lac+v

lac, lactis (nom. lacte, Enn. ap. Non. 483, 2; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 16 Ritschl N. cr. al.; and lact, Aus. Idyll. 12; Mart. Cap. 3, § 307; masc. acc. lactem, App. M. 8, p. 214 fin.; 215 init.; but dub. in Gell. 12, 1, 17, where Hertz reads lacte), n. [Gr. gala, gen. galakt-os], milk.

Lit.:

dulci repletur lacte,

Lucr. 5, 814:

cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:

lacte vivere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1:

lac mihi non aestate novum, non frigore defit,

Verg. E. 2, 22:

concretum vimine querno lac,

Ov. M. 12, 437:

lactis inopia... abundantia,

Col. 5, 12, 2:

a lacte cunisque,

from the cradle, from infancy, Quint. 1, 1, 21:

lac pressum,

cheese, Verg. E. 1, 82:

coagulatum,

Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 128.—Prov.:

tam similem quam lacte lacti'st,

as like as one egg is to another, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; cf.:

neque lac lacti magis est simile,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54; id. Men. 5, 9, 30: lac gallinaceum, chicken's milk, of something very rare, Plin. N. H. praef. § 23; Petr. 38, 1:

qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet,

of tender age, Juv. 11, 68.—

Trop., for something sweet, pleasant: in melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque;

corda felle sunt lita,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 77:

ut mentes... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur,

Quint. 2, 4, 5.—

Transf.

Milky juice, milk of plants:

herbae, nigri cum lacte veneni,

Verg. A. 4, 514:

herbarum,

Ov. M. 11, 606:

tenero dum lacte, quod intro est, id. Nux, 95: ficulneum,

Col. 7, 8, 1:

caprifici,

Cels. 5, 7.—

Milk-white color ( poet.): candidus taurus... una fuit labes;

cetera lactis erant,

Ov. A. A. 1, 290.

* * *

milk.

lac, lactis (nom. lacte, Enn. ap. Non. 483, 2; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 16 Ritschl N. cr. al.; and lact, Aus. Idyll. 12; Mart. Cap. 3, § 307; masc. acc. lactem, App. M. 8, p. 214 fin.; 215 init.; but dub. in Gell. 12, 1, 17, where Hertz reads lacte), n. [Gr. gala, gen. galakt-os], milk.

Lit.:

dulci repletur lacte,

Lucr. 5, 814:

cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:

lacte vivere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1:

lac mihi non aestate novum, non frigore defit,

Verg. E. 2, 22:

concretum vimine querno lac,

Ov. M. 12, 437:

lactis inopia... abundantia,

Col. 5, 12, 2:

a lacte cunisque,

from the cradle, from infancy, Quint. 1, 1, 21:

lac pressum,

cheese, Verg. E. 1, 82:

coagulatum,

Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 128.—Prov.:

tam similem quam lacte lacti'st,

as like as one egg is to another, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; cf.:

neque lac lacti magis est simile,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54; id. Men. 5, 9, 30: lac gallinaceum, chicken's milk, of something very rare, Plin. N. H. praef. § 23; Petr. 38, 1:

qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet,

of tender age, Juv. 11, 68.—

Trop., for something sweet, pleasant: in melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque;

corda felle sunt lita,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 77:

ut mentes... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur,

Quint. 2, 4, 5.—

Transf.

Milky juice, milk of plants:

herbae, nigri cum lacte veneni,

Verg. A. 4, 514:

herbarum,

Ov. M. 11, 606:

tenero dum lacte, quod intro est, id. Nux, 95: ficulneum,

Col. 7, 8, 1:

caprifici,

Cels. 5, 7.—

Milk-white color ( poet.): candidus taurus... una fuit labes;

cetera lactis erant,

Ov. A. A. 1, 290.

bĭbo, bĭbi (post-class. part. fut. bĭbĭtūrus, Hier. Isa. 8, 25, 8; Vulg. Matt. 20, 22; id. Act. 23, 12; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 1; part. perf. bĭbĭtus, a, um, Cael. Aur. Chron. 4, 3, 60; Capitol. Ver. 5, 3; Aem. Mac. c. de Porro; Plin. Val. 2, 18; inf. apocop. biber, Cato, Titin., and Fannii Annal. ap. Charis. p. 99), 3, v. a. [root bi; Gr. pi-, pinô, pepôka; whence Lat. poto, as if from po; Sanscr. pī; Slav. piti; Lith. pota], to drink (usually from thirst, a natural want; poto, to drink from passion, habit, etc.; but poto is occasionally used of water, etc., e. g. Plin. 11, 37, 68, § 179; cf.:

bibere naturae est, potare luxuriae,

Isid. Diff. 1. 74; and the partt. potus and potatus are regularly used instead of the partt. of bibo).

With acc.

Of the liquid drunk:

per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

Cato, R. R. 73:

jejunus heminam bibito,

id. ib. 126:

si voles vinum Choum bibere, licebit bibas,

id. ib. 48: eapse merum condidicit bibere;

foribus dat aquam quam bibant,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 4:

vicit vinum quod bibi,

Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 1:

Darius in fugā cum aquam turbidam bibisset,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97:

patrono malo suadebat ut mulsum frigidum biberet,

id. de Or. 2, 70, 282:

viveret, nisi illud (i. e. venenum) bibisset,

Quint. 8, 5, 31:

bibo aquam,

id. 6, 3, 93:

cur apud te vinum aetate tuā vetustius bibitur?

Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2:

nisi Hy. mettia mella Falerno Ne biberis diluta,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 15:

et Veientani bibitur faex crassa rubelli,

Mart. 1, 103, 9:

lac bibere,

to suck, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 22; id. M. 9, 377; 9, 615.—Also nutricem bibere (i. e. lac de nutrice), App. M. 2, p. 115, 29.— Poet.;

Caecubam... Tu bibes uvam (i. e. vinum),

Hor. C. 1, 20, 10:

in usu radix tantum duabus drachmis bibenda (i. e. sucus radicis),

Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 67.—

Pocula or cyathos bibere.

