hos-tis

a Lowlander, stranger, Irish Gall, a stranger, Englishman, Early Irish gall, foreigner; from Gallus, a Gaul, the Gauls being the first strangers to visit or be visited by the Irish in Pre-Roman and Roman times (Zimmer). for derivation See gal, valour. Stokes takes a different view; he gives as basis for gall, stranger, *gallo-s, Welsh gal, enemy, foe: *ghaslo-? root ghas, Latin hos-tis, English guest. Hence he derives Gallus, a Gaul, so named from some Celtic dialect.

ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;

oftener aliquis,

id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).

A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):

Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:

hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:

utinam modo agatur aliquid!

Cic. Att. 3, 15:

aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,

I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:

fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,

Cic. Phil. 1, 3:

quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,

id. Off. 2, 7, 24:

quod motum adfert alicui,

to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:

nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,

any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:

non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,

Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:

in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,

Quint. 4, 2, 67:

sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,

Tac. Or. 25:

laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,

Quint. 2, 4, 12:

quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:

nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?

Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:

Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,

Ov. M. 10, 560:

si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,

id. ib. 4, 326.—

Not unfrequently with adj.:

Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:

novum aliquid advertere,

Tac. A. 15, 30:

judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,

Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,

in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:

dignum aliquid elaborare,

Tac. Or. 9:

aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,

Liv. 27, 43:

aliquid exquisitum,

Tac. A. 12, 66:

aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,

id. Or. 20:

sanctum aliquid et providum,

id. G. 8:

insigne aliquid faceret eis,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:

aliquid magnum,

Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:

quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,

Vulg. Act. 8, 9:

majus aliquid et excelsius,

Tac. A. 3, 53:

melius aliquid,

Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:

deterius aliquid,

ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:

ad unum aliquem confugiebant,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;

effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,

id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:

aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,

id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:

cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?

that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—

Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:

aliquis ex vobis,

Cic. Cael. 3:

aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,

Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:

ex principibus aliquis,

Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:

aliquis de tribus nobis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 7:

si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:

suorum aliquis,

Cic. Phil. 8, 9:

exspectabam aliquem meorum,

id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:

trium rerum aliqua consequemur,

Cic. Part. 8, 30:

impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,

Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:

principum aliquis,

Tac. G. 13:

cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,

Liv. 22, 13:

horum aliquid,

Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—

Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:

aliquid pugnae,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:

vestimenti aridi,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:

consilii,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:

monstri,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:

scitamentorum,

Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:

armorum,

Tac. G. 18:

boni,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:

aequi,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:

mali,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:

novi,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:

potionis,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:

virium,

Cic. Fam. 11, 18:

falsi,

id. Caecin. 1, 3:

vacui,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

mdefensi,

Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:

aliquo loci morari,

Dig. 18, 7, 1.—

Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:

asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,

id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:

non despero fore aliquem aliquando,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—

In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:

si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,

Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:

Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:

si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59:

si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,

Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:

si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,

Cic. Lael. 23, 88:

si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,

id. ib. 8, 27:

cui (puero) si aliquid erit,

id. Fam. 14, 1:

nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,

Nep. Dion, 8, 2:

si aliquid eorum praestitit,

Liv. 24, 8.—

In negative clauses with ne:

Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,

Cic. Mil. 24, 66:

ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,

Nep. Epam. 4, 4:

ne alicui dicerent,

Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—

In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:

me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—

In Verg. once with the second person sing.:

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,

Verg. A. 4, 625.

aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:

nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;

Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:

num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?

id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:

ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,

id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:

si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,

Tac. Or. 41 Halm:

sic est aliquis oratorum campus,

id. ib. 39 id.:

sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,

id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.

Esp.

With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:

dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:

potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,

Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:

ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,

id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:

non est in alio aliquo salus,

Vulg. Act. 4, 12:

aliquid aliud promittere,

Petr. 10, 5 al. —

And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:

vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,

Cic. Brut. 44:

aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,

Liv. 34, 38:

cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;

et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,

Suet. Tib. 47.—

In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):

non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,

Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,

Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:

atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,

Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:

aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,

Juv. 1, 73:

an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,

Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:

ego quoque aliquid sum,

id. Fam. 6, 18:

qui videbantur aliquid esse,

Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):

sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:

est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,

Ov. F. 6, 27:

Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,

id. M. 13, 241:

est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,

Juv. 3, 230:

omina sunt aliquid,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,

crimen abesse,

id. F. 1, 484:

Sunt aliquid Manes,

Prop. 5, 7, 1:

est aliquid eloquentia,

Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —

Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:

diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:

Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—

In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:

mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—

Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):

idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,

Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—

Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;

7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,

Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—

It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:

praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:

sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:

sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,

Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—

Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:

Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,

Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.

ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:

illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:

si in me aliquid offendistis,

at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:

quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,

somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,

Liv. 31, 29:

Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?

Verg. A. 10, 84:

neque circumcisio aliquid valet,

Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:

perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,

Liv. 41, 2:

aliquid et spatio fessus,

Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—

ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).

Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:

ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:

aliquo abicere,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:

concludere,

id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):

ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 17:

demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,

id. Dom. 100:

aliquem aliquo impellere,

id. Vatin. 15:

aliquo exire,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:

aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,

Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:

in angulum Aliquo abire,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:

aliquem rus aliquo educere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—

With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):

dum proficiscor aliquo,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:

si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—

ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.

Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).

Absol.:

ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,

Cic. Clu. 9, 25:

Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:

in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,

Nep. Con. 5, 3;

id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,

Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—

Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:

pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,

Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:

quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:

controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,

Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:

ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,

Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—

With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:

exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 82. —

Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:

Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,

Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:

deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,

Mel. 1, 13.—

Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):

sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:

aliquammultis diebus decumbo,

App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:

sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,

App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:

aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,

Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—

ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).

Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):

antevenito aliquā aliquos,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:

si quā evasissent aliquā,

Liv. 26, 27, 12.—

Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:

aliquid aliquā sentire,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:

aliquid aliquā resciscere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:

aliquā obesse,

App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—

ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:

Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.

plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod.

ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;

oftener aliquis,

id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).

A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):

Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:

hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:

utinam modo agatur aliquid!

Cic. Att. 3, 15:

aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,

I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:

fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,

Cic. Phil. 1, 3:

quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,

id. Off. 2, 7, 24:

quod motum adfert alicui,

to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:

nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,

any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:

non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,

Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:

in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,

Quint. 4, 2, 67:

sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,

Tac. Or. 25:

laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,

Quint. 2, 4, 12:

quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:

nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?

Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:

Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,

Ov. M. 10, 560:

si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,

id. ib. 4, 326.—

Not unfrequently with adj.:

Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:

novum aliquid advertere,

Tac. A. 15, 30:

judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,

Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,

in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:

dignum aliquid elaborare,

Tac. Or. 9:

aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,

Liv. 27, 43:

aliquid exquisitum,

Tac. A. 12, 66:

aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,

id. Or. 20:

sanctum aliquid et providum,

id. G. 8:

insigne aliquid faceret eis,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:

aliquid magnum,

Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:

quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,

Vulg. Act. 8, 9:

majus aliquid et excelsius,

Tac. A. 3, 53:

melius aliquid,

Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:

deterius aliquid,

ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:

ad unum aliquem confugiebant,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;

effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,

id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:

aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,

id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:

cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?

that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—

Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:

aliquis ex vobis,

Cic. Cael. 3:

aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,

Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:

ex principibus aliquis,

Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:

aliquis de tribus nobis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 7:

si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:

suorum aliquis,

Cic. Phil. 8, 9:

exspectabam aliquem meorum,

id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:

trium rerum aliqua consequemur,

Cic. Part. 8, 30:

impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,

Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:

principum aliquis,

Tac. G. 13:

cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,

Liv. 22, 13:

horum aliquid,

Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—

Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:

aliquid pugnae,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:

vestimenti aridi,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:

consilii,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:

monstri,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:

scitamentorum,

Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:

armorum,

Tac. G. 18:

boni,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:

aequi,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:

mali,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:

novi,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:

potionis,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:

virium,

Cic. Fam. 11, 18:

falsi,

id. Caecin. 1, 3:

vacui,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

mdefensi,

Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:

aliquo loci morari,

Dig. 18, 7, 1.—

Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:

asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,

id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:

non despero fore aliquem aliquando,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—

In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:

si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,

Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:

Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:

si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59:

si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,

Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:

si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,

Cic. Lael. 23, 88:

si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,

id. ib. 8, 27:

cui (puero) si aliquid erit,

id. Fam. 14, 1:

nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,

Nep. Dion, 8, 2:

si aliquid eorum praestitit,

Liv. 24, 8.—

In negative clauses with ne:

Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,

Cic. Mil. 24, 66:

ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,

Nep. Epam. 4, 4:

ne alicui dicerent,

Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—

In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:

me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—

In Verg. once with the second person sing.:

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,

Verg. A. 4, 625.

aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:

nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;

Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:

num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?

id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:

ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,

id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:

si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,

Tac. Or. 41 Halm:

sic est aliquis oratorum campus,

id. ib. 39 id.:

sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,

id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.

