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  • 1 laudabile

    laudābĭlis, e, adj. [laudo], to be praised, praiseworthy, laudable (class. and freq.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    laudabile est, quod conficit honestam et praesentem et consequentem commemorationem,

    Auct. Her. 3, 4, 7:

    honestum, etiam si a nullo laudetur, natura esse laudabile,

    Cic. Off. 1, 4, 14:

    vita,

    id. Lael. 7, 23:

    orationes,

    id. Brut. 95, 325; cf.

    oratores,

    id. ib. 97, 333:

    vir erga rempublicam, Treb. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 32, 2: civis,

    Quint. 12, 1, 41; 3, 6, 84:

    carmen,

    Hor. A. P. 408:

    fides,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 35:

    in Rutilo luxuria est: in Ventidio laudabile nomen sumit,

    Juv. 11, 22.— As subst.: laudābĭle, is, n., the praiseworthy, Auct. Her. 3, 4, 7.— Comp.:

    vitae ratio laudabilior,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 3, 6:

    (voluptas) melioremne efficit aut laudabiliorem virum?

    id. Par. 1 fin:

    multo modestia post victoriam, quam ipsa victoria, laudabilior,

    Liv. 36, 21.—
    II.
    Transf., valuable, precious, excellent (post-Aug.):

    mel,

    Plin. 11, 15, 15, § 38:

    terra,

    id. 17, 4, 3, § 28.— Comp.:

    laudabilius vinum,

    Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 36.— Hence, adv.: laudābĭlĭter, in a praiseworthy manner, praiseworthily, laudably, ad recte, honeste, laudabiliter, postremo ad bene vivendum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 12:

    laudabiliter ac placabiliter propitiandi judices,

    by flattering expressions, Gell. 7, 3.— Comp.:

    laudabilius,

    Val. Max. 5, 1, 2 ext.; 5, 4, 3.— Sup. of the adj. and adv. appear not to occur.

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  • 2 laudabilis

    laudābĭlis, e, adj. [laudo], to be praised, praiseworthy, laudable (class. and freq.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    laudabile est, quod conficit honestam et praesentem et consequentem commemorationem,

    Auct. Her. 3, 4, 7:

    honestum, etiam si a nullo laudetur, natura esse laudabile,

    Cic. Off. 1, 4, 14:

    vita,

    id. Lael. 7, 23:

    orationes,

    id. Brut. 95, 325; cf.

    oratores,

    id. ib. 97, 333:

    vir erga rempublicam, Treb. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 32, 2: civis,

    Quint. 12, 1, 41; 3, 6, 84:

    carmen,

    Hor. A. P. 408:

    fides,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 35:

    in Rutilo luxuria est: in Ventidio laudabile nomen sumit,

    Juv. 11, 22.— As subst.: laudābĭle, is, n., the praiseworthy, Auct. Her. 3, 4, 7.— Comp.:

    vitae ratio laudabilior,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 3, 6:

    (voluptas) melioremne efficit aut laudabiliorem virum?

    id. Par. 1 fin:

    multo modestia post victoriam, quam ipsa victoria, laudabilior,

    Liv. 36, 21.—
    II.
    Transf., valuable, precious, excellent (post-Aug.):

    mel,

    Plin. 11, 15, 15, § 38:

    terra,

    id. 17, 4, 3, § 28.— Comp.:

    laudabilius vinum,

    Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 36.— Hence, adv.: laudābĭlĭter, in a praiseworthy manner, praiseworthily, laudably, ad recte, honeste, laudabiliter, postremo ad bene vivendum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 12:

    laudabiliter ac placabiliter propitiandi judices,

    by flattering expressions, Gell. 7, 3.— Comp.:

    laudabilius,

    Val. Max. 5, 1, 2 ext.; 5, 4, 3.— Sup. of the adj. and adv. appear not to occur.

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  • 3 laudābilis

        laudābilis e, adj. with comp.    [laudo], praiseworthy, commendable, estimable, laudable: honestum naturā est laudabile: oratores: nomen, Iu.: vitae ratio laudabilior.
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    laudabilis, laudabile ADJ

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  • 4 quaerō

        quaerō sīvī, sītus, ere    [QVAES-], to seek, look for: quaerenti (deae) defuit orbis, O.: te ipsum quaerebam, was looking for, T.: suos notos, Cs.: ab ostio quaerens Ennium, asking for: cum praetor quaereretur: quem quaeritis, adsum, V.: liberi ad necem quaerebantur: escam in sterquilinio, Ph.: per imas Quaerit iter vallīs (Ufens), V.: cauda colubrae... moriens dominae vestigia quaerit, O.— To seek to obtain, look for, strive for, seek: sibi alium imperatorem, S.: in regnum quaeritur heres, V.: milites ducem quaerentes: in eum invidia quaesita est, i. e. prejudice is excited: ad ornatum ludorum aurum: regia potestas hac lege quaeritur: ne quaeratur latebra periurio: voce pericula, provoke, O.: defensorem suae salutis eum.—With inf, to seek, strive, endeavor, ask: ne quaere doceri Quam poenam, etc., V.: Antequam... speciosa quaero Pascere tigrīs, i. e. let me rather, H.: classibus advehebantur, qui mutare sedes quaerebant, Ta.— To strive to gain, earn, win by effort, acquire: Conserva, quaere, parce, T.: Quaerit ac timet uti, H.: victum volgo, T.: confiteri sibi quaesito opus esse, that he must earn something.—To feel the want of, miss, lack: Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte: ne ille saepe Persas et Indos quaesisset, L.: quaerit Boeotia Dircen, O.— To ask, desire, require, demand, need, call for: quid sibi hic vestitus quaerit? i. e. what do you mean by? T.: collis pauca munimenta quaerebat, S.: qui tumultus dictatoriam maiestatem quaesisset, made necessary, L.: nego esse quicquam, quod cuiusquam oratoris eloquentiam quaereret: quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem, quidnam istis agendum putem.—Fig., to seek mentally, think over, meditate, aim at, plan, devise, find: consilium, T.: quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus, S.: remedium: rationes eas, quae ex coniecturā pendent.— To seek to learn, make inquiry, ask, inquire, interrogate: item alio die Quaerebam, T.: quaerendo cognoveram: vide, quaere, circumspice!: quaesiturus, unum caelum esset an innumerabilia: Naturā fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est, has been made a question, H.: cum ab iis saepius quaereret, made inquiries, Cs.: quaero abs te nunc, Hortensi, cum, etc.: quaesivit a medicis, quem a modum se haberet, N.: quaero de te, num, etc.: Cura tibi de quo quaerere nulla fuit, O.: in dominos quaeri de servis iniquom est, i. e. to examine under torture: quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc., Cs.: habes, quod ex me quaesisti.— To examine, inquire into, make inquiry, investigate: coëgit consules circa fora proficisci ibique quaerere, L.: hunc abduce, vinci, quaere rem, T.: scrutatus sum quae potui et quaesivi omnia: rem illam: quorum de naturā Caesar cum quaereret, sic reperiebat, Cs.—Esp., of judicial investigation: de pecuniis repetundis: dum de patris morte quaereretur: ut veteribus legibus, tantum modo extra ordinem, quaereretur, the investigation should be made.—In parenthet. clauses, to inquire, consider: omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi: noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est, in short: si verum quaeritis, to speak the truth: si verum quaerimus.
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    quaerere, quaesivi, quaesitus V
    search for, seek, strive for; obtain; ask, inquire, demand

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  • 5 breve

    brĕvis, e, adj. (abl. breve, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 2; comp. abl. breviore, Ov. Am. 2, 17, 22) [cf. brachus, Fest. p. 26], short, little, of small extent, in space and time (opp. longus; in space, in good class. prose, diff. from parvus, which designates that which fills a small space in length, breadth, and thickness; while brevis is used only of length in its different directions of breadth, height, or depth; and even of a circle, as merely a line, and without reference to the space enclosed, v. infra. In poets and postAug. prose brevis sometimes = parvus).
    I.
    Lit., in space.
    A.
    In distance, extent, short, little, small, narrow (opp. latus), Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92:

    brevior via,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Tib. 1, 10, 4:

    via brevis,

    Verg. E. 9, 23; Ov. M. 5, 253; Juv. 14, 223:

    cursus brevissimus,

    Verg. A. 3, 507:

    brevius iter,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 32:

    cursu brevissimus Almo,

    id. M. 14, 329:

    quid mihi, quod lato non separor aequore, prodest? Num minus haec nobis tam brevis obstat aqua?

    so narrow a stream, id. H. 18, 174; cf.

    also brevis unda, opp. latum mare,

    id. ib. 19, 141 and 142:

    non Asiam brevioris aquae disterminat usquam fluctus ab Europā,

    Luc. 9, 957 (strictioris, Schol.); cf. id. 9, 317:

    brevissima terra,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 2:

    in Euboico scopulus brevis emicat altō Gurgite,

    a small, narrow rock, Ov. M. 9, 226:

    brevibus Gyaris,

    Juv. 1, 73:

    scis In breve te cogi (sc. libellum),

    that you are closely rolled together, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 8:

    quo brevius valent,

    the nearer, the more powerful are they in conflict, Tac. A. 6, 35.—
    2.
    Trop. of the journey of life:

    quid est, quod in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo et tam brevi tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus?

    Cic. Arch. 11, 28; cf.:

    vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,

    id. Sest. 21, 47:

    tum brevior dirae mortis aperta via est,

    Tib. 1, 10, 4.—And poet. of the thread of life:

    fila vitae breviora,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 46. —
    B.
    In height, short, small, low (opp. altus and sometimes longus);

    of the human figure: sed sedebat judex L. Aurifex, brevior ipse quam testis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245:

    ut statura breves in digitos eriguntur,

    Quint. 2, 3, 8:

    forma,

    Ov. M. 5, 457:

    (puella) longa brevisque,

    id. Am. 2, 4, 36:

    brevis corpore,

    Suet. Galb. 3;

    id. Vit. Hor.—Of a maiden changed to a boy: et incomptis brevior mensura capillis,

    Ov. M. 9, 789.—

    Of other things: ut pleraque Alpium ab Italiā sicut breviora, ita arrectiora sunt,

    lower, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    brevior ilex,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1641:

    mus,

    little, Ov. F. 2, 574. —
    C.
    In depth, small, little, shallow (opp. profundus):

    puteus,

    Juv. 3, 226:

    vada,

    Verg. A. 5, 221; Sen. Agam. 570.—Hence, subst.: brĕvia, ium, n., as in Gr. ta brachea, shallow places, shallows, shoals:

    tris Eurus ab alto In brevia et syrtis urget,

    Verg. A. 1, 111 (brevia vadosa dicit, per quae vadi pedibus potest, Serv.); Luc. 9, 338: neque discerni poterant incerta ab solidis, brevia a profundis, Tac. A. 1, 70:

    brevia litorum,

    id. ib. 6, 33 fin. —Perh. also in sing.:

    breve,

    Tac. A. 14, 29 Draeg. ad loc. (Ritter, brevia; al. breve litus).—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevia, in quibus volutatur, incerta, ancipitia,

    difficulties, Sen. Ep. 22, 7.—
    D.
    Of the line of a circle:

    ubi circulus (i.e. arcticus) axem Ultimus extremum spatioque brevissimus ambit,

    makes the shortest path, Ov. M. 2, 517; cf.

    of similar orbits, of stars: absides breviores,

    Plin. 2. 15, 13, §

    63.—Of the circular course of a horse on the track: discit gyro breviore flecti,

    Sen. Hippol. 314. —
    II.
    Transf., of time.
    A.
    Lit. (the usu. signif. of the word), short, brief, small, little.
    1.
    In gen.:

    quanto, nox, fuisti longior hac proxumā, Tanto brevior dies ut fiat faciam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 51:

    breve spatium'st perferundi quae minitas mihi,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 85:

    brevis hora,

    Lucr. 4, 179; so Ov. M. 4, 696: Pa. Brevin' an longinquo sermone? Mi. Tribus verbis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30:

    occasio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 57; Phaedr. 5, 8, 5:

    brevis hic est fructus homulleis,

    short is this enjoyment for little men, Lucr. 3, 927; cf.:

    MORS. PERFECIT. TVA. VT. TIBE. ESSENT. OMNIA. BREVIA. HONOS. FAMA. VIRTVSQVE. GLORIA. ATQVE. INGENIVM.,

    Inscr. Orell. 558:

    omnia brevia tolerabilia esse debent,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 104; id. Fin. 1, 12, 40; 2, 29, 94; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94; Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 5:

    quoniam vita brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

    Sall. C. 1, 3; so,

    vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 6:

    aut omnia breviora aliquanto fuere, aut Saguntum principio anni captum,

    occupied a shorter time, Liv. 21, 15, 5:

    brevissimum tempus,

    id. 5, 6, 7:

    detrimentum,

    Quint. 11, 1, 10:

    arbitrium mortis,

    Tac. A. 15, 60:

    breves populi Romani amores,

    id. ib. 2, 41:

    tempus,

    Suet. Ner. 20 al.:

    nobis quom semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda,

    Cat. 5, 5:

    fructus,

    Lucr. 3, 914:

    aevum,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 17; id. S. 2, 6, 97; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

    anni,

    Hor. C. 4, 13, 22:

    ver,

    Ov. M. 1, 118; 10, 85:

    flores rosae,

    quickly withering, short-lived, Hor. C. 2, 3, 13:

    lilium,

    id. ib. 1, 36, 16:

    cena,

    frugal, id. Ep. 1, 14, 35:

    mensa,

    id. A. P. 198:

    dominus,

    living but a short time, id. C. 2, 14, 24:

    stultitia,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 27:

    ira furor brevis est,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    actio brevis atque concisa,

    Quint. 6, 4, 2:

    somnus,

    Sen. Troad. 441:

    nec gratius quicquam decore nec brevius,

    nothing is more acceptable, but nothing more perishable, fading, than beauty, Suet. Dom. 18:

    domus,

    Sen. Hippol. 762:

    fortuna,

    Sil. 4, 734.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Comp. brevius, with subj. clause, shorter, i.e. easier, more convenient:

    brevius visum urbana crimina incipi, quorum obvii testes erant,

    Tac. A. 13, 43: modo ne existimes brevius esse ab urbe mitti, Trag. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 40 (49), 3.—
    b.
    In brevi spatio, brevi spatio, in brevi tempore, brevi tempore, and absol. brevi or in brevi, in a short time, shortly (before or after) (brevi tempore and brevi are class.; the latter, as in Gr. en brachei, to be considered as neuter, without supplying tempore):

    inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum,

    Lucr. 2, 77; so Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Ner. 30; cf.:

    in multo breviore temporis spatio,

    id. Aug. 22:

    multa brevi spatio simulacra geruntur,

    Lucr. 4, 160; Sall. J. 87, 3:

    spatio brevi,

    Hor. C. 1, 11, 6:

    res publica per vos brevi tempore jus suum recuperabit,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; 5, 21, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 11; Nep. Milt. 2, 1; id. Them. 1, 4; Suet. Caes. 3:

    sic ille affectus, brevi postea est mortuus,

    soon after, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142 (Zumpt;

    acc. to MSS. perbrevi).—So brevi post = paulo post: brevi post Marcellus Romam venit,

