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imbēcillus ( inb-), a, um (also im-bēcillis, e, Sen. de Ira, 3, 28, 3; id. de Clem. 2, 6, 3; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 93 sq.), adj., weak, feeble (class.; cf.: debilis, imbellis).

Of the body.

Of living beings:

cum homo imbecillus a valentissima bestia laniatur,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

multi sunt imbecilli senes... quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius! quam tenui aut nulla potius valetudine!

id. de Sen. 11, 35:

et absentes (amici) assunt et egentes abundant et imbecilli valent, etc.,

id. Lael. 7, 23:

imbecilliores (opp. firmiores),

Quint. 5, 10, 49:

Marius et valetudine et natura imbecillior,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 3:

nemo e nobis imbecillus fuit, cujus salus ac valetudo non sustentaretur Caesaris cura,

indisposed, Vell. 2, 114, 1.— Subst.:

imbecillorum esse aecum misererier,

Lucr. 5, 1023.—

Of things:

vox,

Quint. 11, 3, 13:

frons,

id. 12, 5, 4:

pulsus venarum (with exigui),

Cels. 3, 19:

imbecillissimus ac facillimus sanguis,

Sen. Ben. 4, 18:

accedent anni et tractari mollius aetas Imbecilla volet,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 86:

nescio quomodo imbecillior est medicina quam morbus,

Cic. Att. 10, 14. 2:

terra infecunda ad omnia atque imbecilla,

Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 35:

vina (opp. valida),

id. 14, 21, 27, § 134:

imbecillissimam materiam esse omne olus,

the least nourishing, Cels. 2, 18.—In a different sense:

ovum durum valentissimae materiae est, molle vel sorbile imbecillissimae,

very easy of digestion, Cels. 2, 18:

simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia sunt: forma mentis aeterna,

Tac. Agr. 46:

regnum vobis trado firmum, si boni eritis: si mali, imbecillum,

Sall. J. 10, 6.—

Of the mind:

qui eam superstitionem imbecilli animi atque anilis putent,

Cic. Div. 2, 60, 125:

ingenia,

Quint. 2, 8, 12; cf.:

imbecilliores vel animo vel fortuna,

Cic. Lael. 19, 70; id. Rep. 1, 34:

motus fortunae,

id. Fin. 5, 24, 71:

ab imbecillis accusatoribus accusari,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 6:

suspiciones,

Tac. A. 2, 76.— Subst.:

ignavi et imbecilli,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32; Sen. Ep. 85.—Hence, adv.: imbēcillē, weakly, feebly, faintly (very rare; perh. only in the comp.):

iis, quae videntur, imbecillius assentiuntur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52:

imbecillius horrent dolorem,

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85.

imbēcillus ( inb-), a, um (also im-bēcillis, e, Sen. de Ira, 3, 28, 3; id. de Clem. 2, 6, 3; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 93 sq.), adj., weak, feeble (class.; cf.: debilis, imbellis).

Of the body.

Of living beings:

cum homo imbecillus a valentissima bestia laniatur,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

multi sunt imbecilli senes... quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius! quam tenui aut nulla potius valetudine!

id. de Sen. 11, 35:

et absentes (amici) assunt et egentes abundant et imbecilli valent, etc.,

id. Lael. 7, 23:

imbecilliores (opp. firmiores),

Quint. 5, 10, 49:

Marius et valetudine et natura imbecillior,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 3:

nemo e nobis imbecillus fuit, cujus salus ac valetudo non sustentaretur Caesaris cura,

indisposed, Vell. 2, 114, 1.— Subst.:

imbecillorum esse aecum misererier,

Lucr. 5, 1023.—

Of things:

vox,

Quint. 11, 3, 13:

frons,

id. 12, 5, 4:

pulsus venarum (with exigui),

Cels. 3, 19:

imbecillissimus ac facillimus sanguis,

Sen. Ben. 4, 18:

accedent anni et tractari mollius aetas Imbecilla volet,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 86:

nescio quomodo imbecillior est medicina quam morbus,

Cic. Att. 10, 14. 2:

terra infecunda ad omnia atque imbecilla,

Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 35:

vina (opp. valida),

id. 14, 21, 27, § 134:

imbecillissimam materiam esse omne olus,

the least nourishing, Cels. 2, 18.—In a different sense:

ovum durum valentissimae materiae est, molle vel sorbile imbecillissimae,

very easy of digestion, Cels. 2, 18:

simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia sunt: forma mentis aeterna,

