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rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).

Lit.:

deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

manus una (navem) regit,

Lucr. 4, 903:

onera navium velis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

arte ratem,

Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

clavum,

Verg. A. 10, 218:

te ventorum regat pater,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

vela,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

coërcet et regit beluam,

Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

equum,

Liv. 35, 11:

equos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

quadrupedes,

id. M. 2, 86:

spumantia ora (equi),

id. ib. 8, 34:

frena,

id. P. 4, 12, 24:

equi impotentes regendi,

Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

currus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

rege tela per auras,

Verg. A. 9, 409:

tela per viscera Caesaris,

Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

missum jaculum,

Ov. M. 7, 684:

sagittas nusquam,

Luc. 7, 515:

regens tenui vestigia filo,

Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

Daedalium iter lino duce,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

caeca filo vestigia,

Verg. A. 6, 30:

diverso flamina tractu,

Ov. M. 1, 59:

gressus,

Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—

In partic., jurid. t. t.:

regere fines,

to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—

Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.

In gen.:

Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

domum,

id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

rem consilio,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

belli fera munera Mavors regit,

Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

bella,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

alicujus animum atque ingenium,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

mores,

Ov. M. 15, 834:

animos dictis,

Verg. A. 1, 153:

animum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

ut me ipse regam,

id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

consilia senatus,

Quint. 12, 1, 26:

valetudines principis,

Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

valetudinem arbitratu suo,

Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

jam regi leges, non regere,

Liv. 10, 13:

utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

Tac. H. 3, 50:

nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—

Transf.

To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

Frisios,

Tac. A. 4, 72:

populos imperio,

Verg. A. 6, 851:

imperiis Italiam,

id. ib. 4, 230:

legiones,

Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

cohortes,

id. H. 4, 12:

exercitum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

domum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

diva, quae regis Antium,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

Diana, quae silentium regis,

id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

animi partes consilio,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

Tiberio regente,

Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

Quint. 3, 8, 47:

quo regente,

Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—

To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

errantem regere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,

P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

contemptus regentium,

Tac. A. 12, 54:

in obsequium regentis,

id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

vita regentis,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—

rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.

Lit., of horizontal direction:

pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

Lucr. 4, 439:

sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

id. 2, 249 Munro:

rectā regione iter instituere,

Liv. 21, 31:

India, rectā regione spatiosa,

Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

via,

id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

platea,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

porta,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

ostium,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

Lucr. 4, 93:

cursus hinc in Africam,

Liv. 26, 43:

saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

recto flumine,

Verg. A. 8, 57:

recto ad Iberum itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

Verg. A. 8, 209:

recto grassetur limite miles,

Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

velut rectae acies concurrissent,

in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

acies,

id. 35, 28:

qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

Quint. 8, 3, 9:

hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

Sen. Const. 5, 5:

rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

oculi,

Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

acies,

Ov. M. 2, 776:

lumen,

Luc. 9, 638:

vultus,

Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

saxa,

perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

rectae prope rupes,

id. 38, 20:

truncus,

Ov. M. 7, 640:

ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

Quint. 11, 3, 69:

homines,

straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

Quintia,

id. 86, 1:

puella,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

senectus,

Juv. 3, 26:

iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

crus Rectius,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

rectior coma,

smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

longā trabe rectior exstet,

Ov. M. 3, 78:

crura,

Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

rectissima linea,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

via,

id. 12, 2, 27. —

Trop.

In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

rectā viā depelli,

Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

recta consilia dare,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

cena,

Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

recta,

Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 89:

cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

id. 8, 5, 6;

so (opp. durum et incomptum),

id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

mutare aliquid a recto,

id. 2, 13, 11:

recta et vera loquere,

i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

Quint. 10, 5, 12:

ea plerumque recta sunt,

id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

rectior divisio,

Quint. 7, 2, 39:

si quid novisti rectius istis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

rectissima ratio,

Quint. 2, 13, 3.—

In partic.

Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

id. Lael. 22, 82;

so with honestum,

id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

recta consilia (opp. prava),

Liv. 1, 27:

in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

curvo dignoscere rectum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

mens sibi conscia recti,

Verg. A. 1, 604:

fidem rectumque colebat,

Ov. M. 1, 90:

recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

natura,

id. S. 1, 6, 66:

ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

judex,

Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

auditor,

Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

vir rectus et sanctus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

beatus judicii rectus,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

rectum est gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—

In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

opp. obliqui casus),

Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,

rectā,

rectō,

rectē.

rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —

rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—

rectē.

Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—

Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

so with commode,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

recte et sapienter facit,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

recte atque ordine factum,

Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

recte atque ordine facere,

id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

recte atque in loco constare,

id. Mur. 12, 26:

recte factum,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

seu recte seu perperam facere,

Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

recte dictum (opp. absurde),

Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

recte factum (opp. turpiter),

Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

recte rationem tenes,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

hercle quin tu recte dicis,

id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

non recte judicas de Catone,

Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

rectissime quidem judicas,

id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

monere,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

admonere recte,

id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

alicui recte dare epistulam,

correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

alicui suam salutem recte committere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

ludi recte facti,

id. 36, 2:

ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

valere,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

apud matrem recte est,

i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

recte esse,

id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

recte sit oculis tuis,

Gell. 13, 30, 11:

olivetum recte putare,

properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

recte cavere,

to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

vortere,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

nec recte loqui alicui,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

nec recte dicere in aliquem,

id. As. 1, 3, 3;

and simply nec recte dicere,

id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

hic tibi erit rectius,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

rectius bella gerere,

Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —

With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

locus recte ferax,

Cato, R. R. 44:

salvus sum recte,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

morata recte,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

oneratus recte,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

non recte vinctus est,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—

Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—

So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).

Lit.:

deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

manus una (navem) regit,

Lucr. 4, 903:

onera navium velis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

arte ratem,

Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

clavum,

Verg. A. 10, 218:

te ventorum regat pater,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

vela,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

coërcet et regit beluam,

Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

equum,

Liv. 35, 11:

equos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

quadrupedes,

id. M. 2, 86:

spumantia ora (equi),

id. ib. 8, 34:

frena,

id. P. 4, 12, 24:

equi impotentes regendi,

Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

currus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

rege tela per auras,

Verg. A. 9, 409:

tela per viscera Caesaris,

Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

missum jaculum,

Ov. M. 7, 684:

sagittas nusquam,

Luc. 7, 515:

regens tenui vestigia filo,

Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

Daedalium iter lino duce,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

caeca filo vestigia,

Verg. A. 6, 30:

diverso flamina tractu,

Ov. M. 1, 59:

gressus,

Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—

In partic., jurid. t. t.:

regere fines,

to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—

Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.

In gen.:

Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

domum,

id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

rem consilio,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

belli fera munera Mavors regit,

Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

bella,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

alicujus animum atque ingenium,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

mores,

Ov. M. 15, 834:

animos dictis,

Verg. A. 1, 153:

animum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

ut me ipse regam,

id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

consilia senatus,

Quint. 12, 1, 26:

valetudines principis,

Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

valetudinem arbitratu suo,

Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

jam regi leges, non regere,

Liv. 10, 13:

utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

Tac. H. 3, 50:

nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—

Transf.

To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

Frisios,

Tac. A. 4, 72:

populos imperio,

Verg. A. 6, 851:

imperiis Italiam,

id. ib. 4, 230:

legiones,

Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

cohortes,

id. H. 4, 12:

exercitum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

domum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

diva, quae regis Antium,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

Diana, quae silentium regis,

id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

animi partes consilio,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

Tiberio regente,

Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

Quint. 3, 8, 47:

quo regente,

Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—

To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

errantem regere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,

P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

contemptus regentium,

Tac. A. 12, 54:

in obsequium regentis,

id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

vita regentis,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—

rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.

Lit., of horizontal direction:

pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

Lucr. 4, 439:

sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

id. 2, 249 Munro:

rectā regione iter instituere,

Liv. 21, 31:

India, rectā regione spatiosa,

Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

via,

id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

platea,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

porta,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

ostium,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

Lucr. 4, 93:

cursus hinc in Africam,

Liv. 26, 43:

saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

recto flumine,

Verg. A. 8, 57:

recto ad Iberum itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

Verg. A. 8, 209:

recto grassetur limite miles,

Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

velut rectae acies concurrissent,

in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

acies,

id. 35, 28:

qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

Quint. 8, 3, 9:

hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

Sen. Const. 5, 5:

rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

oculi,

Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

acies,

Ov. M. 2, 776:

lumen,

Luc. 9, 638:

vultus,

Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

saxa,

perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

rectae prope rupes,

id. 38, 20:

truncus,

Ov. M. 7, 640:

ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

Quint. 11, 3, 69:

homines,

straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

Quintia,

id. 86, 1:

puella,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

senectus,

Juv. 3, 26:

iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

crus Rectius,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

rectior coma,

smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

longā trabe rectior exstet,

Ov. M. 3, 78:

crura,

Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

rectissima linea,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

via,

id. 12, 2, 27. —

Trop.

In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

rectā viā depelli,

Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

recta consilia dare,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

cena,

Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

recta,

Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 89:

cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

id. 8, 5, 6;

so (opp. durum et incomptum),

id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

mutare aliquid a recto,

id. 2, 13, 11:

recta et vera loquere,

i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

Quint. 10, 5, 12:

ea plerumque recta sunt,

id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

rectior divisio,

Quint. 7, 2, 39:

si quid novisti rectius istis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

rectissima ratio,

Quint. 2, 13, 3.—

In partic.

Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

id. Lael. 22, 82;

so with honestum,

id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

recta consilia (opp. prava),

Liv. 1, 27:

in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

curvo dignoscere rectum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

mens sibi conscia recti,

Verg. A. 1, 604:

fidem rectumque colebat,

Ov. M. 1, 90:

recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

natura,

id. S. 1, 6, 66:

ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

judex,

Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

auditor,

Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

vir rectus et sanctus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

beatus judicii rectus,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

rectum est gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—

In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

opp. obliqui casus),

Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,

rectā,

rectō,

rectē.

rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —

rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—

rectē.

Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—

Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

so with commode,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

recte et sapienter facit,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

recte atque ordine factum,

Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

recte atque ordine facere,

id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

recte atque in loco constare,

id. Mur. 12, 26:

recte factum,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

seu recte seu perperam facere,

Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

recte dictum (opp. absurde),

Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

recte factum (opp. turpiter),

Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

recte rationem tenes,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

hercle quin tu recte dicis,

id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

non recte judicas de Catone,

Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

rectissime quidem judicas,

id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

monere,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

admonere recte,

id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

alicui recte dare epistulam,

correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

alicui suam salutem recte committere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

ludi recte facti,

id. 36, 2:

ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

valere,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

apud matrem recte est,

i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

recte esse,

id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

recte sit oculis tuis,

Gell. 13, 30, 11:

olivetum recte putare,

properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

recte cavere,

to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

vortere,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

nec recte loqui alicui,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

nec recte dicere in aliquem,

id. As. 1, 3, 3;

and simply nec recte dicere,

id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

hic tibi erit rectius,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

rectius bella gerere,

Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —

With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

locus recte ferax,

Cato, R. R. 44:

salvus sum recte,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

morata recte,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

oneratus recte,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

non recte vinctus est,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—

Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—

So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).

Lit.:

deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

manus una (navem) regit,

Lucr. 4, 903:

onera navium velis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

arte ratem,

Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

clavum,

Verg. A. 10, 218:

te ventorum regat pater,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

vela,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

coërcet et regit beluam,

Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

equum,

Liv. 35, 11:

equos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

quadrupedes,

id. M. 2, 86:

spumantia ora (equi),

id. ib. 8, 34:

frena,

id. P. 4, 12, 24:

equi impotentes regendi,

Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

currus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

rege tela per auras,

Verg. A. 9, 409:

tela per viscera Caesaris,

Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

missum jaculum,

Ov. M. 7, 684:

sagittas nusquam,

Luc. 7, 515:

regens tenui vestigia filo,

Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

Daedalium iter lino duce,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

caeca filo vestigia,

Verg. A. 6, 30:

diverso flamina tractu,

Ov. M. 1, 59:

gressus,

Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—

In partic., jurid. t. t.:

regere fines,

to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—

Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.

In gen.:

Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

domum,

id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

rem consilio,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

belli fera munera Mavors regit,

Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

bella,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

alicujus animum atque ingenium,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

mores,

Ov. M. 15, 834:

animos dictis,

Verg. A. 1, 153:

animum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

ut me ipse regam,

id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

consilia senatus,

Quint. 12, 1, 26:

valetudines principis,

Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

valetudinem arbitratu suo,

Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

jam regi leges, non regere,

Liv. 10, 13:

utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

Tac. H. 3, 50:

nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—

Transf.

To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

Frisios,

Tac. A. 4, 72:

populos imperio,

Verg. A. 6, 851:

imperiis Italiam,

id. ib. 4, 230:

legiones,

Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

cohortes,

id. H. 4, 12:

exercitum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

domum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

diva, quae regis Antium,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

Diana, quae silentium regis,

id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

animi partes consilio,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

Tiberio regente,

Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

Quint. 3, 8, 47:

quo regente,

Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—

To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

errantem regere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,

P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

contemptus regentium,

Tac. A. 12, 54:

in obsequium regentis,

id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

vita regentis,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—

rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.

Lit., of horizontal direction:

pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

Lucr. 4, 439:

sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

id. 2, 249 Munro:

rectā regione iter instituere,

Liv. 21, 31:

India, rectā regione spatiosa,

Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

via,

id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

platea,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

porta,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

ostium,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

Lucr. 4, 93:

cursus hinc in Africam,

Liv. 26, 43:

saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

recto flumine,

Verg. A. 8, 57:

recto ad Iberum itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

Verg. A. 8, 209:

recto grassetur limite miles,

Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

velut rectae acies concurrissent,

in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

acies,

id. 35, 28:

qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

Quint. 8, 3, 9:

hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

Sen. Const. 5, 5:

rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

oculi,

Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

acies,

Ov. M. 2, 776:

lumen,

Luc. 9, 638:

vultus,

Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

saxa,

perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

rectae prope rupes,

id. 38, 20:

truncus,

Ov. M. 7, 640:

ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

Quint. 11, 3, 69:

homines,

straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

Quintia,

id. 86, 1:

puella,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

senectus,

Juv. 3, 26:

iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

crus Rectius,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

rectior coma,

smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

longā trabe rectior exstet,

Ov. M. 3, 78:

crura,

Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

rectissima linea,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

via,

id. 12, 2, 27. —

Trop.

In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

rectā viā depelli,

Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

recta consilia dare,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

cena,

Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

recta,

Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 89:

cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

id. 8, 5, 6;

so (opp. durum et incomptum),

id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

mutare aliquid a recto,

id. 2, 13, 11:

recta et vera loquere,

i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

Quint. 10, 5, 12:

ea plerumque recta sunt,

id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

rectior divisio,

Quint. 7, 2, 39:

si quid novisti rectius istis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

rectissima ratio,

Quint. 2, 13, 3.—

In partic.

Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

id. Lael. 22, 82;

so with honestum,

id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

recta consilia (opp. prava),

Liv. 1, 27:

in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

curvo dignoscere rectum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

mens sibi conscia recti,

Verg. A. 1, 604:

fidem rectumque colebat,

Ov. M. 1, 90:

recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

natura,

id. S. 1, 6, 66:

ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

judex,

Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

auditor,

Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

vir rectus et sanctus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

beatus judicii rectus,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

rectum est gravitatem retinere,

Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—

In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

opp. obliqui casus),

Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,

rectā,

rectō,

rectē.

rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —

rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—

rectē.

Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—

Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

so with commode,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

recte et sapienter facit,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

recte atque ordine factum,

Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

recte atque ordine facere,

id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

recte atque in loco constare,

id. Mur. 12, 26:

recte factum,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

seu recte seu perperam facere,

Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

recte dictum (opp. absurde),

Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

recte factum (opp. turpiter),

Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

recte rationem tenes,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

hercle quin tu recte dicis,

id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

non recte judicas de Catone,

Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

rectissime quidem judicas,

id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

monere,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

admonere recte,

id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

alicui recte dare epistulam,

correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

alicui suam salutem recte committere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

ludi recte facti,

id. 36, 2:

ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

valere,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

apud matrem recte est,

i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

recte esse,

id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

recte sit oculis tuis,

Gell. 13, 30, 11:

olivetum recte putare,

properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

recte cavere,

to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

vortere,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

nec recte loqui alicui,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

nec recte dicere in aliquem,

id. As. 1, 3, 3;

and simply nec recte dicere,

id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

hic tibi erit rectius,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

rectius bella gerere,

Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —

With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

locus recte ferax,

Cato, R. R. 44:

salvus sum recte,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

morata recte,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

oneratus recte,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

non recte vinctus est,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—

Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—

So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

tempĕro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old pres. subj. temperint, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 41; collat. dep. form tempĕror, Lact. 7, 5, 12), v. a. and n. [tempus].

Act., to divide or proportion duly, mingle in due proportion; to combine or compound properly; to qualify, temper, etc. (class.; cf.: modifico, misceo).

Lit.:

nec vero qui simplex esse debet, ex dissimilibus rebus misceri et temperari potest,

Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119:

qui (orbium motus) acuta cum gravibus temperans varios aequabiliter concentus efficit,

id. Rep. 6, 18, 18:

ea cum tria sumpsisset, unam in speciem temperavit,

id. Univ. 7:

tale quiddam esse animum, ut sit ex igni atque animă temperatum,

id. N. D. 3, 14, 36:

aes conflare et temperare,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 197:

ferrum,

id. 34, 14, 41, § 145:

herbas,

Ov. F. 5, 402:

acetum melle,

Plin. 14, 17, 21, § 114:

vinum,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 50: pocula, to flavor, i. e. to fill, Hor. C. 1, 20, 11; id. Epod. 17, 80; Mart. 9, 12, 7:

venenum,

Suet. Ner. 2 fin.:

unguentum,

Plin. 13, 2, 2, § 18:

collyrium,

id. 27, 10, 59, § 83:

colores,

id. 2, 18, 16, § 79 et saep.:

ejusdem solis tum accessus modici tum recessus et frigoris et caloris modum temperant,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

Etesiarum flatu nimii temperantur calores,

id. ib. 2, 53, 131; cf.:

vitis solem umbra temperans,

Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 91: quis aquam (i. e. balneum) temperet ignibus, who shall temper, i. e. warm, Hor. C. 3, 19, 6; so, balneum, Mart. 3, 25, 1:

scatebrisque arentia temperat arva,

i. e. waters, Verg. G. 1, 110; so,

arva (Galesus),

Claud. Cons. Prob. 260.—

Transf., to rule, regulate, govern, manage, arrange, order:

rem publicam institutis et legibus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

constituere et temperare civitates,

id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

Lycurgus, qui Lacedaemoniorum rem publicam temperavit,

id. Div. 1, 43, 96; cf.:

qui (Juppiter) res hominum ac deorum, Qui mare ac terras variisque mundum Temperat horis,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 16:

terram, mare, urbes, etc. (corresp. to regere),

id. ib. 3, 4, 45:

mare,

id. ib. 4, 12, 1:

aequor,

Verg. A. 1, 146:

orbem,

Ov. M. 1, 770; 15, 869:

arces aetherias,

id. ib. 15, 859:

undas,

id. ib. 12, 580:

ratem,

id. ib. 13, 366:

solus id navigii genus temperans,

Vell. 2, 107:

omnia pretio temperata,

id. 2, 60:

senem delirum,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 71:

ora frenis,

id. C. 1, 8, 7 et saep.:

genius qui natale temperat astrum,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 187:

annum,

id. ib. 1, 12, 16; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 13:

caeli fulgura,

Cic. Leg. 8, 21:

fortunam suo arbitrio,

Petr. 137.— Poet.:

carmen impositis articulis,

i. e. to tune, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 80; cf.:

testudinis aureae strepitum,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 18:

Musam pede Archilochi,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 28 sq.:

citharam nervis,

i. e. to string, Ov. M. 10, 108.—

Trop.

