caducum

cădūcus, a, um, adj. [cado].

That falls or has fallen, falling, fallen (mostly poet.): bacae glandesque caducae, * Lucr. 5, 1362; cf. Dig. 50, 16, 30:

glans caduca est, quae ex arbore cecidit: oleae,

Cato, R. R. 23, 2:

spica,

that fell in mowing, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 12:

aqua,

id. ib. 3, 5, 2:

aquae,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 39:

frondes,

Verg. G. 1, 368:

frons,

Ov. M. 7, 840; id. Tr. 3, 1, 45:

folia,

id. Am. 2, 16, 45:

lacrimae,

id. M. 6, 396:

poma,

Prop. 2, 32, 40:

oliva,

Col. 12, 52, 22:

fulmen,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 44:

te, triste lignum, te caducum In domini caput immerentis,

id. ib. 2, 13, 11; cf.

ligna,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 66 Müll.:

tela,

Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:

moro coma nigrior caduco,

Mart. 8, 64, 7.—

Caduca auspicia dicunt cum aliquid in templo excidit, veluti virga e manu, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64, 9 Müll.—

Caduci bello, that have fallen in war, slain in battle:

bello caduci Dardanidae,

Verg. A. 6, 481.—

In gen., devoted to death, destined to die:

juvenis,

Verg. A. 10, 622.—

Inclined to fall, that easily falls (rare):

vitis, quae naturā caduca est et, nisi fulta sit, ad terram fertur,

Cic. Sen. 15, 52; cf. id. ib. 2, 5. —Hence,

Esp., in medic. lang.: homo, epileptic, Firm. Math. 3, 6, n. 8;

Aemil. Mac. c. de Paeonia: equus,

Veg. 1, 25, 2:

asellus morbo detestabili caducus,

App. M. 9, p. 236, 12:

morbus,

the falling sickness, epilepsy, App. Herb. 60; Aemil. Mac. c. Aristoloch.; Isid. Orig. 14, 7, 5.—

Trop.

In gen., frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory, vain (class., esp. in prose):

in eo, qui ex animo constet et corpus caducus et infirmus,

Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 98:

ignis,

quickly extinguished, Sen. Q. N. 2, 23, 2:

res humanae fragiles caducaeque,

Cic. Lael. 27, 102: quis confidit semper sibi illud stabile et firmum permansurum, quod fragile et caducum sit, id. Fin. 2, 27, 86:

nihil nisi mortale et caducum praeter animos,

id. Rep. 6, 17, 17: alia omnia incerta sunt, caduca, mobilia;

virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus,

id. Phil. 4, 5, 13; id. Lael. 6, 20; id. Dom. 58, 146:

tituli,

Plin. Pan. 55, 8:

tempus,

id. Ep. 3, 7, 14:

labores,

id. ib. 9, 3, 2:

fama,

Ov. P. 4, 8, 46:

spes,

vain, futile, id. M. 9, 597:

preces,

ineffectual, id. F. 1, 181:

pars voti,

id. Ib. 88.—

Esp., in law, caduca bona were those possessions which did not fall to the heir mentioned in a will, because he was childless, but passed to other heirs (in default of such, to the exchequer); vacant, having no heir (cf. Hugo, Rechtsgesch. p. 760 sq.):

quod quis sibi testamento relictum, ita ut jure civili capere possit, aliquă ex causă deinde non ceperit, caducum appellatur, veluti ceciderit ab eo, etc., Ulp. Lib. Regul. tit. 10: hereditates,

Cic. Phil. 10, 5, 11; Cod. Th. 10, 10, 30 pr.; Dig. 22, 5, 9: portio, Gai Inst. 2, 206.—As subst.: cădūcum, i, n., property without an heir, an unowned eslate:

legatum omne capis nec non et dulce caducum,

Juv. 9, 88:

caduca occupare,

Just. 19, 3, 6: vindicare, Gal Inst. 2, 207.—

Transf., of other things:

nostra est omnis ista prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio, in quam homines, quasi caducam atque vacuam, abundantes otio, nobis occupatis, involaverunt,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122 (no comp. or sup.).—Hence, adv.: cădū-cĭter, precipitately, headlong: caduciter = praecipitanter;

Varro: aquai caduciter ruentis,

Non. p. 91, 1 sq.

cădūcus, a, um, adj. [cado].

