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1 stringo

stringo, inxi, ictum, 3, v. a. [root strig; Gr. strang-, to squeeze; stranx, a drop; cf. O. H. Germ. streng; Engl. strong], to draw tight, to bind or tie tight; to draw, bind, or press together, etc. (syn. ligo).
I.
Lit.:
te stringam ad carnarium,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66:
stringit vitta comas,
Luc. 5, 143: caesariem crinali cultu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 85:
stricta matutino frigore vulnera,
Liv. 22, 51:
pectora pigro gelu,
Luc. 4, 652:
strictos insedimus amnes,
Val. Fl. 1, 414:
mare gelu stringi et consistere,
Gell. 17, 8, 16:
quercus in duas partes diducta, stricta denuo et cohaesa,
having closed together, id. 15, 16, 4:
habenam,
to draw tight, Stat. Th. 11, 513:
ferrum,
Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6.—
B.
Transf. (through the intermediate idea of drawing close), to touch, touch upon, touch lightly or slightly, to graze (syn. tango):
litus ama, et laevas stringat sine palmula cautes,
Verg. A. 5, 163; cf.:
stringebat summas ales miserabilis undas,
Ov. M. 11, 733:
aequor (aurā),
id. ib. 4, 136:
metas interiore rotā,
id. Am. 3, 2, 12:
latus,
Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 24:
vestigia canis rostro,
Ov. M. 1, 536 et saep.:
equos,
to stroke, Charis. 84 P.:
tela stringentia corpus,
i. e. slightly touching, Verg. A. 10, 331; cf. Sen. Ben. 2, 6, 1:
coluber Dente pedem strinxit,
Ov. M. 11, 776:
strictus ac recreatus ex vulnere in tempus,
Flor. 4, 12, 44.—
2.
To pull or strip off, to pluck off, cut off, clip off, prune, etc. (cf. destringo):
oleam ubi nigra erit, stringito,
Cato, R. R. 65, 1; so,
oleam,
Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 12:
bacam,
Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 2:
quernas glandes,
Verg. G. 1, 305:
folia ex arboribus,
Caes. B. C. 3, 58; Liv. 23, 30, 3:
frondes,
Verg. E. 9, 61; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28:
hordea,
Verg. G. 1, 317:
arbores,
Col. 6, 3, 7:
celeriter gladios strinxerunt,
drew from the sheath, unsheathed, Caes. B. C. 3, 93:
strictam aciem offerre,
Verg. A. 6, 291:
ensem,
id. ib. 10, 577; so,
gladios,
id. ib. 12, 278; Ov. M. 7, 333:
ensem,
id. ib. 8, 207;
14, 296: ferrum,
Liv. 7, 40 al.:
cultrum,
id. 7, 5, 5; 3, 50, 3; and poet. transf.:
manum,
to bare, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 14; id. Tr. 5, 2, 30 al.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Of speech, to touch upon, treat briefly, Sil. 8, 48.—Hence, to compress, abridge:
narrationis loco rem stringat,
Quint. 4, 2, 128 Spald.—
B.
To hold in check, to rule, sway (syn. coërceo):
quaecumque meo gens barbara nutu Stringitur, adveniat,
Claud. B. Get. 371.—
C.
To waste, consume, reduce:
praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 8.—
D.
(Acc. to I. B.) To touch, move, affect; esp. to affect painfully, to wound, pain:
atque animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago,
Verg. A. 9, 294:
quam tua delicto stringantur pectora nostro,
Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 21:
nomen alicujus,
id. ib. 2, 350.—
E.
To draw in hostility, attack with:
in hostes stringatur iambus,
Ov. R. Am. 377:
bellum,
Flor. 3, 21, 1.—Hence, strictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), drawn together, close, strait, tight, etc.
A.
Lit.:
laxaret pedem a stricto nodo,
Liv. 24, 7, 5:
duriora genti corpora, stricti artus,
Tac. G. 30:
strictissima janua,
Ov. R. Am. 233:
si strictior fuerit pedatura,
Hyg. Grom. 3, 1:
emplastrum,
thick, Scrib. Comp. 45 fin.:
venter,
i. e. bound up, costive, Veg. 3, 16:
strictior aura,
more severe, colder, Aus. Idyll. 14, 3.—
B.
Trop.
1.
Of language, brief, concise:
quo minus (Aeschines) strictus est,
Quint. 10, 1, 77:
qui (Demosthenes) est strictior multo (quam Cicero),
id. 12, 10, 52.—
2.
Of character, severe, strict:
Catones,
Manil. 5, 106:
mentes,
id. 1, 769:
lex,
Stat. S. 3, 5, 87.—
3.
Rigid, exact (law Lat.):
restitutio stricto jure non competebat,
Dig. 29, 2, 85; 39, 3, 3 al.— Adv.: strictē and strictim, closely, tightly:
in foramen conicies,
Pall. Mart. 8, 2.— Comp., Pall. 1, 6.— Sup., Gell. 16, 3, 4.—
2.
Fig., accurately:
strictius interpretari,
Dig. 8, 2, 20.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > stringo
2 stricte

strictē [ strictus ]

1) тесно, сжато, плотно ( circumligare ventrem fasciis AG); коротко ( putare vitem Pall)

2) точно, строго ( interpretari Dig)

