gradum

in-cēdo, cessi, cessum ( sync. perf. incesti, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 11), 3, v. n. and a., to go, step, or march along at a measured pace (class.).

Lit.

In gen.

Neutr.:

tenero et molli ingressu suspendimus gradum: non ambulamus, sed incedimus,

Sen. Q. N. 7, 31:

per vias,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 71; cf.:

socios per ipsos,

Verg. A. 5, 188:

viā,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 32:

tota in urbe,

Ov. F. 6, 653:

quacumque incederet,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

quam taeter incedebat, quam truculentus,

id. Sest. 8, 19:

incessit deinde, qua duxit praedae spes, victor exercitus,

Liv. 8, 36, 9:

etiam si pedes incedat, memorabilem fore,

id. 28, 9, 15: servi pedibus, liberi non nisi equis incedunt. i. e. walk... ride, Just. 41, 3, 4; cf.:

incedunt pueri, pariterque ante ora parentum Frenatis lucent in equis,

Verg. A. 5, 553:

a foro domum,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 6:

sessum impransum,

id. Poen. prol. 10:

qui huc incedit,

id. Most. 1, 3, 152:

ad me,

id. Am. 1, 1, 179:

huc ad nos,

id. Trin. 5, 2, 27; cf.:

undique nuntii incedunt, qui afferrent, etc.,

Tac. A. 11, 32:

ut ovans praeda onustus incederem,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 146:

vix incedo inanis, ne ire posse cum onere existumes,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 174:

quem modo decoratum ovantemque victoria incedentem vidistis,

Liv. 1, 16, 10; 2, 6, 7:

claro honore,

Lucr. 3, 76:

omnibus laetitiis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 9, 2:

incedunt per ora vestra magnifici,

Sall. J. 31, 10:

ego quae divum incedo regina,

who walk majestic as, who am, Verg. A. 1, 46; cf. Prop. 2, 2, 6:

matrona incedit census induta nepotum,

id. 3, 13, 11 (4, 12):

ut mea Luxuria Nemesis fluat ut que per urbem Incedat donis conspicienda meis,

Tib. 2, 3, 52.—

With acc.:

incedunt maestos locos,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

scaenam,

id. ib. 14, 15:

fontem aquae nando,

id. ib. 14, 22.—

In partic., in milit. lang., to move forwards, advance, march:

barbari in perculsos Romanos acrius incedere,

Sall. J. 101, 7:

in erumpentes,

Liv. 9, 21:

cohortes paulatim incedere jubet,

Sall. C. 60, 1:

munito agmine,

id. J. 46, 6:

agmen reliquum incedere coepit,

Liv. 21, 33, 1:

segnius Hispanorum signa incedebant,

id. 28, 14, 18:

Sabini usque ad portas urbis populantes incessere,

id. 2, 63, 7:

propius incedentes,

Tac. A. 4, 47:

quod gnarum duci incessitque itineri et proelio paratus,

id. ib. 1, 51 (Ritter, but Halm omits paratus).—

Trop.

In gen. (rare):

malitiae lenonis contra incedam,

will encounter, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 31:

facilius ad inventionem animus incedet si, etc.,

will proceed to, Cic. Inv. 2, 14, 45 Orell. N. cr. —

In partic.

To triumph over, exult over; with dat.:

meo nunc superbus incedis malo,

Hor. Epod. 15, 18:

ille superbus incedet victis rivalibus,

Juv. 12, 126.—

Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, to come to, happen to, befall, attack, seize one; to approach, arrive, appear, occur (perh. not in Cic.); constr. with dat., acc., in and acc., or absol.

With dat. (so most freq.):

exercitui omni tantus incessit ex incommodo dolor, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 3, 74, 1:

magnus omnium incessit timor animis,

id. ib. 2, 29, 1:

mulieres, quibus belli timor insolitus incesserat, etc.,

Sall. C. 31, 3 Kritz N. cr.; id. H. 2, 60:

gravior cura patribus incessit,

Liv. 4, 57, 10:

incedebat enim deterrimo cuique licentia,

Tac. A. 3, 36:

cupido incessit animo,

Curt. 7, 11, 4; 3, 1, 16:

si sterilitas annorum incessit hominibus,

Col. 2, 10, 1; Val. Max. 1, 8, 5.—

With acc.:

ipsum ingens cupido incesserat Tarenti potiundi,

Liv. 24, 13, 5:

timor patres incessit, ne, etc.,

id. 1, 17, 4; 2, 7, 1; 2, 32, 1;

7, 39, 4 et saep.: indignatio hostes incessit,

id. 3, 60:

adversa valetudo aliquem,

Tac. A. 3, 71:

ingens animos desperatio incessit,

Curt. 4, 2, 16; 3, 8, 25:

stupor omnes et admiratio incessit,

Just. 22, 6, 11: cupido incessit aliquem (with acc. and inf.), Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 38, 6; 2, 16, 3.—

With in and acc.:

vis morbi, pestilentia incedit in castra, in Poenos Romanosque,

Liv. 29, 10, 3: pestilentia incesserat pari clade in Romanos [p. 918] Poenosque, id. 28, 46, 15.—

Absol.:

nova nunc religio unde istaec incessit?

Ter. And. 4, 3, 15:

tantus eo facto timor incessit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 101;

Auct. B. Alex. 7: postquam tenebrae incedebant,

Tac. A. 15, 37; cf.:

ubi crepusculum incesserit,

Col. 11, 1, 18:

ubi tempestas incessit,

id. 12, 2, 5:

frigora,

id. 12, 52, 12:

siccitates,

id. 5, 9, 11:

lascivia atque superbia incessere,

Sall. J. 41, 3:

ubi Romam legati venere, tanta commutatio incessit, uti, etc.,

id. ib. 13, 7:

religio deinde incessit, vitio eos creatos,

Liv. 8, 17, 4:

ubi pro modestia ac pudore ambitio et vis incedebat,

Tac. A. 3, 26:

haud invito imperatore ea fieri occultus rumor incedebat,

went abroad, spread about, id. ib. 2, 55 fin.

in-stăbĭlis, e, adj., that does not stand fast, unsteady, unstable, tottering, not firm (mostly poet.; syn. varius, mutabilis, vagus; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

sic erat instabilis tellus,

Ov. M. 1, 16:

locus ad gradum instabilis,

Tac. A. 1, 64:

(with lubricus) gradus,

Curt. 8, 11, 13:

ingressus,

Liv. 24, 34, 15:

vestigium,

Plin. Pan. 22, 4:

volutatio,

Plin. 31, 6, 33, § 63:

cymbae,

Verg. G. 4, 195:

naves,

Curt. 4, 2, 9.— Transf., unsteady, i. e. that does not keep its ground:

(with fluctuans) acies,

Liv. 9, 35, 6:

hostis,

id. 27, 18, 14.—

Trop., unstable, inconstant, changeable, fickle: insanam aiunt (Fortunam), quia atrox, incerta instabilisque sit, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36: res maritimae celerem atque instabilem mo tum habent, Caes. B. G. 4, 23:

nihil tam instabile ac fluxum est, quam fama,

Tac. A. 13, 19:

fortuna,

id. H. 4, 47:

conjugium,

Juv. 9, 79:

animus,

Verg. G. 4, 105 (but read insatiabiles, Curt. 7, 8, 19). — Adv.: instă-bĭlĭter, unsteadily, Aug. Conf. 13, 20.

invĭcem, in MSS. and edd. often separately, in vĭcem ( poet. in tmesi:

inque vicem,

Verg. G. 4, 166; id. A. 12, 502; Ov. M: 6, 631; 9, 525; id. Her. 17, 180; Stat. Th. 2, 149; 7, 817 al.), adv. [in-vicis].

Prop., by turns, in turn, one after another, alternately (class., but not in Cic.;

syn. vicissim): hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt: illi domi remanent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 5; 7, 85, 5; Hirt. B. G. 8, 6, 4:

defatigatis invicem integri succedunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 85:

cum timor atque ira invicem sententias variassent,

Liv. 2, 57:

Etruscos, multis invicem casibus victos victoresque,

id. 2, 44:

regio invicem a suis atque hoste vexata,

Curt. 3, 8, 8:

periculum invicem metuens,

Suet. Aug. 10:

invicem eum odero,

id. Tib. 28:

praebens invicem aurem,

id. Calig. 22:

invicem alternis diebus modo aqua, modo vinum,

Cels. 3, 2:

invicem modo sedere, modo ingredi,

id. 4, 24.—

Transf., one another, each other, mutually, reciprocally (mostly post-Aug.;

syn. inter se): ibi se cognoscunt fratres invicem,

Plaut. Men. Arg. 10:

Aricini atque Ardeates multis invicem cladibus fessi,

Liv. 3, 71, 2:

adhortatio invicem totam invasit aciem,

id. 6, 24, 7; 9, 3, 4; 41, 3, 3:

multum sanguinem invicem hausimus,

Curt. 4, 14, 17: invicem [p. 995] amare, Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 2; 7, 20, 7:

vixerunt mira concordia, per mutuam caritatem et invicem se anteponendo,

Tac. Agr. 6 init.:

invicem se occidere,

Eutr. 1, 10; Just. 11, 9, 13; cf.:

invicem inter se gratantes,

Liv. 9, 43, 17:

haec invicem obstant,

Quint. 4, 5, 13:

homines, manibus invicem apprehensis, gradum firmant,

id. 9, 4, 129:

invicem ardentius diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 20, 7:

invicem se ad amorem exacuere,

id. ib. 3, 7 fin.:

invicem permutatae O atque U,

Quint. 1, 4, 16:

cuncta invicem hostilia,

i. e. on both sides, Tac. H. 3, 46.—

Esp.

Ad invicem (post-class.), instead of, Veg. Vet. 2, 7 fin. —

Ad invicem, mutually:

caritatem illorum ad invicem,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 25, 32; ib. Luc. 2, 15; ib. Gen. 42, 21; so,

in invicem,

ib. Joan. 6, 43; ib. Rom. 1, 27:

ab invicem,

ib. Matt. 25, 32; ib. Dan. 13, 14:

pro invicem,

ib. 1 Cor. 12, 25.

jăcĭo, jēci, jactum, 3, v. a. [cf. diôkô, to pursue; Germ. jagen], to make go, cause to go, send; hence, to throw, cast, fling, hurl.

Lit.: genu ad aliquem, to hit or push one with the knee, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17:

lapides,

Cic. Mil. 15:

fulmen in medium mare,

id. Div. 2, 19:

in quem scyphum de manu jacere conatus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 10:

aridam materiam de muro in aggerem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 24:

se in profundum,

Cic. Sest. 20:

saxeam pilam ponto,

Verg. A. 9, 712:

ensem fluctibus mediis,

id. ib. 10, 683:

balearica plumbum Funda jacit, Ov M. 2, 728: libellos in faciem ejus,

Suet. Claud. 15 fin. —Freq. of dice-throwing:

talos,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 35; 5, 2, 54; Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54:

Venerem,

id. Div. 2, 59, 121; Suet. Aug. 71.—

Transf.

