improving

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

mĕdĭcāmen, ĭnis, n. [id.], a drug, medicament, in a good and a bad sense, meaning both a healing substance, remedy, medicine, and, as also medicamentum and the Gr. pharmakon, a poisonous drug, poison (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; only once in Cic.; cf., on the contrary, medicamentum).

Lit., a remedy, antidote, medicine: violentis medicaminibus curari, * Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

agrestia medicamina adhibent,

Tac. A. 12, 51:

facies medicaminibus interstincta,

plasters, id. ib. 4, 57:

medicamen habendum est,

Juv. 14, 254:

medicaminis datio vel impositio,

Cod. Just. 6, 23, 28:

potentia materni medicaminis,

Pall. 3, 28:

tantum (ejus) medicamina possunt quae steriles facit,

Juv. 6, 595.—

Trop., a remedy, antidote ( poet.):

iratae medica mina fortia praebe,

Ov. A. A. 2, 489 sq.. quasso medicamina Imperio circumspectare, Sil. 15, 7, 1.—

Transf.

A poisonous drug, poison:

infusum delectabili cibo boletorum venenum, nec vim medicaminis statim mtellectam,

Tac. A. 12, 67:

noxium,

id. ib. 14, 51:

impura,

Flor. 2, 20, 7; Val. Fl. 8, 17.—

A coloring-matter, tincture, dye, Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 135:

croceum,

Luc. 3, 238.—

In partic., a paint, wash, cosmetic: est mihi, quo dixi vestrae medicamina formae, Parvus, sed cura grande libellus opus, i. e. the treatise Medicamina faciei, Ov. A. A. 3, 205:

facies medicamine attrita,

Petr. 126.—

In gen., an artificial means of improving a thing:

qui (caseus) exiguum medicaminis habet,

i. e. rennet, Col. 7, 8:

vitiosum, i. e. conditura,

id. 12, 20:

vina medicamine instaurare,

Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 126:

seminum,

i. e. manure, id. 17, 14, 22, § 99. [p. 1123]

pŏlītĭo, ōnis, f. [1. polio], a smoothing, a furbishing, polishing.

Lit. (post-Aug.):

speculi,

Vitr. 7, 3.—Of smoothing or plastering a wall, Vitr. 7, 4.—

Transf., an improving, cultivating:

agrorum,

Cato, R. R. 136.