in+extremity

postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj.—Comp: posterior, us.— Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.

Posit.:

cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,

Cic. Clu. 13, 37:

in posterum diem distulit,

id. Deiot. 7, 21:

postero die mane,

id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41:

postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

posterā Crescam laude,

in the esteem of posterity, id. C. 3, 30, 7:

posteri dies,

unlucky, Non. 73, 32.— Hence,

Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity:

expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,

Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90:

posterūm gloria,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

postero, for postero die,

on the following day, next day, id. ib. 4, 45; cf.:

quam minimum credula postero,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day:

in posterum oppugnationem differt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 11.—More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future:

in posterum confirmat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3:

multum in posterum providerunt,

Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

longe in posterum prospicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 1.—

Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.—

Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus.

Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time;

opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86:

nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,

id. Or. 6, 21:

ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,

id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),

the hind feet, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248; cf.:

genua,

id. 11, 45, 102, § 249:

pars prior apparet, posteriora latent,

Ov. F. 4, 718:

posteriores cogitationes,

afterthoughts, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5:

paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,

id. Brut. 11, 48:

quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.—Sometimes added to other words of contrast:

alii... alii... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

cujus est ratio duplex... facilior est haec posterior... sed illa lautior,

id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.—

Subst.

postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.):

quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,

Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. — Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.):

posterius dicere,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76:

posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,

i. e. I believe you before you speak, id. As. 1, 1, 48:

jubet posterius ad se reverti,

Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66:

Thucydides si posterius fuisset,

had he lived at a later period, id. Brut. 83, 288.—

Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.):

quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3:

nihil posterius, nihil nequius,

id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius):

omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,

I lay every thing aside, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.:

cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,

Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin. —

Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um.

postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.):

alia prima ponet, alia postrema,

last, Cic. Or 15, 50:

acies,

the rear, Sall. J. 101, 5:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,

now in the front, now in the rear, id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.:

in postremo libro,

at the close of the book, Just. 43, 5:

mense postremo,

Pall. 7, 2:

munus, i. e. exsequiae,

the last honors, Cat. 101, 3:

nec postrema cura,

not the last, least, Verg. G. 3, 404; cf.:

non in postremis, i. e. in primis,

especially, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17.— postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

primum... deinde... postremo: denique... postremo,

id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately:

sed ad postremum nihil apparet,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time:

si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last:

postremum mel et acetum superfundes,

Pall. 12, 22.—

Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.):

postremum genus,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

servitus postremum malorum omnium,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.—Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus:

ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3:

cum adulescentulis postremissimis,

App. Mag. p. 336.—

po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous:

Silvius... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,

late-born son, Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5.—On the other hand:

is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and:

postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.—As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child:

non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,

Gai. Inst. 1, 147:

si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?

Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.:

postuma spes,

the last, App. M. 4, p. 144, 26:

suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,

id. Mag. p. 297, 23:

cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,

with extreme care, id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.—

Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity:

de postumo corporis,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.

praeceps, cĭpĭtis (old form praecĭ-pes, cĭpis, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 8; id. et Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 391 Vahl.; abl. praecipiti), adj. [prae-caput].

Lit., headforemost, headlong (class.):

praecipitem trahi,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 79:

aliquem praecipitem deicere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86:

praeceps ad terram datus,

dashed to the ground, Liv. 31, 37:

praeceps curru ab alto Desilit,

Ov. M. 12, 128:

hic se praecipitem tecto dedit,

threw himself headlong from the roof, Hor. S. 1, 2, 41:

aliquem in praeceps jacere,

headlong, Tac. A. 4, 22; so,

jacto in praeceps corpore,

id. ib. 6, 49; cf.:

in praeceps deferri,

Liv. 5, 47.—For in praeceps, in late Lat., per praeceps occurs:

abiit grex per praeceps in mare,

Vulg. Matt. 8, 32; id. Judic. 5, 22.—Hence, of one going rapidly, headforemost, headlong:

de ponte Ire praecipitem in lutum per caputque pedesque,

Cat. 17, 9:

se jacere praecipitem e vertice,

id. 63, 244; Verg. A. 5, 860:

ab equo praeceps decidit,

Ov. Ib. 259:

(apes) praecipites Cadunt,

Verg. G. 4, 80:

aliquem praecipitem agere,

to drive headlong, Cic. Caecin. 21, 60; Verg. A. 5, 456:

praecipites se fugae mandabant,

Caes. B. G. 2, 24:

Monoeten In mare praecipitem deturbat,

Verg. A. 5, 175; cf.:

praeceps amensque cucurri,

Ov. M. 7, 844:

praeceps Fertur,

is borne headlong, rushes, Hor. S. 1, 4, 30:

nuntii,

Tac. H. 2, 6.—

Transf., of inanim. things.

Of localities, qs. that descend suddenly in front, i. e. downhill, steep, precipitous:

in declivi ac praecipiti loco,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33:

via (opp. plana),

Cic. Fl. 42, 105:

saxa,

Liv. 38, 23:

fossae,

Ov. M. 1, 97; Verg. A. 11, 888:

iter,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 74; cf.

trop.: iter ad malum praeceps ac lubricum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44:

loci,

Col. 1, 2:

mons,

Plin. Pan. 16.—

Subst.: praeceps, cĭpĭtis, n., a steep place, a precipice:

turrim in praecipiti stantem,

Verg. A. 2, 460:

specus vasto in praeceps hiatu,

Plin. 2, 45, 44, § 115:

in praeceps pervenitur,

Vell. 2, 3, 4:

immane,

Juv. 10, 107:

altissimum,

App. M. 4, p. 144 med. —In plur.:

in praecipitia cursus iste deducit,

Sen. Ep. 8, 4.—

Sinking, declining:

(in vitibus) praecipites palmites dicuntur, qui de hornotinis virgis enati in duro alligantur,

Col. 5, 6, 33:

sol Praecipitem lavit aequore currum,

Verg. G. 3, 359:

jam praeceps in occasum sol erat,

Liv. 10, 42:

dies,

id. 4, 9; cf.:

senectus,

Curt. 6, 5, 3. —

In gen., swift, rapid, rushing, violent ( poet.;

syn.: celer, velox): praeceps Anio,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 13:

Boreas,

Ov. M. 2, 185:

nox,

fleeting, transient, id. ib. 9, 485:

procella,

Stat. Th. 5, 419:

oceani fragor,

Val. Fl. 3, 404:

letum,

Sen. Hippol. 262:

remedium,

Curt. 3, 6, 2.—

Trop., headlong, hasty, rash, precipitate.

In gen. (class.):

noster erus, qui scelestus sacerdotem anum praecipes Reppulit,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 10:

sol jam praecipitans me quoque haec praecipitem paene evolvere coëgit,

almost headlong, precipitately, Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 209:

agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

chase, pursue, id. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7:

praecipitem amicum ferri sinere,

to rush into the abyss, id. Lael. 24, 89:

quoniam ab inimicis praeceps agor,

am pursued, Sall. C. 31, 9:

praeceps celeritas dicendi,

Cic. Fl. 20, 48: profectio, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 6: occumbunt multi letum... praecipe cursu, in rapid destruction, Enn. l. l.—With gen.:

SI NON FATORVM PRAECEPS HIC MORTIS OBISSET,

sudden as regards fate, Inscr. Grut. 695, 9, emended by Minervini in Bullet. Arch. Napol. III. 1845, p. 41 (but Minervini's assumption of a new adj., praeceps, from praecipio, anticipating fale, is unnecessary).—

In partic.

Rash, hasty, inconsiderate:

homo in omnibus consiliis praeceps,

Cic. Phil. 5, 13, 37: praeceps et effrenata mens, id. Cael. 15, 35:

praeceps consilium et immaturum,

Suet. Aug. 8:

cogitatio,

id. Calig. 48:

audacia,

Val. Max. 1, 6, 7.—

Inclined to any thing:

praeceps in avaritiam et crudelitatem animus,

Liv. 26, 38:

praeceps ingenio in iram,

id. 23, 7:

animus ad flagitia praeceps,

Tac. A. 16, 21.—

Dangerous, hazardous, critical:

in tam praecipiti tempore,

Ov. F. 2, 400.—Hence,

Subst.: praeceps, cĭpĭtis, n.

Great danger, extremity, extreme danger, critical circumstances:

se et prope rem publicam in praeceps dederat,

brought into extreme danger, Liv. 27, 27:

levare Aegrum ex praecipiti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 292:

aeger est in praecipiti,

Cels. 2, 6.—

The highest part, summit, sublimity (postAug.):

omne in praecipiti vitium stetit,

at its point of culmination, Juv. 1, 149:

debet orator erigi, attolli, efferri, ac saepe accedere ad praeceps,

to verge on the sublime, Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 2.—Hence, adv.: prae-ceps, headlong.

Lit.:

aliquem praeceps trahere,

Tac. A. 4, 62:

ex his fulgoribus quaedam praeceps eunt, similia prosilientibus stellis,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 15, 2:

moles convulsa dum ruit intus immensam vim mortalium praeceps trahit atque operit,

Tac. A. 4, 62:

toto praeceps se corpore ad undas Misit,

Verg. A. 4, 253.—

Trop.:

eversio rei familiaris dignitatem ac famam praeceps dabat,

brought into danger, Tac. A. 6, 17:

praeceps in exsilium acti,

suddenly, hastily, Amm. 29, 1, 21.

prae-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to fix or fasten before, to set up in front, to fix on the end or extremity of.

Lit. (class., but not in Cic.):

ripa erat acutis sudibus praefixis munita,

Caes. B. G. 5, 18; so,

praefigere aëneos cancellos foraminibus,

Col. 8, 17, 6:

arma puppibus,

Verg. A. 10, 80:

in hastis Praefigunt capita,

id. ib. 9, 466; cf.:

vexillum in biremis puppe,

Suet. Calig. 15:

rostrum lupi villarum portis,

Plin. 28, 10, 44, § 157:

caput hastae,

Suet. Caes. 85.— Poet.: nigrum theta (i. e. Th, as a sign of death on Roman inscriptions) vitio, to mark crime with the black theta, i. e. to condemn it, Pers. 4, 13.—

Transf., aliquid aliquā re.