To regulate, rule, etc.:

non modice temperatam sed nimis meracam libertatem sitiens haurire,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 96; cf.:

cujus acerbitas morum immanitasque naturae ne vino quidem permixta temperari solet,

id. Phil. 12, 11, 26:

quod (genus) erit aequatum et temperatum ex tribus optimis rerum publicarum modis,

id. Rep. 1, 45, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 39, 65:

ita in variā et perpetuā oratione hi (numeri) sunt inter se miscendi et temperandi,

id. Or. 58, 197; so,

joined with miscere,

id. Off. 3, 33, 119 (on the contrary, opp. miscere, id. Rep. 2, 23, 42); cf.:

at haec interdum temperanda et varianda sunt,

id. Or. 29, 103; 18, 60; 52, 176:

iracundiam cohibere, victoriam temperare,

id. Marcell. 3, 8:

amara lento Temperet risu,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 27: annonam macelli quotannis temperandam censuit, to be regulated, i. e. fixed at moderate prices, Suet. Tib. 34:

(Aeolus) Sceptra tenens mollitque animos et temperat iras,

soothes, allays, Verg. A. 1, 57:

sumptus,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 10:

Mercurius temperat astra,

Stat. Th. 1, 305.—

Se temperare ab aliquā re, to refrain from, abstain from, forbear, etc. (late Lat.): temperare se a rectorum suorum reprehensione, Greg. M. in Job, 25, 38 init.; 18, 3: ab utro se temperat, Aug. c. Faust. 6, 5 fin.; id. Trin. 3 prooem.

Neutr., to observe proper measure; to moderate or restrain one ' s self; to forbear, abstain; to be moderate or temperate (class.; cf. moderor).

In gen., constr. with in aliquā re, alicui rei, ab aliquā re, a simple abl., an inf., or ne or quin with subj.

With in and abl.:

jam istoc probior es, cum in amore temperes,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 8:

in multa temperarunt tribuni,

Liv. 2, 52, 5; Sall. J. 85, 9.—

With dat.:

linguae tempera,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 28; so,

linguae,

Liv. 28, 44, 18:

linguae,

Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 2:

manibus,

Liv. 2, 23, 9; 4, 3, 6; 32, 20, 3; Curt. 7, 2, 24:

oculis,

Liv. 21, 22, 7:

irae,

id. 33, 20, 7:

victoriae,

Sall. C. 11, 8:

gulae,

Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5:

lacrimis,

Curt. 7, 2, 7.—

With ab and abl.:

temperare ab injuriā et maleficio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

a maleficio,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29:

a lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 8:

precibus ducis mitigati ab excidio civitatis temperavere,

Tac. H. 1, 63.—Rarely with sibi, etc.:

cum sibi in contionibus credas a mendacio temperaturum?

Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25:

ne a necessariis quidem sibi rabies temperat,

Sen. Clem. 1, 26, 4.—

With abl. alone:

lacrimis,

Liv. 30, 20; Tac. A. 15, 16:

a venatibus,

Claud. III. Laud. Stil. 270:

risu,

Liv. 32, 34, 3: neque verbis adversus principem neque factis, Suet. Vit. Lucan.—

With inf.:

matronae Canorā hic voce suā tinnire temperent,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 33:

dormire,

id. ib. 22:

maledicere huic,

id. ib. 5, 2, 76: tollere puerum, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 67 Vahl.):

exordiri rem novam,

Gell. 4, 9, 5. —

With ne and subj.:

quoi male faciundi est potestas, quom ne id faciat temperat,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 60:

quod in pluribus libris ne facerem temperavi,

Lact. 4, 3, 5.—

With quin (post-Aug.):

non temperante Tiberio quin premeret,

Tac. A. 3, 67: ne sedato quidem tumultu temperare potuit, quin, etc., Suet. Claud. 41; id. Calig. 54:

vix temperabat, quin diceret,

Sen. Contr. 10, 1 (30), 7:

Arruntius non temperavit, quin, etc.,

id. Ep. 114, 19.—

With sibi or animis (so not in Cicero):

neque sibi homines feros temperaturos existimabat, quin, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 33:

vix sibi temperant quin, etc.,

Sen. Ben. 2, 29, 2; Vell. 1, 16, 1: usque mihi temperavi, dum perducerem eo rem, ut, etc., Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 7, 2:

nequeo mihi temperare, quominus, etc.,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 41; 1, praef. §

30: non quivit temperare sibi in eo (signo), etc.,

id. 34, 8, 19, § 62; Plin. Ep. 6, 17, 1:

vix temperavere animis, quin, etc.,

Liv. 5, 45, 7.—

Impers. pass.:

aegre temperatum est, quin, etc.,

they with difficulty refrained, Liv. 32, 10, 8:

nec temperatum manibus foret, ni, etc.,

id. 2, 23, 10:

jam superfundenti se laetitiae vix temperatum est,

id. 5, 7, 8:

ab oppugnatione urbium temperatum,

id. 7, 20, 9:

a caedibus,

id. 25, 25, 9.—

In partic., pregn., to forbear, abstain, or refrain from; to spare, be indulgent to any thing (cf.: parco, abstineo); constr. with dat. or ab:

ut si cuiquam ullā in re umquam temperaverit, ut vos quoque ei temperetis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

superatis hostibus (shortly after, parcere),

id. ib. 2, 2, 2, §

4: sociis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 59, §

154: alicui in aliquā re,

id. ib. 2, 2, 6, §

17: amicis,

id. Balb. 27, 60:

privignis,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 18:

ingenio suo,

Quint. 10, 1, 98 al.:

in quo ab sociis temperaverant,

Liv. 6, 17, 8:

ab his sacris,

id. 39, 10, 9:

quamvis a plerisque cibis singuli temperemus,

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 8; cf.:

a mulso sibi temperare,

Cels. 4, 31.— Impers. pass.:

templis deum temperatum est,

Liv. 1, 29, 6 Drak. N. cr.:

nec ab ullo temperatum foret,

id. 24, 31, 11.—Hence,

tempĕ-rans, antis, P. a., observing moderation, sober, moderate, temperate (syn.:

modestus, abstinens): aut temperantem (dices), qui se in aliquā libidine continuerit, in aliquā effuderit?

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

homo in omnibus vitae partibus moderatus ac temperans, etc.,

id. Font. 18, 40; so,

homo,

id. Att. 15, 1, 1.— Sup.:

homo sanctissimus et temperantissimus,

Cic. Font. 17, 38:

principes graviores temperantioresque a cupidine imperii,

refraining, abstaining, Liv. 26, 22, 14 Drak. N. cr. —With gen.:

famae temperans,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 41:

temperans gaudii seraeque laetitiae,

Plin. Pan. 52, 5:

potestatis temperantior,

Tac. A. 13, 46.—Hence, adv.: tempĕranter, with moderation, moderately, Tac. A. 4, 33; 15, 29. — Comp., Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 2.— Sup. seems not to occur.—

tempĕrātus, a, um, P. a.

Duly arranged or prepared:

prela,

Cato, R. R. 12.—

Limited, moderate, temperate.

Lit.:

temperatae escae modicaeque potiones,

Cic. Div. 1, 51, 115:

regiones caeli neque aestuosae neque frigidae sed temperatae,

Vitr. 1, 4; cf. Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 26.— Comp.:

loca temperatiora,

Caes. B. G. 5, 12:

o temperatae dulce Formiae litus,

Mart. 10, 30, 1:

mitis ac temperatus annus,

Col. 3, 20, 1; cf. in sup.:

temperatissimum anni tempus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 14.—

Trop., of moral character, of speech, etc., moderate, sober, calm, steady, temperate:

est autem ita temperatis moderatisque moribus, ut summa severitas summā cum humanitate jungatur,

Cic. Fam. 12, 27:

justi, temperati, sapientes,

id. N. D. 3, 36, 87: in victoriā tem, peratior, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 1:

mens in bonis Ab insolenti temperata Laetitiā,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 3:

vim temperatam di provehunt In majus,

id. ib. 3, 4, 66:

animum temperatum virtutibus fuisse,

Liv. 1, 18, 4:

hoc multo fortius est... illud temperatius,

Sen. Ep. 18, 3:

aequabile et temperatum orationis genus,

Cic. Off. 1, 1, 3:

oratio modica ac temperata,

id. Or. 27, 95.— Comp.:

temperatior oratio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212.— Sup.:

temperatissimi sanctissimique viri monumentum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 83. — Adv.: tempĕrātē, in due proportion, with moderation, moderately, temperately.

Lit.:

tepebit,

Cato, R. R. 69, 2:

arbores umoris temperate, parum terreni habentes,

Vitr. 2, 9 med. —

Trop.:

agere,

Cic. Att. 12, 32, 1:

temperatius scribere,

id. ib. 13, 1, 1:

temperatissime et castissime vivere,

Aug. Mus. 6, 15.

tempĕro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old pres. subj. temperint, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 41; collat. dep. form tempĕror, Lact. 7, 5, 12), v. a. and n. [tempus].

Act., to divide or proportion duly, mingle in due proportion; to combine or compound properly; to qualify, temper, etc. (class.; cf.: modifico, misceo).

