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1 serus

sērus, a, um, adj. [cf. series; Sanscr. sărat, thread; that which is long drawn out], late (freq. and class.; cf.: tardus, lentus): nescis quid vesper serus vehat (the title of a work by Varro), Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 22, 4; 13, 11, 1:
sero a vespere,
Ov. M. 4, 415:
serā nocte,
Liv. 1, 57, 9; Col. 1 praef.; Prop. 1, 3, 10; Val. Fl. 7, 400:
crepuscula,
Ov. M. 1, 219:
lux,
id. ib. 15, 651:
dies,
Tac. H. 3, 82 (cf. infra, B.):
hiems,
Liv. 32, 28, 6:
anni,
i. e. ripe years, age, Ov. M. 6, 29; 9, 434; id. F. 5, 63; cf.
aetas,
id. A. A. 1, 65; Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 4:
gratulatio,
Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1:
portenta deūm Tarda et sera nimis, id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: nepotes,
Ov. M. 6, 138:
posteritas,
id. P. 1, 4, 24: sera eruditio, quam Graeci opsimathian appellant, Gell. 11, 7, 3; cf. poet., of persons, with gen.: o seri studiorum! ye late-learned, opsimatheis (i. e. backward, ignorant), Hor. S. 1, 10, 21 (v. infra, b. a): ulmus, late - or slowly-growing (acc. to others, old), Verg. G. 4, 144; so,
ficus,
late in bearing, Col. 5, 10, 10; cf. serotinus, and v. the foll. under sup.—Comp. (rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. adv. infra fin.):
serior mors (opp. maturior),
Cels. 2, 6 med.:
senectus,
Mart. 5, 6, 3:
spe omnium serius bellum,
Liv. 2, 3, 1:
serior putatio,
Col. 4, 23, 1; 2, 10, 15.— Poet., for posterior:
serior aetas,
Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 7; Tib. 1, 4, 33:
hora,
Ov. H. 19, 14.— Sup.:
successores quam serissimi,
Vell. 2, 131, 2:
serissima omnium (pirorum) Amerina, etc.,
ripening the latest, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 55; cf. supra.—
b.
Poet.
(α).
For the adv. sero, of one who does any thing late:
serus in caelum redeas,
Hor. C. 1, 2, 45:
serus Graecis admovit acumina chartis,
id. Ep. 2, 1, 161:
jusserit ad se Maecenas serum sub lumina prima venire Convivam,
late in the day, id. S. 2, 7, 33:
nec nisi serus abi,
Ov. A. A. 2, 224:
poena tamen tacitis sera venit pedibus,
Tib. 1, 10, 3:
(me) Arguit incepto serum accessisse labori,
Ov. M. 13, 297.—So with things as subjects:
sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper,
Verg. G. 1, 251:
imposita est sero tandem manus ultima bello,
Ov. M. 13, 403:
seros pedes assumere,
id. ib. 15, 384:
Cantaber serā domitus catenā,
Hor. C. 3, 8, 22:
serum ut veniamus ad amnem Phasidos,
Val. Fl. 4, 708.—With gen.:
o seri studiorum!
Hor. S. 1, 10, 21 (v. supra); so,
belli serus,
Sil. 3, 255.—With inf.:
cur serus versare boves et plaustra Bootes?
Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 35.—
(β).
For adverb. use of sera and serum, v. adv. infra.—
B.
Substt. ‡
1.
sēra, ae, f. (sc. hora), a late hour, the evening hour, hespera, sera, vespra, crepusculum, Gloss. Vet.—
2.
sērum, i, n., late time, late hour (of the day or night; first in Liv.;
esp. in the historians): serum erat diei,
Liv. 7, 8, 4:
quia serum diei fuerit,
id. 26, 3, 1:
jamque sero diei subducit ex acie legionem,
Tac. A. 2, 21 fin.:
extrahebatur in quam maxime serum diei certamen,
Liv. 10, 28, 2 Drak. N. cr.:
in serum noctis convivium productum,
id. 33, 48; cf.: ad serum [p. 1682] usque diem, Tac. H. 3, 82.— Absol., in Sueton., of a late hour of the day:
in serum dimicatione protractā,
Suet. Aug. 17; id. Ner. 22:
in serum usque patente cubiculo,
id. Oth. 11.—
II.
Pregn., too late (class.):
ut magis exoptatae Kalendae Januariae quam serae esse videantur,
Cic. Phil. 5, 1:
neque rectae voluntati serum est tempus ullum, etc.,
Quint. 12, 1, 31:
tempus cavendi,
Sen. Thyest. 487: bellum, Sall. Fragm. ap. Philarg. Verg. G. 4, 144:
Antiates serum auxilium post proelium venerant,
Liv. 3, 5 fin.; 31, 24:
auxilia,
Val. Fl. 3, 562:
improbum consilium serum, ut debuit, fuit: et jam profectus Virginius erat, etc.,
Liv. 3, 46 fin.:
redit Alcidae jam sera cupido,
Val. Fl. 4, 247:
seras conditiones pacis tentare,
Suet. Aug. 17:
cum tandem ex somno surrexissent, in quod serum erat, aliquot horas remis in naves collocandis absumpserunt,
which was too late, Liv. 33, 48, 8:
hoc serum est,
Mart. 8, 44, 1; and with a subj.-clause:
dum deliberamus, quando incipiendum sit, incipere jam serum est,
Quint. 12, 6, 3; so,
serum est, advocare iis rebus affectum, etc.,
id. 4, 2, 115.—
b.
Poet. for the adverb (cf. supra, I. b. a):
tum decuit metuisse tuis: nunc sera querelis Haud justis assurgis,
too late, Verg. A. 10, 94:
ad possessa venis praeceptaque gaudia serus,
Ov. H. 17, 107:
Herculeas jam serus opes spretique vocabis Arma viri,
Val. Fl. 3, 713:
serā ope vincere fata Nititur,
Ov. M. 2, 617:
auxilia ciere,
Val. Fl. 3, 562.—Hence, adv., in three forms.
1.
sēră, late ( poet. and very rare):
sera comans Narcissus,
late in flowering, Verg. G. 4, 122.—
2.
sērum, late at night ( poet. and very rare):
quae nocte sedens serum canit,
Verg. A. 12, 864.—
3.
sērō̆.
A.
(Acc. to I.) Late.
a.
Late, at a late hour of the day or night (rare but class.):
eo die Lentulus venit sero,
Cic. Att. 7, 21, 1 (cf. infra, B.):
domum sero redire,
id. Fam. 7, 22.—
b.
Late, at a late period of time, in gen. (freq. and class.):
res rustica sic est: si unam rem sero feceris omnia opera sero facies,
Cato, R. R. 5, 7; Cic. Brut. 10, 39; Quint. 6, 3, 103:
doctores artis sero repertos,
id. 2, 17, 7; 2, 5, 3.— Comp.:
modo surgis Eoo Temperius caelo, modo serius incidis undis,
Ov. M. 4, 198; Liv. 31, 11, 10:
serius, quam ratio postulat,
Quint. 2, 1, 1:
scripsi ad Pompeium serius quam oportuit,
Cic. Fam. 14, 10; 15, 1, 4; id. Sest. 31, 67; Liv. 37, 45, 18; 42, 28, 1:
itaque serius aliquanto notatus et cognitus (numerus),
Cic. Or. 56, 186:
serius egressus vestigia vidit in alto Pulvere,
Ov. M. 4, 105:
ipse salutabo decimā vel serius horā,
Mart. 1, 109, 9: omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura, later or earlier (or, as we say, inverting the order, sooner or later), Hor. C. 2, 3, 26; so,
serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam,
Ov. M. 10, 33:
serius ei triumphandi causa fuit, ne, etc.,
Liv. 39, 6, 4; 38, 27, 4:
in acutis morbis serius aeger alendus est,
Cels. 3, 2.— Sup.:
ut quam serissime ejus profectio cognosceretur,
Caes. B. C. 3, 75 (Scaliger ex conj.); so,
legi pira Tarentina,
Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 61 (al. serissima).—
B.
(Acc to II.) Too late (freq. and class.):
abi stultus, sero post tempus venis,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 90:
idem, quando illaec occasio periit, post sero cupit,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 71; id. Am. 2, 2, 34; id. Men. 5, 6, 31; id. Pers. 5, 1, 16 (Opp. temperi); id. Trin. 2, 4, 14; 2, 4, 167; 4, 2, 147; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103; id. Ad. 2, 4, 8. (Scipio) factus est consul bis:
primum ante tempus: iterum sibi suo tempore, rei publicae paene sero,
Cic. Lael. 3, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 9:
sero resistimus ei, quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,
id. Att. 7, 5, 5; id. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 164 et saep.:
ne nimis sero ad extrema veniamus,
far too late, id. Phil. 2, 19, 47; Liv. 21, 3, 5.—Hence, in a double sense, alluding to the signif. A. a.:
cum interrogaret (accusator), quo tempore Clodius occisus esset? respondit (Milo), Sero,
Quint. 6, 3, 49.—Prov.: sero sapiunt Phryges, are wise too late, are troubled with after-wit; v. sapio.— Comp., in the same sense:
possumus audire aliquid, an serius venimus?
Cic. Rep. 1, 13, 20:
ad quae (mysteria) biduo serius veneram,
id. de Or. 3, 20, 75:
doleo me in vitam paulo serius tamquam in viam ingressum,
id. Brut. 96, 330: erit verendum mihi, ne non hoc potius omnes boni serius a me, quam quisquam crudelius factum esse dicat, id. Cat. 1, 2, 5:
serius a terrā provectae naves,
Caes. B. C. 3, 8; Suet. Tib. 52.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > serus
2 nox

nox noctis, f [1 NEC-], night: umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit: nocte et die concoqui, in twenty-four hours: dinumerationes noctium ac dierum: omni nocte dieque, Iu.: primā nocte, at nightfall, Cs.: de nocte, by night: multā de nocte, late at night: multā nocte: ad multam noctem, Cs.: intempestā nocte, S.: nox proelium diremit, S.: sub noctem naves solvit, Cs.: Conari noctīsque et dies, T.: noctes et dies urgeri, night and day: concubiā nocte: nec discernatur, interdiu nocte, pugnent, by night, L.: O noctes cenaeque deum! i. e. glorious late suppers, H.: omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat, a revelling by night, Pr. — A dream: pectore noctem Accipit, V.— Death: omnīs una manet nox, H.: aeterna, V.— Darkness, obscurity, gloom of tempest: quae quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet: imber Noctem hiememque ferens, V.— Blindness: Perpetua, O.— Person., the goddess of Night, sister of Erebus, C., V., O.—Fig., darkness, confusion: in hanc rei p. noctem incidisse.— Mental darkness, ignorance: quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent, O.— Obscurity, unintelligibility: mei versūs aliquantum noctis habebunt, O.
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noctis N F

night

prima nocte -- early in the night; multa nocte -- late at night

Latin-English dictionary > nox
3 nocte

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > nocte
4 Nox

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

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5 nox

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

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6 promoveo

prō-mōvĕo, mōvi, mōtum ( pluperf. promorat. Hor Epod. 11, 14:
promosset,
Ov. Am 2, 9, 17 Jahn), 2, v. a., to move forward, cause to advance, push onward, advance.
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
saxa vectibus, Caes B. C. 2, 11: onera,
Col. 11, 1, 8; Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 64:
assa in alterum apodyterii anguium,
Cic. Q. Fr 3, 1, 1, § 2:
legiones,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 16: castra ad Carthaginem, to move onward, Liv 28, 44 fin.:
exercitu in Aetoliam promoto,
Just. 14, 1, 6:
cornua utrimque (in acie),
Quint. 2, 13, 3:
scalas et machinamenta,
Tac. A. 15, 4 fin.:
calculum,
to push forward, move, Quint. 11, 2, 38; 11, 3, 113:
unum pedem triclinio,
to put forth, move from, Phaedr. 4, 23, 28:
ibi te videbo et promovebo,
will take you along with me, Cic. Att. 4, 12 fin. —
B.
In partic., to extend, enlarge. moenia Ostia tenus, Suet Ner 16:
imperium, Ov P 2, 2, 72: vires in immensum orbem,
id. Am. 2, 9, 17.—
C.
Med. t. t., to put out of joint, dislocate, displace:
in palmā quoque ossa interdum suis sedibus promoventur,
Cels. 8, 18 init.:
femur in omnes quattuor partes promovetur, saepissime in interiorem,
id. 8, 20 init. —
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to bring to pass, effect, accomplish (ante- and post-class.):
promovere parum,
Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 81:
aliquis dicat, Nihil promoveris,
id. And. 4, 1, 17:
meditatio nihil ad vitam tuendam promovens,
Gell. 10, 22, 24; cf.
in a lusus verbb. with movere se,
Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 4.— Absol.:
cum in studio facundiae abunde promovisset,
Gell. 5, 10, 7.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To enlarge, increase: doctrina vim promovet insitam, Hor C. 4, 4, 33; so, promovere aliquem, to advance, prefer, promote (post-Aug.; cf.:
perduco, produco, proveho): vetus miles ad eum gradum promotus,
Curt. 6, 11, 1:
promotus ad amplissimas procurationes,
Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3; Suet. Oth. 1; id. Vesp. 16; Lampr. Elag. 12; 20; Plin. Pan. 90, 6; Vulg. Dan. 3, 97.—
2.
To bring to light, reveal: arcana promorat loco (i. e. ex intimo corde), Hor Epod. 11, 14.—
3.
To put off, defer, postpone:
nuptias alicui,
Ter. And. 4, 2, 28.—Hence, prōmōtus, a, um, P a.
A.
Of time, advanced, i. e. late:
nocte promotā,
late at night, far into the night, App. M. 4, p. 152, 38; 7, p. 190, 30.—
B.
Subst.: prōmōta, ōrum, n., in the lang. of the Stoics, things that are to be preferred, pref. erable things, as being next in degree to absolute good; a literal transl. of the Gr. proêgmeua, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52.

