duty

bōs, bŏvis (prob. orig. form of nom. bŏ-vis, like bovare for boare, Petr. 62, 13; cf. Varr L. L. 8, § 74 Müll., where, acc. to Cod. B., the read. should be: nunc in consuetudine aliter dicere pro Jovis Juppiter, pro Bovis Bos, pro Strus Strues.—Hence, gen. plur. bŏvĕrum, Cato, R. R. 62 Schneid. N. cr.; cf. Varr. L. L. l. l.: alios dicere Boum greges, alios Boverum; v. Juppiter, nux, rex, sus, and Schneid. Gr. 2, p. 171.— Regular gen. boum very freq.;

uncontracted form bovum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 9, 16 Halm; Cod. Sang. Colum. 6, 17, 6; 6, 37, 11, and Cod. Reg. ib. 6, 38, 4; cf. Prisc. p. 773 P.— Dat. plur. contr. bōbus, Hor. C. 3, 6, 43; id. C. S. 49; id. Epod. 2, 3; Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159, twice; cf. Prisc. p. 773 sq. P.; but more freq. and class. būbus, even Cato, R. R. 6, 3; 54, 1; 54, 60; 54, 70; 54, 73;

once bŭbŭs,

Aus. Epigr. 62, 2; cf.

on the other hand,

Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 86.—Exs. of the uncontracted form bovibus are entirely. wanting; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 280 sqq.; 1, 289), comm.; generally masc. in prose (hence, femina bos, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17; Liv. 25, 12, 13; 27, 37, 11; Col. 6, 24, 3; Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 186; Tac. G. 40) [from the root bo-, prop. the roaring, kindr. with Gr. bous, bôs; Sanscr. gō, gu].

An ox, a bull, a cow; described by Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176 sq.; Cato, R. R. 70 sq.; Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 1; 2, 1, 12 sq.; 2, 5, 7.—In gen.: quia boves bini hic sunt in crumenā, [p. 248] i. e. the price of them, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 16:

Olympiae per stadium ingressus esse Milo dicitur, cum umeris sustineret bovem,

Cic. Sen. 10, 33:

consimili ratione venit bubus quoque saepe Pestilitas,

Lucr. 6, 1131:

quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo Sit pecori,

Verg. G. 1, 3:

bos est enectus arando,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 87; Verg. G. 3, 50 sq.; Col. lib. 6; Pall. Mart. 11, 1 sq.—In fem.:

actae boves,

Liv. 1, 7, 6:

bove eximiā captā de grege,

id. 1, 7, 12; Ov. M. 8, 873; so,

torva,

Verg. G. 3, 52:

cruda,

Hor. Epod. 8, 6:

intactae,

id. ib. 9, 22:

formosa,

Ov. M. 1, 612:

incustoditae,

id. ib. 2, 684:

vidisti si quas Boves,

id. ib. 2, 700:

forda, fecunda,

id. F. 4, 630 and 631 al. —Prov.: bovi clitellas imponere, to put a pack - saddle upon an ox, i. e. to assign one a duty for which he is not qualified, old Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 5, 15, 3 (in the form non nostrum onus:

bos clitellas (sc. portabat),

Quint. 5, 11, 21 Spald.); cf.:

optat ephippia bos, piger optat arare caballus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 43; and Amm. 16, 5, 10.—Humorously, for a whip cut from neat ' s leather, a raw hide:

ubi vivos homines mortui incursant boves,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 20: bos Lucas, the elephant; v. Lucani, D.—

A kind of sea-fish of the genus of the turbot, Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78; Ov. Hal. 94; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 54, § 152.

căpesso ( căpisso, Pac. ap. Non. p. 227, 1), īvi (Sall. H. 3, 68 Dietsch; Tac. A. 15, 49), or ii (Tac. A. 12, 30: capessi, given by Diom. p. 367 P., and by Charis. ap. Prisc. p. 902 ib., but apparently erroneously; cf. Struve, p. 198, and lacesso), ītum (acc. to Prisc. l. l. part. fut. capessiturus, Tac. A. 6, 48), 3, v. desid. a. [capio].

Lit., to seize, take, or catch at eagerly, to snatch at, lay hold of (capesso = desidero capere, Prisc. l. l.;

rare but class.): alia animalia cibum partim oris hiatu et dentibus ipsis capessunt, partim unguium tenacitate adripiunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

pastus,

id. ib.:

arma,

Verg. A. 3, 234; Ov. M. 11, 378.—

Of relations of place, to strive to reach a place or limit, to betake one ' s self to, to go to, to repair or resort to; constr. usu. with acc.; ante-class. [p. 283] also capere se in or ad aliquem locum.

With acc.:

omnes mundi partes undique medium locum capessentes nituntur aequaliter,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 115:

superiora capessere,

id. Tusc. 1, 18, 42:

Melitam,

id. Att. 10, 9, 1:

Italiam,

Verg. A. 4, 346:

turris,

id. ib. 11, 466:

montem,

Val. Fl. 4, 316:

aethera,

Sil. 4, 480.—

Se in or ad aliquem locum:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6:

nunc pergam... me domum capessere,

id. Am. 1, 1, 106; Titin. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 346.—

With adverb. dat.:

quo nunc capessis te,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 5; id. Rud. 1, 2, 89; 1, 2, 83.—

Trop.

To take hold of any thing with zeal, to take upon one ' s self, take in hand, to undertake, enter upon, engage in, execute, manage (the most usu. signif.; cf. I. A.): Pac. ap. Non. p. 227, 1:

nunc ad senem cursum capessam,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 9:

viam,

Liv. 44, 2, 8:

alicujus imperia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 23:

jussa,

to perform, execute, Verg. A. 1, 77; Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 4; so, capessere rem publicam, to undertake affairs of state, to engage in public affairs, administer (differing, by the idea of zealous co-operation and activity, from accedere ad rem publicam, which designates merely the entering upon a public office or duty), Cic. Sest. 6, 14; id. de Or. 3, 29, 112; id. Att. 1, 17, 10; 16, 7, 7; Sall. C. 52, 5; id. J. 85, 47; Nep. Them. 2, 1; Liv. 3, 69, 5; Tac. A. 1, 24; 12, 41; 16, 26; id. H. 4, 5; 4, 39; Suet. Tib. 25; Quint. 12, 3, 1:

civitatem,

Plin. Pan. 39, 5:

orbem terrae,

Tac. A. 11, 34; 12, 5:

magistratus,

id. Agr. 6:

imperium,

id. A. 13, 4; 14, 26:

vigintiviratum,

id. ib. 3, 29:

provincias,

id. ib. 6, 27:

officia in republică,

id. ib. 6, 14 Halm:

curas imperii,

Plin. Pan. 66, 2:

laborem cum honoribus,

Sall. H. 1, 48, 9 Dietsch:

bellum,

Liv. 26, 25, 5:

pugnam,

to commence, id. 2, 6, 8; 10, 5, 4; Tac. A. 12, 30; id. H. 3, 16; 5, 17:

proelium,

Just. 2, 12:

partem belli,

Liv. 31, 28, 4:

partem pugnae,

id. 26, 5, 15:

fugam,

to take to flight, id. 1, 25, 7:

principium facinoris,

Tac. A. 15, 49:

inimicitias,

id. ib. 5, 11:

noctem in castris tutam et vigilem,

to pass, id. ib. 4, 48:

divorsa,

Sall. H. 3, 68 Dietsch:

tuta et salutaria,

to adopt, Tac. A. 15, 29:

parata,

id. ib. 6, 37:

meliora,

id. ib. 6, 48 et saep.:

libertatem,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 2 Dietsch; Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19: recta, * Hor. S. 2, 7, 7.—

Esp., to lay hold of with the mind, to comprehend, understand:

in capessendis naturae sensibus,

Gell. 12, 1, 11.—

To betake one ' s self to, enter upon (cf. I. B.):

quam (filius) se ad vitam et quos ad mores praecipitem inscitus capessat,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 2.—

With the idea of completed action, to attain to, to reach a person or thing: neque (te) posse corde capessere, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v 44 Vahl.).

dē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( inf. sync. decesse, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32; Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; Neue Formenl. 2, 536. The part. perf. decessus perh. only Rutil. Nam. 1, 313), v. n., to go away, depart, withdraw. (For syn. cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, destituo, deficio, discedo, excedo. Often opp. to accedo, maneo; freq. and class.)—Constr. absol. with de, ex, or merely the abl.; rarely with ab.

