for the expiation of a crime

con-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to draw or bring several objects together, to collect, assemble (freq. and class.).

In gen.

Lit. (syn. colligo;

opp. dissipo): quae in rerum naturā constarent quaeque moverentur, ea contrahere amicitiam, dissipare discordiam,

Cic. Lael. 7, 24:

cohortes ex finitimis regionibus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15:

exercitum in unum locum,

id. B. G. 1, 34; cf.:

omnes copias Luceriam,

Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2; and:

omnia in unum locum,

id. ib. 8, 11, B, 3:

omnes copias eo,

Nep. Ages. 3, 1:

navibus circiter LXXX. coactis, contractisque,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22; cf.:

magnam classem,

Nep. Con. 4, 4:

naves,

Suet. Calig. 19:

agrestes,

Ov. F. 4, 811:

captivos,

Liv. 37, 44, 3:

utrumque ad colloquium,

id. 28, 18, 2:

undique libros,

Suet. Aug. 31; cf.

exemplaria,

id. Gram. 24:

muscas in manu,

Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 122; cf.

serpentes,

id. 28, 9, 42, § 151: ii, qui in idem (collegium) contracti fuerint, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 34 (43), 1—

Trop.

To bring about, carry into effect, accomplish, execute, get, contract, occasion, cause, produce, make, etc. (very freq.):

amicitiam,

Cic. Lael. 14, 48:

vinculum amicitiae,

Val. Max. 4, 7 init.:

aliquid litigii,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 31; cf.

lites,

id. Capt. prol. 63: qui hoc [p. 458] mihi contraxit, id. Cas. 3, 2, 21; cf.:

negotium mihi,

Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 9; and:

numinis iram mihi (arte),

Ov. M. 2, 660:

bellum Saguntinis,

Liv. 24, 42, 11:

aliquid damni,

Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 91:

molestias,

id. Fam. 2, 16, 5; cf. Sall. H. 2, 41, 8 Dietsch:

aes alienum,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25:

causam certaminis,

Liv. 22, 28, 4; cf.

certamen,

id. 23, 26, 11; 25, 34, 10 al.:

necessitates ad bellum,

id. 44, 27, 12:

culpam,

to incur, Cic. Att. 11, 24, 1 al.:

cruditatem,

Quint. 7, 3, 38; cf. id. 2, 10, 6:

morbum,

Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 65:

pestilentiam,

id. 36, 27, 69, § 202:

saginam corporis,

Just. 21, 2:

causam valetudinis ex profluvio alvi,

Suet. Aug. 97 fin. et saep.: porca contracta, owed, due, sc. for the expiation of a crime, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57 fin. —

In the lang. of business, t. t., to make a contract, conclude a bargain, to contract:

rationem, rem cum illo,

Cic. Clu. 14, 41; cf. id. Off. 1, 17, 53; id. Sull. 20, 56; id. Att. 7, 7, 7:

in tribuendo suum cuique et rerum contractarum fide,

id. Off. 1, 5, 14:

ex rebus contrahendis,

id. ib. 3, 15, 61:

in contrahendis negotiis,

id. ib. 2, 11, 40:

adfinitas inter Caesarem et Pompeium contracta nuptiis,

Vell. 2, 44, 3 et saep.—

Transf. beyond the sphere of business:

cum aliquo,

to have intercourse with, to associate with, Cic. Off. 1, 2, 4:

nihil cum populo,

id. Tusc. 5, 36, 105.—

In partic., with the prevailing idea of shortening or diminishing by drawing together (cf.: cogo, colligo, etc.), to draw close or together, to draw in, contract, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish (freq. and class.; opp. porrigo, dilato, tendo).