Esp.

With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:

dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:

potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,

Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:

ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,

id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:

non est in alio aliquo salus,

Vulg. Act. 4, 12:

aliquid aliud promittere,

Petr. 10, 5 al. —

And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:

vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,

Cic. Brut. 44:

aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,

Liv. 34, 38:

cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;

et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,

Suet. Tib. 47.—

In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):

non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,

Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,

Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:

atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,

Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:

aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,

Juv. 1, 73:

an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,

Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:

ego quoque aliquid sum,

id. Fam. 6, 18:

qui videbantur aliquid esse,

Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):

sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:

est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,

Ov. F. 6, 27:

Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,

id. M. 13, 241:

est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,

Juv. 3, 230:

omina sunt aliquid,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,

crimen abesse,

id. F. 1, 484:

Sunt aliquid Manes,

Prop. 5, 7, 1:

est aliquid eloquentia,

Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —

Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:

diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:

Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—

In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:

mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—

Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):

idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,

Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—

Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;

7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,

Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—

It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:

praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:

sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:

sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,

Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—

Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:

Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,

Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.

ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:

illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:

si in me aliquid offendistis,

at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:

quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,

somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,

Liv. 31, 29:

Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?

Verg. A. 10, 84:

neque circumcisio aliquid valet,

Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:

perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,

Liv. 41, 2:

aliquid et spatio fessus,

Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—

ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).

Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:

ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:

aliquo abicere,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:

concludere,

id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):

ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 17:

demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,

id. Dom. 100:

aliquem aliquo impellere,

id. Vatin. 15:

aliquo exire,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:

aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,

Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:

in angulum Aliquo abire,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:

aliquem rus aliquo educere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—

With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):

dum proficiscor aliquo,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:

si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—

ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.

Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).

Absol.:

ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,

Cic. Clu. 9, 25:

Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:

in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,

Nep. Con. 5, 3;

id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,

Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—

Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:

pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,

Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:

quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:

controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,

Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:

ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,

Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—

With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:

exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 82. —

Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:

Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,

Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:

deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,

Mel. 1, 13.—

Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):

sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:

aliquammultis diebus decumbo,

App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:

sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,

App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:

aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,

Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—

ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).

Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):

antevenito aliquā aliquos,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:

si quā evasissent aliquā,

Liv. 26, 27, 12.—

Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:

aliquid aliquā sentire,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:

aliquid aliquā resciscere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:

aliquā obesse,

App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—

ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:

Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.

plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod.

ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;

oftener aliquis,

id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).

A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):

Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:

hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:

utinam modo agatur aliquid!

Cic. Att. 3, 15:

aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,

I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:

fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,

Cic. Phil. 1, 3:

quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,

id. Off. 2, 7, 24:

quod motum adfert alicui,

to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:

nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,

any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:

non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,

Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:

in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,

Quint. 4, 2, 67:

sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,

Tac. Or. 25:

laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,

Quint. 2, 4, 12:

quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:

nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?

Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:

Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,

Ov. M. 10, 560:

si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,

id. ib. 4, 326.—

Not unfrequently with adj.:

Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:

novum aliquid advertere,

Tac. A. 15, 30:

judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,

Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,

in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:

dignum aliquid elaborare,

Tac. Or. 9:

aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,

Liv. 27, 43:

aliquid exquisitum,

Tac. A. 12, 66:

aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,

id. Or. 20:

sanctum aliquid et providum,

id. G. 8:

insigne aliquid faceret eis,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:

aliquid magnum,

Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:

quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,

Vulg. Act. 8, 9:

majus aliquid et excelsius,

Tac. A. 3, 53:

melius aliquid,

Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:

deterius aliquid,

ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:

ad unum aliquem confugiebant,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;

effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,

id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:

aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,

id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:

cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?

that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—

Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:

aliquis ex vobis,

Cic. Cael. 3:

aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,

Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:

ex principibus aliquis,

Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:

aliquis de tribus nobis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 7:

si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:

suorum aliquis,

Cic. Phil. 8, 9:

exspectabam aliquem meorum,

id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:

trium rerum aliqua consequemur,

Cic. Part. 8, 30:

impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,

Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:

principum aliquis,

Tac. G. 13:

cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,

Liv. 22, 13:

horum aliquid,

Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—

Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:

aliquid pugnae,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:

vestimenti aridi,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:

consilii,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:

monstri,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:

scitamentorum,

Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:

armorum,

Tac. G. 18:

boni,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:

aequi,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:

mali,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:

novi,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:

potionis,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:

virium,

Cic. Fam. 11, 18:

falsi,

id. Caecin. 1, 3:

vacui,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

mdefensi,

Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:

aliquo loci morari,

Dig. 18, 7, 1.—

Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:

asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,

id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:

non despero fore aliquem aliquando,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—

In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:

si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,

Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:

Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,

Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:

si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59:

si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,

Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:

si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,

Cic. Lael. 23, 88:

si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,

id. ib. 8, 27:

cui (puero) si aliquid erit,

id. Fam. 14, 1:

nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,

Nep. Dion, 8, 2:

si aliquid eorum praestitit,

Liv. 24, 8.—

In negative clauses with ne:

Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,

Cic. Mil. 24, 66:

ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,

Nep. Epam. 4, 4:

ne alicui dicerent,

Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—

In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:

me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—

In Verg. once with the second person sing.:

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,

Verg. A. 4, 625.

aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:

nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;

Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:

num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?

id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:

ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,

id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:

si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,

Tac. Or. 41 Halm:

sic est aliquis oratorum campus,

id. ib. 39 id.:

sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,

id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.

Esp.

With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:

dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:

potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,

Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:

ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,

id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:

non est in alio aliquo salus,

Vulg. Act. 4, 12:

aliquid aliud promittere,

Petr. 10, 5 al. —

And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:

vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,

Cic. Brut. 44:

aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,

Liv. 34, 38:

cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;

et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,

Suet. Tib. 47.—

In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):

non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,

Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,

Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:

atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,

Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:

aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,

Juv. 1, 73:

an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,

Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:

ego quoque aliquid sum,

id. Fam. 6, 18:

qui videbantur aliquid esse,

Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):

sed, etc.,

Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:

est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,

Ov. F. 6, 27:

Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,

id. M. 13, 241:

est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,

Juv. 3, 230:

omina sunt aliquid,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,

crimen abesse,

id. F. 1, 484:

Sunt aliquid Manes,

Prop. 5, 7, 1:

est aliquid eloquentia,

Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —

Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:

diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:

Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—

In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:

mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,

id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—

Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):

idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,

Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—

Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;

7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,

Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—

It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:

praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:

sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:

sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,

Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—

Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:

Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,

Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.

ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:

illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:

si in me aliquid offendistis,

at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:

quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,

somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,

Liv. 31, 29:

Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?

Verg. A. 10, 84:

neque circumcisio aliquid valet,

Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:

perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,

Liv. 41, 2:

aliquid et spatio fessus,

Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—

ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).

Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:

ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:

aliquo abicere,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:

concludere,

id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):

ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 17:

demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,

id. Dom. 100:

aliquem aliquo impellere,

id. Vatin. 15:

aliquo exire,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:

aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,

Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:

in angulum Aliquo abire,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:

aliquem rus aliquo educere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—

With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):

dum proficiscor aliquo,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:

si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—

ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.

Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).

Absol.:

ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,

Cic. Clu. 9, 25:

Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:

in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,

Nep. Con. 5, 3;

id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,

Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—

Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:

pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,

Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:

quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:

controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,

Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:

ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,

Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—

With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:

exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 82. —

Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:

Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,

Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:

deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,

Mel. 1, 13.—

Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):

sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:

aliquammultis diebus decumbo,

App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:

sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,

App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:

aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,

Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—

ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).

Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):

antevenito aliquā aliquos,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:

si quā evasissent aliquā,

Liv. 26, 27, 12.—

Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:

aliquid aliquā sentire,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:

aliquid aliquā resciscere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:

aliquā obesse,

App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—

ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:

Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.

plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod.

ad, prep. with acc. (from the fourth century after Christ written also at; Etrusc. suf. -a; Osc. az; Umbr. and Old Lat. ar, as [p. 27] in Eug. Tab., in S. C. de Bacch., as arveho for adveho; arfuerunt, arfuisse, for adfuerunt, etc.; arbiter for adbiter; so, ar me advenias, Plant. Truc. 2, 2, 17; cf. Prisc. 559 P.; Vel. Long. 2232 P.; Fabretti, Glos. Ital. col. 5) [cf. Sanscr. adhi; Goth. and Eng. at; Celt. pref. ar, as armor, i.e. ad mare; Rom. a].

