fragmentum

fragmentum, i, n. [FRAG, frango], a piece broken off, a piece, remnant, fragment (class.; mostly in plur.; cf.: frustum, segmentum).

Plur.:

inermem atque imparatum tribunum alii gladiis adoriuntur, alii fragmentis septorum et fustibus,

Cic. Sest. 37, 79:

tegularum,

Liv. 34, 39, 11:

ramorum,

id. 23, 24, 10;

for which ramea,

Verg. G. 4, 304:

avulsarum tabularum remorumque,

Curt. 9, 9:

crystalli,

Plin. 37, 2, 10, § 29:

panis,

crumbs, Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 25.— Poet.:

Emathiae ruinae,

i. e. the remains of the army, Luc. 9, 33.—

Sing.:

fragmentum lapidis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 32, 82.

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crumbs, fragments, Irish spruille(ach), crumb, fragment, sprudhaille (Lh.), Middle Irish sbruileach. Cf. spruan. Middle Irish has also spuirech, fragmentum, Welsh ysbwrial, sweepings, ysborion, refuse of fodder.

crumbs, fragments, Irish spruille(ach), crumb, fragment, sprudhaille (Lh.), Middle Irish sbruileach. Cf. spruan. Middle Irish has also spuirech, fragmentum, Welsh ysbwrial, sweepings, ysborion, refuse of fodder.

frustum, i, n., a piece, bit (syn.: fragmentum, segmentum).

Lit., of food (class.): frusto panis conduci potest, vel uti taceat, vel uti loquatur, Cato ap. Gell. 1, 15, 10:

necesse est, offa objecta cadere frustum ex pulli ore cum pascitur,

Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27:

esculenta,

id. Phil. 2, 25 fin. (also ap. Quint. 9, 4, 44):

viscera pars in frusta secant, verubusque trementia figunt,

Verg. A. 1, 212:

lardi semesa frusta,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 85:

sunt qui frustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 78:

capreae,

Juv. 11, 142:

nudum et frusta rogantem,

scraps, id. 3, 210:

solidae frusta farinae,

lumps, id. 5, 68; cf. 14, 128.—

Transf., in gen., a piece as a small part of a whole (very rare;

not in Cic.): unde soluta fere oratio, et e singulis non membris sed frustis collata, structura caret,

Quint. 8, 5, 27;

so (opp. membra),

id. 4, 5, 25; cf.:

philosophiam in partes, non in frusta dividam,

Sen. Ep. 89:

frusta pannorum,

rags, Amm. 15, 12, 2.—Comically:

frustum pueri,

you bit of a boy! Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 68.

rĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede.

Lit. (class.; cf.:

decedo, abscedo): pone nos recede,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34:

ego abs te procul recedam,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 4:

hinc,

id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7:

illuc,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 7:

recedere loco,

id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.:

centuriones ex eo quo stabant loco recesserunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

non modo illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā quidem recessisse,

Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21:

procul a telo veniente,

Ov. M. 12, 359:

de medio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

ab hoste,

Ov. P. 3, 1, 151:

longius,

Verg. G. 4, 191:

tristis recedo,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31:

ab Illiturgi,

Liv. 24, 41:

in castra Corneliana,

Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —

In partic., to retire to one's bedchamber, go to rest, Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—

Transf.

Of inanimate and abstract things:

ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant,

Cic. Planc. 6, 15:

verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant,

yield, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113:

multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimunt,

the departing years, id. A. P. 176:

abeant ac recedant voces illae,

Plin. Pan. 2, 2.—

Of places, things, etc., to stand back, recede (i. e. to be distant or retired;

freq., esp. after the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae domus arboribusque obtecta recessit,

Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and:

etsi lata recessit Urbe domus,

Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21:

Palaestina vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas... et quā recedit intus, Damascena,

Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66:

Magna Graecia in tres sinus recedens Ausonii maris,

id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations:

gens Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens,

Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a painting, etc.:

pictor vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus,

Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.:

venter recessit,

Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.— Poet., of places, which appear to recede by our departure from them:

provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt,

Verg. A. 3, 72:

mea terra recedit,

Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—

In gen., to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place, to abandon a thing, = discedere.

