cippus

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cippus ( cīpus), i, m. [kindr. with scipio; cf. skêptô], a pale, stake, post, pillar, Lucil. ap. Fest. p. 258; and specif.,

A gravestone, tombstone, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 12; Pers. 1, 37; Prud. Apoth. 361; Inscr. Orell. 4524 al.—

In the Agrimensores, a landmark, boundary-stone or post, Simplic. ap. Goes. p. 88.—

In milit. lang., cippi, ōrum, m., a bulwark formed of sharpened stakes, Caes. B. G. 7, 73.

cippus ( cīpus), i, m. [kindr. with scipio; cf. skêptô], a pale, stake, post, pillar, Lucil. ap. Fest. p. 258; and specif.,

A gravestone, tombstone, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 12; Pers. 1, 37; Prud. Apoth. 361; Inscr. Orell. 4524 al.—

In the Agrimensores, a landmark, boundary-stone or post, Simplic. ap. Goes. p. 88.—

In milit. lang., cippi, ōrum, m., a bulwark formed of sharpened stakes, Caes. B. G. 7, 73.

cippus ( cīpus), i, m. [kindr. with scipio; cf. skêptô], a pale, stake, post, pillar, Lucil. ap. Fest. p. 258; and specif.,

A gravestone, tombstone, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 12; Pers. 1, 37; Prud. Apoth. 361; Inscr. Orell. 4524 al.—

In the Agrimensores, a landmark, boundary-stone or post, Simplic. ap. Goes. p. 88.—

In milit. lang., cippi, ōrum, m., a bulwark formed of sharpened stakes, Caes. B. G. 7, 73.

ăger, gri, m. [agros; Germ. Acker, Eng. acre, Sanscr. agras = surface, floor; Grimm conjectured that it was connected with ago, agô, a pecore agendo, and this was the ancient view; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 34 Müll., and Don. ad Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 47; so the Germ. Trift = pasture, from treiben, to drive].

In an extended sense, territory, district, domain, the whole of the soil belonging to a community (syn.: terra, tellus, arvum, solum, rus, humus; opp. terra, which includes [p. 70] many such possessions taken together; cf.

Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, 694 sq.): Ager Tusculanus,... non terra,

Varr. L. L. 7, 2, 84:

praedā atque agro adfecit familiares suos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 38:

abituros agro Achivos,

id. ib. 1, 53, 71:

ut melior fundus Hirpinus sit, sive ager Hirpinus (totum enim possidet), quam, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2: fundum habet in agro Thurino, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 131 (pro Tull. 14):

Rhenus, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 2 Herz.:

ager Noricus,

id. ib. 1, 5:

in agro Troade,

Nep. Paus. 3:

in agro Aretino,

Sall. C. 36, 1:

his civitas data agerque,

Liv. 2, 16:

in agro urbis Jericho,

Vulg. Josue, 5, 13.—In the Roman polity: ager Romanus, the Roman possessions in land (distinguished from ager peregrinus, foreign territory) was divided into ager publicus, public property, domains, and ager privatus, private estates; v. Smith's Dict. Antiq., and Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, 695 and 696; cf. with 153 sq.—

In a more restricted sense.

Improdued or productive land, a field, whether pasture, arable, nursery ground, or any thing of the kind; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, 7 sq.; 1, 71; Hab. Syn. 68, and Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 13:

agrum hunc mercatus sum: hic me exerceo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94:

agrum de nostro patre colendum habebat,

id. Phorm. 2, 3, 17:

ut ager quamvis fertilis, sine culturā fructuosus esse non potest,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 5; id. Fl. 29:

agrum colere,

id. Rosc. Am. 18:

conserere,

Verg. E. 1, 73:

agrum tuum non seres,

Vulg. Lev. 19, 19:

(homo) seminavit bonum semen in agro suo,

ib. Matt. 13, 24; ib. Luc. 12, 16. —

19, 12, 8.—Of a place of habitation in the country, estate, villa:

in tuosne agros confugiam,

Cic. Att. 3, 15 (so agros, Hom. Od. 24, 205).—

The fields, the open country, the country (as in Gr. agros or agroi), like rus, in opp. to the town, urbs (in prose writers generally only in the plur.), Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 2:

homines ex agris concurrunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44:

non solum ex urbe, sed etiam ex agris,

id. Cat. 2, 4, 8:

annus pestilens urbi agrisque,

Liv. 3, 6; id. 3, 32:

in civitatem et in agros,

Vulg. Marc. 5, 14.—And even in opp. to a village or hamlet, the open field:

sanum hominem modo ruri esse oportet, modo in urbe, saepiusque in agro,

Cels. 1, 1.—

Poet., in opp. to mountains, plain, valley, champaign:

ignotos montes agrosque salutat,

Ov. M. 3, 25.—

As a measure of length (opp. frons, breadth):

mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat,

in depth, Hor. S. 1, 8, 12.

frons (also anciently fruns; plur. frundes, Enn. Ann. 266 Vahl.; cf. Charis. p. 105 P.—Also in nom. fros or frus, Varr. ib.; Enn. v in the foll.; cf. Prisc. p. 554 P.; and FRONDIS, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 2, 372), dis, f. [etym. dub.], a leafy branch, green bough, foliage.