    Liv. 33, 37, 9; 24, 3, 14:

    brevi deinde,

    id. 24, 4, 9: (Britanni) tantum usu cotidiano et exercitatione efficiunt, uti in declivi ac praecipiti loco incitatos equos sustinere et brevi ( in a short time, i.e. with great rapidity) moderari ac flectere consuerint, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin. Herz. and Held.:

    fama tanti facinoris per omnem Africam brevi divolgatur,

    Sall. J. 13, 1; Nep. Them. 4, 4:

    mirantur tam brevi rem Romanam crevisse,

    Liv. 1, 9, 9:

    brevi omnia subegit,

    Suet. Caes. 34; so id. Aug. 17; 65; id. Vesp. 5; id. Gram. 3; Gell. 1, 15, 18: scire in brevi, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 186 P.; Flor. 1, 1, 15.—
    c.
    Brevi, a short time, a little while: [p. 251] cunctatusque brevi, contortam viribus hastam in Persea misit, Ov. M. 5, 32; cf.:

    illa brevi spatio silet,

    id. ib. 7, 307; so,

    * breve,

    Cat. 61, 187.—
    d.
    Ad breve, for a short time, Suet. Tib. 68; cf.:

    ad breve quoddam tempus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
    B.
    Transf. to things done or taking place in a short time; so most freq.
    1.
    Of discourse, short, brief, concise (most freq. in Cic. and Quint.):

    narratio,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28; id. de Or. 3, 50, 196: laudatio;

    comprehensio et ambitus ille verborum erat apud illum contractus et brevis,

    id. Brut. 44, 162; cf. id. de Or. 2, 80, 326:

    nunc venio ad illa tua brevia: et primum illud, quo nihil potest esse brevius: bonum omne laudabile, etc.,

    id. Fin. 4, 18, 48:

    quam falsa re! quam brevia responsu!

    id. Clu. 59, 164: urbanitas est virtus quaedam in breve dictum coacta, Dom. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 104:

    Homerus brevem eloquentiam Menelao dedit,

    Quint. 12, 10, 64 (brevis = ou polumuthos, Hom. Il. 3, 214):

    breviores commentarii,

    Quint. 3, 8, 58:

    annotatio,

    id. 10, 7, 31:

    brevia illa atque concisa,

    id. 10, 7, 10; so,

    sententiae,

    id. 10, 1, 60:

    causae,

    id. 6, 1, 8:

    docendi compendia,

    id. 1, 1, 24:

    comprehensiones,

    id. 12, 2, 19:

    quod ut brevissimo pateat exemplo,

    id. 3, 6, 10: commendatio, requiring few words, i.e. moderate, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240.— Meton. of a speaker or orator, brief:

    multos imitatio brevitatis decipit, ut cum se breves putent esse, longissimi sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 38:

    brevior in scribendo,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio,

    Hor. A. P. 25:

    in eloquendo brevis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 63:

    densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides,

    id. 10, 1, 73.—Hence, brĕvī, adv., briefly, in few words (freq. and class.):

    brevi pro breviter M. Tullius de Orat. ad Quintum fratrem (1, 8, 34): ac ne plura quidem quae sunt innumerabilia consecter, comprehendam brevi,

    Charis. p. 176 P.:

    id percurram brevi,

    Cic. Caecin. 32, 94:

    aliquid explicare,

    id. Planc. 40, 95 Wund.:

    circumscribere et definire,

    id. Sest. 45, 97; so id. ib. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.; id. Fin. 1, 17, 55:

    complecti,

    id. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

    exponere,

    id. ib. 1, 46, 203:

    reprehendere,

    id. Inv. 1, 9, 12:

    reddere,

    id. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    respondere,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    perscribere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1; so Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 35, 47 al.; cf.:

    in brevi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32.—So once in epistolary style: breve facere, to be short or brief:

    quid scribam? breve faciam,

    Cic. Att. 11, 7, 6; cf.:

    longum est ea dicere, sed hoc breve dicam,

    id. Sest. 5, 12.—Once, in breve cogere (diff. from I. A.), to comprise in few words, bring into a small compass:

    in breve coactae causae,

    Liv. 39, 47, 5; cf.:

    in breve coactio causae,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 15.— In late Lat. subst.: brĕvis, is, m. (sc. liber—acc. to another reading, brĕve, is, n.), a short catalogue, summary, = breviarium:

    brevis nominum,

    Vop. Aur. 36; so id. Bonos. 15; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 21; Hier. Ep. 5, n. 2 al.—
    2.
    Of a short syllable;

    rarely as adj.: Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus,

    Hor. A. P. 251:

    a brevis, gre brevis, faciet tamen longam priorem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 86 et saep.—More freq. subst.: brĕvis, is, f. (sc. syllaba):

    dactylus, qui est e longā et duabus brevibus,

    Cic. Or. 64, 217 sq.:

    in fine pro longā accipi brevem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 93; 9, 4, 86:

    plurimum habent celeritatis breves,

    id. 9, 4, 91.—

    Hence also once of a syllable long by position, but pronounced short: indoctus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā: inhumanus brevi, infelix longā,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159 Meyer N. cr.; cf. Gell. 2, 17 sqq., and Schütz Lex. Cic. s. v. brevis.—
    C.
    For parvus, exiguus, little, small:

    exigua pars brevisque,

    Lucr. 5, 591:

    Canidia brevibus implicata viperis,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 15:

    Alecto brevibus torquata colubris,

    Ov. H. 2, 119:

    brevi latere ac pede longo est,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 93; cf.

    just before: breve quod caput, ardua cervix, v. 89, and brevis alvus,

    Verg. G. 3, 80 (on the other hand, Nemes. 244:

    parvae alvi): mus,

    Ov. F. 2, 574:

    forma (sc. pueri in stellionem mutati),

    id. M. 5, 457.—

    So, lapathi herba,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 29 (brevis = parva, non excrescens in altum, Schol. Cruqu.):

    folia breviora,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 26 (minor corona, Schol. Cruqu.):

    census,

    id. C. 2, 15, 13:

    pondus,

    id. S. 2, 2, 37:

    impensa,

    Ov. H. 7, 188 Ruhnk.:

    sigillum,

    id. M. 6, 86:

    insulae,

    Pall. 1, 28, 1; cf. Juv. 1, 73: vasculum, Pall. Apr. 8, 4:

    offulae,

    id. 1, 29, 4:

    pantheris in candido breves macularum oculi,

    Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62.—With nom. abstr.:

    breve in exiguo marmore nomen ero,

    Prop. 2, 1, 72; Sen. Oedip. 935.—So, pondus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 37 al.—Hence, brĕ-vĭter, adv., shortly, briefly, etc.
    1.
    Of space (acc. to I.) (rare): seu libeat, curvo brevius convertere gyro, shorter, i. e. in a smaller circle, Tib. 4, 1, 94:

    parvo brevius quam totus,

    a little less than the whole, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    Sarmatae, omisso arcu, quo brevius valent, contis gladiisque ruerent,

    Tac. A. 6, 35.—Far more freq. in prose and poetry,
    2.
    (Acc. to II. A. b. and c.) Of time, in a short time.
    a.
    In gen.:

    iratum breviter vites, inimicum diu, Publ. Syr. v. 249 Rib.: sapiens, cum breviter et strictim colore atque vultu motus est,

    Gell. 19, 1, 20.—
    b.
    Esp.
    (α).
    In expression, briefly, in brief, in few words, concisely, summarily:

    sed breviter paucis praestat comprendere multa,

    Lucr. 6, 1082: multa breviter et commode dicta (sc. apophthegmata; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104) memoriae mandabam, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    rem totam breviter cognoscite,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 169; 2, 3, 27, § 67; so id. de Or. 2, 83, 340:

    summatim breviterque describere,

    id. Or. 15, 50:

    breviter tangere,

    id. Off. 3, 2, 8 Beier N. cr.:

    breviter et modice disserere,

    Sall. J. 111, 1:

    adicere aliquid,

    Quint. 9, 3, 100; cf. also Verg. A. 2, 11; 4, 632; 6, 321; Ov. M. 2, 783:

    omnia soli Forsan Pacuvio breviter dabit (i.e. paucis testamenti verbis, quibus heres ex asse scribetur),

    Juv. 12, 125 Web. (cf. id. 1, 68: beatum exiguis tabulis).— Comp., Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 26; Quint. 8, prooem. § 1; 8, 6, 61; 9, 2, 16; 10, 1, 49; 11, 1, 5 al.— Sup., Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 3; id. Div. 1, 32, 70; Quint. 1, 10, 1; 4, 2, 113 al.—
    (β).
    Of syllables:

    quibus in verbis eae primae litterae sunt quae in sapiente atque felice, producte dicitur, in ceteris omnibus breviter,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159.

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  • 6 brevi

    brĕvis, e, adj. (abl. breve, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 2; comp. abl. breviore, Ov. Am. 2, 17, 22) [cf. brachus, Fest. p. 26], short, little, of small extent, in space and time (opp. longus; in space, in good class. prose, diff. from parvus, which designates that which fills a small space in length, breadth, and thickness; while brevis is used only of length in its different directions of breadth, height, or depth; and even of a circle, as merely a line, and without reference to the space enclosed, v. infra. In poets and postAug. prose brevis sometimes = parvus).
    I.
    Lit., in space.
    A.
    In distance, extent, short, little, small, narrow (opp. latus), Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92:

    brevior via,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Tib. 1, 10, 4:

    via brevis,

    Verg. E. 9, 23; Ov. M. 5, 253; Juv. 14, 223:

    cursus brevissimus,

    Verg. A. 3, 507:

    brevius iter,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 32:

    cursu brevissimus Almo,

    id. M. 14, 329:

    quid mihi, quod lato non separor aequore, prodest? Num minus haec nobis tam brevis obstat aqua?

    so narrow a stream, id. H. 18, 174; cf.

    also brevis unda, opp. latum mare,

    id. ib. 19, 141 and 142:

    non Asiam brevioris aquae disterminat usquam fluctus ab Europā,

    Luc. 9, 957 (strictioris, Schol.); cf. id. 9, 317:

    brevissima terra,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 2:

    in Euboico scopulus brevis emicat altō Gurgite,

    a small, narrow rock, Ov. M. 9, 226:

    brevibus Gyaris,

    Juv. 1, 73:

    scis In breve te cogi (sc. libellum),

    that you are closely rolled together, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 8:

    quo brevius valent,

    the nearer, the more powerful are they in conflict, Tac. A. 6, 35.—
    2.
    Trop. of the journey of life:

    quid est, quod in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo et tam brevi tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus?

    Cic. Arch. 11, 28; cf.:

    vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,

    id. Sest. 21, 47:

    tum brevior dirae mortis aperta via est,

    Tib. 1, 10, 4.—And poet. of the thread of life:

    fila vitae breviora,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 46. —
    B.
    In height, short, small, low (opp. altus and sometimes longus);

    of the human figure: sed sedebat judex L. Aurifex, brevior ipse quam testis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245:

    ut statura breves in digitos eriguntur,

    Quint. 2, 3, 8:

    forma,

    Ov. M. 5, 457:

    (puella) longa brevisque,

    id. Am. 2, 4, 36:

    brevis corpore,

    Suet. Galb. 3;

    id. Vit. Hor.—Of a maiden changed to a boy: et incomptis brevior mensura capillis,

    Ov. M. 9, 789.—

    Of other things: ut pleraque Alpium ab Italiā sicut breviora, ita arrectiora sunt,

    lower, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    brevior ilex,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1641:

    mus,

    little, Ov. F. 2, 574. —
    C.
    In depth, small, little, shallow (opp. profundus):

    puteus,

    Juv. 3, 226:

    vada,

    Verg. A. 5, 221; Sen. Agam. 570.—Hence, subst.: brĕvia, ium, n., as in Gr. ta brachea, shallow places, shallows, shoals:

    tris Eurus ab alto In brevia et syrtis urget,

    Verg. A. 1, 111 (brevia vadosa dicit, per quae vadi pedibus potest, Serv.); Luc. 9, 338: neque discerni poterant incerta ab solidis, brevia a profundis, Tac. A. 1, 70:

    brevia litorum,

    id. ib. 6, 33 fin. —Perh. also in sing.:

    breve,

    Tac. A. 14, 29 Draeg. ad loc. (Ritter, brevia; al. breve litus).—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevia, in quibus volutatur, incerta, ancipitia,

    difficulties, Sen. Ep. 22, 7.—
    D.
    Of the line of a circle:

    ubi circulus (i.e. arcticus) axem Ultimus extremum spatioque brevissimus ambit,

    makes the shortest path, Ov. M. 2, 517; cf.

    of similar orbits, of stars: absides breviores,

    Plin. 2. 15, 13, §

    63.—Of the circular course of a horse on the track: discit gyro breviore flecti,

    Sen. Hippol. 314. —
    II.
    Transf., of time.
    A.
    Lit. (the usu. signif. of the word), short, brief, small, little.
    1.
    In gen.:

    quanto, nox, fuisti longior hac proxumā, Tanto brevior dies ut fiat faciam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 51:

    breve spatium'st perferundi quae minitas mihi,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 85:

    brevis hora,

    Lucr. 4, 179; so Ov. M. 4, 696: Pa. Brevin' an longinquo sermone? Mi. Tribus verbis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30:

    occasio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 57; Phaedr. 5, 8, 5:

    brevis hic est fructus homulleis,

    short is this enjoyment for little men, Lucr. 3, 927; cf.:

    MORS. PERFECIT. TVA. VT. TIBE. ESSENT. OMNIA. BREVIA. HONOS. FAMA. VIRTVSQVE. GLORIA. ATQVE. INGENIVM.,

    Inscr. Orell. 558:

    omnia brevia tolerabilia esse debent,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 104; id. Fin. 1, 12, 40; 2, 29, 94; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94; Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 5:

    quoniam vita brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

    Sall. C. 1, 3; so,

    vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 6:

    aut omnia breviora aliquanto fuere, aut Saguntum principio anni captum,

    occupied a shorter time, Liv. 21, 15, 5:

    brevissimum tempus,

    id. 5, 6, 7:

    detrimentum,

    Quint. 11, 1, 10:

    arbitrium mortis,

    Tac. A. 15, 60:

    breves populi Romani amores,

    id. ib. 2, 41:

    tempus,

    Suet. Ner. 20 al.:

    nobis quom semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda,

    Cat. 5, 5:

    fructus,

    Lucr. 3, 914:

    aevum,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 17; id. S. 2, 6, 97; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

    anni,

    Hor. C. 4, 13, 22:

    ver,

    Ov. M. 1, 118; 10, 85:

    flores rosae,

    quickly withering, short-lived, Hor. C. 2, 3, 13:

    lilium,

    id. ib. 1, 36, 16:

    cena,

    frugal, id. Ep. 1, 14, 35:

    mensa,

    id. A. P. 198:

    dominus,

    living but a short time, id. C. 2, 14, 24:

    stultitia,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 27:

    ira furor brevis est,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    actio brevis atque concisa,

    Quint. 6, 4, 2:

    somnus,

    Sen. Troad. 441:

    nec gratius quicquam decore nec brevius,

    nothing is more acceptable, but nothing more perishable, fading, than beauty, Suet. Dom. 18:

    domus,

    Sen. Hippol. 762:

    fortuna,

    Sil. 4, 734.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Comp. brevius, with subj. clause, shorter, i.e. easier, more convenient:

    brevius visum urbana crimina incipi, quorum obvii testes erant,

    Tac. A. 13, 43: modo ne existimes brevius esse ab urbe mitti, Trag. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 40 (49), 3.—
    b.
    In brevi spatio, brevi spatio, in brevi tempore, brevi tempore, and absol. brevi or in brevi, in a short time, shortly (before or after) (brevi tempore and brevi are class.; the latter, as in Gr. en brachei, to be considered as neuter, without supplying tempore):

    inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum,

    Lucr. 2, 77; so Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Ner. 30; cf.:

    in multo breviore temporis spatio,

    id. Aug. 22:

    multa brevi spatio simulacra geruntur,

    Lucr. 4, 160; Sall. J. 87, 3:

    spatio brevi,

    Hor. C. 1, 11, 6:

    res publica per vos brevi tempore jus suum recuperabit,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; 5, 21, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 11; Nep. Milt. 2, 1; id. Them. 1, 4; Suet. Caes. 3:

    sic ille affectus, brevi postea est mortuus,

    soon after, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142 (Zumpt;

    acc. to MSS. perbrevi).—So brevi post = paulo post: brevi post Marcellus Romam venit,

