check-up

• The check is in the mail

• The check is in the mail

to bridle, check, restrain, break in.

to hold in, check, restrian / back water / practice, use, employ.

, oppressi, oppressum

to suppress, overwhelm, overpower, check.

to blame, reprove, refute, hold back, check, catch.

ăb-ŏlĕo, ēvi (ui), ĭtum, 2, v. a., orig. (in contrast with ad-oleo) to retard or to check the growth of; hence, in a more extended sense, to destroy, efface, abolish; trop., to terminate, and, in the pass., to die, to decay (not before the Aug. period).

Lit.:

cuncta viri monumenta,

Verg. A. 4, 497:

deum aedes vetustate aut igni abolitae,

Tac. A. 2, 49; cf.:

corpus alicujus igni,

i. e. to burn, id. ib. 16, 6; so,

libros,

Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 6:

Homeri carmina,

Suet. Calig. 34 al. — In pass.: aboleri, to die (opp. nasci), Plin. 7, prooem. § 4.— Poet.:

viscera undis,

to remove the poisonous flesh by washing, Verg. G. 3, 560.—

Fig.:

dedecus armis,

Verg. A. 11, 789; cf.:

labem prioris ignominiae,

Tac. H. 3, 24:

memoriam,

Suet. Calig. 60; Verg. A. 1, 720:

magistratum alicui,

Liv. 3, 38, 7:

legem (= abrogare),

Quint. 1, 5, 29; cf.

decretum,

Suet. Claud. 6;

Galb. 23: crimen,

Dig. 48, 6, 2, § 10:

frumentationes,

Suet. Aug. 42:

vectigalia,

id. Ner. 10:

vim moremque asylorum,

id. Tib. 37 al.:

nonnulla ex antiquis caerimoniis paulatim abolita (= omissa, neglecta),

Suet. Aug. 31; cf.:

memoria nondum omnino abolita,

id. Gram. 24.

castīgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [castum-ago, as purgo = purum-ago], to set right by word or deed, to correct, chastise, punish; to blame, reprove, chide, censure, find fault with (syn.: animadvertere, punire; more forcible than reprehendere and vituperare; weaker than culpare;

class. in prose and poetry): pueros non verbis solum, sed etiam verberibus,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 64; so,

verberibus,

Plin. 8, 3, 3, § 6; cf. Liv. 26, 27, 8; Curt. 8, 6, 5:

magnā clade,

Liv. 39, 1, 4:

baculo,

Front. Strat. 1, 1, 3:

quo saepius (magister) monuerit, hoc rarius castigabit,

Quint. 2, 2, 5:

laudat Pompeius... segniores castigat atque incitat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3;

so opp. laudare,

Liv. 27, 8, 18; Tac. Agr. 21:

castigando increpandoque plus quam leniter agendo, proficere,

Liv. 27, 9, 8:

servos exuviis bubulis,

Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 26:

aliquem dictis plurumis,

id. Bacch. 4, 8, 67; Verg. A. 5, 387:

verbis,

Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88; Liv. 36, 20, 4:

litteris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 25:

per litteras,

Tac. A. 3, 35:

leniter,

Liv. 30, 15, 10; 36, 31, 8:

vehementissime,

Petr. 109, 1:

in hoc me ipse castigo quod, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 4:

segnitiem hominum atque inertiam,

id. de Or. 1, 41, 184; Liv. 31, 6, 5:

nimiam lenitatem,

id. 39, 55, 1:

moras,

Verg. A. 4, 407:

dolos,

id. ib. 6, 567:

vitia,

Juv. 2, 35; Vulg. Psa. 117, 18; id. Heb. 12, 6 al.—

Esp.

To correct some error, to set right, mend ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose) ( = corrigere, emendare): carmen, *Hor. A. P. 294:

amicae verba,

Juv. 6, 455:

examen improbum in trutină,

Pers. 1, 6:

vitia sua,

Plin. Pan. 46, 6.—

To hold in check, to restrain; lit. and trop. (rare for the more usu. coërcere, cohibere, etc.):

quid illum credis facturum, nisi eum... servas, castigas, mones?

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 31:

equum tenacem, non parentem frenis asperioribus castigare,

Liv. 39, 25, 13; Tac. A. 6, 13:

castigatus animi dolor,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 50:

risum crebris potiunculis,

Petr. 47, 7:

lapsus,

Stat. Th. 6, 700; cf. under P. a.—Hence,

Of relations of space, to enclose, surround, encompass, confine, shut in:

insula castigatur aquis,

Sil. 12, 355.— Hence, castīgātus, a, um, P. a. ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose), confined, compressed; hence,

As a designation of physical beauty, small, slender, close:

pectus,

Ov. Am. 1, 5, 21:

frons,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 43.—

Trop., restrained, checked:

luxuria tanto castigatior, quanto posset esse liberior, Aug. Civ. Dei, 5, 24: castigatissima disciplina,

the strictest, Gell. 4, 20, 1 Hertz (Cod. Reg. castissima).— Adv.: castīgātē.

