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  • 1 potis

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 2 potissimum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 3 potissimus

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 4 potissume

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 5 potissumum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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    vĕl, conj. and adv. [old imv. of volo] prop., will, choose, take your choice; hence,
    I.
    As disjunctive conjunction, to introduce an alternative as a matter of choice or preference, or as not affecting the principal assertion (while aut introduces an absolute or essential opposition; cf. Madv. Gr. § 436; Zumpt, Gr. § 339; Fischer, Gr. § 383).
    A.
    Singly.
    1.
    In gen., or (if you will), or else, or (at your pleasure), or (at least), or (it is indifferent), or (what is the same thing), etc.:

    dic igitur me passerculum... haedillum me tuom dic esse vel vitellum,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 77: viginti minis? Ba. Utrum vis, vel quater quinis minis, id. Ps. 1, 3, 111:

    lege vel tabellas redde,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 29:

    in solem ponito vel sine sale in defrutum condito,

    Cato, R. R. 7: orabant (sc. Ubii), ut sibi auxilium ferret... vel... exercitum modo Rhenum transportaret, or at least, i. e. or, if he preferred it, Caes. B. G. 4, 16:

    ejusmodi conjunctionem tectorum oppidum vel urbem appellaverunt,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 41:

    in unius voluntate vel moribus,

    id. ib. 2, 28, 51:

    in unā urbe vel in hac ipsā,

    id. ib. 3, 10, 17:

    constituere vel conservare,

    id. ib. 2, 38, 64:

    in ardore caelesti, qui aether vel caelum nominatur,

    id. N. D. 2, 15, 41:

    transfer idem ad modestiam vel temperantiam,

    id. Fin. 2, 19, 60; cf. Madv. ad id. ib. 2, 25, 81:

    unum illud extimescebam, ne quid turpiter facerem, vel dicam, jam effecissem,

    id. Att. 9, 7, 1: haec neque confirmare argumentis neque refellere in animo est;

    ex ingenio suo quisque demat vel addat fidem,

    Tac. G. 3.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    With potius, to correct or make more precise what has been said, or rather:

    ex hoc populo indomito vel potius immani,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68:

    post obitum vel potius excessum Romuli,

    id. ib. 2, 30, 53:

    cessit auctoritati amplissimi viri vel potius paruit,

    id. Lig. 7, 22:

    vide quid licentiae nobis tua liberalitas det, vel potius audaciae,

    id. ib. 8, 23:

    ludorum plausus vel testimonia potius,

    id. Phil. 1, 15, 36:

    quam valde ille reditu vel potius reversione meā laetatus!

    id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Phil. 13, 9, 19:

    novem tibi orbibus, vel potius globis conexa sunt omnia,

    id. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

    plurimas vel potius omnes ex se ipso virtutes contulit,

    Quint. 10, 1, 109.—In climax after a negative:

    tu certe numquam in hoc ordine vel potius numquam in hac urbe mansisses,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 15, 38.—
    b.
    So corrective, without potius:

    sed haec tu melius vel optime omnium,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 7:

    clariore vel plane perspicua,

    id. Fin. 5, 20, 55; id. Lael. 12, 41:

    Capua ab duce eorum Capye, vel. quod propius vero est, a campestri agro appellata,

    Liv. 4, 37, 1:

    cum P. Decius se in Samnium vel in Etruriam proficisci paratum esse ostendisset,

    id. 10, 26, 4.—Esp. in the phrase vel dicam, or let me rather say, or rather:

    quando enim nobis, vel dicam aut oratoribus bonis aut poëtis, ullus... ornatus defuit?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10; id. Brut. 57, 207; id. Cael. 31, 75; id. Phil. 2, 12, 30; id. Att. 9, 7, 1; Suet. Calig. 13.—So intensive, or I may even say (cf. II. A. 3. infra):

    omnes binos consules, vel dicam amplius, omnia nomina,

    Varr. L. L. 8, p. 106 Bip.:

    a plerisque vel dicam ab omnibus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 3; id. Brut. 70, 246.—
    c.
    Vel etiam, or even:

    ut expositio quarundam rerum gestarum vel etiam fabulosarum,

    Quint. 4, 3, 12. —
    d.
    = aut, or else.
    (α).
    With an alternative necessary consequence:

    id autem nec nasci potest nec mori, vel concidat omne caelum omnisque natura consistat necesse est,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54 Tischer ad loc.:

    vel tu ne faceres tale in adulescentiā,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 22.—
    (β).
    In gen. ( poet. and post class.):

    si copias armatorum... secum expenderent, vincendum illā acie vel cadendum esse,

    Tac. A. 14, 35:

    mortem omnibus ex naturā aequalem oblivione apud posteros vel gloriă distingui,

    id. H. 1, 21; cf. id. A. 14, 61; 14, 62:

    quod imperium variā sorte laetum rei publicae aut atrox, principibus prosperum vel exitio fuit,

    id. H. 2, 1 init.; 2, 10; 2, 68; cf. Ov. M. 9, 624 sq.; 15, 601 sq.—
    e.
    In a subordinate alternative after aut:

    nec aut tibi ipsi aut huic Secundo vel huic Apro ignotas,

    Tac. Or. 28:

    ne contra Gai quidem aut Claudii vel Neronis... domum,

    id. H. 2, 76:

    abscedens in hortos aut Tusculanum vel Antiatem in agrum,

    id. A. 14, 3 init.:

    dementiae quoque judicia aut propter id quod factum est aut propter id quod adhuc fieri vel non fieri potest instituuntur,

    Quint. 7, 4, 29.—
    B.
    As co-ordinate.
    1.
    Vel... vel, either... or, be it... or; in gen. (class.; but where the alternatives are necessary and exclusive, that is, where one must be right and the other wrong, aut... aut is used; v. infra, and cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 4, 11, 27): sed hic numquis adest? Pa. Vel adest vel non, i. e. just as you please, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 28 Brix ad loc.:

    paucis me misit ad eam... vel ut ducentos Philippos reddat aureos, vel ut hinc eat secum,

    id. Bacch. 4, 1, 18 sq.:

    ubi illic biberit, vel servato meum modum vel ego dabo,

    id. Stich. 5, 4, 37:

    vel tu me vende, vel face quod tibi lubet,

    id. Pers. 3, 1, 70:

    nunc quamobrem huc sum missa, amabo, vel tu mihi ajas, vel neges,

    id. Rud. 2, 4, 14; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 44:

    Allobrogibus sese vel persuasuros... existimabant, vel vi coacturos, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6:

    ut (Romani) vel sibi agros attribuant vel patiantur eos tenere, etc.,

    id. ib. 4, 7:

    vel sumptuosae vel desidiosae illecebrae,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 8:

    in omni vel officio vel sermone sollers,

    id. ib. 2, 21, 37:

    maximum virtutis vel documentum, vel officium,

    id. ib. 1, 20, 33:

    pace vel Quirini vel Romuli dixerim,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 42:

    erant quaestiones vel de caede vel de vi,

    id. Mil. 5, 13; 7, 20; id. Leg. 3, 14, 32; id. Lig. 6, 17; id. Deiot. 1, 1; 5, 13; id. Brut. 69, 242:

    animus vel bello vel paci paratus,

    Liv. 1, 1, 8:

    hunc ordinem ex censu descripsit vel paci decorum vel bello,

    id. 1, 42, 5: Etruriam et Samnium provincias esse;

    utram mallet eligeret: suo exercitu se vel in Etruriā vel in Samnio rem gesturum,

    id. 10, 19, 9:

    gladioque ruptis omnibus loris, oraculi sortem vel elusit vel implevit,

    Curt. 3, 1, 18:

    nihil illo fuisset excellentius vel in vitiis vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1, 1; 2, 1; id. Milt. 3, 4.—
    b.
    Connected with aut, but not corresponding to it (cf. infra, 2. e.):

    num aut tuum aut cujusquam nostrum nomen vel Caucasum hunc transcendere potuit vel illum Gangem transnatare?

    Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22:

    ubi enim potest illa aetas aut calescere vel apricatione melius vel igni aut vicissim umbris aquisve refrigerari salubrius?

    id. Sen. 16, 57:

    si velim scribere quid aut legere aut canere vel voce vel fidibus, aut geometricum quiddam aut physicum aut dialecticum explicare, etc.,

    id. Div. 2, 59, 122.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    With weakened disjunctive force (nearly = et... et). quemadmodum ille vel Athenis vel Rhodi se doctissimorum hominum sermonibus dedisset, Cic. de Or. 2, 1, 3:

    multos sine ratione, sine litteris, quā vel inpudentia vel fames duxit, ruentes,

    Quint. 2, 20, 2:

    affectus vel illos mites vel hos concitatos in suā potestate habuisse,

    id. 10, 1, 48: eadem quaestio potest eundem vel accusatorem facere vel reum, id. 3, 6, 18: et nundina vetera ex ordine instituit, vel dies vel tempora, Lampr Alex. Sev. 43: pestilentia tanta exstiterat vel Romae, vel Achaicis urbibus, ut, etc., Treb. Gall. 5.—
    b.
    More than twice, either... or... or, etc. tu vel suda, vel peri algu, vel tu aegrota, vel vale, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 24:

    hance tu mihi vel vi vel clam vel precario Fac tradas: meā nil re fert, dum potiar modo,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 28:

    vel in tempestate, vel in agris, vel in corporibus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68:

    vel quod ita vivit vel quod ita rem publicam gerit vel quod ita factus est,

    id. Phil. 2, 5, 10:

    vel spectator laudum tuarum vel particeps vel socius vel minister consiliorum,

    id. Fam. 2, 7, 2; id. Red. Quir. 9, 23;

    so eight times,

    id. Rep. 1, 3, 6. —
    c.
    The second (or last) vel strengthened,
    (α).
    By etiam:

    quae vel ad usum vitae vel etiam ad ipsam rem publicam conferre possumus,

    or even, Cic. Rep. 1, 8, 30; so id. ib. 1, 29, 45; 2, 1, 1; cf.:

    ut vel ea defendam, quae Pompejus velit, vel taceam, vel etiam ad nostra me studia referam litterarum,

    id. Fam. 1, 8, 3.—
    (β).
    By vero etiam:

    in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis, vel vero etiam negotiis,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4.—
    (γ).
    By omnino: haec vel ad odium, vel ad misericordiam, vel omnino ad animos judicum movendos ex iis quae sunt ante posita, sumentur ( or in general), Cic. Part. Or. 36, 128.—
    d.
    Rarely after a negative = neque, nor:

    neque satis Bruto... vel tribunis militum constabat, quid agerent,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14.—
    e.
    In irregular construction, without the second vel:

    utrumque est in his, quod ab hoc oratore abhorreat: vel quod omnis, qui sapientes non sint, insanos esse dicunt... accedit quod, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 18, 65; id. Att. 11, 7, 5; cf. esp. Lucr. 5, 383 sqq. Munro ad loc. —
    f.
    Vel... vel = aut... aut:

    habere ea, quae secundum naturam sint, vel omnia vel plurima et maxima,

    i. e. so nearly all that the difference is unimportant, Cic. Fin. 4, 11, 27; cf.