Латинско-русский словарь > stricte
3 solutum

solvo, solvi, solutum, 3, v. a. ( perf. soluit, trisyll., Cat. 2, 13:
soluisse,
Tib. 4, 5, 16) [for se-luo; cf. socors for se-cords], to loosen an object from any thing, to release or to loose, remove any thing which binds or restrains another.
I.
To loose an object bound, to release, set free, disengage, dissolve, take apart.
A.
In a corporeal sense.
1.
Outwardly, to release.
a.
From fetters or custody, to free, set free, release; absol.:
solvite istas,
i. e. from fetters, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 64:
solvite istum,
id. Mil. 5, 32:
numquam, nisi me orassis, solves,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 62:
jube solvi (eum),
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52:
ad palum adligati repente soluti sunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11:
ut vincti solvantur,
id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §
12: qui in compedibus corporis semper fuerunt, etiam cum soluti sunt, tardius ingrediuntur,
id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75:
ita nexi soluti (sunt),
Liv. 8, 28, 9:
solvite me, pueri,
Verg. E. 6, 24:
fore ut brevi solveretur,
Suet. Vesp. 5; id. Tib. 65; id. Vit. 12.—With abl.:
canis solutus catena,
Phaedr. 3, 7, 20. — Transf., from the fetter of frost:
solutis amnibus (i. e. frigoris vinculo),
Stat. Th. 5, 15:
terrae quem (florem) ferunt solutae,
Hor. C. 1, 4, 10.—
b.
From reins, ties, bands, etc.: solve senescentem equum, from the rein, i. e. dismiss him from service, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8:
solverat sol equos,
unhitched, Stat. Th. 3, 407: currum solvere (i. e. ab equis, poet. for equos a curru), Sen. Thyest. 794: solvere epistulam, i. e. from the string by which it was tied (= to open), Nep. Hann. 11, 3:
et tibi sollicita solvitur illa (epistula) manu,
Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 2:
et jacet in gremio charta soluta meo,
id. H. 11, 4:
praecepit suis ne sarcinas solverent, aut onera deponerent,
Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3.—So of garments and sails, to unfurl, unfold: cum tunica soluta inambularet, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 26:
soluta toga,
Quint. 11, 3, 147:
vela solvere,
Verg. A. 4, 574.—
c.
From any fastening (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose), to detach from; constr. absol., or with ab or de, and abl.:
Caucasia solvet de rupe Promethei bracchia,
Prop. 2, 1, 69:
fraxinus solvitur,
from the ground, Stat. Th. 9, 498:
ceciditque soluta pinus,
id. ib. 9, 409; cf.:
pinus radice soluta, deficit,
id. S. 5, 1, 152:
solutis radicibus arbusta procumbunt,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 5:
accepi epistulam quam, ut scribis, ancora soluta de phaselo dedisti, i. e. a litore,
detached, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1 B. and K. (al. sublata;
but soluta is perh. an error of Cic. in the use of a technical term, v Orell. ad loc.).—In the same sense: solvere retinacula classis,
Ov. M. 15, 696; 8, 102:
querno solvunt de stipite funem,
id. F. 4, 333:
fune soluto Currit in immensum carina,
id. Am. 2, 11, 23:
curvo solves viscera cultro (i. e. de corpore ferarum),
Sen. Hippol. 53.—Of rain disengaged from the clouds:
imber caelesti nube solutus,
Ov. A. A. 2, 237: (Lunam) imperfecta vi solvere tantum umorem, disengage only the moisture, i. e. from the earth:
cum solis radii absumant,
Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 45:
solutum a latere pugionem,
detached from his side, Suet. Vit. 15.—
d.
Esp., of ships: navem solvere, to free a ship from the land, i. e. to set sail, weigh anchor, leave land, depart.
(α).
With acc. alone:
eisce confectis navem solvimus,
Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 91:
navim cupimus solvere,
id. Mil. 4, 7, 17:
naves solvit,
Caes. B. G. 4, 36; 5, 8; id. B. C. 1, 28; 3, 14; 3, 26;
3, 102: primis tenebris solvit navem,
Liv. 45, 6:
postero die solvere naves (jussi),
id. 29, 25 fin.; Nep. Hann. 8, 2:
classem solvere,
Liv. 45, 41; Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 23.—
(β).
With ab and abl.:
navis a terra solverunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 101:
quinto inde die quam ab Corintho solverit naves,
Liv. 31, 7 med.:
solvunt a litore puppes,
Luc. 2, 649.—
(γ).
With ex and abl.:
nam noctu hac soluta est navis nostra e portu Persico,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 259:
interea e portu nostra navis solvitur,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 54.—
(δ).
With abl.:
complures mercatores Alexandria solvisse,
Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50:
portu solventibus,
id. Mur. 2, 4.—
(ε).
Absol. (sc. navem or naves):
tertia fere vigilia solvit,
Caes. B. G. 4, 23:
nos eo die cenati solvimus,
Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:
altero die quam a Brundusio solvit,
Liv. 31, 14 init.:
qui inde solverant,
Val. Max. 1, 7, 3:
solvi mare languido,
Sen. Ep. 53, 1:
fortasse etiam ventis minantibus solves,
id. Ben. 2, 35, 5:
non eadem est his et illis causa solvendi,
making sea-voyages, id. Q. N. 5, 18, 16.—
(ζ).
With navis, etc., as subj., to leave the land (sc. se a litore):
naves XVIII. ex superiore portu solverunt,
Caes. B. G. 4, 28; and by another change of construction: solvimus oram, we freed the shore, i.e. from the ship, Quint. 4, 2, 41; id. Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—
(η).
Poet. usages:
de litore puppis solvit iter,
clears the voyage, Stat. S. 5, 1, 243:
nec tibi Tyrrhena solvatur funis harena,
Prop. 1, 8, 11 (cf.: retinacula solvere, c. supra).—
e.
Of secretions from the body ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
tempore eo quo menstrua solvit,
Lucr. 6, 706:
cruor solvitur,
Stat. Th. 9, 530:
lacrimas solvere,
id. Achill. 2, 256:
solutis lacrimis,
Claud. Ruf. 2, 258; so,
partus solvere,
to bear, bring forth, be delivered of offspring, Ov. F. 3, 258; Stat. Th. 5, 461; Plin. 28, 3, 6, § 33; 32, 1, 1, § 6.—
2.
To loosen an object from that which holds it together, to break up, part, dissolve, disperse, divide, take apart, scatter.
a.
In gen.:
omne colligatum solvi potest,
Cic. Fin. 11.—
b.
Of structures ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
solvere naves et rursus conjungere,
Curt. 8, 10, 3:
solvere quassatae parcite membra ratis,
Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 2:
dubitavit an solveret pontem,
Curt. 4, 16, 8:
solvere pontem,
Tac. A. 1, 69:
si pons solutus sit,
Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 7:
solutus pons tempestatibus,
Just. 2, 13, 9:
currum (solis) solutum,
Manil. 1, 740.—
c.
Of woven stuff:
solvens texta,
Prop. 2, 9, 6.—
d.
Of mountains:
utrimque montes solvit (Hercules),
Sen. Herc. Fur. 237:
tridente Neptunus montem solvit,
id. Agam. 553.—
e.
Of the neck:
soluta cervix silicis impulsu,
broken, Sen. Troad. 1119.—
f.
Of a comet:
momentum quo cometes solutus et in duas partes redactus est,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 3.—
g.
Of the hair, to loosen, untie, let fall:
solve capillos,
Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:
crinem,
id. A. A. 3, 784; id. M. 11, 682; 13, 584; Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 46:
comas casside,
Ov. F. 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 854.—
h.
Of the earth (so mostly P. a., q. v. infra;
post-Aug.): ita in terrae corpore evenit ut partes ejus vetustate solvantur, solutae cadant,
Sen. Q. N. 6, 10, 2:
ubi montis latus nova ventis solvit hiems,
Stat. Th. 7, 745. —
3.
To dissolve; pass., to be dissolved, changed, to pass over into ( poet. and postclass. for dissolvere, or transire in); constr. absol., or with in and acc.
(α).
Of a change into air or gas:
calor mobiliter solvens, differt primordia vini,
dissolving, parts the molecules of the wine, Lucr. 6, 235:
nam materiai copia ferretur per inane soluta,
id. 1, 1018; so id. 1, 1103:
ita fatus in aera rursus solvitur,
Stat. Th. 5, 285;
nec in aera solvi Passa, recentem animam caelestibus intulit astris,
Ov. M. 15, 845.—
(β).
Into a liquid, to melt:
saepe terra in tabem solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 7:
terram quam diximus esse mutabilem et solvi in umorem,
id. ib. 3, 29, 4:
nullum tellus se solvit in amnem,
Luc. 2, 408; ipsum in conubia terrae Aethera, cum pluviis rarescunt nubila, solvo, dissolve into the embrace of the earth, i. e. change into rain, Stat. S. 1, 2, 186:
ex Aethiopiae jugis solutas nives ad Nilum decurrere,
Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 17; so,
nivem solvere,
id. ib. 4, 5, 2; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 93; Sen. Herc. Oet. 729:
rigor auri solvitur aestu,
Lucr. 1, 493:
ferrum calidi solvant camini,
Manil. 4, 250:
cerae igne solutae,
Ov. A. A. 2, 47:
Iris cum vino triduo non solvitur,
Plin. 21, 20, 83, § 142:
(herba) quinto die solvitur,
id. 26, 14, 88, § 148.—
(γ).
Of putrefaction:
(vitulo) per integram solvuntur viscera pellem,
Verg. G. 4, 302.—
(δ).
Of change in general:
inque novas abiit massa soluta domos,
Ov. F. 1, 108:
repentino crementur incendio, atque ex tanta varietate solvantur atque eant in unum omnia (sc. all the heavenly bodies),
Sen. Ben. 6, 22.—
(ε).
Of expansion by heat:
(uva) cum modo frigoribus premitur, modo solvitur aestu,
Ov. A. A. 2, 317.—
(ζ).
Hence, solvere, absol., to rarefy:
gravitas aeris solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 5, 5, 1.—
(η).
Solvi in, to pass into, become:
in cacumine (herbae) capitula purpurea quae solvantur in lanugines,
Plin. 27, 8, 39, § 61.—Of a wave:
donec in planitiem immotarum aquarum solvatur,
disappears in, Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 2:
postremi (equi) solvuntur in aequora pisces (= solvuntur in pisces),
Stat. Th. 2, 47: lumina in lacrimas solventur, stream with tears. —Hence, solvere, causative, to make pass over, to make vanish in: circulum in pulverem, in quo descriptus est, solvere, Sen. Ep. 74, 27: soluti agri, the boundaries of which are effaced, Sic. Fl. Cond. Agr. p. 3 Goes.—
4.
To consume, to destroy, dissolve:
solvere orbes,
Manil. 1, 497:
ni calor et ventus... interemant sensum diductaque solvant (i.e. sensum),
Lucr. 3, 287:
(Cato) ferrei prope corporis animique, quem ne senectus quidem, quae solvit omnia, fregerit,
Liv. 39, 40, 11:
si (cometae) sunt purus ignis... nec illos conversio mundi solvit,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 2, 2:
(turbo) ab eo motu, qui universum trahit, solveretur,
id. ib. 7, 9, 4:
tabes solvit corpora,
Luc. 6, 18; 7, 809:
nec solum silvas, sed saxa ingentia solvit (ignis),
id. 3, 506:
ne tegat functos humus, ne solvat ignis,
Sen. Thyest. 750.—So, vitam solvere, to extinguish life, esp. of gradual or easy death:
solvas potius (vitam), quam abrumpas, dummodo, si alia solvendi ratio non erit, vel abrumpas,
Sen. Ep. 22, 3:
hanc mihi solvite vitam,
Prop. 2, 9, 39.—
B.
Trop.
1.
To free, release, loose, emancipate, set free; constr. absol., with abl. or ab and abl.; rarely with gen.
a.
From the body, etc.:
teque isto corpore solvo,
Verg. A. 4, 703:
soluta corpore anima,
Quint. 5, 14, 13:
qui solutas vinculis animas recipit,
Sen. Cons. 28, 8: si animus somno relaxatus solute (i. e. free from the shackles of the body) moveatur ac libere, Cic. Div. 2, 48, 100:
vocem solvere,
to set free the voice, to speak, Stat. S. 3, 1; Sen. Thyest. 682; so, responsa solve (pregn. = utter and disclose), Sen. Oedip. 292:
suspiria solvit,
Stat. Th. 11, 604:
solvat turba jocos,
Sen. Med. 114:
solutos Qui captat risus hominum (= quem juvat risus hominum solvere),
Hor. S. 1, 4, 83:
Ausonii... versibus incomptis ludunt risuque soluto,
unrestrained, free, Verg. G. 2, 386.—
b.
Of members or parts of the body: linguam solvere, to unfetter the tongue (sc. vinculis oris), to give flow to words:
linguam (Juno) ad jurgia solvit,
Ov. M. 3, 261:
lingua devincta nec in motus varios soluta,
Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 7:
ut quisque contemptissimus est, ita linguae solutissimae est,
id. Const. 11, 3:
(fama) innumeras solvit in praeconia linguas,
Luc. 1, 472. —Solvere bracchia, poet., to unfetter the arms, i. e. to move them:
magna difficili solventem bracchia motu,
Stat. Achill. 1, 604; cf.
of the free motions of animals: columbae soluto volatu multum velociores,
unrestrained flight, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
c.
From obligations and debts:
solvit me debito,
Sen. Ben. 6, 4, 1:
an nos debito solverit,
id. Ep. 81, 3:
ut religione civitas solvatur,
Cic. Caecin. 34, 98; Liv. 7, 3, 9:
te decem tauri... Me tener solvet vitulus (sc. religione),
Hor. C. 4, 2, 54.—So from a military oath:
hoc si impetro, solvo vos jurejurando,
Just. 14, 4, 7.—Sacramento or militia solvere, to dismiss a soldier from service:
sacramento solvi,
Tac. A. 16, 13:
cum quis propter delictum sacramento solvitur,
Dig. 49, 16, 13:
militia solvere,
Tac. A. 1, 44.— Munere (publico) solvere, to exempt from public duties:
ut Ilienses publico munere solverentur,
Tac. A. 12, 58.—With obj. inf.:
ut manere solveretur,
that he should be excused from the duty of remaining, Tac. A. 3, 29.—
d.
From guilt and sin, to acquit, absolve, cleanse (cf. absolvere, to acquit of crime):
si ille huic (insidias fecerit), ut scelere solvamur,
be held guiltless, Cic. Mil. 12, 31:
atque hunc ille summus vir scelere solutum periculo liberavit,
id. ib. 4, 9:
sit capitis damno Roma soluta mei,
Ov. F. 6, 452:
ipsum quoque Pelea Phoci Caede per Haemonias solvit Acastus aquas,
id. ib. 2, 40:
Helenen ego crimine solvo,
id. A. A. 2, 371:
quid crimine solvis Germanum?
Stat. Th. 11, 379:
solutam caede Gradivus manum restituit armis,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 1342. —
e.
From feelings, etc.:
quae eos qui quaesissent cura et negotio solverent,
Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30:
cum ego vos solvi curis ceteris,
Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 33:
senatus cura belli solutus,
Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 7:
pectus linquunt cura solutum,
Lucr. 2, 45:
his terroribus ab Epicuro soluti et in libertatem vindicati,
Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 56:
soluti metu,
Liv. 41, 14 init.; 27, 51:
solvent formidine terras,
Verg. E. 4, 14:
solve metu patriam,
Prop. 4 (5), 6, 41:
metu belli Scythas solvit,
Just. 9, 2, 2; so id. 14, 2, 5:
haec est Vita solutorum misera ambitione,
Hor. S. 1, 6, 129:
soluti a cupiditatibus,
Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 27:
his concitationibus quem vacuum, solutum, liberum videris,
id. Tusc. 5, 15, 43: et tu solve me dementia, [p. 1726] Hor. Epod. 17, 43:
longo luctu,
Verg. A. 2, 26:
tristem juventam solve (i. e. juventam tristitia),
Sen. Hippol. 450:
solvite tantis animum monstris, solvite, superi,
id. Herc. Fur. 1063:
Quis te solvere Thessalis Magus venenis poterit?
Hor. C. 1, 27, 21. — Poet.:
solvit animis miracula (for animos miraculis),
the soul from superstition, Manil. 1, 103.—And of animals:
rabie tigrim,
Manil. 5, 707.— Absol.:
ut ad praecepta quae damus possit ire animus, solvendus est (i. e. perturbationibus),
Sen. Ep. 95, 38:
calices, quem non fecere contracta in paupertate solutum?
i. e. from cares, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20:
solvite animos,
Manil. 4, 12.—With in:
vix haec in munera solvo animum,
i. e. free it from passions and so make it fit for these duties, Stat. S. 5, 3, 33.—
f.
From sleep, very rare:
ego somno solutus sum,
awoke, Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29 (cf.: somno solvi, to be overwhelmed by sleep, 2. b, g infra).—
g.
From labor, business, etc.:
volucres videmus... solutas opere volitare,
Cic. Or. 2, 6, 23:
solutus onere regio, regni bonis fruor,
Sen. Oedip. 685.— Poet.:
Romulus excubias decrevit in otia solvi,
to be relieved from guard and enjoy leisure, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 79.—
h.
From rigidity, austerity, stiffness, etc., to relax, smooth, unbend, quiet, soothe ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
frontem solvere disce,
Mart. 14, 183:
saltem ora trucesque solve genas,
Stat. Th. 11, 373:
solvit feros tunc ipse rictus,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 797.— Poet.:
solvatur fronte senectus = frons senectute (i. e. rugis), solvatur,
be cleared, Hor. Epod. 13, 5:
vultum risu solvit,
relieves, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5:
risum judicis movendo, et illos tristes affectus solvit, et animum renovat,
Quint. 6, 3, 1; so,
solvere judicem,
unbend, excite his laughter, id. 11, 3, 3:
solvere qui (potui) Curios Fabriciosque graves (sc. risu),
Mart. 9, 28 (29), 4:
ut tamen arctum Solveret hospitiis animum,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 83:
cujus non contractum sollicitudine animum illius argutiae solvant?
Sen. Cons. Helv. 18, 5.— Transf., pregn.:
solventur risu tabulae,
i. e. the austerity of the judge will be relaxed by laughter, and the complaint dismissed, Hor. S. 2, 1, 86.—Imitated:
quia si aliquid omiserimus, cum risu quoque tota res solvitur,
Quint. 5, 10, 67.—
k.
From any cause of restraint.
(α).
To release from siege:
Bassanitas obsidione solvere,
Liv. 44, 30:
patriam obsidione solvere,
Val. Max. 3, 2, 2. —
(β).
From moral restraints:
hic palam cupiditates suas solvit,
gave vent to, Curt. 6, 6, 1; v. also P. a., B. 7. infra.—
l.
From laws and rules: legibus solvere.
(α).
To exempt from laws, i. e. by privilege:
Vopiscus, qui ex aedilitate consulatum petit, solvatur legibus,
Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11:
cur M. Brutus legibus est solutus, si, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 13, 31:
ut interea magistratus reliquos, legibus omnibus soluti, petere possetis,
id. Agr. 2, 36, 99:
Lurco, tribunus plebis, solutus est (et lege Aelia et Furia),
id. Att. 1, 16, 13:
solvatne legibus Scipionem,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2:
petente Flacco ut legibus solverentur,
Liv. 31, 50, 8:
Scipio legibus solutus est,
id. Epit. 56:
Licet enim, inquiunt, legibus soluti sumus, attamen legibus vivimus,
Just. Inst. 2, 17, 8; cf.:
ut munere vigintiviratus solveretur,
Tac. A. 3, 29.— Transf., of the laws of nature, etc.:
(aestus) illo tempore, solutus legibus, sine modo fertur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6:
solus (sapiens) generis humani legibus solvitur,
id. Brev. Vit. 15, 5:
nec leti lege solutas,
Lucr. 3, 687:
nec solvo Rutulos (i. e. legibus fati),
Verg. A. 10, 111.— With gen. (cf. libero), perh. only in phrase testamenti solvere, to release from a testamentary disposition:
et is per aes et libram heredes testamenti solveret,
Cic. Leg. 2, 20, 51; 2, 21, 53 (less prop. testamenti is taken as attribute of heredes); cf. Gai. Inst. 3, 175, and Hor. C. 3, 17, 16, P. a., B. 5. fin. infra.—
(β).
Legibus solutus, not subject to, released from:
reus Postumus est ea lege... solutus ac liber,
i. e. the law does not apply to him, Cic. Rab. Post. 5, 12:
soluti (lege Julia) huc convenistis, ne constricti discedatis cavete,
id. ib. 7, 18.—Of other laws:
solutus Legibus insanis,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 68:
quae sedes expectent animam solutam legibus servitutis humanae,
Sen. Ep. 65, 20.— Transf., of things: soluta legibus scelera sunt, unrestrained by the laws, i. e. crimes are committed with impunity, Sen. Ben. 7, 27, 1.— Of the laws of versification: numerisque fertur Lege solutis, referring to dithyrambic measures, Hor. C. 4, 2, 12 (cf. P. a., B. 11. infra).—
2.
To dissolve, separate objects which are united, to break up, dismiss.
(α).
Of troops, ranks, etc.:
ubi ordines procursando solvissent,
Liv. 42, 65, 8:
incomposito agmine, solutis ordinibus,
Curt. 8, 1, 5; so id. 8, 4, 6:
agmina Diductis solvere choris,
Verg. A. 5, 581:
solvit maniplos,
Juv. 8, 154:
solvuntur laudata cohors,
Stat. Achill. 2, 167.—Hence, to separate armies engaged in battle:
commissas acies ego possum solvere,
Prop. 4 (5), 4, 59.—
(β).
Of banquets, assemblies, etc.:
convivio soluto,
Liv. 40, 14 fin.:
convivium solvit,
Curt. 8, 5, 24; 8, 6, 16:
Quid cessas convivia solvere?
Ov. F. 6, 675:
coetuque soluto Discedunt,
id. M. 13, 898.—Hence, urbem (Capuam) solutam ac debilitatam reliquerunt, disfranchised, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91.—
(γ).
Of the words in discourse, orationem or versum solvere, to break up a sentence or verse:
(discant) versus primo solvere, mox mutatis verbis interpretari,
Quint. 1, 9, 2:
quod cuique visum erit vehementer, dulciter, speciose dictum, solvat ac turbet,
id. 9, 4, 14:
ut partes orationis sibi soluto versu desideret et pedum proprietates,
id. 1, 8, 13:
non, ut si solvas Postquam discordia tetra, etc., invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 60.—
3.
Implying a change for the worse.
a.
To relax, make effeminate, weaken, by ease, luxury, dissipation, etc. (post-Aug.):
Hannibalem hiberna solverunt,
Sen. Ep. 51, 5:
usque eo nimio delicati animi languore solvuntur,
Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 6:
infantiam statim deliciis solvimus,
Quint. 1, 2, 6:
solutus luxu,
id. 3, 8, 28; so Tac. A. 11, 31.—With in and acc.:
soluti in luxum,
Tac. H. 2, 99:
in lasciviam,
id. ib. 3, 38.— Transf.: versum solvere, to deprive a verse of its proper rhythm:
si quinque continuos dactylos confundas solveris versum,
Quint. 9, 4, 49.—
b.
To make torpid by removing sensation.
(α).
To relax, benumb the limbs or body;
as by narcotics, terror, sickness, exhaustion: multaque praeterea languentia membra per artus solvunt,
Lucr. 6, 798:
ima Solvuntur latera,
Verg. G. 3, 523:
solvi debilitate corporis,
paralyzed, Val. Max. 1, 7, 4:
ut soluto labitur moriens gradu,
Sen. Hippol. 368.—In mal. part., Hor. Epod. 12, 8; cf. Verg. G. 3, 523.— Poet.:
illum aget, penna metuente solvi, Fama superstes,
Hor. C. 2, 2, 7.—Of the mind:
segnitia (oratoris) solvit animos,
wearies, Quint. 11, 3, 52:
mentes solvere,
to make insane, Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25.—
(β).
By frost ( poet.):
solvuntur illi frigore membra,
Verg. A. 12, 951; 1, 92.—
(γ).
By sleep ( poet. for sopio):
homines volucresque ferasque Solverat alta quies,
Ov. M. 7, 186:
corpora somnus Solverat,
id. ib. 10, 369:
molli languore solutus,
id. ib. 11, 648;
11, 612: altoque sopore solutum,
id. ib. 8, 817:
somno vinoque solutos,
id. F. 2, 333; Verg. A. 9, 236:
ut membra solvit sopor,
id. ib. 12, 867:
non solvit pectora somnus,
Sen. Agam. 76.—With in:
solvitur in somnos,
Verg. A. 4, 530.— Transf., of the sea:
aequor longa ventorum pace solutum,
lulled to sleep, Stat. Th. 3, 255.—
(δ).
By death: solvi, to die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
ipse deus, simulatque volam, me solvet,
Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 78:
corporibus quae senectus solvit,
Curt. 89, 32 (cf. A. 4. supra):
(corpus) quam nullo negotio solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 2:
alius inter cenandum solutus est,
id. Ep. 66, 43:
ubicumque arietaveris, solveris,
id. Cons. Marc. 11, 3:
me fata maturo exitu facilique solvant,
Sen. Troad. 605:
solvi inedia,
Petr. 111:
sic morte quasi somno soluta est,
Flor. 2, 21, 11.—Hence,
4.
Of logical dissolution, to refute:
non tradit Epicurus quomodo captiosa solvantur,
how fallacies are refuted, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22:
argumentum solvere,
Quint. 2, 17, 34:
solutum scies quod nobis opponitur,
Sen. Const. 12, 3.—
b.
To disperse, dispel, as of a cloud:
deorum beneficia tempestiva ingentes minas interventu suo solventia,
Sen. Ben. 4, 4, 2.
II.
To loose, remove, cancel that which binds any thing.
A.
In a corporeal sense.
1.
In gen., to loose (weaker than rumpo;
post-Aug.): effringere quam aperire, rumpere quam solvere putant robustius,
Quint. 2, 12, 1:
qua convulsa tota operis colligatio solveretur,
Val. Max. 8, 14, 6:
supera compage soluta,
Stat. Th. 8, 31.—
2.
To remove a fetter, bridle, etc.:
nullo solvente catenas,
Ov. M. 3, 700: vincla jugis boum, Tib. 2, 1, 7:
solvere frenum,
Phaedr. 1, 2, 3:
loris solutis,
Ov. A. A. 1, 41.— Transf., of prisons:
qui, solutis ergastulis, exercitus numerum implevit,
Liv. Ep. 56; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 13; 11, 13, 2.—Of frost:
gelu solvitur,
it thaws, Tac. H. 1, 79:
solvitur acris hiems,
Hor. C. 1, 4, 1.—Of clouds:
facit igitur ventum resoluta nubes, quae plurimis modis solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 5, 12, 5; 5, 12, 1.—Of the grasp of hands, fingers, etc.:
Aeacides a corpore bracchia solvit,
looses his hold, Ov. M. 11, 246:
indigno non solvit bracchia collo,
Stat. Th. 5, 217:
digitis solutis abjecit jaculum,
id. ib. 8, 585.—
3.
To untie a string, cord, necklace, etc., slacken or unlock an enclosure, open a box, trunk, etc.:
solve vidulum ergo,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 98:
eam solve cistulam,
id. Am. 2, 2, 151:
solve zonam,
untie, id. Truc. 5, 62:
solvisse jugalem ceston fertur,
Stat. Th. 5, 62:
animai nodos a corpore solvit,
Lucr. 2, 950:
nihil interest quomodo (nodi) solvantur,
Curt. 3, 1, 18:
quid boni est, nodos operose solvere, quos ipse ut solveres feceris?
Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 2:
solvere nodum,
Stat. Th. 11, 646:
laqueum quem nec solvere possis, nec abrumpere,
Sen. Tranq. 10, 1:
vix solvi duros a pectore nexus,
Ov. M. 9, 58:
fasciam solve,
Sen. Ep. 80, 10:
solutis fasciis,
Curt. 7, 6, 5:
solvi fasciculum,
Cic. Att. 11, 9, 2:
crinales vittas,
Verg. A. 7, 403:
Parmenion vinculum epistulae solvens,
Curt. 7, 2, 25:
equum empturus solvi jubes stratum,
Sen. Ep. 80, 9:
redimicula solvite collo,
Ov. F. 4, 135:
corollas de fronte,
Prop. 1, 3, 21:
solvere portas,
Stat. Th. 3, 492:
munimina valli,
id. ib. 12, 10:
ille pharetram Solvit,
Ov. M. 5, 380.— Transf., of the veins as enclosures of the blood:
solutis ac patefactis venis,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 5:
venam cultello solvere,
Col. 6, 14; cf.
also: lychnis alvum solvit,
looses the bowels, Plin. 21, 26, 98, § 171; 21, 20, 83, § 140; Suet. Vesp. 24; Tac. A. 12, 67:
ventrem,
Plin. 20, 8, 30, § 74.— Absol. (sc. alvum), Mart. 13, 29:
stomachus solutus = venter solutus,
loose bowels, Petr. 117; Scrib. Comp. 92.—
B.
Trop., to slacken or remove a bond.
1.
Solvere aliquid (aliquod vinculum; cf. I. B. 1. supra).
a.
Of the mouth, etc., to open:
talibus ora solvit verbis,
Ov. M. 15, 74; so id. ib. 1, 181; Tib. 4, 5, 14:
ternis ululatibus ora Solvit,
Ov. M. 7, 191; 9, 427; id. Tr. 3, 11, 20; Stat. Achill. 1, 525:
vix ora solvi patitur etiamnum timor,
Sen. Herc. Oet. 725; so,
os promptius ac solutius,
Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.— Transf., of an abyss:
hic ora solvit Ditis invisi domus,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 664.—
b.
To remove, cancel; to destroy the force of a legal or moral obligation by expiration, death, etc.:
si mors alterutrius interveniat, solvitur mandatum,
Gai. Inst. 3, 160:
cum aliquis renunciaverit societati, societas solvitur,
id. ib. 3, 151; so id. ib. 3, 152:
morte solvetur compromissum,
Dig. 4, 8, 27:
soluto matrimonio,
ib. 24, 3, 2:
solutum conjugium,
Juv. 9, 79:
qui... conjugalia solvit,
Sen. Med. 144:
nec conjugiale solutum Foedus in alitibus,
Ov. M. 11, 743:
(sapiens) invitus beneficium per compensationem injuriae solvet,
cancel the obligation of a favor by the set-off of a wrong, Sen. Ep. 81, 17.—
c.
To efface guilt or wrong:
magnis injuria poenis Solvitur,
Ov. F. 5, 304:
solve nefas, dixit: solvit et ille nefas,
id. ib. 2, 44:
culpa soluta mea est,
id. Tr. 4, 4, 10:
neque tu verbis solves unquam quod mi re male feceris (i. e. injuriam),
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 10.—
d.
Poenam solvere, to suffer punishment, i. e. to cancel the obligation of suffering, etc. (cf. 3. infra;
less freq. than poenam persolvere, exsolvere): serae, sed justae tamen et debitae poenae solutae sunt,
Cic. Mil. 31, 85:
capite poenas solvit,
Sall. J. 69, 4:
meritas poenas solventem,
Curt. 6, 3, 14:
poenarum solvendi tempus,
Lucr. 5, 1224:
nunc solvo poenas,
Sen. Phoen. 172:
hac manu poenas tibi solvam,
id. Hippol. 1177.—
e.
To remove, relieve, soothe affections, passions, etc.:
atque animi curas e pectore solvat,
Lucr. 4, 908:
curam metumque juvat Dulci Lyaeo solvere,
Hor. Epod. 9, 38:
patrimonii cura solvatur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, praef. §
2: Pyrrhus impetus sui terrore soluto,
Val. Max. 4, 3, 14:
solvite corde metum,
Verg. A. 1, 562; so id. ib. 9, 90:
solve metus animo,
Stat. Th. 2, 356:
solvi pericula et metus narrant,
Plin. 11, 37, 52, § 140: neque adhuc Stheneleius iras Solverat Eurystheus, [p. 1727] Ov. M. 9, 274:
hoc uno solvitur ira modo,
id. A. A. 2, 460:
solvitque pudorem,
Verg. A. 4, 55.—
f.
Of sleep:
quasi clamore solutus Sit sopor,
Ov. M. 3, 6, 30:
nec verba, nec herbae audebunt longae somnum tibi solvere Lethes,
Luc. 6, 768; cf.:
lassitudinem solvere,
Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 143. —
g.
Of any checks and barriers to motion, to remove.
(α).
To raise a siege:
solutam cernebat obsidionem,
Liv. 36, 10, 14:
soluta obsidione,
id. 36, 31, 7:
ad Locrorum solvendam obsidionem,
id. 27, 28, 17; cf. id. 37, 7, 7; 38, 5, 6; 42, 56 init.; 44, 13, 7; Curt. 4, 4, 1; Tac. A. 4, 24; 4, 73; Just. 9, 2, 10.—
(β).
Of passions, etc., to remove restraint:
cujus si talis animus est, solvamus nos ejus vincula, et claustra (i. e. irae) refringamus,
Liv. 36, 7, 13.—
(γ).
To overthrow, subvert a higher authority, etc.:
quos (milites), soluto imperio, licentia corruperat,
Sall. J. 39, 5:
imperia solvit qui tacet, jussus loqui,
Sen. Oedip. 525:
sonipedes imperia solvunt,
id. Hippol. 1084; cf.:
sanctitas fori ludis solvitur,
Quint. 11, 3, 58.—
h.
Of laws and customs, to abolish, violate:
solvendarum legum id principium esse censebant (post-Aug. for dissolvendarum),
Curt. 10, 2, 5:
solutae a se legis monitus,
Val. Max. 6, 5, ext. 4:
cum plus quam ducentorum annorum morem solveremus,
Liv. 8, 4, 7:
(Tarquinius) morem de omnibus senatum consulendi solvit,
id. 1, 49, 7:
oportebat istum morem solvi,
Curt. 8, 8, 18.—
2.
Esp. with acc. of the bond, etc. (taking the place of the constr. I. B. 1. 2. 3. supra, when the abl. of separation is not admissible).
a.
To subvert discipline:
disciplinam militarem solvisti,
Liv. 8, 7, 16:
luxuria solutam disciplinam militarem esse,
id. 40, 1, 4:
quod cum, ne disciplina solveretur, fecisset,
Front. Strat. 2, 12, 2.—
b.
Of strength, energy, attention, etc., to loosen, impair, weaken, scatter, disperse:
nobilitas factione magis pollebat, plebis vis soluta atque dispersa,
Sall. J. 41, 6:
patrios nervos externarum deliciarum contagione solvi et hebetari noluerunt,
Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:
vires solvere,
Quint. 9, 4, 7:
vis illa dicendi solvitur, et frigescit affectus,
Quint. 11, 3, 133.—
c.
Of affection, etc., to sever, dissolve, destroy:
segnes nodum (amicitiae) solvere Gratiae,
Hor. C. 3, 21, 22;
similarly: solvit (ille deus) amicos,
Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 5; so id. 2, 15 (3, 7), 26:
hoc firmos solvit amores,
Ov. A. A. 2, 385:
amores cantibus et herbis solvere,
Tib. 1, 2, 60.—
d.
Of sickness and hunger, to end, remove:
vitex dicitur febres solvere,
Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 60:
solvit jejunia granis,
Ov. F. 4, 607:
quoniam jejunia virgo Solverat,
id. M. 5, 535; cf. Luc. 3, 282; so,
famem,
Sen. Thyest. 64.—
e.
To delay:
hi classis moras hac morte solvi rentur,
Sen. Troad. 1131.—
f.
Of darkness, to dispel:
lux solverat umbras,
Stat. Th. 10, 390.—
g.
Of war, strife, etc., to compose, settle:
aut solve bellum, mater, aut prima excipe,
Sen. Phoen. 406:
electus formae certamina solvere pastor,
Stat. Achill. 2, 337:
jurgia solvere,
Manil. 3, 115:
contradictiones solvere,
Quint. 7, 1, 38.—
h.
Of difficulties, riddles, questions, ambiguities, etc., to solve, explain, remove:
quia quaestionem solvere non posset,
Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 3:
aenigmata,
Quint. 8, 6, 53:
omnes solvere posse quaestiones,
Suet. Gram. 11:
haec ipsa, quae volvuntur ab illis, solvere malim et expandere,
Sen. Ep. 82, 20; id. Q. N. 7, 14, 1:
unum tantum hoc solvendum est,
that one question, id. ib. 1, 7, 3:
puta nunc me istuc non posse solvere,
id. Ep. 48, 6:
carmina non intellecta Solverat,
Ov. M. 7, 760:
triste carmen alitis solvi ferae,
Sen. Oedip. 102:
nodos juris,
Juv. 8, 50:
proponere aliquid quod solvat quaestionem,
Quint. 5, 10, 96:
plurimas quaestiones illis probationibus solvi solere,
id. 1, 10, 49:
quo solvitur quaestio supra tractata,
id. 3, 7, 3:
ambiguitatem or amphiboliam,
id. 7, 2, 49; 7, 9, 10.—
3.
In partic., of obligations, to fulfil.
a.
To pay.
(α).
Originally, rem solvere, to free one's property and person (rem familiarem) from debts (solutio per aes et libram), according to the ancient formula:
quod ego tibi tot millibus condemnatus sum, me eo nomine... a te solvo liberoque hoc aere aeneaque libra,
Gai. Inst. 3, 174 Huschke; cf.:
inde rem creditori palam populo solvit (i. e. per aes et libram),
Liv. 6, 14, 5:
quas res dari, fieri, solvi oportuit,
id. 1, 32, 11. —Hence, rem solvere, to pay; often with dat. of person:
pro vectura rem solvit?
paid the freight, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 27:
ubi nugivendis res soluta'st omnibus,
id. Aul. 3, 5, 51:
tibi res soluta est recte,
id. Curc. 4, 3, 21:
ego quidem pro istac rem solvo ab tarpessita meo,
id. ib. 5, 2, 20:
rem solvo omnibus quibus dehibeo,
id. ib. 5, 3, 45:
dum te strenuas, res erit soluta,
id. Ps. 2, 2, 35:
res soluta'st, Gripe, ego habeo,
id. Rud. 5, 3, 57.— Trop.: saepe edunt (aves);
semel si captae sunt, rem solvont aucupi,
they repay him, pay for his expenses, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 66.—And to pay by other things than money:
si tergo res solvonda'st,
by a whipping, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:
habent hunc morem ut pugnis rem solvant si quis poscat clarius,
id. Curc. 3, 9:
tibi quidem copia'st, dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 74.—Hence,
(β).
Absol. (sc. rem), to pay; with or without dat. of person:
cujus bona, quod populo non solvebat, publice venierunt,
Cic. Fl. 18, 43:
ei cum solveret, sumpsit a C. M. Fufiis,
id. ib. 20, 46:
misimus qui pro vectura solveret,
id. Att. 1, 3, 2:
qui nimis cito cupit solvere, invitus debet,
Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 5:
ut creditori solvat,
Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 7.— Pass. impers.:
si dare vis mihi, Magis solutum erit quam ipsi dederis,
it will be a more valid payment, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 46:
numquam vehementius actum est quam me consule, ne solveretur,
to stop payments, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:
fraudandi spe sublata solvendi necessitas consecuta est,
id. ib. 2, 24, 84:
cum eo ipso quod necesse erat solvi, facultas solvendi impediretur,
Liv. 6, 34, 1.—Cf. in the two senses, to free from debt, and to pay, in the same sentence:
non succurrere vis illi, sed solvere. Qui sic properat, ipse solvi vult, non solvere,
Sen. Ben. 6, 27, 1.—
(γ).
With acc. of the debt, to discharge, to pay:
postquam Fundanio debitum solutum esset,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 10:
hoc quod debeo peto a te ut... solutum relinquas,
settled, id. Att. 16, 6, 3:
solverat Castricio pecuniam jam diu debitam,
id. Fl. 23, 54:
ex qua (pensione) major pars est ei soluta,
id. Att. 16, 2, 1:
solvi aes alienum Pompejus ex suo fisco jussit,
Val. Max. 6, 2, 11:
aes alienum solvere,
Sen. Ep. 36, 5:
quae jactatio est, solvisse quod debebas?
id. Ben. 4, 17, 1; so,
debitum solvere,
id. ib. 6, 30, 2:
ne pecunias creditas solverent,
Cic. Pis. 35, 86:
ut creditae pecuniae solvantur,
Caes. B. C. 3, 20; 3, 1:
ex thensauris Gallicis creditum solvi posse,
Liv. 6, 15, 5:
ita bona veneant ut solidum suum cuique solvatur,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 46.—And of moral debts:
cum patriae quod debes solveris,
Cic. Marcell. 9, 27:
debet vero, solvitque praeclare,
id. Phil. 13, 11, 25:
aliter beneficium, aliter creditum solvitur,
Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 1:
qui grate beneficium accipit, primam ejus pensionem solvit,
id. ib. 2, 22 fin. —
(δ).
By a confusion of construction, solvere pecuniam, etc., to pay money, etc. (for pecunia rem or debitum solvere); constr. with dat. or absol.:
emi: pecuniam solvi,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 43:
pro frumento nihil solvit,
id. ib. 2, 3, 72, §
169: legatis pecuniam pro frumento solvit,
Liv. 44, 16:
hanc pecuniam cum solvere in praesenti non posset,
Nep. Milt. 7, 6:
nisi pecuniam solvisset,
id. Cim. 1, 1:
condiciones pacis dictae ut decem millia talentum argenti... solverent,
Liv. 30, 37 med.:
pro quo (frumento) pretium solveret populus Romanus,
