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dīvīnātiō

  • 1 dīvīnātiō

        dīvīnātiō ōnis, f    [divino], miraculous knowledge, prophetic inspiration, foresight, divination: ut nihil divinatione opus sit: quantae divinationis est, scire, etc.: si divinatio appellanda est bonitas, N. — In law, a proceeding to determine who shall conduct a prosecution.
    * * *
    predicting; divination; prophecy; prognostication

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  • 2 divinatio

    dīvīnātĭo, ōnis, f. [divino].
    I.
    The faculty of foreseeing, predicting, divination, mantikê (cf.:

    augurium, auspicium, vaticinium, praesagium, praedictio),

    Cic. Div. 1, 1; 2, 5, 13; 2, 63, 130; id. N. D. 1, 22, 55; id. Leg. 2, 13, 32; id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96; Nep. Att. 9, 1; 16 fin.:

    animi,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 13:

    mendax,

    Vulg. Ezech. 13, 7.—
    II.
    Jurid. t. t., an examination, as to which of several accusers presenting themselves was the most proper to conduct the accusation. So the title of Cicero's oration against Caecilius: Divinatio in Caecilium; cf. Ascon. Argum.; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 7, 4, 33; Gell. 2, 4; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 1; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3; Suet. Caes. 55.

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  • 3 divinatio

    prediction, divination

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  • 4 reciproco

    rĕcī̆prŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [reciprocus].
    I.
    Act., to move backwards or back and forth (rare but class.; cf.: meo, remeo).
    A.
    Lit.: rursus prorsus reciprocat fluctus feram, bears to and fro, Enn. ap. Non. 165, 11, and 384 fin. (Trag. v. 143 Vahl.):

    refluusque reciprocat aestus,

    Sil. 15, 225:

    (ventus) cum jam spiritum includeret nec reciprocare animam sineret,

    to breathe, fetch their breath, Liv. 21, 58, 4:

    spiritum per fistulam,

    Gell. 17, 11, 4:

    aurae per anhelitum reciprocatae,

    Arn. 2, 54:

    manu telum reciprocans,

    brandishing, Gell. 9, 11, 5:

    quid Chalcidico Euripo in motu identidem reciprocando putas fieri posse constantius?

    Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24; cf.

    under II.: serram,

    to draw back and forth, Tert. Cor. Mil. 3: circulos, Prud. steph. 10, 573:

    quinqueremem in adversum aestum reciprocari non posse,

    would not be able to tack about, Liv. 28, 30; cf.:

    quoniam aestus semper e Ponto profluens nunquam reciprocetur,

    flow back, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93:

    reciprocari mare coepit,

    Curt. 9, 9, 20.—
    * B.
    Trop., to reverse, convert a proposition:

    si quidem ista sic reciprocantur, ut et, si divinatio sit, dii sint, et si dii sint, sit divinatio,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10.—
    II.
    Neutr., to move backwards, go back; to move back and forth, to come and go, reciprocate (perh. only since the Aug. per.):

    fretum ipsum Euripi non septies die temporibus statis reciprocat,

    rises and falls, Liv. 28, 6;

    so of the ebb and flow: Euripus,

    Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219:

    mare,

    Curt. 9, 9, 20:

    aquae,

    Flor. 2, 8, 9;

    and of the ebb (opp. accedere),

    Plin. 2, 97, 89, § 212.—

    Of stars: saepe citra eos ad solem reciprocent,

    Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72:

    nubem eos arcentem a reciprocando,

    from going back, id. 9, 46, 70, § 151.
    ► Reciprocare pro ultro citroque poscere usi sunt antiqui, quia procare est poscere, Fest.
    p. 229 Müll.

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  • 5 dērigō or dēregō or dīrigō

        dērigō or dēregō or dīrigō rēxī, rēctus, ere    [de + rego], to lay straight, set straight, arrange, lay out: haec directä materiā iniecta consternebantur, Cs.: cratīs, Cs.: derexerat finem Philippo veterem viam regiam, L.: opera, Cs.: vicos, L.— To draw up, form (a line of battle): aciem, Cs.: Derexere acies, V.— To direct, send, aim, drive, steer: ab iisdem (Etesiis) cursūs (navium) deriguntur: iter navis, O.: quā te ducit via, derige gressum, V.: ex vestigio vela ad castra, Cs.: equum in ipsum consulem, L.: dentīs in inguina, O.: cursum per auras in lucos, V.: alquo cursum: navem eo, N.: huc gressum, V.—Of weapons, to aim, direct, discharge: spicula cornu, V.: tela arcu, H.: tela Corpus in Aeacidae, V.: hastam in te, O.: Ilo hastam, V.—Fig., to direct, guide, define, limit, regulate: meas cogitationes non ad illam Cynosuram: ad quae (exempla) oratio deregatur mea: vitam ad rationis normam: ad illius similitudinem manum: omnia voluptate: utilitatem honestate: (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime derigit, points the way.

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  • 6 nītor

        nītor nīxus (usu. in lit. sense) and nīsus (usu. fig.), ī, dep.    [CNI-], to bear upon, press upon, lean, support oneself: niti modo ac statim concidere, strive to rise, S.: stirpibus suis niti: mulierculā nixus: hastā, V.: nixus baculo, O.: cothurno, strut, H.: nixi genibus, on their knees, L.: nixus in hastam, V.: humi nitens, V.— To make way, press forward, advance, mount, climb, fly: serpentes, simul ac primum niti possunt: nituntur gradibus, V.: ad sidera, V.: in aëre, O.: in adversum, O.: niti corporibus, struggle, S.— To strain in giving birth, bring forth: nitor, am in labor, O.— Fig., to strive, put forth exertion, make an effort, labor, endeavor: virtute et patientiā nitebantur, Cs.: tantum, quantum potest, quisque nitatur: pro libertate summā ope niti, S.: ad sollicitandas civitates, Cs.: ne gravius in eum consuleretur, S.: maxime, ut, etc., N.: summā vi Cirtam inrumpere nititur, S.: patriam recuperare, N.: vestigia ponere, O.: ad inmortalitatem: in vetitum, O.— To contend, insist: nitamur igitur nihil posse percipi. — To rest, rely, depend upon: coniectura in quā nititur divinatio: cuius in vitā nitebatur salus civitatis: quā (auctoritate) apud exteras <*>ationes, Cs.: rebus iudicatis: quo confugies? ubi nitere?
    * * *
    I
    niti, nisus sum V DEP
    press/lean upon; struggle; advance; depend on (with abl.); strive, labor
    II
    niti, nixus sum V DEP
    press/lean upon; struggle; advance; depend on (with abl.); strive, labor
    III
    brightness, splendor; brilliance; gloss, sheen; elegance, style, polish; flash

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  • 7 qua-si

        qua-si adv.    I. In hypothetical comparison, as if, just as if, as though: modo introivi. Si. quasi ego quam dudum rogem, as if I asked, T.: adsimulabo, quasi nunc exeam, will make as if, T.: cur nomen petis quasi incertum sit?: loquor, quasi ego illud fecerim: quasi tute noris, ita salutas?: haec perinde loquor, quasi debueris: quasi non omnes eius sceleris testes essent futuri, sic metuit, etc.: quasi vero paulum inter siet, just as if, T.: quasi vero consili sit res, Cs.: quasi vero ignotus nobis fuerit splendidus eques: quas (litteras) sic avide adripui, quasi sitim explere cupiens: sic est hic ordo, quasi editus in altum: potasti, Quasi re bene gestā, T.: quasi signo dato tota Italia convenit: quasi debellato, eum triumphare, L.—    II. In real comparison, just as, as: quasi poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, sic, etc.: istaec commemoratio Quasi exprobatiost benefici, is like, T.: dissensio civilis quasi permixtio terrae oriri coepit, S.: populus deligit magistratūs quasi rei p. vilicos: coniectura et quasi divinatio, a sort of: quasi murus quidam nomen imperatoris opponitur: finem (potestatis) accepit, quasi nescius exercendi, i. e. because incompetent, Ta.—    III. In approximation, somewhat like, about, nearly, almost, not far from: quasi talenta ad quindecim Coëgi, T.: praesidium quasi duum milium (militum), S.: quasi quiddam incredibile dicere: quasi in extrema paginā.

