attenuate

tĕnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [tenuis], to make thin, slender, meagre, fine, rare; to dilute, rarefy, attenuate, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: rarefacio, minuo).

Lit.:

assiduo vomer tenuatur ab usu,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 43:

hoc (tempus) tenuat dentem aratri,

id. Tr. 4, 6, 13:

sol matutinum aëra spissum et umidum ortu suo tenuat,

Sen. Q. N. 5, 3, 2; so,

aëra,

to rarefy, Stat. Th. 1, 338:

auras,

Ov. M. 14, 399:

ipsā autem macie tenuant armenta volentes,

make lean, Verg. G. 3, 129:

tenuatum corpus,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 84:

corpus parvo victu tenuatum,

Tac. A. 15, 63:

exiles videor tenuatus in artus,

Prop. 2, 22 (3, 15), 21:

se in undas,

to dissolve into water, Ov. A. A. 1, 761; so,

artus in undas,

id. M. 15, 551; cf.:

tenuatus in auras, Aëraque umor abit,

id. ib. 15, 246:

vocis via est tenuata,

narrowed, contracted, id. ib. 14, 498:

flumina per multos rivos,

id. R. Am. 445:

chartam interpolatione,

Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 75:

adipes,

Quint. 2, 10, 6:

luna quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem,

i. e. waning, Ov. M. 7, 531: ne ad [p. 1857] spadonum exilitatem vox nostra tenuetur, Quint. 11, 3, 19; so,

vocem,

id. 11, 3, 32.—

Trop., to make small or trifling, to lessen, diminish, reduce, weaken, enfeeble:

utque meae famam tenuent oblivia culpae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 65:

iram,

id. H. 20, 73:

vires amoris,

id. M. 5, 374:

magna modis tenuare parvis,

to lessen, degrade, Hor. C. 3, 3, 72:

gesta tanti viri enumerando,

Pac. Pan. ad Theod. 5; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 127:

dicite, quo pariter carmen tenuastis in antro,

have spun out a slight elegiac poem, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 5; cf.:

Maximo carmen tenuare tanto,

Stat. S. 4, 7, 2; v. tenuis, II. B.

tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3, v. a. ( perf. tollit, Pers. 4, 2:

tollisse,

Dig. 46, 4, 13) [root Sanscr. tul-, tulajāmi, lift up, weigh; Gr. tal-, tel, in tlênai, talanton; cf.: tuli, tlātus (latus), tolerare], to lift or take up, to raise, always with the predom. idea of motion upwards or of removal from a former situation.

To lift up, raise up, elevate, exalt, etc. (syn.: effero, elevo).

Lit.

In gen.: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli templa, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.): pileum ad caelum tollit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 220, 15:

fulgor ibi ad caelum se tollit,

Lucr. 2, 325;

for which also: aliquem tollere in caelum,

Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

quem (Herculem) in caelum ista ipsa sustulit fortitudo,

id. Tusc. 4, 22, 50; id. Rep. 1, 16, 25:

tollam ego ted in collum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 42:

Phaëthon optavit, ut in currum patris tolleretur: sublatus est,

Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94; cf. id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

aliquem in equum,

id. Deiot. 10, 28:

quos in crucem sustulit,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7:

aliquem in crucem,

id. ib. 2, 1, 5, §

13: aquila in sublime sustulit testudinem,

Phaedr. 2, 6, 4:

in arduos Tollor Sabinos,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 22 et saep.:

ut me hic jacentem aliquis tollat,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 2; so,

jacentes,

id. Most. 1, 4, 17: mulum suum tollebat Fufius, lifted up, raised up, Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

nequeo caput tollere,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45:

sustulimus manus et ego et Balbus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

manus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5:

gradum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: scorpius caudā sublatā, Lucil. ap. Non. 385, 31:

lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga (coluber),

Verg. A. 2, 474:

terrā,

Ov. M. 15, 192:

de terrā,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

se tollere a terrā,

id. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

ignis e speculā sublatus,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 93.—

In partic.

