fŏvĕa

fŏvĕa, ae, f. [kindred with favissae], a small pit, esp. for taking wild beasts, a pit fall (syn.: scrobs, specus: fossa, etc.).

Lit.

In gen.:

(humor) ut in foveam fluat,

Lucr. 2, 475:

(cadavera) Donec humo tegere ac foveis abscondere discunt,

Verg. G. 3, 558.— Transf.:

genitales feminae,

i. e. the womb, Tert. Anim. 19.—

In partic., a pitfall, pit (class.):

tetra belua, quae quoniam in foveam incidit, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 12; Lucr. 5, 1250; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 50; id. A. P. 459:

anates in foveas delapsae,

Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112.—

Trop., a snare (Plautin.):

ita decipiemus fovea leonem Lycum,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 59; id. Pers. 4, 4, 45; cf.:

ex iisdem foveis emergentes,

conspiracy, Amm. 14, 9, 1,

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a pit, trap for game, pitfall

dē-cĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3, v. a. [capio], primarily signifies to catch away, catch up, seize an animal while running, fleeing, etc. (whence decipula, a snare, trap); but occurs only in the trop. sense (acc. to capio, no. II. B.), to catch, ensnare, entrap, beguile, elude, deceive, cheat (for syn. cf.:

fraudo, emungo, circumscribo, circumvenio, frustror, verba do, impono, fallo): fiunt transennae ubi decipiuntur dolis, etc.,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 9 sq.:

ita decipiemus fovea lenonem Lycum,

id. Poen. 1, 1, 59; id. Amph. 1, 1, 268 et saep.:

eo deceptum, quod neque, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

T. Roscius novem homines honestissimos... induxit, decepit, omni fraude et perfidia fefellit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117; cf.:

illa amphibolia, quae Croesum decepit, vel Chrysippum potuisset fallere,

id. Div. 2, 56 fin.; Verg. A. 4, 17 al.: homines imperitos et per colloquium deceptos crudelissime interfecisse, Caes. B. C. 1, 85, 3;

so per aliquid,

id. ib. 3, 82 fin.; Liv. 1, 9 al.:

in nullo verbo eum memoria decepit,

Sen. Contr. 1. Praef. 18:

jam semel in prima spe deceptos,

Liv. 36, 40;

for which spe affinitatis deceptum,

Suet. Tib. 65; cf.:

deceptus nocte,

Quint. 4, 2, 71:

cupidine falso,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 61:

specie recti,

id. A. P. 25 et saep.:

amatorem amicae decipiunt vitia,

id. S. 1, 3, 38.— Poet., in Gr. construction: Prometheus dulci laborum decipitur sono, is beguiled of his sufferings (i. e. forgets his sufferings, being beguiled with sweet melody), Hor. Od. 2, 13, 38.—

Of inanimate objects:

exspectationibus decipiendis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 289; cf.:

quo opinio decipitur,

Quint. 6, 3, 64:

oculos,

Ov. R. Am. 346; cf. id. M. 3, 431:

nervos,

Pers. 4, 45:

volatile pecus facile custodiam pastoris decipit,

Col. 8, 4, 3:

judicium error,

Ov. Pont. 3, 9, 11:

specimen istud virtutis,

Liv. 8, 7:

sic tamen absumo decipioque diem,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 114; cf. id. H. 19, 55 Loers.; Stat. Silv. 4, 4, 19; Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 233:

quomodo vinum potantem decipit,

Vulg. Hab. 2, 5.—

Absol.:

victima deceptus decipientis ero,

Ov. Am. 3, 3, 22:

ab tergo et super caput decepere insidiae,

Liv. 22, 4; Plin. 18, 24, 56, § 204.

dē-prĕhendo or dēprendo (v. prehendo; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 59), di, sum, 3, v. a.

To take or snatch away, esp. any thing which is in motion; to seize upon, catch (freq. and class.—For syn. cf.: invenio, reperio, nanciscor; offendo, aperio, patefacio, detego; incido, consequor, assequor, etc.).

