from landing

hospĭtĭum, ĭi, n. [hospes].

Hospitality (class.):

quos ego universos adhiberi liberaliter, optimum quemque hospitio amicitiaque conjungi dico oportere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 16; cf.:

quocum mihi amicitiam res publica conciliavit, hospitium voluntas utriusque conjunxit, etc.,

id. Deiot. 14, 39:

gratia atque hospitiis florens hominum nobilissimorum... cum Metellis, erat ei hospitium,

id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

pro hospitio quod sibi cum eo esset,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 23:

vetus hospitium renovare,

id. Deiot. 3, 8:

ego hic hospitium habeo,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 82:

qui hospitio Ariovisti usus erat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 47, 4:

jungimus hospitio dextras,

Verg. A. 3, 83:

indulge hospitio,

id. ib. 4, 51:

ut artum solveret hospitiis animum,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 83:

renuntiare,

Liv. 25, 18, 9:

huic paternum hospitium cum Pompeio intercedebat,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 4:

decernunt, ut cum L. fratre hospitium publice fieret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 145; cf.:

Gaditani hospitium cum L. Cornelio publice fecerunt,

id. Balb. 18, 41; Liv. 37, 54, 5:

publice privatimque hospitia jungere,

id. 1, 45, 2:

clientelae hospitiaque provincialia,

Cic. Cat. 4, 11, 23; cf. Auct. Her. 1, 5, 8.—

A hospitable reception, entertainment:

te in Arpinati videbimus et hospitio agresti accipiemus,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 4:

cum ab eo magnificentissimo hospitio acceptus esset,

id. Div. 2, 37, 79:

hospitio invitabit,

id. Phil. 12, 9, 23:

hic apud me hospitium tibi praebebitur,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 93:

alibi te meliust quaerere hospitium,

id. Curc. 3, 47:

me excepit Aricia hospitio modico,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 2:

gens hospitio deorum inmortalium sancta,

Liv. 9, 34, 19; 29, 11, 6.—

Concr., a place of entertainment for strangers, a lodging, inn, guest-chamber (cf. diversorium):

ex vita ita discedo tamquam ex hospitio, non tamquam ex domo,

Cic. de Sen. 23, 84; cf. id. de Or. 2, 58, 234:

Piliae paratum est hospitium,

id. Att. 14, 2, 3:

deductus a magistratibus in nemorosum hospitium,

Plin. 35, 11, 38, § 121:

publicum,

Liv. 5, 28, 4:

ibi (milites) benigne excepti divisique in hospitia,

id. 2, 14, 8:

ad hospitium imperatoris venire,

id. 33, 1, 6:

hospitia singulorum adire,

Suet. Ner. 47:

praetorianae cohortes per hospitia dispersae,

the townquarters, id. Tib. 37:

Romae... magno hospitium miserabile,

Juv. 3, 166:

tolerabile,

id. 7, 69:

hospitio aliquem juvare,

id. 3, 211: hospitio prohibemur harenae, of the shore (i. e. from landing), Verg. A. 1, 540.— Transf., of animals:

itque pecus longa in deserta sine ullis Hospitiis,

Verg. G. 3, 343; 4, 24; Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 66.—Comically:

quid faciam nunc, si tresviri me in carcerem compegerint?... ita Peregre adveniens hospitio publicitus accipiar,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 8:

certe advenientem hic me hospitio pugneo accepturus est,

id. ib. 1, 1, 140: nec confidentiae usquam hospitium est, nec de verticulum dolis, id. Capt. 3, 3, 8.— Trop.: ut universi intellegant, sacrosanctum cunctis esse debere hospitium virilis animae, i. e. virile corpus, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2.

castrum, i, n. [kindred with casa, q. v.].

In sing., any fortified place; a castle, fort, fortress (more rare than castellum):

ei Grunium dederat in Phrygiā castrum, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 9, 3; Liv. 32. 29, 4; Dig. 27, 1, 17 fin. —

Esp., nom. propr.

Castrum Altum or Album, in Hispania Tarraconensis, Liv. 24, 41, 3.—

Castrum Inui, or simply Castrum, an ancient city of the Rutuli, near Ardea, Verg. A. 6, 775;

called Castrum,

Ov. M. 15, 727; Sil. 8, 359. —

Castrum Novum, a city on the seacoast of Etruria, Liv. 36, 3, 6; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 51.—

Another Castrum Novum, on the sea-coast of Picenum, now Giulia Nova, [p. 299] Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110; also called absol. Castrum, Vell. 1, 14, 8.—

Castrum Truentinum, a maritime city of Picenum, on the river Truentus, Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 1;

also called Truentum,

Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110.—

Castrum Vergium, a fortress of the Bergistani in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Berga, Liv. 34, 21, 1.—Far more freq.,

In plur.: castra, ōrum, n. ( castra, ae, f.: castra haec vestra est, Att. ap. Non. p. 200, 30; Trag. Rel. p. 238 Rib.).

