carmen famosum

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    Carmen, carminis. pen. cor. n. g. Chanson.

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    Arma carminis. Ouid. Toutes choses qui aident à composer chansons et carmes.

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    Ars carminis. Horat. L'art et science de composer carmes.

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    Carmen cruciatus. Cic. Les parolles ou la formule dont use un juge condemnant le malfaicteur à souffrir quelque peine.

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    Carmen virtutis. Cic. Un accord.

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    Absurdum carmen. Cic. Inepte, Mal convenable.

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    AEolium carmen. Horat. Poesie grecque.

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    Alterna carmina. Ouidius. Hexametres et pentametres, Elegiaques.

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    Connubiale carmen. Claud. Chanson nuptiale.

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    Carmina exequialia. Ouid. De funerailles.

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    Exorabile carmen. Valer. Flac. Par lequel nous impetrons aucune chose.

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    Famosum. Horat. Diffamatoire.

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    Festum. Claud. De feste, Joyeux.

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    Ficto carmine tenere aliquem. Virgil. L'amuser de fables.

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    Flebile carmen. Ouid. Triste.

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    Foedum. Horat. Laid, et ord, Mal composé.

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    Foelicia carmina. Ouid. Bons, Parfaicts, Bien composez.

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    Honorum carmen. Valer. Flac. Digne d'estre loué et honoré.

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    Incondita carmina. Liu. Chansons sans mesure.

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    Lucida carmina. Lucret. Clers, et faciles à entendre.

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    Mansurum carmen. Stat. Qui ne perira point.

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    Medicabile carmen. Valer. Flac. Qui oste toutes fascheries et ennuis, Qui console et resjouist.

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    Mordax. Ouid. Picquant, et injurieux.

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    Mortale. Ouid. Qui ne durera point.

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    Obliquum. Stat. Qui picque couvertement aucun.

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    Operosa carmina. Horat. Laborieux, Faicts avec grande peine et labeur.

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    Perpetuum. Ouid. Continu, sans interruption.

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    Carmina probrosa factitare. Tacit. Injurieux, Pleins d'injures.

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    Socialia carmina. Ouid. Chansons nuptiales.

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    Triuiale. Iuuenal. Vulgaire, De petite estime.

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    Sibi intus canere carmen. Cic. Parler à son prouffit particulier.

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    Capi carmine. Virg. Estre prins, et attraict, ou amiellé par, etc.

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    Componere carmen alicui. Cic. Luy bastir et composer son roullet.

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    Concordant carmina neruis. Ouid. Quand la voix du chantre accorde avec le luc, ou la harpe, ou autre tel instrument.

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    Condere carmen. Cic. Composer.

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    Contingere carmina Musaeo lepore. Lucret. Oindre.

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    Deductum carmen. Virgil. Gresle, de petit style.

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    Delenda carmina. Horat. Dignes d'estre abolis et effacez.

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    Dicere aliquem carmine. Virgil. Escrire les louanges d'aucun par carmes.

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    Distringere aliquem carmine. Ouid. Picquer, Navrer, Taxer.

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    Ferire carmen triuiale moneta communi. Iuuenal. Carmen facere stylo vulgari. Forger et faire des vers vulgaires et de style commun.

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    Fingere carmina linenda cedro et seruanda cupresso. Horat. Digne de ne perir jamais,

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    Fundere carmina. Sil. Composer en abondance.

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    Intendere carmen alicui. Claud. Escrire de quelcun.

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    Ludere carmina. Virgil. Composer par passetemps.

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    Mandare carmina foliis. Virgil. Escrire sur des fueilles.

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    Nectere carmina. Stat. Composer.

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    Sancire alicui carmina. Stat. Desdier.

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    Tradere carminibus res gestas. Lucret. Descrire les faicts.

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    Vaticinari carminibus. Cic. Prophetizer par carmes.

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    Carmen. Plin. Priere ou roullet contenant certains mots, esquels on n'adjouste ne diminue on rien.

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    Carmen, pro cantu bubonis auis. Virgil. Le chant d'un hibou.

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    Carmen, pro Vaticinio. Virgil. Devinement, Prophetie, Prediction des choses futures.

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    Immota carmina Sibyllae. Claud. Veritables et certaines propheties.