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7 multus

multus adj. (for comp. and sup. in use see plūs, plūrimus). I. Plur., with subst., or with adjec. used as subst, many, a great number: multi alii, T.: multae sunt artes eximiae: tam multis verbis scribere, at such length: Quid multa verba? in short, T.: multa acerba habuit ille annus.—With other adjj., many: multae et magnae contentiones: multis magnisque praesidiis perditis, S.: multi et varii timores, L.: vectigalīs multos ac stipendiarios liberavit: multae liberae civitates, republics: multa libera capita, freemen, L.: multa secunda proelia, victories, L.: multa maiores magna et gravia bella gesserunt: multis suppliciis iustis: utebatur hominibus improbis multis: prodigia multa foeda, L.—As subst m., many men, many: multi pecunias coëgerunt: alter multos fefellit: pro multis dicere.—The multitude, mass, common people, vulgar: unus de multis esse: orator unus e multis, commonplace: numerari in multis, in the herd (of orators): e multis una sit tibi, no better than others, O.: sum unus Multorum, H. —As subst n. (only nom. and acc.), many things, much: quam multa te deficiant vides: quid multis moror? many words, T.: ne multa, in short: quid multa? H.— II. Sing., distributive, many a (poet.): trudit multā cane Apros in plagas, H.: multā victimā, V.: multā prece prosequi, H.—Of quantity, much, abundant, large, considerable, extensive: exstructa mensa multā carne: multum pro re p. sanguinem effudistis: multa et lauta supellex: lingua Gallica, quā multā utebatur, spoke fluently, Cs.: multus fluens, glibly, H.—In excess, superfluous: supellex modica, non multa, N.: qui in aliquo genere multus est, prolix.—Frequent, frequently, engaged, busy, diligent: ad vigilias multus adesse, S.: cum Timaeo multum fuisse: Multa viri virtus animo recursat, V.—Strong, influential: adeo teneris consuescere multum est, so strong is habit, V.—Of time, full, late: ad multum diem, till late in the day: multa iam dies erat, L.: multā nocte, late at night: multo mane, very early.
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multa -um, -, plurimus -a -um ADJ

much, many, great, many a; large, intense, assiduous; tedious

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8 dē

dē praep., with abl. — Of separation, in space, from, away from, down from, out of: de finibus suis exire, Cs.: decedere de provinciā: qui de castris processerant, S.: ferrum de manibus extorsimus: de muro se deiecerunt, Cs.: de iugis, quae ceperant, funduntur, L. — Fig., from, away from, out of: exire de vitā: de priscis Latinis capta oppida, L.: de sententiā deiectus.—In time, of immediate sequence, after, directly after: statim de auctione: diem de die prospectans, day after day, L.—Of duration, during, in the course of, at, by: de nocte: multā de nocte, late at night: de mediā nocte, Cs.: de tertiā vigiliā, in the third night-watch, Cs.: adparare de die convivium, in open day, T.: mediā de luce, H.: navigare de mense Decembri, in December. — Of origin or source, of, from, from among, out of, proceeding from, derived from: caupo de viā Latinā: nescio qui de circo maximo: homo de scholā: aliquis de ponte, i. e. a beggar, Iu.: Priami de stirpe, V.: recita de epistulā reliqua: hoc audivi de patre: discere id de me, T.—Of the whole, of, from, from among, out of: hominem misi de comitibus meis: percussus ab uno de illis: quemvis de iis qui essent idonei: accusator de plebe: unus de legatis: partem solido demere de die, H.: expers partis de nostris bonis, T.: si quae sunt de eodem genere: cetera de genere hoc, H.—Of material, of, out of, from: solido de marmore templum, V.: de templo carcerem fieri: de scurrā divitem fieri posse: fies de rhetore consul, Iu. — Esp., of a fund out of which costs are taken: potat, ole<*> unguenta, de meo, T.: de suo: stipendium de publico statuit, L.: non solum de die, sed etiam in diem vivere, on the day's resources.—Of cause, for, on account of, by reason of, because of, from, through, by: quā de causā, Cs.: certis de causis: de quo nomine ad arbitrum adisti: de gestu intellego quid respondeas: incessit passu de volnere tardo, O.: de Atticae febriculā valde dolui.—Of measure or standard, according to, after, in accordance with: De eius consilio velle se facere, T.: de amicorum sententiā Romam confugit: de more vetusto rapuere faces, V.—Of relation, of, about, concerning, in respect to: multa narrare de Laelio. senatus de bello accepit, learned of, S.: Consilium summis de rebus habere, V.: legati de pace ad Caesarem venerant, Cs.: de bene vivendo disputare: de me experior, in my own case.—In gen., in reference to, with respect to, concerning, in the matter of: non est de veneno celata mater: Aeduis de iniuriis satisfacere, for, Cs.: quid de his fieri placeat, S.: concessum ab nobilitate de consule plebeio, L.: ut sciam quid de nobis futurum sit: de argento somnium, as for the money, T.: de benevolentiā, primum, etc.: de Samnitibus triumphare, over. — In adverbial expressions, de integro, anew, afresh, once more: ratio de integro ineunda est mihi, T.: de integro funus iam sepulto filio facere.—De improviso, unexpectedly: ubi de inprovisost interventum mulieri, T.: de improviso venire, Cs.—De transverso, unexpectedly: de traverso L. Caesar ut veniam ad se rogat.
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PREP ABL

down/away from, from, off; about, of, concerning; according to; with regard to

Latin-English dictionary > dē
9 sērum

sērum adv. [neut. of serus], late at night: Quae Nocte sedens serum canit, V.
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seri N N

whey, the watery part of curdled milk; any similar fluid

Latin-English dictionary > sērum
10 moltus

multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
I.
Posit.
A.
In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):
multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:
rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:
beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:
multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:
O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:
multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:
multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:
multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:
multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:
multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:
multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:
multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:
multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:
multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:
multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:
multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:
multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:
multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:
multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:
multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:
multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:
multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:
multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:
multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:
multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:
multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:
multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:
in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:
multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:
multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:
multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:
plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:
virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:
causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;
and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:
prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:
multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:
multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:
nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:
nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:
insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:
parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:
quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:
minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:
in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:
multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:
nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:
aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:
multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:
multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:
avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:
tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:
exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:
multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:
cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:
sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:
multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:
multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:
multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:
arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:
silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:
multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:
multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:
aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:
libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:
multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:
cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:
Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:
ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:
multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:
multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:
multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:
multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:
velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:
multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:
video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:
tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:
unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;
potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:
e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:
multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:
ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:
ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:
quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:
multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:
gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:
deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:
invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):
haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:
in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Too much, overmuch, excessive:
supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
2.
In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:
qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:
ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:
nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
3.
Frequent, frequently present:
in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:
multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:
hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:
instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A.
multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):
salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:
multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:
hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:
opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:
multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:
non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:
non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:
sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:
in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:
multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:
sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:
gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:
res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:
longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:
multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:
diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:
multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:
mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:
multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:
multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:
majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:
haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:
haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:
ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
B.
multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
1.
With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:
multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:
pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:
facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:
virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:
multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:
multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:
multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:
meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
2.
With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:
quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:
simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:
maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:
multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:
pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:
multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:
foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:
optimum,
id. ib. 26:
pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:
utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:
maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:
multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:
multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—
3.
With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:
multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:
multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:
quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
4.
In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:
non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:
non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:
multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:
non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:
haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:
multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—
5.
Very rarely with the positive for multum:
maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
6.
Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:
multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:
multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
II.
Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
A.
In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;
so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:
ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);
so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:
speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:
aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:
tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:
vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:
verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:
apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:
valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
(β).
With a partitive gen.:
vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:
nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,
plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:
plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:
plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:
in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:
plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:
Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
(γ).
With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):
non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:
confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:
non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:
plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
(δ).
Without quam:
HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:
plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:
plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:
ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:
non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:
cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:
parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—
(ε).
With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:
VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:
ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:
alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:
in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:
annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:
plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:
plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:
paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:
plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:
uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
2.
In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:
ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:
ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:
quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:
pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,
vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:
aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:
pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:
mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:
facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:
facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:
pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:
aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:
ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:
putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
3.
Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
4.
Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
* 5.
Like magis, with an adj.:
plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
B.
In the plur.
1.
Comparatively, more in number:
omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:
ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:
multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
2.
In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;
1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:
quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:
plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:
summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:
quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:
eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;
without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:
pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;
also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:
sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
b.
Esp.: plures.
(α).
The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
(β).
Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:
quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
(γ).
The greater number, the majority:
plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
III.
Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):
hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:
nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:
plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:
plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:
haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:
me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:
sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:
risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:
res,
id. 6, 1, 51:
exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §
28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:
cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:
Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:
medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:
coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:
sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:
plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,
oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:
qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:
plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):
ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:
caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:
et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:
si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:
qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:
plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:
hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:
quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):
plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:
gratulor,
id. ib. 40:
(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,
cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
(β).
In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:
artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:
auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:
ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:
virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
(γ).
In the gen. pretii:
plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:
quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:
ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > moltus
11 multi

multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
I.
Posit.
A.
In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):
multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:
rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:
beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:
multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:
O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:
multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:
multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:
multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:
multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:
multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:
multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:
multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:
multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:
multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:
multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:
multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:
multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:
multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:
multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:
multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:
multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:
multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:
multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:
multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:
multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:
multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:
multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:
in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:
multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:
multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:
multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:
plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:
virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:
causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;
and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:
prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:
multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:
multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:
nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:
nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:
insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:
parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:
quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:
minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:
in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:
multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:
nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:
aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:
multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:
multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:
avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:
tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:
exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:
multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:
cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:
sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:
multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:
multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:
multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:
arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:
silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:
multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:
multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:
aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:
libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:
multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:
cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:
Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:
ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:
multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:
multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:
multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:
multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:
velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:
multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:
video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:
tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:
unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;
potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:
e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:
multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:
ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:
ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:
quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:
multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:
gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:
deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:
invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):
haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:
in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Too much, overmuch, excessive:
supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
2.
In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:
qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:
ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:
nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
3.
Frequent, frequently present:
in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:
multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:
hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:
instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A.
multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):
salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:
multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:
hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:
opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:
multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:
non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:
non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:
sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:
in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:
multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:
sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:
gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:
res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:
longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:
multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:
diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:
multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:
mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:
multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:
multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:
majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:
haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:
haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:
ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
B.
multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
1.
With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:
multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:
pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:
facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:
virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:
multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:
multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:
multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:
meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
2.
With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:
quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:
simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:
maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:
multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:
pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:
multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:
foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:
optimum,
id. ib. 26:
pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:
utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:
maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:
multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:
multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—
3.
With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:
multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:
multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:
quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
4.
In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:
non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:
non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:
multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:
non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:
haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:
multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—
5.
Very rarely with the positive for multum:
maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
6.
Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:
multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:
multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
II.
Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
A.
In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;
so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:
ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);
so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:
speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:
aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:
tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:
vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:
verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:
apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:
valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
(β).
With a partitive gen.:
vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:
nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,
plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:
plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:
plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:
in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:
plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:
Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
(γ).
With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):
non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:
confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:
non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:
plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
(δ).
Without quam:
HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:
plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:
plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:
ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:
non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:
cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:
parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—
(ε).
With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:
VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:
ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:
alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:
in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:
annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:
plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:
plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:
paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:
plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:
uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
2.
In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:
ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:
ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:
quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:
pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,
vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:
aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:
pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:
mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:
facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:
facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:
pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:
aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:
ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:
putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
3.
Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
4.
Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
* 5.
Like magis, with an adj.:
plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
B.
In the plur.
1.
Comparatively, more in number:
omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:
ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:
multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
2.
In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;
1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:
quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:
plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:
summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:
quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:
eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;
without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:
pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;
also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:
sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
b.
Esp.: plures.
(α).
The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
(β).
Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:
quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
(γ).
The greater number, the majority:
plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
III.
Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):
hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:
nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:
plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:
plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:
haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:
me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:
sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:
risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:
res,
id. 6, 1, 51:
exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §
28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:
cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:
Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:
medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:
coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:
sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:
plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,
oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:
qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:
plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):
ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:
caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:
et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:
si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:
qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:
plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:
hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:
quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):
plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:
gratulor,
id. ib. 40:
(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,
cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
(β).
In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:
artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:
auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:
ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:
virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
(γ).
In the gen. pretii:
plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:
quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:
ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > multi
12 multus

multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
I.
Posit.
A.
In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):
multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:
rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:
beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:
multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:
O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:
multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:
multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:
multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:
multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:
multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:
multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:
multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:
multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:
multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:
multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:
multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:
multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:
multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:
multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:
multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:
multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:
multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:
multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:
multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:
multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:
multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:
multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:
in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:
multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:
multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:
multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:
plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:
virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:
causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;
and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:
prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:
multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:
multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:
nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:
nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:
insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:
parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:
quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:
minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:
in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:
multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:
nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:
aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:
multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:
multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:
avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:
tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:
exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:
multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:
cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:
sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:
multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:
multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:
multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:
arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:
silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:
multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:
multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:
aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:
libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:
multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:
cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:
Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:
ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:
multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:
multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:
multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:
multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:
velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:
multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:
video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:
tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:
unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;
potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:
e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:
multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:
ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:
ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:
quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:
multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:
gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:
deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:
invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):
haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:
in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Too much, overmuch, excessive:
supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
2.
In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:
qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:
ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:
nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
3.
Frequent, frequently present:
in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:
multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:
hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:
instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A.
multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):
salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:
multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:
hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:
opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:
multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:
non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:
non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:
sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:
in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:
multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:
sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:
gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:
res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:
longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:
multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:
diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:
multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:
mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:
multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:
multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:
majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:
haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:
haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:
ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
B.
multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
1.
With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:
multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:
pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:
facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:
virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:
multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:
multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:
multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:
meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
2.
With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:
quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:
simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:
maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:
multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:
pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:
multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:
foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:
optimum,
id. ib. 26:
pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:
utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:
maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:
multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:
multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—
3.
With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:
multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:
multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:
quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
4.
In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:
non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:
non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:
multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:
non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:
haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:
multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—
5.
Very rarely with the positive for multum:
maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
6.
Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:
multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:
multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
II.
Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
A.
In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;
so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:
ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);
so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:
speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:
aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:
tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:
vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:
verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:
apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:
valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
(β).
With a partitive gen.:
vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:
nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,
plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:
plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:
plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:
in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:
plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:
Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
(γ).
With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):
non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:
confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:
non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:
plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
(δ).
Without quam:
HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:
plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:
plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:
ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:
non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:
cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:
parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—
(ε).
With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:
VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:
ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:
alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:
in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:
annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:
plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:
plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:
paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:
plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:
uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
2.
In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:
ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:
ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:
quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:
pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,
vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:
aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:
pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:
mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:
facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:
facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:
pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:
aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:
ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:
putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
3.
Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
4.
Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
* 5.
Like magis, with an adj.:
plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
B.
In the plur.
1.
Comparatively, more in number:
omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:
ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:
multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
2.
In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;
1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:
quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:
plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:
summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:
quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:
eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;
without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:
pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;
also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:
sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
b.
Esp.: plures.
(α).
The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
(β).
Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:
quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
(γ).
The greater number, the majority:
plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
III.
Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):
hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:
nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:
plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:
plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:
haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:
me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:
sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:
risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:
res,
id. 6, 1, 51:
exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §
28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:
cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:
Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:
medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:
coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:
sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:
plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,
oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:
qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:
plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):
ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:
caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:
et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:
si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:
qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:
plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:
hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:
quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):
plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:
gratulor,
id. ib. 40:
(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,
cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
(β).
In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:
artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:
auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:
ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:
virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
(γ).
In the gen. pretii:
plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:
quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:
ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > multus
13 plurimum

multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.
I.
Posit.
A.
In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):
multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:
rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:
beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:
multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:
O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:
multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:
multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:
multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:
multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:
multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:
multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:
multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:
multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:
multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:
multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:
multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:
multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:
multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:
multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:
multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:
multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:
multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:
multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:
multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:
multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:
multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:
multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:
in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:
multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:
multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:
multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:
plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:
virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:
causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;
and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:
prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:
multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:
multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:
nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:
nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:
insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:
parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:
quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:
minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:
in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:
multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:
nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:
aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:
multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:
multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:
avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:
tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:
exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:
multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:
cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:
sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:
multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:
multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:
multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:
arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:
silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:
multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:
multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:
aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:
libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:
multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:
cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:
Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:
ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:
multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:
multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:
multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:
multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:
velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:
multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:
video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:
tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:
unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;
potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:
numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:
e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:
multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:
ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:
ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:
quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:
multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:
gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:
deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:
invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):
haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:
in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—
B.
In partic.
1.
Too much, overmuch, excessive:
supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—
2.
In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:
qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:
ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:
nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—
3.
Frequent, frequently present:
in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:
multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:
hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:
instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A.
multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):
salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:
multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:
hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:
opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:
multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:
non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:
non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:
sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:
in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:
multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:
sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:
gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:
res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:
longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:
multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:
diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:
multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:
mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:
multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:
multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:
majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:
haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:
haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:
ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—
B.
multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).
1.
With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:
multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:
pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:
facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:
virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:
multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:
multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:
multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:
meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—
2.
With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:
quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:
simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:
maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:
multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:
pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:
multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:
foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:
optimum,
id. ib. 26:
pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:
utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:
maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:
multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:
multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—
3.
With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:
multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:
multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:
quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —
4.
In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:
non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:
non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:
multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:
non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:
haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:
multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—
5.
Very rarely with the positive for multum:
maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—
6.
Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:
multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:
multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.
II.
Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.
A.
In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;
so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:
ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);
so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:
speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:
aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:
tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:
vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:
verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:
apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:
valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—
(β).
With a partitive gen.:
vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:
nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,
plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:
plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:
plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:
in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:
plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:
Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—
(γ).
With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):
non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:
confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:
non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:
plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:
nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—
(δ).
Without quam:
HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:
plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:
plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:
ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:
non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:
cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:
parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—
(ε).
With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:
VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:
ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:
alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:
in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:
annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:
plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:
plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:
paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:
plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:
uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—
2.
In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:
ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:
ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:
quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:
pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,
vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:
aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:
pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:
mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:
facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:
facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:
pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:
aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:
ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:
putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—
3.
Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—
4.
Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—
* 5.
Like magis, with an adj.:
plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—
B.
In the plur.
1.
Comparatively, more in number:
omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:
ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:
multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—
2.
In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;
1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:
quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:
plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:
summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:
pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:
quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:
eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;
without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:
pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;
also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:
sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
b.
Esp.: plures.
(α).
The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—
(β).
Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:
quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—
(γ).
The greater number, the majority:
plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.
III.
Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):
hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:
nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:
plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:
plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:
haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:
me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:
sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:
risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:
res,
id. 6, 1, 51:
exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §
28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:
cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:
Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:
medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:
coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:
sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:
plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,
oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:
qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:
plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):
ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:
caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:
ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:
et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:
auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:
si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:
qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:
plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:
hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:
quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):
plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:
gratulor,
id. ib. 40:
(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,
cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—
(β).
In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:
artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:
auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:
ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:
virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—
(γ).
In the gen. pretii:
plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:
quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:
ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > plurimum
14 de

