decĭdunt

dē-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall off, fall down (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

decido de lecto praeceps,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 48; so,

anguis decidit de tegulis,

Ter. Ph. 4, 4, 26:

poma ex arboribus decidunt,

Cic. de Sen. 19 fin.; cf.:

e flore guttae,

Ov. M. 9, 345:

equo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48, 6;

for which ex equo (in terram),

Nep. Eum. 4;

and ab equo (in arva),

Ov. Ib. 259:

summo toro,

id. F. 2, 350:

arbore glandes,

id. M. 1, 106:

caelo,

Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 164; so,

caelo,

id. 2, 52, 53, § 138:

in terras imber,

Lucr. 6, 497; so,

imber,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 29:

celsae turres graviore casu,

id. Od. 2, 10, 11:

comae,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3 et saep.:

montium decidentium moles,

Plin. Ep. 8, 17, 3:

(volucris) decidit in terram,

Ov. M. 12, 569;

so in terras sidus,

id. ib. 14, 847:

in puteum foveamve auceps,

Hor. A. P. 458:

in lacum fulmen,

Suet. Galb. 8:

in dolia serpens,

Juv. 6, 432:

in casses praeda,

Ov. A. A. 2, 2:

in laqueos suos auceps,

id. Rem. Am. 502:

in turbam praedonum hic fugiens,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

in praeceps,

Ov. M. 12, 339:

ad pedes tunica,

Suet. Aug. 94. —

Pregn. (like cado and concido), to fall down dead, to sink down, to die (in class. Lat. only poet.):

morbo decidunt,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 143:

nos ubi decidimus, Quo pater Aeneas,

Hor. Od. 4, 7, 14:

scriptor abhinc annos centum qui decidit,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 36:

decidit exanimis vitamque reliquit in astris,

Verg. A. 5, 517; cf. Stat. Th. 8, 125; and id. ib. 9, 755: (nupta) Decidit;

in talum serpentis dente recepto,

Ov. M. 10, 10.

Trop., to fall, drop, fall away, fail, sink:

quanta de spe decidi!

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 9;

for which quanta spe decidi!

id. ib. 4, 8, 11; Suet. Oth. 5;

and a spe societatis Prusiae,

Liv. 37, 26:

ex astris,

Cic. Att. 2, 21, 4 (cf.: astrum, no. II. B. fin.):

ego ab archetypo labor et decido,

Plin. Ep. 5, 10, 1:

eo decidit ut exsul de senatore fieret,

has fallen so low, id. ib. 4, 11, 1: oculis captus in hanc fraudem decidisti (cf. katapiptein), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101:

ad eas rei familiaris angustias decidit, ut, etc.,

Suet. Claud. 9 fin.; cf.:

huc decidisse cuncta, ut, etc.,

Tac. A. 3, 59:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

perish, Cic. Off. 2, 12 fin.:

non virtute hostium sed amicorum perfidia decidi,

am fallen, defeated, Nep. Eum. 11 fin.:

an toto pectore deciderim,

wholly banished from her affections, Tib. 3, 1, 20 (cf. ek thumou peseein, Hom. Il. 23, 595):

qui huc deciderunt,

into this illness, Cels. 3, 21 fin.:

in hydropa,

id. ib. med.: in maximis necessitatibus, ad quas libidine deciderat, Schol. Juv. 5, 3.

dē-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut off.

Lit. (rare in ante-Aug. per.; more freq. abscīdo;

not in Caes.): taleas oleaginas tripedaneas,

Cato R. R. 45:

collum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 37:

aures,

Tac. A. 12, 14:

virgam arbori,

id. G. 10:

caput,

Curt. 7, 2;

prov.: pennas,

to clip the wings, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 50:

malleolum,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 162:

filicem nascentem falce,

Col. 2, 2, 13; Sil. 4, 389 et saep.—

Transf., to cudgel, beat soundly:

aliquem verberibus decidere,

Dig. 47, 21, 2.

Trop., to decide a disputed, or, indeed, any matter (qs. to cut the knot; cf.:

dirimo and secare lites, res,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 42; id. Sat. 1, 10, 15); to determine, settle, terminate, put an end to (class., most freq. in judic. lang.; cf.: transigo, paciscor).

With acc.: damnum, XII. Tab. 12, 4; Gai. Inst. 4, 37; 4, 45:

quibus rebus actis atque decisis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45 fin.; cf.:

decisa negotia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 59:

res transactione decisa,

Dig. 5, 2, 29;

and jam decisa quaestio,

ib. 18, 3, 4:

decidis statuisque tu, quid iis ad denarium solveretur,

Cic. Quint. 4, 17; id. Rosc. Com. 11, 32; Dig. 47, 2, 63; cf. ib. 9, 4, 22, § 4:

hoc loco praeter nomen cetera propriis decisa sunt verbis,

i. e. decidedly, clearly expressed, Quint. 8, 6, 47: ego pol istam jam aliquovorsum tragulam decidero, I will now dispose of this dart one way or another, i. e. I will now put an end to this attack, these tricks, Plaut. Casin. 2, 4, 18.—

With praepp.:

cum aliquo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § [p. 520] 79; 2, 1, 48, § 125; id. Rosc. Am. 39, 114; Plin. 7, 40, 41, § 130:

non erit uncia tota, decidat tecum qua pater ipse deum,

for which Jupiter may compound with you, Mart. 9, 4, 6; cf.:

cum patrono pecuniā,

Dig. 12, 6, 26, § 12:

de rebus,

Cic. Quint. 5, 19; id. Rosc. Com. 12, 35 sq.; id. Att. 1, 8; Just. 31, 7: decidere jactu coepit cum ventis, to compound with the winds by throwing overboard (the cargo), Juv. 12, 33.—

Absol.:

in jugera singula ternis medimnis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48; id. Rosc. Com. 36; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 56, 4.—

To cut down, reduce, diminish:

ad tertiam partem vectigal,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38.

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ā-vello, velli or vulsi, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a. ( pluperf. avellerat, Curt. 5, 6, 5; perf. avulsi, Luc. 9, 764), to tear off or away, to pull or rend off (syn.: abripio, eximo).

