composing

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scriptūra, ae, f. [scribo], a writing, written characters.

In gen. (acc. to scribo, I.;

Cic. uses scriptio instead): minium in voluminibus quoque scriptura usurpatur clarioresque litteras vel in auro vel in marmore etiam in sepulchris facit,

Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 122:

(meorum librorum) scriptura quanti constet,

Mart. 1, 67, 3; Suet. Aug. 80: mendum scripturae, an error in writing, Caecin. ap. Cic Fam. 6, 7, 1.—

Concr., a line (syn. scriptum):

supercilia usque ad malarum scripturam currentia,

the boundary line between the cheeks and eyelids, Petr. 126, 15.—

In partic. (freq. and class.).

(Acc. to scribo, II.) [p. 1649] A writing, composing, composition (cf. scriptura).

Abstr., = scriptio:

stilus optimus dicendi effector... Nam si subitam et fortuitam orationem commentatio facile vincit: hanc ipsa profecto assidua ac diligens scriptura superabit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150; cf. id. Fam. 15, 21, 4:

neminem posse omnis res per scripturam complecti,

id. Inv. 2, 50, 152: quod si scripturam sprevissem in praesentiā, writing, composing, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 16:

scriptura levis,

id. Phorm. prol. 5; cf.: genus scripturae, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3; Liv 25, 12; Suet. Vit. Juven.; Nep. praef. § 1; cf.

also: Naevii Punicum bellum continenti scripturā expositum,

Suet. Gram. 2: C. Furnio legato plura verbo quam scriptura mandata dedimus, rather orally than in writing, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 5; cf.:

edebat per libellos scripturā brevi,

written briefly, Suet. Caes. 41.—

Concr., = scriptum.

Something written, a writing (rare, and not in Cic., for scriptum, liber, libellus): ne cum poëtā scriptura evanesceret, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 5; id. Ad. prol. 1:

diurna actorum, i. e. acta diurna,

the public paper of the State, Tac. A. 3, 3:

nemo annales nostros cum scripturā eorum contenderit,

id. ib. 4, 32:

in alterā scripturā,

Val. Max. 1, 1, 12; Vitr. 5, 4, 1; Vulg. Dan. 5, 17; 25.—Of an inscription:

statuae aetatem scriptura indicat,

Vell. 2, 61, 3.—

In eccl. writers: kat exochên Scriptura, or, in the plur., Scripturae, the Scriptures, Vulg. Matt. 21, 42; id. Johan. 7, 42.—Esp. sing.: scriptūra, ae, a scripture, a passage of Scripture, Vulg. Marc. 14, 49; id. Johan. 19, 24.—

Publicists' and jurid. t. t.

Public.

A tax paid on public pastures:

advorsum legem a me ob meam scripturam pecudem accepit Aeraque,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 42 sq.; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15; id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169; id. Att. 11, 10, 1; id. Fam. 13, 65, 1.—

A written law (syn. lex scripta):

cum per ignorantiam scripturae multa commissa fierent,

Suet. Calig. 41.—

Jurid. t. t.

A testamentary provision:

primum demonstrandum est, non esse ambigue scriptum... Deinde ex superiore et ex inferiore scripturā docendum, etc.... quae autem ex omni consideratā scripturā perspicua fiant, haec ambigua non oportere existimari,

Cic. Inv. 2, 40, 117; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 34:

dubia,

id. 7, 9, 6.—

A will: suprema, Cod. Th. 16, 1, 40.

stĭlus (not stylus), i, m. [for stiglus; Gr. stizô, to stick, puncture; stigma, mark, point; Sanscr. tig, to be sharp; tigmas, sharp; cf. Engl. stick, sting; Lat. stimulus; not connected with stulos].

In gen., a stake, pale: extra vallum stili caeci, concealed stakes, Auct. B. Afr. 31, 5; cf. Sil. 10, 415 (for which stimuli, Caes. B. G. 7, 73 fin.):

ligneus,

Amm. 23, 4, 5; 15, 10, 5.—In agriculture, a pointed instrument for freeing plants from worms or from shoots which grow too rankly, etc., Col. 11, 3, 53; Pall. Mart. 10, 20.—Of the stem or stalk of many plants (e. g. of the asparagus), Col. 11, 3, 46; 11, 3, 58; 5, 10, 13; 5, 10, 21.—

In partic.

