command together

col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),

Prop.

In gen.

Of things:

omnia praesegmina,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:

stipulam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:

radices palmarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:

apes in vas,

Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:

ossa,

Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.

reliquias,

Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:

materiem nostram Post obitum,

Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):

sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,

Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:

immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 338; so,

sinus fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320:

flores,

Ov. M. 5, 399:

riguo horto olus,

id. ib. 8, 646:

de purpureis vitibus uvas,

id. ib. 8, 676:

fructus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:

sarmenta virgultaque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

serpentes,

Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

naufragium,

Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:

pecuniam,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:

viatica,

id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:

stipem a tyrannis,

to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:

aër umorem colligens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:

imbres,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:

pluvias aquas,

Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:

ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,

Lucr. 6, 558:

procellam,

id. 6, 124:

spiritum,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:

flatus cornibus,

Sil. 14, 390:

collectae ex alto nubes,

heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:

pulvis collectus turbine,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:

pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,

i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:

luna revertentes colligit ignes,

Verg. G. 1, 427:

antiqua verba et figuras,

Suet. Gram. 10:

equos,

to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,

gressum,

Sil. 6, 399:

gradum,

id. 7, 695; so,

fig. iram,

id. 9, 477;

and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:

librum,

to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:

interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,

id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:

annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:

arma = remos,

i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—

Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:

exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 8:

milites,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:

reliquos ex fugā,

Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:

manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,

id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:

de pagis omnibus bonos viros,

Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:

in moenia,

Sil. 10, 390:

ex regno alicujus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:

in aestuaria ac paludes,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):

in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:

cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,

Liv. 2, 50, 7:

alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,

Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:

apicem collectus in unum,

Ov. M. 13, 910:

pedes,

to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:

volumina collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:

pallium,

to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:

togam,

Mart. 7, 33, 4:

12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,

causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,

Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—

Trop.

To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):

sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:

conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,

i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:

flammarum iras,

Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:

multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:

res undique conlectae,

id. ib. 3, 24, 92:

quaedam conlecta edere,

Quint. 5, 10, 120:

sparsa argumenta,

id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:

omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

rumorem bonum,

id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:

peccata consulum,

id. ib. 3, 10, 23:

vestigia Pythagoreorum,

id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:

existimationem multo sudore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:

benevolentiam civium blanditiis,

id. Lael. 17, 61:

magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:

auctoritatem,

Caes. B. G. 6, 12:

famam clementiae,

Liv. 21, 48, 10:

tantum amoris favorisque,

Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:

invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:

crimina majestatis,

Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:

sitim,

Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:

adducere sitim,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):

frigus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:

rabiem,

Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:

odium,

id. ib. 3, 258:

usum patiendi,

id. Am. 1, 8, 75:

vires usu,

id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—

Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):

ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,

id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:

ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—

Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):

quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:

se colligere,

to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:

se ex timore,

id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:

animos,

Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:

animum,

Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:

animum cogitationemque,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:

mentem,

Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:

mentem cum vultu,

id. Am. 1, 14, 55:

paulatim mente collectā,

Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:

colligere spiritum,

to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—

To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:

cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,

Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:

ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:

levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:

sic collige mecum,

id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,

To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:

ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,

Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:

aliquid per aliud,

Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:

quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,

Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:

paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,

Liv. 7, 37, 9:

bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,

Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:

neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,

Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,

collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):

tanto beatior, quanto collectior,

App. Mag. 21, p. 287:

corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),

Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:

tempus collectius,

Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:

ponere aliquod verbum,

Non. p. 164, 1.—

collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).

Prop.:

omne colligatum solvi potest,

Cic. Univ. 11, 35:

corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,

id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:

manus,

id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:

pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,

fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

solum herbis colligatum,

thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:

bitumen vulnera colligat,

Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—

Trop.

In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):

homines inter se sermonis vinclo,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:

officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,

id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:

(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,

id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:

sententias verbis,

to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:

annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,

to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—

With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:

impetum furentis (Antonii),

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

Brutum in Graeciā,

i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:

se cum multis,

id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:

colligatius adhaerere alicui,

Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),

Prop.

In gen.

Of things:

omnia praesegmina,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:

stipulam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:

radices palmarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:

apes in vas,

Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:

ossa,

Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.

reliquias,

Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:

materiem nostram Post obitum,

Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):

sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,

Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:

immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 338; so,

sinus fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320:

flores,

Ov. M. 5, 399:

riguo horto olus,

id. ib. 8, 646:

de purpureis vitibus uvas,

id. ib. 8, 676:

fructus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:

sarmenta virgultaque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

serpentes,

Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

naufragium,

Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:

pecuniam,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:

viatica,

id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:

stipem a tyrannis,

to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:

aër umorem colligens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:

imbres,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:

pluvias aquas,

Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:

ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,

Lucr. 6, 558:

procellam,

id. 6, 124:

spiritum,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:

flatus cornibus,

Sil. 14, 390:

collectae ex alto nubes,

heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:

pulvis collectus turbine,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:

pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,

i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:

luna revertentes colligit ignes,

Verg. G. 1, 427:

antiqua verba et figuras,

Suet. Gram. 10:

equos,

to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,

gressum,

Sil. 6, 399:

gradum,

id. 7, 695; so,

fig. iram,

id. 9, 477;

and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:

librum,

to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:

interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,

id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:

annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:

arma = remos,

i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—

Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:

exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 8:

milites,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:

reliquos ex fugā,

Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:

manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,

id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:

de pagis omnibus bonos viros,

Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:

in moenia,

Sil. 10, 390:

ex regno alicujus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:

in aestuaria ac paludes,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):

in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:

cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,

Liv. 2, 50, 7:

alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,

Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:

apicem collectus in unum,

Ov. M. 13, 910:

pedes,

to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:

volumina collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:

pallium,

to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:

togam,

Mart. 7, 33, 4:

12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,

causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,

Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—

Trop.

