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  • 1 homo

    hŏmo, ĭnis (archaic form hemonem hominem dicebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 100 Müll.; cf. humanus init., and nēmo, from nĕ-hĕmo: homōnem, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 683 P. = [p. 860] Ann. v. 141 Vahl.:

    hŏmōnes,

    Naev. 1, 1), comm. [root in humus, Gr. chamai; cf. Germ. -gam in Bräutigam; O. H. Germ. gomo; Goth. guma; Old Engl. goom; Engl. groom; cf. also Gr. epichthonioi; Hebr. Adam], a human being, man.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    animal hoc providum, sagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et consilii quem vocamus hominem, praeclara quadam condicione generatum esse a summo deo, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22; cf.

    , on the natural history of man,

    Plin. 7 praef. sq.; § 5 sq.: decem hominibus vitam eripis, indictā causā, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 25 (24), 12: dum quidem unus homo Romanus toga superescit, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 302 Müll. (Ann. v. 486 Vahl.); cf.: unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 313 ib.): navus repertus homo Graio patre Graius homo rex, id. ap. Fest. p. 169 Müll. (Ann. v. 183 ib.):

    homo jam grandior,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 15:

    homo amicus nobis... homo antiqua virtute ac fide,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 86 sq.; cf.:

    bonus homo et nobis amicus,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 18 fin.: quid est, quod homo masculus lubentius videre debeat bella uxore? Varr. ap. Non. 248, 16:

    infelix,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 169:

    homo omni doctrina eruditus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 13; cf.:

    homo summā prudentiā, multā etiam doctrinā,

    id. Fam. 3, 7, 5:

    de hujus hominis (i. e. Pompei) felicitate, etc.,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 16, 47:

    iners atque inutilis,

    id. Off. 3, 6, 31; cf.:

    contemptus et abjectus,

    id. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

    insulsus,

    id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15; cf.

    also: hominum homo stultissime,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 10:

    quid hoc homine faciatis?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 16, § 42:

    consulere generi hominum,

    the human race, mankind, id. Rep. 3, 12:

    genus hominum,

    id. ib. 2, 26; id. de Or. 1, 9, 36; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7 et saep. (more freq., genus humanum; v. humanus and genus); cf.:

    natura hominem conciliat homini... hominum coetus et celebrationes,

    Cic. Off. 1, 4, 12:

    placet Stoicis, quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari, homines autem hominum causa esse generatos,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 22:

    homines plurimum hominibus et prosunt et obsunt,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 17: is dictus popularibus olim, Qui tum vivebant homines, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 15, 58 (Ann. v. 308 Vahl.):

    homines Romani,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    lege conciliati homines cum dis putandi sunt,

    id. Leg. 1, 7, 23:

    pro deum atque hominum fidem!

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 16 et saep.: divumque hominumque pater, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 65 Müll. (Ann. v. 566 Vahl.); so, id. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4 (Ann. v. 567) and ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 254); but homo, sing., is used of the human race, mankind (= homines, genus humanum), when it has no predicate joined with it:

    qua haud scio an quidquam melius sit homini datum,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 20; 3, 11:

    taces, Monstrum hominis?

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 29; cf.:

    odium illud hominis impuri,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1:

    quid hoc sit hominis?

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 26; cf.:

    quid illuc hominus est?

    Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 17;

    in addresses: nisi caves tu homo, etc.,

    id. Heaut. 5, 3, 1:

    tu homo adigis me ad insaniam,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 31.—In apposition:

    mares homines,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 32:

    amanti homini adulescenti,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 94; cf.:

    filius homo adulescens,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 52;

    v. adulescens: verberare hominem senem,

    id. Ad. 4, 2, 23:

    servom hominem,

    id. Phorm. 2, 1, 62:

    oculi hominis histrionis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193:

    nemo homo,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 29; cf.:

    ut homo nemo velit nisi hominis similis esse,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 78;

    v. nemo. —Of females: mater, cujus ea stultitia est, ut eam nemo hominem appellare possit,

    Cic. Clu. 70, 199:

    quae (Io) bos ex homine est,

    Ov. F. 5, 620; Juv. 6, 284:

    dulcissimum ab hominis camelinum lac,

    Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123: homines feminae (opp. mares homines), Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 3.—
    2.
    Prov.
    a.
    Quot homines, tot sententiae, many men, many minds, i. e. every one has his own opinion, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 14; Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 15.—
    b.
    Ut homo est, ita morem geras, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 77 (but in Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 36 spurious, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—
    c.
    Homines, dum docent, discunt, Sen. Ep. 7, 8 fin. —
    d.
    Aiunt homines plus in alieno negotio videre quam in suo, the lookers-on see farther in the game than the players, id. ib. 109, 16. —
    e.
    Homo nulli coloris, neither fish nor flesh, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 99.—
    f.
    Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

    homo ego sum, homo tu es,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 46.—
    g.
    Lupus homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 88.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., in a good or a bad sense.
    a.
    In a good sense (cf. vir), a man, as a reasonable or moral being:

    homo es, qui me emunxisti mucidum,

    Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 57:

    si homo esset, eum potius legeret,

    Cic. Att. 2, 2, 2:

    nox te expolivit hominemque reddidit,

    id. de Or. 2, 10, 40:

    si vis homo esse,

    id. Att. 4, 15, 2:

    homines visi sumus,

    id. ib. 13, 52, 2:

    nos quod simus, quod habeamus, quod homines existimemur, id omne abs te habere,

    id. Fam. 7, 29, 1:

    si tu sis homo,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 11:

    et tu illum tuom, si esses homo, sineres, etc.,

    if you had a man's sense, id. ib. 1, 2, 27:

    exuens hominem ex homine,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35: cum Socrates Alcibiadi persuasisset, eum nihil hominis esse, that he was nothing of a man (i. e. in no respect such as a man should be), id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77:

    (Nero) dicebat se quasi hominem tandem habitare coepisse,

    like a human being, Suet. Ner. 31:

    me hominem inter homines voluit esse,

    Petr. 39. —
    b.
    In a bad sense, a man, as a weak, mortal being, subject to error, of low condition (rare):

    fateor me saepe peccasse, nam et homo sum et adhuc juvenis,

    Petr. 130: cf.

    homines sumus, non dei,

    id. 75:

    (Demosthenes, Homerus) summi sunt, homines tamen,

    Quint. 10, 1, 25.—In fem.: quae si hoc tempore non diem suum obiisset, paucis post annis tamen ei moriendum fuit, quoniam homo nata fuerat, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4.—Also of servants (as distinguished from a free Roman): homo P. Quinti, Quintus's man, i. e. his slave, servant, Cic. Quint. 19, 61:

    vinum familiae... Saturnalibus et Compitalibus in singulos homines congios,

    Cato, R. R. 57, 2; Cat. 10, 16.—
    2.
    In opp. to a woman, a man (anteand post-class., and very rare):

    mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 57; Lact. 2, 12; Dig. 48, 19, 38.—
    * 3.
    In milit. lang., homines, opp. to cavalry, foot-soldiers, infantry:

    capti homines equitesque producebantur,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 39, 5; cf. vir. —
    4.
    Homo novus, v. novus.—
    5.
    Bodies, corpses:

    jam pigritia singulos sepeliendi promisce acervatos cumulos hominum urebant,

    Liv. 5, 48, 3.—
    6.
    Particular phrases.
    a.
    Paucorum hominum esse, to have but few intimates, be choice in one's company: (Maecenas) paucorum hominum et mentis bene sanae. Hor. S. 1, 9, 44:

    homo est Perpaucorum hominum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 19.— Hence, comically, of the favorite but rare fish, acipenser: Scipio vide, quid agas: acipenser iste paucorum hominum est, Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12 (see the anecdote in connection).—
    b.
    Inter homines esse (agere).
    (α).
    To be among the living, to be alive, to live (very rare):

    Hercules numquam abiisset ad deos, nisi cum inter homines esset, eam sibi viam munivisset,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32:

    inter homines esse desinere,

    i. e. to die, Dig. 31, 1, 59; so,

    agere inter homines desinere,

    Tac. A. 15, 74 fin.:

    ab hominibus ereptus est,

    Dig. 31, 1, 58.—
    (β).
    To see the world, be among men:

    iste homo qui numquam inter homines fuerit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 76.—
    II.
    Transf., esp. in familiar lang., the man, the fellow, instead of the pron. he, his, him:

    haben argentum ab homine?

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 65:

    ibi homo coepit me obsecrare, ut, etc.,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 30:

    itast homo,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 63:

    dixit, se senatui roganti de Marcello ne hominis quidem causa negaturum,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 3:

    ei medico imperasti, ut venas hominis incideret,

    id. Pis. 34, 83:

    tantum esse in homine sceleris,

    id. Sest. 9, 22 Halm.; 41, 89; id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 62:

    persuasit homini,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 3:

    aut insanit homo aut versus facit,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 117:

    agnoscit hominem Caesar,

    Phaedr. 2, 5, 19 Burm. ad loc.; al.—
    B.
    Hic homo, this man, = I, myself (ante-class. and poet.):

    hunc hominem velles si tradere,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 47:

    solus hic homo est, qui sciat, etc.,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 33:

    tibi verba, huic homini verbera,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 114 (cf. hic, G.).

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > homo

  • 2 homo

    homo, inis, masc. (altlat. hemo; vgl. nemo), der Mensch, Mann, I) im allg., der Mensch im Ggstz. zum Tiere (bestia od. belua), als masc. auch unser Mann im allg. (hingegen vir im Ggstz. zum Weibe, u. bes. da, wo man mit »Mann« den Begriff der Stärke u. Tüchtigkeit verbindet), im Plur. homines, Menschen, Leute, Cic. u.a.: homo adulescens od. adulescentulus, ein junger (unerfahrener, leichtsinniger) Mensch (Mann), Ggstz. homo senex, ein alter (bedächtiger) Mann, Komik.: h. servus, Sklavenseele, Ter.: h. nemo od. nemo homo, keine Menschenseele, kein Mensch, Ter., Cic. u.a. (s. Ruhnken Ter. eun. 3, 5, 1): h. Romanus, ein Mann von Rom, ein geborener Römer, Cic.: so auch Plur. homines Romani, Cic. (und so oft verstärkend bei Völkernamen): illustres homines, ausgezeichnete Männer, Cic.: clarissimus h., Cic. – im Ggstz. zum Weibe, mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto, Plaut. – inter homines esse = leben (zB. cum inter homines esset, bei Lebzeiten), Cic.; Ggstz. inter homines esse desinere, sterben, ICt. ( dafür inter homines agere desinere, Tac.); u. = unter Leuten sein, mit Leuten od. der großen Welt umgehen, numquam inter homines fuisse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 76. – paucorum hominum esse, nur für wenige Menschen sein = mit wenigen umgehen, sich selten machen, paucorum hominum et mentis bene sanae, der ist nur für wenige vernünftige Menschen, Hor.: Th. Immo sic homo est perpaucorum hominum (er ist für wenige nur). Gn. Immo nullorum arbitror, si tecum vivit, Ter.: u. im Wortspiel, acipenser iste paucorum hominum est, ist nur für wenige (= macht sich selten, wird selten gefunden, u. = reicht nur für wenige hin), Scip. fr. – monstrum hominis, Ungeheuer von einem Menschen, abscheulicher Mensch, Ter.: so auch odium hominis, verhaßter Mensch, Cic. – tu homo (du Mensch, du Menschenkind) adiges me ad insaniam, Ter. – hominum (von allen Menschenkindern) homo stultissime, Ter.: u. so optimus hominum es homo, Plaut.: hic homost hominum omnium praecipuus, Plaut. – II) insbes.: A) prägn., 1) der Mensch od. Mann als solcher, in seiner äußern od. individuellen Erscheinung, tantundem erat in homine, quantum in ingenio, Sen. exc. contr. 3. praef. § 3. p. 242, 5 K. – 2) der Mensch in bezug auf seine Vorzüge u. Gebrechen, a) ein Mann, Mensch = der die höhern u. gesteigerten Ansprüche an das Wesen eines Menschen befriedigt, eum nihil hominis esse, sei ein Mensch ohne alle höhern Vorzüge, Cic.: hominem ex homine tollere od. exuere, dem Menschen das nehmen, was ihn zum Menschen (von menschlichem Fühlen u. dgl.) macht, Cic.: te beluam ex utero, non hominem fudit, Cic. fr. – dah. besonders ein Mensch, der menschlich fühlt, homo sum (bin ein Mensch, habe ein menschliches Herz, fühle menschlich), nihil humani a me alienum puto, Ter.: si quidem homo esset, menschliche Gefühle hätte, Cic. – und = ein Mann von Verstand, -Wort, -Tatkraft, ein tüchtiger Mann, si homo esses od. esset, Ter. u. Cic. (vgl. Westerh. Ter. adelph. 1, 2, 27): si vis homo esse (ein Mann von Wort), recipe te ad nos, Cic.: homines visi sumus, wir ließen uns als tüchtige Leute sehen, Cic. – b) wie unser Mensch, Menschenkind = fehlendes Wesen, quia homo est, menschlich irrte, Cic.: summi enim sunt, homines tamen, musterhaft sind sie (die Redner) nämlich wohl, aber doch Menschen (u. deshalb nicht ohne Fehler), Quint.: nemo non nostrum peccat, homines sumus (Menschenkinder), non dei, Petron. – c) für freies-, gebildetes Wesen (da Sklaven nur als Sachen galten), hominem inter homines feci, zum Menschen unter Menschen, Petron.: hominem me inter homines esse voluit, ein Mensch unter Menschen, Petron. – d) ultra hominem od. homines, supra homines, über die menschliche Natur hinaus, ultra hominem efferatus, Amm. 27, 12, 11: ultra homines se efferens, Amm. 26, 8, 13; vgl. 31, 10, 19: augendi regni cupiditate supra homines flagrans, Amm. 18, 4, 1. – B) mit Nachdruck statt eines Pronomens = is, hic, ille, wie unser der od. jener Mann ( Mensch) = er, dieser, jener, von dem eben die Rede ist, valde hominem diligo, Cic.: nosti os hominis, Cic.; vgl. Halm Cic. Sest. 22. p. 123. Jordan Cic. Caecin. 19. p. 174 sq. Kühner u. Klotz Cic. Tusc. 1, 49. Dietsch u. Kritz Sall. Iug. 70, 5. Bremi Nep. Dat. 10, 3. Fabri Liv. 21, 4, 9. Burmann Phaedr. 2, 5, 19. – dah. auf sich hinweisend: hic homo, der Mann = ich, Komik. u. Hor.; vgl. Wagner Ter. heaut. 356. Fritzsche u. Orelli Hor. sat. 1, 9, 47. – C) der Bursche, Sklave, homo P. Quincti, Cic.: Eros Marci homo, Inscr.: im Plur. = die Leute (Sklaven), arcesse homines, Plaut.: u. = die Angehörigen übh., a tuis hominibus abesse, Cic. – D) Plur. homines = Hausväter, Kolonisten mit ihren Familien, Liv. 34, 45, 1 (vgl. 32, 29, 4, wo dafür familiae). – E) im Ggstz. zur Reiterei homines = Fußgänger, Fußvolk, Caes. b. c. 2, 39, 4. Liv. 22, 52, 4. – F) meton., a) das Erdenleben, die Welt, cum maritus homine discesserit (geschieden ist), Solin. 52, 32. – b) die Mannbarkeit, Zeugungskraft, Mart. 9, 42, 10. – / Archaist. Genet. homenis, Prisc. 6, 15: Dat. homoni, Plaut. trin. 1130 R.2: Akk. homonem, Enn. ann. 138: Genet. Plur. homonum, *Nov. com. 88 R.2: Abl. Plur. homonibus, Plaut. trin. 1018 R.2 (s. jedoch W. Müller Plautin. Pros. S. 502. A. 1 u. Nachtr. S. 80 f.). – Genet. Sing. hominus, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 200. lin. 60 u. 63. – Archaist. Akk. huminem, nach Prisc. 1, 35, hemona nach Paul. ex Fest. 100, 5. – homo ist nirgends gen. fem., sondern steht überall als Gattungsbegriff Mensch im Ggstz. einerseits zur Gottheit, andererseits zum Tier (vgl. Charis. 102, 22), s. Plaut. Amph. 769. Cic. Clu. 199. Sulpic. in Cic. ep. 4, 5, 4. Verg. Aen. 1, 327. Iuven. 6, 284. Vgl. Neue-Wagener Formenl.3 1, 897 f.

    lateinisch-deutsches > homo

  • 3 homo

    homo, inis, masc. (altlat. hemo; vgl. nemo), der Mensch, Mann, I) im allg., der Mensch im Ggstz. zum Tiere (bestia od. belua), als masc. auch unser Mann im allg. (hingegen vir im Ggstz. zum Weibe, u. bes. da, wo man mit »Mann« den Begriff der Stärke u. Tüchtigkeit verbindet), im Plur. homines, Menschen, Leute, Cic. u.a.: homo adulescens od. adulescentulus, ein junger (unerfahrener, leichtsinniger) Mensch (Mann), Ggstz. homo senex, ein alter (bedächtiger) Mann, Komik.: h. servus, Sklavenseele, Ter.: h. nemo od. nemo homo, keine Menschenseele, kein Mensch, Ter., Cic. u.a. (s. Ruhnken Ter. eun. 3, 5, 1): h. Romanus, ein Mann von Rom, ein geborener Römer, Cic.: so auch Plur. homines Romani, Cic. (und so oft verstärkend bei Völkernamen): illustres homines, ausgezeichnete Männer, Cic.: clarissimus h., Cic. – im Ggstz. zum Weibe, mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto, Plaut. – inter homines esse = leben (zB. cum inter homines esset, bei Lebzeiten), Cic.; Ggstz. inter homines esse desinere, sterben, ICt. ( dafür inter homines agere desinere, Tac.); u. = unter Leuten sein, mit Leuten od. der großen Welt umgehen, numquam inter homines fuisse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 76. – paucorum hominum esse, nur für wenige Menschen sein = mit wenigen umgehen, sich selten machen, paucorum hominum et men-
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    tis bene sanae, der ist nur für wenige vernünftige Menschen, Hor.: Th. Immo sic homo est perpaucorum hominum (er ist für wenige nur). Gn. Immo nullorum arbitror, si tecum vivit, Ter.: u. im Wortspiel, acipenser iste paucorum hominum est, ist nur für wenige (= macht sich selten, wird selten gefunden, u. = reicht nur für wenige hin), Scip. fr. – monstrum hominis, Ungeheuer von einem Menschen, abscheulicher Mensch, Ter.: so auch odium hominis, verhaßter Mensch, Cic. – tu homo (du Mensch, du Menschenkind) adiges me ad insaniam, Ter. – hominum (von allen Menschenkindern) homo stultissime, Ter.: u. so optimus hominum es homo, Plaut.: hic homost hominum omnium praecipuus, Plaut. – II) insbes.: A) prägn., 1) der Mensch od. Mann als solcher, in seiner äußern od. individuellen Erscheinung, tantundem erat in homine, quantum in ingenio, Sen. exc. contr. 3. praef. § 3. p. 242, 5 K. – 2) der Mensch in bezug auf seine Vorzüge u. Gebrechen, a) ein Mann, Mensch = der die höhern u. gesteigerten Ansprüche an das Wesen eines Menschen befriedigt, eum nihil hominis esse, sei ein Mensch ohne alle höhern Vorzüge, Cic.: hominem ex homine tollere od. exuere, dem Menschen das nehmen, was ihn zum Menschen (von menschlichem Fühlen u. dgl.) macht, Cic.: te beluam ex utero, non hominem fudit, Cic. fr. – dah. besonders ein Mensch, der menschlich fühlt, homo
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    sum (bin ein Mensch, habe ein menschliches Herz, fühle menschlich), nihil humani a me alienum puto, Ter.: si quidem homo esset, menschliche Gefühle hätte, Cic. – und = ein Mann von Verstand, -Wort, - Tatkraft, ein tüchtiger Mann, si homo esses od. esset, Ter. u. Cic. (vgl. Westerh. Ter. adelph. 1, 2, 27): si vis homo esse (ein Mann von Wort), recipe te ad nos, Cic.: homines visi sumus, wir ließen uns als tüchtige Leute sehen, Cic. – b) wie unser Mensch, Menschenkind = fehlendes Wesen, quia homo est, menschlich irrte, Cic.: summi enim sunt, homines tamen, musterhaft sind sie (die Redner) nämlich wohl, aber doch Menschen (u. deshalb nicht ohne Fehler), Quint.: nemo non nostrum peccat, homines sumus (Menschenkinder), non dei, Petron. – c) für freies-, gebildetes Wesen (da Sklaven nur als Sachen galten), hominem inter homines feci, zum Menschen unter Menschen, Petron.: hominem me inter homines esse voluit, ein Mensch unter Menschen, Petron. – d) ultra hominem od. homines, supra homines, über die menschliche Natur hinaus, ultra hominem efferatus, Amm. 27, 12, 11: ultra homines se efferens, Amm. 26, 8, 13; vgl. 31, 10, 19: augendi regni cupiditate supra homines flagrans, Amm. 18, 4, 1. – B) mit Nachdruck statt eines Pronomens = is, hic, ille, wie unser der od. jener Mann ( Mensch) = er, dieser, jener, von dem eben die Rede ist, valde homi-
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    nem diligo, Cic.: nosti os hominis, Cic.; vgl. Halm Cic. Sest. 22. p. 123. Jordan Cic. Caecin. 19. p. 174 sq. Kühner u. Klotz Cic. Tusc. 1, 49. Dietsch u. Kritz Sall. Iug. 70, 5. Bremi Nep. Dat. 10, 3. Fabri Liv. 21, 4, 9. Burmann Phaedr. 2, 5, 19. – dah. auf sich hinweisend: hic homo, der Mann = ich, Komik. u. Hor.; vgl. Wagner Ter. heaut. 356. Fritzsche u. Orelli Hor. sat. 1, 9, 47. – C) der Bursche, Sklave, homo P. Quincti, Cic.: Eros Marci homo, Inscr.: im Plur. = die Leute (Sklaven), arcesse homines, Plaut.: u. = die Angehörigen übh., a tuis hominibus abesse, Cic. – D) Plur. homines = Hausväter, Kolonisten mit ihren Familien, Liv. 34, 45, 1 (vgl. 32, 29, 4, wo dafür familiae). – E) im Ggstz. zur Reiterei homines = Fußgänger, Fußvolk, Caes. b. c. 2, 39, 4. Liv. 22, 52, 4. – F) meton., a) das Erdenleben, die Welt, cum maritus homine discesserit (geschieden ist), Solin. 52, 32. – b) die Mannbarkeit, Zeugungskraft, Mart. 9, 42, 10. – ⇒ Archaist. Genet. homenis, Prisc. 6, 15: Dat. homoni, Plaut. trin. 1130 R.2: Akk. homonem, Enn. ann. 138: Genet. Plur. homonum, *Nov. com. 88 R.2: Abl. Plur. homonibus, Plaut. trin. 1018 R.2 (s. jedoch W. Müller Plautin. Pros. S. 502. A. 1 u. Nachtr. S. 80 f.). – Genet. Sing. hominus, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 200. lin. 60 u. 63. – Archaist. Akk. huminem, nach Prisc. 1, 35, hemona nach Paul. ex Fest. 100, 5. – homo ist nirgends gen. fem., sondern steht
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    überall als Gattungsbegriff Mensch im Ggstz. einerseits zur Gottheit, andererseits zum Tier (vgl. Charis. 102, 22), s. Plaut. Amph. 769. Cic. Clu. 199. Sulpic. in Cic. ep. 4, 5, 4. Verg. Aen. 1, 327. Iuven. 6, 284. Vgl. Neue-Wagener Formenl.3 1, 897 f.

    Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch > homo

  • 4 sterben

    sterben, mori (im allg., eig. u. übtr.). – demori (wegsterben, von einem Glied aus einer Gesellschaft). – emori (ganz sterben, ersterben, nachdrücklicher als mori). – intermori (absterben, fast nur uneig., von Gewächsen, Wurzeln, vom Feuer etc.). – Für das eig. mori euphemistische Redensarten: de vita decedere od. bl. decedere. e vita excedere. ex vita egredi (vom od. aus dem Leben scheiden, hinscheiden). – animam efflare od. edere. extremum vitae spiritum edere (den letzten Atemzug tun, verscheiden). – vivere oder esse desinere (aufhören zu leben, zu sein). – inter homines esse desinere (aufhören, unter den Menschen zu sein). – exstingui (gleichs. ausgelöscht werden, verlöschen, mit Rücksicht auf das Bild der Lebensflamme). – perire (umkommen, immer mit Ang. wie? od. wodurch? z.B. summo cruciatu: u. turpiter: u. ferro). – mortem od. diem supremum obire (das bestimmte Lebensende, den Tod erreichen, der gew. Ausdr. zur Bezeichnung eines ruhigen. sanften Todes). – mortem oppetere (dem Tod entgegengehen, den Tod erleiden, z.B. milies oppetere mortem quam illa perpeti malle). – mortem occumbere (in den Tod sinken, z.B. pro patria). – eines natürlichen Todes st., vitam naturae reddere; morbo naturae debitum reddere; suā morte defungi; fato fungi od. perfungi; fato obire mortem: freiwillig st., voluntariam occumbere mortem: eines gewaltsamen, keines natürlichen Todes st., morte violentā perire: an einer Krankheit st., morbo mori od. exstingui od. perire od. absumi; in morbum implicitum mori od. decedere: plötzlich st., eines plötzlichen Todes st., repentino mori; mortem repentinam obire: subitā morte exstingui: sanft (eines sanften Todes) st., excedere miti obitu; leni genere mortis exstingui: an einer Wunde st., ex vulnere mori: vor Freude st., mortis causam gaudium habere; nimio gaudio mori od. enecari: vor Alter (vor Alterschwäche) st., senectute confectum oder derelictum supremum diem obire: in sehr hohem Alterst., exactā aetate mori: sterben wollen, animam agere (im Sterben liegen); vitam fugere (nicht mehr leben wollen): gern st. wollen, mori desiderare: nicht st. können, animam agere neque exitum invenire posse: über (bei) einer Arbeit etc. st., in alqa re exstingui: in jmds. Armen st., in alcis complexu extremum vitae spiritum edere: für jmd. st., mori oder emori pro alqo (im allg.); cadere pro alqo (in der Schlacht): ehrenvoll ist es, für das Vaterland zu sterben, mors pro patria praeclara est: mit jmd. st., mori cum alqo.

    deutsch-lateinisches > sterben

  • 5 eripere

    1) вырывать, освободиться (1. 4 pr. D. 2, 7);

    in ius vocatos vi erip. (1. 1 pr. eod.);

    vi latronum ereptum (1. 5 § 4 D. 13, 6. cf. 1. 27 D. 49, 15);

    e pecoribus a bestia ereptum aliquid (1. 8 § 2 D. 10, 2. cf. 1. 44. D. 41, 1);

    res, possessw vi erepta (1. 15 D. 41, 2. 1. 5 C. 41, 3. 1. 17 D. 43, 16);

    eripi ab hominibus = desinere inter homines esse (1. 56. 57 D. 31);

    se eripere, вырваться (1. 43 pr. D. 21, 1).

    2) отнимать, лишать, ius ordinarium erip. pupillo (1. 10 D. 37, 10);

    erip. alicui libertatem (1. 31 pr. D. 36, 1);

    hereduatem (1. 26 D. 48, 10); (1. 49 D. 49, 14); (1. 7 § 1 D. 48, 20).

    3) освобождатъ, спасать: erip. aliqnem a latrunculis vel hostibus (1. 34 § 1 D. 39, 5), ab administratione tutelae (1. 8 C. 6, 37). 4) привести в другое состояние: servus eripitur in s. ad libertatem (1. 9 D. 40, 8. 1. 15. 17 C. 7, 4. 1. 3 C. 7. 15).

    Латинско-русский словарь к источникам римского права > eripere

  • 6 ago

    ago, ēgī, āctum, ere (griech. ἄγω, altind. ájati, ›geht, treibt‹), in Bewegung setzen, d.i. machen, daß etw. vorwärts geht, I) eig., im Raume = führend, leitend in Bewegung setzen, treiben, 1) im allg. = treiben, führen, leiten, α) Tiere als Treiber, Hirt usw., tauros, Verg.: nobile armentum, Aur. Vict.: mercede caballum, Hor.: capellas protenus, hinwegtreiben, Verg.: ex loco infesto porro armentum, Liv.: ex agris in urbem pecora armentaque, Iul. Obs.: bovem Romam, Liv.: boves ad flumina, Verg.: pecora per calles, Curt.: greges ante se, Sen.: elephantos ante agmen, Curt.: belua in hostes imperio, in suos metu agitur, Curt.: celso Nysae de vertice agere tigres, Verg.: m. 1. Sup., pecus venum, Pacuv. tr. 121: pecus pastum, Varr. LL. 6, 41: capellas pastas potum, Verg. ecl. 9, 24: poet. m. Infin., omne cum Proteus pecus egit altos visere montes, Hor. carm. 1, 2, 8. – β) Menschen als Führer, Treiber usw., reliquum agmen pecudum more, vor sich her treiben, Curt.: copulā vinctum ante se Thyum, Nep.: in via cursores et Numidas et multum ante se pulveris, Sen.: captivos prae se, Curt.: virgis proditorem in urbem, Liv.: per omnem vicum alqm verbere, Tac.: alqm ad mortem, zum Tode führen, Tac.: servum suum sub furca ad supplicium, Val. Max.: captivos sub curribus Indos, im Triumph aufführen, Mart.: u. animos per orbem agi, von der Seelenwanderung, Sen. – dah. auch (wie ἄγειν) = »mitbringen, mitnehmen«, multis milibus actis armatorum ex ea regione, Liv. – u. der milit. t.t. agmen agere, den Zug in Bewegung setzen = mit ihm aufbrechen, ihn marschieren lassen, nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen, Liv.: agmen agens equitum, führend, Verg.: u. vom Zuge der Schiffe, agmen agens, Verg.: gew. im Passiv, agmen agitur, der Zug (das Heer) bewegt sich, bricht auf, marschiert, m. Advv., wie citius, raptim u. dgl., Liv. (s. die Belege bei Fabri Liv. 21, 61, 4). – u. in der Umgangsspr., agere se, »sich treiben« = »gehen, kommen« (s. Spengel Ter. Andr. 708. Hildebr. Apul. met. 5, 2. p. 310), quo agis te? wohin gehst du? Plaut.: quo hinc te agis? Ter.: unde agis te? od. bl. unde agis? woher kommst du? Plaut.: ebenso ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat, kam daher, Verg. – γ) ein Pferd (als Reiter od. Fuhrmann), ein Fahrzeug (Wagen, Schiff) treiben = führen, leiten, lenken, steuern, iumenta od. currum, die Tiere od. den Wagen lenken, den Wagenlenker machen, Wagenlenker sein, Liv., Curt. u.a.: equum ad vallum, an den W. heranreiten, Tac.: equum in hostem, auf den F. lossprengen, Curt.: per patris corpus carpentum, den Wagen über des V. Leichnam lenken, Liv.: u. so super ipsum corpus carpentum, Aur. Vict.: currus in diversum, Sen.: adductos intus agere equos, sprichw. (s. intus), Ov. fast. 6, 586. – colles, quos agimus praeter navem, Lucr.: navim agere ignarus navis timet, Hor.: dic, unde onustam celocem agere praedicem, sag, von wo du deinen Kutter geladen hierher treibst (scherzh. = von wo du angetrunken herkommst), Plaut.: instructas quadriremes ad urbem, Curt.: in litus naves, auf den Strand treiben, -laufen lassen, Liv.: ratem in amnem, Ov.: rex classem in diversam partem agi iusserat, Curt.: simul naves in adversum amnem agebantur, wurden stromaufwärts geführt, Tac.: quibus (Austris) feliciter acti, Ov. – δ) übh. etw. Lebl. in Bewegung setzen, treiben, es sich bewegen-, es gehen machen, in Gang bringen, von Menschen usw., agens carmine quercus (von Orpheus), Verg.: vocem cubantes excitant (bringen in Gang), et cum egerunt (u. wenn sie sie in Bewegung gesetzt haben), Cic.: tantas moles nullā ope, quae cerneretur, admotas deorum numine agi credebant, Curt. – v. Lebl., nubes ventus agens, Lucr.: Pactolus aureas undas agens, Varr. fr.: maiore vi ac mole undas (v. einem Flusse), Curt.: longeque fluctus (v. Meere), Curt.: flumen maiore impetu adversum agitur, strömt mit desto größerer Gewalt nach der entgegengesetzten Richtung, Curt.: duplex agitur per lumbos spira, doppelt läuft durch die Lenden das Rückgrat hin, Verg.: agentes frigora venti, mitbringend, Verg.: trisulcum fulmen igni fervido actum, Varr. fr.: corpora agunt contagia late, verbreiten weit, Ov.: intus agere lacrimas, verschlucken, Albinov. eleg. 114. – ε) als milit. t.t. die Belagerungsmaschinen gegen einen Ort hin in Bewegung setzen, vorschieben, näher rücken, vineas turresque ad oppidum, Caes.: testudinem, Sall.

