dotes

dōs, ōtis ( gen. plur. dotium, Dig. 23, 3, 9, § 1 al.;

dotum,

Val. Max. 4, 4, 11; Tert. Cult. Fem. 2, 9), f. [1. do, like the Sicilian dôtinê, from didonai, Varr. L. L. 5, § 175 Müll.], a marriage portion, dowry (for syn. cf.: donum, largitio, munus, donatio, etc.).

Prop., Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 209; id. Ep. 2, 1, 11 [p. 612] et saep.; Ter. And. 5, 4, 47; id. Heaut. 5, 1, 64 sq. al.; Cic. Caecin. 25 fin.; id. Fl. 35; id. Att. 14, 13, 5; Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 1; Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; id. Ep. 1, 6, 36 et saep.—Cf. on the legal regulations respecting the dos and the t. t. used in them (dotis datio, dictio, promissio, etc.), Cod. Just. 5, 12; Dig. 23, 3 tit.:

De jure dotium,

Just. Inst. 2, 7, 3; Cod. Just. 5, 15: De dote cauta, non numerata; id. 5, 11: De dotis promissione et nuda pollicitatione; Dig. 33, 4 tit.: De dote praelegata; ib. 37, 7: De dotis collatione; cf. Rein's Privatr. p. 194 sq. —

Transf., a gift, endowment, talent, property, quality (freq. since the Aug. per.; cf.:

indoles, ingenium, facultates, virtutes): (juris civilis) artem verborum dote locupletasti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 55:

vinearum (pedamenta, vimina),

Col. 4, 30, 1; cf.

praediorum,

Dig. 33, 7, 2; ib. 20, § 3:

magnae uvarum,

Col. 3, 2, 17; cf.:

omnis unionum,

Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 112:

mulsi,

id. 22, 24, 50, § 108:

aquatilium,

id. 32, 11, 53, § 142:

formae,

Ov. M. 9, 717; cf.

oris,

id. ib. 5, 562:

corporis,

id. ib. 583:

ingenii (opp. bona corporis),

id. A. A. 2, 112; so Curt. 3, 6, 20:

corporis,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 3:

corporis animique dotes,

Suet. Tit. 3; cf.:

naturae fortunaeque,

Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 4:

omnes belli et togae,

Vell. 1, 12, 3 et saep.: silvarum dotes, the delights, i. e. the chase, Grat. Cyn. 252:

est quoque carminibus meritas celebrare puellas Dos mea,

my gift, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 60:

infelix perii dotibus ipse meis,

id. Pont. 2, 7, 48:

dos erat ille (sc. Phaon) loci,

the ornament, id. H. 15, 146:

teneritas in dote (est),

is highly prized, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 141.

* * *

cărĭōsus, a, um, adj. [caries], decayed, rotten.

Prop.:

palmula,

Varr. R. R. 1, 67:

terra,

too loose, porous, Cato, R. R. 5, 6; 34, 1; 37, 1. Cato's expression, terra cariosa, is explained by Pliny as meaning:

arida, fistulosa, scabra, canens. exesa, pumicosa,

Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 34; but better by Col. 2, 4, 5, as = varia, i. e. wet on the surface and dry below:—os, Cels. 8, 2:

dentes,

Phaedr. 5, 10, 5; Plin. 32, 7, 26, § 82:

vina,

flat, Mart. 13, 120:

amphora Falerni,

id. 11, 50.—

Trop. (cf. caries, II.), withered, dry by old age: nemo illā vivit carie cariosior, Afran. ap. Non. p. 21, 27:

senectus,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 29:

vetustas,

Prud. Cath. 10, 149: dii, i. e. statuae deorum, id. ap. Symm. 1, 435:

dotes perfidiā cariosi,

Ambros. Ep. 10, 3.— Sup. and adv. not found.

dapsĭlis, e ( abl. plur. dapsilis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 3), adj. [dapsilês, daps], sumptuous, bountiful, richly provided with every thing, abundant (mostly ante- and post-class.;

in the class. period perhaps only in Colum. and Suet.): sumptus,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 66:

dotes,

id. Aul. 2, 1, 45:

corollae,

id. Ps. 5, 1, 21:

lectus,

id. Truc. 1, 1, 34;

lubentiae,

id. Ps. 1, 4, 3:

proventus (vitis),

Col. 4, 27, 6:

copia facundiae,

App. M. 11, p. 258, 12.—

With abl.:

spionia dapsilis musto,

Col. 3, 2, 27.— Advv., sumptuously, bountifully.