    Madv. ad loc.: cum bonā quidem spe, ut ait idem, vel vincendi vel in libertate moriendi,

    id. Att. 7, 9, 4.—For vel... vel, in a subordinate alternative after aut, v. the examples under I. B. 1. b. supra.—
    g.
    Vel, correl. with aut (post-Aug. and rare):

    verborum quoque vis ac proprietas confirmatur vel praesumptione... aut reprehensione,

    Quint. 9, 2, 18:

    voces... aut productione tantum vel correptione mutatae,

    id. 9, 3, 69 (but the line Ov. M. 1, 546, is spurious); so,

    aut... aut... vel: ut aut de nomine aut scripto et sententiā vel ratiocinatione quaeratur,

    Quint. 3, 6, 72:

    aut... aut... aut... aut... vel,

    id. 8, 6, 68 sq.; cf.:

    ubi regnat Protogenes aliquis vel Diphilus aut Erimarchus,

    Juv. 3, 120.
    II.
    As intens. particle (prop. ellipt., implying an alternative the first member of which is omitted, something else or even this, etc.).
    A.
    In gen., or even, if you will, or indeed, or... itself, even, assuredly, certainly.
    1.
    With subst.:

    tum opsonium autem pol vel legioni sat est,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 24; id. Capt. 1, 2, 23; id. Curc. 5, 2, 13:

    ita me di ament, vel in lautumiis, vel in pistrino mavelim Agere aetatem, Quam, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 5: Ep. Si arte poteris accubare. Ge. Vel inter cuneos ferreos, id. Stich. 4, 2, 39:

    vel rex semper maxumas Mihi agebat gratias,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 7:

    sed tamen vel regnum malo quam liberum populum,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 34, 46:

    isto quidem modo vel consulatus vituperabilis est,

    id. Leg. 3, 10, 23:

    cum se vel principes ejus consilii fore profiterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 37:

    vel Priamo miseranda manus,

    Verg. A. 11, 259:

    ego vel Prochytam praepono Suburae,

    Juv. 3, 5:

    facile me paterer vel illo ipso acerrimo judice quaerente vel apud Cassianos judices... pro Sex. Roscio dicere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 85:

    populus Romanus auctoritatem suam vel contra omnes defendere potest,

    even if necessary, id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63:

    id se probaturum vel ipso Verginio judice,

    Liv. 3, 44, 10:

    belli necessitatibus eam patientiam non adhibebimus, quam vel lusus ac voluptas elicere solet?

    id. 5, 6, 3:

    timebant ne Romana plebs... vel cum servitute pacem acciperet,

    even if it should involve their enslavement, id. 2, 9, 5.—
    2.
    With adjj.: Ch. Pax, te tribus verbis volo. Sy. Vel trecentis, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 122: Ca. Ut opperiare hos sex dies saltem modo... Ba. Animo bono es. Vel sex mensis opperibor, id. Ps. 1, 3, 89; cf.: jam hercle vel ducentae [p. 1964] minae, id. ib. 1, 3, 68;

    1, 3, 111: hoc ascensu vel tres armati quamlibet multitudinem arcuerint,

    Liv. 9, 24, 7: Ph. Dane suavium? Di. Immo vel decem, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 22:

    ego illum eunuchum, si opus sit, vel sobrius,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 26:

    si sit opus, vel totum triduom,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 17:

    haec sunt omnia ingenii vel mediocris,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 119.—
    3.
    With verbs: namque edepol quamvis desubito vel cadus vorti potest, may even be turned over, i. e. will be empty, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 39:

    ubi ego hinc abiero, vel occidito,

    if you will, even, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 93:

    per me vel stertas licet, inquit Carneades, non modo quiescas,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 93:

    ut ipsis sententiis, quibus proluserunt, vel pugnare possint,

    id. de Or. 2, 80, 325:

    cum vel abundare debeam, cogor mutuari,

    id. Att. 15 15, 3—
    4.
    With pronn.:

    videndum erit, quid quisque vel sine nobis aut possit consequi aut non possit,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 59:

    existiment quod velint, ac vel hoc intellegant,

    id. Fin. 5, 11, 33:

    est tibi ex his ipsis qui assunt bella copia, vel ut a te ipso ordiare,

    especially as you can begin with yourself, id. Rep. 2, 40, 67.—
    B.
    With superlatives, to denote the highest possible degree, the very; the utmost; the most...possible.
    1.
    With adjj.: hoc invenisset unum ad morbum illum homini vel bellissimum, the very loveliest, the most beautiful possible, Lucil. ap. Non. 527, 28:

    vidi in dolore podagrae ipsum vel omnium maximum Stoicorum Posidonium,

    Cic. Fragm. ib. 32:

    hoc in genere nervorum vel minimum, suavitatis autem est vel plurimum,

    the very least... the utmost possible, id. Or. 26, 91:

    quarum duarum (civitatum) si adessent (legationes), duo crimina vel maxima minuerentur,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 5, 14:

    patre meā sententiā vel eloquentissimo temporibus illis,

    the most eloquent possible, id. de Or. 2, 23, 98:

    quod erat ad obtinendam potentiam nobilium vel maximum, vehementer id retinebatur,

    id. Rep. 2, 32, 56:

    cujus (sc. Hannibalis) eo tempore vel maxima apud regem auctoritas erat,

    Liv. 36, 41, 2:

    vident unum senatorem vel tenuissimum esse damnatum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 16, 46:

    fora templaque occupabantur, ut vel exspectatissimi triumphi laetitia praecipi posset,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 51:

    sed vel potentissima apud Amphictyonas aequi tractatio est,

    Quint. 5, 10, 118; 11, 1, 81.—
    2.
    With advv.:

    vel studiosissime quaerere,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 15:

    cum Sophocles vel optime scripserit Electram,

    id. Fin. 1, 2, 5:

    vel maxime confirmare,

    id. N. D. 2, 65, 162; so,

    vel maxime,

    id. Ac. 2, 3, 9; id. de Or. 1, 8, 32; id. Att. 9, 12, 3; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 4, 3, 4.—
    C.
    In adding an instance implying that other instances might be mentioned at will, or this one; for instance, for example, as for example, in particular:

    Per pol quam paucos reperias Fideles amatores... Vel hic Pamphilus jurabat quotiens Bacchidi, etc.,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 3:

    vel heri in vino quam inmodestus fuisti,

    id. Heaut. 3, 3, 7: nullast tam facilis res quin difficilis siet Quom invitus facias;

    vel me haec deambulatio... ad languorum dedit,

    id. ib. 4, 6, 1:

    sed suavis accipio litteras, vel quas proxime acceperam, quam prudentis!

    Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 1:

    cujus innumerabilia sunt exempla, vel Appii majoris illius, qui, etc.,

    id. de Or. 2, 70, 284.—
    D.
    Concessive.
    1.
    With superlatives, perhaps:

    adulescens vel potentissimus nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Rosc. A. 2, 6:

    domus vel optima Messanae, notissima quidem certe,

    the best known, at any rate, if not the finest, id. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 3.—
    2.
    = saltem, at least:

    quā re etsi minus veram causam habebis, tamen vel probabilem aliquam poteris inducere,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 22, 2:

    plurimi semetipsos exhortantur vel aliquas partes earum (scientiarum) addiscere, quamvis universas percipere non possint,

    Col. 11, 1, 11:

    ac, ni flexisset animos, vel Aegypti praefecturam concedi sibi oraret,

    Suet. Ner. 47:

    ut messe vel unā releves colla perusta,

    Mart. 10, 12, 5; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 8; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 4, 16, 43.

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  • 7 quam

        quam adv.    [qui].—Relat., in what manner, to what degree, how greatly, how, how much: nescis quam doleam, T.: vide, quam te amarit is: declaravit quam odisset senatum: docebat, quam veteres quamque iustae causae intercederent, Cs.: ut sentias quam vile sit corpus, L.: Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis, H.: ut nobis tempus quam diu diceremus praestitueres: mire quam illius loci cogitatio delectat (i. e. mirum est, quam, etc.), wonderfully.—Interrog., how?: quam avidum in pecuniis (hunc fuisse censetis)?: quam multis custodibus opus erit?: quam longe est hinc in saltum vestrum?—In exclamations, how! how very!: quam cupiunt laudari!: quam terribilis aspectu (incedebat)!: quam nihil praetermittis in consilio dando!: Quam paene regna Proserpinae vidimus! H. —Esp., in comparisons, in what degree, as: nihil est tam populare quam bonitas: quid est oratori tam necessarium quam vox?: tam diu requiesco, quam diu ad te scribo: tam esse clemens tyrannus, quam rex importunus potest: quam quisque pessume fecit, tam maxume tutus est, S.: tam sum amicus rei p. quam qui maxime: Non verbis dici potest Tantum quam navigare incommodumst, T.: maria aspera iuro Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam ne, etc., V.: intentis, non ab irā tantum, quam quod urbs videbatur, etc., L.: dimidium tributi quam quod regibus ferre soliti erant, half as much tribute as, etc., L.: nihil aeque eos terruit, quam robur imperatoris, L.: quam multā grandine nimbi crepitant, sic ictibus heros Creber pulsat, V.—With ellips. of tam, as much as, to the extent that, as... as: quam voletis multi dicent, as many of you as choose: quam diu vixit, all his life: quam diu tu voles, as long as you will: non militum fiduciā quam iuventutis, not so much, L.: tyrannus, quam qui umquam, saevissimus, never surpassed in cruelty, L.: Huc turba ruebat... Quam multa cadunt folia, as numerous as, V. —With sup. and possum or (old) queo: ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, at the lowest price you can, T.: quam plurimos potest equites educit, S.: quam maximis potest itineribus pervenit, Cs.: quam maxime possem, contenderem, to the utmost of my power.—With sup. and ellips. of possum, in the highest degree, as... as possible, extremely, very: quam minimum spati daretur, the shortest time possible, Cs.: quam plurimo vendere, at the highest price: ut quam primum accederet, as soon as possible: quam primum, forthwith, V. —Colloq.: quam familiariter, very, T.—Implying difference of degree (after a comp. or word of comparison), than: acrior quam ego sum: omnia sunt citius facta quam dixi: nec diutius vixit quam locuta est: ut aditus non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret: istas tu partīs potius quam defectionem vocas?: Nec tibi grata minus pietas... Quam fuit illa Iovi, O.: se temere magis quam satis caute inferre, L.: non locuta est ferocius quam poculum inpavide hausit, L.: speciem gloriae vehementius quam caute appetebat, Ta.: maiorem pecuniam polliceri, quam quantam hic dedisset: ne libentius haec evomere videar quam verius, with more satisfaction than accuracy: pestilentia minacior quam perniciosior, more threatening than destructive, L.: turbavit ordinem non acrior quam pertinacior impetus, L.: quid hoc fieri turpius potest, quam eum... labi: ne aliter, quam ego velim, meum laudet ingenium, otherwise than as I wished: quis antea, quis esset, quam cuius gener esset, audivit? sooner... than: pridie quam a me tu coactus eo profitere, on the day before. virtus nihil aliud est quam in se perfecta natura: nil aliud agens quam ut, etc., with no other purpose than, etc., L.: saepe supra feret, quam fieri possit, more than: ultra quam satis est, producitur.—Praegn., after verbs implying preference or superiority, rather than: praestare omnīs perferre acerbitates, quam non civibus parentarent, Cs.: si eligere commodissimum quodque, quam sese uni vellent addicere: esse quam videri bonus malebat, S.: malae rei se quam nullius duces esse volunt, L.: statuit congredi quam refugere, N.—After expressions of time, later than, after that, after: die vicensimo quam creatus erat dictaturā se abdicavit, L.: anno trecentesimo altero quam condita Roma erat, L.
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    I
    how, how much; as, than

    quam + superlative -- as... as possible

    II
    how, than

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  • 8 quisque

    quis-que, quaeque, quodque, and subst. quicque (quidque), pron. indef., whoever or whatever it be, each, every, every body, every one, every thing (prop. of more than two persons or things; cf.

    uterque): non tute incommodam rem, ut quaeque est, in animum induces pati?

    Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 27;

    ut in quo quisque artificio excelleret, is in suo genere Roscius diceretur,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 130; id. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

    tantum quisque laudat, quantum se posse sperat imitari,

    id. Or. 7, 24:

    quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat,

    id. Off. 1, 7, 21:

    magni est judicis statuere, quid quemque cuique praestare oporteat,

    id. ib. 3, 17, 70:

    sibi quoque tendente, ut periculo prius evaderet,

    Liv. 21, 33:

    ut quaeque stellae in iis, finitimisque partibus sint quoque tempore,

    Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89:

    quamcumque rem a quoque cognorit,

    id. de Or. 1, 15, 67:

    scrobes ternorum pedum in quamque partem,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 167:

    proximis quibusque correptis,

    Flor. 1, 9:

    prout quique monitione indigerent,

    Suet. Aug. 89.—With gen.:

    tuorum quisque necessariorum,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 25:

    quantulum enim summae curtabit quisque dierum, Si,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 124.—With comp.:

    quo quisque est sollertior, hoc docet laboriosius,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31:

    quo majus quodque animal, eo, etc.,

    Cels. 2, 18:

    ut quique (pedes) sunt temporibus pleniores, hoc, etc.,

    Quint. 9, 4, 83:

    bonus liber melior est quisque, quo major,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 4.—With sup., to express universality (quisque is then placed after the sup.; class. with sing. and neutr. plur.; rare with plur. masc. and fem.): doctissimus quisque, every learned man, i. e. all the learned, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 77:

    recentissima quaeque sunt correcta et emendata maxime,

    id. Ac. 1, 4, 13:

    in omni arte optimum quidque rarissimum est,

    id. Fin. 2, 25, 81:

    asperrima quaeque ad laborem deposcimus,

    Liv. 25, 6, 23; Suet. Caes. 44; Tac. A. 1, 24; Sen. Ep. 31, 1; Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 13:

    summum quodque spectate, milites, decus,

    Liv. 7, 32, 14; 23, 3, 14:

    antiquissimum quodque tempus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45:

    gravissima quaeque grana serere,

    Plin. 18, 8, 20, § 85.—With plur. masc. and fem.: optumi quique expetebant a me doctrinam sibi, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 76:

    fortissimis quibusque amissis,

    Just. 5, 6, 3; Lact. Epit. 51, 2:

    multi mortales convenere... maxime proximi quique,

    Liv. 1, 9, 8; cf.:

    tot leges et proximae quaeque duriores,

    Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75; id. Lael. 10, 34:

    litterae longissimae quaeque,

    id. Fam. 7, 33, 2; id. Att. 16, 11, 2.—

    With ordinal numerals, to denote generality, universality (placed after the ordinal): vix decimus quisque est, qui ipsus se noverit,

    scarcely one in ten, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 17:

    tertio quoque verbo excitabatur,

    at every other word, Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 34: quinto quoque anno, every fifth year, i. e. every four years, id. Verr. 2, 2, 56, § 139:

    quinto quoque palo,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 169.—Rarely of time (days, years, etc.), without an ordinal numeral:

    notentur, quae (ova) quoque die sint edita,

    Col. 8, 5, 4:

    annis quibusque,

    every year, Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 52.—With primus, the very first, the first possible:

    primo quoque tempore,

    as soon as possible, Cic. Phil. 3, 15, 39:

    primo quoque die,

    at the earliest day, as soon as possible, id. ib. 8, 11, 33:

    exercitui diem primam quamque dicere,

    the earliest day possible, Liv. 42, 48:

    primum quicque videamus,

    the very first, Cic. N. D. 3, 3, 7.— Quisque stands freq. in app. with plur. subst.:

    ubi quisque vident, eunt obviam,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 2, 2:

    sibi quisque habeant, quod suom est,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 24:

    decimus quisque ad supplicium lecti,

    Liv. 2, 59:

    octo delecti notissimus quisque,

    id. 7, 19, 2:

    (consules) in suas quisque provincias proficiscerentur,

    id. 25, 12, 2; 1, 44, 1;

    viri in vestibulo suarum quisque aedium stabant,

    Curt. 4, 4, 14:

    ultimi cum suis quisque ducibus,

    id. 3, 3, 25; 5, 2, 6; 6, 11, 20.— Often in connection with se, suus (in good prose almost always placed after the pron., Zumpt, Gram. § 701; cf.

    Krebs, Antibarb. p. 983): pro se quisque,

    Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 26:

    pro se quisque ad populum loquebatur,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 68:

    ut quanti quisque se ipse faciat, tanti fiat ab amicis,

    id. Lael. 16, 56:

    suam quisque homo rem meminit,

    Plaut. Merc. 4, 5, 51:

    cum suo cuique judicio sit utendum,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    edixit, ut quod quisque a sacris haberet, id in suum quidque fanum referret,

    id. ib. 3, 34, 84:

    quo feret natura sua quemque,

    id. Brut. 56, 204:

    dicere quos cupio nomine quemque suo,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 64:

    quisque suos patimur Manes,

    Verg. A. 6, 743:

    suum quisque flagitium aliis objectantes,

    Tac. H. 2, 44:

    quos Poenus in civitates quemque suas dimisit,

    Liv. 21, 48, 2; cf. Just. 13, 6, 2; 33, 2, 8; Tac. A. 6, 37.—Quisque, of two, for uterque, each:

    oscula quisque suae matri properata tulerunt,

    Ov. F 2, 715:

    duas civitates ex unā factas: suos cuique parti magistratus, suas leges esse,

    Liv. 2, 44, 9; 2, 7, 1; 10, 12, 3; 27, 35, 3;

    for utercumque: ut cujusque populi cives vicissent, etc.,

    id. 1, 24, 3 (dub. al. cujus) — Quisque as fem. for quaeque, like quis (ante - class.):

    omnes meretrices, ubi quisque habitant, invenit,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 107:

    quo quisque pacto hic vitam vostrarum exigat,

    Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 19.—
    II.
    Transf., for quicunque, whosoever, every one who, all that (ante- and postclass.):

    quemque videritis hominem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 5; id. As. 1, 3, 47; 2, 3, 24; Liv. 1, 24:

    at tu, quisque doles, amice lector,

    Sid. Ep. 4, 11 in carm.

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  • 9 quis-que

        quis-que quaeque, quidque, and    （adj.) quodque, pron. indef, whoever it be, whatever, each, each one, every, everybody, every one, everything (of more than two): ut quisque venerat, Accedebam, i. e. whoever arrived, T.: mens cuiusque is est quisque, the mind is the man: quod quisque imperator habeat: statuere, quid quemque cuique praestare oporteat: sibi quoque tendente, ut periculo prius evaderet, L.: quis quosque nostrum loquatur: Quantulum enim summae curtabit quisque dierum, Si, etc., H.: quo quisque est sollertior, hoc docet laboriosius: Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, H.—Sing. with plur apposit.: decimus quisque ad supplicium lecti, L.: ultimi cum suis quisque ducibus, Cu.— Plur: ut quosque studium aut gratia occupaverunt, i. e. them severally, L.: quae apud quosque visenda sunt: Singula quaeque locum teneant, H.—After a sup., of an entire class: optimus quisque ita loquebatur, i. e. all noblemen: doctissimus quisque, every man of learning: asperrima quaeque ad laborem deposcimus, L.: antiquissimum quodque tempus, Cs.—Plur. (usu. when the whole consists of several groups): in optimis quibusque gloriae certamen, i. e. in cases of friendship between eminent men: multi mortales convenere... maxime proximi quique, L.: litterae longissimae quaeque.—With primus or proximus, always the first, at each earliest time, as soon as possible in each case: primum quidque videamus, i. e. let us take up the first point first: si quis fecerit... de eius honore primo quoque die referant: ne proxima quaeque amoliendo aditum facerent, L.: primo quoque tempore, as soon as possible, the earliest possible moment, C., L.—After an ordinal num: tertio quoque verbo excitabantur, at every other word: quinto quoque anno, i. e. every four years.—After a pron reflex., each for himself, severally, individually, without exception: pro se quisque: ut quanti quisque se ipse faciat, tanti fiat ab amicis: quo ferat natura sua quemque: ut pro suā quisque patriā dimicent ferro, L.—Rarely before the pron: quisque suos patimur Manes, V.: quos Poenus in civitates quemque suas dimisit, L.—For uter, each: Oscula quisque suae matri properata tulerunt, O.—Quisque as fem. for quaeque: quo quisque pacto hic vitam vostrorum exigit, T.

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  • 10 sum

        sum (2d pers. es, or old ēs; old subj praes. siem, siēs, siet, sient, for sim, etc., T.; fuat for sit, T., V., L.; imperf. often forem, forēs, foret, forent, for essem, etc.; fut. escunt for erunt, C.), fuī (fūvimus for fuimus, Enn. ap. C.), futūrus ( inf fut. fore or futūrum esse, C.), esse    [ES-; FEV-]. —    I. As a predicate, asserting existence, to be, exist, live: ut id aut esse dicamus aut non esse: flumen est Arar, quod, etc., Cs.: homo nequissimus omnium qui sunt, qui fuerunt: arbitrari, me nusquam aut nullum fore: fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, V.—Of place, to be, be present, be found, stay, live: cum non liceret Romae quemquam esse: cum essemus in castris: deinceps in lege est, ut, etc.: erat nemo, quicum essem libentius quam tecum: sub uno tecto esse, L.—Of circumstances or condition, to be, be found, be situated, be placed: Sive erit in Tyriis, Tyrios laudabis amictūs, i. e. is attired, O.: in servitute: in magno nomine et gloriā: in vitio: Hic in noxiāst, T.: in pace, L.: (statua) est et fuit totā Graeciā summo honore: ego sum spe bonā: rem illam suo periculo esse, at his own risk: omnem reliquam spem in impetu esse equitum, L.—In 3 d pers., followed by a pron rel., there is (that) which, there are (persons) who, there are (things) which, some.—With indic. (the subject conceived as definite): est quod me transire oportet, there is a (certain) reason why I must, etc., T.: sunt item quae appellantur alces, there are creatures also, which, etc., Cs.: sunt qui putant posse te non decedere, some think: Sunt quibus in satirā videor nimis acer, H.—With subj. (so usu. in prose, and always with a subject conceived as indefinite): sunt, qui putent esse mortem... sunt qui censeant, etc.: est isdem de rebus quod dici possit subtilius: sunt qui Crustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, H.—With dat, to belong, pertain, be possessed, be ascribed: fingeret fallacias, Unde esset adulescenti amicae quod daret, by which the youth might have something to give, T.: est igitur homini cum deo similitudo, man has some resemblance: Privatus illis census erat brevis, H.: Troia et huic loco nomen est, L.—Ellipt.: Nec rubor est emisse palam (sc. ei), nor is she ashamed, O.: Neque testimoni dictio est (sc. servo), has no right to be a witness, T.—With cum and abl of person, to have to do with, be connected with: tecum nihil rei nobis est, we have nothing to do with you, T.: si mihi tecum minus esset, quam est cum tuis omnibus.—With ab and abl of person, to be of, be the servant of, follow, adhere to, favor, side with: Ab Andriā est ancilla haec, T.: sed vide ne hoc, Scaevola, totum sit a me, makes for me.— With pro, to be in favor of, make for: (iudicia) partim nihil contra Habitum valere, partim etiam pro hoc esse.—With ex, to consist of, be made up of: (creticus) qui est ex longā et brevi et longā: duo extremi chorei sunt, id est, e singulis longis et brevibus.— To be real, be true, be a fact, be the case, be so: sunt ista, Laeli: est ut dicis, inquam: verum esto: esto, granted, V.—Esp. in phrases, est ut, it is the case that, is true that, is possible that, there is reason for: sin est, ut velis Manere illam apud te, T.: est, ut id maxime deceat: futurum esse ut omnes pellerentur, Cs.: magis est ut ipse moleste ferat errasse se, quam ut reformidet, etc., i. e. he has more reason for being troubled... than for dreading, etc.: ille erat ut odisset defensorem, etc., he certainly did hate.—In eo esse ut, etc., to be in a condition to, be possible that, be about to, be on the point of ( impers. or with indef subj.): cum iam in eo esset, ut in muros evaderet miles, when the soldiers were on the point of scaling, L.: cum res non in eo essent ut, etc., L.—Est ubi, there is a time when, sometimes: est, ubi id isto modo valeat.—Est quod, there is reason to, is occasion to: etsi magis est, quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem, I have more reason to: est quod referam ad consilium: sin, etc., L.: non est quod multa loquamur, H.—Est cur, there is reason why: quid erat cur Milo optaret, etc., what cause had Milo for wishing? etc.—With inf, it is possible, is allowed, is permitted, one may: Est quādam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra, H.: scire est liberum Ingenium atque animum, T.: neque est te fallere quicquam, V.: quae verbo obiecta, verbo negare sit, L.: est videre argentea vasa, Ta.: fuerit mihi eguisse aliquando tuae amicitiae, S.—Of events, to be, happen, occur, befall, take place: illa (solis defectio) quae fuit regnante Romulo: Amabo, quid tibi est? T.: quid, si... futurum nobis est? L.— To come, fall, reach, be brought, have arrived: ex eo tempore res esse in vadimonium coepit: quae ne in potestatem quidem populi R. esset, L.—    II. As a copula, to be: et praeclara res est et sumus otiosi: non sum ita hebes, ut istud dicam: Nos numerus sumus, a mere number, H.: sic, inquit, est: est ut dicis: frustra id inceptum Volscis fuit, L.: cum in convivio comiter et iucunde fuisses: quod in maritimis facillime sum, am very glad to be.—With gen part., to be of, belong to: qui eiusdem civitatis fuit, N.: qui Romanae partis erant, L.: ut aut amicorum aut inimicorum Campani simus, L.— With gen possess., to belong to, pertain to, be of, be the part of, be peculiar to, be characteristic of, be the duty of: audiant eos, quorum summa est auctoritas apud, etc., who possess: ea ut civitatis Rhodiorum essent, L.: Aemilius, cuius tum fasces erant, L.: plebs novarum rerum atque Hannibalis tota esse, were devoted to, L.: negavit moris esse Graecorum, ut, etc.—With pron possess.: est tuum, Cato, videre quid agatur: fuit meum quidem iam pridem rem p. lugere.—With gerundive: quae res evertendae rei p. solerent esse, which were the usual causes of ruin to the state: qui utilia ferrent, quaeque aequandae libertatis essent, L.— With gen. or abl. of quality, to be of, be possessed of, be characterized by, belong to, have, exercise: nimium me timidum, nullius consili fuisse confiteor: Sulla gentis patriciae nobilis fuit, S.: civitas magnae auctoritatis, Cs.: refer, Cuius fortunae (sit), H.: nec magni certaminis ea dimicatio fuit, L.: bellum variā victoriā fuit, S.: tenuissimā valetudine esse, Cs.: qui capite et superciliis semper est rasis.—With gen. or abl. of price or value, to be of, be valued at, stand at, be appreciated, cost: videtur esse quantivis preti, T.: ager nunc multo pluris est, quam tunc fuit: magni erunt mihi tuae litterae: sextante sal et Romae et per totam Italiam erat, was worth, L.—With dat predic., to express definition or purpose, to serve for, be taken as, be regarded as, be felt to be: vitam hanc rusticam tu probro et crimini putas esse oportere, ought to be regarded as: eo natus sum ut Iugurthae scelerum ostentui essem, S.: ipsa res ad levandam annonam impedimento fuerat, L.—With second dat of pers.: quo magis quae agis curae sunt mihi, T.: illud Cassianum, ‘cui bono fuerit,’ the inquiry of Cassius, ‘ for whose benefit was it ’: haec tam parva civitas praedae tibi et quaestui fuit.— To be sufficient for, be equal to, be fit: sciant patribus aeque curae fuisse, ne, etc., L.: ut divites conferrent, qui oneri ferendo essent, such as were able to bear the burden, L.: cum solvendo aere (old dat. for aeri) alieno res p. non esset, L.—With ellips. of aeri: tu nec solvendo eras, wast unable to pay.—With ad, to be of use for, serve for: res quae sunt ad incendia, Cs.: valvae, quae olim ad ornandum templum erant maxime.—With de, to be of, treat concerning, relate to: liber, qui est de animo.—In the phrase, id est, or hoc est, in explanations, that is, that is to say, I mean: sed domum redeamus, id est ad nostros revertamur: vos autem, hoc est populus R., etc., S.
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  • 11 possum