To tip, head, point, etc.:

asseres cuspidibus praefixi,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2: jacula praefixa ferro, Liv. 26, 4, 4:

aere aut ferro praefixae hastae,

Curt. 3, 2, 7:

ferro praefixum robur acuto,

Verg. A. 10, 479:

ora capistris,

to muzzle, id. G. 3, 399.—

To close, block up (post-Aug.):

prospectus om nes,

to wall up, build up, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 59:

fenestrae praefixae,

Dig. 8, 2, 5.—

To pierce, transfix with something:

latus praefixa veru,

Tib. 1, 7, 55 (6, 49).—

To enchant, bewitch, Quint. Decl. 10, 8.

prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

but primus is rarely used for prior,

Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).

In gen.:

qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

primae litterae,

id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

primus inter homines nobilissimos,

id. Sest. 3, 6:

primi ex omnibus philosophis,

id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

primus de mille fuisses,

Ov. H. 17, 105:

in primis,

among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

in primis stetit,

id. Epam. 10, 3:

in primis pugnantes,

Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

Quint. 3, 1, 8.—

In partic.

In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

in primā provinciā,

at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

digitus,

the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

dentes,

the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

primā statim nocte,

at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

sol,

i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

luna,

i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

primo quoque tempore,

at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

primo quoque die,

id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

me tibi primum quidque concedente,

id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

Cic. Or. 8, 26:

suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

hoc a primo cogitavit,

id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

id a primo rectissime dicitur,

id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

equites in primo late ire jubet,

in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

Cic. Or. 64, 215. —

First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

sui municipii facile primus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

homo,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

primis urbis placuisse,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

juvenum primi,

Verg. A. 9, 785:

est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

quia sum apud te primus,

I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

primus humani generis,

Sil. 17, 255:

urbem Italiae primam,

Petr. 116:

praedium,

Cato, R. R. 1:

suavia prima habere,

to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

cura,

a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

primas partes, or primas agere,

to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

primas tenere,

to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

in primis lautus eques,

Nep. Att. 13, 1:

oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

homo in primis improbissimus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

68: vir magnus in primis,

id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

in primis... dein,

first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).

prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.

In gen.:

aedes primo ruere rebamur,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

primo non accredidit,

Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

id. Them. 6, 5:

contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—

With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

Sall. C. 10, 3:

primo... deinde... tum... tum,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

primo... deinde,

Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

Cels. 5, 26, 34:

primo... inde,... hinc,

Liv. 30, 11, 6:

haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

Sall. C. 10, 6:

dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

Liv. 26, 39:

primo... mox,

id. 1, 50:

primo... mox deinde,

Just. 1, 3:

primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—

(Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

primo... iterum,

Liv. 2, 51:

primo... rursus,

Suet. Aug. 17:

primo... secundo,

Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—

prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning (class.).

In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

primum... deinde... deinde,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

primum... subinde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

primum... mox,

id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—

Without other adverbs.

In gen.:

quaerenda pecunia primum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

te Quicumque primum Produxit,

id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—

Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—

With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.

Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—

Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—

With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—

With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

hodie primum ire in ganeum,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

quo die primum convocati su mus,

Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—

prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—

prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

prīmōris, e ( nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.).

In gen. (rare):

imbres,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

dentes,

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

in primore pueritiā,

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

anni,

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

primore aspectu,

at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—

In partic.

The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.;

syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,

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

versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,

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

aliquid primoribus labris attingere,

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

surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,

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

eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,

id. ib. 427, 32:

nasi primoris acumen,

Lucr. 6, 1193:

(pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,

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

cauda late fusa primori parte,

id. 8, 54, 80, § 216:

vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,

Gell. 16, 5, 2:

in primore libro,

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

usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,

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

primori in acie versari,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

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

Argivorum viri,

Cat. 68, 87:

feminae,

Tac. A. 2, 29:

venti,

chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.

The front rank in battle, etc.:

dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,

Curt. 4, 6, 17.—

The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps):

Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49:

odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager,

Liv. 1, 47, 11:

primores populi arripuit,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 69:

civitatum primores atque optimates,

Col. 12, 3, 10:

primores, ac duces,

Juv. 15, 40:

ex primoribus,

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

prīmōris, e ( nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.).

In gen. (rare):

imbres,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2:

dentes,

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

in primore pueritiā,

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

anni,

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

primore aspectu,

at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—

In partic.

The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.;

syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,

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

versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,

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

aliquid primoribus labris attingere,

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

surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,

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

eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,

id. ib. 427, 32:

nasi primoris acumen,

Lucr. 6, 1193:

(pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,

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

cauda late fusa primori parte,

id. 8, 54, 80, § 216:

vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,

Gell. 16, 5, 2:

in primore libro,

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

usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,

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

primori in acie versari,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

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

Argivorum viri,

Cat. 68, 87:

feminae,

Tac. A. 2, 29:

venti,

chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.

The front rank in battle, etc.:

dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,

Curt. 4, 6, 17.—

The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps):

Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49:

odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager,

Liv. 1, 47, 11:

primores populi arripuit,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 69:

civitatum primores atque optimates,

Col. 12, 3, 10:

primores, ac duces,

Juv. 15, 40:

ex primoribus,

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

prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

but primus is rarely used for prior,

Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).

In gen.:

qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

primae litterae,

id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

primus inter homines nobilissimos,

id. Sest. 3, 6:

primi ex omnibus philosophis,

id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

primus de mille fuisses,

Ov. H. 17, 105:

in primis,

among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

in primis stetit,

id. Epam. 10, 3:

in primis pugnantes,

Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

Quint. 3, 1, 8.—

In partic.

In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

in primā provinciā,

at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

digitus,

the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

dentes,

the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

primā statim nocte,

at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

sol,

i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

luna,

i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

primo quoque tempore,

at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

primo quoque die,

id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

me tibi primum quidque concedente,

id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

Cic. Or. 8, 26:

suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

hoc a primo cogitavit,

id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

id a primo rectissime dicitur,

id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

equites in primo late ire jubet,

in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

Cic. Or. 64, 215. —

First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

sui municipii facile primus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

homo,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

primis urbis placuisse,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

juvenum primi,

Verg. A. 9, 785:

est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

quia sum apud te primus,

I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

primus humani generis,

Sil. 17, 255:

urbem Italiae primam,

Petr. 116:

praedium,

Cato, R. R. 1:

suavia prima habere,

to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

cura,

a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

primas partes, or primas agere,

to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

primas tenere,

to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

in primis lautus eques,

Nep. Att. 13, 1:

oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

homo in primis improbissimus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

68: vir magnus in primis,

id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

in primis... dein,

first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).

prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.

In gen.:

aedes primo ruere rebamur,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

primo non accredidit,

Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

id. Them. 6, 5:

contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—

With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

Sall. C. 10, 3:

primo... deinde... tum... tum,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

primo... deinde,

Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

Cels. 5, 26, 34:

primo... inde,... hinc,

Liv. 30, 11, 6:

haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

Sall. C. 10, 6:

dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

Liv. 26, 39:

primo... mox,

id. 1, 50:

primo... mox deinde,

Just. 1, 3:

primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—

(Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

primo... iterum,

Liv. 2, 51:

primo... rursus,

Suet. Aug. 17:

primo... secundo,

Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—

prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning (class.).

In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

primum... deinde... deinde,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

primum... subinde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

primum... mox,

id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—

Without other adverbs.

In gen.:

quaerenda pecunia primum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

te Quicumque primum Produxit,

id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—

Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—

With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.

Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—

Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—

With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—

With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

hodie primum ire in ganeum,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

quo die primum convocati su mus,

Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—

prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—

prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

prīmus, a, um, adj. sup. [obsol. prep. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; cf.: privus, privo, etc., and v. pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as opp. to the second, is prior;

but primus is rarely used for prior,

Cic. Sest. 19, 44 al.).

In gen.:

qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse,

Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57:

primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7:

verum primum: verum igitur et extremum,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27:

primae litterae,

id. Att. 9, 6, 5:

primus inter homines nobilissimos,

id. Sest. 3, 6:

primi ex omnibus philosophis,

id. Fin. 4, 7, 17:

primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit,

Nep. Alcib. 7, 4:

primus de mille fuisses,

Ov. H. 17, 105:

in primis,

among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3:

in primis stetit,

id. Epam. 10, 3:

in primis pugnantes,

Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573:

primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis),

Quint. 3, 1, 8.—

In partic.

In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.:

in primā provinciā,

at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2:

digitus,

the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3:

dentes,

the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, § 35:

ranis prima lingua cohaeret,

the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, § 172:

primā statim nocte,

at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190:

sol,

i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255:

luna,

i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first:

primo quoque tempore,

at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1:

primo quoque die,

id. Phil. 8, 11, 33:

me tibi primum quidque concedente,

id. Ac. 2, 16, 49:

fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.— Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning:

quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent,

Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186:

prima consiliorum (for prima consilia),

Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first:

multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37:

in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius,

Cic. Or. 8, 26:

suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum,

id. Fin. 4, 13, 32:

hoc a primo cogitavit,

id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.:

id a primo rectissime dicitur,

id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first:

equites in primo late ire jubet,

in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4:

qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo,

Cic. Or. 64, 215. —

First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.:

princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos,

Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

sui municipii facile primus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

homo,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37:

primis urbis placuisse,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23:

juvenum primi,

Verg. A. 9, 785:

est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17:

quia sum apud te primus,

I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10:

primus humani generis,

Sil. 17, 255:

urbem Italiae primam,

Petr. 116:

praedium,

Cato, R. R. 1:

suavia prima habere,

to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9:

otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

cura,

a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense:

peccatores, quorum primus ego sum,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15:

primas partes, or primas agere,

to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

primas in causis agebat Hortensius,

Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing:

actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias,

Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part:

amoris erga me tibi primas defero,

i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place:

si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit,

id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49:

primas tenere,

to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly:

homo domi suae cum primis locuples,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69:

in primis lautus eques,

Nep. Att. 13, 1:

oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 86:

homo in primis improbissimus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 27, §

68: vir magnus in primis,

id. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat,

id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

in primis nobis sermo de te fuit,

id. Att. 5, 1, 3:

in primis... dein,

first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).

prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.

