an unlucky day

dĭes (dīes, Liv. Andron. Fragm. Odys. 7), ēi ([etilde]ī, Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. S. 1, 8, 35 et saep.;

dissyl.: di-ei,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 31; also gen. dies, die, and dii—dies, as in acies, facies, pernicies, etc., Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Ann. v. 401 Vahl.; Cic. Sest. 12, 28 ap. Gell. l. l.:

die,

Prisc. p. 780 P.; even in Verg. G. 1, 208, where Gellius reads dies, v. Wagner ad loc., nearly all MSS. have die; cf. Rib. and Forbig. ad loc.; so,

die,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 59; id. Capt. 4, 2, 20; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5; id. B. C. 1, 14, 3; 3, 76, 2; Just. 2, 11, 17; cf. Oud. ad B. G. 2, 23, 1. Die appears to be certain in Sall. J. 52, 3; 97, 3. Also in Cic. Sest. 12, 28, Gellius reads dies, where our MSS., except the Cod. Lamb., have diei;

perh. those words do not belong to Cicero himself. Form dii,

Verg. A. 1, 636, Rib. and Forbig. after Serv. and Gell. l. l.— Dat., diēī, saep. die, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 120, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 208; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 48; id. Capt. 3, 1, 4; id. Trin. 4, 2, 1;

once dii,

id. Merc. 1, Prol. 13; cf. Roby, Gram. 1, 121 sq.); m. (in sing. sometimes f., esp. in the signif. no. I. B. 1.) [root Sanscr. dī, gleam: dinas, day; Gr. dios, heavenly; cf. Lat. Jovis (Diovis), Diana, deus, dīvus, etc. Old form, dius (for divus); cf.: nudius, diu, etc. The word also appears in composition in many particles, as pridem, hodie, diu, etc., v. Corss. Auspr. 2, 855 sq.], a day (cf.: tempus, tempestas, aetas, aevum, spatium, intervallum).

Lit.

In gen., the civil day of twenty-four hours.

Masc.:

dies primus est veris in Aquario... dies tertius... dies civiles nostros, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. Plin. 2, 77, 79, § 188; Macr. S. 1, 3; Gell. 3, 2: REBVS IVRE IVDICATIS TRIGINTA DIES IVSTI SVNTO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; and 15, 13 fin.; for which;

per dies continuos XXX., etc.,

Gai. Inst. 3, 78: multa dies in bello conficit unus, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 297 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

non uno absolvam die,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 73:

hic dies,

id. Aul. 4, 9, 11:

hic ille est dies,

id. Capt. 3, 3, 3:

ante hunc diem,

id. ib. 3, 4, 101:

illo die impransus fui,

id. Am. 1, 1, 98; cf.:

eo die,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22 fin.; 2, 6; 2, 32 fin.; 4, 11, 4; 5, 15 fin. et saep.:

postero die,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1; 3, 6, 3 et saep.; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17; Sall. J. 29, 5; 38, 9 et saep.:

in posterum diem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 41 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 65 fin. et saep.:

diem scito esse nullum, quo die non dicam pro reo,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

domi sedet totos dies,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34:

paucos dies ibi morati,

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

dies continuos XXX. sub bruma esse noctem,

id. ib. 5, 13, 3:

hosce aliquot dies,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 4; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 71 et saep.:

festo die si quid prodegeris,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10; so,

festus,

id. Cas. 1, 49; id. Poen. 3, 5, 13; 4, 2, 26 et saep.—

Fem. (freq. in poetry metri gratiā; rare in prose), postrema, Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14:

omnia ademit Una dies,

Lucr. 3, 912; cf. id. 3, 921; 5, 96 and 998: homines, qui ex media nocte ad proximam mediam noctem in his horis XXIV. nati sunt, una die nati dicuntur, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 2, 2 (uno die, Macr. S. 1, 3):

quibus effectis armatisque diebus XXX., a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.:

Varronem profiteri, se altera die ad colloquium venturum,

id. ib. 3, 19, 4 (for which, shortly before: quo cum esset postero die ventum); cf.:

postera die,

Sall. J. 68, 2 (for which, in the same author, more freq.:

postero die): pulchra,

Hor. Od. 1, 36, 10:

suprema,

id. ib. 1, 13, 20:

atra,

Verg. A. 6, 429:

tarda,

Ov. M. 15, 868 et saep.—(But Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 1; 3, 37, 1, read altero, tertio.)—

Connections:

postridie ejus diei, a favorite expression of Caesar,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23, 1: 1, 47, 2; 1, 48, 2 et saep., v. postridie;

and cf.: post diem tertium ejus diei,

Cic. Att. 3, 7; Sulpic. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 35:

diem ex die exspectabam,

from day to day, id. ib. 7, 26 fin.; cf.:

diem ex die ducere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; for which also: diem de die prospectans, Liv. 5, 48; and: diem de die differre, id. 25, 25: LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO, for every day, day by day, daily, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf.:

affatim est hominum, in dies qui singulas escas edunt,

Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 10; so,

in dies,

every day, Cic. Top. 16, 62; Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 5, 58, 1; 7, 30, 4; Vell. 2, 52, 2; Liv. 21, 11 Drak.; 34, 11 al.; less freq. in sing.:

