deity

condĭtor, ōris, m. [id.], a maker, builder, framer, establisher, founder, author, compiler, etc.

Prop. (class.; most freq. in the poets and prose writers after the Aug. per.).

With gen.:

Romanae arcis,

Verg. A. 8, 313:

oppidum magnum, cujus conditor,

Sall. J. 89, 4:

simulacra infantium conditorum urbis,

i. e. Romulus and Remus, Liv. 10, 23, 12; cf.:

casa illa conditoris nostri,

id. 5, 53, 8; cf.

of the founders of states,

Ov. M. 4, 566; 14, 849; *Hor. A. P. 394; Quint. 2, 16, 9; 3, 2, 4 al.; Suet. Aug. 7; 98 Bremi al.:

tanti regni Cyrus,

Just. 2, 10: historiae, Ov. lb. 522; Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 29:

Romani anni,

i. e. author of the Fasti, Ov. F. 6, 21:

scientiae medicorum,

Sen. Ep. 95, 20:

pessimorum carminum,

Curt. 8, 5, 8:

legum atque jurium,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 86; cf.:

legum lator conditorque Romani juris,

Liv. 3, 58, 2:

ejus sacri,

id. 39, 17, 7:

Romanae libertatis,

id. 8, 34, 3; 1, 42, 4:

mundi,

Sen. Ep. 119, 15; id. Phoen. 655.—Rarely,

Absol.: T. Sicinium... conditorem Veios sequantur, i. e. who advises a removal to Veii, ktistên, Liv. 5, 24, 11:

conditorum, parentum, deorum numero nobis eritis,

id. 7, 30, 19:

sacrificium quod Aeneae conditori faciunt,

id. 40, 4, 9:

humilis,

writer, author, Tib. 4, 1, 4.—In a sarcastic pun:

ipse conditor totius negotii Guttam aspergit huic Balbo (with allusion to the meaning of condo, to lay up fruits, cf. the foll.),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71.—

Condĭ-tor, nom. propr., a rural deity who presided over the laying up of fruits, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 21.

condītor, ōris, m. [condio], one who prepares a thing in a savory manner, a seasoner (very rare): ciconiarum, Poët. ap. Schol. Hor. S. 2, 2, 49.

condĭtor, ōris, m. [id.], a maker, builder, framer, establisher, founder, author, compiler, etc.

Prop. (class.; most freq. in the poets and prose writers after the Aug. per.).

With gen.:

Romanae arcis,

Verg. A. 8, 313:

oppidum magnum, cujus conditor,

Sall. J. 89, 4:

simulacra infantium conditorum urbis,

i. e. Romulus and Remus, Liv. 10, 23, 12; cf.:

casa illa conditoris nostri,

id. 5, 53, 8; cf.

of the founders of states,

Ov. M. 4, 566; 14, 849; *Hor. A. P. 394; Quint. 2, 16, 9; 3, 2, 4 al.; Suet. Aug. 7; 98 Bremi al.:

tanti regni Cyrus,

Just. 2, 10: historiae, Ov. lb. 522; Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 29:

Romani anni,

i. e. author of the Fasti, Ov. F. 6, 21:

scientiae medicorum,

Sen. Ep. 95, 20:

pessimorum carminum,

Curt. 8, 5, 8:

legum atque jurium,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 86; cf.:

legum lator conditorque Romani juris,

Liv. 3, 58, 2:

ejus sacri,

id. 39, 17, 7:

Romanae libertatis,

id. 8, 34, 3; 1, 42, 4:

mundi,

Sen. Ep. 119, 15; id. Phoen. 655.—Rarely,

Absol.: T. Sicinium... conditorem Veios sequantur, i. e. who advises a removal to Veii, ktistên, Liv. 5, 24, 11:

conditorum, parentum, deorum numero nobis eritis,

id. 7, 30, 19:

sacrificium quod Aeneae conditori faciunt,

id. 40, 4, 9:

humilis,

writer, author, Tib. 4, 1, 4.—In a sarcastic pun:

ipse conditor totius negotii Guttam aspergit huic Balbo (with allusion to the meaning of condo, to lay up fruits, cf. the foll.),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71.—

Condĭ-tor, nom. propr., a rural deity who presided over the laying up of fruits, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 21.

condītor, ōris, m. [condio], one who prepares a thing in a savory manner, a seasoner (very rare): ciconiarum, Poët. ap. Schol. Hor. S. 2, 2, 49.

convector, ōris, m. [conveho], one who carries or brings together; hence, Convector, the deity who presided over the gathering in of grain, Fab. Pict. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 21.

con-vector, ōris, m., he who goes with one (on board ship, etc.), a fellow-passenger (very rare), * Cic. Att. 10, 17, 1; App. M. 1, p. 109.

cultor, ōris, m. [id.].