Lit.:

deprehensus ex itinere Cn. Magius,

Caes. B. C. 1, 24, 4:

in ipso fluminis vado deprehensus,

id. B. G. 5, 58, 6:

in agris,

id. ib. 6, 30:

in ponte,

Sall. C. 45:

nuntiorum pars deprehensa,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

deprehensis internuntiis,

id. B. C. 3, 112 fin.: tabellarios deprendere litterasque intercipere, Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12; and:

litterae deprehensae,

intercepted, Liv. 2, 4:

onerarias naves,

to seize, take possession of, Caes. B. C. 1, 36, 2; so id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; id. B. C. 1, 26 al.:

volucres jaculis,

Sil. 16, 566:

cursu deprendere telum,

Stat. Th. 6, 568:

subito deprehensus locutus est,

taken by surprise, Sen. Ep. 11, 1.—

Transf. of inanimate subjects. So, esp. freq. of storms:

deprensa navigia,

caught, overtaken by, Lucr. 6, 429; cf. Catull. 25, 13; Verg. A. 5, 52; id. G. 4, 421; Ov. M. 11, 663; Curt. 7, 4 et saep.—

In a wider sense, to catch, overtake, surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover any one, esp. in doing any thing wrong.

Lit.:

deprehendi in aliquo manifesto scelere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43; so,

in maximo scelere,

Sall. C. 46, 2; 50, 4:

in facinore manifesto,

Cic. Brut. 68 fin.:

in alio maleficio,

id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

in adulterio,

id. de Or. 2, 68, 275; Vulg. Johan. 8, 3 et saep.:

dolis deprehensus,

Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 26:

nocte ferro deprehensus,

Quint. 7, 6, 8:

sine duce et sine equitatu deprehensis hostibus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52, 2:

(mulier) deprensa,

caught in the act, Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; 134; 1, 4, 114:

in mendacio,

Quint. 5, 7, 30:

aliquos flentes,

id. ib. 7, 9, 11: agendi subita necessitate deprehensi, id. 1, 12, 4; 1, 8, 21:

aliquem occisum, Suet,

Caes. 35 et saep.—

Of inanimate objects:

venenum,

Cic. Clu. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 16, 47 sq.; Liv. 42, 17:

res furtiva in domo deprehensa,

Quint. 5, 13, 49; cf.

sacrilegium,

id. 8, 6, 26.—

Trop.

To comprehend, perceive, understand, detect, discover, discern, observe (chiefly post-Aug. in prose, esp. in Quint.):

cujus ego facinora oculis prius quam opinione, manibus ante quam suspicione deprehendi,

Cic. Cael. 6 fin.:

quid si me stultior ipso deprenderis?

Hor. S. 2, 7, 43:

hominum erga se mentes,

Suet. Calig. 60:

falsas gemmas,

Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 198:

quam naturam ejus Pythagoras Samius primus deprehendit,

id. 2, 8, 6, § 37; 2, 9, 6, § 43; 9, 28, 44, § 86; Cels. 3, 18; 7 praef.; Plin. Ep. 4, 20, 3:

falsa facilius deprehendere et refellere,

Quint. 12, 1, 34:

quod vix a lectore deprehenditur,

id. 4, 2, 59:

in Livio Patavinitatem,

id. 1, 5, 56; cf. id. 3, 8, 69; 5, 13, 23 et saep.—

With acc. et inf.:

species diversas esse facile est deprehendere,

Quint. 9, 2, 44:

quosdam mitti,

Suet. Aug. 44:

deprehenditur vitiose loqui,

Quint. 1, 6, 7.—

To overtake, equal, imitate:

juvenemque puer deprehende parentem,

Stat. S. 4, 4, 74.—

To find, discover, come upon (always implying mental action, post-Aug.):

extra carmen non deprendas,

Quint. 1, 5, 18:

quod in epistolis Augusti deprehenditur,

id. 1, 7, 22; 8, 6, 71:

apud Ciceronem mira figurarum mixtura deprehenditur,

id. 9, 3, 40.—

With the predominant idea of restricting the free movement of an object, to impede, to check, to bring into a strait.

Lit.:

inter quas (latebras) deprehensus hostis,

Curt. 7, 4, 4:

in fovea,

id. 5, 3, 19:

flamina deprensa silvis,

i. e. impeded, confined, Verg. A. 10, 98:

viae deprensus in aggere serpens,

id. ib. 5, 273; cf. id. ib. 8, 247; Quint. 12, 2, 14. —

Trop., to bring into a strait, to embarrass:

deprehensum me plane video atque sentio,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12 fin.:

deprensi pudorem explicant,

Quint. 6, 3, 100:

(testes) plus deprehensi nocent, quam firmi et interriti profuissent,

id. 5, 7, 11 al.

dē-prĕhendo or dēprendo (v. prehendo; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 59), di, sum, 3, v. a.

To take or snatch away, esp. any thing which is in motion; to seize upon, catch (freq. and class.—For syn. cf.: invenio, reperio, nanciscor; offendo, aperio, patefacio, detego; incido, consequor, assequor, etc.).

