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  • 1 bracchium

    bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,
    I.
    Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

    bracchia et lacerti,

    Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

    subjecta lacertis bracchia,

    id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

    (feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

    Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

    quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

    multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

    Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

    bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

    Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

    collo dare bracchia circum,

    to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

    circumdare collo,

    Ov. M. 9, 459:

    implicare collo,

    id. ib. 1, 762:

    inicere collo,

    id. ib. 3, 389:

    cervici dare,

    Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

    lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

    id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

    ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

    Quint. 10, 3, 6:

    sinisteriore bracchio,

    Suet. Dom. 17:

    bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

    Verg. A. 5, 427:

    alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

    id. ib. 5, 377:

    juventus horrida bracchiis,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

    si bracchia forte remisit,

    Verg. G. 1, 202:

    matri bracchia tendere,

    Ov. M. 3, 723:

    patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

    id. ib. 9, 210:

    tendens ad caelum bracchia,

    id. ib. 9, 293:

    precando Bracchia sustulerat,

    id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

    dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

    to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—
    2.
    Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

    bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

    Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

    extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

    demissa bracchia,

    Quint. 2, 13, 9:

    a latere modice remota,

    id. 11, 3, 159:

    ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

    id. 11, 3, 118:

    aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

    id. 11, 3, 93:

    bracchium in latus jactant,

    id. 4, 2, 39:

    si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    3.
    Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

    bracchia in numerum jactare,

    Lucr. 4, 769;

    imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

    Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

    of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

    Verg. G. 4, 174.—
    4.
    Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

    molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

    praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

    lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—
    B.
    The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

    in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—
    2.
    Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—
    C.
    Objects resembling arms.
    1.
    The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

    v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

    Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

    of the vine,

    Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

    id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

    Cat. 64, 105:

    differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

    Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

    (aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—
    2.
    An arm of the sea:

    nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

    Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—
    3.
    The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

    Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

    Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—
    4.
    Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

    jubet intendi bracchia velis,

    Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—
    5.
    In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

    aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

    a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—
    6.
    The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

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  • 2 brachium

    bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,
    I.
    Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

    bracchia et lacerti,

    Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

    subjecta lacertis bracchia,

    id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

    (feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

    Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

    quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

    multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

    Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

    bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

    Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

    collo dare bracchia circum,

    to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

    circumdare collo,

    Ov. M. 9, 459:

    implicare collo,

    id. ib. 1, 762:

    inicere collo,

    id. ib. 3, 389:

    cervici dare,

    Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

    lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

    id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

    ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

    Quint. 10, 3, 6:

    sinisteriore bracchio,

    Suet. Dom. 17:

    bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

    Verg. A. 5, 427:

    alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

    id. ib. 5, 377:

    juventus horrida bracchiis,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

    si bracchia forte remisit,

    Verg. G. 1, 202:

    matri bracchia tendere,

    Ov. M. 3, 723:

    patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

    id. ib. 9, 210:

    tendens ad caelum bracchia,

    id. ib. 9, 293:

    precando Bracchia sustulerat,

    id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

    dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

    to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—
    2.
    Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

    bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

    Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

    extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

    demissa bracchia,

    Quint. 2, 13, 9:

    a latere modice remota,

    id. 11, 3, 159:

    ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

    id. 11, 3, 118:

    aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

    id. 11, 3, 93:

    bracchium in latus jactant,

    id. 4, 2, 39:

    si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    3.
    Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

    bracchia in numerum jactare,

    Lucr. 4, 769;

    imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

    Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

    of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

    Verg. G. 4, 174.—
    4.
    Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

    molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

    praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

    lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—
    B.
    The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

    in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—
    2.
    Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—
    C.
    Objects resembling arms.
    1.
    The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

    v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

    Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

    of the vine,

    Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

    id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

    Cat. 64, 105:

    differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

    Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

    (aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—
    2.
    An arm of the sea:

    nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

    Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—
    3.
    The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

    Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

    Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—
    4.
    Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

    jubet intendi bracchia velis,

    Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—
    5.
    In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

    aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

    a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—
    6.
    The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > brachium

  • 3 bracchium (brāch-)

        bracchium (brāch-) ī, n, βραχίων, the forearm, lower arm: bracchia et lacerti, O.: (feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos, Ta.—In gen., the arm: bracchium fregisse: diu iactato bracchio scutum emittere, Cs.: collo dare bracchia circum, V.: bracchia Cervici dabat, H.: Bracchia ad superas extulit auras, V.: iuventus horrida bracchiis, H.: matri bracchia tendere, O.: tendens ad caelum bracchia, O.: diversa bracchia ducens, i. e. separating widely, V.—Prov.: dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem, to swim against the current, Iu.— Of gesture: extento bracchio.—Of the Cyclopes at work: bracchia tollunt In numerum, keeping time, V.—Fig.: aliquid levi bracchio agere, to do negligently: me molli bracchio obiurgas, gently: Praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo, lend a hand, O.—Meton., of animals, the claws of crawfish, O.—The claws of the constellations Scorpio and Cancer, V., O.—Of trees, the branches: in ramos bracchia crescunt, O.—Of the vine, V.—An arm of the sea: nec bracchia porrexerat Amphitrite, O.—A ship's yard: iubet intendi bracchia velis, V.—A leg (of a pair of dividers): duo ferrea bracchia, O.—In fortifications, an outwork: bracchio obiecto, L.: muro bracchium iniunxerat, a line of communication, L.: bracchiis duobis Piraeum Athenis iungere, walls, L.

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  • 4 brachium

    brachĭum (bracchĭum), ĭi, n. [st2]1 [-] bras. [st2]2 [-] branche (d'arbre). [st2]3 [-] bras (d'un fleuve). [st2]4 [-] nageoire (de poisson). [st2]5 [-] bras (de mer). [st2]6 [-] chaîne (de montagnes). [st2]7 [-] pince (de crabe). [st2]8 [-] jambe, cuisse (d'un animal). [st2]9 [-] bras (d'une catapulte). [st2]10 [-] antenne (d'un navire). [st2]11 [-] ligne de démarcation (travail qui relie deux points fortifiés).    - gén. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434.    - [gr]gr. βραχίων, ονος.    - collo dare bracchia circum, Virg. En. 6, 700: jeter les bras autour du cou.    - praebere sceleri bracchia, Ov. H. 7, 126: prêter la main au crime.    - dirigere bracchia contra torrentem, Juv. 4, 89: lutter contre le courant.    - levi (molli) bracchio, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6: mollement, légèrement.    - brachia remittere, Virg. G. 1: laisser tomber les bras (cesser de ramer).    - brachia ferro exsolvere, Tac. An. 15: s'ouvrir les veines.    - sceleri brachia praebere, Ov. H. 7: prêter la main au crime.    - bracchia in numerum jactare, Lucr. 4, 769: mouvoir les bras en cadence.    - in medio ramos annosaque brachia pandit ulmus, Virg. En. 6: au milieu un orme déploie ses branches, ses bras chargés d'ans.    - hoc vitem circum caput et sub brachia unguito, Cato. R. 95: enduisez de ce produit la vigne sur le cep et sous les branches.    - brachia polypi, Plin. 9: les tentacules du polype.
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    brachĭum (bracchĭum), ĭi, n. [st2]1 [-] bras. [st2]2 [-] branche (d'arbre). [st2]3 [-] bras (d'un fleuve). [st2]4 [-] nageoire (de poisson). [st2]5 [-] bras (de mer). [st2]6 [-] chaîne (de montagnes). [st2]7 [-] pince (de crabe). [st2]8 [-] jambe, cuisse (d'un animal). [st2]9 [-] bras (d'une catapulte). [st2]10 [-] antenne (d'un navire). [st2]11 [-] ligne de démarcation (travail qui relie deux points fortifiés).    - gén. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434.    - [gr]gr. βραχίων, ονος.    - collo dare bracchia circum, Virg. En. 6, 700: jeter les bras autour du cou.    - praebere sceleri bracchia, Ov. H. 7, 126: prêter la main au crime.    - dirigere bracchia contra torrentem, Juv. 4, 89: lutter contre le courant.    - levi (molli) bracchio, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6: mollement, légèrement.    - brachia remittere, Virg. G. 1: laisser tomber les bras (cesser de ramer).    - brachia ferro exsolvere, Tac. An. 15: s'ouvrir les veines.    - sceleri brachia praebere, Ov. H. 7: prêter la main au crime.    - bracchia in numerum jactare, Lucr. 4, 769: mouvoir les bras en cadence.    - in medio ramos annosaque brachia pandit ulmus, Virg. En. 6: au milieu un orme déploie ses branches, ses bras chargés d'ans.    - hoc vitem circum caput et sub brachia unguito, Cato. R. 95: enduisez de ce produit la vigne sur le cep et sous les branches.    - brachia polypi, Plin. 9: les tentacules du polype.
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        Brachium, brachii. Virgil. Le bras.
    \
        Leui brachio, et Molli brachio aliquid facere. Cic. S'en depescher legierement et à la haste, sans y prendre grande peine, A la legiere, Au gros sas, Passer legierement par dessus.
    \
        Molli brachio aliquem obiurgare. Cic. Doulcement.
    \
        Brachia etiam pisces habere dicuntur. Plin. Les fleaus des poissons, comme ont les seiches.
    \
        Brachium de mari et fluminibus dictum. Liu. Bras de mer.
    \
        Brachia montium. Plin. Coustauls de montaignes.
    \
        Brachia in vitibus sunt vt flagella, palmites, duramenta. Columel. Les longues branches de la vigne, comme és treilles.
    \
        Contractio brachii. Cic. Retirement, Accourcissement.
    \
        Porrectio brachii. Author ad Heren. Advancement, ou Estendement, et Alongement de bras.
    \
        Alterna brachia iactare. Virgil. Jecter et demener les bras l'un aprés l'autre.
    \
        Annosa brachia arboris. Virgil. Les vieilles branches.
    \
        Cerea brachia. Horat. Mollet comme cire.
    \
        Captantia collum brachia. Ouid. Taschans à embrasser le col, ou accoller.
    \
        Captiua brachia. Seneca. Liez, ou Enferrez.
    \
        Caeleri brachio vti. Author ad Her. Remuer les bras vistement.
    \
        Libera. Ouid. Delivres.
    \
        Operosa. Stat. Qui travaillent beaucoup.
    \
        Non profectura brachia. Ouid. Qui perdront leur peine.
    \
        Circundare brachia collo. Ouid. Embrasser par le col, Accoller.
    \
        Concauare brachia in arcum. Ouid. Courber les bras en forme d'arc.
    \
        Contrahere brachia. Virgil. Retirer à soy.
    \
        Demissa brachia. Quintil. Pendans contre bas.
    \
        Diducere brachia. Stat. Ouvrir.
    \
        Efferre brachia. Virgil. Eslever.
    \
        Exerere brachia. Ouid. Tirer hors.
    \
        Exoluere brachia ferro. Tacit. Se faire seigner, et ouvrir les veines des bras.
    \
        Extentum brachium. Cic. Estendu.
    \
        Fatiscunt brachia. Stat. Sont tant las qu'ils defaillent.
    \
        Fidere Brachiis. Horat. Se fier en ses bras et en sa force.
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        Fregit brachium. Cic. Il ha le bras rompu.
    \
        Iactare brachia. Ouid. Jecter, Demener.
    \
        Implicuit brachia collo materno. Ouid. Il a accollé sa mere.
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        Iniicere brachia collo. Ouid. Accoller.
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        Mittere brachia. Lucret. Jecter, Remuer, Demener.
    \
        Nectere brachia. Stat. Entrelasser, comme on fait en luictant.
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        Pandit brachia vlmus. Virgil. Estend ses branches.
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        Porrigere brachia. Ouid. Advancer, Estendre, Alonger.
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        Praebere brachia sceleri. Ouid. Aider à faire quelque meschant acte.
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        Procurrunt brachia sinus, siue portus. Ouid. S'advancent.
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        Pulsare brachia. Seneca. Frapper et debatre les bras, comme quand on se lamente.
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        Remittere brachia. Virg. Relascher, et laisser aller.
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        Tendere brachia. Ouid. Tendre, Estendre.
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        Tendere brachia, dicitur arbor. Virg. Estendre ses branches.

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  • 5 solutum

    solvo, solvi, solutum, 3, v. a. ( perf. soluit, trisyll., Cat. 2, 13:

    soluisse,

    Tib. 4, 5, 16) [for se-luo; cf. socors for se-cords], to loosen an object from any thing, to release or to loose, remove any thing which binds or restrains another.
    I.
    To loose an object bound, to release, set free, disengage, dissolve, take apart.
    A.
    In a corporeal sense.
    1.
    Outwardly, to release.
    a.
    From fetters or custody, to free, set free, release; absol.:

    solvite istas,

    i. e. from fetters, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 64:

    solvite istum,

    id. Mil. 5, 32:

    numquam, nisi me orassis, solves,

    id. Ep. 5, 2, 62:

    jube solvi (eum),

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 52:

    ad palum adligati repente soluti sunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11:

    ut vincti solvantur,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §

    12: qui in compedibus corporis semper fuerunt, etiam cum soluti sunt, tardius ingrediuntur,

    id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75:

    ita nexi soluti (sunt),

    Liv. 8, 28, 9:

    solvite me, pueri,

    Verg. E. 6, 24:

    fore ut brevi solveretur,

    Suet. Vesp. 5; id. Tib. 65; id. Vit. 12.—With abl.:

    canis solutus catena,

    Phaedr. 3, 7, 20. — Transf., from the fetter of frost:

    solutis amnibus (i. e. frigoris vinculo),

    Stat. Th. 5, 15:

    terrae quem (florem) ferunt solutae,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 10.—
    b.
    From reins, ties, bands, etc.: solve senescentem equum, from the rein, i. e. dismiss him from service, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8:

    solverat sol equos,

    unhitched, Stat. Th. 3, 407: currum solvere (i. e. ab equis, poet. for equos a curru), Sen. Thyest. 794: solvere epistulam, i. e. from the string by which it was tied (= to open), Nep. Hann. 11, 3:

    et tibi sollicita solvitur illa (epistula) manu,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 2:

    et jacet in gremio charta soluta meo,

    id. H. 11, 4:

    praecepit suis ne sarcinas solverent, aut onera deponerent,

    Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3.—So of garments and sails, to unfurl, unfold: cum tunica soluta inambularet, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 26:

    soluta toga,

    Quint. 11, 3, 147:

    vela solvere,

    Verg. A. 4, 574.—
    c.
    From any fastening (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose), to detach from; constr. absol., or with ab or de, and abl.:

    Caucasia solvet de rupe Promethei bracchia,

    Prop. 2, 1, 69:

    fraxinus solvitur,

    from the ground, Stat. Th. 9, 498:

    ceciditque soluta pinus,

    id. ib. 9, 409; cf.:

    pinus radice soluta, deficit,

    id. S. 5, 1, 152:

    solutis radicibus arbusta procumbunt,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 5:

    accepi epistulam quam, ut scribis, ancora soluta de phaselo dedisti, i. e. a litore,

    detached, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1 B. and K. (al. sublata;

    but soluta is perh. an error of Cic. in the use of a technical term, v Orell. ad loc.).—In the same sense: solvere retinacula classis,

    Ov. M. 15, 696; 8, 102:

    querno solvunt de stipite funem,

    id. F. 4, 333:

    fune soluto Currit in immensum carina,

    id. Am. 2, 11, 23:

    curvo solves viscera cultro (i. e. de corpore ferarum),

    Sen. Hippol. 53.—Of rain disengaged from the clouds:

    imber caelesti nube solutus,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 237: (Lunam) imperfecta vi solvere tantum umorem, disengage only the moisture, i. e. from the earth:

    cum solis radii absumant,

    Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 45:

    solutum a latere pugionem,

    detached from his side, Suet. Vit. 15.—
    d.
    Esp., of ships: navem solvere, to free a ship from the land, i. e. to set sail, weigh anchor, leave land, depart.
    (α).
    With acc. alone:

    eisce confectis navem solvimus,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 91:

    navim cupimus solvere,

    id. Mil. 4, 7, 17:

    naves solvit,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 36; 5, 8; id. B. C. 1, 28; 3, 14; 3, 26;

    3, 102: primis tenebris solvit navem,

    Liv. 45, 6:

    postero die solvere naves (jussi),

    id. 29, 25 fin.; Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

    classem solvere,

    Liv. 45, 41; Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 23.—
    (β).
    With ab and abl.:

    navis a terra solverunt,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 101:

    quinto inde die quam ab Corintho solverit naves,

    Liv. 31, 7 med.:

    solvunt a litore puppes,

    Luc. 2, 649.—
    (γ).
    With ex and abl.:

    nam noctu hac soluta est navis nostra e portu Persico,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 259:

    interea e portu nostra navis solvitur,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 54.—
    (δ).
    With abl.:

    complures mercatores Alexandria solvisse,

    Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50:

    portu solventibus,

    id. Mur. 2, 4.—
    (ε).
    Absol. (sc. navem or naves):

    tertia fere vigilia solvit,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 23:

    nos eo die cenati solvimus,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:

    altero die quam a Brundusio solvit,

    Liv. 31, 14 init.:

    qui inde solverant,

    Val. Max. 1, 7, 3:

    solvi mare languido,

    Sen. Ep. 53, 1:

    fortasse etiam ventis minantibus solves,

    id. Ben. 2, 35, 5:

    non eadem est his et illis causa solvendi,

    making sea-voyages, id. Q. N. 5, 18, 16.—
    (ζ).
    With navis, etc., as subj., to leave the land (sc. se a litore):

    naves XVIII. ex superiore portu solverunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 28; and by another change of construction: solvimus oram, we freed the shore, i.e. from the ship, Quint. 4, 2, 41; id. Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—
    (η).
    Poet. usages:

    de litore puppis solvit iter,

    clears the voyage, Stat. S. 5, 1, 243:

    nec tibi Tyrrhena solvatur funis harena,

    Prop. 1, 8, 11 (cf.: retinacula solvere, c. supra).—
    e.
    Of secretions from the body ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    tempore eo quo menstrua solvit,

    Lucr. 6, 706:

    cruor solvitur,

    Stat. Th. 9, 530:

    lacrimas solvere,

    id. Achill. 2, 256:

    solutis lacrimis,

    Claud. Ruf. 2, 258; so,

    partus solvere,

    to bear, bring forth, be delivered of offspring, Ov. F. 3, 258; Stat. Th. 5, 461; Plin. 28, 3, 6, § 33; 32, 1, 1, § 6.—
    2.
    To loosen an object from that which holds it together, to break up, part, dissolve, disperse, divide, take apart, scatter.
    a.
    In gen.:

    omne colligatum solvi potest,

    Cic. Fin. 11.—
    b.
    Of structures ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    solvere naves et rursus conjungere,

    Curt. 8, 10, 3:

    solvere quassatae parcite membra ratis,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 2:

    dubitavit an solveret pontem,

    Curt. 4, 16, 8:

    solvere pontem,

    Tac. A. 1, 69:

    si pons solutus sit,

    Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 7:

    solutus pons tempestatibus,

    Just. 2, 13, 9:

    currum (solis) solutum,

    Manil. 1, 740.—
    c.
    Of woven stuff:

    solvens texta,

    Prop. 2, 9, 6.—
    d.
    Of mountains:

    utrimque montes solvit (Hercules),

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 237:

    tridente Neptunus montem solvit,

    id. Agam. 553.—
    e.
    Of the neck:

    soluta cervix silicis impulsu,

    broken, Sen. Troad. 1119.—
    f.
    Of a comet:

    momentum quo cometes solutus et in duas partes redactus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 3.—
    g.
    Of the hair, to loosen, untie, let fall:

    solve capillos,

    Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:

    crinem,

    id. A. A. 3, 784; id. M. 11, 682; 13, 584; Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 46:

    comas casside,

    Ov. F. 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 854.—
    h.
    Of the earth (so mostly P. a., q. v. infra;

    post-Aug.): ita in terrae corpore evenit ut partes ejus vetustate solvantur, solutae cadant,

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 10, 2:

    ubi montis latus nova ventis solvit hiems,

    Stat. Th. 7, 745. —
    3.
    To dissolve; pass., to be dissolved, changed, to pass over into ( poet. and postclass. for dissolvere, or transire in); constr. absol., or with in and acc.
    (α).
    Of a change into air or gas:

    calor mobiliter solvens, differt primordia vini,

    dissolving, parts the molecules of the wine, Lucr. 6, 235:

    nam materiai copia ferretur per inane soluta,

    id. 1, 1018; so id. 1, 1103:

    ita fatus in aera rursus solvitur,

    Stat. Th. 5, 285;

    nec in aera solvi Passa, recentem animam caelestibus intulit astris,

    Ov. M. 15, 845.—
    (β).
    Into a liquid, to melt:

    saepe terra in tabem solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 7:

    terram quam diximus esse mutabilem et solvi in umorem,

    id. ib. 3, 29, 4:

    nullum tellus se solvit in amnem,

    Luc. 2, 408; ipsum in conubia terrae Aethera, cum pluviis rarescunt nubila, solvo, dissolve into the embrace of the earth, i. e. change into rain, Stat. S. 1, 2, 186:

    ex Aethiopiae jugis solutas nives ad Nilum decurrere,

    Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 17; so,

    nivem solvere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 2; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 93; Sen. Herc. Oet. 729:

    rigor auri solvitur aestu,

    Lucr. 1, 493:

    ferrum calidi solvant camini,

    Manil. 4, 250:

    cerae igne solutae,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 47:

    Iris cum vino triduo non solvitur,

    Plin. 21, 20, 83, § 142:

    (herba) quinto die solvitur,

    id. 26, 14, 88, § 148.—
    (γ).
    Of putrefaction:

    (vitulo) per integram solvuntur viscera pellem,

    Verg. G. 4, 302.—
    (δ).
    Of change in general:

    inque novas abiit massa soluta domos,

    Ov. F. 1, 108:

    repentino crementur incendio, atque ex tanta varietate solvantur atque eant in unum omnia (sc. all the heavenly bodies),

    Sen. Ben. 6, 22.—
    (ε).
    Of expansion by heat:

    (uva) cum modo frigoribus premitur, modo solvitur aestu,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 317.—
    (ζ).
    Hence, solvere, absol., to rarefy:

    gravitas aeris solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 5, 5, 1.—
    (η).
    Solvi in, to pass into, become:

    in cacumine (herbae) capitula purpurea quae solvantur in lanugines,

    Plin. 27, 8, 39, § 61.—Of a wave:

    donec in planitiem immotarum aquarum solvatur,

    disappears in, Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 2:

    postremi (equi) solvuntur in aequora pisces (= solvuntur in pisces),

    Stat. Th. 2, 47: lumina in lacrimas solventur, stream with tears. —Hence, solvere, causative, to make pass over, to make vanish in: circulum in pulverem, in quo descriptus est, solvere, Sen. Ep. 74, 27: soluti agri, the boundaries of which are effaced, Sic. Fl. Cond. Agr. p. 3 Goes.—
    4.
    To consume, to destroy, dissolve:

    solvere orbes,

    Manil. 1, 497:

    ni calor et ventus... interemant sensum diductaque solvant (i.e. sensum),

    Lucr. 3, 287:

    (Cato) ferrei prope corporis animique, quem ne senectus quidem, quae solvit omnia, fregerit,

    Liv. 39, 40, 11:

    si (cometae) sunt purus ignis... nec illos conversio mundi solvit,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 2, 2:

    (turbo) ab eo motu, qui universum trahit, solveretur,

    id. ib. 7, 9, 4:

    tabes solvit corpora,

    Luc. 6, 18; 7, 809:

    nec solum silvas, sed saxa ingentia solvit (ignis),

    id. 3, 506:

    ne tegat functos humus, ne solvat ignis,

    Sen. Thyest. 750.—So, vitam solvere, to extinguish life, esp. of gradual or easy death:

    solvas potius (vitam), quam abrumpas, dummodo, si alia solvendi ratio non erit, vel abrumpas,

    Sen. Ep. 22, 3:

    hanc mihi solvite vitam,

    Prop. 2, 9, 39.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To free, release, loose, emancipate, set free; constr. absol., with abl. or ab and abl.; rarely with gen.
    a.
    From the body, etc.:

    teque isto corpore solvo,

    Verg. A. 4, 703:

    soluta corpore anima,

    Quint. 5, 14, 13:

    qui solutas vinculis animas recipit,

    Sen. Cons. 28, 8: si animus somno relaxatus solute (i. e. free from the shackles of the body) moveatur ac libere, Cic. Div. 2, 48, 100:

    vocem solvere,

    to set free the voice, to speak, Stat. S. 3, 1; Sen. Thyest. 682; so, responsa solve (pregn. = utter and disclose), Sen. Oedip. 292:

    suspiria solvit,

    Stat. Th. 11, 604:

    solvat turba jocos,

    Sen. Med. 114:

    solutos Qui captat risus hominum (= quem juvat risus hominum solvere),

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 83:

    Ausonii... versibus incomptis ludunt risuque soluto,

    unrestrained, free, Verg. G. 2, 386.—
    b.
    Of members or parts of the body: linguam solvere, to unfetter the tongue (sc. vinculis oris), to give flow to words:

    linguam (Juno) ad jurgia solvit,

    Ov. M. 3, 261:

    lingua devincta nec in motus varios soluta,

    Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 7:

    ut quisque contemptissimus est, ita linguae solutissimae est,

    id. Const. 11, 3:

    (fama) innumeras solvit in praeconia linguas,

    Luc. 1, 472. —Solvere bracchia, poet., to unfetter the arms, i. e. to move them:

    magna difficili solventem bracchia motu,

    Stat. Achill. 1, 604; cf.

    of the free motions of animals: columbae soluto volatu multum velociores,

    unrestrained flight, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
    c.
    From obligations and debts:

    solvit me debito,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 4, 1:

    an nos debito solverit,

    id. Ep. 81, 3:

    ut religione civitas solvatur,

    Cic. Caecin. 34, 98; Liv. 7, 3, 9:

    te decem tauri... Me tener solvet vitulus (sc. religione),

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 54.—So from a military oath:

    hoc si impetro, solvo vos jurejurando,

    Just. 14, 4, 7.—Sacramento or militia solvere, to dismiss a soldier from service:

    sacramento solvi,

    Tac. A. 16, 13:

    cum quis propter delictum sacramento solvitur,

    Dig. 49, 16, 13:

    militia solvere,

    Tac. A. 1, 44.— Munere (publico) solvere, to exempt from public duties:

    ut Ilienses publico munere solverentur,

    Tac. A. 12, 58.—With obj. inf.:

    ut manere solveretur,

    that he should be excused from the duty of remaining, Tac. A. 3, 29.—
    d.
    From guilt and sin, to acquit, absolve, cleanse (cf. absolvere, to acquit of crime):

    si ille huic (insidias fecerit), ut scelere solvamur,

    be held guiltless, Cic. Mil. 12, 31:

    atque hunc ille summus vir scelere solutum periculo liberavit,

    id. ib. 4, 9:

    sit capitis damno Roma soluta mei,

    Ov. F. 6, 452:

    ipsum quoque Pelea Phoci Caede per Haemonias solvit Acastus aquas,

    id. ib. 2, 40:

    Helenen ego crimine solvo,

    id. A. A. 2, 371:

    quid crimine solvis Germanum?

