epithet

Ădōneus, ei, m. (trisyl.).

= Adonis, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 35; App. M. 2, p. 126.—

An epithet of Bacchus, Gr. Adôneus, eôs, Aus. Epigr. 30, 6; cf. id. ib. 28.

Ădōnēus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Adonis:

caedes,

Aus. Mon. de Histt. 3: lusus, Grut. Inscr. 1123, 7.

ap-pōno ( adp-, Ritschl, Fleck., Lachm., Baiter, Halm; app-, Merk., Kayser, K. and H., Weissenb.), pōsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a. ( perf. apposivi, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; App. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.; cf. pono), to place, put, or lay at, near or by the side of a thing; to apply to, add, unite, etc. (class. in prose and poetry; syn.: addo, adicio, adjungo).

Lit.

In gen.:

adpone hic mensulam,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150:

appositas instruxere epulis mensas,

Ov. M. 8, 570; so id. ib. 8, 831:

sitellam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 11: Sy. Onus urget. Mi. At tu adpone, put it down then, id. Poen. 4, 2, 35:

illam alteram apud me, quod bonist, adponito,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 60:

munera eorum illis apponentur,

Vulg. Bar 6, 26:

At istos rastros interea tamen adpone,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 37; so id. And. 4, 3, 10 al.:

aër Omnibus est rebus circumdatus adpositusque,

Lucr. 6, 1036; 3, 373:

omnes columnae machinā appositā dejectae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 144:

notam ad malum versum,

id. Pis. 30; so id. Fam. 13, 6; cf. Suet. Claud. 16: manus ad os (eorum more, qui secreto aliquid narrant, Manut.), Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1:

scalis appositis urbem defenderunt,

Liv. 37, 5:

adpositā aure ad glaciem,

Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 103: adpositum in mensā lumen, Tac. A. 2, 31:

paenulam ad vulnus,

Suet. Ner. 49 et saep.:

dominum Adpositum flavis in Simoenta vadis,

Prop. 2, 9, 12.—So freq. of the putting on of garments, crowns, etc.:

cur tamen appositā velatur janua lauro,

Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 39:

gemmas toris,

id. H. 9, 60 Loers; cf.

the same,

id. ib. 7, 100:

meretrix Appositā populum submovet ante serā,

id. Am. 3, 14, 10 (cf.:

ponere seram,

Juv. 6, 347):

candelam valvis,

i. e. to set fire to, Juv. 9, 98 al. —

Esp.

Freq. as t. t. of food, dishes, to serve up, set before one (cf. Gr. paratithêmi;

the simple verb pono is often so used, q. v.): adposita sit cena,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 69:

apposuit eis mensam,

Vulg. Act. 16, 34:

adpositum est ampliter,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 160:

apposuit patellam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 22:

Cenabat apud eum: argentum ille ceterum purum apposuerat, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 22, 49; id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91; id. Att. 6, 1; 14, 21; Liv. 1, 7; Plin. 8, 51, 78, § 210:

convivis panem et obsonia apponere,

Suet. Calig. 37; id. Caes. 43; id. Tib. 34; id. Galb. 12; Vitr. 13:

Appositaque est eis ciborum magna praeparatio,

Vulg. 4 Reg. 6, 23 al.;

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17; 2, 8, 69 al.—

Aliquem alicui or alicui rei, to appoint or designate one to any service or duty, to place in any station, to join to as an aid:

custodem Tullio me apponite,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; so Tac. A. 4, 60; cf.: adpositus custodiae (dat.), id. ib. 1, 6;

2, 68: accusator apponitur civis Romanus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 29, § 74; so id. ib. 2, 1, 5, § 41 fin.:

calumniatores,

id. ib. 2, 2, 10:

praevaricatorem,

id. Phil. 2, 11:

non illicitatorem venditor adponet,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 54:

custodes,

Nep. Dion, 4, 5:

moderator et magister consulibus appositus,

Liv. 2, 18, 6; so,

rectorem,

Suet. Aug. 48:

scrutatores,

id. Claud. 35 al. —

To put to something by way of increase, to add to, superadd (rare; cf.

addo, adicio): nihil his novum adposivi,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; id. Trin. 4, 3, 18:

aetas illi, quos tibi dempserit, adponet annos,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 15:

exemplum,

Gell. 1, 13, 9:

si quis apposuerit ad haec, apponet Deus super illum etc.,

Vulg. Apoc. 22, 18; ib. Gen. 49, 32.—

Trop.