As antith. to ab (as in to ex), in a progressive order of relation, ad denotes, first, the direction toward an object; then the reaching of or attaining to it; and finally, the being at or near it.

In space.

Direction toward, to, toward, and first,

Horizontally:

fugere ad puppim colles campique videntur,

the hills and fields appear to fly toward the ship, Lucr. 4, 390: meridie umbrae cadunt ad septentrionem, ortu vero ad occasum, to or toward the north and west, Plin. 2, 13, and so often of the geog. position of a place in reference to the points of compass, with the verbs jacere, vergere, spectare, etc.:

Asia jacet ad meridiem et austrum, Europa ad septentriones et aquiionem,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 31 Mull.;

and in Plin. very freq.: Creta ad austrum... ad septentrionem versa, 4, 20: ad Atticam vergente, 4, 21 al.—Also trop.: animus alius ad alia vitia propensior,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 81.—

In a direction upwards (esp. in the poets, very freq.): manusque sursum ad caelum sustulit, Naev. ap. Non. 116, 30 (B. Pun. p. 13, ed. Vahl.): manus ad caeli templa tendebam lacrimans, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 50 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

duplices tendens ad sidera palmas,

Verg. A. 1, 93: molem ex profundo saxeam ad caelum vomit, Att. ap. Prisc. 1325 P.: clamor ad caelum volvendus, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Mull. (Ann. v. 520 ed. Vahl.) (cf. with this: tollitur in caelum clamor, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, or Ann. v. 422):

ad caelumque ferat flammai fulgura rursum, of Aetna,

Lucr. 1, 725; cf. id. 2, 191; 2, 325: sidera sola micant;

ad quae sua bracchia tendens, etc.,

Ov. M. 7, 188:

altitudo pertingit ad caelum,

Vulg. Dan. 4, 17.—

Also in the direction downwards (for the usu. in):

tardiore semper ad terras omnium quae geruntur in caelo effectu cadente quam visu,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216.

The point or goal at which any thing arrives.

Without reference to the space traversed in passing, to, toward (the most common use of this prep.): cum stupro redire ad suos popularis, Naev. ap. Fest. p. 317 Mull. (B. Pun. p. 14 ed. Vahl.):

ut ex tam alto dignitatis gradu ad superos videatur potius quam ad inferos pervenisse,

Cic. Lael. 3, 12: ad terras decidat aether, Lucan. 2, 58. —Hence,

With verbs which designate going, coming, moving, bearing, bringing near, adapting, taking, receiving, calling, exciting, admonishing, etc., when the verb is compounded with ad the prep. is not always repeated, but the constr. with the dat. or acc. employed; cf. Rudd. II. pp. 154, 175 n. (In the ante-class. per., and even in Cic., ad is generally repeated with most verbs, as, ad eos accedit, Cic. Sex. Rosc. 8:

ad Sullam adire,

id. ib. 25:

ad se adferre,

id. Verr. 4, 50:

reticulum ad naris sibi admovebat,

id. ib. 5, 27:

ad laborem adhortantur,

id. de Sen. 14:

T. Vectium ad se arcessit,

id. Verr. 5, 114; but the poets of the Aug. per., and the historians, esp. Tac., prefer the dative; also, when the compound verb contains merely the idea of approach, the constr. with ad and the acc. is employed; but when it designates increase, that with the dat. is more usual: accedit ad urbem, he approaches the city; but, accedit provinciae, it is added to the province.)—

Ad me, te, se, for domum meam, tuam, suam (in Plaut. and Ter. very freq.):

oratus sum venire ad te huc,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 1, 12: spectatores plaudite atque ite ad vos comissatum, id. Stich. fin.:

eamus ad me,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 64:

ancillas traduce huc ad vos,

id. Heaut. 4, 4, 22:

transeundumst tibi ad Menedemum,

id. 4, 4, 17: intro nos vocat ad sese, tenet intus apud se, Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 86 P.:

te oro, ut ad me Vibonem statim venias,

Cic. Att. 3, 3; 16, 10 al.—

Ad, with the name of a deity in the gen., is elliptical for ad templum or aedem (cf.:

Thespiadas, quae ad aedem Felicitatis sunt,

Cic. Verr. 4, 4; id. Phil. 2, 35:

in aedem Veneris,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 120;

in aedem Concordiae,

Cic. Cat. 3, 9, 21;

2, 6, 12): ad Dianae,

to the temple of, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 43:

ad Opis,

Cic. Att. 8, 1, 14:

ad Castoris,

id. Quint. 17:

ad Juturnae,

id. Clu. 101:

ad Vestae,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 35 al.: cf. Rudd. II. p. 41, n. 4, and p. 334.—

With verbs which denote a giving, sending, informing, submitting, etc., it is used for the simple dat. (Rudd. II. p. 175): litteras dare ad aliquem, to send or write one a letter; and: litteras dare alicui, to give a letter to one; hence Cic. never says, like Caesar and Sall., alicui scribere, which strictly means, to write for one (as a receipt, etc.), but always mittere, scribere, perscribere ad aliquem:

postea ad pistores dabo,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 119:

praecipe quae ad patrem vis nuntiari,

id. Capt. 2, 2, 109:

in servitutem pauperem ad divitem dare,

Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 48:

nam ad me Publ. Valerius scripsit,

Cic. Fam. 14, 2 med.:

de meis rebus ad Lollium perscripsi,

id. ib. 5, 3:

velim domum ad te scribas, ut mihi tui libri pateant,

id. Att. 4, 14; cf. id. ib. 4, 16:

ad primam (sc. epistulam) tibi hoc scribo,

in answer to your first, id. ib. 3, 15, 2:

ad Q. Fulvium Cons. Hirpini et Lucani dediderunt sese,

Liv. 27, 15, 1; cf. id. 28, 22, 5.—Hence the phrase: mittere or scribere librum ad aliquem, to dedicate a book to one (Greek, prosphônein):

has res ad te scriptas, Luci, misimus, Aeli,

Lucil. Sat. 1, ap. Auct. Her. 4, 12:

quae institueram, ad te mittam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 5: ego interea admonitu tuo perfeci sane argutulos libros ad Varronem;

and soon after: mihi explices velim, maneasne in sententia, ut mittam ad eum quae scripsi,

Cic. Att. 13, 18; cf. ib. 16; Plin. 1, 19.—So in titles of books: M. Tullii Ciceronis ad Marcum Brutum Orator; M. T. Cic. ad Q. Fratrem Dialogi tres de Oratore, etc.—In the titles of odes and epigrams ad aliquem signifies to, addressed to. —

With names of towns after verbs of motion, ad is used in answer to the question Whither? instead of the simple acc.; but commonly with this difference, that ad denotes to the vicinity of, the neighborhood of:

miles ad Capuam profectus sum, quintoque anno post ad Tarentum,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10; id. Fam. 3, 81:

ad Veios,

Liv. 5, 19; 14, 18; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 7; id. B. C. 3, 40 al.—Ad is regularly used when the proper name has an appellative in apposition to it:

ad Cirtam oppidum iter constituunt,

Sall. J. 81, 2; so Curt. 3, 1, 22; 4, 9, 9;

or when it is joined with usque,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 34, § 87; id. Deiot, 7, 19.— (When an adjective is added, the simple acc. is used poet., as well as with ad:

magnum iter ad doctas proficisci cogor Athenas,

Prop. 3, 21, 1; the simple acc., Ov. H. 2, 83: doctas jam nunc eat, inquit, Athenas).—

With verbs which imply a hostile movement toward, or protection in respect to any thing, against = adversus:

nonne ad senem aliquam fabricam fingit?

