broken

• I am broken, I am not deflected

• I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken

cut up, broken, brief, concise.

fragile, easily broken / fleeting, transitory / weak, feeble

roaring, crashing, rough / broken.

ăbĭcĭo or abjĭc- (in the best MSS. abicio; cf.

ăbĭci,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 37;

ăbĭcit,

Juv. 15, 17), ĕre, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [ab-jacio], to cast away, to throw away, throw down.

Lit.:

in sepulcrum ejus abjecta gleba non est,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 23 Müll.:

scutum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23:

insigne regium de capite,

id. Sest. 27:

socer ad pedes abjectus,

id. ib. 34; so,

se ad pedes,

id. Phil. 2, 34, 86:

se e muro in mare,

id. Tusc. 1, 34; so,

corpus in mare,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

impelluntur, feriuntur, abiciuntur, cadunt,

id. Tusc. 2, 15, 36:

se abjecit exanimatus,

he threw himself down as if lifeless, id. Sest. 37.— Absol.:

si te uret sarcina, abicito,

throw it down, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 7.—Also with in and abl., when the place from which a thing is thrown is designated:

anulum in mari,

Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 92 Madv. N. cr.; so, ut se abiceret in herba, id. de Or. 1, 7, 28:

statuas in propatulo domi,

Nep. Hann. 9, 3:

cadaver in viā,

Suet. Ner. 48; cf.:

ubi cadaver abjeceris,

Tac. A. 1, 22.

Fig.

In gen., to cast off, throw away, give up, etc.:

ut primum tenebris abjectis inalbabat,

as soon as the day, having dispelled the darkness, was beginning to brighten, Enn. Ann. v. 219 Vahl.: nusquam ego vidi abjectas aedīs, nisi modo hasce, thrown away, i.e. sold too low, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 3: psaltria aliquo abiciendast, must be got rid off ( il faut se defaire d'elle, Dacier), Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:

vitam,

Cic. Att. 3, 19:

salutem pro aliquo,

id. Planc. 33:

memoriam beneficiorum,

id. Phil. 8, 11:

versum,

to declaim it carelessly, id. de Or. 3, 26 (cf. with id. ib. 3, 59: ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, the period must be brought gradually to a close, not broken off abruptly).

In partic.

To throw off, cast aside care for, remembrance of, etc., to give up, abandon:

abicimus ista,

we let that go, Cic. Att. 13, 3:

fama ingenii mihi est abicienda,

I must renounce, id. ib. 9, 16: domum Sullanam desperabam jam... sed tamen non abjeci, but yet I have not abandoned it, i. e. its purchase, id. Fam. 9, 15:

abjectis nugis,

nonsense apart, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 141 (cf. amoto ludo, id. S. 1, 1, 27).

To cast down to a lower grade, to degrade, humble, Cic. Leg. 1, 9: hic annus senatus auctoritatem abjecit, degraded or lowered the authority of the Senate, id. Att. 1, 18; so also id. Tusc. 5, 18; id. de Or. 3, 26, 104.—Hence, abjectae res, reduced circumstances (opp. florentes), Nep. Att. 8; Cic. Quint. 30; Tac. A. 4, 68.

Abicere se, to throw one's self away, degrade one's self, v. Cic. Tusc. 2, 23: ut enim fit, etc.—Hence, abjectus, a, um, P. a., downcast, disheartened, désponding; low, mean, abject, worthless, unprincipled.

Quo me miser conferam? An domum? matremne ut miseram lamentantem videam et abjectam? Gracch. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 214:

plura scribere non possum, ita sum animo perculso et abjecto,

Cic. Att. 3, 2.—

Nihil abjectum, nihil humile cogitare, Cic. Fin. 5, 20:

contemptum atque abjectum,

id. Agr. 2, 34:

verbis nec inops nec abjectus,

id. Brut. 62, 222 al. — Comp.:

animus abjectior,

Cic. Lael. 16; Liv. 9, 6.— Sup.:

animus abjectissimus,

Quint. 11, 1, 13 al. — Adv.: abjectē.

Dispiritedly, despondingly:

in dolore est providendum, ne quid abjecte, ne quid timide, ne quid ignave faciamus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 55; id. Phil. 3, 11, 28.—

Low, meanly:

quo sordidius et abjectius nati sunt,

Tac. Or. 8:

incuriose et abjecte verbum positum,

improperly, Gell. 2, 6, 1.

abs-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut off with a sharp instrument (diff. from ab-scindo, to break or tear off as with the hand); the former corresponds to praecidere, the latter to avellere, v. Liv. 31, 34, 4 Drak.

Lit.:

caput,

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5; Liv. 4, 19; Verg. A. 12, 511 al.; so,

membra,

Lucr. 3, 642:

bracchium,

Liv. 4, 28, 8:

collum,

Sil. 15, 473:

dextram,

Suet. Caes. 68:

linguam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 7; Suet. Calig. 27 al.:

comas alicui,

Luc. 6, 568:

truncos arborum et ramos,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 2.—

Trop., to cut off, deprive of; to detract:

spem (alicui),

Liv. 4, 10, 4; 24, 30, 12; 35, 45, 6:

orationem alicui,

id. 45, 37, 9:

omnium rerum respectum sibi,

id. 9, 23, 12:

omnia praesidia,

Tac. H. 3, 78:

vocem,

Vell. 2, 66; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 85.— Absol.:

quarum (orationum) alteram non libebat mihi scribere, quia abscideram,

had broken off, Cic. Att. 2, 7.—Hence, abscīsus, a, um, P. a., cut off.

