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  • 1 auferō

        auferō abstulī, ablātus, auferre    [ab + fero], to take away, bear off, carry off, withdraw, remove: istaec intro, T.: e proelio auferri: multa domum suam: liberi per delectūs auferuntur, Ta.: caput domino, V.: Ille sibi ablatus, robbed of his own form, O.: illi vertice crinem, taken from her head, V.: auferri e conspectu, to disappear, L. — Of waves, wind, etc., to carry away, waft, bear, whirl: alquem ad scopulum e tranquillo, T.: auferor in scopulos, O.: in silvam pennis ablata, V. — To carry off, snatch away, rob, steal: a nobis hoc, T.: ab hoc abaci vasa omnia: pecuniam de aerario. —To sweep away, destroy, kill, slay: abstulit mors Achillem, H.: quidquid mors aufert, L.: alqd Mulciber abstulerat, had consumed, O. — Fig., to carry off, gain, obtain, get, receive: inultum numquam id auferet, T.: paucos dies ab aliquo: ut in foro statuerent (statuas), abstulisti, i. e. have prevailed. — To carry away, learn, understand: hoc non ex priore actione, posse, etc.—To get off, escape: haud sic auferent, T.—To take away, snatch away, remove: hi ludi dies quindecim auferent, take up: imperium indignis, from the unworthy, L.: conspectum eius contioni, deprives, L.: vitam senibus: spem: fervorem, L.: metūs, V.: somnos, H.: me velut de spatio, from my subject, L.: fortassis et istinc abstulerit aetas, will free me from them, H.: pollicitationes aufer, away with, T.: aufer Me voltu terrere, desist, H.
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    I
    auferre, abstuli, ablatus V TRANS
    bear/carry/take/fetch/sweep/snatch away/off, remove, withdraw; steal, obtain
    II
    auferre, apstuli, ablatus V TRANS
    bear/carry/take/fetch/sweep/snatch away/off, remove, withdraw; steal, obtain

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  • 2 aufero

    aufĕro, abstŭli, ablātum, auferre, v. a. [ab-fero; cf. ab init. ], to take or bear off or away, to carry off, withdraw, remove (very freq. in prose and poetry; syn.: tollo, fero, rapio, eripio, diripio, adimo, averto).
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    1.. Lit.:

    ab januā stercus,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 18:

    dona,

    id. Am. prol. 139:

    aurum atque ornamenta abs te,

    id. Mil. 4, 1, 36:

    abstulit eos a conspectu,

    Vulg. 4 Reg. 17, 18:

    auferas me de terrā hac,

    ib. Gen. 47, 30:

    vos istaec intro auferte,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 1:

    Auferte ista hinc,

    Vulg. Joan. 2, 16:

    aether multos secum levis abstulit ignīs,

    Lucr. 5, 459; 3, 230; 3, 439; 3, 717; 5, 205; 5, 725; 6, 622; Turp. ap. Non. p. 422, 21:

    multa domum suam auferebat,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.:

    liberi per delectus alibi servituri auferuntur (a Romanis),

    are carried away, Tac. Agr. 31:

    quem vi abstulerant servi,

    Vulg. Gen. 21, 25.—So of sick persons, or those unable to walk:

    auferere, non abibis, si ego fustem sumpsero,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 202 (cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 298:

    lumbifragium hinc auferes): asoti, qui in mensam vomant et qui de conviviis auferantur,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23. —Auferre se, in colloquial lang., to remove one ' s self, to withdraw, retire, go away:

    Te, obsecro hercle, aufer modo,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 93:

    aufer te domum,

    id. As. 2, 4, 63.—
    2.
    Of bodies that are borne away by wings, by the winds, waves, or any other quick motion, to bear or carry away, sweep away, etc. (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

    aliquem ad scopulum e tranquillo auferre,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 8:

    unda rates,

    Prop. 1, 8, 14:

    auferor in scopulos,

    Ov. M. 9, 593:

    auferet,

    id. ib. 15, 292 al.:

    in silvam pennis ablata refugit,

    Verg. A. 3, 258; 11, 867:

    ne te citus auferat axis,

    Ov. M. 2, 75:

    vento secundo vehementi satis profecti celeriter e conspectu terrae ablati sunt,

    Liv. 29, 27:

    (Bubo) volat numquam quo libuit, sed transversus aufertur,

    Plin. 10, 12, 16, § 35:

    (milites) pavore fugientium auferebantur,

    Tac. A. 4, 73.—
    B.
    Trop., to carry away, mislead:

    te hortor, ut omnia gubernes prudentiā tuā, ne te auferant aliorum consilia,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 7:

    abstulerunt me velut de spatio Graecae res immixtae Romanis,

    i. e. have diverted, withdrawn me, from the subject, Liv. 35, 40:

    quae contemplatio aufert nos ad ipsorum animalium naturas,

    Plin. 27, 13, 120, § 145:

    auferre aliquem traversum,

    id. 28, 1, 1, § 1 Jan:

    ab intentione auferendus auditor,

    Quint. 4, 5, 6:

    somnus aufert,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 83:

    auferimur cultu, i. e. decipimur,

    are deceived, duped, Ov. R. Am. 343.—
    II.
    Esp.,
    A.
    1.. To take or snatch away; in a good, but more frequently in a bad sense, to take by force, to remove, withdraw, take away violently, rob, steal, etc.:

    aliquid eris,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 8:

    quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus fuit, id mihi tu, C. Verres, eripuisti atque abstulisti,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 5, 19:

    ab hoc abaci vasa omnia abstuiit,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 16; so,

    pecuniam de aerario,

    id. Att. 7, 21:

    pecuniam in ventre,

    to eat up, to squander, id. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

    auriculam mordicus,

    to bite off, id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 4:

    vestimentum,

    Vulg. Luc. 6, 29:

    hi ludi dies quindecim auferent,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 31:

    imperium indignis,

    Liv. 3, 67:

    legionem,

    Tac. H. 4, 48:

    consulatum, censuram,

    id. ib. 1, 52:

    auferat omnia irrita oblivio si potest,

    Liv. 28, 29:

    spem, voluntatem defensionis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7:

    fervorem et audaciam,

    Liv. 3, 12:

    obsequia,

    Tac. H. 1, 80:

    misericordiam,

    id. ib. 3, 84:

    spem veniae,

    id. A. 14, 23:

    studium,

    Cat. 68, 19 sq.; and so Hor. C. 3, 12, 5:

    metus,

    to banish, Verg. A. 12, 316:

    curas,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

    somnos,

    id. C. 2, 16, 16; id. Epod. 5, 96:

    pudorem,

    Ov. M. 6, 617:

    fugam,

    to hinder, prevent, Flor. 3, 10, 3 al. —
    2.
    To take off or away, to destroy, consume, kill, slay, etc. (mostly poet. or in the Aug. histt.):

    Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis,

    Cat. 3, 15:

    abstulit clarum cita mors Achillem,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 29; so id. Epod. 5, 66; id. S. 1, 9, 31:

    Auferat hora duos eadem,

    Ov. M. 8, 709; 15, 157:

    Labienum Varumque acies abstulit,

    Vell. 2, 55 fin.:

    Quidquid hinc aut illinc communis Mors belli aufert,

    Liv. 7, 8; Flor. 3, 17, 9 al.:

    Interea quodcumque fuit populabile flammae, Mulciber abstulerat,

    had consumed, Ov. M. 9, 263; 14, 575.—
    3.
    Of places, to separate, sever, divide:

    mare septem stadiorum intervallo Europam auferens Asiae,

    Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 75:

    Armenia Euphrate amne aufertur Cappadociae,

    id. 6, 9, 9, § 25. —
    B.
    To lay aside some action, manner of speaking, etc.; to cease from, desist from, leave off: proinde istaec tua aufer terricula, Att. ap. Non. p. 227, 31:

    jurgium hinc auferas,

    Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 19:

    aufer nugas,

    id. Truc. 4, 4, 8; id. Curc. 2, 1, 30:

    pollicitationes aufer,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 17: Ge. Id nosmet ipsos facere oportet, Phaedria. Ph. Aufer mi "oportet:" quin tu, quod faciam, impera, id. ib. 1, 4, 45 Ruhnk. (cf. Juv. 6, 170):

    Aufer abhinc lacrimas,

    Lucr. 3, 955:

    insolentiam,

    Phaedr. 3, 6, 8; so absol.: Insanis? Aufer! away! (where nugas may be supplied, as in Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8), Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14.—With inf. as object:

    aufer Me vultu terrere,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 43.—
    C.
    Meton., effect for cause, to corry off ( as the fruit or result of one ' s labor, exertions, errors, etc.), to obtain, get, receive, acquire:

    Ecquas viginti minas Paritas ut auferas a me?

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 71; 1, 5, 90; id. Curc. 5, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 2, 56; 2, 2, 9; id. Most. 4, 1, 32; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 62:

    id inultum numquam auferet,

    id. And. 3, 5, 4; id. Ad. 3, 4, 8 (cf. id. And. 1, 2, 4): paucos dies ab aliquo, to obtain a few days ' respite, Cic. Quinct. 5, 20:

    quis umquam ad arbitrum quantum petiit, tantum abstulit?

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12; so,

    responsum ab aliquo,

    id. de Or. 1, 56, 239:

    decretum,

    id. Att. 16, 16, A:

    diploma,

    id. Fam. 6, 12, 3:

    praemium,

    Suet. Gram. 17. —Also with ut: ut in foro statuerent (statuas), abstulisti, you have carried the point that they etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59 (so, adsequi, ut, Tac. G. 35).— Trop., to carry away the knowledge of a thing, to learn, understand: quis est in populo Romano, qui hoc non ex priore actione abstulerit? has not learned, does not know, Cic Verr. 2, 1, 8.

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  • 3 abveho

    ā-vĕho (in MSS. abvĕho; v. ab init.), vexi, vectum, 3, v. a. (avexti = avexisti, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 24), to carry off or away, to bear off (of chariots, ships, horses, etc.; v. veho; class., but perh. not in Cic.; syn. aufero): Pl. Rogas? Quine eam hinc avexti? La. Non avexi, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 24; 3, 6, 25:

    aliquem a patriā,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 56:

    ex Samo,

    id. Bacch. 4, 1, 2:

    Athenis,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 36:

    domum,

    Liv. 45, 33, 4:

    in finitimas urbes,

    id. 5, 51, 9:

    in alias terras,

    Tac. H. 5, 3; so Suet. Caes. 66; id. Tit. 8:

    ad aras,

    Stat. Th. 6, 188.—With the simple acc.:

    penitusque alias avexerat oras,

    Verg. A. 1, 512 Wagn.:

    equites Aegyptum avexit,

    Liv. 31, 43, 5.— Pass., to be carried away, to ride away, to depart:

    avectus (sc. equo) ab suis,

    Liv. 9, 27, 11:

    creditis avectos hostes?

    Verg. A. 2, 43 al.

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  • 4 aveho

    ā-vĕho (in MSS. abvĕho; v. ab init.), vexi, vectum, 3, v. a. (avexti = avexisti, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 24), to carry off or away, to bear off (of chariots, ships, horses, etc.; v. veho; class., but perh. not in Cic.; syn. aufero): Pl. Rogas? Quine eam hinc avexti? La. Non avexi, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 24; 3, 6, 25:

    aliquem a patriā,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 56:

    ex Samo,

    id. Bacch. 4, 1, 2:

    Athenis,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 36:

    domum,

    Liv. 45, 33, 4:

    in finitimas urbes,

    id. 5, 51, 9:

    in alias terras,

    Tac. H. 5, 3; so Suet. Caes. 66; id. Tit. 8:

    ad aras,

    Stat. Th. 6, 188.—With the simple acc.:

    penitusque alias avexerat oras,

    Verg. A. 1, 512 Wagn.:

    equites Aegyptum avexit,

    Liv. 31, 43, 5.— Pass., to be carried away, to ride away, to depart:

    avectus (sc. equo) ab suis,

    Liv. 9, 27, 11:

    creditis avectos hostes?

    Verg. A. 2, 43 al.

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  • 5 fero

    fĕro, tuli, latum, ferre (ante-class. redupl. form in the tempp. perff.:

    tetuli,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 84; 168; id. Men. 4, 2, 25; 66; id. Rud. prol. 68: tetulisti, Att. and Caecil. ap. Non. 178, 17 sq.:

    tetulit,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 40; id. Men. 2, 3, 30; Ter. And. 5, 1, 13:

    tetulerunt,

    Lucr. 6, § 672:

    tetulissem,

    Ter. And. 4, 5, 13:

    tetulisse,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 2:

    tetulero,

    id. Cist. 3, 19:

    tetulerit,

    id. Poen. 3, 1, 58; id. Rud. 4, 3, 101), v. a. and n. [a wide-spread root; Sanscr. bhar-, carry, bharas, burden; Gr. pherô; Goth. bar, bairo, bear, produce, whence barn, child; Anglo-Saxon beran, whence Engl. bear, birth; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 300; Fick, Vergl. Wort. p. 135. The perf. forms, tuli, etc., from the root tul-, tol-; Sanscr. tol-jami, lift, weigh; Gr. tlênai, endure, cf. talas, talanton; Lat. tollo, tolerare, (t)latus, etc. Cf. Goth. thulan, Germ. dulden, Geduld; Anglo-Sax. tholian, suffer. Supine latum, i. e. tlatum; cf. supra; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 220; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 73], to bear, carry, bring. (For syn. cf.: gero, porto, bajulo, veho; effero, infero; tolero, patior, sino, permitto, etc.)
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    ferri proprie dicimus, quae quis suo corpore bajulat, portari ea, quae quis in jumento secum ducit, agi ea, quae animalia sunt,

    Dig. 50, 16, 235: oneris quidvis feret, Ter. Ph. 3, 3, 29:

    quin te in fundo conspicer fodere aut arare aut aliquid ferre,

    id. Heaut. 1, 1, 17:

    numerus eorum, qui arma ferre possent,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 29, 1:

    arma et vallum,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 13:

    sacra Junonis,

    id. S. 1, 3, 11:

    cadaver nudis humeris (heres),

    id. ib. 2, 5, 86:

    argentum ad aliquem,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 142; cf.:

    symbolum filio,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 30:

    olera et pisciculos minutos ferre obolo in cenam seni,

    Ter. And. 2, 2, 32; cf.:

    vina et unguenta et flores,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 14:

    discerpta ferentes Memora gruis,

    id. S. 2, 8, 86; cf.:

    talos, nucesque sinu laxo,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 172:

    in Capitolium faces,

    Cic. Lael. 11, 37:

    iste operta lectica latus per oppidum est ut mortuus,

    id. Phil. 2, 41, 106:

    lectica in Capitolium latus est,

    Suet. Claud. 2:

    circa judices latus (puer),

    Quint. 6, 1, 47:

    prae se ferens (in essedo) Darium puerum,

    Suet. Calig. 19.— Poet. with inf.:

    natum ad Stygios iterum fero mergere fontes,

    Stat. Ach. 1, 134.—Prov.:

    ferre aliquem in oculis, or simply oculis,

    i. e. to hold dear, love exceedingly, Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 11; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9; Q. Cic. Fam. 16, 27, 2.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    With the idea of motion predominating, to set in motion, esp. to move onward quickly or rapidly, to bear, lead, conduct, or drive away; with se or mid. (so esp. freq.), to move or go swiftly, to haste, speed, betake one's self; and of things, to flow, mount, run down.
    (α).
    Act.:

    ubi in rapidas amnis dispeximus undas: Stantis equi corpus transvorsum ferre videtur Vis, et in advorsum flumen contrudere raptim: Et, quocumque oculos trajecimus, omnia ferri Et fluere assimili nobis ratione videntur,

    Lucr. 4, 422 sq.:

    ubi cernimus alta Exhalare vapore altaria, ferreque fumum,

    to send up, id. 3, 432; cf.:

    vis ut vomat ignes, Ad caelumque ferat flammai fulgura rursum,

    id. 1, 725; and:

    caelo supinas si tuleris manus,

    raisest, Hor. C. 3, 23, 1:

    te rursus in bellum resorbens Unda fretis tulit aestuosis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 16; cf.:

    ire, pedes quocumque ferent,

    id. Epod. 16, 21; and:

    me per Aegaeos tumultus Aura feret,

    id. C. 3, 29, 64:

    signa ferre,

    to put the standards in motion, to break up, Caes. B. G. 1, 39 fin.; 1, 40, 12; Liv. 10, 5, 1 al.:

    pol, si id scissem, numquam huc tetulissem pedem,

    have stirred foot, have come, Ter. And. 4, 5, 13:

    pedem,

    Verg. A. 2, 756; Val. Fl. 7, 112:

    gressum,

    to walk, Lucr. 4, 681; cf.:

    agiles gressus,

    Sil. 3, 180:

    vagos gradus,

    Ov. M. 7, 185:

    vestigia,

    Sil. 9, 101:

    vagos cursus,

    id. 9, 243.— Absol.:

    quo ventus ferebat,

    bore, drove, Caes. B. G. 3, 15, 3:

    interim, si feret flatus, danda sunt vela,

    Quint. 10, 3, 7:

    itinera duo, quae extra murum ad portum ferebant,

    led, Caes. B. C. 1, 27, 4:

    pergit ad speluncam, si forte eo vestigia ferrent,

    Liv. 1, 7, 6.—Prov.:

    in silvam ligna ferre,

    to carry coals to Newcastle, Hor. S. 1, 10, 34.—
    (β).
    With se or mid., to move or go swiftly, to hasten, rush:

    cum ipsa paene insula mihi sese obviam ferre vellet,

    to meet, Cic. Planc. 40, 96; cf.:

    non dubitaverim me gravissimis tempestatibus obvium ferre,

    id. Rep. 1, 4:

    hinc ferro accingor rursus... meque extra tecta ferebam,

    Verg. A. 2, 672; 11, 779:

    grassatorum plurimi palam se ferebant,

    Suet. Aug. 32.—Of things as subjects:

    ubi forte ita se tetulerunt semina aquarum,

    i. e. have collected themselves, Lucr. 6, 672.—Mid.:

    ad eum omni celeritate et studio incitatus ferebatur,

    proceeded, Caes. B. C. 3, 78, 2:

    alii aliam in partem perterriti ferebantur,

    betook themselves, fled, id. B. G. 2, 24, 3:

    (fera) supra venabula fertur,

    rushes, springs, Verg. A. 9, 553:

    huc juvenis nota fertur regione viarum,

    proceeds, id. ib. 11, 530:

    densos fertur moribundus in hostes,

    rushes, id. ib. 2, 511:

    quocumque feremur, danda vela sunt,

    Cic. Or. 23, 75; cf.:

    non alto semper feremur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 37:

    ego, utrum Nave ferar magna an parva, ferar unus et idem,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 200:

    non tenui ferar Penna biformis per liquidum aethera Vates,

    fly, id. C. 2, 20, 1.—Of inanimate subjects:

    (corpuscula rerum) ubi tam volucri levitate ferantur,

    move, Lucr. 4, 195; cf.:

    quae cum mobiliter summa levitate feruntur,

    id. 4, 745; cf.:

    tellus neque movetur et infima est, et in eam feruntur omnia nutu suo pondera,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 17 fin.:

    Rhenus longo spatio per fines Nantuatium, etc.... citatus fertur,

    flows, Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 3; cf. Hirt. B. [p. 738] G. 8, 40, 3:

    ut (flamma) ad caelum usque ferretur,

    ascended, arose, Suet. Aug. 94.—

    Rarely ferre = se ferre: quem procul conspiciens ad se ferentem pertimescit,

    Nep. Dat. 4 fin. —
    2.
    To carry off, take away by force, as a robber, etc.: to plunder, spoil, ravage:

    alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    postquam te (i. e. exstinctum Daphnin) fata tulerunt,

    snatched away, id. E. 5, 34. So esp. in the phrase ferre et agere, of taking booty, plundering, where ferre applies to portable things, and agere to men and cattle; v. ago.—
    3.
    To bear, produce, yield:

    plurima tum tellus etiam majora ferebat, etc.,

    Lucr. 5, 942 sq.; cf.:

    quae autem terra fruges ferre, et, ut mater, cibos suppeditare possit,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 67:

    quem (florem) ferunt terrae solutae,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 10:

    quibus jugera fruges et Cererem ferunt,

    id. ib. 3, 24, 13:

    angulus iste feret piper et thus,

    id. Ep. 1, 14, 23:

    (olea) fructum ramis pluribus feret,

    Quint. 8, 3, 10.— Absol.:

    ferundo arbor peribit,

    Cato, R. R. 6, 2.—
    4.
    Of a woman or sheanimal, to bear offspring, be pregnant:

    ignorans nurum ventrem ferre,

    Liv. 1, 34, 3;

    of animals: equa ventrem fert duodecim menses, vacca decem, ovis et capra quinque, sus quatuor,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 19; cf.:

    cervi octonis mensibus ferunt partus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 112:

    nec te conceptam saeva leaena tulit,

    Tib. 3, 4, 90.— Poet.:

    quem tulerat mater claro Phoenissa Laconi,

    i. e. had borne, Sil. 7, 666.—
    5.
    To offer as an oblation:

    liba et Mopsopio dulcia melle feram,

    Tib. 1, 7, 54; so,

    liba,

    id. 1, 10, 23:

    lancesque et liba Baccho,

    Verg. G. 2, 394:

    tura superis, altaribus,

    Ov. M. 11, 577.—
    6.
    To get, receive, acquire, obtain, as gain, a reward, a possession, etc.:

    quod posces, feres,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 106; cf.: quodvis donum et praemium a me optato;

    id optatum feres,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 27:

    fructus ex sese (i. e. re publica) magna acerbitate permixtos tulissem,

    Cic. Planc. 38, 92:

    partem praedae,

    id. Rosc. Am. 37, 107:

    ille crucem pretium sceleris tulit, hic diadema,

    Juv. 13, 105:

    coram rege sua de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to bear, carry, bring:

    satis haec tellus morbi caelumque mali fert,

    bears, contains, Lucr. 6, 663;

    veterrima quaeque, ut ea vina, quae vetustatem ferunt, esse debent suavissima,

    which carry age, are old, Cic. Lael. 19, 67:

    scripta vetustatem si modo nostra ferent,

    will have, will attain to, Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 8:

    nomen alicujus,

    to bear, have, Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; cf.:

    insani sapiens nomen ferat, aequus iniqui,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 15:

    nomen,

    Suet. Aug. 101; id. Calig. 47:

    cognomen,

    id. Aug. 43; id. Galb. 3; cf.:

    ille finis Appio alienae personae ferendae fuit,

    of bearing an assumed character, Liv. 3, 36, 1:

    Archimimus personam ejus ferens,

    personating, Suet. Vesp. 19; cf.

    also: (Garyophyllon) fert et in spinis piperis similitudinem,

    Plin. 12, 7, 15, § 30: fer mi auxilium, bring assistance, aid, help, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 29 (Trag. v. 50 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

    alicui opem auxiliumque ferre,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 9:

    auxilium alicui,

    Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 5; Ter. And. 1, 1, 115; Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19; Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 5; 4, 12, 5; Hor. Epod. 1, 21 et saep.: opem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 86 ed. Vahl.):

    opem alicui,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 23; Ter. And. 3, 1, 15; id. Ad. 3, 4, 41; Cic. Rab. Perd. 1, 3 (with succurrere saluti); id. Fin. 2, 35, 118 (with salutem); id. Fam. 5, 4, 2:

    subsidium alicui,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 26, 2:

    condicionem,

    to proffer, id. ib. 4, 11, 3; cf. Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

    Coriolanus ab sede sua cum ferret matri obviae complexum,

    offered, Liv. 2, 40, 5:

    si qua fidem tanto est operi latura vetustas,

    will bring, procure, Verg. A. 10, 792:

    ea vox audita laborum Prima tulit finem,

    id. ib. 7, 118: suspicionem falsam, to entertain suspicion, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5 (Trag. v. 348 ed. Vahl.).—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) To move, to bring, lead, conduct, drive, raise:

    quem tulit ad scenam ventoso gloria curru,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 177; so,

    animi quaedam ingenita natura... recta nos ad ea, quae conveniunt causae, ferant,

    Quint. 5, 10, 123; cf. absol.:

    nisi illud, quod eo, quo intendas, ferat deducatque, cognoris,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 135:

    exstincti ad caelum gloria fertur,

    Lucr. 6, 8; cf.:

    laudibus aliquem in caelum ferre,

    to extol, praise, Cic. Fam. 10, 26, 2; cf. id. Rep. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 99; Suet. Otho, 12; id. Vesp. 6:

    eam pugnam miris laudibus,

    Liv. 7, 10, 14; cf.:

    saepe rem dicendo subiciet oculis: saepe supra feret quam fieri possit,

    wilt exalt, magnify, Cic. Or. 40, 139:

    ferte sermonibus et multiplicate fama bella,

    Liv. 4, 5, 6:

    ferre in majus vero incertas res fama solet,

    id. 21, 32, 7:

    crudelitate et scelere ferri,

    to be impelled, carried away, Cic. Clu. 70, 199:

    praeceps amentia ferebare,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 46, § 121; cf.:

    ferri avaritia,

    id. Quint. 11, 38:

    orator suo jam impetu fertur,

    Quint. 12 praef. §

    3: eloquentia, quae cursu magno sonituque ferretur,

    Cic. Or. 28, 97; cf.:

    (eloquentia) feratur non semitis sed campis,

    Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    oratio, quae ferri debet ac fluere,

    id. 9, 4, 112; cf.:

    quae (historia) currere debet ac ferri,

    id. 9, 4, 18; so often: animus fert (aliquem aliquo), the mind moves one to any thing:

    quo cujusque animus fert, eo discedunt,

    Sall. J. 54, 4; cf.:

    milites procurrentes consistentesque, quo loco ipsorum tulisset animus,

    Liv. 25, 21, 5; and:

    qua quemque animus fert, effugite superbiam regiam,

    id. 40, 4, 14:

    si maxime animus ferat,

    Sall. C. 58, 6; cf. Ov. M. 1, 775.—With an object-clause, the mind moves one to do any thing, Ov. M. 1, 1; Luc. 1, 67; Suet. Otho, 6; cf.

    also: mens tulit nos ferro exscindere Thebas,

    Stat. Th. 4, 753.—
    2.
    (Acc. to I. B. 2.) To carry off, take away:

    omnia fert aetas, animum quoque,

    Verg. E. 9, 51:

    postquam te fata tulerunt,

    id. ib. 5, 34:

    invida Domitium fata tulere sibi,

    Anthol. Lat. 4, 123, 8;

    like efferre,

    to carry forth to burial, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 89.—
    3.
    (Acc. to I. B. 3.) To bear, bring forth, produce:

    haec aetas prima Athenis oratorem prope perfectum tulit,

    Cic. Brut. 12, 45:

    aetas parentum, pejor avis, tulit Nos nequiores,

    Hor. C. 3, 6, 46:

    Curium tulit et Camillum Saeva paupertas,

    id. ib. 1, 12, 42.—
    4.
    (Acc. to I. B. 6.) To bear away, to get, obtain, receive:

    Cotta et Sulpicius omnium judicio facile primas tulerunt,

    Cic. Brut. 49, 183:

    palmam,

    to carry off, win, id. Att. 4, 15, 6:

    victoriam ex inermi,

    to gain, Liv. 39, 51, 10; 2, 50, 2; 8, 8, 18:

    gratiam et gloriam annonae levatae,

    id. 4, 12, 8:

    maximam laudem inter suos,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 4:

    centuriam, tribus,

    i. e. to get their votes, Cic. Planc. 20, 49; 22, 53; id. Phil. 2, 2, 4:

    suffragia,

    Suet. Caes. 13 (diff. from 8. a.):

    responsum ab aliquo,

    to receive, Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 19; Caes. B. G. 6, 4 fin.:

    repulsam a populo,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

    repulsam,

    id. de Or. 2, 69 fin.; id. Phil. 11, 8, 19; id. Att. 5, 19 al.: calumniam, i. e. to be convicted of a false accusation, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 1:

    ita ut filius partem dimidiam hereditatis ferat,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 8:

    singulas portiones,

    id. ib. 3, 16; 61.—
    5.
    To bear, support any thing unpleasant; or pregn., to suffer, tolerate, endure.
    a.
    To bear in any manner.
    (α).
    With acc.: servi injurias nimias aegre ferunt, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17:

    (onus senectutis) modice ac sapienter sicut omnia ferre,

    Cic. de Sen. 1, 2:

    aegre ferre repulsam consulatus,

    id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40:

    hoc moderatiore animo ferre,

    id. Fam. 6, 1, 6:

    aliquid toleranter,

    id. ib. 4, 6, 2:

    clementer,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 3:

    quod eo magis ferre animo aequo videmur, quia, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 48, § 126:

    ut tu fortunam, sic nos te, Celse, feremus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 17.—
    (β).
    With an object-clause:

    ut si quis aegre ferat, se pauperem esse,

    take it ill, Cic. Tusc. 4, 27, 59:

    hoc ereptum esse, graviter et acerbe ferre,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 152:

    quomodo ferant veterani, exercitum Brutum habere,

    id. Phil. 10, 7, 15.—
    (γ).
    With de:

    de Lentulo scilicet sic fero, ut debeo,

    Cic. Att. 4, 6, 1:

    quomodo Caesar ferret de auctoritate perscripta,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 3:

    numquid moleste fers de illo, qui? etc.,

    id. ib. 6, 8, 3.—
    (δ).
    Absol.:

    sin aliter acciderit, humaniter feremus,

    Cic. Att. 1, 2, 1:

    si mihi imposuisset aliquid, animo iniquo tulissem,

    id. ib. 15, 26, 4.—
    b. (α).
    With acc.: quis hanc contumeliam, quis hoc imperium, quis hanc servitutem ferre potest? Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17:

    qui potentissimorum hominum contumaciam numquam tulerim, ferrem hujus asseclae?

    Cic. Att. 6, 3, 6:

    cujus desiderium civitas ferre diutius non potest,

    id. Phil. 10, 10, 21:

    cogitandi non ferebat laborem,

    id. Brut. 77, 268:

    unum impetum nostrorum,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 19, 3:

    vultum atque aciem oculorum,

    id. ib. 1, 39, 1:

    cohortatio gravior quam aures Sulpicii ferre didicissent,

    to hear unmoved, Cic. Phil. 9, 4, 9:

    vultum,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 121:

    multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit,

    id. A. P. 413:

    spectatoris fastidia,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 215:

    fuisse (Epaminondam) patientem suorumque injurias ferentem civium,

    Nep. Epam. 7.—Of personal objects:

    quem ferret, si parentem non ferret suum?

    brook, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 28:

    optimates quis ferat, qui, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 33:

    vereor, ut jam nos ferat quisquam,

    Quint. 8, 3, 25:

    an laturi sint Romani talem regem,

    id. 7, 1, 24:

    quis enim ferat puerum aut adolescentulum, si, etc.,

    id. 8, 5, 8.—
    (β).
    With an object-clause:

    ferunt aures hominum, illa... laudari,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 84, 344:

    non feret assiduas potiori te dare noctes,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Ov. M. 2, 628:

    illa quidem in hoc opere praecipi quis ferat?

    Quint. 11, 3, 27; 11, 1, 69:

    servo nubere nympha tuli,

    Ov. H. 5, 12; cf.:

    alios vinci potuisse ferendum est,

    id. M. 12, 555. —
    (γ).
    With quod:

    quod rapta, feremus, dummodo reddat eam,

    Ov. M. 5, 520:

    illud non ferendum, quod, etc.,

    Quint. 11, 3, 131. —
    6.
    With the access, notion of publicity, to make public, to disclose, show, exhibit:

    eum ipsum dolorem hic tulit paulo apertius,

    Cic. Planc. 14, 34; cf.:

    laetitiam apertissime tulimus omnes,

    id. Att. 14, 13, 2:

    neque id obscure ferebat nec dissimulare ullo modo poterat,

    id. Clu. 19, 54:

    haud clam tulit iram adversus praetorem,

    Liv. 31, 47, 4; cf.:

    tacite ejus verecundiam non tulit senatus, quin, etc.,

    id. 5, 28, 1.—
    b.
    Prae se ferre, to show, manifest, to let be seen, to declare:

    cujus rei tantae facultatem consecutum esse me, non profiteor: secutum me esse, prae me fero,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 5, 12:

    noli, quaeso, prae te ferre, vos plane expertes esse doctrinae,

    id. ib. 2, 18, 47:

    non mediocres terrores... prae se fert et ostentat,

    id. Att. 2, 23, 3:

    hanc virtutem prae se ferunt,

    Quint. 2, 13, 11:

    liberalium disciplinarum prae se scientiam tulit,

    id. 12, 11, 21:

    magnum animum (verba),

    id. 11, 1, 37.—Of inanim. and abstr. subjects:

    (comae) turbatae prae se ferre aliquid affectus videntur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 148:

    oratio prae se fert felicissimam facilitatem,

    id. 10, 1, 11.—
    7.
    Of speech, to report, relate, make known, assert, celebrate:

    haec omnibus ferebat sermonibus,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 2:

    alii alia sermonibus ferebant Romanos facturos,

    Liv. 33, 32, 3:

    ferte sermonibus et multiplicate fama bella,

    id. 4, 5, 6:

    patres ita fama ferebant, quod, etc.,

    id. 23, 31, 13; cf. with acc.:

    hascine propter res maledicas famas ferunt,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 149:

    famam,

    id. Pers. 3, 1, 23:

    fama eadem tulit,

    Tac. A. 1, 5; cf. id. ib. 15, 60:

    nec aliud per illos dies populus credulitate, prudentes diversa fama, tulere,

    talk about, id. ib. 16, 2:

    inimici famam non ita, ut nata est, ferunt,

    Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 23:

    quod fers, cedo,

    tell, say, Ter. Ph. 5, 6, 17:

    nostra (laus) semper feretur et praedicabitur, etc.,

    Cic. Arch. 9, 21.—With an object-clause:

    cum ipse... acturum se id per populum aperte ferret,

    Liv. 28, 40, 2; id. ib. §

    1: saepe homines morbos magis esse timendos ferunt quam Tartara leti,

    Lucr. 3, 42:

    Prognen ita velle ferebat,

    Ov. M. 6, 470; 14, 527:

    ipsi territos se ferebant,

    Tac. H. 4, 78; id. A. 4, 58; 6, 26 (32); cf.:

    mihi fama tulit fessum te caede procubuisse, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 503:

    commentarii ad senatum missi ferebant, Macronem praesedisse, etc.,

    Tac. A. 6, 47 (53).—
    b.
    Ferunt, fertur, feruntur, etc., they relate, tell, say; it is said, it appears, etc.—With inf.:

    quin etiam Xenocratem ferunt, cum quaereretur ex eo, etc... respondisse, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 2:

    fuisse quendam ferunt Demaratum, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 19:

    quem ex Hyperboreis Delphos ferunt advenisse,

    id. N. D. 3, 23, 57; Hor. C. 3, 17, 2:

    homo omnium in dicendo, ut ferebant, accrrimus et copiosissimus,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 45:

    Ceres fertur fruges... mortalibus instituisse,

    Lucr. 5, 14:

    in Syria quoque fertur item locus esse, etc.,

    id. 6, 755:

    is Amulium regem interemisse fertur,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 3:

    qui in contione dixisse fertur,

    id. ib. 2, 10 fin.:

    quam (urbem) Juno fertur terris omnibus unam coluisse,

    Verg. A. 1, 15:

    non sat idoneus Pugnae ferebaris,

    you were accounted, held, Hor. C. 2, 19, 27:

    si ornate locutus est, sicut fertur et mihi videtur,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 49; cf.: cum quaestor ex Macedonia venissem Athenas florente [p. 739] Academia, ut temporibus illis ferebatur, id. ib. § 45.—
    c.
    To give out, to pass off a person or thing by any name or for any thing; and, in the pass., to pass for any thing, to pass current:

    hunc (Mercurium) omnium inventorem artium ferunt,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17, 1:

    ut Servium conditorem posteri fama ferrent,

    Liv. 1, 42, 4:

    qui se Philippum regiaeque stirpis ferebat, cum esset ultimae,

    set himself up for, boast, Vell. 1, 11, 1:

    avum M. Antonium, avunculum Augustum ferens,

    boasting of, Tac. A. 2, 43; cf.:

    qui ingenuum se et Lachetem mutato nomine coeperat ferre,

    Suet. Vesp. 23:

    ante Periclem, cujus scripta quaedam feruntur,

    Cic. Brut. 7, 27 (quoted paraphrastically, Quint. 3, 1, 12): sub nomine meo libri ferebantur artis rhetoricae, Quint. prooem. 7; cf.:

    cetera, quae sub nomine meo feruntur,

    id. 7, 2, 24; Suet. Caes. 55; id. Aug. 31; id. Caes. 20:

    multa ejus (Catonis) vel provisa prudenter vel acta constanter vel responsa acute ferebantur,

    Cic. Lael. 2, 6:

    qua ex re in pueritia nobilis inter aequales ferebatur,

    Nep. Att. 1, 3.—
    8.
    Polit. and jurid. t. t.
    a.
    Suffragium or sententiam, to give in one's vote, to vote, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 1; cf.:

    ferunt suffragia,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 31; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7:

    de quo foedere populus Romanus sententiam non tulit,

    id. Balb. 15, 34; cf.:

    de quo vos (judices) sententiam per tabellam feretis,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 104;

    so of the voting of judges,

    id. Clu. 26, 72;

    of senators: parcite, ut sit qui in senatu de bello et pace sententiam ferat,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 31, § 76; cf. id. Fam. 11, 21, 2.—
    b.
    Legem (privilegium, rogationem) ad populum, or absol., to bring forward or move a proposition, to propose a law, etc.:

    perniciose Philippus in tribunatu, cum legem agrariam ferret, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73; cf. id. Sull. 23, 65:

    quae lex paucis his annis lata esset,

    id. Corn. 1, 3 (vol. xi. p. 10 B. and K.):

    familiarissimus tuus de te privilegium tulit, ut, etc.,

    id. Par. 4, 32:

    Sullam illam rogationem de se nolle ferri (shortly before: Lex ferri coepta),

    id. Sull. 23, 65:

    rogationem de aliquo, contra or in aliquem, ad populum, ad plebem,

    id. Balb. 14, 33; id. Clu. 51, 140; id. Brut. 23, 89; Caes. B. C. 3, 1, 4; Liv. 33, 25, 7:

    nescis, te ipsum ad populum tulisse, ut, etc.,

    proposed a bill, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 100:

    ut P. Scaevola tribunus plebis ferret ad plebem, vellentne, etc.,

    id. Fin. 2, 16, 54; cf. Liv. 33, 25, 6:

    quod Sulla ipse ita tulit de civitate, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 35, 102:

    nihil de judicio ferebat,

    id. Sull. 22, 63:

    cum, ut absentis ratio haberetur, ferebamus,

    id. Att. 7, 6, 2.— Impers.:

    lato ut solet ad populum, ut equum escendere liceret,

    Liv. 23, 14, 2. —
    c.
    Judicem, said of the plaintiff, to offer or propose to the defendant as judge:

    quem ego si ferrem judicem, refugere non deberet,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 45; id. de Or. 2, 70, 285.—Hence, judicem alicui, in gen., to propose a judge to, i. e. to bring a suit against, to sue a person:

    se iterum ac saepius judicem illi ferre,

    Liv. 3, 57, 5; 3, 24, 5; 8, 33, 8.—
    9.
    Mercant. t. t., to enter, to set or note down a sum in a book:

    quod minus Dolabella Verri acceptum rettulit, quam Verres illi expensum tulerit, etc.,

    i. e. has set down as paid, has paid, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, § 100 sq., v. expendo.—
    10.
    Absol., of abstr. subjects, to require, demand, render necessary; to allow, permit, suffer:

    ita sui periculi rationes ferre ac postulare,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 40, § 105; cf.:

    gravioribus verbis uti, quam natura fert,

    id. Quint. 18, 57: quid ferat Fors, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. 203 ed. Vahl.):

    quamdiu voluntas Apronii tulit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57:

    ut aetas illa fert,

    as is usual at that time of life, id. Clu. 60, 168:

    ad me, ut tempora nostra, non ut amor tuus fert, vere perscribe,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 5:

    quod ita existimabam tempora rei publicae ferre,

    id. Pis. 2, 5:

    si ita commodum vestrum fert,

    id. Agr. 2, 28, 77:

    prout Thermitani hominis facultates ferebant,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 83:

    si vestra voluntas feret,

    if such be your pleasure, id. de Imp. Pomp. 24, 70:

    ut opinio et spes et conjectura nostra fert,

    according to our opinion, hope, and belief, id. Att. 2, 25, 2:

    ut mea fert opinio,

    according to my opinion, id. Clu. 16, 46: si occasio tulerit, if occasion require, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6:

    dum tempus ad eam rem tulit, sivi, animum ut expleret suum,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 17: in hac ratione quid res, quid causa, quid tempus ferat, tu perspicies, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 6:

    natura fert, ut extrema ex altera parte graviter, ex altera autem acute sonent,

    id. Rep. 6, 18.— Impers.:

    sociam se cujuscumque fortunae, et, si ita ferret, comitem exitii promittebat (sc. res or fortuna),

    Tac. A. 3, 15; so,

    si ita ferret,

    id. H. 2, 44.