Lit. (class.; in sing. and plur.; syn. folium).

Sing.: populea frus, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. (Edyll. 5) 158 sq. (id. Ann. v. 562 Vahl.):

ilignea, quernea,

Cato, R. R. 37, 2:

in nemoribus, ubi virgulta et frons multa,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 11:

bobus praestabit vilicus frondem,

Col. 11, 3, 101: alta frons decidit, Varr. ap. Non. 486, 13:

ne caules allii in frondem luxurient,

Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 113:

perenni frunde corona,

Lucr. 1, 119:

nigrae feraci frondis in Algido,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 58:

sine fronde,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 75:

immaturam destringere,

Quint. 12, 6, 2.—

Plur.: russescunt frundes, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 105 P. (Ann. v. 266 Vahl.):

deserta via et inculta atque interclusa jam frondibus et virgultis relinquatur,

Cic. Cael. 18, 42:

viminibus salices fecundi, frondibus ulmi,

Verg. G. 2, 446:

frondibus teneris non adhibendam esse falcem,

Quint. 2, 4, 11:

bovemque Disjunctum curas et strictis frondibus exples,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28; id. C. 3, 18, 14.—

Poet. transf., a garland made of leafy boughs, a garland of leaves, leafy chaplet: donec Alterutrum velox victoria fronde coronet, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 64; so in sing., id. C. 4, 2, 36; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

nos delubra deum festa velamus fronde,

Verg. A. 2, 249; 5, 661; Ov. M. 1, 449; 565; id. A. A. 1, 108.—In plur., Ov. F. 1, 711; 3, 482.

frons, frontis, f. ( masc., Cato ap. Gell. 15, 9, 5; and ap. Fest. s. v. recto, p. 286, b, Müll.; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 46 Ritschl, N. cr.; id. ap. Non. 205, 4; Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 9, 3; Vitr. 10, 17) [cf. Sanscr. brhū; Gr. ophrus; Germ. Braue; Engl. brow; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 296], the forehead, brow, front (syn.: vultus, os, facies).

Lit.:

frons et aliis (animalibus), sed homini tantum tristitiae, hilaritatis, clementiae, severitatis index: in adsensu ejus supercilia homini et pariter et alterna mobilia,

Plin. 11, 37, 51, § 138:

tanta erat gravitas in oculo, tanta contractio frontis, ut illo supercilio res publica, tamquam Atlante caelum, niti videretur,

Cic. Sest. 8, 19: frontem contrahere, to contract or knit the brows, id. Clu. 26, 72; Hor. S. 2, 2, 125;

for which, adducere,

Sen. Ben. 1, 1:

attrahere,

id. ib. 6, 7: remittere frontem, to smooth the brow, i. e. to cheer up, Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 5;

for which: exporge frontem,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 53; cf.:

primum ego te porrectiore fronte volo mecum loqui,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 3:

explicare,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 16;

solvere,

Mart. 14, 183: ut frontem ferias, smitest thy forehead (as a sign of vexation), Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

nulla perturbatio animi, nulla corporis, frons non percussa, non femur,

id. Brut. 80, 278:

femur, pectus, frontem caedere,

Quint. 2, 12, 10:

frontem sudario tergere,

id. 6, 3, 60;

for which: siccare frontem sudario,

id. 11, 3, 148:

capillos a fronte retroagere,

id. ib. 160:

mediam ferro gemina inter tempora frontem Dividit,

Verg. A. 9, 750:

quorundam capita per medium frontis et verticis mucrone distincta, in utrumque humerum pendebant,

Amm. 31, 7, 14:

insignem tenui fronte Lycorida (a small forehead was regarded as a beauty by the ancients),

Hor. C. 1, 33, 5; cf. id. Ep. 1, 7, 26; Petr. 126; Mart. 4, 42, 9; Arn. 2, 72.—Of the forehead of animals:

est bos cervi figura: cujus a media fronte, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1:

tauri torva fronte,

Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 181:

equi,

Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 30:

ovis,

id. F. 4, 102:

cui (haedo) frons turgida cornibus Primis,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 4:

(vitulus) Fronte curvatos imitatus ignes lunae,

id. ib. 4, 2, 57.—In plur., Lucr. 5, 1034. —

The brow as a mirror of the feelings:

non solum ex oratione, sed etiam ex vultu et oculis et fronte, ut aiunt, meum erga te amorem perspicere potuisses,

Cic. Att. 14, 13, B, 1; cf. Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 11, 44; and:

homines fronte et oratione magis, quam ipso beneficio reque capiuntur,

expression of countenance, id. ib. 12, 46:

si verum tum, cum verissima fronte, dixerunt, nunc mentiuntur,

Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 35:

haec ipsa fero equidem fronte et vultu bellissime, sed angor intimis sensibus,

id. Att. 5, 10, 3: frons, oculi, vultus persaepe mentiuntur;

oratio vero saepissime,

id. Q. F. 1, 1, 5, § 15; cf.:

oculi, supercilia, frons, vultus denique totus, qui sermo quidam tacitus mentis est, hic in fraudem homines impulit,

id. Pis. 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 9, 17:

fronte occultare sententiam,

id. Lael. 18, 65:

tranquilla et serena,

id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.:

reliquiae pristinae frontis,

id. Fam. 9, 10, 2:

laeta,

Verg. A. 6, 862:

sollicita,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 16:

tristis,

Tib. 2, 3, 33:

gravis,

Plin. Pan. 41, 3:

humana, lenis, placida,

Sen. Ben. 2, 13:

inverecunda,

Quint. 2, 4, 16:

proterva,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 16:

urbana (i. e. impudens),

id. Ep. 1, 9, 11:

impudens, proterva, Aug. Op. imperf. c. Jul. 6, 21: impudentissima,

id. ib. 26; cf.:

impudentia frontis,

Hier. adv. Rufin. 1, 7:

fronte inverecunda nummos captare,

Val. Max. 8, 2, 2.—In plur.:

si populo grata est tabella, quae frontes aperit hominum, mentes tegat,

Cic. Planc. 6, 16.—

Prov.:

frons occipitio prior est,

i. e. better work before the master's face than behind his back, Cato, R. R. 4; Plin. 18, 5, 6, § 31.—

Transf

The forepart of any thing, the front, façade, van (opp. tergum and latus):

copias ante frontem castrorum struit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1:

aedium,

Vitr. 3, 2:

parietum,

id. 2, 8:

januae,

Ov. F. 1, 135:

scena,

Verg. G. 3, 24:

(navium),

id. A. 5, 158:

pontis,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9, 4:

collis ex utraque parte lateris dejectus habebat, et in frontem leniter fastigatus, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8; 7, 23: intervallum justum arborum quadrageni pedes in terga frontemque, in latera viceni, Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 202; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 43:

octo cohortes in fronte constituit,

Sall. C. 59, 2:

quatuor legionum aquilae per frontem,

Tac. H. 2, 89:

una fronte contra hostem castra muniunt,

only in front, Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2 Herz.:

aequa fronte ad pugnam procedebat,

Liv. 36, 44, 1:

nec tamen aequari frontes poterant, cum extenuando infirmam mediam aciem haberent,

id. 5, 38, 2:

recta fronte concurrere hosti (opp. in dextrum cornu),

Curt. 4, 13 med.; cf.:

directa fronte pugnandum est,

Quint. 5, 13, 11:

veritus ne simul in frontem simul et latera suorum pugnaretur,

Tac. Agr. 35:

transisse aestuaria pulchrum ac decorum in frontem (i. e. fronti),

for the front, the van, id. ib. 33: dextra fronte prima legio incessit, on the right front, i. e. on the right wing, id. H. 2, 24 fin.:

laeva,

Claud. in Ruf. 2, 174; cf.:

frons laevi cornu haec erat,

Curt. 4, 13 fin. — Poet. transf., of clouds:

ut non tam concurrere nubes Frontibus adversis possint quam de latere ire,

Lucr. 6, 117;

of a precipice: Fronte sub adversa scopulis pendentibus antrum,

Verg. A. 1, 166.—Esp. freq.: a fronte, in front, before (opp. a tergo and a latere):

a tergo, a fronte, a lateribus tenebitur, si in Galliam venerit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 13, 32:

a fronte atque ab utroque latere cratibus ac pluteis protegebat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25 fin.:

totis fere a fronte et ab sinistra parte nudatis castris,

id. B. G. 2, 23, 4. —

The outer end of a book-roll or volume, Tib. 3, 1, 13; Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 11.—

The circumference of a wheel, Vitr. 10, 4.—

In measuring land = latitudo, the breadth:

mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 12; Inscr. Orell. 4558; 4560.—

Trop.