    possum, pŏtŭi, posse, v. n. irreg. (old forms, potis sum, for possum, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 26; id. Curc. 5, 3, 23; so,

    potis est,

    id. Ps. 1, 1, 41:

    potis sunt, for possunt,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 17: POTISIT, S. C. de Bacchan.: potisset, for posset, and potisse, for posse, Lucil. ap. Non. 484, 32, and 445, 29:

    potesse, for posse, very freq.,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 30; id. Cist. 1, 1, 32; id. Truc. 1, 1, 73; id. Ep. 2, 2, 43; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 30 al.; Lucr. 1, 665; 2, 225; 1010:

    possiem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 2; id. Stich. 3, 2, 25:

    potis sis,

    id. Poen. 4, 2, 53:

    potis siem,

    id. Merc. 2, 2, 59: possies, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 29 fin., or Sat. v. 38 Vahl.; Plaut. As. 4, 2, 10; id. Aul. 4, 10, 17; id. Most. 2, 2, 34; 3, 2, 147; id. Men. 5, 9, 45:

    possiet,

    id. Cist. 1, 3, 37; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 3; id. Most. 1, 1, 13 al.; cf. Brix ad Plaut. Mil. 884; Fleck. Krit. Misc. p. 45 sq.—In pass.: potestur, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 380 P. (Ann. [p. 1404] v. 594 Vahl.): Pac. ap. Non. 508, 29; Quadrig. ap. id. 508, 30; Lucr. 3, 1010: poteratur, Cael. ap. Non. 508, 27: possitur, Lex. Servil. p. 59 Haubold; Scaurus ap. Diom. p. 381 P.: possetur, Quadrig. ap. Non. 508, 18) [potis-sum].
    I.
    In gen., to be able, have power; I ( thou, he, etc.) can (syn. queo):

    quantum valeam, quantumque possim,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1:

    consilio, quantum potero, labore plus paene quam potero exeubabo,

    id. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

    ut, quoad possem et liceret, a senis latere nunquam discederem,

    id. Lael. 1, 1:

    timor igitur ab iis aegritudinem potuit repellere, ratio non poterit?

    id. Tuse. 3, 27, 66.—With sup.:

    Caesari te commendavi et tradidi, ut gravissime diligentissimeque potui,

    as earnestly and warmly as I possibly could, Cic. Fam. 7, 17, 2: potest fieri, it may be, is possible:

    potest fieri, ut fallar,

    id. ib. 13, 73, 2: non possum quin, I can not but: non possum quin exclamem, ut ait ille in Trinummo (Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 79; cf. id. Mil. 2, 2, 107); Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 39:

    ut nihil ad te dem litterarum, facere non possum,

    I cannot help writing to you, id. Att. 8, 14, 1:

    facere non potui quin tibi sententiam declararem meam,

    id. Fam. 6, 13, 1; cf.:

    non possum non: aequitatem tuam non potui non probare,

    id. ib. 1, 9, 26:

    non possum te non accusare,

    id. ib. 5, 14, 2:

    is non potest eam (mortem) non timere,

    id. Fin. 3, 8, 29.— Absol.: potest (sc. fieri), it may be, is possible:

    potest, ut alii ita arbitrentur,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 38: non, non sic futurum est;

    non potest,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 73; Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 100 Brix; cf. id. Trin. 3, 3, 3:

    quae (mala) si potest singula consolando levare, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

    nos dignitatem, ut potest, retinebimus,

    id. Fam. 1, 2, 4.—Quantum or ut potest, as much or as far as possible:

    ibo atque arcessam medicum, quantum potest,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2; id. Most. 3, 2, 71; Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 20:

    nos in senatu dignitatem nostram, ut potest in tantā hominum perfidiā, retinebimus,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 4.—In urgent questions:

    possum scire, quo profectus, cujus sis, aut quid veneris?

    may I know? can I learn? pray, will you tell me? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 190:

    possumne ego hodie ex te exsculpere Verum?

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 44.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A. 1.
    With neutr. acc. used adverbially (class.; cf.

    polleo): vocat me, quae in me plus potest,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 42:

    plus potest qui plus valet,

    id. ib. 4, 3, 38:

    qui tum et poterant per vim et scelus plurimum, et quod poterant, id audebant,

    Cic. Quint. 21, 69:

    quid ergo? hoc pueri possunt, viri non poterunt?

    id. Tusc. 2, 14, 34:

    qui apud me et amicitiā, et beneficiis, et dignitate plurimum possunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:

    plus aliquanto apud te pecuniae cupiditas, quam judicii metus potuit,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 131; id. de Or. 2, 42, 180:

    quid aristolochia ad morsus serpentum possit,

    id. Div. 1, 10, 16:

    quoniam multum potest provisio animi ad minuendum dolorem,

    id. Tusc. 3, 14, 30:

    ad beate vivendum satis posse virtutem,

    id. ib. 5, 5, 12: multum posse ad salutem alterius... parum potuisse ad exitium, Cic. Opp. ap. Amm. 30, 8, 7.—
    2.
    In gen., and without neutr. acc. (late Lat.):

    posse litteras ejus ad perniciem, non posse ad salutem,

    App. Mag. 79, p. 324.—
    B.
    Posse aliquem, to be able to embrace one ( poet.), Mart. 3, 32.—
    C.
    Posse as subst. ( poet.):

    posse loqui,

    the power of speech, Ov. M. 2, 483:

    posse moveri = facultatem se movendi,

    id. ib. 11, 177.—
    D.
    Freq. in elliptical sentences:

    quod vi non poterant, fraude assequi temptant,

    Curt. 5, 10, 8:

    Ismenias, etsi publicis non poterat, privatis tamen viribus adjuvabat,

    Just. 5, 9, 8:

    ut auxilium quod misericordiā non poterat, jure cognationis obtineret,

    id. 28, 1, 9:

    ut collegam vi, si aliter non possent, de foro abducerent,

    Liv. 2, 56.—
    E.
    In apodosis of conditional sentences, analogous to the auxiliaries of the Engl. potential mood (v. Roby, § 1520; Zumpt, § 519).
    1.
    Indic.:

    ille potuit exspectatior venire, qui te nuntiaret mortuom (= si quis nuntiaret, etc.),

    Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 12:

    nec vero ipsam amicitiam tueri possumus, nisi aeque amicos et nosmet ipsos diligamus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67:

    Pompeius munitiones Caesaris prohibere non poterat, nisi praelio decertare vellet,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 44: consul esse qui potui, nisi eum vitae cursum tenuissem, Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 10:

    (res publica) poterat esse perpetua, si patriis viveretur institutis,

    id. ib. 3, 29, 41:

    deleri totus exercitus potuit, si fugientis persecuti victores essent,

    Liv. 32, 12, 6:

    nisi felicitas in socordiam vertisset exuere jugum potuerunt,

    Tac. Agr. 31.—
    2.
    Subj.:

    qui denique ex bestiis fructus, nisi homines adjuvarent, percipi posset,

    Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14; cf.:

    ventum quidem erat eo, ut, si hostem similem antiquis Macedonum regibus habuisset consul, magna clades accipi potuerit,

    Liv. 44, 4, 9.—So when the condition is implied, or is contained in an adverbial clause:

    quae res egestati et aeri alieno tuo praeter mortem Caesaris subvenire potuisset?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 36:

    quis opifex praeter naturam... tantam sollertiam persequi potuisset in sensibus?

    id. N. D. 2, 57, 142; id. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

    plurima proferre possemus, sed modus adhibendus est,

    Nep. Epam. 4, 6:

    possem hic Ciceronis respondere verbis, sed, etc.,

    Quint. 2, 21, 14.—Hence, pŏtens, entis ( gen. plur. potentum, Verg. A. 12, 519; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 114), P. a.
    A.
    In gen., able, mighty, powerful, potent (class.):

    amplae atque potentes civitates,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 56, 169:

    familiae clarae ac potentes,

    Liv. 23, 4:

    amici magni et potentes,

    Suet. Aug. 56:

    ne quis ex plebe contra potentiorem auxilii egeret,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 10:

    duo potentissimi reges,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4:

    potentissimus et clarissimus civis,

    id. Planc. 21, 51.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    quanta sit humani ingenii vis, quam potens efficiendi quae velit,

    Quint. 12, 11, 10.—
    (γ).
    With abl.:

    Roma potens opibus,

    Ov. F. 4, 255:

    pecuniā et orbitate,

    Tac. H. 1, 73.—
    (δ).
    With inf.:

    compensare potens,

    Dig. 16, 2, 10.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Having power over, ruling over, master of a thing; with gen.:

    dum liber, dum mei potens sum,

    as long as I am my own master, Liv. 26, 13, 14:

    sanus mentisque potens,

    in his right mind, Ov. Tr. 2, 139:

    potens mei non eram,

    Curt. 4, 13, 23:

    potentes rerum suarum atque urbis,

    having made themselves masters of, Liv. 23, 16, 6; so, facere aliquem potentem alicujus rei, to make one master of any thing, to give one the power over a thing:

    consilii,

    id. 8, 13, 14:

    imperii,

    id. 22, 42, 12: diva potens Cypri, that reigns over Cyprus, i.e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 1:

    Naïadum potens (Bacchus),

    id. ib. 3, 25, 14:

    silvarum potens Diana,

    id. C. S. 1:

    diva potens uteri,

    i.e. Lucina, Ov. M. 9, 315:

    rerum omnium potens Juppiter,

    Tac. H. 4, 84:

    lyrae Musa potens,

    that presides over lyric poetry, Hor. C. 1, 6, 10:

    irae,

    master of his anger, Curt. 4, 2, 5:

    mariti,

    ruling her husband, Tac. A. 14, 60:

    animal potens leti,

    that can kill, deadly, Luc. 6, 485; cf. id. 5, 199 Corte ad loc.—
    2.
    Fit for, capable of any thing; with gen.:

    potens regni,

    Liv. 24, 2: hostes neque pugnae, neque fugae satis potentes caeduntur, unable either to fight or flee, id. 8, 39.—
    3.
    Partaking of, having attained a thing; with gen. ( poet.):

    pacis potentes,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 9:

    voti,

    Ov. M. 8, 80:

    jussi,

    having fulfilled the command, id. ib. 4, 509.—
    4.
    Strong, mighty, powerful, efficacious, potent (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    fortuna in res bellicas potens,

    Liv. 9, 17:

    herba potens ad opem,

    Ov. H. 5, 147:

    verba,

    id. Am. 3, 11, 31:

    herba potens adversus ranas,

    Plin. 25, 10, 81, § 130:

    passum ex uvis contra haemorrhoida potens,

    id. 23, 1, 12, § 15.— Comp.:

    nihil esse potentius auro,

    Ov. Am. 3, 8, 29:

    quaedam ad efficiendum potentiora,

    Quint. 6, 1, 26.— Sup.:

    potentissimae cantharides,

    Plin. 29, 4, 30, § 94:

    argumenta,

    Quint. 6, 4, 22.—Hence, adv.: pŏtenter, strongly, mightily, powerfully, effectually ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    se ipsam potenter atque efficaciter defendere,

    Val. Max. 1, 1, 1:

    dicere,

    Quint. 12, 10, 72. — Comp.:

    aurum... perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo,

    Hor. C. 3, 16, 9; Quint. 6, 4, 18.—
    B.
    According to one's ability or powers ( poet.):

    lecta potenter res,

    Hor. A. P. 40.

