concitatus

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concĭtātus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from concito.

concĭtātus, ūs, m. [concito], = concitatio, impulse, Sid. Carm. 23, 365.

concĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [concieo], to move violently, to put in violent or quick motion, to stir up, rouse up, excite, incite, shake.

Prop. (thus most freq. in the poets and histt.):

artus,

Lucr. 3, 292; 3, 301:

equum calcaribus,

Liv. 2, 6, 8; cf.:

equum in aliquem,

Nep. Pelop. 5, 4:

concitant equos permittuntque in hostem,

Liv. 3, 61, 8:

equos adversos,

id. 8, 7, 9; cf. also under P. a.:

naves quantā maximā celeritate poterat,

id. 36, 44, 4; cf.:

classem concitatam remis,

id. 30, 25, 8; 37, 11, 10:

navem remis,

Curt. 4, 3, 2:

in alteram (navem) quinqueremis eadem concitata,

id. 4, 4, 7:

agmen,

Ov. M. 14, 239:

omne nemus,

id. F. 1, 436:

feras,

id. ib. 2, 286:

tela,

Liv. 34, 39, 3:

eversas Eurus aquas,

Ov. H. 7, 42; cf.:

mare aeriore vento,

Curt. 4, 3, 17:

graves pluvias,

Ov. F. 2, 72:

se in hostem,

Liv. 8, 39, 7; cf.:

se in Teucros alis (Alecto),

Verg. A. 7, 476:

se in fugam,

to take to flight, Liv. 22, 17, 6; cf.:

se fugā in aliquem locum,

Val. Fl. 3, 383.—

Trop. (class. and very freq. in prose and poetry).

Aliquem, to rouse, urge, impel one to any act, feeling, etc., to move strongly, to influence, stir up, instigate, etc.; constr. with acc. pers. and ad, in, adversus, the inf. and absol.

With ad and a subst., gerund, or gerundive:

concitari ad studium cognoscendae percipiendaeque virtutis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 204; cf.:

concitatus ad philosophiam studio,

id. Brut. 89, 306:

judicem ad fortiter judicandum,

Quint. 6, 1, 20:

victum ad depellendam ignominiam,

id. 1, 2, 24:

nos ad quaerendum,

id. 10, 2, 5:

omnem Galliam ad nostrum auxilium,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

multitudinem ad arma,

id. ib. 7, 42 fin.; cf.: cessantes ad arma, * Hor. C. 1, 35, 16: colonias ad audendum aliquid, Suet. Caes. 8:

ad convicia,

id. Tib. 54:

ad despiciendam vitam,

id. Oth. 10.—

With in:

qui in iram concitat se,

Quint. 6, 2, 27; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6.—

With adversus:

Etruriam omnem adversus nos,

Liv. 5, 4, 14:

exercitum adversus regem,

id. 1, 59, 12.—

With inf.:

quae vos dementia concitat captam dimittere Trojam?

Ov. M. 13, 226.—

Absol., both with and without abl.:

te ipsum animi quodam impetu concitatum,

Cic. Mur. 31, 65; so,

uxorem dolore,

id. Scaur. 6, 9 (Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 689 P.):

aliquem injuriis,

Sall. C. 35, 3:

multitudinem fallaci spe,

Liv. 6, 15, 6:

familiam seditionibus,

Col. 1, 8, 18:

aliquem aliquo adfectu,

Quint. 10, 7, 15:

irā,

Liv. 23, 7, 7; 42, 59, 2; Quint. 6, 3, 46; Liv. 7, 8, 3:

aspectu pignorum suorum concitari,

Tac. Agr. 38; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6:

quo enim spectat illud... nisi ut opifices concitentur?

should be excited to sedition, id. Ac. 2, 47, 144; cf. id. Fl. 8, 18 sq.; Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4; cf.

servitia,

Sall. C. 46, 3:

multitudinem,

Nep. Arist. 1, 3:

suos,

Caes. B. G. 5, 26:

judices (opp. flectere),

Quint. 6, 1, 9; cf.

