good for nothing

* * *

nullus, a, um, ( gen. m. nulli, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 99 Ritschl; Ter. And. 3, 5, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 48; gen. f. nullae, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 207; v. Ritschl ad h. l.; dat. m. nullo, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; dat. f. nullae, Prop. 1, 20, 35; and cf. Cato ap. Prisc. p. 694 P.; Caecil. ib. p. 678; gen. usu. nullīus, but nullĭus, Lucr. 1, 224; 926; 4, 1; Hor. Epod. 16, 61; id. Ep. 1, 1, 14), adj. [ne-ullus], not any, none, no.

In gen.: semita nulla. Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 44 Vahl.):

nulla videbatur aptior persona,

Cic. Lael. 1, 4:

praecepta,

id. Off. 1, 37, 132:

lites,

id. de Or. 1, 26, 118:

elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior,

id. N. D. 1, 35, 97:

nullo pacto,

id. Mur. 13, 28:

nullo certo ordine,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11:

nullo discrimine,

Verg. A. 1, 574:

aliter sine populi jussu nulli earum rerum consuli jus est,

no consul has the right, Sall. C. 29, 3 (al. nullius):

nulla verius quam ubi ea cogitentur, hostium castra esse,

Liv. 22, 53, 8 Weissenb. (al. nullo):

nullum meum minimum dictum,

not the slightest word on my part, id. Fam. 1, 9, 21: nullusdum, none as yet:

nulladum via,

Liv. 5, 34; 29, 11: nulli rei esse, to be good for nothing:

nequam hominem dixerunt nulli rei, neque frugis bonae,

Gell. 7, 11, 1; 13, 30, 3: nullius partis esse, on neither side, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 2.—

Subst.: nullus, īus, m., for nemo, no one, nobody (rare in Cic.): Pi. Qui scire possum? Chry. Nullus plus, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 12:

sunt nulli,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 132:

ut nullo egeat,

id. Lael. 9, 30:

ego quidem nulli vestrum deero,

Liv. 6, 18, 8:

nulli ea placere sententia,

id. 37, 15, 1:

ab nullo repetere beneficia,

Sall. J. 96, 2:

aut nullo aut quam paucissimis praesentibus,

id. ib. 109, 1:

nullo poscente,

Verg. G. 1, 128:

nullo hostium sustinente novum ac velut infernum aspectum,

Tac. G. 43:

a nullo ante nos prodita,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 279:

nullus denique tam abjectae condicionis fuit, cujus, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 35:

hoc nullus nisi arte assequi potest,

Quint. 8 prooem. §

16: nulli non parta libertas est,

Curt. 5, 8, 14.— Fem.: nulla, īus, Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 24; Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 20; Prop. 2, 3, 1; 3, 24 (31), 41; Ov. R. Am. 747; Just. 28, 4, 4.—In plur. (rare):

nam, reor, nullis, si vita longior daretur, posset esse jucundior,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93:

nullis adversus Romanos auxilia denegabant,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 45, 1:

nullis defendentibus,

Nep. Them. 4, 1:

nullis magis opus esse magistris vivendi quam plerisque qui, etc.,

Lact. 3, 15, 10; Verg. G. 2, 10; Sen. Ep. 73, 1; Tac. A. 2, 77 fin.; id. H. 2, 20: nulli duo, not two, no two:

nullas duas in tot milibus hominum indiscretas effigies exsistere,

Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 8; so,

ita fit, ut nulli duo concinant,

id. 3, 1, 3, § 16: nullus alter, nullus unus, no other, no one:

scelestiorem nullum illuxere alterum,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 22:

nullā re unā magis oratorem commendari, quam, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 59, 216; cf.:

ut unum signum Byzantii ex maximo numero nullum haberent,

id. Prov. Cons. 4, 7: nullus non, every:

nullā rerum suarum non relictā inter hostes,

Liv. 8, 26:

nullo non se die extulit,

Sen. Ep. 12, 8; Suet. Caes. 76: non nullus; v. nonnullus.—In the neutr., nul-lum, nullīus, nothing (rare for nihil):

Grai praeter laudem nullius avari,

Hor. A. P. 324:

nullius acrior custos, quam libertatis fuit,

Flor. 1, 26:

nullo sibi relicto praeter querelas, etc.,

Amm. 14, 1, 4:

nullum magnum quod extremum est,

Sen. Ep. 4, 3:

nullo magis studia, quam spe gaudent,

Quint. 2, 4, 43.— Abl. nullo, for nullā re (post-Aug.):

nullo magis exterritus est quam quod, etc.,

Tac. A. 3, 15:

nullo magis Caesarem Augustum demeruit,

Sen. Ben. 2, 25, 1:

deus nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris animalibus quam dicendi facultate,

Quint. 2, 16, 12; 2, 4, 13; 5, 14, 14.—

(Mostly conversational.) Nullus, = non, not, not at all:

at tu edepol nullus creduas,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 5; id. Rud. 4, 4, 91:

is nullus venit,

id. As. 2, 4, 2:

memini, tametsi nullus moneas,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 10; id. Hec. 1, 2, 3 (cf. II. C. infra):

Philotimus non modo nullus venit, sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 11, 24, 4:

Sextus ab armis nullus discedit,

id. ib. 15, 22; cf. id. ib. 15, 29, 1:

nolite arbitrari, me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore,

id. Sen. 22, 79:

hereditas quae nulla debetur,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 44; id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128.—

In partic.

Of no account or moment, insignificant, trifling:

igitur tu Titias et Appuleias leges nullas putas?

Cic. Leg. 2, 6, 14:

nullum vero id quidem argumentum est,

id. Tusc. 2, 5, 13:

sed vides nullam esse rem publicam, nullum senatum, etc.,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 1; Nep. Phoc. 1, 2:

in his tam parvis atque tam nullis,

Plin. 11, 2, 2, § 2:

alia fuere, quae illos magnos fecere, quae nobis nulla sunt,

Sall. C. 52, 21.—

Null, of no value:

ut sine his studiis vitam nullam esse ducamus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20; Luc. 1, 589.—

Nullus sum, I am lost, undone, it's all over with me (ante-class.):

si id factum est, ecce me nullum senem,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 26; cf. id. Most. 2, 1, 41; id. Merc. 1, 2, 52; 104:

nullu's, Geta, nisi, etc.,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 1; cf. id. And. 3, 4, 20.

nullus, a, um, ( gen. m. nulli, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 99 Ritschl; Ter. And. 3, 5, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 48; gen. f. nullae, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 207; v. Ritschl ad h. l.; dat. m. nullo, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; dat. f. nullae, Prop. 1, 20, 35; and cf. Cato ap. Prisc. p. 694 P.; Caecil. ib. p. 678; gen. usu. nullīus, but nullĭus, Lucr. 1, 224; 926; 4, 1; Hor. Epod. 16, 61; id. Ep. 1, 1, 14), adj. [ne-ullus], not any, none, no.

In gen.: semita nulla. Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 44 Vahl.):

nulla videbatur aptior persona,

Cic. Lael. 1, 4:

praecepta,

id. Off. 1, 37, 132:

lites,

id. de Or. 1, 26, 118:

elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior,

id. N. D. 1, 35, 97:

nullo pacto,

id. Mur. 13, 28:

nullo certo ordine,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11:

nullo discrimine,

Verg. A. 1, 574:

aliter sine populi jussu nulli earum rerum consuli jus est,

no consul has the right, Sall. C. 29, 3 (al. nullius):

nulla verius quam ubi ea cogitentur, hostium castra esse,

Liv. 22, 53, 8 Weissenb. (al. nullo):

nullum meum minimum dictum,

not the slightest word on my part, id. Fam. 1, 9, 21: nullusdum, none as yet:

nulladum via,

Liv. 5, 34; 29, 11: nulli rei esse, to be good for nothing:

nequam hominem dixerunt nulli rei, neque frugis bonae,

Gell. 7, 11, 1; 13, 30, 3: nullius partis esse, on neither side, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 2.—