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 34:

Lernaeas pugnet ad hydras,

Prop. 3, 19, 9: neque quo pacto fallam, nec quem dolum ad eum aut machinam commoliar, old poet in Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

Belgarum copias ad se venire vidit,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 7, 70:

ipse ad hostem vehitur,

Nep. Dat. 4, 5; id. Dion. 5, 4: Romulus ad regem impetus facit (a phrase in which in is commonly found), Liv. 1, 5, 7, and 44, 3, 10:

aliquem ad hostem ducere,

Tac. A. 2, 52:

clipeos ad tela protecti obiciunt,

Verg. A. 2, 443:

munio me ad haec tempora,

Cic. Fam. 9, 18:

ad hos omnes casus provisa erant praesidia,

Caes. B. G. 7, 65; 7, 41;

so with nouns: medicamentum ad aquam intercutem,

Cic. Off. 3, 24:

remedium ad tertianam,

Petr. Sat. 18:

munimen ad imbris,

Verg. G. 2, 352:

farina cum melle ad tussim siccam efficasissima est,

Plin. 20, 22, 89, § 243:

ad muliebre ingenium efficaces preces,

Liv. 1, 9; 1, 19 (in these two passages ad may have the force of apud, Hand).—

The repetition of ad to denote the direction to a place and to a person present in it is rare:

nunc tu abi ad forum ad herum,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 100; cf.:

vocatis classico ad concilium militibus ad tribunos,

Liv. 5 47.—(The distinction between ad and in is given by Diom. 409 P., thus: in forum ire est in ipsum forum intrare; ad forum autem ire, in locum foro proximum; ut in tribunal et ad tribunal venire non unum est; quia ad tribunal venit litigator, in tribunal vero praetor aut judex; cf. also Sen. Ep. 73, 14, deus ad homines venit, immo, quod propius est, in homines venit.)—

The terminus, with ref. to the space traversed, to, even to, with or without usque, Quint. 10, 7, 16: ingurgitavit usque ad imum gutturem, Naev. ap. Non. 207, 20 (Rib. Com. Rel. p. 30): dictator pervehitur usque ad oppidum, Naev. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Mull. (B. Pun. p. 16 ed. Vahl.):

via pejor ad usque Baii moenia,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 96; 1, 1, 97:

rigidum permanat frigus ad ossa,

Lucr. 1, 355; 1, 969:

cum sudor ad imos Manaret talos,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 10:

ut quantum posset, agmen ad mare extenderet,

Curt. 3, 9, 10:

laeva pars ad pectus est nuda,

id. 6, 5, 27 al. —Hence the Plinian expression, petere aliquid (usque) ad aliquem, to seek something everywhere, even with one:

ut ad Aethiopas usque peteretur,

Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 51 (where Jan now reads ab Aethiopia); so,

vestis ad Seras peti,

id. 12, 1, 1.— Trop.:

si quid poscam, usque ad ravim poscam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 10:

deverberasse usque ad necem,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 13;

without usque: hic ad incitas redactus,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 136; 4, 2, 52; id. Poen. 4, 2, 85; illud ad incitas cum redit atque internecionem, Lucil. ap. Non. 123, 20:

virgis ad necem caedi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 29, § 70; so Hor. S. 1, 2, 42; Liv. 24, 38, 9; Tac. A. 11, 37; Suet. Ner. 26; id. Dom. 8 al.

Nearness or proximity in gen. = apud, near to, by, at, close by (in anteclass. per. very freq.; not rare later, esp. in the historians): pendent peniculamenta unum ad quemque pedum, trains are suspended at each foot, Enn. ap. Non. 149, 33 (Ann. v. 363 ed. Vahl.):

ut in servitute hic ad suum maneat patrem,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 49; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 98;

3, 5, 41: sol quasi flagitator astat usque ad ostium,

stands like a creditor continually at the door, id. Most. 3, 2, 81 (cf. with same force, Att. ap. Non. 522, 25;

apud ipsum astas): ad foris adsistere,

Cic. Verr. 1, 66; id. Arch. 24:

astiterunt ad januam,

Vulg. Act. 10, 17:

non adest ad exercitum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 6; cf. ib. prol. 133:

aderant ad spectaculum istud,

Vulg. Luc. 23, 48: has (testas) e fenestris in caput Deiciunt, qui prope ad ostium adspiraverunt, Lucil. ap. Non. 288, 31:

et nec opinanti Mors ad caput adstitit,

Lucr. 3, 959:

quod Romanis ad manum domi supplementum esset,

at hand, Liv. 9, 19, 6:

haec arma habere ad manum,

Quint. 12, 5, 1:

dominum esse ad villam,

Cic. Sull. 20; so id. Verr. 2, 21:

errantem ad flumina,

Verg. E. 6, 64; Tib. 1, 10, 38; Plin. 7, 2, § 12; Vitr. 7, 14; 7, 12; and ellipt. (cf. supra, 2. g):

pecunia utinam ad Opis maneret!

Cic. Phil. 1, 17.—Even of persons:

qui primum pilum ad Caesarem duxerat (for apud),

Caes. B. G. 6, 38; so id. ib. 1, 31; 3, 9; 5, 53; 7, 5; id. B. C. 3, 60:

ad inferos poenas parricidii luent,

among, Cic. Phil. 14, 13:

neque segnius ad hostes bellum apparatur,

Liv. 7, 7, 4: pugna ad Trebiam, ad Trasimenum, ad Cannas, etc., for which Liv. also uses the gen.:

si Trasimeni quam Trebiae, si Cannarum quam Trasimeni pugna nobilior esset, 23, 43, 4.—Sometimes used to form the name of a place, although written separately, e. g. ad Murcim,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 154:

villa ad Gallinas, a villa on the Flaminian Way,

Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 37: ad urbem esse (of generals), to remain outside the city (Rome) until permission was given for a triumph:

“Esse ad urbem dicebantur, qui cum potestate provinciali aut nuper e provincia revertissent, aut nondum in provinciam profecti essent... solebant autem, qui ob res in provincia gestas triumphum peterent, extra urbem exspectare, donec, lege lata, triumphantes urbem introire possent,”

Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 3, 8.—So sometimes with names of towns and verbs of rest:

pons, qui erat ad Genavam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

ad Tibur mortem patri minatus est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 10:

conchas ad Caietam legunt,

id. Or. 2, 6:

ad forum esse,

to be at the market, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 136; id. Most. 3, 2, 158; cf. Ter. Ph. 4, 2, 8; id. And. 1, 5, 19.—Hence, adverb., ad dextram (sc. manum, partem), ad laevam, ad sinistram, to the right, to the left, or on the right, on the left:

ad dextram,

Att. Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 225; Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 1; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 44; Cic. Univ. 13; Caes. B. C. 1, 69:

ad laevam,

Enn. Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 51; Att. ib. p. 217: ad sinistram, Ter. [p. 28] Ad. 4, 2, 43 al.:

ad dextram... ad laevam,

Liv. 40, 6;

and with an ordinal number: cum plebes ad tertium milliarium consedisset,

at the third milestone, Cic. Brut. 14, 54, esp. freq. with lapis:

sepultus ad quintum lapidem,

Nep. Att. 22, 4; so Liv. 3, 69 al.; Tac. H. 3, 18; 4, 60 (with apud, Ann. 1, 45; 3, 45; 15, 60) al.; cf. Rudd. II. p. 287.

In time, analogous to the relations given in A.

Direction toward, i. e. approach to a definite point of time, about, toward:

domum reductus ad vesperum,

toward evening, Cic. Lael. 3, 12:

cum ad hiemem me ex Cilicia recepissem,

toward winter, id. Fam. 3, 7.—

The limit or boundary to which a space of time extends, with and without usque, till, until, to, even to, up to:

ego ad illud frugi usque et probus fui,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 53:

philosophia jacuit usque ad hanc aetatem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. de Sen. 14:

quid si hic manebo potius ad meridiem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 55; so id. Men. 5, 7, 33; id. Ps. 1, 5, 116; id. As. 2, 1, 5:

ad multam noctem,

Cic. de Sen. 14:

Sophocles ad summam senectutem tragoedias fecit,

id. ib. 2; cf. id. Rep. 1, 1:

Alexandream se proficisci velle dixit (Aratus) remque integram ad reditum suum jussit esse,

id. Off. 2, 23, 82:

bestiae ex se natos amant ad quoddam tempus,

id. Lael. 8; so id. de Sen. 6; id. Somn. Sc. 1 al. —And with ab or ab-usque, to desig. the whole period of time passed away:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8:

usque ab aurora ad hoc diei,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 8.—

Coincidence with a point of time, at, on, in, by:

praesto fuit ad horam destinatam,

at the appointed hour, Cic. Tusc. 5, 22:

admonuit ut pecuniam ad diem solverent,

on the day of payment, id. Att. 16, 16 A:

nostra ad diem dictam fient,

id. Fam. 16, 10, 4; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 5: ad lucem denique arte et graviter dormitare coepisse, at (not toward) daybreak, id. Div. 1, 28, 59; so id. Att. 1, 3, 2; 1, 4, 3; id. Fin. 2, 31, 103; id. Brut. 97, 313:

ad id tempus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 24; Sall. J. 70, 5; Tac. A. 15, 60; Suet. Aug. 87; Domit. 17, 21 al.