Of places, steep, precipitous (cf. abruptus):

saxum undique abscisum,

Liv. 32, 4, 5; so id. 32, 25, 36:

rupes,

id. 32, 5, 12.—

Of speech, abrupt, concise, short:

in voce aut omnino suppressā, aut etiam abscisā,

Quint. 8, 3, 85; 9, 4, 118 Halm (al. abscissa):

asperum et abscisum castigationis genus,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 14:

responsum,

id. 3, 8, 3:

sententia,

id. 6, 3, 10; cf. in comp.:

praefractior atque abscisior justitia,

id. 6, 5, ext. 4.— Sup. prob. not used.— Adv.: abscīsē, cut off; hence, of speech, concisely, shortly, distinctly, Val. Max. 3, 7, ext. 6; Dig. 50, 6, 5, § 2.

Ăchĕruns, untis, m. [v. Acheron] (f., Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; cf. Non. 191, 24; poet. in Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr. frundes for frondes, acc. Gr. Acherunta, Lucr. 4, 170; 6, 251); a form much used by ante-class. poets, esp. by Plaut.,

For Acheron no. II. B.: adsum atque advenio Acherunte, poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 245;

si ab Acherunte veniam,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 26; so Lucr. 3, 37; 628 al.—And with the ending i (as in Karthagini):

si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, ubi sum?

Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 21; so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31; 5, 4, 1. —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12:

Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 124:

mittere aliquem Acheruntem,

to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12; and:

abire ad Acheruntem,

to die, id. Poen. prol. 71:

ulmorum Acheruns, jestingly of a slave, upon whose back rods had been broken,

id. Am. 4, 2, 9 (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117).—Hence, Ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World:

regiones,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

senex,

i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19; id. Mil. 3, 1, 33.

Ăchĕruns, untis, m. [v. Acheron] (f., Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; cf. Non. 191, 24; poet. in Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr. frundes for frondes, acc. Gr. Acherunta, Lucr. 4, 170; 6, 251); a form much used by ante-class. poets, esp. by Plaut.,

For Acheron no. II. B.: adsum atque advenio Acherunte, poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 245;

si ab Acherunte veniam,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 26; so Lucr. 3, 37; 628 al.—And with the ending i (as in Karthagini):

si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, ubi sum?

Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 21; so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31; 5, 4, 1. —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12:

Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 124:

mittere aliquem Acheruntem,

to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12; and:

abire ad Acheruntem,

to die, id. Poen. prol. 71:

ulmorum Acheruns, jestingly of a slave, upon whose back rods had been broken,

id. Am. 4, 2, 9 (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117).—Hence, Ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World:

regiones,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

senex,

i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19; id. Mil. 3, 1, 33.

af-fĭcĭo (better adf-), affēci (adf-), affectum (adf-), 3, v. a. [facio], to do something to one, i. e. to exert an influence on body or mind, so that it is brought into such or such a state (used by the poets rarely, by Hor. never).

Of the body rarely, and then commonly in a bad sense:

ut aestus, labor, fames, sitisque corpora adficerent,

Liv. 28, 15:

contumeliis adficere corpora sua,

Vulg. Rom. 1, 24:

non simplex Damasichthona vulnus Adficit,

Ov. M. 6, 255:

aconitum cor adficit,

Scrib. Comp. 188:

corpus adficere M. Antonii,

Cic. Phil. 3:

pulmo totus adficitur,

Cels. 4, 7; with abl. of spec.:

stomacho et vesicā adfici,

Scrib. Comp. 186. —In bon. part.:

corpus ita adficiendum est, ut oboedire rationi possit,

Cic. Off. 1, 23.—

More freq. of the mind:

litterae tuae sic me adfecerunt, ut, etc.,

Cic. Att. 14, 3, 2:

is terror milites hostesque in diversum adfecit,

Tac. A. 11, 19:

varie sum adfectus tuis litteris,

Cic. Fam. 16, 2:

consules oportere sic adfici, ut, etc.,

Plin. Pan. 90:

adfici a Gratiā aut a Voluptate,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12; id. Mil. 29, 79:

sollicitudo de te duplex nos adficit,

id. Brut. 92, 332:

uti ei qui audirent, sic adficerentur animis, ut eos adfici vellet orator,

id. de Or. 1, 19, 87 B. and K.:

adfici animos in diversum habitum,

Quint. 1, 10, 25.—

With acc. and abl., to affect a person or (rarely) thing with something; in a good sense, to bestow upon, grace with; in a bad sense, to visit with, inflict upon; or the ablative and verb may be rendered by the verb corresponding to the ablative, and if an adjective accompany the ablative, this adjective becomes an adverb.—Of inanimate things (rare): luce locum adficiens, lighting up the place, Varr. ap. Non. p. 250, 2:

adficere medicamine vultum,

Ov. Med. Fac. 67:

factum non eo nomine adficiendum,

designated, Cic. Top. 24, 94:

res honore adficere,

to honor, id. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

non postulo, ut dolorem eisdem verbis adficias, quibus Epicurus, etc.,

id. Tusc. 2, 7, 18.—

Very freq. of persons.