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  • 12 quam

    quam (archaic form quamde or quande:

    quamde pro quam usos esse antiquos, cum multi veteres testimonio sunt, tum Ennius... et Lucretius (1, 640),

    Fest. p. 261 Müll.; cf. Enn. Ann. v. 29, and v. 139 Vahl. So, too, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. topper, p. 352 Müll.), adv. [qui], in what manner, how, how much, as much as:

    quam nihil praetermittis in consilio dando! quam nihil tamen, quod tibi placeat, explicas!

    Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 1:

    ut se accusari nolunt! quam cupiunt laudari!

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    quam multa, quam paucis!

    id. Fam. 11, 24, 1:

    quam sint morosi, intellegi potest,

    id. ib. 7, 15, 1:

    quam vellet, cunctaretur,

    id. Div. 1, 26, 56:

    memoriā tenetis, quam valde universi admurmurarint,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41:

    quam quisque potest,

    as much as each one can, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 75:

    quam potuit,

    as far as he was able, Val. Max. 4, 1, 5.—With possum and a sup.:

    concede huc ab isto, quam potest longissime,

    as far as possible, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 81:

    quam possunt mollissime,

    as gently as possible, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129.—Also without possum:

    quam maximas, quam primum, quam saepissime gratias agere,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 6, 5:

    ut quam angustissime Pompeium contineret,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 45.— With posit. (post-Aug.):

    tum Manlius... quam poterat clarā voce denuntiavit,

    Val. Max. 6, 4, 1; 3, 2, 1 ext.; 4, 5, 1:

    dixi de philosophiā quam breviter potui,

    Lact. 3, 17, 1:

    tusa cribrataque vino, quam possit excellenti,

    as excellent as possible, Plin. 20, 24, 100, § 264; 18, 28, 68, § 274.—
    B.
    In dependent clauses, indirect questions, etc.:

    est fidei nostrae, declarare, quam memores simus,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11, 29:

    scio, quam timida sit ambitio,

    id. Mil. 16, 42:

    quam id ratum sit, tu judicabis,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 7:

    id quam injustum esset, non videbat,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 82:

    dici non potest quam sim disputatione tuā delectatus,

    id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10; id. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Ac. 2, 17, 52; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; 1, 20, 65; 5, 12, 35; id. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 47; 2, 1, 21, § 52; 2, 4, 44, § 98:

    videte quam iniqui sint,

    Sall. J. 85, 25; 62, 9:

    ut sentias quam vile sit corpus,

    Liv. 2, 12, 3; 24, 5, 2; Nep. Timoth. 4, 2.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In comparisons, as, than.
    1.
    With tam:

    tam ego ante fui liber, quam gnatus tuos,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 60; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 11:

    si era me sciat tam socordem esse quam sum,

    id. Cist. 4, 2, 5:

    tua est imago: tam consimilis est, quam potest,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 4:

    tam esse clemens tyrannus quam rex importunus potest,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 33, 50; id. Div. 1, 6, 10 et saep.; v. tam.—
    2.
    With ellipsis of corresp. tam:

    homo non, quam isti sunt, gloriosus,

    not so celebrated as those, Liv. 35, 49:

    claris majoribus, quam vetustis,

    rather than, Tac. A. 4, 61.—
    3.
    With sup. and a corresp. tam, by how much the more, the more: quam acerbissima olea oleum facies, tam oleum optimum erit, the bitterer the olives, the better will be the oil, Cato, R. R. 65, 1:

    quam paucissimos reliqueris, tam optimi fiunt,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 9:

    quam quisque pessume fecit, tam maxume tutus est,

    Sall. J. 31, 14.—
    4.
    With magis:

    quam magis... tam magis,

    the more... the more, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5.—With tam omitted:

    quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis,

    Verg. G. 3, 309.— With the second magis omitted:

    quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6.—

    In the reverse order: tam magis... quam magis,

    the more... the more, Verg. A. 7, 787. —
    5.
    With tanto:

    quam magis... tanto magis,

    the more... the more, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 19; so Lucr. 6, 460.—
    6.
    With a double comp.:

    ne libentius haec in illum evomere videar, quam verius,

    with more freedom than truth, Cic. Mil. 29, 78:

    non acrior quam pertinacior impetus Romanorum,

    Liv. 31, 35:

    discrimen me occupavit, meliore hostium quam meo tempore,

    Curt. 7, 7, 9.—
    7.
    Tam... quam, with the comp. for the posit., so... as:

    per dexteram te istam oro non tam in bellis et proeliis, quam in promissis et fide firmiorem,

    Cic. Deiot. 3, 8.—
    8.
    After comparatives or words of comparison, than:

    nobis nihil est tlmendum magis quam ille consul,

    Cic. Att. 7, 9, 3:

    his igitur, quam physicis potius credendum existimas?

    id. Div. 2, 16, 37; Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 1; Cic. Pis. 26, 62:

    majorem pecuniam praetori polliceri, quam quantam hic dedisset,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 70; id. de Or. 1, 36, 167:

    qui plures milites eorum occidisset, quam quot superessent,

    Liv. 35, 12.—So after verbs which imply comparison, verbs of preference, excellence, etc.; after praestat, Caes. B. G. 7, 17, 4; after malo:

    esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    an est quod ego malim quam?

    Cic. Par. 1; after statuo, Nep. Dat. 8, 1; after probo, Tac. A. 1, 58; after volo ( = boulomai ê), Liv. 3, 68, 11; 25, 29, 6.— Rarely quantus is used to strengthen quam, after comp.:

    de re majore quam quanta ea esset,

    Liv. 30, 23, 2:

    implere homines certioris spei, quam quantam fides promissi humani subicere solet,

    id. 26, 19, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.;

    22, 2, 19.— But quam is often omitted after plus, minus, amplius, etc., without changing the case: minus duo milia hominum effugerunt,

    Liv. 24, 16, 4:

    plus partem dimidiam hominum caesam,

    id. 36, 40, 5; cf. id. 29, 25, 2:

    cum decem haud plus milibus militum,

    id. 28, 1, 5:

    ut hoc nostrum desiderium ne plus sit annuum,

    Cic. Att. 5, 1, 1:

    ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,

    id. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:

    plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 45; Prop. 2, 19, 18 (3, 17, 32); v. Zumpt, Gram. § 485.—
    9.
    With sic ( poet.):

    quam multā grandine nimbi Culminibus crepitant, sic densis ictibus heros pulsat, etc.,

    Verg. A. 5, 458.— With sic omitted, Verg. A. 6, 309 sqq.—
    10.
    After aeque, so much... as:

    nihil aeque eos terruit, quam robur ac color imperatoris,

    Liv. 28, 26.—
    11.
    After contra, otherwise... than, not so... as:

    contra faciunt, quam professi sunt,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11.— So after secus:

    ne me secus honore honestes quam ego te,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 50. —
    12.
    After alius, with a preceding negative, not otherwise than, no other than:

    nil aliud agens quam ut, etc.,

    nothing else than, Liv. 44, 27, 12:

    neque aliud totā urbe agi quam bellum apparari,

    id. 4, 26, 12; Nep. Hann. 10, 1:

    ob nullam aliam causam, quam ne,

    from no other cause than, Liv. 45, 25; 34, 2, 12. — Rarely with alius affirmatively (for ac):

    ipse me paulum in aliā quam prius habuerim opinione nunc esse confiteor,

    Quint. 3, 6, 63. —
    13.
    After aliter, otherwise than:

    ne aliter, quam ego velim, meum laudet ingenium,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 24:

    ne aliter quam si, etc.,

    Col. 4, 2, 2.—
    14.
    After supra:

    saepe supra feret, quam fieri possit,

    more than, Cic. Or. 40, 139.—
    15.
    After ultra:

    ultra, quam satis est, producitur,

    farther than, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 26.—
    16.
    After diversum, otherwise than:

    pransus quoque atque potus diversum valent quam indicant,

    something altogether different from what, Quint. 1, 4, 29; cf., after advorsum, only Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 139 Brix ad loc.—
    17.
    After words denoting number or quantity, which serve for comparison: dimidium tributi quam quod regibus ferre soliti erant, populo Romano pendere, the half of what, half as much as, Liv. 45, 18:

    multiplex, quam pro numero, damnum est,

    too great for, greater than, id. 7, 8:

    ferramenta duplicia, quam numerus servorum exigit,

    twice as many as, Col. 1, 8, 8.—So, too, after designations of time:

    die vigesimā, quam creatus erat, dictaturā se abdicavit,

    on the twentieth day after, Liv. 6, 29: tabellarii venerunt post diem sextum, quam a vobis discesserant, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 1:

    postridie venissemus, quam... fuissemus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 9:

    postero die quam illa erant acta,

    id. de Or. 2, 3, 12:

    saeculis multis ante... inventa sunt, quam, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 21. —
    18.
    After the sup.:

    bellum gerere cum tyranno, quam qui unquam, saevissimo et violentissimo in suos,

    the most cruel that ever was, Liv. 34, 32.—
    19.
    So with rel. and sup. after tam:

    tam gratum mihi id erit, quam quod gratissimum,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 3:

    tam sum amicus rei publicae quam qui maxime,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 6:

    ego sum tam mitis, quam qui lenissimus,

    id. Sull. 31, 87.—
    20.
    Sometimes with magis or potius to be supplied, more... than:

    tacita mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70 dub.:

    pacem quam bellum probabam,

    Tac. A. 1, 58. —
    B.
    In mere intensive expressions, exceedingly, very, quite, indeed:

    admodum quam saevos est,

    very cruel indeed, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 43:

    nimis quam formido, ne, etc.,

    id. Most. 2, 2, 79:

    nimis quam cupio,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 17:

    quam familiariter,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 109: nam suos valde quam paucos habet, very few indeed, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3:

    mire quam,

    Cic. Att. 1, 11, 3:

    sane quam refrixit,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5.

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  • 13 quantus

    quantus, a, um, adj. [quam], how great.
    A.
    Bellum, Nep. Dat. 5, 1:

    calamitates,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86:

    homo in dicendo,

    id. de Or. 2, 12, 51:

    gravitas,

    Vell. 2, 129, 2.—Corresp. with tantus:

    videre mihi videor tantam dimicationem, quanta numquam fuit,

    Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2.—With sup.:

    tanta est inter eos, quanta maxima esse potest, morum studiorumque distantia,

    the greatest possible difference, Cic. Lael. 20, 74.—Without tantus:

    quantus non unquam antea, exercitus venit,

    Liv. 9, 37, 2:

    quanta maxime poterat vi perculit,

    id. 9, 10, 10; cf. id. 7, 9, 8; 42, 15, 1; 24, 35, 5; Verg. A. 12, 701; 3, 641:

    quanta mea sapientia est,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 62.—Quantus quantus, for quantuscumque, how great or much soever (ante-class.):

    denegabit quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 28:

    tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

    quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen,

    id. Phorm. 5, 7, 10. — In quantum, as far as, according as, in how far, in so far as, to whatever extent:

    in quantum satis erat,

    Tac. Or. 2:

    declamatio, in quantum maxime potest, imitetur eas actiones,

    Quint. 2, 10, 4; Sen. Ben. 2, 23, 1:

    pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque secuta est, Traxit,

    Ov. M. 11, 71:

    in quantum potuerit,

    as far as possible, Plin. Ep. 10, 75. — With a preceding in tantum, as greatly... as:

    vir in tantum laudandus, in quantum intellegi virtus potest,

    Vell. 1, 9.—
    B.
    Of number, value, etc., how much, how many:

    quanta milia,

    Prop. 1, 5, 10; Val. Fl. 3, 261. —And with or without tantus, as much as, as many as, Caes. B. G. 6, 19; Liv. 23, 21.—

    As a designation of multitude, quantum = emphatic omnis: ut te quidem omnes di deaeque, quantum est, perduint,

    as many as there are of them, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 6:

    quantum in terra degit, hominum perjurissime!

