hive

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bed, (marriage bed) / lair, den, nest / hive of bees / seat

actus, a, um, P. a., from ago.

actus, ūs, m. [ago].

A.. The moving or driving of an object, impulse, motion: linguae actu, Pacuv. ap. Non. 506, 17:

mellis constantior est natura... et cunctantior actus,

Lucr. 3, 192:

levi admonitu, non actu, inflectit illam feram,

by driving, Cic. Rep. 2, 40:

fertur in abruptum magno mons inprobus actu,

Verg. A. 12, 687:

pila contorsit violento spiritus actu,

Sen. Agam. 432; hominum aut animalium actu vehiculum adhibemus, Cael. Aurel. Tard. 1, 1.— Hence,

Transf.

The right of driving cattle through a place, a passage for cattle:

aquae ductus, haustus, iter, actus,

Cic. Caec. 26; Ulp. Dig. 8, 3, 1.—

A road between fields; a cart- or carriage-way, Dig. 8, 1, 5; 8, 5, 4; 43, 19, 1 al.—And,

A measure or piece of land (in quo boves aguntur, cum aratur, cum impetu justo, Plin. 18, 59): actus minimus, 120 feet long and 4 feet wide: quadratus, 120 feet square; and duplicatus, 240 feet long and 120 feet wide, Varr. L. L. 5, § 34 Müll.; id. R. R. 1, 10; Paul. ex Fest. p. 17 Müll. Also a division made by bees in a hive, Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 22.

The doing or performing or a thing, an act, performance.

In gen. (so not in Cic.; for Leg. 1, 11, inst. of pravis actibus, is to be read, pravitatibus;

but often in the post-Aug. per.): post actum operis,

Quint. 2, 18, 1:

in vero actu rei,

id. 7, 2, 41:

rhetorice in actu consistit,

id. 2, 18, 2:

donec residua diurni actus conficeret,

Suet. Aug. 78; so id. Claud. 30:

non consenserat actibus eorum,

Vulg. Luc. 23, 51.—

Esp.

Public employment, business of state, esp. judicial:

actus rerum,

jurisdiction, Suet. Aug. 32; id. Claud. 15, 23; also absol. actus, Dig. 39, 4, 16; 40, 5, 41 al.—

Of an orator:

motus est in his orationis et actus,

Quint. 9, 2, 4; 11, 3, 140.—

Of an actor: the representation of a play, a part, a character, etc.:

neque enim histrioni, ut placeat, peragenda est fabula, modo in quocunque fuerit actu, probetur,

Cic. de Sen. 19, 70:

carminum actus,

recital, Liv. 7, 2:

histrionum actus,

Quint. 10, 2, 11:

in tragico quodam actu, cum elapsum baculum cito resumpsisset,

Suet. Ner. 24.—Hence, also, a larger division of a play, an act:

primo actu placeo,

Ter. Hec. prol. 31:

neque minor quinto, nec sit productior actu Fabula,

Hor. A. P. 189, and trop. (in Cic. very often):

extremus actus aetatis,

Cic. de Sen. 2; id. Marcell. 9:

quartus actus improbitatis,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 6; so id. Phil. 2, 14; id. Fam. 5, 12 al. [p. 26]

ădoptĭo, ōnis, f. [v. adoptatio], a taking or receiving of one in the place of a child (also of a grandchild, Dig. 1, 7, 10), an adopting, adoption (properly of one still under paternal authority, in patria potestate; on the contr., arrogatio referred to one who was already independent, homo sui juris. The former took place before the praetor or other magistrate and five witnesses, by a threefold mancipatio, i. e. sham sale;

the latter could only be effected before the assembled people in the comitia curiata,

Gell. 5, 19; Just. Inst. 1, 11; Dig. 1, 7. More used than adoptatio, q. v.):

emancipare filium alicui in adoptionem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7:

dare se alicui in adoptionem,

Vell. 2, 8, 2; Suet. Tib. 2; cf. Liv. 45, 40:

adscire aliquem per adoptionem,

Tac. A. 1, 3;

or, in adoptionem,

id. H. 2, 1:

inserere aliquem familiae per adoptionem,

Suet. Claud. 39 fin.:

adscitus adoptione in imperium et cognomentum,

Tac. A. 11, 11:

adoptio in Domitium festinatur,

id. ib. 12, 25:

adoptionem nuncupare,

to make known, to announce, id. H. 1, 17: adoptio consularis, performed by a consul, Quint. prooem. 6, 13 Spald. al.—