    Stat. Th. 11, 379:

    solutam caede Gradivus manum restituit armis,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 1342. —
    e.
    From feelings, etc.:

    quae eos qui quaesissent cura et negotio solverent,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30:

    cum ego vos solvi curis ceteris,

    Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 33:

    senatus cura belli solutus,

    Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 7:

    pectus linquunt cura solutum,

    Lucr. 2, 45:

    his terroribus ab Epicuro soluti et in libertatem vindicati,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 56:

    soluti metu,

    Liv. 41, 14 init.; 27, 51:

    solvent formidine terras,

    Verg. E. 4, 14:

    solve metu patriam,

    Prop. 4 (5), 6, 41:

    metu belli Scythas solvit,

    Just. 9, 2, 2; so id. 14, 2, 5:

    haec est Vita solutorum misera ambitione,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 129:

    soluti a cupiditatibus,

    Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

    his concitationibus quem vacuum, solutum, liberum videris,

    id. Tusc. 5, 15, 43: et tu solve me dementia, [p. 1726] Hor. Epod. 17, 43:

    longo luctu,

    Verg. A. 2, 26:

    tristem juventam solve (i. e. juventam tristitia),

    Sen. Hippol. 450:

    solvite tantis animum monstris, solvite, superi,

    id. Herc. Fur. 1063:

    Quis te solvere Thessalis Magus venenis poterit?

    Hor. C. 1, 27, 21. — Poet.:

    solvit animis miracula (for animos miraculis),

    the soul from superstition, Manil. 1, 103.—And of animals:

    rabie tigrim,

    Manil. 5, 707.— Absol.:

    ut ad praecepta quae damus possit ire animus, solvendus est (i. e. perturbationibus),

    Sen. Ep. 95, 38:

    calices, quem non fecere contracta in paupertate solutum?

    i. e. from cares, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20:

    solvite animos,

    Manil. 4, 12.—With in:

    vix haec in munera solvo animum,

    i. e. free it from passions and so make it fit for these duties, Stat. S. 5, 3, 33.—
    f.
    From sleep, very rare:

    ego somno solutus sum,

    awoke, Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29 (cf.: somno solvi, to be overwhelmed by sleep, 2. b, g infra).—
    g.
    From labor, business, etc.:

    volucres videmus... solutas opere volitare,

    Cic. Or. 2, 6, 23:

    solutus onere regio, regni bonis fruor,

    Sen. Oedip. 685.— Poet.:

    Romulus excubias decrevit in otia solvi,

    to be relieved from guard and enjoy leisure, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 79.—
    h.
    From rigidity, austerity, stiffness, etc., to relax, smooth, unbend, quiet, soothe ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    frontem solvere disce,

    Mart. 14, 183:

    saltem ora trucesque solve genas,

    Stat. Th. 11, 373:

    solvit feros tunc ipse rictus,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 797.— Poet.:

    solvatur fronte senectus = frons senectute (i. e. rugis), solvatur,

    be cleared, Hor. Epod. 13, 5:

    vultum risu solvit,

    relieves, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5:

    risum judicis movendo, et illos tristes affectus solvit, et animum renovat,

    Quint. 6, 3, 1; so,

    solvere judicem,

    unbend, excite his laughter, id. 11, 3, 3:

    solvere qui (potui) Curios Fabriciosque graves (sc. risu),

    Mart. 9, 28 (29), 4:

    ut tamen arctum Solveret hospitiis animum,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 83:

    cujus non contractum sollicitudine animum illius argutiae solvant?

    Sen. Cons. Helv. 18, 5.— Transf., pregn.:

    solventur risu tabulae,

    i. e. the austerity of the judge will be relaxed by laughter, and the complaint dismissed, Hor. S. 2, 1, 86.—Imitated:

    quia si aliquid omiserimus, cum risu quoque tota res solvitur,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—
    k.
    From any cause of restraint.
    (α).
    To release from siege:

    Bassanitas obsidione solvere,

    Liv. 44, 30:

    patriam obsidione solvere,

    Val. Max. 3, 2, 2. —
    (β).
    From moral restraints:

    hic palam cupiditates suas solvit,

    gave vent to, Curt. 6, 6, 1; v. also P. a., B. 7. infra.—
    l.
    From laws and rules: legibus solvere.
    (α).
    To exempt from laws, i. e. by privilege:

    Vopiscus, qui ex aedilitate consulatum petit, solvatur legibus,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11:

    cur M. Brutus legibus est solutus, si, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 13, 31:

    ut interea magistratus reliquos, legibus omnibus soluti, petere possetis,

    id. Agr. 2, 36, 99:

    Lurco, tribunus plebis, solutus est (et lege Aelia et Furia),

    id. Att. 1, 16, 13:

    solvatne legibus Scipionem,

    Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2:

    petente Flacco ut legibus solverentur,

    Liv. 31, 50, 8:

    Scipio legibus solutus est,

    id. Epit. 56:

    Licet enim, inquiunt, legibus soluti sumus, attamen legibus vivimus,

    Just. Inst. 2, 17, 8; cf.:

    ut munere vigintiviratus solveretur,

    Tac. A. 3, 29.— Transf., of the laws of nature, etc.:

    (aestus) illo tempore, solutus legibus, sine modo fertur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6:

    solus (sapiens) generis humani legibus solvitur,

    id. Brev. Vit. 15, 5:

    nec leti lege solutas,

    Lucr. 3, 687:

    nec solvo Rutulos (i. e. legibus fati),

    Verg. A. 10, 111.— With gen. (cf. libero), perh. only in phrase testamenti solvere, to release from a testamentary disposition:

    et is per aes et libram heredes testamenti solveret,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 20, 51; 2, 21, 53 (less prop. testamenti is taken as attribute of heredes); cf. Gai. Inst. 3, 175, and Hor. C. 3, 17, 16, P. a., B. 5. fin. infra.—
    (β).
    Legibus solutus, not subject to, released from:

    reus Postumus est ea lege... solutus ac liber,

    i. e. the law does not apply to him, Cic. Rab. Post. 5, 12:

    soluti (lege Julia) huc convenistis, ne constricti discedatis cavete,

    id. ib. 7, 18.—Of other laws:

    solutus Legibus insanis,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 68:

    quae sedes expectent animam solutam legibus servitutis humanae,

    Sen. Ep. 65, 20.— Transf., of things: soluta legibus scelera sunt, unrestrained by the laws, i. e. crimes are committed with impunity, Sen. Ben. 7, 27, 1.— Of the laws of versification: numerisque fertur Lege solutis, referring to dithyrambic measures, Hor. C. 4, 2, 12 (cf. P. a., B. 11. infra).—
    2.
    To dissolve, separate objects which are united, to break up, dismiss.
    (α).
    Of troops, ranks, etc.:

    ubi ordines procursando solvissent,

    Liv. 42, 65, 8:

    incomposito agmine, solutis ordinibus,

    Curt. 8, 1, 5; so id. 8, 4, 6:

    agmina Diductis solvere choris,

    Verg. A. 5, 581:

    solvit maniplos,

    Juv. 8, 154:

    solvuntur laudata cohors,

    Stat. Achill. 2, 167.—Hence, to separate armies engaged in battle:

    commissas acies ego possum solvere,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 59.—
    (β).
    Of banquets, assemblies, etc.:

    convivio soluto,

    Liv. 40, 14 fin.:

    convivium solvit,

    Curt. 8, 5, 24; 8, 6, 16:

    Quid cessas convivia solvere?

    Ov. F. 6, 675:

    coetuque soluto Discedunt,

    id. M. 13, 898.—Hence, urbem (Capuam) solutam ac debilitatam reliquerunt, disfranchised, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91.—
    (γ).
    Of the words in discourse, orationem or versum solvere, to break up a sentence or verse:

    (discant) versus primo solvere, mox mutatis verbis interpretari,

    Quint. 1, 9, 2:

    quod cuique visum erit vehementer, dulciter, speciose dictum, solvat ac turbet,

    id. 9, 4, 14:

    ut partes orationis sibi soluto versu desideret et pedum proprietates,

    id. 1, 8, 13:

    non, ut si solvas Postquam discordia tetra, etc., invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 60.—
    3.
    Implying a change for the worse.
    a.
    To relax, make effeminate, weaken, by ease, luxury, dissipation, etc. (post-Aug.):

    Hannibalem hiberna solverunt,

    Sen. Ep. 51, 5:

    usque eo nimio delicati animi languore solvuntur,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 6:

    infantiam statim deliciis solvimus,

    Quint. 1, 2, 6:

    solutus luxu,

    id. 3, 8, 28; so Tac. A. 11, 31.—With in and acc.:

    soluti in luxum,

    Tac. H. 2, 99:

    in lasciviam,

    id. ib. 3, 38.— Transf.: versum solvere, to deprive a verse of its proper rhythm:

    si quinque continuos dactylos confundas solveris versum,

    Quint. 9, 4, 49.—
    b.
    To make torpid by removing sensation.
    (α).
    To relax, benumb the limbs or body;

    as by narcotics, terror, sickness, exhaustion: multaque praeterea languentia membra per artus solvunt,

    Lucr. 6, 798:

    ima Solvuntur latera,

    Verg. G. 3, 523:

    solvi debilitate corporis,

    paralyzed, Val. Max. 1, 7, 4:

    ut soluto labitur moriens gradu,

    Sen. Hippol. 368.—In mal. part., Hor. Epod. 12, 8; cf. Verg. G. 3, 523.— Poet.:

    illum aget, penna metuente solvi, Fama superstes,

    Hor. C. 2, 2, 7.—Of the mind:

    segnitia (oratoris) solvit animos,

    wearies, Quint. 11, 3, 52:

    mentes solvere,

    to make insane, Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25.—
    (β).
    By frost ( poet.):

    solvuntur illi frigore membra,

    Verg. A. 12, 951; 1, 92.—
    (γ).
    By sleep ( poet. for sopio):

    homines volucresque ferasque Solverat alta quies,

    Ov. M. 7, 186:

    corpora somnus Solverat,

    id. ib. 10, 369:

    molli languore solutus,

    id. ib. 11, 648;

    11, 612: altoque sopore solutum,

    id. ib. 8, 817:

    somno vinoque solutos,

    id. F. 2, 333; Verg. A. 9, 236:

    ut membra solvit sopor,

    id. ib. 12, 867:

    non solvit pectora somnus,

    Sen. Agam. 76.—With in:

    solvitur in somnos,

    Verg. A. 4, 530.— Transf., of the sea:

    aequor longa ventorum pace solutum,

    lulled to sleep, Stat. Th. 3, 255.—
    (δ).
    By death: solvi, to die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    ipse deus, simulatque volam, me solvet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 78:

    corporibus quae senectus solvit,

    Curt. 89, 32 (cf. A. 4. supra):

    (corpus) quam nullo negotio solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 2:

    alius inter cenandum solutus est,

    id. Ep. 66, 43:

    ubicumque arietaveris, solveris,

    id. Cons. Marc. 11, 3:

    me fata maturo exitu facilique solvant,

    Sen. Troad. 605:

    solvi inedia,

    Petr. 111:

    sic morte quasi somno soluta est,

    Flor. 2, 21, 11.—Hence,
    4.
    Of logical dissolution, to refute:

    non tradit Epicurus quomodo captiosa solvantur,

    how fallacies are refuted, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22:

    argumentum solvere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 34:

    solutum scies quod nobis opponitur,

    Sen. Const. 12, 3.—
    b.
    To disperse, dispel, as of a cloud:

    deorum beneficia tempestiva ingentes minas interventu suo solventia,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 4, 2.
    II.
    To loose, remove, cancel that which binds any thing.
    A.
    In a corporeal sense.
    1.
    In gen., to loose (weaker than rumpo;

    post-Aug.): effringere quam aperire, rumpere quam solvere putant robustius,

    Quint. 2, 12, 1:

    qua convulsa tota operis colligatio solveretur,

    Val. Max. 8, 14, 6:

    supera compage soluta,

    Stat. Th. 8, 31.—
    2.
    To remove a fetter, bridle, etc.:

    nullo solvente catenas,

    Ov. M. 3, 700: vincla jugis boum, Tib. 2, 1, 7:

    solvere frenum,

    Phaedr. 1, 2, 3:

    loris solutis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 41.— Transf., of prisons:

    qui, solutis ergastulis, exercitus numerum implevit,

    Liv. Ep. 56; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 13; 11, 13, 2.—Of frost:

    gelu solvitur,

    it thaws, Tac. H. 1, 79:

    solvitur acris hiems,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 1.—Of clouds:

    facit igitur ventum resoluta nubes, quae plurimis modis solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 5, 12, 5; 5, 12, 1.—Of the grasp of hands, fingers, etc.:

    Aeacides a corpore bracchia solvit,

    looses his hold, Ov. M. 11, 246:

    indigno non solvit bracchia collo,

    Stat. Th. 5, 217:

    digitis solutis abjecit jaculum,

    id. ib. 8, 585.—
    3.
    To untie a string, cord, necklace, etc., slacken or unlock an enclosure, open a box, trunk, etc.:

    solve vidulum ergo,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 98:

    eam solve cistulam,

    id. Am. 2, 2, 151:

    solve zonam,

    untie, id. Truc. 5, 62:

    solvisse jugalem ceston fertur,

    Stat. Th. 5, 62:

    animai nodos a corpore solvit,

    Lucr. 2, 950:

    nihil interest quomodo (nodi) solvantur,

    Curt. 3, 1, 18:

    quid boni est, nodos operose solvere, quos ipse ut solveres feceris?

    Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 2:

    solvere nodum,

    Stat. Th. 11, 646:

    laqueum quem nec solvere possis, nec abrumpere,

    Sen. Tranq. 10, 1:

    vix solvi duros a pectore nexus,

    Ov. M. 9, 58:

    fasciam solve,

    Sen. Ep. 80, 10:

    solutis fasciis,

    Curt. 7, 6, 5:

    solvi fasciculum,

    Cic. Att. 11, 9, 2:

    crinales vittas,

    Verg. A. 7, 403:

    Parmenion vinculum epistulae solvens,

    Curt. 7, 2, 25:

    equum empturus solvi jubes stratum,

    Sen. Ep. 80, 9:

    redimicula solvite collo,

    Ov. F. 4, 135:

    corollas de fronte,

    Prop. 1, 3, 21:

    solvere portas,

    Stat. Th. 3, 492:

    munimina valli,

    id. ib. 12, 10:

    ille pharetram Solvit,

    Ov. M. 5, 380.— Transf., of the veins as enclosures of the blood:

    solutis ac patefactis venis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 5:

    venam cultello solvere,

    Col. 6, 14; cf.

    also: lychnis alvum solvit,

    looses the bowels, Plin. 21, 26, 98, § 171; 21, 20, 83, § 140; Suet. Vesp. 24; Tac. A. 12, 67:

    ventrem,

    Plin. 20, 8, 30, § 74.— Absol. (sc. alvum), Mart. 13, 29:

    stomachus solutus = venter solutus,

    loose bowels, Petr. 117; Scrib. Comp. 92.—
    B.
    Trop., to slacken or remove a bond.
    1.
    Solvere aliquid (aliquod vinculum; cf. I. B. 1. supra).
    a.
    Of the mouth, etc., to open:

    talibus ora solvit verbis,

    Ov. M. 15, 74; so id. ib. 1, 181; Tib. 4, 5, 14:

    ternis ululatibus ora Solvit,

    Ov. M. 7, 191; 9, 427; id. Tr. 3, 11, 20; Stat. Achill. 1, 525:

    vix ora solvi patitur etiamnum timor,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 725; so,

    os promptius ac solutius,

    Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.— Transf., of an abyss:

    hic ora solvit Ditis invisi domus,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 664.—
    b.
    To remove, cancel; to destroy the force of a legal or moral obligation by expiration, death, etc.:

    si mors alterutrius interveniat, solvitur mandatum,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 160:

    cum aliquis renunciaverit societati, societas solvitur,

    id. ib. 3, 151; so id. ib. 3, 152:

    morte solvetur compromissum,

    Dig. 4, 8, 27:

    soluto matrimonio,

    ib. 24, 3, 2:

    solutum conjugium,

    Juv. 9, 79:

    qui... conjugalia solvit,

    Sen. Med. 144:

    nec conjugiale solutum Foedus in alitibus,

    Ov. M. 11, 743:

    (sapiens) invitus beneficium per compensationem injuriae solvet,

    cancel the obligation of a favor by the set-off of a wrong, Sen. Ep. 81, 17.—
    c.
    To efface guilt or wrong:

    magnis injuria poenis Solvitur,

    Ov. F. 5, 304:

    solve nefas, dixit: solvit et ille nefas,

    id. ib. 2, 44:

    culpa soluta mea est,

    id. Tr. 4, 4, 10:

    neque tu verbis solves unquam quod mi re male feceris (i. e. injuriam),

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 10.—
    d.
    Poenam solvere, to suffer punishment, i. e. to cancel the obligation of suffering, etc. (cf. 3. infra;

    less freq. than poenam persolvere, exsolvere): serae, sed justae tamen et debitae poenae solutae sunt,

    Cic. Mil. 31, 85:

    capite poenas solvit,

    Sall. J. 69, 4:

    meritas poenas solventem,

    Curt. 6, 3, 14:

    poenarum solvendi tempus,

    Lucr. 5, 1224:

    nunc solvo poenas,

    Sen. Phoen. 172:

    hac manu poenas tibi solvam,

    id. Hippol. 1177.—
    e.
    To remove, relieve, soothe affections, passions, etc.:

    atque animi curas e pectore solvat,

    Lucr. 4, 908:

    curam metumque juvat Dulci Lyaeo solvere,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 38:

    patrimonii cura solvatur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, praef. §

    2: Pyrrhus impetus sui terrore soluto,

    Val. Max. 4, 3, 14:

    solvite corde metum,

    Verg. A. 1, 562; so id. ib. 9, 90:

    solve metus animo,

    Stat. Th. 2, 356:

    solvi pericula et metus narrant,

    Plin. 11, 37, 52, § 140: neque adhuc Stheneleius iras Solverat Eurystheus, [p. 1727] Ov. M. 9, 274:

    hoc uno solvitur ira modo,

    id. A. A. 2, 460:

    solvitque pudorem,

    Verg. A. 4, 55.—
    f.
    Of sleep:

    quasi clamore solutus Sit sopor,

    Ov. M. 3, 6, 30:

    nec verba, nec herbae audebunt longae somnum tibi solvere Lethes,

    Luc. 6, 768; cf.:

    lassitudinem solvere,

    Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 143. —
    g.
    Of any checks and barriers to motion, to remove.
    (α).
    To raise a siege:

    solutam cernebat obsidionem,

    Liv. 36, 10, 14:

    soluta obsidione,

    id. 36, 31, 7:

    ad Locrorum solvendam obsidionem,

    id. 27, 28, 17; cf. id. 37, 7, 7; 38, 5, 6; 42, 56 init.; 44, 13, 7; Curt. 4, 4, 1; Tac. A. 4, 24; 4, 73; Just. 9, 2, 10.—
    (β).
    Of passions, etc., to remove restraint:

    cujus si talis animus est, solvamus nos ejus vincula, et claustra (i. e. irae) refringamus,

    Liv. 36, 7, 13.—
    (γ).
    To overthrow, subvert a higher authority, etc.:

    quos (milites), soluto imperio, licentia corruperat,

    Sall. J. 39, 5:

    imperia solvit qui tacet, jussus loqui,

    Sen. Oedip. 525:

    sonipedes imperia solvunt,

    id. Hippol. 1084; cf.:

    sanctitas fori ludis solvitur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 58.—
    h.
    Of laws and customs, to abolish, violate:

    solvendarum legum id principium esse censebant (post-Aug. for dissolvendarum),

    Curt. 10, 2, 5:

    solutae a se legis monitus,

    Val. Max. 6, 5, ext. 4:

    cum plus quam ducentorum annorum morem solveremus,

    Liv. 8, 4, 7:

    (Tarquinius) morem de omnibus senatum consulendi solvit,

    id. 1, 49, 7:

    oportebat istum morem solvi,

    Curt. 8, 8, 18.—
    2.
    Esp. with acc. of the bond, etc. (taking the place of the constr. I. B. 1. 2. 3. supra, when the abl. of separation is not admissible).
    a.
    To subvert discipline:

    disciplinam militarem solvisti,

    Liv. 8, 7, 16:

    luxuria solutam disciplinam militarem esse,

    id. 40, 1, 4:

    quod cum, ne disciplina solveretur, fecisset,

    Front. Strat. 2, 12, 2.—
    b.
    Of strength, energy, attention, etc., to loosen, impair, weaken, scatter, disperse:

    nobilitas factione magis pollebat, plebis vis soluta atque dispersa,

    Sall. J. 41, 6:

    patrios nervos externarum deliciarum contagione solvi et hebetari noluerunt,

    Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:

    vires solvere,

    Quint. 9, 4, 7:

    vis illa dicendi solvitur, et frigescit affectus,

    Quint. 11, 3, 133.—
    c.
    Of affection, etc., to sever, dissolve, destroy:

    segnes nodum (amicitiae) solvere Gratiae,

    Hor. C. 3, 21, 22;

    similarly: solvit (ille deus) amicos,

    Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 5; so id. 2, 15 (3, 7), 26:

    hoc firmos solvit amores,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 385:

    amores cantibus et herbis solvere,

    Tib. 1, 2, 60.—
    d.
    Of sickness and hunger, to end, remove:

    vitex dicitur febres solvere,

    Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 60:

    solvit jejunia granis,

    Ov. F. 4, 607:

    quoniam jejunia virgo Solverat,

    id. M. 5, 535; cf. Luc. 3, 282; so,

    famem,

    Sen. Thyest. 64.—
    e.
    To delay:

    hi classis moras hac morte solvi rentur,

    Sen. Troad. 1131.—
    f.
    Of darkness, to dispel:

    lux solverat umbras,

    Stat. Th. 10, 390.—
    g.
    Of war, strife, etc., to compose, settle:

    aut solve bellum, mater, aut prima excipe,

    Sen. Phoen. 406:

    electus formae certamina solvere pastor,

    Stat. Achill. 2, 337:

    jurgia solvere,

    Manil. 3, 115:

    contradictiones solvere,

    Quint. 7, 1, 38.—
    h.
    Of difficulties, riddles, questions, ambiguities, etc., to solve, explain, remove:

    quia quaestionem solvere non posset,

    Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 3:

    aenigmata,

    Quint. 8, 6, 53:

    omnes solvere posse quaestiones,

    Suet. Gram. 11:

    haec ipsa, quae volvuntur ab illis, solvere malim et expandere,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 20; id. Q. N. 7, 14, 1:

    unum tantum hoc solvendum est,

    that one question, id. ib. 1, 7, 3:

    puta nunc me istuc non posse solvere,

    id. Ep. 48, 6:

    carmina non intellecta Solverat,

    Ov. M. 7, 760:

    triste carmen alitis solvi ferae,

    Sen. Oedip. 102:

    nodos juris,

    Juv. 8, 50:

    proponere aliquid quod solvat quaestionem,

    Quint. 5, 10, 96:

    plurimas quaestiones illis probationibus solvi solere,

    id. 1, 10, 49:

    quo solvitur quaestio supra tractata,

    id. 3, 7, 3:

    ambiguitatem or amphiboliam,

    id. 7, 2, 49; 7, 9, 10.—
    3.
    In partic., of obligations, to fulfil.
    a.
    To pay.
    (α).
    Originally, rem solvere, to free one's property and person (rem familiarem) from debts (solutio per aes et libram), according to the ancient formula:

    quod ego tibi tot millibus condemnatus sum, me eo nomine... a te solvo liberoque hoc aere aeneaque libra,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 174 Huschke; cf.:

    inde rem creditori palam populo solvit (i. e. per aes et libram),

    Liv. 6, 14, 5:

    quas res dari, fieri, solvi oportuit,

    id. 1, 32, 11. —Hence, rem solvere, to pay; often with dat. of person:

    pro vectura rem solvit?

    paid the freight, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 27:

    ubi nugivendis res soluta'st omnibus,

    id. Aul. 3, 5, 51:

    tibi res soluta est recte,

    id. Curc. 4, 3, 21:

    ego quidem pro istac rem solvo ab tarpessita meo,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 20:

    rem solvo omnibus quibus dehibeo,

    id. ib. 5, 3, 45:

    dum te strenuas, res erit soluta,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 35:

    res soluta'st, Gripe, ego habeo,

    id. Rud. 5, 3, 57.— Trop.: saepe edunt (aves);

    semel si captae sunt, rem solvont aucupi,

    they repay him, pay for his expenses, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 66.—And to pay by other things than money:

    si tergo res solvonda'st,

    by a whipping, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:

    habent hunc morem ut pugnis rem solvant si quis poscat clarius,

    id. Curc. 3, 9:

    tibi quidem copia'st, dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus,

    id. Rud. 2, 6, 74.—Hence,
    (β).
    Absol. (sc. rem), to pay; with or without dat. of person:

    cujus bona, quod populo non solvebat, publice venierunt,

    Cic. Fl. 18, 43:

    ei cum solveret, sumpsit a C. M. Fufiis,

    id. ib. 20, 46:

    misimus qui pro vectura solveret,

    id. Att. 1, 3, 2:

    qui nimis cito cupit solvere, invitus debet,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 5:

    ut creditori solvat,

    Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 7.— Pass. impers.:

    si dare vis mihi, Magis solutum erit quam ipsi dederis,

    it will be a more valid payment, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 46:

    numquam vehementius actum est quam me consule, ne solveretur,

    to stop payments, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:

    fraudandi spe sublata solvendi necessitas consecuta est,

    id. ib. 2, 24, 84:

    cum eo ipso quod necesse erat solvi, facultas solvendi impediretur,

    Liv. 6, 34, 1.—Cf. in the two senses, to free from debt, and to pay, in the same sentence:

    non succurrere vis illi, sed solvere. Qui sic properat, ipse solvi vult, non solvere,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 27, 1.—
    (γ).
    With acc. of the debt, to discharge, to pay:

    postquam Fundanio debitum solutum esset,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 10:

    hoc quod debeo peto a te ut... solutum relinquas,

    settled, id. Att. 16, 6, 3:

    solverat Castricio pecuniam jam diu debitam,

    id. Fl. 23, 54:

    ex qua (pensione) major pars est ei soluta,

    id. Att. 16, 2, 1:

    solvi aes alienum Pompejus ex suo fisco jussit,

    Val. Max. 6, 2, 11:

    aes alienum solvere,

    Sen. Ep. 36, 5:

    quae jactatio est, solvisse quod debebas?

    id. Ben. 4, 17, 1; so,

    debitum solvere,

    id. ib. 6, 30, 2:

    ne pecunias creditas solverent,

    Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

    ut creditae pecuniae solvantur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 20; 3, 1:

    ex thensauris Gallicis creditum solvi posse,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5:

    ita bona veneant ut solidum suum cuique solvatur,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 46.—And of moral debts:

    cum patriae quod debes solveris,

    Cic. Marcell. 9, 27:

    debet vero, solvitque praeclare,

    id. Phil. 13, 11, 25:

    aliter beneficium, aliter creditum solvitur,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 1:

    qui grate beneficium accipit, primam ejus pensionem solvit,

    id. ib. 2, 22 fin. —
    (δ).
    By a confusion of construction, solvere pecuniam, etc., to pay money, etc. (for pecunia rem or debitum solvere); constr. with dat. or absol.:

    emi: pecuniam solvi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 43:

    pro frumento nihil solvit,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 72, §

    169: legatis pecuniam pro frumento solvit,

    Liv. 44, 16:

    hanc pecuniam cum solvere in praesenti non posset,

    Nep. Milt. 7, 6:

    nisi pecuniam solvisset,

    id. Cim. 1, 1:

    condiciones pacis dictae ut decem millia talentum argenti... solverent,

    Liv. 30, 37 med.:

    pro quo (frumento) pretium solveret populus Romanus,

    id. 36, 3, 1:

    pretium servorum ex aerario solutum est dominis,

    id. 32, 26, 14:

    pretium pro libris domino esse solvendum,

    id. 40, 39 fin.:

    meritam mercedem,

    id. 8, 22, 3; so id. 8, 11, 4: sorte creditum solvere, by paying the principal (i. e. without interest), id. 6, 36, 12:

    quae praemia senatus militibus ante constituit, ea solvantur,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38:

    stipendium,

    Liv. 28, 32, 1:

    dotem mulieri,

    Dig. 24, 3, 2:

    litem aestimatam,

    the amount of a fine, Nep. Cim. 5, 18 fin.:

    arbitria funeris,

    the expenses of the funeral, Cic. Red. Sen. 7, 18:

    solvere dodrantem,

    to pay seventy-five per cent., Mart. 8, 9, 1:

    dona puer solvit,

    paid the promised gifts, Ov. M. 9, 794; so,

    munera,

    id. ib. 11, 104.— Transf., of the dedication of a book, in return for favors:

    et exspectabo ea (munera) quae polliceris, et erunt mihi pergrata si solveris... Non solvam nisi prius a te cavero, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 4, 17 sq. —Of the delivery of slaves:

    si quis duos homines promise rit et Stichum solverit,

    Dig. 46, 3, 67; 46, 3, 38, § 3.— Transf., poet.: dolorem solvisti, you have paid your grief, i. e. have duly mourned, Stat. S. 2, 6, 98.— Pass. with personal subject:

    si (actor) solutus fuisset,

    Dig. 12, 1, 31 (cf.: solvere militem, b supra). —
    (ε).
    Esp., in certain phrases, to pay:

    aliquid praesens solvere,

    to pay in cash, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; so,

    aliquid de praesentibus solvere,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 16:

    solvere grates (= referre gratiam muneribus): Sulla solvit grates Dianae,

    Vell. 2, 25:

    quas solvere grates sufficiam?

