atta

atta, like the Gr. atta, a salutation used to old men, father; taken from the lang. of children (cf. Eust. ad Il. 1, 603), Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll.

Atta, ae, m., a surname for persons who walk upon the tips of their shoes, Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll. (prob. from aittô = aissô, to spring, to hop). So the comic poet, C. Quintius Atta († 652 A.U.C.), of whose writings fragments yet remain; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 71; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 120; Both. Fragm. Poet. Scen. II. p. 97 sq.;

Fest. l. l. Upon the signif. of the name Horace plays with the words: Recte necne crocum floresque perambulet Attae Fabula, si dubitem, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 79; cf. Weich. Poet. Lat. p. 345 sq.—The ancestor of the Gens Claudia was an Atta, Suet. Tib. 1.

atta, like the Gr. atta, a salutation used to old men, father; taken from the lang. of children (cf. Eust. ad Il. 1, 603), Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll.

Atta, ae, m., a surname for persons who walk upon the tips of their shoes, Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll. (prob. from aittô = aissô, to spring, to hop). So the comic poet, C. Quintius Atta († 652 A.U.C.), of whose writings fragments yet remain; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 71; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 120; Both. Fragm. Poet. Scen. II. p. 97 sq.;

Fest. l. l. Upon the signif. of the name Horace plays with the words: Recte necne crocum floresque perambulet Attae Fabula, si dubitem, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 79; cf. Weich. Poet. Lat. p. 345 sq.—The ancestor of the Gens Claudia was an Atta, Suet. Tib. 1.

ENG leaf-cutting ants

NLD parasolmieren

GER Blattschneiderameisen

FRA les atta

ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

abs chorago,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

ab eo magistratu,

after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

a pueritia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

a pueris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

a parvis,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

a parvulo,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

ab parvulis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

quid hoc ab illo differt,

from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

subdole ab re consulit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

si postulatur a populo,

if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

and in prose,

Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

Turnus ab Aricia,

Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

el metul a Chryside,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

locus copiosus a frumento,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

ab honore,

id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

a longe,

Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

auspĭcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [from auspex, as auguror from augur], to take the auspices.

Lit.

In gen.:

(Gracchus) cum pomerium transiret, auspicari esset oblitus,

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

tripudio auspicari,

id. Div. 1, 35, 77; 2, 36, 77:

Fabio auspicanti aves non addixere,

Liv. 27, 16, 15; 4, 6, 3; 6, 41, 5 sq. al.—

Esp., aliquid or absol., also with inf., to make a beginning, for the sake of a good omen, to begin, enter upon (first freq. after the Aug. per.):

ipsis Kal. Januariis auspicandi causā omne genus operis instaurant,

Col. 11, 2, 98:

auspicandi gratiā tribunal ingredi,

Tac. A. 4, 36:

non auspicandi causā, sed studendi,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 8:

auspicatus est et jurisdictionem,

Suet. Ner. 7:

auspicabar in Virginem (aquam) desilire,

Sen. Ep. 83, 5.—

In gen., to begin, enter upon a thing:

auspicari culturarum officia,

Col. 11, 2, 3; 3, 1, 1:

homo a suppliciis vitam auspicatur,

Plin. 7, prooem. §

3: militiam,

Suet. Aug. 38:

cantare,

id. Ner. 22.— Trop.:

senatorium per militiam auspicantes gradum,

attaining, receiving it through military services, Sen. Ep. 47, 10.

Act. access. form auspĭco, āre, to take the auspices:

praetor advenit, auspicat auspicium prosperum,

Naev. 4, 2 (Non. p 468, 28):

(magistratus) publicae [rei] cum auspicant, Caecil. ap. Non. l. l. (Com. Rel. p. 66 Rib.): auspicetis: cras est communis dies, Atta, ib. (Com. Rel. p. 161 Rib.): Non hodie isti rei auspicavi,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 12:

mustelam,

to receive, accept as an augury, id. Stich. 3, 2, 46:

super aliquā re,

Gell. 3, 2. —

Abl. absol.: auspĭcātō, after taking the auspices:

Romulus non solum auspicato urbem condidisse, sed ipse etiam optimus augur fuisse traditur,

Cic. Div. 1, 2, 3:

Nihil fere quondam majoris rei nisi auspicato ne privatim quidem gerebatur,

id. ib. 1, 16, 28:

qui et consul rogari et augur et auspicato,

id. N. D. 2, 4, 11; id. Div. 2, 36, 72; 2, 36, 77:

plebeius magistratus nullus auspicato creatur,

Liv. 6, 41, 5 sq.; 5, 38; 1, 36;

28, 28: Hunc (senatum) auspicato a parente et conditore urbis nostrae institutum,

Tac. H. 1, 84; 3, 72 al.—

auspĭcātus, a, um, part., consecrated by auguries:

auspicato in loco,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4:

non auspicatos contudit impetus Nostros,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 10:

auspicata comitia,

Liv. 26, 2, 2 al. —

Acc. to auspicor, II., begun:

in bello male auspicato,

Just. 4, 5. —

auspĭcātus, a, um, as P. a., fortunate, favorable, lucky, prosperous, auspicious:

cum Liviam auspicatis rei publicae ominibus duxisset uxorem,

Vell. 2, 79, 2.— Comp.:

Venus auspicatior,

Cat. 45, 26:

arbor,

Plin. 13, 22, 38, § 118.— Sup.:

auspicatissimum exordium,

Quint. 10, 1, 85; Plin. Ep. 10, 28, 2:

initium,

Tac. G. 11.— Adv.: auspĭcātō, under a good omen, auspiciously:

ut ingrediare auspicato,

at a for tunate moment, in a lucky hour, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 57:

Haud auspicato huc me appuli,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 12:

qui auspicato a Chelidone surrexisset,

Cic. Verr. 1, 40, 144.— Comp. auspicatius:

auspicatius mutare nomen,

Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105:

gigni,

id. 7, 9, 7, § 47.

crās, adv. [root ka-, ku-, to lighten, burn; Gr. kaiô; cf. Sanscr. cvas, the same], to-morrow, aurion (freq. and class.).

With tempp. fut.:

rus cras cum filio Cum primo luci ibo hinc,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 54:

scies fortasse cras, summum perendie,

Cic. Att. 12, 44, 3:

cras donaberis haedo,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 3:

Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit,

Ov. R. Am. 94 et saep.—With ellipsis of verb:

negat Eros hodie: cras mane putat (sc. venturum esse),

early to-morrow morning, Cic. Att. 10, 30, 2.—

With temp. pres.:

sat habeo, si cras fero,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 121; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 46:

cras est mihi Judicium,

id. Eun. 2, 3, 46; Atta ap. Non. p. 468, 24:. cras nato Caesare festus dat veniam somnumque dies, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 9 al.—As the title of a writing of Varro: Cras credo, hodie nihil, of which there are some fragments ap. Non. p. 112, 9 al.—

Subst.:

cras istud quando venit?

Mart. 5, 58, 2 sqq.; so,

hesternum,

Pers. 5, 68.—

= in diem crastinum, on or for the morrow:

cras te non vocavi,

Mart. 2, 37, 11.—

Poet., in gen., the future, hereafter:

quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 13:

credula vitam Spes fovet et melius cras fore semper ait,

Tib. 2, 6, 20; Ov. M. 15, 216 al.

crīnis, is, m. ( fem., Atta ap. Non. p. 202, 29; acc. to the latter also Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; and so in Ritschl) [kindr. with crista; cf. korus, koruphê], the hair.

Prop. (class.;

esp. freq. in the poets),

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 76; Caes. B. G. 1, 51; id. B. C. 3, 9; Liv. 1, 13, 1; 3, 7, 8 et saep.; Verg. A. 1, 480; Cat. 64, 391; Hor. C. 2, 5, 24; 2, 19, 20 et saep.: capere crines, i. e. to marry (since the matrons distinguished themselves from maidens by their hair-dress), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; cf. id. Mil. 3, 1, 195; and Fest. p. 339, 23 Müll.—Collectively, in sing., = crines, Hor. C. 1, 32, 12; 2, 12, 23 sq.—

Rarely a hair:

uxor rufa crinibus septem,

Mart. 12, 32, 4.—

Meton., of objects resembling hair; so,

The tail of a comet, Verg. A. 5, 528; Ov. M. 15, 849; Plin. 2, 25, 22, §§ 89 and 90 al. (cf. crinitus, under crinio, II. B.); the rays of stars, Val. Fl. 2, 42; of the fire, id. 1, 205.—