Of the mind, to apply (eccl. Lat.):

appone cor ad doctrinam,

Vulg. Prov. 22, 17:

apposui cor meum, ut etc.,

ib. Eccl. 8, 16.—

In eccl. Lat., after the Hebrew, of an act, to do further, also to do something:

non apponet, ut complacitior sit adhuc?

Vulg. Psa. 76, 8; so ib. Act. 12, 3:

apposuerunt adhuc peccare,

ib. Psa. 77, 17; 88, 23.—

With a dat. of end, to set down for something, count, reckon, or consider as, to hold as (very rare):

cum is nil promereat, postulare id gratiae adponi sibi,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 32 (addi in gratiam suam, Don.):

aliquid lucro,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 15.—Hence, appŏsĭ-tus ( adp-), a, um, P. a., put or applied to, etc.

Of relations of space, placed or situated at or near to, contiguous to, bordering upon; constr. with dat.:

regio mari adposita,

Plin. 3, 18, 22, § 126:

platanus itineri,

id. 12, 1, 5, § 9:

castellum Lupiae flumini adpositum,

Tac. A. 2, 7.— Trop.:

audacia fidentiae non contrarium, sed appositum ac propinquum,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 165.—

Metaph.

Fit, proper, suitable, appropriate, apposite, etc. (like aptus, q. v.; hence in MSS. freq. interchanged with it; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 3, 11, 9); constr. with ad (in this signif. very freq. in Varr. and Cic.;

elsewhere very rare, perh. not found except in Quint. and Gell.): ager ad vitem adpositus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 5:

loca adposita ad faenum, ad vinum, ad oleum,

id. ib. 1, 23, 1:

equus ad medendum adpositus,

id. ib. 2, 7, 5:

(gallinae) adpositissimae ad partum,

id. ib. 3, 9, 9;

2, 10, 4: menses ad agendum maxime appositi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11; 2, 5, 41 fin.; id. Att. 3, 14:

multo appositior ad deferenda,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 57:

argumentatio appositissima ad judicationem,

id. Inv. 1, 14. —

Inclined to; constr. with dat.:

judex juri magis an aequo sit adpositus,

Quint. 4, 3, 11 (cf.:

adclinis falsis animus,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 6).—

Subst.: appŏsĭtum, i, n., in rhet. and gram., an epithet, adjective:

adposita, quae epitheta dicuntur, ut dulce mustum,

Quint. 8, 2, 10; 2, 14, 3; 9, 4, 24.—Hence, appŏsĭtē, adv., suitably, fitly, etc.:

ad persuasionem,

Cic. Inv. 1, 5; cf. Spald ad Quint. 2, 15, 3 praeclare et apposite et facete scribere, Gell. 2, 23, 11 ( comp. and sup not used).

ap-pōno ( adp-, Ritschl, Fleck., Lachm., Baiter, Halm; app-, Merk., Kayser, K. and H., Weissenb.), pōsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a. ( perf. apposivi, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; App. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.; cf. pono), to place, put, or lay at, near or by the side of a thing; to apply to, add, unite, etc. (class. in prose and poetry; syn.: addo, adicio, adjungo).

Lit.

In gen.:

adpone hic mensulam,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150:

appositas instruxere epulis mensas,

Ov. M. 8, 570; so id. ib. 8, 831:

sitellam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 11: Sy. Onus urget. Mi. At tu adpone, put it down then, id. Poen. 4, 2, 35:

illam alteram apud me, quod bonist, adponito,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 60:

munera eorum illis apponentur,

Vulg. Bar 6, 26:

At istos rastros interea tamen adpone,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 37; so id. And. 4, 3, 10 al.:

aër Omnibus est rebus circumdatus adpositusque,

Lucr. 6, 1036; 3, 373:

omnes columnae machinā appositā dejectae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 144:

notam ad malum versum,

id. Pis. 30; so id. Fam. 13, 6; cf. Suet. Claud. 16: manus ad os (eorum more, qui secreto aliquid narrant, Manut.), Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1:

scalis appositis urbem defenderunt,

Liv. 37, 5:

adpositā aure ad glaciem,

Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 103: adpositum in mensā lumen, Tac. A. 2, 31:

paenulam ad vulnus,

Suet. Ner. 49 et saep.:

dominum Adpositum flavis in Simoenta vadis,

Prop. 2, 9, 12.—So freq. of the putting on of garments, crowns, etc.:

cur tamen appositā velatur janua lauro,

Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 39:

gemmas toris,

id. H. 9, 60 Loers; cf.

the same,

id. ib. 7, 100:

meretrix Appositā populum submovet ante serā,

id. Am. 3, 14, 10 (cf.:

ponere seram,

Juv. 6, 347):

candelam valvis,

i. e. to set fire to, Juv. 9, 98 al. —

Esp.