    Stat. S. 4, 2, 7: cum homo avarus, ut ea (beneficia) solveret sibi imperare non posset, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 1; cf.: non dicimus reposuit beneficium aut solvit;

    nullum nobis placuit quod aeri alieno convenit verbum,

    Sen. Ep. 81, 9; but v. id. Ben. 2, 18, 5: in debitum solvere, to make a partial payment:

    unum haec epistula in debitum solvet,

    id. Ep. 7, 10: aliquid solvere ab aliquo (de aliqua re), to pay out of funds supplied by any one ( out of any fund):

    Quintus laborat ut tibi quod debet ab Egnatio solvat,

    Cic. Att. 7, 18, 4:

    homines dicere, se a me solvere,

    id. ib. 5, 21, 11:

    (summa) erat solvenda de meo,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2:

    operas solvere alicui,

    to work for somebody, Dig. 40, 7, 39: solvo operam Dianae, I work for Diana, i. e. offer a sacrifice to her, Afran. ap. Non. 12, 21: judicatum solvere, to pay the amount adjudged by the court, for which security (satisdatio) was required:

    stipulatio quae appellatur judicatum solvi,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 90:

    iste postulat ut procurator judicatum solvi satisdaret,

    Cic. Quint. 7, 29; so Dig. 3, 2, 28; 3, 3, 15; 2, 8, 8;

    2, 8, 14 et saep.: auctio solvendis nummis,

    a cash auction, Mart. 14, 35.— Gerund.: solvendo esse, to be solvent; jurid. t. t., to be able to pay, i. e. one's debts; cf.

    in full: nec tamen solvendo aeri alieno respublica esset,

    Liv. 31, 13:

    nemo dubitat solvendo esse eum qui defenditur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 105:

    qui modo solvendo sint,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 3, 121:

    si solvendo sint,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 20, 1:

    nec interest, solvendo sit, necne,

    Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 5; so ib. 46, 1, 10; 46, 1, 27, § 2; 46, 1, 51, §§ 1 and 4; 46, 1, 52, § 1; 46, 1, 28; 50, 17, 198 et saep.: non solvendo esse, to be insolvent:

    solvendo non erat,

    Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:

    cum solvendo civitates non essent,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:

    tu nec solvendo eras, nec, etc.,

    id. Phil. 2, 2, 4:

    ne videatur non fuisse solvendo,

    id. Off. 2, 22, 79;

    and very freq. in the jurists.—So, trop.: quid matri, quid flebili patriae dabis? Solvendo non es,

    Sen. Oedip. 941; cf.:

    *non esse ad solvendum (i. e. able to pay),

    Vitr. 10, 6 fin. —
    b.
    To fulfil the duty of burial.
    (α).
    Justa solvere; with dat. of the person:

    qui nondum omnia paterno funeri justa solvisset,

    who had not yet finished the burial ceremonies of his father, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:

    justis defunctorum corporibus solutis,

    Curt. 3, 12, 15:

    proinde corpori quam primum justa solvamus,

    id. 10, 6, 7:

    ut justa soluta Remo,

    Ov. F. 5, 452:

    nunc justa nato solve,

    Sen. Hippol. 1245.—
    (β).
    Exsequias, inferias or suprema solvere:

    exsequiis rite solutis,

    Verg. A. 7, 5:

    cruor sancto solvit inferias viro,

    Sen. Hippol. 1198:

    solvere suprema militibus,

    Tac. A. 1, 61.—
    c.
    Votum solvere, to fulfil a vow to the gods.
    (α).
    Alone:

    vota ea quae numquam solveret nuncupavit,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 11:

    quod si factum esset, votum rite solvi non posse,

    Liv. 31, 9 fin.:

    liberare et se et rempublicam religione votis solvendis,

    id. 40, 44, 8:

    placatis diis votis rite solvendis,

    id. 36, 37 fin.:

    petiit ut votum sibi solvere liceret,

    id. 45, 44:

    animosius a mercatore quam a vectore solvitur votum,

    Sen. Ep. 73, 5:

    vota pro incolumitate solvebantur,

    Tac. A. 2, 69:

    vota pater solvit,

    Ov. M. 9, 707:

    ne votum solvat,

    Mart. 12, 91, 6; 8, 4, 2; Val. Max. 6, 9, 5 ext.; 1, 1, 8 ext. — Poet.:

    voti debita solvere,

    Ov. F. 5, 596; cf.

    the abbrev. formula V. S. L. M. (voTVM SOLVIT LIBENS MERITO),

    Inscr. Orell. 186; 1296 sq.:

    V.S.A.L. (ANIMO LIBENTI),

    ib. 2022 et saep.:

    sacra solvere (=votum solvere),

    Manil. 1, 427.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    ait sese Veneri velle votum solvere,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 60:

    vota Jovi solvo,

    Ov. M. 7, 652; 8, 153:

    sunt vota soluta deae,

    id. F. 6, 248:

    dis vota solvis,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 19, 4:

    libamenta Veneri solvere (=votum per libamenta),

    Just. 18, 5, 4.—
    d.
    Fidem solvere, to fulfil a promise (post-class. for fidem praestare, [p. 1728] exsolvere; cf.:

    fidem obligatam liberare,

    Suet. Claud. 9):

    illi, ut fidem solverent, clipeis obruere,

    Flor. 1, 1, 12;

    similarly: et voti solverat ille fidem (=votum solverat),

    Ov. F. 1, 642; but cf.: itane imprudens? tandem inventa'st causa: solvisti fidem, you have found a pretext to evade your promise (cf. II. A. 3.), Ter. And. 4, 1, 18: esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides, by my death your promise to marry me would have been cancelled (cf. II. B. 1. 6.), Ov. H. 10, 78; similarly: suam fidem (i. e. quam Lepido habuerit) solutam esse, that his faith in Lepidus was broken, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3.—With a different construction: se depositi fide solvere, to acquit one's self of the duty to return property intrusted to him (cf. I. B. 1. c.), Val. Max. 7, 3, 5 ext.: factique fide data munera solvit, he freed the gift already given from the obligation of an accomplished fact, i. e. he revoked the gifts, although already made, Ov. M. 11, 135.—
    e.
    Promissum solvere, to fulfil a promise (very rare):

    perinde quasi promissum solvens,

    Val. Max. 9, 6, 1:

    solvitur quod cuique promissum est,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 20 fin.;

    similarly: solutum, quod juraverant, rebantur,

    what they had promised under oath, Liv. 24, 18, 5.—Hence, sŏlūtus, a, um, P. a., free, loose, at large, unfettered, unbandaged.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.A. 1. supra.) Pigeat nostrum erum si eximat aut solutos sinat, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 11:

    tibi moram facis quom ego solutus sto,

    id. Ep. 5, 2, 25:

    reus solutus causam dicis, testes vinctos attines,

    id. Truc. 4, 3, 63:

    cum eos vinciret quos secum habebat, te solutum Romam mittebat?

    Cic. Deiot. 7, 22:

    nec quisquam ante Marium solutus dicitur esse sectus,

    unbandaged, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:

    duos (captivos) solutos ire ad Hannibalem jussit,

    Liv. 27, 51:

    eum interdiu solutum custodes sequebantur, nocte clausum asservabant,

    id. 24, 45, 10:

    non efficiatis ut solutos verear quos alligatos adduxit,

    Val. Max. 6, 2, 3.—
    2.
    (Acc. to I. A. 2.) Of texture, etc.; esp. of soil, loose, friable (opp spissus;

    postAug.): quo solutior terra facilius pateat radicibus,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 21;

    ordeum nisi solutum et siccum locum non patitur,

    Col. 2, 9:

    soluta et facilis terra,

    id. 3, 14;

    solum solutum vel spissum,

    id. 2, 2 init.;

    seri vult raphanus terra soluta, umida,

    Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83:

    hordeum seri non vult, nisi in sicca et soluta terra,

    id. 18, 7, 18, § 79:

    solutiores ripae,

    Front. Aquaed. 15.—Of plants:

    mas spissior, femina solutior,

    Plin. 25, 9, 57, § 103.—Hence, subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., a state of looseness:

    dum vult describere, quem ad modum alia torqueantur fila, alia ex molli solutoque ducantur,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 20.—
    3.
    (Acc. to I. A. 3.) Rarefied, thin, diffused:

    turbo, quo celsior eo solutior laxiorque est, et ob hoc diffunditur,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 9, 3:

    aer agitatus a sole calefactusque solutior est,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

    debet aer nec tam spissus esse, nec tam tenuis et solutus, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 11.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) Of speech, unfettered, fluent, ready:

    (orator) solutus in explicandis sententiis,

    Cic. Or. 47, 173:

    verbis solutus satis,

    id. ib. 47, 174:

    solutissimus in dicendo,

    id. ib. 48, 180.—
    2.
    Exempt, free from duties, obligations, etc.:

    quam ob rem viderer maximis beneficii vinculis obstrictus, cum liber essem et solutus?

    Cic. Planc. 30, 72:

    soluta (praedia) meliore in causa sunt quam obligata,

    unmortgaged, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:

    si reddidi (debitum), solutus sum ac liber,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 5;

    non ut gratus, sed ut solutus sim,

    id. ib. 4, 21, 3;

    solutus omni fenore,

    Hor. Epod. 2, 4;

    nam ea (religione) magister equitum solutus ac liber potuerit esse,

    Liv. 8, 32, 5:

    Mamertini soli in omni orbe terrarum vacui, expertes soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23.—
    3.
    Free from punishment, not punishable, not liable, etc.: qui mancipia vendunt, certiores faciunt emptores quis fugitivus sit, noxave solutus, Edict. Aedil. ap. Dig. 21, 1, 1, § 1; Gell. 4, 2, 1; cf.:

    quod aiunt aediles noxae solutus non sit sic intellegendum est... noxali judicio subjectum non esse,

    Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 17:

    apud quos libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam,

    Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

    omne illud tempus habeat per me solutum ac liberum,

    i. e. let the crimes then committed be unpunished, id. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33: antea vacuum id solutumque poena fuerat, Tac. A. 14, 28.—With subj. inf.:

    maxime solutum fuit, prodere de iis, etc.,

    Tac. A. 4, 35: solutum existimatur esse, alteri male dicere, Caecil. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3.—
    4.
    Free from cares, undistracted:

    animo soluto liberoque,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185:

    sed paulo solutiore tamen animo,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 31, § 82.—
    5.
    At leisure, free from labor, business, etc.:

    te rogo ut eum solutum, liberum, confectis ejus negotiis a te, quamprimum ad me remittas,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 63, 2:

    quo mea ratio facilior et solutior esse possit,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 1.—With gen.:

    Genium Curabis Cum famulis operum solutis,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 16.—
    6.
    Unbound, relaxed, merry, jovial:

    quam homines soluti ridere non desinant, tristiores autem, etc.,

    Cic. Dom. 39, 104:

    an tu existimas quemquam soluto vultu et hilari oculo mortem contemnere?

    Sen. Ep. 23, 4:

    vultus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 355:

    (mores) naturam sequentium faciles sunt, soluti sunt,

    unembarrassed, Sen. Ep. 122, 17.—
    7.
    Free from the rule of others, uncontrolled, independent:

    cum videas civitatis voluntatem solutam, virtutem alligatam,

    Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1:

    ab omni imperio externo soluta in perpetuum Hispania,

    Liv. 29, 1 fin.:

    Masinissae ab imperio Romano solutam libertatem tribuit,

    Val. Max. 7, 2, 6:

    incerti, solutique, et magis sine domino quam in libertate, Vononem in regnum accipiunt,

    Tac. A. 2, 4:

    quorum (militum) libertas solutior erat,

    Just. 13, 2, 2.—Of animals:

    rectore solutos (solis) equos,

    Stat. Th. 1, 219.—
    8.
    Free from influence or restraint; hence, independent, unbiassed, unprejudiced:

    nec vero deus ipse alio modo intellegi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 27, 66;

    cum animi sine ratione motu ipsi suo soluto ac libero incitarentur,

    id. Div. 1, 2, 4:

    judicio senatus soluto et libero,

    id. Phil. 5, 15, 41:

    sum enim ad dignitatem in re publica solutus,

    id. Att. 1, 13, 2:

    libero tempore cum soluta vobis est eligendi optio,

    id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:

    si omnia mihi essent solutissima, tamen in re publica non alius essem atque nunc sum,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 21:

    liberi enim ad causas solutique veniebant,

    uncommitted, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192.—
    9.
    Free from moral restraint; hence, unbridled, insolent, loose:

    amores soluti et liberi,

    Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

    licentia,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 4:

    populi quamvis soluti ecfrenatique sint,

    id. ib. 1, 34, 53:

    quis erat qui sibi solutam P. Clodii praeturam sine maximo metu proponeret? Solutam autem fore videbatis, nisi esset is consul qui eam auderet possetque constringere,

    id. Mil. 13, 34:

    quominus conspectus, eo solutior erat,

    Liv. 27, 31 fin.:

    adulescentes aliquot quorum, in regno, libido solutior fuerat,

    id. 2, 1, 2:

    solutioris vitae primos adulescentiae annos egisse fertur,

    a licentious life, Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:

    spectandi solutissimum morem corrigere,

    Suet. Aug. 44:

    mores soluti,

    licentious habits, Just. 3, 3, 10.—
    10.
    Regardless of rules, careless, loose:

    orator tam solutus et mollis in gestu,

    Cic. Brut. 62, 225:

    dicta factaque ejus solutiora, et quandam sui neglegentiam praeferentia,

    Tac. A. 16, 18.—
    11.
    Esp., of style, etc., free from rules of composition.
    (α).
    Oratio soluta, verba soluta, a free style, conversational or epistolary style:

    est oratio aliqua vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, qualis in sermone et epistulis,

    Quint. 9, 4, 19; 9, 4, 20; 9, 4, 69; 9, 4, 77.—
    (β).
    More freq.: verba soluta, oratio soluta, prose (opp. to verse);

    in full: scribere conabar verba soluta modis, Ov Tr. 4, 10, 24: quod (Isocrates) verbis solutis numeros primus adjunxerit,

    Cic. Or. 52, 174:

    mollis est enim oratio philosophorum... nec vincta numeris, sed soluta liberius,

    id. ib. 19, 64; 71, 234;

    68, 228: si omnes soluta oratione scripserunt,

    Varr. R. R. 4, 1; de heisce rebus treis libros ad te mittere institui;

    de oratione soluta duos, de poetica unum,

    id. L. L. 6, 11 fin.:

    ut in soluta oratione, sic in poemateis,

    id. ib. 7, 1:

    primus (Isocrates) intellexit. etiam in soluta oratione, dum versum effugeres modum et numerum quemdam debere servari,

    Cic. Brut. 8, 32:

    Aristoteles judicat heroum numerum grandiorem quam desideret soluta oratio,

    id. Or. 57, 192:

    et creticus et paeon quam commodissume putatur in solutam orationem illigari,

    id. ib. 64, 215:

    a modis quibusdam, cantu remoto, soluta esse videatur oratio,

    id. ib. 55, 183; 55, 184; id. de Or. 3, 48, 184: historia est quodammodo carmen solutum, Quint. 10, 1, 31.—
    (γ).
    Also in reference to a prose rhythm, loose, unrhythmical, inharmonious:

    ut verba neque inligata sint, quasi... versus, neque ita soluta ut vagentur,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 44, 176; 3, 48, 186:

    nec vero haec (Callidii verba) soluta nec diffluentia, sed astricta numeris,

    id. Brut. 79, 274:

    orator sic illigat sententiam verbis ut eam numero quodam complectatur et astricto et soluto,

    id. de Or. 3, 44, 175; but: verba soluta suis figuris, words freed from their proper meaning, i.e. metaphors, Manil. 1, 24.—
    (δ).
    Rarely with reference to the thought: soluta oratio, a fragmentary, disconnected style:

    soluta oratio, et e singulis non membris, sed frustis, collata, structura caret,

    Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 9, 4, 69:

    solutiora componere,

    id. 10, 4, 1; 9, 4, 15.—
    12.
    Effeminate, luxurious (acc. to I. B. 3.):

    sinum togae in dextrum umerum reicere, solutum ac delicatum est,

    Quint. 11, 3, 146.—
    13.
    Undisciplined, disorderly:

    omnia soluta apud hostes esse,

    Liv. 8, 30, 3:

    nihil temeritate solutum,

    Tac. A. 13, 40:

    apud Achaeos neglecta omnia ac soluta fuere,

    Just. 34, 2, 2.—
    14.
    Lax, remiss, weak:

    mea lenitas adhuc si cui solutior visa erat,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    Ciceronem male audivisse, tamquam solutum et enervem,

    Tac. Or. 18:

    soluti ac fluentes,

    Quint. 1, 2, 8.—Hence:

    solutum genus orationis,

    a lifeless, dull style, Val. Max. 8, 10, 3:

    quanto longius abscederent, eo solutiore cura,

    laxer attention, Liv. 3, 8, 8.—
    C.
    (Acc. to II. B. 3. e supra.) Paid, discharged, only as subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., that which is paid, a discharged debt, in certain phrases:

    aliquid in solutum dare,

    to give something in payment, Dig. 46, 3, 45; 46, 3, 46; 46, 3, 60: in solutum accipere, to accept in payment:

    qui voluntatem bonam in solutum accipit,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 16, 4:

    qui rem in solutum accipit,

    Dig. 42, 4, 15; 12, 1, 19;

    in solutum imputare,

    to charge as payment, Sen. Ep. 8, 10; aliquid pro soluto est, is considered as paid or cancelled:

    pro soluto id in quo creditor accipiendo moram fecit, oportet esse,

    Dig. 46, 3, 72: pro soluto usucapere, to acquire by prescription something given in payment by the debtor, but not belonging to him:

    pro soluto usucapit qui rem debiti causa recepit,

    Dig. 41, 3, 46.— Adv.: sŏlūtē.
    1.
    Thinly:

    corpora diffusa solute,

    Lucr. 4, 53.—
    2.
    Of speech, fluently:

    non refert videre quid dicendum est, nisi id queas solute ac suaviter dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 29, 110:

    ita facile soluteque volvebat sententias,

    id. ib. 81, 280:

    quid ipse compositus alias, et velut eluctantium verborum, solutius promptiusque eloquebatur,

    Tac. A. 4, 31.—
    3.
    Irregularly, loosely:

    a fabris neglegentius solutiusque composita,

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 30, 4.—
    4.
    Freely, without restraint:

    generaliter puto judicem justum... solutius aequitatem sequi,

    i. e. without strictly regarding the letter of the law, Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—
    5.
    Of style, without connection, loosely:

    enuntiare,

    Quint. 11, 2, 47.—
    6.
    Of manners and discipline, disorderly, negligently:

    praecipue sub imperio Cn. Manlii solute ac neglegenter habiti sunt (exercitus),

    Liv. 39, 1, 4:

    in stationibus solute ac neglegenter agentes,

    id. 23, 37, 6.—
    7.
    Weakly, tamely, without vigor:

    quod ille tam solute egisset, tam leniter, tam oscitanter,

    Cic. Brut. 80, 277.—
    8.
    Of morals, loosely, without restraint:

    ventitabat illuc Nero, quo solutius urbem extra lasciviret,

    Tac. A. 13, 47.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > solutum

  • 6 solvo

    solvo, solvi, solutum, 3, v. a. ( perf. soluit, trisyll., Cat. 2, 13:

    soluisse,

    Tib. 4, 5, 16) [for se-luo; cf. socors for se-cords], to loosen an object from any thing, to release or to loose, remove any thing which binds or restrains another.
    I.
    To loose an object bound, to release, set free, disengage, dissolve, take apart.
    A.
    In a corporeal sense.
    1.
    Outwardly, to release.
    a.
    From fetters or custody, to free, set free, release; absol.:

    solvite istas,

    i. e. from fetters, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 64:

    solvite istum,

    id. Mil. 5, 32:

    numquam, nisi me orassis, solves,

    id. Ep. 5, 2, 62:

    jube solvi (eum),

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 52:

    ad palum adligati repente soluti sunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11:

    ut vincti solvantur,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §

    12: qui in compedibus corporis semper fuerunt, etiam cum soluti sunt, tardius ingrediuntur,

    id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75:

    ita nexi soluti (sunt),

    Liv. 8, 28, 9:

    solvite me, pueri,

    Verg. E. 6, 24:

    fore ut brevi solveretur,

    Suet. Vesp. 5; id. Tib. 65; id. Vit. 12.—With abl.:

    canis solutus catena,

    Phaedr. 3, 7, 20. — Transf., from the fetter of frost:

    solutis amnibus (i. e. frigoris vinculo),

    Stat. Th. 5, 15:

    terrae quem (florem) ferunt solutae,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 10.—
    b.
    From reins, ties, bands, etc.: solve senescentem equum, from the rein, i. e. dismiss him from service, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8:

    solverat sol equos,

    unhitched, Stat. Th. 3, 407: currum solvere (i. e. ab equis, poet. for equos a curru), Sen. Thyest. 794: solvere epistulam, i. e. from the string by which it was tied (= to open), Nep. Hann. 11, 3:

    et tibi sollicita solvitur illa (epistula) manu,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 2:

    et jacet in gremio charta soluta meo,

    id. H. 11, 4:

    praecepit suis ne sarcinas solverent, aut onera deponerent,

    Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3.—So of garments and sails, to unfurl, unfold: cum tunica soluta inambularet, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 26:

    soluta toga,

    Quint. 11, 3, 147:

    vela solvere,

    Verg. A. 4, 574.—
    c.
    From any fastening (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose), to detach from; constr. absol., or with ab or de, and abl.:

    Caucasia solvet de rupe Promethei bracchia,

    Prop. 2, 1, 69:

    fraxinus solvitur,

    from the ground, Stat. Th. 9, 498:

    ceciditque soluta pinus,

    id. ib. 9, 409; cf.:

    pinus radice soluta, deficit,

    id. S. 5, 1, 152:

    solutis radicibus arbusta procumbunt,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 5:

    accepi epistulam quam, ut scribis, ancora soluta de phaselo dedisti, i. e. a litore,

    detached, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1 B. and K. (al. sublata;

    but soluta is perh. an error of Cic. in the use of a technical term, v Orell. ad loc.).—In the same sense: solvere retinacula classis,

    Ov. M. 15, 696; 8, 102:

    querno solvunt de stipite funem,

    id. F. 4, 333:

    fune soluto Currit in immensum carina,

    id. Am. 2, 11, 23:

    curvo solves viscera cultro (i. e. de corpore ferarum),

    Sen. Hippol. 53.—Of rain disengaged from the clouds:

    imber caelesti nube solutus,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 237: (Lunam) imperfecta vi solvere tantum umorem, disengage only the moisture, i. e. from the earth:

    cum solis radii absumant,

    Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 45:

    solutum a latere pugionem,

    detached from his side, Suet. Vit. 15.—
    d.
    Esp., of ships: navem solvere, to free a ship from the land, i. e. to set sail, weigh anchor, leave land, depart.
    (α).
    With acc. alone:

    eisce confectis navem solvimus,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 91:

    navim cupimus solvere,

    id. Mil. 4, 7, 17:

    naves solvit,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 36; 5, 8; id. B. C. 1, 28; 3, 14; 3, 26;

    3, 102: primis tenebris solvit navem,

    Liv. 45, 6:

    postero die solvere naves (jussi),

    id. 29, 25 fin.; Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

    classem solvere,

    Liv. 45, 41; Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 23.—
    (β).
    With ab and abl.:

    navis a terra solverunt,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 101:

    quinto inde die quam ab Corintho solverit naves,

    Liv. 31, 7 med.:

    solvunt a litore puppes,

    Luc. 2, 649.—
    (γ).
    With ex and abl.:

    nam noctu hac soluta est navis nostra e portu Persico,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 259:

    interea e portu nostra navis solvitur,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 54.—
    (δ).
    With abl.:

    complures mercatores Alexandria solvisse,

    Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50:

    portu solventibus,

    id. Mur. 2, 4.—
    (ε).
    Absol. (sc. navem or naves):

    tertia fere vigilia solvit,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 23:

    nos eo die cenati solvimus,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:

    altero die quam a Brundusio solvit,

    Liv. 31, 14 init.:

    qui inde solverant,

    Val. Max. 1, 7, 3:

    solvi mare languido,

    Sen. Ep. 53, 1:

    fortasse etiam ventis minantibus solves,

    id. Ben. 2, 35, 5:

    non eadem est his et illis causa solvendi,

    making sea-voyages, id. Q. N. 5, 18, 16.—
    (ζ).
    With navis, etc., as subj., to leave the land (sc. se a litore):

    naves XVIII. ex superiore portu solverunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 28; and by another change of construction: solvimus oram, we freed the shore, i.e. from the ship, Quint. 4, 2, 41; id. Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—
    (η).
    Poet. usages:

    de litore puppis solvit iter,

    clears the voyage, Stat. S. 5, 1, 243:

    nec tibi Tyrrhena solvatur funis harena,

    Prop. 1, 8, 11 (cf.: retinacula solvere, c. supra).—
    e.
    Of secretions from the body ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    tempore eo quo menstrua solvit,

