ex-spergo

a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].

Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).

Lit.:

aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,

Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:

Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,

you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:

Euax, adspersisti aquam,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:

guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71:

pigmenta in tabulā,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

liquor adspersus oculis,

id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:

Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,

id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:

corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,

Suet. Aug. 18:

pecori virus aspergere,

to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:

aspergens cinerem capiti,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:

huc tu jussos asperge sapores,

Verg. G. 4, 62:

Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,

Prop. 1, 12, 16:

sanguinem aspergere,

Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:

nivem,

ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—

Trop.:

cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,

fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:

ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,

id. ib. 6, 15:

notam alicui,

Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:

allinere notam,

Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:

Aebutio sextulam aspergit,

Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:

alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:

si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,

Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,

id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:

hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,

id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —

Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.

Lit.:

ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:

quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,

Lucr. 3, 20:

ne aram sanguine aspergeret,

Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:

sanguine mensas,

Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:

asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,

Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:

vaccam semine,

Liv. 41, 13:

Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,

the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):

imbre lutoque Aspersus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:

aquā,

Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:

hyssopo,

ib. Psa. 50, 9:

cinere,

ib. Jer. 25, 34:

terrā,

ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—

Trop.:

(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,

dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:

aures gemitu,

to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:

auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,

instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:

aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,

Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:

hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?

Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:

leviter aspersus,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:

istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,

id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:

aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:

e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.

aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].

A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):

aspergo aquarum,

Ov. M. 7, 108:

aquae,

Petr. 102, 15:

(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,

Ov. M. 1, 572:

sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,

id. ib. 3, 86;

3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,

Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:

parietum,

the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:

omni culparum aspergine liber,

Prud. Apoth. 1005.—

Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:

hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,

opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:

Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,

the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:

Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,

Ov. M. 14, 796:

maduere graves aspergine pennae,

id. ib. 4, 729:

arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,

by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al.

a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].

Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).

Lit.:

aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,

Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:

Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,

you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:

Euax, adspersisti aquam,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:

guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),

Cic. Clu. 26, 71:

pigmenta in tabulā,

id. Div. 1, 13, 23:

corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

liquor adspersus oculis,

id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:

Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,

id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:

corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,

Suet. Aug. 18:

pecori virus aspergere,

to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:

aspergens cinerem capiti,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:

huc tu jussos asperge sapores,

Verg. G. 4, 62:

Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,

Prop. 1, 12, 16:

sanguinem aspergere,

Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:

nivem,

ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—

Trop.:

cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,

fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:

ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,

id. ib. 6, 15:

notam alicui,

Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:

allinere notam,

Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:

Aebutio sextulam aspergit,

Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:

alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:

si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,

Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,

id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:

hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,

id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —

Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.

Lit.:

ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:

quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,

Lucr. 3, 20:

ne aram sanguine aspergeret,

Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:

sanguine mensas,

Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:

asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,

Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:

vaccam semine,

Liv. 41, 13:

Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,

the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):

imbre lutoque Aspersus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:

aquā,

Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:

hyssopo,

ib. Psa. 50, 9:

cinere,

ib. Jer. 25, 34:

terrā,

ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—

Trop.:

(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,

dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:

aures gemitu,

to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:

auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,

instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:

aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,

Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:

hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?

Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:

leviter aspersus,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:

istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,

id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:

aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:

e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.

aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].

A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):

aspergo aquarum,

Ov. M. 7, 108:

aquae,

Petr. 102, 15:

(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,

Ov. M. 1, 572:

sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,

id. ib. 3, 86;

3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,

Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:

parietum,

the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:

omni culparum aspergine liber,

Prud. Apoth. 1005.—

Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:

hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,

opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:

Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,

the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:

Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,

Ov. M. 14, 796:

maduere graves aspergine pennae,

id. ib. 4, 729:

arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,

by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al.

circum-spergo ( - spargo, Apic. 8, 8, § 406; cf. aspergo), ĕre, v. a.

To sprinkle, strew, or scatter something around:

quaternos modios stercoris caprini,

Col. 11, 2, 87: impensam talem, Apic. l. l.—

To sprinkle with something all around:

se purificantes aquā,

Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2.

circum-spergo ( - spargo, Apic. 8, 8, § 406; cf. aspergo), ĕre, v. a.

To sprinkle, strew, or scatter something around:

quaternos modios stercoris caprini,

Col. 11, 2, 87: impensam talem, Apic. l. l.—

To sprinkle with something all around:

se purificantes aquā,

Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2.

di-spergo, in late Lat. and sometimes in MSS. of the older authors written di-spargo (cf. aspergo and conspergo), si, sum, 3, v. a., to scatter on all sides, to scatter about, disperse (freq. and class., esp. in the part. perf.).