The feelers of polypi:

conchas (polypi) conplexu crinium frangunt,

Plin. 9, 29, 46, § 86; of the cuttle-fish, Apic. 2, 1.—

The fibres of wood:

crines ramentorum,

Plin. 16, 42, 82, § 225.

mensis, is ( gen. plur. regularly mensium;

freq. mensum,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 78; Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 22; id. Verr 2, 74, 182 al.; Caes. B. G. 1, 5, 3; Ov. M. 8, 500; id. F. 5, 187; 424; Liv. 3, 24, 4; 3, 25, 4; Plin. 7, 11, 9, § 49 et saep.; v. Neue, Formenl. 1. p. 265 sq.), m. [root ma-, measure; Sanscr mas; Gr. mên, the measure of time; cf. Goth. mena; Germ. Mond; Engl. moon, month], a month.

Lit.:

mensium nomina,

Varr. L. L. 6, 4, § 33 Müll.; Censor 22: hunc mensem vortentem servare, the return of this month, i. e. a full year, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 76:

septem menses sunt. quom in hasce aedis pedem nemo mtro tulit, id Most. 2, 2, 39: lunae cursus qui, quia mensa spatia conficiunt, menses nominantur,

Cic. N D 2, 27, 69: annūm novūm voluerunt esse primum mensem Martium, Atta ap Serv. Verg. G. 1, 43:

primo mense,

at the beginning of the month, Verg. A. 6, 453:

regnavit is quidem paucos menses,

Cic. Lael. 12, 41; Hor C. 2, 9, 6.—

Esp., plur., the months, i. e. the fixed time, the period:

mensis jam tibi actos vides,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2.—

Transf., esp. in plur., the menses:

prodest mulierum mensibus retardatis,

Plin. 21, 21, 89, § 156; 22, 22, 40, § 83; 22, 25, 71, § 147; 23, 7, 71, § 138 et saep.—In sing.:

a muliere incitati mensis,

Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 267; 28, 7, 23, § 77.— Transf., of female animals, the yearly flux, Varr. R. R. 2, 7 med.

pār, păris (collat. form of the nom. fem. paris, Atta ap. Prisc. p. 764 P.— Abl. pari and pare, acc. to Charis. p. 14 P.; Prisc. p. 763 ib.; the latter poet. — Gen. plur. usu. parĭum; parum, acc. to Plin. ap. Charis. p. 110 P.), adj. [cf. Sanscr. para, another, and prae], equal (cf.: aequus, similis).

Lit.:

par est, quod in omnes aequabile est,

Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 67:

par et aequalis ratio,

id. Or. 36, 123:

aequo et pari jure cum civibus vivere,

id. Off. 1, 34, 124:

vita beata... par et similis deorum,

id. N. D. 2, 61, 153:

est finitimus oratori poëta ac paene par,

id. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

pari atque eādem in laude aliquem ponere,

id. Mur. 9, 21:

intelleges de hoc judicium meum et horum par et unum fuisse,

id. Sull. 2, 5:

pares in amore atque aequales,

id. Lael. 9, 32:

libertate esse parem ceteris,

id. Phil. 1, 14, 34: verbum Latinum (voluptas) par Graeco (hêdonê) et idem valens, id. Fin. 2, 4, 12:

pares ejusdem generis munitiones,

of equal size, Caes. B. G. 7, 74:

similia omnia magis visa hominibus, quam paria,

Liv. 45, 43:

pares similesque (affectus),

Sen. Ira, 1, 19 et saep.:

quod in re pari valet, valeat in hac, quae par est... valeat aequitas, quae paribus in causis paria jura desiderat,