Subst.: nullus, īus, m., for nemo, no one, nobody (rare in Cic.): Pi. Qui scire possum? Chry. Nullus plus, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 12:

sunt nulli,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 132:

ut nullo egeat,

id. Lael. 9, 30:

ego quidem nulli vestrum deero,

Liv. 6, 18, 8:

nulli ea placere sententia,

id. 37, 15, 1:

ab nullo repetere beneficia,

Sall. J. 96, 2:

aut nullo aut quam paucissimis praesentibus,

id. ib. 109, 1:

nullo poscente,

Verg. G. 1, 128:

nullo hostium sustinente novum ac velut infernum aspectum,

Tac. G. 43:

a nullo ante nos prodita,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 279:

nullus denique tam abjectae condicionis fuit, cujus, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 35:

hoc nullus nisi arte assequi potest,

Quint. 8 prooem. §

16: nulli non parta libertas est,

Curt. 5, 8, 14.— Fem.: nulla, īus, Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 24; Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 20; Prop. 2, 3, 1; 3, 24 (31), 41; Ov. R. Am. 747; Just. 28, 4, 4.—In plur. (rare):

nam, reor, nullis, si vita longior daretur, posset esse jucundior,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93:

nullis adversus Romanos auxilia denegabant,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 45, 1:

nullis defendentibus,

Nep. Them. 4, 1:

nullis magis opus esse magistris vivendi quam plerisque qui, etc.,

Lact. 3, 15, 10; Verg. G. 2, 10; Sen. Ep. 73, 1; Tac. A. 2, 77 fin.; id. H. 2, 20: nulli duo, not two, no two:

nullas duas in tot milibus hominum indiscretas effigies exsistere,

Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 8; so,

ita fit, ut nulli duo concinant,

id. 3, 1, 3, § 16: nullus alter, nullus unus, no other, no one:

scelestiorem nullum illuxere alterum,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 22:

nullā re unā magis oratorem commendari, quam, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 59, 216; cf.:

ut unum signum Byzantii ex maximo numero nullum haberent,

id. Prov. Cons. 4, 7: nullus non, every:

nullā rerum suarum non relictā inter hostes,

Liv. 8, 26:

nullo non se die extulit,

Sen. Ep. 12, 8; Suet. Caes. 76: non nullus; v. nonnullus.—In the neutr., nul-lum, nullīus, nothing (rare for nihil):

Grai praeter laudem nullius avari,

Hor. A. P. 324:

nullius acrior custos, quam libertatis fuit,

Flor. 1, 26:

nullo sibi relicto praeter querelas, etc.,

Amm. 14, 1, 4:

nullum magnum quod extremum est,

Sen. Ep. 4, 3:

nullo magis studia, quam spe gaudent,

Quint. 2, 4, 43.— Abl. nullo, for nullā re (post-Aug.):

nullo magis exterritus est quam quod, etc.,

Tac. A. 3, 15:

nullo magis Caesarem Augustum demeruit,

Sen. Ben. 2, 25, 1:

deus nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris animalibus quam dicendi facultate,

Quint. 2, 16, 12; 2, 4, 13; 5, 14, 14.—

(Mostly conversational.) Nullus, = non, not, not at all:

at tu edepol nullus creduas,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 5; id. Rud. 4, 4, 91:

is nullus venit,

id. As. 2, 4, 2:

memini, tametsi nullus moneas,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 10; id. Hec. 1, 2, 3 (cf. II. C. infra):

Philotimus non modo nullus venit, sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 11, 24, 4:

Sextus ab armis nullus discedit,

id. ib. 15, 22; cf. id. ib. 15, 29, 1:

nolite arbitrari, me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore,

id. Sen. 22, 79:

hereditas quae nulla debetur,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 44; id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128.—

In partic.

Of no account or moment, insignificant, trifling:

igitur tu Titias et Appuleias leges nullas putas?

Cic. Leg. 2, 6, 14:

nullum vero id quidem argumentum est,

id. Tusc. 2, 5, 13:

sed vides nullam esse rem publicam, nullum senatum, etc.,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 1; Nep. Phoc. 1, 2:

in his tam parvis atque tam nullis,

Plin. 11, 2, 2, § 2:

alia fuere, quae illos magnos fecere, quae nobis nulla sunt,

Sall. C. 52, 21.—

Null, of no value:

ut sine his studiis vitam nullam esse ducamus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20; Luc. 1, 589.—

Nullus sum, I am lost, undone, it's all over with me (ante-class.):

si id factum est, ecce me nullum senem,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 26; cf. id. Most. 2, 1, 41; id. Merc. 1, 2, 52; 104:

nullu's, Geta, nisi, etc.,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 1; cf. id. And. 3, 4, 20.

nullus, a, um, ( gen. m. nulli, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 99 Ritschl; Ter. And. 3, 5, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 48; gen. f. nullae, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 207; v. Ritschl ad h. l.; dat. m. nullo, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; dat. f. nullae, Prop. 1, 20, 35; and cf. Cato ap. Prisc. p. 694 P.; Caecil. ib. p. 678; gen. usu. nullīus, but nullĭus, Lucr. 1, 224; 926; 4, 1; Hor. Epod. 16, 61; id. Ep. 1, 1, 14), adj. [ne-ullus], not any, none, no.

In gen.: semita nulla. Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 44 Vahl.):

nulla videbatur aptior persona,

Cic. Lael. 1, 4:

praecepta,

id. Off. 1, 37, 132:

lites,

id. de Or. 1, 26, 118:

elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior,

id. N. D. 1, 35, 97:

nullo pacto,

id. Mur. 13, 28:

nullo certo ordine,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11:

nullo discrimine,

Verg. A. 1, 574:

aliter sine populi jussu nulli earum rerum consuli jus est,

no consul has the right, Sall. C. 29, 3 (al. nullius):

nulla verius quam ubi ea cogitentur, hostium castra esse,

Liv. 22, 53, 8 Weissenb. (al. nullo):

nullum meum minimum dictum,

not the slightest word on my part, id. Fam. 1, 9, 21: nullusdum, none as yet:

nulladum via,

Liv. 5, 34; 29, 11: nulli rei esse, to be good for nothing:

nequam hominem dixerunt nulli rei, neque frugis bonae,

Gell. 7, 11, 1; 13, 30, 3: nullius partis esse, on neither side, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 2.—

Subst.: nullus, īus, m., for nemo, no one, nobody (rare in Cic.): Pi. Qui scire possum? Chry. Nullus plus, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 12:

sunt nulli,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 132:

ut nullo egeat,

id. Lael. 9, 30:

ego quidem nulli vestrum deero,

Liv. 6, 18, 8:

nulli ea placere sententia,

id. 37, 15, 1:

ab nullo repetere beneficia,

Sall. J. 96, 2:

aut nullo aut quam paucissimis praesentibus,

id. ib. 109, 1:

nullo poscente,

Verg. G. 1, 128:

nullo hostium sustinente novum ac velut infernum aspectum,

Tac. G. 43:

a nullo ante nos prodita,

Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 279:

nullus denique tam abjectae condicionis fuit, cujus, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 35:

hoc nullus nisi arte assequi potest,

Quint. 8 prooem. §

16: nulli non parta libertas est,

Curt. 5, 8, 14.— Fem.: nulla, īus, Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 24; Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 20; Prop. 2, 3, 1; 3, 24 (31), 41; Ov. R. Am. 747; Just. 28, 4, 4.—In plur. (rare):

nam, reor, nullis, si vita longior daretur, posset esse jucundior,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93:

nullis adversus Romanos auxilia denegabant,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 45, 1:

nullis defendentibus,

Nep. Them. 4, 1:

nullis magis opus esse magistris vivendi quam plerisque qui, etc.,

Lact. 3, 15, 10; Verg. G. 2, 10; Sen. Ep. 73, 1; Tac. A. 2, 77 fin.; id. H. 2, 20: nulli duo, not two, no two:

nullas duas in tot milibus hominum indiscretas effigies exsistere,

Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 8; so,

ita fit, ut nulli duo concinant,

id. 3, 1, 3, § 16: nullus alter, nullus unus, no other, no one:

scelestiorem nullum illuxere alterum,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 22:

nullā re unā magis oratorem commendari, quam, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 59, 216; cf.:

ut unum signum Byzantii ex maximo numero nullum haberent,

id. Prov. Cons. 4, 7: nullus non, every:

nullā rerum suarum non relictā inter hostes,

Liv. 8, 26:

nullo non se die extulit,

Sen. Ep. 12, 8; Suet. Caes. 76: non nullus; v. nonnullus.—In the neutr., nul-lum, nullīus, nothing (rare for nihil):

Grai praeter laudem nullius avari,

Hor. A. P. 324:

nullius acrior custos, quam libertatis fuit,

Flor. 1, 26:

nullo sibi relicto praeter querelas, etc.,

Amm. 14, 1, 4:

nullum magnum quod extremum est,

Sen. Ep. 4, 3:

nullo magis studia, quam spe gaudent,

Quint. 2, 4, 43.— Abl. nullo, for nullā re (post-Aug.):

nullo magis exterritus est quam quod, etc.,

Tac. A. 3, 15:

nullo magis Caesarem Augustum demeruit,

Sen. Ben. 2, 25, 1:

deus nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris animalibus quam dicendi facultate,

Quint. 2, 16, 12; 2, 4, 13; 5, 14, 14.—

(Mostly conversational.) Nullus, = non, not, not at all:

at tu edepol nullus creduas,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 5; id. Rud. 4, 4, 91:

is nullus venit,

id. As. 2, 4, 2:

memini, tametsi nullus moneas,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 10; id. Hec. 1, 2, 3 (cf. II. C. infra):

Philotimus non modo nullus venit, sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 11, 24, 4:

Sextus ab armis nullus discedit,

id. ib. 15, 22; cf. id. ib. 15, 29, 1:

nolite arbitrari, me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore,

id. Sen. 22, 79:

hereditas quae nulla debetur,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 44; id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128.—

In partic.