To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):

sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:

conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,

i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:

flammarum iras,

Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:

multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:

res undique conlectae,

id. ib. 3, 24, 92:

quaedam conlecta edere,

Quint. 5, 10, 120:

sparsa argumenta,

id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:

omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

rumorem bonum,

id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:

peccata consulum,

id. ib. 3, 10, 23:

vestigia Pythagoreorum,

id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:

existimationem multo sudore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:

benevolentiam civium blanditiis,

id. Lael. 17, 61:

magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:

auctoritatem,

Caes. B. G. 6, 12:

famam clementiae,

Liv. 21, 48, 10:

tantum amoris favorisque,

Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:

invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:

crimina majestatis,

Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:

sitim,

Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:

adducere sitim,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):

frigus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:

rabiem,

Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:

odium,

id. ib. 3, 258:

usum patiendi,

id. Am. 1, 8, 75:

vires usu,

id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—

Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):

ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,

id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:

ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—

Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):

quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:

se colligere,

to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:

se ex timore,

id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:

animos,

Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:

animum,

Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:

animum cogitationemque,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:

mentem,

Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:

mentem cum vultu,

id. Am. 1, 14, 55:

paulatim mente collectā,

Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:

colligere spiritum,

to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—

To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:

cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,

Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:

ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:

levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:

sic collige mecum,

id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,

To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:

ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,

Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:

aliquid per aliud,

Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:

quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,

Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:

paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,

Liv. 7, 37, 9:

bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,

Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:

neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,

Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,

collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):

tanto beatior, quanto collectior,

App. Mag. 21, p. 287:

corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),

Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:

tempus collectius,

Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:

ponere aliquod verbum,

Non. p. 164, 1.—

collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).

Prop.:

omne colligatum solvi potest,

Cic. Univ. 11, 35:

corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,

id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:

manus,

id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:

pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,

fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

solum herbis colligatum,

thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:

bitumen vulnera colligat,

Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—

Trop.

In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):

homines inter se sermonis vinclo,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:

officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,

id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:

(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,

id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:

sententias verbis,

to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:

annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,

to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—

With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:

impetum furentis (Antonii),

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

Brutum in Graeciā,

i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:

se cum multis,

id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:

colligatius adhaerere alicui,

Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),

Prop.

In gen.

Of things:

omnia praesegmina,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:

stipulam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:

radices palmarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:

apes in vas,

Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:

ossa,

Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.

reliquias,

Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:

materiem nostram Post obitum,

Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):

sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,

Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:

immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 338; so,

sinus fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320:

flores,

Ov. M. 5, 399:

riguo horto olus,

id. ib. 8, 646:

de purpureis vitibus uvas,

id. ib. 8, 676:

fructus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:

sarmenta virgultaque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

serpentes,

Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

naufragium,

Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:

pecuniam,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:

viatica,

id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:

stipem a tyrannis,

to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:

aër umorem colligens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:

imbres,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:

pluvias aquas,

Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:

ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,

Lucr. 6, 558:

procellam,

id. 6, 124:

spiritum,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:

flatus cornibus,

Sil. 14, 390:

collectae ex alto nubes,

heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:

pulvis collectus turbine,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:

pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,

i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:

luna revertentes colligit ignes,

Verg. G. 1, 427:

antiqua verba et figuras,

Suet. Gram. 10:

equos,

to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,

gressum,

Sil. 6, 399:

gradum,

id. 7, 695; so,

fig. iram,

id. 9, 477;

and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:

librum,

to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:

interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,

id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:

annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:

arma = remos,

i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—

Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:

exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 8:

milites,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:

reliquos ex fugā,

Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:

manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,

id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:

de pagis omnibus bonos viros,

Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:

in moenia,

Sil. 10, 390:

ex regno alicujus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:

in aestuaria ac paludes,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):

in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:

cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,

Liv. 2, 50, 7:

alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,

Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:

apicem collectus in unum,

Ov. M. 13, 910:

pedes,

to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:

volumina collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:

pallium,

to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:

togam,

Mart. 7, 33, 4:

12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,

causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,

Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—

Trop.

To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):

sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:

conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,

i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:

flammarum iras,

Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:

multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:

res undique conlectae,

id. ib. 3, 24, 92:

quaedam conlecta edere,

Quint. 5, 10, 120:

sparsa argumenta,

id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:

omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

rumorem bonum,

id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:

peccata consulum,

id. ib. 3, 10, 23:

vestigia Pythagoreorum,

id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:

existimationem multo sudore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:

benevolentiam civium blanditiis,

id. Lael. 17, 61:

magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:

auctoritatem,

Caes. B. G. 6, 12:

famam clementiae,

Liv. 21, 48, 10:

tantum amoris favorisque,

Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:

invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:

crimina majestatis,

Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:

sitim,

Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:

adducere sitim,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):

frigus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:

rabiem,

Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:

odium,

id. ib. 3, 258:

usum patiendi,

id. Am. 1, 8, 75:

vires usu,

id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—

Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):

ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,

id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:

ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—

Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):

quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:

se colligere,

to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:

se ex timore,

id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:

animos,

Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:

animum,

Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:

animum cogitationemque,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:

mentem,

Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:

mentem cum vultu,

id. Am. 1, 14, 55:

paulatim mente collectā,

Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:

colligere spiritum,

to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—

To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:

cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,

Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:

ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:

levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:

sic collige mecum,

id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,

To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:

ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,

Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:

aliquid per aliud,

Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:

quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,

Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:

paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,

Liv. 7, 37, 9:

bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,

Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:

neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,

Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,

collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):

tanto beatior, quanto collectior,

App. Mag. 21, p. 287:

corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),

Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:

tempus collectius,

Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:

ponere aliquod verbum,

Non. p. 164, 1.—

collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).

Prop.:

omne colligatum solvi potest,

Cic. Univ. 11, 35:

corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,

id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:

manus,

id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:

pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,

fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

solum herbis colligatum,

thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:

bitumen vulnera colligat,

Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—

Trop.