Transf., of plants, the ingrafting, Plin. prooem. 1, 16.—Of bees, the admittance to or reception in a new hive:

ut tamquam novae prolis adoptione domicilia confirmentur,

Col. 9, 13, 9.—In eccl. Lat., in spiritual sense of adoption as children of God:

adoptionem filiorum Dei,

Vulg. Rom. 8, 23; ib. Gal. 4, 5; ib. Ephes. 1, 5.

aedēs and aedis (the form aedes is found in Liv. 2, 21, 7; 2, 8, 14; 2, 9, 43 al., and now and then in other writers, but aedis is more common, as in Cic. Verr. 4, 55, § 121; id. Par. 4, 2, 31; Vitr. 4, 7, 1; Varr. 5, 32, 156 al.; Liv. 1, 33, 9 al.; Plin. 36, 6, 8, § 50), is, f., a building for habitation. [Aedis domicilium in edito positum simplex atque unius aditus. Sive ideo aedis dicitur, quod in ea aevum degatur, quod Graece aiôn vocatur, Fest. p. 13 Müll. Curtius refers this word to aithô, aestus, as meaning originally, fire-place, hearth; others, with probability, compare hedos, hedra, and sēdes.]

Sing., a dwelling of the gods, a sanctuary, a temple (prop., a simple edifice, without division into smaller apartments, while templum is a large and splendid structure, consecrated by the augurs, and belonging to one or more deities; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 4, 7; but after the Aug. period aedes was used for templum; cf. Suet. Caes. 78 with id. ib. 84): haec aedis, Varr. ap. Non. 494, 7:

senatum in aedem Jovis Statoris vocavi,

Cic. Cat. 2, 6: aedis Martis, Nep. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

aedes Mercurii dedicata est,

Liv. 2, 21:

hic aedem ex marmore molitus est,

Vell. 1, 11, 5:

inter altare et aedem,

Vulg. Luc. 11, 51:

aedem Concordiae,

Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 19:

aedes Veneris genitricis,

Suet. Caes. 78; v. above; id. ib. 10:

aedem Baal,

Vulg. 4 Reg. 10, 27; ib. Act. 19, 24 al.: haec ego ludo, quae nec in aede sonent, i. e. in the temple of the Muses, or of the Palatine Apollo, where poems were publicly recited, Hor. S. 1, 10, 38; cf.:

quanto molimine circumspectemus vacuam Romanis vatibus aedem,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 94.— Plur. in this sense generally in connection with sacrae, divinae, deorum, and only when several temples are spoken of:

aedes sacrae,

Cic. Dom. 49; cf. Suet. Aug. 30, 100:

Capitolii fastigium et ceterarum aedium,

Cic. de Or. 3, 46; cf. Liv. 38, 41:

Deorum aedes,

Suet. Cat. 21; cf. id. Ner. 38; id. Claud. 21 al.—

A dwelling for men, a house, habitation, [p. 52] obode (syn. domus; usu. only in the plur., as a collection of several apartments; but in the earliest period the sing. also may have had this signif., though but few certain examples of it have been preserved in the written language; cf. Plaut. As. 1, 3, 67:

hic noster quaestus aucupii simillimust... aedis nobis areast, auceps sum ego): aedes probae et pulchre aedificatae,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 60; id. Most. 1, 2, 18:

ultimae,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 29:

apud istum in aedibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19, § 50, and soon after: in mediis aedibus; cf. Verg. A. 2, 512:

liberae,

a house that is rent-free, Liv. 30, 17:

privatae,

Suet. Ner. 44 al. —Hence sometimes used for a part of the domus, a room, an apartment, chamber:

insectatur omnes domi per aedīs,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 31; Verg. G. 2, 462; cf. id. A. 2, 487 (v. also Gell. 4, 14; Curt. 8, 6; Hor. C. 1, 30, 4).—In Plaut., by comic license, aedes for familia: credo hercle has sustollat aedīs totas atque hunc in crucem, Mil. 2, 3, 39: ut ego suffringam his talos totis aedibus, to break the legs of this whole house (i. e. family), Truc. 2, 8, 7: ab aedibus, denoting office (cf. ab), a castellan:

CVM AB AEDIBVS ESSEM,

Inscr. Grut. 697, 1.—

Met., the cells (or hive) of bees:

clausis cunctantur in aedibus,

Verg. G. 4, 258.—

Trop.:

fac, sis, vacivas aedīs aurium, mea ut migrare dicta possint,

the chambers of your ears, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 54.—

Aedes aurata, a gilded funeral structure, on which the dead body of Cœsar was laid, a catafalque, Suet. Caes. 84.

fūcōsus, a, um, adj. [id.], painted, colored, beautified, counterfeit, spurious (Ciceron.):

visae merces, fallaces quidem et fucosae, chartis et linteis et vitro delatae,

Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40:

vicinitas non assueta mendaciis, non fucosa, non fallax, non erudita artificio simulationis,

id. Planc. 7, 22:

ambitiosae fucosaeque amicitiae,

id. Att. 1, 18, 2.

† fūcus, i, m., = phukos, rock-lichen, orchil, used as a red dye for woollen goods, Lichen roccella, Linn., Plin. 26, 10, 66, § 103 sq.:

ut lana tincta fuco citra purpuras placet,

Quint. 12, 10, 75.—

Transf., red or purple color.

In gen.:

infici vestes scimus admirabili fuco,

Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 3; Hor. C. 3, 5, 28; id. Ep. 1, 10, 27 Orell. ad loc.; Ov. M. 6, 222 al.—

In partic.

Rouge, paint for the complexion:

vetulae, quae vitia corporis fuco occulunt,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 118:

si caeruleo quaedam sua tempora fuco tinxerit,

Prop. 2, 18, 31 (3, 11, 10 M.):

mangones colorem fuco, et rerum robur inani sagina mentiantur,

Quint. 2, 15, 25.—

Dross, alloy, adulteration:

adulteratur (sal) rubrica aut testa trita, qui fucus aqua deprehenditur diluente,

Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 91.—

For propolis (q. v.), the reddish juice with which bees stop up the entrances to their hive, bee-glue, Verg. G. 4, 39. —

Trop., pretence, disguise, deceit, dissimulation:

his tribus figuris insidere quidam venustatis non fuco illitus, sed sanguine diffusus debet color,

Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199; cf.:

sententiae tam verae, tam novae, tam sine pigmentis fucoque puerili,

id. ib. 2, 45, 188:

fuco ementitus color,

Quint. 8, 3, 6:

in oratoris aut in poëtae cincinnis ac fuco,

Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 100:

mercem sine fucis gestat,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 83:

nec sycophantiis nec fucis ullum mantellum obviam est,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 6:

sine fuco ac fallaciis,

Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1: deum sese in hominem convertisse... fucum factum mulieri, i. e. to deceive, impose upon (vulg.), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 41:

si eum, qui tibi promiserit, audieris fucum, ut dicitur, facere velle aut senseris,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9, 35.

mellīgo, ĭnis, f. [mel].

A honey-like juice, sucked by the bees from flowers, but not yet made into honey, bee-glue, bees'rosin, hive-dross (post-Aug.), Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14; 16, 7, 10, § 28.—

The juice of unripe grapes:

uvae,

Plin. 12, 27, 60, § 131.

plebs (in inscriptions often PLEPS), -bis, and archaic plēbēs (‡ plēbis), is and ĕi (plebium, Prud. steph. 10, 709:

plebibus,

Aug. Ep. 166), f. [root ple-, fill; whence Gr. pimplêmi, plêrês; cf. plê thos, multitude].

Lit., the common people, the commons or commonalty, the plebeians (opp. the patricians, senators, and knights;

whereas populus signifies the collective people, including, therefore, the Senate),

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 10: plebes in hoc regi antistat loco, licet Lacrumare plebi, regi honeste non licet, Enn. ap. Hier. Epit. Nep. p. 590 Mign. (Trag. v. 271 Vahl.):

plebs a populo eo differt quo species a genere: nam appellatione populi universi cives significantur, connumeratis etiam patriciis et senatoribus: plebis autem appellatione sine patribus et senatu ceteri cives significantur,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 4; cf. Gai. Inst. 1, 3:

plebes dominandi studio permota a patribus secessit,

Sall. C. 33, 3:

ita tribuni plebei creati duo,

Liv. 2, 33, 2:

dum decem tribunos plebi faceret,

id. 3, 65, 4:

non enim populi, sed plebis eum (sc.: tribunum plebis) magistratum esse,

Liv. 2, 56:

populo plebique Romanae,

Cic. Mur. 1, 1:

in duas partes ego civitatem divisam arbitror in patres, et plebem,

Sall. Or. ad Caes. 2, 5; Liv. 2, 56:

Martia Roma triplex equitatu, plebe, senatu,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 78.—

Transf., in gen.