Lit.:

nec vero qui simplex esse debet, ex dissimilibus rebus misceri et temperari potest,

Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119:

qui (orbium motus) acuta cum gravibus temperans varios aequabiliter concentus efficit,

id. Rep. 6, 18, 18:

ea cum tria sumpsisset, unam in speciem temperavit,

id. Univ. 7:

tale quiddam esse animum, ut sit ex igni atque animă temperatum,

id. N. D. 3, 14, 36:

aes conflare et temperare,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 197:

ferrum,

id. 34, 14, 41, § 145:

herbas,

Ov. F. 5, 402:

acetum melle,

Plin. 14, 17, 21, § 114:

vinum,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 50: pocula, to flavor, i. e. to fill, Hor. C. 1, 20, 11; id. Epod. 17, 80; Mart. 9, 12, 7:

venenum,

Suet. Ner. 2 fin.:

unguentum,

Plin. 13, 2, 2, § 18:

collyrium,

id. 27, 10, 59, § 83:

colores,

id. 2, 18, 16, § 79 et saep.:

ejusdem solis tum accessus modici tum recessus et frigoris et caloris modum temperant,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

Etesiarum flatu nimii temperantur calores,

id. ib. 2, 53, 131; cf.:

vitis solem umbra temperans,

Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 91: quis aquam (i. e. balneum) temperet ignibus, who shall temper, i. e. warm, Hor. C. 3, 19, 6; so, balneum, Mart. 3, 25, 1:

scatebrisque arentia temperat arva,

i. e. waters, Verg. G. 1, 110; so,

arva (Galesus),

Claud. Cons. Prob. 260.—

Transf., to rule, regulate, govern, manage, arrange, order:

rem publicam institutis et legibus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

constituere et temperare civitates,

id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

Lycurgus, qui Lacedaemoniorum rem publicam temperavit,

id. Div. 1, 43, 96; cf.:

qui (Juppiter) res hominum ac deorum, Qui mare ac terras variisque mundum Temperat horis,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 16:

terram, mare, urbes, etc. (corresp. to regere),

id. ib. 3, 4, 45:

mare,

id. ib. 4, 12, 1:

aequor,

Verg. A. 1, 146:

orbem,

Ov. M. 1, 770; 15, 869:

arces aetherias,

id. ib. 15, 859:

undas,

id. ib. 12, 580:

ratem,

id. ib. 13, 366:

solus id navigii genus temperans,

Vell. 2, 107:

omnia pretio temperata,

id. 2, 60:

senem delirum,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 71:

ora frenis,

id. C. 1, 8, 7 et saep.:

genius qui natale temperat astrum,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 187:

annum,

id. ib. 1, 12, 16; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 13:

caeli fulgura,

Cic. Leg. 8, 21:

fortunam suo arbitrio,

Petr. 137.— Poet.:

carmen impositis articulis,

i. e. to tune, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 80; cf.:

testudinis aureae strepitum,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 18:

Musam pede Archilochi,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 28 sq.:

citharam nervis,

i. e. to string, Ov. M. 10, 108.—

Trop.

To regulate, rule, etc.:

non modice temperatam sed nimis meracam libertatem sitiens haurire,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 96; cf.:

cujus acerbitas morum immanitasque naturae ne vino quidem permixta temperari solet,

id. Phil. 12, 11, 26:

quod (genus) erit aequatum et temperatum ex tribus optimis rerum publicarum modis,

id. Rep. 1, 45, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 39, 65:

ita in variā et perpetuā oratione hi (numeri) sunt inter se miscendi et temperandi,

id. Or. 58, 197; so,

joined with miscere,

id. Off. 3, 33, 119 (on the contrary, opp. miscere, id. Rep. 2, 23, 42); cf.:

at haec interdum temperanda et varianda sunt,

id. Or. 29, 103; 18, 60; 52, 176:

iracundiam cohibere, victoriam temperare,

id. Marcell. 3, 8:

amara lento Temperet risu,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 27: annonam macelli quotannis temperandam censuit, to be regulated, i. e. fixed at moderate prices, Suet. Tib. 34:

(Aeolus) Sceptra tenens mollitque animos et temperat iras,

soothes, allays, Verg. A. 1, 57:

sumptus,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 10:

Mercurius temperat astra,

Stat. Th. 1, 305.—

Se temperare ab aliquā re, to refrain from, abstain from, forbear, etc. (late Lat.): temperare se a rectorum suorum reprehensione, Greg. M. in Job, 25, 38 init.; 18, 3: ab utro se temperat, Aug. c. Faust. 6, 5 fin.; id. Trin. 3 prooem.

Neutr., to observe proper measure; to moderate or restrain one ' s self; to forbear, abstain; to be moderate or temperate (class.; cf. moderor).

In gen., constr. with in aliquā re, alicui rei, ab aliquā re, a simple abl., an inf., or ne or quin with subj.

With in and abl.:

jam istoc probior es, cum in amore temperes,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 8:

in multa temperarunt tribuni,

Liv. 2, 52, 5; Sall. J. 85, 9.—

With dat.:

linguae tempera,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 28; so,

linguae,

Liv. 28, 44, 18:

linguae,

Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 2:

manibus,

Liv. 2, 23, 9; 4, 3, 6; 32, 20, 3; Curt. 7, 2, 24:

oculis,

Liv. 21, 22, 7:

irae,

id. 33, 20, 7:

victoriae,

Sall. C. 11, 8:

gulae,

Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5:

lacrimis,

Curt. 7, 2, 7.—

With ab and abl.:

temperare ab injuriā et maleficio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

a maleficio,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29:

a lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 8:

precibus ducis mitigati ab excidio civitatis temperavere,

Tac. H. 1, 63.—Rarely with sibi, etc.:

cum sibi in contionibus credas a mendacio temperaturum?

Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25:

ne a necessariis quidem sibi rabies temperat,

Sen. Clem. 1, 26, 4.—

With abl. alone:

lacrimis,

Liv. 30, 20; Tac. A. 15, 16:

a venatibus,

Claud. III. Laud. Stil. 270:

risu,

Liv. 32, 34, 3: neque verbis adversus principem neque factis, Suet. Vit. Lucan.—

With inf.:

matronae Canorā hic voce suā tinnire temperent,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 33:

dormire,

id. ib. 22:

maledicere huic,

id. ib. 5, 2, 76: tollere puerum, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 67 Vahl.):

exordiri rem novam,

Gell. 4, 9, 5. —

With ne and subj.:

quoi male faciundi est potestas, quom ne id faciat temperat,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 60:

quod in pluribus libris ne facerem temperavi,

Lact. 4, 3, 5.—

With quin (post-Aug.):

non temperante Tiberio quin premeret,

Tac. A. 3, 67: ne sedato quidem tumultu temperare potuit, quin, etc., Suet. Claud. 41; id. Calig. 54:

vix temperabat, quin diceret,

Sen. Contr. 10, 1 (30), 7:

Arruntius non temperavit, quin, etc.,

id. Ep. 114, 19.—

With sibi or animis (so not in Cicero):

neque sibi homines feros temperaturos existimabat, quin, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 33:

vix sibi temperant quin, etc.,

Sen. Ben. 2, 29, 2; Vell. 1, 16, 1: usque mihi temperavi, dum perducerem eo rem, ut, etc., Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 7, 2:

nequeo mihi temperare, quominus, etc.,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 41; 1, praef. §

30: non quivit temperare sibi in eo (signo), etc.,

id. 34, 8, 19, § 62; Plin. Ep. 6, 17, 1:

vix temperavere animis, quin, etc.,

Liv. 5, 45, 7.—

Impers. pass.:

aegre temperatum est, quin, etc.,

they with difficulty refrained, Liv. 32, 10, 8:

nec temperatum manibus foret, ni, etc.,

id. 2, 23, 10:

jam superfundenti se laetitiae vix temperatum est,

id. 5, 7, 8:

ab oppugnatione urbium temperatum,

id. 7, 20, 9:

a caedibus,

id. 25, 25, 9.—

In partic., pregn., to forbear, abstain, or refrain from; to spare, be indulgent to any thing (cf.: parco, abstineo); constr. with dat. or ab:

ut si cuiquam ullā in re umquam temperaverit, ut vos quoque ei temperetis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

superatis hostibus (shortly after, parcere),

id. ib. 2, 2, 2, §

4: sociis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 59, §

154: alicui in aliquā re,

id. ib. 2, 2, 6, §

17: amicis,

id. Balb. 27, 60:

privignis,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 18:

ingenio suo,

Quint. 10, 1, 98 al.:

in quo ab sociis temperaverant,

Liv. 6, 17, 8:

ab his sacris,

id. 39, 10, 9:

quamvis a plerisque cibis singuli temperemus,

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 8; cf.:

a mulso sibi temperare,

Cels. 4, 31.— Impers. pass.:

templis deum temperatum est,

Liv. 1, 29, 6 Drak. N. cr.:

nec ab ullo temperatum foret,

id. 24, 31, 11.—Hence,

tempĕ-rans, antis, P. a., observing moderation, sober, moderate, temperate (syn.:

modestus, abstinens): aut temperantem (dices), qui se in aliquā libidine continuerit, in aliquā effuderit?

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

homo in omnibus vitae partibus moderatus ac temperans, etc.,

id. Font. 18, 40; so,

homo,

id. Att. 15, 1, 1.— Sup.:

homo sanctissimus et temperantissimus,

Cic. Font. 17, 38:

principes graviores temperantioresque a cupidine imperii,

refraining, abstaining, Liv. 26, 22, 14 Drak. N. cr. —With gen.:

famae temperans,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 41:

temperans gaudii seraeque laetitiae,

Plin. Pan. 52, 5:

potestatis temperantior,

Tac. A. 13, 46.—Hence, adv.: tempĕranter, with moderation, moderately, Tac. A. 4, 33; 15, 29. — Comp., Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 2.— Sup. seems not to occur.—

tempĕrātus, a, um, P. a.

Duly arranged or prepared:

prela,

Cato, R. R. 12.—

Limited, moderate, temperate.

Lit.:

temperatae escae modicaeque potiones,

Cic. Div. 1, 51, 115:

regiones caeli neque aestuosae neque frigidae sed temperatae,

Vitr. 1, 4; cf. Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 26.— Comp.:

loca temperatiora,

Caes. B. G. 5, 12:

o temperatae dulce Formiae litus,

Mart. 10, 30, 1:

mitis ac temperatus annus,

Col. 3, 20, 1; cf. in sup.:

temperatissimum anni tempus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 14.—

Trop., of moral character, of speech, etc., moderate, sober, calm, steady, temperate:

est autem ita temperatis moderatisque moribus, ut summa severitas summā cum humanitate jungatur,

Cic. Fam. 12, 27:

justi, temperati, sapientes,

id. N. D. 3, 36, 87: in victoriā tem, peratior, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 1:

mens in bonis Ab insolenti temperata Laetitiā,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 3:

vim temperatam di provehunt In majus,

id. ib. 3, 4, 66:

animum temperatum virtutibus fuisse,

Liv. 1, 18, 4:

hoc multo fortius est... illud temperatius,

Sen. Ep. 18, 3:

aequabile et temperatum orationis genus,

Cic. Off. 1, 1, 3:

oratio modica ac temperata,

id. Or. 27, 95.— Comp.:

temperatior oratio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212.— Sup.:

temperatissimi sanctissimique viri monumentum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 83. — Adv.: tempĕrātē, in due proportion, with moderation, moderately, temperately.