Form dapsĭlĭter: d. suos amicos alit, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 178 P. (v. 39 Ribbeck).—

Form dapsĭle: verrem sume dapsile ac dilucide, Pompon. ap. Non. 513, 27 (v. 161 Ribbeck): convivebatur, * Suet. Vesp. 19.—

Comp. invitavit se dapsilius, Lucil. ap. Non. 321, 29.

dapsĭlis, e ( abl. plur. dapsilis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 3), adj. [dapsilês, daps], sumptuous, bountiful, richly provided with every thing, abundant (mostly ante- and post-class.;

in the class. period perhaps only in Colum. and Suet.): sumptus,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 66:

dotes,

id. Aul. 2, 1, 45:

corollae,

id. Ps. 5, 1, 21:

lectus,

id. Truc. 1, 1, 34;

lubentiae,

id. Ps. 1, 4, 3:

proventus (vitis),

Col. 4, 27, 6:

copia facundiae,

App. M. 11, p. 258, 12.—

With abl.:

spionia dapsilis musto,

Col. 3, 2, 27.— Advv., sumptuously, bountifully.

Form dapsĭlĭter: d. suos amicos alit, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 178 P. (v. 39 Ribbeck).—

Form dapsĭle: verrem sume dapsile ac dilucide, Pompon. ap. Non. 513, 27 (v. 161 Ribbeck): convivebatur, * Suet. Vesp. 19.—

Comp. invitavit se dapsilius, Lucil. ap. Non. 321, 29.

dē-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.

Lit.:

ramum olivae,

Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.:

palmitem,

id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 204:

tela (Venus),

Verg. A. 10, 331:

amnis in alium cursum,

Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27:

vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid,

Val. Max. 5, 10, 1:

carinam quolibet,

Luc. 5, 789; cf.:

rapidum iter,

id. 3, 337;

novam viam,

to turn off, construct in another direction, Liv. 39, 27 fin. —

Trop.

In gen.:

lumina,

Ov. M. 7, 789; cf.:

oculos a cura,

Val. Fl. 8, 76:

cum ipsos principes aliqua pravitas de via deflexit,

Cic. Rep. 1, 44:

aliquem ab institutis studiis,

Quint. 10, 1, 91:

ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam,

Cic. Or. 40:

si ad verba rem deflectere velimus,

id. Caecin. 18, 51:

quaedam in senectute deflexit (for which, shortly before, mutavit), Cels. praef.: in ipsos factum deflectitur,

Quint. 7, 2, 23:

adversarios in suam utilitatem deflectere,

id. 4, 1, 71; cf.:

dotes puellae in pejus,

Ov. R. Am. 325:

tragoediam in obscenos risus,

id. Tr. 2, 409:

perniciosa consilia fortuna deflexit in melius,

Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1:

virtutes in vitia,

Suet. Dom. 3:

se de curriculo petitionis,

to withdraw, id. Mur. 22 fin. —

Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word:

non solet sic deflecti,

August. in Psa. 140, 25.—

Neutr., to turn off, turn aside.

Lit.:

vulgus militum deflectere viā,

Tac. H. 2, 70; cf.

without via,

Suet. Aug. 93 fin.:

in Tuscos,

Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 3.—

Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero):

deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum,

Cic. Lael. 12; so,

de via (consuetudo),

id. Off. 2, 3, 9:

de recta regione,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 68:

a veritate,

id. Rosc. Com. 16:

oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit,

id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80:

a Domino,

Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.

ex-splendesco ( expl-), dŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to shine forth, glitter (rarely before the Aug. period).