The relations of number.

An approximation to a sum designated, near, near to, almost, about, toward (cf. Gr. epi, pros with acc. and the Fr. pres de, a peu pres, presque) = circiter (Hand, Turs. I. p. 102):

ad quadraginta eam posse emi minas,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 111:

nummorum Philippum ad tria milia,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 115; sometimes with quasi added:

quasi ad quadraginta minas,

as it were about, id. Most. 3, 1, 95; so Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 93:

sane frequentes fuimus omnino ad ducentos,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1:

cum annos ad quadraginta natus esset,

id. Clu. 40, 110:

ad hominum milia decem,

Caes. B. G. 1, 4:

oppida numero ad duodecim, vicos ad quadringentos,

id. ib. 1, 5.—In the histt. and post-Aug. authors ad is added adverbially in this sense (contrary to Gr. usage, by which amphi, peri, and eis with numerals retain their power as prepositions): ad binum milium numero utrinque sauciis factis, Sisenn. ap. Non. 80, 4:

occisis ad hominum milibus quattuor,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33:

ad duorum milium numero ceciderunt,

id. B. C. 3, 53:

ad duo milia et trecenti occisi,

Liv. 10, 17, 8; so id. 27, 12, 16; Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Rudd. II. p. 334.—

The terminus, the limit, to, unto, even to, a designated number (rare):

ranam luridam conicere in aquam usque quo ad tertiam partem decoxeris,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 26; cf. App. Herb. 41:

aedem Junonis ad partem dimidiam detegit,

even to the half, Liv. 42, 3, 2:

miles (viaticum) ad assem perdiderat,

to a farthing, to the last farthing, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27; Plin. Ep. 1, 15:

quid ad denarium solveretur,

Cic. Quint. 4.—The phrase omnes ad unum or ad unum omnes, or simply ad unum, means lit. all to one, i. e. all together, all without exception; Gr. hoi kath hena pantes (therefore the gender of unum is changed according to that of omnes): praetor omnes extra castra, ut stercus, foras ejecit ad unum, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 22:

de amicitia omnes ad unum idem sentiunt,

Cic. Lael. 23:

ad unum omnes cum ipso duce occisi sunt,

Curt. 4, 1, 22 al.:

naves Rhodias afflixit ita, ut ad unam omnes constratae eliderentur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 27; onerariae omnes ad unam a nobis sunt exceptae, Cic. Fam. 12, 14 (cf. in Gr. hoi kath hena; in Hebr., Exod. 14, 28).— Ad unum without omnes:

ego eam sententiam dixi, cui sunt assensi ad unum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 16:

Juppiter omnipotens si nondum exosus ad unum Trojanos,

Verg. A. 5, 687.

In the manifold relations of one object to another.

That in respect of or in regard to which a thing avails, happens, or is true or important, with regard to, in respect of, in relation to, as to, to, in.

With verbs:

ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

in respect to all other things we grow wiser by age, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 45:

numquam ita quisquam bene ad vitam fuat,

id. ib. 5, 4, 1:

nil ibi libatum de toto corpore (mortui) cernas ad speciem, nil ad pondus,

that nothing is lost in form or weight, Lucr. 3, 214; cf. id. 5, 570; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 58; id. Mur. 13, 29: illi regi Cyro subest, ad immutandi animi licentiam, crudelissimus ille Phalaris, in that Cyrus, in regard to the liberty of changing his disposition (i. e. not in reality, but inasmuch as he is at liberty to lay aside his good character, and assume that of a tyrant), there is concealed another cruel Phalaris, Cic. Rep. 1, 28:

nil est ad nos,

is nothing to us, concerns us not, Lucr. 3, 830; 3, 845:

nil ad me attinet,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 54:

nihil ad rem pertinet,

Cic. Caecin. 58;

and in the same sense elliptically: nihil ad Epicurum,

id. Fin. 1, 2, 5; id. Pis. 68:

Quid ad praetorem?

id. Verr. 1, 116 (this usage is not to be confounded with that under 4.).—

With adjectives:

ad has res perspicax,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 129:

virum ad cetera egregium,

Liv. 37, 7, 15:

auxiliaribus ad pugnam non multum Crassus confidebat,

Caes. B. G. 3, 25:

ejus frater aliquantum ad rem est avidior,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 51; cf. id. And. 1, 2, 21; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 129:

ut sit potior, qui prior ad dandum est,

id. Phorm. 3, 2, 48:

difficilis (res) ad credendum,

Lucr. 2, 1027:

ad rationem sollertiamque praestantior,

Cic. N. D. 2, 62; so id. Leg. 2, 13, 33; id. Fin. 2, 20, 63; id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; id. Font. 15; id. Cat. 1, 5, 12; id. de Or. 1, 25, 113; 1, 32, 146; 2, 49, 200; id. Fam. 3, 1, 1; Liv. 9, 16, 13; Tac. A. 12, 54 al.—

With nouns:

prius quam tuum, ut sese habeat, animum ad nuptias perspexerit,

before he knew your feeling in regard to the marriage, Ter. And. 2, 3, 4 (cf. Gr. hopôs echei tis pros ti):

mentis ad omnia caecitas,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11:

magna vis est fortunae in utramque partem vel ad secundas res vel ad adversas,

id. Off. 2, 6; so id. Par. 1:

ad cetera paene gemelli,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 3.—So with acc. of gerund instead of the gen. from the same vb.:

facultas ad scribendum, instead of scribendi,

Cic. Font. 6;

facultas ad agendum,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 1, 2: cf. Rudd. II. p. 245.—

In gramm.: nomina ad aliquid dicta, nouns used in relation to something, i. e. which derive their significance from their relation to another object: quae non possunt intellegi sola, ut pater, mater;

jungunt enim sibi et illa propter quae intelleguntur,

Charis. 129 P.; cf. Prisc. 580 ib.—

With words denoting measure, weight, manner, model, rule, etc., both prop. and fig., according to, agreeably to, after (Gr. kata, pros):

columnas ad perpendiculum exigere,

Cic. Mur. 77:

taleis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 12: facta sunt ad certam formam. Lucr. 2, 379:

ad amussim non est numerus,

Varr. 2, 1, 26:

ad imaginem facere,

Vulg. Gen. 1, 26:

ad cursus lunae describit annum,

Liv. 1, 19:

omnia ad diem facta sunt,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5:

Id ad similitudinem panis efficiebant,

id. B. C. 3, 48; Vulg. Gen. 1, 26; id. Jac. 3, 9:

ad aequos flexus,

at equal angles, Lucr. 4, 323: quasi ad tornum levantur, to or by the lathe, id. 4, 361:

turres ad altitudiem valli,

Caes. B. G. 5, 42; Liv. 39, 6:

ad eandem crassitudinem structi,

id. 44, 11:

ad speciem cancellorum scenicorum,

with the appearance of, like, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8:

stagnum maris instar, circumseptum aedificiis ad urbium speciem,

Suet. Ner. 31:

lascivum pecus ludens ad cantum,

Liv. Andron. Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 1:

canere ad tibiam,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2: canere ad tibicinem, id. ib. 1, 2 (cf.:

in numerum ludere,

Verg. E. 6, 28; id. G. 4, 175):

quod ad Aristophanis lucernam lucubravi,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 9 Mull.: carmen castigare ad unguem, to perfection (v. unguis), Hor. A. P. 294:

ad unguem factus homo,

a perfect gentleman, id. S. 1, 5, 32 (cf. id. ib. 2, 7, 86):

ad istorum normam sapientes,

Cic. Lael. 5, 18; id. Mur. 3:

Cyrus non ad historiae fidem scriptus, sed ad effigiem justi imperii,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

exercemur in venando ad similitudinem bellicae disciplinae,

id. N. D. 2, 64, 161: so,

ad simulacrum,

Liv. 40, 6:

ad Punica ingenia,

id. 21, 22:

ad L. Crassi eloquentiam,

Cic. Var. Fragm. 8:

omnia fient ad verum,

Juv. 6, 324:

quid aut ad naturam aut contra sit,

Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

ad hunc modum institutus est,

id. Tusc. 2, 3; Caes. B. G. 2, 31; 3, 13:

ad eundem istunc modum,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 70:

quem ad modum, q. v.: ad istam faciem est morbus, qui me macerat,

of that kind, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 73; id. Merc. 2, 3, 90; cf.