    Liv. 33, 37, 9; 24, 3, 14:

    brevi deinde,

    id. 24, 4, 9: (Britanni) tantum usu cotidiano et exercitatione efficiunt, uti in declivi ac praecipiti loco incitatos equos sustinere et brevi ( in a short time, i.e. with great rapidity) moderari ac flectere consuerint, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin. Herz. and Held.:

    fama tanti facinoris per omnem Africam brevi divolgatur,

    Sall. J. 13, 1; Nep. Them. 4, 4:

    mirantur tam brevi rem Romanam crevisse,

    Liv. 1, 9, 9:

    brevi omnia subegit,

    Suet. Caes. 34; so id. Aug. 17; 65; id. Vesp. 5; id. Gram. 3; Gell. 1, 15, 18: scire in brevi, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 186 P.; Flor. 1, 1, 15.—
    c.
    Brevi, a short time, a little while: [p. 251] cunctatusque brevi, contortam viribus hastam in Persea misit, Ov. M. 5, 32; cf.:

    illa brevi spatio silet,

    id. ib. 7, 307; so,

    * breve,

    Cat. 61, 187.—
    d.
    Ad breve, for a short time, Suet. Tib. 68; cf.:

    ad breve quoddam tempus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
    B.
    Transf. to things done or taking place in a short time; so most freq.
    1.
    Of discourse, short, brief, concise (most freq. in Cic. and Quint.):

    narratio,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28; id. de Or. 3, 50, 196: laudatio;

    comprehensio et ambitus ille verborum erat apud illum contractus et brevis,

    id. Brut. 44, 162; cf. id. de Or. 2, 80, 326:

    nunc venio ad illa tua brevia: et primum illud, quo nihil potest esse brevius: bonum omne laudabile, etc.,

    id. Fin. 4, 18, 48:

    quam falsa re! quam brevia responsu!

    id. Clu. 59, 164: urbanitas est virtus quaedam in breve dictum coacta, Dom. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 104:

    Homerus brevem eloquentiam Menelao dedit,

    Quint. 12, 10, 64 (brevis = ou polumuthos, Hom. Il. 3, 214):

    breviores commentarii,

    Quint. 3, 8, 58:

    annotatio,

    id. 10, 7, 31:

    brevia illa atque concisa,

    id. 10, 7, 10; so,

    sententiae,

    id. 10, 1, 60:

    causae,

    id. 6, 1, 8:

    docendi compendia,

    id. 1, 1, 24:

    comprehensiones,

    id. 12, 2, 19:

    quod ut brevissimo pateat exemplo,

    id. 3, 6, 10: commendatio, requiring few words, i.e. moderate, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240.— Meton. of a speaker or orator, brief:

    multos imitatio brevitatis decipit, ut cum se breves putent esse, longissimi sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 38:

    brevior in scribendo,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio,

    Hor. A. P. 25:

    in eloquendo brevis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 63:

    densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides,

    id. 10, 1, 73.—Hence, brĕvī, adv., briefly, in few words (freq. and class.):

    brevi pro breviter M. Tullius de Orat. ad Quintum fratrem (1, 8, 34): ac ne plura quidem quae sunt innumerabilia consecter, comprehendam brevi,

    Charis. p. 176 P.:

    id percurram brevi,

    Cic. Caecin. 32, 94:

    aliquid explicare,

    id. Planc. 40, 95 Wund.:

    circumscribere et definire,

    id. Sest. 45, 97; so id. ib. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.; id. Fin. 1, 17, 55:

    complecti,

    id. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

    exponere,

    id. ib. 1, 46, 203:

    reprehendere,

    id. Inv. 1, 9, 12:

    reddere,

    id. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    respondere,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    perscribere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1; so Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 35, 47 al.; cf.:

    in brevi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32.—So once in epistolary style: breve facere, to be short or brief:

    quid scribam? breve faciam,

    Cic. Att. 11, 7, 6; cf.:

    longum est ea dicere, sed hoc breve dicam,

    id. Sest. 5, 12.—Once, in breve cogere (diff. from I. A.), to comprise in few words, bring into a small compass:

    in breve coactae causae,

    Liv. 39, 47, 5; cf.:

    in breve coactio causae,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 15.— In late Lat. subst.: brĕvis, is, m. (sc. liber—acc. to another reading, brĕve, is, n.), a short catalogue, summary, = breviarium:

    brevis nominum,

    Vop. Aur. 36; so id. Bonos. 15; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 21; Hier. Ep. 5, n. 2 al.—
    2.
    Of a short syllable;

    rarely as adj.: Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus,

    Hor. A. P. 251:

    a brevis, gre brevis, faciet tamen longam priorem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 86 et saep.—More freq. subst.: brĕvis, is, f. (sc. syllaba):

    dactylus, qui est e longā et duabus brevibus,

    Cic. Or. 64, 217 sq.:

    in fine pro longā accipi brevem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 93; 9, 4, 86:

    plurimum habent celeritatis breves,

    id. 9, 4, 91.—

    Hence also once of a syllable long by position, but pronounced short: indoctus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā: inhumanus brevi, infelix longā,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159 Meyer N. cr.; cf. Gell. 2, 17 sqq., and Schütz Lex. Cic. s. v. brevis.—
    C.
    For parvus, exiguus, little, small:

    exigua pars brevisque,

    Lucr. 5, 591:

    Canidia brevibus implicata viperis,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 15:

    Alecto brevibus torquata colubris,

    Ov. H. 2, 119:

    brevi latere ac pede longo est,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 93; cf.

    just before: breve quod caput, ardua cervix, v. 89, and brevis alvus,

    Verg. G. 3, 80 (on the other hand, Nemes. 244:

    parvae alvi): mus,

    Ov. F. 2, 574:

    forma (sc. pueri in stellionem mutati),

    id. M. 5, 457.—

    So, lapathi herba,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 29 (brevis = parva, non excrescens in altum, Schol. Cruqu.):

    folia breviora,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 26 (minor corona, Schol. Cruqu.):

    census,

    id. C. 2, 15, 13:

    pondus,

    id. S. 2, 2, 37:

    impensa,

    Ov. H. 7, 188 Ruhnk.:

    sigillum,

    id. M. 6, 86:

    insulae,

    Pall. 1, 28, 1; cf. Juv. 1, 73: vasculum, Pall. Apr. 8, 4:

    offulae,

    id. 1, 29, 4:

    pantheris in candido breves macularum oculi,

    Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62.—With nom. abstr.:

    breve in exiguo marmore nomen ero,

    Prop. 2, 1, 72; Sen. Oedip. 935.—So, pondus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 37 al.—Hence, brĕ-vĭter, adv., shortly, briefly, etc.
    1.
    Of space (acc. to I.) (rare): seu libeat, curvo brevius convertere gyro, shorter, i. e. in a smaller circle, Tib. 4, 1, 94:

    parvo brevius quam totus,

    a little less than the whole, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    Sarmatae, omisso arcu, quo brevius valent, contis gladiisque ruerent,

    Tac. A. 6, 35.—Far more freq. in prose and poetry,
    2.
    (Acc. to II. A. b. and c.) Of time, in a short time.
    a.
    In gen.:

    iratum breviter vites, inimicum diu, Publ. Syr. v. 249 Rib.: sapiens, cum breviter et strictim colore atque vultu motus est,

    Gell. 19, 1, 20.—
    b.
    Esp.
    (α).
    In expression, briefly, in brief, in few words, concisely, summarily:

    sed breviter paucis praestat comprendere multa,

    Lucr. 6, 1082: multa breviter et commode dicta (sc. apophthegmata; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104) memoriae mandabam, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    rem totam breviter cognoscite,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 169; 2, 3, 27, § 67; so id. de Or. 2, 83, 340:

    summatim breviterque describere,

    id. Or. 15, 50:

    breviter tangere,

    id. Off. 3, 2, 8 Beier N. cr.:

    breviter et modice disserere,

    Sall. J. 111, 1:

    adicere aliquid,

    Quint. 9, 3, 100; cf. also Verg. A. 2, 11; 4, 632; 6, 321; Ov. M. 2, 783:

    omnia soli Forsan Pacuvio breviter dabit (i.e. paucis testamenti verbis, quibus heres ex asse scribetur),

    Juv. 12, 125 Web. (cf. id. 1, 68: beatum exiguis tabulis).— Comp., Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 26; Quint. 8, prooem. § 1; 8, 6, 61; 9, 2, 16; 10, 1, 49; 11, 1, 5 al.— Sup., Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 3; id. Div. 1, 32, 70; Quint. 1, 10, 1; 4, 2, 113 al.—
    (β).
    Of syllables:

    quibus in verbis eae primae litterae sunt quae in sapiente atque felice, producte dicitur, in ceteris omnibus breviter,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159.

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  • 7 brevia

    brĕvis, e, adj. (abl. breve, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 2; comp. abl. breviore, Ov. Am. 2, 17, 22) [cf. brachus, Fest. p. 26], short, little, of small extent, in space and time (opp. longus; in space, in good class. prose, diff. from parvus, which designates that which fills a small space in length, breadth, and thickness; while brevis is used only of length in its different directions of breadth, height, or depth; and even of a circle, as merely a line, and without reference to the space enclosed, v. infra. In poets and postAug. prose brevis sometimes = parvus).
    I.
    Lit., in space.
    A.
    In distance, extent, short, little, small, narrow (opp. latus), Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92:

    brevior via,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Tib. 1, 10, 4:

    via brevis,

    Verg. E. 9, 23; Ov. M. 5, 253; Juv. 14, 223:

    cursus brevissimus,

    Verg. A. 3, 507:

    brevius iter,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 32:

    cursu brevissimus Almo,

    id. M. 14, 329:

    quid mihi, quod lato non separor aequore, prodest? Num minus haec nobis tam brevis obstat aqua?

    so narrow a stream, id. H. 18, 174; cf.

    also brevis unda, opp. latum mare,

    id. ib. 19, 141 and 142:

    non Asiam brevioris aquae disterminat usquam fluctus ab Europā,

    Luc. 9, 957 (strictioris, Schol.); cf. id. 9, 317:

    brevissima terra,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 2:

    in Euboico scopulus brevis emicat altō Gurgite,

    a small, narrow rock, Ov. M. 9, 226:

    brevibus Gyaris,

    Juv. 1, 73:

    scis In breve te cogi (sc. libellum),

    that you are closely rolled together, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 8:

    quo brevius valent,

    the nearer, the more powerful are they in conflict, Tac. A. 6, 35.—
    2.
    Trop. of the journey of life:

    quid est, quod in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo et tam brevi tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus?

    Cic. Arch. 11, 28; cf.:

    vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,

    id. Sest. 21, 47:

    tum brevior dirae mortis aperta via est,

    Tib. 1, 10, 4.—And poet. of the thread of life:

    fila vitae breviora,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 46. —
    B.
    In height, short, small, low (opp. altus and sometimes longus);

    of the human figure: sed sedebat judex L. Aurifex, brevior ipse quam testis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245:

    ut statura breves in digitos eriguntur,

    Quint. 2, 3, 8:

    forma,

    Ov. M. 5, 457:

    (puella) longa brevisque,

    id. Am. 2, 4, 36:

    brevis corpore,

    Suet. Galb. 3;

    id. Vit. Hor.—Of a maiden changed to a boy: et incomptis brevior mensura capillis,

    Ov. M. 9, 789.—

    Of other things: ut pleraque Alpium ab Italiā sicut breviora, ita arrectiora sunt,

    lower, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    brevior ilex,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1641:

    mus,

    little, Ov. F. 2, 574. —
    C.
    In depth, small, little, shallow (opp. profundus):

    puteus,

    Juv. 3, 226:

    vada,

    Verg. A. 5, 221; Sen. Agam. 570.—Hence, subst.: brĕvia, ium, n., as in Gr. ta brachea, shallow places, shallows, shoals:

    tris Eurus ab alto In brevia et syrtis urget,

    Verg. A. 1, 111 (brevia vadosa dicit, per quae vadi pedibus potest, Serv.); Luc. 9, 338: neque discerni poterant incerta ab solidis, brevia a profundis, Tac. A. 1, 70:

    brevia litorum,

    id. ib. 6, 33 fin. —Perh. also in sing.:

    breve,

    Tac. A. 14, 29 Draeg. ad loc. (Ritter, brevia; al. breve litus).—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevia, in quibus volutatur, incerta, ancipitia,

    difficulties, Sen. Ep. 22, 7.—
    D.
    Of the line of a circle:

    ubi circulus (i.e. arcticus) axem Ultimus extremum spatioque brevissimus ambit,

    makes the shortest path, Ov. M. 2, 517; cf.

    of similar orbits, of stars: absides breviores,

    Plin. 2. 15, 13, §

    63.—Of the circular course of a horse on the track: discit gyro breviore flecti,

    Sen. Hippol. 314. —
    II.
    Transf., of time.
    A.
    Lit. (the usu. signif. of the word), short, brief, small, little.
    1.
    In gen.:

    quanto, nox, fuisti longior hac proxumā, Tanto brevior dies ut fiat faciam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 51:

    breve spatium'st perferundi quae minitas mihi,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 85:

    brevis hora,

    Lucr. 4, 179; so Ov. M. 4, 696: Pa. Brevin' an longinquo sermone? Mi. Tribus verbis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30:

    occasio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 57; Phaedr. 5, 8, 5:

    brevis hic est fructus homulleis,

    short is this enjoyment for little men, Lucr. 3, 927; cf.:

    MORS. PERFECIT. TVA. VT. TIBE. ESSENT. OMNIA. BREVIA. HONOS. FAMA. VIRTVSQVE. GLORIA. ATQVE. INGENIVM.,

    Inscr. Orell. 558:

    omnia brevia tolerabilia esse debent,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 104; id. Fin. 1, 12, 40; 2, 29, 94; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94; Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 5:

    quoniam vita brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

    Sall. C. 1, 3; so,

    vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 6:

    aut omnia breviora aliquanto fuere, aut Saguntum principio anni captum,

    occupied a shorter time, Liv. 21, 15, 5:

    brevissimum tempus,

    id. 5, 6, 7:

    detrimentum,

    Quint. 11, 1, 10:

    arbitrium mortis,

    Tac. A. 15, 60:

    breves populi Romani amores,

    id. ib. 2, 41:

    tempus,

    Suet. Ner. 20 al.:

    nobis quom semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda,

    Cat. 5, 5:

    fructus,

    Lucr. 3, 914:

    aevum,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 17; id. S. 2, 6, 97; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

    anni,

    Hor. C. 4, 13, 22:

    ver,

    Ov. M. 1, 118; 10, 85:

    flores rosae,

    quickly withering, short-lived, Hor. C. 2, 3, 13:

    lilium,

    id. ib. 1, 36, 16:

    cena,

    frugal, id. Ep. 1, 14, 35:

    mensa,

    id. A. P. 198:

    dominus,

    living but a short time, id. C. 2, 14, 24:

    stultitia,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 27:

    ira furor brevis est,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    actio brevis atque concisa,

    Quint. 6, 4, 2:

    somnus,

    Sen. Troad. 441:

    nec gratius quicquam decore nec brevius,

    nothing is more acceptable, but nothing more perishable, fading, than beauty, Suet. Dom. 18:

    domus,

    Sen. Hippol. 762:

    fortuna,

    Sil. 4, 734.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Comp. brevius, with subj. clause, shorter, i.e. easier, more convenient:

    brevius visum urbana crimina incipi, quorum obvii testes erant,

    Tac. A. 13, 43: modo ne existimes brevius esse ab urbe mitti, Trag. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 40 (49), 3.—
    b.
    In brevi spatio, brevi spatio, in brevi tempore, brevi tempore, and absol. brevi or in brevi, in a short time, shortly (before or after) (brevi tempore and brevi are class.; the latter, as in Gr. en brachei, to be considered as neuter, without supplying tempore):

    inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum,

    Lucr. 2, 77; so Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Ner. 30; cf.:

    in multo breviore temporis spatio,

    id. Aug. 22:

    multa brevi spatio simulacra geruntur,

    Lucr. 4, 160; Sall. J. 87, 3:

    spatio brevi,

    Hor. C. 1, 11, 6:

    res publica per vos brevi tempore jus suum recuperabit,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; 5, 21, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 11; Nep. Milt. 2, 1; id. Them. 1, 4; Suet. Caes. 3:

    sic ille affectus, brevi postea est mortuus,

    soon after, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142 (Zumpt;

    acc. to MSS. perbrevi).—So brevi post = paulo post: brevi post Marcellus Romam venit,