    2) insbes.: a) zu rascherer Bewegung antreiben, nach einem Ziele (bes. wider Willen, gewaltsam) forttreiben, fortführen, fortreißen, α) Tiere u. Menschen, equo temere acto, sein Pf. aufs Geratewohl angetrieben, Liv.: u. sprichw., agas asellum, du magst den Esel antreiben (er wird doch nicht schnell laufen lernen; vgl. Hor. sat. 1, 1, 90) = du bist und bleibst der alte, Cic. de or. 2, 258. – ne se avium modo, quas naturalis levitas ageret ad sidera (aufschwinge zu den Sternen), inani ac puerili mentis affectu efferret, Curt.: quā impetus egit equos, wohin wildes Gelüst trieb die Pf., Ov.: quā quemque metus agebat, diffugerunt, Curt.: diffugiunt, quo quemque agit error, Ov. – dah. im Passiv, agi = fortgetrieben-, fortgerissen-, fortgeführt od. umhergeführt werden, rennen, stürmen, fliegen usw., turbā fugientium actus, mit fortgerissen, Liv.: quo multitudo omnis agebatur, rannte, stürmte, Liv.: agi per auras, durch die Lüfte geführt werden, Verg.: agi longis erroribus (auf. l. Irrfahrten), Vell. u. Verg. – β) Dinge, membris agit atra venena, treibt heraus aus den Gl., Verg.: u. (nach der Lehre Epikurs, daß alles Sein u. Geschehen aus zufälligen Bewegungen von Atomen herrühre) quibus forte temere humana negotia volvi agique persuasum est, sich im bunten Wirbel drehe, Curt. 5, 11 (31), 10. – u. bes. animam agere, »den Lebenshauch austreiben« = »in den letzten Zügen liegen, den Geist aufgeben« (vgl. Cic. Tusc. 1, 19), Cael. (b. Cic.), Liv. u.a.: im Wortspiel, eodem tempore et gestum et animam agere, gleichs. die Seele aus dem Leibe heraustreiben, Cic.: est tanti, habere animam, ut agam, leben, um zu sterben, Sen.: ne quod agas desit, agas animam, damit du etwas zu treiben habest, treib dir die Seele aus, Mart.: u. scherzh. res (mein Vermögen) quom animam agebat, Plaut. – b) beunruhigend, jagend, verfolgend forttreiben od. in Bewegung setzen, α) Tiere u. Menschen = umhertreiben, jagen, hetzen, verfolgen, cervos (v. Hunden), Verg.: apros latratu turbabis agens, scheuchst du mit bellender Meute in die Flucht, Verg.: egi per iuga longa canes, Ov. – ceteros ruerem, agerem etc., Ter.: amantes aestuantes (v. Amor), Varr. fr.: obvios, fortstoßen, Suet.: glebis aut saxis aut fustibus alqm de fundo praecipitem, Cic.: u. bes. vom Verfolgen der Feinde (vgl. Fabri Liv. 24, 42, 3), praecipites Pompeianos, Caes.: cursu palantes Troas, Verg. – u.m. Angabe wohin? fugientes hostes ad naves, Iustin.: exsulem populum Rom. in hostium urbem, Liv.: alqm in exsilium, Liv.: hostem penitus in intimas solitudines, Suet.: Narseum in ultimas regni solitudines, Eutr.: poet. m. Dat. loc., puerum Orco (in den O.), Hor. sat. 2, 5, 49. – β) Dinge, certatim remis mare, aufregen, Val. Flacc.: acta boreā pinus, hin- u. hergetrieben, gejagt, Ov. – c) ( wie ἄγειν) von irgendwo weg-, forttreiben, bes. gefangen od. als Beute, inde actae boves, Liv.: reliquum agmen (hostium) more pecudum intactum agebatur, iubente rege, ut caedibus abstineretur, Curt.: dah. raubend weg-, forttreiben, rauben, redigunt actas in sua rura boves, Ov. – u. so praedam od. praedas (pecoris et mancipiorum) agere, »Vieh (u. Sklaven) als Beute mit fortnehmen« u. übh. »Beute machen, plündern« (griech. λεηλατειν), Sall., Liv. u.a.; vgl. pulchram praedam agat, eine schöne Beute machte (= einen schönen Fund täte), si quis illam invenerit aulam onustam auri, Plaut. aulul. 610 sq. – dah. insbes., ferre od. (selten) portare et agere ( wie φέρειν καὶ ἄγειν) = totes u. lebendes Eigentum »fortschaffen (ferre) u. fortführen (agere)«, teils von den Eigentümern (also im nichtfeindlichen Sinne), res, quae ferri agique possunt, bewegliche Habe, Liv.: simul animadvertit multa undique portari agique, Caes. b.c. 2, 25, 2: teils von Feinden »ausplündern u. wegschleppen«, cum ferret cuncta atque ageret, Liv.: postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit, Liv.: hi ferre agere plebem plebisque res, Liv. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 22, 3, 7. Drak. Liv. 33, 13, 10. Ruperti Tac. hist. 1, 2, 11): u. bildl. (wie im Griech.), principes fori agunt feruntque cuncta, reißen alles mit sich fort, schalten und walten nach Willkür, Tac. dial. 8, 2. – d) mit einer gewissen körperlichen Anstrengung (schlagend, stoßend, werfend, biegend usw.) wohin treiben, bes. so, daß es festsitzt, eindringt usw., sublicae oblique agebantur, wurden eingerammt, Caes.: pinus ab alto ad terram, von oben bis auf den Boden biegen, Ov.: fundam circum caput, schwingen, Verg.: per costas pugionem, stoßen, Aur. Vict.: per utrumque gladium Val. Max.: hasta alci per armos acta, Verg.: dah. in crucem agere, ans Kreuz schlagen, heften, Cic. u.a. – e) »in fortlaufender Richtung gestalten«, α) in räumlicher Ausdehnung anlegen, unser ziehen, führen, fundamenta, Cic.: parietem, Cic.: aggerem, Caes.: cuniculos, Caes.: cuniculos ad aerarium, Cic., od. per magna spatia, Plin.: cloacam maximam sub terram, Liv.: molem mari, ins Meer hineinbauen, Curt.: amnem occultas egisse vias subter mare, sich einen Weg gebahnt, Verg. – so bes. als t.t. der Feldmetzkunst, limitem agere, »die Grenzmark ziehen«, Tac.: u. poet., latum per agmen limitem agit ferro, haut sich Bahn querdurch, Verg.: u. im Bilde, idem limes agendus erit, d.i. das gleiche Mittel anzuwenden, Ov. – β) von Gewächsen = nach innen od. außen treiben, hervortreiben, ansetzen, radices, Varr.: radices in profundum, Plin.: u. im Bilde, vera gloria radices agit atque propagatur, Cic. – u. so gemmas, coliculum, folia, florem, frondem, Varr., Col. u. Plin.: poet., ossa robur agunt, die Gebeine werden zu hartem Holze, Ov.: u. se laetus ad auras palmes agit, sich fröhlich zur Luft aufschwinget das Reis, Verg.: actae ad sidera pinus, emporgewachsen, reichend, Verg. – γ) übh. aus sich heraustreiben, zum Vorschein bringen, scintillas, Funken sprühen, Lucr.: spumas, Sch. treiben, schäumen, Lucr.: cum spumas ageret in ore, sein Maul schäumte, Cic.: rimas, Risse, Sprünge bekommen, sich spalten (vom Holz, von Bäumen, vom Erdboden usw.), Cic. u.a.

    II) übtr.: A) im allg.: a) übh. in tätige Bewegung setzen, treiben, führen, leiten, bringen, animus cuncta agit atque habet, Sall.: u. so alqm transversum agere, jmd. auf Abwege treiben, -führen (von glücklichen Umständen usw.), Sall., Sen. u.a. (vgl. Kritz Sall. Iug. 6, 3): per reges actum genus omne Latinos, das durch alle lat. Könige durchging, Verg. Aen. 12, 530. – u. Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur, behandelt werden, Verg. Aen. 1, 574. – mit Ang. wohin? od. wozu? durch ein Adv. od. durch in od. ad m. Akk., α) = in einen Zustand treiben, versetzen, bringen, animum in admirationem curae priscorum, Plin.: alqm in furorem, in insaniam, Quint.: in desperationem agi, Liv. epit.: si quis ad illa te agat, versetzte dich ein Gott hin, Hor. – β) zu einem Entschlusse, zu einer Vornahme treiben, führen, bestimmen, bringen, matre agente, auf Antrieb der M., Capit.: poëmata dulcia sunto et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto, Hor.: alqm confestim od. praecipitem ad certamen, Liv.: pravis et externis religionibus captas mentes velut furialibus stimulis ad omne scelus et ad omnem libidinem agere, Liv.: irā deorum ad tantum nefas agi, Curt.: ag. Latinos falsis criminibus in arma, Liv.: in favorem aut odium contactu valentiorum agi, sich bestimmen lassen, Tac.: alqm in fraudem, zum Verrat treiben, Verg.: poet. m. folg. Infin., desertas quaerere terras auguriis agimur divum, Verg. Aen. 3, 4 sq. – b) in unruhige Bewegung setzen, umhertreiben, jagen, verfolgen, beunruhigen, plagen, quälen u. dgl., amor me ludificat, fugat, agit, Plaut.: agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum, Cic.: acerba fata Romanos agunt, Hor.: diris agam vos, Hor.: agentia verba, Worte, die zur Verzweiflung treiben, Hor. – c) in stürmische Bewegung setzen, ubi (multitudo) aut studio agitur aut irā, in Bewegung gesetzt, aufgeregt wird, Curt. 6, 9 (33), 6: dah. aus dem Gleichgewicht heben, -bringen, erschüttern, perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur, weder aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht, erschüttert wird, Nep. Att. 9, 1. – d) in tätige Bewegung setzen, treiben, anregen, anfeuern, in Tätigkeit-, in Übung erhalten, seu te discus agit, Hor. sat. 2, 2, 13: non anxia mentem agit spes, Claud. cons. Prob. et Ol. 65 sq. – e) refl. agere (absol.) od. agere se, α) agere (absol.) = irgendwo sich umhertreiben, sein Wesen treiben, sich aufhalten, sich befinden, weilen, edoctus, ubi ageret, Dict.: in partibus orientis, Lact.: clerus Romae agens, Cypr.: sub Alpibus, Flor.: sub extremis Alpium radicibus inter Arsiam Titiumque flumen, Flor.: multum et familiariter cum alqo, viel u. vertraut mit jmd. umgehen, Sall.: inter Vinios... variā et pudendā sorte, mit Leuten wie Vinius... umgehen, Tac.: inter homines (v. Christus), weilen, Lact.: agere inter homines desinere, aufhören unter den Menschen zu weilen = sterben, Tac.: in carne mortali, Lact. – v. Völkern, irgendwo wohnen, hausen, Batavi donec trans Rhenum agebant, Tac.: Africa, quae procul a mari incultius agebat, Sall.: Gaetulos partim in tuguriis, alios incultius vagos agere, Sall.: plerumque sub silvis, Flor. – v. Staaten, unter dem u. dem stehen, octo civitates quae sub ipsis agebant, Eutr. 2, 2: Thracia, Cilicia, Commagene, quae sub regibus amicis egerant, Eutr. 7, 19. – von Soldaten = stehen, in der Schlacht, auf Posten, im Winterquartier usw., apud primos, Sall.: totum diem in armis, Dict.: circa muros et in stationibus solute ac neglegenter, Liv.: haud longe, Tac.: trans Padum, Tac.: Lugduni, Tac.: in vico Marcoduro incuriosius, Tac.: ala in finibus suis agens, Tac.: Chauci inter auxilia Romana agentes, Tac.; vgl. Kritz Tac. Agr. 18, 2. Heräus Tac. hist. 2, 39, 11. – v. Beamten (Statthaltern), im Amte sein, dienstlich tätig sein, haud procul inde, Tac.: Minturnis, Tac.: Antiochiae et circa Armeniam, Eutr.: in Raetia et Norico, Eutr. – β) m. se u. absol., auf eine gewisse Weise sein Wesen treiben, es so u. so treiben, irgendwie sich benehmen, sich zeigen, sich verhalten, tantā mobilitate Numidae sese agunt, Sall.: quanto ferocius ante se egerint, Tac.: sic se agere, Rutil. Lup.: non ex institutione Stoica se agere, Sen.: se ingenti modestiā agere, Eutr.: contra Gordianos superbissime, Capit. Gord. 30 in.: ut nummularii probe se agant circa omne negotium suum, ICt.: neglegenter se et avare agentes, Eutr.: sed agant se, ut volunt, Sulpic. Sev. Vgl. Ruhnken Rutil. Lup. 2, 4 extr. – u. (ohne se) quemadmodum sanis hominibus agendum est od. quemadmodum sanos agere conveniat, Cels.: agere insolentius, Eutr.: feroces pro victoribus agere, sich wie S. benehmen (ohne es zu sein), Sall.: agere pro dei sacerdote, Cypr.: libertinos, qui pro equitibus Romanis agerent, Suet.: tota civitas laeta agere, Sall.: quieti ac sine terrore egēre, Dict.: sermone, cultu etc. ut Germani agunt, Tac.

    B) eine Zeit, eine Tätigkeit od. einen Zustand vor sich gehen machen: 1) eine Zeit gleichs. »heraufführen u. ablaufen lassen«, sie den Kreislauf vollenden lassen, cum Tithonia coniunx quintae tempora lucis aget, Ov.: ver illud erat, ver magnus agebat orbis, Frühling hatte der große Weltumfang, Verg. – dah. α) mit annus u. einer Ordinalzahl = im...ten Jahre stehen (= es erreicht, aber noch nicht überschritten haben), so u. so alt sein (s. Ruhnken Suet. Caes. 1), quartum annum agere incipientes, Varr.: quartum annum ago et octogesimum, Cic.: qui sextum et octogesimum annum agens causam dixerit, Liv.: annum plenum nonum decimum agens, ICt.: annum agens vicesimum aetatis, Eutr.: quinquagesimum et quartum agens aetatis annum, Suet.: erst spätlat. mit Plur. von annus und einer Kardinalzahl, decem et octo annos agens, Capit. Anton. phil. 5, 1; vgl. Capit. Gord. 15, 2 u. 22, 2: decem et novem agebat annos, Augustin. de civ. dei 15, 12, 1. – u. (von einem Zeitabschnitt) im Passiv, agi, im Ablauf begriffen sein, ablaufen, u. im Perfect. = abgelaufen-, verflossen-, am Ende sein, postquam ad te venit, mensis agitur hic iam septimus, Ter.: ut tunc principium anni agebatur, man im Anfange des Jahres stand, Liv.: Vergilii aetate incognita, a cuius obitu XC aguntur anni, der nunmehr 90 Jahre tot ist, Plin.: bis tricenis annis actis, Laber. fr.: actis in regno XV annis, Iustin.: menses iam tibi esse actos vides, Plaut.: mensibus actis, Varr. LL. – β) eine Zeit (die Lebenszeit, die Jahre, einen Zeitabschnitt) zubringen, hinbringen, verleben, aevum agere consuetis in armis, Pacuv. fr.: aetatem domi, Enn. fr.: aetatem cum uno viro, mit einem M. leben, Ter.: aetatem procul a re publica, Sall.: aetatem in litteris, Cic.: vitam pudice, Ter.: vitam sanctissime honestissimeque, Cic.: vitam ruri, Ter. u. Liv.: silvestrem vitam, im Walde leben, Solin.: tolerabilem senectutem, Cic.: pleraque tempora in venando, Sall.: medium tempus ad proconsulatum usque in otio secessuque, Suet.: dies in terra, noctes in aqua (vom Krokodil), Plin.: noctem inter gaudia, Verg.: noctem quietam, non insomnem, Tac.: totam eam noctem cum magno animi metu perpetuis vigiliis, Liv.: nec tranquillior nox diem tam foede actum excepit, Liv.: hiemem sub tectis suis, Liv., od. in castris, Sall.: ibi hiberna, Liv.: ad Tarentum aestiva, Liv. – dah. absol. = leben, existieren, homines, qui tum agebant, Tac.: ne sine solacio ageret (lebe, bleibe), Tac.: agere procul, fern stehen, Tac.: per mollitiem, in W. dahinleben, Sall.: sine legibus certis, sine magistratibus, Liv.: arbitrio alieno, Dict.: incertā pace, Liv.: in otio, Flor.: adhuc usque id est per longam temporum seriem agentes, Cypr.

    2) eine Tätigkeit od. einen Zustand vor sich gehen lassen, in bezug auf etw. tätig sein, handeln, etw. treiben, betreiben, tun, beginnen, besorgen, verrichten, ausführen, vollführen, haec agens, während er damit beschäftigt war, Liv. u. Curt. (s. Wölffl. Liv. Krit. S. 28): omnia quae fiunt (entsteht, in der Natur), quaeque aguntur (getan wird, von Menschen), Cic.: ibi quid agat secum cogitat, Enn. fr.: sed eos (deos) non curare opinor, quid agat humanum genus, Enn. fr.: quaeso, ne temere hanc rem agas, ne iracunditer, Caecil. fr.: o, quid agis? ach, was beginnst du? Hor.: quid vos agitis? was treibt ihr (was beschäftigt euch)? Cic.: nihil agis, quin ego audiam, Cic.: cum scribas et aliquid agas eorum, quorum consuesti, Luccei. bei Cic.: nec quicquam raptim aut forte temere egeritis, Liv.: quod agendum aut faciendum sit, id non recusem, Cic.: agerent facerentque, ut e re publica ducerent, Liv.: agerent (sie sollten nur zumachen) ac ferirent, Tac.: omnes fere res asperas per Iugurtham agere, Sall.: quae cuncta etsi consilio ductuque alterius agebantur, Tac.: castrensis iurisdictio... plura manu agens, vieles tätlich bewirkend, Tac.: multa agendo nihil agere, Phaedr.: operose nihil agere, Sen.: dum aliud agitur (nebenbei), ediscere alqd, Quint.: cuncta impetu militum acta, ging vor sich, Tac.: iucundi acti labores, Cic. – agere res egregias, Eutr.: multa in Hispania bene, Eutr.: multa strenue, Eutr.: nihil non tranquillum et placidum, Eutr.: nihil iniustum ad augendum fiscum, Eutr.: nihil quasi Romanus egit, er benahm sich in keinem Stücke wie ein Römer, Eutr. – in der Umgangsspr., quid agis?was treibst du? was machst du? wie geht's? Plaut., Cic. u.a.: quid agit? was macht sie? wie geht es ihr? Ter.: quid agitur? was macht man? wie geht's? was gibt's? wie stehen die Sachen? Komik. – ebenso bei Fragen der Verlegenheit, des Zweifels, der Furcht, quid faciam? quid agam? was soll ich tun? was soll ich anfangen? Komik.: quid ages? Ter.: ebenso quid ago? quid agimus? Komik. u.a. (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 250 u. trin. 1062): u. in der indir. Frage, neque satis centurionibus constabat, quid agerent, Caes. – u. die Formeln, age, si quid agis, als drängende Aufforderung, »mach! mach!«, »mach Ernst mit deinem Vorsaße!« Plaut. (s. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 214. Brix Plaut. trin. 981). – age, ut vis, mach's, wie du willst, Plaut.: u. so age, age, ut lubet, Ter. – quod agis, id agas, bleib bei deinem Vorsatze, Plaut.: u. so age porro, tamen istuc ago, ich bleibe doch dabei (bei dem von dir empfohlenen Verfahren), Ter. – absol., se non interfuisse, sed egisse (dabei [als Zeuge] tätig gewesen sei, zu tun gehabt habe) dicit, Cic.: industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo, Cic.: defessa iubendo est saeva Iovis coniunx; ego sum indefessus agendo, Ov.: vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo prospere omnia cedunt, Sall. – bes. m. Advv., auf irgend eine Weise handeln, verfahren, zu Werke gehen, lenius, Sall.: pariter, Sall.: facile iusteque, Tac.: cum (consules) primo anno bene egissent, ihre Verwaltung gut war, Eutr.: u. so cum humane nobiscum hiems egerit, Sen. – dah. male, bene, praeclare agere cum alqo, übel-, gut- (glimpflich), sehr gut mit jmd. verfahren, - ihn behandeln, Plaut. u. Cic.: ebenso cum omnibus Romae aequo iure, Eutr.: u. im Passiv, male, bene agitur cum alqo, »es steht mit jmd. –, geht jmdm. übel, gut, vortrefflich«, Cic.: u. so egregie actum nobis (= nobiscum) est, siquidem etc., Dict.: u. bl. praeclare agitur, si etc., Cic.

    Dah. a) aliquid agere, handeln, tätig sein, im Ggstz. zum Müßiggang, zur Ruhe, zur Überlegung, qui talibus diebus imprudens aliquid egisset, Macr.: virtus agit aliquid, Sen. – u. ohne aliquid, zB. surgamus, eamus, agamus, Lucil. fr.: quod (daß sie) egerunt,... quod reliquerunt, Cic.: bes. im Partic. Praes., im Gerundio u. Gerundivo, agentes audentesque, Liv.: aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi, Cic.: agendum atque obviam eundum est, Sall. fr.: Maecenas... vir providens atque agendi sciens, gewandter Geschäftsmann, Vell.: audendum atque agendum, non consultandum in tanto malo esse, Liv.; vgl. Fabri Sall. Cat. 21, 3. Korte Sall. Cat. 52, 59. Kritz Sall. hist. fr. 1, 45, 7. Benecke Cic. de imp. Cn. Pomp. 3, 8. p. 90; u. (über die Verbindung aud. et ag.) Fabri Liv. 21, 40, 6. – u. der Ggstz. nihil agere, nichts tun, untätig sein, müßig gehen, numquam se plus agere, quam cum nihil ageret, Cic.: nihil agendo homines male agere discunt, Cato. fr.: iam dies hic sextus est, cum nihil egi, Pompon. fr. – b) = so u. so viel ausrichten, bewirken, etiam quicquam egisti? Afran. fr.: non nihil egisti hoc loco, Cic.: nihilo plus agas, quam si des operam etc., du dürftest nicht mehr ausrichten = das wäre ebensoviel, als wenn du usw., Ter.: nihil agit in amore inermus, Caecil. fr.: nihil agis, das hilft dir nichts, Ter.: nihil agis, dolor, du richtest nichts aus, vermagst nichts über mich, Cic.: u. so ars nihil sane egisse videatur, nisi etc., Cic.: non multum egerit, dürfte nicht viel ausrichten, Cur. b. Cic.; vgl. Ruhnken Rutil. Lup. 2, 11 extr. – dah. so u. soviel vermögen, ausmachen, von dem u. dem Einfluß sein, multum agit sexus, aetas, condicio, Quint.: argumenta ac testes quid egerint, Quint. – c) etwas ernstlich betreiben, α) auf etw. achten, aufpassen, achtgeben (s. Ruhnk. Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 15. Arntzen Plin. pan. 5, 3. p. 28), hoc agam, ich werde aufpassen, lauern, Ter.: hoc (istuc) od. hanc rem age, hoc od. hanc rem agite, aufgepaßt, achtgegeben, Komik. u.a. (s. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 149): hocine agis an non? hörst du denn darauf? Ter.: at iam hoc non agis, du passest nicht auf, Ter.: id ago sedulo, ich denke ernstlich daran, Ter.: u. so nisi id agat et adsit, darauf achtet u. bei der Hand ist, Cic.: quae suā sponte, etiam si id non agas, cadunt, Cic.: cras agamus haec, wollen wir auf dieses Thema weiter Bedacht nehmen, es weiter verfolgen, Cic. – u. der Ggstz., alias res agere, Komik u. Cic., od. aliud agere, Cic., »andere Dinge (Allotria, Nebendinge) treiben, sich mit andern Dingen befassen«, d.h. »nicht aufmerken, unaufmerksam-, unachtsam-, zerstreut sein«. – β) etw. im Werke od. im Sinne haben, auf etw. sinnen, denken, ausgehen, mit etw. umgehen, etw. beabsichtigen, im Schilde führen, mit etw. vorzüglich sich abgeben, etw. sich besonders angelegen sein lassen (vgl. Ochsner Cic. Ecl. p. 285), aliud agentes (vorhabend), aliud simulantes (vorgebend), Cic.: nescio quid mens mea maius agat, Ov.: observabo, quam rem agat, Plaut.: quid agat, quid consilii captet, Ter.: quid cogitent, Cic.: id s egissent, Cic.: in omni vita nihil aliud egi, habe es mir zur Aufgabe meines Lebens gemacht, Cic.: fratri proditionem, Tac.: de intranda Britannia, Tac. – u. bes. id agere ( selten hoc agere od. bl. agere), ut od. ne etc., das im Werke od. Sinne haben, das sich zum Hauptgeschäfte machen, daß od. daß nicht usw., damit umgehen, darauf ausgehen, -denken, sich ein besonderes Geschäft daraus machen, es darauf absehen, beabsichtigen, zu usw., qui tum, cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur, Cic.: non enim id agit, ut insidietur et observet, sed iam favet, Cic.: id agere ac moliri coepit, ut desciscerent ab Insubribus Cenomani, Liv.: id agendum, ut ea facere videamur irati, Cic.: non ergo id agitur, ut aliquid assensu meo comprobem, darauf kommt es mir nicht an, daß ich usw., Cic.: certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur, Nep.: id ab isto actum esse, ut ille suppositus facile et libenter se illum, qui non erat, esse simularet, Cic. – ego id agam, quī mihi ne detur, Ter.: itaque neque tu multum interfuisti rebus gerendis, et ego id semper egi, ne interessem, Cic. – tu, dum tua navis in alto est, hoc age (sieh zu), ut mutata retrorsum te ferat aura, Hor. ep. 1, 18, 87 sq. – qui hoc agit, ut prior sit, Quint. 10, 2, 10.

    3) etwas mit dem gehörigen äußern Vortrag (s. āctio no. II) in Handlung setzen, darstellen, a) v. Redner, darstellen, vortragen, deklamieren (vgl. Gernhard Cic. de sen. 16), id cum pronuntiamus, agimus, Varr. LL.: haec ille egit, Cic.: quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat, oculis, voce, gestu, ut etc., Cic.: absol., agere cum dignitate ac venustate, Cic. – b) vom Rhapsoden usw., vortragen, hersagen, rezitieren, carmen, Val. Flacc. 1, 783; 4, 87. – c) vom Schauspieler, α) durch bloßes Gebärdenspiel od. durch die Rede mit dem nötigen Gebärdenspiel darstellen, vortragen, spielen, in scaena gestum, als Schauspieler auftreten, Cic.: mimum, Suet. u. Macr. (vgl. ag. choros, Prop.): canticum aliquanto magis vigente motu, die Handlung der Monodie (canticum) mit weit lebendigerem Gebärdenspiel darstellen, Liv.: numquam agit hunc versum Roscius eo gestu, quo potest etc., mit solchem Feuer spielen, Cic.: haec (diese Septenare) quantis ab illo (Aesopo) clamoribus agebantur! Cic. – u. so fabulam (comoediam, tragoediam), ein Stück darstellen, spielen, Komik. u. Cic., u. aufführen (spielen) lassen, zur Aufführung bringen, Komik. (s. Wagner Ter. heaut. p. 27): novam fabulam, Varr. LL.: statariam, Ter.: u. so Menandri Eunuchum, das Stück des M. »der Eunuch«, Ter. – primas partes (die erste Rolle, die Hauptrolle), Ter.: u. so (im Bilde) priores partes, Cic.: Amphionis partes (Rolle), Varr. fr. – so auch eandem personam in triclinio agere (v. einem Mimen), Macr. sat. 2, 7, 17: u. bildl., hanc personam induisti; agenda est, Sen. de ben. 2, 17, 2: agenda est persona, quam mihi miles imposuit, Vopisc. Prob. 10, 7. – β) agere alqm (servum, lenonem, Ballionem u. dgl.), die Person (eines Stückes auf der Bühne) darstellen, Ter. u. Cic.: u. bes. übtr., im gewöhnl. Leben jmds. Rolle, jmd. spielen, abgeben, machen = sich (im Ernst od. aus Heuchelei) benehmen wie usw., senatorem, den Senator spielen, Tac.: nobilem. den Vornehmen spielen, Cael. in Cic. ep.: amicum, convivam, patrem familias, Sen.: filium, Sen, rhet.: ministrum imperatoris, Tac.: Rhodi specei secessus exsulem, als Verbannter leben, Tac.: bonum consulem, Plin. pan.: abstinentissimum virum, Liv. epit.: propugnatores sceleris, als Verfechter des V. auftreten, Iustin. Vgl. Bremi Suet. Tib. 12. – dah. d) Dank u. Lob mündlich od. schriftlich an den Tag legen, ausdrücken, aussprechen, bezeigen, sagen, alci gratias od. (im feierlichen Tone, Gebet usw.) grates, Cic.: alci gratias pro alqa re, Plaut.: dis laudes gratesque, Liv.; vgl. gratia.