91: cujus ad arbitrium copia materiai cogitur,

Lucr. 2, 281:

ad eorum arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt,

to their will and pleasure, Cic. Or. 8, 24; id. Quint. 71:

ad P. Lentuli auctoritatem Roma contendit,

id. Rab. Post. 21:

aliae sunt legati partes, aliae imperatoris: alter omnia agere ad praescriptum, alter libere ad summam rerum consulere debet,

Caes. B. C. 3, 51:

rebus ad voluntatem nostram fluentibus,

Cic. Off. 1, 26:

rem ad illorum libidinem judicarunt,

id. Font. 36:

ad vulgi opinionem,

id. Off. 3, 21.—So in later Lat. with instar:

ad instar castrorum,

Just. 36, 3, 2:

scoparum,

App. M. 9, p. 232:

speculi,

id. ib. 2, p. 118: ad hoc instar mundi, id. de Mundo, p. 72.—Sometimes, but very rarely, ad is used absol. in this sense (so also very rarely kata with acc., Xen. Hell. 2, 3; Luc. Dial. Deor. 8): convertier ad nos, as we (are turned), Lucr. 4, 317:

ad navis feratur,

like ships, id. 4, 897 Munro. —With noun:

ad specus angustiac vallium,

like caves, Caes. B. C. 3, 49.—Hence,

With an object which is the cause or reason, in conformity to which, from which, or for which, any thing is or is done.

The moving cause, according to, at, on, in consequence of:

cetera pars animae paret et ad numen mentis momenque movetur,

Lucr. 3, 144:

ad horum preces in Boeotiam duxit,

on their entreaty, Liv. 42, 67, 12: ad ea Caesar veniam ipsique et conjugi et fratribus tribuit, in consequence of or upon this, he, etc., Tac. Ann. 12, 37.—

The final cause, or the object, end, or aim, for the attainment of which any thing,

is done,

is designed, or,

is fitted or adapted (very freq.), to, for, in order to.

Seque ad ludos jam inde abhinc exerceant, Pac. ap. Charis. p. 175 P. (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 80):

venimus coctum ad nuptias,

in order to cook for the wedding, Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15:

omnis ad perniciem instructa domus,

id. Bacch. 3, 1, 6; cf. Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 41; Liv. 1, 54:

cum fingis falsas causas ad discordiam,

in order to produce dissension, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 71:

quantam fenestram ad nequitiam patefeceris,

id. Heaut. 3, 1, 72:

utrum ille, qui postulat legatum ad tantum bellum, quem velit, idoneus non est, qui impetret, cum ceteri ad expilandos socios diripiendasque provincias, quos voluerunt, legatos eduxerint,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

ego vitam quoad putabo tua interesse, aut ad spem servandam esse, retinebo,

for hope, id. Q. Fr. 1, 4; id. Fam. 5, 17:

haec juventutem, ubi familiares opes defecerant, ad facinora incendebant,

Sall. C. 13, 4:

ad speciem atque ad usurpationem vetustatis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 31; Suet. Caes. 67:

paucis ad speciem tabernaculis relictis,

for appearance, Caes. B. C. 2, 35; so id. ib. 2, 41; id. B. G. 1, 51.—

Aut equos alere aut canes ad venandum. Ter. And. 1, 1, 30:

ingenio egregie ad miseriam natus sum,

id. Heaut. 3, 1, 11;

(in the same sense: in rem,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 1, and the dat., Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 6):

ad cursum equum, ad arandum bovem, ad indagandum canem,

Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 40:

ad frena leones,

Verg. A. 10, 253:

delecto ad naves milite,

marines, Liv. 22, 19 Weissenb.:

servos ad remum,

rowers, id. 34, 6; and:

servos ad militiam emendos,

id. 22, 61, 2:

comparasti ad lecticam homines,

Cat. 10, 16:

Lygdamus ad cyathos,

Prop. 4, 8, 37; cf.:

puer ad cyathum statuetur,

Hor. C. 1, 29, 8.—

Quae oportet Signa esse [p. 29] ad salutem, omnia huic osse video, everything indicative of prosperity I see in him, Ter. And. 3, 2, 2:

haec sunt ad virtutem omnia,

id. Heaut. 1, 2, 33:

causa ad objurgandum,

id. And. 1, 1, 123:

argumentum ad scribendum,

Cic. Att. 9, 7 (in both examples instead of the gen. of gerund., cf. Rudd. II. p. 245):

vinum murteum est ad alvum crudam,

Cato R. R. 125:

nulla res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio,

Cic. Brut. 24:

reliquis rebus, quae sunt ad incendia,

Caes. B. C. 3, 101 al. —So with the adjectives idoneus, utilis, aptus, instead of the dat.:

homines ad hanc rem idoneos,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 6:

calcei habiles et apti ad pedem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 231:

orator aptus tamen ad dicendum,

id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5:

sus est ad vescendum hominibus apta,

id. N. D. 2, 64, 160:

homo ad nullam rem utilis,

id. Off. 3, 6:

ad segetes ingeniosus ager,

Ov. F. 4, 684.—(Upon the connection of ad with the gerund. v. Zumpt, § 666; Rudd. II. p. 261.)—

Comparison (since that with which a thing is compared is considered as an object to which the thing compared is brought near for the sake of comparison), to, compared to or with, in comparison with:

ad sapientiam hujus ille (Thales) nimius nugator fuit,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 25; id. Trin. 3, 2, 100:

ne comparandus hic quidem ad illum'st,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 14; 2, 3, 69:

terra ad universi caeli complexum,

compared with the whole extent of the heavens, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

homini non ad cetera Punica ingenia callido,

Liv. 22, 22, 15:

at nihil ad nostram hanc,

nothing in comparison with, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 70; so Cic. Deiot. 8, 24; and id. de Or. 2, 6, 25.

Adverbial phrases with ad.

Ad omnia, withal, to crown all:

ingentem vim peditum equitumque venire: ex India elephantos: ad omnia tantum advehi auri, etc.,

Liv. 35, 32, 4.—

Ad hoc and ad haec (in the historians, esp. from the time of Livy, and in authors after the Aug. per.), = praeterea, insuper, moreover, besides, in addition, epi toutois:

nam quicumque impudicus, adulter, ganeo, etc.: praeterea omnes undique parricidae, etc.: ad hoc, quos manus atque lingua perjurio aut sanguine civili alebat: postremo omnes, quos, etc.,

Sall. C. 14, 2 and 3:

his opinionibus inflato animo, ad hoc vitio quoque ingenii vehemens,

Liv. 6, 11, 6; 42, 1, 1; Tac. H. 1, 6; Suet. Aug. 22 al.—

Ad id quod, beside that (very rare):

ad id quod sua sponte satis conlectum animorum erat, indignitate etiam Romani accendebantur,

Liv. 3, 62, 1; so 44, 37, 12.—

Ad tempus.

At a definite, fixed time, Cic. Att. 13, 45; Liv. 38, 25, 3.—

At a fit, appropriate time, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 141; Liv. 1, 7, 13.—

For some time, for a short time, Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27; id. Lael. 15, 53; Liv. 21, 25, 14.—

According to circumstances, Cic. Planc. 30, 74; id. Cael. 6, 13; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9.—

Ad praesens (for the most part only in post-Aug. writers).

For the moment, for a short time, Cic. Fam. 12, 8; Plin. 8, 22, 34; Tac. A. 4, 21.—

At present, now, Tac. A. 16, 5; id. H. 1, 44.—So, ad praesentiam, Tac. A. 11, 8.—

Ad locum, on the spot:

ut ad locum miles esset paratus,

Liv. 27, 27, 2.—

Ad verbum, word for word, literally, Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4; id. de Or. 1, 34, 157; id. Ac. 2, 44, 135 al.—

Ad summam.

On the whole, generally, in general, Cic. Fam. 14, 14, 3; id. Att. 14, 1; Suet. Aug. 71.—

In a word, in short, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 149; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 106. —

Ad extremum, ad ultimum, ad postremum.

At the end, finally, at last.

