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intellectually quick

  • 1 sagāx

        sagāx ācis, adj. with comp. and sup.    [SAG-], of quick perception, of acute senses, sagacious, keenscented: canes: catulus, O.: virtus venandi, O.: canibus sagacior anser, of keener ear, O.—Fig., intellectually quick, keen, acute, shrewd, sagacious. animal: mens, quae causas rerum videat: hospites, H.: Ampycides, prophetic, O.: ad suspicandum sagacissimus: Utilium sagax rerum, H.: ventura videre, O.: rimandis offensis, Ta.
    * * *
    (gen.), sagacis ADJ
    keen-scented; acute, sharp, perceptive

    Latin-English dictionary > sagāx

  • 2 sagax

    săgax, ācis, adj. [sagio; cf. salax, from salio], of quick perception, whose senses are acute, sagacious (class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Chiefly of the acute sense of smelling in dogs, keen-scented:

    sagax Nasum habet,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 17:

    canes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65; Ov. M. 3, 207:

    catulus,

    id. R. Am. 201. —With gen.:

    naris sagax,

    Luc. 7, 829.— Poet.:

    virtus venandi,

    Ov. Hal. 76.—
    B.
    Of other senses:

    sollicitive canes canibusve sagacior anser,

    Ov. M. 11, 599:

    palatum in gustu sagacissimum,

    Plin. 8, 37, 35, § 132. —
    II.
    Trop., intellectually quick, keen, acute, shrewd, sagacious (syn.: sollers, perspicax, acutus, subtilis).
    (α).
    Absol.:

    (homo) animal hoc providum, sagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et consilii,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22; cf. id. Fin. 2, 14, 45:

    mens,

    id. Tusc. 5, 23, 67; Lucr. 5, 420; 1, 1021:

    animus,

    id. 2, 840; 4, 913:

    ratio,

    id. 1, 131; 1, 369:

    homo sagax et astutus,

    Mart. 12, 87, 4:

    modo circumspectus et sagax, modo inconsultus ac praeceps,

    considerate, Suet. Claud. 15:

    mire sagaces fallere hospites,

    Hor. C. 2, 5, 22:

    curae,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 75.—Of a soothsayer, knowing the future, Ov. M. 8, 316.—
    (β).
    Ad aliquid (class.):

    ad suspicandum sagacissimus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 19: ad haec pericula perspicienda, Plancus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 4.—
    (γ).
    With gen. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    utilium sagax rerum et divina futuri,

    Hor. A. P. 218:

    fibrarum et pennae divinarumque flammarum,

    skilled in, Sil. 3, 344; cf. in sup.:

    prodigiorum (Joseph),

    Just. 36, 2, 8; and: rerum naturae, Col. praef., § 22 (with non ignarus). —
    (δ).
    With in or simple abl. (post-Aug.):

    vir in conjecturis sagacissimus,

    Just. 1, 9, 14:

    civitas rimandis offensis sagax,

    Tac. H. 4, 11.—
    (ε).
    Inf.:

    sagax quondam ventura videre,

    Ov. M. 5, 146.—Hence, adv.: să-gācĭter.
    a.
    Quickly, sharply, keenly, with quickness of scent, with a fine sense of smell:

    canes si advenientem sagaciter odorantur,

    Col. 7, 12, 7.— Comp., Cic. Att. 6, 4, 3:

    vultures sagacius odorantur,

    Plin. 10, 69, 88, § 191; Hor. Epod. 12, 4.— Sup., Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 186; Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137.—
    b.
    Trop., acutely, shrewdly, accurately, sagaciously:

    sagaciter pervestigare,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 223:

    intueri,

    Quint. 2, 8, 4; Liv. 27, 28:

    perspicere naturam alicujus,

    Suet. Tib. 57 al.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sagax

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