Lit.:

ignis,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 23:

Sirius,

Plin. 11, 12, 12, § 30.—

Trop., to shine forth, be eminent, distinguished:

clarius exsplendescebat, quam condiscipuli animo aequo ferre possent,

Nep. Att. 1, 3:

corporis animique dotes exsplenduerunt,

Suet. Tit. 3.

făcultas, ātis ( gen. plur.:

facultatum,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 29 al.:

facultatium,

Dig. 32, 1, 78, § 1; Col. 1, 4, 8), f. [facul, facilis; cf.: difficultas, simultas], capability, possibility, power, means, opportunity; skill, ability to do any thing easily (class.; syn.: dotes, virtutes, [p. 719] ingenium, indoles).

Lit.:

facultates sunt, aut quibus facilius fit, aut sine quibus aliquid confici non potest,

Cic. Inv. 1, 27, 41.—Constr. with gen., ad, ut, inf., or absol.

With gen. of gerund.:

facultas pariendi,

Ter. And. 1, 4, 5:

summa copia facultasque dicendi,

Cic. Quint. 2, 8:

sibi facultatem dicendi parare,

Quint. 11, 2, 49:

Miloni manendi nulla facultas,

Cic. Mil. 17, 45:

suscipiendi maleficii,

id. Rosc. Am. 33, 92:

laedendi,

id. Fl. 8, 19:

redimendi,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 7, 18:

facultatem judicandi facere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 73, § 179 et saep.—So with ellipsis of dicendi:

extemporalis facultas,

of extemporaneous speaking, Suet. Aug. 84; cf.:

facultas summa,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 18; id. ib. 6, 29, 5.—With a gen. subst.:

talium sumptuum facultatem fructum divitiarum putat,

Cic. Off. 2, 16, 56:

quod reliquis fugae facultas daretur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 32 fin.:

Demostheni facultatem defuisse hujus rei,

Quint. 6, 3, 2: si facultas tui praesentis esset, if I could but meet you face to face, Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 4:

facultates medicamentorum,

virtue, efficacy, Cels. 5 praef. init.; id. ib. 17.—

With ad:

ne irato facultas ad dicendum data esse videatur,

Cic. Font. 10, 22 (6, 12); cf.:

ad explicandas tuas litteras,

id. Rep. 1, 9; and:

ad ducendum bellum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 4.— In plur.:

ingenii facultates,

Cic. Att. 3, 10:

multae mihi ad satis faciendum reliquo tempore facultates dabuntur,

Cic. Clu. 4, 10.—Rarely with dat.:

si facultas sit alendis sarmentis,

Col. 4, 29, 1.—

With in:

modica in dicendo facultas,

Suet. Galb. 3. —

With ut:

nonnumquam improbo facultas dari, ut, etc.,

Cic. Caecin. 25, 71; id. Rab. Perd. 6, 18:

L. Quintius oblatam sibi facultatem putavit, ut, etc.,

id. Clu. 28, 77; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4:

erit haec facultas in eo, quem volumus esse eloquentem, ut, etc.,

id. Or. 33, 117.—

With inf. (post-Aug. and very rare):

nobis saevire facultas,

Stat. Th. 4, 513; 12, 36; Val. Fl. 3, 16; Auct. B. Afr. 78.—

Absol.:

cave quicquam, quod ad meum commodum attineat, nisi maximo tuo commodo et maxima tua facultate cogitaris,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 4:

urges istam occasionem et facultatem,

id. Fam. 7, 8, 2:

poëtica quaedam,

id. Rep. 1, 14:

facultas ex ceteris rebus comparata,

id. de Or. 2, 12, 50:

si facultas erit,

id. de Inv. 1, 46 fin.; cf.:

hinc abite, dum est facultas,

while you can, Caes. B. G. 7, 50 fin.:

quoad facultas feret,

Cic. Inv. 2, 3, 10.

Transf., concr., for copia, opes, a sufficient or great number, abundance, plenty, supply, stock, store; plur., goods, riches, property (syn.: opes, bona, silva, divitiae, fortunae, copia, vis).