Cic. Top. 4, 23:

si ingenia omnia paria esse non possunt: jura certe paria debent esse eorum inter se, qui sunt cives in eādem re publicā,

id. Rep. 1, 32, 49:

necesse est eam esse naturam, ut omnia omnibus paribus paria respondeant,

id. N. D. 1, 19, 50; id. Fam. 5, 2, 3:

equites Ariovisti pari intervallo constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43:

hi (equites), dum pari certamine res geri potuit, etc.,

i. e. horsemen against horsemen, id. B. C. 1, 51.— Poet., with a respective gen. or inf.:

aetatis mentisque pares,

Sil. 4, 370:

et cantare pares et respondere parati,

Verg. E. 7, 5.—

The thing with which the comparison is made is most freq. added in the dat.:

quem ego parem summis Peripateticis judico,

Cic. Div. 1, 3, 5:

in his omnibus par iis, quos antea commemoravi,

id. Clu. 38, 107:

omni illi et virtute et laude par,

id. Planc. 11, 27:

isti par in belligerando,

id. Font. 12, 26:

par anseribus,

as large as, Juv. 5, 114:

prodigio par,

i. e. extremely rare, id. 4, 97.—In sup.:

QVOIVS FORMA VIRTVTEI PARISVMA FVIT, Epit. of the Scipios,

Inscr. Orell. 550:

parissumi estis hibus,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 20.—Adverb. (colloq. and very rare):

feceris par tuis ceteris factis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 3.—

With gen. (with this case par is treated as a substantive; rare but class.), an equal, counterpart, etc.:

ei erat hospes, par illius, Siculus, etc.,

his counterpart, Plaut. Rud. prol. 49: cujus paucos pares [p. 1300] haec civitas tulit, Cic. Pis. 4, 8:

quem metuis par hujus erat,

Luc. 10, 382:

ubique eum parem sui invenies,

Front. Ep. ad Amic. 1, 6:

vestrae fortitudinis,

Phaedr. 4, 15, 6.—

With abl. (rare):

scalas pares moenium altitudine, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Arus. Mess. p. 253 Lindem.: in quā par facies nobilitate suā,

Ov. F. 6, 804.—

With cum (class.):

non praecipuam, sed parem cum ceteris fortunae condicionem subire,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

ut enim cetera paria Tuberoni cum Varo fuissent, etc.,

id. Lig. 9, 27:

quem tu parem cum liberis tuis regnique participem fecisti,

Sall. J. 14, 9 (cited ap. Arus. Mess. p. 253 Lindem.; but in Cic. Phil. 1, 14, 34, read parem ceteris). —

With inter se (class.):

sunt omnes pares inter se,

Cic. Par. 1, 2, 11; id. de Or. 1, 55, 236.—

With et, atque ( ac) (class.):

cum par habetur honos summis et infimis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 34, 53:

omnia fuisse in Themistocle paria et Coriolano,

id. Brut. 11, 43:

tametsi haudquaquam par gloria sequatur scriptorem et auctorem rerum,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

quos postea in parem juris libertatisque condicionem atque ipsi erant, receperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 28; so with atque, id. ib. 5, 13, 2:

si parem sapientiam hic habet ac formam,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 36:

neque mihi par ratio cum Lucilio est ac tecum fuit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 3:

in quo offensae minimum, gratia par, ac si prope adessemus,

Sall. J. 102, 7.—

The object of comparison is sometimes not expressed:

cui repugno, quoad possum, sed adhuc pares non sumus,

i.e. not equal to the task, able, Cic. Att. 12, 15:

pari proelio,

indecisive, Nep. Them. 3, 3:

pares validaeque miscentur,

Tac. G. 20:

cum paria esse coeperunt,

Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 6:

si periculum par et ardor certaminis eos irritaret,

Liv. 24, 39, 6.—

In partic.

Equal to, a match for any one in any respect:

quibus ne di quidem immortales pares esse possint,

Caes. B. G. 4, 7 fin.: qui pares esse nostro exercitu (dat.) non potuerint, id. ib. 1, 40, 7; cf.:

ille, quod neque se parem armis existimabat, et, etc.,

Sall. J. 20, 5:

non sumus pares,

not on an equality, Juv. 3, 104:

exime hunc mihi scrupulum, cui par esse non possum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 17, 2:

habebo, Q. Fabi, parem, quem das, Hannibalem,

an opponent, adversary, Liv. 28, 44:

inter pares aemulatio,

Tac. A. 2, 47:

ope Palladis Tydiden Superis parem,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 15.—

Equal in station or age, of the same rank, of the same age (syn. aequalis):

ut coëat par Jungaturque pari,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 25:

si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari,

Ov. H. 9, 32; Petr. 25, 5.—Prov.:

pares vetere proverbio cum paribus facillime congregantur,

i. e. birds of a feather flock together, Cic. Sen. 3, 7.—

Par est, it is fit, meet, suitable, proper, right.