Lit.

In gen.:

decedamus,

Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 74:

de altera parte (agri) decedere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10:

decedit ex Gallia Romam Naevius,

Cic. Quint. 4, 16:

e pastu,

Verg. G. 1, 381; cf.:

e pastu decedere campis,

id. ib. 4, 186:

ex aequore domum,

id. ib. 2, 205;

Italiā,

Sall. J. 28, 2:

Numidiā,

id. ib. 38, 9:

Africā,

id. ib. 20, 1;

23, 1: pugnā,

Liv. 34, 47:

praesidio,

id. 4, 29 (cf.:

de praesidio,

Cic. de Sen. 20, 73):

quae naves paullulum suo cursu decesserint,

i. e. had gone out of their course, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 3; so,

cum luminibus exstinctis decessisset viā,

had gone out of the way, Suet. Caes. 31:

pantherae constituisse dicuntur in Cariam ex nostra provincia decedere,

Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2.

Esp.

t. t.

In milit. lang., to retire, withdraw from a former position:

qui nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat ex his regionibus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19;

so,

absol., id. ib. 1, 44 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 50:

de colle,

Caes. B. C. 1, 71, 3:

de vallo,

id. B. G. 5, 43, 4:

inde,

id. B. C. 1, 71 fin.:

loco superiore,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9; so with abl., Auct. B. Alex. 34; 35 (twice); 70 al.—

In official lang.: de provincia, ex provincia, provinciā, or absol. (cf. Cic. Planc. 26, 65), to retire from the province on the expiration of a term of office:

de provincia decessit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20;

so,

id. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Fam. 2, 15 (twice); Liv. 29, 19 Drak.:

decedens ex Syria,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61; so,

e Cilicia,

id. Brut. 1:

ex Africa,

Nep. Cato, 1, 4:

ex Asia,

id. Att. 4, 1:

ex ea provincia,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 Zumpt N. cr.:

ut decedens Considius provinciā,

Cic. Lig. 1, 2; Liv. 39, 3; 41, 10:

te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse,

Cic. Fam. 3, 6; so absol., id. Planc. 26, 65 al.:

Albinus Romam decessit,

Sall. J. 36 fin.; cf.:

Romam ad triumphum,

Liv. 8, 13; 9, 16. —Rarely with a:

cui cum respondissem, me a provincia decedere: etiam mehercule, inquit, ut opinor, ex Africa,

Cic. Planc. 26 fin.

Decedere de viā; also viā, in viā alicui, alicui, or absol., to get out of the way, to give place, make way for one (as a mark of respect or of abhorrence):

concedite atque abscedite omnes: de via decedite,

Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 1; cf.:

decedam ego illi de via, de semita,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 80 (Cic. Clu. 59. [p. 517] 163; cf. II. B infra); cf.:

qui fecit servo currenti in viā decesse populum,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 32:

censorem L. Plancum via sibi decedere aedilis coegit,

Suet. Ner. 4; cf. id. Tib. 31:

sanctis divis, Catul. 62, 268: nocti,

Verg. Ec. 8, 88:

peritis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216 (cf.:

cedere nocti,

Liv. 3, 60, 7).—Also, to get out of the way of, avoid:

decedere canibus de via,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.:

hi numero impiorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum defugiunt, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 7.—By zeugma, in the pass.:

salutari, appeti, decedi, assurgi, deduci, reduci, etc.,

Cic. de Sen. 18, 63.

Pregn., to depart, disappear (cf.: cedo, concedo).

Of living beings, to decease, to die:

si eos, qui jam de vita decesserunt,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:

vitā,

Dig. 7, 1, 57, § 1; Vulg. 2 Mac. 6, 31; but commonly absol.:

pater nobis decessit a. d. VIII. Kal. Dec.,

id. Att. 1, 6:

cum paterfamiliae decessit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 3; Nep. Arist. 3, 2, and 3; id. Cim. 1; id. Ages. 8, 6; Liv. 1, 34; 9, 17; Quint. 3, 6, 96 et saep.:

cruditate contracta,

id. 7, 3, 33:

morbo aquae intercutis,

Suet. Ner. 5 fin.:

paralysi,

id. Vit. 3:

ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte decedere,

Nep. Timol. 1, 6.—

Of inanimate things, to depart, go off; to abate, subside, cease:

corpore febres,

Lucr. 2, 34:

febres,

Nep. Att. 22, 3; Cels. 3, 3; cf.:

quartana,

Cic. Att. 7, 2 (opp. accedere):

decessisse inde aquam,

run off, fallen, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; cf.:

decedere aestum,

id. 26, 45; 9, 26 al.:

de summa nihil decedet,

to be wanting, to fail, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 30; Cic. Clu. 60, 167; cf.:

quicquid libertati plebis caveretur, id suis decedere opibus credebant,

Liv. 3, 55:

decedet jam ira haec, etsi merito iratus est,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55 (for which ib. 5, 2, 15: cito ab eo haec ira abscedet):

postquam invidia decesserat,

Sall. J. 88, 1; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 16 al.:

priusquam ea cura decederet patribus,

Liv. 9, 29; so with dat., id. 2, 31; 23, 26; Tac. A. 15, 20; 44.— Poet.:

incipit et longo Scyros decedere ponto,

i. e. seems to flee before them, Stat. Ach. 2, 308.—In the Aug. poets sometimes of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set:

et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras,

Verg. E. 2, 67; so id. G. 1, 222; Ov. M. 4, 91; hence also of the day, to depart:

te veniente die, te decedente canebat,

Verg. G. 4, 466;

also of the moon,

to wane, Gell. 20, 8, 7.

Trop.

De possessione, jure, sententia, fide, etc. (and since the Aug. per. with abl. alone;

the reading ex jure suo,

Liv. 3, 33, 10, is very doubtful), to depart from; to give up, resign, forego; to yield, to swerve from one's possession, station, duty, right, opinion, faith, etc.

With de:

cogere aliquem de suis bonis decedere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17 fin.; cf.:

de hypothecis,

id. Fam. 13, 56, 2;

and de possessione,

id. Agr. 2, 26;

de suo jure,

id. Rosc. Am. 27; id. Att. 16, 2:

qui de civitate decedere quam de sententia maluit,

id. Balb. 5:

de officio ac dignitate,

id. Verr. 1, 10:

de foro decedere,

to retire from public life, Nep. Att. 10, 2:

de scena,

to retire from the stage, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf. impers.:

de officio decessum,

Liv. 8, 25 fin. —

With abl. alone (so usually in Liv.):

jure suo,

Liv. 3, 33 fin.:

sententiā,

Tac. A. 14, 49:

instituto vestro,

Liv. 37, 54:

officio (opp. in fide atque officio pristino fore),

id. 27, 10; 36, 22:

fide,

id. 31, 5 fin.; 34, 11; 45, 19 al.:

poema... si paulum summo decessit, vergit ad imum,

Hor. A. P. 378.—

Very rarely with ab:

cum (senatus) nihil a superioribus continuorum annorum decretis decesserit,

Cic. Fl. 12.—

Absol.: si quos equites decedentis nactus sum, supplicio adfeci, Asin. Pol. ap. C. Fam. 10, 32, 5.