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 117.— quantum, subst., with gen., as much of... as:

    quantum est frumenti hornotini, exaraverunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 45.— Quanti, as gen. pretii, how high, how dear, or as dear as, as high as: quanti emi potest minime, how cheap? Ep. Ad quadraginta minas, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 110:

    quanti emit?

    Ter. Eun. 5, 6 (5), 14:

    quanti locaverint, tantam pecuniam redemptori solvendam,

    Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 16:

    vide, quanti apud me sis,

    how highly I prize you, how dear you are to me, id. Fam. 7, 19 init.:

    noli spectare, quanti sit homo,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4:

    (tu) qui scias quanti Tulliam faciam,

    id. Fam. 2, 16, 5:

    quanti est ista hominum gloria,

    of how trifling worth, id. Rep. 6, 23, 25; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109:

    quanti est sapere!

    what a fine thing it is! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 21:

    quanti ejus intersit,

    Dig. 43, 18, 3.—Quanti quanti, at whatever price:

    sed quanti quanti, bene emitur quod necesse est,

    Cic. Att. 12, 23, 3.—Quanto opere, sometimes as one word, quantopere (q. v.), with what care, how greatly, how much (answering to tanto opere or tantopere, so greatly, so much):

    quanto se opere custodiant bestiae,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126:

    quantoque opere ejus municipii causā laborarem,

    id. Fam. 13, 7, 1.—Hence,
    A.
    quantum, adv., as much as, so much as:

    scribe, quantum potes,

    Cic. Att. 9, 7, 7.—Quantum possum or potest, as soon as possible:

    domum me rursum, quantum potero, tantum recipiam,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 40: rescribas ad me, quantum potest, Cic. Att. 4, 13, 1:

    erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit,

    so far as I hear, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12:

    quantum suspicor,

    as far as I can conjecture, id. Eun. 1, 2, 62.—Quantum in or ad me, so far as concerns me:

    non igitur adhuc, quantum quidem in te est, intellego deos esse,

    i. e. for all you have shown to the contrary, Cic. N. D. 3, 7, 15; cf. id. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

    quantum ad Pirithoum, Phaedra pudica fuit,

    as far as concerned, with respect to, Ov. A. A. 1, 744:

    quantum ad jus attinet,

    Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 16; 3, 16, 1.—With compp. for quanto, the more, the greater, etc. (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 488, A, 2).—Followed by eo:

    quantum juniores patrum plebi se magis insinuabant, eo acrius contra tribuni tenebant,

    Liv. 3, 15, 2; 44, 7, 6; Col. 12, 23 init. —Followed by tanto:

    quantum augebatur militum numerus, tanto majore, etc.,

    Liv. 5, 10, 5; 6, 38, 5; 27, 47, 11; cf. id. 32, 5, 1. — Also without a correl.:

    quantum... et minus,

    Liv. 44, 36, 5.—
    B.
    quantō, adv., by how much, by as much as, according as, the:

    quanto diutius Abest, magis cupio tanto,

    the longer he is away, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 15:

    quanto gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

    quanto magis philosophi delectabunt, si, etc.,

    how greatly, Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

    quanto praeclarior vita, tanto,

    Sall. J. 85, 22 Kritz. — With verbs which contain the idea of comparison:

    Hannibalem tanto praestitisse ceteros imperatores prudentiā, quanto populus Romanus antecedebat fortitudine cunctas nationes,

    Nep. Hann. 1, 1.—With posit.:

    tanto acceptius in vulgum, quanto modicus privatis aedificationibus,

    inasmuch as, Tac. A. 6, 45:

    quanto frequenter impellitur, tanto firmiter roboratur,

    Lact. 5, 7, 9.—With ante, secus, aliud:

    quo minus exponam, quam multa ad me detulerit, quanto ante providerit,

    Cic. Sest. 3, 8: videtote, quanto secus ego fecerim, how differently, Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.:

    ut manifesto appareat, quanto sit aliud proximum esse, aliud secundum,

    Quint. 10, 1, 53.

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  • 14 quicumque

    quīcumque (or - cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque (also separately:

    cum quibus erat cumque una,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 36;

    quam se cumque in partem,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59. — Old form of the plur. quescumque, Cato ap. Charis. p. 70 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 960 P.), pron. rel.
    I.
    Whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, every one who, every thing that, all that (class.):

    quicumque is est, ei me, etc.,

    whosoever, Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 8:

    quoscumque de te queri audivi, quācumque potui ratione placavi,

    whomsoever I have heard complaining, them I have satisfied in every possible way, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4:

    petere fortunam, quaecumque accidat,

    what fortune soever, Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

    ut quodcumque vellet, liceret facere,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1.—Rarely with subj. in orat. rect.:

    quocumque haec modo se habeant,

    Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 114.—
    2.
    Absol. (Cic., Cæs., and Sall. always construe quicumque as rel. with its own verb, except in abl. sing.; v. infra; as absol. for quivis or quilibet, freq. in Liv. and post-Aug. writers; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 706), any whatever, etc.:

    te audio (libenter) quācumque de re,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 1:

    qui quācumque de causā ad eos venerunt,

    Caes. B. C. 6, 23:

    quocumque modo,

    Sall. J. 103, 3:

    laeti quamcunque condicionem paciscendi acceperunt,

    Liv. 22, 58, 5:

    ubicumque et quācumque matre genitus,

    id. 1, 3, 3:

    qui de quācumque causā tum aspernati nostra auxilia estis,

    id. 45, 23, 6:

    quācumque condicione arma viris auferre,

    id. 9, 9, 11: quocumque gladiatorio munere prolapsi, Suet. Claud. 34:

    Ciceronem cuicunque eorum opponere,

    Quint. 10, 1, 105. —In neutr. subst., with gen., whatever, however much:

    quodcumque est lucri,

    i. e. all the profit, Phaedr. 5, 6, 3: quodcumque militum contrahere poteritis, as many troops as ever you can bring together, Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 4:

    quodcunque hoc regni,

    all this authority, Verg. A. 1, 78.—When the rel. occurs twice or oftener in the same connection, only qui is repeated:

    quaecunque navis ex Asiā, quae ex Syriā, quae, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145:

    hoc quodcumque vides,

    Prop. 4, 1, 1.—
    B.
    In partic., for qualiscumque, howsoever constituted, of whatever kind:

    quaecumque mens illa fuit, Gabinii fuit,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 21. —
    II.
    Transf., each or every possible, each, every, all:

    quae sanari poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo,

    in every possible way, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

    et quocumque modo maluit esse mea,

    under all circumstances, Prop. 1, 8, 34 (1, 8, b, 8):

    de quācumque causā,

    Liv. 45, 23.

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  • 15 quicunque

    quīcumque (or - cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque (also separately:

    cum quibus erat cumque una,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 36;

    quam se cumque in partem,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59. — Old form of the plur. quescumque, Cato ap. Charis. p. 70 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 960 P.), pron. rel.
    I.
    Whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, every one who, every thing that, all that (class.):

    quicumque is est, ei me, etc.,

    whosoever, Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 8:

    quoscumque de te queri audivi, quācumque potui ratione placavi,

    whomsoever I have heard complaining, them I have satisfied in every possible way, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4:

    petere fortunam, quaecumque accidat,

    what fortune soever, Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

    ut quodcumque vellet, liceret facere,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1.—Rarely with subj. in orat. rect.:

    quocumque haec modo se habeant,

    Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 114.—
    2.
    Absol. (Cic., Cæs., and Sall. always construe quicumque as rel. with its own verb, except in abl. sing.; v. infra; as absol. for quivis or quilibet, freq. in Liv. and post-Aug. writers; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 706), any whatever, etc.:

    te audio (libenter) quācumque de re,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 1:

    qui quācumque de causā ad eos venerunt,

    Caes. B. C. 6, 23:

    quocumque modo,

    Sall. J. 103, 3:

    laeti quamcunque condicionem paciscendi acceperunt,

    Liv. 22, 58, 5:

    ubicumque et quācumque matre genitus,

    id. 1, 3, 3:

    qui de quācumque causā tum aspernati nostra auxilia estis,

    id. 45, 23, 6:

    quācumque condicione arma viris auferre,

    id. 9, 9, 11: quocumque gladiatorio munere prolapsi, Suet. Claud. 34:

    Ciceronem cuicunque eorum opponere,

    Quint. 10, 1, 105. —In neutr. subst., with gen., whatever, however much:

    quodcumque est lucri,

    i. e. all the profit, Phaedr. 5, 6, 3: quodcumque militum contrahere poteritis, as many troops as ever you can bring together, Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 4:

    quodcunque hoc regni,

    all this authority, Verg. A. 1, 78.—When the rel. occurs twice or oftener in the same connection, only qui is repeated:

    quaecunque navis ex Asiā, quae ex Syriā, quae, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145:

    hoc quodcumque vides,

    Prop. 4, 1, 1.—
    B.
    In partic., for qualiscumque, howsoever constituted, of whatever kind:

    quaecumque mens illa fuit, Gabinii fuit,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 21. —
    II.
    Transf., each or every possible, each, every, all:

    quae sanari poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo,

    in every possible way, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

    et quocumque modo maluit esse mea,

    under all circumstances, Prop. 1, 8, 34 (1, 8, b, 8):

    de quācumque causā,

    Liv. 45, 23.

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  • 16 potis or pote

        potis or pote adj. indecl. with comp. potior, potius, and sup. potissimus    [POT-].    I. Posit, able, capable (with es or est): Potin ut desinas (sc. es)? Can you stop? T.: dum potis (es), aridum Compone lignum, H.: At non Euandrum potis est vis ulla tenere, V.— Possible: nihil potis supra, nothing could exceed it, T.: ubi Nec potis est fluctūs aequare sequendo, V.: quantum pote, as soon as possible.—    II. Comp., of persons, better, preferable, superior: ut sit potior, qui prior ad dandumst, T.: cives potiores quam peregrini: heres, L.: qui potior nunc es, Tb.—Of things, better, preferable, more useful, more important: Novistine locum potiorem rure beato? H.: mors civibus semper fuit servitute potior: nihil mihi fuit potius quam ut, etc., more urgent: semper se rei p. commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora, Cs.: potiora quaedam agere, more important matters, Cu. —    III. Sup, chief, principal, most prominent, strongest: quae dubia nisu videbantur, potissumus temptare, foremost, S.: quid potissimum sit, quaeritur: causa, Ta.: potissimi libertorum, Ta.

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  • 17 sī

       sī (old, sei), conj.    [SOVO]-, as a conditional particle.—With indic., in conditions assumed as true, or (with fut.) which will probably be fulfilled, if, when, inasmuch as, since: si vis, dabo tibi testīs: si voluntas mea, si industria, si aures patent omnibus: magnifica quaedam res, si modo est ulia: si quisquam est facilis, hic est: si aliquid dandum est voluptati: istae artes, si modo aliquid, valent ut acuent ingenia: educ tecum omnīs tuos; si minus, quam plurimos: auferat omnia oblivio, si potest; si non, utrumque silentium tegat, L.: ignosce, Caesar, si rex cessit, etc.: non, si Opimium defendisti, idcirco, etc.: aut nemo, aut si quisquam, ille sapiens fuit: si Athenienses, sublato Areopago, nihil nisi populi scitis ac decretis agebant, etc.: si vis erat, si fraus, si metus: si neglegentiam dices, mirabimur: di persequar, si potero, subtilius: pergratum mihi feceris, si de amicitiā disputaris.—Esp. with pluperf., in indef. clauses of repeated action: plausum si quis eorum aliquando acceperat, ne quid peccasset pertimescebat, whenever: si quando forte suis fortunis desperare coeperant, Cs.—With subj praes. or perf., in conditions assumed as possible, if, even if, though: satis facere rei p. videmur, si istius furorem vitemus: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus: rem facias, rem, Si possis, recte; si non, quocumque modo rem, H.: innocens, si accusatus sit, absolvi potest.— With subj imperf. or pluperf., implying that the condition is contrary to fact, if: servi mei, si me isto pacto metuerent, domum meum relinquendam putarem: quod ne fecissent profecto, si nihil ad eos pertinere arbitrarentur: Si mihi, quae quondam fuerat... si nunc foret illa iuventus, V.— Followed by tamen, even if, although, albeit: quas si exsequi nequirem, tamen, etc.: quae si dubia essent, tamen, etc., S.: si aliter accidisset: si quis in caelum ascendisset, etc.—In the parenthetic phrase, si forte, perhaps, perchance: vereor, ne nihil sim tui, nisi supplosionem pedis imitatus et aliquem, si forte, motum.—With subj. (rarely indic.), in place of an inf, if, when, that: apud Graecos opprobrio fuit adulescentibus, si amatores non haberent (i. e. amatores non habere): illud ignoscere aequum erit, si... ne tuam quidem gloriam praeponam, etc., L.—In dependent questions, if, whether, if perchance: ut illum quaeram, Idque adeo visam, si domist, T.: fatis incerta feror, si Iuppiter unam Esse velit urbem, V.: primum ab iis quaesivit, si aquam hominibus... imposuissent, L.: statui expectandum esse si quid certius adferretur.—In expressing a wish (poet. for utinam), usu. with O, if only, would that, O that: o si angulus ille accedat, qui, etc., H.: Si nunc se nobis ille aureus arbore ramus Ostendat nemore in tanto! would that, V.—With a relat., to express a class vaguely or doubtfully, if there be any such, whoever they may be: mortem proponit... eis etiam si qui non moleste tulerunt: dimissis, si qui parum idonei essent, L.—In clauses of purpose, if, in order to, to try whether, to see if, that if possible: Minucium cum omni equitatu praemittit, si quid celeritate itineris proficere possit, to see whether, Cs.: neque ullum munus despiciens, si in Caesaris complexum venire posset, Cs.: pergit ad speluncam, si forte eo vestigia ferrent, L.—In clauses of contingency, against the case that: haud aspernatus Tullius, tamen, si vana adferantur, in aciem educit, in order to be ready, if, etc., L.: ille postea, si comitia sua non fierent, urbi minari, i. e. threatened an attack if, etc.: erat reo damnato, si fraus capitalis non esset, quasi poenae aestimatio: quattuor legiones Cornelio, si qui ex Etruriā novi motūs nuntiarentur, relictae, to be ready, in case, etc., L.
    * * *
    if, if only; whether