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  • 8 ambiguum

    ambĭgŭus, a, um, adj. [ambigo], going about, hither and thither.
    I.
    Lit.:

    per ambiguum favorem gratiam victoris spectare,

    i. e. in that they show equal friendliness to both sides, Liv. 21, 52:

    ambiguus Proteus,

    who sometimes takes one form, sometimes another, changeable, Ov. M. 2, 9:

    ambiguus fuerit, modo vir, modo femina, Scython,

    id. ib. 4, 280:

    Inque virum soliti vultus mutare ferinos Ambigui prosecta lupi,

    they sometimes assume the form of a wolf and sometimes that of a man, id. ib. 7, 271:

    promisit Ambiguam Salamina, h. l. = alteram,

    a second Salamis, Hor. C. 1, 7, 29. —
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Uncertain, doubtful (syn.: dubius, incertus): ambiguum est quod in ambas agi partes animo potest. Hujusmodi apud Graecos amphibola dicuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 17 Müll.:

    quidquid incerti mihi in animo prius aut ambiguom fuit, Nunc liquet, nunc defaecatum est,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 69: etiam si dudum fuerat ambiguom hoc mihi, * Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 26:

    difficile et ambiguum,

    Vulg. Deut. 17, 8:

    haud ambiguus rex, i. e. sine dubio rex futurus,

    Liv. 40, 8.— Subst.: ambĭgŭum, i, n., doubt, uncertainty:

    in ambiguo est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 193:

    in ambiguo relinquere,

    Lucr. 4, 1133: non habui ambiguum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 11:

    servet in ambiguo Juppiter,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 28:

    non sane alias magis in ambiguo Britannia fuit,

    Tac. Agr. 5.—Also in acc. absol. in the Gr. manner: Ambiguum Clymene precibus Phaëthontis an irā Mota magis, it being uncertain whether, etc., Ov. M. 1, 765 (so, incertum, Tac. Agr. 7:

    dubium,

    id. A. 1, 5).—
    B.
    Of discourse, obscure, dark, ambiguous:

    scriptum,

    Cic. Top. 25:

    verba ambigua distinximus,

    id. Or. 29, 102:

    oracula,

    id. Div. 2, 56:

    responsa,

    Suet. Tib. 24:

    divinatio,

    Vulg. Ezech. 12, 24.— Subst.: ambĭgŭum, i, n., an obscure, dark saying:

    ambiguorum complura sunt genera,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 26, 111; 2, 61, 250; Auct. ad Her. 1, 6; 1, 12 al.:

    voces,

    Verg. A. 2, 98.—
    C.
    Trop., uncertain, wavering; not to be relied on, untrustworthy. —So of moral conduct:

    esse ambiguā fide,

    Liv. 6, 2:

    puer acris ingenii sed ambigui,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 2:

    femina bonis atque honestis moribus, non ambiguā pudicitiā,

    Gell. 3, 16:

    per ambiguas vias,

    Ov. H. 10, 62:

    domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis,

    Verg. A 1, 661.—Of fortune, changing, fluctuating: ambiguarum rerum sciens, Tac. A. 1, 64.
    ► In Tac.
    with gen.:

    ambiguus imperandi,

    irresolute, Tac. A. 1, 7:

    pudoris ac metus,

    wavering between shame and fear, id. ib. 2, 40:

    futuri,

    id. H. 3, 43.— Adv.: ambĭguē, doubtfully, ambiguously, Cic. de Or. 2, 26; id. N. D. 1, 31; Aur. Vict. 35:

    pugnare,

    with doubtful success, Tac. A. 2, 21 al.

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  • 9 ambiguus

    ambĭgŭus, a, um, adj. [ambigo], going about, hither and thither.
    I.
    Lit.:

    per ambiguum favorem gratiam victoris spectare,

    i. e. in that they show equal friendliness to both sides, Liv. 21, 52:

    ambiguus Proteus,

    who sometimes takes one form, sometimes another, changeable, Ov. M. 2, 9:

    ambiguus fuerit, modo vir, modo femina, Scython,

    id. ib. 4, 280:

    Inque virum soliti vultus mutare ferinos Ambigui prosecta lupi,

    they sometimes assume the form of a wolf and sometimes that of a man, id. ib. 7, 271:

    promisit Ambiguam Salamina, h. l. = alteram,

    a second Salamis, Hor. C. 1, 7, 29. —
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Uncertain, doubtful (syn.: dubius, incertus): ambiguum est quod in ambas agi partes animo potest. Hujusmodi apud Graecos amphibola dicuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 17 Müll.:

    quidquid incerti mihi in animo prius aut ambiguom fuit, Nunc liquet, nunc defaecatum est,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 69: etiam si dudum fuerat ambiguom hoc mihi, * Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 26:

    difficile et ambiguum,

    Vulg. Deut. 17, 8:

    haud ambiguus rex, i. e. sine dubio rex futurus,

    Liv. 40, 8.— Subst.: ambĭgŭum, i, n., doubt, uncertainty:

    in ambiguo est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 193:

    in ambiguo relinquere,

    Lucr. 4, 1133: non habui ambiguum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 11:

    servet in ambiguo Juppiter,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 28:

    non sane alias magis in ambiguo Britannia fuit,

    Tac. Agr. 5.—Also in acc. absol. in the Gr. manner: Ambiguum Clymene precibus Phaëthontis an irā Mota magis, it being uncertain whether, etc., Ov. M. 1, 765 (so, incertum, Tac. Agr. 7:

    dubium,

    id. A. 1, 5).—
    B.
    Of discourse, obscure, dark, ambiguous:

    scriptum,

    Cic. Top. 25:

    verba ambigua distinximus,

    id. Or. 29, 102:

    oracula,

    id. Div. 2, 56:

    responsa,

    Suet. Tib. 24:

    divinatio,

    Vulg. Ezech. 12, 24.— Subst.: ambĭgŭum, i, n., an obscure, dark saying:

    ambiguorum complura sunt genera,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 26, 111; 2, 61, 250; Auct. ad Her. 1, 6; 1, 12 al.:

    voces,

    Verg. A. 2, 98.—
    C.
    Trop., uncertain, wavering; not to be relied on, untrustworthy. —So of moral conduct:

    esse ambiguā fide,

    Liv. 6, 2:

    puer acris ingenii sed ambigui,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 2:

    femina bonis atque honestis moribus, non ambiguā pudicitiā,

    Gell. 3, 16:

    per ambiguas vias,

    Ov. H. 10, 62:

    domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis,

    Verg. A 1, 661.—Of fortune, changing, fluctuating: ambiguarum rerum sciens, Tac. A. 1, 64.
    ► In Tac.
    with gen.:

    ambiguus imperandi,

    irresolute, Tac. A. 1, 7:

    pudoris ac metus,

    wavering between shame and fear, id. ib. 2, 40:

    futuri,

    id. H. 3, 43.— Adv.: ambĭguē, doubtfully, ambiguously, Cic. de Or. 2, 26; id. N. D. 1, 31; Aur. Vict. 35:

    pugnare,

    with doubtful success, Tac. A. 2, 21 al.

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  • 10 augurium

    augŭrĭum, ii, n. (plur. augura, heterocl., like aplustra from aplustre, Att. ap. Non. p. 488, 2, or Trag. Rel. p. 217 Rib.) [augur], the observation and interpretation of omens, augury (v. augur and the pass. there cited).
    I.
    Lit.:

    pro certo arbitrabor sortes oracla adytus augura? Att., Trag. Rel. p. 217 Rib.: agere,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 42 Müll.; Cic. Div. 1, 17, 32; id. Off. 3, 16, 66:

    capere,

    Suet. Aug. 95:

    quaerere,

    Vulg. Num. 24, 1:

    observare,

    ib. Deut. 18, 10; ib. 4 Reg. 21, 6:

    non est augurium in Jacob,

    ib. Num. 23, 23:

    dare,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 36:

    nuntiare,

    Liv. 1, 7:

    decantare,

    Cic. Div. 1, 47, 105: accipere, to understand or receive as an omen, Liv. 1, 34; 10, 40; Val. Fl. 1, 161:

    augurium factum,

    Suet. Vit. 18:

    augurio experiri aliquid,

    Flor. 1, 5, 3: augurium salutis, an augury instituted in time of peace, for the inquiry whether one could supplicate the Deity for the prosperity of the state (de salute), Cic. Div. 1, 47, 105; Suet. Aug. 31; Tac. A. 12, 23; cf. Dio Cass. 37, 24, and Fabric. ad h. l.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Any kind of divination, prophecy, soothsaying, interpretation:

    auguria rerum futurarum,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 35, 89: conjugis augurio ( by the interpretation of [p. 205] quamquam Titania mota est, Ov. M. 1, 395: Divinatio arroris et auguria mendacia vanitas est, Vulg Eccli. 34, 5.—And transf. to the internal sense. presentiment, foreboding of future occurrences inhaeret in mentibus quasi saeclorum quoddam augurium futurorum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 33; id. Fam 6, 6:

    Fallitur augurio spes bona saepe suo,

    Ov. H. 16, 234:

    Auguror, nec me fallit augurium, historias tuas immortales futuras,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 33, 1 al. —
    B.
    Object, a sign, omen, token, prognostic:

    thymum augurium mellis est,

    Plin. 21, 10, 31, § 56:

    augurium valetudinis ex eā traditur, si etc.,

    id. 28, 6, 19, § 68.—
    C.
    The art of the augur, augury:

    cui laetus Apollo Augurium citharamque dabat,

    Verg. A. 12, 394 (v. Apollo and augur):

    Rex idero et regi Turno gratissimus augur,

    id. ib. 9, 327; Flor. 1, 5, 2.