Sing.:

nummorum facultas,

Cic. Quint. 4, 16:

cujus generis (virorum) erat in senatu facultas maxima,

id. Sull. 14, 42:

facultas vacui ac liberi temporis,

id. de Or. 3, 15, 57:

omnium rerum, quae ad bellum usui erant, summa erat in eo oppido facultas,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 3:

navium,

id. ib. 3, 9, 6:

si facultas ejus succi sit copiosior,

Col. 12, 38, 8 al.: pro facultate quisque, in proportion to his ability or wealth, Suet. Aug. 29.—

Plur.:

anquirunt ad facultates rerum atque copias, ad potentiam, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 3, 9:

mutandis facultatibus et commodis,

id. ib. 2, 4, 15:

facultates commodorum praetermittere,

id. Att. 1, 17, 5:

me tuae facultates sustinent,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 7:

videndum ne major benignitas sit quam facultates,

id. Off. 1, 14, 42:

facultates ad largiendum magnas comparasse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18, 4:

facultates patrimonii nostri aliis relinquemus,

Quint. 6 praef. §

16: Gaius attritis facultatibus urbe cessit,

Suet. Galb. 3:

modicus facultatibus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2 et saep.:

Tantas videri Italiae facultates, ut, etc.,

supplies, resources, Caes. B. G. 6, 1, 3;

with copia,

id. B. C. 1, 49, 2:

ministrare alicui de facultatibus suis,

Vulg. Luc. 8, 3:

qui facultates suas suspectas habet,

i. e. doubts his own solvency, Gai. Inst. 2, 154.

flōs, ōris, m. [root fla-; Gr. ek-phlainô, to stream forth; cf. phlasmos; Lat. flare, flamen, etc., v. flo], a blossom, flower.

Lit.:

suaves flores,

Lucr. 1, 8:

juvat novos decerpere flores,

id. 1, 928:

novi,

Hor. C. 4, 1, 32:

recentes,

id. ib. 3, 27, 44:

verni,

id. ib. 2, 11, 9:

florum omnium varietas,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 54:

suavitas odorum, qui afflarentur e floribus,

id. ib. 17, 59:

laetissimi flores,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

ninguntque rosarum Floribus,

Lucr. 2, 628:

flores rosae, rosarum,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 14; 3, 29, 3; 4, 10, 4:

piabunt floribus et vino Genium,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; cf.:

fons Bandusiae, dulci digne mero non sine floribus,

id. C. 3, 13, 2:

nitidum caput impedire myrto Aut flore,

id. ib. 1, 4, 10:

recte necne crocum floresque perambulet Attae Fabula, si dubitem, etc.,

the stage strewed with flowers, id. Ep. 2, 1, 79:

carduus florem purpureum mittit inter medios aculeos,

puts forth, Plin. 20, 23, 99, § 262; cf. id. 21, 6, 17, § 31:

legere,

Ov. M. 4, 315.—

Transf.

The honey of flowers sucked out by the bees:

rure levis verno flores apis ingerit alveo, Conpleat ut dulci sedula melle favos,

Tib. 2, 1, 49; Verg. G. 4, 39; Plin. 11, 7, 7, § 17.—

In gen., like the Gr. anthos, for whatever forms either the best part or the highest part of a thing (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).—

The flower of any thing, i. e. the prime or best part, also the best kind of any thing: postquam est honoratus frugum et floris Liberi, the bouquet or flavor of wine, Pac. ap. Non. 498, 12; so,

vini (Bacchi),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 1; id. Cas. 3, 5, 16; Lucr. 3, 221.— The best kind of oil, Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 23; of wax, id. 21, 14, 49, § 84; of rosin, id. 14, 20, 25, § 124; of salt, id. 13, 1, 2, § 14; Cato, R. R. 88, 2; of meal, Plin. 18, 9, 20, § 86 et saep.; of cream, Vitr. 8, 3; of the finest dish: cenae, Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2.—

The highest part, the top, crown, head of a thing.—Of the froth of wine, Cato, R. R. 11, 2; Col. 12, 30; Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 136.—The blisters, scales that are formed in smelting metals, id. 34, 11, 24, § 107; the upper dust of marble or gypsum, Col. 12, 20, 8.— Poet. of the first downy hairs of the beard: nunc primum opacat flore lanugo genas, Pac. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. genas, p. 94 Müll. N. cr.; Verg. A. 8, 160; Luc. 6, 562:

ante genas dulces quam flos juvenilis inumbret,

Claud. in Prob. Cons. Pan. 69.—Donec flammai fulserunt flore coorto, a tip or flash of flame, Lucr. 1, 900.—

In archit., carved flowers placed as ornaments on a Corinthian capital, Vitr. 4, 1, 12; on a cupola, id. 4, 8.

