ignem+l

crĕo (old form cerĕo, in Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [kindred with Sanscr. kar, kri, to make], to bring forth, produce, make, create, beget (very freq. in every period and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.:

rerum primordia pandam, Unde omnes natura creet res auctet alatque,

Lucr. 1, 51:

animalia,

id. 2, 1152:

genus humanum,

id. 5, 820:

mortalia saecla,

id. 5, 789:

fruges,

id. 2, 170:

ignem,

id. 1, 799; cf.:

ignes e lignis,

id. 1, 910 et saep.:

(Silvius) Aenean Silvium creat,

Liv. 1, 3, 7; cf.:

fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 29.—Also of woman:

pueris beata creandis Uxor,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 44; Pall. Febr. 26, 2.—Hence, in poets freq. in part. perf.: crĕātus, a, with abl. ( masc. or fem.), sprung from, begotten by, born of; or subst., an offspring, a child, Ov. M. 5, 145; 11, 295; 11, 303 al.— Subst.: crĕāta, ōrum, n., things made:

servare,

Lucr. 2, 572.—

In partic., publicist. t. t. (cf. facio), to make or create for any jurisdiction or office, i. e. to choose, elect (freq.):

qui comitiatu creare consules rite possint,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9; so,

consules,

Caes. B. C. 3, 1; Liv. 4, 7, 2; 4, 7, 7; 4, 7, 10:

duo ex unā familiā magistratus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

Patres,

Liv. 1, 8, 7:

dictatorem,

id. 2, 18 (five times):

magistrum equitum,

id. 2, 18, 5; 4, 57, 6:

interregem,

id. 4, 7, 7; 5, 31, 8:

tribunum,

id. 2, 33, 3:

tribuniciam potestatem,

id. 5, 2, 8:

censores,

Suet. Aug. 37:

Imperatorem (with eligere),

id. Vesp. 6:

ducem gerendo bello,

Liv. 1, 23, 8. curatorem reipublicae, Dig. 50, 8, 3.—

Of the officer who appoints or superintends an election:

quos (consules) cum Ti. Gracchus consul iterum crearet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 10.—

In eccl. Lat. of the exercise of divine power in creation, to create, call into being, endow with existence, etc.:

caelum et terram,

Vulg. Gen. 1, 1:

hominem,

id. ib. 5, 1:

omnia,

id. Eph. 3, 9.—

Meton.:

cor mundum in me,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 11 al. —

Trop., to produce, prepare, cause, occasion:

voluptatem meis inimicis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 7, 3:

commoditatem mihi,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 94:

lites,

id. ib. 3, 2, 9:

omnis has aerumnas,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 33:

capitalem fraudem tuis cruribus capitique,

id. ib. 2, 3, 23:

moram dictis,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 174:

errorem (similitudo),

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

luxuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

seditionem,

Vell. 2, 20:

taedium ac satietatem ex similitudine,

Quint. 9, 4, 143:

vomitum dissolutionemque stomachi,

Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155 et saep.

Crĕo, or, anal. to the Gr., Crĕon, ontis, m., = Kreôn.

A king of Corinth, who betrothed his daughter Creusa to Jason, Hyg. Fab. 25; Sen. Med. 526; Hor. Epod. 5, 64.—

A brother of Jocaste, at Thebes, Hyg. Fab. 72; Stat. Th. 12, 477; 12, 678.

crĕo (old form cerĕo, in Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [kindred with Sanscr. kar, kri, to make], to bring forth, produce, make, create, beget (very freq. in every period and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.:

rerum primordia pandam, Unde omnes natura creet res auctet alatque,

Lucr. 1, 51:

animalia,

id. 2, 1152:

genus humanum,

id. 5, 820:

mortalia saecla,

id. 5, 789:

fruges,

id. 2, 170:

ignem,

id. 1, 799; cf.:

ignes e lignis,

id. 1, 910 et saep.:

(Silvius) Aenean Silvium creat,

Liv. 1, 3, 7; cf.:

fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 29.—Also of woman:

pueris beata creandis Uxor,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 44; Pall. Febr. 26, 2.—Hence, in poets freq. in part. perf.: crĕātus, a, with abl. ( masc. or fem.), sprung from, begotten by, born of; or subst., an offspring, a child, Ov. M. 5, 145; 11, 295; 11, 303 al.— Subst.: crĕāta, ōrum, n., things made:

servare,

Lucr. 2, 572.—

In partic., publicist. t. t. (cf. facio), to make or create for any jurisdiction or office, i. e. to choose, elect (freq.):

qui comitiatu creare consules rite possint,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9; so,

consules,

Caes. B. C. 3, 1; Liv. 4, 7, 2; 4, 7, 7; 4, 7, 10:

duo ex unā familiā magistratus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

Patres,

Liv. 1, 8, 7:

dictatorem,

id. 2, 18 (five times):

magistrum equitum,

id. 2, 18, 5; 4, 57, 6:

interregem,

id. 4, 7, 7; 5, 31, 8:

tribunum,

id. 2, 33, 3:

tribuniciam potestatem,

id. 5, 2, 8:

censores,

Suet. Aug. 37:

Imperatorem (with eligere),

id. Vesp. 6:

ducem gerendo bello,

Liv. 1, 23, 8. curatorem reipublicae, Dig. 50, 8, 3.—

Of the officer who appoints or superintends an election:

quos (consules) cum Ti. Gracchus consul iterum crearet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 10.—

In eccl. Lat. of the exercise of divine power in creation, to create, call into being, endow with existence, etc.:

caelum et terram,

Vulg. Gen. 1, 1:

hominem,

id. ib. 5, 1:

omnia,

id. Eph. 3, 9.—

Meton.:

cor mundum in me,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 11 al. —

Trop., to produce, prepare, cause, occasion:

voluptatem meis inimicis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 7, 3:

commoditatem mihi,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 94:

lites,

id. ib. 3, 2, 9:

omnis has aerumnas,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 33:

capitalem fraudem tuis cruribus capitique,

id. ib. 2, 3, 23:

moram dictis,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 174:

errorem (similitudo),

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

luxuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

seditionem,

Vell. 2, 20:

taedium ac satietatem ex similitudine,

Quint. 9, 4, 143:

vomitum dissolutionemque stomachi,

Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155 et saep.

Crĕo, or, anal. to the Gr., Crĕon, ontis, m., = Kreôn.

A king of Corinth, who betrothed his daughter Creusa to Jason, Hyg. Fab. 25; Sen. Med. 526; Hor. Epod. 5, 64.—

A brother of Jocaste, at Thebes, Hyg. Fab. 72; Stat. Th. 12, 477; 12, 678.

crĕo (old form cerĕo, in Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [kindred with Sanscr. kar, kri, to make], to bring forth, produce, make, create, beget (very freq. in every period and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.:

rerum primordia pandam, Unde omnes natura creet res auctet alatque,

Lucr. 1, 51:

animalia,

id. 2, 1152:

genus humanum,

id. 5, 820:

mortalia saecla,

id. 5, 789:

fruges,

id. 2, 170:

ignem,

id. 1, 799; cf.:

ignes e lignis,

id. 1, 910 et saep.:

(Silvius) Aenean Silvium creat,

Liv. 1, 3, 7; cf.:

fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 29.—Also of woman:

pueris beata creandis Uxor,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 44; Pall. Febr. 26, 2.—Hence, in poets freq. in part. perf.: crĕātus, a, with abl. ( masc. or fem.), sprung from, begotten by, born of; or subst., an offspring, a child, Ov. M. 5, 145; 11, 295; 11, 303 al.— Subst.: crĕāta, ōrum, n., things made:

servare,

Lucr. 2, 572.—

In partic., publicist. t. t. (cf. facio), to make or create for any jurisdiction or office, i. e. to choose, elect (freq.):

qui comitiatu creare consules rite possint,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9; so,

consules,

Caes. B. C. 3, 1; Liv. 4, 7, 2; 4, 7, 7; 4, 7, 10:

duo ex unā familiā magistratus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33:

Patres,

Liv. 1, 8, 7:

dictatorem,

id. 2, 18 (five times):

magistrum equitum,

id. 2, 18, 5; 4, 57, 6:

interregem,

id. 4, 7, 7; 5, 31, 8:

tribunum,

id. 2, 33, 3:

tribuniciam potestatem,

id. 5, 2, 8:

censores,

Suet. Aug. 37:

Imperatorem (with eligere),

id. Vesp. 6:

ducem gerendo bello,

Liv. 1, 23, 8. curatorem reipublicae, Dig. 50, 8, 3.—

Of the officer who appoints or superintends an election:

quos (consules) cum Ti. Gracchus consul iterum crearet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 10.—

In eccl. Lat. of the exercise of divine power in creation, to create, call into being, endow with existence, etc.:

caelum et terram,

Vulg. Gen. 1, 1:

hominem,

id. ib. 5, 1:

omnia,

id. Eph. 3, 9.—

Meton.:

cor mundum in me,

Vulg. Psa. 50, 11 al. —

Trop., to produce, prepare, cause, occasion:

voluptatem meis inimicis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 7, 3:

commoditatem mihi,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 94:

lites,

id. ib. 3, 2, 9:

omnis has aerumnas,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 33:

capitalem fraudem tuis cruribus capitique,

id. ib. 2, 3, 23:

moram dictis,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 174:

errorem (similitudo),

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 55:

luxuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

seditionem,

Vell. 2, 20:

taedium ac satietatem ex similitudine,

Quint. 9, 4, 143:

vomitum dissolutionemque stomachi,

Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155 et saep.

Crĕo, or, anal. to the Gr., Crĕon, ontis, m., = Kreôn.

A king of Corinth, who betrothed his daughter Creusa to Jason, Hyg. Fab. 25; Sen. Med. 526; Hor. Epod. 5, 64.—

A brother of Jocaste, at Thebes, Hyg. Fab. 72; Stat. Th. 12, 477; 12, 678.

dē-fendo, di, sum ( infin. pass. parag.: defendier, Verg. A. 8, 493: Juv. 15, 157.— Part. gen. plur. sync.:

defendentum,

Verg. A. 11, 886), 3, v. a. [arch.: FENDO; cf. Sanscr. han (ghan), to smite; Gr. theinô; hence, also offendo, infensus, infestus, mani-festus; cf. fustis], to fend or ward off any thing hostile or injurious; to repel, avert, keep off: propulsando arcere (for syn. cf.: tueor, tutor, servo, conservo. propugno, protego, vindico, caveo—freq. and class.); regularly constr. with acc. alone (so in Cic. and Caes.); very rarely aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo, and in poets also aliquid alicui; cf. Zumpt. Gr. § 469.