(opp. placare),

id. 11, 3, 170;

(opp. mitigare),

id. 3, 4, 3; 4, 2, 9; 6, 2, 12:

concitare animos ac remittere,

id. 9, 4, 11:

tuas aures de nobis,

Prop. 3 (4), 15, 45.—

Aliquid, to rouse, excite, cause, occasion, produce any action, passion, evil, etc.:

bellum,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 6; Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; Nep. Ham. 4, 3; Liv. 5, 5, 11; Flor. 4, 5, 1 al.; cf.:

bellum Romanis,

Liv. 35, 12, 18:

quantas turbas mihi,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch; cf.:

quantam pugnam mihi,

Quint. 10, 1, 105:

lacrimas totius populi Romani,

id. 11, 3,:

misericordiam populi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 227:

odium (just before, commovere odium),

id. Inv. 1, 54, 105; cf. id. ib. 1, 53, 100:

invidiam in te ex illis rebus,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 21:

invidiam, odium, iram,

Quint. 6, 1, 14:

iram (opp. lenire),

id. 3, 8, 12:

risum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 235:

seditionem ac discordiam,

id. Mur. 39, 83:

tumultum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 18; Liv. 38, 33, 7:

aspera iambis maxime concitantur,

Quint. 9, 4, 136:

error vanis concitatus imaginibus,

Val. Max. 9, 9 init.:

morbos,

Cels. 2, 13:

pituitam,

id. 6, 6, 15:

somnum,

Plin. 20, 17, 73, § 189.—Hence, concĭtātus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to I.) Violently moved, i. e. rapid, swift, quick:

equo concitato ad hostem vehitur,

at full speed, Nep. Dat. 4 fin. (more freq. citato equo; v. 2. cito, P. a.):

quam concitatissimos equos immittere jubet,

Liv. 35, 5, 8:

conversio caeli concitatior,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; so,

cursu,

Liv. 35, 29, 6:

concitatissimus corporis motus,

Quint. 2, 11, 4.—

(Acc. to II.) Roused up, excited, vehement, ardent (freq. in Quint.):

testimonia non concitatae contionis sed jurati senatūs,

Cic. Fl. 7, 17:

(in comoediis pater) interim concitatus, interim lenis est,

Quint. 11, 3, 74:

adfectus (opp. mites atque compositi),

id. 6, 2, 9; cf.

opp. flebiles,

id. 11, 3, 162:

animus an remissus,

id. 3, 9, 7:

causae,

id. 11, 1, 3:

oratio,

id. 3, 8, 58 and 60:

sententiae,

id. 12, 9, 3; 10, 1, 44:

erectā et concitatā voce (opp. summissā atque contractā),

id. 11, 3, 175:

Lucanus ardens et concitatus,

id. 10, 1, 91.— Comp.:

concitatior accidens clamor,

Liv. 10, 5, 2; Quint. 2, 15, 28; 8, 3, 14.—Hence, concĭtātē, adv. (not in Cic.).

(Acc. to 1.) Quickly, rapidly:

agitur pecus,

Col. 6, 6, 4.—

(Acc. to 2.) Impetuously, ardently (most freq. in Quint.):

dicere,

Quint. 8, 3, 40; 10, 2, 23; 11, 3, 23;

12, 10, 71: itur,

id. 11, 3, 133.— Comp.:

dicere,

Quint. 1, 8, 1; 3, 8, 68; 9, 4, 130:

movere adfectus,

id. 12, 10, 26.—

* Sup.: raperet ventus, Aug. Civ. Dei, 5, 26.

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cursus, ūs, m. [id.], a running ( on foot, on a horse, chariot, ship, etc.), a course, way, march, passage, voyage, journey, etc. (very freq.).

Lit.

Of living beings:

ingressus, cursus, accubitio, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94:

ibi cursu, luctando... sese exercebant,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24; cf. id. Most. 1, 2, 73, and Hor. A. P. 412:

quique pedum cursu valet, etc.,

Verg. A. 5, 67:

cursu superare canem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 51:

milites cursu exanimati,

Caes. B. G. 2, 23:

huc magno cursu intenderunt,

at full speed, id. ib. 3, 19:

magno cursu concitatus,

id. B. C. 1, 70:

cursu incitatus,

id. ib. 1, 79; 3, 46; Auct. B. Alex. 20; cf.:

in cursu esse,

Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1; cf. II. fin. infra:

strictis gladiis cursu in hostem feruntur,

advance at a run, Liv. 9, 13, 2:

effuso cursu,

id. 2, 50, 6:

eo cursu proripere, ut, etc.,

id. 24, 26, 12; 31, 21, 6:

eo cursu, Auct. B. Alex 30: eodem cursu contendere,

right onward, Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf. id. B. G. 6, 67: citato cursu. Just. 11, 15, 2:

cursus in Graeciam per tuam provinciam,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 10:

quis umquam tam brevi tempore tot loca adire, tantos cursus conficere potuit?

