coarguere

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conjectūra, ae, f. [conicio, I. B. 2.], a putting together of facts or indications; hence an opinion founded on a comparison of facts, a conjecture, guess, conjectural inference.

In gen. (very freq., and class.):

quod ad exemplum'st? Conjecturā si reperire possumus,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 76:

hanc ego de me conjecturam domi facic,

id. Cist. 2, 1, 2; id. Cas. 2, 3, 8; Cic. de Or. 2, 74, 299:

conjecturam facere (ex re or re),

Plaut. Poen. prol. 91; id. Rud. 3, 4, 66; Ter. And. 3, 2, 32; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 25; Cic. Mur. 21, 44; id. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

attendite num aberret a conjecturā suspitio periculi mei,

i. e. reasonable inference, id. Phil. 12, 9, 23; Quint. 8, 4, 26; Plin. Pan. 20 fin.:

capere ex re,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:

capere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98:

hoc videre licet ex aliquot rebus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

conjecturā uti,

Quint. 3, 6, 15:

judicare aliquid,

Cic. Fl. 3, 6:

coarguere aliquid,

id. Agr. 1, 6, 18:

quaerere aliquid,

id. Or. 36, 126; cf.:

quaeritur per conjecturam,

Quint. 7, 2, 6:

conjecturā aberrare,

Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1:

in conjecturam quantitas cadit,

Quint. 7, 4, 43:

aliquid conjecturā animi scrutari,

Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 49; cf.:

animi mei,

Quint. 1, 2, 25: si qua conjectura mentis divinae sit ( gen. object.), Liv. 10, 39, 15; so,

mentis,

Quint. 7, 3, 25:

animi,

id. 7, 2, 6; 7, 2, 45:

voluntatis,

id. 12, 2, 19:

veritatis,

Suet. Galb. 7 et saep.—

In partic.

T. t. of the lang. of augury, a conclusion drawn from signs or omens, a divining, an interpreting of dreams, soothsaying, prophesying, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 20; id. Curc. 2, 1, 31; Cic. Div. 2, 31, 66; 1, 36, 78; 2, 63, 129; Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 51; Suet. Vit. 18.—

An element of rhetorical representation founded on conjecture, Cic. Inv. 2, 5, 16; id. Part. Or. 9, 33 sq.; id. Div.. 2, 26, 55; Quint. 7, 2, 1; 3, 6, 50; cf.:

in his omnibus conjecturam inducere,

the form of conjecture, Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 99.

con-vinco, vīci, victum, 3, v. a., to overcome, conquer; always beyond the circle of milit. lang.

With personal objects, to convict of crime or error, refute (very freq. and class.).

With simple acc.:

quem ego jam hic convincam palam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 147:

hujus si causa non manifestissimis rebus teneretur, tamen eum mores ipsius ac vita convincerent,

Cic. Sull. 25, 71:

verum enim invenire volumus, non tamquam adversarium aliquem convincere,

id. Fin. 1, 5, 13:

Aristonis jam fracta et convicta secta,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 38:

si negem, quo me teste convincas?

id. Phil. 2, 4, 8; id. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 104; Liv. 26, 12, 17; Quint. 1, 6, 10 et saep.—

With the designation of the crime, error, etc., commonly in the gen., more rarely in the simple abl., or with de, in, or inf.:

teque in isto ipso convinco non inhumanitatis solum, sed etiam amentiae,

Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 9:

haec duo levitatis et infirmitatis plerosque convincunt,

id. Lael. 17, 64:

aliquem summae neglegentiae (with coarguere),

id. Sull. 15, 44:

quae (supplicia) in convictos maleficii servos constituta sunt,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 53, § 139:

repetundarum,

Suet. Caes. 43: latrocinii, caedis. id. Tib. 1 al.:

manifestis criminibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

multis avaritiae criminibus,

id. Fl. 39, 98:

convicti et condemnati falsis de pugnis,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 5:

scelere convictus,

Suet. Ner. 31; Lact. de Ira, 17, 6; cf.:

istius vita tot vitiis flagitiisque convicta,

Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 10:

in pari peccato,

id. Inv. 2, 10, 32:

in hoc scelere,

id. Sull. 30, 83; so,

in homicidio,

Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 12:

in majore fraude,

Suet. Claud. 15:

in adfectatione imperii,

id. Tit. 9.—With inf.:

aliquid fecisse convinci,

Liv. 45, 10, 14:

convictus pecuniam cepisse,

Tac. A. 4, 31; 13, 44; Suet. Calig. 40; Curt. 9, 8, 9; cf. Sall. C. 52, 36.—

With things as objects, to prove something incontestably (esp. as criminal, false, punishable), to show clearly, demonstrate (freq. and class.).

