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brĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [brevis], shortness.

Lit., in space (cf. brevis, I.) (rare):

brevitas angusti freti,

the narrowness of the strait, Gell. 10, 27, 6:

hominibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum suorum brevitas nostra contemptui est,

smallness of stature, Caes. B. G. 2, 30; cf.:

haec habilis brevitate suā est,

Ov. Am. 2, 4, 35:

spatii,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3:

crurum,

Plin. 8, 34, 52, § 123:

chamaeplatani coactae brevitatis,

Plin. 12, 2, 6, § 13:

guttarum,

Vitr. 7, 8, 2.—More freq.,

Transf.

In time, shortness, brevity:

ita diei brevitas conviviis, noctis longitudo in stupris continebatur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 26:

temporis,

id. Att. 1, 10, 1:

imperii,

Tac. H. 1, 47:

horae,

Sil. 3, 141:

vitae,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 91; Sen. Brev. Vit. tit. et saep.— Absol.: confer nostram longissimam aetatem cum aeternitate;

in eādem propemodum brevitate quā illae bestiolae reperiemur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 94.—But most freq.,

Of discourse, brevity, conciseness: si brevitas appellanda est, cum verbum nullum redundat, brevis est L. Crassi oratio;

sin tum est brevitas, cum tantum verborum est, quantum necesse est, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 326 sq.; id. Brut. 13, 50; 17, 66; id. Inv. 1, 20, 28 sq.; id. Verr. 2, 1, 40, § 103; id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

cujus tanta in dicendo brevitas fuit,

id. Har. Resp. 19, 41:

et a me brevitas postulatur, qui mihimet ipsi amicissima est,

id. Quint. 10, 34:

nos brevitatem in hoc ponimus, non ut minus, sed ne plus dicatur quam oporteat,

Quint. 4, 2, 43:

illa Sallustiana brevitas,

id. 4, 2, 45; 10, 1, 32:

brevitas quoque aut copia non genere materiae sed modo constant,

id. 3, 8, 67; 10, 1, 46; 10, 5, 8; 6, 3, 45;

12, 10, 48: ea, quotiens causa poscit, ubertas, ea, quotiens permittit, brevitas,

Tac. Or. 23:

contionem imperatoriā brevitate pronuntiat,

id. H. 1, 18: est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, * Hor. S. 1, 10, 9; Phaedr. 2, prol. 12; 3, 10, 60: brevitatis causā, gratiā, for the sake of brevity or conciseness, Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 67:

gratiā,

Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 214.—

Of shortness of syllables:

fluit numerus tum incitatius brevitate pedum, tum proceritate tardius,

Cic. Or. 63, 212:

brevitas celeritas syllabarum,

id. ib. 57, 191:

contractio et brevitas dignitatem non habet,

id. ib. 57, 193.—In plur.:

omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis... judicium, etc.,

Cic. Or. 51, 173.—

For exiguitas, parvitas (cf. brevis, II. C.), littleness, smallness:

cujusvis in brevitate corporis,

Lucr. 2, 483:

vineae,

Paul. Aug. 2:

doni,

Claud. Epigr. 20, 11.

com-pŏs ( conp-), pŏtis, adj. [potis], having the mastery, control, or power over a thing, master of, partaking of, possessing, participating or sharing in, guilty of, etc. (very freq. and class.); constr. usu. with gen., more rarely with abl., or absol.

With gen.: animi, of a sane mind, * Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 12:

mentis,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; id. Pis. 20, 48; Ov. M. 8, 35; Quint. 11, 3, 77; Tac. A. 15, 70; Suet. Vesp. 5:

territum et vix mentis suae compotem opprimere,

Curt. 6, 3, 16:

nec satis compotem mentis... deferunt,

id. 3, 5, 4:

sui,

Liv. 8, 18, 12; Cels. 5, 26, 13; Curt. 4, 12, 17:

rationis et consilii,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 36; cf. id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

libertatis,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 41:

patriae,

id. ib. 3, 4, 89; Liv. 1, 32, 7:

ejus doni,

id. 1, 10, 7:

hujus urbis,

Cic. Sest. 69, 146:

bellicae laudis,

Liv. 30, 1, 5:

spei,

id. 29, 22, 5; Suet. Tib. 5: voti, having obtained or gratified one ' s wish, Hor. A. P. 76; Ov. A. A. 1, 486; Liv. 7, 40, 6; Suet. Aug. 28; id. Calig. 13; Sen. Hippol. 710; Curt. 9, 9 fin.; cf.

votorum,

Suet. Aug. 58.—

With abl.:

qui essent animo et scientiā compotes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

corpore atque animo,

Liv. 4, 40, 3:

mente,

Verg. Cul. 189:

praedā ingenti,

Liv. 3, 70, 13.—

Absol.:

vix compos (sc. mentis) Imilce,

Sil. 4, 808.—

Referring to misfortune or guilt, sharing in, participating in, confederate in, etc. (anteclass. and post-Aug.).