That falls or has fallen, falling, fallen (mostly poet.): bacae glandesque caducae, * Lucr. 5, 1362; cf. Dig. 50, 16, 30:

glans caduca est, quae ex arbore cecidit: oleae,

Cato, R. R. 23, 2:

spica,

that fell in mowing, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 12:

aqua,

id. ib. 3, 5, 2:

aquae,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 39:

frondes,

Verg. G. 1, 368:

frons,

Ov. M. 7, 840; id. Tr. 3, 1, 45:

folia,

id. Am. 2, 16, 45:

lacrimae,

id. M. 6, 396:

poma,

Prop. 2, 32, 40:

oliva,

Col. 12, 52, 22:

fulmen,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 44:

te, triste lignum, te caducum In domini caput immerentis,

id. ib. 2, 13, 11; cf.

ligna,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 66 Müll.:

tela,

Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:

moro coma nigrior caduco,

Mart. 8, 64, 7.—

Caduca auspicia dicunt cum aliquid in templo excidit, veluti virga e manu, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64, 9 Müll.—

Caduci bello, that have fallen in war, slain in battle:

bello caduci Dardanidae,

Verg. A. 6, 481.—

In gen., devoted to death, destined to die:

juvenis,

Verg. A. 10, 622.—

Inclined to fall, that easily falls (rare):

vitis, quae naturā caduca est et, nisi fulta sit, ad terram fertur,

Cic. Sen. 15, 52; cf. id. ib. 2, 5. —Hence,

Esp., in medic. lang.: homo, epileptic, Firm. Math. 3, 6, n. 8;

Aemil. Mac. c. de Paeonia: equus,

Veg. 1, 25, 2:

asellus morbo detestabili caducus,

App. M. 9, p. 236, 12:

morbus,

the falling sickness, epilepsy, App. Herb. 60; Aemil. Mac. c. Aristoloch.; Isid. Orig. 14, 7, 5.—

Trop.

In gen., frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory, vain (class., esp. in prose):

in eo, qui ex animo constet et corpus caducus et infirmus,

Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 98:

ignis,

quickly extinguished, Sen. Q. N. 2, 23, 2:

res humanae fragiles caducaeque,

Cic. Lael. 27, 102: quis confidit semper sibi illud stabile et firmum permansurum, quod fragile et caducum sit, id. Fin. 2, 27, 86:

nihil nisi mortale et caducum praeter animos,

id. Rep. 6, 17, 17: alia omnia incerta sunt, caduca, mobilia;

virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus,

id. Phil. 4, 5, 13; id. Lael. 6, 20; id. Dom. 58, 146:

tituli,

Plin. Pan. 55, 8:

tempus,

id. Ep. 3, 7, 14:

labores,

id. ib. 9, 3, 2:

fama,

Ov. P. 4, 8, 46:

spes,

vain, futile, id. M. 9, 597:

preces,

ineffectual, id. F. 1, 181:

pars voti,

id. Ib. 88.—

Esp., in law, caduca bona were those possessions which did not fall to the heir mentioned in a will, because he was childless, but passed to other heirs (in default of such, to the exchequer); vacant, having no heir (cf. Hugo, Rechtsgesch. p. 760 sq.):

quod quis sibi testamento relictum, ita ut jure civili capere possit, aliquă ex causă deinde non ceperit, caducum appellatur, veluti ceciderit ab eo, etc., Ulp. Lib. Regul. tit. 10: hereditates,

Cic. Phil. 10, 5, 11; Cod. Th. 10, 10, 30 pr.; Dig. 22, 5, 9: portio, Gai Inst. 2, 206.—As subst.: cădūcum, i, n., property without an heir, an unowned eslate:

legatum omne capis nec non et dulce caducum,

Juv. 9, 88:

caduca occupare,

Just. 19, 3, 6: vindicare, Gal Inst. 2, 207.—

Transf., of other things:

nostra est omnis ista prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio, in quam homines, quasi caducam atque vacuam, abundantes otio, nobis occupatis, involaverunt,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122 (no comp. or sup.).—Hence, adv.: cădū-cĭter, precipitately, headlong: caduciter = praecipitanter;

Varro: aquai caduciter ruentis,

Non. p. 91, 1 sq.

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* * *

frăgĭlis, e, adj. [id.], easily broken, brittle, fragile (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. signif.; cf.: caducus, fluxus).

