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  • 1 fallo

    fallo, fĕfelli, falsum, 3 (archaic inf. praes. pass. fallier, Pers. 3, 50; perf. pass. fefellitus sum, Petr. Fragm. 61, MSS.), v. a. [Sanscr. sphal, sphul, to waver; Gr. sphallô, a-sphalês], to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint (freq. and class.; syn.: decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo, fraudo).
    I.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Of living objects:

    T. Roscius non unum rei pecuniariae socium fefellit, verum novem homines honestissimos ejusdem muneris, etc.... induxit, decepit, destituit, omni fraude et perfidia fefellit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 116 sq.; so,

    aliquem dolis,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 13; cf. id. Heaut. 3, 1, 61:

    senem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 43:

    referam gratiam, atque eas itidem fallam, ut ab illis fallimur,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 93: tu illum fructu fallas, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

    id ipsum sui fallendi causa milites ab hostibus factum existimabant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 2:

    tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco Inventum,

    Verg. G. 1, 139; cf. Ov. M. 15, 474:

    is enim sum, nisi me forte fallo, qui, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 8, 21:

    num me fefellit, Catilina, non modo res tanta, verum dies?

    id. Cat. 1, 3, 7:

    nisi me fallit animus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; cf.:

    neque eum prima opinio fefellit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 67, 3:

    ne spes eum fallat,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 4:

    si in hominibus eligendis spes amicitiae nos fefellerit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 11, § 28:

    in quo cum eum opinio fefellisset,

    Nep. Ages. 3, 5:

    nisi forte me animus fallit,

    Sall. C. 20, 17:

    nisi memoria me fallit,

    fails me, Gell. 20, p. 285 Bip.:

    nisi me omnia fallunt,

    Cic. Att. 8, 7, 1; cf.:

    omnia me fallunt, nisi, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

    nisi quid me fallit,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 6; cf.:

    si quid nunc me fallit in scribendo,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 4:

    dominum sterilis saepe fefellit ager,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 450:

    certe hercle hic se ipsus fallit, non ego,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 15:

    tam libenter se fallunt, quam si una fata decipiunt,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1:

    cum alios falleret, se ipsum tamen non fefellit,

    Lact. 1, 22, 5.— Pass. in mid. force, to deceive one's self, be deceived, to err, be mistaken:

    errore quodam fallimur in disputando,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 35:

    qua (spe) possumus falli: deus falli qui potuit?

    id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

    memoriā falli,

    Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118:

    jamque dies, nisi fallor, adest,

    Verg. A. 5, 49; Cic. Att. 4, 17, 1; 16, 6, 2:

    ni fallor,

    Ov. F. 4, 623; Lact. 2, 19, 1; cf.:

    ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor,

    Hor. A. P. 42.—With object-clause:

    dicere non fallar, quo, etc.,

    Luc. 7, 288:

    quamquam haut falsa sum, nos odiosas haberi,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 4; cf.:

    id quam facile sit mihi, haud sum falsus,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 3; Ter. And. 4, 1, 23; Sall. J. 85, 20:

    neque ea res falsum me habuit,

    did not deceive me, id. ib. 10, 1:

    ut falsus animi est!

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 43.—
    (β).
    Of inanim. or abstr. objects:

    promissum,

    not to fulfil, Curt. 7, 10, 9:

    fidem hosti datam fallere,

    to violate, break, betray, deceive, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39:

    quodsi meam spem vis improborum fefellerit atque superaverit,

    id. Cat. 4, 11, 23; cf. id. de Or. 1, 1, 2:

    non fallam opinionem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 6 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 86 fin.:

    imperium,

    to fail to execute, Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125:

    cum lubrica saxa vestigium fallerent,

    betrayed, Curt. 4, 9.— Poet.:

    tu faciem illius Falle dolo,

    imitate deceptively, assume, Verg. A. 1, 684:

    sua terga nocturno lupo,

    i. e. to hide, conceal, Prop. 4, 5, 14:

    casses, retia,

    to shun, avoid, Ov. H. 20, 45; 190. —
    (γ).
    Absol.: neque quo pacto fallam... Scio quicquam, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29 fin.:

    cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    ea (divinatio) fallit fortasse nonnumquam,

    id. Div. 1, 14, 25:

    non in sortitione fallere,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132:

    in ea re,

    Nep. Them. 7, 2; Cels. 7, 26, 2: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, Liv. 29, 35, 2:

    ut, si quid possent, de induciis fallendo impetrarent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 13, 5:

    germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 45:

    plerumque sufflati atque tumidi (oratores) fallunt pro uberibus,

    Gell. 7, 14, 5.—
    B.
    Impers.: fallit (me) I deceive myself, I mistake, am mistaken:

    sed nos, nisi me fallit, jacebimus,

    Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2; cf.:

    nisi me propter benevolentiam forte fallebat,

    id. Cael. 19, 45; id. Sest. 50, 106:

    nec eum fefellit,

    id. Off. 2, 7, 25:

    vide, ne te fallat,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25. And cf. under II. B. 2.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To deceive in swearing, to swear falsely:

    is jurare cum coepisset, vox eum defecit in illo loco: SI SCIENS FALLO,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf.:

    lapidem silicem tenebant juraturi per Jovem haec verba dicentes: SI SCIENS FALLO, TVM ME DISPITER, etc., Paul. ex Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.: si sciens fefellisset,

    Plin. Pan. 64, 3; cf. Liv. 21, 45, 8; Prop. 4, 7, 53:

    expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere,

    i. e. to swear falsely by the ashes of your mother, Hor. C. 2, 8, 10.—
    B.
    With respect to one's knowledge or sight, for the more usual latēre: to lie concealed from, to escape the notice, elude the observation of a person (so in Cic., Sall., and Caes. for the most part only impers., v. 2. infra).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    neque enim hoc te, Crasse, fallit, quam multa sint et quam varia genera dicendi,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    tanto silentio in summum evasere, ut non custodes solum fallerent, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 5, 47, 3:

    nec fefellit veniens ducem,

    id. 2, 19, 7; Curt. 7, 6, 4; cf.:

    quin et Atridas duce te (Mercurio)... Priamus... Thessalosque ignes et iniqua Trojae Castra fefellit,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 16:

    quos fallere et effugere est triumphus,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 52:

    Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem Fallere testa,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 20; Suet. Caes. 43:

    nec te Pythagorae fallant arcana,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 21; id. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

    nec quicquam eos, quae terra marique agerentur, fallebat,

    Liv. 41, 2, 1 Drak.:

    ut plebem tribunosque falleret judicii rescindendi consilium initum,

    id. 4, 11, 4:

    tanta celeritate, ut visum fallant,

    Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157:

    oculos littera fallit,

    cannot be distinctly read, Ov. A. A. 3, 627.— With acc. and inf.:

    neutros fefellit hostes appropinquare,

    Liv. 31, 33, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.—Mid. with gen.:

    nec satis exaudiebam, nec sermonis fallebar tamen,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 55.—
    (β).
    Absol., to escape notice, be unseen, remain undiscovered:

    speculator Carthaginiensium, qui per biennium fefellerat, Romae deprehensus,

    Liv. 22, 33, 1; 25, 9, 2:

    spes fallendi, resistendive, si non falleret,

    of remaining unnoticed, id. 21, 57, 5:

    non fefellere ad Tifernum hostes instructi,

    id. 10, 14, 6.—So with part. perf., Liv. 42, 64, 3; 23, 19, 11.—With part. pres.: ne alio itinere hostis falleret ad urbem incedens, i. e. arrive secretly, lanthanoi prosiôn, Liv. 8, 20, 5; cf. id. 5, 47, 9; Verg. A. 7, 350:

    nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit,

    i. e. has remained unnoticed, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 10:

    fallere pro aliquo,

    to pass for, Gell. 7, 14:

    bonus longe fallente sagitta,

    Verg. A. 9, 572.—
    2.
    Impers.: fallit (me), it is concealed from me, unknown to me, I do not know, am ignorant of (for the most part only with negatives or in negative interrogations), constr. with subject-clause:

    non me fefellit: sensi,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 64:

    num me fefellit, hosce id struere?