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        ferō tulī (tetulī, T., Ct.), lātus, ferre    [1 FER-; TAL-], to bear, carry, support, lift, hold, take up: aliquid, T.: arma, Cs.: sacra Iunonis, H.: cadaver umeris, H.: Pondera tanta, O.: oneri ferendo est, able to carry, O.: pedes ferre recusant Corpus, H.: in Capitolium faces: ventrem ferre, to be pregnant, L.: (eum) in oculis, to hold dear.—To carry, take, fetch, move, bear, lead, conduct, drive, direct: pisciculos obolo in cenam seni, T.: Caelo supinas manūs, raisest, H.: ire, pedes quocumque ferent, H.: opertā lecticā latus per oppidum: signa ferre, put in motion, i. e. march, Cs.: huc pedem, come, T.: pedem, stir, V.: ferunt sua flamina classem, V.: vagos gradūs, O.: mare per medium iter, pursue, V.: quo ventus ferebat, drove, Cs.: vento mora ne qua ferenti, i. e. when it should blow, V.: itinera duo, quae ad portum ferebant, led, Cs.: si forte eo vestigia ferrent, L.: corpus et arma tumulo, V.—Prov.: In silvam non ligna feras, coals to Newcastle, H.—With se, to move, betake oneself, hasten, rush: mihi sese obviam, meet: me tempestatibus obvium: magnā se mole ferebat, V.: ad eum omni studio incitatus ferebatur, Cs.: alii perterriti ferebantur, fled, Cs.: pubes Fertur equis, V.: (fera) supra venabula fertur, springs, V.: quocumque feremur, are driven: in eam (tellurem) feruntur pondera: Rhenus per finīs Nantuatium fertur, flows, Cs.—Praegn., to carry off, take by force, snatch, plunder, spoil, ravage: rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama, V.: puer fertur equis, V.— To bear, produce, yield: quae terra fruges ferre possit: flore terrae quem ferunt, H. — To offer, bring (as an oblation): Sacra matri, V.: tura superis, O.— To get, receive, acquire, obtain, earn, win: donum, T.: fructūs ex sese: partem praedae: crucem pretium sceleris, Iu.: Plus poscente, H.—Fig., to bear, carry, hold, support: vina, quae vetustatem ferunt, i. e. are old: Scripta vetustatem si ferent, attain, O.: Insani sapiens nomen ferat, be called, H.: finis alienae personae ferendae, bearing an assumed character, L.: secundas (partīs), support, i. e. act as a foil, H.— To bring, take, carry, render, lead, conduct: mi auxilium, bring help: alcui subsidium, Cs.: condicionem, proffer, Cs.: matri obviae complexum, L.: fidem operi, procure, V.: mortem illis: ego studio ad rem p. latus sum, S.: numeris fertur (Pindar) solutis, H.: laudibus alquem in caelum, praise: (rem) supra quam fieri possit, magnify: virtutem, ad caelum, S.: in maius incertas res, L.— To prompt, impel, urge, carry away: crudelitate et scelere ferri, be carried away: furiatā mente ferebar, V.: quo animus fert, inclination leads, S.: si maxime animus ferat, S.: fert animus dicere, impels, O.— To carry off, take away, remove: Omnia fert aetas, V.—With se, to carry, conduct: Quem sese ore ferens! boasting, V.: ingentem sese clamore, paraded, V.— To bear, bring forth, produce: haec aetas oratorem tulit: tulit Camillum paupertas, H.— To bear away, win, carry off, get, obtain, receive: omnium iudicio primas: ex Etruscā civitate victoriam, L.: laudem inter suos, Cs.: centuriam, tribūs, get the votes: Omne tulit punctum, H.: repulsam a populo, experience: Haud inpune feres, escape, O.— To bear, support, meet, experience, take, put up with, suffer, tolerate, endure: alcius desiderium: voltum atque aciem oculorum, Cs.: multa tulit fecitque puer, H.: iniurias civium, N.: quem ferret, si parentem non ferret suom? brook, T.: tui te diutius non ferent: dolores fortiter: iniurias tacite: rem aegerrume, S.: tacite eius verecundiam non tulit senatus, quin, etc., i. e. did not let it pass, without, etc., L.: servo nubere nympha tuli, O.: moleste tulisti, a me aliquid factum esse, etc.: gravissime ferre se dixit me defendere, etc.: non ferrem moleste, si ita accidisset: casum per lamenta, Ta.: de Lentulo sic fero, ut debeo: moleste, quod ego nihil facerem, etc.: cum mulier fleret, homo ferre non potuit: iratus atque aegre ferens, T.: patior et ferendum puto: non tulit Alcides animis, control himself, V.—Of feeling or passion, to bear, experience, disclose, show, exhibit: dolorem paulo apertius: id obscure: haud clam tulit iram, L.—In the phrase, Prae se ferre, to manifest, profess, show, display, declare: cuius rei facultatem secutum me esse, prae me fero: noli, quaero, prae te ferre, vos esse, etc.: speciem doloris voltu prae se tulit, Ta.—Of speech, to report, relate, make known, assert, celebrate, say, tell: haec omnibus ferebat sermonibus, Cs.: pugnam laudibus, L.: quod fers, cedo, say, T.: quae nunc Samothracia fertur, is called, V.: si ipse... acturum se id per populum aperte ferret, L.: homo ut ferebant, acerrimus, as they said: si, ut fertur, etc., as is reported: non sat idoneus Pugnae ferebaris, were accounted, H.: utcumque ferent ea facta minores, will regard, V.: hunc inventorem artium ferunt, they call, Cs.: multa eius responsa acute ferebantur, were current: quem ex Hyperboreis Delphos ferunt advenisse: qui in contione dixisse fertur.—Of votes, to cast, give in, record, usu. with suffragium or sententiam: de me suffragium: sententiam per tabellam (of judges): aliis audientibus iudicibus, aliis sententiam ferentibus, i. e. passing judgment, Cs.: in senatu de bello sententiam.—Of a law or resolution, to bring forward, move, propose, promote: legem: lege latā: nihil erat latum de me: de interitu meo quaestionem: rogationes ad populum, Cs.: te ad populum tulisse, ut, etc., proposed a bill: de isto foedere ad populum: cum, ut absentis ratio haberetur, ferebamus.— Impers: lato ad populum, ut, etc., L.— With iudicem, to offer, propose as judge: quem ego si ferrem iudicem, etc.: iudicem illi, propose a judge to, i. e. go to law with, L.—In book-keeping, to enter, set down, note: minus quam Verres illi expensum tulerit, etc., i. e. set down as paid.—To require, demand, render necessary, allow, permit, suffer: dum aetatis tempus tulit, T.: si tempus ferret: incepi dum res tetulit, nunc non fert, T.: graviora verba, quam natura fert: sicut hominum religiones ferunt: ut aetas illa fert, as is usual at that time of life: si ita commodum vestrum fert: si vestra voluntas feret, if such be your pleasure: uti fors tulit, S.: natura fert, ut, etc.
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    ferre, tuli, latus V
    bring, bear; tell speak of; consider; carry off, win, receive, produce; get

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  • 7 gero

    1.
    gĕro, gessi, gestum ( Part. gen. plur. sync. gerentum, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 13; imper. ger, like dic, duc, fac, fer, Cat. 27, 2), 3, v. a. [root gas-, to come, go; Zend, jah, jahaiti, come; gero (for geso), in caus. sense, to cause to come; cf. Gr. bastazô, from bastos = gestus], to bear about with one, to bear, carry, to wear, have (in the lit. signif. mostly poet., not in Cic., Cæs., Sall., or Quint.; but instead of it ferre, portare, vehere, sustinere, etc.; but in the trop. signif. freq. and class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    (vestem ferinam) qui gessit primus,

    Lucr. 5, 1420; so,

    vestem,

    Ov. M. 11, 276 (with induere vestes), Nep. Dat. 3; cf.:

    coronam Olympiacam capite,

    Suet. Ner. 25:

    ornamenta,

    id. Caes. 84:

    angues immixtos crinibus,

    Ov. M. 4, 792:

    clipeum (laeva),

    id. ib. 4, 782; cf.:

    galeam venatoriam in capite, clavam dextra manu, copulam sinistra,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    ramum, jaculum,

    Ov. M. 12, 442:

    spicea serta,

    id. ib. 2, 28:

    vincla,

    id. ib. 4, 681:

    venabula corpore fixa,

    id. ib. 9, 206; cf.:

    tela (in pectore fixus),

    id. ib. 6, 228:

    Vulcanum (i. e. ignem) in cornu conclusum,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 185:

    spolia ducis hostium caesi suspensa fabricato ad id apte ferculo gerens,

    Liv. 1, 10, 5; cf.:

    Horatius trigemina spolia prae se gerens,

    id. 1, 26, 2:

    onera,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 77 Müll.: uterum or partum gerere, to be pregnant, be with young; so, gerere partum, Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187:

    uterum,

    id. 8, 40, 62, § 151:

    centum fronte oculos centum cervice gerebat Argus,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 19:

    lumen unum media fronte,

    id. M. 13, 773:

    cornua fronte,

    id. ib. 15, 596:

    virginis os habitumque gerens et virginis arma,

    Verg. A. 1, 315:

    virginis ora,

    Ov. M. 5, 553; cf.:

    quae modo bracchia gessit, Crura gerit,

    id. ib. 5, 455 sq.:

    Coae cornua matres Gesserunt tum,

    i. e. were turned into cows, id. ib. 7, 364:

    principio (morbi) caput incensum fervore gerebant,

    Lucr. 6, 1145:

    qui umbrata gerunt civili tempora quercu,

    Verg. A. 6, 772:

    tempora tecta pelle lupi,

    Ov. M. 12, 380:

    (Hector) squalentem barbam et concretos sanguine crines Vulneraque illa gerens, quae, etc.,

    Verg. A. 2, 278:

    capella gerat distentius uber,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 110.—
    b.
    Of inanimate things:

    semina rerum permixta gerit tellus discretaque tradit,

    Lucr. 6, 790; cf.:

    (terram) multosque lacus multasque lacunas In gremio gerere et rupes deruptaque saxa,

    id. ib. 6, 539; Enn. ap. Non. 66, 26 (Sat. 23, p. 157 Vahl.); and:

    quos Oceano propior gerit India lucos,

    Verg. G. 2, 122:

    speciem ac formam similem gerit ejus imago,

    Lucr. 4, 52.—
    B.
    In partic. (very rare).
    1.
    With respect to the term. ad quem, to bear, carry, bring to a place:

    (feminae puerique) saxa in muros munientibus gerunt,

    Liv. 28, 19, 13:

    neque eam voraginem conjectu terrae, cum pro se quisque gereret, expleri potuisse,

    id. 7, 6, 2; cf. id. 37, 5, 1. — Absol.:

    si non habebis unde irriges, gerito inditoque leniter,

    Cato, R. R. 151, 4; Liv. 7, 6, 2 Drak.—Prov.:

    non pluris refert, quam si imbrem in cribrum geras,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 100.—
    2.
    With the accessory idea of production, to bear, bring forth, produce:

    quae (terra) quod gerit fruges, Ceres (appellata est),

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 64 Müll.; cf. Tib. 2, 4, 56:

    violam nullo terra serente gerit,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 6:

    arbores (Oete),

    id. M. 9, 230:

    malos (platani),

    Verg. G. 2, 70: frondes (silva), Ov. M. 11, 615:

    terra viros urbesque gerit silvasque ferasque Fluminaque et Nymphas et cetera numina ruris,

    Ov. M. 2, 16.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to bear, have, entertain, cherish: vos etenim juvenes animum geritis muliebrem, illa virago viri, Poët. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf.:

    fortem animum gerere,

    Sall. J. 107, 1:

    parem animum,

    id. ib. 54, 1 Kritz.:

    animum invictum advorsum divitias,

    id. ib. 43, 5:

    animum super fortunam,

    id. ib. 64, 2:

    mixtum gaudio ac metu animum,

    Liv. 32, 11, 5; cf. also Verg. A. 9, 311; and v. infra B. 3.: aeque inimicitiam atque amicitiam in frontem promptam gero, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 8, 6 (Trag. v. 8 Vahl.):

    personam,

    to support a character, play a part, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 115; cf.:

    est igitur proprium munus magistratus, intelligere, se gerere personam civitatis debereque ejus dignitatem et decus sustinere,

    id. ib. 1, 34, 132; Aug. Doctr. Christ. 4, 29 init.;

    id. Civ. Dei, 1, 21 al.: mores, quos ante gerebant, Nunc quoque habent,

    Ov. M. 7, 655:

    et nos aliquod nomenque decusque Gessimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 89:

    seu tu querelas sive geris jocos Seu rixam et insanos amores Seu facilem, pia testa (i. e. amphora), somnum,

    Hor. C. 3, 21, 2:

    in dextris vestris jam libertatem, opem... geritis,

    Curt. 4, 14 fin.:

    plumbeas iras,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 18:

    iras,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 30: M. Catonem illum Sapientem cum multis graves inimicitias gessisse accepimus propter Hispanorum injurias, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 20, 66:

    veteres inimicitias cum Caesare,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 3, 4:

    muliebres inimicitias cum aliqua,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 32:

    inimicitias hominum more,

    id. Deiot. 11, 30: simultatem cum aliquo pro re publica, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A, 3; cf. Suet. Vesp. 6; and Verg. A. 12, 48:

    de amicitia gerenda praeclarissime scripti libri,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5:

    amicitiam,

    Nep. Dat. 10 fin.:

    praecipuum in Romanos gerebant odium,

    Liv. 28, 22, 2:

    cum fortuna mutabilem gerentes fidem,

    id. 8, 24, 6:

    utrique imperii cupiditatem insatiabilem gerebant,

    Just. 17, 1 fin. —Absol.:

    ad ea rex, aliter atque animo gerebat, placide respondit,

    Sall. J. 72, 1.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Gerere se aliquo modo, to bear, deport, behave, or conduct one's self, to act in any manner:

    in maximis rebus quonam modo gererem me adversus Caesarem, usus tuo consilio sum,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 5; cf. id. Off. 1, 28, 98:

    ut, quanto superiores sumus, tanto nos geramus summissius,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 90; so,

    se liberius (servi),

    id. Rep. 1, 43:

    se inconsultius,

    Liv. 41, 10, 5:

    se valde honeste,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

    se perdite,

    id. ib. 9, 2, A, 2:

    se turpissime (illa pars animi),

    id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48:

    se turpiter in legatione,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 12, 4:

    sic in provincia nos gerimus, quod ad abstinentiam attinet, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2:

    sic me in hoc magistratu geram, ut, etc.,

    id. Agr. 1, 8, 26; cf.:

    nunc ita nos gerimus, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 3:

    uti sese victus gereret, exploratum misit,

    Sall. J. 54, 2:

    se medium gerere,

    to remain neutral, Liv. 2, 27, 3.—
    b.
    In a like sense also post-class.: gerere aliquem, to behave or conduct one's self as any one (like agere aliquem):

    nec heredem regni sed regem gerebat,

    Just. 32, 3, 1; Plin. Pan. 44, 2:

    tu civem patremque geras,

    Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 293:

    aedilem,

    App. M. 1, p. 113:

    captivum,

    Sen. Troad. 714.—
    c.
    Gerere se et aliquem, to treat one's self and another in any manner:

    interim Romae gaudium ingens ortum cognitis Metelli rebus, ut seque et exercitum more majorum gereret,

    Sall. J. 55, 1:

    meque vosque in omnibus rebus juxta geram,

    id. ib. 85, 47.—
    d.
    Pro aliquo se gerere, to assume to be:

    querentes, quosdam non sui generis pro colonis se gerere,

    Liv. 32, 2, 6:

    eum, qui sit census, ita se jam tum gessisse pro cive,

    Cic. Arch. 5, 11 dub.—
    2.
    Gerere prae se aliquid (for the usual prae se ferre), to show, exhibit, manifest:

    affectionis ratio perspicuam solet prae se gerere conjecturam, ut amor, iracundia, molestia, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 9, 30; cf.:

    prae se quandam gerere utilitatem,

    id. ib. 2, 52, 157: animum altum et erectum prae se gerebat, Auct. B. Afr. 10 fin.; Aug. de Lib. Arbit. 3, 21, 61 al.;

    so gerere alone: ita tum mos erat, in adversis voltum secundae fortunae gerere, moderari animo in secundis,

    to assume, Liv. 42, 63, 11.—
    3.
    With the accessory idea of activity or exertion, to sustain the charge of any undertaking or business, to administer, manage, regulate, rule, govern, conduct, carry on, wage, transact, accomplish, perform (cf.: facio, ago).—In pass. also in gen., to happen, take place, be done (hence, res gesta, a deed, and res gestae, events, occurrences, acts, exploits; v. the foll.): tertium gradum agendi esse dicunt, ubi quid faciant;

    in eo propter similitudinem agendi et faciundi et gerundi quidam error his, qui putant esse unum. Potest enim aliquid facere et non agere, ut poëta facit fabulam et non agit: contra actor agit et non facit.... Contra imperator quod dicitur res gerere, in eo neque facit neque agit, sed gerit, id est sustinet, translatum ab his qui onera gerunt, quod hi sustinent,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 77 Müll.:

    omnia nostra, quoad eris Romae, ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut nihil a me exspectes,

    Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

    gerere et administrare rem publicam,

    id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; cf. id. Rep. 2, 1 and 12:

    rem publicam,

    id. ib. 1, 7; 1, 8; id. Fam. 2, 7, 3 et saep.:

    magistratum,

    id. Sest. 37, 79; cf.

    potestatem,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138:

    consulatum,

    id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; id. Sest. 16, 37:

    duumviratum,

    id. ib. 8, 19:

    tutelam alicujus,

    Dig. 23, 2, 68; 27, 1, 22 al.: multi suam rem bene gessere et publicam patria procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 Vahl.); so,

    rem, of private affairs,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 34; Cic. de Sen. 7, 22 al.:

    aliquid per aes et libram gerere,

    to transact by coin and balance, Gai. Inst. 3, 173; cf. Weissenb. ad Liv. 6, 14.—Of war: etsi res bene gesta est, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 168 (Ann. v. 512 Vahl.): vi geritur res, id. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 272 ib.); cf.:

    gladiis geri res coepta est,

    Liv. 28, 2, 6:

    ubi res ferro geratur,

    id. 10, 39, 12: qui rem cum Achivis gesserunt statim, Enn. ap. Non. 393, 14 (Trag. v. 39 Vahl.); cf. Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 84:

    Alexander... passurus gestis aequanda pericula rebus,

    exploits, Juv. 14, 314:

    miranda quidem, sed nuper gesta referemus,

    id. 15, 28.—Of public affairs, affairs of government:

    magnae res temporibus illis a fortissimis viris summo imperio praeditis, dictatoribus atque consulibus, belli domique gerebantur,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 32 fin.; 2, 24:

    a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit,

    id. de Sen. 6, 15; cf. § 17: quid quod homines infima fortuna, nulla spe rerum gerendarum ( public business), opifices denique, delectantur historia? maximeque eos videre possumus res gestas ( public events or occurrences) audire et legere velle, qui a spe gerendi absunt, confecti senectute, id. Fin. 5, 19, 52:

    sin per se populus interfecit aut ejecit tyrannum, est moderatior, quoad sentit et sapit et sua re gesta laetatur,

    their deed, id. Rep. 1, 42:

    ut pleraque senatus auctoritate gererentur,

    id. ib. 2, 32; cf. id. ib. 1, 27:

    haec dum Romae geruntur,

    id. Quint. 6, 28:

    ut iis, qui audiunt, tum geri illa fierique videantur,

    id. de Or. 2, 59, 241:

    susceptum negotium,

    id. Fam. 13, 5, 1; cf.:

    si ipse negotium meum gererem, nihil gererem, nisi consilio tuo,

    id. Att. 13, 3, 1:

    negotium bene, male, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Com. 11, 32; id. Cat. 2, 10, 21; Caes. B. G. 3, 18, 5 et saep.; cf.:

    quid negotii geritur?

    Cic. Quint. 13, 42: annos multos bellum gerentes summum summā industriā, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 104 Vahl.); cf.:

    bello illo maximo, quod Athenienses et Lacedaemonii summa inter se contentione gesserunt,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 16; so,

    bella,

    id. ib. 5, 2: pacem an bellum gerens, v. Andrews and Stoddard's Gram. § 323, 1 (2); Sall. J. 46 fin.:

    bella multa felicissime,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 9:

    bellum cum aliquo,

    id. Sest. 2, 4; id. Div. 1, 46, 103; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 4 et saep.:

    bello gesto,

    Liv. 5, 43, 1: mea mater de ea re gessit morem morigerae mihi, performed my will, i. e. complied with my wishes, gratified, humored me, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 87; cf.:

    geram tibi morem et ea quae vis, ut potero, explicabo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 17: morem alicui (in aliqua re), Enn. ap. Non. 342, 24 (Trag. v. 241 Vahl.):

    sine me in hac re gerere mihi morem,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 74; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 44; id. Men. 5, 2, 37; id. Mil. 2, 1, 58; Cic. Rep. 3, 5; id. N. D. 2, 1, 3; Ov. Am. 2, 2, 13 et saep.; also without dat., Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 36; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 77.— Pass.:

    ut utrique a me mos gestus esse videatur,

    Cic. Att. 2, 16, 3; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 108; id. Ad. 2, 2, 6; Nep. Them. 7, 3 al.—With a play upon this meaning and that in II. A.: magna, inquit, [p. 813] bella gessi:

    magnis imperiis et provinciis praefui. Gere igitur animum laude dignum,

    Cic. Par. 5, 2, 37.— Absol.:

    cum superiores alii fuissent in disputationibus perpoliti, quorum res gestae nullae invenirentur, alii in gerendo probabiles, in disserendo rudes,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 8; cf.

    the passage,

    id. Fin. 5, 19, 52 supra:

    Armeniam deinde ingressus prima parte introitus prospere gessit,

    Vell. 2, 102, 2 (where others unnecessarily insert rem), Liv. 25, 22, 1; cf.

    also: sive caesi ab Romanis forent Bastarnae... sive prospere gessissent,

    id. 40, 58 fin.:

    cum Persis et Philippus qui cogitavit, et Alexander, qui gessit, hanc bellandi causam inferebat, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9.—
    4.
    Of time, to pass, spend (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.): ut (Tullia) cum aliquo adolescente primario conjuncta aetatem gereret, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; cf.:

    pubertatis ac primae adolescentiae tempus,

    Suet. Dom. 1:

    vitam,

    Petr. 63; Val. Fl. 6, 695:

    annum gerens aetatis sexagesimum et nonum,

    Suet. Vesp. 24.—Hence, gĕrens, entis, P. a. (acc. to II. B. 3.), managing, conducting, etc.; with gen.:

    rei male gerentes,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 43:

    sui negotii bene gerens,

    Cic. Quint. 19, 62.
    2.
    gĕro, ōnis, m. [1. gero], a carrier; connected per hyphen with foras:

    ite, ite hac, simul eri damnigeruli, foras gerones, Bonorum hamaxagogae,

    that carry off, ravishers, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 1.

