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afflātus ( adf-), a, um, Part., of afflo.

afflātus ( adf-), ūs, m. [afflo].

A blowing or breathing on, a breeze, blast, breath, etc., as of the wind, men, or animals:

afflatusex terrā mentem ita movens ut, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 57, 117:

adflatu nocent,

by the effluvia, Ov. M. 7, 551:

ambusti adflatu vaporis,

Liv. 28, 23:

ignes caelestes adussisse levi adflatu vestimenta,

id. 39, 22:

Favonii,

Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57:

noxius,

id. 4, 12, 26 al. —Of animals:

frondes adflatibus (apri) ardent,

by his breath, Ov. M. 8, 289:

serpentis,

Stat. Th. 5, 527:

polypus adflatu terribili canes agebat,

Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92.—And of the aspiration in speech: Boeotii sine adflatu vocant collīs Tebas, i. e. without the h, Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 6.—

Esp., a flash or glow of light (cf. afflo, I.):

juncturae leni adflatu simulacra refovent,

Plin. 36, 15, 22, § 98.—

Fig., afflation of the divine spirit, inspiration:

nemo vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66:

sine inflammatione animorum et sine quodam adflatu quasi furoris,

id. de Or. 2, 46.

afflātus ( adf-), a, um, Part., of afflo.

afflātus ( adf-), ūs, m. [afflo].

A blowing or breathing on, a breeze, blast, breath, etc., as of the wind, men, or animals:

afflatusex terrā mentem ita movens ut, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 57, 117:

adflatu nocent,

by the effluvia, Ov. M. 7, 551:

ambusti adflatu vaporis,

Liv. 28, 23:

ignes caelestes adussisse levi adflatu vestimenta,

id. 39, 22:

Favonii,

Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57:

noxius,

id. 4, 12, 26 al. —Of animals:

frondes adflatibus (apri) ardent,

by his breath, Ov. M. 8, 289:

serpentis,

Stat. Th. 5, 527:

polypus adflatu terribili canes agebat,

Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92.—And of the aspiration in speech: Boeotii sine adflatu vocant collīs Tebas, i. e. without the h, Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 6.—

Esp., a flash or glow of light (cf. afflo, I.):

juncturae leni adflatu simulacra refovent,

Plin. 36, 15, 22, § 98.—

Fig., afflation of the divine spirit, inspiration:

nemo vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66:

sine inflammatione animorum et sine quodam adflatu quasi furoris,

id. de Or. 2, 46.

ălĭmentum, i, n. [alo], nourishment, nutriment; and concr., food, provisions, aliment (in the poets only in the plur.).

In gen.:

alimenta corporis,

Cic. Univ. 6:

plus alimenti est in pane quam in ullo alio,

Cels. 2, 18; so id. 8, 1; Plin. 17, 13, 20:

alimenta reponere in hiemem,

Quint. 2, 16, 16; Suet. Tib. 54; cf. Tac. A. 6, 23:

alimenta petens,

Vulg. Gen. 41, 55:

alimenta negare,

Ov. Tr 5, 8, 13:

habentes alimenta et quibus tegamur,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 8.—In the jurists:

alimenta,

all things which pertain to the support of life, aliment, maintenance, support, Dig. 34, tit. 1, De alimentis, and 1. 6.— Poet. (very freq. in Ovid):

picem et ceras, alimentaque cetera flammae,

Ov. M. 14, 532:

concipit Iris aquas, alimentaque nubibus affert,

id. ib. 1, 271:

lacrimaeque alimenta fuere,

tears were his food, id. ib. 10, 75 (cf.:

fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panes die ac nocte,

Vulg. Psa. 41, 4):

ignis,

Ov. M. 8, 837. — Trop.:

vitiorum,

Ov. M. 2, 769:

furoris,

id. ib. 3, 479:

addidit alimenta rumoribus,

gave new support to the rumors, Liv. 35, 23 fin.:

alimentum famae,

Tac. H. 2, 96:

alimentum virtutis honos,

Val. Max. 2, 6, 5.—

Esp., for the Gr. tropheia or threptra, the reward or recompense due to parents from children for their rearing: quasi alimenta exspectarct a nobis (patria), Cic. Rep. 1, 4 Mos. (in Val. Fl. 6, 570, this is expressed by nutrimenta; in Dig. 50, 13, 1, § 14, by nutricia).

bīlis, is (abl. bili, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; Lucr. 4, 664; Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11;

bile,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 4; Petr. 124, 2; Plin. 22, 20, 23, § 49; Suet. Tib. 59; Pers. 2, 14; Juv. 13, 143; Inscr. Grut. 1040, 3), f. [kindr. with galbus, gilbus; Germ. gelb].