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  • 11 derigo

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 12 directum

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 13 dirigo

    dī-rĭgo or dērĭgo (the latter form preferred by Roby, L. G. 2, p. 387; cf. Rib. Proleg. ad Verg. p. 401 sq.; so Liv. 21, 19, 1; 21, 47, 8; 22, 28 Weissenb.; id. 22, 47, 2 Drak.; Lach. ad Lucr. 4, 609; Tac. A. 6, 40 Ritter; acc. to Brambach, s. v., the two forms are different words, de-rigo meaning to give a particular direction to; di-rigo, to arrange in distinct lines, set or move different ways; cf. describo and discribo. But the distinction is not observed in the MSS. and edd. generally), rexi, rectum, 3 ( perf. sync. direxti, Verg. A. 6, 57), v. a. [dis-rego], to lay straight, set in a straight line, to arrange, draw up (class.; cf.: guberno, collineo, teneo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 10:

    haec directa materia injecta consternebantur,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8:

    crates,

    id. B. C. 3, 46, 5:

    naves ante portum,

    Liv. 37, 31; cf.:

    naves in pugnam,

    id. 22, 19:

    vicos,

    i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf.

    castella,

    Flor. 4, 12, 26:

    molem recta fronte,

    Curt. 4, 3 et saep.:

    regiones lituo,

    i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.:

    finem alicui veterem viam regiam,

    Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.:

    aciem,

    to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf.

    frontem,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11:

    membrana plumbo derecta,

    ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—
    * b.
    Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain:

    elephantum machaeră dirigit,

    Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—
    B.
    In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.):

    ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6:

    aciem ad te,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    cursum ad litora,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in:

    equum in consulem,

    Liv. 2, 6:

    currum in hostem,

    Ov. M. 12, 78:

    tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae,

    Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4:

    hastam in te,

    Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.:

    dentes in inguina,

    id. ib. 8, 400:

    cursum in Africam,

    Vell. 2, 19 fin.:

    cursum per auras in lucos,

    Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.:

    navem eo,

    Nep. Chabr. 4, 2:

    gressum huc,

    Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.:

    Ilo hastam,

    Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit:

    ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur,

    to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53:

    iter navis,

    Ov. F. 1, 4:

    cursum,

    Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct:

    spicula,

    Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606:

    hastile,

    Verg. A. 12, 490:

    tela,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 18:

    sagittas,

    Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.— Poet.:

    vulnera,

    Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.:

    vulnera alicui,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare):

    materias divisione dirigere,

    Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),
    B.
    In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).
    (α).
    With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.:

    orationem ad exempla,

    id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1:

    judicium ad ea,

    id. 6, 5, 2:

    se ad id quod, etc.,

    id. 12, 3, 8; cf.:

    se ad ea effingenda,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    praecipua rerum ad famam,

    Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad):

    in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    vitam ad certam rationis normam,

    to conform, id. Mur. 2:

    leges hominum ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—
    (β).
    With in (not so in Cic.):

    tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum,

    Quint. 10, 3, 28:

    communes locos in vitia,

    id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With abl. (only in Cic.):

    quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 71:

    utilitatem honestate,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 83:

    haec normā,

    id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—
    (δ).
    Without an object:

    (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —
    (ε).
    With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—
    (ζ).
    With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus ( dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.
    A.
    Lit.:

    auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf.

    aes (tubae), opp. flexum,

    Ov. M. 1, 98:

    iter,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf.

    trabes,

    id. ib. 7, 23, 1:

    ordo (olearum),

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22:

    arcus (opp. obliquus),

    Ov. M. 2, 129:

    paries,

    i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2:

    praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3:

    (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.:

    cornu,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26.— Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line:

    in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI.,

    in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll.; so,

    altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass.,

    Plin. 5, 22, 18, § 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, § 66 al.:

    cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum),

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—
    B.
    Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct:

    o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.:

    iter ad laudem,

    id. Cael. 17, 41:

    vera illa et directa ratio,

    id. ib. 18:

    tristis ac directus senex,

    id. ib. 16, 38; cf.:

    quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    percunctatio et denuntiatio belli,

    Liv. 21, 19; cf.

    contiones,

    Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus):

    verba,

    Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15:

    actio,

    Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf.

    institutio (opp. precaria),

    id. 29, 1, 19:

    libertates (opp. fideicommissariae),

    id. 29, 4, 12.— Adv.
    a.
    dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare):

    dicere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24:

    ire,

    Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,
    b.
    dīrectō, directly, straight:

    deorsum ferri,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 25:

    transversas trabes,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2:

    ad fidem spectare,

    Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —
    * c.
    dīrectā:

    quo magis ursimus alte directā,

    press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—
    d.
    dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.:

    directius gubernare,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.— Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.

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  • 14 fallo

    fallo, fĕfelli, falsum, 3 (archaic inf. praes. pass. fallier, Pers. 3, 50; perf. pass. fefellitus sum, Petr. Fragm. 61, MSS.), v. a. [Sanscr. sphal, sphul, to waver; Gr. sphallô, a-sphalês], to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint (freq. and class.; syn.: decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo, fraudo).
    I.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Of living objects:

    T. Roscius non unum rei pecuniariae socium fefellit, verum novem homines honestissimos ejusdem muneris, etc.... induxit, decepit, destituit, omni fraude et perfidia fefellit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 116 sq.; so,

    aliquem dolis,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 13; cf. id. Heaut. 3, 1, 61:

    senem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 43:

    referam gratiam, atque eas itidem fallam, ut ab illis fallimur,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 93: tu illum fructu fallas, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

    id ipsum sui fallendi causa milites ab hostibus factum existimabant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 2:

    tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco Inventum,

    Verg. G. 1, 139; cf. Ov. M. 15, 474:

    is enim sum, nisi me forte fallo, qui, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 8, 21:

    num me fefellit, Catilina, non modo res tanta, verum dies?

    id. Cat. 1, 3, 7:

    nisi me fallit animus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; cf.:

    neque eum prima opinio fefellit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 67, 3:

    ne spes eum fallat,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 4:

    si in hominibus eligendis spes amicitiae nos fefellerit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 11, § 28:

    in quo cum eum opinio fefellisset,

    Nep. Ages. 3, 5:

    nisi forte me animus fallit,

    Sall. C. 20, 17:

    nisi memoria me fallit,

    fails me, Gell. 20, p. 285 Bip.:

    nisi me omnia fallunt,

    Cic. Att. 8, 7, 1; cf.:

    omnia me fallunt, nisi, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

    nisi quid me fallit,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 6; cf.:

    si quid nunc me fallit in scribendo,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 4:

    dominum sterilis saepe fefellit ager,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 450:

    certe hercle hic se ipsus fallit, non ego,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 15:

    tam libenter se fallunt, quam si una fata decipiunt,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1:

    cum alios falleret, se ipsum tamen non fefellit,

    Lact. 1, 22, 5.— Pass. in mid. force, to deceive one's self, be deceived, to err, be mistaken:

    errore quodam fallimur in disputando,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 35:

    qua (spe) possumus falli: deus falli qui potuit?

    id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

    memoriā falli,

    Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118:

    jamque dies, nisi fallor, adest,

    Verg. A. 5, 49; Cic. Att. 4, 17, 1; 16, 6, 2:

    ni fallor,

    Ov. F. 4, 623; Lact. 2, 19, 1; cf.:

    ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor,

    Hor. A. P. 42.—With object-clause:

    dicere non fallar, quo, etc.,

    Luc. 7, 288:

    quamquam haut falsa sum, nos odiosas haberi,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 4; cf.:

    id quam facile sit mihi, haud sum falsus,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 3; Ter. And. 4, 1, 23; Sall. J. 85, 20:

    neque ea res falsum me habuit,

    did not deceive me, id. ib. 10, 1:

    ut falsus animi est!

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 43.—
    (β).
    Of inanim. or abstr. objects:

    promissum,

    not to fulfil, Curt. 7, 10, 9:

    fidem hosti datam fallere,

    to violate, break, betray, deceive, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39:

    quodsi meam spem vis improborum fefellerit atque superaverit,

    id. Cat. 4, 11, 23; cf. id. de Or. 1, 1, 2:

    non fallam opinionem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 6 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 86 fin.:

    imperium,

    to fail to execute, Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125:

    cum lubrica saxa vestigium fallerent,

    betrayed, Curt. 4, 9.— Poet.:

    tu faciem illius Falle dolo,

    imitate deceptively, assume, Verg. A. 1, 684:

    sua terga nocturno lupo,

    i. e. to hide, conceal, Prop. 4, 5, 14:

    casses, retia,

    to shun, avoid, Ov. H. 20, 45; 190. —
    (γ).
    Absol.: neque quo pacto fallam... Scio quicquam, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29 fin.:

    cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    ea (divinatio) fallit fortasse nonnumquam,

    id. Div. 1, 14, 25:

    non in sortitione fallere,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132:

    in ea re,

    Nep. Them. 7, 2; Cels. 7, 26, 2: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, Liv. 29, 35, 2:

    ut, si quid possent, de induciis fallendo impetrarent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 13, 5:

    germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 45:

    plerumque sufflati atque tumidi (oratores) fallunt pro uberibus,

    Gell. 7, 14, 5.—
    B.
    Impers.: fallit (me) I deceive myself, I mistake, am mistaken:

    sed nos, nisi me fallit, jacebimus,

    Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2; cf.:

    nisi me propter benevolentiam forte fallebat,

    id. Cael. 19, 45; id. Sest. 50, 106:

    nec eum fefellit,

    id. Off. 2, 7, 25:

    vide, ne te fallat,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25. And cf. under II. B. 2.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To deceive in swearing, to swear falsely:

    is jurare cum coepisset, vox eum defecit in illo loco: SI SCIENS FALLO,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf.:

    lapidem silicem tenebant juraturi per Jovem haec verba dicentes: SI SCIENS FALLO, TVM ME DISPITER, etc., Paul. ex Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.: si sciens fefellisset,