The great mass, the multitude:

in Hyrcaniā, plebs publicos alit canes, optimates domesticos,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108:

plebem et infimam multitudinem delinire,

id. Mil. 35, 95.—

With accessory notion of contempt, the populace, the lower class or order, the mass ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

multitudo de plebe,

Liv. 5, 39:

si quadringentis sex septem millia desunt, Plebs eris,

you shall be plebeian, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 59:

misera,

id. S. 1, 8, 10:

ventosa,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 37:

immensa nimiaque,

Juv. 11, 194.—Among the gods:

plebs Superūm, Fauni, Satyrique, Laresque, Fluminaque, et Nymphae, Semideūmque genus,

Ov. Ib. 81.—Of bees, a stock, swarm, hive (meaning the great mass, opp. to the queen); in plur. (rare):

tres alveorum plebes,

Col. 9, 11, 1: corona plebium, Prud. steph. 10, 709.—

The whole people, nation, community, = populus (late Lat.), Vulg. Gen. 23, 13:

plebs tua Israel,

id. Luc. 2, 32 et saep.

Sīrēn, ēnis, f., = Seirên, a Siren.

Lit., usu. plur.: Sīrēnes, um, = Seirênes, the Sirens, who, according to the myth, were birds with the faces of virgins. They dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them, Ov. M. 5, 555; Hyg. Fab. 125; 141; Serv. Verg. A. 5, 864; Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 23; Mart. 3, 64, 1; Ov. R. Am. 789; Plin. 10, 49, 70, § 136 al.— Sing.:

Siren,

Sil. 14, 473; cf. infra, 2.: scopuli Sirenum, three small islands of rock on the south-west coast of Campania, between Surrentum and Capreœ; in Gr. Seirênousai, now Galli, Verg. A. 5, 864 Heyne; Ov. M. 14, 88;

also called Sirenum petrae,

Mel. 2, 4, 9.—Hence, strange birds: Sirenes in delubris voluptatum, owls or ostriches, Vulg. lsa. 13, 22.—

Transf.

Of the drones in a hive:

fuei (vocantur) sirenes aut cephenes,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48. —

Poet.: Cato Grammaticus, Latina Siren, the Latin Siren (as master of song), Poët. ap. Suet. Gram. 11:

qui gaudet acerbo Plagarum strepitu et nullam Sirena flagellis Comparat,

i. e. thinks no Siren's song equal to the sound of the whip, Juv. 14, 19:

vitanda est improba Siren Desidia,

allurer, seducer, Hor. S. 2, 3, 14.—Hence,

Sīrē-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Sirens, Siren-:

scopuli, i. q. Sirenum scopuli (v. supra, I.),

Gell. 16, 8, 17; Amm. 29, 2, 14. —

Sīrēnaeus, a, um, adj., Siren-:

cantus,

Siren-song, Hier. Ep. 82, 5.—

Sī-rēnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of the Sirens, Prisc. Perieg. 354.—

A kind of drones, Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.

Sīrēn, ēnis, f., = Seirên, a Siren.

Lit., usu. plur.: Sīrēnes, um, = Seirênes, the Sirens, who, according to the myth, were birds with the faces of virgins. They dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them, Ov. M. 5, 555; Hyg. Fab. 125; 141; Serv. Verg. A. 5, 864; Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 23; Mart. 3, 64, 1; Ov. R. Am. 789; Plin. 10, 49, 70, § 136 al.— Sing.:

Siren,

Sil. 14, 473; cf. infra, 2.: scopuli Sirenum, three small islands of rock on the south-west coast of Campania, between Surrentum and Capreœ; in Gr. Seirênousai, now Galli, Verg. A. 5, 864 Heyne; Ov. M. 14, 88;

also called Sirenum petrae,

Mel. 2, 4, 9.—Hence, strange birds: Sirenes in delubris voluptatum, owls or ostriches, Vulg. lsa. 13, 22.—

Transf.