In gen.:

aedes primo ruere rebamur,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42:

neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae,

id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26:

primo non accredidit,

Nep. Dat. 3, 4:

Themistocles solus primo profectus est,

id. Them. 6, 5:

contemptus est primo a tyrannis,

id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—

With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc:

primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit,

Sall. C. 10, 3:

primo... deinde... tum... tum,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

primo... deinde,

Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11:

primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc.,

Cels. 5, 26, 34:

primo... inde,... hinc,

Liv. 30, 11, 6:

haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc.,

Sall. C. 10, 6:

dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

primo... postea... postremo, etc.,

Liv. 26, 39:

primo... mox,

id. 1, 50:

primo... mox deinde,

Just. 1, 3:

primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc.,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—

(Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo:

primo... iterum,

Liv. 2, 51:

primo... rursus,

Suet. Aug. 17:

primo... secundo,

Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—

prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning (class.).

In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum:

Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

primum... deinde... deinde,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 143:

primum... deinde... tum... postremo,

id. N. D. 2, 1, 3:

primum... deinde... praeterea... postremo,

id. Div. 2, 56, 116:

primum... tum... deinde... post... tum... deinde....,

id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.:

primum... secundo loco... deinde... tum,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3:

primum... subinde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15:

primum... mox,

id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—

Without other adverbs.

In gen.:

quaerenda pecunia primum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53:

te Quicumque primum Produxit,

id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—

Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13:

primum omnium ego ipse vigilo,

Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—

With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.

Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as:

ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1:

ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

simul ac primum niti possunt, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 124:

tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57.—

Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last):

post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—

With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.):

primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26:

omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut,

id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57:

primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—

With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time:

hodie primum ire in ganeum,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37:

quo die primum convocati su mus,

Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—

prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—

prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.

Sālentīni ( Sall-), ōrum, m.

A people of Calabria, on the south-eastern extremity of Italy, Mel. 2, 4, 2; Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 75; Liv. 9, 42; 25, 1.—Also used to designate the country of the Salentines:

in Salentinis aut in Bruttiis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; so,

in Salentinis,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3 fin.; Liv. 10, 2.—Hence,

Sālentīnus, a, um, adj., Salentine:

campi,

Mel. 2, 4, 7; Verg. A. 3, 400:

litora,

Mel. 2, 4, 7:

promontorium,

the south-eastern point of Italy, id. 2, 4, 8; Plin. 3, 23, 26, § 145; Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. 1. 1.:

Neretum,

Ov. M. 15, 51:

olea,

Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 1:

cohortes,

Sil. 8, 575.

Sālentīni ( Sall-), ōrum, m.

A people of Calabria, on the south-eastern extremity of Italy, Mel. 2, 4, 2; Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 75; Liv. 9, 42; 25, 1.—Also used to designate the country of the Salentines:

in Salentinis aut in Bruttiis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; so,

in Salentinis,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3 fin.; Liv. 10, 2.—Hence,

Sālentīnus, a, um, adj., Salentine:

campi,

Mel. 2, 4, 7; Verg. A. 3, 400:

litora,

Mel. 2, 4, 7:

promontorium,

the south-eastern point of Italy, id. 2, 4, 8; Plin. 3, 23, 26, § 145; Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. 1. 1.:

Neretum,

Ov. M. 15, 51:

olea,

Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 1:

cohortes,

Sil. 8, 575.

tempus, ŏris ( abl. temp. tempori or temperi; v. infra), n. [etym. dub.; perh. root tem-; Gr. temnô; prop. a section; hence, in partic., of time].

Lit., a portion or period of time, a time:

tempus diei,

daytime, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 38; 1, 1, 116:

extremum diei,

Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 26; cf.:

matutina tempora,

morning hours, id. Fam. 7, 1, 1:

anni tempora,

the seasons, Lucr. 2, 33; 5, 1396; cf.:

quam (Ennam) circa sunt laetissimi flores omni tempore anni,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

maturius paulo, quam tempus anni postulabat, in hiberna exercitum deduxit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 54:

erat hibernum tempus anni,

Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18; Auct. B. Alex. 43, 1.—

Esp. of the time intervening between two events, etc., an interval, period, time:

longo post tempore,

Verg. E. 1, 68:

magno post tempore,

Just. 13, 4, 25; 16, 1, 1:

brevi post tempore,

id. 1, 7, 19; 4, 4, 4; 12, 2, 6:

parvo post tempore,

Val. Max. 8, 6, 1. — Plur.:

longis temporibus ante,

Cic. Rep. 2, 34, 5.—

Transf., time, in general.

Lit.

In gen.:

tempus est, id quo nunc utimur (nam ipsum quidem generaliter definire difficile est), pars quaedam aeternitatis cum alicujus annui, menstrui, diurni nocturnive spatii certā significatione,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39:

tempus esse dicunt intervallum mundi motus: id divisum in partes aliquot, maxime ab solis et lunae cursu: itaque ab eorum tenore temperato tempus dictum,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.: hos siderum errores id ipsum esse, quod rite dicitur tempus, Cic. Univ. 9 fin.:

neque ut celari posset, tempus spatium ullum dabat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 14; cf.:

nisi tempus et spatium datum sit,

Cic. Quint. 1, 4:

vix huic tantulae epistulae tempus habui,

id. Att. 1, 14, 1:

egeo tempore,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 4:

unius horae tempus,

Liv. 44, 9, 4:

aliquot dierum tempus amisit,

Lact. Mort. Pers. 45, 5:

tempus duorum mensium petere ad delectus habendos,

Liv. 29, 5, 7:

triginta dierum tempus petens, ut, etc.,

id. 38, 37, 10:

tempus, pacis an belli, festinationis an otii,

Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 211:

ut tempora postulabant belli,

Liv. 24, 8, 7:

nec belli tantum temporibus, sed etiam in pace,

id. 35, 28, 1:

temporibus Punici belli,

Just. 30, 3, 1; 43, 4, 11:

mihi vero omne tempus est ad meos libros vacuum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 9, 14:

erit, erit illud profecto tempus et illucescet ille aliquando dies, cum, etc.,

id. Mil. 26, 69:

ex quo tempore tu me diligere coepisti,

id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:

eo tempore, quo promulgatum de multā ejus traditur,

Liv. 6, 38, 12; 23, 10, 13:

tempore, quo in homine non ut nunc omnia consentientia,

id. 2, 32, 9:

privatum eo tempore Quinctium fuisse, cum sacramento adacti sint,

id. 3, 20, 4:

per idem tempus,

Cic. Brut. 83, 286:

quos ad me id temporis venturos esse praedixeram,

at that time, id. Cat. 1, 4, 10:

scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur,

Quint. 10, 4, 2:

non tantulum Umquam intermittit tempus, quin, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 32:

uno et eodem temporis puncto nati... nascendi tempus,

Cic. Div. 2, 45, 95; cf.:

alienum tempus est mihi tecum expostulandi,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 6:

dare tempus exponendi de aliquā re,

id. ib. 1, 9, 3:

committendi proelii,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19:

edendi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 22:

curandi,

id. ib. 1, 2, 39:

tyranno ad consultandum tempus datum est,

Liv. 34, 33, 5:

datum cum iis conloquendi tempus,

id. 26, 22, 11; 45, 24, 11.—In plur.:

id certis temporibus futurum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

si Athenienses quibusdam temporibus nihil nisi, etc., agebant,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

superioribus temporibus ad te nullas litteras misi,

id. Fam. 5, 17, 1:

illis temporibus,

id. Lael. 1, 5:

temporibus illis,

id. Arch. 3, 6. —

In partic., the time, i. e. the fitting or appointed time, the right season, proper period, opportunity, = kairos:

nunc occasio est et tempus,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 3:

tempus maximum est, ut, etc.,

id. Mil. 4, 3, 9:

spero ego, mihi quoque Tempus tale eventurum, ut tibi gratiam referam parem,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 39; cf.:

tempus habes tale, quale nemo habuit umquam,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

dicas: tempus maxumum esse ut eat domum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 8:

nunc hora, viri, nunc tempus: adeste,

Sil. 11, 194:

consul paulisper addubitavit, an consurgendi jam triariis tempus esset,

Liv. 8, 10, 1:

cum jam moriendi tempus urgueret,

was close at hand, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 103; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 20:

verno inserentis tempus urguet,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 113: tempus est, with inf.:

sed jam tempus est, ad id quod instituimus accedere,

Cic. Top. 1, 5:

dicere aliquid de ordine argumentorum,

id. de Or. 2, 42, 181:

conari etiam majora,

Liv. 6, 18, 12:

nunc corpora curare tempus est,

id. 21, 54, 2:

tibi abire,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215:

jam tempus agi res,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

tempus est jam hinc abire me,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

suo tempore,

at a fitting time, id. Lael. 3, 11; cf. id. Phil. 14, 6, 15; id. Verr. 2, 3, 60, § 139; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 44.—

tempŏra, um (less freq. in the sing. tempus), after the Gr. ta kairia (prop. the right place, the fatal spot), the temples of the head; plur.:

duae suturae super aures tempora a superiore capitis parte discernunt,

Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; Lucr. 1, 930; 4, 5; 6, 1194; Tib. 2, 2, 7; Verg. A. 5, 416; Hor. C. 1, 7, 23; 3, 25, 20; 4, 1, 32; 4, 8, 33 et saep.— Sing.:

contorquet brachium et Graccho percutit tempus,

Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68; Verg. A. 9, 418; Sil. 12, 414; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Vitr. 9, 6; Flor. 4, 12, 44 Duk. N. cr.; Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; 5, 26.— Poet., transf., the face, visage in gen., Prop. 2, 24 (3, 18), 3; 2, 18, 32 (3, 11, 10).— The head:

jacuit pulsus tria tempora ramo Cacus,

upon his three heads, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 15.— Sing.:

tremulum movens Cana tempus anilitas Omnia omnibus annuit,

Cat. 61, 162. —

Transf.