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    Diuino carmine dicere. Virgil. Par prophetie, et inspiration de Dieu.

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    Carmen, pro Incantatione. Virgil. Enchantement, Charme, Incantation.

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    Auxiliare carmen. Ouid. Qui aide.

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    Soluere mentes carminibus. Virg. Oster hors de soulci et chagrin par, etc.

carmen, ĭnis, n. (old form cas-men, Varr. L. L. p. 86 Bip.) [Sanscr. çasto [p. 293] declaim, praise; cf.: camilla, censeo], a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (mostly poet.; in prose, instead of it, cantus; cf.

also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),

Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.:

carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,

Ov. M. 11, 317; cf.

vocum,

id. ib. 12, 157:

per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis,

id. ib. 1, 518; cf. id. ib. 11, 5;

5, 340: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri,

Verg. A. 4, 462; so id. G. 4, 514; Ov. M. 10, 453:

cygnorum,

id. ib. 5, 387; cf. id. ib. 14, 430; Mart. 13, 77:

citharae liquidum carmen,

Lucr. 4, 981; cf. id. 2, 506; Hor. C. 1, 15, 15:

lyrae carmen,

Prop. 2, 1, 9 Hertzb.:

canere miserabile carmen,

Ov. M. 5, 118:

harundineum,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 12:

socialia carmina,

id. H. 12, 139:

barbaricum,

id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:

hoc carmen hic tribunus plebis non vobis sed sibi intus canit,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 68; cf. Aspendius.—Also the sound of waves, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 319; cf. Auct. Aetn. 295.—

Esp., a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song, whether in a broader sense, of every kind of poetic production, epic, dramatic, lyric (opp. to prose and to cantus, the melody), or, in a more restricted sense, for lyric poetry.

Cum hanc felicitatem non prosa modo multi sint consecuti sed etiam carmine, Quint. 10, 7, 19; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 8, 6, 27; 10, 1, 95:

perspicuum est, et cantus (melodies) tum fuisse rescriptos vocum sonis et carmina (words),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 34; 3, 51, 197:

carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae Tradere,

Lucr. 5, 1444:

Maeonii carminis alite,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 2:

epicum carmen,

Quint. 10, 1, 62:

heroici sublimitas,

id. 1, 8, 5; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 3, 16:

Iliacum,

Hor. A. P. 129:

historia quodammodo carmen solutum,

Quint. 10, 1, 31:

Pierium,

Lucr. 1, 946; 4, 21:

tragicum,

Hor. A. P. 220:

carmina Livi,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 69; cf. Tac. A. 11, 13:

Saliorum carmina,

Varr. L. L. 3, 26; 9, 61; Quint. 1, 6, 40; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 86 Schmid.; cf. Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

lyricorum carmina,

Quint. 9, 4, 53; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 32:

Aeolium,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 13:

Lydis remixto carmine tibiis,

id. ib. 4, 15, 30; cf. id. Epod. 9, 5:

carmen funebre proprie Naenia,

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

carmina quae in Phaeacum epulis canuntur,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; cf. id. ib. 19, 75:

lascivum,

Quint. 9, 4, 108:

obscena,

satirical, abusive poems, libels, Prop. 1, 16, 10;

the same: famosum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31 Schmid.:

malum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 153; id. S. 2, 1. 82 Heind.:

obliquum,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 27:

probrosum,

Tac. A. 4, 31; cf.:

si quis carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri,

Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; and Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 259 sq.; Fischer ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4.—Phrases:

canere,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

cantare cui,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

cantitare,

Cic. Brut. 19, 75: CONDERE, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; Lucr. 5, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. A. P. 436:

contexere,

Cic. Cael. 8, 18:

disponere,

Lucr. 3, 420:

pangere,

id. 1, 934; 4, 9:

fingere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 32; id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331:

dicere,

id. C. 4, 12, 10; id. C. S. 8:

dictare,

id. S. 1, 10, 75; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

docere,

id. C. 2, 19, 1:

ad umbilicum adducere,

id. Epod. 14, 7:

deducere ad sua tempora,

Ov. M. 1, 4:

fundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64:

componere ad lyram,

Quint. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. 11, 2, 11.—

Esp.

