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  • 1 longe

    longē, adv. [st1]1 [-] en long, en longueur; loin, au loin.    - vim suam longe lateque diffidunt, Cic. Div. 1, 79: (les dieux) répandent en long et en large leur puissance.    - omnibus longe lateque aedificiis incensis, Caes. BG. 4: après avoir incendié toutes les maisons sur une vaste étendue.    - longe gradi, Virg. En. 10, 572: faire de grands pas.    - longe abesse, Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1: être éloigné.    - longe procedere, Cic. Verr. 2, 65: s'avancer loin.    - quam longe videmus? Cic. Ac. 2, 80: à quelle distance porte notre vue?    - domi aut non longe a domo esse, Cic. Phil. 12, 23: être chez soi ou non loin de chez soi.    - locum castris deligit ab Avarico longe milia passuum sedecim, Caes. BG. 7, 16, 1: il choisit un emplacement pour son camp à une distance de seize mille pas d'Avaricum.    - tria milia passuum longe a castris considere, Caes. BG. 5, 47, 5: prendre position à trois mille pas du camp.    - non longe ex eo loco abesse, Caes. BG. 5, 21, 2: n'être pas fort éloigné de ce lieu.    - longe gentium abesse, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1: être à l'autre bout du monde.    - non longe a Syracusis, Cic.: non loin de Syracuse.    - longe esse alicui, Virg. (longe esse ab aliquo, Caes.): n'être d'aucun secours à qqn.    - compar. sans infl. sur la constr., c. amplius: non longius milia passuum octo abesse, Caes. BG. 5, 53, 7: n'être pas à plus de huit mille pas de distance. [st1]2 [-] au fig. longuement ; loin, au loin.    - aliquid longius dicere, Cic. Or. 162, exposer qqch plus longuement.    - labi longius, Cic. Leg. 1, 52: se laisser aller trop loin de son sujet.    - verbum longius ductum, Cic. Br. 274: mot tiré de trop loin, recherché.    - longe aliquid repetere, Cic. Leg. 1, 28: aller chercher qqch bien loin en arrière.    - longe prospicere casus futuros rei publicae, Cic. Lael. 40: voir au loin dans l'avenir les dangers qui menacent la république.    - quoad longissime potest mens mea respicere, Cic. Arch. 1: aussi loin que mon esprit peut revoir en arrière.    - alicujus vitam longius producere, Cic. Br. 60: faire vivre qqn plus longtemps, lui attribuer une vie plus longue.    - longius anno, Caes. BG. 4, 1, 7: plus d'un an.    - longius triduo, Caes. BG. 7, 9, 2: plus de trois jours.    - paullo longius, Caes. BG. 7, 71, 4: un peu plus longtemps. [st1]3 [-] grandement, beaucoup.    - mais avec des adj., adv. ou verbes marquant éloignement, différence, préférence: longe abhorrere, dissentire, praestare, excellere, antecellere, anteponere, longe alius, dissimilis, aliter, secus, etc.    - a vulgo longe longeque remoti, Hor. S. 1, 6, 18: écartés loin, loin de la foule.    - longe aliter est, Cic. Amer. 138: il en est tout autrement.    - ea res longe aliter ac ratus erat evenit, Sall. J. 7: l'issue fut tout autre qu'il n'avait pensé. [st1]4 [-] devant les superl.: de beaucoup, sans contredit.    - longe plurimum ingenio valere, Cic. Br. 55: avoir une très haute supériorité intellectuelle.    - longe eloquentissimus, Cic. Caec. 53: de beaucoup le plus éloquent.    - longe omnium princeps, Cic. Or. 62: de beaucoup le premier de tous.    - longe longeque plurimum tribuere honestati, Cic. Fin. 2, 68: faire la part de beaucoup la plus large à l'honnête.    - longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus, Caes. BG. 1, 2: de beaucoup le plus noble et le plus riche.    - devant les compar.: longe melior, Virg. En. 9, 556: bien supérieur.    - cf. Sall. H. 3, 48, 9 ; Liv. 24, 28, 5 ; Curt. 10, 3, 10; Tac. An. 4, 40; Quint. 10, 1, 7, etc.
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    longē, adv. [st1]1 [-] en long, en longueur; loin, au loin.    - vim suam longe lateque diffidunt, Cic. Div. 1, 79: (les dieux) répandent en long et en large leur puissance.    - omnibus longe lateque aedificiis incensis, Caes. BG. 4: après avoir incendié toutes les maisons sur une vaste étendue.    - longe gradi, Virg. En. 10, 572: faire de grands pas.    - longe abesse, Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1: être éloigné.    - longe procedere, Cic. Verr. 2, 65: s'avancer loin.    - quam longe videmus? Cic. Ac. 2, 80: à quelle distance porte notre vue?    - domi aut non longe a domo esse, Cic. Phil. 12, 23: être chez soi ou non loin de chez soi.    - locum castris deligit ab Avarico longe milia passuum sedecim, Caes. BG. 7, 16, 1: il choisit un emplacement pour son camp à une distance de seize mille pas d'Avaricum.    - tria milia passuum longe a castris considere, Caes. BG. 5, 47, 5: prendre position à trois mille pas du camp.    - non longe ex eo loco abesse, Caes. BG. 5, 21, 2: n'être pas fort éloigné de ce lieu.    - longe gentium abesse, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1: être à l'autre bout du monde.    - non longe a Syracusis, Cic.: non loin de Syracuse.    - longe esse alicui, Virg. (longe esse ab aliquo, Caes.): n'être d'aucun secours à qqn.    - compar. sans infl. sur la constr., c. amplius: non longius milia passuum octo abesse, Caes. BG. 5, 53, 7: n'être pas à plus de huit mille pas de distance. [st1]2 [-] au fig. longuement ; loin, au loin.    - aliquid longius dicere, Cic. Or. 162, exposer qqch plus longuement.    - labi longius, Cic. Leg. 1, 52: se laisser aller trop loin de son sujet.    - verbum longius ductum, Cic. Br. 274: mot tiré de trop loin, recherché.    - longe aliquid repetere, Cic. Leg. 1, 28: aller chercher qqch bien loin en arrière.    - longe prospicere casus futuros rei publicae, Cic. Lael. 40: voir au loin dans l'avenir les dangers qui menacent la république.    - quoad longissime potest mens mea respicere, Cic. Arch. 1: aussi loin que mon esprit peut revoir en arrière.    - alicujus vitam longius producere, Cic. Br. 60: faire vivre qqn plus longtemps, lui attribuer une vie plus longue.    - longius anno, Caes. BG. 4, 1, 7: plus d'un an.    - longius triduo, Caes. BG. 7, 9, 2: plus de trois jours.    - paullo longius, Caes. BG. 7, 71, 4: un peu plus longtemps. [st1]3 [-] grandement, beaucoup.    - mais avec des adj., adv. ou verbes marquant éloignement, différence, préférence: longe abhorrere, dissentire, praestare, excellere, antecellere, anteponere, longe alius, dissimilis, aliter, secus, etc.    - a vulgo longe longeque remoti, Hor. S. 1, 6, 18: écartés loin, loin de la foule.    - longe aliter est, Cic. Amer. 138: il en est tout autrement.    - ea res longe aliter ac ratus erat evenit, Sall. J. 7: l'issue fut tout autre qu'il n'avait pensé. [st1]4 [-] devant les superl.: de beaucoup, sans contredit.    - longe plurimum ingenio valere, Cic. Br. 55: avoir une très haute supériorité intellectuelle.    - longe eloquentissimus, Cic. Caec. 53: de beaucoup le plus éloquent.    - longe omnium princeps, Cic. Or. 62: de beaucoup le premier de tous.    - longe longeque plurimum tribuere honestati, Cic. Fin. 2, 68: faire la part de beaucoup la plus large à l'honnête.    - longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus, Caes. BG. 1, 2: de beaucoup le plus noble et le plus riche.    - devant les compar.: longe melior, Virg. En. 9, 556: bien supérieur.    - cf. Sall. H. 3, 48, 9 ; Liv. 24, 28, 5 ; Curt. 10, 3, 10; Tac. An. 4, 40; Quint. 10, 1, 7, etc.
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        Longe, Aduerbium. Loing.
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        Non longe ab aedibus. Cic. Il n'est pas fort loing de la maison.
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        Longe iam abieram. Terent. J'estoye ja allé assez loing.
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        Ne longe abeam per translationem. Cic. Sans que j'aille plus loing pour trouver exemple. Vide ABEO.
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        Longe hinc abest, vnde vectae Sumus. Plaut. Il y a loing d'ici d'où, etc.
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        Longe gentium abest. Cic. Il est fort loing.
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        Longe a me abest. Plaut. Il est loing de moy.
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        Ista stimulum longe habet. Plaut. Dont elle atteint de bien loing.
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        Illic longe vsque in campis vltimis habitat. Plaut. Il demeure là loing és champs.
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        Longe prospicere futuros casus. Cic. Preveoir de loing.
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        Longe est mihi. Martial. Il est loing de moy.
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        Pedibus longe melior Lycus. Virg. Il va beaucoup mieulx du pied.
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        Longe audacissimum habuimus. Cic. Beaucoup plus temeraire.
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        Longe, longeque plurimum tribuere honestati. Cic. Beaucoup, Beaucoup plus.
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        Longe caeteris artibus antecedit illud studium. Cic. Il est beaucoup plus excellent.
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        Longe aliter, atque a me dicta erant, detulerunt. Cic. Bien autrement.
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        Res aliter longe euenit. Liu. Est bien advenue autrement.
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        Longe ante videre. Cic. Preveoir de loing.
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        Longe secus est. Cic. Il va bien autrement.
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        Orationem longe aliam praebes nunc, atque olim quum dabam. Plaut. Tu parles bien autrement que, etc.
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        Longe princeps. Cic. Le plus excellent, ou plus grand.
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        Longe principes habentur Hedui. Caesar. Sont les plus estimez et honorez.
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        Longe primus ciuitatis est Epicrates. Cic. Il est le plus estimé de la cité, et le plus excellent.
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        Haec ciuitas longe plurimum totius Galliae equitatu valet. Caesar. Beaucoup plus sans comparaison.
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        Longe plurimos captiuos ante currum duxit. Liu. Bien fort grand nombre.
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        Longe anteire. Plaut. Passer de beaucoup.
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        Cuius ego iudicium longe antepono tuo. Cic. J'estime beaucoup plus son jugement que le tien.
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        - errat longe, Qui imperium credat grauius esse aut stabilius, Vi quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia adiungitur. Terent. Il erre grandement, Il s'abuse beaucoup.
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        Longe remotus ab ambitione. Plin. iunior. Qui est bien loing d'ambition.
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        Longius, Comparatiuum, Plus loing. Plautus, Auecta est, peregre hinc habitatum longius. Assez loing.
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        Non aberit longius. Terent. Il ne demeurera plus gueres qu'il ne vienne.
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        Non cogitas hinc longius abesse? Terent. Ne penses tu pas qu'il y a loing d'ici?
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        Longius abire. Terent. S'esloigner.
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        Longius currere. Cic. Bien avant.
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        Longius in amicitia prouecti. Cic. Lesquels il y a ja long temps qu'ils s'entr'aiment.
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        Longissime, Superlatiuus. Liu. Tresloing.
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        Longissime abest a vero. Cic. Il est tresloing de la verité.
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        Quid longissime meministi? Plaut. Dequoy te souvient il du plus loing?
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        - quam dudum in portum huc venis? P. Longissime. Plaut. Il y a fort long temps.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > longe

  • 2 labor

    I lābor, lāpsus sum, lābī depon.
    1) скользить ( anguis lapsus V); опускаться, спускаться ( effigies de caelo lapsa V); катиться, спадать, медленно падать (folia lapsa cadunt V; stellae labuntur caelo V); капать, падать
    2) пролетать ( per auras Q); взлетать ( sub sidera V); плыть, нестись (per aequora, in magno mari O)
    3) виться, обвиваться (circa tempora O)
    4) скатываться (ex rupe QC; per gradus L); сваливаться ( equo H или ex equo L); ниспадать (labens undique toga Q); свисать, обвисать ( mālae labentes Su)
    5) вытекать, течь ( e fontibus QC)
    6) смежаться, слипаться ( lapsi somno ocelli Prp)
    7) распространяться, разливаться ( frigus per artūs labitur O); уплывать ( res — sc. pecunia — foras labitur Pl)
    8) ( о времени) протекать, проходить (tempus, dies, aetas labitur H, O etc.; labuntur et fluunt omnia C)
    9) ускользать (e manibus alicujus QC; custodiā T)
    pectore l. V — забываться
    labi longius C — уйти слишком далеко, отклониться от темы
    10) (тж. l. per errorem C иl. errore Dig) ошибаться, заблуждаться, погрешать (in aliquā re C; propter imprudentiam C; casu C; verbo V или in verbo C)
    l. mente CC — сходить с ума
    11) мало-помалу доходить, клониться, погружаться, впадать (in soporem Pt; in vitium H; in luxuriam Just)
    12) приходить в упадок, портиться ( disciplina labitur L)
    domus lapsura O — дом, угрожающий обвалом
    II labor, ōris m.
    1) напряжение, усилие, труд, работа (l. irrītus Q, O; l. corporis, animi C)
    laborem suscipere (excipere, sibi sumere) C — взять на себя труд
    2) трудолюбие, прилежание ( homo magno labore или magni laboris C)
    3) плод трудов, дело, деяние, подвиг (multorum mensium l. Cs)
    4) трудность, бедствие, тяготы, мука, страдание (viae L; belli Cs)
    onus magis labori, quam usui Ap — обуза, от которой больше мучений, чем пользы
    5) болезнь (l. nervorum Vtr; valetudo decrescit, accrescit l. Pl); боль ( cor de labore pectus tundit Pl)
    labores Lucīnae V — родовые муки, роды
    6) поэт. затмение (labores solis, lunae V)
    7) тяжесть, груз ( lapides laborem sustīnent Vtr)

