excepted

exĭmĭus, a, um, adj. [eximo].

Taken out from the mass, i. e. excepted, exempt (rare but class. = exemptus, exceptus):

eximium neminem habere,

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 9: neque esset veri simile, cum omnibus Siculis faceret injurias, te illi unum eximium, cui consuleret, fuisse, you should be the only excepted one, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 16, 52:

tu unus eximius es, in quo hoc praecipuum valeat,

Liv. 9, 34, 11.— Far more freq. and class.,

Select, choice, distinguished, extraordinary, uncommon, excellent (syn.:

egregius, praeclarus, divinus, lautus, magnificus): ea quae eximia plerisque et praeclara videntur, parva ducere,

Cic. Off. 1, 20, 67; cf.:

haec ipsa semper in te eximia et praestantia fuere,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 126:

Pompei singularis eximiaque virtus,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 1, 3:

mulier facie eximia,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 82; cf.:

pulchritudine eximia femina,

id. Div. 1, 25, 52:

eximii forma pueri,

Plin. 7, 12, 10:

eximii praestanti corpore tauri,

Verg. G. 4, 538 et saep.:

ingenium,

Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 3:

gloria belli,

id. Rep. 1, 12; cf.:

gloria virtutis,

id. ib. 2, 10:

opinio virtutis,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8, 1; cf.

also: virtus,

id. B. C. 1, 46, 4:

quo e collegio laus est illa eximia C. Julii, qui, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 2, 36:

herba eximii usus ad vulnera,

Plin. 24, 16, 95, § 152:

ignes Aetnae,

Lucr. 2, 594 et saep.— Poet. with partitive gen.:

eximii regum,

Stat. Th. 6, 15.—And with inf.:

eximius animam servare sub undis,

exceedingly, skilful, expert, Luc. 3, 697.—Hence adv.: exĭmĭe (acc. to II.), exceedingly, very much, uncommonly, excellently (syn.:

egregie, unice): C. Marius L. Plocium eximie dilexit,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

eximie et unice delectare,

Gell. 11, 3, 4:

e. atque verissime opinari,

id. 13, 8, 1:

cenare,

Juv. 11, 1:

polliceri omnia,

Liv. 42, 29, 6:

prodesse,

Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 126:

mederi,

id. ib.; cf.:

curari,

id. 27, 12, 104, § 127:

ornatum templum,

Liv. 25, 40, 2:

utilis,

Plin. 20, 22, 89, § 241:

optimum stagnum,

Col. 8, 17, 1.

* * *

* * *

• An exception establishes the rule as to things not excepted

• Excepting what is to be excepted

armāmenta, ōrum, n. [arma, III.], implements or utensils for any purpose.

In gen.:

armamenta vinearum,

props, Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 152:

armamenta ad inclusos cantus,

reeds, pipes, id. 16, 36, 66, § 170: Excussis inde tunicis iterum iisdem armamentis nudata conciditur medulla, i.e. with mortar and pestle = pilā ligneā, which he had used just before, id. 18, 11, 29, § 112.—

Esp., the tackle of a ship ( sails, ropes, cables, etc.): armamentūm stridor, Pac. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 87: Ac. Salvast navis: ne time. Cha. Quid alia armamenta? Ac. Salva et sana sunt, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 62; 1, 2, 80: omnia caute armamenta locans, * Cic. Arat. 197:

hic tormenta, armamenta, arma, omnis apparatus belli est,

Liv. 26, 43: armamenta navis projecerunt, * Vulg. Act. 27, 19:

aptarique suis pinum jubet armamentis,

Ov. M. 11, 456; Col. 4, 3, 1; Suet. Aug. 17.—Sometimes the sails are excepted:

cum omnis Gallicis navibus spes in velis armamentisque consisteret,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14; Liv. 36, 44; Sen. Ben. 6, 15.

dis-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( perf. sync. discesti, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3), v. n.

(With the notion of dis predominating.)

To part asunder, divide, separate (rare but class.; cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, desum, destituo, deficio).