    Plin. Pan. 64, 3; cf. Liv. 21, 45, 8; Prop. 4, 7, 53:

    expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere,

    i. e. to swear falsely by the ashes of your mother, Hor. C. 2, 8, 10.—
    B.
    With respect to one's knowledge or sight, for the more usual latēre: to lie concealed from, to escape the notice, elude the observation of a person (so in Cic., Sall., and Caes. for the most part only impers., v. 2. infra).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    neque enim hoc te, Crasse, fallit, quam multa sint et quam varia genera dicendi,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    tanto silentio in summum evasere, ut non custodes solum fallerent, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 5, 47, 3:

    nec fefellit veniens ducem,

    id. 2, 19, 7; Curt. 7, 6, 4; cf.:

    quin et Atridas duce te (Mercurio)... Priamus... Thessalosque ignes et iniqua Trojae Castra fefellit,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 16:

    quos fallere et effugere est triumphus,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 52:

    Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem Fallere testa,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 20; Suet. Caes. 43:

    nec te Pythagorae fallant arcana,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 21; id. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

    nec quicquam eos, quae terra marique agerentur, fallebat,

    Liv. 41, 2, 1 Drak.:

    ut plebem tribunosque falleret judicii rescindendi consilium initum,

    id. 4, 11, 4:

    tanta celeritate, ut visum fallant,

    Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157:

    oculos littera fallit,

    cannot be distinctly read, Ov. A. A. 3, 627.— With acc. and inf.:

    neutros fefellit hostes appropinquare,

    Liv. 31, 33, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.—Mid. with gen.:

    nec satis exaudiebam, nec sermonis fallebar tamen,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 55.—
    (β).
    Absol., to escape notice, be unseen, remain undiscovered:

    speculator Carthaginiensium, qui per biennium fefellerat, Romae deprehensus,

    Liv. 22, 33, 1; 25, 9, 2:

    spes fallendi, resistendive, si non falleret,

    of remaining unnoticed, id. 21, 57, 5:

    non fefellere ad Tifernum hostes instructi,

    id. 10, 14, 6.—So with part. perf., Liv. 42, 64, 3; 23, 19, 11.—With part. pres.: ne alio itinere hostis falleret ad urbem incedens, i. e. arrive secretly, lanthanoi prosiôn, Liv. 8, 20, 5; cf. id. 5, 47, 9; Verg. A. 7, 350:

    nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit,

    i. e. has remained unnoticed, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 10:

    fallere pro aliquo,

    to pass for, Gell. 7, 14:

    bonus longe fallente sagitta,

    Verg. A. 9, 572.—
    2.
    Impers.: fallit (me), it is concealed from me, unknown to me, I do not know, am ignorant of (for the most part only with negatives or in negative interrogations), constr. with subject-clause:

    non me fefellit: sensi,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 64:

    num me fefellit, hosce id struere?

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3; cf.:

    in lege nulla esse ejusmodi capita, te non fallit,

    Cic. Att. 3, 23, 4:

    nec me animi fallit, etc.,

    Lucr. 1, 136; 5, 97:

    quem fallit?

    who does not know? Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233:

    neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B C. 3, 94, 3.—
    C.
    To cause any thing (space, time, etc.) not to be observed or felt, to lighten any thing difficult, or to appease, silence any thing disagreeable, to beguile ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    medias fallunt sermonibus horas Sentirique moram prohibent,

    Ov. M. 8, 652:

    jam somno fallere curam,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 114:

    Fallebat curas aegraque corda labor,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 16; cf.

    dolores,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 39:

    luctum,

    Val. Fl. 3, 319:

    molliter austerum studio fallente laborem,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 12; Ov. M. 6, 60; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—Prov.:

    fallere credentem non est operosa puellam Gloria,

    Ov. H. 2, 63.—Hence, falsus, a, um, P. a., deceptive, pretended, feigned, deceitful, spurious, false (syn.: adulterinus, subditus, subditicius, spurius).
    A.
    [p. 722] Adj.:

    testes aut casu veri aut malitia falsi fictique esse possunt,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27; cf.:

    falsum est id totum, neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

    id. Rep. 2, 15:

    ementita et falsa plenaque erroris,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

    pro re certa spem falsam domum retulerunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; cf.:

    spe falsa atque fallaci,

    id. Phil. 12, 2, 7; so,

    spes,

    id. Sull. 82, 91:

    falsa et mendacia visa,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127; cf.:

    falsa et inania visa,

    id. ib.:

    falsum et imitatione simulatum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; cf. id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    argumentum,

    id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

    qui falsas lites falsis testimoniis Petunt,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 13:

    reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

    id. Bacch. 3, 6, 12:

    ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit,

    Sall. C. 10, 5 Kritz.:

    pater (opp. verus),

    a supposed father, Ov. M. 9, 24; cf. id. ib. 1, 754:

    falsi ac festinantes,

    Tac. A. 1, 7: suspectio, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5:

    nuntius,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175:

    rumores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 20, 2:

    poena falsarum et corruptarum litterarum,

    Cic. Fl. 17, 39; cf.:

    falsas esse litteras et a scriba vitiatas,

    Liv. 40, 55, 1:

    falsarum tabularum rei,

    Suet. Aug. 19:

    fama,

    Cic. Lael. 4, 15:

    appellatio,

    Quint. 7, 3, 5:

    sententiae,

    id. 8, 5, 7:

    crimina,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 14;

    terrores,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 212:

    opprobria,

    i. e. undeserved, id. ib. 1, 16, 38; cf.

    honor,

    id. ib. 39: falsi Simoëntis ad undam, i. e. fictitious (simulati), Verg. A. 3, 302; cf.:

    falsi sequimur vestigia tauri (i. e. Jovis),

    Val. Fl. 8, 265:

    vultu simulans Haliagmona,

    Stat. Th. 7, 739:

    ita ceteros terruere, ut adesse omnem exercitum trepidi ac falsi nuntiarent,

    Tac. H. 2, 17:

    ne illi falsi sunt qui divorsissumas res pariter expectant,

    deceived, mistaken, Sall. J. 85, 20; cf.:

    falsus utinam vates sim,

    Liv. 21, 10, 10; so,

    vates,

    id. 4, 46, 5.— Comp. (rare):

    quanto est abjectior et falsior ista (theologia),

    Aug. Civ. D. 7, 5 fin.:

    nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius,

    Petr. 132; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 11 Müll.— Sup.:

    id autem falsissimum est,

    Col. 1, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    Felix appellatur Arabia, falsi et ingrati cognominis,

    Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 82.—
    2.
    False, counterfeit, spurious, = adulterinus (late Lat.): moneta, Cod. Th. 9, 21, 9.—
    B.
    As subst.
    1.
    falsus, i, m., a liar, deceiver:

    Spurinnam ut falsum arguens,

    a false prophet, Suet. Caes. 81 fin.; id. Tib. 14.—
    2.
    falsum, i, n., falsehood, fraud:

    ex falsis verum effici non potest,

    Cic. Div. 2, 51, 106; cf.:

    veris falsa remiscet,

    Hor. A. P. 151:

    vero distinguere falsum,

    id. Ep. 1, 10, 29:

    falsum scripseram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 14, 2; Quint. 7, 2, 53:

    ex illa causa falsi,

    i. e. of fraud, Dig. 48, 10 (De lege Cornelia de falsis), 1;

    v. the whole title: acclinis falsis animus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 6:

    nec obstitit falsis Tiberius,

    Tac. A. 2, 82:

    simulationum falsa,

    id. ib. 6, 46 et saep.—Adverb.:

    telisque non in falsum jactis,

    i. e. not at random, with effect, Tac. A. 4, 50 fin.:

    jurare falsum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 3, 11.— Adv., untruly, erroneously, unfaithfully, wrongly, falsely; in two forms, falso and false.
    1.
    falso:

    eho mavis vituperari falso, quam vero extolli?