To lay, set, establish, build, found, construct, erect:

urbi fundamenta,

Liv. 1, 12:

vallum,

id. 30, 10:

aggere jacto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

molem,

id. B. C. 1, 25:

muros,

Verg. A. 5, 631; 9, 712:

moles,

Cic. Att. 9, 14, 1:

novae domus fundamenta,

Suet. Calig. 22; Ov. F. 4, 835:

molem in mare,

Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 8.—

To send forth, emit; to bring forth, produce:

de corpore odorem,

Lucr. 2, 846:

igniculos,

Cic. Att. 15, 26, 2:

jacturas poma myricas,

that will bear, Ov. A. A. 1, 747.—

To throw away:

scuta jacere, fugereque hostes, more habent licentiam,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 27:

vestem procul,

Ov. M. 4, 357:

is sua jecit humi arma,

id. ib. 3, 127:

pavidas pharetras,

Val. Fl. 5, 427.—Esp., to throw overboard, Dig. 41, 2, 21, § 2; 14, 2, 2, § 7; to cast, shed:

cornua,

Ov. A. A. 3, 78.—

To throw, scatter, sow:

volucres semina jacta legunt,

Ov. M. 5, 485; id. H. 12, 17:

jacto semine,

Verg. G. 1, 104:

seminibus jactis,

id. ib. 2, 57; 6, 11; id. F. 1, 662:

flores,

id. A. 5, 79:

lapides,

id. E. 6, 41.—

To project as a shadow:

nullam umbram,

Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 183 sq. —

Trop.

To throw, cast:

contumeliam in aliquem,

Cic. Sull. 7, 23:

injuriam in aliquem,

id. Par. 4, 1:

adulteria,

to lay to one's charge, id. Planc. 12, 30:

ridiculum,

id. Or. 26, 87:

id, quod proponendum fuit, permotis animis jacit ad extremum,

id. Part. 13, 46:

jecit quidam casus caput meum, in mediam contentionem,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 13:

probra in feminas illustres,

Tac. A. 11, 13.—

To lay, set, establish:

causae fundamenta,

Cic. Fl. 2, 4:

fundamenta pacis,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 1:

gradum atque aditum ad rem,

id. Agr. 2, 15:

odia in longum jacere,

to strew, sow, Tac. A. 1, 69:

fundamenta reipublicae,

Suet. Aug. 28.—

To throw out in speaking, to let fall, intimate, utter, mention, declare:

assiduas querelas, Cic. poët. Div 1, 8, 14: illud, quod jacis obscure,

id. Att. 2, 7, 4:

suspicionem,

id. Fl. 3, 6:

de lacu Albano,

Liv. 5, 15:

vera an vana,

id. 6, 14:

multo plura praesens audivit, quam in absentem jacta erant,

id. 43, 8:

Jugurtha inter alias jacit oportere, etc.,

Sall. J. 11:

quaedam de habitu cultuque et institutis ejus,

Tac. A 1, 11:

fortuitos sermones,

id. ib. 4, 68:

ali quid per vaniloquentiam ac minas, id. ib 6, 31: multasque nec dubias significationes saepe jecit,

Suet. Ner. 37:

crimina non haec sunt nostro sine jacta dolore,

Tib. 4, 14, 3.

lūbrĭcus, a, um, adj. [Gr. litos, lissos, smooth; from root glit; cf. glischros, glittus, and olibros, slippery], slippery.

Lit.:

loculi,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 38:

testudini injecta imbris in modum lubrico fastigio innoxia ad imum labebantur,

Liv. 44, 9, 9:

assiduo lubricus imbre lapis,

Mart. 4, 18, 2.— Subst.: lūbrĭcum, i, n., a slippery place, Cels. 8, 3:

in lubrico atque instabili fundamenta,

Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 95.—With gen.: equi lubrico paludum lapsantes, on the slippery [p. 1079] morass, Tac. A. 1, 65.—

Transf.

Slippery, smooth, Mart. 9, 58, 3.—

That easily slips, glides, or moves away, slippery, slimy, lubricous:

natura lubricos oculos fecit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142:

anguis,

Verg. A. 5, 84:

exta,

Tib. 2, 5, 14:

amnis,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 81:

pisces,

Plin. 9, 20, 37, § 73:

conchylia,

slimy, Hor. S. 2, 4, 30:

corpus,

Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

lubrica prensantes effugit umbra manus,

Ov. F. 5, 476:

amnis,

gliding, id. Am. 3, 6, 81.—

Trop.

Slippery, uncertain, hazardous, dangerous, critical (class.):

via vitae praeceps et lubrica,

Cic. Fl. 42, 105; cf. id. Rep. 1, 28:

viae lubricae adulescentiae,

id. Cael. 17, 41:

aetas puerilis maxime lubrica atque incerta,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 137:

cupiditas dominandi praeceps et lubrica,

id. Phil. 5, 18, 50:

lubrica defensionis ratio,

id. Planc. 2, 5:

observatio,

Quint. 1, 5, 5:

locus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 35:

geometriam dico... et si qua alia propter subtilitatem lubrica sunt,

Sen. Ben. 3, 5, 1.— Poet., with inf.:

vultus nimium lubricus aspici,

seductive, Hor. C. 1, 19, 8. — Subst.: lūbrĭcum, i, n., a slippery or hazardous state, period, or season:

in lubrico versari,

Cic. Or. 28, 98:

lubricum aetatis,

Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 4:

lubricum linguae,

Dig. 48, 4, 7, § 3.—

Gliding, fleeting:

historia lubrica est hac atque illac fluit, ut homines, qui manibus invicem adprehensis gradum firmant, continent et continentur,

passing from one subject to another, Quint. 9, 4, 129:

annus,

fleeting, Ov. A. A. 3, 364. —

Slippery, deceitful:

nequiquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes,

Verg. A. 11, 716.—

Prone, inclined, ready:

flore capi juvenum lubrica mentem nympha,

Sil. 5, 18: aetas ad vitium, Ambros. de Interp. Job et Dav. 1, 7, 21.—

Unsteady, unsettled, easily going astray:

si qua in parte lubricum adulescentiae nostrae declinat,

Tac. A. 14, 56:

lubricam principis aetatem retinere,

id. ib. 13, 2.

lūbrĭcus, a, um, adj. [Gr. litos, lissos, smooth; from root glit; cf. glischros, glittus, and olibros, slippery], slippery.

Lit.:

loculi,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 38:

testudini injecta imbris in modum lubrico fastigio innoxia ad imum labebantur,

Liv. 44, 9, 9:

assiduo lubricus imbre lapis,

Mart. 4, 18, 2.— Subst.: lūbrĭcum, i, n., a slippery place, Cels. 8, 3:

in lubrico atque instabili fundamenta,

Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 95.—With gen.: equi lubrico paludum lapsantes, on the slippery [p. 1079] morass, Tac. A. 1, 65.—

Transf.

Slippery, smooth, Mart. 9, 58, 3.—

That easily slips, glides, or moves away, slippery, slimy, lubricous:

natura lubricos oculos fecit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142:

anguis,

Verg. A. 5, 84:

exta,

Tib. 2, 5, 14:

amnis,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 81:

pisces,

Plin. 9, 20, 37, § 73:

conchylia,

slimy, Hor. S. 2, 4, 30:

corpus,

Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

lubrica prensantes effugit umbra manus,

Ov. F. 5, 476:

amnis,

gliding, id. Am. 3, 6, 81.—

Trop.

Slippery, uncertain, hazardous, dangerous, critical (class.):

via vitae praeceps et lubrica,

Cic. Fl. 42, 105; cf. id. Rep. 1, 28:

viae lubricae adulescentiae,

id. Cael. 17, 41:

aetas puerilis maxime lubrica atque incerta,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 137:

cupiditas dominandi praeceps et lubrica,

id. Phil. 5, 18, 50:

lubrica defensionis ratio,

id. Planc. 2, 5:

observatio,

Quint. 1, 5, 5:

locus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 35:

geometriam dico... et si qua alia propter subtilitatem lubrica sunt,

Sen. Ben. 3, 5, 1.— Poet., with inf.:

vultus nimium lubricus aspici,

seductive, Hor. C. 1, 19, 8. — Subst.: lūbrĭcum, i, n., a slippery or hazardous state, period, or season:

in lubrico versari,

Cic. Or. 28, 98:

lubricum aetatis,

Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 4:

lubricum linguae,

Dig. 48, 4, 7, § 3.—

Gliding, fleeting:

historia lubrica est hac atque illac fluit, ut homines, qui manibus invicem adprehensis gradum firmant, continent et continentur,

passing from one subject to another, Quint. 9, 4, 129:

annus,

fleeting, Ov. A. A. 3, 364. —

Slippery, deceitful:

nequiquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes,

Verg. A. 11, 716.—

Prone, inclined, ready:

flore capi juvenum lubrica mentem nympha,

Sil. 5, 18: aetas ad vitium, Ambros. de Interp. Job et Dav. 1, 7, 21.—

Unsteady, unsettled, easily going astray:

si qua in parte lubricum adulescentiae nostrae declinat,

Tac. A. 14, 56:

lubricam principis aetatem retinere,

id. ib. 13, 2.

mĭnŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mi, lessen, change; Gr. minuô, minuthô; cf.: meiôn = minor; Germ. minder, vermindern].

Act., to make smaller, to lessen, diminish; lit. and trop.