1.
dē, adv.: of place, down, only in the phrase susque deque, q. v.
2.
dē, prep. [perh. for ded; cf. Oscan dat, old abl. of pronom. stem da; cf. also Lith. praep. da, as far as; and the suffixes, old case-forms, -dam, -dem, -dum, -do, with the locative -de; v. Ribbeck, Beitr. z. L. v. d. Lat. Part. p. 4 sq.] (with abl., denotes the going out, departure, removal, or separating of an object from any fixed point. Accordingly, it occupies a middle place between ab, away from, which denotes a mere external departure, and ex, out of, which signifies from the interior of a thing. Hence verbs compounded with de are constr. not only with de, but quite as freq. with ab and ex; and, on the other hand, those compounded with ab and ex often have the terminus a quo indicated by de), from, away from, down from, out of, etc.
A.
In space, lit. and trop. with verbs of motion: animam de corpore mitto, Enn. ap. Non. p. 150, 6 (Ann. v. 216 Vahl.):
aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit,
Lucr. 3, 224:
(quod Ariovistus) de altera parte agri Sequanos decedere juberet,
to depart, withdraw from, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10; cf.:
civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent,
id. ib. 1, 2:
decedere de provincia,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 49 ( = ex provincia, id. ib. 2, 2, 65, §
147): de vita decedere,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:
exire de vita,
id. Lael. 4, 15 (cf.:
excedere e vita,
id. ib. 3, 12):
de triclinio, de cubiculo exire,
id. de Or. 2, 65 fin.:
hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere,
Plin. Ep. 9, 7, 4:
de castris procedere,
Sall. C. 61, 8 et saep.:
brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet,
Cato R. R. 157, 6:
de digito anulum detraho,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 38; cf.:
de matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere,
Cic. Font. 17:
nomen suum de tabula sustulit,
id. Sest. 33, 72:
ferrum de manibus extorsimus,
id. Cat. 2, 1, 2:
juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest,
id. de Or. 1, 59, 252 et saep.:
... decido de lecto praeceps,
Plaut. Casin. 5, 2, 50:
de muro se deicere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 18, 3:
de sella exsilire,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30 fin.:
nec ex equo vel de muro, etc., hostem destinare,
Tert. adv. Jud. 9, p. 192:
de caelo aliquid demittere,
Lucr. 2, 1155; cf. Cato R. R. 14, 3 et saep.—
b.
In gen., to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds; cf.:
emere de aliquo,
Cato R. R. 1, 4:
aliquid mercari de aliquo,
Cic. Fl. 20 et saep.:
de aliquo quaerere, quid, etc.,
Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2:
saepe hoc audivi de patre,
id. de Or. 3, 33, 133; cf.:
de mausoleo exaudita vox est,
Suet. Ner. 46:
ut sibi liceret discere id de me,
Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 31;
so with petere, of place (class.): de vicino terra petita solo,
Ov. F. 4, 822;
so of persons (late Lat.): peto de te,
Dig. 36, 1, 57, § 2; Apul. M. 6, p. 179, 40.
2.
To point out the place from which any thing is brought; and hence, trop., to indicate its origin, derivation, etc.: of, from: de circo astrologi, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58; so,
caupo de via Latina,
Cic. Clu. 59, 163:
nescio qui de circo maximo,
id. Mil. 24, 65:
declamator aliqui de ludo aut rabula de foro,
id. Or. 15, 47:
homo de schola atque a magistro... eruditus,
id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:
nautae de navi Alexandrina,
Suet. Aug. 98:
aliquis de ponte,
i. e. a beggar, Juv. 14, 134:
Libyca de rupe leones,
Ov. F. 2, 209:
nostro de rure corona,
Tib. 1, 1, 15:
Vaticano fragiles de monte patellas,
Juv. 6, 344 al.:
de summo loco Summoque genere eques,
Plaut. Capt. prol. 30; cf. id. Aul. prol. 28; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13:
genetrix Priami de gente vetusta,
Verg. A. 9, 284; cf. id. ib. 10, 350; Stat. S. 5, 3, 126:
de Numitore sati,
Ov. F. 5, 41:
de libris,
Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 252:
de Philocteta, id,
ib. 3, 35, 141 (cf.:
e Philocteta versus,
Quint. 3, 1, 14).
3.
Transf., to indicate the quarter from which motion proceeds (cf. ab), from, and because motion is so often and naturally downwards, down from:
haec agebantur in conventu, palam, de sella ac de loco superiore,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40; cf. ib. 2, 2, 38:
quem ad se vocari et de tribunali citari jussit,
id. ib. 2, 5, 7:
qui nihil ex occulto, nihil de insidiis, agendum putant,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109; cf.
de tergo plagas dare,
from behind, Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 10; Just. 20, 5, 5:
de paupere mensa dona,
Tib. 1, 1, 37 et saep.—In jurid. Latin: de plano discutere, interloqui, cognoscere, etc., i. e. on level ground, not on the tribunal (cf. chamothen, opp. pro bêmatos, Dig. 27, 1, 13, § 10), Dig. 1, 4, 1; 1, 16, 9; 14. 3, 11 et saep.; so, de plano, off-hand, without formal consideration, Lucr. 1, 411;
v. planus.—And with pendeo, etc. (the motion in the eye transferred to the object): deque viri collo dulce pependit onus,
Ov. F. 2, 760:
lucerna de camera pendebat,
Petr. 30, 3; cf.:
et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet,
Ov. F. 1, 152:
de qua pariens arbore nixa dea est,
leaning downwards against the tree, id. H. 21, 100.
B.
In time.
1.
Immediately following a given moment of time, after, directly after (very rare):
de concursu,
Lucr. 1, 384 (cf. Munro, ad loc.):
velim scire hodiene statim de auctione aut quo die venias,
Cic. Att. 12, 3:
non bonus somnus est de prandio,
Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:
de eorum verbis prosilui, etc.,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 178.—Hence, diem de die, from day to day, day after day, Liv. 5, 48:
cum is diem de die differret, dum, etc.,
id. 25, 25; cf.:
diem de die proferendo,
Just. 2, 15, 6: de die in diem, from day to day, daily (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 60, 8; 2 Pet. 2, 8; Cypr. Ep. 3, 11.
2.
De nocte, de vigilia, etc., to designate an act which begins or takes its origin from the night-time, Engl. during or in the course of the night, at night, by night, etc.: De. Rus cras cum filio Cum primo lucu ibo hinc. Mi. Imo de nocte censeo, to-night rather, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 55: in comitium Milo de nocte venit, in the night (cf. shortly before, Milo media nocte in campum venit), Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. Mur. 33, 69:
vigilas tu de nocte,
id. ib. 9, 22; cf.:
de nocte evigilabat,
Suet. Vesp. 21:
ut jugulent homines, surgunt de nocte latrones,
at night, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 32;
and Hannibal surgere de nocte solitus, Frontin Strat. 4, 3, 7 et saep.: ut de nocte multa impigreque exsurrexi,
late in the night, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 10; so,
multa de nocte,
Cic. Sest. 35, 75; id. Att. 7, 4 fin. (for which multa nocte, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9); cf.
also: si de multa nocte (al. de nocte) vigilassent,
id. Att. 2, 15, 2:
Caesar mittit complures equitum turmas eo de media nocte,
Caes. B. G. 7, 45; 7, 88; so,
media de nocte,
at midnight, Suet. Calig. 26; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 91:
Caesar de tertia vigilia e castris profectus,
in the third night-watch, Caes. B. G. 1, 12:
de tertia vigilia,
id. ib. 1, 21; Liv. 9, 44 Drak.; 40, 4 al.; cf.:
de quarta vigilia,
Caes. B. G. 1, 21, 3 al.; v. vigilia. —As in this manner de nocte became adverbially = nocte, so de die was sometimes used for die or per diem:
de die potare,
by day, in the daytime, Plaut. Asin. 4, 2, 16:
epulari de die,
Liv. 23, 8; Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 8; Catull. 47, 6; Suet. Calig. 37; id. Domit. 21; cf.:
bibulus media de luce Falerni,
Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34;
and in a lusus verbb. with in diem,
Cic. Phil. 2, 34 fin. —Less freq., de mense:
navigare de mense Decembri,
in December, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1 fin. —And once de tempore for tempore: ipse de tempore coenavit, Auct. B. Hisp. 33, 5.
C.
In other relations, implying separation, departure from, etc.
1.
To designate the whole, from which a part is taken, or of which a part is separately regarded, etc., from among, out of, from:
hominem certum misi de comitibus meis,
Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2:
gladio percussus ab uno de illis,
id. Mil. 24, 65:
si quis de nostris hominibus,
id. Flacc. 4:
quemvis de iis qui essent idonei,
id. Div. in Caecil. 4 fin.:
de tribus et decem fundis tres nobilissimi fundi,
id. Rosc. Am. 35, 99 et saep.:
accusator de plebe,
id. Brut. 34, 131:
pulsare minimum de plebe Quiritem,
Ov. Am. 1, 7, 29; cf. Liv. 7, 17:
malus poëta de populo,
Cic. Arch. 10, 25 et saep.:
partem solido demere de die,
Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20:
quantum de vita perdiderit,
Petr. 26:
praeteriine tuas de tot caelestibus aras,
Ov. Her. 21, 179; Juv. 1, 138. —
b.
Sometimes de with abl. takes the place of the gen. partit. or gen. obj. In the best writers this occurs mainly
(α).
to avoid ambiguity where genitives would be multiplied:
ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 39:
ut aliquem partem de istius impudentia reticere possim,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 32;
(β).
for greater precision:
si quae sunt de eodem genere,
id. Tusc. 4, 7, 16:
persona de mimo,
id. Phil. 2, 27, 65;
(γ).
in the poets, metri gratiā:
aliquid de more vetusto,
Ov. F. 6, 309; Grat. Cyneg. 17:
laudes de Caesare,
Ov. Pont. 4, 13, 23:
cetera de genere hoc,
Hor. Sat. 1, 1, 13; Lucr. 4, 746. This circumlocution was freq. [p. 514] in comic writers and in vulgar lang., and became more common in the declining periods of the lang., so that in the Romance tongues de, di, etc., with a case represent the earlier genitive (so, conscius, conscientia, meminisse, mentionem facere, recordari, etc., de aliqua re for alicujus rei, v. h. vv.).
2.
To indicate the property from which the costs of any thing are taken:
obsonat, potat, olet unguenta de meo,
Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 37; so,
de tuo,
Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 65:
de suo,
Cic. Att. 16, 16, A, 5; Suet. Caes. 19:
de nostro,
Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 11:
de vestro,
Liv. 6, 15, 10; cf.:
de vestris,
Ov. F. 3, 828:
de alieno,
Liv. 3, 1, 3; Just. 36, 3 fin.:
de publico,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44; Liv. 1, 20; 2, 16; 4, 60. For de tuo, once de te:
de te largitor puer,
Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—Also in a trop. sense:
ad tua praecepta de meo nihil his novum apposivi,
Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; cf. id. Men. 1. 2, 40; Cic. Fam. 4, 3; Plin. Ep. 4, 13, 8.— Poet., to denote that out of which, or by which, one pays a penalty or suffers punishment:
has vestro de sanguine poenas datis,
Luc. 4, 805; cf.:
cum de visceribus tuis satisfacturus sis quibus debes,
Cic. Q. Frat. 1, 3, 7.
3.
To designate the material of which any thing is made, of, out of, from:
niveo factum de marmore signum,
Ov. M. 14, 313; cf. Verg. G. 3, 13:
verno de flore corona,
Tib. 2, 1, 59:
sucus de quinquefolio,
Plin. 26, 4, 11:
cinis de fico,
Pall. 1, 35, 3 et saep.:
de templo carcerem fleri,
Cic. Phil. 5, 7; cf. Flor. 2, 6, 32:
captivum de rege facturi,
Just. 7, 2, 11; cf.:
inque deum de bove versus erat,
Ov. F. 5, 616 et saep.:
fles de rhetore consul,
Juv. 7, 197.—Cf. trop. by means of:
de eodem oleo et opera exaravi nescio quid ad te,
Cic. Att. 13, 38.—Prov.:
de nihilo nihilum,
Pers. 3, 84; cf. Lucr. 1, 157 sq.
4.
In mental operations, to indicate the subject-matter or theme on which any mental act (thinking, considering, advising, determining, etc.; discoursing, informing, exhorting, deciding, disputing, doubting, etc.) is founded; of, about, concerning, Gr. peri:
cogitare de aliqua re, etc. (the most common signification): multa narrare de Laelio,
Cic. Lael. 1, 1:
dubitare de re,
id. Fam. 3, 10, 15:
de suo adventu docere,
Suet. Caes. 9:
de moribus admonere,
Sall. Cat. 5, 9 et saep.—With this, too, is connected its use,
5.
To indicate the producing cause or reason, for, on account of, because of:
nam id nisi gravi de causa non fecisset,
Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186; Cael ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15; Cic. Att. 11, 3:
de quo nomine ad arbitrum adiisti, de eo ad judicium venisti,
id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12:
flebat uterque non de suo supplicio, sed pater de filii morte, de patris filius,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 76:
de labore pectus tundit,
with pain, Plaut. Casin. 2, 6, 63:
incessit passu de vulnere tardo,
Ov. M. 10, 49:
humus fervet de corpore,
id. ib. 7, 560:
facilius de odio creditur,
Tac. H. 1, 34:
quod erat de me feliciter Ilia mater,
through me, Ov. F. 3, 233 et saep.
6.
To indicate the thing with reference to which any thing is done, with respect to, concerning:
de istac re in oculum utrumvis conquiescito,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 121: nil peccat de savio, Caec. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 11 (v. 161 Ribbeck):
credere de numero militum,
Cic. Att. 9, 1, 2:
de numero dierum fidem servare,
Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Sall. C. 50, 3:
de ceteris senatui curae fore,
id. Jug. 26, 1:
concessum ab nobilitate de consule plebeio,
Liv. 6, 42:
solem de virgine rapta consule,
Ov. F. 4, 581 et saep.—Ellipt.:
de argento somnium,
as for the money, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 50 (for which id. Heaut. 4, 2, 4: quod de argento sperem, nihil est): Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 1:
de Dionysio sum admiratus,
Cic. Att. 9, 12; id. Off. 1, 15, 47:
de me autem suscipe paullisper meas partes,
id. Fam. 3, 12, 2; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 36 et saep.:
de Samnitibus triumphare,
concerning, over, Cic. Sen. 16, 55; cf. Hor. 4, 2, 88:
de Atheniensibus victoria,
Curt. 8, 1, 33.
7.
To indicate the thing in conformity with which any thing is done, according to, after:
secundum: DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD, S. C. de Bac.: fecisse dicas de mea sententia,
Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 115; cf.:
de suorum propinquorum sententia atque auctoritate fecisse dicatur,
Cic. Cael. 29: de consilii sententia Mamertinis se frumentum non imperare pronunciat, id. Verr. 2, 5, 21 al.:
de ejus consilio velle sese facere,
Ter. Ph. 3, 1, 17:
vix de mea voluntate concessum est,
Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:
de exemplo meo ipse aedificato,
Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 86:
de more vetusto,
Verg. A. 11, 142; Ov. M. 7, 606:
de nomine,
id. ib. 1, 447:
patrioque vocat de nomine mensem,
id. F. 3, 77.
8.
With adjectives to form adverbial expressions.
a.
De integro, anew ( = ab integro, ex integro; cf.: iterum, rursus, denuo), indidemque eadem aeque oriuntur de integro, atque eodem occidunt, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll. (v. 92 Ribb.):
ratio de integro ineunda est mihi,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 7; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56; id. Att. 13, 27; id. Fam. 12, 30, 2 et saep. (The combination de novo appears only in the contracted form denuo, v. h. v.).—
b.
De improviso, unexpectedly:
ubi de improviso interventum est mulieri,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 40; id. And. 2, 2, 23; id. Ad. 3, 3, 53; Caes. B. G. 2, 3; 5, 22; 5, 39 et saep.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 151 et saep.—
c.
De transverso, unexpectedly:
ecce autem de transverso L. Caesar ut veniam ad se rogat,
Cic. Att. 15, 4 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14.
► De is often put between an adj.
or pron. and its substantive; cf.
above multa de nocte, media de nocte, gravi de causa, etc.: qua de re,
Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 13; esp. in the judic. formula: qua de re agitur; cf. Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6; Cic. Brut. 79 fin. Also freq. after a simple relative:
quo de,
Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 41; 54, 104; 2, 11, 37:
qua de,
id. ib. 2, 23, 70 et saep.
II.
In composition the e becomes short before a vowel, as in dĕhisco, dĕhinc, dĕorsum, and coincides with it in the poets by synaeresis; cf.: dehinc, deinde, deinceps, deorsum; sometimes contraction takes place, as in debeo, debilis, dego, demo, from dehabeo, de-habilis, de-ago, de-emo.—
2.
Signif.
a.
Separation, departure, removal, taking away; off, away, down, out: decedo, demigro, demeto, depromo, descendo, devolvo, derivo, deflecto, etc.; and trop. dedico, denuntio; and in a downward direction, decido, decumbo, deprimo, demergo, delabor, defluo, demitto, desido, desideo, declivis, deculco, degredior, deicio, etc.—
b.
Cessation, removal of the fundamental idea ( = un-, de-, dis-): dearmo, deartuo, decresco, dedisco, dedecoro, dedignor, dedoceo, denascor, denormo, desum, etc.; and hence direct negation, as in dedecet, deformis, demens, etc.—
c.
With reference to the terminus of the action: defero, defigo, demitto, etc.; hence also trop., with reference to the extent of the action, to the uttermost, to exhaustion, through. out: debacchor, debello, dedolo, delino, delibuo, etc.: defatigo, delaboro, delasso, etc.; hence freq. a mere strengthening of the fundamental idea, = valde, thoroughly, much: demiror, demitigo, etc.—
d.
Giving a bad sense to the verb: decipio, delinquo, deludo, derideo, detestor.—
e.
Rarely, contraction from a broad into a narrow space, together: deligo, devincio. See also Hand Turs. II. p. 183-229.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > de
15 diēs

diēs gen. diēī or diē (rarely diei, disyl., T., or diī, V.), m sometimes in sing f. [DIV-], a day, civil day: Quae tot res in unum conclusit diem, T.: eo die, Cs.: in posterum diem, Cs.: paucos dies ibi morati, Cs.: alter et tertius dies absumitur, Ta.— Fem. (in prose only of a fixed term): diebus XXX, a quā die materia caesa est, Cs.: posterā die, S.: suprema, H.: atra, V.: tarda, O. —In phrases: paucis ante diebus, a few days earlier, S.: paucis post diebus, S.: postridie eius diei, the next day, Cs.: post diem tertium eius diei, the next day but one, L.: diem ex die exspectabam, from day to day: diem de die prospectans, L.: in dies, every day, Cs., C.: in diem rapto vivit, L.: cui licet in diem dixisse Vixi, etc., H.—Abl. diē, in a day, in one day, V.; rarely diē (i. e. cottidie or in diem), daily, V.—In dates: ante diem XII Kal. Nov., the twenty - first of October: in ante diem V Kal. Dec., till November 28.— A set day, appointed time, term: hic nuptiis dictus est dies, T.: pecuniae, C., L.: iis certum diem conveniendi dicit, Cs.: die certo, S.: negotio proxumum diem constituit, S.: conloquio decretus, O.: ad diem praestitutum venire, L.: die tuo exspectabam, etc., your fever day: supremus vitae: obire diem supremum, die, N. — Fem. (only sing.): deportandi dies praestituta: certa eius rei constituta, Cs.: stata, L.: ubi ea dies venit, Cs.: praeteritā die, quā, etc., Cs.: esse in lege, quam ad diem, proscriptiones fiant. — In the phrase, dicere diem, with dat, to impeach, lay an accusation against: diem mihi, credo, dixerat: Domitium Silano diem dixisse scimus.— A dying-day, time to die, destined time (poet.): Stat sua cuique dies, V.: Hic dolor ante diem Pandiona misit ad umbras, prematurely, O. — A natural day, day (opp. night): cum horā diei decimā venire: quantum scribam die (opp. noctibus), in the daytime: die et nocte concoqui, in a single day and night: multo denique die, late in the day, Cs.: in diem (somnum) extrahere, Ta.: exercere diem, work by daylight, V.: currūs rogat In diem, for a day, O.: diem noctemque procul navem tenuit, a day and a night, N.: Saturnalia diem ac noctem clamata, all day and all night, L.: diem noctemque, uninterruptedly, Cs.: Dies noctīsque me ames, T.: dies noctīsque iter faciens, N.: noctīs ac dies: et noctīs et dies.— With iter, of distances, a day's march, day's journey: huius silvae latitudo novem dierum iter expedito patet, forced marches, Cs.: quinque dierum iter aberant, L. — Daybreak, day: cum die, O.: ante diem, H. — An anniversary: quo die ad Aliam pugnatum, a clade Aliensem appellarunt, L.: diem meum scis esse III Non. Ian., birthday. —Meton., a day's work, event, day: is dies honestissimus nobis fuerat in senatu: dare illius diei poenas: ille dies Etruscorum fregit opes, Cs.: imponite quinquaginta annis magnum diem, Ta. — A time, space of time, period, interval: diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum, Cs.: diem tempusque forsitan ipsum leniturum iras, L.: ut sexenni die pecuniae solvantur, Cs.: in longiorem diem conlaturus, a later day, Cs.: perexigua, a brief interval: nulla, O.: (indutiarum) dies, the term, L.: messis, season, V.: Optuma aevi, period (i. e. youth), V.: Sole dies referente siccos, season, H.: diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus, T.: diem festum Dianae per triduum agi, a festival, L.: malum in diem abiit, to a future time, T.: nos in diem vivimus, for the moment.—Light of day, daylight (poet.): Inmissus quo dies terreat umbras, O.: volumina fumi Infecere diem, O.: oriens occiduusque dies, the East and the West, i. e. the world, O. — Personified, the god of day, O.— Fem.: Venus primo Caelo et Die nata.
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diei N C

