ager+consītus

con-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum or sătum, 3, v. a. ( perf. conseruerit, Col. 3, 4, 2; Aur. Vict. Epit. 37, 3; Dig. 6, 1, 38; v. 1. sero).

To sow or plant with something (class.).

Lit.:

agros,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Verg. E. 1, 73; Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Dig. 7, 1, 9, § 6; cf.:

ager diligenter consitus,

Cic. Sen. 17, 59:

ager arbustis consitus,

Sall. J. 53, 1; and:

consitus an incultus (locus),

Quint. 5, 10, 37:

Ismara Baccho (i. e. vino),

Verg. G. 2, 38:

vineam malleolo,

Col. 5, 5, 6:

arva frumento,

Curt. 7, 4, 26.— Absol.:

in alieno fundo,

Dig. 6, 1, 38:

in alienum fundum,

ib. 41, 1, 9.—

Transf.:

arva mūliebria (Venus),

Lucr. 4, 1107; cf. Sol. 9 fin. —Hence, conserentes dii, who preside over generation, Arn. 5, 169.—

Transf., of columns, to plant, set:

aera (rostra) columnis consita,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 49.—

Trop.:

(sol) lumine conserit arva,

strews, fills, Lucr. 2, 211: consitus sum Senectute, * Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 4: caeca mentem caligine Theseus consitus, * Cat. 64, 208.—

To sow, plant:

olivetum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

hoc genus oleae,

Cato, R. R. 6, 1:

arborem,

Liv. 10, 24, 5; Curt. 6, 5, 14; 7, 2, 22:

zizyphum,

Pall. Apr. 4:

palmas,

id. Oct. 12:

(vitem) Narbonicam,

Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43; Cato ap. Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 46.—

Transf. (cf. I. B. supra): extra vallum stili caeci, mirabilem in modum consiti, set, Auct. B. Afr. 31.

con-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3 ( perf. consevisti, Fronto, Ep. ad Ver. 8), v. a., to connect, entwine, tie, join, fit, bind into a whole (syn.: conecto, conjungo, contexo, etc.; class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in the signif. II. B., and in the histt.).

In gen.

Lit.

With acc. with or without abl.:

lorica conserta hamis auroque,

Verg. A. 3, 467; cf.:

tegumen spinis,

id. ib. 3, 594 (illigatum spinis, Serv.); cf. Tac. G. 17: monile margaritis gemmisque, * Suet. Galb. 18:

vincula, quīs conserta erant vehicula,

Curt. 9, 1, 17; cf.:

conserta navigia,

entangled, id. 4, 3, 18:

scutis super capita consertis,

overlapping, id. 5, 3, 23:

rudis arbor conseritur (for navigating),

Luc. 3, 512; cf. id. 4, 136.—

With acc. and dat.:

alium (truncum) alii quasi nexu conserunt,

Curt. 6, 5, 15.—

Trop.:

quid juvat nocti conseruisse diem?

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 10:

exodia conserta fabellis Atellanis,

Liv. 7, 2, 11;

v. exodium: virtutes consertae et inter se cohaerentes,

Sen. Ep. 90, 3: ita ordo rerum tribus momentis consertus est, * Quint. 5, 10, 71:

sermonem,

to interchange words, converse, Curt. 8, 12, 5; Fronto l. l.—

In partic.

To join, connect, unite together:

teneros sinus,

Tib. 1, 8, 36:

femur femori,

id. 1, 8, 26; cf.:

latus lateri,

Ov. H. 2, 58.—

Esp., to unite in hostility, for contest, to bring together; so most freq. manum or manus, to engage in close combat, to join hand to hand, to join battle:

signa contulit, manum conseruit, magnas copias hostium fudit,

Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3; Sall. J. 50, 4; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Ages. 3, 6; Liv. 21, 41, 4 al.:

manum cum hoste,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.; Cic. Att. 7, 20, 1; Nep. Hann. 4, 2:

manus inter se,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 40, 14; Ov. H. 12, 100:

manus cum imparibus,

Liv. 6, 12, 8:

cum hoste manus,

id. 21, 39, 3:

consertis deinde manibus,

id. 1, 25, 5:

dextras,

Stat. S. 1, 6, 60:

pugnam,

Liv. 21, 50, 1; cf. id. 21, 8, 7; Tac. A. 2, 10:

pugnam inter se,

Liv. 32, 10, 8:

pugnam seni,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 43:

proelia,

Verg. A. 2, 398; Liv. 5, 36, 5; Curt. 8, 13, 12:

certamen,

Liv. 35, 4, 2:

bella,

Val. Fl. 3, 31:

bella bellis,

Luc. 2, 442:

acies,

Sil. 1, 339; cf.:

conserta acies,

hand-to-hand fighting, Tac. A. 6, 35.— Mid.:

navis conseritur,

enters the fight, Liv. 21, 50, 3:

duo acerrimā pugnā conserti exercitus,

Val. Max. 3, 2, 1.—Rarely absol.:

levis armatura ab lateribus cum levi armaturā,

Liv. 44, 4, 6.—

Trop.:

haud ignotas belli artes inter se conserebant,

Liv. 21, 1, 2.—

Transf., of judicial controversy: manum in jure or ex jure conserere, to make a joint seizure (this was done by the litigant parties laying hands at the same time upon the thing in dispute, each one claiming it as his own): si qui in jure manum conserunt, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 10, 7: non ex jure manum consertum sed mage ferro rem repetunt, Enn. ib. § 4 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.); cf. also Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll., and Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2: ibi ego te ex jure manum consertum voco, etc., I summon you in an action for possession, etc., a judic. formula in Cic. Mur. 12, 26; id. de Or. 1, 10, 41.—Hence, * con-sertē, adv., from consertus, a, um (acc. to I. A.), not used as P. a., as if bound or fastened together, in connection:

omnia necesse est conligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

con-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum or sătum, 3, v. a. ( perf. conseruerit, Col. 3, 4, 2; Aur. Vict. Epit. 37, 3; Dig. 6, 1, 38; v. 1. sero).

To sow or plant with something (class.).

Lit.:

agros,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Verg. E. 1, 73; Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Dig. 7, 1, 9, § 6; cf.:

ager diligenter consitus,

Cic. Sen. 17, 59:

ager arbustis consitus,

Sall. J. 53, 1; and:

consitus an incultus (locus),

Quint. 5, 10, 37:

Ismara Baccho (i. e. vino),

Verg. G. 2, 38:

vineam malleolo,

Col. 5, 5, 6:

arva frumento,

Curt. 7, 4, 26.— Absol.:

in alieno fundo,

Dig. 6, 1, 38:

in alienum fundum,

ib. 41, 1, 9.—

Transf.:

arva mūliebria (Venus),

Lucr. 4, 1107; cf. Sol. 9 fin. —Hence, conserentes dii, who preside over generation, Arn. 5, 169.—

Transf., of columns, to plant, set:

aera (rostra) columnis consita,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 49.—

Trop.:

(sol) lumine conserit arva,

strews, fills, Lucr. 2, 211: consitus sum Senectute, * Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 4: caeca mentem caligine Theseus consitus, * Cat. 64, 208.—

To sow, plant:

olivetum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

hoc genus oleae,

Cato, R. R. 6, 1:

arborem,

Liv. 10, 24, 5; Curt. 6, 5, 14; 7, 2, 22:

zizyphum,

Pall. Apr. 4:

palmas,

id. Oct. 12:

(vitem) Narbonicam,

Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43; Cato ap. Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 46.—

Transf. (cf. I. B. supra): extra vallum stili caeci, mirabilem in modum consiti, set, Auct. B. Afr. 31.

con-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3 ( perf. consevisti, Fronto, Ep. ad Ver. 8), v. a., to connect, entwine, tie, join, fit, bind into a whole (syn.: conecto, conjungo, contexo, etc.; class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in the signif. II. B., and in the histt.).

In gen.

