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lā̆trōcĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [2. latro].

To perform military service for pay, to be a hired soldier (ante-class.):

ibit aliquo Latrocinatum,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 198; id. Mil. 2, 6, 19: qui regi latrocinatus decem annos Demetrio, id. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 52 Müll.—

To practise freebooting, robbery, or highway-robbery, to rob on the highway:

Catilina latrocinantem se interfici mallet, quam exsulem vivere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi impune sui posteri latrocinarentur,

id. Mil. 7, 17:

vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15.— To commit piracy:

maritimi, alteri mercandi causa, alteri latrocinandi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9.—

Transf.

Of a fish preying upon others, to hunt, seize:

pastinaca latrocinatur ex occulto,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 144.—

Of a physician who dissects a body:

mortui praecordia et viscus omne in conspectum,

Cels. 1 praef. —Hence. lā̆trōcĭnanter, adv., like a robber, Aug. Ep. 35, 3.

lū̆crĭfăcĭo, fēci, factum, and in pass., lū̆crĭfīo, factus, fieri (also separately:

licet lucri dotem faciat,

Dig. 11, 7, 29:

me esse hos trecentos Philippos facturum lucri,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 26; id. Most. 2, 1, 7; id. Pers. 4, 4, 117; id. Truc. 3, 2, 22; usu. written as two words in recent edd. of Cic., etc.), 3, v. a. [lucrum facio], to gain, win, acquire, get (as profit).

Lit.:

pallium lucrifacere,

Petr. 15; Mart. 8, 10:

quid si ostendo in hac una optione lucri fieri tritici modios centum?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 111:

pecuniam lucri factum videtis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 75, § 174.—

Trop.:

quod lucrifecerunt hoc nomen turdi,

have appropriated, acquired, Varr. R. R. 3, 4: suum maleficium existimabant se lucrifacere, that they would escape the punishment of their fault, would get off with impunity, Auct. B. Hisp. 36:

injuriam,

to commit with impunity, Plin. 7, 39, 40, § 129:

traduc equum ac lucrifac censoriam notam,

i. e. think yourself lucky that you have escaped it, Val. Max. 4, 1, 10.— Neutr.:

lucrifecit,

made a profit, Mart. 8, 10.

mălĕfĭcĭum, ĭi, n. [maleficus], an evil deed, misdeed, wickedness, offence, crime.

Lit.

In gen. (class.):

ne conscii sint ipsi malefici suis,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 21:

conscientia maleficiorum,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15:

committere, admittere,

to commit, id. Rosc. Am. 22, 62:

exsilio multare,

id. Caecin. 34, 100:

supplicia pro maleficiis metuere,

id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8.—

In partic. (mostly post-Aug.).

Fraud, deception, adulteration:

me maleficio vinceres?

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 20 Speng.; Quint. 7, 4, 36; Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 120.—

Enchantment, sorcery, Tac. A. 2, 69 Orell. N. cr.; App. M. 9, p. 230, 24; 231, 28; cf.

magica,

id. Mag. p. 278, 21; Schol. Juv. 6, 595.—

Transf., mischief, hurt, harm, injury, wrong inflicted (acc. to maleficus, II.):

pro maleficio beneficium reddere,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 22:

ab injuria et maleficio se prohibere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28:

sine ullo maleficio,

id. ib. 1, 7; id. B. C. 2, 20:

novis corrumperent maleficiis,

Liv. 7, 20:

maleficii occasione omissa,

id. 9, 12 al. —Hence, transf. (abstr. pro concr.), a noxious insect, vermin:

ita non nasci maleficia,

Plin. 18, 30, 73, § 308; 8, 59, 84, § 229; 20, 13, 51, § 133.

mĕmŏrĭa, ae, f. [memor].