In gen. (class.):

avellere tigna trabesque,

to tear away planks and beams, Lucr. 6, 241:

avolsaque saxa Montibus,

the rocks rent from the mountains, id. 4, 141:

avolsum umeris caput,

Verg. A. 2, 558; so Ov. M. 3, 727; 2, 358:

avolsos silices a montibus altis,

Lucr. 5, 313:

avolsus radicibus oculus,

id. 3, 563: poma ex arboribus, si cruda sunt, vix avelluntur;

si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71; id. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.:

Cum ripa simul avolsos ferat Aufidus acer,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 58; 2, 8, 89:

Avellit frondes,

Ov. M. 2, 351:

summitatem frondium ejus avulsit,

Vulg. Ezech. 17, 4 al.:

Ex eā avolsa postea Therasia,

Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 70:

Euboea avolsa Boeotiae,

id. 4, 12, 21, § 63.—

Esp.

To take away by force, to tear away:

rus ab aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 14:

pretium alicui,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 104:

fatale sacrato avellere templo Palladium,

Verg. A. 2, 165:

fundum emptori,

Dig. 23, 7, 17; 40, 7, 3:

avellamus eum ad nos,

Vulg. Isa. 7, 6;

so of carrying off the bride,

Cat. 62, 21 Ellis.—

To separate from something by pulling, to part, to remove:

aliquem de matris complexu avellere atque abstrahere,

Cic. Font. 17:

ab uberibus avellere,

to wean, Vulg. Isa. 28, 9:

ut sperem posse (eum) avelli,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 21:

Non potes avelli! simul, ah, simul ibimus, inquit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 81:

complexu avolsus Iuli,

Verg. A. 4, 616:

ut avellerentur castris,

Tac. A. 1, 44: se, to tear one ' s self away, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 39.— And in pass. without the notion of violence, to withdraw:

Et ipse avulsus est ab eis,

Vulg. Luc. 22, 41 Tisch.— Trop.:

aliquem a tanto errore,

Cic. Off. 3, 4, 83.

cāsus (Ciceronis temporibus paulumque infra s geminabatur: cassus, etc., Quint. 1, 7, 20; cf.: causa, Juppiter al.; in inscr. also KASVS), ūs (dat. casu, Nep. Alcib. 6, 4), m. [cado].

Lit., a falling (acc. to cado, I. A. and C.).

A falling down, etc.:

stillicidi,

Lucr. 1, 313:

geli,

id. 5, 205:

nivis,

Liv. 21, 35, 6:

fulminum,

Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135; Ov. M. 8, 259:

celsae graviore casu Decidunt turres,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 10.—In plur., Lucr. 2, 231.—

A fall, an overthrow, a throwing down:

occumbunt multi letum praecipe casu,

Enn. Ann. 391 Vahl.: eoque ictu me ad casum dari, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

casus, quo (infantes) in terram toties deferuntur,

Quint. 1, 12, 10; Lucr. 5, 1333:

vehiculi,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 21 al. —In plur.: cum loci Inciperent casus, i. e. the fall, destruction (by an earthquake), Ov. M. 8, 714.—

Trop.

Of time, the end:

extremae sub casum hiemis,

Verg. G. 1, 340.—

A moral fall, a false step, an error, fall:

multas vias adulescentiae lubricas ostendit (natura), quibus illa insistere, aut ingredi sine casu aliquo ac prolapsione vix posset,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41.—So of a political fall, Cic. Sest. 67, 140.—

Esp., a fall or change from a higher to a lower condition:

secum reputans quam gravis casus in servitium ex regno foret,

Sall. J. 62, 9.—

That which turns out or happens unexpectedly, an occurrence, event, accident, chance, misfortune, emergency (this most freq. in sing. and plur.):

quid est enim aliud fors, quid fortuna, quid casus, quid eventus, nisi cum sic aliquid cecidit, sic evenit, ut vel non cadere atque evenire, vel aliter cadere atque evenire potuerit? etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 6, 15: quis iste tantus casus? unde tam felix concursus atomorum? cf. id. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

novi casus temporum,

id. Imp. Pomp. 20, 60:

quod consilium etsi in ejusmodi casu reprehendendum non est, tamen incommode accidit,

such an emergency, Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

quod in ejusmodi casu accidit, periti ignaris parebant,

Curt. 4, 3, 18; 10, 5, 8; Quint. 6, 2, 34; Tac. A. 2, 47; Liv. 24, 2, 11; 38, 8, 5: potest igitur veritatem [p. 300] casus imitari, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 49:

quis tantam Rutulis laudem, casusne deusne, Attulerit,

Verg. A. 12, 321:

sive illud deorum munus sive casus fuit,

Curt. 4, 7, 13:

quae casus obtulerat, in sapientiam vertenda ratus,

Tac. A. 1, 29:

ut quemque casus armaverat,

Sall. C. 56, 3:

si quos locus aut casus conjunxerat,

id. J. 97 fin.:

in aleam tanti casus se regnumque dare,

Liv. 42, 50, 2:

ludibrium casūs,

id. 30, 30, 5:

casum potius quam consilium sequatur,

Quint. 7, prooem. §

3: parata ad omnes casus eloquentia,

id. 10, 1, 2:

bellorum,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

satis jam eventuum, satis casuum,

id. ib. 2, 26:

adversi, secundi,

Nep. Dat. 5, 4; cf. Suet. Caes. 25; id. Oth. 9:

magnus,

Caes. B. G. 6, 30; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3:

mirificus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

mirabiles,

Nep. Timol. 5, 1:

rariores,

Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19:

dubii,

Cat. 64, 216; Hor. S. 2, 2, 108:

varii,

Verg. A. 1, 204:

subiti repentinique,

Suet. Aug. 73.—Hence, in abl.: casu, adverbially, by chance, casually, by accident, accidentally:

quod si haec habent aliquam talem necessitatem, quid est tandem, quod casu fieri aut forte fortunā putemus?