In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):

homines inter se sermonis vinclo,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:

officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,

id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:

(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,

id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:

sententias verbis,

to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:

annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,

to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—

With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:

impetum furentis (Antonii),

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

Brutum in Graeciā,

i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:

se cum multis,

id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:

colligatius adhaerere alicui,

Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28.

con-curro, curri, cursum, 3 ( perf. redupl. concucurrit, Flor. 4, 2, 33 Duker N. cr.: concucurrisse, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 901 P., and Suet. Caes. 15; cf. Liv. 1, 12 Oud., and Ind. Flor. s. h. v. Duker), v. n.

To run together (of several persons), to come or assemble together in multitudes, to rush or flock together in crowds (very freq., and class.).

Prop.

Absol.:

tota Italia concurret,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16: video hac tempestate concurrisse omnis adversarios, Cato ap. Prisc. 10, p. 901 P.:

concurrunt jussu meo plures uno tempore librarii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13:

cum omnes, ut mos est, concurrerent,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65:

licet concurrant omnes plebei philosophi, nihil tam eleganter explicabunt, etc.,

unite, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 55:

multi concurrerant,

Nep. Dion, 10, 1; Sall. J. 60, 6:

concurrite, concurrite, cives,

Val. Max. 4, 1, 12.— Impers.: contionem inprimis advocari jubet;

summā cum expectatione concurritur,

Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 13.—

Designating the place from which, or the place or purpose to or for which:

non solum qui in urbe erant, sed etiam undique ex agris concurrerunt,

Nep. Pelop. 3, 3:

undique gentes,

Luc. 3, 321:

concurrunt laeti mi obviam cupedinarii omnes,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 25: ad hos (sc. Druides) magnus adulescentium numerus disciplinae causā concurrit, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; cf. Quint. 1, 2, 16:

ad eum magnae copiae,

Sall. C. 56, 5:

ad eum homines omnium ordirum corruptissimi,

id. H. 1, 48, 7 Dietsch:

ad curiam,

Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 18 (corresp. to convolare ad Rostra); Liv. 4, 60, 1; Suet. Tit. 11:

domum tuam cuncta civitas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 80:

ad arma milites,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22 fin.; so id. ib. 5, 39 fin.:

ad non dubiam mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89:

ad auxilium sociae,

Luc. 3, 663:

signum dedit, ut ad me restituendum Romam concurrerent,

Cic. Mil. 15, 39:

omnes concurrerunt ad Perdiccam opprimendum,

united together, Nep. Eum. 3, 1; id. Phoc. 2, 5:

ad aliquem audiendum,

Suet. Caes. 32. — Impers.:

concurritur undique ad commune incendium restinguendum,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 21:

concurrendum ad curiam putare,

id. Rab. Post. 7, 18:

cum ad arma concurri oporteret,

Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

ex proximis castellis eo concursum est,

id. ib. 2, 33:

concursum ad curiam esse,

Liv. 4, 60, 1: Suet. Calig. 6; Quint. 1, 2, 16.—

Poet., to run in attendance upon, to accompany:

est quibus Eleae concurrit palma quadrigae, as it were,

follows him on foot, accompanies, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 17.—

Trop. = confugere, to run for refuge or help, to take refuge (rare):

ad C. Aquilium,

Cic. Quint. 16, 53 B. and K.:

nulla sedes, quo concurrant,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4:

ne darem perditis civibus hominem, quo concurrerent,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 2, 3:

interea servitia repudiabat (Catilina), opibus conjurationis fretus,

Sall. C. 56, 5; Just. 19, 1, 9.—

Of words, as under military command:

ante enim circumscribitur mente sententia confestimque verba concurrunt, quae mens eadem... statim dimittit, ut suo quodque loco respondeat,

Cic. Or. 59, 200.—

To run upon one another, to meet or dash together (class.).

Of corporeal objects.

In gen.:

concurrunt nubes ventis,

Lucr. 6, 97; cf. id. 6, 116:

ne prorae concurrerent,

Liv. 37, 30, 4 (al. prorā; cf. Weissenb. ad loc.); cf. id. 44, 42, 5; Luc. 3, 663:

mediis concurrere in undis (montes, viz., the Symplegades),

Ov. M. 7, 62; cf. id. Am. 2, 11, 3:

concurrere montes duo inter se,

Plin. 2, 83, 85, § 199: actor cum stetit in scaenā, concurrit dextera laevae (viz., in applauding), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205:

labra concurrunt,

draw together, close, Sen. Ep. 11, 2: os concurrit, id. Ira, 3, 15, 1; id. Ben. 2, 1, 3:

os,

Quint. 10, 7, 8; 11, 3, 121.— Transf., of letters and words:

aspere concurrunt litterae,

Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 172 (opp. diduci); so id. Or. 45, 154.—Hence,

In partic., milit. t. t., to rush together in hostility, to engage in combat, to join battle, to fight (most freq. in the histt.); constr. inter se, cum aliquo, adversus, in, contra aliquem, alicui, and absol.

Inter se:

concurrunt equites inter se,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25; so Liv. 26, 51, 4; 29, 18, 10; Suet. Oth. 12; Verg. G. 1, 489; id. A. 10, 436.—

Cum aliquo:

cum hoc concurrit ipse Eumenes,

Nep. Eum. 4, 1; so Liv. 8, 8, 15; Vell. 2, 70, 1; Suet. Oth. 10; Ov. M. 13, 87.—

Adversus, in, or contra aliquem:

recenti milite adversus fessos longo itinere concurrerat,

Liv. 35, 1, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

in aliquem,

Sall. J. 97, 4; Just. 4, 1, 10: equites contra tantam multitudinem audacissime concurrunt, run upon, against, etc., Auct. B. Afr. 6.—