Prop., one who bestows care or labor upon a thing, an elaborator, cultivator, etc.:

agrorum,

Liv. 2, 34, 11; 4, 25, 4:

agri,

id. 40, 29, 3; cf.

agricultor: virentis agelli,

Hor. A. P. 117:

terrae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99:

vitis,

a vine-dresser, id. Fin. 5, 14, 40:

alveorum,

a bee-master, apiarist, Col. 9, 3, 1.— Poet., of a bullock:

pauperis agri,

Ov. F. 5, 515.—

Absol., a cultivator or tiller of land, a husbandman, planter, Sall. J. 46, 5; Liv. 21, 34, 1; 28, 11, 9; Quint. 2, 19, 2; Verg. A. 8, 8; Ov. M. 1, 425:

cultores (opp. oppidani),

countrymen, Tac. A. 12, 55; cf. id. H. 2, 87.—

Meton. (acc. to colo, I. B.), an inhabitant, a dweller:

ejus terrae,

Sall. J. 17, 7:

collis ejus (sc. Janiculi),

Liv. 24, 10, 12; cf.:

collis Heliconii,

Cat. 61, 1:

Cupua Tuscis veteribus cultoribus adempta,

Liv. 28, 28, 6: nemorum, Verg. G. 1, 14; 2, 114; cf.:

antiqui (Capuae),

Liv. 7, 38, 5:

(insularum),

id. 22, 31, 3:

caeli (Juppiter),

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 13:

Euboicus tumidarum aquarum,

Ov. M. 14, 4. —

Trop. (acc. to colo, II. A. and B.).

A fosterer, supporter:

bonorum (with fautor),

Liv. 9, 46, 13:

fidissimus imperii Romani (Hiero),

id. 26, 32, 4:

juvenum,

a tutor, teacher, Pers. 5, 63:

veritatis, fraudis inimici,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109; cf.

aequi,

Ov. M. 5, 100:

juris et aequarum legum,

Mart. 10, 37, 1:

amicitiae,

Liv. 25, 28, 8; Mart. 9, 84, 4.—

A worshipper, reverencer:

deorum,

Hor. C. 1, 34, 1:

numinis,

Ov. M. 1, 327:

diligentissimus religionum,

Liv. 5, 50, 1.—Also absol., Verg. A. 11, 788.—Hence, in later relig. lang., a priest of some deity:

deūm matris,

a priest of Cybele, Suet. Oth. 8; cf. Inscr. Orell. 938; 1578.

dĕus, i ( voc. sing. deus, Vulg. Psa. 22, 3 al.;

but, dee,

Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 29; Prud. Hamart. 931; cf. Prob. Inst. Art. 532, p. 340. The nom. plur. is di and dei; dii is freq. in MSS., but prob. indicates only the length of the ī. Di alone is found in Verg. and Hor.; di and dei indifferently in post-Aug. poets.— Gen.: deōrum and deum. — Poet. also, divum or divom, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 10, 65; Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 28; Verg. A. 1, 46 et saep.; Hor. Od. 1, 2, 25 al.— Dat.: dis or diis, usually monosyl.; and, deis, mostly postAug.; also,

DIBVS,

Inscr. Orell. 1307; 1676; 3091; 3413;

and DIIBVS,

ib. 2118; 4608.—As monosyllable, deus, Plaut. Am. prol. 53: deorum, dissyl. id. ib. 45;

but dĭī,

Luc. 4, 493:

dĕī,

id. 4, 519:

dĕīs,

Val. Fl. 7, 29), m. [root in Sanscr.: dī, div- (dyu-), to gleam: dyāus (Gr. zeus), heaven: dévas, God; cf. Gr. dios, eudia; but not theos, Curt. Gr. etym. 503 sqq.]. a god, a deity (for syn. cf.: divus, numen).

Prop., Cic. N. D. 1, 22 sq.; id. Tusc. 1, 26, 65 sq.; Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 14: qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41 (Ann. v. 116 sq. ed Vahl.): ab Jove ceterisque dis deabusque immortalibus... deorum immortalium numen, Cic. Rab. perd. 2, 5 et innum. al.—

Special combinations.