With gen.:

miseriarum,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 32: probri, Naev. ap. Non. p. 456, 25 (Trag. Rel. v. 6 Rib.):

culpae,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 61:

sceleris,

Quint. 12, 1, 7.—

With abl.: magnis et multis malis, Att. ap. Non. p. 521, 27 (Trag. Rel. v. 36 Rib.).—

Transf., of the thing:

compote voto,

Sen. Agam. 364.

com-pŏs ( conp-), pŏtis, adj. [potis], having the mastery, control, or power over a thing, master of, partaking of, possessing, participating or sharing in, guilty of, etc. (very freq. and class.); constr. usu. with gen., more rarely with abl., or absol.

With gen.: animi, of a sane mind, * Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 12:

mentis,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; id. Pis. 20, 48; Ov. M. 8, 35; Quint. 11, 3, 77; Tac. A. 15, 70; Suet. Vesp. 5:

territum et vix mentis suae compotem opprimere,

Curt. 6, 3, 16:

nec satis compotem mentis... deferunt,

id. 3, 5, 4:

sui,

Liv. 8, 18, 12; Cels. 5, 26, 13; Curt. 4, 12, 17:

rationis et consilii,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 36; cf. id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

libertatis,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 41:

patriae,

id. ib. 3, 4, 89; Liv. 1, 32, 7:

ejus doni,

id. 1, 10, 7:

hujus urbis,

Cic. Sest. 69, 146:

bellicae laudis,

Liv. 30, 1, 5:

spei,

id. 29, 22, 5; Suet. Tib. 5: voti, having obtained or gratified one ' s wish, Hor. A. P. 76; Ov. A. A. 1, 486; Liv. 7, 40, 6; Suet. Aug. 28; id. Calig. 13; Sen. Hippol. 710; Curt. 9, 9 fin.; cf.

votorum,

Suet. Aug. 58.—

With abl.:

qui essent animo et scientiā compotes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

corpore atque animo,

Liv. 4, 40, 3:

mente,

Verg. Cul. 189:

praedā ingenti,

Liv. 3, 70, 13.—

Absol.:

vix compos (sc. mentis) Imilce,

Sil. 4, 808.—

Referring to misfortune or guilt, sharing in, participating in, confederate in, etc. (anteclass. and post-Aug.).

With gen.:

miseriarum,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 32: probri, Naev. ap. Non. p. 456, 25 (Trag. Rel. v. 6 Rib.):

culpae,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 61:

sceleris,

Quint. 12, 1, 7.—

With abl.: magnis et multis malis, Att. ap. Non. p. 521, 27 (Trag. Rel. v. 36 Rib.).—

Transf., of the thing:

compote voto,

Sen. Agam. 364.

dōnĕc, conj. [shortened from ante- and post-class. form dōnĭcum, from old dative doni (dioni; for root, etc., v. dies) and conj. cum; prop. at the time of day when; form donicum, Liv. And., Cato and Plaut. ap. Charis. p. 178 P.; Cato, R. R. 146, 2; 149, 2; 161, 3; Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 19; id. Capt. 2, 2, 89; id. Most. 1. 2, 34; id. Ps. 4, 7, 72; id. Truc. 1, 1, 18; Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 692 P.; Nep. Ham. 1, 4.—In the Inscr. of Orell. 4370 DONIQVIES is i. q. DONIQUE IS, and donique = donicum; so,

donique,

Lucr. 2, 1116; 5, 708 Lachm.].—Donec denotes the relation of two actions in time,

As contemporaneous, as long as, while, during the time in which; or,

As in immediate succession, until, up to the time at which (synonymous with dum, I. B. and II.—in the ante-class. and postAug. periods freq.; four times in Cic. only in signif. II. with indic.; not in Caes.).