Lit.

With acc. with or without abl.:

lorica conserta hamis auroque,

Verg. A. 3, 467; cf.:

tegumen spinis,

id. ib. 3, 594 (illigatum spinis, Serv.); cf. Tac. G. 17: monile margaritis gemmisque, * Suet. Galb. 18:

vincula, quīs conserta erant vehicula,

Curt. 9, 1, 17; cf.:

conserta navigia,

entangled, id. 4, 3, 18:

scutis super capita consertis,

overlapping, id. 5, 3, 23:

rudis arbor conseritur (for navigating),

Luc. 3, 512; cf. id. 4, 136.—

With acc. and dat.:

alium (truncum) alii quasi nexu conserunt,

Curt. 6, 5, 15.—

Trop.:

quid juvat nocti conseruisse diem?

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 10:

exodia conserta fabellis Atellanis,

Liv. 7, 2, 11;

v. exodium: virtutes consertae et inter se cohaerentes,

Sen. Ep. 90, 3: ita ordo rerum tribus momentis consertus est, * Quint. 5, 10, 71:

sermonem,

to interchange words, converse, Curt. 8, 12, 5; Fronto l. l.—

In partic.

To join, connect, unite together:

teneros sinus,

Tib. 1, 8, 36:

femur femori,

id. 1, 8, 26; cf.:

latus lateri,

Ov. H. 2, 58.—

Esp., to unite in hostility, for contest, to bring together; so most freq. manum or manus, to engage in close combat, to join hand to hand, to join battle:

signa contulit, manum conseruit, magnas copias hostium fudit,

Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3; Sall. J. 50, 4; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Ages. 3, 6; Liv. 21, 41, 4 al.:

manum cum hoste,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.; Cic. Att. 7, 20, 1; Nep. Hann. 4, 2:

manus inter se,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 40, 14; Ov. H. 12, 100:

manus cum imparibus,

Liv. 6, 12, 8:

cum hoste manus,

id. 21, 39, 3:

consertis deinde manibus,

id. 1, 25, 5:

dextras,

Stat. S. 1, 6, 60:

pugnam,

Liv. 21, 50, 1; cf. id. 21, 8, 7; Tac. A. 2, 10:

pugnam inter se,

Liv. 32, 10, 8:

pugnam seni,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 43:

proelia,

Verg. A. 2, 398; Liv. 5, 36, 5; Curt. 8, 13, 12:

certamen,

Liv. 35, 4, 2:

bella,

Val. Fl. 3, 31:

bella bellis,

Luc. 2, 442:

acies,

Sil. 1, 339; cf.:

conserta acies,

hand-to-hand fighting, Tac. A. 6, 35.— Mid.:

navis conseritur,

enters the fight, Liv. 21, 50, 3:

duo acerrimā pugnā conserti exercitus,

Val. Max. 3, 2, 1.—Rarely absol.:

levis armatura ab lateribus cum levi armaturā,

Liv. 44, 4, 6.—

Trop.:

haud ignotas belli artes inter se conserebant,

Liv. 21, 1, 2.—

Transf., of judicial controversy: manum in jure or ex jure conserere, to make a joint seizure (this was done by the litigant parties laying hands at the same time upon the thing in dispute, each one claiming it as his own): si qui in jure manum conserunt, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 10, 7: non ex jure manum consertum sed mage ferro rem repetunt, Enn. ib. § 4 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.); cf. also Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll., and Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2: ibi ego te ex jure manum consertum voco, etc., I summon you in an action for possession, etc., a judic. formula in Cic. Mur. 12, 26; id. de Or. 1, 10, 41.—Hence, * con-sertē, adv., from consertus, a, um (acc. to I. A.), not used as P. a., as if bound or fastened together, in connection:

omnia necesse est conligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

arvus, a, um, adj. [for aruus from aro].