Lit.:

tepebit,

Cato, R. R. 69, 2:

arbores umoris temperate, parum terreni habentes,

Vitr. 2, 9 med. —

Trop.:

agere,

Cic. Att. 12, 32, 1:

temperatius scribere,

id. ib. 13, 1, 1:

temperatissime et castissime vivere,

Aug. Mus. 6, 15.

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ăpo (or ăpio, Isid. Orig. 19, 30), ĕre, v. a. [cf.: haptô, apiscor, apex].

A.. To fasten, attach, join, bind, tie to (syn.: ligo, adligo, jungo, conjungo, recto): comprehendere antiqui vinculo apere dicebant, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. apex, p. 18 Müll.; cf. apex; used only in part. perf. pass. aptus (the P. a. v. infra):

uteri terrae radicibus apti,

fastened to the earth, Lucr. 5, 808 (Lachm., terram and apti = adepti):

bracchia validis ex apta lacertis,

united with the strong shoulders, id. 4, 829:

gladium e lacunari setā equinā aptum demitti jussit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62:

linguam vinclis de pectore imo aptis moveri,

Gell. 1, 15.—

Trop.: ex aliquā re (like pendere ex aliquā re), depending upon, arising from (so only in Cic.):

rerum causae aliae ex aliis aptae et necessitate nexae,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 25, 70:

honestum, ex quo aptum est officium,

id. Off. 1, 18, 60; id. Fin. 2, 14, 47:

ex quā re (sc. virtute) una vita omnis apta sit,

id. Ac. 2, 10, 31:

causa ex aeternis causis apta,

id. Fat. 15, 34:

cui viro ex se apta sunt omnia, etc.,

id. Tusc. 5, 12, 36 (as transl. of Plat. Menex. p. 302: Hotôi gar andri eis heauton anêrtêtai panta, etc.); cf. id. Fam. 5, 13.—Once also with pendere:

non ex verbis aptum pendere jus,

Cic. Caecin. 18.—Also without ex:

vitā modicā et aptā virtute perfrui,

Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 56:

rudentibus apta fortuna,

id. Tusc. 5, 14, [p. 138] 40.—

A.. Joined, bound, or tied together, connected:

aptum conexum et colligatum significat,

Non. p. 234, 32 (so most freq. in Lucr.):

conjugio corporis atque animae consistimus uniter apti,

Lucr. 3, 846; 5, 555; 5, 558:

genus... validis aptum per viscera nervis,

bound together by the strong band of the sinews, id. 5, 928:

quae memorare queam inter se singlariter apta,

id. 6, 1067 al.:

facilius est apta dissolvere quam dissipata conectere,

Cic. Or. 71, 235:

quā ex conjunctione caelum ita aptum est, ut, etc.,

id. Tim. 5:

qui tam certos caeli motus, tamque omnia inter se conexa et apta viderit,

id. N. D. 2, 38, 97; Gell. 6, 2. —

Trop.:

omnia inter se apta et conexa,

Cic. Fin. 4, 19, 53:

apta inter se et cohaerentia,

id. N. D 3, 1, 4:

efficiatur aptum illud, quod fuerit antea diffiuens ac solutum,

id. Or. 70, 233.— Poet., with abl., endowed, furnished, or ornamented with something: fides alma, apta pinnis, furnished with wings, winged, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105:

stellis fulgentibus apta caeli domus,

the abode of heaven studded with glittering stars, Lucr. 6, 357 (cf. id. 5, 1205: stellis micantibus aethera fixum);

imitated by Verg.: caelum stellis fulgentibus aptum,

Verg. A. 11, 202, and:

axis stellis ardentibus aptus,

id. ib. 4, 482:

veste signis ingentibus aptā,

Lucr. 5, 1428:

magis apta figura,

id. 2, 814: lucus opacus teneris fruticibus aptus, Varr. ap. Non. p. 235, 9:

Tyrio prodeat apta sinu,

Tib. 1, 9, 70.—Hence,

aptus, a, um, P. a., pr., fitted to something; hence, suited, suitable, proper, apposite, fit, appropriate, adapted, conformable to (cf. accommodatus and appositus, 2.).

In gen.: aptus is, qui convenienter alicui junctus est, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. apex, p. 18 Müll. (so most freq. after the Cic. per.); constr. with ad or dat.; of persons always with dat.

With ad:

ossa habent commissuras ad stabilitatem aptas,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139:

in pulmonibus inest raritas quaedam ad hauriendum spiritum aptissima,

id. ib. 2, 55, 136:

locus ad insidias aptior,

id. Mil. 20:

calcei habiles et apti ad pedem,

id. de Or. 1, 54, 231:

castra ad bellum ducendum aptissima,

Caes. B. C. 2, 37; so Vulg. 1 Par. 7, 40; ib. 2 Par. 26, 13:

aptum ad proelium,

ib. 1 Reg. 14, 52:

fornices in muro erant apti ad excurrendum,

Liv. 36, 23, 3 al. —

With dat.:

non omnia rebus sunt omnibus apta,

Lucr. 6, 961:

aliis alias animantibus aptas Res,

id. 6, 773:

initia apta et accommodata naturae,

Cic. Fin. 4, 17, 46:

quod verum, simplex sincerumque sit, id esse naturae hominis aptissimum,

id. Off. 1, 4, 13:

haec genera dicendi aptiora sunt adulescentibus,

id. Brut. 95, 223; so id. ib. 62, 326; id. Tusc. 1, 36, 87; id. Or. 22, 1 al.:

quod aetati tuae esset aptissimum,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4; so Nep. Att. 16, 1:

apta dies sacrificio,

Liv. 1, 45:

venti aptiores Romanae quam suae classi,

id. 25, 37 al.:

notavi portus puppibus aptos,

Ov. M. 3, 596; 4, 160:

armis apta magis tellus,

Prop. 4, 22, 19:

aptum equis Argos,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 9:

apta vinculo conjugali,

Vulg. Ruth, 1, 12; ib. Luc. 9, 62:

aptus amicis,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 43 et saep.— Other constrr.:

With in (cf. Rudd. II. p. 96, n. 60):

in quod (genus pugnae) minime apti sunt,

Liv. 38, 21:

formas deus aptus in omnes,

apt for, easily changed into, Ov. M. 14, 765:

in ceteros apta usus,

Vulg. Deut. 20, 20:

vasa apta in interitum,

ib. Rom. 9, 22.—

With qui (cf. Zumpt, §

568): nulla videbatur aptior persona, quae de illā aetate loqueretur,

Cic. Am. 1, 4:

est mihi, quae lanas molliat, apta manus,

Ov. H. 3, 70.—

Poet., with inf:

(Circe) apta cantu veteres mutare figuras,

Tib. 4, 1, 63:

aetas mollis et apta regi,

Ov. A. A. 1, 10.— Esp. freq.,

Absol., Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 235, 16:

amor,

Prop. 4, 22, 42:

saltus,

Ov. M. 2, 498:

ars,

Tib. 1, 7, 60:

apta oscula,

Tib. 1, 4, 54; Ov. H. 15, 132:

lar aptus,

an extensive, satisfying possession, Hor. C. 1, 12, 43.—So in prose:

aptus exercitus,

an army good in fight, ready for battle, Liv. 10, 25:

tempus aptum,

the right time, id. 35, 19; so Vulg. Eccli. 20, 6 al.—

Esp., in rhet., of the fitness, appropriateness of discourse:

quid aptum sit, hoc est quid maxime decens in oratione,

Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 210; so apta oratio, which has the appropriate rhet. fulness and periodic rounding: numerosa et apta oratio, id. Or. 50, 168; cf. id. ib. 50, 70; so id. Brut. 17, 68:

Thucydides verbis aptus et pressus,

exact and brief in expression, id. de Or. 2, 13, 56.—Hence, aptē, adv., closely, fitly, suitably, nicely, rightly.

Lit.

Absol.:

atque ita apte cohaeret (mundi corpus), ut etc.,

Cic. Tim. 5: altera est nexa cum superiore et inde apteque pendens, id. ap. Non. p. 235, 18:

capiti apte reponere,

Liv. 1, 34, 8.—

With ad:

apte convenire ad pedem,

Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 46.— Sup.,

With inter:

ut inter se quam aptissime cohaereant extrema (verba) cum primis etc.,

Cic. Or. 44, 149.—

Trop., fitly, suitably, properly, duly, rightly.

Absol.:

facile judicabimus, quid eorum apte fiat,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146:

quod est oratoris proprium, apte, distincte, ornate dicere,

id. ib. 1, 1, 2:

apte et quiete ferre,

id. ib. 4, 17, 38:

non equite apte locato,

Liv. 4, 37, 8:

Qui doceant, apte quid tibi possit emi,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 88:

nec aliter imperium apte regi potest,

Curt. 8, 8, 13:

floribus compositis apte et utiliter,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 46. — Comp.:

qualia aptius suis referentur locis,

Plin. 2, 62, 62, § 153:

Aptius haec puero, quam tibi, dona dabis,

Mart. 13, 26.—

With dat.:

si quid exierit numeris aptius,

Quint. 10, 12, 26.— Sup.:

seruntur Parilibus tamen aptissime,

Plin. 19, 3, 24, § 69.—

With ad:

(ut) ad rerum dignitatem apte et quasi decore (loquamur),

Cic. de Or. 1, 32, 144:

spolia ducis hostium caesi suspensa fabricato ad id apte ferculo gerens,

Liv. 1, 10, 5.

com-mŏdus, a, um, adj., that has a due or proper measure; hence,

Object., complete, perfect, of full weight or measure, fit, suitable, due, proper, etc. (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose;

most freq. in Plaut.): statura,

a tall stature, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 21:

capillus,

id. Most. 1, 3, 98:

viginti argenti minae,

full twenty, id. As. 3, 3, 134 (cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 144: minae bonae); id. Merc. 2, 3, 101:

talentum argenti,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 31; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 266, 27:

novem cyathis commodis miscentur pocula,

Hor. C. 3, 19, 12:

alimenta,

Dig. 34, 1, 16, § 1:

capitis valetudo commodior,

more firm, Cels. 8, 1; Quint. 6, 3, 77;

and transf. to the person: vivere filium atque etiam commodiorem esse,

to be better, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 4.—

Subject., suitable, fit, convenient, opportune, commodious, easy, appropriate for some one or something, favorable, friendly to (in every period and species of composition); constr. with dat. or absol., rarely with ad (v. the foll.).