Tac. Agr. 46:

regnum vobis trado firmum, si boni eritis: si mali, imbecillum,

Sall. J. 10, 6.—

Of the mind:

qui eam superstitionem imbecilli animi atque anilis putent,

Cic. Div. 2, 60, 125:

ingenia,

Quint. 2, 8, 12; cf.:

imbecilliores vel animo vel fortuna,

Cic. Lael. 19, 70; id. Rep. 1, 34:

motus fortunae,

id. Fin. 5, 24, 71:

ab imbecillis accusatoribus accusari,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 6:

suspiciones,

Tac. A. 2, 76.— Subst.:

ignavi et imbecilli,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32; Sen. Ep. 85.—Hence, adv.: imbēcillē, weakly, feebly, faintly (very rare; perh. only in the comp.):

iis, quae videntur, imbecillius assentiuntur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52:

imbecillius horrent dolorem,

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85.

in-constans, antis, adj., inconstant, changeable, fickle, capricious, inconsistent (class.).

Of persons:

mihi ridicule es visus esse inconstans, qui eundem et laederes, et laudares,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 19:

populus in omnibus inconstantissimus,

Sen. Ep. 99.—

Of inanim. and abstr. things:

inconstans est, quod ab eodem de eadem re diverse dicitur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 50, 93:

litterae,

id. Fam. 10, 16:

venti,

Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 352:

medendi arte nulla inconstantior,

id. 29, 1, 1, § 2:

quid inconstantius Deo?

Cic. Div. 2, 62. — Sup.:

inconstantissimo vultu et maestissimo,

Gell. 13, 30, 7.— Adv.: inconstanter, inconstantly, capriciously, inconsistently:

jactantibus se opinionibus inconstanter et turbide,

inconsistently and confusedly, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 24:

loqui,

id. Ac. 2, 17, 53:

haec dicuntur inconstantissime,

without the least consistency, id. Fin. 2, 27, 88:

adductus primo ita negare inconstanter, ut, etc.,

Liv. 40, 55, 5:

prodire,

Hirt. B. Afr. 82: agens, M. Aurel. ap. Front. ad Caes. 3, ep. 2.

in-constans, antis, adj., inconstant, changeable, fickle, capricious, inconsistent (class.).

Of persons:

mihi ridicule es visus esse inconstans, qui eundem et laederes, et laudares,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 19:

populus in omnibus inconstantissimus,

Sen. Ep. 99.—

Of inanim. and abstr. things:

inconstans est, quod ab eodem de eadem re diverse dicitur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 50, 93:

litterae,

id. Fam. 10, 16:

venti,

Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 352:

medendi arte nulla inconstantior,

id. 29, 1, 1, § 2:

quid inconstantius Deo?

Cic. Div. 2, 62. — Sup.:

inconstantissimo vultu et maestissimo,

Gell. 13, 30, 7.— Adv.: inconstanter, inconstantly, capriciously, inconsistently:

jactantibus se opinionibus inconstanter et turbide,

inconsistently and confusedly, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 24:

loqui,

id. Ac. 2, 17, 53:

haec dicuntur inconstantissime,

without the least consistency, id. Fin. 2, 27, 88:

adductus primo ita negare inconstanter, ut, etc.,

Liv. 40, 55, 5:

prodire,

Hirt. B. Afr. 82: agens, M. Aurel. ap. Front. ad Caes. 3, ep. 2.

in-frĕquens, tis, adj., that does not often or frequently take place, unfrequent.