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21 sq.; cf. id. Trin. 1, 2, 173;

    so opp. vero,

    Curt. 5, 2, 2: ei rei dant operam, ut mihi falso maledicatur, Cato ap. Charis. p. 179 P.: falso criminare, Enn. ap. Non. 470, 16:

    neque me perpetiar probri Falso insimulatam,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 7; 21; cf.:

    non possum quemquam insimulare falso,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 107:

    falso memoriae proditum,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    cum Tarquinius... vivere falso diceretur,

    id. Rep. 2, 21; cf.:

    adesse ejus equites falso nuntiabantur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 1:

    cum utrumque falso fingerent,

    Liv. 42, 2:

    falso in me conferri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 2: aliquem falso occidere, i. e. by mistake, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 179 P.; cf.:

    ut miseri parentes quos falso lugent, vivere sciant,

    Liv. 34, 32, 13; and:

    falso lamentari eas Darium vivum,

    Curt. 3, 12:

    falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum,

    Sall. J. 1:

    falso plurima volgus amat,

    Tib. 3, 3, 20 (so perh. also in Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141, non assentiar saepe falso, instead of false).—Ellipt.: Da. Si quid narrare occepi, continuo dari tibi verba censes. Si. Falso, Ter. And. 3, 2, 24; cf.:

    atqui in talibus rebus aliud utile interdum, aliud honestum videri solet. Falso: nam, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so Quint. 2, 17, 12; Nep. Alc. 9:

    quia inter inpotentes et validos falso quiescas, = quia falluntur qui putant quiesci posse,

    Tac. Germ. 36.—
    2.
    false (very rare): judicium false factum, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 179; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 78 Fleck. (Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141 dub., B. and K., al. falso).— Sup.:

    quae adversus haec falsissime disputantur,

    Aug. Conf. 10, 13.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fallo

  • 15 falsum

    fallo, fĕfelli, falsum, 3 (archaic inf. praes. pass. fallier, Pers. 3, 50; perf. pass. fefellitus sum, Petr. Fragm. 61, MSS.), v. a. [Sanscr. sphal, sphul, to waver; Gr. sphallô, a-sphalês], to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint (freq. and class.; syn.: decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo, fraudo).
    I.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Of living objects:

    T. Roscius non unum rei pecuniariae socium fefellit, verum novem homines honestissimos ejusdem muneris, etc.... induxit, decepit, destituit, omni fraude et perfidia fefellit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 116 sq.; so,

    aliquem dolis,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 13; cf. id. Heaut. 3, 1, 61:

    senem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 43:

    referam gratiam, atque eas itidem fallam, ut ab illis fallimur,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 93: tu illum fructu fallas, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

    id ipsum sui fallendi causa milites ab hostibus factum existimabant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 2:

    tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco Inventum,

    Verg. G. 1, 139; cf. Ov. M. 15, 474:

    is enim sum, nisi me forte fallo, qui, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 8, 21:

    num me fefellit, Catilina, non modo res tanta, verum dies?

    id. Cat. 1, 3, 7:

    nisi me fallit animus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; cf.:

    neque eum prima opinio fefellit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 67, 3:

    ne spes eum fallat,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 4:

    si in hominibus eligendis spes amicitiae nos fefellerit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 11, § 28:

    in quo cum eum opinio fefellisset,

    Nep. Ages. 3, 5:

    nisi forte me animus fallit,

    Sall. C. 20, 17:

    nisi memoria me fallit,

    fails me, Gell. 20, p. 285 Bip.:

    nisi me omnia fallunt,

    Cic. Att. 8, 7, 1; cf.:

    omnia me fallunt, nisi, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

    nisi quid me fallit,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 6; cf.:

    si quid nunc me fallit in scribendo,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 4:

    dominum sterilis saepe fefellit ager,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 450:

    certe hercle hic se ipsus fallit, non ego,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 15:

    tam libenter se fallunt, quam si una fata decipiunt,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1:

    cum alios falleret, se ipsum tamen non fefellit,

    Lact. 1, 22, 5.— Pass. in mid. force, to deceive one's self, be deceived, to err, be mistaken:

    errore quodam fallimur in disputando,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 35:

    qua (spe) possumus falli: deus falli qui potuit?

    id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

    memoriā falli,

    Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118:

    jamque dies, nisi fallor, adest,

    Verg. A. 5, 49; Cic. Att. 4, 17, 1; 16, 6, 2:

    ni fallor,

    Ov. F. 4, 623; Lact. 2, 19, 1; cf.:

    ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor,

    Hor. A. P. 42.—With object-clause:

    dicere non fallar, quo, etc.,

    Luc. 7, 288:

    quamquam haut falsa sum, nos odiosas haberi,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 4; cf.:

    id quam facile sit mihi, haud sum falsus,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 3; Ter. And. 4, 1, 23; Sall. J. 85, 20:

    neque ea res falsum me habuit,

    did not deceive me, id. ib. 10, 1:

    ut falsus animi est!

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 43.—
    (β).
    Of inanim. or abstr. objects:

    promissum,

    not to fulfil, Curt. 7, 10, 9:

    fidem hosti datam fallere,

    to violate, break, betray, deceive, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39:

    quodsi meam spem vis improborum fefellerit atque superaverit,

    id. Cat. 4, 11, 23; cf. id. de Or. 1, 1, 2:

    non fallam opinionem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 6 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 86 fin.:

    imperium,

    to fail to execute, Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125:

    cum lubrica saxa vestigium fallerent,

    betrayed, Curt. 4, 9.— Poet.:

    tu faciem illius Falle dolo,

    imitate deceptively, assume, Verg. A. 1, 684:

    sua terga nocturno lupo,

    i. e. to hide, conceal, Prop. 4, 5, 14:

    casses, retia,

    to shun, avoid, Ov. H. 20, 45; 190. —
    (γ).
    Absol.: neque quo pacto fallam... Scio quicquam, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29 fin.:

    cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    ea (divinatio) fallit fortasse nonnumquam,

    id. Div. 1, 14, 25:

    non in sortitione fallere,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132:

    in ea re,

    Nep. Them. 7, 2; Cels. 7, 26, 2: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, Liv. 29, 35, 2:

    ut, si quid possent, de induciis fallendo impetrarent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 13, 5:

    germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 45:

    plerumque sufflati atque tumidi (oratores) fallunt pro uberibus,

    Gell. 7, 14, 5.—
    B.
    Impers.: fallit (me) I deceive myself, I mistake, am mistaken:

    sed nos, nisi me fallit, jacebimus,

    Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2; cf.:

    nisi me propter benevolentiam forte fallebat,

    id. Cael. 19, 45; id. Sest. 50, 106:

    nec eum fefellit,

    id. Off. 2, 7, 25:

    vide, ne te fallat,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25. And cf. under II. B. 2.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To deceive in swearing, to swear falsely:

    is jurare cum coepisset, vox eum defecit in illo loco: SI SCIENS FALLO,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf.:

    lapidem silicem tenebant juraturi per Jovem haec verba dicentes: SI SCIENS FALLO, TVM ME DISPITER, etc., Paul. ex Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.: si sciens fefellisset,

    Plin. Pan. 64, 3; cf. Liv. 21, 45, 8; Prop. 4, 7, 53:

    expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere,

    i. e. to swear falsely by the ashes of your mother, Hor. C. 2, 8, 10.—
    B.
    With respect to one's knowledge or sight, for the more usual latēre: to lie concealed from, to escape the notice, elude the observation of a person (so in Cic., Sall., and Caes. for the most part only impers., v. 2. infra).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    neque enim hoc te, Crasse, fallit, quam multa sint et quam varia genera dicendi,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    tanto silentio in summum evasere, ut non custodes solum fallerent, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 5, 47, 3:

    nec fefellit veniens ducem,

    id. 2, 19, 7; Curt. 7, 6, 4; cf.:

    quin et Atridas duce te (Mercurio)... Priamus... Thessalosque ignes et iniqua Trojae Castra fefellit,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 16:

    quos fallere et effugere est triumphus,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 52:

    Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem Fallere testa,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 20; Suet. Caes. 43:

    nec te Pythagorae fallant arcana,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 21; id. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

    nec quicquam eos, quae terra marique agerentur, fallebat,

    Liv. 41, 2, 1 Drak.:

    ut plebem tribunosque falleret judicii rescindendi consilium initum,

    id. 4, 11, 4:

    tanta celeritate, ut visum fallant,

    Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157:

    oculos littera fallit,

    cannot be distinctly read, Ov. A. A. 3, 627.— With acc. and inf.:

    neutros fefellit hostes appropinquare,

    Liv. 31, 33, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.—Mid. with gen.:

    nec satis exaudiebam, nec sermonis fallebar tamen,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 55.—
    (β).
    Absol., to escape notice, be unseen, remain undiscovered:

    speculator Carthaginiensium, qui per biennium fefellerat, Romae deprehensus,

    Liv. 22, 33, 1; 25, 9, 2:

    spes fallendi, resistendive, si non falleret,

    of remaining unnoticed, id. 21, 57, 5:

    non fefellere ad Tifernum hostes instructi,

    id. 10, 14, 6.—So with part. perf., Liv. 42, 64, 3; 23, 19, 11.—With part. pres.: ne alio itinere hostis falleret ad urbem incedens, i. e. arrive secretly, lanthanoi prosiôn, Liv. 8, 20, 5; cf. id. 5, 47, 9; Verg. A. 7, 350:

    nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit,

    i. e. has remained unnoticed, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 10:

    fallere pro aliquo,

    to pass for, Gell. 7, 14:

    bonus longe fallente sagitta,

    Verg. A. 9, 572.—
    2.
    Impers.: fallit (me), it is concealed from me, unknown to me, I do not know, am ignorant of (for the most part only with negatives or in negative interrogations), constr. with subject-clause:

    non me fefellit: sensi,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 64:

    num me fefellit, hosce id struere?