Tollere liberos, to take up, i. e. to accept, acknowledge; and so, to raise up, bring up, educate as one's own (from the custom of laying new-born children on the ground at the father's feet; cf.

suscipio): quod erit natum, tollito,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 3:

puerum,

id. Men. prol. 33; Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 67 Vahl.):

natum filium,

Quint. 4, 2, 42:

nothum,

id. 3, 6, 97:

puellam,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 15; cf. id. And. 1, 3, 14.—Also of the mother:

si quod peperissem, id educarem ac tollerem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 45.—

Transf., in gen., to get, beget a child:

qui ex Fadiā sustulerit liberos,

Cic. Phil. 13, 10, 23:

decessit morbo aquae intercutis, sublato filio Nerone ex Agrippinā,

Suet. Ner. 5 fin. —

Nautical t. t.: tollere ancoras, to lift the anchor, weigh anchor; esp. in part. pass.:

sublatis ancoris,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 1, 31; Liv. 22, 19, 6. —

Transf. out of the nautical sphere, to break up, proceed:

si vultis ancoras tollere,

Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 1.—

To build, raise, erect:

tollam altius tectum,

Cic. Har. Resp. 15, 33:

si juxta habeas aedificia, eaque jure tuo altius tollas,

Dig. 39, 2, 26.—

To take on board, carry, of vessels or vehicles:

navem, metretas quae trecentas tolleret, parasse,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 75:

naves, quae equites sustulerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 28:

altera navis ducentos ex legione tironum sustulerat,

id. B. C. 3, 28;

Auct. B. Afr. 54: tollite me, Teucri,

Verg. A. 3, 601:

ut se sublatum in lembum ad Cotym deveheret,

Liv. 45, 6, 2:

Maecenas me tollere raedā vellet,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 42:

Talem te Bacchus... sustulit in currus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 157. —

Trop.

To raise, lift, lift up, elevate, set up, etc.: tollitur in caelum clamor exortus utrimque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 422 Vahl.):

clamorem in caelum,

Verg. A. 11, 745:

clamores ad sidera,

id. ib. 2, 222; cf.:

clamor magnus se tollit ad auras,

rises, id. ib. 11, 455:

clamor a vigilibus tollitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94:

clamorem,

Flor. 3, 8, 6:

cachinnum,

Cic. Fat. 5, 10:

risum,

Hor. A. P. 381: litterulae meae tui desiderio oblanguerunt: hac tamen epistulā oculos paulum sustulerunt, have opened [p. 1877] their eyes again, have reanimated them, Cic. Fam. 16, 10, 2.—Esp. with animos: ne in secunda tollere animos et in mala demittere, to elevate, Lucil. ap. Non. 286, 6:

animos,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 10; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 57:

animos alicui,

to raise, excite, animate, Liv. 3, 67, 6:

nec dubium est quin omnis Hispania sublatura animos fuerit,

id. 35, 1, 3;

opp. abicere animos,

Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 7:

aliquid dicendo augere et tollere altius (opp. extenuare et abicere),

Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 104:

ad caelum te tollimus verissimis ac justissimis laudibus,

id. Fam. 15, 9, 1:

monumentum illud, quod tu tollere laudibus solebas,

id. Att. 4, 16, 8 (14):

nostras laudes in astra,

id. ib. 2, 25, 1:

Daphnim tuum ad astra,

Verg. E. 5, 51:

tergeminis tollere honoribus,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 8:

vos Tempe tollite laudibus,

id. ib. 1, 21, 9 (cf. also Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1; v. infra, II. A. 2.):

supra modum se tollens oratio,

Quint. 4, 2, 61; cf.:

se eadem geometria tollit ad rationem usque mundi,

id. 1, 10, 46; 1, 2, 26:

amicum Tollere (i. q. consolari),

to cheer up, console, Hor. S. 2, 8, 61.—

To take on one, assume, bear, endure:

providere non solum quid oneris in praesentia tollant,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

at Apollodorus poenas sustulit,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 82. —

To take up a thing from its place, to take away, remove, to bear or carry away, make way with, take away with one (syn.: aufero, adimo).

Lit.