id. 36, 3, 1:
pretium servorum ex aerario solutum est dominis,
id. 32, 26, 14:
pretium pro libris domino esse solvendum,
id. 40, 39 fin.:
meritam mercedem,
id. 8, 22, 3; so id. 8, 11, 4: sorte creditum solvere, by paying the principal (i. e. without interest), id. 6, 36, 12:
quae praemia senatus militibus ante constituit, ea solvantur,
Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38:
stipendium,
Liv. 28, 32, 1:
dotem mulieri,
Dig. 24, 3, 2:
litem aestimatam,
the amount of a fine, Nep. Cim. 5, 18 fin.:
arbitria funeris,
the expenses of the funeral, Cic. Red. Sen. 7, 18:
solvere dodrantem,
to pay seventy-five per cent., Mart. 8, 9, 1:
dona puer solvit,
paid the promised gifts, Ov. M. 9, 794; so,
munera,
id. ib. 11, 104.— Transf., of the dedication of a book, in return for favors:
et exspectabo ea (munera) quae polliceris, et erunt mihi pergrata si solveris... Non solvam nisi prius a te cavero, etc.,
Cic. Brut. 4, 17 sq. —Of the delivery of slaves:
si quis duos homines promise rit et Stichum solverit,
Dig. 46, 3, 67; 46, 3, 38, § 3.— Transf., poet.: dolorem solvisti, you have paid your grief, i. e. have duly mourned, Stat. S. 2, 6, 98.— Pass. with personal subject:
si (actor) solutus fuisset,
Dig. 12, 1, 31 (cf.: solvere militem, b supra). —
(ε).
Esp., in certain phrases, to pay:
aliquid praesens solvere,
to pay in cash, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; so,
aliquid de praesentibus solvere,
Sen. Ep. 97, 16:
solvere grates (= referre gratiam muneribus): Sulla solvit grates Dianae,
Vell. 2, 25:
quas solvere grates sufficiam?
Stat. S. 4, 2, 7: cum homo avarus, ut ea (beneficia) solveret sibi imperare non posset, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 1; cf.: non dicimus reposuit beneficium aut solvit;
nullum nobis placuit quod aeri alieno convenit verbum,
Sen. Ep. 81, 9; but v. id. Ben. 2, 18, 5: in debitum solvere, to make a partial payment:
unum haec epistula in debitum solvet,
id. Ep. 7, 10: aliquid solvere ab aliquo (de aliqua re), to pay out of funds supplied by any one ( out of any fund):
Quintus laborat ut tibi quod debet ab Egnatio solvat,
Cic. Att. 7, 18, 4:
homines dicere, se a me solvere,
id. ib. 5, 21, 11:
(summa) erat solvenda de meo,
Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2:
operas solvere alicui,
to work for somebody, Dig. 40, 7, 39: solvo operam Dianae, I work for Diana, i. e. offer a sacrifice to her, Afran. ap. Non. 12, 21: judicatum solvere, to pay the amount adjudged by the court, for which security (satisdatio) was required:
stipulatio quae appellatur judicatum solvi,
Gai. Inst. 4, 90:
iste postulat ut procurator judicatum solvi satisdaret,
Cic. Quint. 7, 29; so Dig. 3, 2, 28; 3, 3, 15; 2, 8, 8;
2, 8, 14 et saep.: auctio solvendis nummis,
a cash auction, Mart. 14, 35.— Gerund.: solvendo esse, to be solvent; jurid. t. t., to be able to pay, i. e. one's debts; cf.
in full: nec tamen solvendo aeri alieno respublica esset,
Liv. 31, 13:
nemo dubitat solvendo esse eum qui defenditur,
Dig. 50, 17, 105:
qui modo solvendo sint,
Gai. Inst. 1, 3, 121:
si solvendo sint,
Paul. Sent. 1, 20, 1:
nec interest, solvendo sit, necne,
Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 5; so ib. 46, 1, 10; 46, 1, 27, § 2; 46, 1, 51, §§ 1 and 4; 46, 1, 52, § 1; 46, 1, 28; 50, 17, 198 et saep.: non solvendo esse, to be insolvent:
solvendo non erat,
Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:
cum solvendo civitates non essent,
id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:
tu nec solvendo eras, nec, etc.,
id. Phil. 2, 2, 4:
ne videatur non fuisse solvendo,
id. Off. 2, 22, 79;
and very freq. in the jurists.—So, trop.: quid matri, quid flebili patriae dabis? Solvendo non es,
Sen. Oedip. 941; cf.:
*non esse ad solvendum (i. e. able to pay),
Vitr. 10, 6 fin. —
b.
To fulfil the duty of burial.
(α).
Justa solvere; with dat. of the person:
qui nondum omnia paterno funeri justa solvisset,
who had not yet finished the burial ceremonies of his father, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:
justis defunctorum corporibus solutis,
Curt. 3, 12, 15:
proinde corpori quam primum justa solvamus,
id. 10, 6, 7:
ut justa soluta Remo,
Ov. F. 5, 452:
nunc justa nato solve,
Sen. Hippol. 1245.—
(β).
Exsequias, inferias or suprema solvere:
exsequiis rite solutis,
Verg. A. 7, 5:
cruor sancto solvit inferias viro,
Sen. Hippol. 1198:
solvere suprema militibus,
Tac. A. 1, 61.—
c.
Votum solvere, to fulfil a vow to the gods.
(α).
Alone:
vota ea quae numquam solveret nuncupavit,
Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 11:
quod si factum esset, votum rite solvi non posse,
Liv. 31, 9 fin.:
liberare et se et rempublicam religione votis solvendis,
id. 40, 44, 8:
placatis diis votis rite solvendis,
id. 36, 37 fin.:
petiit ut votum sibi solvere liceret,
id. 45, 44:
animosius a mercatore quam a vectore solvitur votum,
Sen. Ep. 73, 5:
vota pro incolumitate solvebantur,
Tac. A. 2, 69:
vota pater solvit,
Ov. M. 9, 707:
ne votum solvat,
Mart. 12, 91, 6; 8, 4, 2; Val. Max. 6, 9, 5 ext.; 1, 1, 8 ext. — Poet.:
voti debita solvere,
Ov. F. 5, 596; cf.
the abbrev. formula V. S. L. M. (voTVM SOLVIT LIBENS MERITO),
Inscr. Orell. 186; 1296 sq.:
V.S.A.L. (ANIMO LIBENTI),
ib. 2022 et saep.:
sacra solvere (=votum solvere),
Manil. 1, 427.—
(β).
With dat.:
ait sese Veneri velle votum solvere,
Plaut. Rud. prol. 60:
vota Jovi solvo,
Ov. M. 7, 652; 8, 153:
sunt vota soluta deae,
id. F. 6, 248:
dis vota solvis,
Sen. Ben. 5, 19, 4:
libamenta Veneri solvere (=votum per libamenta),
Just. 18, 5, 4.—
d.
Fidem solvere, to fulfil a promise (post-class. for fidem praestare, [p. 1728] exsolvere; cf.:
fidem obligatam liberare,
Suet. Claud. 9):
illi, ut fidem solverent, clipeis obruere,
Flor. 1, 1, 12;
similarly: et voti solverat ille fidem (=votum solverat),
Ov. F. 1, 642; but cf.: itane imprudens? tandem inventa'st causa: solvisti fidem, you have found a pretext to evade your promise (cf. II. A. 3.), Ter. And. 4, 1, 18: esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides, by my death your promise to marry me would have been cancelled (cf. II. B. 1. 6.), Ov. H. 10, 78; similarly: suam fidem (i. e. quam Lepido habuerit) solutam esse, that his faith in Lepidus was broken, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3.—With a different construction: se depositi fide solvere, to acquit one's self of the duty to return property intrusted to him (cf. I. B. 1. c.), Val. Max. 7, 3, 5 ext.: factique fide data munera solvit, he freed the gift already given from the obligation of an accomplished fact, i. e. he revoked the gifts, although already made, Ov. M. 11, 135.—
e.
Promissum solvere, to fulfil a promise (very rare):
perinde quasi promissum solvens,
Val. Max. 9, 6, 1:
solvitur quod cuique promissum est,
Sen. Cons. Marc. 20 fin.;
similarly: solutum, quod juraverant, rebantur,
what they had promised under oath, Liv. 24, 18, 5.—Hence, sŏlūtus, a, um, P. a., free, loose, at large, unfettered, unbandaged.
A.
Lit.
1.
(Acc. to I.A. 1. supra.) Pigeat nostrum erum si eximat aut solutos sinat, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 11:
tibi moram facis quom ego solutus sto,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 25:
reus solutus causam dicis, testes vinctos attines,
id. Truc. 4, 3, 63:
cum eos vinciret quos secum habebat, te solutum Romam mittebat?
Cic. Deiot. 7, 22:
nec quisquam ante Marium solutus dicitur esse sectus,
unbandaged, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:
duos (captivos) solutos ire ad Hannibalem jussit,
Liv. 27, 51:
eum interdiu solutum custodes sequebantur, nocte clausum asservabant,
id. 24, 45, 10:
non efficiatis ut solutos verear quos alligatos adduxit,
Val. Max. 6, 2, 3.—
2.
(Acc. to I. A. 2.) Of texture, etc.; esp. of soil, loose, friable (opp spissus;
postAug.): quo solutior terra facilius pateat radicibus,
Sen. Ep. 90, 21;
ordeum nisi solutum et siccum locum non patitur,
Col. 2, 9:
soluta et facilis terra,
id. 3, 14;
solum solutum vel spissum,
id. 2, 2 init.;
seri vult raphanus terra soluta, umida,
Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83:
hordeum seri non vult, nisi in sicca et soluta terra,
id. 18, 7, 18, § 79:
solutiores ripae,
Front. Aquaed. 15.—Of plants:
mas spissior, femina solutior,
Plin. 25, 9, 57, § 103.—Hence, subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., a state of looseness:
dum vult describere, quem ad modum alia torqueantur fila, alia ex molli solutoque ducantur,
Sen. Ep. 90, 20.—
3.
(Acc. to I. A. 3.) Rarefied, thin, diffused:
turbo, quo celsior eo solutior laxiorque est, et ob hoc diffunditur,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 9, 3:
aer agitatus a sole calefactusque solutior est,
id. ib. 1, 2, 10:
debet aer nec tam spissus esse, nec tam tenuis et solutus, ut, etc.,
id. ib. 1, 2, 11.—
B.
Trop.
1.
(Acc. to I. B. 1.) Of speech, unfettered, fluent, ready:
(orator) solutus in explicandis sententiis,
Cic. Or. 47, 173:
verbis solutus satis,
id. ib. 47, 174:
solutissimus in dicendo,
id. ib. 48, 180.—
2.
Exempt, free from duties, obligations, etc.:
quam ob rem viderer maximis beneficii vinculis obstrictus, cum liber essem et solutus?
Cic. Planc. 30, 72:
soluta (praedia) meliore in causa sunt quam obligata,
unmortgaged, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:
si reddidi (debitum), solutus sum ac liber,
Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 5;
non ut gratus, sed ut solutus sim,
id. ib. 4, 21, 3;
solutus omni fenore,
Hor. Epod. 2, 4;
nam ea (religione) magister equitum solutus ac liber potuerit esse,
Liv. 8, 32, 5:
Mamertini soli in omni orbe terrarum vacui, expertes soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23.—
3.
Free from punishment, not punishable, not liable, etc.: qui mancipia vendunt, certiores faciunt emptores quis fugitivus sit, noxave solutus, Edict. Aedil. ap. Dig. 21, 1, 1, § 1; Gell. 4, 2, 1; cf.:
quod aiunt aediles noxae solutus non sit sic intellegendum est... noxali judicio subjectum non esse,
Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 17:
apud quos libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam,
Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:
omne illud tempus habeat per me solutum ac liberum,
i. e. let the crimes then committed be unpunished, id. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33: antea vacuum id solutumque poena fuerat, Tac. A. 14, 28.—With subj. inf.:
maxime solutum fuit, prodere de iis, etc.,
Tac. A. 4, 35: solutum existimatur esse, alteri male dicere, Caecil. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3.—
4.
Free from cares, undistracted:
animo soluto liberoque,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185:
sed paulo solutiore tamen animo,
id. ib. 2, 5, 31, § 82.—
5.
At leisure, free from labor, business, etc.:
te rogo ut eum solutum, liberum, confectis ejus negotiis a te, quamprimum ad me remittas,
Cic. Fam. 13, 63, 2:
quo mea ratio facilior et solutior esse possit,
id. ib. 3, 5, 1.—With gen.:
Genium Curabis Cum famulis operum solutis,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 16.—
6.
Unbound, relaxed, merry, jovial:
quam homines soluti ridere non desinant, tristiores autem, etc.,
Cic. Dom. 39, 104:
an tu existimas quemquam soluto vultu et hilari oculo mortem contemnere?
Sen. Ep. 23, 4:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 5, 355:
(mores) naturam sequentium faciles sunt, soluti sunt,
unembarrassed, Sen. Ep. 122, 17.—
7.
Free from the rule of others, uncontrolled, independent:
cum videas civitatis voluntatem solutam, virtutem alligatam,
Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1:
ab omni imperio externo soluta in perpetuum Hispania,
Liv. 29, 1 fin.:
Masinissae ab imperio Romano solutam libertatem tribuit,
Val. Max. 7, 2, 6:
incerti, solutique, et magis sine domino quam in libertate, Vononem in regnum accipiunt,
Tac. A. 2, 4:
quorum (militum) libertas solutior erat,
Just. 13, 2, 2.—Of animals:
rectore solutos (solis) equos,
Stat. Th. 1, 219.—
8.
Free from influence or restraint; hence, independent, unbiassed, unprejudiced:
nec vero deus ipse alio modo intellegi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 27, 66;
cum animi sine ratione motu ipsi suo soluto ac libero incitarentur,
id. Div. 1, 2, 4:
judicio senatus soluto et libero,
id. Phil. 5, 15, 41:
sum enim ad dignitatem in re publica solutus,
id. Att. 1, 13, 2:
libero tempore cum soluta vobis est eligendi optio,
id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:
si omnia mihi essent solutissima, tamen in re publica non alius essem atque nunc sum,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 21:
liberi enim ad causas solutique veniebant,
uncommitted, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192.—
9.
Free from moral restraint; hence, unbridled, insolent, loose:
amores soluti et liberi,
Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:
licentia,
id. ib. 4, 4, 4:
populi quamvis soluti ecfrenatique sint,
id. ib. 1, 34, 53:
quis erat qui sibi solutam P. Clodii praeturam sine maximo metu proponeret? Solutam autem fore videbatis, nisi esset is consul qui eam auderet possetque constringere,
id. Mil. 13, 34:
quominus conspectus, eo solutior erat,
Liv. 27, 31 fin.:
adulescentes aliquot quorum, in regno, libido solutior fuerat,
id. 2, 1, 2:
solutioris vitae primos adulescentiae annos egisse fertur,
a licentious life, Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:
spectandi solutissimum morem corrigere,
Suet. Aug. 44:
mores soluti,
licentious habits, Just. 3, 3, 10.—
10.
Regardless of rules, careless, loose:
orator tam solutus et mollis in gestu,
Cic. Brut. 62, 225:
dicta factaque ejus solutiora, et quandam sui neglegentiam praeferentia,
Tac. A. 16, 18.—
11.
Esp., of style, etc., free from rules of composition.
(α).
Oratio soluta, verba soluta, a free style, conversational or epistolary style:
est oratio aliqua vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, qualis in sermone et epistulis,
Quint. 9, 4, 19; 9, 4, 20; 9, 4, 69; 9, 4, 77.—
(β).
More freq.: verba soluta, oratio soluta, prose (opp. to verse);
in full: scribere conabar verba soluta modis, Ov Tr. 4, 10, 24: quod (Isocrates) verbis solutis numeros primus adjunxerit,
Cic. Or. 52, 174:
mollis est enim oratio philosophorum... nec vincta numeris, sed soluta liberius,
id. ib. 19, 64; 71, 234;
68, 228: si omnes soluta oratione scripserunt,
Varr. R. R. 4, 1; de heisce rebus treis libros ad te mittere institui;
de oratione soluta duos, de poetica unum,
id. L. L. 6, 11 fin.:
ut in soluta oratione, sic in poemateis,
id. ib. 7, 1:
primus (Isocrates) intellexit. etiam in soluta oratione, dum versum effugeres modum et numerum quemdam debere servari,
Cic. Brut. 8, 32:
Aristoteles judicat heroum numerum grandiorem quam desideret soluta oratio,
id. Or. 57, 192:
et creticus et paeon quam commodissume putatur in solutam orationem illigari,
id. ib. 64, 215:
a modis quibusdam, cantu remoto, soluta esse videatur oratio,
id. ib. 55, 183; 55, 184; id. de Or. 3, 48, 184: historia est quodammodo carmen solutum, Quint. 10, 1, 31.—
(γ).
Also in reference to a prose rhythm, loose, unrhythmical, inharmonious:
ut verba neque inligata sint, quasi... versus, neque ita soluta ut vagentur,
Cic. de Or. 3, 44, 176; 3, 48, 186:
nec vero haec (Callidii verba) soluta nec diffluentia, sed astricta numeris,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
orator sic illigat sententiam verbis ut eam numero quodam complectatur et astricto et soluto,
id. de Or. 3, 44, 175; but: verba soluta suis figuris, words freed from their proper meaning, i.e. metaphors, Manil. 1, 24.—
(δ).
Rarely with reference to the thought: soluta oratio, a fragmentary, disconnected style:
soluta oratio, et e singulis non membris, sed frustis, collata, structura caret,
Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 9, 4, 69:
solutiora componere,
id. 10, 4, 1; 9, 4, 15.—
12.
Effeminate, luxurious (acc. to I. B. 3.):
sinum togae in dextrum umerum reicere, solutum ac delicatum est,
Quint. 11, 3, 146.—
13.
Undisciplined, disorderly:
omnia soluta apud hostes esse,
Liv. 8, 30, 3:
nihil temeritate solutum,
Tac. A. 13, 40:
apud Achaeos neglecta omnia ac soluta fuere,
Just. 34, 2, 2.—
14.
Lax, remiss, weak:
mea lenitas adhuc si cui solutior visa erat,
Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:
Ciceronem male audivisse, tamquam solutum et enervem,
Tac. Or. 18:
soluti ac fluentes,
Quint. 1, 2, 8.—Hence:
solutum genus orationis,
a lifeless, dull style, Val. Max. 8, 10, 3:
quanto longius abscederent, eo solutiore cura,
laxer attention, Liv. 3, 8, 8.—
C.
(Acc. to II. B. 3. e supra.) Paid, discharged, only as subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., that which is paid, a discharged debt, in certain phrases:
aliquid in solutum dare,
to give something in payment, Dig. 46, 3, 45; 46, 3, 46; 46, 3, 60: in solutum accipere, to accept in payment:
qui voluntatem bonam in solutum accipit,
Sen. Ben. 7, 16, 4:
qui rem in solutum accipit,
Dig. 42, 4, 15; 12, 1, 19;
in solutum imputare,
to charge as payment, Sen. Ep. 8, 10; aliquid pro soluto est, is considered as paid or cancelled:
pro soluto id in quo creditor accipiendo moram fecit, oportet esse,
Dig. 46, 3, 72: pro soluto usucapere, to acquire by prescription something given in payment by the debtor, but not belonging to him:
pro soluto usucapit qui rem debiti causa recepit,
Dig. 41, 3, 46.— Adv.: sŏlūtē.
1.
Thinly:
corpora diffusa solute,
Lucr. 4, 53.—
2.
Of speech, fluently:
non refert videre quid dicendum est, nisi id queas solute ac suaviter dicere,
Cic. Brut. 29, 110:
ita facile soluteque volvebat sententias,
id. ib. 81, 280:
quid ipse compositus alias, et velut eluctantium verborum, solutius promptiusque eloquebatur,
Tac. A. 4, 31.—
3.
Irregularly, loosely:
a fabris neglegentius solutiusque composita,
Sen. Q. N. 6, 30, 4.—
4.
Freely, without restraint:
generaliter puto judicem justum... solutius aequitatem sequi,
i. e. without strictly regarding the letter of the law, Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—
5.
Of style, without connection, loosely:
enuntiare,
Quint. 11, 2, 47.—
6.
Of manners and discipline, disorderly, negligently:
praecipue sub imperio Cn. Manlii solute ac neglegenter habiti sunt (exercitus),
Liv. 39, 1, 4:
in stationibus solute ac neglegenter agentes,
id. 23, 37, 6.—
7.
Weakly, tamely, without vigor:
quod ille tam solute egisset, tam leniter, tam oscitanter,
Cic. Brut. 80, 277.—
8.
Of morals, loosely, without restraint:
ventitabat illuc Nero, quo solutius urbem extra lasciviret,
Tac. A. 13, 47.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > solutum
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solvo, solvi, solutum, 3, v. a. ( perf. soluit, trisyll., Cat. 2, 13:
soluisse,
Tib. 4, 5, 16) [for se-luo; cf. socors for se-cords], to loosen an object from any thing, to release or to loose, remove any thing which binds or restrains another.
I.
To loose an object bound, to release, set free, disengage, dissolve, take apart.
A.
In a corporeal sense.
1.
Outwardly, to release.
a.
From fetters or custody, to free, set free, release; absol.:
solvite istas,
i. e. from fetters, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 64:
solvite istum,
id. Mil. 5, 32:
numquam, nisi me orassis, solves,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 62:
jube solvi (eum),
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52:
ad palum adligati repente soluti sunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11:
ut vincti solvantur,
id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §
12: qui in compedibus corporis semper fuerunt, etiam cum soluti sunt, tardius ingrediuntur,
id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75:
ita nexi soluti (sunt),
Liv. 8, 28, 9:
solvite me, pueri,
Verg. E. 6, 24:
fore ut brevi solveretur,
Suet. Vesp. 5; id. Tib. 65; id. Vit. 12.—With abl.:
canis solutus catena,
Phaedr. 3, 7, 20. — Transf., from the fetter of frost:
solutis amnibus (i. e. frigoris vinculo),
Stat. Th. 5, 15:
terrae quem (florem) ferunt solutae,
Hor. C. 1, 4, 10.—
b.
From reins, ties, bands, etc.: solve senescentem equum, from the rein, i. e. dismiss him from service, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8:
solverat sol equos,
unhitched, Stat. Th. 3, 407: currum solvere (i. e. ab equis, poet. for equos a curru), Sen. Thyest. 794: solvere epistulam, i. e. from the string by which it was tied (= to open), Nep. Hann. 11, 3:
et tibi sollicita solvitur illa (epistula) manu,
Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 2:
et jacet in gremio charta soluta meo,
id. H. 11, 4:
praecepit suis ne sarcinas solverent, aut onera deponerent,
Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3.—So of garments and sails, to unfurl, unfold: cum tunica soluta inambularet, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 26:
soluta toga,
Quint. 11, 3, 147:
vela solvere,
Verg. A. 4, 574.—
c.
From any fastening (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose), to detach from; constr. absol., or with ab or de, and abl.:
Caucasia solvet de rupe Promethei bracchia,
Prop. 2, 1, 69:
fraxinus solvitur,
from the ground, Stat. Th. 9, 498:
ceciditque soluta pinus,
id. ib. 9, 409; cf.:
pinus radice soluta, deficit,
id. S. 5, 1, 152:
solutis radicibus arbusta procumbunt,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 5:
accepi epistulam quam, ut scribis, ancora soluta de phaselo dedisti, i. e. a litore,
detached, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1 B. and K. (al. sublata;
but soluta is perh. an error of Cic. in the use of a technical term, v Orell. ad loc.).—In the same sense: solvere retinacula classis,
Ov. M. 15, 696; 8, 102:
querno solvunt de stipite funem,
id. F. 4, 333:
fune soluto Currit in immensum carina,
id. Am. 2, 11, 23:
curvo solves viscera cultro (i. e. de corpore ferarum),
Sen. Hippol. 53.—Of rain disengaged from the clouds:
imber caelesti nube solutus,
Ov. A. A. 2, 237: (Lunam) imperfecta vi solvere tantum umorem, disengage only the moisture, i. e. from the earth:
cum solis radii absumant,
Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 45:
solutum a latere pugionem,
detached from his side, Suet. Vit. 15.—
d.
Esp., of ships: navem solvere, to free a ship from the land, i. e. to set sail, weigh anchor, leave land, depart.
(α).
With acc. alone:
eisce confectis navem solvimus,
Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 91:
navim cupimus solvere,
id. Mil. 4, 7, 17:
naves solvit,
Caes. B. G. 4, 36; 5, 8; id. B. C. 1, 28; 3, 14; 3, 26;
3, 102: primis tenebris solvit navem,
Liv. 45, 6:
postero die solvere naves (jussi),
id. 29, 25 fin.; Nep. Hann. 8, 2:
classem solvere,
Liv. 45, 41; Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 23.—
(β).
With ab and abl.:
navis a terra solverunt,
Caes. B. C. 3, 101:
quinto inde die quam ab Corintho solverit naves,
Liv. 31, 7 med.:
solvunt a litore puppes,
Luc. 2, 649.—
(γ).
With ex and abl.:
nam noctu hac soluta est navis nostra e portu Persico,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 259:
interea e portu nostra navis solvitur,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 54.—
(δ).
With abl.:
complures mercatores Alexandria solvisse,
Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50:
portu solventibus,
id. Mur. 2, 4.—
(ε).
Absol. (sc. navem or naves):
tertia fere vigilia solvit,
Caes. B. G. 4, 23:
nos eo die cenati solvimus,
Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:
altero die quam a Brundusio solvit,
Liv. 31, 14 init.:
qui inde solverant,
Val. Max. 1, 7, 3:
solvi mare languido,
Sen. Ep. 53, 1:
fortasse etiam ventis minantibus solves,
id. Ben. 2, 35, 5:
non eadem est his et illis causa solvendi,
making sea-voyages, id. Q. N. 5, 18, 16.—
(ζ).
With navis, etc., as subj., to leave the land (sc. se a litore):
naves XVIII. ex superiore portu solverunt,
Caes. B. G. 4, 28; and by another change of construction: solvimus oram, we freed the shore, i.e. from the ship, Quint. 4, 2, 41; id. Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—
(η).
Poet. usages:
de litore puppis solvit iter,
clears the voyage, Stat. S. 5, 1, 243:
nec tibi Tyrrhena solvatur funis harena,
Prop. 1, 8, 11 (cf.: retinacula solvere, c. supra).—
e.
Of secretions from the body ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
tempore eo quo menstrua solvit,
Lucr. 6, 706:
cruor solvitur,
Stat. Th. 9, 530:
lacrimas solvere,
id. Achill. 2, 256:
solutis lacrimis,
Claud. Ruf. 2, 258; so,
partus solvere,
to bear, bring forth, be delivered of offspring, Ov. F. 3, 258; Stat. Th. 5, 461; Plin. 28, 3, 6, § 33; 32, 1, 1, § 6.—
2.
To loosen an object from that which holds it together, to break up, part, dissolve, disperse, divide, take apart, scatter.
a.
In gen.:
omne colligatum solvi potest,
Cic. Fin. 11.—
b.
Of structures ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
solvere naves et rursus conjungere,
Curt. 8, 10, 3:
solvere quassatae parcite membra ratis,
Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 2:
dubitavit an solveret pontem,
Curt. 4, 16, 8:
solvere pontem,
Tac. A. 1, 69:
si pons solutus sit,
Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 7:
solutus pons tempestatibus,
Just. 2, 13, 9:
currum (solis) solutum,
Manil. 1, 740.—
c.
Of woven stuff:
solvens texta,
Prop. 2, 9, 6.—
d.
Of mountains:
utrimque montes solvit (Hercules),
Sen. Herc. Fur. 237:
tridente Neptunus montem solvit,
id. Agam. 553.—
e.
Of the neck:
soluta cervix silicis impulsu,
broken, Sen. Troad. 1119.—
f.
Of a comet:
momentum quo cometes solutus et in duas partes redactus est,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 3.—
g.
Of the hair, to loosen, untie, let fall:
solve capillos,
Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3:
crinem,
id. A. A. 3, 784; id. M. 11, 682; 13, 584; Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 46:
comas casside,
Ov. F. 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 854.—
h.
Of the earth (so mostly P. a., q. v. infra;
post-Aug.): ita in terrae corpore evenit ut partes ejus vetustate solvantur, solutae cadant,
Sen. Q. N. 6, 10, 2:
ubi montis latus nova ventis solvit hiems,
Stat. Th. 7, 745. —
3.
To dissolve; pass., to be dissolved, changed, to pass over into ( poet. and postclass. for dissolvere, or transire in); constr. absol., or with in and acc.
(α).
Of a change into air or gas:
calor mobiliter solvens, differt primordia vini,
dissolving, parts the molecules of the wine, Lucr. 6, 235:
nam materiai copia ferretur per inane soluta,
id. 1, 1018; so id. 1, 1103:
ita fatus in aera rursus solvitur,
Stat. Th. 5, 285;
nec in aera solvi Passa, recentem animam caelestibus intulit astris,
Ov. M. 15, 845.—
(β).
Into a liquid, to melt:
saepe terra in tabem solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 7:
terram quam diximus esse mutabilem et solvi in umorem,
id. ib. 3, 29, 4:
nullum tellus se solvit in amnem,
Luc. 2, 408; ipsum in conubia terrae Aethera, cum pluviis rarescunt nubila, solvo, dissolve into the embrace of the earth, i. e. change into rain, Stat. S. 1, 2, 186:
ex Aethiopiae jugis solutas nives ad Nilum decurrere,
Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 17; so,
nivem solvere,
id. ib. 4, 5, 2; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 93; Sen. Herc. Oet. 729:
rigor auri solvitur aestu,
Lucr. 1, 493:
ferrum calidi solvant camini,
Manil. 4, 250:
cerae igne solutae,
Ov. A. A. 2, 47:
Iris cum vino triduo non solvitur,
Plin. 21, 20, 83, § 142:
(herba) quinto die solvitur,
id. 26, 14, 88, § 148.—
(γ).
Of putrefaction:
(vitulo) per integram solvuntur viscera pellem,
Verg. G. 4, 302.—
(δ).
Of change in general:
inque novas abiit massa soluta domos,
Ov. F. 1, 108:
repentino crementur incendio, atque ex tanta varietate solvantur atque eant in unum omnia (sc. all the heavenly bodies),
Sen. Ben. 6, 22.—
(ε).
Of expansion by heat:
(uva) cum modo frigoribus premitur, modo solvitur aestu,
Ov. A. A. 2, 317.—
(ζ).
Hence, solvere, absol., to rarefy:
gravitas aeris solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 5, 5, 1.—
(η).
Solvi in, to pass into, become:
in cacumine (herbae) capitula purpurea quae solvantur in lanugines,
Plin. 27, 8, 39, § 61.—Of a wave:
donec in planitiem immotarum aquarum solvatur,
disappears in, Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 2:
postremi (equi) solvuntur in aequora pisces (= solvuntur in pisces),
Stat. Th. 2, 47: lumina in lacrimas solventur, stream with tears. —Hence, solvere, causative, to make pass over, to make vanish in: circulum in pulverem, in quo descriptus est, solvere, Sen. Ep. 74, 27: soluti agri, the boundaries of which are effaced, Sic. Fl. Cond. Agr. p. 3 Goes.—
4.
To consume, to destroy, dissolve:
solvere orbes,
Manil. 1, 497:
ni calor et ventus... interemant sensum diductaque solvant (i.e. sensum),
Lucr. 3, 287:
(Cato) ferrei prope corporis animique, quem ne senectus quidem, quae solvit omnia, fregerit,
Liv. 39, 40, 11:
si (cometae) sunt purus ignis... nec illos conversio mundi solvit,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 2, 2:
(turbo) ab eo motu, qui universum trahit, solveretur,
id. ib. 7, 9, 4:
tabes solvit corpora,
Luc. 6, 18; 7, 809:
nec solum silvas, sed saxa ingentia solvit (ignis),
id. 3, 506:
ne tegat functos humus, ne solvat ignis,
Sen. Thyest. 750.—So, vitam solvere, to extinguish life, esp. of gradual or easy death:
solvas potius (vitam), quam abrumpas, dummodo, si alia solvendi ratio non erit, vel abrumpas,
Sen. Ep. 22, 3:
hanc mihi solvite vitam,
Prop. 2, 9, 39.—
B.
Trop.
1.
To free, release, loose, emancipate, set free; constr. absol., with abl. or ab and abl.; rarely with gen.
a.
From the body, etc.:
teque isto corpore solvo,
Verg. A. 4, 703:
soluta corpore anima,
Quint. 5, 14, 13:
qui solutas vinculis animas recipit,
Sen. Cons. 28, 8: si animus somno relaxatus solute (i. e. free from the shackles of the body) moveatur ac libere, Cic. Div. 2, 48, 100:
vocem solvere,
to set free the voice, to speak, Stat. S. 3, 1; Sen. Thyest. 682; so, responsa solve (pregn. = utter and disclose), Sen. Oedip. 292:
suspiria solvit,
Stat. Th. 11, 604:
solvat turba jocos,
Sen. Med. 114:
solutos Qui captat risus hominum (= quem juvat risus hominum solvere),
Hor. S. 1, 4, 83:
Ausonii... versibus incomptis ludunt risuque soluto,
unrestrained, free, Verg. G. 2, 386.—
b.
Of members or parts of the body: linguam solvere, to unfetter the tongue (sc. vinculis oris), to give flow to words:
linguam (Juno) ad jurgia solvit,
Ov. M. 3, 261:
lingua devincta nec in motus varios soluta,
Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 7:
ut quisque contemptissimus est, ita linguae solutissimae est,
id. Const. 11, 3:
(fama) innumeras solvit in praeconia linguas,
Luc. 1, 472. —Solvere bracchia, poet., to unfetter the arms, i. e. to move them:
magna difficili solventem bracchia motu,
Stat. Achill. 1, 604; cf.
of the free motions of animals: columbae soluto volatu multum velociores,
unrestrained flight, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
c.
From obligations and debts:
solvit me debito,
Sen. Ben. 6, 4, 1:
an nos debito solverit,
id. Ep. 81, 3:
ut religione civitas solvatur,
Cic. Caecin. 34, 98; Liv. 7, 3, 9:
te decem tauri... Me tener solvet vitulus (sc. religione),
Hor. C. 4, 2, 54.—So from a military oath:
hoc si impetro, solvo vos jurejurando,
Just. 14, 4, 7.—Sacramento or militia solvere, to dismiss a soldier from service:
sacramento solvi,
Tac. A. 16, 13:
cum quis propter delictum sacramento solvitur,
Dig. 49, 16, 13:
militia solvere,
Tac. A. 1, 44.— Munere (publico) solvere, to exempt from public duties:
ut Ilienses publico munere solverentur,
Tac. A. 12, 58.—With obj. inf.:
ut manere solveretur,
that he should be excused from the duty of remaining, Tac. A. 3, 29.—
d.
From guilt and sin, to acquit, absolve, cleanse (cf. absolvere, to acquit of crime):
si ille huic (insidias fecerit), ut scelere solvamur,
be held guiltless, Cic. Mil. 12, 31:
atque hunc ille summus vir scelere solutum periculo liberavit,
id. ib. 4, 9:
sit capitis damno Roma soluta mei,
Ov. F. 6, 452:
ipsum quoque Pelea Phoci Caede per Haemonias solvit Acastus aquas,
id. ib. 2, 40:
Helenen ego crimine solvo,
id. A. A. 2, 371:
quid crimine solvis Germanum?
Stat. Th. 11, 379:
solutam caede Gradivus manum restituit armis,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 1342. —
e.
From feelings, etc.:
quae eos qui quaesissent cura et negotio solverent,
Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30:
cum ego vos solvi curis ceteris,
Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 33:
senatus cura belli solutus,
Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 7:
pectus linquunt cura solutum,
Lucr. 2, 45:
his terroribus ab Epicuro soluti et in libertatem vindicati,
Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 56:
soluti metu,
Liv. 41, 14 init.; 27, 51:
solvent formidine terras,
Verg. E. 4, 14:
solve metu patriam,
Prop. 4 (5), 6, 41:
metu belli Scythas solvit,
Just. 9, 2, 2; so id. 14, 2, 5:
haec est Vita solutorum misera ambitione,
Hor. S. 1, 6, 129:
soluti a cupiditatibus,
Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 27:
his concitationibus quem vacuum, solutum, liberum videris,
id. Tusc. 5, 15, 43: et tu solve me dementia, [p. 1726] Hor. Epod. 17, 43:
longo luctu,
Verg. A. 2, 26:
tristem juventam solve (i. e. juventam tristitia),
Sen. Hippol. 450:
solvite tantis animum monstris, solvite, superi,
id. Herc. Fur. 1063:
Quis te solvere Thessalis Magus venenis poterit?
Hor. C. 1, 27, 21. — Poet.:
solvit animis miracula (for animos miraculis),
the soul from superstition, Manil. 1, 103.—And of animals:
rabie tigrim,
Manil. 5, 707.— Absol.:
ut ad praecepta quae damus possit ire animus, solvendus est (i. e. perturbationibus),
Sen. Ep. 95, 38:
calices, quem non fecere contracta in paupertate solutum?
i. e. from cares, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20:
solvite animos,
Manil. 4, 12.—With in:
vix haec in munera solvo animum,
i. e. free it from passions and so make it fit for these duties, Stat. S. 5, 3, 33.—
f.
From sleep, very rare:
ego somno solutus sum,
awoke, Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29 (cf.: somno solvi, to be overwhelmed by sleep, 2. b, g infra).—
g.
From labor, business, etc.:
volucres videmus... solutas opere volitare,
Cic. Or. 2, 6, 23:
solutus onere regio, regni bonis fruor,
Sen. Oedip. 685.— Poet.:
Romulus excubias decrevit in otia solvi,
to be relieved from guard and enjoy leisure, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 79.—
h.
From rigidity, austerity, stiffness, etc., to relax, smooth, unbend, quiet, soothe ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
frontem solvere disce,
Mart. 14, 183:
saltem ora trucesque solve genas,
Stat. Th. 11, 373:
solvit feros tunc ipse rictus,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 797.— Poet.:
solvatur fronte senectus = frons senectute (i. e. rugis), solvatur,
be cleared, Hor. Epod. 13, 5:
vultum risu solvit,
relieves, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5:
risum judicis movendo, et illos tristes affectus solvit, et animum renovat,
Quint. 6, 3, 1; so,
solvere judicem,
unbend, excite his laughter, id. 11, 3, 3:
solvere qui (potui) Curios Fabriciosque graves (sc. risu),
Mart. 9, 28 (29), 4:
ut tamen arctum Solveret hospitiis animum,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 83:
cujus non contractum sollicitudine animum illius argutiae solvant?
Sen. Cons. Helv. 18, 5.— Transf., pregn.:
solventur risu tabulae,
i. e. the austerity of the judge will be relaxed by laughter, and the complaint dismissed, Hor. S. 2, 1, 86.—Imitated:
quia si aliquid omiserimus, cum risu quoque tota res solvitur,
Quint. 5, 10, 67.—
k.
From any cause of restraint.
(α).
To release from siege:
Bassanitas obsidione solvere,
Liv. 44, 30:
patriam obsidione solvere,
Val. Max. 3, 2, 2. —
(β).
From moral restraints:
hic palam cupiditates suas solvit,
gave vent to, Curt. 6, 6, 1; v. also P. a., B. 7. infra.—
l.
From laws and rules: legibus solvere.
(α).
To exempt from laws, i. e. by privilege:
Vopiscus, qui ex aedilitate consulatum petit, solvatur legibus,
Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11:
cur M. Brutus legibus est solutus, si, etc.,
id. ib. 2, 13, 31:
ut interea magistratus reliquos, legibus omnibus soluti, petere possetis,
id. Agr. 2, 36, 99:
Lurco, tribunus plebis, solutus est (et lege Aelia et Furia),
id. Att. 1, 16, 13:
solvatne legibus Scipionem,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2:
petente Flacco ut legibus solverentur,
Liv. 31, 50, 8:
Scipio legibus solutus est,
id. Epit. 56:
Licet enim, inquiunt, legibus soluti sumus, attamen legibus vivimus,
Just. Inst. 2, 17, 8; cf.:
ut munere vigintiviratus solveretur,
Tac. A. 3, 29.— Transf., of the laws of nature, etc.:
(aestus) illo tempore, solutus legibus, sine modo fertur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6:
solus (sapiens) generis humani legibus solvitur,
id. Brev. Vit. 15, 5:
nec leti lege solutas,
Lucr. 3, 687:
nec solvo Rutulos (i. e. legibus fati),
Verg. A. 10, 111.— With gen. (cf. libero), perh. only in phrase testamenti solvere, to release from a testamentary disposition:
et is per aes et libram heredes testamenti solveret,
Cic. Leg. 2, 20, 51; 2, 21, 53 (less prop. testamenti is taken as attribute of heredes); cf. Gai. Inst. 3, 175, and Hor. C. 3, 17, 16, P. a., B. 5. fin. infra.—
(β).
Legibus solutus, not subject to, released from:
reus Postumus est ea lege... solutus ac liber,
i. e. the law does not apply to him, Cic. Rab. Post. 5, 12:
soluti (lege Julia) huc convenistis, ne constricti discedatis cavete,
id. ib. 7, 18.—Of other laws:
solutus Legibus insanis,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 68:
quae sedes expectent animam solutam legibus servitutis humanae,
Sen. Ep. 65, 20.— Transf., of things: soluta legibus scelera sunt, unrestrained by the laws, i. e. crimes are committed with impunity, Sen. Ben. 7, 27, 1.— Of the laws of versification: numerisque fertur Lege solutis, referring to dithyrambic measures, Hor. C. 4, 2, 12 (cf. P. a., B. 11. infra).—
2.
To dissolve, separate objects which are united, to break up, dismiss.
(α).
Of troops, ranks, etc.:
ubi ordines procursando solvissent,
Liv. 42, 65, 8:
incomposito agmine, solutis ordinibus,
Curt. 8, 1, 5; so id. 8, 4, 6:
agmina Diductis solvere choris,
Verg. A. 5, 581:
solvit maniplos,
Juv. 8, 154:
solvuntur laudata cohors,
Stat. Achill. 2, 167.—Hence, to separate armies engaged in battle:
commissas acies ego possum solvere,
Prop. 4 (5), 4, 59.—
(β).
Of banquets, assemblies, etc.:
convivio soluto,
Liv. 40, 14 fin.:
convivium solvit,
Curt. 8, 5, 24; 8, 6, 16:
Quid cessas convivia solvere?
Ov. F. 6, 675:
coetuque soluto Discedunt,
id. M. 13, 898.—Hence, urbem (Capuam) solutam ac debilitatam reliquerunt, disfranchised, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91.—
(γ).
Of the words in discourse, orationem or versum solvere, to break up a sentence or verse:
(discant) versus primo solvere, mox mutatis verbis interpretari,
Quint. 1, 9, 2:
quod cuique visum erit vehementer, dulciter, speciose dictum, solvat ac turbet,
id. 9, 4, 14:
ut partes orationis sibi soluto versu desideret et pedum proprietates,
id. 1, 8, 13:
non, ut si solvas Postquam discordia tetra, etc., invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 60.—
3.
Implying a change for the worse.
a.
To relax, make effeminate, weaken, by ease, luxury, dissipation, etc. (post-Aug.):
Hannibalem hiberna solverunt,
Sen. Ep. 51, 5:
usque eo nimio delicati animi languore solvuntur,
Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 6:
infantiam statim deliciis solvimus,
Quint. 1, 2, 6:
solutus luxu,
id. 3, 8, 28; so Tac. A. 11, 31.—With in and acc.:
soluti in luxum,
Tac. H. 2, 99:
in lasciviam,
id. ib. 3, 38.— Transf.: versum solvere, to deprive a verse of its proper rhythm:
si quinque continuos dactylos confundas solveris versum,
Quint. 9, 4, 49.—
b.
To make torpid by removing sensation.
(α).
To relax, benumb the limbs or body;
as by narcotics, terror, sickness, exhaustion: multaque praeterea languentia membra per artus solvunt,
Lucr. 6, 798:
ima Solvuntur latera,
Verg. G. 3, 523:
solvi debilitate corporis,
paralyzed, Val. Max. 1, 7, 4:
ut soluto labitur moriens gradu,
Sen. Hippol. 368.—In mal. part., Hor. Epod. 12, 8; cf. Verg. G. 3, 523.— Poet.:
illum aget, penna metuente solvi, Fama superstes,
Hor. C. 2, 2, 7.—Of the mind:
segnitia (oratoris) solvit animos,
wearies, Quint. 11, 3, 52:
mentes solvere,
to make insane, Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25.—
(β).
By frost ( poet.):
solvuntur illi frigore membra,
Verg. A. 12, 951; 1, 92.—
(γ).
By sleep ( poet. for sopio):
homines volucresque ferasque Solverat alta quies,
Ov. M. 7, 186:
corpora somnus Solverat,
id. ib. 10, 369:
molli languore solutus,
id. ib. 11, 648;
11, 612: altoque sopore solutum,
id. ib. 8, 817:
somno vinoque solutos,
id. F. 2, 333; Verg. A. 9, 236:
ut membra solvit sopor,
id. ib. 12, 867:
non solvit pectora somnus,
Sen. Agam. 76.—With in:
solvitur in somnos,
Verg. A. 4, 530.— Transf., of the sea:
aequor longa ventorum pace solutum,
lulled to sleep, Stat. Th. 3, 255.—
(δ).
By death: solvi, to die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
ipse deus, simulatque volam, me solvet,
Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 78:
corporibus quae senectus solvit,
Curt. 89, 32 (cf. A. 4. supra):
(corpus) quam nullo negotio solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 2:
alius inter cenandum solutus est,
id. Ep. 66, 43:
ubicumque arietaveris, solveris,
id. Cons. Marc. 11, 3:
me fata maturo exitu facilique solvant,
Sen. Troad. 605:
solvi inedia,
Petr. 111:
sic morte quasi somno soluta est,
Flor. 2, 21, 11.—Hence,
4.
Of logical dissolution, to refute:
non tradit Epicurus quomodo captiosa solvantur,
how fallacies are refuted, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22:
argumentum solvere,
Quint. 2, 17, 34:
solutum scies quod nobis opponitur,
Sen. Const. 12, 3.—
b.
To disperse, dispel, as of a cloud:
deorum beneficia tempestiva ingentes minas interventu suo solventia,
Sen. Ben. 4, 4, 2.
II.
To loose, remove, cancel that which binds any thing.
A.
In a corporeal sense.
1.
In gen., to loose (weaker than rumpo;
post-Aug.): effringere quam aperire, rumpere quam solvere putant robustius,
Quint. 2, 12, 1:
qua convulsa tota operis colligatio solveretur,
Val. Max. 8, 14, 6:
supera compage soluta,
Stat. Th. 8, 31.—
2.
To remove a fetter, bridle, etc.:
nullo solvente catenas,
Ov. M. 3, 700: vincla jugis boum, Tib. 2, 1, 7:
solvere frenum,
Phaedr. 1, 2, 3:
loris solutis,
Ov. A. A. 1, 41.— Transf., of prisons:
qui, solutis ergastulis, exercitus numerum implevit,
Liv. Ep. 56; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 13; 11, 13, 2.—Of frost:
gelu solvitur,
it thaws, Tac. H. 1, 79:
solvitur acris hiems,
Hor. C. 1, 4, 1.—Of clouds:
facit igitur ventum resoluta nubes, quae plurimis modis solvitur,
Sen. Q. N. 5, 12, 5; 5, 12, 1.—Of the grasp of hands, fingers, etc.:
Aeacides a corpore bracchia solvit,
looses his hold, Ov. M. 11, 246:
indigno non solvit bracchia collo,
Stat. Th. 5, 217:
digitis solutis abjecit jaculum,
id. ib. 8, 585.—
3.
To untie a string, cord, necklace, etc., slacken or unlock an enclosure, open a box, trunk, etc.:
solve vidulum ergo,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 98:
eam solve cistulam,
id. Am. 2, 2, 151:
solve zonam,
untie, id. Truc. 5, 62:
solvisse jugalem ceston fertur,
Stat. Th. 5, 62:
animai nodos a corpore solvit,
Lucr. 2, 950:
nihil interest quomodo (nodi) solvantur,
Curt. 3, 1, 18:
quid boni est, nodos operose solvere, quos ipse ut solveres feceris?
Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 2:
solvere nodum,
Stat. Th. 11, 646:
laqueum quem nec solvere possis, nec abrumpere,
Sen. Tranq. 10, 1:
vix solvi duros a pectore nexus,
Ov. M. 9, 58:
fasciam solve,
Sen. Ep. 80, 10:
solutis fasciis,
Curt. 7, 6, 5:
solvi fasciculum,
Cic. Att. 11, 9, 2:
crinales vittas,
Verg. A. 7, 403:
Parmenion vinculum epistulae solvens,
Curt. 7, 2, 25:
equum empturus solvi jubes stratum,
Sen. Ep. 80, 9:
redimicula solvite collo,
Ov. F. 4, 135:
corollas de fronte,
Prop. 1, 3, 21:
solvere portas,
Stat. Th. 3, 492:
munimina valli,
id. ib. 12, 10:
ille pharetram Solvit,
Ov. M. 5, 380.— Transf., of the veins as enclosures of the blood:
solutis ac patefactis venis,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 15, 5:
venam cultello solvere,
Col. 6, 14; cf.
also: lychnis alvum solvit,
looses the bowels, Plin. 21, 26, 98, § 171; 21, 20, 83, § 140; Suet. Vesp. 24; Tac. A. 12, 67:
ventrem,
Plin. 20, 8, 30, § 74.— Absol. (sc. alvum), Mart. 13, 29:
stomachus solutus = venter solutus,
loose bowels, Petr. 117; Scrib. Comp. 92.—
B.
Trop., to slacken or remove a bond.
1.
Solvere aliquid (aliquod vinculum; cf. I. B. 1. supra).
a.
Of the mouth, etc., to open:
talibus ora solvit verbis,
Ov. M. 15, 74; so id. ib. 1, 181; Tib. 4, 5, 14:
ternis ululatibus ora Solvit,
Ov. M. 7, 191; 9, 427; id. Tr. 3, 11, 20; Stat. Achill. 1, 525:
vix ora solvi patitur etiamnum timor,
Sen. Herc. Oet. 725; so,
os promptius ac solutius,
Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.— Transf., of an abyss:
hic ora solvit Ditis invisi domus,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 664.—
b.
To remove, cancel; to destroy the force of a legal or moral obligation by expiration, death, etc.:
si mors alterutrius interveniat, solvitur mandatum,
Gai. Inst. 3, 160:
cum aliquis renunciaverit societati, societas solvitur,
id. ib. 3, 151; so id. ib. 3, 152:
morte solvetur compromissum,
Dig. 4, 8, 27:
soluto matrimonio,
ib. 24, 3, 2:
solutum conjugium,
Juv. 9, 79:
qui... conjugalia solvit,
Sen. Med. 144:
nec conjugiale solutum Foedus in alitibus,
Ov. M. 11, 743:
(sapiens) invitus beneficium per compensationem injuriae solvet,
cancel the obligation of a favor by the set-off of a wrong, Sen. Ep. 81, 17.—
c.
To efface guilt or wrong:
magnis injuria poenis Solvitur,
Ov. F. 5, 304:
solve nefas, dixit: solvit et ille nefas,
id. ib. 2, 44:
culpa soluta mea est,
id. Tr. 4, 4, 10:
neque tu verbis solves unquam quod mi re male feceris (i. e. injuriam),
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 10.—
d.
Poenam solvere, to suffer punishment, i. e. to cancel the obligation of suffering, etc. (cf. 3. infra;
less freq. than poenam persolvere, exsolvere): serae, sed justae tamen et debitae poenae solutae sunt,
Cic. Mil. 31, 85:
capite poenas solvit,
Sall. J. 69, 4:
meritas poenas solventem,
Curt. 6, 3, 14:
poenarum solvendi tempus,
Lucr. 5, 1224:
nunc solvo poenas,
Sen. Phoen. 172:
hac manu poenas tibi solvam,
id. Hippol. 1177.—
e.
To remove, relieve, soothe affections, passions, etc.:
atque animi curas e pectore solvat,
Lucr. 4, 908:
curam metumque juvat Dulci Lyaeo solvere,
Hor. Epod. 9, 38:
patrimonii cura solvatur,
Sen. Q. N. 3, praef. §
2: Pyrrhus impetus sui terrore soluto,
Val. Max. 4, 3, 14:
solvite corde metum,
Verg. A. 1, 562; so id. ib. 9, 90:
solve metus animo,
Stat. Th. 2, 356:
solvi pericula et metus narrant,
Plin. 11, 37, 52, § 140: neque adhuc Stheneleius iras Solverat Eurystheus, [p. 1727] Ov. M. 9, 274:
hoc uno solvitur ira modo,
id. A. A. 2, 460:
solvitque pudorem,
Verg. A. 4, 55.—
f.
Of sleep:
quasi clamore solutus Sit sopor,
Ov. M. 3, 6, 30:
nec verba, nec herbae audebunt longae somnum tibi solvere Lethes,
Luc. 6, 768; cf.:
lassitudinem solvere,
Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 143. —
g.
Of any checks and barriers to motion, to remove.
(α).
To raise a siege:
solutam cernebat obsidionem,
Liv. 36, 10, 14:
soluta obsidione,
id. 36, 31, 7:
ad Locrorum solvendam obsidionem,
id. 27, 28, 17; cf. id. 37, 7, 7; 38, 5, 6; 42, 56 init.; 44, 13, 7; Curt. 4, 4, 1; Tac. A. 4, 24; 4, 73; Just. 9, 2, 10.—
(β).
Of passions, etc., to remove restraint:
cujus si talis animus est, solvamus nos ejus vincula, et claustra (i. e. irae) refringamus,
Liv. 36, 7, 13.—
(γ).
To overthrow, subvert a higher authority, etc.:
quos (milites), soluto imperio, licentia corruperat,
Sall. J. 39, 5:
imperia solvit qui tacet, jussus loqui,
Sen. Oedip. 525:
sonipedes imperia solvunt,
id. Hippol. 1084; cf.:
sanctitas fori ludis solvitur,
Quint. 11, 3, 58.—
h.
Of laws and customs, to abolish, violate:
solvendarum legum id principium esse censebant (post-Aug. for dissolvendarum),
Curt. 10, 2, 5:
solutae a se legis monitus,
Val. Max. 6, 5, ext. 4:
cum plus quam ducentorum annorum morem solveremus,
Liv. 8, 4, 7:
(Tarquinius) morem de omnibus senatum consulendi solvit,
id. 1, 49, 7:
oportebat istum morem solvi,
Curt. 8, 8, 18.—
2.
Esp. with acc. of the bond, etc. (taking the place of the constr. I. B. 1. 2. 3. supra, when the abl. of separation is not admissible).
a.
To subvert discipline:
disciplinam militarem solvisti,
Liv. 8, 7, 16:
luxuria solutam disciplinam militarem esse,
id. 40, 1, 4:
quod cum, ne disciplina solveretur, fecisset,
Front. Strat. 2, 12, 2.—
b.
Of strength, energy, attention, etc., to loosen, impair, weaken, scatter, disperse:
nobilitas factione magis pollebat, plebis vis soluta atque dispersa,
Sall. J. 41, 6:
patrios nervos externarum deliciarum contagione solvi et hebetari noluerunt,
Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:
vires solvere,
Quint. 9, 4, 7:
vis illa dicendi solvitur, et frigescit affectus,
Quint. 11, 3, 133.—
c.
Of affection, etc., to sever, dissolve, destroy:
segnes nodum (amicitiae) solvere Gratiae,
Hor. C. 3, 21, 22;
similarly: solvit (ille deus) amicos,
Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 5; so id. 2, 15 (3, 7), 26:
hoc firmos solvit amores,
Ov. A. A. 2, 385:
amores cantibus et herbis solvere,
Tib. 1, 2, 60.—
d.
Of sickness and hunger, to end, remove:
vitex dicitur febres solvere,
Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 60:
solvit jejunia granis,
Ov. F. 4, 607:
quoniam jejunia virgo Solverat,
id. M. 5, 535; cf. Luc. 3, 282; so,
famem,
Sen. Thyest. 64.—
e.
To delay:
hi classis moras hac morte solvi rentur,
Sen. Troad. 1131.—
f.
Of darkness, to dispel:
lux solverat umbras,
Stat. Th. 10, 390.—
g.
Of war, strife, etc., to compose, settle:
aut solve bellum, mater, aut prima excipe,
Sen. Phoen. 406:
electus formae certamina solvere pastor,
Stat. Achill. 2, 337:
jurgia solvere,
Manil. 3, 115:
contradictiones solvere,
Quint. 7, 1, 38.—
h.
Of difficulties, riddles, questions, ambiguities, etc., to solve, explain, remove:
quia quaestionem solvere non posset,
Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 3:
aenigmata,
Quint. 8, 6, 53:
omnes solvere posse quaestiones,
Suet. Gram. 11:
haec ipsa, quae volvuntur ab illis, solvere malim et expandere,
Sen. Ep. 82, 20; id. Q. N. 7, 14, 1:
unum tantum hoc solvendum est,
that one question, id. ib. 1, 7, 3:
puta nunc me istuc non posse solvere,
id. Ep. 48, 6:
carmina non intellecta Solverat,
Ov. M. 7, 760:
triste carmen alitis solvi ferae,
Sen. Oedip. 102:
nodos juris,
Juv. 8, 50:
proponere aliquid quod solvat quaestionem,
Quint. 5, 10, 96:
plurimas quaestiones illis probationibus solvi solere,
id. 1, 10, 49:
quo solvitur quaestio supra tractata,
id. 3, 7, 3:
ambiguitatem or amphiboliam,
id. 7, 2, 49; 7, 9, 10.—
3.
In partic., of obligations, to fulfil.
a.
To pay.
(α).
Originally, rem solvere, to free one's property and person (rem familiarem) from debts (solutio per aes et libram), according to the ancient formula:
quod ego tibi tot millibus condemnatus sum, me eo nomine... a te solvo liberoque hoc aere aeneaque libra,
Gai. Inst. 3, 174 Huschke; cf.:
inde rem creditori palam populo solvit (i. e. per aes et libram),
Liv. 6, 14, 5:
quas res dari, fieri, solvi oportuit,
id. 1, 32, 11. —Hence, rem solvere, to pay; often with dat. of person:
pro vectura rem solvit?
paid the freight, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 27:
ubi nugivendis res soluta'st omnibus,
id. Aul. 3, 5, 51:
tibi res soluta est recte,
id. Curc. 4, 3, 21:
ego quidem pro istac rem solvo ab tarpessita meo,
id. ib. 5, 2, 20:
rem solvo omnibus quibus dehibeo,
id. ib. 5, 3, 45:
dum te strenuas, res erit soluta,
id. Ps. 2, 2, 35:
res soluta'st, Gripe, ego habeo,
id. Rud. 5, 3, 57.— Trop.: saepe edunt (aves);
semel si captae sunt, rem solvont aucupi,
they repay him, pay for his expenses, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 66.—And to pay by other things than money:
si tergo res solvonda'st,
by a whipping, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:
habent hunc morem ut pugnis rem solvant si quis poscat clarius,
id. Curc. 3, 9:
tibi quidem copia'st, dum lingua vivet, qui rem solvas omnibus,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 74.—Hence,
(β).
Absol. (sc. rem), to pay; with or without dat. of person:
cujus bona, quod populo non solvebat, publice venierunt,
Cic. Fl. 18, 43:
ei cum solveret, sumpsit a C. M. Fufiis,
id. ib. 20, 46:
misimus qui pro vectura solveret,
id. Att. 1, 3, 2:
qui nimis cito cupit solvere, invitus debet,
Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 5:
ut creditori solvat,
Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 7.— Pass. impers.:
si dare vis mihi, Magis solutum erit quam ipsi dederis,
it will be a more valid payment, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 46:
numquam vehementius actum est quam me consule, ne solveretur,
to stop payments, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:
fraudandi spe sublata solvendi necessitas consecuta est,
id. ib. 2, 24, 84:
cum eo ipso quod necesse erat solvi, facultas solvendi impediretur,
Liv. 6, 34, 1.—Cf. in the two senses, to free from debt, and to pay, in the same sentence:
non succurrere vis illi, sed solvere. Qui sic properat, ipse solvi vult, non solvere,
Sen. Ben. 6, 27, 1.—
(γ).
With acc. of the debt, to discharge, to pay:
postquam Fundanio debitum solutum esset,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 10:
hoc quod debeo peto a te ut... solutum relinquas,
settled, id. Att. 16, 6, 3:
solverat Castricio pecuniam jam diu debitam,
id. Fl. 23, 54:
ex qua (pensione) major pars est ei soluta,
id. Att. 16, 2, 1:
solvi aes alienum Pompejus ex suo fisco jussit,
Val. Max. 6, 2, 11:
aes alienum solvere,
Sen. Ep. 36, 5:
quae jactatio est, solvisse quod debebas?
id. Ben. 4, 17, 1; so,
debitum solvere,
id. ib. 6, 30, 2:
ne pecunias creditas solverent,
Cic. Pis. 35, 86:
ut creditae pecuniae solvantur,
Caes. B. C. 3, 20; 3, 1:
ex thensauris Gallicis creditum solvi posse,
Liv. 6, 15, 5:
ita bona veneant ut solidum suum cuique solvatur,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 46.—And of moral debts:
cum patriae quod debes solveris,
Cic. Marcell. 9, 27:
debet vero, solvitque praeclare,
id. Phil. 13, 11, 25:
aliter beneficium, aliter creditum solvitur,
Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 1:
qui grate beneficium accipit, primam ejus pensionem solvit,
id. ib. 2, 22 fin. —
(δ).
By a confusion of construction, solvere pecuniam, etc., to pay money, etc. (for pecunia rem or debitum solvere); constr. with dat. or absol.:
emi: pecuniam solvi,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 43:
pro frumento nihil solvit,
id. ib. 2, 3, 72, §
169: legatis pecuniam pro frumento solvit,
Liv. 44, 16:
hanc pecuniam cum solvere in praesenti non posset,
Nep. Milt. 7, 6:
nisi pecuniam solvisset,
id. Cim. 1, 1:
condiciones pacis dictae ut decem millia talentum argenti... solverent,
Liv. 30, 37 med.:
pro quo (frumento) pretium solveret populus Romanus,
id. 36, 3, 1:
pretium servorum ex aerario solutum est dominis,
id. 32, 26, 14:
pretium pro libris domino esse solvendum,
id. 40, 39 fin.:
meritam mercedem,
id. 8, 22, 3; so id. 8, 11, 4: sorte creditum solvere, by paying the principal (i. e. without interest), id. 6, 36, 12:
quae praemia senatus militibus ante constituit, ea solvantur,
Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38:
stipendium,
Liv. 28, 32, 1:
dotem mulieri,
Dig. 24, 3, 2:
litem aestimatam,
the amount of a fine, Nep. Cim. 5, 18 fin.:
arbitria funeris,
the expenses of the funeral, Cic. Red. Sen. 7, 18:
solvere dodrantem,
to pay seventy-five per cent., Mart. 8, 9, 1:
dona puer solvit,
paid the promised gifts, Ov. M. 9, 794; so,
munera,
id. ib. 11, 104.— Transf., of the dedication of a book, in return for favors:
et exspectabo ea (munera) quae polliceris, et erunt mihi pergrata si solveris... Non solvam nisi prius a te cavero, etc.,
Cic. Brut. 4, 17 sq. —Of the delivery of slaves:
si quis duos homines promise rit et Stichum solverit,
Dig. 46, 3, 67; 46, 3, 38, § 3.— Transf., poet.: dolorem solvisti, you have paid your grief, i. e. have duly mourned, Stat. S. 2, 6, 98.— Pass. with personal subject:
si (actor) solutus fuisset,
Dig. 12, 1, 31 (cf.: solvere militem, b supra). —
(ε).
Esp., in certain phrases, to pay:
aliquid praesens solvere,
to pay in cash, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 1; so,
aliquid de praesentibus solvere,
Sen. Ep. 97, 16:
solvere grates (= referre gratiam muneribus): Sulla solvit grates Dianae,
Vell. 2, 25:
quas solvere grates sufficiam?
Stat. S. 4, 2, 7: cum homo avarus, ut ea (beneficia) solveret sibi imperare non posset, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 1; cf.: non dicimus reposuit beneficium aut solvit;
nullum nobis placuit quod aeri alieno convenit verbum,
Sen. Ep. 81, 9; but v. id. Ben. 2, 18, 5: in debitum solvere, to make a partial payment:
unum haec epistula in debitum solvet,
id. Ep. 7, 10: aliquid solvere ab aliquo (de aliqua re), to pay out of funds supplied by any one ( out of any fund):
Quintus laborat ut tibi quod debet ab Egnatio solvat,
Cic. Att. 7, 18, 4:
homines dicere, se a me solvere,
id. ib. 5, 21, 11:
(summa) erat solvenda de meo,
Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2:
operas solvere alicui,
to work for somebody, Dig. 40, 7, 39: solvo operam Dianae, I work for Diana, i. e. offer a sacrifice to her, Afran. ap. Non. 12, 21: judicatum solvere, to pay the amount adjudged by the court, for which security (satisdatio) was required:
stipulatio quae appellatur judicatum solvi,
Gai. Inst. 4, 90:
iste postulat ut procurator judicatum solvi satisdaret,
Cic. Quint. 7, 29; so Dig. 3, 2, 28; 3, 3, 15; 2, 8, 8;
2, 8, 14 et saep.: auctio solvendis nummis,
a cash auction, Mart. 14, 35.— Gerund.: solvendo esse, to be solvent; jurid. t. t., to be able to pay, i. e. one's debts; cf.
in full: nec tamen solvendo aeri alieno respublica esset,
Liv. 31, 13:
nemo dubitat solvendo esse eum qui defenditur,
Dig. 50, 17, 105:
qui modo solvendo sint,
Gai. Inst. 1, 3, 121:
si solvendo sint,
Paul. Sent. 1, 20, 1:
nec interest, solvendo sit, necne,
Dig. 30, 1, 49, § 5; so ib. 46, 1, 10; 46, 1, 27, § 2; 46, 1, 51, §§ 1 and 4; 46, 1, 52, § 1; 46, 1, 28; 50, 17, 198 et saep.: non solvendo esse, to be insolvent:
solvendo non erat,
Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3:
cum solvendo civitates non essent,
id. Fam. 3, 8, 2:
tu nec solvendo eras, nec, etc.,
id. Phil. 2, 2, 4:
ne videatur non fuisse solvendo,
id. Off. 2, 22, 79;
and very freq. in the jurists.—So, trop.: quid matri, quid flebili patriae dabis? Solvendo non es,
Sen. Oedip. 941; cf.:
*non esse ad solvendum (i. e. able to pay),
Vitr. 10, 6 fin. —
b.
To fulfil the duty of burial.
(α).
Justa solvere; with dat. of the person:
qui nondum omnia paterno funeri justa solvisset,
who had not yet finished the burial ceremonies of his father, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:
justis defunctorum corporibus solutis,
Curt. 3, 12, 15:
proinde corpori quam primum justa solvamus,
id. 10, 6, 7:
ut justa soluta Remo,
Ov. F. 5, 452:
nunc justa nato solve,
Sen. Hippol. 1245.—
(β).
Exsequias, inferias or suprema solvere:
exsequiis rite solutis,
Verg. A. 7, 5:
cruor sancto solvit inferias viro,
Sen. Hippol. 1198:
solvere suprema militibus,
Tac. A. 1, 61.—
c.
Votum solvere, to fulfil a vow to the gods.
(α).
Alone:
vota ea quae numquam solveret nuncupavit,
Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 11:
quod si factum esset, votum rite solvi non posse,
Liv. 31, 9 fin.:
liberare et se et rempublicam religione votis solvendis,
id. 40, 44, 8:
placatis diis votis rite solvendis,
id. 36, 37 fin.:
petiit ut votum sibi solvere liceret,
id. 45, 44:
animosius a mercatore quam a vectore solvitur votum,
Sen. Ep. 73, 5:
vota pro incolumitate solvebantur,
Tac. A. 2, 69:
vota pater solvit,
Ov. M. 9, 707:
ne votum solvat,
Mart. 12, 91, 6; 8, 4, 2; Val. Max. 6, 9, 5 ext.; 1, 1, 8 ext. — Poet.:
voti debita solvere,
Ov. F. 5, 596; cf.
the abbrev. formula V. S. L. M. (voTVM SOLVIT LIBENS MERITO),
Inscr. Orell. 186; 1296 sq.:
V.S.A.L. (ANIMO LIBENTI),
ib. 2022 et saep.:
sacra solvere (=votum solvere),
Manil. 1, 427.—
(β).
With dat.:
ait sese Veneri velle votum solvere,
Plaut. Rud. prol. 60:
vota Jovi solvo,
Ov. M. 7, 652; 8, 153:
sunt vota soluta deae,
id. F. 6, 248:
dis vota solvis,
Sen. Ben. 5, 19, 4:
libamenta Veneri solvere (=votum per libamenta),
Just. 18, 5, 4.—
d.
Fidem solvere, to fulfil a promise (post-class. for fidem praestare, [p. 1728] exsolvere; cf.:
fidem obligatam liberare,
Suet. Claud. 9):
illi, ut fidem solverent, clipeis obruere,
Flor. 1, 1, 12;
similarly: et voti solverat ille fidem (=votum solverat),
Ov. F. 1, 642; but cf.: itane imprudens? tandem inventa'st causa: solvisti fidem, you have found a pretext to evade your promise (cf. II. A. 3.), Ter. And. 4, 1, 18: esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides, by my death your promise to marry me would have been cancelled (cf. II. B. 1. 6.), Ov. H. 10, 78; similarly: suam fidem (i. e. quam Lepido habuerit) solutam esse, that his faith in Lepidus was broken, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3.—With a different construction: se depositi fide solvere, to acquit one's self of the duty to return property intrusted to him (cf. I. B. 1. c.), Val. Max. 7, 3, 5 ext.: factique fide data munera solvit, he freed the gift already given from the obligation of an accomplished fact, i. e. he revoked the gifts, although already made, Ov. M. 11, 135.—
e.
Promissum solvere, to fulfil a promise (very rare):
perinde quasi promissum solvens,
Val. Max. 9, 6, 1:
solvitur quod cuique promissum est,
Sen. Cons. Marc. 20 fin.;
similarly: solutum, quod juraverant, rebantur,
what they had promised under oath, Liv. 24, 18, 5.—Hence, sŏlūtus, a, um, P. a., free, loose, at large, unfettered, unbandaged.
A.
Lit.
1.
(Acc. to I.A. 1. supra.) Pigeat nostrum erum si eximat aut solutos sinat, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 11:
tibi moram facis quom ego solutus sto,
id. Ep. 5, 2, 25:
reus solutus causam dicis, testes vinctos attines,
id. Truc. 4, 3, 63:
cum eos vinciret quos secum habebat, te solutum Romam mittebat?
Cic. Deiot. 7, 22:
nec quisquam ante Marium solutus dicitur esse sectus,
unbandaged, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 53:
duos (captivos) solutos ire ad Hannibalem jussit,
Liv. 27, 51:
eum interdiu solutum custodes sequebantur, nocte clausum asservabant,
id. 24, 45, 10:
non efficiatis ut solutos verear quos alligatos adduxit,
Val. Max. 6, 2, 3.—
2.
(Acc. to I. A. 2.) Of texture, etc.; esp. of soil, loose, friable (opp spissus;
postAug.): quo solutior terra facilius pateat radicibus,
Sen. Ep. 90, 21;
ordeum nisi solutum et siccum locum non patitur,
Col. 2, 9:
soluta et facilis terra,
id. 3, 14;
solum solutum vel spissum,
id. 2, 2 init.;
seri vult raphanus terra soluta, umida,
Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83:
hordeum seri non vult, nisi in sicca et soluta terra,
id. 18, 7, 18, § 79:
solutiores ripae,
Front. Aquaed. 15.—Of plants:
mas spissior, femina solutior,
Plin. 25, 9, 57, § 103.—Hence, subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., a state of looseness:
dum vult describere, quem ad modum alia torqueantur fila, alia ex molli solutoque ducantur,
Sen. Ep. 90, 20.—
3.
(Acc. to I. A. 3.) Rarefied, thin, diffused:
turbo, quo celsior eo solutior laxiorque est, et ob hoc diffunditur,
Sen. Q. N. 7, 9, 3:
aer agitatus a sole calefactusque solutior est,
id. ib. 1, 2, 10:
debet aer nec tam spissus esse, nec tam tenuis et solutus, ut, etc.,
id. ib. 1, 2, 11.—
B.
Trop.
1.
(Acc. to I. B. 1.) Of speech, unfettered, fluent, ready:
(orator) solutus in explicandis sententiis,
Cic. Or. 47, 173:
verbis solutus satis,
id. ib. 47, 174:
solutissimus in dicendo,
id. ib. 48, 180.—
2.
Exempt, free from duties, obligations, etc.:
quam ob rem viderer maximis beneficii vinculis obstrictus, cum liber essem et solutus?
Cic. Planc. 30, 72:
soluta (praedia) meliore in causa sunt quam obligata,
unmortgaged, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:
si reddidi (debitum), solutus sum ac liber,
Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 5;
non ut gratus, sed ut solutus sim,
id. ib. 4, 21, 3;
solutus omni fenore,
Hor. Epod. 2, 4;
nam ea (religione) magister equitum solutus ac liber potuerit esse,
Liv. 8, 32, 5:
Mamertini soli in omni orbe terrarum vacui, expertes soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23.—
3.
Free from punishment, not punishable, not liable, etc.: qui mancipia vendunt, certiores faciunt emptores quis fugitivus sit, noxave solutus, Edict. Aedil. ap. Dig. 21, 1, 1, § 1; Gell. 4, 2, 1; cf.:
quod aiunt aediles noxae solutus non sit sic intellegendum est... noxali judicio subjectum non esse,
Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 17:
apud quos libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam,
Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:
omne illud tempus habeat per me solutum ac liberum,
i. e. let the crimes then committed be unpunished, id. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 33: antea vacuum id solutumque poena fuerat, Tac. A. 14, 28.—With subj. inf.:
maxime solutum fuit, prodere de iis, etc.,
Tac. A. 4, 35: solutum existimatur esse, alteri male dicere, Caecil. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3.—
4.
Free from cares, undistracted:
animo soluto liberoque,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185:
sed paulo solutiore tamen animo,
id. ib. 2, 5, 31, § 82.—
5.
At leisure, free from labor, business, etc.:
te rogo ut eum solutum, liberum, confectis ejus negotiis a te, quamprimum ad me remittas,
Cic. Fam. 13, 63, 2:
quo mea ratio facilior et solutior esse possit,
id. ib. 3, 5, 1.—With gen.:
Genium Curabis Cum famulis operum solutis,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 16.—
6.
Unbound, relaxed, merry, jovial:
quam homines soluti ridere non desinant, tristiores autem, etc.,
Cic. Dom. 39, 104:
an tu existimas quemquam soluto vultu et hilari oculo mortem contemnere?
Sen. Ep. 23, 4:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 5, 355:
(mores) naturam sequentium faciles sunt, soluti sunt,
unembarrassed, Sen. Ep. 122, 17.—
7.
Free from the rule of others, uncontrolled, independent:
cum videas civitatis voluntatem solutam, virtutem alligatam,
Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1:
ab omni imperio externo soluta in perpetuum Hispania,
Liv. 29, 1 fin.:
Masinissae ab imperio Romano solutam libertatem tribuit,
Val. Max. 7, 2, 6:
incerti, solutique, et magis sine domino quam in libertate, Vononem in regnum accipiunt,
Tac. A. 2, 4:
quorum (militum) libertas solutior erat,
Just. 13, 2, 2.—Of animals:
rectore solutos (solis) equos,
Stat. Th. 1, 219.—
8.
Free from influence or restraint; hence, independent, unbiassed, unprejudiced:
nec vero deus ipse alio modo intellegi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 27, 66;
cum animi sine ratione motu ipsi suo soluto ac libero incitarentur,
id. Div. 1, 2, 4:
judicio senatus soluto et libero,
id. Phil. 5, 15, 41:
sum enim ad dignitatem in re publica solutus,
id. Att. 1, 13, 2:
libero tempore cum soluta vobis est eligendi optio,
id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:
si omnia mihi essent solutissima, tamen in re publica non alius essem atque nunc sum,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 21:
liberi enim ad causas solutique veniebant,
uncommitted, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192.—
9.
Free from moral restraint; hence, unbridled, insolent, loose:
amores soluti et liberi,
Cic. Rep. 4, 4, 4:
licentia,
id. ib. 4, 4, 4:
populi quamvis soluti ecfrenatique sint,
id. ib. 1, 34, 53:
quis erat qui sibi solutam P. Clodii praeturam sine maximo metu proponeret? Solutam autem fore videbatis, nisi esset is consul qui eam auderet possetque constringere,
id. Mil. 13, 34:
quominus conspectus, eo solutior erat,
Liv. 27, 31 fin.:
adulescentes aliquot quorum, in regno, libido solutior fuerat,
id. 2, 1, 2:
solutioris vitae primos adulescentiae annos egisse fertur,
a licentious life, Val. Max. 2, 6, 1:
spectandi solutissimum morem corrigere,
Suet. Aug. 44:
mores soluti,
licentious habits, Just. 3, 3, 10.—
10.
Regardless of rules, careless, loose:
orator tam solutus et mollis in gestu,
Cic. Brut. 62, 225:
dicta factaque ejus solutiora, et quandam sui neglegentiam praeferentia,
Tac. A. 16, 18.—
11.
Esp., of style, etc., free from rules of composition.
(α).
Oratio soluta, verba soluta, a free style, conversational or epistolary style:
est oratio aliqua vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, qualis in sermone et epistulis,
Quint. 9, 4, 19; 9, 4, 20; 9, 4, 69; 9, 4, 77.—
(β).
More freq.: verba soluta, oratio soluta, prose (opp. to verse);
in full: scribere conabar verba soluta modis, Ov Tr. 4, 10, 24: quod (Isocrates) verbis solutis numeros primus adjunxerit,
Cic. Or. 52, 174:
mollis est enim oratio philosophorum... nec vincta numeris, sed soluta liberius,
id. ib. 19, 64; 71, 234;
68, 228: si omnes soluta oratione scripserunt,
Varr. R. R. 4, 1; de heisce rebus treis libros ad te mittere institui;
de oratione soluta duos, de poetica unum,
id. L. L. 6, 11 fin.:
ut in soluta oratione, sic in poemateis,
id. ib. 7, 1:
primus (Isocrates) intellexit. etiam in soluta oratione, dum versum effugeres modum et numerum quemdam debere servari,
Cic. Brut. 8, 32:
Aristoteles judicat heroum numerum grandiorem quam desideret soluta oratio,
id. Or. 57, 192:
et creticus et paeon quam commodissume putatur in solutam orationem illigari,
id. ib. 64, 215:
a modis quibusdam, cantu remoto, soluta esse videatur oratio,
id. ib. 55, 183; 55, 184; id. de Or. 3, 48, 184: historia est quodammodo carmen solutum, Quint. 10, 1, 31.—
(γ).
Also in reference to a prose rhythm, loose, unrhythmical, inharmonious:
ut verba neque inligata sint, quasi... versus, neque ita soluta ut vagentur,
Cic. de Or. 3, 44, 176; 3, 48, 186:
nec vero haec (Callidii verba) soluta nec diffluentia, sed astricta numeris,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
orator sic illigat sententiam verbis ut eam numero quodam complectatur et astricto et soluto,
id. de Or. 3, 44, 175; but: verba soluta suis figuris, words freed from their proper meaning, i.e. metaphors, Manil. 1, 24.—
(δ).
Rarely with reference to the thought: soluta oratio, a fragmentary, disconnected style:
soluta oratio, et e singulis non membris, sed frustis, collata, structura caret,
Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 9, 4, 69:
solutiora componere,
id. 10, 4, 1; 9, 4, 15.—
12.
Effeminate, luxurious (acc. to I. B. 3.):
sinum togae in dextrum umerum reicere, solutum ac delicatum est,
Quint. 11, 3, 146.—
13.
Undisciplined, disorderly:
omnia soluta apud hostes esse,
Liv. 8, 30, 3:
nihil temeritate solutum,
Tac. A. 13, 40:
apud Achaeos neglecta omnia ac soluta fuere,
Just. 34, 2, 2.—
14.
Lax, remiss, weak:
mea lenitas adhuc si cui solutior visa erat,
Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:
Ciceronem male audivisse, tamquam solutum et enervem,
Tac. Or. 18:
soluti ac fluentes,
Quint. 1, 2, 8.—Hence:
solutum genus orationis,
a lifeless, dull style, Val. Max. 8, 10, 3:
quanto longius abscederent, eo solutiore cura,
laxer attention, Liv. 3, 8, 8.—
C.
(Acc. to II. B. 3. e supra.) Paid, discharged, only as subst.: sŏlūtum, i, n., that which is paid, a discharged debt, in certain phrases:
aliquid in solutum dare,
to give something in payment, Dig. 46, 3, 45; 46, 3, 46; 46, 3, 60: in solutum accipere, to accept in payment:
qui voluntatem bonam in solutum accipit,
Sen. Ben. 7, 16, 4:
qui rem in solutum accipit,
Dig. 42, 4, 15; 12, 1, 19;
in solutum imputare,
to charge as payment, Sen. Ep. 8, 10; aliquid pro soluto est, is considered as paid or cancelled:
pro soluto id in quo creditor accipiendo moram fecit, oportet esse,
Dig. 46, 3, 72: pro soluto usucapere, to acquire by prescription something given in payment by the debtor, but not belonging to him:
pro soluto usucapit qui rem debiti causa recepit,
Dig. 41, 3, 46.— Adv.: sŏlūtē.
1.
Thinly:
corpora diffusa solute,
Lucr. 4, 53.—
2.
Of speech, fluently:
non refert videre quid dicendum est, nisi id queas solute ac suaviter dicere,
Cic. Brut. 29, 110:
ita facile soluteque volvebat sententias,
id. ib. 81, 280:
quid ipse compositus alias, et velut eluctantium verborum, solutius promptiusque eloquebatur,
Tac. A. 4, 31.—
3.
Irregularly, loosely:
a fabris neglegentius solutiusque composita,
Sen. Q. N. 6, 30, 4.—
4.
Freely, without restraint:
generaliter puto judicem justum... solutius aequitatem sequi,
i. e. without strictly regarding the letter of the law, Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—
5.
Of style, without connection, loosely:
enuntiare,
Quint. 11, 2, 47.—
6.
Of manners and discipline, disorderly, negligently:
praecipue sub imperio Cn. Manlii solute ac neglegenter habiti sunt (exercitus),
Liv. 39, 1, 4:
in stationibus solute ac neglegenter agentes,
id. 23, 37, 6.—
7.
Weakly, tamely, without vigor:
quod ille tam solute egisset, tam leniter, tam oscitanter,
Cic. Brut. 80, 277.—
8.
Of morals, loosely, without restraint:
ventitabat illuc Nero, quo solutius urbem extra lasciviret,
Tac. A. 13, 47.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > solvo
5 causa

