imprudentĕr

imprūdens ( inpr-), entis, adj. [2. inprudens], not foreseeing, not anticipating or expecting, without knowing, unaware, ignorant, inconsiderate, inadvertent, imprudent (class.; syn.: inconsideratus, incautus, improvidus).

Absol.:

equites missi nocte iter conficiunt, imprudentes atque inopinantes hostes aggrediuntur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 6, 3:

equites imprudentibus omnibus de improviso advolasse,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36, 3; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 1; id. B. C. 2, 3, 1; id. B. G. 5, 15, 3:

haec omnia imprudente L. Sulla facta esse certe scio,

without the knowledge of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et invito excidit,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

namque tu me inprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 22:

plus hodie boni feci imprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

unconsciously, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; cf. id. Heaut. 4, 1, 20:

adulescens,

inexperienced, id. Eun. 3, 1, 40:

probe horum facta imprudens depinxit senex,

without knowing it, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 38:

ut mihi imprudens M. Servilium praeterisse videare,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269 (cf. the opp. prudens praetereo, Hor. S. 1, 10, 88):

qua (definitione) tu etiam imprudens utebare nonnumquam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 5:

quod ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

Quint. 12, 7, 8; 7, 1, 40:

numquam imprudentibus imber Obfuit, i. e. ignaris,

Verg. G. 1, 373 Serv. — Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things:

non imprudens consilium, si aditum haberet,

Petr. 102, 3: ne casu inprudentes suae naves in classem adversariorum inciderent, Auct. B. Afr. 11, 4.— Comp.:

quicquid horum ab imprudentioribus fiet (fieri autem nisi ab imprudentibus non potest), neglegendum,

Sen. Const. Sap. 19.— Sup.:

multa facit (sapiens), quae ab imprudentissimis aut aeque fieri videmus aut peritius aut exercitatius,

Sen. Ep. 90, 33; id. Const. Sap. 19, 1.—

With gen.:

imprudentes legis,

ignorant, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

religionis,

Liv. 31, 14, 7:

maris,

id. 34, 9, 9:

aetatum,

Quint. 1, 1, 20.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

frons tenera imprudensque laborum,

that has not experienced, Verg. G. 2, 372:

antiquitatis imprudens consuetudo,

Col. 3, 18, 1.—

With an object-clause:

non imprudens usurum eum rabie, qua, etc.,

Curt. 8, 8.—Hence, imprūdenter ( inpr-), adv., without foresight, unknowingly, ignorantly, inconsiderately, imprudently: etsi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, [p. 910] Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1; Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 22:

facere,

Nep. Han. 2, 6:

(Codrus) imprudenter rixam ciens interemptus est,

Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Comp.:

ad flammam accessit imprudentius,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 103.

imprūdens ( inpr-), entis, adj. [2. inprudens], not foreseeing, not anticipating or expecting, without knowing, unaware, ignorant, inconsiderate, inadvertent, imprudent (class.; syn.: inconsideratus, incautus, improvidus).

Absol.:

equites missi nocte iter conficiunt, imprudentes atque inopinantes hostes aggrediuntur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 6, 3:

equites imprudentibus omnibus de improviso advolasse,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36, 3; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 1; id. B. C. 2, 3, 1; id. B. G. 5, 15, 3:

haec omnia imprudente L. Sulla facta esse certe scio,

without the knowledge of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et invito excidit,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

namque tu me inprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 22:

plus hodie boni feci imprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

unconsciously, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; cf. id. Heaut. 4, 1, 20:

adulescens,

inexperienced, id. Eun. 3, 1, 40:

probe horum facta imprudens depinxit senex,

without knowing it, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 38:

ut mihi imprudens M. Servilium praeterisse videare,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269 (cf. the opp. prudens praetereo, Hor. S. 1, 10, 88):

qua (definitione) tu etiam imprudens utebare nonnumquam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 5:

quod ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

Quint. 12, 7, 8; 7, 1, 40:

numquam imprudentibus imber Obfuit, i. e. ignaris,

Verg. G. 1, 373 Serv. — Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things:

non imprudens consilium, si aditum haberet,

Petr. 102, 3: ne casu inprudentes suae naves in classem adversariorum inciderent, Auct. B. Afr. 11, 4.— Comp.:

quicquid horum ab imprudentioribus fiet (fieri autem nisi ab imprudentibus non potest), neglegendum,