De via, to depart, deviate from the right way:

se nulla cupiditate inductum de via decessisse,

Cic. Cael. 16, 38:

moleste ferre se de via decessisse,

id. Clu. 59, 163; so,

viā dicendi,

Quint. 4, 5, 3.

(acc. to no. I. B. 2) To give way, yield to another (i. e. to his will or superior advantages—very rare):

vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213:

ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt,

are not inferior, id. Od. 2, 6, 15.

( poet.) To avoid, shun, escape from (cf. I. B. 2 supra): nec serae meminit decedere nocti, to avoid the late night, i. e. the coldness of night, Varius ap. Macr. S. 6, 2, 20; Verg. Ecl. 8, 88; id. G. 3, 467:

calori,

id. ib. 4, 23.

To fall short of, degenerate from:

de generis nobilitate,

Pall. 3, 25, 2: a rebus gestis ejus et gloriae splendore, Justin. 6, 3, 8.

For the simple verb (v. cedo, no. I. 2), to go off, turn out, result in any manner:

prospere decedentibus rebus,

Suet. Caes. 24.

dĕcŭrĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [decuria], to divide into decuriae.

Prop.:

equites decuriati, centuriati pedites,

Liv. 22, 38, v. preced. art.—Esp. to divide the people into companies or clubs for purposes of bribery and corruption:

servorum delectus habebatur... cum vicatim homines conscriberentur, decuriarentur,

Cic. Sest. 15:

decuriasse Plancium, conscripsisse, etc.,

id. Planc. 18, 45; cf. ib. 19, 47; id. Phil. 7, 6, 18; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5, and v. decuriatio.—

Trop.:

vertex incrementis lustralibus decuriatus,

i. e. of a man ten lustres old, Mart. Cap. 1, p. 1.

dĕcŭrĭo, ōnis (also DECURES decuriones, Paul. ex Fest. p. 71, 22, and 75, 9 Müll.;

and DECVRIONVS, the same,

ib. 49, 16), m. [id.], the head or chief of a decuria, a decurion. The name was first given by Romulus to the head of the tenth part of a curia (cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, p. 354). In the army, the commander of a decuria of cavalry, Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Müll.; Veget. Mil. 2, 14; Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 13; Tac. A. 13, 40; id. H. 2, 29. After the extension of the Roman dominion, the members of the senate of the municipia and the colonies were called decuriones, Dig. 50, 16, 239; 50, 2; Cod. Just. 10, 31; Cic. Sest. 4, 10; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; id. Clu. 14, 41; Vulg. Marc. 15, 43.—Sometimes i. q. praefectus, applied to the overseer of the persons employed in any duty about the court, e. g. a head-chamberlain:

cubiculariorum,

Suet. Dom. 17, PROCVLVS DECVRIO GERMANORVM (i. e. custodum corporis) TI. GERMANICI, Inscr. Orell. 2923.

dēfensor, ōris, m., rar. f. [id.].

One who fends, wards, averts, or keeps off:

necis,

Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

periculi,

id. Mur. 2.—

A defender, protector.

In gen. (for syn. cf.:

tutor, praeses, vindex, cognitor, curator, patronus, advocatus, causidicus): paterni juris,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244; cf. id. Mil. 15:

juris et libertatis, id. Rab. perd. 4, 12: octo tribuni plebis, illius adversarii, defensores mei,

id. Mil. 15; cf. Hor. S. 2, 5, 30;

opp. petitor,

Quint. 4, 2, 132:

bonus,

id. 5, 13, 3 et saep.;

opp. accusator,

id. 7, 2, 31; 5, 13, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82 et saep.; cf. patronus. Once fem.:

mulier defensor alicujus,

Dig. 16, 1, 2 fin.:

canes defensores,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9.—

Esp. in plur., defensores, the garrison:

oppidum vacuum ab defensoribus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 12; id. ib. 3, 25 et saep.; Sall. J. 23; Liv. 21, 11; Verg. A. 2, 521; Ov. M. 13, 274 et saep.—

Defensor civitatis, or plebis, or loci, in the later period of the empire (since 365 A.D.), title of a magistrate in the provincial cities, whose chief duty was to afford protection against oppression on the part of the governor;

he was likewise endowed with a subordinate civil jurisdiction,

Cod. Theod. 1, 11; Cod. Just. 1, 55; Just. Inst. 1, 20, 5.—

Of inanimate subjects, as the guards (sublicae) of a bridge, Caes. B. G. 4, 17 fin.

dē-linquo, līqui, lictum, 3 ( perf. delinquerunt, Liv. 1, 32 codd.), v. n. and a., to fail, be wanting.

Lit., to fail, be lacking, for the usual deficere (cf. 1. deliquium, = defectus—very rare): delinquere frumentum, Cael. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 390: delinquat aut superet aliquid tibi, Tubero ib.—

Trop. (class.), to fail, be wanting in one's duty; to commit a fault, to do wrong, transgress, offend; and, delinquere aliquid, to commit, do something wrong.

Absol.:

QVOD POPVLVS HERMVNDVLVS HOMINESQVE POPVLI HERMVNDVLI ADVERSVS POPVLVM ROMANVM BELLVM FECERE DELIQVERVNTQVE, etc., an old formula used in declaring war,

Gell. 16, 4; cf. id. ap. Liv. 1, 32:

an quia non delinquunt viri?

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 41:

ut condemnaretur filius aut nepos, si pater aut avus deliquisset?

Cic. N. D. 3, 38:

mercede delinquere (opp. gratis recte facere),

Sall. Hist. Fragm. 3, 61, 5 Dietsch:

in vita,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 4 fin.; cf.:

in bello miles,

id. Clu. 46; and:

hac quoque in re,

id. Inv. 2, 10, 33:

in ancilla,

Ov. M. 2, 8, 9:

deliquere homines adulescentuli per ambitionem,

Sall. C. 52, 26:

paulum deliquit amicus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 84:

multo jam ut praestet laxitate delinquere,

Plin. 17, 12, 19, § 94.—Of errors in language, Quint. 1, 5, 49.—

With acc. respect.:

dum caveatur praeter aequum ne quid delinquat,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 14; so,

quid,

id. Men. 5, 2, 30; id. Ps. 4, 7, 129; Cic. Agr. 2, 36 fin.; Sall. C. 51, 12:

quae,

id. J. 28, 4:

quid erga aliquem,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 9:

quid ego tibi deliqui?

id. Am. 2, 2, 185.—With object. acc.:

flagitia,

Tac. A. 12, 54 fin.; cf.:

multo majora deliquit,

Vulg. 2 Par. 33, 23.— Pass.:

adulterium quod pubertate delinquitur,

Dig. 48, 5, 38; cf. delictum.— Pass. impers.:

ut nihil a me adhuc delictum putem,

Cic. Att. 9, 10 fin.; Gell. 5, 4, 2.

dē-posco, pŏposci, 3, v. a., to demand, require, request earnestly (freq. and class.).

In gen.:

unum ab omnibus sociis et civibus ad id bellum imperatorem deposci atque expeti,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5; cf. id. 15, 44:

id non modo non recusem, sed etiam appetam atque deposcam,

id. Phil. 3, 13, 33;

so opp. recusare,

id. Fl. 38 fin.:

sibi naves,

Caes. B. C. 1, 56, 3:

pugnam,

Suet. Oth. 9; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 1; 2, 1, 3:

pericula (opp. detrectare),

Tac. Agr. 11 et saep. — Absol.:

de proelio cogitandum, sicut semper depoposcimus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85 fin.:

omnibus pollicitationibus deposcunt, qui belli initium faciant,

id. B. G. 7, 1, 5.—

In partic.