nihil usquam sui videt: in diem rapto vivit,

Liv. 22, 39; cf.:

mutabilibus in diem causis (opp. natura perpetua),

id. 31, 29 (in another signif. v. the foll., no. II. A. 3); and: cui licet in diem ( = singulis diebus, daily) dixisse Vixi, etc., Hor. Od. 3, 29, 42. And still more rarely: ad diem, Treb. Gallien. 17; Vop. Firm. 4:

ante diem, v. ante.—Die = quotidie or in diem,

daily, Verg. E. 2, 42; 3, 34:

quos mille die victor sub Tartara misi,

id. A. 11, 397:

paucissimos die composuisse versus,

Quint. 10, 3, 8:

saepius die,

Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22: die crastini, noni, pristini, quinti, for die crastino, nono, etc., v. h. vv. crastinus, nonus, etc.; and cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4.—

In partic.

A set day, appointed time, term in the widest sense of the word (for appearing before court, in the army, making a payment, etc.).

Masc.: MORBVS SONTICVS... STATVS DIES CVM HOSTE... QVID HORVM FVIT VNVM IVDICI ARBITROVE REOVE DIES DIFFISVS ESTO, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12; Fest. p. 273, 26 Müll.; for which: STATVS CONDICTVSVE DIES CVM HOSTE, acc. to Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4;

and with comic reference to the words of this law,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5 (found also in Macr. S. 1, 16);

and freq.: status dies,

Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 1; Suet. Claud. 1; Flor. 1, 13, 16 et saep.:

hic nuptiis dictus est dies,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 75; cf.:

dies colloquio dictus est ex eo die quintus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 42, 4; so,

dictus,

id. ib. 5, 27, 5:

iis certum diem conveniendi dicit,

id. ib. 5, 57, 2:

die certo,

Sall. J. 79, 4; cf.

constituto,

id. ib. 13 fin.:

decretus colloquio,

id. ib. 113, 3:

praestitutus,

Liv. 3, 22:

praefinitus,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109; Gell. 16, 4, 3:

ascriptus,

Phaedr. 4, 11, 8 et saep.:

quoniam advesperascit, dabis diem nobis aliquem, ut contra ista dicamus,

Cic. N. D. 3, 40; Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; id. B. C. 1, 11, 2; Sall. J. 109, 3; Liv. 35, 35 et saep.:

dies ater,

an unlucky day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25.—

Fem. (so commonly in this sense in class. prose, but only in sing., v. Mützell ad Curt. 3, 1, 8):

ut quasi dies si dicta sit,

Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11; so,

dicta,

Cic. Fam. 16, 10 fin.; cf.:

edicta ad conveniendum,

Liv. 41, 10 fin.:

praestituta,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 140; 2, 2, 28; Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 38; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14 fin.; id. Vatin. 15, 37; id. Tusc. 1, 39; Liv. 45, 11 et saep.; cf.

constituta,

Cic. Caecin. 11, 32; Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; 1, 8, 3: certa eius rei constituta, id. B. C. 3, 33, 1:

pacta et constituta,

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24:

statuta,

Liv. 31, 29:

stata,

id. 27, 23 fin.:

certa,

Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 4, 5, 1, 8; id. B. C. 1, 2, 6; Nep. Chabr. 3 et saep.:

annua,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23; id. Att. 12, 3 fin.; cf.

longa,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 18:

die caecā emere, oculatā vendere,

i. e. to buy on credit and sell for cash, id. Ps. 1, 3, 67, v. caecus, no. II. B.:

haec dies summa hodie est, mea amica sitne libera, an, etc.,

id. Pers. 1, 1, 34:

puto fore istam etiam a praecone diem,

Cic. Att. 13, 3:

ubi ea dies venit (preceded by tempore ejus rei constituto),

Caes. B. G. 7, 3:

praeterita die, qua suorum auxilia exspectaverant,

id. ib. 7, 77, 1; cf. id. ib. 6, 33, 4:

esse in lege, quam ad diem proscriptiones fiant,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128 et saep.—

Both genders together:

diem dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant: is dies erat a. d. V. Kal. Apr., etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Att. 2, 11; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3; Liv. 34, 35 al.—

Hence: dicere diem alicui, to impeach, lay an accusation against:

diem mihi, credo, dixerat,

Cic. Mil. 14, 36:

Domitium Silano diem dixisse scimus,

id. Div. in Caec. 20, 67.—

A natural day, a day, as opp. to night: ut vel, quia est aliquid, aliud non sit, ut Dies est, nox non est; vel, quia est aliquid, et aliud sit: Sol est super terram, dies est, Quint. 5, 8, 7: pro di immortales, quis hic illuxit dies, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 76:

credibile non est, quantum scribam die, quin etiam noctibus,

in the daytime, id. Att. 13, 26:

negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

in a single day and night, id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.

in this signif.: die ac nocte,

Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 113:

nocte et die,

Liv. 25, 39;

and simply die,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 4; Quint. 10, 3, 8; cf.

also: currus rogat ille paternos, Inque diem alipedum jus et moderamen equorum,

Ov. M. 2, 48; and, connected with nox:

(Themistocles) diem noctemque procul ab insula in salo navem tenuit in ancoris,

Nep. Them. 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59; Liv. 22, 1 fin. —But more freq.: diem noctemque, like our day and night, i. q. without ceasing, uninterruptedly; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 11; 7, 42 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 62;

for which less freq.: diem et noctem,

Hirt. B. Hisp. 38, 1;

diem ac noctem,

Liv. 27, 4 and 45:

noctemque diemque,

Verg. A. 8, 94; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 23:

continuate nocte ac die itinere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 11, 1; 3, 36, 8; and in plur.:

dies noctesque,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 49; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113; Cic. Att. 7, 9 fin.; Nep. Dat. 4, 4 et saep.; also, reversing the order: noctesque diesque, Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 338 ed. Vahl.); Hor. S. 1, 1, 76:

noctesque et dies,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 52; id. Eun. 5, 8, 49:

noctes atque dies,

Lucr. 2, 12; 3, 62; Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51; Verg. A. 6, 127 al.:

noctes diesque,

id. ib. 9, 488:

noctes ac dies,

Cic. Arch. 11, 29:

noctes et dies,

id. Brut. 90, 308; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Tusc. 5, 25 and 39; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; cf.

also: neque noctem neque diem intermittit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 38:

Galli dies... sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur,

id. ib. 6, 18, 2 Herz ad loc. So, too, in gen.:

qui nocte dieque frequentat Limina,

Mart. 10, 58, 11:

cum die,

at break of day, Ov. M. 13, 677:

orto die ( = orta luce),

Tac. A. 1, 20; 1, 68; id. H. 2, 21:

ante diem ( = ante lucem),

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 35:

dies fit, late Lat. for lucescit,

Vulg. Luc. 22, 66: de die, in open day, broad day; v. de.—

Dies alicujus (like the Heb. ; v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v.).

I. q. dies natalis, a birthday:

diem meum scis esse III. Non. Jan. Aderis igitur,

Cic. Att. 13, 42, 2; cf.

in full: natali die tuo,

id. ib. 9, 5 al. So the anniversary day of the foundation of a city is, dies natalis urbis, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98.—

I. q. dies mortis, dying-day:

quandocumque fatalis et meus dies veniet statuarque tumulo,

Tac. Or. 13 fin. Called, also: supremus dies. Suet. Aug. 99; id. Tib. 67; cf.:

supremus vitae dies,

Cic. de Sen. 21, 78; Suet. Aug. 61. Hence:

diem suum obire,

to die, Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2;

and in the same sense: obire diem supremum,

Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Dion. 2 fin.; Suet. Claud. 1:

exigere diem supremum,

Tac. A. 3, 16:

explere supremum diem,

id. ib. 1, 6; 3, 76;

and simply: obire diem,

Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248; Suet. Tib. 4; id. Vesp. 1; id. Gr. 3; cf.

also: fungi diem,

Just. 19, 1, 1.—

I. q. dies febris, fever-day: etsi Non. Mart., [p. 574] die tuo, ut opinor, exspectabam epistolam a te longiorem, Cic. Att. 9, 2 init.; 7, 8, 2 al.

Transf.

In gen. (from no. I. A.).

A day, for that which is done in it (cf. the Hebr., the Gr. eleutheron êmar, etc.):

is dies honestissimus nobis fuerat in senatu,

Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3:

non tam dirus ille dies Sullanus C. Mario,

id. Att. 10, 8, 7:

equites Romanos daturos illius diei poenas,

id. Sest. 12, 28:

hic dies et Romanis refecit animos et Persea perculit,

Liv. 42, 67 Drak.; cf. id. 9, 39 fin.; Vell. 2, 35 Ruhnk.; 2, 86; Just. 9, 3 fin.; Flor. 2, 6, 58 Duker.:

imponite quinquaginta annis magnum diem,

Tac. Agr. 34:

quid pulchrius hac consuetudine excutiendi totum diem?... totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior, etc., Sen. de Ira, 3, 36: dies Alliensis, i. q. pugna Alliensis,

Liv. 6, 1; Suet. Vit. 11:

Cannensis,

Flor. 4, 12, 35 al. And so even of one's state of mind on any particular day:

qualem diem Tiberius induisset,

what humor, temper, Tac. A. 6, 20. —

A day's journey:

hanc regionem, dierum plus triginta in longitudinem, decem inter duo maria in latitudinem patentem,

Liv. 38, 59; Just. 36, 2, 14 al.—

In gen. (like, hêmera, and our day, for) time, space of time, period:

diem tempusque forsitan ipsum leniturum iras,

Liv. 2, 45;

so with tempus,

id. 22, 39; 42, 50: amorem intercapedine ipse lenivit dies, Turp. ap. Non. 522, 7;

so in the masc. gender: longus,

Stat. Th. 1, 638; Luc. 3, 139;

but also longa,

Plaut. Epid. 4, 1, 18; Plin. Ep. 8, 5 fin.; cf.