The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.):

ubi me fugiet memoria,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 2:

Edepol, memoria's optumad,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 45:

bona,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

segnis ac lenta,

Sen. Ep. 74, 1:

tenacissima,

Quint. 1, 1, 19:

Hortensius memoriā tantā fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 88, 301:

hoc in memoria mea penitus insedit,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 122:

in memoriam redigere,

to recall to mind, recollect, id. Fam. 1, 9, 9; so,

in memoriam reducere,

id. Inv 1, 52, 98 memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154:

memoriā tenere,

id. Sen. 4, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

memoriā custodire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127:

memoriam agitare,

to exercise the memory, Quint. 1, 8, 14:

habere in memoriā,

to remember, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hoc est mihi in memoriā,

in my recollection, Cic. Sull. 13, 37:

deponere aliquid ex memoriā,

to forget a thing, id. ib. 6, 18:

memoriam alicujus deponere,

to forget, Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

si memoria fefellerit,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

hoc fugit memoriam meam,

has escaped my recollection, id. 4, 5, 3:

Carthaginem excidisse de memoriā,

Liv. 29, 19, 12; cf.:

memoriā cedere,

id. 2, 33, 9:

memoriā abire,

id. 2, 4, 2 ut mea memoria est, Cic. Att. 13, 31, 4:

ex memoriā exponam,

from memory, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13.—

Memory, remembrance:

si quid faciendumst mulieri male... Ibi ei inmortalis memoriast meminisse,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: verterunt sese memoriae, remembrances are altered, i. e. times are changed, id. Truc. 2, 1, 10:

memoriā dign' viri,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 2:

nostrae,

id. Fam. 8, 3, 3:

memoriae prodere sermonem alicujus,

to hand down to posterity, to leave in writing, to record, id. de Or. 3, 4, 14:

memoriam prodere,

to transmit, hand down, Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

traditur memoriae, prolapsum cecidisse,

it is related, Liv. 5, 21:

vivit, vivetque per omnium saeculorum memoriam,

Vell. 2, 66, 5:

(oratio) ad memoriam laudum domesticarum,

Cic. Brut. 16, 62:

quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit,

id. ib. 2, 9:

memoria immortalis,

Nep. Att. 11, 5.—

Transf.

The time of remembrance, period of recollection, time:

multi superiori memoriā se in alias civitates contulerunt,

in earlier times, Cic. Balb. 12, 28:

Cratippus princeps hujus memoriae philosophorum,

in our time, at the present time, id. Off. 3, 2, 5:

quod persaepe et nostrā, et patrum memoriā acci dit,

id. Font. 7, 13:

usque ad nostram memoriam,

id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54:

quod in omni memoriā est omnino inauditum,

id. Vatin. 14, 33:

post hominum memoriam,

since the memory of man, id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

paulo supra hanc memoriam,

a little before this, a short time since, Caes. B. G. 6, 19.—

An historical account, relation, narration:

liber, quo iste omnium rerum memoriam breviter complexus est,

Cic. Brut. 3, 14:

de Magonis interitu duplex memoria prodita est,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

memoriam vitae prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin. —

Concr., a written account, narrative, memoir:

quispiam ex his, qui se ad litteras memoriasque veteres dediderat,

Gell. 2, 21, 6:

in veteribus memoriis scriptum legimus,

id. 4, 6, 1; 7, 8, 1:

sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,

Suet. Dom. 5.—

(Eccl. Lat.) A monument, esp. a Christian church as a memorial of a saint or monument of a martyr:

in memoriā Cypriani manere,

Aug. Conf 5, 8, 3: memoriae martyrum templis deorum succedunt, id. Civ. Dei, 26, 5;

22, 8, 11 and 12 al.: memoriam sibi et suis com parare,

Inscr. Grut. 827, 8.—

Personified, the goddess of memory, = Mnemosyne, Afran. ap. Gell. 13, 8, 3:

Jovis (filias, ex memoria uxore,

Arn. 3, c. 37.

ob-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

Lit.