Lit. (rare and mostly poet.):

ramaliaque arida tecto Detulit, et minuit,

broke in pieces, Ov. M. 8, 645:

ligna,

to chop into small pieces, id. F. 2, 647:

portarum objectus,

to dash in pieces, Stat. Th. 10, 526:

dentes in limine,

id. ib. 10, 47:

sanguinem,

to let blood, Veg. Vet. 1, 16, 2;

in the same signif., simply minuere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 1.—

Trop., to lessen, diminish, lower, reduce, weaken, abate, restrict (very freq. and class.):

imperium matris,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 6:

sumptus civitatum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 2:

(rem familiarem),

Hor. S. 2, 3, 177:

gradum,

Quint. 2, 3, 7:

gloriam alicujus,

Cic. Fl. 12, 28:

molestias vitae,

id. Fin. 1, 16, 51:

cupiditates,

id. ib.:

invidiam,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 14:

opem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

auctoritatem,

id. B. C. 3, 43:

minuuntur corporis artus,

grow less, diminish in size, Ov. M. 7, 317:

minuuntur corpora siccis,

Plin. 11, 54, 118, § 283:

consul alter proelio uno et vulnere suo minutus,

discouraged, Liv. 21, 52, 2 (al. deminutus):

suspicionem profectionis,

Cic. Att. 10, 16, 4:

controversias,

to settle, put an end to, Caes. B. G. 5, 26:

minuenda est haec opinio,

to be refuted, Cic. Off. 1, 22, 72:

magistratum, censuram,

to restrict the power of, to limit, Liv. 4, 24:

majestatem populi Romani per vim,

to violate, offend against, Cic. Phil. 1, 9, 21:

matris imperium,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 6:

religionem,

Nep. Ages. 4, 8:

nec tu ea causa minueris Haec quae facis, ne is mutet suam sententiam,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 19:

consilium,

to alter, change, id. Hec. 4, 3, 10:

condemnationem,

to commute, Gai. Inst. 3, 224; 4, 57.—

Neutr., to diminish, grow less:

minuente aestu,

at the ebbing of the tide, Caes. B. G. 3, 12, 1:

minuente lunā,

waning, Pall. 3, 24; Sedul. 1, 243; cf.:

crescentis minuentisque sideris species,

Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181.—Hence, mĭnūtus, a, um, P. a. (diminished; hence), little, small, minute (class.).

Lit.: pueri minuti (opp. majores), Varr. ap. Non. 141, 18: id [p. 1148] omnes magni minutique, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 45.—Of things:

litterae,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 68:

minuta ac brevia folia,

Plin. 12, 24, 53, § 111:

ossa,

Lucr. 1, 835:

opuscula,

Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

itinera,

Suet. Aug. 82:

aere minuto qualiacumque somnia vendere,

Juv. 6, 546:

facies minutae,

miniature portraits, id. 14, 291.— Comp.:

minutior ac mage pollens,

Lucr. 4, 318.— Sup.:

minutissimis ictibus excarnificatus,

Suet. Vit. 17:

res,

little things, trifles, Cic. Clu. 64, 180:

res minutissimae et contemptibiles,

Aug. Conf. 10, 35, 4:

aves,

Col. 8, 5, 10.—

Trop., petty, paltry, insignificant.

Of persons:

alii minuti et angusti,

Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 61:

philosophi,

id. Div. 1, 30, 62:

imperatores,

id. Brut. 73, 256:

plebes,

Phaedr. 4, 6, 13.—

Of things: canto carmina versibus minutis, Poët. ap. Plin. Ep. 4, 27, 4:

genus orationis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:

minuti est animi voluptas ultio,

Juv. 13, 189.— Hence, subst.: mĭnūtum, i, n., the smallest piece of money, a mite, farthing:

novissimum reddere,

Vulg. Luc. 12, 59; cf.:

aes minutum,

id. ib. 21, 2.— Plur.

The little (opp. longa), Calp. Ecl. 5, 7.—

Minutes, points, very small parts, Amm. 20, 3, 2; Gram. Vet. p. 374, 11.—

Comp.:

illa minutiora,

those less important matters, Aur. Vict. Epit. 48, 18.—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĭnūtē, into small or fine pieces, finely, minutely (class.).

Lit.:

sal minute tritus,

Col. 6, 17, 7:

minutissime commolere,

id. 12, 28, 1:

historia minutissime scripta,

in an extremely small hand, Sen. Ep. 95, 2.—

Trop.

In a petty or paltry manner:

res minutius tractare,

Cic. Fin. 4, 3, 7.—

Minutely, closely, accurately:

minutius et scrupulosius scrutantur omnia,

Quint. 5, 14, 28.—

mĭnūtim, into small pieces, finely, minutely (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

concidere,

Cato, R. R. 123:

scoria minutim fracta,

Plin. 34, 18, 51, § 171; Gell. 17, 8, 2.—

With short steps, trippingly:

equus ambulans,

Veg. Vet. 1, 56, 39:

deambulare,

id. ib. 2, 53, 3.

mĭnŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mi, lessen, change; Gr. minuô, minuthô; cf.: meiôn = minor; Germ. minder, vermindern].

Act., to make smaller, to lessen, diminish; lit. and trop.

Lit. (rare and mostly poet.):

ramaliaque arida tecto Detulit, et minuit,

broke in pieces, Ov. M. 8, 645:

ligna,

to chop into small pieces, id. F. 2, 647:

portarum objectus,

to dash in pieces, Stat. Th. 10, 526:

dentes in limine,

id. ib. 10, 47:

sanguinem,

to let blood, Veg. Vet. 1, 16, 2;

in the same signif., simply minuere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 1.—

Trop., to lessen, diminish, lower, reduce, weaken, abate, restrict (very freq. and class.):

imperium matris,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 6:

sumptus civitatum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 2:

(rem familiarem),

Hor. S. 2, 3, 177:

gradum,

Quint. 2, 3, 7:

gloriam alicujus,

Cic. Fl. 12, 28:

molestias vitae,

id. Fin. 1, 16, 51:

cupiditates,

id. ib.:

invidiam,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 14:

opem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

auctoritatem,

id. B. C. 3, 43:

minuuntur corporis artus,

grow less, diminish in size, Ov. M. 7, 317:

minuuntur corpora siccis,

Plin. 11, 54, 118, § 283:

consul alter proelio uno et vulnere suo minutus,

discouraged, Liv. 21, 52, 2 (al. deminutus):

suspicionem profectionis,

Cic. Att. 10, 16, 4:

controversias,

to settle, put an end to, Caes. B. G. 5, 26:

minuenda est haec opinio,

to be refuted, Cic. Off. 1, 22, 72:

magistratum, censuram,

to restrict the power of, to limit, Liv. 4, 24:

majestatem populi Romani per vim,

to violate, offend against, Cic. Phil. 1, 9, 21:

matris imperium,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 6:

religionem,

Nep. Ages. 4, 8:

nec tu ea causa minueris Haec quae facis, ne is mutet suam sententiam,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 19:

consilium,

to alter, change, id. Hec. 4, 3, 10:

condemnationem,

to commute, Gai. Inst. 3, 224; 4, 57.—

Neutr., to diminish, grow less:

minuente aestu,

at the ebbing of the tide, Caes. B. G. 3, 12, 1:

minuente lunā,

waning, Pall. 3, 24; Sedul. 1, 243; cf.:

crescentis minuentisque sideris species,

Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181.—Hence, mĭnūtus, a, um, P. a. (diminished; hence), little, small, minute (class.).

Lit.: pueri minuti (opp. majores), Varr. ap. Non. 141, 18: id [p. 1148] omnes magni minutique, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 45.—Of things:

litterae,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 68:

minuta ac brevia folia,

Plin. 12, 24, 53, § 111:

ossa,

Lucr. 1, 835:

opuscula,

Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

itinera,

Suet. Aug. 82:

aere minuto qualiacumque somnia vendere,

Juv. 6, 546:

facies minutae,

miniature portraits, id. 14, 291.— Comp.:

minutior ac mage pollens,

Lucr. 4, 318.— Sup.:

minutissimis ictibus excarnificatus,

Suet. Vit. 17:

res,

little things, trifles, Cic. Clu. 64, 180:

res minutissimae et contemptibiles,

Aug. Conf. 10, 35, 4:

aves,

Col. 8, 5, 10.—

Trop., petty, paltry, insignificant.

Of persons:

alii minuti et angusti,

Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 61:

philosophi,

id. Div. 1, 30, 62:

imperatores,

id. Brut. 73, 256:

plebes,

Phaedr. 4, 6, 13.—

Of things: canto carmina versibus minutis, Poët. ap. Plin. Ep. 4, 27, 4:

genus orationis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:

minuti est animi voluptas ultio,

Juv. 13, 189.— Hence, subst.: mĭnūtum, i, n., the smallest piece of money, a mite, farthing:

novissimum reddere,

Vulg. Luc. 12, 59; cf.:

aes minutum,

id. ib. 21, 2.— Plur.

The little (opp. longa), Calp. Ecl. 5, 7.—

Minutes, points, very small parts, Amm. 20, 3, 2; Gram. Vet. p. 374, 11.—

Comp.:

illa minutiora,

those less important matters, Aur. Vict. Epit. 48, 18.—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĭnūtē, into small or fine pieces, finely, minutely (class.).

Lit.:

sal minute tritus,

Col. 6, 17, 7:

minutissime commolere,

id. 12, 28, 1:

historia minutissime scripta,

in an extremely small hand, Sen. Ep. 95, 2.—

Trop.

In a petty or paltry manner:

res minutius tractare,

Cic. Fin. 4, 3, 7.—

Minutely, closely, accurately:

minutius et scrupulosius scrutantur omnia,

Quint. 5, 14, 28.—

mĭnūtim, into small pieces, finely, minutely (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

concidere,

Cato, R. R. 123:

scoria minutim fracta,

Plin. 34, 18, 51, § 171; Gell. 17, 8, 2.—

With short steps, trippingly:

equus ambulans,

Veg. Vet. 1, 56, 39:

deambulare,

id. ib. 2, 53, 3.

mŏvĕo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 ( sync., mōstis for movistis, Mart. 3, 67, 1;

mōrunt for moverunt,

Sil. 14, 141), v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mīv, set in motion; Gr. ameibô, change; cf.: momentum, mutare].

Act., to move, stir, set in motion; to shake, disturb, remove, etc. (syn.: cieo, agito, ago, molior).

Lit.:

movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,

Tib. 1, 7, 38:

ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus,

to dance, Hor. A. P. 232: moveri Cyclopa, to represent a Cyclop by dancing (gesticulating), id. Ep. 2, 2, 125:

et fila sonantia movit,

struck, Ov. M. 10, 89:

citharam cum voce,

id. ib. 5, 112:

tympana,

id. H. 4, 48; to disturb:

novis Helicona cantibus,

Manil. Astron. 1, 4:

signum movere loco,

to move from the place, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77:

os,

Cels. 8, 2:

gradum,

i. e. to go forward, advance, Sen. Thyest. 420: se, to move or bestir one's self:

move ocius te,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 16:

praecepit eis, ne se ex eo loco moverent,

not to stir from the spot, Liv. 34, 20; Caes. B. G. 3, 15: castra, to break up, remove:

postero die castra ex eo loco movent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15;

ellipt. without castra: postquam ille Canusio moverat,

Cic. Att. 9, 1, 1:

movisse a Samo Romanos audivit,

Liv. 37, 28, 4.— Pass. reflex.:

priusquam hostes moverentur,

Liv. 37, 19, 18:

hostem statu,

to drive from his position, dislodge, id. 30, 18:

aliquem possessione,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:

heredes,

to eject, id. Off. 3, 19, 76:

tribu centurionem,

to turn out, expel, id. de Or. 2, 67, 272; so,

aliquem de senatu,

id. Clu. 43, 122;

the same also without senatu,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 20:

senatorio loco,

to degrade, Liv. 39, 42, 6:

ex agro,

Cic. Fam. 13, 5, 2:

move abs te moram,

remove, cast off, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 10:

consulem de sententiā,

to cause to recede, to dissuade, Liv. 3, 21:

litteram,

to take away, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—Prov.:

omnis terras, omnia maria movere,

to turn the world upside down, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2.—

Transf.