causa (caussa), æ, f.    - voir l'article causa de Gaffiot. [st1]1 [-] cause, origine, source, principe, occasion.    - nihil potest evenire nisi causa antecedente, Cic. rien ne peut exister sans une cause préexistente.    - in seminibus est causa arborum, Cic.: le principe des arbres est dans la semence.    - causæ rerum, Virg.: causes premières des choses. [st1]2 [-] raison, motif allégué, prétexte, excuse.    - causam bellandi reperire: trouver un prétexte pour faire la guerre.    - eadem causā: pour la même raison.    - quid est causæ, cur: quelle raison y a-t-il pour que...? pourquoi?    - haud causast, quod nunc voluisti facere quin facias mihi, Plaut. Most.: il n'y a pas de raison que tu ne me fasses pas ce que tu as voulu me faire maintenant.    - nulla est causa quin: rien n'empêche de.    - causa ut ne (ne, quin, quominus): une raison de ne pas..., une raison pour ne pas...    - ob eam causam ut (ob eam causam quo): afin que.    - justis de causis: pour de justes raisons.    - gravi de causā, Cic.: pour de fortes raisons.    - causam alicui adjudicare: donner raison à qqn.    - quæ causa fuit, consurgere in arma Europamque Asiamque, Virg. En. 10: pour quelle raison l'Europe et l'Asie en bloc ont-elles pris les armes? [st1]3 [-] causā + gén. = à cause de, en vue de, pour, dans l'intérêt de.    - verbi causā: par exemple.    - honoris causā: pour honorer, par honneur.    - morbi causā: pour cause de maladie.    - dissimulandi causā: pour dissimuler. [st1]4 [-] affaire judiciaire, procès, cause, thèse du plaideur.    - causam agere (dicere, orare): plaider une cause.    - causam Dionis agere, Cic.: plaider la cause de Dion.    - indictā causā: sans jugement.    - causam obtinere: gagner son procès, avoir gain de cause.    - causam alicui inferre: intenter un procès à qqn.    - causā cadere (causam perdere): perdre son procès.    - causā desistere: renoncer à un procès, abandonner l’accusation.    - causam accipere (amplecti, aggredi): se charger d'une cause, défendre une cause.    - causam transferre in aliquem: rejeter la faute sur qqn.    - aliquem causā incognitā condemnare: condamner un citoyen sans procès. [st1]5 [-] point débattu, sujet, matière, question, affaire; mission, charge, délégation.    - causa disserendi, Cic.: sujet de controverse.    - tria sunt causarum genera, Cic.: il y a trois sortes de sujets (pour l'orateur).    - in causam descendere, Liv.: entrer dans le débat.    - senatus dederat causam, ut mihi gratias ageret, Cic. Verr. 2: le sénat l'avait chargé de me remercier.    - qui super tali causa missi erant, Nep.: ceux qui avaient été envoyés pour cette mission. [st1]6 [-] cas, circonstance, état, situation, condition, position.    - incidunt causæ cum...: il y a des cas où...    - in eadem causā esse: être dans le même cas, être dans la même situation.    - suam causam non nosse, alienas facile discere, Cic.: ne pas connaître sa situation, et se rendre facilement compte de celle des autres.    - erat in meliore causa, quam si remansisset, Cic.: sa situation était meilleure que s'il était resté. [st1]7 [-] la cause d'un homme politique, parti, faction.    - causam optimatium agere, Nep.: suivre le parti de l'aristocratie.    - in causam plebis inclinare, Quint.: pencher vers le parti populaire. [st1]8 [-] cas, maladie (qui sert d'excuse).    - sontica causa, Tibul.: cas grave, maladie grave.    - hæc facienda sunt causam metuentibus, Cels.: telles sont les règles à suivre pour ceux qui craignent d'être malades. [st1]9 [-] relation, rapport, liaison.    - causam amicitiæ cum aliquo habere, Cæs. BG. 5: avoir des relations d'amitié avec qqn.    - quīcum tibi omnes causæ intercedebant, Cic. Quint. 15: avec qui tu avais toutes les relations possibles.    - explicare quæ mihi sit causa cum Cæsare, Cic. Prov. Cons. 17: expliquer quelles sont mes relations avec César. [st1]10 [-] avantage, utilité, profit, intérêt.    - meā (tuā) causā: dans mon (ton) intérêt.    - omnis familiæ causa consistit tibi, Plaut.: l'intérêt de toute ta maison est compromis. [st1]11 [-] valeur explétive.    - causa bonorum, Dig.: les biens.    - causa dotis, Dig.: la dot.    - causa emptionis, Dig.: l'achat.
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causa (caussa), æ, f.    - voir l'article causa de Gaffiot. [st1]1 [-] cause, origine, source, principe, occasion.    - nihil potest evenire nisi causa antecedente, Cic. rien ne peut exister sans une cause préexistente.    - in seminibus est causa arborum, Cic.: le principe des arbres est dans la semence.    - causæ rerum, Virg.: causes premières des choses. [st1]2 [-] raison, motif allégué, prétexte, excuse.    - causam bellandi reperire: trouver un prétexte pour faire la guerre.    - eadem causā: pour la même raison.    - quid est causæ, cur: quelle raison y a-t-il pour que...? pourquoi?    - haud causast, quod nunc voluisti facere quin facias mihi, Plaut. Most.: il n'y a pas de raison que tu ne me fasses pas ce que tu as voulu me faire maintenant.    - nulla est causa quin: rien n'empêche de.    - causa ut ne (ne, quin, quominus): une raison de ne pas..., une raison pour ne pas...    - ob eam causam ut (ob eam causam quo): afin que.    - justis de causis: pour de justes raisons.    - gravi de causā, Cic.: pour de fortes raisons.    - causam alicui adjudicare: donner raison à qqn.    - quæ causa fuit, consurgere in arma Europamque Asiamque, Virg. En. 10: pour quelle raison l'Europe et l'Asie en bloc ont-elles pris les armes? [st1]3 [-] causā + gén. = à cause de, en vue de, pour, dans l'intérêt de.    - verbi causā: par exemple.    - honoris causā: pour honorer, par honneur.    - morbi causā: pour cause de maladie.    - dissimulandi causā: pour dissimuler. [st1]4 [-] affaire judiciaire, procès, cause, thèse du plaideur.    - causam agere (dicere, orare): plaider une cause.    - causam Dionis agere, Cic.: plaider la cause de Dion.    - indictā causā: sans jugement.    - causam obtinere: gagner son procès, avoir gain de cause.    - causam alicui inferre: intenter un procès à qqn.    - causā cadere (causam perdere): perdre son procès.    - causā desistere: renoncer à un procès, abandonner l’accusation.    - causam accipere (amplecti, aggredi): se charger d'une cause, défendre une cause.    - causam transferre in aliquem: rejeter la faute sur qqn.    - aliquem causā incognitā condemnare: condamner un citoyen sans procès. [st1]5 [-] point débattu, sujet, matière, question, affaire; mission, charge, délégation.    - causa disserendi, Cic.: sujet de controverse.    - tria sunt causarum genera, Cic.: il y a trois sortes de sujets (pour l'orateur).    - in causam descendere, Liv.: entrer dans le débat.    - senatus dederat causam, ut mihi gratias ageret, Cic. Verr. 2: le sénat l'avait chargé de me remercier.    - qui super tali causa missi erant, Nep.: ceux qui avaient été envoyés pour cette mission. [st1]6 [-] cas, circonstance, état, situation, condition, position.    - incidunt causæ cum...: il y a des cas où...    - in eadem causā esse: être dans le même cas, être dans la même situation.    - suam causam non nosse, alienas facile discere, Cic.: ne pas connaître sa situation, et se rendre facilement compte de celle des autres.    - erat in meliore causa, quam si remansisset, Cic.: sa situation était meilleure que s'il était resté. [st1]7 [-] la cause d'un homme politique, parti, faction.    - causam optimatium agere, Nep.: suivre le parti de l'aristocratie.    - in causam plebis inclinare, Quint.: pencher vers le parti populaire. [st1]8 [-] cas, maladie (qui sert d'excuse).    - sontica causa, Tibul.: cas grave, maladie grave.    - hæc facienda sunt causam metuentibus, Cels.: telles sont les règles à suivre pour ceux qui craignent d'être malades. [st1]9 [-] relation, rapport, liaison.    - causam amicitiæ cum aliquo habere, Cæs. BG. 5: avoir des relations d'amitié avec qqn.    - quīcum tibi omnes causæ intercedebant, Cic. Quint. 15: avec qui tu avais toutes les relations possibles.    - explicare quæ mihi sit causa cum Cæsare, Cic. Prov. Cons. 17: expliquer quelles sont mes relations avec César. [st1]10 [-] avantage, utilité, profit, intérêt.    - meā (tuā) causā: dans mon (ton) intérêt.    - omnis familiæ causa consistit tibi, Plaut.: l'intérêt de toute ta maison est compromis. [st1]11 [-] valeur explétive.    - causa bonorum, Dig.: les biens.    - causa dotis, Dig.: la dot.    - causa emptionis, Dig.: l'achat.
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    Causa, siue caussa (vt scripserunt Virgilius et Cicero, teste Quintiliano), Ce qui fait faire quelque chose, La cause, La chose.