In a good sense:

Qui praedā atque agro adoreāque adfecit populares suos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 38:

quem sepulturā adficit,

buries, Cic. Div. 1, 27, 56:

patres adfecerat gloriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

admiratione,

id. Off. 2, 10, 37:

voluptate,

id. Fin. 3, 11, 37:

beneficio,

id. Agr. 1, 4, 13:

honore,

id. Rosc. Am. 50, 147:

laude,

id. Off. 2, 13, 47:

nomine regis,

to style, id. Deiot. 5, 14:

bonis nuntiis,

Plaut. Am. prol. 8:

muneribus,

Cic. Fam. 2, 3; Nep. Ages. 3, 3:

praemio,

Cic. Mil. 30, 82:

pretio,

Verg. A. 12, 352:

stipendio,

Cic. Balb. 27, 61.—

In a bad sense: injuriā abs te adficior indignā, pater, am wronged unjustly, Enn. ap. Auct. ad Heren. 2, 24, 38; so Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 3:

Quantā me curā et sollicitudine adficit Gnatus,

id. ib. 2, 4, 1; so Cic. Att. 1, 18:

desiderio,

id. Fam. 2, 12:

timore,

to terrify, id. Quint. 2, 6:

difficultate,

to embarrass, Caes. B. G. 7, 6:

molestiā,

to trouble, Cic. Att. 15, 1:

tantis malis,

Vulg. Num. 11, 15:

maculā,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 113:

ignominiā,

id. ib. 39, 123:

contumeliis,

Vulg. Ezech. 22, 7; ib. Luc. 20, 11:

rerum et verborum acerbitatibus,

Suet. Calig. 2:

verberibus,

Just. 1, 5:

supplicio,

Cic. Brut. 1, 16; so Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

poenā,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

exsilio,

to banish, id. Thras. 3:

morte, cruciatu, cruce,

Cic. Verr. 3, 4, 9:

morte,

Vulg. Matt. 10, 21:

cruce,

Suet. Galb. 9:

ultimis cruciatibus,

Liv. 21, 44:

leto,

Nep. Regg. 3, 2.—And often in pass.:

sollicitudine et inopiā consilii,

Cic. Att. 3, 6:

adfici aegritudine,

id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

doloribus pedum,

id. Fam. 6, 19:

morbo oculorum,

Nep. Hann. 4, 3:

inopiā rei frumentariae,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

calamitate et injuriā,

Cic. Att. 11, 2:

magnā poenā, Auct. B. G. 8, 39: vulneribus,

Col. R. R. 4, 11:

torminibus et inflationibus,

Plin. 29, 5, 33, § 103:

servitute,

Cic. Rep. 1, 44.—Hence, affectus ( adf-), a, um, P. a.

In a peculiar sense, that on which we have bestowed labor, that which we are now doing, so that it is nearly at an end; cf.: Adfecta, sicut M. Cicero et [p. 67] veterum elegantissime locuti sunt, ea proprie dicebantur, quae non ad finem ipsum, sed proxime finem progressa deductave erant, Gell. 3, 16:

bellum adfectum videmus et paene confectum,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19:

in provinciā (Caesar) commoratur, ut ea. quae per eum adfecta sunt, perfecta rei publicae tradat,

id. ib. 12, 29: cum adfectā prope aestate uvas a sole mitescere tempus, etc., near the end of summer, id. ap. Gell. l. c.:

Jamque hieme adfectā mitescere coeperat annus,

Sil. 15, 502:

in Q. Mucii infirmissimā valetudine adfectāque jam aetate,

Cic. de Or. 1,45,200; id. Verr. 2,4,43, § 95.—

In nearly the same sense as the verb, absol. and with abl.

Of persons laboring under disease, or not yet quite recovered:

Qui cum ita adfectus esset, ut sibi ipse diffideret,

was in such a state, Cic. Phil. 9, 1, 2:

Caesarem Neapoli adfectum graviter videam,

very ill, id. Att. 14, 17; so Sen. Ep. 101:

quem adfectum visuros crediderant,

ill, Liv. 28, 26:

corpus adfectum,

id. 9, 3:

adfectae vires corporis,

reduced strength, weakness, id. 5, 18:

puella,

Prop. 3, 24, 1:

aegra et adfecta mancipia,

Suet. Claud. 25:

jam quidem adfectum, sed tamen spirantem,

id. Tib. 21.—

Of things, weakened, sick, broken, reduced:

partem istam rei publicae male adfectam tueri,

Cic. Fam. 13, 68:

adfecta res publica,

Liv. 5, 57:

Quid est enim non ita adfectum, ut non deletum exstinctumque esse fateare?

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3:

sic mihi (Sicilia) adfecta visa est, ut hae terrae solent, in quibus bellum versatum est,

id. Verr. 5, 18, 47:

adfecta res familiaris,

Liv. 5, 10:

opem rebus adfectis orare,

id. 6, 3; so Tac. H. 2, 69:

fides,

id. ib. 3, 65:

spes,

Val. Fl. 4, 60.—

Of persons, in gen. sense, disposed, affected, moved, touched:

Quonam modo, Philumena mea, nunc te offendam adfectam?