Of things.

With dat.

Of the purpose or use:

curationi omnia commodiora,

Liv. 30, 19, 5:

nec pecori opportuna seges nec commoda Baccho,

Verg. G. 4, 129.—

Of the person:

hoc et vobis et meae commodum famae arbitror,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 9:

quod erit mihi bonum et commodum,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 81:

nulla lex satis commoda omnibus est (corresp. with prodesse),

Liv. 34, 3, 5:

primordia eloquentiae mortalibus,

Tac. Or. 12:

hanc sibi commodissimam belli rationem judicavit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85:

quae sit stella homini commoda, quaeque mala,

Prop. 2 (3), 27, 4.—

Absol.:

hiberna,

Liv. 42, 67, 8:

longius ceterum commodius iter,

id. 22, 2, 2; cf.:

commodissimus in Britanniam transjectus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 2:

commodius anni tempus,

Cic. Att. 9, 3, 1; cf. Ter. And. 5, 2, 3:

faciliore ac commodiore judicio,

Cic. Caecin. 3, 8:

litterae satis commodae de Britannicis rebus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 25:

mores,

id. Lael. 15, 54:

commodissimum esse statuit, omnes naves subduci, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11.—

With or without dat. pers. in the phrase commodum est, it pleases, is agreeable, = libet:

proinde ut commodum est,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 8; 3, 1, 2: dum erit commodum, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 38:

si id non commodum est,

id. Eun. 3, 2, 49; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 37; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 33 Ascon.; 2, 2, 16, § 39; 2, 1, 26, § 65; 2, 3, 70, § 165; id. Div. 1, 49, 111; id. de Or. 3, 23, 87; Plin. Pan. 48, 1:

id si tibi erit commodum, cures velim,

Cic. Att. 13, 48, 2; Cels. 4, 4; 4, 22.—

With ad and acc. of purpose (very rare):

nec satis ad cursus commoda vestis Erat,

Ov. F. 2, 288.—

With sup. in u (rare):

hoc exornationis genus... commodum est auditu,

Auct. Her. 4, 18, 26.—

Of persons, serving a neighbor or (more freq.) accommodating one ' s self to his wishes, useful, serviceable, pleasant, agreeable, obliging, neighborly, friendly, polite, affable, gentle, etc.:

mihi commodus uni,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 9; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 227:

quemquamne existimas Catone commodiorem, communiorem, moderatiorem fuisse ad omnem rationem humanitatis?

Cic. Mur. 31, 66:

commodior mitiorque,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 39:

Apronius, qui aliis inhumanus ac barbarus, isti uni commodus ac disertus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

convivae,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 2; cf.:

commodus comissator,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8; and:

commodus meis sodalibus,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 1:

homines,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 28:

mulier commoda, Faceta,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 10; cf. id. And. 5, 2, 3.—In a double sense with I. supra:

ubi tu commoda's, capillum commodum esse credito,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 98.— Poet., of the measure of iambic verse:

spondeos in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens,

sharing the paternal rights with them, in a fraternal manner, Hor. A. P. 257.—Hence,

Subst.: commŏdum, i, n.

A convenient opportunity, favorable condition, convenience (rare, but in good prose):

nostrum exspectare,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1:

cum tamdiu sedens meum commodum exspectet,

id. ib. 14, 2, 3;

12, 38, 1: velim aliquando, cum erit tuum commodum, Lentulum puerum visas,

when it shall be convenient for you, id. ib. 12, 28, 3.—More freq.,

In the connection commodo meo, tuo, etc., per commodum, ex commodo, at, or according to my, thy, etc., convenience, conveniently, at one ' s leisure:

etiamsi spatium ad dicendum nostro commodo vacuosque dies habuissemus,

according to our convenience, Cic. Verr. 1, 18, 56:

quod commodo tuo fiat,

id. Fam. 4, 2, 4; 1, 1, 3; id. Att. 13, 48, 1: suo commodo me convenire, Caes. ap. Cic. ib. 14, 1, 2:

ubi consul copias per commodum exponere posset,

Liv. 42, 18, 3:

tamquam lecturus ex commodo,

Sen. Ep. 46, 1; Col. 12, 19, 3;

so opp. festinanter,

id. 6, 2, 14.—

Advantage, profit (very freq. in all periods and species of composition):

commodum est, quod plus usus habet quam molestiae: bonum sincerum debet esse et ab omni parte innoxium,

Sen. Ep. 87, 36 sq.:

ut malis gaudeant atque ex incommodis Alterius sua ut comparent commoda,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 4:

ut ex illius commodo meum compararem commodum,

id. Heaut. 2, 4, 17; cf. id. Hec. 5, 3, 42; Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 23:

cui tam subito tot congruerint commoda,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:

(honestatem) ipsam suo splendore ad se animos ducere, nullo prorsus commodo extrinsecus posito, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Aug. contr. Ac. 3, 7, 15 (IV. 2, p. 470 Orell.): sequi matris commodum,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 31:

pacis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 335:

contra valetudinis commodum laborare,

to the injury of health, id. Mur. 23, 47:

mea,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 37:

in publica peccem,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3; cf.:

populi commoda,

Nep. Phoc. 4, 1.—

Specif., a reward, pay, stipend, salary, wages for public service: veteranorum, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 2, 3:

omnibus provincialibus ornamentis commodisque depositis,

emoluments, id. Red. in Sen. 14, 35; Suet. Ner. 32; cf.:

emeritae militiae,

id. Calig. 44; id. Aug. 49; cf. also id. Vit. 15; id. Galb. 12:

militibus commoda dare,

Ov. A. A. 1, 131 sq.:

tribunatus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 8, 1:

missionum,

Suet. Aug. 49.—

A favor, privilege, immunity, Suet. Aug. 31; id. Claud. 19.—

A useful thing, a good:

commoda vitae,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87; Lucr. 3, 2; cf.:

cetera opinione bona sunt... proprietas in illis boni non est. Itaque commoda vocentur,

Sen. Ep. 74, 17:

inter commoda illas (divitias) numeratis: atqui eādem ratione ne commodum quidem erunt,

id. ib. 87, 29. —

Sometimes commodo or per commodum, adverb. antith. to that which is [p. 382] injurious, without injury or detriment:

ut regem reducas, quod commodo rei publicae facere possis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 3:

si per commodum reipublicae posset, Romam venisset,

Liv. 10, 25, 17.—

Concr., = commodatum, that which is lent, a loan:

qui forum et basilicas commodis hospitum, non furtis nocentium ornarent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6; cf. Isid. Orig. 5, 25, 16.—

Advv.:

commŏdum, adv. temp. (only in colloquial lang. and post-class. prose writers).

At a fit time, just in time, at the very nick, at the very moment, opportunely, seasonably ( = opportune, eukairôs):

ecce autem commodum aperitur foris,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 61:

commodum adveni domum,

id. Am. 2, 2, 37:

orditur loqui,

id. Trin. 5, 2, 12:

ipse exit Lesbonicus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 9: eukairôs ad me venit, cum haberem Dolabellam, Torquatus... commodum egeram diligentissime, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1; Symm. Ep. 2, 47. —

To designate a point of time that corresponds with another, or that just precedes it, just, just then, just now.

Absol.:

ad te hercle ibam commodum,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 3; Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 9:

Taurus, sectatoribus commodum dimissis, sedebat, etc.,

Gell. 2, 2, 2:

si istac ibis, commodum obviam venies patri,

just meet, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 107. —

With postquam or (more freq.) with cum in a parallel clause:

postquam me misisti ad portum cum luci simul, Commodum radiosus ecce sol superabat ex mari,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 41:

quom huc respicio ad virginem, Illa sese interea commodum huc advorterat,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 52:

commodum discesseras heri, cum Trebatius venit,

Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:

emerseram commodum ex Antiati in Appiam, cum in me incurrit Curio,

id. ib. 2, 12, 2 B. and K. (al. commode); so with the pluperf. and a foll. cum, id. ib. 13, 19, 1; 13, 30, 2; 10, 16, 1; App. M. 1, p. 107, 15:

adducitur a Veneriis Lollius commodum cum Apronius e palaestrā redisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 61 B. and K. (Zumpt, commode):

cum jam filiae nostrae dies natalis appeteret, commodum aderant, quae muneri miseratis,

Symm. Ep. 3, 50. —

commŏdŏ, adv. temp., = commodum, a., just in time, seasonably, just at this time (ante-class. and very rare): commodo eccum exit, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 177 P. (i. e. in tempore, Charis.): commodo de parte superiore descendebat, Sisenn. ib.: commodo dictitemus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 174; cf. id. ib. p. 177.—

commŏdē, adv.

(Acc. to commodus, I.) Duly, properly, completely, rightly, well, skilfully, neatly, etc. (class.):

suo quique loco viden' capillus satis compositu'st commode?

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97: commode amictus non sum, id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 18, 12, 3:

saltare, Nep. praef. § 1: legere,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 3; cf. in comp., id. ib. 9, 34, 1:

multa breviter et commode dicta,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1; cf. id. de Or. 1, 53, 227; id. Rosc. Am. 4, 9; Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 20; 1, 2, 33 al.:

cogitare,

id. Heaut. prol. 14:

audire,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

valere,

Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 11:

feceris commode mihique gratum, si, etc.,

Cic. Att. 10, 3 fin.:

commode facere, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 11, 7, 7; in comp.:

commodius fecissent tribuni plebis, si, etc.,

id. Agr. 3, 1, 1.—In medic.:

commode facere,

to do well, be beneficial, Cels. 4, 12.—

(Acc. to commodus, II.)

