intemperantia

intempĕrantĭa, ae, f. [intemperans], want of mildness, intemperateness, inclemency.

Lit.:

caeli,

Sen. Const. Sap. 9; Col. prooem. 1, § 3.—

Trop.

Want of moderation, excess, extravagance, intemperance:

omnium perturbationum fontem esse dicunt intemperantiam,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 22:

menti inimica intemperantia,

id. ib. 4, 9, 22; id. Agr. 2, 36:

libidinum,

id. Off. 1, 34:

vini,

the immoderate use of wine, Liv. 44, 30:

morbo et intemperantiā perire,

Suet. Tib. 62:

risūs,

Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 205:

litterarum,

Sen. Ep. 106:

linguae,

Tac. A. 4, 18:

civitatis, donec unus eligatur, multos destinandi,

id. H. 2, 1:

legitima, said of a second marriage,

Val. Max. 2, 1, 3.—

In partic., want of moderation in one's conduct towards others; haughtiness, arrogance; insolence, impudence, insubordination:

Pausaniae,

Nep. Arist. 2, 3:

suā intemperantiā, nimiāque licentiā,

id. Eum. 8, 2.

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caelum ( cēlum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 640), i, n. [caedo], the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver:

caelata vasa... a caelo vocata, quod est genus ferramenti, quem vulgo cilionem vocant,

Isid. Orig. 20, 4, 7; Quint. 2, 21, 24; Varr. ap. Non. p. 99, 18; Stat. S. 4, 6, 26; Mart. 6, 13, 1.— Plur., Aus. Epigr. 57, 6.

caelum ( coelum; cf. Aelius ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 18 Müll.; Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129), i, n. (old form cae-lus, i, m., Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; and ap. Charis. p. 55 P.; Petr. 39, 5 sq.; 45, 3; Arn. 1, 59; cf. the foll. I. 2.; plur. caeli, only poet., Lucr. 2, 1097, caelos, cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 331; and in eccl. writers freq. for the Heb., v. infra, cf. Caes. ap Gell. 19, 8, 3 sq., and Charis. p. 21 P., who consider the plur. in gen. as not in use, v. Rudd. I. p. 109. From Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred.—Form cael: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. 13, 17, or Ann. v. 561 Vahl.) [for cavilum, root in cavus; cf. Sanscr. çva-, to swell, be hollow; Gr. kuô, koilos], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:

ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5; cf.:

quis pariter (potis est) caelos omnīs convortere,

Lucr. 2, 1097:

boat caelum fremitu virum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 78; cf. Tib. 2, 5, 73; Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 1; cf. Cat. 62, 26:

quicquid deorum in caelo regit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 1 et saep.:

lapides pluere, fulmina jaci de caelo,

Liv. 28, 27, 16.—Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning, Cato, R. R. 14, 3; Liv. 26, 23, 5 Drak.; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Galb. 1; Tac. A. 13, 24; 14, 12;

so also, e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16.—

Personified: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; father of Saturn, Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 63; of Vulcan, id. ib. 3, 21, 55; of Mercury and the first Venus, id. ib. 3, 23, 59, Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 297 al.—

In the lang. of augury:

de caelo servare,

to observe the signs of heaven, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3; so,

de caelo fieri, of celestial signs,

to appear, occur, id. Div. 1, 42, 93.—

Prov.:

quid si nunc caelum ruat? of a vain fear,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41 Don.; cf. Varr ap. Non. p. 499, 24: delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.. caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90; Liv. 10, 8, 10; Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13:

decidere de caelo,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 6 al.: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; cf. Verg. A. 1, 133; 5, 790; Juv. 2, 25: findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken, Macr. S. 3, 12, 10.—

Gen. caeli in a pun with Caeli, gen. of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad Verg. E. 3, 105.—

In eccl. Lat. the plur caeli, ōrum, m., is very freq., the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12; id. adv. Marc. 4, 22; 5, 15; Lact. Epit. 1, 3; Cypr. Ep. 3, 3; 4, 5; Vulg. Psa. 32, 6; 21, 32; id. Isa. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region:

cuicumque particulae caeli officeretur, quamvis esset procul, mutari lumina putabat,

to whatever part of the horizon, however distant, the view was obstructed, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 179; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 45:

hoc caelum, sub quo natus educatusque essem,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; so Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216; 17, 2, 2, §§ 16 and 19 sq.; Flor. 4, 12, 62:

caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 27.—

The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very freq.):

in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aër,

Lucr. 4, 132; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 102:

caelum hoc, in quo nubes, imbres ventique coguntur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

pingue et concretum caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130: commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione, id. N. D. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

caell intemperies,

Liv. 8, 18, 1; Quint. 7, 2, 3;

Col. prooem. 1' intemperantia,

id. ib. 3:

spiritus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15:

gravitas,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85:

varium caeli morem praediscere,

Verg. G. 1, 51:

varietas et mutatio,

Col. 11, 2, 1:

qualitas,

Quint. 5, 9, 15:

caeli solique clementia,

Flor. 3, 3, 13:

subita mutatio,

id. 4, 10, 9 al. —With adj.:

bonum,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

tenue,

Cic. Fat. 4, 7:

salubre,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

serenum,

Verg. G. 1, 260:

palustre,

Liv. 22, 2, 11:

austerum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

foedum imbribus ac nebulis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

atrox,

Flor. 3, 2, 2 et saep.:

hibernum,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

austrinum,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

Italum,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 4:

Sabinum,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 77; cf.:

quae sit hiems Veliae, quod caelum Salerni,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1. —

Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 35; Caes. B. C. 1, 68; Auct. B. Afr. 11; 80; cf.:

eodem die albescente caelo,

Dig. 28, 2, 25, § 1:

vesperascente caelo,

in the evening twilight, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.—

Height:

mons in caelum attollitur,

toward heaven, heavenwards, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6; cf.

Verg.: aequata machina caelo,

Verg. A. 4, 89.—So of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world:

falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 896.—

Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, etc. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Apoc. 4, 2; 11, 15 et saep.; cf.:

cum (animus) exierit et in liberum caelum quasi domum suam venerit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51:

ut non ad mortem trudi, verum in caelum videretur escendere,

id. ib. 1, 29, 71.—

Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, etc.:

Caesar in caelum fertur,

Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 6; cf. id. Att. 14, 18, 1; 6, 2, 9:

Pisonem ferebat in caelum,

praised, id. ib. 16, 7, 5:

te summis laudibus ad caelum extulerunt,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 1; 12, 25, 7; Hor. Ep 1, 10, 9; Tac. Or. 19.—Of things:

omnia, quae etiam tu in caelum ferebas,

extolled, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5:

caelo tenus extollere aliquid,

Just. 12, 6, 2:

in caelo ponere aliquem,

id.,4,14; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; Flor. 2, 19, 3:

Catonem caelo aequavit,

Tac. A. 4, 34:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29; cf.:

recludere caelum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 22;

the opp.: collegam de caelo detraxisti,

deprived of his exalted honor, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 107: in caelo sum, I am in heaven, i. e. am very happy, id. Att. 2, 9, 1:

digito caelum attingere,

to be extremely fortunate, id. ib. 2, 1, 7:

caelum accepisse fatebor,

Ov. M. 14, 844:

tunc tangam vertice caelum,

Aus. Idyll. 8 fin.; cf.:

caelum merere,

Sen. Suas. 1 init. —

In gen., a vault, arch, covering:

caelum camerarum,

the interior surface of a vault, Vitr. 7, 3, 3; Flor. 3, 5, 30 dub.:

capitis,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134.

caelum ( cēlum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 640), i, n. [caedo], the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver:

caelata vasa... a caelo vocata, quod est genus ferramenti, quem vulgo cilionem vocant,

Isid. Orig. 20, 4, 7; Quint. 2, 21, 24; Varr. ap. Non. p. 99, 18; Stat. S. 4, 6, 26; Mart. 6, 13, 1.— Plur., Aus. Epigr. 57, 6.

caelum ( coelum; cf. Aelius ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 18 Müll.; Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129), i, n. (old form cae-lus, i, m., Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; and ap. Charis. p. 55 P.; Petr. 39, 5 sq.; 45, 3; Arn. 1, 59; cf. the foll. I. 2.; plur. caeli, only poet., Lucr. 2, 1097, caelos, cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 331; and in eccl. writers freq. for the Heb., v. infra, cf. Caes. ap Gell. 19, 8, 3 sq., and Charis. p. 21 P., who consider the plur. in gen. as not in use, v. Rudd. I. p. 109. From Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred.—Form cael: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. 13, 17, or Ann. v. 561 Vahl.) [for cavilum, root in cavus; cf. Sanscr. çva-, to swell, be hollow; Gr. kuô, koilos], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:

ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5; cf.:

quis pariter (potis est) caelos omnīs convortere,

Lucr. 2, 1097:

boat caelum fremitu virum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 78; cf. Tib. 2, 5, 73; Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 1; cf. Cat. 62, 26:

quicquid deorum in caelo regit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 1 et saep.:

lapides pluere, fulmina jaci de caelo,

Liv. 28, 27, 16.—Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning, Cato, R. R. 14, 3; Liv. 26, 23, 5 Drak.; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Galb. 1; Tac. A. 13, 24; 14, 12;

so also, e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16.—

Personified: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; father of Saturn, Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 63; of Vulcan, id. ib. 3, 21, 55; of Mercury and the first Venus, id. ib. 3, 23, 59, Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 297 al.—

