dē-portō

porto, āvi, ātum, v. freq. a. [root porfor for-to, kindr. with fer-o; Sanscr. vhri, ferre], to bear or carry along; to convey any thing heavy (class.; syn.: fero, gero, veho).

Lit.:

ferri proprie dicimus, quae quis suo corpore bajulat, portari ea, quae quis in jumento secum ducit, agi ea, quae animalia sunt,

Dig. 50, 16, 235 (the foll. pass. prove that this distinction is not valid):

ut id, quod agri efferant sui, quascumque velint in terras portare possint,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9:

hominem ad Baias octophoro,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 2:

Massili portabant juvenes ad litora tanas, Enn. ap. Don. p. 1777 P. (Ann. v. 605 Vahl.): frumentum,

Cic. Att. 14, 3, 1:

viaticum ad hostem,

id. Fam. 12, 3, 2; cf. id. Font. 5, 9:

Massilium in triumpho,

to conduct, id. Off. 2, 8, 28:

frumentum secum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5:

corpora insueta ad onera portanda,

id. B. C. 1, 78:

panem umeris,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 90:

sub alā Fasciculum librorum,

id. Ep. 1, 13, 13:

aliquid in suo sinu,

Ov. M. 6, 338:

ad modum aliquid portantium,

Quint. 11, 3, 120:

venter qui te portavit,

Vulg. Luc. 11, 27:

telum, hominis occidendi causā portare, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 13, 1.—Esp. of ships, etc.: navis portat milites,

Caes. B. G. 5, 23, 3:

naves onerariae commeatum ab Ostiā in Hispaniam ad exercitum portantes,

Liv. 22, 11, 6:

commeatum exercitui,

id. 32, 18, 3; 37, 23, 2 al.—

Trop.

To bear, carry, bring (mostly poet.;

not in Cic.): onustum pectus porto laetitiā,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 3:

alicui tantum boni,

id. Capt. 4, 2, 89; cf.:

di boni, boni quid porto!

Ter. And. 2, 2, 1:

porto hoc jurgium Ad uxorem,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 63:

alicui aliquam fallaciam,

id. And. 2, 6, 2:

timores insolitos alicui,

Prop. 1, 3, 29:

preces alicujus alicui,

Val. Fl. 2, 326.—With abstract subjects:

nescio quid peccati portet haec purgatio,

bears with it, imports, betokens, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 12:

portantia verba salutem,

bringing, Ov. P. 3, 4, 1:

tristitiam Tradam protervis in mare Portare ventis,

Hor. C. 1, 26, 3:

salutem,

Sil. 9, 428.—In prose:

sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant,

Sall. C. 6, 5:

divitias, decus, gloriam, libertatem atque patriam in dexteris portare,

id. ib. 58, 7:

has spes cogitationesque secum portantes,

Liv. 1, 34, 10:

ad conjuges liberosque laetum nuntium portabant,

id. 45, 1 fin.:

hic vobis bellum et pacem portamus,

id. 21, 18.—

To endure, bear, suffer (late Lat.):

dolores nostros ipse portavit,

Vulg. Isa. 53, 4; id. Act. 15, 10:

judicium,

id. Gal. 5, 10.

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• All that is mine, I carry with me. (My wisdom is my greatest wealth) (Cicero)

Porto (Portugal) [po]

as-porto [abs-porto; cf. ab init. ], āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bear, carry, or take off or away (in the class. per. only in prose; cf. Wagner ad Verg. A. 2, 778).—Com.,

Of things:

simulacrum e signo Cereris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.; so id. ib. 2, 1, 20; id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 28:

multa de suis rebus,

id. Par. 1, 2:

sua omnia Salamina,

Nep. Them. 2 fin.; Liv. 2, 4; 42, 3; Vulg. 2 Reg. 12, 30.—Also,

Of persons, to carry away (esp. by ship) to transport:

aliquem trans mare,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 19:

virginem,

id. Rud. prol. 67: quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18:

asportate ossa mea vobiscum,

Vulg. Gen. 50, 24; ib. Dan. 5, 2.

aspernor (wrongly ads-), ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [for ab-spernor, as as-pello for abpello, as-porto for ab-porto; cf. ab init.; Doed. Syn. II. p. 179, and Vanicek, p. 1182], lit., to cast off a person or thing (ab se spernari; cf. sperno and spernor); hence, to disdain, spurn, reject, despise (simply with the accessory idea of aversion = recuso, respuo, reicio, and opp. to appeto, concupisco; on the other hand, contemnere, not to fear, is opp. to metuere, timere; and despicere, not to value a thing, is opp. to revereri; cf. Doed. Syn. cited supra; class.; very freq. in Cic.;

more rare in the poets): alicujus familiam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 24 (aspernari = recusare, avertere, non agnoscere, Don.).

Lit.:

gustatus id, quod valde dulce est, aspernatur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

nemo bonus... qui vos non oculis fugiat, auribus respuat, animo aspernetur,

id. Pis. 20; so id. Fat. 20, 47:

regem ut externum aspernari,

Tac. A. 2, 1:

matrem,

id. ib. 4, 57:

de pace legatos haud aspernatus,

id. ib. 15, 27:

hanc (proscriptionem) nisi hoc judicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53:

voluptatem appetit, ut bonum: aspernatur dolorem, ut malum,

id. Fin. 2, 10, 31; so,

ut quodam ab hospite conditum oleum pro viridi adpositum, aspernantibus ceteris, solum etiam largius appetisse scribat,