To bind or tie around, to bind or fasten to any thing (very rare):

obligatus corio,

bound in a leathern sack, Auct. Her. 1, 13, 23:

articulis muscus obligatus,

bound upon, Plin. 26, 11, 66, § 105: cibum ovis, to bind or unite with eggs, Apic. 4, 2:

amylo spisso obligare,

id. 2, 2; 8, 2.—

To bind together, bind up (rare):

pecua ad hanc collo in crumena ego obligata defero,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 1, 64: age obliga, obsigna cito, tie up (the letter, in order to seal it), id. Bacch. 4, 4, 96:

manipulos,

Col. 11, 2, 40.—

To bind up, bandage, swathe (class., esp. of wounds):

crus fractum,

Plaut. Men. 5, 3, 9:

vulnus,

Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57; cf.:

medicum requirens, a quo obligetur,

to bind up his wounds, id. Tusc. 2, 16, 38; Suet. Vit. 2:

venas,

to bandage the veins, Tac. A. 6, 9:

surculum libro,

Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2:

oculos,

Sen. Ira, 3, 11, 4:

ore obligato obsignatoque simulacrum,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 65.—

Trop.

In gen., to bind, oblige, put under an obligation, make liable, etc. (cf.:

obstringo, devincio): aliquem obligare militiae secundo sacramento,

bind by a second oath, swear in again, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36:

vadem tribus milibus aeris,

to bind in the sum of, Liv. 3, 13:

voti sponsio, quā obligamur deo,

Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 41; Liv. 9, 11:

se nexu,

Cic. Mur. 2, 3: se in acta cujusquam, Tib. ap. Suet. Tib. 67:

se chirographo ad aliquid,

Dig. 30, 103:

aliquem sibi liberalitate,

to bind to one's self, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3:

obligabis me,

will oblige me, lay me under an obligation, Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5:

obligari foedere,

Liv. 38, 33: pro amicis alicui obligari, to lay one's self under obligation, i. e. to solicit favors, Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 1:

obligor ipse tamen,

Ov. M. 9, 248:

obligatus ei nihil eram,

was under no obligation to him, Cic. Fam. 6, 11, 1:

me obligatum tibi fore,

id. Att. 13, 18:

obligati sunt interrogatum,

Amm. 28, 4, 10.— Poet.:

Prometheus obligatus aliti,

devoted, condemned to, Hor. Epod. 17, 67:

ergo obligatam redde Jovi dapem,

vowed, due, id. C. 2, 7, 17:

obligor, ut tangam laevi fera litora Ponti,

am compelled, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 83.—

In partic.

To render liable through guilt, to make guilly:

cum populum Romanum scelere obligāsses,

Cic. Dom. 8, 20:

votis caput,

Hor. C. 2, 8, 5:

se scelere,

Suet. Caes. 42: se furti, Scaev. ap. Gell. 7, 15, 2.— Pass., to be guilty of, to commit an offence:

est enim periculum, ne aut neglectis iis impiā fraude, aut susceptis anili superstitione obligemur,

Cic. Div. 1, 4, 7; cf.:

lege Corneliā testamentariā obligatur,

offends against, Dig. 8, 10, 30.—

Jurid. t. t.

To bind, engage one (cf. obligatio, II. B.):

obligandi, solvendi sui causā,

Dig. 2, 13, 6, § 3:

se obligare,

ib. 4, 2, 7, § 1; 21, 1, 25, § 9.—

To pledge, pawn, mortgage a thing:

magistratui bona ejus obligantur,

Vitr. 10 praef.:

omnia praedia fratri,

Suet. Vesp. 4:

omnia bona sua pignori,

Dig. 20, 4, 21:

nam fundi et aedis obligatae sunt ob amoris praedium,

has a mortgage on it, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 4:

aedes pignori,

Dig. 39, 2, 44:

obligata praedia,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 9.—

Transf., beyond the jurid. sphere:

obligare fidem suam,

to pledge one's word, Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 51.—

To impede, restrain, embarrass: judicio districtum atque obligatum esse, Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 24.—Hence, oblĭ-gātus, a, um, P. a., bound, obliged:

iisdem (officiis) me tibi obligatum fore,

Cic. Fam. 13, 18, 2.— Comp.:

quanto quis melior et probior, tanto mihi obligatior abit,

Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 8:

ipsi obligati sunt,

ensnared, embarrassed, Vulg. Psa. 19, 9.

opprĭmo ( obp-), essi, essum, 3, v. a. [ob-premo], to press against, press together; to press down (class.; syn. obruo).

