque conposui,

Plin. Ep. 7, 1, 6:

orationis ipsius vultus ad id, quod efficere intendimus, compositus,

Quint. 9, 1, 21:

utraque manu ad modum aliquid portantium composita,

id. 11, 3, 120:

ge. stum oratoris ad similitudinem saltationis,

id. 1, 11, 19:

figuram ad imitationem alterius scripturae,

id. 9, 2, 34:

nec ad votum composita civitas,

Tac. Or. 41:

cuncta ad decorem inperi conposita,

id. H. 1, 71:

cunctis ad tristitiam conpositis,

id. A. 3, 1. —Less freq. with dat.:

voltus conponere famae Taedet,

to adapt, Tib. 4, 7, 9:

venturis carbasa ventis,

Luc. 3, 596:

me quoque mittendis rectum componite telis,

id. 3, 717. —With in:

Nero itinera urbis... veste servili in dissimulationem sui compositus pererrabat,

disguised, made up, Tac. A. 13, 25. —

To bring to a particular form or condition, to dispose, arrange, set in order, contrive, devise, prepare.

With acc.:

ego itinera sic composueram, ut Nonis Quinctilibus Puteolis essem,

Cic. Att. 15, 26, 3:

quod adest memento Componere aequus,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 33:

conposita atque constituta re publica,

Cic. Leg. 3, 18, 42:

necdum compositis maturisve satis consiliis,

Liv. 4, 13, 5:

(diem) totum in consideranda causa componendaque posuisse,

Cic. Brut. 22, 87:

tempus in cognoscendis componendisque causis consumere,

id. Or. 42, 143:

ex sententia omnibus rebus paratis conpositisque,

Sall. J. 43, 5; 94, 1:

in senatu cuncta longis aliorum principatibus composita statim decernuntur,

Tac. H. 2, 55:

dum quae forent firmando Neronis imperio componuntur,

id. A. 12, 68.—

With ad or in and acc. of the purpose for which, or the example according to which, etc.:

cum alteri placeat auspicia ista ad utilitatem esse rei publicae conposita,

Cic. Leg. 2, 13, 32:

omnia ad voluptatem multitudinis inperitae,

Quint. 10, 1, 43:

animum ad omnes casus,

id. 12, 9, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 321:

satis igitur in hoc nos componet multa scribendi exercitatio,

Quint. 9, 4, 114:

cultum victumque non ad nova exempla conponere, sed ut majorum mores suadent,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 2. —

To arrange in agreement with others, to agree upon, contrive, devise, invent, conspire to make, etc.

In gen.: eum allegaverunt, suom qui servom diceret Cum auro esse apud me: conposita est fallacia, [p. 393] Ut, etc., Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 29:

quin jam virginem Despondi: res composita'st,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 17:

ita causa componitur, ut item palaestritae Bidini peterent ab Epicrate hereditatem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 22, § 54:

societatem praedarum cum latronibus conposuisse,

Sall. H. 4, 11 Dietsch:

crimen ab inimicis Romae conpositum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 141:

conpositis inter se rebus,

Sall. J. 66, 2:

ita conposito dolo digrediuntur,

id. ib. 111, 4:

conposito jam consilio,

Liv. 3, 53, 3: ceteri proditores ea quae composita erant exspectabant;

convenerat autem, etc.,

id. 25, 9, 8:

sub noctem susurri Composita repetantur hora,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 20:

ictum jam foedus, et omnes Conpositae leges,

Verg. A. 12, 315:

compositis notis,

Tib. 1, 2, 22:

crimen ac dolum ultro,

Tac. H. 1, 34:

proditionem,

id. ib. 2, 100:

seditionem,

id. ib. 4, 14:

insidias,

id. ib. 5, 22; id. A. 12, 54; 13, 47: pacem componere, v. B. 5. supra.—

With rel.-clause:

cum summa concordia, quos dimitterent, quos retinerent, composuerunt,

Liv. 40, 40, 14.—

With inf.:

ii, secretis conloquiis conponunt Gallos concire,

Tac. A. 3, 40.—

Pass. impers.:

ut domi compositum cum Marcio erat,

Liv. 2, 37, 1.—

With ut and subj.:

compositum inter ipsos ut Latiaris strueret dolum,

Tac. A. 4, 68; cf. P. a. subst. —

In gen., to feign, invent, devise, contrive, in order to deceive or delude, etc.: composita dicta, Att. ap. Non. p. 260, 22 (Trag. Rel. v. 47 Rib.):

ne tu istic hodie malo tuo conpositis mendaciis Advenisti,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 211:

nec bene mendaci risus conponitur ore,

Tib. 3, 6, 35 (3, 7, 3):

sed vobis facile'st verba et conponere fraudes,

Prop. 2, 9, 31:

insidias in me conponis inanes,

id. 2, 32 (3, 30), 19:

compositas insidias fatoque evitatas ementitur,

Tac. A. 13, 47:

si haec fabulosa et composita videntur,

id. Or. 12; id. Agr. 40:

quae ut augendae famae composita, sic reliqua non in obscuro habentur,

id. A. 15, 16; cf.:

vetustatem, ut cetera, in majus conponentem altores Jovis celebravisse,

exaggerating, Sall. H. 3, 60 Dietsch.— Part. perf. with in and acc., pretending, assuming the appearance or expression:

(Domitianus) paratus simulatione, in adrogantiam compositus audiit preces,

Tac. Agr. 42:

is in maestitiam compositus,

id. H. 2, 9; 1, 54:

in securitatem,

id. A. 3, 44.—Rarely with ad:

tunc compositus ad maestitiam,

Tac. A. 13, 20.— Hence, P. a.: compŏsĭtus ( - postus), a, um.

Well-arranged, ordered, or constituted, orderly, regular:

quae (injuria) dum foris sunt, nil videtur mundius, Nec magis compositum quicquam nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 13: admiratus sum... sunchusin litterularum, quae solent tuae compositissimae et clarissimae esse, Cic. Att. 6, 9, 1:

acrior impetu atque animis quam compositior ullo ordine pugna fuit,

Liv. 28, 22, 13:

intellegitur, etiamsi non adjecero, conpositum ordinatumque fore talem virum,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 3:

composita et quieta et beata respublica,

Tac. Or. 36. —Of writings:

quare in his quoque libris erant eadem aliqua... omnia vero compositiora et elaborata,

Quint. 1, pr. § 8; cf.:

illa quae curam fatentur et ficta atque composita videri etiam volunt,

elaborate, id. 8, pr. § 23.— Transf., of the orator himself:

si aut compositi oratoris bene structam collocationem dissolvas permutatione verborum,

Cic. Or. 70, 232.—

Fitly disposed for any purpose, prepared, apt, fit, adapted, qualified, suitable, ready:

perficiam ut nemo umquam paratior, vigilantior, compositior ad judicium venisse videatur,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 11; so,

equus bene natura compositus,

Auct. Her. 4, 46, 59.— With ad or in and acc., or with dat.:

arte quadam ab juventa in ostentationem (virtutum) compositus,

Liv. 26, 19, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

alius historiae magis idoneus, alius compositus ad carmen,

Quint. 2, 8, 7:

aeque in adulationem compositus (sacerdos),

Curt. 4, 7, 26:

(Attici) non maxime ad risum compositi,

Quint. 6, 3, 18:

natura atque arte compositus alliciendis etiam Muciani moribus,

Tac. H. 2, 5.—

Quiet, peaceful, undisturbed, calm, composed, unimpassioned, etc.:

ut peractis quae agenda fuerint salvo jam et composito die possis ibi manere,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2:

lenis et nitidi et compositi generis amatores,

Quint. 10, 1, 44:

actio,

id. 11, 3, 110:

aetas,

mature, sedate, Tac. A. 13, 1: adfectus mites atque compositi, Quint. 6, 2, 9:

supercilium (opp. erectum),

id. 11, 3, 74:

repetitio eorum (civium) labefactabat compositam civitatem,

Flor. 3, 23, 3.—

Compound, composite, made up of parts (opp. simplex):

verba,

Quint. 1, 5, 3; 1, 6, 38; 7, 9, 5:

voces,

id. 1, 5, 65; cf. id. 1, 5, 9; 2, 12, 3.—Hence, subst.: compŏsĭtum ( conp-), i, n., that which is agreed, an agreement, compact, etc.; only abl. in the phrases,