As long as, while (so perh. not till the Aug. period).

With indic.:

neque dulces amores Sperne, puer, Donec virenti canities abest,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 17:

donec gratus eram tibi, etc.... Persarum vigui rege beatior... Donec non alia magis Arsisti, etc.... Romanà vigui clarior Iliā,

id. ib. 3, 9, 1, and 5; Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 53; Liv. 2, 49; 6, 13; Tac. A. 14, 50; id. H. 4, 12; id. Or. 8; 40 al.:

donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos,

Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 5.—

With subj.:

(elephanti) nihil sane trepidabant, donec continenti velut ponte agerentur,

Liv. 21, 28 fin.; Tac. A. 1, 51:

edixit ne quis militis, donec in castris esset, bona possideret, etc.,

Liv. 2, 24; 4, 2; 60; 21, 10; 25, 11; Tac. H. 4, 35; id. A. 15, 64 al.

Until, till at length (so in all periods).

With indic. (cf. Zumpt, Gr. §

575): ne quoquam exurgatis, donec a me erit signum datum,

Plaut. Bacch, 4, 4, 106:

haud desinam, donec perfecero hoc,

Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 73; cf. ib. 4, 1, 24:

neque tamen finis... fiebat, donec populus senatum coëgit, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87; id. Tull. 6, 14:

hic regnabitur... donec regina sacerdos geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem,

Verg. A. 1, 273; id. G. 4, 413 et saep.:

neque credebam Donec Sosia fecit sibi uti crederem,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 51.—So with perf., Lucr. 2, 1130; Liv. praef. 3, 48; 23, 31; Prop. 1, 9, 29; Verg. E. 6, 85; id. A. 2, 630; Hor. S. 1, 3, 103; id. Ep. 1, 10, 35 et saep.:

me attrectare nefas, donec me flumine vivo abluero,

Verg. A. 2, 720:

socii consurgere tonsis... Donec rostra tenent siccum, etc.,

id. ib. 10, 301; cf. id. ib. 268; Val. Fl. 8, 290; Liv. 1, 54 fin. —

With subj.:

Actia pugna refertur, donec alterutrum velox Victoria fronde coronet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 63.—So in the praes., Quint. 1, 1, 33; Tac. A. 2, 6; id. H. 5, 6; id. G. 1; 20 al.—In the imperf., Verg. A. 11, 860; Sen. Ep. 70; Quint. 11, 3, 6; Tac. H. 1, 13; Plin. Ep. 9, 33, 6:

trepidationis aliquantum edebant, donec quietem ipse timor fecisset,

Liv. 21, 28 fin. —So with pluperf., Liv. 45, 7 fin. —

Ellipt. without a verb:

neque quisquam hominem conspicatu'st donec in navi super,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 82; cf. in foll. b.

.—

With usque, usque adeo, usque eo, eo usque, in tantum.

With indic.:

ibo odorans usque donec persecutus volpem ero vestigiis,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 114; id. Rud. 3, 4, 11; Ter. Ad. 4, 6, 6:

id. aliquoties in die facito usque adeo donec sal desiverit tabescere biduum,

Cato R. R. 88, 1; so id. ib. § 2; Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 40; Ter. And. 4, 1, 38:

usque eo timui, ne, etc.... donec ad reiciendos judices venimus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 6 fin.:

eo usque me vivere vultis, donec haud ambiguum regem mea morte faciam,

Liv. 40, 8 fin.:

(humum) in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit,

Col. 3, 13, 9.—

With subj.:

usque Sessuri, donec cantor "Vos plaudite" dicat,

Hor. A. P. 155:

ni istunc invitassitis Usque adeo, donec, qua domum abeat nesciat, Peristis ambo,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 32:

nec eo usque trahatur spiritus donec deficiat,

Quint. 11, 3, 53.—

Ellipt. without a verb usque illud visumst Pamphilo ne utiquam grave, Donec jam in ipsis nuptiis, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 51; cf. above, a.

.—

With negatives, donec often limits the time within which something is done or to be done, without implying that it is done or to be done after the limit; Engl., till, before, within a certain time:

moveri vetuisse puerum, donec experrectus sit,

Liv. 1, 39, 2; Hor. C. 3, 5, 45:

si respexis, donicum ego te jussero, te dedam, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 19; id. Most. 1, 2, 35; Tac. A. 2, 82. Cf. Hand, Turs. II. 291-299.