To excite, occasion, cause, promote, produce; to begin, commence, undertake:

exercitatione sudor movetur,

is promoted, produced, Cels. 2, 17:

alvum,

Cato, R. R. 115:

dolorem,

id. ib. 7, 4:

lacrimas,

to cause, Quint. 6, 1, 26:

fletum populo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

risum,

id. ib. 2, 62, 281:

alicui exspectationem,

id. Att. 2, 14, 1:

indignationem,

Liv. 4, 50, 1:

misericordiam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278:

suspicionem,

id. Part. 33, 114:

ego istaec moveo, aut curo?

begin, commence, Ter. And. 5, 4, 18:

bellum,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37; Liv. 23, 48, 6:

jam pugna se moverat,

was going on, Curt. 8, 14, 6:

cantūs,

Verg. A. 10, 163:

tantum decus,

begin, Manil. Astron. 1, 42; cf. Verg. A. 7, 45:

nominis controversiam,

to begin, Tac. Dial. 25 init.; cf. Cels. 3, 3, § 25; Dig. 37, 10, 4:

litem,

ib. 4, 3, 33:

actionem,

ib. 19, 1, 10:

mentionem rei,

to make mention, Liv. 28, 11, 9:

sacra,

Val. Fl. 3, 540:

movere ac moliri aliquid,

to undertake any thing that excites disturbance, Liv. 23, 39:

ne quid moveretur,

id. 35, 13.—

To shake, to cause to waver, to alter:

alicujus sententiam,

to change, cause to waver, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 6:

sententiam regis,

Liv. 35, 42, 6.—

To present, offer an oblation:

ferctum Jovi moveto,

Cato, R. R. 134.—

To disturb, concern, trouble, torment one:

men moveat cimex Pantilius?

Hor. S. 1, 10, 78:

Armeniosne movet, Romana potentia cujus Sit ducis?

Luc. 7, 282; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 131. intoleranda vis aestūs omnium ferme corpora movit, Liv. 25, 26:

strepitu fora vestra,

Juv. 2, 52.—

Of plants, to put forth:

si se gemmae nondum moveant,

do not yet appear, Col. 11, 2, 26: de palmite gemma movetur, [p. 1169] is produced, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 13.—

To exert, exercise:

inter principia condendi hujus operis, movisse numen ad indicandam tanti imperii molem traditur deos,

Liv. 1, 55, 3 (cf.:

se movere, I. A. supra): artis opem,

Ov. F. 6, 760.—

= mutare, to change, transform:

quorum Forma semel mota est,

Ov. M. 8, 729:

nihil motum antiquo probabile est,

Liv. 34, 54, 8.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 43.—

Trop., to move, affect, excite, inspire:

ut pulcritudo corporis movet oculos et delectat,

charms, Cic. Off. 1, 28, 98:

quae me causae moverint,

id. Att. 11, 5, 1:

fere fit, quibus quisque in locis miles inveteravit, uti multum earum regionum consuetudine moveatur,

is much affected, influenced, Caes. B. C. 1, 44:

aliquem ad bellum,

to stir up, excite, Liv. 35, 12, 5:

movet feroci juveni animum conploratio sororis,

stirs his anger, id. 1, 26, 3; cf. id. 21, 38, 3; 23, 31, 11:

numina Dianae,

to irritate, provoke, Hor. Epod. 17, 3:

multa movens animo,

to revolve, ponder, meditate, Verg. A. 3, 34:

moverat plebem oratio consulis,

had stirred, made an impression on, Liv. 3, 20:

judicum animos,

Quint. 6, 2, 1:

acutule moveri,

keenly affected, Aug. Conf. 3, 7: neque illud me movet, quod, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 2:

affectus,

Quint. 6, 1, 7:

moveor etiam ipsius loci insolentiā,

Cic. Deiot. 2, 5:

nil moveor lacrimis,

Prop. 3, 23, 25 (4, 25, 5):

absiste moveri,

be not disturbed, Verg. A. 6, 399:

quos sectis Bellona lacertis Saeva movet,

inspires, Luc. 1, 565 (al. monet):

ut captatori moveat fastidia,

excites nausea in, Juv. 10, 202.—

Neutr., to move itself, move (very rare):

terra dies duodequadraginta movit,

an earthquake, Liv. 35, 40, 7; 40, 59, 7.—In pass.:

reptile quod movetur,

which moves itself, Vulg. Gen. 1, 26 saep.—Hence,

mŏvens, entis, P. a., movable (class.): ex eā praedā, quae rerum moventium sit, movable things (as clothes, arms, furniture), Liv. 5, 25, 6:

voluptas,

that consists in motion, Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 31:

furtum rerum moventium,

Gell. 11, 18, 13.— Plur. subst.:

quaedam quasi moventia,

motives, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 68.—Hence, adv.: mŏventer, movingly, affectingly (late Lat.), Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Mil. 7, n. 4.—

mōtus, a, um, P. a., moved, affected, disturbed ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

Ithaci digressu mota Calypso,

Prop. 1, 15, 9:

dictis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 23:

precibus,

Curt. 6, 5, 23.

mŏvĕo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 ( sync., mōstis for movistis, Mart. 3, 67, 1;

mōrunt for moverunt,

Sil. 14, 141), v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mīv, set in motion; Gr. ameibô, change; cf.: momentum, mutare].

Act., to move, stir, set in motion; to shake, disturb, remove, etc. (syn.: cieo, agito, ago, molior).

Lit.:

movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,

Tib. 1, 7, 38:

ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus,

to dance, Hor. A. P. 232: moveri Cyclopa, to represent a Cyclop by dancing (gesticulating), id. Ep. 2, 2, 125:

et fila sonantia movit,

struck, Ov. M. 10, 89:

citharam cum voce,

id. ib. 5, 112:

tympana,

id. H. 4, 48; to disturb:

novis Helicona cantibus,

Manil. Astron. 1, 4:

signum movere loco,

to move from the place, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77:

os,

Cels. 8, 2:

gradum,

i. e. to go forward, advance, Sen. Thyest. 420: se, to move or bestir one's self:

move ocius te,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 16:

praecepit eis, ne se ex eo loco moverent,

not to stir from the spot, Liv. 34, 20; Caes. B. G. 3, 15: castra, to break up, remove:

postero die castra ex eo loco movent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15;

ellipt. without castra: postquam ille Canusio moverat,

Cic. Att. 9, 1, 1:

movisse a Samo Romanos audivit,

Liv. 37, 28, 4.— Pass. reflex.:

priusquam hostes moverentur,

Liv. 37, 19, 18:

hostem statu,

to drive from his position, dislodge, id. 30, 18:

aliquem possessione,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:

heredes,

to eject, id. Off. 3, 19, 76:

tribu centurionem,

to turn out, expel, id. de Or. 2, 67, 272; so,

aliquem de senatu,

id. Clu. 43, 122;

the same also without senatu,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 20:

senatorio loco,

to degrade, Liv. 39, 42, 6:

ex agro,

Cic. Fam. 13, 5, 2:

move abs te moram,

remove, cast off, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 10:

consulem de sententiā,

to cause to recede, to dissuade, Liv. 3, 21:

litteram,

to take away, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—Prov.:

omnis terras, omnia maria movere,

to turn the world upside down, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2.—

Transf.

To excite, occasion, cause, promote, produce; to begin, commence, undertake:

exercitatione sudor movetur,

is promoted, produced, Cels. 2, 17:

alvum,

Cato, R. R. 115:

dolorem,

id. ib. 7, 4:

lacrimas,

to cause, Quint. 6, 1, 26:

fletum populo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

risum,

id. ib. 2, 62, 281:

alicui exspectationem,

id. Att. 2, 14, 1:

indignationem,

Liv. 4, 50, 1:

misericordiam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278:

suspicionem,

id. Part. 33, 114:

ego istaec moveo, aut curo?

begin, commence, Ter. And. 5, 4, 18:

bellum,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37; Liv. 23, 48, 6:

jam pugna se moverat,

was going on, Curt. 8, 14, 6:

cantūs,

Verg. A. 10, 163:

tantum decus,

begin, Manil. Astron. 1, 42; cf. Verg. A. 7, 45:

nominis controversiam,

to begin, Tac. Dial. 25 init.; cf. Cels. 3, 3, § 25; Dig. 37, 10, 4:

litem,

ib. 4, 3, 33:

actionem,

ib. 19, 1, 10:

mentionem rei,

to make mention, Liv. 28, 11, 9:

sacra,

Val. Fl. 3, 540:

movere ac moliri aliquid,

to undertake any thing that excites disturbance, Liv. 23, 39:

ne quid moveretur,

id. 35, 13.—

To shake, to cause to waver, to alter:

alicujus sententiam,

to change, cause to waver, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 6:

sententiam regis,

Liv. 35, 42, 6.—

To present, offer an oblation:

ferctum Jovi moveto,

Cato, R. R. 134.—

To disturb, concern, trouble, torment one:

men moveat cimex Pantilius?

Hor. S. 1, 10, 78:

Armeniosne movet, Romana potentia cujus Sit ducis?