Freq. as t. t. of food, dishes, to serve up, set before one (cf. Gr. paratithêmi;

the simple verb pono is often so used, q. v.): adposita sit cena,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 69:

apposuit eis mensam,

Vulg. Act. 16, 34:

adpositum est ampliter,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 160:

apposuit patellam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 22:

Cenabat apud eum: argentum ille ceterum purum apposuerat, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 22, 49; id. Tusc. 5, 32, 91; id. Att. 6, 1; 14, 21; Liv. 1, 7; Plin. 8, 51, 78, § 210:

convivis panem et obsonia apponere,

Suet. Calig. 37; id. Caes. 43; id. Tib. 34; id. Galb. 12; Vitr. 13:

Appositaque est eis ciborum magna praeparatio,

Vulg. 4 Reg. 6, 23 al.;

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17; 2, 8, 69 al.—

Aliquem alicui or alicui rei, to appoint or designate one to any service or duty, to place in any station, to join to as an aid:

custodem Tullio me apponite,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; so Tac. A. 4, 60; cf.: adpositus custodiae (dat.), id. ib. 1, 6;

2, 68: accusator apponitur civis Romanus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 29, § 74; so id. ib. 2, 1, 5, § 41 fin.:

calumniatores,

id. ib. 2, 2, 10:

praevaricatorem,

id. Phil. 2, 11:

non illicitatorem venditor adponet,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 54:

custodes,

Nep. Dion, 4, 5:

moderator et magister consulibus appositus,

Liv. 2, 18, 6; so,

rectorem,

Suet. Aug. 48:

scrutatores,

id. Claud. 35 al. —

To put to something by way of increase, to add to, superadd (rare; cf.

addo, adicio): nihil his novum adposivi,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; id. Trin. 4, 3, 18:

aetas illi, quos tibi dempserit, adponet annos,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 15:

exemplum,

Gell. 1, 13, 9:

si quis apposuerit ad haec, apponet Deus super illum etc.,

Vulg. Apoc. 22, 18; ib. Gen. 49, 32.—

Trop.

Of the mind, to apply (eccl. Lat.):

appone cor ad doctrinam,

Vulg. Prov. 22, 17:

apposui cor meum, ut etc.,

ib. Eccl. 8, 16.—

In eccl. Lat., after the Hebrew, of an act, to do further, also to do something:

non apponet, ut complacitior sit adhuc?

Vulg. Psa. 76, 8; so ib. Act. 12, 3:

apposuerunt adhuc peccare,

ib. Psa. 77, 17; 88, 23.—

With a dat. of end, to set down for something, count, reckon, or consider as, to hold as (very rare):

cum is nil promereat, postulare id gratiae adponi sibi,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 32 (addi in gratiam suam, Don.):

aliquid lucro,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 15.—Hence, appŏsĭ-tus ( adp-), a, um, P. a., put or applied to, etc.

Of relations of space, placed or situated at or near to, contiguous to, bordering upon; constr. with dat.:

regio mari adposita,

Plin. 3, 18, 22, § 126:

platanus itineri,

id. 12, 1, 5, § 9:

castellum Lupiae flumini adpositum,

Tac. A. 2, 7.— Trop.:

audacia fidentiae non contrarium, sed appositum ac propinquum,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 165.—

Metaph.

Fit, proper, suitable, appropriate, apposite, etc. (like aptus, q. v.; hence in MSS. freq. interchanged with it; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 3, 11, 9); constr. with ad (in this signif. very freq. in Varr. and Cic.;

elsewhere very rare, perh. not found except in Quint. and Gell.): ager ad vitem adpositus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 5:

loca adposita ad faenum, ad vinum, ad oleum,

id. ib. 1, 23, 1:

equus ad medendum adpositus,

id. ib. 2, 7, 5:

(gallinae) adpositissimae ad partum,

id. ib. 3, 9, 9;

2, 10, 4: menses ad agendum maxime appositi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11; 2, 5, 41 fin.; id. Att. 3, 14:

multo appositior ad deferenda,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 57:

argumentatio appositissima ad judicationem,

id. Inv. 1, 14. —

Inclined to; constr. with dat.:

judex juri magis an aequo sit adpositus,

Quint. 4, 3, 11 (cf.:

adclinis falsis animus,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 6).—

Subst.: appŏsĭtum, i, n., in rhet. and gram., an epithet, adjective:

adposita, quae epitheta dicuntur, ut dulce mustum,

Quint. 8, 2, 10; 2, 14, 3; 9, 4, 24.—Hence, appŏsĭtē, adv., suitably, fitly, etc.:

ad persuasionem,

Cic. Inv. 1, 5; cf. Spald ad Quint. 2, 15, 3 praeclare et apposite et facete scribere, Gell. 2, 23, 11 ( comp. and sup not used).