day; daylight; festival; time; lifetime, age

multo dies -- late in the day

Latin-English dictionary > diēs
16 dies

dĭes (dīes, Liv. Andron. Fragm. Odys. 7), ēi ([etilde]ī, Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. S. 1, 8, 35 et saep.;
dissyl.: di-ei,
Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 31; also gen. dies, die, and dii—dies, as in acies, facies, pernicies, etc., Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Ann. v. 401 Vahl.; Cic. Sest. 12, 28 ap. Gell. l. l.:
die,
Prisc. p. 780 P.; even in Verg. G. 1, 208, where Gellius reads dies, v. Wagner ad loc., nearly all MSS. have die; cf. Rib. and Forbig. ad loc.; so,
die,
Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 59; id. Capt. 4, 2, 20; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5; id. B. C. 1, 14, 3; 3, 76, 2; Just. 2, 11, 17; cf. Oud. ad B. G. 2, 23, 1. Die appears to be certain in Sall. J. 52, 3; 97, 3. Also in Cic. Sest. 12, 28, Gellius reads dies, where our MSS., except the Cod. Lamb., have diei;
perh. those words do not belong to Cicero himself. Form dii,
Verg. A. 1, 636, Rib. and Forbig. after Serv. and Gell. l. l.— Dat., diēī, saep. die, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 120, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 208; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 48; id. Capt. 3, 1, 4; id. Trin. 4, 2, 1;
once dii,
id. Merc. 1, Prol. 13; cf. Roby, Gram. 1, 121 sq.); m. (in sing. sometimes f., esp. in the signif. no. I. B. 1.) [root Sanscr. dī, gleam: dinas, day; Gr. dios, heavenly; cf. Lat. Jovis (Diovis), Diana, deus, dīvus, etc. Old form, dius (for divus); cf.: nudius, diu, etc. The word also appears in composition in many particles, as pridem, hodie, diu, etc., v. Corss. Auspr. 2, 855 sq.], a day (cf.: tempus, tempestas, aetas, aevum, spatium, intervallum).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., the civil day of twenty-four hours.
(α).
Masc.:
dies primus est veris in Aquario... dies tertius... dies civiles nostros, etc.,
Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. Plin. 2, 77, 79, § 188; Macr. S. 1, 3; Gell. 3, 2: REBVS IVRE IVDICATIS TRIGINTA DIES IVSTI SVNTO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; and 15, 13 fin.; for which;
per dies continuos XXX., etc.,
Gai. Inst. 3, 78: multa dies in bello conficit unus, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 297 ed. Vahl.); cf.:
non uno absolvam die,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 73:
hic dies,
id. Aul. 4, 9, 11:
hic ille est dies,
id. Capt. 3, 3, 3:
ante hunc diem,
id. ib. 3, 4, 101:
illo die impransus fui,
id. Am. 1, 1, 98; cf.:
eo die,
Caes. B. G. 1, 22 fin.; 2, 6; 2, 32 fin.; 4, 11, 4; 5, 15 fin. et saep.:
postero die,
id. ib. 1, 15, 1; 3, 6, 3 et saep.; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17; Sall. J. 29, 5; 38, 9 et saep.:
in posterum diem,
Caes. B. G. 7, 41 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 65 fin. et saep.:
diem scito esse nullum, quo die non dicam pro reo,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3:
domi sedet totos dies,
Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34:
paucos dies ibi morati,
Caes. B. G. 7, 5, 4:
dies continuos XXX. sub bruma esse noctem,
id. ib. 5, 13, 3:
hosce aliquot dies,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 4; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 71 et saep.:
festo die si quid prodegeris,
Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10; so,
festus,
id. Cas. 1, 49; id. Poen. 3, 5, 13; 4, 2, 26 et saep.—
(β).
Fem. (freq. in poetry metri gratiā; rare in prose), postrema, Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14:
omnia ademit Una dies,
Lucr. 3, 912; cf. id. 3, 921; 5, 96 and 998: homines, qui ex media nocte ad proximam mediam noctem in his horis XXIV. nati sunt, una die nati dicuntur, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 2, 2 (uno die, Macr. S. 1, 3):
quibus effectis armatisque diebus XXX., a qua die materia caesa est,
Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.:
Varronem profiteri, se altera die ad colloquium venturum,
id. ib. 3, 19, 4 (for which, shortly before: quo cum esset postero die ventum); cf.:
postera die,
Sall. J. 68, 2 (for which, in the same author, more freq.:
postero die): pulchra,
Hor. Od. 1, 36, 10:
suprema,
id. ib. 1, 13, 20:
atra,
Verg. A. 6, 429:
tarda,
Ov. M. 15, 868 et saep.—(But Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 1; 3, 37, 1, read altero, tertio.)—
b.
Connections:
postridie ejus diei, a favorite expression of Caesar,
Caes. B. G. 1, 23, 1: 1, 47, 2; 1, 48, 2 et saep., v. postridie;
and cf.: post diem tertium ejus diei,
Cic. Att. 3, 7; Sulpic. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 35:
diem ex die exspectabam,
from day to day, id. ib. 7, 26 fin.; cf.:
diem ex die ducere,
Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; for which also: diem de die prospectans, Liv. 5, 48; and: diem de die differre, id. 25, 25: LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO, for every day, day by day, daily, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf.:
affatim est hominum, in dies qui singulas escas edunt,
Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 10; so,
in dies,
every day, Cic. Top. 16, 62; Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 5, 58, 1; 7, 30, 4; Vell. 2, 52, 2; Liv. 21, 11 Drak.; 34, 11 al.; less freq. in sing.:
nihil usquam sui videt: in diem rapto vivit,
Liv. 22, 39; cf.:
mutabilibus in diem causis (opp. natura perpetua),
id. 31, 29 (in another signif. v. the foll., no. II. A. 3); and: cui licet in diem ( = singulis diebus, daily) dixisse Vixi, etc., Hor. Od. 3, 29, 42. And still more rarely: ad diem, Treb. Gallien. 17; Vop. Firm. 4:
ante diem, v. ante.—Die = quotidie or in diem,
daily, Verg. E. 2, 42; 3, 34:
quos mille die victor sub Tartara misi,
id. A. 11, 397:
paucissimos die composuisse versus,
Quint. 10, 3, 8:
saepius die,
Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22: die crastini, noni, pristini, quinti, for die crastino, nono, etc., v. h. vv. crastinus, nonus, etc.; and cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4.—
B.
In partic.
1.
A set day, appointed time, term in the widest sense of the word (for appearing before court, in the army, making a payment, etc.).
(α).
Masc.: MORBVS SONTICVS... STATVS DIES CVM HOSTE... QVID HORVM FVIT VNVM IVDICI ARBITROVE REOVE DIES DIFFISVS ESTO, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12; Fest. p. 273, 26 Müll.; for which: STATVS CONDICTVSVE DIES CVM HOSTE, acc. to Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4;
and with comic reference to the words of this law,
Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5 (found also in Macr. S. 1, 16);
and freq.: status dies,
Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 1; Suet. Claud. 1; Flor. 1, 13, 16 et saep.:
hic nuptiis dictus est dies,
Ter. And. 1, 1, 75; cf.:
dies colloquio dictus est ex eo die quintus,
Caes. B. G. 1, 42, 4; so,
dictus,
id. ib. 5, 27, 5:
iis certum diem conveniendi dicit,
id. ib. 5, 57, 2:
die certo,
Sall. J. 79, 4; cf.
constituto,
id. ib. 13 fin.:
decretus colloquio,
id. ib. 113, 3:
praestitutus,
Liv. 3, 22:
praefinitus,
Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109; Gell. 16, 4, 3:
ascriptus,
Phaedr. 4, 11, 8 et saep.:
quoniam advesperascit, dabis diem nobis aliquem, ut contra ista dicamus,
Cic. N. D. 3, 40; Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; id. B. C. 1, 11, 2; Sall. J. 109, 3; Liv. 35, 35 et saep.:
dies ater,
an unlucky day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25.—
(β).
Fem. (so commonly in this sense in class. prose, but only in sing., v. Mützell ad Curt. 3, 1, 8):
ut quasi dies si dicta sit,
Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11; so,
dicta,
Cic. Fam. 16, 10 fin.; cf.:
edicta ad conveniendum,
Liv. 41, 10 fin.:
praestituta,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 140; 2, 2, 28; Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 38; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14 fin.; id. Vatin. 15, 37; id. Tusc. 1, 39; Liv. 45, 11 et saep.; cf.
constituta,
Cic. Caecin. 11, 32; Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; 1, 8, 3: certa eius rei constituta, id. B. C. 3, 33, 1:
pacta et constituta,
Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24:
statuta,
Liv. 31, 29:
stata,
id. 27, 23 fin.:
certa,
Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 4, 5, 1, 8; id. B. C. 1, 2, 6; Nep. Chabr. 3 et saep.:
annua,
Cic. Fam. 7, 23; id. Att. 12, 3 fin.; cf.
longa,
Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 18:
die caecā emere, oculatā vendere,
i. e. to buy on credit and sell for cash, id. Ps. 1, 3, 67, v. caecus, no. II. B.:
haec dies summa hodie est, mea amica sitne libera, an, etc.,
id. Pers. 1, 1, 34:
puto fore istam etiam a praecone diem,
Cic. Att. 13, 3:
ubi ea dies venit (preceded by tempore ejus rei constituto),
Caes. B. G. 7, 3:
praeterita die, qua suorum auxilia exspectaverant,
id. ib. 7, 77, 1; cf. id. ib. 6, 33, 4:
esse in lege, quam ad diem proscriptiones fiant,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128 et saep.—
(γ).
Both genders together:
diem dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant: is dies erat a. d. V. Kal. Apr., etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Att. 2, 11; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3; Liv. 34, 35 al.—
b.
Hence: dicere diem alicui, to impeach, lay an accusation against:
diem mihi, credo, dixerat,
Cic. Mil. 14, 36:
Domitium Silano diem dixisse scimus,
id. Div. in Caec. 20, 67.—
2.
A natural day, a day, as opp. to night: ut vel, quia est aliquid, aliud non sit, ut Dies est, nox non est; vel, quia est aliquid, et aliud sit: Sol est super terram, dies est, Quint. 5, 8, 7: pro di immortales, quis hic illuxit dies, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 76:
credibile non est, quantum scribam die, quin etiam noctibus,
in the daytime, id. Att. 13, 26:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a single day and night, id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.
in this signif.: die ac nocte,
Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 113:
nocte et die,
Liv. 25, 39;
and simply die,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 4; Quint. 10, 3, 8; cf.
also: currus rogat ille paternos, Inque diem alipedum jus et moderamen equorum,
Ov. M. 2, 48; and, connected with nox:
(Themistocles) diem noctemque procul ab insula in salo navem tenuit in ancoris,
Nep. Them. 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59; Liv. 22, 1 fin. —But more freq.: diem noctemque, like our day and night, i. q. without ceasing, uninterruptedly; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 11; 7, 42 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 62;
for which less freq.: diem et noctem,
Hirt. B. Hisp. 38, 1;
diem ac noctem,
Liv. 27, 4 and 45:
noctemque diemque,
Verg. A. 8, 94; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 23:
continuate nocte ac die itinere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 11, 1; 3, 36, 8; and in plur.:
dies noctesque,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 49; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113; Cic. Att. 7, 9 fin.; Nep. Dat. 4, 4 et saep.; also, reversing the order: noctesque diesque, Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 338 ed. Vahl.); Hor. S. 1, 1, 76:
noctesque et dies,
Ter. And. 4, 1, 52; id. Eun. 5, 8, 49:
noctes atque dies,
Lucr. 2, 12; 3, 62; Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51; Verg. A. 6, 127 al.:
noctes diesque,
id. ib. 9, 488:
noctes ac dies,
Cic. Arch. 11, 29:
noctes et dies,
id. Brut. 90, 308; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Tusc. 5, 25 and 39; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; cf.
also: neque noctem neque diem intermittit,
Caes. B. G. 5, 38:
Galli dies... sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur,
id. ib. 6, 18, 2 Herz ad loc. So, too, in gen.:
qui nocte dieque frequentat Limina,
Mart. 10, 58, 11:
cum die,
at break of day, Ov. M. 13, 677:
orto die ( = orta luce),
Tac. A. 1, 20; 1, 68; id. H. 2, 21:
ante diem ( = ante lucem),
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 35:
dies fit, late Lat. for lucescit,
Vulg. Luc. 22, 66: de die, in open day, broad day; v. de.—
3.
Dies alicujus (like the Heb. ; v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v.).
a.
I. q. dies natalis, a birthday:
diem meum scis esse III. Non. Jan. Aderis igitur,
Cic. Att. 13, 42, 2; cf.
in full: natali die tuo,
id. ib. 9, 5 al. So the anniversary day of the foundation of a city is, dies natalis urbis, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98.—
b.
I. q. dies mortis, dying-day:
quandocumque fatalis et meus dies veniet statuarque tumulo,
Tac. Or. 13 fin. Called, also: supremus dies. Suet. Aug. 99; id. Tib. 67; cf.:
supremus vitae dies,
Cic. de Sen. 21, 78; Suet. Aug. 61. Hence:
diem suum obire,
to die, Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2;
and in the same sense: obire diem supremum,
Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Dion. 2 fin.; Suet. Claud. 1:
exigere diem supremum,
Tac. A. 3, 16:
explere supremum diem,
id. ib. 1, 6; 3, 76;
and simply: obire diem,
Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248; Suet. Tib. 4; id. Vesp. 1; id. Gr. 3; cf.
also: fungi diem,
Just. 19, 1, 1.—
c.
I. q. dies febris, fever-day: etsi Non. Mart., [p. 574] die tuo, ut opinor, exspectabam epistolam a te longiorem, Cic. Att. 9, 2 init.; 7, 8, 2 al.
II.
Transf.
A.
In gen. (from no. I. A.).
1.
A day, for that which is done in it (cf. the Hebr., the Gr. eleutheron êmar, etc.):
is dies honestissimus nobis fuerat in senatu,
Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3:
non tam dirus ille dies Sullanus C. Mario,
id. Att. 10, 8, 7:
equites Romanos daturos illius diei poenas,
id. Sest. 12, 28:
hic dies et Romanis refecit animos et Persea perculit,
Liv. 42, 67 Drak.; cf. id. 9, 39 fin.; Vell. 2, 35 Ruhnk.; 2, 86; Just. 9, 3 fin.; Flor. 2, 6, 58 Duker.:
imponite quinquaginta annis magnum diem,
Tac. Agr. 34:
quid pulchrius hac consuetudine excutiendi totum diem?... totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior, etc., Sen. de Ira, 3, 36: dies Alliensis, i. q. pugna Alliensis,
Liv. 6, 1; Suet. Vit. 11:
Cannensis,
Flor. 4, 12, 35 al. And so even of one's state of mind on any particular day:
qualem diem Tiberius induisset,
what humor, temper, Tac. A. 6, 20. —
2.
A day's journey:
hanc regionem, dierum plus triginta in longitudinem, decem inter duo maria in latitudinem patentem,
Liv. 38, 59; Just. 36, 2, 14 al.—
3.
In gen. (like, hêmera, and our day, for) time, space of time, period:
diem tempusque forsitan ipsum leniturum iras,
Liv. 2, 45;
so with tempus,
id. 22, 39; 42, 50: amorem intercapedine ipse lenivit dies, Turp. ap. Non. 522, 7;
so in the masc. gender: longus,
Stat. Th. 1, 638; Luc. 3, 139;
but also longa,
Plaut. Epid. 4, 1, 18; Plin. Ep. 8, 5 fin.; cf.
perexigua,
a brief respite, Cic. Verr. 1, 2 fin.:
nulla,
Ov. M. 4, 372 al.:
ex ea die ad hanc diem quae fecisti, in judicium voco,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12 fin.:
ut infringatur hominum improbitas ipsa die, quae debilitat cogitationes, etc.,
id. Fam. 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 7, 28 fin.; id. Tusc. 3, 22, 53 al.: indutiae inde, non pax facta;
quarum et dies exierat, et ante diem rebellaverant,
i. e. the term of the truce, Liv. 4, 30 fin.; 30, 24; 42, 47 fin. (for which: quia tempus indutiarum cum Veienti populo exierat, id. 4, 58).—Prov.:
dies adimit aegritudinem,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 13: dies festus, festival-time, festival:—diem festum Dianae per triduum agi, Liv. 25, 23 et saep.:
die lanam et agnos vendat,
at the right time, Cato R. R. 150, 2:
praesens quod fuerat malum, in diem abiit,
to a future time, Ter. Ph. 5, 2, 16; so in diem, opp. statim, Q. Cic. Pet. cons. 12, 48;
and simply in diem,
Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 48; Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 19; Cic. Cael. 24.—Esp. freq. in diem vivere, to live on from day to day, regardless of the future, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 169; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 33; Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 4 et saep; cf. the equivoque with de die, under de.—
B.
In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2— poet., and in postAug. prose).
1.
Light of day, daylight:
contraque diem radiosque micantes Obliquantem oculos,
Ov. M. 7, 411; 5, 444; 13, 602:
multis mensibus non cernitur dies,
Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 70; Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 6; 9, 36, 2 al.; also of the eyesight, Stat. Th. 1, 237;
and trop. of the conscience: saeva dies animi scelerumque in pectore Dirae,
id. ib. 1, 52.—
2.
For caelum, the sky, the heavens:
sub quocumque die, quocumque est sidere mundi,
Luc. 7, 189; 1, 153:
incendere diem nubes oriente remotae,
id. 4, 68; 8, 217; Stat. Th. 1, 201.—Hence, like caelum,
b.
The weather:
totumque per annum Durat aprica dies,
Val. Fl. 1, 845:
tranquillus,
Plin. 2, 45, 44, § 115:
mitis,
id. 11, 10, 10, § 20:
pestilens,
id. 22, 23, 49, § 104.—
3.
The air:
nigrique volumina fumi Infecere diem,
Ov. M. 13, 600:
cupio flatu violare diem,
Claud. in Ruf. 1, 63.
III.
Dies personified.
A.
I. q. Sol, opp. Luna, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21;
coupled with Mensis and Annus,
Ov. M. 2, 25.—
B.
As fem., the daughter of Chaos, and mother of Heaven and Earth, Hyg. Fab. praef.; of the first Venus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > dies
17 sol