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  • 8 confero

    confĕro, contŭli, collātum (conl-), conferre, v. a.
    I.
    To bring, bear, or carry together, to collect, gather (freq. and class.).
    A.
    In gen.:

    ligna circa casam,

    Nep. Alcib. 10, 4:

    arma,

    Vell. 2, 114, 4:

    cibos ore suo (aves),

    Quint. 2, 6, 7:

    undique collatis membris,

    Hor. A. P. 3 al.:

    sarcinas in unum locum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 24; cf. id. ib. 2, 25:

    collatis militaribus signis,

    id. ib. 7, 2:

    ut premerer sacrā Lauroque collatāque myrto,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 19:

    quo (sc. in proximum horreum) omne rusticum instrumentum,

    Col. 1, 6, 7:

    illuc (sc. in castella) parentes et conjuges,

    Tac. A. 4, 46 fin.:

    dentes in corpore (canes),

    Ov. M. 3, 236:

    materiam omnem, antequam dicere ordiamur,

    Quint. 3, 9, 8:

    summas (scriptorum) in commentarium et capita,

    id. 10, 7, 32:

    plura opera in unam tabulam,

    id. 8, 5, 26:

    quae in proximos quinque libros conlata sunt,

    id. 8, prooem. 1: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Just. pr. 1; cf. Suet. Caes. 44; cf. I. B. 5. infra.; Quint. 4, 1, 23:

    rogus inimicis collatus manibus,

    Petr. 115 fin. —
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To collect money, treasures, etc., for any object, to bring offerings, contribute:

    dona mihi,

    Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 20:

    contulit aes populus,

    Ov. F. 4, 351;

    so freq. on monuments: AERE CONLATO,

    Inscr. Orell. 3648; 74; Suet. Aug. 59:

    EX AERE CONLATO,

    Inscr. Orell. 3991:

    aurum argentumque in publicum,

    Liv. 28, 36, 3:

    munera ei,

    Nep. Ages. 7, 3:

    tributa quotannis ex censu,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131:

    conferre eo minus tributi,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5:

    in commune,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 145; id. Quint. 3, 12:

    quadringena talenta quotannis Delum,

    Nep. Arist. 3, 1:

    (pecunia) ad ejus honores conlata,

    Cic. Fl. 25, 59:

    ad honorem tuum pecunias maximas contulisse,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 157:

    sextantes in capita,

    Liv. 2, 33, 11:

    pecunias,

    Suet. Caes. 19; id. Aug. 57; 30; Just. 3, 6:

    vinum alius, alius mel,

    Dig. 41, 1, 7; 47, 7, 3 pr.:

    sua bona in medium,

    ib. 37, 6, 1 pr.:

    magnam partem patrimonii alicui rei,

    ib. 50, 4, 5:

    cum et Socrati collatum sit ad victum,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.— Absol.:

    nos dabimus, nos conferemus, nostro sumptu, non tuo,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 39.—Hence,
    b.
    Trop., like the Gr. sumpherô (v. Lidd. and Scott in h. v. 5.), to be useful, profitable, to profit, serve, be of use to ( = prosum; cf. also conduco, II.; post-Aug., and only in the third person; most freq. in Quint.); constr. with ad, in, the dat., inf., or absol.
    (α).
    With ad:

    naturane plus ad eloquentiam conferat an doctrina,

    Quint. 2, 19, 1; so id. 1, 8, 7; 2, 5, 1; 3, 6, 7 al.; Cels. 6, 6, 1; Col. 12, prooem. § 6; Suet. Tib. 4.—
    * (β).
    With in:

    rursus in alia plus prior (exercitatio) confert,

    Quint. 10, 7, 26.—
    (γ).
    With dat.:

    Gracchorum eloquentiae multum contulisse matrem,

    Quint. 1, 1, 6; so id. prooem. § 6; 2, 9, 2; 3, 7, 12 al.; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; 20, 23, 98, § 261; 29, 1, 6, § 13; Suet. Vesp. 6.—
    (δ).
    With subj. inf.:

    incipiente incremento confert alterna folia circum obruere,

    Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83.—
    (ε).
    Absol.:

    multum veteres etiam Latini conferunt, imprimis copiam verborum,

    Quint. 1, 8, 8; 2, 5, 16; 4, 2, 123 al.; cf. Sillig ad Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 67.—
    2.
    To bring into connection, to unite, join, connect:

    membris collatis, of an embrace,

    Lucr. 4, 1101; cf.

    ora,

    App. M. 5, p. 161, 17:

    fontes e quibus collatae aquae flumen emittunt,

    Curt. 7, 11, 3: capita, to lay heads together (in conferring, deliberating, etc.), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 31; Liv. 2, 45, 7: pedem, to go or come with one, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 41; so,

    gradum ( = congredi),

    id. Men. 3, 3, 30; id. Ps. 2, 4, 17; Verg. A. 6, 488.—Of chemical union:

    dissimiles et dispares res in unam potestatem,

    Vitr. 2, 6, 4.—
    b.
    Trop.:

    collatis viribus,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 17; cf.:

    conferre vires in unum,

    Liv. 33, 19, 7:

    collata omnium vota in unius salutem,

    Plin. Pan. 23, 5:

    e singulis frustis collata oratio,

    Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 2, 9, 3:

    velut studia inter nos conferebamus,

    id. 4, prooem. § 1.— So esp. of conferences, consultations, etc., to consult together, confer, consider or talk over together:

    si quid res feret, coram inter nos conferemus,

    Cic. Att. 1, 20, 1:

    sollicitudines nostras inter nos,

    id. Fam. 6, 21, 2:

    rationes,

    id. Att 5, 21, 12: familiares sermones cum aliquo, to unite in familiar conversation with, id. Off. 2, 11, 39:

    cum hoc in viā sermonem contulit,

    id. Inv. 2, 4, 14; cf.:

    cum aliquo aut sermones aut consilia,

    id. Phil. 2, 15, 38:

    consilia ad adulescentes,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 64; cf.:

    consilia dispersim antea habita,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    injurias,

    to deliberate together concerning, Tac. Agr. 15; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2.— Absol.:

    omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 8.—With a rel.clause:

    fusi contulerimus inter nos... quid finis,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 4:

    ibi conferentibus, quid animorum Hispanis esset,

    Liv. 27, 20, 4.—
    3.
    To bring or join together in a hostile manner, to set together (most freq. in milit. lang.):

    (Galli) cum Fontejo ferrum ac manus contulerunt,

    Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2):

    signa cum Alexandrinis,

    id. Pis. 21, 49; cf.:

    collatis signis depugnare,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 44; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 66:

    arma cum aliquo,

    Nep. Eum. 11, 5; 3, 6; cf.:

    arma inter se,

    Liv. 21, 1, 2:

    castra cum hoste,

    id. 26, 12, 14; cf.:

    castra castris,

    id. 23, 28, 9; 8, 23, 9; Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114; Caes. B. C. 3, 79:

    pedem cum pede,

    to fight foot to foot, Liv. 28, 2, 6; cf.:

    pede conlato,

    id. 6, 12, 10; 10, 29, 6; 26, 39, 12 al.:

    gradum cum aliquo,

    id. 7, 33, 11:

    pectora luctantia nexu pectoribus,

    Ov. M. 6, 242:

    stat conferre manum Aeneae,

    Verg. A. 12, 678:

    prima movet Cacus collatā proelia dextrā,

    Ov. F. 1, 569:

    collatis cursibus hastas conicere,

    Val. Fl. 6, 270:

    seque viro vir contulit,

    Verg. A. 10, 735.— Poet.:

    inter sese duri certamina belli,

    Verg. A. 10, 147:

    contra conferre manu certamina pugnae,

    Lucr. 4, 843:

    collato Marte,

    Ov. M. 12, 379.— Absol.:

    mecum confer, ait,

    fight with me, Ov. M. 10, 603.—
    b.
    Transf. from milit. affairs to lawsuits: pedem, to encounter, come in contact with one, to attack:

    non possum magis pedem conferre, ut aiunt, aut propius accedere?

    Cic. Planc. 19, 48:

    pedem cum singulis,

    Quint. 5, 13, 11; cf. id. 8, 6, 51; cf.:

    qui illi concedi putem utilius esse quod postulat quam signa conferri,

    Cic. Att. 7, 5, 5.— Poet.:

    lites,

    to contend, quarrel, Hor. S. 1, 5, 54.—
    4.
    To bring together for comparison, to compare; constr. with cum, inter se, ad, the dat., or acc. only.
    (α).
    With cum:

    quem cum eo (sc. Democrito) conferre possumus non modo ingenii magnitudine sed etiam animi?

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 73; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 115:

    ut non conferam vitam neque existimationem tuam cum illius,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 20, § 45; id. Sull. 26, 72:

    cum maximis minima,

    id. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 17; Quint. 5, 13, 12; 8, 4, 2 al.:

    nostras leges cum illorum Lycurgo et Dracone et Solone,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 197; cf.:

    illa cum Graeciā,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; v. also d. —
    (β).
    With inter se (rare):

    vitam inter se utriusque conferte,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20.—
    * (γ).
    With ad:

    bos ad bovem collatus,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 28 Müll.—
    (δ).
    With dat.:

    tempora praesentia praeteritis,

    Lucr. 2, 1166:

    parva magnis,

    Cic. Or. 4, 14:

    alicui illud,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 151:

    lanam tinctam Tyriae lacernae,

    Quint. 12, 10, 75:

    ingenia ingeniis,

    Sen. Contr. 5, 33:

    illam puellis,

    Prop. 1, 5, 7; 1, 4, 9:

    nil jucundo amico,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 44:

    (Pausanias et Lysander) ne minimā quidem ex parte Lycurgi legibus et disciplinae conferendi sunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76; cf. supra, a.—
    (ε).
    With acc. only:

    tesseram hospitalem,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 88:

    conferte Verrem: non ut hominem cum homine comparetis, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 54, § 121:

    exemplum,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 85; Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 14; Ov. M. 7, 696:

    nec cum quaereretur gener Tarquinio, quisquam Romanae juventutis ullā arte conferri potuit,

    Liv. 1, 39, 4; Suet. Caes. 47:

    census,

    Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 159.—Of documents:

    haec omnia summā curā et diligentiā recognita et conlata sunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 190.—
    5.
    With the idea of shortening by bringing together (cf. colligo), to compress, abridge, condense, make or be brief:

    quam potero in verba conferam paucissima,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 6; cf.:

    in pauca, ut occupatus nunc sum, confer, quid velis,

    id. Ps. 1, 3, 44:

    rem in pauca,

    id. Poen. 5, 4, 68; and:

    in pauca verba,

    id. As. 1, 1, 75; id: Pers. 4, 4, 109:

    totam Academiam... ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor,

    Cic. Att. 13, 13, 1:

    ut in pauca conferam,

    id. Caecin. 6, 17:

    sua verba in duos versus,

    Ov. F. 1, 162:

    ex immensā diffusāque legum copiā optima quaeque et necessaria in paucissimos libros,

    Suet. Caes. 44.— [p. 412] *
    6.
    To join in bringing forward, to propose unitedly (as a law; cf.

    fero, II. B. 8. b.): cur enim non confertis, ne sit conubium divitibus et pauperibus,

    Liv. 4, 4, 9 Weissenb. ad loc.
    II.
    (Con intens.) To bear, carry, convey, direct a thing somewhere (in haste, for protection, etc.); and conferre se, to betake or turn one's self anywhere, to go (very freq. and class.).
    A.
    Prop.
    1.
    In gen.
    (α).
    With the designation of the goal: quo me miser conferam? Gracch. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 214:

    qui cum se suaque omnia in oppidum Bratuspantium contulissent,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    se suaque eo,

    id. ib. 3, 28:

    se suaque in naves,

    Nep. Them. 2, 7 al.:

    iter Brundisium versus,

    Cic. Att. 3, 4 med.; cf.: iter eo, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

    suas rationes et copias in illam provinciam,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 17: legiones in mediam aciem, Auct. B. Alex. 39;

    Auct. B. Afr. 60: quos eodem audita Cannensis clades contulerat,

    Liv. 23, 17, 8:

    parentes illuc,

    Tac. A. 4, 46:

    se Rhodum conferre,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: se Laodiceam, Lent. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 4:

    se Colonas,

    Nep. Paus. 3, 3:

    quo se fusa acies,

    Liv. 9, 16, 1 al.:

    se ad Tissaphernem,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 2; so,

    se ad Pharnabazum,

    id. Con. 2, 1:

    se in fugam,

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22: sese in pedes, Enn. ap. Non. p. 518, 20; Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 7 (cf.:

    conicere se in pedes,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 13).—Of things:

    pituita eo se umorve confert,

    Cels. 2, 12.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    pulcre haec confertur ratis,

    is borne away, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 27.—
    2.
    Esp., in Ov. M. (cf. abeo, II.): aliquem in aliquid, to change into, transform to something:

    aliquem in saxum,

    Ov. M. 4, 278: versos vultus ( poet. circumlocution for se) in hanc, id. ib. 9, 348:

    corpus in albam volucrem,

    id. ib. 12, 145.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to bring, turn, direct something to; and conferre se, to turn, apply, devote one's self to, etc.:

    quo mortuo me ad pontificem Scaevolam contuli,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    (Crassus) cum initio aetatis ad amicitiam se meam contulisset,

    id. Brut. 81, 281; id. Fam. 11, 29, 2:

    qui se ad senatūs auctoritatem, ad libertatem vestram contulerunt,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; id. Ac. 1, 9, 34:

    se ad studium scribendi,

    id. Arch. 3, 4:

    se ad studia litterarum,

    id. ib. 7, 16; cf. Suet. Gram. 24:

    meus pater eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet (the figure taken from the sea when in commotion),

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16: verba ad rem, to bring words to actions, i. e. to pass from words to deeds, Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 4; id. Hec. 3, 1, 17:

    suspitionem in Capitonem,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 100:

    ut spes votaque sua non prius ad deos quam ad principum aures conferret,

    Tac. A. 4, 39:

    lamentationes suas etiam in testamentum,

    id. ib. 15, 68.—More freq., in partic.,
    2.
    With the access. idea of application or communication, to devote or apply something to a certain purpose, to employ, direct, confer, bestow upon, give, lend, grant, to transfer to (a favorite word with Cic.).
    (α).
    With dat.:

    dona quid cessant mihi Conferre?

    Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 20:

    tibi munera,

    Prop. 2, 3, 25; Nep. Ages. 7, 3:

    victoribus praemia,

    Suet. Calig. 20:

    puellae quinquaginta milia nummūm,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2:

    fructum alio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 60; Dig. 37, 6, 1, § 24.—
    (β).
    With ad and acc.:

    hostiles exuvias ornatum ad urbis et posterum gloriam,

    Tac. A. 3, 72:

    Mithridates omne reliquum tempus non ad oblivionem veteris belli, sed ad comparationem novi contulit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9:

    omne studium atque omne ingenium ad populi Romani gloriam laudemque celebrandam,

    id. Arch. 9, 19; id. Fam. 10, 1, 3:

    omnem meam curam atque operam ad philosophiam,

    id. ib. 4, 3, 4:

    omnem tuum amorem omnemque tuam prudentiam... confer ad eam curam,

    id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

    animum ad fodiendos puteos, Auct. B. Alex. 9: ad naturae suae non vitiosae genus consilium vivendi omne,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 120:

    orationem omnem ad misericordiam,

    id. Lig. 1, 1.—
    (γ).
    With in:

    omnes curas cogitationesque in rem publicam,

    Cic. Off. 2, 1, 2:

    diligentiam in valetudinem tuam,

    id. Fam. 16, 4, 4:

    praedas ac manubias suas non in monumenta deorum immortalium, neque in urbis ornamenta conferre, sed, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 23, 60:

    in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre,

    id. Off. 1, 15, 48; so,

    plurimum benignitatis in eum,

    id. ib. 1, 16, 50; id. Lael. 19, 70: curam restituendi Capitolii in L. Vestinum confert, i. e. assigns to, charges with, Tac. H. 4, 53:

    in unius salutem collata omnium vota,

    Plin. Pan. 23, 5.—
    (δ).
    With erga:

    commemoratio benevolentiae ejus, quam erga me a pueritiā contulisses,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 5, 1.—
    3.
    With aliquid ad or in aliquem or aliquid, to refer or ascribe something to a person or thing as its possessor, author (in a good, and freq. in a bad sense), to attribute, impute, assign, ascribe to one, to lay to the charge of:

    species istas hominum in deos,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 77:

    res ad imperium deorum,

    Lucr. 6, 54:

    permulta in Plancium, quae ab eo numquam dicta sunt, conferuntur... Stomachor vero, cum aliorum non me digna in me conferuntur,

    Cic. Planc. 14, 35; id. Fam. 5, 5, 2:

    mortis illius invidiam in L. Flaccum,

    id. Fl. 17, 41:

    suum timorem in rei frumentariae simulationem angustiasque itinerum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    sua vitia et suam culpam in senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 5, 14:

    hanc ego de re publicā disputationem in Africani personam et Phili contuli,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 2.—So esp.:

    culpam in aliquem,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 156; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 97; Cic. Att. 9, 2, a, 1:

    causam in aliquem,

    id. ib. 12, 31, 1; Liv. 5, 11, 6; cf.:

    causam in tempus,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 228.—
    4.
    To transfer to a fixed point of time, fix, assign, refer, appoint, put off, defer, postpone (cf. differo):

    Carthaginis expugnationem in hunc annum,

    Liv. 27, 7, 5: in posterum diem iter suum contulit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3:

    omnia in mensem Martium,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 24:

    aliquid in ambulationis tempus,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 1:

    eam pecuniam in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus,

    id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

    quod in longiorem diem conlaturus fuisset,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40 fin.:

    alicujus consulatum in annum aliquem,

    Plin. Pan. 61.—Rarely of place:

    idoneum locum in agris nactus... ibi adventum expectare Pompei eoque omnem belli rationem conferre constituit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. —
    5.
    To bring on, cause, occasion, induce:

    pestem alicui,

    Col. 1, 5, 4:

    candorem mollitiamque,

    Plin. 35, 15, 50, § 175.