Lit.:

animal omne membra quocumque volt flectit, contorquet, porrigit, contrahit,

Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120:

pulmones tum se contrahunt adspirantes, tum intrante spiritu dilatant,

id. N. D. 2, 55, 136:

contractum aliquo morbo bovis cor,

id. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.:

se millepeda tactu,

Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 136:

bina cornua (opp. protendere),

id. 9, 32, 51, § 101: collum. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41;

opp. tendere,

Quint. 11, 3, 82:

frontem,

to wrinkle, contract, Cic. Clu. 26, 72; Hor. S. 2, 2, 125:

supercilia (opp. deducere),

Quint. 11, 3, 79:

medium digitum in pollicem,

id. 11, 3, 92; cf.:

contractum genibus tangas caput,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 61:

gravissimo frigore solus atque contractus vigilabit in lectulo,

Hier. Ep. 53:

castra,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

vela,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 23; Quint. 12, prooem. § 4; cf. Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2:

orbem (lunae),

Ov. M. 15, 198:

umbras,

id. ib. 3, 144:

orationem (with summittere),

Quint. 11, 1, 45; cf. id. 12, 11, 16:

tempora dicendi,

id. 6, 5, 4 et saep.:

lac,

to curdle, coagulate, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 117.—Of bees:

contracto frigore pigrae ( = contractae frigore pigro),

Verg. G. 4, 259; cf.:

pigrum est enim contractumque frigus,

Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 2:

horrida tempestas contraxit caelum,

narrows, Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

vulnera,

Plin. 24, 8, 33, § 48; cf.

cicatrices,

id. 12, 17, 38, § 77:

ventrem,

to stop, check, Cels. 4, 19; cf.

alvum,

id. ib.:

vomitiones,

Plin. 20, 2, 6, § 11.—

Esp., archit. t. t., to narrow, make smaller or tapering:

columnam,

Vitr. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. 3, 3, 12; 4, 7, 2:

pyramis XXIV. gradibus in metae cacumen se contrahens,

Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 31.—

Trop., to draw in, lessen, check, restrain ( = certis limitibus quasi coartare et circumscribere;

opp. remittere, diffundere): cui non animus formidine divum contrahitur?

Lucr. 5, 1219; cf.:

te rogo, ne contrahas ac demittas animum,

do not suffer your spirits to droop, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4; and:

animos varietas sonorum (opp. remittere),

id. Leg. 2, 15, 38: terram quasi tristitiā (sol;

opp. laetificas),

id. N. D. 2, 40, 102:

ut et bonis amici quasi diffundantur et incommodis contrahantur,

are made sad, id. Lael. 13, 48 (cf. id. Tusc. 4, 6, 14):

ex quibus intellegitur, appetitus omnes contrahendos sedandosque,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.

cupidmem,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 39 et saep. —Hence, contractus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), drawn together into a narrow space, i. e. compressed, contracted, close, short, narrow, abridged, restricted, limited, etc.

Lit.:

tanto contractioribus ultimis digitis,

Quint. 11, 3, 95:

nares contractiores habent introitus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 145:

contractior ignis,

smaller, Lucr. 5, 569:

aequora,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 33; cf.

freta,

Ov. F. 6, 495:

locus (with exiguus),

Verg. G. 4, 295:

Nilus contractior et exilior,

Plin. Pan. 30, 3: contractiora spatia ordinum, Col. 5, 5, 3.—

Trop.

Of language, etc.:

et brevis ambitus verborum,

Cic. Brut. 44, 162; cf.:

contractior oratio,

id. ib. 31, 120:

propositum dicendi (opp. uberius),

Quint. 11, 1, 32:

summissā atque contractā voce (opp. erectā et concitatā),

id. 11, 3, 175; so,

vox,

id. 11, 3, 64: parvum opusculum lucubratum his jam contractioribus noctibus, Cic. Par. prooem. § 5.—

In gen.:

quae studia in his jam aetatibus nostris contractiora esse debent,

Cic. Cael. 31, 76:

paupertas,

stinted, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20 (cf.:

angusta pauperies,

id. C. 3, 2, 1);

in the same sense transf. to the person: ad mare descendet vates tuus et sibi parcet Contractusque leget,

retired, solitary, id. ib. 1, 7, 12; cf.

homo,

Verg. M. 78.— Adv.: contractē, on a contracted scale; only in comp.:

assuescamus. servis paucioribus serviri, habitare contractius,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 3; Lact. 2, 8, 39 al.

purgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [contr. for purigo, from purum ago], to make clean or pure, to clean, cleanse, purify (class.).