sōl, sōlis, m. [Sanscr. svar, shine; cf. Gr. Seirios, seir, selas, Helenê; and Lat. serenus].
I.
Sing., the sun, as a heavenly body.
A.
In gen.:
tempora duorum generum sunt, unum annale, quod sol circuitu suo finit,
Varr. R. R. 1, 27:
solis cursus lunaeque meatus,
Lucr. 5, 77:
annum ad cursum solis accommodavit,
Suet. Caes. 40:
liquidi fons luminis aetherius sol,
Lucr. 5, 282:
quid potest esse sole majus?
Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 82:
illud dubium esse nulli potest quin arcus imago solis sit,
Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 11.—
B.
Esp.
1.
Sol oriens or solis ortus, the east, as a quarter of the heavens:
spectant in septemtrionem et orientem solem,
Caes. B. G. 1, 1; 5, 13; 7, 69; cf.:
a sole exoriente supra Maeotis paludes, Cic. poët. Tusc. 5, 17, 49: si illud signum solis ortum conspiceret,
id. Cat. 3, 8, 20:
facem stellae ab ortu solis ad occidentem porrigi visam,
Liv. 29, 14, 3:
ab ortu solis flare venti,
id. 25, 27, 6.—
2.
Sol occidens or solis occasus, the west:
alterum (litus) vergit ad solem occidentem,
Caes. B. G. 5, 13:
laborant ut spectent sua triclinaria ad solem occidentem,
Varr. R. R. 1, 13 fin.:
spectat inter occasum solis et septemtriones,
north-west, Caes. B. G. 1, 1:
quae (pars insulae) est propius solis occasum,
id. ib. 4, 28.—Cf. poet.:
sub sole cadente,
Manil. 4, 791.—In phrases, sol is often omitted by ellipsis: unde sol oritur oriens nuncupatur aut ortus;
quo demergitur occidens vel occasus,
Mel. 1, 1 init.; v. orior, ortus, occĭdo.—
3.
Sol oriens or sol (solis) ortus= sunrise; sol occidens or solis (sol) occasus = sunset:
qui solem nec occidentem umquam viderint, nec orientem,
Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23:
sole orto Gracchus copias educit,
Liv. 24, 15, 1:
prius orto Sole,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 113:
certi solis lunaeque et ortus et occasus sunt,
Liv. 44, 37, 7:
numquam ab orto sole ad occidentem... a curiā abscessit,
id. 27, 50, 4:
ut, equis insidentes, solis ortu cursum in quemdam locum dirigerent,
Val. Max. 7, 3, 2 ext.:
solis occasu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 50; Liv. 24, 17, 7:
ad (sub) solis occasum,
towards sunset, Caes. B. G. 5, 8; 2, 11:
in occasum declivi sole,
Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 203.— Poet.:
surgente a sole,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 29.—For sol occasus, v. occidere, and Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 87 (ante solem occasum); id. ib. 5, 7, 35 (ad solem occasum); cf.:
ab exortu ad occasum perstare contuentis solem,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22.—
4.
To designate a clime, country, etc., as eastern or southern (post-Aug.):
ille Liberi currus triumphantem usque ad Thebas a solis ortu vehat,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 4:
terminos civitatis nostrae cum sole metimur,
id. Ot. Sap. 4 (31), 1. it tamen ultra oceanum solemque, id. Ep. 94, 63:
sub alio sole,
in another clime, Manil. 4, 171; cf.:
ut sua orientis occidentisque terminis finiat (sc. solis),
Sen. Ep. 92, 32.—
5.
Trop., of a great good or a great man:
sol excidisse mihi e mundo videtur,
Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3:
solem e mundo tollere videntur qui, etc.,
id. Lael. 13, 47:
P. Africanus, sol alter (with sole geminato),
id. N. D. 2, 5, 14; cf. Hor. S. 1, 7, 24:
neque mundum posse duobus solibus regi, neque orbem, etc.,
Just. 11, 12.—
6.
Prov.:
et sceleratis sol oritur,
Sen. Ben. 4, 26, 1; cf.:
qui solem suum oriri facit super bonos et malos,
Vulg. Matt. 5, 45: nondum omnium dierum sol occidit (Germ. Es ist noch nicht aller Tage Abend) = there are more days yet to come, sc. when the tables may be turned, Liv. 39, 26, 9.—
C.
The poets reckon time in many ways by the movement, etc., of the sun:
bis me sol adiit gelidae post frigora brumae,
two years, Ov. Tr. 4, 7, 1:
donec sol annuus omnes conficeret metas,
within a year, Stat. Achill. 1, 455; cf. Nemes. Cyn. 122:
octavo lumine solis,
on the eighth day, Lucr. 6, 1195:
sol septimus,
Juv. 15, 44:
cum sol Herculei terga leonis adit,
in midsummer, Ov. A. A. 1, 68: O sol Pulcher, O laudande (= dies;
sc. Augusti reditus),
Hor. C. 4, 2, 46; cf. id. S. 1, 9, 72:
supremo sole,
at noon, id. Ep. 1, 5, 3:
sub medium solem,
Manil. 4, 651; cf. id. 4, 593:
sol abit,
it is growing late, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 32; cf.:
a primo ad ultimum solem,
all day long, Amm. 14, 6, 10.—
D.
Transf., the sun, sunlight, sunshine, heat of the sun:
ager soli ostentus,
exposed to the sun, Cato, R. R. 6:
sarmenta imponito quae frigus defendant et solem,
id. ib. 48 (49):
uvas ponite in sole biduum,
id. ib. 112 (113):
sol semper hic est a mani ad vesperum,
Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 80:
quin exta inspicere in sole etiam vivo licet,
id. Aul. 3, 6, 29:
nec res posse in sole videri, ni, etc.,
Lucr. 5, 292:
nunc quidem paululum a sole,
out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92:
cum in sole ambulem,
id. de Or. 2, 14, 60:
apricatio in illo Lucretino tuo sole,
id. Att. 7, 11, 1; cf. id. ib. 12, 6, 1:
iter in calescente sole factum erat,
Liv. 44, 36 init.:
torrente meridiano sole,
id. 44, 38:
ex vehementi sole,
id. 28, 15, 11:
urente assiduo sole,
id. 44, 33 fin.:
ut veniens dextrum latus aspiciat sol,
light of the morning sun, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 6:
reformidant insuetum lumina solem,
Ov. P. 3, 4, 49; cf.:
nam et solem lumina aegra formidant,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 6:
adversi solis ab ictu,
sunstroke, Ov. M. 3, 183:
altera (spelunca) solem non recipit,
Sen. Ep. 55, 6:
sole correptis,
Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 119:
pisces, quos sole torreant,
id. 7, 2, 2, § 30:
siccatur in sole,
id. 19, 1, 3, § 16:
in agmine (Caesar) anteibat capite detecto, seu sol seu imber esset,
Suet. Caes. 57:
patiens pulveris atque solis,
Hor. C. 1, 8, 4.— And trop.: in solem ac pulverem procedere, or producere, into heat and dust, i. e. into practical life (opp. umbra eruditorum), Cic. Brut. 9, 37; id. Leg. 3, 6, 14.—In a similar sense:
cedat stilus gladio, umbra soli,
Cic. Mur. 14, 30.—Prov.:
clarior quam solis radii,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2:
sole ipso est clarius,
Arn. 1, n. 47; cf.
the class. luce clarius, and: cum id solis luce videatur clarius,
Cic. Div. 1, 3, 6.
II.
Plur.
A.
Suns, images of the sun (class.):
neque pauci neque leves sunt qui se duo soles vidisse dicant,
Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 15:
Albae duos soles visos ferebant,
Liv. 28, 11, 3:
et rursus plures soles simul cernuntur,
Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99:
quid eas vocem? imagines solis? Historici soles vocant, et binos ternosque adparuisse memoriae tradunt,
Sen. Q. N. 1, 11, 2.—
B.
Poet. = days (v. I. C.):
nec tamen illis solibus ulla comparebat avis,
Lucr. 6, 1219:
saepe ego longos Cantando puerum memini me condere soles,
to spend the long summer days in singing, Verg. E. 9, 52:
tres soles... Erramus,
id. A. 3, 203; cf. Sil. 3, 554:
Bajani soles,
the sunny days of Bajœ, Mart. 6, 43, 5:
O soles!
id. 10, 51, 6: soles fulsere quondam tibi candidi, Cat. 8, 3, 8:
soles occidere et redire possunt,
id. 5, 4:
longis solibus,
Stat. Th. 5, 460:
solibus arctis,
short winter days, id. S. 1, 3, 88.—So, to describe certain seasons:
solibus hibernis... gratior,
than the sun in winter, Ov. M. 13, 793:
si numeres anno soles et nubila toto,
the sunny and cloudy days, id. Tr. 5, 8, 31.—
C.
Light or heat of the sun ( poet. and in postAug. prose; cf.
D. supra): pars terrai perusta solibus assiduis,
Lucr. 5, 253; cf. Ov. H. 5, 112:
pluviis et solibus icta,
Lucr. 6, 1101:
quae carent ventis et solibus,
i. e. are buried, Hor. Epod. 16, 13; 2, 41:
et soles melius nitent,
id. C. 4, 5, 8; cf. id. Ep. 1, 10, 17:
ex imbri soles Prospicere... poteris,
Verg. G. 1, 393:
inque novos soles audent se gramina tuto Credere,
id. ib. 2, 332;
similarly,
Ov. F. 4, 404; Stat. Th. 1, 363; 4, 421; 4, 831:
tum blandi soles,
Ov. F. 1, 157:
frigore soles juvant,
id. R. Am. 405; so Mart. 10, 42:
Romulus et frater... Solibus et campo corpora nuda dabant,
Ov. F. 2, 366:
aequora semper solibus orba tument,
id. P. 1, 3, 54:
solibus rupta glacies,
Juv. 4, 43:
geminā pereunt caligine soles,
Stat. Th. 5, 154:
aestivos quo decipis aere soles?
id. S. 4, 4, 19:
tacent exhausti solibus amnes,
id. Th. 3, 2, 59; 4, 56; Mart. 10, 12, 7; 8, 14, 4; 14, 28; Ov. M. 1, 435:
cura soles assiduo quaerendi,
Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 16:
perpeti soles,
id. 36, 22, 45, § 162:
evitatis solibus,
id. 28, 12, 50, § 186:
(sal) siccatur aestivis solibus,
id. 31, 7, 39, § 73:
merguntur in aquam solibus tepefactam,
id. 19, 1, 3, § 17:
nec campi minus soles accipiunt,
id. 17, 4, 3, § 29:
sarculatio novos soles admittit,
id. 18, 21, 50, § 184; cf. id. 12, 5, 11, § 23; 12, 7, 14, § 26:
aurea pellebant tepidos umbracula soles,
Ov. F. 2, 311:
dum patula defendimus arbore soles,
Stat. S. 3, 1, 70.—Very rarely of the sun's revolution, without reference to light or heat:
quae via soles praecipitet,
Stat. Th. 6, 362.—In class. prose sometimes solis ardores, with the force of the poet. soles:
et nimios solis defendit ardores,
Cic. Sen. 15, 53; cf.:
propter nimios solis ardores,
Sen. Ep. 90, 17.
III.
Sol, the Sun-god.
A.
Lit.
a.
The ancient Italian deity Sol, represented as driving the four-horse sun-chariot from east to west; later identified with the Greek Helios, and hence often called Titan or Phœbus by the poets:
signi dic quid est? Cum quadrigis Sol exoriens,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 269:
Sol... aeternam suscepit lampada mundi,
Lucr. 5, 402:
rapax vis Solis equorum,
id. 5, 402:
quod magni filia Solis eram,
Ov. R. Am. 276; id. M. 14, 346:
Solis currus,
id. P. 4, 6, 48:
secundum (invocabis) Solem et Lunam,
Varr. R. R. 1, 1 med.:
grates tibi ago, summe Sol,
Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:
Sol Phaëthonti filio facturum se esse dixit quidquid optasset,
id. Off. 3, 25, 94:
Quid? illum filium Solis nonne patris ipsius luce indignum putas?
id. Tusc. 3, 12, 26:
qui Solem aurigando aequiperare existimaretur,
Suet. Ner. 53:
Solis colossus Rhodi,
Plin. 34, 7, 18, § 41; 34, 8, 19, § 63.—Comic.:
credo edepol equidem dormire Solem atque adpotum probe,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 129.—
b.
The Phœnician sun-god Heliogabalus (Elagabal), whose worship was introduced by the later emperors (Aurelianus, Heliogabalus):
ad templum Heliogabali tetendit... et Romae Soli templum posuit,
Vop. Aur. 25; cf. id. ib. 4; 14; 35; 39; Lampr. Heliog. 1; 3; afterwards called Sol Invictus, whose birthday, acc. to the Calendar. Const., was celebrated December 25th; cf. Julian. Or. 4, p. 156.—
c.
Of the sun-worship of other nations:
(Germani) deorum numero ducunt Solem et Vulcanum et Lunam,
Caes. B. G. 6, 21; cf.:
rex regum, frater Solis et Lunae,
of the king of Persia, Amm. 17, 5, 3.—
B.
The sun-god as emblem of omniscience:
non potuit reperire, si ipsi Soli quaerundas dares, lepidiores ad hanc rem quam ego dabo,
Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 206:
meliorem neque tu reperis, neque Sol videt,
id. Stich. 1, 2, 53:
at vigiles mundi... Sol et Luna,
Lucr. 5, 1435:
si hoc uno quicquam Sol vidisset iniquius,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28:
O Solem ipsum beatissimum, qui antequam se abderet fugientem vidit Antonium,
id. Phil. 14, 10, 27:
Solem consule, qui late facta diurna videt,
Ov. F. 4, 582:
quis Solem fallere possit?
id. A. A. 2, 573; cf. Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21; Sen. Herc. Fur. 595.—Hence represented as betrayer of conspiracies: propiusque honos [p. 1718] Boli, qui occulta conjurationis retexisset, Tac. A. 15, 74;
to him was commended the detection of murderers, in inscriptions over the slain: SOL, TIBI COMMENDO QVI MANVS INTVLIT EI,
Inscr. Orell. 4791:
SOL, TV INDICES EIVS MORTEM,
ib. 4792.—
C.
Poet., to describe the times of the day: solverat flagrantes Sol pronus equos, = it was night, Stat. Th. 3, 408: Sol operum medius summo librabat Olympo Lucentes, ceu staret, equos, = it was mid-day, id. ib. 5, 85.
IV.
In gen., solis as an appellation.
A.
DIES SOLIS, Sunday (late Lat.), Inscr. Orell. 508.—
B.
Solis gemma, a precious stone, Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181.—
C.
Solis insula, off the coast of Gedrosia, Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 86; 6, 23, 26, § 97.—
D.
Solis fons, in Marmorica, Curt. 4, 7, 22; Mela, 1, 8, 1; Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 31.—
E.
Solis promunturium, in Africa, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 9.—
F.
Solis oppidum, a town in Ægina, Plin. 5, 9, 11, § 61.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sol
18 decedo