Ex composito, according to agreement, by agreement, in concert, Sall. H. 2, 12 Dietsch:

tum ex composito orta vis,

Liv. 1, 9, 10; 5, 14, 2; 36, 25, 1; 40, 48, 4; Suet. Claud. 37; Tac. H. 4, 66.—

De composito, by agreement, App. Mag. 1, p. 273; and,

More rarely in the same sense, composito alone, Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 29; Nep. Dat. 6, 6; Verg. A. 2, 129.—Hence also adv.: compŏsĭtē ( conp-), in an orderly, regular, or skilful manner, orderly, regularly, properly (class. but rare;

not in Quint.): ambulare,

Col. 6, 2, 5:

indutus,

Gell. 1, 5, 2:

composite et apte dicere,

Cic. Or. 71, 236:

composite, ornate, copiose eloqui,

id. De Or. 1, 11, 48:

composite atque magnifice casum reipublicae miserati,

Sall. C. 51, 9:

bene et composite disseruit,

id. Ib. 52.— Comp.:

compositius cuncta quam festinantius agerent,

Tac. A. 15, 3.

com-pōno ( conp-), posui (COMPOSEIVERVNT, C. I. L. 1, 199, 2), positum (compostus, Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21 Lorenz; Verg. A. 1, 249; Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171; Varr ap. Sen. Ep. 56, 6), 3, v. a., to put, place, lay, bring or set together, to unite, join, connect, collect, aggregate, compose, to order, arrange, adjust, etc. (class. and very freq.).

In gen., of different objects.

To bring into union, gather, collect, put together.

Of things in gen.:

aridum lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 14:

composita fronde,

Prop. 1, 20, 22:

uvas in tecto in cratibus,

Cato, R. R. 112, 2:

in quo (loco) erant ea conposita, quibus rex te numerare constituerat,

Cic. Deiot. 6, 17:

(amomum) manipulatim leniter componitur,

Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48:

amphoras in culleum,

Cato, R. R. 113, 2:

ligna in caminum,

id. ib. 37, 5.—

To bring into contact, fit together, join:

quid... in operibus manu factis tam compositum tamque compactum et coagmentatum inveniri potest?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74: cum poclo bibo eodem, amplector, labra labellis conpono, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 260, 28:

tum latus conponit lateri et cum pectore pectus,

id. ib. p. 260, 30:

conponens manibusque manus atque ori bus ora,

Verg. A. 8, 486:

Mercurio Sais fertur Virgineum conposuisse latus,

Prop. 2, 2, 12; cf.

caput,

Tib. 1, 5, 8.—Hence, of broken limbs, etc., med. t. t., to set:

ossa,

Cels. 8, 10, 2:

jugulum,

id. 8, 8, 8 et saep.—

Esp., to pack up for a journey, etc.:

omnia composta sunt quae donavi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 21:

i ergo intro et compone quae tecum simul Ferantur,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 5:

dum tota domus raeda componitur una,

Juv. 3, 10.—

Of persons:

is (Saturnus) genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis Composuit,

Verg. A. 8, 322:

et tabula una duos poterit componere amantes,

Prop. 2, 26, 33 (3, 22, 13); cf. II. C. 5. infra.—

To bring together in hostility, to oppose, to couple, pair, match in combat (cf. compositio, III.); esp. of gladiators, etc.: Samnis, spurcus homo, cum Pacideiano conponitur, optimus multo Post homines natos gladiator qui fuit unus, Lucil. Sat. ap. Non. p. 257, 18; cf. Cic. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