The time in its moral aspects; the state of the times, position, state, condition; in plur., the times, circumstances (esp. freq. of dangerous or distressful cir cumstances):

si ad tuum tempus perduci tur, facilis gubernatio est,

time of administration, consulship, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2:

omne meum tempus amicorum temporibus transmittendum putavi... et meus labor in privatorum periculis versatus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1:

quid a me cujusque tempus poscat,

id. Planc. 32, 79:

tempori meo defuerunt,

my necessity, id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

qui tot annos ita vivo, ut a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo aut otium meum abstraxerit aut, etc.,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

tempori cedere, id est necessitati parere, semper sapientis est habitum,

id. Fam. 4, 9, 2:

nisi forte temporis causā nobis adsentiebare,

id. Tusc. 4, 4, 8:

neque poëtae tempori meo defuerunt,

id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

suscipere onus laboris atque officii ex necessariorum tempore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 5:

in summo et periculosissimo rei publicae tempore,

id. Fl. 3, 6:

tempore summo rei publicae,

id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; id. Verr. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

pecuniam conferre in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus,

id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

pro tempore atque periculo exercitum conparare,

Sall. C. 30, 5:

o saepe mecum tempus in ultimum Deducte,

to the last extremity, Hor. C. 2, 7, 1:

eae (res) contra nos faciunt in hoc tempore,

at the present time, under the present circumstances, Cic. Quint. 1, 1; cf.:

nec miserae prodesse in tali tempore quibat,

Lucr. 1, 93:

indignatus, dici ea in tali tempore audirique,

Liv. 30, 37, 8; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 475.—In plur.:

incidunt saepe tempora, cum ea, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31:

omnes illae orationes causarum ac temporum sunt,

id. Clu. 50, 139:

tempora rei publicae, qualia futura sint, quis scit? mihi quidem turbulenta videntur fore,

id. Fam. 2, 18, 3:

scripsi versibus tres libros de temporibus meis,

id. ib. 1, 9, 23; cf. id. ib. §

11: dubia formidolosaque tempora,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1:

cedere temporibus,

id. Mil. 1, 2:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

Madates erat regionis praefectus, haud sane temporum homo,

Curt. 5, 3, 4.—

Time in poetry and rhetoric, i. e. measure, quantity:

idem facit in trochaeo, qui temporibus et intervallis est par iambo,

Cic. Or. 57, 194; cf.:

tempora certa modique,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 58:

rhythmi spatio temporum constant,

Quint. 9, 4, 46 sq. —

In gram., a tense of a verb, Varr. L. L. 9, § 32; 95 sq.; 10, § 47 Müll.; Quint. 1, 5, 47; 9, 1, 11; 9, 3, 11 et saep.—

Adverb. phrases.

tempŏrē, and more freq in adverb. form, tempŏrī or tempĕrī, at the right or fitting time, at the appointed time, in time, betimes, timely, seasonably:

rogat, satisne tempori opera sient confecta,

Cato, R. R. 2, 1; 3, 4; cf.:

qui vult sua tempori conficere officia,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 16: reddere aliquid tempori, Titin. ap. Non. 369, 22:

sequimini, ut, quod imperatum est, veniam advorsum temperi,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 90; cf.:

temperi huic anteveni,

id. Trin. 4, 2, 66:

temperi ego faxo scies,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 153:

ut cenam coqueret temperi,

id. Stich. 5, 2, 6; id. Cas. 2, 6, 60.—In a punning allusion to the meaning temple (v. supra): Eu. Coquite, facite, festinate nunc jam, quantum lubet. Co. Temperi:

postquam implevisti fusti fissorum caput,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 6:

ego renovabo commendationem, sed tempore,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

temporis ars medicina fere est: data tempore prosunt, Et data non apto tempore vina nocent,

Ov. R. Am. 131 sq.:

tempore abest,

id. H. 4, 109.— Comp.:

memini te mihi Phameae cenam narrare: temperius fiat: cetera eodem modo,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 8:

modo surgis Eoo Temperius caelo, modo serius incidis undis,

more betimes, earlier, Ov. M. 4, 198:

ut propter cibi spem temporius ad officinam redeant,

Col. 8, 4, 3; 2, 8, 12; App.M. 9, p. 229, 22.—

Form tempore, in time, with the progress of time, gradually:

tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri,... Tempore paret equus habenis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 1 sqq. —

Ad tempus.

At the right or appointed time, in time:

ad tempus redire,

Cic. Att. 13, 45, 2:

ad tempus venire,

Liv. 38, 25:

ad tempus ei mendacium vestrum accommodavistis,

Cic. Cael. 7, 17.—

For some time, for the time being, for a while, for the moment:

quae (perturbatio animi) plerumque brevis est et ad tempus,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27:

coli ad tempus,

id. Lael. 15, 53: [p. 1852] dux ad tempus lectus, Liv. 28, 42, 5; Tac. A. 1, 1; cf.:

ad breve (sc. tempus),

Suet. Tib. 68. —

Ante tempus, before the right time, too soon:

ante tempus mori miserum esse,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; id. Lael. 3, 11:

ante tempus domo digressus,

Sall. J. 79, 7; Suet. Aug. 26; cf.:

sero post tempus venis,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 90.—

Ex tempore, instantaneously, forthwith, on the spur of the moment, extempore:

versus fundere ex tempore,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194:

magnum numerum optimorum versuum dicere ex tempore,

id. Arch. 8, 18:

scribere,

Quint. 10, 3, 17; Sen. Contr. 3, praef.—

According to circumstances:

expedire rem et consilium ex tempore capere posse,

Cic. Off. 2, 9, 33:

haec melius ex re et ex tempore constitues,

id. Fam. 12, 19, 2.—

In tempore, at the right, proper, or appropriate time, in time:

in tempore ad eam veni,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 123:

in ipso tempore eccum ipsum,

in the nick of time, id. And. 3, 2, 52:

ni pedites equitesque in tempore subvenissent,

Liv. 33, 5, 2:

in tempore memorare,

Tac. A. 1, 58 fin. —

In tempus, for a time, temporarily:

scena in tempus structa,

Tac. A. 14, 20; cf.:

in omne tempus,

forever, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1.—

Per tempus, at the right time, in time:

non potuisti magis per tempus mihi advenire quam advenis,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 30; cf.:

per tempus subvenistis mihi,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 85.—

Pro tempore, according to circumstances:

consilium pro tempore et pro re capere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

pauca pro tempore milites hortatus,

Sall. J. 49, 6; Verg. E. 7, 35; Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 23.

tempus, ŏris ( abl. temp. tempori or temperi; v. infra), n. [etym. dub.; perh. root tem-; Gr. temnô; prop. a section; hence, in partic., of time].

Lit., a portion or period of time, a time:

tempus diei,

daytime, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 38; 1, 1, 116:

extremum diei,

Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 26; cf.:

matutina tempora,

morning hours, id. Fam. 7, 1, 1:

anni tempora,

the seasons, Lucr. 2, 33; 5, 1396; cf.:

quam (Ennam) circa sunt laetissimi flores omni tempore anni,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

maturius paulo, quam tempus anni postulabat, in hiberna exercitum deduxit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 54:

erat hibernum tempus anni,

Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18; Auct. B. Alex. 43, 1.—

Esp. of the time intervening between two events, etc., an interval, period, time:

longo post tempore,

Verg. E. 1, 68:

magno post tempore,

Just. 13, 4, 25; 16, 1, 1:

brevi post tempore,

id. 1, 7, 19; 4, 4, 4; 12, 2, 6:

parvo post tempore,

Val. Max. 8, 6, 1. — Plur.:

longis temporibus ante,

Cic. Rep. 2, 34, 5.—

Transf., time, in general.

Lit.

In gen.:

tempus est, id quo nunc utimur (nam ipsum quidem generaliter definire difficile est), pars quaedam aeternitatis cum alicujus annui, menstrui, diurni nocturnive spatii certā significatione,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39:

tempus esse dicunt intervallum mundi motus: id divisum in partes aliquot, maxime ab solis et lunae cursu: itaque ab eorum tenore temperato tempus dictum,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.: hos siderum errores id ipsum esse, quod rite dicitur tempus, Cic. Univ. 9 fin.:

neque ut celari posset, tempus spatium ullum dabat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 14; cf.:

nisi tempus et spatium datum sit,

Cic. Quint. 1, 4:

vix huic tantulae epistulae tempus habui,

id. Att. 1, 14, 1:

egeo tempore,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 4:

unius horae tempus,

Liv. 44, 9, 4:

aliquot dierum tempus amisit,

Lact. Mort. Pers. 45, 5:

tempus duorum mensium petere ad delectus habendos,

Liv. 29, 5, 7:

triginta dierum tempus petens, ut, etc.,

id. 38, 37, 10:

tempus, pacis an belli, festinationis an otii,

Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 211:

ut tempora postulabant belli,

Liv. 24, 8, 7:

nec belli tantum temporibus, sed etiam in pace,

id. 35, 28, 1:

temporibus Punici belli,

Just. 30, 3, 1; 43, 4, 11:

mihi vero omne tempus est ad meos libros vacuum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 9, 14:

erit, erit illud profecto tempus et illucescet ille aliquando dies, cum, etc.,

id. Mil. 26, 69:

ex quo tempore tu me diligere coepisti,

id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:

eo tempore, quo promulgatum de multā ejus traditur,

Liv. 6, 38, 12; 23, 10, 13:

tempore, quo in homine non ut nunc omnia consentientia,

id. 2, 32, 9:

privatum eo tempore Quinctium fuisse, cum sacramento adacti sint,

id. 3, 20, 4:

per idem tempus,

Cic. Brut. 83, 286:

quos ad me id temporis venturos esse praedixeram,

at that time, id. Cat. 1, 4, 10:

scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur,

Quint. 10, 4, 2:

non tantulum Umquam intermittit tempus, quin, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 32:

uno et eodem temporis puncto nati... nascendi tempus,

Cic. Div. 2, 45, 95; cf.:

alienum tempus est mihi tecum expostulandi,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 6:

dare tempus exponendi de aliquā re,

id. ib. 1, 9, 3:

committendi proelii,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19:

edendi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 22:

curandi,

id. ib. 1, 2, 39:

tyranno ad consultandum tempus datum est,

Liv. 34, 33, 5:

datum cum iis conloquendi tempus,

id. 26, 22, 11; 45, 24, 11.—In plur.:

id certis temporibus futurum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

si Athenienses quibusdam temporibus nihil nisi, etc., agebant,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

superioribus temporibus ad te nullas litteras misi,

id. Fam. 5, 17, 1:

illis temporibus,

id. Lael. 1, 5:

temporibus illis,

id. Arch. 3, 6. —

In partic., the time, i. e. the fitting or appointed time, the right season, proper period, opportunity, = kairos:

nunc occasio est et tempus,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 3:

tempus maximum est, ut, etc.,

id. Mil. 4, 3, 9:

spero ego, mihi quoque Tempus tale eventurum, ut tibi gratiam referam parem,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 39; cf.:

tempus habes tale, quale nemo habuit umquam,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

dicas: tempus maxumum esse ut eat domum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 8:

nunc hora, viri, nunc tempus: adeste,

Sil. 11, 194:

consul paulisper addubitavit, an consurgendi jam triariis tempus esset,

Liv. 8, 10, 1:

cum jam moriendi tempus urgueret,

was close at hand, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 103; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 20:

verno inserentis tempus urguet,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 113: tempus est, with inf.:

sed jam tempus est, ad id quod instituimus accedere,

Cic. Top. 1, 5:

dicere aliquid de ordine argumentorum,

id. de Or. 2, 42, 181:

conari etiam majora,

Liv. 6, 18, 12:

nunc corpora curare tempus est,

id. 21, 54, 2:

tibi abire,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215:

jam tempus agi res,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

tempus est jam hinc abire me,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

suo tempore,

at a fitting time, id. Lael. 3, 11; cf. id. Phil. 14, 6, 15; id. Verr. 2, 3, 60, § 139; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 44.—

tempŏra, um (less freq. in the sing. tempus), after the Gr. ta kairia (prop. the right place, the fatal spot), the temples of the head; plur.:

duae suturae super aures tempora a superiore capitis parte discernunt,

Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; Lucr. 1, 930; 4, 5; 6, 1194; Tib. 2, 2, 7; Verg. A. 5, 416; Hor. C. 1, 7, 23; 3, 25, 20; 4, 1, 32; 4, 8, 33 et saep.— Sing.:

contorquet brachium et Graccho percutit tempus,

Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68; Verg. A. 9, 418; Sil. 12, 414; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Vitr. 9, 6; Flor. 4, 12, 44 Duk. N. cr.; Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; 5, 26.— Poet., transf., the face, visage in gen., Prop. 2, 24 (3, 18), 3; 2, 18, 32 (3, 11, 10).— The head:

jacuit pulsus tria tempora ramo Cacus,

upon his three heads, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 15.— Sing.:

tremulum movens Cana tempus anilitas Omnia omnibus annuit,

Cat. 61, 162. —

Transf.

The time in its moral aspects; the state of the times, position, state, condition; in plur., the times, circumstances (esp. freq. of dangerous or distressful cir cumstances):

si ad tuum tempus perduci tur, facilis gubernatio est,

time of administration, consulship, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2:

omne meum tempus amicorum temporibus transmittendum putavi... et meus labor in privatorum periculis versatus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1:

quid a me cujusque tempus poscat,

id. Planc. 32, 79:

tempori meo defuerunt,

my necessity, id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

qui tot annos ita vivo, ut a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo aut otium meum abstraxerit aut, etc.,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

tempori cedere, id est necessitati parere, semper sapientis est habitum,

id. Fam. 4, 9, 2:

nisi forte temporis causā nobis adsentiebare,

id. Tusc. 4, 4, 8:

neque poëtae tempori meo defuerunt,

id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

suscipere onus laboris atque officii ex necessariorum tempore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 5:

in summo et periculosissimo rei publicae tempore,

id. Fl. 3, 6:

tempore summo rei publicae,

id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; id. Verr. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

pecuniam conferre in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus,

id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

pro tempore atque periculo exercitum conparare,

Sall. C. 30, 5:

o saepe mecum tempus in ultimum Deducte,

to the last extremity, Hor. C. 2, 7, 1:

eae (res) contra nos faciunt in hoc tempore,

at the present time, under the present circumstances, Cic. Quint. 1, 1; cf.:

nec miserae prodesse in tali tempore quibat,

Lucr. 1, 93:

indignatus, dici ea in tali tempore audirique,

Liv. 30, 37, 8; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 475.—In plur.:

incidunt saepe tempora, cum ea, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31:

omnes illae orationes causarum ac temporum sunt,

id. Clu. 50, 139:

tempora rei publicae, qualia futura sint, quis scit? mihi quidem turbulenta videntur fore,

id. Fam. 2, 18, 3:

scripsi versibus tres libros de temporibus meis,

id. ib. 1, 9, 23; cf. id. ib. §

11: dubia formidolosaque tempora,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1:

cedere temporibus,

id. Mil. 1, 2:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

Madates erat regionis praefectus, haud sane temporum homo,

Curt. 5, 3, 4.—

Time in poetry and rhetoric, i. e. measure, quantity:

idem facit in trochaeo, qui temporibus et intervallis est par iambo,

Cic. Or. 57, 194; cf.:

tempora certa modique,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 58:

rhythmi spatio temporum constant,

Quint. 9, 4, 46 sq. —

In gram., a tense of a verb, Varr. L. L. 9, § 32; 95 sq.; 10, § 47 Müll.; Quint. 1, 5, 47; 9, 1, 11; 9, 3, 11 et saep.—

Adverb. phrases.

tempŏrē, and more freq in adverb. form, tempŏrī or tempĕrī, at the right or fitting time, at the appointed time, in time, betimes, timely, seasonably:

rogat, satisne tempori opera sient confecta,

Cato, R. R. 2, 1; 3, 4; cf.:

qui vult sua tempori conficere officia,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 16: reddere aliquid tempori, Titin. ap. Non. 369, 22:

sequimini, ut, quod imperatum est, veniam advorsum temperi,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 90; cf.:

temperi huic anteveni,

id. Trin. 4, 2, 66:

temperi ego faxo scies,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 153:

ut cenam coqueret temperi,

id. Stich. 5, 2, 6; id. Cas. 2, 6, 60.—In a punning allusion to the meaning temple (v. supra): Eu. Coquite, facite, festinate nunc jam, quantum lubet. Co. Temperi:

postquam implevisti fusti fissorum caput,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 6:

ego renovabo commendationem, sed tempore,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

temporis ars medicina fere est: data tempore prosunt, Et data non apto tempore vina nocent,

Ov. R. Am. 131 sq.:

tempore abest,

id. H. 4, 109.— Comp.:

memini te mihi Phameae cenam narrare: temperius fiat: cetera eodem modo,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 8:

modo surgis Eoo Temperius caelo, modo serius incidis undis,

more betimes, earlier, Ov. M. 4, 198:

ut propter cibi spem temporius ad officinam redeant,

Col. 8, 4, 3; 2, 8, 12; App.M. 9, p. 229, 22.—

Form tempore, in time, with the progress of time, gradually:

tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri,... Tempore paret equus habenis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 1 sqq. —

Ad tempus.

At the right or appointed time, in time:

ad tempus redire,

Cic. Att. 13, 45, 2:

ad tempus venire,

Liv. 38, 25:

ad tempus ei mendacium vestrum accommodavistis,

Cic. Cael. 7, 17.—

For some time, for the time being, for a while, for the moment:

quae (perturbatio animi) plerumque brevis est et ad tempus,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27:

coli ad tempus,

id. Lael. 15, 53: [p. 1852] dux ad tempus lectus, Liv. 28, 42, 5; Tac. A. 1, 1; cf.:

ad breve (sc. tempus),

Suet. Tib. 68. —

Ante tempus, before the right time, too soon:

ante tempus mori miserum esse,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; id. Lael. 3, 11:

ante tempus domo digressus,

Sall. J. 79, 7; Suet. Aug. 26; cf.:

sero post tempus venis,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 90.—

Ex tempore, instantaneously, forthwith, on the spur of the moment, extempore:

versus fundere ex tempore,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194:

magnum numerum optimorum versuum dicere ex tempore,

id. Arch. 8, 18:

scribere,

Quint. 10, 3, 17; Sen. Contr. 3, praef.—

According to circumstances:

expedire rem et consilium ex tempore capere posse,

Cic. Off. 2, 9, 33:

haec melius ex re et ex tempore constitues,

id. Fam. 12, 19, 2.—

In tempore, at the right, proper, or appropriate time, in time:

in tempore ad eam veni,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 123:

in ipso tempore eccum ipsum,

in the nick of time, id. And. 3, 2, 52:

ni pedites equitesque in tempore subvenissent,

Liv. 33, 5, 2:

in tempore memorare,

Tac. A. 1, 58 fin. —

In tempus, for a time, temporarily:

scena in tempus structa,

Tac. A. 14, 20; cf.:

in omne tempus,

forever, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1.—

Per tempus, at the right time, in time:

non potuisti magis per tempus mihi advenire quam advenis,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 30; cf.:

per tempus subvenistis mihi,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 85.—

Pro tempore, according to circumstances:

consilium pro tempore et pro re capere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

pauca pro tempore milites hortatus,

Sall. J. 49, 6; Verg. E. 7, 35; Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 23.

tempus, ŏris ( abl. temp. tempori or temperi; v. infra), n. [etym. dub.; perh. root tem-; Gr. temnô; prop. a section; hence, in partic., of time].