Lit.:

cadi,

Ov. M. 12, 243:

coryli (with tiliae molles),

id. ib. 10, 93:

rami,

Verg. E. 8, 40:

myrtus,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 16:

ratis,

id. ib. 1, 3, 10; cf.

phaselus,

id. ib. 3, 2, 28:

aes malleis,

Plin. 34, 8, 20, § 94; cf.:

saccharon dentibus,

id. 12, 8, 17, § 32:

crystalli centrum,

id. 37, 2, 10, § 28:

caput ictibus parvis,

Gell. 6, 1, 11:

tenuior fragiliorque penna scarabaeorum,

Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 97:

ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora,

Ov. A. A. 1, 347.— Poet.:

aquae,

i. e. ice, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 26:

fragiles sonitus chartarum,

i. e. crackling, Lucr. 6, 112:

lauri,

Verg. E. 8, 82:

pollicibus fragiles increpuere manus,

Prop. 4 (5), 7, 12; cf. fragor.—

Transf., in gen., weak, perishable, frail (physically or mentally):

fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24 fin.;

in fragili corpore odiosa omnis offensio est,

id. Sen. 18, 65; cf.:

(corpora) fragili natura praedita,

Lucr. 1, 581; and absol.:

fragili quaerens illidere dentem, Offendet solido,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 77: fragilissimus alvus, Att. ap. Non. 193, 26.—Of an effeminate man: Julius et fragilis Pediatia (sarcastically in the fem. gen. instead of Pediatius), qs. the delicate Miss Pediatius, Hor. S. 1, 8, 39:

quis enim confidit, sibi semper id stabile et firmum permansurum, quod fragile et caducum sit?

Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86:

res humanae fragiles caducaeque sunt,

id. Lael. 27, 102; id. Leg. 1, 8, 24; cf.:

divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,

Sall. C. 1, 4:

fortuna populi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 28 fin.:

nec aliud est aeque fragile in homine (quam memoria),

Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90:

nulli vita fragilior (quam homini),

id. 7 praef. § 5; cf.:

(hominum) aevum omne et breve et fragile est,

Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

haud aevi fragilis sonipes,

Sil. 3, 386: anni fragiles et inertior aetas, the frail years (of age), Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 3.— Adv. does not occur.

fulmen, ĭnis, n. [contr. from fulgimen, v. fulgeo], lightning that strikes or sets on fire, a thunderbolt (opp. fulgur, lightning).

Lit.:

placet Stoicis, eos anhelitus terrae cum se in nubem induerint ejusque tenuissimam quamque partem coeperint dividere atque dirumpere, tum et fulgores et tonitrua exsistere: si autem nubium conflictu ardor expressus se emiserit, id esse fulmen,

Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44; cf. Sen. Q. N. 2, 16:

non enim te puto esse eum, qui Jovi fulmen fabricatos esse Cyclopas in Aetna putes,

Cic. Div. 2, 19, 43:

inter fulmina et tonitrua,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 15; cf.

under II.: Phaëthon ictu fulminis deflagravit,

id. Off. 3, 25, 94; cf.:

Romulus lactens fulmine ictus,

id. ib. 2, 21, 47 (for which more usually:

e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16):

fulmine tactus,

Ov. Tr. 2, 144:

fulminis ictu concidere,

id. ib. 2, 20, 45:

fulmine percussus,

id. N. D. 3, 22, 57; cf. id. ib. 3, 35, 84:

fulmina emittere... fulmen jacere,

id. ib. 2, 19, 44 sq.:

fulminis ictus evadere,

Juv. 12, 17:

fulmine justo ruere,

id. 8, 92:

ideo plurima aestate fiunt fulmina, qua plurimum calidi est,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 57, 2:

validum,

Lucr. 6, 228:

igniferum,

id. 6, 379:

caducum,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 44:

qualem ministrum fulminis alitem, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 4, 1:

quem (Periclem) fulminibus et caelesti fragori comparant comici,

Quint. 12, 10, 24; cf.

fulgeo, I. B.: ipse Pater corusca fulmina molitur dextra,

Verg. G. 1, 330:

fulmen erat, Genitor quae plurima caelo deicit,

id. A. 8, 427:

fulmina pauper creditur atque deos,

Juv. 3, 145.—Respecting the nature of lightnings, and their religious interpretation [p. 791] among the Etruscans and Romans, cf. Sen. Q. N. 2, 12 sq.; Plin. 2, 51, 52, § 137; Serv. Verg. A. 1, 43; 230.—

