fl... ev... sec

prŏpĭtĭātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [propitiator], atoning, reconciling (eccl. Lat.):

bonitas Dei,

Ambros. Fug. Sec. 3, 14.—Hence, subst.: ‡ prŏpĭtĭātōrĭum, ĭi, n.

A means of reconciliation, an atonement, propitiation:

propitiatorium, quasi propitiationis oratorium,

Isid. Orig. 15, 4; Ambros. Ep. 4, 4.—

A place of atonement, Vulg. Exod. 25, 17; id. Heb. 9, 5.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

serra, ae, f. [perh. = sec - ra, seg - ra, from seco].

A saw, the invention of Daedalus, Ov. M. 8, 246; Sen. Ep. 90, 8; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 198; Hyg. Fab. 274:

stridens,

Lucr. 2, 410:

stridor serrae,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116; Varr. ap. Non. 223, 19; Vitr. 2, 7:

arguta,

Verg. G. 1, 143 et saep.—Prov.:

serram ducere cum aliquo de aliquā re,

to quarrel with one about something, Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 1; so,

too, quamdiu per hanc lineam serram reciprocabimus?

Tert. Cor. Mil. 3.— Trop., of the back of a thin person, Mart. 11, 100, 4.—

Transf.

A kind of sawfish, Plin. 9, 2, 1, § 3; 32, 11, 53, § 145.—

A serrated order of battle:

serra proeliari dicitur, cum assidue acceditur recediturque neque ullo consistitur tempore. Cato de re militari: Sive opus est cuneo, aut globo, aut forcipe aut turribus aut serrā uti adoriare,

Fest. p. 344 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 9, 1; Veg. Mil. 3, 19 fin. —

A threshingwain, with serrated wheels, Hier. in Amos, 1; Vulg. lsa. 28, 27.—

Serra, in relig. lang., the name of the Tiber, acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 8, 63.

sexus, ūs ( abl. plur. sexibus, Spart. Hadr. 18, 10 al.;

but sexubus,

Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 1, 36), m., or sĕcus, indecl. n. [root sec- of seco; hence properly, a division, segment].

A sex, male or female (of men and beasts).

Form sexus:

hominum genus et in sexu consideratur, virile an muliebre sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; cf.:

natus ambiguo inter marem ac feminam sexu infans,

Liv. 27, 11; and: mare et femineum sexus, App de Mundo, c. 20, p. 66 med.:

feminarum sexus,

Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 175: virilis sexus, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 334 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 70 Rib.); Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 154 orbus virili sexu, Afran. ap. Fest. l. l. (Com. Rel. p. 166 Rib.):

liberi sexūs virilis,

Suet. Aug. 101; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6:

puberes virilis sexūs,

Liv. 26, 34:

tres (liberi) sexūs feminini,

Suet. Calig. 7; cf. Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 4; cf.:

juvenes utriusque sexūs,

Suet. Aug. 31:

liberi,

id. ib. 100; id. Vit. 6; id. Tib. 43:

sine ullo sexūs discrimine,

id. Calig. 8; Tac. A. 16, 10 fin. et saep.— Plur.: (sunezeugmenon) jungit et diversos sexus, ut cum marem feminamque filios dicimus, Quint. 9, 3, 63:

lavacra pro sexibus separavit,

Spart. Hadr. 18 fin. —

Form secus (in the poets and historians, in the latter usually virile or muliebre secus, as an acc. resp. or limiting accusative, equivalent to the genitive or ablative of quality; v. Zumpt, Lat. Gram. § 428, for the preceding virilis sexūs, the male sex):

filiolam ego unam habui, Virile secus numquam ullum habui,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 19: virile secus, Asell. ap. Gell. 2, 13, 5:

quod ejus virile secus futurum est,

Varr. ib. 3, 10, 7:

secus muliebre,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 8:

puerile,

id. Epigr. 70, 6: virile ac muliebre secus populi multitudo, Sisenn. ap. Non. 222, 27: concurrentium undique virile et muliebre secus, Sall. H. Fragm. ib. 25; and in Macr. S. 2, 9 (p. 228 Gerl.):

ut Philippi statuae... item majorum ejus virile ac muliebre secus omnium tollerentur, Liv 31, 44, 4: multitudinem obsessorum omnis aetatis, virile ac muliebre secus,