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  • 9 sustineo

    sustĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [subs for sub, and teneo], to hold up, hold upright, uphold, to bear up, keep up, support, sustain (syn. fulcio).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    onus alicui,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 68:

    quantum hominum terra sustinet,

    id. Poen. prol. 90; id. Men. 1, 1, 13:

    cum Milo umeris sustineret bovem vivum,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 33:

    arma membraque,

    Liv. 23, 45, 3; Curt. 6, 1, 11; 7, 5, 8:

    infirmos baculo artus,

    to support, Ov. M. 6, 27:

    furcis spectacula,

    Liv. 1, 35, 9:

    ingenuā speculum manu,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 216:

    fornice exstructo, quo pons sustinebatur, Auct. B. Alex. 19, 4: manibus clipeos et hastam Et galeam,

    Ov. H. 3, 119:

    vix populum tellus sustinet illa suum,

    id. ib. 15 (16), 182:

    lapis albus Pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 117:

    vas ad sustinenda opsonia,

    Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 140:

    aër volatus alitum sustinet,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: lacus omnia illata pondera sustinens, bearing on its surface, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127:

    ecce populus Romanus universus veluti duobus navigiis inpositus binis cardinibus sustinetur,

    id. 36, 15, 24, § 119:

    domum pluribus adminiculis fulcit ac sustinet,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3: se, to support one ' s self, hold one ' s self up, stand, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 25; so,

    se a lapsu,

    Liv. 21, 35:

    se alis,

    Ov. M. 4, 411. —
    B.
    In partic., to hold or keep back, to keep in, stay, check, restrain, control, etc. (syn.: refreno, supprimo, moror): currum equosque, Lucil. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

    currum,

    id. Lael. 17, 63 (v. infra, II. B. 3.):

    equos,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 33:

    remos,

    Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

    manum,

    Ov. F. 5, 302:

    sustinet a jugulo dextram,

    Verg. A. 11, 750:

    a jugulo nitentem sustinet hastam,

    Stat. Th. 2, 648:

    flumina Threiciā lyrā,

    Prop. 3, 2, 2 (4, 1, 42):

    nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen,

    Liv. 25, 36, 1:

    aliud simile miraculum eos sustinuit,

    id. 5, 39, 2:

    signa,

    id. 31, 24, 8:

    gradum,

    Ov. F. 6, 398:

    perterritum exercitum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 71:

    se,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41; Val. Fl. 3, 100:

    se ab omni assensu,

    i. e. to refrain, Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48:

    se a respondendo,

    id. ib. 2, 32, 104. — Poet.:

    celeres vias,

    i. e. to halt, Sen. Hippol. 794.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve:

    dignitatem et decus civitatis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124:

    causam rei publicae,

    id. Fam. 9, 8, 2; cf.:

    causam publicam,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27:

    exspectationem,

    id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

    tris personas unus sustineo,

    characters, id. de Or. 2, 24, 102:

    personam magistri,

    to personate, Suet. Gram. 24:

    quid muneris in rem publicam fungi ac sustinere velitis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, § 199:

    historiam veterem atque antiquam haec mea senectus sustinet,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 100: vitam, Maecen. ap. Sen. Ep. 101, 11.— Poet.:

    (arbor) ingentem sustinet umbram,

    Verg. G. 2, 297.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To sustain, support, maintain, by food, money, or other means:

    hac (sc. re frumentariā) alimur et sustinemur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, § 11:

    veterem amicum suum labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fortunā, fide,

    id. Rab. Post. 16, 43:

    qui ager non amplius hominum quinque milia potest sustinere,

    id. Att. 2, 16, 1:

    alicujus munificentiā sustineri,

    Liv. 39, 9, 6:

    hinc patriam parvosque nepotes Sustinet,

    Verg. G. 2, 515:

    necessitates aliorum,

    Liv. 6, 15, 9:

    plebem,

    id. 3, 65, 6:

    penuriam temporum,

    Col. 9, 14, 17.—
    2.
    To bear, undergo, endure; to hold out against, withstand (so most freq.;

    syn.: fero, tolero, patior): mala ferre sustinereque,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

    non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 8:

    innocens suspitionem hanc sustinet causā meā,

    id. Bacch. 3, 3, 32:

    labores,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 3:

    aestatem,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 39, 3:

    dolorem pedum,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5:

    dolores,

    id. ib. 1, 12, 8:

    certamen,

    Liv. 33, 36, 12:

    vim hostium,

    Nep. Hann. 11, 4:

    periculum,

    Dig. 18, 6, 1:

    o dii, quis hujus potentiam poterit sustinere?

    Cic. Phil. 7, 6, 17:

    alicujus imperia,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

    vulnera,

    id. ib. 1, 45:

    Philo ea sustinere vix poterat, quae contra Academicorum pertinaciam dicebantur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 2:

    Peloponnesum,

    Cic. Att. 10, 12, 7: eos (rogantes), Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3; Liv. 31, 13:

    senatus querentes eos non sustinuit,

    id. 31, 13, 4:

    justa petentem deam,

    Ov. M. 14, 788:

    ferrum ignemque Jovemque,

    id. ib. 13, 385 et saep.— Absol.: expectes et sustineas necesse est, Mart. 9, 3, 13:

    neque jam sustineri poterat,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Fam. 12, 6, 4; Liv. 29, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    With obj.-clause (mostly with a negative: non sustinet, he cannot bear, cannot endure; he does not take upon himself, does not venture):

    non sustineo esse conscius mihi dissimulati judicii mei,

    Quint. 3, 6, 64:

    non impositos supremis ignibus artus Sustinuit spectare parens,

    Ov. M. 13, 584;

    so negatively,

    id. ib. 1, 530; 6, 367; 6, 606; 9, 439; 10, 47; id. F. 4, 850; Vell. 2, 86, 2. —

    In a negative interrog.: sustinebant tales viri, se tot senatoribus, etc.... non credidisse? tantae populi Romani voluntati restitisse? Sustineant. Reperiemus, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

    hoc quidem quis hominum sustineat petulans esse ad alterius arbitrium?

    Quint. 12, 9, 10; 3, 6, 64:

    deserere officii sui partes,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16; 9, 13, 6:

    Parmenionem rursus castigare non sustinebat,

    Curt. 4, 13, 8; 6, 1, 15:

    nec solus bibere sustineo,

    id. 7, 5, 12; 7, 6, 15; 8, 5, 7; Vell. 2, 86, 2; Suet. Caes. 75.—Affirmatively:

    quem in vinculis habituri erant, sustinuere venerari,

    Curt. 5, 10, 13:

    colloqui cum eo, quem damnaverat, sustinuit,

    id. 6, 8, 16; 7, 5, 38; 10, 5, 25:

    quae se praeferre Dianae Sustinuit,

    took upon herself, presumed, Ov. M. 11, 322; so,

    sustinet ire illuc,

    id. ib. 4, 447; 6, 563; id. H. 5, 32; Phaedr. 4, 16, 8: aliquem videre, Auct. Cons. Liv. 135:

    si quis aquam... haurire sustineat,

    Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 64:

    mentiri,

    Petr. 116.—
    3.
    (Acc. to I. B.) To hold in, stop, stay, check, restrain; to keep back, put off, defer, delay:

    est igitur prudentis sustinere ut currum sic impetum benevolentiae,

    Cic. Lael. 17, 63; so,

    impetum hostis,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 26; 2, 11;

    3, 2 et saep.: subitas hostium incursiones,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; cf.:

    Curio praemittit equites, qui primum impetum sustineant ac morentur,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 26:

    bellum consilio,

    Liv. 3, 60, 1:

    assensus lubricos,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 108:

    sustinenda solutio est nominis Caerelliani,

    id. Att. 12, 51, 3:

    oppugnationem ad noctem,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 6:

    rem in noctem,

    Liv. 5, 35, 7:

    iram,

    id. 2, 19, 4.

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  • 10 adfero

    af-fĕro (better adf-), attŭli (adt-, better att-), allātum (adl-), afferre (adf-), v. a.; constr. aliquid ad aliquem or alicui.
    I.
    In gen., to bring, take, carry or convey a thing to a place (of portable things, while adducere denotes the leading or conducting of men, animals, etc.), lit. and trop.
    A.
    Lit.:

    lumen,

    Enn. Ann. 1, 40:

    viginti minas,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 78; 1, 3, 87 al.:

    adtuli hunc.—Quid, adtulisti?—Adduxi volui dicere,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 21:

    tandem bruma nives adfert,

    Lucr. 5, 746: adlatus est acipenser, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    adfer huc scyphos,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 33:

    nuces,

    Juv. 5, 144:

    cibum pede ad rostrum veluti manu,

    Plin. 10, 46, 63, § 129:

    pauxillum aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 18, 4:

    caput ejus,

    ib. Marc. 6, 28.—With de in part. sense:

    adferte nobis de fructibus terrae,

    Vulg. Num. 13, 21; ib. Joan. 21, 10 (as lit. rendering of the Greek).—So of letters:

    adferre litteras, ad aliquem or alicui,

    Cic. Att. 8, 6; id. Imp. Pomp. 2; Liv. 22, 11 al.: adferre se ad aliquem locum, to betake one's self to a place, to go or come to (opp. auferre se ab aliquo, to withdraw from, to leave, only poet.):

    huc me adfero,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 6; Ter. And. 4, 5, 12 Bentl.:

    Fatis huc te poscentibus adfers,

    Verg. A. 8, 477:

    sese a moenibus,

    id. ib. 3, 345.—So pass. adferri:

    urbem adferimur,

    are driven, come, Verg. A. 7, 217;

    and adferre pedem: abite illuc, unde malum pedem adtulistis,

    id. Cat. 14, 21.— To bring near, extend, = porrigo (eccl. Lat.):

    adfer manum tuam,

    reach hither, Vulg. Joan. 20, 27.—
    B.
    Trop., to bring to, upon, in a good or bad sense.
    (α).
    In bon. part.:

    pacem ad vos adfero,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 32:

    hic Stoicus genus sermonum adfert non liquidum,

    i.e. makes use of, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:

    nihil ostentationis aut imitationis adferre,

    id. ib. 3, 12, 45:

    non minus adferret ad dicendum auctoritatis quam facultatis,

    id. Mur. 2, 4:

    consulatum in familiam,

    id. Phil. 9, 2:

    animum vacuum ad scribendas res difficiles,

    id. Att. 12, 38:

    tibi benedictionem,

    Vulg. Gen. 33, 11:

    Domino gloriam,

    ib. 1 Par. 16, 28; ib. Apoc. 21, 26: ignominiam, ib. Osee, 4, 18.—
    (β).
    In mal. part.:

    bellum in patriam,

    Ov. M. 12, 5:

    nisi etiam illuc pervenerint (canes), ut in dominum adferant dentes,

    to use their teeth against their master, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 9:

    adferam super eos mala,

    Vulg. Jer. 23, 12:

    Quam accusationem adfertis adversus hominem hunc?

    id. Joan. 18, 29: quod gustatum adfert mortem, ib. Job, 6, 6: vim adferre alicui for inferre, to use force against or offer violence to one, Cic. Phil. 2, 7; id. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Liv. 9, 16; 42, 29 Drak.; Ov. H. 17, 21 Heins.; id. A. A. 1, 679; Suet. Oth. 12 al.: manus adferre alicui, in a bad sense, to lay hands on, attack, assail (opp.:

    manus abstinere ab aliquo): pro re quisque manus adfert (sc. ad pugnam),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26:

    domino a familiā suā manus adlatas esse,

    id. Quint. 27:

    intellegimus eum detrudi, cui manus adferuntur,

    id. Caecin. 17:

    qui sit improbissimus, manus ei adferantur, effodiantur oculi,

    id. Rep. 3, 17 Creuz. al.: sibi manus, to lay hands on one's self, to commit suicide: Qui quidem manus, quas justius in Lepidi perniciem animāsset, sibi adferre conatus est, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.—Also of things: manus templo, to rob or plunder, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18:

    bonis alienis,

    id. Off. 2, 15:

    manus suis vulneribus,

    to tear open, id. Att. 3, 15 (a little before:

    ne rescindam ipse dolorem meum): manus beneficio suo,

    to nullify, render worthless, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 ext. —
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    To bring, bear, or carry a thing, as news, to report, announce, inform, publish; constr. alicui or ad aliquem aliquid, or acc. with inf. (class.;

    in the histt., esp. in Livy, very freq.): ea adferam eaque ut nuntiem, etc.,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 9:

    istud quod adfers, aures exspectant meae,

    id. As. 2, 2, 65; Ter. Phorm. prol. 22:

    calamitas tanta fuit, ut eam non ex proelio nuntius, sed ex sermone rumor adferret,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25:

    si ei subito sit adlatum periculum patriae,

    id. Off. 1, 43, 154:

    nihil novi ad nos adferebatur,

    id. Fam. 2, 14; id. Att. 6, 8: rumores, qui de me adferuntur, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21:

    Caelium ad illam adtulisse, se aurum quaerere,

    id. Cael. 24; so id. Fam. 5, 2 al.:

    magnum enim, quod adferebant, videbatur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 15 Dint.:

    cum crebri adferrent nuntii, male rem gerere Darium,

    Nep. 3, 3:

    haud vana adtulere,

    Liv. 4, 37; 6, 31:

    exploratores missi adtulerunt quieta omnia apud Gallos esse,

    id. 8, 17 Drak.:

    per idem tempus rebellāsse Etruscos adlatum est,

    word was brought, id. 10, 45 al.:

    idem ex Hispaniā adlatum,

    Tac. H. 1, 76:

    esse, qui magnum nescio quid adferret,

    Suet. Dom. 16; Luc. 1, 475:

    scelus adtulit umbris,

    Val. Fl. 3, 172 al. —So of instruction: doctrinam, Vulg. prol. Eccli.; ib. 2 Joan. 10.—
    B.
    To bring a thing on one, i.e. to cause, occasion, effect, give, impart; esp. of states of mind:

    aegritudinem alicui,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 2:

    alicui molestiam,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    populo Romano pacem, tranquillitatem, otium, concordiam,

    Cic. Mur. 1:

    alicui multas lacrimas, magnam cladem,

    id. N. D. 2, 3, 7:

    ipsa detractio molestiae consecutionem adfert voluptatis,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; so,

    adferre auctoritatem et fidem orationi,

    id. Phil. 12, 7:

    metum,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 25:

    dolorem,

    id. Sull. 1:

    luctum et egestatem,

    id. Rosc. Am. 5:

    consolationem,

    id. Att. 10, 4:

    delectationem,

    id. Fam. 7, 1 al.:

    detrimentum,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 82:

    taedium,

    Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 7:

    dolorem capitis,

    id. 23, 1, 18:

    gaudium,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 2, 1 al. —
    C.
    To bring forwards, allege, assert, adduce, as an excuse, reason, etc.:

    quam causam adferam?

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 23:

    justas causas adfers,

    Cic. Att. 11, 15;

    also without causa: rationes quoque, cur hoc ita sit, adferendas puto,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27; cf. id. Fam. 4, 13:

    idque me non ad meam defensionem adtulisse,

    id. Caecin. 29, 85:

    ad ea, quae dixi, adfer, si quid habes,

    id. Att. 7: nihil igitur adferunt, qui in re gerendā versari senectutem negant, they bring forwards nothing to the purpose, who, etc., id. Sen. 6; id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:

    quid enim poterit dicere?... an aetatem adferet?

    i. e. as an excuse, id. ib. 2, 89, 364.—Also absol.:

    Quid sit enim corpus sentire, quis adferet umquam...?

    will bring forwards an explanation, Lucr. 3, 354 (cf. reddo absol. in same sense, id. 1, 566):

    et, cur credam, adferre possum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 70; 3, 23, 55.—
    D.
    Adferre aliquid = conducere, conferre aliquid, to contribute any thing to a definite object, to be useful in any thing, to help, assist; constr. with ad, with dat., or absol.:

    quam ad rem magnum adtulimus adjumentum hominibus nostris,

    Cic. Off. 1, 1:

    negat Epicurus diuturnitatem temporis ad beate vivendum aliquid adferre,

    id. Fin. 2, 27, 87:

    quidquid ad rem publicam adtulimus, si modo aliquid adtulimus,

    id. Off. 1, 44, 155:

    illa praesidia non adferunt oratori aliquid, ne, etc.,

    id. Mil. 1: aliquid adtulimus etiam nos, id. Planc. 10, 24:

    quid enim oves aliud adferunt, nisi, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 63.—
    E.
    Very rare in class. period, to bring forth as a product, to yield, bear, produce, = fero:

    agri fertiles, qui multo plus adferunt, quam acceperunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 15:

    herbam adferentem semen,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 29:

    arva non adferent cibum,

    ib. Hab. 3, 17: lignum adtulit fructum, ib. Joel, 2, 22; ib. Apoc. 22, 2:

    ager fructum,

    ib. Luc. 12, 16 al.

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  • 11 affero

    af-fĕro (better adf-), attŭli (adt-, better att-), allātum (adl-), afferre (adf-), v. a.; constr. aliquid ad aliquem or alicui.
    I.
    In gen., to bring, take, carry or convey a thing to a place (of portable things, while adducere denotes the leading or conducting of men, animals, etc.), lit. and trop.
    A.
    Lit.:

    lumen,

    Enn. Ann. 1, 40:

    viginti minas,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 78; 1, 3, 87 al.:

    adtuli hunc.—Quid, adtulisti?—Adduxi volui dicere,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 21:

    tandem bruma nives adfert,

    Lucr. 5, 746: adlatus est acipenser, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    adfer huc scyphos,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 33:

    nuces,

    Juv. 5, 144:

    cibum pede ad rostrum veluti manu,

    Plin. 10, 46, 63, § 129:

    pauxillum aquae,

    Vulg. Gen. 18, 4:

    caput ejus,

    ib. Marc. 6, 28.—With de in part. sense:

    adferte nobis de fructibus terrae,

    Vulg. Num. 13, 21; ib. Joan. 21, 10 (as lit. rendering of the Greek).—So of letters:

    adferre litteras, ad aliquem or alicui,

    Cic. Att. 8, 6; id. Imp. Pomp. 2; Liv. 22, 11 al.: adferre se ad aliquem locum, to betake one's self to a place, to go or come to (opp. auferre se ab aliquo, to withdraw from, to leave, only poet.):

    huc me adfero,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 6; Ter. And. 4, 5, 12 Bentl.:

    Fatis huc te poscentibus adfers,

    Verg. A. 8, 477:

    sese a moenibus,

    id. ib. 3, 345.—So pass. adferri:

    urbem adferimur,

    are driven, come, Verg. A. 7, 217;

    and adferre pedem: abite illuc, unde malum pedem adtulistis,

    id. Cat. 14, 21.— To bring near, extend, = porrigo (eccl. Lat.):

    adfer manum tuam,

    reach hither, Vulg. Joan. 20, 27.—
    B.
    Trop., to bring to, upon, in a good or bad sense.
    (α).
    In bon. part.:

    pacem ad vos adfero,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 32:

    hic Stoicus genus sermonum adfert non liquidum,

    i.e. makes use of, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:

    nihil ostentationis aut imitationis adferre,

    id. ib. 3, 12, 45:

    non minus adferret ad dicendum auctoritatis quam facultatis,

    id. Mur. 2, 4:

    consulatum in familiam,

    id. Phil. 9, 2:

    animum vacuum ad scribendas res difficiles,

    id. Att. 12, 38:

    tibi benedictionem,

    Vulg. Gen. 33, 11:

    Domino gloriam,

    ib. 1 Par. 16, 28; ib. Apoc. 21, 26: ignominiam, ib. Osee, 4, 18.—
    (β).
    In mal. part.:

    bellum in patriam,

    Ov. M. 12, 5:

    nisi etiam illuc pervenerint (canes), ut in dominum adferant dentes,

    to use their teeth against their master, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 9:

    adferam super eos mala,

    Vulg. Jer. 23, 12:

    Quam accusationem adfertis adversus hominem hunc?

    id. Joan. 18, 29: quod gustatum adfert mortem, ib. Job, 6, 6: vim adferre alicui for inferre, to use force against or offer violence to one, Cic. Phil. 2, 7; id. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Liv. 9, 16; 42, 29 Drak.; Ov. H. 17, 21 Heins.; id. A. A. 1, 679; Suet. Oth. 12 al.: manus adferre alicui, in a bad sense, to lay hands on, attack, assail (opp.:

    manus abstinere ab aliquo): pro re quisque manus adfert (sc. ad pugnam),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26:

    domino a familiā suā manus adlatas esse,

    id. Quint. 27:

    intellegimus eum detrudi, cui manus adferuntur,

    id. Caecin. 17:

    qui sit improbissimus, manus ei adferantur, effodiantur oculi,

    id. Rep. 3, 17 Creuz. al.: sibi manus, to lay hands on one's self, to commit suicide: Qui quidem manus, quas justius in Lepidi perniciem animāsset, sibi adferre conatus est, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.—Also of things: manus templo, to rob or plunder, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18:

    bonis alienis,

    id. Off. 2, 15:

    manus suis vulneribus,

    to tear open, id. Att. 3, 15 (a little before:

    ne rescindam ipse dolorem meum): manus beneficio suo,

    to nullify, render worthless, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 ext. —
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    To bring, bear, or carry a thing, as news, to report, announce, inform, publish; constr. alicui or ad aliquem aliquid, or acc. with inf. (class.;

    in the histt., esp. in Livy, very freq.): ea adferam eaque ut nuntiem, etc.,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 9:

    istud quod adfers, aures exspectant meae,

    id. As. 2, 2, 65; Ter. Phorm. prol. 22:

    calamitas tanta fuit, ut eam non ex proelio nuntius, sed ex sermone rumor adferret,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25:

    si ei subito sit adlatum periculum patriae,

    id. Off. 1, 43, 154:

    nihil novi ad nos adferebatur,

    id. Fam. 2, 14; id. Att. 6, 8: rumores, qui de me adferuntur, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21:

    Caelium ad illam adtulisse, se aurum quaerere,

    id. Cael. 24; so id. Fam. 5, 2 al.:

    magnum enim, quod adferebant, videbatur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 15 Dint.:

    cum crebri adferrent nuntii, male rem gerere Darium,

    Nep. 3, 3:

    haud vana adtulere,

    Liv. 4, 37; 6, 31:

    exploratores missi adtulerunt quieta omnia apud Gallos esse,

    id. 8, 17 Drak.:

    per idem tempus rebellāsse Etruscos adlatum est,

    word was brought, id. 10, 45 al.:

    idem ex Hispaniā adlatum,

    Tac. H. 1, 76:

    esse, qui magnum nescio quid adferret,

    Suet. Dom. 16; Luc. 1, 475:

    scelus adtulit umbris,

    Val. Fl. 3, 172 al. —So of instruction: doctrinam, Vulg. prol. Eccli.; ib. 2 Joan. 10.—
    B.
    To bring a thing on one, i.e. to cause, occasion, effect, give, impart; esp. of states of mind:

    aegritudinem alicui,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 2:

    alicui molestiam,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    populo Romano pacem, tranquillitatem, otium, concordiam,

    Cic. Mur. 1:

    alicui multas lacrimas, magnam cladem,

    id. N. D. 2, 3, 7:

    ipsa detractio molestiae consecutionem adfert voluptatis,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; so,

    adferre auctoritatem et fidem orationi,

    id. Phil. 12, 7:

    metum,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 25:

    dolorem,

    id. Sull. 1:

    luctum et egestatem,

    id. Rosc. Am. 5:

    consolationem,

    id. Att. 10, 4:

    delectationem,

    id. Fam. 7, 1 al.:

    detrimentum,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 82:

    taedium,

    Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 7:

    dolorem capitis,

    id. 23, 1, 18:

    gaudium,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 2, 1 al. —
    C.
    To bring forwards, allege, assert, adduce, as an excuse, reason, etc.:

    quam causam adferam?