Trop., a thunderbolt, i. q. destructive power, crushing calamity:

non dubitaverim me gravissimis tempestatibus ac paene fulminibus ipsis obvium ferre conservandorum civium causa,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4 (so we should read, and not fluminibus; cf. the passage quoted above from Cic. Div. 2, 19, 43; besides, if the figure were that of waves, it would be expressed not by fluminibus, but by fluctibus; v. fluctus, II. B.); cf.:

fulmina fortunae contemnere,

id. Tusc. 2, 27, 66:

juro per mea mala, has me in illo (puero) vidisse virtutes ingenii, ut prorsus posset hinc esse tanti fulminis (i. e. mortis pueri) metus, quod observatum fere est, celerius occidere festinatam maturitatem,

Quint. 6 praef. § 10; cf. Liv. 45, 41, 1:

quam fulmine justo Et Capito et Numitor ruerint, damnante senatu,

Juv. 8, 92; cf. Liv. 6, 39, 7.—Of oratory:

ain' tandem? insanire tibi videris (Paetus), quod imitere verborum meorum, ut scribis, fulmina? etc.,

Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1:

(stilus) nec acumine posteriorum nec fulmine utens superiorum (al. flumine),

id. Or. 6, 21.— Poet.:

fulmen habent acres in aduncis dentibus apri,

i. e. destructive power, Ov. M. 10, 550; cf. id. ib. 1, 305:

(aper) Erectus setis et aduncae fulmine malae,

Stat. Th. 2, 470; see fulmineus, II.: tune illum (Hannibalem), cum frons propior lumenque corusco Igne micat, tune illa viri, quae vertice fundit, Fulmina pertuleris, fiery flashings (of the eye), Sil. 11, 342.—Applied to the Scipios, as heroes and conquerors of the Carthaginians:

Scipiades, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror,

Lucr. 3, 1034;

imitated: duo fulmina belli Scipiadae,

Verg. A. 6, 843:

ubi nunc sunt fulmina gentis Scipiadae?

Sil. 7, 106:

duo fulmina nostri imperii, Cn. et P. Scipiones,

these two thunderbolts of our empire, Cic. Balb. 15, 34.—Prov.:

Fulmen est, ubi cum potestate habitat iracundia,

Pub. Syr. 184 Rib.

futtĭlis (less correctly fūtĭlis, Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 204), e, adj. [fundo; cf. futis], that easily pours out.

Lit., only subst.: futtĭle, is, n., a water-vessel, broad above and pointed below, used at sacrifices to Vesta and Ceres, Don. Ter. And. 3, 5, 3; Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19; Schol. Stat. Th. 8, 297; Schol. Hor. A. P. 231; Serv. Verg. A. 11, 339.—

Transf., in gen., that can not contain (very rare):

canes,

that void their excrement through fear, Phaedr. 4, 18, 33:

glacies,

brittle, Verg. A. 12, 740.—

Trop., untrustworthy, vain, worthless, futile (class.;

syn.: frivolus, vanus, levis): servon fortunas meas me commisisse futtili!

Ter. And. 3, 5, 3; cf.:

irrideamus haruspices: vanos, futtiles esse dicamus,

Cic. Div. 1, 19, 36; and:

quis non odit sordidos, vanos, leves, futtiles?

id. Fin. 3, 11, 38:

locutores (with leves et importuni),

Gell. 1, 15, 1:

auctor,

Verg. A. 11, 339:

competitores,

Gell. 4, 8, 4; Enn. ap. Non. 511, 6 (Trag. v. 349 Vahl.):

futtiles commenticiaeque sententiae,

Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18; cf.:

dicit quaedam futtilia et frivola,

Gell. 16, 12, 1:

opes ejus, quae futiles et conruptae sunt,

Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 41, 20 Dietsch:

alacritas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37:

laetitiae,

id. ib. 5, 6, 16:

et caducum tempus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 14:

lingua,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 10:

de causa,

Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 32:

nec futilis ictus,

Sil. 15, 797.— Hence, adv., in vain, idly, uselessly (anteand post-class.).

Form futtĭle: factum futtile, Enn. ap. Non. 514, 14 (Trag. v. 350 Vahl.):

provenisti,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 73 Ritschl.—

Form futtĭlĭter:

blaterata,

App. Mag. p. 275:

futile futtiliter,

Non. 514, 13.

futtĭlis (less correctly fūtĭlis, Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 204), e, adj. [fundo; cf. futis], that easily pours out.