To demand, request for one's self the performance of any duty or business:

sibi id muneris,

Caes. B. C. 1, 57:

tibi partis istas,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 45:

primas sibi partes,

Suet. Calig. 56:

illam sibi officiosam provinciam,

Cic. Sull. 18 fin.; cf.:

consulatum sibi,

Suet. Aug. 26:

sibi has urbanas insidias caedis atque incendiorum,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 6:

coloniam tutandam,

Suet. Vit. 1.—

To demand a person, in order to bring him to punishment:

aliquem ad mortem,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 5; cf.:

aliquem ad supplicium,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 38, 3:

aliquem ad poenam,

Suet. Tit. 6:

aliquem morti,

Tac. A. 1, 23:

ad ducem ipsum in poenam foederis rupti deposcendum,

Liv. 21, 6:

auctorem culpae,

id. 21, 10; cf.

Hannibalem,

Just. 32, 4, 8:

ausum Talia deposcunt,

Ov. M. 1, 200; Luc. 5, 296 et saep.: altera me deposcere putabatur, to demand my death, Cic. post red. in Sen. 13, 33.—

( Transf. from the gladiator's t. t.) To call out, challenge one to fight, Liv. 2, 49, 2; cf.

hostes,

Val. Fl. 5, 635.

dēsignātor or dissignātor (the latter form freq. in inscrr., and preferred by Brambach; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Corp. Inscr. Lat. pp. 597, 768), ōris, m. [id.], one who regulates or arranges; a regulator.—As a t. t.,

An officer whose duty it was to assign seats in the theatre, Plaut. Poen. prol. 19.—

A master of ceremonies at funerals; an undertaker, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Sen. Ben. 6, 38; Tert. Spectac. 10; Inscr. Orell. 934; cf. Don. Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7.—

An umpire at public spectacles, i. q. Gr. brabeutês, Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 1; Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2.

dē-sum, fŭi, esse (ee in deest, deesse, deerit, etc., in the poets per synaeresin as one syll., Lucr. 1, 44; Cat. 64, 151; Verg. G. 2, 233; id. A. 7, 262; 10, 378; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 24; Ov. M. 15, 354 et saep.; praes. subj., desiet, Cato R. R. 8; perf., defuerunt, trisyl., Ov. M. 6, 585; fut. inf., commonly defuturum esse, as Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2, etc.;

also defore,

id. Fam. 13, 63; Caes. B. G. 5, 56; Sil. 9, 248; imperf. subj., deforent, Ambros. Hexaem. 3, 13), v. n., to be away, be absent; to fail, be wanting (for syn. cf.: absum, deficio, descisco, negligo; freq. in all periods).

In gen.

Absol.:

non ratio, verum argentum deerat,

Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 69:

frigore enim desunt ignes ventique calore Deficiunt,

Lucr. 6, 360: cf. id. 3, 455; Cato R. R. 8:

omnia deerant, quae, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 29 fin.:

semper paullum ad summam felicitatem defuisse,

id. ib. 6, 43, 5:

ibi numquam causas seditionum et certaminis defore,

Liv. 45, 18:

quod non desit habentem, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 52 et saep.:

non desunt qui, for sunt qui,

Quint. 4, 5, 11; 8, 3, 85; Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248.—

With dat. (so most freq.):

metuo mihi in monendo ne defuerit oratio,

Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 3 and 4:

cui nihil desit, quod, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17; cf. id. Lael. 14, 51:

sive deest naturae quippiam, sive abundat atque affluit,

id. Div. 1, 29, 61:

quantum alteri sententiae deesset animi, tantum alteri superesse,

Caes. B. C. 2, 31; so,

opp. superesse,

Cic. Fam. 13, 63; cf.

opp. superare,

Sall. C. 20, 11:

neu desint epulis rosae,

Hor. Od. 1, 36, 15; id. Ep. 1, 1, 58 et saep.:

hoc unum ad pristinam fortunam Caesari defuit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.; cf. id. B. C. 3, 2, 2; 3, 96, 2. —

With in:

ut neque in Antonio deesset hic ornatus orationis, neque in Crasso redundaret,

Cic. de Or. 3, 4 fin.; id. Rep. 2, 33:

in C. Laenio commendando,

id. Fam. 13, 63 al. —

With inf. ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

et mihi non desunt turpes pendere corollae,

Prop. 1, 16, 7; Sil. 6, 10; Tac. H. 4, 1 al.—

With quominus:

duas sibi res, quominus in vulgus et in foro diceret, defuisse,

Cic. Rep. 3, 30 fin. (ap. Non. 262, 23); Tac. A. 14, 39.—

With quin:

nihil contumeliarum defuit, quin subiret,

Suet. Ner. 45.—

With ut:

non defuit, ut, etc.,

Capitol. Gord. III. 31.—

Pregn., to fail, be wanting in one's duty, as in rendering assistance, etc.; not to assist or serve, to desert one, to neglect a person or thing.

With dat.:

tantum enitor, ut neque amicis neque etiam alienioribus opera, consilio, labore desim,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17; cf. id. Mur. 4 fin.:

ne tibi desis,

that you be not wanting to yourself, neglect not your own advantage, id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; id. Fam. 5, 12, 2; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 56; 2, 1, 17; 1, 4, 134:

senatu reique publicae,

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

communi saluti nulla in re,

id. B. G. 5, 33, 2:

Timotheo de fama dimicanti,

Nep. Timoth. 4, 3:

huic rei,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93, 2:

negotio,

id. ib. 2, 41, 3:

decori vestro,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24:

officio et dignitati meae,

id. Att. 7, 17, 4; Liv. 3, 50:

tempori,

id. 21, 27; cf.:

occasioni temporis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79 et saep.—

Without dat.:

non deest reipublicae consilium... nos, nos, dico aperte, consules desumus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1 fin.; id. Rep. 3, 21:

qui non deerat in causis,

id. Brut. 34, 130:

nec deerat Ptolemaeus,

Tac. H. 1, 22 fin. —

To fall short of, miss, fail to obtain:

ne quis desit gratiae Dei,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 15.

ē-văgor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a.

Neutr., to wander forth, to roam about; to scatter or spread about, to extend (class.).

Lit.:

ne longius evagatae (incubantes gallinae) refrigerent ova,

Col. 8, 5, 14:

cappari evagatur per agros,

Plin. 19, 8, 48, § 163:

Nilus,

id. 10, 33, 49, § 94:

ignis ulterius,

Dig. 9, 2, 30, § 3.—

In milit. lang., to march to and fro, make evolutions, manœuvre:

nullo ad evagandum relicto spatio,

Liv. 22, 47, 3; 23, 47, 5.—

Trop., to spread, extend, digress: qui appetitus longius evagantur, * Cic. Off. 1, 29, 102:

late evagata est vis morbi,

Liv. 3, 7 fin.:

latissime evagandi sibi viam facere (exempla),

Vell. 2, 3, 4:

ne Demostheni permittant evagari,

Quint. 3, 6, 3; so of wandering, digressing in speaking, id. 2, 4, 32; 3, 11, 25;

of overstepping the limits of duty: procuratores,

Spart. Hadr 3 § 9.—

Act., to stray beyond, [p. 666] to overstep any thing:

ordinem,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 10.

ē-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to call out, call forth; to bring out, draw forth (class. —syn. invito, cito, etc.).

Lit.

In gen.:

(Tullia) evocavit virum e curia,

Liv. 1, 48:

gubernatorem a navi huc,

Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 12:

aliquem huc foras,

id. Cas. 2, 3, 54; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 29; id. Poen. 1, 2, 46:

hinc foras,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 22:

intus foras,

id. Men. 1, 3, 35; id. Ps. 2, 2, 10:

aliquem ante ostium,

id. Men. 4, 2, 111:

mercatores undique ad se,

to call together, summon, Caes. B. G. 4, 20, 4; cf.:

aliquem litteris,

Cic. Att. 2, 24:

nostros ad pugnam,

to call out, challenge, Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 2.—

Transf., of inanimate things (mostly post-Aug.):

sucum quasi per siphonem,

Col. 9, 14, 15; cf.:

materiam ad extremas partes fricatione,

Cels. 4, 14:

abortum,

Plin. 28, 19, 77, § 251:

ut in longitudinem potius quam in latitudinem evocetur (salix),

Col. 4, 31, 2; cf.:

vitis evocata ad fructum,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 182.—

In partic.