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3; cf.:

    in lege nulla esse ejusmodi capita, te non fallit,

    Cic. Att. 3, 23, 4:

    nec me animi fallit, etc.,

    Lucr. 1, 136; 5, 97:

    quem fallit?

    who does not know? Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233:

    neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B C. 3, 94, 3.—
    C.
    To cause any thing (space, time, etc.) not to be observed or felt, to lighten any thing difficult, or to appease, silence any thing disagreeable, to beguile ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    medias fallunt sermonibus horas Sentirique moram prohibent,

    Ov. M. 8, 652:

    jam somno fallere curam,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 114:

    Fallebat curas aegraque corda labor,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 16; cf.

    dolores,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 39:

    luctum,

    Val. Fl. 3, 319:

    molliter austerum studio fallente laborem,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 12; Ov. M. 6, 60; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—Prov.:

    fallere credentem non est operosa puellam Gloria,

    Ov. H. 2, 63.—Hence, falsus, a, um, P. a., deceptive, pretended, feigned, deceitful, spurious, false (syn.: adulterinus, subditus, subditicius, spurius).
    A.
    [p. 722] Adj.:

    testes aut casu veri aut malitia falsi fictique esse possunt,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27; cf.:

    falsum est id totum, neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

    id. Rep. 2, 15:

    ementita et falsa plenaque erroris,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

    pro re certa spem falsam domum retulerunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; cf.:

    spe falsa atque fallaci,

    id. Phil. 12, 2, 7; so,

    spes,

    id. Sull. 82, 91:

    falsa et mendacia visa,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127; cf.:

    falsa et inania visa,

    id. ib.:

    falsum et imitatione simulatum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; cf. id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    argumentum,

    id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

    qui falsas lites falsis testimoniis Petunt,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 13:

    reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

    id. Bacch. 3, 6, 12:

    ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit,

    Sall. C. 10, 5 Kritz.:

    pater (opp. verus),

    a supposed father, Ov. M. 9, 24; cf. id. ib. 1, 754:

    falsi ac festinantes,

    Tac. A. 1, 7: suspectio, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5:

    nuntius,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175:

    rumores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 20, 2:

    poena falsarum et corruptarum litterarum,

    Cic. Fl. 17, 39; cf.:

    falsas esse litteras et a scriba vitiatas,

    Liv. 40, 55, 1:

    falsarum tabularum rei,

    Suet. Aug. 19:

    fama,

    Cic. Lael. 4, 15:

    appellatio,

    Quint. 7, 3, 5:

    sententiae,

    id. 8, 5, 7:

    crimina,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 14;

    terrores,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 212:

    opprobria,

    i. e. undeserved, id. ib. 1, 16, 38; cf.

    honor,

    id. ib. 39: falsi Simoëntis ad undam, i. e. fictitious (simulati), Verg. A. 3, 302; cf.:

    falsi sequimur vestigia tauri (i. e. Jovis),

    Val. Fl. 8, 265:

    vultu simulans Haliagmona,

    Stat. Th. 7, 739:

    ita ceteros terruere, ut adesse omnem exercitum trepidi ac falsi nuntiarent,

    Tac. H. 2, 17:

    ne illi falsi sunt qui divorsissumas res pariter expectant,

    deceived, mistaken, Sall. J. 85, 20; cf.:

    falsus utinam vates sim,

    Liv. 21, 10, 10; so,

    vates,

    id. 4, 46, 5.— Comp. (rare):

    quanto est abjectior et falsior ista (theologia),

    Aug. Civ. D. 7, 5 fin.:

    nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius,

    Petr. 132; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 11 Müll.— Sup.:

    id autem falsissimum est,

    Col. 1, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    Felix appellatur Arabia, falsi et ingrati cognominis,

    Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 82.—
    2.
    False, counterfeit, spurious, = adulterinus (late Lat.): moneta, Cod. Th. 9, 21, 9.—
    B.
    As subst.
    1.
    falsus, i, m., a liar, deceiver:

    Spurinnam ut falsum arguens,

    a false prophet, Suet. Caes. 81 fin.; id. Tib. 14.—
    2.
    falsum, i, n., falsehood, fraud:

    ex falsis verum effici non potest,

    Cic. Div. 2, 51, 106; cf.:

    veris falsa remiscet,

    Hor. A. P. 151:

    vero distinguere falsum,

    id. Ep. 1, 10, 29:

    falsum scripseram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 14, 2; Quint. 7, 2, 53:

    ex illa causa falsi,

    i. e. of fraud, Dig. 48, 10 (De lege Cornelia de falsis), 1;

    v. the whole title: acclinis falsis animus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 6:

    nec obstitit falsis Tiberius,

    Tac. A. 2, 82:

    simulationum falsa,

    id. ib. 6, 46 et saep.—Adverb.:

    telisque non in falsum jactis,

    i. e. not at random, with effect, Tac. A. 4, 50 fin.:

    jurare falsum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 3, 11.— Adv., untruly, erroneously, unfaithfully, wrongly, falsely; in two forms, falso and false.
    1.
    falso:

    eho mavis vituperari falso, quam vero extolli?

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21 sq.; cf. id. Trin. 1, 2, 173;

    so opp. vero,

    Curt. 5, 2, 2: ei rei dant operam, ut mihi falso maledicatur, Cato ap. Charis. p. 179 P.: falso criminare, Enn. ap. Non. 470, 16:

    neque me perpetiar probri Falso insimulatam,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 7; 21; cf.:

    non possum quemquam insimulare falso,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 107:

    falso memoriae proditum,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    cum Tarquinius... vivere falso diceretur,

    id. Rep. 2, 21; cf.:

    adesse ejus equites falso nuntiabantur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 1:

    cum utrumque falso fingerent,

    Liv. 42, 2:

    falso in me conferri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 2: aliquem falso occidere, i. e. by mistake, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 179 P.; cf.:

    ut miseri parentes quos falso lugent, vivere sciant,

    Liv. 34, 32, 13; and:

    falso lamentari eas Darium vivum,

    Curt. 3, 12:

    falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum,

    Sall. J. 1:

    falso plurima volgus amat,

    Tib. 3, 3, 20 (so perh. also in Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141, non assentiar saepe falso, instead of false).—Ellipt.: Da. Si quid narrare occepi, continuo dari tibi verba censes. Si. Falso, Ter. And. 3, 2, 24; cf.:

    atqui in talibus rebus aliud utile interdum, aliud honestum videri solet. Falso: nam, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so Quint. 2, 17, 12; Nep. Alc. 9:

    quia inter inpotentes et validos falso quiescas, = quia falluntur qui putant quiesci posse,

    Tac. Germ. 36.—
    2.
    false (very rare): judicium false factum, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 179; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 78 Fleck. (Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141 dub., B. and K., al. falso).— Sup.:

    quae adversus haec falsissime disputantur,

    Aug. Conf. 10, 13.

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  • 16 nitor

    1.
    nītor, nīsus and nixus ( inf. nitier, Lucr. 1, 1059; old form of the part. perf.: gnitus et gnixus a genibus prisci dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.), 3, v. dep. n. [from gnitor; root gnic- or gnig-; cf.: nico, conivere], to bear or rest upon something.
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With abl.: ambae te obsecramus genibus nixae, we implore thee upon our knees, i. e. kneeling, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 33:

    stirpibus suis niti,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

    herbescens viriditas, quae nixa fibris stirpium sensim adulescit,

    id. Sen. 15, 51:

    hastili nixus,

    id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    mulierculā nixus,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86:

    juvenis, qui nititur hastā,

    Verg. A. 6, 760:

    paribus nitens Cyllenius alis Constitit,

    id. ib. 4, 252:

    nixus baculo,

    Ov. P. 1, 8, 52.—
    (β).
    With in and acc.:

    nixus in hastam,

    Verg. A. 12, 398.—
    (γ).
    With de:

    de quā pariens arbore nixa dea est,

    Ov. H. 21, 100.—
    (δ).
    With gen. of place:

    humi nitens,

    Verg. A. 2, 380.—
    (ε).
    Absol.: Sisiphu' versat Saxum sudans nitendo, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10:

    niti modo ac statim concidere,

    to strive to rise, Sall. J. 101, 11.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To make one's way with an effort, to press forward, advance; and, with respect to the goal, to mount, climb, fly, etc. (mostly poet.):

    quaedam serpentes ortae extra aquam simul ac primum niti possunt, aquam persequuntur,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    nituntur gradibus,

    Verg. A. 2, 442:

    in altas rupes,

    Luc. 4, 37:

    ad sidera,

    Verg. G. 2, 427:

    in aëra,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 27:

    in adversum,

    id. M. 2, 72:

    sursum nitier,

    Lucr. 1, 1059.—Of violent bodily motion:

    niti corporibus et ea huc illuc, quasi vitabundi aut jacientes tela agitare,

    to struggle, Sall. J. 60, 4.—
    2.
    To strain in giving birth, to bring forth, Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107 (al. eniti):

    nitor,

    I am in labor, Ov. M. 9, 302; Pseud.-Ov. Her. 21, 100.—
    3.
    To strain for a stool, Suet. Vesp. 20.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strive, to exert one's self, make an effort, labor, endeavor:

    moderatio modo virium adsit et tantum, quantum potest, quisque nitatur,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 33; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    nisurus contra regem,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 37; Sall. C. 38, 2:

    pro aliquo,

    Liv. 35, 10; cf.:

    pro libertate summā ope niti,

    Sall. J. 31, 17:

    nitebantur, ne gravius in eum consuleretur,

    Sall. J. 13, 8; cf.:

    unus Miltiades maxime nitebatur, ut, etc.,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2. — Inf.:

    summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

    Sall. J. 25, 9:

    patriam recuperare niti,

    Nep. Pelop. 2:

    ingenio nitor non periisse meo,

    Ov. P. 3, 5, 34; id. M. 8, 694.— Absol., of soldiers hard pressed in battle:

    tamen virtute et patientia nitebantur atque omnia vulnera sustinebant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45.—
    2.
    To strive after a thing:

    ad immortalitatem gloriae niti,

    Cic. Sen. 23, 82:

    ad summa, Quint. prooem. § 20: in vetitum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 17.—
    3.
    To try to prove, contend in argument, argue, with acc. and inf.:

    nitamur igitur nihil posse percipi,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 21, 68.—
    B.
    To rest, rely, depend upon a thing.
    (α).
    With in and abl.:

    nixus in nomine inani,

    Lucr. 5, 909:

    conjectura in quā nititur divinatio,

    Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

    ea, in quibus causa nititur,

    id. Cael. 10, 25:

    cujus in vitā nitebatur salus civitatis,

    id. Mil. 7, 19.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    spe niti,