    Liv. 33, 37, 9; 24, 3, 14:

    brevi deinde,

    id. 24, 4, 9: (Britanni) tantum usu cotidiano et exercitatione efficiunt, uti in declivi ac praecipiti loco incitatos equos sustinere et brevi ( in a short time, i.e. with great rapidity) moderari ac flectere consuerint, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin. Herz. and Held.:

    fama tanti facinoris per omnem Africam brevi divolgatur,

    Sall. J. 13, 1; Nep. Them. 4, 4:

    mirantur tam brevi rem Romanam crevisse,

    Liv. 1, 9, 9:

    brevi omnia subegit,

    Suet. Caes. 34; so id. Aug. 17; 65; id. Vesp. 5; id. Gram. 3; Gell. 1, 15, 18: scire in brevi, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 186 P.; Flor. 1, 1, 15.—
    c.
    Brevi, a short time, a little while: [p. 251] cunctatusque brevi, contortam viribus hastam in Persea misit, Ov. M. 5, 32; cf.:

    illa brevi spatio silet,

    id. ib. 7, 307; so,

    * breve,

    Cat. 61, 187.—
    d.
    Ad breve, for a short time, Suet. Tib. 68; cf.:

    ad breve quoddam tempus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
    B.
    Transf. to things done or taking place in a short time; so most freq.
    1.
    Of discourse, short, brief, concise (most freq. in Cic. and Quint.):

    narratio,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28; id. de Or. 3, 50, 196: laudatio;

    comprehensio et ambitus ille verborum erat apud illum contractus et brevis,

    id. Brut. 44, 162; cf. id. de Or. 2, 80, 326:

    nunc venio ad illa tua brevia: et primum illud, quo nihil potest esse brevius: bonum omne laudabile, etc.,

    id. Fin. 4, 18, 48:

    quam falsa re! quam brevia responsu!

    id. Clu. 59, 164: urbanitas est virtus quaedam in breve dictum coacta, Dom. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 104:

    Homerus brevem eloquentiam Menelao dedit,

    Quint. 12, 10, 64 (brevis = ou polumuthos, Hom. Il. 3, 214):

    breviores commentarii,

    Quint. 3, 8, 58:

    annotatio,

    id. 10, 7, 31:

    brevia illa atque concisa,

    id. 10, 7, 10; so,

    sententiae,

    id. 10, 1, 60:

    causae,

    id. 6, 1, 8:

    docendi compendia,

    id. 1, 1, 24:

    comprehensiones,

    id. 12, 2, 19:

    quod ut brevissimo pateat exemplo,

    id. 3, 6, 10: commendatio, requiring few words, i.e. moderate, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240.— Meton. of a speaker or orator, brief:

    multos imitatio brevitatis decipit, ut cum se breves putent esse, longissimi sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 38:

    brevior in scribendo,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio,

    Hor. A. P. 25:

    in eloquendo brevis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 63:

    densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides,

    id. 10, 1, 73.—Hence, brĕvī, adv., briefly, in few words (freq. and class.):

    brevi pro breviter M. Tullius de Orat. ad Quintum fratrem (1, 8, 34): ac ne plura quidem quae sunt innumerabilia consecter, comprehendam brevi,

    Charis. p. 176 P.:

    id percurram brevi,

    Cic. Caecin. 32, 94:

    aliquid explicare,

    id. Planc. 40, 95 Wund.:

    circumscribere et definire,

    id. Sest. 45, 97; so id. ib. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.; id. Fin. 1, 17, 55:

    complecti,

    id. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

    exponere,

    id. ib. 1, 46, 203:

    reprehendere,

    id. Inv. 1, 9, 12:

    reddere,

    id. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    respondere,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    perscribere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1; so Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 35, 47 al.; cf.:

    in brevi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32.—So once in epistolary style: breve facere, to be short or brief:

    quid scribam? breve faciam,

    Cic. Att. 11, 7, 6; cf.:

    longum est ea dicere, sed hoc breve dicam,

    id. Sest. 5, 12.—Once, in breve cogere (diff. from I. A.), to comprise in few words, bring into a small compass:

    in breve coactae causae,

    Liv. 39, 47, 5; cf.:

    in breve coactio causae,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 15.— In late Lat. subst.: brĕvis, is, m. (sc. liber—acc. to another reading, brĕve, is, n.), a short catalogue, summary, = breviarium:

    brevis nominum,

    Vop. Aur. 36; so id. Bonos. 15; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 21; Hier. Ep. 5, n. 2 al.—
    2.
    Of a short syllable;

    rarely as adj.: Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus,

    Hor. A. P. 251:

    a brevis, gre brevis, faciet tamen longam priorem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 86 et saep.—More freq. subst.: brĕvis, is, f. (sc. syllaba):

    dactylus, qui est e longā et duabus brevibus,

    Cic. Or. 64, 217 sq.:

    in fine pro longā accipi brevem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 93; 9, 4, 86:

    plurimum habent celeritatis breves,

    id. 9, 4, 91.—

    Hence also once of a syllable long by position, but pronounced short: indoctus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā: inhumanus brevi, infelix longā,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159 Meyer N. cr.; cf. Gell. 2, 17 sqq., and Schütz Lex. Cic. s. v. brevis.—
    C.
    For parvus, exiguus, little, small:

    exigua pars brevisque,

    Lucr. 5, 591:

    Canidia brevibus implicata viperis,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 15:

    Alecto brevibus torquata colubris,

    Ov. H. 2, 119:

    brevi latere ac pede longo est,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 93; cf.

    just before: breve quod caput, ardua cervix, v. 89, and brevis alvus,

    Verg. G. 3, 80 (on the other hand, Nemes. 244:

    parvae alvi): mus,

    Ov. F. 2, 574:

    forma (sc. pueri in stellionem mutati),

    id. M. 5, 457.—

    So, lapathi herba,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 29 (brevis = parva, non excrescens in altum, Schol. Cruqu.):

    folia breviora,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 26 (minor corona, Schol. Cruqu.):

    census,

    id. C. 2, 15, 13:

    pondus,

    id. S. 2, 2, 37:

    impensa,

    Ov. H. 7, 188 Ruhnk.:

    sigillum,

    id. M. 6, 86:

    insulae,

    Pall. 1, 28, 1; cf. Juv. 1, 73: vasculum, Pall. Apr. 8, 4:

    offulae,

    id. 1, 29, 4:

    pantheris in candido breves macularum oculi,

    Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62.—With nom. abstr.:

    breve in exiguo marmore nomen ero,

    Prop. 2, 1, 72; Sen. Oedip. 935.—So, pondus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 37 al.—Hence, brĕ-vĭter, adv., shortly, briefly, etc.
    1.
    Of space (acc. to I.) (rare): seu libeat, curvo brevius convertere gyro, shorter, i. e. in a smaller circle, Tib. 4, 1, 94:

    parvo brevius quam totus,

    a little less than the whole, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    Sarmatae, omisso arcu, quo brevius valent, contis gladiisque ruerent,

    Tac. A. 6, 35.—Far more freq. in prose and poetry,
    2.
    (Acc. to II. A. b. and c.) Of time, in a short time.
    a.
    In gen.:

    iratum breviter vites, inimicum diu, Publ. Syr. v. 249 Rib.: sapiens, cum breviter et strictim colore atque vultu motus est,

    Gell. 19, 1, 20.—
    b.
    Esp.
    (α).
    In expression, briefly, in brief, in few words, concisely, summarily:

    sed breviter paucis praestat comprendere multa,

    Lucr. 6, 1082: multa breviter et commode dicta (sc. apophthegmata; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104) memoriae mandabam, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    rem totam breviter cognoscite,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 169; 2, 3, 27, § 67; so id. de Or. 2, 83, 340:

    summatim breviterque describere,

    id. Or. 15, 50:

    breviter tangere,

    id. Off. 3, 2, 8 Beier N. cr.:

    breviter et modice disserere,

    Sall. J. 111, 1:

    adicere aliquid,

    Quint. 9, 3, 100; cf. also Verg. A. 2, 11; 4, 632; 6, 321; Ov. M. 2, 783:

    omnia soli Forsan Pacuvio breviter dabit (i.e. paucis testamenti verbis, quibus heres ex asse scribetur),

    Juv. 12, 125 Web. (cf. id. 1, 68: beatum exiguis tabulis).— Comp., Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 26; Quint. 8, prooem. § 1; 8, 6, 61; 9, 2, 16; 10, 1, 49; 11, 1, 5 al.— Sup., Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 3; id. Div. 1, 32, 70; Quint. 1, 10, 1; 4, 2, 113 al.—
    (β).
    Of syllables:

    quibus in verbis eae primae litterae sunt quae in sapiente atque felice, producte dicitur, in ceteris omnibus breviter,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > brevia

  • 8 brevis

    brĕvis, e, adj. (abl. breve, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 2; comp. abl. breviore, Ov. Am. 2, 17, 22) [cf. brachus, Fest. p. 26], short, little, of small extent, in space and time (opp. longus; in space, in good class. prose, diff. from parvus, which designates that which fills a small space in length, breadth, and thickness; while brevis is used only of length in its different directions of breadth, height, or depth; and even of a circle, as merely a line, and without reference to the space enclosed, v. infra. In poets and postAug. prose brevis sometimes = parvus).
    I.
    Lit., in space.
    A.
    In distance, extent, short, little, small, narrow (opp. latus), Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92:

    brevior via,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Tib. 1, 10, 4:

    via brevis,

    Verg. E. 9, 23; Ov. M. 5, 253; Juv. 14, 223:

    cursus brevissimus,

    Verg. A. 3, 507:

    brevius iter,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 32:

    cursu brevissimus Almo,

    id. M. 14, 329:

    quid mihi, quod lato non separor aequore, prodest? Num minus haec nobis tam brevis obstat aqua?

    so narrow a stream, id. H. 18, 174; cf.

    also brevis unda, opp. latum mare,

    id. ib. 19, 141 and 142:

    non Asiam brevioris aquae disterminat usquam fluctus ab Europā,

    Luc. 9, 957 (strictioris, Schol.); cf. id. 9, 317:

    brevissima terra,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 2:

    in Euboico scopulus brevis emicat altō Gurgite,

    a small, narrow rock, Ov. M. 9, 226:

    brevibus Gyaris,

    Juv. 1, 73:

    scis In breve te cogi (sc. libellum),

    that you are closely rolled together, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 8:

    quo brevius valent,

    the nearer, the more powerful are they in conflict, Tac. A. 6, 35.—
    2.
    Trop. of the journey of life:

    quid est, quod in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo et tam brevi tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus?

    Cic. Arch. 11, 28; cf.:

    vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,

    id. Sest. 21, 47:

    tum brevior dirae mortis aperta via est,

    Tib. 1, 10, 4.—And poet. of the thread of life:

    fila vitae breviora,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 46. —
    B.
    In height, short, small, low (opp. altus and sometimes longus);

    of the human figure: sed sedebat judex L. Aurifex, brevior ipse quam testis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245:

    ut statura breves in digitos eriguntur,

    Quint. 2, 3, 8:

    forma,

    Ov. M. 5, 457:

    (puella) longa brevisque,

    id. Am. 2, 4, 36:

    brevis corpore,

    Suet. Galb. 3;

    id. Vit. Hor.—Of a maiden changed to a boy: et incomptis brevior mensura capillis,

    Ov. M. 9, 789.—

    Of other things: ut pleraque Alpium ab Italiā sicut breviora, ita arrectiora sunt,

    lower, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    brevior ilex,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1641:

    mus,

    little, Ov. F. 2, 574. —
    C.
    In depth, small, little, shallow (opp. profundus):

    puteus,

    Juv. 3, 226:

    vada,

    Verg. A. 5, 221; Sen. Agam. 570.—Hence, subst.: brĕvia, ium, n., as in Gr. ta brachea, shallow places, shallows, shoals:

    tris Eurus ab alto In brevia et syrtis urget,

    Verg. A. 1, 111 (brevia vadosa dicit, per quae vadi pedibus potest, Serv.); Luc. 9, 338: neque discerni poterant incerta ab solidis, brevia a profundis, Tac. A. 1, 70:

    brevia litorum,

    id. ib. 6, 33 fin. —Perh. also in sing.:

    breve,

    Tac. A. 14, 29 Draeg. ad loc. (Ritter, brevia; al. breve litus).—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevia, in quibus volutatur, incerta, ancipitia,

    difficulties, Sen. Ep. 22, 7.—
    D.
    Of the line of a circle:

    ubi circulus (i.e. arcticus) axem Ultimus extremum spatioque brevissimus ambit,

    makes the shortest path, Ov. M. 2, 517; cf.

    of similar orbits, of stars: absides breviores,

    Plin. 2. 15, 13, §

    63.—Of the circular course of a horse on the track: discit gyro breviore flecti,

    Sen. Hippol. 314. —
    II.
    Transf., of time.
    A.
    Lit. (the usu. signif. of the word), short, brief, small, little.
    1.
    In gen.:

    quanto, nox, fuisti longior hac proxumā, Tanto brevior dies ut fiat faciam,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 51:

    breve spatium'st perferundi quae minitas mihi,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 85:

    brevis hora,

    Lucr. 4, 179; so Ov. M. 4, 696: Pa. Brevin' an longinquo sermone? Mi. Tribus verbis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30:

    occasio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 57; Phaedr. 5, 8, 5:

    brevis hic est fructus homulleis,

    short is this enjoyment for little men, Lucr. 3, 927; cf.:

    MORS. PERFECIT. TVA. VT. TIBE. ESSENT. OMNIA. BREVIA. HONOS. FAMA. VIRTVSQVE. GLORIA. ATQVE. INGENIVM.,

    Inscr. Orell. 558:

    omnia brevia tolerabilia esse debent,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 104; id. Fin. 1, 12, 40; 2, 29, 94; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94; Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 5:

    quoniam vita brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

    Sall. C. 1, 3; so,

    vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam,

    Hor. C. 1, 4, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 6:

    aut omnia breviora aliquanto fuere, aut Saguntum principio anni captum,

    occupied a shorter time, Liv. 21, 15, 5:

    brevissimum tempus,

    id. 5, 6, 7:

    detrimentum,

    Quint. 11, 1, 10:

    arbitrium mortis,

    Tac. A. 15, 60:

    breves populi Romani amores,

    id. ib. 2, 41:

    tempus,

    Suet. Ner. 20 al.:

    nobis quom semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda,

    Cat. 5, 5:

    fructus,

    Lucr. 3, 914:

    aevum,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 17; id. S. 2, 6, 97; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

    anni,

    Hor. C. 4, 13, 22:

    ver,

    Ov. M. 1, 118; 10, 85:

    flores rosae,

    quickly withering, short-lived, Hor. C. 2, 3, 13:

    lilium,

    id. ib. 1, 36, 16:

    cena,

    frugal, id. Ep. 1, 14, 35:

    mensa,

    id. A. P. 198:

    dominus,

    living but a short time, id. C. 2, 14, 24:

    stultitia,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 27:

    ira furor brevis est,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    actio brevis atque concisa,