    Латинско-русский словарь > labor

  • 3 labor

    [st1]1 [-] lābor, lābi, lapsus sum: - intr. -    - inf. arch. labier. a - glisser, couler, s'écouler, s'échapper, s'enfuir, fuir.    - labuntur anni: les années s’écoulent.    - labente die, Virg.: à la chute du jour.    - flumina sub terra labentia, Virg.: les fleuves qui coulent sous terre.    - sanguis tardior labebatur, Tac.: le sang circulait plus lentement. b - tomber en glissant, glisser, menacer ruine, s'écrouler, trébucher, chanceler, tomber.    - labi ex equo, Liv. (labi equo, Hor.): tomber de cheval.    - labi ex rupe, Curt.: tomber du haut d'un rocher.    - lapsa cadunt folia, Virg.: les feuilles se détachent et tombent.    - atra silex jam jam lapsura, Virg. En. 6: une roche noire, bientôt sur le point de glisser. c - faire un faux pas, faillir, s'égarer, se tromper.    - labi in officio, Cic.: manquer à son devoir.    - labentem rem publicam fulcire, Cic.: soutenir l’Etat chancelant.    - sed longius labor, Cic.: mais je m'écarte trop de mon sujet.    - labi mente: - [abcl]a - perdre la raison. - [abcl]b - Cels. tomber en défaillance, s'évanouir.    - recto itinere labi: s'écarter de la route directe.    - labi in aliqua re, Cic.: faillir en qqch. d - se laisser aller à, tomber dans, incliner vers, être entraîné.    - ad opinionem labi, Cic.: se laisser aller à une opinion, se ranger à une opinion.    - ad aliquem labi, Cic.: se ranger à l'avis de qqn.    - labor eo ut Epicuro assentiar, Cic.: j'en viens à partager l'avis d'Epicure. e - tomber dans un mauvais état, être en décadence, s'affaiblir.    - miserere domus labentis, Virg. En. 4: prends pitié d'une famille qui s'éteint. [st1]2 [-] lăbŏr (arch. lăbōs), ōris, m.: a - labeur, peine, effort, fatigue, travail, charge, tâche; activité, énergie, résistance (au travail).    - magno labore (magno cum labore): à force de travail.    - labor omnia vincit improbus, Virg.: un travail acharné vient à bout de tout.    - labore se reficere: se remettre de sa fatigue.    - labor est + inf.: il est difficile de.    - loca montana quae ipsis (= Romanis) capere labor erat, Liv. 39, 1: région montagneuse dont il leur était difficile de s'emparer.    - cotidiana exercitatione summi esse laboris, Caes.: être d'une très grande résistance grâce à un entraînement quotidien.    - certum 'st ad frugem adplicare animum, quamquam ibi labos grandis capitur, Plaut.: c'en est fait, je me voue à la sagesse, quelque laborieuse que soit la tâche qu'elle impose. b - souffrance, douleur, calamité, malheur, épreuve, désastre.    - Lucinae labores, Virg.: les douleurs de l'enfantement.    - maximus earum (apium) labor est initio veris, Col.: pour elles (les abeilles) la période la plus critique se situe au début du printemps. c - inquiétude, malaise, maladie, défaillance; éclipse.    - sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,Vitr. 8: les sources sulfureuses guérissent les maladies nerveuses.    - mox et frumentis labor additus, Virg.: bientôt la maladie frappa aussi les blés.    - labores lunae, solis: éclipses de la lune, du soleil. d - résultat d'un travail, ouvrage, oeuvre.    - boum labores diluere, Virg.: inonder le travail des boeufs (inonder les champs où les boeufs ont travaillé).    - periit labor irritus anni, Virg.: le travail de l'année est annéanti.    - pocula, veterum labor, V.-Fl.: coupes, oeuvre d'artistes anciens.
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    [st1]1 [-] lābor, lābi, lapsus sum: - intr. -    - inf. arch. labier. a - glisser, couler, s'écouler, s'échapper, s'enfuir, fuir.    - labuntur anni: les années s’écoulent.    - labente die, Virg.: à la chute du jour.    - flumina sub terra labentia, Virg.: les fleuves qui coulent sous terre.    - sanguis tardior labebatur, Tac.: le sang circulait plus lentement. b - tomber en glissant, glisser, menacer ruine, s'écrouler, trébucher, chanceler, tomber.    - labi ex equo, Liv. (labi equo, Hor.): tomber de cheval.    - labi ex rupe, Curt.: tomber du haut d'un rocher.    - lapsa cadunt folia, Virg.: les feuilles se détachent et tombent.    - atra silex jam jam lapsura, Virg. En. 6: une roche noire, bientôt sur le point de glisser. c - faire un faux pas, faillir, s'égarer, se tromper.    - labi in officio, Cic.: manquer à son devoir.    - labentem rem publicam fulcire, Cic.: soutenir l’Etat chancelant.    - sed longius labor, Cic.: mais je m'écarte trop de mon sujet.    - labi mente: - [abcl]a - perdre la raison. - [abcl]b - Cels. tomber en défaillance, s'évanouir.    - recto itinere labi: s'écarter de la route directe.    - labi in aliqua re, Cic.: faillir en qqch. d - se laisser aller à, tomber dans, incliner vers, être entraîné.    - ad opinionem labi, Cic.: se laisser aller à une opinion, se ranger à une opinion.    - ad aliquem labi, Cic.: se ranger à l'avis de qqn.    - labor eo ut Epicuro assentiar, Cic.: j'en viens à partager l'avis d'Epicure. e - tomber dans un mauvais état, être en décadence, s'affaiblir.    - miserere domus labentis, Virg. En. 4: prends pitié d'une famille qui s'éteint. [st1]2 [-] lăbŏr (arch. lăbōs), ōris, m.: a - labeur, peine, effort, fatigue, travail, charge, tâche; activité, énergie, résistance (au travail).    - magno labore (magno cum labore): à force de travail.    - labor omnia vincit improbus, Virg.: un travail acharné vient à bout de tout.    - labore se reficere: se remettre de sa fatigue.    - labor est + inf.: il est difficile de.    - loca montana quae ipsis (= Romanis) capere labor erat, Liv. 39, 1: région montagneuse dont il leur était difficile de s'emparer.    - cotidiana exercitatione summi esse laboris, Caes.: être d'une très grande résistance grâce à un entraînement quotidien.    - certum 'st ad frugem adplicare animum, quamquam ibi labos grandis capitur, Plaut.: c'en est fait, je me voue à la sagesse, quelque laborieuse que soit la tâche qu'elle impose. b - souffrance, douleur, calamité, malheur, épreuve, désastre.    - Lucinae labores, Virg.: les douleurs de l'enfantement.    - maximus earum (apium) labor est initio veris, Col.: pour elles (les abeilles) la période la plus critique se situe au début du printemps. c - inquiétude, malaise, maladie, défaillance; éclipse.    - sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,Vitr. 8: les sources sulfureuses guérissent les maladies nerveuses.    - mox et frumentis labor additus, Virg.: bientôt la maladie frappa aussi les blés.    - labores lunae, solis: éclipses de la lune, du soleil. d - résultat d'un travail, ouvrage, oeuvre.    - boum labores diluere, Virg.: inonder le travail des boeufs (inonder les champs où les boeufs ont travaillé).    - periit labor irritus anni, Virg.: le travail de l'année est annéanti.    - pocula, veterum labor, V.-Fl.: coupes, oeuvre d'artistes anciens.
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        Labor, priore prod. laberis, pen. corr. lapsus sum, labi. Cic. Cheoir et tomber petit à petit.
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        Labi, Glisser, Griller, Couler.
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        Anguis labitur, pisces in aqua, muraena, et quicquid motu lubrico est, labitur. Glisse ou eschappe en glissant et se coulant.
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        Pennis labi. Virgil. Voler, ou Descendre en volant.
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        Occulte labitur aetas. Ouid. S'en va, Se passe, S'escoule.
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        Lachrymae labuntur. Ouid. Tombent.
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        Labi. Cic. Tomber en povreté.
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        Labi. Cic. Faillir, Errer.
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        Labebar longius, nisi me retinuissem. Cic. Je sortoye fort hors de propos, si etc.
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        Labi in adulationem. Tacit. Tomber en flaterie, Devenir flateur.
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        Labi imprudentia. Cic. Faillir par imprudence.
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        Labi mente. Celsus. Perdre l'entendement.
    II.
        Labor, priore correpta, laboris, ma. g. Labeur, Peine et travail, soit de corps ou d'esprit.
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        Sine labore. Cic. Sans peine et travail.
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        Lunae labores. Virgil. Eclipse de lune.
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        Solis labores. Virgil. Eclipse de soleil.
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        Effusus labor omnis. Virgil. Toute la peine a esté perdue.
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        Nullo labore aliquid facere. Cic. Sans peine.
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        Imponere laborem. Cic. Bailler peine, Imposer et encharger.
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        Iniungere laborem alicui. Quintil. Enjoindre.
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        Labori esse alicui. Cic. Luy bailler peine, ennuy et fascherie.
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        Esse in labore. Plin. Estre à la besongne, Labourer, Travailler, Besongner.
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        Suscipere laborem. Cic. Prendre peine.
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        Labor, apud poetas frequenter pro periculo, calamitate, vel alio quouis incommodo. Virg. Ennuy, Peine, Povreté, Adversité, Peril, Danger, Mal, Disette.
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        Primos Lucinae experta labores. Virgil. Estant au travail de son premier enfant.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > labor

  • 4 labor [1]

    1. lābor, lāpsus sum, lābī (vgl. griech. ὀ-λιβρός, schlüpfrig u. ahd. slīfan, gleiten), sich auf einer glatten Oberfläche sanft hinbewegen, gleiten, schlüpfen, schweben, hingleiten, hinschlüpfen, hinschweben, u. abwärts = herabgleiten, -schlüpfen, -schweben, u. als Anfang des Fallen = sinken, absol., od. konstr. m. ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex u. m. bl. Abl., I) im allg.: 1) eig.: α) v. lebl. Subjj., zB. v. Schlangen, non squamoso ventre, Prop.: per sinus crebros et magna volumina, Ov.: circa donaria, Ov.: circum tempora, sich schlängeln, Ov.: inter vestes et levia tempora, Ov.: angues lapsi in diversum, Iul. Obsequ.: populus in diversa labitur, verläust sich nach verschiedenen Richtungen, Iustin.: abwärts, montibus, Val. Flacc. – v. Schwimmenden, per aequora, Ov.: in magno mari, Ov.: medio amne, Ov. – v. Schiffenden, rate per aequora, Ov.: aquā, Prop. – v. Fliegenden, auf Fittichen Schwebenden, per auras, Ov.: pennis, entschweben, von Merkur, Verg.: aufwärts, sub sidera, entschweben, Verg.: abwärts, polo, Verg. – vom auf dem Wagen durch die Lüfte fahrenden Mars, pronum per aëra, Ov. – v. Herabsteigenden, per funem demissum labi, Verg.: im Bilde, labi per iter declive senectae, Ov. – v. Herabsinkenden, semianimem od. moribundum ex equo, Liv., suffosso equo, Tac., u. bl. equo, Hor.; vgl. multis labentibus ex equis aut desilientibus, Liv.: labi ex rupe, Curt.: ex arbore, Capit.: per gradus, die Stufen hinabfallen, Liv.: super terram, hinsinken, Liv. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: quia continenter laberentur et fluerent omnia, Cic.: in vanum manus lapsa, die einen Fehlhieb getan, Curt.: cum tela de testudine laberentur, Curt.: tum (illud iaculum) leni impetu labitur, gleitet sanft (auf dem Wasser) dahin, Min. Fel. – abwärts, lapsa cadunt folia, Verg.: lapsus ab arbore ramus, Ov.: lapsae lacertis, nullo solvente, catenae, Ov. – v. Kleidern und Waffen, soluta ac velut labens undique toga, Quint.: tergo velamina lapsa, Ov.: labentibus super corpus armis, Liv. – v. Sternen u. dgl., vagā et mutabili ratione, Cic.: advorsum nimbos, Lucr.: caelo, dahingleiten am usw., Verg.: abwärts, ab aethere, Ov.: de caelo, Verg.: ignem de caelo lapsurum, Capit. – v. Schiffen, vadis, Verg. – v. Gewässern, gleiten, dahingleiten, fließen, cum labantur assidue flumina, quaedam concitata rapiantur, Sen.: altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi, Curt.: altis ripis, dahingleiten, Hor.; aber sinistrā ripā, hinwegströmen über usw., Hor.: per CCC stadia, Curt.: sub terras, sub magna terra, Ov.: abwärts, e fontibus, Curt.: diversis de partibus (al. fontibus), Ov.: vertice silvae, Ov.: quantum aquarum per gradus cum fragore labentium, Sen.: zurück, in caput (Quelle) suum retro, Ov.: prius vasto labentur flumina ponto, quam etc., Prop.: vado labente, die Flut zurück-, abfloß, Tac. – v. Tränen, rinnen, träufeln, in genas, Hor.: per genas in ensem, Ov.: ex oculis, Ov. – v. anderen Flüssigkeiten, fließen, rinnen, träufeln, in proximum mare (vom flüssigen Bernstein), Tac.: truncis cavis, vom Honig, Hor.: quid sit, quod guttatim faciat pluviam labi, Amob.: pressus pavore sanguis tardius labebatur, floß (hervor), Tac. – vom Feuer, in porticus, hinüberschlagen in usw., Tac. – v. Übeln usw., die allmählich in den Körper dringen, sich verbreiten, frigus per artus labitur, Ov.: dolor lapsus ad artus, Verg.: penitus in viscera lapsum serpentis furiale malum, Verg.: somnus labitur in artus, Ov.

    2) übtr.: a) gleiten, rinnen, α) v. leb. Subjj.: sed labor longius, ad propositum revertar, ich gerate, ich verliere mich zu weit (in der Rede), Cic.: u. so quin labebar longius, nisi me retinuissem, Cic. – cadere spe dicuntur, qui levati animo a summo ad inferiora labuntur, Donat. Ter. Andr. 3, 5, 12. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: ilico res foras labitur, liquitur, rinnt das Geld ihm aus dem Hause und zerfließt, Plaut.: brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius, Cic.: sunt (vitia) in lubrico incitataque semel proclivi labuntur sustinerique nullo modo possunt, Cic. – v. der Rede, oratio sedate placideque labitur, gleitet (fließt) dahin, Cic. or. 92: prosā incipit (sermo eius), versu labitur, pedestri oratione finitur, Hieron. epist. 53, 8. – v. Zeit u. Leben, dahingleiten, entrinnen, verfließen, assiduo labuntur tempora motu, non secus ac flumen, Ov.: labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas, ut celer admissis labitur amnis aquis, Ov.: cito pede labitur aetas, Ov.: tardo pede lapsa vetustas, Ov.: u. so labuntur tempora, anni, lustra, Hor. u.a. Dichter. – b) mit Angabe des Ziels, zu etwas sich hinneigen, in etw. sinken, auf od. in etw. verfallen, geraten, α) v. leb. Subjj.: labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro, fühle mich zur Ansicht des E. hingezogen, Cic.: labi ad illos, qui etc., Cic.: veremini, ne labar ad opinionem, möchte dem Wahne verfallen, Cic.: labi in errorem emendabilem, Liv.: in luxuriam, in segnitiam, Iustin.: in vitium, Hor.: in somnum, in soporem, Petron. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiem, Cic.: omnia in externum lapsa sunt morem, Curt.

    II) prägn.: A) = delabi, abgleiten, abkommen, vorbeigleiten, 1) eig.: si viā lapsus est (bildl.), Sen.: cum superiacta tela de testudine laberentur, Tac.: ne adiectae voces laberentur atque errarent, priusquam sensus (auditus) ab his pulsus esset, Cic. – 2) übtr.: hāc spe lapsus, in der Hoffnung getäuscht, Caes.: labi facultatibus, um sein Vermögen kommen, ICt.

    B) = ab- od. ausgleiten, straucheln, ausgleitend, strauchelnd fallen, 1) eig.: agaso pede lapsus, Hor. – homini nequam lapso et ut allevaretur roganti, ›Tollat te‹, inquit, ›qui novit‹, Quint. – 2) übtr.: straucheln, a) = irre werden, mente, wahnsinnig werden, Cels.: u. so lapsi mente, wahnsinnig (Ggstz. sui compotes), Cels. – labi memoriā, einen Gedächtnisfehler begehen, Suet. – u. geistig od. moralisch irren, fehlen, sich vergehen, erravit, lapsus est, non putavit, Cic.: opinione labi posse, voluntate a re publica dissidere nullo pacto posse, Cic.: in alqa re consilio od. casu lapsum esse, Cic.: consilio id magis quam furore lapsos fecisse, Liv.: labi per errorem, Cic., od. errore, ICt.: labi propter imprudentiam, Cic.: imprudentiā lapsum aliquid facere (Ggstz. scientem aliquid delinquere), Liv.: labi imperitiā, ICt.: in quo vorbo lapsa consuetudo deflexit de via, Cic.: labi in officio, Cic.: in his labi et cadere, Cic.: qua in re si mediocriter lapsus sum, defendes meum tolerabile erratum, Cic.: numquam labere, si te audies, Cic.: qui sero lapsum revocatis, Prop. – b) straucheln = zum Falle geneigt sein, dem Falle nahe sein (s. Halm Cic. Phil. 2, 51), equitem Romanum non libidine, non turpibus impensis atque iacturis, sed experientiā patrimonii amplificandi labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fide, hodieque sustinet, Cic.: cum labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire cuperetis, Cic.: ferre praesidium labenti et inclinatae paene rei publicae, Cic.: labente deinde paulatim disciplinā, Liv.: labente iam causā decem virorum, Liv.: vidi ego labentes (weichenden) acies et tela caduca, Prop.

    C) = elabi, herausfallen, 1) eig.: viscera lapsa, Ov. u. Lucan.: forte lapsa vox, entschlüpfte, entfallene, Tac. – v. Pers., entgleiten, entschlüpfen, e manibus custodientium, Curt.: custodiā, Tac. – 2) übtr.: quam nostro illius labatur pectore vultus, entschwindet, Verg. ecl. 1, 63.

    D) herabgleiten, -sinken = schlapp herabhängen, lapsa catena, schleppende, Prop.: tenuata de nexibus membra labuntur, Ps. Quint. decl. – bes. v. Gliedern Sterbender, caput labens et iam languentia colla levat, Lucan.: malae labentes, herabsinkende Kinnladen, Suet.: lapsae genae, Sen. poët. – neutr. pl. subst., firmamenta fluidorum ac labentium, des Schlotterigen u. Schlappen, Sen. ep. 102, 25.

    E) sinken, hinsinken, zusammensinken, 1) eig.: α) v. Pers.: calor ossa reliquit, labitur, Verg.: sub onere labitur, erliegt der Last, Petron.: multi sine morte labuntur, Petron. – β) v. lebl. Subjj., u. zwar v. Gebäuden usw., zusammen-, einsinken, vor Alter verfallen, lapso fundamento, Curt.: lapsura domus, Ov.: donec labentes deorum aedes refeceris, Hor. – v. den Augen Schlafender, zufallen, zusinken, labentes ocelli, Prop.: lapsi somno ocelli, Prop. – u. Sterbender, brechen, labuntur frigida leto lumina, Verg.: labentes oculos condere (zudrücken), Ov.: dum labentes oculi ad nostras exclamationes nostrosque planctus admissā paulatim luce laxantur, Ps. Quint. decl. Vgl. Burmann Ov. am. 3, 5, 1; trist. 3, 3, 44.