Lit., a portion or period of time, a time:

tempus diei,

daytime, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 38; 1, 1, 116:

extremum diei,

Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 26; cf.:

matutina tempora,

morning hours, id. Fam. 7, 1, 1:

anni tempora,

the seasons, Lucr. 2, 33; 5, 1396; cf.:

quam (Ennam) circa sunt laetissimi flores omni tempore anni,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

maturius paulo, quam tempus anni postulabat, in hiberna exercitum deduxit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 54:

erat hibernum tempus anni,

Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18; Auct. B. Alex. 43, 1.—

Esp. of the time intervening between two events, etc., an interval, period, time:

longo post tempore,

Verg. E. 1, 68:

magno post tempore,

Just. 13, 4, 25; 16, 1, 1:

brevi post tempore,

id. 1, 7, 19; 4, 4, 4; 12, 2, 6:

parvo post tempore,

Val. Max. 8, 6, 1. — Plur.:

longis temporibus ante,

Cic. Rep. 2, 34, 5.—

Transf., time, in general.

Lit.

In gen.:

tempus est, id quo nunc utimur (nam ipsum quidem generaliter definire difficile est), pars quaedam aeternitatis cum alicujus annui, menstrui, diurni nocturnive spatii certā significatione,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39:

tempus esse dicunt intervallum mundi motus: id divisum in partes aliquot, maxime ab solis et lunae cursu: itaque ab eorum tenore temperato tempus dictum,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.: hos siderum errores id ipsum esse, quod rite dicitur tempus, Cic. Univ. 9 fin.:

neque ut celari posset, tempus spatium ullum dabat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 14; cf.:

nisi tempus et spatium datum sit,

Cic. Quint. 1, 4:

vix huic tantulae epistulae tempus habui,

id. Att. 1, 14, 1:

egeo tempore,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 4:

unius horae tempus,

Liv. 44, 9, 4:

aliquot dierum tempus amisit,

Lact. Mort. Pers. 45, 5:

tempus duorum mensium petere ad delectus habendos,

Liv. 29, 5, 7:

triginta dierum tempus petens, ut, etc.,

id. 38, 37, 10:

tempus, pacis an belli, festinationis an otii,

Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 211:

ut tempora postulabant belli,

Liv. 24, 8, 7:

nec belli tantum temporibus, sed etiam in pace,

id. 35, 28, 1:

temporibus Punici belli,

Just. 30, 3, 1; 43, 4, 11:

mihi vero omne tempus est ad meos libros vacuum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 9, 14:

erit, erit illud profecto tempus et illucescet ille aliquando dies, cum, etc.,

id. Mil. 26, 69:

ex quo tempore tu me diligere coepisti,

id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:

eo tempore, quo promulgatum de multā ejus traditur,

Liv. 6, 38, 12; 23, 10, 13:

tempore, quo in homine non ut nunc omnia consentientia,

id. 2, 32, 9:

privatum eo tempore Quinctium fuisse, cum sacramento adacti sint,

id. 3, 20, 4:

per idem tempus,

Cic. Brut. 83, 286:

quos ad me id temporis venturos esse praedixeram,

at that time, id. Cat. 1, 4, 10:

scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur,

Quint. 10, 4, 2:

non tantulum Umquam intermittit tempus, quin, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 32:

uno et eodem temporis puncto nati... nascendi tempus,

Cic. Div. 2, 45, 95; cf.:

alienum tempus est mihi tecum expostulandi,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 6:

dare tempus exponendi de aliquā re,

id. ib. 1, 9, 3:

committendi proelii,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19:

edendi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 22:

curandi,

id. ib. 1, 2, 39:

tyranno ad consultandum tempus datum est,

Liv. 34, 33, 5:

datum cum iis conloquendi tempus,

id. 26, 22, 11; 45, 24, 11.—In plur.:

id certis temporibus futurum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

si Athenienses quibusdam temporibus nihil nisi, etc., agebant,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

superioribus temporibus ad te nullas litteras misi,

id. Fam. 5, 17, 1:

illis temporibus,

id. Lael. 1, 5:

temporibus illis,

id. Arch. 3, 6. —

In partic., the time, i. e. the fitting or appointed time, the right season, proper period, opportunity, = kairos:

nunc occasio est et tempus,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 3:

tempus maximum est, ut, etc.,

id. Mil. 4, 3, 9:

spero ego, mihi quoque Tempus tale eventurum, ut tibi gratiam referam parem,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 39; cf.:

tempus habes tale, quale nemo habuit umquam,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 27:

dicas: tempus maxumum esse ut eat domum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 8:

nunc hora, viri, nunc tempus: adeste,

Sil. 11, 194:

consul paulisper addubitavit, an consurgendi jam triariis tempus esset,

Liv. 8, 10, 1:

cum jam moriendi tempus urgueret,

was close at hand, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 103; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 20:

verno inserentis tempus urguet,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 113: tempus est, with inf.:

sed jam tempus est, ad id quod instituimus accedere,

Cic. Top. 1, 5:

dicere aliquid de ordine argumentorum,

id. de Or. 2, 42, 181:

conari etiam majora,

Liv. 6, 18, 12:

nunc corpora curare tempus est,

id. 21, 54, 2:

tibi abire,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215:

jam tempus agi res,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

tempus est jam hinc abire me,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

suo tempore,

at a fitting time, id. Lael. 3, 11; cf. id. Phil. 14, 6, 15; id. Verr. 2, 3, 60, § 139; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 44.—

tempŏra, um (less freq. in the sing. tempus), after the Gr. ta kairia (prop. the right place, the fatal spot), the temples of the head; plur.:

duae suturae super aures tempora a superiore capitis parte discernunt,

Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; Lucr. 1, 930; 4, 5; 6, 1194; Tib. 2, 2, 7; Verg. A. 5, 416; Hor. C. 1, 7, 23; 3, 25, 20; 4, 1, 32; 4, 8, 33 et saep.— Sing.:

contorquet brachium et Graccho percutit tempus,

Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68; Verg. A. 9, 418; Sil. 12, 414; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Vitr. 9, 6; Flor. 4, 12, 44 Duk. N. cr.; Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; 5, 26.— Poet., transf., the face, visage in gen., Prop. 2, 24 (3, 18), 3; 2, 18, 32 (3, 11, 10).— The head:

jacuit pulsus tria tempora ramo Cacus,

upon his three heads, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 15.— Sing.:

tremulum movens Cana tempus anilitas Omnia omnibus annuit,

Cat. 61, 162. —

Transf.

The time in its moral aspects; the state of the times, position, state, condition; in plur., the times, circumstances (esp. freq. of dangerous or distressful cir cumstances):

si ad tuum tempus perduci tur, facilis gubernatio est,

time of administration, consulship, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2:

omne meum tempus amicorum temporibus transmittendum putavi... et meus labor in privatorum periculis versatus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1:

quid a me cujusque tempus poscat,

id. Planc. 32, 79:

tempori meo defuerunt,

my necessity, id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

qui tot annos ita vivo, ut a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo aut otium meum abstraxerit aut, etc.,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

tempori cedere, id est necessitati parere, semper sapientis est habitum,

id. Fam. 4, 9, 2:

nisi forte temporis causā nobis adsentiebare,

id. Tusc. 4, 4, 8:

neque poëtae tempori meo defuerunt,

id. Sest. 58, 123; cf.:

suscipere onus laboris atque officii ex necessariorum tempore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 5:

in summo et periculosissimo rei publicae tempore,

id. Fl. 3, 6:

tempore summo rei publicae,

id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; id. Verr. 1, 1, 1; cf.:

pecuniam conferre in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus,

id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

pro tempore atque periculo exercitum conparare,

Sall. C. 30, 5:

o saepe mecum tempus in ultimum Deducte,

to the last extremity, Hor. C. 2, 7, 1:

eae (res) contra nos faciunt in hoc tempore,

at the present time, under the present circumstances, Cic. Quint. 1, 1; cf.:

nec miserae prodesse in tali tempore quibat,

Lucr. 1, 93:

indignatus, dici ea in tali tempore audirique,

Liv. 30, 37, 8; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 475.—In plur.:

incidunt saepe tempora, cum ea, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31:

omnes illae orationes causarum ac temporum sunt,

id. Clu. 50, 139:

tempora rei publicae, qualia futura sint, quis scit? mihi quidem turbulenta videntur fore,

id. Fam. 2, 18, 3:

scripsi versibus tres libros de temporibus meis,

id. ib. 1, 9, 23; cf. id. ib. §

11: dubia formidolosaque tempora,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1:

cedere temporibus,

id. Mil. 1, 2:

animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

Madates erat regionis praefectus, haud sane temporum homo,

Curt. 5, 3, 4.—

Time in poetry and rhetoric, i. e. measure, quantity:

idem facit in trochaeo, qui temporibus et intervallis est par iambo,

Cic. Or. 57, 194; cf.:

tempora certa modique,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 58:

rhythmi spatio temporum constant,

Quint. 9, 4, 46 sq. —

In gram., a tense of a verb, Varr. L. L. 9, § 32; 95 sq.; 10, § 47 Müll.; Quint. 1, 5, 47; 9, 1, 11; 9, 3, 11 et saep.—

Adverb. phrases.

tempŏrē, and more freq in adverb. form, tempŏrī or tempĕrī, at the right or fitting time, at the appointed time, in time, betimes, timely, seasonably:

rogat, satisne tempori opera sient confecta,

Cato, R. R. 2, 1; 3, 4; cf.:

qui vult sua tempori conficere officia,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 16: reddere aliquid tempori, Titin. ap. Non. 369, 22:

sequimini, ut, quod imperatum est, veniam advorsum temperi,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 90; cf.:

temperi huic anteveni,

id. Trin. 4, 2, 66:

temperi ego faxo scies,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 153:

ut cenam coqueret temperi,

id. Stich. 5, 2, 6; id. Cas. 2, 6, 60.—In a punning allusion to the meaning temple (v. supra): Eu. Coquite, facite, festinate nunc jam, quantum lubet. Co. Temperi:

postquam implevisti fusti fissorum caput,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 6:

ego renovabo commendationem, sed tempore,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

temporis ars medicina fere est: data tempore prosunt, Et data non apto tempore vina nocent,

Ov. R. Am. 131 sq.:

tempore abest,

id. H. 4, 109.— Comp.:

memini te mihi Phameae cenam narrare: temperius fiat: cetera eodem modo,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 8:

modo surgis Eoo Temperius caelo, modo serius incidis undis,

more betimes, earlier, Ov. M. 4, 198:

ut propter cibi spem temporius ad officinam redeant,

Col. 8, 4, 3; 2, 8, 12; App.M. 9, p. 229, 22.—

Form tempore, in time, with the progress of time, gradually:

tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri,... Tempore paret equus habenis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 1 sqq. —

Ad tempus.