Lit.:

cum terra discessisset magnis quibusdam imbribus,

Cic. Off. 3, 9:

caelum,

opens, id. Div. 1, 43, 97; 1, 44, 99, i. e. clears off, Verg. A. 9, 20 (this last is quoted in Sen. Q. N. 7, 20):

sulcus vomere,

Luc. 6, 382: VT SODALITATES DECVRIATIQVE DISCEDERENT, SC. ap. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5; cf.:

cum discedere populum jussissent tribuni,

Liv. 3, 11:

populus ex contione,

Sall. J. 34 fin.: armati in latitudinem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 99, 7:

in duas partes,

Sall. J. 13, 1:

in partes,

Tac. A. 1, 49; cf.:

in manipulos,

id. ib. 1, 34:

fumus in auras,

Lucr. 3, 436:

ad semina rerum,

id. 2, 833:

palus multos discessit in amnes,

Luc. 6, 360:

citius paterer caput hoc discedere collo,

Prop. 2, 6, 7.—

Trop.:

divisio in tres partes,

Quint. 12, 10, 58:

haec in duo genera,

id. 3, 6, 86.—

To part from one's connection with one, i. e. to leave, forsake, desert (rare but class.).—With a or ab: uxor a Dolabella discessit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6:

ab amicis in re publica peccantibus,

Cic. Lael. 12, 42:

ab amicis,

id. ib. 20, 75:

a nobis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 3:

milites in itinere ab eo discedunt,

id. ib. 1, 12, 2:

a Perseo,

Liv. 43, 6.

(With the notion of cedere predominating.) To depart from any place or person, to go away from, to leave (cf.: proficiscor, abeo; so most frequently in all periods and sorts of composition).

Lit.

In gen.: constr. with ab, ex, or absol., rarely with de —With ab: cum discesti ab [p. 586] hero, atque abisti ad forum, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3;

so with abire,

id. ib. 3, 3, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 2 fin.:

quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 1:

ab suis,

id. ib. 5, 3, 6:

ab exercitu,

id. ib. 7, 9, 1; id. B. C. 1, 9, 3 et saep.:

a senis latere numquam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

a vallo,

Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 3:

ab loco,

id. ib. 5, 34, 1:

a litore,

id. ib. 5, 8 fin. et saep.—With ex:

non modo illum e Gallia non discessisse, sed ne a Mutina quidem recessisse,

Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21:

ex contione,

Caes. B. C. 2, 33, 2:

e medio,

Suet. Caes. 1:

e patria,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 85 et saep.—With de:

de foro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147; 2, 4, 22, § 49; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79:

de colloquio,

Liv. 32, 40.—With abl. without a prep.:

templo,

Ov. M. 1, 381:

finibus Ausoniae,

id. Tr. 1, 3, 5:

lecto,

id. H. 1, 81:

Tarracone,

Caes. B. C. 2, 21, 5:

Capua,

Cic. Att. 7, 21.— Absol.:

ille discessit, ego somno solutus sum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 26 fin.;

so,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 3; id. B. C. 1, 22 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 8 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

ne longius ab agmine discedi pateretur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 3:

ab concilio disceditur,

id. ib. 7, 2 fin.:

de colloquio discessum,

Liv. 32, 40; Caes. B. C. 3, 87 fin.; Tac. A. 6, 44 fin. —

Designating the term. ad quem, to go away to any place:

in silvas,

Caes. B. G. 5, 39, 2:

ex fuga in civitates,

id. ib. 7, 88 fin.:

in castra,

id. B. C. 1, 83, 3:

in proximos colles,

Sall. J. 54 fin.:

in loca occulta,

id. ib. 56, 3:

ad urbem,

Verg. A. 12, 184 et saep.:

Capreas,

Tac. A. 6, 20:

ex castris domum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 7, 5; cf.

simply domum,

id. B. C. 1, 13, 3; 3, 87, 3:

domos suas,

Nep. Them. 4, 2 al.:

cubitum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 10.—

In partic.

In milit. lang., to march off, march away, decamp:

discessit a Brundisio obsessionemque nostrorum omisit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.:

ab Gergovia,

id. B. G. 7, 43 fin.:

a mari Dyrrhachioque,

id. B. C. 3, 44, 1:

ab Zama,

Sall. J. 61 al.:

ex ea parte vici,

Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 1:

ex hibernis,

id. ib. 5, 28, 3:

ex eo loco,

id. B. C. 3, 30, 7; cf.:

ex iis locis cum classe,

id. ib. 3, 101 fin.:

Tarracone,

id. ib. 2, 21, 5 et saep.:

dispersi ac dissipati discedunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 3; so absol., id. ib. 5, 53 fin.; 6, 33, 4 et saep.;

so milit.: discedere ab signis,

to quit the standard, leave the order of battle, Caes. B. G. 5, 16, 1; id. B. C. 1, 44, 4; Liv. 25, 20:

qui discedere et abire cœptabant,

i. e. to break ranks and go away, Suet. Oth. 11; cf.: ab ordinibus signisque Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3:

ab armis,

to lay down one's arms, Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 8; id. B. C. 1, 9, 5; Sall. C. 34, 1; Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; Liv. 9, 14 al.—

Also in milit. lang., to get away, come away, come off in any manner from the battle (victorious, conquered, wounded, etc.); and sometimes to be translated simply to become, to be, etc.:

superiores,

Caes. B. C. 1, 47, 1; so,

superior,

Sall. C. 39, 4:

victor,

Caes. B. C. 3, 47, 6; cf.:

victor ab hoste,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 37:

victus,

to be conquered, Sall. C. 49, 2:

graviter vulneratus,

id. ib. 61, 7 et saep.:

aequo proelio,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 7; cf.:

aequa manu,

Sall. C. 39, 4:

aequo Marte cum Volscis,

Liv. 2, 40:

sine detrimento,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46, 6 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

a proelio disceditur,

Just. 6, 7, 12.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq. into the judicial sphere, on account of its analogy to the former):

ut spoliis Sexti Roscii hoc judicio ornati auctique discedant,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 3 fin.:

superiorem,

id. Caecin. 1, 2; so,

liberatus,

Nep. Phoc. 2, 3:

omnium judicio probatus,

Cic. Brut. 64, 229:

impunita (tanta injuria),

id. Verr. 2, 4, 30 et saep.:

discessisses non male,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 70; cf.:

pulchre et probe et praeter spem,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 58:

aut cum summa gloria aut sine molestia,

Cic. Att. 2, 21 fin.; cf.:

a judicio capitis maximā gloriā,

Nep. Epam. 8 fin.:

ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam Neget daturum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 121; cf.:

si possum discedere, ne causa optima in senatu pereat,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16 fin.

Trop.

In gen., to depart, deviate, swerve from; to leave, forsake, give up:

nihil a statu naturae, nihil a dignitate sapientis,

Cic. Off. 1, 20, 67:

a fide justitiaque,

id. ib. 3, 20, 79:

longe ab consuetudine mea et cautione ac diligentia,

id. Font. 1, 2:

a constantia atque a mente, atque a se ipse,

id. Div. 2, 55, 114; cf.:

a se,

id. Brut. 79, 273; id. Fin. 5, 11, 33; 4, 5, 41; id. Tusc. 4, 6, 11: a recta conscientia, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 20:

a sua sententia,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 5: ab officio, id. B. G. 1, 40, 3:

ab oppugnatione castrorum,

id. B. C. 2, 31, 3 et saep.:

a judiciisque causisque,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:

a litteris,

id. Fam. 9, 26:

ab illa acerrima contentione,

id. Or. 31:

ab illa cavillatione,

Quint. 12, 2, 14:

a suscepta semel persuasione,

id. 12, 2, 26 et saep.—

In partic.

Pregn., to pass away, to vanish, to cease (very rarely):

modo audivi, quartanam a te discessisse,

had left you, Cic. Att. 8, 6:

ex animo memoria alicujus,

id. Rep. 6, 9: hostibus spes potiundi oppidi discessit (opp. studium propugnandi accessit), Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2:

ubi hae sollicitudines discessere,

Liv. 4, 52 fin. —

In alicujus sententiam, in polit. lang., to pass or go over to another's opinion, Sall. C. 55, 1; Liv. 3, 41; 28, 45; cf.

the opp., in alia omnia,

Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 3 (v. alius). In like manner:

decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum SC., quo nisi paene in ipso urbis incendio... numquam ante discessum est,

which had never before been resorted to, Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3;

so perh.: ex oratione Caesaris... hanc in opinionem discessi, ut, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 6, 14 fin. —

Ab aliquo, in Cicero's letters in the sense of to leave out of consideration, i. e. to except:

cum a vobis meae salutis auctoribus discesserim, neminem esse, cujus officiis me tam esse devinctum confitear,

if I except you, you excepted, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 18:

ut cum ab illo discesserint, me habeant proximum,

id. ib. 6, 12, 2:

amoris erga me, cum a fraterno amore domesticoque discessi, tibi primas defero,

id. Att. 1, 17, 5.

perf.: custodibus discessis, Cael. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.

ex-cĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3, v. a. [capio].