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    In ea causa res est. Vlpian. La chose est telle.

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    Ad eam causam scripta interpretari. Cic. Selon etc.

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    Causa est cur. Cic. Cause pourquoy.

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    Erit causa, qua consilium maiorum laudare possimus. Ci. Il y aura cause pourquoy, etc.

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    Ne causae quid sit, quo te quisquam quaeritet. Plaut. A fin que personne n'ait cause de te cercher.

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    Haec causa est, quod sic statuo. Cic. La cause est, pource que etc.

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    Quod si rarius fiet, id erit causae, quod non eius generis meae literae sunt, etc. Cic, La cause sera, pource que etc.

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    Ea te causa huc introire nolo. Terent. Pour ceste cause.

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    His de causis credere. Cic. Pour ces causes.

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    In causa damnationis fuisti. Quintil. Tu as esté cause etc.

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    Non est causa Zenoni quum Polemonem audisset, cur et ab eo ipso, et a superioribus dissideret. Cic. Il n'y a point de cause pourquoy. etc. Zeno n'ha raison ne excuse pourquoy, etc.

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    Non sine causa exquirere. Cic. Non sans cause.

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    Nulla causa est quin me condones cruci. Plaut. Je n'empesche point, et ne refuse point que tu ne me face crucifier, Je suis content que, etc.

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    Causa nulla est cur mentiar. Ci. Je n'ay aucune occasion de mentir.

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    Si doceo illa quae dixi, nunquid causae est Quirites, quin etc. Ci. Y a il chose qui peust estre dicte au contraire?

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    Ob eam ipsam causam. Cic. Pour ceste mesme cause.

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    Per causam exigendae pecuniae. Caes. Soubz couleur, Soubz ombre.

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    Pro causa supplementi, ab exercitu discedit. Caesar. Pour fournir ses bandes de gensdarmes.

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    Pro magnis causis nostrae necessitudinis. Cic. Pour les grandes raisons de nostre amitié.

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    Quid causae est, quin. Horat. Pourquoy ne, etc.

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    Libertatis causa fuit ciuitati. Cic. Cause que la ville s'est mise en liberté.

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    Malorum causa fuit adolescenti. Cic. Cause, ou occasion de tous ses maulx.

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    Adipiscendarum voluptatum causa. Cic. Pour avoir ses plaisirs et voluptez.

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    Breuitatis causa. Cic. A cause de briefveté.

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    Contumeliae causa. Terent. Par injure.

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    Mea quidem causa saluos sis licet. Plaut. Quant à moy, De par moy, De ma part.

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    Causa mea, causa tua, causa vestra, Quod vulgus dicit, Amore mei, tui, vestri. Plaut. Terent. Pour l'amour de moy, de toy, etc.

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    Tua causa velim. Cic. Je vouldroye pour l'amour de toy.

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    Trium nummorum causa subeunt sub hasta. Plaut. Pour trois tournois ils etc.

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    Qui simulatione amicitiae coluntur, et obseruantur causa temporis. Cic. Pour l'affaire qu'on en ha.

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    Verbi causa. Cic. Pour exemple.