Lit., of persons, that is not often at a place, that seldom does a thing, seldom, rare:

sum et Romae et in praedio infrequens,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 4:

parcus deorum cultor et infrequens,

unfrequent, Hor. C. 1, 34, 1: exercitus, thinned by furloughs, Liv. 43, 11, 10: miles, that does not appear regularly at his standard, Paul. ex Fest. p. 112 Müll.; cf. Gell. 16, 4, 5. —

Hence: pro infrequente eum mittat militia domum (meretrix), of a lover,

who makes few presents, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 19. —

Transf., that does not often happen, that is seldom used, rare, unusual:

cum Appius senatum infrequentem coëgisset,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12:

eae copiae ipsae hoc infrequentiores imponuntur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 2:

interdictum,

Dig. 43, 31, 1:

usus,

Gell. 9, 12, 19:

vocabulum,

id. 2, 22, 2:

infrequentissima urbis,

the parts least inhabited, Liv. 31, 23, 4:

causa,

which is attended by few hearers, Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 320.—

Usually with abl. or gen., not filled with, not well provided with, not acquainted with any thing:

altera pars (urbis) infrequens aedificiis,

Liv. 37, 32:

signa infrequentia armatis,

to which but few soldiers belong, id. 10, 20.—Also absol.:

infrequentia signa,

Liv. 7, 8:

rei militaris te reddidisti infrequentem,

inexperienced, Auct. Her. 4, 27, 37; with little knowledge of, unskilled in:

vocum Latinarum,

Gell. 13, 24, 4.— Hence, adv.: infrĕquenter, rarely (late Lat.), Ambros. Ep. 35.

in-frĕquens, tis, adj., that does not often or frequently take place, unfrequent.

Lit., of persons, that is not often at a place, that seldom does a thing, seldom, rare:

sum et Romae et in praedio infrequens,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 4:

parcus deorum cultor et infrequens,

unfrequent, Hor. C. 1, 34, 1: exercitus, thinned by furloughs, Liv. 43, 11, 10: miles, that does not appear regularly at his standard, Paul. ex Fest. p. 112 Müll.; cf. Gell. 16, 4, 5. —

Hence: pro infrequente eum mittat militia domum (meretrix), of a lover,

who makes few presents, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 19. —

Transf., that does not often happen, that is seldom used, rare, unusual:

cum Appius senatum infrequentem coëgisset,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12:

eae copiae ipsae hoc infrequentiores imponuntur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 2:

interdictum,

Dig. 43, 31, 1:

usus,

Gell. 9, 12, 19:

vocabulum,

id. 2, 22, 2:

infrequentissima urbis,

the parts least inhabited, Liv. 31, 23, 4:

causa,

which is attended by few hearers, Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 320.—

Usually with abl. or gen., not filled with, not well provided with, not acquainted with any thing:

altera pars (urbis) infrequens aedificiis,

Liv. 37, 32:

signa infrequentia armatis,

to which but few soldiers belong, id. 10, 20.—Also absol.:

infrequentia signa,

Liv. 7, 8:

rei militaris te reddidisti infrequentem,

inexperienced, Auct. Her. 4, 27, 37; with little knowledge of, unskilled in:

vocum Latinarum,

Gell. 13, 24, 4.— Hence, adv.: infrĕquenter, rarely (late Lat.), Ambros. Ep. 35.

mĕdĭō̆cris, e (ō usually; rarely ŏ), adj. [medius], in a middle state between too much and too little, middling, moderate, tolerable, ordinary; sometimes also, not remarkable, indifferent, mediocre.

In gen. (class.).

Lit., of size, quantity, degree, etc., in material things:

castellum,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

spatium,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

agmen,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

intervallum,

id. B. Alex. 30.—

Of mind, character, ability, acts, achievements, etc.:

C. L. Memmii fuerunt oratores mediocres,

Cic. Brut. 36, 136:

L. Cotta in mediocrium oratorum numero,

id. ib. 36, 137:

non mediocres viri, sed maximi et docti,

id. Rep. 3, 11, 19:

homines,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

vir,

Just. 1, 4, 4:

poëta,

Hor. A. P. 372:

in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

amicitia,

id. Lael. 6, 10:

malum,

id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22:

artes,

id. de Or. 1, 2, 6:

eloquentia,

id. ib. 1, 29, 133:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 27, 119:

excusare... mediocris est animi,

narrow, small, Caes. B. C. 3, 20:

ut mediocris jacturae te mergat onus,

Juv. 13, 7.—

Esp.

