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  • 1 Windstoß

    Windstoß, impetus venti (als Andrang). – ictus venti (als treffender Stoß). – die Viktoria (-Säule) fiel durch einen W. vom Podium herab, Victoria vento icta de podio decĭdit.

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  • 2 creber

    crēber, bra, brum, Adi. m. Compar. u. Superl. (cresco), v. Dichtaneinandersein in Raum u. Zeit (Ggstz. rarus), I) im Raume u. dgl., dicht od. dick nebeneinander (aneinander) stehend, dicht, gedrängt (dah. verb. creber et continnus od. et paene continuus), a) übh.: α) attributiv: creberrima aedificia, Caes.: cr. arbores, Caes.: cr. castella, praesidia, stationes, Caes.: crebra ενθυμήματα, Plin. ep.: cr. fontes, Curt.: cr. foramina, Loch an Loch, Val. Max.: delectari crebro funali et tibicine, an vielen Fackeln hintereinander, Cic.: creberrima grando, Liv.: cr. ignes, Feuer an Feuer, Sall.: cr. insulae, Curt.: lapides crebris intervallis positi, Curt.: cr. lumina, Liv. u. (im Bilde) Quint.: crebro pilo, dichtbehaart (Ggstz. glaber), Varro: cr. rami, Caes.: crebrae venustaeque sententiae, Cic., od. aptae crebraeque sententiae, Quint.: nimis cr. sutura (Ggstz. nimis rara sutura), Cels.: vigilias crebras ponere, Sall.: volitare crebras per urbes, von Stadt zu Stadt, Tibull. – β) mehr prädikativ im engern Anschluß an das Verbum: hostes crebri cadunt, Mann für Mann, in dichten Scharen, Plaut.: haud aliter quam cum grandinem venti glomeratam in terras agunt, crebri cecĭdere caelo lapides, Liv.: u. semen serito crebrum tamquam linum, Cato.

    b) prägn., v. dem, an, in od. bei dem etw. in dichter Menge sich findet, dicht voll, gedrängt voll, gew. m. Ang. wodurch? durch Abl., creber arundinibus lucus, dicht bewachsen mit R., Ov. met. 11, 190: Tiberis creber ac subitus incrementis, stark u. plötzlich angeschwollen, Plin. 3, 55. – v. der Rede, oratio similis nivibus hibernis, id est crebra (reich an Gedankenfülle) et assidua et larga, Plin. ep. 1, 21, 22. – v. Schriftsteller, reich-, fruchtbar an usw., qui (Thucydides) ita creber est rerum frequentiā, ut etc., Cic.: creber sententiis, Quint.: quis sententiis aut acutior aut crebrior? Cic. fr.

    II) in der Zeit, in kürzen Zwischenräumen-, kurz nacheinander-, alle Augenblicke sich wiederholend, immer od. häufig wiederholt, immer wiederkehrend, fortgesetzt, häufig (Ggstz. rarus), a) übh.: α) attributiv: crebri amplexus, Ov.: cr. anhelitus, Quint.: labat ariete crebro ianua, durch immer wiederholte Stöße, Verg.: vgl. iam crebris arietibus saxorum compage laxatā, Curt. – crebra inter se colloquia habere, Caes.: crebras vel potius cotidianas compellationes meas non tulit, Cic.: cr. dolor, Cels.: cr. excursiones, Caes.: crebris confecti vulneribus, Caes.: crebros exploratores in Suebos mittere, Caes.: crebros edere od. (poet.) dare gemitus, Curt. u. Ov.: crebri ictus (Schläge, Hiebe, Stöße), Verg. u. Suet.: ictus (Pulsschlag) creber aut languidus, Plin.: crebris micat ignibus aether, von Schlag auf Schlag erfolgenden (versch. v. crebri ignes no. I, a, α), Verg.: cr. iteratio, Quint.: cr. iactatio cervicum, Curt.: crebrae, crebriores, creberrimae litterae, Cic.: cr. mortes, Tac.: cr. nuntii, Nep.: crebriores litterae nuntiique, Caes.: crebra proelia fiebant, Caes.: vulgi cr. rumor, Tac.: cr. rumores, Caes.: per hos dies creberrimus fuit sermo m. Akk. u. Inf., Cic.: crebris totius contionis sibilis vexari, Val. Max.: pedis supplosio cr., Quint.: crebrae voces militum audiebantur, Caes.: crebriore vomitu uti, Cels. – β) prädikativ: quae apud Sallustium rara fuerunt, apud hunc crebra sunt et paene continua, Sen. ep. 114, 18. – γ) neutr. pl. crebra adverb., wiederholt, Lucr. 2, 359. Verg. georg. 3, 500.

    b) prägn., v. dem, der wiederholt sich durch (mit) od. in etw. tätig zeigt, creber pulsat, klopft wiederholt, Verg.: errat aures et tempora circum crebra manus, Verg.: Africus creber procellis, der wiederholt, häufig Stürme erzeugt, Verg. – m. 2. Supin., creber egressu, Pacat. pan. 21, 2 (Ggstz. rarus egressu, Tac. ann. 15, 53). – m. Ang. worin? durch in m. Abl., si mihi tantum esset otii, quantum est tibi... in scribendo multo essem crebrior quam tu, Cic.: sed haec nescio quomodo frequenter in me congessisti saneque in eo creber fuisti (hast dich wiederholt, immer wieder darüber ausgelassen), te idcirco in ludos causam conicere noluisse, ne ego etc., Cic.

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  • 3 adversus

    1. adversus (advorsus), a, um, PAdj. m. Compar. u. Superl. (v. adverto), zugekehrt, I) eig., mit dem Gesichte od. mit der Vorderseite zugewandt, auf der Vorderseite od. gegenüber befindlich, vorliegend, vorstehend, vorn, vorder u. dgl. (Ggstz. aversus, supinus, resupinus, a posteriore parte, a latere), adversus in sedili contra medicum is homo collocandus est, vel sic aversus, ut in gremium eius caput resupinus effundat, Cels.: et adversus et aversus impudicus est, von vorn u. von hinten, Cic.: adversi raedarium occīdunt, von vorn, Cic.: adversos nobis (vobis) stare od. adversis vestigiis contra nostra vestigia stare, adversa nobis (vobis) urgere vestigia, Gegenfüßler, Antipoden sein, Cic.: collis adversus huic (flumini) et contrarius, Caes.: dentes adversi, die Vorderzähne, Cic.: adversa manus, die nach uns zugekehrte = innere Hand, Cic.: u. so adversae palmae, Quint.: facies, Quint.: dah. auch ut aedificii frons aversa sit ab infestis eius regionis ventis et amicissimis adversa, Col.: adverso corpore, vorn aus der Brust, Cic.: adversa vulnera, adversae cicatrices, vorn auf der Brust, Sall., Cic. u.a.: adversi telis figebantur, vorn auf der Brust, Auct. b. Alex.: in adversum os vulneratur, gerade ins Gesicht, Caes. – adversis hostibus occurrere, die Front machenden, in der Front, vorn, Caes.: adversos concitare equos, gegeneinander, Liv.: impetus
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    hostium adversi, Frontangriffe, Auct. b. Alex.: itinera adversa, Frontmärsche, Tac. – hastae adversae cadentes, nach vorn gesenkt, Liv.: hastis adversis, mit eingelegten, Verg. – solem adversum intueri, gerade gegen die S. sehen, Cic.: adv. fulgur, der uns entgegenstrahlende. Suet.: lectus adv., das (der Tür gegenüberstehende) Brautbett, Laber. u. Prop. – adversā viā, geradeaus, Plaut. – in montes adversos, per adversos montes, die B. hinan, Liv. u. Ov.: adverso colle, über die Vorderseite des H., den H. hinan, Caes. u. Sall.: adverso fune subire, das Seil hinaufklettern, Plin.: adverso flumine (amne, Tiberi u. dgl.), den Fluß hinauf, Stromaufwärts (Ggstz. secundo flumine), Caes. u.a.: u. so adversā ripā, stromaufwärts, Liv.: u. adversum amnem subvectus, Verg. – venti adversi, konträre, Liv.: u. so adversissimi navigantibus venti, Caes.: adversis flatibus, bei ungünstigem Winde (Ggstz. secundis fl.), Quint. – neutr. Sing. u. Plur. subst., hic ventus adversum tenet Athenis proficiscentibus, weht entgegen, Nep.: adversa Bastarnae tenent, die gegenüberliegenden Gegenden, Plin. – bes. m. Praep., in adversum, entgegen, Verg. u. Liv., od. gegeneinander, Prop.: ex adverso, gegenüber, Liv. u.a., od. von vorn, Curt. u. Suet.: urbs ex adverso Carthaginis sita, K. gegenüber, Plin.: u. so portus ex adverso urbi ipsi positus, Liv.
    II) übtr.: 1) gleichs. als Gegenpart gegenüberste-
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    hend, d.i. a) v. Pers., entgegen, gegenüber, Gegner, Gegenpart (doch mehr in Hinsicht des Strebens u. der Tat, als der Gesinnung, dah. oft verb. adversus infestusque, infensus et adversus), adversus alci, Cic. u.a.: u.m. Genet., adversus populi partium, Sall. – adverso Marte, Verg.: adverso senatu, adversā patrum voluntate, gegen den Willen des S., Liv. – Compar., neque (est) testudine aliud salamandrae adversius, Plin. 32, 35. – b) v. Lebl., zuwider, d.i. α) ungünstig, widrig, unglücklich (Ggstz. secundus, prosper), adversis auribus, Liv.: valetudo adv., Übelbefinden, Unpäßlichkeit, Liv.: adv. tempus navigandi, Hirt. b.G.: adv. bellum = δήϊος πόλεμος (Hom.), ein verheerender, mörderischer, Hor.: auspicia adversissima, Suet.: adversā avi, trotz der Warnung der Vögel, Pacuv. fr.: omnia secundissima nobis, adversissima illis accidisse videntur, Caes. b. Cic.: res adversae, Cic., od. casus adversi, Nep., od. fortuna adversa, Verg. u. Nep., widrige Schicksale, Unfälle, Mißgeschick, Unglück. – m. Dat., res plebi adversa, Liv.: annus frugibus adv., Liv.: locus opportunus consiliis an adversus, Quint. – neutr. subst., adversum, ī, n. od. gew. Plur. adversa, ōrum, n., Mißgeschick, Unglück (Ggstz. secunda, prospera), si quid adversi acciderit od. accidisset, Ter., Cic. u. Nep.: precari alci aliquid adversi, Sen.: advorsa eius, Ter. Hec. 388: res humanae semper in adversa mutantur, schlagen ins
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    schlimmere Gegenteil um, Sall.: quis in adversis beneficiorum servat memoriam, Vell. – β) (im Herzen) zuwider = verhaßt, quîs omnia regna advorsa sunt, Sall. Iug. 81, 1. – 2) als dialekt. t.t., dem Begriffe nach entgegengesetzt, das Gegenteil (den Gegensatz) bildend od. bezeichnend (Synon. contrarius; Ggstz. par), Cic. u.a.: opinio, Plin.: adversa virtuti malitia, Quint.: ipsa inter se adversa sunt, Gell. – neutr. subst., aptum, cui ex adverso est ineptum, Augustin. ep. 138, 5: paria paribus referunt, adversa contrariis, gleiche Sätze und Gegensätze einander entsprechen lassen, Cic. or. 65. – Kompar. adversior, Quint. 7, 1, 11: adversius, Plin. 32, 35: Superl. adversissimus, Caes. b.c. 3, 107, 1. Caes. bei Cic. ad Att. 10, 8. litt. B. § 1. Suet. Oth. 8, 3. Augustin. ep. 93, 2.
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    2. adversus (advors.) u. adversum (advors.), eig. Partic. v. adverto, in entgegengesetzter Richtung, I) als Adv., entgegen, auf etw. hin, -zu, -los, alci adversum ire, venire, jmdm. entgegenkommen, teils = jmdm. (zufällig) begegnen, Plaut., teils jmdm. (absichtlich) entgegengehen, jmd. abholen (bes. v. den Herrn abholenden Sklaven), Lucr. u. Komik. (s. Brix Plaut. Men. 434. Lorenz Plaut. most. 301. Holtze Synt. 1, 313): u. als Feind, adversus arma ferre, Nep.: adv. resistere, Nep.: postquam nemo adv. ibat, Liv.
    II) Praep. m. Acc. (auch dem Acc. Pronom. nachgesetzt b. Plaut., Sall. u. Nep., s. Wagner Plaut. aul. 682. Spengel Plaut. Krit. S. 162. Deder. Dict. 2, 3), A) die Richtung angebend: 1) im Raume, gegen, nach od. auf... hin, advorsum od. adversus clivum, Plaut. u. Caes.: adv. montem, Hirt. b.G.: adv. colles, Caes.: adv. multa oculos attollere (bildl.), Sen.: sed quis est, quae haec me advorsum incedit? auf mich zu, Plaut. – 2) bei der Tätigkeit od. Gesinnung, gegen, wider jmd. od. etw. (jedoch ohne den Nbbegr. des Feindseligen, nur das Entgegentreten zu Angriff u. Verteidigung bezeichnend, Ggstz. pro, s. Liv. 7, 40, 3: Quinctius, quem armorum etiam pro patria satietas teneret, nedum adversus patriam; vgl. Liv. 44, 38, 4; 45, 10, 14), adversus eum venit, trat ihm entgegen, Nep.: ubi nemo hostium adv. prodiit,
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    entgegenrückte, Liv.: adv. quem ibatur, gegen den ausgezogen wurde, Liv.: adv. Romanos fuisse, Nep.: adv. alqm dimicare, Nep.: adversus rem publicam facere, Caes.: adv. alqm stare, Nep. – respondere adv. ea, Liv.: adv. haec Tempani oratio incompta fuisse dicitur, Liv. – so vom Widersprechen, Zuwiderhandeln, gegen, im Widerspruch mit, adversus edictum facere, Ter.: adversus legem, adversus rem publicam, Cic.: adv. senatus consultum, Liv.: advorsum animi tui lubidinem,Ter.: adv. modestiam disciplinae, Tac. – adversus quod, »dem entgegen od. im Widerspruch mit dem, was« usw., Liv. 32, 2, 5: u. ähnl., advorsum quam, Plaut. trin. 176. – u. bei Schutz- u. Heilmitteln u. dgl., quaedam remedia propria adversus quaedam venena, Cels.: haec adv. omnes ictus utilia sunt, Cels.: egregium adv. tempestates receptaculum, Plin. ep.: huiusmodi exercitationes adversum propulsandam vini violentiam, Gell. 15, 2, 6. – dah. invictus, munitus adversum alqd od. alqm, Sall.: fortis adversus alqm, Phaedr.: adversus blanditias incorruptus, Tac.
    B) die Lage, den Stand bezeichnend = gegenüber, 1) im Raume, gegenüber, vis à vis, advorsum speculum, vor dem Spiegel, Scip. Afr. fr.: adversus aedes publicas, Liv.: adversus montes, Liv. – 2) gegen jmd. od. etw., a) jmdm. gegenüber = jmdm. ins Gesicht, vor, egone ut te advorsum mentiar? Plaut.: id gratum
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    fuisse advorsum te habeo gratiam, vor dir, vor deinen Augen, Ter.: dixit me advorsum tibi, in meiner Gegenwart, Plaut.: utendum est excusatione adversus eos, Cic. – b) bei der Vergleichung, gegen = in Vergleich mit, neben, adversus veterem ac perpetuum imperatorem comparabitur, Liv.: quid autem esse duo prospera in tot saeculis bella Samnitium adversus tot decora populi Rom., Liv. – c) vom Benehmen, Verhalten, jmdm. od. einer Sache gegenüber, gegen jmd. od. etw., auch in Hinsicht auf jmd., brevior est haec epistula et, ut adversus magistrum morum, modestior, Cic.: quonam modo me gererem adversus Caesarem, usus tuo consilio sum, Cic.: te adversus me omnia audere gratum est, meinetwegen, Cic. – Bes. häufig nach Ausdrücken der pflichtmäßigen Gesinnung, Liebe, Achtung, Verehrung gegen jmd. od. etw., est pietas iustitia adversus deos, Cic.: adhibenda est quaedam reverentia adversus homines, Cic.: adversus deos impii, Cic.: gratus adv. alqm, Sen.: ingratus adv. beneficium, Sen.: vir adversus merita Caesaris ingratissimus, Vell. – Arch. Nbf. arvorsum, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 196, 25.

