concoquere

cĭbus, i, m. [perh. root of capio], food for man and beast, victuals, fare, nutriment, fodder (class. in prose and poetry, both in sing. and plur.; syn.: esca, epulae;

opp. potio,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37; cf. id. N. D. 2, 54, 136; so,

cibus potusque,

Tac. A. 13, 16:

cibus et vinum,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60; Juv. 10, 203:

unda cibusque,

Ov. M. 4, 262):

cibum capere,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 60; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77:

petere,

id. ib. 3, 2, 38; id. Heaut. 5, 2, 25:

capessere (of animals),

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

sumere,

Nep. Att. 21, 6; Plin. 30, 5, 12, § 36:

tantum cibi et potionis adhibendum, etc.,

Cic. Sen. 11, 36:

digerere,

Quint. 11, 2, 35; cf. id. 11, 3, 19:

coquere,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 7:

concoquere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 64:

mandere,

id. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

cibos suppeditare,

id. Leg. 2, 27, 67:

(Cleanthes) negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.:

suavissimus et idem facillimus ad concoquendum,

id. Fin. 2, 20, 64:

flentes orabant, ut se cibo juvarent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 78 fin.:

cibus animalis,

the means of nourishment in the air, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136:

cibi bubuli,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3; 1, 23, 2:

cibus erat caro ferina,

Sall. J. 18, 1:

cum tenues hamos abdidit ante cibus,

the bait, Tib. 2, 6, 24; Ov. M. 8, 856; 15, 476.—

Transf. to the nourishment of plants, the nutritive juice, Lucr. 1, 353; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 12.—

Trop., food, sustenance (rare):

quasi quidam humanitatis cibus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 54:

cibus furoris,

Ov. M. 6, 480:

causa cibusque mali,

id. R. Am. 138.

con-cŏquo, coxi, coctum, 3, v. a.

To boil or seethe together (very rare):

sal et nitrum sulphuri concoctum in lapidem vertitur,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 122:

odores,

Lucr. 2, 853:

(spondyli) perturbati concoctique,

Sen. Ep. 95, 28:

remedia,

Macr. S. 7, 16, 23. —

To digest (class., esp. in prose).

Prop.:

cum stomachi calore concoxerit conchas,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 124; so Lucr. 4, 631; Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136; 2, 54, 55; id. Fin. 2, 20, 64; Cels. 3, 22; Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 3; Plin. 11, 53, 118, § 283; Quint. 8, 4, 16; Cat. 23, 8 al.:

mirifice concoquit brassica,

promotes digestion, Cato, R. R. 156, 1.—

Transf. to other objects, to prepare, ripen, mature (freq. in Plin., esp. of the bringing to maturity of a tumor, and the like):

terra acceptum umorem concoquens,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 110 (coquens, Sillig):

omnem sucum in venenum,

id. 22, 22, 46, § 94:

tumida,

Cato, R. R. 157, 3:

dura,

Plin. 22, 24, 50, § 107:

tussis et duritias,

id. 24, 8, 36, § 54:

suppurationes,

id. 21, 19, 74, § 127 al. —

Trop.

Like Engl. digest, = to endure, suffer, put up with, brook, tolerate (rare, but in good prose):

ut ejus ista odia non sorbeam solum, sed etiam concoquam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 5:

ut quem senatorem concoquere civitas vix posset, regem ferret,

Liv. 4, 15, 7:

tres plagas,

Petr. 105, 5:

sicco famem ore,

id. 82, 5: krisin (i. e. probare), Cic. Fam. 9, 4 med. —

To revolve in mind, think upon, weigh, to reflect maturely upon, to consider well:

tibi diu deliberandum et concoquendum est, utrum, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 45 Orell. N. cr.:

clandestina consilia,

to concoct, devise, Liv. 40, 11, 2:

concoquamus illa: alioquin in memoriam ibunt, non in ingenium,

Sen. Ep. 84, 7:

cum multa percurreris, unum excerpe, quod illo die concoquas,

id. ib. 2, 4:

sive concoquitur seu maturatur recordatio,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.

dē-lībĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [de and libro, libra; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 74, 1 Müll.: deliberare a libella, qua quid perpenditur dictum], to weigh well in one's mind, to consider maturely, deliberate respecting a thing; to take counsel, consult, advise upon (freq. and class.; for syn. cf. cogito, agito, volvo, reputo, perpendo, meditor, commentor, consulo).

Prop.