    2) übtr.: a) sinken = hinschwinden, vom Lebensatem, labens anima, Tac.: labi spiritum nec ultra biduum duraturum, Tac. – dah. v. Sterbenden, denen die Sinne vergehen, in den Tod sinken, sterben, laberis Oebalide, primā fraudate iuventā, Verg.: labimur (mir schwinden die Sinne), i, miseram solare parentem, Stat.: ille oculis extremo errore solutis labitur, Stat. – b) sinken = verfallen, in Verfall geraten, miserere domus labentis, Verg.: u. so labens regia, Iustin.: lapsum genus, Verg.: labente paulatim disciplinā, Liv.: ut magis magisque mores lapsi sint, tum ire coeperint praecipites, Liv.: fides lapsa, Ov. – / Parag. Infin. labier, Cic. Arat. 226. Lucr. 4, 443. Hor. ep. 2, 1, 94. – Partic, labundus, a, um, hinstürzend, unda sub undis labunda, Acc. tr. 570.

    lateinisch-deutsches > labor [1]

  • 5 labor

    1. lābor, lāpsus sum, lābī (vgl. griech. ὀ-λιβρός, schlüpfrig u. ahd. slīfan, gleiten), sich auf einer glatten Oberfläche sanft hinbewegen, gleiten, schlüpfen, schweben, hingleiten, hinschlüpfen, hinschweben, u. abwärts = herabgleiten, -schlüpfen, -schweben, u. als Anfang des Fallen = sinken, absol., od. konstr. m. ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex u. m. bl. Abl., I) im allg.: 1) eig.: α) v. lebl. Subjj., zB. v. Schlangen, non squamoso ventre, Prop.: per sinus crebros et magna volumina, Ov.: circa donaria, Ov.: circum tempora, sich schlängeln, Ov.: inter vestes et levia tempora, Ov.: angues lapsi in diversum, Iul. Obsequ.: populus in diversa labitur, verläust sich nach verschiedenen Richtungen, Iustin.: abwärts, montibus, Val. Flacc. – v. Schwimmenden, per aequora, Ov.: in magno mari, Ov.: medio amne, Ov. – v. Schiffenden, rate per aequora, Ov.: aquā, Prop. – v. Fliegenden, auf Fittichen Schwebenden, per auras, Ov.: pennis, entschweben, von Merkur, Verg.: aufwärts, sub sidera, entschweben, Verg.: abwärts, polo, Verg. – vom auf dem Wagen durch die Lüfte fahrenden Mars, pronum per aëra, Ov. – v. Herabsteigenden, per funem demissum labi, Verg.: im Bilde, labi per iter declive senectae, Ov. – v. Herabsinkenden, semianimem od. moribundum ex equo, Liv., suffosso equo, Tac., u. bl.
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    equo, Hor.; vgl. multis labentibus ex equis aut desilientibus, Liv.: labi ex rupe, Curt.: ex arbore, Capit.: per gradus, die Stufen hinabfallen, Liv.: super terram, hinsinken, Liv. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: quia continenter laberentur et fluerent omnia, Cic.: in vanum manus lapsa, die einen Fehlhieb getan, Curt.: cum tela de testudine laberentur, Curt.: tum (illud iaculum) leni impetu labitur, gleitet sanft (auf dem Wasser) dahin, Min. Fel. – abwärts, lapsa cadunt folia, Verg.: lapsus ab arbore ramus, Ov.: lapsae lacertis, nullo solvente, catenae, Ov. – v. Kleidern und Waffen, soluta ac velut labens undique toga, Quint.: tergo velamina lapsa, Ov.: labentibus super corpus armis, Liv. – v. Sternen u. dgl., vagā et mutabili ratione, Cic.: advorsum nimbos, Lucr.: caelo, dahingleiten am usw., Verg.: abwärts, ab aethere, Ov.: de caelo, Verg.: ignem de caelo lapsurum, Capit. – v. Schiffen, vadis, Verg. – v. Gewässern, gleiten, dahingleiten, fließen, cum labantur assidue flumina, quaedam concitata rapiantur, Sen.: altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi, Curt.: altis ripis, dahingleiten, Hor.; aber sinistrā ripā, hinwegströmen über usw., Hor.: per CCC stadia, Curt.: sub terras, sub magna terra, Ov.: abwärts, e fontibus, Curt.: diversis de partibus (al. fontibus), Ov.: vertice silvae, Ov.: quantum aquarum per gradus cum fragore labentium, Sen.: zurück, in caput (Quelle) suum retro, Ov.: prius vasto laben-
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    tur flumina ponto, quam etc., Prop.: vado labente, die Flut zurück-, abfloß, Tac. – v. Tränen, rinnen, träufeln, in genas, Hor.: per genas in ensem, Ov.: ex oculis, Ov. – v. anderen Flüssigkeiten, fließen, rinnen, träufeln, in proximum mare (vom flüssigen Bernstein), Tac.: truncis cavis, vom Honig, Hor.: quid sit, quod guttatim faciat pluviam labi, Amob.: pressus pavore sanguis tardius labebatur, floß (hervor), Tac. – vom Feuer, in porticus, hinüberschlagen in usw., Tac. – v. Übeln usw., die allmählich in den Körper dringen, sich verbreiten, frigus per artus labitur, Ov.: dolor lapsus ad artus, Verg.: penitus in viscera lapsum serpentis furiale malum, Verg.: somnus labitur in artus, Ov.
    2) übtr.: a) gleiten, rinnen, α) v. leb. Subjj.: sed labor longius, ad propositum revertar, ich gerate, ich verliere mich zu weit (in der Rede), Cic.: u. so quin labebar longius, nisi me retinuissem, Cic. – cadere spe dicuntur, qui levati animo a summo ad inferiora labuntur, Donat. Ter. Andr. 3, 5, 12. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: ilico res foras labitur, liquitur, rinnt das Geld ihm aus dem Hause und zerfließt, Plaut.: brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius, Cic.: sunt (vitia) in lubrico incitataque semel proclivi labuntur sustinerique nullo modo possunt, Cic. – v. der Rede, oratio sedate placideque labitur, gleitet (fließt) dahin, Cic. or. 92: prosā incipit (sermo eius), versu
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    labitur, pedestri oratione finitur, Hieron. epist. 53, 8. – v. Zeit u. Leben, dahingleiten, entrinnen, verfließen, assiduo labuntur tempora motu, non secus ac flumen, Ov.: labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas, ut celer admissis labitur amnis aquis, Ov.: cito pede labitur aetas, Ov.: tardo pede lapsa vetustas, Ov.: u. so labuntur tempora, anni, lustra, Hor. u.a. Dichter. – b) mit Angabe des Ziels, zu etwas sich hinneigen, in etw. sinken, auf od. in etw. verfallen, geraten, α) v. leb. Subjj.: labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro, fühle mich zur Ansicht des E. hingezogen, Cic.: labi ad illos, qui etc., Cic.: veremini, ne labar ad opinionem, möchte dem Wahne verfallen, Cic.: labi in errorem emendabilem, Liv.: in luxuriam, in segnitiam, Iustin.: in vitium, Hor.: in somnum, in soporem, Petron. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiem, Cic.: omnia in externum lapsa sunt morem, Curt.
    II) prägn.: A) = delabi, abgleiten, abkommen, vorbeigleiten, 1) eig.: si viā lapsus est (bildl.), Sen.: cum superiacta tela de testudine laberentur, Tac.: ne adiectae voces laberentur atque errarent, priusquam sensus (auditus) ab his pulsus esset, Cic. – 2) übtr.: hāc spe lapsus, in der Hoffnung getäuscht, Caes.: labi facultatibus, um sein Vermögen kommen, ICt.
    B) = ab- od. ausgleiten, straucheln, ausgleitend, strauchelnd fallen, 1) eig.: agaso pede lapsus, Hor. –
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    homini nequam lapso et ut allevaretur roganti, ›Tollat te‹, inquit, ›qui novit‹, Quint. – 2) übtr.: straucheln, a) = irre werden, mente, wahnsinnig werden, Cels.: u. so lapsi mente, wahnsinnig (Ggstz. sui compotes), Cels. – labi memoriā, einen Gedächtnisfehler begehen, Suet. – u. geistig od. moralisch irren, fehlen, sich vergehen, erravit, lapsus est, non putavit, Cic.: opinione labi posse, voluntate a re publica dissidere nullo pacto posse, Cic.: in alqa re consilio od. casu lapsum esse, Cic.: consilio id magis quam furore lapsos fecisse, Liv.: labi per errorem, Cic., od. errore, ICt.: labi propter imprudentiam, Cic.: imprudentiā lapsum aliquid facere (Ggstz. scientem aliquid delinquere), Liv.: labi imperitiā, ICt.: in quo vorbo lapsa consuetudo deflexit de via, Cic.: labi in officio, Cic.: in his labi et cadere, Cic.: qua in re si mediocriter lapsus sum, defendes meum tolerabile erratum, Cic.: numquam labere, si te audies, Cic.: qui sero lapsum revocatis, Prop. – b) straucheln = zum Falle geneigt sein, dem Falle nahe sein (s. Halm Cic. Phil. 2, 51), equitem Romanum non libidine, non turpibus impensis atque iacturis, sed experientiā patrimonii amplificandi labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fide, hodieque sustinet, Cic.: cum labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire cuperetis, Cic.: ferre praesidium labenti et inclinatae paene rei publicae, Cic.: labente deinde paulatim disciplinā, Liv.: labente iam
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    causā decem virorum, Liv.: vidi ego labentes (weichenden) acies et tela caduca, Prop.
    C) = elabi, herausfallen, 1) eig.: viscera lapsa, Ov. u. Lucan.: forte lapsa vox, entschlüpfte, entfallene, Tac. – v. Pers., entgleiten, entschlüpfen, e manibus custodientium, Curt.: custodiā, Tac. – 2) übtr.: quam nostro illius labatur pectore vultus, entschwindet, Verg. ecl. 1, 63.
    D) herabgleiten, -sinken = schlapp herabhängen, lapsa catena, schleppende, Prop.: tenuata de nexibus membra labuntur, Ps. Quint. decl. – bes. v. Gliedern Sterbender, caput labens et iam languentia colla levat, Lucan.: malae labentes, herabsinkende Kinnladen, Suet.: lapsae genae, Sen. poët. – neutr. pl. subst., firmamenta fluidorum ac labentium, des Schlotterigen u. Schlappen, Sen. ep. 102, 25.
    E) sinken, hinsinken, zusammensinken, 1) eig.: α) v. Pers.: calor ossa reliquit, labitur, Verg.: sub onere labitur, erliegt der Last, Petron.: multi sine morte labuntur, Petron. – β) v. lebl. Subjj., u. zwar v. Gebäuden usw., zusammen-, einsinken, vor Alter verfallen, lapso fundamento, Curt.: lapsura domus, Ov.: donec labentes deorum aedes refeceris, Hor. – v. den Augen Schlafender, zufallen, zusinken, labentes ocelli, Prop.: lapsi somno ocelli, Prop. – u. Sterbender, brechen, labuntur frigida leto lumina, Verg.: labentes oculos condere (zudrücken), Ov.: dum laben-
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    tes oculi ad nostras exclamationes nostrosque planctus admissā paulatim luce laxantur, Ps. Quint. decl. Vgl. Burmann Ov. am. 3, 5, 1; trist. 3, 3, 44.
    2) übtr.: a) sinken = hinschwinden, vom Lebensatem, labens anima, Tac.: labi spiritum nec ultra biduum duraturum, Tac. – dah. v. Sterbenden, denen die Sinne vergehen, in den Tod sinken, sterben, laberis Oebalide, primā fraudate iuventā, Verg.: labimur (mir schwinden die Sinne), i, miseram solare parentem, Stat.: ille oculis extremo errore solutis labitur, Stat. – b) sinken = verfallen, in Verfall geraten, miserere domus labentis, Verg.: u. so labens regia, Iustin.: lapsum genus, Verg.: labente paulatim disciplinā, Liv.: ut magis magisque mores lapsi sint, tum ire coeperint praecipites, Liv.: fides lapsa, Ov. – ⇒ Parag. Infin. labier, Cic. Arat. 226. Lucr. 4, 443. Hor. ep. 2, 1, 94. – Partic, labundus, a, um, hinstürzend, unda sub undis labunda, Acc. tr. 570.
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    2. labor, ōris, m. (zu labāre; eigentl. »das Wanken unter einer Last«), die Anstrengung, I) die Anstrengung, etw. zu vollbringen, die Bemühung, Mühe, Arbeit, Strapaze, 1) eig.: a) übh.: labor forensis, Cic.: irritus, Quint. u. Ov.: labor itineris, Cic.: labor viae, Liv.: labores militum, Caes.: labor corporis, animi, Cic.: labor manuum, Hieron.: labor domesticus, Colum.: militiae, Cic. aut belli aut fugae, Caes.: operis (der Belagerung), Caes.: labores belli, Cic.: labores defensionum, Cic. – parvulo labore, Cic.: nullo labore, Cic.: nullo labore tuo, ohne daß es dir Mühe macht, Cic.: sine labore, sine ullo labore, Cic.: sine ullo labore et contentione, Cic.: sine labore ac periculo, Cic.: cum labore, summo cum labore, Cic.: res est magni laboris, Cic.: tot adire labores, Verg.: affecta labore et vigiliis corpora, Liv.: capere tantum laborem, sich so sehr bemühen, Cic.: laborem inanem capere, sich vergeblich abmühen, Ter.: in ea (arte) plus operae laborisque consumpsisse, Cic.: nec animi neque corporis laboribus defatigari, Cic.: demere (alci) laborem militiae, Cic.: unius mensis labor alci detrahitur, Cic.: exanclare talem laborem, Cic., omnes labores, Cic.: exanclatis itinerum laboribus, Amm.: exercere se tantis laboribus, Cic.: apes exercet sub sole labor, Verg.: tot per annos terrā marique tanta pericula ac labores exhausisse, Liv.: inter labo-
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    res exhaustos aut mox exhauriendos, Liv.: frustra labore exhausto, Lucan.: magnos esse experiundos et subeundos labores, Cic.: dum adulescentis dextera irrito se labore fatigat, Val. Max.: frangere se tantis laboribus, Cic.: qui partis honoribus eosdem in foro gessi (habe mich unterzogen) labores, quos petendis, Cic.: impenditur labor et sumptus ad incertum casum et eventum quotannis, Cic.: suum laborem hominum periculis sublevandis impertire, Cic.: non plus alci laboris imponere quam sibi sumere, Cic.: eis laborem etiam novum pro portione iniungi, Liv.: quid sumptus in eam rem aut laboris insumpserit, Cic.: operam, studium, laborem interponere pro alqo, Cic.: pugnando fessis laxatur labor, Liv.: ut sibi pro re gesta aliquid laxaret laboris, Liv.: levare alci laborem, Cic.: defensionum laboribus aut omnino aut magna ex parte liberari, Cic.: obire pericula ac labores pariter, Liv.: non parcere labori, Cic. (u. so ne labori suo neu periculo parceret, Caes.): et honoribus amplissimis et laboribus maximis perfunctum esse, Cic.: Hercules perfunctus iam laboribus, Cic.: laborem viae pati posse, Liv.: multis laboribus (unter v. Str.) quaerere alqm. Plaut.: reficere se ex labore, Caes.: ab parvulis labori ac duritiae studere, Caes.: succumbere labori, Caes.: istos labores, quos nunc in naufragiis nostris suscipis, non subisses, Cic.: frustra tantum laborem sumere, Caes.: supersedere hoc labore itineris, Cic.: suscipere labo-
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    rem, labores, Cic.: frustra suscipere laborem, sich vergeblich abmühen, Cic.: sustinere forensem laborem propter ambitionem, Cic.: labores, pericula facile tolerare, Sall.: non vitandi laboris mei causā, Cic. – labor est m. Infin., es kostet Mühe (Arbeit), es hat Schwierigkeit, Liv. 39, 1, 5. Plin. 26, 118: u. so maior aliquanto labor est m. Infin., Flor. 2, 2, 4: proximus huic labor est placitam exorare puellam, Ov. art. am. 1, 37: nec magnus prohibere labor, Verg. georg. 4, 106. – b) insbes., Anstrengung, angestrengte Tätigkeit, Arbeitsamkeit (Ggstz. inertia, desidia, requies, quies, otium), verb. industria et labor, summus labor in publicis privatisque rebus, Cic.: vivere in studiis laboribusque, Cic.: labor quaerendi, Erwerbsfleiß, Iustin.: rei militaris labor, Leistungen im Kriegswesen, Nep.: animi labor, geistige Anstrengung, Nep. – als Fähigkeit, Arbeitsfähigkeit, Ausdauer in Arbeit u. Anstrengung, M. Messala magni laboris, Cic.: homo magni laboris summaeque industriae, Cic.: magni formica laboris, die arbeitsame, emsige, Hor.: (iumenta) summi ut sint laboris efficiunt, Caes. – 2) meton.: a) Arbeit, Werk, ita multorum mensium labor hostium perfidiā et vi tempestatis puncto temporis interiit, Caes. b. c. 2, 14, 4: sternuntur segetes longique perit labor irritus anni, Ov.: et pluviā ingenti sata laeta boumque labores diluit, Verg.: artificum manus (verschiedenen Malereien)
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    inter se operumque laborem (Bauwerk) miratur, Verg.: hic labor ille domus et inextricabilis error, v. Labyrinthe, Verg.: cari uteri labores, v. Kindern, Claud. rapt. Pros. 1, 194. – b) Unternehmung, Tat, belli, Verg.: von den Kampfspielen, wie πόνος, μόχθος, Hor.: u. von den großen Unternehmungen des Herkules, Hor.: strenui labores (im Kriege), Eutr. – II) Anstrengung, etwas zu überwinden, zu ertragen, Plage, Pein, Not, Ungemach, Drangsal, Mühseligkeit, Unglück, Beschwerlichkeit, a) übh.: scis amorem, scis laborem, scis egestatem meam, Plaut.: cuius erga me benevolentiam vel in labore meo vel in honore perspexi, Cic.: multis variisque perfunctus laboribus, Nep.: quoniam in tantum luctum et laborem detrusus es, quantum nemo umquam, Cic.: breviter Troiae supremum audire laborem, Verg. – poet., labores solis, lunae, Sonnenfinsternis, Mondfinsternis, Verg.: labores Lucinae, die Wehen, Verg. – b) Beschwerde, α) = Krankheit, nervorum, Nervenkrankheit, Vitr.: annuus earum (apium) labor est initio veris, Colum.: mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos esset robigo, Verg.: valetudo decrescit, accrescit labor, Plaut. – β) = phys. Schmerz, cor de labore pectus tundit, Plaut. Cas. 415: hoc medicamentum sine magno labore circa septimum diem cadere cogit haemorrhoidas, Scrib. Larg. 227. – γ) gemütl. Schmerz, Betrübnis, Kummer (s. Spengel Ter. Andr.
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    720. Wagner Ter. heaut. 82), quamquam ibi animo labos grandis capitur, Plaut.: verum ex eo misera quam capit laborem! Ter. – c) eine Last, lapides laborem sustinent od. tolerant, tragen Lasten, sind von dauerhafter Beschaffenheit, Vitr. 2, 7, 2. Plin. 36, 167. – ⇒ Archaist. Nbf. labōs, ōris, m., *Pacuv. tr. 290. Plaut. merc. 72; trin. 271; truc. 521. Ter. Hec. 286. Lucil. 215. Varro sat. Men. 247. Sall. hist. fr. 2, 41 (50), 1 u. 3, 61 (82), 18. Catull. 55, 13. Plin. 6, 60 u. Spät. (s. Neue-Wagener Formenl.3 1, 265). – personif., Labōs, ōris, m., die Mühsal, eine unterirdische Gottheit, Verg. Aen. 6, 277.