With a subject-clause (class.;

syn.: oportet, aequum, justum est): amorin me an rei opsequi potius par sit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 6:

posterius istaec te magis par agere'st,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 21:

canem esse hanc par fuit,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 17:

par est primum ipsum esse virum bonum, tum, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 22, 82:

sic par est agere cum civibus,

id. Off. 2, 23, 83:

dubitans, quid me facere par sit,

id. Att. 9, 9, 2:

quicquid erit, quod me scire par sit,

id. ib. 15, 17, 2:

quibus (ornamentis) fretum ad consulatūs petitionem aggredi par est,

id. Mur. 7, 15; id. Rab. Perd. 11, 31; cf.:

ex quo intellegi par est, eos qui, etc.,

id. Leg. 2, 5, 11. —

Ut par est (erat, etc.;

class.): ita, ut constantibus hominibus par erat,

Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114:

ut par fuit,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 4, § 10. —

With ut:

non par videtur neque sit consentaneum... ut, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 31.—

Par pari respondere, or par pro pari referre, to return like for like, of a'repartee:

par pari respondet,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 47; id. Merc. 3, 4, 44; id. Pers. 2, 2, 11; cf.:

paria paribus respondimus,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 23:

ut sit unde par pari respondeatur,

id. ib. 16, 7, 6:

par pro pari referto, quod eam mordeat,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 55 Fleck., Umpfenb., cited ap. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19 (Bentl. ex conject. par, pari; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 281, ed. 5).—

Paria facere, to equalize or balance a thing with any thing, to settle, pay (post-Aug.):

cum rationibus domini paria facere,

to pay. Col. 1, 8, 13; 11, 1, 24. —

Trop.:

cum aliter beneficium detur, aliter reddatur, paria facere difficile est,

to return like for like, to repay with the same coin, Sen. Ben. 3, 9, 2: denique debet poenas: non est quod cum illo paria faciamus, repay him, id. Ira, 3, 25, 1:

nihil differamus, cotidie cum vitā paria faciamus,

settle our accounts with life, id. Ep. 101, 7; Plin. 2, 86, 88, § 202; so,

parem rationem facere,

Sen. Ep. 19, 10.—

Ludere par impar, to play at even and odd, Hor. S. 2, 3, 248: August. ap. Suet. Aug. 71 fin. —

Ex pari, adverb., in an equal manner, on an equal footing (post-Aug.):

sapiens cum diis ex pari vivit,

Sen. Ep. 59, 14.

Transf., subst.

pār, păris, m., a companion, comrade, mate, spouse:

plebs venit, et adcumbit cum pare quisque suo,

Ov. F. 3, 526:

jungi cum pare suā,

id. ib. 3, 193:

edicere est ausus cum illo suo pari, quem omnibus vitiis superare cupiebat, ut, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 8, 18.—Esp., a table companion, = omoklinos:

atque ibi opulentus tibi par forte obvenerit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 68 Brix ad loc.:

cedo parem quem pepigi,

id. Pers. 5, 1, 15 (v. also I. A. g. supra).—

pār, păris, n., a pair:

gladiatorum par nobilissimum,

Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 17:

ecce tibi geminum in scelere par,

id. Phil. 11, 1, 2:

par nobile fratrum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 243:

par columbarum,

Ov. M. 13, 833:

par mularum,

Gai. Inst. 3, 212:

par oculorum,

Suet. Rhet. 5:

tria aut quatuor paria amicorum,

Cic. Lael. 4, 15:

scyphorum paria complura,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 19, § 47:

paria (gladiatorum) ordinaria et postulaticia,

Sen. Ep. 7, 3: pocula oleaginea paria duo, Lab. Dig. 32, 1, 30.Hence, adv.: părĭter, equally, in an equal degree, in like manner, as well.

