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  • 1 imperiōsus (inp-)

        imperiōsus (inp-) adj. with comp. and sup.    [imperium], possessed of command, far-ruling, mighty, powerful, puissant: urbes: dictatura, L.: virga, i. e. the fasces, O.: sibi qui imperiosus, lord of himself, H.—Arbitrary, domineering, tyrannical: domina: Proserpina, resistless, H.: imperiosius aequor, H.: familia imperiosissima, L.

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  • 2 libīdinōsus (lub-)

        libīdinōsus (lub-) adj. with comp. and sup.    [libido], full of desire, passionate, wilful, licentious, sensual, lustful, voluptuous, libidinous: homo libidinosissimus: nihil (isto) libidinosius: caper, lecherous, H.: voluptates: libidinosissimae liberationes, arbitrary: adulescentia.—As subst: libidinosis servire.

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  • 3 rēgnum

        rēgnum ī, n    [REG-], kingly government, royal authority, kingship, royalty: vocamus regnum eius rei p. statum: regno regem spoliare: regnum in civitate suā occupare, Cs.: Dum stabat regno incolumis, V.: Tulli ignobile, H.— Dominion, sovereignty, rule, authority, supreme power: regnumne hic tu possides? T.: omne regnum vel imperium bellis quaeritur: civitatis, Cs.: adoptione in regnum pervenire, S.: nationes, quae in eorum (i. e. Populi R.) regno sunt: regnum sine vi regere, O.: Nec regna vini sortiere talis, the presidency of the revels, H.— Despotism, tyranny, personal sovereignty, arbitrary rule: te regnum iudiciorum delectat: hoc vero regnum est, et ferri nullo pacto potest: suspicio regni appetendi: in plebe Romanā regnum exercere, L.: damnatus crimine regni, O.— A kingdom, state governed by a king: ad finis regni sui, Cs.: (flumen) Iugurthae Bocchique regnum disiungebat, S.: patrio regno pulsi, L.: barbara regna, H.: cerea regna refigunt (of bees), V.—Fig., rule, authority, power, influence: abuteris ad omnia atomorum regno: voluptatis: sive aliquid regni est in carmine, O.— A territory, estate, possession: in tuo regno esse, i. e. your own estate: Post aliquot mea regna videns mirabor aristas? fields, V.: haec regna, these realms, i. e. of the dead, V.
    * * *
    royal power; power; control; kingdom

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  • 4 rēx

        rēx rēgis, m    [REG-], an arbitrary ruler, absolute monarch, king: cum penes unum est omnium summa rerum, regem illum vocamus: se inflexit hic rex in dominatum iniustiorem: regem diligere: monumenta regis, H.: Reges in ipsos imperium est Iovis, H.: post exactos reges, L.: clamore orto excitos reges, the royal family, L.: ad Ptolemaeum et Cleopatram reges, legati missi, i. e. king and queen, L.—Poet.: Rex patrem vicit, i. e. public duty overcame paternal love, O.: populum late regem, i. e. supreme, V.—Esp., the king of Persia: In Asiam ad regem militatum abiit, T.: a rege conruptus, N.— A despot, tyrant: qui rex populi R. esse concupiverit (of Caesar).—In the republic, of a priest who performed religious rites which were formerly the king's prerogative: rex sacrorum, high-priest: de rege sacrifico subficiendo contentio, L.—Of a god, esp. of Jupiter, king: omnium deorum et hominum: divom pater atque hominum rex, V.: aquarum, i. e. Neptune, O.: Umbrarum, i. e. Pluto, O.: silentum, O.: infernus rex, V.—Of Æolus, V.—As a title of honor, king, lord, prince, head, chief, leader, master, great man: cum reges tam sint continentes, i. e. Caesar's friends: Rex erat Aeneas nobis, V.: tu regibus alas Eripe, i. e. the queen-bees, V.: rex ipse (privorum) Phanaeus, i. e. the best, V.: Actae non alio rege puertiae, governor, H.: pueri ludentes, ‘rex eris,’ aiunt, H.: gratiam regi referri, i. e. patron, T.: Rex horum, Iu.: sive reges Sive inopes, great men, H.
    * * *