Suet. Caes. 53:

si voluptatem aspernari ratione et sapientiā non possemus,

Cic. Sen. 12, 42:

querimonias alicujus aspernari, contemnere ac neglegere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

regis liberalitatem,

id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91 al.; Sall. C. 3, 4:

diis aspernantibus placamina irae,

Liv. 7, 3:

deditionem alicujus,

id. 8, 2; 9, 41 et saep.:

consilia,

Tac. G. 8:

sententiam,

id. ib. 11:

honorem,

id. ib. 27:

militiam,

id. H. 2, 36:

disciplinam,

id. A. 1, 16:

virtutem,

id. ib. 13, 2:

panem,

Suet. Ner. 48 fin.:

imperium,

Curt. 10, 5, 13 et saep.:

Interea cave sis nos aspernata sepultos,

Prop. 3, 5, 25: aspernabantur ceteros, * Vulg. Luc. 18, 9:

haud aspernanda precare,

Verg. A. 11, 106; Phaedr. 5, 4, 4.—With inf. as object:

illa refert vultu non aspernata rogari,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 105:

dare aspernabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 46. —In Cic. once, to turn away, avert (not from one's self, but from something pertaining to one's self): furorem alicujus atque crudelitatem a suis aris atque templis, Clu. 68 fin. —

Trop.:

qui colore ipso patriam aspernaris,

deny, Cic. Pis. 1.—

► Pass.: qui habet, ultro appetitur; qui est pauper, aspernatur, is held in contempt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

regem ab omnibus aspernari, Auct. B. Afr. 93: aspernata potio,

Arn. 5, p. 175.—Hence, aspernanter, adv. (qs. from the part. aspernans, which does not occur), with contempt, contemptuously:

aliquid accipere,

Amm. 31, 4; so Sid. Ep. 7, 2.— Comp., Aug. Mus. 4, 9.— Sup. prob. not used.

aspernor (wrongly ads-), ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [for ab-spernor, as as-pello for abpello, as-porto for ab-porto; cf. ab init.; Doed. Syn. II. p. 179, and Vanicek, p. 1182], lit., to cast off a person or thing (ab se spernari; cf. sperno and spernor); hence, to disdain, spurn, reject, despise (simply with the accessory idea of aversion = recuso, respuo, reicio, and opp. to appeto, concupisco; on the other hand, contemnere, not to fear, is opp. to metuere, timere; and despicere, not to value a thing, is opp. to revereri; cf. Doed. Syn. cited supra; class.; very freq. in Cic.;

more rare in the poets): alicujus familiam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 24 (aspernari = recusare, avertere, non agnoscere, Don.).

Lit.:

gustatus id, quod valde dulce est, aspernatur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99:

nemo bonus... qui vos non oculis fugiat, auribus respuat, animo aspernetur,

id. Pis. 20; so id. Fat. 20, 47:

regem ut externum aspernari,

Tac. A. 2, 1:

matrem,

id. ib. 4, 57:

de pace legatos haud aspernatus,

id. ib. 15, 27:

hanc (proscriptionem) nisi hoc judicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53:

voluptatem appetit, ut bonum: aspernatur dolorem, ut malum,

id. Fin. 2, 10, 31; so,

ut quodam ab hospite conditum oleum pro viridi adpositum, aspernantibus ceteris, solum etiam largius appetisse scribat,

Suet. Caes. 53:

si voluptatem aspernari ratione et sapientiā non possemus,

Cic. Sen. 12, 42:

querimonias alicujus aspernari, contemnere ac neglegere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

regis liberalitatem,

id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91 al.; Sall. C. 3, 4:

diis aspernantibus placamina irae,

Liv. 7, 3:

deditionem alicujus,

id. 8, 2; 9, 41 et saep.:

consilia,

Tac. G. 8:

sententiam,

id. ib. 11:

honorem,

id. ib. 27:

militiam,

id. H. 2, 36:

disciplinam,

id. A. 1, 16:

virtutem,

id. ib. 13, 2:

panem,

Suet. Ner. 48 fin.:

imperium,

Curt. 10, 5, 13 et saep.:

Interea cave sis nos aspernata sepultos,

Prop. 3, 5, 25: aspernabantur ceteros, * Vulg. Luc. 18, 9:

haud aspernanda precare,

Verg. A. 11, 106; Phaedr. 5, 4, 4.—With inf. as object:

illa refert vultu non aspernata rogari,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 105:

dare aspernabantur,

Tac. A. 4, 46. —In Cic. once, to turn away, avert (not from one's self, but from something pertaining to one's self): furorem alicujus atque crudelitatem a suis aris atque templis, Clu. 68 fin. —

Trop.:

qui colore ipso patriam aspernaris,

deny, Cic. Pis. 1.—

► Pass.: qui habet, ultro appetitur; qui est pauper, aspernatur, is held in contempt, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

regem ab omnibus aspernari, Auct. B. Afr. 93: aspernata potio,

Arn. 5, p. 175.—Hence, aspernanter, adv. (qs. from the part. aspernans, which does not occur), with contempt, contemptuously:

aliquid accipere,

Amm. 31, 4; so Sid. Ep. 7, 2.— Comp., Aug. Mus. 4, 9.— Sup. prob. not used.

as-porto [abs-porto; cf. ab init. ], āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bear, carry, or take off or away (in the class. per. only in prose; cf. Wagner ad Verg. A. 2, 778).—Com.,

Of things:

simulacrum e signo Cereris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.; so id. ib. 2, 1, 20; id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 28:

multa de suis rebus,

id. Par. 1, 2:

sua omnia Salamina,

Nep. Them. 2 fin.; Liv. 2, 4; 42, 3; Vulg. 2 Reg. 12, 30.—Also,

Of persons, to carry away (esp. by ship) to transport:

aliquem trans mare,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 19:

virginem,

id. Rud. prol. 67: quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18:

asportate ossa mea vobiscum,

Vulg. Gen. 50, 24; ib. Dan. 5, 2.

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