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  • 6 prolabor

    prōlābor, lābi, lapsus sum - intr. - [st1]1 [-] glisser (se glisser) en avant.    - Liv. 44, 5, 6 ; Cic. poet. Nat. 2, 114. [st1]2 [-] glisser en bas, tomber en glissant.    - prolabi ex equo, Liv. 27, 27, 7, glisser de son cheval à terre.    - velut si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv. 1. 56, 12: comme s'il était tombé en glissant [par un faux pas].    - ipsis adminiculis prolapsis, Liv. 21, 36, 7: quand ces appuis eux-mêmes glissaient, se dérobaient.    - prolabi in cloacae foramen, Suet. Gram. 2: glisser dans une bouche d'égoût. [st1]3 [-] s'écrouler, tomber en ruine.    - prolapsa Pergama, Virg. En. 2, 555: Troie en ruine. --- Nep. Att. 20, 3. [st1]4 [-] se laisser aller à, se laisser entraîner à.    - prolabi ad orationem, Cic. Leg. 1, 52: se laisser entraîner à un exposé.    - prolabi in misericordiam, Liv. 30, 12, 18: se laisser aller à la pitié.    - prolabi huc... ut... Cic. Cal. 47: se laisser aller à un point que...    - prolabi longius... quam... Cic. Caec. 101: se laisser aller plus loin que, faire une digression plus longue que.    - prolabi studio magnificentiae, Tac. An. 3, 55: se laisser entraîner par le goût de la magnificence. [st1]5 [-] tomber, se tromper, faillir.    - Cic. Quinct. 77; Att. 1, 17, 19 ; Liv. 40, 23, 8. [st1]6 [-] tomber, s'affaisser, se perdre; échapper.    - Cic. Div. 2, 4.    - rem temeritate alicujus prolapsam restituere, Liv. 6, 22, 6: relever les affaires compromises par la témérité de qqn.    - prolapsum clade Romanum imperium, Liv. 23, 5, 14: la puissance romaine fléchissant sous un désastre. [st1]7 [-] échapper.    - ab aliqua cupiditate prolapsum verbum, Cic. Font. 28: mot échappé à quelque entraînement passionné. [st1]8 [-] tomber, apostasier.    - Vulg. Heb. 6, 6; Eccl.
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    prōlābor, lābi, lapsus sum - intr. - [st1]1 [-] glisser (se glisser) en avant.    - Liv. 44, 5, 6 ; Cic. poet. Nat. 2, 114. [st1]2 [-] glisser en bas, tomber en glissant.    - prolabi ex equo, Liv. 27, 27, 7, glisser de son cheval à terre.    - velut si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv. 1. 56, 12: comme s'il était tombé en glissant [par un faux pas].    - ipsis adminiculis prolapsis, Liv. 21, 36, 7: quand ces appuis eux-mêmes glissaient, se dérobaient.    - prolabi in cloacae foramen, Suet. Gram. 2: glisser dans une bouche d'égoût. [st1]3 [-] s'écrouler, tomber en ruine.    - prolapsa Pergama, Virg. En. 2, 555: Troie en ruine. --- Nep. Att. 20, 3. [st1]4 [-] se laisser aller à, se laisser entraîner à.    - prolabi ad orationem, Cic. Leg. 1, 52: se laisser entraîner à un exposé.    - prolabi in misericordiam, Liv. 30, 12, 18: se laisser aller à la pitié.    - prolabi huc... ut... Cic. Cal. 47: se laisser aller à un point que...    - prolabi longius... quam... Cic. Caec. 101: se laisser aller plus loin que, faire une digression plus longue que.    - prolabi studio magnificentiae, Tac. An. 3, 55: se laisser entraîner par le goût de la magnificence. [st1]5 [-] tomber, se tromper, faillir.    - Cic. Quinct. 77; Att. 1, 17, 19 ; Liv. 40, 23, 8. [st1]6 [-] tomber, s'affaisser, se perdre; échapper.    - Cic. Div. 2, 4.    - rem temeritate alicujus prolapsam restituere, Liv. 6, 22, 6: relever les affaires compromises par la témérité de qqn.    - prolapsum clade Romanum imperium, Liv. 23, 5, 14: la puissance romaine fléchissant sous un désastre. [st1]7 [-] échapper.    - ab aliqua cupiditate prolapsum verbum, Cic. Font. 28: mot échappé à quelque entraînement passionné. [st1]8 [-] tomber, apostasier.    - Vulg. Heb. 6, 6; Eccl.
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        Prolabor, pen. prod. prolaberis, pe. corr. prolapsus sum, prolabi. Cic. Griller, ou Glisser, Tomber.
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        Prolabi timore. Cic. Faillir de crainte qu'on ha.
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        Prolabi longius. Cic. Extravaguer bien loing.
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        Prolabi cupiditate. Cic. Estre abusé par sa convoitise.

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  • 7 labor

    1.
    lābor, lapsus ( inf. parag. labier, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94; part. labundus, Att. ap. Non. 504, 31; Trag. Fragm. v. 570 Rib.), 3, v. dep. n. [cf. lăbo; Sanscr. lamb- (ramb-), to glide, fall], to move gently along a smooth surface, to fall, slide; to slide, slip, or glide down, to fall down, to sink as the beginning of a fall; constr. absol., or with ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex, or with abl. alone.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    1.
    Of living beings:

    non squamoso labuntur ventre cerastae,

    Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27:

    per sinus crebros et magna volumina labens,

    Ov. M. 15, 721:

    pigraque labatur circa donaria serpens,

    Ov. Am. 2, 13, 13:

    ille inter vestes et levia pectora lapsus volvitur,

    Verg. A. 7, 349: (angues) in diversum lapsi, Jul. Obseq. 119.—Of floating:

    ut rate felice pacata per aequora labar,

    Ov. H. 10, 65:

    dum Stygio gurgite labor,

    id. M. 5, 504:

    tua labens navita aqua,

    Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 8.—Of flying:

    tollunt se celeres, liquidumque per aera lapsae,

    Verg. A. 6, 202:

    vade, age, nate, voca Zephyros et labere pennis,

    id. ib. 4, 223:

    pennis lapsa per auras,

    Ov. M. 8, 51:

    labere, nympha, polo,

    Verg. A. 11, 588.—Of sinking, slipping down:

    labor, io! cara lumina conde manu,

    Ov. A. A. 7, 342:

    labitur infelix (equus),

    Verg. G. 3, 498; cf. Luc. 5, 799:

    labitur exsanguis,

    Verg. A. 11, 818; 5, 181:

    super terram,

    Ov. M. 13, 477:

    equo,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 15:

    temone,

    Verg. A. 12, 470 [p. 1024] limite, Luc. 9, 712:

    in vulnera,

    id. 7, 604:

    in colla mariti,

    Val. Fl. 2, 425:

    alieno vulnere,

    Luc. 2, 265:

    in rivo,

    Cic. Fat. 3, 5:

    pondere lapsi pectoris arma sonant,

    Luc. 7, 572.—

    Of gliding upwards: celeri fuga sub sidera,

    Verg. A. 3, 243.—
    2.
    Of things:

    splendida signa videntur labier,

    Lucr. 4, 445; Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42:

    umor in genas Furtim labitur,

    Hor. C. 1, 13, 7:

    stellas Praecipites caelo labi,

    Verg. G. 1, 366:

    perque genas lacrimae labuntur,

    Ov. H. 7, 185; id. M. 2, 656:

    lapsi de fontibus amnes,

    id. ib. 13, 954; cf.:

    catenae lapsae lacertis sponte sua,

    id. ib. 3, 699:

    lapsuram domum subire,

    about to tumble down, id. Ib. 511; Luc. 1, 25; cf.

    with cado: multa in silvis Lapsa cadunt folia,

    Verg. A. 6, 310:

    ipsaque in Oceanum sidera lapsa cadunt,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:

    lapsis repente saxis,

    Tac. A. 4, 59:

    ab arbore ramus,

    Ov. M. 3, 410.—Of the eyes, to fall, close:

    labentes, oculos condere,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44:

    lumina,

    Verg. A. 11, 818; Prop. 1, 10, 7; 2, 5, 17.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To glide away, glide along, slip or haste away: labitur uncta carina: volat super impetus undas, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 379 Vahl.); so id. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 1 (Ann. v. 476 Vahl.); cf.:

    labitur uncta vadis abies,

    Verg. A. 8, 91; Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31:

    sidera, quae vaga et mutabili ratione labuntur,

    id. Univ. 10.—Esp., of a transition in discourse, to pass:

    a dispositione ad elocutionis praecepta labor,

    Quint. 7, 10, 17.—
    2.
    To slip away, escape:

    lapsus custodiā,

    Tac. A. 5, 10; 11, 31:

    e manibus custodientium lapsus,

    Curt. 3, 13, 3; Prop. 1, 11, 5; Amm. 26, 3, 3.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to come or go gently or insensibly, to glide, glide or pass away:

    ilico res foras labitur,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21:

    brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius,

    Cic. Or. 57; 56:

    sed labor longius, ad propositum revertor,

    id. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Leg. 1, 19, 52:

    labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 49:

    labi somnum sensit in artus,

    id. M. 11, 631:

    nostro illius labatur pectore vultus,

    Verg. E. 1, 64.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of speech, to die away, be lost, not be heard (very rare):

    ne adjectae voces laberentur atque errarent,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 114; cf. Sil. 7, 745.—
    2.
    Of time, to glide, pass away, elapse:

    eheu fugaces labuntur anni,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 2:

    anni tacite labentis origo,

    Ov. F. 1, 65:

    labentia tempora,

    id. Tr. 3, 11; id. F. 6, 771; id. Tr. 4, 10, 27:

    aetas labitur,

    Tib. 1, 8, 48; cf.: labente officio, when the attendance or service is ended, Juv. 6, 203.—
    3.
    Pregn., to sink, incline, begin to fall, go to ruin, perish: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus lapsa fortuna accidat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 396 Vahl.); cf.:

    cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi,

    Cic. Or. 3, 10:

    labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire,

    id. Phil. 2, 21, 51:

    equitem Romanum labentem excepit, fulsit, sustinuit,

    id. Rab. Post. 16, 43; id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 18, 2:

    sustinuit labentem aciem Antonius,

    Tac. H. 3, 23:

    vidi labentes acies,

    Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:

    eo citius lapsa res est,

    Liv. 3, 33: mores lapsi sunt, id. praef.; Tac. A. 6, 50:

    fides lapsa,

    Ov. H. 2, 102:

    labentur opes,

    will be lost, Tib. 1, 6, 53:

    res,

    Lucr. 4, 1117:

    hereditas lapsa est,

    Dig. 4, 4, 11, § 5.—
    4.
    To slip or fall away from a thing, to lose it: hac spe lapsus, deceived or disappointed in this hope, Caes. B. G. 5, 55, 3:

    hoc munere,

    Sil. 7, 740:

    facultatibus,

    to lose one's property, become poor, Dig. 27, 8, 2, § 11; 26, 7, 9, § 1:

    mente,

    to lose one's senses, go mad, Cels. 5, 26, 13; Suet. Aug. 48; cf.:

    lapsae mentis error,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 2.—Hence, lapsus, a, um, ruined, unfortunate, Prop. 1, 1, 25. —
    5.
    To fall into or upon, to come or turn to:

    labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 139; id. Att. 4, 5, 2:

    ad opinionem,

    id. Ac. 2, 45, 138:

    in adulationem,

    Tac. A. 4, 6:

    in gaudia,

    Val. Fl. 6, 662:

    in vitium,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94.—
    6.
    To fall into error, to be mistaken, to err, mistake, commit a fault:

    labi, errare, nescire, decipi et malum et turpe ducimus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 6, 18:

    in aliqua re labi et cadere,

    id. Brut. 49, 185:

    in minimis tenuissimisque rebus,

    id. de Or. 1, 37, 169; id. Fam. 2, 7, 1:

    lapsus est per errorem suum,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 8:

    consilio,... casu,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 6:

    propter inprudentiam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 3:

    in officio,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12:

    in verbo,

    Ov. Am. 2, 8, 7:

    ne verbo quidem labi,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3:

    it vera ratione,

    Lucr. 2, 176.—
    7.
    Esp., to fall away from the true faith, to become apostate (eccl. Lat.):

    lapsorum fratrum petulantia,

    Cypr. Ep. 30, 1 al.
    2.
    lăbor (old form lăbos, like arbos, honos, etc., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 35; id. Truc. 2, 6, 40; Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6; Varr. ap. Non. 487, 13; Cat. 55, 13; Sall. C. 7, 5; id. J. 100, 4; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. root rabh, to grasp, ā-rabh, to undertake; Gr. alph- in êlphon, earned, alphêma, wages; Germ. Arbeit], labor, toil, exertion (cf.: contentio, opera).
    I.
    Lit.:

    ut ingenium est omnium Hominum a labore proclive ad libidinem,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 51:

    haud existimans quanto labore partum,

    id. Phorm. 1, 1, 12:

    interest aliquid inter laborem et dolorem: sunt finitima omnino, sed tamen differt aliquid. Labor est functio quaedam vel animi vel corporis, gravioris operis et muneris: dolor autem motus asper in corpore alienus a sensibus,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35:

    corporis,

    id. Cael. 17, 39:

    res est magni laboris,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

    laborem sibi sumere et alteri imponere,

    id. Mur. 18, 38:

    sumptum et laborem insumere in rem aliquam,

    id. Inv. 2, 38, 113; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

    multum operae laborisque consumere,

    id. de Or. 1, 55, 234:

    laborem sustinere,

    id. Att. 1, 17, 6:

    exantlare,

    id. Ac. 2, 34, 108:

    suscipere,

    id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 13:

    subire,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 7:

    capere,

    id. Rosc. Com. 16, 49:

    labores magnos excipere,

    id. Brut. 69, 243:

    se in magnis laboribus exercere,

    id. Arch. 11, 28:

    summi laboris esse,

    capable of great exertion, Caes. B. G. 4, 2, 2:

    laborem levare alicui,

    Cic. Or. 34, 120:

    detrahere,

    id. Fam. 3, 6, 5:

    ex labore se reficere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 5; 5, 11:

    victus suppeditabatur sine labore,

    Cic. Sest. 48, 103:

    non est quod existumes, ullam esse sine labore virtutem,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 5; Suet. Ner. 52; Quint. 2, 12, 12; cf.:

    nullo labore,

    Cic. Dom. 34, 91; id. Sest. 40, 87; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 51:

    quantum meruit labor,

    Juv. 7, 216:

    reddere sua dona labori,

    id. 16, 57:

    numerenter labores,

    be valued, id. 9, 42.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., drudgery, hardship, fatigue, distress, trouble, pain, suffering (mostly poet. and late Lat.; syn. aerumna): decet id pati animo aequo;

    si id facietis, levior labos erit,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 2:

    propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo,

    id. ib. 5, 1, 25:

    cum labore magno et misere vivere,

    id. Aul. prol. 14; id. Ps. 2, 4, 2:

    hoc evenit in labore atque in dolore,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 20:

    vel in labore meo vel in honore,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 18:

    Iliacos audire labores,

    Verg. A. 4, 78:

    mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos Esset rubigo,

    id. G. 1, 150:

    belli labores,

    id. A. 11, 126; cf. id. ib. 2, 619;

    12, 727: labor militiae,

    Juv. 16, 52:

    castrorum labores,

    id. 14, 198:

    Lucinae labores,

    Verg. G. 4, 340:

    cor de labore pectus tundit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 63:

    hoc medicamentum sine magno labore cadere cogit haemorrhoidas,

    Scrib. 227:

    litterarius, = opus,

    Aug. Conf. 9, 2;

    id. cont. Jul. 6, 21: meos labores legere,

    id. de Don. Pers. 68.—Of sickness: valetudo crescit, accrescit labor. Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

    sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,

    Vitr. 8, 3, 4.—Of danger:

    maximus autem earum (apium) labor est initio veris,

    Col. 9, 13, 2.—Prov.:

    jucundi acti labores,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105:

    suavis laborum est praeteritorum memoria,

    id. ib. —
    2.
    Poet.
    a.
    Labores solis, eclipses of the sun, Verg. A. 1, 742 Forbig. ad loc.; so,

    defectus solis varios lunaeque labores,

    id. G. 1, 478; Sil. 14, 378. —
    b.
    Of plants:

    hunc laborem perferre,

    i. e. growth, Verg. G. 2, 343.—
    3.
    Personified: Lăbos, toil, in the lower world, Verg. A. 6, 277.—
    II.
    Meton., of the products of labor.
    a.
    Work, workmanship of an artist ( poet.):

    operum,

    Verg. A. 1, 455:

    hic labor ille domūs,

    id. ib. 6, 27:

    nec non Polycleti multus ubique labor,

    Juv. 8, 104. —
    b.
    Of cultivated plants, crops, etc.:

    ruit arduus aether et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores Diluit,

    Verg. G. 1, 325; cf.:

    haec cum sint hominumque boumque labores,

    id. ib. 1, 118: Juppiter Grandine dilapidans hominumque boumque labores, Col. poët. 10, 330; Verg. A. 2, 284; 306.—
    c.
    Labores uteri, i. e. children, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 193.