Lit.:

per agros passim dispergit corpus,

Cic. Poet. N. D. 3, 26, 67; cf. per hypallagen:

membrorum collectio dispersa (coupled with dissipare),

id. de Imp. Pomp. 9, 22 (but in Lucr. 3, 988, the right reading is:

dispessis membris, not dispersis, v. dispando): cur (deus) tam multa pestifera terra marique disperserit?

id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

nubes dispergunt venti,

Lucr. 5, 254:

an tibi jam mavis cerebrum dispergam hic?

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 7; for which: ut cerebro dispergat viam, besprinkle, id. ib. 3, 2, 19:

caprae dispergunt se, contra oves so congregant et condensant in locum unum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 9; cf.:

comites dispersi,

Lucr. 4, 576; so the mid.:

dispersi, of persons,

Cic. Fl. 13, 30; id. Sest. 42, 91;

and esp. freq. of soldiers,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; 3, 28, 3; id. B. C. 1, 44, 1; 2, 38, 5 et saep.; Sall. J. 98, 4, et saep.; cf.:

dispersi a suis pars cedere, etc.,

id. ib. 51, 1; and in the verb. fin. act.:

quae (duo milia evocatorum) tota acie disperserat,

had distributed, Caes. B. C. 3, 88, 4:

fimum,

Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 193:

vitem traducibus dispergere atque disrarare,

Col. 5, 6, 36: lactuca dispergitur, set out, i. e. planted, id. 11, 3, 25:

color dispergitur omnis,

Lucr. 2, 831 (not disperditur, v. Lachm. ad h. l.):

ubi brachia et crura inaequaliter dispergit,

i. e. moves at random, Cels. 2, 6:

Mesopotamia vicatim dispersa,

i. e. divided, Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 117:

magna pars Judaeae vicis dispergitur,

Tac. H. 5, 8 et saep.— Poet.:

aries dispergit saxa (with effundere muros),

Luc. 1, 384 Cort.:

dispersa capillos,

id. 10, 84:

quo latior (res) est, in cunctas undique partis Plura modo dispargit et ab se corpora mittit,

Lucr. 2, 1135; so with in and acc., id. 1, 309; Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 89, § 220:

tripartitum exercitum plures in manus,

Tac. A. 3, 74 al.:

aër dispargitur ad partis minutas corporis,

Lucr. 4, 895.

Trop.:

in praesentia tantummodo numeros et modos et partes argumentandi confuse et permixte dispersimus: post descripte... ex hac copia digeremus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 42, 187; 191; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

bellum tam longe lateque dispersum,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

in re dispersa atque infinita,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1:

plebis vis soluta atque dispersa in multitudine,

Sall. J. 41, 6:

rumorem,

Tac. A. 4, 24:

falsos rumores,

id. H. 2, 96; and with acc. and inf.:

volgus fingendi avidum disperserat accitum in adoptionem,

had given out, id. ib. 2, 1:

membratim oportebit partis rei gestae dispergere in causam,

Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30:

vitam in auras,

Verg. A. 11, 617; cf.:

partem voti in auras,

id. ib. 795.— Hence, adv. in two forms:

dispersē, dispersedly, here and there (very rare):

disperse et diffuse dictae res,

Cic. Inv. 1, 52, 98:

multis in locis dicta,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 116. —

dispersim, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 7; 3, 2, 13; Suet. Caes. 80.

di-spergo, in late Lat. and sometimes in MSS. of the older authors written di-spargo (cf. aspergo and conspergo), si, sum, 3, v. a., to scatter on all sides, to scatter about, disperse (freq. and class., esp. in the part. perf.).

Lit.:

per agros passim dispergit corpus,

Cic. Poet. N. D. 3, 26, 67; cf. per hypallagen:

membrorum collectio dispersa (coupled with dissipare),

id. de Imp. Pomp. 9, 22 (but in Lucr. 3, 988, the right reading is:

dispessis membris, not dispersis, v. dispando): cur (deus) tam multa pestifera terra marique disperserit?

id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

nubes dispergunt venti,

Lucr. 5, 254:

an tibi jam mavis cerebrum dispergam hic?