Aliquid (aliquem):

ut tu morbos calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis, defendas averruncesque,

Cato R. R. 141, 2: serva cives, defende hostes, cum potes defendere, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21; cf.

bellum (opp. inferre),

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 13; 2, 29 fin.:

ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,

id. B. C. 2, 9, 3; cf.:

ignis jactus et lapides,

id. ib. 2, 2, 4:

frigus et solem,

Cato R. R. 48, 2; cf.:

nimios solis ardores,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 53;

and frigus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 14;

also: sitim fonte et purā lymphā,

to quench, Sil. 7, 170:

qui non defendit injuriam neque propulsat,

Cic. Off. 3, 18, 74; so,

injuriam,

id. Rosc. Am. 1:

noxiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

imperatoris sui tribunorumque plebis injurias,

Caes. B. C. 1, 7 fin.:

vim suorum,

id. ib. 3, 110, 4; cf.:

vim illatam vi,

Cic. Mil. 4:

pericula,

id. Mur. 3; Tac. A. 13, 56:

hunc furorem,

Verg. A. 10, 905:

dedecus manu,

Sil. 13, 99 et saep.:

crimen,

to answer, defend against an accusation, Liv. 42, 48, 2.—

With ab: (milites) a pinnis hostes defendebant facillime, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. ib. 8:

hostem a fossa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

ignem a tectis,

Ov. R. Am. 625.—

Aliquid alicui (cf. arceo, no. II. d.):

iniuriam foribus,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 20:

solstitium pecori,

Verg. E. 7, 47; cf.:

aestatem capellis,

Hor. Od. 1, 17, 3; Prop. 1, 20, 11:

tela misero,

Sil. 17, 432:

dedecus morti,

id. 5, 490:

senium famae,

Stat. Th. 9, 318.—

Absol., to put a stop (to a fire), to check the flames:

nec quisquam defendere audebat, crebris minis restinguere prohibentium,

Tac. A. 15, 38; cf.:

urbem incendere, feris in populum immissis, quo difficilius defenderentur,

Suet. Ner. 43.—

Transf., like prohibere, with acc. of that from which any thing is warded off or averted, to defend, guard, protect, cover.

In gen. (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition), constr. with acc. alone; with acc. and ab aliquo (contra aliquid), or merely ab aliquo; and absol.

With simple acc.:

Aeduos ceterosque amicos populi Rom.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 35 fin.:

eos,

id. ib. 2, 10, 4; id. B. C. 1, 6, 2:

se armis,

id. B. G. 6, 34:

se manu,

id. ib. 5, 7, 8;

6, 40, 6 et saep.: castra,

id. ib. 3, 3 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 67, 5; 3, 94, 6 (with tueri):

oppidum,

id. B. G. 3, 16, 3 et saep.:

eum defendo, quem tu accusas,

Cic. Sull. 17:

aliquem apud praetores,

id. Clu. 45, 126:

aliquem de ambitu,

id. Sull. 2, 6: cf.

causam,

id. Clu. 27, 74; id. Sull. 31, 86; id. Lael. 25, 96 et passim:

d. ac tegere scelus,

id. Sull. 31, 86; cf.

with protegere,

id. ib. 18, 50:

justitiam,

id. Lael. 7, 25:

communem salutem,

id. Rep. 1, 1; id. Mur. 2 fin. et saep.:

locum,

to preserve, maintain, id. Quint. 13, 43; cf.:

vicem modo rhetoris atque poëtae,

to sustain, Hor. S. 1, 10, 12:

actorum partes,

id. A. P. 194:

aedes Vestae vix defensa est (sc. ab incendio),

preserved, Liv. 26, 27.—

Aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo:

Aedui cum se suaque ab iis defendere non possent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 11, 2:

se a finitimis,

id. ib. 2, 31, 5; id. B. C. 1, 75, 3; Sall. C. 45, 4 et saep.:

Galliam omnem ab Ariovisti injuria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31 fin.; so,

aliquem ab injuria,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3; Sall. C. 35 fin.; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 22, 5:

se regnumque suum ab Romanorum avaritia,

Sall. J. 49, 2:

provinciam non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 6, 14: Italiam a vastatione, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15 fin.:

vitam ab inimicorum audacia telisque,

Cic. Mil. 2 fin.:

libertatis causam ab regio praesidio,

Liv. 39, 24 et saep.:

teneras myrtos a frigore,

Verg. E. 7, 6:

frondes ab acutae vulnere falcis, a pecoris morsu,

Ov. M. 9, 384 et saep.—

With ab aliquo:

quod et ab incendio lapis et ab ariete materia defendit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 5; so id. B. C. 1, 25 fin.; 3, 63, 7.—

Aliquem (aliquid) contra, or adversus aliquem:

me scio a te contra iniquos meos solere defendi,

Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 7:

sese adversus populum Romanum defendere,

id. Phil. 1, 6, 13:

me adversus Abrupolim,

Liv. 42, 41, 10; Just. 2, 4, 32; Suet. Caes. 71; Liv. 5, 35, 4:

auctoritatem contra invidiam,

Cic. Phil, 8, 4; 13, 11; id. Fam. 5, 2, 6; id. Sest. 67, 141; 23, 51; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45.—

Absol.:

filii qui et sentire et defendere possent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64 fin.:

cum jam defenderet nemo,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 6:

defendentibus civibus Romanis,

id. B. C. 3, 40, 6; cf. in the abl. absol., id. B. G. 2, 12, 3; id. B. C. 3, 68 fin.; Cic. Lael. 25, 96 et saep.:

quibus eae partes ad defendendum obvenerunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 81 fin. —

In partic.

Of speech, to defend, support, maintain; to bring forward, allege in defence (so repeatedly in Cic.; elsewhere rare).

With acc.:

(Carneades) nullam umquam in illis suis disputationibus rem defendit, quam non probarit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38 fin.; cf. id. Fam. 4, 14:

me id maxime defendisse, ut, etc.,

have chiefly striven for, id. Rosc. Am. 47; id. Verr. 2, 3, 37; 2, 5, 58.—

With acc. and inf.:

gravissimeque et verissime defenditur, numquam aequitatem ab utilitate posse sejungi, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 71; id. Verr. 2, 3, 90 fin.; id. Tull. 13, 32:

ille nihil ex his sponte susceptum sed principi paruisse defendebat,

Tac. A. 13, 43:

sed id solitum esse fieri defendebat,

Gell. 10, 19; so with verb pass. and inf., Cic. Inv. 2, 32 init. —

With a relative clause:

(quae turpitudines) cur non cadant in sapientem, non est facile defendere,

Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117. —

In the later jurid. Lat., to claim, vindicate, or prosecute at law:

quia libertatem et hereditatem ex testamento sibi defendebat,

Dig. 5, 3, 7:

si patris mortem defendere necesse habuerit,

i. e. legally to avenge his death, ib. 38, 2, 14, § 7; 48, 2, 11.

denso, āvi, ātum, 1, and (less freq.) denseo, no perf., ētum, 2 (cf. Prisc. p. 837 P.; Charis. p. 233 ib. The MSS. often confound the two forms; densare appears to be critically certain in Liv. and Quint.; densere act. only denset, Verg. A. 11, 650; imp. densete, id. ib. 12, 264:

densebant,

Lucr. 5, 491:

denserent,

Tac. A. 2, 14; also active forms, Apul. Mund. p. 61, 13; Prud. Cath. 5, 53 al.; Sil. 4, 159;

gerund, densendo,

Lucr. 6, 482; pass. inf. parag. denserier, id. 1, 395; 647:

densetur,

Ov. M. 14, 369 al.:

densentur,

Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19; Verg. A. 7, 794, and other forms in Verg.; cf.

Wagner,

Verg. G. 1, 248.—See also addenso and condenso), v. a., to make thick, to press together, thicken (not in Cic. and Caes.).

Lit.:

Juppiter uvidus austris Densat, erant quae rara modo, et, quae densa, relaxat,

Verg. G. 1, 419 (paraphrased:

densatus et laxatus aer,

Quint. 5, 9, 16); cf.:

rarum pectine denset opus,

Ov. F. 3, 820; Lucr. 1, 395:

ignem,

id. 1, 647; 656:

omnia,

id. 1, 662:

agmina,

Verg. A. 7, 794; cf.

catervas,

id. ib. 12, 264:

ordines,

Liv. 33, 8 fin.:

scutis super capita densatis,

Liv. 44, 9: funera, * Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19:

glomerata corpus in unum densatur,

Ov. M. 13, 605; cf.:

(nubes) largos in imbres,

Luc. 4, 76; Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239:

obtenta densantur nocte tenebrae,

Verg. G. 1, 246; cf. Ov. M. 14, 369:

hastilia,

i. e. hurls thickly, Verg. A. 11, 650; cf.

ictus,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur,

Vulg. Job 8, 17.— Absol.:

(aestus) quasi densendo subtexit caerula nimbis,

Lucr. 6, 482.—

Trop. of speech, to condense:

instandum quibusdam in partibus et densanda oratio,

Quint. 11, 3, 164:

figuras,

id. 9, 3, 101.

dē-pello, pŭli, pulsum, 3, v. a., to drive out, drive away, remove, expel; to drive, thrust, or cast down (class. and very freq.).

Lit.

In gen.:

demoveri et depelli de loco,

Cic. Caecin. 17, 49; cf.:

anseres de Falerno,

id. Phil. 5, 11:

eum de provincia,

Nep. Cat. 2:

aquam de agro,

Cato R. R. 155:

ab aris et focis ferrum flammamque,

Cic. Sest. 42; cf.:

tantam molem a cervicibus nostris,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 17:

jugum a civibus,

id. Rep. 2, 25:

vincula a singulis vobis,

Liv. 6, 18 med. al.:

non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 38:

qui recta via depulsus est,

Quint. 2, 17, 29; cf.:

recto cursu,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 78:

aliquem urbe,

to banish, Tac. A. 3, 24; cf.:

aliquem Italia,

id. ib. 14, 50; 16, [p. 549] 33:

nubila caelo,

Tib. 1, 2, 49:

ignem classibus,

Verg. A. 5, 727; cf. ib. 9, 78, and 109:

tela,

Cic. Quint. 2, 8; cf.:

nobis aerata tela,

Tib. 1, 10, 25;

and ictus alicui,

Val. Fl. 6, 652:

stellas Aurora,

Ov. M. 7, 100; cf.:

noctem Aurorae lumina,

id. ib. 7, 835:

cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37; cf.:

frigus duramque famem,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 6:

morbum,

Cic. Fam. 7, 26 fin.; Caes. B. G. 6, 17; cf.:

pestem augurio,

Verg. A. 9, 328:

mortem fratri,

Ov. H. 14, 130 et saep.:

quo (sc. Mantuam) solemus ovium teneros depellere fetus,

to drive down, Verg. E. 1, 22: cognoscere, corpora se spatio depellere paulum, push or repel one another, Lucr. 2, 219 Munro ad loc. (Lachm. ex conj. decellere).—

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to drive away, expel, dislodge an enemy from his position:

defensores vallo munitionibusque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 25; so,

hostem loco,

id. ib. 7, 49; id. B. C. 3, 52:

terrā,

Nep. Alcib. 8, 3:

totā Siciliā,

id. Timol. 2:

inde vi depelli,

Sall. J. 58, 3; cf. Front. Strat. 2, 5, 17:

praesidia ex his regionibus,

Nep. Paus. 2:

praesidium facile,

Front. Strat. 1, 10, 3 et saep.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, to thrust out, remove from a situation:

afflicti jam et depulsi loco,

Cic. Rep. 1, 44; cf.:

iterum ab eodem (sc. Themistocle) gradu depulsus est,

driven from his position, Nep. Them. 5.—

Econom. t. t., a matre, a mamma, or absol., to remove from the breast, to wean, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; 2, 4, 16; Col. 7, 6, 8; Verg. E. 3, 82; 7, 15; id. G. 3, 187.—Of human beings, Suet. Tib. 44. —

Trop., to deter, divert, dissuade from:

aliquem de suscepta causa propositaque sententia,

Cic. Lig. 9; id. Fam. 1, 7, 7;

for which, aliquem sententiā,

id. Tusc. 2, 6, 16; Liv. 23, 8:

aliquem de spe conatuque,

Cic. Cat. 2, 7, § 14;

for which, aliquem spe,

Liv. 31, 25, 11; 41, 23, 13:

te ex illa crudeli actione meo consilio esse depulsum, Cic. Rab. perd. 5, 17: Caesar ab superioribus consiliis depulsus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 73; cf.:

a qua re depulsus,

Nep. Dat. 7, 3; and:

judicem a veritate,

Quint. 5 prooem. §

1 et saep.: nec tuis depellor dictis quin rumori serviam,

to be deterred, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 14; cf.:

Vibidiam depellere nequivit, quin, etc.,

to prevent, hinder, Tac. A. 11, 34.—

With things as objects, to remove, turn away, divert:

servitutem depellere civitati,

Cic. post Red. in Sen. 8, 19 fin.; cf.:

alicui turpitudinem,

id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77:

morte voluntaria turpitudinem,

id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6:

duobus hujus urbis terroribus depulsis,

id. Rep. 1, 47, 71:

pericula amici,

id. Cluent. 6, 17:

multam praedibus ipsique T. Mario,

id. Fam. 5, 20, 4: mortem fratri. Ov. H. 14, 130:

omnes molestias,

id. ib. 2, 16:

auditiones falsas,

Tac. A. 4, 11:

curas vino,

Tib. 1, 5, 37:

ostenta a semet in capita procerum,

Suet. Ner. 36 et saep.: quae nequeat ratio depellere dictis. to deny, Lucr. 3, 322.—

Absol.:

dis depellentibus (i. e. averruncantibus) agnam Percute,

Pers. 5, 167; cf. depulsor fin.

dē-spŭo, ĕre, v. n. and a., to spit out, to spit.

