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  • 1 tergum

        tergum ī, n    [TRAG-], the back: manibus ad tergum reiectis: tergo poenas pendere, T.: tergo ac capite puniri, L.: recurvum (of the dolphin), O.— The back part, reverse, hinder part, rear: Praebere Phoebo terga, to sun itself, O.: Terga Parthorum dicam, the flight, O.: terga vincentium, Ta.: libri in tergo necdum finitus Orestes, written on the back, Iu.—In phrase, a tergo or post tergum, behind, in the rear: a tergo, fronte, lateribus tenebitur: ut a tergo Milonem adorirentur, behind: tumultum hostilem a tergo accepit, S.: post tergum hostium legionem ostenderunt, Cs.: qui iam post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos, has passed, Iu.: tot amnibus montibusque post tergum obiectis, Cu.—With verto or do, to turn the back, turn back, take flight, run away, flee, retreat: omnes hostes terga verterunt, Cs.: qui plures simul terga dederant, etc., L.: terga fugae praebere, O.: terga praestare (fugae), Ta.— The back, surface: proscisso quae suscitat aequore terga, V.: amnis, O. —Of an animal, the body: (serpens) Squamea convolvens sublato pectore terga, V.: horrentia centum Terga suum, i. e. head of swine, V.: perpetuo tergo bovis, V.— The covering of the back, skin, hide, leather: Taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo, ox-hide, V.: venti bovis inclusi tergo, i. e. in a bag of bull's hide, O.: Et feriunt molles taurea terga manūs, i. e. tymbals, O.: rupit Terga novena boum, i. e. the nine thicknesses of bull's hide, O.: per linea terga (scuti), V.
    * * *
    back, rear; reverse/far side; outer covering/surface

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  • 2 abverto

    ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    a.
    Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

    ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

    Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

    (M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

    aliquid ab oculis,

    id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

    nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

    turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

    locis seminis ic tum,

    Lucr. 4, 1273:

    Italiā Teucrorum regem,

    Verg. A. 1, 42:

    a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

    Liv. 2, 5, 6:

    in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

    id. 3, 24, 9:

    ab hominibus ad deos preces,

    id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

    quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

    Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

    Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

    Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

    in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

    id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

    mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

    put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—
    b.
    Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

    equus fontes avertitur,

    Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

    oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

    Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—
    c.
    As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

    ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

    ecce avortit,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

    dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

    Verg. A. 1, 402:

    tum prora avertit,

    id. ib. 1, 104:

    avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

    Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —
    B.
    To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

    pecuniam publicam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

    compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

    Tac. H. 1, 53:

    aliquid domum tuam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

    praedam omnem domum avertebant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

    intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

    auratam Colchis pellem,

    to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

    quattuor a stabulis tauros,

    Verg. A. 8, 208:

    avertere praedas,

    id. ib. 10, 78:

    carā pisces avertere mensā,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

    accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

    Cic. Mur. 21:

    avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

    Liv. 9, 24, 11:

    qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

    Cic. Sest. 31:

    ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

    Liv. 1, 28, 5:

    animum a pietate,

    id. 7, 5, 7:

    aliquem ab incepto avertit,

    id. 23, 18, 9:

    a philosophiā,

    Suet. Ner. 52.—
    B.
    Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

    legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

    ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

    had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

    civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

    id. ib. 3, 79:

    popularium animos,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    nobis mentem deorum,

    Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

    et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

    before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

    canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

    Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

    ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

    from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

    aversos proterere,

    id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

    32: aversum ferro transfixit,

    Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

    aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

    backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

    Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

    Tac. A. 1, 66:

    scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

    upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

    milites aversi a proelio,

    withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

    per aversa castrorum receptus est,

    Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

    per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

    Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

    aversa montis,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

    Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

    collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

    id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —
    B.
    Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.
    (α).
    With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

    aversus a Musis,

    Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

    aversus a vero,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

    turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

    id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

    Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

    id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

    aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

    Sen. Ep. 50.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    aversus mercaturis,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

    vilicus aversus contubernio,

    Col. 12, 1, 2:

    defensioni aversior,

    Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—
    (γ).
    Absol.:

    aversa deae mens,

    Verg. A. 2, 170:

    aversa voluntas,

    id. ib. 12, 647:

    aversos soliti componere amicos,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

    aversus animus,

    Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

    vultus aversior,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

    aversi animis,

    Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > abverto

  • 3 aversum

    ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    a.
    Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

    ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

    Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

    (M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

    aliquid ab oculis,

    id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

    nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

    turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

    locis seminis ic tum,

    Lucr. 4, 1273:

    Italiā Teucrorum regem,

    Verg. A. 1, 42:

    a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

    Liv. 2, 5, 6:

    in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

    id. 3, 24, 9:

    ab hominibus ad deos preces,

    id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

    quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

    Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

    Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

    Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

    in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

    id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

    mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

    put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—
    b.
    Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

    equus fontes avertitur,

    Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

    oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

    Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—
    c.
    As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

    ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

    ecce avortit,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

    dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

    Verg. A. 1, 402:

    tum prora avertit,

    id. ib. 1, 104:

    avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

    Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —
    B.
    To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

    pecuniam publicam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

    compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

    Tac. H. 1, 53:

    aliquid domum tuam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

    praedam omnem domum avertebant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

    intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

    auratam Colchis pellem,

    to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

    quattuor a stabulis tauros,

    Verg. A. 8, 208:

    avertere praedas,

    id. ib. 10, 78:

    carā pisces avertere mensā,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

    accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

    Cic. Mur. 21:

    avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

    Liv. 9, 24, 11:

    qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

    Cic. Sest. 31:

    ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

    Liv. 1, 28, 5:

    animum a pietate,

    id. 7, 5, 7:

    aliquem ab incepto avertit,

    id. 23, 18, 9:

    a philosophiā,

    Suet. Ner. 52.—
    B.
    Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

    legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

    ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

    had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

    civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

    id. ib. 3, 79:

    popularium animos,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    nobis mentem deorum,

    Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

    et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

    before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

    canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

    Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

    ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

    from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

    aversos proterere,

    id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

    32: aversum ferro transfixit,

    Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

    aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

    backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

    Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

    Tac. A. 1, 66:

    scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

    upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

    milites aversi a proelio,

    withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

    per aversa castrorum receptus est,

    Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

    per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

    Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

    aversa montis,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

    Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

    collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

    id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —
    B.
    Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.
    (α).
    With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

    aversus a Musis,

    Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

    aversus a vero,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

    turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

    id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

    Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

    id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

    aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

    Sen. Ep. 50.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    aversus mercaturis,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

    vilicus aversus contubernio,

    Col. 12, 1, 2:

    defensioni aversior,

    Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—
    (γ).
    Absol.:

    aversa deae mens,

    Verg. A. 2, 170:

    aversa voluntas,

    id. ib. 12, 647:

    aversos soliti componere amicos,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

    aversus animus,

    Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

    vultus aversior,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

    aversi animis,

    Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

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  • 4 averto

    ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    a.
    Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

    ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

    Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

    (M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

    aliquid ab oculis,

    id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

    nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

    turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

    locis seminis ic tum,

    Lucr. 4, 1273:

    Italiā Teucrorum regem,

    Verg. A. 1, 42:

    a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

    Liv. 2, 5, 6:

    in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

    id. 3, 24, 9:

    ab hominibus ad deos preces,

    id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

    quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

    Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

    Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

    Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

    in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

    id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

    mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

    put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—
    b.
    Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

    equus fontes avertitur,

    Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

    oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

    Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—
    c.
    As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

    ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

    ecce avortit,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

    dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

    Verg. A. 1, 402:

    tum prora avertit,

    id. ib. 1, 104:

    avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

    Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —
    B.
    To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

    pecuniam publicam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

    compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

    Tac. H. 1, 53:

    aliquid domum tuam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

    praedam omnem domum avertebant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

    intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

    auratam Colchis pellem,

    to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

    quattuor a stabulis tauros,

    Verg. A. 8, 208:

    avertere praedas,

    id. ib. 10, 78:

    carā pisces avertere mensā,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

    accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

    Cic. Mur. 21:

    avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

    Liv. 9, 24, 11:

    qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

    Cic. Sest. 31:

    ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

    Liv. 1, 28, 5:

    animum a pietate,

    id. 7, 5, 7:

    aliquem ab incepto avertit,

    id. 23, 18, 9:

    a philosophiā,

    Suet. Ner. 52.—
    B.
    Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

    legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

    ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

    had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

    civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

    id. ib. 3, 79:

    popularium animos,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    nobis mentem deorum,

    Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

    et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

    before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

    canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

    Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

    ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

    from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

    aversos proterere,

    id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

    32: aversum ferro transfixit,

    Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

    aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

    backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

    Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

    Tac. A. 1, 66:

    scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

    upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

    milites aversi a proelio,

    withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

    per aversa castrorum receptus est,

    Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

    per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

    Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

    aversa montis,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

    Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

    collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

    id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —
    B.
    Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.
    (α).
    With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

    aversus a Musis,

    Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

    aversus a vero,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

    turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

    id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

    Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

    id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

    aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

    Sen. Ep. 50.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    aversus mercaturis,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

    vilicus aversus contubernio,

    Col. 12, 1, 2:

    defensioni aversior,

    Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—
    (γ).
    Absol.:

    aversa deae mens,

    Verg. A. 2, 170:

    aversa voluntas,

    id. ib. 12, 647:

    aversos soliti componere amicos,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

    aversus animus,

    Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

    vultus aversior,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

    aversi animis,

    Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

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  • 5 avorto

    ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    a.
    Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

    ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

    Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

    (M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

    aliquid ab oculis,

    id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

    nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

    turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

    locis seminis ic tum,

    Lucr. 4, 1273:

    Italiā Teucrorum regem,

    Verg. A. 1, 42:

    a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

    Liv. 2, 5, 6:

    in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

    id. 3, 24, 9:

    ab hominibus ad deos preces,

    id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

    quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

    Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

    Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

    Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

    in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

    id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

    mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

    put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—
    b.
    Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

    equus fontes avertitur,

    Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

    oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

    Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—
    c.
    As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

    ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

    ecce avortit,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

    dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

    Verg. A. 1, 402:

    tum prora avertit,

    id. ib. 1, 104:

    avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

    Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —
    B.
    To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

    pecuniam publicam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

    compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

    Tac. H. 1, 53:

    aliquid domum tuam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

    praedam omnem domum avertebant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

    intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

    auratam Colchis pellem,

    to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

    quattuor a stabulis tauros,

    Verg. A. 8, 208:

    avertere praedas,

    id. ib. 10, 78:

    carā pisces avertere mensā,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

    accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

    Cic. Mur. 21:

    avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

    Liv. 9, 24, 11:

    qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

    Cic. Sest. 31:

    ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

    Liv. 1, 28, 5:

    animum a pietate,

    id. 7, 5, 7:

    aliquem ab incepto avertit,

    id. 23, 18, 9:

    a philosophiā,

    Suet. Ner. 52.—
    B.
    Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

    legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

    ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

    had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

    civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

    id. ib. 3, 79:

    popularium animos,

    Sall. J. 111, 2:

    futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    nobis mentem deorum,

    Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

    et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

    before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

    canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

    Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

    ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

    from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

    aversos proterere,

    id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

    32: aversum ferro transfixit,

    Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

    aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

    backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

    Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

    Tac. A. 1, 66:

    scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

    upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

    milites aversi a proelio,

    withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

    per aversa castrorum receptus est,

    Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

    per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

    Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

    aversa montis,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

    Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

    collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

    id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —
    B.
    Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.
    (α).
    With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

    aversus a Musis,

    Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

    aversus a vero,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

    turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

    id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

    Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

    id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

    aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

    Sen. Ep. 50.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    aversus mercaturis,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

    vilicus aversus contubernio,

    Col. 12, 1, 2:

    defensioni aversior,

    Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—
    (γ).
    Absol.:

    aversa deae mens,

    Verg. A. 2, 170:

    aversa voluntas,

    id. ib. 12, 647:

    aversos soliti componere amicos,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

    aversus animus,

    Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

    vultus aversior,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

    aversi animis,

    Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

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  • 6 posticus

    postīcus, a, um, adj. [post; like anticus from ante].
    I.
    That is behind, hinder, back -, posterior (class., but not in Cic. or Cæs.):

    est etiam hic ostium aliud posticum nostrarum aedium,

    backdoor, Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 40; cf.: posticum ostium dicitur in posteriore parte aedium. Ceterum antiqui etiam vicinum habitantem ad posteriorem partem aedium sic appellarunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 220 Müll.:

    locus erat posticis aedium partibus,

    Liv. 23, 8: perrexit in interiores partes domuis posticae, of the backbuilding, out - house, Varr. ap. Non. 217, 7:

    domo posticā egressus,

    Val. Max. 5, 7, 3:

    muri,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 42 Müll.: vicinus, v. Paul. ex Fest. l. l.: non peperit, verum posticā parte profudit, with the posteriors, Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 17:

    sannae,

    made behind the back, Pers. 1, 62:

    pedes,

    hind feet, Sol. 26:

    pars palatii,

    Suet. Oth. 6:

    posticam lineam in agris dividendis Serv. Sulpicius appellavit, ab exoriente sole ad occidentem quae spectabat,

