interceptus

interceptus, a, um, Part., v. intercipio.

interceptus, ūs, m. [intercipio], a taking away, Fulg. Myth. 3, 10.

inter-cĭpĭo, cēpi, ceptum, 3, v. a. [capio], lit., to take away between, i. e. to seize on the passage before arrival at the destined place, to intercept.

Lit.:

tun redimes me, si me hostes interceperint?

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 93:

venenum,

to take the poison intended for another, Cic. Clu. 60:

litteras,

id. Att. 1, 13, 2; cf.:

litterae interceptae,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 3; id. Att. 10, 8; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1; Curt. 4, 10, 6:

epistulam,

id. 6, 9, 13:

magnum numerum jumentorum atque hominum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 55:

commeatus,

Liv. 36, 3:

aliquis ab suis interceptus,

cut off, id. 29, 9:

hostes discretos,

Tac. H. 4, 75: in sublime jactari sagoque intercipi ( be held fast) ne tellurem attingat, Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52:

interceptae e publico pecuniae,

Tac. A. 4, 45:

terga caput tangunt, colla intercepta videntur,

to be wanting, Ov. M. 6, 379: quam (hastam) medius Rhoeteus intercipit, comes in the way of, i. e. is struck or killed by, Verg. A. 10, 402.—

Transf.

To interrupt, hinder, cut off, preoccupy, preclude:

medium iter,

Liv. 25, 39, 2 (al. intersaepto):

opportuna loca,

id. 9, 43, 3:

hostiles ingressus,

Tac. A. 15, 3:

medios sermones,

Quint. 6, 4, 11:

pedestre iter,

Curt. 4, 2, 9:

usum aurium intercipiente fremitu,

id. 4, 13, 38.—

To take away, rob, steal:

aliquid ab aliquo,

Liv. 3, 71:

aliquid alicui,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 25; Plin. Pan. 75:

veram laudem,

Phaedr. 4, 12, 2:

commentarios, quorum tamen pars maxima intercepta dicitur,

copied from other sources, Suet. Gram. 3.—

Of death, to snatch away, carry off:

si me fata intercepissent, Quint. prooem. 1, 6: apes saepe morbis intercipiuntur,

Col. 9, 3:

rex mortalitate interceptus,

Plin. Ep. 10, 50; 6, 25, 4:

interceptus veneno,

Tac. Agr. 43; id. A. 3, 12; Suet. Caes. 20 fin.:

scelere Pisonis,

id. ib. 2, 71:

a manu gladiatorum,

id. Aug. 14 fin.:

ceterum interceptus quoque magnum sibi vindicat locum,

Quint. 10, 1, 121:

neque ob aliud interceptus, quam, etc.,

Tac. A. 2, 82:

Theophilum atrox interceperat casus,

Amm. 14, 7, 8.

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dif-fĕro, distŭli, dīlātum, differre ( inf. differrier, Lucr. 1, 1088. In tmesi:

disque tulissent,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14), v. a. and n.

Act., to carry different ways; to spread abroad, scatter, disperse, separate (cf.: reicere, proferre, procrastinare, producere, ampliare, prorogare—class.).

Lit.:

scintillas agere ac late differre favillam,

Lucr. 2, 675; cf.:

favillam longe (ventus),

id. 6, 692:

nubila (vis venti),

id. 1, 273; Verg. G. 3, 197:

ignem (ventus),

Caes. B. C. 2, 14, 2:

casae venti magnitudine ignem distulerunt,

id. B. G. 5, 43, 2:

majorem partem classis (vis Africi),

Vell. 2, 79, 2:

rudentes fractosque remos (Eurus),

Hor. Epod. 10, 6 et saep.; cf. Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14:

nos cum scapha tempestas dextrovorsum Differt ab illis,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 39; cf. Lucr. 1, 1088: cytisum, to plant apart, in separate rows = disserere, digerere, Varr. R. R. 1, 43; Col. 11, 3, 30 sq.; 38; 42 al.; cf.:

ulmos in versum,

Verg. G. 4, 144:

ut formicae frustillatim (te) differant,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 20; cf.:

insepulta membra (lupi),

Hor. Epod. 5, 99; and:

Mettum in diversa (quadrigae),

Verg. A. 8, 643. —

Trop.

To distract, disquiet, disturb a person (only ante-class.): vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5:

differor clamore,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 15:

cupidine ejus,

id. Poen. 1, 1, 28; cf.:

amore istius,

id. Mil. 4, 4, 27:

laetitia,

id. Truc. 4, 1, 3:

doloribus,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 40.—Less freq. act.:

aliquem dictis,

to confound, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 125; cf. Ter. And. 2, 4, 5 Ruhnk.—

To spread abroad, publish, divulge; with a personal object, to cry down, to defame (mostly anteclass. and post-Aug.; not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.).