Of no account or moment, insignificant, trifling:

igitur tu Titias et Appuleias leges nullas putas?

Cic. Leg. 2, 6, 14:

nullum vero id quidem argumentum est,

id. Tusc. 2, 5, 13:

sed vides nullam esse rem publicam, nullum senatum, etc.,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 1; Nep. Phoc. 1, 2:

in his tam parvis atque tam nullis,

Plin. 11, 2, 2, § 2:

alia fuere, quae illos magnos fecere, quae nobis nulla sunt,

Sall. C. 52, 21.—

Null, of no value:

ut sine his studiis vitam nullam esse ducamus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20; Luc. 1, 589.—

Nullus sum, I am lost, undone, it's all over with me (ante-class.):

si id factum est, ecce me nullum senem,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 26; cf. id. Most. 2, 1, 41; id. Merc. 1, 2, 52; 104:

nullu's, Geta, nisi, etc.,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 1; cf. id. And. 3, 4, 20.

căpŭt ( kăp-căpud), ĭtis ( abl. sing. regularly capite:

capiti,

Cat. 68, 124; cf. Tib. 1, 1, 72 Huschk., where the MSS., as well as Caes. German. Arat. 213, vary between the two forms), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. kap-āla; Gr. keph-alê; Goth. haubith; Germ. Haupt].

The head, of men and animals:

oscitat in campis caput a cervice revolsum,

Enn. Ann. 462 Vahl.: i lictor, conliga manus, caput obnubito, form. ap. Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. Liv. 1, 26, 6:

tun' capite cano amas, homo nequissume?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 34; so,

cano capite,

id. As. 5, 2, 84; id. Cas. 3, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 1, 72; Pers. 1, 83 al.; cf. Tib. 1, 10, 43, and:

capitis nives,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 12, and Quint. 8, 6, 17 Spald.:

raso capite calvus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 306:

irraso,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 16:

intonsum,

Quint. 12, 10, 47:

amputare alicui,

Suet. Galb. 20; Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 9:

capite operto,

Cic. Sen. 10, 34, 34:

obvoluto,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77 Klotz:

caput aperire,

id. ib.:

abscindere cervicibus,

id. ib. 11, 2, 5:

demittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 32; Cat. 87, 8; Verg. A. 9, 437: attollere. Ov. M. 5, 503:

extollere,

to become bold, Cic. Planc. 13, 33: efferre, to raise one ' s head, to be eminent, Verg. E. 1, 25 al.—Of animals, Tib. 2, 1, 8; Hor. S. 1, 2, 89; 2, 3, 200; id. Ep. 1, 1, 76 al.—

Prov.: supra caput esse, to be over one ' s head, i. e. to be at one ' s very doors, to threaten in consequence of nearness ( = imminere, impendere), Sall. C. 52, 24; Liv. 3, 17, 2; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 6; Tac. H. 4, 69; cf. Kritz ad Sall. l. l.: capita conferre (like our phrase to put heads together, i. e to confer together in secret), Liv. 2, 45, 7:

ire praecipitem in lutum, per caputque pedesque,

over head and ears, Cat. 17, 9:

nec caput nec pedes,

neither beginning nor end, good for nothing, Cic. Fam. 7, 31, 2; cf. Cato ap. Liv. Epit. lib. 50; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 139 sq.—

Capita aut navia (al. navim), heads or tails, a play of the Roman youth in which a piece of money is thrown up, to see whether the figure-side (the head of Janus) or the reverse - side (a ship) will fall uppermost, Macr. S. 1, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 3; cf. Ov. F. 1, 239; Paul. Nol. Poëm. 38, 73.—

Poet., the head, as the seat of the understanding:

aliena negotia Per caput saliunt,

run through the head, Hor. S. 2, 6, 34; so id. ib. 2, 3, 132; id. A. P. 300.—

Ad Capita bubula, a place in Rome in the tenth region, where Augustus was born, Suet. Aug. 5.—

Transf., of inanimate things.

In gen., the head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end):

ulpici,

Cato, R. R. 71:

allii,

Col. 6, 34, 1:

porri,

id. 11, 3, 17:

papaveris,

Liv. 1, 54, 6; Verg. A. 9, 437:

bulborum,

Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 94:

caulis,

id. 19, 8, 41, § 140 al.:

jecoris (or jecinoris, jocinoris),

Cic. Div. 2, 13, 32; Liv. 8, 9, 1; cf. id. 27, 26, 14; 41, 14, 7; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.:

extorum,

Ov. M. 15, 795; Luc. 1, 627; Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189: pontis, tēte de pont, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 4; cf. Front. Arat. 2, 13, 5:

tignorum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9:

columnae,

Plin. 34, 3, 7, § 13:

molis,

the highest point of the mole, Curt. 4, 2, 23:

xysti,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 20:

porticus,

id. ib. 5, 6, 19 al.—

Esp., of rivers,

The origin, source, spring ( head):

caput aquae illud est, unde aqua nascitur,

Dig. 43, 20, 1, § 8; so Lucr. 5, 270; 6, 636; 6, 729; Tib. 1, 7, 24; Hor. C. 1, 1, 22; id. S. 1, 10, 37; Verg. G. 4, 319; 4, 368; Ov. M. 2, 255; Hirt. B. G. 8, 41; Liv. 1, 51, 9; 2, 38, 1; 37, 18, 6:

fontium,

Vitr. 8, 1; Mel. 3, 2, 8; Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 5; 10, 91, 1 al.—

(more rare) The mouth, embouchure, Caes. B. G. 4, 10; Liv. 33, 41, 7; Luc. 2, 52; 3, 202.—

Also of plants, sometimes the root, Cato, R. R. 36; 43; 51:

vitis,

id. ib. 33, 1; 95, 2; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 195; Verg. G. 2, 355.—

Also, in reference to the vine, vine branches, Col. 3, 10, 1; Cic. Sen. 15, 53.— Poet., also the summit, top of trees, Enn. ap. Gell. 13, 20, and ap. Non. 195, 24; Ov. M. 1, 567; Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 90; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 370. —

Of mountains, rocks, Verg. A. 4, 249; 6, 360.—

Of a boil that swells out, Cels. 8, 9;

hence, facere,

to come to a head, Plin. 22, 25, 76, § 159; 26, 12, 77, § 125; cf.: capita deorum appellabantur fasciculi facti ex verbenis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64 Müll.—

Per meton. (pars pro toto), a man, person, or animal (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf. kara, kephalê,, in the same signif.;

v. Liddell and Scott and Robinson): pro capite tuo quantum dedit,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 54; id. Pers. 1, 1, 37:

hoc conruptum'st caput,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 85:

siquidem hoc vivet caput, i. e. ego,

id. Ps. 2, 4, 33; so id. Stich. 5, 5, 10; cf. id. Capt. 5, 1, 25:

ridiculum caput!

Ter. And. 2, 2, 34:

festivum,

id. Ad. 2, 3, 8:

lepidum,

id. ib. 5, 9, 9:

carum,

Verg. A. 4, 354; Hor. C. 1, 24, 2:

liberum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 79:

vilia,

Liv. 25, 6, 9:

viliora,

id. 9, 26, 22:

vilissima,

id. 24, 5, 13:

ignota,

id. 3, 7, 7; cf. id. 2, 5, 6:

liberorum servorumque,

id. 29, 29, 3 al. —In imprecations:

istic capiti dicito,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 47; cf.:

vae capiti tuo,

id. Most. 4, 3, 10; so id. Poen. 3, 3, 32; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 6; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 2, 12; Verg. A. 8, 484; 11, 399 al.—With numerals:

capitum Helvetiorum milia CCLXIII.,

souls, Caes. B. G. 1, 29; 4, 15:

quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum Milia,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; id. Ep. 2, 2, 189; cf. id. C. 1, 28, 20 al.; so, in capita, in distribution, to or for each person (cf. in Heb. also, for each head, poll, = for each individual, v. Robinson in h. v.), Liv. 2, 33, 11; 32, 17, 2; 34, 50, 6 al. (cf.:

in singulos,

id. 42, 4, 5).—Of. the poll-tax:

exactio capitum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5; so,

capite censi, v. censeo.—Of animals,

Verg. A. 3, 391; Col. 6, 5, 4 fin.; 8, 5, 4; 8, 5, 7; 8, 11, 13; Veg. Vet. 1, 18.—

Trop.