    Quint. 6, 4, 2:

    somnus,

    Sen. Troad. 441:

    nec gratius quicquam decore nec brevius,

    nothing is more acceptable, but nothing more perishable, fading, than beauty, Suet. Dom. 18:

    domus,

    Sen. Hippol. 762:

    fortuna,

    Sil. 4, 734.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Comp. brevius, with subj. clause, shorter, i.e. easier, more convenient:

    brevius visum urbana crimina incipi, quorum obvii testes erant,

    Tac. A. 13, 43: modo ne existimes brevius esse ab urbe mitti, Trag. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 40 (49), 3.—
    b.
    In brevi spatio, brevi spatio, in brevi tempore, brevi tempore, and absol. brevi or in brevi, in a short time, shortly (before or after) (brevi tempore and brevi are class.; the latter, as in Gr. en brachei, to be considered as neuter, without supplying tempore):

    inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum,

    Lucr. 2, 77; so Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Ner. 30; cf.:

    in multo breviore temporis spatio,

    id. Aug. 22:

    multa brevi spatio simulacra geruntur,

    Lucr. 4, 160; Sall. J. 87, 3:

    spatio brevi,

    Hor. C. 1, 11, 6:

    res publica per vos brevi tempore jus suum recuperabit,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; 5, 21, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 11; Nep. Milt. 2, 1; id. Them. 1, 4; Suet. Caes. 3:

    sic ille affectus, brevi postea est mortuus,

    soon after, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142 (Zumpt;

    acc. to MSS. perbrevi).—So brevi post = paulo post: brevi post Marcellus Romam venit,

    Liv. 33, 37, 9; 24, 3, 14:

    brevi deinde,

    id. 24, 4, 9: (Britanni) tantum usu cotidiano et exercitatione efficiunt, uti in declivi ac praecipiti loco incitatos equos sustinere et brevi ( in a short time, i.e. with great rapidity) moderari ac flectere consuerint, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin. Herz. and Held.:

    fama tanti facinoris per omnem Africam brevi divolgatur,

    Sall. J. 13, 1; Nep. Them. 4, 4:

    mirantur tam brevi rem Romanam crevisse,

    Liv. 1, 9, 9:

    brevi omnia subegit,

    Suet. Caes. 34; so id. Aug. 17; 65; id. Vesp. 5; id. Gram. 3; Gell. 1, 15, 18: scire in brevi, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 186 P.; Flor. 1, 1, 15.—
    c.
    Brevi, a short time, a little while: [p. 251] cunctatusque brevi, contortam viribus hastam in Persea misit, Ov. M. 5, 32; cf.:

    illa brevi spatio silet,

    id. ib. 7, 307; so,

    * breve,

    Cat. 61, 187.—
    d.
    Ad breve, for a short time, Suet. Tib. 68; cf.:

    ad breve quoddam tempus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31.—
    B.
    Transf. to things done or taking place in a short time; so most freq.
    1.
    Of discourse, short, brief, concise (most freq. in Cic. and Quint.):

    narratio,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28; id. de Or. 3, 50, 196: laudatio;

    comprehensio et ambitus ille verborum erat apud illum contractus et brevis,

    id. Brut. 44, 162; cf. id. de Or. 2, 80, 326:

    nunc venio ad illa tua brevia: et primum illud, quo nihil potest esse brevius: bonum omne laudabile, etc.,

    id. Fin. 4, 18, 48:

    quam falsa re! quam brevia responsu!

    id. Clu. 59, 164: urbanitas est virtus quaedam in breve dictum coacta, Dom. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 104:

    Homerus brevem eloquentiam Menelao dedit,

    Quint. 12, 10, 64 (brevis = ou polumuthos, Hom. Il. 3, 214):

    breviores commentarii,

    Quint. 3, 8, 58:

    annotatio,

    id. 10, 7, 31:

    brevia illa atque concisa,

    id. 10, 7, 10; so,

    sententiae,

    id. 10, 1, 60:

    causae,

    id. 6, 1, 8:

    docendi compendia,

    id. 1, 1, 24:

    comprehensiones,

    id. 12, 2, 19:

    quod ut brevissimo pateat exemplo,

    id. 3, 6, 10: commendatio, requiring few words, i.e. moderate, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240.— Meton. of a speaker or orator, brief:

    multos imitatio brevitatis decipit, ut cum se breves putent esse, longissimi sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 38:

    brevior in scribendo,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio,

    Hor. A. P. 25:

    in eloquendo brevis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 63:

    densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides,

    id. 10, 1, 73.—Hence, brĕvī, adv., briefly, in few words (freq. and class.):

    brevi pro breviter M. Tullius de Orat. ad Quintum fratrem (1, 8, 34): ac ne plura quidem quae sunt innumerabilia consecter, comprehendam brevi,

    Charis. p. 176 P.:

    id percurram brevi,

    Cic. Caecin. 32, 94:

    aliquid explicare,

    id. Planc. 40, 95 Wund.:

    circumscribere et definire,

    id. Sest. 45, 97; so id. ib. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.; id. Fin. 1, 17, 55:

    complecti,

    id. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

    exponere,

    id. ib. 1, 46, 203:

    reprehendere,

    id. Inv. 1, 9, 12:

    reddere,

    id. Leg. 2, 14, 34:

    respondere,

    id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:

    perscribere,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1; so Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 35, 47 al.; cf.:

    in brevi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32.—So once in epistolary style: breve facere, to be short or brief:

    quid scribam? breve faciam,

    Cic. Att. 11, 7, 6; cf.:

    longum est ea dicere, sed hoc breve dicam,

    id. Sest. 5, 12.—Once, in breve cogere (diff. from I. A.), to comprise in few words, bring into a small compass:

    in breve coactae causae,

    Liv. 39, 47, 5; cf.:

    in breve coactio causae,

    Gai. Inst. 4, 15.— In late Lat. subst.: brĕvis, is, m. (sc. liber—acc. to another reading, brĕve, is, n.), a short catalogue, summary, = breviarium:

    brevis nominum,

    Vop. Aur. 36; so id. Bonos. 15; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 21; Hier. Ep. 5, n. 2 al.—
    2.
    Of a short syllable;

    rarely as adj.: Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus,

    Hor. A. P. 251:

    a brevis, gre brevis, faciet tamen longam priorem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 86 et saep.—More freq. subst.: brĕvis, is, f. (sc. syllaba):

    dactylus, qui est e longā et duabus brevibus,

    Cic. Or. 64, 217 sq.:

    in fine pro longā accipi brevem,

    Quint. 9, 4, 93; 9, 4, 86:

    plurimum habent celeritatis breves,

    id. 9, 4, 91.—

    Hence also once of a syllable long by position, but pronounced short: indoctus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā: inhumanus brevi, infelix longā,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159 Meyer N. cr.; cf. Gell. 2, 17 sqq., and Schütz Lex. Cic. s. v. brevis.—
    C.
    For parvus, exiguus, little, small:

    exigua pars brevisque,

    Lucr. 5, 591:

    Canidia brevibus implicata viperis,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 15:

    Alecto brevibus torquata colubris,

    Ov. H. 2, 119:

    brevi latere ac pede longo est,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 93; cf.

    just before: breve quod caput, ardua cervix, v. 89, and brevis alvus,

    Verg. G. 3, 80 (on the other hand, Nemes. 244:

    parvae alvi): mus,

    Ov. F. 2, 574:

    forma (sc. pueri in stellionem mutati),

    id. M. 5, 457.—

    So, lapathi herba,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 29 (brevis = parva, non excrescens in altum, Schol. Cruqu.):

    folia breviora,

    id. Ep. 1, 19, 26 (minor corona, Schol. Cruqu.):

    census,

    id. C. 2, 15, 13:

    pondus,

    id. S. 2, 2, 37:

    impensa,

    Ov. H. 7, 188 Ruhnk.:

    sigillum,

    id. M. 6, 86:

    insulae,

    Pall. 1, 28, 1; cf. Juv. 1, 73: vasculum, Pall. Apr. 8, 4:

    offulae,

    id. 1, 29, 4:

    pantheris in candido breves macularum oculi,

    Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62.—With nom. abstr.:

    breve in exiguo marmore nomen ero,

    Prop. 2, 1, 72; Sen. Oedip. 935.—So, pondus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 37 al.—Hence, brĕ-vĭter, adv., shortly, briefly, etc.
    1.
    Of space (acc. to I.) (rare): seu libeat, curvo brevius convertere gyro, shorter, i. e. in a smaller circle, Tib. 4, 1, 94:

    parvo brevius quam totus,

    a little less than the whole, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    Sarmatae, omisso arcu, quo brevius valent, contis gladiisque ruerent,

    Tac. A. 6, 35.—Far more freq. in prose and poetry,
    2.
    (Acc. to II. A. b. and c.) Of time, in a short time.
    a.
    In gen.:

    iratum breviter vites, inimicum diu, Publ. Syr. v. 249 Rib.: sapiens, cum breviter et strictim colore atque vultu motus est,

    Gell. 19, 1, 20.—
    b.
    Esp.
    (α).
    In expression, briefly, in brief, in few words, concisely, summarily:

    sed breviter paucis praestat comprendere multa,

    Lucr. 6, 1082: multa breviter et commode dicta (sc. apophthegmata; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104) memoriae mandabam, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    rem totam breviter cognoscite,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 169; 2, 3, 27, § 67; so id. de Or. 2, 83, 340:

    summatim breviterque describere,

    id. Or. 15, 50:

    breviter tangere,

    id. Off. 3, 2, 8 Beier N. cr.:

    breviter et modice disserere,

    Sall. J. 111, 1:

    adicere aliquid,

    Quint. 9, 3, 100; cf. also Verg. A. 2, 11; 4, 632; 6, 321; Ov. M. 2, 783:

    omnia soli Forsan Pacuvio breviter dabit (i.e. paucis testamenti verbis, quibus heres ex asse scribetur),

    Juv. 12, 125 Web. (cf. id. 1, 68: beatum exiguis tabulis).— Comp., Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 26; Quint. 8, prooem. § 1; 8, 6, 61; 9, 2, 16; 10, 1, 49; 11, 1, 5 al.— Sup., Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 3; id. Div. 1, 32, 70; Quint. 1, 10, 1; 4, 2, 113 al.—
    (β).
    Of syllables:

    quibus in verbis eae primae litterae sunt quae in sapiente atque felice, producte dicitur, in ceteris omnibus breviter,

    Cic. Or. 48, 159.

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  • 9 culpabilis

    culpābĭlis, e, adj. [culpa], worthy of blame, culpable, criminal (post-class.):

    aliquid (opp. laudabile),

    App. Mag. p. 223:

    opinio de diis (opp. digna),

    Arn. 7, p. 222. — Comp.:

    tanto culpabilius est, non observare quod possis,

    Tert. ad Uxor. 2, 1.— Adv.: culpābĭlĭter, culpably, Symm. Ep. 9, 40. — Comp., Paul. Nol. Ep. 39, 4; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 17, 172.

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  • 10 culpabiliter

    culpābĭlis, e, adj. [culpa], worthy of blame, culpable, criminal (post-class.):

    aliquid (opp. laudabile),

    App. Mag. p. 223:

    opinio de diis (opp. digna),

    Arn. 7, p. 222. — Comp.:

    tanto culpabilius est, non observare quod possis,

    Tert. ad Uxor. 2, 1.— Adv.: culpābĭlĭter, culpably, Symm. Ep. 9, 40. — Comp., Paul. Nol. Ep. 39, 4; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 17, 172.

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  • 11 etiamsi

    ĕtĭam-si (also written separately), a concessive conditional particle, = kai ei, more emphatic than etsi, even if, although, albeit.
    (α).
    With indic.:

    etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est,

    Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81:

    etiamsi dudum fuerat ambiguum hoc mihi: Nunc non est,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 26:

    ista veritas etiamsi jucunda non est, mihi tamen grata est,

    Cic. Att. 3, 24 fin.;

    so opp. tamen,

    id. Brut. 84, 290; Quint. 5, 10, 13;

    opp. certe,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 17 fin.; id. Opt. Gen. 2, 6; Liv. 40, 15, 15:

    eundem igitur esse creditote, etiamsi nullum videbitis,

    id. de Sen. 22, 79 et saep.—
    (β).
    With subj.:

    etiamsi vetet, Edim, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 73:

    quae etiamsi essent, quae nulla sunt, pellere se ipsa fortasse possent,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 39, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18; 2, 10, 23; id. Off. 1, 43, 154:

    quod, etiamsi nobilitatum non sit, tamen honestum est, quodque vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo laudetur, natura esse laudabile,

    id. Off. 1, 4 fin.; id. Mil. 8, 21; cf. id. Lael. 27, 100 et saep.;

    opp. certe,

    Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 1, 1; Treb. ad Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 11;

    opp. nihilominus,

    Liv. 26, 48, 11; Dig. 23, 3, 19; 47, 2, 63.—
    (γ).
    Without a verb:

    hunc librum etiamsi minus nostra commendatione, tuo tamen nomine divulgari necesse sit,

    Cic. Or. 31 fin.; cf. Quint. 5, 12, 5;

    opp. at,

    Cic. Cael. 3, 8; cf.:

    quae mihi omnia etiamsi non prius, attamen clarius fulsisse in Scipione Aemiliano videntur,

    Plin. 7, 27, 28, § 100 et saep. Vid. Hand, Turs. II. pp. 588-596.

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  • 12 exeo

    ex-ĕo, ĭi (rarely īvi, Gell. 12, 12, 3; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 50; perf. exit, for exiit, id. Ps. 2, 4, 40; Verg. A. 2, 497), ĭtum, īre ( fut. [p. 683] exibo, but exies, exiet, Sen. Ep. 113, 20; id. Apocol. 3, 1 al.;

    exiet for exibit,

    Tert. adv. Jud. 13; Vulg. Matt. 2, 6; 5, 26 al.; perh. also in Hor. C. 4, 4, 65; acc. to some MSS. al. evenit; v. Orell. ad h. l.), v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr., to go out or forth, to go away, depart.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    dum intro eo atque exeo,

    Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43:

    jam ad te exeo,

    id. Bacch. 4, 6, 24; 4, 9, 129:

    foras,

    id. Cas. 5, 2, 51; cf. id. Rud. 2, 2, 2:

    ex urbe,

    id. Am. 1, 3, 35:

    ex urbe, oppido,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 2; Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 1:

    e patria,

    Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

    e finibus suis,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 5, 1:

    clam ex castris,

    id. ib. 7, 20, 10:

    ab aliquo,

    from one's house, Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 7 (v. ab, I. a.):

    ab urbe,

    away from, Liv. 10, 37, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; 21, 13, 7; 23, 18, 14;

    al. a villa sua,

    Quint. 6, 3, 49:

    de triclinio, de cubiculo,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 263:

    de balneis,

    id. de Or. 2, 55, 223:

    de navi,

    id. Att. 2, 7, 4:

    (cornix) a cauda de ovo,

    tail first, Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38:

    portā,

    Plaut. Mil. 5, 39:

    domo,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 12; cf.:

    erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent,

    i. e. withdraw from, leave their country, Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 1; so,

    domo,

    id. ib. 1, 12, 5;

    1, 29, 1: castris,

    id. B. C. 1, 69, 3:

    in solitudinem,

    to withdraw, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

    in alias domos tamquam in colonias,

    id. ib. 1, 17, 54:

    in provinciam,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 33, 4:

    in terram,

    i. e. to land, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 433:

    in luminis oras,

    i. e. to be born, Lucr. 1, 170:

    ad aliquem,

    i. e. to go from home to visit a person, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 6 et saep.—Prov.:

    exeat aulā, qui vult esse pius,

    Luc. 8, 493.— Poet., with inf.:

    exierant dare veris opes,

    Stat. Ach. 1, 288.—Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

    cum de consularibus mea prima sors exisset,

    Cic. Att. 1, 19, 3; so,

    sors,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 27; cf.:

    cujus nomen exisset,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:

    nummi, qui per simulationem ab isto exierant,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 25, §

    61: per septem portus in maris exit aquas (Nilus),

    flows out, empties, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 10:

    septem aquis (Ister),

    Val. Fl. 8, 187:

    populo albae folia vetustiora in angulos exeunt,

    terminate, Plin. 16, 23, 35, § 86:

    color in florem heliotropii,

    id. 37, 6, 22, § 83; cf.:

    masculina nomina in A atque S litteras,

    to end, terminate, Quint. 1, 5, 61.— Pass. impers.:

    uti inde exiri possit,

    Cato, R. R. 1, 2:

    crepuit ostium: exitur foras,

    Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 15:

    in Velabro, qua in Novam viam exitur,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 24 Müll.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    In milit. lang., to move out, march out:

    milites, qui de tertia vigilia exissent,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 64 fin.:

    ut paludati (praetores) exeant,

    depart for the battle-field, id. ib. 1, 6, 6:

    ad pugnam,

    Liv. 44, 39, 2; Verg. G. 4, 67:

    ex Italia ad bellum civile,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 3 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

    non posse clam exiri,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 67, 2:

    postquam exitum est maximā copiā,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 64.—
    b.
    In jurid. Lat.: potestate, de or a potestate alicujus, to get out of any one's power (potestas), to be emancipated, become free, Dig. 37, 4, 1, § 6; 62; 28, 6, 3 et saep. (cf. B. 1. infra).—
    c.
    De vita, to depart from life, decease, die (for the usual excedere or decedere de vita):

    quem (me) fuerat aequius ut prius introieram, sic prius exire de vita,

    Cic. Cael. 4, 15; so,

    de vita,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 5; cf.:

    e vita tamquam e theatro,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 15, 49:

    vitā exire,

    Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 1.—
    d.
    To go out or forth in any manner, to issue, escape (very rare):

    cujus (Isocratis) e ludo tamquam ex equo Trojano meri principes exierunt,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94:

    hanc tamen Antonius fugam suam, quia vivus exierat, victoriam vocabat,

    Vell. 2, 82, 3.—Of inanimate subjects:

    currente rota cur urceus exit?