The outside, exterior, external quality, appearance (cf. species and facies;

mostly post-Aug.): Pompeius Scauro studet: sed utrum fronte an mente, dubitatur,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 7:

plus habet in recessu, quam fronte promittat,

Quint. 1, 4, 2; 11, 1, 61; cf.:

frons causae non satis honesta,

id. 4, 1, 42 Spald.:

decipit Frons prima multos,

the first appearance, Phaedr. 4, 2, 6; cf.:

dura primā fronte quaestio,

Quint. 7, 1, 56:

ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

id. 12, 7, 8.—

The character or feelings expressed by the brow.

Poet. in partic., shame:

exclamet perisse Frontem de rebus,

Pers. 5, 104 (for which:

clament periisse pudorem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 80).—

Impudence, boldness (late Lat.; cf.

os),

Aug. Civ. D. 3, 30.

imprĭmo ( inpr-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [in-premo], to press into or upon, to stick, stamp, or dig into, to impress, imprint (class.).

Lit.:

si in ejusmodi cera centum sigilla hoc anulo impressero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86:

locus ubi vestigium impresserit,

id. Caecin. 27, 76; id. Phil. 13, 15, 30:

sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

ne imprimatur jacentibus molibus solum,

Col. 3, 13, 1: imprimitque genae genam, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 686 (Trag. v. 436):

os cucurbitulae corpori,

Cels. 2, 11:

signa tabellis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 38:

impressit dente labris notam,

id. C. 1, 13, 12; cf.:

dentes alicui,

Luc. 9, 806:

muris aratrum,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 20:

stigmata captivorum frontibus,

Petr. 105:

(Dido) os impressa toro,

Verg. A. 4, 659:

impressa orbita,

Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2:

sulcus altius impressus,

id. Div. 2, 23, 50:

monimenta impressa saxis,

Tac. A. 11, 14:

puteum,

i. e. to sink, dig, Pall. 1, 34:

nudo ecce jugulum, convertite huc manus, imprimite mucrones,

Petr. 80:

dentem,

Tib. 1, 6, 14; cf.:

morsum,

i. e. to bite, Col. 6, 17, 33; Plin. 8, 25, 37, § 89:

vulnus,

i. e. to make, Col. 7, 11, 2:

basia,

Mart. 10, 42, 5:

staminaque impresso fatalia pollice nentes,

pressed upon, Ov. M. 8, 453; cf.:

impressoque genu nitens,

Verg. A. 12, 303:

humidaque impressa siccabat lumina lana,

Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 17:

exempta scutula cortici, imprimitur ex alia cortex par,

Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 118. —

Transf.: aliquid (aliqua re), to press in, give an impression to a thing, to engrave, stamp, mark: an imprimi quasi ceram animum putamus? Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61:

hoc munus habebis, Cratera impressum signis,

Verg. A. 5, 536; cf.:

impressas auro quas gesserat olim Exuvias,

i. e. embroidered, Luc. 9, 176:

non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa?

Pers. 1, 37:

transtra per et remos impressaque terga virorum,

pressed down, bended, Stat. Th. 5, 403.—

Trop., to impress, engrave, stamp, mark:

quod in omnium animis eorum notionem impressisset ipsa natura,

Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 43; cf.:

visa in animis,

id. Ac. 2, 18, 58:

quaeque in animis imprimuntur incohatae intellegentiae, similiter in omnibus imprimuntur,

id. Leg. 1, 10, 30; id. Fat. 19, 43:

verum illud quidem impressum in animo atque mente,

id. Ac. 2, 11, 34:

nisi omnes ii motus in ipso oratore impressi esse atque inusti videbuntur,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 189:

quo e genere nobis notitiae rerum imprimuntur,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21:

in quibus (curriculis) Platonis primum sunt impressa vestigia,

id. Or. 3, 12; cf.:

(memoria) constat ex notis litterarum, et ex eo, in quo imprimuntur illae notae,

id. Part. Or. 7, 26:

menti impressa,

id. ib. 2, 11, 34:

quaedam vestigia animo,

Quint. 11, 2, 4:

memoria publica recensionis tabulis publicis impressa,

Cic. Mil. 27, 73:

impressa animo rudi memoria,

Quint. 1, 1, 36:

quorum lectione duplex imprimeretur rei publicae dedecus,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

cum fortitudinis, tum vero humanitatis... impressa vestigia,

id. Balb. 5, 13.—

Transf. (acc. to I. B.), to stamp, mark:

horum flagitiorum iste vestigiis omnia municipia, praefecturas... impressit,

Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 58; id. Fam. 5, 20, 5.—Hence, impressē, adv., strongly, forcibly, impressively (postclass.).