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3; cf.:

    in lege nulla esse ejusmodi capita, te non fallit,

    Cic. Att. 3, 23, 4:

    nec me animi fallit, etc.,

    Lucr. 1, 136; 5, 97:

    quem fallit?

    who does not know? Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233:

    neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B C. 3, 94, 3.—
    C.
    To cause any thing (space, time, etc.) not to be observed or felt, to lighten any thing difficult, or to appease, silence any thing disagreeable, to beguile ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    medias fallunt sermonibus horas Sentirique moram prohibent,

    Ov. M. 8, 652:

    jam somno fallere curam,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 114:

    Fallebat curas aegraque corda labor,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 16; cf.

    dolores,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 39:

    luctum,

    Val. Fl. 3, 319:

    molliter austerum studio fallente laborem,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 12; Ov. M. 6, 60; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—Prov.:

    fallere credentem non est operosa puellam Gloria,

    Ov. H. 2, 63.—Hence, falsus, a, um, P. a., deceptive, pretended, feigned, deceitful, spurious, false (syn.: adulterinus, subditus, subditicius, spurius).
    A.
    [p. 722] Adj.:

    testes aut casu veri aut malitia falsi fictique esse possunt,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27; cf.:

    falsum est id totum, neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

    id. Rep. 2, 15:

    ementita et falsa plenaque erroris,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

    pro re certa spem falsam domum retulerunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; cf.:

    spe falsa atque fallaci,

    id. Phil. 12, 2, 7; so,

    spes,

    id. Sull. 82, 91:

    falsa et mendacia visa,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127; cf.:

    falsa et inania visa,

    id. ib.:

    falsum et imitatione simulatum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; cf. id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    argumentum,

    id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

    qui falsas lites falsis testimoniis Petunt,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 13:

    reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

    id. Bacch. 3, 6, 12:

    ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit,

    Sall. C. 10, 5 Kritz.:

    pater (opp. verus),

    a supposed father, Ov. M. 9, 24; cf. id. ib. 1, 754:

    falsi ac festinantes,

    Tac. A. 1, 7: suspectio, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5:

    nuntius,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175:

    rumores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 20, 2:

    poena falsarum et corruptarum litterarum,

    Cic. Fl. 17, 39; cf.:

    falsas esse litteras et a scriba vitiatas,

    Liv. 40, 55, 1:

    falsarum tabularum rei,

    Suet. Aug. 19:

    fama,

    Cic. Lael. 4, 15:

    appellatio,

    Quint. 7, 3, 5:

    sententiae,

    id. 8, 5, 7:

    crimina,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 14;

    terrores,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 212:

    opprobria,

    i. e. undeserved, id. ib. 1, 16, 38; cf.

    honor,

    id. ib. 39: falsi Simoëntis ad undam, i. e. fictitious (simulati), Verg. A. 3, 302; cf.:

    falsi sequimur vestigia tauri (i. e. Jovis),

    Val. Fl. 8, 265:

    vultu simulans Haliagmona,

    Stat. Th. 7, 739:

    ita ceteros terruere, ut adesse omnem exercitum trepidi ac falsi nuntiarent,

    Tac. H. 2, 17:

    ne illi falsi sunt qui divorsissumas res pariter expectant,

    deceived, mistaken, Sall. J. 85, 20; cf.:

    falsus utinam vates sim,

    Liv. 21, 10, 10; so,

    vates,

    id. 4, 46, 5.— Comp. (rare):

    quanto est abjectior et falsior ista (theologia),

    Aug. Civ. D. 7, 5 fin.:

    nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius,

    Petr. 132; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 11 Müll.— Sup.:

    id autem falsissimum est,

    Col. 1, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    Felix appellatur Arabia, falsi et ingrati cognominis,

    Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 82.—
    2.
    False, counterfeit, spurious, = adulterinus (late Lat.): moneta, Cod. Th. 9, 21, 9.—
    B.
    As subst.
    1.
    falsus, i, m., a liar, deceiver:

    Spurinnam ut falsum arguens,

    a false prophet, Suet. Caes. 81 fin.; id. Tib. 14.—
    2.
    falsum, i, n., falsehood, fraud:

    ex falsis verum effici non potest,

    Cic. Div. 2, 51, 106; cf.:

    veris falsa remiscet,

    Hor. A. P. 151:

    vero distinguere falsum,

    id. Ep. 1, 10, 29:

    falsum scripseram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 14, 2; Quint. 7, 2, 53:

    ex illa causa falsi,

    i. e. of fraud, Dig. 48, 10 (De lege Cornelia de falsis), 1;

    v. the whole title: acclinis falsis animus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 6:

    nec obstitit falsis Tiberius,

    Tac. A. 2, 82:

    simulationum falsa,

    id. ib. 6, 46 et saep.—Adverb.:

    telisque non in falsum jactis,

    i. e. not at random, with effect, Tac. A. 4, 50 fin.:

    jurare falsum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 3, 11.— Adv., untruly, erroneously, unfaithfully, wrongly, falsely; in two forms, falso and false.
    1.
    falso:

    eho mavis vituperari falso, quam vero extolli?

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21 sq.; cf. id. Trin. 1, 2, 173;

    so opp. vero,

    Curt. 5, 2, 2: ei rei dant operam, ut mihi falso maledicatur, Cato ap. Charis. p. 179 P.: falso criminare, Enn. ap. Non. 470, 16:

    neque me perpetiar probri Falso insimulatam,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 7; 21; cf.:

    non possum quemquam insimulare falso,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 107:

    falso memoriae proditum,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    cum Tarquinius... vivere falso diceretur,

    id. Rep. 2, 21; cf.:

    adesse ejus equites falso nuntiabantur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 1:

    cum utrumque falso fingerent,

    Liv. 42, 2:

    falso in me conferri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 2: aliquem falso occidere, i. e. by mistake, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 179 P.; cf.:

    ut miseri parentes quos falso lugent, vivere sciant,

    Liv. 34, 32, 13; and:

    falso lamentari eas Darium vivum,

    Curt. 3, 12:

    falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum,

    Sall. J. 1:

    falso plurima volgus amat,

    Tib. 3, 3, 20 (so perh. also in Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141, non assentiar saepe falso, instead of false).—Ellipt.: Da. Si quid narrare occepi, continuo dari tibi verba censes. Si. Falso, Ter. And. 3, 2, 24; cf.:

    atqui in talibus rebus aliud utile interdum, aliud honestum videri solet. Falso: nam, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so Quint. 2, 17, 12; Nep. Alc. 9:

    quia inter inpotentes et validos falso quiescas, = quia falluntur qui putant quiesci posse,

    Tac. Germ. 36.—
    2.
    false (very rare): judicium false factum, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 179; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 78 Fleck. (Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141 dub., B. and K., al. falso).— Sup.:

    quae adversus haec falsissime disputantur,

    Aug. Conf. 10, 13.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fallo

  • 2 fallō

        fallō fefellī, falsus, ere    [1 FAL-], to trip, cause to fall: glacies fallit pedes, L.: alqm, Cu.—Fig., to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude, fail, disappoint: alquem dolis, T.: falli te sinas Techinis, T.: Nec sidus regione viae (nos) fefellit, misled, V.: credentem puellam, O.: sui fallendi causā factum, Cs.: nisi me forte fallo: nisi me fallit animus: nisi me omnia fallunt, unless I utterly mistake: neque eum prima opinio fefellit, Cs.: nisi quid me fallit: mentīs monstro, V.: cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut, etc.: non in sortitione fallere: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, lead into error, L.: ut de indutiis fallendo impetrarent, Cs.: numquam fallentis termes olivae, H.: nescia fallere vita, without guile, V.: eas fallam, ut ab illis fallimur, T.— Pass reflex., to be deceived, err, mistake, deceive oneself: Falsus es, T.: neque ea res falsum me habuit, did not deceive me, S.: errore quodam fallimur: quā (spe) possumus falli: deus falli quo potuit?: nisi fallor, V.: aut ego fallor, or I am far wrong, H.—Impers., with acc, to mistake, be deceived: nisi me fallit: nec eum fefellit.— To violate, break, betray, deceive, disappoint: fidem hosti datam: meam spem: si res opinionem meam fefellerit: mandata mariti, O.: foedus ac fidem, L.: promissum, Cu.: tu faciem illius Falle dolo, put on, V.: retia, avoid, O.: quā signa sequendi Falleret error, confound, V.— To deceive in swearing, swear falsely, be perjured: si sciens fallo: si falleret, precatus Deos, ita se mactarent, L.: expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere, swear falsely by, H.: dominorum dextras, faith pledged to, etc., V.— To lie concealed, be unseen, escape notice, remain undiscovered, elude: per biennium, L.: ne quid falleret Volturno ad urbem missum, L.: ne falleret ad urbem incedens, arrive secretly, L.: qui natus moriensque fefellit, in obscurity, H.: veneno, infuse undetected, V.: bonus longe fallente sagittā, V.: nequiquam fallis dea, escape recognition, V.: neque hoc te fallit, quam multa sint, etc., nor do you fail to see: custodes, L.: deos, O.: nec nos via fallet euntīs, V.: me nec fallunt iussa Iovis, nor do I fail to recognize, V.: nec quicquam eos fallebat, L.: segetis fides meae Fulgentem Falli sorte beatior, i. e. is a happier lot, though he knows it not, etc., H.: neutros fefellit hostīs appropinquare, L.: in lege nullā esse eiusmodi caput te non fallit: neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc., Cs.— To lighten, appease, silence, beguile: medias sermonibus horas, O.: somno curam, H.: austerum studio fallente laborem, H.
    * * *
    fallere, fefelli, falsus V
    deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat

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  • 3 falsum

    fallo, fĕfelli, falsum, 3 (archaic inf. praes. pass. fallier, Pers. 3, 50; perf. pass. fefellitus sum, Petr. Fragm. 61, MSS.), v. a. [Sanscr. sphal, sphul, to waver; Gr. sphallô, a-sphalês], to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint (freq. and class.; syn.: decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo, fraudo).
    I.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Of living objects:

    T. Roscius non unum rei pecuniariae socium fefellit, verum novem homines honestissimos ejusdem muneris, etc.... induxit, decepit, destituit, omni fraude et perfidia fefellit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 116 sq.; so,

    aliquem dolis,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 13; cf. id. Heaut. 3, 1, 61:

    senem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 43:

    referam gratiam, atque eas itidem fallam, ut ab illis fallimur,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 93: tu illum fructu fallas, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

    id ipsum sui fallendi causa milites ab hostibus factum existimabant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 2:

    tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco Inventum,

    Verg. G. 1, 139; cf. Ov. M. 15, 474:

    is enim sum, nisi me forte fallo, qui, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 8, 21:

    num me fefellit, Catilina, non modo res tanta, verum dies?

    id. Cat. 1, 3, 7:

    nisi me fallit animus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; cf.:

    neque eum prima opinio fefellit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 67, 3:

    ne spes eum fallat,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 4:

    si in hominibus eligendis spes amicitiae nos fefellerit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 11, § 28:

    in quo cum eum opinio fefellisset,

    Nep. Ages. 3, 5:

    nisi forte me animus fallit,

    Sall. C. 20, 17:

    nisi memoria me fallit,

    fails me, Gell. 20, p. 285 Bip.:

    nisi me omnia fallunt,

    Cic. Att. 8, 7, 1; cf.:

    omnia me fallunt, nisi, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

    nisi quid me fallit,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 6; cf.:

    si quid nunc me fallit in scribendo,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 4:

    dominum sterilis saepe fefellit ager,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 450:

    certe hercle hic se ipsus fallit, non ego,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 15:

    tam libenter se fallunt, quam si una fata decipiunt,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1:

    cum alios falleret, se ipsum tamen non fefellit,

    Lact. 1, 22, 5.— Pass. in mid. force, to deceive one's self, be deceived, to err, be mistaken:

    errore quodam fallimur in disputando,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 35:

    qua (spe) possumus falli: deus falli qui potuit?

    id. N. D. 3, 31, 76:

    memoriā falli,

    Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118:

    jamque dies, nisi fallor, adest,

    Verg. A. 5, 49; Cic. Att. 4, 17, 1; 16, 6, 2:

    ni fallor,

    Ov. F. 4, 623; Lact. 2, 19, 1; cf.:

    ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor,

    Hor. A. P. 42.—With object-clause:

    dicere non fallar, quo, etc.,

    Luc. 7, 288:

    quamquam haut falsa sum, nos odiosas haberi,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 4; cf.:

    id quam facile sit mihi, haud sum falsus,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 3; Ter. And. 4, 1, 23; Sall. J. 85, 20:

    neque ea res falsum me habuit,

    did not deceive me, id. ib. 10, 1:

    ut falsus animi est!

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 43.—
    (β).
    Of inanim. or abstr. objects:

    promissum,

    not to fulfil, Curt. 7, 10, 9:

    fidem hosti datam fallere,

    to violate, break, betray, deceive, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39:

    quodsi meam spem vis improborum fefellerit atque superaverit,

    id. Cat. 4, 11, 23; cf. id. de Or. 1, 1, 2:

    non fallam opinionem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 6 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 86 fin.:

    imperium,

    to fail to execute, Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125:

    cum lubrica saxa vestigium fallerent,

    betrayed, Curt. 4, 9.— Poet.:

    tu faciem illius Falle dolo,

    imitate deceptively, assume, Verg. A. 1, 684:

    sua terga nocturno lupo,

    i. e. to hide, conceal, Prop. 4, 5, 14:

    casses, retia,

    to shun, avoid, Ov. H. 20, 45; 190. —
    (γ).
    Absol.: neque quo pacto fallam... Scio quicquam, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29 fin.:

    cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    ea (divinatio) fallit fortasse nonnumquam,

    id. Div. 1, 14, 25:

    non in sortitione fallere,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132:

    in ea re,

    Nep. Them. 7, 2; Cels. 7, 26, 2: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, Liv. 29, 35, 2:

    ut, si quid possent, de induciis fallendo impetrarent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 13, 5:

    germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 45:

    plerumque sufflati atque tumidi (oratores) fallunt pro uberibus,

    Gell. 7, 14, 5.—
    B.
    Impers.: fallit (me) I deceive myself, I mistake, am mistaken:

    sed nos, nisi me fallit, jacebimus,

    Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2; cf.:

    nisi me propter benevolentiam forte fallebat,

    id. Cael. 19, 45; id. Sest. 50, 106:

    nec eum fefellit,

    id. Off. 2, 7, 25:

    vide, ne te fallat,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25. And cf. under II. B. 2.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To deceive in swearing, to swear falsely:

    is jurare cum coepisset, vox eum defecit in illo loco: SI SCIENS FALLO,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf.:

    lapidem silicem tenebant juraturi per Jovem haec verba dicentes: SI SCIENS FALLO, TVM ME DISPITER, etc., Paul. ex Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.: si sciens fefellisset,

    Plin. Pan. 64, 3; cf. Liv. 21, 45, 8; Prop. 4, 7, 53:

    expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere,

    i. e. to swear falsely by the ashes of your mother, Hor. C. 2, 8, 10.—
    B.
    With respect to one's knowledge or sight, for the more usual latēre: to lie concealed from, to escape the notice, elude the observation of a person (so in Cic., Sall., and Caes. for the most part only impers., v. 2. infra).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    neque enim hoc te, Crasse, fallit, quam multa sint et quam varia genera dicendi,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

    tanto silentio in summum evasere, ut non custodes solum fallerent, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 5, 47, 3:

    nec fefellit veniens ducem,

    id. 2, 19, 7; Curt. 7, 6, 4; cf.:

    quin et Atridas duce te (Mercurio)... Priamus... Thessalosque ignes et iniqua Trojae Castra fefellit,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 16:

    quos fallere et effugere est triumphus,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 52:

    Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem Fallere testa,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 20; Suet. Caes. 43:

    nec te Pythagorae fallant arcana,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 21; id. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

    nec quicquam eos, quae terra marique agerentur, fallebat,

    Liv. 41, 2, 1 Drak.:

    ut plebem tribunosque falleret judicii rescindendi consilium initum,

    id. 4, 11, 4:

    tanta celeritate, ut visum fallant,

    Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157:

    oculos littera fallit,

    cannot be distinctly read, Ov. A. A. 3, 627.— With acc. and inf.:

    neutros fefellit hostes appropinquare,

    Liv. 31, 33, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.—Mid. with gen.:

    nec satis exaudiebam, nec sermonis fallebar tamen,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 55.—
    (β).
    Absol., to escape notice, be unseen, remain undiscovered:

    speculator Carthaginiensium, qui per biennium fefellerat, Romae deprehensus,

    Liv. 22, 33, 1; 25, 9, 2:

    spes fallendi, resistendive, si non falleret,

    of remaining unnoticed, id. 21, 57, 5:

    non fefellere ad Tifernum hostes instructi,

    id. 10, 14, 6.—So with part. perf., Liv. 42, 64, 3; 23, 19, 11.—With part. pres.: ne alio itinere hostis falleret ad urbem incedens, i. e. arrive secretly, lanthanoi prosiôn, Liv. 8, 20, 5; cf. id. 5, 47, 9; Verg. A. 7, 350:

    nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit,

    i. e. has remained unnoticed, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 10:

    fallere pro aliquo,

    to pass for, Gell. 7, 14:

    bonus longe fallente sagitta,

    Verg. A. 9, 572.—
    2.
    Impers.: fallit (me), it is concealed from me, unknown to me, I do not know, am ignorant of (for the most part only with negatives or in negative interrogations), constr. with subject-clause:

    non me fefellit: sensi,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 64:

    num me fefellit, hosce id struere?

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3; cf.:

    in lege nulla esse ejusmodi capita, te non fallit,

    Cic. Att. 3, 23, 4:

    nec me animi fallit, etc.,

    Lucr. 1, 136; 5, 97:

    quem fallit?

    who does not know? Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233:

    neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B C. 3, 94, 3.—
    C.
    To cause any thing (space, time, etc.) not to be observed or felt, to lighten any thing difficult, or to appease, silence any thing disagreeable, to beguile ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    medias fallunt sermonibus horas Sentirique moram prohibent,

    Ov. M. 8, 652:

    jam somno fallere curam,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 114:

    Fallebat curas aegraque corda labor,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 16; cf.

    dolores,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 39:

    luctum,

    Val. Fl. 3, 319:

    molliter austerum studio fallente laborem,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 12; Ov. M. 6, 60; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—Prov.:

    fallere credentem non est operosa puellam Gloria,

    Ov. H. 2, 63.—Hence, falsus, a, um, P. a., deceptive, pretended, feigned, deceitful, spurious, false (syn.: adulterinus, subditus, subditicius, spurius).
    A.
    [p. 722] Adj.:

    testes aut casu veri aut malitia falsi fictique esse possunt,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27; cf.:

    falsum est id totum, neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

    id. Rep. 2, 15:

    ementita et falsa plenaque erroris,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

    pro re certa spem falsam domum retulerunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; cf.:

    spe falsa atque fallaci,

    id. Phil. 12, 2, 7; so,

    spes,

    id. Sull. 82, 91:

    falsa et mendacia visa,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127; cf.:

    falsa et inania visa,

    id. ib.:

    falsum et imitatione simulatum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; cf. id. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    argumentum,

    id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

    qui falsas lites falsis testimoniis Petunt,

    Plaut. Rud. prol. 13:

    reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

    id. Bacch. 3, 6, 12:

    ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit,

    Sall. C. 10, 5 Kritz.:

    pater (opp. verus),

    a supposed father, Ov. M. 9, 24; cf. id. ib. 1, 754:

    falsi ac festinantes,

    Tac. A. 1, 7: suspectio, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5:

    nuntius,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175:

    rumores,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 20, 2:

    poena falsarum et corruptarum litterarum,

    Cic. Fl. 17, 39; cf.:

    falsas esse litteras et a scriba vitiatas,

    Liv. 40, 55, 1:

    falsarum tabularum rei,

    Suet. Aug. 19:

    fama,

    Cic. Lael. 4, 15:

    appellatio,

    Quint. 7, 3, 5:

    sententiae,

    id. 8, 5, 7:

    crimina,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 14;

    terrores,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 212:

    opprobria,

    i. e. undeserved, id. ib. 1, 16, 38; cf.

    honor,

    id. ib. 39: falsi Simoëntis ad undam, i. e. fictitious (simulati), Verg. A. 3, 302; cf.:

    falsi sequimur vestigia tauri (i. e. Jovis),

    Val. Fl. 8, 265:

    vultu simulans Haliagmona,

    Stat. Th. 7, 739:

    ita ceteros terruere, ut adesse omnem exercitum trepidi ac falsi nuntiarent,

    Tac. H. 2, 17:

    ne illi falsi sunt qui divorsissumas res pariter expectant,

    deceived, mistaken, Sall. J. 85, 20; cf.:

    falsus utinam vates sim,

    Liv. 21, 10, 10; so,

    vates,

    id. 4, 46, 5.— Comp. (rare):

    quanto est abjectior et falsior ista (theologia),

    Aug. Civ. D. 7, 5 fin.:

    nihil est hominum inepta persuasione falsius,

    Petr. 132; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 92, 11 Müll.— Sup.:

    id autem falsissimum est,

    Col. 1, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    Felix appellatur Arabia, falsi et ingrati cognominis,

    Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 82.—
    2.
    False, counterfeit, spurious, = adulterinus (late Lat.): moneta, Cod. Th. 9, 21, 9.—
    B.
    As subst.
    1.
    falsus, i, m., a liar, deceiver:

    Spurinnam ut falsum arguens,

    a false prophet, Suet. Caes. 81 fin.; id. Tib. 14.—
    2.
    falsum, i, n., falsehood, fraud:

    ex falsis verum effici non potest,

    Cic. Div. 2, 51, 106; cf.:

    veris falsa remiscet,

    Hor. A. P. 151:

    vero distinguere falsum,

    id. Ep. 1, 10, 29:

    falsum scripseram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 14, 2; Quint. 7, 2, 53:

    ex illa causa falsi,

    i. e. of fraud, Dig. 48, 10 (De lege Cornelia de falsis), 1;

    v. the whole title: acclinis falsis animus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 6:

    nec obstitit falsis Tiberius,

    Tac. A. 2, 82:

    simulationum falsa,

    id. ib. 6, 46 et saep.—Adverb.:

    telisque non in falsum jactis,

    i. e. not at random, with effect, Tac. A. 4, 50 fin.:

    jurare falsum,

    Ov. Am. 3, 3, 11.— Adv., untruly, erroneously, unfaithfully, wrongly, falsely; in two forms, falso and false.
    1.
    falso:

    eho mavis vituperari falso, quam vero extolli?