Tac. H. 5, 13:

praedas hominum virile et muliebre secus agebant,

Amm. 29, 6, 8 et saep.:

liberorum capitum virile secus ad decem milia capta,

Liv. 26, 47, 1:

athletarum spectaculo muliebre secus omnes adeo summovit, ut, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 44 fin.:

destinatum Lacedaemoniis omnes virile secus interficere,

Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6.—Rarely as nom.:

affluxere avidi talium... virile ac muliebre secus, omnis aetas,

Tac. A. 4, 62:

tres ordine partae, Vesta, Ceres et Juno, secus muliebre, sorores,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 7;

or as object of a verb: cur ex his unum secus virile designet,

Arn. 1, 59; 5, 25: promiscue virile et muliebre secus trucidabant, Amm. 16, 11, 9; 27, 10, 2.—

Transf.

A sex, of plants and minerals, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 31; 12, 14, 32, § 61; 36, 16, 25, § 128; 36, 21, 39, § 149.—

The sexual organs, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 20; Lact. 1, 21, 16.

sŏcĭus, a, um, adj. [root sec- of sequor], sharing, joining in, partaking, united, associated, kindred, allied, fellow (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. subst. infra):

hic (Augustus) socium cum Jove nomen habet,

Ov. F. 1, 608:

aurea possedit socio Capitolia templo Mater,

i. e. in common with Jupiter, id. ib. 6, 73:

regnum,

id. M. 5, 378:

classis,

id. ib. 13, 352:

sepulcrum,

id. H. 11, 123:

lectus,

id. A. A. 2, 377:

ignes,

id. M. 9, 795:

anni,

id. H. 2, 33:

linguae,

id. Tr. 5, 10, 35:

dei,

id. F. 2, 618:

spes,

id. M. 13, 375:

sociis quid noctibus uxor anxia,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 1:

platanus clara in Lyciā gelidi fontis sociā amoenitate,

Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9:

potestas,

Amm. 26, 2, 8.—

Esp., leagued, allied, confederate:

cura sociae retinendae urbis,

Liv. 27, 1; so,

urbs,

id. 31, 24:

civitates,

id. 41, 6 fin.; Quint. 3, 8, 12; cf.:

civitas nobis,

Tac. A. 13, 57:

agmina,

Verg. A. 2, 371: manus, i. e. of the allies (in the Bellum Sociale), Ov. Am. 3, 15, 10:

classis,

id. M. 13, 352:

arma,

Sil. 7, 635.—Hence, substt

sŏcĭus, i, m. ( gen. plur. socium, Liv. 43, 6, 12; 44, 21, 10; v. II. B. infra;

also in the poets,

Verg. A. 5, 174; Prop. 3, 7, 41; Neue, Formenl. 1, 112 sq.).

In gen., fellow, sharer, partner, comrade, companion, associate (very freq. and class.;

syn.: consors, particeps): belli particeps et socius et adjutor,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5; cf.:

consiliorum omnium particeps et socius paene regni,

id. Rep. 2, 20, 35; cf.:

regni sociis,

Luc. 1, 92:

hereditatis,

Plin. Pan. 38:

tuorum consiliorum (with particeps),

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 22:

fortunarum omnium (with particeps),

Cic. Font. 17, 37 (21, 47):

me quidem certe tuarum actionum, sententiarum, rerum denique omnium socium comitemque habebis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 22:

praeter Laelium neminem habeo culpae socium,

id. Att. 11, 14, 1:

Agusius, omnium laborum, periculorum meorum socius,

id. Fam. 13, 71:

socius et consors gloriosi laboris,

id. Brut. 1, 2; Sall. J. 29, 2:

Romuli socius in Sabino proelio,

Cic. Rep. 2, 8, 14; for which, with dat.:

alicui socius,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 72:

hunc cape consiliis socium,

Verg. A. 5, 712:

hos castris adhibe socios,

id. 8, 56:

socium esse in negotiis,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 9:

quia sine sociis nemo quicquam tale conatur,

Cic. Lael. 12, 42:

socium ad malam rem quaerere,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 22:

cum sociis operum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 142:

ante alios Infert se socium Aeneas,

Verg. A. 4, 142:

amissā sociorum parte,

Ov. M. 14, 242.— Poet.:

generis socii,

i. e. relatives, Ov. M. 3, 259; cf.

sanguinis,

id. Tr. 4, 5, 29:

tori,

i. e. a spouse, consort, id. M. 14, 678.—

In partic.