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  • 4 creber

    crēber, bra, brum, Adi. m. Compar. u. Superl. (cresco), v. Dichtaneinandersein in Raum u. Zeit (Ggstz. rarus), I) im Raume u. dgl., dicht od. dick nebeneinander (aneinander) stehend, dicht, gedrängt (dah. verb. creber et continnus od. et paene continuus), a) übh.: α) attributiv: creberrima aedificia, Caes.: cr. arbores, Caes.: cr. castella, praesidia, stationes, Caes.: crebra ενθυμήματα, Plin. ep.: cr. fontes, Curt.: cr. foramina, Loch an Loch, Val. Max.: delectari crebro funali et tibicine, an vielen Fackeln hintereinander, Cic.: creberrima grando, Liv.: cr. ignes, Feuer an Feuer, Sall.: cr. insulae, Curt.: lapides crebris intervallis positi, Curt.: cr. lumina, Liv. u. (im Bilde) Quint.: crebro pilo, dichtbehaart (Ggstz. glaber), Varro: cr. rami, Caes.: crebrae venustaeque sententiae, Cic., od. aptae crebraeque sententiae, Quint.: nimis cr. sutura (Ggstz. nimis rara sutura), Cels.: vigilias crebras ponere, Sall.: volitare crebras per urbes, von Stadt zu Stadt, Tibull. – β) mehr prädikativ im engern Anschluß an das Verbum: hostes crebri cadunt, Mann für Mann, in dichten Scharen, Plaut.: haud aliter quam cum grandinem venti glomeratam in terras agunt, crebri cecĭdere caelo lapides, Liv.: u. semen serito crebrum tamquam linum, Cato.
    b) prägn., v. dem, an, in od. bei dem etw. in dichter Menge sich findet, dicht voll, gedrängt voll, gew.
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    m. Ang. wodurch? durch Abl., creber arundinibus lucus, dicht bewachsen mit R., Ov. met. 11, 190: Tiberis creber ac subitus incrementis, stark u. plötzlich angeschwollen, Plin. 3, 55. – v. der Rede, oratio similis nivibus hibernis, id est crebra (reich an Gedankenfülle) et assidua et larga, Plin. ep. 1, 21, 22. – v. Schriftsteller, reich-, fruchtbar an usw., qui (Thucydides) ita creber est rerum frequentiā, ut etc., Cic.: creber sententiis, Quint.: quis sententiis aut acutior aut crebrior? Cic. fr.
    II) in der Zeit, in kürzen Zwischenräumen-, kurz nacheinander-, alle Augenblicke sich wiederholend, immer od. häufig wiederholt, immer wiederkehrend, fortgesetzt, häufig (Ggstz. rarus), a) übh.: α) attributiv: crebri amplexus, Ov.: cr. anhelitus, Quint.: labat ariete crebro ianua, durch immer wiederholte Stöße, Verg.: vgl. iam crebris arietibus saxorum compage laxatā, Curt. – crebra inter se colloquia habere, Caes.: crebras vel potius cotidianas compellationes meas non tulit, Cic.: cr. dolor, Cels.: cr. excursiones, Caes.: crebris confecti vulneribus, Caes.: crebros exploratores in Suebos mittere, Caes.: crebros edere od. (poet.) dare gemitus, Curt. u. Ov.: crebri ictus (Schläge, Hiebe, Stöße), Verg. u. Suet.: ictus (Pulsschlag) creber aut languidus, Plin.: crebris micat ignibus aether, von Schlag auf Schlag erfolgenden (versch. v. crebri ignes no. I, a, α), Verg.: cr. iteratio,
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    Quint.: cr. iactatio cervicum, Curt.: crebrae, crebriores, creberrimae litterae, Cic.: cr. mortes, Tac.: cr. nuntii, Nep.: crebriores litterae nuntiique, Caes.: crebra proelia fiebant, Caes.: vulgi cr. rumor, Tac.: cr. rumores, Caes.: per hos dies creberrimus fuit sermo m. Akk. u. Inf., Cic.: crebris totius contionis sibilis vexari, Val. Max.: pedis supplosio cr., Quint.: crebrae voces militum audiebantur, Caes.: crebriore vomitu uti, Cels. – β) prädikativ: quae apud Sallustium rara fuerunt, apud hunc crebra sunt et paene continua, Sen. ep. 114, 18. – γ) neutr. pl. crebra adverb., wiederholt, Lucr. 2, 359. Verg. georg. 3, 500.
    b) prägn., v. dem, der wiederholt sich durch (mit) od. in etw. tätig zeigt, creber pulsat, klopft wiederholt, Verg.: errat aures et tempora circum crebra manus, Verg.: Africus creber procellis, der wiederholt, häufig Stürme erzeugt, Verg. – m. 2. Supin., creber egressu, Pacat. pan. 21, 2 (Ggstz. rarus egressu, Tac. ann. 15, 53). – m. Ang. worin? durch in m. Abl., si mihi tantum esset otii, quantum est tibi... in scribendo multo essem crebrior quam tu, Cic.: sed haec nescio quomodo frequenter in me congessisti saneque in eo creber fuisti (hast dich wiederholt, immer wieder darüber ausgelassen), te idcirco in ludos causam conicere noluisse, ne ego etc., Cic.

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  • 5 Caeci

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Caeci

  • 6 caecum

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > caecum

  • 7 Caecus

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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  • 8 caecus

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > caecus

  • 9 cecus

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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  • 10 coecus

    1.
    caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
    I.
    Act., not seeing, blind.
    A.
    Lit.:

    Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:

    traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,

    id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:

    catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:

    si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,

    Quint. 4, 1, 42:

    caecum corpus,

    the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:

    perdices caecae impetu,

    Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:

    gigni,

    Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
    2.
    Prov.:

    ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:

    apparet id quidem etiam caeco,

    even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:

    caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
    B.
    Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):

    o pectora caeca!