    4) machen, daß eine Veranstaltung ein Zustand vor sich geht: a) ein Fest od. eine festliche Veranstaltung übh. begehen, feiern, halten, festos dies anniversarios, Cic.: festum diem, Iustin.: diem natalem u. bl. natalem, Tibull.: Idus, Hor.: quinquatrus iucunde, Suet.: diem festum Dianae per triduum, Liv.: festum genialiter, Ov.: choros, aufführen, Prop. u. Cypr.: triumphum de alqo, Cic.: acto cum gloria triumpho, Vell. – b) Zustände aller Art, α) der Ruhe = etw. halten, beobachten (längere Zeit) in etw. verharren, pacem, Sall. fr.: otia, Ov.: alta silentia, Ov.: medium, die M. halten, Vell.: morem, einer S. nachleben, Sall. fr. – β) der Tätigkeit = halten, versehen, vornehmen, treiben, vollziehen, vigilias ad aedes sacras, Cic., od. in portu, Liv.: excubias alci, Tac., od. circa cubiculum alcis, Suet.: stationem, Posten stehen (v. Soldaten), Liv., u. stationem in castris, die Wache haben (v. Befehlshaber), Tac. – popularia per ludum, Laber. fr.: nugas, Plaut.: ioca atque seria cum humillimis, Sall.: arbitria, s. arbitrium: curam alcis od. alcis rei od. m. pro od. de u. Abl., s. cūra (no. I, 1 u. no. II): delectum, s. dēlēctus (no. I): paenitentiam, s. paenitentia: mensuram agere alcis rei, s. mēnsūra: sua vota, seine Wünsche betreiben, vortragen, Ov. – u. bes. γ) der leitenden Tätigkeit im öffentl. Dienste, etw. halten = anstellen, vornehmen, veranstalten, verwalten, leiten, vollziehen, senatum, S. halten, XII tabb. (b. Cic.) u. Suet.: censum, recensum, Liv.: delectum, Quint.: delectum acerbe, Liv. epit.: forum od. conventum, einen Gerichts- od. Kreistag halten, Cic., Caes. u.a.: censuram, das Zensoramt verwalten, Ov. u. Vell.: regnum, Liv.: honorem, bekleiden, Liv.: u. so proconsulatum, Capitol. (s. Gronov. observv. 4, 14. p. 452 sq. Oudend. Caes. b.G. 2, 28, 2). – u. von Einkünften, sie verwalten, eintreiben, beitreiben, Iudaicum fiscum acerbissime, Suet.: publicum quadragesimae in Asia, Suet. – bes. agere bellum, einen Krieg »planmäßig betreiben, planmäßig (durch zweckmäßig getroffene Anstalten) führen«, Sall. u.a. (vgl. Kritz Sall. hist. fr. 2, 50, 11. Drak. Liv. epit. 49; nicht bei Caes. u. Nep., in denen jetzt überall bellum gerere gelesen wird, s. Nipperdey spicileg. in Corn. Nepot. p. 69): aber Samnitium bella, quae continua per quartum iam volumen... agimus, mit denen wir es (als Schriftsteller) zu tun haben, Liv. 10, 31, 10. – auch levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis, geliefert, Liv. 22, 9, 6 H. ( andere factis). – c) in der Opferspr. =machen, d.i. »das Opfertier mit dem Hammer niederschlagen u. dann schlachten«, indem der Opferschlächter (popa) fragte: agone? mach od. tu ich's? s. Varr. LL. 6, 12. Ov. fast. 1, 321 sq. Sen. contr. 2, 11. § 19; worauf der Priester antwortete: age od. hoc age, so mach od. tu es, s. Suet. Cal. 58, 2; Galb. 20, 1. Sen. de clem. 1, 12, 2.

    5) machen, daß eine Verhandlung über etw. vor sich geht, a) übh. etw. betreiben, mit jmd. wegen etw. verhandeln, reden, sich unterreden, sich besprechen, unterhandeln, etw. besprechen, ab- od. ausmachen, in jmd. mit Bitten, Zureden usw. dringen, jmd. bitten, ermahnen, jmdm. zusprechen, den Vorschlag, Antrag, das Ansinnen machen, cum alqo alqd od. de alqa re od. m. folg. ut od. ne mit Konj., auch oft m. Abl. eines Substantivums od. Gerundiums der Art, wie etwas verhandelt usw. wird (s. Fabri Liv. 24, 32, 5), non ago hoc per sagam pretio conductam, Turpil. fr.: ut agerem cum Lucceio de vestra vetere gratia reconcilianda, Cic.: quod mecum per litteras agis (schriftlich verhandelst), mallem coram egisses (mündlich besprochen, abgemacht hättest), Cic.: utrum per procuratorem ageres, an per te ipsum, Cic.: estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam, von dem ich sprach, Ter.: de quibus in foro atque in negotiis agendi non est otium, Varr. fr.: ne agendi cum eo Dioni esset potestas, sich mit ihm zu besprechen, Nep.: hactenus vobiscum verbis actum, Dict. – egit cum Cimone, ut etc., machte dem C. den Antrag usw., Nep.: egit mecum accurate multis verbis, ut etc., Cic.: non imperio modo, sed consilio etiam ac prope precibus agens cum magistro equitum, ut etc., befahl er nicht bloß, sondern riet auch seinem Reiterobersten, ja er bat ihn beinahe usw., Liv.: agere varie rogando alternis suadendoque coepit, ut etc., drang auf alle Weise, bald mit Bitten, bald mit Zureden in ihn, daß usw., Liv. – is ita cum Caesare egit (dieser äußerte gegen Cäsar): si pacem faceret etc., Caes.: quae (patria) sic agit (sich so vernehmen läßt) et quodammodo tacita tecum loquitur, Cic. – absol. = den Unterhändler machen, unterhandeln, agente Serviliā, Cic.: illo auctore atque agente, Caes.: agendi viam non video, Cic.

    b) als publiz. t.t.: α) im Senate od. vor dem Volke etw. betreiben, verhandeln, zur Entscheidung bringen, einen entscheidenden Antrag stellen od. Beschluß fassen, in senatu de alqo od. de re, Cic.: agitur in curia de alqa re, Suet. – cum populo, Cic.: cum populo de alqo, vor dem Volke in einem förmlichen Antrage, Cic.: u. so verb. cum populo patribusque od. cum populo, cum plebe agendi ius, XII tabb. (b. Cic.) u. Cic. – oft absol., ut ante, quam rogatio lata esset, nulla res ageretur, Cic.: omnia potius actum iri, quam de provinciis, Cic.: u. so de pace, de condicionibus u. dgl., Cic.: de pace cum Sylla, Eutr.: nihil omnino actum esse de nobis, die Verhandlung über mich sei so gut als gar keine, Cic. – u. agi per senatum, per populum, durch den S., durch das V. entschieden werden, -geschehen, Cic.: u. so multitudinis arbitrio res maximas agi, Cic. – numquam Curio sustinuisset, si cum eo agi coeptum esset, wenn man entscheidende Beschlüsse gegen ihn gefaßt hätte, ernstlich gegen ihn aufgetreten wäre, Cic. – β) agere causam alcis, jmds. polit. Sache betreiben, jmds. Sache führen, sich jmds. annehmen, für jmd. Partei nehmen, Cic.: agere causam populi, Nep.: utrum militantium adversarii estis an causam agitis ? Liv.

    c) als gerichtl. t.t., etw. vor Gericht betreiben, sowohl in fremdem als in eigenem Namen, als Verteidiger od. Kläger: α) v. Vert., agere causam od. rem, eine Sache, einen Prozeß führen, eine Sache verteidigen, causam, Varr. LL.: causas agere et componere, Lucr.: causas amicorum tractare atque agere, Cic.: causas Latine, Eutr.: rem de scripto, Cic.: causam contra alqm apud consulem, Cic.: bonam causam apud aequos iudices, Liv.: apud quos iudices causa agebatur, vor denen der Pr. geführt wurde, Cic.: cum proxime res agentur, wenn der nächste Gerichtstag ist, Plin. ep. – absol., agere = ein Rechtsgeschäft betreiben, bes. als Redner u. Sachwalter-, als Verteidiger auftreten, hospes in agendo, Fremdling in (Rechts-)Geschäften, Cic.: princeps in agendo, Wortführer in der Verhandlung, Cic.: ad od. apud alqm (iudicem), Cic.: egit ipse pro se (verteidigte sich selbst), nullo accusante, Plin. ep.: si agendi necessitas instat, Plin. ep.: nihil cum Verre de cotidianis criminibus acturus sum, mit V. rechten. Cic. – β) vom Kläger od. der Partei, die ihr Recht verfolgt u. dgl., eine Klage anstellen, einen Prozeß anhängig machen, mit u. ohne (ex) iure, lege (auf Grund des Rechtes, eines Gesetzes) u. dgl., sein Recht geltend machen, den Weg Rechtens od. des Gesetzes einschlagen, klagbar werden, klagen, prozessieren, rechten, quid agas mecum ex iure civili et praetorio, non habes, Cic.: u. so ag. ex syngrapha, Cic.: tamquam ex syngrapha (als hätte man einen schriftlichen Vertrag) cum populo, Cic.: comminus (persönlich), Apul. – tabellis obsignatis ag. cum alqo, jmdm. das vollzogene Protokoll vorhalten, Cic. – ag. summo iure, das strengste Recht geltend machen, Cic.: ut iure non rescriptis (principum) ageretur, Capit. – lege agito ergo, nimm das Recht in Anspruch, Ter.: agere lege in hereditatem, Cic.: lege agendo, in der Gerichtsverhandlung, Cic.: vetuit de iisdem rebus pluribus legibus agere, wiederholt zu klagen, Suet. – non enim gladiis tecum, sed litibus agetur, man wird nicht mit der Gewalt der Waffen, sondern auf dem Wege der Klage gegen dich vorgehen, Cic.: causā quam vi agere malle, Tac. – u. ohne lege u. dgl., grave (crimen est), me agente, te accusante, nullum, Cic.: cum alqo agere de alqa re, Cic.: agere ab alqo (von od. auf seiten jmds.), zB. a petitore (Kläger), a possessore (Beklagten), Plin. ep. 6, 2, 2: alter iniquum putabat plus secum agi, quam quod erat in actione, daß von ihm mehr gefordert werde, als es die Klage gestattete, Cic. – übtr., omnia pro suo iure agere, alles ganz seinem Rechte gemäß verhandeln, Ter.: agerent tecum lege Pythagorei, es würden gegen dich klagbar werden die P., Cic.: nihil, tamquam accusator, criminose nec dubia argumentis colligendo ago, ich deute nicht wie ein Ankläger alles schlimm u. suche nicht das Zweifelhafte durch Schlüsse zu erweisen, Liv. – bes. αα) agere m. Genet. des Verbrechens = klagbar werden, klagen wegen usw., mit u. ohne cum alqo (gegen jmd.), furti, Cic.: iniuriarum, Cic. u.a.: iniuriarum cum alqo, adulterii cum alqo, Quint. – ββ) alqm reum agere, s. reus. – γ) agitur de re od. (gew.) res, v. Gegenstande der Klage = es handelt sich um etw., die Frage dreht sich um etw., es wird debattiert über usw., es ist etw. Gegenstand der Debatte, es ist die Rede von etw. (s. Korte Sall. Cat. 52, 10), qua de re agitur od. quae res agitur, der Streitpunkt, Cic. (s. Manuzzi Cic. Mur. 13): praesertim cum de maximis vestris vectigalibus agatur, Cic.: non agitur, inquis, de hoc, an amicitia propter se ipsam expetenda sit, Sen.: non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae, Ter.: aguntur iniuriae sociorom, Cic.: agitur, liberine vivamus an mortem obeamus, Cic. – übtr. u. prägn., es handelt sich um etw., es gilt etw., es ist etw. in Frage = es steht auf dem Spiele, ist in Gefahr (s. die Auslgg. zu Nep. Att. 15, 2; Fabri Liv. 23, 49, 8; die Auslgg. zu Hor. ep. 1, 18, 84; Ruhnken Ter. heaut. 2, 3, 113 eine Menge Belege), non agitur de vectigalibus, neque de sociorum iniuriis; libertas et anima nostra in dubio est, Sall.: id quod agitur, Plaut.: quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua, als ob in deiner Angelegenheit (istic) auf meiner Seite weniger auf dem Spiele stände, als auf deiner, Ter.: tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet, Hor.: in quo (bello) agitur populi Romani gloria: agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia, Cic.: cum fama eius ageretur, Liv.: agitur pars tertia mundi, Ov. – im Perf., acta res est od. gew. actum est, eig. die Verhandlung ist-, die Akten sind geschlossen = es ist aus, -vorbei damit, acta haec res est, perii, Ter.: actumst, ilicet, peristi, Ter.: si prorogatur, actum est, Cic.: actum est (ich bin zugrunde gerichtet), si etc., Ter.: actum erat, nisi etc., es wäre aus gewesen, wenn nicht usw., Flor. – u. so actum est de etc., es ist mit jmd. od. etw. aus od. vorbei, es ist um jmd. od. etw. geschehen, es ist jmd. od. etw. verloren, de collo meo, Plaut. trin. 595: de Servio, de imperio, Liv.: quod scribis εγγήραμα, actum de isto est, damit ist's schon vorbei, darauf habe ich schon verzichtet, Cic. – dah. ego sum is, qui dicam me non laborare; actum habiturum, quod egerint, ich dagegen bin bereit zu erklären, daß ich keineswegs gesonnen bin, mich abzumühen, indem ich gern das als abgemacht betrachten will, was sie abgemacht wissen wollen, Cic. Tusc. 3, 50. – u. so sprichw., rem actam od. bl. actum (acta) agere, eine abgemachte Sache noch einmal vornehmen = sich vergebliche Mühe geben, tun od. besprechen, was sich nicht mehr ändern läßt, etwa unser leeres Stroh dreschen, stultus es, rem actam agis, es hilft dir nichts, Plaut.: rem actam hodierno die agi (eine schon abgemachte Sache werde verhandelt werden), et frustra habiturum orationem, qui etc., Liv.: Ph. actum, aiunt, ne agas (laß, was du nicht mehr ändern kannst). D. non agam? (ich lassen?) Ter.: u. so tu, malum! inquies, actum ne agas, zum Henker! wirst du sagen, gib acht, es ist zu spät, Cic.: sed acta ne agamus, aber reden wir nicht von dem, was nicht zu ändern ist, Cic.: praeposteris utimur consiliis et acta agimus (und haben vorgetan und nachgedacht) quod vetamur vetere proverbio, Cic. – / Archaist. axim = egerim, Pacuv. tr. 297: axit = egerit, Paul. ex Fest. 3, 3. – Futur. Akt. agebo, Virgil. gramm. epit. 10 (Class. auct. ed. Mai 5, 141). – parag. Infin. Präs. agier, gerichtliche Formel bei Cic. top. 66; ep. 7, 12, 2; de off. 3, 61 u. 70.

    / Imperat. age, agite, fast wie eine Partikel des Aufrufs, der Ermunterung (dah. auch age in der Anrede an mehrere), wie unser wohlan! auf! (oft verstärkt durch andere Partikeln, bes. durch dum u. sis, dah. verb. agedum, agidum (Plaut. trin. 369), agitedum, agesis), I) bei dringender Aufforderung u. Ermahnung, wohlan! auf! auf denn! hurtig! a) übh.: age face, Plaut.: age fiat, Ter.: agedum ergo, accede huc modo, Plaut.: agitedum ite mecum, Liv. (u. so oft agedum u. agitedum b. Liv., s. Drak. Liv. 3, 62, 4): agesis tu sine pennis vola, Plaut.: age nunc refer animum, sis, ad veritatem, Cic.: en od. eia age rumpe moras, Verg.: nunc age, Verg.: quin age, auf denn! Verg.: age, quaeso, Hor.: age age, egredere, Turpil. fr.: age age, usque exsecra, Plaut. – age m. 1. pers. plur. verbi, age age nunc iam experiamur, Ter.: age agitemus convivium etc., Plaut. – u.m. 2. pers. plur. (seit der august. Zeit, bes. bei Dichtern, s. die Auslgg. zu Prop. 1, 1, 21. Burm. Val. Flacc. 3, 311), mittite agedum legatos, Liv. – b) bei Übergängen in der Rede, um auf das Folgende bes. aufmerksam zu machen (oft mit nunc, vero, porro), age nunc iter... comparate, Cic.: age vero... considerate, Cic.: age porro tu cur... imperasti? und nun ferner, Cic. Vgl. Seyffert Schol. Lat. 1. § 26. – c) bei lebhafter Anrede in Fragen, fast wie dic, sag an! sprich! wohlan! age ecquid fit? Plaut.: age scis quid loquar? Ter.: age, numquid etc., Petron. – II) beim Wunsch, in der Unterhaltung abzubrechen u. zu anderem überzugehen: a) als Zeichen der Mißbilligung von Gesagtem, wie unser: geh! laß das! ach! age novi tuum animum, geh, ich kenne dich; ach, ich kenne dich besser, Ter.: sicine agis, Parmeno? age, wie kannst du so sprechen? laß das! Ter.: age, inepte! ach, Possen! Ter.: age, hoc malum mihi commune est cum omnibus, ach leider usw., Cic. – b) als Zeichen der Zustimmung, bes. aber zugleich mit dem Wunsche, auf etwas anderes zu kommen, age u. age age, wohlan, es sei! gut! meinetwegen, ich bin's zufrieden! (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 1024. Meißner Ter. Andr. 310), age sit ita factum, quae causa cur Romam properaret? Cic.: age age, ut tibi maxime concinnum est, Plaut.: age age iam ducat, gut, gut, er mag sie heiraten, Ter. – dah. age sane, age ergo, age igitur, age sane igitur, recht wohl, wohl denn, sehr wohl, ich bin's od. wir sind's zufrieden! (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 1024. Gronov Liv. 1, 57, 8), age sane, inquam, Cic.: age sane, omnes, Liv.: age ergo recipe hoc actutum, Plaut.: age igitur, Plaut. u. Ter.: age sane igitur, Plaut. – c) als Zeichen scheinbarer od. erzwungener Zustimmung, wo man nicht ja od. nein sagen u. lieber weitergehen will, wie unser: nun gut! schon gut! nur zu! age, veniam, Ter.: age, age, exponamus adulescenti, Cic. – dah. d) fast wie fac, bei einem angegebenen Falle, gesetzt, age vero laudo aliquem; num offendo? Caecin. b. Cic.: bes. mit si, age si paruerit etc., Cic.: u. so Hor. sat. 2, 3, 117 u.a.

    / Part. praes. agēns, entis, I) Adj.: 1) = δραστικός, sprechend, ausdrucksvoll, lebhaft, (doch nur im Zushg., wie) imagines agentes acres, insignitae, Cic. de or. 2, 358: aliquid agentes imagines (Ggstz. mutae et vagae), Cornif. rhet. 3, 37: acer orator, incensus et agens, Cic. Brut. 317. – 2) als gramm. t.t., verba agentia, i.e. activa, Gell. 18, 12. § 1 u. 10. – II) Subst.: 1) = actor, der Sachwalter, Anwalt, Kläger, Quint. u.a. – 2) = agrimensor, der Feldmesser, Gromat. vet. – 3) agens in rebus od. agens rerum od. bl. agens (gew. im Plur.), ein kaiserl. Beauftragter od. Kommissar zu Revisionen in Militär- u. Zivilangelegenheiten, ag. in reb., Amm. 14, 11, 19 u. oft in Dig. u. bei a. Spät., ag. rer. b. Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 44.

    / Partic. Perf. Pass. subst. ācta, ōrum, n., I) die Handlungen, das Vollbrachte, die Taten, Werke als sprechende Zeugen der Tätigkeit jmds. (dagegen facta, das durch jmd. Geschehene übh.; res od. res gestae, ausgeführte Taten, bes. Kriegstaten, vgl. Cic. de or. 2, 63), belli domique acta, Ov.: acta belli, Suet.: Herculis, Quint.: pueritiae acta recordari, Quint.: ordinem actorum suorum commemorare, Vell.: nunc quācunque nos commovimus, ad Caesaris non modo acta, verum etiam cogitata revocamur, Cic. – II) öffentliche Verhandlungen, im Senate, in den Komitien usw., also namentl. Gesetze, Anordnungen u. Verfügungen der Magistrate u. später der Kaiser (dah. von Cic. Phil. 1, 18 mit leges zusammengestellt). Diese acta wurden dem Senat zur Prüfung u. Genehmigung od. Verwerfung vorgelegt; dah. acta alcis servare, Cic., confirmare, Vell. u. Suet., rata habere, Liv., tueri, Suet.; u. das Gegenteil, acta alcis dissolvere, rescindere, Cic. u. Liv. – in acta principum iurare, schwören, daß man die Verfügungen des Kaisers aufrecht erhalten wolle, s. Tac. ann. 1, 72; 4, 42; vgl. Ruperti Tac. ann. 1, 7, 3. Lipsii exc. in Tac. ann. 16, 22. – bes. die aufgezeichneten Verhandlungen, das Verzeichnis, Register dieser acta, die Urkunden, a) des Senats u. Volks: α) des Senats, die amtlichen Tagebücher od. Protokolle, in denen sowohl der Gegenstand der Diskussion mit Anträgen u. Beschlüssen, als die Meinungen der Hauptsprecher und bei wichtigen Verhören die Aussagen der Zeugen niedergelegt wurden, acta senatus, Suet.: acta patrum, Tac. – β) des Volks, acta diurna od. bl. diurna populi Rom. od. bl. diurna, die Staatszeitung, der Staatsanzeiger (Tac. u. Suet.), acta publica (Tac. u.a.), diurna Urbis acta (Tac.), acta urbana (Cic. u. Plin. ep.), rerum urbanarum acta (Cic.), acta populi (Vopisc.) u. bl. acta (Cic., Sen. u.a.) gen., die röm. Tagesberichte, Tageschronik, eine Art Zeitung, Vorfälle im Staats- u. Privatleben (zB. Geburten), die täglich von Staats wegen verzeichnet u. zur Kenntnis des Volks durch Aufstellung an öffentlichen Orten gebracht, dann von Schreibern in Abschriften bis in die entferntesten Gegenden des röm. Reichs verschickt wurden, acta facere, eine Urkunde (über die Geburt eines Kindes usw.) aufsetzen od. aufsetzen lassen, Serv. Verg. Aen. 2, 502: talia diurnis Urbis actis mandare, in die Zeitung setzen, Tac.: u. so beneficia in acta non mitto, lasse ich nicht in die Zeitung setzen, Sen. de ben. 2, 10, 4: sic in fastos actaque publica relatum est, Suet.: habebam acta urbana usque ad Nonas Martias (als er in Cilicien war), Cic. ad Att. 6, 2, 6. Vgl. K. Zells Ferienschriften, Neue Folge, 1. Bd. S. 3 ff. (Über die Zeitungen der alten Römer). – b) die Protokolle, Gerichtsakten = Verhandlungen vor Gericht, d.h. Reden u. Handlungen der Parteien, Zwischenreden des Richters usw., oft bei Ascon. u. in Dig. (zB. ut ex actis apparet, Ascon.): mit dem zu Protokoll gegebenen Urteil des Magistrats, das aus diesen Akten dann vom Ausrufer vorgelesen wurde, Amm. 22, 3, 4: apud acta promittere, zu Protokoll versprechen, Paul. dig. 2, 4, 17: profiteri apud acta (zu Protokoll geben) se esse ancillam, Cod. Iust. 7, 16, 26: professio donationis apud acta facta, zu Pr. gegebene Schenkung, Fr. Vat. § 266a: alius scribit, alius subscribit, alius obsignat, alius actis refert, Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 1: das dabei tätige Kanzleipersonal hieß ab actis (mit den ihnen untergeordneten exceptores u. chartularii), Cod. Theod. u. Inscr. – c) als milit. t.t., obsequiorum, militarium numerorum, pecuniae acta, Listen über Kommandos, Stand u. Zahlungen, in die zugleich jedes noch so kleine Ereignis der Legion eingetragen wurde, Veget. mil. 2, 19.