In mercant. lang., a copartner, partner in business:

socii putandi sunt, quos inter res communicata est, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 20, § 50; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; id. Quint. 3, 12:

nefarium est socium fallere qui se in negotio conjunxit,

id. Rosc. Com. 6, 16.—So, socii, of the company of farmers of the public revenue, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 3; Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 120; cf. societas, II. A. 2. —Hence,

Jurid. t. t.:

pro socio (agere, damnari, etc.),

for defrauding a partner, Cic. Fl. 18, 43; id. Quint. 3, 13; cf. Dig. 17, [p. 1716] tit. 2: Pro socio.—

In publicists' lang., an ally, confederate (cf. foederatus); plur., Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 25:

servate vestros socios,

id. Cist. 1, 3, 51:

Boios receptos ad se socios sibi asciscunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5 fin.; 1, 11 fin.; 1, 14; 1, 15;

1, 36: Cyprius rex, cujus majores huic populo socii atque amici semper fuerunt,

Cic. Dom. 20, 52; Liv. 29, 17; 44, 1 et saep. al.;

opp. hostes,

Sall. C. 51, 38; id. J. 92, 2.— Sing.:

socius et amicus populi Romani,

Sall. J. 24, 3.—In the connection, socii et Latini, or, more freq., socii et nomen Latinum, the term socii denotes the Italian people dwelling out of Latium who were under the protection of and allied with Rome, the Italian allies, Cic. Lael. 3, 12; id. Rep. 6, 12, 12; id. Sest. 13, 30; id. Rep. 1, 19, 31; 3, 29, 41; Sall. J. 39, 2; 42, 1:

socii nomenque Latinum,

id. ib. 43, 4 Kritz N. cr.; Liv. 29, 27;

for which, also: socii ac nominis Latini,

id. 41, 8;

and without ellipsis: per homines nominis Latini et socios Italicos impedimenta parabant,

Sall. J. 40, 2; cf.

also: quos (milites) uti ex Latio et a sociis cogeret,

id. ib. 95, 1. —The socii Latini nominis, on the other hand, are simply the Latin allies, the Latins, Liv. 40, 36; 32, 8; 41, 12:

socii ab nomine Latino,

id. 22, 38.—In this sense the gen. plur. is usually socium, Liv. 21, 17, 2; 22, 27, 11 et saep.:

socii navales,

id. 21, 50; v. navalis.—

sŏcĭa, ae, f.:

eos, qui nos socias sumpserunt sibi,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 45:

(eloquentia) pacis est comes otiique socia,

Cic. Brut. 12, 45:

vitae socia virtus, mortis comes gloria,

id. Font. 17, 39 (21, 49); cf.: est socia mortis homini vita ingloria, Publ. Syr. App. 213 Rib.:

nox socia,

Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

quam plurimas uxores habent.... nulla pro sociā obtinet,

Sall. J. 80, 7:

addit se sociam,

Verg. E. 6, 20:

socias sorores Impietatis habet,

Ov. M. 4, 3:

hic socias tu quoque junge moras,

id. A. A. 1, 492:

sociae doloris casusque tui,

App. M. 5, p. 166, 18.— Poet.: socia generisque torique, related by blood and marriage, relative and wife (Juno), Ov. M. 1, 620; so,

tori,

id. ib. 8, 521;

10, 268: ulmus cum sociā vite,

id. ib. 14, 662.

vŏrātus, ūs, m. [id.].

The devouring, destruction (late Lat.), Jul. ap. Aug. c. Sec. Resp. Jul. 5, 4.—

A chasm, Facund. Def. 12, 3.