In gen.:

frumentum de areā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 36:

solem e mundo tollere videntur, qui amicitiam e vitā tollunt,

id. Lael. 13, 47:

ut aliquis nos deus ex hac hominum frequentiā tolleret,

id. ib. 23, 87:

simulacra ex delubris,

id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 3; so,

pecunias e fano,

Caes. B. C. 3, 105:

sphaeram ex urbe (Syracusis),

Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21:

praedam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

posita,

id. ib. 6, 17:

patinam,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 80; cf.:

his sublatis,

id. ib. 2, 8, 10:

mensam tolli jubet,

Cic. Pis. 27, 67:

me per hostes Denso paventem sustulit aëre,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 14:

jubet sublata reponi Pocula,

Verg. A. 8, 175:

cuncta,

id. ib. 8, 439:

tecum me tolle per undas,

id. ib. 6, 370:

me quoque tolle simul,

Ov. M. 11, 441:

tollite me, Libyes, comitem poenaeque necisque,

Sil. 6, 500.—

In partic.

Pregn., to take off, carry off, make away with, to kill, destroy, ruin, etc.:

aliquem de medio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

aliquem e medio,

Liv. 24, 6, 1:

aliquem ferro, veneno,

Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

Titanas fulmine (Juppiter),

Hor. C. 3, 4, 44: quem febris una potuit tollere, Lucil. ap. Non. 406, 25:

me truncus illapsus cerebro Sustulerat, nisi, etc.,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 28:

tollet anum vitiato melle cicuta,

id. S. 2, 1, 56:

sorbitio tollit quem dira cicutae,

Pers. 4, 2:

majores nostri Carthaginem et Numantiam funditus sustulerunt,

laid waste, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35:

ademptus Hector Tradidit fessis leviora tolli Pergama Graiis,

Hor. C. 2, 4, 11.—In a play with I. B. supra: te dixisse, laudandum adulescentem (Caesarem), ornandum, tollendum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1; cf.:

se non esse commissurum, ut tolli posset,

id. ib. 11, 20, 1.—

Milit. t. t.: tollere signa, to break up for marching, to decamp, Caes. B. C. 2, 20; Auct. B. Alex. 57, 1.—

Trop., to do away with, remove; to abolish, annul, abrogate, cancel (very freq., esp. in Cic.;

syn.: oblittero, aboleo): rei memoriam tollere ac delere,

Cic. Quint. 21, 70; cf.

metum,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

sublatā benevolentiā amicitiae nomen tollitur,

id. Lael. 5, 19; cf.:

maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex eā tollit verecundiam,

id. ib. 22, 82:

dubitationem,

id. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

errorem,

id. ib. 1, 24, 38:

librariorum menda,

id. Att. 13, 23, 2:

ut id nomen ex omnibus libris tollatur,

id. ib. 13, 44, 3:

legem,

id. Leg. 2, 12, 31:

veteres leges novis legibus,

id. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

dictaturam funditus ex re publicā,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

sublato Areopago,

id. Rep. 1, 27, 43:

deos,

to deny the existence of, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85; id. Ac. 2, 11, 33:

diem,

to consume in speechmaking, id. Leg. 3, 18, 40; id. Dom. 17, 45:

morbus facile tollitur,

is removed, Cels. 2, 14; 4, 18; so,

dolores et tumores,

Plin. 26, 12, 75, § 122:

foeditates cicatricum maculasque,

id. 33, 6, 35, § 110:

muliebrem luctum,

Hor. Epod. 16, 39:

querelas,

id. Ep. 1, 12, 3.—Hence,

sublātus

, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), elated, proud, haughty (rare):

quo proelio sublati Helvetii,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

hac victoriā,

id. ib. 5, 38: quibus omnibus rebus, id. B. C. 2, 37:

rebus secundis,

Verg. A. 10, 502:

gloriā,

Tac. A. 13, 11 et saep.:

fidens magis et sublatior ardet,

Ov. Hal. 54. — Adv.:

sublātē

, highly, loftily. *

Lit.:

Nilus diebus centum sublatius fluens, minuitur postea,

higher, Amm. 22, 15, 12. —

Trop.:

sublate ampleque dicere (opp. attenuate presseque),

loftily, with elevation, Cic. Brut. 55, 201:

sublatius dicere,

more proudly, id. Dom. 36, 95:

sublatius insolescentes,

Amm. 15, 12, 1.