homo+rusticus

impĕrītus ( inp-), a, um, adj. [2. inperitus], inexperienced in any thing, not knowing, unacquainted with, unskilled, ignorant, without experience (class.; syn.: ignarus, rudis; opp. prudens, callidus); constr. usually with the gen. or absol., rarely with in.

With gen.:

homines adulescentulos, inperitos rerum,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 8:

summi juris peritissimus, civilis non imperitus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 3:

imperitus foederis, rudis exemplorum, ignarus belli,

id. Balb. 20, 47; cf. id. de Or. 3, 44, 175: homo imperitus morum, agricola et rusticus, with no experience of life, id. Rosc. Am. 49, 143:

homines barbari et nostrae consuetudinis imperiti,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 1; cf. id. ib. 1, 44, 17:

conviciorum,

Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14:

lyrae,

Quint. 1, 10, 19:

poëmatum quoque non imperitus,

Suet. Aug. 89.—

Absol.:

homine inperito numquam quicquam injustius,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 18:

cum in theatro imperiti homines, rerum omnium rudes ignarique consederant,

Cic. Fl. 7, 16:

callidum imperitus fraudasse dicitur,

id. Rosc. Com. 7, 21:

sin apud indoctos imperitosque dicemus,

id. Part. 26, 92; cf. id. Rep. 1, 16:

cum imperiti facile ad credendum impellerentur,

id. ib. 2, 10:

uti prudentes cum imperitis manus consererent,

Sall. J. 49, 2:

ne quis imperitior existimet, me, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; so,

imperitiores quidam,

Quint. 1, 10, 28:

contio quae ex imperitissimis constat, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 25, 95:

multitudo imperita et rudis,

Liv. 1, 19, 4.—Rarely of things:

ingenium,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 39:

poëma imperito quodam initio fusum,

Quint. 9, 4, 114.—

With in:

in his non imperitus,

Vitr. 1, 1: in verbis adeo imperitus, Quint 1, 4, 27; 12, 3, 5.— Hence, adv.: impĕrītē, unskilfully, ignorantly, awkwardly:

imperite absurdeque fictum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 15:

dicebat Scipio non imperite,

id. Brut. 47, 175:

excerpta,

Quint. 2, 15, 24.—Ellipt.: hoc imperite ( suppl. factum), Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 81.— Comp.:

quid potuit dici imperitius?

Cic. Balb. 8, 20.— Sup.:

cum est illud imperitissime dictum,

Cic. Balb. 11, 27.

impĕrītus ( inp-), a, um, adj. [2. inperitus], inexperienced in any thing, not knowing, unacquainted with, unskilled, ignorant, without experience (class.; syn.: ignarus, rudis; opp. prudens, callidus); constr. usually with the gen. or absol., rarely with in.

With gen.:

homines adulescentulos, inperitos rerum,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 8:

summi juris peritissimus, civilis non imperitus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 3:

imperitus foederis, rudis exemplorum, ignarus belli,

id. Balb. 20, 47; cf. id. de Or. 3, 44, 175: homo imperitus morum, agricola et rusticus, with no experience of life, id. Rosc. Am. 49, 143:

homines barbari et nostrae consuetudinis imperiti,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 1; cf. id. ib. 1, 44, 17:

conviciorum,

Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14:

lyrae,

Quint. 1, 10, 19:

poëmatum quoque non imperitus,

Suet. Aug. 89.—

Absol.:

homine inperito numquam quicquam injustius,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 18:

cum in theatro imperiti homines, rerum omnium rudes ignarique consederant,

Cic. Fl. 7, 16:

callidum imperitus fraudasse dicitur,

id. Rosc. Com. 7, 21:

sin apud indoctos imperitosque dicemus,

id. Part. 26, 92; cf. id. Rep. 1, 16:

cum imperiti facile ad credendum impellerentur,

id. ib. 2, 10:

uti prudentes cum imperitis manus consererent,

Sall. J. 49, 2:

ne quis imperitior existimet, me, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; so,

imperitiores quidam,

Quint. 1, 10, 28:

contio quae ex imperitissimis constat, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 25, 95:

multitudo imperita et rudis,

Liv. 1, 19, 4.—Rarely of things:

ingenium,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 39:

poëma imperito quodam initio fusum,

Quint. 9, 4, 114.—

With in:

in his non imperitus,

Vitr. 1, 1: in verbis adeo imperitus, Quint 1, 4, 27; 12, 3, 5.— Hence, adv.: impĕrītē, unskilfully, ignorantly, awkwardly:

imperite absurdeque fictum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 15:

dicebat Scipio non imperite,

id. Brut. 47, 175:

excerpta,

Quint. 2, 15, 24.—Ellipt.: hoc imperite ( suppl. factum), Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 81.— Comp.:

quid potuit dici imperitius?