Aenĕădēs, ae ( gen. plur. Aeneadūm, Lucr. 1, 1; Ov. Tr. 2, 261), patr. m. [Aeneas].

A descendant of Æneas; his son Ascanius, Verg. A. 9, 653 ( Aenides, Rib.).—

In gen., those who are related in any manner to Æneas; nence,

A Trojan, Verg. A. 7, 616; 1, 565; but oftener,

A Roman, Verg. a. 8, 648; Ov. M. 15, 682, 695 al.—

An adulatory epithet of Augustus, Ov. P. 1, 1, 35; of Scipio, Sil. 13, 767.

aerārĭus, a, um, adj. [aes].

That pertains to or is made of copper, bronze, etc.:

aerarium metallum,

a copper-mine, Vitr. 7, 9; Plin. 33, 5, 26, § 86;

fornaces,

smelting-furnaces, id. 11, 36, 42, § 119:

fabrica,

the preparation of copper, id. 7, 56, 57, § 197 faber, a coppersmith, id. 34, 8, 19, 6, § 61 (also aerarius alone; v. below).—

Of or pertaining to money:

propter aerariam rationem non satis erat in tabulis inspexisse quantum deberetur,

on account of the standard of coin, Cic. Quint. 4:

hinc dicuntur milites aerarii, ab aere quod stipendia facerent,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 181 Müll.: tribunus, who superintended disbursements of the public treasury: aerarii tribuni a tribuendo aere sunt appellati, Paul. ex Fest. p. 2 Müll.;

or, acc. to Varr.: ab eo, quibus attributa erat pecunia, ut militi reddant, tribuni aerarii dicti,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 181 Müll.; v. tribunus.—Hence, subst.: aerārĭus, i, m.

(Sc. faber.) One who works in copper, etc., a coppersmith:

in aerariorum officinis,

Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 23:

aerariorum marculi,

Mart. 12, 57, 6; so Inscr. Orell. 4140.—

(Sc. civis.) A citizen of the lowest class, who paid only a poll-tax (aera pendebat), and had no right of voting. Other citizens, upon the commission of great crimes, were degraded by the censors into this class, and deprived of all previous dignities. (Cf. Gell. 4, 12 and 29; Drak. ad Liv. 24, 18, 6;

Smith's Dict. Antiq., and Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, 63 and 452.) Referre aliquem in aerarios,

Cic. Clu. 43. eximere aliquem ex aerariis, id. de Or. 2, 66 ext.; Liv. 24, 18:

omnes, quos senatu moverunt, quibusque equos ademerunt (censores) aerarios fecerunt et tribu moverunt,

id. 42, 10 al. —

aerārĭa, ae, f.

(Sc. fodina, like argentaria and ferraria, Liv. 34, 21:

auraria,

Tac. A. 6, 19 al.) A mine:

multis locis apud eos (sc. Aquitanos) aerariae structuraeque sunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 21 Herz. —

(Sc. officina.) A smelting or refining house, Varr. L. L. 8, 33.—

(Sc. fornax.) A smelting-furnace, Plin. 34, 13, 33, § 128.—

aerārĭum, i, n. (sc. stabulum), the place in the temple of Saturn at Rome, where the public treasure was kept, the treasury: to tamieion, to koinon: Aerarium sane populus Romanus in aede Saturni habuit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 2 Müll.; cf. Plin. Pan. 92:

referre pecuniam in aerarium,

Cic. Agr. 2, 27 (for which deferre is often used in Liv. q.v.):

dare alicui pecuniam ex aerario,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 70.—Also for the public treasure or finances:

C. Gracchus, cum largitiones maximas fecisset et effudisset aerarium,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 20, 48, Nep. Arist. 3, 1; id. Att. 8.—In the time of the emperors the aerarium (public treasure) was distinguished from fiscus (the wealth of the emperor):

bona Sejani ablata aerario, ut in fisco cogerentur,

Tac. A. 6, 2; Plin. Pan. 36, Suet. Vesp. 16;

v. fiscus. In the treasury the public archives were kept: factum senatus consultum, ne decreta patrum ante diem decimum ad aerarium deferrentur,

Tac. A. 3, 51; cf. id. ib. 13, 28; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Caes. 28;

and also the standards: signa ex aerario prompta,

Liv. 4, 22.—The Quaestores aerarii (under Augustus and his immediate successors the Praetores) presided over the aerarium, with whom the Tribuni aerarii were associated as assistants; cf.

