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jŭgum, i, n. [kindred to Sanscr. yuga from yug-, jungere; Gr. zugon; v. jungo], a yoke for oxen, a collar for horses.

Lit.:

nos onera quibusdam bestiis, nos juga imponimus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151:

leones jugo subdere, et ad currum jungere,

Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 55:

(bos) juga detractans,

Verg. G. 3, 57:

tauris solvere,

id. E. 4, 41:

frena jugo concordia ferre,

id. A. 3, 542; Ov. M. 12, 77:

jugum excutere,

Curt. 4, 15, 16.—

Transf.

A yoke, pair, team of draught-cattle:

ut minus multis jugis ararent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 51, § 120; a pair of horses, Verg. A. 5, 147:

aquilarum,

a pair, Plin. 10, 4, 5, § 16.— Plur.:

nunc sociis juga pauca boum,

Juv. 8, 108; also for the chariot itself, Verg. A. 10, 594; Sil. 7, 683:

curtum temone jugum,

Juv. 10, 135.—

A juger of land:

in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur jugis: jugum vocant, quod juncti boves uno die exarare possint,

Varr. R. R. 1, 10 (but in Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 9, the correct reading is jugerum; v. Sillig ad h. l.).—

A beam, lath, or rail fastened in a horizontal direction to perpendicular poles or posts, a cross-beam, cross-rail:

palmes in jugum insilit,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 175:

vineam sub jugum mittere,

Col. 4, 22.—

Esp. as the symbol of humiliation and defeat, a yoke, consisting of two upright spears, and a third laid transversely upon them, under which vanquished enemies were made to pass:

cum male pugnatum apud Caudium esset, legionibus nostris sub jugum missis,

Cic. Off. 3, 30, 109:

exercitum sub jugum mittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12; 1, 7; Quint. 3, 8, 3; Liv. 1, 26, 13; 2, 34, 9 al.; also,

sub jugo mittere,

id. 3, 28 fin. —

The constellation Libra:

Romam, in jugo cum esset luna, natam esse dicebat,

Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98.—

The beam of a weaver's loom:

tela jugo vincta est,

Ov. M. 6, 55.—

A rower's bench, Verg. A. 6, 411.—

A height or summit of a mountain, a ridge; also, a chain of mountains:

in immensis qua tumet Ida jugis,

Ov. H. 5, 138:

montis,

Verg. E. 5, 76; Caes. B. C. 1, 70:

suspectum jugum Cumis,

Juv. 9, 57; 3, 191.—

Trop., yoke, bonds of slavery, matrimony, etc.: Pa. Jamne ea fert jugum? Ph. Tam a me pudicast quasi soror mea, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 50:

cujus a cervicibus jugum servile dejecerant,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6:

Venus Diductos jugo cogit aëneo,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 18:

accipere,

Just. 44, 5, 8:

exuere,

to shake off, Tac. Agr. 31:

excutere,

Plin. Pan. 11:

nondum subacta ferre jugum valet Cervice,

the yoke of marriage, Hor. C. 2, 5, 1. —Of misfortune:

ferre jugum pariter dolosi,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 28:

pari jugo niti,

to work with equal efforts, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 9:

calamitates terroresque mortalium sub jugum mittere,

to subjugate, Sen. de Prov. 4 init.:

felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra,

Juv. 13, 22.

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mălus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. mala, dirt; Gr. melas, black; cf. macula; Germ. mal in Mutter-mal, etc.].— Comp.: pējor, pejus.— Sup.: pessimus, a, um, bad, in the widest sense of the word (opp. bonus), evil, wicked, injurious, destructive, mischievous, hurtful; of personal appearance, ill-looking, ugly, deformed; of weight, bad, light; of fate, evil, unlucky, etc.:

malus et nequam homo,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 1:

pessima puella,

Cat. 36, 9; 55, 10:

delituit mala,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 9:

philosophi minime mali illi quidem, sed non satis acuti,

Cic. Off. 3, 9, 23:

malam opinionem habere de aliquo,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 24, § 59:

consuetudo,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 36:

conscientia,

Quint. 12, 1, 3:

mens,

id. ib.:

mores,

Sall. C. 18:

fures,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 77:

Furiae,

id. ib. 2, 3, 135:

virus,

Verg. G. 1, 129:

cicuta,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 56:

libido,

Liv. 1, 57:

falx,

Verg. E. 3, 11:

gramina,

id. A. 2, 471: carmen, i. e. an incantation, Leg. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17:

abi in malam rem,

go and be hanged! Ter. And. 2, 1, 17:

pugna,

unsuccessful, adverse, Cic. Div. 2, 25, 54; Sall. J. 56:

avis,

i. e. ill-boding, Hor. C. 1, 15, 5; cf. id. ib. 3, 6, 46:

ales,

id. Epod. 10, 1: aetas, burdensome, i. e. senectus, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 4:

haud mala est mulier,

not badlooking, id. Bacch. 5, 2, 42:

facies,

Quint. 6, 3, 32; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 43:

crus,

i. e. deformed, Hor. S. 1, 2, 102:

pondus,

i. e. light, deficient, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 156.—Of the sick:

in malis aeger est,

in great danger, Cels. 3, 15 fin.:

tempus a quo omnis aeger pejor fiat,

id. 3, 5 med.:

eo tempore fere pessimi sunt qui aegrotant,

id. ib. —In neutr. sing., as adv.:

ne gallina malum responset dura palato,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 18.— Comp.: pejor, worse:

via,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 96.—Hence,

mă-lum, i, n., any thing bad, an evil, mischief, misfortune, calamity, etc.