(Acc. to castigatus, 1.) Compressedly, briefly:

castigatius,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6:

castigatius eloqui,

Aug. Doctr. Christ. 4, 14.—

(Acc. to 2.) Restrainedly, within bounds:

vixit modeste, castigate, etc.,

Sen. Contr. 6, 8:

vivere,

Amm. 22, 3, 12.

castīgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [castum-ago, as purgo = purum-ago], to set right by word or deed, to correct, chastise, punish; to blame, reprove, chide, censure, find fault with (syn.: animadvertere, punire; more forcible than reprehendere and vituperare; weaker than culpare;

class. in prose and poetry): pueros non verbis solum, sed etiam verberibus,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 64; so,

verberibus,

Plin. 8, 3, 3, § 6; cf. Liv. 26, 27, 8; Curt. 8, 6, 5:

magnā clade,

Liv. 39, 1, 4:

baculo,

Front. Strat. 1, 1, 3:

quo saepius (magister) monuerit, hoc rarius castigabit,

Quint. 2, 2, 5:

laudat Pompeius... segniores castigat atque incitat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3;

so opp. laudare,

Liv. 27, 8, 18; Tac. Agr. 21:

castigando increpandoque plus quam leniter agendo, proficere,

Liv. 27, 9, 8:

servos exuviis bubulis,

Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 26:

aliquem dictis plurumis,

id. Bacch. 4, 8, 67; Verg. A. 5, 387:

verbis,

Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88; Liv. 36, 20, 4:

litteris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 25:

per litteras,

Tac. A. 3, 35:

leniter,

Liv. 30, 15, 10; 36, 31, 8:

vehementissime,

Petr. 109, 1:

in hoc me ipse castigo quod, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 4:

segnitiem hominum atque inertiam,

id. de Or. 1, 41, 184; Liv. 31, 6, 5:

nimiam lenitatem,

id. 39, 55, 1:

moras,

Verg. A. 4, 407:

dolos,

id. ib. 6, 567:

vitia,

Juv. 2, 35; Vulg. Psa. 117, 18; id. Heb. 12, 6 al.—

Esp.

To correct some error, to set right, mend ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose) ( = corrigere, emendare): carmen, *Hor. A. P. 294:

amicae verba,

Juv. 6, 455:

examen improbum in trutină,

Pers. 1, 6:

vitia sua,

Plin. Pan. 46, 6.—

To hold in check, to restrain; lit. and trop. (rare for the more usu. coërcere, cohibere, etc.):

quid illum credis facturum, nisi eum... servas, castigas, mones?

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 31:

equum tenacem, non parentem frenis asperioribus castigare,

Liv. 39, 25, 13; Tac. A. 6, 13:

castigatus animi dolor,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 50:

risum crebris potiunculis,

Petr. 47, 7:

lapsus,

Stat. Th. 6, 700; cf. under P. a.—Hence,

Of relations of space, to enclose, surround, encompass, confine, shut in:

insula castigatur aquis,

Sil. 12, 355.— Hence, castīgātus, a, um, P. a. ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose), confined, compressed; hence,

As a designation of physical beauty, small, slender, close:

pectus,

Ov. Am. 1, 5, 21:

frons,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 43.—

Trop., restrained, checked:

luxuria tanto castigatior, quanto posset esse liberior, Aug. Civ. Dei, 5, 24: castigatissima disciplina,

the strictest, Gell. 4, 20, 1 Hertz (Cod. Reg. castissima).— Adv.: castīgātē.

(Acc. to castigatus, 1.) Compressedly, briefly:

castigatius,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6:

castigatius eloqui,

Aug. Doctr. Christ. 4, 14.—

(Acc. to 2.) Restrainedly, within bounds:

vixit modeste, castigate, etc.,

Sen. Contr. 6, 8:

vivere,

Amm. 22, 3, 12.

castro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [Sanscr. çastra, knife, sword].

To deprive of generative power (both of male and female), to emasculate, castrate, geld:

hircum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 1 and 4:

agnum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18:

gallos,

id. ib. 3, 9, 3; Curt. 6, 3, 12; Val. Max. 6, 1, 13; Suet. Dom. 7:

sues,

Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 208; 10, 21, 25, § 50; 11, 51, 112, § 261 al.—

Transf. to plants, to prune, lop, trim, Cato, R. R. 33, 2; Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144; 24, 8, 33, § 49.—

Trop.: vina saccis, to pass through a sack or bag, to filter, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53; cf. id. 14, 22, 28, § 138 sq.:

siligo castrata,

i. e. cleaned, id. 18, 9, 20, § 86:

semen,

id. 15, 14, 15, § 51.—

In gen., to shorten, cut off, curtail:

caudas catulorum,

Col. 7, 12, 14; cf. Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153:

alvos apum,

to take up, to take out the honey, Col. 9, 15, 4; 9, 15, 11; cf.:

castrare alvearia,

Pall. 7, 7.—

Trop., to enervate, debilitate: castrata res publica morte Africani, weakened (a vulgar figure, acc. to Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164; Quint. 8, 6, 15):

nisi illum (Maecenatem) enervasset felicitas, immo castrasset,

Sen. Ep. 19, 9:

libellos,

to remove obscenity, to expurgate, Mart. 1, 35, 14:

vires,

to diminish, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 60:

avaritiam,

to check, restrain, Claud. Eutr. 1, 192.