Quaestor and Tribunus.—The aerarium contained also a fund, established after the invasion of Gaul, and augmented by the immense booty acquired in the wars with Carthage, Macedonia, Corinth, etc., as well as by the tribute of the manumissi, which could be used only in cases of extreme public necessity, hence with the epithet sanctius,

Caes. B. C. 1, 24:

aurum vicesimarium, quod in sanctiore aerario ad ultimos casus servaretur, promi placuit,

Liv. 27, 10; cf. Cic. Att. 7, 21; id. Verr. 2, 4, 63 (of the Syracusans). Hence trop., Quint. 10, 3, 3:

aerarium militare, destined by Aug. for defraying the expenses of war,

Tac. A. 1, 78; Suet. Aug. 49; Plin. Pan. 92, 1.

Ăgēsĭlāüs, i, m., = Agêsilaos.

One of the most valiant of the Spartan kings, who conquered the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, and the Athenians and Bœotians at Coronea. Plutarch and also Nepos wrote his life.—

An epithet of Pluto (from his driving (agô) all people into his kingdom), Lact. 1, 11, 31.

agmĕn, ĭnis, n. [as if contr. from agimen, from ago; cf.: tegimen, tegmen, from tego].

Lit.

In gen., a train, i. e. a collected multitude in motion or moving forwards; of things of any kind, but esp. (so most freq. in prose) of men or animals. —Of streams of water, motion, course, current: quod per amoenam urbem lent fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4:

inde super terras fluit agmine dulci,

Lucr. 5, 272; cf. id. 6, 638; also,

in imitation of Enn., Virg. and Val. Fl.: leni fluit agmine Thybris,

Verg. A. 2, 782; cf. Val. Fl. 4, 721.—Of a train or succession of clouds:

denso sunt agmine nubes,

Lucr. 6, 100.—Of rain:

immensum caelo venit agmen aquarum,

body, mass, Verg. G. 1, 322 —Of atoms:

agmine condenso naturam corporis explent,

crowded into a compact mass, Lucr. 1, 607.—Of oars:

agmine re morum ceieri,

with quick plashing of oars, Verg. A. 5, 211.—Of a flock of birds: agmi ne magno. Corvorum. Verg. G. 1, 381.—Of a snake winding onwards:

cum medii nexus extremaeque agmina caudae Solvuntur,

Verg. G. 3, 424; cf. id. A. 2, 212.—Of clouds of dust following any thing in rapid motion, as men, animals, etc.:

agmina cervi Pulverulenta,

Verg. A. 4, 154.—And, as subst. concr., of birds turba Agminis aligeri, of the winged band, Verg A. 12, 249.—Of ants;

frugilegas aspeximus agmine longo formi cas,

Ov. M 7, 624; so id. ib. 7, 638.—Of the stars: diffugiunt stellae;

quarum agmina cogit Lucifer,

Ov. M. 2, 114; so id. ib. 11, 97 al.—Eap. of a company of persons, a multitude, troop, crowd, number, band:

ut a Brundisic nsque Romam agmen perpetuum totius Italiae viderem,

Cic. Pis. 22:

magno senatorum agmine,

Tac. H. 3, 55:

ingens mulierum agmen,

Liv. 2, 40:

muliebre et miserabile agmen,

Tac. A. 1, 40: numerosum agmen reorum, Plin Ep. 3, 9, and Tac. H. 4, 6: Eumenidum agmina, Verg A. 4, 469.—But particularly,