    Lucr. 2, 14:

    non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,

    Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.

    casus,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15:

    caecus atque amens tribunus,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    caecum me et praecipitem ferri,

    id. Planc. 3, 6:

    mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,

    id. Clu. 70, 199:

    cupidine,

    Sall. J. 25, 7:

    amentiā,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

    quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:

    amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 39:

    mens,

    Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:

    caecus ad has belli artes,

    Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:

    caecus animi,

    Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:

    fati futuri,

    ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
    2.
    Meton. of the passions themselves:

    caeca honorum cupido,

    Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:

    ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:

    exspectatio,

    id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    amor,

    Ov. F. 2, 762:

    amor sui,

    Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:

    festinatio,

    Liv. 22, 39, 22:

    furor,

    Hor. Epod. 7, 13:

    caeca et sopita socordia,

    Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    ambitio,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
    3.
    Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:

    in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

    caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,

    id. Lig. 1, 3:

    caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,

    Verg. A. 4, 209:

    caeca regens filo vestigia,

    id. ib. 6, 30:

    ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,

    Liv. 40, 10, 1:

    et caeco flentque paventque metu,

    Ov. F. 2, 822:

    lymphatis caeco pavore animis,

    Tac. H. 1, 82:

    cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,

    Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:

    timor,

    Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
    C.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of plants, without buds or eyes:

    rami,

    Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
    2.
    Of the large intestine:

    intestinum,

    the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
    II. A.
    Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;

    2, 713: vallum caecum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,

    fossae,

    covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:

    in vada caeca ferre,

    Verg. A. 1, 536:

    fores,

    private, id. ib. 2, 453:

    spiramenta,

    id. G. 1, 89:

    colubri,

    Col. 10, 231:

    ignis,

    Lucr. 4, 929:

    venenum,

    id. 6, 822:

    tabes,

    Ov. M. 9, 174:

    viae,

    blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:

    insidiae armaque,

    Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:

    saxa,

    Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:

    vulnus,

    a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;

    but also,

    a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.

    in the same sense, ictus,

    Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):

    caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,

    Ov. M. 12, 492:

    caecum domūs scelus,

    Verg. A. 1, 356.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    caecas exponere causas,

    Lucr. 3, 317:

    improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,

    lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,

    venti potestas,

    id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:

    caeca et clandestina natura,

    Lucr. 1, 779:

    res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:

    obscurum atque caecum,

    id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:

    fata,

    Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:

    sors,

    id. S. 2, 3, 269:

    tumultus,

    secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:

    amor,

    id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:

    stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,

    Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
    2.
    By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:

    murmur,

    Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,

    clamor,

    Val. Fl. 2, 461:

    mugitusterrae,

    Sen. Troad. 171.—
    III.
    Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:

    caligo,

    Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:

    tenebrae,

    Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;

    3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,

    Sil. 7, 350:

    latebrae,

    Lucr. 1, 409:

    iter,

    Ov. M. 10, 456:

    loca,

    Prop. 1, 19, 8:

    cavernae,

    Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:

    latus,

    Verg. A. 2, 19:

    cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,

    domus,

    without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:

    parietes,

    Verg. A. 5, 589:

    pulvis,

    id. ib. 12, 444:

    carcer,

    id. ib. 6, 734:

    sardonyches,

    not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:

    smaragdi,

    id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
    B.
    Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:

    quod temere fit caeco casu,

    id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:

    eventus,

    Verg. A. 6, 157:

    caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,

    Col. 1, 5, 6; so,

    dolores,

    Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:

    crimen,

    that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):

    verum in caeco esse,

    Manil. 4, 304.—
    * Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
    2.
    Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > coecus

  • 11 cado

    cado, cecidī, cāsūrus, ere (altind. çad-, Perf. çaçáda, Fut. çatsyanti, »abfallen, ausfallen«), fallen, sinken, zuw. auch sich senken, I) im allg.: A) eig.: a) v. lebl. Subjj., absol.: quare calix, si cecidit, frangitur; spongia, si cecidit, non frangitur, Sen.: bis patriae cecidere manus, Verg.: articulus ad numerum cadens, der nach dem Takte sich senkende Finger, Cic. – a mento cadit manus, Ov.: arma alci cadunt de manibus, Cic. (u. arma de manibus alcis delapsa cadunt, Cic.): cadere ex muro, Liv.: ex arbore, Plin.: e celsiore scopulo, von einer steilen Höhe herabstürzen (bildl.), Amm.: de tertio cenaculo deorsum, ulg.: tum arbores in te cadent, Plaut.: caelo u. de caelo (v. Meteorsteinen), Liv.: sinu, Ov. – in terram, Cic., od. ad terram, Quint.: in sinum, Ov.: in alqm, Plaut.: supra caput alcis, Lucr. – in Euboico litore saxea pila cadit, Verg. – deorsum, Plaut.: gravatim, Lucr. So nun bes.: α) v. Geschossen, fallen, cadunt tela retusa, Ov.: in hostem, Curt.: in humum, Curt. – frustra, Sen.: ut tela in vanum cadant, Sen.: levius, auffallen, Caes. – so auch v. Blitzen, cadentia (einschlagende) fulmina, Curt.: quaecumque cadent, in te fulmina missa putes, Ov.: caelo cadunt fulmina, Petr.: fulmina paucorum periculo cadunt, omnium metu, Sen. – β) v. Würfel u. Wurf, fallen, ut (talus) cadat rectus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 54: u. (im Bilde) iudice fortunā cadat alea, Petr. poët. 122. v. 174; vgl. auch Ter. adelph. 741. – u. v. Lose, im Bilde, Liv. 2, 12, 16. – γ) v. Segeln, eingezogen werden, vela cadunt, Verg. Aen. 3, 207. Ov. fast. 3, 585. Gloss. IV, 468, 28. u. (bildl. = der Zorn legt sich) Ov. art. am. 1, 373. – δ) v. Gewändern, pallium interdum cadit, ut candidos nudet umeros, Hieron. ep. 117, 7 extr. – ε) v. Flüssigkeiten (v. Regen, Schnee, Tau, Wassertropfen, Wellen, Gewässern, Tränen usw.), fallen, sich ergießen, cadere imbres, Lucr.: imbres cadentes, Mela: nix cadens, Lucr.: cadentes assidue nives, Mela: ad cenam non ibo, si nives cadent, Sen. (vgl. nix): guttae cadentes, Cic.: ros cadit, Plaut., rores cadunt, Plin.: lacrimae tam iuste cadentes, Sen.: ha lacrimae per elisionem cadunt nolentibus nobis, Sen.: sine fine cadentes aquae (Regengüsse), Sen.: haemorrhoides cadere cogit, Scribon.: e capillis ros cadit, Ov.: cadunt toto de corpore guttae, Ov.: u. (im Bilde) Graeco fonte cadent (verba), Hor.: ut (Athos) aestimetur altior, quam unde imbres cadunt, Solin. – in ora, per genas (von Tränen), Ov.: in petram (v. einer Quelle), Curt.: in sinum maris (v. einem Flusse), Liv.: u. so in mare (v. einem Sumpfe), Curt.: in Maeandrum (v. einem Flusse), Liv.: ex India in Hyrcaniam (v. Meere), Curt. – silanus iuxta cadens (plätschernder), Cels. – ζ) v. Schatten, fallen, altis de montibus, Verg.: umbra modo brevior modo longior hāc vel illā cadit, Sen.: arboris antiquae quā levis umbra cadit, Tibull.: in ea India umbrae in meridiem cadunt, Plin.: ne umbrae in corpora cadant (auf einem Gemälde), Quint.: longius cadentes umbrae, die sich verlängernden (der Menschen), Flor. – η) v. dem, was auf natürlichem Wege von selbst od. künstlich sich trennt, sich loslöst u. abfällt, fallen, ab-, ausfallen, ausgehen, priora (medicamenta) fasciā deliganda sunt, ne per somnum cadant, Cels. – an od. von Bäumen od. Pflanzen, folia nunc cadunt, Plaut.: arbori od. ex arbore folia cadunt, Plin.: u. casuri flosculi, Quint.: motis poma cadunt ramis, Ov.: u. folia de arboribus cadunt, Mythogr. Lat. – am od. vom tier. Körper, donec crustae cadant, Cels.: vitiosi ungues cadunt, Cels.: cadunt capilli, Petr.: cadit pilus quadrupedibus, Plin.: a fronte (am Vorderhaupt) cadunt pili, Vulg.: tondenti barba cadit, Verg.: cadit dens, Cels.: dentes cadunt, Plaut. u. Plin.: cadunt alci dentes, Sen. – θ) v. der Sonne u.a. Gestirnen, v. Tage, v. Jahreszeiten, sinken, sich neigen, untergehen (Ggstz. oriri), in densam umbram, Curt., od. in mare, Flor. (v. der Sonne): in Oceanum (v. Gestirnen), Prop.: Delia (Mond) exoriens simul atque cadens, Manil. – infra caelum et sidera nox cadit, die Nacht erhebt sich nicht bis zum Himmel u. bis zu den Sternen, Tac.: quā (wo) tristis Orion cadit, Hor. – hiems cecidit (ist dahin), referent illam sui menses, Sen. ep. 36, 11. – dah. sol cadens, poet. = Abend, Westen, iuxta solem cadentem, Verg. Aen. 4, 480: soli subiecta cadenti arva, Avien. descr. orb. 273. – ι) v. Winden, Stürmen, Orkanen, sich legen (Ggstz. surgere; vgl. Drak. Liv. 26, 39, 8 u. 29, 27, 10), ventus premente nebulā cecidit, Liv.: ubi primum aquilones (ii namque per aliquot dies tenuerunt) cecidere, Liv.: cadente iam euro, Liv.: sic cunctus cecidit pelagi fragor, Verg. – κ) v. Worten usw., dem Munde entfallen, sic iterat voces et verba cadentia tollit, Hor.: haec aliis male dicta cadant, Tibull.: neu tibi pro vano verba benigna cadant, Prop.: haud irritae cecidere minae, Liv. – λ) (als gramm. u. rhet. t. t.) v. Wort- u. Tonfall, abfallen, verlaufen, enden, quod verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic.: quā (litterā m) nullum Graecum verbum cadit, Quint.: quae cadunt similiter, gleiche Abfälle (ὁμοιόπτωτα; dagegen quae similiter desinunt, gleiche Ausgänge [wie unsere Reime], ὁμοιοτέλευτα), Cic. de or. 3, 206: similiter cadens (Gleichheit des Falles) exornatio appellatur, cum etc., Cornif. rhet. 4, 28: ultima syllaba in gravem cadit, Quint. – cadere numerose, aptissime, Cic.: numerus opportune cadens, Quint.

    b) v. leb. Wesen, α) übh.: ubi circumvortor (mich im Tanze herumdrehe), cado, Plaut.: et labaris oportet et arietes et cadas, Sen.: cecidit coxamque fregit, Plin. ep.: sanis pedibus suis cecidit, pedem fregit, Augustin.: fratrem suum pugno ictum a Kaesone cecidisse, Liv.: si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv.: cadere solere u. saepius cadere (v. Fallsüchtigen), Cels. u. Plin. Val.: u. (im Bilde) magnus orator minime in lubrico versabitur, et si semel constiterit, numquam cadet, Cic.: u. (im Bilde), securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo, Hor. – ab alto (v. Vögeln), Plin.: de equo, Plaut. u. Cic.: de sella, Augustin. – alci ad pedes, Eutr.: in terram, in die Erde sinken (v. Körper), Cic.: alte in terram, Varr. fr.: in pedes alcis, Sen. rhet.: in patrios pedes, Ov.: in vulnus, Liv.: in vultus, Ov.: in transtra, sich ganz auf die Ruderbänke niederbeugen (= mit voller Kraft rudern), Lucan.: alci ad pedes, Eutr. 4, 7. Augustin. serm. 143, 4: alcis ad pedes, Vulg. Luc. 8, 41 u. Ioann. 11, 32: super collum alcis (jmdm. um den Hals), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20. – praecipitem, Verg.: pronum, Ov.: supinum, Suet.: honestius, Suet. – β) vom Weibe = sich einem Manne hingeben (Ggstz. demitti), Plaut. Pers. 656. Tibull. 4, 10, 2. Sen. contr. 1, 3, 7. – γ) v. Neugeborenen, de matre cadens, Stat. Theb. 1, 60: matre cadens, Val. Flacc. 1, 355. – u. v. der Sitte, Neugeborene vor die Füße des Vaters zu legen, tellure cadens, Stat. silv. 1, 2, 209 u. 5, 5, 69.