Poet., = vinum (cf. pinein kratêras):

tristia cum multo pocula felle bibat,

Tib. 1, 5, 50:

ipse bibebam Sobria suppositā pocula victor aquā,

id. 1, 6, 28:

plura pocula = plus vini,

id. 1, 9, 59; so,

nomismata and aera,

id. 1, 26, 3.—

Of the number of cups drunk at a merry-making: vide quot cyathos bibimus: St. Tot quot digiti sunt tibi in manu, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24.—Esp. of the custom of drinking names, i. e. as many cups as there are letters in a name proposed; the number is frequently expressed by fractional parts of the as (uncia = a cyathus;

quincunx = 5 cyathi, etc.): quincunces et sex cyathos bessemque bibamus, Gaius ut fiat, Julius, et Proculus,

Mart. 11, 36, 7:

crebros ergo licet bibas trientes,

id. 1, 106, 8:

diluti bibis unciam Falerni,

id. v. 3 (cf. with potare:

sextantes et deunces,

id. 12, 28).—Hence, nomen bibere, Julium, etc., bibere:

ut jugulem curas, nomen utrumque bibam,

Mart. 8, 57, 26:

Laevia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur, Quinque Lycas, Lyde quattuor, Ida tribus,

id. 1, 71, 1 sq.:

Astyanacta bibes,

id. 8, 6, 16.—

Fluvium, undam, pruinas bibere ( poet.).

= aquam ex flumine bibere:

priusquam Pabula gustassent Trojae Xanthumque bibissent,

Verg. A. 1, 473:

jam crassus torrens bibitur tamen,

Stat. Th. 4, 821:

puram bibis amnibus undam,

Claud. Laud. Herc. 74.—

Trop., to arrive at the region of the river:

non illum nostri possunt mutare labores, Nec si... Hebrumque bibamus Sithoniasque nives... subeamus (i. e. si Thraciam adeamus),

Verg. E. 10, 65:

ante... Aut Ararim Parthus bibet, aut Germania Tigrim Quam, etc.,

sooner will the Parthians come to Germany, or the Germans to the country of the Parthians, id. ib. 1, 63:

turbaque Phasiacam Graia bibistis aquam,

Ov. H. 12, 10.—Hence,

Qui flumen bibunt, = the inhabitants of the country through which the river passes:

qui Tiberim Fabarimque bibunt,

Verg. A. 7, 715:

qui profundum Danubium bibunt,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 21:

qui Nilum ex ipso protinus ore bibunt,

Mart. 7, 88, 6:

populosque bibentes Euphraten,

Luc. 8, 213:

qui te, Nile, bibit, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 38.—So of an inland sea: caesamque bibens Maeotin Alanus,

Claud. in Rufin. 1, 812.—Of a single person:

extremum Tanaim si biberes, Lyce,

Hor. C. 3, 10, 1.—Similarly, montium pruinas bibere, of the rivers fed by a mountain range:

amniumque... quicunque Odrysias bibunt pruinas,

Mart. 10, 7, 2: fluvios qui... Alpinasque bibunt de more pruinas, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 255.—

Bibere aquas, to be drowned:

neu bibat aequoreas naufragus hostis aquas,

Ov. H. 7, 62.— Transf., of ships, to founder, to be wrecked: o utinam... Argo funestas pressa bibisset aquas! Ov. Am. 2, 11, 6.—

Sanguinem or cruorem bibere.

Sanguinem, in a figurative sense, = sanguinem sitire:

cujus sanguinem (Antonium) non bibere censeatis? (sitire, animo bibere),

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10.—

Cruorem bibere, to draw blood, to kill:

hasta virgineum alte bibit acta cruorem,

Verg. A. 11, 803; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 78.—

Transf. to things other than liquids.

Of concrete things: dixit et ardentes avido bibit ore favillas, breathed in, drew in (of the sparks of a funeral pyre), Mart. 1, 42, 5:

vigilandae noctes et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda,

inhale, Quint. 11, 3, 23.—

Figuratively, of abstract things.

= cupideaudire, legere:

pugnas et exactos tyrannos... bibit aure vulgus,

eagerly listens to, Hor. C. 2, 13, 32:

incipe: suspensis auribus ista bibam,

Prop. 3, 4, 8: hinc ille justitiae haustus bibat, imbibe (by reading) the love of justice, Quint. 12, 2, 31: illa divino fruitur sermone parentis, maternosque bibit mores, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 231.—

To imbibe, be affected with:

infelix Dido, longumque bibebat amorem,

Verg. A. 1, 749:

totisque novum bibit ossibus ignem,

the fire of love, Stat. Achill. 1, 303.—

To draw out, exhaust: nudae illae artes omnem sucum ingenii bibunt, Quint. prooem. 24.—

To swallow, i. e. forget:

quamquam ego vinum bibo, mandata hau consuevi simul bibere una,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 3. —

Transf., of inanim. subjects, to absorb liquids, draw, imbibe them:

id si feceris metreta oleum non bibet,

Cato, R. R. 100. —So trop.:

claudite jam rivos... sat prata biberunt,

Verg. E. 3, 111:

inriguumque bibant violaria fontem,

id. G. 4, 32:

quae (terra) bibit humorem,

absorbs moisture, id. ib. 2, 218:

amphora fumum bibere instituta,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 11:

mista bibunt molles lacrimis unguenta favillae,

Ov. F. 3, 561:

tunc bibit irriguus fertilis hortus aquas,

Tib. 2, 1, 44:

lanarum nigrae nullum colorem bibunt,

take no color, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193; so,

candorem (i. e. colorem candidum) bibere,

id. 31, 11, 47, § 123: arcus bibit (aquas) and nubes bibunt (aquas), the rainbow, the clouds draw water (according to a popular belief among the ancients):

cur bibit arcus aquas?

Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 32:

et bibit ingens Arcus,

Verg. G. 1, 380.—And, jestingly, of an old woman given to drink: ecce autem, bibit arcus;

hercle, credo, hodie pluet,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 39 (44):

unde aures nubesque bibunt atque imbrifer arcus,

Stat. Th. 9, 405.—So with object understood:

bibite, festivae fores,

with reference to the wine spilled, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 88:

palma toto anno bibere amat, i. e. aquam,

Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 28.—

Absol. (the obj. acc. understood).

Sc. aquam:

nec sitis est exstincta priusquam vita bibendo (of those seized by the plague),

Ov. M. 7, 569.—

Of liquids in general:

numquam sitiens biberat,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97:

edendi mihi erit bibendique finis desideria naturae restinguere,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

ut nec bibant sine ambitione, nec edant,

id. ib. 12, 5:

conducit inter cibos bibere,

Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 41:

vino debemus homines quod soli animalium non sitientes bibimus,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 42.—

Esp. of wine:

es, bibe, animo obsequere mecum,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 82:

quamquam illud est dulce, esse et bibere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 37:

jam diu factum postquam bibimus: nimis diu sicci sumus,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 45; id. Poen. 4, 2, 13:

decet luxuriosum bibendo mori,

Quint. 8, 5, 23:

ut jejuni biberent,

Plin. 14, 28 med. — Pass. impers. bibitur, they drink, he drinks, people drink:

dies noctisque estur, bibitur,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78:

ab tertiā horā bibebatur, ludebatur, vomebatur,

Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 104:

bibitur usque eo dum de solio ministretur,

id. Pis. 27, 67.—

With adverbs or adverbial phrases.