Per litoten, with non (haud, nec), not insignificant, not common or trivial:

Jugurthae non mediocrem animum pollicitando accendebant,

i. e. ardent, ambitious, Sall. J. 8, 1:

non mediocris hominis haec sunt officia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9:

haud mediocris hic, ut ego quidem intellego, vir fuit,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55: nec mediocre [p. 1124] telum ad res gerendas, id. Lael. 17, 61:

non mediocrem sibi diligentiam adhibendam intellegebat,

uncommon, extraordinary, Caes. B. G. 3, 20:

praemium non mediocre,

Suet. Vesp. 18:

non mediocris dissensio,

Quint. 9, 1, 10 et saep.—

With syllaba, common = anceps:

syllabarum longarum et brevium et mediocrium junctura,

Gell. 16, 18, 5.—Hence, adv.: mĕdĭō̆crĭter.

Moderately, tolerably, ordinarily, not particularly, not very, not remarkably, not much (class.):

ordo annalium mediocriter nos retinet,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5:

corpus mediocriter aegrum,

id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22.—

By litotes, with haud, ne, non (cf.:

supra, mediocris, II. A.): flagitium, et damnum haud mediocriter,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 13:

non mediocriter,

in no moderate degree, Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

reprehensus est non mediocriter,

i. e. greatly, exceedingly, very much, Quint. 11, 1, 17; so id. 8, 2, 2; 9; 11, 1, 57 al.—

Very little:

ne mediocriter quidem disertus,

not in the least, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 91.—

With moderation, calmly, tranquilly = modice (rare, and perh. only in Cic.):

quod mihi non mediocriter ferendum videtur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 95.— Comp.:

hoc vellem mediocrius,

Cic. Att. 1, 20, 5.

nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].

nĭhil, nothing:

nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—

Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

nil agis,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—

Of persons:

victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—

Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—

Nihil non, everything:

nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

nihil non arroget armis,

Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—

Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

haud nihil,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

haud nihil ambigam,

I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—

Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

Liv. 41, 20, 7:

si nihil aliud,

if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—

With gen.:

nihil mali,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

nihil novi,

id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

nihil humanarum rerum,

id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—

Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 16:

qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 19, 6:

si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

id. 30, 35, 8:

illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

Liv. 2, 29, 4:

is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

id. 2, 32, 8:

nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

id. 2, 49, 9 al. —

Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

Liv. 3, 54:

nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

id. Clu. 26, 70.—

Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

Juv. 3, 84.—

Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

nihil ad Persium,

Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

id. Deiot. 8, 24.—

Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

id. Font. 11, 23.—

Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—

Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—

Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

aliquem nihil putare,

to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—

Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

Cat. 68, 131.—

Adverb.

Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

me nihil poenitet,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

conjecturā nihil opus est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

Thebani nihil moti sunt,

Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

nihil miror,

Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—

To no purpose, in vain:

herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—

For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —

nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

id. Fat. 9, 18:

interire in nihilum,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

venire ad nihilum,

id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

ad nihilum recidere,

id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

aliquid pro nihilo putare,

id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—

Nihili, of no value, worthless:

quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

homo nihili factus,

unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—

De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—

Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

nihilo minus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

nihilo benevolentior,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

nihilo major,

id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

nihilo tamen setius,

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

nihil segnius,

Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.

In gen.:

minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—

With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—

Strengthened by tamen:

nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—

Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—

Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

nihilum metuenda timere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —

nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

nil sanguinis,

no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

nil sui,

nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—

Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

nil opus est verbis,

Lucr. 5, 263:

ut nil umor abundet,

id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—

nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

ad nilum revorti,

Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

id. 1, 205; 266.

nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].

nĭhil, nothing:

nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—

Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

nil agis,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—

Of persons:

victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—

Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—

Nihil non, everything:

nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

nihil non arroget armis,

Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—

Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

haud nihil,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

haud nihil ambigam,

I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—

Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

Liv. 41, 20, 7:

si nihil aliud,

if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—

With gen.:

nihil mali,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

nihil novi,

id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

nihil humanarum rerum,

id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—

Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 16:

qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 19, 6:

si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

id. 30, 35, 8:

illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

Liv. 2, 29, 4:

is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

id. 2, 32, 8:

nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

id. 2, 49, 9 al. —

Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

Liv. 3, 54:

nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

id. Clu. 26, 70.—

Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

Juv. 3, 84.—

Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

nihil ad Persium,

Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

id. Deiot. 8, 24.—

Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

id. Font. 11, 23.—

Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—

Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—

Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

aliquem nihil putare,

to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—

Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

Cat. 68, 131.—

Adverb.

Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

me nihil poenitet,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

conjecturā nihil opus est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

Thebani nihil moti sunt,

Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

nihil miror,

Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—

To no purpose, in vain:

herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—

For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —

nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

id. Fat. 9, 18:

interire in nihilum,

id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

venire ad nihilum,

id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

ad nihilum recidere,

id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

aliquid pro nihilo putare,

id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—

Nihili, of no value, worthless:

quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

homo nihili factus,

unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—

De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—

Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

nihilo minus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

nihilo benevolentior,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

nihilo major,

id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

nihilo tamen setius,

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

nihil segnius,

Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.

In gen.:

minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—

With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—

Strengthened by tamen:

nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—

Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—

Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

nihilum metuenda timere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —

nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

nil sanguinis,

no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

nil sui,

nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—

Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

nil opus est verbis,

Lucr. 5, 263:

ut nil umor abundet,

id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—

nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

ad nilum revorti,

Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

id. 1, 205; 266.

nundĭnus, a, um, adj. [novem-dies], of or belonging to nine days; hence, subst.

Nundĭna, ae, f. (sc. dea), the goddess who presided over the purification and naming of infants, which took place in the case of boys on the ninth and in that of girls on the eighth day after birth, Macr. S. 1, 16, 36.—

nundĭnae, ārum (sing. collat. form nundĭna, ae, Sid. Ep. 7, 5), f., the ninth day, i. e. the market-day, the weekly market; denoting the time, the place, and the business (on market-days the country people came into the city for the purpose of buying and selling, and of attending to public and religious affairs): nundinas feriatum diem esse voluerunt antiqui, ut rustici convenirent mercandi vendendique causā: eumque nefastum, ne, si liceret cum populo agi, interpellarentur nundinatores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf.:

Rutilius scribit, Romanos instituisse nundinas, ut octo quidem diebus in agris rustici opus facerent, nono autem die, intermisso rure, ad mercatum Legesque accipiendas Romam venirent,

Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34:

annum ita diviserunt, ut nonis modo diebus urbanas res usurparent, reliquis VII. ut rura colerent,

Varr. R. R. 2 praef. § 1: erat in eo ipso loco nundinarum panêguris, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 1:

illi Capuam nundinas rusticorum, horreum Campani agri esse voluerunt,

id. Agr. 2, 33, 89; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28; 18, 3, 3, § 13:

farris pretium in trinis nundinis ad assem redegit,

id. 18, 3, 4, § 15.—

Trop., trade, traffic, sale:

totius rei publicae nundinae,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11; cf.:

vectigalium flagitiosissimae nundinae,

id. ib. 2, 14, 35.—

nundĭnum, i, n., the markettime, for the most part only in the connection inter nundinum, the time between two nundinae, and trinum nundinum, the time of three nundinae, or at least seventeen days (reckoned from the first market-day to the third, inclusive; it was necessary that this period should expire before a bill could be put to the vote. Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34): si nihil gustat inter nundinum, Lucil. ap. Non. 214, 28:

quoties priscus homo ac rusticus Romanus inter nundinum barbam radebat,

Varr. ib. 214, 30; 32:

postquam comitia decemviris creandis in trinum nundinum indicta sunt,

on the third market-day, Liv. 3, 35:

rogatio sive non trino forte nundino promulgata sive non idoneo die,

Quint. 2, 4, 35:

quod in ceteris legibus trinum nundinum esse oportet,

Cic. Dom. 16, 41:

primo nundino,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—

The duration of the consulship, under the emperors ( = two months), Vop. Tac. 9; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.

nundĭnus, a, um, adj. [novem-dies], of or belonging to nine days; hence, subst.