Luc. 7, 282; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 131. intoleranda vis aestūs omnium ferme corpora movit, Liv. 25, 26:

strepitu fora vestra,

Juv. 2, 52.—

Of plants, to put forth:

si se gemmae nondum moveant,

do not yet appear, Col. 11, 2, 26: de palmite gemma movetur, [p. 1169] is produced, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 13.—

To exert, exercise:

inter principia condendi hujus operis, movisse numen ad indicandam tanti imperii molem traditur deos,

Liv. 1, 55, 3 (cf.:

se movere, I. A. supra): artis opem,

Ov. F. 6, 760.—

= mutare, to change, transform:

quorum Forma semel mota est,

Ov. M. 8, 729:

nihil motum antiquo probabile est,

Liv. 34, 54, 8.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 43.—

Trop., to move, affect, excite, inspire:

ut pulcritudo corporis movet oculos et delectat,

charms, Cic. Off. 1, 28, 98:

quae me causae moverint,

id. Att. 11, 5, 1:

fere fit, quibus quisque in locis miles inveteravit, uti multum earum regionum consuetudine moveatur,

is much affected, influenced, Caes. B. C. 1, 44:

aliquem ad bellum,

to stir up, excite, Liv. 35, 12, 5:

movet feroci juveni animum conploratio sororis,

stirs his anger, id. 1, 26, 3; cf. id. 21, 38, 3; 23, 31, 11:

numina Dianae,

to irritate, provoke, Hor. Epod. 17, 3:

multa movens animo,

to revolve, ponder, meditate, Verg. A. 3, 34:

moverat plebem oratio consulis,

had stirred, made an impression on, Liv. 3, 20:

judicum animos,

Quint. 6, 2, 1:

acutule moveri,

keenly affected, Aug. Conf. 3, 7: neque illud me movet, quod, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 2:

affectus,

Quint. 6, 1, 7:

moveor etiam ipsius loci insolentiā,

Cic. Deiot. 2, 5:

nil moveor lacrimis,

Prop. 3, 23, 25 (4, 25, 5):

absiste moveri,

be not disturbed, Verg. A. 6, 399:

quos sectis Bellona lacertis Saeva movet,

inspires, Luc. 1, 565 (al. monet):

ut captatori moveat fastidia,

excites nausea in, Juv. 10, 202.—

Neutr., to move itself, move (very rare):

terra dies duodequadraginta movit,

an earthquake, Liv. 35, 40, 7; 40, 59, 7.—In pass.:

reptile quod movetur,

which moves itself, Vulg. Gen. 1, 26 saep.—Hence,

mŏvens, entis, P. a., movable (class.): ex eā praedā, quae rerum moventium sit, movable things (as clothes, arms, furniture), Liv. 5, 25, 6:

voluptas,

that consists in motion, Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 31:

furtum rerum moventium,

Gell. 11, 18, 13.— Plur. subst.:

quaedam quasi moventia,

motives, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 68.—Hence, adv.: mŏventer, movingly, affectingly (late Lat.), Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Mil. 7, n. 4.—

mōtus, a, um, P. a., moved, affected, disturbed ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

Ithaci digressu mota Calypso,

Prop. 1, 15, 9:

dictis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 23:

precibus,

Curt. 6, 5, 23.

prae-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. a. and n., to go before, precede (seems not to occur in Cic., Nep., Tac., or Sall.; once in Cæs.; syn.: antecedo, anteverto).

Act., to go before, precede a person or thing.

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

aliquem,

Suet. Dom. 14:

custodes,

Just. 14, 4:

agmen,

Verg. A. 9, 47:

is praecedens agmen militum ad tribunal pergit,

Liv. 7, 13, 2:

praetoriā nave praecedente classem,

id. 35, 26, 7; 38, 41, 12:

taurus armenta praecedit,

Sen. Ep. 90, 4; id. Contr. 3, 16, 8:

exsequias fax cereusque praecessit,

id. Tranq. 11, 7:

gradum nostrum aut praecedentes aut sequentes,

Vell. 2, 114, 1.—Of inanimate subjects:

at quae venturas praecedet sexta Calendas,

Ov. F. 1, 705; Vell. 2, 129, 3.—

Trop., to surpass, outstrip, outdo, excel, be superior to (rare but class.):

Helvetii reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt,

excel in bravery, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 4:

ego vestros honores rebis gerendis praecessi,

Liv. 38, 51, 11:

ceteras omnis sapore praecedere,

Col. 3, 2, 7:

omnes,

Val. Max. 1, 1, 14:

Baetica cunctas provinciarum divite cultu praecedit,

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 7:

in quo praecessit omnes D. Silanus,

id. 18, 3, 5, § 23:

omnes sapientiā,

Vulg. Eccl. 1, 16.—

Neutr., to go before, precede, lead the way (class.).

Lit.:

opus esse et ipsos praecedere ad confirmandam civitatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 54:

cum equite, ut prius venisse quam venturum sciant, praecedam,

Liv. 22, 51, 2:

praecedebat ipse vinctus, sequebatur grex, etc.,

id. 30, 13, 2; 39, 39, 8; 42, 59, 1:

equitem ex Paeoniā praecedere jubet,

Curt. 4, 12, 22; 3, 4, 13; 5, 8, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; id. Calig. 32:

cervi maria tranant capita imponentes praecedentium clunibus,

Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 114.—

Of inanim. subjects:

fama loquax praecessit ad aures, Deïanira, tuas,

Ov. M. 9, 137:

umbra,

id. ib. 5, 614;

Plin 31, 6, 33, § 64: nullā praecedente injuriā,

without previous injury, id. 11, 37, 55, § 149.—

Transf., to be older:

decem et octo annis,

Just. Inst. 1, 11, 4.—

Trop., to surpass, excel; with the dat. (ante-class.):

ut vostrae fortunae meis praecedunt longe,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 39.

prĕmo, essi, essum, 3, v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. prelum], to press (class.).

Lit.:

pede pedem alicui premere,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 30:

et trepidae matres pressere ad pectora natos,

Verg. A. 7, 518:

veluti qui sentibus anguem Pressit humi nitens,

id. ib. 2, 379:

novercae Monstra manu premens,

id. ib. 8, 288:

pressit et inductis membra paterna rotis,

i. e. drove her chariot over her father's body, Ov. Ib. 366:

trabes Hymettiae Premunt columnas,

press, rest heavily upon them, Hor. C. 2, 18, 3:

premere terga genu alicujus,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 24:

ubera plena,

i. e. to milk, id. F. 4, 769:

vestigia alicujus,

to tread in, to follow one's footsteps, Tac. A. 2, 14:

nudis pressit qui calcibus anguem,

Juv. 1, 43:

dente frena,

to bite, to champ, Ov. M. 10, 704:

ore aliquid,

to chew, eat, id. ib. 5, 538; cf.:

aliquid morsu,

Lucr. 3, 663:

presso molari,

with compressed teeth, Juv. 5, 160:

pressum lac,

i. e. cheese, Verg. E. 1, 82.—In mal. part.:

Hister Peucen premerat Antro,

forced, Val. Fl. 8, 256:

uxorem,

Suet. Calig. 25.—Of animals:

feminas premunt galli,

Mart. 3, 57, 17.—

Transf.

Poet., to bear down upon, to touch:

premere litora,

Ov. M. 14, 416:

litus,

to keep close to the shore, Hor. C. 2, 10, 3:

aëra,

i. e. to fly, Luc. 7, 835.—

Poet., to hold fast, hold, firmly grasp:

premere frena manu,

Ov. M. 8, 37:

ferrum,

to grasp, Sil. 5, 670:

capulum,

id. 2, 615.—

Poet., to press a place with one's body, i. e. to sit, stand, lie, fall, or seat one's self on any thing:

toros,

Ov. H. 12, 30:

sedilia,

id. M. 5, 317:

hoc quod premis habeto,

id. ib. 5, 135:

et pictam positā pharetram cervice premebat,

id. ib. 2, 421:

humum,

to lie on the ground, id. Am. 3, 5, 16; cf. id. F. 4, 844:

frondes tuo premis ore caducas,

id. M. 9, 650; Sen. Hippol. 510.—

To cover, to conceal by covering (mostly poet.):

aliquid terrā,

to conceal, bury in the earth, Hor. Epod. 1, 33:

nonumque prematur in annum,

kept back, suppressed, id. A. P. 388:

omne lucrum tenebris alta premebat humus,

Ov. Am. 3, 8, 36:

ossa male pressa,

i. e. buried, id. Tr. 5, 3, 39; Plin. 2, 79, 81, § 191; hence, to crown, to cover or adorn with any thing:

ut premerer sacrā lauro,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 18:

molli Fronde crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 147:

canitiem galeā,

id. ib. 9, 612:

mitrā capillos,

Ov. F. 4, 517; cf. Verg. A. 5, 556.—

To make, form, or shape any thing by pressing ( poet.):

quod surgente die mulsere horisque diurnis, Nocte premunt,

they make into cheese, Verg. G. 3, 400:

os fingit premendo,

id. A. 6, 80:

caseos,

id. E. 1, 35:

mollem terram,

Vulg. Sap. 15, 7; Calp. Ecl. 5, 34.—

To press hard upon, bear down upon, to crowd, pursue closely:

hostes de loco superiore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19:

Pompeiani nostros premere et instare coeperunt,

id. B. C. 3, 46:

hac fugerent Graii, premeret Trojana juventus,

Verg. A. 1, 467:

Pergamenae naves cum adversarios premerent acrius,

Nep. Hann. 11, 5:

hinc Rutulus premit, et murum circumsonat armis,

Verg. A. 8, 473:

obsidione urbem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 32.—Of the pursuit or chase of animals:

ad retia cervum,

Verg. G. 3, 413:

spumantis apri cursum clamore,

id. A. 1, 324:

bestias venatione,

Isid. 10, 282.—

To press down, burden, load, freight:

nescia quem premeret,

on whose back she sat, Ov. M. 2, 869:

tergum equi,

id. ib. 8, 34;

14, 343: et natat exuviis Graecia pressa suis,

Prop. 4, 1, 114 (5, 1, 116):

pressae carinae,

Verg. G. 1, 303:

pressus membra mero,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 7), 42:

magno et gravi onere armorum pressi,

Caes. B. G. 4, 24:

auro phaleras,

to adorn, Stat. Th. 8, 567.—

To press into, force in, press upon:

(caprum) dentes in vite prementem,

Ov. F. 1, 355:

presso sub vomere,

Verg. G. 2, 356; cf.:

presso aratro,

Tib. 4, 1, 161:

alte ensem in corpore,

Stat. Th. 11, 542:

et nitidas presso pollice finge comas,

Prop. 3, 8 (4, 9), 14:

et cubito remanete presso,

leaning upon, Hor. C. 1, 27, 8. —

To make with any thing ( poet.):

aeternā notā,

Ov. F. 6, 610:

littera articulo pressa tremente,

id. H. 10, 140:

multā via pressa rotā,

id. ib. 18, 134.—

To press down, let down, cause to sink down, to lower:

nec preme, nec summum molire per aethera currum,

Ov. M. 2, 135:

humanaeque memor sortis, quae tollit eosdem, Et premit,

id. Tr. 3, 11, 67:

mundus ut ad Scythiam Rhiphaeasque arduus arces Consurgit, premitur Libyae devexus in Austros,

sinks down, Verg. G. 1, 240; Sen. Herc. Fur. 155. —

In partic.

To set, plant:

virgulta per agros,

Verg. G. 2, 346; 26.—

To make or form by pressing down, to make any thing deep, to dig:

vestigio leviter presso,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53; cf.