Lit., only subst.: futtĭle, is, n., a water-vessel, broad above and pointed below, used at sacrifices to Vesta and Ceres, Don. Ter. And. 3, 5, 3; Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19; Schol. Stat. Th. 8, 297; Schol. Hor. A. P. 231; Serv. Verg. A. 11, 339.—

Transf., in gen., that can not contain (very rare):

canes,

that void their excrement through fear, Phaedr. 4, 18, 33:

glacies,

brittle, Verg. A. 12, 740.—

Trop., untrustworthy, vain, worthless, futile (class.;

syn.: frivolus, vanus, levis): servon fortunas meas me commisisse futtili!

Ter. And. 3, 5, 3; cf.:

irrideamus haruspices: vanos, futtiles esse dicamus,

Cic. Div. 1, 19, 36; and:

quis non odit sordidos, vanos, leves, futtiles?

id. Fin. 3, 11, 38:

locutores (with leves et importuni),

Gell. 1, 15, 1:

auctor,

Verg. A. 11, 339:

competitores,

Gell. 4, 8, 4; Enn. ap. Non. 511, 6 (Trag. v. 349 Vahl.):

futtiles commenticiaeque sententiae,

Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18; cf.:

dicit quaedam futtilia et frivola,

Gell. 16, 12, 1:

opes ejus, quae futiles et conruptae sunt,

Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 41, 20 Dietsch:

alacritas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37:

laetitiae,

id. ib. 5, 6, 16:

et caducum tempus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 14:

lingua,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 10:

de causa,

Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 32:

nec futilis ictus,

Sil. 15, 797.— Hence, adv., in vain, idly, uselessly (anteand post-class.).

Form futtĭle: factum futtile, Enn. ap. Non. 514, 14 (Trag. v. 350 Vahl.):

provenisti,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 73 Ritschl.—

Form futtĭlĭter:

blaterata,

App. Mag. p. 275:

futile futtiliter,

Non. 514, 13.

mortālis, e, adj. [mors], subject to death, liable to die, mortal (class.).

Lit.:

quid in iis mortale et caducum, quid divinum aeternumque sit,

Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 61:

animal,

id. N. D. 3, 13, 32.—

Transf.

Human, mortal:

mucro,

of human workmanship, Verg. A. 12, 740:

condicio vitae,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33:

opera,

Liv. 1, 2:

acta,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 97:

mortalin' decuit violari vulnere divum?

from the hand of a mortal, Verg. A. 12, 797:

haud tibi vultus Mortalis,

id. ib. 1, 328:

nec mortale sonans,

like a human voice, id. ib. 6, 50:

si mortalis idem nemo sciat,

Juv. 13, 76.— Comp.:

aliquid ipso homine mortalius,

more perishable, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 110.—Hence, subst.: mortālis, is, comm., a man, mortal, human being (in sing. mostly ante-class.):

lepidus ecastor mortalis est Strabax,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 57:

edepol, mortalis malos,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 59; id. Truc. 2, 1, 36; id. Aul. 2, 4, 40:

ego, quantum mortalis deum possum, te ac tua vestigia sequar,

Liv. 3, 17, 6.—Usually pīur.: mortales, like the Gr. thnêtoi, mortals, men, mankind:

quod ad immortales attinet haec: deinceps quod ad mortales attinet, videamus,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 75 Müll.: est locus Hesperiam quam mortales perhibebant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 23 Vahl.); cf.: omnes mortales sese laudarier optant, id. ap. Aug. de Trin. 13, 6 (Ann. v. 551 Vahl.):

omnes mortales hunc aiebant Calliclem vivere, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 175:

diu magnum inter mortales certamen fuit, etc.,

Sall. C. 1, 5:

omnes mortales omnium generum, aetatum, ordinum,

Cic. Pis. 40, 96:

defendo multos mortales,

id. Div. in Caecil. 25:

plus debuisse fortunae, quam solus omnium mortalium in potestate habuit (Alexander),

Curt. 10, 5, 35.— mortālĭa, ĭum, n., human affairs, Verg. A. 1, 462; Tac. A. 14, 54.—

Temporary, transient (opp. immortalis, imperishable, eternal;

v. immortalis): neque me vero paenitet, mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias habere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 32; Liv. 34, 6.— Hence, adv.: mortālĭter, mortally, in the manner of mortals (eccl. Lat.):

mortaliter vivere,

Aug. Enchir. 64.

mortālis, e, adj. [mors], subject to death, liable to die, mortal (class.).

Lit.:

quid in iis mortale et caducum, quid divinum aeternumque sit,

Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 61:

animal,

id. N. D. 3, 13, 32.—

Transf.