Of place, at the extremity, extreme point, top, etc.:

missile telum hastili abiegno et cetera tereti, praeterquam ad extremum, unde ferrum exstabat,

Liv. 21, 8, 10.—

Of time = telos de, at last, finally:

ibi ad postremum cedit miles,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 52; so id. Poen. 4, 2, 22; Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89; id. Phil. 13, 20, 45; Caes. B. G. 7, 53; Liv. 30, 15, 4 al.— Hence,

of order, finally, lastly, = denique: inventa componere; tum ornare oratione; post memoria sepire;

ad extremum agere cum dignitate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142.—

In Liv., to the last degree, quite: improbus homo, sed non ad extremum perditus, 23, 2, 3; cf.:

consilii scelerati, sed non ad ultimum dementis,

id. 28, 28, 8.—

Quem ad finem? To what limit? How far? Cic. Cat. 1, 1; id. Verr. 5, 75.—

Quem ad modum, v. sub h. v.

Ad (v. ab, ex, in, etc.) is not repeated like some other prepositions with interrog. and relative pronouns, after nouns or demonstrative pronouns:

traducis cogitationes meas ad voluptates. Quas? corporis credo,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 37 (ubi v. Kuhner).—

Ad is sometimes placed after its substantive:

quam ad,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 39:

senatus, quos ad soleret, referendum censuit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4:

ripam ad Araxis,

Tac. Ann. 12, 51;

or between subst. and adj.: augendam ad invidiam,

id. ib. 12, 8.—

The compound adque for et ad (like exque, eque, and, poet., aque) is denied by Moser, Cic. Rep. 2, 15, p. 248, and he reads instead of ad humanitatem adque mansuetudinem of the MSS., hum. atque mans. But adque, in acc. with later usage, is restored by Hand in App. M. 10, p. 247, adque haec omnia oboediebam for atque; and in Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 9, utroque vorsum rectum'st ingenium meum, ad se adque illum, is now read, ad te atque ad illum (Fleck., Brix).

In composition.

Form. According to the usual orthography, the d of the ad remains unchanged before vowels, and before b, d, h, m, v: adbibo, adduco, adhibeo, admoveo, advenio; it is assimilated to c, f, g, l, n, p, r, s, t: accipio, affigo, aggero, allabor, annumero, appello, arripio, assumo, attineo; before g and s it sometimes disappears: agnosco, aspicio, asto: and before qu it passes into c: acquiro, acquiesco.—But later philologists, supported by old inscriptions and good MSS., have mostly adopted the following forms: ad before j, h, b, d, f, m, n, q, v; ac before c, sometimes, but less well, before q; ag and also ad before g; a before gn, sp, sc, st; ad and also al before l; ad rather than an before n; ap and sometimes ad before p; ad and also ar before r; ad and also as before s; at and sometimes ad before t. In this work the old orthography has commonly been retained for the sake of convenient reference, but the better form in any case is indicated.—

Signif. In English up often denotes approach, and in many instances will give the force of ad as a prefix both in its local and in its figurative sense.

Local.

To, toward: affero, accurro, accipio ( to one's self).—

At, by: astare, adesse.—

On, upon, against: accumbo, attero.—

Up (cf. de- = down, as in deicio, decido): attollo, ascendo, adsurgo.—

Fig.

To: adjudico, adsentior.—

At or on: admiror, adludo.—

Denoting conformity to, or comparison with: affiguro, adaequo.—

Denoting addition, increase (cf. ab, de, and ex as prefixes to denote privation): addoceo, adposco.—

Hence, denoting intensity: adamo, adimpleo, aduro, and perhaps agnosco.—

Denoting the coming to an act or state, and hence commencement: addubito, addormio, adquiesco, adlubesco, advesperascit. See more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 74-134.

mors, tis, f. [root mor, v. morior] (dat. morte, Varr. ap. Gell. 24), death in every form, natural or violent (syn.: letum, nex).

Lit.:

omnium rerum mors est extremum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79:

mortem sibi consciscere,

to kill one's self, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, § 129:

obire,

to die, id. Phil. 5, 17, 48;

Plaut Aul. prol. 15: nam necessest me... cras mortem exequi,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

certae occumbere morti,

to submit to, Verg. A. 2, 62:

aliquem ad mortem dare,

to put to death, kill, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 177:

morti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 197:

aliquem morte multare,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; so,

per vim,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 14:

morte multatus,

id. Tusc. 1, 40, 97; Tac. A. 6, 9; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Lact. 2, 9, 24:

morte punire,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 12; Tac. A. 4, 44; 11, 18:

mortis poena,

Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

morti addici,

id. Off. 3, 10, 45:

omne humanum genus morte damnatum est,

Sen. Ep. 71, 15:

Antonius civium suorum vitae sedebat mortisque arbiter,

Sen. Polyb. 16, 2:

vitae et mortis habere potestatem,

Vulg. Sap. 16, 13:

illata per scelus,

assassination, Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

ad mortem se offerre pro patriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 32: afferre, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare aliquem usque ad mortem,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9:

morte cadere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 15: morte acerbissimā affici, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare,

id. de Or. 1, 43, 100:

ad mortem duci,

id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100:

cui legatio ipsa morti fuisset,

brought death, id. Phil. 9, 1, 3:

imperfecta,

blindness, Stat. Th. 11, 582: morte suā mori, to die a natural death:

bella res est, mori suā morte,

Sen. Ep. 69, 6:

mors suprema,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 173; Sil. 5, 416: mortis fine, Boëth. Consol. 2, 7: quae rapit ultima mors est, Lucil. ap. Sen. Ep. 24, 20: proximus morti = moriens, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8; App. M. 1, 72; cf.:

morti vicinus,

Aug. Serm. 306, 10; Hier. in Joel, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

cui, mors cum appropinquet,

Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

cujus aetati mors propior erat,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 9:

adpropinquante morte,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64 sq.:

ut prorogetur tibi dies mortis,

Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6:

circa mortis diem,

id. Ep. 27, 2:

mansurum est vitium usque ad diem mortis,

Cels. 7, 7, 15 init. — Poet.:

mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula,

Juv. 10, 173. —In plur.:

mortes, when several persons are spoken of: praeclarae mortes sunt imperatoriae,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; so Hor. S. 1, 3, 108:

meorum,

Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 1:

perdere mortes,

to throw away lives, to die in vain, Stat. Th. 9, 58:

hinc subitae mortes,

Juv. 1, 144.—Also of different forms or modes of death:

omnīs per mortīs,

Verg. A. 10, 854; cf.:

omni imagine mortium,

Tac. H. 3, 28; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2.—Rarely of an abstract thing:

fere rerum omnium oblivio morsque memoriae,

death, total loss, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.—

Personified.

Mors, a goddess, the daughter of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A. 11, 197; Hyg. Fab. praef.—

(Eccl. Lat.) = eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum, Vulg. Heb. 2, 14; id. Isa. 28, 15; cf.:

ero mors tua, o mors,

id. Hos. 13, 14; id. Apoc. 6, 8.—

Transf.

A dead body, corpse (mostly poet.): morte campos contegi, with corpses, Att. ap. Non. 110, 31:

mortem ejus (Clodii) lacerari,

body, corpse, Cic. Mil. 32, 86; Cat. 64, 362; Prop. 3, 5, 22:

vitis, quam juxta hominis mors laqueo pependerit,

Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119; Stat. Th. 1, 768.—Hence, jestingly, of an old man:

odiosum est mortem amplexari,

a corpse, a skeleton, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—

Like phonos, the blood shed by murder:

ensem multā morte recepit,

Verg. A. 9, 348.—

That which brings death (of missiles), a deadly weapon ( poet.):

mille cavet lapsas circum cava tempora mortes,

Stat. Th. 6, 792; Luc. 7, 517:

per pectora saevas Exceptat mortes,

Sil. 9, 369.—Of a sentence or threat of death:

ut auferat a me mortem istam,

Vulg. Ex. 10, 17;

of terrible pangs and anxieties: contritiones mortis,

id. 2 Reg. 22, 5:

dolores mortis,

id. Psa. 18, 4; 116, 3;

of a cruel and murderous officer: aderat mors terrorque sociorum et civium lictor Sestius,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.):

mors secunda,

the second death, future punishment, Vulg. Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14:

mors alone,

id. 1 Joh. 5, 16; also spiritual death, that of a soul under the dominion of sin:

stimulus mortis peccatum est,

id. 1 Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et saep.; cf. Lact. 7, 10 fin.

mors, tis, f. [root mor, v. morior] (dat. morte, Varr. ap. Gell. 24), death in every form, natural or violent (syn.: letum, nex).