Nundĭna, ae, f. (sc. dea), the goddess who presided over the purification and naming of infants, which took place in the case of boys on the ninth and in that of girls on the eighth day after birth, Macr. S. 1, 16, 36.—

nundĭnae, ārum (sing. collat. form nundĭna, ae, Sid. Ep. 7, 5), f., the ninth day, i. e. the market-day, the weekly market; denoting the time, the place, and the business (on market-days the country people came into the city for the purpose of buying and selling, and of attending to public and religious affairs): nundinas feriatum diem esse voluerunt antiqui, ut rustici convenirent mercandi vendendique causā: eumque nefastum, ne, si liceret cum populo agi, interpellarentur nundinatores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf.:

Rutilius scribit, Romanos instituisse nundinas, ut octo quidem diebus in agris rustici opus facerent, nono autem die, intermisso rure, ad mercatum Legesque accipiendas Romam venirent,

Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34:

annum ita diviserunt, ut nonis modo diebus urbanas res usurparent, reliquis VII. ut rura colerent,

Varr. R. R. 2 praef. § 1: erat in eo ipso loco nundinarum panêguris, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 1:

illi Capuam nundinas rusticorum, horreum Campani agri esse voluerunt,

id. Agr. 2, 33, 89; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28; 18, 3, 3, § 13:

farris pretium in trinis nundinis ad assem redegit,

id. 18, 3, 4, § 15.—

Trop., trade, traffic, sale:

totius rei publicae nundinae,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11; cf.:

vectigalium flagitiosissimae nundinae,

id. ib. 2, 14, 35.—

nundĭnum, i, n., the markettime, for the most part only in the connection inter nundinum, the time between two nundinae, and trinum nundinum, the time of three nundinae, or at least seventeen days (reckoned from the first market-day to the third, inclusive; it was necessary that this period should expire before a bill could be put to the vote. Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34): si nihil gustat inter nundinum, Lucil. ap. Non. 214, 28:

quoties priscus homo ac rusticus Romanus inter nundinum barbam radebat,

Varr. ib. 214, 30; 32:

postquam comitia decemviris creandis in trinum nundinum indicta sunt,

on the third market-day, Liv. 3, 35:

rogatio sive non trino forte nundino promulgata sive non idoneo die,

Quint. 2, 4, 35:

quod in ceteris legibus trinum nundinum esse oportet,

Cic. Dom. 16, 41:

primo nundino,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—

The duration of the consulship, under the emperors ( = two months), Vop. Tac. 9; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.

pendo, pĕpendi, pensum, 3 (pendissent, for pependissent, Liv. 45, 26 fin.:

penderit for pependerit,

Paul. Nol. Carm. 14, 122), v. a. and n. [etym. dub.; cf. root sphad-, sphendonê, a sling; Lat. funda].— Lit., to cause to hang down, to suspend; esp. of scales in weighing.

Act., to weigh, weigh out.

Lit. (very rare: syn. penso, expendo): unumquodque verbum staterā aurariā pendere, Varr. ap. Non. 455, 21: da pensam lanam, Titin. ap. Non. 369, 21; Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 39, read repensum: aere gravi cum uterentur Romani, penso eo, non numerato debitum solvebant, Fest. s. v. pendere, p. 208 Müll.:

pensas examinat herbas,

Ov. M. 14, 270.—

Transf., to pay, pay out (because, in the earliest times, payments were made by weighing out the metals; v. in the preced. the passage from Fest.;

class.): militis stipendia ideo, quod eam stipem pendebant,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 182 Müll.:

Achaei ingentem pecuniam pendunt L. Pisoni quotannis,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 3, 5; id. Att. 12, 25, 1:

vectigal populo Romano,

Caes. B. G. 5, 23:

vectigal,

Liv. 25, 8:

tributum pro navibus,

Tac. A. 13, 51:

pretium,

id. ib. 2, 87:

coria boum in usus militares,

id. ib. 4, 72:

mercedem alicui,

Juv. 3, 15.— Absol.:

pro pabulo pendunt,

pay, Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65.— Impers. pass.:

iterumque imperii nostri publicanis penditur,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65.—As punishments consisted of fines in money or cattle: pendere poenas, supplicia, etc., signified to pay, suffer, undergo a penalty:

pendere poenas solvere significat,

Fest. p. 268 Müll.:

Syrus mihi tergo poenas pendet,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 6:

maximas poenas pendo temeritatis meae,

Cic. Att. 11, 8, 1:

satis pro temeritate unius hominis suppliciorum pensum esse,

Liv. 34, 61:

capitis poenas,

Ov. F. 3, 845:

poenas violatae religionis sanguine et caedibus,

Just. 8, 2, 4:

magna supplicia perfidiae,

id. 11, 4, 2:

crimen, culpam,

Val. Fl. 4, 477.—Rarely in this signif. absol., to suffer any thing ( poet.):

tuis nam pendit in arvis Delius,

Val. Fl. 1, 445.—

Trop.