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    ago, ēgī, āctum, ere (griech. ἄγω, altind. ájati, ›geht, treibt‹), in Bewegung setzen, d.i. machen, daß etw. vorwärts geht, I) eig., im Raume = führend, leitend in Bewegung setzen, treiben, 1) im allg. = treiben, führen, leiten, α) Tiere als Treiber, Hirt usw., tauros, Verg.: nobile armentum, Aur. Vict.: mercede caballum, Hor.: capellas protenus, hinwegtreiben, Verg.: ex loco infesto porro armentum, Liv.: ex agris in urbem pecora armentaque, Iul. Obs.: bovem Romam, Liv.: boves ad flumina, Verg.: pecora per calles, Curt.: greges ante se, Sen.: elephantos ante agmen, Curt.: belua in hostes imperio, in suos metu agitur, Curt.: celso Nysae de vertice agere tigres, Verg.: m. 1. Sup., pecus venum, Pacuv. tr. 121: pecus pastum, Varr. LL. 6, 41: capellas pastas potum, Verg. ecl. 9, 24: poet. m. Infin., omne cum Proteus pecus egit altos visere montes, Hor. carm. 1, 2, 8. – β) Menschen als Führer, Treiber usw., reliquum agmen pecudum more, vor sich her treiben, Curt.: copulā vinctum ante se Thyum, Nep.: in via cursores et Numidas et multum ante se pulveris, Sen.: captivos prae se, Curt.: virgis proditorem in urbem, Liv.: per omnem vicum alqm verbere, Tac.: alqm ad mortem, zum Tode führen, Tac.: servum suum sub furca ad supplicium, Val. Max.: captivos sub curribus Indos, im Triumph aufführen, Mart.: u. animos per orbem
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    agi, von der Seelenwanderung, Sen. – dah. auch (wie ἄγειν) = »mitbringen, mitnehmen«, multis milibus actis armatorum ex ea regione, Liv. – u. der milit. t.t. agmen agere, den Zug in Bewegung setzen = mit ihm aufbrechen, ihn marschieren lassen, nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen, Liv.: agmen agens equitum, führend, Verg.: u. vom Zuge der Schiffe, agmen agens, Verg.: gew. im Passiv, agmen agitur, der Zug (das Heer) bewegt sich, bricht auf, marschiert, m. Advv., wie citius, raptim u. dgl., Liv. (s. die Belege bei Fabri Liv. 21, 61, 4). – u. in der Umgangsspr., agere se, »sich treiben« = »gehen, kommen« (s. Spengel Ter. Andr. 708. Hildebr. Apul. met. 5, 2. p. 310), quo agis te? wohin gehst du? Plaut.: quo hinc te agis? Ter.: unde agis te? od. bl. unde agis? woher kommst du? Plaut.: ebenso ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat, kam daher, Verg. – γ) ein Pferd (als Reiter od. Fuhrmann), ein Fahrzeug (Wagen, Schiff) treiben = führen, leiten, lenken, steuern, iumenta od. currum, die Tiere od. den Wagen lenken, den Wagenlenker machen, Wagenlenker sein, Liv., Curt. u.a.: equum ad vallum, an den W. heranreiten, Tac.: equum in hostem, auf den F. lossprengen, Curt.: per patris corpus carpentum, den Wagen über des V. Leichnam lenken, Liv.: u. so super ipsum corpus carpentum, Aur. Vict.: currus in diversum, Sen.: adductos intus agere equos, sprichw. (s. intus), Ov. fast. 6,
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    586. – colles, quos agimus praeter navem, Lucr.: navim agere ignarus navis timet, Hor.: dic, unde onustam celocem agere praedicem, sag, von wo du deinen Kutter geladen hierher treibst (scherzh. = von wo du angetrunken herkommst), Plaut.: instructas quadriremes ad urbem, Curt.: in litus naves, auf den Strand treiben, -laufen lassen, Liv.: ratem in amnem, Ov.: rex classem in diversam partem agi iusserat, Curt.: simul naves in adversum amnem agebantur, wurden stromaufwärts geführt, Tac.: quibus (Austris) feliciter acti, Ov. – δ) übh. etw. Lebl. in Bewegung setzen, treiben, es sich bewegen-, es gehen machen, in Gang bringen, von Menschen usw., agens carmine quercus (von Orpheus), Verg.: vocem cubantes excitant (bringen in Gang), et cum egerunt (u. wenn sie sie in Bewegung gesetzt haben), Cic.: tantas moles nullā ope, quae cerneretur, admotas deorum numine agi credebant, Curt. – v. Lebl., nubes ventus agens, Lucr.: Pactolus aureas undas agens, Varr. fr.: maiore vi ac mole undas (v. einem Flusse), Curt.: longeque fluctus (v. Meere), Curt.: flumen maiore impetu adversum agitur, strömt mit desto größerer Gewalt nach der entgegengesetzten Richtung, Curt.: duplex agitur per lumbos spira, doppelt läuft durch die Lenden das Rückgrat hin, Verg.: agentes frigora venti, mitbringend, Verg.: trisulcum fulmen igni fervido actum, Varr. fr.: corpora agunt contagia
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    late, verbreiten weit, Ov.: intus agere lacrimas, verschlucken, Albinov. eleg. 114. – ε) als milit. t.t. die Belagerungsmaschinen gegen einen Ort hin in Bewegung setzen, vorschieben, näher rücken, vineas turresque ad oppidum, Caes.: testudinem, Sall.
    2) insbes.: a) zu rascherer Bewegung antreiben, nach einem Ziele (bes. wider Willen, gewaltsam) forttreiben, fortführen, fortreißen, α) Tiere u. Menschen, equo temere acto, sein Pf. aufs Geratewohl angetrieben, Liv.: u. sprichw., agas asellum, du magst den Esel antreiben (er wird doch nicht schnell laufen lernen; vgl. Hor. sat. 1, 1, 90) = du bist und bleibst der alte, Cic. de or. 2, 258. – ne se avium modo, quas naturalis levitas ageret ad sidera (aufschwinge zu den Sternen), inani ac puerili mentis affectu efferret, Curt.: quā impetus egit equos, wohin wildes Gelüst trieb die Pf., Ov.: quā quemque metus agebat, diffugerunt, Curt.: diffugiunt, quo quemque agit error, Ov. – dah. im Passiv, agi = fortgetrieben-, fortgerissen-, fortgeführt od. umhergeführt werden, rennen, stürmen, fliegen usw., turbā fugientium actus, mit fortgerissen, Liv.: quo multitudo omnis agebatur, rannte, stürmte, Liv.: agi per auras, durch die Lüfte geführt werden, Verg.: agi longis erroribus (auf. l. Irrfahrten), Vell. u. Verg. – β) Dinge, membris agit atra venena, treibt heraus aus den Gl., Verg.: u. (nach der Lehre Epikurs, daß alles Sein u.
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    Geschehen aus zufälligen Bewegungen von Atomen herrühre) quibus forte temere humana negotia volvi agique persuasum est, sich im bunten Wirbel drehe, Curt. 5, 11 (31), 10. – u. bes. animam agere, »den Lebenshauch austreiben« = »in den letzten Zügen liegen, den Geist aufgeben« (vgl. Cic. Tusc. 1, 19), Cael. (b. Cic.), Liv. u.a.: im Wortspiel, eodem tempore et gestum et animam agere, gleichs. die Seele aus dem Leibe heraustreiben, Cic.: est tanti, habere animam, ut agam, leben, um zu sterben, Sen.: ne quod agas desit, agas animam, damit du etwas zu treiben habest, treib dir die Seele aus, Mart.: u. scherzh. res (mein Vermögen) quom animam agebat, Plaut. – b) beunruhigend, jagend, verfolgend forttreiben od. in Bewegung setzen, α) Tiere u. Menschen = umhertreiben, jagen, hetzen, verfolgen, cervos (v. Hunden), Verg.: apros latratu turbabis agens, scheuchst du mit bellender Meute in die Flucht, Verg.: egi per iuga longa canes, Ov. – ceteros ruerem, agerem etc., Ter.: amantes aestuantes (v. Amor), Varr. fr.: obvios, fortstoßen, Suet.: glebis aut saxis aut fustibus alqm de fundo praecipitem, Cic.: u. bes. vom Verfolgen der Feinde (vgl. Fabri Liv. 24, 42, 3), praecipites Pompeianos, Caes.: cursu palantes Troas, Verg. – u.m. Angabe wohin? fugientes hostes ad naves, Iustin.: exsulem populum Rom. in hostium urbem, Liv.: alqm in exsilium, Liv.: hostem penitus in intimas solitudi-
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    nes, Suet.: Narseum in ultimas regni solitudines, Eutr.: poet. m. Dat. loc., puerum Orco (in den O.), Hor. sat. 2, 5, 49. – β) Dinge, certatim remis mare, aufregen, Val. Flacc.: acta boreā pinus, hin- u. hergetrieben, gejagt, Ov. – c) ( wie ἄγειν) von irgendwo weg-, forttreiben, bes. gefangen od. als Beute, inde actae boves, Liv.: reliquum agmen (hostium) more pecudum intactum agebatur, iubente rege, ut caedibus abstineretur, Curt.: dah. raubend weg-, forttreiben, rauben, redigunt actas in sua rura boves, Ov. – u. so praedam od. praedas (pecoris et mancipiorum) agere, »Vieh (u. Sklaven) als Beute mit fortnehmen« u. übh. »Beute machen, plündern« (griech. λεηλατειν), Sall., Liv. u.a.; vgl. pulchram praedam agat, eine schöne Beute machte (= einen schönen Fund täte), si quis illam invenerit aulam onustam auri, Plaut. aulul. 610 sq. – dah. insbes., ferre od. (selten) portare et agere ( wie φέρειν καὶ ἄγειν) = totes u. lebendes Eigentum »fortschaffen (ferre) u. fortführen (agere)«, teils von den Eigentümern (also im nichtfeindlichen Sinne), res, quae ferri agique possunt, bewegliche Habe, Liv.: simul animadvertit multa undique portari agique, Caes. b.c. 2, 25, 2: teils von Feinden »ausplündern u. wegschleppen«, cum ferret cuncta atque ageret, Liv.: postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit, Liv.: hi ferre agere plebem plebisque res, Liv. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 22, 3, 7. Drak. Liv.
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    33, 13, 10. Ruperti Tac. hist. 1, 2, 11): u. bildl. (wie im Griech.), principes fori agunt feruntque cuncta, reißen alles mit sich fort, schalten und walten nach Willkür, Tac. dial. 8, 2. – d) mit einer gewissen körperlichen Anstrengung (schlagend, stoßend, werfend, biegend usw.) wohin treiben, bes. so, daß es festsitzt, eindringt usw., sublicae oblique agebantur, wurden eingerammt, Caes.: pinus ab alto ad terram, von oben bis auf den Boden biegen, Ov.: fundam circum caput, schwingen, Verg.: per costas pugionem, stoßen, Aur. Vict.: per utrumque gladium Val. Max.: hasta alci per armos acta, Verg.: dah. in crucem agere, ans Kreuz schlagen, heften, Cic. u.a. – e) »in fortlaufender Richtung gestalten«, α) in räumlicher Ausdehnung anlegen, unser ziehen, führen, fundamenta, Cic.: parietem, Cic.: aggerem, Caes.: cuniculos, Caes.: cuniculos ad aerarium, Cic., od. per magna spatia, Plin.: cloacam maximam sub terram, Liv.: molem mari, ins Meer hineinbauen, Curt.: amnem occultas egisse vias subter mare, sich einen Weg gebahnt, Verg. – so bes. als t.t. der Feldmetzkunst, limitem agere, »die Grenzmark ziehen«, Tac.: u. poet., latum per agmen limitem agit ferro, haut sich Bahn querdurch, Verg.: u. im Bilde, idem limes agendus erit, d.i. das gleiche Mittel anzuwenden, Ov. – β) von Gewächsen = nach innen od. außen treiben, hervortreiben, ansetzen, radices, Varr.: radices in
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    profundum, Plin.: u. im Bilde, vera gloria radices agit atque propagatur, Cic. – u. so gemmas, coliculum, folia, florem, frondem, Varr., Col. u. Plin.: poet., ossa robur agunt, die Gebeine werden zu hartem Holze, Ov.: u. se laetus ad auras palmes agit, sich fröhlich zur Luft aufschwinget das Reis, Verg.: actae ad sidera pinus, emporgewachsen, reichend, Verg. – γ) übh. aus sich heraustreiben, zum Vorschein bringen, scintillas, Funken sprühen, Lucr.: spumas, Sch. treiben, schäumen, Lucr.: cum spumas ageret in ore, sein Maul schäumte, Cic.: rimas, Risse, Sprünge bekommen, sich spalten (vom Holz, von Bäumen, vom Erdboden usw.), Cic. u.a.
    II) übtr.: A) im allg.: a) übh. in tätige Bewegung setzen, treiben, führen, leiten, bringen, animus cuncta agit atque habet, Sall.: u. so alqm transversum agere, jmd. auf Abwege treiben, -führen (von glücklichen Umständen usw.), Sall., Sen. u.a. (vgl. Kritz Sall. Iug. 6, 3): per reges actum genus omne Latinos, das durch alle lat. Könige durchging, Verg. Aen. 12, 530. – u. Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur, behandelt werden, Verg. Aen. 1, 574. – mit Ang. wohin? od. wozu? durch ein Adv. od. durch in od. ad m. Akk., α) = in einen Zustand treiben, versetzen, bringen, animum in admirationem curae priscorum, Plin.: alqm in furorem, in insaniam, Quint.: in desperationem agi, Liv. epit.: si quis ad illa te agat, ver-
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    setzte dich ein Gott hin, Hor. – β) zu einem Entschlusse, zu einer Vornahme treiben, führen, bestimmen, bringen, matre agente, auf Antrieb der M., Capit.: poëmata dulcia sunto et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto, Hor.: alqm confestim od. praecipitem ad certamen, Liv.: pravis et externis religionibus captas mentes velut furialibus stimulis ad omne scelus et ad omnem libidinem agere, Liv.: irā deorum ad tantum nefas agi, Curt.: ag. Latinos falsis criminibus in arma, Liv.: in favorem aut odium contactu valentiorum agi, sich bestimmen lassen, Tac.: alqm in fraudem, zum Verrat treiben, Verg.: poet. m. folg. Infin., desertas quaerere terras auguriis agimur divum, Verg. Aen. 3, 4 sq. – b) in unruhige Bewegung setzen, umhertreiben, jagen, verfolgen, beunruhigen, plagen, quälen u. dgl., amor me ludificat, fugat, agit, Plaut.: agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum, Cic.: acerba fata Romanos agunt, Hor.: diris agam vos, Hor.: agentia verba, Worte, die zur Verzweiflung treiben, Hor. – c) in stürmische Bewegung setzen, ubi (multitudo) aut studio agitur aut irā, in Bewegung gesetzt, aufgeregt wird, Curt. 6, 9 (33), 6: dah. aus dem Gleichgewicht heben, -bringen, erschüttern, perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur, weder aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht, erschüttert wird, Nep. Att. 9, 1. – d) in tätige Bewegung setzen, treiben,
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    anregen, anfeuern, in Tätigkeit-, in Übung erhalten, seu te discus agit, Hor. sat. 2, 2, 13: non anxia mentem agit spes, Claud. cons. Prob. et Ol. 65 sq. – e) refl. agere (absol.) od. agere se, α) agere (absol.) = irgendwo sich umhertreiben, sein Wesen treiben, sich aufhalten, sich befinden, weilen, edoctus, ubi ageret, Dict.: in partibus orientis, Lact.: clerus Romae agens, Cypr.: sub Alpibus, Flor.: sub extremis Alpium radicibus inter Arsiam Titiumque flumen, Flor.: multum et familiariter cum alqo, viel u. vertraut mit jmd. umgehen, Sall.: inter Vinios... variā et pudendā sorte, mit Leuten wie Vinius... umgehen, Tac.: inter homines (v. Christus), weilen, Lact.: agere inter homines desinere, aufhören unter den Menschen zu weilen = sterben, Tac.: in carne mortali, Lact. – v. Völkern, irgendwo wohnen, hausen, Batavi donec trans Rhenum agebant, Tac.: Africa, quae procul a mari incultius agebat, Sall.: Gaetulos partim in tuguriis, alios incultius vagos agere, Sall.: plerumque sub silvis, Flor. – v. Staaten, unter dem u. dem stehen, octo civitates quae sub ipsis agebant, Eutr. 2, 2: Thracia, Cilicia, Commagene, quae sub regibus amicis egerant, Eutr. 7, 19. – von Soldaten = stehen, in der Schlacht, auf Posten, im Winterquartier usw., apud primos, Sall.: totum diem in armis, Dict.: circa muros et in stationibus solute ac neglegenter, Liv.: haud longe, Tac.: trans Padum, Tac.: Lugduni, Tac.: in vico
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    Marcoduro incuriosius, Tac.: ala in finibus suis agens, Tac.: Chauci inter auxilia Romana agentes, Tac.; vgl. Kritz Tac. Agr. 18, 2. Heräus Tac. hist. 2, 39, 11. – v. Beamten (Statthaltern), im Amte sein, dienstlich tätig sein, haud procul inde, Tac.: Minturnis, Tac.: Antiochiae et circa Armeniam, Eutr.: in Raetia et Norico, Eutr. – β) m. se u. absol., auf eine gewisse Weise sein Wesen treiben, es so u. so treiben, irgendwie sich benehmen, sich zeigen, sich verhalten, tantā mobilitate Numidae sese agunt, Sall.: quanto ferocius ante se egerint, Tac.: sic se agere, Rutil. Lup.: non ex institutione Stoica se agere, Sen.: se ingenti modestiā agere, Eutr.: contra Gordianos superbissime, Capit. Gord. 30 in.: ut nummularii probe se agant circa omne negotium suum, ICt.: neglegenter se et avare agentes, Eutr.: sed agant se, ut volunt, Sulpic. Sev. Vgl. Ruhnken Rutil. Lup. 2, 4 extr. – u. (ohne se) quemadmodum sanis hominibus agendum est od. quemadmodum sanos agere conveniat, Cels.: agere insolentius, Eutr.: feroces pro victoribus agere, sich wie S. benehmen (ohne es zu sein), Sall.: agere pro dei sacerdote, Cypr.: libertinos, qui pro equitibus Romanis agerent, Suet.: tota civitas laeta agere, Sall.: quieti ac sine terrore egēre, Dict.: sermone, cultu etc. ut Germani agunt, Tac.
    B) eine Zeit, eine Tätigkeit od. einen Zustand vor sich gehen machen: 1) eine Zeit gleichs. »herauffüh-
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    ren u. ablaufen lassen«, sie den Kreislauf vollenden lassen, cum Tithonia coniunx quintae tempora lucis aget, Ov.: ver illud erat, ver magnus agebat orbis, Frühling hatte der große Weltumfang, Verg. – dah. α) mit annus u. einer Ordinalzahl = im...ten Jahre stehen (= es erreicht, aber noch nicht überschritten haben), so u. so alt sein (s. Ruhnken Suet. Caes. 1), quartum annum agere incipientes, Varr.: quartum annum ago et octogesimum, Cic.: qui sextum et octogesimum annum agens causam dixerit, Liv.: annum plenum nonum decimum agens, ICt.: annum agens vicesimum aetatis, Eutr.: quinquagesimum et quartum agens aetatis annum, Suet.: erst spätlat. mit Plur. von annus und einer Kardinalzahl, decem et octo annos agens, Capit. Anton. phil. 5, 1; vgl. Capit. Gord. 15, 2 u. 22, 2: decem et novem agebat annos, Augustin. de civ. dei 15, 12, 1. – u. (von einem Zeitabschnitt) im Passiv, agi, im Ablauf begriffen sein, ablaufen, u. im Perfect. = abgelaufen-, verflossen-, am Ende sein, postquam ad te venit, mensis agitur hic iam septimus, Ter.: ut tunc principium anni agebatur, man im Anfange des Jahres stand, Liv.: Vergilii aetate incognita, a cuius obitu XC aguntur anni, der nunmehr 90 Jahre tot ist, Plin.: bis tricenis annis actis, Laber. fr.: actis in regno XV annis, Iustin.: menses iam tibi esse actos vides, Plaut.: mensibus actis, Varr. LL. – β) eine Zeit (die Lebenszeit, die Jahre, einen Zeitab-
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    schnitt) zubringen, hinbringen, verleben, aevum agere consuetis in armis, Pacuv. fr.: aetatem domi, Enn. fr.: aetatem cum uno viro, mit einem M. leben, Ter.: aetatem procul a re publica, Sall.: aetatem in litteris, Cic.: vitam pudice, Ter.: vitam sanctissime honestissimeque, Cic.: vitam ruri, Ter. u. Liv.: silvestrem vitam, im Walde leben, Solin.: tolerabilem senectutem, Cic.: pleraque tempora in venando, Sall.: medium tempus ad proconsulatum usque in otio secessuque, Suet.: dies in terra, noctes in aqua (vom Krokodil), Plin.: noctem inter gaudia, Verg.: noctem quietam, non insomnem, Tac.: totam eam noctem cum magno animi metu perpetuis vigiliis, Liv.: nec tranquillior nox diem tam foede actum excepit, Liv.: hiemem sub tectis suis, Liv., od. in castris, Sall.: ibi hiberna, Liv.: ad Tarentum aestiva, Liv. – dah. absol. = leben, existieren, homines, qui tum agebant, Tac.: ne sine solacio ageret (lebe, bleibe), Tac.: agere procul, fern stehen, Tac.: per mollitiem, in W. dahinleben, Sall.: sine legibus certis, sine magistratibus, Liv.: arbitrio alieno, Dict.: incertā pace, Liv.: in otio, Flor.: adhuc usque id est per longam temporum seriem agentes, Cypr.
    2) eine Tätigkeit od. einen Zustand vor sich gehen lassen, in bezug auf etw. tätig sein, handeln, etw. treiben, betreiben, tun, beginnen, besorgen, verrichten, ausführen, vollführen, haec agens, wäh-
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    rend er damit beschäftigt war, Liv. u. Curt. (s. Wölffl. Liv. Krit. S. 28): omnia quae fiunt (entsteht, in der Natur), quaeque aguntur (getan wird, von Menschen), Cic.: ibi quid agat secum cogitat, Enn. fr.: sed eos (deos) non curare opinor, quid agat humanum genus, Enn. fr.: quaeso, ne temere hanc rem agas, ne iracunditer, Caecil. fr.: o, quid agis? ach, was beginnst du? Hor.: quid vos agitis? was treibt ihr (was beschäftigt euch)? Cic.: nihil agis, quin ego audiam, Cic.: cum scribas et aliquid agas eorum, quorum consuesti, Luccei. bei Cic.: nec quicquam raptim aut forte temere egeritis, Liv.: quod agendum aut faciendum sit, id non recusem, Cic.: agerent facerentque, ut e re publica ducerent, Liv.: agerent (sie sollten nur zumachen) ac ferirent, Tac.: omnes fere res asperas per Iugurtham agere, Sall.: quae cuncta etsi consilio ductuque alterius agebantur, Tac.: castrensis iurisdictio... plura manu agens, vieles tätlich bewirkend, Tac.: multa agendo nihil agere, Phaedr.: operose nihil agere, Sen.: dum aliud agitur (nebenbei), ediscere alqd, Quint.: cuncta impetu militum acta, ging vor sich, Tac.: iucundi acti labores, Cic. – agere res egregias, Eutr.: multa in Hispania bene, Eutr.: multa strenue, Eutr.: nihil non tranquillum et placidum, Eutr.: nihil iniustum ad augendum fiscum, Eutr.: nihil quasi Romanus egit, er benahm sich in keinem Stücke wie ein Römer, Eutr. – in der Umgangsspr., quid agis?
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    was treibst du? was machst du? wie geht's? Plaut., Cic. u.a.: quid agit? was macht sie? wie geht es ihr? Ter.: quid agitur? was macht man? wie geht's? was gibt's? wie stehen die Sachen? Komik. – ebenso bei Fragen der Verlegenheit, des Zweifels, der Furcht, quid faciam? quid agam? was soll ich tun? was soll ich anfangen? Komik.: quid ages? Ter.: ebenso quid ago? quid agimus? Komik. u.a. (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 250 u. trin. 1062): u. in der indir. Frage, neque satis centurionibus constabat, quid agerent, Caes. – u. die Formeln, age, si quid agis, als drängende Aufforderung, »mach! mach!«, »mach Ernst mit deinem Vorsaße!« Plaut. (s. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 214. Brix Plaut. trin. 981). – age, ut vis, mach's, wie du willst, Plaut.: u. so age, age, ut lubet, Ter. – quod agis, id agas, bleib bei deinem Vorsatze, Plaut.: u. so age porro, tamen istuc ago, ich bleibe doch dabei (bei dem von dir empfohlenen Verfahren), Ter. – absol., se non interfuisse, sed egisse (dabei [als Zeuge] tätig gewesen sei, zu tun gehabt habe) dicit, Cic.: industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo, Cic.: defessa iubendo est saeva Iovis coniunx; ego sum indefessus agendo, Ov.: vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo prospere omnia cedunt, Sall. – bes. m. Advv., auf irgend eine Weise handeln, verfahren, zu Werke gehen, lenius, Sall.: pariter, Sall.: facile iusteque, Tac.: cum (consules) primo anno bene egissent, ihre Verwaltung gut war,
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    Eutr.: u. so cum humane nobiscum hiems egerit, Sen. – dah. male, bene, praeclare agere cum alqo, übel-, gut- (glimpflich), sehr gut mit jmd. verfahren, - ihn behandeln, Plaut. u. Cic.: ebenso cum omnibus Romae aequo iure, Eutr.: u. im Passiv, male, bene agitur cum alqo, »es steht mit jmd. –, geht jmdm. übel, gut, vortrefflich«, Cic.: u. so egregie actum nobis (= nobiscum) est, siquidem etc., Dict.: u. bl. praeclare agitur, si etc., Cic.
    Dah. a) aliquid agere, handeln, tätig sein, im Ggstz. zum Müßiggang, zur Ruhe, zur Überlegung, qui talibus diebus imprudens aliquid egisset, Macr.: virtus agit aliquid, Sen. – u. ohne aliquid, zB. surgamus, eamus, agamus, Lucil. fr.: quod (daß sie) egerunt,... quod reliquerunt, Cic.: bes. im Partic. Praes., im Gerundio u. Gerundivo, agentes audentesque, Liv.: aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi, Cic.: agendum atque obviam eundum est, Sall. fr.: Maecenas... vir providens atque agendi sciens, gewandter Geschäftsmann, Vell.: audendum atque agendum, non consultandum in tanto malo esse, Liv.; vgl. Fabri Sall. Cat. 21, 3. Korte Sall. Cat. 52, 59. Kritz Sall. hist. fr. 1, 45, 7. Benecke Cic. de imp. Cn. Pomp. 3, 8. p. 90; u. (über die Verbindung aud. et ag.) Fabri Liv. 21, 40, 6. – u. der Ggstz. nihil agere, nichts tun, untätig sein, müßig gehen, numquam se plus agere, quam cum nihil ageret, Cic.: nihil agendo homines male
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    agere discunt, Cato. fr.: iam dies hic sextus est, cum nihil egi, Pompon. fr. – b) = so u. so viel ausrichten, bewirken, etiam quicquam egisti? Afran. fr.: non nihil egisti hoc loco, Cic.: nihilo plus agas, quam si des operam etc., du dürftest nicht mehr ausrichten = das wäre ebensoviel, als wenn du usw., Ter.: nihil agit in amore inermus, Caecil. fr.: nihil agis, das hilft dir nichts, Ter.: nihil agis, dolor, du richtest nichts aus, vermagst nichts über mich, Cic.: u. so ars nihil sane egisse videatur, nisi etc., Cic.: non multum egerit, dürfte nicht viel ausrichten, Cur. b. Cic.; vgl. Ruhnken Rutil. Lup. 2, 11 extr. – dah. so u. soviel vermögen, ausmachen, von dem u. dem Einfluß sein, multum agit sexus, aetas, condicio, Quint.: argumenta ac testes quid egerint, Quint. – c) etwas ernstlich betreiben, α) auf etw. achten, aufpassen, achtgeben (s. Ruhnk. Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 15. Arntzen Plin. pan. 5, 3. p. 28), hoc agam, ich werde aufpassen, lauern, Ter.: hoc (istuc) od. hanc rem age, hoc od. hanc rem agite, aufgepaßt, achtgegeben, Komik. u.a. (s. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 149): hocine agis an non? hörst du denn darauf? Ter.: at iam hoc non agis, du passest nicht auf, Ter.: id ago sedulo, ich denke ernstlich daran, Ter.: u. so nisi id agat et adsit, darauf achtet u. bei der Hand ist, Cic.: quae suā sponte, etiam si id non agas, cadunt, Cic.: cras agamus haec, wollen wir auf dieses Thema weiter Bedacht neh-
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    men, es weiter verfolgen, Cic. – u. der Ggstz., alias res agere, Komik u. Cic., od. aliud agere, Cic., »andere Dinge (Allotria, Nebendinge) treiben, sich mit andern Dingen befassen«, d.h. »nicht aufmerken, unaufmerksam-, unachtsam-, zerstreut sein«. – β) etw. im Werke od. im Sinne haben, auf etw. sinnen, denken, ausgehen, mit etw. umgehen, etw. beabsichtigen, im Schilde führen, mit etw. vorzüglich sich abgeben, etw. sich besonders angelegen sein lassen (vgl. Ochsner Cic. Ecl. p. 285), aliud agentes (vorhabend), aliud simulantes (vorgebend), Cic.: nescio quid mens mea maius agat, Ov.: observabo, quam rem agat, Plaut.: quid agat, quid consilii captet, Ter.: quid cogitent, Cic.: id s egissent, Cic.: in omni vita nihil aliud egi, habe es mir zur Aufgabe meines Lebens gemacht, Cic.: fratri proditionem, Tac.: de intranda Britannia, Tac. – u. bes. id agere ( selten hoc agere od. bl. agere), ut od. ne etc., das im Werke od. Sinne haben, das sich zum Hauptgeschäfte machen, daß od. daß nicht usw., damit umgehen, darauf ausgehen, -denken, sich ein besonderes Geschäft daraus machen, es darauf absehen, beabsichtigen, zu usw., qui tum, cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur, Cic.: non enim id agit, ut insidietur et observet, sed iam favet, Cic.: id agere ac moliri coepit, ut desciscerent ab Insubribus Cenomani, Liv.: id agendum, ut ea facere videamur irati, Cic.: non
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    ergo id agitur, ut aliquid assensu meo comprobem, darauf kommt es mir nicht an, daß ich usw., Cic.: certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur, Nep.: id ab isto actum esse, ut ille suppositus facile et libenter se illum, qui non erat, esse simularet, Cic. – ego id agam, quī mihi ne detur, Ter.: itaque neque tu multum interfuisti rebus gerendis, et ego id semper egi, ne interessem, Cic. – tu, dum tua navis in alto est, hoc age (sieh zu), ut mutata retrorsum te ferat aura, Hor. ep. 1, 18, 87 sq. – qui hoc agit, ut prior sit, Quint. 10, 2, 10.
    3) etwas mit dem gehörigen äußern Vortrag (s. actio no. II) in Handlung setzen, darstellen, a) v. Redner, darstellen, vortragen, deklamieren (vgl. Gernhard Cic. de sen. 16), id cum pronuntiamus, agimus, Varr. LL.: haec ille egit, Cic.: quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat, oculis, voce, gestu, ut etc., Cic.: absol., agere cum dignitate ac venustate, Cic. – b) vom Rhapsoden usw., vortragen, hersagen, rezitieren, carmen, Val. Flacc. 1, 783; 4, 87. – c) vom Schauspieler, α) durch bloßes Gebärdenspiel od. durch die Rede mit dem nötigen Gebärdenspiel darstellen, vortragen, spielen, in scaena gestum, als Schauspieler auftreten, Cic.: mimum, Suet. u. Macr. (vgl. ag. choros, Prop.): canticum aliquanto magis vigente motu, die Handlung der Monodie (canticum) mit weit lebendigerem Gebärdenspiel darstellen,
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    Liv.: numquam agit hunc versum Roscius eo gestu, quo potest etc., mit solchem Feuer spielen, Cic.: haec (diese Septenare) quantis ab illo (Aesopo) clamoribus agebantur! Cic. – u. so fabulam (comoediam, tragoediam), ein Stück darstellen, spielen, Komik. u. Cic., u. aufführen (spielen) lassen, zur Aufführung bringen, Komik. (s. Wagner Ter. heaut. p. 27): novam fabulam, Varr. LL.: statariam, Ter.: u. so Menandri Eunuchum, das Stück des M. »der Eunuch«, Ter. – primas partes (die erste Rolle, die Hauptrolle), Ter.: u. so (im Bilde) priores partes, Cic.: Amphionis partes (Rolle), Varr. fr. – so auch eandem personam in triclinio agere (v. einem Mimen), Macr. sat. 2, 7, 17: u. bildl., hanc personam induisti; agenda est, Sen. de ben. 2, 17, 2: agenda est persona, quam mihi miles imposuit, Vopisc. Prob. 10, 7. – β) agere alqm (servum, lenonem, Ballionem u. dgl.), die Person (eines Stückes auf der Bühne) darstellen, Ter. u. Cic.: u. bes. übtr., im gewöhnl. Leben jmds. Rolle, jmd. spielen, abgeben, machen = sich (im Ernst od. aus Heuchelei) benehmen wie usw., senatorem, den Senator spielen, Tac.: nobilem. den Vornehmen spielen, Cael. in Cic. ep.: amicum, convivam, patrem familias, Sen.: filium, Sen, rhet.: ministrum imperatoris, Tac.: Rhodi specei secessus exsulem, als Verbannter leben, Tac.: bonum consulem, Plin. pan.: abstinentissimum virum, Liv. epit.: propu-
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    gnatores sceleris, als Verfechter des V. auftreten, Iustin. Vgl. Bremi Suet. Tib. 12. – dah. d) Dank u. Lob mündlich od. schriftlich an den Tag legen, ausdrücken, aussprechen, bezeigen, sagen, alci gratias od. (im feierlichen Tone, Gebet usw.) grates, Cic.: alci gratias pro alqa re, Plaut.: dis laudes gratesque, Liv.; vgl. gratia.
    4) machen, daß eine Veranstaltung ein Zustand vor sich geht: a) ein Fest od. eine festliche Veranstaltung übh. begehen, feiern, halten, festos dies anniversarios, Cic.: festum diem, Iustin.: diem natalem u. bl. natalem, Tibull.: Idus, Hor.: quinquatrus iucunde, Suet.: diem festum Dianae per triduum, Liv.: festum genialiter, Ov.: choros, aufführen, Prop. u. Cypr.: triumphum de alqo, Cic.: acto cum gloria triumpho, Vell. – b) Zustände aller Art, α) der Ruhe = etw. halten, beobachten (längere Zeit) in etw. verharren, pacem, Sall. fr.: otia, Ov.: alta silentia, Ov.: medium, die M. halten, Vell.: morem, einer S. nachleben, Sall. fr. – β) der Tätigkeit = halten, versehen, vornehmen, treiben, vollziehen, vigilias ad aedes sacras, Cic., od. in portu, Liv.: excubias alci, Tac., od. circa cubiculum alcis, Suet.: stationem, Posten stehen (v. Soldaten), Liv., u. stationem in castris, die Wache haben (v. Befehlshaber), Tac. – popularia per ludum, Laber. fr.: nugas, Plaut.: ioca atque seria cum humillimis, Sall.: arbitria, s. arbitrium: curam alcis
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    od. alcis rei od. m. pro od. de u. Abl., s. cura (no. I, 1 u. no. II): delectum, s. delectus (no. I): paenitentiam, s. paenitentia: mensuram agere alcis rei, s. mensura: sua vota, seine Wünsche betreiben, vortragen, Ov. – u. bes. γ) der leitenden Tätigkeit im öffentl. Dienste, etw. halten = anstellen, vornehmen, veranstalten, verwalten, leiten, vollziehen, senatum, S. halten, XII tabb. (b. Cic.) u. Suet.: censum, recensum, Liv.: delectum, Quint.: delectum acerbe, Liv. epit.: forum od. conventum, einen Gerichts- od. Kreistag halten, Cic., Caes. u.a.: censuram, das Zensoramt verwalten, Ov. u. Vell.: regnum, Liv.: honorem, bekleiden, Liv.: u. so proconsulatum, Capitol. (s. Gronov. observv. 4, 14. p. 452 sq. Oudend. Caes. b.G. 2, 28, 2). – u. von Einkünften, sie verwalten, eintreiben, beitreiben, Iudaicum fiscum acerbissime, Suet.: publicum quadragesimae in Asia, Suet. – bes. agere bellum, einen Krieg »planmäßig betreiben, planmäßig (durch zweckmäßig getroffene Anstalten) führen«, Sall. u.a. (vgl. Kritz Sall. hist. fr. 2, 50, 11. Drak. Liv. epit. 49; nicht bei Caes. u. Nep., in denen jetzt überall bellum gerere gelesen wird, s. Nipperdey spicileg. in Corn. Nepot. p. 69): aber Samnitium bella, quae continua per quartum iam volumen... agimus, mit denen wir es (als Schriftsteller) zu tun haben, Liv. 10, 31, 10. – auch levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis, geliefert, Liv. 22, 9, 6 H. ( andere factis). – c) in der Opferspr. =
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    machen, d.i. »das Opfertier mit dem Hammer niederschlagen u. dann schlachten«, indem der Opferschlächter (popa) fragte: agone? mach od. tu ich's? s. Varr. LL. 6, 12. Ov. fast. 1, 321 sq. Sen. contr. 2, 11. § 19; worauf der Priester antwortete: age od. hoc age, so mach od. tu es, s. Suet. Cal. 58, 2; Galb. 20, 1. Sen. de clem. 1, 12, 2.
    5) machen, daß eine Verhandlung über etw. vor sich geht, a) übh. etw. betreiben, mit jmd. wegen etw. verhandeln, reden, sich unterreden, sich besprechen, unterhandeln, etw. besprechen, ab- od. ausmachen, in jmd. mit Bitten, Zureden usw. dringen, jmd. bitten, ermahnen, jmdm. zusprechen, den Vorschlag, Antrag, das Ansinnen machen, cum alqo alqd od. de alqa re od. m. folg. ut od. ne mit Konj., auch oft m. Abl. eines Substantivums od. Gerundiums der Art, wie etwas verhandelt usw. wird (s. Fabri Liv. 24, 32, 5), non ago hoc per sagam pretio conductam, Turpil. fr.: ut agerem cum Lucceio de vestra vetere gratia reconcilianda, Cic.: quod mecum per litteras agis (schriftlich verhandelst), mallem coram egisses (mündlich besprochen, abgemacht hättest), Cic.: utrum per procuratorem ageres, an per te ipsum, Cic.: estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam, von dem ich sprach, Ter.: de quibus in foro atque in negotiis agendi non est otium, Varr. fr.: ne agendi cum eo Dioni esset potestas, sich mit ihm zu besprechen, Nep.:
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    hactenus vobiscum verbis actum, Dict. – egit cum Cimone, ut etc., machte dem C. den Antrag usw., Nep.: egit mecum accurate multis verbis, ut etc., Cic.: non imperio modo, sed consilio etiam ac prope precibus agens cum magistro equitum, ut etc., befahl er nicht bloß, sondern riet auch seinem Reiterobersten, ja er bat ihn beinahe usw., Liv.: agere varie rogando alternis suadendoque coepit, ut etc., drang auf alle Weise, bald mit Bitten, bald mit Zureden in ihn, daß usw., Liv. – is ita cum Caesare egit (dieser äußerte gegen Cäsar): si pacem faceret etc., Caes.: quae (patria) sic agit (sich so vernehmen läßt) et quodammodo tacita tecum loquitur, Cic. – absol. = den Unterhändler machen, unterhandeln, agente Serviliā, Cic.: illo auctore atque agente, Caes.: agendi viam non video, Cic.
    b) als publiz. t.t.: α) im Senate od. vor dem Volke etw. betreiben, verhandeln, zur Entscheidung bringen, einen entscheidenden Antrag stellen od. Beschluß fassen, in senatu de alqo od. de re, Cic.: agitur in curia de alqa re, Suet. – cum populo, Cic.: cum populo de alqo, vor dem Volke in einem förmlichen Antrage, Cic.: u. so verb. cum populo patribusque od. cum populo, cum plebe agendi ius, XII tabb. (b. Cic.) u. Cic. – oft absol., ut ante, quam rogatio lata esset, nulla res ageretur, Cic.: omnia potius actum iri, quam de provinciis, Cic.: u. so de pace, de condicio-
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    nibus u. dgl., Cic.: de pace cum Sylla, Eutr.: nihil omnino actum esse de nobis, die Verhandlung über mich sei so gut als gar keine, Cic. – u. agi per senatum, per populum, durch den S., durch das V. entschieden werden, -geschehen, Cic.: u. so multitudinis arbitrio res maximas agi, Cic. – numquam Curio sustinuisset, si cum eo agi coeptum esset, wenn man entscheidende Beschlüsse gegen ihn gefaßt hätte, ernstlich gegen ihn aufgetreten wäre, Cic. – β) agere causam alcis, jmds. polit. Sache betreiben, jmds. Sache führen, sich jmds. annehmen, für jmd. Partei nehmen, Cic.: agere causam populi, Nep.: utrum militantium adversarii estis an causam agitis ? Liv.
    c) als gerichtl. t.t., etw. vor Gericht betreiben, sowohl in fremdem als in eigenem Namen, als Verteidiger od. Kläger: α) v. Vert., agere causam od. rem, eine Sache, einen Prozeß führen, eine Sache verteidigen, causam, Varr. LL.: causas agere et componere, Lucr.: causas amicorum tractare atque agere, Cic.: causas Latine, Eutr.: rem de scripto, Cic.: causam contra alqm apud consulem, Cic.: bonam causam apud aequos iudices, Liv.: apud quos iudices causa agebatur, vor denen der Pr. geführt wurde, Cic.: cum proxime res agentur, wenn der nächste Gerichtstag ist, Plin. ep. – absol., agere = ein Rechtsgeschäft betreiben, bes. als Redner u. Sachwalter-, als Verteidiger auftreten, hospes in agendo, Fremdling in
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    (Rechts-)Geschäften, Cic.: princeps in agendo, Wortführer in der Verhandlung, Cic.: ad od. apud alqm (iudicem), Cic.: egit ipse pro se (verteidigte sich selbst), nullo accusante, Plin. ep.: si agendi necessitas instat, Plin. ep.: nihil cum Verre de cotidianis criminibus acturus sum, mit V. rechten. Cic. – β) vom Kläger od. der Partei, die ihr Recht verfolgt u. dgl., eine Klage anstellen, einen Prozeß anhängig machen, mit u. ohne (ex) iure, lege (auf Grund des Rechtes, eines Gesetzes) u. dgl., sein Recht geltend machen, den Weg Rechtens od. des Gesetzes einschlagen, klagbar werden, klagen, prozessieren, rechten, quid agas mecum ex iure civili et praetorio, non habes, Cic.: u. so ag. ex syngrapha, Cic.: tamquam ex syngrapha (als hätte man einen schriftlichen Vertrag) cum populo, Cic.: comminus (persönlich), Apul. – tabellis obsignatis ag. cum alqo, jmdm. das vollzogene Protokoll vorhalten, Cic. – ag. summo iure, das strengste Recht geltend machen, Cic.: ut iure non rescriptis (principum) ageretur, Capit. – lege agito ergo, nimm das Recht in Anspruch, Ter.: agere lege in hereditatem, Cic.: lege agendo, in der Gerichtsverhandlung, Cic.: vetuit de iisdem rebus pluribus legibus agere, wiederholt zu klagen, Suet. – non enim gladiis tecum, sed litibus agetur, man wird nicht mit der Gewalt der Waffen, sondern auf dem Wege der Klage gegen dich vorge-
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    hen, Cic.: causā quam vi agere malle, Tac. – u. ohne lege u. dgl., grave (crimen est), me agente, te accusante, nullum, Cic.: cum alqo agere de alqa re, Cic.: agere ab alqo (von od. auf seiten jmds.), zB. a petitore (Kläger), a possessore (Beklagten), Plin. ep. 6, 2, 2: alter iniquum putabat plus secum agi, quam quod erat in actione, daß von ihm mehr gefordert werde, als es die Klage gestattete, Cic. – übtr., omnia pro suo iure agere, alles ganz seinem Rechte gemäß verhandeln, Ter.: agerent tecum lege Pythagorei, es würden gegen dich klagbar werden die P., Cic.: nihil, tamquam accusator, criminose nec dubia argumentis colligendo ago, ich deute nicht wie ein Ankläger alles schlimm u. suche nicht das Zweifelhafte durch Schlüsse zu erweisen, Liv. – bes. αα) agere m. Genet. des Verbrechens = klagbar werden, klagen wegen usw., mit u. ohne cum alqo (gegen jmd.), furti, Cic.: iniuriarum, Cic. u.a.: iniuriarum cum alqo, adulterii cum alqo, Quint. – ββ) alqm reum agere, s. reus. – γ) agitur de re od. (gew.) res, v. Gegenstande der Klage = es handelt sich um etw., die Frage dreht sich um etw., es wird debattiert über usw., es ist etw. Gegenstand der Debatte, es ist die Rede von etw. (s. Korte Sall. Cat. 52, 10), qua de re agitur od. quae res agitur, der Streitpunkt, Cic. (s. Manuzzi Cic. Mur. 13): praesertim cum de maximis vestris vectigalibus agatur, Cic.: non agitur, inquis, de hoc, an ami-
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    citia propter se ipsam expetenda sit, Sen.: non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae, Ter.: aguntur iniuriae sociorom, Cic.: agitur, liberine vivamus an mortem obeamus, Cic. – übtr. u. prägn., es handelt sich um etw., es gilt etw., es ist etw. in Frage = es steht auf dem Spiele, ist in Gefahr (s. die Auslgg. zu Nep. Att. 15, 2; Fabri Liv. 23, 49, 8; die Auslgg. zu Hor. ep. 1, 18, 84; Ruhnken Ter. heaut. 2, 3, 113 eine Menge Belege), non agitur de vectigalibus, neque de sociorum iniuriis; libertas et anima nostra in dubio est, Sall.: id quod agitur, Plaut.: quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua, als ob in deiner Angelegenheit (istic) auf meiner Seite weniger auf dem Spiele stände, als auf deiner, Ter.: tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet, Hor.: in quo (bello) agitur populi Romani gloria: agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia, Cic.: cum fama eius ageretur, Liv.: agitur pars tertia mundi, Ov. – im Perf., acta res est od. gew. actum est, eig. die Verhandlung ist-, die Akten sind geschlossen = es ist aus, -vorbei damit, acta haec res est, perii, Ter.: actumst, ilicet, peristi, Ter.: si prorogatur, actum est, Cic.: actum est (ich bin zugrunde gerichtet), si etc., Ter.: actum erat, nisi etc., es wäre aus gewesen, wenn nicht usw., Flor. – u. so actum est de etc., es ist mit jmd. od. etw. aus od. vorbei, es ist um jmd. od. etw. geschehen, es ist jmd. od. etw. verloren, de collo
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    meo, Plaut. trin. 595: de Servio, de imperio, Liv.: quod scribis εγγήραμα, actum de isto est, damit ist's schon vorbei, darauf habe ich schon verzichtet, Cic. – dah. ego sum is, qui dicam me non laborare; actum habiturum, quod egerint, ich dagegen bin bereit zu erklären, daß ich keineswegs gesonnen bin, mich abzumühen, indem ich gern das als abgemacht betrachten will, was sie abgemacht wissen wollen, Cic. Tusc. 3, 50. – u. so sprichw., rem actam od. bl. actum (acta) agere, eine abgemachte Sache noch einmal vornehmen = sich vergebliche Mühe geben, tun od. besprechen, was sich nicht mehr ändern läßt, etwa unser leeres Stroh dreschen, stultus es, rem actam agis, es hilft dir nichts, Plaut.: rem actam hodierno die agi (eine schon abgemachte Sache werde verhandelt werden), et frustra habiturum orationem, qui etc., Liv.: Ph. actum, aiunt, ne agas (laß, was du nicht mehr ändern kannst). D. non agam? (ich lassen?) Ter.: u. so tu, malum! inquies, actum ne agas, zum Henker! wirst du sagen, gib acht, es ist zu spät, Cic.: sed acta ne agamus, aber reden wir nicht von dem, was nicht zu ändern ist, Cic.: praeposteris utimur consiliis et acta agimus (und haben vorgetan und nachgedacht) quod vetamur vetere proverbio, Cic. – ⇒ Archaist. axim = egerim, Pacuv. tr. 297: axit = egerit, Paul. ex Fest. 3, 3. – Futur. Akt. agebo, Virgil. gramm. epit. 10 (Class. auct. ed. Mai 5,
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    141). – parag. Infin. Präs. agier, gerichtliche Formel bei Cic. top. 66; ep. 7, 12, 2; de off. 3, 61 u. 70.
    ⇒ Imperat. age, agite, fast wie eine Partikel des Aufrufs, der Ermunterung (dah. auch age in der Anrede an mehrere), wie unser wohlan! auf! (oft verstärkt durch andere Partikeln, bes. durch dum u. sis, dah. verb. agedum, agidum (Plaut. trin. 369), agitedum, agesis), I) bei dringender Aufforderung u. Ermahnung, wohlan! auf! auf denn! hurtig! a) übh.: age face, Plaut.: age fiat, Ter.: agedum ergo, accede huc modo, Plaut.: agitedum ite mecum, Liv. (u. so oft agedum u. agitedum b. Liv., s. Drak. Liv. 3, 62, 4): agesis tu sine pennis vola, Plaut.: age nunc refer animum, sis, ad veritatem, Cic.: en od. eia age rumpe moras, Verg.: nunc age, Verg.: quin age, auf denn! Verg.: age, quaeso, Hor.: age age, egredere, Turpil. fr.: age age, usque exsecra, Plaut. – age m. 1. pers. plur. verbi, age age nunc iam experiamur, Ter.: age agitemus convivium etc., Plaut. – u.m. 2. pers. plur. (seit der august. Zeit, bes. bei Dichtern, s. die Auslgg. zu Prop. 1, 1, 21. Burm. Val. Flacc. 3, 311), mittite agedum legatos, Liv. – b) bei Übergängen in der Rede, um auf das Folgende bes. aufmerksam zu machen (oft mit nunc, vero, porro), age nunc iter... comparate, Cic.: age vero... considerate, Cic.: age porro tu cur... imperasti? und nun ferner, Cic. Vgl. Seyffert Schol. Lat. 1. § 26. – c) bei lebhafter Anrede
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    in Fragen, fast wie dic, sag an! sprich! wohlan! age ecquid fit? Plaut.: age scis quid loquar? Ter.: age, numquid etc., Petron. – II) beim Wunsch, in der Unterhaltung abzubrechen u. zu anderem überzugehen: a) als Zeichen der Mißbilligung von Gesagtem, wie unser: geh! laß das! ach! age novi tuum animum, geh, ich kenne dich; ach, ich kenne dich besser, Ter.: sicine agis, Parmeno? age, wie kannst du so sprechen? laß das! Ter.: age, inepte! ach, Possen! Ter.: age, hoc malum mihi commune est cum omnibus, ach leider usw., Cic. – b) als Zeichen der Zustimmung, bes. aber zugleich mit dem Wunsche, auf etwas anderes zu kommen, age u. age age, wohlan, es sei! gut! meinetwegen, ich bin's zufrieden! (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 1024. Meißner Ter. Andr. 310), age sit ita factum, quae causa cur Romam properaret? Cic.: age age, ut tibi maxime concinnum est, Plaut.: age age iam ducat, gut, gut, er mag sie heiraten, Ter. – dah. age sane, age ergo, age igitur, age sane igitur, recht wohl, wohl denn, sehr wohl, ich bin's od. wir sind's zufrieden! (s. Brix Plaut. mil. 1024. Gronov Liv. 1, 57, 8), age sane, inquam, Cic.: age sane, omnes, Liv.: age ergo recipe hoc actutum, Plaut.: age igitur, Plaut. u. Ter.: age sane igitur, Plaut. – c) als Zeichen scheinbarer od. erzwungener Zustimmung, wo man nicht ja od. nein sagen u. lieber weitergehen will, wie unser: nun gut! schon
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    gut! nur zu! age, veniam, Ter.: age, age, exponamus adulescenti, Cic. – dah. d) fast wie fac, bei einem angegebenen Falle, gesetzt, age vero laudo aliquem; num offendo? Caecin. b. Cic.: bes. mit si, age si paruerit etc., Cic.: u. so Hor. sat. 2, 3, 117 u.a.
    ⇒ Part. praes. agēns, entis, I) Adj.: 1) = δραστικός, sprechend, ausdrucksvoll, lebhaft, (doch nur im Zushg., wie) imagines agentes acres, insignitae, Cic. de or. 2, 358: aliquid agentes imagines (Ggstz. mutae et vagae), Cornif. rhet. 3, 37: acer orator, incensus et agens, Cic. Brut. 317. – 2) als gramm. t.t., verba agentia, i.e. activa, Gell. 18, 12. § 1 u. 10. – II) Subst.: 1) = actor, der Sachwalter, Anwalt, Kläger, Quint. u.a. – 2) = agrimensor, der Feldmesser, Gromat. vet. – 3) agens in rebus od. agens rerum od. bl. agens (gew. im Plur.), ein kaiserl. Beauftragter od. Kommissar zu Revisionen in Militär- u. Zivilangelegenheiten, ag. in reb., Amm. 14, 11, 19 u. oft in Dig. u. bei a. Spät., ag. rer. b. Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 44.
    ⇒ Partic. Perf. Pass. subst. ācta, ōrum, n., I) die Handlungen, das Vollbrachte, die Taten, Werke als sprechende Zeugen der Tätigkeit jmds. (dagegen facta, das durch jmd. Geschehene übh.; res od. res gestae, ausgeführte Taten, bes. Kriegstaten, vgl. Cic. de or. 2, 63), belli domique acta, Ov.: acta belli, Suet.: Herculis, Quint.: pueritiae acta recordari, Quint.: ordinem actorum suorum commemorare,
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    Vell.: nunc quācunque nos commovimus, ad Caesaris non modo acta, verum etiam cogitata revocamur, Cic. – II) öffentliche Verhandlungen, im Senate, in den Komitien usw., also namentl. Gesetze, Anordnungen u. Verfügungen der Magistrate u. später der Kaiser (dah. von Cic. Phil. 1, 18 mit leges zusammengestellt). Diese acta wurden dem Senat zur Prüfung u. Genehmigung od. Verwerfung vorgelegt; dah. acta alcis servare, Cic., confirmare, Vell. u. Suet., rata habere, Liv., tueri, Suet.; u. das Gegenteil, acta alcis dissolvere, rescindere, Cic. u. Liv. – in acta principum iurare, schwören, daß man die Verfügungen des Kaisers aufrecht erhalten wolle, s. Tac. ann. 1, 72; 4, 42; vgl. Ruperti Tac. ann. 1, 7, 3. Lipsii exc. in Tac. ann. 16, 22. – bes. die aufgezeichneten Verhandlungen, das Verzeichnis, Register dieser acta, die Urkunden, a) des Senats u. Volks: α) des Senats, die amtlichen Tagebücher od. Protokolle, in denen sowohl der Gegenstand der Diskussion mit Anträgen u. Beschlüssen, als die Meinungen der Hauptsprecher und bei wichtigen Verhören die Aussagen der Zeugen niedergelegt wurden, acta senatus, Suet.: acta patrum, Tac. – β) des Volks, acta diurna od. bl. diurna populi Rom. od. bl. diurna, die Staatszeitung, der Staatsanzeiger (Tac. u. Suet.), acta publica (Tac. u.a.), diurna Urbis acta (Tac.), acta urbana (Cic. u. Plin. ep.), rerum urbanarum acta (Cic.), acta populi
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    (Vopisc.) u. bl. acta (Cic., Sen. u.a.) gen., die röm. Tagesberichte, Tageschronik, eine Art Zeitung, Vorfälle im Staats- u. Privatleben (zB. Geburten), die täglich von Staats wegen verzeichnet u. zur Kenntnis des Volks durch Aufstellung an öffentlichen Orten gebracht, dann von Schreibern in Abschriften bis in die entferntesten Gegenden des röm. Reichs verschickt wurden, acta facere, eine Urkunde (über die Geburt eines Kindes usw.) aufsetzen od. aufsetzen lassen, Serv. Verg. Aen. 2, 502: talia diurnis Urbis actis mandare, in die Zeitung setzen, Tac.: u. so beneficia in acta non mitto, lasse ich nicht in die Zeitung setzen, Sen. de ben. 2, 10, 4: sic in fastos actaque publica relatum est, Suet.: habebam acta urbana usque ad Nonas Martias (als er in Cilicien war), Cic. ad Att. 6, 2, 6. Vgl. K. Zells Ferienschriften, Neue Folge, 1. Bd. S. 3 ff. (Über die Zeitungen der alten Römer). – b) die Protokolle, Gerichtsakten = Verhandlungen vor Gericht, d.h. Reden u. Handlungen der Parteien, Zwischenreden des Richters usw., oft bei Ascon. u. in Dig. (zB. ut ex actis apparet, Ascon.): mit dem zu Protokoll gegebenen Urteil des Magistrats, das aus diesen Akten dann vom Ausrufer vorgelesen wurde, Amm. 22, 3, 4: apud acta promittere, zu Protokoll versprechen, Paul. dig. 2, 4, 17: profiteri apud acta (zu Protokoll geben) se esse ancillam, Cod. Iust. 7, 16, 26: professio donatio-
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    nis apud acta facta, zu Pr. gegebene Schenkung, Fr. Vat. § 266a: alius scribit, alius subscribit, alius obsignat, alius actis refert, Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 1: das dabei tätige Kanzleipersonal hieß ab actis (mit den ihnen untergeordneten exceptores u. chartularii), Cod. Theod. u. Inscr. – c) als milit. t.t., obsequiorum, militarium numerorum, pecuniae acta, Listen über Kommandos, Stand u. Zahlungen, in die zugleich jedes noch so kleine Ereignis der Legion eingetragen wurde, Veget. mil. 2, 19.