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 45:

quomodo sim adfectus, e Leptā poteris cognoscere,

Cic. Fam. 14, 17:

ut eodem modo erga amicum adfecti simus, quo erga nosmetipsos,

id. Lael. 16, 56; id. Fin. 1, 20, 68:

cum ita simus adfecti, ut non possimus plane simul vivere,

id. Att. 13, 23; id. Fin. 5, 9, 24:

oculus conturbatus non est probe adfectus ad suum munus fungendum,

in proper state, id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

oculi nimis arguti, quem ad modum animo adfecti simus, loquuntur,

id. Leg. 1, 9, 27; id. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Att. 12, 41, 2.—

As rhet. t. t.: affectus ad, related to, resembling:

Tum ex eis rebus, quae quodam modo affectae sunt ad id, de quo quaeritur,

Cic. Top. 2, 8 Forcellini.—

With abl. chiefly of persons, in indifferent sense, in good or bad sense (cf.:

Animi quem ad modum adfecti sint, virtutibus, vitiis, artibus, inertiis, aut quem ad modum commoti, cupiditate, metu, voluptate, molestiā,

Cic. Part. Or. 10, 35).

In indifferent sense, furnished with, having:

validos lictores ulmeis affectos lentis virgis,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 29:

pari filo similique (corpora) adfecta figurā,

Lucr. 2, 341:

Tantāne adfectum quemquam esse hominem audaciā!

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 84:

omnibus virtutibus,

Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—

In bad sense:

aegritudine, morbo adfectus,

Col. R. R. 7, 5, 20:

aerumnis omnibus,

Lucr. 3, 50:

sollicitudine,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

difficultatibus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 13:

fatigatione,

Curt. 7, 11:

frigore et penuriā,

id. 7, 3:

adfecta sterilitate terra, Col. R. R. praef. 1, 2: vitiis,

Cic. Mur. 6, 13:

ignominiā,

id. Att. 7, 3:

supplicio,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

verberibus,

Curt. 7, 11:

vulnere corpus adfectum,

Liv. 1, 25:

morbo,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 6:

dolore,

Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201:

febre,

Suet. Vit. 14:

pestilentiā,

Liv. 41, 5:

desperatione,

Cic. Att. 14, 22:

clade,

Curt. 10, 6:

senectute,

Cic. de Or. 3, 18, 68:

aetate,

id. Cat. 2, 20; id. Sen. 14, 47:

morte,

Serv. ad Cic. Fam. 4, 12.— Sup.:

remiges inopiā adfectissimi,

Vell. 2, 84.—

In good sense:

beneficio adfectus,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4:

aliquo honore aut imperio,

id. Off. 1, 41, 149:

valetudine optimā,

id. Tusc. 4, 37, 81:

laetitiā,

id. Mur. 2, 4, and ad Brut. 1, 4:

munere deorum,

id. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

praemiis,

id. Pis. 37, 90.— Adv.: affectē ( adf-), with (a strong) affection, deeply:

oblectamur et contristamur et conterremur in somniis quam adfecte et anxie et passibiliter,

Tert. Anim. 45.

af-fĭcĭo (better adf-), affēci (adf-), affectum (adf-), 3, v. a. [facio], to do something to one, i. e. to exert an influence on body or mind, so that it is brought into such or such a state (used by the poets rarely, by Hor. never).

Of the body rarely, and then commonly in a bad sense:

ut aestus, labor, fames, sitisque corpora adficerent,

Liv. 28, 15:

contumeliis adficere corpora sua,

Vulg. Rom. 1, 24:

non simplex Damasichthona vulnus Adficit,

Ov. M. 6, 255:

aconitum cor adficit,

Scrib. Comp. 188:

corpus adficere M. Antonii,

Cic. Phil. 3:

pulmo totus adficitur,

Cels. 4, 7; with abl. of spec.:

stomacho et vesicā adfici,

Scrib. Comp. 186. —In bon. part.:

corpus ita adficiendum est, ut oboedire rationi possit,

Cic. Off. 1, 23.—

More freq. of the mind:

litterae tuae sic me adfecerunt, ut, etc.,

Cic. Att. 14, 3, 2:

is terror milites hostesque in diversum adfecit,

Tac. A. 11, 19:

varie sum adfectus tuis litteris,

Cic. Fam. 16, 2:

consules oportere sic adfici, ut, etc.,

Plin. Pan. 90:

adfici a Gratiā aut a Voluptate,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12; id. Mil. 29, 79:

sollicitudo de te duplex nos adficit,

id. Brut. 92, 332:

uti ei qui audirent, sic adficerentur animis, ut eos adfici vellet orator,

id. de Or. 1, 19, 87 B. and K.:

adfici animos in diversum habitum,

Quint. 1, 10, 25.—

With acc. and abl., to affect a person or (rarely) thing with something; in a good sense, to bestow upon, grace with; in a bad sense, to visit with, inflict upon; or the ablative and verb may be rendered by the verb corresponding to the ablative, and if an adjective accompany the ablative, this adjective becomes an adverb.—Of inanimate things (rare): luce locum adficiens, lighting up the place, Varr. ap. Non. p. 250, 2:

adficere medicamine vultum,

Ov. Med. Fac. 67:

factum non eo nomine adficiendum,

designated, Cic. Top. 24, 94:

res honore adficere,

to honor, id. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

non postulo, ut dolorem eisdem verbis adficias, quibus Epicurus, etc.,

id. Tusc. 2, 7, 18.—

Very freq. of persons.