Cic. Balb. 8, 20.— Sup.:

cum est illud imperitissime dictum,

Cic. Balb. 11, 27.

Mĭnerva (old orthogr. Menerva, like magester, leber, etc., acc. to Quint. 1, 4, 17), ae, f. [from the root men, whence mens, memini, moneo, etc.; v. infra], a Roman goddess, identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene, the daughter of Zeus, and the goddess of wisdom, of sense and reflection, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving: Minerva dicta, quod bene moneat. Hanc enim pagani pro sapientiā ponebant; Cornificius vero, quod fingatur pingaturque minitans armis, eandem dictam putat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll.; cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 180; 3, 23, 59; Varr. L. L. 5, § 74 Müll.:

daedala, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. daedalam, p. 68: Minerva nostra, custos urbis,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 1:

Minerva Iliensis,

Ulp. Fragm. 22, 6:

Aristoteles... Minervam esse Lunam probabilibus argumentis demonstrat,

Arn. 3, 31.—Prov.: pingui or crassā Minervā aliquid facere, without art, skill, or learning, plainly, rudely, Col. 1 praef. § 33; Cic. Lael 5, 19:

rusticus crassā Minervā,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 3:

invitā Minervā,

contrary to the bent of one's genius or natural abilities, against the grain, Hor. A. P. 385: quia nihil [p. 1146] decet invitā, ut aiunt, Minervā, id est adversante et repugnante naturā, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 301:

sus Minervam (docet),

a stupid man will instruct a wise one, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 18:

omnis Minervae homo,

jack - of - alltrades, Petr. 43, 8: MINERVA MEDICA, i. e. medicina, the goddess of health, Inscr Rein. 11, 81:

fecit ex ebore aeque Minervam,

a statue of Minerva, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 54. — Transf.

A working in wool, spinning and weaving:

tolerare colo vitam tenuique Minervā ( = telā, lanificio),

Verg. A. 8, 409; Ov. M. 4, 33; Prop. 2, 9, 5.—

To form the name of a place.

Minervae Arx, v. Minervius, II. B.—

Minervae Promontorium, a promontory in Campania, to the south-east of Surrentum, the abode of the Sirens, now Punta della Capanella, Liv. 40, 18, 8; Ov. M. 15, 709.

nundĭnus, a, um, adj. [novem-dies], of or belonging to nine days; hence, subst.

Nundĭna, ae, f. (sc. dea), the goddess who presided over the purification and naming of infants, which took place in the case of boys on the ninth and in that of girls on the eighth day after birth, Macr. S. 1, 16, 36.—

nundĭnae, ārum (sing. collat. form nundĭna, ae, Sid. Ep. 7, 5), f., the ninth day, i. e. the market-day, the weekly market; denoting the time, the place, and the business (on market-days the country people came into the city for the purpose of buying and selling, and of attending to public and religious affairs): nundinas feriatum diem esse voluerunt antiqui, ut rustici convenirent mercandi vendendique causā: eumque nefastum, ne, si liceret cum populo agi, interpellarentur nundinatores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf.:

Rutilius scribit, Romanos instituisse nundinas, ut octo quidem diebus in agris rustici opus facerent, nono autem die, intermisso rure, ad mercatum Legesque accipiendas Romam venirent,

Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34:

annum ita diviserunt, ut nonis modo diebus urbanas res usurparent, reliquis VII. ut rura colerent,

Varr. R. R. 2 praef. § 1: erat in eo ipso loco nundinarum panêguris, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 1:

illi Capuam nundinas rusticorum, horreum Campani agri esse voluerunt,

id. Agr. 2, 33, 89; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28; 18, 3, 3, § 13:

farris pretium in trinis nundinis ad assem redegit,

id. 18, 3, 4, § 15.—

Trop., trade, traffic, sale:

totius rei publicae nundinae,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11; cf.:

vectigalium flagitiosissimae nundinae,

id. ib. 2, 14, 35.—

nundĭnum, i, n., the markettime, for the most part only in the connection inter nundinum, the time between two nundinae, and trinum nundinum, the time of three nundinae, or at least seventeen days (reckoned from the first market-day to the third, inclusive; it was necessary that this period should expire before a bill could be put to the vote. Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34): si nihil gustat inter nundinum, Lucil. ap. Non. 214, 28:

quoties priscus homo ac rusticus Romanus inter nundinum barbam radebat,

Varr. ib. 214, 30; 32:

postquam comitia decemviris creandis in trinum nundinum indicta sunt,

on the third market-day, Liv. 3, 35:

rogatio sive non trino forte nundino promulgata sive non idoneo die,

Quint. 2, 4, 35:

quod in ceteris legibus trinum nundinum esse oportet,

Cic. Dom. 16, 41:

primo nundino,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—

The duration of the consulship, under the emperors ( = two months), Vop. Tac. 9; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.

nundĭnus, a, um, adj. [novem-dies], of or belonging to nine days; hence, subst.