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  • 8 acta fori

    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > acta fori

  • 9 acta militaria

    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > acta militaria

  • 10 acta publica

    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > acta publica

  • 11 acta triumphorum

    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > acta triumphorum

  • 12 agentes

    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > agentes

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    ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

    axit = egerit,

    Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

    AGIER = agi,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15;

    agentum = agentium,

    Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
    a.
    Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

    jumenta agebat,

    Liv. 1, 48:

    capellas ago,

    Verg. E. 1, 13:

    Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

    Ov. F. 1, 323:

    caballum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
    b.
    With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

    agere bovem Romam,

    Curt. 1, 45:

    equum in hostem,

    id. 7, 4:

    Germani in amnem aguntur,

    Tac. H. 5, 21:

    acto ad vallum equo,

    id. A. 2, 13:

    pecora per calles,

    Curt. 7, 11:

    per devia rura capellas,

    Ov. M. 1, 676:

    pecus pastum,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

    capellas potum age,

    Verg. E. 9, 23:

    pecus egit altos Visere montes,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    B.
    Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
    a.
    Absol.:

    agmen agens equitum,

    Verg. A. 7, 804.—
    b.
    With prep., abl., or inf.:

    vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

    Nep. Dat. 3:

    agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

    Sil. 4, 720:

    (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

    Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

    captivos prae se agentes,

    Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

    acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

    Quint. 8, 3, 69:

    captivos sub curribus agere,

    Mart. 8, 26:

    agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

    Verg. A. 3, 5;

    and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

    Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

    quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

    Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

    raptim agmine acto,

    id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

    egit sol hiemem sub terras,

    Verg. G. 4, 51:

    poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

    lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

    also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

    where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

    unde agis te?

    id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

    quo hinc te agis?

    where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

    Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

    was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

    Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

    id. ib. 8, 465:

    is enim se primus agebat,

    for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

    Et tu, unde agis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

    Quo agis?

    id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

    Huc age,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    C.
    To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

    Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

    Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

    rapiunt feruntque,

    Verg. A. 2, 374:

    rapere et auferre,

    Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

    ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

    id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

    so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

    Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

    ne pulcram praedam agat,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

    urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

    Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

    pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

    id. ib. 44, 5;

    so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

    Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    D.
    To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
    a.
    Of animals:

    apros,

    Verg. G. 3, 412:

    cervum,

    id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

    citos canes,

    Ov. H. 5, 20:

    feros tauros,

    Suet. Claud. 21.—
    b.
    Of men:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

    ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

    Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

    Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

    aliquem in exsilium,

    Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

    22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

    id. 16, 2, 3.—
    E.
    Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

    quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

    lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

    egisse huc Alpheum vias,

    made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

    vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

    carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

    cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

    to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

    so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

    pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

    accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

    Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

    fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

    Lucr. 4, 391:

    in litus passim naves egerunt,

    drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

    ratem in amnem,

    Ov. F. 1, 500:

    naves in advorsum amnem,

    Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

    agere currum,

    to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
    F.
    To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

    scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

    to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

    spumas ore,

    Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

    piceum Flumen agit,

    Verg. A. 9, 814:

    qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

    when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

    agens animam spumat,

    Lucr. 3, 493:

    anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

    Cat. 63, 31:

    nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

    id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

    eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

    Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

    Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

    Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

    Mart. 1, 80.—
    G.
    Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

    (salices) gemmas agunt,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

    florem agere coeperit ficus,

    Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

    frondem agere,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

    se ad auras palmes agit,

    Verg. G. 2, 364:

    (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

    per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

    Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

    robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

    vera gloria radices agit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

    pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

    Ov. M. 2, 582.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Spec., to guide, govern:

    Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

    Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    B.
    In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

    si quis ad illa deus te agat,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

    una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

    Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

    totis mentibus acta,

    Sil. 10, 191:

    in furorem agere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 31:

    si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

    Tac. Agr. 41:

    provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

    id. A. 14, 32.—
    C.
    To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

    me amor fugat, agit,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

    agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

    perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

    opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

    i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

    reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

    Verg. A. 7, 405:

    non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

    acerba fata Romanos agunt,

    id. Epod 7, 17:

    diris agam vos,

    id. ib. 5, 89:

    quam deus ultor agebat,

    Ov. M. 14, 750:

    futurae mortis agor stimulis,

    Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    D.
    To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
    1.
    In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
    a.
    With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

    numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

    post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

    Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
    b.
    Without object:

    aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

    agendi tempora,

    Tac. H. 3, 40:

    industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
    c.
    In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

    Quid agis?

    What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

    vereor, quid agat,

    how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

    ut sciatis, quid agam,

    Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

    prospere agit anima tua,

    fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

    quid agitur?

    how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    Quid intus agitur?

    is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
    d.
    With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

    collum obstringe homini,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

    nihil agis,

    you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

    nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

    usque tenebo,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

    [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

    ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

    Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
    e.
    In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

    hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

    what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

    quid agam, habeo,

    id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

    sed ita quidam agebat,

    was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
    2.
    To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

    At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

    Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

    observabo quam rem agat,

    what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

    Id quidem ago,

    That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

    res vera agitur,

    Juv. 4, 35:

    Jam tempus agires,

    Verg. A. 5, 638:

    utilis rebus agendis,

    Juv. 14, 72:

    grassator ferro agit rem,

    does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

    gladiis geritur res,

    Liv. 9, 41):

    nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

    do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

    postquam id actumst,

    after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

    sed quid actumst?

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

    nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

    Cic. Sull. 12:

    ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

    id. Off. 1, 29:

    agamus quod instat,

    Verg. E. 9, 66:

    renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

    Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

    suum negotium agere,

    to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

    ut vestrum negotium agatis,

    Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

    neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

    postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

    Sall. J. 30, 1:

    sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

    Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
    3.
    To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

    nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

    Ov. H. 12, 212:

    hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

    Val. Fl. 3, 392:

    agere fratri proditionem,

    Tac. H. 2, 26:

    de intranda Britannia,

    id. Agr. 13.—
    4.
    With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

    rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

    to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

    vigilias agere,

    Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

    excubias alicui,

    Ov. F. 3, 245:

    excubias,

    Tac. H. 4, 58:

    pervigilium,

    Suet. Vit. 10:

    stationem agere,

    to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

    triumphum agere,

    to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

    libera arbitria agere,

    to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

    paenitentiam agere,

    to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

    silentia agere,

    to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

    pacem agere,

    Juv. 15, 163:

    crimen agere,

    to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

    laborem agere,

    id. Fin. 2, 32:

    cursus agere,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

    delectum agere,

    to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

    experimenta agere,

    Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    mensuram,

    id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

    curam agere,

    to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

    curam ejus egit,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

    oblivia agere,

    to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

    nugas agere,

    to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

    officinas agere,

    to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

    diis gratias pro meritis agere,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

    Haud male agit gratias,

    id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

    Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

    Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

    id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

    nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

    id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

    majores etiam habemus,

    id. Marcell. 11, 33:

    Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

    referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

    gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

    Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

    and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

    Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

    id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

    diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

    Liv. 26, 48:

    agi sibi gratias passus est,

    Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

    Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

    id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
    5.
    Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

    tempus,

    Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

    aetatem in litteris,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    senectutem,

    id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

    dies festos,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

    otia secura,

    Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

    ruri agere vitam,

    Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

    vitam in terris,

    Verg. G. 2, 538:

    tranquillam vitam agere,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

    Hunc (diem) agerem si,

    Verg. A. 5, 51:

    ver magnus agebat Orbis,

    id. G. 2, 338:

    aestiva agere,

    to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

    menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

    mensis agitur hic septimus,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

    melior pars acta (est) diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

    acta est per lacrimas nox,

    Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

    tunc principium anni agebatur,

    Liv. 3, 6:

    actis quindecim annis in regno,

    Just. 41, 5, 9:

    Nona aetas agitur,

    Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

    quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

    am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

    Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

    Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

    civitas laeta agere,

    was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

    tum Marius apud primos agebat,

    id. ib. 101, 6:

    in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

    id. ib. 89, 7:

    apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

    Tac. A. 3, 19:

    Thracia discors agebat,

    id. ib. 3, 38:

    Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

    Tac. G. 42:

    ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

    id. ib. 43:

    Gallos trans Padum agentes,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    agere inter homines desinere,

    id. ib. 15, 74:

    Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

    was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

    ante aciem agere,

    id. G. 7; and:

    in armis agere,

    id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
    6.
    In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

    qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

    Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

    a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

    hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

    Hoc age,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

    Hoc agite, of poetry,

    Juv. 7, 20:

    hoc agamus,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

    haec agamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

    agere hoc possumus,

    Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

    hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

    id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

    nunc istuc age,

    id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

    Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

    Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

    id et agunt et moliuntur,

    id. Mur. 38:

    (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

    id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

    qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

    keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

    id. Lig. 6, 18:

    Hoc agit, ut doleas,

    Juv. 5, 157:

    Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

    Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

    have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

    Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

    id. ib. 4, 10:

    Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

    Nep. Them. 5, 1:

    ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

    usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

    atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

    aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

    id. Clu. 64.—
    7.
    In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

    qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

    aliena bella mercedibus agere,

    Mel. 1, 16:

    Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

    Martem for bellum,

    Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

    levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

    Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

    forum agere,

    to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

    conventus agere,

    to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

    used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

    Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

    vivorum coetus agere,

    to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

    censum agere,

    Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

    recensum agere,

    id. Caes. 41:

    potestatem agere,

    Flor. 1, 7, 2:

    honorem agere,

    Liv. 8, 26:

    regnum,

    Flor. 1, 6, 2:

    rem publicam,

    Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

    consulatum,

    Quint. 12, 1, 16:

    praefecturam,

    Suet. Tib. 6:

    centurionatum,

    Tac. A. 1, 44:

    senatum,

    Suet. Caes. 88:

    fiscum agere,

    to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

    publicum agere,

    to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

    inquisitionem agere,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

    curam alicujus rei agere,

    to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

    rei publicae curationem agens,

    Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
    8.
    Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

    velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

    de condicionibus pacis,

    Liv. 8, 37:

    de summa re publica,

    Suet. Caes. 28:

    cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

    id. Aug. 94:

    de poena alicujus,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    de agro plebis,

    id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

    cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

    Gell. 13, 15, 10:

    agere cum populo de re publica,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

    neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

    Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

    hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

    Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

    id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.
    a.
    Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

    ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

    I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

    Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

    thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

    algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

    Juv. 4, 49:

    haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

    thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

    de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

    egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

    id. ib. 5, 2:

    Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

    Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

    Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

    Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

    si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

    Tac. A. 15, 14:

    ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

    Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

    Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

    Suet. Tib. 54.—
    b.
    With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

    facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

    bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

    praeclare cum aliquo agere,

    Cic. Sest. 23:

    Male agis mecum,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

    qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

    Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

    tu contra me male agis,

    Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

    intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

    praeclare mecum actum puto,

    id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

    vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

    id. Off. 1, 15:

    bene agitur pro noxia,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
    9.
    Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
    a.
    Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

    ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

    Cic. Caecin. 12:

    tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

    to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

    ex sponso egit,

    id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

    agere lege in hereditatem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

    cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

    Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

    non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

    causa quam vi agere malle,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

    with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

    Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

    settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

    ubi manu agitur,

    when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
    b.
    Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

    causam apud centumviros egit,

    Cic. Caecin. 24:

    Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

    egi causam adversus magistratus,

    Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

    orator agere dicitur causam,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

    agit causas liberales,

    Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

    cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

    Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

    tua res agitur,

    is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

    and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

    Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

    Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

    tam solute agere, tam leniter,

    id. Brut. 80:

    tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

    id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

    Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

    of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

    causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

    to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

    Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

    are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
    c.
    Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

    reus agitur,

    id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

    agere furti,

    to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

    adulterii cum aliquo,

    Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    injuriarum,

    id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
    d.
    Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

    non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

    non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

    the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

    aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

    si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

    id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
    (α).
    Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

    at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

    quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

    agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

    id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

    non libertas solum agebatur,

    Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

    nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

    agitur pars tertia mundi,

    is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
    (β).
    Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

    perii,

    this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

    actum hodie est de me,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

    jam de Servio actum,

    Liv. 1, 47:

    actum est de collo meo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

    ilicet me infelicem,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

    si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

    actumst, ilicet, peristi,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

    actumst,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
    (γ).
    Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

    rem actam agis,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

    actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

    acta agimus,

    id. Am. 22.—
    10. a.
    Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

    quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

    agere fortius et audentius volo,

    Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
    b.
    Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

    Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

    fabulam,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

    dum haec agitur fabula,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

    partis,

    to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

    gestum agere in scaena,

    id. de Or. 2, 57:

    dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

    Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

    egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

    id. Fam. 2, 9:

    amicum imperatoris,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    exulem,

    id. A. 1, 4:

    socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

    id. H. 2, 83:

    senatorem,

    Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

    utrinque prora frontem agit,

    serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
    11.
    Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

    tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

    Sall. J. 56, 5:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

    Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

    qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

    Suet. Claud. 25:

    non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

    id. ib. 29:

    neglegenter se et avare agere,

    Eutr. 6, 9:

    prudenter se agebat,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

    sapienter se agebat,

    ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

    seditiose,

    Tac. Agr. 7:

    facile justeque,

    id. ib. 9:

    superbe,

    id. H. 2, 27:

    ex aequo,

    id. ib. 4, 64:

    anxius et intentus agebat,

    id. Agr. 5.—
    12.
    Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
    a.
    In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).
    (α).
    In the sing.:

    age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

    come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

    age, perge, quaeso,

    id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

    age, da veniam filio,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

    age, age, nunc experiamur,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

    age sis tu... delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

    quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

    Agedum vicissim dic,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

    agedum humanis concede,

    Lucr. 3, 962:

    age modo hodie sero,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

    age nuncjam,

    id. And. 5, 2, 25:

    En age, quid cessas,

    Tib. 2, 2, 10:

    Quare age,

    Verg. A. 7, 429:

    Verum age,

    id. ib. 12, 832:

    Quin age,

    id. G. 4, 329:

    en, age, Rumpe moras,

    id. ib. 3, 43:

    eia age,

    id. A. 4, 569.—
    (β).
    In the plur.:

    agite, pugni,

    up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

    agite bibite,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

    agite in modum dicite,

    Cat. 61, 38:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

    vos agite... volvite,

    Val. Fl. 3, 311:

    agite nunc, divites, plorate,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

    agitedum,

    Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

    age igitur, intro abite,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

    En agedum convertite,

    Prop. 1, 1, 21:

    mittite, agedum, legatos,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    Ite age,

    Stat. Th. 10, 33:

    Huc age adeste,

    Sil. 11, 169.—
    b.
    In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

    nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

    id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

    4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

    age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
    c.
    As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

    dabo,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

    Age, veniam,

    id. And. 4, 2, 30:

    age, sit ita factum,

    Cic. Mil. 19:

    age sane,

    Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.
    ► Position.
    —Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
    I.
    Sometimes follows such verb; as,
    a.
    In dactylic metre:

    Cede agedum,

    Prop. 5, 9, 54:

    Dic age,

    Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

    Esto age,

    Pers. 2, 42:

    Fare age,

    Verg. A. 3, 362:

    Finge age,

    Ov. H. 7, 65:

    Redde age,

    Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

    Surge age,

    Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

    Vade age,

    Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

    agite: Ite agite,

    Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
    b.
    In other metres (very rarely):

    appropera age,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

    dic age,

    Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

    3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

    Liv. 38, 47:

    procedat agedum ad pugnam,

    id. 7, 9.—
    II.
    It is often separated from such verb:

    age me huc adspice,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

    Age... instiga,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

    Quare agite... conjungite,

    Cat. 64, 372:

    Huc age... veni,

    Tib. 2, 5, 2:

    Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

    Verg. A. 2, 707:

    en age segnis Rumpe moras,

    id. G. 3, 42:

    age te procellae Crede,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

    Age jam... condisce,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
    1.
    ăgens, entis, P. a.
    A.
    Adj.
    1.
    Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

    utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

    acre orator, incensus et agens,

    id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.
    ► 2.
    Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    B.
    Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
    a.
    Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
    b.
    For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
    2.
    actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    A.
    actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

    actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

    acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

    id. ib. 1, 7:

    acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

    id. Dom. 31.—
    B.
    acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

    but Augustus again prohibited it,

    Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

    also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

    the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

    acta populi,

    Suet. Caes. 20:

    acta publica,

    Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

    urbana,

    id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
    1.
    With the time added:

    acta eorum temporum,

    Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

    illius temporis,

    Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

    ejus anni,

    Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
    2.
    Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    C.
    acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    D.
    acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
    a.
    Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
    b.
    Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    E.

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  • 14 desino

    dē-sino, siī, situm, ere, I) tr. ablassen von etw., es unterlassen, verlassen, mit etw. aufhören, telam, Ter.: artem, aufgeben, nicht mehr betreiben, Cic.: artem athleticam, Gell.: bellum, Sall. fr.: oppugnationem, Gell.: versus, Verg.: amicitiam cum alqo, Fronto: bei Dichtern nicht selten für deserere, wie dominam, Ov. – mit Infin., aufhören zu usw. (deutsch auch oft durch nicht mehr, nicht weiter mit dem bestimmten Tempus des im Lateinischen im Infinitiv dabeistehenden Verbums), desiit defendere, verteidigte nicht mehr, nicht weiter, Cic.: alere morbum desinere, die Kr. nicht weiter nähren, Nep.: illud timere desino, fürchte ich nicht mehr, Cic.: vivere des., nicht mehr leben, Sen.: so auch esse des., nicht mehr (am Leben) sein, Sen.: morari inter homines desisse (doppelsinnig, s. 1. moror), Suet.: desinit moveri (sich zu bewegen), Cic.: vocari est desitus, Cic.: ab totiens victore hoste vinci desisse, Liv.: desinit ferri, consumi, Sen. rhet.: orationes legi sunt desitae, wurden nicht mehr gelesen, Cic.: u. unpers., desitum est disputari, man hat aufgehört usw., Cic.: cum Philippo non ante desitum (est) bellari, Liv. – m. Abl., desine, quaeso, communibus locis, Cic. Acad. 2, 80. – m. Genet., desine blanditiae, Caecil. com. 66: desine tandem mollium querelarum, Hor. carm. 2, 9, 17: consul non desinit irae, Sil. 10, 84. – m. ab u. Abl., a currendo multa spatia non des., Capit. Maxim. duor. 3. § 3: des. a militia, ibid. 4. § 4. – absol. (Ggstz. incipere), Mi. Ah! pergisne? De. Iam iam desino, Ter.: ut incipiendi fuerit ratio, ita sit desinendi modus, Cic.: unde initium fecit et ubi desiit (vox), Vitr.: u. bes. = aufhören (zu klagen, sprechen), endigen, desine, Ov. met. 6, 215: desinit in lacrimas, weinend beschließt sie die Rede, Ov. fast. 2, 755: u. = aufhören (zu handeln usw.), es gut sein lassen, optimus virtutis finis est, antequam deficias desinere, Sen. contr. 1, 8, 3: u. v. Schauspieler u. Redner = nicht mehr auftreten, Cic. ep. 7, 1, 2. Quint. 12, 11, 3: v. Soldaten = nicht weiter dienen, Sen. contr. 1, 8, 8. – u. in der Umgangssprache, desine zuw. wie παῦε), laß ab! laß gut sein! halt still u. dgl., Komik (vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 972). – Passiv unpers., tunc bene desinitur, Ov.: si esset factitatum, non esset desitum, Cic.: coeptum igitur per eos, qui agi volebant, desitum est per hunc, qui discessit, Cic. fr. – II) intr. aufhören, enden, ein Ende nehmen, vergehen, schließen (Ggstz. incipere, coepisse), Sall., Verg. u.a.: occĭdere desinereque, Plin. ep.: in piscem, Ov.: gemma in violam desinit, spielt ins Violette, Plin.: hirsuta barba in acutum desinens, Amm.: aestas in autumnum desinit, schlägt um, Sen.: cauda praelonga in tenuitatem desinens, am Ende spitz zulaufend, Plin.: Pyrenaeus desinens, der ausmündende P., das äußerste Ende des P., Flor.: desinit (läuft aus) Draco (mons) in Tmolo, Tmolus in Cadmo, Plin.: Danubius alio, quam desinit (ausmündet), nomine exoritur, Mela: alphos et melas (zwei Formen der Krankheit vitiligo) in aliis celerius in aliis tardius et oriuntur et desinunt (vergehen), Cels. – als rhet. t. t., schließen, endigen, v. Schluß einer Periode usw., similiter desinens est, cum, tametsi casus non insunt in verbis, tamen similes exitus habent, Cornif. rhet.: quae similiter desinunt aut quae cadunt similiter (vgl. cado no. I, A, a, λ. S. 890), Cic.: in iisdem verbis des. (Ggstz. ab iisdem incipere), Quint.: apud Ciceronem omnia desinunt (verläuft sich ruhig), apud Pollionem cadunt (stürzt alles zum Schluß), Sen. – v. Schluß der Rede, unde coepit oratio mea, ibi desinet, Liv. – vom die Rede schließenden Redner, non semper eodem modo des., Cic.: in hoc desisse versu, Suet.: ut quo ex genere coeperis translationis, hoc desinas, Quint. – / Perf. regelm. desii, doch auch desivit, Solin. 35, 4: desiverit, Gell. 20, 1, 22. – Synkop. Perf. desi, Carm. epigr. 1091. 1092. 1095: desit, Manil. 5, 563. Mart. 6, 26, 3 u.a. (s. Lachm. Lucr. p. 208): desissem, Catull. 36, 5: desisset, Gell. 15, 16, 2. Capit. Maxim. duor. 3. § 3: Infin. desisse, Cic. ep. 9, 24, 2. Liv. 4, 35, 10. Suet. Ner. 33, 1 u. 46, 3: vulg. Perf. desinui, wov. desinuit, Commodian. apol. 201: desini, Pastor Herm. vis. 3. § 8.

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  • 15 desino

    dē-sino, siī, situm, ere, I) tr. ablassen von etw., es unterlassen, verlassen, mit etw. aufhören, telam, Ter.: artem, aufgeben, nicht mehr betreiben, Cic.: artem athleticam, Gell.: bellum, Sall. fr.: oppugnationem, Gell.: versus, Verg.: amicitiam cum alqo, Fronto: bei Dichtern nicht selten für deserere, wie dominam, Ov. – mit Infin., aufhören zu usw. (deutsch auch oft durch nicht mehr, nicht weiter mit dem bestimmten Tempus des im Lateinischen im Infinitiv dabeistehenden Verbums), desiit defendere, verteidigte nicht mehr, nicht weiter, Cic.: alere morbum desinere, die Kr. nicht weiter nähren, Nep.: illud timere desino, fürchte ich nicht mehr, Cic.: vivere des., nicht mehr leben, Sen.: so auch esse des., nicht mehr (am Leben) sein, Sen.: morari inter homines desisse (doppelsinnig, s. moror), Suet.: desinit moveri (sich zu bewegen), Cic.: vocari est desitus, Cic.: ab totiens victore hoste vinci desisse, Liv.: desinit ferri, consumi, Sen. rhet.: orationes legi sunt desitae, wurden nicht mehr gelesen, Cic.: u. unpers., desitum est disputari, man hat aufgehört usw., Cic.: cum Philippo non ante desitum (est) bellari, Liv. – m. Abl., desine, quaeso, communibus locis, Cic. Acad. 2, 80. – m. Genet., desine blanditiae, Caecil. com. 66: desine tandem mollium querelarum, Hor. carm. 2, 9, 17: consul non desinit irae, Sil. 10, 84. – m. ab u. Abl., a curren-
    ————
    do multa spatia non des., Capit. Maxim. duor. 3. § 3: des. a militia, ibid. 4. § 4. – absol. (Ggstz. incipere), Mi. Ah! pergisne? De. Iam iam desino, Ter.: ut incipiendi fuerit ratio, ita sit desinendi modus, Cic.: unde initium fecit et ubi desiit (vox), Vitr.: u. bes. = aufhören (zu klagen, sprechen), endigen, desine, Ov. met. 6, 215: desinit in lacrimas, weinend beschließt sie die Rede, Ov. fast. 2, 755: u. = aufhören (zu handeln usw.), es gut sein lassen, optimus virtutis finis est, antequam deficias desinere, Sen. contr. 1, 8, 3: u. v. Schauspieler u. Redner = nicht mehr auftreten, Cic. ep. 7, 1, 2. Quint. 12, 11, 3: v. Soldaten = nicht weiter dienen, Sen. contr. 1, 8, 8. – u. in der Umgangssprache, desine zuw. wie παῦε), laß ab! laß gut sein! halt still u. dgl., Komik (vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 972). – Passiv unpers., tunc bene desinitur, Ov.: si esset factitatum, non esset desitum, Cic.: coeptum igitur per eos, qui agi volebant, desitum est per hunc, qui discessit, Cic. fr. – II) intr. aufhören, enden, ein Ende nehmen, vergehen, schließen (Ggstz. incipere, coepisse), Sall., Verg. u.a.: occĭdere desinereque, Plin. ep.: in piscem, Ov.: gemma in violam desinit, spielt ins Violette, Plin.: hirsuta barba in acutum desinens, Amm.: aestas in autumnum desinit, schlägt um, Sen.: cauda praelonga in tenuitatem desinens, am Ende spitz zulaufend, Plin.: Pyrenaeus desinens, der ausmündende P., das äußerste Ende des
    ————
    P., Flor.: desinit (läuft aus) Draco (mons) in Tmolo, Tmolus in Cadmo, Plin.: Danubius alio, quam desinit (ausmündet), nomine exoritur, Mela: alphos et melas (zwei Formen der Krankheit vitiligo) in aliis celerius in aliis tardius et oriuntur et desinunt (vergehen), Cels. – als rhet. t. t., schließen, endigen, v. Schluß einer Periode usw., similiter desinens est, cum, tametsi casus non insunt in verbis, tamen similes exitus habent, Cornif. rhet.: quae similiter desinunt aut quae cadunt similiter (vgl. cado no. I, A, a, λ. S. 890), Cic.: in iisdem verbis des. (Ggstz. ab iisdem incipere), Quint.: apud Ciceronem omnia desinunt (verläuft sich ruhig), apud Pollionem cadunt (stürzt alles zum Schluß), Sen. – v. Schluß der Rede, unde coepit oratio mea, ibi desinet, Liv. – vom die Rede schließenden Redner, non semper eodem modo des., Cic.: in hoc desisse versu, Suet.: ut quo ex genere coeperis translationis, hoc desinas, Quint. – ⇒ Perf. regelm. desii, doch auch desivit, Solin. 35, 4: desiverit, Gell. 20, 1, 22. – Synkop. Perf. desi, Carm. epigr. 1091. 1092. 1095: desit, Manil. 5, 563. Mart. 6, 26, 3 u.a. (s. Lachm. Lucr. p. 208): desissem, Catull. 36, 5: desisset, Gell. 15, 16, 2. Capit. Maxim. duor. 3. § 3: Infin. desisse, Cic. ep. 9, 24, 2. Liv. 4, 35, 10. Suet. Ner. 33, 1 u. 46, 3: vulg. Perf. desinui, wov. desinuit, Commodian. apol. 201: desini, Pastor Herm. vis. 3. § 8.

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  • 16 bellum

    bellum (ante-class. and poet. duel-lum), i, n. [Sanscr. dva, dvi, dus; cf. Germ. zwei; Engl. two, twice; for the change from initial du- to b-, cf. bis for duis, and v. the letter B, and Varr. L. L. 5, § 73 Mull.; 7, § 49 ib.], war.
    I.
    Form duellum: duellum, bellum, videlicet quod duabus partibus de victoria contendentibus dimicatur. Inde est perduellis, qui pertinaciter retinet bellum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 66, 17 Mull.:

    bellum antea duellum vocatum eo quod duae sunt dimicantium partes... Postea mutata littera dictum bellum,

    Isid. Orig. 18, 1, 9: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 9, 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.):

    legiones reveniunt domum Exstincto duello maximo atque internecatis hostibus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 35:

    quae domi duellique male fecisti,

    id. As. 3, 2, 13.—So in archaic style, or in citations from ancient documents:

    quique agent rem duelli,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21:

    aes atque ferrum, duelli instrumenta,

    id. ib. 2, 18, 45 (translated from the Platonic laws):

    puro pioque duello quaerendas (res) censeo,

    Liv. 1, 32, 12 (quoted from ancient transactions); so,

    quod duellum populo Romano cum Carthaginiensi est,

    id. 22, 10, 2:

    victoriaque duelli populi Romani erit,

    id. 23, 11, 2:

    si duellum quod cum rege Antiocho sumi populus jussit,

    id. 36, 2, 2;

    and from an ancient inscription' duello magno dirimendo, etc.,

    id. 40, 52, 5.— Poet.:

    hic... Pacem duello miscuit,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 38:

    cadum Marsi memorem duelli,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 18:

    vacuum duellis Janum Quirini clausit,

    id. ib. 4, 15, 8; cf. id. Ep. 1, 2, 7; 2, 1, 254; 2, 2, 98; Ov. F. 6, 201; Juv. 1, 169— [p. 227]
    II.
    Form bellum.
    A.
    War, warfare (abstr.), or a war, the war (concr.), i.e. hostilities between two nations (cf. tumultus).
    1.
    Specifying the enemy.
    a.
    By adjj. denoting the nation:

    omnibus Punicis Siciliensibusque bellis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 124:

    aliquot annis ante secundum Punicum bellum,

    id. Ac. 2, 5, 13:

    Britannicum bellum,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 13:

    Gallicum,

    id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35:

    Germanicum,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Sabinum,

    Liv. 1, 26, 4:

    Parthicum,

    Vell. 2, 46, 2;

    similarly: bellum piraticum,

    the war against the pirates, Vell. 2, 33, 1.—Sometimes the adj. refers to the leader or king of the enemy:

    Sertorianum bellum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 18:

    Mithridaticum,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7:

    Jugurthinum,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 23; Vell. 2, 11, 1;

    similarly: bellum regium,

    the war against kings, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50. —Or it refers to the theatre of the war:

    bellum Africanum, Transalpinum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:

    Asiaticum,

    id. ib. 22, 64:

    Africum,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 32 fin.:

    Actiacum,

    Vell. 2, 86, 3:

    Hispaniense,

    id. 2, 55, 2.—
    b.
    With gen. of the name of the nation or its leader: bellum Latinorum, the Latin war, i. e. against the Latins, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

    Venetorum,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 16:

    Helvetiorum,

    id. ib. 1, 40 fin.;

    1, 30: Ambiorigis,

    id. ib. 6, 29, 4:

    Pyrrhi, Philippi,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 7, 17:

    Samnitium,

    Liv. 7, 29, 2.—
    c.
    With cum and abl. of the name.
    (α).
    Attributively:

    cum Jugurtha, cum Cimbris, cum Teutonis bellum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 20, 60:

    belli causa cum Samnitibus,

    Liv. 7, 29, 3:

    hunc finem bellum cum Philippo habuit,

    id. 33, 35, 12:

    novum cum Antiocho instabat bellum,

    id. 36, 36, 7; cf. id. 35, 40, 1; 38, 58, 8; 39, 1, 8; 44, 14, 7.—
    (β).
    With cum dependent on the verb:

    quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 59:

    novi consules... duo bella habuere... alterum cum Tiburtibus,

    Liv. 7, 17, 2; esp. with gero, v. 2. b. a infra.—
    d.
    With adversus and acc. of the name.
    (α).
    Attributively:

    bellum adversus Philippum,

    Liv. 31, 1, 8:

    bellum populus adversus Vestinos jussit,

    id. 8, 29, 6.—
    (β).
    With adversus dependent on the verb: quod homines populi Hermunduli adversus populum Romanum bellum fecere, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 14, 1: nos pro vobis bellum suscepimus adversus Philippum. Liv. 31, 31, 18:

    ut multo acrius adversus duos quam adversus unum pararet bellum,

    id. 45, 11, 8:

    bellum quod rex adversus Datamem susceperat,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 5.—
    e.
    With contra and acc.:

    cum bellum nefarium contra aras et focos, contra vitam fortunasque nostras... non comparari, sed geri jam viderem,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    causam belli contra patriam inferendi,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 53.—
    f.
    With in and acc. (very rare):

    Athenienses in Peloponnesios sexto et vicesimo anno bellum gerentes,

    Nep. Lys. 1, 1.—
    g.
    With inter and acc.:

    hic finis belli inter Romanos ac Persea fuit,

    Liv. 45, 9, 2.—
    h.
    With apud and acc.:

    secutum est bellum gestum apud Mutinam,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1.—
    k.
    With dat. of the enemy after inferre and facere, v. 2. a. k infra.—
    2.
    With verbs.
    a.
    Referring to the beginning of the war.
    (α).
    Bellum movere or commovere, to bring about, stir up a war:

    summa erat observatio in bello movendo,

    Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37:

    bellum commotum a Scapula,

    id. Fam. 9, 13, 1:

    nuntiabant alii... in Apulia servile bellum moveri,

    Sall. C. 30, 2:

    is primum Volscis bellum in ducentos amplius... annos movit,

    Liv. 1, 53, 2:

    insequenti anno Veiens bellum motum,

    id. 4, 58, 6:

    dii pium movere bellum,

    id. 8, 6, 4; cf. Verg. A. 10, 627; id. G. 1, 509; so,

    concitare,

    Liv. 7, 27, 5; and ciere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 541; 6, 829; 12, 158.—
    (β).
    Bellum parare, comparare, apparare, or se praeparare bello, to prepare a war, or for a war:

    cum tam pestiferum bellum pararet,

    Cic. Att. 9, 13, 3:

    bellum utrimque summopere parabatur,

    Liv. 1, 23, 1; cf. id. 45, 11, 8 (v. II. A. 1. d. b supra); Nep. Hann. 2, 6; Quint. 12, 3, 5; Ov. M. 7, 456; so,

    parare alicui,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 5:

    bellum terra et mari comparat,

    Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3:

    tantum bellum... Cn. Pompeius extrema hieme apparavit, ineunte vere suscepit, media aestate confecit,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 3, 5:

    bellum omnium consensu apparari coeptum,

    Liv. 4, 55, 7:

    numquam imperator ita paci credit, ut non se praeparet bello,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 26, 2.—
    (γ).
    Bellum differre, to postpone a war:

    nec jam poterat bellum differri,

    Liv. 2, 30, 7:

    mors Hamilcaris et pueritia Hannibalis distulerunt bellum,

    id. 21, 2, 3; cf. id. 5, 5, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bellum sumere, to undertake, begin a war (not in Caesar):

    omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere,

    Sall. J. 83, 1:

    prius tamen omnia pati decrevit quam bellum sumere,

    id. ib. 20, 5:

    de integro bellum sumit,

    id. ib. 62, 9:

    iis haec maxima ratio belli sumendi fuerat,

    Liv. 38, 19, 3:

    sumi bellum etiam ab ignavis, strenuissimi cujusque periculo geri,

    Tac. H. 4, 69; cf. id. A. 2, 45; 13, 34; 15, 5; 15, 7; id. Agr. 16.—
    (ε).
    Bellum suscipere (rarely inire), to undertake, commence a war, join in a war:

    bellum ita suscipiatur ut nihil nisi pax quaesita videatur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 23, 80:

    suscipienda quidem bella sunt ob eam causam ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 1, 11, 35:

    judicavit a plerisque ignoratione... bellum esse susceptum,

    join, id. Marcell. 5, 13; id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 35 (v. supra):

    cum avertisset plebem a suscipiendo bello,

    undertaking, Liv. 4, 58, 14:

    senatui cum Camillo agi placuit ut bellum Etruscum susciperet,

    id. 6, 9, 5:

    bella non causis inita, sed ut eorum merces fuit,

    Vell. 2, 3, 3.—
    (ζ).
    Bellum consentire = bellum consensu decernere, to decree a war by agreement, to ratify a declaration of war (rare):

    consensit et senatus bellum,

    Liv. 8, 6, 8:

    bellum erat consensum,

    id. 1, 32, 12.—
    (η).
    Bellum alicui mandare, committere, decernere, dare, gerendum dare, ad aliquem deferre, or aliquem bello praeficere, praeponere, to assign a war to one as a commander, to give one the chief command in a war:

    sed ne tum quidem populus Romanus ad privatum detulit bellum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 18:

    populus Romanus consuli... bellum gerendum dedit,

    id. ib.:

    cur non... eidem... hoc quoque bellum regium committamus?

    id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50:

    Camillus cui id bellum mandatum erat,

    Liv. 5, 26, 3:

    Volscum bellum M. Furio extra ordinem decretum,

    id. 6, 22, 6:

    Gallicum bellum Popilio extra ordinem datum,

    id. 7, 23, 2:

    quo die a vobis maritimo bello praepositus est imperator,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44:

    cum ei (bello) imperatorem praeficere possitis, in quo sit eximia belli scientia,

    id. ib. 16, 49:

    hunc toti bello praefecerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 11 fin.:

    alicui bellum suscipiendum dare,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 19, 58:

    bellum administrandum permittere,

    id. ib. 21, 61.—
    (θ).
    Bellum indicere alicui, to declare war against (the regular expression; coupled with facere in the ancient formula of the pater patratus), also bellum denuntiare: ob eam rem ego... populo Hermundulo... bellum (in)dico facioque, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 14, 1:

    ob eam rem ego populusque Romanus populis... Latinis bellum indico facioque,

    Liv. 1, 32, 13:

    Corinthiis bellum indicamus an non?