    Lucr. 6, 706:

    cruor solvitur,

    Stat. Th. 9, 530:

    lacrimas solvere,

    id. Achill. 2, 256:

    solutis lacrimis,

    Claud. Ruf. 2, 258; so,

    partus solvere,

    to bear, bring forth, be delivered of offspring, Ov. F. 3, 258; Stat. Th. 5, 461; Plin. 28, 3, 6, § 33; 32, 1, 1, § 6.—
    2.
    To loosen an object from that which holds it together, to break up, part, dissolve, disperse, divide, take apart, scatter.
    a.
    In gen.:

    omne colligatum solvi potest,

    Cic. Fin. 11.—
    b.
    Of structures ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    solvere naves et rursus conjungere,

    Curt. 8, 10, 3:

    solvere quassatae parcite membra ratis,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 2:

    dubitavit an solveret pontem,

    Curt. 4, 16, 8:

    solvere pontem,

    Tac. A. 1, 69:

    si pons solutus sit,

    Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 7:

    solutus pons tempestatibus,

    Just. 2, 13, 9:

    currum (solis) solutum,

    Manil. 1, 740.—
    c.
    Of woven stuff:

    solvens texta,

    Prop. 2, 9, 6.—
    d.
    Of mountains:

    utrimque montes solvit (Hercules),

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 237:

    tridente Neptunus montem solvit,

    id. Agam. 553.—
    e.
    Of the neck:

    soluta cervix silicis impulsu,

    broken, Sen. Troad. 1119.—
    f.
    Of a comet:

    momentum quo cometes solutus et in duas partes redactus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 3.—
    g.
    Of the hair, to loosen, untie, let fall:

    solve capillos,

    Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:

    crinem,

    id. A. A. 3, 784; id. M. 11, 682; 13, 584; Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 46:

    comas casside,

    Ov. F. 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 854.—
    h.
    Of the earth (so mostly P. a., q. v. infra;

    post-Aug.): ita in terrae corpore evenit ut partes ejus vetustate solvantur, solutae cadant,

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 10, 2:

    ubi montis latus nova ventis solvit hiems,

    Stat. Th. 7, 745. —
    3.
    To dissolve; pass., to be dissolved, changed, to pass over into ( poet. and postclass. for dissolvere, or transire in); constr. absol., or with in and acc.
    (α).
    Of a change into air or gas:

    calor mobiliter solvens, differt primordia vini,

    dissolving, parts the molecules of the wine, Lucr. 6, 235:

    nam materiai copia ferretur per inane soluta,

    id. 1, 1018; so id. 1, 1103:

    ita fatus in aera rursus solvitur,

    Stat. Th. 5, 285;

    nec in aera solvi Passa, recentem animam caelestibus intulit astris,

    Ov. M. 15, 845.—
    (β).
    Into a liquid, to melt:

    saepe terra in tabem solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 7:

    terram quam diximus esse mutabilem et solvi in umorem,

    id. ib. 3, 29, 4:

    nullum tellus se solvit in amnem,

    Luc. 2, 408; ipsum in conubia terrae Aethera, cum pluviis rarescunt nubila, solvo, dissolve into the embrace of the earth, i. e. change into rain, Stat. S. 1, 2, 186:

    ex Aethiopiae jugis solutas nives ad Nilum decurrere,

    Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 17; so,

    nivem solvere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 2; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 93; Sen. Herc. Oet. 729:

    rigor auri solvitur aestu,

    Lucr. 1, 493:

    ferrum calidi solvant camini,

    Manil. 4, 250:

    cerae igne solutae,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 47:

    Iris cum vino triduo non solvitur,

    Plin. 21, 20, 83, § 142:

    (herba) quinto die solvitur,

    id. 26, 14, 88, § 148.—
    (γ).
    Of putrefaction:

    (vitulo) per integram solvuntur viscera pellem,

    Verg. G. 4, 302.—
    (δ).
    Of change in general:

    inque novas abiit massa soluta domos,

    Ov. F. 1, 108:

    repentino crementur incendio, atque ex tanta varietate solvantur atque eant in unum omnia (sc. all the heavenly bodies),

    Sen. Ben. 6, 22.—
    (ε).
    Of expansion by heat:

    (uva) cum modo frigoribus premitur, modo solvitur aestu,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 317.—
    (ζ).
    Hence, solvere, absol., to rarefy:

    gravitas aeris solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 5, 5, 1.—
    (η).
    Solvi in, to pass into, become:

    in cacumine (herbae) capitula purpurea quae solvantur in lanugines,

    Plin. 27, 8, 39, § 61.—Of a wave:

    donec in planitiem immotarum aquarum solvatur,

    disappears in, Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 2:

    postremi (equi) solvuntur in aequora pisces (= solvuntur in pisces),

    Stat. Th. 2, 47: lumina in lacrimas solventur, stream with tears. —Hence, solvere, causative, to make pass over, to make vanish in: circulum in pulverem, in quo descriptus est, solvere, Sen. Ep. 74, 27: soluti agri, the boundaries of which are effaced, Sic. Fl. Cond. Agr. p. 3 Goes.—
    4.
    To consume, to destroy, dissolve:

    solvere orbes,

    Manil. 1, 497:

    ni calor et ventus... interemant sensum diductaque solvant (i.e. sensum),

    Lucr. 3, 287:

    (Cato) ferrei prope corporis animique, quem ne senectus quidem, quae solvit omnia, fregerit,

    Liv. 39, 40, 11:

    si (cometae) sunt purus ignis... nec illos conversio mundi solvit,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 2, 2:

    (turbo) ab eo motu, qui universum trahit, solveretur,

    id. ib. 7, 9, 4:

    tabes solvit corpora,

    Luc. 6, 18; 7, 809:

    nec solum silvas, sed saxa ingentia solvit (ignis),

    id. 3, 506:

    ne tegat functos humus, ne solvat ignis,

    Sen. Thyest. 750.—So, vitam solvere, to extinguish life, esp. of gradual or easy death:

    solvas potius (vitam), quam abrumpas, dummodo, si alia solvendi ratio non erit, vel abrumpas,

    Sen. Ep. 22, 3:

    hanc mihi solvite vitam,

    Prop. 2, 9, 39.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To free, release, loose, emancipate, set free; constr. absol., with abl. or ab and abl.; rarely with gen.
    a.
    From the body, etc.:

    teque isto corpore solvo,

    Verg. A. 4, 703:

    soluta corpore anima,

    Quint. 5, 14, 13:

    qui solutas vinculis animas recipit,

    Sen. Cons. 28, 8: si animus somno relaxatus solute (i. e. free from the shackles of the body) moveatur ac libere, Cic. Div. 2, 48, 100:

    vocem solvere,

    to set free the voice, to speak, Stat. S. 3, 1; Sen. Thyest. 682; so, responsa solve (pregn. = utter and disclose), Sen. Oedip. 292:

    suspiria solvit,

    Stat. Th. 11, 604:

    solvat turba jocos,

    Sen. Med. 114:

    solutos Qui captat risus hominum (= quem juvat risus hominum solvere),

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 83:

    Ausonii... versibus incomptis ludunt risuque soluto,

    unrestrained, free, Verg. G. 2, 386.—
    b.
    Of members or parts of the body: linguam solvere, to unfetter the tongue (sc. vinculis oris), to give flow to words:

    linguam (Juno) ad jurgia solvit,

    Ov. M. 3, 261:

    lingua devincta nec in motus varios soluta,

    Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 7:

    ut quisque contemptissimus est, ita linguae solutissimae est,

    id. Const. 11, 3:

    (fama) innumeras solvit in praeconia linguas,

    Luc. 1, 472. —Solvere bracchia, poet., to unfetter the arms, i. e. to move them:

    magna difficili solventem bracchia motu,

    Stat. Achill. 1, 604; cf.

    of the free motions of animals: columbae soluto volatu multum velociores,

    unrestrained flight, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
    c.
    From obligations and debts:

    solvit me debito,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 4, 1:

    an nos debito solverit,

    id. Ep. 81, 3:

    ut religione civitas solvatur,

    Cic. Caecin. 34, 98; Liv. 7, 3, 9:

    te decem tauri... Me tener solvet vitulus (sc. religione),

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 54.—So from a military oath:

    hoc si impetro, solvo vos jurejurando,

    Just. 14, 4, 7.—Sacramento or militia solvere, to dismiss a soldier from service:

    sacramento solvi,

    Tac. A. 16, 13:

    cum quis propter delictum sacramento solvitur,

    Dig. 49, 16, 13:

    militia solvere,

    Tac. A. 1, 44.— Munere (publico) solvere, to exempt from public duties:

    ut Ilienses publico munere solverentur,

    Tac. A. 12, 58.—With obj. inf.:

    ut manere solveretur,

    that he should be excused from the duty of remaining, Tac. A. 3, 29.—
    d.
    From guilt and sin, to acquit, absolve, cleanse (cf. absolvere, to acquit of crime):

    si ille huic (insidias fecerit), ut scelere solvamur,

    be held guiltless, Cic. Mil. 12, 31:

    atque hunc ille summus vir scelere solutum periculo liberavit,

    id. ib. 4, 9:

    sit capitis damno Roma soluta mei,

    Ov. F. 6, 452:

    ipsum quoque Pelea Phoci Caede per Haemonias solvit Acastus aquas,

    id. ib. 2, 40:

    Helenen ego crimine solvo,

    id. A. A. 2, 371:

    quid crimine solvis Germanum?

    Stat. Th. 11, 379:

    solutam caede Gradivus manum restituit armis,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 1342. —
    e.
    From feelings, etc.:

    quae eos qui quaesissent cura et negotio solverent,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30:

    cum ego vos solvi curis ceteris,

    Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 33:

    senatus cura belli solutus,

    Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 7:

    pectus linquunt cura solutum,

    Lucr. 2, 45:

    his terroribus ab Epicuro soluti et in libertatem vindicati,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 56:

    soluti metu,

    Liv. 41, 14 init.; 27, 51:

    solvent formidine terras,

    Verg. E. 4, 14:

    solve metu patriam,

    Prop. 4 (5), 6, 41:

    metu belli Scythas solvit,

    Just. 9, 2, 2; so id. 14, 2, 5:

    haec est Vita solutorum misera ambitione,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 129:

    soluti a cupiditatibus,

    Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

    his concitationibus quem vacuum, solutum, liberum videris,

    id. Tusc. 5, 15, 43: et tu solve me dementia, [p. 1726] Hor. Epod. 17, 43:

    longo luctu,

    Verg. A. 2, 26:

    tristem juventam solve (i. e. juventam tristitia),

    Sen. Hippol. 450:

    solvite tantis animum monstris, solvite, superi,

    id. Herc. Fur. 1063:

    Quis te solvere Thessalis Magus venenis poterit?

    Hor. C. 1, 27, 21. — Poet.:

    solvit animis miracula (for animos miraculis),

    the soul from superstition, Manil. 1, 103.—And of animals:

    rabie tigrim,

    Manil. 5, 707.— Absol.:

    ut ad praecepta quae damus possit ire animus, solvendus est (i. e. perturbationibus),

    Sen. Ep. 95, 38:

    calices, quem non fecere contracta in paupertate solutum?

    i. e. from cares, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20:

    solvite animos,

    Manil. 4, 12.—With in:

    vix haec in munera solvo animum,

    i. e. free it from passions and so make it fit for these duties, Stat. S. 5, 3, 33.—
    f.
    From sleep, very rare:

    ego somno solutus sum,

    awoke, Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29 (cf.: somno solvi, to be overwhelmed by sleep, 2. b, g infra).—
    g.
    From labor, business, etc.:

    volucres videmus... solutas opere volitare,

    Cic. Or. 2, 6, 23:

    solutus onere regio, regni bonis fruor,

    Sen. Oedip. 685.— Poet.:

    Romulus excubias decrevit in otia solvi,

    to be relieved from guard and enjoy leisure, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 79.—
    h.
    From rigidity, austerity, stiffness, etc., to relax, smooth, unbend, quiet, soothe ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    frontem solvere disce,

    Mart. 14, 183:

    saltem ora trucesque solve genas,

    Stat. Th. 11, 373:

    solvit feros tunc ipse rictus,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 797.— Poet.:

    solvatur fronte senectus = frons senectute (i. e. rugis), solvatur,

    be cleared, Hor. Epod. 13, 5:

    vultum risu solvit,

    relieves, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5:

    risum judicis movendo, et illos tristes affectus solvit, et animum renovat,

    Quint. 6, 3, 1; so,

    solvere judicem,

    unbend, excite his laughter, id. 11, 3, 3:

    solvere qui (potui) Curios Fabriciosque graves (sc. risu),

    Mart. 9, 28 (29), 4:

    ut tamen arctum Solveret hospitiis animum,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 83:

    cujus non contractum sollicitudine animum illius argutiae solvant?

    Sen. Cons. Helv. 18, 5.— Transf., pregn.:

    solventur risu tabulae,

    i. e. the austerity of the judge will be relaxed by laughter, and the complaint dismissed, Hor. S. 2, 1, 86.—Imitated:

    quia si aliquid omiserimus, cum risu quoque tota res solvitur,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—
    k.
    From any cause of restraint.
    (α).
    To release from siege:

    Bassanitas obsidione solvere,

    Liv. 44, 30:

    patriam obsidione solvere,

    Val. Max. 3, 2, 2. —
    (β).
    From moral restraints:

    hic palam cupiditates suas solvit,

    gave vent to, Curt. 6, 6, 1; v. also P. a., B. 7. infra.—
    l.
    From laws and rules: legibus solvere.
    (α).
    To exempt from laws, i. e. by privilege:

    Vopiscus, qui ex aedilitate consulatum petit, solvatur legibus,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11:

    cur M. Brutus legibus est solutus, si, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 13, 31:

    ut interea magistratus reliquos, legibus omnibus soluti, petere possetis,

    id. Agr. 2, 36, 99:

    Lurco, tribunus plebis, solutus est (et lege Aelia et Furia),

    id. Att. 1, 16, 13:

    solvatne legibus Scipionem,

    Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2:

    petente Flacco ut legibus solverentur,

    Liv. 31, 50, 8:

    Scipio legibus solutus est,

    id. Epit. 56:

    Licet enim, inquiunt, legibus soluti sumus, attamen legibus vivimus,

    Just. Inst. 2, 17, 8; cf.:

    ut munere vigintiviratus solveretur,

    Tac. A. 3, 29.— Transf., of the laws of nature, etc.:

    (aestus) illo tempore, solutus legibus, sine modo fertur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6:

    solus (sapiens) generis humani legibus solvitur,

    id. Brev. Vit. 15, 5:

    nec leti lege solutas,

    Lucr. 3, 687:

    nec solvo Rutulos (i. e. legibus fati),

    Verg. A. 10, 111.— With gen. (cf. libero), perh. only in phrase testamenti solvere, to release from a testamentary disposition:

    et is per aes et libram heredes testamenti solveret,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 20, 51; 2, 21, 53 (less prop. testamenti is taken as attribute of heredes); cf. Gai. Inst. 3, 175, and Hor. C. 3, 17, 16, P. a., B. 5. fin. infra.—
    (β).
    Legibus solutus, not subject to, released from:

    reus Postumus est ea lege... solutus ac liber,

    i. e. the law does not apply to him, Cic. Rab. Post. 5, 12:

    soluti (lege Julia) huc convenistis, ne constricti discedatis cavete,

    id. ib. 7, 18.—Of other laws:

    solutus Legibus insanis,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 68:

    quae sedes expectent animam solutam legibus servitutis humanae,

    Sen. Ep. 65, 20.— Transf., of things: soluta legibus scelera sunt, unrestrained by the laws, i. e. crimes are committed with impunity, Sen. Ben. 7, 27, 1.— Of the laws of versification: numerisque fertur Lege solutis, referring to dithyrambic measures, Hor. C. 4, 2, 12 (cf. P. a., B. 11. infra).—
    2.
    To dissolve, separate objects which are united, to break up, dismiss.
    (α).
    Of troops, ranks, etc.:

    ubi ordines procursando solvissent,

    Liv. 42, 65, 8:

    incomposito agmine, solutis ordinibus,

    Curt. 8, 1, 5; so id. 8, 4, 6:

    agmina Diductis solvere choris,

    Verg. A. 5, 581:

    solvit maniplos,

    Juv. 8, 154:

    solvuntur laudata cohors,

    Stat. Achill. 2, 167.—Hence, to separate armies engaged in battle:

    commissas acies ego possum solvere,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 59.—
    (β).
    Of banquets, assemblies, etc.:

    convivio soluto,

    Liv. 40, 14 fin.:

    convivium solvit,

    Curt. 8, 5, 24; 8, 6, 16:

    Quid cessas convivia solvere?

    Ov. F. 6, 675:

    coetuque soluto Discedunt,

    id. M. 13, 898.—Hence, urbem (Capuam) solutam ac debilitatam reliquerunt, disfranchised, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91.—
    (γ).
    Of the words in discourse, orationem or versum solvere, to break up a sentence or verse:

    (discant) versus primo solvere, mox mutatis verbis interpretari,

    Quint. 1, 9, 2:

    quod cuique visum erit vehementer, dulciter, speciose dictum, solvat ac turbet,

    id. 9, 4, 14:

    ut partes orationis sibi soluto versu desideret et pedum proprietates,

    id. 1, 8, 13:

    non, ut si solvas Postquam discordia tetra, etc., invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 60.—
    3.
    Implying a change for the worse.
    a.
    To relax, make effeminate, weaken, by ease, luxury, dissipation, etc. (post-Aug.):

    Hannibalem hiberna solverunt,

    Sen. Ep. 51, 5:

    usque eo nimio delicati animi languore solvuntur,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 6:

    infantiam statim deliciis solvimus,

    Quint. 1, 2, 6:

    solutus luxu,

    id. 3, 8, 28; so Tac. A. 11, 31.—With in and acc.:

    soluti in luxum,

    Tac. H. 2, 99:

    in lasciviam,

    id. ib. 3, 38.— Transf.: versum solvere, to deprive a verse of its proper rhythm:

    si quinque continuos dactylos confundas solveris versum,

    Quint. 9, 4, 49.—
    b.
    To make torpid by removing sensation.
    (α).
    To relax, benumb the limbs or body;

    as by narcotics, terror, sickness, exhaustion: multaque praeterea languentia membra per artus solvunt,

    Lucr. 6, 798:

    ima Solvuntur latera,

    Verg. G. 3, 523:

    solvi debilitate corporis,

    paralyzed, Val. Max. 1, 7, 4:

    ut soluto labitur moriens gradu,

    Sen. Hippol. 368.—In mal. part., Hor. Epod. 12, 8; cf. Verg. G. 3, 523.— Poet.:

    illum aget, penna metuente solvi, Fama superstes,

    Hor. C. 2, 2, 7.—Of the mind:

    segnitia (oratoris) solvit animos,

    wearies, Quint. 11, 3, 52:

    mentes solvere,

    to make insane, Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25.—
    (β).
    By frost ( poet.):

    solvuntur illi frigore membra,

    Verg. A. 12, 951; 1, 92.—
    (γ).
    By sleep ( poet. for sopio):

    homines volucresque ferasque Solverat alta quies,

    Ov. M. 7, 186:

    corpora somnus Solverat,

    id. ib. 10, 369:

    molli languore solutus,

    id. ib. 11, 648;

    11, 612: altoque sopore solutum,

    id. ib. 8, 817:

    somno vinoque solutos,

    id. F. 2, 333; Verg. A. 9, 236:

    ut membra solvit sopor,

    id. ib. 12, 867:

    non solvit pectora somnus,

    Sen. Agam. 76.—With in:

    solvitur in somnos,

    Verg. A. 4, 530.— Transf., of the sea:

    aequor longa ventorum pace solutum,

    lulled to sleep, Stat. Th. 3, 255.—
    (δ).
    By death: solvi, to die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    ipse deus, simulatque volam, me solvet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 78:

    corporibus quae senectus solvit,

    Curt. 89, 32 (cf. A. 4. supra):

    (corpus) quam nullo negotio solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 2:

    alius inter cenandum solutus est,

    id. Ep. 66, 43:

    ubicumque arietaveris, solveris,

    id. Cons. Marc. 11, 3:

    me fata maturo exitu facilique solvant,

    Sen. Troad. 605:

    solvi inedia,

    Petr. 111:

    sic morte quasi somno soluta est,

    Flor. 2, 21, 11.—Hence,
    4.
    Of logical dissolution, to refute:

    non tradit Epicurus quomodo captiosa solvantur,

    how fallacies are refuted, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22:

    argumentum solvere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 34:

    solutum scies quod nobis opponitur,

    Sen. Const. 12, 3.—
    b.
    To disperse, dispel, as of a cloud:

    deorum beneficia tempestiva ingentes minas interventu suo solventia,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 4, 2.
    II.
    To loose, remove, cancel that which binds any thing.
    A.
    In a corporeal sense.
    1.
    In gen., to loose (weaker than rumpo;

    post-Aug.): effringere quam aperire, rumpere quam solvere putant robustius,

    Quint. 2, 12, 1:

    qua convulsa tota operis colligatio solveretur,

    Val. Max. 8, 14, 6:

    supera compage soluta,

    Stat. Th. 8, 31.—
    2.
    To remove a fetter, bridle, etc.:

    nullo solvente catenas,

    Ov. M. 3, 700: vincla jugis boum, Tib. 2, 1, 7:

    solvere frenum,

    Phaedr. 1, 2, 3:

    loris solutis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 41.— Transf., of prisons:

    qui, solutis ergastulis, exercitus numerum implevit,

    Liv. Ep. 56; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 13; 11, 13, 2.—Of frost:

    gelu solvitur,

    it thaws, Tac. H. 1, 79:

    solvitur acris hiems,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 1.—Of clouds:

    facit igitur ventum resoluta nubes, quae plurimis modis solvitur,

    Sen. Q. N. 5, 12, 5; 5, 12, 1.—Of the grasp of hands, fingers, etc.:

    Aeacides a corpore bracchia solvit,

    looses his hold, Ov. M. 11, 246:

    indigno non solvit bracchia collo,

    Stat. Th. 5, 217:

    digitis solutis abjecit jaculum,

    id. ib. 8, 585.—
    3.
    To untie a string, cord, necklace, etc., slacken or unlock an enclosure, open a box, trunk, etc.:

    solve vidulum ergo,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 98:

    eam solve cistulam,

    id. Am. 2, 2, 151:

    solve zonam,

    untie, id. Truc. 5, 62:

    solvisse jugalem ceston fertur,

    Stat. Th. 5, 62:

    animai nodos a corpore solvit,

    Lucr. 2, 950:

    nihil interest quomodo (nodi) solvantur,

    Curt. 3, 1, 18:

    quid boni est, nodos operose solvere, quos ipse ut solveres feceris?

    Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 2:

    solvere nodum,

    Stat. Th. 11, 646:

    laqueum quem nec solvere possis, nec abrumpere,

    Sen. Tranq. 10, 1:

    vix solvi duros a pectore nexus,

    Ov. M. 9, 58:

    fasciam solve,

    Sen. Ep. 80, 10:

    solutis fasciis,

    Curt. 7, 6, 5:

    solvi fasciculum,

    Cic. Att. 11, 9, 2:

    crinales vittas,

    Verg. A. 7, 403:

    Parmenion vinculum epistulae solvens,

    Curt. 7, 2, 25:

    equum empturus solvi jubes stratum,

    Sen. Ep. 80, 9:

    redimicula solvite collo,

    Ov. F. 4, 135:

    corollas de fronte,

    Prop. 1, 3, 21:

    solvere portas,

    Stat. Th. 3, 492:

    munimina valli,

    id. ib. 12, 10:

    ille pharetram Solvit,

    Ov. M. 5, 380.— Transf., of the veins as enclosures of the blood:

    solutis ac patefactis venis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 5:

    venam cultello solvere,

    Col. 6, 14; cf.

    also: lychnis alvum solvit,

    looses the bowels, Plin. 21, 26, 98, § 171; 21, 20, 83, § 140; Suet. Vesp. 24; Tac. A. 12, 67:

    ventrem,

    Plin. 20, 8, 30, § 74.— Absol. (sc. alvum), Mart. 13, 29:

    stomachus solutus = venter solutus,

    loose bowels, Petr. 117; Scrib. Comp. 92.—
    B.
    Trop., to slacken or remove a bond.
    1.
    Solvere aliquid (aliquod vinculum; cf. I. B. 1. supra).
    a.
    Of the mouth, etc., to open:

    talibus ora solvit verbis,

    Ov. M. 15, 74; so id. ib. 1, 181; Tib. 4, 5, 14:

    ternis ululatibus ora Solvit,

    Ov. M. 7, 191; 9, 427; id. Tr. 3, 11, 20; Stat. Achill. 1, 525:

    vix ora solvi patitur etiamnum timor,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 725; so,

    os promptius ac solutius,

    Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.— Transf., of an abyss:

    hic ora solvit Ditis invisi domus,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 664.—
    b.
    To remove, cancel; to destroy the force of a legal or moral obligation by expiration, death, etc.:

    si mors alterutrius interveniat, solvitur mandatum,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 160:

    cum aliquis renunciaverit societati, societas solvitur,

    id. ib. 3, 151; so id. ib. 3, 152:

    morte solvetur compromissum,

    Dig. 4, 8, 27:

    soluto matrimonio,

    ib. 24, 3, 2:

    solutum conjugium,

    Juv. 9, 79:

    qui... conjugalia solvit,

    Sen. Med. 144:

    nec conjugiale solutum Foedus in alitibus,

    Ov. M. 11, 743:

    (sapiens) invitus beneficium per compensationem injuriae solvet,

    cancel the obligation of a favor by the set-off of a wrong, Sen. Ep. 81, 17.—
    c.
    To efface guilt or wrong:

    magnis injuria poenis Solvitur,

    Ov. F. 5, 304:

    solve nefas, dixit: solvit et ille nefas,

    id. ib. 2, 44:

    culpa soluta mea est,

    id. Tr. 4, 4, 10:

    neque tu verbis solves unquam quod mi re male feceris (i. e. injuriam),

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 10.—
    d.
    Poenam solvere, to suffer punishment, i. e. to cancel the obligation of suffering, etc. (cf. 3. infra;

    less freq. than poenam persolvere, exsolvere): serae, sed justae tamen et debitae poenae solutae sunt,

    Cic. Mil. 31, 85:

    capite poenas solvit,

    Sall. J. 69, 4:

    meritas poenas solventem,

    Curt. 6, 3, 14:

    poenarum solvendi tempus,

    Lucr. 5, 1224:

    nunc solvo poenas,

    Sen. Phoen. 172:

    hac manu poenas tibi solvam,

    id. Hippol. 1177.—
    e.
    To remove, relieve, soothe affections, passions, etc.:

    atque animi curas e pectore solvat,

    Lucr. 4, 908:

    curam metumque juvat Dulci Lyaeo solvere,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 38:

    patrimonii cura solvatur,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, praef. §

    2: Pyrrhus impetus sui terrore soluto,

    Val. Max. 4, 3, 14:

    solvite corde metum,

    Verg. A. 1, 562; so id. ib. 9, 90:

    solve metus animo,

    Stat. Th. 2, 356:

    solvi pericula et metus narrant,

    Plin. 11, 37, 52, § 140: neque adhuc Stheneleius iras Solverat Eurystheus, [p. 1727] Ov. M. 9, 274:

    hoc uno solvitur ira modo,

    id. A. A. 2, 460:

    solvitque pudorem,

    Verg. A. 4, 55.—
    f.
    Of sleep:

    quasi clamore solutus Sit sopor,

    Ov. M. 3, 6, 30:

    nec verba, nec herbae audebunt longae somnum tibi solvere Lethes,

    Luc. 6, 768; cf.:

    lassitudinem solvere,

    Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 143. —
    g.
    Of any checks and barriers to motion, to remove.
    (α).
    To raise a siege:

    solutam cernebat obsidionem,

    Liv. 36, 10, 14:

    soluta obsidione,

    id. 36, 31, 7:

    ad Locrorum solvendam obsidionem,

    id. 27, 28, 17; cf. id. 37, 7, 7; 38, 5, 6; 42, 56 init.; 44, 13, 7; Curt. 4, 4, 1; Tac. A. 4, 24; 4, 73; Just. 9, 2, 10.—
    (β).
    Of passions, etc., to remove restraint:

    cujus si talis animus est, solvamus nos ejus vincula, et claustra (i. e. irae) refringamus,

    Liv. 36, 7, 13.—
    (γ).
    To overthrow, subvert a higher authority, etc.:

    quos (milites), soluto imperio, licentia corruperat,

    Sall. J. 39, 5:

    imperia solvit qui tacet, jussus loqui,

    Sen. Oedip. 525:

    sonipedes imperia solvunt,

    id. Hippol. 1084; cf.:

    sanctitas fori ludis solvitur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 58.—
    h.
    Of laws and customs, to abolish, violate:

    solvendarum legum id principium esse censebant (post-Aug. for dissolvendarum),

    Curt. 10, 2, 5:

    solutae a se legis monitus,

    Val. Max. 6, 5, ext. 4:

    cum plus quam ducentorum annorum morem solveremus,

    Liv. 8, 4, 7:

    (Tarquinius) morem de omnibus senatum consulendi solvit,

    id. 1, 49, 7:

    oportebat istum morem solvi,

    Curt. 8, 8, 18.—
    2.
    Esp. with acc. of the bond, etc. (taking the place of the constr. I. B. 1. 2. 3. supra, when the abl. of separation is not admissible).
    a.
    To subvert discipline:

    disciplinam militarem solvisti,

    Liv. 8, 7, 16:

    luxuria solutam disciplinam militarem esse,

    id. 40, 1, 4:

    quod cum, ne disciplina solveretur, fecisset,

    Front. Strat. 2, 12, 2.—
    b.
    Of strength, energy, attention, etc., to loosen, impair, weaken, scatter, disperse:

    nobilitas factione magis pollebat, plebis vis soluta atque dispersa,

    Sall. J. 41, 6:

    patrios nervos externarum deliciarum contagione solvi et hebetari noluerunt,

    Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:

    vires solvere,

    Quint. 9, 4, 7:

    vis illa dicendi solvitur, et frigescit affectus,

    Quint. 11, 3, 133.—
    c.
    Of affection, etc., to sever, dissolve, destroy:

    segnes nodum (amicitiae) solvere Gratiae,

    Hor. C. 3, 21, 22;

    similarly: solvit (ille deus) amicos,

    Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 5; so id. 2, 15 (3, 7), 26:

    hoc firmos solvit amores,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 385:

    amores cantibus et herbis solvere,

    Tib. 1, 2, 60.—
    d.
    Of sickness and hunger, to end, remove:

    vitex dicitur febres solvere,

    Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 60:

    solvit jejunia granis,

    Ov. F. 4, 607:

    quoniam jejunia virgo Solverat,

    id. M. 5, 535; cf. Luc. 3, 282; so,

    famem,

    Sen. Thyest. 64.—
    e.
    To delay:

    hi classis moras hac morte solvi rentur,

    Sen. Troad. 1131.—
    f.
    Of darkness, to dispel:

    lux solverat umbras,

    Stat. Th. 10, 390.—
    g.
    Of war, strife, etc., to compose, settle:

    aut solve bellum, mater, aut prima excipe,

    Sen. Phoen. 406:

    electus formae certamina solvere pastor,

    Stat. Achill. 2, 337:

    jurgia solvere,

    Manil. 3, 115:

    contradictiones solvere,

    Quint. 7, 1, 38.—
    h.
    Of difficulties, riddles, questions, ambiguities, etc., to solve, explain, remove:

    quia quaestionem solvere non posset,

    Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 3:

    aenigmata,

    Quint. 8, 6, 53:

    omnes solvere posse quaestiones,

    Suet. Gram. 11:

    haec ipsa, quae volvuntur ab illis, solvere malim et expandere,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 20; id. Q. N. 7, 14, 1:

    unum tantum hoc solvendum est,

    that one question, id. ib. 1, 7, 3:

    puta nunc me istuc non posse solvere,

    id. Ep. 48, 6:

    carmina non intellecta Solverat,

    Ov. M. 7, 760:

    triste carmen alitis solvi ferae,

    Sen. Oedip. 102:

    nodos juris,

    Juv. 8, 50:

    proponere aliquid quod solvat quaestionem,

    Quint. 5, 10, 96:

    plurimas quaestiones illis probationibus solvi solere,

    id. 1, 10, 49:

    quo solvitur quaestio supra tractata,

    id. 3, 7, 3:

    ambiguitatem or amphiboliam,

    id. 7, 2, 49; 7, 9, 10.—
    3.
    In partic., of obligations, to fulfil.
    a.
    To pay.
    (α).
    Originally, rem solvere, to free one's property and person (rem familiarem) from debts (solutio per aes et libram), according to the ancient formula:

    quod ego tibi tot millibus condemnatus sum, me eo nomine... a te solvo liberoque hoc aere aeneaque libra,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 174 Huschke; cf.:

    inde rem creditori palam populo solvit (i. e. per aes et libram),

    Liv. 6, 14, 5:

    quas res dari, fieri, solvi oportuit,

    id. 1, 32, 11. —Hence, rem solvere, to pay; often with dat. of person:

    pro vectura rem solvit?

    paid the freight, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 27:

    ubi nugivendis res soluta'st omnibus,

    id. Aul. 3, 5, 51:

    tibi res soluta est recte,

    id. Curc. 4, 3, 21:

    ego quidem pro istac rem solvo ab tarpessita meo,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 20:

    rem solvo omnibus quibus dehibeo,

    id. ib. 5, 3, 45:

    dum te strenuas, res erit soluta,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 35:

    res soluta'st, Gripe, ego habeo,

    id. Rud. 5, 3, 57.— Trop.: saepe edunt (aves);

    semel si captae sunt, rem solvont aucupi,

    they repay him, pay for his expenses, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 66.—And to pay by other things than money:

    si tergo res solvonda'st,

    by a whipping, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:

    habent hunc morem ut pugnis rem solvant si quis poscat clarius,

    id. Curc. 3, 9:

    tibi quidem copia'st, dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus,

    id. Rud. 2, 6, 74.—Hence,
    (β).
    Absol. (sc. rem), to pay; with or without dat. of person:

    cujus bona, quod populo non solvebat, publice venierunt,

    Cic. Fl. 18, 43:

    ei cum solveret, sumpsit a C. M. Fufiis,

    id. ib. 20, 46:

    misimus qui pro vectura solveret,

    id. Att. 1, 3, 2:

    qui nimis cito cupit solvere, invitus debet,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 5:

    ut creditori solvat,

    Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 7.— Pass. impers.:

    si dare vis mihi, Magis solutum erit quam ipsi dederis,

    it will be a more valid payment, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 46:

    numquam vehementius actum est quam me consule, ne solveretur,

    to stop payments, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:

    fraudandi spe sublata solvendi necessitas consecuta est,

    id. ib. 2, 24, 84:

    cum eo ipso quod necesse erat solvi, facultas solvendi impediretur,

    Liv. 6, 34, 1.—Cf. in the two senses, to free from debt, and to pay, in the same sentence:

    non succurrere vis illi, sed solvere. Qui sic properat, ipse solvi vult, non solvere,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 27, 1.—
    (γ).
    With acc. of the debt, to discharge, to pay:

    postquam Fundanio debitum solutum esset,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 10:

    hoc quod debeo peto a te ut... solutum relinquas,

    settled, id. Att. 16, 6, 3:

    solverat Castricio pecuniam jam diu debitam,

    id. Fl. 23, 54:

    ex qua (pensione) major pars est ei soluta,

    id. Att. 16, 2, 1:

    solvi aes alienum Pompejus ex suo fisco jussit,

    Val. Max. 6, 2, 11:

    aes alienum solvere,

    Sen. Ep. 36, 5:

    quae jactatio est, solvisse quod debebas?

    id. Ben. 4, 17, 1; so,

    debitum solvere,

    id. ib. 6, 30, 2:

    ne pecunias creditas solverent,

    Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

    ut creditae pecuniae solvantur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 20; 3, 1:

    ex thensauris Gallicis creditum solvi posse,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5:

    ita bona veneant ut solidum suum cuique solvatur,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 46.—And of moral debts:

    cum patriae quod debes solveris,

    Cic. Marcell. 9, 27:

    debet vero, solvitque praeclare,

    id. Phil. 13, 11, 25:

    aliter beneficium, aliter creditum solvitur,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 1:

    qui grate beneficium accipit, primam ejus pensionem solvit,

    id. ib. 2, 22 fin. —
    (δ).
    By a confusion of construction, solvere pecuniam, etc., to pay money, etc. (for pecunia rem or debitum solvere); constr. with dat. or absol.:

    emi: pecuniam solvi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 43:

    pro frumento nihil solvit,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 72, §

    169: legatis pecuniam pro frumento solvit,

    Liv. 44, 16:

    hanc pecuniam cum solvere in praesenti non posset,

    Nep. Milt. 7, 6:

    nisi pecuniam solvisset,

    id. Cim. 1, 1:

    condiciones pacis dictae ut decem millia talentum argenti... solverent,

    Liv. 30, 37 med.:

    pro quo (frumento) pretium solveret populus Romanus,

    id. 36, 3, 1:

    pretium servorum ex aerario solutum est dominis,

    id. 32, 26, 14:

    pretium pro libris domino esse solvendum,

    id. 40, 39 fin.:

    meritam mercedem,

    id. 8, 22, 3; so id. 8, 11, 4: sorte creditum solvere, by paying the principal (i. e. without interest), id. 6, 36, 12:

    quae praemia senatus militibus ante constituit, ea solvantur,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38:

    stipendium,

    Liv. 28, 32, 1:

    dotem mulieri,

    Dig. 24, 3, 2:

    litem aestimatam,

    the amount of a fine, Nep. Cim. 5, 18 fin.:

    arbitria funeris,

    the expenses of the funeral, Cic. Red. Sen. 7, 18:

    solvere dodrantem,

    to pay seventy-five per cent., Mart. 8, 9, 1:

    dona puer solvit,

    paid the promised gifts, Ov. M. 9, 794; so,

    munera,

    id. ib. 11, 104.— Transf., of the dedication of a book, in return for favors:

    et exspectabo ea (munera) quae polliceris, et erunt mihi pergrata si solveris... Non solvam nisi prius a te cavero, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 4, 17 sq. —Of the delivery of slaves:

    si quis duos homines promise rit et Stichum solverit,

    Dig. 46, 3, 67; 46, 3, 38, § 3.— Transf., poet.: dolorem solvisti, you have paid your grief, i. e. have duly mourned, Stat. S. 2, 6, 98.— Pass. with personal subject:

    si (actor) solutus fuisset,

    Dig. 12, 1, 31 (cf.: solvere militem, b supra). —
    (ε).
    Esp., in certain phrases, to pay:

    aliquid praesens solvere,

    to pay in cash, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; so,

    aliquid de praesentibus solvere,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 16:

    solvere grates (= referre gratiam muneribus): Sulla solvit grates Dianae,

    Vell. 2, 25:

    quas solvere grates sufficiam?

    Stat. S. 4, 2, 7: cum homo avarus, ut ea (beneficia) solveret sibi imperare non posset, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 1; cf.: non dicimus reposuit beneficium aut solvit;

    nullum nobis placuit quod aeri alieno convenit verbum,

    Sen. Ep. 81, 9; but v. id. Ben. 2, 18, 5: in debitum solvere, to make a partial payment:

    unum haec epistula in debitum solvet,

    id. Ep. 7, 10: aliquid solvere ab aliquo (de aliqua re), to pay out of funds supplied by any one ( out of any fund):

    Quintus laborat ut tibi quod debet ab Egnatio solvat,

    Cic. Att. 7, 18, 4:

    homines dicere, se a me solvere,

    id. ib. 5, 21, 11:

    (summa) erat solvenda de meo,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2:

    operas solvere alicui,

    to work for somebody, Dig. 40, 7, 39: solvo operam Dianae, I work for Diana, i. e. offer a sacrifice to her, Afran. ap. Non. 12, 21: judicatum solvere, to pay the amount adjudged by the court, for which security (satisdatio) was required:

    stipulatio quae appellatur judicatum solvi,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 90:

    iste postulat ut procurator judicatum solvi satisdaret,

    Cic. Quint. 7, 29; so Dig. 3, 2, 28; 3, 3, 15; 2, 8, 8;

    2, 8, 14 et saep.: auctio solvendis nummis,

    a cash auction, Mart. 14, 35.— Gerund.: solvendo esse, to be solvent; jurid. t. t., to be able to pay, i. e. one's debts; cf.

    in full: nec tamen solvendo aeri alieno respublica esset,

    Liv. 31, 13:

    nemo dubitat solvendo esse eum qui defenditur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 105:

    qui modo solvendo sint,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 3, 121:

    si solvendo sint,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 20, 1:

    nec interest, solvendo sit, necne,

    Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 5; so ib. 46, 1, 10; 46, 1, 27, § 2; 46, 1, 51, §§ 1 and 4; 46, 1, 52, § 1; 46, 1, 28; 50, 17, 198 et saep.: non solvendo esse, to be insolvent:

    solvendo non erat,

    Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:

    cum solvendo civitates non essent,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:

    tu nec solvendo eras, nec, etc.,

    id. Phil. 2, 2, 4:

    ne videatur non fuisse solvendo,

    id. Off. 2, 22, 79;

    and very freq. in the jurists.—So, trop.: quid matri, quid flebili patriae dabis? Solvendo non es,

    Sen. Oedip. 941; cf.:

    *non esse ad solvendum (i. e. able to pay),

    Vitr. 10, 6 fin. —
    b.
    To fulfil the duty of burial.
    (α).
    Justa solvere; with dat. of the person:

    qui nondum omnia paterno funeri justa solvisset,

    who had not yet finished the burial ceremonies of his father, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:

    justis defunctorum corporibus solutis,

    Curt. 3, 12, 15:

    proinde corpori quam primum justa solvamus,

    id. 10, 6, 7:

    ut justa soluta Remo,

    Ov. F. 5, 452:

    nunc justa nato solve,

    Sen. Hippol. 1245.—
    (β).
    Exsequias, inferias or suprema solvere:

    exsequiis rite solutis,

    Verg. A. 7, 5:

    cruor sancto solvit inferias viro,

    Sen. Hippol. 1198:

    solvere suprema militibus,

    Tac. A. 1, 61.—
    c.
    Votum solvere, to fulfil a vow to the gods.
    (α).
    Alone:

    vota ea quae numquam solveret nuncupavit,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 11:

    quod si factum esset, votum rite solvi non posse,

    Liv. 31, 9 fin.:

    liberare et se et rempublicam religione votis solvendis,

    id. 40, 44, 8:

    placatis diis votis rite solvendis,

    id. 36, 37 fin.:

    petiit ut votum sibi solvere liceret,

    id. 45, 44:

    animosius a mercatore quam a vectore solvitur votum,

    Sen. Ep. 73, 5:

    vota pro incolumitate solvebantur,

    Tac. A. 2, 69:

    vota pater solvit,

    Ov. M. 9, 707:

    ne votum solvat,

    Mart. 12, 91, 6; 8, 4, 2; Val. Max. 6, 9, 5 ext.; 1, 1, 8 ext. — Poet.:

    voti debita solvere,

    Ov. F. 5, 596; cf.

    the abbrev. formula V. S. L. M. (voTVM SOLVIT LIBENS MERITO),

    Inscr. Orell. 186; 1296 sq.:

    V.S.A.L. (ANIMO LIBENTI),

    ib. 2022 et saep.:

    sacra solvere (=votum solvere),

    Manil. 1, 427.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    ait sese Veneri velle votum solvere,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 60:

    vota Jovi solvo,

    Ov. M. 7, 652; 8, 153:

    sunt vota soluta deae,

    id. F. 6, 248:

    dis vota solvis,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 19, 4:

    libamenta Veneri solvere (=votum per libamenta),

    Just. 18, 5, 4.—
    d.
    Fidem solvere, to fulfil a promise (post-class. for fidem praestare, [p. 1728] exsolvere; cf.:

    fidem obligatam liberare,

    Suet. Claud. 9):

    illi, ut fidem solverent, clipeis obruere,

    Flor. 1, 1, 12;

    similarly: et voti solverat ille fidem (=votum solverat),

    Ov. F. 1, 642; but cf.: itane imprudens? tandem inventa'st causa: solvisti fidem, you have found a pretext to evade your promise (cf. II. A. 3.), Ter. And. 4, 1, 18: esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides, by my death your promise to marry me would have been cancelled (cf. II. B. 1. 6.), Ov. H. 10, 78; similarly: suam fidem (i. e. quam Lepido habuerit) solutam esse, that his faith in Lepidus was broken, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3.—With a different construction: se depositi fide solvere, to acquit one's self of the duty to return property intrusted to him (cf. I. B. 1. c.), Val. Max. 7, 3, 5 ext.: factique fide data munera solvit, he freed the gift already given from the obligation of an accomplished fact, i. e. he revoked the gifts, although already made, Ov. M. 11, 135.—
    e.
    Promissum solvere, to fulfil a promise (very rare):

    perinde quasi promissum solvens,

    Val. Max. 9, 6, 1:

    solvitur quod cuique promissum est,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 20 fin.;

    similarly: solutum, quod juraverant, rebantur,

    what they had promised under oath, Liv. 24, 18, 5.—Hence, sŏlūtus, a, um, P. a., free, loose, at large, unfettered, unbandaged.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.A. 1. supra.) Pigeat nostrum erum si eximat aut solutos sinat, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 11:

    tibi moram facis quom ego solutus sto,

    id. Ep. 5, 2, 25:

    reus solutus causam dicis, testes vinctos attines,

    id. Truc. 4, 3, 63:

    cum eos vinciret quos secum habebat, te solutum Romam mittebat?

    Cic. Deiot. 7, 22:

    nec quisquam ante Marium solutus dicitur esse sectus,

    unbandaged, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:

    duos (captivos) solutos ire ad Hannibalem jussit,

    Liv. 27, 51:

    eum interdiu solutum custodes sequebantur, nocte clausum asservabant,

    id. 24, 45, 10:

    non efficiatis ut solutos verear quos alligatos adduxit,

    Val. Max. 6, 2, 3.—
    2.
    (Acc. to I. A. 2.) Of texture, etc.; esp. of soil, loose, friable (opp spissus;

    postAug.): quo solutior terra facilius pateat radicibus,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 21;

    ordeum nisi solutum et siccum locum non patitur,

    Col. 2, 9:

    soluta et facilis terra,

    id. 3, 14;

    solum solutum vel spissum,

    id. 2, 2 init.;

    seri vult raphanus terra soluta, umida,

    Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83:

    hordeum seri non vult, nisi in sicca et soluta terra,

    id. 18, 7, 18, § 79:

    solutiores ripae,

    Front. Aquaed. 15.—Of plants:

    mas spissior, femina solutior,

    Plin. 25, 9, 57, § 103.—Hence, subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., a state of looseness:

    dum vult describere, quem ad modum alia torqueantur fila, alia ex molli solutoque ducantur,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 20.—
    3.
    (Acc. to I. A. 3.) Rarefied, thin, diffused:

    turbo, quo celsior eo solutior laxiorque est, et ob hoc diffunditur,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 9, 3:

    aer agitatus a sole calefactusque solutior est,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

    debet aer nec tam spissus esse, nec tam tenuis et solutus, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 11.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) Of speech, unfettered, fluent, ready:

    (orator) solutus in explicandis sententiis,

    Cic. Or. 47, 173:

    verbis solutus satis,

    id. ib. 47, 174:

    solutissimus in dicendo,

    id. ib. 48, 180.—
    2.
    Exempt, free from duties, obligations, etc.:

    quam ob rem viderer maximis beneficii vinculis obstrictus, cum liber essem et solutus?

    Cic. Planc. 30, 72:

    soluta (praedia) meliore in causa sunt quam obligata,

    unmortgaged, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:

    si reddidi (debitum), solutus sum ac liber,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 5;

    non ut gratus, sed ut solutus sim,

    id. ib. 4, 21, 3;

    solutus omni fenore,

    Hor. Epod. 2, 4;

    nam ea (religione) magister equitum solutus ac liber potuerit esse,

    Liv. 8, 32, 5:

    Mamertini soli in omni orbe terrarum vacui, expertes soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23.—
    3.
    Free from punishment, not punishable, not liable, etc.: qui mancipia vendunt, certiores faciunt emptores quis fugitivus sit, noxave solutus, Edict. Aedil. ap. Dig. 21, 1, 1, § 1; Gell. 4, 2, 1; cf.:

    quod aiunt aediles noxae solutus non sit sic intellegendum est... noxali judicio subjectum non esse,

    Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 17:

    apud quos libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam,

    Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

    omne illud tempus habeat per me solutum ac liberum,

    i. e. let the crimes then committed be unpunished, id. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33: antea vacuum id solutumque poena fuerat, Tac. A. 14, 28.—With subj. inf.:

    maxime solutum fuit, prodere de iis, etc.,

    Tac. A. 4, 35: solutum existimatur esse, alteri male dicere, Caecil. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3.—
    4.
    Free from cares, undistracted:

    animo soluto liberoque,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185:

    sed paulo solutiore tamen animo,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 31, § 82.—
    5.
    At leisure, free from labor, business, etc.:

    te rogo ut eum solutum, liberum, confectis ejus negotiis a te, quamprimum ad me remittas,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 63, 2:

    quo mea ratio facilior et solutior esse possit,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 1.—With gen.:

    Genium Curabis Cum famulis operum solutis,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 16.—
    6.
    Unbound, relaxed, merry, jovial:

    quam homines soluti ridere non desinant, tristiores autem, etc.,

    Cic. Dom. 39, 104:

    an tu existimas quemquam soluto vultu et hilari oculo mortem contemnere?