Relig. t. t.: deum, to call a deity out of a besieged city, Liv. 1, 55, 4; 5, 21, 5; cf. Macr. S. 3, 9, 2; Dig. 1. 8, 9.—

In civil and milit. lang., to call out, summon to appear, sc. soldiers to military service:

(Metellus) evocat ad se Centuripinorum magistratus et decemprimos,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 67; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 28:

senatum omnem ad se Decetiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

principes cujusque civitatis ad se,

id. ib. 5, 54, 1; cf. id. B. C. 1, 35, 1:

omnes (senatores),

id. ib. 1, 3, 1:

centuriones,

id. ib. 1, 3, 4 et saep.:

nominatim nobilissimum et fortissimum quemque ex omnibus civitatibus,

id. ib. 1, 39, 2; cf. id. B. G. 3, 20, 2; 5, 4, 2; 7, 39, 1:

reliquas legiones ex hibernis,

id. B. C. 1, 8, 1:

equites ex municipiis,

id. ib. 1, 23, 2:

hanc (legionem) initio tumultus,

id. ib. 1, 7 fin.:

magnam partem oppidanorum ad bellum,

id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; cf. id. ib. 7, 44 fin.:

multos undique spe praemiorum,

id. B. C. 1, 3, 2; cf. id. B. G. 6, 34, 8; Liv. 4, 9 al.—

Trop.:

probitas non praemiorum mercedibus evocata,

called forth, elicited, Cic. Fin. 2, 31; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 20:

misericordia nullius oratione evocata,

called forth, produced, Cic. Deiot. 14, 40; cf.

indicium,

Plin. 28, 4, 12, § 47:

iram, Sen. de Ira, 3, 8: risum lugentibus,

id. Ep. 29:

ad aliquem honorem evocatus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 57, 3:

eas (tacitas cogitationes) evocat in medium,

Liv. 9, 17: aliquem in saevitiam ac violentiam, Sen. de Ira, 3, 5; cf.:

aliquem in laetitiam,

id. ib. 2, 21 al.; cf. Gron. Sen. Ep. 47, 17.—Hence, Part.: ēvŏcā-tus, a, um; as subst. (cf. evoco, B. 2.): ēvŏcāti, ōrum, m., soldiers who, having served out their time, were called upon to do military duty as volunteers, veterans, Caes. B. G. 7, 65 fin.; Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 5; Sall. C. 59, 3; Suet. Aug. 56 al.

ē-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to call out, call forth; to bring out, draw forth (class. —syn. invito, cito, etc.).

Lit.

In gen.:

(Tullia) evocavit virum e curia,

Liv. 1, 48:

gubernatorem a navi huc,

Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 12:

aliquem huc foras,

id. Cas. 2, 3, 54; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 29; id. Poen. 1, 2, 46:

hinc foras,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 22:

intus foras,

id. Men. 1, 3, 35; id. Ps. 2, 2, 10:

aliquem ante ostium,

id. Men. 4, 2, 111:

mercatores undique ad se,

to call together, summon, Caes. B. G. 4, 20, 4; cf.:

aliquem litteris,

Cic. Att. 2, 24:

nostros ad pugnam,

to call out, challenge, Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 2.—

Transf., of inanimate things (mostly post-Aug.):

sucum quasi per siphonem,

Col. 9, 14, 15; cf.:

materiam ad extremas partes fricatione,

Cels. 4, 14:

abortum,

Plin. 28, 19, 77, § 251:

ut in longitudinem potius quam in latitudinem evocetur (salix),

Col. 4, 31, 2; cf.:

vitis evocata ad fructum,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 182.—

In partic.

Relig. t. t.: deum, to call a deity out of a besieged city, Liv. 1, 55, 4; 5, 21, 5; cf. Macr. S. 3, 9, 2; Dig. 1. 8, 9.—

In civil and milit. lang., to call out, summon to appear, sc. soldiers to military service:

(Metellus) evocat ad se Centuripinorum magistratus et decemprimos,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 67; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 28:

senatum omnem ad se Decetiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

principes cujusque civitatis ad se,

id. ib. 5, 54, 1; cf. id. B. C. 1, 35, 1:

omnes (senatores),

id. ib. 1, 3, 1:

centuriones,

id. ib. 1, 3, 4 et saep.:

nominatim nobilissimum et fortissimum quemque ex omnibus civitatibus,

id. ib. 1, 39, 2; cf. id. B. G. 3, 20, 2; 5, 4, 2; 7, 39, 1:

reliquas legiones ex hibernis,

id. B. C. 1, 8, 1:

equites ex municipiis,

id. ib. 1, 23, 2:

hanc (legionem) initio tumultus,

id. ib. 1, 7 fin.:

magnam partem oppidanorum ad bellum,

id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; cf. id. ib. 7, 44 fin.:

multos undique spe praemiorum,

id. B. C. 1, 3, 2; cf. id. B. G. 6, 34, 8; Liv. 4, 9 al.—

Trop.:

probitas non praemiorum mercedibus evocata,

called forth, elicited, Cic. Fin. 2, 31; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 20:

misericordia nullius oratione evocata,

called forth, produced, Cic. Deiot. 14, 40; cf.

indicium,

Plin. 28, 4, 12, § 47:

iram, Sen. de Ira, 3, 8: risum lugentibus,

id. Ep. 29:

ad aliquem honorem evocatus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 57, 3:

eas (tacitas cogitationes) evocat in medium,

Liv. 9, 17: aliquem in saevitiam ac violentiam, Sen. de Ira, 3, 5; cf.:

aliquem in laetitiam,

id. ib. 2, 21 al.; cf. Gron. Sen. Ep. 47, 17.—Hence, Part.: ēvŏcā-tus, a, um; as subst. (cf. evoco, B. 2.): ēvŏcāti, ōrum, m., soldiers who, having served out their time, were called upon to do military duty as volunteers, veterans, Caes. B. G. 7, 65 fin.; Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 5; Sall. C. 59, 3; Suet. Aug. 56 al.

ex-ĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a. [ago], to drive out or forth, to thrust out, to take or turn out.

Lit.

In gen.:

reges ex civitate,

to expel, Cic. de Or. 2, 48, 199:

hostem e campo,

Liv. 3, 61, 8: exigor patria, Naev. ap. Non. 291, 4:

aliquem domo,

Liv. 39, 11, 2:

aliquem campo,

id. 37, 41, 12:

omnes foras,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 7:

adcolas ultra famam,

Plin. 2, 68, 68, § 175:

exacti reges,

driven away, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37; cf.:

Tarquinio exacto,

id. Rep. 1, 40:

anno post Tarquinios exactos,

Tac. A. 11, 22:

Orestes exactus furiis,

driven, tormented, Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 70:

virum a se,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 62:

uxorem,

to put away, divorce, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 45; Suet. Caes. 50; id. Claud. 26; cf.: illam suam (uxorem) suas res sibi habere jussit ex duodecim tabulis; claves ademit;

exegit,

turned her out of the house, Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69: aliquem vitā, i. e. to kill, Sen. de Ira, 1, 6: corpus e stratis, to raise up or out, Sil. 16, 234:

maculam,

to take out, Suet. Aug. 94: et sacer admissas exigit Hebrus aquas, pours out into the sea, Ov. H. 2, 114; of weapons, to thrust from one, thrust, drive:

non circumspectis exactum viribus ensem Fregit,

thrust, impelled, Ov. M. 5, 171; so,

ensem,

Luc. 8, 656; cf.:

ensem per medium juvenem,

plunges through the middle, Verg. A. 10, 815:

gladium per viscera,

Flor. 4, 2, 68:

tela in aliquem,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16;

hence: aliquem hastā,

i. e. to thrust through, transfix, Val. Fl. 6, 572.—Mid.:

quae (hasta) cervice exacta est,

passed out, passed through, Ov. M. 5, 138: prope sub conatu adversarii manus exigenda, to be put forth, raised (for a blow), Quint. 6, 4, 8 Spald.:

(capellas) a grege in campos, hircos in caprilia,

to drive out, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 8:

sues pastum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 6:

radices altius,

to send out, Cels. 5, 28, 14; cf.:

vitis uvas,

Col. 3, 2, 10; 3, 6, 2; Cels. 8, 1 med. —

In partic.