Sen. Const. Sap. 19.— Sup.:

multa facit (sapiens), quae ab imprudentissimis aut aeque fieri videmus aut peritius aut exercitatius,

Sen. Ep. 90, 33; id. Const. Sap. 19, 1.—

With gen.:

imprudentes legis,

ignorant, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

religionis,

Liv. 31, 14, 7:

maris,

id. 34, 9, 9:

aetatum,

Quint. 1, 1, 20.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

frons tenera imprudensque laborum,

that has not experienced, Verg. G. 2, 372:

antiquitatis imprudens consuetudo,

Col. 3, 18, 1.—

With an object-clause:

non imprudens usurum eum rabie, qua, etc.,

Curt. 8, 8.—Hence, imprūdenter ( inpr-), adv., without foresight, unknowingly, ignorantly, inconsiderately, imprudently: etsi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, [p. 910] Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1; Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 22:

facere,

Nep. Han. 2, 6:

(Codrus) imprudenter rixam ciens interemptus est,

Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Comp.:

ad flammam accessit imprudentius,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 103.

imprūdens ( inpr-), entis, adj. [2. inprudens], not foreseeing, not anticipating or expecting, without knowing, unaware, ignorant, inconsiderate, inadvertent, imprudent (class.; syn.: inconsideratus, incautus, improvidus).

Absol.:

equites missi nocte iter conficiunt, imprudentes atque inopinantes hostes aggrediuntur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 6, 3:

equites imprudentibus omnibus de improviso advolasse,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36, 3; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 1; id. B. C. 2, 3, 1; id. B. G. 5, 15, 3:

haec omnia imprudente L. Sulla facta esse certe scio,

without the knowledge of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et invito excidit,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

namque tu me inprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 22:

plus hodie boni feci imprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

unconsciously, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; cf. id. Heaut. 4, 1, 20:

adulescens,

inexperienced, id. Eun. 3, 1, 40:

probe horum facta imprudens depinxit senex,

without knowing it, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 38:

ut mihi imprudens M. Servilium praeterisse videare,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269 (cf. the opp. prudens praetereo, Hor. S. 1, 10, 88):

qua (definitione) tu etiam imprudens utebare nonnumquam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 5:

quod ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

Quint. 12, 7, 8; 7, 1, 40:

numquam imprudentibus imber Obfuit, i. e. ignaris,

Verg. G. 1, 373 Serv. — Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things:

non imprudens consilium, si aditum haberet,

Petr. 102, 3: ne casu inprudentes suae naves in classem adversariorum inciderent, Auct. B. Afr. 11, 4.— Comp.:

quicquid horum ab imprudentioribus fiet (fieri autem nisi ab imprudentibus non potest), neglegendum,

Sen. Const. Sap. 19.— Sup.:

multa facit (sapiens), quae ab imprudentissimis aut aeque fieri videmus aut peritius aut exercitatius,

Sen. Ep. 90, 33; id. Const. Sap. 19, 1.—

With gen.:

imprudentes legis,

ignorant, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

religionis,

Liv. 31, 14, 7:

maris,

id. 34, 9, 9:

aetatum,

Quint. 1, 1, 20.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

frons tenera imprudensque laborum,

that has not experienced, Verg. G. 2, 372:

antiquitatis imprudens consuetudo,

Col. 3, 18, 1.—

With an object-clause:

non imprudens usurum eum rabie, qua, etc.,

Curt. 8, 8.—Hence, imprūdenter ( inpr-), adv., without foresight, unknowingly, ignorantly, inconsiderately, imprudently: etsi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, [p. 910] Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1; Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 22:

facere,

Nep. Han. 2, 6:

(Codrus) imprudenter rixam ciens interemptus est,

Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Comp.:

ad flammam accessit imprudentius,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 103.

imprūdens ( inpr-), entis, adj. [2. inprudens], not foreseeing, not anticipating or expecting, without knowing, unaware, ignorant, inconsiderate, inadvertent, imprudent (class.; syn.: inconsideratus, incautus, improvidus).