Prop., Liv. 5, 40; Naev. ap. Gell. 2, 19, 6; esp. as a religious observance for averting a disease, etc.; so, act. morbos, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35: tenerum ignem, Claud. rapt. Pros. 2, 52; neutr., Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27; Tib. 1, 2, 54; Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 69.— Hence,

Trop., to reject, abhor (syn.:

deprecari, aspernari, spernere, etc.),

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 26:

preces alicujus, Catull. 50, 19: voluptates (with spernere opes),

Sen. Ep. 104 fin. —With in:

acre in mores,

Pers. 4, 35, dub. (others: despuat, hi mores, etc.).

ē-lĭcĭo, lĭcŭi and lexi (elicuit, Caes. B. C. 3, 100, 2:

elexisse,

Arn. 5, p. 154), lĭcìtum ( part. elicitus, Stat. Th. 4, 414; Luc. 9, 932; Vell. 2, 104, 4), 3, v. a. [lacio], to draw out, entice out, to lure forth, to bring out, to elicit (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

aliquem hinc foras,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 17; cf. id. Men. 5, 6, 3:

hostem ex paludibus silvisque,

Caes. B. G. 7, 32, 2:

omnes citra flumen,

id. ib. 6, 8, 2:

hostes in suum locum,

id. ib. 5, 50, 3: aliquem ad pugnam. id. B. C. 3, 38. [p. 638] 1; 3, 85, 2; Liv. 2, 62; cf.:

aliquem in proelium,

Tac. A. 15, 13:

aliquem praemiis ex civitatibus sociorum ad subeunda pericula,

Cic. Balb. 9:

vatem ad colloquium,

Liv. 5, 15:

aliquem, ut, etc.,

id. 6, 34 fin.; cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 7 fin.:

premere ubera ad eliciendum lac,

Vulg. Prov. 30, 33.—

In partic., in relig. lang.: Jovem, Manes, etc., to call forth, call down a god by religious rites; to raise, conjure up a departed spirit by magic arts, Ov. F. 3, 327; Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 104; Arn. 5, p. 154; Cic. Vatin. 6; Tib. 1, 2, 46; Hor. S. 1, 8, 29; Stat. Th. 4, 414; Luc. 6, 733; Tac. A. 2, 28 al.—In a like sense:

fulmina,

to call down, Liv. 1, 20 fin.; Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 13.—

Trop.:

terra elicit herbescentem ex eo (sc. semine) viriditatem,

Cic. de Sen. 15, 51:

vocem,

to utter, speak, Cic. Deiot. 1 fin. (but in Lucr. 3, 58, and Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57, the better reading is eicere voces):

voces et querelas,

id. Brut. 80, 278:

sermonem,

Liv. 9, 6:

verbum ex eo de via ac ratione dicendi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 97:

sonos,

id. N. D. 2, 60:

sententiam alicujus,

id. Att. 7, 1, 5; cf.:

arcana ejus,

Liv. 40, 23;

and, veritatem,

Tac. A. 4, 45:

causas praesensionum,

to elicit, ascertain, Cic. Div. 1, 8:

misericordiam,

Liv. 8, 28; Tac. H. 3, 58; cf.

cupidinem,

id. A. 16, 14:

iram,

Curt. 8, 5 fin.:

studia civium,

Tac. A. 15, 33 et saep.:

ferrum e terrae cavernis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151:

ignem lapidum conflictu,

id. ib. 2, 9 fin.: sanguinem, id. poët. Tusc. 1, 48 fin. Kühn.; Tac. A. 12, 47:

sudorem,

Plin. 25, 11, 89, § 189:

alvum,

to relax, id. 19, 5, 26, § 80:

lacrimas,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 13; Vell. 2, 104, 4:

litteras,

Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; 9, 2:

cadum,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 17 et saep.

ē-līdo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [laedo].

To knock, strike, or dash out, to tear out, to force out, squeeze out.

Lit.:

aurigam e curru,

Cic. Rep. 2, 41:

oculos,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 45; Verg. A. 8, 261:

ignem velut e silice,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214; cf.:

flammas ex sese,

id. 18, 35, 84, § 358:

ignes nubibus,

Ov. M. 6, 696:

aërem lituis,

Luc. 7, 476:

partum,

i. e. to produce abortion, Cels. 1, 7; Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25:

litteras,

to strike out by syncope, to elide, Gell. 5, 12, 5:

vina praelis,

i. e. to press out, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73; cf.

herbam,

Ov. F. 4, 371:

corpora equorum eodem elisa, i. e. ad litus ejecta,

Tac. A. 2, 24.—

Trop.: animam alicui, Lucil. ap. Non. 291, 32:

(imago) recta retrorsum Sic eliditur, ut, etc.,

is thrown back, reflected, Lucr. 4, 296:

colores repercussu parietum,

Plin. 37, 9, 52, § 137:

sibilum,

to force out, Cels. 4, 4, 2; cf.

sonum,

Plin. 11, 51, 112, § 269; 14, 22, 28, § 146:

vocem,

Quint. 11, 3, 51:

morbum,

to drive out, expel, Cels. 4, 4, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 6: magnas sententias, to send forth, utter (the fig. being that of a cloud discharging itself), Quint. 2, 11, 7 Spald.—

To break or dash to pieces, to shatter, to crush to death.

Lit.:

talos alicui,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 12:

tuum caput,

id. Poen. 2, 46; Liv. 21, 45:

fauces,

to strangle, Ov. M. 12, 142: naves, * Caes. B. C. 3, 27, 2:

aliquem stipite,

Curt. 9, 7 fin.:

draconem pondere,

Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32:

geminos angues (Hercules),

i. e. to strangle, Verg. A. 8, 289; cf.

infantes,

Flor. 3, 3, 17 al. —

Trop., to break down, destroy:

(poetae) nervos omnes virtutis elidunt,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11 fin.; cf.:

aegritudine elidi,

id. ib. 5, 6, 16:

prius pactum per posterius,

i. e. to abrogate, Dig. 2, 14, 27.

excĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [excio], to call out or forth, to bring or send out, to wake or rouse up (freq. and class.; cf.: provoco, evoco; irrito, lacesso, invito).

Lit.: unde (Acherunte) animae excitantur obscura umbra, Poëta ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

aliquem a portu,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 10:

aliquem huc foras,

id. Rud. 1, 5, 2:

si excitatus fuerit de spectaculis,

turned out, expelled, Quint. 3, 6, 19:

dormientes spectatores e somno,

to wake up, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 48; cf.:

quaeso, ne me e somno excitetis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 12:

velut dormitantes eos excitari,

Quint. 4, 1, 73:

patre excitato (opp. dormiente),

id. 4, 2, 72:

scuto offenso excitatus vigil,

Liv. 7, 36, 2:

aliquem ab inferis,

to summon up, Cic. Font. 12, 26; id. Cat. 2, 10, 20; id. Verr. 2, 5, 49, 129:

aliquem a mortuis,

id. de Or. 1, 57, 245:

non dubitavit excitare reum consularem,

to call upon to stand up, to call up, id. ib. 2, 28, 124:

reos,

id. ib. 2, 47, 195; Quint. 11, 3, 174; cf. Liv. 9, 8, 3:

testes,

Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 47: judicem, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104 et saep.: feras, to rouse or scare up, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

cervum nemorosis latibulis,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 1.—Prov.:

aliis leporem,

Petr. 1, 31, 7.—

Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things, to raise, erect:

vapores, qui a sole ex aquis excitantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118:

caput altius,

Cels. 8, 4 med. —

In partic., with the accessory notion of making, forming, to raise, erect, build, construct:

exstrui vetat (Plato) sepulcrum altius, quam, etc.... nec e lapide excitari amplius,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68:

turres,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40, 2; id. B. C. 1, 25 fin.:

tumulum alicui,

Suet. Claud. 1:

aedificium,

Sen. Ep. 52:

urbem,

Flor. 1, 1:

nova sarmenta cultura excitantur,

are produced, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88:

pascua in novalibus,

Pall. Nov. 13, 3:

ignem,

to kindle up, excite, Caes. B. G. 7, 24, 4; Lucr. 6, 308:

incendium,

Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 3:

invalidas flammas admoto fomite,

Luc. 8, 776.— Poet. transf.:

aras,

Verg. G. 4, 549:

foculum bucca,

Juv. 3, 262:

siser stomachum,

Plin. 20, 5, 17, § 34:

uvae os, stomachum,

id. 23, 1, 7, § 12.

Trop.

In gen., to raise up, comfort; to arouse, awaken, excite, incite, stimulate, enliven:

qui ab excitata fortuna ad inclinatam et prope jacentem desciscerem,

erected, established, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1; cf.:

amici jacentem animum excitare,

id. Lael. 16, 59; and with this cf. id. Att. 1, 16, 8; and:

animos excitare atque inflammare ad persequendi studium,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5:

animos omnium ad laetitiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 79, 3:

aliquem ad laborem et ad laudem,

Cic. Planc. 24, 59; cf. id. Top. 2, 5:

languentem labentemque populum ad decus,

id. de Or. 1, 46, 202:

aliquem ad bellum,

Caes. B. G. 3, 10, 3:

aliquem ad virtutem,

id. ib. 6, 14, 5:

aliquem ad audiendum,

Quint. 4, 1, 34:

gallos alacritate ad canendum,

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 56 et saep.:

alicujus memoriam alicui excitans,

reviving, renewing, Cic. Or. 10, 35:

hominum studia ad utilitates nostras allicere atque excitare,

id. Off. 2, 6, 20:

hominum studia,

Caes. B. C. 3, 21, 1:

salsum excitat et a taedio defendit orationem,

enlivens, Quint. 6, 3, 19:

fictiones personarum mire orationem excitant,

id. 9, 2, 29; cf. id. 6, 1, 2:

hi soni cum augenda intentione excitandi (opp. temperandi),

to sharpen, pronounce strongly, id. 11, 3, 42:

syllabam acutam,

id. 12, 10, 33. —

In partic.