Of manner:

jucundius bibere,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97; id. Att. 13, 52, 1:

large,

Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105:

fit invitatio ut Graeco more biberetur, i. e. propinando,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66.—

With num. adv. denoting the number of cups:

jam bis bibisse oportuit,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 122:

sic ago, semel bibo,

id. Rud. 3, 6, 46:

plus quam deciens, Sextiliane, bibis,

Mart. 1, 26, 10:

quare bis deciens, Sextiliane bibis?

id. 1, 11, 2.—

With abl. or prep. and abl.

Of the liquid, river, etc.:

de eo vino... bibito ante cenam,

Cato, R. R. 114: a fonte bibatur... [p. 236] an lacu, Mart. 9, 99, 9:

ab amne,

id. 12, 11:

ex aquā,

Prop. 2, 30, 32:

ex fonte,

id. 4, 4, 14.—

Of the vessel.

Abl.:

gemmā, i. e. poculo ex gemmā facto,

Verg. G. 2, 506:

caelato = e poculo caelato,

Juv. 12, 47:

conchā,

id. 6, 304:

fictilibus,

id. 10, 25:

testā,

Mart. 3, 82, 3:

vitro,

id. 1, 37, 2; 4, 85, 1:

ossibus humanorum capitum,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.—And bibere understood:

poscunt majoribus poculis, i. e. bibi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66.—

With ex: ex solido auro, L. Varius ap. Macr. 6, 1:

e gemmā,

Prop. 3, 3, 26.—

With in:

hac licet in gemmā bibas,

Mart. 14, 120:

in Priami calathis,

id. 8, 6, 16:

in auro,

Sen. Thyest. 453:

in argento potorio,

Dig. 34, 12, 21:

in ossibus capitum,

Flor. 3, 4, 2.—

Particular phrases.

Bibe si bibis = bibe nunc, si omnino bibere vis, a formula urging to drink, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 33; 5, 4, 51 (cf.:

age, si quid agis,

id. ib. 5, 4, 35).—

Dare bibere, to give to drink, a Grecism, perh. only in the foll. passages: date illi biber, Titin ap. Charis. p. 99 P. (Com. Rel. v. 78 Rib.):

jubebat biber dari, Fann. Ann. ib: bibere da usque plenis cantharis,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 40 (45):

quod jussi ei dari bibere,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 4; cf.:

ut Jovi bibere ministraret,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65:

ut bibere sibi juberet dari,

Liv. 40, 47, 5: cf.: dare with subj.:

tum vos date bibat tibicini,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 16.—And with rel. and subj.:

nimium dabat quod biberem,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 19:

dat aquam quam bibant,

id. Curc. 1, 3, 4.—

Prov.:

aut bibat aut abeat, taken from the Greek banquets, in which the chairman (arbiter bibendi,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 25) could demand unconditional submission to the drinking laws (ê pithi, ê apithi), Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 118.

bĭbo, ōnis, m. [1. bibo], a tippler, drunkard, Firm. Math. 5, 4 fin. —

Esp., a kind of worm bred in wine, Afran. ap. Isid. Orig. 12, 8, 16 (Com. Rel. v. 406 Rib.; al. bibiones).

con-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3 ( inf. perf. sync. concresse, Ov. M. 7, 416), v. n., to grow together; hence with the prevailing idea of uniting, and generally of soft or liquid substances which thicken; to harden, condense, curdle, stiffen, congeal, etc. (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.:

concrescunt semina (opp. extenuantur),

Lucr. 4, 1261; 6, 626; cf.:

concrescunt subitae currenti in flumine crustae,

Verg. G. 3, 360;

opp. liquere,

Cic. Univ. 14: rigido concrescere rostro Ora videt, to stiffen into a hard beak. Ov. M. 5, 673; cf.:

Aconteus Gorgone conspectā saxo concrevit oborto,

id. ib. 5, 202 (cf. also saxoque oculorum induruit umor, id. ib. 5, 233):

quo pacto pluvius concrescat in altis Nubibus umor,

Lucr. 6, 495; cf. id. 6, 250:

imbres gelidis concrescunt ventis,

Ov. M. 9, 220:

(aqua) neque conglaciaret frigoribus neque nive pruināque concresceret, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26:

gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis,

Verg. A. 12, 905:

cum lac concrevit,

Col. 7, 8, 3; cf. Ov. M. 12, 436: concretos sanguine crines, stuck together or clotted, Verg. A. 2, 277; cf.:

concreta sanguine barba,

Ov. M. 14, 201.—With in and acc.:

crystalli modo glaciari et in lapidem concrescere,

harden into, Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 161; cf.:

aër... tum autem concretus in nubis cogitur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101.—

Meton.

To take form, to grow, increase:

de terris terram concrescere parvis,

Lucr. 1, 840:

terrā in ipsā taetro concrescere odore bitumen,

id. 6, 807; Verg. E. 6, 34; cf.:

indagatio initiorum unde omnia orta, generata, concreta sint,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69; 1, 24, 56:

valles, quae fluminum alluvie et inundationibus concreverint,

Col. 3, 11, 8.—With ex:

omne corpus aut aqua aut aër aut ignis aut terra est, aut id quod est concretum ex aliquā parte eorum,

composed, formed of, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30; so id. ib. 3, 14, 34; Tac. A. 13, 57.—

Trop.:

illud funestum animal, ex nefariis stupris, ex civili cruore concretum (al. conceptum),

Cic. Pis. 9, 21. —

(Con intens.) To grow strong, to rise by growing, etc. (so very rare):

(lana) quanto prolixior in pecore concrescit, tanto, etc.,

Col. 7, 3, 10 (but in Lucr. 5, 833, the best reading is clarescit; v. Lachm.).—Hence, concrētus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), grown together, concrete, compound, condensed, hardened, thick, hard, stiff, curdled, congealed, clotted, etc. (class.):

dubitare non possumus quin nihil sit animis admixtum, nihil concretum, nihil copulatum, nihil coagmentatum, nihil duplex,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; 1, 27, 66:

aër crassus et concretus,

id. ib. 1, 18, 42; Lucr. 1, 1018; 5, 467 sq.:

aër (opp. fusus, extenuatus),

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101; cf.:

pingue et concretum esse caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

umores (opp. acres),

id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

spuma,

Ov. M. 4, 537:

lac,

Verg. G. 3, 463:

in sanguine,

Ov. M. 13, 492:

mare,

Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 104:

nix concreta pruinā,

Lucr. 3, 20:

concreta et durata glacies,

Liv. 21, 36, 8; cf.:

concreta frigora canā pruinā,

stiffened by the hoary frost, Verg. G. 2, 376:

gelu,

Curt. 8, 4.— Poet., of light: cum claram speciem concreto lumine luna abdidit, thick, i. e. dimmed, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18:

nanus et ipse suos breviter concretus in artus,

shortened, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 41:

dolor,

benumbing, tearless, Ov. P. 2, 11, 10.— Subst.: concrētum, i, n., firm or solid matter:

species quaedam deorum, quae nihil concreti habeat, nihil solidi,

Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75.—Esp. (sc. gelu), hard or stiff frost:

nec semine jacto Concretum patitur radicem adfigere terrae,

Verg. G. 2, 318 Rib. Forbig.; cf. Hildebr. ad App. M. 1, p. 455. (By others concretum is made acc. of 2. concretus. The common reading is concretam, sc. gelu, the root stiffened by frost; cf. Forbig. ad loc.)— Comp.:

semen concretius,

Lucr. 4, 1240:

spuma lactis concretior,

Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239: ossa concreta, t. t., solid bones, i. e. without marrow, id. 7, 18, 18, § 78.— Sup. and adv. not in use.

con-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3 ( inf. perf. sync. concresse, Ov. M. 7, 416), v. n., to grow together; hence with the prevailing idea of uniting, and generally of soft or liquid substances which thicken; to harden, condense, curdle, stiffen, congeal, etc. (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.:

concrescunt semina (opp. extenuantur),

Lucr. 4, 1261; 6, 626; cf.:

concrescunt subitae currenti in flumine crustae,

Verg. G. 3, 360;

opp. liquere,

Cic. Univ. 14: rigido concrescere rostro Ora videt, to stiffen into a hard beak. Ov. M. 5, 673; cf.:

Aconteus Gorgone conspectā saxo concrevit oborto,

id. ib. 5, 202 (cf. also saxoque oculorum induruit umor, id. ib. 5, 233):

quo pacto pluvius concrescat in altis Nubibus umor,

Lucr. 6, 495; cf. id. 6, 250:

imbres gelidis concrescunt ventis,

Ov. M. 9, 220:

(aqua) neque conglaciaret frigoribus neque nive pruināque concresceret, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26:

gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis,

Verg. A. 12, 905:

cum lac concrevit,

Col. 7, 8, 3; cf. Ov. M. 12, 436: concretos sanguine crines, stuck together or clotted, Verg. A. 2, 277; cf.:

concreta sanguine barba,

Ov. M. 14, 201.—With in and acc.:

crystalli modo glaciari et in lapidem concrescere,

harden into, Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 161; cf.:

aër... tum autem concretus in nubis cogitur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101.—

Meton.

To take form, to grow, increase:

de terris terram concrescere parvis,

Lucr. 1, 840:

terrā in ipsā taetro concrescere odore bitumen,

id. 6, 807; Verg. E. 6, 34; cf.:

indagatio initiorum unde omnia orta, generata, concreta sint,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69; 1, 24, 56:

valles, quae fluminum alluvie et inundationibus concreverint,

Col. 3, 11, 8.—With ex:

omne corpus aut aqua aut aër aut ignis aut terra est, aut id quod est concretum ex aliquā parte eorum,

composed, formed of, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30; so id. ib. 3, 14, 34; Tac. A. 13, 57.—

Trop.:

illud funestum animal, ex nefariis stupris, ex civili cruore concretum (al. conceptum),

Cic. Pis. 9, 21. —

(Con intens.) To grow strong, to rise by growing, etc. (so very rare):

(lana) quanto prolixior in pecore concrescit, tanto, etc.,

Col. 7, 3, 10 (but in Lucr. 5, 833, the best reading is clarescit; v. Lachm.).—Hence, concrētus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), grown together, concrete, compound, condensed, hardened, thick, hard, stiff, curdled, congealed, clotted, etc. (class.):

dubitare non possumus quin nihil sit animis admixtum, nihil concretum, nihil copulatum, nihil coagmentatum, nihil duplex,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; 1, 27, 66:

aër crassus et concretus,

id. ib. 1, 18, 42; Lucr. 1, 1018; 5, 467 sq.:

aër (opp. fusus, extenuatus),

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101; cf.:

pingue et concretum esse caelum,

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

umores (opp. acres),

id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

spuma,

Ov. M. 4, 537:

lac,

Verg. G. 3, 463:

in sanguine,

Ov. M. 13, 492:

mare,

Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 104:

nix concreta pruinā,

Lucr. 3, 20:

concreta et durata glacies,

Liv. 21, 36, 8; cf.:

concreta frigora canā pruinā,

stiffened by the hoary frost, Verg. G. 2, 376:

gelu,

Curt. 8, 4.— Poet., of light: cum claram speciem concreto lumine luna abdidit, thick, i. e. dimmed, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18:

nanus et ipse suos breviter concretus in artus,

shortened, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 41:

dolor,

benumbing, tearless, Ov. P. 2, 11, 10.— Subst.: concrētum, i, n., firm or solid matter:

species quaedam deorum, quae nihil concreti habeat, nihil solidi,

Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75.—Esp. (sc. gelu), hard or stiff frost:

nec semine jacto Concretum patitur radicem adfigere terrae,

Verg. G. 2, 318 Rib. Forbig.; cf. Hildebr. ad App. M. 1, p. 455. (By others concretum is made acc. of 2. concretus. The common reading is concretam, sc. gelu, the root stiffened by frost; cf. Forbig. ad loc.)— Comp.:

semen concretius,

Lucr. 4, 1240:

spuma lactis concretior,

Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239: ossa concreta, t. t., solid bones, i. e. without marrow, id. 7, 18, 18, § 78.— Sup. and adv. not in use.

sĭmĭlis, e, adj. [Sanscr. samā, together; Gr. hama, omoios; Lat. simul, simulare; cf. simia], like, resembling, similar (cf. par); constr. with gen. (so usu. in ante-Aug. Lat.), with dat. (rare in Cic., except with neuter nouns), with inter, atque, and absol.