Alicui (freq. in the poets):

audet viris concurrere virgo,

Verg. A. 1, 493; 10, 8; Ov. M. 5, 89; 12, 595 al.:

quibus (equitibus) cum inpigre, Numidae concurrissent,

Liv. 24, 15, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.—

Absol.: repente Antonius in aciem suas copias de vico produxit et sine morā concurrit, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

cum infestis signis concurrunt,

Sall. C. 60, 2; so Liv. 6, 7, 6; 8, 7, 9 al.; Tac. A. 6, 35; id. H. 2, 42; Suet. Claud. 21:

ex insidiis,

Liv. 9, 25, 8; 2, 11, 9:

mutuis vulneribus,

Sen. Suas. 7, 14.— Impers. pass.:

ubi propius ventum est, utrimque magno clamore concurritur,

Sall. J. 53, 2; so Liv. 10, 40, 13; Hor. S. 1, 1, 7.— Transf.:

adversus has concurrentis belli minas, legati vallum murosque firmabant,

Tac. H. 4, 22 init. —

Not in war; in the jurists, to make the same claim, enter into competition with:

si non sit, qui ei concurrat, habeat solus bonorum possessionem,

Dig. 37, 1, 2:

in hereditatem fratri concurrere,

ib. 5, 2, 16:

in pignus,

ib. 20, 4, 7: in pignore, ib.—

Trop. (rare): in tantā causarum varietate cum alia colligantur vel ipsa inter se concurrant, vel in diversum ambiguitate ducantur, Quint. 12, 2, 15:

cum dolore,

Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 2:

concurrit illinc publica, hinc regis salus,

Sen. Oedip. 830.—

Of abstract objects (occurrences, circumstances, points of time, etc.), to meet, concur, fall out at the same time, happen:

multa concurrunt simul,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 31; so,

concurrunt multae opiniones,

id. Heaut. 2, 2, 3:

tot verisimilia,

id. Ad. 4, 4, 19:

res contrariae,

Cic. Fin. 5, 10, 28:

ista casu,

id. Div. 2, 68, 141:

quae ut concurrant omnia, optabile est,

id. Off. 1, 14, 45:

saepe concurrunt aliquorum bene de me meritorum inter ipsos contentiones,

id. Planc. 32, 78:

si quid tale accidisset, ut non concurrerent nomina,

that the reciprocal accounts do not meet, become due on the same day, id. Att. 16, 3, 5; cf.:

sponsalia in idem tempus,

Dig. 3, 2, 13:

concurrit actio legis Aquiliae et injuriarum,

to have place together, to be coincident, ib. 9, 2, 5.—

Pregn., to accord, agree with (in jurid. Lat.):

concurrit cum veritate,

Dig. 29, 2, 30:

cum summā,

ib. 29, 30, 53.

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.

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ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

abs chorago,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

ab eo magistratu,

after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

a pueritia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

a pueris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

a parvis,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

a parvulo,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

ab parvulis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

quid hoc ab illo differt,

from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

subdole ab re consulit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

si postulatur a populo,

if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

and in prose,

Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

Turnus ab Aricia,

Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

el metul a Chryside,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

locus copiosus a frumento,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

ab honore,

id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

a longe,

Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

dūco, xi, ctum, 3 ( imp. duc;

but duce,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 18; id. Most. 1, 4, 11; id. Poen. 5, 4, 59; id. Rud. 2, 3, 55; id. Trin. 2, 2, 103; id. Truc. 2, 5, 26.— Perf. sync.: duxti, Varr. ap. Non. 283, 32; Cat. 91, 9; Prop. 1, 3, 27), v. a. [cf. Goth. tiuh-an; O. H. Germ. zieh-an, to draw; Germ. -zog, in Herzog, commander, duke], to lead, conduct, draw, bring forward, in all senses; very freq. passing over into the signif. of the compounds abducere, deducere, adducere, producere, etc., and of the synonyms agere, trahere, movere, etc. (very freq.).

Lit.

In gen.:

quo sequar? quo ducis nunc me?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 2: duc hos intro, id. Am. 2, 2, 224; id. Aul. 2, 6, 13:

duc ac demonstra mihi,

id. Cist. 2, 3, 36:

suas secum mulierculas sunt in castra ducturi,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10 fin.; cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 5 fin. et saep.:

(difficile iter) vix qua singuli carri ducerentur,

id. ib. 1, 6, 1; cf.

plaustra,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 34: aquam ducere, Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.; so,

aquam per fundum ejus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 4:

spiritum naribus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 5: so,

spiritum per siccas fauces,

Sen. Ben. 3, 8; cf.:

aërem spiritu,

Cic. N. D. 2, 6 fin.:

animam spiritu,

id. ib. 2, 54, 136; and in gen.: spiritum, for to live, id. Fam. 10, 1; cf.:

vitam et spiritum,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 33:

tura naribus,

to inhale, Hor. C. 4, 1, 22:

sucos nectaris,

to drink in full draughts, to quaff, id. ib. 3, 3, 34; cf.

pocula,

id. ib. 1, 17, 22; and:

Liberum,

id. ib. 4, 12, 14.— Poet.:

jucunda oblivia vitae (referring to the waters of Lethe),

Hor. S. 2, 6, 62 (cf. Verg. A. 6, 714 sq.) et saep.:

mucronem,

to draw from the scabbard, Verg. A. 12, 378; cf.:

ferrum vaginā,

Ov. F. 4, 929:

ensem vagina,

Sil. 8, 342;

but: ensem duxerat faber,

had beaten out, forged, Tib. 1, 3, 48:

sortem,

Cic. Div. 2, 33; Verg. A. 6, 22;

hence, also transf. of that which is drawn by lot,

Cic. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Rep. 1, 34; Suet. Caes. 12; Tac. A. 1, 54; 3, 28 al.:

pondus aratri,

to draw, Ov. M. 7, 119:

remos,

to row, id. ib. 1, 294; cf. id. ib. 4, 353:

numerosa brachia,

in dancing, id. Am. 2, 4, 29:

lanas,

to spin, id. ib. 4, 34; cf.

stamina,

id. ib. 4, 221:

ubera,

to milk, id. ib. 9, 358:

frena manu,

to guide, govern, id. ib. 15, 518: vela, to haul (= navigare), Prop. 1, 6, 2:

manus, of swimming,

id. 3, 20, 2:

ilia,

to draw the flanks together, become broken-winded, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 9:

os,

to draw awry, to make wry faces, Cic. Or. 25 fin.; Quint. 9, 3, 101; cf.

vultum,

Ov. M. 2, 774; id. P. 4, 8, 13; Mart. 1, 41 et saep.:

non equus impiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem,

to draw along, Hor. C. 4, 3, 5; cf. id. Ep. 1, 1, 93.— Absol.:

sibi quisque ducere, trahere, rapere,

to take to one's self, appropriate, Sall. J. 41, 5.—

Esp.