In gen.: dispartiantur patris bona pariter, Afran. ap. Non. 375, 1:

ut nostra in amicos benevolentia illorum erga nos benevolentiae pariter aequaliterque respondeat,

Cic. Lael. 16, 56:

laetamur amicorum laetitiā aeque atque nostrā, et pariter dolemus angoribus,

id. Fin. 1, 20, 65:

caritate non pariter omnes egemus,

id. Off. 2, 8, 30:

ut pariter extrema terminentur,

id. Or. 12, 38; Phaedr. 5, 2, 10:

et gustandi et pariter tangendi magna judicia sunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

nulla pro sociā obtinet, pariter omnes viles sunt,

id. ib. 80, 7; Quint. 9, 3, 102:

cuncta pariter Romanis adversa,

Tac. A. 1, 64: tantumdem est;

feriunt pariter,

all the same, nevertheless, Juv. 3, 298.—

With cum:

Siculi mecum pariter moleste ferent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 173:

pariter nobiscum progredi,

Auct. Her. 3, 1, 1; Verg. A. 1, 572.—

With ut, atque ( ac):

is ex se hunc reliquit filium pariter moratum, ut pater avusque hujus fuit,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 21:

pariter hoc fit, atque ut alia facta sunt,

id. Am. 4, 1, 11:

vultu pariter atque animo varius,

Sall. J. 113, 3:

pariter ac si hostis adesset,

id. ib. 46, 6.—

With et... et:

pariterque et ad se tuendum et ad hostem petendum,

Liv. 31, 35:

pariter et habitus et nomina edocebuntur,

Quint. 1, 1, 25; Ov. M. 11, 556.—

With dat. (in late poets, and once in Liv.):

pariter ultimae (gentes) propinquis, imperio parerent,

the remotest as well as the nearest, Liv. 38, 16; Stat. Th. 5, 121; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 166.—

With qualis:

pariter suades, qualis es,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 37. —

In partic.

Like simul, of equality in time or in association, at the same time, together:

nam plura castella Pompeius pariter, distinendae manūs causā, tentaverat,

at the same time, together, Caes. B. C. 3, 52:

pariter decurrere,

Liv. 22, 4, 6:

ut pariter et socii rem inciperent,

id. 3, 22, 6; 10, 5, 7; 26, 48 fin.; cf.:

plura simul invadimus, si aut tam infirma sunt, ut pariter impelli possint, aut, etc.,

Quint. 5, 13, 11; so,

pariter multos invadere,

id. 5, 7, 5:

pariter ire,

id. 1, 1, 14; 1, 12, 4; Tac. H. 4. 56; Plin. 26, 8, 40, § 66.—

With cum (so commonly in Cic.):

conchyliis omnibus contingere, ut cum lunā pariter crescant pariterque decrescant,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; cf. id. de Or. 3, 3, 10:

studia doctrinae pariter cum aetate crescunt,

id. Sen. 14, 50:

pariter cum vitā sensus amittitur,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24:

equites pariter cum occasu solis expeditos educit,

Sall. J. 68, 2; 77, 1; 106, 5:

pariter cum collegā,

Liv. 10, 21, 14; 27, 17, 6.—

With et, atque, que:

inventionem et dispositionem pariter exercent,

Quint. 10, 5, 14; 1, 1, 25:

quibus mens pariter atque oratio insurgat,

id. 12, 2, 28:

seriis jocisque pariter accommodato,

id. 6, 3, 110.—

With dat. ( poet.), Stat. Th. 5, 122:

pariterque favillis Durescit glacies,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 165.—

In order to give greater vivacity to the expression, reduplicated: pariter... pariter, as soon as ( poet. and in post-Aug prose):

hanc pariter vidit, pariter Calydo nius heros Optavit,

Ov. M. 8, 324; Plin. Ep. 8, 23 fin. —

In like manner, likewise, also:

pariterque oppidani agere,

Sall. J. 60, 1:

postquam pariter nymphas incedere vidit,

Ov. M. 2, 445.

vōmer, ĕris (collat. form of the nom. sing. vōmis, Cato, R. R. 135, 2; Verg. G. 1, 162; Col. 2, 2, 26; v. Heins. ad Ov. F, 4, 927; Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 292), m., a ploughshare.

Lit., Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 30; Cic. Phil. 2, 40, 102; Col. 2, 2, 23; Verg. G. 1, 46; Hor. C. 3, 13, 11; id. Epod. 2, 63; id. Ep. 1, 2, 45; Ov. F. 4, 927; id. A. A. 2, 671; Tib. 2, 1, 6.—

Transf.

= membrum virile, Lucr. 4, 1269.—

A style for writing with, Atta ap. Isid. Orig. 6, 9.