(trop.): vestigia non pressa leviter, sed fixa,

id. Sest. 5, 13:

sulcum premere,

to draw a furrow, Verg. A. 10, 296:

fossam transversam, inter montes pressit (al. percussit),

Front. Strat. 1, 5:

fossa pressa,

Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 4:

cavernae in altitudinem pressae,

Curt. 5, 1, 28.—

To strike to the ground, to strike down:

tres famulos,

Verg. A. 9, 329:

paucos,

Tac. H. 4, 2.—

To press closely, compress, press together, close:

oculos,

Verg. A. 9, 487:

alicui fauces,

Ov. M. 12, 509:

laqueo collum,

to strangle, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 37:

angebar ceu guttura forcipe pressus,

Ov. M. 9, 78:

presso gutture,

compressed, Verg. G. 1, 410; cf.:

siquidem unius praecordia pressit ille (boletus) senis,

i. e. stopped his breath, Juv. 6, 621:

quibus illa premetur Per somnum digitis,

choked, id. 14, 221:

amplexu presso,

united, in close embrace, Sen. Oedip. 192:

oscula jungere pressa,

to exchange kisses, Ov. H. 2, 94; so,

pressa basia,

Mart. 6, 34, 1:

presso gradu incedere,

in close ranks, foot to foot, Liv. 28, 14:

pede presso,

id. 8, 8.—

In partic.

To shorten, tighten, draw in:

pressis habenis,

Verg. A. 11, 600 (cf.:

laxas dure habenas,

id. ib. 1, 63).—

To keep short, prune:

Calenā falce vitem,

Hor. C. 1, 31, 9:

luxuriem falce,

Ov. M. 14, 628:

falce premes umbras (i. e. arbores umbrantes),

Verg. G. 1, 157; 4, 131:

molle salictum,

Calp. Ecl. 5, 110.—

To check, arrest, stop:

premere sanguinem,

Tac. A. 15, 64:

vestigia pressit,

Verg. A. 6, 197:

attoniti pressere gradum,

Val. Fl. 2, 424 ' dixit, pressoque obmutuit ore, was silent, Verg. A. 6, 155.—

To press out, bring out by pressure:

tenerā sucos pressere medullā,

Luc. 4, 318; cf.: (equus) collectumque fremens volvit sub naribus ignem, Verg. ap. Sen. Ep. 95, 68, and id. G. 3, 85 Rib.—

To frequent: feci ut cotidie praesentem me viderent, habitavi in [p. 1441] oculis, pressi forum, Cic. Planc. 27, 66.—

Trop.

To press, press upon, oppress, overwhelm, weigh down; to urge, drive, importune, pursue, to press close or hard, etc. (class.):

ego istum pro suis factis pessumis pessum premam,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 49 Lorenz ad loc.:

quae necessitas eum tanta premebat, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97:

ea, quae premant, et ea, quae impendeant,

id. Fam. 9, 1, 2:

aerumnae, quae me premunt,

Sall. J. 14, 22:

pressus gravitate soporis,

bound by heavy, deep sleep, Ov. M. 15, 21:

cum aut aere alieno, aut magnitudine tributorum, aut injuriā potentium premuntur,

Caes. B. G. 6, 13:

invidia et odio populi premi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

premi periculis,

id. Rep. 1, 6, 10:

cum a me premeretur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 53, § 139; cf.:

aliquem verbo,

id. Tusc. 1, 7, 13:

criminibus veris premere aliquem,

Ov. M. 14, 401:

cum a plerisque ad exeundum premeretur, exire noluit,

was pressed, urged, importuned, Nep. Ages. 6, 1:

a Pompeii procuratoribus sescentis premi coeptus est,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3: numina nulla premunt;

mortali urgemur ab hoste,

Verg. A. 10, 375:

premere reum voce, vultu,

Tac. A. 3, 67:

crimen,

to pursue obstinately, Quint. 7, 2, 12:

confessionem,

to force a confession from one, id. 7, 1, 29:

argumentum etiam atque etiam,

to pursue steadily, Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

ancipiti mentem formidine pressus,

Verg. A. 3, 47:

maerore pressa,

Sen. Oct. 103:

veritate pressus negare non potuit,

overcome, overpowered, Lact. 4, 13.—

Transf.

To repress, hide, conceal (mostly poet.):

dum nocte premuntur,

Verg. A. 6, 827:

curam sub corde,

id. ib. 4, 332:

odium,

Plin. Pan. 62:

iram,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

pavorem et consternationem mentis vultu,

id. ib. 13, 16:

interius omne secretum,

Sen. Ep. 3, 4:

dolorem silentio,

Val. Max. 3, 3, 1 ext.; cf. silentia, Sil. 12, 646:

aliquid ore,

Verg. A. 7, 103:

jam te premet nox,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 16.—

To lower, diminish, undervalue, disparage, depreciate:

premendorum superiorum arte sese extollebat,

Liv. 22, 12:

arma Latini,

Verg. A. 11, 402:

opuscula ( = deprimere atque elevare),

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 36:

famam alicujus,

Tac. A. 15, 49:

premere ac despicere,

Quint. 11, 1, 16:

premere tumentia, humilia extollere,

id. ib. 10, 4, 1.—

To surpass, exceed:

facta premant annos,

Ov. M. 7, 449:

ne prisca vetustas Laude pudicitiae saecula nostra premat,

id. P. 3, 1, 116:

quantum Latonia Nymphas Virgo premit,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 115.—

To rule ( poet.):

dicione premere populos,

Verg. A. 7, 737:

imperio,

id. ib. 1, 54:

Mycenas Servitio premet,

id. ib. 1, 285.—

To suppress, pull down, humble, degrade:

quae (vocabula) nunc situs premit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 118:

nec premendo alium me extulisse velim,

Liv. 22, 59, 10; cf. id. 39, 41, 1:

premebat reum crimen,

id. 3, 13, 1.—

To compress, abridge, condense:

haec enim, quae dilatantur a nobis, Zeno sic premebat,

Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20.—

To check, arrest, repress, restrain:

cursum ingenii tui, Brute, premit haec importuna clades civitatis,

Cic. Brut. 97, 332:

sub imo Corde gemitum,

Verg. A. 10, 464:

vocem,

to be silent, id. ib. 9, 324:

sermones vulgi,

to restrain, Tac. A. 3, 6.—

To store up, lay up in the mind, muse upon:

(vocem) ab ore Eripuit pater ac stupefactus numine pressit,

Verg. A. 7, 119.—Hence, pressus, a, um, P. a.

Moderate, slow, suppressed, kept down.

Lit.:

presso pede eos retro cedentes principes recipiebant,

Liv. 8, 8, 9:

presso gradu,

id. 28, 14, 14; cf.:

pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

Ov. M. 3, 17.—

Trop.

Of the voice or manner, subdued:

haec cum pressis et flebilibus modis, qui totis theatris maestitiam inferant,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106.—

Of color, lowered, depressed; hence, dark, gloomy:

color pressus,

Pall. 4, 13, 4:

color viridi pressior,

Plin. 35, 6, 13, § 32:

spadices pressi,

Serv. Verg. G. 3, 82.—

Esp., of an orator or of speech.

Compressed, concise, plain, without ornament (class.):

fiunt pro grandibus tumidi, pressis exiles, fortibus temerarii, etc.,

Quint. 10, 2, 16:

cum Attici pressi et integri, contra Asiani inflati et inanes haberentur,

id. 12, 10, 18.—Of style:

pressa et tenuia, et quae minimum ab usu cotidiano recedant,

Quint. 10, 1, 102:

pressus et demissus stilus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 5; Quint. 4, 2, 117.— Comp.: in concionibus pressior, et circumscriptior, et adductior, more moderate, keeping more within bounds, Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 4.—

Close, exact, accurate:

Thucydides ita verbis aptus et pressus, ut,

Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56: quis te fuit umquam in partiundis rebus pressior? more exact, more accurate, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 364, 24:

sicuti taxare pressius crebriusque est, quam tangere,

Gell. 2, 6, 5:

quod (periculum) observandum pressiore cautelā censeo,

stricter, greater, App. M. 5, p. 160, 36:

cogitationes pressiores,

id. ib. 5, p. 163, 32.—So of sounds, precise, intelligible:

(lingua) vocem profusam fingit atque sonos vocis distinctos et pressos facit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149.—Hence, adv.: pressē, with pressure, violently (class.): artius pressiusque conflictata, Atei. Capito ap. Gell. 10, 6, 2.—

Closely, tightly.

Lit.:

vites pressius putare,

Pall. 12, 9:

pressius colla radere,

Veg. Vet. 1, 56.—

Trop.

Of pronunciation, shortly, neatly, trimly:

loqui non aspere, non vaste, non rustice, sed presse, et aequabiliter, et leniter,

Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45; id. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Of the mode of expression, etc., concisely, not diffusely:

definire presse et anguste,

Cic. Or. 33, 117:

abundanter dicere, an presse,

Quint. 8, 3, 40:

pressius et astrictius scripsi,

Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 10.—

Without ornament, simply:

unum (genus oratorum) attenuate presseque, alterum sublate ampleque dicentium,

Cic. Brut. 55, 202:

aliquid describere modo pressius, modo elatius,

Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 3.—

Closely, exactly, correctly, accurately:

mihi placet agi subtilius, et pressius,

Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 24:

definiunt pressius,

id. Tusc. 4, 7, 14:

anquisitius, et exactius pressiusque disserere,

Gell. 1, 3, 21.

prō-mōvĕo, mōvi, mōtum ( pluperf. promorat. Hor Epod. 11, 14:

promosset,

Ov. Am 2, 9, 17 Jahn), 2, v. a., to move forward, cause to advance, push onward, advance.

Lit.

In gen.:

saxa vectibus, Caes B. C. 2, 11: onera,

Col. 11, 1, 8; Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 64:

assa in alterum apodyterii anguium,

Cic. Q. Fr 3, 1, 1, § 2:

legiones,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 16: castra ad Carthaginem, to move onward, Liv 28, 44 fin.:

exercitu in Aetoliam promoto,

Just. 14, 1, 6:

cornua utrimque (in acie),

Quint. 2, 13, 3:

scalas et machinamenta,

Tac. A. 15, 4 fin.:

calculum,

to push forward, move, Quint. 11, 2, 38; 11, 3, 113:

unum pedem triclinio,

to put forth, move from, Phaedr. 4, 23, 28:

ibi te videbo et promovebo,

will take you along with me, Cic. Att. 4, 12 fin. —

In partic., to extend, enlarge. moenia Ostia tenus, Suet Ner 16:

imperium, Ov P 2, 2, 72: vires in immensum orbem,

id. Am. 2, 9, 17.—

Med. t. t., to put out of joint, dislocate, displace:

in palmā quoque ossa interdum suis sedibus promoventur,

Cels. 8, 18 init.:

femur in omnes quattuor partes promovetur, saepissime in interiorem,

id. 8, 20 init. —

Trop.

