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ex-sĕquor or exĕquor, cūtus, 3, v. dep. a., to follow to the end, to pursue, follow.

In partic., to follow or accompany to the grave (cf. the deriv. exsequiae): funus, Massur. Sabin. ap. Gell. 10, 16, 25: aliquem omni laude et laetitia, Cic. poëta in Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (a transl. of ekpempein, in Eurip.).

Trop. (class.; most freq. in the special significations).

In gen., to follow, follow after, accompany; to go after, to pursue:

quae exanimata exsequitur aspectum tuum,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 3: quid petam praesidi aut exsequar? Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 112 ed. Vahl.):

non igitur dubium, quin aeternitatem maluerit exsequi, etc.,

to follow after, take pattern after, Cic. Univ. 2 fin.:

cur non omnes fatum illius (Pompei) una exsecuti sumus?

followed, pursued, subjected ourselves to, id. Att. 9, 12, 1; cf. id. Phil. 2, 22, 54:

sectam meam exsecutae comites,

joined, Cat. 63, 15:

suam quisque spem, sua consilia, communibus deploratis, exsequentes,

Liv. 5, 40, 5: aerumnam, qs. to pursue, i. e. to undergo, suffer, endure, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 1:

egestatem,

id. Trin. 3, 2, 60:

mortem,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

probrum,

id. Truc. 2, 5, 8.—

In partic.

To follow up, prosecute, carry out; to perform, execute, accomplish, fulfil (syn.:

conficio, perficio, perago, consummo, patro, perpetro, absolvo): nullam rem oportet dolose aggrediri, nisi Astute accurateque exsequare,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 10; cf.:

est difficile id non exsequi usque ad extremum,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 5:

inceptum hoc itiner perficere exsequar,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 72 and 88:

incepta,

Liv. 30, 4, 10:

imperium,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 22:

mandata vestra,

Cic. Phil. 9, 4, 9:

omnia regis officia et munera,

id. de Sen. 10, 34; cf.:

munus officii (with tueri),

id. ib. 20, 72:

munus (with fungi),

id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

negotia,

id. Off. 1, 23, 79:

obsidiones,

Tac. A. 15, 4:

scelus,

Curt. 8, 6:

sermonem cum aliquo,

to converse, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 5: cum civitas armis jus suum exsequi conaretur, to assert, maintain, * Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 3:

comptam et mitem orationem,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 28.—With a rel.-clause:

quem locum ipse capturus esset, cogitando aut quaerendo exsequebatur,

Liv. 35, 28, 4:

summa omnia cum cura inquirendo exequebatur,

id. 22. 3, 2.—With ut:

mihi Exsequi certa res est, ut abeam Potius hinc ad forum, quam domi cubem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 17.—

To go through with in speaking, to relate, describe, say, tell (freq. since the Aug. period):

quae vix verbis exsequi possum,

Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 6:

quidam exsecuti sunt verbosius,

Quint. 5, 12, 15: si omnia exsequi velim, Liv. 27, 27, 12:

haec omnia copiosius,

Quint. 9, 3, 89:

quae diligentius,

id. 10, 4, 6:

quae divine in Oratore (Tullius),

id. 1, 6, 18:

caelestia dona aërii mellis,

Verg. G. 4, 2; cf.:

laudes brassicae,

Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 78:

numerum subtiliter,

Liv. 3, 5, 13:

sententias,

Tac. A. 3, 65:

vetera facunde,

id. ib. 12, 58:

vera,

id. ib. 11, 21:

imagines et elogia universi generis,

Suet. Galb. 3 et saep.—

To pursue with punishment, to punish, avenge (perh. not ante-Aug.):

omnia scire, non omnia exsequi,

Tac. Agr. 19:

deorum hominumque violata jura,

Liv. 3, 25, 8:

injurias accusationibus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 5:

delicta,

Suet. Caes. 67:

doloris exsequendi jus,

Liv. 5, 11, 5:

justum dolorem,

Dig. 29, 5, 33.— Absol.: pater caedetur? defendam: caesus est? exsequar, Sen. de Ira, 1, 12; Dig. 34, 9, 22.—Once with a pers. object:

me L. Tarquinium Superbum cum scelerata coniuge, etc., ferro, igni exsecuturum,

to pursue, Liv. 1, 59, 1 (MSS.; Weissenb. et al. exacturum).—Hence, exsĕ-quens ( exeq-), entis, P. a. (acc. to II.), searching after, studious of:

memoriarum veterum exsequentissimus,

Gell. 10, 12, 9.

► exsequi as pass.: quaerebatur an prioris judicis sententia exsequi possit, could be carried out (cf. II. B. supra), Dig. 2, 1, 19.—Hence, exsĕcūtus ( exec-), a, um, in pass. signif.:

exsecuto regis imperio,

executed, Just. 7, 3, 2.

ex-sĕquor or exĕquor, cūtus, 3, v. dep. a., to follow to the end, to pursue, follow.