Conveniently, suitably, opportunely, fitly, aptly, appropriately:

magis commode quam strenue navigavi,

Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1:

ille satis scite et commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

id. Fam. 11, 16, 1:

vos istic commodissime sperem esse,

id. ib. 14, 7, 2:

explorat, quo commodissime itinere valles transiri possit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 49 fin.:

hoc ego commodius quam tu vivo,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 110; cf.:

consumere vitiatum commodius quam integrum,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91; Quint. 6, 3, 54:

cui commodissime subjungitur,

id. 9, 3, 82; cf. id. 4, 1, 76.—

In a friendly manner, pleasantly, gently, kindly:

acceptae bene et commode eximus,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 1; id. Poen. 1, 2, 190; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 48.—

(Equiv. to commodum, adv. b.) Just, just at the moment when, etc.; only v.l. in the doubtful passages cited supra, commodum, b. fin.

Commŏdus, i, m., a Roman cognomen; so L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus, Roman emperor, Lampr. Commod. 1 sq.; Eutr. 8, 15 al.—Hence,

Commŏdĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Commodus: horti, Lampr. Commod. 8:

thermae,

Spart. Nigid. 6 al. —

Commŏ-dĭus, a, um, adj., the same:

Nonae,

Lampr. Commod. 12; cf. id. ib. 11.—

Commŏ-dus, a, um, adj., the same: mensis, i. e. August, which Commodus wished to name after himself, Lampr. Commod. 11.

com-mŏdus, a, um, adj., that has a due or proper measure; hence,

Object., complete, perfect, of full weight or measure, fit, suitable, due, proper, etc. (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose;

most freq. in Plaut.): statura,

a tall stature, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 21:

capillus,

id. Most. 1, 3, 98:

viginti argenti minae,

full twenty, id. As. 3, 3, 134 (cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 144: minae bonae); id. Merc. 2, 3, 101:

talentum argenti,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 31; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 266, 27:

novem cyathis commodis miscentur pocula,

Hor. C. 3, 19, 12:

alimenta,

Dig. 34, 1, 16, § 1:

capitis valetudo commodior,

more firm, Cels. 8, 1; Quint. 6, 3, 77;

and transf. to the person: vivere filium atque etiam commodiorem esse,

to be better, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 4.—

Subject., suitable, fit, convenient, opportune, commodious, easy, appropriate for some one or something, favorable, friendly to (in every period and species of composition); constr. with dat. or absol., rarely with ad (v. the foll.).

Of things.

With dat.

Of the purpose or use:

curationi omnia commodiora,

Liv. 30, 19, 5:

nec pecori opportuna seges nec commoda Baccho,

Verg. G. 4, 129.—

Of the person:

hoc et vobis et meae commodum famae arbitror,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 9:

quod erit mihi bonum et commodum,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 81:

nulla lex satis commoda omnibus est (corresp. with prodesse),

Liv. 34, 3, 5:

primordia eloquentiae mortalibus,

Tac. Or. 12:

hanc sibi commodissimam belli rationem judicavit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85:

quae sit stella homini commoda, quaeque mala,

Prop. 2 (3), 27, 4.—

Absol.:

hiberna,

Liv. 42, 67, 8:

longius ceterum commodius iter,

id. 22, 2, 2; cf.:

commodissimus in Britanniam transjectus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 2:

commodius anni tempus,

Cic. Att. 9, 3, 1; cf. Ter. And. 5, 2, 3:

faciliore ac commodiore judicio,

Cic. Caecin. 3, 8:

litterae satis commodae de Britannicis rebus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 25:

mores,

id. Lael. 15, 54:

commodissimum esse statuit, omnes naves subduci, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11.—

With or without dat. pers. in the phrase commodum est, it pleases, is agreeable, = libet:

proinde ut commodum est,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 8; 3, 1, 2: dum erit commodum, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 38:

si id non commodum est,

id. Eun. 3, 2, 49; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 37; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 33 Ascon.; 2, 2, 16, § 39; 2, 1, 26, § 65; 2, 3, 70, § 165; id. Div. 1, 49, 111; id. de Or. 3, 23, 87; Plin. Pan. 48, 1:

id si tibi erit commodum, cures velim,

Cic. Att. 13, 48, 2; Cels. 4, 4; 4, 22.—

With ad and acc. of purpose (very rare):

nec satis ad cursus commoda vestis Erat,

Ov. F. 2, 288.—

With sup. in u (rare):

hoc exornationis genus... commodum est auditu,

Auct. Her. 4, 18, 26.—

Of persons, serving a neighbor or (more freq.) accommodating one ' s self to his wishes, useful, serviceable, pleasant, agreeable, obliging, neighborly, friendly, polite, affable, gentle, etc.:

mihi commodus uni,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 9; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 227:

quemquamne existimas Catone commodiorem, communiorem, moderatiorem fuisse ad omnem rationem humanitatis?

Cic. Mur. 31, 66:

commodior mitiorque,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 39:

Apronius, qui aliis inhumanus ac barbarus, isti uni commodus ac disertus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

convivae,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 2; cf.:

commodus comissator,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8; and:

commodus meis sodalibus,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 1:

homines,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 28:

mulier commoda, Faceta,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 10; cf. id. And. 5, 2, 3.—In a double sense with I. supra:

ubi tu commoda's, capillum commodum esse credito,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 98.— Poet., of the measure of iambic verse:

spondeos in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens,

sharing the paternal rights with them, in a fraternal manner, Hor. A. P. 257.—Hence,

Subst.: commŏdum, i, n.

A convenient opportunity, favorable condition, convenience (rare, but in good prose):

nostrum exspectare,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1:

cum tamdiu sedens meum commodum exspectet,

id. ib. 14, 2, 3;

12, 38, 1: velim aliquando, cum erit tuum commodum, Lentulum puerum visas,

when it shall be convenient for you, id. ib. 12, 28, 3.—More freq.,

In the connection commodo meo, tuo, etc., per commodum, ex commodo, at, or according to my, thy, etc., convenience, conveniently, at one ' s leisure:

etiamsi spatium ad dicendum nostro commodo vacuosque dies habuissemus,

according to our convenience, Cic. Verr. 1, 18, 56:

quod commodo tuo fiat,

id. Fam. 4, 2, 4; 1, 1, 3; id. Att. 13, 48, 1: suo commodo me convenire, Caes. ap. Cic. ib. 14, 1, 2:

ubi consul copias per commodum exponere posset,

Liv. 42, 18, 3:

tamquam lecturus ex commodo,

Sen. Ep. 46, 1; Col. 12, 19, 3;

so opp. festinanter,

id. 6, 2, 14.—

Advantage, profit (very freq. in all periods and species of composition):

commodum est, quod plus usus habet quam molestiae: bonum sincerum debet esse et ab omni parte innoxium,

Sen. Ep. 87, 36 sq.:

ut malis gaudeant atque ex incommodis Alterius sua ut comparent commoda,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 4:

ut ex illius commodo meum compararem commodum,

id. Heaut. 2, 4, 17; cf. id. Hec. 5, 3, 42; Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 23:

cui tam subito tot congruerint commoda,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:

(honestatem) ipsam suo splendore ad se animos ducere, nullo prorsus commodo extrinsecus posito, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Aug. contr. Ac. 3, 7, 15 (IV. 2, p. 470 Orell.): sequi matris commodum,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 31:

pacis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 335:

contra valetudinis commodum laborare,

to the injury of health, id. Mur. 23, 47:

mea,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 37:

in publica peccem,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3; cf.:

populi commoda,

Nep. Phoc. 4, 1.—

Specif., a reward, pay, stipend, salary, wages for public service: veteranorum, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 2, 3:

omnibus provincialibus ornamentis commodisque depositis,

emoluments, id. Red. in Sen. 14, 35; Suet. Ner. 32; cf.:

emeritae militiae,

id. Calig. 44; id. Aug. 49; cf. also id. Vit. 15; id. Galb. 12:

militibus commoda dare,

Ov. A. A. 1, 131 sq.:

tribunatus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 8, 1:

missionum,

Suet. Aug. 49.—

A favor, privilege, immunity, Suet. Aug. 31; id. Claud. 19.—

A useful thing, a good:

commoda vitae,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87; Lucr. 3, 2; cf.:

cetera opinione bona sunt... proprietas in illis boni non est. Itaque commoda vocentur,

Sen. Ep. 74, 17:

inter commoda illas (divitias) numeratis: atqui eādem ratione ne commodum quidem erunt,

id. ib. 87, 29. —

Sometimes commodo or per commodum, adverb. antith. to that which is [p. 382] injurious, without injury or detriment:

ut regem reducas, quod commodo rei publicae facere possis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 3:

si per commodum reipublicae posset, Romam venisset,

Liv. 10, 25, 17.—

Concr., = commodatum, that which is lent, a loan:

qui forum et basilicas commodis hospitum, non furtis nocentium ornarent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6; cf. Isid. Orig. 5, 25, 16.—

Advv.:

commŏdum, adv. temp. (only in colloquial lang. and post-class. prose writers).

At a fit time, just in time, at the very nick, at the very moment, opportunely, seasonably ( = opportune, eukairôs):

ecce autem commodum aperitur foris,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 61:

commodum adveni domum,

id. Am. 2, 2, 37:

orditur loqui,

id. Trin. 5, 2, 12:

ipse exit Lesbonicus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 9: eukairôs ad me venit, cum haberem Dolabellam, Torquatus... commodum egeram diligentissime, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1; Symm. Ep. 2, 47. —

To designate a point of time that corresponds with another, or that just precedes it, just, just then, just now.