In gen.:

re deliberata, post diem tertium ad Caesarem reversuros,

Caes. B. G. 4, 9; so,

re deliberata,

id. B. C. 1, 10:

delibera hoc, dum ego redeo,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 42:

de summa rerum deliberare,

Caes. B. C. 2, 30:

de geographia etiam atque etiam,

Cic. Att. 2, 7:

de necanda filia,

Suet. Aug. 65:

de singulis articulis temporum,

id. Claud. 4 al.:

deliberare Velitne an non,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 58:

utrum... an (with concoquere),

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 45:

an recipiat,

Quint. 7, 1, 24; cf.:

quando incipiendum sit,

id. 12, 6, 3:

ego amplius deliberandum censeo,

Ter. Ph. 2, 4, 17; so absol., Caes. B. G. 1, 7 fin.; Cic. Off. 1, 3, 9; Quint. 3, 8, 35 sq.; Vulg. 2 Reg. 21, 13 al.:

cum aliquo de salute fortunisque alicujus,

Cic. Att. 11, 3; Liv. 32, 34; cf.:

cum judicibus quasi deliberamus,

Quint. 9, 2, 21:

cum cupiditate id est cum animi levissima parte deliberat,

takes counsel of, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 115:

cum materia,

Quint. 3, 7, 16:

cum causis,

id. 7, 10, 10:

cum re praesenti,

id. 9, 4, 117.— Pass. impers.:

deliberatur de Avarico in communi concilio, incendi placeret an defendi,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15, 3:

ut utri potissimum consulendum sit deliberetur,

Cic. Inv. 2, 58, 174 al. — Prov.:

deliberando saepe perit occasio,

Pub. Syr. 140 (Rib.):

deliberandum est saepe, statuendum est semel,

id. 132.—

In partic.

(Like consulo, no. I. B. 1.) To consult an oracle (only in Nepos):

ex his delecti Delphos deliberatum missi sunt... his consulentibus, etc.,

Nep. Milt. 1, 2:

so with consulere,

id. Them. 2, 6.—

Pass. impers.: deliberari, to be maturely discussed, hence to be in doubt, usually with potest, non potest, etc.:

ex eo deliberari poterit, ducenda necne alvus sit,

Cels. 3, 13, § 12:

neque maneatis aut abeatis deliberari potest,

i. e. you must certainly go away, Liv. 7, 35, 8:

M. Aemilius, qui pejor an ignavior sit, deliberari non potest,

Sall. Hist. Fr. 1, 48, 3. Cf.: nemo deliberat, no one doubts, etc., Min. Fel. 35, 4. —

Meton. (causa pro effectu), to resolve, determine, after deliberation (rare in the verb. finit.; usually in the part. perf., with inf. or acc. and inf.):

quod iste certe statuerat ac deliberaverat non adesse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1: (Cleopatra) deliberata morte ferocior, * Hor. Od. 1, 37, 29: certum ac deliberatum est me illis obsequi, Turpil. ap. Non. 282, 11, and 429, 21;

so with certum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31:

cum mihi deliberatum et constitutum sit ita gerere consulatum, etc.,

id. Agr. 1, 8, 25:

sic habuisti statutum cum animo ac deliberatum, omnes judices reicere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 41: deliberatum est non tacere amplius, Afran. ap. Interpr. Verg. A. 10, 564.—Hence, dēlībĕrātus, a, um, P. a., resolved upon, determined, certain (rare):

neque illi quicquam deliberatius fuit quam me... evertere,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 8:

instructius deliberatiusque,

Gell. 1, 13, 9.

dī-gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3, v. a., to force apart, separate, divide, distribute (cf.: dispono, distribuo, divido, dispenso, ordino, compono).

Lit.

Ingen. (so mostly post-Aug.):

(insulae) interdum discordantibus ventis digeruntur (opp. junctae copulataeque),

Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 6; cf.

nubes (opp. congregare),

Sen. Q. N. 7, 22:

nimbos,

Plin. 31, 4, 30, § 53; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 9:

digesti colores,

Ov. F. 5, 213:

stercoris pars in prata digerenda,

Col. 11, 2, 18:

radix digesta,

Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 161:

inque canes totidem trunco digestus ab uno Cerberus,

divided, separated, Ov. H. 9, 93; cf.: Nilus [p. 577] septem in cornua, id. M. 9, 774 (for which, septem discretus in ostia Nilus, id. ib. 5, 324):

Crete centum per urbes,

id. H. 10, 67:

populus Romanus in classes (coupled with distributus),

Flor. 1, 6, 4 et saep.; cf. Ov. F. 6, 83.— Poet.:

(augur Thestorides) novem volucres in belli digerit annos,

i. e. explains, interprets, Ov. M. 12, 21 (cf. omina, Verg. A. 2, 182).—

In partic.