cŏ-ercĕo, cui, cĭtum, 2, v. a. [arceo], to enclose something on all sides or wholly, to hold together, to surround, encompass:

qui (mundus) omnia complexu suo coërcet et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 22, 58; cf. id. ib. 2, 40, 101; Ov. M. 1, 31:

quā circum Galli lorica coërcet,

where the Gallic coat of mail encloses, Lucr. 6, 954; cf.

of a band holding the hair together,

Ov. M. 1, 477; 2, 413; Hor. C. 2, 19, 19; 1, 10, 18:

est animus vitaï claustra coërcens,

holding together the bands of life, Lucr. 3, 396.—

Esp. with the access. idea of hindering free motion by surrounding; to restrain, confine, shut in, hold in confinement, repress (freq. and class.):

(amnis) nullis coërcitus ripis,

Liv. 21, 31, 11; cf. Ov. M. 1, 342:

(aqua) jubetur ab arbitro coërceri,

to be kept in, repressed, Cic. Top. 9, 39 (cf., just before, the more usual arcere, v. arceo, II.); Dig. 43, 22, 1, §§ 6 and 8;

47, 11, 10: impetum aquarum,

Curt. 8, 13, 9.—Of pruning plants:

vitem serpentem multiplici lapsu et erratico, ferro amputans coërcet ars agricolarum,

Cic. Sen. 15, 52;

so of the vine,

Col. 3, 21, 7; 4, 1, 5; Quint. 9, 4, 5; cf. id. 8, 3, 10.—Hence, sacrum (lucum), to trim, clip, Cato, R. R. 139:

quibus (operibus) intra muros coërcetur hostis,

Liv. 5, 5, 2:

(mortuos) noviens Styx interfusa coërcet,

Verg. A. 6, 439; cf.:

Tantalum atque Tantali Genus coërcet (Orcus),

Hor. C. 2, 18, 38:

carcere coërcere animalia,

Plin. 10, 50, 72, § 141:

Hypermnestra... gravibus coërcita vinclis,

Ov. H. 14, 3; cf.: eos morte, exsilio, vinclis, damno coërcent, [p. 360] Cic. Off. 3, 5, 23:

aliquem custodiā,

Dig. 41, 1, 3, § 2:

Galliae Alpibus coërcitae,

Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 5:

miles coërcitus in tot receptis ex potestate hostium urbibus,

Liv. 36, 24, 7.— Poet.: Messapus primas acies, postrema coërcent Tyrrhidae juvenes, hold together, i. e. command, lead on, Verg. A. 9, 27.—

Trop.,

Of discourse, to keep within limits, control, confine, restrain, limit (syn.:

contineo, cohibeo): ut (nos) quasi extra ripas diffluentes coërceret,

Cic. Brut. 91, 316; cf. id. Fin. 2, 1, 3; Quint. 12, 1, 20; 9, 2, 76; 10, 4, 1;

and, the figure taken from bridling or curbing horses (cf.: frenisque coërcuit ora,

Ov. M. 5, 643; and:

spumantiaque ora coërcet,

id. ib. 6, 226):

exsultantia,

Quint. 10, 4, 1; cf. id. 10, 3, 10:

Augustus addiderat consilium coercendi intra terminos imperii,

Tac. A. 1, 11.—Of words bound by measure:

numeris verba coërcere,

Ov. P. 4, 8, 73.—But most freq.,

Morally, to hold some fault, some passion, etc., or the erring or passionate person in check, to curb, restrain, tame, correct, etc. (syn.:

contineo, cohibeo, refreno, reprimo, domo): cupiditates,

Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 194; Quint. 12, 2, 28:

temeritatem,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 47:

improbitatem,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 208:

rabiem gentis,

Liv. 41, 27, 4:

faenus,

id. 32, 27, 3:

procacitatem hominis manibus,

Nep. Timol. 5, 2:

suppliciis delicta,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 79 al.:

aliquid poenae aut infamiae metu,

Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73:

omnibus modis socios atque cives,

Sall. C. 29 fin.:

genus hominum neque beneficio, neque metu coërcitum,

id. J. 91, 7:

duabus coërcitis gentibus,

Liv. 31, 43, 4; 39, 32, 11; Caes. B. C. 1, 67:

verberibus potius quam verbis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 5; so Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3; id. Off. 3, 5, 23;

v. A. supra: pueros fuste,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 134; Tac. G. 25:

incensum ac flagrantem animum,

id. Agr. 4:

licentiam,

id. H. 1, 35.— Poet.:

carmen, quod non Multa dies et multa litura coërcuit,

corrected, finished, Hor. A. P. 293.