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1 promo
prōmo, prōmpsī, prōmptum, ere [ pro + emo ]1) вынимать, доставать, вытаскивать (pecuniam ex aerario C; tela e pharetrā O); брать ( vina dolio H)se p. — выходить наружу ( cavo robore V)2) извлекать, заимствовать ( argumenta ex aliquā re C)3) прилагать ( vires V); проявлять ( justitiam PM); выражать, обнаруживать ( animi voluntatem Q)4) открывать, раскрывать ( obscura H); высказывать ( sententiam suam Pt); рассказывать, говорить ( aliquid adversvis aliquem T); произносить (syllabam circumflexe AG)5) истолковывать, разъяснять ( jura alicui H)6) придумывать, изобретать (nova crustula H)7) издавать, публиковать ( carmen Ap)se p. — давать побеги ( vites promunt se Col) -
2 duco
dūco, ĕre, dūxi, ductum - tr. - - impér. 2ème pers. du sing.: duc; duce (Plaut.) [st1]1 [-] mener, conduire, faire passer d'un lieu à un autre, aller devant, guider. - ducit via ad infernas sedes, Ov.: c'est la route des enfers. - ducere aquam per fundum, Cic.: amener de l'eau à travers une propriété. - error ad meliora ducendus, Quint.: erreur à rectifier. - ducit quam proxime ad hostem potest: il s’avance le plus près possible de l’ennemi. - ad strepitum citharae cessatum ducere curam, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 31: endormir ses soucis au bruit de la cithare. - vota bonos ducere ad exitus, Hor. C. 4.8.34: accomplir des voeux, mener des voeux à bonne fin. - perque omnia duxit (me), Virg.: et elle m'a tout expliqué en détail. [st1]2 [-] amener (avec soi), conduire, mener (en prison, au tribunal...). - ducere ad mortem: conduire à la mort (au supplice). - aliquem jubes, duci (Sen.): tu envoies qqn à la mort. - ducere in jus, Liv.: traîner en justice. - C. Fuficium duci jussit petitorem, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 12 § 31: il ordonna que l'on emprisonnât C. Fuficius qui était le demandeur (le plaignant). [st1]3 [-] conduire chez soi comme épouse, se marier, épouser (en parl. de l'homme). - ducere uxorem domum, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 40: se marier. - si tu negaris ducere, Ter. And. 2, 3, 5: si tu refuses de te marier. - (uxorem) filiam alicujus ducere: épouser la fille de qqn. - ducere ex plebeie, Liv. 4, 4: épouser une plébéienne. [st1]4 [-] conduire, marcher à la tête, être à la tête, commander (t. militaire). - ducere primum pilum, Caes. BG. 5.35.6: être chef de la première compagnie des triaires. - ducere ordinem: commander un manipule, être centurion. - ducere copias: commander des troupes. - cohortes ducebant, Tac.: les cohortes marchaient en tête. [st1]5 [-] mener (un cortège, un choeur), servir de chef, servir de guide. - ducere funus: conduire des funérailles. - ducere alicui exsequias, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154: faire des funérailles à qqn. - ducere classem (discipulorum), Quint. 1, 2, 24: être le premier de sa classe. [st1]6 [-] mener (une ligne), tracer, décrire, tirer le fil, composer, prolonger, allonger, façonner, former. - ducere orbem, Quint. 11, 3, 118: décrire une circonférence. - ducere lineam, Plin.: tracer une ligne. - ducere versus, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 63: composer des vers. - ducere fossam, Caes. BG. 7.72.1: creuser un fossé. - ducere lateres de terra, Vitr. 2, 3: faire des briques de terre. - ducere vivos vultus de marmore, Virg. En. 6, 849: faire le portrait en marbre. - ducere choreas, Ov. M. 8, 582: former des danses. - ducere stamina (fila): tirer le fil. - lanas ducere, Ov. M. 4, 34: étirer la laine, filer la laine. - ducere carmina: composer des vers. [st1]7 [-] tirer, faire descendre, faire sortir, attirer, aspirer, boire. - ducere sortem, Cic. Div. 2, 33: tirer au sort. - ducere ensem vagina, Sil. 8, 342: tirer l'épée du fourreau. - ducere os (vultum), Ov.: prendre un visage renfrogné. - ducere tura naribus, Hor.: respirer l'encens. - ducere pocula, Hor.: vider les coupes. - ducere sollicitae jucunda oblivia vitae, Hor.: goûter l'agréable oubli d'une vie inquiète. - sibi quisque ducere, Sall. J. 41: chacun se mit à tout attirer à soi (à tout s'approprier). - boves naribus umiferum duxere ex aëre sucum, Cic. Div. 1: les boeufs aspirent avec leurs naseaux l'humidité contenue dans l'air. [st1]8 [-] tirer, prendre, recevoir. - ducere exordium a nostra personna, Quint.: tirer l'exorde de notre personne. - ducere originem + ab ou ex et abl.: tirer son origine de. - ducere initium a... Cic.: commencer par. - ducere honestum ab... Cic.: faire dériver l'honnête de... [st1]9 [-] traîner en longueur, passer (le temps), prolonger. - aetatem in litteris ducere: passer sa vie dans les lettres. - ducere diem ex die: vivre au jour le jour. - bellum ducere: faire traîner la guerre en longueur. - diem ex die ducere: différer de jour en jour. - ubi se diutius duci intellexit, Caes.: dès qu'il comprit qu'on voulait gagner du temps. - ducere noctem ludo, Hor.: passer la nuit à jouer. [st1]10 [-] conduire, inciter, pousser, séduire, tromper, leurrer. - ducit te species, Hor.: l'extérieur te séduit. - declamatores quosdam perversa ducit ambitio, ut... Quint. 10, 7, 21: une gloriole perverse pousse des déclamateurs à... - amore patriae ductus: poussé par le patriotisme. - me ad credendum tua ducit oratio, Cic.: ton discours me donne confiance. [st1]11 [-] calculer, compter. - XC medimnûm milia duximus: nous avons compté 90.000 médimnes. - rationem ducere: calculer, supputer. - ducere suas rationes, Cic.: faire ses comptes. - ducere rationem alicujus: tenir compte de qqn. - ducere rationem alicujus rei: tenir compte de qqch. - aratorum rationem ducere: tenir compte des laboureurs. - sui commodi rationem non ducit: il ne fait aucun compte de ses intérêts. [st1]12 [-] estimer, penser, juger, regarder comme, tenir pour. - Marcum probissimum duco: je considère Marcus comme très honnête. - ducere aliquem pro + abl. ( in + abl. ou loco + gén.): regarder qqn comme. - aliquem in numero hostium ducere: compter qqn au nombre des ennemis. - avec gén. de prix - magni, parvi ducere (= habere, facere, putare, aestimare): estimer beaucoup, estimer peu. - pluris ducere: estimer davantage. - pro nihilo ducere: estimer comme rien. - ducere aliquem despicatui, Cic. Fl. 27, 65: mépriser qqn. - summa probitate ducebatur: on le regardait comme très honnête. - Marcus probissimus ducebatur: on considérait Marcus comme très honnête. - ducere + prop. inf.: penser que. - ad eas res conficiendas biennium sibi satis esse duxerunt, Caes. BG. 1: ils pensèrent que deux ans devaient leur suffire pour ces préparatifs. - ducere alicujus modestiam in conscientiam, Sall.: interpréter la modestie de qqn comme un aveu (d'infériorité). [st1]13 [-] locutions diverses. - ducere cicatricem, Ov.: se cicatriser. - ducere colorem, Virg.: se colorer (en parl. du raisin). - ducere os (vultum), Ov.: prendre un visage renfrogné. - ilia ducere, Hor.: [tirer les flancs] = être poussif (en parl. d'un cheval).* * *dūco, ĕre, dūxi, ductum - tr. - - impér. 2ème pers. du sing.: duc; duce (Plaut.) [st1]1 [-] mener, conduire, faire passer d'un lieu à un autre, aller devant, guider. - ducit via ad infernas sedes, Ov.: c'est la route des enfers. - ducere aquam per fundum, Cic.: amener de l'eau à travers une propriété. - error ad meliora ducendus, Quint.: erreur à rectifier. - ducit quam proxime ad hostem potest: il s’avance le plus près possible de l’ennemi. - ad strepitum citharae cessatum ducere curam, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 31: endormir ses soucis au bruit de la cithare. - vota bonos ducere ad exitus, Hor. C. 4.8.34: accomplir des voeux, mener des voeux à bonne fin. - perque omnia duxit (me), Virg.: et elle m'a tout expliqué en détail. [st1]2 [-] amener (avec soi), conduire, mener (en prison, au tribunal...). - ducere ad mortem: conduire à la mort (au supplice). - aliquem jubes, duci (Sen.): tu envoies qqn à la mort. - ducere in jus, Liv.: traîner en justice. - C. Fuficium duci jussit petitorem, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 12 § 31: il ordonna que l'on emprisonnât C. Fuficius qui était le demandeur (le plaignant). [st1]3 [-] conduire chez soi comme épouse, se marier, épouser (en parl. de l'homme). - ducere uxorem domum, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 40: se marier. - si tu negaris ducere, Ter. And. 2, 3, 5: si tu refuses de te marier. - (uxorem) filiam alicujus ducere: épouser la fille de qqn. - ducere ex plebeie, Liv. 4, 4: épouser une plébéienne. [st1]4 [-] conduire, marcher à la tête, être à la tête, commander (t. militaire). - ducere primum pilum, Caes. BG. 5.35.6: être chef de la première compagnie des triaires. - ducere ordinem: commander un manipule, être centurion. - ducere copias: commander des troupes. - cohortes ducebant, Tac.: les cohortes marchaient en tête. [st1]5 [-] mener (un cortège, un choeur), servir de chef, servir de guide. - ducere funus: conduire des funérailles. - ducere alicui exsequias, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154: faire des funérailles à qqn. - ducere classem (discipulorum), Quint. 1, 2, 24: être le premier de sa classe. [st1]6 [-] mener (une ligne), tracer, décrire, tirer le fil, composer, prolonger, allonger, façonner, former. - ducere orbem, Quint. 11, 3, 118: décrire une circonférence. - ducere lineam, Plin.: tracer une ligne. - ducere versus, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 63: composer des vers. - ducere fossam, Caes. BG. 7.72.1: creuser un fossé. - ducere lateres de terra, Vitr. 2, 3: faire des briques de terre. - ducere vivos vultus de marmore, Virg. En. 6, 849: faire le portrait en marbre. - ducere choreas, Ov. M. 8, 582: former des danses. - ducere stamina (fila): tirer le fil. - lanas ducere, Ov. M. 4, 34: étirer la laine, filer la laine. - ducere carmina: composer des vers. [st1]7 [-] tirer, faire descendre, faire sortir, attirer, aspirer, boire. - ducere sortem, Cic. Div. 2, 33: tirer au sort. - ducere ensem vagina, Sil. 8, 342: tirer l'épée du fourreau. - ducere os (vultum), Ov.: prendre un visage renfrogné. - ducere tura naribus, Hor.: respirer l'encens. - ducere pocula, Hor.: vider les coupes. - ducere sollicitae jucunda oblivia vitae, Hor.: goûter l'agréable oubli d'une vie inquiète. - sibi quisque ducere, Sall. J. 41: chacun se mit à tout attirer à soi (à tout s'approprier). - boves naribus umiferum duxere ex aëre sucum, Cic. Div. 1: les boeufs aspirent avec leurs naseaux l'humidité contenue dans l'air. [st1]8 [-] tirer, prendre, recevoir. - ducere exordium a nostra personna, Quint.: tirer l'exorde de notre personne. - ducere originem + ab ou ex et abl.: tirer son origine de. - ducere initium a... Cic.: commencer par. - ducere honestum ab... Cic.: faire dériver l'honnête de... [st1]9 [-] traîner en longueur, passer (le temps), prolonger. - aetatem in litteris ducere: passer sa vie dans les lettres. - ducere diem ex die: vivre au jour le jour. - bellum ducere: faire traîner la guerre en longueur. - diem ex die ducere: différer de jour en jour. - ubi se diutius duci intellexit, Caes.: dès qu'il comprit qu'on voulait gagner du temps. - ducere noctem ludo, Hor.: passer la nuit à jouer. [st1]10 [-] conduire, inciter, pousser, séduire, tromper, leurrer. - ducit te species, Hor.: l'extérieur te séduit. - declamatores quosdam perversa ducit ambitio, ut... Quint. 10, 7, 21: une gloriole perverse pousse des déclamateurs à... - amore patriae ductus: poussé par le patriotisme. - me ad credendum tua ducit oratio, Cic.: ton discours me donne confiance. [st1]11 [-] calculer, compter. - XC medimnûm milia duximus: nous avons compté 90.000 médimnes. - rationem ducere: calculer, supputer. - ducere suas rationes, Cic.: faire ses comptes. - ducere rationem alicujus: tenir compte de qqn. - ducere rationem alicujus rei: tenir compte de qqch. - aratorum rationem ducere: tenir compte des laboureurs. - sui commodi rationem non ducit: il ne fait aucun compte de ses intérêts. [st1]12 [-] estimer, penser, juger, regarder comme, tenir pour. - Marcum probissimum duco: je considère Marcus comme très honnête. - ducere aliquem pro + abl. ( in + abl. ou loco + gén.): regarder qqn comme. - aliquem in numero hostium ducere: compter qqn au nombre des ennemis. - avec gén. de prix - magni, parvi ducere (= habere, facere, putare, aestimare): estimer beaucoup, estimer peu. - pluris ducere: estimer davantage. - pro nihilo ducere: estimer comme rien. - ducere aliquem despicatui, Cic. Fl. 27, 65: mépriser qqn. - summa probitate ducebatur: on le regardait comme très honnête. - Marcus probissimus ducebatur: on considérait Marcus comme très honnête. - ducere + prop. inf.: penser que. - ad eas res conficiendas biennium sibi satis esse duxerunt, Caes. BG. 1: ils pensèrent que deux ans devaient leur suffire pour ces préparatifs. - ducere alicujus modestiam in conscientiam, Sall.: interpréter la modestie de qqn comme un aveu (d'infériorité). [st1]13 [-] locutions diverses. - ducere cicatricem, Ov.: se cicatriser. - ducere colorem, Virg.: se colorer (en parl. du raisin). - ducere os (vultum), Ov.: prendre un visage renfrogné. - ilia ducere, Hor.: [tirer les flancs] = être poussif (en parl. d'un cheval).* * *Duco, ducis, duxi, ductum, ducere. Terent. Mener en main, Guider, Duire.\Ducuntur omnia Dei nutu. Plaut. Tout est mené et gouverné et conduict par le vouloir de Dieu.\Ducere se ad aliquem. Plaut. S'en aller, etc.\Ducere se ab aedibus. Plaut. S'en aller hors de la maison.\Ducere se deorsum de arbore. Plautus. Descendre de dessus un arbre.\Ducere ad credendum. Cic. Duire, Induire.\Duci ad cognitionis cupiditatem. Cic. Estre duict et mené de nature à vouloir scavoir.\Per omnia aliquem ducere. Virgil. Le mener par tout, et luy monstrer tout.\AEtatem ducere. Horat. Vivre.\AEstas septima ducitur. Virgil. Quand on vit sept estez, ou sept annees.\AEtatem in literis ducere. Cic. Employer son temps à l'estude continuellement.\Deus duxit aeuum per suos gradus. Senec. A mené et divisé la vie de l'homme par certains degrez et aages, comme par enfance, adolescence, jeunesse, etc.\Ducere agmen. Cic. Mener et aller devant, Conduire.\Aluum ducere. Cels. Faire lascher le ventre.\Nostros in longum ducis amores. Virgil. Tu recules et prolonges.\Anhelitum ex cursura ducere. Plaut. Haleter, Estre à la grosse haleine.\Animam ducere, pro Viuere. Liu. Vivre.\Animam ducere de caelo. Cic. Tirer son haleine de l'air.\Aquam. Cic. Faire venir l'eaue et conduire d'un ruisseau ou fontaine en quelque autre lieu.\Argentum. Virgil. Estendre, Alonger.\Argumenta ex ipsis positionum vitiis ducimus. Quintil. Nous prenons, etc.\Bellum cum aliquo. Virgil. Faire la guerre à aucun.\Ipse qui caelum nebulasque ducit. Seneca. Dieu qui conduit et gouverne le ciel.\In carcerem ducere. Cic. Mener en prison.\Cicatricem. Columel. Refermer et guarir la playe, et la mener à cicatrice.\Ducta cicatrix. Liu. Une playe refermee et venue en cicatrice.\Colorem. Virgil. Prendre couleur, Se coulourer.\Colore aureo pelles ducere. Plin. Teindre en couleur d'or.\Coniectura ducitur ex hac re. Cic. On prend conjecture de ce.\In crimen ducere. Tacit. Attribuer et imputer à crime.\Ex animo curam ducere. Plaut. Jecter hors soulci.\Diem ducit Lucifer. Virgil. Ameine.\Diem somno ducere. Senec. Passer le jour à dormir.\Vagina ducitur ensis. Sil. Est desgainee.\In errorem ducere. Ouid. Faire errer.\Exequias alicui ducere. Plin. iunior. Le convoyer en terre.\Exercitum in Sabinos ducere. Caes. Faire marcher son ost et son armee.\Exordium a re aliqua ducere. Cic. Commencer, prendre le commencement.\Figuram ducere veri. Claud. Sembler estre vray, Resembler au naturel.\Fossam. Liuius. Faire un fossé, ou une trenchee.\Fraena manu ducere. Ouid. Retirer la bride à soy.\Frigus ab vmbra ducere. Ouid. Prendre fraicheur à l'ombre.\Funem ducere. Horat. Mener une chorde et la trainer apres soy.\Funus alicui ducere. Plin. Convoyer quelqu'un en terre.\Genus ab aliquo ducere. Ouid. Estre venu ou descendu de la race et lignee d'aucun.\Blandis ducitur hora dolis. Propert. L'heure se passe.\Nos flendo ducimus horas. Virgil. Nous consumons le temps à pleurer, Le temps se passe et se perd tandis que nous nous amusons à pleurer.\Horas extremas ducere. Martial. Mourir, Tirer à la fin.\Ilia ducere. Horat. Halleter, et batre les flancs, comme un cheval poussif, ou qui est hors d'haleine.\Initium a re aliqua ducere. Cic. Commencer.\Initium ducere ex aliquo. Quintil. Cic. Prendre son commencement.\In ius aliquem ducere. Terent. Mener par devant le juge.\Laminam ducere. Quintil. Estendre.\Lateres. Vitruuius. Faire des tuiles.\Lineam. Plinius. Tirer une ligne au pinceau, Reigler.\Ducit duo lina acus. Cels. Quand en une aguille on a enfilé deux filets.\Ducitur et digitis littera rara meis. Ouid. J'escri peu souvent, Je n'escri guere souvent.\In ludum ducere et reducere. Terent. Mener et ramener.\In matrimonium. Cic. Espouser, Prendre à femme.\Mucronem. Virgil. Desgainer.\Muros. Virgil. Continuer à haulser les murailles.\Noctem ducere ludo. Claud. Jouer toute nuict.\Noctem iucundis sermonibus. Plin. iunior. Passer la nuict.\Nomen ex re aliqua. Cic. Prendre surnom et appellation de quelque chose.\Notam ducere. Horat. Estre marqué.\Obliuia ducere poenae. Valer. Flac. Oublier la peine.\Opinione duci. Cic. Estre mené et meu, etc.\Orationem ducere ab eodem verbo. Cic. Commencer.\Ordine ducere. Virgil. Mener par ordre.\Os exquisitis modis ducere. Quintil. Faire diverses mines et grimaces de la bouche.\Otia ducere. Ouid. Estre oisif.\Parietem per vestibulum alicuius ducere. Cic. Faire continuer une paroy, et faire passer parmi, etc.\In partes ducere. Tacit. Attirer à sa bende et de son parti.\Pectus in contraria ducere. Ouid. Faire avoir à aucun diverses et contraires voluntez, Faire qu'il vueille tantost une chose, tantost le contraire.\Ducunt eum pedes rus. Plaut. Le meinent aux champs, Il va à pied.\Pensa manu ducere. Iuuenal. Filer.\Piscem hamo ducere. Ouid. Attirer.\Pocula ducere. Propert. Tenir longue table à boire, Continuer longuement la buverie.\Principium a re aliqua. Cic. Commencer.\Prouincias ducere. Tacit. Gouverner.\Ducere suam rationem. Cic. Avoir esgard à soy.\Hanc nemo ducit rationem, sed, etc. Caelius ad Ciceronem. Personne ne prend garde à ce, etc.\Rationem salutis ducere. Cic. Avoir esgard à son salut.\Ex his enim, similibusque saepe noua curandi ratio ducenda est. Cels. Il fault prendre ou adviser et tirer nouvelle maniere de curer et guarir la maladie.\Remos ducere. Ouid. Demener les rames, Tirer à la rame.\Ruinam Senec. Cheoir et tomber impetueusement.\Sermonem a re quapiam. Cic. Commencer son propos par quelque chose. \ Sessum. Plaut. Mener asseoir.\Similitudinem e re aliqua. Cic. Prendre patron.\In opaco situm ducere. Quintil. Devenir chansi, Se chansir.\Somnos. Virgil. Dormir.\Sortem. Cic. Faire sort.\Spiritum. Attirer le vent. Et per translationem, Vivre. Cic.\Spiritum naribus. Varro. Tirer son vent par les narines.\Stamina. Ouid. Filer de la laine.\Sulcos. Plin. Faire des seillons.\Suspiria. Mart. Souspirer.\Ex facto ipso suipiciones ducentur, si etc. Cic. On cueillera et prendra les souspecons du faict.\Tempus ducere. Cic. Passer et prolonger le temps.\In transennam dolis ducere. Plaut. Mener.\Triumphum ducere. Plin. Triompher.\Vallum. Liu. Faire un rampart, et le continuer loing.\E luto vasa ducere. Quintil. Faire, Former.\Ducere vitam. Cic. Vivre.\Vtilitatem ex re aliqua ducere. Cic. Retirer aucun prouffit de quelque chose.\Ducere vultum. Martial. Se refrongner, Faire laide mine.\Viuos vultus de marmore. Virgil. Tailler au vif en marbre.\Vxorem ducere. Cic. Se marier, Prendre à femme et mener en sa maison.\Ducere, verbum, pertinet ad vsurarum rationem. Cic. Compter et payer.\Vsuras ducere. Cic. Continuer le payement des usures.\Duci authoritate. Cic. Estre meu et induict.\Duci cogitatione alio. Cic. Estre mené.\Duci despicatui. Cic. Estre desprisé, Quand on ne fait compte de nous.\Duci phaleratis dictis. Terent. Estre mené et abusé par belles parolles. \ Errore. Cic. Se laisser abuser.\Falso gaudio. Terent. Estre entretenu et repeu longuement de faulse joye.\Gloria. Cic. Estre mené et meu de gloire, Aimer honneur.\Mercede et praemio. Cic. Quand le loyer meine aucun et l'induist à faire quelque chose.\In hostium loco et numero duci. Cic. Estre reputé pour ennemi.\Ventre. Horat. Estre sur sa bouche, Aimer les bons morceaulx.\Ducere. Cic. Prolonger, Alonger, Differer.\Bellum ducere. Cic. Prolonger la guerre, Faire durer la guerre, et ne vouloir point combatre à oultrance.\Ducere diem ex die. Caes. Remettre aucun de jour en jour, Bailler des remises.\Vbi se diutius duci intellexit. Caesar. Qu'on le menoit et abusoit de belles parolles.\Ducere. Cic. Estimer et penser.\Animo ducere. Virgil. Penser en soymesme.\Ducere infra se omnia humana. Cic. Estimer toutes choses moindres que soy.\Nihil ducere in bonis praeter virtutem. Cic. N'estimer qu'il y ait autre chose qui doibve estre appelee bien, fors vertu.\Ducere damno. Plaut. Tenir à grand perte.\Gloriae ducere alicui quidpiam. Cic. Luy tourner à grand loz, Luy attribuer à louange.\Ducere in gloria. Plin. Reputer à grand loz et gloire.\Ducere honori. Sallust. Estimer une chose estre honorable, Attribuer et reputer à honneur.\Ducere laudi. Terent. Tourner à loz, Attribuer à louange.\Ducere minoris. Sallust. Estimer moins.\Officii duxit, exorare filiae patrem. Suetonius. Il pensa que c'estoit à luy à faire, etc. Il estima que pour faire son debvoir, il falloit, etc.\Ducere parui. Cic. Peu estimer.\Ducere prae se neminem. Author ad Heren. N'estimer que soy, N'estimer personne au pris, ou en comparaison de soy.\Ducere pro falsis. Sallust. Tenir et estimer une chose pour mensonge.\Ducere aliquid pro nihilo. Cic. N'en tenir compte non plus que de rien.\Ducere aliquid vxori probro. Plaut. Luy reprocher et imputer à meschanceté.\Ducere aliquem ex aere. Plin. Faire la statue d'aucun de fonte ou de cuyvre. -
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lŏcus (old form stlocus, like stlis for lis, Quint. 1, 4, 16), i, m. ( lŏcum, i, n., Inscr. ap. Grut. 129, 14; plur. loci, single places; loca, places connected with each other, a region; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 666 sq., and v. infra), a place, spot.I.Lit.A.In gen.:B.adsedistis in festivo loco,
i. e. the theatre, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 83:locum sibi velle liberum praeberier, ubi nequam faciat clam,
id. Poen. 1, 1, 49; 3, 3, 44; cf.3, 2, 25: omnes copias in unum locum convenire,
Cic. Att. 8, 16, 2:Galli qui ea loca incolerent,
Caes. B. G. 2, 4:locorum situm naturam regionis nosse,
Liv. 22, 38:Romae per omnes locos,
Sall. J. 32:facere alicui locum in turba,
Ov. A. A. 2, 210:ex loco superiore agere, of an orator speaking from the rostra, or of a judge pronouncing judgment: de loco superiore dicere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, § 102:ex aequo loco, of one speaking in the Senate or conversing with another: et ex superiore et ex aequo loco sermones habiti,
id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:ex inferiore loco,
to speak before a judge, id. de Or. 3, 6, 23: primus locus aedium, a dwelling on the ground-floor, Nep. praef. 6.— A post, position: loco movere, to drive from a place or post, Ter. Phorm. prol. 32; so,loco deicere,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 30:loco cedere,
to give way, abandon one's post, retire, Sall. C. 9; Caes. B. G. 1, 15.—In partic.1.A place, seat, in the theatre, the circus, or the forum:2.Servi ne obsideant, liberis ut sit locus,
room, seats, Plaut. Cas. prol. 23.—Esp. the place assigned by the Senate to foreign ambassadors: locum ad spectandum dare,
Cic. Mur. 35, 73; 34, 72; so Liv. 30, 17. — Plur. loca, Liv. 34, 44, 5; Vell. 2, 32, 3; Suet. Claud. 21; id. Ner. 11; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 21.—But plur. loci, Tac. A. 15, 32.—So of the lodging, quarters, place of abode assigned to foreign ambassadors for their residence:3.locus inde lautiaque legatis praeberi jussa,
Liv. 28, 39, 19; 30, 17, 14; 42, 26, 5; Symm. Ep. 4, 56; Sid. Ep. 8, 12:loca lautia,
App. M. 3, p. 140, 30.—A piece or part of an estate:4.stricte loquendo locus non est fundus sed pars aliqua fundi,
Dig. 50, 16, 60:locus certus ex fundo possideri potest,
ib. 41, 2, 26.—A place, spot, locality; a country region: hau longe abesse oportet homines hinc;5.ita hic lepidust locus,
Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 35:nunc hoc ubi abstrudam cogito solum locum,
id. Aul. 4, 6, 7:non hoc ut oppido praeposui, sed ut loco,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 10; Verg. A. 1, 530; Caes. B. G. 5, 12.— Poet. of the inhabitants of a place, a neighborhood:numina vicinorum odit uterque locus,
Juv. 15, 37.—Of a place where a city once stood, a site:locus Pherae,
Plin. 4, 5, 6, § 13:locus Buprasium, Hyrmine,
id. ib.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 280.— Plur. rarely loci:quos locos adiisti,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 86:locos tenere,
Liv. 5, 35, 1:occupare,
Sall. J. 18, 4; 76, 1; Lucr. 4, 509; Verg. A. 1, 306; 2, 28; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 22; Tac. A. 1, 61; 13, 36; Suet. Tib. 43.—Usually loca:loca haec circiter,
Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 8:venisse in illa loca,
Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5; id. Fin. 5, 1, 2 sq.; Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 2; Lucr. 1, 373; 2, 146; Cat. 9, 7; 63, 3; Sall. J. 18, 11; 54, 3; Verg. G. 2, 140; id. A. 1, 51; 2, 495; Hor. C. 1, 22, 7; Tib. 4, 1, 97; Ov. M. 10, 29; Liv. 1, 1, 5; 1, 5, 2; 1, 6, 4 et saep.—In war [p. 1075] or battle, a post, station (plur. loca):6.tum loca sorte legunt,
Verg. A. 5, 132:loca jussa tenere,
id. ib. 10, 238:loca servare,
Amm. 25, 6, 14.—Loci and loca, of parts of the body:7.loci nervosi,
Cels. 5, 26, 26.—Esp.:muliebres,
Varr. L. L. 5, 2, 15; and without adj., in females, the womb:si ea lotio locos fovebit,
Cato, R. R. 157, 11:cum in locis semen insederit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 51; Cels. 2, 8. —Of animals, Col. 6, 27, 10.—Of birds, Col. 8, 11, 8; Lucr. 14, 1246; Plin. 11, 37, 84, § 209; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 17:genitalia,
Col. 7, 7, 4; cf. id. 8, 7, 2; 8, 11, 8;in males,
Lucr. 4, 1034; 4, 1045.—Communis locus,(α).The place of the dead:(β).qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum,
Plaut. Cas. prol. 19.—A public place:8.Sthenius... qui oppidum non maximum maximis ex pecunia sua locis communibus monumentisque decoravit,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 46, § 112.—A burial-place, grave; very freq. in epitaphs; v. Inscr. Orell. 8; 4499; 4500 sq.II.Trop.A. 1.In gen.:2.cum fundamentum esset philosophiae positum in finibus bonorum, perpurgatus est is locus a nobis quinque libris,
Cic. Div. 2, 1, 2:Theophrastus cum tractat locos ab Aristotele ante tractatos,
id. Fin. 1, 2, 6:hic locus, de natura usuque verborum,
id. Or. 48, 162:philosophiae noti et tractati loci,
id. ib. 33, 118:ex quattuor locis in quos honesti naturam vimque divisimus,
id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Inv. 2, 3, 11; 2, 5, 16; 2, 8, 26 et saep.; Quint. 2, 4, 27; 2, 11, 6; 5, 8, 4; Juv. 6, 245; Tac. Or. 31.—Esp.: loci, the grounds of proof, the points on which proofs are founded or from which they are deduced:3.cum pervestigare argumentum aliquod volumus, locos nosse debemus,
Cic. Top. 2, 7; id. de Or. 1, 13, 56; 3, 55, 210:traditi sunt ex quibus argumenta ducantur duplices loci,
id. Or. 35; so sing.:itaque licet definire, locum esse argumenti sedem,
id. Top. 2.—Esp.: loci communes, general arguments, which do not grow out of the particular facts of a case, but are applicable to any class of cases:B.pars (argumentorum) est pervagatior et aut in omnis ejusdem generis aut in plerasque causas adcommodata: haec ergo argumenta, quae transferri in multas causas possunt, locos communis nominamus,
Cic. Inv. 2, 14, 47 sq.; cf. the passage at length; id. ib. 2, 16, 50 sq.; 2, 18, 56; Auct. Her. 3, 8, 15; Quint. 2, 1, 9; 3, 1, 12; 5, 1, 3; 5, 13, 57 al.— Sing.:vix ullus est tam communis locus, qui possit cohaerere cum causa, nisi aliquo proprio quaestionis vinculo copulatus,
Quint. 2, 4, 30:locus, for communis locus,
id. 4, 2, 117; 5, 7, 32.—A passage in a book or author; plur. loci (Zumpt, Gram. §C.99): locos quosdam transferam,
Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7; Quint. 1, 1, 36; 1, 4, 4; 5, 13, 42; 6, 3, 36; Tac. Or. 22:locos Lucreti plurimos sectare,
Gell. 1, 21, 7;but rarely loca: loca jam recitata,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 223; Amm. 29, 2, 8.—Room, opportunity, cause, occasion, place, time, etc., for any thing:D.et cognoscendi et ignoscendi dabitur peccati locus,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 6:avaritia paululum aliquid loci rationi et consilio dedisset,
Cic. Quint. 16, 53:de tuo in me animo iniquis secus existimandi videris nonnihil dedisse loci,
to have given occasion, cause, reason, id. Fam. 3, 6, 6:dare suspicioni locum,
id. Cael. 4, 9:dare locum dubitationis,
id. Balb. 6, 16; Val. Fl. 4, 451: locum habere, to find a place:qui dolorem summum malum dicit, apud eum, quem locum habet fortitudo?
Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:in hoc altero dicacitatis quid habet ars loci?
id. de Or. 2, 54, 219; so,locus est alicui rei: legi Aquiliae locus est adversus te,
Dig. 9, 2, 27; cf.:huic edicto locus est,
ib. 37, 10, 6; cf.:meritis vacat hic tibi locus,
Verg. A. 11, 179:cum defendendi negandive non est locus,
Quint. 5, 13, 8:quaerendi,
id. 3, 8, 21.—Also in the sense of there is place for any thing, it finds acceptance:in poëtis non Homero soli locus est aut Archilocho, etc.,
Cic. Or. 1, 4:si in mea familiaritate locus esset nemini nisi, etc.,
id. Planc. 33, 82:maledicto nihil loci est,
id. Mur. 5, 12: locum non relinquere, to leave no room for, not to admit, to exclude:vita turpis ne morti quidem honestae locum relinquit,
id. Quint. 15, 49; so,nec precibus nostris nec admonitionibus relinquit locum,
id. Fam. 1, 1, 2: nancisci locum, to find occasion:nactus locum resecandae libidinis,
id. Att. 1, 18, 2:valde gaudeo, si est nunc ullus gaudendi locus,
id. ib. 9, 7, 6.—In aliquo loco esse, to be in any place, position, situation, condition, state, relation:E.si ego in istoc siem loco, dem potius aurum, quam, etc.,
position, place, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 116:tanta ibi copia venustatum aderat, in suo quaeque loco sita munde,
id. Poen. 5, 4, 8:in uxoris loco habere,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 52:in liberūm loco esse,
Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 200; id. Planc. 11, 28; id. Brut. 1, 1; but more freq. without in:is si eo loco esset, negavit se facturum,
id. Fam. 4, 4, 4:eodem loco esse,
Sen. Ben. 3, 8, 2; 7, 14, 6.—Esp. with a gen.:parentis loco esse,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 19, 61:hostium loco esse,
Liv. 2, 4, 7:fratris loco esse,
Cic. Fam. 5, 3, 1; 7, 3, 6; Quint. 6, 1, 7:nec vero hic locus est, ut, etc.,
not the proper occasion, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 1; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33.— Hence, loco or in loco, at the right place or time, seasonably, suitably:posuisti loco versus Attianos,
Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 4:epistolae non in loco redditae,
id. ib. 11, 16, 1:dulce est desipere in loco,
Hor. C. 4, 12, 28; so,locis: non insurgit locis? non figuris gaudet?
Quint. 12, 10, 23:quo res summa loco?
in what condition? Verg. A. 2, 322:quo sit fortuna loco,
id. ib. 9, 723:quo sit Romana loco res,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 25:quo tua sit fortuna loco,
Stat. Th. 7, 558:missis nuntiis, quo loco res essent,
Liv. 2, 47, 5:primo loco,
in the first place, first in order, Juv. 5, 12.—Freq. as a partit. gen.:quo loci for quo loco,
Cic. Att. 8, 10; id. Div. 2, 66:eo loci for eo loco,
id. Sest. 31, 68; Tac. A. 15, 74:eodem loci,
Suet. Calig. 53:ubi loci,
Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 26:ibidem loci,
id. Cist. 3, 1, 53:interea loci for interea,
meanwhile, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 46:postea loci,
after that, afterwards, Sall. J. 102:ubicumque locorum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 34:adhuc locorum,
hitherto, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 25:ad id locorum,
to that time, till then, hitherto, Sall. J. 63, 6; 73, 2; Liv. 22, 38, 12:post id locorum,
after that, thereupon, Plaut. Cas. 1, 32:inde loci,
since then, Lucr. 5, 437.—Place, position, degree, rank, order, office, of persons or things:F.summus locus civitatis,
Cic. Clu. 55, 150:tua dignitas suum locum obtinebit,
id. Fam. 3, 9, 2:quem locum apud ipsum Caesarem obtinuisti?
id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:res erat et causa nostra eo jam loci, ut, etc.,
id. Sest. 31, 68:Socrates voluptatem nullo loco numerat,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 90:codem loco habere, quo, etc.,
id. Prov. Cons. 17, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 6; 7, 77, 3; id. B. C. 1, 84, 2:indignantes eodem se loco esse, quo, etc.,
Liv. 42, 37, 8:sed esto, neque melius quod invenimus esse, neque par, est certe proximus locus,
Quint. 10, 5, 6:erat ordine proximus locus,
id. 7, 3, 36:humili loco,
id. 4, 2, 2.— Plur. loca:ut patricii recuperarent duo consularia loca,
Liv. 10, 15, 8:quinque augurum loca,
id. 10, 8, 3; 42, 34, 15:omnia loca obtinuere, ne cui plebeio aditus esset,
id. 4, 57, 11; Tac. A. 2, 55:Vesta loca prima tenet,
Ov. F. 6, 304.—Esp. of birth:infimo loco natus,
Cic. Fl. 11, 24:esse summo loco natus,
id. Planc. 25, 60:Tanaquil summo loco nata,
Liv. 1, 34.—Loco, adverbially, in the place of, instead of, for:criminis loco putant esse, quod vivam,
Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 6:haec filium suum sibi praemii loco deposcit,
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lŏcus (old form stlocus, like stlis for lis, Quint. 1, 4, 16), i, m. ( lŏcum, i, n., Inscr. ap. Grut. 129, 14; plur. loci, single places; loca, places connected with each other, a region; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 666 sq., and v. infra), a place, spot.I.Lit.A.In gen.:B.adsedistis in festivo loco,
i. e. the theatre, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 83:locum sibi velle liberum praeberier, ubi nequam faciat clam,
id. Poen. 1, 1, 49; 3, 3, 44; cf.3, 2, 25: omnes copias in unum locum convenire,
Cic. Att. 8, 16, 2:Galli qui ea loca incolerent,
Caes. B. G. 2, 4:locorum situm naturam regionis nosse,
Liv. 22, 38:Romae per omnes locos,
Sall. J. 32:facere alicui locum in turba,
Ov. A. A. 2, 210:ex loco superiore agere, of an orator speaking from the rostra, or of a judge pronouncing judgment: de loco superiore dicere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, § 102:ex aequo loco, of one speaking in the Senate or conversing with another: et ex superiore et ex aequo loco sermones habiti,
id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:ex inferiore loco,
to speak before a judge, id. de Or. 3, 6, 23: primus locus aedium, a dwelling on the ground-floor, Nep. praef. 6.— A post, position: loco movere, to drive from a place or post, Ter. Phorm. prol. 32; so,loco deicere,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 30:loco cedere,
to give way, abandon one's post, retire, Sall. C. 9; Caes. B. G. 1, 15.—In partic.1.A place, seat, in the theatre, the circus, or the forum:2.Servi ne obsideant, liberis ut sit locus,
room, seats, Plaut. Cas. prol. 23.—Esp. the place assigned by the Senate to foreign ambassadors: locum ad spectandum dare,
Cic. Mur. 35, 73; 34, 72; so Liv. 30, 17. — Plur. loca, Liv. 34, 44, 5; Vell. 2, 32, 3; Suet. Claud. 21; id. Ner. 11; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 21.—But plur. loci, Tac. A. 15, 32.—So of the lodging, quarters, place of abode assigned to foreign ambassadors for their residence:3.locus inde lautiaque legatis praeberi jussa,
Liv. 28, 39, 19; 30, 17, 14; 42, 26, 5; Symm. Ep. 4, 56; Sid. Ep. 8, 12:loca lautia,
App. M. 3, p. 140, 30.—A piece or part of an estate:4.stricte loquendo locus non est fundus sed pars aliqua fundi,
Dig. 50, 16, 60:locus certus ex fundo possideri potest,
ib. 41, 2, 26.—A place, spot, locality; a country region: hau longe abesse oportet homines hinc;5.ita hic lepidust locus,
Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 35:nunc hoc ubi abstrudam cogito solum locum,
id. Aul. 4, 6, 7:non hoc ut oppido praeposui, sed ut loco,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 10; Verg. A. 1, 530; Caes. B. G. 5, 12.— Poet. of the inhabitants of a place, a neighborhood:numina vicinorum odit uterque locus,
Juv. 15, 37.—Of a place where a city once stood, a site:locus Pherae,
Plin. 4, 5, 6, § 13:locus Buprasium, Hyrmine,
id. ib.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 280.— Plur. rarely loci:quos locos adiisti,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 86:locos tenere,
Liv. 5, 35, 1:occupare,
Sall. J. 18, 4; 76, 1; Lucr. 4, 509; Verg. A. 1, 306; 2, 28; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 22; Tac. A. 1, 61; 13, 36; Suet. Tib. 43.—Usually loca:loca haec circiter,
Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 8:venisse in illa loca,
Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5; id. Fin. 5, 1, 2 sq.; Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 2; Lucr. 1, 373; 2, 146; Cat. 9, 7; 63, 3; Sall. J. 18, 11; 54, 3; Verg. G. 2, 140; id. A. 1, 51; 2, 495; Hor. C. 1, 22, 7; Tib. 4, 1, 97; Ov. M. 10, 29; Liv. 1, 1, 5; 1, 5, 2; 1, 6, 4 et saep.—In war [p. 1075] or battle, a post, station (plur. loca):6.tum loca sorte legunt,
Verg. A. 5, 132:loca jussa tenere,
id. ib. 10, 238:loca servare,
Amm. 25, 6, 14.—Loci and loca, of parts of the body:7.loci nervosi,
Cels. 5, 26, 26.—Esp.:muliebres,
Varr. L. L. 5, 2, 15; and without adj., in females, the womb:si ea lotio locos fovebit,
Cato, R. R. 157, 11:cum in locis semen insederit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 51; Cels. 2, 8. —Of animals, Col. 6, 27, 10.—Of birds, Col. 8, 11, 8; Lucr. 14, 1246; Plin. 11, 37, 84, § 209; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 17:genitalia,
Col. 7, 7, 4; cf. id. 8, 7, 2; 8, 11, 8;in males,
Lucr. 4, 1034; 4, 1045.—Communis locus,(α).The place of the dead:(β).qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum,
Plaut. Cas. prol. 19.—A public place:8.Sthenius... qui oppidum non maximum maximis ex pecunia sua locis communibus monumentisque decoravit,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 46, § 112.—A burial-place, grave; very freq. in epitaphs; v. Inscr. Orell. 8; 4499; 4500 sq.II.Trop.A. 1.In gen.:2.cum fundamentum esset philosophiae positum in finibus bonorum, perpurgatus est is locus a nobis quinque libris,
Cic. Div. 2, 1, 2:Theophrastus cum tractat locos ab Aristotele ante tractatos,
id. Fin. 1, 2, 6:hic locus, de natura usuque verborum,
id. Or. 48, 162:philosophiae noti et tractati loci,
id. ib. 33, 118:ex quattuor locis in quos honesti naturam vimque divisimus,
id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Inv. 2, 3, 11; 2, 5, 16; 2, 8, 26 et saep.; Quint. 2, 4, 27; 2, 11, 6; 5, 8, 4; Juv. 6, 245; Tac. Or. 31.—Esp.: loci, the grounds of proof, the points on which proofs are founded or from which they are deduced:3.cum pervestigare argumentum aliquod volumus, locos nosse debemus,
Cic. Top. 2, 7; id. de Or. 1, 13, 56; 3, 55, 210:traditi sunt ex quibus argumenta ducantur duplices loci,
id. Or. 35; so sing.:itaque licet definire, locum esse argumenti sedem,
id. Top. 2.—Esp.: loci communes, general arguments, which do not grow out of the particular facts of a case, but are applicable to any class of cases:B.pars (argumentorum) est pervagatior et aut in omnis ejusdem generis aut in plerasque causas adcommodata: haec ergo argumenta, quae transferri in multas causas possunt, locos communis nominamus,
Cic. Inv. 2, 14, 47 sq.; cf. the passage at length; id. ib. 2, 16, 50 sq.; 2, 18, 56; Auct. Her. 3, 8, 15; Quint. 2, 1, 9; 3, 1, 12; 5, 1, 3; 5, 13, 57 al.— Sing.:vix ullus est tam communis locus, qui possit cohaerere cum causa, nisi aliquo proprio quaestionis vinculo copulatus,
Quint. 2, 4, 30:locus, for communis locus,
id. 4, 2, 117; 5, 7, 32.—A passage in a book or author; plur. loci (Zumpt, Gram. §C.99): locos quosdam transferam,
Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7; Quint. 1, 1, 36; 1, 4, 4; 5, 13, 42; 6, 3, 36; Tac. Or. 22:locos Lucreti plurimos sectare,
Gell. 1, 21, 7;but rarely loca: loca jam recitata,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 223; Amm. 29, 2, 8.—Room, opportunity, cause, occasion, place, time, etc., for any thing:D.et cognoscendi et ignoscendi dabitur peccati locus,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 6:avaritia paululum aliquid loci rationi et consilio dedisset,
Cic. Quint. 16, 53:de tuo in me animo iniquis secus existimandi videris nonnihil dedisse loci,
to have given occasion, cause, reason, id. Fam. 3, 6, 6:dare suspicioni locum,
id. Cael. 4, 9:dare locum dubitationis,
id. Balb. 6, 16; Val. Fl. 4, 451: locum habere, to find a place:qui dolorem summum malum dicit, apud eum, quem locum habet fortitudo?
Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:in hoc altero dicacitatis quid habet ars loci?
id. de Or. 2, 54, 219; so,locus est alicui rei: legi Aquiliae locus est adversus te,
Dig. 9, 2, 27; cf.:huic edicto locus est,
ib. 37, 10, 6; cf.:meritis vacat hic tibi locus,
Verg. A. 11, 179:cum defendendi negandive non est locus,
Quint. 5, 13, 8:quaerendi,
id. 3, 8, 21.—Also in the sense of there is place for any thing, it finds acceptance:in poëtis non Homero soli locus est aut Archilocho, etc.,
Cic. Or. 1, 4:si in mea familiaritate locus esset nemini nisi, etc.,
id. Planc. 33, 82:maledicto nihil loci est,
id. Mur. 5, 12: locum non relinquere, to leave no room for, not to admit, to exclude:vita turpis ne morti quidem honestae locum relinquit,
id. Quint. 15, 49; so,nec precibus nostris nec admonitionibus relinquit locum,
id. Fam. 1, 1, 2: nancisci locum, to find occasion:nactus locum resecandae libidinis,
id. Att. 1, 18, 2:valde gaudeo, si est nunc ullus gaudendi locus,
id. ib. 9, 7, 6.—In aliquo loco esse, to be in any place, position, situation, condition, state, relation:E.si ego in istoc siem loco, dem potius aurum, quam, etc.,
position, place, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 116:tanta ibi copia venustatum aderat, in suo quaeque loco sita munde,
id. Poen. 5, 4, 8:in uxoris loco habere,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 52:in liberūm loco esse,
Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 200; id. Planc. 11, 28; id. Brut. 1, 1; but more freq. without in:is si eo loco esset, negavit se facturum,
id. Fam. 4, 4, 4:eodem loco esse,
Sen. Ben. 3, 8, 2; 7, 14, 6.—Esp. with a gen.:parentis loco esse,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 19, 61:hostium loco esse,
Liv. 2, 4, 7:fratris loco esse,
Cic. Fam. 5, 3, 1; 7, 3, 6; Quint. 6, 1, 7:nec vero hic locus est, ut, etc.,
not the proper occasion, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 1; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33.— Hence, loco or in loco, at the right place or time, seasonably, suitably:posuisti loco versus Attianos,
Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 4:epistolae non in loco redditae,
id. ib. 11, 16, 1:dulce est desipere in loco,
Hor. C. 4, 12, 28; so,locis: non insurgit locis? non figuris gaudet?