With gen. (mostly ante - Aug.; so always in Plaut. and Ter.; cf. Brix ad Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 7; but in Cic. almost exclusively of living beings; yet always veri simile; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12);

of persons: similes avorum,

Lucr. 4, 1218:

nimis simili'st mei,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 286; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 226:

ecquid mei similist (puer)?

id. Truc. 2, 6, 24 Speng.:

omnis inveniri similis tui vis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 50 Brix:

ita est istaec (amica) hujus similis nostrae tua,

id. Mil. 2, 6, 39:

alia ejus similis,

id. ib. 2, 5, 38:

similis est Sagaristionis,

id. Pers. 1, 1, 14:

hominis similis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 78; Val. Max. 9, 14, 2:

symbolum ejus similem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 55:

sui similem speciem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

sui similis res,

Lucr. 5, 830:

volo me patris mei similem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 53: patris similem esse. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30:

non tam potuit patris similis esse, quam ille fuerat sui,

id. Off. 1, 33, 121: quaererem ex eo, cujus suorum similis fuisset Africani fratris nepos; facie vel patris, vitā omnium perditorum ita similis, ut esset facile deterrimus;

cujus etiam similis P. Crassi nepos, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 33, 81:

tui similis est probe,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 18:

est similis majorum suorum,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 57:

haud similis virgo est virginum nostrarum,

id. Eun. 2, 3, 22: haud parasitorum aliorum simil'est, Naev. ap. Non. 224, 26:

virum non similem furis hujus,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 91:

domini similis es,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 43:

in magistratu privatorum similes,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67:

multi Gnathonum similes cum sint,

id. Lael. 25, 94:

plures Romuli quam Numae similes reges,

Liv. 1, 20:

ut sis tu similis Coeli Byrrhique latronum, Non ego sim Capri neque Sulci,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 69 et saep.:

deos esse tui similes putas?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 128; so,

tui,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 16; Liv. 22, 39:

nostri similes,

id. 26, 50:

sui similis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 7; cf.:

alterum similem sui quaerere,

Cic. Lael. 22, 82:

nihil est appetentius similium sui quam natura,

id. ib. 14, 50:

quam uterque est similis sui!

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 16:

tui similem esse,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 6:

sui similis gens,

Tac. G. 4.—Of things:

tam similem quam lacte lactist (i. e. lactis est, Brix ad loc.),

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85:

haec atque hujus similia alia damna,

id. ib. 3, 1, 105:

perpulchra credo dona aut nostri similia,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 15 Umpfenb.:

quid habet illius carminis simile haec oratio,

Cic. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

si fabularum similia didicimus,

id. ib.:

paupertatem, ignominiam, similia horum,

id. Fin. 3, 15, 51:

similes meorum versus,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 3:

nonne hoc monstri simile'st?

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 43; so,

monstri,

id. Phorm. 5, 7 (8), 61:

prodigii,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

narrationem veri similem,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83; cf.

Cels. ap. Cuint. 2, 15, 32: simile veri,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

quae similia veri sint,

Liv. 5, 21 Drak. N. cr.; v. verus, and cf. also in the foll.—In comparing persons with things:

hominem quojus rei Similem esse arbitrarer simulacrumque habere... Novarum aedium esse arbitror similem ego hominem,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 6 sq.:

amator simil'est oppidi hostilis,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 68:

meretricem esse similem sentis condecet,

id. ib. 2, 1, 16: tu pueri pausilli simili'es, Nov. ap. Non. 224, 28:

equi te Esse feri similem dico,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 57.— Comp.: hominem hominis similiorem numquam vid: ego alterum, Neque aqua aquae, neque lac [p. 1701] test lactis usquam similius, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 29 sq. Brix ad loc.:

Rhodii Atticorum similiores,

Cic. Brut. 13, 52.— Sup.:

hic noster quaestus aucupii simillimu'st,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 72:

meretrix fortunati oppidi,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 82:

tener et lactens puerique simillimus aevo,

Ov. M. 15, 201:

simillima societas hereditatis,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 55:

quid esset simillimum veri,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11.—

With dat. (of both persons and things; freq., and in post-Aug. writers almost always; not in Plaut. or Ter. acc. to Ritschl, Opusc. 2, 570 sq.; 579 sq.; but contra, v. Ussing ad Plaut. Am. v. 595): simia quam similis nobis, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 97 (Sat. v. 45 Vahl.):

patri suo,

Cat. 61, 221; cf.:

similis quidem (genitos) alios avo et ex geminis quoque alterum patri, alterum matri, annoque post genitum majori similem fuisse ut geminum. Quasdam sibi similis semper parere, quasdam viro, quasdam nulli, quasdam feminam patri, marem sibi,

Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 51:

similis malo est,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 36: Terentio non similem dices quempiam, Afran. ap. Suet. Vit. Ter. fin.:

filius patri similis,

Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12 Madv. N. cr.:

sit suo similis patri,

Cat. 61, 217:

patri,

Ov. M. 6, 622:

parentibus ac majoribus suis,

Quint. 5, 10, 24:

par similisque ceteris,

Sall. C. 14, 4:

huic in hoc similis,

Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

similes Icilio,

Liv. 3, 65:

hinnuleo,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 1:

puro te similem vespero petit Rhode,

id. ib. 3, 19, 26:

multum similis metuenti,

id. S. 2, 5, 92:

fluctuanti,

Liv. 6, 13 Drak.:

flenti,

Ov. M. 3, 652:

cognoscenti,

id. ib. 2, 501:

roganti,

id. ib. 3, 240:

cogitantibus et dubitantibus,

Quint. 11, 2, 47:

ediscenti,

id. 11, 2, 46:

legenti,

id. 11, 2, 32 et saep.—Of things:

res similis nostris rebus,

Lucr. 5, 435:

quid simile habet epistula aut judicio aut contioni?

Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1:

quid illi simile bello fuit?

Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

qui non Fescennino versu (i. e. versui) similem jaciebant,

Liv. 7, 2 Drak. N. cr.:

argumentum vero simile comoediae,

Quint. 2, 4, 2; cf.:

similia veris erant,

Liv. 10, 20, 5:

partim vera partim mixta eoque similia veris,

id. 29, 20, 1; 8, 20, 5:

cui vitio simile sit schema, ut, etc.,

Quint. 9, 3, 10:

primus (iambus) ad extremum similis sibi,

Hor. A. P. 254:

versus sibi,

Quint. 9, 4, 60:

oratio fuit precibus quam jurgio similis, similior,

Liv. 3, 40 Drak. N. cr.—Comp.:

flunt omnia castris quam urbi similiora,

Liv. 4, 31 fin.:

similius vero facit ipsos in amicitiam redisse,

id. 8, 26, 6; 10, 26, 13; Quint. 3, 8, 31.— Sup.:

puro simillimus amni,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 120:

media simillima veris sunt,

Liv. 26, 49:

simillimum id vero fecit,

id. 44, 30, 4.—

With gen. and dat. together:

tum similes matrum materno semine fiunt, Ut patribus patrio,

Lucr. 4, 1211:

neque lac lacti magis est simile quam ille ego similis est mei,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 54 Ussing ad loc.:

deos hominum quam homines deorum, hoc illi, illud huic,

Cic. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

itaque plectri similem linguam nostri solent dicere, chordarum dentis, naris cornibus iis, qui, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 59, 149; cf. under e.—