Lit.:

deprehensus ex itinere Cn. Magius,

Caes. B. C. 1, 24, 4:

in ipso fluminis vado deprehensus,

id. B. G. 5, 58, 6:

in agris,

id. ib. 6, 30:

in ponte,

Sall. C. 45:

nuntiorum pars deprehensa,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

deprehensis internuntiis,

id. B. C. 3, 112 fin.: tabellarios deprendere litterasque intercipere, Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12; and:

litterae deprehensae,

intercepted, Liv. 2, 4:

onerarias naves,

to seize, take possession of, Caes. B. C. 1, 36, 2; so id. B. G. 7, 58, 4; id. B. C. 1, 26 al.:

volucres jaculis,

Sil. 16, 566:

cursu deprendere telum,

Stat. Th. 6, 568:

subito deprehensus locutus est,

taken by surprise, Sen. Ep. 11, 1.—

Transf. of inanimate subjects. So, esp. freq. of storms:

deprensa navigia,

caught, overtaken by, Lucr. 6, 429; cf. Catull. 25, 13; Verg. A. 5, 52; id. G. 4, 421; Ov. M. 11, 663; Curt. 7, 4 et saep.—

In a wider sense, to catch, overtake, surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover any one, esp. in doing any thing wrong.

Lit.:

deprehendi in aliquo manifesto scelere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43; so,

in maximo scelere,

Sall. C. 46, 2; 50, 4:

in facinore manifesto,

Cic. Brut. 68 fin.:

in alio maleficio,

id. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

in adulterio,

id. de Or. 2, 68, 275; Vulg. Johan. 8, 3 et saep.:

dolis deprehensus,

Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 26:

nocte ferro deprehensus,

Quint. 7, 6, 8:

sine duce et sine equitatu deprehensis hostibus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52, 2:

(mulier) deprensa,

caught in the act, Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; 134; 1, 4, 114:

in mendacio,

Quint. 5, 7, 30:

aliquos flentes,

id. ib. 7, 9, 11: agendi subita necessitate deprehensi, id. 1, 12, 4; 1, 8, 21:

aliquem occisum, Suet,

Caes. 35 et saep.—

Of inanimate objects:

venenum,

Cic. Clu. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 16, 47 sq.; Liv. 42, 17:

res furtiva in domo deprehensa,

Quint. 5, 13, 49; cf.

sacrilegium,

id. 8, 6, 26.—

Trop.

To comprehend, perceive, understand, detect, discover, discern, observe (chiefly post-Aug. in prose, esp. in Quint.):

cujus ego facinora oculis prius quam opinione, manibus ante quam suspicione deprehendi,

Cic. Cael. 6 fin.:

quid si me stultior ipso deprenderis?

Hor. S. 2, 7, 43:

hominum erga se mentes,

Suet. Calig. 60:

falsas gemmas,

Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 198:

quam naturam ejus Pythagoras Samius primus deprehendit,

id. 2, 8, 6, § 37; 2, 9, 6, § 43; 9, 28, 44, § 86; Cels. 3, 18; 7 praef.; Plin. Ep. 4, 20, 3:

falsa facilius deprehendere et refellere,

Quint. 12, 1, 34:

quod vix a lectore deprehenditur,

id. 4, 2, 59:

in Livio Patavinitatem,

id. 1, 5, 56; cf. id. 3, 8, 69; 5, 13, 23 et saep.—

With acc. et inf.:

species diversas esse facile est deprehendere,

Quint. 9, 2, 44:

quosdam mitti,

Suet. Aug. 44:

deprehenditur vitiose loqui,

Quint. 1, 6, 7.—

To overtake, equal, imitate:

juvenemque puer deprehende parentem,

Stat. S. 4, 4, 74.—

To find, discover, come upon (always implying mental action, post-Aug.):

extra carmen non deprendas,

Quint. 1, 5, 18:

quod in epistolis Augusti deprehenditur,

id. 1, 7, 22; 8, 6, 71:

apud Ciceronem mira figurarum mixtura deprehenditur,

id. 9, 3, 40.—

With the predominant idea of restricting the free movement of an object, to impede, to check, to bring into a strait.