In gen., to bring to pass, effect, accomplish (ante- and post-class.):

promovere parum,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 81:

aliquis dicat, Nihil promoveris,

id. And. 4, 1, 17:

meditatio nihil ad vitam tuendam promovens,

Gell. 10, 22, 24; cf.

in a lusus verbb. with movere se,

Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 4.— Absol.:

cum in studio facundiae abunde promovisset,

Gell. 5, 10, 7.—

In partic.

To enlarge, increase: doctrina vim promovet insitam, Hor C. 4, 4, 33; so, promovere aliquem, to advance, prefer, promote (post-Aug.; cf.:

perduco, produco, proveho): vetus miles ad eum gradum promotus,

Curt. 6, 11, 1:

promotus ad amplissimas procurationes,

Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3; Suet. Oth. 1; id. Vesp. 16; Lampr. Elag. 12; 20; Plin. Pan. 90, 6; Vulg. Dan. 3, 97.—

To bring to light, reveal: arcana promorat loco (i. e. ex intimo corde), Hor Epod. 11, 14.—

To put off, defer, postpone:

nuptias alicui,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 28.—Hence, prōmōtus, a, um, P a.

Of time, advanced, i. e. late:

nocte promotā,

late at night, far into the night, App. M. 4, p. 152, 38; 7, p. 190, 30.—

Subst.: prōmōta, ōrum, n., in the lang. of the Stoics, things that are to be preferred, pref. erable things, as being next in degree to absolute good; a literal transl. of the Gr. proêgmeua, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52.

rĕ-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3, v. dep. n. [gradior], to go or come back; to turn back, return (class.; syn.: revertor, redeo).

Lit.:

ut regredi quam progredi mallent,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33:

illuc regredere ab ostio,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 7:

ex itinere in castra regressi,

Liv. 24, 18 (with redituros):

regressus Tarraconem,

id. 34, 16, 10:

eādem regreditur,

Sall. J. 93, 5:

ad Hiberum,

Liv. 34, 19, 11; 38, 25, 3; 25, 22, 16:

a Germaniā in Urbem regressus,

Suet. Tib. 20:

regressus in insulam,

id. ib. 41:

regressus domum,

id. ib. 11:

retro (opp. ultro progredi), Auct. B. Afr. 50, 3: inde regressus Cretam,

Just. 22, 4, 4:

propius,

Tac. A. 2, 70; 15, 54; id. H. 3, 77. —

In milit. lang., to march back, withdraw, retire, retreat:

illi autem hoc acrius instabant neque regredi nostros patiebantur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 45; id. B. G. 2, 23; 5, 44:

statim in collis regredi,

Sall. J. 55, 8; Front. Strat. 3, 11, 1, and 2.—

Trop.

In gen.:

an in eum annum progredi nemo potuerit edicto, quo praetor alius futurus est: in illum, quo alius praetor fuit, regredietur?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 42, § 109:

regredi infinite,

id. Fat. 15, 35:

a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, eodem regressus, etc.,

Sall. C. 4, 2; cf.:

ut et digredi ex eo et regredi in id facile possimus,

Quint. 10, 6, 5:

ad formandos animos, id. prooem. § 14: in memoriam regredior audisse me (with redeo),

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 26:

in reorum potestatem regredi,

Dig. 48, 5, 27.—

Law t. t., to have recourse:

ad venditorem,

Dig. 21, 2, 21, § 3.

► Act. form regrĕdo: gradum regredere, Enn. ap. Non. 166, 23 (Trag. v. 13 Vahl.).

rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,

With the idea of the re predominant.

To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).

Lit.:

cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146:

quicque suo loco,

Col. 12, 3, 4:

humum,

the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231:

pecuniam in thesauris,

Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.:

ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 6:

infans repositus in cunas,

Suet. Aug. 94:

ossa in suas sedes,

Cels. 8, 10, 1:

femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,

set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39:

insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,

Cic. Sest. 27, 58:

columnas,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

tantundem inaurati aeris,

Suet. Caes. 54:

togam,

to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149:

capillum,

id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. §

22: excussus curru ac rursus repositus,

Suet. Ner. 24:

nos in sceptra,

to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.:

reges per bella pulsos,

Sil. 10, 487:

aliquem solio,

Val. Fl. 6, 742:

veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,

Sen. Ep. 36, 10:

ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.:

quosdam nihil reposuisse,

Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6:

donata,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39:

flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,

to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752:

aris ignem,

id. ib. 3, 231:

molem,

Sil. 1, 558:

ruptos vetustate pontes,

Tac. A. 1, 63:

fora templaque,

id. H. 3, 34:

amissa urbi,

id. A. 16, 13:

statuas a plebe disjectas,

Suet. Caes. 65:

cenam,

Mart. 2, 37, 10;

so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,

Verg. A. 8, 175:

plena pocula,

id. G. 4, 378:

vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),

id. A. 7, 134:

epulas,

id. G. 3, 527:

festas mensas,

Stat. Th. 2, 88:

cibi frigidi et repositi,

Quint. 2, 4, 29.—

Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew:

ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,

Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.:

excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,

id. 11, 2, 19:

nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—

To represent or describe again, to repeat:

fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,

Hor. A. P. 190:

Achillem (after Homer),

id. ib. 120; cf.:

dicta paterna,

Pers. 6, 66.—

To repay, requite, return:

cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,

Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19:

semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?

repay, Juv. 1, 1.—

To put back, put to rest, quiet:

pontum et turbata litora,

Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.:

post otiosam et repositam vitam,

Amm. 29, 1, 44.—

To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.);

imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,

Verg. G. 3, 76:

cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,

Quint. 4, 2, 39:

tereti cervice repostā,

Lucr. 1, 35:

interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,

Quint. 11, 3, 99:

hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,

id. 4, 2, 39:

membra (mortui) toro,

Verg. A. 6, 220:

membra stratis,

id. ib. 4, 392.—

To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).

Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi [p. 1571] percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

cibum,

Quint. 2, 4, 29:

formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,

Verg. A. 4, 403:

Caecubum ad festas dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mella in vetustatem,

Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7:

alimenta in hiemem,

Quint. 2, 16, 16:

(caseum) hiemi,

Verg. G. 3, 403:

omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,

id. ib. 1, 167:

thesaurum,

Quint. 2, 7, 4:

scripta in aliquod tempus,

id. 10, 4, 2.— Poet.:

eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,

buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.:

an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),

Prop. 1, 17, 11:

tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 17:

repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,

Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—

Trop.:

opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

29: aliquid scriptis,

id. 11, 2, 9:

manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,

Verg. A. 1, 26:

reponere odium,

Tac. Agr. 39 fin.:

sensibus haec imis... reponas,

Verg. E. 3, 54.—

To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).

Lit.:

non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2:

Aristophanem pro Eupoli,

id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49:

eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,

Col. 4, 26, 2:

dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,

Sen. Phoen. 122.—

Trop.:

at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—

To lay aside, to lay down, lay by, put away.

Lit.:

remum,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:

arma omnia,

Caes. B. C. 2, 14:

caestus artemque,

Verg. A. 5, 484:

feretro reposto,

id. ib. 11, 149:

onus,

Cat. 31, 8:

telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,

Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507:

rursus sumptas figuras,

Ov. M. 12, 557:

bracchia,

to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.— Poet.:

jam falcem arbusta reponunt,

i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—

Trop.:

brevem fugam,

to end the flight, Stat. Th. 6, 592:

iram,

Manil. 2, 649.—

With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).

Lit.:

grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

colla in plumis,

Ov. M. 10, 269:

litteras in gremio,

Liv. 26, 15:

hunc celso in ostro,

Val. Fl. 3, 339:

ligna super foco Large reponens,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

(nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,

Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.:

uvas in vasa nova,

Col. 12, 16:

data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 9:

anulos in locellum,

id. 7, 8, 9; cf.:

mergum altius in terram,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—

Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among:

in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,

Cic. Sull. 33, 92:

vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 198:

suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,

Caes. B. C. 2, 41:

in se omnem spem,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

nihil spei in caritate civium,

Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39:

salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,

id. 27, 45:

verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,

Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

plus in duce quam in exercitu,

Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37:

plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,

Just. 24, 8, 2:

fiduciam in re reponere,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14:

ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,

id. ib. 1, 8, 6:

quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,

place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so,

sidera in deorum numero,

id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.:

Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.:

homines morte deletos in deos,

Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

in deorum numerum reponemus,

id. ib. 3, 19, 47:

Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,

id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

aliquid in fabularum numerum,

id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and:

hanc partem in numerum,

id. ib. 1, 51, 97:

in ejus sinum rem publicam,

Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus ( rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.

Remote, distant (syn. remotus;

very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,

Verg. A. 6, 59:

terrae,

id. ib. 3, 364:

populi,

Sil. 3, 325:

convalles,

App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—

Laid aside, stored up:

spes,

Vulg. Col. 1, 5:

corona justitiae,

id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.

rĕ-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To call back, recall (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.:

quotiens foras ire volo, me retines, revocas,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 5; cf. Suet. Claud. 15 fin.:

de meo cursu rei publicae sum voce revocatus,

Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1:

aliquem ex itinere,

id. Div. 2, 8, 20; Suet. Aug. 98; id. Tib. 21:

revocatus de exsilio Camillus,

Liv. 5, 46:

revocatum ex provinciā,

Suet. Claud. 1:

Caesar in Italiam revocabatur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 18 fin.:

spes Campanae defectionis Samnites rursus ad Caudium revocavit,

Liv. 9, 27:

quid me intro revocas?

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 12.— Absol.:

heus abiit: quin revocas?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 12; id. Ep. 2, 2, 17; id. Truc. 1, 2, 19: exclusit; revocat;

redeam?

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 4; Hor. S. 2, 3, 264; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 22; Liv. 30, 20: abeo;

et revocas nono post mense,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 61; Ov. M. 1, 503.—

Transf., of things, to draw or fetch back, to withdraw, turn back, etc.:

lumina revocata,

Ov. M. 7, 789:

oculos meos,

id. H. 16, 232:

cupidas manus,

id. A. A. 1, 452:

pedem ab alto,

Verg. A. 9, 125; cf.

gradum,

id. ib. 6, 128:

deficientem capillum a vertice,

to stroke back, Suet. Caes. 45:

habenas,

Sil. 16, 344:

manus post terga,

to bind, Sen. Thyest. 685:

proscissam terram in liram,

to bring back, restore, Col. 2, 10, 5; cf.:

in vitibus revocantur ea, quae, etc.,

are pruned, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88; v. infra, B. 1. — Poet.:

gelidos artus in vivum calorem,

Ov. M. 4, 248.—

In partic.

Milit. t. t.