In a doubtful construction. On account of the form:

fugae similis profectio,

Caes. B. G. 5, 47; 6, 7; 7, 43 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 13 et saep.—Because of an unsettled reading:

similem Caesaris (or Caesari),

Suet. Caes. 52.—

With in and acc.:

in speciem Junonis,

App. M. 10, p. 253 fin. —

With inter:

homines inter se cum formā tum moribus similes,

Cic. Clu. 16, 46; so,

homines inter se (opp. differentes),

Quint. 12, 10, 22:

(catulos) Inter se similes,

Ov. M. 13, 835:

quae sunt inter se similia,

Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206:

res inter se similes,

Quint. 9, 2, 51.—In a twofold construction:

nihil est unum uni tam simile, tam par, quam omnes inter nosmetipsos sumus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 10, 29:

sunt inter se similia, sed non etiam prioribus,

Quint. 9, 3, 49.—

With atque ( ac), et, ut si, tamquam si:

si quid docere vis, aliquid ab isto simile in aestimatione atque a ceteris esse factum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 193:

ut simili ratione atque ipse fecerit suas injurias persequantur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 38 fin.:

nec similem habeat vultum, et si ampullam perdidisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 31;

v. Madv. ad h. l.: similes sunt, ut si qui dicant, etc.,

id. Sen. 6, 17:

similes sunt di, tamquam si Poeni, etc.,

id. Div. 2, 64, 131.—

Absol.:

decet facta moresque hujus habere me similes,

Plaut. Am 1, 1, 114:

ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aeque sumi, quam haec est atque ista,

id. Mil. 2, 6, 68 Brix ad loc.:

ita formā simili pueri (gemini), ut, etc.,

id. Men. prol. 19:

meus est (puer), nimium quidem simili'st,

id. Truc. 2, 6, 26:

laudantur simili prole puerperae,

i. e. that look like their fathers, Hor. C. 4, 5, 23:

ecce similia omnia,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 34:

par est avaritia, similis improbitas,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118;

but cf., in a more restricted sense: similia omnia magis quam paria,

Liv. 45, 43:

ad quam (amicitiam) se similis animus applicet,

Cic. Lael. 14, 48:

sicut erat in simili causā antea factum,

id. Rep. 2, 37, 63:

quod in simili culpā versabantur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

simili ratione,

id. B. G. 7, 4; id. B. C. 3, 76 al.:

similem esse te volo quomodo filium, non quomodo imaginem,

Sen. Ep. 84, 8:

ecce aliud simile, dissimile,

Cic. Fin. 4, 27, 76:

si quis Aristotelem similem emit,

a likeness of Aristotle, Juv. 2, 6; cf.:

tabella, in quā tam similem videbis Issam, ut sit tam similis sibi nec ipsa,

Mart. 1, 109, 19 sq.; 7, 87, 4:

te similem,

your likeness, Stat. S. 3, 3, 201; 5, 1, 1.— Poet., adverb. (=similiter):

similis medios Juturna per hostīs Fertur,

Verg. A. 12, 477.— Comp.:

similiorem mulierem Magisque eandem non reor deos facere posse,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 48:

nihil hoc simile est similius,

id. Am. 1, 1, 290. — Sup.:

simillimos dicito esse,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91.—Hence, subst.: sĭmĭle, is, n.

A comparison, likeness, parallel case, or example:

quo facilius res perspici possit hoc simile ponitur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54:

utuntur simili,

id. ib. 3, 14, 46:

nec improbum sit pro simili accipi, quod plus sit,

Quint. 7, 1, 61:

qui memoriam ab aliquo simili transferunt ad id, quod, etc.,

id. 11, 2, 30 et saep.:

ignavi et erepti et similia,

id. 1, 5, 69; 1, 6, 2; 2, 4, 26; 3, 5, 16 et saep.; cf.:

latitatio, metus, similia,

id. 7, 2, 46:

de philosophiā, de republicā, similibus,

id. 9, 4, 19; 11, 3, 153.—

Resemblance, simile et majus est et par et minus, Quint. 7, 8, 7.— Adv. in two forms, simulter (ante-class.) and similiter (class.).

sĭmulter, in like manner, similarly:

exossabo ego illum simulter itidem ut muraenam coquos,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 148 (cited ap. Non. 170, 25: simulter pro similiter); v. Ritschl ad Plaut. 1. 1.—

sĭmĭlĭter, in like manner, similarly (syn. pariter).

Absol. (so most freq.):

ecquid adsimulo similiter?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 37:

similiter atque uno modo,

Cic. Brut. 66, 233:

illa quae similiter desinunt aut quae cadunt similiter,

id. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Tusc. 4, 11, 25:

si non similiter semper ingrediamur in argumentationem,

id. Inv. 1, 41, 76:

addunt etiam C. Marium... Similiter vos, cum, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 5, 14:

quorum non similiter fides est nec justitia laudata,

id. Rep. 2, 36, 61 et saep.— Comp.: scurram multo similius imitatum, more perfectly or naturally, Phaedr. 5, 5, 34.— Sup.:

ut, etc.... simillime, etc.,

just so, Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54.—

With atque ( ac), et, ut si:

neque vero illum similiter, atque ipse eram, commotum esse vidi,

Cic. Phil. 1, 4, 9; id. Ac. 2, 23, 72; Quint. 3, 7, 26:

similiter facis, ac si me roges, cur, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 3, 3, 8:

similiter facere eos... ut si nautae certarent, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 25, 87:

similiter facit ut si posse putet,

id. Tusc. 4, 18, 41:

similiter et si dicat, etc.,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; v. Madv. ad h. l.— Sup.:

hic excipit Pompeium, simillime atque ut illā lege Glaucippus excipitur,

Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 13.—

With dat.:

similiter his, etc.,

Plin. 11, 25, 30, § 86.

sĭmĭlis, e, adj. [Sanscr. samā, together; Gr. hama, omoios; Lat. simul, simulare; cf. simia], like, resembling, similar (cf. par); constr. with gen. (so usu. in ante-Aug. Lat.), with dat. (rare in Cic., except with neuter nouns), with inter, atque, and absol.