To appeal to, call upon, cite:

ut nos ex annalium monimentis testis excitamus eos, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 67:

multos testis liberalitatis tuae,

id. Rab. Post. 17, 47.—

With the accessory idea of producing (acc. to I. B. 2.), to found, cause, occasion, excite, kindle:

priusquam docuero, quibus initiis ac fundamentis hae tantae summis in rebus laudes excitatae sint,

Cic. Sest. 2, 5; cf. id. Fin. 4, 7, 18:

in animis hominum motum dicendo vel excitare vel sedare,

id. de Or. 1, 46, 202:

risus,

id. Phil. 3, 9, 21:

plausum,

id. Sest. 58, 124:

fletum etiam inimicis,

id. ib. 57, 121:

amores,

id. Off. 1, 5, 14:

iras,

Verg. A. 2, 594:

suspicionem alicui,

Cic. Sest. 18, 41: varios sermones, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 2:

quantas tragoedias,

Cic. Mil. 7, 18:

vim ac dolorem bonorum omnium,

id. Planc. 18, 45 et saep. —Hence, excĭtātus, a, um, P. a. (lit. excited, kindled; hence), animated, lively, vigorous, vehement, strong, loud (rare but class.):

acutus et excitatus sonus,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18.— Comp.:

clamor,

Liv. 4, 37, 9:

haec lumina,

Quint. 12, 10, 49:

schema,

id. 9, 3, 10.— Sup.:

odor,

Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182. — Adv.: excĭtāte, vigorously, briskly, brightly, vehemently. —In the comp.:

fulgent gemmae,

Plin. 37, 7, 31, § 106:

clamitantes,

Amm. 18, 8.

excŭbĭae, ārum, f. [id.], a lying out of the house.

In gen., Plaut. Cas. prol. 54.—Far more freq. and class.,

In partic., a lying out on guard, a watching, keeping watch (cf.:

custodia, vigiliae, insomnia): si haec arma, si Capitolinae cohortes, si excubiae, si vigiliae, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 25, 67; id. Phil. 7, 9, 24; id. Planc. 42, 101; Tac. A. 13, 18; id. H. 4, 11; Suet. Aug. 23; 30; Verg. A. 9, 159 et saep.:

tristes (i. e. severae) vigilum canum,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 3:

grues excubias habent nocturnis temporibus,

Plin. 10, 23, 30, § 59.— Poet.: centum [p. 680] aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem, Excubias divum aeternas, Verg. A. 4, 200. —

Transf., concr., persons keeping watch, a watch, guard:

num excubias transiret,

Tac. A. 14, 44:

inter excubias militum pernoctavit,

Suet. Claud. 10.

ex-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to strike, beat or hammer out.

Lit.:

silici scintillam,

Verg. A. 1, 174:

ignem,

Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.—

Transf., to hatch out:

pullos ex ovis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 2; 10; 13:

anseres aliena ova non excudunt,

i. e. do not hatch them, id. ib. 3, 10, 3; § 4; 3, 9, 2; Col. 8, 14, 7.—

To forge, mould:

excudent alii spirantia mollius aera,

Verg. A. 6, 848.—

In gen., to prepare, make any thing:

ceras,

Verg. G. 4, 57.—

Trop., of a writing, to compose: excudam aliquid Hêrakleideion, Cic. Att. 15, 27, 2; Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4; Tac. de Or. 9.

ex-haurĭo, hausi, haustum, 4, v. a. ( fut. part. act. exhausurus, Sen. Ep. 51, 6), to draw out, to empty by drawing, to exhaust (class., esp. in the transf. and trop. senses).

Lit., of liquids:

cum alii malos scandant, alii per foros cursent, alii sentinam exhauriant,

pump out, Cic. de Sen. 6, 17; cf. id. Cat. 1, 5, 12:

vinum,

i. e. to drink up, id. Phil. 2, 25, 63:

exhausto jam flumine,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 63; cf.:

exhaustum poculum,

emptied, Cic. Clu. 11, 31:

exhaustus repente perennis exaruit fons,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43, 5; cf.:

tacent exhausti solibus amnes,

Stat. Th. 3, 259.—

Transf., of things not liquid, to take out, empty out, to make empty, to exhaust:

terram manibus sagulisque,

Caes. B. G. 5, 42, 3:

humum ligonibus,

Hor. Epod. 5, 31:

pecuniam ex aerario,

Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 98; cf.

aerarium,

i. e. to empty, exhaust, id. Vat. 2, 5; id. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 164:

praedam ex agris urbibusque sociorum,

id. Pis. 21, 48; cf.:

oppidum diripiendum militi dedit: exhaustis deinde tectis ignem injecit,

completely pillaged, Liv. 10, 44, 2 Drak.:

reliquum spiritum,

Cic. Sest. 37, 80; cf. id. ib. 21, 48 infra, and Halm ad loc.:

exhauriri,

drained of money impoverished, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2 fin.:

provinciam sumptibus et jacturis,

id. Att. 6, 1, 2:

plebem impensis (aedificandi),

Liv. 6, 5, 5:

socios commeatibus,

id. 37, 19, 4:

heredem legatis,

Plin. Ep. 5, 1, 9:

facultates patriae,

Nep. Hann. 6; cf.

vires,

Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 6:

genas,

i. e. to make bloodless, pale, Stat. Th. 10, 168:

velut exhausta pullulet arca nummus,

Juv. 6, 363.

Trop. (according as the notion of taking away or of leaving empty predominates).

To take away, remove:

libentius omnes meas laudes ad te transfuderim, quam aliquam partem exhauserim ex tuis,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 4:

alicui dolorem,

id. ib. 5, 16, 4:

sibi manu vitam,

id. Sest. 21, 48; cf. id. ib. 37, 80:

exhausta vis ingens aeris alieni est,

cleared off, Liv. 7, 21, 8:

Scurra exhausto rubore (i. e. pudore),

Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14:

ad multorum exhaurienda peccata,

Vulg. Hebr. 9, 28.—

To exhaust, bring to an end:

tantus fuit amor, ut exhauriri nulla posset injuria,

be exhausted, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 4; cf.:

amicorum benignitas exhausta est in ea re,

id. ib. 4, 2, 7: unius ambulationis sermone exhaurire (quae sollicitant anguntque), to exhaust in speaking, i. e. to discuss thoroughly, id. ib. 1, 18, 1; cf. id. de Or. 3, 26, 102:

exhaustus est sermo hominum,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 1:

deinde exhauriri mea mandata,

to be accomplished, fulfilled, id. Att. 5, 13, 3; cf.:

mandavi omnia, quae quidem tu, ut polliceris, exhauries,

id. ib. 5, 6, 2:

labores,

to endure, undergo, Liv. 21, 21, 8:

laborem, periculum,

id. 21, 30, 9 Drak.; 25, 31, 7; 26, 31, 7; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 1; Stat. Th. 6. 236 al.:

bella,

Verg. A. 4, 14:

vastae pericula terrae,

id. ib. 10, 57; cf.:

dura et aspera belli,

Liv. 33, 11, 6:

poenarum exhaustum satis est,

executed, inflicted, Verg. A. 9, 356:

exhausta nocte,

spent, Tac. H. 4, 29:

exhaustus cliens,

worn out, Juv. 9, 59.

ex-stinguo ( ext-), nxi, nctum, 3 (archaic perf. subj. exstinxit, for exstinxerit, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 43.—Contracted forms exstinxsti, Verg. A. 4, 682; Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193;

and exstinxem,

Verg. A. 4, 606), v. a., to put out what is burning, to quench, extinguish (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and in the trop. signif.).

Lit.:

recens exstinctum lumen,

Lucr. 6, 791:

exstincta lumina,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 2:

faces,

Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 228:

lucernam,

id. 31, 3, 28, § 49; cf.:

senes mori sic videntur ut sua sponte nulla adhibita vi consumptus ignis exstinguitur,

goes out, Cic. de Sen. 19, 71:

ignem,

Ov. F. 2, 712:

incendium,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2:

sol exstinguitur,

id. Rep. 6, 22: exstincto calore ipsi exstinguimur, id. N. D. 2, 9, 23:

calx exstincta,

i. e. slaked, Vitr. 2, 5.—

Transf., to deprive of life or strength, to kill, destroy:

animam alicui,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 16:

nolite, hunc jam natura ipsa occidentem velle maturius exstingui vulnere vestro,

Cic. Cael. 32, 79; cf. id. N. D. 2, 9, 23:

juvenem fortuna morbo exstinxit,

Liv. 8, 3, 7:

vir egregius exstinctus,

cut off, Cic. Brut. 1, 1; id. Rep. 6, 14; Verg. E. 5, 20; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 14; Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 25; Tac. A. 3, 7 et saep.:

rapitur miser exstinguendus Messalinae oculis,

Juv. 10, 332:

vel modico tepore sucus exstinguitur,

i. e. is dried up, Curt. 6, 4, 11:

mammas,

Plin. 23, 2, 32, § 67:

odorem alii,

to destroy, id. 19, 6, 34, § 113:

venena,

to render powerless, id. 20, 17, 69, § 179: aquam Albanam dissipatam rivis, to consume, get rid of, an old prophecy in Liv. 5, 16, 9.—

Trop., to abolish, destroy, annihilate, annul (syn.: tollo, deleo, opprimo, diruo, everto, demolior, destruo;

opp. inflammo): tyrannis institutis leges omnes exstinguuntur atque tolluntur,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 5:

ea, quae antea scripserat,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 172:

improbitas exstinguenda atque delenda est,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26:

potentiam exstinguere atque opprimere,

id. Rosc. Am. 13, 36;

but also distinguished from opprimere: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae quam oppressae esse videantur,

extinct, id. Lael. 21, 78:

ad sensus animorum atque motus vel inflammandos vel etiam exstinguendos,

id. de Or. 1, 14, 60:

sermo omnis ille oblivione posteritatis extinguitur,

id. Rep. 6, 23 fin.; cf.:

exstinctis rumoribus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 60 fin.:

ad ejus salutem exstinguendam,

Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

nomen populi Romani,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

superiorem gloriam rei militaris,

Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 4:

memoriam publicam,

Cic. Mil. 27, 73:

gratiam,

id. Fam. 1, 1, 4:

familiaritates,

id. Lael. 10, 35:

invidiam,

id. Balb. 6, 16:

infamiam,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 168: causam nascentem dissensionis, Matius in Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

consuetudinem,

Cic. Cael. 25, 61:

reliquias belli,

id. Fam. 10, 25, 1:

bellum civile,

Plin. 7, 26, 27, § 96:

jus pignoris,

Dig. 20, 1, 9; cf.

fideicommissum,

ib. 32, 1, 11:

actionem,

ib. 47, 2, 42 al.

ex-stinguo ( ext-), nxi, nctum, 3 (archaic perf. subj. exstinxit, for exstinxerit, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 43.—Contracted forms exstinxsti, Verg. A. 4, 682; Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193;

and exstinxem,

Verg. A. 4, 606), v. a., to put out what is burning, to quench, extinguish (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and in the trop. signif.).