perexigua,

a brief respite, Cic. Verr. 1, 2 fin.:

nulla,

Ov. M. 4, 372 al.:

ex ea die ad hanc diem quae fecisti, in judicium voco,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12 fin.:

ut infringatur hominum improbitas ipsa die, quae debilitat cogitationes, etc.,

id. Fam. 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 7, 28 fin.; id. Tusc. 3, 22, 53 al.: indutiae inde, non pax facta;

quarum et dies exierat, et ante diem rebellaverant,

i. e. the term of the truce, Liv. 4, 30 fin.; 30, 24; 42, 47 fin. (for which: quia tempus indutiarum cum Veienti populo exierat, id. 4, 58).—Prov.:

dies adimit aegritudinem,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 13: dies festus, festival-time, festival:—diem festum Dianae per triduum agi, Liv. 25, 23 et saep.:

die lanam et agnos vendat,

at the right time, Cato R. R. 150, 2:

praesens quod fuerat malum, in diem abiit,

to a future time, Ter. Ph. 5, 2, 16; so in diem, opp. statim, Q. Cic. Pet. cons. 12, 48;

and simply in diem,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 48; Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 19; Cic. Cael. 24.—Esp. freq. in diem vivere, to live on from day to day, regardless of the future, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 169; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 33; Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 4 et saep; cf. the equivoque with de die, under de.—

In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2— poet., and in postAug. prose).

Light of day, daylight:

contraque diem radiosque micantes Obliquantem oculos,

Ov. M. 7, 411; 5, 444; 13, 602:

multis mensibus non cernitur dies,

Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 70; Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 6; 9, 36, 2 al.; also of the eyesight, Stat. Th. 1, 237;

and trop. of the conscience: saeva dies animi scelerumque in pectore Dirae,

id. ib. 1, 52.—

For caelum, the sky, the heavens:

sub quocumque die, quocumque est sidere mundi,

Luc. 7, 189; 1, 153:

incendere diem nubes oriente remotae,

id. 4, 68; 8, 217; Stat. Th. 1, 201.—Hence, like caelum,

The weather:

totumque per annum Durat aprica dies,

Val. Fl. 1, 845:

tranquillus,

Plin. 2, 45, 44, § 115:

mitis,

id. 11, 10, 10, § 20:

pestilens,

id. 22, 23, 49, § 104.—

The air:

nigrique volumina fumi Infecere diem,

Ov. M. 13, 600:

cupio flatu violare diem,

Claud. in Ruf. 1, 63.

Dies personified.

I. q. Sol, opp. Luna, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21;

coupled with Mensis and Annus,

Ov. M. 2, 25.—

As fem., the daughter of Chaos, and mother of Heaven and Earth, Hyg. Fab. praef.; of the first Venus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

rĕlĭgĭōsus (in the poets also rellig-), a, um, adj. [religio], reverencing or fearing God ( the gods), pious, devout, religious:

qui omnia quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent, diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, sunt dicti religiosi ex relegendo, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 28, 72 (cf. religio init.):

religiosi dicuntur, qui faciendarum praetermittendarumque rerum divinarum secundum morem civitatis delectum habent, nec se superstitionibus implicant,

Fest. p. 289, 15 Müll.:

naturā sancti et religiosi,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 44:

asotos ita non religiosos ut edant de patellā,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 22:

si magis religiosa fuerit,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 37:

nostri majores, religiosissimi mortales,

Sall. C. 12, 3:

mortuis religiosa jura tribuere,

religious rites, Cic. Lael. 4, 13:

mores justi, integri, religiosi,

id. de Or. 2, 43, 184: amicitiae religiosā quādam necessitudine imbutae, quint. 1, 2, 20: hominem occidere religiosissimum erat, was a thing exceedingly pious or pleasing to the gods, Plin. 30, 1, 4, § 13; cf.:

aliqui nomine quoque consalutare religiosius putant, etc.,

id. 28, 2, 5, § 23:

Judaei, viri religiosi,

Vulg. Act. 2, 5.—

Eccl. Lat., of or belonging to the clergy, clerical (opp. saecularis), Salv. Avar. 3, 5.—

Transf. (acc. to religio, II.).

Subject., religiously considerate, careful, anxious, scrupulous:

civitas religiosa, in principiis maxime novorum bellorum... ne quid praetermitteretur, quod aliquando factum esset. ludos Jovi donumque vovere consulem jussit,

Liv. 31, 9:

per hos quoque dies abstinent terrenis operibus religiosiores agricolae,

Col. 11, 2, 98; 11, 3, 62:

quem campi fructum quia religiosum erat consumere,

was a matter of religious scruple, Liv. 2, 5; 3, 22; 5, 52; 6, 27; cf.:

religiosum est, quod jurati legibus judicarunt,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48.—

Overscrupulous, over-anxious, superstitious (rare and only ante-class.): religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas, Poët. ap. Gell. 4, 9, 1:

ecquis incultior, religiosior, desertior? Cato ap. Fest. s. v. repulsior, p. 236: ut stultae et miserae sumus Religiosae,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 37.—

In gen., scrupulous, strict, precise, accurate, conscientious:

religiosus est non modo deorum sanctitatem magni aestimans, sed etiam officiosus adversus homines,

