causor

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causor ( causs-), ātus, 1, v. n. and trans. [causa].

In the ante-class. per., to plead, dispute concerning a subject, to discuss it for and against, to debate a question, Pac., Att., and Afran. ap. Non. p. 89, 11 sq.—

Since the Aug. per. (in Ciceronian Lat. the word is not used), to give as a reason (a real, and more freq. a feigned one) for something, to make a pretext of, to pretend, to plead.

With acc.:

multa,

Lucr. 1, 398:

aves aut omina dira,

Tib. 1, 3, 17 sq.:

omina Visaque,

Ov. M. 9, 768:

nec freta pressurus tumidos causabitur Euros,

id. Am. 1, 9, 13: stultus uterque locum immeritum causatur inique: in culpā est animus. Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 12:

ipse valetudinem excusans, patre animi quoque ejus haud mirabilem interturbationem causante,

Liv. 23, 8, 7; 3, 64, 2; 36, 10, 13:

negotia,

Tac. A. 1, 47 fin.:

valetudinem,

id. H. 3, 59 fin.:

adversam patris voluntatem,

id. A. 13, 44:

diei tempus,

Curt. 4, 16, 18 al. —

Absol.:

causando nostros in longum ducis amores,

Verg. E. 9, 56.—

With acc. [p. 305] and inf., Liv. 5, 15, 6; 28, 35, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 17; Suet. Ner. 49; Curt. 6, 5, 31; Gell. 18, 4, 9. —

With quod:

causatus in utroque, quod hic non esset secutus, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 23; Dig. 16, 3, 3.—

With inf.:

causari accipere rationes,

to avoid by a pretence, Dig. 40, 7, 34, § 1.

causor ( causs-), ātus, 1, v. n. and trans. [causa].

In the ante-class. per., to plead, dispute concerning a subject, to discuss it for and against, to debate a question, Pac., Att., and Afran. ap. Non. p. 89, 11 sq.—

Since the Aug. per. (in Ciceronian Lat. the word is not used), to give as a reason (a real, and more freq. a feigned one) for something, to make a pretext of, to pretend, to plead.

With acc.:

multa,

Lucr. 1, 398:

aves aut omina dira,

Tib. 1, 3, 17 sq.:

omina Visaque,

Ov. M. 9, 768:

nec freta pressurus tumidos causabitur Euros,

id. Am. 1, 9, 13: stultus uterque locum immeritum causatur inique: in culpā est animus. Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 12:

ipse valetudinem excusans, patre animi quoque ejus haud mirabilem interturbationem causante,

Liv. 23, 8, 7; 3, 64, 2; 36, 10, 13:

negotia,

Tac. A. 1, 47 fin.:

valetudinem,

id. H. 3, 59 fin.:

adversam patris voluntatem,

id. A. 13, 44:

diei tempus,

Curt. 4, 16, 18 al. —

Absol.:

causando nostros in longum ducis amores,

Verg. E. 9, 56.—

With acc. [p. 305] and inf., Liv. 5, 15, 6; 28, 35, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 17; Suet. Ner. 49; Curt. 6, 5, 31; Gell. 18, 4, 9. —

With quod:

causatus in utroque, quod hic non esset secutus, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 23; Dig. 16, 3, 3.—

With inf.:

causari accipere rationes,

to avoid by a pretence, Dig. 40, 7, 34, § 1.

prae-tendo, di, tum ( part. praetensus, Anthol. Lat. 3, 168, 5), 3, v. a., to stretch forth or forward, to extend (syn. obtendo).

Lit.:

praetenta Tela,

stretched forth, presented, Ov. M. 8, 341: propagines e vitibus altius praetentos, shooting forth, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 13: ubi visum in culice natura praetendit? set out, stationed (i. e. extendit, et posuit in anteriore oris parte), Plin. 11, 1, 2, § 2.—

Transf.

To spread before or in front:

membrana, quae praecordia appellant, quia cordi praetenditur,

Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197; 9, 6, 5, § 15.—

To spread, draw, hold, or place a thing before another:

segeti praetendere saepem,

Verg. G. 1, 270:

vestem tumidis praetendit ocellis,

holds before, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 79:

ramum praetendit olivae,

holds out, Verg. A. 8, 116:

fumosque manu praetende sequaces,

id. G. 4, 230:

decreto sermonem,

to prefix, Liv. 3, 47:

quicquid castrorum Armeniis praetenditur,

Tac. H. 2, 6:

ut adnexa classis et pugnae parata conversā et minaci fronte praetenderetur,

id. ib. 2, 14.—

Of places: praetendi, to stretch out before or in front of, to lie over against or opposite to ( poet. and post - Aug.;

once in Liv.): praetentaque Syrtibus arva,

Verg. A. 6, 60:

tenue litus praetentum,

Liv. 10, 2, 5:

Armeniae praetentus Iber,

Val. Fl. 5, 167:

gens nostris provinciis late praetenta,

Tac. A. 2, 56:

Baeticae latere septentrionali praetenditur Lusitania,

Plin. 3, 1, 2, § 6: a tergo praetendantur Aethiopes, id. 5, 9, 9, § 48; 6, 27, 31, § 134:

Dardanis laevo Triballi praetenduntur,

id. 4, 1, 1, § 3:

extremis legio praetenta Britannis, i. e. opposita custodiae causa,

Claud. B. Get. 416.—

Trop.