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    ex quo intellegi potest, nullum bellum esse justum nisi quod aut rebus repetitis geratur, aut denuntiatum ante sit et indictum,

    id. Off. 1, 11, 36; id. Rep. 3, 23, 35:

    bellum indici posse existimabat,

    Liv. 1, 22, 4:

    ni reddantur (res) bellum indicere jussos,

    id. 1, 22, 6:

    ut... nec gererentur solum sed etiam indicerentur bella aliquo ritu, jus... descripsit quo res repetuntur,

    id. 1, 32, 5; cf. id. 1, 32, 9; 2, 18, 11; 2, 38, 5; Verg. A. 7, 616.—
    (κ).
    Bellum inferre alicui (cf. contra aliquem, 1. e. supra; also bellum facere; absol., with dat., or with cum and abl.), to begin a war against ( with), to make war on:

    Denseletis nefarium bellum intulisti,

    Cic. Pis. 34, 84:

    ei civitati bellum indici atque inferri solere,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 79:

    qui sibi Galliaeque bellum intulissent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 16; Nep. Them. 2, 4; Verg. A. 3, 248:

    bellumne populo Romano Lampsacena civitas facere conabatur?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 79:

    bellum patriae faciet,

    id. Mil. 23, 63; id. Cat. 3, 9, 22:

    civitatem Eburonum populo Romano bellum facere ausam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 28; cf. id. ib. 7, 2;

    3, 29: constituit bellum facere,

    Sall. C. 26, 5; 24, 2:

    occupant bellum facere,

    they are the first to begin the war, Liv. 1, 14, 4:

    ut bellum cum Priscis Latinis fieret,

    id. 1, 32, 13:

    populus Palaepolitanis bellum fieri jussit,

    id. 8, 22, 8; cf. Nep. Dion, 4, 3; id. Ages. 2, 1.— Coupled with instruere, to sustain a war:

    urbs quae bellum facere atque instruere possit,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 77.—Bellum facere had become obsolete at Seneca's time, Sen. Ep. 114, 17.—
    (λ).
    Bellum oritur or exoritur, a war begins:

    subito bellum in Gallia ex, ortum est,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 7:

    aliud multo propius bellum ortum,

    Liv. 1, 14, 4:

    Veiens bellum exortum,

    id. 2, 53, 1.—

    bellum

    (ante-class. and poet.

    duel-lum

    ), i, n. [Sanscr. dva, dvi, dus; cf. Germ. zwei; Engl. two, twice; for the change from initial du- to b-, cf. bis for duis, and v. the letter B, and Varr. L. L. 5, § 73 Mull.; 7, § 49 ib.], war.
    I.
    Form duellum: duellum, bellum, videlicet quod duabus partibus de victoria contendentibus dimicatur. Inde est perduellis, qui pertinaciter retinet bellum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 66, 17 Mull.:

    bellum antea duellum vocatum eo quod duae sunt dimicantium partes... Postea mutata littera dictum bellum,

    Isid. Orig. 18, 1, 9: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 9, 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.):

    legiones reveniunt domum Exstincto duello maximo atque internecatis hostibus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 35:

    quae domi duellique male fecisti,

    id. As. 3, 2, 13.—So in archaic style, or in citations from ancient documents:

    quique agent rem duelli,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21:

    aes atque ferrum, duelli instrumenta,

    id. ib. 2, 18, 45 (translated from the Platonic laws):

    puro pioque duello quaerendas (res) censeo,

    Liv. 1, 32, 12 (quoted from ancient transactions); so,

    quod duellum populo Romano cum Carthaginiensi est,

    id. 22, 10, 2:

    victoriaque duelli populi Romani erit,

    id. 23, 11, 2:

    si duellum quod cum rege Antiocho sumi populus jussit,

    id. 36, 2, 2;

    and from an ancient inscription' duello magno dirimendo, etc.,

    id. 40, 52, 5.— Poet.:

    hic... Pacem duello miscuit,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 38:

    cadum Marsi memorem duelli,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 18:

    vacuum duellis Janum Quirini clausit,

    id. ib. 4, 15, 8; cf. id. Ep. 1, 2, 7; 2, 1, 254; 2, 2, 98; Ov. F. 6, 201; Juv. 1, 169— [p. 227]
    II.
    Form bellum.
    A.
    War, warfare (abstr.), or a war, the war (concr.), i.e. hostilities between two nations (cf. tumultus).
    1.
    Specifying the enemy.
    a.
    By adjj. denoting the nation:

    omnibus Punicis Siciliensibusque bellis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 124:

    aliquot annis ante secundum Punicum bellum,

    id. Ac. 2, 5, 13:

    Britannicum bellum,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 13:

    Gallicum,

    id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35:

    Germanicum,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

    Sabinum,

    Liv. 1, 26, 4:

    Parthicum,

    Vell. 2, 46, 2;

    similarly: bellum piraticum,

    the war against the pirates, Vell. 2, 33, 1.—Sometimes the adj. refers to the leader or king of the enemy:

    Sertorianum bellum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 18:

    Mithridaticum,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7:

    Jugurthinum,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 23; Vell. 2, 11, 1;

    similarly: bellum regium,

    the war against kings, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50. —Or it refers to the theatre of the war:

    bellum Africanum, Transalpinum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:

    Asiaticum,

    id. ib. 22, 64:

    Africum,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 32 fin.:

    Actiacum,

    Vell. 2, 86, 3:

    Hispaniense,

    id. 2, 55, 2.—
    b.
    With gen. of the name of the nation or its leader: bellum Latinorum, the Latin war, i. e. against the Latins, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

    Venetorum,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 16:

    Helvetiorum,

    id. ib. 1, 40 fin.;

    1, 30: Ambiorigis,

    id. ib. 6, 29, 4:

    Pyrrhi, Philippi,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 7, 17:

    Samnitium,

    Liv. 7, 29, 2.—
    c.
    With cum and abl. of the name.
    (α).
    Attributively:

    cum Jugurtha, cum Cimbris, cum Teutonis bellum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 20, 60:

    belli causa cum Samnitibus,

    Liv. 7, 29, 3:

    hunc finem bellum cum Philippo habuit,

    id. 33, 35, 12:

    novum cum Antiocho instabat bellum,

    id. 36, 36, 7; cf. id. 35, 40, 1; 38, 58, 8; 39, 1, 8; 44, 14, 7.—
    (β).
    With cum dependent on the verb:

    quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 59:

    novi consules... duo bella habuere... alterum cum Tiburtibus,

    Liv. 7, 17, 2; esp. with gero, v. 2. b. a infra.—
    d.
    With adversus and acc. of the name.
    (α).
    Attributively:

    bellum adversus Philippum,

    Liv. 31, 1, 8:

    bellum populus adversus Vestinos jussit,

    id. 8, 29, 6.—
    (β).
    With adversus dependent on the verb: quod homines populi Hermunduli adversus populum Romanum bellum fecere, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 14, 1: nos pro vobis bellum suscepimus adversus Philippum. Liv. 31, 31, 18:

    ut multo acrius adversus duos quam adversus unum pararet bellum,

    id. 45, 11, 8:

    bellum quod rex adversus Datamem susceperat,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 5.—
    e.
    With contra and acc.:

    cum bellum nefarium contra aras et focos, contra vitam fortunasque nostras... non comparari, sed geri jam viderem,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    causam belli contra patriam inferendi,

    id. ib. 2, 22, 53.—
    f.
    With in and acc. (very rare):

    Athenienses in Peloponnesios sexto et vicesimo anno bellum gerentes,

    Nep. Lys. 1, 1.—
    g.
    With inter and acc.:

    hic finis belli inter Romanos ac Persea fuit,

    Liv. 45, 9, 2.—
    h.
    With apud and acc.:

    secutum est bellum gestum apud Mutinam,

    Nep. Att. 9, 1.—
    k.
    With dat. of the enemy after inferre and facere, v. 2. a. k infra.—
    2.
    With verbs.
    a.
    Referring to the beginning of the war.
    (α).
    Bellum movere or commovere, to bring about, stir up a war:

    summa erat observatio in bello movendo,

    Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37:

    bellum commotum a Scapula,

    id. Fam. 9, 13, 1:

    nuntiabant alii... in Apulia servile bellum moveri,

    Sall. C. 30, 2:

    is primum Volscis bellum in ducentos amplius... annos movit,

    Liv. 1, 53, 2:

    insequenti anno Veiens bellum motum,

    id. 4, 58, 6:

    dii pium movere bellum,

    id. 8, 6, 4; cf. Verg. A. 10, 627; id. G. 1, 509; so,

    concitare,

    Liv. 7, 27, 5; and ciere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 541; 6, 829; 12, 158.—
    (β).
    Bellum parare, comparare, apparare, or se praeparare bello, to prepare a war, or for a war:

    cum tam pestiferum bellum pararet,

    Cic. Att. 9, 13, 3:

    bellum utrimque summopere parabatur,

    Liv. 1, 23, 1; cf. id. 45, 11, 8 (v. II. A. 1. d. b supra); Nep. Hann. 2, 6; Quint. 12, 3, 5; Ov. M. 7, 456; so,

    parare alicui,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 5:

    bellum terra et mari comparat,

    Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3:

    tantum bellum... Cn. Pompeius extrema hieme apparavit, ineunte vere suscepit, media aestate confecit,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 3, 5:

    bellum omnium consensu apparari coeptum,

    Liv. 4, 55, 7:

    numquam imperator ita paci credit, ut non se praeparet bello,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 26, 2.—
    (γ).
    Bellum differre, to postpone a war:

    nec jam poterat bellum differri,

    Liv. 2, 30, 7:

    mors Hamilcaris et pueritia Hannibalis distulerunt bellum,

    id. 21, 2, 3; cf. id. 5, 5, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bellum sumere, to undertake, begin a war (not in Caesar):

    omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere,

    Sall. J. 83, 1:

    prius tamen omnia pati decrevit quam bellum sumere,

    id. ib. 20, 5:

    de integro bellum sumit,

    id. ib. 62, 9:

    iis haec maxima ratio belli sumendi fuerat,

    Liv. 38, 19, 3:

    sumi bellum etiam ab ignavis, strenuissimi cujusque periculo geri,

    Tac. H. 4, 69; cf. id. A. 2, 45; 13, 34; 15, 5; 15, 7; id. Agr. 16.—
    (ε).
    Bellum suscipere (rarely inire), to undertake, commence a war, join in a war:

    bellum ita suscipiatur ut nihil nisi pax quaesita videatur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 23, 80:

    suscipienda quidem bella sunt ob eam causam ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 1, 11, 35:

    judicavit a plerisque ignoratione... bellum esse susceptum,

    join, id. Marcell. 5, 13; id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 35 (v. supra):

    cum avertisset plebem a suscipiendo bello,

    undertaking, Liv. 4, 58, 14:

    senatui cum Camillo agi placuit ut bellum Etruscum susciperet,

    id. 6, 9, 5:

    bella non causis inita, sed ut eorum merces fuit,

    Vell. 2, 3, 3.—
    (ζ).
    Bellum consentire = bellum consensu decernere, to decree a war by agreement, to ratify a declaration of war (rare):

    consensit et senatus bellum,

    Liv. 8, 6, 8:

    bellum erat consensum,

    id. 1, 32, 12.—
    (η).
    Bellum alicui mandare, committere, decernere, dare, gerendum dare, ad aliquem deferre, or aliquem bello praeficere, praeponere, to assign a war to one as a commander, to give one the chief command in a war:

    sed ne tum quidem populus Romanus ad privatum detulit bellum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 18:

    populus Romanus consuli... bellum gerendum dedit,

    id. ib.:

    cur non... eidem... hoc quoque bellum regium committamus?

    id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50:

    Camillus cui id bellum mandatum erat,

    Liv. 5, 26, 3:

    Volscum bellum M. Furio extra ordinem decretum,

    id. 6, 22, 6:

    Gallicum bellum Popilio extra ordinem datum,

    id. 7, 23, 2:

    quo die a vobis maritimo bello praepositus est imperator,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44:

    cum ei (bello) imperatorem praeficere possitis, in quo sit eximia belli scientia,

    id. ib. 16, 49:

    hunc toti bello praefecerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 11 fin.:

    alicui bellum suscipiendum dare,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 19, 58:

    bellum administrandum permittere,

    id. ib. 21, 61.—
    (θ).
    Bellum indicere alicui, to declare war against (the regular expression; coupled with facere in the ancient formula of the pater patratus), also bellum denuntiare: ob eam rem ego... populo Hermundulo... bellum (in)dico facioque, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 14, 1:

    ob eam rem ego populusque Romanus populis... Latinis bellum indico facioque,

    Liv. 1, 32, 13:

    Corinthiis bellum indicamus an non?

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    ex quo intellegi potest, nullum bellum esse justum nisi quod aut rebus repetitis geratur, aut denuntiatum ante sit et indictum,

    id. Off. 1, 11, 36; id. Rep. 3, 23, 35:

    bellum indici posse existimabat,

    Liv. 1, 22, 4:

    ni reddantur (res) bellum indicere jussos,

    id. 1, 22, 6:

    ut... nec gererentur solum sed etiam indicerentur bella aliquo ritu, jus... descripsit quo res repetuntur,

    id. 1, 32, 5; cf. id. 1, 32, 9; 2, 18, 11; 2, 38, 5; Verg. A. 7, 616.—
    (κ).
    Bellum inferre alicui (cf. contra aliquem, 1. e. supra; also bellum facere; absol., with dat., or with cum and abl.), to begin a war against ( with), to make war on:

    Denseletis nefarium bellum intulisti,

    Cic. Pis. 34, 84:

    ei civitati bellum indici atque inferri solere,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 79:

    qui sibi Galliaeque bellum intulissent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 16; Nep. Them. 2, 4; Verg. A. 3, 248:

    bellumne populo Romano Lampsacena civitas facere conabatur?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 79:

    bellum patriae faciet,

    id. Mil. 23, 63; id. Cat. 3, 9, 22:

    civitatem Eburonum populo Romano bellum facere ausam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 28; cf. id. ib. 7, 2;

    3, 29: constituit bellum facere,

    Sall. C. 26, 5; 24, 2:

    occupant bellum facere,

    they are the first to begin the war, Liv. 1, 14, 4:

    ut bellum cum Priscis Latinis fieret,

    id. 1, 32, 13:

    populus Palaepolitanis bellum fieri jussit,

    id. 8, 22, 8; cf. Nep. Dion, 4, 3; id. Ages. 2, 1.— Coupled with instruere, to sustain a war:

    urbs quae bellum facere atque instruere possit,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 77.—Bellum facere had become obsolete at Seneca's time, Sen. Ep. 114, 17.—
    (λ).
    Bellum oritur or exoritur, a war begins:

    subito bellum in Gallia ex, ortum est,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 7:

    aliud multo propius bellum ortum,

    Liv. 1, 14, 4:

    Veiens bellum exortum,

    id. 2, 53, 1.—
    b.
    Referring to the carrying on of the war: bellum gerere, to carry on a war; absol., with cum and abl., per and acc., or in and abl. (cf.:

    bellum gerere in aliquem, 1. a. and f. supra): nisi forte ego vobis... cessare nunc videor cum bella non gero,

    Cic. Sen. 6, 18:

    cum Celtiberis, cum Cimbris bellum ut cum inimicis gerebatur,

    id. Off. 1, 12, 38:

    cum ei bellum ut cum rege Perse gereret obtigisset,

    id. Div. 1, 46, 103:

    erant hae difficultates belli gerendi,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 10:

    bellum cum Germanis gerere constituit,

    id. ib. 4, 6:

    Cn. Pompeius in extremis terris bellum gerebat,

    Sall. C. 16, 5:

    bellum quod Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere,

    Liv. 21, 1, 1:

    alter consul in Sabinis bellum gessit,

    id. 2, 62, 3:

    de exercitibus per quos id bellum gereretur,

    id. 23, 25, 5:

    Chabrias bella in Aegypto sua sponte gessit,

    Nep. Chabr, 2, 1.—Sometimes bellum administrare only of the commander, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43; Nep. Chabr. 2, 1. —Also (very rare):

    bellum bellare,

    Liv. 8, 40, 1 (but belligerantes is absol., Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38; Ann. v. 201 Vahl.);

    in the same sense: bellum agere,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3. —As a synonym:

    bello persequi aliquem,

    Nep. Con. 4, 1; cf. Liv. 3, 25, 3.—
    (β).
    Trahere or ducere bellum, to protract a war:

    necesse est enim aut trahi id bellum, aut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    bellum trahi non posse,

    Sall. J. 23, 2:

    belli trahendi causa,

    Liv. 5, 11, 8:

    morae qua trahebant bellum paenitebat,

    id. 9, 27, 5:

    suadere institui ut bellum duceret,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2:

    bellum enim ducetur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 18, 6; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; id. Dat. 8, 4;

    similarly: cum his molliter et per dilationes bellum geri oportet?

    Liv. 5, 5, 1.—
    (γ).
    Bellum repellere, defendere, or propulsare, to ward off, defend one ' s self against a war:

    bellum Gallicum C. Caesare imperatore gestum est, antea tantummodo repulsum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32:

    quod bellum non intulerit sed defenderit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

    Samnitium vix a se ipsis eo tempore propulsantium bellum,

    Liv. 8, 37, 5.—
    c.
    Referring to the end of a war.
    (α).
    Bellum deponere, ponere, or omittere, to give up, discontinue a war:

    in quo (i.e. bello) et gerendo et deponendo jus ut plurimum valeret lege sanximus,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    (bellum) cum deponi victores velint,

    Sall. J. 83, 1:

    bellum decem ferme annis ante depositum erat,

    Liv. 31, 1, 8:

    nos depositum a vobis bellum et ipsi omisimus,

    id. 31, 31, 19:

    dicit posse condicionibus bellum poni,

    Sall. J. 112, 1:

    bellum grave cum Etruria positum est,

    id. H. Fragm. 1, 9 Dietsch:

    velut posito bello,

    Liv. 1, 53, 5:

    manere bellum quod positum simuletur,

    id. 1, 53, 7:

    posito ubique bello,

    Tac. H. 2, 52; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 93; Verg. A. 1, 291:

    omisso Romano bello Porsinna filium Arruntem Ariciam... mittit,

    Liv. 2, 14, 5.—
    (β).
    Bellum componere, to end a war by agreement, make peace:

    timerent ne bellum componeretur,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 3:

    si bellum compositum foret,

    Sall. J. 97, 2:

    belli componendi licentiam,

    id. ib. 103, 3; cf. Nep. Ham. 1, 5; id. Hann. 6, 2; id. Alcib. 8, 3; Verg. A. 12, 109;

    similarly: bellum sedare,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 5.—
    (γ).
    Bellum conficere, perficere, finire, to finish, end a war; conficere (the most usual term) and perficere, = to finish a war by conquering; finire (rare), without implying success:

    is bellum confecerit qui Antonium oppresserit,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 2:

    bellumque maximum conficies,

    id. Rep. 6, 11, 11:

    confecto Mithridatico bello,

    id. Prov. Cons. 11, 27; cf. id. Fam. 5, 10, 3; id. Imp. Pomp. 14, 42:

    quo proelio... bellum Venetorum confectum est,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 16; cf. id. ib. 1, 30; 1, 44; 1, 54; 3, 28;

    4, 16: bello confecto de Rhodiis consultum est,

    Sall. C. 51, 5; cf. id. J. 36, 1; 114, 3:

    neminem nisi bello confecto pecuniam petiturum esse,

    Liv. 24, 18, 11; cf. id. 21, 40, 11; 23, 6, 2; 31, 47, 4; 32, 32, 6;

    36, 2, 3: bello perfecto,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 18, 5; Liv. 1, 38, 3:

    se quo die hostem vidisset perfecturum (i. e. bellum),

    id. 22, 38, 7; 31, 4, 2; cf. id. 3, 24, 1; 34, 6, 12; Just. 5, 2, 11:

    neque desiturum ante... quam finitum aliqua tolerabili condicione bellum videro,

    Liv. 23, 12, 10: finito ex maxima parte.. [p. 228] italico bello, Vell. 2, 17, 1; Curt. 3, 1, 9; Tac. A. 15, 17; Just. 16, 2, 6; 24, 1, 8; Verg. A. 11, 116.—
    d.
    Less usual connections:

    bellum delere: non modo praesentia sed etiam futura bella delevit,

    Cic. Lael. 3, 11; cf. Nep. Alcib. 8, 4:

    alere ac fovere bellum,

    Liv. 42, 11, 5:

    bellum navare alicui,

    Tac. H. 5, 25:

    spargere,

    id. A. 3, 21; id. Agr. 38; Luc. 2, 682:

    serere,

    Liv. 21, 10, 4:

    circumferre,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    exercere,

    id. ib. 6, 31:

    quam celeriter belli impetus navigavit ( = quam celeriter navale bellum gestum est),

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34; so Flor. 2, 2, 17:

    bellum ascendit in rupes,

    id. 4, 12, 4:

    bellum serpit in proximos,

    id. 2, 9, 4; cf. id. 2, 2, 15:

    bella narrare,

    Cic. Or. 9, 30:

    canere bella,

    Quint. 10, 1, 91:

    bella legere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28.—
    3.
    As object denoting place or time.
    a.
    Proficisci ad bellum, to depart for the war.
    (α).
    Of the commander:

    consul sortitu ad bellum profectus,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 4; cf. id. Cat. 1, 13, 33:

    ipse ad bellum Ambiorigis profectus,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 29, 4:

    ut duo ex tribunis ad bellum proficiscerentur,

    Liv. 4, 45, 7; cf. id. 6, 2, 9: Nep. Alcib. 4, 1; Sall. H. 2, 96 Dietsch. —Post-class.:

    in bellum,

    Just. 2, 11, 9; Gell. 17, 9, 8.—
    (β).
    Of persons partaking in a war:

    si proficiscerer ad bellum,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 1. —
    b.
    Ad bellum mittere, of the commander, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50; 21, 62.—
    c.
    In bella ruere, Verg. A. 7, 782; 9, 182:

    in bella sequi,

    id. ib. 8, 547.—
    d.
    Of time.
    (α).
    In the locative case belli, in war, during war; generally with domi ( = domi militiaeque):

    valete, judices justissimi, domi bellique duellatores,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 68; so,

    domi duellique,

    id. As. 3, 2, 13 (v. I. supra):

    quibuscunque rebus vel belli vel domi poterunt rem publicam augeant,

    Cic. Off. 2, 24, 85:

    paucorum arbitrio belli domique agitabatur,

    Sall. J. 41, 7:

    animus belli ingens, domi modicus,

    id. ib. 63, 2; Liv. 2, 50, 11; 1, 36, 6; so id. 3, 43, 1; cf.:

    bello domique,

    id. 1, 34, 12:

    domi belloque,

    id. 9, 26, 21; and:

    neque bello, neque domi,

    id. 4, 35, 3.—Without domi:

    simul rem et gloriam armis belli repperi,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 60 (where belli may be taken with gloriam; cf.

    Wagn. ad loc.): magnae res temporibus illis a fortissimis viris... belli gerebantur,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 32, 86.—
    (β).
    In bello or in bellis, during war or wars, in the war, in the wars; with adj.:

    ad haec quae in civili bello fecerit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 47; cf. id. ib. 14, 8, 22:

    in ipso bello eadem sensi,

    id. Marcell. 5, 14:

    in Volsco bello virtus enituit,

    Liv. 2, 24, 8:

    in eo bello,

    id. 23, 46, 6:

    in Punicis bellis, Plin.8, 14, 14, § 37: in bello Trojano,

    id. 30, 1, 2, § 5.—Without adj.:

    ut fit in bello, capitur alter filius,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 25:

    qui in bello occiderunt,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 5, 2:

    quod in bello saepius vindicatum est in eos, etc.,

    Sall. C. 9, 4:

    non in bello solum, sed etiam in pace,

    Liv. 1, 15, 8; 2, 23, 2:

    in bello parta,

    Quint. 5, 10, 42; 12, 1, 28.—
    (γ).
    Abl. bello or bellis = in bello or in bellis (freq.); with adjj.: nos semper omnibus Punicis Siciliensibusque bellis amicitiam fidemque populi Romani secuti sumus. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 124:

    bello Italico,

    id. Pis. 36, 87:

    Veienti bello,

    id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

    domestico bello,

    id. Planc. 29, 70:

    qui Volsco, Aurunco Sabinoque militassent bello,

    Liv. 23, 12, 11:

    victor tot intra paucos dies bellis,

    id. 2, 27, 1:

    nullo bello, multis tamen proeliis victus,

    id. 9, 18, 9:

    bello civili,

    Quint. 11, 1, 36.—With gen.:

    praesentiam saepe divi suam declarant, ut et apud Regillum bello Latinorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

    suam felicitatem Helvetiorum bello esse perspectam,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40.—Without attrib.:

    qui etiam bello victis regibus regna reddere consuevit,

    Cic. Sest. 26, 57:

    res pace belloque gestas,

    Liv. 2, 1, 1:

    egregieque rebus bello gestis,

    id. 1, 33, 9; so id. 23, 12, 11:

    ludi bello voti,

    id. 4, 35. 3:

    princeps pace belloque,

    id. 7, 1, 9:

    Cotyn bello juvisse Persea,

    id. 45, 42, 7:

    bello parta,

    Quint. 5, 10, 15; cf. id. 7, 4, 22; Ov. M. 8, 19.—
    (δ).
    Inter bellum (rare):

    cujus originis morem necesse est... inter bellum natum esse,

    Liv. 2, 14, 2:

    inter haec bella consules... facti,

    id. 2, 63, 1.—
    4.
    Bellum in attributive connection.
    a.
    Justum bellum.
    (α).
    A righteous war, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36 (v. II. A. 2. a. th supra):

    justum piumque bellum,

    Liv. 1, 23, 4:

    non loquor apud recusantem justa bella populum,

    id. 7, 30, 17; so Ov. M. 8, 58; cf.: illa injusta sunt bella quae sine causa suscepta sunt, Cic. Rep. 3, 23, 35.—
    (β).
    A regular war (opp. a raid, etc.):

    in fines Romanos excucurrerunt, populabundi magis quam justi more belli,

    Liv. 1, 15, 1.—
    b.
    For the different kinds of war: domesticum, civile, intestinum, externum, navale, maritimum, terra marique gestum, servile, sociale; v. hh. vv.—
    c.
    Belli eventus or exitus, the result of a war:

    quicunque belli eventus fuisset,

    Cic. Marcell. 8, 24:

    haud sane alio animo belli eventum exspectabant,

    Sall. C. 37, 9:

    eventus tamen belli minus miserabilem dimicationem fecit,

    Liv. 1, 23, 2; cf. id. 7, 11, 1:

    exitus hujus calamitosissimi belli,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

    cum esset incertus exitus et anceps fortuna belli,

    id. Marcell. 5, 15; so id. Off. 2, 8,:

    Britannici belli exitus exspectatur,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 13:

    cetera bella maximeque Veiens incerti exitus erant,

    Liv. 5, 16, 8.—
    d.
    Fortuna belli, the chances of war:

    adeo varia fortuna belli ancepsque Mars fuit ut,

    Liv. 21, 1, 2; cf. Cic. Marcell. 5, 15 (v. c. supra).—
    e.
    Belli artes, military skill:

    cuilibet superiorum regum belli pacisque et artibus et gloria par,

    Liv. 1, 35, 1:

    haud ignotas belli artes,

    id. 21, 1, 2:

    temperata et belli et pacis artibus erat civitas,

    id. 1, 21, 6.—
    f.
    Jus belli, the law of war: jura belli, the rights ( law) of war:

    in re publica maxime servanda sunt jura belli,

    Cic. Off. 1, 11, 34:

    sunt et belli sicut pacis jura,

    Liv. 5, 27, 6:

    jure belli res vindicatur,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 94.—
    g.
    Belli duces praestantissimos, the most excellent captains, generals, Cic. Or. 1, 2, 7:

    trium simul bellorum victor,

    a victor in three wars, Liv. 6, 4, 1 (cf.:

    victor tot bellis,

    id. 2, 27, 1). —
    h.
    Belli vulnera, Cic. Marcell. 8, 24.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of things concr. and abstr.:

    qui parietibus, qui tectis, qui columnis ac postibus meis... bellum intulistis,

    Cic. Dom. 23, 60:

    bellum contra aras et focos,

    id. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    miror cur philosophiae... bellum indixeris,

    id. Or. 2, 37, 155:

    ventri Indico bellum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 8.—
    2.
    Of animals:

    milvo est quoddam bellum quasi naturale cum corvo,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

    hanc Juno Esse jussit gruem, populisque suis indicere bellum,

    Ov. M. 6, 92.—
    3.
    With individuals:

    quid mihi opu'st... cum eis gerere bellum, etc.,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 14:

    nihil turpius quam cum eo bellum gerere quicum familiariter vixeris,

    Cic. Lael. 21, 77:

    cum mihi uni cum improbis aeternum videam bellum susceptum,

    id. Sull. 9, 28:

    hoc tibi juventus Romana indicimus bellum,

    Liv. 2, 12, 11:

    falsum testem justo ac pio bello persequebatur,

    id. 3, 25, 3:

    tribunicium domi bellum patres territat,

    id. 3, 24, 1; cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 57.—Ironically:

    equus Trojanus qui tot invictos viros muliebre bellum gerentes tulerit ac texerit,

    Cic. Cael. 28, 67.—
    4.
    In mal. part., Hor. C. 3, 26, 3; 4, 1, 2.—
    5.
    Personified as god of war ( = Janus):

    tabulas duas quae Belli faciem pictam habent,

    Plin. 35, 4, 10, § 27:

    sunt geminae Belli portae, etc.,

    Verg. A. 7, 607:

    mortiferumque averso in limine Bellum,

    id. ib. 6, 279.—
    6.
    Plur.: bella, army ( poet.):

    permanet Aonius Nereus violentus in undis, Bellaque non transfert (i.e. Graecorum exercitum),

    Ov. M. 12, 24:

    sed victae fera bella deae vexere per aequora,

    Sil. 7, 472:

    quid faciat bellis obsessus et undis?

    Stat. Th. 9, 490.—
    7.
    Battle, = proelium:

    rorarii dicti a rore: qui bellum committebant ante,

    Varr. L. L. 7, 3, 92:

    quod in bello saepius vindicatum in eos qui... tardius, revocati, bello excesserant,

    Sall. C. 9, 4:

    praecipua laus ejus belli penes consules fuit,

    Liv. 8, 10, 7:

    commisso statim bello,

    Front. Strat. 1, 11, 2:

    Actia bella,

    Verg. A. 8, 675:

    ingentem pugnam, ceu cetera nusquam Bella forent,

    id. ib. 2, 439; cf. Flor. 3, 5, 11; Just. 2, 12; 18, 1 fin.; 24, 8; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 98 (form duellum); Ov. H. 1, 1, 69; Verg. A. 8, 547; 12, 390; 12, 633; Stat. Th. 3, 666. —
    8.
    Bellum = liber de bello:

    quam gaudebat Bello suo Punico Naevius!

    Cic. Sen. 14, 50.
    b.
    Referring to the carrying on of the war: bellum gerere, to carry on a war; absol., with cum and abl., per and acc., or in and abl. (cf.:

    bellum gerere in aliquem, 1. a. and f. supra): nisi forte ego vobis... cessare nunc videor cum bella non gero,

    Cic. Sen. 6, 18:

    cum Celtiberis, cum Cimbris bellum ut cum inimicis gerebatur,

    id. Off. 1, 12, 38:

    cum ei bellum ut cum rege Perse gereret obtigisset,

    id. Div. 1, 46, 103:

    erant hae difficultates belli gerendi,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 10:

    bellum cum Germanis gerere constituit,

    id. ib. 4, 6:

    Cn. Pompeius in extremis terris bellum gerebat,

    Sall. C. 16, 5:

    bellum quod Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere,

    Liv. 21, 1, 1:

    alter consul in Sabinis bellum gessit,

    id. 2, 62, 3:

    de exercitibus per quos id bellum gereretur,

    id. 23, 25, 5:

    Chabrias bella in Aegypto sua sponte gessit,

    Nep. Chabr, 2, 1.—Sometimes bellum administrare only of the commander, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 43; Nep. Chabr. 2, 1. —Also (very rare):

    bellum bellare,

    Liv. 8, 40, 1 (but belligerantes is absol., Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38; Ann. v. 201 Vahl.);

    in the same sense: bellum agere,

    Nep. Hann. 8, 3. —As a synonym:

    bello persequi aliquem,

    Nep. Con. 4, 1; cf. Liv. 3, 25, 3.—
    (β).
    Trahere or ducere bellum, to protract a war:

    necesse est enim aut trahi id bellum, aut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    bellum trahi non posse,

    Sall. J. 23, 2:

    belli trahendi causa,

    Liv. 5, 11, 8:

    morae qua trahebant bellum paenitebat,

    id. 9, 27, 5:

    suadere institui ut bellum duceret,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2:

    bellum enim ducetur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 18, 6; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; id. Dat. 8, 4;

    similarly: cum his molliter et per dilationes bellum geri oportet?