id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34:

(terrae) tuis non dicam cursibus, sed victoriis lustratae sunt,

id. ib. 2, 5:

agmen cursūs magis quam itineris modo ducit,

Curt. 5, 13, 5; 6, 1, 12; Just. 15, 3, 11; 11, 8, 2:

Miltiades cursum direxit, quo tendebat,

Nep. Milt. 1, 6; Vell. 2, 19, 4; 1, 4, 1:

Ulixi per mare,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 7:

iterare cursus relictos,

id. ib. 1, 34, 4:

Naxon, ait Liber, cursus advertite vestros,

Ov. M. 3, 636 et saep.; cf. B.: cursum per [p. 504] auras Derigere, Verg. A. 6, 194; so of flying, Ov. M. 2, 838; 4, 787 al.—

Cursum tenere (in a march or on shipboard), to hold one's course, to maintain a direct course:

equites cursum tenere atque insulam capere non potuerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:

Dionysius cum secundissimo vento cursum teneret,

Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83; Caes. B. G. 5, 8; cf. 2. b. —

Of inanimate objects:

solis cursus lunaeque meatus Expediam,

Lucr. 5, 77; cf. id. 5, 772 al.:

lunae,

id. 5, 629; cf. id. 5, 630:

stellarum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

neque clara suo percurrere fulmina cursu Perpetuo possint,

Lucr. 1, 1003:

si lacus emissus lapsu et cursu suo ad mare profluxisset,

Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100; so of the course or flow of a stream, Ov. M. 1, 282; 9, 18; Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 85:

longarum navium,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8; cf. Cic. Mur. 15, 33; id. Off. 3, 12, 50 al.:

Aquilonis et Austri,

Lucr. 5, 688; cf. id. 6, 302:

menstrui,

Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 230:

quadripertiti venarum,

id. 16, 39, 76, § 195 et saep.—

Cursum tenere, as supra, 1. b.:

tanta tempestas subito coorta est, ut nulla earum (navium) cursum tenere posset,

Caes. B. G. 4, 28.—

Meton.

Cursum exspectare, to wait for a fair wind (lit. for a passage), Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1.—

(Abstr. pro concr.) Cursus publici, in the time of the emperors, posts or relays divided into stations, for the speedy transmission of information upon state affairs, Cod. Just. 12, 51; Cod. Th. 8, 5; Inscr. Orell. 3181; 3329; cf.

. equi publici,

Amm. 14, 6, 16:

vehicula publica,

id. 21, 13, 7:

cursus vehicularius,

Capitol. Ant. P. 12, 3:

vehicularis,

Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 4:

cursus fiscalis,

Spart. Had. 7; v. Suet. Aug. 49.—

Trop. (freq. in Cic. and Quint.), a course, progress, direction, way:

qui cursus rerum, qui exitus futurus sit,

Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 3; cf. Tac. H. 4, 34; id. Agr. 39:

implicari aliquo certo genere cursuque vivendi,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117:

vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,

id. Sest. 21, 47:

reliquus vitae cursus,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 47:

totius vitae cursum videre,

id. Off. 1, 4, 11:

omnem vitae suae cursum conficere,

id. Cael. 17, 39:

in omni vitae cursu optimum visum est, ut, etc.,

Macr. S. 1, 2, 3:

temporum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 2:

tuorum honorum,

id. ib. 3, 11, 2; cf. Tac. H. 1, 48:

continuus proeliorum,

id. Agr. 27 al.:

cursus vocis per omnis sonos,

Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 227:

cursus verborum,

id. ib. 1, 35, 161; so of the motion or flow of discourse, etc., id. Part. Or. 15, 52; Quint. 8, prooem. § 27;

9, 4, 70: cursus hic et sonus rotundae volubilisque sententiae,

Gell. 11, 13, 4:

quem enim cursum industria mea tenere potuisset sine forensibus causis, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 8, 4, 11; cf. id. Or. 1, 4:

nos in eodem cursu fuimus a Sullā dictatore ad eosdem fere consules,

id. Brut. 96, 328; so,

esse in cursu,

to go on, continue, Ov. M. 13, 508; id. F. 6, 362.