(Post-Aug.): cibum, to cut up, divide:

(dentes) qui digerunt cibum,

Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160;

and still more freq., like the class. concoquere,

to digest, Sen. Controv. 1 prooem.; Cels. 3, 4; 4, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 19 al.—

In medic. lang., to dissolve, dissipate morbid matter, Cels. 5, 18 (twice); 1, 9 fin.; 2, 17 al.; Plin. 26, 7, 25, § 41 al.— Very freq. and class.,

With the accessory notion of arrangement, to distribute, arrange, dispose, set in order:

quas (accepti tabulas) diligentissime legi et digessi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 23; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 3, 9:

capillos,

Ov. Am. 1, 7, 11: crines, Col. poet. 10, 165; cf.:

crines ordine,

Mart. 3, 63:

asparagum,

to plant in regular rows, Cato R. R. 161, 3; Plin. 19, 8, 42, § 149; cf. Verg. G. 2, 54 and 267:

bibliothecam,

to arrange, Suet. Caes. 44:

carmina in numerum,

Verg. A. 3, 446 (ordinat, disponit, Serv.).

Trop.

In gen., to distribute (rare and not ante-Aug.):

quam meruit solus poenam digessit in omnes,

Ov. M. 14, 469; cf.:

mala per annos longos,

id. Pont. 1, 4, 9:

tempora,

id. F. 1, 27; cf.:

annum in totidem species,

Tac. G. 26 et saep.—Freq. and class.,

In partic., to arrange, set in order, distribute:

mandata,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3:

quaestiones,

Quint. 11, 2, 37; cf. id. 10, 4, 1 Spald. N. cr.:

reliquos usus ejus suo loco,

to relate in order, Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 37 et saep.:

omina,

interprets, Verg. A. 2, 182 (cf. above, no. I. A. fin.):

post descripte et electe in genus quodque causae, quid cuique conveniat, ex hac copia digeremus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186:

omne jus civile in genera,

id. ib. 1, 42, 190:

commentarios in libros,

Quint. 10, 7, 30:

res in ordinem,

id. ib. 7 prooem. §

1: argumenta in digitos,

id. 11, 3, 114:

commentarium per genera usus sui,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 15 et saep.—With a relat. clause:

nec quid quoque anno actum sit, in tanta vetustate non modo rerum sed etiam auctorum digerere possis,

Liv. 2, 21, 4: senium, digest, i. e. endure, Val. Fl. 8, 92 (cf. gêras hepsein, Pind. Olym. 1, 133).—

To consider maturely (late Lat.):

consilium,

Amm. 14, 6, 14; 15, 4, 1.—

To exercise (for health): si satis valet, gestando aegrum, digerere;

si parum, intra domum tamen dimovere,

Cels. 4, 7, 4:

ne imbecillum hominem nimis digerant,

id. 2, 15 med. al.—Hence, dīgestus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to I. B. 1.) That has a good digestion: purissimus et digestissimus, Marc. Empir. c. 22 med. —

(Acc. to no. II. B.) Subst.: dīgesta, ōrum, n., a name given to a collection of writings distributed under certain heads, Gell. 6, 5 init.; esp. of Justinian's code of laws, the Pandects, Digests; cf. Just. Cod. 1, 17, 3, § 1.—Also to the Bible, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 3.— Sing.:

digestum Lucae,

the Gospel of Luke, id. ib. 4, 5.

dī-gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3, v. a., to force apart, separate, divide, distribute (cf.: dispono, distribuo, divido, dispenso, ordino, compono).

Lit.

Ingen. (so mostly post-Aug.):

(insulae) interdum discordantibus ventis digeruntur (opp. junctae copulataeque),

Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 6; cf.

nubes (opp. congregare),

Sen. Q. N. 7, 22:

nimbos,

Plin. 31, 4, 30, § 53; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 9:

digesti colores,

Ov. F. 5, 213:

stercoris pars in prata digerenda,

Col. 11, 2, 18:

radix digesta,

Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 161:

inque canes totidem trunco digestus ab uno Cerberus,

divided, separated, Ov. H. 9, 93; cf.: Nilus [p. 577] septem in cornua, id. M. 9, 774 (for which, septem discretus in ostia Nilus, id. ib. 5, 324):

Crete centum per urbes,

id. H. 10, 67:

populus Romanus in classes (coupled with distributus),

Flor. 1, 6, 4 et saep.; cf. Ov. F. 6, 83.— Poet.:

(augur Thestorides) novem volucres in belli digerit annos,

i. e. explains, interprets, Ov. M. 12, 21 (cf. omina, Verg. A. 2, 182).—

In partic.