Fest. p. 278 Müll.:

quod et in re misericordem se praebuerit et in testimoniis religiosum,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 26:

testis religiosissimus,

id. Vatin. 1, 1:

natio minime in testimoniis dicendis religiosa,

id. Fl. 10, 23:

judex,

Quint. 4, 1, 9:

quem rerum Romanarum auctorem laudare possum religiosissimum,

Cic. Brut. 11, 44:

ad Atticorum aures teretes et religiosas qui se accommodant,

id. Or. 9, 27:

ephorus vero non est religiosissimae fidei,

Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 2:

religiosissimis verbis jurare,

Petr. 21. —

Of the objects of religious veneration (temples, statues, utensils, etc.), holy, sacred:

templum sane sanctum et religiosum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; cf. id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 65:

signum sacrum ac religiosum,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127;

and so with sacer,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 31:

dies,

Suet. Tib. 61:

ex Aesculapi religiosissimo fano,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 93:

Ceres antiquissima, religiosissima,

id. ib. 2, 4, 49, § 109; cf.:

religiosissimum simulacrum Jovis Imperatoris,

id. ib. 2, 4, 57, §

128: altaria,

id. Planc. 35, 68:

deorum limina,

Verg. A. 2, 365:

loca,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7:

sacra religiosissima,

Vell. 2, 45, 1; Suet. Aug. 7:

vestes,

id. Tib. 36; id. Oth. 12:

simulacra,

Sedul. 1, 227:

divini juris sunt veluti res sacrae et religiosae... (sunt res) religiosae quae diis manibus relictae sunt,

Gai. Inst. 2, 3 sq. —

Esp.: dies religiosus, a day upon which it was unlucky to undertake any thing important, a day of evil omen, e. g. the dies Alliensis, the dies atri, etc., Cic. Att. 9, 5, 2; Lucil. ap. Non. 379, 19; Liv. 6, 1; 26, 17; 37, 33; Suet. Tib. 61; id. Claud. 14 al.; cf. Gell. 4, 9, 4; and Fest. s. h. v. p. 231.—

Solum religiosum, land consecrated by the burial of the dead, Gai. Inst. 2, 6 sq.—Hence, adv.: rē̆lĭgĭōsē.

Piously, religiously:

religiosius deos colere,

Liv. 10, 7; cf.:

templum religiosissime colere,

Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

natalem religiosius celebrare,

Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 8.—

Considerately, scrupulously, punctually, exactly, conscientiously:

testimonium dicere,

Cic. Cael. 22, 55; cf. Plin. Pan. 65, 2:

commendare,

Cic. Fam. 13, 17 fin.:

nihil religiose administrabat,

Col. 3, 10, 7; cf. id. 8, 5, 11:

quicquid rogabatur, religiose promittebat,

considerately, cautiously, Nep. Att. 15:

religiosius rem rusticam colere,

Col. 11, 2, 95:

poëticen religiosissime veneror,

Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 2.

rĕlĭgĭōsus (in the poets also rellig-), a, um, adj. [religio], reverencing or fearing God ( the gods), pious, devout, religious:

qui omnia quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent, diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, sunt dicti religiosi ex relegendo, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 28, 72 (cf. religio init.):

religiosi dicuntur, qui faciendarum praetermittendarumque rerum divinarum secundum morem civitatis delectum habent, nec se superstitionibus implicant,

Fest. p. 289, 15 Müll.:

naturā sancti et religiosi,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 44:

asotos ita non religiosos ut edant de patellā,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 22:

si magis religiosa fuerit,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 37:

nostri majores, religiosissimi mortales,

Sall. C. 12, 3:

mortuis religiosa jura tribuere,

religious rites, Cic. Lael. 4, 13:

mores justi, integri, religiosi,

id. de Or. 2, 43, 184: amicitiae religiosā quādam necessitudine imbutae, quint. 1, 2, 20: hominem occidere religiosissimum erat, was a thing exceedingly pious or pleasing to the gods, Plin. 30, 1, 4, § 13; cf.:

aliqui nomine quoque consalutare religiosius putant, etc.,

id. 28, 2, 5, § 23:

Judaei, viri religiosi,

Vulg. Act. 2, 5.—

Eccl. Lat., of or belonging to the clergy, clerical (opp. saecularis), Salv. Avar. 3, 5.—

Transf. (acc. to religio, II.).

Subject., religiously considerate, careful, anxious, scrupulous:

civitas religiosa, in principiis maxime novorum bellorum... ne quid praetermitteretur, quod aliquando factum esset. ludos Jovi donumque vovere consulem jussit,

Liv. 31, 9:

per hos quoque dies abstinent terrenis operibus religiosiores agricolae,

Col. 11, 2, 98; 11, 3, 62:

quem campi fructum quia religiosum erat consumere,

was a matter of religious scruple, Liv. 2, 5; 3, 22; 5, 52; 6, 27; cf.:

religiosum est, quod jurati legibus judicarunt,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48.—

Overscrupulous, over-anxious, superstitious (rare and only ante-class.): religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas, Poët. ap. Gell. 4, 9, 1:

ecquis incultior, religiosior, desertior? Cato ap. Fest. s. v. repulsior, p. 236: ut stultae et miserae sumus Religiosae,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 37.—

In gen., scrupulous, strict, precise, accurate, conscientious:

religiosus est non modo deorum sanctitatem magni aestimans, sed etiam officiosus adversus homines,