In the lang. of augury:

de caelo servare,

to observe the signs of heaven, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3; so,

de caelo fieri, of celestial signs,

to appear, occur, id. Div. 1, 42, 93.—

Prov.:

quid si nunc caelum ruat? of a vain fear,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41 Don.; cf. Varr ap. Non. p. 499, 24: delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.. caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90; Liv. 10, 8, 10; Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13:

decidere de caelo,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 6 al.: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; cf. Verg. A. 1, 133; 5, 790; Juv. 2, 25: findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken, Macr. S. 3, 12, 10.—

Gen. caeli in a pun with Caeli, gen. of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad Verg. E. 3, 105.—

In eccl. Lat. the plur caeli, ōrum, m., is very freq., the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12; id. adv. Marc. 4, 22; 5, 15; Lact. Epit. 1, 3; Cypr. Ep. 3, 3; 4, 5; Vulg. Psa. 32, 6; 21, 32; id. Isa. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region:

cuicumque particulae caeli officeretur, quamvis esset procul, mutari lumina putabat,

to whatever part of the horizon, however distant, the view was obstructed, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 179; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 45:

hoc caelum, sub quo natus educatusque essem,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; so Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216; 17, 2, 2, §§ 16 and 19 sq.; Flor. 4, 12, 62:

caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 27.—

The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very freq.):

in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aër,

Lucr. 4, 132; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 102:

caelum hoc, in quo nubes, imbres ventique coguntur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

pingue et concretum caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130: commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione, id. N. D. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

caell intemperies,

Liv. 8, 18, 1; Quint. 7, 2, 3;

Col. prooem. 1' intemperantia,

id. ib. 3:

spiritus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15:

gravitas,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85:

varium caeli morem praediscere,

Verg. G. 1, 51:

varietas et mutatio,

Col. 11, 2, 1:

qualitas,

Quint. 5, 9, 15:

caeli solique clementia,

Flor. 3, 3, 13:

subita mutatio,

id. 4, 10, 9 al. —With adj.:

bonum,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

tenue,

Cic. Fat. 4, 7:

salubre,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

serenum,

Verg. G. 1, 260:

palustre,

Liv. 22, 2, 11:

austerum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

foedum imbribus ac nebulis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

atrox,

Flor. 3, 2, 2 et saep.:

hibernum,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

austrinum,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

Italum,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 4:

Sabinum,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 77; cf.:

quae sit hiems Veliae, quod caelum Salerni,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1. —

Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 35; Caes. B. C. 1, 68; Auct. B. Afr. 11; 80; cf.:

eodem die albescente caelo,

Dig. 28, 2, 25, § 1:

vesperascente caelo,

in the evening twilight, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.—

Height:

mons in caelum attollitur,

toward heaven, heavenwards, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6; cf.

Verg.: aequata machina caelo,

Verg. A. 4, 89.—So of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world:

falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 896.—

Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, etc. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Apoc. 4, 2; 11, 15 et saep.; cf.:

cum (animus) exierit et in liberum caelum quasi domum suam venerit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51:

ut non ad mortem trudi, verum in caelum videretur escendere,

id. ib. 1, 29, 71.—

Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, etc.:

Caesar in caelum fertur,

Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 6; cf. id. Att. 14, 18, 1; 6, 2, 9:

Pisonem ferebat in caelum,

praised, id. ib. 16, 7, 5:

te summis laudibus ad caelum extulerunt,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 1; 12, 25, 7; Hor. Ep 1, 10, 9; Tac. Or. 19.—Of things:

omnia, quae etiam tu in caelum ferebas,

extolled, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5:

caelo tenus extollere aliquid,

Just. 12, 6, 2:

in caelo ponere aliquem,

id.,4,14; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; Flor. 2, 19, 3:

Catonem caelo aequavit,

Tac. A. 4, 34:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29; cf.:

recludere caelum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 22;

the opp.: collegam de caelo detraxisti,

deprived of his exalted honor, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 107: in caelo sum, I am in heaven, i. e. am very happy, id. Att. 2, 9, 1:

digito caelum attingere,

to be extremely fortunate, id. ib. 2, 1, 7:

caelum accepisse fatebor,

Ov. M. 14, 844:

tunc tangam vertice caelum,

Aus. Idyll. 8 fin.; cf.:

caelum merere,

Sen. Suas. 1 init. —

In gen., a vault, arch, covering:

caelum camerarum,

the interior surface of a vault, Vitr. 7, 3, 3; Flor. 3, 5, 30 dub.:

capitis,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134.

caelum ( cēlum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 640), i, n. [caedo], the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver:

caelata vasa... a caelo vocata, quod est genus ferramenti, quem vulgo cilionem vocant,

Isid. Orig. 20, 4, 7; Quint. 2, 21, 24; Varr. ap. Non. p. 99, 18; Stat. S. 4, 6, 26; Mart. 6, 13, 1.— Plur., Aus. Epigr. 57, 6.

caelum ( coelum; cf. Aelius ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 18 Müll.; Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129), i, n. (old form cae-lus, i, m., Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; and ap. Charis. p. 55 P.; Petr. 39, 5 sq.; 45, 3; Arn. 1, 59; cf. the foll. I. 2.; plur. caeli, only poet., Lucr. 2, 1097, caelos, cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 331; and in eccl. writers freq. for the Heb., v. infra, cf. Caes. ap Gell. 19, 8, 3 sq., and Charis. p. 21 P., who consider the plur. in gen. as not in use, v. Rudd. I. p. 109. From Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred.—Form cael: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. 13, 17, or Ann. v. 561 Vahl.) [for cavilum, root in cavus; cf. Sanscr. çva-, to swell, be hollow; Gr. kuô, koilos], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:

ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5; cf.:

quis pariter (potis est) caelos omnīs convortere,

Lucr. 2, 1097:

boat caelum fremitu virum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 78; cf. Tib. 2, 5, 73; Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 1; cf. Cat. 62, 26:

quicquid deorum in caelo regit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 1 et saep.:

lapides pluere, fulmina jaci de caelo,

Liv. 28, 27, 16.—Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning, Cato, R. R. 14, 3; Liv. 26, 23, 5 Drak.; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Galb. 1; Tac. A. 13, 24; 14, 12;

so also, e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16.—

Personified: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; father of Saturn, Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 63; of Vulcan, id. ib. 3, 21, 55; of Mercury and the first Venus, id. ib. 3, 23, 59, Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 297 al.—

In the lang. of augury:

de caelo servare,

to observe the signs of heaven, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3; so,

de caelo fieri, of celestial signs,

to appear, occur, id. Div. 1, 42, 93.—

Prov.:

quid si nunc caelum ruat? of a vain fear,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41 Don.; cf. Varr ap. Non. p. 499, 24: delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.. caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90; Liv. 10, 8, 10; Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13:

decidere de caelo,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 6 al.: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; cf. Verg. A. 1, 133; 5, 790; Juv. 2, 25: findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken, Macr. S. 3, 12, 10.—

Gen. caeli in a pun with Caeli, gen. of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad Verg. E. 3, 105.—

In eccl. Lat. the plur caeli, ōrum, m., is very freq., the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12; id. adv. Marc. 4, 22; 5, 15; Lact. Epit. 1, 3; Cypr. Ep. 3, 3; 4, 5; Vulg. Psa. 32, 6; 21, 32; id. Isa. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region:

cuicumque particulae caeli officeretur, quamvis esset procul, mutari lumina putabat,

to whatever part of the horizon, however distant, the view was obstructed, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 179; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 45:

hoc caelum, sub quo natus educatusque essem,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; so Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216; 17, 2, 2, §§ 16 and 19 sq.; Flor. 4, 12, 62:

caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 27.—

The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very freq.):

in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aër,

Lucr. 4, 132; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 102:

caelum hoc, in quo nubes, imbres ventique coguntur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

pingue et concretum caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130: commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione, id. N. D. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

caell intemperies,

Liv. 8, 18, 1; Quint. 7, 2, 3;

Col. prooem. 1' intemperantia,

id. ib. 3:

spiritus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15:

gravitas,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85:

varium caeli morem praediscere,

Verg. G. 1, 51:

varietas et mutatio,

Col. 11, 2, 1:

qualitas,

Quint. 5, 9, 15:

caeli solique clementia,

Flor. 3, 3, 13:

subita mutatio,

id. 4, 10, 9 al. —With adj.:

bonum,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

tenue,

Cic. Fat. 4, 7:

salubre,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

serenum,

Verg. G. 1, 260:

palustre,

Liv. 22, 2, 11:

austerum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

foedum imbribus ac nebulis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

atrox,

Flor. 3, 2, 2 et saep.:

hibernum,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

austrinum,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

Italum,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 4:

Sabinum,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 77; cf.:

quae sit hiems Veliae, quod caelum Salerni,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1. —

Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 35; Caes. B. C. 1, 68; Auct. B. Afr. 11; 80; cf.:

eodem die albescente caelo,

Dig. 28, 2, 25, § 1:

vesperascente caelo,

in the evening twilight, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.—

Height:

mons in caelum attollitur,

toward heaven, heavenwards, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6; cf.