Forms of ejaculation:

di,

Ter. And. 1, 4, 5; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 13:

di boni,

id. And. 2, 2, 1; id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; Cic. Att. 6, 6 fin. al.:

di immortales,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 299; id. Ep. 5, 1, 21; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 1; Cic. Fin. 2, 28 fin. et saep.; cf.:

pro di immortales,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 190; Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 1:

di magni,

Ov. F. 6, 187:

di deaeque, Plin. H. N. prooem. § 24: di vostram fidem,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 78; id. Trin. 2, 4, 190; Ter. And. 4, 3, 1; 4, 4, 5 al. (for which in full:

di, obsecro vostram fidem,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 78); cf.:

pro deum atque hominum fidem,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 2; id. Hec. 2, 1, 1 al.;

and ellipt.: pro deum immortalium,

Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 4.—

Forms of wishing (well or ill), greeting, asseveration, etc.:

di bene vortant,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 101; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 10;

and in the order: di vortant bene,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 98; id. Hec. 1, 2, 121:

utinam di faxint ut, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 109; cf.:

ita di deaeque faxint,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 27:

di faciant, ut, ne, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 35; 2, 5, 13:

di prohibeant,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 36; cf.: di averruncent, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 2 A, 1; and:

quod di omen avertant,

the gods forbid, Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35:

di melius faciant,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 81; cf.:

di melius duint,

Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 16:

di meliora ferant,

Tib. 3, 4, 1:

di meliora velint,

Ov. M. 7, 37;

also ellipt.: di meliora,

God forbid! Cic. Phil. 8, 3, 9; id. de Sen. 14, 47; Liv; 39, 10 et saep.;

and di melius,

Ov. H. 3, 125; Sen. Ep. 98 med.:

dent tibi di multa bona,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 80; cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 54; id. Trin. 5, 2, 28; Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 21:

di te servassint,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 64; id. Trin. 2, 2, 103 et saep.:

di me servatum volunt,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 61; id. Trin. 4, 3, 69 [p. 565] et saep.:

di te perduint (perdant),

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 61; id. Ps. 4, 7, 129; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 10 al.; cf.:

di te eradicent,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 22; id. Heaut. 3, 3, 28; and:

di tibi male faciant,

id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47; Cic. Fam. 11, 21 al.:

di te ament (amabunt), as a form of greeting,

God bless you! Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 27; 3, 2, 28; id. Men. 2, 2, 6 al.:

ita me di ament (amabunt),

so help me the gods! Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30; Ter. And. 5, 4, 44 et saep.; cf.:

ita me di bene ament,

id. Eun. 4, 1, 1; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 13:

per deos immortales,

by the immortal gods! Cic. Phil. 3, 14:

per deos,

id. Off. 2, 2 al.:

cum dis volentibus,

by the gods' help, Enn. in Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 207 ed. Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 41; id. Pers. 3, 1, 4; cf.:

dis volentibus,

God willing, Sall. 3, 14, 19:

si dis placet,

if it please the gods, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 94;

for which: si di volent,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 88;

more freq.: si dis placet, ironically or contemptuously,

an't please the gods; if you please; forsooth, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Pis. 16 fin.; Liv. 6, 40; 34, 32; Quint. 8, 3, 44; Flor. 3, 4, 1 al.:

di hominesque,

i. e. all the world, every body, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19; Sall. C. 15, 4; Liv. 3, 17; 3, 19 al.:

dis hominibusque invitis,

in spite of every body, Cic. Vatin. 16, 38; id. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 1.—

Esp.

In poets sometimes a goddess; cf. Gr. theos:

ducente deo (sc. Venere),

Verg. A. 2, 632:

audentes deus ipse juvat (sc. Fortuna),

Ov. M. 10, 586; Macr. Sat. 3, 8; cf. of Aurora, Cat. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 28 fin.;

of Alecto,

Verg. A. 7, 498 (but in all these passages, some regard deus as absol., = to theion, the divinity, Heyne ad Verg. A. 2, 632).—

Of Bacchus, Verg. A. 9, 337; 1, 636.—

In eccl. Lat., esp. the God of the Hebrews and Christians, God:

Deus summus,

Lact. 1, 1:

omnipotens,

Vulg. Gen. 17, 1 et passim. Also of the Son of God, God the Son, Christ:

Deus pater et Deus filius,

Lact. 4, 29, 1; Vulg. Johan. 1, 1 al.

Transf., of highly distinguished or fortunate persons:

te in dicendo semper putavi deum,

Cic. Or. 1, 23, 106; cf. id. ib. 2, 42, 179:

facio te apud illum deum,

Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 19:

audiamus Platonem quasi quendam deum philosophorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 12; cf.:

deus ille noster Plato,

id. Att. 4, 16, 3:

ubi nunc nobis deus ille magister, Eryx,

Verg. A. 5, 392:

deos quoniam propius contingis (i. e. Augustus and Maecenas),

Hor. S. 2, 6, 52:

deus sum, si hoc ita est,

Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 3; cf.:

sum deus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 11; esp. of great patrons or protectors, a guardian god:

Lentulus consul, parens deus, salus nostrae vitae,

Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 5, 11:

Lentulus, cujus pater deus ac parens nominis mei,

id. Sest. 69, 144.—Hence freq. in inscriptions and on coins of the period of the empire, as an epithet of the emperors:

DEO AUG.,

Inscr. Orell. 609 et saep.; cf. Nem. Venat. 71; Calp. Ecl. 7.

dē-vŏvĕo, vōvi, vōtum, 2, v. a.