The train, procession, march, progress of an army:

de castris, de agminibus, etc., dicere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

ne miles gregarius in castris, neve in agmine servum aut jumentum haberet,

Sall. J. 45, 2:

pugnatum saepe directā acie, saepe in agminibus, saepe eruptionibus,

Vell. 2, 47:

effuso agmine abire,

Liv. 44, 39:

uno agmine victores cum victis in urbem irrupere,

id. 2, 30;

uno agmine persequentes,

Vulg. Judith, 15, 4 al. —

Transf., concr., an army, and properly considered as in motion, on the march (while exercitus is a disciplined army, and acies an army in battle-array) —As soon as the signal for marching was given, the Extraordinarii and the allies of the right wing, with their baggage, first put themselves in motion, then the legions, and last the allies of the left wing, with a part of the cavalry, which either rode behind the army, ad agmen claudendum or cogendum. to close the train, i. e. to keep it to gether or on the side in such an order (composito agmine, non itineri magis apto quam proelio) that it might be easily put into the line of battle, if the enemy ven tured to attack it; cf. Sall. J. 46, 6.—An army in close ranks was called agmen justum, Tac. H. 1, 68, or agmen pilatum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 121—When there was no apprehension of the enemy, less care was taken for the protection of the army:

agmine incauto, i. e. minus munito, ut inter pacatos, ducebat, sc. consul,

Liv. 35, 4.—

The order of march was, however, different, according to circumstances and the nature of the ground,

Liv. 35, 4; 27, 28; and cf. Smith's Antiq.—Sometimes the army marched in the form of a square, agmen quadratum, with their baggage in the middle, so as to be in battle-array on meeting the enemy; hence agmen quadratum often means the same as acies triplex, an army formed in line of battle, only that the former indicates that they are on the march, and the latter that they are at rest.—Hence, like acies, with the epithet primum, the vanguard, Liv. 34, 28; Tac. Agr. 35:

medium,

the centre, Liv. 10, 41; Tac. H. 4, 22:

extremum,

Liv. 34, 28; Tac. H. 2, 100;

or, novissimum,

the rear, rearguard, Liv. 44, 33; so,

extremi agminis,

Vulg. Deut. 25, 18:

ut inde agmine quadratc ad urbem accederet,

marching in a square, Cic. Phil. 13, 8:

pariter atque in conspectu hostium quadrato agmine incedere,

Sall. J 100, 1; cf. id. ib. 46, 6, 7:

Hannibal agmine quadrato amnem ingressus,

Liv. 21, 5; se id. 31, 36; 37, 39:

quadrato agmine velut in aciem irent,

Curt. 5, 1, 19 al. —Sometimes, esp. in the poets in the plur., in gen. [p. 73] sense, = exercitus or copiae, an army, host, troops:

huic tanto agmini dux defuit,

Just. 12, 10:

occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 18:

agmina curru Proterit,

Verg. A. 12, 329:

barbarorum Claudius agmina diruit,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 29; so id. S. 2, 1, 14; id. Epod. 17, 9; Ov. M. 3, 535; 5, 151, 161; 6, 423:

Del agminum Israël,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 45:

agmina ejus dispergam,

ib. Ezech. 12, 14; 38, 6.—For military service, warfare:

rudis agminum Sponsus,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 9.—

Trop.

An army, troop, band, multitude:

educenda dictio est ex hac domesticā exercitatione et umbratili medium in agmen, in pulverem, in clamorem, in castra, aciemque forensem,

i. e. before the public, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157:

e Brundisio usque Romam agmen perpetuum totius Italiae,

an unbroken train, id. Pis. 22, 51:

ingens mulierum agmen,

Liv. 2, 40; 9, 17:

agmina Eumenidum,

Verg. A. 4, 469; 6, 572:

agmina comitum,

Ov. Tr. 14, 30:

in angusto fidus comes agmine turbae,

Tib. 1, 5, 63:

numerosum agmen reorum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9:

agmen occupationum,

an army of, id. ib. 2, 8.—

March, movement:

agmina fati et volumina,

Gell. 6, 2, 5.

albus, a, um, adj. [cf. Umbr. alfu and Sab. alpus = white; alphos = white rash; O. H. Germ. Elbiz = a swan; to this have been referred also Alba Longa, Albunea, Alpes from their snowy summits (Paul. ex Fest. p. 4 Müll.), Albion from its chalky cliffs, Alpheios, and Albis = Elbe], white (properly dead white, not shining; e. g. hair, complexion, garments, etc., opp. ater, black that is without lustre; while candidus denotes a glistening, dazzling white, opp. niger, shining black.—Hence, trop., albus and ater, a symbol of good or ill fortune; on the other hand, candidus and niger of moral worth or unworthiness; cf. Doed. Syn. III. 193 sq.—So Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 82: aliud est candidum, i. e. quādam nitenti luce perfusum esse; aliud album, quod pallori constat esse vicinum; cf. Verg. E. 7, 38: Candidior cycnis, hederā formosior albā, with id. ib. 3, 39: diffusos hederā vestit pallente corymbos; but this distinction is freq. disregarded by the poets).