Cic. Div. 2, 7, 18:

id evenit non temere nec casu,

id. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

sive casu sive consilio deorum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12; cf. Suet. Claud. 13:

necessitate an casu,

Quint. 3, 6, 26:

casu an persuasu et inductu,

id. 5, 10, 69:

casu an manibus impeditus,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

accidit casu ut legati, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 12, 1; cf. Hor. S. 1, 6, 53; 1, 9, 36; id. Ep. 1, 19, 18; Ov. M. 5, 118; 6, 359; 7, 84 et saep.—Hence, also,

A chance, an occasion, opportunity for something (esp. freq. in Sall. and Tac.):

aetas illa multo pluris quam nostra casus mortis habet,

Cic. Sen. 19, 67; cf.:

mortis durae casus,

Verg. A. 10, 791:

aut vi aut dolis sese casum victoriae inventurum,

Sall. J. 25, 9:

praeclari facinoris casum dare,

id. ib. 56, 4; so,

si casus daretur,

Tac. A. 1, 13; 11, 9:

invadendae Armeniae,

id. ib. 12, 50:

pugnae,

id. ib. 12, 28:

bene gerendae rei,

id. ib. 13, 36:

casum adferre,

Quint. 8, 4, 17.— Since the idea of suddenness, unexpectedness, easily passes into that of hostility, adverseness (cf. accido, 4.), casus signifies,

Esp., an adverse event, a misfortune, mishap, calamity, = sumphora:

meum illum casum tam horribilem, tam gravem, tam repentinum,

Cic. Sest. 24, 53; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 1, 4:

dolens civitatis casum,

Sall. C. 40, 2; cf. id. J. 14, 22; 23, 2; Liv. 37, 17, 7; 23, 22, 3; Cat. 28, 11.—Of disease:

si alius casus lecto te adfixit,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 81; Ov. M. 4, 142; 14, 473; 15, 494:

res minime in hujusmodi casu noxia,

in the earthquake, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21, 2; id. Cons. ad Marc. 5, 3:

urbis Trojanae,

overthrow, Verg. A. 1, 623.—Hence,

Euphemist. for death:

Saturnini atque Gracchorum casus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7:

sui quemque casus per quinquennium absumpsissent,

Liv. 23, 22, 3; Sall. J. 73, 1; Hor. S. 2, 5, 49; Suet. Aug. 65; cf. id. Caes. 89; id. Calig. 10.—

In gram. t. t., a case in the inflection of words:

propter eorum qui dicunt, sunt declinati casus, uti is qui de altero diceret, distinguere posset, quom vocaret, etc.,

Varr. L. L. 8, § 16 Müll.: casus dicimus... et vocabulorum formas, Paul. ex Fest. p. 58, 11 ib.:

ea (verba) sic et casibus et temporibus et genere et numero conservemus, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 40:

barbari casus... casus rectus,

id. Or. 48, 160; Quint. 1, 5, 61:

obliqui,

id. 1, 6, 22:

nominativo, dativo, ablativo,

id. 7, 9, 13:

genitivo,

id. 1, 5, 62: Latinus, sextus, i. e. the ablative, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 277 P.:

conversi, i. e. obliqui,

Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64: interrogandi (i. e. genetivus), Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 26 Hertz:

vocandi,

id. ib.:

septimus,

Quint. 1, 4, 26.

Cāsus, i, m., a river of Albania, that flows into the Caspian Sea, Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 39; Mel. 3, 5, 4.

cāsus (Ciceronis temporibus paulumque infra s geminabatur: cassus, etc., Quint. 1, 7, 20; cf.: causa, Juppiter al.; in inscr. also KASVS), ūs (dat. casu, Nep. Alcib. 6, 4), m. [cado].

Lit., a falling (acc. to cado, I. A. and C.).

A falling down, etc.:

stillicidi,

Lucr. 1, 313:

geli,

id. 5, 205:

nivis,

Liv. 21, 35, 6:

fulminum,

Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135; Ov. M. 8, 259:

celsae graviore casu Decidunt turres,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 10.—In plur., Lucr. 2, 231.—

A fall, an overthrow, a throwing down:

occumbunt multi letum praecipe casu,

Enn. Ann. 391 Vahl.: eoque ictu me ad casum dari, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

casus, quo (infantes) in terram toties deferuntur,

Quint. 1, 12, 10; Lucr. 5, 1333:

vehiculi,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 21 al. —In plur.: cum loci Inciperent casus, i. e. the fall, destruction (by an earthquake), Ov. M. 8, 714.—

Trop.

Of time, the end:

extremae sub casum hiemis,

Verg. G. 1, 340.—

A moral fall, a false step, an error, fall:

multas vias adulescentiae lubricas ostendit (natura), quibus illa insistere, aut ingredi sine casu aliquo ac prolapsione vix posset,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41.—So of a political fall, Cic. Sest. 67, 140.—

Esp., a fall or change from a higher to a lower condition:

secum reputans quam gravis casus in servitium ex regno foret,

Sall. J. 62, 9.—

That which turns out or happens unexpectedly, an occurrence, event, accident, chance, misfortune, emergency (this most freq. in sing. and plur.):

quid est enim aliud fors, quid fortuna, quid casus, quid eventus, nisi cum sic aliquid cecidit, sic evenit, ut vel non cadere atque evenire, vel aliter cadere atque evenire potuerit? etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 6, 15: quis iste tantus casus? unde tam felix concursus atomorum? cf. id. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

novi casus temporum,

id. Imp. Pomp. 20, 60:

quod consilium etsi in ejusmodi casu reprehendendum non est, tamen incommode accidit,

such an emergency, Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

quod in ejusmodi casu accidit, periti ignaris parebant,

Curt. 4, 3, 18; 10, 5, 8; Quint. 6, 2, 34; Tac. A. 2, 47; Liv. 24, 2, 11; 38, 8, 5: potest igitur veritatem [p. 300] casus imitari, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 49:

quis tantam Rutulis laudem, casusne deusne, Attulerit,

Verg. A. 12, 321:

sive illud deorum munus sive casus fuit,

Curt. 4, 7, 13:

quae casus obtulerat, in sapientiam vertenda ratus,

Tac. A. 1, 29:

ut quemque casus armaverat,

Sall. C. 56, 3:

si quos locus aut casus conjunxerat,

id. J. 97 fin.:

in aleam tanti casus se regnumque dare,

Liv. 42, 50, 2:

ludibrium casūs,

id. 30, 30, 5:

casum potius quam consilium sequatur,

Quint. 7, prooem. §

3: parata ad omnes casus eloquentia,

id. 10, 1, 2:

bellorum,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

satis jam eventuum, satis casuum,

id. ib. 2, 26:

adversi, secundi,

Nep. Dat. 5, 4; cf. Suet. Caes. 25; id. Oth. 9:

magnus,

Caes. B. G. 6, 30; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3:

mirificus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

mirabiles,

Nep. Timol. 5, 1:

rariores,

Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19:

dubii,

Cat. 64, 216; Hor. S. 2, 2, 108:

varii,

Verg. A. 1, 204:

subiti repentinique,

Suet. Aug. 73.—Hence, in abl.: casu, adverbially, by chance, casually, by accident, accidentally:

quod si haec habent aliquam talem necessitatem, quid est tandem, quod casu fieri aut forte fortunā putemus?