Lit.:

oleam a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65, 1: cum falcibus purgarunt locum, cleared the place, freed it from bushes, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; Liv. 24, 19:

arva longis ligonibus,

Ov. P. 1, 8, 59:

domum muribus,

Phaedr. 1, 22, 3:

fossas,

Plin. 18, 26, 64, § 236:

proprios leniter ungues cultello,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 51: cana labra, i. e. to clear or free from beard, Mart. 9, 28, 5:

pisces,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 22:

segetes,

Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 241.— Absol.:

levi sarculo purgare,

Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 241.—Mid.:

purgor in amni,

wash, Sil. 8, 125.—

In partic., in medic. lang., to cleanse by stool, vomiting, etc., to purge:

quid scammoneae radix ad purgandum possit,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16; Cato, R. R. 157, 3:

si is, qui saepe purgatus est, subito habet alvum suppressam,

Cels. 2, 12:

qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam,

Hor. A. P. 302:

se helleboro,

Val. Max. 8, 7, 5 fin.:

se per inferna aut vomitione,

Plin. 25, 5, 21, § 51.—

Transf.

To make even by clearing away, to level, Inscr. Murat. 582 fin.; cf.:

purgare viam proprie dicitur ad libramentum proprium redigere, sublato eo quod supra eam esset,

Dig. 43, 11, 1, § 1.—

To clear away, remove:

rudera,

Suet. Vesp. 8:

vermes clavo aëneo,

Pall. 4, 10, 4:

lapides,

id. 3, 6:

sordes,

Claud. in Eutr. 1, 383; cf.:

scindit se nubes et in aethera purgat apertum,

melts away, Verg. A. 1, 587.—

In partic., in medicine, to remove or expel by purging, rinsing, etc., to heal, cure:

purgatum te illius morbi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 27:

pituitas,

Plin. 20, 17, 73, § 188:

fastidium lauri folio,

id. 8, 27, 41, § 101:

suppurationes,

id. 23, 1, 16, § 24:

tarditatem aurium,

id. 23, 2, 28, § 59:

succus purgat cicatrices et nubeculas (oculorum),

id. 27, 12, 85, § 109.—

Trop., to cleanse, purify (syn. lustro).

In gen.:

pectora,

Lucr. 6, 24:

urbem,

Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 10:

amplissimos ordines contaminatos veteri neglegentiā purgavit,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

rationes,

to clear up, settle, pay, id. Calig. 29.—

To clear away, remove:

metum doloris,

Quint. 12, 2, 3.—

In partic.

To clear from accusation, to excuse, exculpate, justify (syn. excuso):

ut me purgarem tibi,

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 28:

QVIBVS DE REBVS VOS PVRGAVISTIS... QVOMQVE DE EIEIS REBVS SENATVEI PVRGATI ESTIS, S. C. de Tiburt. lin. 3 and 12 (ap. Grut. 499, 12): quod te mihi de Sempronio purgas, accipio excusationem,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 3:

cui se purgat,

id. Or. 29, 230:

ego me tibi purgo,

id. Fam. 15, 17, 1; so,

Caesarem de interitu Marcelli,

id. Att. 13, 10, 3:

si quis tibi se purgare volet, quod, etc.,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9, 35:

si parum vobis essem purgatus,

Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

velle Pompeium se Caesari purgatum, ne, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 8; cf. id. B. G. 1, 28:

ea pars epistulae tuae, per quam te ac mores tuos mihi purgatos ac probatos esse voluisti,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 7; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12:

accedebant blanditiae virorum factum purgantium cupiditate atque amore,

Liv. 1, 9 fin.:

factum,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 24:

facinus,

Curt. 7, 5, 39; 5, 12, 8:

crimina,

to disprove, Cic. Clu. 1, 3; Liv. 38, 48, 14; cf.