dē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( inf. sync. decesse, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32; Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; Neue Formenl. 2, 536. The part. perf. decessus perh. only Rutil. Nam. 1, 313), v. n., to go away, depart, withdraw. (For syn. cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, destituo, deficio, discedo, excedo. Often opp. to accedo, maneo; freq. and class.)—Constr. absol. with de, ex, or merely the abl.; rarely with ab.
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
decedamus,
Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 74:
de altera parte (agri) decedere,
Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10:
decedit ex Gallia Romam Naevius,
Cic. Quint. 4, 16:
e pastu,
Verg. G. 1, 381; cf.:
e pastu decedere campis,
id. ib. 4, 186:
ex aequore domum,
id. ib. 2, 205;
Italiā,
Sall. J. 28, 2:
Numidiā,
id. ib. 38, 9:
Africā,
id. ib. 20, 1;
23, 1: pugnā,
Liv. 34, 47:
praesidio,
id. 4, 29 (cf.:
de praesidio,
Cic. de Sen. 20, 73):
quae naves paullulum suo cursu decesserint,
i. e. had gone out of their course, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 3; so,
cum luminibus exstinctis decessisset viā,
had gone out of the way, Suet. Caes. 31:
pantherae constituisse dicuntur in Cariam ex nostra provincia decedere,
Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2.
B.
Esp.
1.
t. t.
a.
In milit. lang., to retire, withdraw from a former position:
qui nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat ex his regionibus,
Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19;
so,
absol., id. ib. 1, 44 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 50:
de colle,
Caes. B. C. 1, 71, 3:
de vallo,
id. B. G. 5, 43, 4:
inde,
id. B. C. 1, 71 fin.:
loco superiore,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 9; so with abl., Auct. B. Alex. 34; 35 (twice); 70 al.—
b.
In official lang.: de provincia, ex provincia, provinciā, or absol. (cf. Cic. Planc. 26, 65), to retire from the province on the expiration of a term of office:
de provincia decessit,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20;
so,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Fam. 2, 15 (twice); Liv. 29, 19 Drak.:
decedens ex Syria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61; so,
e Cilicia,
id. Brut. 1:
ex Africa,
Nep. Cato, 1, 4:
ex Asia,
id. Att. 4, 1:
ex ea provincia,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 Zumpt N. cr.:
ut decedens Considius provinciā,
Cic. Lig. 1, 2; Liv. 39, 3; 41, 10:
te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse,
Cic. Fam. 3, 6; so absol., id. Planc. 26, 65 al.:
Albinus Romam decessit,
Sall. J. 36 fin.; cf.:
Romam ad triumphum,
Liv. 8, 13; 9, 16. —Rarely with a:
cui cum respondissem, me a provincia decedere: etiam mehercule, inquit, ut opinor, ex Africa,
Cic. Planc. 26 fin.
2.
Decedere de viā; also viā, in viā alicui, alicui, or absol., to get out of the way, to give place, make way for one (as a mark of respect or of abhorrence):
concedite atque abscedite omnes: de via decedite,
Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 1; cf.:
decedam ego illi de via, de semita,
id. Trin. 2, 4, 80 (Cic. Clu. 59. [p. 517] 163; cf. II. B infra); cf.:
qui fecit servo currenti in viā decesse populum,
Ter. Heaut. prol. 32:
censorem L. Plancum via sibi decedere aedilis coegit,
Suet. Ner. 4; cf. id. Tib. 31:
sanctis divis, Catul. 62, 268: nocti,
Verg. Ec. 8, 88:
peritis,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216 (cf.:
cedere nocti,
Liv. 3, 60, 7).—Also, to get out of the way of, avoid:
decedere canibus de via,
Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.:
hi numero impiorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum defugiunt, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 7.—By zeugma, in the pass.:
salutari, appeti, decedi, assurgi, deduci, reduci, etc.,
Cic. de Sen. 18, 63.
3.
Pregn., to depart, disappear (cf.: cedo, concedo).
a.
Of living beings, to decease, to die:
si eos, qui jam de vita decesserunt,
Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:
vitā,
Dig. 7, 1, 57, § 1; Vulg. 2 Mac. 6, 31; but commonly absol.:
pater nobis decessit a. d. VIII. Kal. Dec.,
id. Att. 1, 6:
cum paterfamiliae decessit,
Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 3; Nep. Arist. 3, 2, and 3; id. Cim. 1; id. Ages. 8, 6; Liv. 1, 34; 9, 17; Quint. 3, 6, 96 et saep.:
cruditate contracta,
id. 7, 3, 33:
morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner. 5 fin.:
paralysi,
id. Vit. 3:
ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte decedere,
Nep. Timol. 1, 6.—
b.
Of inanimate things, to depart, go off; to abate, subside, cease:
corpore febres,
Lucr. 2, 34:
febres,
Nep. Att. 22, 3; Cels. 3, 3; cf.:
quartana,
Cic. Att. 7, 2 (opp. accedere):
decessisse inde aquam,
run off, fallen, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; cf.:
decedere aestum,
id. 26, 45; 9, 26 al.:
de summa nihil decedet,
to be wanting, to fail, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 30; Cic. Clu. 60, 167; cf.:
quicquid libertati plebis caveretur, id suis decedere opibus credebant,
Liv. 3, 55:
decedet jam ira haec, etsi merito iratus est,
Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55 (for which ib. 5, 2, 15: cito ab eo haec ira abscedet):
postquam invidia decesserat,
Sall. J. 88, 1; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 16 al.:
priusquam ea cura decederet patribus,
Liv. 9, 29; so with dat., id. 2, 31; 23, 26; Tac. A. 15, 20; 44.— Poet.:
incipit et longo Scyros decedere ponto,
i. e. seems to flee before them, Stat. Ach. 2, 308.—In the Aug. poets sometimes of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set:
et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras,
Verg. E. 2, 67; so id. G. 1, 222; Ov. M. 4, 91; hence also of the day, to depart:
te veniente die, te decedente canebat,
Verg. G. 4, 466;
also of the moon,
to wane, Gell. 20, 8, 7.
II.
Trop.
A.
De possessione, jure, sententia, fide, etc. (and since the Aug. per. with abl. alone;
the reading ex jure suo,
Liv. 3, 33, 10, is very doubtful), to depart from; to give up, resign, forego; to yield, to swerve from one's possession, station, duty, right, opinion, faith, etc.
(α).
With de:
cogere aliquem de suis bonis decedere,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17 fin.; cf.:
de hypothecis,
id. Fam. 13, 56, 2;
and de possessione,
id. Agr. 2, 26;
de suo jure,
id. Rosc. Am. 27; id. Att. 16, 2:
qui de civitate decedere quam de sententia maluit,
id. Balb. 5:
de officio ac dignitate,
id. Verr. 1, 10:
de foro decedere,
to retire from public life, Nep. Att. 10, 2:
de scena,
to retire from the stage, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf. impers.:
de officio decessum,
Liv. 8, 25 fin. —
(β).
With abl. alone (so usually in Liv.):
jure suo,
Liv. 3, 33 fin.:
sententiā,
Tac. A. 14, 49:
instituto vestro,
Liv. 37, 54:
officio (opp. in fide atque officio pristino fore),
id. 27, 10; 36, 22:
fide,
id. 31, 5 fin.; 34, 11; 45, 19 al.:
poema... si paulum summo decessit, vergit ad imum,
Hor. A. P. 378.—
(γ).
Very rarely with ab:
cum (senatus) nihil a superioribus continuorum annorum decretis decesserit,
Cic. Fl. 12.—
(δ).
Absol.: si quos equites decedentis nactus sum, supplicio adfeci, Asin. Pol. ap. C. Fam. 10, 32, 5.
B.
De via, to depart, deviate from the right way:
se nulla cupiditate inductum de via decessisse,
Cic. Cael. 16, 38:
moleste ferre se de via decessisse,
id. Clu. 59, 163; so,
viā dicendi,
Quint. 4, 5, 3.
C.
(acc. to no. I. B. 2) To give way, yield to another (i. e. to his will or superior advantages—very rare):
vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213:
ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt,
are not inferior, id. Od. 2, 6, 15.
D.
( poet.) To avoid, shun, escape from (cf. I. B. 2 supra): nec serae meminit decedere nocti, to avoid the late night, i. e. the coldness of night, Varius ap. Macr. S. 6, 2, 20; Verg. Ecl. 8, 88; id. G. 3, 467:
calori,
id. ib. 4, 23.
E.
To fall short of, degenerate from:
de generis nobilitate,
Pall. 3, 25, 2: a rebus gestis ejus et gloriae splendore, Justin. 6, 3, 8.
* III.
For the simple verb (v. cedo, no. I. 2), to go off, turn out, result in any manner:
prospere decedentibus rebus,
Suet. Caes. 24.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > decedo
19 caesna