To vow, devote (usually to a deity).

Prop. (class.):

Marti ea, quae bello ceperint,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17, 3; so,

Dianae pulcherrimum,

Cic. Off. 3, 25, 95:

gnatam pro muta agna,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 219 et saep.;

esp. freq.: se diis, or simply se,

to devote one's self to death, to sacrifice one's self, Cic. N. D. 2, 3 fin.; id. Fin. 2, 19, 61:

se pro aere alieno, in jesting allusion to the death of the Decii,

id. Phil. 11, 6, 13:

se pro patria Quiritibusque Romanis,

Liv. 5, 41, 3; id. 8, 9; 9, 4; Verg. A. 12, 234:

devota vita,

Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12; cf.:

devotis corporibus in hostem ruentes,

Liv. 9, 17:

ancipiti deum irae devotus,

id. 10, 39: hinc Remus auspicio se devovet, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107:

devota morti pectora,

Hor. Od. 4, 14, 18; cf.

without morti: stabat devota juventus,

Luc. 4, 533:

caput pro salute alicujus,

Val. Max. 6, 2, extr. 2 et saep.—

Transf., to devote, give up, attach (rarely):

vobis animam hanc devovi,

Verg. A. 11, 442; cf.:

suos annos soli tibi,

Ov. M. 14, 683; esp.: se, to give one's self up to, devote one's self to:

se amicitiae alicujus,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22, 2; cf.:

se gloriae,

Curt. 9, 6 fin.:

se regibus,

Sall. Hist. Fragm. 1, 73.—

To promise solemnly, vow; with inf. or obj. clause (late Lat.):

qui se devoverunt, nec manducare nec bibere,

Vulg. Act. 23, 21:

totam vitam suam serviturum se esse devovit,

August. Serm. 286, 4; Gregor. M. Homil. 1, 19, 7.—

To mark out, destine, appoint:

exspectatione omnium T. Annio devota et constituta ista hostia esse videtur,

Cic. Harusp. Resp. 3, 6.—

Qs. to devote to the infernal gods, i. e. to curse, to execrate (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose—for syn. cf. detestor):

aliquem,

Nep. Alcib. 4, 5:

natum suum (Theseus),

Ov. F. 6, 738:

se ipse,

Quint. 5, 6, 2:

scelerata arma,

Ov. M. 5, 102:

suas artes,

id. ib. 8, 234:

devota arbos,

Hor. Od. 3, 4, 27:

devoti sanguinis aetas,

id. Epod. 16, 9 et saep.; v. such a form of imprecation in Macr. S. 3, 9.—

To bewitch by conjurations ( poet.):

aliquem carminibus, pollentibus herbis,

Tib. 1, 8, 18:

aliquem trajectis lanis,

Ov. Am. 3, 7, 80; cf.:

devota veneno corpora,

id. ib. 3, 7, 27. —Hence, dēvōtus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to no. I. B.).

Devoted to any one, i. e. attached, faithful (post-Aug.):

ni tibi deditus essem Devotusque cliens,

Juv. 9, 72;

so with deditus,

Sen. Ben. 3, 5:

devotissimus alicui,

Suet. Caes. 67 fin.; cf. Sen. Ben. 5, 17; and:

DEVOTISSIMVS NVMINI MAIESTATIQVE EIVS,

Inscr. Orell. 859; and so in comp., Claud. B. Gild. 289: animus alicui devotus, Tiber. ap. Suet. Tib. 67:

equester ordo scenae harenaeque devotus,

id. Calig. 30.— Poet.:

devotae in externa proelia dextrae,

ready for, Luc. 3, 311.— Subst.:

cum DC devotis, quos illi Soldurios appellant,

with six hundred faithful followers, Caes. B. G. 3, 22, 1. —

In Christian authors, pious, devout:

Roma Deo,

Prud. adv. Symm. 2 fin.:

filia Christo,

Hier. Ep. 108, 2:

jejunia,

Aus. Idyll. 1, 2; so, obedient to authority, Cassiod. Varr. 2, 16.—

Like deditus, given to, abandoned to a habit or thing (rare):

vino,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 6.— Adv.: dēvōtē, devotedly, faithfully: devote ac strenue, Cod. Th. 6, 24, 10.— Sup.:

Deo devotissime serviamus,

Lact. 6, 9 fin.; Aug. Ep. 86 fin.