In a good sense:

Qui praedā atque agro adoreāque adfecit populares suos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 38:

quem sepulturā adficit,

buries, Cic. Div. 1, 27, 56:

patres adfecerat gloriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

admiratione,

id. Off. 2, 10, 37:

voluptate,

id. Fin. 3, 11, 37:

beneficio,

id. Agr. 1, 4, 13:

honore,

id. Rosc. Am. 50, 147:

laude,

id. Off. 2, 13, 47:

nomine regis,

to style, id. Deiot. 5, 14:

bonis nuntiis,

Plaut. Am. prol. 8:

muneribus,

Cic. Fam. 2, 3; Nep. Ages. 3, 3:

praemio,

Cic. Mil. 30, 82:

pretio,

Verg. A. 12, 352:

stipendio,

Cic. Balb. 27, 61.—

In a bad sense: injuriā abs te adficior indignā, pater, am wronged unjustly, Enn. ap. Auct. ad Heren. 2, 24, 38; so Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 3:

Quantā me curā et sollicitudine adficit Gnatus,

id. ib. 2, 4, 1; so Cic. Att. 1, 18:

desiderio,

id. Fam. 2, 12:

timore,

to terrify, id. Quint. 2, 6:

difficultate,

to embarrass, Caes. B. G. 7, 6:

molestiā,

to trouble, Cic. Att. 15, 1:

tantis malis,

Vulg. Num. 11, 15:

maculā,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 113:

ignominiā,

id. ib. 39, 123:

contumeliis,

Vulg. Ezech. 22, 7; ib. Luc. 20, 11:

rerum et verborum acerbitatibus,

Suet. Calig. 2:

verberibus,

Just. 1, 5:

supplicio,

Cic. Brut. 1, 16; so Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

poenā,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

exsilio,

to banish, id. Thras. 3:

morte, cruciatu, cruce,

Cic. Verr. 3, 4, 9:

morte,

Vulg. Matt. 10, 21:

cruce,

Suet. Galb. 9:

ultimis cruciatibus,

Liv. 21, 44:

leto,

Nep. Regg. 3, 2.—And often in pass.:

sollicitudine et inopiā consilii,

Cic. Att. 3, 6:

adfici aegritudine,

id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

doloribus pedum,

id. Fam. 6, 19:

morbo oculorum,

Nep. Hann. 4, 3:

inopiā rei frumentariae,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

calamitate et injuriā,

Cic. Att. 11, 2:

magnā poenā, Auct. B. G. 8, 39: vulneribus,

Col. R. R. 4, 11:

torminibus et inflationibus,

Plin. 29, 5, 33, § 103:

servitute,

Cic. Rep. 1, 44.—Hence, affectus ( adf-), a, um, P. a.

In a peculiar sense, that on which we have bestowed labor, that which we are now doing, so that it is nearly at an end; cf.: Adfecta, sicut M. Cicero et [p. 67] veterum elegantissime locuti sunt, ea proprie dicebantur, quae non ad finem ipsum, sed proxime finem progressa deductave erant, Gell. 3, 16:

bellum adfectum videmus et paene confectum,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19:

in provinciā (Caesar) commoratur, ut ea. quae per eum adfecta sunt, perfecta rei publicae tradat,

id. ib. 12, 29: cum adfectā prope aestate uvas a sole mitescere tempus, etc., near the end of summer, id. ap. Gell. l. c.:

Jamque hieme adfectā mitescere coeperat annus,

Sil. 15, 502:

in Q. Mucii infirmissimā valetudine adfectāque jam aetate,

Cic. de Or. 1,45,200; id. Verr. 2,4,43, § 95.—

In nearly the same sense as the verb, absol. and with abl.

Of persons laboring under disease, or not yet quite recovered:

Qui cum ita adfectus esset, ut sibi ipse diffideret,

was in such a state, Cic. Phil. 9, 1, 2:

Caesarem Neapoli adfectum graviter videam,

very ill, id. Att. 14, 17; so Sen. Ep. 101:

quem adfectum visuros crediderant,

ill, Liv. 28, 26:

corpus adfectum,

id. 9, 3:

adfectae vires corporis,

reduced strength, weakness, id. 5, 18:

puella,

Prop. 3, 24, 1:

aegra et adfecta mancipia,

Suet. Claud. 25:

jam quidem adfectum, sed tamen spirantem,

id. Tib. 21.—

Of things, weakened, sick, broken, reduced:

partem istam rei publicae male adfectam tueri,

Cic. Fam. 13, 68:

adfecta res publica,

Liv. 5, 57:

Quid est enim non ita adfectum, ut non deletum exstinctumque esse fateare?

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3:

sic mihi (Sicilia) adfecta visa est, ut hae terrae solent, in quibus bellum versatum est,

id. Verr. 5, 18, 47:

adfecta res familiaris,

Liv. 5, 10:

opem rebus adfectis orare,

id. 6, 3; so Tac. H. 2, 69:

fides,

id. ib. 3, 65:

spes,

Val. Fl. 4, 60.—

Of persons, in gen. sense, disposed, affected, moved, touched:

Quonam modo, Philumena mea, nunc te offendam adfectam?