With gen. (mostly ante - Aug.; so always in Plaut. and Ter.; cf. Brix ad Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 7; but in Cic. almost exclusively of living beings; yet always veri simile; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12);

of persons: similes avorum,

Lucr. 4, 1218:

nimis simili'st mei,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 286; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 226:

ecquid mei similist (puer)?

id. Truc. 2, 6, 24 Speng.:

omnis inveniri similis tui vis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 50 Brix:

ita est istaec (amica) hujus similis nostrae tua,

id. Mil. 2, 6, 39:

alia ejus similis,

id. ib. 2, 5, 38:

similis est Sagaristionis,

id. Pers. 1, 1, 14:

hominis similis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 78; Val. Max. 9, 14, 2:

symbolum ejus similem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 55:

sui similem speciem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

sui similis res,

Lucr. 5, 830:

volo me patris mei similem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 53: patris similem esse. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30:

non tam potuit patris similis esse, quam ille fuerat sui,

id. Off. 1, 33, 121: quaererem ex eo, cujus suorum similis fuisset Africani fratris nepos; facie vel patris, vitā omnium perditorum ita similis, ut esset facile deterrimus;

cujus etiam similis P. Crassi nepos, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 33, 81:

tui similis est probe,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 18:

est similis majorum suorum,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 57:

haud similis virgo est virginum nostrarum,

id. Eun. 2, 3, 22: haud parasitorum aliorum simil'est, Naev. ap. Non. 224, 26:

virum non similem furis hujus,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 91:

domini similis es,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 43:

in magistratu privatorum similes,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67:

multi Gnathonum similes cum sint,

id. Lael. 25, 94:

plures Romuli quam Numae similes reges,

Liv. 1, 20:

ut sis tu similis Coeli Byrrhique latronum, Non ego sim Capri neque Sulci,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 69 et saep.:

deos esse tui similes putas?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 128; so,

tui,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 16; Liv. 22, 39:

nostri similes,

id. 26, 50:

sui similis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 7; cf.:

alterum similem sui quaerere,

Cic. Lael. 22, 82:

nihil est appetentius similium sui quam natura,

id. ib. 14, 50:

quam uterque est similis sui!

Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 16:

tui similem esse,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 6:

sui similis gens,

Tac. G. 4.—Of things:

tam similem quam lacte lactist (i. e. lactis est, Brix ad loc.),

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85:

haec atque hujus similia alia damna,

id. ib. 3, 1, 105:

perpulchra credo dona aut nostri similia,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 15 Umpfenb.:

quid habet illius carminis simile haec oratio,

Cic. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

si fabularum similia didicimus,

id. ib.:

paupertatem, ignominiam, similia horum,

id. Fin. 3, 15, 51:

similes meorum versus,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 3:

nonne hoc monstri simile'st?

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 43; so,

monstri,

id. Phorm. 5, 7 (8), 61:

prodigii,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

narrationem veri similem,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83; cf.

Cels. ap. Cuint. 2, 15, 32: simile veri,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

quae similia veri sint,

Liv. 5, 21 Drak. N. cr.; v. verus, and cf. also in the foll.—In comparing persons with things:

hominem quojus rei Similem esse arbitrarer simulacrumque habere... Novarum aedium esse arbitror similem ego hominem,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 6 sq.:

amator simil'est oppidi hostilis,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 68:

meretricem esse similem sentis condecet,

id. ib. 2, 1, 16: tu pueri pausilli simili'es, Nov. ap. Non. 224, 28:

equi te Esse feri similem dico,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 57.— Comp.: hominem hominis similiorem numquam vid: ego alterum, Neque aqua aquae, neque lac [p. 1701] test lactis usquam similius, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 29 sq. Brix ad loc.:

Rhodii Atticorum similiores,

Cic. Brut. 13, 52.— Sup.:

hic noster quaestus aucupii simillimu'st,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 72:

meretrix fortunati oppidi,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 82:

tener et lactens puerique simillimus aevo,

Ov. M. 15, 201:

simillima societas hereditatis,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 55:

quid esset simillimum veri,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11.—

With dat. (of both persons and things; freq., and in post-Aug. writers almost always; not in Plaut. or Ter. acc. to Ritschl, Opusc. 2, 570 sq.; 579 sq.; but contra, v. Ussing ad Plaut. Am. v. 595): simia quam similis nobis, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 97 (Sat. v. 45 Vahl.):

patri suo,

Cat. 61, 221; cf.:

similis quidem (genitos) alios avo et ex geminis quoque alterum patri, alterum matri, annoque post genitum majori similem fuisse ut geminum. Quasdam sibi similis semper parere, quasdam viro, quasdam nulli, quasdam feminam patri, marem sibi,

Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 51:

similis malo est,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 36: Terentio non similem dices quempiam, Afran. ap. Suet. Vit. Ter. fin.:

filius patri similis,

Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12 Madv. N. cr.:

sit suo similis patri,

Cat. 61, 217:

patri,

Ov. M. 6, 622:

parentibus ac majoribus suis,

Quint. 5, 10, 24:

par similisque ceteris,

Sall. C. 14, 4:

huic in hoc similis,

Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

similes Icilio,

Liv. 3, 65:

hinnuleo,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 1:

puro te similem vespero petit Rhode,

id. ib. 3, 19, 26:

multum similis metuenti,

id. S. 2, 5, 92:

fluctuanti,

Liv. 6, 13 Drak.:

flenti,

Ov. M. 3, 652:

cognoscenti,

id. ib. 2, 501:

roganti,

id. ib. 3, 240:

cogitantibus et dubitantibus,

Quint. 11, 2, 47:

ediscenti,

id. 11, 2, 46:

legenti,

id. 11, 2, 32 et saep.—Of things:

res similis nostris rebus,

Lucr. 5, 435:

quid simile habet epistula aut judicio aut contioni?

Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1:

quid illi simile bello fuit?

Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

qui non Fescennino versu (i. e. versui) similem jaciebant,

Liv. 7, 2 Drak. N. cr.:

argumentum vero simile comoediae,

Quint. 2, 4, 2; cf.:

similia veris erant,

Liv. 10, 20, 5:

partim vera partim mixta eoque similia veris,

id. 29, 20, 1; 8, 20, 5:

cui vitio simile sit schema, ut, etc.,

Quint. 9, 3, 10:

primus (iambus) ad extremum similis sibi,

Hor. A. P. 254:

versus sibi,

Quint. 9, 4, 60:

oratio fuit precibus quam jurgio similis, similior,

Liv. 3, 40 Drak. N. cr.—Comp.:

flunt omnia castris quam urbi similiora,

Liv. 4, 31 fin.:

similius vero facit ipsos in amicitiam redisse,

id. 8, 26, 6; 10, 26, 13; Quint. 3, 8, 31.— Sup.:

puro simillimus amni,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 120:

media simillima veris sunt,

Liv. 26, 49:

simillimum id vero fecit,

id. 44, 30, 4.—

With gen. and dat. together:

tum similes matrum materno semine fiunt, Ut patribus patrio,

Lucr. 4, 1211:

neque lac lacti magis est simile quam ille ego similis est mei,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 54 Ussing ad loc.:

deos hominum quam homines deorum, hoc illi, illud huic,

Cic. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

itaque plectri similem linguam nostri solent dicere, chordarum dentis, naris cornibus iis, qui, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 59, 149; cf. under e.—