Cic. Div. 2, 7, 18:

id evenit non temere nec casu,

id. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

sive casu sive consilio deorum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12; cf. Suet. Claud. 13:

necessitate an casu,

Quint. 3, 6, 26:

casu an persuasu et inductu,

id. 5, 10, 69:

casu an manibus impeditus,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

accidit casu ut legati, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 12, 1; cf. Hor. S. 1, 6, 53; 1, 9, 36; id. Ep. 1, 19, 18; Ov. M. 5, 118; 6, 359; 7, 84 et saep.—Hence, also,

A chance, an occasion, opportunity for something (esp. freq. in Sall. and Tac.):

aetas illa multo pluris quam nostra casus mortis habet,

Cic. Sen. 19, 67; cf.:

mortis durae casus,

Verg. A. 10, 791:

aut vi aut dolis sese casum victoriae inventurum,

Sall. J. 25, 9:

praeclari facinoris casum dare,

id. ib. 56, 4; so,

si casus daretur,

Tac. A. 1, 13; 11, 9:

invadendae Armeniae,

id. ib. 12, 50:

pugnae,

id. ib. 12, 28:

bene gerendae rei,

id. ib. 13, 36:

casum adferre,

Quint. 8, 4, 17.— Since the idea of suddenness, unexpectedness, easily passes into that of hostility, adverseness (cf. accido, 4.), casus signifies,

Esp., an adverse event, a misfortune, mishap, calamity, = sumphora:

meum illum casum tam horribilem, tam gravem, tam repentinum,

Cic. Sest. 24, 53; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 1, 4:

dolens civitatis casum,

Sall. C. 40, 2; cf. id. J. 14, 22; 23, 2; Liv. 37, 17, 7; 23, 22, 3; Cat. 28, 11.—Of disease:

si alius casus lecto te adfixit,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 81; Ov. M. 4, 142; 14, 473; 15, 494:

res minime in hujusmodi casu noxia,

in the earthquake, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21, 2; id. Cons. ad Marc. 5, 3:

urbis Trojanae,

overthrow, Verg. A. 1, 623.—Hence,

Euphemist. for death:

Saturnini atque Gracchorum casus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7:

sui quemque casus per quinquennium absumpsissent,

Liv. 23, 22, 3; Sall. J. 73, 1; Hor. S. 2, 5, 49; Suet. Aug. 65; cf. id. Caes. 89; id. Calig. 10.—

In gram. t. t., a case in the inflection of words:

propter eorum qui dicunt, sunt declinati casus, uti is qui de altero diceret, distinguere posset, quom vocaret, etc.,

Varr. L. L. 8, § 16 Müll.: casus dicimus... et vocabulorum formas, Paul. ex Fest. p. 58, 11 ib.:

ea (verba) sic et casibus et temporibus et genere et numero conservemus, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 40:

barbari casus... casus rectus,

id. Or. 48, 160; Quint. 1, 5, 61:

obliqui,

id. 1, 6, 22:

nominativo, dativo, ablativo,

id. 7, 9, 13:

genitivo,

id. 1, 5, 62: Latinus, sextus, i. e. the ablative, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 277 P.:

conversi, i. e. obliqui,

Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64: interrogandi (i. e. genetivus), Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 26 Hertz:

vocandi,

id. ib.:

septimus,

Quint. 1, 4, 26.

Cāsus, i, m., a river of Albania, that flows into the Caspian Sea, Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 39; Mel. 3, 5, 4.

cāsus (Ciceronis temporibus paulumque infra s geminabatur: cassus, etc., Quint. 1, 7, 20; cf.: causa, Juppiter al.; in inscr. also KASVS), ūs (dat. casu, Nep. Alcib. 6, 4), m. [cado].

Lit., a falling (acc. to cado, I. A. and C.).

A falling down, etc.:

stillicidi,

Lucr. 1, 313:

geli,

id. 5, 205:

nivis,

Liv. 21, 35, 6:

fulminum,

Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135; Ov. M. 8, 259:

celsae graviore casu Decidunt turres,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 10.—In plur., Lucr. 2, 231.—

A fall, an overthrow, a throwing down:

occumbunt multi letum praecipe casu,

Enn. Ann. 391 Vahl.: eoque ictu me ad casum dari, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

casus, quo (infantes) in terram toties deferuntur,

Quint. 1, 12, 10; Lucr. 5, 1333:

vehiculi,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 21 al. —In plur.: cum loci Inciperent casus, i. e. the fall, destruction (by an earthquake), Ov. M. 8, 714.—

Trop.

Of time, the end:

extremae sub casum hiemis,

Verg. G. 1, 340.—

A moral fall, a false step, an error, fall:

multas vias adulescentiae lubricas ostendit (natura), quibus illa insistere, aut ingredi sine casu aliquo ac prolapsione vix posset,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41.—So of a political fall, Cic. Sest. 67, 140.—

Esp., a fall or change from a higher to a lower condition:

secum reputans quam gravis casus in servitium ex regno foret,

Sall. J. 62, 9.—

That which turns out or happens unexpectedly, an occurrence, event, accident, chance, misfortune, emergency (this most freq. in sing. and plur.):

quid est enim aliud fors, quid fortuna, quid casus, quid eventus, nisi cum sic aliquid cecidit, sic evenit, ut vel non cadere atque evenire, vel aliter cadere atque evenire potuerit? etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 6, 15: quis iste tantus casus? unde tam felix concursus atomorum? cf. id. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

novi casus temporum,

id. Imp. Pomp. 20, 60:

quod consilium etsi in ejusmodi casu reprehendendum non est, tamen incommode accidit,

such an emergency, Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

quod in ejusmodi casu accidit, periti ignaris parebant,

Curt. 4, 3, 18; 10, 5, 8; Quint. 6, 2, 34; Tac. A. 2, 47; Liv. 24, 2, 11; 38, 8, 5: potest igitur veritatem [p. 300] casus imitari, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 49:

quis tantam Rutulis laudem, casusne deusne, Attulerit,

Verg. A. 12, 321:

sive illud deorum munus sive casus fuit,

Curt. 4, 7, 13:

quae casus obtulerat, in sapientiam vertenda ratus,

Tac. A. 1, 29:

ut quemque casus armaverat,

Sall. C. 56, 3:

si quos locus aut casus conjunxerat,

id. J. 97 fin.:

in aleam tanti casus se regnumque dare,

Liv. 42, 50, 2:

ludibrium casūs,

id. 30, 30, 5:

casum potius quam consilium sequatur,

Quint. 7, prooem. §

3: parata ad omnes casus eloquentia,

id. 10, 1, 2:

bellorum,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

satis jam eventuum, satis casuum,

id. ib. 2, 26:

adversi, secundi,

Nep. Dat. 5, 4; cf. Suet. Caes. 25; id. Oth. 9:

magnus,

Caes. B. G. 6, 30; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3:

mirificus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

mirabiles,

Nep. Timol. 5, 1:

rariores,

Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19:

dubii,

Cat. 64, 216; Hor. S. 2, 2, 108:

varii,

Verg. A. 1, 204:

subiti repentinique,

Suet. Aug. 73.—Hence, in abl.: casu, adverbially, by chance, casually, by accident, accidentally:

quod si haec habent aliquam talem necessitatem, quid est tandem, quod casu fieri aut forte fortunā putemus?

Cic. Div. 2, 7, 18:

id evenit non temere nec casu,

id. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

sive casu sive consilio deorum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12; cf. Suet. Claud. 13:

necessitate an casu,

Quint. 3, 6, 26:

casu an persuasu et inductu,

id. 5, 10, 69:

casu an manibus impeditus,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

accidit casu ut legati, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 12, 1; cf. Hor. S. 1, 6, 53; 1, 9, 36; id. Ep. 1, 19, 18; Ov. M. 5, 118; 6, 359; 7, 84 et saep.—Hence, also,

A chance, an occasion, opportunity for something (esp. freq. in Sall. and Tac.):

aetas illa multo pluris quam nostra casus mortis habet,

Cic. Sen. 19, 67; cf.:

mortis durae casus,

Verg. A. 10, 791:

aut vi aut dolis sese casum victoriae inventurum,

Sall. J. 25, 9:

praeclari facinoris casum dare,

id. ib. 56, 4; so,

si casus daretur,

Tac. A. 1, 13; 11, 9:

invadendae Armeniae,

id. ib. 12, 50:

pugnae,

id. ib. 12, 28:

bene gerendae rei,

id. ib. 13, 36:

casum adferre,

Quint. 8, 4, 17.— Since the idea of suddenness, unexpectedness, easily passes into that of hostility, adverseness (cf. accido, 4.), casus signifies,

Esp., an adverse event, a misfortune, mishap, calamity, = sumphora:

meum illum casum tam horribilem, tam gravem, tam repentinum,

Cic. Sest. 24, 53; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 1, 4:

dolens civitatis casum,

Sall. C. 40, 2; cf. id. J. 14, 22; 23, 2; Liv. 37, 17, 7; 23, 22, 3; Cat. 28, 11.—Of disease:

si alius casus lecto te adfixit,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 81; Ov. M. 4, 142; 14, 473; 15, 494:

res minime in hujusmodi casu noxia,

in the earthquake, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21, 2; id. Cons. ad Marc. 5, 3:

urbis Trojanae,

overthrow, Verg. A. 1, 623.—Hence,

Euphemist. for death:

Saturnini atque Gracchorum casus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7:

sui quemque casus per quinquennium absumpsissent,

Liv. 23, 22, 3; Sall. J. 73, 1; Hor. S. 2, 5, 49; Suet. Aug. 65; cf. id. Caes. 89; id. Calig. 10.—

In gram. t. t., a case in the inflection of words:

propter eorum qui dicunt, sunt declinati casus, uti is qui de altero diceret, distinguere posset, quom vocaret, etc.,

Varr. L. L. 8, § 16 Müll.: casus dicimus... et vocabulorum formas, Paul. ex Fest. p. 58, 11 ib.:

ea (verba) sic et casibus et temporibus et genere et numero conservemus, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 40:

barbari casus... casus rectus,

id. Or. 48, 160; Quint. 1, 5, 61:

obliqui,

id. 1, 6, 22:

nominativo, dativo, ablativo,

id. 7, 9, 13:

genitivo,

id. 1, 5, 62: Latinus, sextus, i. e. the ablative, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 277 P.:

conversi, i. e. obliqui,

Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64: interrogandi (i. e. genetivus), Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 26 Hertz:

vocandi,

id. ib.:

septimus,

Quint. 1, 4, 26.

Cāsus, i, m., a river of Albania, that flows into the Caspian Sea, Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 39; Mel. 3, 5, 4.

crūdus, a, um, adj. [root kru-, of Gr. kruos; cf. cruor, crudelis], bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.

Prop. (so rare):

vulnus,

Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11:

vulnera,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—

Transf.

Of food, raw, not cooked: quid tu curas, utrum [p. 485] crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15:

exta,

Liv. 29, 27, 5:

carnem mandere,

Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food:

pavo,

Juv. 1, 143; cf.

trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta,

Quint. 10, 1, 19;

and, alvus,

Cato, R. R. 125:

qui crudum ructat,

i. e. when undigested food rises in the stomach, Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61:

crudior,

Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so,

bos,

Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.—

In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.

Lit.

Unripe, immature, crude:

poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71:

pruna (opp. maturissima),

Col. 12, 10, 3:

muria (opp. matura),

id. 12, 6, 2 al.:

palmes,

Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.);

of an abscess,

not mature, Cels. 5, 28, 11:

puella,

Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12:

funera nepotis,

premature, early, Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478:

amor,

yet young, fresh, id. Th. 2, 341; cf.:

crudum adhuc servitium,

Tac. A. 1, 8 fin.:

adhuc studia,

Petr. 4:

crudi sine viribus anni,

Sil. 12, 348:

juventus,

not yet armed, id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—

Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous:

jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus,

Verg. A. 6, 304;

imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus,

Tac. Agr. 29: cf.

meus,

Sil. 5, 569.—

Unprepared, immature, raw, crude:

crudum et immotum solum,

Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179:

pix,

Col. 12, 20, 6:

corium,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250;

and, caestus,

made of raw hide, undressed leather, Verg. A. 5, 69:

rudis cortice crudo hasta,

id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude:

junctura addita crudis (numeris),

Pers. 1, 92 (cf.:

si forte aliquid decoctius audis,

id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse:

quia crudus fuerit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—

Trop.