To call back, recall; to call off, withdraw soldiers from a march or from any enterprise:

his rebus cognitis Caesar legiones equitatumque revocari atque itinere desistere jubet,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11:

insequentes nostros, ne longius prosequerentur, Sulla revocavit,

id. B. C. 3, 51; Liv. 25, 14:

quae receptui canunt, ut eos etiam revocent,

Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 3:

tardius revocati proelio excesserant,

Sall. C. 9, 4; cf. Verg. A. 5, 167:

equites,

Caes. B. C. 1, 80:

reliquas copias,

id. B. G. 7, 35:

naves omnes,

id. B. C. 3, 14:

hos certo signo,

id. ib. 1, 27 fin.;

1, 28: milites ab opere,

id. B. G. 2, 20:

legiones ab opere,

id. B. C. 1, 82:

aestus crescens revocaverat fatigatos,

Amm. 24, 4, 17.—

To recall to duty soldiers from a furlough:

milites,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 89:

veteranos,

Tac. H. 2, 82:

inter ceteros conveteranos suos revocatus,

Inscr. Orell. 3580.—

In gen., to call back, recall:

(Neptunus Tritona) jubet fluctus et flumina signo Jam revocare dato,

Ov. M. 1, 335.—

A theatrical t. t., to call for the repetition of a speech, a vocal performance, etc., to call back a player; to encore:

Livius (Andronicus), cum saepius revocatus vocem obtudisset, etc.,

Liv. 7, 2:

Diphilus tragoedus revocatus aliquoties a populo,

Val. Max. 6, 2, 9:

quoties ego hunc (sc. Archiam) vidi magnum numerum versuum dicere ex tempore! quoties revocatum eandem rem dicere commutatis verbis atque sententiis,

Cic. Arch. 8, 18:

revocatus praeco, iterum pronunciavit eadem,

Liv. 33, 32.—Also with an inanim. object:

cum Orestem fabulam doceret Euripides, primos tres versus revocasse dicitur Socrates,

to have encored, Cic. Tusc. 4, 29, 63. — Absol.:

revocasse et repeti coëgisse,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 12.— Impers. pass.:

nominatim sum appellatus in Bruto Tullius qui libertatem civibus stabiliverat. Milies revocatum est,

Cic. Sest. 58, 123.—

To recall from death, bring back to life:

quā servetis revocatum a morte Dareta,

Verg. A. 5, 476; cf.:

Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae,

id. ib. 7, 769:

dysentericos a morte revocari,

Plin. 23, 6, 60, § 113.—

Trop.

In gen., to call back, recall, resume; to withdraw, retire; to regain, recover; to draw back, draw off or away; to withhold, restrain, etc.:

facilius sicut in vitibus revocantur ea, quae sese nimium profuderunt,

are checked, pruned, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88: et vires et corpus amisi: sed si morbum depulero, facile illa revocabo, will regain, recover, id. Fam. 7, 26, 2:

quae (studia) remissa temporibus, longo intervallo intermissa revocavi,

id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

quod, utcunque praetermissum, revocari non posset,

Liv. 44, 40:

praetermissa,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 44:

quae (philosophia) nunc prope dimissa revocatur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 4, 11:

veteres artes,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 12:

priscos mores,

Liv. 39, 41:

antiquam duramque militiam,

Tac. A. 1, 20 fin.:

quaedam exoleta,

Suet. Claud. 22:

omissa,

id. Vesp. 16; id. Dom. 4 et saep.:

nonnumquam animum incitatum revoco ipse et reflecto,

Cic. Sull. 16, 46; cf. id. Att. 13, 1:

vinolenti dubitant, haesitant, revocant se interdum,

recover themselves, bethink themselves, id. Ac. 2, 17, 52:

ut quaedam contra naturam depravata restituerentur et corrigerentur ab naturā, cum se ipsa revocasset aut arte atque medicinā,

had recovered herself, id. Div. 2, 46, 96:

revocare se non poterat familiaritate implicatus,

could not withdraw, id. Pis. 29, 70:

primae revocabo exordia pugnae,

Verg. A. 7, 40; cf. Sen. Ben. 7, 25, 2 al.:

revocari in memoriam somnii,

Just. 1, 5, 3; 7, 1, 8.— Poet., with inf.: nec tamen illa suae revocatur parcere famae, nor can she be induced, persuaded, etc., Prop. 1, 16, 11:

memoriam ad referendam gratiam admonitione revocare,

to bring, induce, Sen. Ben. 5, 25, 6: scalam nobis in memoriam revocare, Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 38, 2; id. Serm. 280, 1:

in memoriam rursus revocatus,

Petr. 10:

revocat tua forma parentem (with recordor),

Sil. 16, 193:

magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 38; cf.:

eos ab illā consuetudine,

id. Rep. 2, 13, 25:

quos (homines) spes praedandi studiumque bellandi ab agriculturā et cottidiano labore revocabat,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17:

aliquam a cupiditate,

Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

aliquem a turpissimo consilio,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

aliquem a tanto scelere,

id. Cat. 3, 5, 10; cf. id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

animum ab irā,

Ov. Tr. 2, 557:

jam lapsos ab errore,

Quint. 2, 6, 2:

perterritos animos a metu,

id. 2, 16, 8 et saep.:

ab errore ad rectiorem viam,

Lact. 1, 1, 21: cum ex saevis et perditis rebus ad meliorem statum fortuna revocatur, Cic. ap. Amm. 15, 5, 23:

disceptationem ab rege ad Romanos revocabant,

Liv. 41, 20:

rebus institutis ad humanitatem atque mansuetudinem revocavit animos hominum studiis bellandi jam immanes ac feros,

Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 27:

ad quam eos quasi formulam dicendi revocent,

id. Opt. Gen. 5, 15:

ad quae me exempla revocas,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210; Quint. 10, 7, 32:

rem paene ad manus,

Cic. Clu. 49, 136:

me ad pristina studia revocavi,

id. Brut. 3, 11:

me ad meum munus pensumque revocabo,

id. de Or. 3, 30, 119:

se ad industriam,

id. Brut. 94, 323:

se rursus ad moestitiam,

id. Tusc. 3, 27, 64:

se ad se,

id. Ac. 2, 16, 51:

vilicum ad rationem,

compel to an account, Cato, R. R. 2, 2:

libertinos ingratos revocavit in servitutem,

Suet. Claud. 25:

fortunae possessionesque omnium in dubium incertumque revocabuntur,

Cic. Caecin. 27, 76:

ad spem consulatūs in partem revocandam aspirare non auderet,

to bring over to his side, Liv. 4, 35:

quod temporis hortorum aut villarum curae seponitur, in animum revocabo,

will transfer to my mind, Tac. A. 14, 54:

abi, Quo blandae juvenum te revocant preces (= a me ad se vocant, Orell.),

Hor. C. 4, 1, 7.—

In partic.

Pregn.: ad aliquid, to apply, reduce, refer a thing to something as a standard (syn. referre) (Ciceron.):

impuri cujusdam et ambitiosi et omnia ad suam potentiam revocantis esse sententiam,

Cic. Lael. 16, 59:

misericordiā movetur, si is, qui audit, adduci potest, ut illa, quae de altero deplorentur, ad suas res revocet,

id. de Or. 2, 52, 211:

omnia ad artem et ad praecepta,

id. ib. 2, 11, 44:

omnia ad scientiam,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 43:

illa de urbis situ ad rationem,

id. Rep. 2, 11, 22:

rationem ad veritatem,

id. Off. 3, 21, 84:

rem ad illam rationem conjecturamque,

id. Dom. 6, 15.—

To recall, revoke, retract, cancel (not so till after the Aug. per.): si facta mihi revocare liceret. Ov. M. 9, 617:

promissum suum,

Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2:

sententiam suam,

Dig. 48, 18, 1 fin.:

libertatem (shortly after: in servitutem retrahi),

Tac. A. 13, 26:

litteras,

Suet. Vesp. 8:

legatum ad quingenta,

id. Galb. 5.—

As law t. t.: domum, domum suam revocare, to appeal to a judge of one ' s own country or city: (legatis) revocandi domum suam jus datur, Dig. 5, 1, 2, §§ 3, 4, and 5.—

To ask back again, to invite in return: mutuo vocare, Non. (rare): domum suam istum non fere quisquam vocabat. Nec mirum;

qui neque in urbe viveret neque revocaturus esset,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 52; Varr. ap. Non. 167, 14:

cum vulpem revocasset,

Phaedr. 1, 25, 7; Lact. 6, 12, 3.—Hence, transf.:

tribuni plebis quoniam adhuc praesens certamen contentionemque fugerunt: nunc in meam contionem prodeant, et, quo provocati ad me venire noluerunt, revocati saltem revertantur,

i. e. now that they are invited to come back, Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 1.—

To call again, summon anew (rare):

itaque hominem populus revocat, et retrahatur necesse est,

i. e. to answer a renewed accusation, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 4 (6), 6:

tribuni de integro agere coeperunt revocaturosque se easdem tribus renuntiarunt,

Liv. 45, 36 fin.; cf. id. 40, 46:

refectum est convivium et rursus Quartilla ad bibendum revocavit,

challenged us again, Petr. 23:

convivam in diem posterum,

Suet. Claud. 32.

sē-mŏvĕo, mōvi, mōtum, 2, v. a., to move apart, to put aside, remove, separate (rare but class.; syn.: sepono, sejungo).

Lit.:

vos semotae, nos soli,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 50:

qui ante voce praeconis a liberis semovebantur,

Cic. Har. Resp. 12, 26.—

Trop., to part, separate, remove:

Strato ab eā disciplinā omnino semovendus est,

Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 34:

omnes sententias eorum omnino a philosophiā,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 39:

te a curis,

Lucr. 1, 51;

for which, also: curā metuque,

id. 2, 19:

egestatem ab dulci vitā,

id. 3, 66:

verba,

Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 19:

voluptatem semovendam esse,

id. Fin. 5, 8.— Hence, sēmōtus, a, um, P. a., remote, distant, far removed.

Lit.: colloquium petunt semoto a militibus loco, * Caes. B. C. 1, 84:

munitiones semotarum partium, Auct. B. Alex. 2, 3: longe semota tuemur,

Lucr. 5, 579; 4, 288:

terris semota,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 21:

semoti prius tarda necessitas Leti corripuit gradum,

id. C. 1, 3, 32.—

Trop.:

omnis divum natura Semota ab nostris rebus sejunctaque longe,

remote, different, distinct, Lucr. 2, 648:

cura semotu' metuque,

id. 2, 19:

semota ab dulci vitā stabilique,

id. 3, 66.— Comp.:

quo nihil a sapientis ratione semotius,

Lact. 5, 15 med.:

ut eorum disputationes et arcana semotaé dictionis peritus exciperem,

i. e. of their familiar conversation, Tac. Or. 2.—

* Adv.: sēmōtē, separately, apart, Marc. Emp. 20.