To lead, conduct, as a way or road:

via ducit (te), in urbem?

Verg. E. 9, 1; cf. Plin. Ep. 7, 5; Verg. A. 1, 401; Ov. F. 2, 679:

Brundisium Minuci melius via ducat an Appi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 20:

via ad undas,

Ov. M. 3, 602:

via ad infernas sedes,

id. ib. 4, 433; cf.:

iter ad urbem,

id. ib. 437; Curt. 3, 28, 19; Sen. Prov. 6, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 1; Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 111; Quint. 5, 9, 14; Liv. 5, 40, 8 al.—

Se, in colloq. lang., to betake one's self, go:

jam me ad regem recta ducam,

Plaut. Am. 4, 3, 8; id. Aul. 4, 8, 8; id. Bacch. 4, 2, 11; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 7: Balbus duxit se a Gadibus, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1.—

A legal t. t., to take, lead away, drag, carry off a person before court, to prison, to punishment, etc.: POST. DEINDE. MANVS. INIECTIO. ESTO. IN. IVS. DVCITO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; so,

in jus,

Liv. 2, 27:

illos duci in carcerem jubent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 30:

aliquem in carcerem,

Suet. Caes. 20:

in vincula,

id. ib. 79:

ad mortem,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 1; Nep. Phoc. 4, 3; and absol.:

ducite, ubi capiat, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 65; Sen. de Ira, 1, 16, 14; Suet. Calig. 27; Plin. Ep. 10, 97, 3 al.: NI. IVDICATVM. FACIT. AVT. QVIS. ENDO. EM. IVRE. VINDICIT. SECVM. DVCITO. VINCITO, etc., XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45:

decreta ejus modi: SI PETIT DUCAS. C. Fuficium duci jussit petitorem,

to be imprisoned, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 12, § 31; so of a debtor (addictus) who is led off as a slave, Novat. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255; Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 87; Cic. Fl. 20 fin.; Liv. 6, 14 sq.; cf. id. 2, 23 med.; cf.

prov.: stultitiast venatum ducere invitas canes,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 83. —

Uxorem, to lead a wife home, i. e. to marry:

bona uxor si ea deducta est, etc.... Verum egon eam ducam domum, Quae, etc.?

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 91:

uxorem domum,

id. Aul. 2, 1, 40; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 68:

filiam Orgetorigis in matrimonium,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9, 3; cf. Liv. 4, 4:

eum uxorem ducturum esse aliam,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 105:

uxorem (or aliquam, filiam alicujus, etc.),

id. Aul. 2, 1, 48; id. Cas. prol. 69 et saep.; Ter. And. 1, 1, 128; 2, 1, 21 et saep.; Cic. Sest. 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 4; id. B. C. 3, 110, 2; Verg. E. 8, 29; Vulg. Marc. 10, 11 et saep.— Absol.:

si tu negaris ducere,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 5; 2, 3, 9; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 76; Liv. 4, 4 al.: jugum ducere cum infidelibus, i. e. to be yoked in marriage, Vulg. 2 Cor. 6, 14.—Rarely for nubere: si ignorans statum Erotis ut liberum duxisti, isque postea servus est judicatus, etc., Imp. Antonin. ap. Cod. Just. 5, 18, 3.—In the comic poets, of taking home prostitutes, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 35; 4, 2, 44; id. Men. 1, 2, 15; id. Stich. 5, 4, 48; id. Truc. 3, 2, 10 et saep.—

In milit. lang.

Said of a commander, to lead, to cause to move, to march his army in any direction:

locis apertis exercitum ducere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 41, 4; cf. id. B. C. 1, 64 fin.; 1, 68, 1:

exercitum ab Allobrogibus in Segusianos,

id. B. G. 1, 10 fin.:

exercitum in fines Suessionum,

id. ib. 2, 12, 1; cf. id. ib. 4, 38, 3;

5, 18, 1: exercitum (legiones, etc.) in Bellovacos,

id. ib. 2, 13, 1; 5, 24, 2 et saep.; cf. Tac. A. 2, 57:

cohortes ad eam partem munitionum, quae, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 3, 62, 2:

exercitum Uticam,

id. ib. 2, 26, 1:

reliquas copias contra Labienum,

id. B. G. 7, 61 fin. et saep.—In pass., of the soldiers, to march, move:

quam in partem aut quo consilio ducerentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 2.—And in act., absol., of the general himself, to march, move (a favorite expression of Liv.;

not in Caes. or Sall.): (Mettus) ducit, quam proxime ad hostem potest,

Liv. 1, 23; 1, 27; 9, 35; 22, 18 et saep.—Hence,

In gen., to lead, command an army or (more freq.) a division:

qua in legatione duxit exercitum,

Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so,

exercitum,

Nep. Eum. 13, 1; id. Epam. 7, 3:

qui superiore anno primum pilum duxerat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35, 6; 6, 38, 1; id. B. C. 3, 91, 1:

ordinem,

id. ib. 1, 13, 4; 3, 104, 3; Suet. Vesp. 1:

partem exercitūs,

Sall. J. 55, 4 et saep.—Rarely, to lead a division in front, in advance:

consuetudine sua Caesar sex legiones expeditas ducebat: post eas... inde, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 2; hence also, to march in front, take the lead, said of the division that forms the van:

pars equitum et auxiliariae cohortes ducebant, mox prima legio, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 51; cf. id. ib. 1, 64 fin. —