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  • 5 solūtus

        solūtus adj. with comp. and sup.    [P. of solvo], unbound, free, loose, at large, unfettered, unbandaged: cum eos vinciret, te solu<*>um Romam mittebat?: nec quisquam solutus dicitur esse sectus, unbandaged: duos (captivos) solutos ire ad Hannibalem iussit, L.: charta, open, O.—Fig., unbound, uncontrolled, unfettered, released, exempt, free: mens: ab omni imperio externo soluta in perpetuum Hispania, L.: solutos qui captat risūs hominum, H.: ludunt risu soluto, unrestrained, V.: soluta (praedia) meliore in causā sunt quam obligata, unmortgaged: omni faenore, H.: (religione) solutus ac liber, L.— Free, unburdened, at leisure, at ease, unbent: sed paulo solutiore animo tamen: quo mea ratio facilior et solutior esse posset: quam homines soluti ridere non desinant: Cum famulis operum solutis, H.— Free, unbiassed, unprejudiced, independent: iudicio senatūs soluto et libero: si essent omnia mihi solutissima: liberi enim ad causas solutique veniebant, uncommitted. —Of a speaker, free, unembarrassed, fluent, ready: in explicandis sententiis: solutissimus in dicendo. —Of composition, free, unfettered, inartificial, irregular: Scribere verba soluta modis, without meter, O.: verbis solutis numeros adiungere, rhythm to prose: soluta oratio, prose: nec vero haec (verba) soluta nec diffluentia, sed astricta numeris.— Free from liability, not accountable, exempt: illud tempus habere solutum ac liberum.— Unbridled, insolent, loose, wanton, arbitrary: amores: quo minus conspectus eo solutior erat, L.: quorum in regno libido solutior fuerat, L.: orator tam solutus et mollis in gestu, extravagant.—Undisciplined, disorderly, lax, remiss, careless: omnia soluta apud hostīs esse, L.: lenitas solutior.
    * * *
    soluta -um, solutior -or -us, solutissimus -a -um ADJ
    unbound, released; free, at large; unrestrained, profligate; lax, careless

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  • 6 tyrannicus

        tyrannicus adj., τυραννικόσ, arbitrary, despotic, tyrannical: interdicta: leges.
    * * *
    tyrannica, tyrannicum ADJ

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  • 7 tyrannis

        tyrannis idis, acc. idem or ida, f, τυραννίσ, the sway of a tyrant, arbitrary power, despotic rule, tyranny: vivit tyrannis, tyrannus occidit: tyrannidem occupare: odio tyrannidis exsul Sponte erat, O.: saeva Neronis, Iu.—A country ruled by a tyrant: tyrannidem tuam exhaurire, L.
    * * *
    tyranny; position/rule/territory of a tyrant; any cruel/oppressive regime

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  • 8 tyrannus

        tyrannus ī, m, τύραννοσ, a monarch, sovereign, king, absolute ruler, personal governor, despot, prince: Nomadum tyranni, V.: Pandione nata tyranno, O.: Lacedaemonius, i. e. king of Sparta, L.: qui (amnes) tecta tyranni Intravere sui, i. e. the halls of Neptune, O.: tyrannus Hesperiae Capricornus undae (as the constellation which brought storms), H.—An arbitrary ruler, cruel governor, autocrat, despot, tyrant: tyrannorum vita: qui hoc fecit ullā in Scythiā tyrannus?: exitiabilis, L.: non invenere tyranni Maius tormentum, H.
    * * *
    tyrant; despot; monarch, absolute ruler; king, prince

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  • 9 arbitrarius

    arbitraria, arbitrarium ADJ
    at discretion of an arbiter; done by arbitration; arbitrary; voluntary, optional

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  • 10 adjudico

    ad-jūdĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to grant or award a thing to one, as judge, to adjudge (opp. abjudico).—With acc. and dat.
    I.
    Lit.: me est aequum frui fraternis armis mihique adjudicarier, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42:

    regnum Ptolemaeo,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 17; 2, 43:

    mulierem Veneri in servitutem,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 17, 56:

    Bruto legiones,

    id. Phil. 10, 6; so id. Off. 1, 10; Liv. 3, 72; Val. Max. 7, 3; Suet. Aug. 32 al.:

    nemo dubitabat, quin domus nobis esset adjudicata,

    Cic. Att. 42; so Caes. B. G. 7, 37; cf. Sen. Hipp. 109.—And poet. of Augustus:

    si quid abest (i. e. dicioni Romanorum nondum subjectum) Italis adjudicat armis,

    i. e. like a judge, he subjects the nations to the Roman sway, merely by his arbitrary sentence, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 57:

    causam alicui,

    to decide in one's favor, Cic. de Or. 2, 29, 129.—
    II.
    In gen., to assign or ascribe a thing to one:

    Pompeius saepe hujus mihi salutem imperii adjudicavit,

    has ascribed to me, Cic. Att. 1, 19:

    optimum saporem ostreis Lucrinis adjudicavit,

    conceded, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168.
    ► For adjudicato in Plaut.
    Men. 1, 3, 6, Ritschl reads tu judicato.

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  • 11 arbitrarius

    arbī̆trārĭus, a, um, adj. [arbiter].
    I.
    Of arbitration, arbitrating, done by way of arbitration: formula, Gai Inst. 4, 163:

    actio,

    Dig. 13, 4, 2; cf. Zimmern, Rechtsgesch. 3 B, §§ 67 and 68.—Hence,
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In Plaut. (with ref. to the distinction in law lang. between certus and arbitrarius:

    judicium est pecuniae certae, arbitrium incertae,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 4; cf. Zimmern, Rechtsgesch. 3 B, § 57) = incertus, uncertain, not sure:

    hoc certum est, non arbitrarium,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 216.— Adv.: arbī̆trārĭō:

    nunc pol ego perii certo, non arbitrario,

    there's no mistake about it, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 42 (the only adv. of this word in use).—
    B.
    Depending on the will, arbitrary (cf. precarius):

    motus in arteriā naturalis, non arbitrarius,

    Gell. 18, 10 fin.

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  • 12 libidinosus

    lĭbīdĭnōsus ( lŭbīd-), a, um, adj. [libido], full of desire, passion, or lust, selfwilled, licentious, sensual, lustful, voluptuous, libidinous.
    I.
    Lit. (in a bad sense), Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. 491, 16 (Rep. 2, 41, 68 Mos.):

    homo libidinosissimus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192:

    nihil (isto) luxuriosius, nihil libidinosius,

    id. Pis. 27, 66:

    libidinosior es quam ullus spado,

    Quint. 6, 3, 64:

    caper,

    lecherous, Hor. Epod. 10, 23.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: libidinosissimae liberationes, arbitrary, self-willed, Cic. Pis. 36, 87:

    libidinosae voluptates,

    id. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

    libidinosa et intemperans adulescentia,

    id. de Sen. 9, 29:

    fortuna varia et libidinosa,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 10:

    pretia,

    extravagant, Col. 10 praef. §

    2: libidinosam liberalitatem debiti nomine colorare,

    Val. Max. 8, 2, 2. —Of speech, licentious, wanton:

    eloquentia,

    Quint. 5, 12, 20.—
    II.
    In a good sense, eager, longing for a thing (post-class.):

    libidinosus eloquentiae et gloriae,

    Tert. Apol. 48; id. Virg. Vel. 13:

    suae sapientiae,

    id. Res. Carn. 32.—Hence, adv.: lĭbīdĭ-nōsē, according to one's pleasure or caprice, wilfully, wantonly:

    quae ille libidinose, quae nefarie, quae crudeliter fecerit,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 38:

    ne quid libidinose aut facias aut cogites,

    id. Off. 1, 4, 14; id. Rep. 2, 37, 63:

    libidinose crudeliterque consulere in aliquem,

    Liv. 3, 63.— Comp.:

    libidinosius saevire,

    Tert. Monog. 16 fin.