To hold out or bring forward as an excuse, to allege, pretend, simulate (syn.:

causor, praetexo): hominis doctissimi nomen tuis immanibus et barbaris moribus (soles) praetendere,

to allege in excuse for, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14:

praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae,

Ov. R. Am. 240:

legem postulationi suae praetendere,

Liv. 3, 45, 1:

quid honestum dictu saltem seditioni praetenditur muliebri?

id. 34, 3, 8:

meminisse, quem titulum praetenderitis adversus Philippum,

id. 37, 54, 13:

decem legatorum decretum calumniae inpudentissimae,

id. 39, 28, 11: vultum, et tristitiam, et dissentientem a ceteris habitum pessimis moribus praetendebant, Quint. prooem. § 15; Plin. Ep. 4, 16, 3:

ignorantia praetendi non potest,

Quint. 7, 1, 35:

haec a se factitari praetendebat,

Tac. A. 6, 18:

praetendere fessam aetatem et actos labores,

id. ib. 3, 59; Flor. 3, 5, 3:

plebeiam facie tenus praetendens humanitatem,

App. M. 10, 23, p. 250, 9.—

To put forward, hold out, allege, assert a thing:

nec conjugis umquam Praetendi taedas,

I never pretended to be your husband, Verg. A. 4, 338:

debitum,

to demand a debt, sue for payment of a debt, Dig. 2, 14, 9.

prae-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave before or in front, to fringe, edge, border.

Lit. (mostly poet.):

purpura saepe tuos fulgens praetexit amictus,

Ov. P. 3, 8, 7:

glaucas comis praetexere frondes,

weave around, Val. Fl. 3, 436; Plin. 16, 1, 1, § 4:

praetexit arundine ripas Mincius,

Verg. E. 7, 12:

litora curvae Praetexunt puppes,

id. A. 6, 5:

fontem violis, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 249: limina ramis, Rapt. Pros. 2, 320: ripam ulvis,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 45:

sicubi odoratas praetexit amaracus umbras,

spreads over, Col. 10, 297.—In mid. force:

utraeque nationes Rheno praetexuntur,

border on the Rhine, Tac. G. 34.—

Transf.

To place before or in front (syn.:

praetendo, praepono): in his voluminibus auctorum nomina praetexui, Plin. praef. § 21: auctores quos praetexuimus volumini huic,

id. 18, 25, 57, § 212:

tibi maximus honor excubare pro templis, postibusque praetexi,

i. e. that your statues stand before the temples, Plin. Pan. 52.—

To border, to furnish, provide, or adorn with any thing: ex primo versu cujusque sententiae primis litteris illius sententiae carmen omne praetexitur, the whole poem is bordered (like an acrostic) with the initial letters from the first verse of every sentence (oracle), Cic. Div. 2, 54, 112: omnia quae aguntur acerrime, lenioribus principiis natura praetexuit, has provided with, etc., id. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

praetexta quercu domus,

Ov. F. 4, 953; 5, 567:

summaque praetexat tenuis fastigia chartae, Indicet ut nomen, littera facta, meum,

let my name be inscribed upon it, Tib. 3, 1, 11.—

Trop.

To allege as an excuse, to pretend, to assign as a pretext (syn. causor):

cupiditatem triumphi,

Cic. Pis. 24, 56:

nomina speciosa,

Tac. H. 1, 72.—With acc. and inf.:

ubicumque ipsi essent, praetexentes esse rempublicam,

Vell. 2, 62, 3:

Tigellinus T. Vinii potentia defensus, praetexentis, servatam ab eo filiam,

Tac. H. 1, 72.—

To cover, cloak, conceal, disguise with any thing:

hoc praetexit nomine culpam,

Verg. A. 4, 172:

funera sacris,

id. ib. 4, 500:

fraudem blando risu,

Claud. Ruf. 1, 99.—Hence, praetextus, a, um, P. a., clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta:

praetextus senatus (for praetextā in dutus),

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 11:

pubes,

Aus. Prof. 18, 7.—

In partic.

Toga praetexta, and (post-Aug.) absol.: praetexta, ae, f., the outer garment, bordered with purple, worn at Rome by the higher magistrates and by free-born children till they assumed the toga virilis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36; 2, 1, 44, § 113; id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 37; 33, 42; Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 136; 33, 1, 4, § 10 et saep.: praetextā pullā nulli alii licebat uti, quam ei, qui funus faciebat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 236 Müll.—Hence,

praetexta, ae, f. (sc. fabula), a tragedy, because celebrated Romans (like Brutus, Decius, Marcellus) were represented in it:

nostri vestigia Graeca Ausi deserere, et celebrare domestica facta, Vel qui praetextas vel qui docuere togatas,

Hor. A. P. 286; Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

praetextam legere,

id. ib. 10, 32, 5.—

praetextum, i, n.

An ornament, as something wrought or fastened in front (post - Aug.):

pulcherrimum reipublicae praetextum,

Sen. Ep. 71, 9.—

A pretence, [p. 1436] pretext, excuse (post-Aug.; cf.:

species, simulatio): et praetextum quidem illi civilium armorum hoc fuit: causas autem alias fuisse opinantur,

Suet. Caes. 30: ad praetextum mutatae voluntatis, under pretext or color of, id. Aug. 12:

ipse Ravennam devertit praetexto classem alloquendi,

under pretext, Tac. H. 2, 100:

praetexto reipublicae,

id. ib. 3, 80; Sen. Contr. 4, 25, 14.