Human, mortal:

mucro,

of human workmanship, Verg. A. 12, 740:

condicio vitae,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33:

opera,

Liv. 1, 2:

acta,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 97:

mortalin' decuit violari vulnere divum?

from the hand of a mortal, Verg. A. 12, 797:

haud tibi vultus Mortalis,

id. ib. 1, 328:

nec mortale sonans,

like a human voice, id. ib. 6, 50:

si mortalis idem nemo sciat,

Juv. 13, 76.— Comp.:

aliquid ipso homine mortalius,

more perishable, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 110.—Hence, subst.: mortālis, is, comm., a man, mortal, human being (in sing. mostly ante-class.):

lepidus ecastor mortalis est Strabax,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 57:

edepol, mortalis malos,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 59; id. Truc. 2, 1, 36; id. Aul. 2, 4, 40:

ego, quantum mortalis deum possum, te ac tua vestigia sequar,

Liv. 3, 17, 6.—Usually pīur.: mortales, like the Gr. thnêtoi, mortals, men, mankind:

quod ad immortales attinet haec: deinceps quod ad mortales attinet, videamus,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 75 Müll.: est locus Hesperiam quam mortales perhibebant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 23 Vahl.); cf.: omnes mortales sese laudarier optant, id. ap. Aug. de Trin. 13, 6 (Ann. v. 551 Vahl.):

omnes mortales hunc aiebant Calliclem vivere, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 175:

diu magnum inter mortales certamen fuit, etc.,

Sall. C. 1, 5:

omnes mortales omnium generum, aetatum, ordinum,

Cic. Pis. 40, 96:

defendo multos mortales,

id. Div. in Caecil. 25:

plus debuisse fortunae, quam solus omnium mortalium in potestate habuit (Alexander),

Curt. 10, 5, 35.— mortālĭa, ĭum, n., human affairs, Verg. A. 1, 462; Tac. A. 14, 54.—

Temporary, transient (opp. immortalis, imperishable, eternal;

v. immortalis): neque me vero paenitet, mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias habere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 32; Liv. 34, 6.— Hence, adv.: mortālĭter, mortally, in the manner of mortals (eccl. Lat.):

mortaliter vivere,

Aug. Enchir. 64.

părĭēs, ĕtis, m. (in Verg. A. 2, 442; 5, 589, pārietibus, quadrisyl.; see Carey's Lat. Prosody, § 47, p. 173) [kindr. with Sanscr. paryanta, from pari-iyanta, margo; Gr. peras, peirar], a wall (cf.: murus, maceria): aut permaceat paries percussus trifaci, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. trifax, p. 367 Müll. (Ann. v. 524 Vahl.): tosti alti stant parietes, id. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 116 ib.):

perfodere parietem,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 64; id. As. 3, 2, 17:

perforator parietum,

a term of abuse, id. Ps. 4, 2, 24:

quasi mus, in medio pariete vorsabere,

id. Cas. 1, 52; id. Trin. 4, 3, 32:

quae (domus nostra) non ea est, quam parietes nostri cingunt, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 13, 19; cf. id. ib. 3, 9, 14; id. Mil. 27, 75; id. Top. 4, 22:

parietes disturbare,

id. Par. 4, 1, 28: itaque parietes modo urbis stant;

rem vero publicam penitus amisimus,

the walls, the houses, id. Off. 2, 8, 29:

interiores templi parietes,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, § 122:

intra parietes aluit eam gloriam, quam, etc.,

id. Brut. 8, 32; id. Quint. 11, 38:

parietes turris lateribus exstruere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9:

parietibus textum caecis iter,

Verg. A. 5, 589:

fissus tenui rimā paries,

Ov. M. 4, 65:

quae pro pariete subjectae et omni opere conjunctae,

like a wall, Caes. B. G. 4, 17:

non communione parietum sed propriis muris,

Tac. A. 15, 43.—Of walls of wickerwork:

et paries lento vimine textus erat,

Ov. F. 6, 262:

craticii parietes,

Vitr. 2, 8; Plin. 35, 14, 48, § 169; 17, 10, 11, § 62:

craticulam et parietes,

the top and sides, Vulg. Exod. 30, 3.—Prov.:

tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84:

utrosque parietes linere,

to carry on both shoulders, Petr. 39: duos parietes de eādem fideliā dealbare, to kill two birds with one stone, Cur. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29, 2:

in caducum parietem inclinare,

to lean on a broken reed, Spart. Hadr. 23.—

Trop.:

neve inter vos significetis ego ero paries,

partition-wall, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 14:

densitatis,

rampart, Plin. 17, 10, 11, § 62.