Verg.: aequata machina caelo,

Verg. A. 4, 89.—So of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world:

falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 896.—

Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, etc. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Apoc. 4, 2; 11, 15 et saep.; cf.:

cum (animus) exierit et in liberum caelum quasi domum suam venerit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51:

ut non ad mortem trudi, verum in caelum videretur escendere,

id. ib. 1, 29, 71.—

Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, etc.:

Caesar in caelum fertur,

Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 6; cf. id. Att. 14, 18, 1; 6, 2, 9:

Pisonem ferebat in caelum,

praised, id. ib. 16, 7, 5:

te summis laudibus ad caelum extulerunt,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 1; 12, 25, 7; Hor. Ep 1, 10, 9; Tac. Or. 19.—Of things:

omnia, quae etiam tu in caelum ferebas,

extolled, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5:

caelo tenus extollere aliquid,

Just. 12, 6, 2:

in caelo ponere aliquem,

id.,4,14; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; Flor. 2, 19, 3:

Catonem caelo aequavit,

Tac. A. 4, 34:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29; cf.:

recludere caelum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 22;

the opp.: collegam de caelo detraxisti,

deprived of his exalted honor, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 107: in caelo sum, I am in heaven, i. e. am very happy, id. Att. 2, 9, 1:

digito caelum attingere,

to be extremely fortunate, id. ib. 2, 1, 7:

caelum accepisse fatebor,

Ov. M. 14, 844:

tunc tangam vertice caelum,

Aus. Idyll. 8 fin.; cf.:

caelum merere,

Sen. Suas. 1 init. —

In gen., a vault, arch, covering:

caelum camerarum,

the interior surface of a vault, Vitr. 7, 3, 3; Flor. 3, 5, 30 dub.:

capitis,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134.

caelum ( cēlum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 640), i, n. [caedo], the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver:

caelata vasa... a caelo vocata, quod est genus ferramenti, quem vulgo cilionem vocant,

Isid. Orig. 20, 4, 7; Quint. 2, 21, 24; Varr. ap. Non. p. 99, 18; Stat. S. 4, 6, 26; Mart. 6, 13, 1.— Plur., Aus. Epigr. 57, 6.

caelum ( coelum; cf. Aelius ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 18 Müll.; Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129), i, n. (old form cae-lus, i, m., Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; and ap. Charis. p. 55 P.; Petr. 39, 5 sq.; 45, 3; Arn. 1, 59; cf. the foll. I. 2.; plur. caeli, only poet., Lucr. 2, 1097, caelos, cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 331; and in eccl. writers freq. for the Heb., v. infra, cf. Caes. ap Gell. 19, 8, 3 sq., and Charis. p. 21 P., who consider the plur. in gen. as not in use, v. Rudd. I. p. 109. From Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred.—Form cael: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. 13, 17, or Ann. v. 561 Vahl.) [for cavilum, root in cavus; cf. Sanscr. çva-, to swell, be hollow; Gr. kuô, koilos], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:

ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5; cf.:

quis pariter (potis est) caelos omnīs convortere,

Lucr. 2, 1097:

boat caelum fremitu virum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 78; cf. Tib. 2, 5, 73; Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 1; cf. Cat. 62, 26:

quicquid deorum in caelo regit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 1 et saep.:

lapides pluere, fulmina jaci de caelo,

Liv. 28, 27, 16.—Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning, Cato, R. R. 14, 3; Liv. 26, 23, 5 Drak.; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Galb. 1; Tac. A. 13, 24; 14, 12;

so also, e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16.—

Personified: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; father of Saturn, Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 63; of Vulcan, id. ib. 3, 21, 55; of Mercury and the first Venus, id. ib. 3, 23, 59, Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 297 al.—

In the lang. of augury:

de caelo servare,

to observe the signs of heaven, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3; so,

de caelo fieri, of celestial signs,

to appear, occur, id. Div. 1, 42, 93.—

Prov.:

quid si nunc caelum ruat? of a vain fear,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41 Don.; cf. Varr ap. Non. p. 499, 24: delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.. caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90; Liv. 10, 8, 10; Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13:

decidere de caelo,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 6 al.: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; cf. Verg. A. 1, 133; 5, 790; Juv. 2, 25: findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken, Macr. S. 3, 12, 10.—

Gen. caeli in a pun with Caeli, gen. of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad Verg. E. 3, 105.—

In eccl. Lat. the plur caeli, ōrum, m., is very freq., the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12; id. adv. Marc. 4, 22; 5, 15; Lact. Epit. 1, 3; Cypr. Ep. 3, 3; 4, 5; Vulg. Psa. 32, 6; 21, 32; id. Isa. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region:

cuicumque particulae caeli officeretur, quamvis esset procul, mutari lumina putabat,

to whatever part of the horizon, however distant, the view was obstructed, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 179; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 45:

hoc caelum, sub quo natus educatusque essem,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; so Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216; 17, 2, 2, §§ 16 and 19 sq.; Flor. 4, 12, 62:

caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 27.—

The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very freq.):

in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aër,

Lucr. 4, 132; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 102:

caelum hoc, in quo nubes, imbres ventique coguntur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

pingue et concretum caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130: commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione, id. N. D. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

caell intemperies,

Liv. 8, 18, 1; Quint. 7, 2, 3;

Col. prooem. 1' intemperantia,

id. ib. 3:

spiritus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15:

gravitas,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85:

varium caeli morem praediscere,

Verg. G. 1, 51:

varietas et mutatio,

Col. 11, 2, 1:

qualitas,

Quint. 5, 9, 15:

caeli solique clementia,

Flor. 3, 3, 13:

subita mutatio,

id. 4, 10, 9 al. —With adj.:

bonum,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

tenue,

Cic. Fat. 4, 7:

salubre,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

serenum,

Verg. G. 1, 260:

palustre,

Liv. 22, 2, 11:

austerum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

foedum imbribus ac nebulis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

atrox,

Flor. 3, 2, 2 et saep.:

hibernum,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

austrinum,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

Italum,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 4:

Sabinum,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 77; cf.:

quae sit hiems Veliae, quod caelum Salerni,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1. —

Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 35; Caes. B. C. 1, 68; Auct. B. Afr. 11; 80; cf.:

eodem die albescente caelo,

Dig. 28, 2, 25, § 1:

vesperascente caelo,

in the evening twilight, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.—

Height:

mons in caelum attollitur,

toward heaven, heavenwards, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6; cf.

Verg.: aequata machina caelo,

Verg. A. 4, 89.—So of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world:

falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 896.—

Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, etc. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Apoc. 4, 2; 11, 15 et saep.; cf.:

cum (animus) exierit et in liberum caelum quasi domum suam venerit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51:

ut non ad mortem trudi, verum in caelum videretur escendere,

id. ib. 1, 29, 71.—

Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, etc.:

Caesar in caelum fertur,

Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 6; cf. id. Att. 14, 18, 1; 6, 2, 9:

Pisonem ferebat in caelum,

praised, id. ib. 16, 7, 5:

te summis laudibus ad caelum extulerunt,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 1; 12, 25, 7; Hor. Ep 1, 10, 9; Tac. Or. 19.—Of things:

omnia, quae etiam tu in caelum ferebas,

extolled, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5:

caelo tenus extollere aliquid,

Just. 12, 6, 2:

in caelo ponere aliquem,

id.,4,14; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; Flor. 2, 19, 3:

Catonem caelo aequavit,

Tac. A. 4, 34:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29; cf.:

recludere caelum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 22;

the opp.: collegam de caelo detraxisti,

deprived of his exalted honor, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 107: in caelo sum, I am in heaven, i. e. am very happy, id. Att. 2, 9, 1:

digito caelum attingere,

to be extremely fortunate, id. ib. 2, 1, 7:

caelum accepisse fatebor,

Ov. M. 14, 844:

tunc tangam vertice caelum,

Aus. Idyll. 8 fin.; cf.:

caelum merere,

Sen. Suas. 1 init. —

In gen., a vault, arch, covering:

caelum camerarum,

the interior surface of a vault, Vitr. 7, 3, 3; Flor. 3, 5, 30 dub.:

capitis,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134.

caelum ( cēlum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 640), i, n. [caedo], the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver:

caelata vasa... a caelo vocata, quod est genus ferramenti, quem vulgo cilionem vocant,

Isid. Orig. 20, 4, 7; Quint. 2, 21, 24; Varr. ap. Non. p. 99, 18; Stat. S. 4, 6, 26; Mart. 6, 13, 1.— Plur., Aus. Epigr. 57, 6.

