aucŭpor

aucŭpor, ātus, 1, v. dep. and act. [auceps], to go bird-catching or fowling.

Lit.:

Alio loco ut seras ac colas silvam caeduam, alio ubi aucupare,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5; Dig. 41, 1, 3.—Also of taking bees:

spes aucupandi examina,

Col. 3, 8, 8.—

Trop., to chase, give chase to, strive for, be on the look-out for, lie in wait for; watch for, etc. (a favorite figure in prose and poetry; in Cic. perh. twenty times;

syn.: insidior, sequor): Viden scelestus ut aucupatur?

how he gives chase? Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 49:

nos longis navibus tranquillitates aucupaturi eramus,

Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4:

tempus,

id. Rosc Am. 8, 22:

alicujus imbecillitatem,

id. Fl. 37, 92:

ut omni ex genere orationem aucuper, et omnis undique flosculos carpam atque delibem,

id. Sest. 56, 119; id. Verr. 1, 3, 9; id. Or. 2, 7 fin.; 14, 59; 63, 256; 19, 63; id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

L. Cassio omnes ramusculos popularis aurae aucupante,

id. Leg. 3, 16, 35; id. Fam. 5, 12, 6 al.: occasionem, Auct. B. Afr. 3 fin.: obtrectatione alienae scientiae famam sibi, Plin. H. N. praef. § 30;

33, 2, 8, § 32: studium populi ac favorem,

Flor. 3, 13, 1:

reconditas voces,

Suet. Aug. 86:

absentiam alicujus,

Just. 29, 4:

somnos,

Ov. H. 13, 107.

Act. form aucŭpo, āre, to watch for, etc.: fructus verborum aures aucupant, Enn. ap. Non. p. 467, 14:

prospectum aucupo, Pac. ib.: in consilio id reges Argivom aucupant, Att. ib.: id ego aucupavi, Titinn. ib.: Paulisper mane: Aucupemus ex insidiis clanculum quam rem gerant,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 31:

num quis est, Sermonem nostrum qui aucupet,

id. Most. 2, 2, 42; so Sen. Herc. Oet. 483:

ex insidiis aucupa,

Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 12:

qui aucupet me quid agam,

id. Mil. 4, 2, 5:

Lepide, mecastor, aucupavi,

id. Truc. 5, 72.—

Pass. form aucupor:

Multa divulgata ac per rumorem vicissim aucupata discuntur,

Lact. 5, 22.

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capto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. act. [capio].

Prop., to strive to seize, lay hold of a thing with zeal, longing, etc., to catch at, snatch, chase, etc.:

(syn. aucupor, venor): Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 68; so id. ib. 1, 2, 108; Ov. M. 3, 432; 10, 42; cf.:

aquam hianti ore,

Curt. 4, 16, 12; and:

imbrem ore hianti,

id. 4, 7, 14:

laqueo volucres, harundine pisces,

Tib. 2, 6, 23; Verg. G. 1, 139; Hor. Epod. 2, 36; Ov. M. 8, 217; cf.:

(meretrices) occurrebant amatoribus: Eos captabant,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 31:

muscas,

Suet. Dom. 3:

modo cervicem, modo crura,

Ov. M. 9, 37:

collum,

id. ib. 3, 428:

patulis naribus auras,

Verg. G. 1, 376; Ov. M. 7, 557; 4, 72:

plumas ore,

id. ib. 8, 198:

umbras et frigora,

Verg. E. 2, 8; cf. id. ib. 1, 53:

auribus aëra,

to catch the breeze, id. A. 3, 514:

captata Hesperie,

watched, sought for, Ov. M. 11, 768.—

Figuratively.

In gen., to strive after, long for, desire earnestly, try or seek to obtain (syn.: consector, appeto, aucupor;

class.): sermonem,

to watch, listen to, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 8; cf. Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 29:

sonitum aure admota,

Liv. 38, 7, 8;

solitudines,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63:

quid consili,

to adopt, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 91; Ter. And. 1, 1, 143; 2, 4, 1:

assensiones alicujus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51:

plausus,

to covet, id. Pis. 25, 60:

misericordiam,

id. Phil. 2, 34, 86; id. Inv. 1, 55, 106:

voluptatem,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 24 (opp. praeterire):

risus,

to provoke, strive to excite, id. Tusc. 2, 7, 17; Quint. 6, 3, 26; Phaedr. 1, 29, 1:

favorem,

Quint. 6, 1, 25; Suet. Tib. 57: nomen imperatorium, D. Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 4:

incerta pro certis,

Sall. C. 20, 2; cf.:

nubes et inania,

Hor. A. P. 230:

libertatis auram,

Liv. 3, 37, 1; cf.:

auram incertae famae,

Curt. 4, 5, 8:

occasionem,

to watch for, Liv. 38, 44, 3; Suet. Caes. 7:

tempus rei,

Quint. 4, 2, 70; Liv. 4, 36, 3:

tempestates,

id. 5, 6, 4:

brevitatem,

Quint. 10, 1, 32:

elegantiam actoris,

id. 11, 3, 184:

leporem propositionum ac partitionum,

id. 11, 1, 53:

solas sententias multas,

id. 8, 5, 30:

auctoritatem contemptu ceterorum,

id. 12, 3, 12; 9, 2, 98; cf. id. 11, 3, 142:

vox non captata, sed velut oblata,

id. 9, 3, 73. —With inf. as object:

prendique et prendere captans,

Ov. M. 10, 58:

laedere aliquem,

Phaedr. 4, 8, 6:

opprimere,

id. 5, 3, 2:

acquirere voluptates,

Col. 8, 11, 1.—

With a clause as object: cum, an marem editura esset variis captaret (i. e. magno studio quaereret) ominibus,

Suet. Tib. 14.—

In partic.

(Acc. to capio, II. 2.) To seek to catch or take one in a crafty manner, to lie in wait for, seek to entrap, to entice, allure (constr. quem, quod, quem cujus rei, cum quo, inter se, or absol.):

magnum hoc vitium vino'st: Pedes captat primum, luctator dolosu'st,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 6; cf.

captatio: quā viā te captent, eādem ipsos capi?

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16:

tu si me impudicitiae captas, capere non potes,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189; 1, 1, 266; 2, 2, 163; id. Men. 4, 2, 83:

astutemihi captandum'st cum illoc,

id. Most. 5, 1, 21:

quid ad illum qui te captare vult, utrum tacentem irretiat te an loquentem?

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 94:

est quiddam quod suā vi nos adliciat ad sese, non emolumento captans aliquo, sed trahens suā dignitate,

id. Inv. 2, 52, 157:

hostem insidiis,

Liv. 2, 50, 3:

inter se,

id. 44, 24, 8; 44, 25, 12: verba ( to interpret sophistically; cf. captio), Dig. 10, 4, 19.— Absol.: contra est eundum cautim et captandum mihi, Att. ap. Non. p. 512, 12; p. 512, 50: in colloquiis insidiari [p. 289] et captare, Liv. 32, 33, 11 ( = captionibus uti, studere fallere).—Hence,

A standing expression, to practise legacy - hunting, to hunt for legacies (aliquem or aliquod):

testamenta senum,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 23; cf.

hereditatem,

Dig. 29, 6, 1:

homines,

Petr. 116, 6; Mart. 6, 63; Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7; 4, 2, 2; Juv. 16, 56 al.; cf. captator and captatorius.—

To take up, begin, of discourse:

ubi captato sermone diuque loquendo ad nomen venere Jovis,

Ov. M. 3, 279.

aucŭpĭum, ii, n. [auceps], bird-catching, fowling.

Lit.:

piscatu, aucupio, venatione, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Pall. Dec. 6, 2:

noctuae,

id. Sept. 12.— Poet.: aucupium sagittarum, bird-taking with arrows, Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 32:

harundine sumptā Faunus plumoso sum deus aucupio,

Prop. 5, 2, 34; cf. Hermann. Opusc. III. p. 121.— Trop., a catching at, lying in wait for something:

facere aucupium auribus,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 44 (cf. auceps and aucupor):

hoc novum est aucupium,

a new kind of fowling, new way of catching things, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 16 (cf. the preced. verse, quaestus):

aucupium delectationis,

Cic. Or. 25, 84; 58, 197: aucupia verborum, a catching at words, quibbling; cf. auceps, id. Caecin. 23, 65:

nomenclationis,

Col. 3, 2, 31.—

Meton. (abstr. for concr.), the birds caught: qui tot res in se habet egregias, Aucupium, omne genus piscis, etc., * Cat. 114, 3; Cels. 2, 26; Sen. Prov. 3.

lectus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from 2. lego.

lectus, i, m. (nom. lectum, i, n., Dig. 32, 1, 52, § 9; 34, 2, 19, § 8; lectus, ūs, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 15; al. lecti; Sen. Ep. 95, 72 Haas; Cornif. ap. Prisc. 711 P.) [Gr. lechos, alochos, lochos, lochmê; Lat. lectica; cf. Germ. Lager], a couch, bed.

In gen.:

meum quidem te lectum certe occupare non sinam,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 71:

dapsilis,

id. ib. 1, 1, 34:

standumst in lecto,

id. Men. 1, 1, 26:

lecti loris subtenti,

Cato, R. R. 10:

in lecto esse,

Cic. Fam. 9, 23; id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

lecto teneri,

to be confined to one's bed, id. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 16:

surgere lecto,

Prop. 2, 18 (3, 15), 31:

descendere lecto,

Tib. 1, 2, 19 (al. derepere):

lectus Proculā minor,

too short for, Juv. 3, 203:

pedes lecti, in quo cubat Dialis, luto tenui circumlitos esse oportet,

Gell. 10, 15, 14 sqq.— Plur.:

lectos eburatos, auratos (advexit),

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 53.—

In partic.