With acc. rei: cum de me ista foris sermonibus differs, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 16; cf.:

rumores famam differant licebit nosque carpant,

Varr. ib. 18:

commissam libertatem populo Rom. sermonibus,

Liv. 34, 49:

promissum jus anulorum fama distulit,

Suet. Caes. 33.—With acc. and inf.:

ne mi hanc famam differant, Me dedidisse, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 63; Ter. Heaut. prol. 16; Nep. Dion. 10; Val. Fl. 1, 753.—With quasi and dependent clause:

rumore ab obtrectatoribus dilato, quasi eundem mox et discruciatum necasset,

Suet. Aug. 14 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

quo pertinuit differri etiam per externos, tamquam veneno interceptus esset,

Tac. A. 3, 12; cf. id. ib. 4, 25.—

With acc. pers.:

aliquem pipulo,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 32 (cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll., and see pipulum): aliquem maledicendo sermonibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 24:

dominos variis rumoribus,

Tac. A. 1, 4:

te circum omnes alias puellas,

to bring into disrepute with them, Prop. 1, 4, 22.—In the pass.: differor sermone miser, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 93, 10:

alterna differor invidia,

Prop. 1, 16, 48.—

With reference to time, to defer, put off, protract, delay any thing; with a personal object also to put off, amuse with promises, get rid of (class. and very freq.).

With acc. rei:

cetera praesenti sermoni reserventur: hoc tamen non queo differre, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8:

differre quotidie ac procrastinare rem,

id. Rosc. Am. 9 fin.:

saepe vadimonia,

id. Quint. 5 fin.:

iter in praesentia,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85, 4:

pleraque (with omittere in praesens tempus),

Hor. A. P. 44:

distulit ira sitim,

Ov. M. 6, 366 et saep.:

differri jam hora non potest,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 19:

tempus,

id. ib. 8, 8; id. Prov. Cons. 11 fin.; Liv. 3, 46; Ov. M. 1, 724 al.:

diem de die,

Liv. 25, 25 et saep.—With inf.:

quaerere distuli,

Hor. Od. 4, 4, 21; so Liv. 42, 2 (but not Suet. Caes. 81, where agere belongs to proposuerat, cf. id. Aug. 72; id. Calig. 49).—With quin:

nihil dilaturi, quin periculum summae rerum facerent,

Liv. 6, 22 fin.; so Suet. Caes. 4; with in and acc.:

reliqua in crastinum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 44 fin.:

in posterum diem,

id. Deiot. 7, 21; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 65 fin.:

in posterum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 32; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5:

in aliud tempus,

Cic. Brut. 87; Caes. B. C. 1, 86, 2:

in adventum tuum,

Cic. Fam. 2, 3 fin.:

diem edicti in a. d. IV. Kal. Dec.,

id. Phil. 3, 8, 20:

curandi tempus in annum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39 et saep. — Poet.:

tropaea in pueros suos,

to reserve for, Prop. 4, 6, 82.—Rarely with ad:

aliquid ad crudelitatis tempus,

Cic. Vat. 11 fin.; cf. the foll.—

With acc. pers.:

sin autem differs me in tempus aliud,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 26, 51; 41, 8:

differri non posse adeo concitatos animos,

id. 7, 14:

dilatus per frustrationem,

id. 25, 25; cf.:

aliquem variis frustrationibus,

Just. 9, 6 fin.:

Campanos,

Liv. 26, 33:

aliquem petentem,

Suet. Vesp. 23 Ern.:

caros amicos (opp. properare),

Mart. 13, 55 et saep.— Poet.: vivacem anum, to preserve alive, i. e. to postpone her death, Ov. M. 13, 519; cf.:

decimum dilatus in annum (belli) Hector erat,

id. ib. 12, 76:

aliquem in spem impetrandi tandem honoris,

Liv. 39, 32:

aliquem in septimum diem,

Suet. Tib. 32; id. Caes. 82 Oud.; id. Aug. 44 fin. et saep.— Rarely with ad:

legati ad novos magistratus dilati,

Liv. 41, 8:

aliquem ad finem muneris,

Suet. Vit. 12:

quas (legationes) par tim dato responso ex itinere dimisit, partim distulit Tarraconem,

Liv. 26, 51.—Once with post:

aliquid post bellum differre,

Liv. 4, 6, 4.—

Absol. Prov.: differ;

habent parvae commoda magna morae,

Ov. F. 3, 394.