Lit. (in good prose very rare), = discedere, haec effatu' pater, germana, repente recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.):

nec vero a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes),

Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—

Transf., of things, to separate from any thing (with which it was previously connected):

in aliis ossibus ex toto saepe fragmentum a fragmento recedit,

Cels. 8, 7, 1:

carnes ab ossibus,

Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67:

caput e cervice,

Ov. P. 2, 8, 65;

for which also: caput cervice,

id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —

Trop., to withdraw, depart, desist (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si quid vos per laborem recte feceritis, labor ille a vobis cito recedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4:

avius a verā longe ratione recedit,

Lucr. 2, 229:

senes, ut in otia tuta recedant, aiunt, etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 31:

ab officio recedere,

Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58:

ab armis,

i. e. to lay them down, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

penitus a naturā,

id. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

ab eodem exemplo,

Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21:

a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque,

Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to kill one ' s self, id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 (but Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to die, in gen., a doubtful conjecture; Jahn, procedente [p. 1530] vitā):

a veritatis viā longe,

Lact. 2, 8, 1:

ab oppugnatione,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of inanimate and abstract subjects:

postquam recessit vita patrio corpore,

Plaut. Merc. prol. 73:

(nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit et proprie in eo, qui arma contra ferret, remansit,

has lost the signification of foreigner, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so,

res a consuetudine,

id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11:

figurae sententiarum ab illo simplici modo indicandi recedunt,

id. 9, 2, 1:

ab usu cotidiano,

id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.— Poet., with simple abl.:

sic nunquam corde recedit Nata tuo,

departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.— Absol., to vanish, pass away, disappear:

et pariter Phoebes, pariter maris ira recessit,

Ov. M. 12, 36:

spes,

Luc. 7, 688:

quonam nostri tibi cura recessit?

Verg. A. 2, 595:

fortuna recessit,

id. ib. 3, 53.— With in:

in ventos vita recessit,

passed away into the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), drawn back, receding:

scaena recessior,

standing farther back, Vitr. 5, 8.

segmentum, i, n. [seco], a cutting, cut; a piece cut off, a slice (not ante-Aug.; mostly in the plur.; syn.: fragmentum, frustum).

In gen.:

crassior harena laxioribus segmentis terit et plus erodit marmoris,

Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53; so,

segmenta percae,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 118.—

In partic.

A strip, zone, segment of the earth:

plura sunt haec segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere, Graeci parallelos,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 212:

quinto continentur segmento Bactra, Iberia, Armenia, etc.,

id. 6, 34, 39, § 216.—

In plur., strips of tinsel, brocade, etc., sewed around the bottom of a woman's dress; trimmings, bands, flounces, purfles, Ov. A. A. 3, 169:

segmenta et longos habitus et flammea sumit,

Juv. 2, 124:

aurea,

Val. Max. 5, 2, 1: crepitantia, Sed. Ep. 8, 6 med.

sub-necto, nexui, xum, ĕre, v. a., to bind or tie under, bind on beneath ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. subligo).

Lit.:

antennis velum,

Ov. M. 11, 483:

cingula mammae,

Verg. A. 1, 492:

tenui de vimine circlos Cervici,

id. G. 3, 167:

subnectit fibula vestem,

id. A. 4, 139:

fragmentum clavi collo,

Plin. 28, 4, 11, § 46:

specieque comam subnexus utrāque,

wreathed, garlanded, Stat. S. 5, 3, 113 et saep.—

Trop., to add, subjoin in speaking:

ut inventioni judicium subnecterent,

Quint. 3, 3, 5 Spald.:

deinde proxima subnectens,

id. 7, 10, 7:

subnectit et hanc fabulam,

Just. 43, 4, 4; so,

dedecus,

Val. Max. 2, 6, 15:

callide subnectit, confictas a se epistulas esse,

Just. 14, 1, 11.