Rupili et Persi par pugnat, uti non Compositum melius cum Bitho Bacchius,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 20 Orell. ad loc.:

staturam habere Threcis cum Threce conpositi,

Sen. Q. N. 4, praef. 8;

and in gen.: si quis casus duos inter se bonos viros composuerit,

Quint. 2, 17, 34:

cuive virum mallem memet componere,

Sil. 10, 70:

componimur Vecordi Decio,

id. 11, 212:

hunc fatis,

id. 1, 39:

cum ventis, pelagique furentibus undis Composuit mortale genus,

Luc. 3, 196;

and fig.: pergis pugnantia secum Frontibus adversis componere,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 103:

ecce par deo dignum, vir fortis cum fortuna mala conpositus,

Sen. Prov. 1, 2, 9:

non illa (rhetorice) secum ipsa componitur,

Quint. 2, 17, 33;

and of a judicial contest: accita Epicharis et cum indice composita,

confronted, Tac. A. 15, 51; 16, 10.—

To oppose by way of comparison, to compare, contrast.

With acc. and dat.: quid est, cur componere ausis mihi te aut me tibi? Att. ap. Non. p. 257, 15 (Trag. Rel. v. 147 Rib.):

nec divis homines componier aequom'st,

Cat. 68, 141: composita dicta evolvunt, Quae cum componas, dicta factis discrepant, Att. ap. Non. p. 260, 21 (Trag. Rel. v. 48 Rib.):

si parva licet conponere magnis,

Verg. G. 4, 176:

parvis conponere magna solebam,

id. E. 1, 23; Ov. M. 5, [p. 392] 416:

audes cladi componere nostrae, Nympha, tuam?

id. ib. 15, 530:

divinis humana,

Aus. Ecl. 1, 10.—

With acc. and cum:

ubi Metelli dicta cum factis conposuit,

Sall. J. 48, 1: causam suam cum causa adversarii. Quint. 7, 2, 22.

In partic.

Of the parts of a whole, or of a whole as made up of parts.

To bring together, compose, compound, make up, mix, construct.

With ex:

exercitus ejus conpositus ex variis gentibus,

Sall. J. 18, 3:

genus humanum ex corpore et anima conpositum,

id. ib. 2, 1:

liber ex alienis orationibus compositus,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47:

antidoton... ex multis atque interim contrariis quoque inter se effectibus,

Quint. 1, 10, 6:

ex quo (umore) componi debet (medicamentum),

Cels. 6, 7, 1 fin. —

With abl.:

mensam gramine,

Sil. 15, 51.—

With acc. alone:

medicamentum,

Col. 6, 4, 1; Scrib. Comp. 10.—

Esp., of buildings, etc., to construct, build:

qui cuncta conposuit,

i. e. the Creator, Cic. Univ. 13:

urbem,

Verg. A. 3, 387:

illa (templa) deis,

Ov. F. 1, 708 Burm. ad loc.:

aggere conposito tumuli,

Verg. A. 7, 6:

deletas Thebas,

Prop. 2, 6, 5.—

Of words, to compound:

vitilitigatores ex vitiis et litigatoribus, Plin. praef. § 32: verba composita (opp. simplicia),

Quint. 1, 5, 3.—

Of writings, speeches, etc.

To compose, write, construct (very freq.):

leges,

Lucr. 4, 966:

compone hoc, quod postulo, de argento: de reliquo videro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 36:

quartum librum,

id. de Or. 2, 55, 224:

libros,

id. Fam. 16, 20; Plin. Ep. 9, 9, 1:

libellos,

Quint. 12, 8, 5:

actiones,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 8; Quint. 11, 3, 68:

argumentum,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 3:

edictum eis verbis,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:

edictum eorum arbitratu,

id. ib. 2, 1, 46, §

119: artes,

books of instruction, id. Brut. 12, 48; id. Ac. 2, 13, 40:

artificium,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83:

commentarium consulatus mei,

id. Att. 1, 19, 10; Quint. 1, 8, 19:

quarum (litterarum) exemplum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 20, 53:

quandam disciplinae formulam,

id. Ac. 1, 4, 17:

stipulationum et judiciorum formulas,

id. Leg. 1, 4, 14:

interdictum,

id. Caecin. 21, 59:

poema,

id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 77; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 60:

senatus consultum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 22, 2:

testimonium,

id. Att. 15, 15, 1:

verba ad religionem deorum immortalium,

id. Dom. 47, 124:

de judicialibus causis aliqua,

Quint. 3, 6, 104:

aliquid de ratione dicendi, id. prooem. 1: quae de ortu vitaque Scapulae composita erant,