Life, and specif.,

Physical life:

carum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 33 sq.; 5, 1, 26:

si capitis res siet,

if it is a matter of life and death, id. Trin. 4, 2, 120: capitis periculum adire, to risk one ' s life, Ter. And. 4, 1, 53; id. Hec. 3, 1, 54; cf. id. Phorm. 3, 2, 6 Runnk.:

capitis poena,

capital punishment, Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

pactum pro capite pretium,

Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107:

cum altero certamen honoris et dignitatis est, cum altero capitis et famae,

id. ib. 1, 12, 38:

cum dimicatione capitis,

id. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.:

suo capite decernere,

id. Att. 10, 9, 2; so Liv. 2, 12, 10; Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64; Liv. 9, 5, 5:

caput offerre pro patriā,

Cic. Sull. 30, 84:

patrium tibi crede caput, i. e. patris vitam et salutem,

Ov. M. 8, 94; so,

capitis accusare,

to accuse of a capital crime, Nep. Paus. 2 fin.:

absolvere,

id. Milt. 7, 6:

damnare,

id. Alcib. 4, 5; id. Eum. 5, 1:

tergo ac capite puniri,

Liv. 3, 55, 14:

caput Jovi sacrum,

id. 3, 55, 7:

sacratum,

id. 10, 38, 3 al.; cf. Ov. M. 9, 296.—

Civil or political life, acc. to the Roman idea, including the rights of liberty, citizenship, [p. 290] and family (libertatis, civitatis, familiae): its loss or deprivation was called deminutio or minutio capitis, acc. to the foll. jurid. distinction: capitis deminutionis tria genera sunt: maxima, media, minima; tria enim sunt, quae habemus: libertatem, civitatem, familiam. Igitur cum omnia haec amittimus (as by servitude or condemnation to death), maximam esse capitis deminutionem; cum vero amittimus civitatem (as in the interdictio aquae et ignis) libertatem retinemus, mediam esse capitis deminutionem;

cum et libertas et civitas retinetur, familia tantum mutatur (as by adoption, or, in the case of women, by marriage) minimam esse capitis deminutionem constat,

Dig. 4, 5, 11; cf. Just. Inst. 1, 16, 4; Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 181; 1, 54, 231; id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; Liv. 3, 55, 14; 22, 60, 15:

capitis minor,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 42:

servus manumissus capite non minuitur, quia nulnum caput habuit,

Dig. 4, 5, 3, § 1.—Of the deminutio media, Cic. Brut. 36, 136; id. Verr. 2, 2, 40, §§ 98 and 99; id. Quint. 2, 8 al.—Of the deminutio minima, Cic. Top. 4, 18; cf. Gai Inst. 1, 162.—

The first or chief person or thing, the head, leader, chief, guide (very freq.).

With gen.:

scelerum,

an arrant knave, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 19; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 31; id. Mil. 2, 6, 14; id. Ps. 1, 5, 31; 4, 5, 3; id. Rud. 4, 4, 54:

perjuri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 55:

concitandorum Graecorum,

Cic. Fl. 18, 42:

consilil,

Liv. 8, 31, 7:

conjurationis,

id. 9, 26, 7:

caput rei Romanae Camillus,

id. 6, 3, 1; cf.:

caput rerum Masinissam fuisse,

id. 28, 35, 12; so id. 26, 40, 13:

reipublicae,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

nominis Latini,

heads, chiefs, Liv. 1, 52, 4:

belli,

id. 45, 7, 3:

Suevorum,

chieftribe, Tac. G. 39 fin. al.—The predicate in gen. masc.:

capita conjurationis ejus virgis caesi ac securi percussi,

Liv. 10, 1, 3.—

With esse and dat.:

ego caput fui argento reperiundo,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 138; cf.:

illic est huic rei caput,

author, contriver, Ter. And. 2, 6, 27; so id. Ad. 4, 2, 29 al.—

Absol.:

urgerent philosophorum greges, jam ab illo fonte et capite Socrate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42:

corpori valido caput deerat,

guide, leader, Liv. 5, 46, 5:

esse aliquod caput (i. e. regem) placebat,

id. 1, 17, 4; cf. id. 1, 23, 4; Hor. S. 2, 5, 74 al.—Of things, head, chief, capital, etc.;

thus of cities: Thebas caput fuisse totius Graeciae,

head, first city, Nep. Epam. 10 fin.; so with gen., Liv. 9, 37, 12; 10, 37, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 23, 11, 11; 37, 18, 3 (with arx); cf.:

pro capite atque arce Italiae, urbe Romanā,

Liv. 22, 32, 5; and with dat.:

Romam caput Latio esse,

id. 8, 4, 5; and:

brevi caput Italiae omni Capuam fore,

id. 23, 10, 2 Drak. N. cr. —Of other localities:

castellum quod caput ejus regionis erat,

the head, principal place, Liv. 21, 33, 11.—Of other things:

jus nigrum, quod cenae caput erat,

the principal dish, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 98; cf. id. Fin. 2, 8, 25:

patrimonii publici,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 21; cf. id. ib. 2, 29, 80; Liv. 6, 14, 10: caput esse artis, decere, the main or principal point, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 132:

caput esse ad beate vivendum securitatem,

id. Lael. 13, 45: ad consilium de re publicā dandum caput est nosse rem publicam;

ad dicendum vero probabiliter, nosse mores civitatis,

id. de Or. 2, 82, 337; 1, 19, 87:

litterarum,

summary, purport, substance, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

caput Epicuri,

the fundamental principle, dogma, id. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf. Quint. 3, 11, 27: rerum, the chief or central point, head, Cic. Brut. 44, 164.—So in writings, a division, section, paragraph, chapter, etc.:

a primo capite legis usque ad extremum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 26; id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 118 Ascon.; id. Fam. 3, 8, 4; Gell. 2, 15, 4 al.; Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 223; id. Fam. 7, 22 med.; Quint. 10, 7, 32:

id quod caput est,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 4; so id. Fam. 3, 7, 4.—Of money, the principal sum, the capital, stock (syn. sors;

opp. usurae),

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 11; 2, 3, 35, § 80 sq.; id. Att. 15, 26, 4; Liv. 6, 15, 10; 6, 35, 4; Hor. S. 1, 2, 14 al.

căpŭt ( kăp-căpud), ĭtis ( abl. sing. regularly capite:

capiti,

Cat. 68, 124; cf. Tib. 1, 1, 72 Huschk., where the MSS., as well as Caes. German. Arat. 213, vary between the two forms), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. kap-āla; Gr. keph-alê; Goth. haubith; Germ. Haupt].

The head, of men and animals:

oscitat in campis caput a cervice revolsum,

Enn. Ann. 462 Vahl.: i lictor, conliga manus, caput obnubito, form. ap. Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. Liv. 1, 26, 6:

tun' capite cano amas, homo nequissume?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 34; so,

cano capite,

id. As. 5, 2, 84; id. Cas. 3, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 1, 72; Pers. 1, 83 al.; cf. Tib. 1, 10, 43, and:

capitis nives,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 12, and Quint. 8, 6, 17 Spald.:

raso capite calvus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 306:

irraso,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 16:

intonsum,

Quint. 12, 10, 47:

amputare alicui,

Suet. Galb. 20; Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 9:

capite operto,

Cic. Sen. 10, 34, 34:

obvoluto,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77 Klotz:

caput aperire,

id. ib.:

abscindere cervicibus,

id. ib. 11, 2, 5:

demittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 32; Cat. 87, 8; Verg. A. 9, 437: attollere. Ov. M. 5, 503:

extollere,

to become bold, Cic. Planc. 13, 33: efferre, to raise one ' s head, to be eminent, Verg. E. 1, 25 al.—Of animals, Tib. 2, 1, 8; Hor. S. 1, 2, 89; 2, 3, 200; id. Ep. 1, 1, 76 al.—

Prov.: supra caput esse, to be over one ' s head, i. e. to be at one ' s very doors, to threaten in consequence of nearness ( = imminere, impendere), Sall. C. 52, 24; Liv. 3, 17, 2; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 6; Tac. H. 4, 69; cf. Kritz ad Sall. l. l.: capita conferre (like our phrase to put heads together, i. e to confer together in secret), Liv. 2, 45, 7:

ire praecipitem in lutum, per caputque pedesque,

over head and ears, Cat. 17, 9:

nec caput nec pedes,

neither beginning nor end, good for nothing, Cic. Fam. 7, 31, 2; cf. Cato ap. Liv. Epit. lib. 50; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 139 sq.—

Capita aut navia (al. navim), heads or tails, a play of the Roman youth in which a piece of money is thrown up, to see whether the figure-side (the head of Janus) or the reverse - side (a ship) will fall uppermost, Macr. S. 1, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 3; cf. Ov. F. 1, 239; Paul. Nol. Poëm. 38, 73.—

Poet., the head, as the seat of the understanding:

aliena negotia Per caput saliunt,

run through the head, Hor. S. 2, 6, 34; so id. ib. 2, 3, 132; id. A. P. 300.—

Ad Capita bubula, a place in Rome in the tenth region, where Augustus was born, Suet. Aug. 5.—

Transf., of inanimate things.