Lit.:

omnium rerum mors est extremum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79:

mortem sibi consciscere,

to kill one's self, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, § 129:

obire,

to die, id. Phil. 5, 17, 48;

Plaut Aul. prol. 15: nam necessest me... cras mortem exequi,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

certae occumbere morti,

to submit to, Verg. A. 2, 62:

aliquem ad mortem dare,

to put to death, kill, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 177:

morti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 197:

aliquem morte multare,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; so,

per vim,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 14:

morte multatus,

id. Tusc. 1, 40, 97; Tac. A. 6, 9; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Lact. 2, 9, 24:

morte punire,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 12; Tac. A. 4, 44; 11, 18:

mortis poena,

Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

morti addici,

id. Off. 3, 10, 45:

omne humanum genus morte damnatum est,

Sen. Ep. 71, 15:

Antonius civium suorum vitae sedebat mortisque arbiter,

Sen. Polyb. 16, 2:

vitae et mortis habere potestatem,

Vulg. Sap. 16, 13:

illata per scelus,

assassination, Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

ad mortem se offerre pro patriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 32: afferre, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare aliquem usque ad mortem,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9:

morte cadere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 15: morte acerbissimā affici, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare,

id. de Or. 1, 43, 100:

ad mortem duci,

id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100:

cui legatio ipsa morti fuisset,

brought death, id. Phil. 9, 1, 3:

imperfecta,

blindness, Stat. Th. 11, 582: morte suā mori, to die a natural death:

bella res est, mori suā morte,

Sen. Ep. 69, 6:

mors suprema,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 173; Sil. 5, 416: mortis fine, Boëth. Consol. 2, 7: quae rapit ultima mors est, Lucil. ap. Sen. Ep. 24, 20: proximus morti = moriens, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8; App. M. 1, 72; cf.:

morti vicinus,

Aug. Serm. 306, 10; Hier. in Joel, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

cui, mors cum appropinquet,

Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

cujus aetati mors propior erat,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 9:

adpropinquante morte,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64 sq.:

ut prorogetur tibi dies mortis,

Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6:

circa mortis diem,

id. Ep. 27, 2:

mansurum est vitium usque ad diem mortis,

Cels. 7, 7, 15 init. — Poet.:

mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula,

Juv. 10, 173. —In plur.:

mortes, when several persons are spoken of: praeclarae mortes sunt imperatoriae,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; so Hor. S. 1, 3, 108:

meorum,

Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 1:

perdere mortes,

to throw away lives, to die in vain, Stat. Th. 9, 58:

hinc subitae mortes,

Juv. 1, 144.—Also of different forms or modes of death:

omnīs per mortīs,

Verg. A. 10, 854; cf.:

omni imagine mortium,

Tac. H. 3, 28; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2.—Rarely of an abstract thing:

fere rerum omnium oblivio morsque memoriae,

death, total loss, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.—

Personified.

Mors, a goddess, the daughter of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A. 11, 197; Hyg. Fab. praef.—

(Eccl. Lat.) = eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum, Vulg. Heb. 2, 14; id. Isa. 28, 15; cf.:

ero mors tua, o mors,

id. Hos. 13, 14; id. Apoc. 6, 8.—

Transf.

A dead body, corpse (mostly poet.): morte campos contegi, with corpses, Att. ap. Non. 110, 31:

mortem ejus (Clodii) lacerari,

body, corpse, Cic. Mil. 32, 86; Cat. 64, 362; Prop. 3, 5, 22:

vitis, quam juxta hominis mors laqueo pependerit,

Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119; Stat. Th. 1, 768.—Hence, jestingly, of an old man:

odiosum est mortem amplexari,

a corpse, a skeleton, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—

Like phonos, the blood shed by murder:

ensem multā morte recepit,

Verg. A. 9, 348.—

That which brings death (of missiles), a deadly weapon ( poet.):

mille cavet lapsas circum cava tempora mortes,

Stat. Th. 6, 792; Luc. 7, 517:

per pectora saevas Exceptat mortes,

Sil. 9, 369.—Of a sentence or threat of death:

ut auferat a me mortem istam,

Vulg. Ex. 10, 17;

of terrible pangs and anxieties: contritiones mortis,

id. 2 Reg. 22, 5:

dolores mortis,

id. Psa. 18, 4; 116, 3;

of a cruel and murderous officer: aderat mors terrorque sociorum et civium lictor Sestius,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.):

mors secunda,

the second death, future punishment, Vulg. Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14:

mors alone,

id. 1 Joh. 5, 16; also spiritual death, that of a soul under the dominion of sin:

stimulus mortis peccatum est,

id. 1 Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et saep.; cf. Lact. 7, 10 fin.

pestis, is, f. [perh. for perd-tis, from perdo], a deadly, esp. an infectious or contagious disease, a plague, pest, pestilence; also, a noxious atmosphere, unhealthy weather (class., but rare for pestilentia; cf. contagio, lues).

Lit.: hos pestis necuit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.):

ibes avertunt pestem ab Aegypto,

Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

avertere a populo pestem,

Liv. 4, 25, 3; 5, 14; 25, 26:

alii aliā peste absumpti sunt,

Liv. 25, 19.— Poet.:

crudelem nasorum interfice pestem,

i. e. stinking smell, Cat. 69, 9.—In plur.:

in omnibus morbis ac pestibus,

Col. 7, 5 fin; 2, 9, 9 sq.—

Transf., in gen., destruction, ruin, death (class.): qui alteri exitium parat, Eum scire oportet, sibi paratam pestem ut participet parem, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39 (Trag. v. 22 Vahl.); so with exitium, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 68 Vahl.):

quanta pernis pestis veniet!

Plaut. Capt. 4, 3, 3; Lucr. 3, 347:

detestabilis pestis,

Cic. Off. 2, 5, 16:

pestis ac pernicies civitatis,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 2; 9, 25: priusquam oppeto malam pestem (= subeo mortem), Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38 (Trag. v. 15 Vahl.); so,

occidam oppetamque pestem,

will seek my death, Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 11; cf. id. As. 1, 1, 7:

servatae a peste carinae,

i. e. from the fire, Verg. A. 5, 699:

pestem miserrimam importare alicui,

Cic. Deiot. 15, 43:

machinari alicui,

id. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

minitari,

Liv. 2, 49.—

Concr., of a destructive thing or person, a pest, curse, bane:

quin unā omnes peste hac populum liberant?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 70:

peste interimor textili (of the poisoned and fatal garment of Nessus), Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 8, 20: coluber, Pestis boum,

Verg. G. 3, 419:

illa furia ac pestis patriae (of Clodius),

id. Sest. 14, 33:

post abitum hujus importunissimae pestis,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 54, § 125:

nec saevior ulla Pestis et ira deūm (of the Harpies),

Verg. A. 3, 214:

pestes frugum,

Plin. 22, 25, 77, § 160;

of Nero: clade et peste sub illā,

Juv. 4, 84.—In plur.:

quaedam pestes hominum,

social pests, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 2:

variae pestes,

Verg. G. 1, 181:

corporeae pestes,

id. A. 6, 737.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `husband, spouse, consort' (ep. poet. Il.; cf. Chantraine REGr. 59--60, 219ff.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [842] * potis `lord (of the house), husband'

Etymology: Old and widespread designation of the lord of the house and the husband: Skt. páti-, Av. paiti- `lord, ruler, husband', Balt., e.g. Lith. pàts (older patìs) `husband', Toch. A pats, B petso (obl.) `husband', Lat. potis `capable, powerful'; IE *póti-s. The word is often used as 2. member of a compound or with a gen., e.g. δεσπότης (s. v.), Skt. viś-páti- `lord of the house', Lith. vieš-pats `Lord-(god)' (cf. on οἶκος), Lat. hos-pes `guest(friend)', Slav., e.g. Russ. gos-pódь `Lord, god', Goth. bruÞ-faÞs `bridegroom'. -- The meaning `lord, husband' is generally explained from a older meaning `self' in Lith. pàts (and in Av. * xvae-paiti-) as in the identifying and endorsing particle Lith. pàt `self, even', Hitt. - pat (- pit, -pe) `thus, also, even'; s. the rich lit. in Fraenkel Wb. s. v., further Benveniste Word 10, 260 ff.; this interpretation ist however with extensive and convincing criticism rejected by Szemerényi Syncope in Greek and I.-Eur. 337 ff. -- To be rejected Weisweiler Paideuma 3, 112 ff. (IE *pótis from Sumerian); s. Mayrhofer s. pátiḥ. -- Cf. πότνια, also Ποσειδῶν.

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