Lit., several soldiers ' tents situated together; hence, a military camp, an encampment; among the Romans a square (quadrata);

later, after the manner of the Greeks, sometimes circular, or adjusted to its situation,

Veg. Mil. 1, 23. It was surrounded by a trench (fossa) and a wall (vallum), and had four gates: Porta Praetoria, the front, chief gate, on the opp. side from the enemy, from which the legions marched; opp. to this, Porta Decumana (in later times Porta Quaestoria), the back gate;

Porta Principalis Dextra, and Porta Principalis Sinistra, situated on the two sides of the camp,

Liv. 40, 27, 4 sq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—

Phrases.

With adj.:

stativa,

occupied for a long time, permanent, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29; Caes. B. C. 3, 30; 3, 37; Sall. J. 44, 4; Tac. A. 3, 21:

aestiva,

summer camp, id. ib. 1, 16; Suet. Claud. 1:

hiberna,

Liv. 29, 35, 13 (more freq. absol. aestiva and hiberna, q. v.):

navalia,

an encampment on the shore for protecting the fleet and the troops while landing; sometimes connected with the ships drawn to land, Caes. B. G. 5, 22 Herz.; cf. id. ib. 5, 11; Liv. 29, 35, 13;

called also nautica,

Nep. Alcib. 8, 5; id. Hann. 11, 6 (cf. id. ib. § 4; Liv. 44, 39): lunata, crescent-shaped, Auct. B. Afr. 80.—With numerals:

una,

Tac. A. 4, 2:

bina,

Cic. Phil. 12, 11, 27; Liv. 4, 27, 3:

quina,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9.—

With verb:

locum castris antecapere,

Sall. J. 50, 1; cf.:

capere locum castris,

Liv. 4, 27, 3; 9, 17, 15;

and montes castris capere,

Tac. A. 12, 55: castra metari, Cael. ap. Non. p. 137, 18; Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 15 al.:

facere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; Nep. Milt. 5, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29 al.:

ponere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 7, 35; Nep. Hann. 5 fin.:

ponere et munire,

Sall. J. 75, 7:

munire,

Caes. B. G. 1, 49; Liv. 44, 39, 1:

communire,

Caes. B. G. 5, 49; Liv. 23, 28, 3:

castra castris conferre,

id. 10, 32, 5; 23, 28, 9:

castris se tenere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8:

castra movere,

to break up, to decamp, id. ib. 1, 39 fin.; also syn. with to march forth from a camp, id. ib. 1, 15 Herz.; 1, 22; 2, 2; Sall. C. 57, 3; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Eum. 12 fin. et saep.—Hence, also, promovere, Caes. B. G. 1, 48:

movere retro,

Liv. 2, 58, 3:

removere,

id. 9, 24, 4:

proferre,

Caes. B. C. 1, 81:

castris castra inferre,

Enn. Trag. 201 Vahl.—

Castra Praetoriana, Praetoria, Urbana or simply Castra, the barracks of the Prœtorians in the suburbs of Rome, Suet. Tib. 37; id. Claud. 21; Tac. A. 4, 2; Suet. Aug. 29; id. Claud. 36; Dig. 48, 5, 15. —

Castrorum filius, a surname of Caligula, who was brought up in the camp, Suet. Calig. 22; Aur. Vict. Caes. 3.—So, Castrorum mater, an appellation of Faustina, the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, because she accompanied him in an expedition against the Quadi, Capitol. Marc. Aur. 26.—Hence both appell. in later inscriptions as titles of the Roman emperors and empresses. —

Esp. as nom. propr., like castrum.

Castra Corneliana or Cornelia, on the north coast of Africa, near Utica, so called because the elder Scipio Africanus first pitched his camp there, after his landing in Africa, in the second Punic war, Caes. B. C. 2, 24; 2, 25; 2, 37; Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 24.—

Castra Caecilia, in Lusitania, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 117.—

Castra Hannibalis, a seaport town in Bruttium, Plin. 3, 10, 15, § 95.—

Castra Pyrrhi, a place in Grecian Illyria, Liv. 32, 13, 2.—

Castra Vetera or Vetera, a place on the Lower Rhine, now Xanthen, Tac. H. 4, 18; 4, 21; 4, 35; id. A. 1, 45.—