    quod si -- but if; si quis/quid -- if anyone/anything

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  • 18 vel

        vel adv.    [1 vel], or even, if you will, or indeed, even, assuredly, certainly: vel rex semper maxumas Mihi agebat gratias, T.: sed tamen vel regnum malo quam liberum populum: Vel Priamo miseranda manus, V.: ego vel Prochytam praepono Suburae, Iu.: populus R. suam auctoritatem vel contra omnīs possit defendere: timebant ne Romana plebs... vel cum servitute pacem acciperet, even if it should bring slavery, Cs.: existiment quod velint, ac vel hoc intellegant: quae non modo summa bona, sed nimirum audebo vel sola dicere: hoc ascensu vel tres armati quamlibet multitudinem arcuerint, L.: a plerisque vel dicam ab omnibus, I may even say.—With sup. of adj. or adv, perhaps, it may be, if you will: adulescens vel potentissimus nostrae civitatis: domus vel optima Messanae, notissima quidem certe, i. e. the most famous, if not the finest.—Intensive, the very, the utmost, the most... possible: hoc in genere nervorum vel minimum, suavitatis autem est vel plurimum, the very least... the utmost possible: vel extremo spiritu experiri, etc., with his very latest breath: cuius (sc. Hannibalis) eo tempore vel maxima apud regem auctoritas erat, L.: peculatus vel acerrime vindicandus, with the utmost severity.—Introducing a single instance, for instance, for example, as for example, in particular, especially: Vel heri in vino quam inmodestus fuisti, T.: sed suavīs accipio litteras, vel quas proxime acceperam, quam prudentīs!: est tibi ex his ipsis qui adsunt bella copia, vel ut a te ipso ordiare, i. e. especially if you begin with yourself.
    * * *
    I
    even, actually; or even, in deed; or
    II
    or

    vel... vel -- either... or

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  • 19 moltus

    multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
    I.
    Posit.
    A.
    In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):

    multi fortissimi viri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:

    rationes,

    id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:

    multae et magnae contentiones,

    many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:

    O multas et graves offensiones,

    id. Att. 11, 7, 3:

    multi et graves dolores,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:

    multi et varii timores,

    Liv. 3, 16, 3:

    multae bonaeque artes animi,

    Sall. J. 28, 5:

    multa et clara facinora,

    Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:

    multi improbi,

    Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:

    multi boni, docti, prudentes,

    id. Fl. 4, 8:

    multi nobiles,

    id. Planc. 20, 50:

    multa acerba habuit ille annus,

    id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:

    multa infanda,

    Liv. 28, 12, 5:

    multa falsa,

    id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:

    multa secunda proelia,

    victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:

    multa libera capita,

    freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:

    multae liberae civitates,

    republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:

    multos fortes viros,

    id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:

    multi clari viri,

    noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

    multi primarii viri,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:

    multi clarissimi viri,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

    multi amplissimi viri,

    id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:

    multi honestissimi homines,

    id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:

    multi peritissimi homines,

    id. Caecin. 24, 69:

    multi summi homines,

    id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,

    id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:

    in veteribus patronis multis,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:

    multa praeterea bella gravia,

    id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:

    multis suppliciis justis,

    id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

    multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    plurima signa pulcherrima,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:

    virtutes animi multae et magnae,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

    causas ille multas et graves habuit,

    id. Clu. 30, 82;

    and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,

    id. Cael. 5, 12:

    prodigia multa, foeda,

    Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:

    multi hominum,

    Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:

    multae silvestrium arborum,

    id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:

    nimium multa,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:

    nimis multa,

    id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:

    insulae non ita multae,

    not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:

    parum multa scire,

    too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:

    quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,

    as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:

    minime multi remiges,

    exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:

    in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,

    id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:

    multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:

    nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,

    Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:

    aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,

    with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:

    multa prece prosequi,

    id. C. 4, 5, 33:

    multa victima,

    Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:

    avis,

    id. Am. 3, 5, 4:

    tabella,

    Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:

    exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,

    Cic. Pis. 27, 67:

    multo labore quaerere aliquid,

    with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:

    cura,

    Sall. J. 7, 4:

    sol,

    much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:

    multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,

    Liv. 23, 30, 2:

    multum sanguinem haurire,

    Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:

    multam harenam mare evomit,

    id. 4, 6, 8:

    arbor,

    id. 7, 4, 26:

    silva,

    id. 8, 10, 14:

    multae vestis injectu opprimi,

    Tac. A. 6, 50:

    multa et lauta supellex,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:

    aurum,

    Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:

    libertas,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:

    multam salutem dicere alicui,

    to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:

    cum auro et argento multo,

    Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:

    Itaque multum diei processerat,

    a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:

    ad multum diem,

    till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:

    multo adhuc die,

    when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:

    multo denique die,

    when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:

    multa nocte,

    late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

    multo mane,

    very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:

    multa opinio, for multorum,

    the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:

    velut multa pace,

    as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:

    multus homo,

    one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:

    video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,

    id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:

    tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:

    unus de multis esse,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;

    potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,

    id. Brut. 79, 274:

    numerarer in multis,

    among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:

    e multis una sit tibi,

    no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:

    multum est,

    it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:

    ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,

    Cic. Clu. 64, 181:

    ne multis: Diogenes emitur,

    id. ib. 16, 47:

    quid multis moror?

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:

    multa reluctari,

    Verg. G. 4, 301:

    gemens,

    id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:

    deos testatus,

    id. ib. 7, 593:

    invehi,

    Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):

    haud multa moratus,

    Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:

    in multum velociores,

    by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Too much, overmuch, excessive:

    supellex modica, non multa,

    Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
    2.
    In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:

    qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:

    ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,

    id. ib. 2, 87, 358:

    nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,

    id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
    3.
    Frequent, frequently present:

    in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,

    Sall. J. 96, 3:

    multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,

    was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:

    hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!

    troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:

    instare,

    Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
    A.
    multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):

    salve multum, gnate mi,

    Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:

    multum vale,

    farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:

    hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,

    id. Men. 2, 2, 42:

    opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,

    not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:

    multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,

    often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:

    non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,

    id. Brut. 34, 128:

    non multum confidere,

    not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:

    sunt in venationibus,

    often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:

    in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,

    Cic. Brut. 48, 178:

    multum fuisse cum aliquo,

    to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

    sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,

    id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

    gratia valere,

    to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:

    res multum et saepe quaesita,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:

    longe omnes multumque superabit,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:

    multum et diu cogitans,

    id. Div. 2, 1, 1:

    diu multumque scriptitare,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:

    multum loquaces,

    very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:

    mepti labores,

    very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:

    multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

    much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:

    multum robustior illo,

    Juv. 19, 197:

    majora,

    Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:

    haud multum infra viam,

    Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:

    haud multum post mortem ejus,

    Tac. A. 5, 3:

    ut multum,

    at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
    B.
    multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
    1.
    With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:

    multo tanto carior,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:

    pauciores oratores,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:

    facilius atque expeditius iter,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:

    virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:

    multo ceteros anteibant,

    Tac. H. 4, 13:

    multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,

    Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:

    multo mavolo,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:

    meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
    2.
    With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:

    quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:

    simulacrum multo antiquissimum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:

    maxima pars,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:

    multo id bellum maximum fuit,

    Liv. 1, 11, 5:

    pars multo maxima,

    id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:

    multo gratissima lux,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:

    foedissimum,

    Quint. 9, 4, 72:

    optimum,

    id. ib. 26:

    pulcherrimum,

    id. 1, 2, 24:

    utilissima,

    id. 2, 10, 1:

    maxime,

    Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:

    multo maxime miserabile,

    Sall. C. 36, 4:

    multo maxime ingenio validus,

    id. J. 6, 1.—
    3.
    With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:

    multo aliter,

    Ter. And. prol. 4:

    multo aliter ac sperabat,

    far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:

    quod non multo secus fieret, si,

    not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
    4.
    In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:

    non multo ante urbem captam,

    Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:

    non multo ante,

    not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:

    multo ante,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

    non multo post, quam, etc.,

    not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:

    haud multo ante solis occasum,

    Liv. 5, 39, 2:

    multo ante noctem,

    id. 27, 42, 13.—
    5.
    Very rarely with the positive for multum:

    maligna multo,

    very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
    6.
    Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:

    multo multoque longior,

    far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:

    multo multoque operosius est,

    Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
    II.
    Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
    A.
    In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;

    so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:

    ne plus minusve loqueretur,

    Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);

    so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:

    speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,

    Mart. 8, 71, 4:

    aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

    too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

    tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:

    vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,

    and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:

    verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,

    Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:

    apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,

    id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

    valet enim salus plus quam libido,

    id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
    (β).
    With a partitive gen.:

    vultis pecuniae plus habere,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:

    nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,

    id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,

    plus virium,

    id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

    plus hostium,

    Liv. 2, 42:

    plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:

    in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:

    plus ingenii,

    id. ib. 1, 14, 22:

    Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,

    as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
    (γ).
    With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):

    non plus quam semel,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:

    confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:

    ne plus reddat quam acceperit,

    id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:

    non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,

    into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:

    plus quam decem dies abesse,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:

    nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,

    with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
    (δ).
    Without quam:

    HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,

    Liv. 24, 44:

    plus milies audivi,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:

    plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:

    ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:

    non plus mille quingentos aeris,

    id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,

    Liv. 31, 34:

    cum plus annum aeger fuisset,

    id. 40, 2:

    parte plus dimidia rem auctam,

    id. 29, 25.—
    (ε).
    With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:

    VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,

    more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:

    ex his alius alio plus habet virium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:

    alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:

    in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,

    id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:

    annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,

    or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:

    plus aequo,

    Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

    plus paulo,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:

    paulo plus,

    Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:

    plus nimio,

    overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:

    uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,

    one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
    2.
    In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:

    ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,

    of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:

    ager multo pluris est,

    is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:

    quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,

    id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:

    pluris emere,

    dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,

    vendere,

    id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:

    aedificare,

    Col. 1, 4, 7:

    pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,

    of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:

    mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,

    Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:

    facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,

    id. ib. 8, 2, 4:

    facere aliquem pluris,

    make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:

    pluris habere,

    id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:

    aestimare,

    id. Par. 6, 2, 48:

    ducere,

    id. Att. 7, 3, 5:

    putare,

    id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
    3.
    Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
    4.
    Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
    * 5.
    Like magis, with an adj.:

    plus formosus, for formosior,

    Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
    B.
    In the plur.
    1.
    Comparatively, more in number:

    omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:

    ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:

    multo plura,

    many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
    2.
    In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;

    1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:

    quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

    plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,

    id. B. C. 3, 52:

    summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

    pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,

    id. 8, 4, 27:

    quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,

    Cic. Clu. 41, 115:

    eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;

    without verba: quid ego plura dicam?