    B) übtr.: a) wohin fallen = kommen, geraten, α) übh.: abrupte in narrationem, in die E. wie mit der Tür ins Haus fallen (v. Redner), Quint. 4, 1, 79. – β) in od. auf eine Zeit fallen, in ihr eintreten, in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, Cic.: considera, ne in alienissimum tempus cadat adventus tuus, Cic. – bes. v. Zahlungen, fällig werden, einkommen, in eam diem cadere nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic.: sed ei ex praediis, ut cadet, ita solvetur, Cic. – γ) in die Sinne od. geistige Anschauung fallen, kommen, ihr anheimfallen, unterworfen werden, sub sensum aliquem, Cic.: sub sensum cernendi, Cic.: sub oculos, sub aspectum, in conspectum, Cic.: sub aspectum et tactum, Cic.: sub aurium mensuram aliquam, Cic.: sub iudicium sapientis et delectum, Cic.: sub intellegentiam, Cic.: in deliberationem, in nostram intellegentiam, Cic.: ne in cogitationem quidem, nicht einmal gedacht werden können, Cic. – δ) in eine gewisse Klasse usw. fallen, ihr zufallen, anheimfallen, zu ihr gehören, in idem genus orationis, Cic.: u. sub eandem rationem, Cic.: in unam quaestionem (v. mehreren), Quint.: sub nullam regulam cadere posse, unter keine Regel gebracht werden können, Sen.: ultra medicinae professionem, Scrib. – ε) in einen Zustand, in ein Verhältnis fallen, verfallen, geraten, ihm anheimfallen, von Pers., in morbum, Cic.: in unius potestatem, Cic.: sub populi Romani imperium ditionemque, Cic.: in offensionem alcis, Cic.: in suspicionem alcis, Nep.: u. in aliquam vituperationem, Cic.: in peccatum, der S. verfallen, Augustin. in psalm. 65, 13. – ζ) an jmd. fallen, jmdm. zufallen, anheimfallen = zuteil werden, m. Ang. an wen? durch ad m. Akk., regnum praeceps ad servitia (die Sklaven) cadit, Liv.: ad regna alcis, Lucr. – u. durch Dat., quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti (Abl.), Verg. – η) auf jmd. fallen, d.i. jmd. treffen, auf jmd. od. etw. Anwendung finden, auf od. für jmd. od. etw. passen, jmdm. beigelegt-, zugemutet werden können, mit etw. stimmen, non cadit in hos mores, non in hunc hominem ista suspicio, Cic.: hoc verbum, hoc nomen cadit in alqm, Cic.: non cadit in te superbia, Curt.: cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri emolumenti sui causā, criminari etc.? Cic.: cadit igitur in eundem et misereri et invidere, Cic.: in consuetudinem nostram non caderet, es würde mit unserem Sprachgebrauche nicht übereinstimmen, Cic.

    b) seinem Verlaufe od. Erfolge nach fallen = eintreten, sich ereignen, sich zutragen, so u. so ausfallen, ablaufen, von Ereignissen, Versprechen u. dgl., quae tum maxime acciderant, casura praemonens, Liv.: si quid adversi casurum foret, Liv.: quid, si hostem habuissemus, casurum fuisset, Liv.: vota cadunt, treten ein, d.i. gehen in Erfüllung, Tibull. 2, 2, 17 (versch. von omnia ingrato litore vota cadunt, im Bilde = bleiben unerfüllt, Prop. 1, 17, 4). – c. fortuito, Cic.: c. feliciter, Sen. rhet.: c. male, Caes.: hoc adhuc percommode cadit, quod (daß usw.), Cic.: quod melius caderet nihil vidi, Cic.: res cecidit praeter opinionem, Nep., od. aliter ac putaram, Cic.: cecidit ut volumus et optamus (ganz erwünscht), Cic.: commodius cadere non potuit, Cic.: durius et contra praedicta cadentibus rebus, Suet. – si non omnia caderent secunda, Caes.: ut irrita promissa eius caderent, Liv. – res quocunque cadent etc., Verg.: leviter curare videtur, quo promissa cadant, Hor.: etsi verebar, quorsum id casurum esset, Cic.: aliorsum vota ceciderunt, Flor. – ni misericordia in perniciem casura esset, Cic.: cadere ad od. in irritum, fehlschlagen, vereitelt werden, fruchtlos bleiben (v. Hoffnung usw.), Liv. u. Tac.: so auch in cassum, Plaut. u. Lucr., u. frustra, Tac. – m. Ang. wem? etw. eintritt, sich ereignet, begegnet, durch Dat., ut nihil ipsis iure incommodi cadere possit, Cic.: insperanti mihi cecidit, ut etc., Cic.: hoc cecidit mihi peropportune, quod etc., Cic.: nihil mihi optatius cadere potest, quam ut etc., Cic.: qua in re mihi videtur illud perquam venuste (ganz allerliebst) cecidisse, ut (daß) etc., Cael. in Cic. ep.: sed certe a te mihi omnia semper honesta et iucunda ceciderunt, Cic. – nimia illa libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit, schlägt um in usw. (wie μεταβάλλει), Cic. de rep. 1, 68.

    c) gleichs. zu Boden fallen, sinken, α) v. Pers., αα) durch Verlust der Macht, des Ansehens, des Kredits im Staats- u. Privatleben, turpius est enim privatim cadere quam publice, Cic.: tam graviter c., Cic.: eminentis vitae exitus est cadere, Sen. – ββ) durch Verlust des Prozesses, fallen = den Prozeß verlieren, verurteilt werden, absol., Tac. hist. 4, 6: in iudicio, Cic.: causā, Cic. u. ICt., od. formulā, Sen. u. Quint., infolge eines Formfehlers den Prozeß verlieren (s. Piderit Cic. de or. 1, 166. Halm Cic. Mur. 9): coniurationis crimine, Tac.: ore impudico (accusatoris), Tac. – γγ) durch Verlust des moralischen Haltes, Mutes, frangi repente et ita cadere, ut nulla res te ad aequitatem animi possit postea extollere, Cic.: non debemus ita cadere animis (den Mut verlieren), quasi etc., Cic. ep. 6, 1, 4. – β) v. Lebl., αα) durch Abnahme der extensiven od. intensiven Stärke, sinken, schwinden, cadunt vires, Lucr.: cadit vis venti, Liv. – cadit alci ira, Liv., u. (poet.) cadit ira fulminis, Prop.: cadit ira metu, Ov. – ββ) durch Abnahme des moral. Haltes, sinken, entsinken, nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur (amicitia), Cic.: castris amissis od. alienis cladibus ceciderant animi, Liv. (s. Drak. Liv. 1, 11, 3): cecidere illis animique manusque, Ov. – γγ) durch Abnahme od. Verlust der Geltung, Macht, fallen, sinken, an Geltung-, an Bedeutung-, an Ansehen verlieren, pretia militiae casura in pace, Liv.: tua laus pariter cum re publica cecidit, Cic.: tanta civitas si cadet, Cic.: auctoritas principum cecidit, Cic.: multa renascentur, quae cecidere, cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, Hor.: si magnus vir cecidit, magnus iacuit, Sen. – huc cecidisse Germani exercitus gloriam, ut etc., so weit (so tief) sei der R. des germ. H. gesunken, daß usw., Tac. – Unpers., periculum est, ne cadatur, Augustin. de dono persev. 1.

    II) prägn., fallen = hinsinken, zusammensinken, a) v. lebl. Subjj.: α) fallen = einfallen, einsinken, zusammenfallen, -sinken, verfallen, versinken, cadunt toti montes, Lucr.: at mundus aliquando est casurus? Ps. Quint. decl. – v. menschl. Gliedmaßen, cadunt alci oculi, fallen zu, Cic.: cadentes in ipso opere oculi, Sen.: cadentes iam oculos ad meum nomen erexit, Sen. rhet.: venas cadentes vino fulcire od. reficere, Sen. – β) fallen = erobert u. zerstört werden, von Städten, non tota cadet Troia, Ov.: cadere Argolico sub milite Troiam, Ov.

    b) v. leb. Wesen, fallen, sinken = tot hinsinken, α) von Menschen, teils gewaltsam, sowohl durch fremde Hand, im Kampfe, Kriege, od. durch Gift, durch das Henkerschwert usw., hinterlistig usw., pauci de nostris cadunt, Caes.: pauci utrimque cecidere, Liv.: ante signa circaque omnes ceciderant, Liv.: adversum femur tragulā graviter ictus cecidit, Liv.: confossi ceciderunt, Liv. – cadere in acie, Cic., in proelio, in eo bello, Nep.: acie civili, Ov.: pugnā Cannensi, Liv.: inter signa Samnitium, Liv.: in Hispania, Liv. – in pio officio, Ov. – telis, Tac.: iaculo eminus, Ov.: u. Marte suo per mutua vulnera, Ov.: u. per alqm iustā morte, Hor.: per acies aut proscriptione, Tac.: fraude muliebri, Tac.: poenali gladio (unter dem Henkerschwert), Amm. 27, 12, 3. – pro patria, Quint.: pro optimatibus, Tac. – neque illius interest, quemadmodum aut ubi cadam, Iustin.: in pugna acceptis a forti adversario vulneribus honeste cadere, Cic.: super LX milia non armis telisque Romanorum, sed... oblectationi oculisque ceciderunt, Tac.: cadere cum dignitate, Cic.: iure belli, Tac. – m. Ang. von wem? durch ab m. Abl. (s. Burm. Ov. met. 5, 192. Nipp. Tac. ann. 16, 9. Ruhnk. Suet. Oth. 5, 1): a tanto viro, Ov.: a centurione advorsis vulneribus tamquam in pugna, Tac.: nihil referre an ab hoste in acie an in foro sub creditoribus caderet, Suet.: poet. durch bl. Abl., Thessalo victore, Hor. – m. Ang. wem zuliebe? durch Dat., illud rogo, legi potius quam scorto cadat (hingerichtet werde), Sen. contr. 9 (4), 25. § 8. – als durch eigene Hand, suā manu, Tac.: exitu voluntario, Tac. – teils durch Schicksals Hand, in den Tod-, ins Grab sinken, vivam, si vivet; si cadet illa, cadam, Prop. – cadere ferrove fatove, Ov. – β) v. Opfertieren, fallen = als Opfer geschlachtet werden, geopfert werden, si tener pleno cadit haedus anno, Hor.: hostia cadit ante aras, Verg.: quae prima hostia ante foculum cecidit, Val. Max. – m. Ang. wem? durch Dat., agna cadet vobis, Tibull.: ovis cadit deo, Ov.: u. (im Bilde) nostrae cadens ferus Hannibal irae, Corn. Sever. (poët.) bei Sen. suas. 6, 26. – / Abl. Partiz. Präs. cadenti, Lucr. 3, 466: Genet. Plur. cadentum, Verg. Aen. 10, 674 u. 12, 410. Sil. 4, 424.