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, to lead, to be leader, head, chief, first in any thing:

accedit etiam, quod familiam ducit,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5 fin. Manut.; so,

familiam,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 30; id. Fin. 4, 16, 45:

ordines,

id. Phil. 1, 8, 20:

classem (discipulorum),

Quint. 1, 2, 24 Spald.:

funus,

Hor. Epod. 8, 12:

toros,

Ov. F. 6, 668 et saep.—

To conduct as prisoners in a triumph:

per triumphum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 67:

in triumpho,

Plin. 7, 43, 45, § 139, v. triumphus.—

With the accessory idea of creation, formation, to produce, form, construct, make, fashion, shape, dispose (cf.:

struo, pono, condo, fundo): parietem per vestibulum alicujus,

to erect, Cic. Mil. 27 fin.; cf.

muros,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 23:

vallum ex castris ad aquam,

Caes. B. C. 1, 73, 2:

fossam,

id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; 7, 73, 2:

arcum,

Ov. M. 3, 160:

lateres de terra,

Vitr. 2, 3:

vivos vultus de marmore (with excudere spirantia aera),

Verg. A. 6, 849; cf. id. ib. 7, 634; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 240; Varr. ap. Non. 283, 32; Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125; Quint. 10, 3, 18 Spald.; Juv. 7, 237; hence, poet. also:

epos,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 44:

carmen,

Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 18; 3, 14, 32:

versus,

id. ib. 5, 12, 63 et saep.:

liniam ex colore,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 81; Quint. 2, 6, 2; cf.

orbem,

id. 11, 3, 118:

alvum,

to bring forth by clysters, Cels. 2, 12; 4, 4 et saep.: alapam alicui, qs. to fetch one a box on the ear, Phaedr. 5, 3, 2; cf.

colaphum,

Quint. 6, 3, 83 Spald.:

pugnum,

Dig. 47, 10, 4 et saep.;

so esp. of processions, dances, etc.: funus,

Cic. Quint. 15 fin.; Ov. M. 14, 746; Verg. G. 4, 256; cf.

exsequias,

Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154:

pompam,

Ov. H. 12, 152; id. F. 6, 405; id. M. 13, 699:

choros,

Tib. 2, 1, 56; Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6 et saep.; cf.

choreas,

Ov. M. 8, 582; 14, 520.—

To receive, admit, take any thing (not ante-Aug.):

cicatricem,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 66; Liv. 29, 32, 12:

rimam,

Ov. M. 4, 65:

situm,

to grow rusty, Quint. 1, 2, 18:

formam,

Ov. M. 1, 402:

colorem,

id. ib. 3, 485; cf.

pallorem,

to grow pale, id. ib. 8, 760:

nomina,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 76:

notam,

id. ib. 4, 2, 59 et saep.

Trop.

In gen., to lead, guide, draw, conduct:

progredimur quo ducit quemque voluntas,

Lucr. 2, 258; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 27; 1, 6, 57:

ad strepitum citharae cessatum ducere curam,

id. ib. 1, 2, 31:

Liber vota bonos ducit ad exitus,

id. C. 4, 8, 34; cf. Quint. 12, 1, 26:

per quaedam parva sane ducant (futurum oratorem),

id. 1, 10, 5; cf. id. 1, 1, 27; 1, 5, 58.—Prov.:

ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt,

Sen. Ep. 107.—

In partic.

To draw, deduce, [p. 616] derive its origin or beginning from, any thing:

ab aliqua re totius vitae ducere exordium,

Cic. Fin. 5, 7, 18; cf.:

exordium a nostra persona,

Quint. 3, 8, 8; 4, 1, 7:

principium disputationis a principe investigandae veritatis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 21 fin.:

belli initium a fame,

id. Att. 9, 9, 2; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 21:

initia causasque omnium ex quatuor temporum mutationibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

originem ab Isocrate,

Quint. 2, 15, 4; 1, 6, 38; Hor. C. 3, 17, 5 al.:

ingressionem non ex oratoriis disputationibus, sed, etc.,

Cic. Or. 3, 11:

honestum ab iis rebus,

id. Off. 1, 18, 60; id. Or. 39, 135:

nomen ex quo,

id. Ac. 11, 41; cf.:

nomen a Graeco,

Quint. 1, 6, 3; 3, 7, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 66 et saep.; cf.

also: utrumque (sc. amor et amicitia) ductum (al. dictum) est ab amando,

Cic. Lael. 27; id. Fin. 2, 24, 78.—

To lead a person, as regards his will or opinions, in any direction; to move, incite, induce, allure, in a good or bad sense (most freq. in the pass.):

ita me ad credendum tua ducit oratio,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 18:

nos ducit scholarum consuetudo,

Quint. 4, 2, 28; 5, 11, 19; cf. id. 9, 1, 21:

ducit te species,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 35 et saep.:

declamatores quosdam perversa ducit ambitio, ut, etc.,

Quint. 10, 7, 21.—In the pass.:

si quis statuarum honore aut gloria ducitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58 fin.:

eloquentiae laude,

id. Or. 32, 115:

quaestu et lucro,

id. Tusc. 5, 3, 9:

hoc errore ut, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 41; cf.:

litteris eorum et urbanitate, ut, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 41, 120:

omnes trahimur et ducimur ad cognitionis et scientiae cupiditatem,

id. Off. 1, 6 et saep.—

In a bad sense, to cheat, deceive, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 26; id. Capt. 4, 2, 7; Ter. And. 4, 1, 20; id. Ph. 3, 2, 15; Prop. 2, 17, 1 (3, 8, 1 M.); Ov. H. 19, 13; id. M. 3, 587 (with decipere).—