Lit.:

voluit deus ora loquentis Opprimere,

to close, Ov. M. 3, 295: oculos, to press together, i. e. close the eyes, sc. of a dying person, Val. Max. 2, 6, 8:

fauces manu,

Suet. Calig. 12: flammam in ore, to repress, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 122 (Trag. v. 437 Vahl.).— To press down:

taleam pede,

to press into the ground, Cato, R. R. 45; Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 27:

opprimi ruinā conclavis,

to be crushed, Cic. Div. 2, 8, 20:

terrā oppressus,

id. ib. 2, 23, 51:

classem,

to sink, id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 33:

senem injectu multae vestis,

to smother, stifle, Tac. A. 6, 50; so,

dormiens oppressit eum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 3, 19; Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 14.—

Transf.:

oppressit jaculo redeuntem ad frena leonem,

struck down, Val. Fl. 3, 24.—

Trop.

To press together; to close, shut:

os opprime,

shut your mouth! hold your tongue! Plaut. As. 3, 2, 40; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 93.—

To press or bear down:

opprimi onere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 4.—

To put down, suppress, quell, check, quash:

quae oratio a censore opprimenda est,

Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 30:

sine tumultu rem omnem oppressere,

Liv. 2, 4:

tumultum,

id. 31, 11:

fraudem,

to baffle, thwart, id. 26, 6; Vulg. Lev. 24, 16.—

To overthrow, overwhelm, crush, overpower, prostrate, subdue:

reliquias hujus belli,

Cic. Fam. 10, 20, 3:

Graeciam,

Nep. Them. 8, 2:

nationem,

Cic. Font. 12, 36:

invidiam acerbitate,

Nep. Dion. 6:

libertatem,

to put an end to, destroy, id. Alcib. 3, 3:

ut exstinctae potius amicitiae, quam oppressae esse videantur,

Cic. Lael. 21, 78:

aliquem iniquo judicio,

id. Quint. 2, 7:

intolerandam potentiam,

to overthrow, id. Rosc. Am. 13, 36: aliquem, to crush one with false accusations, Liv. 2, 52; cf.:

insontem oblato falso crimine,

id. 1, 51:

quaestionem,

id. 26, 15:

si oppressa foret secura senectus (i. e. securus senex),

Juv. 10, 75:

litteras,

to utter indistinctly, to mumble, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—In gen., to have the upper hand, get the best of it, be victorious, Plaut. Mil. 4, 5, 10.—

To load, overwhelm, bear down, overcome: opprimi aere alieno, Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 8:

mvidiā,

id. ib. 2, 2, 4:

totius corporis doloribus,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 3:

metu,

Liv. 24, 33:

timore,

Caes. B. G. 4, 15:

senatus oppressus et afflictus,

Cic. Red. in Sen. 7, 18.—

To fall upon, surprise, take by surprise, come upon unexpectedly, seize, catch (syn.:

adorior, invado): occasionem opprimere,

to seize, embrace, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 15:

imprudentem,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 22:

incautos,

Liv. 26, 12:

Antonium mors oppressit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 91, § 213:

ne subito a me opprimantur (sc. interrogando),

id. ib. 2, 4, 67, §

150: oppressi luce copias instruunt, Auct. B. G. 8, 14: rostra,

to make one's self master of, occupy, Cic. Clu. 40, 110.—

To bury, hide, conceal, suppress:

quod quo studiosius ab ipsis opprimitur et absconditur, eo magis eminet et apparet,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 41, 121:

iram,

Sall. J. 72, 1:

ita ejus rei oppressa mentio est,

Liv. 23, 22:

infamiam,

Just. 12, 13, 10. —

To force a woman, commit a rape upon (late Lat.), Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 12; 14, 32; id. Gen. 34, 2; id. Ezech. 2, 2; 11.