Raw, not prepared or matured:

ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus, quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda, sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta memoriae tradatur,

Quint. 10, 1, 19.—

Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless ( poet.).

Of personal subjects:

dicat me Crudum virum esse,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 14; id. Poen. 5, 2, 148; Ov. M. 4, 240:

Getae,

id. Tr. 5, 3, 8:

cena, crude Thyesta, tua,

Mart. 4, 49, 4:

crudus et leti artifex,

Sen. Hippol. 1220.—More freq.,

Of things as subjects:

bella,

Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58:

ensis,

Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342:

tyrannis,

Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated, Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.— Adv. not in use.

fax, făcis (also in the nom. sing. ‡ faces, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 9 Müll.; gen. plur.: facum, acc. to Charis. p. 113 P., but without example), f. [root bhā, to shine; cf. favilla], a torch, firebrand, flambeau, link, orig. of pine or other resinous wood.

Lit. (syn.: taeda, funale, cerĕus, candela, lucerna, laterna): alii faces atque aridam materiem de muro in aggerem eminus jaciebant, * Caes. B. G. 7, 24, 4; Liv. 22, 16, 7:

ambulare cum facibus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 52:

malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf.:

ego faces jam accensas ad hujus urbis incendium exstinxi,

id. Pis. 2, 5:

servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,

id. Att. 14, 10, 1; cf.:

faces incendere,

id. Phil. 2, 36, 91:

si te in Capitolium faces ferre vellet,

id. Lael. 11, 37:

ardentem facem praeferre,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

castris inicere,

Tac. H. 4, 60;

subdere urbi,

Curt. 5, 7, 4:

faces ferro inspicare,

Verg. G. 1, 292; cf.:

facis incidere,

Plin. 18, 26, 63, § 233:

dilapsam in cineres facem,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 28.—At weddings, the torch carried before the bride on the way to her home, usually made of white-thorn (Spina alba) or pine, the nuptial torch: spina, nuptiarum facibus auspicatissima, Masur. ap. Plin. 16, 18, 30, § 75; Fest. s. v. patrimi, p. 245; s. v. rapi, p. 289 Müll.; Varr. ap. Non. 112, 27; id. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 8, 29; Plaut. Cas. 1, 30; Cat. 61, 98 sq.; Verg. E. 8, 29; Ov. M. 10, 6; Stat. Th. 2, 259 al.;

hence, nuptiales,

Cic. Clu. 6, 15; Liv. 30, 13, 12:

maritae,

Ov. H. 11, 101:

legitimae,

Luc. 2, 356.—Cf. Anthon's Dict. of Antiq. p. 434, and v. infra. Torches were also carried in funeral processions, Verg. A. 11, 142; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 17; Ov. F. 2, 561; id. H. 21, 172; Sen. Tranq. 11; id. Vit. Beat. fin.; id. Ep. 222;

and in the Eleusinian mysteries,

Juv. 15, 140.—An attribute of Cupid, Tib. 2, 1, 82; Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 16; Ov. M. 1, 461; 10, 312 al.;

of the Furies,

Verg. A. 7, 337; Ov. M. 4, 482; 508; 6, 430; Quint. 9, 3, 47 al.—

Transf.

On account of the use of torches at weddings ( poet.), a wedding, marriage:

face nuptiali digna,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 33; cf.:

te face sollemni junget sibi,

Ov. M. 7, 49.—And referring at the same time to the funeral torch:

viximus insignes inter utramque facem,

i. e. between marriage and death, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 46.—

The light of the heavenly bodies ( poet.):

dum roseā face sol inferret lumina caelo,

Lucr. 5, 976; cf.:

Phoebi fax, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18: canentes Rite crescentem face Noctilucam,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 38:

aeterna fax,

i. e. the sun, Sen. Thyest. 835.—

A fiery meteor, fire-ball, shooting-star, comet:

noctivagaeque faces caeli flammaeque volantes,

Lucr. 5, 1191; cf.:

nocturnasque faces caeli, sublime volantes,

id. 2, 206:

emicant et faces non nisi cum decidunt visae, etc.,

Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96:

tum facibus visis caelestibus, tum stellis iis, quas Graeci cometas, nostri cincinnatas vocant,

Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14; id. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Liv. 41, 21, 13; 29, 14, 3; Verg. A. 2, 694; Ov. M. 15, 787; Luc. 1, 528; Petr. 122; Sen. Oet. 232.—

Of lightning:

facem flammantem dirigere,

Val. Fl. 1, 569; id. 4, 671. —

Of the eyes:

oculi, geminae, sidera nostra, faces,

Prop. 2, 3, 14:

has ego credo faces, haec virginis ora Dianae,

Val. Fl. 5, 380; cf.:

tranquillaeque faces oculis et plurima vultu materinest,

Stat. Ach. 1, 164.—

Prima fax (noctis), early torchlight, immediately after dark (post-class.); cf.:

luminibus accensis, Auct. B. Afr. 89: tempus diei occiduum, mox suprema tempestas, hoc est diei novissimum tempus: deinde vespera: ab hoc tempore prima fax dicitur, deinde concubia, etc.,

Macr. S, 1, 3 fin.; Gell. 3, 2, 11; 18, 1 fin.; App. M. 2, p. 119, 20.

Trop.

