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  • 1 SUSCIPERE (ASSUME, TAKE ON)

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  • 2 sūmō

        sūmō sūmpsī, sūmptus, ere    [sub+cmo], to take, take up, take in hand, lay hold of, assume: a me argentum, T.: legem in manūs: litteras ad te a M. Lepido consule sumpsimus, have provided ourselves with: Tusculi ante quam Romae sumpta sunt arma, L.: perventum est eo, quo sumpta navis est, hired: pecuniam mutuam, borrow.—To take, eat, drink, consume, enjoy, put on: vinum, N.: Partem Falerni, H.: pomum de lance, O.: sumptā virili togā, put on: regium ornatum, N.— To take in exchange, buy, purchase: decumas agri Leontini: Quae parvo sumi nequeunt, H.—Fig., to take, take up, assume: tantos sibi spiritūs, ut, etc., assumed, Cs.: animum, take courage, O.: sump<*> tis inimicitiis, susceptā causā.— To take up, under take, enter upon, begin: omne bellum sumi facile, to be undertaken, S.: bellum cum Veientibus sumptum, L.: Prima fide vocisque ratae temptamina, O.: Quem virum lyrā sumis celebrare? H.— To exact, inflict, with supplicium or poenam: more maiorum supplicium sumpsit, Cs.: de illā supplicium sumere: virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere: pro maleficio poenam sumi oportere: tam crudelīs poenas, to take such cruel revenge, V.— To take, choose, select: philosophiae studium: hoc mihi sumo, this is my choice: meliores liberos sumpsisse quam genuisse, i. e. to have adopted, S.: materiam vestris aequam Viribus, H.: mala, O.: disceptatorem, L.: Miltiadem imperatorem sibi, N.— To take, assume, claim, arrogate, appropriate: quamquam mihi non sumo tantum neque adrogo, ut, etc.: imperatorias sibi partīs, Cs.: Nec sumit aut ponit securīs Arbitrio popularis aurae, H.: voltūs acerbos, O.: antiquos mores, L.— To take, obtain, get, acquire, receive: distat sumasne pudenter An rapias, H.: laudem a crimine, O.: sumpto rigore, O.— To take, lay out, use, apply, employ, spend, consume: frustra operam, T.: laborem, Cs.: diem ad deliberandum, Cs.: cibi quietisque tempus, L.: curis sumptus, worn out, C. poët.—Of a speaker, to take for granted, assume, maintain, suppose, affirm: id sumere pro certo, quod dubium est: beatos esse deos: pro non dubio, aequius esse, etc., L.— To take, bring forward, cite, mention, adduce: homines notos sumere odiosum est: unum hoc sumo: quid quisquam potest ex omni memoriā sumere inlustrius?
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    I
    sumere, sumpsi, sumptus V
    take up; begin; suppose, assume; select; purchase; exact (punishment); obtain
    II
    sumere, sumsi, sumtus V
    accept; begin; suppose; select; purchase; obtain; (= sumpsi, sumptum)

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  • 3 capiō

        capiō cēpī (capsis, old for cēperis, C.), captus, ere    [CAP-], to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp: flabellum, T.: sacra manu, V.: pocula, H.: baculum, O.: pignera, L.: manibus tympanum, Ct.: lora, Pr.: arma capere alii, seized their arms, S.: ensem, O.: tela, O.: omnia arma contra illam pestem, i. e. contend in every way: Manlium arma cepisse, had begun hostilities, S.: capere arma parabat, was on the point of attacking, O.—Of food, to take, partake of: Cibum cum eā, T.: lauti cibum capiunt, Ta. — To take captive, seize, make prisoner: belli duces captos tenetis: unus e filiis captus est, Cs.: capta tria milia peditum, L.: alquos Byzantii, N.: captos ostendere civibus hostes, H.: Num capti (Phryges) potuere capi? could they not, when taken, be taken (once for all)? V.: casus est enim in capiendo (sc. praedones).—To catch, hunt down, take: pro se quisque quod ceperat adferebat: cervum, Ph.: illa pro lepusculis capiebantur, patellae, etc.—To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate: ut te redimas captum (i. e. amore), T.: quibus (rebus) illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest: te pecuniā captum: quem suā cepit humanitate, N.: hunc capit argenti splendor, H.: dulcedine vocis, O.: (bos) herbā captus viridi, V.: oculis captis.— To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch: Aut quā viā te captent eādem ipsos capi? T.: eodem captus errore, involved in: suis miserum me cepit ocellis, Pr.: carmine formosae capiuntur, Tb.: me dolis, S.: capi alcuius dolo, N.: alqm amicitiae mendacis imagine, O.—To defeat, convict, cast, overcome (in a suit or dispute): ne tui consultores capiantur: in capiendo adversario versutus (orator).—To harm, lame, mutilate, maim, disable, impair, weaken: oculis et auribus captus, blind and deaf: membris omnibus captus: altero oculo capitur, loses an eye, L.: capti auribus metu, L.: lumine, O.: numquam erit tam captus equester ordo: captā re p. — P. pass., of the mind, deprived of sense, silly, insane, crazed, lunatic, mad: mente esse captum: virgines captae furore, L.: capti et stupentes animi, L. — To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept: iudicem populum R., L.: Me arbitrum, T.: inimicos homines, make enemies, T.: sacerdotem sortito: Flaccus flamen captus a Licinio erat, L. — Of places, to occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into: loca capere, to take up a position, Cs.: castris locum capere: locum extra urbem editum capere, N.: locum editiorem, S.: capto monte, Cs.: Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa, L.: montes fugā, for refuge, L.: tumulum, V.: terras captas despectare videntur (cycni), to be settling down on places selected, V. — To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize: pauca (oppida), S.: Troiā captā, L.: quod (agri) de Campanis ceperant: castra hostium, N.: oppida manu, V.; cf. oppressā captāque re p.: patriam suam, L.—To reach, attain, arrive at, betake oneself to: insulam, Cs.: oti illum portum.—Of property or money, to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get: agros de hostibus: ager ex hostibus captus, L.: praedas, N.: ex hostibus pecuniam, L.: cape cedo, give and take, T.: de re p. nihil praeter gloriam, N.: ex calamitate populi R. nomen capere, Cs.: regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit, succeeded to, O.— With pecuniam, to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe, take blackmail: contra leges pecuniam cepisse?: pecuniae per vim atque iniuriam captae: aperte pecunias ob rem iudicandam: alqm pecuniae captae arcessere, S.—To take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept: morte testamentove alcuius alqd capere: a civibus Romanis hereditates: si capiendi Ius nullum uxori, Iu.—To collect, receive, obtain: ex eis praediis talenta argenti, T.: stipendium iure belli, Cs.: ex quo (castro) talenta, N.— Fig., to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap: Fructum, T.: fructūs auctoritatis: fructum vestri in me amoris: alquid ex eā re commodi? T.: utilitates ex amicitiā.—To take, assume, acquire, put on: gestūs voltūsque novos, T.: figuras, O.—To take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess: petitoris personam: patris vim: patrium animum.— To undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take up: provinciam duram, T.: consulatum: honores, N.: rerum moderamen, O.: rem p., S.: magistratum, L.—With dat. of person, to obtain for, secure for: patres praeturam Camillo ceperunt, L.—To begin, enter upon, undertake: bellum: labores, T.: augurium ex arce, L.: aliud initium belli, i. e. war on a new plan, Cs.: conatūs ad erumpendum, L.: nec vestra capit discordia finem, V.: ad impetum capiundum spatium, to take a start, L.: somnum, fall asleep.—Poet.: Unde nova ingressūs experientia cepit? i. e. was devised, V.—To seize, embrace, take (an opportunity): si quam causam ceperit, T.: tempus ad te adeundi.—To form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach: sensum verae gloriae: ex lucri magnitudine coniecturam furti: consilium unā tecum, T.: consilium hominis fortunas evertere: consilium equitatum demittere, Cs.: consilium ut exirem: legionis opprimendae consilium, Cs.—To take, derive, draw, obtain: de te exemplum, T.: exemplum ex aliquā re. — To take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience: miseriam omnem, T.: angorem pro amico: ex huius incommodis molestiam: infamiam sine voluptate: invidiam apud patres ex largitione, L.: timorem, V.: voluptatem animi.— With a feeling as subj, to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui, etc.: ut caperet odium illam mei, T.: nos oblivio ceperat: Romulum cupido cepit urbis condendae, L.: animum cura cepit, L.: meae si te ceperunt taeda laudis, V.: dementia cepit amantem, V.—Of injury or loss, to suffer, take, be subjected to: calamitatem: incommodi nihil.—Esp., in the formula by which the senate, in great emergencies, gave absolute power to magistrates: videant ne quid res p. detrimenti capiat: senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc., S.—To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for: capit alveus amnes O.: terra feras cepit, O.: quid turbae est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio, T.: unā domo iam capi non possunt: Nec iam se capit unda, V.: Non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus, H.: tot domūs locupletissimas istius domus una capiet? will swallow up.—To contain, hold, suffice for, be strong enough for, bear: eam amentiam: nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas, O.: iram Non capit ipsa suam, O.: Nec te Troia capit, is too small for your glory, V.—To take, receive, hold, comprehend, grasp, embrace: gratia, quantam maximam animi nostri capere possunt: ille unus veram speciem senatūs cepit, L.
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    I
    capere, additional forms V TRANS
    take hold, seize; grasp; take bribe; arrest/capture; put on; occupy; captivate
    II
    capere, cepi, captus V TRANS
    take hold, seize; grasp; take bribe; arrest/capture; put on; occupy; captivate
    III
    taking/seizing

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  • 4 recipiō

        recipiō cēpī (recepsō for recēperō, Ct.), ceptus, ere    [re+capio].    I. To take back, bring back, carry back, retake, get back, regain, recover: dandis recipiendisque meritis, by an exchange of services: si velit suos recipere, obsides sibi remittat, Cs.: reges, L.: canam, recepto Caesare felix, H.: Tarentum, recaptured: praeda recepta est, L.: Pectore in adverso ensem Condidit, et recepit, drew out again, V.: suos omnīs incolumes (sc. ex oppido in castra), withdraw, Cs.: cohortes defessos, Cs.: Illum medio ex hoste, rescue, V.—With pron reflex., to draw back, withdraw, betake oneself, retire, retreat, escape: se ex hisce locis: se ex fugā, Cs.: se recipiendi spatium, L.: se ad Caesarem, Cs.: ex castris in oppidum sese, Cs.: rursus se ad signa, Cs.: se in novissimos, L.: sub murum se, Cs.: eo se, Cs.: Neque sepulcrum quo recipiat habeat, portum corporis (sc. se), Enn. ap. C.—Fig., to bring back: (vocem) ab acutissimo sono usque ad gravissimum sonum.— To get back, receive again, regain, recover, repossess: antiquam frequentiam recipere urbem pati, L.: et totidem, quot dixit, verba recepit, got back, O.: quam (vitam) postquam recepi, recovered, O.: animam, T.: a pavore recepto animo, L.: voltumque animumque, O.: mente receptā, H.—With pron reflex., to betake oneself, withdraw, retire: ad frugem bonam: ad reliquam cogitationem belli, Cs.— To recover, collect oneself, resume self-possession: ut me recepi: nullum spatium recipiendi se dedit, L.: se ex terrore, Cs.: totā me mente, O.—    II. To take to oneself, take in, admit, accept, receive, welcome: Excludor, ille recipitur, T.: Xerxem, await the attack of: hos tutissimus portus recipiebat, Cs.: Mosa ex Rheno recepta insulam efficit, Cs.: equus frenum recepit, submitted to, H.: Hominem amicum ad te, T.: hominem ad epulas: gentes in civitatem receptae: deorum in templa, H.: Ilergetes in ius dicionemque, L.: reges in amicitiam, S.: sidera in caelo recepta, O.: tecto recipi, Cs.: illum suis urbibus: oppido ac portu recepti, Cs.: legatos moenibus, S.: eum domum suam: ut domum ad se quisque hospitio reciperet, Cs.—Of money or income, to take in, receive, collect, acquire, gain: pecuniam ex novis vectigalibus: pecunia, quae recipi potest.—Of weapons or fetters, to submit to, accept, receive, expose oneself to: necesse erat ab latere aperto tela recipi, Cs.: ferrum: donec (equus) frenum recepit, H.—Of places, to seize, capture, take, possess, occupy: Praeneste per deditionem, L.: oppido recepto, Cs.: rem p. armis, S. —Fig., to take upon oneself, assume, receive, accept, admit, allow: in semet ipsum religionem, to burden himself with, L.: antiquitas recepit fabulas: nec inconstantiam virtus recipit: timor misericordiam non recipit, Cs.: casūs recipere (res), be liable to, Cs.: re iam non ultra recipiente cunctationem, L. — To take up, undertake, accept, assume: causam Siciliae: id facere, quod recepissem, T.: officium. — To assume an obligation, pledge oneself, take the responsibility, be surety for, warrant, promise, engage: ad me recipio; Faciet, T.: promitto in meque recipio, fore eum, etc.: promitto, recipio, spondeo, Caesarem talem semper fore, etc.: facturum, quod milites vellent, se recepit, L.: fidem recepisse sibi et ipsum et Appium de me, had given him a solemn assurance: ea, quae tibi promitto ac recipio: mihi in Cumano se defensurum, etc.: postulabat ut... id ipsi fore reciperent, Cs.—Of a magistrate, with nomen, to entertain a charge against, enter as an accused person, indict: nomen absentis: appellantibus nemo erat auxilio, quin nomina reciperentur, L.
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    recipere, recepi, receptus V
    keep back; recover; undertake; guarantee; accept, take in; take back

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  • 5 capio

    1.
    căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:

    capsimus,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:

    sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:

    cape hoc flabellum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:

    cepit manibus tympanum,

    Cat. 6, 3, 8:

    tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,

    Verg. A. 2, 717:

    cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,

    id. G. 3, 420:

    flammeum,

    Cat. 61, 8:

    acria pocula,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:

    lora,

    Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:

    baculum,

    Ov. M. 2, 789:

    colum cum calathis,

    id. ib. 12, 475:

    florem ternis digitis,

    Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:

    pignera,

    Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:

    ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:

    rem pignori,

    Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:

    scutum laeva,

    Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:

    capias tu illius vestem,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;

    and of particular weapons: ensem,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    tela,

    id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:

    quicum una cibum Capere soleo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:

    lauti cibum capiunt,

    Tac. G. 22.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of living objects.
    a. (α).
    Of persons:

    oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):

    quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

    ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

    reges capiuntur,

    Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:

    capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,

    Liv. 22, 49, 18:

    quos Byzantii ceperat,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:

    captos ostendere civibus hostes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:

    captus Tarento Livius,

    Cic. Brut. 18, 72:

    servus ex hoste captus,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:

    in captos clementia uti,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:

    inludere capto,

    Verg. A. 2, 64:

    quae sit fiducia capto,

    id. ib. 2, 75:

    ex captorum numero,

    Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:

    dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
    (β).
    Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:

    si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,

    id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:

    hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 763:

    neque quicquam captum'st piscium,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

    nisi quid concharum capsimus,

    id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    cervum,

    Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:

    hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,

    Verg. G. 4, 396.—
    b.
    To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:

    quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,

    Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:

    quamvis voluptate capiatur,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:

    quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:

    secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,

    id. Att. 4, 1:

    nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,

    Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;

    erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,

    Hor. A. P. 362:

    hunc capit argenti splendor,

    id. S. 1, 4, 28:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 46:

    Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,

    Prop. 1, 1, 1:

    carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

    Tib. 3, 1, 7:

    munditiis capimur,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;

    14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,

    Liv. 30, 12, 18:

    dulcedine vocis,

    Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:

    voce nova,

    id. ib. 1, 678:

    temperie aquarum,

    id. ib. 4, 344:

    (bos) herba captus viridi,

    Verg. E. 6, 59:

    amoenitate loci,

    Tac. A. 18, 52:

    auro,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:

    neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

    splendore hominis,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;

    nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
    c.
    To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:

    sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

    injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:

    eodem captus errore quo nos,

    involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:

    ne quo errore milites caperentur,

    Liv. 8, 6, 16:

    capere ante dolis Reginam,

    Verg. A. 1, 673:

    captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),

    id. ib. 2, 196:

    ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,

    Sall. J. 14, 11:

    adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

    id. C. 14, 5:

    capi alicujus dolo,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1:

    dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,

    Liv. 23, 35, 2:

    quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,

    Ov. M. 7, 301.—
    d.
    To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):

    tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:

    tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22:

    callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),

    id. Brut. 48, 178.—
    e. (α).
    Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):

    mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,

    loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:

    captus omnibus membris,

    id. 2, 36, 8:

    capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,

    id. 21, 58, 5:

    oculis membrisque captus,

    Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:

    congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:

    si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,

    id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:

    habuit filium captum altero oculo,

    Suet. Vit. 6:

    censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,

    Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:

    lumine,

    Ov. F. 6, 204:

    princeps pedibus captus,

    Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:

    captum leto posuit caput,

    Verg. A. 11, 830;

    and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,

    id. G. 1, 183.—
    (β).
    Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:

    labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,

    id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;

    rarely mentibu' capti,

    Lucr. 4, 1022; so,

    animo,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:

    captus animi,

    Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:

    virgines captae furore,

    Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:

    viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,

    Liv. 39, 13, 12:

    captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,

    id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:

    capti et stupentes animi,

    id. 6, 36, 8.—
    f.
    To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:

    de istac sum judex captus,

    Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:

    Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,

    Liv. 3, 71, 2:

    me cepere arbitrum,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:

    te mihi patronam capio, Thais,

    id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:

    quom illum generum cepimus,

    id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:

    non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,

    make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:

    si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:

    plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,

    Gell. 1, 12, 15:

    jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,

    Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:

    religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

    C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,

    Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
    2.
    Of places.
    a.
    To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:

    loca capere, castra munire,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 23:

    castris locum capere,

    Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:

    locum capere castris,

    Quint. 12, 2, 5:

    ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:

    ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,

    Nep. Ages. 6, 2:

    nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,

    Liv. 34, 14, 1:

    neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,

    id. 35, 14, 9:

    erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,

    id. 35, 28, 1:

    locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,

    Sall. J. 58, 3:

    duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,

    Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,

    of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 26, 5:

    quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,

    Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:

    tumulum suis cepit,

    Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;

    for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4;

    for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,

    id. 9, 43, 20:

    Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,

    Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:

    ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),

    Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
    b.
    To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:

    invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:

    MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    CORSICAM,

    Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):

    ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,

    Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:

    Troja capta,

    Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:

    urbem opulentissimam,

    id. 5, 20, 1:

    ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:

    castra hostium,

    Nep. Dat. 6, 7:

    concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,

    id. 28, 39, 10:

    sedem belli,

    Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:

    oppressa captaque re publica,

    Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
    c.
    To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):

    insulam capere non potuerant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:

    onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,

    id. ib. 4, 36:

    accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,

    id. ib. 5, 23:

    nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,

    id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:

    qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,

    Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
    3.
    Of things of value, property, money, etc.
    a.
    In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:

    AVRVM, ARGENTVM,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    de praedonibus praedam capere,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:

    agros de hostibus,

    Cic. Dom. 49, 128:

    ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 4, 48, 2:

    quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,

    Nep. Con. 4, 4:

    classem,

    id. Cim. 2, 2:

    magnas praedas,

    id. Dat. 10, 2:

    ex hostibus pecuniam,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:

    e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:

    signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §

    82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:

    cape cedo,

    id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:

    ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

    majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:

    te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,

    Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:

    paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,

    Nep. Epam. 3, 4:

    ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,

    id. Att. 7, 2:

    quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,

    assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:

    quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

    regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,

    succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
    b.
    In particular connections.
    (α).
    With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:

    his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

    HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:

    quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,

    id. ib. §

    27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §

    91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §

    218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §

    71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,

    id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:

    ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,

    id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

    quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,

    id. Clu. 42, 120:

    nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,

    id. Pis. 16, 38:

    si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,

    id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:

    ab regibus Illyriorum,

    Liv. 42, 45, 8:

    saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,

    Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
    (β).
    Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:

    si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,

    Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:

    qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,

    id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

    abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,

    Quint. 3, 6, 96:

    aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,

    id. 5, 14, 16:

    si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,

    Juv. 1, 55:

    qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,

    Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:

    qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,

    ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
    (γ).
    Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:

    capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,

    Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:

    stipendium jure belli,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

    quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:

    vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,

    Liv. 28, 39, 13:

    quadragena annua ex schola,

    Suet. Gram. 23:

    si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,

    Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):

    metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:

    honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 62:

    ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,

    id. Div. 2, 5:

    ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,

    id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:

    multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,

    id. Att. 1, 4, 2:

    fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,

    id. Pis. 14, 31:

    aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,

    Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:

    quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:

    utilitates ex amicitia maximas,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    usuram alicujus corporis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
    2.
    Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:

    gestum atque voltum novom,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:

    figuras Datque capitque novas,

    id. ib. 15, 309:

    formam capit quam lilia,

    id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:

    duritiam ab aere,

    id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:

    radicem capere,

    to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:

    cum pali defixi radices cepissent,

    Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:

    siliculam capere,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:

    maturitatem capere,

    Col. 4, 23, 1:

    radix libere capit viris,

    Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:

    vires cepisse nocendi,

    Ov. M. 7, 417:

    (telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,

    Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
    3.
    Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:

    cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:

    qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

    aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,

    id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:

    consuetudinem exercitationemque,

    id. Off. 1, 18, 59:

    misericordiam,

    id. Quint. 31, 97:

    quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 346:

    disciplinam principum,

    Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:

    quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
    4.
    Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:

    nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:

    o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:

    in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,

    took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:

    consulatum,

    id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:

    honores,

    Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:

    imperium,

    id. Claud. 10:

    magistratum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:

    magistratus,

    Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:

    capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),

    Ov. M. 3, 644:

    rerum moderamen,

    id. ib. 6, 677:

    pontificatum maximum,

    Suet. Vit. 11:

    rem publicam,

    Sall. C. 5, 6:

    neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,

    Liv. 2, 33, 1:

    ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,

    id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:

    patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,

    Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
    5.
    In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:

    augurium ex arce,

    Liv. 10, 7, 10:

    augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,

    Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:

    omen,

    Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:

    in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,

    Liv. 9, 4, 1:

    rursus impetu capto enituntur,

    id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:

    a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,

    Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):

    nec vestra capit discordia finem,

    Verg. A. 10, 106:

    fugam,

    to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:

    ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,

    Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:

    expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,

    suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:

    ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,

    Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:

    eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
    6.
    Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:

    si occassionem capsit,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:

    si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:

    quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:

    si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
    7.
    Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:

    quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:

    cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 35:

    hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,

    Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:

    conjecturam capere,

    Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:

    nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:

    capti consili memorem mones,

    id. Stich 4, 1, 72:

    quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:

    temerarium consilium,

    Liv. 25, 34, 7:

    tale capit consilium,

    Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:

    confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:

    subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,

    Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):

    legionis opprimendae consilium capere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 2:

    obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,

    Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:

    si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

    ut ego rationem oculis capio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:

    cepi rationem ut, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
    8.
    Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:

    ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,

    Cic. Lael. 10, 33:

    praesagia a sole,

    Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:

    illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
    9.
    Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:

    tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?

    Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:

    omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,

    id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:

    laborem inanem ipsus capit,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!

    id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;

    hic potitur gaudia,

    id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:

    satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:

    plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9:

    cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,

    id. ib. prol. 114:

    angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 48:

    quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,

    id. Off. 2, 9, 32:

    laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,

    id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:

    lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,

    id. Sen. 15, 54:

    opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,

    id. Brut. 1, 1:

    itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,

    id. ib. 40, 147:

    ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,

    Liv. 27, 40, 9:

    ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,

    id. 5, 20, 2:

    ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,

    id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):

    laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 4:

    ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,

    lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:

    maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:

    et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,

    Liv. 33, 27, 10:

    voluptatem animi,

    Cic. Planc. 1, 1:

    malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),

    id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:

    quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,

    Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
    10.
    Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):

    edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:

    numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 4:

    sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,

    id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:

    nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:

    te cepisse odium regni videbatur,

    id. ib. 2, 36, 91:

    Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,

    Liv. 1, 6, 3:

    cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,

    id. 40, 21, 2:

    etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,

    id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:

    qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?

    Liv. 27, 13, 2:

    oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,

    id. 38, 46, 12:

    tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?

    Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:

    ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,

    Liv. 27, 8, 6:

    hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,

    id. 44, 12, 1:

    tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,

    Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;

    I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 384:

    infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!

    id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:

    cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,

    id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;

    I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,

    Liv. 1, 57, 10:

    ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,

    id. 25, 22, 1:

    tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,

    id. 23, 20, 7:

    senatum metus cepit,

    id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):

    quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,

    Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
    11.
    Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:

    calamitatem,

    Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:

    detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,

    Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;

    videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:

    Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:

    quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,

    Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
    II.
    To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:

    parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),

    Lucr. 6, 1030:

    jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,

    Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:

    terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,

    id. ib. 1, 75:

    dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,

    id. ib. 8, 558:

    cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,

    id. ib. 5, 324.—
    2.
    Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:

    di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:

    qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;

    volat vapor ater ad auras,

    Verg. A. 7, 466:

    non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:

    non capit se mare,

    Sen. Agam. 487:

    neque enim capiebant funera portae,

    Ov. M. 7, 607:

    officium populi vix capiente domo,

    id. P. 4, 4, 42:

    si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,

    Curt. 7, 8, 12:

    ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,

    Just. 2, 10, 19.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):

    tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
    2. a.
    Affirmatively (rare):

    quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,

    Curt. 9, 3, 7:

    si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,

    Quint. 2, 4, 17:

    dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,

    Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
    b.
    With negatives:

    non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),

    Cic. Pis. 11, 24:

    leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,

    Lucr. 3, 298:

    nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,

    Ov. M. 6, 466:

    vix spes ipse suas animo capit,

    id. ib. 11, 118:

    ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,

    id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:

    sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,

    Curt. 7, 8, 13:

    majora quam capit spirat,

    id. 6, 9, 11:

    ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,

    id. 3, 12, 20:

    infirma aetas majora non capiet,

    Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
    3.
    Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):

    rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,

    Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:

    molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,

    id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:

    res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,

    Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
    4.
    With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):

    nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),

    Prud. Apoth. 154:

    crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,

    Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
    5.
    Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):

    sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,

    Quint. 11, 1, 45:

    nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,

    id. 2, 6, 2:

    quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,

    Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:

    senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,

    Liv. 9, 17, 14:

    somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,

    id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
    2.
    căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
    I.
    A taking:

    dominii,

    Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
    II.
    = usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > capio

  • 6 Capta

    1.
    căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:

    capsimus,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:

    sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:

    cape hoc flabellum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:

    cepit manibus tympanum,

    Cat. 6, 3, 8:

    tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,

    Verg. A. 2, 717:

    cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,

    id. G. 3, 420:

    flammeum,

    Cat. 61, 8:

    acria pocula,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:

    lora,

    Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:

    baculum,

    Ov. M. 2, 789:

    colum cum calathis,

    id. ib. 12, 475:

    florem ternis digitis,

    Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:

    pignera,

    Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:

    ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:

    rem pignori,

    Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:

    scutum laeva,

    Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:

    capias tu illius vestem,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;

    and of particular weapons: ensem,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    tela,

    id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:

    quicum una cibum Capere soleo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:

    lauti cibum capiunt,

    Tac. G. 22.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of living objects.
    a. (α).
    Of persons:

    oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):

    quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

    ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

    reges capiuntur,

    Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:

    capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,

    Liv. 22, 49, 18:

    quos Byzantii ceperat,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:

    captos ostendere civibus hostes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:

    captus Tarento Livius,

    Cic. Brut. 18, 72:

    servus ex hoste captus,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:

    in captos clementia uti,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:

    inludere capto,

    Verg. A. 2, 64:

    quae sit fiducia capto,

    id. ib. 2, 75:

    ex captorum numero,

    Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:

    dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
    (β).
    Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:

    si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,

    id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:

    hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 763:

    neque quicquam captum'st piscium,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

    nisi quid concharum capsimus,

    id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    cervum,

    Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:

    hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,

    Verg. G. 4, 396.—
    b.
    To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:

    quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,

    Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:

    quamvis voluptate capiatur,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:

    quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:

    secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,

    id. Att. 4, 1:

    nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,

    Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;

    erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,

    Hor. A. P. 362:

    hunc capit argenti splendor,

    id. S. 1, 4, 28:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 46:

    Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,

    Prop. 1, 1, 1:

    carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

    Tib. 3, 1, 7:

    munditiis capimur,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;

    14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,

    Liv. 30, 12, 18:

    dulcedine vocis,

    Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:

    voce nova,

    id. ib. 1, 678:

    temperie aquarum,

    id. ib. 4, 344:

    (bos) herba captus viridi,

    Verg. E. 6, 59:

    amoenitate loci,

    Tac. A. 18, 52:

    auro,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:

    neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

    splendore hominis,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;

    nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
    c.
    To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:

    sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

    injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:

    eodem captus errore quo nos,

    involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:

    ne quo errore milites caperentur,

    Liv. 8, 6, 16:

    capere ante dolis Reginam,

    Verg. A. 1, 673:

    captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),

    id. ib. 2, 196:

    ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,

    Sall. J. 14, 11:

    adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

    id. C. 14, 5:

    capi alicujus dolo,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1:

    dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,

    Liv. 23, 35, 2:

    quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,

    Ov. M. 7, 301.—
    d.
    To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):

    tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:

    tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22:

    callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),

    id. Brut. 48, 178.—
    e. (α).
    Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):

    mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,

    loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:

    captus omnibus membris,

    id. 2, 36, 8:

    capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,

    id. 21, 58, 5:

    oculis membrisque captus,

    Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:

    congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:

    si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,

    id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:

    habuit filium captum altero oculo,

    Suet. Vit. 6:

    censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,

    Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:

    lumine,

    Ov. F. 6, 204:

    princeps pedibus captus,

    Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:

    captum leto posuit caput,

    Verg. A. 11, 830;

    and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,

    id. G. 1, 183.—
    (β).
    Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:

    labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,

    id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;

    rarely mentibu' capti,

    Lucr. 4, 1022; so,

    animo,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:

    captus animi,

    Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:

    virgines captae furore,

    Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:

    viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,

    Liv. 39, 13, 12:

    captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,

    id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:

    capti et stupentes animi,

    id. 6, 36, 8.—
    f.
    To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:

    de istac sum judex captus,

    Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:

    Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,

    Liv. 3, 71, 2:

    me cepere arbitrum,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:

    te mihi patronam capio, Thais,

    id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:

    quom illum generum cepimus,

    id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:

    non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,

    make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:

    si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:

    plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,

    Gell. 1, 12, 15:

    jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,

    Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:

    religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

    C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,

    Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
    2.
    Of places.
    a.
    To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:

    loca capere, castra munire,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 23:

    castris locum capere,

    Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:

    locum capere castris,

    Quint. 12, 2, 5:

    ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:

    ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,

    Nep. Ages. 6, 2:

    nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,

    Liv. 34, 14, 1:

    neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,

    id. 35, 14, 9:

    erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,

    id. 35, 28, 1:

    locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,

    Sall. J. 58, 3:

    duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,

    Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,

    of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 26, 5:

    quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,

    Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:

    tumulum suis cepit,

    Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;

    for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4;

    for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,

    id. 9, 43, 20:

    Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,

    Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:

    ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),

    Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
    b.
    To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:

    invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:

    MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    CORSICAM,

    Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):

    ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,

    Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:

    Troja capta,

    Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:

    urbem opulentissimam,

    id. 5, 20, 1:

    ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:

    castra hostium,

    Nep. Dat. 6, 7:

    concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,

    id. 28, 39, 10:

    sedem belli,

    Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:

    oppressa captaque re publica,

    Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
    c.
    To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):

    insulam capere non potuerant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:

    onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,

    id. ib. 4, 36:

    accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,

    id. ib. 5, 23:

    nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,

    id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:

    qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,

    Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
    3.
    Of things of value, property, money, etc.
    a.
    In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:

    AVRVM, ARGENTVM,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    de praedonibus praedam capere,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:

    agros de hostibus,

    Cic. Dom. 49, 128:

    ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 4, 48, 2:

    quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,

    Nep. Con. 4, 4:

    classem,

    id. Cim. 2, 2:

    magnas praedas,

    id. Dat. 10, 2:

    ex hostibus pecuniam,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:

    e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:

    signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §

    82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:

    cape cedo,

    id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:

    ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

    majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:

    te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,

    Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:

    paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,

    Nep. Epam. 3, 4:

    ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,

    id. Att. 7, 2:

    quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,

    assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:

    quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

    regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,

    succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
    b.
    In particular connections.
    (α).
    With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:

    his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

    HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:

    quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,

    id. ib. §

    27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §

    91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §

    218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §

    71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,

    id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:

    ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,

    id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

    quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,

    id. Clu. 42, 120:

    nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,

    id. Pis. 16, 38:

    si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,

    id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:

    ab regibus Illyriorum,

    Liv. 42, 45, 8:

    saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,

    Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
    (β).
    Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:

    si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,

    Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:

    qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,

    id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

    abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,

    Quint. 3, 6, 96:

    aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,

    id. 5, 14, 16:

    si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,

    Juv. 1, 55:

    qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,

    Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:

    qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,

    ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
    (γ).
    Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:

    capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,

    Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:

    stipendium jure belli,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

    quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:

    vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,

    Liv. 28, 39, 13:

    quadragena annua ex schola,

    Suet. Gram. 23:

    si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,

    Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):

    metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:

    honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 62:

    ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,

    id. Div. 2, 5:

    ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,

    id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:

    multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,

    id. Att. 1, 4, 2:

    fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,

    id. Pis. 14, 31:

    aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,

    Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:

    quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:

    utilitates ex amicitia maximas,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    usuram alicujus corporis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
    2.
    Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:

    gestum atque voltum novom,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:

    figuras Datque capitque novas,

    id. ib. 15, 309:

    formam capit quam lilia,

    id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:

    duritiam ab aere,

    id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:

    radicem capere,

    to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:

    cum pali defixi radices cepissent,

    Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:

    siliculam capere,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:

    maturitatem capere,

    Col. 4, 23, 1:

    radix libere capit viris,

    Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:

    vires cepisse nocendi,

    Ov. M. 7, 417:

    (telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,

    Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
    3.
    Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:

    cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:

    qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

    aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,

    id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:

    consuetudinem exercitationemque,

    id. Off. 1, 18, 59:

    misericordiam,

    id. Quint. 31, 97:

    quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 346:

    disciplinam principum,

    Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:

    quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
    4.
    Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:

    nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:

    o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:

    in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,

    took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:

    consulatum,

    id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:

    honores,

    Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:

    imperium,

    id. Claud. 10:

    magistratum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:

    magistratus,

    Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:

    capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),

    Ov. M. 3, 644:

    rerum moderamen,

    id. ib. 6, 677:

    pontificatum maximum,

    Suet. Vit. 11:

    rem publicam,

    Sall. C. 5, 6:

    neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,

    Liv. 2, 33, 1:

    ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,

    id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:

    patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,

    Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
    5.
    In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:

    augurium ex arce,

    Liv. 10, 7, 10:

    augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,

    Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:

    omen,

    Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:

    in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,

    Liv. 9, 4, 1:

    rursus impetu capto enituntur,

    id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:

    a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,

    Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):

    nec vestra capit discordia finem,

    Verg. A. 10, 106:

    fugam,

    to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:

    ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,

    Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:

    expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,

    suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:

    ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,

    Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:

    eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
    6.
    Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:

    si occassionem capsit,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:

    si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:

    quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:

    si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
    7.
    Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:

    quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:

    cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 35:

    hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,

    Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:

    conjecturam capere,

    Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:

    nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:

    capti consili memorem mones,

    id. Stich 4, 1, 72:

    quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:

    temerarium consilium,

    Liv. 25, 34, 7:

    tale capit consilium,

    Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:

    confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:

    subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,

    Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):

    legionis opprimendae consilium capere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 2:

    obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,

    Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:

    si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

    ut ego rationem oculis capio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:

    cepi rationem ut, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
    8.
    Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:

    ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,

    Cic. Lael. 10, 33:

    praesagia a sole,

    Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:

    illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
    9.
    Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:

    tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?

    Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:

    omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,

    id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:

    laborem inanem ipsus capit,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!

    id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;

    hic potitur gaudia,

    id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:

    satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:

    plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9:

    cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,

    id. ib. prol. 114:

    angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 48:

    quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,

    id. Off. 2, 9, 32:

    laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,

    id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:

    lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,

    id. Sen. 15, 54:

    opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,

    id. Brut. 1, 1:

    itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,

    id. ib. 40, 147:

    ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,

    Liv. 27, 40, 9:

    ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,

    id. 5, 20, 2:

    ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,

    id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):

    laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 4:

    ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,

    lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:

    maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:

    et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,

    Liv. 33, 27, 10:

    voluptatem animi,

    Cic. Planc. 1, 1:

    malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),

    id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:

    quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,

    Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
    10.
    Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):

    edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:

    numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 4:

    sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,

    id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:

    nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:

    te cepisse odium regni videbatur,

    id. ib. 2, 36, 91:

    Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,

    Liv. 1, 6, 3:

    cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,

    id. 40, 21, 2:

    etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,

    id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:

    qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?

    Liv. 27, 13, 2:

    oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,

    id. 38, 46, 12:

    tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?

    Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:

    ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,

    Liv. 27, 8, 6:

    hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,

    id. 44, 12, 1:

    tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,

    Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;

    I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 384:

    infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!

    id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:

    cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,

    id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;

    I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,

    Liv. 1, 57, 10:

    ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,

    id. 25, 22, 1:

    tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,

    id. 23, 20, 7:

    senatum metus cepit,

    id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):

    quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,

    Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
    11.
    Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:

    calamitatem,

    Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:

    detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,

    Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;

    videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:

    Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:

    quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,

    Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
    II.
    To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:

    parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),

    Lucr. 6, 1030:

    jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,

    Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:

    terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,

    id. ib. 1, 75:

    dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,

    id. ib. 8, 558:

    cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,

    id. ib. 5, 324.—
    2.
    Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:

    di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:

    qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;

    volat vapor ater ad auras,

    Verg. A. 7, 466:

    non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:

    non capit se mare,

    Sen. Agam. 487:

    neque enim capiebant funera portae,

    Ov. M. 7, 607:

    officium populi vix capiente domo,

    id. P. 4, 4, 42:

    si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,

    Curt. 7, 8, 12:

    ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,

    Just. 2, 10, 19.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):

    tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
    2. a.
    Affirmatively (rare):

    quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,

    Curt. 9, 3, 7:

    si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,

    Quint. 2, 4, 17:

    dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,

    Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
    b.
    With negatives:

    non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),

    Cic. Pis. 11, 24:

    leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,

    Lucr. 3, 298:

    nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,

    Ov. M. 6, 466:

    vix spes ipse suas animo capit,

    id. ib. 11, 118:

    ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,

    id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:

    sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,

    Curt. 7, 8, 13:

    majora quam capit spirat,

    id. 6, 9, 11:

    ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,

    id. 3, 12, 20:

    infirma aetas majora non capiet,

    Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
    3.
    Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):

    rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,

    Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:

    molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,

    id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:

    res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,

    Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
    4.
    With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):

    nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),

    Prud. Apoth. 154:

    crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,

    Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
    5.
    Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):

    sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,

    Quint. 11, 1, 45:

    nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,

    id. 2, 6, 2:

    quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,

    Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:

    senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,

    Liv. 9, 17, 14:

    somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,

    id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
    2.
    căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
    I.
    A taking:

    dominii,

    Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
    II.
    = usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

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  • 7 induo

    indŭo, ŭi, ūtum, ĕre, v. a. [cf. Gr. enduô], to put on an article of dress or ornament (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Herculi tunicam,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20:

    sibi torquem,

    id. Fin. 2, 22, 73:

    galeam,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 21:

    zmaragdos et sardonychas,

    Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 85:

    anulum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38:

    alicui insignia Bacchi,

    Ov. M. 6, 598.— Pass., with a Gr. acc.:

    Androgei galeam clipeique insigne decorum Induitur,

    Verg. A. 2, 392:

    et eamst (sc. vestem) indutus?

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 40: scalas, to place a ladder on one ' s shoulders by putting one ' s head between the rounds, Ov. M. 14, 650: se in aliquid, or with the dat., to fall into or upon, to be entangled in, be covered with, adorned with; with in and acc.:

    se in laqueum,

    Plaut. Cas. 1, 25:

    cum venti se in nubem induerint,

    Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44: cum se nux plurima silvis induet in florem, clothe or deck itself, Verg. G. 1, 188; cf.:

    quos induerat Circe in vultus ac terga ferarum,

    i. e. clothed with the forms of, id. A. 7, 20.—With abl.:

    se vallis,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 73:

    se hastis,

    Liv. 44, 41, 9:

    pomis se arbos induit,

    decks itself with, Verg. G. 4, 143:

    vites se induunt uvis,

    Col. 4, 24, 12:

    cinis induit urbes,

    covers, envelops, Val. Fl. 4, 509:

    Aegyptus... tantis segetibus induebantur,

    Plin. Pan. 30:

    num majore fructu vitis se induerit?

    Anthol. Lat. 5, 69, 5 Burm.:

    foliis sese induit arbor,

    Ov. M. 7, 280.—
    II.
    Trop., to put on, assume:

    habes somnum imaginem mortis eamque quotidie induis,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 92:

    ponit enim personam amici, cum induit judicis,

    assumes the part of a judge, id. Off. 3, 10, 43:

    juvenis longe alius ingenio, quam cujus simulationem induerat,

    Liv. 1, 56, 7:

    sibi cognomen,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73:

    et illorum (mortuorum regum) sibi nomina quasi personas aliquas induerunt,

    Lact. 2, 16, 3:

    magnum animum,

    Tac. A. 11, 7:

    mores Persarum,

    Curt. 6, 6:

    munia ducis,

    Tac. A. 1, 69:

    falsos pavores,

    id. H. 4, 38:

    hostiles spiritus,

    id. ib. 4, 57:

    habitus ac voces dolentum,

    id. A. 4, 12:

    seditionem,

    to engage in, id. ib. 2, 15:

    societatem,

    id. ib. 12, 13:

    proditorem et hostem,

    to assume the part of traitor and enemy, id. ib. 16, 28:

    diversa,

    to assume different opinions, take different sides, id. ib. 6, 33:

    personis fictam orationem,

    to attribute, Quint. 4, 1, 28:

    et eloquentiam pueris induunt adhuc nascentibus,

    impose upon, Petr. S. 4:

    sua confessione induatur ac juguletur, necesse est,

    entangle himself, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 64, § 166:

    videte, in quot se laqueos induerit, quorum ex nullo se umquam expediet,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 42, §

    102: se in captiones,

    id. Div. 2, 17, 41:

    non se purgavit, sed indicavit atque induit,

    id. Mur. 25, 51.

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  • 8 sumo

    sūmo, sumpsi, sumptum, 3 (sync. form of the inf. perf. sumpse, Naev. ap. Gell. 2, 19, 6 (Com. Rel. v. 97 Rib.;

    suremit for sumpsit, surempsit for sumpserit,

    Paul. Diac. 299, 2; Fest. 298, 9), v. a. [contr. for subimo, from sub-emo], to take, take up, lay hold of, assume (syn. capio).
    I.
    In gen.: auferere, non abibis, si ego fustem sumpsero, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 202:

    laciniam,

    id. Merc. 1, 2, 16:

    si hoc digitulis duobus sumebas primoribus,

    id. Bacch. 4, 4, 24:

    si mutuas non potero, certum'st sumam foenore,

    id. As. 1, 3, 95:

    postremo a me argentum quanti est sumito,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 20:

    locum ( = capere),

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 9:

    legem in manus,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15:

    unum quodque vas in manus,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 63:

    Epicurum et Metrodorum non fere praeter suos quisquam in manus sumit,

    id. Tusc. 2, 3, 8:

    orationes in manus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 22:

    litteras ad te a M. Lepido consule quasi commendaticias sumpsimus,

    have taken, provided ourselves with, Cic. Fam. 13, 26, 3:

    spatium ad vehicula comportanda,

    Liv. 2, 4:

    spatium ad colloquendum,

    id. 8, 18:

    ferrum ad aliquem interficiendum,

    id. 40, 11, 10:

    Tusculi ante quam Romae sumpta sunt arma,

    id. 3, 19, 8:

    pro conjuge ferrum,

    Ov. H. 15 (16), 371:

    arma,

    Quint. 5, 10, 71:

    sume venenum,

    id. 8, 5, 23; Nep. Them. 10, 3; id. Hann. 12, 5:

    partem Falerni,

    Hor. C. 1, 27, 9:

    cyathos,

    id. ib. 3, 8, 13:

    panem perfusam aquā frigidā,

    Suet. Aug. 77:

    potiunculam,

    id. Dom. 21:

    antidotum,

    id. Calig. 23:

    pomum de lance,

    Ov. P. 3, 5, 20:

    cibum,

    Nep. Att. 21; Petr. 111:

    soporem,

    Nep. Dion, 2, 5:

    sumptā virili togā,

    put on, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    virilem togam,

    Suet. Aug. 8; 94 med.; id. Tib. 7; id. Galb. 4; Val. Max. 5, 4, 4:

    calceos et vestimenta,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18:

    regium ornatum,

    Nep. Eum. 13, 3: latum clavum (opp. deponere bracas), Poët. ap. Suet. Caes. 80:

    diadema,

    Suet. Calig. 22:

    annulos ferreos (opp. deponere),

    id. Aug. 100:

    gausapa,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 300:

    alas pedibus virgamque manu tegumenque capillis,

    id. M. 1, 672:

    perventum est eo, quo sumpta navis est,

    Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89:

    pecuniam mutuam,

    id. Fl. 20, 46; Sall. C. 24, 2:

    aurum mutuum,

    Suet. Caes. 51.—Of time:

    diem ad deliberandum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

    tempus cibi quietisque,

    Liv. 32, 11.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen.:

    calorem animo,

    Lucr. 3, 288:

    obsequium animo, i. e. animo obsequi,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 8:

    Ariovistus tantos sibi spiritus, tantam arrogantiam sumpserat, ut, etc.,

    assumed, Caes. B. G. 1, 33; cf.:

    sumpsi animum,

    I took courage, Ov. F. 1, 147:

    animos serpentis,

    id. M. 3, 545:

    vigorem,

    id. P. 3, 4, 31:

    cum spiritus plebs sumpsisset,

    Liv. 4, 54, 8:

    certamine animi adversus eum sumpto,

    id. 37, 10, 2:

    exempla,

    Cic. Lael. 11, 38: sumptis inimicitiis, susceptā causā, etc., taken upon one ' s self, assumed, id. Vatin. 11, 28:

    omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrime desinere,

    to be undertaken, entered upon, begun, Sall. J. 83, 1; so,

    bellum cum aliquo,

    Liv. 1, 42, 2; 36, 2, 3. —
    2.
    Esp.: supplicium sumere, to exact satisfaction, inflict punishment, rarely absol.:

    supplici sibi sumat, quod volt ipse, ob hanc injuriam,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 31:

    satis sumpsimus jam supplici,

    id. Pers. 5, 2, 72:

    graviore sententiā pronuntiatā more majorum supplicium sumpsit,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 44.—Usu. de aliquo:

    potuisse hunc de illā supplicium sumere,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 27, 82:

    tum homo nefarius de homine nobili virgis supplicium crudelissime sumeret,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

    supplicium de matre sumpsisse,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 66; Liv. 39, 29; cf. supplicium.—Rarely ex aliquo, Liv. 23, 3, 1.— Post-class. also ab aliquo, Val. Max. 4, 1, ext. 1;

    5, 1, ext. 2.—Rarely poenam sumere ( = capere): pro maleficio poenam sumi oportere,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 36, 108:

    merentis poenas,

    Verg. A. 2, 586:

    poenam scelerato ex sanguine,

    id. ib. 12, 949; cf. id. ib. 6, 501.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To take (by choice), to choose, select:

    philosophiae studium,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

    hoc sumo ( = suscipio), hoc mihi deposco,

    id. Verr. 1, 12, 36:

    nos Capuam sumpsimus,

    id. Fam. 16, 11, 3:

    sumat aliquem ex populo monitorem officii sui,

    Sall. J. 85, 10:

    enitimini, ne ego meliores liberos sumpsisse videar quam genuisse,

    i. e. to have adopted, id. ib. 10, 8:

    sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus,

    Hor. A. P. 38:

    quis te mala sumere cogit? Aut quis deceptum ponere sumpta velit?

    Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 69 sq.:

    disceptatorem,

    Liv. 1, 50:

    quod tres patricios magistratus nobilitas sibi sumpsisset,

    id. 7, 1:

    Miltiadem sibi imperatorem,

    Nep. Milt. 1, 3.— Poet., with inf.:

    quem virum aut heroa lyrā vel acri Tibiā sumis celebrare, Clio?