Trop., the flower, crown, ornament of any thing (class.; a favorite flg. of Cic.).

In gen.:

ea tempestate flos poëtarum fuit (Plautus),

Plaut. Cas. prol. 18:

sic omnis fetus repressus, exustusque siti flos veteris ubertatis exaruit,

Cic. Brut. 4, 16:

(Ennius) flos delibatus populi... qua (eloquentia) virum excellentem praeclare tum illi homines florem populi esse dixerunt,

id. ib. 15, 58 sq. (cf. Enn. Ann. v. 309 ed. Vahl.):

flos nobilitatis ac juventutis,

id. Phil. 2, 15, 37; so, legatorum, id. Fl. 26, 61:

versaris in optimorum civium vel flore vel robore,

id. Or. 10, 34; cf.:

quod floris, quod roboris in juventute fuerat, amiserant,

Liv. 37, 12, 7:

ex morbo velut renovatus flos juventae,

id. 28, 35, 7; 26, 2, 6; Curt. 3, 5, 8:

provincia Galliae... ille flos Italiae, illud firmamentum imperii populi Romani, illud ornamentum dignitatis,

Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13:

flos dignitatis,

id. Balb. 6, 15; cf.:

ego te, Crasse, cum vitae flore, tum mortis opportunitate, divino consilio et ortum et exstinctum esse arbitror,

splendor, glory, id. de Or. 3, 3, 12:

in ipso Graeciae flore,

in the very flower, the most flourishing condition, id. N. D. 3, 33, 82:

flos aetatis,

the flower of one's age, the prime of life, Lucr. 3, 770; 5, 847; cf.:

non venirem contra gratiam, non virtutis spe, sed aetatis flore collectam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.— Without aetas: Pa. Anni? Ch. Anni? Sedecim. Pa. Flos ipse, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 28:

viridissimo flore puella,

Cat. 17, 14:

in flore primo tantae indolis juvenis exstinctus est,

Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 5:

in flore virium se credens esse,

Liv. 42, 15, 2:

primus flos animi,

youthful vigor, Stat. Ach. 1, 625;

but also: flos animi,

ripe age, Sen. Ep. 26:

videmus Vergilium ea de causa hortorum dotes fugisse, et e tantis, quae retulit, flores modo rerum decerpsisse,

i. e. the choicest, best, Plin. H. N. 14 praef. § 7.—

Transf.: flos aetatis, maidenly or youthful innocence (of girls or boys), virginity:

(virgo) cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,

Cat. 62, 46:

Hasdrubal flore aetatis, uti ferunt, primo Hamilcari conciliatus,

Liv. 21, 2, 3; cf. id. 21, 3, 4:

florem aetatis (Caesaris) in Bithynia contaminatum,

Suet. Caes. 49.—

In partic., of speech, a flower, embellishment, ornament:

ut porro conspersa sit (oratio) quasi verborum sententiarumque floribus, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 96:

flos aut lumen eloquentiae,

id. Brut. 17, 66; cf.:

nullus flos tamen neque lumen ullum (in M. Crassi oratione),

id. ib. 66, 233:

florem et colorem defuisse,

id. ib. 87, 298:

alia copia locuples, alia floribus laeta,

Quint. 8, 3, 87:

male audire... nimiis floribus et ingenii affluentia,

id. 12, 10, 13.

philtrŏdŏtes, ae, m., = philtron-dotês.

A plant, called also splenium, App. Herb. 56.—

A plant, called also peristereos, App. Herb. 65.