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21 sq.; cf. id. Trin. 1, 2, 173;

    so opp. vero,

    Curt. 5, 2, 2: ei rei dant operam, ut mihi falso maledicatur, Cato ap. Charis. p. 179 P.: falso criminare, Enn. ap. Non. 470, 16:

    neque me perpetiar probri Falso insimulatam,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 7; 21; cf.:

    non possum quemquam insimulare falso,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 107:

    falso memoriae proditum,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    cum Tarquinius... vivere falso diceretur,

    id. Rep. 2, 21; cf.:

    adesse ejus equites falso nuntiabantur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 1:

    cum utrumque falso fingerent,

    Liv. 42, 2:

    falso in me conferri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 2: aliquem falso occidere, i. e. by mistake, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 179 P.; cf.:

    ut miseri parentes quos falso lugent, vivere sciant,

    Liv. 34, 32, 13; and:

    falso lamentari eas Darium vivum,

    Curt. 3, 12:

    falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum,

    Sall. J. 1:

    falso plurima volgus amat,

    Tib. 3, 3, 20 (so perh. also in Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141, non assentiar saepe falso, instead of false).—Ellipt.: Da. Si quid narrare occepi, continuo dari tibi verba censes. Si. Falso, Ter. And. 3, 2, 24; cf.:

    atqui in talibus rebus aliud utile interdum, aliud honestum videri solet. Falso: nam, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so Quint. 2, 17, 12; Nep. Alc. 9:

    quia inter inpotentes et validos falso quiescas, = quia falluntur qui putant quiesci posse,

    Tac. Germ. 36.—
    2.
    false (very rare): judicium false factum, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 179; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 78 Fleck. (Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141 dub., B. and K., al. falso).— Sup.:

    quae adversus haec falsissime disputantur,

    Aug. Conf. 10, 13.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > falsum

  • 4 scio

    scĭo, īvi, ītum, 4 (old imperf. scibam, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 34; 2, 4, 89; id. Ps. 1, 5, 84; 1, 5, 86; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 68; id. Phorm. 4, 1, 16:

    scibas,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 24; id. Ps. 1, 5, 85:

    scibat,

    id. Am. prol. 22; Lucr. 5, 934:

    scibatis,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 47:

    scibant,

    Lucr. 5, 949; 5, 953; Cat. 68, 85.— Fut. scibo, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 13; id. Most. 4, 3, 5; id. Men. 2, 3, 35; 5, 2, 57; id. Ps. 1, 2, 41; 1, 5, 65; id. Truc. 2, 6, 69; Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 58; id. Ad. 3, 3, 7; 5, 2, 5; id. Hec. 2, 2, 4:

    scibis,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 22; id. Ep. 2, 2, 101; 5, 1, 49; id. Mil. 4, 8, 55; id. Ps. 4, 4, 2; id. Poen. 5, 4, 57; id. Pers. 2, 2, 37; id. Rud. 2, 3, 35; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 35; id. Heaut. 5, 2, 43:

    scibit,

    Cato, R. R. 5, 5; Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 69; 1, 2, 51; id. Mil. 3, 2, 46; Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 38:

    scibimus,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 57:

    scibunt,

    id. Poen. 2, 16.— Perf. sciit, Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 17.— Pass. scibitur, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 5:

    scin' for scisne,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 200; 2, 2, 39; 5, 1, 30; id. As. 3, 3, 113; id. Aul. 1, 1, 8 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 47; 3, 1, 47; 4, 6, 6; 4, 7, 30 et saep.— Perf. sync. scisti, Ov. A. A. 1, 131; id. F. 4, 527:

    scirint,

    Tac. Dial. 33; so, regularly, inf. scisse, e. g. Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 58; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 17), v. a. [root sci-; Gr. keiô (for skeiô), keazô, to split, divide; cf.: scisco, plebiscitum, etc., prop. to distinguish, discern].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to know, in the widest signif. of the word; to understand; perceive; to have knowledge of or skill in any thing, etc.:

    plurimā mutatione figuramus, Scio, Non ignoro, et Non me fugit, et Non me praeterit, et Quis nescit? et Nemini dubium est. Sed etiam ex proximo mutuari licet. Nam et intellego et sentio et video saepe idem valent quod scio,

    Quint. 10, 1, 13 (freq. in all styles and periods; cf. nosco).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    aut scire istarum rerum nihil, aut, etiam si maxime sciemus, nec, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 19, 32:

    ut vilicus naturam agri novit, dispensator litteras scit, etc.,

    id. ib. 5, 3, 5:

    quod nec didicerint nec umquam scire curaverint,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 11:

    ego omnem rem scio Quemadmodum est,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 69:

    id equidem ego certo scio,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 33:

    quod pro certo sciam,

    id. ib. 3, 4, 13: Mi. Ubi ipse est? Ch. Nescio. Nihil jam me oportet scire... nescio etiam id quod scio, id. ib. 4, 6, 21:

    haec scivisti et me celavisti?

    id. Pers. 5, 2, 19:

    is omnes linguas scit: sed dissimulat sciens, Se scire,

    id. Poen. prol. 112 (cf. supra, litteras, Cic. Rep. 5, 3, 5): comoediam, Titin. ap. Non. 277, 26:

    bene id opus,

    id. ib. 3, 21:

    artem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 44:

    juventutis mores qui sciam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 2: remuneremini nos, ac quae scitis, proferatis in me dium:

    nemo enim omnia potest scire,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

    nec scire fas est omnia,

    Hor. C. 4, 4, 22:

    SENATVOSQVE SENTENTIAM VTEI SCIENTES ESETIS, S. C. de Bacch. 23, ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173: quod scio, omne ex hoc scio,

    I know all from him, Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 7:

    aliquid ex aliquo,

    id. Capt. 2, 2, 45; id. Most. 3, 2, 58; Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 1; id. Att. 5, 2, 3 al. (v. infra, g and d; and cf. in the foll., with de instead of ex):

    quod sciam,

    for aught I know, as far as I know, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 70; 2, 2, 15; id. Most. 4, 3, 19; id. Men. 2, 2, 23; 3, 2, 35 al.; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 7; Cic. Att. 16, 2, 4; Quint. 9, 1, 17; 9, 4, 63 al.; cf.:

    quantum ego quidem sciam,

    Quint. 3, 1, 19.— Pass.:

    quod quom scibitur, per urbem irridebor,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 5:

    ars earum rerum est, quae sciuntur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 30:

    an nihil certum sciri possit,

    id. ib. 1, 51, 222: id de Marcello aut certe de Postumiā sciri potest, can be learned from Marcellus, etc., id. Att. 12, 22, 2.—
    (β).
    With inf., or more freq. with object-clause:

    qui uti sciat,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 27:

    si sciret regibus uti,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 14:

    antequam declamare sciat,

    Quint. 2, 1, 3:

    si docere sciant et velint,

    id. 10, 5, 19:

    digredi a re et redire ad propositum suum scierit,

    id. 9, 2, 4 et saep.:

    vincere scis, Hannibal,

    Liv. 22, 51, 4:

    qui nec ipse consulere nec alteri parere sciat,

    id. 22, 29, 8:

    qui tegere liberos sciat,

    id. 1, 53, 8; 38, 52, 2; Curt. 4, 2, 14:

    scio, fortunas secundas neglegentiam prendere solere, Cato ap. Fest, s.v. parsi, p. 210: dii sciunt, culpam meam istanc non esse ullam,

    Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 41:

    scio, tibi ita placere,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 30, 46:

    quas (leges) scitis exstare,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 3: scimus L. Atilium appellatum esse sapientem id. Lael. 2, 6:

    scis, In breve te cogi,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 7: scire licet, nobis venas et sanguen... alienigenis ex partibus esse, it is easy to see that, etc., Lucr. 1, 860 (shortly before and after, scilicet); so,

    scire licet,

    id. 1, 894; 2, 930; 2, 967; 3, 873 et saep.; Liv. 1, 39, 3; Cels. 1, 1 fin.; 1, 2; 3, 2 al.—So, in familiar style, imper. scito, be assured, I reply that, remember, etc.: fenestrarum angustias quod reprehendis, scito te Kurou paideian reprehendere, Cic. Att. 2, 3, 2; 12, 21, 5:

    scito hoc nos in eo judicio consecutos esse, ut, etc.,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 1; id. Fam. 1, 9, 24; 5, 20, 7; cf.:

    istis contumeliis scitote Q. Lollium coactum, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62; 2, 3, 56, § 129.—Esp., introducing a conclusion, after si, sin, nisi:

    si venturus es, scito necesse esse te venire,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 4 init.:

    sin ista pax perditum hominem restitutura est, hoc animo scito omnis sanos, etc.,

    id. ib. 10, 27, 1:

    si vos semel finem legis transieritis, scitote vos nullum ceteris in aestimando finem improbitatis reliquisse,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 95, § 220; 2, 4, 30, § 68; id. Cat. 2, 10, 23.—Rarely in part. pres. (postAug.; cf. P. a., infra):

    interrogant an vir daturus sit beneficium ingrato, sciens ingratum esse,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 26, 1:

    Laqueo vitam finiit, sciens et in Maximino multum esse roboris,

    Capitol. in Max. 19:

    totam hereditatem sciens ad se non pertinere,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 144.— Impers.:

    hoc scitis omnes, usque adeo hominem in periculo fuisse, quoad scitum sit, Sestium vivere,

    Cic. Sest. 38, 82.— Pass., with nom. and inf.:

    Christus scitur vocis simplicis jussione ambulatum dedisse contractis,

    Arn. 1, 48.—
    (γ).
    With a rel.-clause:

    isti jam sciunt, negotii quid sit,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 13:

    ut sciamus, quid dicamus mox pro testimonio,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 19:

    scin' quam iracundus siem?

    id. Bacch. 4, 2, 12:

    cuivis facile scitu est, quam fuerim miser,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 15:

    cum sciatis, quo quaeque res inclinet,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46:

    Sestium quanti faciam, ipse optime scio,

    id. Fam. 13, 8, 1:

    ex tribus istis modis rerum publicarum velim scire quod optimum judices,

    id. ib. 1, 30, 46:

    ut eum (hostem) non modo esse, sed etiam, quis et unde sit, scire possimus,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 6:

    coqua est haec quidem: Scit muriatica ut maceret,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 39; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 18; Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Hor. C. 3, 4, 42 al.:

    scire velis, mea cur opuscula lector Laudet,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 35; 2, 2, 187:

    quī scis, an, quae jubeam, sine vi faciat?

    Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 20; Hor. C. 4, 7, 17; id. A. P. 462; cf. the phrase haud scio an, under an.— Pass.:

    hinc sciri potuit, Quo studio vitam suam te absente exegerit,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 38: scito... nec, [p. 1644] quando futura sint comitia, sciri, Cic. Att. 1, 11, 2.—With indic. in the rel.-clause (ante-class.): Ba. Scio, quid ago. Pi. Et pol ego scio, quid metuo, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 45; cf.:

    scitin' quid ego vos rogo?

    id. Men. 5, 9, 92:

    scis tu, ut confringi vas cito Samium solet,

    id. Bacch. 2, 2, 24:

    jam ego ex hoc, ut factum est, scibo,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 57; instead of which, with subj.:

    ex me primo prima scires, rem ut gessissem publicam,

    id. Am. 1, 3, 26:

    ex hoc scibo quid siet,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 59; id. Hec. 4, 2, 4.—
    (δ).
    With de:

    jam vero de legibus, de bello, de pace... scisse,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 58.—
    (ε).
    Absol.:

    hi sciunt, qui hic affuerunt,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 31:

    quom videbis, tum scies,

    id. Bacch. 1, 2, 37: Pi. Quī scire possum? Ch. Nullus plus, id. ib. 2, 2, 13:

    quem, ut scitis, unice dilexi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1, 1; so,

    ut scitis, parenthetically,

    id. ib. 1, 14, 21; 2, 31, 54; 6, 9, 9; id. Lael. 21, 77; cf.

    scio alone, parenthetically: injurato scio plus credet mihi quam jurato tibi,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 281:

    ego abeo: tu jam scio patiere,

    id. As. 2, 2, 111:

    quam tu propediem effliges scio,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 9 et saep.:

    scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter,

    Pers. 1, 27:

    nemo ex me scibit,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 38.— Pass.:

    non opus est dicto... at scito huic opus est,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 14:

    plus, quam opus est scito, sciet,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 18; so, with adv. or adverb.-clause:

    non tam praeclarum est scire Latine, quam turpe nescire,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140; so,

    Latine,

    id. Fin. 2, 4, 13; Liv. 1, 27:

    luculenter Graece,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 15:

    Graece,

    id. Fam. 9, 22, 3:

    ubi hanc forma videt honesta virginem, Et fidibus scire,

    and that she was skilled in music, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 53 (cf.: docere aliquem fidibus. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 3:

    discere fidibus,

    id. Lael. 8, 26).—
    (ζ).
    With de:

    de legibus instituendis, de bello, de pace, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 58:

    cum is, qui de omnibus scierit, de Sullā se scire negavit,

    id. Sull. 13, 39.—
    (η).
    With non (very rare for nescio; cf.:

    non scire barbarum jam videtur, nescire dulcius,

    Cic. Or. 47, 157):

    quis enim erat qui non sciret studiosiorem Mithridatem fuisse, etc.,

    id. Fl. 25, 59:

    tam imperitus, ut non sciret, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

    quid? non sciunt ipsi viam, domum quā veniant?

    Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 25; Auct. Her. 4, 27, 37; Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 3; Sen. Contr. 2, 11, 19.—
    b.
    Ellipt.: scin' quomodo? do you know how (I shall serve you)? a threatening phrase in Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 200; id. Aul. 5, 21; id. Rud. 3, 5, 18.—
    B.
    In partic., of a woman, to know carnally a man (cf. of a man, cognosco), Treb. xxx. Tyr. 30.—
    * II.
    Transf., publicists' t. t. for the usual scisco (v. h. v. II.), of the people, to ordain, decree, appoint any thing after knowledge obtained regarding it:

    ut tribunus plebis rogationem ferret sciretque plebs, uti, etc.,

    Liv. 26, 33, 10 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf.:

    a scire for asciscere,

    Tac. Agr. 19; id. H. 4, 80.—Hence, scĭens, entis, P. a., knowing, i. e.
    A.
    Pregn., knowingly, wittingly, purposely, intentionally, etc. (freq. and class.): tu verbis conceptis conjuravisti sciens sciente animo tuo, Scip. Afric. minor ap. Gell. 7, 11, 9:

    ubi verbis conceptis sciens libenter perjuraris,

    Plaut. As. 3, 2, 16:

    amore ardeo et prudens, sciens, Vivus vidensque pereo,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 27; so (with prudens) Cael. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 9, A, 5; Suet. Ner. 2 fin.:

    equidem plus hodie boni Feci imprudens, quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; so (opp. imprudens) id. Phorm. 4, 3, 55; Cic. Planc. 16, 41; (opp. insciens) id. Balb. 5, 13:

    habebit igitur te sciente et vidente curia senatorem, etc.,

    id. Clu. 46, 129:

    an ille me tentat sciens?

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 29; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 40; id. Ps. 1, 1, 90; id. Poen. prol. 112; Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13; id. Heaut. 5, 5, 6 al.:

    heia vero, inquit, geram morem vobis et me oblinam sciens,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 5, 8 et saep.—So the formula: si sciens fallo; v. fallo.—
    B. (α).
    Absol.:

    id ego jam nunc tibi renuntio, ut sis sciens,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 28:

    quod me non scientem feceris,

    Plaut. As. 1, 1, 34;

    Ter Heaut. 4, 8, 32: vites pampinari: sed a sciente,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1:

    quis igitur hoc homine scientior umquam fuit?

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:

    scientior venefica,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 72:

    quae (navis) scientissimo gubernatore utitur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 34, 58.— Sup.: sit oportet idem scientissimus, Col. 11, 1.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    dominum scientem esse oportet earum rerum, quae, etc.,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 1:

    locorum,

    Sall. J. 97, 3:

    pugnae,

    Hor. C. 1, 15, 24:

    citharae,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 10:

    Latinae linguae,

    Tac. A. 2, 13:

    juris,

    id. ib. 3, 70; 6, 26 et saep.— Sup.:

    M. Scaurus, vir regendae rei publicae scientissimus,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214; Vulg. 2 Par. 2, 13.—
    * (γ).
    Poet., with inf.:

    quamvis non alius flectere equum sciens,

    Hor. C. 3, 7, 25.— Adv.: scĭenter (acc. to B.), knowingly, understandingly, wisely, skilfully, expertly, etc.:

    scienter et perite et ornate dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 2, 5:

    uti (with modice),

    id. ib. 1, 29, 132; id. Off. 2, 5, 18:

    sese distribuunt in duas partes,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 55.— Comp.:

    neminem in eo genere scientius versatum Isocrate,

    Cic. Or. 52, 175; Caes. B. G. 7, 22.— Sup.:

    coepit rationem hujus operis (sphaerae) scientissime Gallus exponere,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 22; id. Div. 1, 41, 92.