With regard to time, to draw out, extend, protract, prolong:

bellum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 4; id. B. C. 2, 18, 6; 2, 37, 5 sq.; Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2; Liv. 22, 25 et saep.; cf.:

bellum longius,

Caes. B. C. 1, 64, 2; 3, 42, 3:

bellum in hiemem,

id. ib. 1, 61, 3:

eam rem longius,

id. B. G. 7, 11, 4; cf.:

rem prope in noctem,

id. B. C. 3, 51, 7:

rem leniter,

Liv. 3, 41 et saep. Also transf., of time itself:

tempus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11; Nep. Them. 7:

diem ex die,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 4; and of persons who are put off, delayed:

ubi se diutius duci intellexit,

id. ib. 1, 16, 5.—Less freq. (mostly poet.),

In gen., of time, to pass, spend, enjoy:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 50; so,

aetatem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 202:

vitam,

id. Epod. 17, 63; Sen. Ep. 45, 10; cf. Verg. A. 2, 641 (where, shortly before, vitam producere):

noctes,

Prop. 1, 11, 5; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 13:

somnos,

Verg. A. 4, 560.—

In mercant. lang., to calculate, compute, reckon: age nunc summam sumptus duc, Lucil. ap. Non. 283, 30:

minimum ut sequamur, quoniam XC. medimnūm milia duximus, accedant eo, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 49; id. Att. 6, 1, 5 and 16; 6, 2, 7; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 11; Gell. 1, 20, 5.—

Transf. beyond the mercant. sphere.

Rationem alicujus, to consider, calculate, care for one's advantage or interest (a favorite expression of Cicero):

duxi meam rationem, quam tibi facile me probaturum arbitrabar,

Cic. Att. 8, 11 D, § 7; so,

suam quoque rationem,

to have respect to one's own advantage, id. Verr. 2, 1, 48; and:

non minorem aratorum quam populi rationem,

Suet. Aug. 42 fin.:

salutis meae rationem,

Cic. Fam. 7, 3:

rationem officii, non commodi,

id. Sest. 10, 23; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128:

unius cujusque temporis ducta ratio est,

id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 16:

rationem officii atque existimationis,

id. Quint. 16, 53.—

In gen., to reckon, consider, hold, account, esteem as any thing (cf. aestimo and existimo;

very freq. in prose and poetry): parvi id ducebat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24:

pro nihilo aliquid,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 85; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 16 fin.; id. Tusc. 5, 32, 90; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28:

ea pro falsis ducit,

Sall. C. 3, 2; cf.:

innocentiam pro malevolentia,

id. ib. 12, 1:

vos eritis judices, Laudin' an vitio duci id factum oportuit,

Ter. Ad. prol. 5; so,

aliquid honori,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

aliquid laudi, Nep. praef. § 4: aliquem despicatui,

Cic. Fl. 27, 65: nihil praeter virtutem in bonis ducere (for which, shortly after, in bonis habere = numerare), Cic. Fin. 3, 3;

aliquem in numero hostium,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 25 fin.; Caes. B. G. 6, 32, 1; cf. ib. 6, 23, 8; without in, ib. 6, 21, 2; cf.:

aliquem loco affinium,

Sall. J. 14, 1 Kritz. N. cr.: aliquid testimonii loco, Quint. 5, 9, 10:

tutelae nostrae duximus, cum Africo bello urgerentur,

Liv. 21, 41; cf.:

officii duxit exorare filiae patrem, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11:

faceret, quod e republica fideque sua duceret,

id. ib. 25, 7 et saep.:

malum cum amici tuum ducis malum,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 48; cf.:

Archytas iracundiam seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38:

eorum, quos idoneos ducebat, consilium habet,

Sall. J. 62, 4:

nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 83.— With acc. and inf.:

sic equidem ducebam animo rebarque futurum,

Verg. A. 6, 690:

ut omnia tua in te posita esse ducas humanosque casus virtute inferiores putes,

Cic. Lael. 2, 7, 19 fin.; id. Rep. 1, 2; 1, 17; 1, 38; 3, 9 (three times); Sall. J. 93, 5; Liv. 22, 14, 6; 22, 59, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 2; 4, 30, 2; 6, 18 et saep.—Here too probably belongs the much disputed passage: ludos et inania honoris medio rationis atque abundantiae duxit (= ludos publicos cum aliis rebus quae ad inania honoris pertinent, duxit, i. e. existimavit habendos et ponendos in medio rationis atque abundantiae, ut inter rationem, quae plane spernit inania, et abundantiam, quae eadem ostentat, media via incederet), he thought right to manage them in a middle course between reason and profusion, Tac. Agr. 6 fin., v. Dübner and Orell. ad h. l.

pŏtestas, ātis ( gen. plur. potestatium, Sen. Ep. 115, 7; Plin. 29, 4, 20, § 67), f. [possum].

Lit., in gen., ability, power of doing any thing (class.):

SI FVRIOSVS EST AGNATORVM GENTILIVMQVE IN EO PECVNIAQVE EIVS POTESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: vim tantam in se et potestatem habere tantae astutiae,

to have such a power of craftiness, to be able to devise such tricks, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 32:

aut potestas defuit aut facultas aut voluntas,

Cic. Inv. 2, 7, 24:

habere potestatem vitae necisque in aliquem,

id. Dom. 29, 77; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, § 11:

potestatem alicui deferre beneficiorum tribuendorum,

id. Balb. 16, 37. — Poet., with inf.:

potestas occurrere telis... ensem avellere dextrā,

Stat. Th. 3, 296; Luc. 2, 40.—

In phrases.

Esse in potestate alicujus, to be in one's power, under one's control, to be subject to (for a description of the relation of potestas under the Roman law, and of the classes of persons to whom it applied, v. Gai. Inst. 1, 49 sqq.):

mittuntur legati, qui nuntient, ut sit in senatūs populique Romani potestate,

Cic. Phil. 6, 2, 4:

esse in dicione ac potestate alicujus,

id. Quint. 2, 6: habere familiam in potestate, to keep them slaves, not to free them, Liv. 8, 15.—

Esse in suā potestate, to be one's own master, Nep. Att. 6, 1; so,

esse suae potestatis,

Liv. 31, 45.—

Jus potestatemque habere imperandi, Cic. Phil. 11, 12, 30; cf.:

cum consulis eā de re jus ac potestatem esse dixisset,

had jurisdiction and authority over it, Liv. 24, 39.—

Est mea (tua, etc.) potestas, I have the power, I can, Cic. Att. 2, 5, 1; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 42; cf.:

sed volui meam potestatem esse vel petendi, etc.,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 6.—

In partic.