A scenic t. t., to drive off, i. e. hiss off a piece or a player from the stage (rare):

spectandae (fabulae) an exigendae sint vobis prius,

Ter. And. prol. 27 Ruhnk.; so, fabulas, id. Hec. prol. alt. 4; id. ib. 7.—

To demand, require, enforce, exact payment of a debt, taxes, etc., or the performance of any other duty (very freq.;

syn.: posco, postulo, flagito, contendo, etc.): ad eas pecunias exigendas legatos misimus,

Cic. Fam. 13, 11, 1: pecunias a civitatibus, id. Div. ap. Caecil. 10, 33:

acerbissime pecunias imperatas,

Caes. B. C. 3, 32; cf. id. ib. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Pis. 16, 38; id. N. D. 3, 34, 84:

quaternos denarios,

id. Font. 5, 9:

tributa,

id. Fam. 3, 7, 3:

pensionem,

id. ib. 6, 18, 5:

nomina sua,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 28:

mercedem,

id. Lael. 21, 80 et saep.:

equitum peditumque certum numerum a civitatibus Siciliae,

Caes. B. C. 1, 30, 4:

obsides ab Apolloniatibus,

id. ib. 3, 12, 1:

viam,

to demand the construction of a road, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154; Liv. 42, 3, 7:

a quoquam ne pejeret,

Juv. 13, 36.—Esp.: rationem, to exact an account:

ut Athenienses rationibus exigendis non vacarent,

Val. Max. 3, 1, ext. 1; Plin. Ep. 10, 81, 1:

libertorum nomina a quibus ratio exigi posset,

Suet. Aug. 101 fin. —

In pass.: exigor aliquid, to be solicited, dunned for money, etc. (post-class.): exigor portorium, id est, exigitur de me portorium, Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 14, 5; id. ap. Non. 106, 24: (Rib. Com. Fragm. p. 51): sese pecunias maximas exactos esse, Q. Metell. Numid. ap. Gell. 15, 14, 2; Dig. 23, 4, 32.—

To examine, inquire into (post-Aug.):

nec illae (conjuges) numerare aut exigere plagas pavent,

Tac. G. 7 fin. (so Ritter, Halm, with all MSS., cf. Holzmann ad loc.; al. exugere, said to have been the read. of a lost codex, the Arundelianus; cf. exsugo); cf.:

exactum et a Titidio Labeone, cur omisisset, etc.,

id. A. 2, 85.—

Of places, to go or pass beyond, to pass by, leave behind ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

cum primus equis exegit anhelis Phoebus Athon,

Val. Fl. 2, 75; cf. Prop. 3, 20, 11 (4, 20, 3 M.):

Troglodytae hibernum mare exigunt circa brumam,

Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 87.—

In mercant. lang., to dispose of, sell:

agrorum exigere fructus,

Liv. 34, 9, 9 Drak.: mercibus exactis, Col. poët. 10, 317. —

Mathemat. t. t., to apply to a standard or measure, i. e. to examine, try, measure, weigh by any thing:

ad perpendiculum columnas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 133:

materiam ad regulam et libellam,

Plin. 36, 25, 63, § 188:

pondus margaritarum sua manu,

Suet. Caes. 47; cf.:

aliquid mensura,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159.

Trop.

In gen., to drive out, expel (very rare):

locus, Ubi labore lassitudo exigunda ex corpore,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 4: frigus atque horrorem vestimentis, Lucil. ap. Non. 291, 8.—Far more freq. and class.,

In partic.

(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To require, demand, claim any thing due:

ego vero et exspectabo ea quae polliceris, neque exigam, nisi tuo commodo,

Cic. Brut. 4, 17:

aliquid exigere magis quam rogare,

id. Fam. 2, 6, 1:

longiores litteras exspectabo vel potius exigam,

id. ib. 15, 16, 1:

omnibus ex rebus voluptatem quasi mercedem,

id. Fin. 2, 22, 73:

ab hoc acerbius exegit natura quod dederat,

demanded back, reclaimed, id. Tusc. 1, 39, 93 Klotz.:

non ut a poëta, sed ut a teste veritatem exigunt,

id. Leg. 1, 1, 4:

has toties optata exegit gloria poenas,

has cost, Juv. 10, 187:

poenas,

to take vengeance, id. 10, 84:

de vulnere poenas,

Ov. M. 14, 478: poenam (alicui), Sen. de Ira, 2, 22 fin.; Ov. F. 4, 230:

gravia piacula ab aliquo,

Liv. 29, 18, 18 et saep.—With ut:

exigerem ex te cogeremque, ut responderes,

Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119; 4, 28, 80; cf.:

Calypso exigit fata ducis,

questions, inquires into, Ov. A. A. 2, 130:

exactum a marito, cur, etc.,

Tac. A. 2, 85:

exigite ut mores seu pollice ducat,

Juv. 7, 237 sq. —With an object-clause:

exigimus potuisse eum eo tempore testamentum facere,

Dig. 29, 7, 8; 24, 3, 2.— Absol.:

in exigendo non acerbum,

Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64:

cum res exiget,

Quint. 5, 11, 5; 10, 3, 3; cf.:

ut res exiget,

id. 12, 10, 69:

si communis utilitas exegerit,

id. 12, 1, 37.— Esp.: rationem, to require an account:

rerum gestarum,

Just. 19, 2, 6:

numquid rationem exiges, cum tibi aliquis hos dixerit versus?

an explanation, Sen. Ep. 94, 28; Plin. Ep. 19, 9.—

Of time, life, etc., to lead, spend, pass, complete, finish:

non novisse quicum aetatem exegerim,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 111; id. Capt. 3, 5, 62:

tecum aetatem,

id. Mil. 4, 2, 48; 4, 6, 60; id. Cas. 2, 5, 12:

ut te dignam mala malam aetatem exigas,

id. Aul. 1, 1, 4: vitam taetre, Cat. Or. inc. 15; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 39:

cum maerore graviorem vitam,

Sall. J. 14, 15; 85, 49; Plin. 7, 44, 45, § 139; Vitr. 2, 1, 4; Val. Max. 3, 5, 4 al.:

vitae tempus,

Sen. Ep. 2, 2; Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 6:

jam ad pariendum temporibus exactis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 48: qui exacta aetate moriuntur, at the close of the vigorous period of life, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; id. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 21; Sall. J. 6, 2; Liv. 2, 40, 11 al.:

mediam dies exegerat horam,

Ov. Am. 1, 5, 1:

aevum,

Lucr. 4, 1235; Verg. A. 7, 777; Ov. M. 12, 209:

tristissimam noctem,

Petr. 115:

diem supremum noctemque,

Tac. A. 3, 16:

ullum tempus jucundius,

Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 1:

jam aestatem exactam esse,

Sall. J. 61, 1:

per exactos annos,

at the end of every year, Hor. C. 3, 22, 6:

exacto per scelera die,

Tac. H. 1, 47; id. A. 3, 16; so,

exacto quadriennio,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 130; Verg. G. 3, 190; Stat. S. 2, 2, 47.—