Absol.:

ad te hercle ibam commodum,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 3; Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 9:

Taurus, sectatoribus commodum dimissis, sedebat, etc.,

Gell. 2, 2, 2:

si istac ibis, commodum obviam venies patri,

just meet, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 107. —

With postquam or (more freq.) with cum in a parallel clause:

postquam me misisti ad portum cum luci simul, Commodum radiosus ecce sol superabat ex mari,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 41:

quom huc respicio ad virginem, Illa sese interea commodum huc advorterat,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 52:

commodum discesseras heri, cum Trebatius venit,

Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:

emerseram commodum ex Antiati in Appiam, cum in me incurrit Curio,

id. ib. 2, 12, 2 B. and K. (al. commode); so with the pluperf. and a foll. cum, id. ib. 13, 19, 1; 13, 30, 2; 10, 16, 1; App. M. 1, p. 107, 15:

adducitur a Veneriis Lollius commodum cum Apronius e palaestrā redisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 61 B. and K. (Zumpt, commode):

cum jam filiae nostrae dies natalis appeteret, commodum aderant, quae muneri miseratis,

Symm. Ep. 3, 50. —

commŏdŏ, adv. temp., = commodum, a., just in time, seasonably, just at this time (ante-class. and very rare): commodo eccum exit, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 177 P. (i. e. in tempore, Charis.): commodo de parte superiore descendebat, Sisenn. ib.: commodo dictitemus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 174; cf. id. ib. p. 177.—

commŏdē, adv.

(Acc. to commodus, I.) Duly, properly, completely, rightly, well, skilfully, neatly, etc. (class.):

suo quique loco viden' capillus satis compositu'st commode?

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97: commode amictus non sum, id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 18, 12, 3:

saltare, Nep. praef. § 1: legere,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 3; cf. in comp., id. ib. 9, 34, 1:

multa breviter et commode dicta,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1; cf. id. de Or. 1, 53, 227; id. Rosc. Am. 4, 9; Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 20; 1, 2, 33 al.:

cogitare,

id. Heaut. prol. 14:

audire,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

valere,

Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 11:

feceris commode mihique gratum, si, etc.,

Cic. Att. 10, 3 fin.:

commode facere, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 11, 7, 7; in comp.:

commodius fecissent tribuni plebis, si, etc.,

id. Agr. 3, 1, 1.—In medic.:

commode facere,

to do well, be beneficial, Cels. 4, 12.—

(Acc. to commodus, II.)

Conveniently, suitably, opportunely, fitly, aptly, appropriately:

magis commode quam strenue navigavi,

Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1:

ille satis scite et commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

id. Fam. 11, 16, 1:

vos istic commodissime sperem esse,

id. ib. 14, 7, 2:

explorat, quo commodissime itinere valles transiri possit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 49 fin.:

hoc ego commodius quam tu vivo,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 110; cf.:

consumere vitiatum commodius quam integrum,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91; Quint. 6, 3, 54:

cui commodissime subjungitur,

id. 9, 3, 82; cf. id. 4, 1, 76.—

In a friendly manner, pleasantly, gently, kindly:

acceptae bene et commode eximus,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 1; id. Poen. 1, 2, 190; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 48.—

(Equiv. to commodum, adv. b.) Just, just at the moment when, etc.; only v.l. in the doubtful passages cited supra, commodum, b. fin.

Commŏdus, i, m., a Roman cognomen; so L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus, Roman emperor, Lampr. Commod. 1 sq.; Eutr. 8, 15 al.—Hence,

Commŏdĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Commodus: horti, Lampr. Commod. 8:

thermae,

Spart. Nigid. 6 al. —

Commŏ-dĭus, a, um, adj., the same:

Nonae,

Lampr. Commod. 12; cf. id. ib. 11.—

Commŏ-dus, a, um, adj., the same: mensis, i. e. August, which Commodus wished to name after himself, Lampr. Commod. 11.

ĭdōnĕus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. root indh-, idh-, to kindle; prop. bright, conspicuous; cf. Idus], fit for something (esp. for an action), meet, proper, becoming, suitable, apt, capable, convenient, sufficient (of persons and things; class. and very freq. in prose and poetry; syn.: aptus, opportunus); constr. most commonly with ad, qui, the dat., or absol.; less freq. with in aliquid, the abl., or the inf.

With ad:

tot quidem non potuisti adducere homines magis ad hanc rem idoneos, etc.,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 6:

non essem ad ullam causam idoneus, judices, si hoc non viderem,

Cic. Clu. 6, 17:

ad amicitiam esse idoneus,

id. Lael. 17, 62:

loco pro castris ad aciem instruendam opportuno atque idoneo,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8, 3:

cum statim auditoris animum nobis idoneum reddimus ad audiendum,

Auct. Her. 1, 4, 6:

est enim (lex) ratio mensque sapientis, ad jubendum et ad deterrendum idonea,

Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 8:

scientia opportunitatis idoneorum ad agendum temporum,

id. Off. 1, 40, 142:

ad captandos lacertos tempestates non sunt idoneae,

id. Att. 2, 6, 1:

consilia idonea ad hoc nostrum negotium,

id. ib. 5, 6, 1 al.—

With qui, or a rel. adverb:

video hercle ego te me arbitrari, Euclio, hominem idoneum, Quem senecta aetate ludos facias,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 74; cf. Ter. And. 3, 2, 12; 4, 4, 18:

utrum ille (Pompeius) idoneus non est, qui impetret, etc.,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

tibi fortasse idoneus fuit nemo, quem imitarere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 41:

idonea mihi Laelii persona visa est, quae de amicitia dissereret,

id. Lael. 1, 4:

et rem idoneam, de qua quaeratur, et homines dignos, quibuscum disseratur, putant,

id. Ac. 2, 6, 18:

nequeo mearum rerum initium ullum invenire idoneum, Unde exordiar narrare, quae, etc.,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 1.—

With dat.:

erit alius (discipulus) historiae magis idoneus,

Quint. 2, 8, 7; 12, 10, 49:

idoneus arti Cuilibet,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

non sat idoneus Pugnae ferebaris,

id. C. 2, 19, 26:

vixi puellis nuper idoneus,

id. ib. 3, 26, 1:

cum idoneos rhetori pueros putaverunt,

Quint. 2, 3, 1:

Falernum mihi semper idoneum visum est deversorio,

Cic. Fam. 6, 19, 1:

castris idoneum locum deligit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 10, 2; 7, 35, 4:

ad cibos viribus conservandis idoneos redeunt,

Quint. 2, 10, 6:

(volunt poëtae) simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitae,

Hor. A. P. 334: metuensque futuri In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello, id. S. 2, 2, 111:

ut patriae sit idoneus,

serviceable, Juv. 14, 71.—With dat. gerundi (post-Aug.):

Julius, qui perferendis militum mandatis habebatur idoneus,

Tac. A. 1, 23 fin. —

Absol.:

cujus (Cethegi) eloquentiae est auctor, et idoneus quidem mea sententia, Q. Ennius, etc.,

a proper, sufficient voucher, Cic. Brut. 15, 57:

auctor,

Quint. 1, 4, 20; 2, 4, 42:

qui si adductus gratia minus idoneum hominem praemio affecisset, etc.,

i. e. deserving, worthy, Cic. Balb. 3, 7; cf. id. Off. 2, 15, 54:

idoneus suae rei quisque defensor,

Quint. 4, 1, 46:

imperator,

id. 12, 3, 5:

juvenis,

id. 10, 5, 21: debitor, safe, able to pay (opp. inops), Dig. 4, 4, 27 fin.; so,

tutor,

ib. 26, 1, 9; 27, 8, 1:

homines,

ib. 35, 2, 88; cf. Sen. Ben. 4, 39:

servi conscii, tempus idoneum, locus opportune captus ad eam rem,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

tempora,

Quint. 12, 11, 18; cf.:

lex promulgata idoneo die,

id. 2, 4, 35:

minus idoneis (verbis) uti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 154; cf.:

aptum atque idoneum verbum,

Quint. 9, 4, 144:

vox actoris,

id. 12, 7, 1:

lectio,

id. ib. 8 praef. §

28: cautio,

Dig. 40, 4, 50:

paries,

safe, sound, ib. 39, 2, 36:

navis,

ib. 19, 2, 13:

pignora,

sufficient, satisfactory, ib. 22, 1, 33.— Comp. (post-class.):

si persona idoneior accedat ad emptionem,

Dig. 18, 2, 4, § 6; cf. ib. 47, 23, 2; 43, 29, 3; 50, 6, 5 fin.; Tert. adv. Herm. 18; Anim. 18 (al. idonior or idoneor). — Subst.:

in deligendis idoneis judicium et diligentiam adhibere,

Cic. Off. 2, 18, 62:

cum idoneis collocutus,

Liv. 34, 25, 7:

nullo idoneo respondente,

Suet. Ner. 44; Quint. 7, 4, 39:

novum illud exemplum a dignis et idoneis ad indignos et non idoneos transfertur,

Sall. C. 51, 27:

per idoneos et secreti ejus socios,

Tac. A. 2, 39:

apud idonea provinciarum,

i. e. at proper stations, id. ib. 4, 5.—

With in and acc.:

infirmi et in nullam spem idonei,

Sen. Contr. 5, 33:

componere materias in hoc idoneas, ut, etc.,

Quint. 6, 3, 15.—

With abl. (like dignus):

res idoneas dignitate suā judicare,

Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5.—

With inf. ( poet. and postclass.):

fons etiam rivo dare nomen idoneus,

i. e. large enough, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 12:

si torrere jecur quaeris idoneum,

id. C. 4, 1, 12:

accendi idonea,

Sen. N. Q. 1, 15, 1.— Comp.:

idoneor (late Lat.),

Dig. 18, 2, 4, § 6; 47, 23, 2; Tert. adv. Herm. 18; id. de Anim. 18.—Hence, adv.: ĭdōnĕē, fitly, suitably, properly, duly, sufficiently (very rare):

exordium est oratio animum auditoris idonee comparans ad reliquam dictionem,

Cic. Inv. 1, 15, 20:

ergo cavendum est idonee. Quid est idonee? Satisdato utique aut pignoribus datis,

enough, Dig. 40, 5, 4:

cavere,

ib. 5, 3, 41; 27, 8, 1:

magis idonee reficere parietem,

more safely, solidly, ib. 39, 2, 41.— Comp.:

idonius,

Tert. Pall. 3 med.