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  • 8 Labos

    1.
    lābor, lapsus ( inf. parag. labier, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94; part. labundus, Att. ap. Non. 504, 31; Trag. Fragm. v. 570 Rib.), 3, v. dep. n. [cf. lăbo; Sanscr. lamb- (ramb-), to glide, fall], to move gently along a smooth surface, to fall, slide; to slide, slip, or glide down, to fall down, to sink as the beginning of a fall; constr. absol., or with ad, in, inter, per, sub, super, ab, de, ex, or with abl. alone.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    1.
    Of living beings:

    non squamoso labuntur ventre cerastae,

    Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27:

    per sinus crebros et magna volumina labens,

    Ov. M. 15, 721:

    pigraque labatur circa donaria serpens,

    Ov. Am. 2, 13, 13:

    ille inter vestes et levia pectora lapsus volvitur,

    Verg. A. 7, 349: (angues) in diversum lapsi, Jul. Obseq. 119.—Of floating:

    ut rate felice pacata per aequora labar,

    Ov. H. 10, 65:

    dum Stygio gurgite labor,

    id. M. 5, 504:

    tua labens navita aqua,

    Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 8.—Of flying:

    tollunt se celeres, liquidumque per aera lapsae,

    Verg. A. 6, 202:

    vade, age, nate, voca Zephyros et labere pennis,

    id. ib. 4, 223:

    pennis lapsa per auras,

    Ov. M. 8, 51:

    labere, nympha, polo,

    Verg. A. 11, 588.—Of sinking, slipping down:

    labor, io! cara lumina conde manu,

    Ov. A. A. 7, 342:

    labitur infelix (equus),

    Verg. G. 3, 498; cf. Luc. 5, 799:

    labitur exsanguis,

    Verg. A. 11, 818; 5, 181:

    super terram,

    Ov. M. 13, 477:

    equo,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 15:

    temone,

    Verg. A. 12, 470 [p. 1024] limite, Luc. 9, 712:

    in vulnera,

    id. 7, 604:

    in colla mariti,

    Val. Fl. 2, 425:

    alieno vulnere,

    Luc. 2, 265:

    in rivo,

    Cic. Fat. 3, 5:

    pondere lapsi pectoris arma sonant,

    Luc. 7, 572.—

    Of gliding upwards: celeri fuga sub sidera,

    Verg. A. 3, 243.—
    2.
    Of things:

    splendida signa videntur labier,

    Lucr. 4, 445; Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 42:

    umor in genas Furtim labitur,

    Hor. C. 1, 13, 7:

    stellas Praecipites caelo labi,

    Verg. G. 1, 366:

    perque genas lacrimae labuntur,

    Ov. H. 7, 185; id. M. 2, 656:

    lapsi de fontibus amnes,

    id. ib. 13, 954; cf.:

    catenae lapsae lacertis sponte sua,

    id. ib. 3, 699:

    lapsuram domum subire,

    about to tumble down, id. Ib. 511; Luc. 1, 25; cf.

    with cado: multa in silvis Lapsa cadunt folia,

    Verg. A. 6, 310:

    ipsaque in Oceanum sidera lapsa cadunt,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:

    lapsis repente saxis,

    Tac. A. 4, 59:

    ab arbore ramus,

    Ov. M. 3, 410.—Of the eyes, to fall, close:

    labentes, oculos condere,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 44:

    lumina,

    Verg. A. 11, 818; Prop. 1, 10, 7; 2, 5, 17.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To glide away, glide along, slip or haste away: labitur uncta carina: volat super impetus undas, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 379 Vahl.); so id. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 1 (Ann. v. 476 Vahl.); cf.:

    labitur uncta vadis abies,

    Verg. A. 8, 91; Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31:

    sidera, quae vaga et mutabili ratione labuntur,

    id. Univ. 10.—Esp., of a transition in discourse, to pass:

    a dispositione ad elocutionis praecepta labor,

    Quint. 7, 10, 17.—
    2.
    To slip away, escape:

    lapsus custodiā,

    Tac. A. 5, 10; 11, 31:

    e manibus custodientium lapsus,

    Curt. 3, 13, 3; Prop. 1, 11, 5; Amm. 26, 3, 3.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to come or go gently or insensibly, to glide, glide or pass away:

    ilico res foras labitur,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21:

    brevitate et celeritate syllabarum labi putat verba proclivius,

    Cic. Or. 57; 56:

    sed labor longius, ad propositum revertor,

    id. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Leg. 1, 19, 52:

    labitur occulte fallitque volubilis aetas,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 49:

    labi somnum sensit in artus,

    id. M. 11, 631:

    nostro illius labatur pectore vultus,

    Verg. E. 1, 64.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of speech, to die away, be lost, not be heard (very rare):

    ne adjectae voces laberentur atque errarent,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 114; cf. Sil. 7, 745.—
    2.
    Of time, to glide, pass away, elapse:

    eheu fugaces labuntur anni,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 2:

    anni tacite labentis origo,

    Ov. F. 1, 65:

    labentia tempora,

    id. Tr. 3, 11; id. F. 6, 771; id. Tr. 4, 10, 27:

    aetas labitur,

    Tib. 1, 8, 48; cf.: labente officio, when the attendance or service is ended, Juv. 6, 203.—
    3.
    Pregn., to sink, incline, begin to fall, go to ruin, perish: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus lapsa fortuna accidat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 396 Vahl.); cf.:

    cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi,

    Cic. Or. 3, 10:

    labentem et prope cadentem rem publicam fulcire,

    id. Phil. 2, 21, 51:

    equitem Romanum labentem excepit, fulsit, sustinuit,

    id. Rab. Post. 16, 43; id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 18, 2:

    sustinuit labentem aciem Antonius,

    Tac. H. 3, 23:

    vidi labentes acies,

    Prop. 4 (5), 2, 53:

    eo citius lapsa res est,

    Liv. 3, 33: mores lapsi sunt, id. praef.; Tac. A. 6, 50:

    fides lapsa,

    Ov. H. 2, 102:

    labentur opes,

    will be lost, Tib. 1, 6, 53:

    res,

    Lucr. 4, 1117:

    hereditas lapsa est,

    Dig. 4, 4, 11, § 5.—
    4.
    To slip or fall away from a thing, to lose it: hac spe lapsus, deceived or disappointed in this hope, Caes. B. G. 5, 55, 3:

    hoc munere,

    Sil. 7, 740:

    facultatibus,

    to lose one's property, become poor, Dig. 27, 8, 2, § 11; 26, 7, 9, § 1:

    mente,

    to lose one's senses, go mad, Cels. 5, 26, 13; Suet. Aug. 48; cf.:

    lapsae mentis error,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 2.—Hence, lapsus, a, um, ruined, unfortunate, Prop. 1, 1, 25. —
    5.
    To fall into or upon, to come or turn to:

    labor eo, ut assentiar Epicuro,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 139; id. Att. 4, 5, 2:

    ad opinionem,

    id. Ac. 2, 45, 138:

    in adulationem,

    Tac. A. 4, 6:

    in gaudia,

    Val. Fl. 6, 662:

    in vitium,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 94.—
    6.
    To fall into error, to be mistaken, to err, mistake, commit a fault:

    labi, errare, nescire, decipi et malum et turpe ducimus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 6, 18:

    in aliqua re labi et cadere,

    id. Brut. 49, 185:

    in minimis tenuissimisque rebus,

    id. de Or. 1, 37, 169; id. Fam. 2, 7, 1:

    lapsus est per errorem suum,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 8:

    consilio,... casu,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 6:

    propter inprudentiam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 3:

    in officio,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12:

    in verbo,

    Ov. Am. 2, 8, 7:

    ne verbo quidem labi,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3:

    it vera ratione,

    Lucr. 2, 176.—
    7.
    Esp., to fall away from the true faith, to become apostate (eccl. Lat.):

    lapsorum fratrum petulantia,

    Cypr. Ep. 30, 1 al.
    2.
    lăbor (old form lăbos, like arbos, honos, etc., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 35; id. Truc. 2, 6, 40; Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6; Varr. ap. Non. 487, 13; Cat. 55, 13; Sall. C. 7, 5; id. J. 100, 4; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. root rabh, to grasp, ā-rabh, to undertake; Gr. alph- in êlphon, earned, alphêma, wages; Germ. Arbeit], labor, toil, exertion (cf.: contentio, opera).
    I.
    Lit.:

    ut ingenium est omnium Hominum a labore proclive ad libidinem,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 51:

    haud existimans quanto labore partum,

    id. Phorm. 1, 1, 12:

    interest aliquid inter laborem et dolorem: sunt finitima omnino, sed tamen differt aliquid. Labor est functio quaedam vel animi vel corporis, gravioris operis et muneris: dolor autem motus asper in corpore alienus a sensibus,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35:

    corporis,

    id. Cael. 17, 39:

    res est magni laboris,

    id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

    laborem sibi sumere et alteri imponere,

    id. Mur. 18, 38:

    sumptum et laborem insumere in rem aliquam,

    id. Inv. 2, 38, 113; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

    multum operae laborisque consumere,

    id. de Or. 1, 55, 234:

    laborem sustinere,

    id. Att. 1, 17, 6:

    exantlare,

    id. Ac. 2, 34, 108:

    suscipere,

    id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 13:

    subire,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 7:

    capere,

    id. Rosc. Com. 16, 49:

    labores magnos excipere,

    id. Brut. 69, 243:

    se in magnis laboribus exercere,

    id. Arch. 11, 28:

    summi laboris esse,

    capable of great exertion, Caes. B. G. 4, 2, 2:

    laborem levare alicui,

    Cic. Or. 34, 120:

    detrahere,

    id. Fam. 3, 6, 5:

    ex labore se reficere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 5; 5, 11:

    victus suppeditabatur sine labore,

    Cic. Sest. 48, 103:

    non est quod existumes, ullam esse sine labore virtutem,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 5; Suet. Ner. 52; Quint. 2, 12, 12; cf.:

    nullo labore,

    Cic. Dom. 34, 91; id. Sest. 40, 87; id. Tusc. 2, 22, 51:

    quantum meruit labor,

    Juv. 7, 216:

    reddere sua dona labori,

    id. 16, 57:

    numerenter labores,

    be valued, id. 9, 42.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., drudgery, hardship, fatigue, distress, trouble, pain, suffering (mostly poet. and late Lat.; syn. aerumna): decet id pati animo aequo;

    si id facietis, levior labos erit,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 2:

    propter meum caput labores homini evenisse optumo,

    id. ib. 5, 1, 25:

    cum labore magno et misere vivere,

    id. Aul. prol. 14; id. Ps. 2, 4, 2:

    hoc evenit in labore atque in dolore,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 20:

    vel in labore meo vel in honore,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 18:

    Iliacos audire labores,

    Verg. A. 4, 78:

    mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos Esset rubigo,

    id. G. 1, 150:

    belli labores,

    id. A. 11, 126; cf. id. ib. 2, 619;

    12, 727: labor militiae,

    Juv. 16, 52:

    castrorum labores,

    id. 14, 198:

    Lucinae labores,

    Verg. G. 4, 340:

    cor de labore pectus tundit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 63:

    hoc medicamentum sine magno labore cadere cogit haemorrhoidas,

    Scrib. 227:

    litterarius, = opus,

    Aug. Conf. 9, 2;

    id. cont. Jul. 6, 21: meos labores legere,

    id. de Don. Pers. 68.—Of sickness: valetudo crescit, accrescit labor. Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

    sulphurosi fontes labores nervorum reficiunt,

    Vitr. 8, 3, 4.—Of danger:

    maximus autem earum (apium) labor est initio veris,

    Col. 9, 13, 2.—Prov.:

    jucundi acti labores,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105:

    suavis laborum est praeteritorum memoria,

    id. ib. —
    2.
    Poet.
    a.
    Labores solis, eclipses of the sun, Verg. A. 1, 742 Forbig. ad loc.; so,

    defectus solis varios lunaeque labores,

    id. G. 1, 478; Sil. 14, 378. —
    b.
    Of plants:

    hunc laborem perferre,

    i. e. growth, Verg. G. 2, 343.—
    3.
    Personified: Lăbos, toil, in the lower world, Verg. A. 6, 277.—
    II.
    Meton., of the products of labor.
    a.
    Work, workmanship of an artist ( poet.):

    operum,

    Verg. A. 1, 455:

    hic labor ille domūs,

    id. ib. 6, 27:

    nec non Polycleti multus ubique labor,

    Juv. 8, 104. —
    b.
    Of cultivated plants, crops, etc.:

    ruit arduus aether et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores Diluit,

    Verg. G. 1, 325; cf.:

    haec cum sint hominumque boumque labores,

    id. ib. 1, 118: Juppiter Grandine dilapidans hominumque boumque labores, Col. poët. 10, 330; Verg. A. 2, 284; 306.—
    c.
    Labores uteri, i. e. children, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 193.

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  • 9 lābor

        lābor lapsus, ī (lābier, H.), dep.    [2 LAB-], to glide, slide, move, slip, float, pass, flow: Per sinūs, in folds, O.: Ille inter vestīs et levia pectora lapsus Volvitur, V.: Ut rate felici pacata per aequora labar, O.: sidera, quae vagā ratione labuntur: Labere, nympha, polo, from heaven, V.: e manibus custodientium lapsus, escaped, Cu.— To sink, fall: Labitur exsanguis, V.: super terram, O.: in rivo: levi sanguine, slip, V.: pede lapsus, stumbling, H.: umor in genas Furtim labitur, H.: Perque genas lacrimae labuntur, O.: multa in silvis Lapsa cadunt folia, V.: labentes oculos condere, falling, O.—Fig., to move gently, be led insensibly, glide, pass, elapse: sed labor longius, ad propositum revertar, am led: ad opinionem: in vitium, H.: oratio placide labitur: labi somnum sensit in artūs, O.: nostro illius labatur pectore voltus, be lost, V.: Eheu fugaces Labuntur anni, H.: lustris labentibus, V.: forte lapsa vox, Ta. — To sink, incline, decline, begin to fall, go to ruin, perish: quibus de rebus lapsa fortuna accidat, Enn. ap. C.: equitem Romanum labentem excepit: eo citius lapsa res est, L.: fides lapsa, O.: lapsis quaesitum oracula rebus, for our ruined condition, V.: hac spe lapsus, deceived in, Cs.— To fall into error, be mistaken, err, mistake, commit a fault: rex Iugurthae scelere lapsus, S.: in aliquā re: propter inprudentiam, Cs.: in officio.
    * * *
    I
    labi, lapsus sum V DEP
    slip, slip and fall; slide, glide, drop; perish, go wrong
    II
    effort, labor, toil, exertion, work; suffering, distress, hardship

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  • 10 prolabor

    prō-lābor, lāpsus sum, lābī, I) vorwärts hingleiten, -schlüpfen, -sich bewegen, A) eig.: canis ad caudam serpens prolabitur, Cic. poët.: conlapsus pons usque ad alterius initium pontis prolabi eum (elephantum) leniter, cogebat, Liv.: alii (elephanti) pedibus insistentes, alii clunibus subsidentes prolabebantur, rutschten vorwärts, Liv. – B) bildl.: 1) hingeraten, hingerissen werden, verfallen, huc libido est prolapsa, Cic.: in misericordiam, mitleidig werden, Liv.: ad superbiam, Tac.: longius quam etc., weiter gehen (weitläufiger werden), Cic.: dites olim familiae studio magnificentiae prolabebantur, schweiften aus infolge usw., Tac. – 2) entfallen, verbum a cupiditate prolapsum, entfallen, entwischt, Cic. Font. 28. – II) vorwärts herabgleiten, -fallen, A) eig. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 36, 7): velut si prolapsus cecĭdisset, als wenn er herabgleitend gefallen wäre, Liv.: per caput (equi), Liv.: ex equo, Liv.: prolapso equo, Liv.: in foramen, Suet. – v. Gebäuden usw., verfallen, nach vorn ein- od. zusammensinken, cum aedes Iovis Feretrii vetustate atque incuriā detecta prolaberetur, Nep.: prolapsa Pergama, Verg. – B) übtr.: 1) fehlen, cupiditate, timore, Cic.: regni cupiditate, Liv. – 2) sinken, in Verfall kommen, herunterkommen, ita prolapsa est iuventus, ut etc., Cic.: prolapsa disciplina, Liv.: prolapsum clade Romanum imperium, Liv.: rem prope prolapsam restituit, verdorbene, Liv.