Lit., bile (the bilious fluid secreted by the liver, jecur, while fel is the vessel in which the fluid is contained): rufa, viridis, nigra, Ceis. 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 664; Cato, R. R. 156, 4; Cic. [p. 238] N. D. 2, 55, 137; id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23:

bilem pellere,

Plin. 23, 8, 74, § 142:

trahere,

id. 27, 4, 10, § 27:

detrahere,

id. 27, 12, 93, § 119.— In plur. biles, the yellow and black bile, Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 84:

purgare,

Scrib. Comp. 136 (cf. poet.:

purgor bilem,

Hor. A. P. 302). —

Esp.: bilis suffusa, the overflowing of bile, i.e. the jaundice, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 54 (in Sen. Ep. 95, 16, called subfusio luridae bilis).—And so, bile suffusus, having the jaundice, jaundiced, Plin. 22, 20, 23, § 49.—

Trop.

Anger, wrath, choler, ire, displeasure, indignation (v. jecur):

non placet mihi cena, quae bilem movet,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 8; so Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 20:

bilem alicui commovere,

to stir up, excite, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 2:

bile tumet jecur,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 4:

meum jecur urere bilis,

id. S. 1, 9, 66:

bilis inaestuat praecordiis,

id. Epod. 11, 16:

jussit quod splendida bilis,

id. S. 2, 3, 141:

expulit bilem meraco,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 137:

bilem effundere,

to vent, Juv. 5, 159:

turgescit vitrea bilis,

Pers. 3, 8:

cui sententiae tantum bilis, tantum amaritudinis inest, ut, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 2: videte metuendam inimici et hostis bilem et licentiam, Cic. Fragm. Clod. et Cur. 4, 4 B. and K.—

Atra (or nigra) bilis, black bile, for melancholy, sadness, dejection, melancholia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: bilem atram generantes, quos melancholikous vocant, Scrib. Comp. 104.—Also as in Gr., = furor, rage, fury, madness: Am. Delirat uxor. So. Atra bili percita est, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; id. Capt. 3, 4, 64:

bilis nigra curanda est, et ipsa furoris causa removenda,

Sen. Ep. 94, 17.

cĭbus, i, m. [perh. root of capio], food for man and beast, victuals, fare, nutriment, fodder (class. in prose and poetry, both in sing. and plur.; syn.: esca, epulae;

opp. potio,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37; cf. id. N. D. 2, 54, 136; so,

cibus potusque,

Tac. A. 13, 16:

cibus et vinum,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60; Juv. 10, 203:

unda cibusque,

Ov. M. 4, 262):

cibum capere,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 60; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77:

petere,

id. ib. 3, 2, 38; id. Heaut. 5, 2, 25:

capessere (of animals),

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

sumere,

Nep. Att. 21, 6; Plin. 30, 5, 12, § 36:

tantum cibi et potionis adhibendum, etc.,

Cic. Sen. 11, 36:

digerere,

Quint. 11, 2, 35; cf. id. 11, 3, 19:

coquere,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 7:

concoquere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 64:

mandere,

id. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

cibos suppeditare,

id. Leg. 2, 27, 67:

(Cleanthes) negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.:

suavissimus et idem facillimus ad concoquendum,

id. Fin. 2, 20, 64:

flentes orabant, ut se cibo juvarent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 78 fin.:

cibus animalis,

the means of nourishment in the air, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136:

cibi bubuli,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3; 1, 23, 2:

cibus erat caro ferina,

Sall. J. 18, 1:

cum tenues hamos abdidit ante cibus,

the bait, Tib. 2, 6, 24; Ov. M. 8, 856; 15, 476.—

Transf. to the nourishment of plants, the nutritive juice, Lucr. 1, 353; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 12.—

Trop., food, sustenance (rare):

quasi quidam humanitatis cibus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 54:

cibus furoris,

Ov. M. 6, 480:

causa cibusque mali,

id. R. Am. 138.

cŏm-ĕs, ĭtis, comm. [con and 1. eo] (lit. one who goes with another), a companion, an associate, comrade, partaker, sharer, partner, etc. (whether male or female; class. and freq.).