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 23:

    justas causas adfers,

    Cic. Att. 11, 15;

    also without causa: rationes quoque, cur hoc ita sit, adferendas puto,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27; cf. id. Fam. 4, 13:

    idque me non ad meam defensionem adtulisse,

    id. Caecin. 29, 85:

    ad ea, quae dixi, adfer, si quid habes,

    id. Att. 7: nihil igitur adferunt, qui in re gerendā versari senectutem negant, they bring forwards nothing to the purpose, who, etc., id. Sen. 6; id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:

    quid enim poterit dicere?... an aetatem adferet?

    i. e. as an excuse, id. ib. 2, 89, 364.—Also absol.:

    Quid sit enim corpus sentire, quis adferet umquam...?

    will bring forwards an explanation, Lucr. 3, 354 (cf. reddo absol. in same sense, id. 1, 566):

    et, cur credam, adferre possum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 70; 3, 23, 55.—
    D.
    Adferre aliquid = conducere, conferre aliquid, to contribute any thing to a definite object, to be useful in any thing, to help, assist; constr. with ad, with dat., or absol.:

    quam ad rem magnum adtulimus adjumentum hominibus nostris,

    Cic. Off. 1, 1:

    negat Epicurus diuturnitatem temporis ad beate vivendum aliquid adferre,

    id. Fin. 2, 27, 87:

    quidquid ad rem publicam adtulimus, si modo aliquid adtulimus,

    id. Off. 1, 44, 155:

    illa praesidia non adferunt oratori aliquid, ne, etc.,

    id. Mil. 1: aliquid adtulimus etiam nos, id. Planc. 10, 24:

    quid enim oves aliud adferunt, nisi, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 63.—
    E.
    Very rare in class. period, to bring forth as a product, to yield, bear, produce, = fero:

    agri fertiles, qui multo plus adferunt, quam acceperunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 15:

    herbam adferentem semen,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 29:

    arva non adferent cibum,

    ib. Hab. 3, 17: lignum adtulit fructum, ib. Joel, 2, 22; ib. Apoc. 22, 2:

    ager fructum,

    ib. Luc. 12, 16 al.

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  • 12 gerō

        gerō gessī, gestus, ere    [GES-], to bear about, bear, carry, wear, have, hold, sustain: vestem, N.: ferarum pelles, Ta.: anguīs inmixtos crinibus, O.: in capite galeam, N.: spolia ducis, L.: dextrā sceptrum, V.: Virginis os habitumque, V.: cornua matres Gesserunt, i. e. became cows, O.: tempora tecta pelle, O.: squalentem barbam gerens, with, V.: distentius uber, H.: Seu tu querelas sive geris iocos (of a jar), contain, H.— To bear, carry, bring: saxa in muros, L.: cum pro se quisque (terram) gereret, L.— To bear, bring forth, produce: arbores, O.: mālos, V.: quos gerit India lucos, V.: Terra viros gerit, O.—Fig., to bear, have, keep, entertain, cherish, experience: pro noxiis iras, T.: fortem animum, S.: mixtum gaudio animum, L.: Ante annos animum, V.: personam, support a character: Mores, O.: aliquod nomenque decusque, V.: veteres inimicitias cum Caesare, Cs.: de amicitiā gerendā libri: in Romanos odium, L.: aliter atque animo gerebat, respondit, i. e. with dissimulation, S.— To exhibit, display, assume: in adversis voltum secundae fortunae, L.: prae se quandam utilitatem.— To carry out, administer, manage, regulate, rule, govern, conduct, carry on, wage, transact, accomplish, do, perform: rem p.: res p. egregie gesta est, L.: magistratum: terrā rem, i. e. to be in command, L.: se et exercitum more maiorum, S.: male rem, manage business: dum ea geruntur, meanwhile, Cs.: dum haec Romae geruntur, happen, S.: etsi res bene gesta est, the war, Enn. ap. C.: in conspectu Caesaris res gerebatur, the action, Cs.: occasio rei bene gerendae, for a successful blow, Cs.: gladio comminus rem gerit, fights, Cs.: gestis aequanda pericula rebus, exploits, Iu.: a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit, public affairs: quid negoti geritur?: bello gesto, L.: auctores in gerendo probabiles: a spe gerendi abesse: intus Digna geri, off the stage, H.: geram tibi morem, gratify: gerere mihi morem, please myself, T.: ut homost, ita morem geras, every man to his humor, T.: ut utrique a me mos gestus esse videatur.—With se, to bear, act, behave, deport oneself: nos summissius: truculentius se quam ceteri: se turpissime: me in hoc magistratu: ita nos, ut, etc.: se medium gerere, remain neutral, L.: pro colonis se gerere, claim to be, L.: se pro cive: Dis te minorem, i. e. revere, H.: meque vosque in omnibus rebus iuxta, treat you as myself, S.: nec tecum talia gessi, treat you thus, V.
    * * *
    gerere, gessi, gestus V
    bear, carry, wear; carry on; manage, govern; (se gerere = to conduct oneself)

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  • 13 refero

    rĕ-fĕro, rettŭli (also written retuli), rĕlātum (rēlātum or rellatum, Lucr. 2, 1001), rĕferre, v. a. irr., to bear, carry, bring, draw, or give back (very freq. and class.; cf.: reduco, reporto, retraho).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Ingen.: zonas, quas plenas argenti extuli, eas ex provinciā inanes rettuli, C. Gracchus ap. Gell. 15, 12 fin.:

    arma,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 25:

    vasa domum,

    id. Poen. 4, 2, 25; cf.:

    pallam domum,

    id. Men. 5, 7, 59; 4, 2, 97; 98; cf.:

    anulum ad me,

    id. Cas. 2, 1, 1;

    and simply pallam, spinther,

    id. Men. 3, 3, 16; 5, 1, 5; 5, 2, 56:

    secum aurum,

    id. Aul. 4, 5, 4:

    exta,

    id. Poen. 2, 44:

    uvidum rete sine squamoso pecu,

    id. Rud. 4, 3, 5:

    aestus aliquem in portum refert,

    id. As. 1, 3, 6:

    Auster me ad tribulos tuos Rhegium rettulit,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 3: ut naves eodem, unde erant profectae, reterrentur, Caes. B. G. 4, 28:

    me referunt pedes in Tusculanum,

    Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; cf.:

    aliquem lecticae impositum domum,

    Suet. Caes. 82; and:

    in Palatium,

    id. Vit. 16: intro referre pedem, to turn one ' s feet back, to return, Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 50; cf.:

    incertus tuum cave ad me rettuleris pedem,

    id. Ep. 3, 4, 3:

    caelo rettulit illa pedem,

    Ov. H. 16, 88; 15, 186:

    fertque refertque pedes,

    id. F. 6, 334 (for a different use of the phrase, v. infra B. 2.):

    in decimum vestigia rettulit annum (victoria),

    Verg. A. 11, 290:

    in convivia gressum,

    Sil. 11, 355:

    in thalamos cursum,

    id. 8, 89:

    ad nomen caput ille refert,

    turns his head, looks back, Ov. M. 3, 245:

    suumque Rettulit os in se,

    drew back, concealed, id. ib. 2, 303:

    ad Tuneta rursum castra refert,

    Liv. 30, 16:

    corpus in monumentum,

    Petr. 113:

    relatis Lacedaemona (ossibus),

    Just. 3, 3, 12:

    gemmam non ad os, sed ad genas,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 5: digitos ad os referre, to draw back (v. digitus), Quint. 11, 3, 103:

    digitos ad frontem saepe,

    Ov. M. 15, 567:

    manum ad capulum,

    Tac. A. 15, 58 fin.:

    rursus enses vaginae,

    Sil. 7, 508:

    pecunias monumentaque, in templum,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 21:

    caput ejus in castra,

    id. B. G. 5, 58:

    vulneratos in locum tutum,

    id. B. C. 2, 41:

    cornua (urorum) in publicum,

    id. B. G. 6, 28:

    frumentum omne ad se referri jubet,

    id. ib. 7, 71:

    signa militaria, scutum, litteras ad Caesarem,

    id. ib. 7, 88; id. B. C. 3, 53; 3, 99; id. B. G. 1, 29; 5, 49:

    Caesaris capite relato,

    id. B. C. 3, 19 fin. —
    b.
    Esp.: referre se, to go back, return:

    Romam se rettulit,

    Cic. Fl. 21, 50:

    sese in castra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 72 fin.:

    se huc,

    id. ib. 2, 8, 2:

    domum me Ad porri catinum,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 115:

    sese ab Argis (Juno),

    Verg. A. 7, 286:

    se ab aestu,

    Ov. M. 14, 52; cf.:

    se de Britannis ovans,

    Tac. A. 13, 32:

    causam Cleanthes offert, cur se sol referat,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 37.—
    c.
    Pass. in mid. sense, to return, arrive:

    sin reiciemur, tamen eodem paulo tardius referamur necesse est,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 119:

    classem relatam,

    Verg. A. 1, 390:

    nunc Itali in tergum versis referuntur habenis,

    Sil. 4, 317; 7, 623.—
    d.
    To withdraw, remove:

    fines benignitatis introrsus referre,

    to narrow, Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 5:

    Seleucia ab mari relata,

    remote, Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 93. —
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To give back something due; to give up, return, restore, pay back, repay (= reddere):

    scyphos, quos utendos dedi Philodamo, rettuleritne?

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 34; cf. id. Aul. 4, 10, 29; 37; 38;

    and, pateram (surreptam),

    Cic. Div. 1, 25, 54:

    argentum,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 29; so (with reddere) id. Curc. 5, 3, 45:

    mercedem (with reddere),

    id. As. 2, 4, 35; cf.:

    octonis idibus aera,

    to pay the money for tuition. Hor. S. 1, 6, 75 (v. idus):

    si non Rettuleris pannum,

    id. Ep. 1, 17, 32; 1, 6, 60:

    verum, si plus dederis, referam,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 112.—
    2.
    Referre pedem or gradum, as a milit. t. t., to draw back, retire, withdraw, retreat (different from the gen. signif., to return, and the above passages):

    vulneribus defessi pedem referre coeperunt,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25; cf.:

    ut paulatim cedant ac pedem referant,

    id. B. C. 2, 40; Liv. 7, 33; so,

    referre pedem,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 44 (with loco excedere); Cic. Phil. 12, 3 (opp. insistere); Liv. 3, 60 (opp. restituitur pugna);

    21, 8 al.— For the sake of euphony: referre gradum: cum pedes referret gradum,

    Liv. 1, 14. —

    And, in a like sense, once mid.: a primā acie ad triarios sensim referebatur,

    Liv. 8, 8, 11.—
    b.
    Transf., out of the milit. sphere:

    feroque viso retulit retro pedem (viator),

    Phaedr. 2, 1, 8; cf.:

    viso rettulit angue pedem,

    Ov. F. 2, 342; 6, 334:

    rettulit ille gradus horrueruntque comae,

    id. ib. 2, 502:

    (in judiciis) instare proficientibus et ab iis, quae non adjuvant, quam mollissime pedem oportet referre,

    Quint. 6, 4, 19.
    II.
    Trop., to bear or carry back, to bring, draw, or give back.
    A.
    In gen.: (Saxum) ejulatu... Resonando mutum flebiles voces refert, Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94 (Trag. Rel. p. 176 Rib.); cf. Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42:

    sonum,

    id. N. D. 2, 57, 144; id. Or. 12, 38; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 201 al.:

    voces,

    Ov. M. 12, 47; cf.:

    Coëamus rettulit Echo,

    id. ib. 3, 387: cum ex CXXV. judicibus reus L. referret, restored to the list, i. e. retained, accepted (opp. quinque et LXX. reiceret), Cic. Planc. 17:

    o mihi praeteritos referat si Juppiter annos!

    Verg. A. 8, 560; cf.: tibi tempora, Hor. C. 4, 13, 13:

    festas luces (sae culum),

    id. ib. 4, 6, 42:

    dies siccos (sol),

    id. ib. 3, 29, 20 et saep.:

    hoc quidem jam periit: Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas,

    Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 3:

    ad amicam meras querimonias referre,

    id. Truc. 1, 2, 65:

    hic in suam domum ignominiam et calamitatem rettulit,

    Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138; cf.:

    pro re certā spem falsam domum rettulerunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 110:

    rem publicam sistere negat posse, nisi ad equestrem ordinem judicia referantur,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 96, § 223:

    servati civis decus referre,

    Tac. A. 3, 21:

    e cursu populari referre aspectum in curiam,

    to turn back, turn towards, Cic. Prov. Cons. 16, 38; cf.:

    oculos animumque ad aliquem,

    id. Quint. 14, 47:

    animum ad studia,

    id. de Or. 1, 1, 1:

    animum ad veritatem,

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 48:

    animum ad firmitudinem,

    Tac. A. 3, 6 et saep.:

    multa dies variique labor mutabilis aevi Rettulit in melius,

    brought to a better state, Verg. A. 11, 426:

    uterque se a scientiae delectatione ad efficiendi utilitatem refert,

    Cic. Rep. 5, 3, 5; so,

    se ad philosophiam referre,

    to go back, return, id. Off. 2, 1, 4:

    ut eo, unde digressa est, referat se oratio,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 77.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) To pay back, give back, repay (syn. reddo):

    denique Par pari referto,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 55; cf.:

    quod ab ipso adlatum est, id sibi esse relatum putet,

    id. Phorm. prol. 21:

    ut puto, non poteris ipsa referre vicem,

    pay him back in his own coin, Ov. A. A. 1, 370; Sen. Herc. Fur. 1337. — Esp. in the phrase referre gratiam (rarely gratias), to return thanks, show one ' s gratitude (by deeds), to recompense, requite (cf.:

    gratiam habeo): spero ego mihi quoque Tempus tale eventurum, ut tibi gratium referam parem,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 39:

    parem gratiam,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 51:

    et habetur et refertur, Thais, a me ita, uti merita es, gratia,

    id. ib. 4, 6, 12; cf.:

    meritam gratiam debitamque,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 14:

    justam ac debitam gratiam,

    id. Balb. 26, 59:

    pro eo mihi ac mereor relaturos esse gratiam,

    id. Cat. 4, 2, 3; 1, 11, 28; id. Off. 2, 20, 69:

    fecisti ut tibi numquam referre gratiam possim,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 12; id. Most. 1, 3, 57; id. Pers. 5, 2, 71; id. Ps. 1, 3, 86; id. Rud. 5, 3, 36 al.; Cic. Lael. 15, 53; Caes. B. G. 1, 35:

    alicui pro ejus meritis gratiam referre,

    id. ib. 5, 27 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 39; 3, 1, fin.:

    gratiam emeritis,

    Ov. P. 1, 7, 61:

    gratiam factis,

    id. Tr. 5, 4, 47.— Plur.:

    pro tantis eorum in rem publicam meritis honores ei habeantur gratiaeque referantur,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 15, 39; 10, 11, 1:

    dis advenientem gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 27; v. gratia.—
    2.
    To bring back any thing; to repeat, renew, restore, = repetere, retractare, renovare, etc.:

    (Hecyram) Iterum referre,

    to produce it again, Ter. Hec. prol. 7; id. ib. prol. alt. 21 and 30; cf. Hor. A. P. 179.— So, to bring up for reconsideration:

    rem judicatam,

    Cic. Dom. 29, 78:

    ludunt... Dictaeos referunt Curetas,

    Lucr. 2, 633:

    Actia pugna per pueros refertur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 62: institutum referri ac renovari, Civ. Div. in Caecil. 21, 68; cf.:

    consuetudo longo intervallo repetita ac relata,

    id. ib. 21, 67:

    te illud idem, quod tum explosum et ejectum est, nunc rettulisse demiror,

    Cic. Clu. 31, 86:

    cum ad idem, unde semel profecta sunt, cuncta astra redierint eandemque totius caeli descriptionem longis intervallis retulerint,

    id. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

    mysteria ad quae biduo serius veneram,

    id. de Or. 3, 20, 75:

    quasdam caerimonias ex magno intervallo,

    Liv. 3, 55:

    antiquum morem,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    consuetudinem antiquam,

    id. Tib. 32 et saep.:

    cum aditus consul idem illud responsum rettulit,

    repeated, Liv. 37, 6 fin.:

    veterem Valeriae gentis in liberandā patriā laudem,

    to restore, Cic. Fl. 1, 1:

    hunc morem, hos casus atque haec certamina primus Ascanius Rettulit,

    Verg. A. 5, 598:

    O mihi praeteritos referat si Juppiter annos,

    id. ib. 8, 560.—
    b.
    To represent, set forth anew, reproduce, etc.:

    referre Naturam, mores, victum motusque parentum,

    to reproduce, Lucr. 1, 597:

    majorum vultus vocesque comasque,

    id. 4, 1221:

    mores, os vultusque ejus (sc. patris),

    Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 9:

    parentis sui speciem,

    Liv. 10, 7; cf.:

    (Tellus) partim figuras Rettulit antiquas, partim nova monstra creavit,

    Ov. M. 1, 437:

    faciem demptā pelle novam,

    Tib. 1, 8, 46:

    temporis illius vultum,

    Ov. M. 13, 443: si quis mihi parvulus aulā Luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore [p. 1545] referret, might represent, resemble thee, Verg. A. 4, 329; cf.:

    nomine avum referens, animo manibusque parentem,

    id. ib. 12, 348:

    Marsigni sermone vultuque Suevos referunt,

    Tac. G. 43:

    neque amissos colores lana refert,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 28.—
    3.
    To convey a report, account, intelligence, by speech or by writing; to report, announce, relate, recite, repeat, recount; to mention, allege (class.;

    in late Lat. saepissime): certorum hominum sermones referebantur ad me,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 10 Orell. N. cr.:

    tales miserrima fletus Fertque refertque soror (sc. ad Aeneam),

    Verg. A. 4, 438:

    pugnam referunt,

    Ov. M. 12, 160:

    factum dictumve,

    Liv. 6, 40:

    si quis hoc referat exemplum,

    Quint. 5, 11, 8:

    in epistulis Cicero haec Bruti refert verba,

    id. 6, 3, 20:

    quale refert Cicero de homine praelongo, caput eum, etc.,

    id. 6, 3, 67 et saep.:

    quaecunque refers,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 60; 2, 1, 130:

    sermones deorum,

    id. C. 3, 3, 71:

    multum referens de Maecenate,

    Juv. 1, 66. —With obj.-clause, Suet. Caes. 30; Ov. M. 1, 700; 4, 796:

    Celso gaudere et bene rem gerere refer,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 2 al.; cf. poet. by Greek attraction:

    quia rettulit Ajax Esse Jovis pronepos,

    Ov. M. 13, 141; and:

    referre aliquid in annales,

    Liv. 4, 34 fin., and 43, 13, 2:

    ut Proetum mulier perfida credulum Falsis impulerit criminibus, refert,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 16.— Absol.:

    quantum, inquam, debetis? Respondent CVI. Refero ad Scaptium,

    I report, announce it to Scaptius, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 12:

    in quo primum saepe aliter est dictum, aliter ad nos relatum,

    reported, stated, id. Brut. 57, 288:

    (Hortensius) nullo referente, omnia adversariorum dicta meminisset,

    id. ib. 88, 301:

    abi, quaere, et refer,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 53. —
    b.
    Poet. (mostly in Ovid), to repeat to one ' s self, call to mind:

    tacitāque recentia mente Visa refert,

    Ov. M. 15, 27:

    si forte refers,

    id. Am. 2, 8, 17:

    haec refer,

    id. R. Am. 308:

    saepe refer tecum sceleratae facta puellae,

    id. ib. 299:

    mente memor refero,

    id. M. 15, 451:

    foeda Lycaoniae referens convivia mensae,

    id. ib. 1, 165; cf.:

    illam meminitque refertque,

    id. ib. 11, 563.—
    c.
    Pregn., to say in return, to rejoin, answer, reply (syn. respondeo):

    id me non ad meam defensionem attulisse, sed illorum defensioni rettulisse,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 85:

    ego tibi refero,

    I reply to you, id. ib. 29, 85, §

    84: ut si esset dictum, etc., et referret aliquis Ergo, etc.,

    id. Fat. 13, 30:

    quid a nobis autem refertur,

    id. Quint. 13, 44: retices;

    nec mutua nostris Dicta refers,

    Ov. M. 1, 656; 14, 696:

    Musa refert,

    id. ib. 5, 337; id. F. 5, 278:

    Anna refert,

    Verg. A. 4, 31:

    talia voce,

    id. ib. 1, 94:

    pectore voces,

    id. ib. 5, 409:

    tandem pauca refert,

    id. ib. 4, 333 et saep. —
    d.
    Publicists' t. t.
    (α).
    To bring, convey, deliver any thing as an official report, to report, announce, notify, = renuntiare:

    legati haec se ad suos relaturos dixerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 9; cf.:

    cujus orationem legati domum referunt,

    id. B. C. 1, 35: responsa (legati), Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 380, 31:

    legationem Romam,

    Liv. 7, 32:

    mandata ad aliquem,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

    responsa,

    id. B. G. 1, 35; cf.:

    mandata alicui,

    id. ib. 1, 37:

    numerum capitum ad aliquem,

    id. ib. 2, 33 fin.:

    rumores excipere et ad aliquem referre,

    Cic. Deiot. 9, 25; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 47:

    Ubii paucis diebus intermissis referunt, Suevos omnes, etc.,

    id. ib. 6, 10; Liv. 3, 38, 12.—
    (β).
    Ad senatum de aliquā re referre (less freq with acc., a rel.-clause, or absol.), to make a motion or proposition in the Senate; to consult, refer to, or lay before the Senate; to move, bring forward, propose: VTI L. PAVLVS C. MARCELLVS COSS... DE CONSVLARIBVS PROVINCIIS AD SENATVM REFERRENT, NEVE QVID PRIVS... AD SENATVM REFERRENT, NEVE QVID CONIVNCTVM DE EA RE REFERRETVR A CONSVLIBVS, S. C. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5 sq.: de legibus abrogandis ad senatum referre. Cic. Cornel. 1, Fragm. 8 (p. 448 Orell.); cf.:

    de quo legando consules spero ad senatum relaturos,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 58:

    de ejus honore ad senatum referre,

    id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

    de eā re postulant uti referatur. Itaque consulente Cicerone frequens senatus decernit, etc.,

    Sall. C. 48, 5, 6:

    rem ad senatum refert,

    id. ib. 29, 1; cf.:

    tunc relata ex integro res ad senatum,

    Liv. 21, 5:

    rem ad senatum,

    id. 2, 22:

    consul convocato senatu refert, quid de his fieri placeat, qui, etc.,

    Sall. C. 50, 3: ut ex litteris ad senatum referretur, impetrari (a consulibus) non potuit. Referunt consules de re publicā, Caes. B. C. 1, 1; cf.:

    refer, inquis, ad senatum. Non referam,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 20.—

    Of other bodies than the Senate (cf.: defero, fero): C. Cassium censorem de signo Concordiae dedicando ad pontificum collegium rettulisse,

    Cic. Dom. 53, 136: eam rem ad consilium cum rettulisset Fabius. Liv. 24, 45, 2; 30, 4, 9:

    est quod referam ad consilium,

    id. 30, 31, 9; 44, 2, 5; Curt. 4, 11, 10.— Per syllepsin: DE EA RE AD SENATVM POPVLVMQVE REFERRI, since referre ad populum was not used in this sense (for ferre ad populum); v. fero, and the foll. g:

    de hoc (sc. Eumene) Antigonus ad consilium rettulit,

    Nep. Eum. 12, 1.— Transf., to make a reference, to refer (class.): de rebus et obscuris et incertis ad Apollinem censeo referendum;

    ad quem etiam Athenienses publice de majoribus rebus semper rettulerunt,

    Cic. Div. 1, 54, 122; cf. Nep. Lys. 3; Cic. Quint. 16, 53.— Different from this is, *
    (γ).
    Referre ad populum (for denuo ferre), to propose or refer any thing anew to the people (cf. supra, II. B. 2.;

    v. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 1006): factum est illorum aequitate et sapientiā consulum, ut id, quod senatus decreverat, id postea referendum ad populum non arbitrarentur,

    Cic. Clu. 49, 137; cf. Att. ap. Non. p. 512, 29; Liv. 22, 20; Val. Max. 8, 10, 1.—
    e.
    A mercantile and publicists' t. t., to note down, enter any thing in writing; to inscribe, register, record, etc.:

    cum scirem, ita indicium in tabulas publicas relatum,

    Cic. Sull. 15, 42:

    in tabulas quodcumque commodum est,

    id. Fl. 9, 20:

    nomen in tabulas, in codicem,

    id. Rosc. Com. 1, 4:

    quod reliquum in commentarium,

    id. Att. 7, 3, 7:

    quid in libellum,

    id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    tuas epistulas in volumina,

    i. e. to admit, id. Fam. 16, 17 init.; cf.:

    orationem in Origines,

    id. Brut. 23, 89 al.:

    in reos, in proscriptos referri,

    to be set down among, id. Rosc. Am. 10, 27:

    absentem in reos,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 42, § 109; cf.:

    aliquem inter proscriptos,

    Suet. Aug. 70:

    anulos quoque depositos a nobilitate, in annales relatum est,

    Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 18:

    senatūs consulta falsa (sc. in aerarium),

    enter, register, Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1; id. Phil. 5, 4, 12. —Entirely absol.:

    ut nec triumviri accipiundo nec scribae referundo sufficerent,

    Liv. 26, 36 fin. —Here, too, belongs referre rationes or aliquid (in rationibus, ad aerarium, ad aliquem, alicui), to give, present, or render an account:

    rationes totidem verbis referre ad aerarium,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 2;

    and rationes referre alone: in rationibus referendis... rationum referendarum jus, etc.,

    id. ib. 5, 20, 1; id. Pis. 25, 61; id. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 77; 2, 3, 71, § 167:

    referre rationes publicas ad Caesarem cum fide,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 20 fin.:

    si hanc ex fenore pecuniam populo non rettuleris, reddas societati,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 167:

    (pecuniam) in aerarium,

    Liv. 37, 57, 12; cf.: pecuniam operi publico, to charge to, i. e. to set down as applied to, Cic. Fl. 19, 44.— So, too, acceptum and in acceptum referre, to place to one ' s credit, in a lit. and trop. sense (v. accipio).— Hence, transf.: aliquem (aliquid) in numero (as above, in rationibus), in numerum, etc., to count or reckon a person or thing among:

    Democritus, qui imagines eorumque circuitus in deorum numero refert,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 29:

    (Caesar, Claudius) in deorum numerum relatus est,

    Suet. Caes. 88; id. Claud. 45:

    Ponticus Heraclides terram et caelum refert in deos,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 13, 34:

    nostri oratorii libri in Eundem librorum numerum referendi videntur,

    id. Div. 2, 1, 4: hoc nomen in codicem relatum, id. Rosc. Com. B. and K. (al. in codice).—With inter (postAug. and freq.):

    ut inter deos referretur (August.),

    Suet. Aug. 97:

    diem inter festos, nefastos,

    Tac. A. 13, 41 fin.:

    hi tamen inter Germanos referuntur,

    id. G. 46; Suet. Claud. 11; id. Tib. 53:

    dumque refert inter meritorum maxima, demptos Aesonis esse situs,

    Ov. M. 7, 302:

    intellectum est, quod inter divos quoque referretur,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 14:

    inter sidera referre,

    Hyg. Fab. 192:

    inter praecipua crudelitatis indicia referendus,

    Val. Max. 9, 2, ext. 5:

    inter insulas,

    Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 48:

    dicebat quasdam esse quaestiones, quae deberent inter res judicatas referri,

    Sen. Contr. 2, 11, 12:

    eodem Q. Caepionem referrem,

    I should place in the same category, Cic. Brut. 62, 223.—
    4.
    Referre aliquid ad aliquid, to trace back, ascribe, refer a thing to any thing:

    qui pecudum ritu ad voluptatem omnia referunt,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    omnia ad igneam vim,

    id. N. D. 3, 14, 35:

    omnia ad incolumitatem et ad libertatem suam,

    id. Rep. 1, 32, 49; 1, 26, 41:

    in historiā quaeque ad veritatem, in poëmate pleraque ad delectationem,

    id. Leg. 1, 1, 5; id. Off. 1, 16, 52 et saep. al.:

    hunc ipsum finem definiebas id esse, quo omnia, quae recte fierent, referrentur, neque id ipsum usquam referretur,

    id. Fin. 2, 2, 5; cf.

    nusquam,

    id. ib. 1, 9, 29:

    ad commonendum oratorem, quo quidque referat,

    id. de Or. 1, 32, 145:

    hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum,

    Hor. C. 3, 6, 6.— With dat.:

    cujus adversa pravitati ipsius, prospera ad fortunam referebat,

    Tac. A. 14, 38 fin. — In Tac. once with in:

    quidquid ubique magnificum est, in claritatem ejus (sc. Herculis) referre consensimus,

    Tac. G. 34.—Rarely of persons;

    as: tuum est Caesar, quid nunc mihi animi sit, ad te ipsum referre,

    Cic. Deiot. 2, 7.— Absol.: ita inserere oportet referentem ad fructum, meliore genere ut sit surculus, etc., one who looks to or cares for the fruit, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 6.—
    5.
    Culpam in aliquem referre, to throw the blame upon, accuse, hold responsible for, etc. (post-Aug.):

    hic, quod in adversis rebis solet fieri, alius in alium culpam referebant,

    Curt. 4, 3, 7; Aug. contr. Man. 2, 17, 25 Hier. Epp. 1, 9 fin.: cf.:

    augere ejus, in quem referet crimen, culpam,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 28, 83:

    causa ad matrem referebatur,

    Tac. A. 6, 49:

    causam abscessus ad Sejani artes,

    id. ib. 4, 57.

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  • 14 suscipio

    suscĭpĭo (sometimes succĭpĭo; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 175 and 144; Vel. Long. p. 2226 P.), cēpi, ceptum, 3, v. a. [sus, a contraction of subs, for sub; v. sub fin., and capio], qs. to take hold of in order to support, i. e. to take or catch up, to take upon one.
    I.
    To support, hold up, sustain.
    A.
    Lit.:

    quid loquar lapideas moles, quibus porticus suscipimus,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 26:

    theatrum fulturis ab substructionibus,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 38, 2:

    latera puteorum structurā,

    Pall. Aug. 9, 2:

    labentem domum,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 5: balnea suscepta crepidine, supported, resting on, etc., Stat. S. 1, 3, 43:

    habenas,

    Sen. Troad. 728.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To support, defend:

    famam defuncti pudoremque,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2:

    qui temere nocentis reos susciperet,

    Quint. 11, 1, 74:

    cum periculo suscepti litigatoris,

    id. 2, 12, 4. —
    2.
    To take upon one, undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (esp. when done voluntarily and as a favor; recipio, when done as a duty or under an obligation).
    (α).
    Of actions, obligations, etc. (class. and freq.):

    aut inimicitias aut laborem aut sumptus suscipere nolunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28:

    inimicitias,

    Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 34; Nep. Pelop. 1, 3; cf. Cic. Lael. 21, 77:

    personā susceptā viri boni,

    id. Clu. 36, 101:

    honestam rem actionemve,

    id. Lael. 13, 47:

    bellum,

    id. Leg. 2, 14, 34; id. Rep. 3, 23, 35; id. Off. 1, 11, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 16; 7, 37 al.:

    rei publicae partem,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 10; id. Mil. 15, 40:

    causam populi,

    id. Rep. 4, 8, 27:

    patrocinium improbitatis, etc.,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 8; id. de Or. 3, 17, 63:

    negotium,

    id. Cat. 3, 2, 5:

    iter Asiaticum,

    id. Att. 4, 15, 2:

    omnia alter pro altero suscipiet,

    id. Lael. 22, 82:

    aes alienum amicorum,

    id. Off. 2, 16, 56:

    cum inaudita ac nefaria sacra susceperis,

    id. Vatin. 6, 14: porcam praecidaneam, Varr. ap. Non. 163, 21:

    pulvinar,

    Liv. 5, 52, 6:

    prodigia (with curare),

    id. 1, 20:

    votum,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 75; Liv. 27, 45, 8; Ov. F. 6, 246:

    disputationem de re publicā,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12; cf. id. Off. 1, 2, 7:

    nec enim hoc suscepi, ut, etc., tamquam magister persequerer omnia,

    id. Rep. 1, 24, 38:

    permagnum quiddam,

    id. de Or. 1, 22, 103:

    quae si suscipiamus,

    undertake to prove, id. Div. 2, 40, 84; so with obj.-clause:

    qui suscipiant, posse animum manere corpore vacantem, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 1, 32, 78.— Rarely with dat. of reflex. pron.:

    legationem ad civitates sibi,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 3; cf.:

    tantum sibi auctoritatis in re publicā suscepit, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 152:

    mihi auctoritatem patriam severitatemque suscipio,

    id. Cael. 16, 37.—
    (β).
    Of feelings, experiences, etc., to undergo, submit to, bear, accept:

    morbos durumque dolorem,

    Lucr. 3, 460; so,

    dolorem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 46, 111:

    dolorem gemitumque,

    id. Vatin. 8, 19:

    invidiam atque offensionem apud populos,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 137:

    odium,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 25:

    molestiam,

    id. Caecin. 6, 17.—With in and acc.:

    miserius qui suscipit in se scelus quam si qui alterius facinus subire cogitur,

    i. e. wilfully incurs guilt, Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 9; cf.:

    si esset inventus, qui in se suscipere istius culpam crimenque cuperet,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 42, § 91:

    negotiatoribus Claudius certa lucra proposuit, suscepto in se damno, si cui, etc.,

    Suet. Claud. 18. —
    II.
    To take, catch, take up, receive.
    A.
    In gen. (so only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    sol aeternam suscepit lampada mundi,

    to catch up, Lucr. 5, 402:

    dominam ruentem,

    Verg. A. 11, 806:

    suscipiunt famulae,

    id. ib. 4, 391:

    cruorem pateris,

    id. ib. 6, 249; cf.:

    cava suscepto flumine palma sat est,

    Prop. 4 (5), 9, 36 (al. succepto):

    ignem foliis,

    Verg. A. 1, 175. —
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To take up a new-born child from the ground; hence, to acknowledge, recognize, bring up as one ' s own (class.; cf.

    tollo): simul atque editi in lucem et suscepti sumus,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:

    puerum,

    Ter. And. 2, 3, 27:

    haec ad te die natali meo scripsi, quo utinam susceptus non essem!

    Cic. Att. 11, 9, 3.—
    b.
    In gen., to get, beget, or bear children:

    filia, quam ex te suscepi,

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 34: filiam ex uxore, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7 (8), 50:

    liberos ex libertini filiā,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 17; cf. Ter. Phorm. 5, 7 (8), 74:

    inde filiam,

    id. ib. 5, 8 (9), 18:

    susceperas liberos non solum tibi, sed etiam patriae,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 161:

    si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset Ante fugam suboles,

    Verg. A. 4, 327; Vulg. Judic. 11, 2.—
    2.
    To take, receive, as a citizen, under one's protection, as a pupil, etc. (rare but class.):

    Cato cum esset Tusculi natus, in populi Romani civitatem susceptus est,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 5: suscipe me totum, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 9, 1:

    suscepi candidatum,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 6, 9:

    susceptos a se discipulos,

    Quint. 2, 5, 1; 11, 1, 55:

    pancratiasten docendum,

    id. 2, 8, 13:

    aliquos erudiendos,

    id. 2, 8, 1.—
    3.
    To receive, get:

    pecuniam,

    Dig. 22, 3, 25:

    pretio, quod dominus suscepit,

    App. M. 8, p. 213, 20.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    suscepit vita hominum consuetudoque communis, ut, etc.,

    has allowed, admitted, Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62.—
    2.
    To take up, resume, continue a speech, answer:

    suscipit Stolo: Tu, inquit, invides, etc.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 24; cf.:

    ad quod... sermonem suscipit Polus,

    Quint. 2, 15, 28; Verg. A. 6, 723; App. M. 4, p. 150, 8; 9, p. 227, 12. —Hence, P. a. as subst.: susceptum, i, n., an undertaking:

    susceptaque magna labore Crescere difficili,

    Ov. M. 11, 200.

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  • 15 tollo

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

    tollisse,

    Dig. 46, 4, 13) [root Sanscr. tul-, tulajāmi, lift up, weigh; Gr. tal-, tel, in tlênai, talanton; cf.: tuli, tlātus (latus), tolerare], to lift or take up, to raise, always with the predom. idea of motion upwards or of removal from a former situation.
    I.
    To lift up, raise up, elevate, exalt, etc. (syn.: effero, elevo).
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli templa, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.): pileum ad caelum tollit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 220, 15:

    fulgor ibi ad caelum se tollit,

    Lucr. 2, 325;

    for which also: aliquem tollere in caelum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

    quem (Herculem) in caelum ista ipsa sustulit fortitudo,

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

    tollam ego ted in collum,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 42:

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

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

    aliquem in equum,

    id. Deiot. 10, 28:

    quos in crucem sustulit,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7:

    aliquem in crucem,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 5, §

    13: aquila in sublime sustulit testudinem,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 4:

    in arduos Tollor Sabinos,

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

    ut me hic jacentem aliquis tollat,

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

    jacentes,

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

    nequeo caput tollere,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45:

    sustulimus manus et ego et Balbus,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

    manus,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5:

    gradum,

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

    lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga (coluber),

    Verg. A. 2, 474:

    terrā,

    Ov. M. 15, 192:

    de terrā,

    Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

    se tollere a terrā,

    id. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

    ignis e speculā sublatus,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 93.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Tollere liberos, to take up, i. e. to accept, acknowledge; and so, to raise up, bring up, educate as one's own (from the custom of laying new-born children on the ground at the father's feet; cf.

    suscipio): quod erit natum, tollito,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 3:

    puerum,

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

    natum filium,

    Quint. 4, 2, 42:

    nothum,

    id. 3, 6, 97:

    puellam,

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

    si quod peperissem, id educarem ac tollerem,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 45.—
    (β).
    Transf., in gen., to get, beget a child:

    qui ex Fadiā sustulerit liberos,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 10, 23:

    decessit morbo aquae intercutis, sublato filio Nerone ex Agrippinā,

    Suet. Ner. 5 fin. —
    b.
    Nautical t. t.: tollere ancoras, to lift the anchor, weigh anchor; esp. in part. pass.:

    sublatis ancoris,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 1, 31; Liv. 22, 19, 6. —
    (β).
    Transf. out of the nautical sphere, to break up, proceed:

    si vultis ancoras tollere,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 1.—
    c.
    To build, raise, erect:

    tollam altius tectum,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 15, 33:

    si juxta habeas aedificia, eaque jure tuo altius tollas,

    Dig. 39, 2, 26.—
    d.
    To take on board, carry, of vessels or vehicles:

    navem, metretas quae trecentas tolleret, parasse,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 75:

    naves, quae equites sustulerant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 28:

    altera navis ducentos ex legione tironum sustulerat,

    id. B. C. 3, 28;

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

    Verg. A. 3, 601:

    ut se sublatum in lembum ad Cotym deveheret,

    Liv. 45, 6, 2:

    Maecenas me tollere raedā vellet,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 42:

    Talem te Bacchus... sustulit in currus,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 157. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To raise, lift, lift up, elevate, set up, etc.: tollitur in caelum clamor exortus utrimque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 422 Vahl.):

    clamorem in caelum,

    Verg. A. 11, 745:

    clamores ad sidera,

    id. ib. 2, 222; cf.:

    clamor magnus se tollit ad auras,

    rises, id. ib. 11, 455:

    clamor a vigilibus tollitur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94:

    clamorem,

    Flor. 3, 8, 6:

    cachinnum,

    Cic. Fat. 5, 10:

    risum,

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

    animos,

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

    animos alicui,

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

    nec dubium est quin omnis Hispania sublatura animos fuerit,

    id. 35, 1, 3;

    opp. abicere animos,

    Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 7:

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

    Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 104:

    ad caelum te tollimus verissimis ac justissimis laudibus,

    id. Fam. 15, 9, 1:

    monumentum illud, quod tu tollere laudibus solebas,

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

    nostras laudes in astra,

    id. ib. 2, 25, 1:

    Daphnim tuum ad astra,

    Verg. E. 5, 51:

    tergeminis tollere honoribus,

    Hor. C. 1, 1, 8:

    vos Tempe tollite laudibus,

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

    supra modum se tollens oratio,

    Quint. 4, 2, 61; cf.:

    se eadem geometria tollit ad rationem usque mundi,

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

    amicum Tollere (i. q. consolari),

    to cheer up, console, Hor. S. 2, 8, 61.—
    2.
    To take on one, assume, bear, endure:

    providere non solum quid oneris in praesentia tollant,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

    at Apollodorus poenas sustulit,

    id. N. D. 3, 33, 82. —
    II.
    To take up a thing from its place, to take away, remove, to bear or carry away, make way with, take away with one (syn.: aufero, adimo).
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    frumentum de areā,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 36:

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

    id. Lael. 13, 47:

    ut aliquis nos deus ex hac hominum frequentiā tolleret,

    id. ib. 23, 87:

    simulacra ex delubris,

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

    pecunias e fano,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 105:

    sphaeram ex urbe (Syracusis),

    Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21:

    praedam,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

    posita,

    id. ib. 6, 17:

    patinam,

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

    his sublatis,

    id. ib. 2, 8, 10:

    mensam tolli jubet,

    Cic. Pis. 27, 67:

    me per hostes Denso paventem sustulit aëre,

    Hor. C. 2, 7, 14:

    jubet sublata reponi Pocula,

    Verg. A. 8, 175:

    cuncta,

    id. ib. 8, 439:

    tecum me tolle per undas,

    id. ib. 6, 370:

    me quoque tolle simul,

    Ov. M. 11, 441:

    tollite me, Libyes, comitem poenaeque necisque,

    Sil. 6, 500.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Pregn., to take off, carry off, make away with, to kill, destroy, ruin, etc.:

    aliquem de medio,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

    aliquem e medio,

    Liv. 24, 6, 1:

    aliquem ferro, veneno,

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

    Titanas fulmine (Juppiter),

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

    me truncus illapsus cerebro Sustulerat, nisi, etc.,

    Hor. C. 2, 17, 28:

    tollet anum vitiato melle cicuta,

    id. S. 2, 1, 56:

    sorbitio tollit quem dira cicutae,

    Pers. 4, 2:

    majores nostri Carthaginem et Numantiam funditus sustulerunt,

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

    ademptus Hector Tradidit fessis leviora tolli Pergama Graiis,

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

    se non esse commissurum, ut tolli posset,

    id. ib. 11, 20, 1.—
    b.
    Milit. t. t.: tollere signa, to break up for marching, to decamp, Caes. B. C. 2, 20; Auct. B. Alex. 57, 1.—
    B.
    Trop., to do away with, remove; to abolish, annul, abrogate, cancel (very freq., esp. in Cic.;

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

    Cic. Quint. 21, 70; cf.

    metum,

    id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

    sublatā benevolentiā amicitiae nomen tollitur,

    id. Lael. 5, 19; cf.:

    maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex eā tollit verecundiam,

    id. ib. 22, 82:

    dubitationem,

    id. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

    errorem,

    id. ib. 1, 24, 38:

    librariorum menda,

    id. Att. 13, 23, 2:

    ut id nomen ex omnibus libris tollatur,

    id. ib. 13, 44, 3:

    legem,

    id. Leg. 2, 12, 31:

    veteres leges novis legibus,

    id. de Or. 1, 58, 247:

    dictaturam funditus ex re publicā,

    id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

    sublato Areopago,

    id. Rep. 1, 27, 43:

    deos,

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

    diem,

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

    morbus facile tollitur,

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

    dolores et tumores,

    Plin. 26, 12, 75, § 122:

    foeditates cicatricum maculasque,

    id. 33, 6, 35, § 110:

    muliebrem luctum,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 39:

    querelas,

    id. Ep. 1, 12, 3.—Hence,

    sublātus

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

    quo proelio sublati Helvetii,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

    hac victoriā,

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

    rebus secundis,

    Verg. A. 10, 502:

    gloriā,

    Tac. A. 13, 11 et saep.:

    fidens magis et sublatior ardet,

    Ov. Hal. 54. — Adv.:

    sublātē

    , highly, loftily. *
    1.
    Lit.:

    Nilus diebus centum sublatius fluens, minuitur postea,

    higher, Amm. 22, 15, 12. —
    2.
    Trop.:

    sublate ampleque dicere (opp. attenuate presseque),

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

    sublatius dicere,

    more proudly, id. Dom. 36, 95:

    sublatius insolescentes,

    Amm. 15, 12, 1.

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  • 16 sustento

    sustento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [sustineo], to hold up or upriqht, to uphold, support, prop, sustain (syn. sustineo).
    I.
    Lit. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    multos per annos Sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi,

    Lucr. 5, 96: Hercule quondam [p. 1822] Sustentante polum, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 143:

    Alcanor fratrem ruentem Sustentat dextrā,

    Verg. A. 10, 339:

    in Tiberim abjectum,

    Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 145:

    naufraga sustentant... vela (i. e. navem) Lacones,

    Claud. B. Gild. 222; cf.:

    aegre seque et arma sustentans,

    Curt. 8, 4, 15.—
    B.
    To bear, wear:

    catenas,

    Vop. Aur. 34.—
    II.
    Trop., to keep up, uphold, sustain, maintain, support, bear, uplift, preserve (class. and freq.).
    A.
    In gen.:

    exsanguem jam et jacentem (civitatem),

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

    rem publicam,

    id. Mur. 2, 3:

    imbecillitatem valetudinis tuae sustenta et tuere,

    id. Fam. 7, 1, 5:

    valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis,

    id. Off. 2, 24, 86; Vell. 2, 114, 1:

    Terentiam, unam omnium aerumnosissimam, sustentes tuis officiis,

    Cic. Att. 3, 23, 5:

    tu velim tete tuā virtute sustentes,

    id. Fam. 6, 4, 5:

    me una consolatio sustentat, quod, etc.,

    id. Mil. 36, 100:

    per omnis difficultates animo me sustentavi,

    Quint. 12, prooem. §

    1: litteris sustentor et recreor,

    Cic. Att. 4, 10, 1; cf.:

    praeclarā conscientiā sustentor, cum cogito, etc.,

    id. ib. 10, 4, 5:

    Pompeius intellegit, C. Catonem a Crasso sustentari,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 4:

    jurisconsultus, non suo artificio sed alieno sustentatus,

    id. de Or. 1, 56, 239:

    amicos suos fide,

    id. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

    si qua spes reliqua est, quae fortium civium mentes cogitationesque sustentet,

    id. Fl. 2, 3:

    spes inopiam sustentabat,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

    res publica magnis meis laboribus sustentata,

    Cic. Mur. 2, 3:

    Venus Trojanas sustentat opes,

    Verg. A. 10, 609:

    multa virum meritis sustentat fama tropaeis,

    upholds, id. ib. 11, 224:

    Arminius manu, voce, vulnere sustentabat pugnam,

    kept up, maintained, Tac. A. 2, 17:

    aciem,

    id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. H. 2, 15.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To support, sustain, maintain, preserve by food, money, or other means:

    familiam,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 36:

    cum esset silvestris beluae sustentatus uberibus,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4:

    idem (aër) spiritu ductus alit et sustentat animantis,

    id. N. D. 2, 39, 101:

    qui se subsidiis patrimonii aut amicorum liberalitate sustentant,

    id. Prov. Cons. 5, 12:

    eo (frumento) sustentata est plebs,

    Liv. 2, 34, 5:

    sustentans fovensque,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 30, 3:

    saucios largitione et curā,

    Tac. A. 4, 63 fin.:

    animus nullā re egens aletur et sustentabitur isdem rebus, quibus astra sustentantur et aluntur,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43; cf.:

    furtim rapta sustentat pectora terra,

    refreshes, Stat. Th. 6, 875:

    parsimoniam patrum suis sumptibus,

    Cic. Cael. 16, 38:

    tenuitatem alicujus,

    id. Fam. 16, 21, 4:

    egestatem et luxuriem domestico lenocinio sustentavit,

    id. Red. Sen. 5, 11:

    Glycera venditando coronas sustentaverat paupertatem,

    Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 125; cf.:

    ut milites pecore ex longinquioribus vicis adacto extremam famem sustentarent,

    Caes. B.G. 7, 17.—Mid.:

    mutando sordidas merces sustentabatur,

    supported himself, got a living, Tac. A. 4, 13; for which in the act. form: Ge. Valuistin' bene? Pa. Sustentavi sedulo, I have taken good care of myself, have kept myself in good case, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 8; cf. impers. pass.: Ge. Valuistin' usque? Ep. Sustentatum'st sedulo, id. ib. 3, 2, 14. —
    2.
    To keep in check, hold back, restrain:

    milites, paulisper ab rege sustentati, paucis amissis profugi discedunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 6; cf. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 82: aquas, Auct. Cons. Liv. 221. —
    3.
    To bear, hold out, endure, suffer (rare but class.;

    syn.: fero, patior): miserias plurimas,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 3:

    moerorem doloremque,

    Cic. Pis. 36, 89. — Absol. (sc. morbum), Suet. Tib. 72:

    procellas invidiae,

    Claud. in Eutr. 1, 265:

    aegre is dies sustentatur,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 39:

    quorum auxiliis atque opibus, si qua bella inciderint, sustentare consuerint,

    id. ib. 2, 14 fin.—Impers. pass.:

    aegre eo die sustentatum est,

    a defence was made, Caes. B. G. 2, 6:

    hostem,

    Tac. A. 15, 10 fin.:

    bellum,

    Vell. 2, 104, 2: impetus legionum, Auct. B. Hisp. 17, 3. — Absol.:

    nec, nisi in tempore subventum foret, ultra sustentaturi fuerint,

    Liv. 34, 18, 2. —
    4.
    To put off, defer, delay (Ciceron.;

    syn. prolato): rem, dum, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 64, 1:

    aedificationem ad tuum adventum,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 7:

    id (malum) opprimi sustentando ac prolatando nullo pacto potest... celeriter vobis vindicandum est,

    id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; cf. Ov. R. Am. 405.

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  • 17 contra

    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
    1.
    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
    a.
    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > contra

  • 18 contra dicta

    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
    1.
    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
    a.
    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

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  • 19 gravanter

    grăvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [gravis].
    I.
    To charge with a load, to load, burden, weigh down, oppress (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
    A.
    Lit.:

    praefectum castrorum sarcinis gravant,

    Tac. A. 1, 20; cf.:

    ferus Actora magno Ense gravat Capaneus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 257:

    non est ingenii cymba gravanda tui,

    Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 22:

    aegraque furtivum membra gravabat onus,

    Ov. H. 11, 38:

    gravantur arbores fetu,

    Lucr. 1, 253; cf.:

    sunt poma gravantia ramos,

    Ov. M. 13, 812:

    ne, si demissior ibis, Unda gravet pennas,

    id. ib. 8, 205:

    quia pondus illis abest, nec sese ipsi gravant,

    Quint. 1, 12, 10:

    stomacho inutilis, nervis inimicus, caput gravans,

    Plin. 21, 19, 75, § 128:

    minui quod gravet (corpus) quolibet modo utilius,

    id. 11, 53, 119, § 284:

    ne obsidio ipsa multitudine gravaretur,

    Just. 14, 2, 3; 38, 10, 8; so in pass.:

    alia die febre commotus est: tertia cum se gravari videret,

    weighed down, oppressed, Capitol. Anton. 12; and esp. in perf. part.:

    gravatus somno,

    Plin. 10, 51, 70, § 136; 26, 1, 4, § 6; 33, 1, 6, § 27:

    vino,

    Curt. 6, 11, 28:

    telis,

    id. 8, 14, 38:

    ebrietate,

    id. 5, 7, 11:

    cibo,

    Liv. 1, 7, 5:

    vino somnoque,

    id. 25, 24, 6.—
    B.
    Esp., to make pregnant:

    uterum,

    Stat. Th. 2, 614:

    gravatam esse virginem,

    Lact. 4, 12, 2; id. Epit. 44, 1; cf.: semper gravata lentiscus, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 9, 16; Paul. ex Fest. p. 95, 15. —
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    To burden, oppress, incommode:

    nil moror officium, quod me gravat,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 264:

    septem milia hominum, quos et ipse gravari militia senserat,

    Liv. 21, 23, 6:

    sed magis hoc, quo (mala nostra) sunt cognitiora, gravant,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 28. —
    2.
    To make more grievous, aggravate, increase:

    tu fortunam parce gravare meam,

    id. ib. 5, 11, 30:

    quo gravaret invidiam matris,

    Tac. A. 14, 12:

    injusto faenore gravatum aes alienum,

    Liv. 42, 5, 9.—
    D.
    To lower in tone; hence, gram. t. t., to give the grave accent to a vowel (opp. acuo):

    a littera gravatur,

    Prisc. 539, 573 P.—
    II.
    Transf., as v. dep.: grăvor, ātus (lit., to be burdened with any thing, to feel burdened; hence), to feel incommoded, vexed, wearied, or annoyed at any thing; to take amiss, to bear with reluctance, to regard as a burden, to do unwillingly (class.); in Cic. only absol. or with an object-clause, afterwards also constr. with acc.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    non gravabor,

    Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 49: quid gravare? id. Stich. 3, 2, 22:

    quamquam gravatus fuisti, non nocuit tamen,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 40:

    ne gravare,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 19:

    primo gravari coepit, quod invidiam atque offensionem timere dicebat,

    Cic. Clu. 25, 69:

    ego vero non gravarer si, etc.,

    id. Lael. 5, 17:

    nec gravatus senex dicitur locutus esse, etc.,

    Liv. 9, 3, 9:

    ille non gravatus, Primum, inquit, etc.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 3:

    spem ac metum juxta gravatus Vitellius ictum venis intulit,

    Tac. A. 6, 3:

    benignus erga me ut siet: ne gravetur,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 15.—
    (β).
    With an object-clause:

    rogo, ut ne graveris exaedificare id opus, quod instituisti,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 164; 1, 23, 107; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1:

    ne graventur, sua quoque ad eum postulata deferre,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

    quod illi quoque gravati prius essent ad populandam Macedoniam exire,

    Liv. 31, 46, 4:

    tibi non gravabor reddere dilatae pugnae rationem,

    id. 34, 38, 3; Curt. 9, 1, 8; 6, 8, 12; Suet. Aug. 34 al.—
    (γ).
    With acc.:

    Pegasus terrenum equitem gravatus Bellerophontem,

    disdaining to bear, throwing off, Hor. C. 4, 11, 27:

    at illum acerbum et sanguinarium necesse est graventur stipatores sui,

    be weary of supporting, Sen. Clem. 1, 12 fin.:

    matrem,

    Suet. Ner. 34:

    ampla et operosa praetoria,

    id. Aug. 72:

    aspectum civium,

    Tac. A. 3, 59 fin.:

    spem ac metum juxta gravatus,

    id. ib. 5, 8; Quint. 1, 1, 11.— Hence, adv. in two forms:
    A.
    grăvātē (acc. to II.), with difficulty or reluctance, unwillingly, grudgingly:

    non gravate respondere,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 208;

    opp. gratuito,

    id. Off. 2, 19, 66;

    opp. benigne,

    id. Balb. 16, 36:

    Canius contendit a Pythio ut venderet: gravate ille primo,

    id. Off. 3, 14, 59:

    qui cum haud gravate venissent,

    Liv. 3, 4, 6 Weissenb. (al. gravati):

    concedere,

    id. 42, 43, 2.— Comp.:

    manus et plantas ad saviandum gravatius porrigere,

    Front. ad M. Caes. 4, 12 fin. —
    B.
    grăvanter, with reluctance, unwillingly:

    reguli Gallorum haud gravanter venerunt,

    Liv. 21, 24, 5 Weissenb. (al. gravate); Cassiod. Varr. 4, 5.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > gravanter

  • 20 gravo

    grăvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [gravis].
    I.
    To charge with a load, to load, burden, weigh down, oppress (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
    A.
    Lit.:

    praefectum castrorum sarcinis gravant,

    Tac. A. 1, 20; cf.:

    ferus Actora magno Ense gravat Capaneus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 257:

    non est ingenii cymba gravanda tui,

    Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 22:

    aegraque furtivum membra gravabat onus,

    Ov. H. 11, 38:

    gravantur arbores fetu,

    Lucr. 1, 253; cf.:

    sunt poma gravantia ramos,

    Ov. M. 13, 812:

    ne, si demissior ibis, Unda gravet pennas,

    id. ib. 8, 205:

    quia pondus illis abest, nec sese ipsi gravant,

    Quint. 1, 12, 10:

    stomacho inutilis, nervis inimicus, caput gravans,

    Plin. 21, 19, 75, § 128:

    minui quod gravet (corpus) quolibet modo utilius,

    id. 11, 53, 119, § 284:

    ne obsidio ipsa multitudine gravaretur,

    Just. 14, 2, 3; 38, 10, 8; so in pass.:

    alia die febre commotus est: tertia cum se gravari videret,

    weighed down, oppressed, Capitol. Anton. 12; and esp. in perf. part.:

    gravatus somno,

    Plin. 10, 51, 70, § 136; 26, 1, 4, § 6; 33, 1, 6, § 27:

    vino,

    Curt. 6, 11, 28:

    telis,

    id. 8, 14, 38:

    ebrietate,

    id. 5, 7, 11:

    cibo,

    Liv. 1, 7, 5:

    vino somnoque,

    id. 25, 24, 6.—
    B.
    Esp., to make pregnant:

    uterum,

    Stat. Th. 2, 614:

    gravatam esse virginem,

    Lact. 4, 12, 2; id. Epit. 44, 1; cf.: semper gravata lentiscus, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 9, 16; Paul. ex Fest. p. 95, 15. —
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    To burden, oppress, incommode:

    nil moror officium, quod me gravat,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 264:

    septem milia hominum, quos et ipse gravari militia senserat,

    Liv. 21, 23, 6:

    sed magis hoc, quo (mala nostra) sunt cognitiora, gravant,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 28. —
    2.
    To make more grievous, aggravate, increase:

    tu fortunam parce gravare meam,

    id. ib. 5, 11, 30:

    quo gravaret invidiam matris,

    Tac. A. 14, 12:

    injusto faenore gravatum aes alienum,

    Liv. 42, 5, 9.—
    D.
    To lower in tone; hence, gram. t. t., to give the grave accent to a vowel (opp. acuo):

    a littera gravatur,

    Prisc. 539, 573 P.—
    II.
    Transf., as v. dep.: grăvor, ātus (lit., to be burdened with any thing, to feel burdened; hence), to feel incommoded, vexed, wearied, or annoyed at any thing; to take amiss, to bear with reluctance, to regard as a burden, to do unwillingly (class.); in Cic. only absol. or with an object-clause, afterwards also constr. with acc.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    non gravabor,

    Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 49: quid gravare? id. Stich. 3, 2, 22:

    quamquam gravatus fuisti, non nocuit tamen,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 40:

    ne gravare,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 19:

    primo gravari coepit, quod invidiam atque offensionem timere dicebat,

    Cic. Clu. 25, 69:

    ego vero non gravarer si, etc.,

    id. Lael. 5, 17:

    nec gravatus senex dicitur locutus esse, etc.,

    Liv. 9, 3, 9:

    ille non gravatus, Primum, inquit, etc.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 3:

    spem ac metum juxta gravatus Vitellius ictum venis intulit,

    Tac. A. 6, 3:

    benignus erga me ut siet: ne gravetur,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 15.—
    (β).
    With an object-clause:

    rogo, ut ne graveris exaedificare id opus, quod instituisti,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 164; 1, 23, 107; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1:

    ne graventur, sua quoque ad eum postulata deferre,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

    quod illi quoque gravati prius essent ad populandam Macedoniam exire,

    Liv. 31, 46, 4:

    tibi non gravabor reddere dilatae pugnae rationem,

    id. 34, 38, 3; Curt. 9, 1, 8; 6, 8, 12; Suet. Aug. 34 al.—
    (γ).
    With acc.:

    Pegasus terrenum equitem gravatus Bellerophontem,

    disdaining to bear, throwing off, Hor. C. 4, 11, 27:

    at illum acerbum et sanguinarium necesse est graventur stipatores sui,

    be weary of supporting, Sen. Clem. 1, 12 fin.:

    matrem,

    Suet. Ner. 34:

    ampla et operosa praetoria,

    id. Aug. 72:

    aspectum civium,

    Tac. A. 3, 59 fin.:

    spem ac metum juxta gravatus,

    id. ib. 5, 8; Quint. 1, 1, 11.— Hence, adv. in two forms:
    A.
    grăvātē (acc. to II.), with difficulty or reluctance, unwillingly, grudgingly:

    non gravate respondere,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 208;

    opp. gratuito,

    id. Off. 2, 19, 66;

    opp. benigne,

    id. Balb. 16, 36:

    Canius contendit a Pythio ut venderet: gravate ille primo,

    id. Off. 3, 14, 59:

    qui cum haud gravate venissent,

    Liv. 3, 4, 6 Weissenb. (al. gravati):

    concedere,

    id. 42, 43, 2.— Comp.:

    manus et plantas ad saviandum gravatius porrigere,

    Front. ad M. Caes. 4, 12 fin. —
    B.
    grăvanter, with reluctance, unwillingly:

    reguli Gallorum haud gravanter venerunt,

    Liv. 21, 24, 5 Weissenb. (al. gravate); Cassiod. Varr. 4, 5.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > gravo

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