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  • 13 licentia

    lĭcentĭa, ae, f. [licet], freedom, liberty, leave to do as one pleases, license.
    I.
    In gen.: Dae. Licet... licet... licet. Tr. Hercules istum infelicet cum sua licentia, Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 21:

    nobis nostra Academia magnam licentiam dat, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 3, 4, 20:

    pueris non omnem ludendi licentiam damus,

    id. ib. 1, 29, 103:

    tantum licentiae dabat gloria,

    id. de Sen. 13, 44:

    absolvendi,

    Tac. A. 14, 49:

    lasciviendi permittere militibus,

    Suet. Caes. 67.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Liberty which one assumes, boldness, presumption, license:

    homo ad scribendi licentiam liber,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 123:

    a Democrito omnino haec licentia,

    id. ib. 1, 38, 107:

    per intercalandi licentiam,

    by arbitrary intercalation, Suet. Caes. 40.—Freq. of style:

    poëtarum,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153:

    juvenilis quaedam dicendi impunitas et licentia,

    id. Brut. 91, 316:

    figurarum,

    Quint. 10, 1, 28.—
    2.
    In rhet. as a figure of speech, = parrêsia, boldness, freedom of speech, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

    poëtica,

    Quint. 2, 4, 3; 4, 1, 58:

    declamatoria,

    id. 8, 3, 76.—
    B.
    Unrestrained liberty, unbounded license, dissoluteness, licentiousness:

    deteriores omnes sumus licentia,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 74:

    nimia illaec licentia evadet in aliquod magnum malum,

    id. Ad. 3, 4, 63:

    omnium rerum infinita atque intoleranda licentia,

    Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 5:

    licentia libidoque,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 77:

    cupiditatum,

    id. Att. 10, 4, 1; id. Off. 2, 8, 28:

    habere impunitatem et licentiam sempiternam,

    id. Mil. 31, 84:

    quorum licentiae nisi Carneades restitisset,

    id. Div. 2, 72, 150: malle licentiam suam quam aliorum libertatem, Liv. 3, 37:

    Sullani temporis,

    lawlessness, Suet. Gram. 11:

    militum,

    Nep. Eum. 8:

    indomitam Refrenare (licentiam),

    Hor. C. 3, 24, 29:

    licentiam coërcere,

    Tac. H. 1, 35:

    in libertatibus quoque dandis nimiam licentiam compescuit lex Fufia Caninia,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 228.—Of inanimate things: magna gladiorum est licentia, the license of the sword is great, i. e. daring murders are prevalent, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 12:

    immensa licentia ponti,

    Ov. M. 1, 309.—
    C.
    Personified as a goddess:

    templum Licentiae (for Libertatis),

    Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 42; cf. Libertas.

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  • 14 lubidinosus

    lĭbīdĭnōsus ( lŭbīd-), a, um, adj. [libido], full of desire, passion, or lust, selfwilled, licentious, sensual, lustful, voluptuous, libidinous.
    I.
    Lit. (in a bad sense), Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. 491, 16 (Rep. 2, 41, 68 Mos.):

    homo libidinosissimus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192:

    nihil (isto) luxuriosius, nihil libidinosius,

    id. Pis. 27, 66:

    libidinosior es quam ullus spado,

    Quint. 6, 3, 64:

    caper,

    lecherous, Hor. Epod. 10, 23.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: libidinosissimae liberationes, arbitrary, self-willed, Cic. Pis. 36, 87:

    libidinosae voluptates,

    id. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

    libidinosa et intemperans adulescentia,

    id. de Sen. 9, 29:

    fortuna varia et libidinosa,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 10:

    pretia,

    extravagant, Col. 10 praef. §

    2: libidinosam liberalitatem debiti nomine colorare,

    Val. Max. 8, 2, 2. —Of speech, licentious, wanton:

    eloquentia,

    Quint. 5, 12, 20.—
    II.
    In a good sense, eager, longing for a thing (post-class.):

    libidinosus eloquentiae et gloriae,

    Tert. Apol. 48; id. Virg. Vel. 13:

    suae sapientiae,

    id. Res. Carn. 32.—Hence, adv.: lĭbīdĭ-nōsē, according to one's pleasure or caprice, wilfully, wantonly:

    quae ille libidinose, quae nefarie, quae crudeliter fecerit,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 38:

    ne quid libidinose aut facias aut cogites,

    id. Off. 1, 4, 14; id. Rep. 2, 37, 63:

    libidinose crudeliterque consulere in aliquem,

    Liv. 3, 63.— Comp.:

    libidinosius saevire,

    Tert. Monog. 16 fin.