    Hor. C. 1, 12, 2: quis sibi res gestas Augusti scribere sumit? id. Ep. 1, 3, 7.—
    B.
    To take as one's own, to assume, claim, arrogate, appropriate to one's self (syn.:

    ascisco, assumo, arrogo): quamquam mihi non sumo tantum neque arrogo, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 1, 3:

    sed mihi non sumo, ut meum consilium valere debuerit,

    id. Att. 8, 11 D, §

    6: sumpsi hoc mihi pro tuā in me observantiā, ut, etc.,

    id. Fam. 13, 50, 1:

    tantum tibi sumito pro Capitone apud Caesarem, quantum, etc.,

    id. ib. 13, 29, 6:

    sibi imperatorias partes,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 51:

    nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae,

    Hor. C. 3, 2, 19:

    vultus modo sumit acerbos,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 17:

    mores antiquos,

    Liv. 3, 68:

    proelio sumpta Thessalia est,

    conquered, Flor. 4, 2, 43.—
    C.
    To take, get, acquire, receive:

    distat sumasne pudenter an rapias,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:

    laudemque a crimine sumit,

    Ov. M. 6, 474:

    sumpto rigore,

    id. ib. 10, 139:

    vel tua me Sestus vel te mea sumit Abydos,

    id. H. 17 (18), 127. —
    D.
    To take for some purpose, i. e. to use, apply, employ, spend, consume (syn. insumo):

    in malā uxore atque inimico si quid sumas, sumptus est: In bono hospite atque amico quaestus est, quod sumitur,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 79 sq.:

    minus hercle in hisce rebus sumptum est sex minis,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 9 and 12:

    frustra operam, opinor, sumo,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 15:

    frustra laborem,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    cui rei opus est, ei hilarem hunc sumamus diem,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 68:

    videtis hos quasi sumptos dies ad labefactandam illius dignitatem,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 44:

    sumpseris tibi familiaritatem nostram ad ornamentum,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 18, 2. — Poet.: curis sumptus, consumed, worn out, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. Fr. Inc. 8 Rib.).—
    E.
    To undertake, begin, enter upon:

    bellum,

    Liv. 1, 42; Flor. 4, 12, 24:

    bellis ponendis sumendisque,

    Liv. 8, 4:

    haec maxime belli ratio sumendi fuerat,

    id. 38, 19:

    duellum cum aliquo,

    id. 36, 2:

    proelia,

    Suet. Caes. 60; Tac. H. 2, 45:

    in hos expeditionem,

    Flor. 4, 12, 6:

    non mandata expeditio, sed sumpta est,

    id. 4, 12, 48.— Poet.:

    prima fide vocisque ratae temptamina sumpsit Liriope,

    Ov. M. 3, 341.—
    F.
    In an oration, disputation, etc.
    1.
    To take for certain or for granted, to assume, maintain, suppose, affirm:

    alterutrum fatearis enim sumasque necesse'st,

    Lucr. 1, 974:

    nec solum ea sumitis ad concludendum, quae ab omnibus concedantur, sed ea sumitis, quibus concessis, etc.,

    Cic. Div. 2, 50, 104:

    aliquid pro certo,

    id. ib. —With inf.-clause:

    beatos esse deos sumpsisti,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 89:

    pro non dubio legati sumebant, quae Antiochi fuerunt, Eumenem aequius esse quam me habere,

    Liv. 39, 28, 5.—
    2.
    To make, take a beginning, etc. (late Lat.):

    ab uno signo sumamus exordium,

    Macr. Somn. Scip. 18:

    ab illā quaestione principium sumere,

    Lact. 1, 2: quin fictio a capite sumat exordium, id. Opif. Dei, 12, 7.—
    3.
    To take, bring forward, cite, mention as a proof, an instance, etc. (cf. profero):

    homines notos sumere odiosum est,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 47:

    unum hoc sumo,

    id. ib. 34, 97:

    sumam annum tertium,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 104:

    ex istis tuis sumam aliquem,

    id. Cael. 15, 36:

    quid quisquam potest ex omni memoriā sumere illustrius?

    id. Sest. 12, 27:

    ab oratore aut poëtā probato sumptum ponere exemplum,

    Auct. Her. 4, 1, 1.—
    G.
    To take as a purchase, to buy, purchase:

    quanti ego genus omnino signorum non aestimo, tanti ista quattuor aut quinque sumpsisti,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2:

    decumas agri Leontini,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 64, § 149:

    quae parvo sumi nequeunt, obsonia captas,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 106.—
    H.
    Aliquam, to use, enjoy, etc., in mal. part., Mart. 10, 81, 2:

    mille licet sumant,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 90; Auct. Priap. 5; cf.

    gaudia,

    Nemes. Ecl. 4, 59:

    aliquid,

    Petr. 100.—
    K.
    To take, fascinate, charm:

    simul conspexerit juvenem, venustate ejus sumitur,

    App. M. 2, p. 116, 40.

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  • 9 statuo

    stătŭo, ĕre, tŭi, tūtum [status] - tr. - [st1]1 [-] établir, poser, placer, mettre dans une position déterminée.    - statuite hic lectulos, Plaut. Pers. 759: placez ici les lits.    - statue signum, Liv. 5, 55, 1: plante l'enseigne.    - tigna statuere, Caes. BG. 4, 17: placer des pilotis.    - crateres statuere, Virg. En. 1, 724: disposer les coupes sur la table.    - statuam ante aras aurata fronte juvencum, Virg. En. 9: je placerai devant tes autels un jeune taureau aux cornes dorées.    - tu cum pro vitula statuis dulcem Aulide natam ante aras, Hor.: toi, lorsque, à Aulis, tu mets devant l'autel, à la place d'une génisse, ta douce fille.    - statuere captivos in medio, Liv. 21, 42, 1: placer les captifs au milieu.    - cf. Liv. 28, 33, 12 ; 39, 49, 11, etc.    - statuere bovem ante aram, Liv. 1, 45, 6: placer une génisse devant l'autel. --- cf. Virg. En. 9, 627.    - statuere aliquem ante oculos, Cic. de Or. 1, 245: placer, mettre qqn devant les yeux. [st1]2 [-] élever, ériger, dresser, mettre debout.    - statuere tabernacula, statuam, Caes. BC. 1, 81; Cic. Phil. 5, 41: dresser des tentes, une statue.    - statuere tropaeum, Cic. Inv. 2, 69: élever un trophée.    - statuitur Lollius in illo convivio, Cic. Verr. 3, 61: on fait tenir debout Lollius dans ce banquet.    - statuar tumulo, Tac. D. 13: je serai dressé = ma statue se dressera sur le tombeau. --- cf. Ov. H. 2, 67.    - urbem quam statuo vestra est, Virg. En. 1, 573: la ville que je fonde est à vous.    - cf. Virg. En. 4, 655; Prop. 3, 11, 21. [st1]3 [-] [fig.] établir.    - statuere exemplum in aliquo, Cic. Verr. 2, 111: instituer un exemple dans la personne de qqn.    - statuere exemplum in aliquem, Cic. Verr 3, 210: faire un exemple de qqn.    - documentum statuere, Liv. 24, 45, 5: faire un exemple.    - omnium rerum jura, Cic. Caec. 34: établir des lois pour tout.    - statuere aliquem arbitrum alicujus rei, Cic. Att. 15, 1 A, 2: faire qqn arbitre d'une chose. [st1]4 [-] décider, fixer, déterminer.    - statuere omnes partes religionis, Cic. Rep. 2, 26: déterminer toutes les parties de la religion.    - statuere modum alicui rei, Cic. Verr. 5, 163: fixer une limite à qqch, ou alicujus rei Cic. Sull. 48.    - statuere condicionem, legem alicui, Cic. Balb. 25 ; Phil. 10, 12, fixer des conditions, une loi à qqn.    - statuere diem alicui, alicui rei Sall. C. 36, 2 ; J. 70, 3: assigner un jour à qqn, à qqch.    - cf. Liv. 24, 27, 1; 35, 35, 15.    - statuto tempore, Curt. 6, 3, 7: à l'époque fixée.    - avec int. ind. statuere utrum sint an... Cic. Phil. 2, 30: décider, trancher, s'ils sont ou si... --- cf. Mur. 27 ; Ac. 2, 9, etc.    - statuere apud animum suum, Liv. 24, 2, 4: décider dans son esprit... --- cf. Liv. 6, 39, 11.    - habes statutum quid... putes, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 4: tu as une idée arrêtée sur ce que tu crois... [st1]5 [-] poser en principe, être d'avis, juger, croire, estimer, imaginer, se mettre dans la tête.    - statuere + prop. inf.: établir (comme vérité) que, croire que.    - statuit sibi non expectandum esse, Caes.: il pensa qu'il ne devait pas attendre (il résolut de ne pas attendre).    - statuit aliquid sibi consilii novi esse capiendum, Nep.: il pensa qu'il devait employer quelque stratagème nouveau.    - nolim statuas me mente malignā id facere, Catul. 67: ne va pas croire que j'agis ainsi par méchanceté.    - ut ego mihi statuo, Cic.: comme je l'imagine.    - avec deux acc. statuere aliquem hostem, Cic. Phil. 11, 3: juger qqn un ennemi.    - cf. Cic. Off. 1, 5; Sest. 144; Lael. 38, etc.    - avec prop. inf. statuerant se... numquam esse visuros, Cic. Verr. 5, 95: ils avaient dans l'idée qu'ils ne verraient jamais...    - cf. Cic. Br. 143 ; Phil. 12, 12 ; Caec. 39 ; Planc. 51, etc.    - sic statuo a me... partes esse susceptas, Cic. Sest. 3: mon point de vue est que j'ai assumé le rôle... --- cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 33, etc.    - non statuebas tibi... rationem esse reddendam, Cic. Verr. 2, 28: tu n'estimais pas que tu devais rendre compte...    - cf. Verr. 5, 103 ; Sest. 24.    - manendum mihi statuebam, Cic. Phil. 1, 1: je considérais comme mon devoir de rester.    - cf. Cic. Clu. 16 ; Fam. 5, 2, 1; Caes. BG. 1, 11, 6.    - statuit exspectandam classem, Caes. BG. 3, 14, 1: il estima qu'il fallait attendre la flotte.    - ut ego mihi statuo, Cic. Mur. 32: comme je m'en forme l'idée.    - ut Manilius statuebat, Cic. Caec. 69: comme c'était l'avis de Manilius. [st1]6 [-] décider, arrêter, résoudre.    - avec même sujet - statuere + inf.: décider de.    - avec sujets différents - statuere ut: décider de, décider que.    - Caesar proelio supersedere statuit, Caes.: César décida de surseoir au combat.    - statuit jus non dicere, Cic. Prov. 10: il décida de ne pas rendre la justice.    - cf. Cic. Mil. 24 ; Lig. 21; Off. 1, 4, etc.    - sic habuisti statutum cum animo... rejicere, Cic. Verr. 3, 95: tu as eu le parti pris de récuser...    - statuunt ut decem milia hominum mittantur, Caes.: ils décident d'envoyer dix mille hommes.    - statuere sibi eam legem ut....: s'imposer comme loi de...    - avec ut, ne statuunt ut... mittantur, Caes. BG. 7, 21, 2: ils décident que soient envoyés.    - cf. Cic. Verr. 3, 38 ; Off. 3, 48, etc.    - statuitur, ne... sit Creta provincia, Cic. Phil. 2, 97: on décide que la Crète ne sera plus province. [st1]7 [-] décider, décréter, statuer.    - statuere aliquid gravius in aliquem, Cic. Verr. 4, 19: décider qqch d'un peu grave contre qqn.    - statuere aliquid de aliquo, Sall. C. 52, 31: prendre une décision sur qqn.    - abst. de aliquo statuere, Caes. BG. 1, 19, 57: prendre une décision sur qqn.    - pro merito cujusque statuitur, Liv. 8, 14, 1: on statue selon les services de chacun.    - de se statuere, Tac. An. 6, 29: s'exécuter soi-même, se suicider.
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    stătŭo, ĕre, tŭi, tūtum [status] - tr. - [st1]1 [-] établir, poser, placer, mettre dans une position déterminée.    - statuite hic lectulos, Plaut. Pers. 759: placez ici les lits.    - statue signum, Liv. 5, 55, 1: plante l'enseigne.    - tigna statuere, Caes. BG. 4, 17: placer des pilotis.    - crateres statuere, Virg. En. 1, 724: disposer les coupes sur la table.    - statuam ante aras aurata fronte juvencum, Virg. En. 9: je placerai devant tes autels un jeune taureau aux cornes dorées.    - tu cum pro vitula statuis dulcem Aulide natam ante aras, Hor.: toi, lorsque, à Aulis, tu mets devant l'autel, à la place d'une génisse, ta douce fille.    - statuere captivos in medio, Liv. 21, 42, 1: placer les captifs au milieu.    - cf. Liv. 28, 33, 12 ; 39, 49, 11, etc.    - statuere bovem ante aram, Liv. 1, 45, 6: placer une génisse devant l'autel. --- cf. Virg. En. 9, 627.    - statuere aliquem ante oculos, Cic. de Or. 1, 245: placer, mettre qqn devant les yeux. [st1]2 [-] élever, ériger, dresser, mettre debout.    - statuere tabernacula, statuam, Caes. BC. 1, 81; Cic. Phil. 5, 41: dresser des tentes, une statue.    - statuere tropaeum, Cic. Inv. 2, 69: élever un trophée.    - statuitur Lollius in illo convivio, Cic. Verr. 3, 61: on fait tenir debout Lollius dans ce banquet.    - statuar tumulo, Tac. D. 13: je serai dressé = ma statue se dressera sur le tombeau. --- cf. Ov. H. 2, 67.    - urbem quam statuo vestra est, Virg. En. 1, 573: la ville que je fonde est à vous.    - cf. Virg. En. 4, 655; Prop. 3, 11, 21. [st1]3 [-] [fig.] établir.    - statuere exemplum in aliquo, Cic. Verr. 2, 111: instituer un exemple dans la personne de qqn.    - statuere exemplum in aliquem, Cic. Verr 3, 210: faire un exemple de qqn.    - documentum statuere, Liv. 24, 45, 5: faire un exemple.    - omnium rerum jura, Cic. Caec. 34: établir des lois pour tout.    - statuere aliquem arbitrum alicujus rei, Cic. Att. 15, 1 A, 2: faire qqn arbitre d'une chose. [st1]4 [-] décider, fixer, déterminer.    - statuere omnes partes religionis, Cic. Rep. 2, 26: déterminer toutes les parties de la religion.    - statuere modum alicui rei, Cic. Verr. 5, 163: fixer une limite à qqch, ou alicujus rei Cic. Sull. 48.    - statuere condicionem, legem alicui, Cic. Balb. 25 ; Phil. 10, 12, fixer des conditions, une loi à qqn.    - statuere diem alicui, alicui rei Sall. C. 36, 2 ; J. 70, 3: assigner un jour à qqn, à qqch.    - cf. Liv. 24, 27, 1; 35, 35, 15.    - statuto tempore, Curt. 6, 3, 7: à l'époque fixée.    - avec int. ind. statuere utrum sint an... Cic. Phil. 2, 30: décider, trancher, s'ils sont ou si... --- cf. Mur. 27 ; Ac. 2, 9, etc.    - statuere apud animum suum, Liv. 24, 2, 4: décider dans son esprit... --- cf. Liv. 6, 39, 11.    - habes statutum quid... putes, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 4: tu as une idée arrêtée sur ce que tu crois... [st1]5 [-] poser en principe, être d'avis, juger, croire, estimer, imaginer, se mettre dans la tête.    - statuere + prop. inf.: établir (comme vérité) que, croire que.    - statuit sibi non expectandum esse, Caes.: il pensa qu'il ne devait pas attendre (il résolut de ne pas attendre).    - statuit aliquid sibi consilii novi esse capiendum, Nep.: il pensa qu'il devait employer quelque stratagème nouveau.    - nolim statuas me mente malignā id facere, Catul. 67: ne va pas croire que j'agis ainsi par méchanceté.    - ut ego mihi statuo, Cic.: comme je l'imagine.    - avec deux acc. statuere aliquem hostem, Cic. Phil. 11, 3: juger qqn un ennemi.    - cf. Cic. Off. 1, 5; Sest. 144; Lael. 38, etc.    - avec prop. inf. statuerant se... numquam esse visuros, Cic. Verr. 5, 95: ils avaient dans l'idée qu'ils ne verraient jamais...    - cf. Cic. Br. 143 ; Phil. 12, 12 ; Caec. 39 ; Planc. 51, etc.    - sic statuo a me... partes esse susceptas, Cic. Sest. 3: mon point de vue est que j'ai assumé le rôle... --- cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 33, etc.    - non statuebas tibi... rationem esse reddendam, Cic. Verr. 2, 28: tu n'estimais pas que tu devais rendre compte...    - cf. Verr. 5, 103 ; Sest. 24.    - manendum mihi statuebam, Cic. Phil. 1, 1: je considérais comme mon devoir de rester.    - cf. Cic. Clu. 16 ; Fam. 5, 2, 1; Caes. BG. 1, 11, 6.    - statuit exspectandam classem, Caes. BG. 3, 14, 1: il estima qu'il fallait attendre la flotte.    - ut ego mihi statuo, Cic. Mur. 32: comme je m'en forme l'idée.    - ut Manilius statuebat, Cic. Caec. 69: comme c'était l'avis de Manilius. [st1]6 [-] décider, arrêter, résoudre.    - avec même sujet - statuere + inf.: décider de.    - avec sujets différents - statuere ut: décider de, décider que.    - Caesar proelio supersedere statuit, Caes.: César décida de surseoir au combat.    - statuit jus non dicere, Cic. Prov. 10: il décida de ne pas rendre la justice.    - cf. Cic. Mil. 24 ; Lig. 21; Off. 1, 4, etc.    - sic habuisti statutum cum animo... rejicere, Cic. Verr. 3, 95: tu as eu le parti pris de récuser...    - statuunt ut decem milia hominum mittantur, Caes.: ils décident d'envoyer dix mille hommes.    - statuere sibi eam legem ut....: s'imposer comme loi de...    - avec ut, ne statuunt ut... mittantur, Caes. BG. 7, 21, 2: ils décident que soient envoyés.    - cf. Cic. Verr. 3, 38 ; Off. 3, 48, etc.    - statuitur, ne... sit Creta provincia, Cic. Phil. 2, 97: on décide que la Crète ne sera plus province. [st1]7 [-] décider, décréter, statuer.    - statuere aliquid gravius in aliquem, Cic. Verr. 4, 19: décider qqch d'un peu grave contre qqn.    - statuere aliquid de aliquo, Sall. C. 52, 31: prendre une décision sur qqn.    - abst. de aliquo statuere, Caes. BG. 1, 19, 57: prendre une décision sur qqn.    - pro merito cujusque statuitur, Liv. 8, 14, 1: on statue selon les services de chacun.    - de se statuere, Tac. An. 6, 29: s'exécuter soi-même, se suicider.
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        Statuo, statuis, statui, statutum, pe. prod. statuere. Liu. Ordonner, Arrester quelque propos.
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        Statuere et decernere. Cic. Ordonner et arrester.
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        Senatus statuit. Cic. A ordonné.
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        Causam sibi dicendam esse statuerat. Cic. Il s'estoit asseuré que, etc. Il avoit faict son conte, et s'attendoit asseureement que, etc. Il s'estoit tout resolu et deliberé, etc.
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        Statuere summum bonum, non dolere. Cic. Estimer et arrester que le souverain bien est, n'avoir point de douleur, Estre de ceste opinion ferme et asseuree.
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        Apud animos vel animum statuere. Liu. Arrester en soymesme.
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        Vix statuere apud animum meum possum, vtrum peior ipsa res, an peiore exemplo agatur. Liu. Je ne puis estimer ou juger, ne resouldre en moymesme, si, etc.
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        De aliquo statuere. Tacit. Le condamner et faire mourir.
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        De se statuere. Tacit. Se tuer avant qu'on soit condamné.
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        Vt in posterum, documentum statuerem nequis talem amentiam vellet imitari. Cicero. A fin que je baillasse exemple.
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        Exemplum statuere in homine. Cic. Punir tellement un homme, que les autres y prennent exemple, Faire jugement exemplaire.
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        Finem alicuius rei statuere. Cic. Arrester la fin de quelque chose.
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        In aliquem statuere. Caes. Ordonner quelque chose contre aucun.
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        Quod ius statues communi diuidendo? Cic. Quelle nature luy bailleras tu?
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        Legem sibi statuere. Cic. Se faire une loy.
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        Locum colloquio statuere. Liu. Ordonner du lieu pour parlementer.
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        Mercedem statuere. Brutus Ciceroni. Arrester avec aucun quel loyer on luy veult bailler.
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        Modum statuere alienae industriae. Cic. Donner reigle et mesure.
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        Macedonibus treceni nummi in capita statutum est pretium. Liu. On arresta que chasque Macedonien payeroit trois cens pieces d'argent.
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        Pretium statui arti meae. Terent. J'ay mis à pris ma besongne.
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        Statuite quanti hoc putetis, et quam multo redemisse. Cic. Pensez et estimez en vous mesmes.
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        Statuere qui sit sapiens, vel maxime videtur esse sapientis. Cic. Arrester et diffinir ou determiner.
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        Stipendium alicui statuere de publico. Liu. Assigner gages à aucun sur les deniers de la ville.
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        Triste aliquid statuere. Ouid. Ordonner quelque punition.
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        Tabernacula statuere in foro. Liu. Poser et asseoir.
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        Aras binas statuit e caespite. Ouid. Elle erigea, etc.
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        Crateras magnos statuunt. Virgil. Ils mettent sur table.
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        Terminos statuere. Liu. Asseoir et planter bornes.
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        Tumulum statuere. Virgil. Eriger.
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        Vrbem praeclaram statui. Virgil. J'ay basti et edifié, etc.
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        Crateras duos statuam tibi pinguis oliui. Virg. Je te dedieray.
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        Statuere statuam alicui. Cic. Luy dresser et eriger une statue en memoire de luy, Eslever.
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        Statue contra, aliquem confectum tantis animi corporisque doloribus, etc. Cic. Mets, ou pose le cas que, etc.
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        Sublimen medium arriperem, et capite primum in terram statuerem. Terent. Je luy jecteroye la teste contre terre, ou les pieds contremont.
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        Statutum est. Cic. Cela est tout arresté.