In gen., the head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end):

ulpici,

Cato, R. R. 71:

allii,

Col. 6, 34, 1:

porri,

id. 11, 3, 17:

papaveris,

Liv. 1, 54, 6; Verg. A. 9, 437:

bulborum,

Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 94:

caulis,

id. 19, 8, 41, § 140 al.:

jecoris (or jecinoris, jocinoris),

Cic. Div. 2, 13, 32; Liv. 8, 9, 1; cf. id. 27, 26, 14; 41, 14, 7; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.:

extorum,

Ov. M. 15, 795; Luc. 1, 627; Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189: pontis, tēte de pont, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 4; cf. Front. Arat. 2, 13, 5:

tignorum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9:

columnae,

Plin. 34, 3, 7, § 13:

molis,

the highest point of the mole, Curt. 4, 2, 23:

xysti,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 20:

porticus,

id. ib. 5, 6, 19 al.—

Esp., of rivers,

The origin, source, spring ( head):

caput aquae illud est, unde aqua nascitur,

Dig. 43, 20, 1, § 8; so Lucr. 5, 270; 6, 636; 6, 729; Tib. 1, 7, 24; Hor. C. 1, 1, 22; id. S. 1, 10, 37; Verg. G. 4, 319; 4, 368; Ov. M. 2, 255; Hirt. B. G. 8, 41; Liv. 1, 51, 9; 2, 38, 1; 37, 18, 6:

fontium,

Vitr. 8, 1; Mel. 3, 2, 8; Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 5; 10, 91, 1 al.—

(more rare) The mouth, embouchure, Caes. B. G. 4, 10; Liv. 33, 41, 7; Luc. 2, 52; 3, 202.—

Also of plants, sometimes the root, Cato, R. R. 36; 43; 51:

vitis,

id. ib. 33, 1; 95, 2; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 195; Verg. G. 2, 355.—

Also, in reference to the vine, vine branches, Col. 3, 10, 1; Cic. Sen. 15, 53.— Poet., also the summit, top of trees, Enn. ap. Gell. 13, 20, and ap. Non. 195, 24; Ov. M. 1, 567; Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 90; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 370. —

Of mountains, rocks, Verg. A. 4, 249; 6, 360.—

Of a boil that swells out, Cels. 8, 9;

hence, facere,

to come to a head, Plin. 22, 25, 76, § 159; 26, 12, 77, § 125; cf.: capita deorum appellabantur fasciculi facti ex verbenis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64 Müll.—

Per meton. (pars pro toto), a man, person, or animal (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf. kara, kephalê,, in the same signif.;

v. Liddell and Scott and Robinson): pro capite tuo quantum dedit,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 54; id. Pers. 1, 1, 37:

hoc conruptum'st caput,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 85:

siquidem hoc vivet caput, i. e. ego,

id. Ps. 2, 4, 33; so id. Stich. 5, 5, 10; cf. id. Capt. 5, 1, 25:

ridiculum caput!

Ter. And. 2, 2, 34:

festivum,

id. Ad. 2, 3, 8:

lepidum,

id. ib. 5, 9, 9:

carum,

Verg. A. 4, 354; Hor. C. 1, 24, 2:

liberum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 79:

vilia,

Liv. 25, 6, 9:

viliora,

id. 9, 26, 22:

vilissima,

id. 24, 5, 13:

ignota,

id. 3, 7, 7; cf. id. 2, 5, 6:

liberorum servorumque,

id. 29, 29, 3 al. —In imprecations:

istic capiti dicito,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 47; cf.:

vae capiti tuo,

id. Most. 4, 3, 10; so id. Poen. 3, 3, 32; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 6; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 2, 12; Verg. A. 8, 484; 11, 399 al.—With numerals:

capitum Helvetiorum milia CCLXIII.,

souls, Caes. B. G. 1, 29; 4, 15:

quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum Milia,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; id. Ep. 2, 2, 189; cf. id. C. 1, 28, 20 al.; so, in capita, in distribution, to or for each person (cf. in Heb. also, for each head, poll, = for each individual, v. Robinson in h. v.), Liv. 2, 33, 11; 32, 17, 2; 34, 50, 6 al. (cf.:

in singulos,

id. 42, 4, 5).—Of. the poll-tax:

exactio capitum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5; so,

capite censi, v. censeo.—Of animals,

Verg. A. 3, 391; Col. 6, 5, 4 fin.; 8, 5, 4; 8, 5, 7; 8, 11, 13; Veg. Vet. 1, 18.—

Trop.

Life, and specif.,

Physical life:

carum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 33 sq.; 5, 1, 26:

si capitis res siet,

if it is a matter of life and death, id. Trin. 4, 2, 120: capitis periculum adire, to risk one ' s life, Ter. And. 4, 1, 53; id. Hec. 3, 1, 54; cf. id. Phorm. 3, 2, 6 Runnk.:

capitis poena,

capital punishment, Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

pactum pro capite pretium,

Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107:

cum altero certamen honoris et dignitatis est, cum altero capitis et famae,

id. ib. 1, 12, 38:

cum dimicatione capitis,

id. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.:

suo capite decernere,

id. Att. 10, 9, 2; so Liv. 2, 12, 10; Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64; Liv. 9, 5, 5:

caput offerre pro patriā,

Cic. Sull. 30, 84:

patrium tibi crede caput, i. e. patris vitam et salutem,

Ov. M. 8, 94; so,

capitis accusare,

to accuse of a capital crime, Nep. Paus. 2 fin.:

absolvere,

id. Milt. 7, 6:

damnare,

id. Alcib. 4, 5; id. Eum. 5, 1:

tergo ac capite puniri,

Liv. 3, 55, 14:

caput Jovi sacrum,

id. 3, 55, 7:

sacratum,

id. 10, 38, 3 al.; cf. Ov. M. 9, 296.—

Civil or political life, acc. to the Roman idea, including the rights of liberty, citizenship, [p. 290] and family (libertatis, civitatis, familiae): its loss or deprivation was called deminutio or minutio capitis, acc. to the foll. jurid. distinction: capitis deminutionis tria genera sunt: maxima, media, minima; tria enim sunt, quae habemus: libertatem, civitatem, familiam. Igitur cum omnia haec amittimus (as by servitude or condemnation to death), maximam esse capitis deminutionem; cum vero amittimus civitatem (as in the interdictio aquae et ignis) libertatem retinemus, mediam esse capitis deminutionem;

cum et libertas et civitas retinetur, familia tantum mutatur (as by adoption, or, in the case of women, by marriage) minimam esse capitis deminutionem constat,

Dig. 4, 5, 11; cf. Just. Inst. 1, 16, 4; Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 181; 1, 54, 231; id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; Liv. 3, 55, 14; 22, 60, 15:

capitis minor,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 42:

servus manumissus capite non minuitur, quia nulnum caput habuit,

Dig. 4, 5, 3, § 1.—Of the deminutio media, Cic. Brut. 36, 136; id. Verr. 2, 2, 40, §§ 98 and 99; id. Quint. 2, 8 al.—Of the deminutio minima, Cic. Top. 4, 18; cf. Gai Inst. 1, 162.—

The first or chief person or thing, the head, leader, chief, guide (very freq.).