At the right or appointed time, in time:

ad tempus redire,

Cic. Att. 13, 45, 2:

ad tempus venire,

Liv. 38, 25:

ad tempus ei mendacium vestrum accommodavistis,

Cic. Cael. 7, 17.—

For some time, for the time being, for a while, for the moment:

quae (perturbatio animi) plerumque brevis est et ad tempus,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27:

coli ad tempus,

id. Lael. 15, 53: [p. 1852] dux ad tempus lectus, Liv. 28, 42, 5; Tac. A. 1, 1; cf.:

ad breve (sc. tempus),

Suet. Tib. 68. —

Ante tempus, before the right time, too soon:

ante tempus mori miserum esse,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; id. Lael. 3, 11:

ante tempus domo digressus,

Sall. J. 79, 7; Suet. Aug. 26; cf.:

sero post tempus venis,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 90.—

Ex tempore, instantaneously, forthwith, on the spur of the moment, extempore:

versus fundere ex tempore,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194:

magnum numerum optimorum versuum dicere ex tempore,

id. Arch. 8, 18:

scribere,

Quint. 10, 3, 17; Sen. Contr. 3, praef.—

According to circumstances:

expedire rem et consilium ex tempore capere posse,

Cic. Off. 2, 9, 33:

haec melius ex re et ex tempore constitues,

id. Fam. 12, 19, 2.—

In tempore, at the right, proper, or appropriate time, in time:

in tempore ad eam veni,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 123:

in ipso tempore eccum ipsum,

in the nick of time, id. And. 3, 2, 52:

ni pedites equitesque in tempore subvenissent,

Liv. 33, 5, 2:

in tempore memorare,

Tac. A. 1, 58 fin. —

In tempus, for a time, temporarily:

scena in tempus structa,

Tac. A. 14, 20; cf.:

in omne tempus,

forever, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1.—

Per tempus, at the right time, in time:

non potuisti magis per tempus mihi advenire quam advenis,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 30; cf.:

per tempus subvenistis mihi,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 85.—

Pro tempore, according to circumstances:

consilium pro tempore et pro re capere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8:

pauca pro tempore milites hortatus,

Sall. J. 49, 6; Verg. E. 7, 35; Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 23.

ulter, tra, trum, adj. ( comp. ulterior, us; sup. ultimus) [cf.: uls, ollus, olim; and the advv. ultra, ultro], prop. that is beyond or on the other side. The posit. is not found, but the comp. and sup. are very freq.

Comp.: ultĕrĭor, ĭus, farther, on the farther side, that is beyond, ulterior:

quis est ulterior?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 10:

quorum alter ulteriorem Galliam decernit cum Syriā, alter citeriorem,

i. e. transalpine, Cic. Prov. Cons. 15, 36:

Gallia,

id. Att. 8, 3, 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

portus,

id. ib. 4, 23:

Hispania,

Suet. Caes. 7; 18; 56:

pars urbis,

Liv. 34, 20, 5:

ripa,

Verg. A. 6, 314; Vell. 2, 107, 1:

ulterius medio spatium sol altus habebat,

Ov. M. 2, 417.—

As subst.

ul-tĕrĭōres, um, m. (sc. homines), the more remote, or more distant persons, those beyond:

cum ab proximis impetrare non possent, ulteriores tentant,

Caes. B. G. 6, 2: recurritur ex proximis locis;

ulteriores non inventi,

Liv. 3, 60, 7:

proximi ripae neglegenter, ulteriores exquisitius,

Tac. G. 17.—

ultĕrĭōra, um, n. (sc. loca or negotia).

Of places, the more remote parts or regions, the districts beyond:

Mosellae pons, qui ulteriora coloniae annectit,

Tac. H. 4, 77.—

In gen., of things, that which is beyond, things beyond, farther, or in addition; things future:

ulteriora mirari, praesentia sequi,

Tac. H. 4, 8:

ut dum proxima dicimus, struere ulteriora possimus,

things beyond, what is to come, Quint. 10, 7, 8; cf.:

pudor est ulteriora loqui,

Ov. F. 5, 532; id. A. A. 3, 769:

semper et inventis ulteriora petit,

id. Am. 2, 9, 10.—

Rarely sing.: ultĕrĭus, ōris, n., something more, any thing further:

cujus (fero, tuli) praeteritum perfectum et ulterius non invenitur,

Quint. 1, 6, 26.—

Sup.: ultĭmus, a, um, that is farthest beyond, i. e. the farthest, most distant, most remote, the uttermost, extreme, last; often to be rendered as a subst., the farthest or most distant part of any thing, etc. (opp. to citimus, while extremus is opp. to intimus).

Lit., of space:

illa minima (luna) quae ultima a caeio, citima terris luce lucebat alienā,

Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16:

partes,

id. ib. 6, 20, 20:

in ultimam provinciam se conjecit,

id. Att. 5, 16, 4:

devehendum in ultimas maris terrarumque oras,

Liv. 21, 10, 12:

orae,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 3; Hor. C. 3, 3, 45; Liv. 5, 37, 2:

campi,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 95:

Hesperia,

Hor. C. 1, 36, 4:

Africa,

id. ib. 2, 18, 4:

Geloni,

id. ib. 2, 20, 18:

in plateā ultimā,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 28; id. Mil. 3, 1, 15:

in ultimis aedibus,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 29:

spelunca draconis,

Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

cauda,

i. e. the end of, Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 11:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79.—

Subst.

ultĭmi, ōrum, m. (sc. homines), the farthest or most remote people:

recessum primis ultimi non dabant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43.—

ultĭma, ōrum, n. (sc. negotia), the farthest or most remote things:

praeponens ultima primis,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59:

ultima signant,

the goal, Verg. A. 5, 317.—

Rarely sing.: ultĭmum, i, n., the last, the end:

caelum ipsum, quod extremum atque ultimum mundi est,

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91.—

Transf.

Of time or order of succession, the remotest, earliest, oldest, first; the last, latest, final:

ultimi et proximi temporis recordatio,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43:

tam multis ab ultimā antiquitate repetitis,

id. Fin. 1, 20, 65:

tempora,

id. Leg. 1, 3. 8:

initium,

Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14:

principium,

Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 5:

memoria pueritiae,

id. Arch. 1, 1:

memoria saeculorum,

Just. 12, 16, 3:

vetustas hominum,

id. 2, 1, 20:

sanguinis auctor,

Verg. A. 7, 49:

ultima quid referam?

Ov. H. 14, 109: scilicet ultima semper Exspectanda dies homini est, last, id.M. 3, 135:

aetas est de ferro,

id. ib. 1, 127:

vox,

id. ib. 3, 499:

dicta,

id. ib. 9, 126:

lapis,

i. e. a gravestone, Prop. 1, 17, 20: cerae, i. e. a last will, testament, Mart. 4, 70, 2:

aetas,

Quint. 12, 4, 2:

senectus,

id. 11, 1, 10:

virtute pares, necessitate, quae ultimum ac maximum telum est, superiores estis,

Liv. 4, 28, 5:

decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum senatus consultum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5. —As subst.: ultĭma, ōrum, n.:

perferto et ultima exspectato,

final events, the end, Cic. Fam. 7, 17, 2:

ultima vitae,

Calp. Ecl. 3, 91.—Rarely sing.:

matrem ultimo aetatis affectam,

Aus. Vict. Or. Gent. Rom. 10.—Adverb.:

si fidem ad ultimum fratri praestitisset,

to the last, Liv. 45, 19, 17; 3, 64, 8; 3, 64, 11; also (more freq.) at last, lastly, finally, = ad extremum, ad postremum, postremo:

si qualis in cives, talis ad ultimum in liberos esset,

Liv. 1, 53, 10; 5, 10, 8; 3, 10, 3:

ne se ad ultimum perditum irent,

id. 26, 27, 10; so,

ultimo,

Suet. Ner. 32 fin.; Petr. 20, 139;

and, ultimum,

for the last time, Liv. 1, 29, 3; Curt. 5, 12, 8; App. M. 2, p. 126.—

Of degree or rank, and denoting the highest as well as the lowest extreme of either.

The utmost, extreme, the highest, first, greatest, = summus, extremus:

summum bonum, quod ultimum appello,

Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 30:

ultimae perfectaeque naturae,

id. N. D. 2, 12, 33:

ut absit ab ultimis vitiis ipse praeceptor ac schola,

Quint. 2, 2, 15:

ultimae causae cur perirent, etc.,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 18:

scelus,

Curt. 5, 12, 17:

rex ad ultimum periculum venit,

id. 7, 6, 22:

facinus,

id. 8, 8, 2; 6, 3, 13; 6, 9, 11:

necessitas,

id. 9, 12, 6; Liv. 2, 43, 3; 3, 4, 9; Sen. Clem. 1, 12, 5:

ad ultimam inopiam adducere,

Liv. 6, 3, 4; 37, 31, 2:

ad ultimos casus servari,

id. 27, 10, 11:

dedecus,

Curt. 9, 5, 11:

exsecrationes,

Just. 24, 2, 8: ultimum supplicium, extreme (i. e. capital) punishment, Caes. B. C. 1, 84; so,

poena,

Liv. 3, 58, 10; Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 8:

desperatio,

Tac. H. 2, 48; 2, 44; Curt. 10, 8, 9; Liv. 42, 66, 1; Sen. Contr. 4, 29, 2:

discrimen ultimum vitae et regni,

Liv. 37, 53, 16; 23, 21, 2:

ad ultimam perductus tristitiam,

Petr. 24.—Esp., as subst.: ultĭ-ma, ōrum, n.:

omnia ultima pati,

every extremity, the worst, Liv. 37, 54, 2:

ultima pati,

Ov. M. 14, 483; id. Tr. 3, 2, 11; Curt. 3, 1, 6:

ultima audere,

Liv. 3, 2, 11:

priusquam ultima experirentur,

id. 2, 28, 9.—Rarely sing.:

paene in ultimum gladiorum erupit impunitas,

Vell. 2, 125, 2:

ad ultimum inopiae adducere,

to the last degree. Liv. 23, 19, 2; 31, 38, 1:

ad ultimum periculi pervenire,

Curt. 8, 1, 15.— Trop.:

ut in pecude, nisi quae vis obstitit, videmus naturam suo quodam itinere ad ultimum pervenire,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35.—Adverb.:

ad ultimum pro fide morituri,

Curt. 3, 1, 7:

consilium sceleratum, sed non ad ultimum demens,

in the extreme, utterly, to the last degree, Liv. 28, 28, 8.—

The lowest, meanest (very rare):

qui se Philippum regiaeque stirpis ferebat, cum esset ultimae,

Vell. 1, 11, 1:

principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 35: ultima sit laudes inter ut illa tuas, Auct. Cons. ad Liv. 17:

ultima pistoris illa uxor,

the worst, App. M. 9, p. 224, 26.— Subst.:

ut vigiliis et labore cum ultimis militum certaret (consul),

Liv. 34, 18, 5:

in ultimis laudum,

id. 30, 30, 4:

in ultimis ponere,

the lowest, meanest things, Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 91.

ulter, tra, trum, adj. ( comp. ulterior, us; sup. ultimus) [cf.: uls, ollus, olim; and the advv. ultra, ultro], prop. that is beyond or on the other side. The posit. is not found, but the comp. and sup. are very freq.