    Fest. p. 233 Müll.: quae ante nos sunt, antica: et quae post nos sunt, postica dicuntur: et dextram anticam, sinistram posticam dicimus. Sic etiam ea caeli pars, quae sole illustratur ad meridiem, antica nominatur, quae ad septentrionem postica, Paul. ex Fest. p. 220 Müll.; cf.:

    ejus templi partes quattuor dicuntur: sinistra ab oriente, dextra ab occasu, antica ad meridiem, postica ad septentrionem,

    Varr. L. L. 7, § 7 Müll.—
    II.
    Subst.
    A.
    postīca, ae, f., a backdoor (post-class.), App. M. 9, p. 217, 25; Dig. 7, 1, 13.—
    B.
    postīcum, i, n.
    1.
    A backdoor (the prevailing form for this signif.):

    per posticum se conferre,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 27:

    atria servantem postico falle clientem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 31; Vulg. Dan. 13, 18.—
    2.
    The back part of a building, the rear front, Titin. ap. Non. 217, 19:

    in pronao, et postico,

    Vitr. 3, 1.—
    3.
    A backhouse, privy (anteclass.), Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 20.—
    4.
    The posteriors, the fundament (ante- and postclass.): retrimenta cibi, quae exierunt per posticum, Varr. ap. Non. 217, 24; also in plur., Arn. 2, 54.

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  • 7 occipitium

    occĭpĭtĭum, ii, n. [ob-caput], the back part of the head, the poll, the occiput:

    in occipitio quoque habet oculos, pessima,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 25:

    umeris ad occipitium ductis,

    Quint. 11, 3, 160; Cels. 4, 2; Suet. Tib. 68: ne post occipitium exercitus relinqueret, behind his back, Varr. ap. Non. 245, 15.—Of animals, Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 107.— Prov.: frons occipitio prior est; v. frons; cf.:

    frontemque domini plus prodesse quam occipitium,

    Plin. 18, 5, 6, § 31.

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  • 8 sūra

        sūra ae, f    the back part of the leg, calf: laeva: tumentes, H.: Puniceo suras evincta cothurno, V.: grandes, Iu.
    * * *

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  • 9 exostra

    exōstra, ae, f., = exôstra.
    I.
    A machine in the theatre, by which the back part of the stage was turned towards the spectators; transf. of any thing public:

    quibuscum jam in exostra helluatur,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14.—
    II.

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  • 10 occiput

    occĭput, ĭtis, n. [id.], the back part of the head, the poll, occiput (less freq. than occipitium), Pers. 1, 62; Aus. Epigr. 12, 8.

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  • 11 opisthodomus

    ŏpisthŏdŏmus, i, f., = opisthodomos, the back part of a temple or house, an opisthodome, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 8 Mai.

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  • 12 retraho

    rē̆-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    To draw back, withdraw; to call back (class.).
    A.
    Lit.:

    me retrahis,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 8;

    aliquem,

    Cic. Sen. 23, 83; Liv. 30, 20; 21, 63 (in the last two passages with revocare);

    10, 25: bos domitus et procurrentem (bovem) retrahit, et cunctantem producit,

    holds back, Col. 6, 2, 10: aliquem hinc, Lucceius ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 1:

    Hannibalem in Africam (Scipio),

    Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 56:

    aliquem in urbem,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

    manum,

    Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

    pedem,

    Verg. A. 10, 307:

    quo fata trahunt retrahuntque,

    id. ib. 5, 709:

    castra intra penitus,

    Liv. 36, 17 Drak.:

    occulere aut retrahere aliquid (pecuniae),

    to keep back, withhold, id. 32, 38 fin.:

    se,

    Cic. Cael. 27, 64; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 58:

    se ab ictu,

    Ov. M. 3, 87:

    se a convivio,

    Cels. 1, 1, 5; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 14, 2.—

    Mid.: (corpuscula complexa) inter se retrahuntur,

    Lucr. 2, 155:

    in servitutem retrahi,

    Tac. A. 13, 26. —
    2.
    In partic., to drag back, bring back a fugitive, Caes. B. G. 5, 7; Liv. 2, 12; 25, 7:

    ut retractus, non reversus, videretur,

    Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 10; Sall. C. 39, 5:

    ex fugā, 47, 4: fugientem,

    Just. 38, 9, 6; 38, 10, 13. —

    Hence, comically, of fugitive money,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 11; cf. also infra, B.—
    B.
    Trop., to draw back, withdraw, remove, etc.:

    postquam poëta vetus poëtam non potest Retrahere ab studio,

    to withdraw, remove, Ter. Phorm. prol. 2:

    aliquem a re publicā,

    Cic. Sest. 15, 34:

    Thebas ab interitu,

    Nep. Epam. 8, 4:

    aliquem ex magnis detrimentis,

    Suet. Aug. 71:

    ex viginti trecentisque millibus ad centum quinquaginta retraxit,

    i. e. he reduced them to one hundred and fifty thousand, Suet. Caes. 41 Oud.:

    verba,

    to keep back, suppress, Sen. Ep. 3, 6; so,

    vires ingenii,

    id. ib. 79, 3: noctes, to shorten, Manil. 4, 253:

    stellae splendorem suum,

    Vulg. Joel, 2, 10: genus ejusmodi calliditatis et calumniae retrahetur in odium judicis, is drawn or converted into, results in, Cic. Part. 39, 137:

    imaginem nocturnae quietis ad spem haud dubiam retraxit,

    Tac. A. 16, 1.—

    With reference to the signif. A. 2: illa (verba), quae jam majoribus nostris ademit oblivio fugitiva,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 5 Müll. —
    II.
    To draw again or anew; to bring forth or to light again, make known again (so perh. only in Tac.).
    A.
    Lit.:

    Caesar Antistium Veterem absolutum adulterii increpitis judicibus ad dicendam majestatis causam retraxit,

    Tac. A. 3, 38:

    aliquem postero die ad eosdem cruciatus,

    id. ib. 15, 57:

    Treviros in arma,

    id. H. 4, 70 fin. —
    B.
    Trop.:

    oblitterata aerarii monimenta,

    Tac. A. 13, 23:

    potiorem civitatis partem ad societatem Romanam,

    id. H. 4, 56 fin. — Hence, rĕtractus, a, um, P. a., drawn back, lying back, remote, distant: emporium in intimo sinu Corinthiaco, Liv. 36, 21:

    in trorsus sinus maris,

    id. 26, 42.— Comp.:

    retractior a mari murus,

    Liv. 34, 9:

    retractius paulo cubiculum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 6:

    retracti introrsum oculi,

    deep-set, Sen. Contr. 1, 6.

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  • 13 reflecto

    rĕ-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.
    I.
    Act., to bend or turn back or backwards; to turn about or away (class.).
    A.
    Lit.:

    caudam canum degeneres sub alvum reflectunt,

    Plin. 11, 50, 111, § 265; 11, 37, 78, § 199:

    caput leviter,

    Cat. 45, 10:

    pedem inde (sc. ex Labyrintho) sospes,

    id. 64, 112; cf.:

    gressum,

    to go back, return. Sen. Thyest. 428:

    cursum subito ad Contrebiam,

    Val. Max. 7, 4, 5 fin.:

    colla,

    Verg. A. 11, 622:

    oculos,

    Ov. M. 7, 341; cf.:

    visus,

    Val. Fl. 5, 455. — Part. perf.:

    (elephantorum) dentes reflexi,

    tusks. Plin. 11, 37, 62, § 165; so,

    cornu (with adunco aere),

    Sen. Oedip. 731:

    cornicula (scarabaei),

    Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 100: cervix. Verg. A. 10, 535; Ov. A. A. 3, 779: [p. 1547] Stat. Achill. 1, 382. —

    Mid.: illam tereti cervice reflexam,

    bending herself back, Verg. A. 8, 633; cf.:

    telum reflexum,

    Sil. 16, 54; and poet.: (Ascalaphus) in caput crescit, longosque reflectitur ungues, he bends himself back into long claws, i. e. his nails are bent back and lengthened into claws, Ov. M. 5, 547. —
    B.
    Trop., to turn back, bring back: quem neque fides, neque jusjurandum... Repressit neque reflexit, * Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

    nonnumquam animum incitatum ad ulciscendam orationem tuam revoco ipse et reflecto,

    Cic. Sull. 16, 46:

    quibus (causis) mentes aut incitantur aut reflectuntur,

    id. de Or. 1, 12, 53:

    aliquem,

    Sen. Agam. 155:

    animum reflexi,

    i. e. I reflected within myself, Verg. A. 2, 741; cf.:

    mentem ad Romanam urbem,

    Mamert. Grat. Act. 14:

    in melius tua, qui potes, orsa reflectas!

    change, alter, Verg. A. 10, 632; to reverse a proposition or inference:

    reflexim inferre,

    App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 36, 5; cf. Mart. Cap. 4, § 411. —
    * II.
    Neutr., to bend or turn back; trop., to give way, yield:

    ubi jam morbi reflexit causa,

    Lucr. 3, 502.

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  • 14 tergum

    tergum, i ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose also tergus, ŏris), n. ( masc.:

    familiarem tergum,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 53; cf. Non. 227, 23) [cf. Gr. trachêlos, neck; perh. root trechô, to run], the back of men or beasts (syn. dor sum).
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    Form tergum:

    dabitur pol supplicium mihi de tergo vestre,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75:

    vae illis virgis miseris quae hodie in tergo morientur meo,

    id. Capt 3, 4, 117: manibus ad tergum rejectis, Asin ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

    boum terga,

    id. N D. 2, 63, 159; cf. tergo poenae pendere Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 6:

    tergo ac capite puniri, Liv 3, 55, 14.—Of cranes eaeque in tergo praevolantium Colla reponunt,

    Cic. N. D. 2 49, 125. —

    Of the dolphin, Ov F 2, 113.— Of the crocodile: ejus terga cataphracta,

    Amm. 22, 15, 16.—
    (β).
    Form tergus aurea quam molli tergore vexit ovis, Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 6:

    ut equa facilem sui tergoris ascensum praebeat,

    Col. 6, 37, 10.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A. 1.
    Esp. in the phrases terga vertere or dare, to turn the back, pregn., for to take to flight, to flee: omnes hostes terga verterunt;

    neque prius fugere destiterunt, quam, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 53; so,

    terga vertere,

    id. ib. 3, 19; 3, 21; id. B. C. 3, 63;

    and even of a single person: terga vertit,

    Sen. Ep. 22, 7:

    qui plures simul terga dederant, etc., Liv 22, 29, 5: terga dare,

    id. 36, 38, 4:

    inter duas acies Etrusci, cum in vicem his atque illis terga darent,

    id. 2, 51, 9; Ov. M. 13, 224:

    terga fugae praebere,

    id. ib. 10, 706:

    terga praestare (fugae),

    Tac. Agr 37; Juv. 15, 75. — Trop. jam felicior aetas Terga dedit, tremuloque gradu venit aegra senectus, Ov M. 14, 143.—
    2.
    In gen.:

    inflexo mox dare terga genu,

    i. e. yield to the burden, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 6: praebere Phoebo [p. 1859] terga, to sun itself, Ov. M. 4, 715:

    concurrit ex insidiis versisque in Lucretium Etruscis terga caedit,

    the rear, Liv. 2, 11, 9; Flor. 4, 12, 7:

    terga Parthorum dicam,

    the flight, Ov. A. A. 1, 209:

    terga collis,

    Liv. 25, 15, 12; cf.:

    terga vincentium,

    Tac. Agr. 37:

    summi plena jam margine libri Scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes,

    written on the back, Juv. 1, 6:

    retro atque a tergo,

    behind one, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.:

    a tergo, a fronte, a lateribus tenebitur,

    id. Phil. 3, 13, 32:

    ut a tergo Milonem adorirentur,

    behind, id. Mil. 10, 29; 21, 56; id. Verr 2, 5, 38, § 98:

    tumultum hostilem a tergo accepit,

    Sall. J. 58, 4; Caes. B. G 7, 87; Curt. 3, 1, 19; 3, 8, 27; 8, 5, 1:

    post tergum hostium legionem ostenderunt,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 62:

    ne nostros post tergum adorirentur,

    id. B. C. 3, 44:

    Germani post tergum clamore audito,

    id. B. G. 4, 15:

    post tergum hostem relinquere,

    id. ib. 4, 22:

    qui jam post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos,

    has left behind him, has passed, Juv. 13, 16:

    omnia jam diutino bello exhausta post tergum sunt,

    Curt. 4, 14, 11:

    omnia, quae post tergum erant, strata,

    id. 3, 10, 7:

    tot amnibus montibusque post tergum objectis,

    id. 4, 13, 7.—
    B.
    The back of any thing spread out horizontally, as land or water, i. e. the surface ( poet.):

    proscisso quae suscitat aequore terga,

    Verg. G. 1, 97:

    crassa,

    id. ib. 2, 236:

    amnis,

    Ov. P. 1, 2, 82; Claud. B. G. 338; Luc. 5, 564; 9, 341.—
    C.
    (Pars pro toto.) The body of an animal ( poet.).
    (α).
    Form tergum:

    (serpens) Squamea convolvens sublato pectore terga,

    Verg. G. 3, 426;

    so of a serpent,

    id. A. 2, 208; Petr 89;

    of Cerberus,

    Verg. A. 6, 422:

    horrentia centum Terga suum,

    i. e. a hundred head of swine, id. ib. 1, 635:

    nigrantis terga juvencos,

    id. ib. 6, 243:

    perpetui tergo bovis,

    id. ib. 8, 183.—
    (β).
    Form tergus:

    resecat de tergore (suis) partem,

    of a chine of bacon, Ov. M. 8, 649:

    diviso tergore (juvenci),

    Phaedr. 2, 1, 11:

    squalenti tergore serpens,

    Sil. 3, 209.—
    D.
    The covering of the back, the skin, hide, leather, etc. (in this signif. tergus freq. occurs; syn.: pellis, corium).
    (α).
    Form tergum:

    taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo,

    ox-hide, Verg. A. 1, 368:

    ferre novae nares taurorum terga recusant,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 655.—
    (β).
    Form tergus:

    tergora deripiunt costis et viscera nudant,

    Verg. A. 1, 211; so Cels. 7, 25, 1; 8, 1 med.:

    durissimum dorso tergus,

    Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 30; cf. id. 9, 35, 53, § 105; Col. 7, 4 fin. —
    2.
    Transf., a thing made of hide or leather.
    (α).
    Form tergum: venti bovis inclusi tergo, i. e. in a bag made of a bull ' s hide, Ov. M. 14, 225; 15, 305:

    et feriunt molles taurea terga manus,

    i. e. tymbals, id. F. 4, 342; so id. ib. 4, 212:

    Idae terga,

    Stat. Th. 8, 221:

    pulsant terga,

    id. Achill. 2, 154: rupit Terga novena boum, i. e. the nine thicknesses of bull ' s hide, Ov. M. 12, 97:

    tergum Sulmonis,

    Verg. A. 9, 412; 10, 482; 10, 718;

    hence even: per linea terga (scuti),

    id. ib. 10, 784 (v. the passage in connection):

    duroque intendere bracchia tergo, i. e. cestus,

    id. ib. 5, 403; so id. ib. 5, 419.—
    (β).
    Form tergus:

    gestasset laevā taurorum tergora septem,

    a shield covered with seven layers of hide, Ov. M. 13, 347:

    Martis tergus Geticum,

    Mart. 7, 2, 2.

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  • 15 āversus

        āversus adj. with sup.    [P. of averto], turned away, turned back, on the back side, behind, backwards: et adversus et aversus impudicus es: aversum hostem videre, the backs of the enemy, Cs.: ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur, shut off in the rear, Cs.: quem aversum transfixit, in the back, N.: aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit, L.: porta, in the rear, L.: porta aversissima, farthest back, L. — Plur n. as subst, the hinder part, back: per aversa urbis fuga, L.: insulae, L.—Fig., withdrawn: milites a proelio, Cs.— Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, averse, hostile: a Musis: aversissimo a me animo esse: a proposito, L.: aversis auribus questa, to deaf. ears, L.: Deae mens, V.: amici, H.—With dat: nobis, Ta.: mercaturis, H.: lucro, not greedy of, H.
    * * *
    aversa -um, aversior -or -us, aversissimus -a -um ADJ
    turned/facing away, w/back turned; behind, in rear; distant; averse; hostile

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  • 16 repono

    rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,
    I.
    With the idea of the re predominant.
    A.
    To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).
    1.
    Lit.:

    cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146:

    quicque suo loco,

    Col. 12, 3, 4:

    humum,

    the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231:

    pecuniam in thesauris,

    Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.:

    ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,

    Val. Max. 5, 1, 6:

    infans repositus in cunas,

    Suet. Aug. 94:

    ossa in suas sedes,

    Cels. 8, 10, 1:

    femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,

    set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39:

    insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,

    Cic. Sest. 27, 58:

    columnas,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

    tantundem inaurati aeris,

    Suet. Caes. 54:

    togam,

    to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149:

    capillum,

    id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. §

    22: excussus curru ac rursus repositus,

    Suet. Ner. 24:

    nos in sceptra,

    to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.:

    reges per bella pulsos,

    Sil. 10, 487:

    aliquem solio,

    Val. Fl. 6, 742:

    veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,

    Sen. Ep. 36, 10:

    ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.:

    quosdam nihil reposuisse,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6:

    donata,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39:

    flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,

    to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752:

    aris ignem,

    id. ib. 3, 231:

    molem,

    Sil. 1, 558:

    ruptos vetustate pontes,

    Tac. A. 1, 63:

    fora templaque,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    amissa urbi,

    id. A. 16, 13:

    statuas a plebe disjectas,

    Suet. Caes. 65:

    cenam,

    Mart. 2, 37, 10;

    so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,

    Verg. A. 8, 175:

    plena pocula,

    id. G. 4, 378:

    vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),

    id. A. 7, 134:

    epulas,

    id. G. 3, 527:

    festas mensas,

    Stat. Th. 2, 88:

    cibi frigidi et repositi,

    Quint. 2, 4, 29.—
    2.
    Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew:

    ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,

    Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.:

    excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,

    id. 11, 2, 19:

    nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—
    (β).
    To represent or describe again, to repeat:

    fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,

    Hor. A. P. 190:

    Achillem (after Homer),

    id. ib. 120; cf.:

    dicta paterna,

    Pers. 6, 66.—
    (γ).
    To repay, requite, return:

    cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19:

    semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?

    repay, Juv. 1, 1.—
    (δ).
    To put back, put to rest, quiet:

    pontum et turbata litora,

    Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.:

    post otiosam et repositam vitam,

    Amm. 29, 1, 44.—
    B.
    To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.);

    imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,

    Verg. G. 3, 76:

    cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,

    Quint. 4, 2, 39:

    tereti cervice repostā,

    Lucr. 1, 35:

    interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 99:

    hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,

    id. 4, 2, 39:

    membra (mortui) toro,

    Verg. A. 6, 220:

    membra stratis,

    id. ib. 4, 392.—
    C.
    To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).
    1.
    Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi [p. 1571] percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

    cibum,

    Quint. 2, 4, 29:

    formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,

    Verg. A. 4, 403:

    Caecubum ad festas dapes,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

    mella in vetustatem,

    Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7:

    alimenta in hiemem,

    Quint. 2, 16, 16:

    (caseum) hiemi,

    Verg. G. 3, 403:

    omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,

    id. ib. 1, 167:

    thesaurum,

    Quint. 2, 7, 4:

    scripta in aliquod tempus,

    id. 10, 4, 2.— Poet.:

    eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,

    buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.:

    an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),

    Prop. 1, 17, 11:

    tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 17:

    repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,

    Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,

    Quint. 8, prooem. §

    29: aliquid scriptis,

    id. 11, 2, 9:

    manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,

    Verg. A. 1, 26:

    reponere odium,

    Tac. Agr. 39 fin.:

    sensibus haec imis... reponas,

    Verg. E. 3, 54.—
    D.
    To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).
    1.
    Lit.:

    non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2:

    Aristophanem pro Eupoli,

    id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49:

    eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,

    Col. 4, 26, 2:

    dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,

    Sen. Phoen. 122.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—
    E. 1.
    Lit.:

    remum,

    Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:

    arma omnia,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 14:

    caestus artemque,

    Verg. A. 5, 484:

    feretro reposto,

    id. ib. 11, 149:

    onus,

    Cat. 31, 8:

    telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,

    Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507:

    rursus sumptas figuras,

    Ov. M. 12, 557:

    bracchia,

    to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.— Poet.:

    jam falcem arbusta reponunt,

    i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevem fugam,

    to end the flight, Stat. Th. 6, 592:

    iram,

    Manil. 2, 649.—
    II.
    With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).
    A.
    Lit.:

    grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

    colla in plumis,

    Ov. M. 10, 269:

    litteras in gremio,

    Liv. 26, 15:

    hunc celso in ostro,

    Val. Fl. 3, 339:

    ligna super foco Large reponens,

    Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

    (nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,

    Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.:

    uvas in vasa nova,

    Col. 12, 16:

    data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,

    Val. Max. 4, 3, 9:

    anulos in locellum,

    id. 7, 8, 9; cf.:

    mergum altius in terram,

    Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—
    B.
    Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among:

    in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,

    Cic. Sull. 33, 92:

    vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,

    id. de Or. 2, 48, 198:

    suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 41:

    in se omnem spem,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

    nihil spei in caritate civium,

    Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39:

    salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,

    id. 27, 45:

    verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,

    Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

    plus in duce quam in exercitu,

    Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37:

    plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,

    Just. 24, 8, 2:

    fiduciam in re reponere,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14:

    ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,

    id. ib. 1, 8, 6:

    quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,

    place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so,

    sidera in deorum numero,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.:

    Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.:

    homines morte deletos in deos,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

    in deorum numerum reponemus,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 47:

    Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,

    id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

    aliquid in fabularum numerum,

    id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and:

    hanc partem in numerum,

    id. ib. 1, 51, 97:

    in ejus sinum rem publicam,

    Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus ( rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.
    I.
    Remote, distant (syn. remotus;

    very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 59:

    terrae,

    id. ib. 3, 364:

    populi,

    Sil. 3, 325:

    convalles,

    App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—
    II.
    Laid aside, stored up:

    spes,

    Vulg. Col. 1, 5:

    corona justitiae,

    id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.

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  • 17 retro

    rē̆trō, adv. [from re and the pronominal suffix ter, as in citro, ultro, intro, etc.].
    I.
    Lit., of place, backwards, back; on the back side, behind.
    a.
    Denoting tendency, direction, with verbs or nouns of motion:

    multa videbis retro repulsa revorti,

    Lucr. 2, 130; so very often with redire, regredi, repetere, remittere, respicere, reverti, revocare, etc., v. h. vv., and cf. Drak. ad Liv. 22, 6, 7, and 27, 28, 6:

    vestigia retro sequor,

    Verg. A. 2, 753; 9, 392; 11, 405:

    dare lintea retro,

    id. ib. 3, 686:

    ora retro Flectit,

    Ov. M. 15, 685:

    retro inhibitā nave,

    Liv. 30, 10 et saep.: iter mihi retro ad Alpes versus incidit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; cf.:

    fugam retro spectante milite,

    Liv. 8, 19:

    fugit retro,

    Hor. C. 2, 11, 5:

    ne currente retro funis eat rotā,

    id. ib. 3, 10, 10:

    meretrix retro Perjura cedit,

    id. ib. 1, 35, 25:

    retro properare,

    Ov. H. 5, 31:

    unde ad hunc orbem redii, unde retro nemo,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 48.—
    b.
    Denoting rest (rare):

    est mihi in ultimis conclave aedibus quoddam retro,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 29:

    quid retro atque a tergo fieret, ne laboraret,

    Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

    perculsis nullum retro subsidium foret,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    retro Marsigni, etc.,

    id. G. 43:

    MEMORIAM SE VIVA FECIT SIBI... CVM AEDICVLIS ANTE ET A RETRO,

    Inscr. Orell. 4512.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of time, back; in time back, in past times, before, formerly:

    et deinceps retro usque ad Romulum,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58; cf.:

    SVPER OMNES RETRO PRINCIPES FORTISSIMO IMP. CAES., etc.,

    Inscr. Orell. 1049;

    and so, OMNES RETRO PRINCIPES,

    ib. 1098:

    quodcumque retro est,

    is past, Hor. C. 3, 29, 46:

    praemissa retro nobilitas,

    Stat. S. 1, 4, 68; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 118 (120):

    cujus vim si retro quoque velimus custodire (opp. in futurum),

    id. ib. 10, 115 (116) fin.:

    meliorum retro principum ( = superiorum),

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 34:

    cum id ab aliis retro factum recordarer,

    Tert. Uxor. 2, 2:

    Hebraei retro, qui nunc Judaei,

    id. Apol. 18.—
    B.
    In other relations, back, behind, in return, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa:

    ab imā (voce) ad summam ac retro multi sunt gradus,

    Quint. 11, 3, 15:

    ut omnia, quae sine eā (honestate) sint, longe retro ponenda censeat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87:

    rursum versus retroque,

    id. Part. 7, 24; cf.:

    vide rursus retro,

    id. Fin. 5, 28, 83: sic omnia fatis In pejus ruere, ac retro sublapsa referri, i. e. against one ' s efforts or wish, Verg. G. 1, [p. 1588] 200; cf.:

    retro vivere,

    Sen. Ep. 122 fin.:

    si malum perfidia, non est fallendum. Idem retro,

    Quint. 5, 10, 74:

    fructus hominis in operis consistit et retro in fructu hominis operae sunt,

    Dig. 7, 7, 4; cf. ib. 46, 1, 21; 46, 3, 67 et saep.
    ► The words containing retro in composition (except retroversus and retrorsus) are post-Aug.
    ; they are sometimes written separately.

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  • 18 re-cēdō

        re-cēdō cessī, cessus, ere,    to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede: ex eo quo stabant loco, Cs.: procul a telo veniente, O.: de medio: tristis recedo, H.: ab Iliturgi, L.: in castra Cornelia, Cs.—Poet, to go to rest, retire, O. —To recede, fall back, give way, give place, depart: Verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant, yield, H.: anni, Multa recedentes adimunt, H.—To stand back, recede, be distant, be retired Provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, V.: mea terra recedit, O.—To go away withdraw, retire, depart, part: Haec ecfatu' pater recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. C.: a stabulis recedunt (apes), V.: Caesa recesserunt a cute membra suā, O.—Fig., to withdraw, depart, retire, desist: senes ut in otia tuta recedant, H.: ab officio: ab armis, i. e. lay down: penitus a naturā: a vitā, i. e. kill oneself: quā ratione res ab usitatā consuetudine recederet, deviate: (nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit, has lost the meaning of ‘foreigner.’—To vanish, pass away, disappear: Ph<*>ebes ira recessit, O.: in ventos vita recessit, V.: cum res ab eo recessisset, was lost to him.

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  • 19 receptus

    1.
    rĕceptus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. recipio.
    2.
    rĕceptus, ūs, m. [recipio].
    I.
    A drawing back (very rare).
    A.
    Lit.:

    spiritus... in receptu difficilis,

    hard to recover, Quint. 11, 3, 32, § 53. —
    B.
    Trop., a retraction, recantation:

    receptus nimis pertinacis sententiae,

    Liv. 4, 57, 4. —
    II.
    Milit. t. t., a drawing or falling back, a retiring, retreat (very freq. in prose and poetry):

    ut expeditum ad suos receptum habeant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 33; so,

    habere receptum ad aliquem,

    id. ib. 6, 9;

    and simply receptus habere,

    id. B. C. 1, 59; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 2; Liv. 27, 27; 44, 39 al.:

    cum receptus primis non esset,

    id. 28, 23; 40, 32:

    dare receptum alicui,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 46; 1, 82 fin.;

    and simply receptus dare,

    id. ib. 2, 30 fin.:

    Caesar receptui cani jussit,

    id. B. G. 7, 47; cf.:

    receptui signum audire,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 7, 15:

    signum dare receptui,

    Liv. 4, 31, 3:

    Caesar receptui suorum timens,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 46; 3, 69:

    receptui sibi consulebant,

    id. ib. 3, 11, §

    4: haud facili inde receptu,

    Liv. 29, 7: ne receptum amittam, Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, C, 2 et saep.: canere receptui a miseriis contemplandis, to give the signal for leaving off, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 33. — In plur.:

    (bucina) cecinit jussos inflata receptus,

    Ov. M. 1, 340:

    cane, Musa, receptus,

    leave off, id. Tr. 4, 9, 31; and in the signif., place of retreat, refuge:

    tuti recessus,

    Verg. A. 11, 527:

    perdices surculis receptus suos vestiunt,

    nests, Sol. 7 fin. (cf. receptaculum, II. fin.).—
    2.
    Transf., a going back, retreating:

    receptus et recursus maris,

    i. e. the ebb and flow, Eum. Paneg. Const. 6 fin. —
    B.
    Trop., a retiring, falling back, retreat:

    receptui canente receptu,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8; cf. Quint. 12, 11, 4:

    receptus ad Caesaris gratiam atque amicitiam,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 1:

    receptum ad poenitendum habere,

    Liv. 42, 13:

    ad expertam clementiam,

    id. 3, 2:

    a malis consiliis receptum,

    id. 28, 25; Col. 6. 23, 2.