    Hor. A. P. 22: libri quidem ita exierunt, ut, etc., turned out (the figure being borrowed from works of art which are cast and turned out of the mould), Cic. Att. 13, 13, 1.—
    e.
    Of plants, to come up, spring forth, sprout out:

    plerumque e terra exit hordeum diebus VII.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 45, 1:

    ne semina in frugem exeant e terra,

    Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 109:

    folia a radice,

    id. 25, 4, 9, § 28:

    lupinus agro limoso,

    Col. 2, 10, 3:

    fabae in folia,

    Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 57; and absol.:

    ut vix ulla herba exeat,

    Col. 2, 11, 3; so,

    lens sata (with grandescere),

    Pall. Febr. 4;

    and, messis,

    Val. Fl. 7, 549.—
    f.
    To mount upwards, ascend, rise ( poet. and postAug. prose):

    in auras (ignis),

    Lucr. 6, 886:

    ad caelum (arbor),

    Verg. G. 2, 81:

    in altitudinem (comae palmarum),

    Plin. 13, 4, 8, § 37.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen.:

    exisse ex potestate dicimus eos, qui effrenati feruntur aut libidine aut iracundia, etc.... Qui igitur exisse ex potestate dicuntur, idcirco dicuntur, quia non sunt in potestate mentis,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; cf.:

    itaque iratos proprie dicimus exisse de potestate, id est de consilio, de ratione, de mente,

    id. ib. 4, 36, 77;

    for which: a se,

    Petr. 90: ex hac aerumna, Lucil. ap. Non. 296, 16; cf.:

    exire aere alieno,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13 (dub. al. se exserere):

    quam nihil non consideratum exibat ex ore!

    id. Brut. 76, 265; id. de Or. 2, 22 fin.:

    nequaquam similiter oratio mea exire atque in vulgus emanare poterit,

    id. Rosc. Am. 1, 3; Plin. Pan. 75, 3:

    ea res prodita est et in vulgus exivit,

    Gell. 12, 12, 3; cf. with object-clause:

    exiit opinio, descensurum eum ad Olympia inter athletas,

    Suet. Ner. 53; for which also with a subject-clause:

    quod ante paucos dies exierat in vulgus, laudanti cuidam formam suam, respondisse eum, etc.,

    id. Galb. 20:

    ob hoc exivit proverbium, etc.,

    became current, Vulg. Gen. 10, 9.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Of time, to run out, end, expire:

    quinto anno exeunte,

    Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53:

    indutiarum dies exierat,

    Liv. 4, 30, 14; 30, 25, 1; 42, 47, 10:

    dies censurae, stipendii,

    id. 9, 34, 22; 22, 33, 5:

    nullus mihi per otium dies exit,

    Sen. Ep. 8; Plin. Pan. 68, 2 et saep.—
    b.
    To extend beyond a certain measure or limit (mostly post-Aug.):

    extra aliquid,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 25:

    vestra vita, licet supra mille annos exeat,

    run out, extend, Sen. Brev. Vit. 6:

    probationes in tertium diem exierunt,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 18:

    digressus in laudes Castoris ac Pollucis exierat,

    Quint. 11, 2, 11; cf.:

    continuus (translationis usus) in allegorias et aenigmata exit,

    id. 8, 6, 14:

    in longum exierit ordo rerum,

    id. 4, 2, 51.—
    c.
    To pass away, perish:

    opus laudabile, numquam a memoria hominum exiturum,

    Sen. Ben. 3, 38; so with a subjectclause:

    an jam memoriā exisse, neminem ex plebe tribunum militum creatum esse?

    Liv. 6, 37, 5.—
    II.
    Act. ( poet. and in postAug. prose), to go or pass beyond a thing.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen.:

    limen,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 18:

    Avernas valles,

    Ov. M. 10, 52:

    flumen,

    Val. Fl. 4, 698:

    quantum diurni itineris miliariorum numero in reda possit exiri,

    Vitr. 10, 9, 3:

    donec minor filius lubricum juventae exiret,

    Tac. A. 6, 49 (55) fin. —
    2.
    Pregn., to avoid, evade, ward off:

    corpore tela atque oculis vigilantibus exit,

    avoids the blows, Verg. A. 5, 438; cf.:

    feros exibant dentis adactus (jumenta),

    Lucr. 5, 1330; Stat. Th. 6, 802:

    procul absiliebat, ut acrem exiret odorem,

    Lucr. 6, 1217:

    profluvium sanguinis,

    id. 6, 1206:

    vim viribus,

    Verg. A. 11, 750 et saep.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To exceed:

    modum,

    Ov. M. 9, 632.—
    2.
    Of time: ad exitam aetatem = ad ultimam aetatem, Paul. ex Fest. p. 28, 5 Müll.

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  • 13 honestiores

    hŏnestus, a um, adj. [honos, honor, qs. furnished or clothed with honor], full of honor, honorable.
    I.
    Regarded with honor, enjoying respect or consideration, honored, distinguished, honorable, respectable, noble, = honoratus:

    qui me honore honestiorem fecit,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 32: cum honos sit praemium virtutis judicio studioque civium delatum ad aliquem;

    qui eum sententiis, qui suffragiis adeptus est, is mihi et honestus et honoratus videtur, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 81, 281:

    satis honestam honoratamque imaginem fore,

    Liv. 36, 40, 9: magnus atque honestus, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 4; cf.:

    salvi et honesti,

    id. ib. 11, 2, 2:

    honestus homo et nobilis,

    Cic. Mur. 36, 75:

    cum honesto aliquo homine,

    id. Fam. 16, 9, 4:

    amplae et honestae familiae,

    illustrious and honorable families, id. Mur. 7, 15; cf.: homines honestis parentibus ac majoribus nati, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 85:

    bonis parentibus atque honesto loco natus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58:

    cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit,

    id. Rep. 2, 7:

    loco natus honesto,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 45, 2:

    Polla, Nursiae honesto genere orta,

    Suet. Vesp. 1:

    equite Romano in primis honesto et ornato,

    distinguished, eminent, Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 1; 13, 31, 1:

    eques Romanus,

    id. ib. 13, 62; cf.:

    erant complures honesti adulescentes, senatorum filii et ordinis equestris,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 51, 3:

    publicani, homines honestissimi atque ornatissimi,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 7, 17:

    homo honestissimus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 6:

    milites honestissimi sui generis,

    id. B. C. 1, 20, 1:

    virginis honestae vaticinatione,

    Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.:

    quia deus auctor culpae honestior erat,

    Liv. 1, 4, 2:

    tam grave, tam firmum, tam honestum municipium,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

    honestissimus conventus,

    Quint. 1, 2, 9:

    ut honestiore judicio conflictere?

    more honorable, Cic. Quint. 13, 44:

    dies honestissimus nobis,

    id. Fam. 1, 2, 2:

    atque erit illa mihi mortis honesta dies,

    Prop. 3 (4), 21, 34:

    honesta paupertas,

    Vell. 129, 3:

    omnium honestarum rerum egens,

    not able to live suitably to his rank, Sall. J. 14, 17: honestis manibus omnia laetius proveniunt, i. e. of generals (cf. shortly before:

    ipsorum tunc manibus imperatorum colebantur agri),

    Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 19.—As substt.
    1.
    hŏnestĭōres, um, m., men of noble birth:

    qui hominem castraverit... sive is servus sive liber sit, capite punitur: honestiores publicatis bonis in insulam deportantur,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 13; 1, 21, 4 sq.;

    opp. humiliores,

    id. ib. 5, 25, 1 sq.; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 2, 2; 8, 4, 2.—
    2.
    hŏnestum, i, n., honorable conduct, morality, virtue:

    nec honesto quicquam honestius,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 25:

    rigidi servator honesti (Cato),

    Luc. 2, 389.
    II. A.
    In gen.:

    ut (civium vita) opibus firma, copiis locuples, gloria ampla, virtute honesta sit,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, 1:

    in convivio moderato atque honesto,

    id. Mur. 6, 13:

    aequa et honesta postulatio,

    id. Rosc. Am. 2, 7:

    honestum ac probabile nomen,

    id. Caecin. 25, 71; cf.:

    ut honesta praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4:

    causas abeundi quaerat honestas,

    Lucr. 4, 1181:

    certatio,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    honestam rem actionemve aut non suscipere aut, etc.,

    id. ib. 13, 47:

    res, causa (opp. turpis),

    Auct. Her. 1, 3, 5; cf.:

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile,

    id. 3, 2, 3:

    hominum honestissimorum testimoniis non credere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

    homines honestissimi,

    id. ib. 17, 49:

    quod omnium sit votum parentum, ut honestiores quam sint ipsi, liberos habeant,

    Quint. 1, 1, 82:

    soror,

    virtuous, chaste, Hor. S. 2, 3, 58:

    vita honestissima,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; so in sup.:

    labor,

    Quint. 12, 7, 10:

    praecepta,

    id. 12, 2, 27:

    testimonia,

    id. 5, 11, 37:

    vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9:

    honestum quibusdam rapto vivere,

    Quint. 3, 7, 24:

    honestius est de amicorum pecunia laborare quam de sua,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 2:

    ut neque rectum neque honestum sit, nec fieri possit, ut, etc.,

    id. Lael. 21, 76:

    honestum et rectum,

    id. ib. 22, 82:

    honestum id intellegimus, quod tale est, ut, detracta omni utilitate, sine ullis praemiis fructibusve per se ipsum possit jure laudari,

    id. Fin. 2, 14, 45; cf. id. Inv. 2, 53, 159; id. Leg. 1, 18, 48:

    si maritus uxorem suam in adulterio deprehensam occidit... non inique aliquid ejus honestissimo calori permittitur, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 10, 1: mores honestos tradere,

    Juv. 6, 239.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., honesty, integrity, virtue (cf.:

    honor, virtus, etc.): quandoquidem honestum aut ipsa virtus est aut res gesta virtute,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 66; cf.:

    sive honestum solum bonum est, ut Stoicis placet, sive quod honestum est, id ita summum bonum est, ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 3, 3, 13; 1, 4, 14:

    formam quidem ipsam et tamquam faciem honesti vides,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 14:

    omnis honesti justique disciplina,

    Quint. 12, 2, 1:

    honesti praesens imago,

    id. 12, 1, 28:

    quo (honesto) detracto quid poterit beatum intellegi?

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45:

    de honesto ac bono,

    Quint. 2, 2, 5:

    honesta ac turpia,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44; 1, 17, 46:

    honestis similia sunt quaedam non honesta,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 50:

    in eodem pectore nullum est honestorum turpiumque consortium,

    Quint. 12, 1, 4:

    de honestis, justis, utilibus quaestiones,

    id. 3, 6, 41.—Prov.:

    honesta mors turpi vita potior,

    Tac. Agr. 33:

    imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis,

    Juv. 6, 444:

    honestus rumor alterum est patrimonium,

    Pub. Syr. 217 Rib.—
    B.
    In partic., of personal appearance, noble, fine, handsome, beautiful (mostly poet.):

    ille erat honesta facie et liberali,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 15; 2, 1, 24; cf.: ita me di ament, honestus est. id. ib. 3, 2, 21:

    erat forma praeter ceteras honesta,

    id. And. 1, 1, 96:

    facies,

    Suet. Tib. 68:

    caput,

    Verg. A. 10, 133; id. G. 2, 392:

    asini,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 2:

    (equi),

    Verg. G. 3, 81:

    ager honestior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 2:

    tunc ora rigantur honestis Imbribus (i. e. lacrimis),

    Stat. Th. 2, 234.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., beauty:

    nec, si quid honesti est, jactat habetque palam, quaerit, quo turpia celet, = si quid pulchri habent,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 84.—Hence, adv.: hŏ-nestē.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.) Honorably, nobly (very rare):

    honeste natus,

    of noble birth, Suet. Aug. 43.—Far more freq. and class.,
    2.
    (Acc. to II.) Decently, becomingly, properly, creditably, virtuously:

    neque illa matrem satis honeste tuam sequi poterit comes,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 69; id. Rud. 2, 3, 77:

    sic volo Te ferre (aquam) honeste, ut ego fero,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 7:

    unde Mundior exiret vix libertinus honeste,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 12:

    ut videamur vestiti esse honeste,

    Varr. L. L. 8, § 31 Müll.:

    (Lucretia) tum quoque jam moriens, ne non procumbat honeste, Respicit,

    Ov. F. 2, 833:

    (Caesar) sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 26:

    valde se honeste gerunt,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

    honestius hic, quam Q. Pompeius,

    id. Off. 3, 30, 109:

    quae in nostris rebus non satis honeste, in amicorum fiunt honestissime,

    id. Lael. 16, 57:

    aliquid recte honesteque dicere,

    id. Rep. 1, 2:

    beate et honeste vivere,

    id. ib. 4, 3:

    honeste vivere (opp. turpiter),

    Quint. 5, 10, 24:

    facere ac dicere (opp. turpiter),

    id. 11, 1, 14; 10, 5, 13:

    tam jejuna fames, cum possit honestius tremere, etc.,

    Juv. 5, 10. iste quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste, fairly, properly, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 43:

    fastigium nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, 14.