Fest. p. 278 Müll.:

quod et in re misericordem se praebuerit et in testimoniis religiosum,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 26:

testis religiosissimus,

id. Vatin. 1, 1:

natio minime in testimoniis dicendis religiosa,

id. Fl. 10, 23:

judex,

Quint. 4, 1, 9:

quem rerum Romanarum auctorem laudare possum religiosissimum,

Cic. Brut. 11, 44:

ad Atticorum aures teretes et religiosas qui se accommodant,

id. Or. 9, 27:

ephorus vero non est religiosissimae fidei,

Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 2:

religiosissimis verbis jurare,

Petr. 21. —

Of the objects of religious veneration (temples, statues, utensils, etc.), holy, sacred:

templum sane sanctum et religiosum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; cf. id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 65:

signum sacrum ac religiosum,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127;

and so with sacer,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 31:

dies,

Suet. Tib. 61:

ex Aesculapi religiosissimo fano,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 93:

Ceres antiquissima, religiosissima,

id. ib. 2, 4, 49, § 109; cf.:

religiosissimum simulacrum Jovis Imperatoris,

id. ib. 2, 4, 57, §

128: altaria,

id. Planc. 35, 68:

deorum limina,

Verg. A. 2, 365:

loca,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7:

sacra religiosissima,

Vell. 2, 45, 1; Suet. Aug. 7:

vestes,

id. Tib. 36; id. Oth. 12:

simulacra,

Sedul. 1, 227:

divini juris sunt veluti res sacrae et religiosae... (sunt res) religiosae quae diis manibus relictae sunt,

Gai. Inst. 2, 3 sq. —

Esp.: dies religiosus, a day upon which it was unlucky to undertake any thing important, a day of evil omen, e. g. the dies Alliensis, the dies atri, etc., Cic. Att. 9, 5, 2; Lucil. ap. Non. 379, 19; Liv. 6, 1; 26, 17; 37, 33; Suet. Tib. 61; id. Claud. 14 al.; cf. Gell. 4, 9, 4; and Fest. s. h. v. p. 231.—

Solum religiosum, land consecrated by the burial of the dead, Gai. Inst. 2, 6 sq.—Hence, adv.: rē̆lĭgĭōsē.

Piously, religiously:

religiosius deos colere,

Liv. 10, 7; cf.:

templum religiosissime colere,

Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

natalem religiosius celebrare,

Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 8.—

Considerately, scrupulously, punctually, exactly, conscientiously:

testimonium dicere,

Cic. Cael. 22, 55; cf. Plin. Pan. 65, 2:

commendare,

Cic. Fam. 13, 17 fin.:

nihil religiose administrabat,

Col. 3, 10, 7; cf. id. 8, 5, 11:

quicquid rogabatur, religiose promittebat,

considerately, cautiously, Nep. Att. 15:

religiosius rem rusticam colere,

Col. 11, 2, 95:

poëticen religiosissime veneror,

Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 2.

āter, tra, trum, adj. [cf. aithô, to burn; Sanscr. idh; aithôn aithêr, Aitnê, [p. 188] Aetna, aether, aestus, aestas] (pr. burnt black, black as a coal; cf.:

Tam excoctam reddam atque atram quam carbost,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63: hence), black; and specif., coalblack, lustreless-black, sable, dark (opp. albus, lustreless-white, and diff. from niger, glossy black, v. albus init.; class. and freq., but never in Vulg., which uses niger).

Lit.:

album an atrum vinum potas?

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 17:

atrior multo Quam Aegyptii,

id. Poen. 5, 5, 11:

alba et atra discernere non poterat,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: nigra scuta, tincta corpora;

atras ad proelia noctes legunt,

Tac. G. 43:

Mos erat antiquus niveis atrisque capillis, etc.,

Ov. M. 15, 41; so id. ib. 15, 44; cf.

albus: fauces,

Lucr. 6, 1147:

dens,

Hor. Epod. 8, 3:

nubes,

Lucr. 6, 180; Hor. C. 2, 16, 2:

lumen, with smoke,

Verg. A. 7, 457:

agmen, with dust,

id. ib. 12, 450 Serv.:

axis, with blood,

Sil. 2, 186:

Eridanus ater stragibus,

id. 6, 107:

bilis,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 64, and Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11 (cf. the Gr. melancholia):

cruor,

Hor. Epod. 17, 31:

tempestas,

Lucr. 6, 258 sq.; Verg. A. 5, 693:

hiemps,

id. ib. 7, 214:

canis,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 25:

corvus atro gutture,

Cat. 108, 5:

venena,

Verg. G. 2, 130:

Tartara,

Lucr. 3, 966; so,

Cocytus,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 17:

mare,

dark, stormy, id. S. 2, 2, 16:

fluctus,

Verg. A. 5, 2: mons, v. 2. ater.— The proverb albus an ater, v. albus.— Poet., = atratus, clothed in black:

lictores,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 6; cf. albus, I. B. 2.—

Trop.