To conduct, urge forward, superintend, drive:

opus,

Ov. M. 14, 218; Col. 3, 13, 11.—

To bring to an end, to conclude, finish, complete a thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

exegi monumentum aere perennius,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 1:

opus,

Ov. R. Am. 811; id. M. 15, 871:

exactus tenui pumice versus eat,

Prop. 3, 1, 8; Verg. A. 6, 637:

commentarii ita sunt exacti, ut, etc.,

Quint. 10, 7, 30:

eandem gracilitatem stilo exigere condiscant,

to reach, attain to, id. 1, 9, 2.—

To determine, ascertain, find out:

sociisque exacta referre,

his discoveries, Verg. A. 1, 309:

non prius exacta tenui ratione saporum,

before he has ascertained, Hor. S. 2, 4, 36.— Pass. impers.:

non tamen exactum, quid agat,

Ov. F. 3, 637; cf. id. Am, 3, 7, 16. —

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) To weigh, try, prove, measure, examine, adjust, estimate, consider, = examinare, ponderare (class. but perh. not in Cic.): si ad illam summam veritatem legitimum jus exegeris, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1; cf.: nolite ad vestras leges atque instituta exigere ea, quae Lacedaemone fiunt, to estimate by the standard of, etc., Liv. 34, 31, 17; so,

opus ad vires suas,

Ov. A. A. 2, 502:

si omnia argumenta ad obrussam coeperimus exigere,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 5, 1; cf.:

principatus tuus ad obrussam exigitur,

id. de Clem. 1, 1, 6:

se ad aliquem,

id. Ep. 11 fin.:

regulam emendate loquendi,

Quint. 1, 5, 2:

illa non nisi aure exiguntur, quae fiunt per sonos,

are judged of, id. 1, 5, 19; cf. id. 1, 4, 7.—

To treat, consult, deliberate respecting something, = considerare, deliberare (class. but not in Cic.): de his rebus ut exigeret cum eo, Furnio mandavi, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 7:

cum aliquo,

Plin. Ep. 6, 12, 3; cf.:

secum aliquid,

Verg. A. 4, 476; Ov. M. 10, 587; Sen. Ep. 27:

de aliqua re coram,

Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 13:

haec exigentes hostes oppressere,

Liv. 22, 49, 12:

quid dicendum, quid tacendum, quid differendum sit, exigere consilii est,

Quint. 6, 5, 5.—

To endure, undergo:

aerumnam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 12. —Hence, exactus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 5., measured; hence), precise, accurate, exact (poet and in post-Aug. prose):

difficile est, quot ceciderint, exacto affirmare numero,

Liv. 3, 5, 12:

acies falcis,

Plin. 17, 27, 42, § 251:

fides,

Ov. Pont. 4, 9, 46.— Comp.:

cura,

Suet. Tib. 18; Mart. 4, 87, 4. — Sup.:

diligentia,

Front. Aquaed. 89:

vir,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 5.—With gen.:

Mamurius, morum fabraene exactior artis, Difficile est dicere,

Ov. F. 3, 383.— Adv.: exacte, exactly, precisely, accurately:

ut exacte perorantibus mos est,

Sid. Ep. 7, 9.— Comp.: dicere, disserere, Mel. Prooem. § 2; Gell. 1, 3, 21.— Sup.:

pascere,

Sid. Ep. 5, 11.

ex-plĕo, ēvi, ētum, 2 (archaic form explenunt, for explent, acc. to Fest. p. 80; cf.: solinunt, nequinunt, danunt, for solent, nequeunt, dant; v. do, redeo and soleo init.; inf. praes. explerier, Lucr. 6, 21.—

Contracted form expleris,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205; Verg. A. 7, 766. explessent, Liv. 23, 22, 1; 37, 47, 7; inf. explesse, Verg. A. 2, 586 al.), v. a. [PLEO, whence plenus, compleo, suppleo].

To fill up, fill full, fill (class.).

Lit.:

fossam aggere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 79 fin.:

fossas,

id. ib. 82, 3; Dig. 39, 3, 24; cf.:

paludem cratibus atque aggere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 1:

neque inferciens verba, quasi rimas expleat,

Cic. Or. 69, 231:

vulnera,

Plin. 35, 6, 21, § 38:

cicatrices,

id. 36, 21, 42, § 156:

alopecias,

id. 34, 18, 55, § 177:

bovem strictis frondibus,

i. e. to give him his fill, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28:

se,

to fill, cram one's self, Plaut. Curc. 3, 16; Cels. 1, 2 fin.; cf.:

edim atque ambabus malis expletis vorem,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 74:

ut milites contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 3:

locum (cohortes),

i. e. to occupy completely, id. ib. 1, 45, 4:

explevi totas ceras quattuor,

have filled, written full, Plaut. Curc. 3, 40:

deum bonis omnibus explere mundum,

Cic. Univ. 3:

expleti (voce) oris janua raditur,

filled up, Lucr. 4, 532, v. Lachm. ad h. l.:

aliquem numerum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 4 fin.:

numerum,

Liv. 5, 10, 10; 24, 11, 4; Verg. A. 6, 545:

centurias,

to have the full number of votes, Liv. 37, 47, 7:

tribus,

id. 3, 64, 8:

justam muri altitudinem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 4:

His rebus celeriter id, quod Avarici deperierat, expletur,

is filled up, made good, id. ib. 7, 31, 4; Liv. 23, 22, 1:

sic explevit, quod utrique defuit,

Cic. Brut. 42, 154.—

Trop.

In gen., to fill up, complete, finish:

id autem ejusmodi est, ut additum ad virtutem auctoritatem videatur habiturum et expleturum cumulate vitam beatam,

make quite complete, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 42; cf.

damnationem,

id. Caecin. 10, 29:

partem relictam,

id. Off. 3, 7, 34: damna, Liv. 3, 68, 3; cf. id. 30, 5, 5:

explet concluditque sententias,

Cic. Or. 69, 230; cf.:

sententias mollioribus numeris,

id. ib. 13, 40:

animum gaudio,

Ter. And. 2, 2, 2.—

In partic.

To satisfy, sate, glut, appease a longing, or one who longs (the fig. being that of filling or stuffing with food):

quas (litteras Graecas) sic avide arripui quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens,

Cic. de Sen. 8, 26:

famem,

Phaedr. 4, 18, 5; cf.:

jejunam cupidinem,

Lucr. 4, 876: libidines (with satiare), Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 424, 30 (Rep. 6, 1); cf.:

explere cupiditates, satiare odium,

id. Part. Or. 27, 96:

libidinem,

id. Cael. 20, 49:

odium factis dictisque,

Liv. 4, 32, 12; Tac. A. 15, 52:

desiderium,

Liv. 1, 9, 15:

iram,

id. 7, 30, 15; cf.:

omnem exspectationem diuturni desiderii nostri,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205:

avaritiam pecuniā,

id. Rosc. Am. 52, 150; Tac. H. 2, 13:

spem omnium,

Just. 22, 8; Liv. 35, 44, 4; Suet. Aug. 75 fin. et saep.:

me,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 67; cf.:

non enim vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 1:

se caede diu optata,

Liv. 31, 24, 11:

tantum regem (divitiis),

Just. 9, 2:

aliquem muneribus,

Sall. J. 13, 6; 20, 1; Cic. Phil. 2, 20, 50:

omnis suos divitiis,

Sall. C. 51, 34:

animum suum (amore),

Ter. And. 1, 2, 17:

animum gaudio,

id. ib. 2, 2, 2; cf. id. Hec. 5, 1, 28; 5, 2, 19:

corda tuendo,

Verg. A. 8, 265; cf.:

expleri mentem nequit ardescitque tuendo Phoenissa,

id. ib. 1, 713:

expletur lacrimis dolor,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 38: alicujus crudelitatem sanguine, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 1, 52, 225.— And reflex.:

ut eorum agris expleti atque saturati cum hoc cumulo quaestus decederent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42 fin. — Poet.:

aliquem alicujus rei (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 463, and v. impleo): animumque explesse juvabit ultricis flammae,

to have sated the mind with the fire of revenge, Verg. A. 2, 586.—

To fulfil, discharge, execute, perform a duty:

amicitiae munus,

Cic. Lael. 19, 67:

susceptum rei publicae munus,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 35:

excusatione officium scribendi,

id. Fam. 16, 25:

mandatum,

Dig. 17, 1, 27.—

Of time, to complete, finish, bring to a close:

tum signis omnibus ad idem principium stellisque revocatis, expletum annum habeto,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22 fin.:

fatales annos,

Tib. 1, 3, 53:

quosdam in Aetolia ducentos annos explere,

Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 154:

explebat annum trigesimum,

Tac. H. 1, 48.