Tac. A. 16, 14:

Apion... inmortalitate donari a se scripsit ad quos aliqua conponebat, Plin. praef. § 25: carmen,

Cic. Mur. 12, 26:

carmina,

Tac. Or. 12; id. A. 3, 49:

epistulas,

id. ib. 2, 70:

litteras nomine Marcelli,

Liv. 27, 28, 4; Tac. A. 11, 20:

orationem habere ad conciliandos plebis animos conpositam,

Liv. 1, 35, 2:

blanditias tremula voce,

Tib. 1, 2, 91:

meditata manu verba trementi,

Ov. M. 9, 521:

versus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 8:

mollem versum,

Prop. 1, 7, 19:

cantus,

Tib. 1, 2, 53:

in morem annalium,

Tac. Or. 22:

orationes adversus aliquem,

id. ib. 37:

litteras ad aliquem,

id. A. 15, 8; 14, 22:

probra in Gaium,

id. ib. 6, 9;

14, 50: multa et atrocia in Macronem,

id. ib. 6, 44 (38) et saep.—

Transf., of the subjects, etc., treated, to write about, treat, celebrate:

tuas laudes,

Tib. 4, 1, 35:

res gestas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 251:

tempora Iliaca,

Vell. 1, 3, 2:

bellum Troicum,

id. 1, 5, 3:

Juli Africani vitam componendo, spem hominibus fecisti plurium ejus modi librorum,

Tac. Or. 14:

veteres populi Romani res,

id. A. 4, 32:

Neronis res,

id. ib. 1, 1; 11, 11.—

From the notion of closing.

To put away, put aside, put in place:

armamentis conplicandis, conponendis studuimus,

i. e. folding up the sails and lowering the masts, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 80:

(tempus) ad componenda armamenta expediendumque remigem,

Liv. 26, 39, 8:

vela contrahit malosque inclinat et simul armamenta componens, etc.,

id. 36, 44, 2:

arma,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 52:

tristes istos conpone libellos,

put aside, Prop. 1, 9, 13.—

To store up, put away, collect:

nec... Aut conponere opes norant aut parcere parto,

Verg. A. 8, 317:

ego conposito securus acervo Despiciam dites,

Tib. 1, 1, 77;

so fig.: condo et compono quae mox depromere possim,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12.— So esp. to preserve, pack, put up fruits, meat, etc., for future use:

pernas,

Cato, R. R. 162, 12:

tergora (suis),

Col. 12, 55, 2: siccatos coliculos, id. 12, 9, 1:

caepam in fidelia,

id. 12, 10, 2:

herbas,

id. 12, 13, 2:

poma,

id. 12, 47, 5:

olivas,

Pall. Nov. 22, 5:

herbam olla nova,

Scrib. Comp. 60:

faenum,

Dig. 19, 2, 11, § 4:

fructus in urceis, capsellis,

ib. 33, 7, 12, §1.—

Of the ashes or remains of the dead, to adjust, lay out, to collect and inurn, inter, bury:

tu mea conpones et dices, ossa, Properti, Haec tua sunt,

Prop. 2, 24, 35 (3, 19, 19):

cinerem,

Ov. F. 3, 547:

cinerem ossaque,

Val. Fl. 7, 203:

sic ego conponi versus in ossa velim,

Tib. 3, 2, 26.—Hence, in gen., of persons, to bury:

quem... prope cognatos conpositum cineres,

Cat. 68, 98:

omnes composui (meos),

Hor. S. 1, 9, 28:

compositi busta avi,

Ov. F. 5, 426:

Pisonem Verania uxor... T. Vinium Crispina filia composuere,

Tac. H. 1, 47:

componi tumulo eodem,

Ov. M. 4, 157:

toro Mortua componar,

id. ib. 9, 504:

alto Conpositus lecto,

Pers. 3, 104:

aliquem terra,

Sil. 9, 95.—