That which illuminates, makes conspicuous ( poet.):

incipit parentum nobilitas facem praeferre pudendis,

Juv. 8, 139; cf. Sall. J. 80.—

That which inflames or incites, incitement, stimulus, cause of ruin, destruction (freq. and class.):

cum corporis facibus inflammari soleamus ad omnes fere cupiditates eoque magis incendi, quod, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 44:

me torret face mutua Calais,

flame of love, Hor. C. 3, 9, 13; cf.:

iraï fax,

Lucr. 3, 303:

dicendi faces,

flames, fires of eloquence, Cic. de Or. 2, 51, 205; cf.:

alicui quasi quasdam verborum faces admovere,

id. ib. 3, 1, 4:

alicui acriores ad studia dicendi faces subdere,

Quint. 1, 2, 25 Spald.:

hortator studii causaque faxque mei,

guide, leader, Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 28; and: incitator et fax omnium, Prud. steph. 10, 67:

subicere faces invidiae alicujus,

Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

flagrantibus jam militum animis velut faces addere,

Tac. H. 1, 24:

acerrimam bello facem praetulit,

id. ib. 2, 86:

(rogationes promulgavit) duas faces novantibus res ad plebem in optimates accendendam,

Liv. 32, 38, 9:

inde faces ardent, a dote,

Juv. 6, 139: adolescentulo ad libidinem facem praeferre, i. e. to be a leader or guide, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13:

Antonius omnium Clodi incendiorum fax,

instigator, id. Phil. 2, 19, 48; cf.:

fax accusationis et origo,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 3:

fax hujus belli (Hannibal),

Liv. 21, 10, 11; Vell. 2, 25, 3:

dolorum cum admoventur faces,

Cic. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

(dolor) ardentes faces intentat,

id. ib. 5, 27, 76:

quae (Agrippinae) Gaium et Domitium Neronem principes genuere totidem facis generis humani,

destroyers, Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45.— Absol.:

cum his furiis et facibus, cum his exitiosis prodigiis (i e. Gabinio et Pisone),

Cic. Har. Resp. 2, 4.

floscŭlus, i, m. (collat. form, floscŭ-la, ae, f., Fulg. Serm. 6), dim. [flos], a little flower, floweret (rare but class.).

Lit.:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43.—

Transf., the part of a fruit where the blossom was, the eye, Col. 12, 45, 5.—

Trop., the flower, pride, ornament:

non enim flosculos... sed, jam decimum aetatis ingressus annum, certos atque deformatos fructus ostenderat,

Quint. 6 praef. § 9; Cat. 24, 1:

vitae,

i. e. youth, Juv. 9, 127.—

In partic., of speech.

Flower of rhetoric, ornament:

omnes undique flosculos carpere atque delibare,

Cic. Sest. 56, 119; cf.:

juvenibus flosculos omnium partium in ea, quae sunt dicturi, congerentibus,

Quint. 10, 5, 23; 2, 5, 22; 12, 10, 73:

ut Noctes istae quadam tenus his quoque historiae flosculis leviter injectis aspergerentur,

Gell. 17, 2, 1.—

A motto, sentence culled from a writing, Sen. Ep. 33, 1.

floscŭlus, i, m. (collat. form, floscŭ-la, ae, f., Fulg. Serm. 6), dim. [flos], a little flower, floweret (rare but class.).

Lit.:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43.—

Transf., the part of a fruit where the blossom was, the eye, Col. 12, 45, 5.—

Trop., the flower, pride, ornament:

non enim flosculos... sed, jam decimum aetatis ingressus annum, certos atque deformatos fructus ostenderat,

Quint. 6 praef. § 9; Cat. 24, 1:

vitae,

i. e. youth, Juv. 9, 127.—

In partic., of speech.

Flower of rhetoric, ornament:

omnes undique flosculos carpere atque delibare,

Cic. Sest. 56, 119; cf.:

juvenibus flosculos omnium partium in ea, quae sunt dicturi, congerentibus,

Quint. 10, 5, 23; 2, 5, 22; 12, 10, 73:

ut Noctes istae quadam tenus his quoque historiae flosculis leviter injectis aspergerentur,

Gell. 17, 2, 1.—

A motto, sentence culled from a writing, Sen. Ep. 33, 1.

lampăs, ădis (late Lat. also lampă-da, ae, Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 3, 28:

lampadarum,

Vulg. Ezech. 1, 13), f., = lampas, a light, torch, flambeau (mostly poet.; cf.: lucerna, lychnus, laterna).

Lit.:

lampades ardentes,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 86: illatae lampades, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 41:

lampadas igniferas,

Lucr. 2, 25:

vidi argenteum Cupidinem cum lampade,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 115:

pinguis,

Ov. M. 4, 403:

pingues lampades,

Lucr. 4, 403:

ardens,

Verg. A. 9, 535:

Salmoneus, dum flammas Jovis imitatur, lampada quassans,

id. ib. 6, 587:

lampadibus densum rapuit funale coruscis,

with torches, Ov. M. 12, 247; Vulg. Exod. 20, 18:

lampas ignis,

id. Gen. 15, 17.—Used at weddings, a wedding-torch:

tene hane lampadem,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 17; Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 9. —Hence, poet.:

lampade primā,

at her wedding, Stat. S. 4, 8, 59; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 4.—

Esp., a lamp:

ferreae lampades,

Col. 12, 18, 5:

aënea,

Juv. 3, 285:

praecinctae lampades auro,

Ov. H. 14, 25:

accipere oleum cum lampadibus,

Vulg. Matt. 25, 4.—

Trop.

From the Grecian torch-race (which consisted in keeping the torch burning during the race and handing it, still lighted, to the next one), are borrowed the expressions: lampada tradere alicui, to give or resign one's occupation to another:

nunc cursu lampada tibi trado,

now it is your turn, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 9:

quasi cursores, vitai lampada tradunt,

i. e. they finish their course, die, Lucr. 2, 79:

qui prior es, cur me in decursu lampada poscis?

i. e. do you wish to succeed to my estate while I am yet alive? Pers. 6, 61.—

In gen., splendor, brightness, lustre:

aeterna mundl,

Lucr. 5, 402; cf.:

rosea sol alte lampade lucens,

id. 5, 610:

Phoebeae lampadis instar,

the light of the sun, the sun, Verg. A. 3, 637:

postera cum primā lustrabat lampade terras Orta dies,

the first beams of light, first rays of dawn, id. ib. 7, 148.—

Hence, poet., like lumen, for day:

octavoque fere candenti lumine solis Aut etiam nonā reddebant lampade vitam,

on the ninth day, Lucr. 6, 1198;

so of the moonlight: decima lampas Phoebes,

Val. Fl. 7, 366; cf.:

cum se bina formavit lampade Phoebe,

i. e. after two moons, Nemes. Cyn. 130:

lampade Phoebes sub decima,

the tenth month, Val. Fl. 7, 366.—

A meteor resembling a torch:

emicant et faces, non nisi cum decidunt visae. Duo genera earum: lampades vocant plane faces, alterum bolidas,

Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96; cf. Sen. Q. N. 1, 15:

nunc sparso lumine lampas emicuit caelo,

Luc. 1, 532; 10, 502.

tam-quam and tanquam, adv., as much as, so as, just as, like as, as if, as it were, so to speak, etc.