caelum ( coelum; cf. Aelius ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 18 Müll.; Plin. 2, 4, 3, § 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129), i, n. (old form cae-lus, i, m., Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; and ap. Charis. p. 55 P.; Petr. 39, 5 sq.; 45, 3; Arn. 1, 59; cf. the foll. I. 2.; plur. caeli, only poet., Lucr. 2, 1097, caelos, cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 331; and in eccl. writers freq. for the Heb., v. infra, cf. Caes. ap Gell. 19, 8, 3 sq., and Charis. p. 21 P., who consider the plur. in gen. as not in use, v. Rudd. I. p. 109. From Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred.—Form cael: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. ap. Aus. Technop. 13, 17, or Ann. v. 561 Vahl.) [for cavilum, root in cavus; cf. Sanscr. çva-, to swell, be hollow; Gr. kuô, koilos], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:

ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5; cf.:

quis pariter (potis est) caelos omnīs convortere,

Lucr. 2, 1097:

boat caelum fremitu virum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 78; cf. Tib. 2, 5, 73; Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 1; cf. Cat. 62, 26:

quicquid deorum in caelo regit,

Hor. Epod. 5, 1 et saep.:

lapides pluere, fulmina jaci de caelo,

Liv. 28, 27, 16.—Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning, Cato, R. R. 14, 3; Liv. 26, 23, 5 Drak.; 29, 14, 3; Verg. E. 1, 17; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Galb. 1; Tac. A. 13, 24; 14, 12;

so also, e caelo ictus,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16.—

Personified: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; father of Saturn, Enn. ap. Non. p. 197, 9; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 63; of Vulcan, id. ib. 3, 21, 55; of Mercury and the first Venus, id. ib. 3, 23, 59, Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 297 al.—

In the lang. of augury:

de caelo servare,

to observe the signs of heaven, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3; so,

de caelo fieri, of celestial signs,

to appear, occur, id. Div. 1, 42, 93.—

Prov.:

quid si nunc caelum ruat? of a vain fear,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41 Don.; cf. Varr ap. Non. p. 499, 24: delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.. caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90; Liv. 10, 8, 10; Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13:

decidere de caelo,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 6 al.: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; cf. Verg. A. 1, 133; 5, 790; Juv. 2, 25: findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken, Macr. S. 3, 12, 10.—

Gen. caeli in a pun with Caeli, gen. of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad Verg. E. 3, 105.—

In eccl. Lat. the plur caeli, ōrum, m., is very freq., the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12; id. adv. Marc. 4, 22; 5, 15; Lact. Epit. 1, 3; Cypr. Ep. 3, 3; 4, 5; Vulg. Psa. 32, 6; 21, 32; id. Isa. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region:

cuicumque particulae caeli officeretur, quamvis esset procul, mutari lumina putabat,

to whatever part of the horizon, however distant, the view was obstructed, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 179; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 45:

hoc caelum, sub quo natus educatusque essem,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; so Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216; 17, 2, 2, §§ 16 and 19 sq.; Flor. 4, 12, 62:

caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 27.—

The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very freq.):

in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aër,

Lucr. 4, 132; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 102:

caelum hoc, in quo nubes, imbres ventique coguntur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

pingue et concretum caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130: commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione, id. N. D. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

caell intemperies,

Liv. 8, 18, 1; Quint. 7, 2, 3;

Col. prooem. 1' intemperantia,

id. ib. 3:

spiritus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15:

gravitas,

id. Att. 11, 22, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85:

varium caeli morem praediscere,

Verg. G. 1, 51:

varietas et mutatio,

Col. 11, 2, 1:

qualitas,

Quint. 5, 9, 15:

caeli solique clementia,

Flor. 3, 3, 13:

subita mutatio,

id. 4, 10, 9 al. —With adj.:

bonum,

Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

tenue,

Cic. Fat. 4, 7:

salubre,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

serenum,

Verg. G. 1, 260:

palustre,

Liv. 22, 2, 11:

austerum,

Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123:

foedum imbribus ac nebulis,

Tac. Agr. 12:

atrox,

Flor. 3, 2, 2 et saep.:

hibernum,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

austrinum,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

Italum,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 4:

Sabinum,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 77; cf.:

quae sit hiems Veliae, quod caelum Salerni,

id. ib. 1, 15, 1. —

Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 35; Caes. B. C. 1, 68; Auct. B. Afr. 11; 80; cf.:

eodem die albescente caelo,

Dig. 28, 2, 25, § 1:

vesperascente caelo,

in the evening twilight, Nep. Pelop. 2, 5.—

Height:

mons in caelum attollitur,

toward heaven, heavenwards, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6; cf.

Verg.: aequata machina caelo,

Verg. A. 4, 89.—So of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world:

falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes,

Verg. A. 6, 896.—

Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, etc. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Apoc. 4, 2; 11, 15 et saep.; cf.:

cum (animus) exierit et in liberum caelum quasi domum suam venerit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51:

ut non ad mortem trudi, verum in caelum videretur escendere,

id. ib. 1, 29, 71.—

Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, etc.:

Caesar in caelum fertur,

Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 6; cf. id. Att. 14, 18, 1; 6, 2, 9:

Pisonem ferebat in caelum,

praised, id. ib. 16, 7, 5:

te summis laudibus ad caelum extulerunt,

id. Fam. 9, 14, 1; 12, 25, 7; Hor. Ep 1, 10, 9; Tac. Or. 19.—Of things:

omnia, quae etiam tu in caelum ferebas,

extolled, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5:

caelo tenus extollere aliquid,

Just. 12, 6, 2:

in caelo ponere aliquem,

id.,4,14; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; Flor. 2, 19, 3:

Catonem caelo aequavit,

Tac. A. 4, 34:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29; cf.:

recludere caelum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 22;

the opp.: collegam de caelo detraxisti,

deprived of his exalted honor, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 107: in caelo sum, I am in heaven, i. e. am very happy, id. Att. 2, 9, 1:

digito caelum attingere,

to be extremely fortunate, id. ib. 2, 1, 7:

caelum accepisse fatebor,

Ov. M. 14, 844:

tunc tangam vertice caelum,

Aus. Idyll. 8 fin.; cf.:

caelum merere,

Sen. Suas. 1 init. —

In gen., a vault, arch, covering:

caelum camerarum,

the interior surface of a vault, Vitr. 7, 3, 3; Flor. 3, 5, 30 dub.:

capitis,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134.

con-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a. [con- = cum, and 2. do], lit., to bring, lay or put together (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

With the access. idea of uniting, to put or join together into a whole, to form, fashion, produce, make by joining together.

Prop., of the founding of towns or states, to found, establish: Romam, Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2, and Suet. Aug. 7 fin. (Ann. v. 494 Vahl.):

oppida,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 142; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 8:

urbem,

Lucr. 5, 1107; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sall. C. 6, 1; Liv. 1, 19, 1; Suet. Aug. 18; 47; Just. 2, 4, 15; 2, 15, 1:

arces,

Verg. E. 2, 61:

locum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 92: colonias. Vell. 1, 15; Just. 16, 3, 7:

civitatem,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

regna,

Just. 2, 1 init.:

imperium Poenorum,

id. 19, 1, 1.—Hence, often ante and post Romam conditam, before and after the foundation of Rome, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3; cf. Liv. praef. § 6 al.—

Transf. to the inhabitants:

Romanam gentem,

Verg. A. 1, 33:

genus hominum,

Just. 2, 6, 11.—Hence, mid.:

optato conduntur Thybridis alveo,

they settle, Verg. A. 7, 303 (condi proprie dicuntur, qui sibi statuunt civitatem. Conduntur ergo; sedem stabilem locant, Serv.). —

Of the erecting, building of other things, to make, construct, build:

aram,

Liv. 1, 7, 11; 28, 46, 16:

sepulcrum,

Hor. Epod. 9, 26:

moenia,

Verg. A. 1, 276; Ov. M. 3, 13; 14, 775; Just. 2, 12, 4.—

Of written productions, to compose, write, celebrate, write or treat of, describe: SIVE CARMEN CONDIDISSET, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; so,

carmen,

Lucr. 5, 2; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. Ep. 1, 3, 24; id. A. P. 436; Liv. 27, 37, 7; 31, 12, 10; Quint. 10, 1, 56 et saep.:

poëma,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15:

longas Iliadas,

Prop. 2, 1, 14:

bella,

Verg. E. 6, 7:

Caesaris acta,

Ov. Tr. 2, 336:

proelia,

Stat. Th. 1, 8:

festa numeris,

Ov. F. 6, 24:

alterum satirae genus,

Quint. 10, 1, 95:

aliqua in hac materiā,

id. 3, 1, 19:

prosam orationem,

Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112:

historiam,

id. 12, 4, 8, § 18; cf.:

aliquid annalibus,

id. 2, 9, 6, § 43:

praecepta medendi,

id. 26, 2, 6, § 10:

laudes alicujus,

id. 22, 13, 15, § 35.— Rarely,

Absol.:

si etiamnum Homero condente Aegyptus non erat,

Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 88.—

Trop., to establish, found, to be the author of, to produce, make:

jusjurandum,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 18:

aurea saecula,

Verg. A. 6, 793:

collegium novum,

Liv. 5, 52, 11:

morem,

Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150:

nova fata,

Verg. A. 10, 35:

aeternam famam ingenio suo,

Phaedr. 3, prol. 53; so,

nomen memorandum,

Sil. 4, 37:

militarem disciplinam artemque bellandi,

Flor. 1, 3, 1:

somniorum intellegentiam (Joseph),

Just. 36, 2, 8.—Of the gods:

portenta sua,

to fuifil, accomplish, Sil. 16, 126.— Impers.:

naturā rerum conditum est, ut, etc.,

Dig. 19, 5, 4.—

With the access. idea of carefulness, to put away, to lay, put, or place somewhere for preservation, etc.; to lay up, store or treasure up (opp. promo).