cēna (not coena, caena; old form caesna; cf.
Casmena for Camena,
Fest. p. 205, 15 Müll.), ae, f. [Sanscr. khad-, eat; Umbr. çes-na; cf. Gr. knizô], the principal meal of the Romans in the early period, taken about midday, dinner, supper (Paul. ex Fest. p. 54, 4; Fest. p. 338, 4 and 368, 8 Müll.); subsequently, the prandium was taken at noon, and the cena was usually begun about the 9th hour, i. e. at 3 o'clock P. M. (v. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. coena; cf.: prandium, jentaculum): cena apud antiquos dicebatur quod nunc est prandium. Vesperna, quam nunc cenam appellamus, Paul. ex Fest. l. l.; Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 1; Mart. 4, 8, 6; Plin. Ep. 3, 1;
to begin sooner was an indication of gluttony,
Plin. Pan. 49, 6.
(α).
With substt.:
cenarum ars,
Hor. S. 2, 4, 35:
caput cenae,
Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25; cf.:
mullus cenae caput,
Mart. 10, 31, 4:
ejus cenae fundus et fundamentum omne erat aula una lentis Aegyptiae,
Gell. 17, 8, 1: genus cenae sollemne, viaticum, adventicium, geniale, Philarg. ad Verg. E. 5, 74:
honos cenae,
Suet. Vesp. 2:
inpensae cenarum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 38:
cenarum magister,
Mart. 12, 48, 15:
ordo cenae,
Petr. 92:
cenae pater,
Hor. S. 2, 8, 7:
o noctes cenaeque deūm!
id. ib. 2, 6, 65:
mero Pontificum potiore cenis,
id. C. 2, 14, 28:
Thyestae,
id. A. P. 91.—
(β).
With adjj.:
abundantissima,
Suet. Ner. 42:
aditialis,
Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 6; Sen. Ep. 95, 41:
sumptuosa,
id. ib. 95, 41:
adventicia,
Suet. Vit. 13:
quorum omnis vigilandi labor in antelucanis cenis expromitur,
i. e. lasting all night, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22:
auguralis,
id. Fam. 7, 26, 2:
amplior,
Juv. 14, 170:
bona atque magna,
Cat. 13, 3:
brevis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 35:
Cerialis,
Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 25:
dubia,
Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 28; Hor. S. 2, 2, 77:
ebria,
Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 31:
grandes,
Quint. 10, 1, 58:
lautissima,
Plin. Ep. 9, 17, 1:
libera,
open table, Petr. 26:
multa de magnā fercula cenā,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 104:
munda,
id. C. 3, 29, 15:
cena non minus nitida quam frugi,
Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9: sororia, nuptialis. Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 60 sq.: [p. 311] Suet. Calig. 25:
opimae,
Hor. S. 2, 7, 103:
popularem quam vocant,
Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 69:
prior,
i. e. a previous invitation, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 27:
publicae,
Suet. Ner. 16:
recta,
id. Dom. 7; Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 19, 2:
Saliares,
App. M. 4, p. 152, 30:
sollemnes,
Suet. Tib. 34:
subita,
Sen. Thyest. 800; Suet. Claud. 21:
terrestris,
of vegetables, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 86:
varia,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 86:
viatica,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 61.—
(γ).
With verbs:
quid ego istius prandia, cenas commemorem?
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19, § 49; Suet. Vit. 13:
cenam apparare,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 74:
curare,
Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 37:
coquere,
id. Aul. 2, 7, 3; id. Cas. 3, 6, 28; 4, 1, 8; 4, 2, 2; id. Rud. 4, 7, 38 al.; Nep. Cim. 4, 3:
cenas facere,
Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6; cf. id. Fam. 9, 24, 2 sq.:
anteponere,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 25: committere maturo ovo, Varr. ap. Non. p. 249, 8:
praebere ternis ferculis,
Suet. Aug. 74:
ducere,
to prolong, Hor. A. P. 376:
ministrare,
id. S. 1, 6, 116:
producere,
id. ib. 1, 5, 70:
apponere,
Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 28; Suet. Galb. 12:
deesse cenae,
Quint. 7, 3, 31:
instruere pomis et oleribus,
Gell. 2, 24 al.:
cenam dare alicui,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 34; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2:
cenae adhibere aliquem,
Quint. 11, 2, 12; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 13; Suet. Caes. 73; id. Aug. 74; id. Claud. 32; id. Calig. 25; id. Tit. 9:
Taurus accipiebat nos Athenis cenā,
Gell. 17, 8, 1:
cenam cenavi tuam,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 24:
obire cenas,
Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6: cenam condicere alicui, to engage one ' s self to any one as a guest, promise to be one ' s guest, Suet. Tib. 42.—
(δ).
With prepp.:
ante cenam,
Cato, R. R. 114; 115, 1:
inter cenam,
at table, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19; id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 58; id. Phil. 2, 25, 63; Quint. 6, 3, 10; Suet. Galb. 22; id. Aug. 71;
in this sense in Suet. several times: super cenam,
Suet. Aug. 77; id. Tib. 56; id. Ner. 42; id. Vit. 12; id. Vesp. 22; id. Tit. 8; id. Dom. 21:
post cenam,
Quint. 1, 10, 19.—
(ε).
With substt. and prepp.:
aliquem Abduxi ad cenam,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91:
aliquem ad cenam aliquo condicam foras,
Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 18; id. Stich. 3, 1, 38:
holera et pisciculos ferre in cenam seni,
Ter. And. 2, 2, 32:
fit aliquid in cenam,
is preparing, Val. Max. 8, 1, 8:
ire ad cenam,
Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 6:
venire ad cenam,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 61:
itare ad cenas,
Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 2:
invitare ad cenam,
id. ib. 7, 9, 3; Quint. 7, 3, 33; Suet. Claud. 4:
venire ad cenam,
Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25:
promittere ad cenam,
Plin. Ep. 1, 15, 1:
vocare ad cenam,
Cic. Att. 6, 3, 9; Hor. S. 2, 7, 30; Suet. Tib. 6:
devocare,
Nep. Cim. 4, 3:
redire a cenā,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98. —Prov.: cenā comesā venire, i. e. to come too late:
post festum,
Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 11:
cenam rapere de rogo,
of unscrupulous greed, Cat. 59, 3.—
II.
Meton.
A.
A dish, course, at dinner:
prima, altera, tertia,
Mart. 11, 31, 5 and 6.—
* B.
A company at table:
ingens cena sedet,
Juv. 2, 120.—
* C.
The place of an entertainment (cf. cenatio and cenaculum), Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 11.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > caesna
20 cena

cēna (not coena, caena; old form caesna; cf.
Casmena for Camena,
Fest. p. 205, 15 Müll.), ae, f. [Sanscr. khad-, eat; Umbr. çes-na; cf. Gr. knizô], the principal meal of the Romans in the early period, taken about midday, dinner, supper (Paul. ex Fest. p. 54, 4; Fest. p. 338, 4 and 368, 8 Müll.); subsequently, the prandium was taken at noon, and the cena was usually begun about the 9th hour, i. e. at 3 o'clock P. M. (v. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. coena; cf.: prandium, jentaculum): cena apud antiquos dicebatur quod nunc est prandium. Vesperna, quam nunc cenam appellamus, Paul. ex Fest. l. l.; Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 1; Mart. 4, 8, 6; Plin. Ep. 3, 1;
to begin sooner was an indication of gluttony,
Plin. Pan. 49, 6.
(α).
With substt.:
cenarum ars,
Hor. S. 2, 4, 35:
caput cenae,
Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25; cf.:
mullus cenae caput,
Mart. 10, 31, 4:
ejus cenae fundus et fundamentum omne erat aula una lentis Aegyptiae,
Gell. 17, 8, 1: genus cenae sollemne, viaticum, adventicium, geniale, Philarg. ad Verg. E. 5, 74:
honos cenae,
Suet. Vesp. 2:
inpensae cenarum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 38:
cenarum magister,
Mart. 12, 48, 15:
ordo cenae,
Petr. 92:
cenae pater,
Hor. S. 2, 8, 7:
o noctes cenaeque deūm!
id. ib. 2, 6, 65:
mero Pontificum potiore cenis,
id. C. 2, 14, 28:
Thyestae,
id. A. P. 91.—
(β).
With adjj.:
abundantissima,
Suet. Ner. 42:
aditialis,
Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 6; Sen. Ep. 95, 41:
sumptuosa,
id. ib. 95, 41:
adventicia,
Suet. Vit. 13:
quorum omnis vigilandi labor in antelucanis cenis expromitur,
i. e. lasting all night, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22:
auguralis,
id. Fam. 7, 26, 2:
amplior,
Juv. 14, 170:
bona atque magna,
Cat. 13, 3:
brevis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 35:
Cerialis,
Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 25:
dubia,
Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 28; Hor. S. 2, 2, 77:
ebria,
Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 31:
grandes,
Quint. 10, 1, 58:
lautissima,
Plin. Ep. 9, 17, 1:
libera,
open table, Petr. 26:
multa de magnā fercula cenā,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 104:
munda,
id. C. 3, 29, 15:
cena non minus nitida quam frugi,
Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9: sororia, nuptialis. Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 60 sq.: [p. 311] Suet. Calig. 25:
opimae,
Hor. S. 2, 7, 103:
popularem quam vocant,
Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 69:
prior,
i. e. a previous invitation, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 27:
publicae,
Suet. Ner. 16:
recta,
id. Dom. 7; Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 19, 2:
Saliares,
App. M. 4, p. 152, 30:
sollemnes,
Suet. Tib. 34:
subita,
Sen. Thyest. 800; Suet. Claud. 21:
terrestris,
of vegetables, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 86:
varia,
Hor. S. 2, 6, 86:
viatica,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 61.—
(γ).
With verbs:
quid ego istius prandia, cenas commemorem?
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19, § 49; Suet. Vit. 13:
cenam apparare,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 74:
curare,
Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 37:
coquere,
id. Aul. 2, 7, 3; id. Cas. 3, 6, 28; 4, 1, 8; 4, 2, 2; id. Rud. 4, 7, 38 al.; Nep. Cim. 4, 3:
cenas facere,
Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6; cf. id. Fam. 9, 24, 2 sq.:
anteponere,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 25: committere maturo ovo, Varr. ap. Non. p. 249, 8:
praebere ternis ferculis,
Suet. Aug. 74:
ducere,
to prolong, Hor. A. P. 376:
ministrare,
id. S. 1, 6, 116:
producere,
id. ib. 1, 5, 70:
apponere,
Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 28; Suet. Galb. 12:
deesse cenae,
Quint. 7, 3, 31:
instruere pomis et oleribus,
Gell. 2, 24 al.:
cenam dare alicui,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 34; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2:
cenae adhibere aliquem,
Quint. 11, 2, 12; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 13; Suet. Caes. 73; id. Aug. 74; id. Claud. 32; id. Calig. 25; id. Tit. 9:
Taurus accipiebat nos Athenis cenā,
Gell. 17, 8, 1:
cenam cenavi tuam,
Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 24:
obire cenas,
Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6: cenam condicere alicui, to engage one ' s self to any one as a guest, promise to be one ' s guest, Suet. Tib. 42.—
(δ).
With prepp.:
ante cenam,
Cato, R. R. 114; 115, 1:
inter cenam,
at table, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19; id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 58; id. Phil. 2, 25, 63; Quint. 6, 3, 10; Suet. Galb. 22; id. Aug. 71;
in this sense in Suet. several times: super cenam,
Suet. Aug. 77; id. Tib. 56; id. Ner. 42; id. Vit. 12; id. Vesp. 22; id. Tit. 8; id. Dom. 21:
post cenam,
Quint. 1, 10, 19.—
(ε).
With substt. and prepp.:
aliquem Abduxi ad cenam,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91:
aliquem ad cenam aliquo condicam foras,
Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 18; id. Stich. 3, 1, 38:
holera et pisciculos ferre in cenam seni,
Ter. And. 2, 2, 32:
fit aliquid in cenam,
is preparing, Val. Max. 8, 1, 8:
ire ad cenam,
Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 6:
venire ad cenam,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 61:
itare ad cenas,
Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 2:
invitare ad cenam,
id. ib. 7, 9, 3; Quint. 7, 3, 33; Suet. Claud. 4:
venire ad cenam,
Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25:
promittere ad cenam,
Plin. Ep. 1, 15, 1:
vocare ad cenam,
Cic. Att. 6, 3, 9; Hor. S. 2, 7, 30; Suet. Tib. 6:
devocare,
Nep. Cim. 4, 3:
redire a cenā,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98. —Prov.: cenā comesā venire, i. e. to come too late:
post festum,
Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 11:
cenam rapere de rogo,
of unscrupulous greed, Cat. 59, 3.—
II.
Meton.
A.
A dish, course, at dinner:
prima, altera, tertia,
Mart. 11, 31, 5 and 6.—
* B.
A company at table:
ingens cena sedet,
Juv. 2, 120.—
* C.
The place of an entertainment (cf. cenatio and cenaculum), Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 11.

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