In a doubtful construction. On account of the form:

fugae similis profectio,

Caes. B. G. 5, 47; 6, 7; 7, 43 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 13 et saep.—Because of an unsettled reading:

similem Caesaris (or Caesari),

Suet. Caes. 52.—

With in and acc.:

in speciem Junonis,

App. M. 10, p. 253 fin. —

With inter:

homines inter se cum formā tum moribus similes,

Cic. Clu. 16, 46; so,

homines inter se (opp. differentes),

Quint. 12, 10, 22:

(catulos) Inter se similes,

Ov. M. 13, 835:

quae sunt inter se similia,

Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206:

res inter se similes,

Quint. 9, 2, 51.—In a twofold construction:

nihil est unum uni tam simile, tam par, quam omnes inter nosmetipsos sumus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 10, 29:

sunt inter se similia, sed non etiam prioribus,

Quint. 9, 3, 49.—

With atque ( ac), et, ut si, tamquam si:

si quid docere vis, aliquid ab isto simile in aestimatione atque a ceteris esse factum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 193:

ut simili ratione atque ipse fecerit suas injurias persequantur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 38 fin.:

nec similem habeat vultum, et si ampullam perdidisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 31;

v. Madv. ad h. l.: similes sunt, ut si qui dicant, etc.,

id. Sen. 6, 17:

similes sunt di, tamquam si Poeni, etc.,

id. Div. 2, 64, 131.—

Absol.:

decet facta moresque hujus habere me similes,

Plaut. Am 1, 1, 114:

ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aeque sumi, quam haec est atque ista,

id. Mil. 2, 6, 68 Brix ad loc.:

ita formā simili pueri (gemini), ut, etc.,

id. Men. prol. 19:

meus est (puer), nimium quidem simili'st,

id. Truc. 2, 6, 26:

laudantur simili prole puerperae,

i. e. that look like their fathers, Hor. C. 4, 5, 23:

ecce similia omnia,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 34:

par est avaritia, similis improbitas,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118;

but cf., in a more restricted sense: similia omnia magis quam paria,

Liv. 45, 43:

ad quam (amicitiam) se similis animus applicet,

Cic. Lael. 14, 48:

sicut erat in simili causā antea factum,

id. Rep. 2, 37, 63:

quod in simili culpā versabantur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

simili ratione,

id. B. G. 7, 4; id. B. C. 3, 76 al.:

similem esse te volo quomodo filium, non quomodo imaginem,

Sen. Ep. 84, 8:

ecce aliud simile, dissimile,

Cic. Fin. 4, 27, 76:

si quis Aristotelem similem emit,

a likeness of Aristotle, Juv. 2, 6; cf.:

tabella, in quā tam similem videbis Issam, ut sit tam similis sibi nec ipsa,

Mart. 1, 109, 19 sq.; 7, 87, 4:

te similem,

your likeness, Stat. S. 3, 3, 201; 5, 1, 1.— Poet., adverb. (=similiter):

similis medios Juturna per hostīs Fertur,

Verg. A. 12, 477.— Comp.:

similiorem mulierem Magisque eandem non reor deos facere posse,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 48:

nihil hoc simile est similius,

id. Am. 1, 1, 290. — Sup.:

simillimos dicito esse,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91.—Hence, subst.: sĭmĭle, is, n.

A comparison, likeness, parallel case, or example:

quo facilius res perspici possit hoc simile ponitur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54:

utuntur simili,

id. ib. 3, 14, 46:

nec improbum sit pro simili accipi, quod plus sit,

Quint. 7, 1, 61:

qui memoriam ab aliquo simili transferunt ad id, quod, etc.,

id. 11, 2, 30 et saep.:

ignavi et erepti et similia,

id. 1, 5, 69; 1, 6, 2; 2, 4, 26; 3, 5, 16 et saep.; cf.:

latitatio, metus, similia,

id. 7, 2, 46:

de philosophiā, de republicā, similibus,

id. 9, 4, 19; 11, 3, 153.—

Resemblance, simile et majus est et par et minus, Quint. 7, 8, 7.— Adv. in two forms, simulter (ante-class.) and similiter (class.).

sĭmulter, in like manner, similarly:

exossabo ego illum simulter itidem ut muraenam coquos,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 148 (cited ap. Non. 170, 25: simulter pro similiter); v. Ritschl ad Plaut. 1. 1.—

sĭmĭlĭter, in like manner, similarly (syn. pariter).

Absol. (so most freq.):

ecquid adsimulo similiter?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 37:

similiter atque uno modo,

Cic. Brut. 66, 233:

illa quae similiter desinunt aut quae cadunt similiter,

id. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Tusc. 4, 11, 25:

si non similiter semper ingrediamur in argumentationem,

id. Inv. 1, 41, 76:

addunt etiam C. Marium... Similiter vos, cum, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 5, 14:

quorum non similiter fides est nec justitia laudata,

id. Rep. 2, 36, 61 et saep.— Comp.: scurram multo similius imitatum, more perfectly or naturally, Phaedr. 5, 5, 34.— Sup.:

ut, etc.... simillime, etc.,

just so, Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54.—

With atque ( ac), et, ut si:

neque vero illum similiter, atque ipse eram, commotum esse vidi,

Cic. Phil. 1, 4, 9; id. Ac. 2, 23, 72; Quint. 3, 7, 26:

similiter facis, ac si me roges, cur, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 3, 3, 8:

similiter facere eos... ut si nautae certarent, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 25, 87:

similiter facit ut si posse putet,

id. Tusc. 4, 18, 41:

similiter et si dicat, etc.,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; v. Madv. ad h. l.— Sup.:

hic excipit Pompeium, simillime atque ut illā lege Glaucippus excipitur,

Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 13.—

With dat.:

similiter his, etc.,

Plin. 11, 25, 30, § 86.

spisso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.].

Lit., to thicken, make thick, condense ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Pliny the elder; cf.

denso): omne lac igne spissatur,

Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 238; so,

spissatum lac,

id. 20, 7, 24, § 58:

farinae modo spissatur in panem,

id. 13, 4, 9, § 47:

ignis densum spissatus in aëra transit,

Ov. M. 15, 250; cf. Luc. 4, 77:

(aquilo) sanum corpus spissat,

Cels. 2, 1 med.; cf. Plin. 26, 13, 83, § 134; Sen. Ep. 90, 10.—

Trop., to urge on, hasten an action, i. e. to perform it more rapidly:

spissare officium,

Petr. 140.

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