In gen.

Prop.

Aliquid:

pecuniam,

Cic. Clu. 26, 72:

frumentum,

id. N. D. 2, 63, 157; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 140: condere et reponere fructus, [p. 409] Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

agri multa efferunt, quae... mandentur condita vetustati,

id. ib. 2, 60, 151; cf. id. Brut. 4, 16; Varr. R. R. 1, 62;

Auct. B. Afr. 65: vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 13; cf. Mart. 13, 111, 2; Verg. E. 3, 43; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12:

aliquid proprio horreo,

id. C. 1, 1, 9:

Sabinum testā levi,

id. ib. 1, 20, 3:

pressa mella puris amphoris,

id. Epod. 2, 15:

messem,

Tib. 1, 1, 42:

fruges,

Paul. Sent. 2, 8, 2.—

With the designation of the place (most freq. by in and acc.):

minas viginti in crumenam,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 9:

mustum in dolium,

Varr. R. R. 1, 65, 1:

cineres in urnas,

Suet. Calig. 15:

barbam in auream pyxidem,

id. Ner. 12; cf. id. ib. 47:

legem in aerarium,

id. ib. 28:

libri in sacrarium conditi,

Gell. 1, 19, 10; cf.

the foll.: te in pistrinum,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 120; cf.:

aliquem in custodiam,

Liv. 31, 23, 9; Tac. H. 4, 2:

aliquem in carcerem,

to thrust into prison, imprison, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 76; Liv. 26, 16, 6; 29, 22, 7; 30, 21, 5;

45, 42, 5: aliquem in vincula,

id. 23, 38, 7; 26, 34, 4. —With adv.:

argentum intro,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 120; id. Truc. 5, 28:

sortes eo,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86 Orell. N. cr. —With in and abl.:

litteras publicas in aerario sanctiore,

to keep, lay up, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 63, § 140:

se (aves) in foliis,

Verg. G. 4, 473:

novissimo die dein (argyritin) condunt in plumbeo vase,

Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 109.—With abl.:

condidit (libros Sibyllinos) duobus forulis auratis sub Palatini Apollinis basi,

Suet. Aug. 31; Scrib. Comp. 145.—With locat.:

id domi nostrae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 5; cf.:

ut ei jam exploratus et domi conditus consulatus videretur,

i. e. he was sure of it, id. Mur. 24, 49.—

Trop.: teneo omnia;

in pectore condita sunt,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 31:

mandata corde memori,

Cat. 64, 231:

tu, qui omne bonum in visceribus medullisque condideris,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 27:

in causis conditae sunt res futurae,

lie, are contained, id. Div. 1, 56, 128. —Hence,

Esp.,

In econom. lang., to preserve, pickle (for which the access. form condio, īre, became prevalent):

lentiscum in acetum (cf. just before, oleae quomodo condiantur),

Cato, R. R. 117:

ficus in orcas,

Col. 12, 15, 2:

fructum in cados,

Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 48:

corna in liquidā faece,

Ov. M. 8, 666:

oleum,

Suet. Caes. 53.—

In medic. lang., to set:

ossa,

Cels. 8, 23:

calcem,

id. 8, 22:

articulum,

id. 8, 24.—

To inter, bury (cf. compono, II. B. 1. c.):

mortuos cerā circumlitos,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108:

aliquem sepulcro,

id. Leg. 2, 22, 56; Verg. A. 3, 67; Ov. M. 7, 618; 8, 235:

ossa parentis terrā,

Verg. A. 5, 48; so,

aliquem terrā,

Plin. 7, 54, 55, § 187:

corpora defunctorum in lapide sarcophago,

id. 36, 17, 27, § 131:

fraternas umbras tumulo,

Ov. F. 5, 451; so id. M. 14, 442; Val. Fl. 5, 198:

ossa peregrinā ripā,

Ov. M. 2, 337:

in Tomitanā condar humo?

id. P. 3, 1, 6:

inhumatos Manes,

Luc. 9, 151:

Alexandrum intemperantiā bibendi... condidit,

brought to the grave, Sen. Ep. 83, 23:

patrem,

Phaedr. 4, 4, 30:

fulgura publica condere,

Juv. 6, 587, v. fulgur; cf.:

Aruns dispersos fulminis ignes Colligit et terrae maesto cum murmure condit,

Luc. 1, 606 sq. —

Poet., of time, to pass, spend, live through, bring to a close:

saecla vivendo,

Lucr. 3, 1090:

longos soles cantando,

Verg. E. 9, 52:

cum referetque diem condetque relatum,

i. e. morning and evening, id. G. 1, 458:

diem collibus in suis,

Hor. C. 4, 5, 29:

diem,

Stat. Th. 10, 54; Plin. Ep. 9, 36, 4; id. Pan. 80 fin.; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 20 fin.:

noctem,

Sil. 4, 482.—In respect to lustrum, v. 2. lustrum, I.—

Transf., to conceal, hide, secrete, suppress:

Sibyllam quidem sepositam et conditam habeamus, ut... injussu senatūs ne legantur quidem libri,

Cic. Div. 2, 54, 112:

quicquid sub terrā est in apricum proferet aetas, Defodiet condetque nitentia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 25:

lumen,

Lucr. 4, 434; so,

lunam (nubes),

Hor. C. 2, 16, 3:

aliquid jocoso furto,

id. ib. 1, 10, 8:

vultus,

Ov. M. 2, 330; cf.:

vultum aequore,

id. ib. 11, 255:

enses,

to sheathe, Hor. Epod. 7, 2:

ferrum,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 8:

gladium,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

15: scuta latentia,

Verg. A. 3, 237:

oculos,

to close, shut, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44 (but oculi conditi, v. P. a. infra); so,

lumina,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 64:

se in viscera (terrae),

Ov. M. 2, 274:

se sub lectum,

Suet. Calig. 51.—Mid., Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 223:

nocte... aliquot Numidarum turmas medio in saltu condiderat,

i. e. placed in ambush, Liv. 27, 26, 8; so, hostis in silvis armatum militem condidit, Curt. 8, 1, 4; cf.:

ibi Dahas condidit,

id. 7, 7, 32:

(Danai) notā conduntur in alvo,

concealed themselves, Verg. A. 2, 401:

fera murmura,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 61:

iram,

Tac. A. 2, 28.—With abl.:

his mensibus pisces jacent speluncis conditi,

Plin. 9, 16, 24, § 56:

huic sollertiā est inanium ostrearum testis se condere,

id. 8, 31, 51, § 98:

luna condita tenebris,

Tac. A. 1, 28:

aliquid alvo,

to swallow, Sil. 6, 199.—

Poet.

To thrust or strike in deep, to plunge (cf. abscondo):

ensem in pectus,

Ov. M. 13, 392:

digitos in lumina,

id. ib. 13, 561; 12, 295;

5, 423: ensem totum alicui in adverso pectore,

Verg. A. 9, 348:

telum jugulo,

Ov. M. 13, 459; Sen. Oedip. 1037; cf. pass.:

nihil tam facile in corpus quam sagitta conditur,

Cels. 7, 5, n. 2.—

Trop.:

stimulos caecos in pectore,

Ov. M. 1, 727.—

To hide by sailing away, to lose sight of:

navita condit urbes,

Val. Fl. 2, 443; cf. abscondo.—Hence,

condĭtus, a, um, P. a., close, secret, deep (rare):

praecordia,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 89:

oculi,

deep set, Plin. 11, 37, 53, § 141.—

condĭta, ōrum, n., the laid up store (late Lat.), Cod. Th. 7, 4, 3; Dig. 32, 95 al.

con-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a. [con- = cum, and 2. do], lit., to bring, lay or put together (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

With the access. idea of uniting, to put or join together into a whole, to form, fashion, produce, make by joining together.