In partic., to follow or accompany to the grave (cf. the deriv. exsequiae): funus, Massur. Sabin. ap. Gell. 10, 16, 25: aliquem omni laude et laetitia, Cic. poëta in Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (a transl. of ekpempein, in Eurip.).

Trop. (class.; most freq. in the special significations).

In gen., to follow, follow after, accompany; to go after, to pursue:

quae exanimata exsequitur aspectum tuum,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 3: quid petam praesidi aut exsequar? Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 112 ed. Vahl.):

non igitur dubium, quin aeternitatem maluerit exsequi, etc.,

to follow after, take pattern after, Cic. Univ. 2 fin.:

cur non omnes fatum illius (Pompei) una exsecuti sumus?

followed, pursued, subjected ourselves to, id. Att. 9, 12, 1; cf. id. Phil. 2, 22, 54:

sectam meam exsecutae comites,

joined, Cat. 63, 15:

suam quisque spem, sua consilia, communibus deploratis, exsequentes,

Liv. 5, 40, 5: aerumnam, qs. to pursue, i. e. to undergo, suffer, endure, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 1:

egestatem,

id. Trin. 3, 2, 60:

mortem,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

probrum,

id. Truc. 2, 5, 8.—

In partic.

To follow up, prosecute, carry out; to perform, execute, accomplish, fulfil (syn.:

conficio, perficio, perago, consummo, patro, perpetro, absolvo): nullam rem oportet dolose aggrediri, nisi Astute accurateque exsequare,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 10; cf.:

est difficile id non exsequi usque ad extremum,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 5:

inceptum hoc itiner perficere exsequar,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 72 and 88:

incepta,

Liv. 30, 4, 10:

imperium,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 22:

mandata vestra,

Cic. Phil. 9, 4, 9:

omnia regis officia et munera,

id. de Sen. 10, 34; cf.:

munus officii (with tueri),

id. ib. 20, 72:

munus (with fungi),

id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

negotia,

id. Off. 1, 23, 79:

obsidiones,

Tac. A. 15, 4:

scelus,

Curt. 8, 6:

sermonem cum aliquo,

to converse, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 5: cum civitas armis jus suum exsequi conaretur, to assert, maintain, * Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 3:

comptam et mitem orationem,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 28.—With a rel.-clause:

quem locum ipse capturus esset, cogitando aut quaerendo exsequebatur,

Liv. 35, 28, 4:

summa omnia cum cura inquirendo exequebatur,

id. 22. 3, 2.—With ut:

mihi Exsequi certa res est, ut abeam Potius hinc ad forum, quam domi cubem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 17.—

To go through with in speaking, to relate, describe, say, tell (freq. since the Aug. period):

quae vix verbis exsequi possum,

Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 6:

quidam exsecuti sunt verbosius,

Quint. 5, 12, 15: si omnia exsequi velim, Liv. 27, 27, 12:

haec omnia copiosius,

Quint. 9, 3, 89:

quae diligentius,

id. 10, 4, 6:

quae divine in Oratore (Tullius),

id. 1, 6, 18:

caelestia dona aërii mellis,

Verg. G. 4, 2; cf.:

laudes brassicae,

Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 78:

numerum subtiliter,

Liv. 3, 5, 13:

sententias,

Tac. A. 3, 65:

vetera facunde,

id. ib. 12, 58:

vera,

id. ib. 11, 21:

imagines et elogia universi generis,

Suet. Galb. 3 et saep.—

To pursue with punishment, to punish, avenge (perh. not ante-Aug.):

omnia scire, non omnia exsequi,

Tac. Agr. 19:

deorum hominumque violata jura,

Liv. 3, 25, 8:

injurias accusationibus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 5:

delicta,

Suet. Caes. 67:

doloris exsequendi jus,

Liv. 5, 11, 5:

justum dolorem,

Dig. 29, 5, 33.— Absol.: pater caedetur? defendam: caesus est? exsequar, Sen. de Ira, 1, 12; Dig. 34, 9, 22.—Once with a pers. object:

me L. Tarquinium Superbum cum scelerata coniuge, etc., ferro, igni exsecuturum,

to pursue, Liv. 1, 59, 1 (MSS.; Weissenb. et al. exacturum).—Hence, exsĕ-quens ( exeq-), entis, P. a. (acc. to II.), searching after, studious of:

memoriarum veterum exsequentissimus,

Gell. 10, 12, 9.

► exsequi as pass.: quaerebatur an prioris judicis sententia exsequi possit, could be carried out (cf. II. B. supra), Dig. 2, 1, 19.—Hence, exsĕcūtus ( exec-), a, um, in pass. signif.:

exsecuto regis imperio,

executed, Just. 7, 3, 2.

vīta, ae ( gen. sing. vitaï, Lucr. 1, 415; 2, 79; 3, 396), f. [vivo; Sanscr. gīv, to live; Gr. bios, life], life.

Lit.