Lit.:

dehinc rursus defricandus tenacius quidem, sed non impressius,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 7, 87. —

Trop.:

alte et impresse recogitare,

Tert. Exhort. Cast. 3:

ut impressius dixerim,

id. Car. Christ. 12.

imprĭmo ( inpr-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [in-premo], to press into or upon, to stick, stamp, or dig into, to impress, imprint (class.).

Lit.:

si in ejusmodi cera centum sigilla hoc anulo impressero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86:

locus ubi vestigium impresserit,

id. Caecin. 27, 76; id. Phil. 13, 15, 30:

sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

ne imprimatur jacentibus molibus solum,

Col. 3, 13, 1: imprimitque genae genam, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 686 (Trag. v. 436):

os cucurbitulae corpori,

Cels. 2, 11:

signa tabellis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 38:

impressit dente labris notam,

id. C. 1, 13, 12; cf.:

dentes alicui,

Luc. 9, 806:

muris aratrum,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 20:

stigmata captivorum frontibus,

Petr. 105:

(Dido) os impressa toro,

Verg. A. 4, 659:

impressa orbita,

Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2:

sulcus altius impressus,

id. Div. 2, 23, 50:

monimenta impressa saxis,

Tac. A. 11, 14:

puteum,

i. e. to sink, dig, Pall. 1, 34:

nudo ecce jugulum, convertite huc manus, imprimite mucrones,

Petr. 80:

dentem,

Tib. 1, 6, 14; cf.:

morsum,

i. e. to bite, Col. 6, 17, 33; Plin. 8, 25, 37, § 89:

vulnus,

i. e. to make, Col. 7, 11, 2:

basia,

Mart. 10, 42, 5:

staminaque impresso fatalia pollice nentes,

pressed upon, Ov. M. 8, 453; cf.:

impressoque genu nitens,

Verg. A. 12, 303:

humidaque impressa siccabat lumina lana,

Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 17:

exempta scutula cortici, imprimitur ex alia cortex par,

Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 118. —

Transf.: aliquid (aliqua re), to press in, give an impression to a thing, to engrave, stamp, mark: an imprimi quasi ceram animum putamus? Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61:

hoc munus habebis, Cratera impressum signis,

Verg. A. 5, 536; cf.:

impressas auro quas gesserat olim Exuvias,

i. e. embroidered, Luc. 9, 176:

non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa?

Pers. 1, 37:

transtra per et remos impressaque terga virorum,

pressed down, bended, Stat. Th. 5, 403.—

Trop., to impress, engrave, stamp, mark:

quod in omnium animis eorum notionem impressisset ipsa natura,

Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 43; cf.:

visa in animis,

id. Ac. 2, 18, 58:

quaeque in animis imprimuntur incohatae intellegentiae, similiter in omnibus imprimuntur,

id. Leg. 1, 10, 30; id. Fat. 19, 43:

verum illud quidem impressum in animo atque mente,

id. Ac. 2, 11, 34:

nisi omnes ii motus in ipso oratore impressi esse atque inusti videbuntur,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 189:

quo e genere nobis notitiae rerum imprimuntur,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21:

in quibus (curriculis) Platonis primum sunt impressa vestigia,

id. Or. 3, 12; cf.:

(memoria) constat ex notis litterarum, et ex eo, in quo imprimuntur illae notae,

id. Part. Or. 7, 26:

menti impressa,

id. ib. 2, 11, 34:

quaedam vestigia animo,

Quint. 11, 2, 4:

memoria publica recensionis tabulis publicis impressa,

Cic. Mil. 27, 73:

impressa animo rudi memoria,

Quint. 1, 1, 36:

quorum lectione duplex imprimeretur rei publicae dedecus,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

cum fortitudinis, tum vero humanitatis... impressa vestigia,

id. Balb. 5, 13.—

Transf. (acc. to I. B.), to stamp, mark:

horum flagitiorum iste vestigiis omnia municipia, praefecturas... impressit,

Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 58; id. Fam. 5, 20, 5.—Hence, impressē, adv., strongly, forcibly, impressively (postclass.).

Lit.:

dehinc rursus defricandus tenacius quidem, sed non impressius,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 7, 87. —

Trop.:

alte et impresse recogitare,

Tert. Exhort. Cast. 3:

ut impressius dixerim,

id. Car. Christ. 12.