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  • 11 prolabor

    prō-lābor, lāpsus sum, lābī, I) vorwärts hingleiten, - schlüpfen, -sich bewegen, A) eig.: canis ad caudam serpens prolabitur, Cic. poët.: conlapsus pons usque ad alterius initium pontis prolabi eum (elephantum) leniter, cogebat, Liv.: alii (elephanti) pedibus insistentes, alii clunibus subsidentes prolabebantur, rutschten vorwärts, Liv. – B) bildl.: 1) hingeraten, hingerissen werden, verfallen, huc libido est prolapsa, Cic.: in misericordiam, mitleidig werden, Liv.: ad superbiam, Tac.: longius quam etc., weiter gehen (weitläufiger werden), Cic.: dites olim familiae studio magnificentiae prolabebantur, schweiften aus infolge usw., Tac. – 2) entfallen, verbum a cupiditate prolapsum, entfallen, entwischt, Cic. Font. 28. – II) vorwärts herabgleiten, -fallen, A) eig. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 36, 7): velut si prolapsus cecĭdisset, als wenn er herabgleitend gefallen wäre, Liv.: per caput (equi), Liv.: ex equo, Liv.: prolapso equo, Liv.: in foramen, Suet. – v. Gebäuden usw., verfallen, nach vorn ein- od. zusammensinken, cum aedes Iovis Feretrii vetustate atque incuriā detecta prolaberetur, Nep.: prolapsa Pergama, Verg. – B) übtr.: 1) fehlen, cupiditate, timore, Cic.: regni cupiditate, Liv. – 2) sinken, in Verfall kommen, herunterkommen, ita prolapsa est iuventus, ut etc., Cic.: prolapsa disciplina, Liv.: prolapsum clade Romanum imperium, Liv.:
    ————
    rem prope prolapsam restituit, verdorbene, Liv.

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  • 12 capio

    1.
    căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:

    capsimus,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:

    sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:

    cape hoc flabellum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:

    cepit manibus tympanum,

    Cat. 6, 3, 8:

    tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,

    Verg. A. 2, 717:

    cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,

    id. G. 3, 420:

    flammeum,

    Cat. 61, 8:

    acria pocula,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:

    lora,

    Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:

    baculum,

    Ov. M. 2, 789:

    colum cum calathis,

    id. ib. 12, 475:

    florem ternis digitis,

    Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:

    pignera,

    Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:

    ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:

    rem pignori,

    Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:

    scutum laeva,

    Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:

    capias tu illius vestem,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;

    and of particular weapons: ensem,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    tela,

    id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:

    quicum una cibum Capere soleo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:

    lauti cibum capiunt,

    Tac. G. 22.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of living objects.
    a. (α).
    Of persons:

    oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):

    quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

    ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

    reges capiuntur,

    Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:

    capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,

    Liv. 22, 49, 18:

    quos Byzantii ceperat,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:

    captos ostendere civibus hostes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:

    captus Tarento Livius,

    Cic. Brut. 18, 72:

    servus ex hoste captus,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:

    in captos clementia uti,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:

    inludere capto,

    Verg. A. 2, 64:

    quae sit fiducia capto,

    id. ib. 2, 75:

    ex captorum numero,

    Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:

    dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
    (β).
    Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:

    si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,

    id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:

    hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 763:

    neque quicquam captum'st piscium,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

    nisi quid concharum capsimus,

    id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    cervum,

    Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:

    hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,

    Verg. G. 4, 396.—
    b.
    To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:

    quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,

    Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:

    quamvis voluptate capiatur,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:

    quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:

    secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,

    id. Att. 4, 1:

    nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,

    Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;

    erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,

    Hor. A. P. 362:

    hunc capit argenti splendor,

    id. S. 1, 4, 28:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 46:

    Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,

    Prop. 1, 1, 1:

    carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

    Tib. 3, 1, 7:

    munditiis capimur,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;

    14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,

    Liv. 30, 12, 18:

    dulcedine vocis,

    Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:

    voce nova,

    id. ib. 1, 678:

    temperie aquarum,

    id. ib. 4, 344:

    (bos) herba captus viridi,

    Verg. E. 6, 59:

    amoenitate loci,

    Tac. A. 18, 52:

    auro,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:

    neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

    splendore hominis,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;

    nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
    c.
    To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:

    sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

    injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:

    eodem captus errore quo nos,

    involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:

    ne quo errore milites caperentur,

    Liv. 8, 6, 16:

    capere ante dolis Reginam,

    Verg. A. 1, 673:

    captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),

    id. ib. 2, 196:

    ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,

    Sall. J. 14, 11:

    adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

    id. C. 14, 5:

    capi alicujus dolo,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1:

    dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,

    Liv. 23, 35, 2:

    quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,

    Ov. M. 7, 301.—
    d.
    To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):

    tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:

    tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22:

    callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),

    id. Brut. 48, 178.—
    e. (α).
    Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):

    mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,

    loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:

    captus omnibus membris,

    id. 2, 36, 8:

    capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,

    id. 21, 58, 5:

    oculis membrisque captus,

    Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:

    congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:

    si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,

    id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:

    habuit filium captum altero oculo,

    Suet. Vit. 6:

    censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,

    Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:

    lumine,

    Ov. F. 6, 204:

    princeps pedibus captus,

    Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:

    captum leto posuit caput,

    Verg. A. 11, 830;

    and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,

    id. G. 1, 183.—
    (β).
    Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:

    labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,

    id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;

    rarely mentibu' capti,

    Lucr. 4, 1022; so,

    animo,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:

    captus animi,

    Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:

    virgines captae furore,

    Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:

    viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,

    Liv. 39, 13, 12:

    captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,

    id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:

    capti et stupentes animi,

    id. 6, 36, 8.—
    f.
    To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:

    de istac sum judex captus,

    Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:

    Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,

    Liv. 3, 71, 2:

    me cepere arbitrum,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:

    te mihi patronam capio, Thais,

    id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:

    quom illum generum cepimus,

    id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:

    non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,

    make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:

    si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:

    plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,

    Gell. 1, 12, 15:

    jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,

    Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:

    religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

    C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,

    Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
    2.
    Of places.
    a.
    To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:

    loca capere, castra munire,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 23:

    castris locum capere,

    Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:

    locum capere castris,

    Quint. 12, 2, 5:

    ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:

    ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,

    Nep. Ages. 6, 2:

    nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,

    Liv. 34, 14, 1:

    neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,

    id. 35, 14, 9:

    erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,

    id. 35, 28, 1:

    locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,

    Sall. J. 58, 3:

    duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,

    Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,

    of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 26, 5:

    quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,

    Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:

    tumulum suis cepit,

    Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;

    for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4;

    for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,

    id. 9, 43, 20:

    Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,

    Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:

    ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),

    Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
    b.
    To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:

    invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:

    MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    CORSICAM,

    Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):

    ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,

    Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:

    Troja capta,

    Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:

    urbem opulentissimam,

    id. 5, 20, 1:

    ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:

    castra hostium,

    Nep. Dat. 6, 7:

    concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,

    id. 28, 39, 10:

    sedem belli,

    Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:

    oppressa captaque re publica,

    Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
    c.
    To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):

    insulam capere non potuerant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:

    onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,

    id. ib. 4, 36:

    accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,

    id. ib. 5, 23:

    nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,

    id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:

    qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,

    Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
    3.
    Of things of value, property, money, etc.
    a.
    In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:

    AVRVM, ARGENTVM,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    de praedonibus praedam capere,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:

    agros de hostibus,

    Cic. Dom. 49, 128:

    ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 4, 48, 2:

    quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,

    Nep. Con. 4, 4:

    classem,

    id. Cim. 2, 2:

    magnas praedas,

    id. Dat. 10, 2:

    ex hostibus pecuniam,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:

    e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:

    signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §

    82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:

    cape cedo,

    id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:

    ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

    majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:

    te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,

    Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:

    paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,

    Nep. Epam. 3, 4:

    ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,

    id. Att. 7, 2:

    quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,

    assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:

    quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

    regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,

    succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
    b.
    In particular connections.
    (α).
    With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:

    his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

    HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:

    quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,

    id. ib. §

    27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §

    91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §

    218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §

    71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,

    id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:

    ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,

    id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

    quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,

    id. Clu. 42, 120:

    nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,

    id. Pis. 16, 38:

    si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,

    id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:

    ab regibus Illyriorum,

    Liv. 42, 45, 8:

    saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,

    Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
    (β).
    Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:

    si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,

    Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:

    qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,

    id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

    abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,

    Quint. 3, 6, 96:

    aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,

    id. 5, 14, 16:

    si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,

    Juv. 1, 55:

    qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,

    Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:

    qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,

    ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
    (γ).
    Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:

    capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,

    Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:

    stipendium jure belli,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

    quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:

    vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,

    Liv. 28, 39, 13:

    quadragena annua ex schola,

    Suet. Gram. 23:

    si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,

    Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):

    metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:

    honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 62:

    ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,

    id. Div. 2, 5:

    ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,

    id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:

    multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,

    id. Att. 1, 4, 2:

    fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,

    id. Pis. 14, 31:

    aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,

    Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:

    quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:

    utilitates ex amicitia maximas,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    usuram alicujus corporis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
    2.
    Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:

    gestum atque voltum novom,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:

    figuras Datque capitque novas,

    id. ib. 15, 309:

    formam capit quam lilia,

    id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:

    duritiam ab aere,

    id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:

    radicem capere,

    to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:

    cum pali defixi radices cepissent,

    Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:

    siliculam capere,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:

    maturitatem capere,

    Col. 4, 23, 1:

    radix libere capit viris,

    Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:

    vires cepisse nocendi,

    Ov. M. 7, 417:

    (telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,

    Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
    3.
    Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:

    cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:

    qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

    aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,

    id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:

    consuetudinem exercitationemque,

    id. Off. 1, 18, 59:

    misericordiam,

    id. Quint. 31, 97:

    quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 346:

    disciplinam principum,

    Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:

    quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
    4.
    Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:

    nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:

    o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:

    in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,

    took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:

    consulatum,

    id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:

    honores,

    Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:

    imperium,

    id. Claud. 10:

    magistratum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:

    magistratus,

    Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:

    capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),

    Ov. M. 3, 644:

    rerum moderamen,

    id. ib. 6, 677:

    pontificatum maximum,

    Suet. Vit. 11:

    rem publicam,

    Sall. C. 5, 6:

    neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,

    Liv. 2, 33, 1:

    ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,

    id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:

    patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,

    Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
    5.
    In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:

    augurium ex arce,

    Liv. 10, 7, 10:

    augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,

    Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:

    omen,

    Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:

    in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,

    Liv. 9, 4, 1:

    rursus impetu capto enituntur,

    id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:

    a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,

    Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):

    nec vestra capit discordia finem,

    Verg. A. 10, 106:

    fugam,

    to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:

    ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,

    Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:

    expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,

    suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:

    ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,

    Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:

    eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
    6.
    Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:

    si occassionem capsit,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:

    si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:

    quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:

    si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
    7.
    Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:

    quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:

    cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 35:

    hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,

    Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:

    conjecturam capere,

    Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:

    nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:

    capti consili memorem mones,

    id. Stich 4, 1, 72:

    quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:

    temerarium consilium,

    Liv. 25, 34, 7:

    tale capit consilium,

    Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:

    confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:

    subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,

    Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):

    legionis opprimendae consilium capere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 2:

    obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,

    Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:

    si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

    ut ego rationem oculis capio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:

    cepi rationem ut, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
    8.
    Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:

    ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,

    Cic. Lael. 10, 33:

    praesagia a sole,

    Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:

    illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
    9.
    Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:

    tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?

    Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:

    omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,

    id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:

    laborem inanem ipsus capit,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!

    id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;

    hic potitur gaudia,

    id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:

    satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:

    plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9:

    cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,

    id. ib. prol. 114:

    angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 48:

    quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,

    id. Off. 2, 9, 32:

    laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,

    id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:

    lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,

    id. Sen. 15, 54:

    opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,

    id. Brut. 1, 1:

    itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,

    id. ib. 40, 147:

    ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,

    Liv. 27, 40, 9:

    ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,

    id. 5, 20, 2:

    ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,

    id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):

    laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 4:

    ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,

    lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:

    maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:

    et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,

    Liv. 33, 27, 10:

    voluptatem animi,

    Cic. Planc. 1, 1:

    malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),

    id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:

    quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,

    Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
    10.
    Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):

    edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:

    numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 4:

    sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,

    id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:

    nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:

    te cepisse odium regni videbatur,

    id. ib. 2, 36, 91:

    Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,

    Liv. 1, 6, 3:

    cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,

    id. 40, 21, 2:

    etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,

    id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:

    qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?

    Liv. 27, 13, 2:

    oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,

    id. 38, 46, 12:

    tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?

    Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:

    ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,

    Liv. 27, 8, 6:

    hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,

    id. 44, 12, 1:

    tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,

    Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;

    I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 384:

    infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!

    id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:

    cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,

    id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;

    I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,

    Liv. 1, 57, 10:

    ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,

    id. 25, 22, 1:

    tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,

    id. 23, 20, 7:

    senatum metus cepit,

    id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):

    quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,

    Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
    11.
    Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:

    calamitatem,

    Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:

    detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,

    Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;

    videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:

    Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:

    quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,

    Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
    II.
    To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:

    parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),

    Lucr. 6, 1030:

    jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,

    Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:

    terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,

    id. ib. 1, 75:

    dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,

    id. ib. 8, 558:

    cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,

    id. ib. 5, 324.—
    2.
    Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:

    di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:

    qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;

    volat vapor ater ad auras,

    Verg. A. 7, 466:

    non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:

    non capit se mare,

    Sen. Agam. 487:

    neque enim capiebant funera portae,

    Ov. M. 7, 607:

    officium populi vix capiente domo,

    id. P. 4, 4, 42:

    si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,

    Curt. 7, 8, 12:

    ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,

    Just. 2, 10, 19.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):

    tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
    2. a.
    Affirmatively (rare):

    quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,

    Curt. 9, 3, 7:

    si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,

    Quint. 2, 4, 17:

    dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,

    Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
    b.
    With negatives:

    non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),

    Cic. Pis. 11, 24:

    leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,

    Lucr. 3, 298:

    nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,

    Ov. M. 6, 466:

    vix spes ipse suas animo capit,

    id. ib. 11, 118:

    ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,

    id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:

    sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,

    Curt. 7, 8, 13:

    majora quam capit spirat,

    id. 6, 9, 11:

    ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,

    id. 3, 12, 20:

    infirma aetas majora non capiet,

    Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
    3.
    Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):

    rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,

    Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:

    molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,

    id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:

    res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,

    Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
    4.
    With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):

    nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),

    Prud. Apoth. 154:

    crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,

    Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
    5.
    Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):

    sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,

    Quint. 11, 1, 45:

    nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,

    id. 2, 6, 2:

    quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,

    Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:

    senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,

    Liv. 9, 17, 14:

    somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,

    id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
    2.
    căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
    I.
    A taking:

    dominii,

    Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
    II.
    = usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > capio

  • 13 Capta

    1.
    căpĭo, cepi, captum (old fut. perf. capso, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: capsit, Enn. ap. Non. p. 66, 27, or Ann. v. 324 Vahl.; Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6; Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 12, or Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.; Paul. ex. Fest. p. 57 Mull.:

    capsimus,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 15: capsis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 154, = cape si vis, but this is an error; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 66; old perf. cepet, Col. Rostr. 5; v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 170), 3, v. a. [cf. kôpê, handle; Lat. capulum; Engl. haft; Germ. Heft; Sanscr. root hri-, take; cf. Gr. cheir, Engl. and Germ. hand, and Goth. hinthan, seize].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., to take in hand, take hold of, lay hold of, take, seize, grasp (cf.:

    sumo, prehendo): si hodie hercule fustem cepero aut stimulum in manum,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 9:

    cape hoc flabellum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 47:

    cepit manibus tympanum,

    Cat. 6, 3, 8:

    tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque Penatis,

    Verg. A. 2, 717:

    cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,

    id. G. 3, 420:

    flammeum,

    Cat. 61, 8:

    acria pocula,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 69:

    lora,

    Prop. 3 (4), 9, 57:

    baculum,

    Ov. M. 2, 789:

    colum cum calathis,

    id. ib. 12, 475:

    florem ternis digitis,

    Plin. 24, 10, 48, § 81:

    pignera,

    Liv. 3, 38, 12; Dig. 48, 13, 9, § 6; Gai Inst. 4, 29:

    ut is in cavea pignus capiatur togae,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 68: rem manu, Gai Inst. 1, 121:

    rem pignori,

    Dig. 42, 1, 15, § 7; cf. ib. 42, 1, 15, § 4:

    scutum laeva,

    Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 13:

    capias tu illius vestem,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 79: cape vorsoriam, seize the sheet, i. e. take a tack, turn about, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 19.—Very freq. of arms (cf. sumo); so in gen.: arma, to take up arms, i. e. engage in war or battle, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20 sq.; 9, 27; 11, 31; id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Phil. 4, 3, 7; Caes. B.G. 5, 26; 7, 4; Sall. C. 27, 4; 30, 1; 33, 2; 52, 27; id. J. 38, 5; 102, 12; Ov. M. 3, 115 sq.; 12, 91; 13, 221;

    and of particular weapons: ensem,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    tela,

    id. ib. 3, 307; 5, 366 et saep.—Of food, to take, partake of:

    quicum una cibum Capere soleo,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 61; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77; Sall. J. 91, 2:

    lauti cibum capiunt,

    Tac. G. 22.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of living objects.
    a. (α).
    Of persons:

    oppidum expugnavimus, et legiones Teleboarum vi pugnando cepimus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 258: summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Mull. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.):

    quoniam belli nefarios duces captos jam et comprehensos tenetis,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

    ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

    reges capiuntur,

    Lucr. 4, 1013; Tac. A. 4, 33:

    capta eo proelio tria milia peditum dicuntur,

    Liv. 22, 49, 18:

    quos Byzantii ceperat,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 3; id. Alcib. 9, 2; id. Dat. 2, 5; Quint. 6, 3, 61:

    captos ostendere civibus hostes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 33:

    captus Tarento Livius,

    Cic. Brut. 18, 72:

    servus ex hoste captus,

    Quint. 5, 10, 67.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: captus, i, m., = captivus, a prisoner, captive:

    in captos clementia uti,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 7:

    inludere capto,

    Verg. A. 2, 64:

    quae sit fiducia capto,

    id. ib. 2, 75:

    ex captorum numero,

    Liv. 28, 39, 10; Tac. A. 6, 1; 12, 37; 15, 1.—Also, capta, ae, f., a female captive:

    dicam hanc esse captam ex Caria, Ditem ac nobilem,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 47.—
    (β).
    Of animals, birds, fish, etc., to catch, hunt down, take: quid hic venatu non cepit? Varr. ap. Non. p. 253, 31:

    si ab avibus capiundis auceps dicatur, debuisse ajunt ex piscibus capiundis, ut aucupem, sic piscicupem dici,

    id. L. L. 8, § 61 Mull.:

    hic jaculo pisces, illa capiuntur ab hamis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 763:

    neque quicquam captum'st piscium,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

    nisi quid concharum capsimus,

    id. ib. v. 18; Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58; Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 27: acipenserem, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:

    cervum,

    Phaedr. 1, 5, 5; cf.:

    hic (Nereus) tibi prius vinclis capiendus,

    Verg. G. 4, 396.—
    b.
    To win, captivate, charm, allure, enchain, enslave, fascinate; mostly with abl. of means: Ph. Amore ardeo. Pa. Quid agas? nisi ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29:

    quod insit in iis aliquid probi, quod capiat ignaros,

    Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15: [p. 284] animum adulescentis... pellexit eis omnibus rebus, quibus illa aetas capi ac deleniri potest, id. Clu. 5, 13:

    quamvis voluptate capiatur,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 105; Quint. 5, 11, 19:

    quem quidem adeo sua cepit humanitate,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:

    secum habuit Pomponium, captus adulescentis et humanitate et doctrina,

    id. Att. 4, 1:

    nec bene promeritis capitur (deus), nec tangitur ira,

    Lucr. 2, 651: ut pictura poesis;

    erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes,

    Hor. A. P. 362:

    hunc capit argenti splendor,

    id. S. 1, 4, 28:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 46:

    Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis,

    Prop. 1, 1, 1:

    carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

    Tib. 3, 1, 7:

    munditiis capimur,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 133; id. M. 4, 170; 6, 465; 7, 802; 8, 124; 8, 435; 9, 511; 10, 529;

    14, 373: amore captivae victor captus,

    Liv. 30, 12, 18:

    dulcedine vocis,

    Ov. M. 1, 709; 11, 170:

    voce nova,

    id. ib. 1, 678:

    temperie aquarum,

    id. ib. 4, 344:

    (bos) herba captus viridi,

    Verg. E. 6, 59:

    amoenitate loci,

    Tac. A. 18, 52:

    auro,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 36:

    neque honoris neque pecuniae dulcedine sum captus,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 2:

    splendore hominis,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: ne oculis quidem captis in hanc fraudem decidisti;

    nam id concupisti quod numquam videras,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 102.—
    c.
    To cheat, seduce, deceive, mislead, betray, delude, catch:

    sapientis hanc vim esse maximam, cavere ne capiatur, ne fallatur videre,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

    injurium autem'st ulcisci advorsarios? Aut qua via te captent eadem ipsos capi?

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16: uti ne propter te fidemque tuam captus fraudatusque sim, form. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:

    eodem captus errore quo nos,

    involved in the same error, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 6; id. ap. Non. p. 253, 25; cf.:

    ne quo errore milites caperentur,

    Liv. 8, 6, 16:

    capere ante dolis Reginam,

    Verg. A. 1, 673:

    captique dolis lacrimisque coactis (Sinonis),

    id. ib. 2, 196:

    ubi me eisdem dolis non quit capere,

    Sall. J. 14, 11:

    adulescentium animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

    id. C. 14, 5:

    capi alicujus dolo,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 1:

    dolum ad capiendos eos conparant,

    Liv. 23, 35, 2:

    quas callida Colchis (i.e. Medea) amicitiae mendacis imagine cepit,

    Ov. M. 7, 301.—
    d.
    To defeat, convict, overcome in a suit or dispute (rare):

    tu si me impudicitiae captas, non potes capere,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 189:

    tu caves ne tui consultores, ille ne urbes aut castra capiantur (cf. B. 2. b. infra),

    Cic. Mur. 9, 22:

    callidus et in capiendo adversario versutus (orator),

    id. Brut. 48, 178.—
    e. (α).
    Of the physical powers, to lame, mutilate, maim, impair or weaken in the limbs, senses, etc. (only pass. capi, and esp. in part. perf. captus):

    mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

    ipse Hannibal... altero oculo capitur,

    loses an eye, Liv. 22, 2, 11:

    captus omnibus membris,

    id. 2, 36, 8:

    capti auribus et oculis metu omnes torpere,

    id. 21, 58, 5:

    oculis membrisque captus,

    Plin. 33, 4, 24, § 83:

    congerantur in unum omnia, ut idem oculis et auribus captus sit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117:

    si captus oculis sit, ut Tiresias fuit,

    id. Div. 2, 3, 9; Verg. G. 1, 183:

    habuit filium captum altero oculo,

    Suet. Vit. 6:

    censorem Appium deum ira post aliquot annos luminibus captum,

    Liv. 9, 29, 11; Val. Max. 1, 1, 17:

    lumine,

    Ov. F. 6, 204:

    princeps pedibus captus,

    Liv. 43, 7, 5; cf.:

    captum leto posuit caput,

    Verg. A. 11, 830;

    and of the mole: aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpae,

    id. G. 1, 183.—
    (β).
    Of the mental powers, to deprive of sense or intellect; only in part. perf. captus, usu. agreeing with pers. subj., and with abl. mente, silly, insane, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad:

    labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    vino aut somno oppressi aut mente capti,

    id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Quint. 8, 3, 4;

    rarely mentibu' capti,

    Lucr. 4, 1022; so,

    animo,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 107; very rarely with gen.:

    captus animi,

    Tac. H. 3, 73.— Absol.:

    virgines captae furore,

    Liv. 24, 26, 12.—Less freq. agreeing with mens or animus:

    viros velut mente capta cum jactatione fanatica corporis vaticinari,

    Liv. 39, 13, 12:

    captis magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa,

    id. 8, 18, 11; cf.:

    capti et stupentes animi,

    id. 6, 36, 8.—
    f.
    To choose, select, elect, take, pick out, adopt, accept a person for a particular purpose or to sustain a particular office or relation:

    de istac sum judex captus,

    Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 33:

    Aricini atque Ardeates de ambiguo agro... judicem populum Romanum cepere,

    Liv. 3, 71, 2:

    me cepere arbitrum,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 91:

    te mihi patronam capio, Thais,

    id. Eun. 5, 2, 48:

    quom illum generum cepimus,

    id. Hec. 4, 1, 22; cf.:

    non, si capiundos mihi sciam esse inimicos omnis homines,

    make them enemies thereby, id. And. 4, 2, 12:

    si quis magistrum cepit ad eam rem inprobum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 21.—So the formula of the Pontifex Maximus, in the consecration of a vestal virgin: sacerdotem Vestalem, quae sacra faciat... ita te, Amata, capio, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 14; cf.:

    plerique autem capi virginem solam debere dici putant, sed flamines quoque Diales, item pontifices et augures capi dicebantur,

    Gell. 1, 12, 15:

    jam ne ea causa pontifex capiar?... ecquis me augurem capiat? Cat. ib. § 17: Amata inter capiendum a pontifice maximo appellatur, quoniam, quae prima capta est, hoc fuisse nomen traditum est, Gell. ib. § 19: rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem in locum Occiae,

    Tac. A. 2, 86; 4, 16; 15, 22:

    religio, quae in annos singulos Jovis sacerdotem sortito capi jubeat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

    C. Flaccus flamen captus a P. Licinio pontifice maximo erat,

    Liv. 27, 8, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.—
    2.
    Of places.
    a.
    To occupy, choose, select, take possession of, enter into; mostly milit. t. t., to take up a position, select a place for a camp, etc.:

    loca capere, castra munire,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 23:

    castris locum capere,

    Liv. 9, 17, 15; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.:

    locum capere castris,

    Quint. 12, 2, 5:

    ut non fugiendi hostis, sed capiendi loci causa cessisse videar,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294:

    ad Thebanos transfugere velle, et locum extra urbem editum capere,

    Nep. Ages. 6, 2:

    nocte media profectus, ut locum quem vellet, priusquam hostes sentirent, caperet,

    Liv. 34, 14, 1:

    neminem elegantius loca cepisse, praesidia disposuisse,

    id. 35, 14, 9:

    erat autem Philopoemen praecipuae in ducendo agmine locisque capiendis solertiae atque usus,

    id. 35, 28, 1:

    locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem,

    Sall. J. 58, 3:

    duces, ut quisque locum ceperat, cedere singulos,

    Dict. Cret. 2, 46; so,

    of position on the battle-field: quod mons suberat, eo se recipere coeperunt. Capto monte, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

    tenuit non solum ales captam semelsedem, sed, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 26, 5:

    quem quis in pugnando ceperat locum, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat,

    Flor. 4, 1; Sall. C. 61, 2; rarely with dat. of pers.:

    tumulum suis cepit,

    Liv. 31, 41, 9, for a tomb: LOCVM SIBI MONVMENTO CEPIT. Inscr. Grut. 346, 6;

    for taking the auspices' se (Gracchum) cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, vitio sibi tabernaculum captum fuisse,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    Palatium Romulus, Remus Aventinum ad inaugurandum templa capiunt,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4;

    for refuge: omnes Samnitium copiae montes proximos fuga capiunt,

    id. 9, 43, 20:

    Anchises natum Conventus trahit in medios... Et tumulum capit,

    Verg. A. 6, 753; 12, 562:

    ante locum capies oculis ( = eliges),

    Verg. G. 2, 230 Serv. ad loc.: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere aut captas jam despectare videntur (cycni), to select places on which to light, or to be just settling down on places already selected, id. A. 1, 396 Forbig. ad loc.—
    b.
    To take by force, capture, storm, reduce, conquer, seize:

    invadam extemplo in oppidum antiquom: Si id capso, etc.,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 61: oppidum vi, Cat. ap. Charis. 2, p. 191 P.:

    MACELLAM OPPVGNANDO,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    CORSICAM,

    Inscr. Orell. 551: oppida, Enn. ap. Prisc. 9, p. 868 P. (Ann. v. 487 Vahl.):

    ad alia oppida pergit, pauca repugnantibus Numidis capit,

    Sall. J. 92, 3; Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 16:

    Troja capta,

    Liv. 1, 1, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 191: Coriolos. Liv. 3, 71, 7:

    urbem opulentissimam,

    id. 5, 20, 1:

    ante oppidum Nolam fortissuma Samnitium castra cepit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72:

    castra hostium,

    Nep. Dat. 6, 7:

    concursu oppidanorum facto scalis vacua defensoribus moenia capi possent,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    plurimas hostium vestrorum in Hispania urbes,

    id. 28, 39, 10:

    sedem belli,

    Vell. 2, 74, 3; cf. Cic. Mur. 9, 22 (B. 1. d. supra).— Trop.:

    oppressa captaque re publica,

    Cic. Dom. 10, 26: qui, bello averso ab hostibus, patriam suam cepissent, Liv. 3, 50, 15.—
    c.
    To reach, attain, arrive at, betake one ' s self to (mostly by ships, etc.):

    insulam capere non potuerant,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.:

    onerariae duae eosdem quos reliqui portus capere non potuerunt,

    id. ib. 4, 36:

    accidit uti, ex iis (navibus) perpaucae locum caperent,

    id. ib. 5, 23:

    nostrae naves, cum ignorarent, quem locum reliquae cepissent,

    id. B. C. 3, 28: praemiis magnis propositis, qui primus insulam cepisset, Auct. B. Alex. 17.— Trop.:

    qui... tenere cursum possint et capere otii illum portum et dignitatis,

    Cic. Sest. 46, 99.—
    3.
    Of things of value, property, money, etc.
    a.
    In gen., to take, seize, wrest, receive, obtain, acquire, get, etc.:

    AVRVM, ARGENTVM,

    Col. Rostr. Inscr. Orell. 549:

    de praedonibus praedam capere,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 14:

    agros de hostibus,

    Cic. Dom. 49, 128:

    ut ager ex hostibus captus viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 4, 48, 2:

    quinqueremem una cum defensoribus remigibusque, Auct. B. Alex. 16, 7: naves,

    Nep. Con. 4, 4:

    classem,

    id. Cim. 2, 2:

    magnas praedas,

    id. Dat. 10, 2:

    ex hostibus pecuniam,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5; cf.:

    e nostris spolia cepit laudibus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: signum ex Macedonia,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 149:

    signum pulcherrimum Carthagine captum,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 38, §

    82: sed eccam ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas: nam quod nos capere oportet, haec intercipit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 35:

    cape cedo,

    id. Phorm. 5, 8, 57:

    ut reliqui fures, earum rerum quas ceperunt, signa commutant,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

    majores nostri non solum id, quod de Campanis (agri) ceperant, non imminuerunt, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 29, 81:

    te duce ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam,

    Lucr. 6, 95.—With abstr. objects:

    paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de republica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit,

    Nep. Epam. 3, 4:

    ut ceteri, qui per eum aut honores aut divitias ceperant,

    id. Att. 7, 2:

    quoniam formam hujus cepi in me et statum,

    assumed, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 110:

    quare non committeret, ut is locus ex calamitate populi Romani nomen caperet,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

    regnum Tiberinus ab illis Cepit,

    succeeded to, Ov. M. 14, 615.—
    b.
    In particular connections.
    (α).
    With pecuniam (freq. joined with concilio; v. infra), to take illegally, exact, extort, accept a bribe. take blackmail, etc., esp. of magistrates who were accused de pecuniis repetundis:

    his ego judicibus non probabo C. Verrem contra leges pecuniam cepisse?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

    HS. quadringentiens cepisse te arguo contra leges,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf.:

    quicquid ab horum quopiam captum est,

    id. ib. §

    27: tamen hae pecuniae per vim atque injuriam tuam captae et conciliatae tibi fraudi et damnationi esse deberent,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 40, §

    91: utrum (potestis), cum judices sitis de pecunia capta conciliata, tantam pecuniam captam neglegere?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 94, §

    218: quid est aliud capere conciliare pecunias. si hoc non est vi atque imperio cogere invitos lucrum dare alteri?

    id. ib. 2, 3, 30, §

    71: sequitur de captis pecuniis et de ambitu,

    id. Leg. 3, 20, 46:

    ita aperte cepit pecunias ob rem judicandam, ut, etc.,

    id. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

    quos censores furti et captarum pecuniarum nomine notaverunt,

    id. Clu. 42, 120:

    nondum commemoro rapinas, non exactas pecunias, non captas, non imperatas,

    id. Pis. 16, 38:

    si quis ob rem judicandam pecuniam cepisset... neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe, sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabantur,

    id. Rab. Post. 7, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 70; Sall. J. 32, 1:

    ab regibus Illyriorum,

    Liv. 42, 45, 8:

    saevitiae captarumque pecuniarum teneri reum,

    Tac. A. 3, 67; 4, 31.—
    (β).
    Of inheritance and bequest, to take, inherit, obtain, acquire, get, accept:

    si ex hereditate nihil ceperit,

    Cic. Off, 3, 24, 93:

    qui morte testamentove ejus tantundem capiat quantum omnes heredes,

    id. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

    abdicatus ne quid de bonis patris capiat,

    Quint. 3, 6, 96:

    aut non justum testamentum est, aut capere non potes,

    id. 5, 14, 16:

    si capiendi Jus nullum uxori,

    Juv. 1, 55:

    qui testamentum faciebat, ei, qui usque ad certum modum capere potuerat, legavit, etc.,

    Dig. 22, 3, 27: quod ille plus capere non poterat, ib. fin.:

    qui ex bonis testatoris solidum capere non possit,

    ib. 28, 6, 6; 39, 6, 30.—
    (γ).
    Of regular income, revenue, etc., rents, tolls, profits, etc., to collect, receive, obtain: nam ex [p. 285] eis praediis talenta argenti bina Capiebat statim, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 7:

    capit ille ex suis praediis sexcenta sestertia, ego centena ex meis,

    Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49:

    stipendium jure belli,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

    quinquagena talenta vectigalis ex castro,

    Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:

    vectigal ex agro eorum capimus,

    Liv. 28, 39, 13:

    quadragena annua ex schola,

    Suet. Gram. 23:

    si recte habitaveris... fundus melior erit... fructus plus capies,

    Cato, R. R. 4, 2.—
    C.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of profit, benefit, advantage, to take, seize, obtain, get, enjoy, reap (mostly in phrase fructum capere):

    metuit semper, quem ipsa nunc capit Fructum, nequando iratus tu alio conferas,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 59:

    honeste acta superior aetas fructus capit auctoritatis extremos,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 62:

    ex iis etiam fructum capio laboris mei,

    id. Div. 2, 5:

    ex quibus (litteris) cepi fructum duplicem,

    id. Fam. 10, 5, 1:

    multo majorem fructum ex populi existimatione illo damnato cepimus, quam ex ipsius, si absolutus esset, gratia cepissemus,

    id. Att. 1, 4, 2:

    fructum immortalem vestri in me et amoris et judicii,

    id. Pis. 14, 31:

    aliquem fructum dulcedinis almae,

    Lucr. 2, 971; 5, 1410; Luc. 7, 32.—In other connections:

    quid ex ea re tandem ut caperes commodi?