Political power, dominion, rule, empire, sovereignty (syn.:

imperium, dicio): Thessaliam in potestatem Thebanorum redigere,

Nep. Pelop. 5, 1; Liv. 24, 31; so,

sub potestatem Atheniensium redigere,

Nep. Milt. 1, 4:

esse in potestate alicujus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 136:

tenere aliquem in suā potestate ac dicione,

id. ib. 2, 1, 38, §

97: venire in arbitrium ac potestatem alicujus,

id. ib. 2, 1, 57, § 150.—

Magisterial power, authority, office, magistracy (syn.:

magistratus, auctoritas): potestas praetoria,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 69:

qui togatus in re publicā cum potestate imperioque versatus sit,

id. Phil. 1, 7, 18:

modo ut bonā ratione emerit, nihil pro potestate, nihil ab invito,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10:

cum potestate aut legatione in provinciam proficisci,

id. ib. 2, 4, 5, § 9; id. Clu. 27, 74:

censores dederunt operam, ut ita potestatem gererent, ut, etc.,

so to administer the office, id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138; id. Agr. 2, 6, 14.—In plur.:

imperia, potestates, legationes,

id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

in potestatibus gerendis,

Auct. Her. 3, 7, 14.—

Transf.

A person in office, a public officer, magistrate:

a magistratu aut ab aliquā potestate legitimā evocatus,

by some lawful authority, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 74:

mavis Fidenarum esse potestas,

Juv. 10, 100.—

A ruler, supreme monarch:

hominum rerumque aeterna potestas,

i. e. Jupiter, Verg. A. 10, 18:

nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, cum laudatur dis aequa potestas,

Juv. 4, 71 (v. context): potestates, = archai, the highest magistrates, Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 26; Suet. Ner. 36; Amm. 31, 12, 5:

celsae potestates,

officers of state, id. 14, 1, 10:

jurisdictionem potestatibus per provincias demandare,

Suet. Claud. 23.—

Esp., legal power, right over or to a thing (class.):

potestatis verbo plura significantur: in personā magistratuum imperium, in personā liberorum patria potestas, in personā servi dominium: at cum agimus de noxae deditione cum eo, qui servum non defendit, praesentis corporis copiam facultatemque significamus. Ex lege Atiniā in potestatem domini rem furtivam venisse videri, et si ejus vindicandae potestatem habuerit, Sabinus et Cassius aiunt,

Dig. 50, 16, 215.—

Of inanimate things, power, force, efficacy, effect, operation, virtue, value:

potestates colorum,

Vitr. 7, 14:

potestates visque herbarum,

Verg. A. 12, 396; Plin. 25, 2, 5, § 9:

pecuniarum,

value, Dig. 13, 4, 3:

haec potestatibus praesentibus dijudicanda sunt,

circumstances, state of things, Gell. 1, 3, 24:

actionum vis et potestas,

Dig. 9, 4, 1:

quaternarius numerus suis partibus complet decadis ipsius potestatem (because the first four integers, taken together, = 10),

compass, fulness, Mart. Cap. 2, § 106:

plumbi potestas,

nature, quality, properties, Lucr. 5, 1242:

naturalis,

Vitr. 9, 4.—

Of a word, meaning, signification (syn.:

vis, significatio),

Gell. 10, 29, 1; Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67; Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 4.—

Math. t. t., = dunamis, the square root, Mart. Cap. 2, § 106.—

Trop.

Power, control, command (class.): dum ex tanto gaudio in potestatem nostram redeamus, recover our self-control, come to ourselves, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14:

exisse ex potestate dicimus eos, qui effrenati feruntur aut libidine, aut iracundiā,

to have lost the control of their reason, to be out of their minds, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; cf.:

qui exisse ex potestate dicuntur, idcirco dicuntur, quia non sunt in potestate mentis, cui regnum totius animi a natura tributum est,

id. ib. 3, 5, 11; cf. also id. ib. 4, 36, 77:

postquam ad te cum omnium rerum tum etiam tui potestatem di transtulerint,

Plin. Pan. 56, 3.—

Power, ability, possibility, opportunity (class.; cf.:

copia, facultas): ubi mihi potestas primum evenit,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 18:

liberius vivendi,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 25:

ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae,

Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1: quoties mihi certorum hominum potestas erit (al. facultas), whenever I find men on whom I can rely, id. ib. 1, 7, 1: facere potestatem, to give opportunity, leave, permission:

si quid de his rebus dicere vellet, feci potestatem,

id. Cat. 3, 5, 11:

quae potestas si mihi saepius fiet, utar,

shall present itself, id. Phil. 1, 15, 38:

alicui potestatem optionemque facere, ut, etc.,

id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 45:

facio tibi interpellandi potestatem,

id. Rosc. Am. 27, 73:

ego instare, omnium mihi tabularum et litterarum fieri potestatem oportere,

must be allowed the use of, id. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 149: potestatem sui facere, to allow others to see or have access to one, to give an opportunity of conversing with one:

cum neque praetores diebus aliquot adiri possent vel potestatem sui facerent,

allowed themselves to be spoken to, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 15:

facere omnibus conveniendi sui potestatem,

to admit to an audience, id. Phil. 8, 10, 31:

qui potestatem sui non habuissent,

who had not been able to speak with him, Suet. Tib. 34:

potestatem sui facere,

to give an opportunity of fighting with one, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Nep. Ages. 3, 3.— Poet., with inf.:

non fugis hinc praeceps, dum praecipitare potestas,

Verg. A. 4, 565:

nunc flere potestas est,

Luc. 2, 40:

soli cui tanta potestas meis occurrere telis,

Stat. Th. 3, 296.—

In eccl. Lat.:

potestates,

angels, angelic powers, authorities in the spiritual world, Vulg. Ephes. 6, 12; id. 1 Pet. 3, 22; sing., id. 1 Cor. 15, 24.—

Personified, a daughter of Pallas and Styx, Hyg. Fab. prooem.