In gen.:

orarem, ut ei, quod posses mali facere, faceres,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 25:

quam sit bellum, cavere malum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

nihil enim mali accidisse Scipioni puto,

id. Lael. 3, 10:

hostes inopinato malo turbati,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12:

externum, i. e. bellum,

Nep. Hamilc. 21:

ne in cotidianam id malum vertat, i. e. febris,

Cels. 3, 15:

hoc malo domitos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam, etc.,

Liv. 2, 34, 11.—

In partic.

Punishment; hurt, harm, severity, injury:

malo domandam tribuniciam potestatem,

Liv. 2, 54, 10:

malo exercitum coërcere,

Sall. J. 100, 5:

sine malo,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 81; so Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 45; Liv. 4, 49, 11:

vi, malo, plagis adductus est, ut frumenti daret,

ill-usage, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 56:

amanti amoenitas malo est: nobis lucro est,

is hurtful, injurious, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 5:

clementiam illi malo fuisse,

was injurious, unfortunate, Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1: malo hercle magno suo convivat sine modo, to his own [p. 1105] hurt, Enn. ap. Non. 474, 23 (Sat. v. 1 Vahl.):

olet homo quidam malo suo,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 165:

male merenti bona es: at malo cum tuo,

to your own hurt, id. As. 1, 3, 3.—

Wrong-doing:

causae, quae numquam malo defuturae sunt, Sen. de Ira, 1, 16, 3: sperans famam exstingui veterum sic posse malorum,

Verg. A. 6, 527; Anthol. Lat. 1, 178.—

As a term of abuse, plague, mischief, torment:

quid tu, malum, me sequere?

Plaut. Cas. 1, 3:

qui, malum, alii?

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 10:

quae, malum, est ista tanta audacia?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 20, § 54; so id. Off. 2, 15, 53; Curt. 8, 14, 41.—

As an exclamation, alas! misery! Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 16; id. Men. 2, 3, 37 Brix ad loc.—

măle, adv., badly, ill, wrongly, wickedly, unfortunately, erroneously, improperly, etc.: dubitas, quin lubenter tuo ero meus, quod possiet facere, faciat male? will do all the harm to him, etc., Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 66: si iste Italiam relinquet, faciet omnino male, et, ut ego existimo, alogistôs, will act altogether unwisely, Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10:

di isti Segulio male faciant,

do harm to him, punish him, Cic. Fam. 11, 21, 1:

o factum male de Alexione!

id. Att. 15, 1, 1:

male velle alicui,

to wish ill, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 13:

Karthagini male jamdiu cogitanti bellum multo ante denuntio, cogitare de aliquo,

Cic. Sen. 6, 18:

male loqui,

id. Rosc. Am. 48:

male loqui alicui, for maledicere,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 25:

male accipere verbis aliquem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 140:

equitatu agmen adversariorum, male habere,

to harass, annoy, Caes. B. C. 1, 63:

hoc male habet virum,

annoys, vexes him, Ter. And. 2, 6, 5:

male se habere,

to feel ill, dejected, low-spirited, id. Eun. 4, 2, 6:

male est animo,

it vexes me, id. Ad. 4, 5, 21:

male est animo,

I feel unwell, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 33:

male fit animo,

I am beginning to feel bad, am getting unwell, id. Rud. 2, 6, 26: L. Antonio male sit, si quidem, etc., evil betide him! (a formula of imprecation), Cic. Att. 15, 15, 1:

quae res tibi vertat male,

much harm may it do you! Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 37:

male tibi esse malo quam molliter,

I would rather you should be unfortunate than effeminate, Sen. Ep. 82, 1:

proelium male pugnatum,

unsuccessfully, Sall. J. 54, 7:

ea quae male empta sunt,

at a bad bargain, Cic. Att. 2, 4, 1:

male vendere,

at a sacrifice, id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

male reprehendunt praemeditationem rerum futurarum,

id. Tusc. 3, 16, 34:

male tegere mutationem fortunae,

Tac. H. 1, 66:

male sustinere arma,

unskilfully, Liv. 1, 25, 12: non dubito, quin me male oderit, i. e. very much, intensely, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 1, 2:

male metuo, ne, etc.,

exceedingly, much, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 2:

rauci,

miserably, Hor. S. 1, 4, 66.—

When attached to an adjective, it freq. gives it the opposite meaning: male sanus = insanus,

insane, deranged, Cic. Att. 9, 15, 5:

male sana,

with mind disturbed, Verg. A. 4, 8:

gratus,

i. e. ungrateful, Ov. H. 7, 27:

male fidas provincias,

unfaithful, Tac. H. 1, 17:

statio male fida carinis,

unsafe, Verg. A. 2, 23.— Comp.:

oderam multo pejus hunc quam illum ipsum Clodium,

Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3; cf.:

pejusque leto flagitium timet,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 50; and:

cane pejus vitabit chlamydem,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 30.