    id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:

    pluribus haec exsecutus sum,

    Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;

    also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,

    what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,

    id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
    b.
    Esp.: plures.
    (α).
    The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
    (β).
    Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:

    quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
    (γ).
    The greater number, the majority:

    plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,

    Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
    III.
    Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):

    hujus sunt plurima simulacra,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

    nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:

    plurimae et maximae partes,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 8:

    plurimorum seculorum memoria,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 14:

    haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:

    me plurima praeda onustum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:

    sermo,

    Quint. 2, 2, 5:

    risus,

    id. 6, 3, 85:

    res,

    id. 6, 1, 51:

    exercitatio,

    id. 8 prooem. §

    28: mons,

    very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:

    cervix,

    id. G. 3, 52:

    Aetna,

    Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:

    medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,

    very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:

    coma plurima,

    very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:

    sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,

    mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:

    plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,

    many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,

    oleaster plurimus,

    Verg. G. 2, 183:

    qua plurima mittitur ales,

    Mart. 9, 56, 1:

    plurima lecta rosa est,

    Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):

    ut haberet quam plurimum,

    as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:

    caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

    ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,

    id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:

    et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,

    id. ib. 2, 9, 16:

    si vero populus plurimum potest,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:

    qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:

    plurimum aliis praestare,

    id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    ut te plurimum diligam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:

    hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,

    id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:

    quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,

    Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):

    plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,

    Min. Fel. Oct. 22:

    gratulor,

    id. ib. 40:

    (elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,

    at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,

    cum plurimum,

    id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
    (β).
    In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:

    artis,

    Quint. 10, 5, 3:

    auctoritatis et ponderis,

    id. 9, 4, 91:

    ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,

    id. 10, 3, 1:

    virtutum,

    id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
    (γ).
    In the gen. pretii:

    plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,

    values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:

    quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,

    Nep. Eum. 2, 2:

    ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,

    Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > moltus

  • 20 multi

    multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
    I.
    Posit.
    A.
    In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):

    multi fortissimi viri,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:

    rationes,

    id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:

    multae et magnae contentiones,

    many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:

    O multas et graves offensiones,

    id. Att. 11, 7, 3:

    multi et graves dolores,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:

    multi et varii timores,

    Liv. 3, 16, 3:

    multae bonaeque artes animi,

    Sall. J. 28, 5:

    multa et clara facinora,

    Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:

    multi improbi,

    Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:

    multi boni, docti, prudentes,

    id. Fl. 4, 8:

    multi nobiles,

    id. Planc. 20, 50:

    multa acerba habuit ille annus,

    id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:

    multa infanda,

    Liv. 28, 12, 5:

    multa falsa,

    id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:

    multa secunda proelia,

    victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:

    multa libera capita,

    freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:

    multae liberae civitates,

    republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:

    multos fortes viros,

    id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:

    multi clari viri,

    noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

    multi primarii viri,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:

    multi clarissimi viri,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

    multi amplissimi viri,

    id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:

    multi honestissimi homines,

    id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:

    multi peritissimi homines,

    id. Caecin. 24, 69:

    multi summi homines,

    id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,

    id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:

    in veteribus patronis multis,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:

    multa praeterea bella gravia,

    id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:

    multis suppliciis justis,

    id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

    multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

    plurima signa pulcherrima,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:

    virtutes animi multae et magnae,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

    causas ille multas et graves habuit,

    id. Clu. 30, 82;

    and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,

    id. Cael. 5, 12:

    prodigia multa, foeda,

    Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:

    multi hominum,

    Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:

    multae silvestrium arborum,

    id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:

    nimium multa,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:

    nimis multa,

    id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:

    insulae non ita multae,

    not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:

    parum multa scire,

    too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:

    quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,

    as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:

    minime multi remiges,

    exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:

    in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,

    id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:

    multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:

    nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,

    Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:

    aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,

    with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:

    multa prece prosequi,

    id. C. 4, 5, 33:

    multa victima,

    Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:

    avis,

    id. Am. 3, 5, 4:

    tabella,

    Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:

    exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,

    Cic. Pis. 27, 67:

    multo labore quaerere aliquid,

    with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:

    cura,

    Sall. J. 7, 4:

    sol,

    much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:

    multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,

    Liv. 23, 30, 2:

    multum sanguinem haurire,

    Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:

    multam harenam mare evomit,

    id. 4, 6, 8:

    arbor,

    id. 7, 4, 26:

    silva,

    id. 8, 10, 14:

    multae vestis injectu opprimi,

    Tac. A. 6, 50:

    multa et lauta supellex,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:

    aurum,

    Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:

    libertas,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:

    multam salutem dicere alicui,

    to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:

    cum auro et argento multo,

    Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:

    Itaque multum diei processerat,

    a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:

    ad multum diem,

    till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:

    multo adhuc die,

    when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:

    multo denique die,

    when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:

    multa nocte,

    late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

    multo mane,

    very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:

    multa opinio, for multorum,

    the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:

    velut multa pace,

    as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:

    multus homo,

    one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:

    video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,

    id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:

    tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:

    unus de multis esse,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;

    potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,

    id. Brut. 79, 274:

    numerarer in multis,

    among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:

    e multis una sit tibi,

    no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:

    multum est,

    it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:

    ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,

    Cic. Clu. 64, 181:

    ne multis: Diogenes emitur,

    id. ib. 16, 47:

    quid multis moror?

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:

    multa reluctari,

    Verg. G. 4, 301:

    gemens,

    id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:

    deos testatus,

    id. ib. 7, 593:

    invehi,

    Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):

    haud multa moratus,

    Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:

    in multum velociores,

    by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Too much, overmuch, excessive:

    supellex modica, non multa,

    Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
    2.
    In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:

    qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:

    ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,

    id. ib. 2, 87, 358:

    nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,

    id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
    3.
    Frequent, frequently present:

    in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,

    Sall. J. 96, 3:

    multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,

    was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:

    hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!

    troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:

    instare,

    Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
    A.
    multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):

    salve multum, gnate mi,

    Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:

    multum vale,

    farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:

    hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,

    id. Men. 2, 2, 42:

    opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,

    not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:

    multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,

    often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:

    non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,

    id. Brut. 34, 128:

    non multum confidere,

    not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:

    sunt in venationibus,

    often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:

    in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,

    Cic. Brut. 48, 178:

    multum fuisse cum aliquo,

    to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

    sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,

    id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:

    gratia valere,

    to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:

    res multum et saepe quaesita,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:

    longe omnes multumque superabit,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:

    multum et diu cogitans,

    id. Div. 2, 1, 1:

    diu multumque scriptitare,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:

    multum loquaces,

    very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:

    mepti labores,

    very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:

    multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,

    much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:

    multum robustior illo,

    Juv. 19, 197:

    majora,

    Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:

    haud multum infra viam,

    Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:

    haud multum post mortem ejus,

    Tac. A. 5, 3:

    ut multum,

    at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
    B.
    multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
    1.
    With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:

    multo tanto carior,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:

    pauciores oratores,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:

    facilius atque expeditius iter,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:

    virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:

    multo ceteros anteibant,

    Tac. H. 4, 13:

    multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,

    Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:

    multo mavolo,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:

    meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
    2.
    With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:

    quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:

    simulacrum multo antiquissimum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:

    maxima pars,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:

    multo id bellum maximum fuit,

    Liv. 1, 11, 5:

    pars multo maxima,

    id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:

    multo gratissima lux,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:

    foedissimum,

    Quint. 9, 4, 72:

    optimum,

    id. ib. 26:

    pulcherrimum,

    id. 1, 2, 24:

    utilissima,

    id. 2, 10, 1:

    maxime,

    Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:

    multo maxime miserabile,

    Sall. C. 36, 4:

    multo maxime ingenio validus,

    id. J. 6, 1.—
    3.
    With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:

    multo aliter,

    Ter. And. prol. 4:

    multo aliter ac sperabat,

    far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:

    quod non multo secus fieret, si,

    not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
    4.
    In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:

    non multo ante urbem captam,

    Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:

    non multo ante,

    not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:

    multo ante,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

    non multo post, quam, etc.,

    not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:

    haud multo ante solis occasum,

    Liv. 5, 39, 2:

    multo ante noctem,

    id. 27, 42, 13.—
    5.
    Very rarely with the positive for multum:

    maligna multo,

    very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
    6.
    Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:

    multo multoque longior,

    far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:

    multo multoque operosius est,

    Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
    II.
    Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
    A.
    In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;

    so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:

    ne plus minusve loqueretur,

    Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);

    so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:

    speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,

    Mart. 8, 71, 4:

    aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

    too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

    tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:

    vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,

    and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:

    verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,

    Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:

    apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,

    id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

    valet enim salus plus quam libido,

    id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
    (β).
    With a partitive gen.:

    vultis pecuniae plus habere,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:

    nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,

    id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,

    plus virium,

    id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

    plus hostium,

    Liv. 2, 42:

    plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:

    in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:

    plus ingenii,

    id. ib. 1, 14, 22:

    Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,

    as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
    (γ).
    With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):

    non plus quam semel,

    Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:

    confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:

    ne plus reddat quam acceperit,

    id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:

    non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,

    into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:

    plus quam decem dies abesse,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:

    nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,

    with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
    (δ).
    Without quam:

    HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,

    Liv. 24, 44:

    plus milies audivi,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:

    plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:

    ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:

    non plus mille quingentos aeris,

    id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,

    Liv. 31, 34:

    cum plus annum aeger fuisset,

    id. 40, 2:

    parte plus dimidia rem auctam,

    id. 29, 25.—
    (ε).
    With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:

    VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,

    more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:

    ex his alius alio plus habet virium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:

    alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:

    in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,

    id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:

    annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,

    or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:

    plus aequo,

    Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

    plus paulo,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:

    paulo plus,

    Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:

    plus nimio,

    overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:

    uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,

    one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
    2.
    In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:

    ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,

    of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:

    ager multo pluris est,

    is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:

    quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,

    id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:

    pluris emere,

    dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,

    vendere,

    id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:

    aedificare,

    Col. 1, 4, 7:

    pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,

    of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:

    mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,

    Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:

    facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,

    id. ib. 8, 2, 4:

    facere aliquem pluris,

    make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:

    pluris habere,

    id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:

    aestimare,

    id. Par. 6, 2, 48:

    ducere,

    id. Att. 7, 3, 5:

    putare,

    id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
    3.
    Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
    4.
    Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
    * 5.
    Like magis, with an adj.:

    plus formosus, for formosior,

    Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
    B.
    In the plur.
    1.
    Comparatively, more in number:

    omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:

    ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:

    multo plura,

    many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
    2.
    In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;

    1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:

    quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

    plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,

    id. B. C. 3, 52:

    summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

    pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,

    id. 8, 4, 27:

    quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,

    Cic. Clu. 41, 115:

    eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;

    without verba: quid ego plura dicam?

    id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:

    pluribus haec exsecutus sum,

    Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;

    also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,

    what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

    sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,

    id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
    b.
    Esp.: plures.
    (α).
    The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
    (β).
    Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:

    quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
    (γ).
    The greater number, the majority:

    plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,

    Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
    III.
    Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):

    hujus sunt plurima simulacra,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

    nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:

    plurimae et maximae partes,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 8:

    plurimorum seculorum memoria,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 14:

    haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:

    me plurima praeda onustum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:

    sermo,

    Quint. 2, 2, 5:

    risus,

    id. 6, 3, 85:

    res,

    id. 6, 1, 51:

    exercitatio,

    id. 8 prooem. §

    28: mons,

    very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:

    cervix,

    id. G. 3, 52:

    Aetna,

    Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:

    medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,

    very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:

    coma plurima,

    very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:

    sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,

    mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:

    plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,

    many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,

    oleaster plurimus,

    Verg. G. 2, 183:

    qua plurima mittitur ales,

    Mart. 9, 56, 1:

    plurima lecta rosa est,

    Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):

    ut haberet quam plurimum,

    as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:

    caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

    ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,

    id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:

    et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:

    auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,

    id. ib. 2, 9, 16:

    si vero populus plurimum potest,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:

    qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,

    id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:

    plurimum aliis praestare,

    id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    ut te plurimum diligam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:

    hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,

    id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:

    quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,

    Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):

    plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,

    Min. Fel. Oct. 22:

    gratulor,

    id. ib. 40:

    (elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,

    at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,

    cum plurimum,

    id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
    (β).
    In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:

    artis,

    Quint. 10, 5, 3:

    auctoritatis et ponderis,

    id. 9, 4, 91:

    ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,

    id. 10, 3, 1:

    virtutum,

    id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
    (γ).
    In the gen. pretii:

    plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,

    values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:

    quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,

    Nep. Eum. 2, 2:

    ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,

    Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

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