Absol.:

equites missi nocte iter conficiunt, imprudentes atque inopinantes hostes aggrediuntur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 6, 3:

equites imprudentibus omnibus de improviso advolasse,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36, 3; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 1; id. B. C. 2, 3, 1; id. B. G. 5, 15, 3:

haec omnia imprudente L. Sulla facta esse certe scio,

without the knowledge of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et invito excidit,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

namque tu me inprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 22:

plus hodie boni feci imprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

unconsciously, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; cf. id. Heaut. 4, 1, 20:

adulescens,

inexperienced, id. Eun. 3, 1, 40:

probe horum facta imprudens depinxit senex,

without knowing it, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 38:

ut mihi imprudens M. Servilium praeterisse videare,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269 (cf. the opp. prudens praetereo, Hor. S. 1, 10, 88):

qua (definitione) tu etiam imprudens utebare nonnumquam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 5:

quod ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

Quint. 12, 7, 8; 7, 1, 40:

numquam imprudentibus imber Obfuit, i. e. ignaris,

Verg. G. 1, 373 Serv. — Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things:

non imprudens consilium, si aditum haberet,

Petr. 102, 3: ne casu inprudentes suae naves in classem adversariorum inciderent, Auct. B. Afr. 11, 4.— Comp.:

quicquid horum ab imprudentioribus fiet (fieri autem nisi ab imprudentibus non potest), neglegendum,

Sen. Const. Sap. 19.— Sup.:

multa facit (sapiens), quae ab imprudentissimis aut aeque fieri videmus aut peritius aut exercitatius,

Sen. Ep. 90, 33; id. Const. Sap. 19, 1.—

With gen.:

imprudentes legis,

ignorant, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

religionis,

Liv. 31, 14, 7:

maris,

id. 34, 9, 9:

aetatum,

Quint. 1, 1, 20.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

frons tenera imprudensque laborum,

that has not experienced, Verg. G. 2, 372:

antiquitatis imprudens consuetudo,

Col. 3, 18, 1.—

With an object-clause:

non imprudens usurum eum rabie, qua, etc.,

Curt. 8, 8.—Hence, imprūdenter ( inpr-), adv., without foresight, unknowingly, ignorantly, inconsiderately, imprudently: etsi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, [p. 910] Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1; Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 22:

facere,

Nep. Han. 2, 6:

(Codrus) imprudenter rixam ciens interemptus est,

Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Comp.:

ad flammam accessit imprudentius,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 103.

frustror, ātus, 1, v. dep.; also: fru-stro, āre, 1, v. a. [frustra], to deceive, disappoint, trick, frustrate (syn.: decipio, deludo, fraudo, fallo, etc.).

Lit. (class.).

In the dep. form:

nescio quis praestigiator hanc frustratur mulierem,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 200:

aut certare cum aliis pugnaciter aut frustrari cum alios, tum etiam me ipsum velim,

Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 65:

ne frustretur ipse se,

Ter. Eun. prol. 14:

se ipsum,

Nep. Hann. 2, 6: o bone, ne te Frustrere;

insanis et tu,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 32:

Tarquinios spe auxilii,

Liv. 2, 15, 5:

Cloelia frustrata custodes,

id. 2, 13, 6:

saepe jam me spes frustrata est,

Ter. And. 2, 2, 37; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 1; cf.:

sat adhuc tua nos frustrata est fides,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 11:

exspectationem frustrari et differre,

Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 2:

improbas spes hominum,

id. ib. 8, 18, 3:

spem mercantium (opp. explere),

Suet. Aug. 75:

frustratus vincula,

i. e. escaped from them, Sol. 1.— Poet.:

o numquam frustrata vocatus hasta meos,

hast never deceived me invoking thee, Verg. A. 12, 95; cf. Stat. S. 1, 2, 62: inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes, deceives, i. e. dies away from their lips, Verg. A. 6, 493.— Absol.:

Cocceius vide ne frustretur,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 3; Lucr. 4, 571.—

In the act. form:

non frustrabo vos, milites, Caes. Fragm. ap. Diomed. p. 395 P.: atque i se quom frustrant, frustrari alios stolidi existumant,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 19; Liv. 7, 38, 9; cf.: qui ventrem frustrarunt suum, Pompon. ap. Non. 473, 18:

frustrantia dona,

fruitless, bootless, Prud. Apoth. 640. — Pass.: frustramur, irridemur, Laber. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.: ignavissimi quique tenuissima spe frustrantur, Sall. Or. Licin. med.; so,

frustratus spe continuandi consulatus,

Vell. 2, 21, 2; for which: frustratus a spe, Fenest. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.:

variis dilationibus frustratus,

Just. 8, 3, 9.—With gen.:

captionis versutae et excogitatae frustratus,

Gell. 5, 10, 16.—

Transf., to make vain, of no effect, or useless (post-Aug. and very rare):

imprudenter facta opera frustrantur impensas,

Col. 1, 1, 2; cf.

laborem, id. praef. § 22: in se implicati arborum rami lento vimine frustrabantur ictus,

Curt. 6, 5, 8.

sē-lĭgo, lēgi. lectum, 3, v. a. [se-lego].