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  • 12 iniuriosus

    iniūriōsus, a, um (iniuria), I) widerrechtlich handelnd, unrechtmäßig, ungerecht, frevelhaft, appetitio alienorum, Cornif. rhet.: vita, Cic.: venti (freche), pes, Hor.: alqm verbis iniuriosissimis lacerare, Augustin. epist. 36, 3. – iniuriosum est m. folg. Infin., rapto vivere, Sen. ep. 70, 28. – v. Pers., superbus et iniuriosus (subst.), Sen.: iniuriosi in proximos, Cic.: adversus patrem iniuriosior, Sen. contr. 2, 4 (12), 5: genus hominum iniuriosissimum, Hadrian. bei Vopisc. Saturn. 8, 5. – II) insbes., verletzend, ictus, Plin. 17, 227.

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  • 13 vanus

    vānus, a, um (vgl. altind. ūná-h, unzureichend), leer, nichts in sich enthaltend, taub, I) eig.: arista, Verg.: granum, Colum.: magnitudo urbis, Liv.: venti, körperlose, nichtige, Catull.: imago, leeres Bild, d.i. der Schatten eines Toten, Hor.: somnia, leere Träume, Verg.: vanior acies hostium, Liv. – II) übtr., dem Inhalte od. dem Erfolge, der Wirkung nach leer, gehaltlos, eitel = unbedeutend, nichtig, lügenhaft, grundlos, erfolglos, fruchtlos, vergeblich, A) v. Lebl.: 1) adi.: res, Liv.: sermo, Liv.: vanissimus strepitus verborum, Petron. – oratio, Cic.: spes, Ov.: gaudia, Hor.: metus, Hor.: omen, Ov.: vana quaedam pollicebatur, Cic.: nec vana fides, und es ist wahr, Verg.: haud vana, Liv. – v. Geschossen, ictus, Liv.: vana tela mittere, Liv. – vanum est m. Acc. u. Infin., vanum arbitror esse circa canis ortum angues candidos membranam eam exuere, Plin. 30, 25. – m. Genet., leer an usw., profana philosophiae turba vana sanctitudinis, priva verae rationis, Apul. de deo Socr. 3 in. – 2) neutr. subst. = das Leere, Eitle, Vergebliche, haustum ex vano, aus einer falschen Quelle geschöpft, Liv.: nec tota ex vano criminatio erat, ohne Grund, Liv.: ad vanum et irritum redacta victoria, ist vernichtet, Liv.: ut tela in vanum cadant, Sen.: cedit in vanum labor, ist vergeblich, Sen.: alioquin abibunt in vanum monentium verba, sind in den Wind gesprochen, Sen. – poet., vana tumens, mit leerem Scheine, aufgeblasen (von Einbildung), Verg. Aen. 11, 854: vana luctans, Sil. 17, 313. – m. Genet., vana rerum, Hor.: vana rumoris, Tac. – B) v. Pers.: 1) v. dem, dessen Handlungen ohne Erfolg sind, ne vanus isdem castris assideret, vergeblich, Tac. hist. 2, 22. – u. so poet. m. Genet., aut ego veri vana feror, Verg. Aen. 10, 631: vanus voti, Sil. 12, 261. – 2) insbes., im moralischen Sinne, lügenhaft, windbeutelig, wankelmütig, eitel, prahlerisch, windig, abenteuerlich, haruspex, Cic.: ingenium, Liv. u. (v. der Pers. selbst) Sall.: quam vana et mutabilia barbarorum ingenia essent, Liv.: vanus aemulatione, töricht aus Eifersucht, Tac.: vanum se esse et perfidiosum fateri, Cic.: laudare se vani est, Val. Max.: vanus auctor est, der Gewährsmann verdient keinen Glauben, Liv.: inde vanus auctor absumpti Masinissae ad regem rediit, mit dem falschen Berichte, M. sei umgekommen, Liv.: Cn. Lentulus perincertum stolidior an vanior, Sall. fr.: vanissimi cuiusque ludibrium, jedes Abenteurers, Betrügers, Curt.

