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batulum

  • 1 Batulum

    Bătŭlum, i, n., a town in Campania, built by the Samnites, Verg. A. 7, 739 Serv.; Sil. 8, 566.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Batulum

  • 2 meto

    1.
    mēto (no perf.), ātum, 1, v. a., to measure; v. metor fin.
    2.
    mĕto, messŭi (Cato ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 319), messum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ma-; Gr. amaô, mow, reap; amê, sickle; cf. messis, messor], to reap, mow, crop; of the vintage, to gather, gather in, collect; and poet. of the sucking of honey from flowers (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    cum est matura seges, metendum,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3:

    sunt autem metendi genera complura,

    Col. 2, 21, 2:

    in metendo occupatos,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 32:

    pabula falce,

    to cut, cut down, Ov. H. 6, 84:

    farra,

    id. F 2, 519:

    arva,

    Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.—Prov.:

    ut sementem feceris, ita et metes,

    as you sow, so shall you reap, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; cf.:

    ventum seminabunt et turbinem metent,

    Vulg. Os. 8, 7:

    qui seminant iniquitatem metet mala,

    id. Prov. 22, 8:

    mihi istic nec seritur, nec metitur,

    i. e. I have no share in it, it does not concern me, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 80:

    sibi quisque ruri metit,

    every one looks out for himself, id. Most. 3, 2, 112: Tibi aras, tibi occas, tibi seris;

    tibi item metes,

    id. Merc. prol. 71.—Of the vintage, to gather, etc.:

    postremus metito,

    Verg. G. 2, 410; so,

    vindemiam,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 185.—Of bees: purpureosque metunt flores, reap the flowers, i. e. gather the pollen, Verg. G. 4, 54.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., to cut off, pluck off, crop ( poet.):

    virgā lilia summa metit,

    Ov. F. 2, 706:

    barbam forfice,

    Mart. 7, 95, 12:

    capillos,

    id. 10, 83, 11:

    olus,

    to cut, gather, Calp. Ecl. 2, 74:

    et ferus in silvā farra metebat aper,

    laid waste, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 40:

    ille metit barbam,

    Juv. 3, 186. —
    2.
    In partic., in battle, to mow down, cut down:

    proxima quaeque metit gladio,

    Verg. A. 10, 513:

    primosque et extremos metendo Stravit humum,

    Hor. C. 4, 14, 31 tum Vesulum ense metit rapido, Sil. 10, 147:

    agmina plura metam,

    Val. Fl. 3, 670.—So of death:

    metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 178: vita omnibus metenda, ut fruges (transl. of the Greek of Euripid.: anankaiôs d echei bion therizein), Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 59.—
    B.
    To inhabit a region ( poet.):

    qui Batulum Nucrasque metunt,

    Sil. 8, 566 (cf. a like poetic transfer of the verbs colere, arare, serere, and bibere).
    3.
    Mĕto, ōnis, v Meton.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > meto

См. также в других словарях:

  • BATULUM — castellum Campaniae, cuius incolae Turno in auxilium venerunt adversus Aeneam. Virg. Aen. l. 7. v. 739. Quique Rufas Batulumque tenent, atque arva Celennae …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • BOVIANUM — Samnitum colonia vetus. Plin. l. 3. c. 12. vulgo nunc Botano dictum, Episcopali dignitate, sub Archiepiscopo Beneventano clarum. Memoratur Livio, l. 9. c. 28. 31. l. 10. c. 12. 41. Straboni, aliisque. Βουΐανον Ptolemaeo; Βοΐανον Straboni; Apub… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • MUCRAE — Samnii vicus inter Fauces Caudinas et Bovianum, Sil. Ital. l. 8. v. 565. Qui Batulum, Mucrasque colunt. Boviania quique Exercent lustra, aut Caudinis faucibus haerent …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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