exăgōgă

sospĕs, ĭtis ( fem. collat. form sospĭ-ta, ae, and arch. SISPITA, ae, and SEISPES, ĭtis; v. infra), adj. [for sos-pets; root saos, sôs; and pa-, to nourish, protect; cf. pasco].

Act., saving, delivering; subst., a savior, deliverer, preserver (so only in the foll. examples):

Ennius sospitem pro servatore posuit, Fest. pp. 300 and 301 Müll.: templum Junonis Sospitae,

Cic. Div. 1, 2, 4; so, Sospita, an epithet of Juno (the Gr. Hygieia). id. N. D. 1, 29, 82; id. Mur. 41, 90; Ov. F. 2, 56;

in the form SISPITA,

Inscr. Orell. 1309; Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. V. 7, pp. 14 and 107; cf.:

sispitem Junonem, quam vulgo sospitem appellant, antiqui usurpabant,

Fest. p. 343 Müll.:

IVNONE SEISPITEI MATRI REGINAE,

Inscr. Orell. 5659 a;

the same abbreviated I. S. M. R. (IVNO SISPITA MATER REGINA),

ib. 1308; 2503; 3324; 4014.—

Pass., saved, i.e. safe and sound, safe, unhurt, unharmed, uninjured; happy, lucky, fortunate (syn.: salvus, incolumis, sanus, salvus; mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

not in Cic.): filium tuum modo in portu vivum, salvum et sospitem vidi,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 93:

exagoga (with salva),

id. Rud. 3, 2, 17: ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rempublicam sistere in sede suā liceat August. ap. Suet. Aug. 28:

sospes et superstes gnatus,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 2;

sospes incolumisque (Caesar),

Plin. Pan. 67, 5:

sospes Iter incipe hoc,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 1:

sospites in patriam restituere,

Liv. 2, 49, 7; 5, 28, 4;

virginum matres juvenumque nuper Sospitum,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 10:

Hesperiā sospes ab ultima,

id. ib. 1, 36, 4:

vix una sospes navis ab ignibus,

id. ib. 1, 37, 13:

fortuna do. musque Sospes ab incursu est,

Ov. M. 10, 401: Juppiter, da diem hunc sospitem Rebus meis agundis, favorable, auspicious, [p. 1734] Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 15:

mutare lares et urbem Sospite cursu,

Hor. C. S. 40.

sospĕs, ĭtis ( fem. collat. form sospĭ-ta, ae, and arch. SISPITA, ae, and SEISPES, ĭtis; v. infra), adj. [for sos-pets; root saos, sôs; and pa-, to nourish, protect; cf. pasco].

Act., saving, delivering; subst., a savior, deliverer, preserver (so only in the foll. examples):

Ennius sospitem pro servatore posuit, Fest. pp. 300 and 301 Müll.: templum Junonis Sospitae,

Cic. Div. 1, 2, 4; so, Sospita, an epithet of Juno (the Gr. Hygieia). id. N. D. 1, 29, 82; id. Mur. 41, 90; Ov. F. 2, 56;

in the form SISPITA,

Inscr. Orell. 1309; Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. V. 7, pp. 14 and 107; cf.:

sispitem Junonem, quam vulgo sospitem appellant, antiqui usurpabant,

Fest. p. 343 Müll.:

IVNONE SEISPITEI MATRI REGINAE,

Inscr. Orell. 5659 a;

the same abbreviated I. S. M. R. (IVNO SISPITA MATER REGINA),

ib. 1308; 2503; 3324; 4014.—

Pass., saved, i.e. safe and sound, safe, unhurt, unharmed, uninjured; happy, lucky, fortunate (syn.: salvus, incolumis, sanus, salvus; mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

not in Cic.): filium tuum modo in portu vivum, salvum et sospitem vidi,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 93:

exagoga (with salva),

id. Rud. 3, 2, 17: ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rempublicam sistere in sede suā liceat August. ap. Suet. Aug. 28:

sospes et superstes gnatus,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 2;

sospes incolumisque (Caesar),

Plin. Pan. 67, 5:

sospes Iter incipe hoc,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 1:

sospites in patriam restituere,

Liv. 2, 49, 7; 5, 28, 4;

virginum matres juvenumque nuper Sospitum,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 10:

Hesperiā sospes ab ultima,

id. ib. 1, 36, 4:

vix una sospes navis ab ignibus,

id. ib. 1, 37, 13:

fortuna do. musque Sospes ab incursu est,

Ov. M. 10, 401: Juppiter, da diem hunc sospitem Rebus meis agundis, favorable, auspicious, [p. 1734] Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 15:

mutare lares et urbem Sospite cursu,

Hor. C. S. 40.