In gen. separate by culling out; to choose out, cul select (rare but class.;

syn.: eligo, deligo), nec vero utetur imprudenter hac copia (communium locorum), sed omnia expendet et seliget,

Cic. Or. 15, 47:

exempla,

id. ib. 29, 103; id. Fin. 3, 6, 22 Orell. and Otto N. cr.: ex quo (commentario) tu, quae digna sunt, selige, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 4; Ov. Am. 3, 11, 49; App. M. 10, p. 245, 10:

selectae sententiae,

Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 85:

(Romulus) selecta pectora Patres dixit,

Ov. F. 5, 71.—

In partic.

Judices selecti, the judges in criminal suits selected by the prœtor, Cic. Clu. 43, 121; id. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 32; Hor. S. 1, 4, 123; Ov. Tr. 2, 132; id. Am. 1, 10, 38:

non potest ad haec sumi judex ex turbā selectorum,

Sen. Ben. 3, 7, 7; cf. also Plin. 33, 2, 7, § 31.—

Di selecti, acc. to Varro, the following twenty Roman deities (twelve male and eight female): Deos selectos esse Janum, Jovem, Saturnum, Genium, Mercurium, Apollinem, Martem, Vulcanum, Neptunum, Solem, Orcum, Liberum patrem, Tellurem, Cererem, Junonem, Lunam, Dianam, Minervam, Venerem, Vestam, Varr. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 2 sq.; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 33. The sixteenth book of Varro's Antiquitates rerum divinarum treats of the di selecti; cf. Becker, Antiq. 4, p. 24 sq.

sponte, abl., and spontis, gen. (perh. the only cases in use of a noun spons, assumed by Charis. p. 34 P., and Aus. Idyll. 12, 8, 11, as nom. But ad spontem is Müller's reading, Varr. L. L. 6, 7, 72, for a sponte), f. [spondeo; prop. a pledging of one's self to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord].

Sponte, in good prose always joined with meā, tuā, suā ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; also absol. or with gen.), of free will, of one's own accord, of one's self, freely, willingly, voluntarily, spontaneously (syn. ultro):

sponte valet a voluntate,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 69 Müll.:

si imprudenter aut necessitate aut casu quippiam fecerit, quod non concederetur iis, qui suā sponte et voluntate fecissent,

Cic. Part. Or. 37, 131:

tuo judicio et tuā sponte facere,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 2; cf.:

Galliam totam hortatur ad bellum, ipsam suā sponte suoque judicio excitatam,

id. Phil. 4, 3, 8:

potius consuefacere filium, Suā sponte recte facere quam alieno metu,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 50:

si hic non insanit satis suā sponte, instiga,

id. And. 4, 2, 9:

ut id suā sponte facerent, quod cogerentur facere legibus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 3:

meā sponte (opp. invitatu tuo),

id. Fam. 7, 5, 2:

meā sponte (opp. monente et denuntiante te),

id. ib. 4, 3, 1:

non solum a me provocatus, sed etiam suā sponte,

id. ib. 1, 7, 3:

transisse Rhenum sese non suā sponte, sed rogatum et arcessitum a Gallis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

et suā sponte multi in disciplinam conveniunt et a parentibus propinquisque mittuntur,

id. ib. 6, 14:

sive ipse sponte suā, sive senatusconsulto accitus,

Liv. 10, 25, 12:

quaesitum est, praecipitata esset ab eo uxor, an se ipsa suā sponte jecisset,

Quint. 7, 2, 24:

gaudeo id te mihi suadere, quod ego meā sponte pridie feceram,

Cic. Att. 15, 27: sponte ipsam suāpte adductam, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 69 Müll.:

me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam Auspiciis et sponte meā componere curas,

Verg. A. 4, 341:

interim sponte nostrā velut donantes,

Quint. 3, 6, 8.—Sometimes propriā for suā (late Lat.):

sponte se propriā dederunt,

Amm. 17, 2, 3:

Richomeres se sponte obtulit propriā,

id. 31, 12, 15.—

Absol.:

Italiam non sponte sequor,

Verg. A. 4, 361:

sponte properant,

Ov. M. 11, 486:

odio tyrannidis exsul Sponte erat,

id. ib. 15, 62:

sponte en ultroque peremptus,

Stat. Th. 10, 809; cf.:

multitudo sponte et ultro confluens,

Suet. Caes. 16:

nec illum sponte exstinctum,

Tac. A. 3, 16:

sponte judicioque plaudere,

Quint. 8, 3, 4:

opto ut ea potissimum jubear, quae me deceat vel sponte fecisse,

Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 11: equites Romani natalem ejus sponte atque consensu biduo semper celebrarunt, Suet. Aug. 57.—

With gen.:

sponte deūm,

according to the will of the gods, Luc. 1, 234 Cort.:

sponte ducum,

id. 1, 99:

sponte deorum,

id. 5, 136; Val. Fl. 4, 358:

naturae,

Plin. 7, prooem. 1, § 4; 9, 51, 74, § 160; 11, 49, 110, § 263; 14, 4, 6, § 53; Sil. 14, 153:

principis,

Tac. A. 2, 59:

Caesaris,

id. ib. 6, 31:

praefecti,

id. ib. 4, 7:

incolarum,

id. ib. 4, 51:

litigatoris,

id. ib. 13, 42; 7, 51; id. H. 4, 19; Curt. 4, 1, 16.—

Very rarely with a prep.: de tuā sponte, Cotta ap. Charis. p. 195 P.:

a sponte,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 69 Müll.; cf. § 71 sqq. ib.—

Transf., of one's own will or agency (opp. to foreign participation or assistance), by one's self, without the aid of others, alone (rare but class.):

nequeo Pedibus meā sponte ambulare,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 46:

nec suā sponte, sed eorum auxilio,

Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

cum oppidani autem etiam suā sponte Caesarem recipere conarentur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 11 fin.:

his cum suā sponte persuadere non possent, legatos ad Dumnorigem mittunt, ut eo deprecatore a Sequanis impetrarent,

id. B. G. 1, 9:

civitatem ignobilem atque humilem Eburonum suā sponte populo Romano bellum facere ausam, vix erat credendum,

id. ib. 5, 28; cf. id. ib. 7, 65:

judicium quod Verres suā sponte instituisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 111:

cum illa civitas cum Poenis suo nomine ac suā sponte bellaret,

id. ib. 2, 4, 33, §

72: ecquis Volcatio si suā sponte venisset, unam libellam dedisset?

id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26.—

Of things concr. and abstr., of itself, spontaneously:

is autem ardor non alieno impulsu sed suā sponte movetur, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 32:

ut cum suā sponte nullā adhibitā vi, consumptus ignis exstinguitur,

id. Sen. 19, 71:

natura videtur Ipsa suā per se sponte omnia dis agere expers,

Lucr. 2, 1092:

aliae (arbores) nullis hominum cogentibus ipsae Sponte suā veniunt,

Verg. G. 2, 11; cf.:

stellae sponte suā jussaene vagentur et errent,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17:

sapientem suā sponte ac per se bonitas et justitia delectat,

Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26:

res quae suā sponte scelerata est,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 42, § 108; id. Or. 32, 115:

justitium in foro suā sponte coeptum prius quam indictum,

Liv. 9, 7, 8:

clamor suā sponte ortus,

id. 9, 41, 17:

id suā sponte ap parebat,

id. 22, 38, 13:

de capite signum in manum sponte suā delapsum,

id. 27, 11, 3 ex loco superiore, qui prope suā sponte in hostem inferebat, id. 5, 43, 3:

quod terra crearat Sponte suā,

Lucr. 5, 938:

sponte suā quae fiunt aëre in ipso,

id. 4, 738:

ut vera et falsa suā sponte, non alienā judicantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 45:

te Sponte suā probitas officiumque juvat,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 34:

sponte deae munus promeritumque patet (i. e. sine indice),

id. F. 4, 394.—Very rarely with quādam: litterae syllabaeque... orationem sponte quādam sequantur, Quint 5, 10, 125. —

Absol.:

ut numeri sponte fluxisse videantur,

Quint. 9, 4, 147.—

spontis, only in the phrase suae spontis (esse).