    Liv. 5, 5, 1.—
    (γ).
    Bellum repellere, defendere, or propulsare, to ward off, defend one ' s self against a war:

    bellum Gallicum C. Caesare imperatore gestum est, antea tantummodo repulsum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32:

    quod bellum non intulerit sed defenderit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

    Samnitium vix a se ipsis eo tempore propulsantium bellum,

    Liv. 8, 37, 5.—
    c.
    Referring to the end of a war.
    (α).
    Bellum deponere, ponere, or omittere, to give up, discontinue a war:

    in quo (i.e. bello) et gerendo et deponendo jus ut plurimum valeret lege sanximus,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    (bellum) cum deponi victores velint,

    Sall. J. 83, 1:

    bellum decem ferme annis ante depositum erat,

    Liv. 31, 1, 8:

    nos depositum a vobis bellum et ipsi omisimus,

    id. 31, 31, 19:

    dicit posse condicionibus bellum poni,

    Sall. J. 112, 1:

    bellum grave cum Etruria positum est,

    id. H. Fragm. 1, 9 Dietsch:

    velut posito bello,

    Liv. 1, 53, 5:

    manere bellum quod positum simuletur,

    id. 1, 53, 7:

    posito ubique bello,

    Tac. H. 2, 52; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 93; Verg. A. 1, 291:

    omisso Romano bello Porsinna filium Arruntem Ariciam... mittit,

    Liv. 2, 14, 5.—
    (β).
    Bellum componere, to end a war by agreement, make peace:

    timerent ne bellum componeretur,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 3:

    si bellum compositum foret,

    Sall. J. 97, 2:

    belli componendi licentiam,

    id. ib. 103, 3; cf. Nep. Ham. 1, 5; id. Hann. 6, 2; id. Alcib. 8, 3; Verg. A. 12, 109;

    similarly: bellum sedare,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 5.—
    (γ).
    Bellum conficere, perficere, finire, to finish, end a war; conficere (the most usual term) and perficere, = to finish a war by conquering; finire (rare), without implying success:

    is bellum confecerit qui Antonium oppresserit,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 2:

    bellumque maximum conficies,

    id. Rep. 6, 11, 11:

    confecto Mithridatico bello,

    id. Prov. Cons. 11, 27; cf. id. Fam. 5, 10, 3; id. Imp. Pomp. 14, 42:

    quo proelio... bellum Venetorum confectum est,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 16; cf. id. ib. 1, 30; 1, 44; 1, 54; 3, 28;

    4, 16: bello confecto de Rhodiis consultum est,

    Sall. C. 51, 5; cf. id. J. 36, 1; 114, 3:

    neminem nisi bello confecto pecuniam petiturum esse,

    Liv. 24, 18, 11; cf. id. 21, 40, 11; 23, 6, 2; 31, 47, 4; 32, 32, 6;

    36, 2, 3: bello perfecto,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 18, 5; Liv. 1, 38, 3:

    se quo die hostem vidisset perfecturum (i. e. bellum),

    id. 22, 38, 7; 31, 4, 2; cf. id. 3, 24, 1; 34, 6, 12; Just. 5, 2, 11:

    neque desiturum ante... quam finitum aliqua tolerabili condicione bellum videro,

    Liv. 23, 12, 10: finito ex maxima parte.. [p. 228] italico bello, Vell. 2, 17, 1; Curt. 3, 1, 9; Tac. A. 15, 17; Just. 16, 2, 6; 24, 1, 8; Verg. A. 11, 116.—
    d.
    Less usual connections:

    bellum delere: non modo praesentia sed etiam futura bella delevit,

    Cic. Lael. 3, 11; cf. Nep. Alcib. 8, 4:

    alere ac fovere bellum,

    Liv. 42, 11, 5:

    bellum navare alicui,

    Tac. H. 5, 25:

    spargere,

    id. A. 3, 21; id. Agr. 38; Luc. 2, 682:

    serere,

    Liv. 21, 10, 4:

    circumferre,

    Tac. A. 13, 37:

    exercere,

    id. ib. 6, 31:

    quam celeriter belli impetus navigavit ( = quam celeriter navale bellum gestum est),

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34; so Flor. 2, 2, 17:

    bellum ascendit in rupes,

    id. 4, 12, 4:

    bellum serpit in proximos,

    id. 2, 9, 4; cf. id. 2, 2, 15:

    bella narrare,

    Cic. Or. 9, 30:

    canere bella,

    Quint. 10, 1, 91:

    bella legere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28.—
    3.
    As object denoting place or time.
    a.
    Proficisci ad bellum, to depart for the war.
    (α).
    Of the commander:

    consul sortitu ad bellum profectus,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 4; cf. id. Cat. 1, 13, 33:

    ipse ad bellum Ambiorigis profectus,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 29, 4:

    ut duo ex tribunis ad bellum proficiscerentur,

    Liv. 4, 45, 7; cf. id. 6, 2, 9: Nep. Alcib. 4, 1; Sall. H. 2, 96 Dietsch. —Post-class.:

    in bellum,

    Just. 2, 11, 9; Gell. 17, 9, 8.—
    (β).
    Of persons partaking in a war:

    si proficiscerer ad bellum,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 1. —
    b.
    Ad bellum mittere, of the commander, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 17, 50; 21, 62.—
    c.
    In bella ruere, Verg. A. 7, 782; 9, 182:

    in bella sequi,

    id. ib. 8, 547.—
    d.
    Of time.
    (α).
    In the locative case belli, in war, during war; generally with domi ( = domi militiaeque):

    valete, judices justissimi, domi bellique duellatores,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 68; so,

    domi duellique,

    id. As. 3, 2, 13 (v. I. supra):

    quibuscunque rebus vel belli vel domi poterunt rem publicam augeant,

    Cic. Off. 2, 24, 85:

    paucorum arbitrio belli domique agitabatur,

    Sall. J. 41, 7:

    animus belli ingens, domi modicus,

    id. ib. 63, 2; Liv. 2, 50, 11; 1, 36, 6; so id. 3, 43, 1; cf.:

    bello domique,

    id. 1, 34, 12:

    domi belloque,

    id. 9, 26, 21; and:

    neque bello, neque domi,

    id. 4, 35, 3.—Without domi:

    simul rem et gloriam armis belli repperi,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 60 (where belli may be taken with gloriam; cf.

    Wagn. ad loc.): magnae res temporibus illis a fortissimis viris... belli gerebantur,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 32, 86.—
    (β).
    In bello or in bellis, during war or wars, in the war, in the wars; with adj.:

    ad haec quae in civili bello fecerit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 47; cf. id. ib. 14, 8, 22:

    in ipso bello eadem sensi,

    id. Marcell. 5, 14:

    in Volsco bello virtus enituit,

    Liv. 2, 24, 8:

    in eo bello,

    id. 23, 46, 6:

    in Punicis bellis, Plin.8, 14, 14, § 37: in bello Trojano,

    id. 30, 1, 2, § 5.—Without adj.:

    ut fit in bello, capitur alter filius,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 25:

    qui in bello occiderunt,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 5, 2:

    quod in bello saepius vindicatum est in eos, etc.,

    Sall. C. 9, 4:

    non in bello solum, sed etiam in pace,

    Liv. 1, 15, 8; 2, 23, 2:

    in bello parta,

    Quint. 5, 10, 42; 12, 1, 28.—
    (γ).
    Abl. bello or bellis = in bello or in bellis (freq.); with adjj.: nos semper omnibus Punicis Siciliensibusque bellis amicitiam fidemque populi Romani secuti sumus. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 124:

    bello Italico,

    id. Pis. 36, 87:

    Veienti bello,

    id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

    domestico bello,

    id. Planc. 29, 70:

    qui Volsco, Aurunco Sabinoque militassent bello,

    Liv. 23, 12, 11:

    victor tot intra paucos dies bellis,

    id. 2, 27, 1:

    nullo bello, multis tamen proeliis victus,

    id. 9, 18, 9:

    bello civili,

    Quint. 11, 1, 36.—With gen.:

    praesentiam saepe divi suam declarant, ut et apud Regillum bello Latinorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6:

    suam felicitatem Helvetiorum bello esse perspectam,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40.—Without attrib.:

    qui etiam bello victis regibus regna reddere consuevit,

    Cic. Sest. 26, 57:

    res pace belloque gestas,

    Liv. 2, 1, 1:

    egregieque rebus bello gestis,

    id. 1, 33, 9; so id. 23, 12, 11:

    ludi bello voti,

    id. 4, 35. 3:

    princeps pace belloque,

    id. 7, 1, 9:

    Cotyn bello juvisse Persea,

    id. 45, 42, 7:

    bello parta,

    Quint. 5, 10, 15; cf. id. 7, 4, 22; Ov. M. 8, 19.—
    (δ).
    Inter bellum (rare):

    cujus originis morem necesse est... inter bellum natum esse,

    Liv. 2, 14, 2:

    inter haec bella consules... facti,

    id. 2, 63, 1.—
    4.
    Bellum in attributive connection.
    a.
    Justum bellum.
    (α).
    A righteous war, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36 (v. II. A. 2. a. th supra):

    justum piumque bellum,

    Liv. 1, 23, 4:

    non loquor apud recusantem justa bella populum,

    id. 7, 30, 17; so Ov. M. 8, 58; cf.: illa injusta sunt bella quae sine causa suscepta sunt, Cic. Rep. 3, 23, 35.—
    (β).
    A regular war (opp. a raid, etc.):

    in fines Romanos excucurrerunt, populabundi magis quam justi more belli,

    Liv. 1, 15, 1.—
    b.
    For the different kinds of war: domesticum, civile, intestinum, externum, navale, maritimum, terra marique gestum, servile, sociale; v. hh. vv.—
    c.
    Belli eventus or exitus, the result of a war:

    quicunque belli eventus fuisset,

    Cic. Marcell. 8, 24:

    haud sane alio animo belli eventum exspectabant,

    Sall. C. 37, 9:

    eventus tamen belli minus miserabilem dimicationem fecit,

    Liv. 1, 23, 2; cf. id. 7, 11, 1:

    exitus hujus calamitosissimi belli,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

    cum esset incertus exitus et anceps fortuna belli,

    id. Marcell. 5, 15; so id. Off. 2, 8,:

    Britannici belli exitus exspectatur,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 13:

    cetera bella maximeque Veiens incerti exitus erant,

    Liv. 5, 16, 8.—
    d.
    Fortuna belli, the chances of war:

    adeo varia fortuna belli ancepsque Mars fuit ut,

    Liv. 21, 1, 2; cf. Cic. Marcell. 5, 15 (v. c. supra).—
    e.
    Belli artes, military skill:

    cuilibet superiorum regum belli pacisque et artibus et gloria par,

    Liv. 1, 35, 1:

    haud ignotas belli artes,

    id. 21, 1, 2:

    temperata et belli et pacis artibus erat civitas,

    id. 1, 21, 6.—
    f.
    Jus belli, the law of war: jura belli, the rights ( law) of war:

    in re publica maxime servanda sunt jura belli,

    Cic. Off. 1, 11, 34:

    sunt et belli sicut pacis jura,

    Liv. 5, 27, 6:

    jure belli res vindicatur,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 94.—
    g.
    Belli duces praestantissimos, the most excellent captains, generals, Cic. Or. 1, 2, 7:

    trium simul bellorum victor,

    a victor in three wars, Liv. 6, 4, 1 (cf.:

    victor tot bellis,

    id. 2, 27, 1). —
    h.
    Belli vulnera, Cic. Marcell. 8, 24.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of things concr. and abstr.:

    qui parietibus, qui tectis, qui columnis ac postibus meis... bellum intulistis,

    Cic. Dom. 23, 60:

    bellum contra aras et focos,

    id. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    miror cur philosophiae... bellum indixeris,

    id. Or. 2, 37, 155:

    ventri Indico bellum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 8.—
    2.
    Of animals:

    milvo est quoddam bellum quasi naturale cum corvo,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

    hanc Juno Esse jussit gruem, populisque suis indicere bellum,

    Ov. M. 6, 92.—
    3.
    With individuals:

    quid mihi opu'st... cum eis gerere bellum, etc.,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 14:

    nihil turpius quam cum eo bellum gerere quicum familiariter vixeris,

    Cic. Lael. 21, 77:

    cum mihi uni cum improbis aeternum videam bellum susceptum,

    id. Sull. 9, 28:

    hoc tibi juventus Romana indicimus bellum,

    Liv. 2, 12, 11:

    falsum testem justo ac pio bello persequebatur,

    id. 3, 25, 3:

    tribunicium domi bellum patres territat,

    id. 3, 24, 1; cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 57.—Ironically:

    equus Trojanus qui tot invictos viros muliebre bellum gerentes tulerit ac texerit,

    Cic. Cael. 28, 67.—
    4.
    In mal. part., Hor. C. 3, 26, 3; 4, 1, 2.—
    5.
    Personified as god of war ( = Janus):

    tabulas duas quae Belli faciem pictam habent,

    Plin. 35, 4, 10, § 27:

    sunt geminae Belli portae, etc.,

    Verg. A. 7, 607:

    mortiferumque averso in limine Bellum,

    id. ib. 6, 279.—
    6.
    Plur.: bella, army ( poet.):

    permanet Aonius Nereus violentus in undis, Bellaque non transfert (i.e. Graecorum exercitum),

    Ov. M. 12, 24:

    sed victae fera bella deae vexere per aequora,

    Sil. 7, 472:

    quid faciat bellis obsessus et undis?

    Stat. Th. 9, 490.—
    7.
    Battle, = proelium:

    rorarii dicti a rore: qui bellum committebant ante,

    Varr. L. L. 7, 3, 92:

    quod in bello saepius vindicatum in eos qui... tardius, revocati, bello excesserant,

    Sall. C. 9, 4:

    praecipua laus ejus belli penes consules fuit,

    Liv. 8, 10, 7:

    commisso statim bello,

    Front. Strat. 1, 11, 2:

    Actia bella,

    Verg. A. 8, 675:

    ingentem pugnam, ceu cetera nusquam Bella forent,

    id. ib. 2, 439; cf. Flor. 3, 5, 11; Just. 2, 12; 18, 1 fin.; 24, 8; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 98 (form duellum); Ov. H. 1, 1, 69; Verg. A. 8, 547; 12, 390; 12, 633; Stat. Th. 3, 666. —
    8.
    Bellum = liber de bello:

    quam gaudebat Bello suo Punico Naevius!

    Cic. Sen. 14, 50.

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  • 17 gelten

    gelten, I) im allg., gültig sein: valere (übh. in Kraft sein, von Gesetzen, von Wörtern). – vigere (im Schwange sein, fort und fort bestehen, von Gesetzen, Aussprüchen, Meinungen, Gebräuchen, an denen man fortwährend festhält). – in usu esse od. versari (im Gebrauche sein, v. Gelde). – ratum esse (fest begründet sein, von Gesetzen, Beschlüssen, Verträgen). – exerceri (gehandhabt werden, v. Gesetzen). – esse (statthaben, in Anwendung kommen etc., z.B. non provocatio erat). – etw. gilt an einem Orte, alqd versatur in alqo loco od. m. folg. Genet. od. Ablat. der Städtenamen (z.B. Romae in foro). – etw. gilt bei jmd., alqs utitur alqā re (z.B. leges, quibus hodie quoque utuntur). – etw. gilt bei etw. (in betreff einer Sache), alqd valet in alqa re (v. Abstr.). – für beide Begriffe, in beiden Beziehungen g., valere in utramque partem: allgemein g., in omnes od. in omnia valere; auch ad omnes pertinere (auf alle Bezug haben); in omnium usu esse od. versari (allgemein im Gebrauche sein, von einer Geldsorte etc.). – nicht mehr g., valere desinere od. desisse (in Kraft zu sein aufhören oder aufgehört haben, v. Gesetzen etc.); non exerceri (nicht gehandhabt werden, v. Gesetzen); in usu esse od. versari desisse (aufgehört haben im Gebrauche zu sein, von einer Geldsorte etc.): es gilt etw. bei jmd. nicht mehr, alqs alqā re uti desiit (jmd. gebraucht, übt etw. nicht mehr, z.B. his legibus uti desierunt). – von jmd. od. etw. gelten, pertinere ad m. Akk. (Bezug haben auf etc.); cadere in m. Akk. (Anwendung finden auf etc.); dici debere od. posse de etc. (gesagt werden müssen od. können über etc.). – etwas g. lassen, alqd ratum habere od. ducere (genehmigen, w. s.); alqd probare, approbare, comprobare (es billigen); alqd accipere, admittere (annehmen, [1052] zulassen, z.B. excusationem acc.); alqdtolerare (etwas ertragen, hinnehmen, z.B. alcisdefensionem). – es nicht g. lassen wollen, daß etc., nolle m. Infin. Pass. (z.B. qui dicia nobis Attico more nolunt). – hier gilt kein Zaudern, kein Säumen u. Zögern, nonest locus ad tergiversandum; hic nihil estloci segnitiae atque socordiae.

    II) insbes.: A) einen Wert haben; z.B. etwas g., in pretio esse; pretium habere. – so u. so viel g., valere m. Akk. od. m. pro u. Abl. (den u. den Geldwert haben, v. Münzen); pretii esse, in Verbindung mit den Genet. magni,parvi, pluris usw. (den u. den Preis haben, v. Waren). – emi, venire m. Genet. des allgem. od. mit Ablat. des bestimmten Preises (um einen gewissen Preis gekauft, verkauft werden, v. Waren, z.B. ova pavonum quinis assibus emuntur od. veneunt). – weniger g., minorisvalere; minoris od. vilius venire: sehr wenig g., minimo valere; minimi venire: nichts g., pretium non habere: nichts mehr g., in pretio esse od. pretium habere desisse;iacet pretium alcis roi. – es gilt gleichviel, idem est (es ist dasselbe); nihil refert (es macht nichts aus): es gilt mir gleichviel, perinde est mihi: das gilt mir alles gleich, hoc nihil meā interest: Kato gilt mir für sich allein soviel als viele Tausende, Cato illenoster mihi unus est pro centum milibus. – Daher a) in Ansehen stehen, Einfluß haben (vgl. »Ansehen, Einfluß«): valere. pollere.posse (vermögen, s. das. die Synonyma). – etwas g., aliquid esse oder valere; aliquoesse numero atque honore (in einigem Rang u. in einigen Ehren stehen): viel g., multumvalere (z.B. in Fabia tribu): mehr g., plusvalere: viel bei jmd. g., auctoritate od. gratiā multum posse od. valere apud alqm (durch sein Ansehen, seinen Einfluß viel über ihn vermögen); gratiosum esse apud alqm (bei ihm wegen guter Eigenschaften sehr wohl gelitten sein): bei jmd. etwas g., numerumhabere od. obtinere, aliquo loco ac numeroesse apud alqm (bes. bei einer Menge, z.B. bei od. unter den Rednern etc.): er gilt viel bei mir, multum valet alcis auctoritas apudme: jmds. Rat gilt viel bei mir, multummoveor alcis auctoritate. – wenig g., tenuiesse auctoritate: nichts od. nichts mehr g., nullum esse (so gut wie nichts sein); nulliusmomenti esse, bei jmd., apud alqm (ohne allen Einfluß sein); iacēre (in Ungunst daniederliegen); frigēre. refrixisse (kalt, ohne Beifall im Publikum aufgenommen werden; alle diese v. Pers. u. Dingen); nullo numeroesse (in keinem Range u. Ansehen, in keiner Geltung stehen, v. Pers.). – alles gelten, omniaesse, bei jmd., alci (z.B. Demetrius iis unus omnia erat). – Roms Rechte galten weit und breit, iura Romana late pollebant. – b) es gilt jmd. od. etw. für einen od. etw., als jmd. od. etw., α) in der Wirklichkeit: alqs od. alqdhabetur pro alqo (er wird gehalten, angesehen ganz wie etc., z.B. alqs pro hoste: u. audacia pro muro). – est alqs od. alqd proetc. (er ist od. dient als etc., z.B. alqs estpro victo). – alqs habetur loco mit Genet. Singul. od. (v. mehreren) Plur. alqs habetur [1053] numero od. in numero mit Genet. Plur. (jmd. wird gehalten an der Stelle, unter der Zahl, im Range wie etc., z.B. plebes servorum habetur loco: u. alqs habetur hostium numero od. in hostium numero). – alqs refertur in numero m. Genet. Plur. (jmd. wird gezählt, gerechnet unter etc., z.B. in numero deorum). – alqs numeratur m. Prädik. – Nomin. (jmd. wird gezählt als etc., z.B. Thucydides numquam est numeratus orator). – alqd numeratur in m. Abl. Plur. od. inter m. Akk. Plur. (z.B. alqd num. in bonis: u. haec iactura inter damna numerata non est). – es gilt jmd. od. etw. in meinen Augen für etc., ich lasse jmd. od. etw. gelten für etc., habeo alqm od. alqd pro etc. od. loco od. in numero m. Genet. (s. oben); alqs mihi est pro etc. (z.B. Cato ille noster mihi unus est pro centum milibus); alqs mihi est loco od. numero alcis (z.B. parentis); alqm refero in numero m. Genet. Plur. (s. oben); alqm numero in m. Abl. od. inter m. Akk. Plur. (s. oben). – β) in der Meinung: alqs od. alqd habetur mit Prädik.-Nomin. (wird gehalten in der Meinung u. Idee für etc., z.B. ille probus vir od. ille clarus et magnus habetur). – od. alqd habetur m. Dat. wofür? (z.B. paupertas probro haberi coepit). – alqs od. alqd putatur m. Prädik. – Nominat. mit u. ohne – esse (wird gleichs. veranschlagt, wird aus wahrscheinlichen Gründen mit voller Überzeugung angesehen für etc., z.B. ille prudens esse in iure civili putatur: u. huic pauci pares putantur). – alqs existimatur m. Infin. (er wird angesehen nach sorgfältiger Erwägung, z.B. er gilt für ungelehrt, ille nescire litteras existimatur). – alqd censetur esse m. Genet. (etw. wird jmdm. angehörig erachtet nach Abwägung aller Umstände, z.B. haec fabula omnium consensuPlauti esse censetur, dieses Lustspiel gilt allgemein als ein Stück des Plautus). – es gilt jmd. od. etw. bei mir, in meinen Augen für od. als etc., ich lasse jmd. od. etw. gelten für od. als etc., habeo m. dopp. Akk. (ich halte für etc., z.B. alqm parentem: u. aliquid non dubium). – alqd puto (esse) m. Prädik. – Akk. (z.B. eas divitias). – arbitror m. dopp. Akk. u. Infin. (z.B. eum homines successorem potentiae eius arbitrabantur futurum, er galt bei den Leuten für den zukünftigen Erben seiner Macht).

    B) unpersönl.: a) es gilt jmdm. od. einer Sache, d. i. es betrifft etc.: pertinet ad alqm od. ad alqd. – petitur alqs (man zieht auf ihn los). – alqd alci dicitur. alqs oratione designatur (die Worte etc. gehen auf jmd.). – dies gilt den Vätern, haec dicta sint patribus. – b) es gilt etw., es gilt su etc. = es handelt sich um etw., es handelt sich darum, zu etc., s. handeln no. II, b. – prägn., wenn es gilt (d. i. wenn der entscheidende Augenblick da ist), cum res agatur in discrimenque ventum sit.

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  • 18 incipio

    incĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (archaic incepsit inceperit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 107 Müll.), v. a. and n. [in-capio; lit., to seize upon, lay hold of; opp. to desinere; hence, with the accessory idea of action), to begin to do something, to take in hand (syn. incoho; in class. prose, viz. in Cic., only in the tempp. press., while coepi is used in the tempp. perff.); constr. usually with the inf., less freq. absol., with the acc., ab, or adv. of place or time.
    I.
    Act.
    (α).
    With inf.:

    ut homines mortem vel optare incipiant vel certe timere desistant,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117:

    huic incipio sententiae diffidere,

    id. ib. 5, 1, 3:

    prius quam incipit tinnire,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 42:

    bella gerere,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 9:

    leges neglegere,

    id. Rep. 1, 43 fin.:

    queri cum multis incipiunt,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 56:

    nimis cito diligere,

    id. Lael. 21, 78:

    amare aliquem,

    id. ib. 16, 60:

    fossas complere,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 51, 4:

    rem frumentariam expedire,

    id. B. C. 1, 54, 4:

    triplicem aciem ducere,

    id. ib. 1, 64, 7;

    2, 30, 1: cum maturescere frumenta inciperent,

    id. ib. 6, 29, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 49, 1:

    cum primum pabuli copia esse inciperet,

    id. B. G. 2, 2, 2; cf.:

    ictus erat, qua crus esse incipit,

    Ov. M. 6, 255; 8, 474; 15, 256:

    opes pellere dominatione,

    Sall. H. 3, 61, 3:

    si res explicare incipiam,

    Nep. Pelop. 1:

    Bessus agere gratias incipit,

    Curt. 5, 12, 1:

    cenare,

    Suet. Aug. 74:

    promovere scalas,

    Tac. A. 15, 4 fin.:

    si dormire incipis ortu luciferi,

    Juv. 8, 11:

    male quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id efficere perpetrat, etc.... Si bene facere incepit, etc. (shortly afterward, occeperunt),

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12 and 14:

    satis nequam sum, utpote qui hodie inceperim Amare,

    id. Rud. 2, 5, 5.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    ut incipiendi ratio fuerit, ita sit desinendi modus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 37, 135; cf. Plin. Ep. 9, 4, 1; Sen. Ep. 116:

    dum incipimus,

    Quint. 11, 3, 144:

    dum deliberamus, quando incipiendum sit, incipere jam serum est,

    id. 12, 6, 3:

    in incipiendo, etc.,

    id. 11, 1, 6: ac statim sic rex incipit, thus begins (to speak), Sall. J. 109 fin.; cf.:

    nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim: Fortunam Priami, etc.,

    Hor. A. P. 136:

    sic incipit, with a foll. direct quotation,

    id. S. 2, 6, 79; Ov. M. 9, 281;

    and simply incipit,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 21:

    sapere aude, Incipe,

    make a beginning, begin, id. Ep. 1, 2, 41; Juv. 4, 34:

    priusquam incipias, consulto opus est,

    Sall. C. 1, 6:

    turpe inceptu est,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 16:

    incipientes atque adhuc teneri (pueri),

    who are beginning to learn, beginners, Quint. 1, 2, 26:

    incipiens,

    id. 2, 5, 18; 2, 6, 5; 8 prooem. § 1; 3;

    10, 7, 18: quoties madidum ver incipit,

    Juv. 9, 52 al. —
    (γ).
    With acc. (once in Cic., once in Cæs., v. infra):

    facinus audax incipit,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 1:

    facinus,

    Sall. C. 20, 3:

    pugilatum,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 13:

    iter,

    id. Cas. 4, 4, 2:

    aliquid novi negotii,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 29:

    bellum (opp. deponere),

    Sall. J. 83, 1:

    tam prava,

    id. ib. 64, 2:

    indigna nobis,

    id. H. 2, 41, 8:

    opus,

    Liv. 7, 34, 13:

    bellum,

    id. 21, 21, 6; 26, 37, 9; 42, 43, 3:

    sementem,

    Verg. G. 1, 230:

    Maenalios versus,

    id. E. 8, 21:

    si id facere non potueris, quod, ut opinio mea fert, ne incipies quidem,

    Cic. Planc. 19, 48; Quint. 1, 12, 5:

    iter mihi incepi,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 16:

    tantum incepi operis,

    id. Men. 2, 3, 80:

    mandata,

    Tac. A. 12, 10; 4, 46:

    auspicia a parricidio,

    Just. 26, 2 init.: multa, Cat. ap. Gell. 16, 14, 2.— Pass.:

    tanta incepta res est,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 31:

    nuptiarum gratia haec sunt ficta atque incepta,

    Ter. And. 5, 1, 17; 3, 3, 7:

    si inceptam oppugnationem reliquissent,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 17, 6:

    quia dici extremum erat, proelium non inceptum,

    Sall. J. 21, 2:

    proelium incipitur,

    id. ib. 57, 3;

    74, 2: saxis proelium incipitur,

    Tac. H. 5, 17:

    satis cito incipi victoriam,

    id. ib. 2, 25; id. A. 2, 5; 2, 76; 12, 67 fin.:

    iter inceptum celerant,

    Verg. A. 8, 90:

    inceptumque decurre laborem,

    id. G. 2, 39:

    inceptum frustra summitte furorem,

    id. A. 12, 832:

    deus me vetat Inceptos iambos Ad umbilicum adducere,

    Hor. Epod. 14, 7:

    in re incipiunda ad defendendam noxiam,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

    in contentionibus aut incipiendis aut finiendis,

    Quint. 11, 3, 128:

    a tantis princeps incipiendus erat,

    Ov. F. 5, 570.—
    (δ).
    With ab or an adv. of place or time:

    a Jove incipiendum putat,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 36 (acc. to the Gr. of Aratus, ek Dios archômestha):

    ab illis incipit uxor,

    Juv. 6, 348; Quint. 10, 1, 46:

    incipiamus ab iis,

    id. 9, 2, 6:

    semper ab excusatione aetatis incipientem,

    id. 6, 3, 76:

    potissimum incipiam ab ea parte,

    id. 3, 7, 1:

    optime manus a sinistra parte incipit, in dextra deponitur,

    id. 11, 3, 106:

    amicitia incepta a parvis cum aetate accrevit simul,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 7.— Pass. impers.:

    optime incipitur a longis, recte aliquando a brevibus,

    Quint. 9, 4, 92.
    II.
    Neutr., to begin to be, to begin, commence (rare but class.); constr. with abl. instrum., or absol.
    (α).
    With abl.:

    tertius sinus Acrocerauniis incipit montibus,

    Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 1:

    censere ut principium anni inciperet mense Decembri,

    Tac. A. 13, 10:

    verbum petere quo incipiant,

    Quint. 10, 7, 21.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    cum ver esse coeperat... cum rosam viderat, tum incipere ver arbitrabatur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 27:

    quoties incipit sensus aut desinit,

    Quint. 9, 4, 67:

    hic annus incipit vicesimus,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 3:

    narrationis incipit mihi initium,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 26:

    jam tum inceperat turba inter eos,

    id. Eun. 4, 4, 58:

    tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris Incipit,

    Verg. A. 2, 269:

    mox Idumaea incipit et Palaestina,

    Plin. 5, 13, 14, § 68:

    epistula, quam incipiente febricula scripseras,

    Cic. Att. 7, 8, 2:

    incipientes curas principis onerari,

    Tac. A. 1, 19:

    incipiens adhuc et nondum adulta seditio,

    id. H. 1, 31:

    incipiens omnia sentit amor,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 648:

    Menander Syracusanus incipientis juventae,

    Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 14:

    incipiente aestate,

    id. 27, 13, 109, § 133:

    trixago incipientibus hydropicis efficax,

    id. 24, 15, 80, § 131:

    quem (honorem) et incipientes principes et desinentes adeo concupis cunt ut auferant,

    Plin. Pan. 57.—Hence, in-ceptum, i, n., a beginning, attempt, undertaking (freq. in historians and poets, but not in Cæs.;

    also rare in Cic.): cujus ego non modo factum, sed inceptum ullum conatumve contra patriam deprehendero,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    servetur ad imum, Qualis ab incepto processerit (persona),

    from the beginning onwards, Hor. A. P. 127: permanere in incepto, Luccei. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14 fin.:

    a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat,

    Sall. C. 4, 2:

    cujus neque consilium neque inceptum ullum frustra erat,

    id. J. 7, 6; cf.:

    ni ea res longius nos ab incepto traheret,

    the subject, id. ib. 7 fin.:

    absistere incepto,

    Liv. 31, 26, 5:

    desistere incepto,

    Verg. A. 1, 37:

    haerere in incepto,

    id. ib. 2, 654:

    peragere inceptum,

    id. ib. 4, 452; cf.:

    perficere inceptum,

    Sall. J. 11 fin.:

    piget incepti,

    Verg. A. 5, 678:

    nunc ad inceptum redeo,

    Sall. J. 4, 9; 42, 5:

    turpe inceptum est,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 16.— In plur.:

    cupidus incepta patrandi,

    Sall. J. 70, 5:

    juventus Catilinae inceptis favebat,

    id. C. 17, 6:

    incepta mea inpedivit,

    id. H. 4, 61, 12; cf.:

    inceptis annue, diva, meis,

    Ov. Am. 3, 2, 56; and:

    di nostra incepta secundent,

    Verg. A. 7, 259:

    gravia et magna professa,

    Hor. A. P. 14.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > incipio

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