In gen., black, dark, gloomy, sad, dismal, unfortunate, etc.:

funus,

Lucr. 2, 580:

formido,

id. 4 [173], and id. 6, 254; so,

Timor,

Verg. A. 9, 719:

cupressus,

id. ib. 3, 64:

dies,

id. ib. 6, 429; Prop. 3, 2, 4:

mors,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 13:

fila trium sororum,

id. ib. 2, 3, 16:

Esquiliae (as a burying-place),

dismal, id. S. 2, 6, 32:

seu mors atris circumvolat alis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 58:

cura,

id. C. 3, 1, 40; 3, 14, 13; 4, 11, 35:

lites,

id. A. P. 423:

comes,

id. S. 2, 7, 115:

serpens,

Verg. G. 1, 129; Ov. M. 3, 63 al.:

genius.. vultu mutabilis, albus et ater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 189.—In Roman civil life, dies atri are the days on which the state experienced some calamity, unlucky days. (This designation is said to have arisen from the Roman custom of marking every unfortunate day in the calendar with coal); Varr. L. L. 6, § 29; Liv. 6, 1; Gell. 5, 17; Fest. s. v. nonarum, p. 179 Müll.; id. s. v. religiosus, p. 278 Müll.; Ov. A. A. 1, 418; Macr. S. 1, 15 fin. and 16; Afran. ap. Non. p. 73, 33:

si atro die faxit insciens, probe factum esto,

Liv. 22, 10.—

Esp.

Rare and poet., of mind or feeling, malevolent, malicious, virulent (cf. niger, II. D., and the Gr. melas, II. 4 Lidd. and Scott):

versus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 30:

si quis atro dente me petiverit,

id. Epod. 6, 15.—

Also poet. of something difficult to be understood, dark, obscure (so melas, Anth. Pal. 11, 347):

latebrae Lycophronis atri,

Stat. p. 5, 3, 157.— Comp. v. supra, I.— Sup. and adv. not used.

Āter mons, a mountain in the interior of Africa, north of Phazania ( Fezzan), Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 35.<

āter, tra, trum, adj. [cf. aithô, to burn; Sanscr. idh; aithôn aithêr, Aitnê, [p. 188] Aetna, aether, aestus, aestas] (pr. burnt black, black as a coal; cf.:

Tam excoctam reddam atque atram quam carbost,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63: hence), black; and specif., coalblack, lustreless-black, sable, dark (opp. albus, lustreless-white, and diff. from niger, glossy black, v. albus init.; class. and freq., but never in Vulg., which uses niger).

Lit.:

album an atrum vinum potas?

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 17:

atrior multo Quam Aegyptii,

id. Poen. 5, 5, 11:

alba et atra discernere non poterat,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: nigra scuta, tincta corpora;

atras ad proelia noctes legunt,

Tac. G. 43:

Mos erat antiquus niveis atrisque capillis, etc.,

Ov. M. 15, 41; so id. ib. 15, 44; cf.

albus: fauces,

Lucr. 6, 1147:

dens,

Hor. Epod. 8, 3:

nubes,

Lucr. 6, 180; Hor. C. 2, 16, 2:

lumen, with smoke,

Verg. A. 7, 457:

agmen, with dust,

id. ib. 12, 450 Serv.:

axis, with blood,

Sil. 2, 186:

Eridanus ater stragibus,

id. 6, 107:

bilis,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 64, and Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11 (cf. the Gr. melancholia):

cruor,

Hor. Epod. 17, 31:

tempestas,

Lucr. 6, 258 sq.; Verg. A. 5, 693:

hiemps,

id. ib. 7, 214:

canis,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 25:

corvus atro gutture,

Cat. 108, 5:

venena,

Verg. G. 2, 130:

Tartara,

Lucr. 3, 966; so,

Cocytus,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 17:

mare,

dark, stormy, id. S. 2, 2, 16:

fluctus,

Verg. A. 5, 2: mons, v. 2. ater.— The proverb albus an ater, v. albus.— Poet., = atratus, clothed in black:

lictores,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 6; cf. albus, I. B. 2.—

Trop.

In gen., black, dark, gloomy, sad, dismal, unfortunate, etc.:

funus,

Lucr. 2, 580:

formido,

id. 4 [173], and id. 6, 254; so,

Timor,

Verg. A. 9, 719:

cupressus,

id. ib. 3, 64:

dies,

id. ib. 6, 429; Prop. 3, 2, 4:

mors,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 13:

fila trium sororum,

id. ib. 2, 3, 16:

Esquiliae (as a burying-place),

dismal, id. S. 2, 6, 32:

seu mors atris circumvolat alis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 58:

cura,

id. C. 3, 1, 40; 3, 14, 13; 4, 11, 35:

lites,

id. A. P. 423:

comes,

id. S. 2, 7, 115:

serpens,

Verg. G. 1, 129; Ov. M. 3, 63 al.:

genius.. vultu mutabilis, albus et ater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 189.—In Roman civil life, dies atri are the days on which the state experienced some calamity, unlucky days. (This designation is said to have arisen from the Roman custom of marking every unfortunate day in the calendar with coal); Varr. L. L. 6, § 29; Liv. 6, 1; Gell. 5, 17; Fest. s. v. nonarum, p. 179 Müll.; id. s. v. religiosus, p. 278 Müll.; Ov. A. A. 1, 418; Macr. S. 1, 15 fin. and 16; Afran. ap. Non. p. 73, 33:

si atro die faxit insciens, probe factum esto,

Liv. 22, 10.—

Esp.