A style used by the Romans for writing on waxen tablets (pointed, and usually made of iron):

effer cito stilum, ceram et tabellas et linum,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 64; cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 76; 4, 9, 73; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

cum otiosus stilum prehenderat, flaccebat oratio,

Cic. Brut. 24, 93:

orationes paene Attico stilo scriptae,

with an Attic pen, id. ib. 45, 167; so,

(comoediae quaedam) resipiant stilum Plautinum,

Gell. 3, 3, 13.—And with reference to the ecenomical use, in a double sense, Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 96.—Writing on wax was erased with the broad upper end of the style; hence the phrase stilum vertere, for to erase what one has written, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41, § 101:

saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint, Scripturus,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 73.—But cf.:

et mihi vertenti stilum in Gallias,

i. e. turning to write of, Amm. 29, 3, 1.—Comically:

stilis me totum usque ulmeis conscribito,

i. e. with elm switches, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 131 (cf. conscribo).—

Transf.

= scriptio and scriptura, a setting down in writing, composing, composition; the practice of composing; manner of writing, mode of composition:

stilus optimus et praestantissimus dicendi effector ac magister,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150; 1, 60, 257; cf. id. ib. 3, 49, 190; Quint. 1, 9, 2; cf.:

multus stilus et assidua lectio,

id. 10, 7, 4:

stilus exercitatus,

i. e. a practised pen, Cic. Or. 44, 150:

tardior stilus cogitationem moratur,

Quint. 1, 1, 28:

neglegens,

id. 2, 4, 13:

multus,

id. 10, 1, 1:

tardus,

id. 10, 3, 5:

rudis et confusus,

id. 1, 1, 28:

fidelis,

id. 10, 7, 7:

stilo incumbere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 29, 9:

aliquid stilo prosequi,

id. ib. 1, 8, 8;

2, 3, 3: signare stilo,

Vell. 1, 16, 1:

non ita dissimili sunt argumento, sed tamen Dissimili oratione sunt factae ac stilo,

in speech and writing, Ter. And. prol. 12 (for which:

oratione et scripturā,

id. Phorm. prol. 5); cf.:

unus sonus est totius orationis et idem stilus,

the same tone and the same style of composition run through the whole speech, Cic. Brut. 26, 100:

artifex stilus,

an artistic style, id. ib. 25, 96:

familiares opes velut supremo distribuens stilo,

i. e. by his last will, Amm. 25, 3, 21.—

A manner of speaking, mode of expression, style in speaking (post-Aug. and very rare; not as early as Quint.;

in class. Lat. sermo, oratio, dictio, dicendi modus, ars, genus or forma): stilus pressus demissusque,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 5:

pugnax et quasi bellatorins,

id. ib. 7, 9, 7:

laetior,

id. ib. 3, 18, 10; cf.:

diligentis stili anxietas,

Tac. Or. 39:

(Octavius) tragoediam magno impetu exorsus, non succedente stilo, abolevit,

Suet. Aug. 85:

affectatione obscurabat stilum,

id. Tib. 70:

stili dicendi duo sunt: unus est maturus et gravis, alter ardens erectus et infensus, etc.,

Macr. S. 5, 1; 6, 3.—

A decision, verdict, opinion, App. M. 10, p. 242, 20.

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• The fellow is either mad or he is composing verses. (Horace)

carmen, ĭnis, n. (old form cas-men, Varr. L. L. p. 86 Bip.) [Sanscr. çasto [p. 293] declaim, praise; cf.: camilla, censeo], a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (mostly poet.; in prose, instead of it, cantus; cf.

also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),

Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.:

carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,

Ov. M. 11, 317; cf.

vocum,

id. ib. 12, 157:

per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis,

id. ib. 1, 518; cf. id. ib. 11, 5;

5, 340: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri,

Verg. A. 4, 462; so id. G. 4, 514; Ov. M. 10, 453:

cygnorum,

id. ib. 5, 387; cf. id. ib. 14, 430; Mart. 13, 77:

citharae liquidum carmen,

Lucr. 4, 981; cf. id. 2, 506; Hor. C. 1, 15, 15:

lyrae carmen,

Prop. 2, 1, 9 Hertzb.:

canere miserabile carmen,

Ov. M. 5, 118:

harundineum,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 12:

socialia carmina,

id. H. 12, 139:

barbaricum,

id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:

hoc carmen hic tribunus plebis non vobis sed sibi intus canit,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 68; cf. Aspendius.—Also the sound of waves, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 319; cf. Auct. Aetn. 295.—

Esp., a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song, whether in a broader sense, of every kind of poetic production, epic, dramatic, lyric (opp. to prose and to cantus, the melody), or, in a more restricted sense, for lyric poetry.