With gen.:

scelerum,

an arrant knave, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 19; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 31; id. Mil. 2, 6, 14; id. Ps. 1, 5, 31; 4, 5, 3; id. Rud. 4, 4, 54:

perjuri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 55:

concitandorum Graecorum,

Cic. Fl. 18, 42:

consilil,

Liv. 8, 31, 7:

conjurationis,

id. 9, 26, 7:

caput rei Romanae Camillus,

id. 6, 3, 1; cf.:

caput rerum Masinissam fuisse,

id. 28, 35, 12; so id. 26, 40, 13:

reipublicae,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

nominis Latini,

heads, chiefs, Liv. 1, 52, 4:

belli,

id. 45, 7, 3:

Suevorum,

chieftribe, Tac. G. 39 fin. al.—The predicate in gen. masc.:

capita conjurationis ejus virgis caesi ac securi percussi,

Liv. 10, 1, 3.—

With esse and dat.:

ego caput fui argento reperiundo,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 138; cf.:

illic est huic rei caput,

author, contriver, Ter. And. 2, 6, 27; so id. Ad. 4, 2, 29 al.—

Absol.:

urgerent philosophorum greges, jam ab illo fonte et capite Socrate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42:

corpori valido caput deerat,

guide, leader, Liv. 5, 46, 5:

esse aliquod caput (i. e. regem) placebat,

id. 1, 17, 4; cf. id. 1, 23, 4; Hor. S. 2, 5, 74 al.—Of things, head, chief, capital, etc.;

thus of cities: Thebas caput fuisse totius Graeciae,

head, first city, Nep. Epam. 10 fin.; so with gen., Liv. 9, 37, 12; 10, 37, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 23, 11, 11; 37, 18, 3 (with arx); cf.:

pro capite atque arce Italiae, urbe Romanā,

Liv. 22, 32, 5; and with dat.:

Romam caput Latio esse,

id. 8, 4, 5; and:

brevi caput Italiae omni Capuam fore,

id. 23, 10, 2 Drak. N. cr. —Of other localities:

castellum quod caput ejus regionis erat,

the head, principal place, Liv. 21, 33, 11.—Of other things:

jus nigrum, quod cenae caput erat,

the principal dish, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 98; cf. id. Fin. 2, 8, 25:

patrimonii publici,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 21; cf. id. ib. 2, 29, 80; Liv. 6, 14, 10: caput esse artis, decere, the main or principal point, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 132:

caput esse ad beate vivendum securitatem,

id. Lael. 13, 45: ad consilium de re publicā dandum caput est nosse rem publicam;

ad dicendum vero probabiliter, nosse mores civitatis,

id. de Or. 2, 82, 337; 1, 19, 87:

litterarum,

summary, purport, substance, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

caput Epicuri,

the fundamental principle, dogma, id. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf. Quint. 3, 11, 27: rerum, the chief or central point, head, Cic. Brut. 44, 164.—So in writings, a division, section, paragraph, chapter, etc.:

a primo capite legis usque ad extremum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 26; id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 118 Ascon.; id. Fam. 3, 8, 4; Gell. 2, 15, 4 al.; Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 223; id. Fam. 7, 22 med.; Quint. 10, 7, 32:

id quod caput est,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 4; so id. Fam. 3, 7, 4.—Of money, the principal sum, the capital, stock (syn. sors;

opp. usurae),

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 11; 2, 3, 35, § 80 sq.; id. Att. 15, 26, 4; Liv. 6, 15, 10; 6, 35, 4; Hor. S. 1, 2, 14 al.

căpŭt ( kăp-căpud), ĭtis ( abl. sing. regularly capite:

capiti,

Cat. 68, 124; cf. Tib. 1, 1, 72 Huschk., where the MSS., as well as Caes. German. Arat. 213, vary between the two forms), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. kap-āla; Gr. keph-alê; Goth. haubith; Germ. Haupt].

The head, of men and animals:

oscitat in campis caput a cervice revolsum,

Enn. Ann. 462 Vahl.: i lictor, conliga manus, caput obnubito, form. ap. Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; cf. Liv. 1, 26, 6:

tun' capite cano amas, homo nequissume?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 34; so,

cano capite,

id. As. 5, 2, 84; id. Cas. 3, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 1, 72; Pers. 1, 83 al.; cf. Tib. 1, 10, 43, and:

capitis nives,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 12, and Quint. 8, 6, 17 Spald.:

raso capite calvus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 306:

irraso,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 16:

intonsum,

Quint. 12, 10, 47:

amputare alicui,

Suet. Galb. 20; Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 9:

capite operto,

Cic. Sen. 10, 34, 34:

obvoluto,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77 Klotz:

caput aperire,

id. ib.:

abscindere cervicibus,

id. ib. 11, 2, 5:

demittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 32; Cat. 87, 8; Verg. A. 9, 437: attollere. Ov. M. 5, 503:

extollere,

to become bold, Cic. Planc. 13, 33: efferre, to raise one ' s head, to be eminent, Verg. E. 1, 25 al.—Of animals, Tib. 2, 1, 8; Hor. S. 1, 2, 89; 2, 3, 200; id. Ep. 1, 1, 76 al.—

Prov.: supra caput esse, to be over one ' s head, i. e. to be at one ' s very doors, to threaten in consequence of nearness ( = imminere, impendere), Sall. C. 52, 24; Liv. 3, 17, 2; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 6; Tac. H. 4, 69; cf. Kritz ad Sall. l. l.: capita conferre (like our phrase to put heads together, i. e to confer together in secret), Liv. 2, 45, 7:

ire praecipitem in lutum, per caputque pedesque,

over head and ears, Cat. 17, 9:

nec caput nec pedes,

neither beginning nor end, good for nothing, Cic. Fam. 7, 31, 2; cf. Cato ap. Liv. Epit. lib. 50; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 139 sq.—

Capita aut navia (al. navim), heads or tails, a play of the Roman youth in which a piece of money is thrown up, to see whether the figure-side (the head of Janus) or the reverse - side (a ship) will fall uppermost, Macr. S. 1, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 3; cf. Ov. F. 1, 239; Paul. Nol. Poëm. 38, 73.—

Poet., the head, as the seat of the understanding:

aliena negotia Per caput saliunt,

run through the head, Hor. S. 2, 6, 34; so id. ib. 2, 3, 132; id. A. P. 300.—

Ad Capita bubula, a place in Rome in the tenth region, where Augustus was born, Suet. Aug. 5.—

Transf., of inanimate things.

In gen., the head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end):

ulpici,

Cato, R. R. 71:

allii,

Col. 6, 34, 1:

porri,

id. 11, 3, 17:

papaveris,

Liv. 1, 54, 6; Verg. A. 9, 437:

bulborum,

Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 94:

caulis,

id. 19, 8, 41, § 140 al.:

jecoris (or jecinoris, jocinoris),

Cic. Div. 2, 13, 32; Liv. 8, 9, 1; cf. id. 27, 26, 14; 41, 14, 7; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.:

extorum,

Ov. M. 15, 795; Luc. 1, 627; Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189: pontis, tēte de pont, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 4; cf. Front. Arat. 2, 13, 5:

tignorum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9:

columnae,

Plin. 34, 3, 7, § 13:

molis,

the highest point of the mole, Curt. 4, 2, 23:

xysti,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 20:

porticus,

id. ib. 5, 6, 19 al.—

Esp., of rivers,

The origin, source, spring ( head):

caput aquae illud est, unde aqua nascitur,

Dig. 43, 20, 1, § 8; so Lucr. 5, 270; 6, 636; 6, 729; Tib. 1, 7, 24; Hor. C. 1, 1, 22; id. S. 1, 10, 37; Verg. G. 4, 319; 4, 368; Ov. M. 2, 255; Hirt. B. G. 8, 41; Liv. 1, 51, 9; 2, 38, 1; 37, 18, 6:

fontium,

Vitr. 8, 1; Mel. 3, 2, 8; Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 5; 10, 91, 1 al.—

(more rare) The mouth, embouchure, Caes. B. G. 4, 10; Liv. 33, 41, 7; Luc. 2, 52; 3, 202.—

Also of plants, sometimes the root, Cato, R. R. 36; 43; 51:

vitis,

id. ib. 33, 1; 95, 2; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 195; Verg. G. 2, 355.—

Also, in reference to the vine, vine branches, Col. 3, 10, 1; Cic. Sen. 15, 53.— Poet., also the summit, top of trees, Enn. ap. Gell. 13, 20, and ap. Non. 195, 24; Ov. M. 1, 567; Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 90; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 370. —

Of mountains, rocks, Verg. A. 4, 249; 6, 360.—

Of a boil that swells out, Cels. 8, 9;

hence, facere,

to come to a head, Plin. 22, 25, 76, § 159; 26, 12, 77, § 125; cf.: capita deorum appellabantur fasciculi facti ex verbenis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64 Müll.—

Per meton. (pars pro toto), a man, person, or animal (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf. kara, kephalê,, in the same signif.;

v. Liddell and Scott and Robinson): pro capite tuo quantum dedit,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 54; id. Pers. 1, 1, 37:

hoc conruptum'st caput,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 85:

siquidem hoc vivet caput, i. e. ego,

id. Ps. 2, 4, 33; so id. Stich. 5, 5, 10; cf. id. Capt. 5, 1, 25:

ridiculum caput!