    Sen. Ep. 23, 4:

    vultus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 355:

    (mores) naturam sequentium faciles sunt, soluti sunt,

    unembarrassed, Sen. Ep. 122, 17.—
    7.
    Free from the rule of others, uncontrolled, independent:

    cum videas civitatis voluntatem solutam, virtutem alligatam,

    Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1:

    ab omni imperio externo soluta in perpetuum Hispania,

    Liv. 29, 1 fin.:

    Masinissae ab imperio Romano solutam libertatem tribuit,

    Val. Max. 7, 2, 6:

    incerti, solutique, et magis sine domino quam in libertate, Vononem in regnum accipiunt,

    Tac. A. 2, 4:

    quorum (militum) libertas solutior erat,

    Just. 13, 2, 2.—Of animals:

    rectore solutos (solis) equos,

    Stat. Th. 1, 219.—
    8.
    Free from influence or restraint; hence, independent, unbiassed, unprejudiced:

    nec vero deus ipse alio modo intellegi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 27, 66;

    cum animi sine ratione motu ipsi suo soluto ac libero incitarentur,

    id. Div. 1, 2, 4:

    judicio senatus soluto et libero,

    id. Phil. 5, 15, 41:

    sum enim ad dignitatem in re publica solutus,

    id. Att. 1, 13, 2:

    libero tempore cum soluta vobis est eligendi optio,

    id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:

    si omnia mihi essent solutissima, tamen in re publica non alius essem atque nunc sum,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 21:

    liberi enim ad causas solutique veniebant,

    uncommitted, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192.—
    9.
    Free from moral restraint; hence, unbridled, insolent, loose:

    amores soluti et liberi,

    Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

    licentia,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 4:

    populi quamvis soluti ecfrenatique sint,

    id. ib. 1, 34, 53:

    quis erat qui sibi solutam P. Clodii praeturam sine maximo metu proponeret? Solutam autem fore videbatis, nisi esset is consul qui eam auderet possetque constringere,

    id. Mil. 13, 34:

    quominus conspectus, eo solutior erat,

    Liv. 27, 31 fin.:

    adulescentes aliquot quorum, in regno, libido solutior fuerat,

    id. 2, 1, 2:

    solutioris vitae primos adulescentiae annos egisse fertur,

    a licentious life, Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:

    spectandi solutissimum morem corrigere,

    Suet. Aug. 44:

    mores soluti,

    licentious habits, Just. 3, 3, 10.—
    10.
    Regardless of rules, careless, loose:

    orator tam solutus et mollis in gestu,

    Cic. Brut. 62, 225:

    dicta factaque ejus solutiora, et quandam sui neglegentiam praeferentia,

    Tac. A. 16, 18.—
    11.
    Esp., of style, etc., free from rules of composition.
    (α).
    Oratio soluta, verba soluta, a free style, conversational or epistolary style:

    est oratio aliqua vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, qualis in sermone et epistulis,

    Quint. 9, 4, 19; 9, 4, 20; 9, 4, 69; 9, 4, 77.—
    (β).
    More freq.: verba soluta, oratio soluta, prose (opp. to verse);

    in full: scribere conabar verba soluta modis, Ov Tr. 4, 10, 24: quod (Isocrates) verbis solutis numeros primus adjunxerit,

    Cic. Or. 52, 174:

    mollis est enim oratio philosophorum... nec vincta numeris, sed soluta liberius,

    id. ib. 19, 64; 71, 234;

    68, 228: si omnes soluta oratione scripserunt,

    Varr. R. R. 4, 1; de heisce rebus treis libros ad te mittere institui;

    de oratione soluta duos, de poetica unum,

    id. L. L. 6, 11 fin.:

    ut in soluta oratione, sic in poemateis,

    id. ib. 7, 1:

    primus (Isocrates) intellexit. etiam in soluta oratione, dum versum effugeres modum et numerum quemdam debere servari,

    Cic. Brut. 8, 32:

    Aristoteles judicat heroum numerum grandiorem quam desideret soluta oratio,

    id. Or. 57, 192:

    et creticus et paeon quam commodissume putatur in solutam orationem illigari,

    id. ib. 64, 215:

    a modis quibusdam, cantu remoto, soluta esse videatur oratio,

    id. ib. 55, 183; 55, 184; id. de Or. 3, 48, 184: historia est quodammodo carmen solutum, Quint. 10, 1, 31.—
    (γ).
    Also in reference to a prose rhythm, loose, unrhythmical, inharmonious:

    ut verba neque inligata sint, quasi... versus, neque ita soluta ut vagentur,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 44, 176; 3, 48, 186:

    nec vero haec (Callidii verba) soluta nec diffluentia, sed astricta numeris,

    id. Brut. 79, 274:

    orator sic illigat sententiam verbis ut eam numero quodam complectatur et astricto et soluto,

    id. de Or. 3, 44, 175; but: verba soluta suis figuris, words freed from their proper meaning, i.e. metaphors, Manil. 1, 24.—
    (δ).
    Rarely with reference to the thought: soluta oratio, a fragmentary, disconnected style:

    soluta oratio, et e singulis non membris, sed frustis, collata, structura caret,

    Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 9, 4, 69:

    solutiora componere,

    id. 10, 4, 1; 9, 4, 15.—
    12.
    Effeminate, luxurious (acc. to I. B. 3.):

    sinum togae in dextrum umerum reicere, solutum ac delicatum est,

    Quint. 11, 3, 146.—
    13.
    Undisciplined, disorderly:

    omnia soluta apud hostes esse,

    Liv. 8, 30, 3:

    nihil temeritate solutum,

    Tac. A. 13, 40:

    apud Achaeos neglecta omnia ac soluta fuere,

    Just. 34, 2, 2.—
    14.
    Lax, remiss, weak:

    mea lenitas adhuc si cui solutior visa erat,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    Ciceronem male audivisse, tamquam solutum et enervem,

    Tac. Or. 18:

    soluti ac fluentes,

    Quint. 1, 2, 8.—Hence:

    solutum genus orationis,

    a lifeless, dull style, Val. Max. 8, 10, 3:

    quanto longius abscederent, eo solutiore cura,

    laxer attention, Liv. 3, 8, 8.—
    C.
    (Acc. to II. B. 3. e supra.) Paid, discharged, only as subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., that which is paid, a discharged debt, in certain phrases:

    aliquid in solutum dare,

    to give something in payment, Dig. 46, 3, 45; 46, 3, 46; 46, 3, 60: in solutum accipere, to accept in payment:

    qui voluntatem bonam in solutum accipit,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 16, 4:

    qui rem in solutum accipit,

    Dig. 42, 4, 15; 12, 1, 19;

    in solutum imputare,

    to charge as payment, Sen. Ep. 8, 10; aliquid pro soluto est, is considered as paid or cancelled:

    pro soluto id in quo creditor accipiendo moram fecit, oportet esse,

    Dig. 46, 3, 72: pro soluto usucapere, to acquire by prescription something given in payment by the debtor, but not belonging to him:

    pro soluto usucapit qui rem debiti causa recepit,

    Dig. 41, 3, 46.— Adv.: sŏlūtē.
    1.
    Thinly:

    corpora diffusa solute,

    Lucr. 4, 53.—
    2.
    Of speech, fluently:

    non refert videre quid dicendum est, nisi id queas solute ac suaviter dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 29, 110:

    ita facile soluteque volvebat sententias,

    id. ib. 81, 280:

    quid ipse compositus alias, et velut eluctantium verborum, solutius promptiusque eloquebatur,

    Tac. A. 4, 31.—
    3.
    Irregularly, loosely:

    a fabris neglegentius solutiusque composita,

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 30, 4.—
    4.
    Freely, without restraint:

    generaliter puto judicem justum... solutius aequitatem sequi,

    i. e. without strictly regarding the letter of the law, Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—
    5.
    Of style, without connection, loosely:

    enuntiare,

    Quint. 11, 2, 47.—
    6.
    Of manners and discipline, disorderly, negligently:

    praecipue sub imperio Cn. Manlii solute ac neglegenter habiti sunt (exercitus),

    Liv. 39, 1, 4:

    in stationibus solute ac neglegenter agentes,

    id. 23, 37, 6.—
    7.
    Weakly, tamely, without vigor:

    quod ille tam solute egisset, tam leniter, tam oscitanter,

    Cic. Brut. 80, 277.—
    8.
    Of morals, loosely, without restraint:

    ventitabat illuc Nero, quo solutius urbem extra lasciviret,

    Tac. A. 13, 47.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > solvo

  • 7 intendo

    in-tendo, di, tum and sum, 3, v. a. ( part. intenditus, Fronto, Fer. Als. 3, 11 Mai.), to stretch out or forth, extend.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In hunc intende digitum, hic lenost, point in scorn, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 45:

    dextram ad statuam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15:

    alicui manus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 25:

    bracchia,

    Ov. M. 10, 58:

    manus,

    id. ib. 8, 107:

    jubet intendi bracchia velis,

    Verg. A. 5, 829:

    intenta bracchia remis, id. ib, 5, 136: ventis vela,

    id. ib. 3, 683:

    nervos aut remittere,

    Plin. 26, 10, 62, § 96:

    cutem,

    id. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

    jamque manus Colchis crinemque intenderat astris,

    Val. Fl. 8, 68.—
    B.
    To bend a bow, etc.:

    ballistam in aliquem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 58:

    arcum,

    Verg. A. 8, 704:

    intentus est arcus in me unum,

    Cic. Sest. 7, 15.—
    C.
    To aim or direct at a thing:

    tela in patriam,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 9:

    tela intenta jugulis civitatis,

    id. Pis. 2:

    sagittam,

    Verg. A. 9, 590:

    telum in jugulum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9.—
    D.
    To stretch or spread out; to stretch, lay or put upon a thing:

    tabernacula carbaseis intenta velis,

    pitched, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30; 2, 5, 31, § 80:

    sella intenta loris,

    Quint. 6, 3, 25:

    stuppea vincula collo Intendunt,

    Verg. A. 2, 237:

    duro intendere bracchia tergo,

    i. e. to bind with the cestus, id. ib. 5, 403:

    locum sertis,

    encircled, surrounded, id. ib. 4, 506:

    vela secundi Intendunt Zephyri,

    swell, fill, id. ib. 5, 33:

    intendentibus tenebris,

    spreading, Liv. 1, 57, 8.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strain or stretch towards, to extend:

    aciem acrem in omnes partes intendit,

    turns keen looks on every side, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 38:

    aciem longius,

    id. Ac. 2, 25, 80:

    quo intendisset oculos,

    whithersoever he turns his eyes, Tac. A. 4, 70:

    aures ad verba,

    Ov. P. 4, 4, 36: cum putaret licere senatui, et mitigare leges et intendere, to stretch, i. e. increase the rigor of, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 17:

    numeros intendere nervis,

    Verg. A. 9, 776 (per nervos intentos, Forbig.); cf.:

    strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae,

    Pers. 6, 4.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    To direct towards any thing, to turn or bend in any direction:

    digna est res ubi tu nervos intendas tuos,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 20:

    intendenda in senem est fallacia,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 2:

    ut eo quo intendit, cum exercitu mature perveniat,

    Cic. Mur. 9: iter, to direct one ' s course:

    ad explorandum quonam hostes iter intendissent,

    Liv. 31, 33, 6:

    a porta ad praetorem iter intendit,

    id. 36, 21:

    coeptum iter in Italiam,

    id. 21, 29, 6; 27, 46, 9.— Absol.:

    quo nunc primum intendam,

    whither shall I turn? Ter. And. 2, 2, 6.—
    2.
    Intendere animum, to direct one ' s thoughts or attention to any thing: quaero enim non quibus intendam rebus animum, sed, etc., Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 329, 6:

    parum defigunt animos et intendunt in ea, quae, etc.,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 46:

    quo animum intendat, facile perspicio,

    id. Verr. 1, 3;

    Liv. praef. 9: intentus animus tuus est ad fortissimum virum liberandum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 9:

    oculi mentesque ad pugnam intentae,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

    in ea re omnium nostrorum intentis animis,

    id. ib. 3, 22:

    intendere animum in regnum Adherbalis,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ad bellum animum intendit,

    id. ib. 43, 2:

    animum studiis et rebus honestis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 36:

    considerationem in aliquam rem,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 33:

    omnes cogitationes ad aliquid,

    Liv. 40, 5:

    omnium eo curae sunt intentae,

    Liv. 9, 31; id. 25, 9:

    ad scribendum animum, oculos, manum,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7: ubi ingenium intenderis, valet, Sall. J. 51, 3:

    eruditionem tuam,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14. —
    3.
    Hence, intendere alone, to urge on, incite:

    intenderant eum ad cavendi omnia curam tot auditae proditiones,

    Liv. 24, 37:

    aliquem ad custodiae curam,

    id. 21, 49:

    vis omnis intendenda rebus,

    Quint. 10, 7, 21.—
    4.
    To enlarge, spread, extend, magnify:

    intendetur socordia, si nullus ex se metus aut spes,

    Tac. A. 2, 38:

    amici accendendis offensionibus callidi, intendere vera. adgerere falsa,

    exaggerated, id. ib. 2, 57;

    4, 11: gloriam,

    id. ib. 4, 26;

    12, 35: tormentum,

    Cels. 4, 15 init. —
    C.
    Absol., to turn one ' s attention to, exert one ' s self for, to purpose, endeavor, intend:

    pergin, sceleste, intendere hanc arguere?

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 27 Brix:

    quod est tibi ante explicandum, quam illuc proficiscare, quo te dicis intendere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 42:

    quod ubi secus procedit, neque quod intenderat, efficere potest,

    Sall. J. 25, 10:

    quocumque intenderat,

    id. ib. 74, 2; cf. id. ib. 64, 1;

    102, 1: genera lectionum, quae praecipue convenire intendentibus, ut oratores fiant,

    Quint. 10, 1, 45:

    ad nuptias,

    Just. 13, 6.—
    (β).
    With inf.:

    quo ire intenderant,

    Sall. J. 107, 7:

    altum petere intendit,

    Liv. 36, 44.—
    D.
    Intendere se, to exert one ' s self, prepare for any thing:

    se ad firmitatem,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 23:

    se in rem,

    Quint. 4, 1, 39: qui se intenderunt adversarios in ejus tribunatum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 2.—
    E.
    Intendere animo, to purpose in one ' s mind, to intend:

    si C. Antonius, quod animo intenderat, perficere potuisset,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9.—
    F.
    To maintain, assert:

    eam sese intendit esse,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 19.—Esp., as leg. t. t., to aver, maintain, assert as a plaintiff in court:

    quo modo nunc intendit,

    Cic. Quint. 29, 88: si quod intendit adversarius tuus, probationibus implere non possit, Vet. cujusd. Jurec. Consult. 6, 16 Huschke; Dig. 10, 4, 9, § 6. —
    G.
    To threaten with any thing, to seek to bring upon, to afflict with:

    alicui actionem perduellionis,

    Cic. Mil. 14:

    alicui litem,

    id. de Or. 1, 10:

    periculum in omnes,

    id. Rosc. Am. 3:

    crimen in aliquem,

    Liv. 9, 26:

    injuriarum formulam,

    Suet. Vit. 7:

    probra et minas alicui,

    Tac. A. 3, 36:

    metum intendere,

    id. ib. 1, 28.—
    H.
    Intendere in se, to contemplate one ' s self: quid sit Deus: totus in se intendat, an ad nos aliquando respiciat, Sen. Q. N. praef. 1.—
    I.
    Intendere alicui, to be intended for a person, Stat. S. 3 praef.—
    K. L.
    In gram., to make long, to use (a syllable) as long:

    primam syllabam intendit, tertiam corripuit,

    Gell. 13, 22. 18. — Hence, P. a. in two forms.
    1.
    inten-tus, a, um.
    A.
    On the stretch, strained, bent:

    arcus,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 37; Plin. 8, 8, 8, § 26.—
    B. (α).
    With dat.:

    quem pueri intenti ludo exercent,

    Verg. A. 7, 380:

    intentus recipiendo exercitui esse,

    Liv. 10, 42, 1.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    aliquo negotio intentus,

    Sall. C. 2; id. ib. 4; 54.—
    C.
    Absol., eager, intent:

    at Romani domi militiaeque intenti festinare,

    Sall. C. 6, 5:

    senatus nihil sane intentus,

    id. ib. 16, 5:

    intenti exspectant signum,

    Verg. A. 5, 137:

    intenti ora tenebant,

    id. ib. 2, 1:

    totam causam quam maxime intentis, quod aiunt, oculis contemplari,

    Cic. Fl. 11:

    intentaque tuis precibus se praebuit aure,

    Tib. 4, 1, 132. — Comp.:

    intentiore custodia aliquem asservare,

    Liv. 39, 19.— Sup.:

    cum intentissima conquisitione ad triginta milia peditum confecisset,

    Liv. 29, 35:

    intentissima cura aliquid consequi,

    Quint. 10, 1, 111:

    haec omnia intentissima cura acta,

    Liv. 25, 22, 4. —
    D.
    Strict:

    intentum et magnis delictis inexorabilem scias,

    Tac. A. 12, 42:

    intentius delectum habere,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    intentiorem fore disciplinam,

    Tac. A. 12, 42.—
    E.
    Raised:

    intento alimentorum pretio,

    Tac. H. 1, 89. —
    F.
    Of speech and style, vigorous, nervous:

    sermo,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    pars orationis,

    id. ib. 2, 52, 211. — Adv.: in-tentē, with earnestness, attentively, intently:

    pronuntiare,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 19:

    audire,

    Quint. 2, 2, 13.— Comp. (cf. intense):

    cum delectus intentius haberetur,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    et quo intentius custodiae serventur,

    id. 25, 30, 5:

    apparare proelium,

    id. 8, 1:

    se excusare,

    Tac. A. 3, 35:

    premere obsessos,

    id. ib. 15, 13:

    adesse alicui rei,

    id. ib. 11, 11.— Sup.:

    exspectans intentissime,

    Lampr. Elag. 14. —
    2.
    intensus, a, um.
    A.
    Stretched, [p. 976] tightened, tight: per intensos funes ire, Sen. de Ira, 2, 13.—
    B.
    Violent:

    intensior impetus,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

    virtus in mediocribus modice intensior,

    Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 23, 2.—
    C.
    Attentive; sup., Aug. Ep. 56 al.— Adv.: intensē, violently; comp.: intensius, Fronto de Fer. Als. 3 Mai.; Schol. Juv. 11, 15; sup.:

    intensissime,

    Aug. Mor. Eccl. 19.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > intendo

  • 8 intense

    in-tendo, di, tum and sum, 3, v. a. ( part. intenditus, Fronto, Fer. Als. 3, 11 Mai.), to stretch out or forth, extend.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In hunc intende digitum, hic lenost, point in scorn, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 45:

    dextram ad statuam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15:

    alicui manus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 25:

    bracchia,

    Ov. M. 10, 58:

    manus,

    id. ib. 8, 107:

    jubet intendi bracchia velis,

    Verg. A. 5, 829:

    intenta bracchia remis, id. ib, 5, 136: ventis vela,

    id. ib. 3, 683:

    nervos aut remittere,

    Plin. 26, 10, 62, § 96:

    cutem,

    id. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

    jamque manus Colchis crinemque intenderat astris,

    Val. Fl. 8, 68.—
    B.
    To bend a bow, etc.:

    ballistam in aliquem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 58:

    arcum,

    Verg. A. 8, 704:

    intentus est arcus in me unum,

    Cic. Sest. 7, 15.—
    C.
    To aim or direct at a thing:

    tela in patriam,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 9:

    tela intenta jugulis civitatis,

    id. Pis. 2:

    sagittam,

    Verg. A. 9, 590:

    telum in jugulum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9.—
    D.
    To stretch or spread out; to stretch, lay or put upon a thing:

    tabernacula carbaseis intenta velis,

    pitched, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30; 2, 5, 31, § 80:

    sella intenta loris,

    Quint. 6, 3, 25:

    stuppea vincula collo Intendunt,

    Verg. A. 2, 237:

    duro intendere bracchia tergo,

    i. e. to bind with the cestus, id. ib. 5, 403:

    locum sertis,

    encircled, surrounded, id. ib. 4, 506:

    vela secundi Intendunt Zephyri,

    swell, fill, id. ib. 5, 33:

    intendentibus tenebris,

    spreading, Liv. 1, 57, 8.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strain or stretch towards, to extend:

    aciem acrem in omnes partes intendit,

    turns keen looks on every side, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 38:

    aciem longius,

    id. Ac. 2, 25, 80:

    quo intendisset oculos,

    whithersoever he turns his eyes, Tac. A. 4, 70:

    aures ad verba,

    Ov. P. 4, 4, 36: cum putaret licere senatui, et mitigare leges et intendere, to stretch, i. e. increase the rigor of, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 17:

    numeros intendere nervis,

    Verg. A. 9, 776 (per nervos intentos, Forbig.); cf.:

    strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae,

    Pers. 6, 4.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    To direct towards any thing, to turn or bend in any direction:

    digna est res ubi tu nervos intendas tuos,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 20:

    intendenda in senem est fallacia,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 2:

    ut eo quo intendit, cum exercitu mature perveniat,

    Cic. Mur. 9: iter, to direct one ' s course:

    ad explorandum quonam hostes iter intendissent,

    Liv. 31, 33, 6:

    a porta ad praetorem iter intendit,

    id. 36, 21:

    coeptum iter in Italiam,

    id. 21, 29, 6; 27, 46, 9.— Absol.:

    quo nunc primum intendam,

    whither shall I turn? Ter. And. 2, 2, 6.—
    2.
    Intendere animum, to direct one ' s thoughts or attention to any thing: quaero enim non quibus intendam rebus animum, sed, etc., Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 329, 6:

    parum defigunt animos et intendunt in ea, quae, etc.,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 46:

    quo animum intendat, facile perspicio,

    id. Verr. 1, 3;

    Liv. praef. 9: intentus animus tuus est ad fortissimum virum liberandum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 9:

    oculi mentesque ad pugnam intentae,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

    in ea re omnium nostrorum intentis animis,

    id. ib. 3, 22:

    intendere animum in regnum Adherbalis,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ad bellum animum intendit,

    id. ib. 43, 2:

    animum studiis et rebus honestis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 36:

    considerationem in aliquam rem,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 33:

    omnes cogitationes ad aliquid,

    Liv. 40, 5:

    omnium eo curae sunt intentae,

    Liv. 9, 31; id. 25, 9:

    ad scribendum animum, oculos, manum,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7: ubi ingenium intenderis, valet, Sall. J. 51, 3:

    eruditionem tuam,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14. —
    3.
    Hence, intendere alone, to urge on, incite:

    intenderant eum ad cavendi omnia curam tot auditae proditiones,

    Liv. 24, 37:

    aliquem ad custodiae curam,

    id. 21, 49:

    vis omnis intendenda rebus,

    Quint. 10, 7, 21.—
    4.
    To enlarge, spread, extend, magnify:

    intendetur socordia, si nullus ex se metus aut spes,

    Tac. A. 2, 38:

    amici accendendis offensionibus callidi, intendere vera. adgerere falsa,

    exaggerated, id. ib. 2, 57;

    4, 11: gloriam,

    id. ib. 4, 26;

    12, 35: tormentum,

    Cels. 4, 15 init. —
    C.
    Absol., to turn one ' s attention to, exert one ' s self for, to purpose, endeavor, intend:

    pergin, sceleste, intendere hanc arguere?

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 27 Brix:

    quod est tibi ante explicandum, quam illuc proficiscare, quo te dicis intendere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 42:

    quod ubi secus procedit, neque quod intenderat, efficere potest,

    Sall. J. 25, 10:

    quocumque intenderat,

    id. ib. 74, 2; cf. id. ib. 64, 1;

    102, 1: genera lectionum, quae praecipue convenire intendentibus, ut oratores fiant,

    Quint. 10, 1, 45:

    ad nuptias,

    Just. 13, 6.—
    (β).
    With inf.:

    quo ire intenderant,

    Sall. J. 107, 7:

    altum petere intendit,

    Liv. 36, 44.—
    D.
    Intendere se, to exert one ' s self, prepare for any thing:

    se ad firmitatem,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 23:

    se in rem,

    Quint. 4, 1, 39: qui se intenderunt adversarios in ejus tribunatum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 2.—
    E.
    Intendere animo, to purpose in one ' s mind, to intend:

    si C. Antonius, quod animo intenderat, perficere potuisset,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9.—
    F.
    To maintain, assert:

    eam sese intendit esse,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 19.—Esp., as leg. t. t., to aver, maintain, assert as a plaintiff in court:

    quo modo nunc intendit,

    Cic. Quint. 29, 88: si quod intendit adversarius tuus, probationibus implere non possit, Vet. cujusd. Jurec. Consult. 6, 16 Huschke; Dig. 10, 4, 9, § 6. —
    G.
    To threaten with any thing, to seek to bring upon, to afflict with:

    alicui actionem perduellionis,

    Cic. Mil. 14:

    alicui litem,

    id. de Or. 1, 10:

    periculum in omnes,

    id. Rosc. Am. 3:

    crimen in aliquem,

    Liv. 9, 26:

    injuriarum formulam,

    Suet. Vit. 7:

    probra et minas alicui,

    Tac. A. 3, 36:

    metum intendere,

    id. ib. 1, 28.—
    H.
    Intendere in se, to contemplate one ' s self: quid sit Deus: totus in se intendat, an ad nos aliquando respiciat, Sen. Q. N. praef. 1.—
    I.
    Intendere alicui, to be intended for a person, Stat. S. 3 praef.—
    K. L.
    In gram., to make long, to use (a syllable) as long:

    primam syllabam intendit, tertiam corripuit,

    Gell. 13, 22. 18. — Hence, P. a. in two forms.
    1.
    inten-tus, a, um.
    A.
    On the stretch, strained, bent:

    arcus,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 37; Plin. 8, 8, 8, § 26.—
    B. (α).
    With dat.:

    quem pueri intenti ludo exercent,

    Verg. A. 7, 380:

    intentus recipiendo exercitui esse,

    Liv. 10, 42, 1.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    aliquo negotio intentus,

    Sall. C. 2; id. ib. 4; 54.—
    C.
    Absol., eager, intent:

    at Romani domi militiaeque intenti festinare,

    Sall. C. 6, 5:

    senatus nihil sane intentus,

    id. ib. 16, 5:

    intenti exspectant signum,

    Verg. A. 5, 137:

    intenti ora tenebant,

    id. ib. 2, 1:

    totam causam quam maxime intentis, quod aiunt, oculis contemplari,

    Cic. Fl. 11:

    intentaque tuis precibus se praebuit aure,

    Tib. 4, 1, 132. — Comp.:

    intentiore custodia aliquem asservare,

    Liv. 39, 19.— Sup.:

    cum intentissima conquisitione ad triginta milia peditum confecisset,

    Liv. 29, 35:

    intentissima cura aliquid consequi,

    Quint. 10, 1, 111:

    haec omnia intentissima cura acta,

    Liv. 25, 22, 4. —
    D.
    Strict:

    intentum et magnis delictis inexorabilem scias,

    Tac. A. 12, 42:

    intentius delectum habere,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    intentiorem fore disciplinam,

    Tac. A. 12, 42.—
    E.
    Raised:

    intento alimentorum pretio,

    Tac. H. 1, 89. —
    F.
    Of speech and style, vigorous, nervous:

    sermo,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    pars orationis,

    id. ib. 2, 52, 211. — Adv.: in-tentē, with earnestness, attentively, intently:

    pronuntiare,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 19:

    audire,

    Quint. 2, 2, 13.— Comp. (cf. intense):

    cum delectus intentius haberetur,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    et quo intentius custodiae serventur,

    id. 25, 30, 5:

    apparare proelium,

    id. 8, 1:

    se excusare,

    Tac. A. 3, 35:

    premere obsessos,

    id. ib. 15, 13:

    adesse alicui rei,

    id. ib. 11, 11.— Sup.:

    exspectans intentissime,

    Lampr. Elag. 14. —
    2.
    intensus, a, um.
    A.
    Stretched, [p. 976] tightened, tight: per intensos funes ire, Sen. de Ira, 2, 13.—
    B.
    Violent:

    intensior impetus,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

    virtus in mediocribus modice intensior,

    Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 23, 2.—
    C.
    Attentive; sup., Aug. Ep. 56 al.— Adv.: intensē, violently; comp.: intensius, Fronto de Fer. Als. 3 Mai.; Schol. Juv. 11, 15; sup.:

    intensissime,

    Aug. Mor. Eccl. 19.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > intense

  • 9 intensus

    in-tendo, di, tum and sum, 3, v. a. ( part. intenditus, Fronto, Fer. Als. 3, 11 Mai.), to stretch out or forth, extend.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In hunc intende digitum, hic lenost, point in scorn, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 45:

    dextram ad statuam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15:

    alicui manus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 25:

    bracchia,

    Ov. M. 10, 58:

    manus,

    id. ib. 8, 107:

    jubet intendi bracchia velis,

    Verg. A. 5, 829:

    intenta bracchia remis, id. ib, 5, 136: ventis vela,

    id. ib. 3, 683:

    nervos aut remittere,

    Plin. 26, 10, 62, § 96:

    cutem,

    id. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

    jamque manus Colchis crinemque intenderat astris,

    Val. Fl. 8, 68.—
    B.
    To bend a bow, etc.:

    ballistam in aliquem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 58:

    arcum,

    Verg. A. 8, 704:

    intentus est arcus in me unum,

    Cic. Sest. 7, 15.—
    C.
    To aim or direct at a thing:

    tela in patriam,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 9:

    tela intenta jugulis civitatis,

    id. Pis. 2:

    sagittam,

    Verg. A. 9, 590:

    telum in jugulum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9.—
    D.
    To stretch or spread out; to stretch, lay or put upon a thing:

    tabernacula carbaseis intenta velis,

    pitched, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30; 2, 5, 31, § 80:

    sella intenta loris,

    Quint. 6, 3, 25:

    stuppea vincula collo Intendunt,

    Verg. A. 2, 237:

    duro intendere bracchia tergo,

    i. e. to bind with the cestus, id. ib. 5, 403:

    locum sertis,

    encircled, surrounded, id. ib. 4, 506:

    vela secundi Intendunt Zephyri,

    swell, fill, id. ib. 5, 33:

    intendentibus tenebris,

    spreading, Liv. 1, 57, 8.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strain or stretch towards, to extend:

    aciem acrem in omnes partes intendit,

    turns keen looks on every side, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 38:

    aciem longius,

    id. Ac. 2, 25, 80:

    quo intendisset oculos,

    whithersoever he turns his eyes, Tac. A. 4, 70:

    aures ad verba,

    Ov. P. 4, 4, 36: cum putaret licere senatui, et mitigare leges et intendere, to stretch, i. e. increase the rigor of, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 17:

    numeros intendere nervis,

    Verg. A. 9, 776 (per nervos intentos, Forbig.); cf.:

    strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae,

    Pers. 6, 4.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    To direct towards any thing, to turn or bend in any direction:

    digna est res ubi tu nervos intendas tuos,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 20:

    intendenda in senem est fallacia,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 2:

    ut eo quo intendit, cum exercitu mature perveniat,

    Cic. Mur. 9: iter, to direct one ' s course:

    ad explorandum quonam hostes iter intendissent,

    Liv. 31, 33, 6:

    a porta ad praetorem iter intendit,

    id. 36, 21:

    coeptum iter in Italiam,

    id. 21, 29, 6; 27, 46, 9.— Absol.:

    quo nunc primum intendam,

    whither shall I turn? Ter. And. 2, 2, 6.—
    2.
    Intendere animum, to direct one ' s thoughts or attention to any thing: quaero enim non quibus intendam rebus animum, sed, etc., Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 329, 6:

    parum defigunt animos et intendunt in ea, quae, etc.,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 46:

    quo animum intendat, facile perspicio,

    id. Verr. 1, 3;

    Liv. praef. 9: intentus animus tuus est ad fortissimum virum liberandum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 9:

    oculi mentesque ad pugnam intentae,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

    in ea re omnium nostrorum intentis animis,

    id. ib. 3, 22:

    intendere animum in regnum Adherbalis,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ad bellum animum intendit,

    id. ib. 43, 2:

    animum studiis et rebus honestis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 36:

    considerationem in aliquam rem,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 33:

    omnes cogitationes ad aliquid,

    Liv. 40, 5:

    omnium eo curae sunt intentae,

    Liv. 9, 31; id. 25, 9:

    ad scribendum animum, oculos, manum,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7: ubi ingenium intenderis, valet, Sall. J. 51, 3:

    eruditionem tuam,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14. —
    3.
    Hence, intendere alone, to urge on, incite:

    intenderant eum ad cavendi omnia curam tot auditae proditiones,

    Liv. 24, 37:

    aliquem ad custodiae curam,

    id. 21, 49:

    vis omnis intendenda rebus,

    Quint. 10, 7, 21.—
    4.
    To enlarge, spread, extend, magnify:

    intendetur socordia, si nullus ex se metus aut spes,

    Tac. A. 2, 38:

    amici accendendis offensionibus callidi, intendere vera. adgerere falsa,

    exaggerated, id. ib. 2, 57;

    4, 11: gloriam,

    id. ib. 4, 26;

    12, 35: tormentum,

    Cels. 4, 15 init. —
    C.
    Absol., to turn one ' s attention to, exert one ' s self for, to purpose, endeavor, intend:

    pergin, sceleste, intendere hanc arguere?