That has been ploughed, but not yet sown, ploughed, arable:

ager, arvus et arationes ab arando,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.:

arvum, quod aratum nec dum satum est,

id. R. R. 1, 29; Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.:

aut arvus est ager aut consitus aut pascuus aut florens,

Isid. Orig. 15, 13:

Non arvus hic, sed pascuus est ager,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47:

agri arvi et arbusti et pascui lati atque uberes,

Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3.—Hence,

Subst.

arva, ae, f. (sc. terra), an arable field, cornfield; only twice, ante - class., Naev. ap. Non. p. 192, 30; Pac. ib.—

arvum, i, n. (sc. solum), an arable field, cultivated land, a field, ploughed land, glebe (cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 8;

class.): nec scibat ferro molirier arva,

Lucr. 5, 934; 1, 314:

sol lumine conserit arva,

id. 2, 211; cf. id. 2, 1162; Ov. M. 1, 598; 11, 33; Verg. G. 2, 263 et saep.:

ex arvo aeque magno,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

prata et arva et pecudum greges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus ex eis capiuntur,

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

arva non afferent cibum,

Vulg. Hab. 3, 17:

Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student,

Sall. J. 90, 1:

ne perconteris, fundus meus, optime Quincti, Arvo pascat erum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 2 (i. e. frugibus:

arvum autem ab arando dictum est, Crucq.): arva per annos mutant, et superest ager,

Tac. G. 26; Suet. Ner. 31; id. Dom. 7.—

Meton.

A region, country:

Aspicis en praesens, quali jaceamus in arvo,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 3.—

Poet., in gen., fields, plains, regions: arva putria, Liv. And. ap. Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

genus humanum multo fuit in arvis durius,

Lucr. 5, 925; 2, 1154:

nec pisces (queunt) vivere in arvis,

id. 3, 785:

Circaea arva,

Ov. M. 14, 348:

Peneïa,

id. ib. 12, 209; so id. ib. 15, 52; 15, 276; 11, 62; 11, 196; Verg. A. 5, 703 et saep.:

pomosa,

Prop. 5, 7, 81:

quā tumidus rigat arva Nilus,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 48; id. Epod. 16, 54; so,

arva deserti,

Vulg. Jer. 23, 10:

arva pacis,

ib. ib. 25, 37.—Hence also,

For pascuum, pasture-ground:

Arvaque mugitu sancite bovaria longo: Nobile erit Romae pascua vestra forum,

i. e. the Forum Boarium at Rome, Prop. 5, 9, 19.—

Arva Neptunia, for the sea, Verg. A. 8, 695 (cf. id. ib. 6, 724: campi liquentes). —

Land, a shore, coast:

jamque arva tenebant (angues),

Verg. A. 2, 209.

arvus, a, um, adj. [for aruus from aro].

That has been ploughed, but not yet sown, ploughed, arable:

ager, arvus et arationes ab arando,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.:

arvum, quod aratum nec dum satum est,

id. R. R. 1, 29; Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.:

aut arvus est ager aut consitus aut pascuus aut florens,

Isid. Orig. 15, 13:

Non arvus hic, sed pascuus est ager,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47:

agri arvi et arbusti et pascui lati atque uberes,

Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3.—Hence,

Subst.

arva, ae, f. (sc. terra), an arable field, cornfield; only twice, ante - class., Naev. ap. Non. p. 192, 30; Pac. ib.—

arvum, i, n. (sc. solum), an arable field, cultivated land, a field, ploughed land, glebe (cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 8;

class.): nec scibat ferro molirier arva,

Lucr. 5, 934; 1, 314:

sol lumine conserit arva,

id. 2, 211; cf. id. 2, 1162; Ov. M. 1, 598; 11, 33; Verg. G. 2, 263 et saep.:

ex arvo aeque magno,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

prata et arva et pecudum greges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus ex eis capiuntur,

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

arva non afferent cibum,

Vulg. Hab. 3, 17:

Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student,

Sall. J. 90, 1:

ne perconteris, fundus meus, optime Quincti, Arvo pascat erum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 2 (i. e. frugibus:

arvum autem ab arando dictum est, Crucq.): arva per annos mutant, et superest ager,

Tac. G. 26; Suet. Ner. 31; id. Dom. 7.—

Meton.