Prop., of the founding of towns or states, to found, establish: Romam, Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2, and Suet. Aug. 7 fin. (Ann. v. 494 Vahl.):

oppida,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 142; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 8:

urbem,

Lucr. 5, 1107; Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Sall. C. 6, 1; Liv. 1, 19, 1; Suet. Aug. 18; 47; Just. 2, 4, 15; 2, 15, 1:

arces,

Verg. E. 2, 61:

locum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 92: colonias. Vell. 1, 15; Just. 16, 3, 7:

civitatem,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12:

regna,

Just. 2, 1 init.:

imperium Poenorum,

id. 19, 1, 1.—Hence, often ante and post Romam conditam, before and after the foundation of Rome, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3; cf. Liv. praef. § 6 al.—

Transf. to the inhabitants:

Romanam gentem,

Verg. A. 1, 33:

genus hominum,

Just. 2, 6, 11.—Hence, mid.:

optato conduntur Thybridis alveo,

they settle, Verg. A. 7, 303 (condi proprie dicuntur, qui sibi statuunt civitatem. Conduntur ergo; sedem stabilem locant, Serv.). —

Of the erecting, building of other things, to make, construct, build:

aram,

Liv. 1, 7, 11; 28, 46, 16:

sepulcrum,

Hor. Epod. 9, 26:

moenia,

Verg. A. 1, 276; Ov. M. 3, 13; 14, 775; Just. 2, 12, 4.—

Of written productions, to compose, write, celebrate, write or treat of, describe: SIVE CARMEN CONDIDISSET, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Rep. 4, 10, 12; so,

carmen,

Lucr. 5, 2; Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; id. Ep. 1, 3, 24; id. A. P. 436; Liv. 27, 37, 7; 31, 12, 10; Quint. 10, 1, 56 et saep.:

poëma,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15:

longas Iliadas,

Prop. 2, 1, 14:

bella,

Verg. E. 6, 7:

Caesaris acta,

Ov. Tr. 2, 336:

proelia,

Stat. Th. 1, 8:

festa numeris,

Ov. F. 6, 24:

alterum satirae genus,

Quint. 10, 1, 95:

aliqua in hac materiā,

id. 3, 1, 19:

prosam orationem,

Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112:

historiam,

id. 12, 4, 8, § 18; cf.:

aliquid annalibus,

id. 2, 9, 6, § 43:

praecepta medendi,

id. 26, 2, 6, § 10:

laudes alicujus,

id. 22, 13, 15, § 35.— Rarely,

Absol.:

si etiamnum Homero condente Aegyptus non erat,

Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 88.—

Trop., to establish, found, to be the author of, to produce, make:

jusjurandum,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 18:

aurea saecula,

Verg. A. 6, 793:

collegium novum,

Liv. 5, 52, 11:

morem,

Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150:

nova fata,

Verg. A. 10, 35:

aeternam famam ingenio suo,

Phaedr. 3, prol. 53; so,

nomen memorandum,

Sil. 4, 37:

militarem disciplinam artemque bellandi,

Flor. 1, 3, 1:

somniorum intellegentiam (Joseph),

Just. 36, 2, 8.—Of the gods:

portenta sua,

to fuifil, accomplish, Sil. 16, 126.— Impers.:

naturā rerum conditum est, ut, etc.,

Dig. 19, 5, 4.—

With the access. idea of carefulness, to put away, to lay, put, or place somewhere for preservation, etc.; to lay up, store or treasure up (opp. promo).

In gen.

Prop.

Aliquid:

pecuniam,

Cic. Clu. 26, 72:

frumentum,

id. N. D. 2, 63, 157; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 140: condere et reponere fructus, [p. 409] Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

agri multa efferunt, quae... mandentur condita vetustati,

id. ib. 2, 60, 151; cf. id. Brut. 4, 16; Varr. R. R. 1, 62;

Auct. B. Afr. 65: vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 13; cf. Mart. 13, 111, 2; Verg. E. 3, 43; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12:

aliquid proprio horreo,

id. C. 1, 1, 9:

Sabinum testā levi,

id. ib. 1, 20, 3:

pressa mella puris amphoris,

id. Epod. 2, 15:

messem,

Tib. 1, 1, 42:

fruges,

Paul. Sent. 2, 8, 2.—

With the designation of the place (most freq. by in and acc.):

minas viginti in crumenam,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 9:

mustum in dolium,

Varr. R. R. 1, 65, 1:

cineres in urnas,

Suet. Calig. 15:

barbam in auream pyxidem,

id. Ner. 12; cf. id. ib. 47:

legem in aerarium,

id. ib. 28:

libri in sacrarium conditi,

Gell. 1, 19, 10; cf.

the foll.: te in pistrinum,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 120; cf.:

aliquem in custodiam,

Liv. 31, 23, 9; Tac. H. 4, 2:

aliquem in carcerem,

to thrust into prison, imprison, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 76; Liv. 26, 16, 6; 29, 22, 7; 30, 21, 5;

45, 42, 5: aliquem in vincula,

id. 23, 38, 7; 26, 34, 4. —With adv.:

argentum intro,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 120; id. Truc. 5, 28:

sortes eo,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86 Orell. N. cr. —With in and abl.:

litteras publicas in aerario sanctiore,

to keep, lay up, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 63, § 140:

se (aves) in foliis,

Verg. G. 4, 473:

novissimo die dein (argyritin) condunt in plumbeo vase,

Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 109.—With abl.:

condidit (libros Sibyllinos) duobus forulis auratis sub Palatini Apollinis basi,

Suet. Aug. 31; Scrib. Comp. 145.—With locat.:

id domi nostrae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 5; cf.:

ut ei jam exploratus et domi conditus consulatus videretur,

i. e. he was sure of it, id. Mur. 24, 49.—

Trop.: teneo omnia;

in pectore condita sunt,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 31:

mandata corde memori,

Cat. 64, 231:

tu, qui omne bonum in visceribus medullisque condideris,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 27:

in causis conditae sunt res futurae,

lie, are contained, id. Div. 1, 56, 128. —Hence,

Esp.,

In econom. lang., to preserve, pickle (for which the access. form condio, īre, became prevalent):

lentiscum in acetum (cf. just before, oleae quomodo condiantur),

Cato, R. R. 117:

ficus in orcas,

Col. 12, 15, 2:

fructum in cados,

Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 48:

corna in liquidā faece,

Ov. M. 8, 666:

oleum,

Suet. Caes. 53.—

In medic. lang., to set:

ossa,

Cels. 8, 23:

calcem,

id. 8, 22:

articulum,

id. 8, 24.—

To inter, bury (cf. compono, II. B. 1. c.):

mortuos cerā circumlitos,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108:

aliquem sepulcro,

id. Leg. 2, 22, 56; Verg. A. 3, 67; Ov. M. 7, 618; 8, 235:

ossa parentis terrā,

Verg. A. 5, 48; so,

aliquem terrā,

Plin. 7, 54, 55, § 187:

corpora defunctorum in lapide sarcophago,

id. 36, 17, 27, § 131:

fraternas umbras tumulo,

Ov. F. 5, 451; so id. M. 14, 442; Val. Fl. 5, 198:

ossa peregrinā ripā,

Ov. M. 2, 337:

in Tomitanā condar humo?

id. P. 3, 1, 6:

inhumatos Manes,

Luc. 9, 151:

Alexandrum intemperantiā bibendi... condidit,

brought to the grave, Sen. Ep. 83, 23:

patrem,

Phaedr. 4, 4, 30:

fulgura publica condere,

Juv. 6, 587, v. fulgur; cf.:

Aruns dispersos fulminis ignes Colligit et terrae maesto cum murmure condit,

Luc. 1, 606 sq. —

Poet., of time, to pass, spend, live through, bring to a close:

saecla vivendo,

Lucr. 3, 1090:

longos soles cantando,

Verg. E. 9, 52:

cum referetque diem condetque relatum,

i. e. morning and evening, id. G. 1, 458:

diem collibus in suis,

Hor. C. 4, 5, 29:

diem,

Stat. Th. 10, 54; Plin. Ep. 9, 36, 4; id. Pan. 80 fin.; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 20 fin.:

noctem,

Sil. 4, 482.—In respect to lustrum, v. 2. lustrum, I.—

Transf., to conceal, hide, secrete, suppress:

Sibyllam quidem sepositam et conditam habeamus, ut... injussu senatūs ne legantur quidem libri,

Cic. Div. 2, 54, 112:

quicquid sub terrā est in apricum proferet aetas, Defodiet condetque nitentia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 25:

lumen,

Lucr. 4, 434; so,

lunam (nubes),

Hor. C. 2, 16, 3:

aliquid jocoso furto,

id. ib. 1, 10, 8:

vultus,

Ov. M. 2, 330; cf.:

vultum aequore,

id. ib. 11, 255:

enses,

to sheathe, Hor. Epod. 7, 2:

ferrum,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 8:

gladium,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

15: scuta latentia,

Verg. A. 3, 237:

oculos,

to close, shut, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44 (but oculi conditi, v. P. a. infra); so,

lumina,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 64:

se in viscera (terrae),

Ov. M. 2, 274:

se sub lectum,

Suet. Calig. 51.—Mid., Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 223:

nocte... aliquot Numidarum turmas medio in saltu condiderat,

i. e. placed in ambush, Liv. 27, 26, 8; so, hostis in silvis armatum militem condidit, Curt. 8, 1, 4; cf.:

ibi Dahas condidit,

id. 7, 7, 32:

(Danai) notā conduntur in alvo,

concealed themselves, Verg. A. 2, 401:

fera murmura,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 61:

iram,

Tac. A. 2, 28.—With abl.:

his mensibus pisces jacent speluncis conditi,

Plin. 9, 16, 24, § 56:

huic sollertiā est inanium ostrearum testis se condere,

id. 8, 31, 51, § 98:

luna condita tenebris,

Tac. A. 1, 28:

aliquid alvo,

to swallow, Sil. 6, 199.—

Poet.