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 27 Brix:

    quod est tibi ante explicandum, quam illuc proficiscare, quo te dicis intendere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 42:

    quod ubi secus procedit, neque quod intenderat, efficere potest,

    Sall. J. 25, 10:

    quocumque intenderat,

    id. ib. 74, 2; cf. id. ib. 64, 1;

    102, 1: genera lectionum, quae praecipue convenire intendentibus, ut oratores fiant,

    Quint. 10, 1, 45:

    ad nuptias,

    Just. 13, 6.—
    (β).
    With inf.:

    quo ire intenderant,

    Sall. J. 107, 7:

    altum petere intendit,

    Liv. 36, 44.—
    D.
    Intendere se, to exert one ' s self, prepare for any thing:

    se ad firmitatem,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 23:

    se in rem,

    Quint. 4, 1, 39: qui se intenderunt adversarios in ejus tribunatum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 2.—
    E.
    Intendere animo, to purpose in one ' s mind, to intend:

    si C. Antonius, quod animo intenderat, perficere potuisset,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9.—
    F.
    To maintain, assert:

    eam sese intendit esse,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 19.—Esp., as leg. t. t., to aver, maintain, assert as a plaintiff in court:

    quo modo nunc intendit,

    Cic. Quint. 29, 88: si quod intendit adversarius tuus, probationibus implere non possit, Vet. cujusd. Jurec. Consult. 6, 16 Huschke; Dig. 10, 4, 9, § 6. —
    G.
    To threaten with any thing, to seek to bring upon, to afflict with:

    alicui actionem perduellionis,

    Cic. Mil. 14:

    alicui litem,

    id. de Or. 1, 10:

    periculum in omnes,

    id. Rosc. Am. 3:

    crimen in aliquem,

    Liv. 9, 26:

    injuriarum formulam,

    Suet. Vit. 7:

    probra et minas alicui,

    Tac. A. 3, 36:

    metum intendere,

    id. ib. 1, 28.—
    H.
    Intendere in se, to contemplate one ' s self: quid sit Deus: totus in se intendat, an ad nos aliquando respiciat, Sen. Q. N. praef. 1.—
    I.
    Intendere alicui, to be intended for a person, Stat. S. 3 praef.—
    K. L.
    In gram., to make long, to use (a syllable) as long:

    primam syllabam intendit, tertiam corripuit,

    Gell. 13, 22. 18. — Hence, P. a. in two forms.
    1.
    inten-tus, a, um.
    A.
    On the stretch, strained, bent:

    arcus,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 37; Plin. 8, 8, 8, § 26.—
    B. (α).
    With dat.:

    quem pueri intenti ludo exercent,

    Verg. A. 7, 380:

    intentus recipiendo exercitui esse,

    Liv. 10, 42, 1.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    aliquo negotio intentus,

    Sall. C. 2; id. ib. 4; 54.—
    C.
    Absol., eager, intent:

    at Romani domi militiaeque intenti festinare,

    Sall. C. 6, 5:

    senatus nihil sane intentus,

    id. ib. 16, 5:

    intenti exspectant signum,

    Verg. A. 5, 137:

    intenti ora tenebant,

    id. ib. 2, 1:

    totam causam quam maxime intentis, quod aiunt, oculis contemplari,

    Cic. Fl. 11:

    intentaque tuis precibus se praebuit aure,

    Tib. 4, 1, 132. — Comp.:

    intentiore custodia aliquem asservare,

    Liv. 39, 19.— Sup.:

    cum intentissima conquisitione ad triginta milia peditum confecisset,

    Liv. 29, 35:

    intentissima cura aliquid consequi,

    Quint. 10, 1, 111:

    haec omnia intentissima cura acta,

    Liv. 25, 22, 4. —
    D.
    Strict:

    intentum et magnis delictis inexorabilem scias,

    Tac. A. 12, 42:

    intentius delectum habere,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    intentiorem fore disciplinam,

    Tac. A. 12, 42.—
    E.
    Raised:

    intento alimentorum pretio,

    Tac. H. 1, 89. —
    F.
    Of speech and style, vigorous, nervous:

    sermo,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    pars orationis,

    id. ib. 2, 52, 211. — Adv.: in-tentē, with earnestness, attentively, intently:

    pronuntiare,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 19:

    audire,

    Quint. 2, 2, 13.— Comp. (cf. intense):

    cum delectus intentius haberetur,

    Liv. 8, 17:

    et quo intentius custodiae serventur,

    id. 25, 30, 5:

    apparare proelium,

    id. 8, 1:

    se excusare,

    Tac. A. 3, 35:

    premere obsessos,

    id. ib. 15, 13:

    adesse alicui rei,

    id. ib. 11, 11.— Sup.:

    exspectans intentissime,

    Lampr. Elag. 14. —
    2.
    intensus, a, um.
    A.
    Stretched, [p. 976] tightened, tight: per intensos funes ire, Sen. de Ira, 2, 13.—
    B.
    Violent:

    intensior impetus,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

    virtus in mediocribus modice intensior,

    Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 23, 2.—
    C.
    Attentive; sup., Aug. Ep. 56 al.— Adv.: intensē, violently; comp.: intensius, Fronto de Fer. Als. 3 Mai.; Schol. Juv. 11, 15; sup.:

    intensissime,

    Aug. Mor. Eccl. 19.

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  • 10 circumdati

    circum-do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, v. a., lit. to put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).
    I.
    Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something [p. 337] around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
    (α).
    With dat.:

    aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,

    Lucr. 6, 1035:

    moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2:

    circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

    id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

    satellites armatos contioni,

    Liv. 34, 27, 5:

    hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,

    i. e. one on each side, id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2:

    milites sibi,

    Tac. A. 13, 25:

    arma umeris,

    Verg. A. 2, 510:

    licia tibi,

    id. E. 8, 74:

    vincula collo,

    Ov. M. 1, 631:

    bracchia collo,

    id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479;

    and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,

    Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex:

    bracchia cervici dare,

    Hor. C. 3, 9, 3):

    lectis aulaea purpura,

    Curt. 9, 7, 15:

    cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,

    i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way, Liv. 40, 13, 4.—
    (β).
    Without a dat.:

    caedere januam saxis, ligna et sarmenta circumdare ignemque subicere coeperunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69; 2, 1, 31, § 80:

    ignes,

    id. Pis. 38, 93:

    custodias,

    id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

    armata circumdatur Romana legio,

    Liv. 1, 28, 3:

    exercitu circumdato summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

    Sall. J. 25, 9:

    circumdatae stationes,

    Tac. A. 1, 50:

    murus circumdatus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

    turris toto opere circumdedit,

    id. ib. 7, 72:

    circumdato vallo,

    Curt. 3, 2, 2:

    lauream (sc. capiti),

    Suet. Vit. 9.— Subst.: circumdăti, ōrum, m., those around, the surrounding soldiers:

    circumdatos Antonius adloquitur,

    Tac. H. 3, 63.—With an abl. loci:

    toto oppido munitiones,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 34 fin.:

    equites cornibus,

    Liv. 33, 18, 9; and without dat., Tac. A. 14, 53.—With two accs.:

    circumdare terram radices,

    Cato, R. R. 114;

    and per tmesin,

    id. ib. 157.—
    B.
    Trop. (most freq. in Tac.):

    cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,

    Cic. Quint. 10, 36:

    nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,

    Liv. 21, 43, 3:

    egregiam famam paci circumdedit,

    i. e. conferred, imparted, Tac. Agr. 20; cf.:

    principatus inanem ei famam,

    id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37:

    principi ministeria,

    id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction:

    infula virgineos circumdata comptus,

    encompassing, Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.—
    II.
    Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing ( with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,

    Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.:

    aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,

    Lucr. 5, 469:

    portum moenibus,

    Nep. Them. 6, 1:

    regio insulis circumdata,

    Cic. Fl. 12, 27:

    villam statione,

    Tac. A. 14, 8:

    suam domum spatio,

    id. G. 16:

    collis operibus,

    id. A. 6, 41:

    vallo castra,

    id. H. 4, 57:

    Othonem vexillis,

    id. ib. 1, 36:

    canibus saltus,

    Verg. E. 10, 57:

    circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106:

    collum filo,

    Cat. 64, 377:

    (aurum) circumdatum argento,

    Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89:

    ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 99:

    circumdedit se zonā,

    Suet. Vit. 16:

    circumdata corpus amictu,

    Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666:

    tempora vittis,

    id. ib. 13, 643:

    Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,

    Verg. A. 4, 137.—
    2.
    Esp. of a hostile surrounding, to surround, encompass, invest, besiege, etc.:

    oppidum vallo et fossā,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

    oppidum quinis castris,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

    cum legati... multitudine domum ejus circumdedissent,

    Nep. Hann. 12, 4:

    vallo atque fossā moenia circumdat,

    Sall. J. 23, 1:

    oppidum coronā,

    Liv. 4, 47, 5:

    quos (hostes) primo Camillus vallo circumdare est adortus,

    id. 6, 8, 9:

    fossā valloque urbem,

    id. 25, 22, 8:

    fossā duplicique vallo circumdatā urbe,

    id. 28, 3, 5:

    hostes exercitu toto,

    Curt. 3, 8, 4. —
    B.
    Trop.:

    omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,

    Cic. Univ. 6 init.:

    exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,

    have confined, circumscribed, id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.:

    minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,

    Vell. 1, 17, 2:

    pueritiam robore,

    Tac. A. 12, 25:

    fraude,

    Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477:

    monstrorum novitate,

    Quint. Decl. 18, 1.

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  • 11 circumdo

    circum-do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, v. a., lit. to put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).
    I.
    Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something [p. 337] around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
    (α).
    With dat.:

    aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,

    Lucr. 6, 1035:

    moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2:

    circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

    id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

    satellites armatos contioni,

    Liv. 34, 27, 5:

    hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,

    i. e. one on each side, id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2:

    milites sibi,

    Tac. A. 13, 25:

    arma umeris,

    Verg. A. 2, 510:

    licia tibi,

    id. E. 8, 74:

    vincula collo,

    Ov. M. 1, 631:

    bracchia collo,

    id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479;

    and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,

    Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex:

    bracchia cervici dare,

    Hor. C. 3, 9, 3):

    lectis aulaea purpura,

    Curt. 9, 7, 15:

    cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,

    i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way, Liv. 40, 13, 4.—
    (β).
    Without a dat.:

    caedere januam saxis, ligna et sarmenta circumdare ignemque subicere coeperunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69; 2, 1, 31, § 80:

    ignes,

    id. Pis. 38, 93:

    custodias,

    id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

    armata circumdatur Romana legio,

    Liv. 1, 28, 3:

    exercitu circumdato summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

    Sall. J. 25, 9:

    circumdatae stationes,

    Tac. A. 1, 50:

    murus circumdatus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

    turris toto opere circumdedit,

    id. ib. 7, 72:

    circumdato vallo,

    Curt. 3, 2, 2:

    lauream (sc. capiti),

    Suet. Vit. 9.— Subst.: circumdăti, ōrum, m., those around, the surrounding soldiers:

    circumdatos Antonius adloquitur,

    Tac. H. 3, 63.—With an abl. loci:

    toto oppido munitiones,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 34 fin.:

    equites cornibus,

    Liv. 33, 18, 9; and without dat., Tac. A. 14, 53.—With two accs.:

    circumdare terram radices,

    Cato, R. R. 114;

    and per tmesin,

    id. ib. 157.—
    B.
    Trop. (most freq. in Tac.):

    cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,

    Cic. Quint. 10, 36:

    nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,

    Liv. 21, 43, 3:

    egregiam famam paci circumdedit,

    i. e. conferred, imparted, Tac. Agr. 20; cf.:

    principatus inanem ei famam,

    id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37:

    principi ministeria,

    id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction:

    infula virgineos circumdata comptus,

    encompassing, Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.—
    II.
    Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing ( with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,

    Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.:

    aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,

    Lucr. 5, 469:

    portum moenibus,

    Nep. Them. 6, 1:

    regio insulis circumdata,

    Cic. Fl. 12, 27:

    villam statione,

    Tac. A. 14, 8:

    suam domum spatio,

    id. G. 16:

    collis operibus,

    id. A. 6, 41:

    vallo castra,

    id. H. 4, 57:

    Othonem vexillis,

    id. ib. 1, 36:

    canibus saltus,

    Verg. E. 10, 57:

    circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106:

    collum filo,

    Cat. 64, 377:

    (aurum) circumdatum argento,

    Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89:

    ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 99:

    circumdedit se zonā,

    Suet. Vit. 16:

    circumdata corpus amictu,

    Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666:

    tempora vittis,

    id. ib. 13, 643:

    Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,

    Verg. A. 4, 137.—
    2.
    Esp. of a hostile surrounding, to surround, encompass, invest, besiege, etc.:

    oppidum vallo et fossā,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

    oppidum quinis castris,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

    cum legati... multitudine domum ejus circumdedissent,

    Nep. Hann. 12, 4:

    vallo atque fossā moenia circumdat,

    Sall. J. 23, 1:

    oppidum coronā,

    Liv. 4, 47, 5:

    quos (hostes) primo Camillus vallo circumdare est adortus,

    id. 6, 8, 9:

    fossā valloque urbem,

    id. 25, 22, 8:

    fossā duplicique vallo circumdatā urbe,

    id. 28, 3, 5:

    hostes exercitu toto,

    Curt. 3, 8, 4. —
    B.
    Trop.:

    omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,

    Cic. Univ. 6 init.:

    exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,

    have confined, circumscribed, id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.:

    minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,

    Vell. 1, 17, 2:

    pueritiam robore,

    Tac. A. 12, 25:

    fraude,

    Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477:

    monstrorum novitate,

    Quint. Decl. 18, 1.

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  • 12 collum

    collum, i, n. (ante-class. access. form collus, i, m., Naev., Cato, Lucil., Att., Caecil., Varr. ap. Non. p. 200, 14 sq.; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 107; 4, 3, 2; and, acc. to Non. l. l., also id. Am. 1, 1, 289:

    nec collos mihi Calvus persuaserit,

    Quint. 1, 6, 42; Front. Ep. ad M. [p. 369] Caes. 2, 16) [cf. Germ. Hals].
    I.
    Prop., the neck, of men and animals:

    accipite si vultis hoc onus in vostros collos, Cato, l.l.: anseris, Lucil. l.l.: pavonis, Varr. l. l.: columbarum,

    Lucr. 2, 802; cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 19; id. N. D. 2, 47, 122 al.:

    in collum invasit,

    fell upon the neck, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77: amplexu petebat, Cael. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 124:

    pendentia bracchia collo,

    Tib. 3, 6, 45; Verg. A. 1, 715:

    collo dare bracchia circum,

    id. ib. 6, 700:

    implicuit materno bracchia collo,

    Ov. M. 1, 762:

    colloque infusa mariti,

    id. ib. 11, 386; cf. id. ib. 14, 585:

    cingere colla lacertis,

    id. A. A. 2, 457:

    complecti lacertis,

    id. M. 10, 407:

    captare lacertis,

    id. H. 8, 93:

    adducere lacertis,

    id. M. 6, 625 et saep.:

    avaritiae poenam collo et cervicibus suis sustinere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 42, § 108:

    conjecta vincula collo,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 83:

    collum in laqueum inserere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 37:

    monstri angere,

    Stat. Th. 4, 827:

    aptare vincula collo,

    Ov. M. 10, 381:

    colla assuescere servitio,

    Verg. G. 3, 167:

    tonsori committere,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—Hence,
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    As a symbol of servitude:

    dare colla triumpho,

    Prop. 2 (3), 10, 15:

    eripe turpi Colla jugo,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 92.—
    b.
    (As in Engl., it costs him his neck, etc.) A symbol of life:

    actum'st de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 194; cf.:

    posuit collum in Pulvere Teucro,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 11.—
    c.
    Collum torquere, obtorquere, obstringere alicui, legal t. t., to seize by the neck and drag before a tribunal or to prison:

    priusquam obtorto collo ad praetorem trahor,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 45 (cf.:

    obtortā gulā de convivio in vincla abripi jussit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 24); Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 15; Liv. 4, 53, 8.—
    II.
    Meton., of the neck of a flask, bottle, Cato, R. R. 88, 1; Phaedr. 1, 26, 10; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161; 28, 11, 48, § 174.—Of the poppy, Verg. A. 9, 436.—Of the middle part of Mount Parnassus, Stat. Th. 9, 643.

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  • 13 tendo

    tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].
    I.
    Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

    Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

    plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

    retia (alicui),

    Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

    casses alicui,

    Tib. 1, 6, 5:

    intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

    Col. 6, 14, 4:

    chordam,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

    arcum,

    to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

    sagittas Arcu,

    to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

    spicula cornu,

    Verg. A. 9, 606:

    pariterque oculos telumque,

    id. ib. 5, 508:

    barbiton,

    to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

    tympana tenta tonant palmis,

    Lucr. 2, 618:

    validā lora manu,

    Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

    vela (Noti),

    to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

    praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

    Ov. H. 10, 30:

    praetorium,

    to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

    conopia,

    Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

    cubilia,

    Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

    bracchia ad caelum,

    Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

    for which: bracchia caelo,

    id. ib. 2, 580;

    9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

    manus ad aliquem,

    id. B. G. 2, 13:

    ad sidera palmas,

    Verg. A. 1, 93:

    super aequora palmas,

    Ov. M. 8, 849:

    ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

    id. P. 2, 9, 65:

    manus supplices dis immortalibus,

    Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

    vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

    id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

    manus alicui,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

    manus supinas,

    Liv. 3, 50, 5:

    manus ripae ulterioris amore,

    Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

    also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

    stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

    (conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

    reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

    tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

    id. G. 4, 535:

    quo tendant ferrum,

    aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

    qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

    stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —
    2.
    In partic.:

    nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

    Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—
    B.
    Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

    insidias alicui,

    Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

    omnes insidias animis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

    animum vigilem,

    to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

    sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

    i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

    aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

    to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

    (lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

    to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

    cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

    Sil. 9, 216:

    cursum ad agmina suorum,

    id. 10, 73:

    iter ad naves,

    Verg. A. 1, 656:

    iter pennis,

    id. ib. 6, 240:

    ad dominum iter,

    Ov. M. 2, 547:

    cursum unde et quo,

    Liv. 23, 34, 5:

    iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

    tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—
    II.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).
    1.
    Lit.:

    dubito an Venusiam tendam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

    Beneventum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

    cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

    Verg. A. 2, 321:

    ad castra,

    Liv. 9, 37:

    in castra,

    id. 10, 36:

    ad aedes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

    ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

    Suet. Caes. 85:

    ad portus,

    Ov. M. 15, 690:

    Ciconum ad oras,

    id. ib. 10, 3:

    ad metam,

    id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

    cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

    unde venis? et Quo tendis?

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

    quo tendere pergunt,

    Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

    tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

    Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —
    b.
    Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

    in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

    Lucr. 4, 179:

    levibus in sublime tendentibus,

    Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

    sursum tendit palmes,

    Col. 5, 6, 28:

    simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

    Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

    tunc aethera tendit,

    Luc. 7, 477:

    dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

    Verg. A. 6, 541:

    gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

    reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

    Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

    id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

    Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

    id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

    seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

    Prop. 1, 6, 31.—
    2.
    Trop.
    a.
    In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

    ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

    Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

    ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

    Liv. 4, 13, 4:

    ad majora,

    Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

    ad eloquium,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

    ad suum,

    Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

    ad Carthaginienses,

    id. 24, 5, 8:

    cum alii alio tenderent,

    id. 24, 28, 1:

    in diversum sententiae tendebant,

    id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —
    (β).
    To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

    (Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

    Verg. A. 2, 220:

    pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

    quod efficere tendimus,

    Quint. 9, 1, 21:

    fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

    tendit disertus haberi,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

    aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

    miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

    insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —
    b.
    In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

    nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

    Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

    vasto certamine tendunt,

    id. ib. 12, 553:

    Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

    Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

    summā vi,

    Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

    adversus, etc.,

    id. 34, 34, 1:

    contra,

    id. 35, 51, 6:

    ultra,

    id. 24, 31, 4:

    acrius,

    Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

    acrius contra, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

    quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

    what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

    nihil illi tendere contra,

    Verg. A. 9, 377. —
    B.
    For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

    qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

    omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

    Luc. 7, 328:

    hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

    Verg. A. 2, 29:

    legio latis tendebat in arvis,

    id. ib. 8, 605:

    isdem castris,

    Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

    isdem hibernis tendentes,

    Tac. H. 1, 55:

    Lugduni tendentes,

    id. ib. 1, 59:

    cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

    Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

    tendere in campis,

    id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

    rectissima linea tensa,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    collum,

    id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

    remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

    id. 11, 3, 99:

    vox tensior (opp. remissior),

    id. 11, 3, 42:

    lacerti,

    Luc. 7, 469:

    rudentes,

    id. 2, 683:

    frons,

    Lucr. 6, 1195:

    tormento citharāque tensior,

    Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

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  • 14 tenno

    tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].
    I.
    Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

    Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

    plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

    retia (alicui),

    Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

    casses alicui,

    Tib. 1, 6, 5:

    intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

    Col. 6, 14, 4:

    chordam,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

    arcum,

    to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

    sagittas Arcu,

    to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

    spicula cornu,

    Verg. A. 9, 606:

    pariterque oculos telumque,

    id. ib. 5, 508:

    barbiton,

    to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

    tympana tenta tonant palmis,

    Lucr. 2, 618:

    validā lora manu,

    Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

    vela (Noti),

    to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

    praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

    Ov. H. 10, 30:

    praetorium,

    to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

    conopia,

    Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

    cubilia,

    Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

    bracchia ad caelum,

    Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

    for which: bracchia caelo,

    id. ib. 2, 580;

    9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

    manus ad aliquem,

    id. B. G. 2, 13:

    ad sidera palmas,

    Verg. A. 1, 93:

    super aequora palmas,

    Ov. M. 8, 849:

    ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

    id. P. 2, 9, 65:

    manus supplices dis immortalibus,

    Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

    vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

    id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

    manus alicui,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

    manus supinas,

    Liv. 3, 50, 5:

    manus ripae ulterioris amore,

    Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

    also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

    stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

    (conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

    reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

    tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

    id. G. 4, 535:

    quo tendant ferrum,

    aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

    qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

    stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —
    2.
    In partic.:

    nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

    Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—
    B.
    Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

    insidias alicui,

    Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

    omnes insidias animis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

    animum vigilem,

    to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

    sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

    i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

    aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

    to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

    (lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

    to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

    cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

    Sil. 9, 216:

    cursum ad agmina suorum,

    id. 10, 73:

    iter ad naves,

    Verg. A. 1, 656:

    iter pennis,

    id. ib. 6, 240:

    ad dominum iter,

    Ov. M. 2, 547:

    cursum unde et quo,

    Liv. 23, 34, 5:

    iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

    tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—
    II.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).
    1.
    Lit.:

    dubito an Venusiam tendam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

    Beneventum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

    cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

    Verg. A. 2, 321:

    ad castra,

    Liv. 9, 37:

    in castra,

    id. 10, 36:

    ad aedes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

    ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

    Suet. Caes. 85:

    ad portus,

    Ov. M. 15, 690:

    Ciconum ad oras,

    id. ib. 10, 3:

    ad metam,

    id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

    cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

    unde venis? et Quo tendis?