A region, country:

Aspicis en praesens, quali jaceamus in arvo,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 3.—

Poet., in gen., fields, plains, regions: arva putria, Liv. And. ap. Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

genus humanum multo fuit in arvis durius,

Lucr. 5, 925; 2, 1154:

nec pisces (queunt) vivere in arvis,

id. 3, 785:

Circaea arva,

Ov. M. 14, 348:

Peneïa,

id. ib. 12, 209; so id. ib. 15, 52; 15, 276; 11, 62; 11, 196; Verg. A. 5, 703 et saep.:

pomosa,

Prop. 5, 7, 81:

quā tumidus rigat arva Nilus,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 48; id. Epod. 16, 54; so,

arva deserti,

Vulg. Jer. 23, 10:

arva pacis,

ib. ib. 25, 37.—Hence also,

For pascuum, pasture-ground:

Arvaque mugitu sancite bovaria longo: Nobile erit Romae pascua vestra forum,

i. e. the Forum Boarium at Rome, Prop. 5, 9, 19.—

Arva Neptunia, for the sea, Verg. A. 8, 695 (cf. id. ib. 6, 724: campi liquentes). —

Land, a shore, coast:

jamque arva tenebant (angues),

Verg. A. 2, 209.

confīnĭum, ii, n. [confinis], a confine, common boundary, limit, border (of lands;

on the contr., vicinitas, of houses,

Dig. 10, 1, 4; class. in prose and poetry; most freq. after the Aug. per.; in Cic. perh. only once; not in Quint.).

Prop.

Sing.:

in confinio consitus ager,

Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 6; id. L. L. 5, § 74 Müll.; Caes. B. G. 5, 24; Liv. 33, 3, 8; 37, 23, 1; Tac. H. 4, 72; id. G. 3 al.:

ad confinium,

Plin. 6, 9, 10, § 27:

per confinium,

id. 6, 9, 10, § 28:

ex confinis,

id. 12, 20, 44, § 98:

ad usque confinium cervicis,

App. M. 4, p. 149, 11.—

Plur.:

vicinitatibus et confiniis,

Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64.— More freq. in nom. and acc. confinia, Ov. M. 12, 40; 14, 7 al.; Luc. 3, 275 et saep.—

Trop., neighborhood, nearness, close connection.

Sing.:

in quam arto salutis exitiique fuerimus confinio,

Vell. 2, 124, 2; so,

boni malique,

Col. 3, 5, 2:

breve artis et falsi,

Tac. A. 4, 58:

nullum vitiorum (et virtutum),

Plin. Pan. 4, 5.—

Plur., confines, boundaries:

confinia lucis, noctis,

Ov. M. 7, 706; 4, 401; 13, 592; id. F. 5, 187; Tib. 4, 1, 70:

virtutum,

Gell. 1, 2, 4.

con-saepĭo ( - sēpĭo), no perf., saeptum (consiptum, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 62, 10 Müll.; cf. id. ib. 64, 6, and v. infra), 4, v. a., to fence round, hedge in.

As verb finit. (rare): bustum, * Suet. Ner. 33. —

More freq.,

In part. perf.: con-saeptus, a, um, enclosed, hedged in: consaeptus ager et diligenter consitus, * Cic. Sen. 17, 59:

locus cratibus pluteisque,

Liv. 10, 38, 5:

locus saxo,

id. 22, 57, 6.—

Trop.: teneor consipta, undique venor, Enn. ap. Non. p. 183, 14 (in acc. with Euripides, Kakôs pepraktai pantachê).—

Subst.: con-saeptum, i, n., a fence, hedge, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2; Col. 1, 4, 7; 1, 6, 1; Liv. 10, 38, 12: fori, * Quint. 12, 2, 23.—

Trop. (postclass.):

corpus animam consaepto suo obstruit, Tert. Anim. c. 53: cordis,

App. M. 3, p. 136, 6 al.