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 45:

quomodo sim adfectus, e Leptā poteris cognoscere,

Cic. Fam. 14, 17:

ut eodem modo erga amicum adfecti simus, quo erga nosmetipsos,

id. Lael. 16, 56; id. Fin. 1, 20, 68:

cum ita simus adfecti, ut non possimus plane simul vivere,

id. Att. 13, 23; id. Fin. 5, 9, 24:

oculus conturbatus non est probe adfectus ad suum munus fungendum,

in proper state, id. Tusc. 3, 7, 15:

oculi nimis arguti, quem ad modum animo adfecti simus, loquuntur,

id. Leg. 1, 9, 27; id. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Att. 12, 41, 2.—

As rhet. t. t.: affectus ad, related to, resembling:

Tum ex eis rebus, quae quodam modo affectae sunt ad id, de quo quaeritur,

Cic. Top. 2, 8 Forcellini.—

With abl. chiefly of persons, in indifferent sense, in good or bad sense (cf.:

Animi quem ad modum adfecti sint, virtutibus, vitiis, artibus, inertiis, aut quem ad modum commoti, cupiditate, metu, voluptate, molestiā,

Cic. Part. Or. 10, 35).

In indifferent sense, furnished with, having:

validos lictores ulmeis affectos lentis virgis,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 29:

pari filo similique (corpora) adfecta figurā,

Lucr. 2, 341:

Tantāne adfectum quemquam esse hominem audaciā!

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 84:

omnibus virtutibus,

Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—

In bad sense:

aegritudine, morbo adfectus,

Col. R. R. 7, 5, 20:

aerumnis omnibus,

Lucr. 3, 50:

sollicitudine,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

difficultatibus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 13:

fatigatione,

Curt. 7, 11:

frigore et penuriā,

id. 7, 3:

adfecta sterilitate terra, Col. R. R. praef. 1, 2: vitiis,

Cic. Mur. 6, 13:

ignominiā,

id. Att. 7, 3:

supplicio,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

verberibus,

Curt. 7, 11:

vulnere corpus adfectum,

Liv. 1, 25:

morbo,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 6:

dolore,

Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201:

febre,

Suet. Vit. 14:

pestilentiā,

Liv. 41, 5:

desperatione,

Cic. Att. 14, 22:

clade,

Curt. 10, 6:

senectute,

Cic. de Or. 3, 18, 68:

aetate,

id. Cat. 2, 20; id. Sen. 14, 47:

morte,

Serv. ad Cic. Fam. 4, 12.— Sup.:

remiges inopiā adfectissimi,

Vell. 2, 84.—

In good sense:

beneficio adfectus,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4:

aliquo honore aut imperio,

id. Off. 1, 41, 149:

valetudine optimā,

id. Tusc. 4, 37, 81:

laetitiā,

id. Mur. 2, 4, and ad Brut. 1, 4:

munere deorum,

id. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

praemiis,

id. Pis. 37, 90.— Adv.: affectē ( adf-), with (a strong) affection, deeply:

oblectamur et contristamur et conterremur in somniis quam adfecte et anxie et passibiliter,

Tert. Anim. 45.

Ămalthēa, ae, f., = Amaltheia.

A nymph, daughter of Melissus, king of Crete, who fed Jupiter with goat's milk, Hyg. Fab. 139.—Acc. to others, Amalthea is the name of the goat itself, one of whose horns, accidentally broken off, was placed among the stars as the Cornu Amaltheae, or Cornu copiae, Hyg. Astr. 2, 13; 3, 12. From this horn nectar and ambrosia are said to have flowed;

hence, it was the emblem of plenty,

Ov. F. 5, 121; Hor. C. 1, 17, 14; id. C. S. 59; id. Ep. 1, 12, 28.—Hence, meton.: Ămal-thēa, ae, f., or Ămalthēum, i, n.; in Cic., the name of a library (acc. to others, an old sanctuary of Amalthea near the villa of Atticus, in Epirus, adorned with inscriptions, etc., by Atticus, in imitation of which Cicero made a similar one at Arpinum):

Amalthea mea te exspectat,

Cic. Att. 2, 1 fin.; 1, 16 fin. —

The name of the Cumœan sibyl:

Quidquid Amalthea dixit,

Tib. 2, 5, 67; cf. Lact. 1, 6; Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 72.

Ămalthēa, ae, f., = Amaltheia.

A nymph, daughter of Melissus, king of Crete, who fed Jupiter with goat's milk, Hyg. Fab. 139.—Acc. to others, Amalthea is the name of the goat itself, one of whose horns, accidentally broken off, was placed among the stars as the Cornu Amaltheae, or Cornu copiae, Hyg. Astr. 2, 13; 3, 12. From this horn nectar and ambrosia are said to have flowed;

hence, it was the emblem of plenty,

Ov. F. 5, 121; Hor. C. 1, 17, 14; id. C. S. 59; id. Ep. 1, 12, 28.—Hence, meton.: Ămal-thēa, ae, f., or Ămalthēum, i, n.; in Cic., the name of a library (acc. to others, an old sanctuary of Amalthea near the villa of Atticus, in Epirus, adorned with inscriptions, etc., by Atticus, in imitation of which Cicero made a similar one at Arpinum):

Amalthea mea te exspectat,

Cic. Att. 2, 1 fin.; 1, 16 fin. —

The name of the Cumœan sibyl:

Quidquid Amalthea dixit,

Tib. 2, 5, 67; cf. Lact. 1, 6; Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 72.

ārĭdus (contr. ardus, like arfacio from arefacio, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 74, 20; Inscr. Grut. 207), a, um, adj. [areo], dry, withered, arid, parched.