Castra Alexandri, a district in Egypt, Curt. 4, 7, 2; Oros. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Since, in military expeditions, a camp was pitched each evening, in the histt. (esp. Livy) for a day ' s march:

secundis castris ( = bidui itinere) pervenit ad Dium,

Liv. 44, 7, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 15; cf.:

alteris castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 2; Curt. 3, 7.—

So tertiis castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 11; 38, 24, 1; Tac. H. 4, 71:

quartis castris,

Liv. 44, 46, 10:

quintis castris,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36; Liv. 28, 19, 4:

septimis castris,

id. 40, 22, 1:

decimis castris,

id. 27, 32 fin.; 28, 33, 1.—

Military service (hence, often opp. forum and toga), Nep. Epam. 5, 4; Vell. 2, 125, 4; Tib. 4, 1, 39:

qui magnum in castris usum habebant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39.—

Of beehives:

cerea,

Verg. A. 12, 589:

in apium castris,

Pall. 1, 37, 4.—

Of a sheepfold, Col. 6, 23, 3.—

Of political parties, regarded as arrayed in hostility:

si ad interdicti sententiam confugis... in meis castris praesidiisque versaris,

Cic. Caecin. 29, 83.—

Of philosophical sects:

Epicuri castra,

Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 1:

O castra praeclara (Epicuri)!

id. ib. 7, 12, 1; Hor. C. 3, 16, 23; Sen. Ep. 2, 4.

ēgressus, a, um, Part., from egredior.

ēgressus, ūs, m. [egredior], a going out or away (class.).

Lit.

In gen., egress, departure.

In abstr.: frequentia sua vestrum egressum (sc. in provinciam) ornando, * Cic. Pis. 13 fin.:

Caesar rarus egressu,

Tac. A. 15, 53.—In plur., Sall. J. 35, 5 Kritz; Tac. A. 3, 33; 11, 12; id. Or. 6; Ov. F. 1, 138.—Of birds, a flying out, flight, Ov. M. 11, 748; Col. 8, 8, 1.—

In concreto:

per tenebrosum et sordidum egressum extraho Gitona,

Petr. 91, 3.—In plur., Tac. A. 16, 10; and poet. of the mouths of the Ister, Ov. Tr. 2, 189.—

In partic. (acc. to egredior, I. A. 2. b.), a disembarking, going ashore, landing, Caes. B. G. 5, 8, 3; id. B. C. 3, 23, 1; Auct. B. Afr. 3 fin. —

Trop., in rhet. lang. = egressio, II., a digression in speaking, Quint. 4, 3, 12; cf.:

libero egressu memorare,

to narrate with freedom in digression, Tac. A. 4, 32.

lĭtus, a, um, Part., from lino.

lĭtus, ūs, m. [lino], a smearing, besmearing, anointing:

litu,

Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 110 (Cels. 6, 6, 20, instead of litum we should read lenitum; v. Targa, ad loc.).

lītus (not littus), ŏris, n. [cf. limnê, leimôn, limên; and lino], the sea-shore, seaside, beach, strand (opp. ripa, the bank of a river: ora, the coast of the sea; cf. Ov. M. 1, 37 sqq.; Verg. A. 3, 75):

litus est, quousque maximus fluctus a mari pervenit,

Dig. 50, 16, 96:

solebat Aquilius quaerentibus, quid esset litus, ita definire: qua fluctus eluderet,

Cic. Top. 7, 32:

quid est tam commune quam... litus ejectis,

id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

litus tunditur undā,

Cat. 11, 4:

praetervolare litora,

Hor. Epod. 16, 40:

Circaeae raduntur litora terrae,

Verg. A. 7, 10:

petere,

Ov. M. 2, 844:

intrare,

id. ib. 14, 104:

sinuosum legere,

Val. Fl. 2, 451:

litoris ora,

Verg. A. 3, 396; cf. id. G. 2, 44.—Prov.:

litus arare,

i. e. to labor in vain, take useless pains, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 48; so,

litus sterili versamus aratro,

Juv. 7, 49: in litus harenas fundere, to pour sand on the sea-shore, i. e. to add to that of which there is already an abundance, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 44.—

Transf.

A landing-place:

quod uno parvoque litore adiretur,

Suet. Tib. 40.—

The shore of a lake:

Trasimeni litora,

Sil. 15, 818:

Larium litus,

Cat. 35, 4; Plin. Ep. 9, 7.—

The bank of a river:

hostias constituit omnes in litore,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 97:

viridique in litore conspicitur sus,

Verg. A. 8, 83:

percussa fluctu litora,

id. E. 5, 83.—

Land situated on the sea-side:

cui litus arandum dedimus,

Verg. A. 4, 212:

electione litorum,

Tac. H. 3, 63.