    Cic. Att. 3, 9, 2:

    consilio atque auctoritate alicujus,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 122; id. Fam. 1, 5, a, 2:

    si quis hoc uno nititur quod sit ignobilis,

    id. Clu. 40, 112.—
    (γ).
    With ubi:

    quo confugies? ubi nitere?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 64, § 155.—Hence, P. a., as subst., Nixus, i, m., only plur., Nixi, ōrum, m., three guardian deities of women in labor, the statues of whom, representing them in a kneeling posture, stood on the Capitol before the chapel of Minerva, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.:

    magno Lucinam Nixosque patres clamore vocabam,

    Ov. M. 9, 294.
    2.
    nĭtor, ōris, m. [niteo], brightness, splendor, lustre, sheen.
    I.
    Lit.:

    nitor exoriens aurorae,

    Lucr. 4, 538:

    diurnus,

    the daylight, Ov. H. 18, 78:

    herbarum viridis,

    Lucr. 5, 783:

    argenti et auri,

    Ov. P. 3, 4, 23:

    eboris,

    Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64:

    materiae,

    of the wood, id. 16, 40, 79, § 215:

    speculi,

    id. 11, 37, 64, § 170:

    gladii,

    id. 2, 25, 22, § 89:

    nigerrimus gemmae,

    id. 37, 10, 69, § 184:

    nitorem cutis facit sal,

    id. 31, 7, 41, § 84.— Plur.:

    nitores splendoresque auri,

    Gell. 2, 6, 4.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Sleekness, plumpness, good looks, beauty:

    nitor corporis,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10:

    urit me Glycerae nitor,

    Hor. C. 1, 19, 5:

    Liparei nitor Hebri,

    id. ib. 3, 12, 6:

    nullus totā nitor in cute,

    Juv. 9, 13.—
    2.
    Neatness, elegance, brilliancy of external appearance:

    si quem... aliquid offendit, si purpurae genus, si amicorum catervae, si splendor, si nitor,

    Cic. Cael. 31, 77:

    habitus,

    Juv. 3, 180:

    oppidum praecipui nitoris,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85.—
    3.
    In gen., color, Lucr. 2, 819:

    ludis et externo tincta nitore caput,

    Prop. 2, 14, 26 (3, 11, 2).—
    II.
    Trop., of speech, splendor, elegance, grace of style. —With gen.:

    adhibendus erit in eis explicandis quidam orationis nitor,

    Cic. Or. 32, 115:

    domesticus eloquii,

    Ov. P. 2, 2, 51:

    nitor et cultus descriptionum,

    Tac. Or. 20:

    translationum,

    Quint. 12, 10, 36.— Absol.:

    sublimitas et magnificentia et nitor,

    Quint. 8, 3, 3:

    eruditione ac nitore praestare,

    id. 10, 1, 98:

    scripsit non sine cultu ac nitore,

    id. 10, 1, 124.—
    B.
    Of character, dignity, excellence:

    generis,

    Ov. P. 2, 9, 17; splendid liberality, Stat. S. 3, 3, 149.

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  • 17 Nixi

    1.
    nītor, nīsus and nixus ( inf. nitier, Lucr. 1, 1059; old form of the part. perf.: gnitus et gnixus a genibus prisci dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.), 3, v. dep. n. [from gnitor; root gnic- or gnig-; cf.: nico, conivere], to bear or rest upon something.
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With abl.: ambae te obsecramus genibus nixae, we implore thee upon our knees, i. e. kneeling, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 33:

    stirpibus suis niti,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

    herbescens viriditas, quae nixa fibris stirpium sensim adulescit,

    id. Sen. 15, 51:

    hastili nixus,

    id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    mulierculā nixus,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86:

    juvenis, qui nititur hastā,

    Verg. A. 6, 760:

    paribus nitens Cyllenius alis Constitit,

    id. ib. 4, 252:

    nixus baculo,

    Ov. P. 1, 8, 52.—
    (β).
    With in and acc.:

    nixus in hastam,

    Verg. A. 12, 398.—
    (γ).
    With de:

    de quā pariens arbore nixa dea est,

    Ov. H. 21, 100.—
    (δ).
    With gen. of place:

    humi nitens,

    Verg. A. 2, 380.—
    (ε).
    Absol.: Sisiphu' versat Saxum sudans nitendo, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10:

    niti modo ac statim concidere,

    to strive to rise, Sall. J. 101, 11.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To make one's way with an effort, to press forward, advance; and, with respect to the goal, to mount, climb, fly, etc. (mostly poet.):

    quaedam serpentes ortae extra aquam simul ac primum niti possunt, aquam persequuntur,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    nituntur gradibus,

    Verg. A. 2, 442:

    in altas rupes,

    Luc. 4, 37:

    ad sidera,

    Verg. G. 2, 427:

    in aëra,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 27:

    in adversum,

    id. M. 2, 72:

    sursum nitier,

    Lucr. 1, 1059.—Of violent bodily motion:

    niti corporibus et ea huc illuc, quasi vitabundi aut jacientes tela agitare,

    to struggle, Sall. J. 60, 4.—
    2.
    To strain in giving birth, to bring forth, Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107 (al. eniti):

    nitor,

    I am in labor, Ov. M. 9, 302; Pseud.-Ov. Her. 21, 100.—
    3.
    To strain for a stool, Suet. Vesp. 20.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strive, to exert one's self, make an effort, labor, endeavor:

    moderatio modo virium adsit et tantum, quantum potest, quisque nitatur,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 33; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    nisurus contra regem,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 37; Sall. C. 38, 2:

    pro aliquo,

    Liv. 35, 10; cf.:

    pro libertate summā ope niti,

    Sall. J. 31, 17:

    nitebantur, ne gravius in eum consuleretur,

    Sall. J. 13, 8; cf.:

    unus Miltiades maxime nitebatur, ut, etc.,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2. — Inf.:

    summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

    Sall. J. 25, 9:

    patriam recuperare niti,

    Nep. Pelop. 2:

    ingenio nitor non periisse meo,

    Ov. P. 3, 5, 34; id. M. 8, 694.— Absol., of soldiers hard pressed in battle:

    tamen virtute et patientia nitebantur atque omnia vulnera sustinebant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45.—
    2.
    To strive after a thing:

    ad immortalitatem gloriae niti,

    Cic. Sen. 23, 82:

    ad summa, Quint. prooem. § 20: in vetitum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 17.—
    3.
    To try to prove, contend in argument, argue, with acc. and inf.:

    nitamur igitur nihil posse percipi,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 21, 68.—
    B.
    To rest, rely, depend upon a thing.
    (α).
    With in and abl.:

    nixus in nomine inani,

    Lucr. 5, 909:

    conjectura in quā nititur divinatio,

    Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

    ea, in quibus causa nititur,

    id. Cael. 10, 25:

    cujus in vitā nitebatur salus civitatis,

    id. Mil. 7, 19.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    spe niti,

    Cic. Att. 3, 9, 2:

    consilio atque auctoritate alicujus,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 122; id. Fam. 1, 5, a, 2:

    si quis hoc uno nititur quod sit ignobilis,

    id. Clu. 40, 112.—
    (γ).
    With ubi:

    quo confugies? ubi nitere?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 64, § 155.—Hence, P. a., as subst., Nixus, i, m., only plur., Nixi, ōrum, m., three guardian deities of women in labor, the statues of whom, representing them in a kneeling posture, stood on the Capitol before the chapel of Minerva, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.:

    magno Lucinam Nixosque patres clamore vocabam,

    Ov. M. 9, 294.
    2.
    nĭtor, ōris, m. [niteo], brightness, splendor, lustre, sheen.
    I.
    Lit.:

    nitor exoriens aurorae,

    Lucr. 4, 538:

    diurnus,

    the daylight, Ov. H. 18, 78:

    herbarum viridis,

    Lucr. 5, 783:

    argenti et auri,

    Ov. P. 3, 4, 23:

    eboris,

    Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64:

    materiae,

    of the wood, id. 16, 40, 79, § 215:

    speculi,

    id. 11, 37, 64, § 170:

    gladii,

    id. 2, 25, 22, § 89:

    nigerrimus gemmae,

    id. 37, 10, 69, § 184:

    nitorem cutis facit sal,

    id. 31, 7, 41, § 84.— Plur.:

    nitores splendoresque auri,

    Gell. 2, 6, 4.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Sleekness, plumpness, good looks, beauty:

    nitor corporis,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10:

    urit me Glycerae nitor,

    Hor. C. 1, 19, 5:

    Liparei nitor Hebri,

    id. ib. 3, 12, 6:

    nullus totā nitor in cute,

    Juv. 9, 13.—
    2.
    Neatness, elegance, brilliancy of external appearance:

    si quem... aliquid offendit, si purpurae genus, si amicorum catervae, si splendor, si nitor,

    Cic. Cael. 31, 77:

    habitus,

    Juv. 3, 180:

    oppidum praecipui nitoris,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85.—
    3.
    In gen., color, Lucr. 2, 819:

    ludis et externo tincta nitore caput,

    Prop. 2, 14, 26 (3, 11, 2).—
    II.
    Trop., of speech, splendor, elegance, grace of style. —With gen.:

    adhibendus erit in eis explicandis quidam orationis nitor,

    Cic. Or. 32, 115:

    domesticus eloquii,

    Ov. P. 2, 2, 51:

    nitor et cultus descriptionum,

    Tac. Or. 20:

    translationum,

    Quint. 12, 10, 36.— Absol.:

    sublimitas et magnificentia et nitor,

    Quint. 8, 3, 3:

    eruditione ac nitore praestare,

    id. 10, 1, 98:

    scripsit non sine cultu ac nitore,

    id. 10, 1, 124.—
    B.
    Of character, dignity, excellence:

    generis,

    Ov. P. 2, 9, 17; splendid liberality, Stat. S. 3, 3, 149.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Nixi

  • 18 Nixus

    1.
    nītor, nīsus and nixus ( inf. nitier, Lucr. 1, 1059; old form of the part. perf.: gnitus et gnixus a genibus prisci dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.), 3, v. dep. n. [from gnitor; root gnic- or gnig-; cf.: nico, conivere], to bear or rest upon something.
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With abl.: ambae te obsecramus genibus nixae, we implore thee upon our knees, i. e. kneeling, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 33:

    stirpibus suis niti,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

    herbescens viriditas, quae nixa fibris stirpium sensim adulescit,

    id. Sen. 15, 51:

    hastili nixus,

    id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    mulierculā nixus,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86:

    juvenis, qui nititur hastā,

    Verg. A. 6, 760:

    paribus nitens Cyllenius alis Constitit,

    id. ib. 4, 252:

    nixus baculo,

    Ov. P. 1, 8, 52.—
    (β).
    With in and acc.:

    nixus in hastam,

    Verg. A. 12, 398.—
    (γ).
    With de:

    de quā pariens arbore nixa dea est,

    Ov. H. 21, 100.—
    (δ).
    With gen. of place:

    humi nitens,

    Verg. A. 2, 380.—
    (ε).
    Absol.: Sisiphu' versat Saxum sudans nitendo, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10:

    niti modo ac statim concidere,

    to strive to rise, Sall. J. 101, 11.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To make one's way with an effort, to press forward, advance; and, with respect to the goal, to mount, climb, fly, etc. (mostly poet.):

    quaedam serpentes ortae extra aquam simul ac primum niti possunt, aquam persequuntur,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

    nituntur gradibus,

    Verg. A. 2, 442:

    in altas rupes,

    Luc. 4, 37:

    ad sidera,

    Verg. G. 2, 427:

    in aëra,

    Ov. P. 2, 7, 27:

    in adversum,

    id. M. 2, 72:

    sursum nitier,

    Lucr. 1, 1059.—Of violent bodily motion:

    niti corporibus et ea huc illuc, quasi vitabundi aut jacientes tela agitare,

    to struggle, Sall. J. 60, 4.—
    2.
    To strain in giving birth, to bring forth, Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107 (al. eniti):

    nitor,

    I am in labor, Ov. M. 9, 302; Pseud.-Ov. Her. 21, 100.—
    3.
    To strain for a stool, Suet. Vesp. 20.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To strive, to exert one's self, make an effort, labor, endeavor:

    moderatio modo virium adsit et tantum, quantum potest, quisque nitatur,

    Cic. Sen. 10, 33; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    nisurus contra regem,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 37; Sall. C. 38, 2:

    pro aliquo,

    Liv. 35, 10; cf.:

    pro libertate summā ope niti,

    Sall. J. 31, 17:

    nitebantur, ne gravius in eum consuleretur,

    Sall. J. 13, 8; cf.:

    unus Miltiades maxime nitebatur, ut, etc.,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2. — Inf.:

    summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

    Sall. J. 25, 9:

    patriam recuperare niti,

    Nep. Pelop. 2:

    ingenio nitor non periisse meo,

    Ov. P. 3, 5, 34; id. M. 8, 694.— Absol., of soldiers hard pressed in battle:

    tamen virtute et patientia nitebantur atque omnia vulnera sustinebant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 45.—
    2.
    To strive after a thing:

    ad immortalitatem gloriae niti,

    Cic. Sen. 23, 82:

    ad summa, Quint. prooem. § 20: in vetitum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 17.—
    3.
    To try to prove, contend in argument, argue, with acc. and inf.:

    nitamur igitur nihil posse percipi,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 21, 68.—
    B.
    To rest, rely, depend upon a thing.
    (α).
    With in and abl.:

    nixus in nomine inani,

    Lucr. 5, 909:

    conjectura in quā nititur divinatio,

    Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

    ea, in quibus causa nititur,

    id. Cael. 10, 25:

    cujus in vitā nitebatur salus civitatis,

    id. Mil. 7, 19.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    spe niti,

    Cic. Att. 3, 9, 2:

    consilio atque auctoritate alicujus,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 122; id. Fam. 1, 5, a, 2:

    si quis hoc uno nititur quod sit ignobilis,

    id. Clu. 40, 112.—
    (γ).
    With ubi:

    quo confugies? ubi nitere?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 64, § 155.—Hence, P. a., as subst., Nixus, i, m., only plur., Nixi, ōrum, m., three guardian deities of women in labor, the statues of whom, representing them in a kneeling posture, stood on the Capitol before the chapel of Minerva, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.:

    magno Lucinam Nixosque patres clamore vocabam,

    Ov. M. 9, 294.
    2.
    nĭtor, ōris, m. [niteo], brightness, splendor, lustre, sheen.
    I.
    Lit.:

    nitor exoriens aurorae,

    Lucr. 4, 538:

    diurnus,

    the daylight, Ov. H. 18, 78:

    herbarum viridis,

    Lucr. 5, 783:

    argenti et auri,

    Ov. P. 3, 4, 23:

    eboris,

    Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64:

    materiae,

    of the wood, id. 16, 40, 79, § 215:

    speculi,

    id. 11, 37, 64, § 170:

    gladii,

    id. 2, 25, 22, § 89:

    nigerrimus gemmae,

    id. 37, 10, 69, § 184:

    nitorem cutis facit sal,

    id. 31, 7, 41, § 84.— Plur.:

    nitores splendoresque auri,

    Gell. 2, 6, 4.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Sleekness, plumpness, good looks, beauty:

    nitor corporis,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10:

    urit me Glycerae nitor,

    Hor. C. 1, 19, 5:

    Liparei nitor Hebri,

    id. ib. 3, 12, 6:

    nullus totā nitor in cute,

    Juv. 9, 13.—
    2.
    Neatness, elegance, brilliancy of external appearance:

    si quem... aliquid offendit, si purpurae genus, si amicorum catervae, si splendor, si nitor,

    Cic. Cael. 31, 77:

    habitus,

    Juv. 3, 180:

    oppidum praecipui nitoris,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85.—
    3.
    In gen., color, Lucr. 2, 819:

    ludis et externo tincta nitore caput,

    Prop. 2, 14, 26 (3, 11, 2).—
    II.
    Trop., of speech, splendor, elegance, grace of style. —With gen.:

    adhibendus erit in eis explicandis quidam orationis nitor,

    Cic. Or. 32, 115:

    domesticus eloquii,

    Ov. P. 2, 2, 51:

    nitor et cultus descriptionum,

    Tac. Or. 20:

    translationum,

    Quint. 12, 10, 36.— Absol.:

    sublimitas et magnificentia et nitor,

    Quint. 8, 3, 3:

    eruditione ac nitore praestare,

    id. 10, 1, 98:

    scripsit non sine cultu ac nitore,

    id. 10, 1, 124.—
    B.
    Of character, dignity, excellence:

    generis,

    Ov. P. 2, 9, 17; splendid liberality, Stat. S. 3, 3, 149.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Nixus

  • 19 praesagitio

    praesāgītĭo, ōnis, f. [praesagio], a presentiment, foreboding, the faculty of divining or presaging (class.; cf.:

    praedictio, divinatio, praesagium, praesensio): inest in animis praesagitio extrinsecus injecta, atque inclusa divinitus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66:

    divina,

    id. ib. 1, 54, 123: praesagitio dicta, quod praesagire est acute sentire. Unde sagae dictae anus, quae multa sciunt, et sagaces canes, qui ferarum cubilia praesentiunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 255 Müll.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > praesagitio

  • 20 praestigio

    praestigĭo, āre, v. a. [praestigiae], to deceive by juggling tricks:

    illa tibi numinis praestigiat divinatio,

    Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. M. 1, 63.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > praestigio

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