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 25:

    utilitates ex amicitia maximas,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    usuram alicujus corporis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 108.—
    2.
    Of external characteristics, form, figure, appearance, etc., to take, assume, acquire, put on:

    gestum atque voltum novom,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 50 ' faciem aliquam cepere morando, Ov. M. 1, 421; 13, 605:

    figuras Datque capitque novas,

    id. ib. 15, 309:

    formam capit quam lilia,

    id. ib. 10, 212; cf.:

    duritiam ab aere,

    id. ib. 4, 751.— Transf., of plants, etc.:

    radicem capere,

    to take root, Cato, R. R. 51:

    cum pali defixi radices cepissent,

    Plin. 17, 17, 27, § 123:

    siliculam capere,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3:

    maturitatem capere,

    Col. 4, 23, 1:

    radix libere capit viris,

    Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 161:

    vires cepisse nocendi,

    Ov. M. 7, 417:

    (telinum) rursus refrigeratum odorem suum capit,

    Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 13.—
    3.
    Of mental characteristics, habits, etc., to take, assume, adopt, cultivate, cherish, possess:

    cape sis virtutem animo et corde expelle desidiam tuo,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:

    qua re si Glabrionis patris vim et acrimoniam ceperis ad resistendum hominibus audacissimis, si avi prudentiam ad prospiciendas insidias, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

    aliquando, patres conscripti, patrium animum virtutemque capiamus,

    id. Phil. 3, 11, 29:

    consuetudinem exercitationemque,

    id. Off. 1, 18, 59:

    misericordiam,

    id. Quint. 31, 97:

    quam (adsuetudinem) tu dum capias, taedia nulla fuge,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 346:

    disciplinam principum,

    Plin. Pan. 46. —With dat.:

    quorum animis avidis... neque lex neque tutor capere est qui possit modum,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 14 Wagn. ad loc.—
    4.
    Of offices, employments, duties, etc., = suscipio, to undertake, assume, enter upon, accept, take upon one ' s self, etc.:

    nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, Quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 34:

    o Geta, provinciam Cepisti duram,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 23:

    in te cepi Capuam, non quo munus illud defugerem,

    took command at Capua, Cic. Att. 8. 3, 4:

    consulatum,

    id. Pis. 2, 3; Sall. J. 63, 2:

    honores,

    Nep. Att. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 26:

    imperium,

    id. Claud. 10:

    magistratum,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 62; Liv. 2, 33, 1; Suet. Aug. 2:

    magistratus,

    Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietsch; Nep. Phoc. 1, 1; Suet. Caes. 75:

    capiatque aliquis moderamina (navis),

    Ov. M. 3, 644:

    rerum moderamen,

    id. ib. 6, 677:

    pontificatum maximum,

    Suet. Vit. 11:

    rem publicam,

    Sall. C. 5, 6:

    neve cui patrum capere eum magistratum liceret,

    Liv. 2, 33, 1:

    ut ceperat haud tumultuose magistratum majore gaudio plebis, etc.,

    id. 5, 13, 2.—Rarely with dat. of pers., to obtain for, secure for:

    patres praeturam Sp. Furio Camillo gratia campestri ceperunt,

    Liv. 7, 1, 2.—
    5.
    In gen., of any occupation, work, or undertaking, to begin, enter upon, take, undertake, etc.:

    augurium ex arce,

    Liv. 10, 7, 10:

    augurium capienti duodecim se vultures ostenderunt,

    Suet. Aug. 95; id. Vesp. 11:

    omen,

    Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:

    in castris Romanis cum frustra multi conatus ad erumpendum capti essent,

    Liv. 9, 4, 1:

    rursus impetu capto enituntur,

    id. 2, 65, 5; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 42; id. Calig. 43: cursum, id. Oth. 6:

    a quibus temporibus scribendi capiatur exordium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    experimentum eorum inversa manu capitur,

    Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19 ( poet.):

    nec vestra capit discordia finem,

    Verg. A. 10, 106:

    fugam,

    to take to flight, flee, Caes. B. G. 7, 26; so, capere impetum, to take a start, gather momentum:

    ad impetum capiundum modicum erat spatium,

    Liv. 10, 5, 6; cf.:

    expeditionis Germanicae impetum cepit,

    suddenly resolved to make, Suet. Calig. 43: capere initium, to begin:

    ea pars artis, ex qua capere initium solent,

    Quint. 2, 11, 1.— Transf., of place:

    eorum (finium) una pars, quam Gallos optinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    a dis inmortalibus sunt nobis agendi capienda primordia,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 7.—
    6.
    Of an opportunity or occasion, to seize, embrace, take:

    si occassionem capsit,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 6:

    si lubitum fuerit, causam ceperit,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:

    quod tempus conveniundi patris me capere suadeat,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 9:

    si satis commode tempus ad te cepit adeundi,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 1.—
    7.
    Of operations of the mind, resolutions, purposes, plans, thoughts, etc., to form, conceive, entertain, come to, reach:

    quantum ex ipsa re conjecturam cepimus,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 25 MSS. (Fleck. al. ex conj. fecimus); Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32:

    cum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam ceperat,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 35:

    hujusce rei conjecturam de tuo ipsius studio, Servi, facillime ceperis,

    Cic. Mur. 4, 9.— Absol.:

    conjecturam capere,

    Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130:

    nec quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 12:

    capti consili memorem mones,

    id. Stich 4, 1, 72:

    quo pacto porro possim Potiri consilium volo capere una tecum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 66; 5, 2, 28:

    temerarium consilium,

    Liv. 25, 34, 7:

    tale capit consilium,

    Nep. Eum. 9, 3.— With inf.:

    confitendum... eadem te hora consilium cepisse hominis propinqui fortunas funditus evertere,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 53; Caes. B. G. 7, 71 init. —With ut:

    subito consilium cepi, ut exirem,

    Cic. Att. 7, 10 init. —With gen. gerund. (freq.):

    legionis opprimendae consilium capere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 2:

    obprimundae reipublicae consilium cepit,

    Sall. C. 16, 4.—With sibi:

    si id non fecisset, sibi consilium facturos,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

    ut ego rationem oculis capio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 2:

    cepi rationem ut, etc.,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11.—
    8.
    Of examples, instances, proofs, etc., to take, derive, draw, obtain:

    ex quo documentum nos capere fortuna voluit quid esset victis extimescendum,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5:

    quid istuc tam mirum'st, de te si exemplum capit? Ter And. 4, 1, 26: exemplum ex aliqua re,

    Cic. Lael. 10, 33:

    praesagia a sole,

    Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 341:

    illud num dubitas quin specimen naturae capi debeat ex optima quaque natura?

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32.—
    9.
    Of impressions, feelings, etc., to take, entertain, conceive, receive, be subjected to, suffer, experience, etc.:

    tantum laborem capere ob talem filium?

    Ter. And. 5, 2, 29:

    omnes mihi labores fuere quos cepi leves,

    id. Heaut. 2, 4, 19:

    laborem inanem ipsus capit,

    id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:

    ex eo nunc misera quem capit Laborem!

    id. And. 4, 3, 4: miseriam omnem ego capio;

    hic potitur gaudia,

    id. Ad. 5, 4, 22:

    satietatem dum capiet pater Illius quam amat,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 10:

    plus aegri ex abitu viri quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9:

    cum illa quacum volt voluptatem capit,

    id. ib. prol. 114:

    angor iste, qui pro amico saepe capiendus est,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 48:

    quae (benevolentia) quidem capitur beneficiis maxime,

    id. Off. 2, 9, 32:

    laetitiam quam capiebam memoria rationum inventorumque nostrorum,

    id. Fin. 2, 30, 96:

    lenire desiderium quod capiebat e filio,

    id. Sen. 15, 54:

    opinione omnium majorem animo cepi dolorem,

    id. Brut. 1, 1:

    itaque cepi voluptatem, tam ornatum virum fuisse in re publica,

    id. ib. 40, 147:

    ex civibus victis gaudium meritum capiam,

    Liv. 27, 40, 9:

    ne quam... invidiam apud patres ex prodiga largitione caperet,

    id. 5, 20, 2:

    ad summam laetitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius adventu cumulus accedet,

    id. Att. 4, 19, 2 (4, 18, 3):

    laetitia, quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 4:

    ex praealto tecto lapsus matris et adfinium cepit oblivionem,

    lost his memory, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90: virtutis opinionem, Auct. B. G. 8, 8: somnum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: taedium vitae, Nep. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 18, 11:

    maria aspera juro Non ullum pro me tantum (me) cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 352 Forbig. ad loc.:

    et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,

    Liv. 33, 27, 10:

    voluptatem animi,

    Cic. Planc. 1, 1:

    malis alienis voluptatem capere laetitiae (cum sit),

    id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66:

    quaeque mihi sola capitur nunc mente voluptas,

    Ov. P. 4, 9, 37.—
    10.
    Transf., with the feelings, experience, etc., as subj., to seize, overcome, possess, occupy, affect, take possession of, move, etc. (cf. lambanô, in this sense and like 9. supra): nutrix: Cupido cepit miseram nunc me, proloqui Caelo atque terrae Medeai miserias, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.):

    edepol te desiderium Athenarum arbitror cepisse saepe,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 14:

    numquam commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 4:

    sicubi eum satietas Hominum aut negoti odium ceperat,

    id. Eun. 3, 1, 14:

    nos post reges exactos servitutis oblivio ceperat,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 9:

    te cepisse odium regni videbatur,

    id. ib. 2, 36, 91:

    Romulum Remumque cupido cepit urbis condendae,

    Liv. 1, 6, 3:

    cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi,

    id. 40, 21, 2:

    etiam victores sanguinis caedisque ceperat satietas,

    id. 27, 49, 8; Mel. 3, 5, 2:

    qui pavor hic, qui terror, quae repente oblivio animos cepit?

    Liv. 27, 13, 2:

    oblivio deorum capiat pectora vestra,

    id. 38, 46, 12:

    tantane te cepere oblivia nostri?

    Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 11:

    ut animum ejus cura sacrorum cepit,

    Liv. 27, 8, 6:

    hostis primum admiratio cepit, quidnam, etc.,

    id. 44, 12, 1:

    tanta meae si te ceperunt taedia laudis,

    Verg. G. 4, 332; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 178;

    I. p. 196 Burm.: ignarosque loci passim et formidine captos Sternimus,

    Verg. A. 2, 384:

    infelix, quae tanta animum dementia cepit!

    id. ib. 5, 465; id. E. 6, 47:

    cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,

    id. G. 4, 488; cf. Anthol. Lat. I. p. 170, 15;

    I. p. 168, 14 Burm.: Tarquinium mala libido Lucretiae stuprandae cepit,

    Liv. 1, 57, 10:

    ingens quidem et luctus et pavor civitatem cepit,

    id. 25, 22, 1:

    tantus repente maeror pavorque senatum eorum cepit,

    id. 23, 20, 7:

    senatum metus cepit,

    id. 23, 14, 8: si me... misericordia capsit. Att. ap. Non. p. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 454 Rib.): nec tuendi capere satietas potest, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 (Trag. Rel. v. 410 ib.):

    quantus timor socios populi Romani cepisset,

    Liv. 43, 11, 9.—
    11.
    Of injury, damage, loss, etc., to suffer, take, be subjected to:

    calamitatem,

    Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29:

    detrimenti aliquid in aliqua re,

    Col. 1, 8, 2.—Esp., in the legal formula, by which dictatorial powers were conferred by the senate upon the consuls or the entire magistracy in times of extreme danger to the state;

    videant ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat: decrevit quondam senatus, ut L. Opimius consul videret ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4:

    Hernici tantum terrorem incussere patribus, ut, quae forma senatus consulti ultimae semper necessitatis habita est, Postumio, alteri consulum, negotium daretur, videret, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 4, 9; cf. id. 6, 19, 2 sqq.:

    quod plerumque in atroci negotio solet, senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ne quid, etc.... Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque civis, domi militiaeque inperium atque judicium summum habere,

    Sall. C. 29, 2 sq.
    II.
    To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.: Ph. Sitit haec anus. Pa. Quantillum sitit? Ph. Modica'st, capit quadrantal, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 8:

    parte quod ex una spatium vacat et capit in se (ferrum),

    Lucr. 6, 1030:

    jam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes,

    Ov. M. 1, 344; cf.:

    terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis aer,

    id. ib. 1, 75:

    dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas,

    id. ib. 8, 558:

    cunctosque (deos) dedisse Terga fugae, donec fessos Aegyptia tellus Ceperit,

    id. ib. 5, 324.—
    2.
    Esp., with negatives, not to hold, to be too small for, etc.; cf.:

    di boni, quid turba est! Aedes nostrae vix capient, scio,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 13:

    qui cum una domo jam capi non possunt, in alias domos exeunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: nec jam se capit [p. 286] unda;

    volat vapor ater ad auras,

    Verg. A. 7, 466:

    non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 46:

    non capit se mare,

    Sen. Agam. 487:

    neque enim capiebant funera portae,

    Ov. M. 7, 607:

    officium populi vix capiente domo,

    id. P. 4, 4, 42:

    si di habitum corporis tui aviditati animi parem esse voluissent, orbis te non caperet,

    Curt. 7, 8, 12:

    ut non immerito proditum sit... Graeciam omnem vix capere exercitum ejus (Xerxis) potuisse,

    Just. 2, 10, 19.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To swallow up, ingulf, take in (rare):

    tot domus locupletissimas istius domus una capiet?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 7.—
    2. a.
    Affirmatively (rare):

    quidquid mortalitas capere poterat, implevimus,

    Curt. 9, 3, 7:

    si puer omni cura et summo, quantum illa aetas capit, labore, scripserit,

    Quint. 2, 4, 17:

    dummodo ejus aetatis sit, ut dolum capiat,

    Dig. 40, 12, 15.—
    b.
    With negatives:

    non capiunt angustiae pectoris tui (tantam personam),

    Cic. Pis. 11, 24:

    leones, qui... nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,

    Lucr. 3, 298:

    nec capiunt inclusas pectora flammas,

    Ov. M. 6, 466:

    vix spes ipse suas animo capit,

    id. ib. 11, 118:

    ardet et iram Non capit ipsa suam Progne,

    id. ib. 6, 610; cf.:

    sic quoque concupiscis quae non capis,

    Curt. 7, 8, 13:

    majora quam capit spirat,

    id. 6, 9, 11:

    ad ultimum magnitudinem ejus (fortunae) non capit,

    id. 3, 12, 20:

    infirma aetas majora non capiet,

    Quint. 1, 11, 13.—
    3.
    Transf., of things, to admit of, be capable of, undergo (post-Aug. and rare):

    rimam fissuramque non capit sponte cedrus,

    Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212:

    molluscum... si magnitudinem mensarum caperet,

    id. 16, 16, 27, § 68:

    res non capit restitutionem, cum statum mutat,

    Dig. 4, 4, 19.—
    4.
    With inf., to be susceptible of, to be of a nature to, etc., = endechetai (late Lat.):

    nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari (Deus),

    Prud. Apoth. 154:

    crimina, quae non capiunt indulgeri,

    Tert. Pud. 1 fin.; id. Apol. 17; id. adv. Haer. 44 fin.; Paul. Nol. Carm. 9, 22.—
    5.
    Of the mind, to take, receive into the mind, comprehend, grasp, embrace (cf. intellego, to penetrate mentally, have insight into):

    sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne judex eam vel intellegere vel capere non possit,

    Quint. 11, 1, 45:

    nullam esse gratiam tantam, quam non vel capere animus meus in accipiendo... posset,

    id. 2, 6, 2:

    quae quidem ego nisi tam magna esse fatear, ut ea vix cujusquam mens aut cogitatio capere possit,

    Cic. Marcell. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49:

    senatus ille, quem qui ex regibus constare dixit, unus veram speciem Romani senatus cepit,

    Liv. 9, 17, 14:

    somnium laetius, quam quod mentes eorum capere possent,

    id. 9, 9, 14.—P. a. as subst.: Capta, ae, f., a surname of Minerva, as worshipped on the Coelian Mount, but for what reason is not known, Ov. F. 3, 837 sq.
    2.
    căpĭo, ōnis, f. [1. capio]; in the Lat. of the jurists,
    I.
    A taking:

    dominii,

    Dig. 39, 2, 18; Gell. 6 (7), 10, 3.—
    II.
    = usu capio or usucapio, the right of property acquired by prescription, Dig. 41, 1, 48, § 1; 41, 3, 21; 41, 5, 4; v. 1. usucapio.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Capta

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