Neut., to differ, be different (esp. freq. since the Ciceron. period—cf.:

discrepare, distare, interesse): qui re consentientes vocabulis differebant,

Cic. Fin. 4, 2 fin.; cf.:

naturis differunt, voluntate autem similes sunt,

id. de Or. 2, 23: verbo [p. 575] differre, re esse unum, id. Caecin. 21, 59:

distare aliquid aut ex aliqua parte differre,

id. ib. 14:

nihil aut non fere multum differre,

id. Brut. 40 fin.:

paulum differre,

id. Agr. 2, 31, 85 et saep.:

nec quicquam differre, utrumne... an, etc.,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 251; cf.:

quid enim differt, barathrone Dones quicquid habes, an? etc.,

id. ib. 166.—

With ab:

ita ut pauxillum differat a cavillulis,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 18:

quidnam esset illud, quo ipsi (poëtae) differrent ab oratoribus,

Cic. Or. 19, 66; id. Off. 1, 27 fin.:

quid hoc ab illo differt?

id. Caecin. 14:

non multum ab hostili expugnatione,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 5 fin.:

multum a Gallica consuetudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14; cf. ib. 6, 21; 6, 28, 5:

hoc fere ab reliquis differunt, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 6, 18, 3 et saep.—

With inter (esp. impers.):

si nihil inter deum et deum differt,

Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80; id. Off. 1, 28, 99; id. Fin. 4, 25, 70:

nequid inter privatum et magistratum differat,

id. Rep. 1, 43:

ut non multum differat inter summos et mediocres viros,

id. Off. 2, 8, 30: multa sunt alia, quae inter locum et locum plurimum differunt (for which, shortly before, inter locorum naturas quantum intersit), id. Fat. 4:

haec cogitatione inter se differunt, re quidem copulata sunt,

id. Tusc. 4, 11: inter se aliqua re, id. Opt. gen. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 7, 16; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 2; 6, 11, 1; Quint. 12, 10, 22; 34; 67 et saep.:

quae quidem inter se plurimum differunt,

id. 5, 14, 27.—

Rarely with cum:

occasio cum tempore hoc differt,

Cic. Inv. 1, 27:

hoc genus causae cum superiore hoc differt, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 30, 92 Orell. N. cr. —

Likewise rarely, differre in aliqua re, Lucr. 3, 314; Nep. Ages. 7 fin. —

Rarely, and only poet. or in post-Aug. prose, with dat.:

quod pede certo Differt sermoni sermo merus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 48:

tragico differre colori,

id. A. P. 236; Quint. 2, 21, 10; Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107; cf. id. 9, 8, 7, § 23.—Hence, diffĕ-rens, entis, P. a., different, superior:

differentius nomen,

a more excellent name, Vulg. Heb. 1, 4; in Quintilian subst. n. (opp. proprium), a difference, Quint. 5, 10, 55; 58; 6, 3, 66; 7, 3, 3; 25 sq.—

* Adv.: diffĕren-ter, differently, Sol. 1.

mortālĭtas, ātis, f. [mortalis], the state of being subject to death, mortality; a dying, death.

Lit. (rare but class.): omne, quod ortum sit, mortalitas consequitur, * Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 26:

metu meae mortalitatis,

Quint. 6 praef. §

2: mortalitatem explere,

i. e. to die, Tac. A. 6, 50:

rex mortalitate interceptus,

by death, Plin. Ep. 10, 50, 4:

mariti,

Dig. 23, 4, 2.—Of abstract things:

tofus aedificiis inutilis est mortalitate, mollitia,

perishableness, Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 166.—

Transf., concr., mortals, mankind (postAug.), Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 15:

tristem de mortalitate ferre sententiam,

Curt. 5, 5, 17:

contra fortunam non satis cauta mortalitas est,

mankind, Curt. 8, 4, 24; 9, 3, 7; 10, 5, 36 al.:

ad erudiendam mortalitatem,

Lact. 4, 25, 1.

naufrăgĭum, ii, n. [for navifragium, from navis-frango], a shipwreck.

Lit.:

multi naufragia fecerunt,

Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 1:

naufragio perire,

id. Deiot. 9, 25:

naufragio interire,

Caes. B. C. 3, 27:

naufragio interceptus,

Tac. A. 14, 3; Flor. 3, 10, 7:

nullum conferri posse Naufragium velis ardentibus,

Juv. 12, 22:

pati,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 118.—Prov.:

naufragia alicujus ex terrā intueri,

to behold the ruin of others from a position of safety, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 4 (cf. Lucr. 2, 1):

naufragium in portu facere,

i. e. to fail when on the verge of success, Quint. Decl. 12, 23.—

Poet., transf.

A storm:

naufragiis magnis multisque coörtis,

Lucr. 2, 552.—

The remains of a shipwreck, a wreck:

Eurus Naufragium spargens operit freta,

Sil. 10, 323.—

Trop., shipwreck, ruin, loss, destruction:

naufragium fortunarum,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 25:

luculenti patrimonii,

id. Phil. 12, 8, 19:

rei familiaris,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 5:

cum Gallica gens per Italiam naufragia sua latius traheret,

defeats, Flor. 1, 13, 19: tabula ex naufragio, lit. a plank on which a shipwrecked person saves himself; hence, a means of deliverance, a solace, Cic. Att. 4, 18, 3.—

Transf., the shattered remains, a wreck:

naufragia Caesaris amicorum,

Cic. Phil. 13, 2, 3: colligere naufragium rei publicae. id. Sest. 6, 15:

credo mollia naufragiis litora posse dari,

Ov. P. 1, 2, 62; 2, 9, 9.