Lit.:

recens exstinctum lumen,

Lucr. 6, 791:

exstincta lumina,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 2:

faces,

Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 228:

lucernam,

id. 31, 3, 28, § 49; cf.:

senes mori sic videntur ut sua sponte nulla adhibita vi consumptus ignis exstinguitur,

goes out, Cic. de Sen. 19, 71:

ignem,

Ov. F. 2, 712:

incendium,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2:

sol exstinguitur,

id. Rep. 6, 22: exstincto calore ipsi exstinguimur, id. N. D. 2, 9, 23:

calx exstincta,

i. e. slaked, Vitr. 2, 5.—

Transf., to deprive of life or strength, to kill, destroy:

animam alicui,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 16:

nolite, hunc jam natura ipsa occidentem velle maturius exstingui vulnere vestro,

Cic. Cael. 32, 79; cf. id. N. D. 2, 9, 23:

juvenem fortuna morbo exstinxit,

Liv. 8, 3, 7:

vir egregius exstinctus,

cut off, Cic. Brut. 1, 1; id. Rep. 6, 14; Verg. E. 5, 20; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 14; Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 25; Tac. A. 3, 7 et saep.:

rapitur miser exstinguendus Messalinae oculis,

Juv. 10, 332:

vel modico tepore sucus exstinguitur,

i. e. is dried up, Curt. 6, 4, 11:

mammas,

Plin. 23, 2, 32, § 67:

odorem alii,

to destroy, id. 19, 6, 34, § 113:

venena,

to render powerless, id. 20, 17, 69, § 179: aquam Albanam dissipatam rivis, to consume, get rid of, an old prophecy in Liv. 5, 16, 9.—

Trop., to abolish, destroy, annihilate, annul (syn.: tollo, deleo, opprimo, diruo, everto, demolior, destruo;

opp. inflammo): tyrannis institutis leges omnes exstinguuntur atque tolluntur,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 5:

ea, quae antea scripserat,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 172:

improbitas exstinguenda atque delenda est,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26:

potentiam exstinguere atque opprimere,

id. Rosc. Am. 13, 36;

but also distinguished from opprimere: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae quam oppressae esse videantur,

extinct, id. Lael. 21, 78:

ad sensus animorum atque motus vel inflammandos vel etiam exstinguendos,

id. de Or. 1, 14, 60:

sermo omnis ille oblivione posteritatis extinguitur,

id. Rep. 6, 23 fin.; cf.:

exstinctis rumoribus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 60 fin.:

ad ejus salutem exstinguendam,

Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

nomen populi Romani,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

superiorem gloriam rei militaris,

Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 4:

memoriam publicam,

Cic. Mil. 27, 73:

gratiam,

id. Fam. 1, 1, 4:

familiaritates,

id. Lael. 10, 35:

invidiam,

id. Balb. 6, 16:

infamiam,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 168: causam nascentem dissensionis, Matius in Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

consuetudinem,

Cic. Cael. 25, 61:

reliquias belli,

id. Fam. 10, 25, 1:

bellum civile,

Plin. 7, 26, 27, § 96:

jus pignoris,

Dig. 20, 1, 9; cf.

fideicommissum,

ib. 32, 1, 11:

actionem,

ib. 47, 2, 42 al.

făcĭo, feci, factum, 3, v. a. and n.; in pass.: fio, factus, fieri ( imper. usually fac, but the arch form face is freq., esp. in Plaut. and Ter., as Plaut. As. prol. 4; 1, 1, 77; id. Aul. 2, 1, 30; id. Cist. 2, 1, 28; id. Ep. 1, 1, 37; 2, 2, 117; id. Most. 3, 2, 167 et saep.; Ter. And. 4, 1, 57; 4, 2, 29; 5, 1, 2; 14; id. Eun. 1, 2, 10 al.; Cato, R. R. 23, 1; 26; 32 al.; Cat. 63, 78; 79; 82; Ov. Med. fac. 60; Val. Fl. 7, 179 al.; futur. facie for faciam, Cato ap. Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. dico, init., and the letter e:

faxo,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199; 2, 1, 42; 3, 3, 17; 3, 4, 14; 5, 1, 55 et saep.; Ter. And. 5, 2, 13; id. Eun. 2, 2, 54; 4, 3, 21 al.; Verg. A. 9, 154; 12, 316; Ov. M. 3, 271; 12, 594: faxim, Enn. ap. Non. 507, 23; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 13; id. Aul. 3, 2, 6; 3, 5, 20 al.; Ter. And. 4, 4, 14; id. Heaut. 1, 2, 13:

faxis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 38; Sil. 15, 362: faxit, Lex Numae in Paul. ex Fest. s. v. ALIVTA, p. 6 Mull.; Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 12; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 90; 3, 5, 54; id. Cas. 3, 5, 6 al.; Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 24; id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:

faximus,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 40: faxitis, an old form in Liv. 23, 11, 2; 25, 12, 10; 29, 27, 3:

faxint,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85; id. Aul. 2, 1, 27; 2, 2, 79 al.; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 109; id. Hec. 1, 2, 27; 3, 2, 19; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 35, § 81; id. Fam. 14, 3, 3.—In pass. imper.:

fi,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 87; Hor. S. 2, 5, 38; Pers. 1, 1, 39:

fite,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 89 al. — Indic.: facitur, Nigid. ap. Non. 507, 15: fitur, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 789:

fiebantur,

id. ib.: fitum est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 475, 16.— Subj.: faciatur, Titin. ib.— Inf.: fiere, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 75 P.; Ann. v. 15, ed. Vahl.; Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 10.—On the long i of fit, v. Ritschl, prol. p. 184, and cf. Plaut. Capt. prol. 25: ut fit in bello) [prob. root bha-; Sanscr. bhasas, light; Gr. pha-, in phainô, phêmi; cf. fax, facetiae, facilis, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 423.—But Curt. refers facio to root the- (strengthened THEK), Griech. Etym. p. 64], to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion, etc. (cf. in gen.:

ago, factito, reddo, operor, tracto): verbum facere omnem omnino faciendi causam complectitur, donandi, solvendi, judicandi, ambulandi, numerandi,

Dig. 50, 16, 218.

In gen.

With acc.: ut faber, cum quid aedificaturus est, non ipse facit materiam, sed ea utitur, quae sit parata, etc.... Quod si non est a deo materia facta, ne terra quidem et aqua et aer et ignis a deo factus est, Cic. N. D. Fragm. ap. Lact. 2, 8 (Cic. ed. Bait. 7, p. 121):

sphaera ab Archimede facta,

Cic. Rep. 1, 14:

fecitque idem et sepsit de manubiis comitium et curiam,

id. ib. 2, 17:

aedem,

id. ib. 2, 20:

pontem in Arari faciundum curat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 1:

castra,

id. ib. 1, 48, 2; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4:

faber vasculum fecit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

classem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 21, 4:

cenas et facere et obire,

Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6:

ignem lignis viridibus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45:

poema,

to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70:

carmina,

Juv. 7, 28:

versus,

id. 7, 38:

sermonem,

Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf.

litteram,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit = edere, id. Rep. 2, 20; id. Att. 15, 10;

also i. q. ludificari,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 47:

sementes,

i. e. to sow, Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 1:

messem,

Col. 2, 10, 28:

pecuniam,

to make, acquire, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

manum (with parare copias),

to collect, prepare, id. Caecin. 12, 33; so,

cohortes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 4:

exercitum,

Vell. 2, 109, 2; and:

auxilia mercede,

Tac. A. 6, 33:

iter,

Cic. Att. 3, 1; id. Planc. 26, 65; id. Div. 1, 33, 73 et saep.; cf.

also the phrases: aditum sibi ad aures,

Quint. 4, 1, 46:

admirationem alicujus rei alicui,

to excite, Liv. 25, 11, 18; Sen. Ep. 115:

aes alienum,

Cic. Att. 13, 46, 4; Liv. 2, 23, 5; Sen. Ep. 119, 1:

alienationem disjunctionemque,

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

animum alicui,

Liv. 25, 11, 10:

arbitrium de aliquo,

to decide, Hor. C. 4, 7, 21;

opp. arbitrium alicui in aliqua re,

i. e. to leave the decision to one, Liv. 43, 15, 5:

audaciam hosti,

id. 29, 34, 10:

audientiam orationi,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42:

auspicium alicui,

Liv. 1, 34, 9; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 86:

auctoritatem,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 15, 43:

bellum,

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 2:

multa bona alicui,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 46:

castra,

to pitch, Tac. H. 5, 1:

caulem,

to form, Col. Arb. 54:

clamores,

to make, raise, Cic. Brut. 95, 326:

cognomen alicui,

to give, Liv. 1, 3, 9:

commercium sermonis,

id. 5, 15, 5:

concitationes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 106 fin.:

conjurationes,

to form, id. B. G. 4, 30 fin.:

consuetudinem alicui cum altero,

Cic. Fam. 13, 23, 1:

consilia alicui,

Liv. 35, 42, 8:

contentionem cum aliquo,

Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

controversiam,

to occasion, id. Or. 34, 121:

convicium magnum alicui,

id. Fam. 10, 16, 1:

copiam pugnandi militibus,

Liv. 7, 13, 10:

corpus,

to grow fat, corpulent, Cels. 7, 3 fin.; Phaedr. 3, 7, 5:

curam,

Tac. A. 3, 52:

damnum,

to suffer, Cic. Brut. 33, 125:

detrimentum,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 20:

desiderium alicujus, rei alicui,

Liv. 3, 34, 7; 7, 24, 10:

dicta,

Ov. F. 2, 375; 3, 515:

difficultatem,

Quint. 10, 3, 10 and 16:

discordiam,

to cause, Tac. H. 3, 48:

discrimen,

Quint. 7, 2, 14; 11, 1, 43:

disjunctionem (with alienationem),

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

dolorem alicui,

id. Att. 11, 8, 2:

dulcedinem,

Sen. Ep. 111:

eloquentiam alicui (ira),

Quint. 6, 2, 26:

epigramma,

to write, Cic. Arch. 10, 25:

errorem,

Sen. Ep. 67:

eruptiones ex oppido,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2, 5:

exemplum,

Quint. 5, 2, 2: exempla = edere or statuere, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 66. exercitum, to raise, muster, Tac. A. 6, 33:

exspectationem,

Quint. 9, 2, 23:

facinus,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 1; Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 95; Tac. A. 12, 31:

facultatem recte judicandi alicui,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 73, § 179:

fallaciam,

Ter. And. 1, 8, 7:

famam ingenii,

Quint. 11, 2, 46:

fastidium,

Liv. 3, 1, 7:

favorem alicui,

id. 42, 14, 10; Quint. 4, 1, 33:

fidem alicui,

Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 4; id. Att. 7, 8, 1; Quint. 6, 2, 18:

finem,

Cic. Att. 16, 16, 16; id. Rep. 2, 44:

formidinem,

to excite, Tac. H. 3, 10:

fortunam magnam (with parare),

Liv. 24, 22, 9:

fraudem,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 9; Cic. Att. 4, 12:

fugam fecerunt, stronger than fugerunt,

Liv. 8, 9, 12 Weissenb.; Sall. J. 53, 3;

but: cum fugam in regia fecisset (sc. ceterorum),

Liv. 1, 56, 4; so,

fugam facere = fugare,

id. 21, 5, 16; 21, 52, 10:

fugam hostium facere,

id. 22, 24, 8; 26, 4, 8 al.:

gestum vultu,

Quint. 11, 3, 71:

gradum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 249; id. Verr. 2, 2, 1, § 3; Quint. 3, 6, 8:

gratiam alicujus rei,

Liv. 3, 56, 4; 8, 34, 3:

gratulationem alicui,

Cic. Fam. 11, 18, 3; Sen. Ep. 6:

gratum alicui,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 56; Cic. Rep. 1, 21; cf.:

gratissimum alicui,

id. Fam. 7, 21 fin.:

histrioniam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 152:

homicidium,

to commit, Quint. 5, 9, 9:

hospitium cum aliquo,

Cic. Balb. 18, 42:

imperata,

Caes. B. G. 2, 3, 3:

impetum in hostem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34; Liv. 25, 11, 2:

incursionem,

Liv. 3, 38, 3:

indicium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 57, § 150:

inducias,

id. Phil. 8, 7, 20:

initium,

to begin, id. Agr. 2, 29, 79; cf.:

initia ab aliquo,

id. Rep. 1, 19:

injuriam,

id. ib. 3, 14 (opp. accipere); Caes. B. G. 1, 36, 4; Quint. 3, 6, 49; 10, 1, 115:

insidias alicui,

Cic. Mil. 9, 23:

iram,

Quint. 6, 1, 14:

jacturam,

Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89; id. Fin. 2, 24, 79; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 7:

judicium,

Cic. Att. 7, 23, 2:

judicatum,

to execute, id. Fl. 20, 48:

jus alicui,

Liv. 32, 13, 6:

jussa,

Ov. F. 1, 379:

laetitiam,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

largitiones,

id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

locum poetarum mendacio,

Curt. 3, 1, 4:

locum alicui rei,

Cels. 2, 14 fin.; 7, 4, 3; Curt. 4, 11, 8; Sen. Ep. 91, 13 et saep.:

longius,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22 al.:

valde magnum,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 7:

medicinam alicui,

to administer, id. Fam. 14, 7:

memoriam,

Quint. 11, 2, 4:

mentionem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 2:

metum,

to excite, Tac. A. 6, 36:

turbida lux metum insidiarum faciebat,

suggested, Liv. 10, 33, 5:

metum alicui,

id. 9, 41, 11:

missum aliquem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

modum irae,

Liv. 4, 50, 4:

moram,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 72:

morem alicujus rei sibi,

Liv. 35, 35, 13:

motus,

id. 28, 46, 8: multam alicui, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 1, 6:

munditias,

id. R. R. 2, 4:

mutationem,

Cic. Sest. 12, 27; id. Off. 1, 33, 120:

multa alicui,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 16:

naufragium,

to suffer, id. Fam. 16, 9, 1:

negotium alicui,

to give to do, make trouble for, Quint. 5, 12, 13; Just. 21, 4, 4:

nomen alicui,

Liv. 8, 15, 8; cf.

nomina,

to incur debts, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59:

odium vitae,

Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 199:

officium suum,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 12:

omnia amici causa,

Cic. Lael. 10, 35; id. Fam. 5, 11, 2:

opinionem alicui,

id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 45:

orationem,

id. de Or. 1, 14, 63; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 51, 172:

otia alicui,

to grant, Verg. E. 1, 6:

pacem,

to conclude, Cic. Off. 3, 30, 109:

pecuniam ex aliqua re,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

periculum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 23; id. Heaut. 2, 1, 9; Tac. A. 13, 33; 16, 19; Sall. C. 33, 1: perniciem alicui, to cause, = parare, Tac. H. 2, 70:

planum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, 54:

potestatem,

id. Cat. 3, 5, 11; id. Rep. 2, 28:

praedam,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60, § 156; Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 8:

praedas ab aliquo,

Nep. Chabr. 2, 2:

proelium,

to join, Caes. B. G. 1, 13; Cic. Deiot. 5, 13; Liv. 25, 1, 5; Tac. H. 4, 79; id. A. 12, 40:

promissum,

Cic. Off. 3, 25, 95:

pudorem,

Liv. 3, 31, 3:

ratum,

id. 28, 39, 16:

rem,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12:

reum,

to accuse, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38: risum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 40; 48:

scelus,

to commit, Tac. H. 1, 40:

securitatem alicui,

Liv. 36, 41, 1:

sermonem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66:

significationem ignibus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 3:

silentium,

Liv. 24, 7, 12:

somnum,

to induce, Juv. 3, 282:

spem,

Cic. Att. 3, 16; Liv. 30, 3, 7:

spiritus,

id. 30, 11, 3:

stercus,

Col. 2, 15:

stipendia,

Sall. J. 63, 3; Liv. 3, 27, 1; 5, 7, 5:

stomachum alicui,

Cic. Att. 5, 11, 2; id. Fam. 1, 9, 10:

suavium alicui,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 53:

suspicionem,

Cic. Fl. 33, 83:

taedium alicujus rei,

Liv. 4, 57, 11:

terrorem iis,

to inflict, id. 10, 25, 8:

timorem,

to excite, id. 6, 28, 8:

mihi timorem,

Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

totum,

Dig. 28, 5, 35:

transitum alicui,

Liv. 26, 25, 3:

turbam,

Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 2:

urinam,

Col. 6, 19:

usum,

Quint. 10, 3, 28:

vadimonium,

Cic. Quint. 18, 57:

verbum, verba,

to speak, talk, id. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147:

verbum,

to invent, id. Fin. 3, 15, 51:

versus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5:

vestigium,

id. Rab. Post. 17, 47: viam [p. 717] sibi, Liv. 3, 5, 6:

vim alicui or in aliquem,

id. 38, 24, 4; 3, 5, 5:

vires,

to get, acquire, Quint. 10, 3, 3:

vitium,

Cic. Top. 3, 15 al. —

With ut, ne, quin, or the simple subj.:

faciam, ut ejus diei locique meique semper meminerit,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 20:

facere ut remigret domum,

id. Pers. 4, 6, 3; id. Capt. 3, 4, 78; 4, 2, 77:

ea, quantum potui, feci, ut essent nota nostris,

Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

facito, ut sciam,

id. Att. 2, 4, 4:

non potuisti ullo modo facere, ut mihi illam epistolam non mitteres,

id. ib. 11, 21, 1:

si facis ut patriae sit idoneus,

Juv. 14, 71:

ut nihil ad te dem litterarum facere non possum,

Cic. Ac. 8, 14, 1; for which, with quin:

facere non possum, quin ad te mittam,

I cannot forbear sending, id. ib. 12, 27, 2:

fecisti, ut ne cui maeror tuus calamitatem afferret,

id. Clu. 60, 168:

fac, ne quid aliud cures,

id. Fam. 16, 11, 1:

domi assitis, facite,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 53:

fac fidele sis fidelis,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

fac cupidus mei videndi sis,

Cic. Fam. 5, 21, 5:

fac cogites,

id. ib. 11, 3, 4.—In pass.:

fieri potest, ut recte quis sentiat, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 6: potest fieri, ut iratus dixerit, etc., Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 285:

nec fieri possit, ut non statim alienatio facienda sit,

id. Lael. 21, 76; so with ut non, id. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 190 (Zumpt, Gram. § 539).—

With inf. = efficere, curare, to cause (rare):

nulla res magis talis oratores videri facit,

Cic. Brut. 38, 142; Pall. 6, 12:

aspectus arborum macrescere facit volucres inclusas,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 3; Sall. Fragm. ap. Sen. Ep. 114:

qui nati coram me cernere letum Fecisti,

Verg. A. 2, 539; Ov. H. 17, 174:

mel ter infervere facito,

Col. 12, 38, 5 (perh. also in Ov. H. 6, 100, instead of favet, v. Loers. ad h. l.; cf. infra, B. 4.).—

Absol.:

ego plus, quam feci, facere non possum,

Cic. Fam. 11, 14, 3:

faciam, ut potero, Laeli,

id. de Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. Rep. 1, 24:

noli putare, pigritia me facere, quod non mea manu scribam,

id. Att. 16, 15, 1; so,

facere = hoc or id facere,

Lucr. 4, 1112 (cf. Munro ad loc.); 1153: vereor ne a te rursus dissentiam. M. Non facies, Quinte, Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33;

so after scribam,

id. Att. 16, 16, 15:

nominaverunt,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 50;

after disserere: tu mihi videris utrumque facturus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 22;

after fingere: ut facit apud Platonem Socrates,

id. ib.:

necesse erit uti epilogis, ut in Verrem Cicero fecit,

Quint. 6, 1, 54:

qui dicere ac facere doceat,

id. 2, 3, 11:

faciant equites,

Juv. 7, 14; Liv. 42, 37, 6:

petis ut libellos meos recognoscendos curem. Faciam,

Plin. Ep. 4, 26, 1; 5, 1, 4 et saep. (cf. the use of facio, as neutr., to resume or recall the meaning of another verb, v. II. E. infra; between that use and this no line can be drawn).

In partic.

With a double object, to make a thing into something, to render it something:

senatum bene firmum firmiorem vestra auctoritate fecistis,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

te disertum,

id. ib. 2, 39 fin.:

iratum adversario judicem,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 220:

heredem filiam,

to appoint, constitute, id. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 111:

aliquem regem,

Just. 9, 6:

aliquem ludos,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 75:

aliquem absentem rei capitalis reum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 93:

animum dubium,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 27:

injurias irritas,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

vectigalia sibi deteriora,

Caes. B. G. 1, 36, 4:

hi consules facti sunt,

Cic. de Sen. 5, 14:

disciplina doctior facta civitas,

id. Rep. 2, 19:

di ex hominibus facti,

id. ib. 2, 10; cf.:

tua virtute nobis Romanos ex amicis amicissimos fecisti,

Sall. J. 10, 2.—In pass.:

quo tibi sumere depositum clavum fierique tribuno?

to become a tribune, Hor. S. 1, 6, 25.—

to value, esteem, regard a person or thing in any manner (like the Engl. make, in the phrase to make much of).—Esp. with gen. pretii:

in quo perspicere posses, quanti te, quanti Pompeium, quem unum ex omnibus facio, ut debeo, plurimi, quanti Brutum facerem,

Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 2:

te quotidie pluris feci,

id. ib. 3, 4, 2:

voluptatem virtus minimi facit,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 42:

dolorem nihili facere,

to care nothing for, to despise, id. ib. 27, 88:

nihili facio scire,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 42:

negat se magni facere, utrum, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 38:

parum id facio,

Sall. J. 85, 31: si illi aliter nos faciant quam aequum sit. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 43.—

With gen., to make a thing the property of a person, subject it to him: omnia, quae mulieris fuerunt, viri fiunt, Cic. Top. 4, 23.—Esp.: facere aliquid dicionis alicujus, to reduce to subjection under a person or power:

omnem oram Romanae dicionis fecit,

Liv. 21, 60, 3:

dicionis alienae facti,

id. 1, 25, 13; 5, 27, 14; cf.: ut munus imperii beneficii sui faceret, to make it ( seem) his own bounty, Just. 13, 4, 9:

ne delecto imperatore alio sui muneris rempublicam faceret,

Tac. A. 15, 52.—

To represent a thing in any manner, to feign, assert, say. —Constr. with acc. and adj. or part., or with acc. and inf.