Lit.

In gen.:

barba,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 15:

corpus,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 115:

color albus praecipue decorus deo est, maxime in textili,

Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45: albus calculus, the small white stone used in voting, as a sign of acceding to the opinion of any one, or of the acquittal of one who is under accusation (opp. ater calculus;

v. calculus).— Hence, trop.: alicui rei album calculum adicere,

to allow, approve of, authorize, Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 5.—In Enn. an epithet of the sun and moon: sol, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 92 Vahl.): jubar Hyperionis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 658 P. (Ann. v. 547 ib.).—The following are examples of the opposition of albus and niger (instead of ater) as exceptions to the gen. rule; so always in Lucr. (who also uses albus and candidus or candens promiscuously), 2, 810; 822 sqq.; 731 sq.; 790; 767-771. Once in Cic.: quae alba sint, quae nigra dicere, Div. 2, 3; so Phaedr. 3, 15, 10; Ov. M. 2, 541; cf. with id. ib. 2, 534 and 535; also id. ib. 12, 403; 15, 46; id. H. 15, 37 al.:

albi et nigri velleris,

Vulg. Gen. 30, 35:

non potes unum capillum album facere aut nigrum,

ib. Matt. 5, 36.—

Esp.

Pale, from sickness, terror, care, and the like:

aquosus albo Corpore languor, of dropsical persons,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 15:

pallor,

id. Epod. 7, 15:

vivat et urbanis albus in officiis,

pale from the cares of his public office, Mart. 1, 56 fin. et saep. —

Of clothing, white: alba decent Cererem;

vestes Cerealibus albas Sumite,

Ov. F. 4, 619:

vidit duos Angelos in albis,

Vulg. Joan. 20, 12; ib. Apoc. 3, 4.—Hence, poet. transf. to the person, clothed in white, Hor. S. 1, 2, 36: pedibus qui venerat albis, who had come with white feet, i. e. marked with chalk, as for sale, Juv. 1, 111 (cf. gypsatus and also Plin. 35, 17, 58, §§ 199-201; Mayor ad 1. 1.).—

Prov. phrases.

Dentibus albis deridere, to deride one by laughing so as to show the teeth, for to deride much, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 48 (cf. id. Capt. 3, 1, 26).—

Albus an ater sit, nescio or non curo, I know not, care not whether he is white or black, i. e. he is entirely indifferent to me:

vide, quam te amārit is, qui albus aterve fueris ignorans, fratris filium praeteriit,

Cic. Phil. 2, 16:

unde illa scivit, ater an albus nascerer,

Phaedr. 3, 15, 10; Cat. 93, 2; cf. Quint. 11, 1, 38.—

Albo rete aliquid oppugnare, to attack or seize upon something with a white net, i. e. in a delicate, skilful manner:

qui hic albo rete aliena oppugnant bona,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 22 (so the passage seems to be more simply explained than acc. to the opinion of Gron.: qui albo (by the register of the prætor) tamquam rete, which omission of the tamquam is a Horatian, but not a Plautinian idiom). —

Albā lineā aliquid signare, to make a white line upon a white ground, i. e. to make no distinction: et amabat omnes, nam ut discrimen non facit... signat linea alba, Lucil. ap. Non. 282, 28 (where the common editions have neque before signare, which gives the expression a directly opposite sense): albā, ut dicitur, lineā sine curā discriminis convertebant, Gell. praef. 11.—

Alba avis, a white sparrow, for something rare, uncommon, strange:

quasi avem albam videntur bene sentientem civem videre,

Cic. Fam. 7, 28 (quasi novum quiddam; proverbium ex eo natum, quia rarae aves albae, Manut. ad h. 1.).—

Filius albae gallinae, fortune's favorite child, Juv. 13, 141, prob. an allusion to the miracle that happened to Livia in regard to a white hen, v. Plin. 15, 30, 40; Suet. Galb. 1 (Ruperti ad h. 1, refers this expression to the unfruitfulness of a white hen, and conpares Col. R. R. 8, 2, 7).—

Equis albis praecurrere aliquem, to excel, surpass one, Hor. S. 1, 7, 8 (the figure being drawn from the white horses attached to a triumphal chariot; cf. Suet. Ner. 25; id. Dom. 2).—

Trop.