To thrust or strike in deep, to plunge (cf. abscondo):

ensem in pectus,

Ov. M. 13, 392:

digitos in lumina,

id. ib. 13, 561; 12, 295;

5, 423: ensem totum alicui in adverso pectore,

Verg. A. 9, 348:

telum jugulo,

Ov. M. 13, 459; Sen. Oedip. 1037; cf. pass.:

nihil tam facile in corpus quam sagitta conditur,

Cels. 7, 5, n. 2.—

Trop.:

stimulos caecos in pectore,

Ov. M. 1, 727.—

To hide by sailing away, to lose sight of:

navita condit urbes,

Val. Fl. 2, 443; cf. abscondo.—Hence,

condĭtus, a, um, P. a., close, secret, deep (rare):

praecordia,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 89:

oculi,

deep set, Plin. 11, 37, 53, § 141.—

condĭta, ōrum, n., the laid up store (late Lat.), Cod. Th. 7, 4, 3; Dig. 32, 95 al.

dēfectĭo, ōnis, f. [deficio].

Defection, desertion, rebellion, revolt.

Lit.:

rebellio facta post deditionem, defectio datis obsidibus,

Caes. B. G. 3, 10; 5, 26; 6, 3, 4; Liv. 7, 42; 23, 12: Ampsivariorum a tergo, in the rear (of Caesar), Tac. A. 2, 8; 4, 24 et saep.:

subita defectio Pompeii,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 4 al.:

imperii,

from the empire, Just. 41, 2, 1.—

Trop.:

intemperantia, quae est a tota mente et a recta ratione defectio,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 22.—

(Acc. to deficio, no. III.) A failing, failure, deficiency, want, disappearance.

Lit. (so most freq.):

ista ipsa defectio virium adolescentiae vitiis efficitur saepius quam senectutis,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 29:

aquarum, Frontin. Aquaed. 91: pecuniae,

Macr. Sat. 2, 5:

rerum,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2.—

Esp. of the obscuration of the heavenly bodies, an eclipse:

solis defectiones itemque lunae praedicuntur in multos annos,

Cic. Div. 2, 6, 17; 1, 49 fin.; id. N. D. 2, 61; id. Rep. 1, 14 fin.; Sen. Q. N. 1, 12; Quint. 1, 10, 47; Tac. A. 1, 28 et saep.—

Also (sc. virium), exhaustion, faintness, swooning, fainting (post-Aug. prose), Plin. 23, praef. §

4: animae,

a swoon, Cels. 7, 33; Suet. Cal. 50:

alvo usque ad defectionem soluta,

id. Vesp. 24; cf. id. Tib. 73:

recreandae defectioni cibum adferre,

Tac. A. 6, 56 (50); cf.: defectione perire, by exhaustion, i. e. by disease, Sen. N. Q. 2, 59, 11:

in cunctis renibus,

Vulg. Nahum 2, 10.—

In the later grammarians, an ellipsis:

dicere aliquid per defectionem,

by ellipsis, elliptically, Gell. 5, 8, 3; 12, 14, 3; Macr. Sat. 6, 8 al.—

Trop.:

Quintus frater omnia mittit spei plena, metuens credo defectionem animi mei,

my want of courage, despondency, Cic. Att. 3, 18.

gigno, gĕnŭi, gĕnĭtum, 3 (archaic primary form of the pres. gĕno, ĕre:

genit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 19: genunt, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.:

genat,

Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4: genitur, Auct. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 42, 122; Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 141:

genuntur,

Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 3:

genamur,

Censor. 3, 1; inf. pass. geni, Lucr. 3, 797; gen. gerund. genendi, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 1:

genendo,

Censor. 3, 1; Arn. 4, 21; inf. pres. pass. gignier, Lucr. 3, 623; 6, 246; 807), v. a. [root gen-; Sanscr. ǵan-, ǵanami, beget; gātis, birth; Gr. gen- in gignomai, genos, gunê; Lat. genus, genius, gener, gens; also nascor (gn-; cf. gnatus), natura; cf. gamos, gambros (v. Curt. Gr. Etym. 536); gigno for gigeno, redupl. like gignomai], to beget, bear, bring forth, produce; in pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed; of animate and inanimate subjects and objects (syn.: creo, genero, pario).

Lit.: Saturno, quem Coelus genuit, Enn. ap. Non. 197, 9 (Ann. v. 27 Vahl.):

sextus (Hercules) hic ex Alcumena, quem Juppiter genuit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42:

nec Hecubam causam interitus fuisse Trojanis, quod Alexandrum genuerit, nec Tyndareum Agamemnoni, quod Clytaemnestram,

id. Fat. 15, 34:

quaecumque animal pariunt, in capita gignunt,

bring forth their young with the head foremost, Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183. So of the human mother (mostly post-Aug.):

idcirco, inquit Lacaena, genueram (filium),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102:

e septem liberis, quos ipsa genuisset, unum superesse,

Curt. 10, 5, 23:

rectius Lolliam induci, quando nullos liberos genuisset,

Tac. A. 12, 2 init.; Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; so,

ex aliquo,

Curt. 8, 3, 3; Tac. A. 12, 3:

pisces ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129:

ova,

Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 204:

omnia quae terra gignat (shortly before, pariat),

Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Fin. 5, 11, 33: o Romule, Romule die, Qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.); cf.:

ut idem deus urbem hanc gentibus, vos huic urbi genuisse videatur,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 32:

ita ut plurimum (aurum) Asturia gignat,

Plin. 33. [p. 815] 4, 21, §

78: India eos (beryllos) gignit,

id. 37, 5, 20, § 76:

ad majora quaedam natura nos genuit et conformavit,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23:

deus animum ex sua mente et divinitate genuit,

id. Univ. 8.— Pass., usu. with abl., of either or both parents:

Meri bellatores gignuntur,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 85:

nuper erat genitus,

Ov. M. 10, 522:

qui antecedente anno genitum eum scribant,

Suet. Tib. 5:

septimo mense geniti,

Plin. 11, 37, 59, § 158:

pellice genitus,

Liv. 40, 9, 2; Suet. Aug. 17:

Jove genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 1; 9, 8, 22:

juvenes eadem matre geniti,

id. 6, 14, 4; Liv. 1, 3, 3; Suet. Aug. 17; id. Tib. 7; id. Ner. 5 fin.:

genitum fratre adoptaverat,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 2.—Also with de, ab, ex:

De quo Remulusque feroxque Acrota sunt geniti,

Ov. M. 14, 617:

genitus de sanguine,

id. ib. 1, 748; id. H. 16, 117:

de Jove,

Gell. 13, 1, 3 (cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34):

filium ab eo genitum nominare,

Just. 12, 7, 10;

but: a se (= ex se) genitum esse Vitellium,

Tac. H. 3, 64:

puer ex ea genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 36:

(vacca) e terra genita,

Ov. M. 1, 615:

dis genite et geniture deos,

Verg. A. 9, 642:

dis genitus,

Quint. 1, 10, 9:

adolescentis in omnium virtutum exempla geniti,

Vell. 2, 116, 2:

quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 22:

nec enim id esset principium, quod gigneretur aliunde,

id. Rep. 6, 25:

ubi tus gignitur,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 89:

Corycium nemus, ubi crocum gignitur,

Curt. 3, 4 fin. — Poet. with inf.:

omne potens animal leti genitumque nocere,

Luc. 6, 485.— Absol.:

ut in gignendo, in educando perfacile appareat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 109:

hae (mulieres), quae gignunt, imbecillos edunt,

Cels. 2, 1 med.

Trop., to produce, occasion, cause:

multa nobis blandimenta natura ipsa genuit,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41:

haec ipsa virtus amicitiam et gignit et continet,

id. Lael. 6, 20:

ludus genuit trepidum certamen et iram, Ira truces inimicitias et funebre bellum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 48:

qui genuit in hac urbe dicendi copiam,

Cic. Brut. 73, 255:

praeceptiones,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

probationes,

Quint. 5, 1, 1:

mel gignit insaniam,

Plin. 21, 13, 45, § 177; cf.:

baccharis odor somnum gignit,

id. 21, 19, 77, § 132:

alium sitim gignit,

id. 20, 6, 23, § 57.—In pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed:

cum ipse (Cato) sui generis initium ac nominis ab se gigni et propagari vellet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:

ex hac maxima libertate tyrannis gignitur et illa injustissima et durissima servitus,

id. Rep. 1, 44:

et aegritudines et metus et reliquae perturbationes omnes gignuntur ex ea (intemperantia),

id. Tusc. 4, 9, 22: Plato eas (ideas) gigni negat et ait semper esse, id. Or. 3, 10:

ipsi autem intelligamus natura gigni sensum diligendi et benevolentiae caritatem,

id. Lael. 9, 32:

odia etiam gigni sempiterna (opp. exstingui familiaritates),

id. ib. 10, 35:

in animorum permotione gignenda,

id. de Or. 3, 30, 118:

de gignenda et comparanda sapientia,

Gell. 13, 8, 1.—Hence, gignentĭa, ĭum, n. (fruit-bearing), organic bodies, things that grow, as plants, trees, etc.:

loca nuda gignentium,

Sall. J. 79, 6:

ilex aucta in altitudinem, quo cuncta gignentium natura fert,

id. ib. 93, 4:

animam animantium omnium non corpoream esse... omniumque gignentium esse seniorem,

App. Dogm. Plat. p. 193; opp. animalia, Lact. de Ira Dei, 1, 13.

immŏdĕrātus ( inm-), a, um, adj. [in-moderatus], without measure, measureless, immeasurable.