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  • 14 cado

    cado, cecidī, cāsūrus, ere (altind. çad-, Perf. çaçáda, Fut. çatsyanti, »abfallen, ausfallen«), fallen, sinken, zuw. auch sich senken, I) im allg.: A) eig.: a) v. lebl. Subjj., absol.: quare calix, si cecidit, frangitur; spongia, si cecidit, non frangitur, Sen.: bis patriae cecidere manus, Verg.: articulus ad numerum cadens, der nach dem Takte sich senkende Finger, Cic. – a mento cadit manus, Ov.: arma alci cadunt de manibus, Cic. (u. arma de manibus alcis delapsa cadunt, Cic.): cadere ex muro, Liv.: ex arbore, Plin.: e celsiore scopulo, von einer steilen Höhe herabstürzen (bildl.), Amm.: de tertio cenaculo deorsum, ulg.: tum arbores in te cadent, Plaut.: caelo u. de caelo (v. Meteorsteinen), Liv.: sinu, Ov. – in terram, Cic., od. ad terram, Quint.: in sinum, Ov.: in alqm, Plaut.: supra caput alcis, Lucr. – in Euboico litore saxea pila cadit, Verg. – deorsum, Plaut.: gravatim, Lucr. So nun bes.: α) v. Geschossen, fallen, cadunt tela retusa, Ov.: in hostem, Curt.: in humum, Curt. – frustra, Sen.: ut tela in vanum cadant, Sen.: levius, auffallen, Caes. – so auch v. Blitzen, cadentia (einschlagende) fulmina, Curt.: quaecumque cadent, in te fulmina missa putes, Ov.: caelo cadunt fulmina, Petr.: fulmina paucorum periculo cadunt, omnium metu, Sen. – β) v. Würfel u. Wurf, fallen, ut (talus) cadat rectus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 54: u. (im Bilde) iudice fortunā cadat alea, Petr. poët.
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    122. v. 174; vgl. auch Ter. adelph. 741. – u. v. Lose, im Bilde, Liv. 2, 12, 16. – γ) v. Segeln, eingezogen werden, vela cadunt, Verg. Aen. 3, 207. Ov. fast. 3, 585. Gloss. IV, 468, 28. u. (bildl. = der Zorn legt sich) Ov. art. am. 1, 373. – δ) v. Gewändern, pallium interdum cadit, ut candidos nudet umeros, Hieron. ep. 117, 7 extr. – ε) v. Flüssigkeiten (v. Regen, Schnee, Tau, Wassertropfen, Wellen, Gewässern, Tränen usw.), fallen, sich ergießen, cadere imbres, Lucr.: imbres cadentes, Mela: nix cadens, Lucr.: cadentes assidue nives, Mela: ad cenam non ibo, si nives cadent, Sen. (vgl. nix): guttae cadentes, Cic.: ros cadit, Plaut., rores cadunt, Plin.: lacrimae tam iuste cadentes, Sen.: ha lacrimae per elisionem cadunt nolentibus nobis, Sen.: sine fine cadentes aquae (Regengüsse), Sen.: haemorrhoides cadere cogit, Scribon.: e capillis ros cadit, Ov.: cadunt toto de corpore guttae, Ov.: u. (im Bilde) Graeco fonte cadent (verba), Hor.: ut (Athos) aestimetur altior, quam unde imbres cadunt, Solin. – in ora, per genas (von Tränen), Ov.: in petram (v. einer Quelle), Curt.: in sinum maris (v. einem Flusse), Liv.: u. so in mare (v. einem Sumpfe), Curt.: in Maeandrum (v. einem Flusse), Liv.: ex India in Hyrcaniam (v. Meere), Curt. – silanus iuxta cadens (plätschernder), Cels. – ζ) v. Schatten, fallen, altis de montibus, Verg.: umbra modo brevior modo longior hāc vel illā cadit, Sen.: arboris antiquae quā levis
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    umbra cadit, Tibull.: in ea India umbrae in meridiem cadunt, Plin.: ne umbrae in corpora cadant (auf einem Gemälde), Quint.: longius cadentes umbrae, die sich verlängernden (der Menschen), Flor. – η) v. dem, was auf natürlichem Wege von selbst od. künstlich sich trennt, sich loslöst u. abfällt, fallen, ab-, ausfallen, ausgehen, priora (medicamenta) fasciā deliganda sunt, ne per somnum cadant, Cels. – an od. von Bäumen od. Pflanzen, folia nunc cadunt, Plaut.: arbori od. ex arbore folia cadunt, Plin.: u. casuri flosculi, Quint.: motis poma cadunt ramis, Ov.: u. folia de arboribus cadunt, Mythogr. Lat. – am od. vom tier. Körper, donec crustae cadant, Cels.: vitiosi ungues cadunt, Cels.: cadunt capilli, Petr.: cadit pilus quadrupedibus, Plin.: a fronte (am Vorderhaupt) cadunt pili, Vulg.: tondenti barba cadit, Verg.: cadit dens, Cels.: dentes cadunt, Plaut. u. Plin.: cadunt alci dentes, Sen. – θ) v. der Sonne u.a. Gestirnen, v. Tage, v. Jahreszeiten, sinken, sich neigen, untergehen (Ggstz. oriri), in densam umbram, Curt., od. in mare, Flor. (v. der Sonne): in Oceanum (v. Gestirnen), Prop.: Delia (Mond) exoriens simul atque cadens, Manil. – infra caelum et sidera nox cadit, die Nacht erhebt sich nicht bis zum Himmel u. bis zu den Sternen, Tac.: quā (wo) tristis Orion cadit, Hor. – hiems cecidit (ist dahin), referent illam sui menses, Sen. ep. 36, 11. – dah. sol cadens, poet. = Abend,
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    Westen, iuxta solem cadentem, Verg. Aen. 4, 480: soli subiecta cadenti arva, Avien. descr. orb. 273. – ι) v. Winden, Stürmen, Orkanen, sich legen (Ggstz. surgere; vgl. Drak. Liv. 26, 39, 8 u. 29, 27, 10), ventus premente nebulā cecidit, Liv.: ubi primum aquilones (ii namque per aliquot dies tenuerunt) cecidere, Liv.: cadente iam euro, Liv.: sic cunctus cecidit pelagi fragor, Verg. – κ) v. Worten usw., dem Munde entfallen, sic iterat voces et verba cadentia tollit, Hor.: haec aliis male dicta cadant, Tibull.: neu tibi pro vano verba benigna cadant, Prop.: haud irritae cecidere minae, Liv. – λ) (als gramm. u. rhet. t. t.) v. Wort- u. Tonfall, abfallen, verlaufen, enden, quod verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic.: quā (litterā m) nullum Graecum verbum cadit, Quint.: quae cadunt similiter, gleiche Abfälle (ὁμοιόπτωτα; dagegen quae similiter desinunt, gleiche Ausgänge [wie unsere Reime], ὁμοιοτέλευτα), Cic. de or. 3, 206: similiter cadens (Gleichheit des Falles) exornatio appellatur, cum etc., Cornif. rhet. 4, 28: ultima syllaba in gravem cadit, Quint. – cadere numerose, aptissime, Cic.: numerus opportune cadens, Quint.
    b) v. leb. Wesen, α) übh.: ubi circumvortor (mich im Tanze herumdrehe), cado, Plaut.: et labaris oportet et arietes et cadas, Sen.: cecidit coxamque fregit, Plin. ep.: sanis pedibus suis cecidit, pedem fregit, Augustin.: fratrem suum pugno ictum a Kaesone cecidis-
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    se, Liv.: si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv.: cadere solere u. saepius cadere (v. Fallsüchtigen), Cels. u. Plin. Val.: u. (im Bilde) magnus orator minime in lubrico versabitur, et si semel constiterit, numquam cadet, Cic.: u. (im Bilde), securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo, Hor. – ab alto (v. Vögeln), Plin.: de equo, Plaut. u. Cic.: de sella, Augustin. – alci ad pedes, Eutr.: in terram, in die Erde sinken (v. Körper), Cic.: alte in terram, Varr. fr.: in pedes alcis, Sen. rhet.: in patrios pedes, Ov.: in vulnus, Liv.: in vultus, Ov.: in transtra, sich ganz auf die Ruderbänke niederbeugen (= mit voller Kraft rudern), Lucan.: alci ad pedes, Eutr. 4, 7. Augustin. serm. 143, 4: alcis ad pedes, Vulg. Luc. 8, 41 u. Ioann. 11, 32: super collum alcis (jmdm. um den Hals), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20. – praecipitem, Verg.: pronum, Ov.: supinum, Suet.: honestius, Suet. – β) vom Weibe = sich einem Manne hingeben (Ggstz. demitti), Plaut. Pers. 656. Tibull. 4, 10, 2. Sen. contr. 1, 3, 7. – γ) v. Neugeborenen, de matre cadens, Stat. Theb. 1, 60: matre cadens, Val. Flacc. 1, 355. – u. v. der Sitte, Neugeborene vor die Füße des Vaters zu legen, tellure cadens, Stat. silv. 1, 2, 209 u. 5, 5, 69.
    B) übtr.: a) wohin fallen = kommen, geraten, α) übh.: abrupte in narrationem, in die E. wie mit der Tür ins Haus fallen (v. Redner), Quint. 4, 1, 79. – β) in od. auf eine Zeit fallen, in ihr eintreten, in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, Cic.: considera, ne in al-
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    ienissimum tempus cadat adventus tuus, Cic. – bes. v. Zahlungen, fällig werden, einkommen, in eam diem cadere nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic.: sed ei ex praediis, ut cadet, ita solvetur, Cic. – γ) in die Sinne od. geistige Anschauung fallen, kommen, ihr anheimfallen, unterworfen werden, sub sensum aliquem, Cic.: sub sensum cernendi, Cic.: sub oculos, sub aspectum, in conspectum, Cic.: sub aspectum et tactum, Cic.: sub aurium mensuram aliquam, Cic.: sub iudicium sapientis et delectum, Cic.: sub intellegentiam, Cic.: in deliberationem, in nostram intellegentiam, Cic.: ne in cogitationem quidem, nicht einmal gedacht werden können, Cic. – δ) in eine gewisse Klasse usw. fallen, ihr zufallen, anheimfallen, zu ihr gehören, in idem genus orationis, Cic.: u. sub eandem rationem, Cic.: in unam quaestionem (v. mehreren), Quint.: sub nullam regulam cadere posse, unter keine Regel gebracht werden können, Sen.: ultra medicinae professionem, Scrib. – ε) in einen Zustand, in ein Verhältnis fallen, verfallen, geraten, ihm anheimfallen, von Pers., in morbum, Cic.: in unius potestatem, Cic.: sub populi Romani imperium ditionemque, Cic.: in offensionem alcis, Cic.: in suspicionem alcis, Nep.: u. in aliquam vituperationem, Cic.: in peccatum, der S. verfallen, Augustin. in psalm. 65, 13. – ζ) an jmd. fallen, jmdm. zufallen, anheimfallen = zuteil werden, m. Ang. an wen?
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    durch ad m. Akk., regnum praeceps ad servitia (die Sklaven) cadit, Liv.: ad regna alcis, Lucr. – u. durch Dat., quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti (Abl.), Verg. – η) auf jmd. fallen, d.i. jmd. treffen, auf jmd. od. etw. Anwendung finden, auf od. für jmd. od. etw. passen, jmdm. beigelegt-, zugemutet werden können, mit etw. stimmen, non cadit in hos mores, non in hunc hominem ista suspicio, Cic.: hoc verbum, hoc nomen cadit in alqm, Cic.: non cadit in te superbia, Curt.: cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri emolumenti sui causā, criminari etc.? Cic.: cadit igitur in eundem et misereri et invidere, Cic.: in consuetudinem nostram non caderet, es würde mit unserem Sprachgebrauche nicht übereinstimmen, Cic.
    b) seinem Verlaufe od. Erfolge nach fallen = eintreten, sich ereignen, sich zutragen, so u. so ausfallen, ablaufen, von Ereignissen, Versprechen u. dgl., quae tum maxime acciderant, casura praemonens, Liv.: si quid adversi casurum foret, Liv.: quid, si hostem habuissemus, casurum fuisset, Liv.: vota cadunt, treten ein, d.i. gehen in Erfüllung, Tibull. 2, 2, 17 (versch. von omnia ingrato litore vota cadunt, im Bilde = bleiben unerfüllt, Prop. 1, 17, 4). – c. fortuito, Cic.: c. feliciter, Sen. rhet.: c. male, Caes.: hoc adhuc percommode cadit, quod (daß usw.), Cic.: quod melius caderet nihil vidi, Cic.: res cecidit praeter opinionem, Nep., od. aliter ac putaram, Cic.: cecidit
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    ut volumus et optamus (ganz erwünscht), Cic.: commodius cadere non potuit, Cic.: durius et contra praedicta cadentibus rebus, Suet. – si non omnia caderent secunda, Caes.: ut irrita promissa eius caderent, Liv. – res quocunque cadent etc., Verg.: leviter curare videtur, quo promissa cadant, Hor.: etsi verebar, quorsum id casurum esset, Cic.: aliorsum vota ceciderunt, Flor. – ni misericordia in perniciem casura esset, Cic.: cadere ad od. in irritum, fehlschlagen, vereitelt werden, fruchtlos bleiben (v. Hoffnung usw.), Liv. u. Tac.: so auch in cassum, Plaut. u. Lucr., u. frustra, Tac. – m. Ang. wem? etw. eintritt, sich ereignet, begegnet, durch Dat., ut nihil ipsis iure incommodi cadere possit, Cic.: insperanti mihi cecidit, ut etc., Cic.: hoc cecidit mihi peropportune, quod etc., Cic.: nihil mihi optatius cadere potest, quam ut etc., Cic.: qua in re mihi videtur illud perquam venuste (ganz allerliebst) cecidisse, ut (daß) etc., Cael. in Cic. ep.: sed certe a te mihi omnia semper honesta et iucunda ceciderunt, Cic. – nimia illa libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit, schlägt um in usw. (wie μεταβάλλει), Cic. de rep. 1, 68.
    c) gleichs. zu Boden fallen, sinken, α) v. Pers., αα) durch Verlust der Macht, des Ansehens, des Kredits im Staats- u. Privatleben, turpius est enim privatim cadere quam publice, Cic.: tam graviter c.,
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    Cic.: eminentis vitae exitus est cadere, Sen. – ββ) durch Verlust des Prozesses, fallen = den Prozeß verlieren, verurteilt werden, absol., Tac. hist. 4, 6: in iudicio, Cic.: causā, Cic. u. ICt., od. formulā, Sen. u. Quint., infolge eines Formfehlers den Prozeß verlieren (s. Piderit Cic. de or. 1, 166. Halm Cic. Mur. 9): coniurationis crimine, Tac.: ore impudico (accusatoris), Tac. – γγ) durch Verlust des moralischen Haltes, Mutes, frangi repente et ita cadere, ut nulla res te ad aequitatem animi possit postea extollere, Cic.: non debemus ita cadere animis (den Mut verlieren), quasi etc., Cic. ep. 6, 1, 4. – β) v. Lebl., αα) durch Abnahme der extensiven od. intensiven Stärke, sinken, schwinden, cadunt vires, Lucr.: cadit vis venti, Liv. – cadit alci ira, Liv., u. (poet.) cadit ira fulminis, Prop.: cadit ira metu, Ov. – ββ) durch Abnahme des moral. Haltes, sinken, entsinken, nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur (amicitia), Cic.: castris amissis od. alienis cladibus ceciderant animi, Liv. (s. Drak. Liv. 1, 11, 3): cecidere illis animique manusque, Ov. – γγ) durch Abnahme od. Verlust der Geltung, Macht, fallen, sinken, an Geltung-, an Bedeutung-, an Ansehen verlieren, pretia militiae casura in pace, Liv.: tua laus pariter cum re publica cecidit, Cic.: tanta civitas si cadet, Cic.: auctoritas principum cecidit, Cic.: multa renascentur, quae cecidere, cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, Hor.: si magnus vir ce-
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    cidit, magnus iacuit, Sen. – huc cecidisse Germani exercitus gloriam, ut etc., so weit (so tief) sei der R. des germ. H. gesunken, daß usw., Tac. – Unpers., periculum est, ne cadatur, Augustin. de dono persev. 1.
    II) prägn., fallen = hinsinken, zusammensinken, a) v. lebl. Subjj.: α) fallen = einfallen, einsinken, zusammenfallen, -sinken, verfallen, versinken, cadunt toti montes, Lucr.: at mundus aliquando est casurus? Ps. Quint. decl. – v. menschl. Gliedmaßen, cadunt alci oculi, fallen zu, Cic.: cadentes in ipso opere oculi, Sen.: cadentes iam oculos ad meum nomen erexit, Sen. rhet.: venas cadentes vino fulcire od. reficere, Sen. – β) fallen = erobert u. zerstört werden, von Städten, non tota cadet Troia, Ov.: cadere Argolico sub milite Troiam, Ov.
    b) v. leb. Wesen, fallen, sinken = tot hinsinken, α) von Menschen, teils gewaltsam, sowohl durch fremde Hand, im Kampfe, Kriege, od. durch Gift, durch das Henkerschwert usw., hinterlistig usw., pauci de nostris cadunt, Caes.: pauci utrimque cecidere, Liv.: ante signa circaque omnes ceciderant, Liv.: adversum femur tragulā graviter ictus cecidit, Liv.: confossi ceciderunt, Liv. – cadere in acie, Cic., in proelio, in eo bello, Nep.: acie civili, Ov.: pugnā Cannensi, Liv.: inter signa Samnitium, Liv.: in Hispania, Liv. – in pio officio, Ov. – telis, Tac.: iaculo eminus, Ov.: u. Marte suo per mutua vulnera, Ov.: u. per
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    alqm iustā morte, Hor.: per acies aut proscriptione, Tac.: fraude muliebri, Tac.: poenali gladio (unter dem Henkerschwert), Amm. 27, 12, 3. – pro patria, Quint.: pro optimatibus, Tac. – neque illius interest, quemadmodum aut ubi cadam, Iustin.: in pugna acceptis a forti adversario vulneribus honeste cadere, Cic.: super LX milia non armis telisque Romanorum, sed... oblectationi oculisque ceciderunt, Tac.: cadere cum dignitate, Cic.: iure belli, Tac. – m. Ang. von wem? durch ab m. Abl. (s. Burm. Ov. met. 5, 192. Nipp. Tac. ann. 16, 9. Ruhnk. Suet. Oth. 5, 1): a tanto viro, Ov.: a centurione advorsis vulneribus tamquam in pugna, Tac.: nihil referre an ab hoste in acie an in foro sub creditoribus caderet, Suet.: poet. durch bl. Abl., Thessalo victore, Hor. – m. Ang. wem zuliebe? durch Dat., illud rogo, legi potius quam scorto cadat (hingerichtet werde), Sen. contr. 9 (4), 25. § 8. – als durch eigene Hand, suā manu, Tac.: exitu voluntario, Tac. – teils durch Schicksals Hand, in den Tod-, ins Grab sinken, vivam, si vivet; si cadet illa, cadam, Prop. – cadere ferrove fatove, Ov. – β) v. Opfertieren, fallen = als Opfer geschlachtet werden, geopfert werden, si tener pleno cadit haedus anno, Hor.: hostia cadit ante aras, Verg.: quae prima hostia ante foculum cecidit, Val. Max. – m. Ang. wem? durch Dat., agna cadet vobis, Tibull.: ovis cadit deo, Ov.: u. (im Bilde) nostrae cadens ferus Hannibal irae,
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    Corn. Sever. (poët.) bei Sen. suas. 6, 26. – Abl. Partiz. Präs. cadenti, Lucr. 3, 466: Genet. Plur. cadentum, Verg. Aen. 10, 674 u. 12, 410. Sil. 4, 424.