To be one's own master, at one's own disposal (very rare and mostly post-Aug.;

not in Cic. or Cæs.): quod suae spontis statuerant finem,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 71 Müll.:

sanus homo, qui suae spontis est, nullis obligare se legibus debet,

Cels. 1, 1.—

In Columella, of things, = suā sponte, of itself, spontaneously:

altera (cytisus est) suae spontis,

springs up spontaneously, Col. 9, 4, 2:

ubi loci natura neque manu illatam neque suae spontis aquam ministrari patitur,

id. 11, 3, 10.

tĕmĕrē (ante-class. collat. form tĕ-mĕrĭter, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 p.; Att. ap. Non. 516, 5; Trag. Fragm. v. 96 Rib.), adv. [Sanscr. tamra, darkening; timira, dark; hence, blindly; cf.: timor, temeritas], by chance, by accident, at random, without design, intent, or purpose, casually, fortuitously, rashly, heedlessly, thoughtlessly, inconsiderately, indiscreetly, etc. (cf.: forte, fortuito).

In gen.

With forte (cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 731 sq.):

quam saepe forte temere Eveniunt, quae non audeas optare,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 30; cf. Liv. 41, 2, 7:

pepulere ut forte temere in adversos montes agmen erigeret,

id. 2, 31, 5:

rideant licet quibus forte temere humana negotia agi persuasum est,

Curt. 5, 11, 10:

nisi ista casu nonnumquam forte temere concurrerent,

Cic. Div. 2, 68, 141; Liv. 23, 3, 3; 39, 15, 11:

forte, temere, casu aut pleraque fierent aut omnia, etc.,

Cic. Fat. 3, 6.—

With casu, fortuito, etc.:

ex corporibus huc et illuc casu et temere cursitantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 115; cf.:

id evenit non temere nec casu,

id. ib. 2, 2, 6:

non enim temere nec fortuito sati et creati sumus,

id. Tusc. 1, 49, 118:

temere ac fortuito,

id. Or. 55, 186:

ne quid temere ac fortuito, inconsiderate neglegenterque agamus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.: omnia [p. 1848] temere ac fortuito agere, Liv. 2, 28, 1; Tac. G 10: te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1 inconsulte ac temere dicere, Cic. N D. 1, 16, 43. temere ac nullā ratione causas dicere, id. de Or. 2, 8, 32; cf.:

domus, quae temere et nullo consilio administratur (opp. quae ratione regitur),

id. Inv. 1, 34, 58.—

Alone:

non temere confirmare,

Cic. Font. 1, 1:

non temere scribere,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5:

(oracula) partim effutita temere,

id. Div 2, 55, 113;

ne quid de se temere crederent,

Sall. C. 31, 7:

numquam temere tinniit tintinnabulum,

Plaut. Trin 4, 2, 162. sub pinu jacentes sic temere, Hor. C. 2, 11, 14, cf.:

temere insecutae Orphea silvae,

id. ib. 1, 12, 7:

temere errare in vallibus,

at random, Ov. F 6, 327: saxa temere jacentia, Liv 9, 24, 6.— Comp.: temerius, Att. ap. Non 178, 23. —

In partic.

Non or haud temere est, it is not mere chance, it is not for nothing, there is a meaning in it:

non temere est, quod corvus cantat mihi nunc ab laevā manu,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 1; so,

non temere est,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 7; id. Eun. 2, 2, 59; id. Phorm. 5, 8 (9), 9: haud temere est, Enn. ap. Serv ad Verg. A. 9, 329 (Ann. v. 473); Verg. A. 9, 375; Liv. 1, 59, 6.—

Non temere, not easily, = non facile:

rapidus fluvius est hic, non hac temere transiri potest,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 52;

hoc temere numquam amittam ego a me, Ter Phorm. 4, 5, 2: an temere quicquam Parmeno praetereat, quod facto usus sit?

id. Hec. 5, 4, 38. qui hoc non temere nisi libertis suis deferebant, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13 non temere adire, Caes. B. G. 4, 20 patres quoque non temere pro ullo aeque adnisi sunt, Liv. 2, 61, 4;

non temere incerta casuum reputat, quem fortuna numquam decepit,

id. 30, 30, 11; Quint. 1, 3, 3:

si negabimus temere famam nasci solere,

Auct. Her. 2, 8, 12:

non temere a me Quivis ferret idem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 13;

vatis avarus Non temere est animus,

id. ib. 2, 1, 120:

nec sibi quivis temere arroget artem,

id. S. 2, 4, 35; Suet. Tit. 6; 8; Dig. 50, 17, 64;

so also: nullus dies temere intercessit, quo non ad eum scriberet,

Nep. Att. 20, 2.