To weigh mentally, to ponder, consider, deliberate upon, decide (class.;

syn.: pensito, trutinor): vos eam (rem) suo, non nominis pondere penditote,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1:

in philosophiā res spectatur, non verba penduntur,

id. Or. 16, 51:

causam ex veritate,

id. Quint. 1, 5:

rem levi conjecturā,

id. Rosc. Am. 22, 62.—

To value, esteem, regard a thing; with gen. of the value (mostly ante-class. and poet.):

neque cum me magni pendere visum'st,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 12:

aliquem,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 25:

quem tu vidisse beatus Non magni pendis,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 93:

nec jam religio divum neque numina magni Pendebantur,

Lucr. 6, 1277:

unice unum plurimi pendit,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:

te volturium vocant: Hostisne an civis comedis, parvi pendere,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 64 sq.:

nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam,

lightly esteem, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 29; so,

parvi,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 46; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 37; id. Hec. 3, 5, 63:

minoris pendo tergum illorum, quam meum,

care less for, Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 29:

aliquem minoris,

id. ib. 1, 3, 58:

aliquem nihili,

id. ib. 1, 3, 88:

nihili,

id. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Trin. 3, 1, 6; Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 6; cf.:

non flocci pendere,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 21:

sese experturum, quanti sese penderem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 44:

tu illum numquam ostendisti quanti penderes,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 103.—

(Acc. to A. 2.) To pay, render ( poet.):

dignas pendere grates,

Stat. Th. 11, 223.—

Neutr., to weigh ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

tantundem pendere par est,

Lucr. 1, 361:

talentum ne minus pondo octoginta Romanis ponderibus pendat,

Liv. 38, 38, 13; Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 44; id. 30, 48 fin., § 93; id. 18, 7, 12, § 66; id. 31, 6, 31, § 58 (in Sen. Ep. 66, 30, read pendent).—Hence, pensus, a, um, P. a., lit. weighed; hence, trop., esteemed, valued, prized, dear (as P. a. not in Cic. or Cæs.):

utra condicio pensior, Virginemne an viduam habere?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut nihil quicquam esset carius pensiusque nobis quam nosmetipsi, Taurus ap. Gell. 12, 5, 7.—Esp., as subst.: pensum, i, n., something weighed.

Weight, consideration, scruple, importance, only in gen. sing.: nihil pensi habere aliquid, to lay no weight or stress upon a thing, to attach no value to, be indifferent to, care nothing about:

sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere,... nihil pensi neque moderati habere,

Sall. C. 12, 2:

nihil pensi neque sancti habere,

id. J. 41, 9:

neque id quibus modis assequeretur, quicquam pensi habebat,

id. C. 5, 6:

prorsus neque dicere, neque facere quicquam pensi habebat,

id. ib. 23, 2:

nihil pensi habuit, quin, etc.,

Suet. Dom. 12; id. Ner. 34:

ut neque fas neque fidem pensi haberet,

Tac. A. 13, 15: aliquid ratum pensumque habere, Att. Capitol. ap. Gell. 13, 12, 2. —So, non pensi ducere (very rare), Val. Max. 2, 9, 3.—Also, non adest or est alicui pensi: nec mihi adest tantillum pensi jam, quos capiam calceos, I don't care in the least, am perfectly indifferent, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 52:

sed illis nec quid dicerent, nec quid facerent, quicquam umquam pensi fuisse,

they never cared at all, Liv. 34, 49:

quibus si quicquam pensi umquam fuisset, non ea consilia de republicā habuissent,

if they had ever had regard for any considerations, Sall. C. 52, 34. —

Prop., the wool weighed out to a slave to spin in a day; hence, a day's work in spinning, and, in gen., spinning, a spinner's task.