Comp.: ultĕrĭor, ĭus, farther, on the farther side, that is beyond, ulterior:

quis est ulterior?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 10:

quorum alter ulteriorem Galliam decernit cum Syriā, alter citeriorem,

i. e. transalpine, Cic. Prov. Cons. 15, 36:

Gallia,

id. Att. 8, 3, 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

portus,

id. ib. 4, 23:

Hispania,

Suet. Caes. 7; 18; 56:

pars urbis,

Liv. 34, 20, 5:

ripa,

Verg. A. 6, 314; Vell. 2, 107, 1:

ulterius medio spatium sol altus habebat,

Ov. M. 2, 417.—

As subst.

ul-tĕrĭōres, um, m. (sc. homines), the more remote, or more distant persons, those beyond:

cum ab proximis impetrare non possent, ulteriores tentant,

Caes. B. G. 6, 2: recurritur ex proximis locis;

ulteriores non inventi,

Liv. 3, 60, 7:

proximi ripae neglegenter, ulteriores exquisitius,

Tac. G. 17.—

ultĕrĭōra, um, n. (sc. loca or negotia).

Of places, the more remote parts or regions, the districts beyond:

Mosellae pons, qui ulteriora coloniae annectit,

Tac. H. 4, 77.—

In gen., of things, that which is beyond, things beyond, farther, or in addition; things future:

ulteriora mirari, praesentia sequi,

Tac. H. 4, 8:

ut dum proxima dicimus, struere ulteriora possimus,

things beyond, what is to come, Quint. 10, 7, 8; cf.:

pudor est ulteriora loqui,

Ov. F. 5, 532; id. A. A. 3, 769:

semper et inventis ulteriora petit,

id. Am. 2, 9, 10.—

Rarely sing.: ultĕrĭus, ōris, n., something more, any thing further:

cujus (fero, tuli) praeteritum perfectum et ulterius non invenitur,

Quint. 1, 6, 26.—

Sup.: ultĭmus, a, um, that is farthest beyond, i. e. the farthest, most distant, most remote, the uttermost, extreme, last; often to be rendered as a subst., the farthest or most distant part of any thing, etc. (opp. to citimus, while extremus is opp. to intimus).

Lit., of space:

illa minima (luna) quae ultima a caeio, citima terris luce lucebat alienā,

Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16:

partes,

id. ib. 6, 20, 20:

in ultimam provinciam se conjecit,

id. Att. 5, 16, 4:

devehendum in ultimas maris terrarumque oras,

Liv. 21, 10, 12:

orae,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 3; Hor. C. 3, 3, 45; Liv. 5, 37, 2:

campi,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 95:

Hesperia,

Hor. C. 1, 36, 4:

Africa,

id. ib. 2, 18, 4:

Geloni,

id. ib. 2, 20, 18:

in plateā ultimā,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 28; id. Mil. 3, 1, 15:

in ultimis aedibus,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 29:

spelunca draconis,

Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

cauda,

i. e. the end of, Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 11:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79.—

Subst.

ultĭmi, ōrum, m. (sc. homines), the farthest or most remote people:

recessum primis ultimi non dabant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43.—

ultĭma, ōrum, n. (sc. negotia), the farthest or most remote things:

praeponens ultima primis,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 59:

ultima signant,

the goal, Verg. A. 5, 317.—

Rarely sing.: ultĭmum, i, n., the last, the end:

caelum ipsum, quod extremum atque ultimum mundi est,

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91.—

Transf.

Of time or order of succession, the remotest, earliest, oldest, first; the last, latest, final:

ultimi et proximi temporis recordatio,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43:

tam multis ab ultimā antiquitate repetitis,

id. Fin. 1, 20, 65:

tempora,

id. Leg. 1, 3. 8:

initium,

Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14:

principium,

Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 5:

memoria pueritiae,

id. Arch. 1, 1:

memoria saeculorum,

Just. 12, 16, 3:

vetustas hominum,

id. 2, 1, 20:

sanguinis auctor,

Verg. A. 7, 49:

ultima quid referam?

Ov. H. 14, 109: scilicet ultima semper Exspectanda dies homini est, last, id.M. 3, 135:

aetas est de ferro,

id. ib. 1, 127:

vox,

id. ib. 3, 499:

dicta,

id. ib. 9, 126:

lapis,

i. e. a gravestone, Prop. 1, 17, 20: cerae, i. e. a last will, testament, Mart. 4, 70, 2:

aetas,

Quint. 12, 4, 2:

senectus,

id. 11, 1, 10:

virtute pares, necessitate, quae ultimum ac maximum telum est, superiores estis,

Liv. 4, 28, 5:

decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum senatus consultum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5. —As subst.: ultĭma, ōrum, n.:

perferto et ultima exspectato,

final events, the end, Cic. Fam. 7, 17, 2:

ultima vitae,

Calp. Ecl. 3, 91.—Rarely sing.:

matrem ultimo aetatis affectam,

Aus. Vict. Or. Gent. Rom. 10.—Adverb.:

si fidem ad ultimum fratri praestitisset,

to the last, Liv. 45, 19, 17; 3, 64, 8; 3, 64, 11; also (more freq.) at last, lastly, finally, = ad extremum, ad postremum, postremo:

si qualis in cives, talis ad ultimum in liberos esset,

Liv. 1, 53, 10; 5, 10, 8; 3, 10, 3:

ne se ad ultimum perditum irent,

id. 26, 27, 10; so,

ultimo,

Suet. Ner. 32 fin.; Petr. 20, 139;

and, ultimum,

for the last time, Liv. 1, 29, 3; Curt. 5, 12, 8; App. M. 2, p. 126.—

Of degree or rank, and denoting the highest as well as the lowest extreme of either.

The utmost, extreme, the highest, first, greatest, = summus, extremus:

summum bonum, quod ultimum appello,

Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 30:

ultimae perfectaeque naturae,

id. N. D. 2, 12, 33:

ut absit ab ultimis vitiis ipse praeceptor ac schola,

Quint. 2, 2, 15:

ultimae causae cur perirent, etc.,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 18:

scelus,

Curt. 5, 12, 17:

rex ad ultimum periculum venit,

id. 7, 6, 22:

facinus,

id. 8, 8, 2; 6, 3, 13; 6, 9, 11:

necessitas,

id. 9, 12, 6; Liv. 2, 43, 3; 3, 4, 9; Sen. Clem. 1, 12, 5:

ad ultimam inopiam adducere,

Liv. 6, 3, 4; 37, 31, 2:

ad ultimos casus servari,

id. 27, 10, 11:

dedecus,

Curt. 9, 5, 11:

exsecrationes,

Just. 24, 2, 8: ultimum supplicium, extreme (i. e. capital) punishment, Caes. B. C. 1, 84; so,

poena,

Liv. 3, 58, 10; Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 8:

desperatio,

Tac. H. 2, 48; 2, 44; Curt. 10, 8, 9; Liv. 42, 66, 1; Sen. Contr. 4, 29, 2:

discrimen ultimum vitae et regni,

Liv. 37, 53, 16; 23, 21, 2:

ad ultimam perductus tristitiam,

Petr. 24.—Esp., as subst.: ultĭ-ma, ōrum, n.:

omnia ultima pati,

every extremity, the worst, Liv. 37, 54, 2:

ultima pati,

Ov. M. 14, 483; id. Tr. 3, 2, 11; Curt. 3, 1, 6:

ultima audere,

Liv. 3, 2, 11:

priusquam ultima experirentur,

id. 2, 28, 9.—Rarely sing.:

paene in ultimum gladiorum erupit impunitas,

Vell. 2, 125, 2:

ad ultimum inopiae adducere,

to the last degree. Liv. 23, 19, 2; 31, 38, 1:

ad ultimum periculi pervenire,

Curt. 8, 1, 15.— Trop.:

ut in pecude, nisi quae vis obstitit, videmus naturam suo quodam itinere ad ultimum pervenire,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35.—Adverb.:

ad ultimum pro fide morituri,

Curt. 3, 1, 7:

consilium sceleratum, sed non ad ultimum demens,

in the extreme, utterly, to the last degree, Liv. 28, 28, 8.—

The lowest, meanest (very rare):

qui se Philippum regiaeque stirpis ferebat, cum esset ultimae,

Vell. 1, 11, 1:

principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 35: ultima sit laudes inter ut illa tuas, Auct. Cons. ad Liv. 17:

ultima pistoris illa uxor,

the worst, App. M. 9, p. 224, 26.— Subst.:

ut vigiliis et labore cum ultimis militum certaret (consul),

Liv. 34, 18, 5:

in ultimis laudum,

id. 30, 30, 4:

in ultimis ponere,

the lowest, meanest things, Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 91.