Quint. 12, 10, 23:quo res summa loco?
in what condition? Verg. A. 2, 322:quo sit fortuna loco,
id. ib. 9, 723:quo sit Romana loco res,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 25:quo tua sit fortuna loco,
Stat. Th. 7, 558:missis nuntiis, quo loco res essent,
Liv. 2, 47, 5:primo loco,
in the first place, first in order, Juv. 5, 12.—Freq. as a partit. gen.:quo loci for quo loco,
Cic. Att. 8, 10; id. Div. 2, 66:eo loci for eo loco,
id. Sest. 31, 68; Tac. A. 15, 74:eodem loci,
Suet. Calig. 53:ubi loci,
Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 26:ibidem loci,
id. Cist. 3, 1, 53:interea loci for interea,
meanwhile, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 46:postea loci,
after that, afterwards, Sall. J. 102:ubicumque locorum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 34:adhuc locorum,
hitherto, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 25:ad id locorum,
to that time, till then, hitherto, Sall. J. 63, 6; 73, 2; Liv. 22, 38, 12:post id locorum,
after that, thereupon, Plaut. Cas. 1, 32:inde loci,
since then, Lucr. 5, 437.—Place, position, degree, rank, order, office, of persons or things:F.summus locus civitatis,
Cic. Clu. 55, 150:tua dignitas suum locum obtinebit,
id. Fam. 3, 9, 2:quem locum apud ipsum Caesarem obtinuisti?
id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:res erat et causa nostra eo jam loci, ut, etc.,
id. Sest. 31, 68:Socrates voluptatem nullo loco numerat,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 90:codem loco habere, quo, etc.,
id. Prov. Cons. 17, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 6; 7, 77, 3; id. B. C. 1, 84, 2:indignantes eodem se loco esse, quo, etc.,
Liv. 42, 37, 8:sed esto, neque melius quod invenimus esse, neque par, est certe proximus locus,
Quint. 10, 5, 6:erat ordine proximus locus,
id. 7, 3, 36:humili loco,
id. 4, 2, 2.— Plur. loca:ut patricii recuperarent duo consularia loca,
Liv. 10, 15, 8:quinque augurum loca,
id. 10, 8, 3; 42, 34, 15:omnia loca obtinuere, ne cui plebeio aditus esset,
id. 4, 57, 11; Tac. A. 2, 55:Vesta loca prima tenet,
Ov. F. 6, 304.—Esp. of birth:infimo loco natus,
Cic. Fl. 11, 24:esse summo loco natus,
id. Planc. 25, 60:Tanaquil summo loco nata,
Liv. 1, 34.—Loco, adverbially, in the place of, instead of, for:criminis loco putant esse, quod vivam,
Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 6:haec filium suum sibi praemii loco deposcit,
id. Inv. 2, 49, 144. -
5 dico
[st1]1 [-] dĭco, āre, āvi, ātum: - tr. - [abcl][b]a - faire connaître, publier, annoncer solennellement. - [abcl]b - dédier, consacrer, vouer (à une divinité). - [abcl]c - employer pour la première fois, inaugurer.[/b] - se alicui in clientelam dicare: se mettre sous le patronage de qqn. - se alicui dicare: se vouer à qqn, se dévouer à qqn, s’attacher à qqn. - dicare se in servitutem alicui, Caes.: être dévoué corps et âme à qqn, se dévouer corps et âme à qqn, se faire l'esclave de qqn. - totum diem alicui dicare, Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7: consacrer toute une journée à qqn. - dicare librum alicui, Plin. 19, 10, 57, § 177: dédier un livre à qqn. - meae laudi tuum studium dicas, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 4: tu voues tout ton zèle à me glorifier. - se Remis in clientelam dicabant, Caes. BG. 6, 12: ils se rangeaient dans la clientèle des Rémois. - se dicare in aliam civitatem, Cic. Balb, 30: se faire citoyen d'une autre ville. - nova signa dicare, Tac. H. 5, 16: inaugurer de nouvelles enseignes. [st1]2 [-] dīco, ĕre, dīxi, dictum: - tr. - [abcl][b]a - dire, affirmer, prononcer, exprimer; débiter, réciter. - [abcl]b - dire le nom, nommer, appeler. - [abcl]c - haranguer, plaider. - [abcl]d - célébrer, chanter, raconter, décrire, composer, prédire. - [abcl]e - fixer, assigner, établir, régler. - [abcl]f - avertir, faire savoir, notifier. - [abcl]g - signifier, vouloir dire. - [abcl]h - nommer, élire, proclamer, élever au rang de.[/b] - formes archaïques: - impér. prés. dice = dic. - ind. fut. dicem = dicam. - ind. fut.: dicebo = dicam. - ind. parf.: dixti = dixisti. - subj. parf.: dixis = dixeris. - subj. plus.-q.-parf.: dixem = dixissem. - inf. passé: dixe = dixisse. - inf. prés. passif: dicier = dici. - dic (impératif prés.): dis. - aliquid alicui dicere: dire qqch à qqn. - dictatorem, consulem dicere: désigner un dictateur, un consul. - dicere diem alicui ad colloquium: fixer un jour à qqn pour une entrevue. - dicere sententiam: exposer son avis (au sénat), prononcer un discours (au sénat). - dico, dicis: je veux dire, tu veux dire (présent de tentative). - dicere + prop. inf.: dire que. - dici potest + prop. inf.: [il peut être dit que] = on peut dire que. - dicere ut + subj.: dire de, ordonner de. - dic ei ut veniat: dis-lui de venir. - tibi dico (dans le dialogue): c'est à toi que je parle; je t'en préviens. - ut ita dicam (ut ita dixerim, sic dixerim): pour ainsi dire. - causam dicere: plaider une cause. - jus dicere: rendre la justice. - pro aliquo (causam) dicere: plaider pour qqn. - contra aliquem dicere: plaider contre qqn. - causam nullam dico (causam haud dico): je n'ai pas d'objection à formuler. - de aliqua re ad unum judicem dicere: plaider sur une affaire devant un seul juge. - quod dicunt: comme on dit. - ut plura non dicam: sans en dire plus. - dictum ac factum (dictum factum), Ter. And. 2, 3, 7: aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait; à l'instant même. - vel dicam = vel potius: ou plutôt. - dicere ad aliquam rem: répliquer à qqch. - facilis dictu: facile à dire. - nihil dicere: ne rien dire de bon. - subj. arch. - mihi ne dixis (= dixeris), scire nolo, Plaut. Mil.: ne me dis rien, je ne veux pas le savoir. - inf. prés. passif arch. - nec quis esset umquam audieram dicier, Ter. Eun.: je n'avais jamais entendu dire qui il était.* * *[st1]1 [-] dĭco, āre, āvi, ātum: - tr. - [abcl][b]a - faire connaître, publier, annoncer solennellement. - [abcl]b - dédier, consacrer, vouer (à une divinité). - [abcl]c - employer pour la première fois, inaugurer.[/b] - se alicui in clientelam dicare: se mettre sous le patronage de qqn. - se alicui dicare: se vouer à qqn, se dévouer à qqn, s’attacher à qqn. - dicare se in servitutem alicui, Caes.: être dévoué corps et âme à qqn, se dévouer corps et âme à qqn, se faire l'esclave de qqn. - totum diem alicui dicare, Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7: consacrer toute une journée à qqn. - dicare librum alicui, Plin. 19, 10, 57, § 177: dédier un livre à qqn. - meae laudi tuum studium dicas, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 4: tu voues tout ton zèle à me glorifier. - se Remis in clientelam dicabant, Caes. BG. 6, 12: ils se rangeaient dans la clientèle des Rémois. - se dicare in aliam civitatem, Cic. Balb, 30: se faire citoyen d'une autre ville. - nova signa dicare, Tac. H. 5, 16: inaugurer de nouvelles enseignes. [st1]2 [-] dīco, ĕre, dīxi, dictum: - tr. - [abcl][b]a - dire, affirmer, prononcer, exprimer; débiter, réciter. - [abcl]b - dire le nom, nommer, appeler. - [abcl]c - haranguer, plaider. - [abcl]d - célébrer, chanter, raconter, décrire, composer, prédire. - [abcl]e - fixer, assigner, établir, régler. - [abcl]f - avertir, faire savoir, notifier. - [abcl]g - signifier, vouloir dire. - [abcl]h - nommer, élire, proclamer, élever au rang de.[/b] - formes archaïques: - impér. prés. dice = dic. - ind. fut. dicem = dicam. - ind. fut.: dicebo = dicam. - ind. parf.: dixti = dixisti. - subj. parf.: dixis = dixeris. - subj. plus.-q.-parf.: dixem = dixissem. - inf. passé: dixe = dixisse. - inf. prés. passif: dicier = dici. - dic (impératif prés.): dis. - aliquid alicui dicere: dire qqch à qqn. - dictatorem, consulem dicere: désigner un dictateur, un consul. - dicere diem alicui ad colloquium: fixer un jour à qqn pour une entrevue. - dicere sententiam: exposer son avis (au sénat), prononcer un discours (au sénat). - dico, dicis: je veux dire, tu veux dire (présent de tentative). - dicere + prop. inf.: dire que. - dici potest + prop. inf.: [il peut être dit que] = on peut dire que. - dicere ut + subj.: dire de, ordonner de. - dic ei ut veniat: dis-lui de venir. - tibi dico (dans le dialogue): c'est à toi que je parle; je t'en préviens. - ut ita dicam (ut ita dixerim, sic dixerim): pour ainsi dire. - causam dicere: plaider une cause. - jus dicere: rendre la justice. - pro aliquo (causam) dicere: plaider pour qqn. - contra aliquem dicere: plaider contre qqn. - causam nullam dico (causam haud dico): je n'ai pas d'objection à formuler. - de aliqua re ad unum judicem dicere: plaider sur une affaire devant un seul juge. - quod dicunt: comme on dit. - ut plura non dicam: sans en dire plus. - dictum ac factum (dictum factum), Ter. And. 2, 3, 7: aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait; à l'instant même. - vel dicam = vel potius: ou plutôt. - dicere ad aliquam rem: répliquer à qqch. - facilis dictu: facile à dire. - nihil dicere: ne rien dire de bon. - subj. arch. - mihi ne dixis (= dixeris), scire nolo, Plaut. Mil.: ne me dis rien, je ne veux pas le savoir. - inf. prés. passif arch. - nec quis esset umquam audieram dicier, Ter. Eun.: je n'avais jamais entendu dire qui il était.* * *Dico, dicas, prima corr. dicare. Cic. Donner à tousjours et à perpetuité.\Coniugio dicare aliquem alicui. Valer. Flac. Luy destiner et desdier pour estre son mari.\Dicare aliquam operam alteri. Plaut. Prester sa peine à aucun en quelque faict.\Se alicui in clientelam. Caesar. Se donner et desdier à aucun, et se mettre en sa sauvegarde, Devenir son vassal.\Dicare se in aliquam ciuitatem. Cic. Se rendre bourgeois d'aucune ville.\Studium suum laudi alicuius dicare. Cic. Addonner et employer son estude à, etc.\Totum hunc tibi dicamus diem. Cic. Nous te donnons tout ce jour pour faire de nous tout ce que tu vouldras.\Dicare aliquid Deo, pro Consecrare, et Dedicare. Pli. Cic. Desdier et consacrer.\Dicare opus alicui rei. Plin. Luy donner un livre à part, La descrire en un livre à part, et non point parmi les autres choses.\Dico, dicis, dixi, dictum, dicere. Dire.\Quasi tu dicas factum id consilio meo. Terent. Comme si tu disois que, etc.\Dixi venturam. Terent. J'ay dict qu'elle viendra.\Dicitur is venturus nunc peregre. Plaut. On dit qu'il viendra.\Tibi ego dico, an non? Terent. Parle je à toy à ton advis, ou si c'est à un autre?\Dicisne, an non? Interrogantis est et vrgentis. Plaut. Diras tu pas ce que je te demande?\- dic mihi Hoc primum, potin'est hic tacere? Terent. Or me dis tout premierement, ou en premier lieu.\Dicere, proprie est Oratorum. Quintil. Bien parler.\Dicere apud iudices. Cic. Plaider et porter la parolle.\Pro aliquo dicere. Cic. Plaider pour aucun et le defendre.\Dicendum est mihi igitur ad ea quae sunt a te dicta. Cice. Il me fault respondre à ce que tu as dict par ci devant.\Mirum quin te aduorsus dicat. Plaut. Mais dommage qu'il ne parle contre toy, et qu'il ne te desment, C'est merveille qu'il ne dit tout le contraire de ce que tu dis.\Ad aetatem alicuius dicere. Cic. Selon l'aage.\AEqui bonique partem aliquam dicere. Terent. Aller aucunement à la raison, Offrir quelque parti raisonnable.\Aliouorsum dixeram. Plaut. Je l'avoye dict en autre intention, ou autre sens.\Bene atque amice dicis. Plaut. Tu parles bien et en ami.\Animo praesenti dicere. Terent. Parler hardiement et asseureement sans crainte.\Ex animo. Terent. Dire à bon escient, et ainsi qu'on le sent en son cueur, Dire de bonne foy, et ainsi qu'on le pense.\Ei argumenta rei dicam. Plaut. Je luy diray les enseignes.\In aurem. Plaut. Dire tout bas à l'oreille.\Bella dicere. Virgil. Raconter.\Carmina. Virgil. Dire, ou Chanter des chansons.\Carmine aliquem dicere. Virgil. Descrire les gestes d'aucun.\Dicere causam dicitur reus. Cice. Proposer ses defenses, Se defendre en jugement.\Nunquid causam dicis, quin etc. Plaut. Veuls tu empescher que, etc.\Non causam dico, quin quod meritus est ferat. Terent. Je ne veulx pas empescher qu'il ne soit puni selon qu'il a merité.\Dixere causam tunc nescio quam. Terent. Ils dirent je ne scay quelles excuses.\Haec cura, clanculum vt sint dicta. Plaut. Que personne n'en sache rien, Faictes que ces choses soyent dictes en secret.\Coenam dicere. Plaut. Convier, Semondre à souper, Inviter.\Dictum breuiter et commode. Cic. Briefvement, et bien à propos.\In commune dicere. Plin. Dire en general.\Conatu magno nugas dicere. Terent. S'efforcer à mentir.\Contra aliquem dicitur aduocatus dicere. Cic. Plaider contre aucun.\Contumeliam dicere. Plaut. Dire quelque oultrage et parolle de despris, Villener, Laidoyer, Laidanger, Oultrager aucun de parolles.\Dicta. Cic. Dire broquars et parolles de risees, Gaber un homme, Farcer, Gaudir, Mocquer, Rigoler, Railler.\Dictatorem dicere, pro creare. Liu. Le nommer et faire.\Diem alicui. Cic. Adjourner aucun, Bailler jour, ou Assigner.\Diem capitis, vel Rei capitalis. Liu. Adjourner à comparoistre en personne en cas de crime, où il est question de l'honneur ou de la vie.\Diem iuris. Plaut. Adjourner, Assigner jour pour venir en jugement.\Diem nuptiis, vel operi dicere, quod et Praestituere dicitur. Terent. Prendre et arrester jour pour faire nopces, ou autre chose.\Non dicam dolo. Plaut. Sans mentir, Sans fraude et malengin.\Dotem et doti, dicere filio vel filiae omnia sua bona. Terent. Promettre en dot.\Facta alicuius dicere. Virgil. Composer une histoire des gestes et faicts d'aucun.\Falsum dicere. Plaut. Mentir.\Bona fide dicere. Plaut. Dire à la bonne foy et sans mentir, A bon escient et asseureement.\Bonane fide istuc dicis? Plaut. Me le dis tu vrayment? M'en asseure tu?\Nolo in illum grauius dicere. Terent. Je ne veulx point dire contre luy parolle plus picquante pour le present.\Inclementer vel acerbe in aliquem dicere. Plaut. Cic. Blasmer, Injurier, Oultrager de parolles.\Inclementer literis. Plaut. Blasmer les lettres.\Inducias dicere. Plaut. Faire treves.\Iniuste alteri dicere. Plaut. Blasmer à tort.\Ioco, vel per iocum dicere. Plaut. Dire par jeu, Et non à bon escient.\Ius dicere. Cic. Exercer la jurisdiction, Exercer judicature.\Ius dicis. Plaut. Tu parles raisonnablement.\Legem. Liu. Bailler loy à un inferieur et luy ordonner ce qu'on veult qu'il face.\Legem fullonibus, et similibus. Plin. Leur bailler loy de ce qu'ils doibvent faire en leur mestier.\De loco superiore, vel e loco superiore dicere. Ci. Parler d'enhault et du siege judicial, Parler estant assis en siege de judicature.\Ex inferiore loco. Cic. Parler au juge estant assis en son siege.\Mendacium dicere. Plaut. Mentir.\Multam dicere. Liu. C'estoit anciennement une espece de condamnation d'amende prononcee au peuple, de laquelle la confirmation ou infirmation appartenoit au peuple: par devant lequel comparoissoyent le Magistrat d'une part soustenant sa pronontiation, et la partie condamnee debatant au contraire, qu'on disoit Certare multam.\Multam dicere. Cic. Defendre sur peines, ou sur peine de l'amende. B.\Multationem, siue multam pecoris dicere. Plin. Varro. Condamner en amende de certain nombre de brebis ou de boeufs.\Nomen alicui dicere. Liu. Nommer, Bailler ou Imposer nom.\Nugas. Plaut. Jaser.\Nummos. Pompon. Promettre.\Palam dicere. Plaut. Dire en presence de touts.\In vtranque partem. Cic. Soustenir de parolles les deux parties.\Pecuniam dicere. Sallust. Promettre.\Praelia dicere. Horat. Narrer les batailles.\Hoc Netinorum foederata ciuitas publice dicit. Cic. Les Neriniens noz alliez et confederez en dient autant par leurs embassadeurs qu'ils ont ici envoyez au nom de la communaulté.\Dico quod videtur. Terent. Ce qu'il m'ensemble.\Repudium dicere. Tacit. Repudier et rejecter sa femme, Faire divorce et separation de mariage.\Iam id ipsa res dicet tibi. Plaut. La chose t'enseignera.\Rem potius ipsam dic, ac mitte maleloqui. Terent. Venez au poinct, et cessez de mesdire.\Sacramento dicere, dicebantur milites, quum ad iusiurandum adigebantur Rempublicam se non deserturos. Liu. Quand les gens prins et levez pour le faict de la guerre prestoyent le serment accoustumé entre les mains de leur capitaine, ou autre ayant povoir de le recevoir.\Dicere sacramentum. Horat. Prester et faire serment solennel.\Dicere alicui saluere. Sueton. Le saluer, Luy dire Bon jour, Dieu vous gard.\Dicere salutem alicui. Plaut. Saluer aucun, Faire priere à Dieu de le tenir sauf.\De scripto dicere. Cice. Dire et prononcer par escript, par livre, en lisant.\De se, et de suo ingenio. Cic. Parler de soy et de son esprit.\Dicere alicui valere. Sueton. Luy dire A dieu, Bon soir.\Sedulo dicere. Terent. Dire à bon escient et selon qu'on le pense.\Semel. Plin. Dire une fois pour toutes.\Sententiam dicere. Cic. Dire son opinion de quelque chose.\Pro sententia dicere. Liu. Opiner, Dire son opinion.\Dicuntur sententiae. Caesar. On dit les opinions, On opine.\Nonnullae huiusmodi sententiae dicebantur, vt impedimentis relictis, eruptione facta, etc. Aucuns estoyent de cest advis, ou opinion, que, etc.\Ex tempore. Cic. Dire sur le champ et sans y avoir pensé paravant.\Dicere testes dicuntur. Cic. Quand ils deposent par devant le juge ou l'examinateur.\Testimonium et testimonia dicere. Cice. Porter tesmoignage en jugement.\Pro testimonio dicere. Cice. Deposer et porter tesmoignage par devant un juge, ou examinateur.\Dixere vale. Ouid. Ils dirent Adieu.\Multa ad veritatem dicere. Cic. Selon la verité.\Ad voluntatem alicuius dicere. Cic. Parler au gré d'aucun et le flatter.\Nihil dixit tum vt sequerere sese? Terent. Ne te dist il pas lors que tu le suivisses?\Dico vt res est. Plaut. Je dis la chose comme elle va.\Dicitur. Cic. On dit. \ Vt dicitur. Cic. Comme on dit.\Nunquam audiui dici. Terent. Jamais je n'ouy dire.\Diceret, Quid feci? Terent. Il pourroit dire.\Dicere volui. Plaut. J'ay failli, Je vouloye dire autrement.\Nesciebam id dicere illam. Terent. Je ne scavoye pas qu'elle entendist cela.\De prandio dicis, debetur. dabo. Plaut. C'est du disner que tu parles.\Dixi Phormio. Terent. Voyla ce que je te vouloye dire, Je ne te veulx dire autre chose.\Dixine ego in hoc esse vobis Atticam eloquentiam? Terent. Ne vous ay je pas bien dict que, etc.\Dices, Quid postea, si Romae assiduo fui? Cic. Tu me diras.\Dicet aliquis, Quid ergo tu? Cic. Quelqu'un pourra dire.\Ne dixis istuc. Plaut. Ne me dis pas cela, Il n'est pas ainsi que tu me dis, Il n'en est rien.\Est locus, Hesperiam Graii cognomine dicunt. Virgil. Ils le nomment.\Merito dici posset is quoque Dionysius. Plin. Pourroit estre nommé et dict.\Dicor tibi frater ex Iberis. Martial. On me dit ton frere.\Dici vix potest quam multa sint quae, etc. Cic. A peine pourroit on dire.\Dictu nihil facilius. Terent. Il n'est rien plus aisé à dire. Dict par mocquerie d'une chose difficile à faire.\Ratio dicendi. Quintil. La maniere de bien parler. -
6 collectum
1.col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),I.Prop.A.In gen.1.Of things:2.omnia praesegmina,
Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:stipulam,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:radices palmarum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:apes in vas,
Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:ossa,
Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.reliquias,
Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:materiem nostram Post obitum,
Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,
Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,
id. ib. 5, 338; so,sinus fluentes,
Verg. A. 1, 320:flores,
Ov. M. 5, 399:riguo horto olus,
id. ib. 8, 646:de purpureis vitibus uvas,
id. ib. 8, 676:fructus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:sarmenta virgultaque,
Caes. B. G. 3, 18:serpentes,
Nep. Hann. 10, 4:naufragium,
Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:pecuniam,
Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:viatica,
id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:stipem a tyrannis,
to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:aër umorem colligens,
Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:imbres,
Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:pluvias aquas,
Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,
Lucr. 6, 558:procellam,
id. 6, 124:spiritum,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:flatus cornibus,
Sil. 14, 390:collectae ex alto nubes,
heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:pulvis collectus turbine,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,
i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:luna revertentes colligit ignes,
Verg. G. 1, 427:antiqua verba et figuras,
Suet. Gram. 10:equos,
to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,gressum,
Sil. 6, 399:gradum,
id. 7, 695; so,fig. iram,
id. 9, 477;and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:librum,
to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,
Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,
id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,
Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:arma = remos,
i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:B.exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,
Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 8:milites,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:reliquos ex fugā,
Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,
id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:de pagis omnibus bonos viros,
Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:in moenia,
Sil. 10, 390:ex regno alicujus,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:in aestuaria ac paludes,
Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):b.in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,
Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,
Liv. 2, 50, 7:alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,
Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:apicem collectus in unum,
Ov. M. 13, 910:pedes,
to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:volumina collecta in artum,
Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:pallium,
to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:togam,
Mart. 7, 33, 4:12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,
causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—II.Trop.A.To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):b.sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,
i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:flammarum iras,
Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:res undique conlectae,
id. ib. 3, 24, 92:quaedam conlecta edere,
Quint. 5, 10, 120:sparsa argumenta,
id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,
Cic. Clu. 28, 77:rumorem bonum,
id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:peccata consulum,
id. ib. 3, 10, 23:vestigia Pythagoreorum,
id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:existimationem multo sudore,
id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:benevolentiam civium blanditiis,
id. Lael. 17, 61:magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:auctoritatem,
Caes. B. G. 6, 12:famam clementiae,
Liv. 21, 48, 10:tantum amoris favorisque,
Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:crimina majestatis,
Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:sitim,
Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:adducere sitim,
Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):frigus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:rabiem,
Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:odium,
id. ib. 3, 258:usum patiendi,
id. Am. 1, 8, 75:vires usu,
id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):B.ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,
Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,
id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,
id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):C.quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?
Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:se colligere,
to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:se ex timore,
id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:animos,
Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:animum,
Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:animum cogitationemque,
Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:mentem,
Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:mentem cum vultu,
id. Am. 1, 14, 55:paulatim mente collectā,
Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:colligere spiritum,
to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:b.cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,
Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,
id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:sic collige mecum,
id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:1.ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,
Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:aliquid per aliud,
Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,
Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,
Liv. 7, 37, 9:bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,
Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,
Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):2.tanto beatior, quanto collectior,
App. Mag. 21, p. 287:corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),
Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:tempus collectius,
Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:ponere aliquod verbum,
Non. p. 164, 1.—collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.2.col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).I.Prop.:II.omne colligatum solvi potest,
Cic. Univ. 11, 35:corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,
id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:manus,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,
fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:solum herbis colligatum,
thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:bitumen vulnera colligat,
Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—Trop.A.In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):B.homines inter se sermonis vinclo,
Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,
id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,
id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:sententias verbis,
to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,
to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:impetum furentis (Antonii),
Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:Brutum in Graeciā,
i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:se cum multis,
id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:colligatius adhaerere alicui,
Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28. -
7 colligo
1.col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),I.Prop.A.In gen.1.Of things:2.omnia praesegmina,
Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:stipulam,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:radices palmarum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:apes in vas,
Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:ossa,
Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.reliquias,
Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:materiem nostram Post obitum,
Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,
Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,
id. ib. 5, 338; so,sinus fluentes,
Verg. A. 1, 320:flores,
Ov. M. 5, 399:riguo horto olus,
id. ib. 8, 646:de purpureis vitibus uvas,
id. ib. 8, 676:fructus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:sarmenta virgultaque,
Caes. B. G. 3, 18:serpentes,
Nep. Hann. 10, 4:naufragium,
Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:pecuniam,
Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:viatica,
id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:stipem a tyrannis,
to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:aër umorem colligens,
Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:imbres,
Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:pluvias aquas,
Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,
Lucr. 6, 558:procellam,
id. 6, 124:spiritum,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:flatus cornibus,
Sil. 14, 390:collectae ex alto nubes,
heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:pulvis collectus turbine,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,
i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:luna revertentes colligit ignes,
Verg. G. 1, 427:antiqua verba et figuras,
Suet. Gram. 10:equos,
to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,gressum,
Sil. 6, 399:gradum,
id. 7, 695; so,fig. iram,
id. 9, 477;and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:librum,
to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,
Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,
id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,
Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:arma = remos,
i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:B.exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,
Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 8:milites,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:reliquos ex fugā,
Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,
id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:de pagis omnibus bonos viros,
Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:in moenia,
Sil. 10, 390:ex regno alicujus,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:in aestuaria ac paludes,
Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):b.in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,
Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,
Liv. 2, 50, 7:alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,
Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:apicem collectus in unum,
Ov. M. 13, 910:pedes,
to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:volumina collecta in artum,
Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:pallium,
to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:togam,
Mart. 7, 33, 4:12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,
causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—II.Trop.A.To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):b.sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,
i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:flammarum iras,
Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:res undique conlectae,
id. ib. 3, 24, 92:quaedam conlecta edere,
Quint. 5, 10, 120:sparsa argumenta,
id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,
Cic. Clu. 28, 77:rumorem bonum,
id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:peccata consulum,
id. ib. 3, 10, 23:vestigia Pythagoreorum,
id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:existimationem multo sudore,
id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:benevolentiam civium blanditiis,
id. Lael. 17, 61:magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:auctoritatem,
Caes. B. G. 6, 12:famam clementiae,
Liv. 21, 48, 10:tantum amoris favorisque,
Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:crimina majestatis,
Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:sitim,
Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:adducere sitim,
Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):frigus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:rabiem,
Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:odium,
id. ib. 3, 258:usum patiendi,
id. Am. 1, 8, 75:vires usu,
id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):B.ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,
Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,
id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,
id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):C.quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?
Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:se colligere,
to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:se ex timore,
id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:animos,
Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:animum,
Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:animum cogitationemque,
Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:mentem,
Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:mentem cum vultu,
id. Am. 1, 14, 55:paulatim mente collectā,
Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:colligere spiritum,
to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:b.cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,
Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,
id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:sic collige mecum,
id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:1.ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,
Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:aliquid per aliud,
Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,
Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,
Liv. 7, 37, 9:bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,
Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,
Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):2.tanto beatior, quanto collectior,
App. Mag. 21, p. 287:corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),
Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:tempus collectius,
Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:ponere aliquod verbum,
Non. p. 164, 1.—collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.2.col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).I.Prop.:II.omne colligatum solvi potest,
Cic. Univ. 11, 35:corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,
id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:manus,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,
fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:solum herbis colligatum,
thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:bitumen vulnera colligat,
Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—Trop.A.In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):B.homines inter se sermonis vinclo,
Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,
id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,
id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:sententias verbis,
to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,
to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:impetum furentis (Antonii),
Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:Brutum in Graeciā,
i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:se cum multis,
id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:colligatius adhaerere alicui,
Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28. -
8 conligo
1.col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),I.Prop.A.In gen.1.Of things:2.omnia praesegmina,
Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:stipulam,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:radices palmarum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:apes in vas,
Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:ossa,
Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.reliquias,
Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:materiem nostram Post obitum,
Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,
Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,
id. ib. 5, 338; so,sinus fluentes,
Verg. A. 1, 320:flores,
Ov. M. 5, 399:riguo horto olus,
id. ib. 8, 646:de purpureis vitibus uvas,
id. ib. 8, 676:fructus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:sarmenta virgultaque,
Caes. B. G. 3, 18:serpentes,
Nep. Hann. 10, 4:naufragium,
Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:pecuniam,
Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:viatica,
id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:stipem a tyrannis,
to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:aër umorem colligens,
Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:imbres,
Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:pluvias aquas,
Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,
Lucr. 6, 558:procellam,
id. 6, 124:spiritum,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:flatus cornibus,
Sil. 14, 390:collectae ex alto nubes,
heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:pulvis collectus turbine,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,
i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:luna revertentes colligit ignes,
Verg. G. 1, 427:antiqua verba et figuras,
Suet. Gram. 10:equos,
to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,gressum,
Sil. 6, 399:gradum,
id. 7, 695; so,fig. iram,
id. 9, 477;and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,
Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:librum,
to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,
Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,
id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,
Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:arma = remos,
i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:B.exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,
Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 8:milites,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:reliquos ex fugā,
Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,
id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:de pagis omnibus bonos viros,
Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:in moenia,
Sil. 10, 390:ex regno alicujus,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:in aestuaria ac paludes,
Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):b.in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,
Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,
Liv. 2, 50, 7:alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,
Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:apicem collectus in unum,
Ov. M. 13, 910:pedes,
to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:volumina collecta in artum,
Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:pallium,
to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:togam,
Mart. 7, 33, 4:12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,
causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—II.Trop.A.To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):b.sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,
Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,
i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:flammarum iras,
Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:res undique conlectae,
id. ib. 3, 24, 92:quaedam conlecta edere,
Quint. 5, 10, 120:sparsa argumenta,
id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,
Cic. Clu. 28, 77:rumorem bonum,
id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:peccata consulum,
id. ib. 3, 10, 23:vestigia Pythagoreorum,
id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:existimationem multo sudore,
id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:benevolentiam civium blanditiis,
id. Lael. 17, 61:magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:auctoritatem,
Caes. B. G. 6, 12:famam clementiae,
Liv. 21, 48, 10:tantum amoris favorisque,
Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:crimina majestatis,
Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:sitim,
Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:adducere sitim,
Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):frigus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:rabiem,
Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:odium,
id. ib. 3, 258:usum patiendi,
id. Am. 1, 8, 75:vires usu,
id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):B.ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,
Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,
id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,
id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):C.quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?
Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:se colligere,
to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:se ex timore,
id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:animos,
Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:animum,
Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:animum cogitationemque,
Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:mentem,
Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:mentem cum vultu,
id. Am. 1, 14, 55:paulatim mente collectā,
Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:colligere spiritum,
to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:b.cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,
Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,
id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:sic collige mecum,
id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:1.ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,
Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:aliquid per aliud,
Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,
Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,
Liv. 7, 37, 9:bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,
Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,
Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):2.tanto beatior, quanto collectior,
App. Mag. 21, p. 287:corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),
Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:tempus collectius,
Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:ponere aliquod verbum,
Non. p. 164, 1.—collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.2.col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).I.Prop.:II.omne colligatum solvi potest,
Cic. Univ. 11, 35:corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,
id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:manus,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,
fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:solum herbis colligatum,
thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:bitumen vulnera colligat,
Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—Trop.A.In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):B.homines inter se sermonis vinclo,
Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,
id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,
id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:sententias verbis,
to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,
to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:impetum furentis (Antonii),
Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:Brutum in Graeciā,
i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:se cum multis,
id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:colligatius adhaerere alicui,
Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28. -
9 contra
contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.I.Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).A.Local.1.Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.a.With verb of being or position expressed or understood.(α).Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):(β).feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,
Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,
id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,
Liv. 1, 18, 8:stat contra starique jubet,
Juv. 3, 290:stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!
Mart. 1, 55, 12:ulmus erat contra,
in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:templa vides contra,
in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:contra conserta manu,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):b.contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,
Manil. 2, 253:posita contra Hispania,
Tac. Agr. 11:promuntorium quod contra procedit,
Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,
face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),
side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.(α).Referring to persons:(β).accede ad me atque adi contra,
come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,
Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:contra adspicere,
id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:contra intueri,
Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:cum veniret contra Marcianus,
Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—Of things:2.hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,
Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,
Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,(α).In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:(β).aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,
at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—In post-Aug. prose (very rare):3.at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.(α).In gen.:(β).te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,
id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,
make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:audi nunc contra jam,
listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,
you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,
Liv. 1, 28, 1:contra ut me diligat illa,
Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:cui latrans contra senex,
Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,
Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:contra talia reddit,
Claud. B. Gild. 379.—With dat. pers.:(γ).consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:facere contra huic aegre,
Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:hiscine contra insidiabere?
id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:tibi contra gratiam Referre,
id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—With item:(δ).item a me contra factum est,
Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,
id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;(ε).Consonat terra,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:confer gradum Contra pariter,
id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,
id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!
Cat. 62, 6.—Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:B.si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,
what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,
to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:agedum pauca accipe contra,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,
Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,
Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?
id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.1.Of physical exertion.(α).Lit.:(β).concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,
struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,
bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:at ille contra nititur,
resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,
rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—Trop.:2.te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,
Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—Of mental exertion:3.si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,
arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:siti contra... pugnandum,
Cels. 4, 2 fin. —Of hostile opposition in gen.(α).Lit.:(β).quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,
who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,
something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—Trop.:4.aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,
Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—Of warfare.(α).Lit.:(β).ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,
Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:quid quod exercitum contra duxit?
Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,
if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,
Liv. 7, 39, 17:cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,
would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,
Tac. A. 11, 10.—Trop.:5.quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,
Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—Of legal contests.(α).With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—(β).Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:(γ).quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?
if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—On the part of the adversary:(δ).inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,
Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:6.ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,
given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—Of literary opposition.(α).Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—(β).With other verbs:7.astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,
Lucr. 5, 728:contra nunc illud pone, etc.,
Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,
some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—Of public and political opposition.(α).With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—(β).With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:8.nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,
no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:honores contra petere,
Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,
Tac. A. 14, 45.—Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:9.si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,
and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).a.Absol.(α).Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:(β).cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,
would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,
id. Caecin. 33, 97:dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,
id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,
Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—To make charges against (rare):(γ).si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,
Cic. Clu. 48, 134:qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,
id. Quint. 29, 88; so,contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,
id. Fl. 21, 51.—In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:(δ).fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,contra disputare and contra scribere,
id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,
Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,
to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:(ε). (ζ).quam palam principes dixerunt contra!
protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,
Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,
the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:contradicente nullo,
Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—Abl. absol. impers.:b.explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,
whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:c.ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,
Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,
id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,
id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),
refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,
or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,
the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).(α).To oppose a person by speaking against his views:(β).solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,
to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:tibi,
Suet. Aug. 54:Curioni...,
id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,
my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:(γ).cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,
opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:(δ).patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,
the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,
Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—With dat. of the petition:(ε).preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,
which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—To contest the validity of a law (rare):(ζ).quibus (legibus) contradici potest,
Quint. 7, 7, 4.—To contradict an assertion (very rare):d.pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,
Quint. 5, 10, 13.—With quin, to object:C.praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,
there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;D.but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,
Quint. 7, 3, 14:cum verba (legis) contra sint,
id. 7, 1, 49:sed experimentum contra fuit,
unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:ubi fortuna contra fuit,
id. ib. 3, 18:si fortuna contra daret,
should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.Of logical opposition, with negative force.1.Of a direct contrast.a.Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:b.quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,
but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:in stultitia contra est,
with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),
id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:quod contra est,
Sall. J. 85, 21:quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:contra fore si, etc.,
ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),
ib. 41, 3, 49:ego contra puto (i. e. esse),
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:c.utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,
of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),
id. Att. 10, 8, 2:contra evenit in iis morbis,
Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:ego contra sentio,
Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:Proculus contra (sc. sentit),
ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:licet Celsus contra scribat,
ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,
interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.(α).To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:(β).nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;quod contra, id turpe,
id. Off. 1, 27, 94:sit sapienter usus aut contra,
Quint. 2, 5, 15:lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),
Col. 11, 3, 25.—To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:(γ).ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,
improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,
id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—To a verbal predicate:(δ).an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),
Dig. 34, 5, 19.—To a subject infinitive:(ε).laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,
praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:(ζ).quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,
those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;mihi contra,
id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—To an attributive genitive:2.Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),
Sall. J. 88, 2:verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),
Quint. 2, 4, 21:alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,
the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,
Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.a.With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;b.Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,
Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:quae etiam contra valent,
i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—Belonging to the same predicate:E.ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,
Cic. Or. 36, 123:cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,
Dig. 35, 2, 48:in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,
Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,
id. 1, 5, 68:ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,
but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,
Cic. Or. 42, 143:qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,
or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).1.In independent clauses.a.Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:b.ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,
id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,
Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?
Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,
Just. 13, 1, 7.—Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;2.contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,
Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,
Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—In opposition to a dependent clause:3.ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,
Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,
Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:at contra,
Lucr. 2, 392.—With co-ordinate conjunctions.a.Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.(α).With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:(β).malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,
id. ib. 2, 7, 23:cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,
Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,
Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,
Quint. 10, 2, 22.—With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:(γ).audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,
id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:(δ).atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!
Cic. Balb. 22, 51:domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,
Dig. 13, 7, 21:equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,
Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:b.in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,
Cic. Sull. 7, 21:nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,
id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,et contra,
Suet. Tit. 7.—With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).(α).At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;(β).At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,
Lucr. 2, 400:cogunt,
id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,
Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):(γ).non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,
Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,
Liv. 45, 18, 1:tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,
Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,
Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—Contra autem (rare;(δ).in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,
Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,
Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—Contra vero (very rare;(ε).not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,
Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—c.With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).(α).Aut contra:(β).num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?
Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,
Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—Vel contra:(γ).hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?
Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—Seu contra:d.seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,
Prop. 1, 11, 25.—With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;4.never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,
Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,(α).In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):(β).aliis vero econtra videtur,
Hier. Ep. 12.—Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):5.honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,
Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—With emphatic particles.a.Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);b.not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,
Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—Immo contra (post-Aug.).(α).= no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:(β).existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,
Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—= sed contra, but on the contrary:c.proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,
Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:immo contra ea,
Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):F.quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,
Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.1.Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.(α).With atque:(β).item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,
Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,
Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—With ac:(γ).itaque contra est ac dicitis,
Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,
id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,
id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,
Sall. C. 60, 5.—With ac and atque:(δ).si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,
Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—With quam (post-Aug.):2.cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,
Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:contra quam licet,
id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:II.mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,
contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,
contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:contra quam ista causa postulasset,
id. Caecin. 24, 67:contra quam sanctum legibus est,
Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,
Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).A.Local uses.1.Opposite, over against, facing.a.Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;b.adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,
Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,
id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,
Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:Carthago Italiam contra,
Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,
Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—Of the heavenly bodies:c.donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,
Lucr. 5, 708:contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,
Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,
Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:contra mediam faciem meridies erit,
id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—Of opposite ends of a line.(α).Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—(β).Of a line drawn:d.contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,
opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—Of buildings, etc.:e.contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,
Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:(statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,
Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,
Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—Of places on the human body:2.id quod contra stomachum est,
Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,
Cels. 4, 1 fin. —Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:a.adversus, ad, e regione,
Caes. B. G. 7, 61).In gen.:b.quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,
Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?
Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:rex constiterat contra pedites,
Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:ne contra septentrionem paveris,
Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:contra solem varie refulgens,
placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,
id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):c.(Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,
towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,
Dig. 48, 8, 4.—Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—d.Against an opposing action, etc.:e.contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,
Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,
Vitr. 1, 6, 8:ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,
Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,
id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,
id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,
Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:contra stimulum calces,
kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—Of local actions with hostile intent.(α).Lit.:(β).quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?
Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),
id. Att. 15, 20, 3:pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,
to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,
id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,
Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,
i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—Trop.:f.castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,
Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,
will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:(Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,
when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—In partic.(α).Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:(β).quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,
Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:contra populi studium,
Cic. Brut. 34, 126:contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,
id. ib. 79, 273; so,a mendacio contra veritatem,
id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:contra cives in acie,
id. Att. 16, 11, 2:et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,
opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,
Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —Contra aliquem ire:3.aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,
Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:uti contra injurias armati eatis,
Sall. J. 31, 6:interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,
Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—Transf.,a.To persons placed together for comparison:b.C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,
Quint. 10, 1, 114:CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,
Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.(α).Lit. (very rare):(β).quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—Prop.:c.cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,
Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,
Sen. Ep. 9, 9:numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,
Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,
id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,
as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:(illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,
Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?
Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,
id. ib. 13, 2;so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,
Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):d.numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,
superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,
Petr. 7, 6.—Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:B.contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 5, 29:contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,
Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:quae contra breviter fata est vates,
Verg. A. 6, 398:contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,
Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).Denoting hostility or disadvantage.1.With verbs of hostile action.a.Of physical exertion:b.pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,
Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,
id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.c.bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),
Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:contra Antonium,
Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,contra patriam,
id. Sull. 20, 58:pugnare contra patriam,
id. ib. 25, 70:contra conjuges et liberos,
Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:armatum esse contra populum Romanum,
Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:armis contendere contra,
Caes. B. G. 2, 13:arma alicui dare (trop.),
Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:aciem instruere (trop.),
Liv. 25, 4, 4:exercitum comparare,
Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:exercitum instruere,
id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:exercitum ducere and adducere,
id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:exercitum contra Philippum mittere,
id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:naves ducere contra,
Hor. Epod. 4, 19:ducere contra hostes,
Liv. 1, 27, 4:florem Italiae educere contra,
Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:proficisci contra,
to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,
Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:juvare aliquem contra,
Caes. B. C. 1, 35:consilium inire contra Sequanos,
to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).(α).In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:(β).cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,
Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:(causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,
Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,
Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:esse contra,
id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,
Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:causam defendere contra,
against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),
to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:actio competit contra,
Dig. 49, 14, 41:querelam instituere contra,
ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:bonorum possessionem petere contra,
ib. 5, 2, 23:jus obtinere contra,
Cic. Quint. 9, 34:pugnare contra,
to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:id quod mihi contra illos datum est,
i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:judicare contra aliquem,
id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:pronuntiare contra,
Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:decernere contra,
Cic. Fl. 31, 76:appellare contra aliquem,
Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:contra sententiam,
Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,
Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:(γ).quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?
Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:contra rem suam me venisse questus est,
Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:d.ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,
Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,
id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,causam dicere,
id. Or. 2, 23, 98:causam perorare,
id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,
id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:si Gaditani contra me dicerent,
if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:testimonium in aliquem dicere,
id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):contra juris consultos dicere,
against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:contra testes dicendum est,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,
Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?
Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:e.cum scriberem contra Epicurios,
Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,
id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:contra Brutum,
id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:contra Academiam,
id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,
id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).(α).In gen.:(β).sentire contra,
Cic. Mil. 2, 5:pugnare contra bonos,
id. Sull. 25, 71:contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,
Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:(tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,
Liv. 39, 32, 12.—Of political speaking:f.cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,
Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:2.adversus, in): inire consilia contra,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:manum comparare contra aliquem,
id. Sull. 24, 68:conjurationem facere,
id. ib. 4, 12:congredi,
id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,
Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,
against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,
operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?
Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,
to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:3.licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,
injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,
id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,
Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,
id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:4.Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?
or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,
id. Att. 7, 5, 5:judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,
id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,
id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,
in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—Dependent on adjectives (rare):5.contra se ipse misericors,
to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:severissimus judex contra fures,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—With nouns.a.Acc. to 1. b.:b.ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,
Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).(α).Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:(β).quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,
Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,
id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:c.unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,
Cic. Brut. 26, 99:(Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,
id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—Acc. to 1. f.:C.contra patres concitatio et seditio,
Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,
Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.With inanimate and abstract objects.1.Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).a.Of physical or moral exertion:b.cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,
Verg. A. 10, 567:pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,
Cic. Sen. 11, 35:contra verum niti,
Sall. J. 35, 8:contra fortunam luctari,
Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—Of warfare (lit. and trop.):c.bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,
Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,
id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,
Quint. 5, 13, 30.—Of legal contention.(α).Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:(β).contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),
Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:contra ratiocinationem,
id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:contra caput dicere,
to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:servum in caput domini interrogare,
Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),
Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:(γ).contra tabulas judicare,
Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:contra testamentum,
Dig. 2, 17, § 1:contra sententiam dicere,
ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:d.inmittere in bona),
Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.(α).To contend that something is false:(β).dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:in sententiam dicere,
in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):contra sensus dicere,
Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:contra rhetoricen dicere,
Quint. 2, 17, 40.—Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:(γ).contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,
Vitr. 7, praef. 8:contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—Ethically:e.contra voluptatem dicere,
that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:contra mortem loqui,
that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,
id. ib. 100, 10:contra fortunam gloriari,
that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—Of public and political acts and speeches:f.contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,
Cic. Brut. 44, 164:contra legem dicere or verba facere,
id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),
Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.(α).In gen.:(β).senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,
directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:contra rem publicam se commovere,
id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:incitari,
id. Sest. 47, 100:consilia inire,
id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:conjurationem facere,
Sall. C. 30, 6:contra salutem urbis incitari,
Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:cogitare aliquid contra salutem,
id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,
id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,
do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),
Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:2.si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,
Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,contra salutem rei publicae facere,
Cic. Dom. 38, 102:contra majestatem,
against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:contra leges,
Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:contra edictum (praetoris),
Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:contra foedus,
Cic. Balb. 6, 16:contra jusjurandum ac fidem,
id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?
Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,
Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).(α).With esse expressed as the predicate:(β).hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,
Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:contra leges or legem est,
Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:contra officium est,
id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,
unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:(γ).scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),
Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:aliquid contra animum audiendi,
something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,
Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:3.Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,
Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—Adverbially with the predicate.(α).In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):(β).eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,
that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,
to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,advocare contra,
Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:si contra mortem te praeparaveris,
to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:(γ).quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,
Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:contra hominis salutem,
with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;4.syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,
Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:pecuniam contra leges auferre,
id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:contra legem,
id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:contra jus fasque,
id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:contra jus,
Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:contra jus gentium,
Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,
Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:contra testimonium aliquid judicare,
without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,
contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:aliquid contra fidem constituere,
Quint. 5, 13, 34:quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,
contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—Dependent on substt.a.Of physical strife:b.scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),
Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —Of warfare:c.imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,
Cic. Mur. 39, 83:Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,
Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—Of legal contention:d.causa contra scriptum,
Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—Of political speaking:e.divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,
Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—Of literary opposition:f.Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,
Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—Of hostility, etc.:g.cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,
Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,
Liv. 6, 40, 5.—Of injury:h.vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,
Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):5.iter contra senatus auctoritatem,
Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:contra consuetudinem somnium,
Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:bonorum possessio contra tabulas,
Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.D.II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).1.Against persons.a.Dependent on verbs:b.cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,
provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,
Pall. 10, 3, 2.—Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:2.paratus contra,
Cic. Mil. 21, 56:nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,
Sall. J. 80, 1:contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,
Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—Against inanimate and abstract things.a.Dependent on verbs:b.contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,
Cic. Sen. 15, 51:propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,
id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:contra tantas difficultates providere,
Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,contra ea,
id. ib. 57, 5:patricii vi contra vim resistunt,
Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—Dependent on substt.:c.suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:defensio contra vim,
id. Mil. 5, 14:patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,
id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:contra labores patientia,
id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;3.in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,
against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:vir contra audaciam firmissimus,
id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:fortis contra dolorem,
Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:callosus,
Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:far contra hiemes firmissimum,
id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:equus tenax contra vincula,
Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:contraque minantia fata pervigil,
Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).(α).Dependent on verbs:(β).cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,
Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,
id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:valet potum contra venena,
id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—Dependent on substt.:(γ).remedium contra morsus,
Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:contra venena esse omnia remedio,
id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—Dependent on adjectives:(δ).vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,
Pall. 11, 14, 17.—Appositively, as a remedy:E.cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,
Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,
Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.Of logical opposition.1.With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).a.The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.b.I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,
but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,
and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):c.omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),
but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,
Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,
Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),
Liv. 41, 24, 8.—Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):2.illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,
whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),
Cic. Sen. 23, 84:quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,
id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,
id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;v. Ritschl,
Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:F.contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,
Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),
Sall. J. 88, 1; so,cetera contra spem salva invenit,
Liv. 9, 23, 17:contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,
id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),
Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,
Sall. J. 20, 1:ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),
id. ib. 46, 5:contra famam,
Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,
slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,
contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.1.In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:2.quos contra disputant,
Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:quem contra dicit,
id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):quem contra veneris,
id. Mur. 4, 9:quas contra, praeter te, etc.,
id. Vatin. 7, 18:eos ipsos quos contra statuas,
id. Or. 10, 34:quos contra me senatus armavit,
id. Att. 10, 8, 8:quam contra multa locutus est,
Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,
Lucr. 4, 471:dicere eos contra,
id. 4, 484:donique eum contra,
id. 5, 708:agmina contra,
Verg. A. 12, 279:magnum Alciden contra,
id. ib. 5, 414:Paridem contra,
id. ib. 5, 370:Italiam contra,
id. ib. 1, 13:deos contra,
Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:Messania moenia contra,
id. M. 14, 17:litora Calabriae contra,
Tac. A. 3, 1. -
10 contra dicta
contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.I.Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).A.Local.1.Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.a.With verb of being or position expressed or understood.(α).Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):(β).feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,
Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,
id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,
Liv. 1, 18, 8:stat contra starique jubet,
Juv. 3, 290:stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!
Mart. 1, 55, 12:ulmus erat contra,
in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:templa vides contra,
in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:contra conserta manu,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):b.contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,
Manil. 2, 253:posita contra Hispania,
Tac. Agr. 11:promuntorium quod contra procedit,
Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,
face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),
side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.(α).Referring to persons:(β).accede ad me atque adi contra,
come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,
Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:contra adspicere,
id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:contra intueri,
Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:cum veniret contra Marcianus,
Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—Of things:2.hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,
Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,
Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,(α).In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:(β).aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,
at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—In post-Aug. prose (very rare):3.at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.(α).In gen.:(β).te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,
id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,
make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:audi nunc contra jam,
listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,
you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,
Liv. 1, 28, 1:contra ut me diligat illa,
Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:cui latrans contra senex,
Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,
Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:contra talia reddit,
Claud. B. Gild. 379.—With dat. pers.:(γ).consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:facere contra huic aegre,
Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:hiscine contra insidiabere?
id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:tibi contra gratiam Referre,
id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—With item:(δ).item a me contra factum est,
Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,
id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;(ε).Consonat terra,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:confer gradum Contra pariter,
id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,
id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!
Cat. 62, 6.—Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:B.si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,
what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,
to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:agedum pauca accipe contra,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,
Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,
Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?
id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.1.Of physical exertion.(α).Lit.:(β).concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,
struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,
bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:at ille contra nititur,
resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,
rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—Trop.:2.te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,
Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—Of mental exertion:3.si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,
arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:siti contra... pugnandum,
Cels. 4, 2 fin. —Of hostile opposition in gen.(α).Lit.:(β).quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,
who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,
something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—Trop.:4.aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,
Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—Of warfare.(α).Lit.:(β).ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,
Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:quid quod exercitum contra duxit?
Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,
if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,
Liv. 7, 39, 17:cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,
would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,
Tac. A. 11, 10.—Trop.:5.quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,
Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—Of legal contests.(α).With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—(β).Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:(γ).quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?
if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—On the part of the adversary:(δ).inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,
Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:6.ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,
given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—Of literary opposition.(α).Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—(β).With other verbs:7.astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,
Lucr. 5, 728:contra nunc illud pone, etc.,
Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,
some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—Of public and political opposition.(α).With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—(β).With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:8.nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,
no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:honores contra petere,
Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,
Tac. A. 14, 45.—Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:9.si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,
and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).a.Absol.(α).Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:(β).cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,
would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,
id. Caecin. 33, 97:dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,
id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,
Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—To make charges against (rare):(γ).si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,
Cic. Clu. 48, 134:qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,
id. Quint. 29, 88; so,contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,
id. Fl. 21, 51.—In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:(δ).fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,contra disputare and contra scribere,
id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,
Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,
to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:(ε). (ζ).quam palam principes dixerunt contra!
protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,
Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,
the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:contradicente nullo,
Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—Abl. absol. impers.:b.explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,
whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:c.ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,
Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,
id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,
id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),
refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,
or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,
the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).(α).To oppose a person by speaking against his views:(β).solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,
to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:tibi,
Suet. Aug. 54:Curioni...,
id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,
my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:(γ).cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,
opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:(δ).patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,
the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,
Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—With dat. of the petition:(ε).preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,
which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—To contest the validity of a law (rare):(ζ).quibus (legibus) contradici potest,
Quint. 7, 7, 4.—To contradict an assertion (very rare):d.pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,
Quint. 5, 10, 13.—With quin, to object:C.praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,
there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;D.but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,
Quint. 7, 3, 14:cum verba (legis) contra sint,
id. 7, 1, 49:sed experimentum contra fuit,
unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:ubi fortuna contra fuit,
id. ib. 3, 18:si fortuna contra daret,
should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.Of logical opposition, with negative force.1.Of a direct contrast.a.Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:b.quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,
but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:in stultitia contra est,
with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),
id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:quod contra est,
Sall. J. 85, 21:quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:contra fore si, etc.,
ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),
ib. 41, 3, 49:ego contra puto (i. e. esse),
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:c.utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,
of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),
id. Att. 10, 8, 2:contra evenit in iis morbis,
Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:ego contra sentio,
Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:Proculus contra (sc. sentit),
ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:licet Celsus contra scribat,
ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,
interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.(α).To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:(β).nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;quod contra, id turpe,
id. Off. 1, 27, 94:sit sapienter usus aut contra,
Quint. 2, 5, 15:lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),
Col. 11, 3, 25.—To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:(γ).ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,
improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,
id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—To a verbal predicate:(δ).an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),
Dig. 34, 5, 19.—To a subject infinitive:(ε).laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,
praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:(ζ).quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,
those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;mihi contra,
id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—To an attributive genitive:2.Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),
Sall. J. 88, 2:verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),
Quint. 2, 4, 21:alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,
the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,
Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.a.With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;b.Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,
Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:quae etiam contra valent,
i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—Belonging to the same predicate:E.ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,
Cic. Or. 36, 123:cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,
Dig. 35, 2, 48:in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,
Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,
id. 1, 5, 68:ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,
but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,
Cic. Or. 42, 143:qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,
or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).1.In independent clauses.a.Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:b.ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,
id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,
Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?
Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,
Just. 13, 1, 7.—Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;2.contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,
Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,
Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,
Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—In opposition to a dependent clause:3.ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,
Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,
Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:at contra,
Lucr. 2, 392.—With co-ordinate conjunctions.a.Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.(α).With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:(β).malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,
id. ib. 2, 7, 23:cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,
Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,
Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,
Quint. 10, 2, 22.—With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:(γ).audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,
id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:(δ).atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!
Cic. Balb. 22, 51:domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,
Dig. 13, 7, 21:equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,
Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:b.in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,
Cic. Sull. 7, 21:nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,
id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,et contra,
Suet. Tit. 7.—With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).(α).At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;(β).At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,
Lucr. 2, 400:cogunt,
id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,
Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):(γ).non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,
Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,
Liv. 45, 18, 1:tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,
Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,
Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—Contra autem (rare;(δ).in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,
Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,
Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—Contra vero (very rare;(ε).not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,
Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—c.With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).(α).Aut contra:(β).num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?
Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,
Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—Vel contra:(γ).hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?
Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—Seu contra:d.seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,
Prop. 1, 11, 25.—With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;4.never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,
Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,(α).In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):(β).aliis vero econtra videtur,
Hier. Ep. 12.—Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):5.honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,
Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—With emphatic particles.a.Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);b.not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,
Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—Immo contra (post-Aug.).(α).= no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:(β).existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,
Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—= sed contra, but on the contrary:c.proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,
Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:immo contra ea,
Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):F.quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,
Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.1.Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.(α).With atque:(β).item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,
Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,
Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,
Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—With ac:(γ).itaque contra est ac dicitis,
Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,
id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,
id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,
Sall. C. 60, 5.—With ac and atque:(δ).si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,
Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—With quam (post-Aug.):2.cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,
Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:contra quam licet,
id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:II.mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,
contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,
contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:contra quam ista causa postulasset,
id. Caecin. 24, 67:contra quam sanctum legibus est,
Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,
Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).A.Local uses.1.Opposite, over against, facing.a.Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;b.adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,
Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,
id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,
Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:Carthago Italiam contra,
Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,
Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—Of the heavenly bodies:c.donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,
Lucr. 5, 708:contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,
Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,
Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:contra mediam faciem meridies erit,
id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—Of opposite ends of a line.(α).Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—(β).Of a line drawn:d.contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,
opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—Of buildings, etc.:e.contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,
Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:(statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,
Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,
Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—Of places on the human body:2.id quod contra stomachum est,
Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,
Cels. 4, 1 fin. —Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:a.adversus, ad, e regione,
Caes. B. G. 7, 61).In gen.:b.quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,
Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?
Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:rex constiterat contra pedites,
Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:ne contra septentrionem paveris,
Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:contra solem varie refulgens,
placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,
id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):c.(Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,
towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,
Dig. 48, 8, 4.—Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—d.Against an opposing action, etc.:e.contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,
Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,
Vitr. 1, 6, 8:ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,
Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,
id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,
id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,
Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:contra stimulum calces,
kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—Of local actions with hostile intent.(α).Lit.:(β).quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?
Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),
id. Att. 15, 20, 3:pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,
to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,
id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,
Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,
i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—Trop.:f.castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,
Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,
will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:(Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,
when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—In partic.(α).Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:(β).quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,
Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:contra populi studium,
Cic. Brut. 34, 126:contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,
id. ib. 79, 273; so,a mendacio contra veritatem,
id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:contra cives in acie,
id. Att. 16, 11, 2:et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,
opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,
Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —Contra aliquem ire:3.aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,
Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:uti contra injurias armati eatis,
Sall. J. 31, 6:interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,
Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—Transf.,a.To persons placed together for comparison:b.C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,
Quint. 10, 1, 114:CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,
Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.(α).Lit. (very rare):(β).quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—Prop.:c.cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,
Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,
Sen. Ep. 9, 9:numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,
Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,
id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,
as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:(illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,
Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?
Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,
id. ib. 13, 2;so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,
Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):d.numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,
superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,
Petr. 7, 6.—Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:B.contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 5, 29:contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,
Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:quae contra breviter fata est vates,
Verg. A. 6, 398:contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,
Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).Denoting hostility or disadvantage.1.With verbs of hostile action.a.Of physical exertion:b.pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,
Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,
id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.c.bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),
Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:contra Antonium,
Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,contra patriam,
id. Sull. 20, 58:pugnare contra patriam,
id. ib. 25, 70:contra conjuges et liberos,
Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:armatum esse contra populum Romanum,
Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:armis contendere contra,
Caes. B. G. 2, 13:arma alicui dare (trop.),
Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:aciem instruere (trop.),
Liv. 25, 4, 4:exercitum comparare,
Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:exercitum instruere,
id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:exercitum ducere and adducere,
id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:exercitum contra Philippum mittere,
id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:naves ducere contra,
Hor. Epod. 4, 19:ducere contra hostes,
Liv. 1, 27, 4:florem Italiae educere contra,
Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:proficisci contra,
to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,
Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:juvare aliquem contra,
Caes. B. C. 1, 35:consilium inire contra Sequanos,
to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).(α).In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:(β).cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,
Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:(causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,
Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,
Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:esse contra,
id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,
Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:causam defendere contra,
against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),
to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:actio competit contra,
Dig. 49, 14, 41:querelam instituere contra,
ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:bonorum possessionem petere contra,
ib. 5, 2, 23:jus obtinere contra,
Cic. Quint. 9, 34:pugnare contra,
to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:id quod mihi contra illos datum est,
i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:judicare contra aliquem,
id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:pronuntiare contra,
Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:decernere contra,
Cic. Fl. 31, 76:appellare contra aliquem,
Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:contra sententiam,
Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,
Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:(γ).quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?
Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:contra rem suam me venisse questus est,
Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:d.ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,
Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,
id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,causam dicere,
id. Or. 2, 23, 98:causam perorare,
id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,
id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:si Gaditani contra me dicerent,
if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:testimonium in aliquem dicere,
id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):contra juris consultos dicere,
against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:contra testes dicendum est,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,
Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?
Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:e.cum scriberem contra Epicurios,
Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,
id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:contra Brutum,
id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:contra Academiam,
id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,
id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).(α).In gen.:(β).sentire contra,
Cic. Mil. 2, 5:pugnare contra bonos,
id. Sull. 25, 71:contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,
Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:(tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,
Liv. 39, 32, 12.—Of political speaking:f.cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,
Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:2.adversus, in): inire consilia contra,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:manum comparare contra aliquem,
id. Sull. 24, 68:conjurationem facere,
id. ib. 4, 12:congredi,
id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,
Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,
against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,
operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?
Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,
to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:3.licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,
injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,
id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,
Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,
id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:4.Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?
or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,
id. Att. 7, 5, 5:judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,
id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,
id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,
in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—Dependent on adjectives (rare):5.contra se ipse misericors,
to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:severissimus judex contra fures,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—With nouns.a.Acc. to 1. b.:b.ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,
Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).(α).Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:(β).quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,
Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,
id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:c.unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,
Cic. Brut. 26, 99:(Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,
id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—Acc. to 1. f.:C.contra patres concitatio et seditio,
Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,
Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.With inanimate and abstract objects.1.Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).a.Of physical or moral exertion:b.cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,
Verg. A. 10, 567:pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,
Cic. Sen. 11, 35:contra verum niti,
Sall. J. 35, 8:contra fortunam luctari,
Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—Of warfare (lit. and trop.):c.bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,
Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,
id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,
Quint. 5, 13, 30.—Of legal contention.(α).Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:(β).contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),
Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:contra ratiocinationem,
id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:contra caput dicere,
to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:servum in caput domini interrogare,
Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),
Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:(γ).contra tabulas judicare,
Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:contra testamentum,
Dig. 2, 17, § 1:contra sententiam dicere,
ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:d.inmittere in bona),
Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.(α).To contend that something is false:(β).dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:in sententiam dicere,
in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):contra sensus dicere,
Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:contra rhetoricen dicere,
Quint. 2, 17, 40.—Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:(γ).contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,
Vitr. 7, praef. 8:contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—Ethically:e.contra voluptatem dicere,
that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:contra mortem loqui,
that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,
id. ib. 100, 10:contra fortunam gloriari,
that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—Of public and political acts and speeches:f.contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,
Cic. Brut. 44, 164:contra legem dicere or verba facere,
id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),
Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.(α).In gen.:(β).senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,
directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:contra rem publicam se commovere,
id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:incitari,
id. Sest. 47, 100:consilia inire,
id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:conjurationem facere,
Sall. C. 30, 6:contra salutem urbis incitari,
Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:cogitare aliquid contra salutem,
id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,
id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,
do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),
Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:2.si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,
Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,contra salutem rei publicae facere,
Cic. Dom. 38, 102:contra majestatem,
against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:contra leges,
Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:contra edictum (praetoris),
Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:contra foedus,
Cic. Balb. 6, 16:contra jusjurandum ac fidem,
id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?
Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,
Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).(α).With esse expressed as the predicate:(β).hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,
Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:contra leges or legem est,
Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:contra officium est,
id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,
unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:(γ).scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),
Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:aliquid contra animum audiendi,
something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,
Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:3.Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,
Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—Adverbially with the predicate.(α).In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):(β).eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,
that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,
to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,advocare contra,
Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:si contra mortem te praeparaveris,
to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:(γ).quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,
Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:contra hominis salutem,
with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;4.syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,
Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:pecuniam contra leges auferre,
id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:contra legem,
id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:contra jus fasque,
id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:contra jus,
Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:contra jus gentium,
Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,
Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:contra testimonium aliquid judicare,
without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,
contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:aliquid contra fidem constituere,
Quint. 5, 13, 34:quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,
contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—Dependent on substt.a.Of physical strife:b.scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),
Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —Of warfare:c.imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,
Cic. Mur. 39, 83:Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,
Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—Of legal contention:d.causa contra scriptum,
Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—Of political speaking:e.divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,
Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—Of literary opposition:f.Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,
Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—Of hostility, etc.:g.cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,
Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,
Liv. 6, 40, 5.—Of injury:h.vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,
Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):5.iter contra senatus auctoritatem,
Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:contra consuetudinem somnium,
Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:bonorum possessio contra tabulas,
Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.D.II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).1.Against persons.a.Dependent on verbs:b.cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,
provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,
Pall. 10, 3, 2.—Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:2.paratus contra,
Cic. Mil. 21, 56:nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,
Sall. J. 80, 1:contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,
Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—Against inanimate and abstract things.a.Dependent on verbs:b.contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,
Cic. Sen. 15, 51:propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,
id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:contra tantas difficultates providere,
Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,contra ea,
id. ib. 57, 5:patricii vi contra vim resistunt,
Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—Dependent on substt.:c.suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:defensio contra vim,
id. Mil. 5, 14:patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,
id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:contra labores patientia,
id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;3.in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,
against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:vir contra audaciam firmissimus,
id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:fortis contra dolorem,
Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:callosus,
Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:far contra hiemes firmissimum,
id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:equus tenax contra vincula,
Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:contraque minantia fata pervigil,
Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).(α).Dependent on verbs:(β).cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,
Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,
id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:valet potum contra venena,
id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—Dependent on substt.:(γ).remedium contra morsus,
Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:contra venena esse omnia remedio,
id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—Dependent on adjectives:(δ).vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,
Pall. 11, 14, 17.—Appositively, as a remedy:E.cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,
Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,
Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.Of logical opposition.1.With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).a.The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.b.I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,
but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,
and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):c.omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),
but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,
Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,
Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),
Liv. 41, 24, 8.—Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):2.illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,
whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),
Cic. Sen. 23, 84:quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,
id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,
id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;v. Ritschl,
Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:F.contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,
Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),
Sall. J. 88, 1; so,cetera contra spem salva invenit,
Liv. 9, 23, 17:contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,
id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),
Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,
Sall. J. 20, 1:ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),
id. ib. 46, 5:contra famam,
Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,
slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,
contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.1.In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:2.quos contra disputant,
Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:quem contra dicit,
id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):quem contra veneris,
id. Mur. 4, 9:quas contra, praeter te, etc.,
id. Vatin. 7, 18:eos ipsos quos contra statuas,
id. Or. 10, 34:quos contra me senatus armavit,
id. Att. 10, 8, 8:quam contra multa locutus est,
Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,
Lucr. 4, 471:dicere eos contra,
id. 4, 484:donique eum contra,
id. 5, 708:agmina contra,
Verg. A. 12, 279:magnum Alciden contra,
id. ib. 5, 414:Paridem contra,
id. ib. 5, 370:Italiam contra,
id. ib. 1, 13:deos contra,
Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:Messania moenia contra,
id. M. 14, 17:litora Calabriae contra,
Tac. A. 3, 1. -
11 dico
1.dĭco, āvi, ātum, 1 (dixe for dixisse, Val. Ant. ap. Arn. 5, 1; DICASSIT dixerit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 75, 15; rather = dicaverit), v. a. [orig. the same word with 2. dīco; cf. the meaning of abdĭco and abdīco, of indĭco and indīco, dedĭco, no. II. A. al., Corss. Ausspr. 1, 380].I.To proclaim, make known. So perh. only in the foll. passage: pugnam, Lucil. ap. Non. 287, 30.—Far more freq.,II.Relig. t. t., to dedicate, consecrate, devote any thing to a deity or to a deified person (for syn. cf.: dedico, consecro, inauguro).A.Prop.: et me dicabo atque animam devotabo hostibus, Att. ap. Non. 98, 12:2.donum tibi (sc. Jovi) dicatum atque promissum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72; cf.:ara condita atque dicata,
Liv. 1, 7 (for which aram condidit dedicavitque, id. 28, 46 fin.); so,aram,
id. 1, 7; 1, 20:capitolium, templum Jovis O. M.,
id. 22, 38 fin.:templa,
Ov. F. 1, 610:delubrum ex manubiis,
Plin. 7, 26, 27, § 97:lychnuchum Apollini,
id. 34, 3, 8, § 14:statuas Olympiae,
id. 34, 4, 9, § 16:vehiculum,
Tac. G. 40:carmen Veneri,
Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 178; cf. Suet. Ner. 10 fin. et saep.:cygni Apollini dicati,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73.—With a personal object, to consecrate, to deify (cf. dedico, no. II. A. b.):B.Janus geminus a Numa dicatus,
Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 34:inter numina dicatus Augustus,
Tac. A. 1, 59.—Transf., beyond the relig. sphere.1.To give up, set apart, appropriate a thing to any one: recita;* 2.aurium operam tibi dico,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 72; so,operam,
id. Ps. 1, 5, 147; Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 12:hunc totum diem tibi,
Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7:tuum studium meae laudi,
id. Fam. 2, 6, 4:genus (orationis) epidicticum gymnasiis et palaestrae,
id. Or. 13, 42:librum Maecenati,
Plin. 19, 10, 57, § 177; cf.:librum laudibus ptisanae,
id. 18, 7, 15, § 75 al.:(Deïopeam) conubio jungam stabili propriamque dicabo,
Verg. A. 1, 73; cf. the same verse, ib. 4, 126:se Crasso,
Cic. de Or. 3, 3, 11; cf.: se Remis in clientelam, * Caes. B. G. 6, 12, 7:se alii civitati,
to become a free denizen of it, Cic. Balb. 11, 28;for which: se in aliam civitatem,
id. ib. 12 fin. —(I. q. dedico, no. II. A.) To consecrate a thing by using it for the first time:2.nova signa novamque aquilam,
Tac. H. 5, 16.— Hence, dĭcātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to no. II.), devoted, consecrated, dedicated:loca Christo dedicatissima, August. Civ. Dei, 3, 31: CONSTANTINO AETERNO AVGVSTO ARRIVS DIOTIMVS... N. M. Q. (i. e. numini majestatique) EIVS DICATISSIMVS,
Inscr. Orell. 1083.dīco, xi, ctum, 3 ( praes. DEICO, Inscr. Orell. 4848; imp. usu. dic; cf. duc, fac, fer, from duco, etc., DEICVNTO, and perf. DEIXSERINT, P. C. de Therm. ib. 3673; imp. dice, Naev. ap. Fest. p. 298, 29 Müll.; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 109; id. Bac. 4, 4, 65; id. Merc. 1, 2, 47 al.; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 21; fut. dicem = dicam, Cato ap. Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 72, 6 Müll.—Another form of the future is dicebo, Novius ap. Non. 507 (Com. v. 8 Rib.). — Perf. sync.:I.dixti,
Plaut. As. 4, 2, 14; id. Trin. 2, 4, 155; id. Mil. 2, 4, 12 et saep.; Ter. And. 3, 1, 1; 3, 2, 38; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 100 et saep.; Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 10; id. N. D. 3, 9, 23; id. Caecin. 29, 82; acc. to Quint. 9, 3, 22.— Perf. subj.:dixis,
Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 46; Caecil. ap. Gell. 7, 17 fin.:dixem = dixissem,
Plaut. Pseud. 1, 5, 84; inf. dixe = dix isse, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 105, 23; Varr. ib. 451, 16; Arn. init.; Aus. Sept. Sap. de Cleob. 8; inf. praes. pass. dicier, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 32; Vatin. in Cic. Fam. 5, 9 al.), v. a. [root DIC = DEIK in deiknumi; lit., to show; cf. dikê, and Lat. dicis, ju-dex, dicio], to say, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state; to mean, intend (for syn. cf.: for, loquor, verba facio, dicto, dictito, oro, inquam, aio, fabulor, concionor, pronuntio, praedico, recito, declamo, affirmo, assevero, contendo; also, nomino, voco, alloquor, designo, nuncupo; also, decerno, jubeo, statuo, etc.; cf. also, nego.—The person addressed is usually put in dat., v. the foll.: dicere ad aliquem, in eccl. Lat., stands for the Gr. eipein pros tina, Vulg. Luc. 2, 34 al.; cf. infra I. B. 2. g).Lit.A.In gen.:b.Amphitruonis socium nae me esse volui dicere,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 228:advenisse familiarem dicito,
id. ib. 1, 1, 197:haec uti sunt facta ero dicam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 304; cf. ib. 2, 1, 23:signi dic quid est?
id. ib. 1, 1, 265:si dixero mendacium,
id. ib. 1, 1, 43; cf.opp. vera dico,
id. ib. 1, 1, 238 al.:quo facto aut dicto adest opus,
id. ib. 1, 1, 15; cf.:dictu opus est,
Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 68:nihil est dictu facilius,
id. Phorm. 2, 1, 70:turpe dictu,
id. Ad. 2, 4, 11:indignis si male dicitur, bene dictum id esse dico,
Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 27:ille, quem dixi,
whom I have mentioned, named, Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45 et saep.: vel dicam = vel potius, or rather:stuporem hominis vel dicam pecudis attendite,
Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30; cf.:mihi placebat Pomponius maxime vel dicam minime displicebat,
id. Brut. 57, 207; so id. ib. 70, 246; id. Fam. 4, 7, 3 al.—Dicitur, dicebatur, dictum est, impers. with acc. and inf., it is said, related, maintained, etc.; or, they say, affirm, etc.: de hoc (sc. Diodoro) Verri dicitur, habere eum, etc., it is reported to Verres that, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18:c.non sine causa dicitur, ad ea referri omnes nostras cogitationes,
id. Fin. 3, 18, 60; so,dicitur,
Nep. Paus. 5, 3; Quint. 5, 7, 33; 7, 2, 44; Ov. F. 4, 508:Titum multo apud patrem sermone orasse dicebatur, ne, etc.,
Tac. H. 4, 52; so,dicebatur,
id. A. 1, 10:in hac habitasse platea dictum'st Chrysidem,
Ter. And. 4, 5, 1:dictum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 5; Liv. 38, 56; Quint. 6, 1, 27:ut pulsis hostibus dici posset, eos, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 46, 3. Cf. also: hoc, illud dicitur, with acc. and inf., Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 72; id. de Or. 1, 33, 150; Quint. 4, 2, 91; 11, 3, 177 al. —Esp. in histt. in reference to what has been previously related:ut supra dictum est,
Sall. J. 96, 1:sicut ante dictum est,
Nep. Dion. 9, 5; cf. Curt. 3, 7, 7; 5, 1, 11; 8, 6, 2 et saep.—(See Zumpt, Gram. § 607.) Dicor, diceris, dicitur, with nom. and inf., it is said that I, thou, he, etc.; or, they say that I, thou, etc.:d.ut nos dicamur duo omnium dignissimi esse,
Plaut. As. 2, 2, 47: cf. Quint. 4, 4, 6:dicar Princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos Deduxisse modos,
Hor. Od. 3, 30, 10 al.:illi socius esse diceris,
Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 72: aedes Demaenetus ubi [p. 571] dicitur habitare, id. As. 2, 3, 2:qui (Pisistratus) primus Homeri libros confusos antea sic disposuisse dicitur, ut nunc habemus,
Cic. de Or. 3, 34, 137 et saep.:quot annos nata dicitur?
Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 89:is nunc dicitur venturus peregre,
id. Truc. 1, 1, 66 et saep. In a double construction, with nom. and inf., and acc. and inf. (acc. to no. b. and c.): petisse dicitur major Titius... idque ab eis facile (sc. eum) impetrasse, Auct. B. Afr. 28 fin.; so Suet. Oth. 7.—Dictum ac factum or dictum factum (Gr. hama epos hama ergon), in colloq. lang., no sooner said than done, without delay, Ter. And. 2, 3, 7:B.dictum ac factum reddidi,
it was "said and done" with me, id. Heaut. 4, 5, 12; 5, 1, 31; cf.:dicto citius,
Verg. A. 1, 142; Hor. S. 2, 2, 80; and:dicto prope citius,
Liv. 23, 47, 6.—In partic.1.Pregn.a.To assert, affirm a thing as certain (opp. nego):b.quem esse negas, eundem esse dicis,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 12; cf.:dicebant, ego negabam,
id. Fam. 3, 8, 5; and:quibus creditum non sit negantibus, iisdem credatur dicentibus?
id. Rab. Post. 12, 35.—For dico with a negative, nego is used, q. v.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 799;2.but: dicere nihil esse pulchrius, etc.,
Liv. 30, 12, 6; 21, 9, 3 Fabri; so,freq. in Liv. when the negation precedes,
id. 30, 22, 5; 23, 10, 13 al.; cf. Krebs, Antibar. p. 355.—dico is often inserted parenthetically, to give emphasis to an apposition:3.utinam C. Caesari, patri, dico adulescenti contigisset, etc.,
Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 49; id. Tusc. 5, 36, 105; id. Planc. 12, 30; Quint. 9, 2, 83; cf. Cic. Or. 58, 197; id. Tusc. 4, 16, 36; Sen. Ep. 14, 6; id. Vit. Beat. 15, 6; Quint. 1, 6, 24:ille mihi praesidium dederat, cum dico mihi, senatui dico populoque Romano,
Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 20; Sen. Ep. 83, 12; Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 2; 3, 2, 2.—In rhetor. and jurid. lang., to pronounce, deliver, rehearse, speak any thing.(α).With acc.:(β).oratio dicta de scripto,
Cic. Planc. 30 fin.; cf.:sententiam de scripto,
id. Att. 4, 3, 3:controversias,
Quint. 3, 8, 51; 9, 2, 77:prooemium ac narrationem et argumenta,
id. 2, 20, 10:exordia,
id. 11, 3, 161:theses et communes locos,
id. 2, 1, 9:materias,
id. 2, 4, 41:versus,
Cic. Or. 56, 189; Quint. 6, 3, 86:causam, of the defendant or his attorney,
to make a defensive speech, to plead in defence, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5; id. Quint. 8; id. Sest. 8; Quint. 5, 11, 39; 7, 4, 3; 8, 2, 24 al.; cf.causas (said of the attorney),
Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 5; 2, 8, 32 al.:jus,
to pronounce judgment, id. Fl. 3; id. Fam. 13, 14; hence the praetor's formula: DO, DICO, ADDICO; v. do, etc.—With ad and acc. pers., to plead before a person or tribunal:(γ).ad unum judicem,
Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 10:ad quos? ad me, si idoneus videor qui judicem, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 72; Liv. 3, 41.—With ad and acc. of thing, to speak in reference to, in reply to:(δ).non audeo ad ista dicere,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 32, 78; id. Rep. 1, 18, 30.—Absol.:4.nec idem loqui, quod dicere,
Cic. Or. 32:est oratoris proprium, apte, distincte, ornate dicere,
id. Off. 1, 1, 2; so,de aliqua re pro aliquo, contra aliquem, etc., innumerable times in Cic. and Quint.: dixi, the t. t. at the end of a speech,
I have done, Cic. Verr. 1 fin. Ascon. and Zumpt, a. h. 1.;thus, dixerunt, the t. t. by which the praeco pronounced the speeches of the parties to be finished,
Quint. 1, 5, 43; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 6, 4, 7.— Transf. beyond the judicial sphere:causam nullam or causam haud dico,
I have no objection, Plaut. Mil. 5, 34; id. Capt. 3, 4, 92; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 42.—To describe, relate, sing, celebrate in writing (mostly poet.):b.tibi dicere laudes,
Tib. 1, 3, 31; so,laudes Phoebi et Dianae,
Hor. C. S. 76:Dianam, Cynthium, Latonam,
id. C. 1, 21, 1:Alciden puerosque Ledae,
id. ib. 1, 12, 25:caelestes, pugilemve equumve,
id. ib. 4, 2, 19:Pelidae stomachum,
id. ib. 1, 6, 5:bella,
id. Ep. 1, 16, 26; Liv. 7, 29:carmen,
Hor. C. 1, 32, 3; id. C. S. 8; Tib. 2, 1, 54:modos,
Hor. C. 3, 11, 7:silvestrium naturas,
Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 138 et saep.:temporibus Augusti dicendis non defuere decora ingenia,
Tac. A. 1, 1; id. H. 1, 1:vir neque silendus neque dicendus sine cura,
Vell. 2, 13.—Of prophecies, to predict, foretell:5.bellicosis fata Quiritibus Hac lege dico, ne, etc.,
Hor. C. 3, 3, 58:sortes per carmina,
id. A. P. 403:quicquid,
id. S. 2, 5, 59:hoc (Delphi),
Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 43 et saep.—To pronounce, articulate a letter, syllable, word: Demosthenem scribit Phalereus, cum Rho dicere nequiret, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 46, 96; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; Quint. 1, 4, 8; 1, 7, 21 al.—6.To call, to name: habitum quendam vitalem corporis esse, harmoniam Graii quam dicunt, Lucr. 3, 106; cf.: Latine dicimus elocutionem, quam Graeci phrasin vocant, Quint. 8, 1, 1:7.Chaoniamque omnem Trojano a Chaone dixit,
Verg. A. 3, 335:hic ames dici pater atque princeps,
Hor. Od. 1, 2, 50:uxor quondam tua dicta,
Verg. A. 2, 678 et saep. —Prov.:dici beatus ante obitum nemo debet,
Ov. M. 3, 135.—To name, appoint one to an office:8.ut consules roget praetor vel dictatorem dicat,
Cic. Att. 9, 15, 2: so,dictatorem,
Liv. 5, 9; 7, 26; 8, 29:consulem,
id. 10, 15; 24, 9; 26, 22 (thrice):magistrum equitum,
id. 6, 39:aedilem,
id. 9, 46:arbitrum bibendi,
Hor. Od. 2, 7, 26 et saep.—To appoint, set apart. fix upon, settle:9.nam mea bona meis cognatis dicam, inter eos partiam,
Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 113; cf. Pompon. ap. Non. 280, 19:dotis paululum vicino suo,
Afran. ib. 26:pecuniam omnem suam doti,
Cic. Fl. 35: quoniam inter nos nuptiae sunt dictae, Afran. ap. Non. 280, 24; cf.:diem nuptiis,
Ter. And. 1, 1, 75:diem operi,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 57:diem juris,
Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 16:diem exercitui ad conveniendum Pharas,
Liv. 36, 8; cf. id. 42, 28, and v. dies:locum consiliis,
id. 25, 16:leges pacis,
id. 33, 12; cf.:leges victis,
id. 34, 57:legem tibi,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 18; Ov. M. 6, 137; cf.:legem sibi,
to give sentence upon one's self, id. ib. 13, 72:pretium muneri,
Hor. C. 4, 8, 12 et saep.—With inf.: prius data est, quam tibi dari dicta, Pac. ap. Non. 280, 28. — Pass. impers.:eodem Numida inermis, ut dictum erat, accedit,
Sall. J. 113, 6.—To utter, express, esp. in phrases:10.non dici potest, dici vix potest, etc.: non dici potest quam flagrem desiderio urbis,
Cic. Att. 5, 11, 1; 5, 17, 5:dici vix potest quanta sit vis, etc.,
id. Leg. 2, 15, 38; id. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127; id. Or. 17, 55; id. Red. ad Quir. 1, 4; cf. Quint. 2, 2, 8; 11, 3, 85.—(Mostly in colloq. lang.) Alicui, like our vulg. to tell one so and so, for to admonish, warn, threaten him:11.dicebam, pater, tibi, ne matri consuleres male,
Plaut. As. 5, 2, 88; cf. Nep. Datam. 5; Ov. Am. 1, 14, 1.—Esp. freq.:tibi (ego) dico,
I tell you, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 30; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 76; id. Men. 2, 3, 27; id. Mil. 2, 2, 62 et saep.; Ter. And. 1, 2, 33 Ruhnk.; id. ib. 4, 4, 23; id. Eun. 2, 3, 46; 87; Phaedr. 4, 19, 18; cf.:tibi dicimus,
Ov. H. 20, 153; id. M. 9, 122; so, dixi, I have said it, i. e. you may depend upon it, it shall be done, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 90; 92.—Dicere sacramentum or sacramento, to take an oath, to swear; v. sacramentum.II.Transf., i. q. intellego, Gr. phêmi, to mean so and so; it may sometimes be rendered in English by namely, to wit:A.nec quemquam vidi, qui magis ea, quae timenda esse negaret, timeret, mortem dico et deos,
Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 86; id. de Or. 3, 44, 174: M. Sequar ut institui divinum illum virum, quem saepius fortasse laudo quam necesse est. At. Platonem videlicet dicis, id. Leg. 3, 1:uxoris dico, non tuam,
Plaut. As. 1, 1, 30 et saep.—Hence, dictum, i, n., something said, i. e. a saying, a word.In gen.: haut doctis dictis certantes sed male dictis, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 274 Vahl.; acc. to Hertz.: nec maledictis); so,B.istaec dicta dicere,
Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 40:docta,
id. ib. 2, 2, 99; id. Men. 2, 1, 24; Lucr. 5, 113; cf.condocta,
Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 3:meum,
id. As. 2, 4, 1:ridiculum,
id. Capt. 3, 1, 22:minimum,
Cic. Fam. 1, 9:ferocibus dictis rem nobilitare,
Liv. 23, 47, 4 al.:ob admissum foede dictumve superbe,
Lucr. 5, 1224; cf.facete,
Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 73; id. Poen. 3, 3, 24; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 57; Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104 al.:lepide,
Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 103:absurde,
id. Capt. 1, 1, 3:vere,
Nep. Alc. 8, 4:ambigue,
Hor. A. P. 449 et saep.—Pleon.:feci ego istaec dicta quae vos dicitis (sc. me fecisse),
Plaut. Casin. 5, 4, 17.—In partic.1.A saying, maxim, proverb:2.aurea dicta,
Lucr. 3, 12; cf.veridica,
id. 6, 24: Catonis est dictum. Pedibus compensari pecuniam, Cic. Fl. 29 fin. Hence, the title of a work by Caesar: Dicta collectanea (his Apophthegmata, mentioned in Cic. Fam. 9, 16), Suet. Caes. 56.—Esp. freq.,For facete dictum, a witty saying, bon-mot, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 54 fin. (cf. Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 1 fin.); Cic. Phil. 2, 17; Quint. 6, 3, 2; 16; 36; Liv. 7, 33, 3; Hor. A. P. 273 et saep.; cf. also, dicterium.—3.Poetry, verse (abstr. and concr.): dicti studiosus, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 18, 71:4.rerum naturam expandere dictis,
Lucr. 1, 126; 5, 56:Ennius hirsuta cingat sua dicta corona,
Prop. 4 (5), 1, 61.—A prediction, prophecy, Lucr. 1, 103; Verg. A. 2, 115; Val. Fl. 2, 326 al.; cf. dictio.—5.An order, command:6.dicto paruit consul,
Liv. 9, 41; cf. Verg. A. 3, 189; Ov. M. 8, 815:haec dicta dedit,
Liv. 3, 61; cf. id. 7, 33; 8, 34; 22, 25 al.: dicto audientem esse and dicto audire alicui, v. audio.—A promise, assurance:illi dixerant sese dedituros... Cares, tamen, non dicto capti, etc.,
Nep. Milt. 2, 5; Fur. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 34. -
12 Digitus
1.dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.I.Germ. Finger, from fangen,
Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.Prop.:B.tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,
Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—Special connections:II.attingere aliquem digito (uno),
to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.with tangere,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),
to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:attingere caelum digito,
to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:computare digitis,
to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:numerare per digitos,
Ov. F. 3, 123:in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,
Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:si tuos digitos novi,
thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.also: digerere argumenta in digitos,
to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.also: digitus crepans,
Mart. 3, 82, 15:digitorum crepitus,
id. 14, 119:digitorum percussio,
Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:intendere digitum ad aliquid,
to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:liceri digito,
to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;for which also: tollere digitum,
id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;and Schol,
Pers. 5, 119:loqui digitis nutuque,
to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,
i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:ad digiti sonum,
id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:digito compesce labellum,
hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;for which: demonstrari digito,
Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,
Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,
i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:exserere digitum,
Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;and in like manner: proferre digitum,
to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,
Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)Transf.A.A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—B.A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—C.As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;2.digitus transversus,
a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,
not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,
id. Att. 7, 3, 11.Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus. -
13 digitus
1.dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.I.Germ. Finger, from fangen,
Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.Prop.:B.tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,
Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—Special connections:II.attingere aliquem digito (uno),
to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.with tangere,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),
to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:attingere caelum digito,
to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:computare digitis,
to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:numerare per digitos,
Ov. F. 3, 123:in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,
Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:si tuos digitos novi,
thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.also: digerere argumenta in digitos,
to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.also: digitus crepans,
Mart. 3, 82, 15:digitorum crepitus,
id. 14, 119:digitorum percussio,
Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:intendere digitum ad aliquid,
to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:liceri digito,
to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;for which also: tollere digitum,
id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;and Schol,
Pers. 5, 119:loqui digitis nutuque,
to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,
i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:ad digiti sonum,
id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:digito compesce labellum,
hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;for which: demonstrari digito,
Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,
Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,
i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:exserere digitum,
Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;and in like manner: proferre digitum,
to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,
Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)Transf.A.A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—B.A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—C.As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;2.digitus transversus,
a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,
not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,
id. Att. 7, 3, 11.Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus. -
14 exigo
I.Lit.A.In gen.:B.reges ex civitate,
to expel, Cic. de Or. 2, 48, 199:hostem e campo,
Liv. 3, 61, 8: exigor patria, Naev. ap. Non. 291, 4:aliquem domo,
Liv. 39, 11, 2:aliquem campo,
id. 37, 41, 12:omnes foras,
Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 7:adcolas ultra famam,
Plin. 2, 68, 68, § 175:exacti reges,
driven away, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37; cf.:Tarquinio exacto,
id. Rep. 1, 40:anno post Tarquinios exactos,
Tac. A. 11, 22:Orestes exactus furiis,
driven, tormented, Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 70:virum a se,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 62:uxorem,
to put away, divorce, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 45; Suet. Caes. 50; id. Claud. 26; cf.: illam suam (uxorem) suas res sibi habere jussit ex duodecim tabulis; claves ademit;exegit,
turned her out of the house, Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69: aliquem vitā, i. e. to kill, Sen. de Ira, 1, 6: corpus e stratis, to raise up or out, Sil. 16, 234:maculam,
to take out, Suet. Aug. 94: et sacer admissas exigit Hebrus aquas, pours out into the sea, Ov. H. 2, 114; of weapons, to thrust from one, thrust, drive:non circumspectis exactum viribus ensem Fregit,
thrust, impelled, Ov. M. 5, 171; so,ensem,
Luc. 8, 656; cf.:ensem per medium juvenem,
plunges through the middle, Verg. A. 10, 815:gladium per viscera,
Flor. 4, 2, 68:tela in aliquem,
Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16;hence: aliquem hastā,
i. e. to thrust through, transfix, Val. Fl. 6, 572.—Mid.:quae (hasta) cervice exacta est,
passed out, passed through, Ov. M. 5, 138: prope sub conatu adversarii manus exigenda, to be put forth, raised (for a blow), Quint. 6, 4, 8 Spald.:(capellas) a grege in campos, hircos in caprilia,
to drive out, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 8:sues pastum,
id. ib. 2, 4, 6:radices altius,
to send out, Cels. 5, 28, 14; cf.:vitis uvas,
Col. 3, 2, 10; 3, 6, 2; Cels. 8, 1 med. —In partic.1.A scenic t. t., to drive off, i. e. hiss off a piece or a player from the stage (rare):2.spectandae (fabulae) an exigendae sint vobis prius,
Ter. And. prol. 27 Ruhnk.; so, fabulas, id. Hec. prol. alt. 4; id. ib. 7.—To demand, require, enforce, exact payment of a debt, taxes, etc., or the performance of any other duty (very freq.;(β).syn.: posco, postulo, flagito, contendo, etc.): ad eas pecunias exigendas legatos misimus,
Cic. Fam. 13, 11, 1: pecunias a civitatibus, id. Div. ap. Caecil. 10, 33:acerbissime pecunias imperatas,
Caes. B. C. 3, 32; cf. id. ib. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Pis. 16, 38; id. N. D. 3, 34, 84:quaternos denarios,
id. Font. 5, 9:tributa,
id. Fam. 3, 7, 3:pensionem,
id. ib. 6, 18, 5:nomina sua,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 28:mercedem,
id. Lael. 21, 80 et saep.:equitum peditumque certum numerum a civitatibus Siciliae,
Caes. B. C. 1, 30, 4:obsides ab Apolloniatibus,
id. ib. 3, 12, 1:viam,
to demand the construction of a road, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154; Liv. 42, 3, 7:a quoquam ne pejeret,
Juv. 13, 36.—Esp.: rationem, to exact an account:ut Athenienses rationibus exigendis non vacarent,
Val. Max. 3, 1, ext. 1; Plin. Ep. 10, 81, 1:libertorum nomina a quibus ratio exigi posset,
Suet. Aug. 101 fin. —In pass.: exigor aliquid, to be solicited, dunned for money, etc. (post-class.): exigor portorium, id est, exigitur de me portorium, Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 14, 5; id. ap. Non. 106, 24: (Rib. Com. Fragm. p. 51): sese pecunias maximas exactos esse, Q. Metell. Numid. ap. Gell. 15, 14, 2; Dig. 23, 4, 32.—3.To examine, inquire into (post-Aug.):4.nec illae (conjuges) numerare aut exigere plagas pavent,
Tac. G. 7 fin. (so Ritter, Halm, with all MSS., cf. Holzmann ad loc.; al. exugere, said to have been the read. of a lost codex, the Arundelianus; cf. exsugo); cf.:exactum et a Titidio Labeone, cur omisisset, etc.,
id. A. 2, 85.—Of places, to go or pass beyond, to pass by, leave behind ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):5.cum primus equis exegit anhelis Phoebus Athon,
Val. Fl. 2, 75; cf. Prop. 3, 20, 11 (4, 20, 3 M.):Troglodytae hibernum mare exigunt circa brumam,
Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 87.—In mercant. lang., to dispose of, sell:6.agrorum exigere fructus,
Liv. 34, 9, 9 Drak.: mercibus exactis, Col. poët. 10, 317. —Mathemat. t. t., to apply to a standard or measure, i. e. to examine, try, measure, weigh by any thing:II.ad perpendiculum columnas,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 133:materiam ad regulam et libellam,
Plin. 36, 25, 63, § 188:pondus margaritarum sua manu,
Suet. Caes. 47; cf.:aliquid mensura,
Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159.Trop.A.In gen., to drive out, expel (very rare):B.locus, Ubi labore lassitudo exigunda ex corpore,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 4: frigus atque horrorem vestimentis, Lucil. ap. Non. 291, 8.—Far more freq. and class.,In partic.1.(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To require, demand, claim any thing due:2.ego vero et exspectabo ea quae polliceris, neque exigam, nisi tuo commodo,
Cic. Brut. 4, 17:aliquid exigere magis quam rogare,
id. Fam. 2, 6, 1:longiores litteras exspectabo vel potius exigam,
id. ib. 15, 16, 1:omnibus ex rebus voluptatem quasi mercedem,
id. Fin. 2, 22, 73:ab hoc acerbius exegit natura quod dederat,
demanded back, reclaimed, id. Tusc. 1, 39, 93 Klotz.:non ut a poëta, sed ut a teste veritatem exigunt,
id. Leg. 1, 1, 4:has toties optata exegit gloria poenas,
has cost, Juv. 10, 187:poenas,
to take vengeance, id. 10, 84:de vulnere poenas,
Ov. M. 14, 478: poenam (alicui), Sen. de Ira, 2, 22 fin.; Ov. F. 4, 230:gravia piacula ab aliquo,
Liv. 29, 18, 18 et saep.—With ut:exigerem ex te cogeremque, ut responderes,
Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119; 4, 28, 80; cf.:Calypso exigit fata ducis,
questions, inquires into, Ov. A. A. 2, 130:exactum a marito, cur, etc.,
Tac. A. 2, 85:exigite ut mores seu pollice ducat,
Juv. 7, 237 sq. —With an object-clause:exigimus potuisse eum eo tempore testamentum facere,
Dig. 29, 7, 8; 24, 3, 2.— Absol.:in exigendo non acerbum,
Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64:cum res exiget,
Quint. 5, 11, 5; 10, 3, 3; cf.:ut res exiget,
id. 12, 10, 69:si communis utilitas exegerit,
id. 12, 1, 37.— Esp.: rationem, to require an account:rerum gestarum,
Just. 19, 2, 6:numquid rationem exiges, cum tibi aliquis hos dixerit versus?
an explanation, Sen. Ep. 94, 28; Plin. Ep. 19, 9.—Of time, life, etc., to lead, spend, pass, complete, finish:3. 4.non novisse quicum aetatem exegerim,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 111; id. Capt. 3, 5, 62:tecum aetatem,
id. Mil. 4, 2, 48; 4, 6, 60; id. Cas. 2, 5, 12:ut te dignam mala malam aetatem exigas,
id. Aul. 1, 1, 4: vitam taetre, Cat. Or. inc. 15; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 39:cum maerore graviorem vitam,
Sall. J. 14, 15; 85, 49; Plin. 7, 44, 45, § 139; Vitr. 2, 1, 4; Val. Max. 3, 5, 4 al.:vitae tempus,
Sen. Ep. 2, 2; Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 6:jam ad pariendum temporibus exactis,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 48: qui exacta aetate moriuntur, at the close of the vigorous period of life, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; id. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 21; Sall. J. 6, 2; Liv. 2, 40, 11 al.:mediam dies exegerat horam,
Ov. Am. 1, 5, 1:aevum,
Lucr. 4, 1235; Verg. A. 7, 777; Ov. M. 12, 209:tristissimam noctem,
Petr. 115:diem supremum noctemque,
Tac. A. 3, 16:ullum tempus jucundius,
Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 1:jam aestatem exactam esse,
Sall. J. 61, 1:per exactos annos,
at the end of every year, Hor. C. 3, 22, 6:exacto per scelera die,
Tac. H. 1, 47; id. A. 3, 16; so,exacto quadriennio,
Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 130; Verg. G. 3, 190; Stat. S. 2, 2, 47.—To bring to an end, to conclude, finish, complete a thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):5.exegi monumentum aere perennius,
Hor. C. 3, 30, 1:opus,
Ov. R. Am. 811; id. M. 15, 871:exactus tenui pumice versus eat,
Prop. 3, 1, 8; Verg. A. 6, 637:commentarii ita sunt exacti, ut, etc.,
Quint. 10, 7, 30:eandem gracilitatem stilo exigere condiscant,
to reach, attain to, id. 1, 9, 2.—To determine, ascertain, find out:6.sociisque exacta referre,
his discoveries, Verg. A. 1, 309:non prius exacta tenui ratione saporum,
before he has ascertained, Hor. S. 2, 4, 36.— Pass. impers.:non tamen exactum, quid agat,
Ov. F. 3, 637; cf. id. Am, 3, 7, 16. —(Acc. to I. B. 3.) To weigh, try, prove, measure, examine, adjust, estimate, consider, = examinare, ponderare (class. but perh. not in Cic.): si ad illam summam veritatem legitimum jus exegeris, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1; cf.: nolite ad vestras leges atque instituta exigere ea, quae Lacedaemone fiunt, to estimate by the standard of, etc., Liv. 34, 31, 17; so,7.opus ad vires suas,
Ov. A. A. 2, 502:si omnia argumenta ad obrussam coeperimus exigere,
Sen. Q. N. 4, 5, 1; cf.:principatus tuus ad obrussam exigitur,
id. de Clem. 1, 1, 6:se ad aliquem,
id. Ep. 11 fin.:regulam emendate loquendi,
Quint. 1, 5, 2:illa non nisi aure exiguntur, quae fiunt per sonos,
are judged of, id. 1, 5, 19; cf. id. 1, 4, 7.—To treat, consult, deliberate respecting something, = considerare, deliberare (class. but not in Cic.): de his rebus ut exigeret cum eo, Furnio mandavi, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 7:8.cum aliquo,
Plin. Ep. 6, 12, 3; cf.:secum aliquid,
Verg. A. 4, 476; Ov. M. 10, 587; Sen. Ep. 27:de aliqua re coram,
Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 13:haec exigentes hostes oppressere,
Liv. 22, 49, 12:quid dicendum, quid tacendum, quid differendum sit, exigere consilii est,
Quint. 6, 5, 5.—To endure, undergo:aerumnam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 12. —Hence, exactus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 5., measured; hence), precise, accurate, exact (poet and in post-Aug. prose):difficile est, quot ceciderint, exacto affirmare numero,
Liv. 3, 5, 12:acies falcis,
Plin. 17, 27, 42, § 251:fides,
Ov. Pont. 4, 9, 46.— Comp.:cura,
Suet. Tib. 18; Mart. 4, 87, 4. — Sup.:diligentia,
Front. Aquaed. 89:vir,
Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 5.—With gen.:Mamurius, morum fabraene exactior artis, Difficile est dicere,
Ov. F. 3, 383.— Adv.: exacte, exactly, precisely, accurately:ut exacte perorantibus mos est,
Sid. Ep. 7, 9.— Comp.: dicere, disserere, Mel. Prooem. § 2; Gell. 1, 3, 21.— Sup.:pascere,
Sid. Ep. 5, 11. -
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I.Lit.A.In gen. (very rare):B.aliquem,
Plaut. As. 2, 2, 34:ut jam expendantur, non numerentur pecuniae,
Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97:bacam, nucem,
Cels. 5, 19, 12.—With abl. of that against which any thing is weighed:hunc hominem decet auro expendi,
i. e. is worth his weight in gold, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 1.— Poet.:ibat et expenso planta morata gradu,
measured, Prop. 2, 4, 6 (16).—In partic., to weigh out money in payment, to pay out, pay; to lay out, expend (class.;2.syn.: pendo, impendo, pondero, solvo, luo): ante pedes praetoris in foro expensum est auri pondo centum,
Cic. Fl. 28, 68:nummos nominibus certis,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105:usuras gravissimas,
Dig. 19, 1, 47:viginti milia talenta in hos sumptus,
Just. 12, 11.—With abl.:aurum auro expendetur, argentum argento exaequabitur,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 43. —In the part. perf. as a neutr. subst.: expensum, i, money paid, a payment:II.bene igitur ratio accepti atque expensi inter nos convenit,
of debt and credit, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 146; id. Truc. 1, 1, 54:in codicem expensum et receptum referre,
Cic. Rosc. Com. 3:probari debere pecuniam datam consuetis modis, expensi latione, mensae rationibus, chirographi exhibitione, etc.,
Gell. 14, 2, 7.—Esp. freq.: ferre alicui expensum or pecuniam expensam, to set down, enter, charge, reckon, account a sum as paid (opp. accipio):quod minus Dolabella Verri acceptum retulit quam Verres illi expensum tulerit... quid proderat tibi te expensum illis non tulisse?
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, §§100 and 102: haec pecunia necesse est aut data aut expensa lata aut stipulata sit,
id. Rosc. Com. 5, 14: pecunias ferre (opp. acceptas referre), Auct. B. Alex. 56, 3: homines prope quadringentos produxisse dicitur, quibus sine fenore pecunias expensas tulisset, had set down, i. e. lent, Liv. 5, 20, 6.—Rarely transf., of other things: legio, quam expensam tulit C. Caesari Pompeius, i. e. transferred, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4; for which also: expenso ferre vestem supellectilis nomine, Dig. 33, 10, 19.Trop.A.(Acc. to I. A.) To weigh mentally, to ponder, estimate, consider, judge, decide (class.):B.equidem cum colligo argumenta causarum, non tam ea numerare soleo quam expendere,
Cic. de Or. 2, 76 fin.; cf.:in dissensione civili... expendendos cives non numerandos puto,
id. Rep. 6, 1:omnia expendet ac seliget,
id. Or. 15, 47:vos in privatis minimarum rerum judiciis testem diligenter expenditis,
id. Fl. 5, 12:singula animo suo,
Ov. Am. 3, 5, 34:haec arte aliqua,
Cic. Brut. 50, 186; cf.:verba arte,
Tac. A. 13, 3:omnes casus,
Verg. A. 12, 21:belli consilia,
Tac. H. 1, 87:causam meritis,
to decide, Ov. M. 13, 150 et saep.:quae contemplantes expendere oportebit, quid quisque habeat sui,
Cic. Off. 1, 31, 113:Hannibalem,
Juv. 10, 147:quid conveniat nobis,
id. 10, 347.—(Acc. to I. B. 1.) To pay a penalty, suffer a punishment ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): poenas Jovi expendisse (shortly after, in prose, poenas pendens), Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.:C.infanda per orbem Supplicia et scelerum poenas expendimus omnes,
Verg. A. 11, 258:dignas poenas pro talibus ausis,
Sil. 13, 698:poenas capite,
Tac. A. 12, 19:dura supplicia,
Sil. 6, 588.—Hence, to pay for, expiate:scelus,
Verg. A. 2, 229:dignum pretium Poeno,
Sil. 7, 713.—(Cf. I. B. 2.) Ipsam facilitati suae expensum ferre debere, i. e. have to ascribe to, Dig. 36, 4, 3:creditores suae negligentiae expensum ferre debeant,
ib. 42, 8, 24.— -
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vălĕo, ui, itum, 2, v. n. [kindr. with Sanscr. bala, vis, robur, balishtas, fortissimus; cf. debilis], to be strong.I.Lit., of physical strength, vigor, or health.A. 1.Absol.: verum illi valent, qui vi luctantur cum leonibus, Pomp. ap. Non. 112, 4 (Com. Rel. v. 176 Rib.):2.puer ille (Hercules recens natus) ut magnus est et multum valet!
Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 51: plus potest, qui plus valet: Vir erat;plus valebat,
id. Truc. 4, 3, 38 sq.:sanus homo, qui bene valet,
Cels. 1, 1 init.:si magis valet,
id. 3, 18:si satis valet (= si satis validae vires sunt, just before),
id. 4, 7 init.:prout nervi valent,
id. 8, 16.—Of plants:vitem novellam resecari tum erit tempus ubi valebit,
Cato, R. R. 33, 3 sq. —To be strong in or for something, to have the power or strength, be in condition to do something, etc.a.Of personal subjects, etc.(α).With ad and acc.:(β).alios videmus velocitate ad cursum, alios viribus ad luctandum valere,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 107.—With inf.:b.manibus pedibusque morbo distortissimis, ut neque calceum perpeti nec libellos evolvere valeret,
Suet. Galb. 21:mustela cum mures veloces non valeret assequi,
Phaedr. 4, 1, 10:valet ima summis Mutare deus,
Hor. C. 1, 34, 12; cf. II. B. 2. h. infra; cf.:illud mirari mitte, quod non valet e lapide hoc alias impellere res,
Lucr. 6, 1057:versate diu quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant umeri (sc. ferre),
Hor. A. P. 40:nec valuere manus infixum educere telum,
Ov. M. 13, 393; 12, 101; Col. 6, 25 fin. —Of remedies or medicines, to be efficacious, be good for any thing; with ad and acc.:c.fimum potum ad dysentericos valet,
Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 105.—With contra:cimices valent contra serpentium morsus,
Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—With eodem:id quoque collyrium eodem valet,
Cels. 6, 6, 21.—With pro:ruta per se pro antidoto valet,
Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 132.—With abl.:dictamnus valet potu et illitu et suffitu,
Plin. 26, 15, 90, § 153.— With inf.:sandaracha valet purgare, sistere, excalfacere, perrodere,
Plin. 34, 18, 55, § 177.—Of sounds: cum C ac similiter G non valuerunt, in T ac D molliuntur, i. e. were not pronounced strongly, Quint. 1, 11, 5.—B.Esp., in respect of the natural condition of the body, to be well in health, to be in a sound or healthy condition, to be healthy, hale, hearty.a.In gen.(α).Absol.:(β).equidem valeo recte et salvus sum,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 36:perpetuon' valuisti?
id. Ep. 1, 1, 15; 1, 1, 18:valen'? Valuistin? valeo et valui rectius,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 12 sq.: facile omnes, quom valemus, recta consilia aegrotis damus, Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:dicit vilicus servos non valuisse,
Cato, R. R. 2, 3 sq.; 5, 6:boves ut recte valeant,
id. ib. 103:optime valere et gravissime aegrotare,
Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 43; 4, 25, 69:cura est, ut valeat,
Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 4:ego valeo recte et rem gero,
id. Pers. 2, 3, 34:te recte valere operamque dare, ut cottidie melius,
Cic. Fam. 11, 24, 1: deterius quam soleo, Luccei. ib. 5, 14, 1:commode,
Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 11: Ni. Benene usque valuit? Chr. Pancratice atque athletice, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 14:minus valere... melius valere,
Cic. Att. 4, 14, 1:nam matri oculi si valerent, mecum venisset simul,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 8.—With abl.:(γ).si corpore valuisset,
Cic. Brut. 20, 77:nec melius valeo quam corpore, mente,
Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 33; cf. Sall. J. 11, 5:pedibus,
Nep. Phoc. 4, 1:stomacho,
Juv. 6, 100.—With ab and abl.:b.ab oculis,
Gell. 13, 30, 10:a morbo,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26; and facetiously: Me. Ain tu te valere? Eu. Pol ego haud a pecunia perbene, as to money, not very well, id. Aul. 2, 2, 9.—Esp., at the commencement of letters (very freq.), si vales, bene est, and abbreviated S. V. B. E.;c.and, more fully, with the addition ego or equidem valeo (abbrev. E. V. or E. Q. V.),
Cic. Fam. 13, 6; 14, 11; 14, 16; 14, 17; 14, 21; 14, 22; 14, 23; 14, 24; 15, 1; 15, 2; Metell. ib. 5, 1; Vatin. ib. 5, 9; Luccei. ib. 5, 14 al.; cf.:mos antiquis fuit usque ad meam servatus aetatem, primis epistulae verbis adicere: Si vales bene est,
Sen. Ep. 15, 1; so too: S. V. G. V. (si vales, gaudeo, valeo) et Tullia nostra recte V. Terentia minus belle habuit: sed certum scio jam convaluisse eam, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1.—Rarely impers. pass.:d. (α).quid agitur, Sagaristio? ut valetur?
Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 8.—In gen.: Di. Valeas. Ph. Vale, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 79: Ar. Vale. Ph. Quo properas? Ar. Bene vale, id. As. 3, 3, 16; id. Mil. 4, 8, 51:(β).bene vale, Alcumena,
id. Am. 1, 3, 1:vale atque salve,
id. Capt. 3, 5, 86; id. Curc. 4, 2, 36: vale atque salve. Th. Male vale, male sit tibi, id. ib. 4, 4, 32; v. salvus: Ly. Ad portum propero. De. Bene ambulato. Ly. Bene valeto. De. Bene sit tibi, id. Merc. 2, 2, 55:bene valete et vivite,
id. Mil. 4, 8, 30:ite intro cito: valete,
id. As. 3, 3, 155:abeo: valete, judices justissimi,
id. Capt. prol. 67:vos valete et plaudite,
Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 64:in hoc biduom vale,
id. ib. 1, 2, 110:vive valeque,
Hor. S. 2, 5, 110.—Before a vowel, scanned vale:et longum, Formose vale, vale, inquit Iolla,
Verg. E. 3, 79; Ov. M. 3, 501.—At the conclusion of letters:(γ).Vale,
Cic. Fam. 6, 22, 3; 6, 21, 3; 4, 8, 2; Luccei. ib. 5, 14, 3:cura ut valeas,
Cic. Fam. 7, 15, 2; 7, 20, 3; rarely bene vale, Mat. ib. 11, 28, 8; Cur. ib. 7, 29, 2; cf.:tu me diligis et valebis,
Cic. ib. 9, 22, 5; 15, 18, 2: fac valeas meque mutuo diligas, Planc. ib. 10, 7, 2; Mat. ib. 11, 28, 8.—Also in bidding farewell to the dead:(δ).salve aeternum mihi, maxime Palla, Aeternumque vale,
Verg. A. 11, 97; Stat. S. 3, 3, 208; cf. Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. l. l.;v. salvus: in perpetuom, frater, ave atque vale,
Cat. 101, 10:terque, Vale, dixit,
Ov. F. 3, 563:supremumque vale... dixit,
id. M. 10, 62.—As an expression of dismission, refusal, or scorn, be off, begone:(ε).valeas, tibi habeas res tuas, reddas meas,
Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 46:immo habeat, valeat, vivat cum illa,
Ter. And. 5, 3, 18:valeas, habeas illam quae placet,
id. Ad. 4, 4, 14:si talis est deus, ut nulla hominum caritate teneatur, valeat,
good-by to him, let me have nothing to do with him, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 124:valeat res ludicra, si me Palma negata macrum, donata reducit opimum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 180: valeant, Qui inter nos discidium volunt, away with those, etc., Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:quare ista valeant: me res familiaris movet,
Cic. Att. 16, 15, 5: castra peto, valeatque Venus, valeantque puellae, farewell to Venus, etc., Tib. 2, 6, 9:valete curae,
Petr. 79; cf. Cat. 8, 12; 11, 17; Ov. Am. 1, 6, 71 sqq.—With valere jubere or dicere (sometimes as one word, vălĕdīco, ere, 3, v. n.), to bid one good-by, farewell, adieu:II.illum salutavi: post etiam jussi valere,
Cic. Att. 5, 2, 2:vix illud potui dicere triste vale,
Ov. H. 13, 14:saepe vale dicto rursus sum multa locutus,
id. Tr. 1, 3, 57:tibi valedicere non licet gratis,
Sen. Ep. 17, 11; Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 3, 1: obstinatissime [p. 1954] retinuit, ut liberti servique bis die frequentes adessent ac mane salvere, vesperi valere sibi singuli dicerent, Suet. Galb. 4 fin.; id. Aug. 53; id. Tib. 72.—So (late Lat.):vale facere (or valefacere),
August. Ep. 65; App. M. 4, p. 150, 24.Transf., to have power, force, or influence; to be powerful, effective, valid; to avail, prevail, be strong, effective, etc.A.In gen.:B.fiet enim quodcunque volent, qui valebunt: valebunt autem semper arma,
will always have the power, Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 1:fuit enim populi potestas: de civitate ne tam diu quidem valuit quam diu illa Sullani temporis arma valuerunt,
id. Dom. 30, 79:dicitur C. Flaminius ad populum valuisse dicendo,
id. Brut. 14, 57:tribunus plebis tulit... ut lex Aelia et Fufia ne valeret,
id. Red. in Sen. 5, 11:in more majorum, qui tum ut lex valebat,
id. Leg. 2, 10, 23:valuit auctoritas,
id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:verba si valent,
id. Caecin. 21, 61:(ejus) valet opinio tarditatis,
is established, id. de Or. 1, 27, 125:si conjuratio valuisset,
id. ib. 17, 7:cujus ratio non valuit,
Nep. Milt. 3, 7:jus tamen gentium valuit,
Liv. 2, 4, 7:praetor... ratus repentinum valiturum terrorem, succedit, etc.,
id. 44, 31, 6:et vestrae valuere preces,
Ov. M. 13, 89; id. P. 3, 3, 92; id. Ib. 241.—Esp.1.With respect to the source, character, or mode of exercise of the strength ascribed to the subject.a.With abl.:b.non metuo mihi... Dum quidem hoc valebit pectus perfidia meum,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 50:reliqui duo sic exaequantur, ut Domitius valeat amicis, Memmius commendetur militibus,
Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6 (17, 2):multa sanxit quae omnia magistratuum auctoritate et Halaesinorum summa voluntate valuerunt,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122:ita istam libertatem largior populo, ut auctoritate et valeant et utantur boni,
id. Leg. 3, 17, 38:quae (voluntas militum) cum per se valet multitudine,
id. Mur. 18, 38:parum valent (Graeci) verbo,
i. e. have no precise word, id. Tusc. 3, 5, 11:qui aut gratia aut misericordia valerent,
Caes. B. C. 2, 44:dicendo,
Nep. Ages. 1, 2:qui pedum cursu valet,
Verg. A. 5, 67; Quint. 9, 2, 78:Battiades... Quamvis ingenio non valet, arte valet,
Ov. Am. 1, 15, 14:plerique plus ingenio quam arte valuerunt,
Quint. 1, 8, 8:rogando,
Ov. M. 2, 183:subtilitate vincimur, valeamus pondere,
Quint. 12, 11, 8.—With in and abl.:2.Sp. Thorius satis valuit in populari genere dicendi,
Cic. Brut. 36, 136:quid facilius est quam probari in uno servulo nomen familiae non valere,
id. Caecin. 19, 55:in his maxime valet similitudo,
Quint. 6, 3, 57:mire in causis valet praesumptio,
id. 9, 2, 16:(digitus) in exprobrando et indicando valet,
id. 11, 3, 94.—With some definite end expressed, upon or towards which influence or power is exercised or directed, to be strong enough for, adequate to, or capable of any thing, to be able to do, to have force or efficacy, to be effectual, to avail, to be applicable.a.With in and acc.:b.hoc evenit, ut in volgus insipientium opinio valeat honestatis,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 63:quaecumque est hominis definitio, una in omnes valet,
id. Leg. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. Div. 2, 56, 116:cum illud verbum unde in utramque rem valeat,
id. Caecin. 31, 89:num etiam in deos inmortales inauspicatam legem valuisse? Liv 7, 6, 11: utrumque hoc genus semel injectum in L. annos valet et frugum et pabuli ubertate,
Plin. 17, 7, 4, § 44:etiamsi in utramque partem valent arma facundiae,
Quint. 2, 16, 10:hoc etiam in praeteritum valet,
id. 9, 2, 20; cf.:cum... idque in omnis partis valeret,
Cic. Fam. 4, 10, 2.—With eo: oratio me cohortabatur, ut, etc.... quod eo, credo, valebat, ut caerimonias religionesque defenderem, the force or point of which was, etc., Cic. N. D. 3, 2, 5:c.id responsum quo valeat, cum intellegeret nemo,
Nep. Them. 2, 6; cf. II. B. 3. i, infra.—With ad and acc. of thing:d. (α).tu non solum ad neglegendas leges... verum etiam ad evertendas valuisti,
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 18: astrorum affectio valeat, si vis, ad quasdam res;ad omnis certe non valebit,
id. Fat. 4, 8:illud perficiam ut invidia mihi valeat ad gloriam,
id. Cat. 3, 12, 29:vitae adjuncta esse dicebant, quae ad virtutis usum valerent,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 21:ista quaestura ad eam rem valet, ut, etc.,
id. Div. in Caecil. 19, 62: neque, quod Samnites... amici vobis facti sunt, ad id valere arbitror, ne nos in amicitiam accipiamur, Liv. 7, 30, 4:eadem fictio valet et ad qualitates,
Quint. 5, 10, 99; cf. II. B. 3. infra.—With apud:(β).ibit ad illud ilico, Quo maxume apud te se valere sentiat,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 79:non quin eam (commendationem) valituram apud te arbitrarer,
Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 3:apud te veritas valebit,
id. Quint. 1, 5:sed haec eadem nunc censes apud eos ipsos valere, a quibus... conscripta sunt?
id. Tusc. 2, 4, 11:magnis meritis apud regem... valebat,
Nep. Con. 3, 1:jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,
Sall. C. 9, 1:apud magnam partem senatus et magnitudine rerum gestarum valebat et gratia,
Liv. 31, 48, 1:apud nos valeant ea, quae apud judices valere volumus,
Quint. 6, 2, 28.—With ad:e.dicitur enim C. Flaminius... ad populum valuisse dicendo,
Cic. Brut. 14, 57:clementiae fama... ad ferociores jam populos valuit,
Liv. 21, 6, 4:metus ad omnis valuit, ne deditionem recusarent,
id. 38, 28, 6.—With contra and acc.:f.hoc nonne videtur contra te valere?
Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 86:quae valeant contra falsam criminationem,
id. de Or. 2, 79, 321:ne quid esset... quod contra caput suum aut existimationem valere posset,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 173: ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Mat. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:cum pro falsis contra veritatem (rhetorice) valet,
Quint. 2, 16, 2; cf. f. infra.—With pro and abl.:g.multa in adversos effudit verba penates Pro deplorato non valitura viro,
Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 46:epitheton valet pro nomine,
Quint. 8, 6, 29; cf. I. A. 2, b. supra.—With dat. gerund. (post-class. and rare):h.nam et augendae rei et minuendae valet (particula),
Gell. 5, 12, 10.—With inf. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;3.not in Cic. or Caes.): nam si certam finem esse viderent Aerumnarum homines, aliqua ratione valerent Religionibus... obsistere,
Lucr. 1, 108:hanc ob rem vitam retinere valemus,
id. 3, 257:nec continere suos ab direptione castrorum valuit,
Liv. 38, 23, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.:quam (urbem) neque finitimi valuerunt perdere Marsi,
Hor. Epod. 16, 3:cetera... adeo sunt multa, loquacem Delassare valent Fabium,
id. S. 1, 1, 13; id. C. 4, 7, 27:nec valuit locos coeptos avertere cursus,
Tib. 4, 1, 55:qui relicti erant... ne conspectum quidem hostis sustinere valuerunt,
Curt. 3, 4, 5:neque ex eo infamiam discutere valuit,
Suet. Caes. 79.—With things as subj.:ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet,
Hor. A. P. 305; cf. I. A. 2. b, supra.—Esp.,With adverbial qualifications expressing the degree of power or influence exerted, etc.; very freq. with accs- multum, plus, plurimum, parum, minus, minimum, nihil, tantum, quantum, quid, id, idem, quiddam, quidquam, quidquid, etc.(α).Edepol, Cupido, cum tu tam pusillu's, nimis multum vales, Naev. ap. Non. 421, 25 (Com. Rel. v. 55 Rib.):(β).plus potest qui plus valet,
Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38:neque ita inperita (sum), ut quid amor valeat nesciam,
Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 42.—So absol.: nam opulenti cum locuntur pariter atque ignobiles, Eadem dicta eademque oratio aequa non aeque valet, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. Rel. v. 230 Vahl.):ignari quid gravitas... quid denique virtus valeret,
Cic. Sest. 28, 60:illa obnuntiatio nihil valuit, aut, si valuit, id valuit, ut, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 16, 30: omnia veniebant Antonio in mentem;eaque suo quaeque loco, ubi plurimum proficere et valere possent... collocabantur,
id. Brut. 37, 139:cur minus Venena Medaeae valent?
Hor. Epod. 5. 62.—With abl.:(γ).quod tibi lubet fac, quoniam pugnis plus vales,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 240; cf.v. 234: quicquid possunt, pedestribus valent copiis,
Caes. B. G. 2, 17:qui plus opibus, armis, potentia valent, perfecisse mihi videntur... ut etiam auctoritate jam plus valerent,
Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 10:quasi vero ego... in isto genere omnino quidquam aut curatione aut potestate valuissem,
id. Dom. 6, 14:Ti. Coruncanium longe plurimum ingenio valuisse,
id. Brut. 14, 55:quantum gratia, auctoritate, pecunia valerent,
Caes. B. G. 7, 63:Caesar multum equitatu valebat,
id. B. C. 1, 61:cum tantum equitatu valeamus,
id. ib. 3, 86:equitatu plurimum valere,
id. B. G. 3, 20; Nep. Alcib. 8, 2.—With in and abl.:(δ).nihil putas valere in judiciis conjecturam, nihil suspitionem, nihil ante actae vitae existimationem, etc.,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62, § 146:hic multum in Fabia (tribu) valet, ille Velina,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 52. —With ad and acc.:(ε).multum valuisse ad patris honorem pietas filii videbitur,
Cic. Phil. 9, 5, 12:ex quo intellegitur, plus terrarum situs, quam lunae tractus, ad nascendum valere,
id. Div. 2, 46, 97:valet igitur multum ad vincendum probari mores eorum, qui agent causas,
id. de Or. 2, 43, 182:ad subeundem periculum et ad vitandum multum fortuna valuit,
Caes. B. G. 6, 30:genus ad probandam speciem minimum valet,
Quint. 5, 10, 56.—With apud and acc. of pers., to have influence, be influential, have weight with, influence:(ζ).apud quem (Caesarem) quicquid valebo vel auctoritate, vel gratia, valebo tibi,
Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 13:utrum apud eos pudor atque officium, an timor plus valeret,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:tantum apud homines barbaros valuit, esse repertos aliquos principes belli inferendi,
id. ib. 5, 54:potestis constituere, hanc auctoritatem quantum apud exteras nationes valituram esse existimetis,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 46:non modo praemiis, quae apud me minimum valent, sed ne periculis quidem conpulsus ullis,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 11:facinus esse indignum, plus impudicissimae mulieris apud te de Cleomenis salute quam de sua vita lacrimas matris valere,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:apud quem ut multum gratia valeret, effecit,
Nep. Con. 2, 1.—With contra: cur desperemus veritatem contra fallacem facundiam valituram? prevail, Lact. Opif. Dei, 20, 5; cf. Mat. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8, II. B. 2, e. supra.—(η).With pro:(θ).pro periculo magis quam contra salutem valere,
Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; cf.:quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum pro hostium numero valebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 51.—With inter:(ι).plurimum inter eos Bellovacos et virtute, et auctoritate, et hominum numero valere,
Caes. B. G. 2, 4.—With adv. of pur pose:C.hoc eo valebat, ut ingratiis ad de pugnandum omnes cogerentur,
Nep. Them. 4, 4:non tamen hoc eo valet, ut fugien dae sint magnae scholae,
Quint. 1, 2, 16:nescis quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Hor. S. 1, 1, 73; cf. II. B. 2. b. supra. —Idiomatic uses.1.Of money value, to be of the value of, be worth: denarii, quod denos aeris valebant;2.quinarii, quod quinos,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 173 Mull.:dum pro argenteis decem aureus unus valeret,
Liv. 38, 11, 8:ita ut scrupulum valeret sestertiis vicenis,
Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 47:si haec praedia valeant nunc decem,
Dig. 24, 1, 7, § 4:quasi minimo valeret hereditas,
ib. 19, 1, 13:quanti omnibus valet (servus),
ib. 9, 2, 33; 5, 3, 25, § 1.—Of the signification of words, sentences, etc.; like the Gr. dunasthai, to mean, signify, import:A.quaerimus verbum Latinum par Graeco et quod idem valeat,
Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 13: non usquam id quidem dicit omnino;sed quae dicit, idem valent,
id. Tusc. 5, 10, 24:quamquam vocabula prope idem valere videantur,
id. Top. 8, 34:hoc verbum quid valeat, non vident,
id. Off. 3, 9, 39: cui nomen Becco fuerat;id valet gallinacei rostrum,
Suet. Vit. 18:pransus quoque atque potus diversum valent quam indicant,
Quint. 1, 4, 29 et saep.:et intellego et sentio et video saepe idem valent quod scio,
id. 10, 1, 13:duo quae idem significant ac tantumdem valent,
id. 1, 5, 4.—Hence, vălens, entis, P. a., strong, stout, vigorous, powerful (class.).Lit.1.In gen.: nil moro discipulos mihi esse plenos sanguinis;2.valens adflictet me,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 44:virgatores,
id. As. 3, 2, 19:robusti et valentes et audaces satellites,
Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 84:cum homo imbecillus a valentissima bestia laniatur,
id. Fam. 7, 1, 3:valentissimi lictores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142:homines,
id. Phil. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 35:hic membris et mole valens,
Verg. A. 5, 431:membris valens,
Ov. M. 9, 108:corpore esse vegeto et valenti,
Gell. 3, 1, 11:nervi musculique,
Cels. 8, 20:trunci,
Verg. G. 2, 426: scire oportet, omnia legumina generis valentissimi esse: valentissimum voco, in quo plurimum alimenti est... Ex leguminibus valentior faba quam pisum, etc., strongest, i. e. most nutritire, Cels. 2, 18:tunicae,
stout, thick, Ov. A. A. 3, 109: providendum ne infirmiores (apes) a valentioribus [p. 1955] opprimantur, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 35.—In partic.a.Well in health, healthy, hale, hearty:b.valeo et venio ad minus valentem,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 24:medicus plane confirmat, propediem te valentem fore,
Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:puer, hora undecima cum valens in publico visus esset, ante noctem mortuus est,
id. Clu. 9, 27; cf.valens (opp. imbecillus),
id. Fam. 16, 5, 2:(sensus) si sani sunt et valentes,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 19:si valens corpus est neque magno opere vexatum,
Cels. 7, 26, 5:sive aegra, sive valens,
Prop. 2, 21 (3, 14), 20.— Subst.:qui enim aegris subveniretur, quae esset oblectatio valentium, nisi, etc.,
Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15;so opp. aeger,
id. de Or. 2, 44, 186.—Of medicines, strong, powerful, active:B.valens est adversus cancerem intestinorum minii gleba,
Cels. 4, 15 fin.:medicamenta,
id. 1, 3 med.:silvestri (papaveri capita) ad omnes effectus valentiora,
Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 202; cf. id. 22, 22, 43, § 87.—Trop., strong, powerful, mighty:1.mallem tantas ei (Caesari) vires non dedisset (res publica) quam nunc tam valenti resisteret,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 4:fuit quondam ita firma haec civitas et valens,
id. Har. Resp. 28, 60:cum valentiore pugnare,
id. Fam. 5, 21, 2:valens dialecticus,
id. Fat. 6, 12:ut fieri nihil possit valentius,
id. Brut. 16, 64:Philippus jam tum valens multa moliebatur,
Nep. Timoth. 3, 1:opibus jam valentes,
id. Eum. 10, 3:argumenta valentiora,
Quint. 5, 13, 12:quid pars adversa habeat valentissimum,
id. 5, 13, 52:nec fraus valentior quam consilium meum,
Cic. Univ. 11:ad letum causae satis valentes,
Ov. M. 5, 174; so,causae,
id. Tr. 1, 8, 29:causa valentior,
id. P. 1, 10, 35:deus morbo omni valentior,
Stat. S. 1, 4, 111:oppida valentissima,
Nep. Ham. 2, 4.—Hence, adv.: vălenter, strongly, stoutly, powerfully, violently (perh. not ante-Aug.).Lit.:2.resistere,
Col. 1, 5, 9; 3, 2, 15:nimis valenter ibi retenta materia,
Cels. 5, 26, 21:praeceps spirare valentius Eurus (coepit),
Ov. M. 11, 481.—Trop., of speech, forcibly, energetically:non diu dicebat sed valenter,
Sen. Contr. 3, 22 med.:si verba numeres, breviter et abscise: si sensum aestimes, copiose et valenter,
Val. Max. 3, 7, ext. 6. -
17 valeo
vălĕo, ui, itum, 2, v. n. [kindr. with Sanscr. bala, vis, robur, balishtas, fortissimus; cf. debilis], to be strong.I.Lit., of physical strength, vigor, or health.A. 1.Absol.: verum illi valent, qui vi luctantur cum leonibus, Pomp. ap. Non. 112, 4 (Com. Rel. v. 176 Rib.):2.puer ille (Hercules recens natus) ut magnus est et multum valet!
Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 51: plus potest, qui plus valet: Vir erat;plus valebat,
id. Truc. 4, 3, 38 sq.:sanus homo, qui bene valet,
Cels. 1, 1 init.:si magis valet,
id. 3, 18:si satis valet (= si satis validae vires sunt, just before),
id. 4, 7 init.:prout nervi valent,
id. 8, 16.—Of plants:vitem novellam resecari tum erit tempus ubi valebit,
Cato, R. R. 33, 3 sq. —To be strong in or for something, to have the power or strength, be in condition to do something, etc.a.Of personal subjects, etc.(α).With ad and acc.:(β).alios videmus velocitate ad cursum, alios viribus ad luctandum valere,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 107.—With inf.:b.manibus pedibusque morbo distortissimis, ut neque calceum perpeti nec libellos evolvere valeret,
Suet. Galb. 21:mustela cum mures veloces non valeret assequi,
Phaedr. 4, 1, 10:valet ima summis Mutare deus,
Hor. C. 1, 34, 12; cf. II. B. 2. h. infra; cf.:illud mirari mitte, quod non valet e lapide hoc alias impellere res,
Lucr. 6, 1057:versate diu quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant umeri (sc. ferre),
Hor. A. P. 40:nec valuere manus infixum educere telum,
Ov. M. 13, 393; 12, 101; Col. 6, 25 fin. —Of remedies or medicines, to be efficacious, be good for any thing; with ad and acc.:c.fimum potum ad dysentericos valet,
Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 105.—With contra:cimices valent contra serpentium morsus,
Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—With eodem:id quoque collyrium eodem valet,
Cels. 6, 6, 21.—With pro:ruta per se pro antidoto valet,
Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 132.—With abl.:dictamnus valet potu et illitu et suffitu,
Plin. 26, 15, 90, § 153.— With inf.:sandaracha valet purgare, sistere, excalfacere, perrodere,
Plin. 34, 18, 55, § 177.—Of sounds: cum C ac similiter G non valuerunt, in T ac D molliuntur, i. e. were not pronounced strongly, Quint. 1, 11, 5.—B.Esp., in respect of the natural condition of the body, to be well in health, to be in a sound or healthy condition, to be healthy, hale, hearty.a.In gen.(α).Absol.:(β).equidem valeo recte et salvus sum,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 36:perpetuon' valuisti?
id. Ep. 1, 1, 15; 1, 1, 18:valen'? Valuistin? valeo et valui rectius,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 12 sq.: facile omnes, quom valemus, recta consilia aegrotis damus, Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:dicit vilicus servos non valuisse,
Cato, R. R. 2, 3 sq.; 5, 6:boves ut recte valeant,
id. ib. 103:optime valere et gravissime aegrotare,
Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 43; 4, 25, 69:cura est, ut valeat,
Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 4:ego valeo recte et rem gero,
id. Pers. 2, 3, 34:te recte valere operamque dare, ut cottidie melius,
Cic. Fam. 11, 24, 1: deterius quam soleo, Luccei. ib. 5, 14, 1:commode,
Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 11: Ni. Benene usque valuit? Chr. Pancratice atque athletice, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 14:minus valere... melius valere,
Cic. Att. 4, 14, 1:nam matri oculi si valerent, mecum venisset simul,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 8.—With abl.:(γ).si corpore valuisset,
Cic. Brut. 20, 77:nec melius valeo quam corpore, mente,
Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 33; cf. Sall. J. 11, 5:pedibus,
Nep. Phoc. 4, 1:stomacho,
Juv. 6, 100.—With ab and abl.:b.ab oculis,
Gell. 13, 30, 10:a morbo,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26; and facetiously: Me. Ain tu te valere? Eu. Pol ego haud a pecunia perbene, as to money, not very well, id. Aul. 2, 2, 9.—Esp., at the commencement of letters (very freq.), si vales, bene est, and abbreviated S. V. B. E.;c.and, more fully, with the addition ego or equidem valeo (abbrev. E. V. or E. Q. V.),
Cic. Fam. 13, 6; 14, 11; 14, 16; 14, 17; 14, 21; 14, 22; 14, 23; 14, 24; 15, 1; 15, 2; Metell. ib. 5, 1; Vatin. ib. 5, 9; Luccei. ib. 5, 14 al.; cf.:mos antiquis fuit usque ad meam servatus aetatem, primis epistulae verbis adicere: Si vales bene est,
Sen. Ep. 15, 1; so too: S. V. G. V. (si vales, gaudeo, valeo) et Tullia nostra recte V. Terentia minus belle habuit: sed certum scio jam convaluisse eam, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1.—Rarely impers. pass.:d. (α).quid agitur, Sagaristio? ut valetur?
Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 8.—In gen.: Di. Valeas. Ph. Vale, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 79: Ar. Vale. Ph. Quo properas? Ar. Bene vale, id. As. 3, 3, 16; id. Mil. 4, 8, 51:(β).bene vale, Alcumena,
id. Am. 1, 3, 1:vale atque salve,
id. Capt. 3, 5, 86; id. Curc. 4, 2, 36: vale atque salve. Th. Male vale, male sit tibi, id. ib. 4, 4, 32; v. salvus: Ly. Ad portum propero. De. Bene ambulato. Ly. Bene valeto. De. Bene sit tibi, id. Merc. 2, 2, 55:bene valete et vivite,
id. Mil. 4, 8, 30:ite intro cito: valete,
id. As. 3, 3, 155:abeo: valete, judices justissimi,
id. Capt. prol. 67:vos valete et plaudite,
Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 64:in hoc biduom vale,
id. ib. 1, 2, 110:vive valeque,
Hor. S. 2, 5, 110.—Before a vowel, scanned vale:et longum, Formose vale, vale, inquit Iolla,
Verg. E. 3, 79; Ov. M. 3, 501.—At the conclusion of letters:(γ).Vale,
Cic. Fam. 6, 22, 3; 6, 21, 3; 4, 8, 2; Luccei. ib. 5, 14, 3:cura ut valeas,
Cic. Fam. 7, 15, 2; 7, 20, 3; rarely bene vale, Mat. ib. 11, 28, 8; Cur. ib. 7, 29, 2; cf.:tu me diligis et valebis,
Cic. ib. 9, 22, 5; 15, 18, 2: fac valeas meque mutuo diligas, Planc. ib. 10, 7, 2; Mat. ib. 11, 28, 8.—Also in bidding farewell to the dead:(δ).salve aeternum mihi, maxime Palla, Aeternumque vale,
Verg. A. 11, 97; Stat. S. 3, 3, 208; cf. Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. l. l.;v. salvus: in perpetuom, frater, ave atque vale,
Cat. 101, 10:terque, Vale, dixit,
Ov. F. 3, 563:supremumque vale... dixit,
id. M. 10, 62.—As an expression of dismission, refusal, or scorn, be off, begone:(ε).valeas, tibi habeas res tuas, reddas meas,
Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 46:immo habeat, valeat, vivat cum illa,
Ter. And. 5, 3, 18:valeas, habeas illam quae placet,
id. Ad. 4, 4, 14:si talis est deus, ut nulla hominum caritate teneatur, valeat,
good-by to him, let me have nothing to do with him, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 124:valeat res ludicra, si me Palma negata macrum, donata reducit opimum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 180: valeant, Qui inter nos discidium volunt, away with those, etc., Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:quare ista valeant: me res familiaris movet,
Cic. Att. 16, 15, 5: castra peto, valeatque Venus, valeantque puellae, farewell to Venus, etc., Tib. 2, 6, 9:valete curae,
Petr. 79; cf. Cat. 8, 12; 11, 17; Ov. Am. 1, 6, 71 sqq.—With valere jubere or dicere (sometimes as one word, vălĕdīco, ere, 3, v. n.), to bid one good-by, farewell, adieu:II.illum salutavi: post etiam jussi valere,
Cic. Att. 5, 2, 2:vix illud potui dicere triste vale,
Ov. H. 13, 14:saepe vale dicto rursus sum multa locutus,
id. Tr. 1, 3, 57:tibi valedicere non licet gratis,
Sen. Ep. 17, 11; Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 3, 1: obstinatissime [p. 1954] retinuit, ut liberti servique bis die frequentes adessent ac mane salvere, vesperi valere sibi singuli dicerent, Suet. Galb. 4 fin.; id. Aug. 53; id. Tib. 72.—So (late Lat.):vale facere (or valefacere),
August. Ep. 65; App. M. 4, p. 150, 24.Transf., to have power, force, or influence; to be powerful, effective, valid; to avail, prevail, be strong, effective, etc.A.In gen.:B.fiet enim quodcunque volent, qui valebunt: valebunt autem semper arma,
will always have the power, Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 1:fuit enim populi potestas: de civitate ne tam diu quidem valuit quam diu illa Sullani temporis arma valuerunt,
id. Dom. 30, 79:dicitur C. Flaminius ad populum valuisse dicendo,
id. Brut. 14, 57:tribunus plebis tulit... ut lex Aelia et Fufia ne valeret,
id. Red. in Sen. 5, 11:in more majorum, qui tum ut lex valebat,
id. Leg. 2, 10, 23:valuit auctoritas,
id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:verba si valent,
id. Caecin. 21, 61:(ejus) valet opinio tarditatis,
is established, id. de Or. 1, 27, 125:si conjuratio valuisset,
id. ib. 17, 7:cujus ratio non valuit,
Nep. Milt. 3, 7:jus tamen gentium valuit,
Liv. 2, 4, 7:praetor... ratus repentinum valiturum terrorem, succedit, etc.,
id. 44, 31, 6:et vestrae valuere preces,
Ov. M. 13, 89; id. P. 3, 3, 92; id. Ib. 241.—Esp.1.With respect to the source, character, or mode of exercise of the strength ascribed to the subject.a.With abl.:b.non metuo mihi... Dum quidem hoc valebit pectus perfidia meum,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 50:reliqui duo sic exaequantur, ut Domitius valeat amicis, Memmius commendetur militibus,
Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6 (17, 2):multa sanxit quae omnia magistratuum auctoritate et Halaesinorum summa voluntate valuerunt,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122:ita istam libertatem largior populo, ut auctoritate et valeant et utantur boni,
id. Leg. 3, 17, 38:quae (voluntas militum) cum per se valet multitudine,
id. Mur. 18, 38:parum valent (Graeci) verbo,
i. e. have no precise word, id. Tusc. 3, 5, 11:qui aut gratia aut misericordia valerent,
Caes. B. C. 2, 44:dicendo,
Nep. Ages. 1, 2:qui pedum cursu valet,
Verg. A. 5, 67; Quint. 9, 2, 78:Battiades... Quamvis ingenio non valet, arte valet,
Ov. Am. 1, 15, 14:plerique plus ingenio quam arte valuerunt,
Quint. 1, 8, 8:rogando,
Ov. M. 2, 183:subtilitate vincimur, valeamus pondere,
Quint. 12, 11, 8.—With in and abl.:2.Sp. Thorius satis valuit in populari genere dicendi,
Cic. Brut. 36, 136:quid facilius est quam probari in uno servulo nomen familiae non valere,
id. Caecin. 19, 55:in his maxime valet similitudo,
Quint. 6, 3, 57:mire in causis valet praesumptio,
id. 9, 2, 16:(digitus) in exprobrando et indicando valet,
id. 11, 3, 94.—With some definite end expressed, upon or towards which influence or power is exercised or directed, to be strong enough for, adequate to, or capable of any thing, to be able to do, to have force or efficacy, to be effectual, to avail, to be applicable.a.With in and acc.:b.hoc evenit, ut in volgus insipientium opinio valeat honestatis,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 63:quaecumque est hominis definitio, una in omnes valet,
id. Leg. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. Div. 2, 56, 116:cum illud verbum unde in utramque rem valeat,
id. Caecin. 31, 89:num etiam in deos inmortales inauspicatam legem valuisse? Liv 7, 6, 11: utrumque hoc genus semel injectum in L. annos valet et frugum et pabuli ubertate,
Plin. 17, 7, 4, § 44:etiamsi in utramque partem valent arma facundiae,
Quint. 2, 16, 10:hoc etiam in praeteritum valet,
id. 9, 2, 20; cf.:cum... idque in omnis partis valeret,
Cic. Fam. 4, 10, 2.—With eo: oratio me cohortabatur, ut, etc.... quod eo, credo, valebat, ut caerimonias religionesque defenderem, the force or point of which was, etc., Cic. N. D. 3, 2, 5:c.id responsum quo valeat, cum intellegeret nemo,
Nep. Them. 2, 6; cf. II. B. 3. i, infra.—With ad and acc. of thing:d. (α).tu non solum ad neglegendas leges... verum etiam ad evertendas valuisti,
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 18: astrorum affectio valeat, si vis, ad quasdam res;ad omnis certe non valebit,
id. Fat. 4, 8:illud perficiam ut invidia mihi valeat ad gloriam,
id. Cat. 3, 12, 29:vitae adjuncta esse dicebant, quae ad virtutis usum valerent,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 21:ista quaestura ad eam rem valet, ut, etc.,
id. Div. in Caecil. 19, 62: neque, quod Samnites... amici vobis facti sunt, ad id valere arbitror, ne nos in amicitiam accipiamur, Liv. 7, 30, 4:eadem fictio valet et ad qualitates,
Quint. 5, 10, 99; cf. II. B. 3. infra.—With apud:(β).ibit ad illud ilico, Quo maxume apud te se valere sentiat,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 79:non quin eam (commendationem) valituram apud te arbitrarer,
Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 3:apud te veritas valebit,
id. Quint. 1, 5:sed haec eadem nunc censes apud eos ipsos valere, a quibus... conscripta sunt?
id. Tusc. 2, 4, 11:magnis meritis apud regem... valebat,
Nep. Con. 3, 1:jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,
Sall. C. 9, 1:apud magnam partem senatus et magnitudine rerum gestarum valebat et gratia,
Liv. 31, 48, 1:apud nos valeant ea, quae apud judices valere volumus,
Quint. 6, 2, 28.—With ad:e.dicitur enim C. Flaminius... ad populum valuisse dicendo,
Cic. Brut. 14, 57:clementiae fama... ad ferociores jam populos valuit,
Liv. 21, 6, 4:metus ad omnis valuit, ne deditionem recusarent,
id. 38, 28, 6.—With contra and acc.:f.hoc nonne videtur contra te valere?
Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 86:quae valeant contra falsam criminationem,
id. de Or. 2, 79, 321:ne quid esset... quod contra caput suum aut existimationem valere posset,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 173: ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Mat. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:cum pro falsis contra veritatem (rhetorice) valet,
Quint. 2, 16, 2; cf. f. infra.—With pro and abl.:g.multa in adversos effudit verba penates Pro deplorato non valitura viro,
Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 46:epitheton valet pro nomine,
Quint. 8, 6, 29; cf. I. A. 2, b. supra.—With dat. gerund. (post-class. and rare):h.nam et augendae rei et minuendae valet (particula),
Gell. 5, 12, 10.—With inf. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;3.not in Cic. or Caes.): nam si certam finem esse viderent Aerumnarum homines, aliqua ratione valerent Religionibus... obsistere,
Lucr. 1, 108:hanc ob rem vitam retinere valemus,
id. 3, 257:nec continere suos ab direptione castrorum valuit,
Liv. 38, 23, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.:quam (urbem) neque finitimi valuerunt perdere Marsi,
Hor. Epod. 16, 3:cetera... adeo sunt multa, loquacem Delassare valent Fabium,
id. S. 1, 1, 13; id. C. 4, 7, 27:nec valuit locos coeptos avertere cursus,
Tib. 4, 1, 55:qui relicti erant... ne conspectum quidem hostis sustinere valuerunt,
Curt. 3, 4, 5:neque ex eo infamiam discutere valuit,
Suet. Caes. 79.—With things as subj.:ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet,
Hor. A. P. 305; cf. I. A. 2. b, supra.—Esp.,With adverbial qualifications expressing the degree of power or influence exerted, etc.; very freq. with accs- multum, plus, plurimum, parum, minus, minimum, nihil, tantum, quantum, quid, id, idem, quiddam, quidquam, quidquid, etc.(α).Edepol, Cupido, cum tu tam pusillu's, nimis multum vales, Naev. ap. Non. 421, 25 (Com. Rel. v. 55 Rib.):(β).plus potest qui plus valet,
Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38:neque ita inperita (sum), ut quid amor valeat nesciam,
Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 42.—So absol.: nam opulenti cum locuntur pariter atque ignobiles, Eadem dicta eademque oratio aequa non aeque valet, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. Rel. v. 230 Vahl.):ignari quid gravitas... quid denique virtus valeret,
Cic. Sest. 28, 60:illa obnuntiatio nihil valuit, aut, si valuit, id valuit, ut, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 16, 30: omnia veniebant Antonio in mentem;eaque suo quaeque loco, ubi plurimum proficere et valere possent... collocabantur,
id. Brut. 37, 139:cur minus Venena Medaeae valent?
Hor. Epod. 5. 62.—With abl.:(γ).quod tibi lubet fac, quoniam pugnis plus vales,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 240; cf.v. 234: quicquid possunt, pedestribus valent copiis,
Caes. B. G. 2, 17:qui plus opibus, armis, potentia valent, perfecisse mihi videntur... ut etiam auctoritate jam plus valerent,
Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 10:quasi vero ego... in isto genere omnino quidquam aut curatione aut potestate valuissem,
id. Dom. 6, 14:Ti. Coruncanium longe plurimum ingenio valuisse,
id. Brut. 14, 55:quantum gratia, auctoritate, pecunia valerent,
Caes. B. G. 7, 63:Caesar multum equitatu valebat,
id. B. C. 1, 61:cum tantum equitatu valeamus,
id. ib. 3, 86:equitatu plurimum valere,
id. B. G. 3, 20; Nep. Alcib. 8, 2.—With in and abl.:(δ).nihil putas valere in judiciis conjecturam, nihil suspitionem, nihil ante actae vitae existimationem, etc.,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62, § 146:hic multum in Fabia (tribu) valet, ille Velina,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 52. —With ad and acc.:(ε).multum valuisse ad patris honorem pietas filii videbitur,
Cic. Phil. 9, 5, 12:ex quo intellegitur, plus terrarum situs, quam lunae tractus, ad nascendum valere,
id. Div. 2, 46, 97:valet igitur multum ad vincendum probari mores eorum, qui agent causas,
id. de Or. 2, 43, 182:ad subeundem periculum et ad vitandum multum fortuna valuit,
Caes. B. G. 6, 30:genus ad probandam speciem minimum valet,
Quint. 5, 10, 56.—With apud and acc. of pers., to have influence, be influential, have weight with, influence:(ζ).apud quem (Caesarem) quicquid valebo vel auctoritate, vel gratia, valebo tibi,
Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 13:utrum apud eos pudor atque officium, an timor plus valeret,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40:tantum apud homines barbaros valuit, esse repertos aliquos principes belli inferendi,
id. ib. 5, 54:potestis constituere, hanc auctoritatem quantum apud exteras nationes valituram esse existimetis,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 46:non modo praemiis, quae apud me minimum valent, sed ne periculis quidem conpulsus ullis,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 11:facinus esse indignum, plus impudicissimae mulieris apud te de Cleomenis salute quam de sua vita lacrimas matris valere,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:apud quem ut multum gratia valeret, effecit,
Nep. Con. 2, 1.—With contra: cur desperemus veritatem contra fallacem facundiam valituram? prevail, Lact. Opif. Dei, 20, 5; cf. Mat. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8, II. B. 2, e. supra.—(η).With pro:(θ).pro periculo magis quam contra salutem valere,
Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; cf.:quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum pro hostium numero valebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 51.—With inter:(ι).plurimum inter eos Bellovacos et virtute, et auctoritate, et hominum numero valere,
Caes. B. G. 2, 4.—With adv. of pur pose:C.hoc eo valebat, ut ingratiis ad de pugnandum omnes cogerentur,
Nep. Them. 4, 4:non tamen hoc eo valet, ut fugien dae sint magnae scholae,
Quint. 1, 2, 16:nescis quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Hor. S. 1, 1, 73; cf. II. B. 2. b. supra. —Idiomatic uses.1.Of money value, to be of the value of, be worth: denarii, quod denos aeris valebant;2.quinarii, quod quinos,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 173 Mull.:dum pro argenteis decem aureus unus valeret,
Liv. 38, 11, 8:ita ut scrupulum valeret sestertiis vicenis,
Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 47:si haec praedia valeant nunc decem,
Dig. 24, 1, 7, § 4:quasi minimo valeret hereditas,
ib. 19, 1, 13:quanti omnibus valet (servus),
ib. 9, 2, 33; 5, 3, 25, § 1.—Of the signification of words, sentences, etc.; like the Gr. dunasthai, to mean, signify, import:A.quaerimus verbum Latinum par Graeco et quod idem valeat,
Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 13: non usquam id quidem dicit omnino;sed quae dicit, idem valent,
id. Tusc. 5, 10, 24:quamquam vocabula prope idem valere videantur,
id. Top. 8, 34:hoc verbum quid valeat, non vident,
id. Off. 3, 9, 39: cui nomen Becco fuerat;id valet gallinacei rostrum,
Suet. Vit. 18:pransus quoque atque potus diversum valent quam indicant,
Quint. 1, 4, 29 et saep.:et intellego et sentio et video saepe idem valent quod scio,
id. 10, 1, 13:duo quae idem significant ac tantumdem valent,
id. 1, 5, 4.—Hence, vălens, entis, P. a., strong, stout, vigorous, powerful (class.).Lit.1.In gen.: nil moro discipulos mihi esse plenos sanguinis;2.valens adflictet me,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 44:virgatores,
id. As. 3, 2, 19:robusti et valentes et audaces satellites,
Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 84:cum homo imbecillus a valentissima bestia laniatur,
id. Fam. 7, 1, 3:valentissimi lictores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142:homines,
id. Phil. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 35:hic membris et mole valens,
Verg. A. 5, 431:membris valens,
Ov. M. 9, 108:corpore esse vegeto et valenti,
Gell. 3, 1, 11:nervi musculique,
Cels. 8, 20:trunci,
Verg. G. 2, 426: scire oportet, omnia legumina generis valentissimi esse: valentissimum voco, in quo plurimum alimenti est... Ex leguminibus valentior faba quam pisum, etc., strongest, i. e. most nutritire, Cels. 2, 18:tunicae,
stout, thick, Ov. A. A. 3, 109: providendum ne infirmiores (apes) a valentioribus [p. 1955] opprimantur, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 35.—In partic.a.Well in health, healthy, hale, hearty:b.valeo et venio ad minus valentem,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 24:medicus plane confirmat, propediem te valentem fore,
Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:puer, hora undecima cum valens in publico visus esset, ante noctem mortuus est,
id. Clu. 9, 27; cf.valens (opp. imbecillus),
id. Fam. 16, 5, 2:(sensus) si sani sunt et valentes,
id. Ac. 2, 7, 19:si valens corpus est neque magno opere vexatum,
Cels. 7, 26, 5:sive aegra, sive valens,
Prop. 2, 21 (3, 14), 20.— Subst.:qui enim aegris subveniretur, quae esset oblectatio valentium, nisi, etc.,
Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15;so opp. aeger,
id. de Or. 2, 44, 186.—Of medicines, strong, powerful, active:B.valens est adversus cancerem intestinorum minii gleba,
Cels. 4, 15 fin.:medicamenta,
id. 1, 3 med.:silvestri (papaveri capita) ad omnes effectus valentiora,
Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 202; cf. id. 22, 22, 43, § 87.—Trop., strong, powerful, mighty:1.mallem tantas ei (Caesari) vires non dedisset (res publica) quam nunc tam valenti resisteret,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 4:fuit quondam ita firma haec civitas et valens,
id. Har. Resp. 28, 60:cum valentiore pugnare,
id. Fam. 5, 21, 2:valens dialecticus,
id. Fat. 6, 12:ut fieri nihil possit valentius,
id. Brut. 16, 64:Philippus jam tum valens multa moliebatur,
Nep. Timoth. 3, 1:opibus jam valentes,
id. Eum. 10, 3:argumenta valentiora,
Quint. 5, 13, 12:quid pars adversa habeat valentissimum,
id. 5, 13, 52:nec fraus valentior quam consilium meum,
Cic. Univ. 11:ad letum causae satis valentes,
Ov. M. 5, 174; so,causae,
id. Tr. 1, 8, 29:causa valentior,
id. P. 1, 10, 35:deus morbo omni valentior,
Stat. S. 1, 4, 111:oppida valentissima,
Nep. Ham. 2, 4.—Hence, adv.: vălenter, strongly, stoutly, powerfully, violently (perh. not ante-Aug.).Lit.:2.resistere,
Col. 1, 5, 9; 3, 2, 15:nimis valenter ibi retenta materia,
Cels. 5, 26, 21:praeceps spirare valentius Eurus (coepit),
Ov. M. 11, 481.—Trop., of speech, forcibly, energetically:non diu dicebat sed valenter,
Sen. Contr. 3, 22 med.:si verba numeres, breviter et abscise: si sensum aestimes, copiose et valenter,
Val. Max. 3, 7, ext. 6.
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