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  • 5 falsus

        falsus adj.    [P. of fallo], deceptive, feigned, spurious, deceitful, false, pretended, delusive, unfounded: nuptiae, T.: lacrimula, T.: indices: testes malitiā: spes, misleading: viri species, O.: crimen, V.: pater, supposed, O.: rumores, Cs.: litterae, forged: opprobria, undeserved, H.: falsi Simoëntis ad undam (i. e. simulati), V.— Deceived, mistaken: ne illi falsi sunt qui expectant, etc., S.: vates, L.
    * * *
    falsa, falsum ADJ
    wrong, lying, fictitious, spurious, false, deceiving, feigned, deceptive

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  • 6 refellō

        refellō fellī, —, ere    [re-+fallo], to show to be false, disprove, rebut, confute, refute, repel, expose: id si falsum fuerat, filius Quor non refellit? T.: id nullo refellente obtinere, without exposure: refellito, si poteris: nostrum mendacium: dicta, V.: opprobria, O.: ea exemplis: orationem vitā: ferro crimen, V.
    * * *
    refellere, refelli, - V
    refute, rebut

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  • 7 A

    1.
    A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

    A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

    ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

    Quint. 1, 5, 61.
    II.
    The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.
    III.
    In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Short a is changed,
    1.
    , into long a —
    a.
    In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,
    b.
    In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).
    c.
    In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)
    2.
    Short a is changed into é or ē—
    a.
    Into é.
    (α).
    Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).
    (β).
    Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.
    (γ).
    In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).
    b.
    Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).
    3.
    Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)
    (α).
    before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —
    (β).
    Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).
    b.
    ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.
    c.
    Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.
    d.
    In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.
    4.
    Short a is changed into short or long o.
    a.
    Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).
    b.
    Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).
    5.
    Short a is changed into ŭ —
    a.
    In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).
    b.
    In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.
    c.
    ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).
    B.
    Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.
    1.
    Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.
    2.
    Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)
    IV.
    Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.
    V.
    The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).
    VI.
    Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.
    B.
    ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.
    1.
    The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.
    2.
    In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.
    3.
    ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.
    4.
    The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.
    5.
    Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.
    VII.
    In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).
    B.
    Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—
    1.
    Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.
    2.
    Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.
    3.
    Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.
    4.
    Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.
    5.
    Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.
    6.
    Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.
    C.
    Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.
    2.
    As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

    so also A. A. A.,

    ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.
    3.
    a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
    4.
    ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

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  • 8 a

    1.
    A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

    A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

    ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

    Quint. 1, 5, 61.
    II.
    The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.
    III.
    In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Short a is changed,
    1.
    , into long a —
    a.
    In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,
    b.
    In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).
    c.
    In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)
    2.
    Short a is changed into é or ē—
    a.
    Into é.
    (α).
    Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).
    (β).
    Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.
    (γ).
    In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).
    b.
    Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).
    3.
    Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)
    (α).
    before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —
    (β).
    Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).
    b.
    ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.
    c.
    Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.
    d.
    In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.
    4.
    Short a is changed into short or long o.
    a.
    Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).
    b.
    Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).
    5.
    Short a is changed into ŭ —
    a.
    In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).
    b.
    In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.
    c.
    ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).
    B.
    Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.
    1.
    Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.
    2.
    Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)
    IV.
    Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.
    V.
    The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).
    VI.
    Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.
    B.
    ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.
    1.
    The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.
    2.
    In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.
    3.
    ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.
    4.
    The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.
    5.
    Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.
    VII.
    In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).
    B.
    Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—
    1.
    Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.
    2.
    Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.
    3.
    Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.
    4.
    Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.
    5.
    Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.
    6.
    Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.
    C.
    Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.
    2.
    As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

    so also A. A. A.,

    ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.
    3.
    a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
    4.
    ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

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  • 9 circumduco

    circum-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. ( imper. circumduce, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 83; id. Most. 3, 2, 159; id. Mil. 2, 2, 66), to lead or draw around (class.; esp. freq. in milit. lang.; in Cic. perh. only once).
    I.
    Prop.:

    circumduce exercitum,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66; cf. Liv. 1, 27, 8; 8, 13, 8:

    miles aliquo circumducitur,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 21:

    quattuor cohortibus longiore itinere circumductis,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

    alas ad latus Samnitium,

    Liv. 10, 29, 9:

    agmen per invia circa, etc.,

    id. 21, 36, 4:

    pars devio saltu circumducta,

    id. 41, 19, 8; cf. id. 36, 24, 8:

    captos Vitellii exploratores circumductos, ut robora exercitus noscerent, remittendo,

    Tac. H. 3, 54:

    aliquem per totam civitatem,

    Petr. 141.— Also like the simple verb absol.:

    praeter castra hostium circumducit,

    marches around, avoids, Liv. 34, 14, 1:

    aliquem vicatim,

    Suet. Calig. 35:

    per coetus epulantium,

    id. ib. 32:

    quosdam per organa hydraulica,

    id. Ner. 41. —With two accs.:

    eho istum, puer, circumduce hasce aedis et conclavia,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 159:

    quos Pompeius... omnia sua praesidia circumduxit atque ostentavit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 61 Kraner ad loc.; cf. Verg. A. 6, 517 sq.—

    And in tmesis: circum in quaestus ducere Asinum,

    Phaedr. 4, 1, 4.—
    B.
    Of things: Casilinum coloniam deduxisti, ut vexillum tolleres, ut aratrum circumduceres (as usu. in founding a new city; v. aratrum), * Cic. Phil. 2, 40, 102; cf.:

    oppida, quae prius erant circumducta aratro,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll.: bracchium (v. bracchium), Auct. B. Hisp. 6; Suet. Claud. 20:

    flumen Dubis, ut circino circumductum, paene totum oppidum cingit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

    utro modo vero id circumductum est (of a round hole),

    Cels. 8, 3, 16:

    litteras subicere et circumducere,

    i. e. when a line is filled, to place the remaining letters of a word below the line, and draw circular marks around them, to indicate that they belong above, Suet. Aug. 87 fin.; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 204 and 226:

    umbra hominis lineis circumducta,

    i.e. represented by outlines, sketched, Plin. 35, 3, 5, § 15.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In conversat. language, aliquem aliqua re or absol., to deceive, cheat, impose upon (syn.:

    circumvenio, decipio, fraudo, fallo): aliquem argento,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 39; 1, 5, 16:

    quadrigentis Philippis filius me et Chrusalus circumduxerunt,

    id. Bacch. 5, 2, 64; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 77:

    quā me potes, circumduce, aufer,

    id. As. 1, 1, 84; id. Poen. 5, 5, 8; 5, 2, 16; id. Ps. 1, 5, 115; Dig. 42, 33, 1 al.—
    B.
    Of discourse, to use circumlocution, to prolong:

    cum sensus unus longiore ambitu circumducitur,

    Quint. 9, 4, 124; cf. id. 10, 2, 17.—
    C.
    In prosody, to speak drawlingly, to drawl out; only in Quint. 11, 3, 172; 12, 10, 33; 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt.—
    D.
    In jurid. Lat., to draw lines around a law, i. e. to cancel, annul, abrogate (cf. cancello, II., and circumscribo, II. D.), Dig. 5, 1, 73; 40, 12, 27; 49, 1, 22.