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

    quo tendere pergunt,

    Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

    tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

    Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —
    b.
    Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

    in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

    Lucr. 4, 179:

    levibus in sublime tendentibus,

    Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

    sursum tendit palmes,

    Col. 5, 6, 28:

    simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

    Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

    tunc aethera tendit,

    Luc. 7, 477:

    dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

    Verg. A. 6, 541:

    gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

    reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

    Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

    id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

    Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

    id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

    seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

    Prop. 1, 6, 31.—
    2.
    Trop.
    a.
    In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

    ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

    Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

    ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

    Liv. 4, 13, 4:

    ad majora,

    Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

    ad eloquium,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

    ad suum,

    Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

    ad Carthaginienses,

    id. 24, 5, 8:

    cum alii alio tenderent,

    id. 24, 28, 1:

    in diversum sententiae tendebant,

    id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —
    (β).
    To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

    (Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

    Verg. A. 2, 220:

    pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

    quod efficere tendimus,

    Quint. 9, 1, 21:

    fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

    tendit disertus haberi,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

    aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

    miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

    insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —
    b.
    In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

    nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

    Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

    vasto certamine tendunt,

    id. ib. 12, 553:

    Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

    Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

    summā vi,

    Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

    adversus, etc.,

    id. 34, 34, 1:

    contra,

    id. 35, 51, 6:

    ultra,

    id. 24, 31, 4:

    acrius,

    Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

    acrius contra, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

    quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

    what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

    nihil illi tendere contra,

    Verg. A. 9, 377. —
    B.
    For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

    qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

    omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

    Luc. 7, 328:

    hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

    Verg. A. 2, 29:

    legio latis tendebat in arvis,

    id. ib. 8, 605:

    isdem castris,

    Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

    isdem hibernis tendentes,

    Tac. H. 1, 55:

    Lugduni tendentes,

    id. ib. 1, 59:

    cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

    Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

    tendere in campis,

    id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

    rectissima linea tensa,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    collum,

    id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

    remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

    id. 11, 3, 99:

    vox tensior (opp. remissior),

    id. 11, 3, 42:

    lacerti,

    Luc. 7, 469:

    rudentes,

    id. 2, 683:

    frons,

    Lucr. 6, 1195:

    tormento citharāque tensior,

    Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

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  • 15 tenta

    tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].
    I.
    Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

    Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

    plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

    retia (alicui),

    Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

    casses alicui,

    Tib. 1, 6, 5:

    intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

    Col. 6, 14, 4:

    chordam,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

    arcum,

    to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

    sagittas Arcu,

    to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

    spicula cornu,

    Verg. A. 9, 606:

    pariterque oculos telumque,

    id. ib. 5, 508:

    barbiton,

    to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

    tympana tenta tonant palmis,

    Lucr. 2, 618:

    validā lora manu,

    Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

    vela (Noti),

    to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

    praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

    Ov. H. 10, 30:

    praetorium,

    to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

    conopia,

    Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

    cubilia,

    Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

    bracchia ad caelum,

    Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

    for which: bracchia caelo,

    id. ib. 2, 580;

    9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

    manus ad aliquem,

    id. B. G. 2, 13:

    ad sidera palmas,

    Verg. A. 1, 93:

    super aequora palmas,

    Ov. M. 8, 849:

    ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

    id. P. 2, 9, 65:

    manus supplices dis immortalibus,

    Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

    vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

    id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

    manus alicui,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

    manus supinas,

    Liv. 3, 50, 5:

    manus ripae ulterioris amore,

    Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

    also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

    stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

    (conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

    reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

    tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

    id. G. 4, 535:

    quo tendant ferrum,

    aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

    qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

    stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —
    2.
    In partic.:

    nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

    Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—
    B.
    Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

    insidias alicui,

    Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

    omnes insidias animis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

    animum vigilem,

    to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

    sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

    i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

    aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

    to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

    (lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

    to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

    cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

    Sil. 9, 216:

    cursum ad agmina suorum,

    id. 10, 73:

    iter ad naves,

    Verg. A. 1, 656:

    iter pennis,

    id. ib. 6, 240:

    ad dominum iter,

    Ov. M. 2, 547:

    cursum unde et quo,

    Liv. 23, 34, 5:

    iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

    tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—
    II.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).
    1.
    Lit.:

    dubito an Venusiam tendam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

    Beneventum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

    cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

    Verg. A. 2, 321:

    ad castra,

    Liv. 9, 37:

    in castra,

    id. 10, 36:

    ad aedes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

    ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

    Suet. Caes. 85:

    ad portus,

    Ov. M. 15, 690:

    Ciconum ad oras,

    id. ib. 10, 3:

    ad metam,

    id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

    cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

    unde venis? et Quo tendis?

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

    quo tendere pergunt,

    Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

    tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

    Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —
    b.
    Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

    in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

    Lucr. 4, 179:

    levibus in sublime tendentibus,

    Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

    sursum tendit palmes,

    Col. 5, 6, 28:

    simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

    Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

    tunc aethera tendit,

    Luc. 7, 477:

    dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

    Verg. A. 6, 541:

    gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

    reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

    Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

    id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

    Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

    id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

    seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

    Prop. 1, 6, 31.—
    2.
    Trop.
    a.
    In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

    ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

    Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

    ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

    Liv. 4, 13, 4:

    ad majora,

    Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

    ad eloquium,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

    ad suum,

    Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

    ad Carthaginienses,

    id. 24, 5, 8:

    cum alii alio tenderent,

    id. 24, 28, 1:

    in diversum sententiae tendebant,

    id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —
    (β).
    To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

    (Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

    Verg. A. 2, 220:

    pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

    quod efficere tendimus,

    Quint. 9, 1, 21:

    fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

    tendit disertus haberi,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

    aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

    miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

    insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —
    b.
    In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

    nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

    Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

    vasto certamine tendunt,

    id. ib. 12, 553:

    Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

    Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

    summā vi,

    Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

    adversus, etc.,

    id. 34, 34, 1:

    contra,

    id. 35, 51, 6:

    ultra,

    id. 24, 31, 4:

    acrius,

    Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

    acrius contra, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

    quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

    what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

    nihil illi tendere contra,

    Verg. A. 9, 377. —
    B.
    For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

    qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

    omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

    Luc. 7, 328:

    hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

    Verg. A. 2, 29:

    legio latis tendebat in arvis,

    id. ib. 8, 605:

    isdem castris,

    Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

    isdem hibernis tendentes,

    Tac. H. 1, 55:

    Lugduni tendentes,

    id. ib. 1, 59:

    cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

    Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

    tendere in campis,

    id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

    rectissima linea tensa,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    collum,

    id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

    remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

    id. 11, 3, 99:

    vox tensior (opp. remissior),

    id. 11, 3, 42:

    lacerti,

    Luc. 7, 469:

    rudentes,

    id. 2, 683:

    frons,

    Lucr. 6, 1195:

    tormento citharāque tensior,

    Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > tenta

  • 16 do

    I dō, dedī, datum, dare
    1)
    а) давать (d. alicui bibere Pl, Cato; d. pecuniam C)
    qui dedit beneficium, taceat Sen — кто сделал доброе дело, пусть молчит (об этом)
    б) подавать, протягивать (alicui manum O etc.; aliquid in manum Pl)
    перен. d. manus C, Cs, Nep — сдаваться, признавать себя побеждённым
    в) предлагать ( accipere quod datur C); раздавать ( frumentum plebi VP); выдавать ( praemium pro pietate C)
    г) даровать (vitam C, V; libertatem C); разрешать, позволять (d. bonum malumque dignoscere Sen)
    iter alicui per provinciam d. Cs — разрешить кому-л. проход через (свою) провинцию
    д) преподносить, дарить, приносить (в дар) (alicui dona Pl; alicui aliquid dono Ter, Nep); передавать, вручать ( alicui litteras ad aliquem C)
    d. fibellum C — подать жалобу
    oscula O (basia Ctl) d. — покрывать поцелуями, целовать
    aliquem defensum d. V — защитить кого-л.
    plus stomacho, quam consilio d. Q — руководствоваться больше своим пылом, чем рассудком
    2) приносить в жертву ( deo exta O); посвящать, воздвигать, строить (deo templum O)
    3) порождать, производить на свет (liberos Ctl; prolem V)
    d. impĕtum L — ворваться
    5) отправлять, посылать ( litteras ex Trebulano C)
    6) вносить, платить (aes и aera H, O etc.); понести (poenas C etc.); доставлять ( apes mella dant O)
    materiam d. invidiae C — давать пищу ненависти
    8) отпускать, ослаблять ( lora V)
    d. laxas habenas V — опустить поводья
    9) устраивать (alicui cenam Pl, Ter, C etc.; ludos populo L); ставить на сцене, инсценировать (fabulam Ter, C)
    10)
    а) наносить, причинять (alicui damnum Ter; vulnera ferro O)
    d. verba alicui Ter — надуть кого-л.
    d. alicui civitatem VP — предоставить кому-л. право гражданства
    11)
    а) проливать ( lacrimas O); наливать ( vinum in manūs Pt); испускать ( lucem H)
    d. fumos O — дымиться
    б) издавать (sonum V; gemitum O)
    12)
    а) произносить (voces, dicta O, V)
    б) сообщать, рассказывать, называть ( unum da mini ex oratoribus illis C)
    paucis dabo Ter — (почему это случилось), я расскажу в немногих словах
    iste qui sit, da nobis V — скажи нам, кто он
    quem mihi dabis, qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat? Sen — кого ты мне назовёшь, кто хоть сколько-нибудь умел бы ценить время?
    13) закидывать ( retro capillos O); класть, вкладывать, опускать (corpus tumulo O; urnae ossa Pers); погружать ( in fluvios ardentia membra Lcr)
    15) ставить, натягивать (vela carinae O; fila lyrae O); протягивать ( bracchia ad aliquid O)
    terga d. (= vertere) C, L, O etc. — обратиться в бегство
    quae dederam supra, relego Pers — то, что я допустил раньше, беру назад
    dasne animes morte interire? — Do vero C — признаёшь ли, что со смертью погибают (и) души? — Да, признаю
    19)
    а) вменять (aliquid laudi, crimini alicui C); назначать ( alicui diem PJ); обрекать (aliquem exitio Lcr, O; morbo mortique Lcr; urbem excidio ac ruinis L)
    d. aliquid famae H, T — сделать что-л. в интересах репутации
    б) повергать (aliquem in luctum O, in timorem Pl)
    20)
    а) бросать, швырять (aliquem in и ad terram Lcr, Pl)
    d. aliquem in ruborem Pl — вогнать кого-л. в краску (заставить покраснеть)
    21) помещать, отдавать ( aliquem in hanc domum Ter); отправлять ( aliquem Luceriam L)
    22) вверять, передавать (filiam genero V, O; infantem nutrīci O)
    23) внушать, вдохнуть (spem C; animos O); наводить, навеять ( alicui somnum O)
    25) назначать (aliquem comitem QC; arbitrum C); определять, класть (finem alicui и alicui rei O etc.)
    26)
    sese d. in fugam и fugae C — обращаться в бегство (см. тж. ниже sub dare se 4.)
    d. (litem) secundum aliquem C, L, Sen — решить судебный процесс в чью-л. пользу
    d. rationem alicujus rei Pl, rhH. — отдавать отчёт в чём-л.
    nomen d. C — явиться, за писаться, поступить (преим. на военную службу)
    do, dico, addico Vr, Macr — предоставляю (права), произношу (приговоры), присуждаю ( юридическая формула — « tria verba» O — которой претор официально выражал свои права и функции)
    II dō: как dare se (или dari)
    1) даваться или быть данным, разрешаться, быть возможным
    ubi sidĕre detur O — (облетая затопленную землю, птица ищет), где бы можно было сесть
    potestates, quas licet sentire, non datur cernere Ap — силы, которые можно ощущать, но которых нельзя видеть
    3) обнаруживать себя, выказать себя (d. se alicui placidum O)
    se obvium alicui d. L — повстречаться с кем-л.
    se d. alicui in conspectum C — предстать перед кем-л.
    se in viam d. C — пуститься в путь
    sese in pedes d. Pl — удирать
    5) принимать участие (convivio Su; in bella V)
    6) покоряться, подчиняться, уступать, поддаваться, сдаваться (alicui Pl, Ter, C etc.)
    7) представиться, быть в распоряжении
    8)
    а) предаваться (quieti, somno C, PJ etc.; voluptatibus C)
    б) посвящать себя (huic generi litterarum C; ad legendos libros C)
    turpiter se d. Ter — срамиться
    prout tempus ac res se daret L — в зависимости от того, как сложатся время и обстоятельства (смотря по обстоятельствам)
    III dō (греч.) Enn, Aus = domum (acc.)

    Латинско-русский словарь > do

  • 17 lentus

    lentus, a, um (vgl. ahd. lindi, weich, sanft), zähe, zach, I) im Ggstz. zum Spröden, 1) im allg.: radix, Verg.: in frangendo, Plin.: tellus lenta gelu, Prop. – 2) insbes.: a) biegsam, ulmus et fraxinus, Vitr.: vimen, Verg.: crura, Mela: lenta bracchia, gelenkige, elastische, Ov.: lentissima bracchia, ganz nachgebende, also jedes Gefühls entbehrende, Hor.: dah. lentior salicis ramis, biegsamer, elastischer, was den gemachten Eindruck gleich wieder verliert, von der Galatea, die Polyphems Liebe verschmähte, Ov. – b) zähe, klebrig, gluten pice lentius, Verg. georg. 4, 41. – 3) bildl.: a) zähe, vivacitas, Plin. 8, 100. – b) lange dauernd, lange anhaltend, amor, Tibull.: lenta in balneo mora, Cels.: cavillatio lenta, langweilige, Amm.: tranquillitatis lentissimae taedium, Sen.: lentus abesto, bleib lange weg, Ov.: somnus, Val. Flacc. – II) übtr.: A) im Ggstz. zum Schnellen, 1) im allg., langsam, träge, amnis, Plin.: marmor (Meeresspiegel), ruhig, unbeweglich, Verg.: lento igne torrēre bovem, Ov.: coquere alqd lentis carbonibus, Hieron., lento igni toto die, Plin.: lenti carbones, langsam brennende Kohlen, Ov.: lentae maxillae, langsam zermalmende Zähne, Suet.: lentum venenum, schleichendes G., Tac. u. Suet.: lenta remedia, langsam wirkende, Curt.: lentum mortis genus, eine langsame Todesart (Ggstz. mors subita celerisque), Suet.: lentus color, matt, schwach, nicht lebhaft, Plin.: pugna lenta, Liv.: iam lentus amor, schon matt glimmende, Ov.: angue lentior cubes, Priap.: lentiorem facere spem, die Erfüllung der H. verzögern, Liv.: lentus ab urbe venis, spät, Calp.: m. folg. Genet., lentus coepti, Sil. 3, 176: m. folg. Infin., nec Idalia lenta incaluisse sagitta, Sil. 5, 19. – 2) insbes.: a) v. Stil u. Vortrag, schleppend, steif, lentus in dicendo, Cic. (vgl. Ruperti Tac. dial. 21, 6). – b) zähe, lässig, träge, langsam, infitiator, im Bezahlen, Cic.: nomina (Zahler), Sen.: Teucris illa lentum negotium, im Borgen, Cic. – mit Infin., solvere nulli lentus, Lucil. 415. – c) poet., was langsam macht, schwer, Prop. 4, 1, 96. – d) ruhig, geduldig, bes. im üblen Sinne (als Vorwurf von dem, der durch nichts sich reizen läßt, auch jede Unbill mit stumpfer Gleichgültigkeit erträgt) = phlegmatisch, unempfindlich, lässig, gleichgültig (gegen Beleidigungen od. anderer Unglück), iudex, Cic., Ov. u. Liv.: nihil illo lentius, Cic.: lentissima pectora, Ov.: lentae adversum imperia aures, Tac.: lentus in dolore suo, bei persönlicher Kränkung nachsichtig, Tac.: lentus in umbra, lässig, Verg.: scandentem moenia Romanae coloniae Hannibalem lenti (al. laeti) spectamus, Liv.: tu spectas hiemem (Frost) succincti lentus amici, Mart.: haec est pro miseri lenta salute viri, unbekümmert um usw., Ov. ex Pont. 3, 1, 66. Vgl. Broukh. Prop. 2, 11, 14. Drak. u. Fabri Liv. 22, 14, 7. Heinsius Ov. her. 19, 81. – B) im Ggstz. zum leicht zu Erweichenden = zähe, 1) eig.: quoniam (aron) mas durior esset et in coquendo lentior, weniger leicht weich werde, sich weniger gut weich kochen lasse, Plin. 24, 143. – 2) übtr., eigensinnig, starrköpfig (bei seiner Idee beharrend), fastus, Ov.: natura, Suet.: Nais, spröde, Ov.

    lateinisch-deutsches > lentus

  • 18 cereus

    [st1]1 [-] cērĕus, a, um [cera]: - [abcl][b]a - de cire, en cire. - [abcl]b - qui a l'aspect de la cire, jaune, blanc, gras, graisseux, brillant. - [abcl]c - flexible (comme la cire), maniable, docile, souple.[/b]    - cerea bracchia Telephi, Hor. C. 1, 13, 2: les bras brillants de Télèphe.    - cerea effigies, Hor.: portrait en cire, image en cire. [st1]2 [-] cērĕus, i, m. (s.-ent. funis): chandelle de cire, cierge, bougie.    - vivere ad cereos, Sen.: vivre aux flambeaux, faire de la nuit le jour.
    * * *
    [st1]1 [-] cērĕus, a, um [cera]: - [abcl][b]a - de cire, en cire. - [abcl]b - qui a l'aspect de la cire, jaune, blanc, gras, graisseux, brillant. - [abcl]c - flexible (comme la cire), maniable, docile, souple.[/b]    - cerea bracchia Telephi, Hor. C. 1, 13, 2: les bras brillants de Télèphe.    - cerea effigies, Hor.: portrait en cire, image en cire. [st1]2 [-] cērĕus, i, m. (s.-ent. funis): chandelle de cire, cierge, bougie.    - vivere ad cereos, Sen.: vivre aux flambeaux, faire de la nuit le jour.
    * * *
        Cereus, Adiectiuum. Cic. Faict de cire.
    \
        Brachia cerea. Horat. Mollets, ou Faicts comme de cire.
    \
        Castra cerea. Claud. Ruches de mousches à miel.
    \
        Cereus color. Plin. Couleur de cire.
    \
        Cerea pruna. Virgil. Des poetrons, ou prunes jaulnes.
    \
        Regna cerea. Virgil. Les trous de cire où se logent les mousches à miel.
    \
        Cereus in vitium flecti. Horat. Aisé et facile à plier et tourner à mal.
    \
        Cereus, Substantiuum. Cic. Un cierge.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > cereus

  • 19 consuesco

    consuesco, ĕre, suēvi, suētum    - formes contactées:    - consuesti = consuevisti.    - consuestis = consuevistis.    - consuērunt = consueverunt.    - consuēram... = consueveram...    - consuēro... = consuevero...    - consuērim... = consuverim...    - consuessem... = consuevissem...    - consuesse = consuevisse.    - consuēmus (Prop.) = consuevimus. - tr. - [st1]1 [-] accoutumer, habituer.    - bracchia consuescunt, Lucr. 6: ils exercent leurs bras.    - consuescere juvencum aratro, Col. 6: habituer un jeune boeuf à la charrue. - intr. - [st1]2 [-] prendre l’habitude, s'accoutumer, s'habituer, se familiariser avec.    - consuescere + inf.: s’habituer à, avoir coutume de, avoir l'habitude.    - consuescamus mori, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: habituons-nous à l'idée de mourir.    - ut extremo vitae tempore homines facere consuerunt, Caes. BC. 2, 41, 8: comme on a l'habitude de se comporter aux dernières heures de la vie.    - avec dat. dolori consuescere: s’habituer à la douleur.    - otiis, campo, circo, theatris, aleae, popinae, lupanaribus consuetus, Col. 1, 8: accoutumé à la fainéantise, à la promenade, au cirque, aux théâtres, au jeu, au cabaret, aux mauvais lieux.    - avec abl. quae (aves) consuevere libero victu, Col. 8, 15: (oiseaux) qui ont l'habitude de chercher leur nourriture.    - absol. in teneris consuescere multum est, Virg. G. 2: durant l'âge tendre, l'habitude est d'une grande importance.    - consuevi: j’ai pris l’habitude, j’ai l’habitude.    - consueveram: j'avais pris l'habitude, j'avais l'habitude.    - ut consuevi, Cic. Att. 9: selon mon habitude. [st1]3 [-] souvent péj. avoir des relations avec, avoir commerce avec, avoir une liaison avec.    - consuescere cum muliere: avoir des relations (charnelles) avec une femme, avoir une liaison avec une femme.    - si is posset ab ea sese derepente avellere quicum tot consuesset annos, non eum hominem ducerem, Ter. Hec. 4. 1, 40: s'il était capable de se détacher de la femme avec laquelle il a eu des relations pendant tant d'années, je ne le considérerais pas comme un homme.    - mulieres quibuscum iste consuerat, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12 § 30: les femmes avec qui il avait commerce.    - is se dixit cum Alcumena clam consuetum cubitibus, Plaut. Amph.: il dit qu'il a eu des relations secrètes avec Alcmène.
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    consuesco, ĕre, suēvi, suētum    - formes contactées:    - consuesti = consuevisti.    - consuestis = consuevistis.    - consuērunt = consueverunt.    - consuēram... = consueveram...    - consuēro... = consuevero...    - consuērim... = consuverim...    - consuessem... = consuevissem...    - consuesse = consuevisse.    - consuēmus (Prop.) = consuevimus. - tr. - [st1]1 [-] accoutumer, habituer.    - bracchia consuescunt, Lucr. 6: ils exercent leurs bras.    - consuescere juvencum aratro, Col. 6: habituer un jeune boeuf à la charrue. - intr. - [st1]2 [-] prendre l’habitude, s'accoutumer, s'habituer, se familiariser avec.    - consuescere + inf.: s’habituer à, avoir coutume de, avoir l'habitude.    - consuescamus mori, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: habituons-nous à l'idée de mourir.    - ut extremo vitae tempore homines facere consuerunt, Caes. BC. 2, 41, 8: comme on a l'habitude de se comporter aux dernières heures de la vie.    - avec dat. dolori consuescere: s’habituer à la douleur.    - otiis, campo, circo, theatris, aleae, popinae, lupanaribus consuetus, Col. 1, 8: accoutumé à la fainéantise, à la promenade, au cirque, aux théâtres, au jeu, au cabaret, aux mauvais lieux.    - avec abl. quae (aves) consuevere libero victu, Col. 8, 15: (oiseaux) qui ont l'habitude de chercher leur nourriture.    - absol. in teneris consuescere multum est, Virg. G. 2: durant l'âge tendre, l'habitude est d'une grande importance.    - consuevi: j’ai pris l’habitude, j’ai l’habitude.    - consueveram: j'avais pris l'habitude, j'avais l'habitude.    - ut consuevi, Cic. Att. 9: selon mon habitude. [st1]3 [-] souvent péj. avoir des relations avec, avoir commerce avec, avoir une liaison avec.    - consuescere cum muliere: avoir des relations (charnelles) avec une femme, avoir une liaison avec une femme.    - si is posset ab ea sese derepente avellere quicum tot consuesset annos, non eum hominem ducerem, Ter. Hec. 4. 1, 40: s'il était capable de se détacher de la femme avec laquelle il a eu des relations pendant tant d'années, je ne le considérerais pas comme un homme.    - mulieres quibuscum iste consuerat, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12 § 30: les femmes avec qui il avait commerce.    - is se dixit cum Alcumena clam consuetum cubitibus, Plaut. Amph.: il dit qu'il a eu des relations secrètes avec Alcmène.
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        Consuesco, consuescis, consueui, pen. prod. et consuetus sum, consuetum, pen. prod. consuescere. Cic. S'accoustumer, Se habituer.
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        Consuescere pronuntiare. Cic. S'accoustumer à prononcer.
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        Aues quae consueuere libero victu. Colum. Oiseaulx qui ont accoustumé de vivre aux champs en liberté.
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        Consuescere alicui. Terentius. Hanter souvent aucun, Converser avec luy.
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        Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est. Virgil. S'accoustumer de jeunesse.

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  • 20 cresco

    cresco, ĕre, crēvi, crētum - intr. - [st2]1 [-] naître, pousser (au pr. et au fig.). [st2]2 [-] croître, s'accroître, grandir en nombre. [st2]3 [-] au fig. s'accroître (en parl. des ch.). [st2]4 [-] s'élever (en gloire, en réputation), grandir en considération, grandir en puissance, devenir puissant.    - per aliquem crescere: grandir en considération par l’intermédiaire de qqn, devoir son élévation à qqn.    - crescere de (ex) aliquo: s'élever au dépens de qqn.    - Liger ex nivibus creverat, Caes. B. G. 7, 55: la Loire avait grossi à la suite de la fonte des neiges.    - in frondem crines, in ramos bracchia crescunt, Ov. M. 1, 550: les cheveux deviennent du feuillage, les bras des branches.    - Rhodiorum civitas populi Romani opibus creverat, Sall. C. 51, 5: la cité de Rhodes avait grandi en puissance grâce à l'appui du peuple romain.    - voir cretus.
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    cresco, ĕre, crēvi, crētum - intr. - [st2]1 [-] naître, pousser (au pr. et au fig.). [st2]2 [-] croître, s'accroître, grandir en nombre. [st2]3 [-] au fig. s'accroître (en parl. des ch.). [st2]4 [-] s'élever (en gloire, en réputation), grandir en considération, grandir en puissance, devenir puissant.    - per aliquem crescere: grandir en considération par l’intermédiaire de qqn, devoir son élévation à qqn.    - crescere de (ex) aliquo: s'élever au dépens de qqn.    - Liger ex nivibus creverat, Caes. B. G. 7, 55: la Loire avait grossi à la suite de la fonte des neiges.    - in frondem crines, in ramos bracchia crescunt, Ov. M. 1, 550: les cheveux deviennent du feuillage, les bras des branches.    - Rhodiorum civitas populi Romani opibus creverat, Sall. C. 51, 5: la cité de Rhodes avait grandi en puissance grâce à l'appui du peuple romain.    - voir cretus.
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        Cresco, crescis, creui, cretum, crescere. Croistre.
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        Lacte crescunt infantes. Ouid. On les nourrit de laict.
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        In domo alicuius creuisse. Suet. Y avoir esté nourri petit enfant, ou de jeunesse.
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        De tenui origine crescere. Ouid. De petit commencement devenir bien grand.
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        Crescere in altitudinem. Liu. Croistre en haulteur.
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        In immensum crescere. Ouid. Croistre fort grand, oultre mesure, Desmesureement.
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        In mores patrios crescere. Stat. Croistre en apprenant et suyvant les meurs de son pere.
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        Crescere in multas opes. Liu. Devenir fort riche, S'accroistre grandement en richesses, S'enrichir.
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        AEquor crescit aquis. Lucan. La mer croist, Grossit, S'enfle.
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        Amor crescit. Stat. S'augmente.
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        Mare creuit in astra. Seneca. S'est enflee jusques au ciel.
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        Crescere, pro Honoratiorem et ornatiorem fieri, vel etiam Ditescere. Cic. Croistre en honneur, ou en biens, Devenir grand.
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        Crescere vult. Cic. Il se veult faire grand, Il veult monter, Il se veult mettre en avant. B.
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        Factis alicuius crescere. Claud. Acquerir bruit et renommee par les faicts d'aucun.
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        Crescere ex accusatione aliquorum. Cic. Se faire grand par, etc.
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        Creuerunt animi. Cic. Quand un homme devient orgueilleux, ou quand le cueur luy accroist par richesses, force, ou autrement.

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