Lit.:

ligna,

Lucr. 2, 881:

lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 13; so Vulg. Eccli. 6, 3; ib. Isa. 56, 3:

cibus,

Lucr. 1, 809; so id. 1, 864:

ficis victitamus aridis,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 59:

folia,

Cic. Pis. 40, 97, and Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46:

ficus,

Vulg. Marc. 11, 20:

Libye,

Ov. M. 2, 238:

quale portentum Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 16:

terra arida et sicca,

Plin. 2, 65, 66, § 166; so,

terra arida,

Vulg. Sap. 19, 7:

arida terra,

ib. Heb. 11, 29; so absol.:

arida (eccl. Lat.),

ib. Gen. 1, 9; ib. Psa. 65, 6; ib. Matt. 23, 15: montes aridi sterilesque. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 67.—Also, subst.: ārĭdum, [p. 161] i, n., a dry place, dry land:

ex arido tela conicere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

naves in aridum subducere,

id. ib. 4, 29.— Meton., of thirst:

sitis,

Lucr. 3, 917, and 6, 1175; so,

os,

Verg. G. 3, 458:

ora,

id. A. 5, 200: guttur, Ov. [ad Liv. 422].—Of a fever:

febris,

i. e. causing thirst, Verg. G. 3, 458 (cf. Lucr. 4, 875); so,

morbus,

Veg. Vet. Art. 1, 4.—Of color:

arbor folio convoluto, arido colore,

like that of dried leaves, Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129.—And of a cracking, snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken:

sonus,

Lucr. 6, 119:

aridus altis Montibus (incipit) audiri fragor,

a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest, Verg. G. 1, 357.—

Trop.

Of things which are dried, shrunk up, shrivelled, meagre, lean:

crura,

Ov. A. A. 3, 272:

nates,

Hor. Epod. 8, 5:

uvis aridior puella passis,

Auct. Priap. 32, 1; so from disease, withered:

manus,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 10; ib. Marc. 3, 1; and absol. of persons:

aridi,

ib. Joan. 5, 3.— Hence, of food or manner of living, meagre, scanty:

in victu arido in hac horridā incultāque vitā,

poor, scanty diet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

vita horrida atque arida,

id. Quinct. 30.— Transf. to men, indigent, poor:

cliens,

Mart. 10, 87, 5.—

Of style, dry, jejune, unadorned, spiritless:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 11:

narratio,

Quint. 2, 4, 3:

aridissimi libri,

Tac. Or. 19.— Meton., of the orator himself:

orator,

Quint. 12, 10, 13:

rhetores,

Sen. Contr. 34:

magister,

Quint. 2, 4, 8.—

Of scholars: sicci omnino atque aridi pueri,

sapless and dry, Suet. Gram. 4; cf. Quint. 2, 8, 9.—

In comic lang., avaricious, of a man from whom, as it were, nothing can be expressed (cf. Argentiexterebronides):

pumex non aeque est aridus atque hic est senex,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18:

pater avidus, miser atque aridus,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 15.—

In Plaut. as a mere natural epithet of metal: arido argentost opus, dry coin, Rud. 3, 4, 21.— Adv. not used.

ārĭdus (contr. ardus, like arfacio from arefacio, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 74, 20; Inscr. Grut. 207), a, um, adj. [areo], dry, withered, arid, parched.

Lit.:

ligna,

Lucr. 2, 881:

lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 13; so Vulg. Eccli. 6, 3; ib. Isa. 56, 3:

cibus,

Lucr. 1, 809; so id. 1, 864:

ficis victitamus aridis,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 59:

folia,

Cic. Pis. 40, 97, and Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46:

ficus,

Vulg. Marc. 11, 20:

Libye,

Ov. M. 2, 238:

quale portentum Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 16:

terra arida et sicca,

Plin. 2, 65, 66, § 166; so,

terra arida,

Vulg. Sap. 19, 7:

arida terra,

ib. Heb. 11, 29; so absol.:

arida (eccl. Lat.),

ib. Gen. 1, 9; ib. Psa. 65, 6; ib. Matt. 23, 15: montes aridi sterilesque. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 67.—Also, subst.: ārĭdum, [p. 161] i, n., a dry place, dry land:

ex arido tela conicere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

naves in aridum subducere,

id. ib. 4, 29.— Meton., of thirst:

sitis,

Lucr. 3, 917, and 6, 1175; so,

os,

Verg. G. 3, 458:

ora,

id. A. 5, 200: guttur, Ov. [ad Liv. 422].—Of a fever:

febris,

i. e. causing thirst, Verg. G. 3, 458 (cf. Lucr. 4, 875); so,

morbus,

Veg. Vet. Art. 1, 4.—Of color:

arbor folio convoluto, arido colore,

like that of dried leaves, Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129.—And of a cracking, snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken:

sonus,

Lucr. 6, 119:

aridus altis Montibus (incipit) audiri fragor,

a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest, Verg. G. 1, 357.—

Trop.