Nundĭna, ae, f. (sc. dea), the goddess who presided over the purification and naming of infants, which took place in the case of boys on the ninth and in that of girls on the eighth day after birth, Macr. S. 1, 16, 36.—

nundĭnae, ārum (sing. collat. form nundĭna, ae, Sid. Ep. 7, 5), f., the ninth day, i. e. the market-day, the weekly market; denoting the time, the place, and the business (on market-days the country people came into the city for the purpose of buying and selling, and of attending to public and religious affairs): nundinas feriatum diem esse voluerunt antiqui, ut rustici convenirent mercandi vendendique causā: eumque nefastum, ne, si liceret cum populo agi, interpellarentur nundinatores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf.:

Rutilius scribit, Romanos instituisse nundinas, ut octo quidem diebus in agris rustici opus facerent, nono autem die, intermisso rure, ad mercatum Legesque accipiendas Romam venirent,

Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34:

annum ita diviserunt, ut nonis modo diebus urbanas res usurparent, reliquis VII. ut rura colerent,

Varr. R. R. 2 praef. § 1: erat in eo ipso loco nundinarum panêguris, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 1:

illi Capuam nundinas rusticorum, horreum Campani agri esse voluerunt,

id. Agr. 2, 33, 89; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28; 18, 3, 3, § 13:

farris pretium in trinis nundinis ad assem redegit,

id. 18, 3, 4, § 15.—

Trop., trade, traffic, sale:

totius rei publicae nundinae,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11; cf.:

vectigalium flagitiosissimae nundinae,

id. ib. 2, 14, 35.—

nundĭnum, i, n., the markettime, for the most part only in the connection inter nundinum, the time between two nundinae, and trinum nundinum, the time of three nundinae, or at least seventeen days (reckoned from the first market-day to the third, inclusive; it was necessary that this period should expire before a bill could be put to the vote. Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34): si nihil gustat inter nundinum, Lucil. ap. Non. 214, 28:

quoties priscus homo ac rusticus Romanus inter nundinum barbam radebat,

Varr. ib. 214, 30; 32:

postquam comitia decemviris creandis in trinum nundinum indicta sunt,

on the third market-day, Liv. 3, 35:

rogatio sive non trino forte nundino promulgata sive non idoneo die,

Quint. 2, 4, 35:

quod in ceteris legibus trinum nundinum esse oportet,

Cic. Dom. 16, 41:

primo nundino,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—

The duration of the consulship, under the emperors ( = two months), Vop. Tac. 9; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.

ŏpĕrārĭus, a, um, adj. [opera], of or belonging to labor (class.):

homo,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8:

pecus,

working-cattle, Col. 6, 2, 15:

vinum,

for working-men, Plin. 14, 10, 12, § 86.—

Subst.

ŏpĕrārĭus, ii, m., a laborer, workman, operative:

habere oportet operarios quinque,

Cato, R. R. 10, 1: operarius rusticus, the peasant as a day-laborer, Edict. Diocl. 7, 1; cf.:

operarius agrarius,

Vulg. Ecclus. 37, 13:

quos singulos sicut operarios barbarosque contemnas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā,

fluent talkers, bad orators, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83:

operarium nobis quendam oratorem facis,

underworkman, id. ib. 1, 62, 263:

si quid actum erit, quod isti operarii minus commode persequi possent,

i. e. scribes, secretaries, id. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.

ŏpĕrārĭus, a, um, adj. [opera], of or belonging to labor (class.):

homo,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8:

pecus,

working-cattle, Col. 6, 2, 15:

vinum,

for working-men, Plin. 14, 10, 12, § 86.—

Subst.

ŏpĕrārĭus, ii, m., a laborer, workman, operative:

habere oportet operarios quinque,

Cato, R. R. 10, 1: operarius rusticus, the peasant as a day-laborer, Edict. Diocl. 7, 1; cf.:

operarius agrarius,

Vulg. Ecclus. 37, 13:

quos singulos sicut operarios barbarosque contemnas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā,

fluent talkers, bad orators, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83:

operarium nobis quendam oratorem facis,

underworkman, id. ib. 1, 62, 263:

si quid actum erit, quod isti operarii minus commode persequi possent,

i. e. scribes, secretaries, id. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.

urbānus, a, um, adj. [urbs], of or belonging to the city or town, city-, town- (opp. rusticus; cf.: urbicus, oppidanus).