In gen.

Masc.:

age, age, argentum numera, ne comites morer,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 25:

confugere domum sine comite,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 25:

comes meus fuit, et omnium itinerum meorum socius,

Cic. Fam. 13, 71:

erat comes ejus Rubrius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 25, § 64:

cui tu me comitem putas esse,

id. Att. 8, 7, 1:

ibimus, o socii comitesque,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 26; Lucr. 3, 1037; 4, 575:

Catulli,

Cat. 11, 1:

Pisonis,

id. 28, 1; Nep. Ages. 6, 3:

quin et avo comitem sese Mavortius addet Romulus,

Verg. A. 6, 778; cf.:

comes ire alicui,

id. ib. 6, 159:

comitem aliquem mittere alicui,

id. ib. 2, 86:

comes esse alicui,

Ov. H. 14, 54 et saep. —

With gen. or dat. of thing:

cum se victoriae Pompeji comitem esse mallet quam, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 3, 80:

comitem illius furoris,

Cic. Lael. 11, 37:

me tuarum actionum, sententiarum, etc., socium comitemque habebis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 22:

mortis et funeris atri,

Lucr. 2, 581:

tantae virtutis,

Liv. 22, 60, 12:

exsilii,

Mart. 12, 25:

fugae,

Vell. 2, 53; Liv. 1, 3, 2; Cic. Att. 9, 10, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 6:

me habuisti comitem consiliis tuis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 15.—With in:

comes in ulciscendis quibusdam,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 2.—

Fem., Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 54; Lucr. 5, 741:

data sum comes inculpata Minervae,

Ov. M. 2, 588; cf. id. H. 3, 10:

me tibi venturam comitem,

id. ib. 13, 163; Verg. A. 4, 677; 6, 448.—

Transf. to inanimate objects:

malis erat angor Assidue comes,

Lucr. 6, 1159:

comes formidinis, aura,

id. 3, 290:

ploratus mortis comites,

id. 2, 580:

tunc vitae socia virtus, mortis comes gloria fuisset,

Cic. Font. 21, 49 (17, 39):

multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio,

id. Mur. 6, 13:

pacis est comes, otiique socia eloquentia,

id. Brut. 12, 45; cf.

an idea (perh. intentionally) opp. to this,

Tac. Or. 40:

non ut ullam artem doctrinamve contemneres, sed ut omnis comites ac ministratrices oratoris esse diceres,

Cic. de Or. 1, 17, 75:

cui ipsi casus eventusque rerum non duces sed comites consiliorum fuerunt,

id. Balb. 4, 9:

exanimatio. quas comes pavoris,

id. Tusc. 4, 8, 19:

(grammatice) dulcis secretorum comes,

Quint. 1, 4, 5:

(cura) comes atra premit sequiturque fugacem,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 115:

culpam poena premit comes,

id. C. 4, 5, 24:

nec (fides) comitem abnegat,

id. ib. 1, 35, 22: comitemque [p. 374] aeris alieni atque litis esse miseriam, Orac. ap. Plin. 7, 32, 32, § 119.—

In partic.

An overseer, tutor, teacher, etc., of young persons (rare;

not ante-Aug.),

Verg. A. 2, 86; 5, 546; Suet. Tib. 12; Stat. S. 5, 2, 60.— Esp. = paedagogus, a slave who accompanied boys as a protector, Suet. Aug. 98; id. Claud. 35.—Far more freq.,

The suite, retinue of friends, relatives, scholars, noble youth, etc., which accompanied magistrates into the provinces, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 27 sq; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, § 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 2; Suet. Caes. 42; id. Ner. 5; id. Gram. 10.—

The attendants of distinguished private individuals, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 76; 1, 17, 52; id. S. 1, 6, 102; Suet. Caes. 4.— Trop.: (Cicero) in libris de Republica Platonis se comitem profitetur, Plin. praef. § 22.—

After the time of the emperors, the imperial train, the courtiers, court, Suet. Aug. 16; 98; id. Tib. 46; id. Calig. 45; id. Vit. 11; id. Vesp. 4; Inscr. Orell. 723; 750 al.—Hence,

In late Lat., a designation for the occupant of any state office, as, comes scholarum, rei militaris, aerarii utriusque, commerciorum (hence, Ital. conte; Fr. comte).

contāgĭo, ōnis, f., contāgĭum, ii, n., and contāmen, ĭnis, n. (contagium only in poets—and in plur.—and in postAug. prose writers; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 59, 12; Non. p. 199, 2; Marc. Vict. 1, p. 2469 P.; cf. also colluvio: contamen only in late Lat.) [id.], a touching, contact, touch, in a good or bad sense.