A bridal bed: lectus genialis, the nuptial-bed, which, after the marriage, was called adversus (because it stood opposite the door):

genialis,

Cic. Clu. 5 fin.:

adversus,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 85:

jugalis,

Verg. A. 4, 496:

aucupor in lecto mendaces caelibe somnos,

Ov. H. 13, 107.—

A couch for reclining on at meals, a dining- or eating-couch, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

lecto recumbere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 1:

in imo lecto residere,

Suet. Aug. 64.—

A couch or settee on which it was customary to read or write, a reading-couch, Sen. Ep. 72, 2.—

A funeral bed or couch, a bier:

flebis et arsuro positum me, Delia, lecto,

Tib. 1, 1, 61:

lecto funebri aptatus,

Petr. 114:

corpus ipsum impositum lecto erat,

Quint. 6, 1, 31.

lectus, ūs, m. [2. lego], a reading, Prisc. 1221 P.—

= 2. lectus, q. v.

lectus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from 2. lego.

lectus, i, m. (nom. lectum, i, n., Dig. 32, 1, 52, § 9; 34, 2, 19, § 8; lectus, ūs, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 15; al. lecti; Sen. Ep. 95, 72 Haas; Cornif. ap. Prisc. 711 P.) [Gr. lechos, alochos, lochos, lochmê; Lat. lectica; cf. Germ. Lager], a couch, bed.

In gen.:

meum quidem te lectum certe occupare non sinam,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 71:

dapsilis,

id. ib. 1, 1, 34:

standumst in lecto,

id. Men. 1, 1, 26:

lecti loris subtenti,

Cato, R. R. 10:

in lecto esse,

Cic. Fam. 9, 23; id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

lecto teneri,

to be confined to one's bed, id. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 16:

surgere lecto,

Prop. 2, 18 (3, 15), 31:

descendere lecto,

Tib. 1, 2, 19 (al. derepere):

lectus Proculā minor,

too short for, Juv. 3, 203:

pedes lecti, in quo cubat Dialis, luto tenui circumlitos esse oportet,

Gell. 10, 15, 14 sqq.— Plur.:

lectos eburatos, auratos (advexit),

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 53.—

In partic.

A bridal bed: lectus genialis, the nuptial-bed, which, after the marriage, was called adversus (because it stood opposite the door):

genialis,

Cic. Clu. 5 fin.:

adversus,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 85:

jugalis,

Verg. A. 4, 496:

aucupor in lecto mendaces caelibe somnos,

Ov. H. 13, 107.—

A couch for reclining on at meals, a dining- or eating-couch, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

lecto recumbere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 1:

in imo lecto residere,

Suet. Aug. 64.—

A couch or settee on which it was customary to read or write, a reading-couch, Sen. Ep. 72, 2.—

A funeral bed or couch, a bier:

flebis et arsuro positum me, Delia, lecto,

Tib. 1, 1, 61:

lecto funebri aptatus,

Petr. 114:

corpus ipsum impositum lecto erat,

Quint. 6, 1, 31.

lectus, ūs, m. [2. lego], a reading, Prisc. 1221 P.—

= 2. lectus, q. v.

vēnor, ātus ( inf. parag. venarier, Lucr. 5, 1248; gen. plur. part. venantum, Verg. A. 9, 551 al.), 1, v. dep. n. and a., to hunt, chase (cf.: capto, aucupor).

Neutr.:

qui venari solent,

Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2:

quo me in silvam venatum vocas?

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 82:

venatum in nemus ire parant,

Verg. A. 4, 117:

canum alacritas in venando,

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

tigris venatur,

Val. Fl. 1, 493:

tu praecipue curvis venare theatris,

Ov. A. A. 1, 89.—Prov.:

stultitia est venatum ducere invitas canes,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 82:

piscari in aëre, Venari autem jaculo in medio mari,

id. As. 1, 1, 87.—Part. as subst.:

voces venantum,

of hunters, Phaedr. 1, 12, 7.—

Act.:

i modo, venare leporem,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 81:

canibus leporem, dammas,

Verg. G. 3, 410:

vespae muscas grandiores venantur,

Plin. 11, 21, 24, § 72:

conchae hiantes venantur cibum,

id. 32, 11, 54, § 154:

fugientes cum mari pisces,

id. 16, 1, 1, § 3.—

Trop., to hunt or seek after, to pursue a thing (mostly poet.):

laudem modestiae,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

suffragia ventosae plebis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 37:

viduas avaras frustis et pomis,

id. ib. 1, 1, 78:

viros oculis (filia),

Phaedr. 4, 5, 4; cf.:

amores,

Ov. Med. Fac. 27.— Pass., Enn. Trag. 335; Prisc. p. 734 P.