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  • 14 honestum

    hŏnestus, a um, adj. [honos, honor, qs. furnished or clothed with honor], full of honor, honorable.
    I.
    Regarded with honor, enjoying respect or consideration, honored, distinguished, honorable, respectable, noble, = honoratus:

    qui me honore honestiorem fecit,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 32: cum honos sit praemium virtutis judicio studioque civium delatum ad aliquem;

    qui eum sententiis, qui suffragiis adeptus est, is mihi et honestus et honoratus videtur, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 81, 281:

    satis honestam honoratamque imaginem fore,

    Liv. 36, 40, 9: magnus atque honestus, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 4; cf.:

    salvi et honesti,

    id. ib. 11, 2, 2:

    honestus homo et nobilis,

    Cic. Mur. 36, 75:

    cum honesto aliquo homine,

    id. Fam. 16, 9, 4:

    amplae et honestae familiae,

    illustrious and honorable families, id. Mur. 7, 15; cf.: homines honestis parentibus ac majoribus nati, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 85:

    bonis parentibus atque honesto loco natus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58:

    cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit,

    id. Rep. 2, 7:

    loco natus honesto,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 45, 2:

    Polla, Nursiae honesto genere orta,

    Suet. Vesp. 1:

    equite Romano in primis honesto et ornato,

    distinguished, eminent, Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 1; 13, 31, 1:

    eques Romanus,

    id. ib. 13, 62; cf.:

    erant complures honesti adulescentes, senatorum filii et ordinis equestris,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 51, 3:

    publicani, homines honestissimi atque ornatissimi,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 7, 17:

    homo honestissimus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 6:

    milites honestissimi sui generis,

    id. B. C. 1, 20, 1:

    virginis honestae vaticinatione,

    Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.:

    quia deus auctor culpae honestior erat,

    Liv. 1, 4, 2:

    tam grave, tam firmum, tam honestum municipium,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

    honestissimus conventus,

    Quint. 1, 2, 9:

    ut honestiore judicio conflictere?

    more honorable, Cic. Quint. 13, 44:

    dies honestissimus nobis,

    id. Fam. 1, 2, 2:

    atque erit illa mihi mortis honesta dies,

    Prop. 3 (4), 21, 34:

    honesta paupertas,

    Vell. 129, 3:

    omnium honestarum rerum egens,

    not able to live suitably to his rank, Sall. J. 14, 17: honestis manibus omnia laetius proveniunt, i. e. of generals (cf. shortly before:

    ipsorum tunc manibus imperatorum colebantur agri),

    Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 19.—As substt.
    1.
    hŏnestĭōres, um, m., men of noble birth:

    qui hominem castraverit... sive is servus sive liber sit, capite punitur: honestiores publicatis bonis in insulam deportantur,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 13; 1, 21, 4 sq.;

    opp. humiliores,

    id. ib. 5, 25, 1 sq.; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 2, 2; 8, 4, 2.—
    2.
    hŏnestum, i, n., honorable conduct, morality, virtue:

    nec honesto quicquam honestius,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 25:

    rigidi servator honesti (Cato),

    Luc. 2, 389.
    II. A.
    In gen.:

    ut (civium vita) opibus firma, copiis locuples, gloria ampla, virtute honesta sit,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, 1:

    in convivio moderato atque honesto,

    id. Mur. 6, 13:

    aequa et honesta postulatio,

    id. Rosc. Am. 2, 7:

    honestum ac probabile nomen,

    id. Caecin. 25, 71; cf.:

    ut honesta praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4:

    causas abeundi quaerat honestas,

    Lucr. 4, 1181:

    certatio,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    honestam rem actionemve aut non suscipere aut, etc.,

    id. ib. 13, 47:

    res, causa (opp. turpis),

    Auct. Her. 1, 3, 5; cf.:

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile,

    id. 3, 2, 3:

    hominum honestissimorum testimoniis non credere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

    homines honestissimi,

    id. ib. 17, 49:

    quod omnium sit votum parentum, ut honestiores quam sint ipsi, liberos habeant,

    Quint. 1, 1, 82:

    soror,

    virtuous, chaste, Hor. S. 2, 3, 58:

    vita honestissima,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; so in sup.:

    labor,

    Quint. 12, 7, 10:

    praecepta,

    id. 12, 2, 27:

    testimonia,

    id. 5, 11, 37:

    vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9:

    honestum quibusdam rapto vivere,

    Quint. 3, 7, 24:

    honestius est de amicorum pecunia laborare quam de sua,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 2:

    ut neque rectum neque honestum sit, nec fieri possit, ut, etc.,

    id. Lael. 21, 76:

    honestum et rectum,

    id. ib. 22, 82:

    honestum id intellegimus, quod tale est, ut, detracta omni utilitate, sine ullis praemiis fructibusve per se ipsum possit jure laudari,

    id. Fin. 2, 14, 45; cf. id. Inv. 2, 53, 159; id. Leg. 1, 18, 48:

    si maritus uxorem suam in adulterio deprehensam occidit... non inique aliquid ejus honestissimo calori permittitur, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 10, 1: mores honestos tradere,

    Juv. 6, 239.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., honesty, integrity, virtue (cf.:

    honor, virtus, etc.): quandoquidem honestum aut ipsa virtus est aut res gesta virtute,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 66; cf.:

    sive honestum solum bonum est, ut Stoicis placet, sive quod honestum est, id ita summum bonum est, ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 3, 3, 13; 1, 4, 14:

    formam quidem ipsam et tamquam faciem honesti vides,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 14:

    omnis honesti justique disciplina,

    Quint. 12, 2, 1:

    honesti praesens imago,

    id. 12, 1, 28:

    quo (honesto) detracto quid poterit beatum intellegi?

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45:

    de honesto ac bono,

    Quint. 2, 2, 5:

    honesta ac turpia,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44; 1, 17, 46:

    honestis similia sunt quaedam non honesta,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 50:

    in eodem pectore nullum est honestorum turpiumque consortium,

    Quint. 12, 1, 4:

    de honestis, justis, utilibus quaestiones,

    id. 3, 6, 41.—Prov.:

    honesta mors turpi vita potior,

    Tac. Agr. 33:

    imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis,

    Juv. 6, 444:

    honestus rumor alterum est patrimonium,

    Pub. Syr. 217 Rib.—
    B.
    In partic., of personal appearance, noble, fine, handsome, beautiful (mostly poet.):

    ille erat honesta facie et liberali,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 15; 2, 1, 24; cf.: ita me di ament, honestus est. id. ib. 3, 2, 21:

    erat forma praeter ceteras honesta,

    id. And. 1, 1, 96:

    facies,

    Suet. Tib. 68:

    caput,

    Verg. A. 10, 133; id. G. 2, 392:

    asini,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 2:

    (equi),

    Verg. G. 3, 81:

    ager honestior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 2:

    tunc ora rigantur honestis Imbribus (i. e. lacrimis),

    Stat. Th. 2, 234.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., beauty:

    nec, si quid honesti est, jactat habetque palam, quaerit, quo turpia celet, = si quid pulchri habent,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 84.—Hence, adv.: hŏ-nestē.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.) Honorably, nobly (very rare):

    honeste natus,

    of noble birth, Suet. Aug. 43.—Far more freq. and class.,
    2.
    (Acc. to II.) Decently, becomingly, properly, creditably, virtuously:

    neque illa matrem satis honeste tuam sequi poterit comes,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 69; id. Rud. 2, 3, 77:

    sic volo Te ferre (aquam) honeste, ut ego fero,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 7:

    unde Mundior exiret vix libertinus honeste,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 12:

    ut videamur vestiti esse honeste,

    Varr. L. L. 8, § 31 Müll.:

    (Lucretia) tum quoque jam moriens, ne non procumbat honeste, Respicit,

    Ov. F. 2, 833:

    (Caesar) sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 26:

    valde se honeste gerunt,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

    honestius hic, quam Q. Pompeius,

    id. Off. 3, 30, 109:

    quae in nostris rebus non satis honeste, in amicorum fiunt honestissime,

    id. Lael. 16, 57:

    aliquid recte honesteque dicere,

    id. Rep. 1, 2:

    beate et honeste vivere,

    id. ib. 4, 3:

    honeste vivere (opp. turpiter),

    Quint. 5, 10, 24:

    facere ac dicere (opp. turpiter),

    id. 11, 1, 14; 10, 5, 13:

    tam jejuna fames, cum possit honestius tremere, etc.,

    Juv. 5, 10. iste quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste, fairly, properly, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 43:

    fastigium nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, 14.

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  • 15 honestus

    hŏnestus, a um, adj. [honos, honor, qs. furnished or clothed with honor], full of honor, honorable.
    I.
    Regarded with honor, enjoying respect or consideration, honored, distinguished, honorable, respectable, noble, = honoratus:

    qui me honore honestiorem fecit,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 32: cum honos sit praemium virtutis judicio studioque civium delatum ad aliquem;

    qui eum sententiis, qui suffragiis adeptus est, is mihi et honestus et honoratus videtur, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 81, 281:

    satis honestam honoratamque imaginem fore,

    Liv. 36, 40, 9: magnus atque honestus, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 4; cf.:

    salvi et honesti,

    id. ib. 11, 2, 2:

    honestus homo et nobilis,

    Cic. Mur. 36, 75:

    cum honesto aliquo homine,

    id. Fam. 16, 9, 4:

    amplae et honestae familiae,

    illustrious and honorable families, id. Mur. 7, 15; cf.: homines honestis parentibus ac majoribus nati, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 85:

    bonis parentibus atque honesto loco natus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58:

    cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit,

    id. Rep. 2, 7:

    loco natus honesto,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 45, 2:

    Polla, Nursiae honesto genere orta,

    Suet. Vesp. 1:

    equite Romano in primis honesto et ornato,

    distinguished, eminent, Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 1; 13, 31, 1:

    eques Romanus,

    id. ib. 13, 62; cf.:

    erant complures honesti adulescentes, senatorum filii et ordinis equestris,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 51, 3:

    publicani, homines honestissimi atque ornatissimi,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 7, 17:

    homo honestissimus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 6:

    milites honestissimi sui generis,

    id. B. C. 1, 20, 1:

    virginis honestae vaticinatione,

    Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.:

    quia deus auctor culpae honestior erat,

    Liv. 1, 4, 2:

    tam grave, tam firmum, tam honestum municipium,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

    honestissimus conventus,

    Quint. 1, 2, 9:

    ut honestiore judicio conflictere?

    more honorable, Cic. Quint. 13, 44:

    dies honestissimus nobis,

    id. Fam. 1, 2, 2:

    atque erit illa mihi mortis honesta dies,

    Prop. 3 (4), 21, 34:

    honesta paupertas,

    Vell. 129, 3:

    omnium honestarum rerum egens,

    not able to live suitably to his rank, Sall. J. 14, 17: honestis manibus omnia laetius proveniunt, i. e. of generals (cf. shortly before:

    ipsorum tunc manibus imperatorum colebantur agri),

    Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 19.—As substt.
    1.
    hŏnestĭōres, um, m., men of noble birth:

    qui hominem castraverit... sive is servus sive liber sit, capite punitur: honestiores publicatis bonis in insulam deportantur,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 13; 1, 21, 4 sq.;

    opp. humiliores,

    id. ib. 5, 25, 1 sq.; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 2, 2; 8, 4, 2.—
    2.
    hŏnestum, i, n., honorable conduct, morality, virtue:

    nec honesto quicquam honestius,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 25:

    rigidi servator honesti (Cato),

    Luc. 2, 389.
    II. A.
    In gen.:

    ut (civium vita) opibus firma, copiis locuples, gloria ampla, virtute honesta sit,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, 1:

    in convivio moderato atque honesto,

    id. Mur. 6, 13:

    aequa et honesta postulatio,

    id. Rosc. Am. 2, 7:

    honestum ac probabile nomen,

    id. Caecin. 25, 71; cf.:

    ut honesta praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4:

    causas abeundi quaerat honestas,

    Lucr. 4, 1181:

    certatio,

    Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    honestam rem actionemve aut non suscipere aut, etc.,

    id. ib. 13, 47:

    res, causa (opp. turpis),

    Auct. Her. 1, 3, 5; cf.:

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile,

    id. 3, 2, 3:

    hominum honestissimorum testimoniis non credere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

    homines honestissimi,

    id. ib. 17, 49:

    quod omnium sit votum parentum, ut honestiores quam sint ipsi, liberos habeant,

    Quint. 1, 1, 82:

    soror,

    virtuous, chaste, Hor. S. 2, 3, 58:

    vita honestissima,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48; so in sup.:

    labor,

    Quint. 12, 7, 10:

    praecepta,

    id. 12, 2, 27:

    testimonia,

    id. 5, 11, 37:

    vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9:

    honestum quibusdam rapto vivere,

    Quint. 3, 7, 24:

    honestius est de amicorum pecunia laborare quam de sua,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 14, 2:

    ut neque rectum neque honestum sit, nec fieri possit, ut, etc.,

    id. Lael. 21, 76:

    honestum et rectum,

    id. ib. 22, 82:

    honestum id intellegimus, quod tale est, ut, detracta omni utilitate, sine ullis praemiis fructibusve per se ipsum possit jure laudari,

    id. Fin. 2, 14, 45; cf. id. Inv. 2, 53, 159; id. Leg. 1, 18, 48:

    si maritus uxorem suam in adulterio deprehensam occidit... non inique aliquid ejus honestissimo calori permittitur, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 10, 1: mores honestos tradere,

    Juv. 6, 239.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., honesty, integrity, virtue (cf.:

    honor, virtus, etc.): quandoquidem honestum aut ipsa virtus est aut res gesta virtute,

    id. Fin. 5, 23, 66; cf.:

    sive honestum solum bonum est, ut Stoicis placet, sive quod honestum est, id ita summum bonum est, ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 3, 3, 13; 1, 4, 14:

    formam quidem ipsam et tamquam faciem honesti vides,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 14:

    omnis honesti justique disciplina,

    Quint. 12, 2, 1:

    honesti praesens imago,

    id. 12, 1, 28:

    quo (honesto) detracto quid poterit beatum intellegi?

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45:

    de honesto ac bono,

    Quint. 2, 2, 5:

    honesta ac turpia,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44; 1, 17, 46:

    honestis similia sunt quaedam non honesta,

    id. Ac. 2, 16, 50:

    in eodem pectore nullum est honestorum turpiumque consortium,

    Quint. 12, 1, 4:

    de honestis, justis, utilibus quaestiones,

    id. 3, 6, 41.—Prov.:

    honesta mors turpi vita potior,

    Tac. Agr. 33:

    imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis,

    Juv. 6, 444:

    honestus rumor alterum est patrimonium,

    Pub. Syr. 217 Rib.—
    B.
    In partic., of personal appearance, noble, fine, handsome, beautiful (mostly poet.):

    ille erat honesta facie et liberali,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 15; 2, 1, 24; cf.: ita me di ament, honestus est. id. ib. 3, 2, 21:

    erat forma praeter ceteras honesta,

    id. And. 1, 1, 96:

    facies,

    Suet. Tib. 68:

    caput,

    Verg. A. 10, 133; id. G. 2, 392:

    asini,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 2:

    (equi),

    Verg. G. 3, 81:

    ager honestior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 2:

    tunc ora rigantur honestis Imbribus (i. e. lacrimis),

    Stat. Th. 2, 234.—As subst.: hŏnestum, i, n., beauty:

    nec, si quid honesti est, jactat habetque palam, quaerit, quo turpia celet, = si quid pulchri habent,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 84.—Hence, adv.: hŏ-nestē.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.) Honorably, nobly (very rare):

    honeste natus,

    of noble birth, Suet. Aug. 43.—Far more freq. and class.,
    2.
    (Acc. to II.) Decently, becomingly, properly, creditably, virtuously:

    neque illa matrem satis honeste tuam sequi poterit comes,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 69; id. Rud. 2, 3, 77:

    sic volo Te ferre (aquam) honeste, ut ego fero,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 7:

    unde Mundior exiret vix libertinus honeste,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 12:

    ut videamur vestiti esse honeste,

    Varr. L. L. 8, § 31 Müll.:

    (Lucretia) tum quoque jam moriens, ne non procumbat honeste, Respicit,

    Ov. F. 2, 833:

    (Caesar) sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 26:

    valde se honeste gerunt,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

    honestius hic, quam Q. Pompeius,

    id. Off. 3, 30, 109:

    quae in nostris rebus non satis honeste, in amicorum fiunt honestissime,

    id. Lael. 16, 57:

    aliquid recte honesteque dicere,

    id. Rep. 1, 2:

    beate et honeste vivere,

    id. ib. 4, 3:

    honeste vivere (opp. turpiter),

    Quint. 5, 10, 24:

    facere ac dicere (opp. turpiter),

    id. 11, 1, 14; 10, 5, 13:

    tam jejuna fames, cum possit honestius tremere, etc.,

    Juv. 5, 10. iste quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste, fairly, properly, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 43:

    fastigium nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, 14.