In gen.

Contagio, Cato, R. R. 132 fin.:

anima calescit... contagione pulmonum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138:

corporis,

id. Div. 1, 30, 63; 2, 43, 92; id. Fat. 3, 5:

ab omni mentione et contagione Romanorum abstinere,

Liv. 40, 20, 6.—

Contagium, Lucr. 3, 346; 3, 740; Plin. 2, 20, 18, § 82; Mart. 11, 47.—

Pregn., a union, connection:

contagio naturae valet,

Cic. Fat. 3, 5.—

Freq., in a bad sense, a contacl with something physically or morally unclean, a contagion, infection.

Lit.

Contagio: nolite ad me adire, ne contagio mea bonis obsit, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. Rel. v. 405 Vahl.); cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164:

velut contagione quādam pestiferā insanire,

Liv. 28, 34, 4:

tum praecipue oves contagione vexentur,

Col. 7, 5, 6; so id. 7, 5, 16:

lichenis,

Plin. 26, 1, 3, §

3: vini,

id. 14, 21, 27, § 134 al. —

Contagium:

morbi,

Lucr. 3, 472; 6, 1235; Curt. 9, 10, 1; cf.

pestilentiae,

Plin. 23, 8, 80, § 157:

vicini pecoris,

Verg. E. 1, 51.— Absol.:

agunt contagia late,

Ov. M. 7, 551; Hor. Epod. 16, 61 al.—

Trop., an infection, pollution, vicious companionship or intercourse, participation, contamination, etc.

Contagio:

contagione mei patris metuo malum,

Plaut. Am. prol. 31; so with the gen.:

illius sceleris,

Cic. Mur. 37, 78; id. Sull. 2, 6:

criminis,

Liv. 9, 34, 14:

turpitudinis,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 3:

conscientiae,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 71, § 183:

furoris,

Liv. 28, 24, 10:

cujus facti dictive,

id. 2, 37, 7:

noxae,

id. 9, 1, 6:

imitandi belli,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 3, § 6; cf.

belli,

Flor. 2, 13, 1:

bellorum,

id. 2, 2, 4:

aspectus,

Cic. Clu. 68, 193.— Plur.:

contagiones malorum, quae a Lacedaemoniis profectae manaverunt latius,

Cic. Off. 2, 23, 80.— Absol.: haec (vitia) primo paulatim crescere; post, ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas immutata, etc., * Sall. C. 10 fin.; Liv. 5, 6, 11; 5, 12, 7; 10, 18, 2 al.; Flor. 1, 9, 8.—

Contagium:

aegrae mentis,

Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 25:

scelerum,

Luc. 3, 322:

lucri (connected with scabies),

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 14:

belli,

Flor. 1, 15, 1:

deditionis,

id. 3, 14, 2:

terrae,

Ov. M. 15, 195.—

Contamen, Tert. Carm. adv. Marc. 1, 1; 4, 4; Mart. Cap. 1, § 10 Kopp.

dŏmĭtor (also post-class. dŏmātor, Amm. 21, 5; but Tib. 4, 1, 116, the true reading is domante), ōris, m. [id.], a tamer, breaker (rare but class.).

Prop.:

equorum,

Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90; Verg. A. 7, 189; 651 al.; Inscr. Orell. 4179.—

Transf., a subduer, vanquisher, conqueror:

vexator furoris, domitor armorum,

Cic. Mil. 13 fin.; cf.:

belli externi,

Tac. H. 2, 76 fin.:

Persarum (with victor),

Cic. Rep. 1, 3; cf.:

Hispaniae Galliaeque,

Liv. 21, 43:

Trojae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 19:

maris (Neptunus),

Verg. A. 5, 799; cf.:

freti Tiphys,

Sen. Med. 2:

domitor ac frenator infinitae potestatis (animus),

Plin. Pan. 55, 9; cf.:

curarum (somnus),

Sen. Agam. 75.

frēnum or fraenum, i, n., and more freq. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 567; and v. infra), plur. heterocl. frēni, ōrum, m., and mostly poet. frēna, ōrum, n. [root dhar-; Sanscr. dhar-ā-mi, hold, support; Gr. thra-, in thrênus, thronos; Lat. frētus], a bridle, curb, bit (syn.: lupi, lupata).