( Ex in privative signif.; v. ex, III. A.). To unload: navibus explebant sese terrasque replebant, i. e. disembarked, exonerabant se, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 545 (Ann. v. 310 ed. Vahl.).—Hence, ex-plētus, a, um, P. a., full, complete, perfect:

quod undique perfectum expletumque sit omnibus suis numeris ac partibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 37:

undique expleta et perfecta forma honestatis,

id. Fin. 2, 15, 48:

ea, quae natura desiderat, expleta cumulataque habere,

id. Off. 2, 5, 18:

expletum omnibus suis partibus,

id. Fin. 3, 9, 32:

vita animi corporisque expleta virtutibus,

id. ib. 5, 13, 37:

expleta rerum comprehensio,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21.— Absol.:

parum expleta desiderant,

Quint. 9, 4, 116.

fūsĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a pouring out (very rare).

In gen.:

sanguinis,

Ambros. in Psa. 48, Serm. 16, §

11: tenuis stellarum,

Vitr. 9, 7: Chrysippus ipsum mundum deum dicit esse et ejus animi fusio nem universam, an outpouring, effusion, * Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 39.—

In partic.

A melting, founding, casting of metals: si quis numum falsa fusione formaverit, Cod. Th. 9, 21, 3.—

(I. q. illatio publica.) A duty, Dig. 7, 1, 27, § 3 (al. functiones); Cod. Th. 11, 28, 6.

illātĭo ( inl-), ōnis, f. [infero], a carrying or bringing in (post-class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

mortui,

i. e. burying, interment, Dig. 11, 7, 2, § 3 al.: FERRI, Inscr. ap. Marin. Fratr. Arv. 43.—

In partic., an impost, duty:

auctae,

Cassiod. Var. 2, 16.—

Trop.

In gen.:

stupri,

i. e. a causing, committing, Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 1. —

In partic., a logical inference, conclusion:

vel illativum rogamentum. quod ex acceptionibus colligitur et infertur,

App. Dogm. Plat. 3, pp. 34, 15.

incumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, ĕre, v. n. [1. incubo], to lay one ' s self upon, to lean or recline upon a thing (cf. ingruo; class., partic. in the trop. sense).

Lit., constr. with in, ad, super, or dat.; also with the simple acc.:

olivae,

Verg. E. 8, 16:

in parietem,

Dig. 39, 2, 28:

densis ordinibus nunc alii in alios, nunc in scuta incumbentes sustinebant impetus Romanorum,

Liv. 35, 5, 7:

toro,

Verg. A. 4, 650:

materiae,

Curt. 8, 10, 25:

terrae,

Tac. A. 2, 17:

super praedam,

to lie upon, Petr. 80:

in eum,

Curt. 6, 9: ad vos, Ov. M. 9, 385:

cumulatis in aqua sarcinis insuper incumbebant,

Liv. 22, 2, 8:

validis incumbere remis,

Verg. A. 5, 15; 10, 294; Curt. 9, 9, 4.—Of the heavens:

cava in se convexitas vergit, et cardini suo, hoc est terrae, undique incumbit,

Plin. 2, 64, 64, § 160:

mare,

to cast itself into the sea, id. 5, 32, 40, § 141: fessi arma sua, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 229:

tecto incubuit bubo,

perched on, Ov. M. 6, 432:

gladium faciam culcitam, camque incumbam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 29.—

Transf., to lean or incline towards, to overhang; to rush towards:

silex prona jugo laevum incumbebat ad amnem,

Verg. A. 8, 236:

laurus incumbens arae,

id. ib. 2, 514: in gladium, to fall on one ' s sword, Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

gladio,

Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18:

ferro,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 33:

in hostem,

to press upon the enemy, Liv. 30, 34, 2; cf.:

duo duces circumstare urbem... et unum in locum totam periculi molem, omne onus incubuisse,

id. 27, 40, 6.—

Trop.

To press upon, burden, oppress, weigh upon:

incubuere (venti) mari,

Verg. A. 1, 84:

tempestas a vertice silvis incubuit,

id. G. 2, 311:

gravis incumbens scopulis aestas,

id. ib. 2, 377:

febrium terris incubuit cohors,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 30:

(aestus) incubuit populo,

Lucr. 6, 142. — Absol.:

saevior armis Luxuria incubuit,

Just. 6, 292.—

To bend one ' s attention to, to apply or devote one ' s self to, to exert one ' s self, or take pains with, pay attention to; constr. with in, ad, or dat.:

rogandis legibus,

Flor. 3, 16:

ceris et stilo,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 9:

labori,

Sil. 4, 820:

toto pectore novae cogitationi,

Tac. Or. 3:

et animo et opibus in bellum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

ut jam inclinato (judici) reliqua incumbat oratio,

press upon, exert influence on, Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 324; cf.:

invidia mihi incumbit,

Tac. A. 14, 54:

in aliquod studium,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

in causam,

id. Phil. 4, 5, 12:

acrius graviusque ad ulciscendas rei publicae injurias,

id. ib. 6, 1, 2:

tota mente in aliquam curam et cogitationem,

id. Fam. 10, 3, 3:

toto pectore ad laudem,

id. ib. 10, 12, 2:

omni cogitatione curaque in rem publicam,

id. ib. 1, 2:

fato urguenti incumbere,

to press on, hasten, Verg. A. 2, 653.—With inf.:

sarcire ruinas,

Verg. G. 4, 249:

delatorem pervertere,

Tac. H. 2, 10.—With ut and subj.:

Appius Claudius... cum suis tum totius nobilitatis viribus incubuit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 10, 15, 8.— Absol.:

nunc, nunc incumbere tempus,

Ov. M. 10, 657.—

To incline, choose, be inclined to, lean towards:

hoc servi esse officium reor,... non quo incumbat eum (i. e. erum) inpellere,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 8:

ut eos, qui audiunt, quocumque incubuerit, possit impellere,

whithersoever he may incline, choose, Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 55:

eodem incumbunt municipia,

are inclined the same way, id. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

ad voluntatem perferendae legis,

id. Att. 1, 19, 4:

voluntatum inclinatio ad virum bonum,

to lean towards, turn to, id. Mur. 26, 53: in causam, Cael. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3:

in cupiditatem,

Cic. Att. 5, 13, 3:

in illo,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6.—

To be incumbent upon one as a duty (post-class.):

accusandi necessitas domino,

Dig. 48, 2, 5:

ei probatio,

ib. 22, 3, 2:

judici omnium rerum officium,

ib. 21, 1, 25.

illātĭo ( inl-), ōnis, f. [infero], a carrying or bringing in (post-class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

mortui,

i. e. burying, interment, Dig. 11, 7, 2, § 3 al.: FERRI, Inscr. ap. Marin. Fratr. Arv. 43.—

In partic., an impost, duty:

auctae,

Cassiod. Var. 2, 16.—

Trop.

In gen.:

stupri,

i. e. a causing, committing, Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 1. —

In partic., a logical inference, conclusion:

vel illativum rogamentum. quod ex acceptionibus colligitur et infertur,

App. Dogm. Plat. 3, pp. 34, 15.