With acc.:

inauditum facinus ipsius qui commisit voce convinci,

Cic. Quint. 25, 79; so,

peccata argumentis,

id. Part. Or. 33, 116; cf.:

falsum veris convincere rebus,

Lucr. 4, 764:

alios sensus,

id. 4, 495:

haec poëtarum et pictorum portenta,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11:

orationem (with redargui),

id. Univ. 3 init.:

errores Epicuri,

id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

falsa,

id. ib. 1, 32, 91:

avaritiam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 12:

furorem,

Ov. M. 13, 58:

quod obicitur,

Quint. 5, 10, 35:

quod (crimen) apud patres convictum,

Tac. A. 14, 40 al.:

convicta (praedia),

proved not to belong to you, Cic. Fl. 32, 79.—

With acc. and inf.:

nihil te didicisse... nihil scire convincerent,

Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Par. 5, 3, 41; id. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Quint. 2, 15, 14 al.

irrīsus, a, um, Part., from irrideo.

irrīsus ( inr-), ūs, m. [irrideo], a scoffing, mocking, mockery, derision:

irrisu coarguere aliquid,

Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 114:

irrisum pueri sperans,

Tac. A. 13, 15:

irrisui esse,

to be a laughing-stock, Caes. B. C. 2, 15:

hostibus irrisui fuit,

Tac. A. 14, 39; id. H. 1, 7:

scripsisse eos non sine irrisu generis humani arbitror,

Plin. 37, 9, 40, § 124:

irrisui haberi,

to be made a laughing-stock of, be made game of, App. M. 5, p. 172:

ab irrisu,

out of mockery, Liv. 7, 10.

irrīsus, a, um, Part., from irrideo.

irrīsus ( inr-), ūs, m. [irrideo], a scoffing, mocking, mockery, derision:

irrisu coarguere aliquid,

Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 114:

irrisum pueri sperans,

Tac. A. 13, 15:

irrisui esse,

to be a laughing-stock, Caes. B. C. 2, 15:

hostibus irrisui fuit,

Tac. A. 14, 39; id. H. 1, 7:

scripsisse eos non sine irrisu generis humani arbitror,

Plin. 37, 9, 40, § 124:

irrisui haberi,

to be made a laughing-stock of, be made game of, App. M. 5, p. 172:

ab irrisu,

out of mockery, Liv. 7, 10.

ŏb-ĭter, adv., on the way, in going or passing along (except in Laber., not anteAug.; cf. Charis. 187 P. Augustus found fault with Tiberius for using per viam instead of obiter, Charis. l. l.).

Lit.:

obiter leget aut scribet,

on the way, Juv. 3, 241:

rotae, quas aqua verset obiter et molat,

as it flows along, Plin. 18, 10, 23, § 97; cf. id. 33, 4, 21, § 74; 29, 3, 11, § 48; 11, 37, 55, § 148.—

Transf.

By the way, in passing, incidentally:

interrogo ego: Quot estis? obiterque per rimam speculari coepit,

Petr. 92:

faciem linit,

Juv. 6, 481:

ne in hoc quidem tam molesto tacebant officio, sed obiter cantabant,

Petr. 31:

saevire,

Sen. Ira, 3, 1, 3:

licet obiter vanitatem magicam hic quoque coarguere,

Plin. 37, 9, 37, § 118:

dictum sit,

id. 29, 5, 30, § 96; 29, 1, 9, § 29; Dig. 18, 5, 1 fin. —

Forthwith, straightway, immediately (very rare): en tôi autôi inibi, obiter, Gloss. Philox.:

reducant,

App. M. 6, p. 183, 35: ut obiter revertantur, Auct. Quint. Decl. 10, 16 fin.