In gen.: Sa. Esne tu huic amicus? To. Tamquam di omnes, qui caelum colunt, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 32: Cu. Serva me. Ph. Tamquam me et genium meum, id. Curc. 5, 2, 29: Ge. Nostin' ejus natum Phaedriam? Da. Tamquam te, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 14:

quod video tibi etiam novum accidisse tamquam mihi,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 5:

tenebrae ibi erant tamquam nox,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 8: Si. Quālibet perambula aedes oppido tamquam tuas. Th. Tamquam? id. Most. 3, 2, 122:

inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61:

repente te tamquam serpens e latibulis intulisti,

Cic. Vatin. 2, 4:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

sensus in capite tamquam in arce mirifice conlocati sunt, nam oculi tamquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 140:

sic tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranni ab regibus,

id. Rep. 1, 44, 68; 1, 24, 38; id. Sen. 23, 83; id. Lael. 16, 59:

commenti sunt, se de terrā tamquam hos ex arvis musculos exstitisse,

id. Rep. 3, 15, 25.—

Esp.

With a corresp. sic or ita:

apud eum ego sic Ephesi fui, quotienscumque fui, tamquam domi meae,

Cic. Fam. 13, 69, 1:

neve te obrui tamquam fluctu, sic magnitudine negotii sinas,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

ut, tamquam poetae boni solent, sic tu diligentissimus sis,

id. ib. 1, 1, 16, §

46: tamquam levia quaedam vina nihil valent in aquā, sic Stoicorum ista magis gustata quam potata delectant,

id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

sic ex corporis totius naturā et figurā varios motus cieri tamquam in cantu sonos,

id. ib. 1, 10, 19:

sic tamquam,

id. Brut. 18, 71 Orell. N. cr.:

si potis est, tamquam philosophorum habent disciplinae Vocabula, parasiti ita ut Gnathonici vocentur,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 32:

ex vitā ita discedo, tamquam ex hospitio, non tamquam e domo,

Cic. Sen. 23, 84; cf. also: tamquam, ita, in the foll.—

With si, in a hypothetical comparison, as if, just as if, etc. (always with subj.):

tamquam si claudus sim, cum fusti est ambulandum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 21:

curabitur, Tamquam si intus nemo natus in aedibus habitet,

id. Most. 2, 1, 55:

tamquam si emeris me argento, liber servibo tibi,

id. Men. 5, 9, 42:

qui tamquam si offusa rei publicae sempiterna nox esset, ita ruebant in tenebris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91; id. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2:

qui, tamquam si arma militis inspiciunda sunt, ita probet armatum,

id. Caecin. 21, 61:

ut istum, tamquam si esset consul, salutarent,

id. Phil. 2, 41, 106; id. Div. 2, 64, 131:

ita me audias, tamquam si mihi quiritanti intervenisses,

Liv. 40, 9, 7:

tamquam si tua res agatur,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 7:

Plancum... sic condemnit, tamquam si illi aqua et igni interdictum sit,

id. Phil. 6, 4, 10.—Without verb:

id cum dixerat, universi, tamquam si deo, libentes parebant,

Gell. 15, 22, 6.—

Sometimes tamquam alone, without si, is joined immediately to a conditional clause of comparison, as if, just as if:

tamquam clausa sit Asia, sic nihil perfertur ad nos,

Cic. Fam. 12, 9, 1:

tamquam ceteris non sit habitura quod largiatur,

id. Inv. 2, 1, 3:

M. Atilium Captum in Africa commemorat, tamquam M. Atilius ad Africam offenderit, etc.,

Liv. 28, 43, 17; 45, 23, 12; 10, 34, 5; 29, 22, 1: quod a quibusdam sic accipi potest, tamquam haec sententia priori diversa sit, Quint. 2, 3, 10; 2, 1, 12:

qui ita dicunt, tamquam inter duas leges quaeratur,

id. 7, 4, 42; Cic. Brut. 1, 5:

tamquam regum arcanis interesset, omnia scit,

Liv. 41, 24, 3:

tamquam de regno dimicaretur, ita concurrerunt,

id. 40, 6, 6:

tamquam non idem ubique di immortales sint, sed, etc.,

id. 42, 3, 9:

ceteri, tamquam ita necesse sit, sequuntur,

Quint. 12, 10, 5:

tamquam nesciamus,

Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154; Petr. 106.—

For instance, for example (post-Aug.):

quaedam secunda... tamquam tormentorum patientia, etc.,

Sen. Ep. 66, 5; 65, 8; id. Contr. 1, praef. § 23;

1, 8, 14: ut non aliquos progeneret, tamquam piros silvestres et prunos,

Col. 3, 11, 5; Front. Aquaed. 87.

turris, is (acc. turrim and turrem; abl. turri and turre; v. Neue, Formenl. I. 196 sqq.), f., = turris.

Lit.

In gen., a tower:

eā ballistā si pervortam turrim,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 59: apud vetustam turrem, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 761 P.:

Dionysius contionari ex turri altā solebat,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

in omni turre,

Val. Fl. 1, 14:

celsae graviore casu Decidunt turres,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 11; cf.

altae,

id. Epod. 17, 70:

Dardanae,

id. C. 4, 6, 7:

aënea,

Ov. Am. 2, 19, 27.—

In partic., a military tower, for defence of a camp or the walls of a city:

turrim in praecipiti stantem Adgressi ferro,

Verg. A. 2, 460; Caes. B. G. 5, 40; 6, 29; id. B. C. 3, 9; Cic. Prov. Cons. 2, 4;

for attack in a siege,

Caes. B. G. 3, 21; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10; Liv. 32, 17, 17;

on the backs of elephants,

id. 37, 40, 4;

on a ship,

id. 37, 24, 6 et saep.—

Transf.

For any high building, a castle, palace, citadel:

pauperum tabernas Regumque turres,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 14; so,

regia,

Ov. M. 8, 14:

Maecenatiana,

Suet. Ner 38:

maris vastum prospectet turribus aequor,

Tib. 1, 7, 19.—

A dove-cot built in the form of a tower, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 6; Ov. P. 1, 6, 51.—

A kind of battlearray when the troops were arranged in a square, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. serra, p. 344 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 9, 1.