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  • 10 sumptus

    [st1]1 [-] sumptus, a, um: part. passé de sumo. - [abcl][b]a - pris, saisi. - [abcl]b - reçu, emprunté. - [abcl]c - employé, dépensé. - [abcl]d - entrepris, assumé.[/b]    - sumptā virili togā, Cic. Lael. 1, 1: après avoir pris la toge virile.    - sumptus in cibo, Plin.: pris comme aliment.    - exitium sumptum (finis sumptus), Tac.: mort volontaire.    - praecipuo certamine animi adversus eum sumpto, Liv. 37, 10, 2: nourrissant contre lui une animosité violente.    - pecunia mutua sumptus, Sall.: argent emprunté.    - sumpti dies ad... Cic.: jours consacrés à...    - legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum, Caes. B. G. 1.7: il répondit aux légats qu'il allait consacrer la journée à réfléchir.    - cibi sumere tempus, Liv. 32, 11: prendre le temps de se restaurer.    - curis sumptus, Poet. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42: consumé de soucis.    - sumptae inimicitiae, Cic. Vatin. 11, 28: inimitiés affrontées, inimitiés assumées. [st1]2 [-] sumptŭs, ūs, m. (dat. sing. sumptui ou sumptu; qqf. gén. sing. sumpti): dépense, frais, coût.    - sumptus epularum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: le luxe de la table.    - sumptus perpetui: dépenses courantes.    - itineris sumptus, Cic.: frais de voyage    - sumptus ex aerario erogatus est, Liv.: le Trésor en fit les frais.    - suo sumptu: à ses frais.    - sumptu publico: aux frais de l'Etat.    - sumptum facere in aliquid, Cic.: employer de l'argent à qqch.    - sumptum nusquam melius posse poni, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 3: (affirmer) qu'on ne saurait nulle part faire un meilleur usage de son argent.    - sumptui deditus, Sall.: prodigue.    - sumptum minuere (temperare), Cic.: diminuer les dépenses.    - illud te rogo, sumptu ne parcas, Cic. Fam. 16, 4, 2: je te demande de ne pas regarder à la dépense (je te demande de ne pas être regardant).    - pyramidum sumptus ad sidera ducti, Prop.: les pyramides élevées à grands frais jusqu'aux nues.    - exiguus sumptus aedilitatis fuit, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 59: les frais de mon édilité furent modiques.    - alicui sumptui esse: faire faire des dépenses à qqn, causer des dépenses à qqn.    - tibi sumptui esse mihi molestum'st, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1: il m'est désagrable de t'avoir causé des dépenses.    - aliquid sumpti facere, Plaut.: faire la dépense de qqch.
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    [st1]1 [-] sumptus, a, um: part. passé de sumo. - [abcl][b]a - pris, saisi. - [abcl]b - reçu, emprunté. - [abcl]c - employé, dépensé. - [abcl]d - entrepris, assumé.[/b]    - sumptā virili togā, Cic. Lael. 1, 1: après avoir pris la toge virile.    - sumptus in cibo, Plin.: pris comme aliment.    - exitium sumptum (finis sumptus), Tac.: mort volontaire.    - praecipuo certamine animi adversus eum sumpto, Liv. 37, 10, 2: nourrissant contre lui une animosité violente.    - pecunia mutua sumptus, Sall.: argent emprunté.    - sumpti dies ad... Cic.: jours consacrés à...    - legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum, Caes. B. G. 1.7: il répondit aux légats qu'il allait consacrer la journée à réfléchir.    - cibi sumere tempus, Liv. 32, 11: prendre le temps de se restaurer.    - curis sumptus, Poet. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42: consumé de soucis.    - sumptae inimicitiae, Cic. Vatin. 11, 28: inimitiés affrontées, inimitiés assumées. [st1]2 [-] sumptŭs, ūs, m. (dat. sing. sumptui ou sumptu; qqf. gén. sing. sumpti): dépense, frais, coût.    - sumptus epularum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: le luxe de la table.    - sumptus perpetui: dépenses courantes.    - itineris sumptus, Cic.: frais de voyage    - sumptus ex aerario erogatus est, Liv.: le Trésor en fit les frais.    - suo sumptu: à ses frais.    - sumptu publico: aux frais de l'Etat.    - sumptum facere in aliquid, Cic.: employer de l'argent à qqch.    - sumptum nusquam melius posse poni, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 3: (affirmer) qu'on ne saurait nulle part faire un meilleur usage de son argent.    - sumptui deditus, Sall.: prodigue.    - sumptum minuere (temperare), Cic.: diminuer les dépenses.    - illud te rogo, sumptu ne parcas, Cic. Fam. 16, 4, 2: je te demande de ne pas regarder à la dépense (je te demande de ne pas être regardant).    - pyramidum sumptus ad sidera ducti, Prop.: les pyramides élevées à grands frais jusqu'aux nues.    - exiguus sumptus aedilitatis fuit, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 59: les frais de mon édilité furent modiques.    - alicui sumptui esse: faire faire des dépenses à qqn, causer des dépenses à qqn.    - tibi sumptui esse mihi molestum'st, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1: il m'est désagrable de t'avoir causé des dépenses.    - aliquid sumpti facere, Plaut.: faire la dépense de qqch.
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        Sumptus, Participium. Cic. Prins.
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        Sumptus, huius sumptus. Terent. Despense, Coust, Coustange, Fraiz.
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        Exiguus. Cic. Petite despense.
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        Sumptus. Cic. Superfluité et excez, soit en viandes, habits, ou autre chose.
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        Nepotini sumptus. Sueton. Prodigalité, Despense prodigue et excessive.
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        Dare sumptum. Cic. Donner argent pour faire sa despense et les fraiz.
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        Effusus sumptus. Cic. Grande despense.
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        Facere sumptum. Cic. Despendre.
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        Nullus teruncius factus sumptus est. Cic. On n'a pas despendu un liard.
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        Nullus fit sumptus in nos. Cic. On ne fait point de despense pour nous.
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        Insumere sumptum magnum, aut laborem in aliquem rem. Cic. Faire grande despense.
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        Minuere sumptum in aliquem. Cic. Ne despendre pas tant envers luy, N'y faire pas tant de fraiz.
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        Ponere sumptum. Cic. Despendre.
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        Prodire sumptu extra modum. Cicero. Despendre excessivement.
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        Aduentus noster ne minimo quidem vobis fuit sumptui. Cic. Il ne vous a rien cousté à ma venue, Vous n'avez faict aucune despense pour ma venue.
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        Suppeditare sumptus. Ci. Fournir aux despens, Refonder les despens. Bud.
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        Temperare sumptus. Ouid. Moderer la despense.

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  • 11 induō

        induō uī, ūtus, ere    [indu+4 AV-], to put on, assume, dress in: Meam (vestem), T.: vestes Indutae, V.: lugubria, O.: Herculi tunicam: galeas, Cs.: albos crinīs, V.: scalas, shouldered, O.: raptae insignia Bacchi, O.: sibi torquem: unam (vestem) iuveni, V.—To clothe, dress, cover, wrap, deck, array: se in florem, V.: quos Induerat Circe in voltūs ferarum, V.: cum venti se in nubem induerint: toris lacertos, O.: pomis se arbos Induerat, V.: eamst indutus (vestem)? T.: galeam Induitur, V.: Quidlibet indutus, dressed as it happens, H.: Indutus capiti, V.: indutus Troas agebat, wearing (the helmet), V.—To entangle, impale, pierce: se stimulis inopinantes induebant, Cs.: se hastis, L.: An sese mucrone Induat, i. e. pierce, V.—Fig., to put on, assume: personam iudicis: cuius simulationem induerat, L.: tellus Induit hominum figuras, O.—To entangle, involve: se actione: suā confessione induatur necesse est, entangle himself: se in captiones: non se purgavit, sed induit.
    * * *
    induere, indui, indutus V
    put on, clothe, cover; dress oneself in

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  • 12 mentior

        mentior ītus, īrī, dep.    [1 MAN-], to invent, assert falsely, lie, cheat, deceive, pretend: Si quicquam invenies me mentitum, T.: Hoc iuvat, non mentior, H.: plurimis de rebus: ne ioco quidem, N.: ille, satum quo te mentiris, pretend, V.: certam me sum mentitus habere Horam, quae, etc., O.—Of things, to deceive, impose upon: frons, oculi, voltus persaepe mentiuntur: in quibus nihil umquam vetustas mentita sit.— To lie about, assert falsely, make a false promise about, feign, counterfeit, imitate: tantam rem, devise such a falsehood, S.: auspicium, L.: titulum Lyciscae, assume falsely, Iu.: ita mentitur (sc. Homerus), fables, H.— Fig.: Spem mentita seges, disappointed, H.: Nec varios discet mentiri lana colores, to assume, V.
    * * *
    mentiri, mentitus sum V DEP
    lie, deceive, invent; imitate; feign; pretend; speak falsely about

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  • 13 simulō

        simulō (not similō), āvī, ātus, āre    [similis], to make like, imitate, copy, represent: nimbos et fulmen, V.: Catonem, H.: artem Ingenio suo, O.: anum, assume the form of, O.: Homeri illa Minerva simulata Mentori: simulata Troia, counterfeit Troy, O.: cupressum, i. e. depict, H.; cf. aera Alexandri voltum simulantia, imaging, H.: simulat... terram Edere fetum olivae, represents the earth producing, etc., O.— To represent, feign, assume the appearance of, pretend, counterfeit, simulate: cur simulat? T.: qui te ament ex animo ac non simulent: simulandi gratiā, S.: quasi perterritus simulans, by pretending fear, Cu.: Quid est, quod amplius simuletur? T.: mortem verbis, i. e. to pretend that she was dead, T.: studium coniurationis, S.: aegrum, pretend to be sick, L.: ad simulanda negotia altitudo ingeni incredibilis, S.: eius ficti simulatique voltūs: simulatā amicitiā, Cs.: simulato vecta iuvenco, O.: ille se Tarentum proficisci cum simulasset: simulat Iove natus abire, O.: sese probos simulare, S.
    * * *
    simulare, simulavi, simulatus V
    imitate, copy; pretend (to have/be); look like; simulate; counterfeit; feint

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  • 14 praesumo

    I
    praesumere, praesumpsi, praesumptus V TRANS
    consume/perform/employ beforehand; anticipate; presuppose/presume/assume; dare
    II
    praesumere, praesumsi, praesumptus V TRANS
    consume/perform/employ beforehand; anticipate; presuppose/presume/assume; dare

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  • 15 vindico

    I.
    to avenge, punish, liberate, deliver, protect.
    II.
    to liberate, deliver/ punish, avenge/ claim, assume.
    claim, arrogate, assume, appropriate.

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  • 16 gero

    1.
    gĕro, gessi, gestum ( Part. gen. plur. sync. gerentum, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 13; imper. ger, like dic, duc, fac, fer, Cat. 27, 2), 3, v. a. [root gas-, to come, go; Zend, jah, jahaiti, come; gero (for geso), in caus. sense, to cause to come; cf. Gr. bastazô, from bastos = gestus], to bear about with one, to bear, carry, to wear, have (in the lit. signif. mostly poet., not in Cic., Cæs., Sall., or Quint.; but instead of it ferre, portare, vehere, sustinere, etc.; but in the trop. signif. freq. and class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    (vestem ferinam) qui gessit primus,

    Lucr. 5, 1420; so,

    vestem,

    Ov. M. 11, 276 (with induere vestes), Nep. Dat. 3; cf.:

    coronam Olympiacam capite,

    Suet. Ner. 25:

    ornamenta,

    id. Caes. 84:

    angues immixtos crinibus,

    Ov. M. 4, 792:

    clipeum (laeva),

    id. ib. 4, 782; cf.:

    galeam venatoriam in capite, clavam dextra manu, copulam sinistra,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    ramum, jaculum,

    Ov. M. 12, 442:

    spicea serta,

    id. ib. 2, 28:

    vincla,

    id. ib. 4, 681:

    venabula corpore fixa,

    id. ib. 9, 206; cf.:

    tela (in pectore fixus),

    id. ib. 6, 228:

    Vulcanum (i. e. ignem) in cornu conclusum,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 185:

    spolia ducis hostium caesi suspensa fabricato ad id apte ferculo gerens,

    Liv. 1, 10, 5; cf.:

    Horatius trigemina spolia prae se gerens,

    id. 1, 26, 2:

    onera,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 77 Müll.: uterum or partum gerere, to be pregnant, be with young; so, gerere partum, Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187:

    uterum,

    id. 8, 40, 62, § 151:

    centum fronte oculos centum cervice gerebat Argus,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 19:

    lumen unum media fronte,

    id. M. 13, 773:

    cornua fronte,

    id. ib. 15, 596:

    virginis os habitumque gerens et virginis arma,

    Verg. A. 1, 315:

    virginis ora,

    Ov. M. 5, 553; cf.:

    quae modo bracchia gessit, Crura gerit,

    id. ib. 5, 455 sq.:

    Coae cornua matres Gesserunt tum,

    i. e. were turned into cows, id. ib. 7, 364:

    principio (morbi) caput incensum fervore gerebant,

    Lucr. 6, 1145:

    qui umbrata gerunt civili tempora quercu,

    Verg. A. 6, 772:

    tempora tecta pelle lupi,

    Ov. M. 12, 380:

    (Hector) squalentem barbam et concretos sanguine crines Vulneraque illa gerens, quae, etc.,

    Verg. A. 2, 278:

    capella gerat distentius uber,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 110.—
    b.
    Of inanimate things:

    semina rerum permixta gerit tellus discretaque tradit,

    Lucr. 6, 790; cf.:

    (terram) multosque lacus multasque lacunas In gremio gerere et rupes deruptaque saxa,

    id. ib. 6, 539; Enn. ap. Non. 66, 26 (Sat. 23, p. 157 Vahl.); and:

    quos Oceano propior gerit India lucos,

    Verg. G. 2, 122:

    speciem ac formam similem gerit ejus imago,

    Lucr. 4, 52.—
    B.
    In partic. (very rare).
    1.
    With respect to the term. ad quem, to bear, carry, bring to a place:

    (feminae puerique) saxa in muros munientibus gerunt,

    Liv. 28, 19, 13:

    neque eam voraginem conjectu terrae, cum pro se quisque gereret, expleri potuisse,

    id. 7, 6, 2; cf. id. 37, 5, 1. — Absol.:

    si non habebis unde irriges, gerito inditoque leniter,

    Cato, R. R. 151, 4; Liv. 7, 6, 2 Drak.—Prov.:

    non pluris refert, quam si imbrem in cribrum geras,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 100.—
    2.
    With the accessory idea of production, to bear, bring forth, produce:

    quae (terra) quod gerit fruges, Ceres (appellata est),

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 64 Müll.; cf. Tib. 2, 4, 56:

    violam nullo terra serente gerit,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 6:

    arbores (Oete),

    id. M. 9, 230:

    malos (platani),

    Verg. G. 2, 70: frondes (silva), Ov. M. 11, 615:

    terra viros urbesque gerit silvasque ferasque Fluminaque et Nymphas et cetera numina ruris,

    Ov. M. 2, 16.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to bear, have, entertain, cherish: vos etenim juvenes animum geritis muliebrem, illa virago viri, Poët. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf.:

    fortem animum gerere,

    Sall. J. 107, 1:

    parem animum,

    id. ib. 54, 1 Kritz.:

    animum invictum advorsum divitias,

    id. ib. 43, 5:

    animum super fortunam,

    id. ib. 64, 2:

    mixtum gaudio ac metu animum,

    Liv. 32, 11, 5; cf. also Verg. A. 9, 311; and v. infra B. 3.: aeque inimicitiam atque amicitiam in frontem promptam gero, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 8, 6 (Trag. v. 8 Vahl.):

    personam,

    to support a character, play a part, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 115; cf.:

    est igitur proprium munus magistratus, intelligere, se gerere personam civitatis debereque ejus dignitatem et decus sustinere,

    id. ib. 1, 34, 132; Aug. Doctr. Christ. 4, 29 init.;

    id. Civ. Dei, 1, 21 al.: mores, quos ante gerebant, Nunc quoque habent,

    Ov. M. 7, 655:

    et nos aliquod nomenque decusque Gessimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 89:

    seu tu querelas sive geris jocos Seu rixam et insanos amores Seu facilem, pia testa (i. e. amphora), somnum,

    Hor. C. 3, 21, 2:

    in dextris vestris jam libertatem, opem... geritis,

    Curt. 4, 14 fin.:

    plumbeas iras,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 18:

    iras,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 30: M. Catonem illum Sapientem cum multis graves inimicitias gessisse accepimus propter Hispanorum injurias, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 20, 66:

    veteres inimicitias cum Caesare,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 3, 4:

    muliebres inimicitias cum aliqua,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 32:

    inimicitias hominum more,

    id. Deiot. 11, 30: simultatem cum aliquo pro re publica, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A, 3; cf. Suet. Vesp. 6; and Verg. A. 12, 48:

    de amicitia gerenda praeclarissime scripti libri,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5:

    amicitiam,

    Nep. Dat. 10 fin.:

    praecipuum in Romanos gerebant odium,

    Liv. 28, 22, 2:

    cum fortuna mutabilem gerentes fidem,

    id. 8, 24, 6:

    utrique imperii cupiditatem insatiabilem gerebant,

    Just. 17, 1 fin. —Absol.:

    ad ea rex, aliter atque animo gerebat, placide respondit,

    Sall. J. 72, 1.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Gerere se aliquo modo, to bear, deport, behave, or conduct one's self, to act in any manner:

    in maximis rebus quonam modo gererem me adversus Caesarem, usus tuo consilio sum,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 5; cf. id. Off. 1, 28, 98:

    ut, quanto superiores sumus, tanto nos geramus summissius,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 90; so,

    se liberius (servi),

    id. Rep. 1, 43:

    se inconsultius,

    Liv. 41, 10, 5:

    se valde honeste,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

    se perdite,

    id. ib. 9, 2, A, 2:

    se turpissime (illa pars animi),

    id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48:

    se turpiter in legatione,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 12, 4:

    sic in provincia nos gerimus, quod ad abstinentiam attinet, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2:

    sic me in hoc magistratu geram, ut, etc.,

    id. Agr. 1, 8, 26; cf.:

    nunc ita nos gerimus, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 3:

    uti sese victus gereret, exploratum misit,

    Sall. J. 54, 2:

    se medium gerere,

    to remain neutral, Liv. 2, 27, 3.—
    b.
    In a like sense also post-class.: gerere aliquem, to behave or conduct one's self as any one (like agere aliquem):

    nec heredem regni sed regem gerebat,

    Just. 32, 3, 1; Plin. Pan. 44, 2:

    tu civem patremque geras,

    Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 293:

    aedilem,

    App. M. 1, p. 113:

    captivum,

    Sen. Troad. 714.—
    c.
    Gerere se et aliquem, to treat one's self and another in any manner:

    interim Romae gaudium ingens ortum cognitis Metelli rebus, ut seque et exercitum more majorum gereret,

    Sall. J. 55, 1:

    meque vosque in omnibus rebus juxta geram,

    id. ib. 85, 47.—
    d.
    Pro aliquo se gerere, to assume to be:

    querentes, quosdam non sui generis pro colonis se gerere,

    Liv. 32, 2, 6:

    eum, qui sit census, ita se jam tum gessisse pro cive,

    Cic. Arch. 5, 11 dub.—
    2.
    Gerere prae se aliquid (for the usual prae se ferre), to show, exhibit, manifest:

    affectionis ratio perspicuam solet prae se gerere conjecturam, ut amor, iracundia, molestia, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 9, 30; cf.:

    prae se quandam gerere utilitatem,

    id. ib. 2, 52, 157: animum altum et erectum prae se gerebat, Auct. B. Afr. 10 fin.; Aug. de Lib. Arbit. 3, 21, 61 al.;

    so gerere alone: ita tum mos erat, in adversis voltum secundae fortunae gerere, moderari animo in secundis,

    to assume, Liv. 42, 63, 11.—
    3.
    With the accessory idea of activity or exertion, to sustain the charge of any undertaking or business, to administer, manage, regulate, rule, govern, conduct, carry on, wage, transact, accomplish, perform (cf.: facio, ago).—In pass. also in gen., to happen, take place, be done (hence, res gesta, a deed, and res gestae, events, occurrences, acts, exploits; v. the foll.): tertium gradum agendi esse dicunt, ubi quid faciant;

    in eo propter similitudinem agendi et faciundi et gerundi quidam error his, qui putant esse unum. Potest enim aliquid facere et non agere, ut poëta facit fabulam et non agit: contra actor agit et non facit.... Contra imperator quod dicitur res gerere, in eo neque facit neque agit, sed gerit, id est sustinet, translatum ab his qui onera gerunt, quod hi sustinent,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 77 Müll.:

    omnia nostra, quoad eris Romae, ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut nihil a me exspectes,

    Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

    gerere et administrare rem publicam,

    id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; cf. id. Rep. 2, 1 and 12:

    rem publicam,

    id. ib. 1, 7; 1, 8; id. Fam. 2, 7, 3 et saep.:

    magistratum,

    id. Sest. 37, 79; cf.

    potestatem,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138:

    consulatum,

    id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; id. Sest. 16, 37:

    duumviratum,

    id. ib. 8, 19:

    tutelam alicujus,

    Dig. 23, 2, 68; 27, 1, 22 al.: multi suam rem bene gessere et publicam patria procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 Vahl.); so,

    rem, of private affairs,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 34; Cic. de Sen. 7, 22 al.:

    aliquid per aes et libram gerere,

    to transact by coin and balance, Gai. Inst. 3, 173; cf. Weissenb. ad Liv. 6, 14.—Of war: etsi res bene gesta est, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 168 (Ann. v. 512 Vahl.): vi geritur res, id. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 272 ib.); cf.:

    gladiis geri res coepta est,

    Liv. 28, 2, 6:

    ubi res ferro geratur,

    id. 10, 39, 12: qui rem cum Achivis gesserunt statim, Enn. ap. Non. 393, 14 (Trag. v. 39 Vahl.); cf. Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 84:

    Alexander... passurus gestis aequanda pericula rebus,

    exploits, Juv. 14, 314:

    miranda quidem, sed nuper gesta referemus,

    id. 15, 28.—Of public affairs, affairs of government:

    magnae res temporibus illis a fortissimis viris summo imperio praeditis, dictatoribus atque consulibus, belli domique gerebantur,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 32 fin.; 2, 24:

    a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit,

    id. de Sen. 6, 15; cf. § 17: quid quod homines infima fortuna, nulla spe rerum gerendarum ( public business), opifices denique, delectantur historia? maximeque eos videre possumus res gestas ( public events or occurrences) audire et legere velle, qui a spe gerendi absunt, confecti senectute, id. Fin. 5, 19, 52:

    sin per se populus interfecit aut ejecit tyrannum, est moderatior, quoad sentit et sapit et sua re gesta laetatur,

    their deed, id. Rep. 1, 42:

    ut pleraque senatus auctoritate gererentur,

    id. ib. 2, 32; cf. id. ib. 1, 27:

    haec dum Romae geruntur,

    id. Quint. 6, 28:

    ut iis, qui audiunt, tum geri illa fierique videantur,

    id. de Or. 2, 59, 241:

    susceptum negotium,

    id. Fam. 13, 5, 1; cf.:

    si ipse negotium meum gererem, nihil gererem, nisi consilio tuo,

    id. Att. 13, 3, 1:

    negotium bene, male, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Com. 11, 32; id. Cat. 2, 10, 21; Caes. B. G. 3, 18, 5 et saep.; cf.:

    quid negotii geritur?

    Cic. Quint. 13, 42: annos multos bellum gerentes summum summā industriā, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 104 Vahl.); cf.:

    bello illo maximo, quod Athenienses et Lacedaemonii summa inter se contentione gesserunt,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 16; so,

    bella,

    id. ib. 5, 2: pacem an bellum gerens, v. Andrews and Stoddard's Gram. § 323, 1 (2); Sall. J. 46 fin.:

    bella multa felicissime,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 9:

    bellum cum aliquo,

    id. Sest. 2, 4; id. Div. 1, 46, 103; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 4 et saep.:

    bello gesto,

    Liv. 5, 43, 1: mea mater de ea re gessit morem morigerae mihi, performed my will, i. e. complied with my wishes, gratified, humored me, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 87; cf.:

    geram tibi morem et ea quae vis, ut potero, explicabo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 17: morem alicui (in aliqua re), Enn. ap. Non. 342, 24 (Trag. v. 241 Vahl.):

    sine me in hac re gerere mihi morem,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 74; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 44; id. Men. 5, 2, 37; id. Mil. 2, 1, 58; Cic. Rep. 3, 5; id. N. D. 2, 1, 3; Ov. Am. 2, 2, 13 et saep.; also without dat., Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 36; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 77.— Pass.:

    ut utrique a me mos gestus esse videatur,

    Cic. Att. 2, 16, 3; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 108; id. Ad. 2, 2, 6; Nep. Them. 7, 3 al.—With a play upon this meaning and that in II. A.: magna, inquit, [p. 813] bella gessi:

    magnis imperiis et provinciis praefui. Gere igitur animum laude dignum,

    Cic. Par. 5, 2, 37.— Absol.:

    cum superiores alii fuissent in disputationibus perpoliti, quorum res gestae nullae invenirentur, alii in gerendo probabiles, in disserendo rudes,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 8; cf.

    the passage,

    id. Fin. 5, 19, 52 supra:

    Armeniam deinde ingressus prima parte introitus prospere gessit,

    Vell. 2, 102, 2 (where others unnecessarily insert rem), Liv. 25, 22, 1; cf.

    also: sive caesi ab Romanis forent Bastarnae... sive prospere gessissent,

    id. 40, 58 fin.:

    cum Persis et Philippus qui cogitavit, et Alexander, qui gessit, hanc bellandi causam inferebat, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9.—
    4.
    Of time, to pass, spend (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.): ut (Tullia) cum aliquo adolescente primario conjuncta aetatem gereret, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; cf.:

    pubertatis ac primae adolescentiae tempus,

    Suet. Dom. 1:

    vitam,

    Petr. 63; Val. Fl. 6, 695:

    annum gerens aetatis sexagesimum et nonum,

    Suet. Vesp. 24.—Hence, gĕrens, entis, P. a. (acc. to II. B. 3.), managing, conducting, etc.; with gen.:

    rei male gerentes,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 43:

    sui negotii bene gerens,

    Cic. Quint. 19, 62.
    2.
    gĕro, ōnis, m. [1. gero], a carrier; connected per hyphen with foras:

    ite, ite hac, simul eri damnigeruli, foras gerones, Bonorum hamaxagogae,

    that carry off, ravishers, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 1.

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  • 17 pono

    pōno, pŏsŭi (Plaut. posīvi), pŏsĭtum, 3 (old form of perf. POSEIVEI, Inscr. Orell. 3308:

    posivi,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 35: posivimus, id. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.:

    posiverunt, Cato, R. R. praef. 1: posiveris,

    id. ib. 4, 1; Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 108: POSIER unt, Inscr. Orell. 5061:

    POSIT, contr. from posivit,

    ib. 71; 732; 1475; 3087 al.; part. perf. sync. postus, a, um, Lucr. 1, 1059; 3, 87; 6, 965), v. a. [for posno, posino, from old prep. port, = proti, pros, and sino; cf.: porricio, pollingo, etc., and v. pro, sino], to put or set down a person or thing, to put, place, set, lay, etc. (syn.: colloco, statuo); constr. with acc. alone, or with in and abl., or with adv. of place; sometimes with in and acc., or absol.; v. infra.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    tabulas in aerario ponere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 108:

    castra,

    to pitch, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.:

    castra iniquo loco,

    id. ib. 1, 81:

    milia passuum tria ab eorum castris castra ponit,

    id. B. G. 1, 22 fin.: qui indicabantur, in senatu sunt positi, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 50:

    tabulas obsignatas in publico,

    Cic. Fl. 9, 21:

    sejuges in Capitolio aurati a P. Cornelio positi,

    Liv. 38, 35, 4:

    tyrannicidae imago in gymnasio ponatur,

    Quint. 7, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 7, 12:

    collum in Pulvere,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 11; cf.:

    artus in litore ponunt,

    Verg. A. 1, 173; and with simple abl.:

    saxo posuit latus,

    Val. Fl. 4, 378:

    in curulibus sellis sese posuerunt,

    seated themselves, Flor. 1, 13.—With in and acc.: hodierno die primum longo intervallo in possessionem libertatis pedem ponimus, Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28 B. and K. (Klotz, possessione):

    Cyzici in Prytaneum vasa aurea mensae unius posuit,

    Liv. 41, 20, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

    stipes erat, quem... in flammam triplices posuere sorores,

    Ov. M. 8, 452:

    omnia pone feros in ignes,

    id. R. Am. 719:

    oleas in solem,

    Cato, R. R. 7:

    coronam in caput,

    Gell. 3, 15, 3.—With sub and abl.:

    pone sub curru nimium propinqui,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 21:

    fundamenta,

    Vulg. 1 Esd. 6, 3:

    ubi pedem poneret non habebat,

    might set his foot, Cic. Fin. 4, 25, 69:

    genu or genua,

    to bow the knee, to kneel, Ov. F. 2, 438; 5, 507; Curt. 8, 7, 13:

    num genu posuit? num vocem supplicem misit?

    id. 4, 6, 28:

    oculos,

    to cast one's eyes on, Vulg. Jer. 24, 6:

    faciem,

    to turn one's face, id. ib. 42, 15.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    In milit. lang., to place, post, set, station a body of troops:

    ibi praesidium ponit,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 5:

    praesidium ibi,

    id. B. C. 1, 47 fin.:

    legionem tuendae orae maritimae causā,

    id. ib. 3, 34:

    insidias contra aliquem,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 49.—
    2.
    To set up, erect, build (mostly poet.):

    opus,

    Ov. M. 8, 160:

    templa,

    Verg. A. 6, 19:

    aras,

    id. ib. 3, 404:

    tropaeum,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 3; so,

    in inscrr., of erecting monuments of any kind: POSVIT, PONENDVM CVRAVIT (usu. abbreviated P. C.), etc.: columna rostrata quae est Duilio in foro posita,

    in honor of Duilius, Quint. 1, 7, 12.—
    3.
    Hence, poet., to form, fashion works of art:

    Alcimedon duo pocula fecit... Orpheaque in medio posuit,

    Verg. E. 3, 46:

    hic saxo liquidis ille coloribus Sollers nunc hominem ponere, nunc deum,

    Hor. C. 4, 8, 8.—
    4.
    To set, set out, plant trees, etc. ( poet. and in postAug. prose;

    syn.: planto, sero): pone ordine vites,

    Verg. E. 1, 74:

    vitem,

    Col. 4, 1; cf.:

    ille et nefasto te (arbor) posuit die,

    planted thee, Hor. C. 2, 13, 1.—
    5.
    To lay, stake, wager, as a forfeit; to lay down, propose, as a prize: pono pallium;

    Ille suum anulum opposuit,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 76:

    pocula fagina,

    Verg. E. 3, 36:

    invitat pretiis animos et praemia ponit,

    id. A. 5, 292:

    praemia,

    id. ib. 5, 486:

    praemium,

    Liv. 41, 23, 10.—
    6.
    In business lang., to put out at interest, to loan, to invest (less freq. than collocare): pecuniam in praedio ponere, Cic. Tull. § 15 Orell.; cf.:

    pecuniam apud aliquem,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 165:

    dives positis in fenore nummis,

    Hor. A. P. 421:

    pecuniam Quaerit Kalendis ponere,

    id. Epod. 2, 70.—
    7.
    To place, set, appoint a person as a watch or guard, accuser, etc. (less freq. than apponere):

    Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, quae agat, scire possit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

    custos frumento publico est positus,

    Cic. Fl. 19, 45: alicui accusatorem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3:

    puer super hoc positus officium,

    Petr. 56, 8.—
    8.
    To serve up, set before one at table (rare for the class. apponere), Cato, R. R. 79; so id. ib. 81:

    posito pavone,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 23; 2, 4, 14; 2, 6, 64; 2, 8, 91; id. A. P. 422:

    positi Bacchi cornua,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 231:

    vinum,

    Petr. 34, 7:

    calidum scis ponere sumen,

    Pers. 1, 53:

    porcum,

    Mart. 8, 22, 1:

    da Trebio, pone ad Trebium,

    Juv. 5, 135.—
    9.
    To lay aside, take off, put down, lay down, etc. (as clothing, arms, books, the hair or beard, etc., = deponere):

    cum pila ludere vellet tunicamque poneret,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60; cf.:

    veste positā,

    id. ib. 1, 47, 113:

    velamina,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 613; cf.:

    velamina de corpore,

    id. M. 4, 345:

    arma,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 37:

    sarcinam,

    Petr. 117, 11:

    barbam,

    Suet. Calig. 5; cf.:

    bicolor positis membrana capillis,

    Pers. 3, 10:

    libros de manibus,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 23; cf.:

    cum posui librum, et mecum ipse coepi cogitare,

    id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24.—
    10.
    To lay out for the grave:

    toroque Mortua componar, positaeque det oscula frater,

    Ov. M. 9, 503; Verg. A. 2, 644.—Also, to lay in the grave, to bury, inter ( poet. and in post-class. prose;

    syn.: sepelio, condo): corpore posto,

    Lucr. 3, 871:

    te... patriā decedens ponere terrā,

    Verg. A. 6, 508; Ov. F. 5, 480:

    ubi corpus meum positum fuerit,

    Dig. 34, 1, 18 fin.; Inscr. Orell. 4370:

    IN HAC CVPA MATER ET FILIVS POSITI SVNT,

    ib. 4550; 4495:

    HIC POSITVS EST, Inscr. in Boeckh. C. I. Gr. 4156: CINERES,

    Inscr. Orell. 4393; 4489.—
    11.
    Ponere calculum or calculos, transf., to weigh carefully, to ponder, consider:

    si bene calculum ponas,

    Petr. 115, 16:

    examina tecum, omnesque, quos ego movi, in utrāque parte calculos pone,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 19 fin.
    12.
    To arrange, deck, set in order (cf. compono):

    qui suas ponunt in statione comas,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 434:

    quid totiens positas fingis, inepta, comas?

    id. ib. 1, 306; cf. id. H. 4, 77; id. M. 1, 477.—
    13.
    To subdue, calm, allay, quiet:

    quo non arbiter Hadriae Major, tollere seu ponere vult freta,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 16:

    magnos cum ponunt aequora motus,

    Prop. 4 (5), 14, 31.—Hence, neutr., of the winds, to fall, abate ( poet. and late Lat.):

    cum venti posuere omnisque repente resedit Flatus,

    Verg. A. 7, 27:

    tum Zephyri posuere,

    id. ib. 10, 103:

    simul ac ventus posuit,

    Gell. 2, 30, 2.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set, place, put, lay a thing anywhere: noenum ponebat rumores ante salutem, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 314 Vahl.):

    pone ante oculos laetitiam senatūs,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 45, 115:

    at te apud eum, di boni! quantā in gratiā posui,

    id. Att. 6, 6, 4; cf. id. ib. 5, 11, 6; 6, 1, 22: ponite me ei (Appio) in gratiā, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5:

    apud Lentulum ponam te in gratiā,

    Cic. Att. 5, 3, 3 B. and K. (Orell. gratiam):

    se quoque in gratiā reconciliatae pacis ponere,

    Liv. 44, 14, 7:

    in laude positus,

    Cic. Sest. 66, 139:

    aliquem in metu non ponere,

    i. e. not to fear, id. Top. 13, 55:

    virtutum fundamenta in voluptate tamquam in aquā ponere,

    id. Fin. 2, 22, 72; cf. id. Pis. 4, 9:

    aliquid in conspectu animi,

    id. de Or. 3, 40, 161; cf.:

    sub uno aspectu ponere,

    Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 1, 1: ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, to lay down gently, i. e. close gracefully, Cic. Or. 59, 199:

    super cor,

    to lay to heart, Vulg. Mal. 2, 2.—With in and acc.:

    te in crimen populo ponat atque infamiam,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 11.—Elliptically: et quidem cum in mentem venit, ponor ad scribendum, when it occurs to Cœsar, he sets me (i. e. my name) to the Senate's decrees, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 4.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Ponere aliquid in aliquā re, to put or place a thing in something, to cause a thing to rest or depend upon:

    credibile non est, quantum ego in consiliis et prudentiā tuā, quantum in amore et fide ponam,

    Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3:

    spem in aliquo,

    id. ib. 6, 1, 11:

    salutis auxilium in celeritate,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 48; cf.:

    spem salutis in virtute,

    id. ib. 5, 34, 2:

    ut in dubio poneret, utrum, etc.,

    regarded as doubtful, doubted, Liv. 34, 5, 3: sed haec haud in magno equidem ponam discrimine, I shall attach no great importance to it, id. prooem. § 8.—In pass.: positum esse in aliquā re, to be based or founded upon, to rest upon, depend upon:

    ut salutem praesentium, spem reliquorum in vestris sententiis positam esse et defixam putetis,

    Cic. Fl. 1, 3; id. Agr. 2, 9, 22:

    omnia posita putamus in Planci tui liberalitate,

    id. Att. 16, 16, F, 2; id. Or. 8, 27:

    in te positum est, ut, etc.,

    id. Att. 16, 16, B, § 8. —
    2.
    To lay out, spend, employ a thing, esp. time, in any thing:

    tempus in cogitatione ponere,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

    si in hac curā vita mihi ponenda sit,

    id. Fam. 9, 24, 4:

    diem totum in considerandā causā,

    id. Brut. 22, 87; cf. id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; id. Att. 6, 2, 6:

    sumptum,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2; id. Fam. 13, 54 fin.; cf.:

    totum animum atque omnem curam, operam diligentiamque suam in petitione,

    id. Mur. 22, 45:

    id multo tum faciemus liberius totosque nos in contemplandis rebus perspiciendisque ponemus,

    id. Tusc. 1, 19, 44:

    apud gratissimum hominem beneficium ponere,

    id. Fam. 13, 55 fin.:

    itinera enim ita facit, ut multos dies in oppidum ponat,

    id. Att. 11, 22, 2.—
    3.
    To put, place, count, reckon, consider a thing in or among certain things:

    mortem in malis,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 29:

    in beneficii loco,

    id. Fam. 15, 4, 12; id. Cat. 2, 9, 20:

    si quis motus populi factus esset, id C. Norbano in fraude capitali esse ponendum,

    id. de Or. 2, 48, 199:

    in laude,

    to regard as praiseworthy, id. Top. 18, 71:

    in vitiis poni,

    to be regarded as a fault, Nep. Epam. 1, 2.—
    4.
    To appoint, ordain, make something:

    leges,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28:

    festos laetosque ritus,

    Tac. H. 5, 5 fin.:

    ut male posuimus initia, sic cetera sequentur,

    Cic. Att. 10, 18, 2:

    ne tu in spem ponas me bonae frugi fore,

    to hope for, reckon upon, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 4 Fleck.: nomen, to apply or give a name (= imponere):

    sunt enim rebus novis nova ponenda nomina,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 44; id. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Verg. A. 7, 63:

    qui tibi nomen Insano posuere,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 48: rationem, to furnish an account, to [p. 1397] reckon, Suet. Oth. 7; cf. Col. 1, 3:

    pecuniae,

    Dig. 46, 3, 89.—
    5.
    To make or render vows or votive offerings to the gods:

    Veneri ponere vota,

    Prop. 3, 12, 18:

    nunc ego victrices lauro redimire tabellas, Nec Veneris mediā ponere in aede morer,

    Ov. Am. 1, 11, 25:

    hic ponite lucida Funalia et vectes,

    Hor. C. 3, 26, 6:

    libatum agricolae ponitur ante deo,

    Tib. 1, 1, 14; Ov. M. 3, 506:

    ex praedā tripodem aureum Delphi posuit,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 3.—
    6.
    In speaking or writing, to lay down as true, to state, assume, assert, maintain, allege, take for granted, etc.:

    quamobrem, ut paulo ante posui, si, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Fin. 2, 31, 100:

    recte Magnus ille noster, me audiente, posuit in judicio, rem publicam, etc.,

    id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: verum pono, esse victum eum;

    at, etc.,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 25:

    positum sit igitur in primis, etc.,

    Cic. Or. 4, 14:

    hoc posito atque concesso, esse quandam vim divinam, etc.,

    id. Div. 1, 52, 118; cf.:

    quo posito, et omnium sensu adprobato,

    id. Fin. 3, 8, 29; id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

    pono satis in eo fuisse orationis atque ingenii,

    id. Brut. 45, 165:

    aliquid pro certo ponere,

    Liv. 10, 9 fin.:

    nunc rem ipsam ponamus quam illi non negant... Est haec res posita, quae ab adversario non negatur,

    Cic. Caecin. 11, 32.—
    7.
    Esp.: exemplum ponere, to cite an instance:

    eorum quae constant exempla ponemus,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 38, 68:

    perspicuo et grandi vitio praeditum posuimus exemplum,

    id. ib. 1, 47, 88:

    ab adjunctis antea posui exemplum,

    id. Top. 11, 50:

    horum exempla posui ex jure civili,

    id. ib. 14, 58:

    horum generum ex Cicerone exempla ponamus,

    Quint. 5, 11, 11; 6, 3, 108 al.—
    8.
    To set before the mind, represent, describe:

    nec ponere lucum Artifices, nec, etc.,

    Pers. 1, 70:

    pone Tigellinum,

    Juv. 1, 155.—
    9.
    To propose, offer, fix upon a theme for discussion (= proponere):

    mihi nunc vos quaestiunculam, de quā meo arbitratu loquar, ponitis?

    Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 102; 2, 1, 2:

    ponere aliquid, ad quod audiam, si tibi non est molestum, volo,

    id. Fat. 2, 4; cf.:

    ponere jubebam, de quo quis audire vellet,

    id. Tusc. 1, 4, 7:

    ponere praemium,

    Liv. 39, 17, 1; and impers. pass.:

    doctorum est ista consuetudo eaque Graecorum, ut iis ponatur, de quo disputent quamvis subito,

    id. Lael. 5, 17; so,

    cum ita positum esset, videri, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 3, 22, 54.—
    10.
    To put away, leave off, dismiss, forego, lay down, surrender (= deponere):

    vitam propera ponere,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 3, 4:

    vitia,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46:

    dolorem,

    id. Tusc. 3, 28, 66: inimicitias, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6:

    curas,

    Liv. 1, 19:

    metum,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6:

    iram,

    Hor. A. P. 160:

    moras,

    id. C. 4, 12, 25; Ov. F. 2, 816:

    animos feroces,

    Liv. 8, 1:

    corda ferocia,

    Verg. A. 1, 302:

    vires (flammae),

    id. ib. 5, 681:

    ipsum rudimentum adulescentiae bello lacessentem Romanos posuisse,

    had obtained his first experience, Liv. 31, 11 fin.; Suet. Ner. 22; also,

    tirocinium,

    Just. 12, 4, 6:

    animam,

    to lay down life, Vulg. Johan. 10, 15; 17.—Esp., milit. t. t.: arma ponere (= deponere), to lay down arms, yield, surrender:

    Nepesinis inde edictum ut arma ponant,

    Liv. 6, 10, 5:

    dedi imperatorem, arma poni jubet,

    id. 4, 10, 3; cf.:

    positis armis,

    id. 35, 36, 4; id. Epit. 88.—
    11.
    To make, cause to be (eccl. Lat.):

    cornu tuum ponam ferreum,

    Vulg. Mich. 4, 13:

    posuit me desolatam,

    id. Thren. 3, 11; with quasi:

    ponam Samariam quasi acervum,

    id. Mich. 1, 6; with in and acc.:

    posuerunt eam in ruinam,

    id. Isa. 23, 13.—
    12.
    To assume, suppose, put a case (of mere suppositions; only late Lat.; cf. 6 supra): pone tamen ab evangelistis scriptum, Ambros. de Fide, 5, 16, 194; Ps.-Quint. Decl. 273.—Hence, pŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., of localities, placed, situated; situate, standing, lying anywhere:

    Roma in montibus posita,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    Delos in Aegaeo mari posita,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55:

    portus ex adverso urbi positus,

    Liv. 45, 5:

    tumulus opportune ad id positus,

    id. 28, 13:

    urbs alieno solo posita,

    id. 4, 17.— Poet.:

    somno positus = sopitus,

    lulled to sleep, Verg. A. 4, 527.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pono

  • 18 Simulans

    sĭmŭlo (less correctly sĭmĭlo; v. assimulo fin.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [similis].
    I.
    In gen., to make a thing like another; to imitate, copy, represent a thing (mostly poet.;

    syn. imitor): corpora igni simulata,

    made like, like, Lucr. 1, 687:

    nimbos et non imitabile fulmen simulare,

    Verg. A. 6, 591:

    simulet Catonem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13:

    cum sint crura tibi, simulent quae cornua lunae,

    Mart. 2, 35, 1:

    furias Bacchi,

    Ov. M. 6, 596:

    equam (sonus),

    id. ib. 2, 668:

    artem (natura),

    id. ib. 3, 158:

    anum,

    to assume the form of, id. ib. 3, 275; 6, 26; 11, 310; id. F. 4, 517; so,

    Homeri illa Minerva simulata Mentori,

    Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2 (cf. Hom. Od. 3, 22): simulata Troja, a counterfeit Troy, i. e. which is copied after, built like Troy, Ov. M. 13, 721:

    simulata magnis Pergama,

    Verg. A. 3, 349:

    latices simulatos fontis Averni,

    id. ib. 4, 512:

    cupressum simulare,

    to represent, paint, Hor. A. P. 20:

    antrum in ostro,

    Sil. 15, 430. —With object-clause: Pallas... simulat... terram Prodere cum baccis fetum canentis olivae, represents the earth producing, etc., Ov. M. 6, 80; cf.

    also, transf., of a work of art: aera Fortis Alexandri vultum simulantia,

    representing, imaging, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 241.—
    II.
    In partic., to represent a thing as being which has no existence, to feign a thing to be what it is not (while dissimulare is to pretend a thing not to be which really is, to conceal), to assume the appearance of a thing, to feign, pretend, counterfeit, simulate (class. and freq.).
    (α).
    With acc. (in Cic. in the act. perh. only with a pron.):

    nec ut emat melius, nec ut vendat, quicquam simulabit aut dissimulabit vir bonus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

    experiar, quid ames, quid simules,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 71:

    (oportuit) non simulare mortem verbis, re ipsā spem vitae dare,

    i.e. to pretend that she was dead, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 23:

    studium conjurationis vehementer simulare,

    Sall. C. 41, 5:

    deditionem ac deinde metum,

    id. J. 36, 2:

    diffidentiam rei,

    id. ib. 60, 5:

    pacem,

    id. ib. 111, 4; cf.: pacem cum Scipione Sulla sive faciebat sive simulabat, Cic. Phil. 13, 1, 2:

    constantiam,

    Tac. H. 1, 81:

    obsequium,

    id. A. 12, 47 et saep.:

    Hannibal aegrum simulabat,

    pretended to be sick, Liv. 25, 8, 12:

    sanum,

    Ov. R. Am. 493:

    furentem,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 429:

    praegravem aut delumbem sese simulans,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103:

    supervacaneos,

    Just. 6, 6, 3.—With pro:

    simulat se pro uxore Nini filium, pro femina puerum,

    Just. 1, 2, 1.— Pass.:

    tum pol ego is essem vere, qui simulabar,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58:

    non simulatur amor,

    Ov. H. 17, 36:

    tecto lumine somnus,

    id. ib. 21, 199:

    ad simulanda negotia altitudo ingenii incredibilis,

    Sall. J. 95, 3 et saep.—Esp. freq. in part. perf.:

    ficto officio simulatāque sedulitate conjunctus,

    Cic. Caecin. 5, 14:

    officio simulato,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

    simulatā amicitiā,

    Caes. B. G. 1,44:

    hortatur simulata conscientia adeant,

    Tac. A. 2, 40 et saep.:

    cum ex eo quaereretur, quid esset dolus malus? respondebat: cum esset aliud simulatum, aliud actum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 14, 60:

    in amicitiā nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

    id. Lael. 8, 26; so (with fictum) id. ib. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 12, 43;

    with falsum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5;

    with fucata (opp. vera),

    id. Lael. 25, 95:

    simulato vecta juvenco,

    Ov. Am. 1, 3, 23:

    simulatae ordine justo exsequiae,

    Sil. 16, 305.—
    (β).
    With object-clause (so most freq.):

    qui omnia se simulant scire,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 168:

    ille se Tarentum proficisci cum simulasset,

    Cic. Clu. 9, 27:

    illi reverti se in suas sedes simulaverunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 4:

    simulat Jove natus abire,

    Ov. M. 2, 697; 4, 338 al.; Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 4; id. Ep. 3, 2, 37; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 42; id. Rud. 5, 3, 43; id. Truc. prol. 18; 1, 1, 68 sq. al.:

    id mirari te simulato,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 70; id. Hec. 1, 2, 109; 1, 2, 113; Afran. ap. Non. 511, 7; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Lael. 26, 99; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13; Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Quint. 8, 2, 24:

    simulandum est, quaedam nos dicere,

    Quint. 4, 5, 20; cf.:

    qui per ambitionem probos sese simulavere,

    Sall. J. 85, 9:

    adcurrit pedes ejus feta, praegravem, delumbem sese simulans,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103; Just. 3, 1, 8:

    simulans a Dareo se esse praemissum,

    Curt. 4, 1, 29.— Pass.:

    schema, quo aliud simulatur dici quam dicitur,

    Quint. 9, 1, 14.—
    (γ).
    With quasi (mostly Plautin.):

    quasi affuerim simulabo atque audita eloquar,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 45; id. As. 4, 1, 51:

    quasi militi animum adjeceris simulare,

    id. Mil. 3, 3, 35; id. Pers. 4, 5, 5; cf.:

    praefectus, quasi et ipse conterritus, simulans cuncta pavore compleverat,

    Curt. 3, 13, 10. —
    (δ).
    Absol.:

    cur simulat?

    Ter. And. 2, 3, 1; 1, 1, 21; 3, 4, 9:

    non in perpetuom ut dares, Verum ut simulares,

    id. Heaut. 4, 5, 34; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15:

    simulandi gratiā,

    Sall. J. 37, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 6, 3, 85; Ov. M. 13, 299 al.— Impers. pass.:

    quid est, quod amplius simuletur?

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 28.—Hence,
    A.
    sĭmŭlans, antis, P. a.
    * 1.
    Imitating, imitative:

    non fuit in terris vocum simulantior ales (psittaco),

    Ov. Am. 2, 6, 23.—
    2.
    Sĭmŭlans, The Pretender, the title of a comedy of Afranius (v. the Fragm. Com. Rel. p. 172 sq. Rib.), Cic. Sest. 55, 118.— Advv.: sĭmŭlanter, feignedly, pretendedly, apparently (for the class. simulate):

    simulanter revictā Charite,

    App. M. 8, p. 205, 36.—
    B.
    sĭmŭlātē, feignedly, pretendedly, not sincerely:

    sive ex animo id fit sive simulate,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 67, 168:

    ficte et simulate,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13.— Comp.: simulatius exit proditionis opus, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 4.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Simulans

  • 19 simulo

    sĭmŭlo (less correctly sĭmĭlo; v. assimulo fin.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [similis].
    I.
    In gen., to make a thing like another; to imitate, copy, represent a thing (mostly poet.;

    syn. imitor): corpora igni simulata,

    made like, like, Lucr. 1, 687:

    nimbos et non imitabile fulmen simulare,

    Verg. A. 6, 591:

    simulet Catonem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13:

    cum sint crura tibi, simulent quae cornua lunae,

    Mart. 2, 35, 1:

    furias Bacchi,

    Ov. M. 6, 596:

    equam (sonus),

    id. ib. 2, 668:

    artem (natura),

    id. ib. 3, 158:

    anum,

    to assume the form of, id. ib. 3, 275; 6, 26; 11, 310; id. F. 4, 517; so,

    Homeri illa Minerva simulata Mentori,

    Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2 (cf. Hom. Od. 3, 22): simulata Troja, a counterfeit Troy, i. e. which is copied after, built like Troy, Ov. M. 13, 721:

    simulata magnis Pergama,

    Verg. A. 3, 349:

    latices simulatos fontis Averni,

    id. ib. 4, 512:

    cupressum simulare,

    to represent, paint, Hor. A. P. 20:

    antrum in ostro,

    Sil. 15, 430. —With object-clause: Pallas... simulat... terram Prodere cum baccis fetum canentis olivae, represents the earth producing, etc., Ov. M. 6, 80; cf.

    also, transf., of a work of art: aera Fortis Alexandri vultum simulantia,

    representing, imaging, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 241.—
    II.
    In partic., to represent a thing as being which has no existence, to feign a thing to be what it is not (while dissimulare is to pretend a thing not to be which really is, to conceal), to assume the appearance of a thing, to feign, pretend, counterfeit, simulate (class. and freq.).
    (α).
    With acc. (in Cic. in the act. perh. only with a pron.):

    nec ut emat melius, nec ut vendat, quicquam simulabit aut dissimulabit vir bonus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

    experiar, quid ames, quid simules,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 71:

    (oportuit) non simulare mortem verbis, re ipsā spem vitae dare,

    i.e. to pretend that she was dead, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 23:

    studium conjurationis vehementer simulare,

    Sall. C. 41, 5:

    deditionem ac deinde metum,

    id. J. 36, 2:

    diffidentiam rei,

    id. ib. 60, 5:

    pacem,

    id. ib. 111, 4; cf.: pacem cum Scipione Sulla sive faciebat sive simulabat, Cic. Phil. 13, 1, 2:

    constantiam,

    Tac. H. 1, 81:

    obsequium,

    id. A. 12, 47 et saep.:

    Hannibal aegrum simulabat,

    pretended to be sick, Liv. 25, 8, 12:

    sanum,

    Ov. R. Am. 493:

    furentem,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 429:

    praegravem aut delumbem sese simulans,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103:

    supervacaneos,

    Just. 6, 6, 3.—With pro:

    simulat se pro uxore Nini filium, pro femina puerum,

    Just. 1, 2, 1.— Pass.:

    tum pol ego is essem vere, qui simulabar,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58:

    non simulatur amor,

    Ov. H. 17, 36:

    tecto lumine somnus,

    id. ib. 21, 199:

    ad simulanda negotia altitudo ingenii incredibilis,

    Sall. J. 95, 3 et saep.—Esp. freq. in part. perf.:

    ficto officio simulatāque sedulitate conjunctus,

    Cic. Caecin. 5, 14:

    officio simulato,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

    simulatā amicitiā,

    Caes. B. G. 1,44:

    hortatur simulata conscientia adeant,

    Tac. A. 2, 40 et saep.:

    cum ex eo quaereretur, quid esset dolus malus? respondebat: cum esset aliud simulatum, aliud actum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 14, 60:

    in amicitiā nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

    id. Lael. 8, 26; so (with fictum) id. ib. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 12, 43;

    with falsum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5;

    with fucata (opp. vera),

    id. Lael. 25, 95:

    simulato vecta juvenco,

    Ov. Am. 1, 3, 23:

    simulatae ordine justo exsequiae,

    Sil. 16, 305.—
    (β).
    With object-clause (so most freq.):

    qui omnia se simulant scire,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 168:

    ille se Tarentum proficisci cum simulasset,

    Cic. Clu. 9, 27:

    illi reverti se in suas sedes simulaverunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 4:

    simulat Jove natus abire,

    Ov. M. 2, 697; 4, 338 al.; Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 4; id. Ep. 3, 2, 37; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 42; id. Rud. 5, 3, 43; id. Truc. prol. 18; 1, 1, 68 sq. al.:

    id mirari te simulato,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 70; id. Hec. 1, 2, 109; 1, 2, 113; Afran. ap. Non. 511, 7; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Lael. 26, 99; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13; Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Quint. 8, 2, 24:

    simulandum est, quaedam nos dicere,

    Quint. 4, 5, 20; cf.:

    qui per ambitionem probos sese simulavere,

    Sall. J. 85, 9:

    adcurrit pedes ejus feta, praegravem, delumbem sese simulans,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103; Just. 3, 1, 8:

    simulans a Dareo se esse praemissum,

    Curt. 4, 1, 29.— Pass.:

    schema, quo aliud simulatur dici quam dicitur,

    Quint. 9, 1, 14.—
    (γ).
    With quasi (mostly Plautin.):

    quasi affuerim simulabo atque audita eloquar,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 45; id. As. 4, 1, 51:

    quasi militi animum adjeceris simulare,

    id. Mil. 3, 3, 35; id. Pers. 4, 5, 5; cf.:

    praefectus, quasi et ipse conterritus, simulans cuncta pavore compleverat,

    Curt. 3, 13, 10. —
    (δ).
    Absol.:

    cur simulat?

    Ter. And. 2, 3, 1; 1, 1, 21; 3, 4, 9:

    non in perpetuom ut dares, Verum ut simulares,

    id. Heaut. 4, 5, 34; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15:

    simulandi gratiā,

    Sall. J. 37, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 6, 3, 85; Ov. M. 13, 299 al.— Impers. pass.:

    quid est, quod amplius simuletur?

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 28.—Hence,
    A.
    sĭmŭlans, antis, P. a.
    * 1.
    Imitating, imitative:

    non fuit in terris vocum simulantior ales (psittaco),

    Ov. Am. 2, 6, 23.—
    2.
    Sĭmŭlans, The Pretender, the title of a comedy of Afranius (v. the Fragm. Com. Rel. p. 172 sq. Rib.), Cic. Sest. 55, 118.— Advv.: sĭmŭlanter, feignedly, pretendedly, apparently (for the class. simulate):

    simulanter revictā Charite,

    App. M. 8, p. 205, 36.—
    B.
    sĭmŭlātē, feignedly, pretendedly, not sincerely:

    sive ex animo id fit sive simulate,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 67, 168:

    ficte et simulate,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13.— Comp.: simulatius exit proditionis opus, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 4.

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  • 20 usurpo

    usurpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [perh. contr. from usu rapio, to seize to one's own use], to take into use; to make use of; to use, employ, apply, practise, exercise, enjoy (class.; cf. utor).
    I.
    In gen.:

    inter novam rem verbum usurpabo vetus,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 29:

    nomen tantum virtutis usurpas: quid ipsa valeat, ignoras,

    Cic. Par. 2, 17:

    at quam crebro usurpat Et consul, et Antonius!

    id. Phil. 2, 28, 70; cf.:

    praeclare est hoc usurpatum a doctissimis,

    id. Par. 5, 1, 33:

    peregrinae condicionis homines vetuit usurpare Romana nomina, duntaxat gentilicia,

    Suet. Claud. 25: o barathrum! ubi nunc es? ut ego te usurpem lubens! I would occupy thee ( cast myself into thee), Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 41:

    hoc genus poenae saepe in improbos cives hac in re publicā esse usurpatum recordatur,

    Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

    conclusio, quā credo usuros veteres illos fuisse, si jam nota atque usurpata res esset,

    id. Or. 51, 169:

    id nunc jure imperii nostri quotannis usurpatum,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 20, § 51; consolationes, a sapientissimis viris usurpatae, id. Fam. 5, 16, 3:

    paucas tribus ad usurpandam libertatem vocare,

    id. Agr. 2, 7, 17:

    officium, quod semper usurpavi,

    id. Lael. 2, 8:

    quis est, qui C. Fabricii, M'. Curii non um caritate aliquā benevolentiae memoriam usurpet?

    who does not cherish the memory of, id. ib. 8, 28:

    nec patrum nec avorum memoriā quemquam id jus usurpasse,

    Liv. 27, 8, 9:

    solita munia,

    Tac. H. 4, 49 fin.:

    modo comitatem et temperantiam, saepius violentiam ac libidines usurpans,

    id. A. 11, 16:

    otium post labores,

    id. ib. 14, 55:

    nec puduit has vestis usurpare etiam viros,

    Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 78:

    sibi quisque dominorum usurpat servitutem,

    Dig. 8, 6, 6, § 1.—With de:

    sed de hoc post erit usurpandum, cum de poëtis dicemus,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 52 Müll.— Impers.: usurpatum est, it is usual, customary; with a foll. ut, Dig. 50, 13, 1, § 6: quod in quibusdam provinciis usurpatur, Co. 2, 2, 22.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Aliquid oculis, auribus, etc., to take possession or cognizance of, i. e. to perceive, observe, etc., through the senses (ante-class.):

    nec calidos aestus tuimur, nec frigora quimus Usurpare oculis,

    Lucr. 1, 301:

    advenio ex Seleuciā, Macedoniā atque Arabiā, Quas ego neque oculis neque pedibus umquam usurpavi meis,

    I have never seen nor set foot in, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 4:

    aliquid sensibus,

    Lucr. 4, 975:

    unde meae usurpant aures sonitum?

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 9.—
    B.
    In jurid. lang., to get possession of, to acquire, obtain a thing:

    amissam possessionem ex jure civili surculo defringendo,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110:

    nec interest is qui usurpaverit (possessionem) dominus sit, necne,

    Dig. 41, 3, 5:

    mercatores, qui de fundis fiscalibus mercari consuerunt, nullam immunitatem solvendi publici vectigalis usurpare possunt,

    ib. 39, 4, 9, § 8.— Abscl.: Mucium dicere solitum, lege non isse usurpatum mulierem, quae, cum Kal. Jan. apud virum matrimonii causā esse coepisset, a. d. IIII. Kal. Jan. sequentis usurpatum isset;

    non enim posse impleri trinoctium, quod abesse a viro usurpandi causa ex XII. tabulis deberet, because, unless absent from him at least three full days of the year, she became subject to him as his wife by prescription,

    Gell. 3, 2, 12 sq. Weiss (Herz. legi: non esse usurpatam mulierem); cf. Macr. S. 1, 3, 9; Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 31; Gai Inst. 1, 111; Gell. 18, 6, 8 sq.—
    2.
    To assume or appropriate unlawfully, to usurp (not ante-Aug.):

    civitatem Romanam usurpantes securi percussit,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    dominium totius loci,

    Cod. Just. 8, 10, 8:

    cognomina,

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 71:

    illicitum collegium,

    Dig. 47, 22, 2:

    cujus jus tyranni quaque usurparunt,

    Liv. 34, 32, 2:

    alienam possessionem,

    id. 33, 40, 5:

    possessionem Armeniae,

    Tac. A. 14, 26.—
    C.
    To make use of or be acquainted with under any name, i. e. to name or call, to speak of habitually, adopt, assume in words or speech (cf. nuncupo):

    Jovem atque Junonem, reliquos, quos fratres inter se agnatosque usurpari atque appellari videmus,

    Cic. Univ. 11:

    soleo saepe ante oculos ponere idque libenter crebris usurpare sermonibus, omnis posse, etc.,

    id. Marcell. 2, 5:

    Graecum verbum usurpavi,

    id. Phil. 1, 1, 1:

    admonet saepe usurpatae Dionysi tyranni vocis, quā, etc.,

    Liv. 24, 22, 8:

    saepe eum usurpasse vocem, multo miserius seni exilium esse,

    id. 2, 40, 11:

    tabulata instituenda sunt: hoc enim nomine usurpant agricolae ramos truncosque prominentes,

    Col. 5, 6, 11:

    C. Laelius, is, qui Sapiens usurpatur,

    Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40; Vulg. Deut. 5, 11:

    cum hoc decere... quod semper usurpamus in omnibus dictis et factis..cum hoc, inquam, decere dicimus,

    speak of, insist on, Cic. Or. 22, 73.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > usurpo

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