probra,

Tac. A. 4, 42:

adulescentem crimine civilis belli,

to acquit, id. ib. 3, 17:

innocentiam suam,

to vindicate, Liv. 9, 26:

suspicionem,

to remove, id. 28, 43:

ea, quae ipsis obicerentur,

to refute, id. 8, 23:

purget miles, quod vicerit hostem,

Sil. 7, 510:

aliquem alicujus rei,

Liv. 37, 28:

se adversus alicujus criminationes purgare,

Suet. Caes. 55:

illi lacrimantes nunc purgare se,

Curt. 5, 10, 11.—With acc. and inf.:

laborare regem, ut purganti se nihil hostile dixisse aut fecisse, fides habeatur,

Liv. 42, 14:

qui purgarent nec accitos ab eo Bastarnas nec auctore eo quidquam facere,

id. 41, 19.—

To cleanse or purge from a crime or sin with religious rites, to make expiation or atonement for, to expiate, purify, atone for, lustrate, = expiare, lustrare ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

di patrii, purgamus agros, purgamus agrestes,

Tib. 2, 1, 17:

populos,

Ov. F. 4, 640:

myrtea verbena Romanos Sabinosque,

Plin. 15, 29, 36, § 119:

pontifices purgantes moenia,

Luc. 1, 593:

domus purgantur lustranturque,

Plin. 25, 9, 59, § 105. —With the crime or act as an object: nefas, Ov. M. 13, 952:

crimen gladio,

Luc. 8, 518; Vulg. Ecclus. 47, 13.—Hence, purgā-tus, a, um, P. a.

Cleansed, purified, pure ( poet.):

auris,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 7:

somnia pituitā purgatissima,

Pers. 2, 57:

purgatioris auri vena,

Mart. Cap. 1, § 7 (cf. Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 179).—

Excused, exculpated: ita fiducia quam argumentis purgatiores dimittuntur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 310, 22, and ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 28.—

Pure, freed from sin (eccl. Lat.):

vota purgatiora, Aug. Civ. Dei, 6, 2: purgatissima ecclesia,

id. Doctr. Christ. 2, 16:

pietas,

id. Ver. Rel. 1. —Hence, adv.: purgātē, purely:

enucleate dicitur purgate, exquisite,

Non. 60, 5.

prōcūrātĭo, ōnis, f. [procuro].

In gen.

A caring for, taking care of, having the charge of a thing; a charge, superintendence, administration, management, procuration (class.):

dum me rei publicae non solum cura, sed quaedam etiam procuratio multis officiis implicatum et constrictum tenebat,

Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 11:

dum necesse erat, unus omnia poterat: qui, postea quam magistratus creavit, sua cuique procuratio auctoritasque est restituta,

id. Rosc. Am. 48, 139:

procuratio templi,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 2:

mearum rerum existimationisque meae,

Cic. Fam. 15, 13, 3:

rerum humanarum,

id. N. D. 1, 1, 3:

ministerii,

Liv. 4, 8:

annonae,

Cic. Att. 4, 1, 6:

male gesta,

Quint. 7, 4, 35.—In plur.:

ad amplissimas procurationes promotus,

charges, offices, Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3.—

An effort, aim, seeking for any thing (post-class.):

quia benignitas eum per sese ipsa delectet, sine ullā recipiendae gratiae procuratione,

Gell. 17, 5, 4.—

In partic., of religious acts, an averting or expiating of an evil omen or crime by offering the proper sacrifices, an expiatory sacrifice, expiation (class.):

cum terrae motus factus esset, ut sue plena procuratio fieret,

Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:

prodigii,

Liv. 7, 6:

procurationes incesti,

Tac. A. 12, 8.