In gen.:

tribus rebus animantium vita tenetur, cibo, potione, spiritu,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

dare, adimere vitam alicui,

id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

necessaria praesidia vitae,

id. Off. 1, 17, 58:

in liberos vitae necisque potestatem habere,

Caes. B. G. 6, 19:

exiguum vitae curriculum,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30:

ego in vitā meā nullā umquam voluptate tantā sum adfectus, etc.,

id. Att. 5, 20, 6:

vitam agere honestissime,

id. Phil. 9, 7, 15; cf.:

degere miserrimam,

id. Sull. 27, 75:

vitam in egestate degere,

id. Rosc. Am. 49, 144:

tutiorem vivere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 118:

profundere pro aliquo,

id. Phil. 14, 11, 30 fin.:

amittere per summum dedecus,

id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

auferre alicui,

id. Sen. 19, 71:

in vitā manere,

id. Fam. 5, 15, 3:

in vitā diutius esse,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

e vitā discedere,

id. Fam. 2, 2; cf.

cedere,

id. Brut. 1, 4:

vitā cedere,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35:

de vitā decedere,

id. Rab. Perd. 11:

vitā se privare,

id. de Or. 3, 3, 9:

vitā aliquem expellere,

id. Mur. 16, 34:

si vita suppetet,

id. Fin. 1, 4, 11: si mihi vita contigerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1:

ne ego hodie tibi bonam vitam feci,

a pleasant life, Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 3:

bonam vitam dare,

id. Cas. 4, 4, 21; cf.

, on the other hand: malae taedia vitae,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 31.—

In partic., life, as a period of time = aetas (post-Aug.):

ii quadragensimum annum vitae non excedunt,

Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 195; 7, 2, 2, § 30; 7, 49, 50, § 160:

periit anno vitae septimo et quinquagesimo,

Suet. Vit. 18:

septem et triginta annos vitae explevit,

Tac. A. 2, 88 fin.; Val. Max. 4, 1, 6; 8, 13, ext. 7; Gell. 15, 7, 1; Hier. in Dan. 6, 1.— Plur.:

nec vero, si geometrae et grammatici... omnem suam vitam in singulis artibus consumpserint, sequitur, ut plures quasdam vitas ad plura discenda desideremus,

Quint. 12, 11, 20; cf. also in the foll.—

Transf.

A living, support, subsistence (Plautinian;

syn. victus): vitam sibi repperire,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

neque illi concedam quicquam de vitā meā,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 76.—

A life, i. e. a way or mode of life (class.): vita hominis [p. 1999] ex ante factis spectabitur, Auct. Her. 2, 3, 4:

vita rustica honestissima atque suavissima,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48:

hanc usus, vita, mores respuit,

id. Mur. 35, 74; cf.:

inquirendo in utriusque vitam et mores,

Liv. 40, 16, 2; so (with mores) Ov. H. 17, 172 Ruhnk.:

neque ante philosophiam patefactam hac de re communis vita dubitavit,

nor was it doubted in common life, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86:

vita, victusque communis,

social life, id. Off. 1, 17, 58; cf.:

omni vitā atque victu excultus,

id. Brut. 25, 95.— Plur.:

inspicere, tamquam in speculum, in vitas omnium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61; cf.:

per omnium vitas amicitia serpit,

Cic. Leal. 23, 87:

(Minos) vitas et crimina discit,

Verg. A. 6, 433. —

Life, real life (opp. fancy or fiction):

ex quo est illud e vitā ductum ab Afranio,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45:

de vitā hominum mediā sumptum,

Gell. 2, 23, 12:

nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 60.—

Like our life, to denote a very dear object:

certe tu vita es mihi,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 33.—Hence, mea vita, or simply vita, my life, as a term of endearment, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 6; Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 3; 14, 4, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 1; 2, 20 (3, 13), 17.—

The living, i. e. mankind, the world; like Gr. bios ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

rura cano, rurisque deos, his vita magistris Desuevit quernā pellere glande famem,

Tib. 2, 1, 37:

agnoscat mores vita legatque suos,

Mart. 8, 3, 20:

verum falsumne sit, vita non decrevit,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48:

alias in tumultu vita erat,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 89.—

A life, i. e. a course of life, career, as the subject of biography: in hoc exponemus libro de vitā (al. vitam) excellentium imperatorum, Nep. praef. § 8; id. Epam. 4 fin.:

vitae memoriam prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin.:

propositā vitae ejus velut summā,

id. Aug. 9:

referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,

id. ib. 61; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 368:

qui vitas resque gestas clarorum hominum memoriae mandaverunt,

Gell. 1, 3, 1.—

The duration of life (in plants, etc.), duration:

arborum immensa,

Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 234; 16, 44, 90, § 241; Pall. 12, 7, 17.—

An existence, a being, of spirits in the infernal regions:

tenues sine corpore vitae,

Verg. A. 6, 292; cf. id. ib. 12, 952.