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    Videndi causa. Virgil. Pour veoir.

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    Vtendi causa. Lucret. Pour en user, Pour s'en servir.

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    Vtilitatis causa. Lucret. Pour le prouffit et utilité.

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    Abdita causa. Celsus. Occulte.

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    Apparentes causae. Ouid. Evidentes.

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    Certis de causis aliter existimare. Cic. Pour certaines causes.

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    Graui de causa. Cic. Pour grande cause.

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    Iusta causa nulla cuiquam esse potest contra patriam arma capiendi. Cic. Cause juste et raisonnable.

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    Latens causa. Ouid. Incogneue.

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    Leuis. Terent. Legiere, et de petite importance.

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    Pudenda causa. Ouid. Deshonneste.

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    Recens accedit causa. Ouid. Nouvelle.

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    Repens causa. Tacit. Souldaine.

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    Speciosas causas habere. Cic. Belles.

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    Victa causa. Lucan. Le parti du vaincu.

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    Victrix causa. Lucan. Le parti du vainqueur.

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    Accipere causam quaesiti. Ouid. Ouir, Entendre, Escouter.

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    Accumulare causas. Ouid. Adiicere causam. Ouid. Adjouster.

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    Probabilem causam afferre. Ci. Amener, Alleguer cause et raison probable.

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    Afferre causam faciendi aliquid dicitur res aliqua. Ci. Apporter ou donner occasion.

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    Aperire causas. Propert. Declarer.

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    Attribuere causam calamitatis. Cic. Attribuer.

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    Valetudinis causas saepe attulerunt cibi. Quintil. Les viandes ont souvent esté cause de maladie.

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    Conferre causas. Cic. Comparer, Accomparager.

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    Congerere causas in aliquem. Liu. Rejecter les causes sur luy.

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    Constat causa belli huius in tua persona. Cic. Tu es cause de ceste guerre.

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    Contrahere sibi causam mortis. Plin. Estre cause de sa mort.

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    Dicere causas alicuius rei. Lucret. Dire et alleguer les causes et raisons pourquoy il est ainsi.

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    Exigere causam rei alicuius. Seneca. Demander.

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    Hortandi causas eximere. Tacit. Oster.

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    Expedire causam morbi. Virgil. Exposer, Declarer.

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    Explorare causas. Stat. Enquerir.

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    Exponere causam. Horat. Exposer.

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    Expromere veras causas. Lucan. Declarer,

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    Fluunt inde causae. Quintil. Viennent de là.

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    Incidunt causae. Cic. Il advient, le cas advient.

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    Inire causam alicuius rei. Liu. Trouver et entendre la raison pourquoy quelque chose se fait.

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    Retro causas legere. Quintil. Repeter ou redire depuis le commencement.

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    Manent causae. Cic. Durent, Sont encores.

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    Memorare causas alicui. Virgil. Raconter.

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    Nactus causam moriendi. Ci. Qui a trouvé l'occasion de mourir.

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    Perstare in causam damni. Ouid. Perseverer.

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    Repetere causas ab vltimo. Quint. Repeter depuis le commencement.

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    Causas sequi. Lucan. Suyvre le bon droict.

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    Ne miretur cur idem iterum facerem, hoc causae sumpsi, quod etc. Cic. J'ay prins ceste excuse.

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    Sustulit causas rerum efficientium. Cic. Il a osté.

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    Tegere causam alicuius rei. Ouid. Celer.

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    Tentare causas. Virgil. Cercher, Enquerir.

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    Videre causas. Lucret. Cognoistre.

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    Causa. Matiere, ou Question, ou Different, Cause, Proces.

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    Actor causae. Quintil. Celuy qui plaide une cause, Advocat.

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    Cardo causae. Quintil. Le neud, le principal point de la matiere.

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    Frons causae. Quintil. Maxime vbi frons causae non satis honesta est. Quand de prime face la cause ne semble point honneste.

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    Absoluta causa. Vlpian. Qui n'ha point de difficulté.

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    Certissima causa. Cic. Cause de laquelle il n'y a point de debat, Cause toute clere.

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    Accedere ad causam. Cic. Prendre la charge de la matiere, ou du proces, Se mesler de la matiere.

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    Acuere linguam causis. Horat. Exerciter sa langue à plaider.

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    Admissus reus ad causam dicendam. Ci. Qui est receu en ses deffenses et justifications.

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    Agere causam. Quintil. Plaider une cause.

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    Tu adhuc causam meam agis. Cic. Tu parles pour moy. B.

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    Amittere causam. Cic. Perdre son proces.

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    Cadere causa. Cic. Perdre sa cause, ou son proces.

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    Cognoscere causam alicuius ab altero. Cic. Par un autre.

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    Complecti causam. Cic. Prendre une querelle, Se formalizer.

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    Componere causam cum causa. Quintil. Comparer. Accomparager.

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    Credere causam alicui. Lucan. Commettre, Bailler en charge, à aucun, S'en fier en luy.

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    In causam se deducere. Liu. Prendre la querelle, et se formalizer, Se mettre en la meslee.

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    Demittere se in causam. Ci. Suyvir du tout un parti, et une querelle. Se formalizer, Se mesler de la matiere.

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    Causam dicere. Curt. Proposer ses defenses, Se defendre.

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    Causam dixisse quis dicitur, qui inter reos receptus est. Plin. Cic. Avoir esté attainct de justice, ou accusé de quelque cas en justice.

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    Causam dicere ex vinculis. Liu. Estre en prison, ou tenir prison fermee pendant qu'on se defend, et qu'on fait le proces.

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    Causae dictio. Caesar. Defense.

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    Causam haud dico. Plaut. Je ne contredy point, Je m'y accorde, Je ne vueil nier.

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    Causae nihil dicimus quin tibi vadimonium promiserit. Cic. Je ne dy point le contraire.

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    Non causam dico quin quod meritus est, ferat. Terent. Je n'empesche point.

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    In meliore causa esse. Cic. Estre mieulx.

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    Exudare causas. Horat. Plaider une cause en suans d'ahan, Suer en plaidant.

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    Fidere causae. Cic. Se fier en son bon droict.

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    Incumbere in causam. Cic. Incliner et s'addonner à un parti et querelle, Se mesler de la matiere.

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    Indicta causa damnari. Cic. Estre condamné sans estre ouy en ses defenses.

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    Indormire causae. Cic. S'endormir en un affaire, Le conduire negligemment.

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    Inedita causa. Ouid. Qui n'est point encore mise en avant, ne manifestee.

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    Ingredi in causam. Cic, Entrer en querelle, et suyvre un parti, Se formalizer pour un parti.

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    Insinuare se in causam. Cic. Entendre profondement la matiere.

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    Laborare causa. Quintil. N'avoir gueres bonne matiere, Quand nostre droict est bien malade.

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    Obtinere causam. Cic. Gaigner son proces, ou sa cause.

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    Vt causam certissimam obtineret. Cic. Pour gaigner sa cause toute clere.

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    Orare causas. Virgil. Plaider une cause.

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    Perdere causam. Cic. Perdre son proces.

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    Periclitari causa. Quintil. Estre en danger de perdre son proces.

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    Perorare causam. Cic. Faire fin à son plaidoyer.

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    Postulat causa. Cic. La matiere le requiert.

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    Recognoscere causam. Cic. Reveoir le proces.

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    Remittere causam ad Senatum. Tacit. Renvoyer.

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    Repetere ab vltimo causas. Quintil. Repeter depuis le commencement.

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    Superior causa. Cic. Le droict plus apparent, Le meilleur droict.

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    Sustinere causam. Cic. Quand le blasme vient sur quelcun, Estre fort souspeconné de quelque cas.

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    Tenere causam apud iudices. Tranquil. Gaigner sa cause.

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    Tradere causam aduersariis. Terent. Donner gaigné, Quicter, Trahir celuy de qui on meine la cause, et s'entendre avec partie adverse.

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    Vincere causam. Ouid. Gaigner sa cause.

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    Omnis familiae causa consistit tibi. Plaut. La charge, Le faiz, L'estat.

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    Accipere causam. Cic. Tenir pour excusé, Accepter l'excuse.

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    Fingere causas. Terent. Controuver des excuses ou menteries.

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    Inferre causam. Hirtius. Donner occasion.

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    Nectere causas. Virgil. Delayer et alleguer plusieurs excuses.

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    Obtendere fugae causas. Tacit. Alleguer des raisons pour couvrir et excuser la faulte qu'on a faict de s'en estre fuy.

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    Causa est tibi de hac re. Terent. Tu as excusation et dequoy te defendre.

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    Causa, Occasio: vt Causa adempta. Terent. Occasion ostee.

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    Capere causam. Terent. Prendre occasion.

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    Viro fit causa, exigitur matrimonio. Plaut. Le mari ha occasion.

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    Inuenta est causa qua te expellerent. Terent. Ils ont trouvé le moyen de te, etc.

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    Quamobrem insigne aliquid faceret. Terent. Il cercheoit occasion.

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    Causa, Status et conditio. Cicero. Qui in eadem causa, in qua ego, fuisset, Qui avoit suyvi le mesme parti que moy.

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    Eadem suam causam videbat esse, quam illorum qui innocentes peribant Ci. Il voyoit que son affaire estoit pareil, etc.

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    Negat Platonem, si sapiens non sit, eadem esse in causa qua Dionysium tyrannum. Cic. De mesme facon et condition.

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    In causam suam recidere. Pompon. Retourner en son estat, condition, et qualité.

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    Reuerti in pristinam causam. Martianus iuriscon. Retourner en son premier estat.

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    In ea causa res est. Vlpian. La chose est telle, ou en tel estat.

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    Sistere in eadem causa. Vlpian. Representer quelcun en mesme estat.

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    In eam causam venire. Triphoni. En cest estat et condition.

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    Causa, pro Partibus. Cic. Diutius in causa est, quam nos, commoratus. Il a plus long temps suyvi le parti de Pompee.

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    Quorum erat vna causa. Cic. Qui suyvoyent un mesme parti.

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    Causa, pro Accessione. Vlpian. Prouffit et emolument de quelque chose.

Dictionarium latinogallicum > causa
6 grate

grātē, Adv. (gratus), I) mit Vergnügen, gern, Cic. de fin. 1, 62. Ulp. dig. 26, 10, 3. § 1: Compar., Ov. ex Pont. 3, 5, 18. Iustin. 12, 11, 2: Superl., Macr. sat. 7, 2, 9. Heges. 1, 28, 7. – II) dankbar, et grate et pie facere, Cic.: grate pieque alqm prosequi, Suet.: beneficia grate interpretari, Plin. ep.

lateinisch-deutsches > grate
7 interpretor

interpretor, ātus sum, ārī (interpres), I) intr. den Mittler machen für usw., memoriae alcis, dem G. jmds. zu Hilfe kommen, Plaut. Epid. 552. – II) tr. auslegen, erklären, deuten, A) eig.: 1) im allg.: ius alci, Cic.: fulgura, somnia, Cic.: fallaciter portenta, Cic.: religiones, Auskunft geben über usw., Cic.: mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., pomoerium postmoerium interpretantur esse, Liv. – 2) insbes., übersetzen (doch mehr nach dem Sinne als wörtlich), epistulam, scriptores, Cic.: ubi ex Graeco carmine interpretata recitavit, Liv. – B) übtr.: 1) etwas im Urteile auslegen = verstehen, für das u. das ansehen, so u. so aufnehmen, beurteilen, male, Cic.: perperam, Sen.: in partem mitiorem, Cic.: ita de re, Cic.: alcis felicitatem grato animo, freudig anerkennen, Cic.: beneficia grate, Plin. ep. – sed eam sapientiam interpretantur, quam adhuc nemo mortalis est consecutus, aber das, was sie unter W. verstehen, hat usw., Cic.: vindemiarum maturitatem alii aliter interpretantur, unter der Reife usw. verstehen die einen dies, die andern etwas anderes, Colum.: victoriam ut suam, sich den Sieg anmaßen, Vell.: Othone id ut laetum interpretante, Tac.: alqm callidum et simulatorem, in jmd. einen Listigen u. Heuchler zu erkennen glauben, Tac.: clementiam pro sua virtute, sich die Gnade des Siegers als sein Verdienst anrechnen, Vell.: vitia pro virtutibus, Tac.: synodum Nicenam pro se (zu ihren Gunsten) interpretantes, Sulp. Sev. – mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., reditu in castra liberatum se esse iureiurando interpretabatur, er legte seine Rückkehr ins Lager so aus, als sei er dadurch seines Eides entbunden, Cic. – dah. etwas aus etwas od. von etwas auf etwas schließen, folgern, consilium ex necessitate, von der Notwendigkeit auf den Vorsatz, Cic. Rab. Post. 29. – 2) etwas mit dem Erkenntnisvermögen so u. so sich erklären = auffassen, begreifen, recte alcis sententiam, Cic.: cogitationem alcis assequi et voluntatem interpretari, Cic.: famam alcis, begreifen, sich erklären, Tac. – 3) über etwas sich bestimmt aussprechen, entscheiden, neque, recte an perperam, interpretor, Liv. 1, 23, 8. – / Aktive Nbf. interpretat, Ps. Cypr. de mont. Sina et Sion 2 u. 5 sqq.: als Passiv, im Perf. zB. Cic. de div. 1, 53 u. 118. Sall. Iug. 17, 7. Interpr. Iren. 3, 21, 2: im Präsens bei Cornif. rhet. 2, 14. Paul. dig. 8, 2, 20. § 2. Amm. 23, 5, 7; 24, 6, 1 u. bei a. Spät. (s. Bünem. Lact. 4, 7, 7); oft im Partic. Perf. b. Cic. u.a., s. Fabri Sall. Iug. 17, 7. Günther Latin. restit. part. 2. p. 676 sq. Duker de Latin. vett. ICt. p. 334. Vgl. Neue-Wagener Formenl.³ 3, 49 u. Georges Lexik. der lat. Wortf. S. 359. – Parag. Infin. interpretarier, Pacuv. tr. 151.

lateinisch-deutsches > interpretor
8 stricte

strictē, Adv. m. Compar. u. Superl. (strictus), I) eng, knapp, Pallad.: strictissime circumligare, Gell. 16, 3, 4. – II) bildl., genau, streng, strictius interpretari, Paul. dig. 8, 2, 20.

lateinisch-deutsches > stricte
9 grate

grātē, Adv. (gratus), I) mit Vergnügen, gern, Cic. de fin. 1, 62. Ulp. dig. 26, 10, 3. § 1: Compar., Ov. ex Pont. 3, 5, 18. Iustin. 12, 11, 2: Superl., Macr. sat. 7, 2, 9. Heges. 1, 28, 7. – II) dankbar, et grate et pie facere, Cic.: grate pieque alqm prosequi, Suet.: beneficia grate interpretari, Plin. ep.

Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch > grate
10 interpretor

interpretor, ātus sum, ārī (interpres), I) intr. den Mittler machen für usw., memoriae alcis, dem G. jmds. zu Hilfe kommen, Plaut. Epid. 552. – II) tr. auslegen, erklären, deuten, A) eig.: 1) im allg.: ius alci, Cic.: fulgura, somnia, Cic.: fallaciter portenta, Cic.: religiones, Auskunft geben über usw., Cic.: mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., pomoerium postmoerium interpretantur esse, Liv. – 2) insbes., übersetzen (doch mehr nach dem Sinne als wörtlich), epistulam, scriptores, Cic.: ubi ex Graeco carmine interpretata recitavit, Liv. – B) übtr.: 1) etwas im Urteile auslegen = verstehen, für das u. das ansehen, so u. so aufnehmen, beurteilen, male, Cic.: perperam, Sen.: in partem mitiorem, Cic.: ita de re, Cic.: alcis felicitatem grato animo, freudig anerkennen, Cic.: beneficia grate, Plin. ep. – sed eam sapientiam interpretantur, quam adhuc nemo mortalis est consecutus, aber das, was sie unter W. verstehen, hat usw., Cic.: vindemiarum maturitatem alii aliter interpretantur, unter der Reife usw. verstehen die einen dies, die andern etwas anderes, Colum.: victoriam ut suam, sich den Sieg anmaßen, Vell.: Othone id ut laetum interpretante, Tac.: alqm callidum et simulatorem, in jmd. einen Listigen u. Heuchler zu erkennen glauben, Tac.: clementiam pro sua virtute, sich die Gnade des Siegers als sein Verdienst anrechnen, Vell.: vitia pro virtutibus, Tac.:

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synodum Nicenam pro se (zu ihren Gunsten) interpretantes, Sulp. Sev. – mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., reditu in castra liberatum se esse iureiurando interpretabatur, er legte seine Rückkehr ins Lager so aus, als sei er dadurch seines Eides entbunden, Cic. – dah. etwas aus etwas od. von etwas auf etwas schließen, folgern, consilium ex necessitate, von der Notwendigkeit auf den Vorsatz, Cic. Rab. Post. 29. – 2) etwas mit dem Erkenntnisvermögen so u. so sich erklären = auffassen, begreifen, recte alcis sententiam, Cic.: cogitationem alcis assequi et voluntatem interpretari, Cic.: famam alcis, begreifen, sich erklären, Tac. – 3) über etwas sich bestimmt aussprechen, entscheiden, neque, recte an perperam, interpretor, Liv. 1, 23, 8. – ⇒ Aktive Nbf. interpretat, Ps. Cypr. de mont. Sina et Sion 2 u. 5 sqq.: als Passiv, im Perf. zB. Cic. de div. 1, 53 u. 118. Sall. Iug. 17, 7. Interpr. Iren. 3, 21, 2: im Präsens bei Cornif. rhet. 2, 14. Paul. dig. 8, 2, 20. § 2. Amm. 23, 5, 7; 24, 6, 1 u. bei a. Spät. (s. Bünem. Lact. 4, 7, 7); oft im Partic. Perf. b. Cic. u.a., s. Fabri Sall. Iug. 17, 7. Günther Latin. restit. part. 2. p. 676 sq. Duker de Latin. vett. ICt. p. 334. Vgl. Neue-Wagener Formenl.³ 3, 49 u. Georges Lexik. der lat. Wortf. S. 359. – Parag. Infin. interpretarier, Pacuv. tr. 151.

Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch > interpretor
11 stricte

strictē, Adv. m. Compar. u. Superl. (strictus), I) eng, knapp, Pallad.: strictissime circumligare, Gell. 16, 3, 4. – II) bildl., genau, streng, strictius interpretari, Paul. dig. 8, 2, 20.

Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch > stricte
12 ecfundo

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).
I.
Lit.:
vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),
Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:
aquam oblatam in galea,
Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:
humorem,
Cels. 7, 15:
lacrimas,
Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:
imbrem (procella),
Curt. 8, 13:
se in oceanum (Ganges),
Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:
Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,
Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:
mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,
Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—
B.
Transf., of non-liquid bodies.
1.
In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;
a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:
frumentum in flumen,
Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:
ei oculus effunditur,
is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:
tela,
i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:
auxilium castris apertis,
to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:
equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,
threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:
(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,
Verg. A. 9, 68:
sub altis portis,
id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:
aliquem solo,
id. ib. 12, 532:
caput in gremium,
Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:
carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,
i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—
2.
In partic.
a.
With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):
omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),
Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,
se,
id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:
se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,
Liv. 38, 6;
so mid.,
Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;
ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,
spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—
b.
With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:
non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,
Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:
copiam,
Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—
c.
Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:
patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,
patrimonium,
id. Phil. 3, 2:
aerarium,
id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:
sumptus,
id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:
opes,
Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:
omnes fortunas,
Tac. A. 14, 31:
reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,
Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:
effundite, emite, etc.,
Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen.:
effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,
i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:
procellam eloquentiae,
Quint. 11, 3, 158:
totos affectus,
id. 4, 1, 28:
tales voces,
Verg. A. 5, 723:
questus,
id. ib. 5, 780:
carmina,
Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:
vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,
Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:
questus in aëra,
Ov. M. 9, 370:
omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,
Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:
iram in aliquem,
Liv. 39, 34:
omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,
id. 31, 44, 2:
indignationem,
Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—
B.
In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).
1.
With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:
qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,
Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:
se in omnes libidines,
Tac. A. 14, 13:
(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,
has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;
more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,
Liv. 25, 20, 6:
in venerem,
id. 29, 23, 4:
in amorem,
Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:
in laetitiam,
Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:
in jocos,
Suet. Aug. 98:
in cachinnos,
id. Calig. 32:
in questus, lacrimas, vota,
Tac. A. 1, 11:
in lacrimas,
id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;
for which, lacrimis,
Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:
ad preces lacrimasque,
Liv. 44, 31 fin.:
ad luxuriam,
id. 34, 6:
terra effunditur in herbas,
Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:
quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,
id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—
2.
To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:
collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,
Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:
odium,
id. ib. 1, 9, 20:
vires,
Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:
curam sui,
Sen. Ira, 2, 35:
verecundiam,
id. Ep. 11:
animam,
Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.
vitam,
Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:
spiritum,
Tac. A. 2, 70.—
3.
To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:
manibus omnis effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 5, 818:
sive gradum seu frena effunderet,
Stat. Th. 9, 182:
irarum effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.
I.
(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:
reliquias et effusa intueri,
Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—
II.
(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.
1.
In gen.:
effusumque corpus,
Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:
late mare,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:
loca,
Tac. G. 30:
effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,
Vell. 2, 43:
incendium,
Liv. 30, 5; cf.
caedes,
id. 42, 65:
cursus,
id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:
membra,
i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—
2.
Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:
habenis,
Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:
quam posset effusissimis habenis,
Liv. 37, 20:
comae,
Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.
also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,
Verg. G. 4, 337.—
3.
Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:
effusum agmen ducit,
Liv. 21, 25, 8:
aciem,
Luc. 4, 743:
huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,
Verg. A. 6, 305:
sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,
Liv. 30, 5, 8.—
III.
Trop.
1.
Profuse, prodigal, lavish:
quis in largitione effusior?
Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
munificentiae effusissimus,
Vell. 2, 41.—
2.
Extravagant, immoderate:
licentia,
Liv. 44, 1; cf.
laetitia,
id. 35, 43 fin.:
cursus,
Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:
cultus in verbis,
Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:
laudationes,
Petr. 48, 7:
studium,
Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.
1.
(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.
a.
In gen.:
ire,
Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.
fugere,
Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:
persequi,
id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:
vastare,
Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:
effusius praedari,
id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —
b.
Esp., profusely, lavishly:
large effuseque donare,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.
vivere,
id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:
affluant opes,
Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—
2.
(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:
cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:
amare,
Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:
dicere,
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:
fovere,
id. ib. 7, 24, 4:
excipere,
Suet. Ner. 22:
favere,
Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:
diligere,
Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > ecfundo
13 effundo