Lit. (only poet.): vides sublime, fusum, immoderatum aethera, unbounded (= immensum), Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 25, 65; Lucr. 1, 1013.—

Trop., unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderate (freq. and class.):

ipsum illum Aristotelis discipulum, superbum, crudelem, immoderatum fuisse,

Cic. Att. 13, 28, 3:

homo et turbulentus,

id. Phil. 10, 11, 23:

mulier,

id. Cael. 21, 53:

immensae cupiditates, infinitae et immoderatae sunt,

Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34:

intemperantia,

Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 39:

quippe duos pro uno dominos acceptos, inmoderata, infinita potestate,

Liv. 3, 9, 4:

res immoderata cupido est,

Ov. P. 4, 15, 31:

motus animi, cum immoderatiores sunt, vitia fiunt,

Gell. 19, 12, 4:

immoderatissimae luxuriae esse,

Suet. Ner. 51:

immoderato potu et pastu pars animi obstupefacta,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60:

ne immoderata aut angusta sit oratio,

id. Or. 58, 198: vox immoderatior, Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51: tam immoderatae linguae fuit, unbridled, Suet. Vit. Luc.:

tempestates,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131.—Hence, adv.: immŏdĕrātē.

Lit.: without measure or rule:

moveri immoderate et fortuitu,

Cic. Univ. 13:

vox immoderate profusa,

id. N. D. 2, 59, 149:

effunditur spiritus,

Quint. 11, 3, 63.—

Trop., immoderately, extravagantly:

vivere,

Cic. Univ. 12:

jactari,

id. Div. 1, 29, 60:

abuti nostra facilitate,

id. Fam. 12, 1, 2.— Comp.:

ferre casum incommodorum tuorum,

Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.— Sup.:

laetari,

Spart. Sev. 20.

immŏdĕrātus ( inm-), a, um, adj. [in-moderatus], without measure, measureless, immeasurable.

Lit. (only poet.): vides sublime, fusum, immoderatum aethera, unbounded (= immensum), Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 25, 65; Lucr. 1, 1013.—

Trop., unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderate (freq. and class.):

ipsum illum Aristotelis discipulum, superbum, crudelem, immoderatum fuisse,

Cic. Att. 13, 28, 3:

homo et turbulentus,

id. Phil. 10, 11, 23:

mulier,

id. Cael. 21, 53:

immensae cupiditates, infinitae et immoderatae sunt,

Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34:

intemperantia,

Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 39:

quippe duos pro uno dominos acceptos, inmoderata, infinita potestate,

Liv. 3, 9, 4:

res immoderata cupido est,

Ov. P. 4, 15, 31:

motus animi, cum immoderatiores sunt, vitia fiunt,

Gell. 19, 12, 4:

immoderatissimae luxuriae esse,

Suet. Ner. 51:

immoderato potu et pastu pars animi obstupefacta,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60:

ne immoderata aut angusta sit oratio,

id. Or. 58, 198: vox immoderatior, Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51: tam immoderatae linguae fuit, unbridled, Suet. Vit. Luc.:

tempestates,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131.—Hence, adv.: immŏdĕrātē.

Lit.: without measure or rule:

moveri immoderate et fortuitu,

Cic. Univ. 13:

vox immoderate profusa,

id. N. D. 2, 59, 149:

effunditur spiritus,

Quint. 11, 3, 63.—

Trop., immoderately, extravagantly:

vivere,

Cic. Univ. 12:

jactari,

id. Div. 1, 29, 60:

abuti nostra facilitate,

id. Fam. 12, 1, 2.— Comp.:

ferre casum incommodorum tuorum,

Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.— Sup.:

laetari,

Spart. Sev. 20.

māter, tris, f. [root ma-; Sanscr. and Zend, to make, measure, like Gr. mêtêr, the maker, akin with Dor. matêr; Germ. Mutter; Engl. mother; cf.: materies, manus], a mother ( dat. sing. matre, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 177; dat. plur. matris, Inscr. Grut. 90:

matrabus,

Inscr. Orell. 2089).

Lit.:

si quidem istius regis (sc. Anci Martii) matrem habemus, ignoramus patrem,

Cic. Rep. 2, 18, 33:

cur non sit heres matri suae?

id. ib. 3, 10, 17:

de pietate in matrem,

id. Lael. 3, 11:

Sassia mater hujus Aviti,

id. Clu. 5, 12:

Hecate, quae matre Asteria est,

who has Asteria for her mother, id. N. D. 3, 18, 46:

musa, matre nati,

id. ib. 3, 18, 45: mater esse de aliquo, to be a mother, i. e. to be pregnant by any one, Ov. H. 9, 48:

facere aliquam matrem,

id. M. 9, 491: mater familias or familiae, the mistress of a house, matron (v. familia).—

Transf., a nurse:

mater sua... quae mammam dabat, neque adeo mater ipsa, quae illos pepererat,

Plaut. Men. prol. 19:

puero opust cibo, opus est autem matri quae puerum lavit,

id. Truc. 5 10:

lambere matrem,

Verg. A. 8, 632.—As a title of honor, mother, applied to priestesses: jubemus te salvere, mater. Sa. Salvete puellae, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 5:

amice benigneque honorem, mater, nostrum habes,

id. ib. 1, 5, 30.—To goddesses:

Vesta mater,

Sen. Excerpt. Contr. 4, 2; Verg. G. 1, 498:

mater Matuta, v. h. v.: Flora mater,

Lucr. 5, 739;

the same: florum,

Ov. F. 5, 183: mater magna, or absol.: Mater, i. e. Cybele, the mother of all the gods:

matris magnae sacerdos,

Cic. Sest. 26; cf. absol.: matris quate cymbala circum, Verg. G. 4, 64; id. A. 9, 108:

secreta palatia Matris,

Juv. 9, 23:

matres... cives Romanae, ut jus liberorum consecutae videantur,

Paul. Sent. 4, 9, 1:

matris condicionem sequi,

Gai. Inst. 1, 81; cf. §§ 67, 86.—Also, in gen., a woman, a lady; usu. in plur., women, ladies:

pilentis matres in mollibus,

Verg. A. 8, 666:

matres atque viri,

id. ib. 6, 306; cf. Ov. F. 1, 619.—Of the earth, as the mother of all:

exercitum Dis Manibus matrique Terrae deberi,

Liv. 8, 6; cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 56.—Of a country:

haec terra, quam matrem appellamus,

Liv. 5, 54, 2:

amorum,

i. e. Venus, Ov. H. 16, 201:

cupidinum,

i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 19, 1.—Of animals:

porci cum matribus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4:

excretos prohibent a matribus haedos,

Verg. G. 3, 398:

ova assunt ipsis cum matribus, i. e. cum gallinis,

Juv. 11, 70:

mater simia,

id. 10, 195:

pullus hirundinis ad quem volat mater,

id. 10, 232.—Of the trunks of trees, etc.:

plantas tenero abscindens de corpore matrum,

Verg. G. 2, 23; Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23.—Of a fountain, as the source of waters:

ex grandi palude oritur (fluvius), quam matrem ejus accolae appellant,

Mel. 2, 1, 7.—Of a chief or capital city:

mater Italiae Roma,

Flor. 3, 18, 5:

ut Graeci dicere solent, urbium mater, Cydona,

id. 3, 7, 4:

(Cilicia) matrem urbium habet Tarsum,

Sol. 38; cf. Metropolis.—

Trop.

The mother, i. e. maternal love:

simul matrem labare sensit,

Ov. M. 6, 629: mater redit, Sen. ap. Med. 928.—

Motherhood, maternity, Sen. Herc. Oet. 389.—

A producing cause, origin, source, etc. (freq. and class.):

apes mellis matres,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5:

mater omnium bonarum artium sapientia est,

Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 58:

philosophia mater omnium bene factorum,

id. Brut. 93, 322:

avaritiae mater, luxuries,

id. de Or. 2, 40, 171:

voluptas, malorum mater omnium,

id. Leg. 1, 17, 47; 1, 22, 58; id. Tusc. 1, 26, 64; id. Planc. 33, 80; Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34; Plin. 37, 6, 21, § 80; Quint. 9, 3, 89:

juris et religionis,

Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3:

justitiae imbecillitas mater est,

id. ib. 3, 14, 23:

intemperantia omnium perturbationum mater,

id. Ac. 1, 10, 39:

similitudo est satietatis mater,

id. Inv. 1, 41, 76:

utilitas justi prope mater et aequi,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 98; Lact. 3, 8, 32; Aug. in Psa. 83, 1.—Comically:

eam (sc. hirneam) ego vini ut matre fuerat natum, eduxi meri,

i. e. as it came from the cask, without the addition of water, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 274.—

The protector, shelter, home:

urbs Roma, virtutum omnium mater, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 1: illa Jerusalem quae est mater nostra,

Vulg. Gal. 4, 26.