Lit.:

inter quas (latebras) deprehensus hostis,

Curt. 7, 4, 4:

in fovea,

id. 5, 3, 19:

flamina deprensa silvis,

i. e. impeded, confined, Verg. A. 10, 98:

viae deprensus in aggere serpens,

id. ib. 5, 273; cf. id. ib. 8, 247; Quint. 12, 2, 14. —

Trop., to bring into a strait, to embarrass:

deprehensum me plane video atque sentio,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48; id. Verr. 2, 4, 12 fin.:

deprensi pudorem explicant,

Quint. 6, 3, 100:

(testes) plus deprehensi nocent, quam firmi et interriti profuissent,

id. 5, 7, 11 al.

fossa, ae, f. [fodio, i. e. fossa terra], a ditch, trench, fosse (syn.: fovea, scrobs, fossio).

Lit.

In gen.:

salso suffudit gurgite fossas,

Lucr. 5, 482:

fodere fossam,

Liv. 3, 26, 9:

ut unus aditus maximo aggere objecto fossa cingeretur vastissima,

Cic. Rep. 2, 6:

(oppidum) vallo et fossa circumdedi,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

pomarium circummunire fossă praecipiti,

Col. 5, 10, 1:

circumdare moenia vallo atque fossā,

Sall. J. 23, 1;

and, in a different construction: circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

vallo fossaque munire,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.; cf.:

Rheni fossam immanissimis gentibus objicere et opponere,

Cic. Pis. 33, 81:

fossa et vallo aliquem septum tenere,

id. Att. 9, 12, 3:

fossam pedum XX. directis lateribus duxit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 1; so,

fossam ducere,

id. ib. 7, 73, 2:

transversam fossam obducere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 3:

praeducere,

id. B. C. 1, 27, 3:

institutae fossae,

id. ib. 3, 46, 5:

ut flumen nullam in partem depressis fossis derivari posset,

sunk deeper, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 3:

deprimere fossam,

id. ib. 8, 9, 3; cf. Tac. A. 15, 42; 1, 65; Ov. F. 4, 821:

cruor in fossam confusus,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 28.—

In partic.

A gutter, waterway, = colliciae, Verg. G. 1, 326; 1, 372.—

A furrow drawn to mark foundations, etc.:

ipse humili designat moenia fossa,

Verg. A. 7, 157; Ov. F. 4, 839; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 32, § 143.—

A grave (late Lat.):

FILETIVS VSQVE AT FOTSA (ad fossam),

Inscr. Orell. 4794, v. fossor.—

In mal. part.:

pudenda muliebria,

Auct. Priap. 84; cf.:

inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos,

Juv. 2, 10.—

Fos-sa Drūsiāna, v. Drusus.—

Trop., a boundary:

alicui fossam determinare,

Tert. adv. Haer. 10.

fossa, ae, f. [fodio, i. e. fossa terra], a ditch, trench, fosse (syn.: fovea, scrobs, fossio).

Lit.

In gen.:

salso suffudit gurgite fossas,

Lucr. 5, 482:

fodere fossam,

Liv. 3, 26, 9:

ut unus aditus maximo aggere objecto fossa cingeretur vastissima,

Cic. Rep. 2, 6:

(oppidum) vallo et fossa circumdedi,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

pomarium circummunire fossă praecipiti,

Col. 5, 10, 1:

circumdare moenia vallo atque fossā,

Sall. J. 23, 1;

and, in a different construction: circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

vallo fossaque munire,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.; cf.:

Rheni fossam immanissimis gentibus objicere et opponere,

Cic. Pis. 33, 81:

fossa et vallo aliquem septum tenere,

id. Att. 9, 12, 3:

fossam pedum XX. directis lateribus duxit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 1; so,

fossam ducere,

id. ib. 7, 73, 2:

transversam fossam obducere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 3:

praeducere,

id. B. C. 1, 27, 3:

institutae fossae,

id. ib. 3, 46, 5:

ut flumen nullam in partem depressis fossis derivari posset,

sunk deeper, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 3:

deprimere fossam,

id. ib. 8, 9, 3; cf. Tac. A. 15, 42; 1, 65; Ov. F. 4, 821:

cruor in fossam confusus,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 28.—

In partic.

A gutter, waterway, = colliciae, Verg. G. 1, 326; 1, 372.—

A furrow drawn to mark foundations, etc.:

ipse humili designat moenia fossa,

Verg. A. 7, 157; Ov. F. 4, 839; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 32, § 143.—

A grave (late Lat.):

FILETIVS VSQVE AT FOTSA (ad fossam),

Inscr. Orell. 4794, v. fossor.—

In mal. part.:

pudenda muliebria,

Auct. Priap. 84; cf.:

inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos,

Juv. 2, 10.—

Fos-sa Drūsiāna, v. Drusus.—

Trop., a boundary:

alicui fossam determinare,

Tert. adv. Haer. 10.