Cum hanc felicitatem non prosa modo multi sint consecuti sed etiam carmine, Quint. 10, 7, 19; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 8, 6, 27; 10, 1, 95:

perspicuum est, et cantus (melodies) tum fuisse rescriptos vocum sonis et carmina (words),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 34; 3, 51, 197:

carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae Tradere,

Lucr. 5, 1444:

Maeonii carminis alite,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 2:

epicum carmen,

Quint. 10, 1, 62:

heroici sublimitas,

id. 1, 8, 5; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 3, 16:

Iliacum,

Hor. A. P. 129:

historia quodammodo carmen solutum,

Quint. 10, 1, 31:

Pierium,

Lucr. 1, 946; 4, 21:

tragicum,

Hor. A. P. 220:

carmina Livi,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 69; cf. Tac. A. 11, 13:

Saliorum carmina,

Varr. L. L. 3, 26; 9, 61; Quint. 1, 6, 40; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 86 Schmid.; cf. Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

lyricorum carmina,

Quint. 9, 4, 53; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 32:

Aeolium,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 13:

Lydis remixto carmine tibiis,

id. ib. 4, 15, 30; cf. id. Epod. 9, 5:

carmen funebre proprie Naenia,

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

carmina quae in Phaeacum epulis canuntur,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; cf. id. ib. 19, 75:

lascivum,

Quint. 9, 4, 108:

obscena,

satirical, abusive poems, libels, Prop. 1, 16, 10;

the same: famosum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31 Schmid.:

malum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 153; id. S. 2, 1. 82 Heind.:

obliquum,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 27:

probrosum,

Tac. A. 4, 31; cf.:

si quis carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri,

Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; and Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 259 sq.; Fischer ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4.—Phrases:

canere,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

cantare cui,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

cantitare,

Cic. Brut. 19, 75: CONDERE, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; Lucr. 5, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. A. P. 436:

contexere,

Cic. Cael. 8, 18:

disponere,

Lucr. 3, 420:

pangere,

id. 1, 934; 4, 9:

fingere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 32; id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331:

dicere,

id. C. 4, 12, 10; id. C. S. 8:

dictare,

id. S. 1, 10, 75; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

docere,

id. C. 2, 19, 1:

ad umbilicum adducere,

id. Epod. 14, 7:

deducere ad sua tempora,

Ov. M. 1, 4:

fundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64:

componere ad lyram,

Quint. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. 11, 2, 11.—

Esp.

In a restricted sense for lyric or epic poetry:

carmine tu gaudes, hic delectatur iambis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 59 Schmid.; cf.:

carmina compono, hic elegos,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91: amabile carmen, i. e. a love poem or song, id. ib. 1, 3, 24.—And opp. to the drama for an epic or lyric poem:

fabula, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus,

Quint. 2, 4, 2.—

A part of a great epic poem, a book, canto:

in primo carmine,

Lucr. 6, 937. —

A poetic inscription:

et tumulum facite et tumulo superaddite carmen: Daphnis ego, etc.,

Verg. E. 5, 42; id. A. 3, 287; Ov. M. 14, 442; id. F. 3, 547 al.—

A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction:

ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas,

Verg. E. 4, 4; so Ov. M. 6, 582; Liv. 1, 45, 5; 23, 11, 4; 25, 12, 4; 29, 10, 6; 38, 45, 3; Tac. A. 3, 63; 4, 43; 6, 12 al.—

A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf.

Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,

Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 10: carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam;

Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Verg. E. 8, 69 sq.; so id. A. 4, 487; Hor. Epod. 5, 72; 17, 4; id. S. 1, 8, 19; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 35; Ov. M. 7, 137; 14, 58; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 69; 4, 22 al.—

On account of the very ancient practice of composing forms of religion and law in Saturnian verse, also a formula in religion or law, a form:

diro quodam carmine jurare,

Liv. 10, 38, 10; 10, 41, 3; 31, 17, 9; 1, 24, 6 and 9; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12:

cruciatus carmina,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. id. Mur. 12, 26:

lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem judicent, etc.,

of a dreadful form, Liv. 1, 26, 6:

rogationis carmen,

id. 3, 64, 10.—

Moral sentences composed in verses:

Appii Caeci carmen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

liber Catonis qui inscriptus est Carmen de moribus,

Gell. 11, 2, 2:

ut totum illud, VTI. LINGVA. NVNCVPASSIT., non in XII. tabulis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

necessarium,

id. Leg. 2, 23, 59.

carmen, ĭnis, n. [1. caro], a card, for wool or flax, Venant. Ep. Praem. Carm. 6, 5.