Lit. (mostly ante-class. and poet.):

pensum facere,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 63; id. Men. 5, 2, 45:

nocturna carpentes pensa puellae,

Verg. G. 1, 391:

carmine quo captae dum fusis mollia pensa Devolvunt, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 348:

famulasque ad lumina longo Exercet penso,

id. A. 8, 412; Prop. 3, 15, (4, 14), 15:

castrensia,

i. e. for military garments, id. 4 (5), 3, 33:

pensa manu ducunt,

Juv. 12, 65:

lanificam revocas ad sua pensa manum,

Ov. Am. 1, 13, 24; id. H. 3, 75; Just. 1, 3, 2.— Poet., a thread spun by the Fates:

durae peragunt pensa sorores,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 181:

jamque in fine dies et inexorabile pensum Deficit,

Stat. S. 3, 3, 172: mortale resolvere, to unbind his mortal thread, i. e. to make him immortal, Calp. Ecl. 4, 137.—

Trop., a charge, duty, office (so in Cic.; cf.:

ministerium, munus, officium): pensum meum lepide accurabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33; cf.:

meum confeci,

id. Pers. 2, 4, 1:

absolvere,

to perform one's duty, Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

me ad meum munus pensumque revocabo,

Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119; id. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 109:

nominis familiaeque,

Liv. 4, 52:

operis sui peragere,

Col. 3, 10, 7.—Hence, adv.: pensē, carefully, considerately (post-class.): pensius, Flav. ap. Symm. Ep. 2, 34.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

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

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

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

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

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

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

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

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

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

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

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

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

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

quam minimum credula postero,

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

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

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

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

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

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

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

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

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

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

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

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

id. Or. 6, 21:

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

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

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

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

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

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

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

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

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

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

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

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

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

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

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

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

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

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

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

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

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

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

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

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

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

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

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

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

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

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

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

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

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

in postremo libro,

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

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

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

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

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

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

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

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

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

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

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

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

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

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

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

postremum genus,

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

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

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

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

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

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

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

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

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

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

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

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

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

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

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

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

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

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

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

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

quĭdem, adv.

Indeed:

sibi quidem persuaderi, eum, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40:

tantum doleo, ac mirifice quidem,

Cic. Att. 2, 19, 1:

in his locis post solstitium Canicula oritur, et quidem aliquot diebus,

id. Div. 2, 44, 93.—

Esp.

In a confirmation or extension of what precedes, too, also:

et poscit quidem,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 45:

pergam, quo coepi hoc iter, Et quidem ego,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 120:

quod quidem perillustre fuit,

Nep. Att. 12, 3.—

In a qualification or opposing thought, but, however, yet:

utebatur hominibus improbis multis, et quidem optimis se viris deditum esse simulabat,

Cic. Cael. 5, 12:

re quidem verā,

but in fact, Nep. Con. 2, 2; id. Hann. 2, 6.—

In the phrases,

Ne... quidem, not even:

ne obsidibus quidem datis pacem redimere potuisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 37 (v. ne).—

Nec (neque)... quidem, and not indeed, and that not (very rare, and never ac or et ne quidem; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. Exc. 111, p. 809 sqq.; Rib. Lat. Part. p. 46 sqq.): his litteris animum tuum confirmandum puto;

nec iis quidem verbis, quibus... sed ut, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 2:

nec ejus quidem rei finem video,

id. ib. 12, 1, 1:

nec nunc quidem viris desidero adulescentis,

id. Sen. 9, 27; Quint. 9, 3, 55. —

At least, certainly, in truth, forsooth:

unum quidem hercle certum promitto tibi,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 26:

non video causam, cur ita sit, hoc quidem tempore,

Cic. Att. 9, 2, 2:

ex me quidem nihil audire potuisses,

id. N. D. 1, 21, 57:

nunc quidem profecto Romae es,

id. Att. 6, 5, 1:

volui id quidem efficere certe,

id. Brut. 3, 13:

quidem certe,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 261; Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 4 al.— In expressing the utmost indignation, indeed, truly:

nam istaec quidem contumelia est,

for that is an affront indeed, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 5; Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 82.—

In introducing an example, for instance, for example:

Dicaearchus quidem et Aristoxenus nullum omnino animum esse dixerunt,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51; 1, 33, 80; Nep. Att. 11, 4; 14, 1