mālus, i, f., Gr. mêlea, an appletree:

malus bifera,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7:

et steriles platani malos gessere valentes,

Verg. G. 2, 70:

malus granata,

the pomegranate, Isid. 17, 7, 6:

felices arbores putantur esse quercus...malus, etc.,

Macr. S. 3, 20, 2.

mālus, i, m. [by some referred to root mac-; Gr. makros; Lat. magnus; but perh. the same word with 2. malus], an upright mast, pole, or beam.

In gen.:

malos exaequantes altitudinem jugi surrexit,

Front. Strat. 3, 8, 3.—

Esp.

A mast of a ship:

ut si qui gubernatorem in navigando agere nihil dicant, cum alii malos scandant, etc.,

Cic. Sen. 6, 17:

malum erigi, vela fieri imperavit,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:

attolli malos,

Verg. A. 5, 829:

malo suspendit ab alto,

id. ib. 5, 489:

saucius,

injured, Hor. C. 1, 14, 5.—

A standard or pole, to which the awnings spread over the theatre were attached, Lucr. 6, 110; Liv. 39, 7, 8.—

The beam in the middle of a wine-press, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317.—

The corner beams of a tower:

turrium mali,

Caes. B. G. 7, 22, 4.

scapus, i, m. [root skap-; Gr. skêptô, to prop, skêptron; Doric, skapos; cf.: scipio, scamnum, scopus; Engl. shaft], a shaft, stem, stalk, trunk, etc.

In gen., Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 5; Col. 9, 4, 4; Plin. 18, 10, 21, § 95; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—

In partic.

A cylinder on which sheets of paper or leaves of papyrus were rolled, Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 77.—

A sheet of paper: aliquid papyri illinere scapo, Varr. ap. Non. 168, 14.—

A weaver's yarn-beam, Lucr. 5, 1353.—

The shaft of a column, Vitr. 3, 2 sq.—

The shank of a candlestick, Plin. 34, 3, 6, § 11.—

The post or newel of a circular staircase, Vitr. 9, 2 fin. —

The main stile of a door on which it hinged, Vitr. 4, 6.—

The beam of a balance, Vitr. 10, 8; Fest. s. v. agina, p. 10 Müll.; and s. v. librile, p. 116 ib.—

= membrum virile, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 24 fin.; Veg. 5, 14, 17.

sŏrōrĭus, a, um, adj. [id.].

In gen., of or belonging to a sister, sisterly:

cena,

made because a sister was found, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 60:

stupra,

with a sister, Cic. Sest. 7, 16:

moenia,

i. e. of Dido, Ov. F. 3, 559:

oscula,

as a sister gives to a brother, sisterly, id. M. 4, 334; 9, 539.—

In partic.: Sororium Tigillum, the Sister's beam, a place in Rome sacred to Juno, where Horatius was obliged to creep under a beam laid across the way as a punishment for having killed his sister, Liv. 1, 26, 13; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 4; Fest. pp. 297 and 307 Müll.

tēla, ae, f. [prob. contr. from texia, from texo; cf. ala, from axilla;

mala, from maxilla,

Cic. Or. 45, 153 ], a web.

Lit.:

texentem telam studiose ipsam offendimus,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 44:

Penelope telam retexens,

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95:

tenui telas discreverat auro,

Verg. A. 4, 264; 11, 75:

vetus in telā deducitur argumentum,

Ov. M. 6, 69:

commenta retexere tela,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 9; Dig. 32, 1, 69; 34, 2, 22:

lanā et telā victum quaeritans,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 48; cf.:

assiduis exercet bracchia telis,

Ov. F. 4, 699:

antiquas exercet telas,

id. M. 6, 145:

plena domus telarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, § 59.—Of a spider ' s web:

deiciamque eorum (araneorum) omnis telas,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 25; Cat. 68, 49; Mart. 8, 33, 15; Juv. 14, 61.—

Transf.

The threads that run lengthwise in the loom, the warp (syn.:

stamen, trama),

Tib. 1, 6, 79: licia telae Addere, Verg. G. 1, 285; 3, 562; Ov. M. 4, 275; 6, 54 sq.—

A weaver ' s beam, yarn-beam; also, a loom, Cato, R. R. 10, 5; 14, 2; Ov. M. 4, 35; 6, 576. —

Trop., a web, i. e. a plan, design:

exorsa haec tela non male omnino mihi est,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 116:

ad detexundam telam,

id. Ps. 1, 4, 7:

quamquam ea tela texitur et ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 226.

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