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 7; for which: ut cerebro dispergat viam, besprinkle, id. ib. 3, 2, 19:

caprae dispergunt se, contra oves so congregant et condensant in locum unum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 9; cf.:

comites dispersi,

Lucr. 4, 576; so the mid.:

dispersi, of persons,

Cic. Fl. 13, 30; id. Sest. 42, 91;

and esp. freq. of soldiers,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; 3, 28, 3; id. B. C. 1, 44, 1; 2, 38, 5 et saep.; Sall. J. 98, 4, et saep.; cf.:

dispersi a suis pars cedere, etc.,

id. ib. 51, 1; and in the verb. fin. act.:

quae (duo milia evocatorum) tota acie disperserat,

had distributed, Caes. B. C. 3, 88, 4:

fimum,

Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 193:

vitem traducibus dispergere atque disrarare,

Col. 5, 6, 36: lactuca dispergitur, set out, i. e. planted, id. 11, 3, 25:

color dispergitur omnis,

Lucr. 2, 831 (not disperditur, v. Lachm. ad h. l.):

ubi brachia et crura inaequaliter dispergit,

i. e. moves at random, Cels. 2, 6:

Mesopotamia vicatim dispersa,

i. e. divided, Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 117:

magna pars Judaeae vicis dispergitur,

Tac. H. 5, 8 et saep.— Poet.:

aries dispergit saxa (with effundere muros),

Luc. 1, 384 Cort.:

dispersa capillos,

id. 10, 84:

quo latior (res) est, in cunctas undique partis Plura modo dispargit et ab se corpora mittit,

Lucr. 2, 1135; so with in and acc., id. 1, 309; Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 89, § 220:

tripartitum exercitum plures in manus,

Tac. A. 3, 74 al.:

aër dispargitur ad partis minutas corporis,

Lucr. 4, 895.

Trop.:

in praesentia tantummodo numeros et modos et partes argumentandi confuse et permixte dispersimus: post descripte... ex hac copia digeremus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 42, 187; 191; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

bellum tam longe lateque dispersum,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

in re dispersa atque infinita,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1:

plebis vis soluta atque dispersa in multitudine,

Sall. J. 41, 6:

rumorem,

Tac. A. 4, 24:

falsos rumores,

id. H. 2, 96; and with acc. and inf.:

volgus fingendi avidum disperserat accitum in adoptionem,

had given out, id. ib. 2, 1:

membratim oportebit partis rei gestae dispergere in causam,

Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30:

vitam in auras,

Verg. A. 11, 617; cf.:

partem voti in auras,

id. ib. 795.— Hence, adv. in two forms:

dispersē, dispersedly, here and there (very rare):

disperse et diffuse dictae res,

Cic. Inv. 1, 52, 98:

multis in locis dicta,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 116. —

dispersim, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 7; 3, 2, 13; Suet. Caes. 80.

ex-spergo or ex-spargo ( experg-), no perf., spersus, 3, v. a. [spargo], to sprinkle, scatter abroad, disperse ( poet.).

Lit.:

exspargi quo possint moenia mundi,

to be dispersed, diffused, Lucr. 5, 371.—

Transf.:

sanieque exspersa natarent Limina,

i. e. besprinkled, Verg. A. 3, 625 (Rib. aspersa).

rē-spergo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to sprinkle over any thing; to besprinkle, bestrew (rare but class.).

Lit.:

praetoris oculos,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, § 100:

manus, os, simulacrum sanguine,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

morientium sanguine os uxoris respersum,

id. Phil. 3, 2, 4; id. de Or. 3, 3, 10; cf.:

aliquem cruore,

Liv. 21, 63:

sanguine dextram,

Cat. 64, 230; Curt. 8, 3, 11:

comae respersae sanguine,

Ov. F. 3, 452: caede fraternā juvenis respersus, Cat 64, 181; Suet. Ner. 12; id. Calig. 57:

se sanguine nefando,

Liv. 1, 13:

quidquid fuerat mortale aquis,

Ov. M. 14, 604: vino rogum ne respargito, Lex Numae ap. Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88; cf. Fest. p. 262 Müll.:

alicubi labi necesse est, alicubi respergi,

to be splashed, spattered, Sen. Ira, 3, 6: pelagus respergit, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89. — Poet.: cum primum Aurora respergit lumine terras, Lucr. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 25 (cf. spargit, Lucr. 2, 144):

nullā nube respersus jubar,

i. e. beclouded, dimmed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 723. —

Transf., to spread out:

ut nux repercussa radicem respergat,

Pall. Jan. 15, 15. —

Trop., to besprinkle, bespatter, defile, etc.:

servili probro respersus est,

Tac. H. 1, 48:

aliquem infamiā,

Quint. Decl. 18, 3.

rēspergo, ĭnis, f. [1. respergo], a besprinkling (late Lat.):

marmoris,

Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 503.