In a restricted sense for lyric or epic poetry:

carmine tu gaudes, hic delectatur iambis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 59 Schmid.; cf.:

carmina compono, hic elegos,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91: amabile carmen, i. e. a love poem or song, id. ib. 1, 3, 24.—And opp. to the drama for an epic or lyric poem:

fabula, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus,

Quint. 2, 4, 2.—

A part of a great epic poem, a book, canto:

in primo carmine,

Lucr. 6, 937. —

A poetic inscription:

et tumulum facite et tumulo superaddite carmen: Daphnis ego, etc.,

Verg. E. 5, 42; id. A. 3, 287; Ov. M. 14, 442; id. F. 3, 547 al.—

A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction:

ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas,

Verg. E. 4, 4; so Ov. M. 6, 582; Liv. 1, 45, 5; 23, 11, 4; 25, 12, 4; 29, 10, 6; 38, 45, 3; Tac. A. 3, 63; 4, 43; 6, 12 al.—

A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf.

Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,

Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 10: carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam;

Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Verg. E. 8, 69 sq.; so id. A. 4, 487; Hor. Epod. 5, 72; 17, 4; id. S. 1, 8, 19; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 35; Ov. M. 7, 137; 14, 58; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 69; 4, 22 al.—

On account of the very ancient practice of composing forms of religion and law in Saturnian verse, also a formula in religion or law, a form:

diro quodam carmine jurare,

Liv. 10, 38, 10; 10, 41, 3; 31, 17, 9; 1, 24, 6 and 9; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12:

cruciatus carmina,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. id. Mur. 12, 26:

lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem judicent, etc.,

of a dreadful form, Liv. 1, 26, 6:

rogationis carmen,

id. 3, 64, 10.—

Moral sentences composed in verses:

Appii Caeci carmen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

liber Catonis qui inscriptus est Carmen de moribus,

Gell. 11, 2, 2:

ut totum illud, VTI. LINGVA. NVNCVPASSIT., non in XII. tabulis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

necessarium,

id. Leg. 2, 23, 59.

carmen, ĭnis, n. [1. caro], a card, for wool or flax, Venant. Ep. Praem. Carm. 6, 5.

in-testābĭlis, e, adj., that is incapable, by reason of misconduct, of being a witness or of making a will.

Lit.:

si quis ob carmen famosum damnetur, senatusconsulto expressum est, ut intestabilis sit, ergo nec testamentum facere poterit, nec ad testamentum adhiberi testis,

Dig. 28, 1, 18.—

Transf.

Infamous, execrable, detestable, abominable:

homo,

Sall. J. 67 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 3, 181; Tac. A. 6, 40:

intestabilis et sacer esto,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 81.— Comp., Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 41, 1; Tac. H. 4, 42 fin. —

Of things:

ars magica,

Plin. 30, 2, 6, § 7:

saevitia,

Tac. A. 6, 51.

intestābĭlis, e, adj. [in-, 2. testis], = 2. intestatus;

in double sense with 1. intestabilis, II. A.,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 30; id. Mil. 5, 1, 24 (cf. Lorenz ad loc.).

carmen, ĭnis, n. (old form cas-men, Varr. L. L. p. 86 Bip.) [Sanscr. çasto [p. 293] declaim, praise; cf.: camilla, censeo], a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (mostly poet.; in prose, instead of it, cantus; cf.

also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),

Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.:

carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,

Ov. M. 11, 317; cf.

vocum,

id. ib. 12, 157:

per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis,

id. ib. 1, 518; cf. id. ib. 11, 5;

5, 340: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri,

Verg. A. 4, 462; so id. G. 4, 514; Ov. M. 10, 453:

cygnorum,

id. ib. 5, 387; cf. id. ib. 14, 430; Mart. 13, 77:

citharae liquidum carmen,

Lucr. 4, 981; cf. id. 2, 506; Hor. C. 1, 15, 15:

lyrae carmen,

Prop. 2, 1, 9 Hertzb.:

canere miserabile carmen,

Ov. M. 5, 118:

harundineum,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 12:

socialia carmina,

id. H. 12, 139:

barbaricum,

id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:

hoc carmen hic tribunus plebis non vobis sed sibi intus canit,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 68; cf. Aspendius.—Also the sound of waves, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 319; cf. Auct. Aetn. 295.—

Esp., a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song, whether in a broader sense, of every kind of poetic production, epic, dramatic, lyric (opp. to prose and to cantus, the melody), or, in a more restricted sense, for lyric poetry.