Lit.

Plur.:

aurei freni,

Curt. 4, 13 med.; so nom. freni, id. 7, 10 fin.; cf. under II.; acc. frena, Verg. A. 4, 135; 5, 818; Ov. M. 15, 519; id. Am. 3, 4, 16:

non domito frenos ore momordit equus,

Tib. 1, 3, 42; so,

frenos: equus, equa, quae frenos recipere solet,

Cic. Top. 8, 36; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 12; Verg. G. 3, 184; Liv. 1, 48, 6; Sen. Tranq. 15 fin. al.:

moderarier hunc (equum) frenis,

Lucr. 5, 1298; so,

frenis,

id. 5, 1317; Verg. A. 11, 719; 889; 12, 372; Hor. S. 1, 1, 91; Ov. M. 5, 643; Liv. 1, 14 fin.:

equum cogere frenos pati,

Phaedr. 4, 3, 9:

frenos et strata equorum Pelethronium (invenisse),

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202 et saep.—

Sing.:

frenumque (equus) recepit, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 36:

non frenum depulit ore,

id. ib. 1, 10, 38.—

Prov.: frenum mordere, to take the bit in one's teeth, i. e. to offer opposition, to resist: si frenum momorderis peream, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 23, 2; cf.:

sed ut mones, frenum momordi,

Cic. ib. 11, 24, 1.—

Transf.

Like our terms bridle and curb, i. q. means of guiding or governing, restraint, check, limit.

Plur.:

rerum freni,

the reins of dominion, Sil. 1, 240:

freni sunt injecti vobis, Quirites, nullo modo perpetiendi: alligati et constricti estis amaro vinculo servitutis,

Val. Max. 2, 9, 5; cf.:

freni domitarum gentium,

Curt. 7, 10 fin.:

ne Lycurgi quidem disciplina tenuit illos in hominibus Graecis frenos,

Cic. Rep. 2, 33:

ut Isocratem in acerrimo ingenio Theopompi et lenissimo Ephori dixisse traditum est, alteri se calcaria adhibere, alteri frenos,

id. Brut. 56, 204:

Mutinam illi exsultanti tamquam frenos furoris injecit,

id. Phil. 13, 9, 20:

date frenos impotenti naturae et indomito animali,

give the reins to, allow full scope to, Liv. 34, 2, 13; so,

frenos furentibus ira Laxat,

Luc. 7, 125:

impone felicitati tuae frenos,

put on, Curt. 7, 8 fin.:

imperii frena tenere sui,

Ov. Tr. 2, 42:

frena imperii moderari,

id. P. 2, 9, 33:

capere,

id. ib. 4, 13, 27:

frena licentiae inicere,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 10:

pone irae frena modumque, Pone et avaritiae,

Juv. 8, 88:

subiit leges et frena momordit Ille solutus amor,

i. e. submitted to, Stat. S. 1, 2, 28:

quod dicebat Isocrates, se calcaribus in Ephoro, contra autem in Theopompo frenis uti solere,

Cic. de Or. 3, 9, 36; Quint. 2, 8, 11; cf. above the passage Cic. Brut. 56, 204:

alter, uti dixit Isocrates in Ephoro et Theopompo, frenis eget, alter calcaribus,

id. Att. 6, 1, 12:

non solum frenis sed etiam jugo accepto,

Liv. 37, 36, 5:

animum rege: qui nisi paret, Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catenā,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 63:

jam vaga prosiliet frenis natura remotis,

id. S. 2, 7, 74.—

Sing.:

ni frenum accipere et victi parere fatentur,

Verg. A. 12, 568:

voluptates tenere sub freno,

Sen. Ep. 23 med. —

Poet., horse, steed, charger:

eques aptus frenis,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 19:

portarumque moras frenis assultat et hastis,

Stat. Th. 11, 243.—

In gen.

That which holds things together, a band (post-Aug. and rare):

absiliunt pontes tectique trementis Saxea frena labant, etc.,

the stone bands, ties, Stat. Th. 10, 880.—

In anatomy:

frenum,

the ligament which attaches the inside of the foreskin to the glans, Cels. 7, 25, 2.

frēnum or fraenum, i, n., and more freq. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 567; and v. infra), plur. heterocl. frēni, ōrum, m., and mostly poet. frēna, ōrum, n. [root dhar-; Sanscr. dhar-ā-mi, hold, support; Gr. thra-, in thrênus, thronos; Lat. frētus], a bridle, curb, bit (syn.: lupi, lupata).