Of things which are dried, shrunk up, shrivelled, meagre, lean:

crura,

Ov. A. A. 3, 272:

nates,

Hor. Epod. 8, 5:

uvis aridior puella passis,

Auct. Priap. 32, 1; so from disease, withered:

manus,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 10; ib. Marc. 3, 1; and absol. of persons:

aridi,

ib. Joan. 5, 3.— Hence, of food or manner of living, meagre, scanty:

in victu arido in hac horridā incultāque vitā,

poor, scanty diet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

vita horrida atque arida,

id. Quinct. 30.— Transf. to men, indigent, poor:

cliens,

Mart. 10, 87, 5.—

Of style, dry, jejune, unadorned, spiritless:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 11:

narratio,

Quint. 2, 4, 3:

aridissimi libri,

Tac. Or. 19.— Meton., of the orator himself:

orator,

Quint. 12, 10, 13:

rhetores,

Sen. Contr. 34:

magister,

Quint. 2, 4, 8.—

Of scholars: sicci omnino atque aridi pueri,

sapless and dry, Suet. Gram. 4; cf. Quint. 2, 8, 9.—

In comic lang., avaricious, of a man from whom, as it were, nothing can be expressed (cf. Argentiexterebronides):

pumex non aeque est aridus atque hic est senex,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18:

pater avidus, miser atque aridus,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 15.—

In Plaut. as a mere natural epithet of metal: arido argentost opus, dry coin, Rud. 3, 4, 21.— Adv. not used.

artĭfex, fĭcis, m. [ars-facio].

Subst.

1.. One that is master in the liberal arts (while opifex is a master in the artes sordidae; cf. ars, I. B. 1.), an artist, artificer:

illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12:

reponendarum (tegularum) nemo artifex (i. e. architectus) inire rationem potuit,

Liv. 42, 3:

in armamentario multis talium operum (sc. tormentorum) artificibus de industriā inclusis,

id. 29, 35:

ut aiunt in Graecis artificibus eos auloedos esse, qui citharoedi fieri non potuerint, sic, etc.,

Cic. Mur. 13, 29; cf. Ov. M. 11, 169 al.:

artifices scaenici,

Cic. Arch. 5, 10; id. Quinct. 25; Suet. Caes. 84:

artifex lignorum,

a carpenter, Vulg. 2 Reg. 5, 11; so,

artifex lignarius,

ib. Isa. 44, 13:

artifices lapidum,

masons, ib. 2 Reg. 5, 11:

artifex aerarius,

a worker in bronze, ib. 3 Reg. 7, 14 (often thus used in Vulg. for opifex).—Also absol.:

artifex,

Plaut. Am. prol. 70:

multi artifices ex Graeciā venerunt,

Liv. 39, 22; so id. 5, 1; 5, 7; 5, 2; 41, 20; so Vulg. Exod. 36, 4; ib. Isa. 40, 20; ib. Act. 19, 24 et saep.—So of a charioteer, as in Gr. technitês:

ne hoc gloriae artificis daretur (auriga standing just before),

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186.—Of a physician, Liv. 5, 3. —Of an orator or writer:

Graeci dicendi artifices et doctores,

Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 23:

cum contra talem artificem (sc. Hortensium oratorem) dicturus essem,

id. Quinct. 24 fin.:

politus scriptor atque artifex,

id. Or. 51, 172. —

Trop., a master in any thing, in doing any thing, etc.:

artifices ad corrumpendum judicium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 71:

artifex callidus comparandarum voluptatum,

id. Fin. 2, 35, 116:

Cotta in ambitione artifex,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 12, 47:

serendae in alios invidiae artifex,

Tac. H. 2, 86 al. —

A maker, originator, author, contriver:

si pulcher est hic mundus, si probus ejus artifex, etc.,

Cic. Tim. 2:

cujus (civitatis) artifex et conditor (est) Deus,

Vulg. Heb. 11, 10:

artifex omnium natura,

Plin. 2, 1, 1, § 3:

si indocta consuetudo tam est artifex suavitatis,

id. Or. 48, 161:

artificem (sc. malorum) mediis immittam Terea flammis,

Ov. M. 6, 615:

vadit ad artificem dirae Polymestora caedis,

id. ib. 13, 551:

sceleris infandi artifex,

Sen. Agam. 975.—Ironic.:

O artificem probum!

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 29.—Also for a sly, cunning contriver, inventor of a thing (cf. ars, II. fin.):

et mihi jam multi crudele canebant Artificis scelus,

Verg. A. 2, 125; 11, 407. —

Adj.

Act., skilled in a thing; skilful, practised, ingenious, dexterous:

Bomilcar et per homines talis negotii artifices itinera explorat,

Sall. J. 35, 5:

miles decollandi artifex,

Suet. Calig. 32:

artifex faber de silvā,

Vulg. Sap. 13, 11:

tam artifices saltationis,

Suet. Tit. 7.—Also of inanimate things:

artifices Natura manus admovit,

Ov. M. 15, 218:

Tellus artifices ne terat Osca manus,

Prop. 5, 2, 62:

artifex, ut ita dicam, stilus,

Cic. Brut. 25, 95:

mobilitas ignea artifex ad formanda corpora,

Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 187:

vir tam artificis ingenii,

id. 8, 16, 21, § 55 al. — Poet. with inf.:

venter, negatas artifex sequi voces,

Pers. prol. 11.—

Pass., skilfully prepared or made, artistic, artificial, ingenious:

quattuor artifices vivida signa boves,

Prop. 3, 29, 8:

tantae tamque artifices argutiae,

Plin. 10, 29, 4, § 85:

artifex dimicatio,

id. 8, 40, 61, § 150:

motus,

Quint. 9, 4, 8:

manus libratur artifici temperamento,

Plin. 12, 25, 54, §

115: artifex vultus,

Pers. 5, 40:

plaga,

Sol. 35 al. — Poet. of a horse, broken, trained, Ov. A. A. 3, 556.