Acc. and part.:

in eo libro, ubi se exeuntem e senatu et cum Pansa colloquentem facit,

id. Brut. 60, 218:

Xenophon facit... Socratem disputantem,

id. N. D. 1, 12, 31; cf.:

ejus (Socratis) oratio, qua facit eum Plato usum apud judices,

id. Tusc. 1, 40 fin. al.—

Acc. and inf.:

qui nuper fecit servo currenti in via decesse populum,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 31:

fecerat et fetam procubuisse lupam,

Verg. A. 8, 630; cf. Ov. M. 6, 109, v. Bach ad h. l.:

poetae impendere apud inferos saxum Tantalo faciunt,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 35:

quem (Herculem) Homerus apud inferos conveniri facit ab Ulixe,

id. N. D. 3, 16, 41:

Plato construi a deo mundum facit,

id. ib. 1, 8, 19:

Plato Isocratem laudari fecit a Socrate,

id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17; id. Brut. 38, 142:

M. Cicero dicere facit C. Laelium,

Gell. 17, 5, 1:

caput esse faciunt ea, quae perspicua dicunt,

Cic. Fia. 4, 4, 8, v. Madv. ad h. l.—

In double construction:

Polyphemum Homerus cum ariete colloquentem facit ejusque laudare fortunas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 39 fin. —

To make believe, to pretend:

facio me alias res agere,

Cic. Fam. 15, 18:

cum verbis se locupletem faceret,

id. Fl. 20:

me unum ex iis feci, qui, etc.,

id. Planc. 27, 65.—

Hypothetically in the imper. fac, suppose, assume:

fac, quaeso, qui ego sum, esse te,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1; cf.:

fac potuisse,

id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

fac animos non remanere post mortem,

id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82; 1, 29, 70:

fac velit,

Stat. Ach. 2, 241:

fac velle,

Verg. A. 4, 540.—

In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession:

cum mercaturas facerent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 72:

naviculariam,

id. ib. 2, 5, 18, §

46: argentariam,

id. ib. 2, 5, 49, § 155; id. Caecin. 4, 10:

topiariam,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 5:

haruspicinam,

id. Fam. 6, 18, 1:

praeconium,

id. ib.; so,

piraticam,

id. Post. Red. in Sen. 5, 11:

medicinam,

Phaedr. 1, 14, 2.—

In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

res illum divinas apud eos deos in suo sacrario quotidie facere vidisti,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 8, § 18:

sacra pro civibus,

id. Balb. 24, 55:

sacrificium publicum,

id. Brut. 14, 56.— Absol.:

a sacris patriis Junonis Sospitae, cui omnes consules facere necesse est, consulem avellere,

Cic. Mur. 41, 90.—With abl.:

cum faciam vitula pro frugibus,

Verg. E. 3, 77:

catulo,

Col. 2, 22, 4.— Pass. impers.:

cum pro populo fieret,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3:

quibus diis decemviri ex libris ut fieret, ediderunt,

Liv. 37, 3, 5.—

In gram., to make, form in inflecting:

cur aper apri et pater patris faciat?

Quint. 1, 6, 13; so id. 14; 15; 27; cf.:

sic genitivus Achilli et Ulixi fecit,

id. 1, 5, 63; 1, 6, 26:

eadem (littera) fecit ex duello bellum,

id. 1, 4, 15.—

In late Lat., (se) facere aliquo, to betake one's self to any place:

intra limen sese facit,

App. 5, p. 159, 25;

without se: homo meus coepit ad stelas facere,

Petr. 62:

ad illum ex Libya Hammon facit,

Tert. Pall. 3.—

Peculiar phrases.

Quid faciam (facias, fiet, etc.), with abl., dat., or (rare) with de, what is to be done with a person or thing? quid hoc homine facias? Cic. Sest. 13, 29; id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40:

nescit quid faciat auro,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 100:

quid tu huic homini facias?

Cic. Caecin. 11, 30; cf.:

quid enim tibi faciam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 2: quid faceret huic conclusioni, i. e. how should he refute, etc., id. Ac. 2, 30, 96:

quid facias illi?

Hor. S. 1, 1, 63:

miserunt Delphos consultum quidnam facerent de rebus suis,

Nep. Them. 2: quid fecisti scipione? what have you done with the stick? or, what has become of it? Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 6; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9.—In pass.:

quid Tulliola mea fiet?

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 3:

quid illo fiet? quid me?

id. Att. 6, 1, 14:

quid fiet artibus?

id. Ac. 2, 33, 107:

quid mihi fiet?

Ov. A. A. 1, 536:

quid de illa fiet fidicina igitur?

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 48: de fratre quid fiet? Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 39.— Absol.:

quid faciat Philomela? fugam custodia claudit?

Ov. M. 6, 572:

quid facerem? neque servitio me exire licebat, etc.,

Verg. E. 1, 41 al. —

Fit, factum est aliquo or aliqua re, it happens to, becomes of a person or thing:

volo Erogitare, meo minore quid sit factum filio,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 32:

nec quid deinde iis (elephantis) factum sit, auctores explicant,

Plin. 8, 6, 6, § 17:

quid eo est argento factum?

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 106.—Hence,

Esp., si quid factum sit aliquo, if any thing should happen to one (i. q. si quid acciderit humanitus), euphemistically for if one should die:

si quid eo factum esset, in quo spem essetis habituri?

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 20, 59; cf.:

eum fecisse aiunt, sibi quod faciendum fuit,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 23. —

Ut fit, as it usually happens, as is commonly the case:

praesertim cum, ut fit, fortuito saepe aliquid concluse apteque dicerent,

Cic. Or. 53, 177:

queri, ut fit, incipiunt,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 56:

dum se uxor, ut fit, comparat,

id. Mil. 10, 28:

fecit statim, ut fit, fastidium copia,

Liv. 3, 1, 7.—

Fiat, an expression of assent, so be it! very good! fiat, geratur mos tibi, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 146; id. As. 1, 1, 27; id. Am. 2, 2, 138; id. Most. 4, 3, 44 al.—

Dictum ac factum, no sooner said than done, without delay, at once; v. dictum under dico, A. d.—

In certain phrases the ellipsis of facere is common, e. g. finem facere:

Quae cum dixisset, Cotta finem,

Cic. N. D. 3, 40, 94; id. Fin. 4, 1 init. —With nihil aliud quam, quid alium quam, nihil praeterquam, which often = an emphatic Engl. only (but not in Cic.):

Tissaphernes nihil aliud quam bellum comparavit,

Nep. Ages. 2:

per biduum nihil aliud quam steterunt parati,

Liv. 34, 46; Suet. Caes. 20; id. Aug. 83; Liv. 2, 63; 4, 3; 3, 26.—So with nihil amplius quam, nihil prius quam, nihil minus quam, Liv. 26, 20; 35, 11; Suet. Dom. 3.

With adverbs, to do, deal, or act in any manner:

recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7;

v. recte under rego: bene fecit Silius, qui transegerit,

Cic. Att. 12, 24, 1:

seu recte seu perperam,

to do right or wrong, id. Quint. 8, 31:

Dalmatis di male faciant,

id. Fam. 5, 11 fin.:

facis amice,

in a friendly manner, id. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

per malitiam,

maliciously, id. Rosc. Com. 7, 21:

humaniter,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

imperite,

id. Leg. 1, 1, 4:

tutius,

Quint. 5, 10, 68:

voluit facere contra huic aegre,

Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10: bene facere, to profit, benefit (opp. male facere, to hurt, injure), Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 25; 5, 7, 19; Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 22; id. Capt. 5, 2, 23; v. also under benefacio and benefactum.—

Facere cum or ab aliquo, to take part with one, to side with one; and opp. contra (or adversus) aliquem, to take part against one:

si respondisset, idem sentire et secum facere Sullam,

Cic. Sull. 13, 36; cf.:

cum illo consulem facere,

id. Att. 6, 8, 2; and:

secum consules facere,

id. Planc. 35, 86:

auctoritatem sapientissimorum hominum facere nobiscum,

id. Caecin. 36, 104; cf.:

rem et sententiam interdicti mecum facere fatebatur,

id. ib. 28, 79:

cum veritas cum hoc faciat,

is on his side, id. Quint. 30, 91:

commune est, quod nihilo magis ab adversariis quam a nobis facit,

id. Inv. 1, 48, 90:

omnes damnatos, omnes ignominia affectos illac (a or cum Caesare) facere,

id. Att. 7, 3, 5:

quae res in civitate duae plurimum possunt, eae contra nos ambae faciunt in hoc tempore,

id. Quint. 1, 1:

neque minus eos cum quibus steterint quam adversus quos fecerint,

Nep. Eum. 8, 2:

cum aliquo non male facere,

to be on good terms with, Ov. Am. 3, 762.—

In late Lat. facere cum aliqua = vivere cum aliqua, to live in matrimony, to be married, Inscr. Orell. 4646. —

Ad aliquid, alicui, or absol., to be good or of use for any thing; to be useful, of service:

chamaeleon facit ad difficultatem urinae,

Plin. 22, 18, 21, § 46; Scrib. Comp. 122:

ad talem formam non facit iste locus,

Ov. H. 16, 190; cf. id. ib. 6, 128; id. Am. 1, 2, 16 al.:

radix coronopi coeliacis praeclare facit,

Plin. 22, 19, 22, § 48; so with dat., Plin. Val. 2, 1; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 20:

facit autem commode ea compositio, quam, etc.,

Col. 7, 5, 7; 8, 17, 13:

nec caelum, nec aquae faciunt, nec terra, nec aurae,

do not benefit me, Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 23:

mire facit in peroratione confessio,

Quint. 11, 3, 173; 171; cf. with a subject-clause: plurimum facit, totas diligenter [p. 718] nosse causas, id. 6, 4, 8: ad aliquid or alicui signifies also to suit, fit:

non faciet capiti dura corona meo,

Prop. 3, 1, 19; cf. Ov. H. 16, 189.—

Like the Gr. poiein or dran, and the Engl. to do, instead of another verb (also for esse and pati):

factum cupio (sc. id esse),

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 24:

factum volo,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 91; id. Most. 3, 2, 104:

an Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo pecuniam ducere, nostrates philosophi facere non potuerunt?

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90:

nihil his in locis nisi saxa et montes cogitabam: idque ut facerem, orationibus inducebar tuis,

id. Leg. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

Demosthenem, si illa pronuntiare voluisset, ornate splendideque facere potuisse,

id. Off. 1, 1 fin.; and:

cur Cassandra furens futura prospiciat, Priamus sapiens hoc idem facere nequeat?

id. Div. 1, 39, 85; so id. Ac. 2, 33, 107; id. Att. 1, 16, 13; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2; Nep. Chabr. 3, 4; 4, 3 al.:

vadem te ad mortem tyranno dabis pro amico, ut Pythagoreus ille Siculo fecit tyranno (here also with the case of the preceding verb),

Cic. Fin. 2, 24 fin. (v. Madv. ad h. l. p. 278):

jubeas (eum) miserum esse, libenter quatenus id facit (i. e. miser est),

what he is doing, Hor. S. 1, 1, 64:

in hominibus solum existunt: nam bestiae simile quiddam faciunt (i. q. patiuntur or habent),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 14; so,

ne facias quod Ummidius quidam (= ne idem experiaris, ne idem tibi eveniat),

Hor. S. 1, 1, 94. —

Facere omitted, especially in short sentences expressing a judgment upon conduct, etc.:

at stulte, qui non modo non censuerit, etc.,

Cic. Off. 3, 27, 101.—Hence,

factus, a, um, P. a.

As adjective ante-class. and very rare:

factius nihilo facit, sc. id, i. e. nihilo magis effectum reddit,

is no nearer bringing it about, Plaut. Trin. 2, 3, 6; cf. Lorenz ad loc.—Far more freq.,

In the neutr. as subst.: factum, i ( gen. plur. factum, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 Trag. 81), that which is done, a deed, act, exploit, achievement (syn.: res gestae, facinus).