(Post-Aug.): cibum, to cut up, divide:

(dentes) qui digerunt cibum,

Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160;

and still more freq., like the class. concoquere,

to digest, Sen. Controv. 1 prooem.; Cels. 3, 4; 4, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 19 al.—

In medic. lang., to dissolve, dissipate morbid matter, Cels. 5, 18 (twice); 1, 9 fin.; 2, 17 al.; Plin. 26, 7, 25, § 41 al.— Very freq. and class.,

With the accessory notion of arrangement, to distribute, arrange, dispose, set in order:

quas (accepti tabulas) diligentissime legi et digessi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 23; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 3, 9:

capillos,

Ov. Am. 1, 7, 11: crines, Col. poet. 10, 165; cf.:

crines ordine,

Mart. 3, 63:

asparagum,

to plant in regular rows, Cato R. R. 161, 3; Plin. 19, 8, 42, § 149; cf. Verg. G. 2, 54 and 267:

bibliothecam,

to arrange, Suet. Caes. 44:

carmina in numerum,

Verg. A. 3, 446 (ordinat, disponit, Serv.).

Trop.

In gen., to distribute (rare and not ante-Aug.):

quam meruit solus poenam digessit in omnes,

Ov. M. 14, 469; cf.:

mala per annos longos,

id. Pont. 1, 4, 9:

tempora,

id. F. 1, 27; cf.:

annum in totidem species,

Tac. G. 26 et saep.—Freq. and class.,

In partic., to arrange, set in order, distribute:

mandata,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3:

quaestiones,

Quint. 11, 2, 37; cf. id. 10, 4, 1 Spald. N. cr.:

reliquos usus ejus suo loco,

to relate in order, Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 37 et saep.:

omina,

interprets, Verg. A. 2, 182 (cf. above, no. I. A. fin.):

post descripte et electe in genus quodque causae, quid cuique conveniat, ex hac copia digeremus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186:

omne jus civile in genera,

id. ib. 1, 42, 190:

commentarios in libros,

Quint. 10, 7, 30:

res in ordinem,

id. ib. 7 prooem. §

1: argumenta in digitos,

id. 11, 3, 114:

commentarium per genera usus sui,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 15 et saep.—With a relat. clause:

nec quid quoque anno actum sit, in tanta vetustate non modo rerum sed etiam auctorum digerere possis,

Liv. 2, 21, 4: senium, digest, i. e. endure, Val. Fl. 8, 92 (cf. gêras hepsein, Pind. Olym. 1, 133).—

To consider maturely (late Lat.):

consilium,

Amm. 14, 6, 14; 15, 4, 1.—

To exercise (for health): si satis valet, gestando aegrum, digerere;

si parum, intra domum tamen dimovere,

Cels. 4, 7, 4:

ne imbecillum hominem nimis digerant,

id. 2, 15 med. al.—Hence, dīgestus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to I. B. 1.) That has a good digestion: purissimus et digestissimus, Marc. Empir. c. 22 med. —

(Acc. to no. II. B.) Subst.: dīgesta, ōrum, n., a name given to a collection of writings distributed under certain heads, Gell. 6, 5 init.; esp. of Justinian's code of laws, the Pandects, Digests; cf. Just. Cod. 1, 17, 3, § 1.—Also to the Bible, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 3.— Sing.:

digestum Lucae,

the Gospel of Luke, id. ib. 4, 5.

sorbĕo, ŭi, 2 (collat. forms: pres. subj. sorbamus, App. M. 2, p. 119; perf. sorpsi, acc. to Charis. p. 217, and Diom. p. 363; cf. the compounds), v. a. [akin with Gr. rhopheô; cf. O. H. Germ. swarb, swirbil, whirlpool], to sup up, suck in, drink down, swallow (freq. and class.).

Lit. (class.;

syn. haurio): hominum sanguinem,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 5:

calidum sanguinem ex homine,

Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4:

crudum ovum,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 42; Luc. 7, 843:

margaritas aceto liquefactas,

Suet. Calig. 37 et saep.— Absol.:

sorbet dormiens,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 6 sq. —Prov.: simul flare sorbereque haud facile, to drink and whistle at the same time, i. e. to do two things at once, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 104.—

Transf., to suck in, draw in, swallow up, absorb ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Lucr. 6, 1130:

(Charybdis vastos) Sorbet in abruptum fluctus,

Verg. A. 3, 422:

fretum,

Ov. M. 7, 64:

flumina,

id. ib. 1, 40:

sorbent avidae praecordia flammae,

id. ib. 9, 172:

(quae sorbuit terrae hiatus),

Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194:

minus sorbet politura charta,

id. 13, 12, 25, § 81:

quā sorbeat aëra sannā Tullia,

Juv. 6, 306.—

Trop., to swallow down, endure, bear, brook, etc.:

quid eum non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cuius sanguinem non bibere censetis?

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

odia (corresp. to concoquere),

id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 5.