carmen, ĭnis, n. (old form cas-men, Varr. L. L. p. 86 Bip.) [Sanscr. çasto [p. 293] declaim, praise; cf.: camilla, censeo], a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (mostly poet.; in prose, instead of it, cantus; cf.

also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),

Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.:

carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,

Ov. M. 11, 317; cf.

vocum,

id. ib. 12, 157:

per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis,

id. ib. 1, 518; cf. id. ib. 11, 5;

5, 340: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri,

Verg. A. 4, 462; so id. G. 4, 514; Ov. M. 10, 453:

cygnorum,

id. ib. 5, 387; cf. id. ib. 14, 430; Mart. 13, 77:

citharae liquidum carmen,

Lucr. 4, 981; cf. id. 2, 506; Hor. C. 1, 15, 15:

lyrae carmen,

Prop. 2, 1, 9 Hertzb.:

canere miserabile carmen,

Ov. M. 5, 118:

harundineum,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 12:

socialia carmina,

id. H. 12, 139:

barbaricum,

id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:

hoc carmen hic tribunus plebis non vobis sed sibi intus canit,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 68; cf. Aspendius.—Also the sound of waves, Claud. Cons. Mall. Th. 319; cf. Auct. Aetn. 295.—

Esp., a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song, whether in a broader sense, of every kind of poetic production, epic, dramatic, lyric (opp. to prose and to cantus, the melody), or, in a more restricted sense, for lyric poetry.

Cum hanc felicitatem non prosa modo multi sint consecuti sed etiam carmine, Quint. 10, 7, 19; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 8, 6, 27; 10, 1, 95:

perspicuum est, et cantus (melodies) tum fuisse rescriptos vocum sonis et carmina (words),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 34; 3, 51, 197:

carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae Tradere,

Lucr. 5, 1444:

Maeonii carminis alite,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 2:

epicum carmen,

Quint. 10, 1, 62:

heroici sublimitas,

id. 1, 8, 5; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 3, 16:

Iliacum,

Hor. A. P. 129:

historia quodammodo carmen solutum,

Quint. 10, 1, 31:

Pierium,

Lucr. 1, 946; 4, 21:

tragicum,

Hor. A. P. 220:

carmina Livi,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 69; cf. Tac. A. 11, 13:

Saliorum carmina,

Varr. L. L. 3, 26; 9, 61; Quint. 1, 6, 40; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 86 Schmid.; cf. Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

lyricorum carmina,

Quint. 9, 4, 53; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 32:

Aeolium,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 13:

Lydis remixto carmine tibiis,

id. ib. 4, 15, 30; cf. id. Epod. 9, 5:

carmen funebre proprie Naenia,

Quint. 8, 2, 8:

carmina quae in Phaeacum epulis canuntur,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; cf. id. ib. 19, 75:

lascivum,

Quint. 9, 4, 108:

obscena,

satirical, abusive poems, libels, Prop. 1, 16, 10;

the same: famosum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31 Schmid.:

malum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 153; id. S. 2, 1. 82 Heind.:

obliquum,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 27:

probrosum,

Tac. A. 4, 31; cf.:

si quis carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri,

Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; and Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 259 sq.; Fischer ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4.—Phrases:

canere,

Cic. Brut. 18, 71; Liv. 1, 20, 4 al.:

cantare cui,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

cantitare,

Cic. Brut. 19, 75: CONDERE, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; Lucr. 5, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. A. P. 436:

contexere,

Cic. Cael. 8, 18:

disponere,

Lucr. 3, 420:

pangere,

id. 1, 934; 4, 9:

fingere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 32; id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331:

dicere,

id. C. 4, 12, 10; id. C. S. 8:

dictare,

id. S. 1, 10, 75; id. Ep. 2, 1, 110:

docere,

id. C. 2, 19, 1:

ad umbilicum adducere,

id. Epod. 14, 7:

deducere ad sua tempora,

Ov. M. 1, 4:

fundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64:

componere ad lyram,

Quint. 1, 10, 29; cf. id. 11, 2, 11.—

Esp.