Rare and poet., of mind or feeling, malevolent, malicious, virulent (cf. niger, II. D., and the Gr. melas, II. 4 Lidd. and Scott):

versus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 30:

si quis atro dente me petiverit,

id. Epod. 6, 15.—

Also poet. of something difficult to be understood, dark, obscure (so melas, Anth. Pal. 11, 347):

latebrae Lycophronis atri,

Stat. p. 5, 3, 157.— Comp. v. supra, I.— Sup. and adv. not used.

Āter mons, a mountain in the interior of Africa, north of Phazania ( Fezzan), Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 35.<

nĭger, gra, grum ( gen. fem. nigraï, Lucr. 4, 537; comp. nigrior, Ov. H. 18, 7), adj., black, sable, dark, dusky (cf.: ater, pullus).

Lit.:

quae alba sint, quae nigra, dicere,

Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9:

quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses,

Verg. E. 2, 16:

hederae nigrae,

id. G. 2, 258:

silvae (= umbrosae),

Hor. C. 1, 21, 7:

frons,

id. ib. 4, 4, 58:

collis,

id. ib. 4, 12, 11:

lucus,

Ov. F. 3, 295 (for which atrum nemus, Verg. A. 1, 165):

caelum pice nigrius,

Ov. H. 18, 7:

nigerrimus Auster,

i. e. causing darkness, Verg. G. 3, 278; so,

venti,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 7:

Eurus,

id. Epod. 10, 5:

nigros efferre maritos,

i. e. killed by poison, Juv. 1, 71; cf.:

pocula nigra,

poisoned, Prop. 2, 20, 68 (3, 23, 10).—Prov.: facere candida de nigris;

nigra in candida vertere,

to turn black into white, Juv. 3, 29; cf. Ov. M. 11, 315.— Subst.: nĭgrum, i, n., a black spot, Ov. A. A. 1, 291.—

Trop.

Of or pertaining to death:

nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium (= lugubris rogi),

of the funeral pile, Hor. C. 4, 12, 26:

hora,

Tib. 3, 5, 5:

dies,

the day of death, Prop. 2 (3), 19, 19:

Juppiter niger,

i. e. Pluto, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1705.—

Sad, mournful:

domus,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 18; Val. Fl. 3, 404.—

Unlucky, ill-omened: huncine solem Tam nigrum surrexe mihi? Hor. S. 1, 9, 72; Prop. 2, 21, 38 (3, 25, 4): lapis, the spot in the Comitium where Romulus or one of his adherents was slain, Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.—

Of character, black, bad, wicked:

Phormio, nec minus niger, nec minus confidens, quam ille Terentianus est Phormio,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 27:

hic niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 85.

Nĭger, gri, m., a Roman surname:

Aquilius Niger,

Suet. Aug. 11.

Nĭger, gris, m., a river in Africa, Mart. Cap. 6, § 673; v. Nigris.

nĭger, gra, grum ( gen. fem. nigraï, Lucr. 4, 537; comp. nigrior, Ov. H. 18, 7), adj., black, sable, dark, dusky (cf.: ater, pullus).

Lit.:

quae alba sint, quae nigra, dicere,

Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9:

quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses,

Verg. E. 2, 16:

hederae nigrae,

id. G. 2, 258:

silvae (= umbrosae),

Hor. C. 1, 21, 7:

frons,

id. ib. 4, 4, 58:

collis,

id. ib. 4, 12, 11:

lucus,

Ov. F. 3, 295 (for which atrum nemus, Verg. A. 1, 165):

caelum pice nigrius,

Ov. H. 18, 7:

nigerrimus Auster,

i. e. causing darkness, Verg. G. 3, 278; so,

venti,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 7:

Eurus,

id. Epod. 10, 5:

nigros efferre maritos,

i. e. killed by poison, Juv. 1, 71; cf.:

pocula nigra,

poisoned, Prop. 2, 20, 68 (3, 23, 10).—Prov.: facere candida de nigris;

nigra in candida vertere,

to turn black into white, Juv. 3, 29; cf. Ov. M. 11, 315.— Subst.: nĭgrum, i, n., a black spot, Ov. A. A. 1, 291.—

Trop.

Of or pertaining to death:

nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium (= lugubris rogi),

of the funeral pile, Hor. C. 4, 12, 26:

hora,

Tib. 3, 5, 5:

dies,

the day of death, Prop. 2 (3), 19, 19:

Juppiter niger,

i. e. Pluto, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1705.—

Sad, mournful:

domus,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 18; Val. Fl. 3, 404.—

Unlucky, ill-omened: huncine solem Tam nigrum surrexe mihi? Hor. S. 1, 9, 72; Prop. 2, 21, 38 (3, 25, 4): lapis, the spot in the Comitium where Romulus or one of his adherents was slain, Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.—

Of character, black, bad, wicked:

Phormio, nec minus niger, nec minus confidens, quam ille Terentianus est Phormio,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 27:

hic niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 85.

Nĭger, gri, m., a Roman surname:

Aquilius Niger,

Suet. Aug. 11.

Nĭger, gris, m., a river in Africa, Mart. Cap. 6, § 673; v. Nigris.