Ter. And. 2, 2, 34:

festivum,

id. Ad. 2, 3, 8:

lepidum,

id. ib. 5, 9, 9:

carum,

Verg. A. 4, 354; Hor. C. 1, 24, 2:

liberum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 79:

vilia,

Liv. 25, 6, 9:

viliora,

id. 9, 26, 22:

vilissima,

id. 24, 5, 13:

ignota,

id. 3, 7, 7; cf. id. 2, 5, 6:

liberorum servorumque,

id. 29, 29, 3 al. —In imprecations:

istic capiti dicito,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 47; cf.:

vae capiti tuo,

id. Most. 4, 3, 10; so id. Poen. 3, 3, 32; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 6; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4; Tib. 1, 2, 12; Verg. A. 8, 484; 11, 399 al.—With numerals:

capitum Helvetiorum milia CCLXIII.,

souls, Caes. B. G. 1, 29; 4, 15:

quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum Milia,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; id. Ep. 2, 2, 189; cf. id. C. 1, 28, 20 al.; so, in capita, in distribution, to or for each person (cf. in Heb. also, for each head, poll, = for each individual, v. Robinson in h. v.), Liv. 2, 33, 11; 32, 17, 2; 34, 50, 6 al. (cf.:

in singulos,

id. 42, 4, 5).—Of. the poll-tax:

exactio capitum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5; so,

capite censi, v. censeo.—Of animals,

Verg. A. 3, 391; Col. 6, 5, 4 fin.; 8, 5, 4; 8, 5, 7; 8, 11, 13; Veg. Vet. 1, 18.—

Trop.

Life, and specif.,

Physical life:

carum,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 33 sq.; 5, 1, 26:

si capitis res siet,

if it is a matter of life and death, id. Trin. 4, 2, 120: capitis periculum adire, to risk one ' s life, Ter. And. 4, 1, 53; id. Hec. 3, 1, 54; cf. id. Phorm. 3, 2, 6 Runnk.:

capitis poena,

capital punishment, Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

pactum pro capite pretium,

Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107:

cum altero certamen honoris et dignitatis est, cum altero capitis et famae,

id. ib. 1, 12, 38:

cum dimicatione capitis,

id. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.:

suo capite decernere,

id. Att. 10, 9, 2; so Liv. 2, 12, 10; Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64; Liv. 9, 5, 5:

caput offerre pro patriā,

Cic. Sull. 30, 84:

patrium tibi crede caput, i. e. patris vitam et salutem,

Ov. M. 8, 94; so,

capitis accusare,

to accuse of a capital crime, Nep. Paus. 2 fin.:

absolvere,

id. Milt. 7, 6:

damnare,

id. Alcib. 4, 5; id. Eum. 5, 1:

tergo ac capite puniri,

Liv. 3, 55, 14:

caput Jovi sacrum,

id. 3, 55, 7:

sacratum,

id. 10, 38, 3 al.; cf. Ov. M. 9, 296.—

Civil or political life, acc. to the Roman idea, including the rights of liberty, citizenship, [p. 290] and family (libertatis, civitatis, familiae): its loss or deprivation was called deminutio or minutio capitis, acc. to the foll. jurid. distinction: capitis deminutionis tria genera sunt: maxima, media, minima; tria enim sunt, quae habemus: libertatem, civitatem, familiam. Igitur cum omnia haec amittimus (as by servitude or condemnation to death), maximam esse capitis deminutionem; cum vero amittimus civitatem (as in the interdictio aquae et ignis) libertatem retinemus, mediam esse capitis deminutionem;

cum et libertas et civitas retinetur, familia tantum mutatur (as by adoption, or, in the case of women, by marriage) minimam esse capitis deminutionem constat,

Dig. 4, 5, 11; cf. Just. Inst. 1, 16, 4; Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 181; 1, 54, 231; id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; Liv. 3, 55, 14; 22, 60, 15:

capitis minor,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 42:

servus manumissus capite non minuitur, quia nulnum caput habuit,

Dig. 4, 5, 3, § 1.—Of the deminutio media, Cic. Brut. 36, 136; id. Verr. 2, 2, 40, §§ 98 and 99; id. Quint. 2, 8 al.—Of the deminutio minima, Cic. Top. 4, 18; cf. Gai Inst. 1, 162.—

The first or chief person or thing, the head, leader, chief, guide (very freq.).

With gen.:

scelerum,

an arrant knave, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 19; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 31; id. Mil. 2, 6, 14; id. Ps. 1, 5, 31; 4, 5, 3; id. Rud. 4, 4, 54:

perjuri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 55:

concitandorum Graecorum,

Cic. Fl. 18, 42:

consilil,

Liv. 8, 31, 7:

conjurationis,

id. 9, 26, 7:

caput rei Romanae Camillus,

id. 6, 3, 1; cf.:

caput rerum Masinissam fuisse,

id. 28, 35, 12; so id. 26, 40, 13:

reipublicae,

Tac. A. 1, 13:

nominis Latini,

heads, chiefs, Liv. 1, 52, 4:

belli,

id. 45, 7, 3:

Suevorum,

chieftribe, Tac. G. 39 fin. al.—The predicate in gen. masc.:

capita conjurationis ejus virgis caesi ac securi percussi,

Liv. 10, 1, 3.—

With esse and dat.:

ego caput fui argento reperiundo,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 138; cf.:

illic est huic rei caput,

author, contriver, Ter. And. 2, 6, 27; so id. Ad. 4, 2, 29 al.—

Absol.:

urgerent philosophorum greges, jam ab illo fonte et capite Socrate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42:

corpori valido caput deerat,

guide, leader, Liv. 5, 46, 5:

esse aliquod caput (i. e. regem) placebat,

id. 1, 17, 4; cf. id. 1, 23, 4; Hor. S. 2, 5, 74 al.—Of things, head, chief, capital, etc.;

thus of cities: Thebas caput fuisse totius Graeciae,

head, first city, Nep. Epam. 10 fin.; so with gen., Liv. 9, 37, 12; 10, 37, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 23, 11, 11; 37, 18, 3 (with arx); cf.:

pro capite atque arce Italiae, urbe Romanā,

Liv. 22, 32, 5; and with dat.:

Romam caput Latio esse,

id. 8, 4, 5; and:

brevi caput Italiae omni Capuam fore,

id. 23, 10, 2 Drak. N. cr. —Of other localities:

castellum quod caput ejus regionis erat,

the head, principal place, Liv. 21, 33, 11.—Of other things:

jus nigrum, quod cenae caput erat,

the principal dish, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 98; cf. id. Fin. 2, 8, 25:

patrimonii publici,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 21; cf. id. ib. 2, 29, 80; Liv. 6, 14, 10: caput esse artis, decere, the main or principal point, Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 132:

caput esse ad beate vivendum securitatem,

id. Lael. 13, 45: ad consilium de re publicā dandum caput est nosse rem publicam;

ad dicendum vero probabiliter, nosse mores civitatis,

id. de Or. 2, 82, 337; 1, 19, 87:

litterarum,

summary, purport, substance, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

caput Epicuri,

the fundamental principle, dogma, id. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf. Quint. 3, 11, 27: rerum, the chief or central point, head, Cic. Brut. 44, 164.—So in writings, a division, section, paragraph, chapter, etc.:

a primo capite legis usque ad extremum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15; cf. id. ib. 2, 10, 26; id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 118 Ascon.; id. Fam. 3, 8, 4; Gell. 2, 15, 4 al.; Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 223; id. Fam. 7, 22 med.; Quint. 10, 7, 32:

id quod caput est,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 4; so id. Fam. 3, 7, 4.—Of money, the principal sum, the capital, stock (syn. sors;

opp. usurae),

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 11; 2, 3, 35, § 80 sq.; id. Att. 15, 26, 4; Liv. 6, 15, 10; 6, 35, 4; Hor. S. 1, 2, 14 al.

sēmis, issis (in Vitr., Front., and Pall. indecl., e.g. duo semis pedes, Pall. Febr. 9, 10:

duobus semis pedibus,

id. Jan. 10, 3; 13, 7:

diametros octo semis,

Vitr. 4, 1:

passuum milium et semis,

Front. Aquaed. 7; cf.:

habere duos et semis cubitos,

Vulg. Exod. 25, 10 al.), m. [cf. semi-; Gr. hêmi-, hêmisu], a half, half-unity, a semi-unit (v. as, I.).

In gen. (very rare for the usual dimidium):

sex domini semissem Africae possidebant,

Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 35:

patrimonii,

Dig. 36, 1, 78, § 7:

e libertorum defunctorum bonis,

Suet. Ner. 32:

cum alter semissem, alter universa fratre excluso (sibi vindicaret),

Quint. 7, 1, 62:

panem semissem ponebat supra torum,

Petr. 64, 6.—

In partic. (freq. and class.).