(With the notion of the ex predominating.) To take or draw out.

Lit. (rarely): aliquem e mari, to draw out, fish out, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 293, 26 (Rep. 4, 8, 8 Baiter):

vidulum (e mari),

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 140 sq.:

dens manu, forcipe,

Cels. 7, 12, 1:

telum (e vulnere),

id. 7, 5, 1:

clipeum cristasque rubentes Excipiam sorti,

to withdraw, exempt, Verg. A. 9, 271.—

Trop.

In gen.: servitute exceptus, withdrawn, i. e. rescued from slavery, Liv. 33, 23, 2:

nihil jam cupiditati, nihil libidini exceptum,

exempt, Tac. Agr. 15.—

In partic.

To except, make an exception of (freq. and class.):

hosce ego homines excipio et secerno libenter,

Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15:

qui (Democritus) ita sit ausus ordiri: Haec loquor de universis. Nihil excipit, de quo non profiteatur,

id. Ac. 2, 23, 73; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 28:

Lacedaemonii ipsi, cum omnia concedunt in amore juvenum praeter stuprum, tenui sane muro dissaepiunt id, quod excipiunt,

id. Rep. 4, 4:

senex talos elidi jussit conservis meis: sed me excepit,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 13.—With ne:

Licinia lex, quae non modo eum, qui, etc.... sed etiam collegas ejus, cognatos, affines excipit, ne eis ea potestas curatiove mandetur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 8, 21;

so in legal limitations,

id. ib. 2, 9, 24; id. Balb. 14, 32; see also exceptio.—With ut, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, 26:

excepi de antiquis praeter Xenophanem neminem,

id. Div. 1, 39, 87:

ut in summis tuis laudibus excipiant unam iracundiam,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, 37:

dolia, in horreis defossa, si non sint nominatim in venditione excepta, etc.,

Dig. 18, 1, 76; so ib. 77.—In the abl. absol.:

omnium mihi videor, exceptis, Crasse, vobis duobus, eloquentissimos audisse Ti. et C. Sempronios,

you two excepted, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38; cf.:

vos hortor, ut ita virtutem locetis, ut eā exceptā nihil amicitia praestabilius esse putetis,

id. Lael. 27 fin.:

exceptā sapientiā,

id. ib. 6, 20. — Neutr. absol.:

excepto, quod non simul esses, cetera laetus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 50:

excepto, si obscena nudis nominibus enuntientur,

Quint. 8, 3, 38; Pers. 5, 90; Aug. Serm. 17, 3; 46, 2.—Hence,

Jurid. t. t., said of the defendant, to except, to make a legal exception to the plaintiff's statement:

verum est, quod qui excipit, probare debeat, quod excipitur,

Dig. 22, 3, 9; so ib. 18:

adversus aliquem,

ib. 16, 1, 17 et saep.; cf. exceptio and the authorities there cited.—

In an oration, a law, etc., to express by name, to make particular mention of, to state expressly (rare, and perh. not anteAug.):

cum Graecos Italia pellerent, excepisse medicos,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 16: vites in tantum sublimes, ut vindemitor auctoratus rogum ac tumulum excipiat, expressly stipulates for (in case he should fall and break his neck), id. 14, 1, 3, § 10.

(With the notion of the verb predominating.) To take a thing to one's self (in a good or bad sense), to catch, capture, take, receive.

Lit.

In gen.:

sanguinem paterā,

Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf. Col. 9, 15, 9:

e longinquo sucum,

Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 78:

labentem excepit,

Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 43: se in pedes, to take to one's feet, i. e. spring to the ground, Liv. 4, 19, 4:

filiorum extremum spiritum ore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118; cf.:

tunicis fluentibus auras,

Ov. A. A. 3, 301:

omnium tela,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 177; so,

tela,

Caes. B. G. 3, 5, 3:

vulnera,

Cic. Sest. 10, 23; cf.:

vulnus ore,

Quint. 6, 3, 75; and:

plagae genus in se,

Lucr. 2, 810:

o terram illam beatam, quae hunc virum exceperit!