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  • 20 solvō

        solvō solvī (soluit, Ct.; soluisse, Tb.), solūtus, ere    [2 se+luo], to loosen, unbind, unfasten, unfetter, untie, release: iube solvi (eum), T.: ad palum adligati repente soluti sunt: ita nexi soluti (sunt), L.: Solvite me, pueri, V.: quo modo solvantur (nodi), Cu.: solve capillos, untie, O.: crines, let down, O.: terrae quem (florem) ferunt solutae, i. e. thawed, H.: Solve senescentem equum, i. e. from service, H.: talibus ora solvit verbis, freely opens, O.: Solvite vela, unfurl, V.— To detach, remove, part, disengage, free: ancorā solutā (i. e. a litore): classis retinacula solvi iussit, O.: teque isto corpore solvo, V.: partūs, to bring forth, O.—Of ships, to free from land, set sail, weigh anchor, leave land, depart: navīs solvit, Cs.: primis tenebris solverat navem, L.: cum foedere solvere navīs, O.: navīs a terrā solverunt, Cs.: ab Corintho solvere navīs, L.: tertia fere vigiliā solvit (sc. navem), Cs.: nos eo die cenati solvimus: a Brundusio solvit, L.: Alexandriā solvisse: portu solventes.— To untie, unfasten, unlock, unseal, open: ille pharetram Solvit, uncovered, O.: solutā epistulā, N.: solutis fasciis, Cu.— To take apart, disintegrate, disunite, dissolve, separate, break up, scatter, dismiss: ubi ordines procursando solvissent, L.: agmina Diductis solvēre choris, V.: solvit maniplos, Iu.: coetuque soluto Discedunt, O.: urbem solutam reliquerunt, disorganized: si solvas ‘Postquam discordia tetra’... Invenias, etc., H.— To relax, benumb, make torpid, weaken: ima Solvuntur latera, V.: pennā metuente solvi, i. e. unflagging, H.: illi solvuntur frigore membra, V.: corpora somnus Solverat, O.: somno vinoque solutos, O.: Solvitur in somnos, V.— To loosen, break up, part, dissolve, disperse, divide, scatter: omne conligatum solvi potest: solvere navīs et rursus coniungere, Cu.: membra ratis, O.— To dissolve, melt, turn, change: nives solvere, melt, O.: (vitulo) per integram solvuntur viscera pellem, V.—Of fastenings, to loose, remove, cancel, untie, unlock: nullo solvente catenas, O.: Frenum solvit, Ph.: Solvitur acris hiemps, H.: a corpore bracchia, relaxes his hold, O.: crinalīs vittas, V.: vinculum epistulae, Cu.—Fig., to free, set free, release, loose, emancipate, relieve, exempt: linguam ad iurgia, O.: cupiditates suas, Cu.: Bassanitas obsidione, L.: ut religione civitas solvatur: Vopiscus, solvatur legibus, be exempted: petente Flacco ut legibus solveretur, L.: ut is per aes et libram heredes testamenti solvat, release the testamentary heirs: reus Postumus est eā lege... solutus ac liber, i. e. the law does not apply to: solutus Legibus insanis, H.: vos curis ceteris, T.: solvent formidine terras, V.: Vita solutorum miserā ambitione, H.: longo luctu, V.: calices quem non fecere Contractā in paupertate solutum? i. e. from cares, H.: ego somno solutus sum, awoke.— To acquit, absolve, cleanse, relieve: ut scelere solvamur, be held guiltless: hunc scelere solutum periculo liberavit: Sit capitis damno Roma soluta mei, O.— To relax, smooth, unbend, quiet, soothe (poet.): solvatur fronte senectus (i. e. frons rugis solvatur), be cleared, H.: arctum hospitiis animum, H.—Of ties, obligations, or authority, to remove, cancel, destroy, efface, make void, annul, overthrow, subvert, violate, abolish: solutum coniugium, Iu.: nec coniugiale solutum Foedus in alitibus, O.: culpa soluta mea est, O.: quos (milites), soluto imperio, licentia conruperat, S.: solvendarum legum principium (i. e. dissolvendarum), Cu.: disciplinam militarem, subvert, L.: pactique fide data munera solvit, i. e. took back, O.— To loosen, impair, weaken, scatter, disperse, dissolve, destroy: plebis vis soluta atque dispersa, S.: senectus quae solvit omnia, L.: nodum (amicitiae) solvere Gratiae, H.: hoc firmos solvit amores, O.— To end, remove, relieve, soothe: ieiunia granis, O.: Curam Dulci Lyaeo, H.: corde metum, V.: pudorem, V.: solutam cernebat obsidionem, the siege raised, L.: Solventur risu tabulae (see tabula), H.— To accomplish, fulfil, complete, keep (of funeral ceremonies, vows, and promises): omnia paterno funeri iusta, finish the burial rites: iustis defunctorum corporibus solutis, Cu.: exsequiis rite solutis, V.: vota, fulfil: Vota Iovi, O.: solvisti fidem, you have kept your promise, T.: Esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides, i. e. your pledge (to be mine through life), O.— To solve, explain, remove: quā viā captiosa solvantur, i. e. are refuted: Carmina non intellecta, O.: nodos iuris, Iu.—Of debts, to fulfil, pay, discharge, pay off: hoc quod debeo peto a te ut... solutum relinquas, settled: Castricio pecuniam iam diu debitam, a debt of long standing: ex quā (pensione) maior pars est ei soluta: rem creditori populo solvit, L.: ut creditae pecuniae solvantur, Cs.: debet vero, solvitque praeclare.—Of persons, to make payment, pay: cuius bona, quod populo non solvebat, publice venierunt: ei cum solveret, sumpsit a C. M. Fufiis: pro vecturā: tibi quod debet ab Egnatio, pay by a draft on Egnatius: numquam vehementius actum est quam ne solveretur, to stop payments: nec tamen solvendo aeri alieno res p. esset, able to pay its debt, L.; hence the phrase, solvendo esse, to be solvent: solvendo non erat, was insolvent: cum solvendo civitates non essent: ne videatur non fuisse solvendo.—Of money or property, to pay, pay over, hand over (for pecuniā rem or debitum solvere): emi: pecuniam solvi: pro quo (frumento) pretium, L.: quae praemia senatus militibus ante constituit, ea solvantur: arbitria funeris, the expenses of the funeral: Dona puer solvit, paid the promised gifts, O.: HS CC praesentia, in cash: legatis pecuniam pro frumento, L.—Of a penalty, to accomplish, fulfil, suffer, undergo: iustae et debitae poenae solutae sunt: capite poenas, S.: meritas poenas solvens, Cu.
    * * *
    solvere, solvi, solutus V
    loosen, release, unbind, untie, free; open; set sail; scatter; pay off/back

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