Lit.

Plur.:

aurei freni,

Curt. 4, 13 med.; so nom. freni, id. 7, 10 fin.; cf. under II.; acc. frena, Verg. A. 4, 135; 5, 818; Ov. M. 15, 519; id. Am. 3, 4, 16:

non domito frenos ore momordit equus,

Tib. 1, 3, 42; so,

frenos: equus, equa, quae frenos recipere solet,

Cic. Top. 8, 36; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 12; Verg. G. 3, 184; Liv. 1, 48, 6; Sen. Tranq. 15 fin. al.:

moderarier hunc (equum) frenis,

Lucr. 5, 1298; so,

frenis,

id. 5, 1317; Verg. A. 11, 719; 889; 12, 372; Hor. S. 1, 1, 91; Ov. M. 5, 643; Liv. 1, 14 fin.:

equum cogere frenos pati,

Phaedr. 4, 3, 9:

frenos et strata equorum Pelethronium (invenisse),

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202 et saep.—

Sing.:

frenumque (equus) recepit, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 36:

non frenum depulit ore,

id. ib. 1, 10, 38.—

Prov.: frenum mordere, to take the bit in one's teeth, i. e. to offer opposition, to resist: si frenum momorderis peream, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 23, 2; cf.:

sed ut mones, frenum momordi,

Cic. ib. 11, 24, 1.—

Transf.

Like our terms bridle and curb, i. q. means of guiding or governing, restraint, check, limit.

Plur.:

rerum freni,

the reins of dominion, Sil. 1, 240:

freni sunt injecti vobis, Quirites, nullo modo perpetiendi: alligati et constricti estis amaro vinculo servitutis,

Val. Max. 2, 9, 5; cf.:

freni domitarum gentium,

Curt. 7, 10 fin.:

ne Lycurgi quidem disciplina tenuit illos in hominibus Graecis frenos,

Cic. Rep. 2, 33:

ut Isocratem in acerrimo ingenio Theopompi et lenissimo Ephori dixisse traditum est, alteri se calcaria adhibere, alteri frenos,

id. Brut. 56, 204:

Mutinam illi exsultanti tamquam frenos furoris injecit,

id. Phil. 13, 9, 20:

date frenos impotenti naturae et indomito animali,

give the reins to, allow full scope to, Liv. 34, 2, 13; so,

frenos furentibus ira Laxat,

Luc. 7, 125:

impone felicitati tuae frenos,

put on, Curt. 7, 8 fin.:

imperii frena tenere sui,

Ov. Tr. 2, 42:

frena imperii moderari,

id. P. 2, 9, 33:

capere,

id. ib. 4, 13, 27:

frena licentiae inicere,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 10:

pone irae frena modumque, Pone et avaritiae,

Juv. 8, 88:

subiit leges et frena momordit Ille solutus amor,

i. e. submitted to, Stat. S. 1, 2, 28:

quod dicebat Isocrates, se calcaribus in Ephoro, contra autem in Theopompo frenis uti solere,

Cic. de Or. 3, 9, 36; Quint. 2, 8, 11; cf. above the passage Cic. Brut. 56, 204:

alter, uti dixit Isocrates in Ephoro et Theopompo, frenis eget, alter calcaribus,

id. Att. 6, 1, 12:

non solum frenis sed etiam jugo accepto,

Liv. 37, 36, 5:

animum rege: qui nisi paret, Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catenā,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 63:

jam vaga prosiliet frenis natura remotis,

id. S. 2, 7, 74.—

Sing.:

ni frenum accipere et victi parere fatentur,

Verg. A. 12, 568:

voluptates tenere sub freno,

Sen. Ep. 23 med. —

Poet., horse, steed, charger:

eques aptus frenis,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 19:

portarumque moras frenis assultat et hastis,

Stat. Th. 11, 243.—

In gen.

That which holds things together, a band (post-Aug. and rare):

absiliunt pontes tectique trementis Saxea frena labant, etc.,

the stone bands, ties, Stat. Th. 10, 880.—

In anatomy:

frenum,

the ligament which attaches the inside of the foreskin to the glans, Cels. 7, 25, 2.