Of the drones in a hive:

fuei (vocantur) sirenes aut cephenes,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48. —

Poet.: Cato Grammaticus, Latina Siren, the Latin Siren (as master of song), Poët. ap. Suet. Gram. 11:

qui gaudet acerbo Plagarum strepitu et nullam Sirena flagellis Comparat,

i. e. thinks no Siren's song equal to the sound of the whip, Juv. 14, 19:

vitanda est improba Siren Desidia,

allurer, seducer, Hor. S. 2, 3, 14.—Hence,

Sīrē-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Sirens, Siren-:

scopuli, i. q. Sirenum scopuli (v. supra, I.),

Gell. 16, 8, 17; Amm. 29, 2, 14. —

Sīrēnaeus, a, um, adj., Siren-:

cantus,

Siren-song, Hier. Ep. 82, 5.—

Sī-rēnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of the Sirens, Prisc. Perieg. 354.—

A kind of drones, Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.

Sīrēn, ēnis, f., = Seirên, a Siren.

Lit., usu. plur.: Sīrēnes, um, = Seirênes, the Sirens, who, according to the myth, were birds with the faces of virgins. They dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them, Ov. M. 5, 555; Hyg. Fab. 125; 141; Serv. Verg. A. 5, 864; Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 23; Mart. 3, 64, 1; Ov. R. Am. 789; Plin. 10, 49, 70, § 136 al.— Sing.:

Siren,

Sil. 14, 473; cf. infra, 2.: scopuli Sirenum, three small islands of rock on the south-west coast of Campania, between Surrentum and Capreœ; in Gr. Seirênousai, now Galli, Verg. A. 5, 864 Heyne; Ov. M. 14, 88;

also called Sirenum petrae,

Mel. 2, 4, 9.—Hence, strange birds: Sirenes in delubris voluptatum, owls or ostriches, Vulg. lsa. 13, 22.—

Transf.

Of the drones in a hive:

fuei (vocantur) sirenes aut cephenes,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48. —

Poet.: Cato Grammaticus, Latina Siren, the Latin Siren (as master of song), Poët. ap. Suet. Gram. 11:

qui gaudet acerbo Plagarum strepitu et nullam Sirena flagellis Comparat,

i. e. thinks no Siren's song equal to the sound of the whip, Juv. 14, 19:

vitanda est improba Siren Desidia,

allurer, seducer, Hor. S. 2, 3, 14.—Hence,

Sīrē-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Sirens, Siren-:

scopuli, i. q. Sirenum scopuli (v. supra, I.),

Gell. 16, 8, 17; Amm. 29, 2, 14. —

Sīrēnaeus, a, um, adj., Siren-:

cantus,

Siren-song, Hier. Ep. 82, 5.—

Sī-rēnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of the Sirens, Prisc. Perieg. 354.—

A kind of drones, Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.

Sīrēn, ēnis, f., = Seirên, a Siren.

Lit., usu. plur.: Sīrēnes, um, = Seirênes, the Sirens, who, according to the myth, were birds with the faces of virgins. They dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them, Ov. M. 5, 555; Hyg. Fab. 125; 141; Serv. Verg. A. 5, 864; Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 23; Mart. 3, 64, 1; Ov. R. Am. 789; Plin. 10, 49, 70, § 136 al.— Sing.:

Siren,

Sil. 14, 473; cf. infra, 2.: scopuli Sirenum, three small islands of rock on the south-west coast of Campania, between Surrentum and Capreœ; in Gr. Seirênousai, now Galli, Verg. A. 5, 864 Heyne; Ov. M. 14, 88;

also called Sirenum petrae,

Mel. 2, 4, 9.—Hence, strange birds: Sirenes in delubris voluptatum, owls or ostriches, Vulg. lsa. 13, 22.—

Transf.

Of the drones in a hive:

fuei (vocantur) sirenes aut cephenes,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48. —

Poet.: Cato Grammaticus, Latina Siren, the Latin Siren (as master of song), Poët. ap. Suet. Gram. 11:

qui gaudet acerbo Plagarum strepitu et nullam Sirena flagellis Comparat,

i. e. thinks no Siren's song equal to the sound of the whip, Juv. 14, 19:

vitanda est improba Siren Desidia,

allurer, seducer, Hor. S. 2, 3, 14.—Hence,

Sīrē-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Sirens, Siren-:

scopuli, i. q. Sirenum scopuli (v. supra, I.),

Gell. 16, 8, 17; Amm. 29, 2, 14. —

Sīrēnaeus, a, um, adj., Siren-:

cantus,

Siren-song, Hier. Ep. 82, 5.—

Sī-rēnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of the Sirens, Prisc. Perieg. 354.—

A kind of drones, Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.