Cic. Mil. 38, 105; cf.: hunc (Mithridatem) in timore et fuga Tigranes excepit, id de. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23:

aliquem benigno vultu,

Liv. 30, 14, 3; cf.

also: hic te polenta excipiet,

Sen. Ep. 21 med.:

aliquem epulis,

Tac. G. 21:

multos ex fuga dispersos excipiunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 6. alios vagos per hiberna milites excipiebant, Liv. 33, 29, 2: speculator, exceptus a juvenibus mulcatur, id. 40, 7, 4: cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 5:

servos in pabulatione,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 9:

incautum,

Verg. A. 3, 332:

(uri) mansuefieri ne parvuli quidem excepti possunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 28, 4:

aprum latitantem,

Hor. C. 3, 12, 10:

caprum insidiis,

Verg. E. 3, 18:

fugientes feras,

Phaedr. 1, 11, 6:

aprum, feram venabulo,

Quint. 4, 2, 17; Sen. Prov. 2 et saep.—

Of inanimate subjects:

postero die patenti itinere Priaticus campus eos excepit,

received them, Liv. 38, 41, 8:

silva tum excepit ferum,

Phaedr. 1, 12, 9; Quint. 2, 12, 2. —

In partic.

To come next to, to follow after, succeed a thing:

linguam ad radices ejus haerens excipit stomachus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135: quinque milia passuum proxima intercedere itineris campestris;

inde excipere loca aspera et montuosa,

Caes. B. C. 1, 66 fin.:

alios alii deinceps,

id. B. G. 5, 16 fin. — Poet.:

porticus excipiebat Arcton,

i. e. was turned to the north, looked towards the north, Hor. C. 2, 15, 16.—

In medic. lang.: aliquid aliqua re, to take something in something, i. e. mixed with something:

quae (medicamenta) excipiuntur cerato ex rosa facto,

Cels. 5, 18, 20; 5, 25, 5; 6; 12 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., to take or catch up, to intercept:

genus divinationis naturale, quod animus arripit aut excipit extrinsecus ex divinitate,

Cic. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.:

posteaquam vidit, illum excepisse laudem ex eo, quod,

i. e. obtained, id. Att. 1, 14, 3: subire coëgit et excipere pericula, to take upon one's self, to receive, support, sustain (the figure being taken from the reception of an enemy's blows or shots), Cic. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.:

Germani celeriter phalange facta impetus gladiorum exceperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52, 4; so,

impetus,

id. B. C. 1, 58, 1:

vim frigorum hiememque,

Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42:

labores magnos,

id. Brut. 69, 243 et saep.:

excipimus nova illa cum favore et sollicitudine,

receive, Quint. 10, 1, 15:

verba risu,

id. 1, 2, 7:

praecepta ad excipiendas hominum voluntates,

for taking captive, Cic. de Or. 2, 8, 32:

invidiam,

to draw upon one's self, Nep. Dat. 5, 2.—

Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

quae (sublicae) cum omni opere conjunctae vim fluminis exciperent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 9; 3, 13, 1:

quid reliquis accideret, qui quosque eventus exciperent,

i. e. would befall, overtake them, Caes. B. C. 1, 21 fin.; Verg. A. 3, 318; Liv. 1, 53, 4.—

In partic.

To catch with the ear, esp. eagerly or secretly, to catch up, listen to, overhear:

maledicto nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur,

Cic. Planc. 23, 57; id. Sest. 48, 102:

assensu populi excepta vox consulis,

Liv. 8, 6, 7:

ad has excipiendas voces speculator missus,

id. 40, 7, 4; 2, 4, 5; 4, 30, 3:

laudem avidissimis auribus excipit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 3:

notis quoque excipere velocissime solitum,

i. e. to write down in shorthand, Suet. Tit. 3:

rumores,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 25; cf.

voces,

Liv. 40, 7, 4:

sermonem eorum,

id. 2, 4, 5:

furtivas notas,

Ov. Am. 1, 4, 18.—

To follow after, to succeed a thing in time or the order of succession (cf. above, A. 2. a.):

tristem hiemem pestilens aestas excepit,

Liv. 5, 13, 4:

Herculis vitam et virtutem immortalitas excepisse dicitur,

Cic. Sest. 68, 143:

violis succedit rosa: rosam cyanus excipit, cyanum amarantus,

Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68:

excipit Pompilium Numam Tullus Hostilius,

Flor. 1, 3, 1:

hunc (locutum) Labienus excepit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 1.— Absol.:

turbulentior inde annus excepit,

succeeded, followed, Liv. 2, 61, 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 88, 2:

re cognita tantus luctus excepit, ut, etc.,

id. B. C. 2, 7, 3.—Hence,

Transf.: aliquid, to continue, prolong a thing:

memoriam illius viri excipient omnes anni consequentes,

Cic. de Sen. 6, 19; Liv. 38, 22, 3:

vices alicujus,

Just. 11, 5.— Poet. with inf., Sil. 13, 687.

sē-păro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [2. paro], to disjoin, sever, part, divide, separate (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense; cf.: divido, dirimo, disjungo, secludo).

Lit.

With ab:

senatoria subsellia a populari consessu,

Cic. Corn. Fragm. 12, p. 449 Orell.:

separat Aonios Oetaeis Phocis ab arvis,

Ov. M. 1, 313:

Asiam ab Europā,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 87:

separandos a cetero exercitu ratus,

Curt. 7, 2, 35.—

With abl. ( poet.):

Seston Abydenā separat urbe fretum,

Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 28:

separat (spatium) aethere terram,

Luc. 4, 75; 9, 524;

natura nos ceteris separatos animalibus sola homines fatetur,

Diom. 275 P.—

With simple acc., Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

nec nos mare separat ingens,

Ov. M. 3, 448:

in ipsis Europam Asiamque separantis freti angustiis,

Plin. 9, 15, 20, § 50;

equitum magno numero ex omni populi summā separato,

Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39:

Thessalorum omnis equitatus separatus erat,

separated, divided, Liv. 42, 55 fin., Dig. 34, 2, 19, § 2.— Pass.:

ut corpora gentis illius separata sint in alias civitates, ingenia vera solis Atheniensium muris clausa existimes,

Vell. 1, 18, 1.—

Trop., to treat or consider separately; to distinguish, except.

With ab:

multi Graeci a perpetuis suis historiis ea bella separaverunt,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

cogitatione magis a virtute potest quam re separari,

id. Off. 1, 27, 95, suum consilium ab reliquis separare, Caes. B. G. 7, 63 fin.:

ob separata ab se consilia,

Liv. 23, 20, 4:

nihil est, quod se ab Aetolis separent,

id. 38, 43, 12:

orato rem, quem a bono viro non separo,

Quint. 2, 21, 12;

saepe a figuris ea (vitia) separare difficile est,

id. 1, 5, 5.—

With simple acc.:

separemus officium dantis testes et refellentis,

Quint. 5, 7, 9:

miscenda sit an separanda narratio,

id. 4, 2, 101; cf. id. 12, 2, 13; cf.:

virtus ipsa, separatā utilitate,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34: oratio ac vis forensis, ut idem separetur Cato, ita universa erupit sub Tullio, ut, etc., i. e. if Cato again be excepted (shortly before:

praeter Catonem),

Vell. 1, 17, 3.—Hence, sēpărātus, a, um, P. a., separated, separate, distinct, particular, different.

With ab:

quaestiones separatae a complexu rerum,

Quint. 5, 8, 6. —

With abl.:

(animalia) separata alienis,

Vell. 1, 16, 2.—

Absol.:

ista aliud quoddam separatum volumen exspectant,

Cic. Att. 14, 17, 6; so id. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45 Zumpt N cr.:

neutrum vitiosum separatum est, sed compositione peccatur,

Quint. 1, 5, 35:

quid separata, quid conjuncta (verba) exigant,

id. 8, 3, 15:

eorum nullum ipsum per se separatum probo,

Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 54 Mos. N. cr.:

privati ac separati agr: apud eos nihil est,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1; cf.:

separatae singulis sedes et sua cuique mensa,

Tac. G. 22:

separati epulis, discreti cubilibus,

id. H. 5, 5:

(exordium) separatum, quod non ex ipsā causā ductum est, nec,

Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 26: tu (Bacchus) separatis uvidus in jugis (i. e. remotis), distant, remote, Hor C. 2, 19, 18.— Comp.:

intellectus,

Tert. Anim. 18 fin.—Sup. does not occur. —Hence, * adv.: sēpărātē, separately, apart:

separatius adjungi,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 156.