In a restricted sense for lyric or epic poetry:

carmine tu gaudes, hic delectatur iambis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 59 Schmid.; cf.:

carmina compono, hic elegos,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91: amabile carmen, i. e. a love poem or song, id. ib. 1, 3, 24.—And opp. to the drama for an epic or lyric poem:

fabula, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus,

Quint. 2, 4, 2.—

A part of a great epic poem, a book, canto:

in primo carmine,

Lucr. 6, 937. —

A poetic inscription:

et tumulum facite et tumulo superaddite carmen: Daphnis ego, etc.,

Verg. E. 5, 42; id. A. 3, 287; Ov. M. 14, 442; id. F. 3, 547 al.—

A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction:

ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas,

Verg. E. 4, 4; so Ov. M. 6, 582; Liv. 1, 45, 5; 23, 11, 4; 25, 12, 4; 29, 10, 6; 38, 45, 3; Tac. A. 3, 63; 4, 43; 6, 12 al.—

A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf.

Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,

Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 10: carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam;

Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Verg. E. 8, 69 sq.; so id. A. 4, 487; Hor. Epod. 5, 72; 17, 4; id. S. 1, 8, 19; Prop. 2 (3), 28, 35; Ov. M. 7, 137; 14, 58; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Tac. A. 2, 69; 4, 22 al.—

On account of the very ancient practice of composing forms of religion and law in Saturnian verse, also a formula in religion or law, a form:

diro quodam carmine jurare,

Liv. 10, 38, 10; 10, 41, 3; 31, 17, 9; 1, 24, 6 and 9; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12:

cruciatus carmina,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. id. Mur. 12, 26:

lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem judicent, etc.,

of a dreadful form, Liv. 1, 26, 6:

rogationis carmen,

id. 3, 64, 10.—

Moral sentences composed in verses:

Appii Caeci carmen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

liber Catonis qui inscriptus est Carmen de moribus,

Gell. 11, 2, 2:

ut totum illud, VTI. LINGVA. NVNCVPASSIT., non in XII. tabulis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

necessarium,

id. Leg. 2, 23, 59.

carmen, ĭnis, n. [1. caro], a card, for wool or flax, Venant. Ep. Praem. Carm. 6, 5.

conceptĭo, ōnis, f. [id.].

Prop.

A comprehending; hence, concr., a circuit, compass:

summa omnium naturae rerum (mundus),

the system of the universe, Vitr. 9, 4, 2:

tota mundi,

id. 6, 1, 6.—

Aquae, a collection, reservoir, Front. Aquaed. 66; 67; 71; 73 al.—

A conception, a becoming pregnant, Cic. Div. 2, 22, 50; Plin. 22, 22, 40, § 83;

and imbrium (as fructifying the earth),

Vitr. 8 praef. —

Trop.

A composing, drawing up of juridical formulas Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 58; Dig. 3, 5, 46; 12, 2, 34; 24, 3, 56; 48, 2, 3 al.—Hence,

Rei, an expression, Gell. 11, 13, 9.—

In late gram., a syllable, Charis. p. 1 P.

concinnātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.] (post-class.).

In economics, an adjusting, preparing: aquae marinae, Auct. Lemmat. ap. Cato, R. R. 106.—

Transf., a making, composing:

epistulae,

Aus. Ep. 17; cf. id. ib. 7 and 15: metrorum, Mar. Vict. p. 2547 P.

confectĭo, ōnis, f. [conficio] (several times in Cic.; elsewh. rare).

A making, preparing, producing, arranging, composing, completing:

hujus libri,

Cic. Sen. 1, 2; cf.

annalium,

id. de Or. 2, 12, 52:

materiae,

id. Div. 1, 51, 116 dub. (B. and K. consectio, v. Orell. N. cr.):

olei,

Pall. Nov. 5; cf. Veg. 6, 10, 2:

belli,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1:

memoriae,

id. Part. Or. 7, 26:

tributi,

i. e. an exaction, id. Fl. 9, 20:

testamenti,

Cod. Just. 6, 23, 27. —

Concr., that which is prepared, made, Pall. Oct. 17, 2.—

A diminishing, destroying:

escarum,

a chewing, masticating, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134: valetudinis, a weakening, impairing, id. Hortens. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 269, 22.

conscriptĭo, ōnis, f. [conscribo, II.], a drawing up in writing, a composing, composition (rare).

In abstr.:

libelli,

Sid. Ep. 7, 18.—More freq.,

In concr., a representation, treatise, writing; in plur., * Cic. Clu. 67, 191; * Vitr. 7, prooem. §

1: in annalium conscriptionibus legere,

Arn. 7, p. 242. —

(Conscribo, I.) A levying of troops, Julian. ap. Cassiod. 16, Hist. Eccl. 17.

contextĭo, ōnis, f. [contexo] (postclass.).

A joining, putting together (opp. resolutio), Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 5, 18.—

A preparing, composing:

classis, Aus. prooem. Per. lliad: libri, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 2: narrationis,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 2.