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).
I.
Lit.:
vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),
Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:
aquam oblatam in galea,
Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:
humorem,
Cels. 7, 15:
lacrimas,
Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:
imbrem (procella),
Curt. 8, 13:
se in oceanum (Ganges),
Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:
Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,
Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:
mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,
Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—
B.
Transf., of non-liquid bodies.
1.
In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;
a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:
frumentum in flumen,
Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:
ei oculus effunditur,
is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:
tela,
i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:
auxilium castris apertis,
to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:
equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,
threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:
(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,
Verg. A. 9, 68:
sub altis portis,
id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:
aliquem solo,
id. ib. 12, 532:
caput in gremium,
Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:
carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,
i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—
2.
In partic.
a.
With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):
omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),
Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,
se,
id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:
se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,
Liv. 38, 6;
so mid.,
Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;
ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,
spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—
b.
With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:
non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,
Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:
copiam,
Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—
c.
Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:
patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,
patrimonium,
id. Phil. 3, 2:
aerarium,
id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:
sumptus,
id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:
opes,
Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:
omnes fortunas,
Tac. A. 14, 31:
reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,
Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:
effundite, emite, etc.,
Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen.:
effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,
i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:
procellam eloquentiae,
Quint. 11, 3, 158:
totos affectus,
id. 4, 1, 28:
tales voces,
Verg. A. 5, 723:
questus,
id. ib. 5, 780:
carmina,
Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:
vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,
Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:
questus in aëra,
Ov. M. 9, 370:
omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,
Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:
iram in aliquem,
Liv. 39, 34:
omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,
id. 31, 44, 2:
indignationem,
Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—
B.
In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).
1.
With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:
qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,
Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:
se in omnes libidines,
Tac. A. 14, 13:
(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,
has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;
more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,
Liv. 25, 20, 6:
in venerem,
id. 29, 23, 4:
in amorem,
Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:
in laetitiam,
Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:
in jocos,
Suet. Aug. 98:
in cachinnos,
id. Calig. 32:
in questus, lacrimas, vota,
Tac. A. 1, 11:
in lacrimas,
id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;
for which, lacrimis,
Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:
ad preces lacrimasque,
Liv. 44, 31 fin.:
ad luxuriam,
id. 34, 6:
terra effunditur in herbas,
Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:
quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,
id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—
2.
To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:
collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,
Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:
odium,
id. ib. 1, 9, 20:
vires,
Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:
curam sui,
Sen. Ira, 2, 35:
verecundiam,
id. Ep. 11:
animam,
Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.
vitam,
Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:
spiritum,
Tac. A. 2, 70.—
3.
To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:
manibus omnis effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 5, 818:
sive gradum seu frena effunderet,
Stat. Th. 9, 182:
irarum effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.
I.
(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:
reliquias et effusa intueri,
Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—
II.
(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.
1.
In gen.:
effusumque corpus,
Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:
late mare,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:
loca,
Tac. G. 30:
effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,
Vell. 2, 43:
incendium,
Liv. 30, 5; cf.
caedes,
id. 42, 65:
cursus,
id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:
membra,
i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—
2.
Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:
habenis,
Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:
quam posset effusissimis habenis,
Liv. 37, 20:
comae,
Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.
also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,
Verg. G. 4, 337.—
3.
Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:
effusum agmen ducit,
Liv. 21, 25, 8:
aciem,
Luc. 4, 743:
huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,
Verg. A. 6, 305:
sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,
Liv. 30, 5, 8.—
III.
Trop.
1.
Profuse, prodigal, lavish:
quis in largitione effusior?
Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
munificentiae effusissimus,
Vell. 2, 41.—
2.
Extravagant, immoderate:
licentia,
Liv. 44, 1; cf.
laetitia,
id. 35, 43 fin.:
cursus,
Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:
cultus in verbis,
Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:
laudationes,
Petr. 48, 7:
studium,
Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.
1.
(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.
a.
In gen.:
ire,
Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.
fugere,
Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:
persequi,
id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:
vastare,
Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:
effusius praedari,
id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —
b.
Esp., profusely, lavishly:
large effuseque donare,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.
vivere,
id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:
affluant opes,
Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—
2.
(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:
cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:
amare,
Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:
dicere,
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:
fovere,
id. ib. 7, 24, 4:
excipere,
Suet. Ner. 22:
favere,
Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:
diligere,
Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > effundo
14 effusa

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).
I.
Lit.:
vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),
Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:
aquam oblatam in galea,
Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:
humorem,
Cels. 7, 15:
lacrimas,
Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:
imbrem (procella),
Curt. 8, 13:
se in oceanum (Ganges),
Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:
Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,
Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:
mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,
Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—
B.
Transf., of non-liquid bodies.
1.
In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;
a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:
frumentum in flumen,
Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:
ei oculus effunditur,
is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:
tela,
i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:
auxilium castris apertis,
to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:
equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,
threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:
(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,
Verg. A. 9, 68:
sub altis portis,
id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:
aliquem solo,
id. ib. 12, 532:
caput in gremium,
Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:
carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,
i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—
2.
In partic.
a.
With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):
omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),
Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,
se,
id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:
se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,
Liv. 38, 6;
so mid.,
Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;
ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,
spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—
b.
With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:
non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,
Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:
copiam,
Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—
c.
Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:
patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,
patrimonium,
id. Phil. 3, 2:
aerarium,
id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:
sumptus,
id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:
opes,
Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:
omnes fortunas,
Tac. A. 14, 31:
reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,
Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:
effundite, emite, etc.,
Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen.:
effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,
i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:
procellam eloquentiae,
Quint. 11, 3, 158:
totos affectus,
id. 4, 1, 28:
tales voces,
Verg. A. 5, 723:
questus,
id. ib. 5, 780:
carmina,
Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:
vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,
Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:
questus in aëra,
Ov. M. 9, 370:
omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,
Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:
iram in aliquem,
Liv. 39, 34:
omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,
id. 31, 44, 2:
indignationem,
Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—
B.
In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).
1.
With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:
qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,
Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:
se in omnes libidines,
Tac. A. 14, 13:
(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,
has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;
more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,
Liv. 25, 20, 6:
in venerem,
id. 29, 23, 4:
in amorem,
Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:
in laetitiam,
Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:
in jocos,
Suet. Aug. 98:
in cachinnos,
id. Calig. 32:
in questus, lacrimas, vota,
Tac. A. 1, 11:
in lacrimas,
id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;
for which, lacrimis,
Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:
ad preces lacrimasque,
Liv. 44, 31 fin.:
ad luxuriam,
id. 34, 6:
terra effunditur in herbas,
Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:
quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,
id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—
2.
To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:
collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,
Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:
odium,
id. ib. 1, 9, 20:
vires,
Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:
curam sui,
Sen. Ira, 2, 35:
verecundiam,
id. Ep. 11:
animam,
Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.
vitam,
Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:
spiritum,
Tac. A. 2, 70.—
3.
To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:
manibus omnis effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 5, 818:
sive gradum seu frena effunderet,
Stat. Th. 9, 182:
irarum effundit habenas,
Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.
I.
(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:
reliquias et effusa intueri,
Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—
II.
(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.
1.
In gen.:
effusumque corpus,
Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:
late mare,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:
loca,
Tac. G. 30:
effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,
Vell. 2, 43:
incendium,
Liv. 30, 5; cf.
caedes,
id. 42, 65:
cursus,
id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:
membra,
i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—
2.
Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:
habenis,
Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:
quam posset effusissimis habenis,
Liv. 37, 20:
comae,
Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.
also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,
Verg. G. 4, 337.—
3.
Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:
effusum agmen ducit,
Liv. 21, 25, 8:
aciem,
Luc. 4, 743:
huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,
Verg. A. 6, 305:
sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,
Liv. 30, 5, 8.—
III.
Trop.
1.
Profuse, prodigal, lavish:
quis in largitione effusior?
Cic. Cael. 6, 13:
munificentiae effusissimus,
Vell. 2, 41.—
2.
Extravagant, immoderate:
licentia,
Liv. 44, 1; cf.
laetitia,
id. 35, 43 fin.:
cursus,
Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:
cultus in verbis,
Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:
laudationes,
Petr. 48, 7:
studium,
Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.
1.
(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.
a.
In gen.:
ire,
Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.
fugere,
Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:
persequi,
id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:
vastare,
Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:
effusius praedari,
id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —
b.
Esp., profusely, lavishly:
large effuseque donare,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.
vivere,
id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:
affluant opes,
Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—
2.
(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:
cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:
amare,
Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:
dicere,
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:
fovere,
id. ib. 7, 24, 4:
excipere,
Suet. Ner. 22:
favere,
Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:
diligere,
Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > effusa
15 pars

pars, partis ( gen. sing. PARTVS, Inscr. Corp. Lat. 197, 12; acc. partim, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94; Liv. 26, 46, 8; 31, 36, 9; 23, 11, 11; Sall. J. 89, 1; id. H. 2, 41, 1; v. infra fin.; abl. parti, Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 14; Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 5; Lucr. 1, 1113; 4, 515; nom. plur. parteis, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 21; gen. plur. partum, Caes. ap. Charis. p. 114 P.), f. [root por; Gr. eporon, gave; peprôtai, is given, destined; Lat. portio; cf. parare], a part, piece, portion, share, etc.
I.
In gen.:
ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 39:
urbis, imperil,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 32, § 84:
duae partes frumenti,
id. ib. 2, 3, 19, §
48: magnas partes habuit publicorum,
id. Rab. Post. 2, 4:
dare partes amicis,
id. ib.:
Belgae pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni,
Caes. B. G. 1, 1:
copias in quattuor partes distribuerat,
Sall. J. 101, 3:
locare agrum partibus,
Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 3:
pars occidentalis Jordanis,
the west side, Vulg. Jos. 23, 4.—
2.
Magna, bona, multa, major, maxima pars, many, a good many, the majority:
magna pars in iis civitatibus,
Cic. Balb. 8, 21:
major pars populi,
id. Agr. 2, 9, 22:
maxima pars hominum,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 121; cf.:
minor pars populi,
Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 18:
multa pars mei,
Hor. C. 3, 30, 6.—
3.
Pars, some, partitively (= partim):
faciunt pars hominum,
Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13; id. Most. 1, 2, 33; id. Capt. 2, 1, 36: pars levem ducere equitum jacturam;
pars, etc.,
Liv. 22, 8; cf. id. 21, 7; 23; 20:
pars triumphos suos ostentantes,
Sall. J. 31, 10:
poscebantque pericula, pars virtute, multi ferocia et cupidine praemiorum,
Tac. H. 5, 11:
tergora deripiunt costis et viscera nudant: Pars in frusta secant,
Verg. A. 1, 212.—Rarely of a single person:
cum pars Niliacae plebis, cum verna Canopi, Crispinus ventilet, etc.,
Juv. 1, 26.—
4.
Parte, in part, partly:
(poma) quae candida parte, Parte rubent,
Ov. M. 3, 483:
melichloros est geminus, parte flavus, parte melleus,
Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 191.—Esp., with magnā, maximā, etc.:
ab semisomnis ac maximā parte inermibus refringi,
Liv. 9, 24, 12 Weissenb. ad loc.:
invalido exercitu et magnā parte pestilentiā absumpto,
id. 24, 34, 14:
quod saxum magnā parte ita proclive est,
id. ib.; 41, 6, 6.—
5.
Pro parte, for one's share or quota, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 145.—
6.
Ex parte, in part, partly:
ex parte gaudeo,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9:
de decem viris sacrorum ex parte de plebe creandis,
Liv. 6, 42, 2.—Esp.,
b.
Ex ullā, ex aliquā, ex magnā, ex maximā parte, in any, etc., degree, measure, etc.:
si ullā ex parte sententia hujus interdicti infirmata sit,
Cic. Caecin. 13, 38; id. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:
ex magnā parte tibi assentior,
id. Att. 7, 3, 3:
aut omnino, aut magnā ex parte,
id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1:
saucii ex magnā parte milites,
Liv. 21, 56, 8:
ne minimā quidem ex parte,
not in the slightest degree, Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76.—
7.
Multis partibus, by a great deal, much: omnibus partibus, in all respects, altogether:
non multis partibus malit,
Cic. Fin. 3, 11, 36:
quoniam numero multis partibus esset inferior,
Caes. B. C. 3, 84; 3, 80:
in Hortensii sententiam multis partibus plures ituros,
Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 2; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 3:
omnium virorum bonorum vitam omnibus partibus plus habere semper boni quam mali,
in all respects, every way, Cic. Fin. 5, 31, 91.—
8.
In parte, in part, partly (cf. ex parte, supra):
in parte expeditior, in parte difficilior,
Quint. 5, 7, 22; 11, 2, 34:
in parte verum videtur,
id. 2, 8, 6; 4, 5, 13; 10, 7, 25.—
9.
Pro meā, tuā, suā parte, or simply pro parte (for the stronger pro virili parte, v. virilis, II. 2.), for my, your, or his share, to the best of my, your, his, etc., ability:
quibus aliquid opis fortasse ego pro meā, tu pro tuā, pro suā quisque parte ferre potuisset,
Cic. Fam. 15, 15, 3:
pro meā parte adjuvi, ut, etc.,
id. ib. 5, 2, 9:
sciunt ii, qui me norunt, me pro illā tenui infirmāque parte id maxime defendisse, ut, etc.,
id. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:
quisquis adest operi, plus quam pro parte laborat,
Ov. F. 4, 301.—Likewise,
10.
In partem, i. q. pro parte, en merei, for one's share, to the best of one's ability:
quodsi pudica mulier in partem juvet Domum (i. e. quae ad eam proprie pertinet),
Hor. Epod. 2, 39 (for which:
age sis tuam partem nunc iam hunc delude,
Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89 Fleck., where others read tu in partem).—
11.
Acc. absol.: magnam, maximam partem, in great part, for the most part:
magnam partem ex iambis nostra constat oratio,
Cic. Or. 56, 189; Liv. 5, 14:
maximam partem ad arma trepidantes caedes oppressit,
id. 9, 37, 9:
maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt,
Caes. B. G. 4, 1.—So, bonam partem, Lucr. 6, 1249.—
12.
In eam partem.
a.
On that side:
in eam partem accipio,
i. e. in that sense, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 37:
in eam partem peccant, quae cautior est,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56.—
b.
On that account, with that intent, to the end that:
moveor his rebus omnibus, sed in eam partem, ut salvi sint vobiscum omnes,
Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3:
has litteras scripsi in eam partem, ne me motum putares,
id. Att. 16, 1, 6.—
13.
In aliam partem, in the opposite direction:
antehac est habitus parcus... is nunc in aliam partem palmam possidet,
for the opposite quality Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 32.—
14.
In utramque partem, on both sides, for and against, pro and con: nullam in partem, on neither side: in mitiorem, in optimam partem, in the most mild or most favorable manner, Cic. Att. 15, 23 init.:
magna vis est fortunae in utramque partem, vel secundas ad res, vel adversas,
id. Off. 2, 6, 19:
neutram in partem,
id. ib.:
neque ego ullam in partem disputo,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 3, § 6:
mitiorem in partem interpretari,
id. Mur. 31, 64:
in optimam partem aliquid accipere,
id. Att. 10, 3, 2; id. Fam. 14, 2, 3: in partem aliquem vocare, to call upon one to take his share, to summon to a division of any thing, id. Caecin. 4, 12.—
15.
Nullā parte, by no means, not at all, Ov. H. 7, 110; Quint. 2, 16, 18.—
b.
Omni parte, and omni a and ex parte, in every respect, entirely:
gens omni parte pacata,
Liv. 41, 34; Hor. S. 1, 2, 38:
quod sit omni ex parte... perfectum,
Cic. Lael. 21, 79:
omnique a parte placebam,
Ov. H. 15, 45.—
16.
Per partes, partly, partially:
quod etsi per partes nonnumquam damnosum est, in summā tamen fit compendiosum,
Col. 1, 4, 5:
per partes emendare aliquid,
Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 10; Dig. 12, 1, 13.—
17.
In omnes partes, in every respect, altogether:
Brundusii jacere in omnes partes est molestum,
Cic. Att. 11, 6, 2; id. Fam. 4, 10, 2; 13, 1, 2.
II.
In partic.
A.
A party, faction, side, etc. (usu. in plur.; syn. factio).
(α).
Sing.:
timeo huic nostrae parti, quid hic respondeat,
Ter. And. 2, 5, 8:
cum non liceret mihi nullius partis esse,
Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 1:
a parte heredum intraverant duo,
Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 10:
nec ex advocatis partis adversae judex eligendus,
of the opposite party, Quint. 5, 6, 6; 7, 9, 14; 12, 9, 19 et saep.:
ut alius in aliam partem mente atque animo traheretur,
Caes. B. C. 1, 21.—Hence, esp.: ex alterā parte, on the other hand:
omnia ex alterā parte collocata,
Cic. Off. 3, 3, 11:
si videatis catenas, non minus profecto vos ea species moveat, quam si ex alterā parte cernatis, etc.,
Liv. 22, 59, 15:
idem ex alterā parte et ancilla fecit,
Petr. 18 fin.:
parvuli amplexi patrem tenebant. Ex alterā parte uxor maritum osculis fatigabat,
Just. 23, 2, 9; cf. Cic. Or. 32, 114.—
(β).
Plur. (class.;
esp. freq. in Tac.),
Cic. Phil. 13, 20, 47:
erat, inquit, illarum partium,
id. Quint. 21, 69:
in duas partes discedunt Numidae,
Sall. J. 13, 1:
ita omnia in duas partes abstracta sunt,
id. ib. 41, 5:
mihi a spe, metu, partibus rei publicae animus liber erat,
id. C. 4, 2:
ducere aliquem in partes,
Tac. A. 15, 51:
trahere,
id. ib. 4, 60:
transire in partes,
id. H. 1, 70. —
B.
In plur., a part, character, on the stage: primas partes qui aget, is erit Phormio, [p. 1307] the first part, the principal character, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:
cur partes seni Poëta dederit, quae sunt adulescentium,
a youthful part, id. Heaut. prol. 1; 10:
esse primarum, secundarum, aut tertiarum partium,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 51:
servus primarum partium,
id. Fl. 27, 65.—
2.
Transf. beyond the lang. of the theatre, a part, function, office, duty, etc.—In plur. (class.):
sine illum priores partes hosce aliquot dies Apud me habere,
Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 71:
in scribendo priores partes alicui tribuere,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 4:
puero me hic sermo inducitur, ut nullae esse possent partes meae,
so that I could not take a part in it, id. Att. 13, 19, 4:
constantiae, moderationis, temperantiae, verecundiae partes,
id. Off. 1, 28, 98:
has partes lenitatis et misericordiae, quas me natura ipsa docuit semper egi libenter,
id. Mur. 3, 6:
partes accusatoris obtinere,
id. Quint. 2, 8; id. Rosc. Am. 34, 95:
tuum est hoc munus, tuae partes, etc.,
id. Fam. 11, 5, 3:
promitto atque confirmo, me... imperatoris suscepturum officia atque partes,
id. ib. 3, 10, 8:
Antonii audio esse partes, ut de totā eloquentiā disserat,
id. de Or. 2, 7, 26:
transactis jam meis partibus ad Antonium audiendum venistis,
id. ib. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 7, 26, 2: ut ad partes paratus veniat, qs. prepared to act his part, Varr. R. R. 2, 5; so,
ad partes parati,
Ov. Am. 1, 8, 87; cf. Liv. 3, 10; Gai. Inst. 4, 160; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 14, 3, 2.—In sing. (mostly post-Aug.):
haec igitur tibi reliqua pars est,... ut rem publicam constituas, etc.,
Cic. Marc. 9, 27:
pars consilii pacisque,
Tac. H. 3, 46:
videri alia quoque hujus partis atque officii,
Quint. 11, 3, 174:
pars defensoris tota est posita in refutatione,
id. 5, 13, 1:
neglegentiae, humilitatis,
id. 9, 4, 35 et saep. (v. Bonnell, Lex. Quint. p. 627).—
C.
A lot, portion, fate:
hancine ego partem capio ob pietatem praecipuam?
Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 4.—
D.
A portion, share, of food, Petr. 33:
equiti Romano avidius vescenti partes suas misit,
Suet. Calig. 18.—Also, the remains of a meal, App. M. 2, p. 125 med. —
E.
A task, lesson:
puer frugi est, decem partes dicit,
Petr. 75, 4; 46, 3; 58, 7; Inscr. Grut. 625, 8; Inscr. Orell. 2872.—
F.
A part, place, region, of the earth.—In plur., Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2:
Orientis partes,
id. Mur. 41, 89:
in extremis ignoti partibus orbis,
Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 3; cf. Ruhnk. on Ov. H. 18, 197.—
G.
In counting or calculating, a part, fraction; one half, one third, etc., as the context indicates:
tres jam copiarum partes,
fourths, Caes. B. G. 1, 12:
agri partes duae,
thirds, Liv. 8, 1:
duabus partibus peditum amissis,
id. 21, 40:
mulctae novem partes,
tenths, Nep. Timol. 4.—
H.
A part of the body, member:
nam lingua mali pars pessima servi,
Juv. 9, 121.—Esp., the private parts, Ov. F. 1, 437; id. A. A. 2, 584; Auct. Priap. 30; 38; Phaedr. 4, 7.—Of a testicle, Col. 7, 11.—Hence, adv.: partim (old acc. sing.), partly, in part, a part, some of, some.
A.
Lit.
(α).
With gen.: cum partim illorum saepe ad eundem morem erat, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 13, 2:
atque haud scio an partim eorum fuerint, qui, etc.,
id. ib. 7, 3, 16: utrum neglegentia partim magistratuum, an, etc., nescio, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 10, 13, 4:
Bruttios Apulosque, partim Samnitium ac Lucanorum defecisse ad Poenos,
Liv. 23, 11.—So, repeated:
corpora partim Multa virum terrae infodiunt avectaque partim Finitimos tollunt in agros,
Verg. A. 11, 204:
partim... partim: cum partim ejus praedae profundae libidines devorassent, partim nova quaedam et inaudita luxuries, partim etiam, etc.,
Cic. Pis. 21, 48:
eorum autem ipsorum partim ejus modi sunt, ut, etc.,
id. Off. 2, 21, 9; 72; id. de Or. 2, 22, 94; 1, 31, 141:
partim copiarum ad tumulum expugnandum mittit, partim ipse ad arcem ducit,
Liv. 26, 46:
eorum autem, quae objecta sunt mihi, partim ea sunt, etc.,
id. 42, 41, 2; Nep. Att. 7, 2.—
(β).
With ex:
ex quibus partim tecum fuerunt, partim, etc.,
Cic. Vatin. 7, 16:
partim ex illis distracti ac dissipati jacent,
id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:
cum partim e nobis ita timidi sint, ut, etc.,... partim, etc.,
id. Phil. 8, 11, 32:
ex dubiis partim nobis ipsis ad electionem sunt libera, partim aliorum sententiae commissa,
Quint. 3, 4, 8.—
(γ).
Absol. (so most freq.): animus partim uxoris misericordiā Devinctus, partim victus hujus injuriis, partly,... partly; in part,... in part, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 92 sq.:
partim quae perspexi his oculis, partim quae accepi auribus,
id. ib. 3, 3, 3:
amici partim deseruerint me, partim etiam prodiderint,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:
diuturni silentii... non timore aliquo, sed partim dolore, partim verecundiā, finem hodiernus dies attulit,
id. Marc. 1, 1; Quint. 7, 1, 3:
partim quod... partim quod, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 5, 6, 3:
partim ductu, partim auspiciis suis,
Suet. Aug. 21:
partim cupiditate... partim ambitione... partim etiam inscientiā,
Quint. 12, 11, 14:
Scipio dux partim factis fortibus partim suāpte fortunā quādam ingentis ad incrementa gloriae celebratus converterat animos,
Liv. 29, 26, 5:
postea renuntiavit foro partim pudore, partim metu,
Suet. Rhet. 6.—Sometimes partim is placed only in the second member of a partitive proposition:
Caesar a nobilissimis civibus, partim etiam a se omnibus rebus ornatis, trucidatus,
Cic. Div. 2, 9, 23; id. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 158.—Sometimes it corresponds to alius, quidam, etc.:
bestiarum terrenae sunt aliae, partim aquatiles, aliae quasi ancipites,
Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 103:
multa inusitata partim e caelo, alia ex terrā oriebantur, quaedam etiam, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 42, 93:
quibusdam placuisse mirabilia quaedam, partim fugiendas esse nimias amicitias,
Cic. Am. 13, 45:
castra hostium invadunt, semisomnos partim, alios arma sumentes fugant,
Sall. J. 21, 2:
Gaetulos accepimus, partim in tuguriis, alios incultius vagos agitare, etc.,
id. ib. 19, 5; 38, 3; 40, 2; cf. id. ib. 13, 2; Gell. 2, 22, 1.—
B.
Transf.
1.
For the most part, chiefly, principally (ante-class.):
mirum quin tibi ego crederem, ut ipse idem mihi faceres, quod partim faciunt argentarii,
Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 28:
bubulcis obsequitor, partim quo libentius boves curent,
Cato, R. R. 5, 6; 6, 3. —
2.
Of time, sometimes (late Lat.), Scrib. Comp. Med. 53.

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