As a coin,

Half an as, a semi -as, Varr. L. L. 5, § 171 Müll.; cf. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44:

lex frumentaria de semissibus et trientibus,

Auct. Her. 1, 12, 21; Cic. Sest. 25, 55; Liv. Epit. 60; Ascon. ap. Cic. Pis. 4, p. 9 Orell.; hence, non semissis homo, not worth a groat, i. e. good for nothing, worthless, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 a, 1:

quid fit! Semis,

Hor. A. P. 330.—

In the times of the later emperors, as a gold coin, a half aureus (containing 59.8 grains of gold, or the present value of 10 s. 6 3/4 d. sterling), Lampr. Alex. Sev. 39.—

As a rate of interest, one half per cent. a month, or, acc. to our mode of computation, six per cent. a year (cf.:

bes, triens, etc.): semissibus magna copia (pecuniae) est,

Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2:

usura multiplicata semissibus,

Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 56:

usura semissium,

Col. 3, 3, 9 sq.;

for which also, reversely: semisses usurarum,

id. 3, 3, 9;

and in apposition: semisses usuras promisit,

Dig. 22, 1, 13; 22, 45, 134; 46, 3, 102 fin. —

As a measure of dimension.

Half a juger of land:

bina jugera et semisses agri assignati,

Liv. 6, 16 fin.; cf. Col. 5, 1, 11; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178.—

A half-foot, half a foot:

interesse sesquipedes inter bina semina in latitudinem, in longitudinem semisses,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 160:

campestris locus alte duos pedes et semissem infodiendus est,

Col. 3, 13, 8; Vitr. 4, 1; Front. Aquaed. 7; Pall. Jan. 10, 2; 10, 4; 13, 7; id. Febr. 9, 10 et saep.; Veg. 5, 40, 3; 3, 11, 4.—

Half a cubit:

cubitum ac semissem,

Vulg. Exod. 25, 17.—

Among mathematicians, the number three, Vitr. 3, 1, 6; cf. as fin.

ab-surdus, a, um, adj. [ab, mis-, and Sanscr. svan = sonare; cf. susurrus, and surinx, = a pipe; cf. also absonus], out of tune, hence giving a disagreeable sound, harsh, rough.

Lit.:

vox absona et absurda,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41; so of the croaking of frogs: absurdoque sono fontes et stagna cietis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15.—

Fig., of persons and things, irrational, incongruous, absurd, silly, senseless, stupid:

ratio inepta atque absurda,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 22:

hoc pravum, ineptum, absurdum atque alienum a vitā meā videtur,

id. ib. 5, 8, 21:

carmen cum ceteris rebus absurdum tum vero in illo,

Cic. Mur. 26:

illud quam incredibile, quam absurdum!

id. Sull. 20:

absurda res est caveri,

id. Balb. 37: bene dicere haud absurdum est, is not inglorious, per litotem for, is praiseworthy, glorious, Sall. C. 3 Kritz.—Homo absurdus, a man who is fit or good for nothing:

sin plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85:

absurdus ingenio,

Tac. H. 3, 62; cf.:

sermo comis, nec absurdum ingenium,

id. A. 13, 45.— Comp., Cic. Phil. 8, 41; id. N. D. 1, 16; id. Fin. 2, 13.— Sup., Cic. Att. 7, 13.— Adv.: absurdē.

Lit., discordantly:

canere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12.—

Fig., irrationally, absurdly, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 6; Cic. Rep. 2, 15; id. Div. 2, 58, 219 al.— Comp., Cic. Phil. 8, 1, 4.— Sup., Aug. Trin. 4 fin.

lābes, is (abl. labi for labe, Lucr. 5, 930), f. [1. lābor], a fall, falling down, sinking in.

Lit. (rare but class.):

dare labem,

Lucr. 2, 1145:

motus terrae Rhodum... gravi ruinarum labe concussit,

Just. 30, 4, 3:

tantos terrae motus in Italia factos esse, ut multis locis labes factae sint terraeque desederint,

subsidences of the earth, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78; cf.:

labes agri,

id. ib. 1, 43, 97:

terrae,

Liv. 42, 15; so absol.:

si labes facta sit, omnemque fructum tulerit,

Dig. 19, 2, 15, § 2:

labes imbris e caelo,

Arn. 5, 185.—

Transf.

A fall, stroke, ruin, destruction:

hinc mihi prima mali labes,

the first blow of misfortune, Verg. A. 2, 97:

haec prima mali labes, hoc initium impendentis ruinae fuit,

Just. 17, 1, 5: metuo legionibu' labem, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 378 P. (Ann. v. 283 Vahl.):

quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 3, 3:

innocentiae labes ac ruina,

Cic. Fl. 10, 24:

labes in tabella,

id. Lael. 12, 41:

regnorum labes,

Val. Fl. 5, 237.—

Meton., ruin, destruction; of a dangerous person, one who causes ruin:

(Verres) labes atque pernicies provinciae Siciliae,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 2: labes popli, Plant. Pers. 3, 3, 4.—Of a bad law:

labes atque eluvies civitatis,

Cic. Dom. 20, 53.—

In partic., the falling sickness, epilepsy, Ser. Samm. 57, 1018.—

Hence, in gen.,

disease, sickness, Grat. Cyneg. 468.

lābes, is, f. [Gr. lôbê, lôbeuô; cf. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 372]. a spot, blot, stain, blemish, defect.

Lit. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

tractata notam labemque remittunt Atramenta,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 235:

sine labe toga,

Ov. A. A. 1, 514:

purum et sine labe salinum,

Pers. 3, 25:

victima labe carens,

Ov. M. 15, 130:

aliqua corporis labe insignis,

Suet. Aug. 38: item quae (virgo) lingua debili sensuve aurium deminuta, aliave qua corporis labe insignita sit, Gell. 1, 12, 3.—

Trop., a stain, blot, stigma, disgrace, discredit: labes macula in vestimento dicitur, et deinde metaphorikôs transfertur in homines vituperatione dignos, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll. (freq. and class.):

animi labes nec diuturnitate evanescere, nec amnibus ullis elui potest,

Cic. Leg. 2, 10, 24:

saeculi labes atque macula,

id. Balb. 6, 15:

labem alicujus dignitati aspergere,

a stain, disgrace, id. Vatin. 6, 15:

labem alicui inferre,

id. Cael. 18, 42:

famae non sine labe meae,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 20:

domus sine labe,

Juv. 14, 69:

vita sine labe peracta,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 49:

abolere labem prioris ignominiae,

Tac. H. 3, 24:

donec longa dies... concretam eximit labem, purumque relinquit sensum,

Verg. A. 6, 746. —Of an immoral custom:

dedit hanc contagio labem,

Juv. 2, 78.— Plur.:

conscientiae labes habere,

Cic. Off. 3, 21, 85:

peccatorum labibus inquinati,

Lact. 4, 26; id. Ira Dei, 19.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), a disgrace, i. e. a good-for-nothing fellow, a wretch:

habeo quem opponam labi illi atque caeno,

Cic. Sest. 8, 20:

caenum illud ac labes,

id. ib. 11, 26.

nēquam, adj. indecl. [for ne-aequam, from aequus], worthless, good for nothing, wretched, vile, etc. (syn.: inutilis, pravus, vilis).

In gen.:

nequam esse oportet quoi, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 20; id. Trin. 4, 4, 29:

piscis nequam est nisi recens,

id. As. 1, 3, 26; id. Trin. 2, 4, 38: enthymema nequam et vitiosum, faulty, defective, Tiro ap. Gell. 6 (7), 3, 27; Paul. ex Fest. p. 165 Müll.—

In partic., of character, worthless, vile, bad; opp. frugi (cf. nebulo), Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 53:

malus et nequam es,

id. As. 2, 2, 39:

nequam homo et indiligens,

id. Most. 1, 2, 23:

liberti nequam et improbi,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 130:

nihil nequius est,

id. Pis. 27, 66:

quid est nequius aut turpius?

id. Tusc. 3, 17, 36:

nequior factus, jamst usus aedium,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 32:

homo nequissimus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192; id. Att. 1, 16, 3.—So of licentious, dissolute persons:

juvenes nequam facilesque puellae,

Mart. 3, 69, 5.— Comp.:

nequior omnibus libellis,

id. 11, 15, 4.—As subst.: nē-quam, an injury, mischief, harm:

vin' tu illi nequam dare?

an injury, a mischief, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 31:

facere,

id. ib. 3, 3, 44:

nos nequam abs te habemus,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 60.—Hence, adv.: nēquĭter, worthlessly, wretchedly, badly, miserably, etc. (class.):

nequiter fricare genua,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 88; id. Am. 1, 3, 23:

turpiter et nequiter facere,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 36:

ille porro prave, nequiter, turpiter cenabat,

id. Fin. 2, 8, 25: si quā per voluptatem nequiter feceritis, voluptas cito abibit: nequiter factum illud apud vos semper manebit, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4.— Comp.:

utrum bellum susceptum sit nequius, an inconsultius gestum, dici non potest,

Liv. 41, 7; Mart. 10, 77, 1.— Sup.:

nequissime,

Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 121.

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