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    iniūriōsus, a, um (iniuria), I) widerrechtlich handelnd, unrechtmäßig, ungerecht, frevelhaft, appetitio alienorum, Cornif. rhet.: vita, Cic.: venti (freche), pes, Hor.: alqm verbis iniuriosissimis lacerare, Augustin. epist. 36, 3. – iniuriosum est m. folg. Infin., rapto vivere, Sen. ep. 70, 28. – v. Pers., superbus et iniuriosus (subst.), Sen.: iniuriosi in proximos, Cic.: adversus patrem iniuriosior, Sen. contr. 2, 4 (12), 5: genus hominum iniuriosissimum, Hadrian. bei Vopisc. Saturn. 8, 5. – II) insbes., verletzend, ictus, Plin. 17, 227.

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    vānus, a, um (vgl. altind. ūná-h, unzureichend), leer, nichts in sich enthaltend, taub, I) eig.: arista, Verg.: granum, Colum.: magnitudo urbis, Liv.: venti, körperlose, nichtige, Catull.: imago, leeres Bild, d.i. der Schatten eines Toten, Hor.: somnia, leere Träume, Verg.: vanior acies hostium, Liv. – II) übtr., dem Inhalte od. dem Erfolge, der Wirkung nach leer, gehaltlos, eitel = unbedeutend, nichtig, lügenhaft, grundlos, erfolglos, fruchtlos, vergeblich, A) v. Lebl.: 1) adi.: res, Liv.: sermo, Liv.: vanissimus strepitus verborum, Petron. – oratio, Cic.: spes, Ov.: gaudia, Hor.: metus, Hor.: omen, Ov.: vana quaedam pollicebatur, Cic.: nec vana fides, und es ist wahr, Verg.: haud vana, Liv. – v. Geschossen, ictus, Liv.: vana tela mittere, Liv. – vanum est m. Acc. u. Infin., vanum arbitror esse circa canis ortum angues candidos membranam eam exuere, Plin. 30, 25. – m. Genet., leer an usw., profana philosophiae turba vana sanctitudinis, priva verae rationis, Apul. de deo Socr. 3 in. – 2) neutr. subst. = das Leere, Eitle, Vergebliche, haustum ex vano, aus einer falschen Quelle geschöpft, Liv.: nec tota ex vano criminatio erat, ohne Grund, Liv.: ad vanum et irritum redacta victoria, ist vernichtet, Liv.: ut tela in vanum cadant, Sen.: cedit in vanum labor, ist vergeblich, Sen.: alioquin abibunt in vanum monentium verba, sind in den Wind ge-
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    sprochen, Sen. – poet., vana tumens, mit leerem Scheine, aufgeblasen (von Einbildung), Verg. Aen. 11, 854: vana luctans, Sil. 17, 313. – m. Genet., vana rerum, Hor.: vana rumoris, Tac. – B) v. Pers.: 1) v. dem, dessen Handlungen ohne Erfolg sind, ne vanus isdem castris assideret, vergeblich, Tac. hist. 2, 22. – u. so poet. m. Genet., aut ego veri vana feror, Verg. Aen. 10, 631: vanus voti, Sil. 12, 261. – 2) insbes., im moralischen Sinne, lügenhaft, windbeutelig, wankelmütig, eitel, prahlerisch, windig, abenteuerlich, haruspex, Cic.: ingenium, Liv. u. (v. der Pers. selbst) Sall.: quam vana et mutabilia barbarorum ingenia essent, Liv.: vanus aemulatione, töricht aus Eifersucht, Tac.: vanum se esse et perfidiosum fateri, Cic.: laudare se vani est, Val. Max.: vanus auctor est, der Gewährsmann verdient keinen Glauben, Liv.: inde vanus auctor absumpti Masinissae ad regem rediit, mit dem falschen Berichte, M. sei umgekommen, Liv.: Cn. Lentulus perincertum stolidior an vanior, Sall. fr.: vanissimi cuiusque ludibrium, jedes Abenteurers, Betrügers, Curt.

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  • 17 ab

    ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

    AF VOBEIS,

    Inscr. Orell. 3114;

    AF MVRO,

    ib. 6601;

    AF CAPVA,

    ib. 3308;

    AF SOLO,

    ib. 589;

    AF LYCO,

    ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

    abs chorago,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

    abs quivis,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

    abs terra,

    Cato, R. R. 51;

    and in compounds: aps-cessero,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

    and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

    id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).
    I.
    In space, and,
    II.
    Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.
    I.
    Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

    Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

    fuga ab urbe turpissima,

    Cic. Att. 7, 21:

    ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

    Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

    illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

    all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

    venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

    Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.
    b.
    Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

    oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

    quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

    ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

    protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

    id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

    profecti a domo,

    Liv. 40, 33, 2;

    of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

    classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

    Liv. 8, 22, 6;

    of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

    Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

    legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

    id. 24, 40, 2.
    c.
    Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

    Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

    libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

    Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

    Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

    id. Att. 7, 24:

    cum a vobis discessero,

    id. Sen. 22:

    multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

    Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

    so a fratre,

    id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

    a Pontio,

    Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

    ab ea,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.
    B.
    Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.
    1.
    Of separation:

    ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

    tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

    Sall. C. 40, 5:

    absint lacerti ab stabulis,

    Verg. G. 4, 14.—
    2.
    Of distance:

    quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

    Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

    nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

    id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

    hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

    terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

    non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

    cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

    Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

    qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

    quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

    procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

    tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

    Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

    v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

    tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

    id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

    tam prope ab domo detineri,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

    onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

    eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

    duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

    id. 37, 38, 5). —
    3.
    To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

    picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

    Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

    pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

    on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

    at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

    erat a septentrionibus collis,

    on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    In time.
    1.
    From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

    Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

    Juv. 1,40:

    mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

    immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

    Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

    immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

    ab eo magistratu,

    after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

    a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

    after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

    ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

    Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

    confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

    Liv. 30, 36, 1:

    statim a funere,

    Suet. Caes. 85;

    and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

    id. ib. 60:

    protinus ab adoptione,

    Vell. 2, 104, 3:

    Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

    soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

    Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

    i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

    secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

    i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.
    2.
    With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

    ab hora tertia bibebatur,

    from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

    infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

    since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

    vixit ab omni aeternitate,

    from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

    cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

    Nep. Att. 5, 3:

    in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

    after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

    centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

    since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

    cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

    id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

    ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

    since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

    diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

    quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

    since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

    jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

    from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

    ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

    Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

    cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

    a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

    Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

    pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

    from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.
    b.
    Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

    qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

    from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

    mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

    a pueritia,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

    jam inde ab adulescentia,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

    ab adulescentia,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

    jam a prima adulescentia,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

    ab ineunte adulescentia,

    id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

    followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

    a primis temporibus aetatis,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    a teneris unguiculis,

    from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

    usque a toga pura,

    id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

    jam inde ab incunabulis,

    Liv. 4, 36, 5:

    a prima lanugine,

    Suet. Oth. 12:

    viridi ab aevo,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

    rarely of animals: ab infantia,

    Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

    qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

    a pausillo puero,

    id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

    a puero,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

    a pueris,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

    ab adulescente,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    ab infante,

    Col. 1, 8, 2:

    a parva virgine,

    Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

    a parvis,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

    a parvulo,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

    ab parvulis,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

    ab tenero,

    Col. 5, 6, 20;

    and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.
    B.
    In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.
    1.
    In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

    suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

    qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

    hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

    quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    condicionem quam ab te peto,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

    mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

    si quid ab illo acceperis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

    quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

    ab defensione desistere,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

    ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

    id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

    ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

    qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

    the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

    tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

    next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

    Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

    next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

    quid hoc ab illo differt,

    from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

    hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

    id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

    discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

    id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

    quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

    alieno a te animo fuit,

    id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

    subdole ab re consulit,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

    haut est ab re aucupis,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

    non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

    Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

    a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

    id. ib. 1, 3:

    disputata ab eo,

    id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

    illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

    id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

    ita generati a natura sumus,

    id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

    pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

    niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

    quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

    is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

    salvebis a meo Cicerone,

    i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

    a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

    i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

    ne vir ab hoste cadat,

    Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

    levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

    a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

    id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

    si calor est a sole,

    id. N. D. 2, 52:

    ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

    id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

    metu poenae a Romanis,

    Liv. 32, 23, 9:

    bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

    id. 3, 22, 2:

    ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

    id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

    lassus ab equo indomito,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

    Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

    Prop. 5, 1, 126:

    tempus a nostris triste malis,

    time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

    vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

    by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

    ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

    Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

    si postulatur a populo,

    if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

    deseror conjuge,

    Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

    and in prose,

    Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

    ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

    (urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.
    b.
    With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

    pastores a Pergamide,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 1:

    Turnus ab Aricia,

    Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

    obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

    Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.
    c.
    In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

    (sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

    id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)
    d.
    With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

    da, puere, ab summo,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

    da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

    coepere a fame mala,

    Liv. 4, 12, 7:

    cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

    tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

    a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.
    e.
    With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

    a foliis et stercore purgato,

    Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

    tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

    Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

    Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

    Liv. 21, 11, 5:

    expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

    haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

    ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

    Sall. C. 32:

    ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

    Liv. 21, 35, 12:

    ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

    Cic. Sest. 64, 133.
    f.
    With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

    el metul a Chryside,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

    ab Hannibale metuens,

    Liv. 23, 36; and:

    metus a praetore,

    id. 23, 15, 7;

    v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

    Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

    postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

    you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.
    g.
    With verbs of fastening and holding:

    funiculus a puppi religatus,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

    cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

    Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.
    h.
    Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

    a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

    Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.
    i.
    Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

    id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22.
    j.
    Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

    doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

    a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

    a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

    a frigore laborantibus,

    Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

    laborare ab re frumentaria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.
    k.
    Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

    ab ingenio improbus,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

    a me pudica'st,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

    orba ab optimatibus contio,

    Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

    locus copiosus a frumento,

    Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

    sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

    id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

    ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

    id. Brut. 16, 63:

    ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

    Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

    so often in poets ab arte=arte,

    artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.
    l.
    In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

    linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

    thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

    ab honore,

    id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.
    m.
    Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

    ab illo injuria,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

    fulgor ab auro,

    Lucr. 2, 5:

    dulces a fontibus undae,

    Verg. G. 2, 243.
    n.
    In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

    scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    nonnuill ab novissimis,

    id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).
    o.
    In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

    qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

    ab eo qui sunt,

    id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

    nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

    id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).
    p.
    To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

    in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

    one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

    a manu servus,

    a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).
    q.
    The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

    a peregre,

    Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

    a foris,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

    ab intus,

    ib. ib. 7, 15:

    ab invicem,

    App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

    a longe,

    Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

    a modo,

    ib. ib. 23, 39;

    Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

    Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

    a sursum,

    ib. Marc. 15, 38.
    a.
    Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

    Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

    Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

    a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

    id. Sen. 6:

    a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

    id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

    res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

    id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—
    b.
    Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—
    c.
    It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

    a vitae periculo,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

    a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

    id. Arch. 6, 12:

    a minus bono,

    Sall. C. 2, 6:

    a satis miti principio,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4:

    damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

    Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—
    d.
    The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

    aque Chao,

    Verg. G. 4, 347:

    aque mero,

    Ov. M. 3, 631:

    aque viro,

    id. H. 6, 156:

    aque suis,

    id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

    a meque,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

    abs teque,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

    a teque,

    id. ib. 8, 11, §

    7: a primaque adulescentia,

    id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —
    e.
    A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.
    III.
    In composition ab,
    1.
    Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—
    2.
    It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

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  • 18 celer

    1.
    cĕler, ĕris, e ( masc. cĕleris, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 760 P.; fem. celer, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. l. l.; cf. acer; sup. celerissimus, Enn. and Manlius ap. Prisc. l. l.) [cello; cf. Doed. Syn. 2, pp. 123 and 93, urging, pressing forward; cf. also 1. cello], swift, fleet, quick, speedy (with the access. idea of energy, struggling, and even power; v. Doed. above cited; syn.: expeditus, promptus, velox, citatus; opp. tardus, segnis, lentus).
    I.
    Of corporeal objects:

    face te propere celerem,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 1:

    hasta, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. l. l.: sagitta,

    Hor. C. 3, 20, 9; Ov. M. 5, 367: configebat tardus celeres (sc. aves), Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 32:

    pennae,

    Hor. C. 3, 29, 53:

    Mercurius,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 13:

    Cynthia,

    id. ib. 3, 28, 12:

    Diana,

    Ov. M. 4, 304:

    deae,

    id. ib. 2, 119:

    rivi,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 14:

    curriculum,

    Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 13:

    flamma,

    Lucr. 2, 192; cf. id. 5, 302:

    ignis,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 76:

    motus,

    Lucr. 4, 177; cf.:

    celer atque instabilis motus,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 23, 5:

    receptus,

    id. B. C. 1, 59:

    lapsus,

    Lucr. 4, 324; Ov. M. 6, 216:

    ictus,

    Lucr. 3, 636:

    impete,

    id. 6, 334:

    turbo,

    Verg. A. 12, 855:

    venti,

    Hor. C. 1, 12, 10; 1, 15, 3; 1, 14, 5:

    cerva,

    Cat. 64, 341:

    canis,

    Tib. 4, 3, 14:

    equus,

    id. 1, 2, 70; 4, 1, 91:

    lupi,

    id. 2, 1, 20:

    classis,

    Cat. 64, 53:

    ratis,

    id. 63, 1:

    navis,

    id. 4, 2:

    carina,

    Ov. M. 9, 447:

    lintres,

    Prop. 1, 14, 3:

    pedes,

    id. 3 (4), 9, 18:

    remedia,

    quickly working, efficacious, Nep. Att. 21, 2.— Poet. with gen. gerund:

    nandi,

    Sil. 4, 587.—With inf.:

    excipere aprum,

    Hor. C. 3, 12, 11; so id. ib. 4, 6, 39; id. Ep. 1, 20, 25.— Poet., celer for celeriter, Ov. M. 2, 119; 2, 838; 9, 765.—
    II.
    Of mental and abstract objects:

    oderunt Sedatum celeres,

    lively, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 90; cf. Vell. 2, 73:

    mens, quā nihil est celerius,

    Cic. Or. 59, 200; cf. Lucr. 3, 183:

    oratio celeris et concitata,

    rapid, hurried, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 138; 9. 4, 83; 9, 4, 111;

    9, 4, 135: consilium,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 1.—
    B.
    Implying reproach, rash, hasty, precipitate:

    consilia,

    Liv. 9, 32, 3; so id. 22, 38, 13; cf. id. 2, 51, 7;

    and so iambi (of the fire of youth),

    rash, hasty, Hor. C. 1, 16, 24:

    victoria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 47, 3:

    desperatio rerum,

    Liv. 21, 1, 5:

    ratione,

    Lucr. 4, 144; 4, 255; 4, 775:

    fata celerrima,

    Verg. A. 12, 507:

    mors,

    Tib. 4, 1, 205.— Adv., quickly, speedily (syn.: velociter, cito, continuo, confestim, festinanter).
    a.
    cĕlĕrĕ, Enn. et Nov. ap. Non. p. 510, 9 sq.; Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 4.—
    b.
    cĕlĕrĭter, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 2; Cic. Att. 15, 27, 1; id. Fam. 3, 1, 2; 9, 11, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 52 et saep.— Comp. celerius, Cic. Verr 2, 3, 24, § 60; Caes. B. G. 1, 48; 2, 3; Nep. Cim. 3, 2 al.— Sup. celerrime, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45; Caes. B. G. 1, 37 al.
    2.
    Cĕler, ĕris, m., a Roman cognomen in the gens Caecilia, Domitia, Egnatia, etc., Cic. Brut. 89, 305; id. Att. 10, 1, 4; Sall. C. 30, 5 al.
    3.
    Cĕler, v. Celeres.

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  • 19 celeris

    1.
    cĕler, ĕris, e ( masc. cĕleris, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 760 P.; fem. celer, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. l. l.; cf. acer; sup. celerissimus, Enn. and Manlius ap. Prisc. l. l.) [cello; cf. Doed. Syn. 2, pp. 123 and 93, urging, pressing forward; cf. also 1. cello], swift, fleet, quick, speedy (with the access. idea of energy, struggling, and even power; v. Doed. above cited; syn.: expeditus, promptus, velox, citatus; opp. tardus, segnis, lentus).
    I.
    Of corporeal objects:

    face te propere celerem,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 1:

    hasta, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. l. l.: sagitta,

    Hor. C. 3, 20, 9; Ov. M. 5, 367: configebat tardus celeres (sc. aves), Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 32:

    pennae,

    Hor. C. 3, 29, 53:

    Mercurius,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 13:

    Cynthia,

    id. ib. 3, 28, 12:

    Diana,

    Ov. M. 4, 304:

    deae,

    id. ib. 2, 119:

    rivi,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 14:

    curriculum,

    Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 13:

    flamma,

    Lucr. 2, 192; cf. id. 5, 302:

    ignis,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 76:

    motus,

    Lucr. 4, 177; cf.:

    celer atque instabilis motus,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 23, 5:

    receptus,

    id. B. C. 1, 59:

    lapsus,

    Lucr. 4, 324; Ov. M. 6, 216:

    ictus,

    Lucr. 3, 636:

    impete,

    id. 6, 334:

    turbo,

    Verg. A. 12, 855:

    venti,

    Hor. C. 1, 12, 10; 1, 15, 3; 1, 14, 5:

    cerva,

    Cat. 64, 341:

    canis,

    Tib. 4, 3, 14:

    equus,

    id. 1, 2, 70; 4, 1, 91:

    lupi,

    id. 2, 1, 20:

    classis,

    Cat. 64, 53:

    ratis,

    id. 63, 1:

    navis,

    id. 4, 2:

    carina,

    Ov. M. 9, 447:

    lintres,

    Prop. 1, 14, 3:

    pedes,

    id. 3 (4), 9, 18:

    remedia,

    quickly working, efficacious, Nep. Att. 21, 2.— Poet. with gen. gerund:

    nandi,

    Sil. 4, 587.—With inf.:

    excipere aprum,

    Hor. C. 3, 12, 11; so id. ib. 4, 6, 39; id. Ep. 1, 20, 25.— Poet., celer for celeriter, Ov. M. 2, 119; 2, 838; 9, 765.—
    II.
    Of mental and abstract objects:

    oderunt Sedatum celeres,

    lively, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 90; cf. Vell. 2, 73:

    mens, quā nihil est celerius,

    Cic. Or. 59, 200; cf. Lucr. 3, 183:

    oratio celeris et concitata,

    rapid, hurried, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 138; 9. 4, 83; 9, 4, 111;

    9, 4, 135: consilium,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 1.—
    B.
    Implying reproach, rash, hasty, precipitate:

    consilia,

    Liv. 9, 32, 3; so id. 22, 38, 13; cf. id. 2, 51, 7;

    and so iambi (of the fire of youth),

    rash, hasty, Hor. C. 1, 16, 24:

    victoria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 47, 3:

    desperatio rerum,

    Liv. 21, 1, 5:

    ratione,

    Lucr. 4, 144; 4, 255; 4, 775:

    fata celerrima,

    Verg. A. 12, 507:

    mors,

    Tib. 4, 1, 205.— Adv., quickly, speedily (syn.: velociter, cito, continuo, confestim, festinanter).
    a.
    cĕlĕrĕ, Enn. et Nov. ap. Non. p. 510, 9 sq.; Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 4.—
    b.
    cĕlĕrĭter, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 2; Cic. Att. 15, 27, 1; id. Fam. 3, 1, 2; 9, 11, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 52 et saep.— Comp. celerius, Cic. Verr 2, 3, 24, § 60; Caes. B. G. 1, 48; 2, 3; Nep. Cim. 3, 2 al.— Sup. celerrime, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45; Caes. B. G. 1, 37 al.
    2.
    Cĕler, ĕris, m., a Roman cognomen in the gens Caecilia, Domitia, Egnatia, etc., Cic. Brut. 89, 305; id. Att. 10, 1, 4; Sall. C. 30, 5 al.
    3.
    Cĕler, v. Celeres.

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  • 20 primores

    prīmōris, e ( nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.).
    I.
    In gen. (rare):

    imbres,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

    dentes,

    the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70:

    in primore pueritiā,

    in earliest childhood, Gell. 10, 19, 3:

    anni,

    first, earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143:

    primore aspectu,

    at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.;

    syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,

    with the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24:

    versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,

    is at my tongue's end, id. Trin. 4, 2, 65:

    aliquid primoribus labris attingere,

    to touch slightly, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3:

    surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,

    Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27:

    eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,

    id. ib. 427, 32:

    nasi primoris acumen,

    Lucr. 6, 1193:

    (pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,

    Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99:

    cauda late fusa primori parte,

    id. 8, 54, 80, § 216:

    vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,

    Gell. 16, 5, 2:

    in primore libro,

    at the beginning of the book, Gell. 1, 18, 3:

    usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,

    as far as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12:

    primori in acie versari,

    Tac. H. 3, 21.—
    B.
    The first in rank or dignity, chief, principal ( poet. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52):

    Argivorum viri,

    Cat. 68, 87:

    feminae,

    Tac. A. 2, 29:

    venti,

    chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.
    (α).
    The front rank in battle, etc.:

    dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,

    Curt. 4, 6, 17.—
    (β).
    The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps):

    Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49:

    odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager,

    Liv. 1, 47, 11:

    primores populi arripuit,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 69:

    civitatum primores atque optimates,

    Col. 12, 3, 10:

    primores, ac duces,

    Juv. 15, 40:

    ex primoribus,

    Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.

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