Lit.

Adj.:

nostri majores non sine causā praeponebant rusticos Romanos urbanis,

Varr. R. R. 2, praef. §

1: rustica et urbana vita,

id. ib. 3, 1, 1:

vita (opp. rustica),

Quint. 2, 4, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 17:

urbani assidui cives, quos scurras vocant,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 165:

scurra,

id. Most. 1, 1, 14:

leges,

id. Rud. 4, 3, 85:

tribus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

praetor,

Caes. B. C. 3, 20:

plebes,

Sall. C. 37, 4:

servitia,

id. ib. 24, 4:

exercitus,

Liv. 27, 3, 9:

administratio rei publicae (opp. provincialis),

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15, § 43:

res,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 13; Caes. B. G. 7, 6:

motus,

id. ib. 7, 1:

luxus,

Tac. A. 2, 44: praedia, land and houses, all land covered by buildings (v. praedium), Dig. 50, 16, 198; 8, 1, 1; cf. ib. 8, tit. 2:

fundus,

Cato, R. R. 8, 2:

rus,

Just. 31, 2:

cohortes,

Dig. 25, 1, 8, § 9.—

Subst.: urbā-nus, i, m., an inhabitant of a city, a city man, citizen:

urbani fiunt rustici,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 15 sq.:

omnes urbani, rustici,

Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 77:

sermo omnis non modo urbanorum, sed etiam rusticorum,

id. Or. 24, 81:

otiosi,

Liv. 5, 20, 6:

obrepere urbanis,

Plin. Ep. 9, 20, 2.—

Esp., devoted to the city, fond of city life:

diligere secessum, quem tu nimis urbanus es, nisi concupiscis,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 29.—

Transf., in the city fashion, in the city style, citizenlike, both in a good and a bad sense.

In a good sense.

Polished, refined, cultivated, courteous, affable, urbane (syn.:

comis, humanus): hominem non solum sapientem, verum etiam, ut nunc loquimur urbanum,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 3; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 34 sq.; so Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 17.—

Transf., of plants, improved, cultivated, ornamental: sunt arborum quaedam urbaniores, quas his placet nominibus distinguere. Hae mites, quae fructu atque aliqua dote umbrarumve officio humaniusjuvant, non improbe dicantur urbanae. Plin. 16, 19, 32, § 78:

acanthi topiariae et urbanae herbae,

id. 22, 22, 34, § 76.—

Of speech.

In gen., refined, polished, elegant. nice, choice:

in vocibus nostrorum oratorum recinit quiddam et resonat urbanius,

Cic. Brut. 46, 171:

genus dicendi,

Quint. 2, 8, 4:

os facile, explanatum, jucundum, urbanum, id est, in quo nulla neque rusticitas neque peregrinitas resonet,

id. 11, 3, 30:

distinctior et urbanior et altior Cicero,

Tac. Or. 18.—

In [p. 1935] partic., of wit, witty, humorous, facetious: urbanus homo erit, cujus multa bene dicta responsaque erunt: et qui in sermonibus, circulis, conviviis, item in contionibus, omni denique loco ridicule commodeque dicet, Domit. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 105:

dictum per se urbanum,

id. 6, 3, 54:

circumfertur Marcii Philippi velut urbanissimum factum atque dictum,

Col. 8, 16, 3:

qui est in isto genere urbanissimus,

Cic. Cael. 15, 36:

Romani veteres atque urbani sales,

id. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

homines lauti et urbani,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 17:

hic tibi comis et urbanus liberque videtur,

witty, clever, Hor. S. 1, 4, 90:

urbanus coepit haberi,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 27:

in senatu dicax et urbanus et bellus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 25, 3:

urbanos qui illa censuerunt dicam an miseros? Dicerem urbanos, si senatum deceret urbanitas,

id. ib. 8, 6, 3.—

In a bad sense, bold, forward, impudent:

frontis ad urbanae descendi praemia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 11:

audacia,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.— Adv.: urbānē (acc. to II. A.).

Courteously, civilly, affably, politely, urbanely:

severe et graviter et prisce agere, an remisse ac leniter et urbane,

Cic. Cael. 14, 33:

urbanius agere,

id. ib. 15, 36: urbanissime et prudentissime adjuvit, Treb. Gallien. 14.—More freq.,

Of speech, wittily, acutely, elegantly, happily:

aliquem facete et urbane ridere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 39:

bene et urbane dicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 42; 5, 7, 26; 6, 1, 46 al.:

interrogare,

id. 11, 3, 126:

emendare,

id. 8, 3, 54:

urbanius elabi,

id. 2, 11, 2:

urbanissime respondere,

Gell. 15, 5, 3.

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