In gen.:

depingere,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 5, 38:

facere factum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 5; id. Mil. 3, 1, 139:

dicta et facta,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 19; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 12:

opus facto est,

id. Phorm. 4, 5, 4:

ecquod hujus factum aut commissum non dicam audacius, sed, etc.,

Cic. Sull. 26, 72: meum factum probari abs te triumpho gaudio, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 1;

14, 9, 2: quod umquam eorum in re publica forte factum exstitit?

id. ib. 8, 14, 2:

praeclarum atque divinum,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 114:

egregium,

id. Fam. 10, 16, 2; id. Cael. 10, 23:

factum per se improbabile,

Quint. 7, 4, 7; 6, 1, 22:

illustre,

Nep. Arist. 2, 2; cf.:

illustria et gloriosa,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

forte,

id. Att. 8, 14, 2:

dira,

Ov. M. 6, 533:

nefanda,

id. H. 14, 16 al.; but also with the adv.:

recte ac turpiter factum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 80, 5; cf.:

multa huius (Timothei) sunt praeclare facta sed haec maxime illustria,

Nep. Timoth. 1, 2;

v. Zumpt, Gram. § 722, 2: dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 40:

quo facto aut dicto adest opus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 15 et saep.:

famam extendere factis,

Verg. A. 10, 468: non hominum video. non ego facta boum, doings, i. e. works, Ov. H. 10, 60.—

In partic., bonum factum, like the Gr. agathê tuchê, a good deed, i. e. well done, fortunate (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

bonum factum'st, edicta ut servetis mea,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 16; cf. id. ib. 44; cf.:

hoc factum est optimum, ut, etc.,

id. Ps. 1, 2, 52:

majorum bona facta,

Tac. A. 3, 40; cf. id. ib. 3, 65. —At the commencement of edicts, Suet. Caesar, 80; id. Vit. 14; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 49, 17; Tert. Pudic. 1.—(But in the class. per. factum in this sense is a participle, and is construed with an adv.:

bene facta,

Sall. C. 8, 5; id. J. 85, 5; Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

recte, male facta,

id. Off. 2, 18, 62:

male facto exigua laus proponitur,

id. Leg. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Brut. 43, 322; Quint. 3, 7, 13; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 460).—

facteon, a word jestingly formed by Cicero, after the analogy of the Greek, for faciendum: quare, ut opinor, philosophêteon, id quod tu facis, et istos consulatus non flocci facteon, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 13 Orell. N. cr. (for facteon, Ernesti has eateon).

fĭgūra, ae, f. [v. fingo], a form, shape, figure (syn.: forma, species; tropus).

Lit.

In gen.:

corporis nostri partes totaque figura et forma et statura quam apta ad naturam sit, apparet,

Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35; cf.:

hominum, vel etiam ceterarum animantium forma et figura,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 179; and:

quae figura, quae species humanā potest esse pulchrior?... Quod si omnium animantium formam vincit hominis figura, deus autem animans est: ea figura profecto est, quae pulcherrima sit omnium, etc.,

id. N. D. 1, 18, 47 sq.;

with this cf.: esse aliquem humana specie et figura, qui, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 22, 63; Liv. 29, 17, 11:

uri sunt specie et colore et figura tauri,

Caes. B. G. 6, 28, 1:

gemina tauri juvenisque,

the Minotaur, Ov. M. 8, 169:

Himera in muliebrem figuram habitumque formata,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87; cf.:

figura et lineamenta hospitae,

id. ib. 36, §

89: conformatio quaedam et figura totius oris et corporis,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 114:

pulmonum vis et figura,

id. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

formae figura,

id. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

formaï servare figuram,

Lucr. 4, 69:

navium figura (shortly before: navium species),

Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 2:

lapidis,

Ov. M. 3, 399:

dohorum,

Plin. 2, 25, 22, § 90: lenticulae dimidiae, id. 27, 12, 98, § 124:

quadriangula grani,

id. 13, 22, 38, § 118:

triquetra,

id. 3, 16, 20, § 121:

rotunditatis aut proceritatis,

id. 13, 4, 9, § 49 et saep.—

Concr., a sketch, figure, drawing (lat. Lat.): figurae quae schêmata vocant, Gell. 1, 20, 1; 2, 21, 10: kubos est figura ex omni latere quadrata, id. 1, 20, 4.—

In partic.

In the lang. of the Epicurean philosophy applied to the atoms or molecular parts of bodies:

caelestem fulminis ignem Subtilem magis e parvis constare figuris,

Lucr. 2, 385; 2, 682 sq.; 778; 3, 190 al.; cf.:

illas figuras Epicuri, quas e summis corporibus dicit effluere,

Quint. 10, 2, 15 Spald.—

Poet., a form, shade, phantom of the dead:

in somnis, cum saepe figuras Contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum,

Lucr. 4, 34:

morte obita quales fama est volitare figuras,

Verg. A. 10, 641:

CVM VITA FVNCTVS IVNGAR TIS (i. e. tuis) VMBRA FIGVRIS,

Inscr. Orell. 4847.—

Trop., quality, kind, form, species, nature, manner.

In gen.:

de figura vocis satis dictum est,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 25:

majus et minus et aeque magnum ex vi et ex numero et ex figura negotii consideratur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 41:

figura orationis plenioris et tenuioris,

id. de Or. 3, 55, 212; cf.:

suam quandam expressit quasi formam figuramque dicendi,

id. ib. 2, 23, 98:

occurrunt animo pereundi mille figurae,

kinds, Ov. H. 10, 81:

edidit innumeras species, partimque figuras rettulit antiquas, etc.,

id. M. 1, 436; cf.:

capiendi figurae (for which, shortly after: species capiendi),

Dig. 39, 6, 31:

condicionis,

ib. 35, 2, 30. —

In partic.

Gram. t. t., form of a word, inflection:

alia nomina, quod quinque habent figuras, habere quinque casus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 52; cf.:

non debuisse ex singulis vocibus ternas vocabulorum figuras fieri, ut albus, alba, album,

id. ib. 9, §

55: quaedam (verba) tertiae demum personae figura dicuntur, ut licet, piget,

Quint. 1, 4, 29; 8, 2, 15 Spald.—

Rhet. t. t., a figure of speech, schêma, Cic. de Or. 3, 53 sq.; id. Or. 39 sq.; Quint. 9, 1 sq. et saep.—

Esp., one which contains hints or allusions, Suet. Vesp. 13; id. Dom. 10; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 82.

flĕo, flēvi, flētum, 2 (contr. forms flēsti, Ov. H. 5, 43; 45:

flēmus,

Prop. 2, 7, 2; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. p. 291:

flērunt,

Verg. G. 4, 461; Stat. S. 2, 1, 175:

flēsset,

id. ib. 145:

flēsse,

Ov. M. 6, 404; Liv. 30, 44, 7), v. n. and a. [for flev-o, root phlu-; Gr. phluô, to bubble up, etc.; L. fluo, fluvius, etc.; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 301 sq.].

Lit., to weep, cry, shed tears (syn.: ploro, lugeo, lacrimo): maerentes, flentes, lacrimantes, commiserantes, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 442 P. (Ann. 107 ed. Vahl.):

fleo, quia dijungimur,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 18:

quin fles,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 73:

nimium haec flet,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 14:

ne fle, mulier!

id. Ep. 4, 2, 31:

quid fles, Asterie?

Hor. C. 3, 7, 1:

ille me complexus atque osculans flere prohibebat,

Cic. Rep. 6, 14 fin.:

haec cum pluribus verbis flens a Caesare peteret,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 26, 3; id. B. C. 1, 76, 1; 3, 98, 2:

deceptus quoniam flevit et ipse, deus,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 54:

felix qui potuit praesenti flere puellae,

before, in the presence of, Prop. 1, 12, 15; cf. Tib. 1, 10, 64:

o multa fleturum caput!

Hor. Epod. 5, 74:

lapides mehercule omnes flere et lamentari coëgisses,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245.— Pass. impers.:

ad sepulcrum venimus: in ignem posita est: fletur,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 102:

minus est, quod flendum meo nomine quam quod gaudendum illius est,

Quint. 6 praef. § 8; so id. 6, 2, 3; 11, 1, 52.—

Transf.

Of horses, to neigh:

equorum greges comperit ubertim flere,

Suet. Caes. 81.—

Of things, to drop, trickle (ante- and post-class.):

uberibus flent omnia guttis,

Lucr. 1, 349:

flevit in templis ebur,

Sen. Thyest. 702:

imber,

Prud. Cath. 5, 24.

Act., to weep for, bewail, lament, a person or thing; to sing mournfully (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; once in Cic.): He. Ne fle. Er. Egone illum non fleam? egone non defleam Talem adolescentem? Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 36:

unicum (filium) mater,

Cat. 39, 5:

parentes Troĭlon,

Hor. C. 2, 9, 17:

Gygen,

id. ib. 3, 7, 1;

amissas amicitias,

Cat. 96, 4:

* Pisonem eis verbis flens meum casum vexavit,

Cic. Sest. 28, 60:

filii necem,

Tac. A. 6, 10; 2, 71:

suam vicem,

Curt. 10, 5, 21:

servitutem tristem,

Phaedr. 1, 2, 6:

amissum conjugem,

Just. 28, 4, 4:

fidem mutatosque deos,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 6:

moechos arrogantes,

id. ib. 1, 25, 10:

catellam raptam sibi,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 56:

amorem testudine,

id. Epod. 14, 11: feralia carmina, to sing, Col. poët. 10, 350:

virum,

Sen. Contr. 2, 11, 1:

amissum fratrem,

id. ib. 4, 29, 8:

adlatum ad se Pompeii caput,

id. ib. 10, 32, 1.—In part. perf.:

multum fleti ad superos,

bewailed, lamented, Verg. A. 6, 481; Stat. Th. 4, 103.—

With object-clause:

agmina septem Flebis in aeterno surda jacere situ,

Prop. 1, 7, 18; Val. Fl. 1, 633.—Hence, flē-tus, a, um, P. a., weeping:

mater fleta et lacrimosa,

App. M. 7, p. 199 fin. (but in Lucr. 2, 631 the correct read. is sanguinolenti).

fŏcus, i, m. [root bha-, to be bright, Gr. pha- (cf. for, fari), strengthened, fac-, fax, facies, etc., Corss. Ausspr. 1, 423, who refers even facio to this root].

A fire-place, hearth (syn.: clibanus, furnus, fornax, caminus): Varro focos ait dictos, quod foveat ignes, nam ignis ipsa flamma est: quicquid autem ignem fovet, focus vocatur, seu ara sit seu quid aliud, in quo ignis fovetur, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 20, 10, 1:

at focus a flammis, et quod fovet omnia, dictus,

Ov. F. 6, 301; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.; Serv. Verg. A. 12, 118; Plaut. Aul. prol. 7; Plin. 19, 1, 4, § 19:

dum meus assiduo luceat igne focus,

Tib. 1, 1, 6:

jam dudum splendet focus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7:

ligna super foco Large reponens,

id. C. 1, 9, 5:

Curio ad focum sedenti magnum auri pondus Samnites, cum attulissent,

Cic. de Sen. 16, 55; cf. id. Fragm. ap. Non. 522, 28 (Rep. 3, 28 ed. Mos.);

68, 17: ad focum angues nundinari solent,

Cic. Div. 2, 31, 66:

exstruere lignis focum,

to pile on wood, Hor. Epod. 2, 43.— Poet. of a funeral-pile, Verg. A. 11, 212; of an altar, Prop. 2, 19 (3, 12), 14; 4, 5, 64 (5, 5, 66 M.); Tib. 1, 2, 82; Ov. M. 4, 753 al.—On the hearths of Roman houses were placed, in little niches, the household gods (Lares), and for them a fire was kept up:

haec imponentur in foco nostro Lari,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 16; cf.:

focus Larium, quo familia convenit,

Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 267.—Hence,

Transf.: focus, like our hearth, serves to denote the house or family:

domi focique fac vicissim ut memineris,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 45; cf.:

nudum ejicit domo atque focis patriis disque penatibus praecipitem Sextum exturbat,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:

agellus, quem tu fastidis, habitatum quinque focis,

by five houses, families, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 2.—Esp. freq.: arae et foci, pro aris et focis pugnare, to signify one's dearest possessions; v. ara. —

A fire-pan, coal-pan, brazier:

panem in foco caldo sub testu coquito leniter,

Cato, R. R. 75; 76, 2; Sen. Ep. 78 fin.