Favorable, fortunate, propitious:

simul alba nautis Stella refulsit,

i. e. the twin-star Castor, favorable to sailors, Hor. C. 1, 12, 27:

dies,

Sil. 15, 53:

sint omnia protinus alba,

Pers. 1, 110.—

Poet. and act., of the wind, making clear or bright, dispersing the clouds; hence, dry:

Notus,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 15 (as a transl. of the Gr. leukonotos):

iapyx,

id. ib. 3, 27, 19 (cf.:

clarus aquilo,

Verg. G. 1, 460).—Whence,

album, i, n., whiteness.

White color, white:

maculis insignis et albo,

Verg. G. 3, 56;

sparsis pellibus albo,

id. E. 2, 41:

columnas polire albo,

to make white, whiten, Liv. 40, 51.—Hence,

Esp.,

The white of the eye:

oculorum,

Cels. 2, 6; so id. 7, 7, n. 6 and 12.—

The white of an egg:

ovi,

Cels. 6, 6, n. 7.—

In Col. 6, 17, 7, a white spot on the eye, i. e. a disease of it, = albugo.—

In the lang. of polit. life, a white tablet, on which any thing is inscribed (like leukôma in Gr.).

The tablets on which the Pontifex Maximus registered the principal events of the year, the Annales maximi (v. annales): in album referre, to enter or record in, Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 52; Liv. 1, 32, 2.—

The tablets of the prœtor, on which his edicts were written, and which were posted up in some public place, Paul. Sent. l. 1, t. 14.—Hence, sedere ad album, to be employed with the edicts of the prœtor, Sen. Ep. 48:

se ad album transferre,

Quint. 12, 3, 11 Spald.—

Esp., a list of names, a register, e. g. Album senatorium, the tablet on which the names of the senators were enrolled, the roll, register, which, by the order of Augustus, was to be posted up annually in the senate-house, Diom. 55, 3, and Fragm. 137:

aliquem albo senatorio eradere,

Tac. A. 4, 42 fin. —Also, the list of the judges chosen by the quœstors:

aliquem albo judicum eradere,

Suet. Claud. 16; so id. Dom. 8.—And transf. to other catalogues of names:

citharoedorum,

Suet. Ner. 21.

ālĭpēs, ĕdis, adj. (abl. alipedi, Val. Fl. 5, 612, like aliti from ales) [ala-pes] ( poet. and rare; never in Hor.).

Lit., with wings on the feet, wing-footed. —As an epithet of Mercury:

sacra alipedis dei,

Ov. F. 5, 100; id. M. 11, 312;

also simply Alipes for Mercurius: mactatur vacca Minervae, Alipedi vitulus,

id. ib. 4, 754.—So of the horses in the chariot of the Sun, Ov. M. 2, 48.— Hence,

Transf., swift, fleet, quick (cf. ales, I.): cervi, * Lucr 6, 766;

equi,

Verg. A. 12, 484; also alipes, absol. for equus, id. ib. 7, 277:

alipedi curru,

Val. Fl. 5, 612; Sil. 7, 700.

ambrŏsĭus, a, um, adj., = ambrosios, immortal, divine, ambrosial (syn.: immortalis, divinus), in gen., all that pertains to the gods, and their prerogatives and endowments; hence, an epithet for every thing lovely, pleasant, sweet, etc. (in gen. only poet.):

comae,

Verg. A. 1, 403; so Stat. Th. 9, 731:

dapes,

Mart. 8, 39:

suci,

Sil. 7, 210; Col. 10, 408:

sinus, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 110: corpus,

App. M. 8, p. 205, 26:

pedes,

id. ib. 11, p. 258, 39:

color,

id. ib. 10, p. 254, 4:

nectar,

Prud. Symm. 1, 276.

Ambrŏsĭus, i, m., a celebrated Church father of the fourth century, archbishop of Milan.

ambrŏsĭus, a, um, adj., = ambrosios, immortal, divine, ambrosial (syn.: immortalis, divinus), in gen., all that pertains to the gods, and their prerogatives and endowments; hence, an epithet for every thing lovely, pleasant, sweet, etc. (in gen. only poet.):

comae,

Verg. A. 1, 403; so Stat. Th. 9, 731:

dapes,

Mart. 8, 39:

suci,

Sil. 7, 210; Col. 10, 408:

sinus, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 110: corpus,

App. M. 8, p. 205, 26:

pedes,

id. ib. 11, p. 258, 39:

color,

id. ib. 10, p. 254, 4:

nectar,

Prud. Symm. 1, 276.

Ambrŏsĭus, i, m., a celebrated Church father of the fourth century, archbishop of Milan.