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  • 10 circumvenio

    circum-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4, v. a., lit., to come around something; hence (the coming being considered as accomplished; cf. advenio and adventus, II.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to be around (a thing), to encircle, encompass, surround (rare):

    quibus succensis circumventi flammā exanimantur homines,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 16; cf.:

    donec ignium jactu circumveniretur,

    Tac. A. 15, 11; 15, 38:

    illum frequentia ingens circumvenit cum plausu,

    Petr. 92, 8: Cocytos sinu labens circumvenit atro, * Verg. A. 6, 132:

    omnium operum magnitudinem circumveniunt cavernae ingentes,

    Curt. 5, 1, 28:

    Rhenus insulas circumveniens,

    flowing around, Tac. A. 2, 6:

    planities locis paulo superioribus circumventa,

    Sall. J. 68, 2:

    rami, quos comprehensos manus possit circumvenire,

    to grasp, Col. 5, 9, 2; cf. id. 4, 29, 10; Val. Fl. 1, 400; Petr. 114:

    singulas urbes,

    to go around from one city to another, Sall. J. 88, 4 Dietsch.—Far more freq. (esp. in the histt.),
    B.
    Specif., to surround in a hostile manner, to encompass, beset, invest:

    ex itinere nostros latere aperto aggressi circumvenere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    ne per insidias ab eo circumveniretur,

    id. ib. 1, 42:

    consulem,

    Nep. Hann. 4, 3: aciem. Curt. 5, 13, 30:

    montem opere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 97:

    multos ab tergo,

    Sall. J. 97, 5:

    cuncta moenia exercitu,

    id. ib. 57, 2; cf. id. ib. 76, 2:

    legio circumventa,

    Liv. 10, 26, 9; cf. id. 10, 2, 11; Tac. A. 3, 74:

    armis regiam,

    id. ib. 12, 50 fin.; cf. id. ib. 1, 25;

    12, 16: cerva circumventa lupis,

    Stat. Th. 5, 165:

    hostili custodiā,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 6.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To encompass, beset, oppress, distress, afflict, overthrow: circumventus morbo, exilio atque inopiā, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 58, 218; cf. id. Fin. 4, 23, 62 (Trag. v. 42 Vahl.);

    Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 46: quasi committeret contra legem, quo quis judicio circumveniretur,

    Cic. Brut. 12, 48; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; Quint. 5, 13, 32; 6, 2, 31:

    aliquem per arbitrum circumvenire,

    i. e. to lay hold of, Cic. Rosc. Com. 9, 25:

    jam te non Siculi, non aratores circumveniunt,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 37, § 93:

    te a Siciliae civitatibus circumveniri atque opprimi dicis?

    id. ib. 2, 4, 8, §

    17: potentis alicujus opibus circumveniri urgerique,

    id. Off. 2, 14, 51:

    ut neque tenuiores proper humilitatem circumveniantur,

    id. ib. 2, 24, 85; so,

    falsis criminibus,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    omnibus necessitudinibus,

    id. ib. 21, 3; cf. Tac. A. 1, 13:

    his difficultatibus,

    Sall. J. 7, 1:

    odio accolarum, simul domesticis discordiis,

    Tac. A. 12, 29:

    securitate pacis et belli malo,

    id. H. 2, 12:

    testimonio,

    id. ib. 4, 10: multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, * Hor. A. P. 169.—
    B.
    (Cf. circumeo, II. B.) To circumvent, deceive, cheat, defraud one (syn.:

    decipio, fraudo, fallo): circumventum esse innocentem pecuniā,

    Cic. Clu. 29, 79:

    an placeret, fenore circumventa plebs,

    Liv. 6, 36, 12:

    ignorantiam alicujus,

    Dig. 17, 1, 29:

    aliquem falso testimonio,

    ib. 42, 1, 33:

    non sine calliditate circumventus,

    ib. 43, 28, 3; cf. ib. 23, 3, 12.—
    2.
    In the jurists, to evade, to violate by evading:

    leges,

    Dig. 30, 123, § 1; 1, 3, 29:

    voluntatem defuncti,

    ib. 29, 4, 4:

    orationem,

    ib. 2, 15, 8; 1, 3, 29.—
    C.
    To obtain possession of, to grasp:

    omne stagnum,

    Plin. Pan. 50, 1.

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  • 11 decipio

    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.—
    b.
    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.—
    2.
    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.

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  • 12 E

    E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.
    b.
    The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).
    c.
    For i stands ĕ
    (α).
    in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—
    (β).
    In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—
    (γ).
    In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —
    (δ).
    In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—
    (ε).
    In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and
    (ζ).
    In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—
    (η).
    It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.
    d.
    It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.
    e.
    The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.
    f.
    The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.
    g.
    The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.
    h.
    As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.
    2.
    e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

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  • 13 e

    E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.
    b.
    The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).
    c.
    For i stands ĕ
    (α).
    in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—
    (β).
    In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—
    (γ).
    In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —
    (δ).
    In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—
    (ε).
    In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and
    (ζ).
    In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—
    (η).
    It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.
    d.
    It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.
    e.
    The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.
    f.
    The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.
    g.
    The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.
    h.
    As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.
    2.
    e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

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  • 14 falla

    falla, ae, f. [fallo], = fallacia, an artifice, trick, Nov. ap. Non. 109, 20.

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  • 15 fallax

    fallax, ācis ( gen. plur. fallacium, Cic. Lael. 25, 91 al.;

    but fallacum,

    Cat. 30, 4), adj. [fallo], deceitful, deceptive, fallacious (class.; esp. freq. in Cic.;

    syn.: captiosus, fraudulentus, subdolus, dolosus, vafer, astutus, callidus): age, barbari (astrologi) vani atque fallaces: num etiam Graiorum historia mentita est?

    Cic. Div. 1, 19, 37:

    levium hominum atque fallacium,

    id. Lael. 25, 91;

    for which: facta impia fallacum hominum,

    Cat. 30, 4:

    vicinitas non assueta mendaciis, non fucosa, non fallax, non erudita artificio simulationis,

    Cic. Planc. 9, 22:

    posita fallacis imagine tauri,

    Ov. M. 3, 1 et saep.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

    ut tamquam in herbis non fallacibus fructus appareat,

    Cic. Lael. 19, 68:

    (with fucosae) merces,

    id. Rab. Post. 14, 40:

    arva,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 401:

    siliquae,

    Verg. G. 1, 195:

    austri,

    id. A. 5, 850:

    herba veneni,

    id. E. 4, 24:

    vada,

    Plin. 5, 31, 34, § 128:

    genus tutius sed magis fallax (sc. venandi),

    more uncertain, id. 8, 8, 8, § 26 et saep.:

    spe falsa atque fallaci,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 2 fin.; so,

    spes,

    id. Mil. 34, 94:

    et captiosae interrogationes,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 46:

    imitatio simulatioque virtutis,

    id. ib. 2, 46, 140:

    malitia est versuta et fallax nocendi ratio,

    id. N. D. 3, 30, 75.—Prov.: fallaces sunt rerum species, Sen. Ben. 4, 34, 1.— Comp.:

    fallacior undis,

    Ov. M. 13, 799:

    quid enim fallacius illis (vocibus)?

    id. R. Am. 687.— Sup.:

    oculorum fallacissimo sensu judicare,

    Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    homines amicitiae fallaces,

    Tac. A. 16, 32.—
    (γ).
    With dat.:

    Planasia navigiis fallax,

    Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 80.—Hence, adv.: fallācĭter, deceitfully, fallaciously (cf.:

    falso, perperam): ratio hoc postulat, ne quid insidiose, ne quid simulate, ne quid fallaciter,

    Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68; id. Div. 1, 18, 35; id. Part. Or. 25, 90.— Sup.:

    fallacissime,

    Plin. 12, 16, 35, § 71.

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  • 16 falsarius

    falsārĭus, ii, m. [falsus, from fallo], a forger of written documents, wills, etc. (post-Aug.), Suet. Ner. 17; id. Tit. 3; Dig. 4, 9, 1 al.

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  • 17 false

    false, adv., v. fallo, P. a. fin. 2.

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  • 18 falsimonia

    falsĭmōnĭa, ae, f. [falsus, from fallo], a trick, imposition:

    quos cum censeas Esse amicos, reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 12.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > falsimonia

  • 19 falso

    1.
    falso, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [id.], to falsify (late Lat.):

    pondera aut mensuras,

    Dig. 48, 10, 32 fin.:

    scripturas divinas, Ambros. de Fide, 2, 15, 135: liber falsatus ab haereticis,

    Hier. in Ruf. 2, 5 al. —Hence, falsātus, a, um, P. a., falsified, Sulp. Sev. de Virt. Monach. 1, 6.
    2.
    falso, adv., v. fallo, P. a. fin. 1.

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  • 20 falsus

    falsus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from fallo.

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