Cum hanc felicitatem non prosa modo multi sint consecuti sed etiam carmine, Quint. 10, 7, 19; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 8, 6, 27; 10, 1, 95:

perspicuum est, et cantus (melodies) tum fuisse rescriptos vocum sonis et carmina (words),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 34; 3, 51, 197:

carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae Tradere,

Lucr. 5, 1444:

Maeonii carminis alite,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 2:

epicum carmen,

Quint. 10, 1, 62:

heroici sublimitas,

id. 1, 8, 5; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 3, 16:

Iliacum,

Hor. A. P. 129:

historia quodammodo carmen solutum,

Quint. 10, 1, 31:

Pierium,

Lucr. 1, 946; 4, 21:

tragicum,

Hor. A. P. 220:

carmina Livi,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 69; cf. Tac. A. 11, 13:

Saliorum carmina,

Varr. L. L. 3, 26; 9, 61; Quint. 1, 6, 40; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 86 Schmid.; cf. Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

lyricorum carmina,

Quint. 9, 4, 53; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 32:

Aeolium,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 13:

Lydis remixto carmine tibiis,

id. ib. 4, 15, 30; cf. id. Epod. 9, 5:

carmen funebre proprie Naenia,

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

carmina quae in Phaeacum epulis canuntur,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; cf. id. ib. 19, 75:

lascivum,

Quint. 9, 4, 108:

obscena,

satirical, abusive poems, libels, Prop. 1, 16, 10;

the same: famosum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31 Schmid.:

malum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 153; id. S. 2, 1. 82 Heind.:

obliquum,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 27:

probrosum,

Tac. A. 4, 31; cf.:

si quis carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri,

Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; and Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 259 sq.; Fischer ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4.—Phrases:

canere,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

cantare cui,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

cantitare,

Cic. Brut. 19, 75: CONDERE, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; Lucr. 5, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. A. P. 436:

contexere,

Cic. Cael. 8, 18:

disponere,

Lucr. 3, 420:

pangere,

id. 1, 934; 4, 9:

fingere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 32; id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331:

dicere,

id. C. 4, 12, 10; id. C. S. 8:

dictare,

id. S. 1, 10, 75; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

docere,

id. C. 2, 19, 1:

ad umbilicum adducere,

id. Epod. 14, 7:

deducere ad sua tempora,

Ov. M. 1, 4:

fundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64:

componere ad lyram,

Quint. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. 11, 2, 11.—

Esp.

In a restricted sense for lyric or epic poetry:

carmine tu gaudes, hic delectatur iambis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 59 Schmid.; cf.:

carmina compono, hic elegos,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91: amabile carmen, i. e. a love poem or song, id. ib. 1, 3, 24.—And opp. to the drama for an epic or lyric poem:

fabula, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus,

Quint. 2, 4, 2.—

A part of a great epic poem, a book, canto:

in primo carmine,

Lucr. 6, 937. —

A poetic inscription:

et tumulum facite et tumulo superaddite carmen: Daphnis ego, etc.,

Verg. E. 5, 42; id. A. 3, 287; Ov. M. 14, 442; id. F. 3, 547 al.—

A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction:

ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas,

Verg. E. 4, 4; so Ov. M. 6, 582; Liv. 1, 45, 5; 23, 11, 4; 25, 12, 4; 29, 10, 6; 38, 45, 3; Tac. A. 3, 63; 4, 43; 6, 12 al.—

A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf.

Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,

Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 10: carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam;

Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Verg. E. 8, 69 sq.; so id. A. 4, 487; Hor. Epod. 5, 72; 17, 4; id. S. 1, 8, 19; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 35; Ov. M. 7, 137; 14, 58; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 69; 4, 22 al.—

On account of the very ancient practice of composing forms of religion and law in Saturnian verse, also a formula in religion or law, a form:

diro quodam carmine jurare,

Liv. 10, 38, 10; 10, 41, 3; 31, 17, 9; 1, 24, 6 and 9; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12:

cruciatus carmina,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. id. Mur. 12, 26:

lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem judicent, etc.,

of a dreadful form, Liv. 1, 26, 6:

rogationis carmen,

id. 3, 64, 10.—

Moral sentences composed in verses:

Appii Caeci carmen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

liber Catonis qui inscriptus est Carmen de moribus,

Gell. 11, 2, 2:

ut totum illud, VTI. LINGVA. NVNCVPASSIT., non in XII. tabulis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

necessarium,

id. Leg. 2, 23, 59.

carmen, ĭnis, n. [1. caro], a card, for wool or flax, Venant. Ep. Praem. Carm. 6, 5.

fāmōsus, a, um, Adi. m. Compar. u. Superl. (fama), voll von Nachrede, dah. I) passiv: a) im guten Sinne = viel besprochen, viel von sich reden machend, Aesopus et Roscius famosissimi comoedorum fuerunt, Porphyr. Hor. ep. 2, 1, 81: urbs, v. Jerusalem, Tac.: mors, Hor. u. Tac.: vetustas, Lucan.: victoria famosissima, Flor.: (quod) personae claritate famosum, Plin. ep. – m. Abl. (durch), vir secundis adversisque iuxta famosus, Tac. hist. 1, 10. – b) im üblen Sinne = im üblen Leumund stehend, berüchtigt, anrüchig, si aut sicarius (foret) aut alioqui famosus, Hor.: si qua erat famosa, Cic.: me ad famosas (anrüchigen Mädchen = Buhldirnen) mater vetuit accedere, Poëta b. Cic.: regis largitio f., Sall. – quo (hominum genere) non famosius ullum arctos alit, Claud.: cena famosissima, Suet.: meretrix famosissima Lact. – II) aktiv = üblen Leumund machend, ehrenrührig, den guten Namen verletzend, verleumderisch, versus, Hor.: carmen, Schmähgedicht, Hor., Tac. u. Suet.: libelli, Schmähschriften, Tac.: stuprum, schändend, Lact.: pudor, Ov.: litterae famosissimae, Spart.

fāmōsus, a, um, adj. [fama], much talked of (well or ill), i. e. famed, celebrated.

In a good sense, famous, renowned (not ante-Aug.):

famosae mortis amor,

Hor. A. P. 469:

mors Junii Blaesi,

Tac. H. 3, 38:

vir secundis adversisque juxta famosus,

id. ib. 1, 10:

urbs (Hierosolyma),

id. ib. 5, 2 init.:

equi,

Suet. Calig. 19:

victoria,

Flor. 3, 7, 6 Duk.; App. M. 11, p. 267:

causa (with pulchra),

Plin. Ep. 6, 23, 1; 2, 11, 1; 9, 13, 11.— Sup.:

templum,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 2, 23.—

In a bad sense.

Infamous, notorious (class.): qui etiam me miserum famosum facit flagitiis suis, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 305, 28: me ad famosas vetuit mater accedere, i. e. meretrices, Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 277; cf. Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 306, 5 (Rep. 4, 6 ed. Mos.):

famosam veneficiis Martinam,

Tac. A. 3, 7; Cato ap. Gell. 9, 12, 7; cf.: et formosus homo fuit et famosus, Lucil. ap. Non. 305, 31:

famosa impudensque largitio regis,

Sall. J. 15, 5:

Hymen,

Ov. H. 9, 134 al. —Esp. law t. t., without reputation, Cod. 5, 40, 9; cf. infamia.—

Transf., actively, defamatory, slanderous, scandalous (perh. not ante-Aug.):

cognitionem de famosis libellis tractavit,

libels, Tac. A. 1, 72:

probris,

id. ib. 11, 25:

delationibus,

id. ib. 4, 41; so,

libelli,

Suet. Aug. 55; cf.:

de injuriis et libellis famosis,

Dig. 46, tit. 10; Cod. Th. 9, 34, 7; Cod. Just. 9, 36, 1:

carmen,

a lampoon, pasquinade, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31:

epigrammata,

Suet. Caes. 73.— Sup., App. Mag. p. 324; Spart. Hadr. 15.— Adv.: fāmōse (acc. to I.), with fame or glory (post-class. and very rare), Aur. Vict. Caes. 20 med.—Comp.:

morbum famosius curare,

Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 22.