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  • 15 positivus

    pŏsĭtīvus, a, um, adj. [id.], positive, in gram.
    I.
    Settled by arbitrary appointment or agreement (opp. to natural):

    nomina non positiva esse sed naturalia,

    Gell. 10, 4 in lemm. —
    II.
    Positivum nomen.
    1.
    An adjective in the positive degree, Cledon. p. 1893 P.—
    2.
    A substantive, Macr. S. 1, 4, 9.

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  • 16 re

    rĕ, or with d demonstrative (see the letter D), rĕd (so, too, before vowels and h; also in red-do, and with the union-vowel i in rĕdĭ-vivus. In reicio and often in later Latin re is found before vowels and h; e. g. reaedifico, reexinanio, reinvito, etc. Assimilation of the d before consonants produced the forms relligio, relliquiae, reccido; and the suppression of the d may account for the frequent lengthening of the e by poets in rēduco, rēlatum. The orthography and quantity of words compounded with re are in general somewhat arbitrary, especially in the ante- and post-class. poets). An inseparable particle, whose fundamental signification answers to the Engl. again and against. Thus, it denotes either,
    a.
    A turning back ward (Engl. back): recedo, recurro, reicio, remitto, resolvo, etc.; or,
    b.
    An opposition: reboo, reclamo, redamo, reluctor, repugno; and,
    II.
    Trop.
    1.
    A restoration of a thing to its original condition (e. g. a freeing or loosing from a state of constraint; Engl. re-, un-): redintegro, reficio, restituo, relaxo, relego, resero, recludo, resolvo, retego, etc.—
    2.
    A transition into an opposite state: recharmido, reprobo (opp. comprobo), retracto, revelo.—
    3.
    A repetition of an action: recoquo, resumo, reviso, etc.—
    4.
    It is sometimes intensive, as redundo.

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  • 17 red

    rĕ, or with d demonstrative (see the letter D), rĕd (so, too, before vowels and h; also in red-do, and with the union-vowel i in rĕdĭ-vivus. In reicio and often in later Latin re is found before vowels and h; e. g. reaedifico, reexinanio, reinvito, etc. Assimilation of the d before consonants produced the forms relligio, relliquiae, reccido; and the suppression of the d may account for the frequent lengthening of the e by poets in rēduco, rēlatum. The orthography and quantity of words compounded with re are in general somewhat arbitrary, especially in the ante- and post-class. poets). An inseparable particle, whose fundamental signification answers to the Engl. again and against. Thus, it denotes either,
    a.
    A turning back ward (Engl. back): recedo, recurro, reicio, remitto, resolvo, etc.; or,
    b.
    An opposition: reboo, reclamo, redamo, reluctor, repugno; and,
    II.
    Trop.
    1.
    A restoration of a thing to its original condition (e. g. a freeing or loosing from a state of constraint; Engl. re-, un-): redintegro, reficio, restituo, relaxo, relego, resero, recludo, resolvo, retego, etc.—
    2.
    A transition into an opposite state: recharmido, reprobo (opp. comprobo), retracto, revelo.—
    3.
    A repetition of an action: recoquo, resumo, reviso, etc.—
    4.
    It is sometimes intensive, as redundo.

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  • 18 tyrannis

    tyrannis, ĭdis (acc. tyrannida, Cic. Att. 14, 14, 2), f., = turannis.
    I.
    The sway of a tyrant, arbitrary or despotic rule, tyranny:

    o di boni! vivit tyrannis, tyrannus occidit,

    Cic. Att. 14, 9, 2; cf.:

    sublato tyranno tyrannida manere video,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 2:

    tyrannidem occupare,

    id. Off. 2, 23, 90; so Quint. 5, 11, 8:

    affectare,

    id. 7, 2, 54; 9, 2, 81:

    delere,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    destruere,

    Quint. 1, 10, 48; Just. 16, 4, 6; 21, 5, 11; Val. Max. 2, 10, ext. 1;

    8, 9, ext. 2: (Pythagoras) odio tyrannidis exsul Sponte erat,

    Ov. M. 15, 61:

    tyrannis saeva crudaque Neronis,

    Juv. 8, 223.—
    B.
    Transf., the region ruled by a tyrant:

    quinque et viginti talenta tyrannidem tuam exhaurirent?

    Liv. 28, 14.—
    II.
    A female tyrant, Treb. XXX. Tyr. 31 fin.; cf. tyranna.

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