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  • 16 inane

    ĭnānis, e, adj. [etym. dub.; cf. 2. in-], empty, void (opp. plenus; freq. and class.).
    I.
    Physically:

    cum vas inane dicimus, non ita loquimur ut physici, quibus inane esse nihil placet, sed ita, ut verbi causa sine aqua, sine vino, sine oleo vas esse dicamus,

    Cic. Fat. 11, 24:

    aqualis inanis (opp. plena),

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 41:

    tune inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita completa et conferta sint omnia, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125:

    quae spatium pleno possint distinguere inane,

    Lucr. 1, 527:

    domum ejus exornatam et instructam, fere jam iste reddiderat nudam atque inanem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 84:

    granum inane cassumque,

    Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161:

    quae (naves) inanes ad eum remitterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 23, 4; so,

    naves (opp. onustae),

    id. B. C. 3, 8, 3; 3, 40, 4; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 131; cf.:

    inde navigia inania et vacua hinc plena et onusta mittantur,

    Plin. Pan. 31, 4:

    lagenae,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2:

    mensa,

    Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 26:

    vix incedo inanis, ne ire posse cum onere existimes,

    without a burden, id. Am. 1, 1, 174; cf.:

    ego bajulabo: tu, ut decet dominum, ante me ito inanis,

    id. As. 3, 3, 70:

    janitor ad dantes vigilet: si pulset inanis Surdus, etc.,

    emptyhanded, without presents, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 47:

    hic homo est inanis,

    without money, without fortune, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 44; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 2; id. Trin. 3, 2, 75:

    misera in civitate et inani,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160:

    egentes inanesque discedere,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9, § 25 fin.:

    structores ad frumentum profecti inanes redierunt,

    id. Att. 14, 3, 1; cf. id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

    equus,

    without a rider, id. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160; cf.:

    quid, quod omnes consulares... simul atque assedisti partem istam subselliorum nudam atque inanem reliquerunt?

    id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

    absint inani funere neniae,

    without a corpse, Hor. C. 2, 20, 21:

    parasitus,

    unfed, hungry, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 78:

    venter,

    hungry, Hor. S. 1, 6, 127; cf.:

    siccus, inanis Sperne cibum vilem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 14:

    quod inani sufficit alvo,

    Juv. 5, 7:

    laeva,

    without rings, Hor. S. 2, 7, 9:

    litterae,

    empty, Cic. Fam. 6, 22, 1:

    paleae,

    empty, light, Verg. G. 3, 134:

    nubila,

    id. ib. 4, 196:

    venti,

    id. A. 6, 740: tum ebur ex inani corpore extractum (a transl. of the Platon. apoleloipotos psuchên sômatos), lifeless, dead, Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45 Mos.:

    corpus,

    Ov. H. 15, 116; id. Am. 3, 9, 6; cf.

    in the foll.: vulgus,

    i. e. the shades, Stat. Th. 1, 93; cf.

    umbra,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 25:

    imago,

    id. F. 5, 463:

    regna Ditis,

    Verg. A. 6, 269:

    Tartara,

    Ov. M. 11, 670: leo, a lion ' s hide, Stat. Th. 1, 483; so,

    tigris,

    id. ib. 6, 722:

    vultus,

    i. e. blind, Sen. Phoen. 43: Gaurus, i. e. hollow (an extinct volcano), Juv. 9, 57. —
    (β).
    With abl., gen., or ab (the last rare):

    nulla epistula inanis aliqua re utili,

    Cic. Att. 2, 8, 1:

    Agyrinensis ager centum septuaginta aratoribus inanior est,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 121:

    sanguinis atque animi pectus inane,

    Ov. H. 3, 60:

    corpus animae,

    id. M. 13, 488; 2, 611; Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 32:

    lymphae dolium,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 26:

    pectus deorum,

    Sil. 2, 309: inanis a marsupio, Prud. steph. 2, 104. —
    B.
    Subst.: ĭnāne, is, n., an empty space, a void (most freq. in Lucr.):

    scilicet hoc id erit vacuum quod inane vocamus,

    Lucr. 1, 439:

    namque est in rebus inane,

    id. 1, 330 sq.; cf. id. 1, 569; 2, 236:

    ita nullum inane, nihil esse individuum potest,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 65:

    plus esse inanis,

    Lucr. 1, 365:

    inani,

    ib. 524:

    inane,

    id. 1, 369; 426; 507;

    514 et saep.: ad inane naturae,

    Plin. 30, 1, 4, § 13:

    per inane,

    through the air, Lucr. 1, 1018; 2, 65 et saep.; Verg. E. 6, 31; id. A. 12, 906; Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 169 et saep.— Abl.:

    inani,

    Lucr. 1, 742; 1009:

    ab inani,

    id. 1, 431:

    in inani,

    id. 1, 1078; 2, 122:

    sine inani,

    id. 1, 510; 532; 538:

    per inania,

    id. 1, 223; Ov. M. 2, 506.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., empty, useless, worthless, vain, unprofitable:

    aures ipsae, quid plenum, quid inane sit judicant,

    Cic. Brut. 8, 34:

    quod honestum nos et laudabile esse dicamus, id illi cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum esse dicant,

    id. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; cf.:

    honesti inane nomen esse,

    id. Ac. 2, 22, 71:

    sin vera visa divina sunt, falsa autem et inania humana,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127:

    voces inanes fundere,

    id. Tusc. 3, 18, 42; cf.

    elocutio,

    id. de Or. 1, 6, 20:

    damnatus inani judicio,

    Juv. 1, 47:

    vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 32:

    verba,

    id. 8, 2, 17; 9, 3, 100; cf.

    verborum torrenti,

    id. 10, 7, 23:

    crimen,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 177:

    o inanes nostras contentiones!

    id. de Or. 3, 2, 7:

    o spes fallaces et cogitationes inanes meae!

    id. Mil. 34, 94; cf.:

    inani et tenui spe te consolaris,

    id. Rosc. Com. 14, 42:

    spes,

    Verg. A. 10, 627:

    religio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 15 fin.:

    delectari multis inanibus rebus, ut gloriā, etc.,

    id. Lael. 14, 49; 23, 86:

    cupiditates,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 46:

    causas nequidquam nectis inanes,

    Verg. A. 9, 219:

    minae,

    Hor. Epod. 6, 3:

    tempus inane peto, requiem spatiumque furori,

    vacant, leisure, Verg. A. 4, 433; so,

    ternpora (with morae),

    Val. Fl. 3, 657: tempora, in prosody, i. q. the Gr. kenos chronos, the use of a short syllable for a long one, Quint. 9, 4, 51 Spald.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    omnia plena consiliorum, inania verborum,

    poor in words, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37:

    quae inanissima prudentiae reperta sunt,

    id. Mur. 12, 26.—
    B.
    Of persons, vain, worthless, petty:

    Graii,

    Lucr. 1, 639:

    homo inanis et regiae superbiae,

    Sall. J. 64, 5:

    imagines, quibus inanissimi homines serviunt,

    Lact. 2, 17, 8:

    inanes Hoc juvat,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 76; Liv. 45, 23, 16; Lucr. 1, 639:

    hi pressi et integri, contra inflati illi et inanes,

    Quint. 12, 10, 16; cf.:

    illud vero pusilli animi et inanis,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 7:

    non negaverim totam Asiae regionem inaniora parere ingenia,

    Liv. 45, 23, 16.—
    C.
    As subst.: ĭnāne, is, n., that which is empty or vain; emptiness, vanity, inanity:

    o curas hominum! o quantum est in rebus inane!

    Pers. 1, 1:

    inane abscindere soldo,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 113.— Plur.:

    dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet,

    id. A. P. 230:

    inaina famae,

    idle reports, Tac. A. 2, 76:

    inania belli,

    id. ib. 2, 69.—Hence, adv.: ĭnānĭter, vainly, idly, uselessly:

    exsultare,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

    moveri,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 47; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 34:

    pectus angere,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 211:

    medicas exercet inaniter artes,

    Ov. M. 2, 618.

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  • 17 inanis

    ĭnānis, e, adj. [etym. dub.; cf. 2. in-], empty, void (opp. plenus; freq. and class.).
    I.
    Physically:

    cum vas inane dicimus, non ita loquimur ut physici, quibus inane esse nihil placet, sed ita, ut verbi causa sine aqua, sine vino, sine oleo vas esse dicamus,

    Cic. Fat. 11, 24:

    aqualis inanis (opp. plena),

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 41:

    tune inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita completa et conferta sint omnia, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125:

    quae spatium pleno possint distinguere inane,

    Lucr. 1, 527:

    domum ejus exornatam et instructam, fere jam iste reddiderat nudam atque inanem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 84:

    granum inane cassumque,

    Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161:

    quae (naves) inanes ad eum remitterentur,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 23, 4; so,

    naves (opp. onustae),

    id. B. C. 3, 8, 3; 3, 40, 4; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 131; cf.:

    inde navigia inania et vacua hinc plena et onusta mittantur,

    Plin. Pan. 31, 4:

    lagenae,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2:

    mensa,

    Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 26:

    vix incedo inanis, ne ire posse cum onere existimes,

    without a burden, id. Am. 1, 1, 174; cf.:

    ego bajulabo: tu, ut decet dominum, ante me ito inanis,

    id. As. 3, 3, 70:

    janitor ad dantes vigilet: si pulset inanis Surdus, etc.,

    emptyhanded, without presents, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 47:

    hic homo est inanis,

    without money, without fortune, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 44; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 2; id. Trin. 3, 2, 75:

    misera in civitate et inani,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160:

    egentes inanesque discedere,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 9, § 25 fin.:

    structores ad frumentum profecti inanes redierunt,

    id. Att. 14, 3, 1; cf. id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

    equus,

    without a rider, id. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160; cf.:

    quid, quod omnes consulares... simul atque assedisti partem istam subselliorum nudam atque inanem reliquerunt?

    id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

    absint inani funere neniae,

    without a corpse, Hor. C. 2, 20, 21:

    parasitus,

    unfed, hungry, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 78:

    venter,

    hungry, Hor. S. 1, 6, 127; cf.:

    siccus, inanis Sperne cibum vilem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 14:

    quod inani sufficit alvo,

    Juv. 5, 7:

    laeva,

    without rings, Hor. S. 2, 7, 9:

    litterae,

    empty, Cic. Fam. 6, 22, 1:

    paleae,

    empty, light, Verg. G. 3, 134:

    nubila,

    id. ib. 4, 196:

    venti,

    id. A. 6, 740: tum ebur ex inani corpore extractum (a transl. of the Platon. apoleloipotos psuchên sômatos), lifeless, dead, Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45 Mos.:

    corpus,

    Ov. H. 15, 116; id. Am. 3, 9, 6; cf.

    in the foll.: vulgus,

    i. e. the shades, Stat. Th. 1, 93; cf.

    umbra,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 25:

    imago,

    id. F. 5, 463:

    regna Ditis,

    Verg. A. 6, 269:

    Tartara,

    Ov. M. 11, 670: leo, a lion ' s hide, Stat. Th. 1, 483; so,

    tigris,

    id. ib. 6, 722:

    vultus,

    i. e. blind, Sen. Phoen. 43: Gaurus, i. e. hollow (an extinct volcano), Juv. 9, 57. —
    (β).
    With abl., gen., or ab (the last rare):

    nulla epistula inanis aliqua re utili,

    Cic. Att. 2, 8, 1:

    Agyrinensis ager centum septuaginta aratoribus inanior est,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 121:

    sanguinis atque animi pectus inane,

    Ov. H. 3, 60:

    corpus animae,

    id. M. 13, 488; 2, 611; Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 32:

    lymphae dolium,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 26:

    pectus deorum,

    Sil. 2, 309: inanis a marsupio, Prud. steph. 2, 104. —
    B.
    Subst.: ĭnāne, is, n., an empty space, a void (most freq. in Lucr.):

    scilicet hoc id erit vacuum quod inane vocamus,

    Lucr. 1, 439:

    namque est in rebus inane,

    id. 1, 330 sq.; cf. id. 1, 569; 2, 236:

    ita nullum inane, nihil esse individuum potest,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 65:

    plus esse inanis,

    Lucr. 1, 365:

    inani,

    ib. 524:

    inane,

    id. 1, 369; 426; 507;

    514 et saep.: ad inane naturae,

    Plin. 30, 1, 4, § 13:

    per inane,

    through the air, Lucr. 1, 1018; 2, 65 et saep.; Verg. E. 6, 31; id. A. 12, 906; Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 169 et saep.— Abl.:

    inani,

    Lucr. 1, 742; 1009:

    ab inani,

    id. 1, 431:

    in inani,

    id. 1, 1078; 2, 122:

    sine inani,

    id. 1, 510; 532; 538:

    per inania,

    id. 1, 223; Ov. M. 2, 506.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., empty, useless, worthless, vain, unprofitable:

    aures ipsae, quid plenum, quid inane sit judicant,

    Cic. Brut. 8, 34:

    quod honestum nos et laudabile esse dicamus, id illi cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum esse dicant,

    id. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; cf.:

    honesti inane nomen esse,

    id. Ac. 2, 22, 71:

    sin vera visa divina sunt, falsa autem et inania humana,

    id. Div. 2, 62, 127:

    voces inanes fundere,

    id. Tusc. 3, 18, 42; cf.

    elocutio,

    id. de Or. 1, 6, 20:

    damnatus inani judicio,

    Juv. 1, 47:

    vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 32:

    verba,

    id. 8, 2, 17; 9, 3, 100; cf.

    verborum torrenti,

    id. 10, 7, 23:

    crimen,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 177:

    o inanes nostras contentiones!

    id. de Or. 3, 2, 7:

    o spes fallaces et cogitationes inanes meae!

    id. Mil. 34, 94; cf.:

    inani et tenui spe te consolaris,

    id. Rosc. Com. 14, 42:

    spes,

    Verg. A. 10, 627:

    religio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 15 fin.:

    delectari multis inanibus rebus, ut gloriā, etc.,

    id. Lael. 14, 49; 23, 86:

    cupiditates,

    id. Fin. 1, 13, 46:

    causas nequidquam nectis inanes,

    Verg. A. 9, 219:

    minae,

    Hor. Epod. 6, 3:

    tempus inane peto, requiem spatiumque furori,

    vacant, leisure, Verg. A. 4, 433; so,

    ternpora (with morae),

    Val. Fl. 3, 657: tempora, in prosody, i. q. the Gr. kenos chronos, the use of a short syllable for a long one, Quint. 9, 4, 51 Spald.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    omnia plena consiliorum, inania verborum,

    poor in words, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37:

    quae inanissima prudentiae reperta sunt,

    id. Mur. 12, 26.—
    B.
    Of persons, vain, worthless, petty:

    Graii,

    Lucr. 1, 639:

    homo inanis et regiae superbiae,

    Sall. J. 64, 5:

    imagines, quibus inanissimi homines serviunt,

    Lact. 2, 17, 8:

    inanes Hoc juvat,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 76; Liv. 45, 23, 16; Lucr. 1, 639:

    hi pressi et integri, contra inflati illi et inanes,

    Quint. 12, 10, 16; cf.:

    illud vero pusilli animi et inanis,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 7:

    non negaverim totam Asiae regionem inaniora parere ingenia,

    Liv. 45, 23, 16.—
    C.
    As subst.: ĭnāne, is, n., that which is empty or vain; emptiness, vanity, inanity:

    o curas hominum! o quantum est in rebus inane!

    Pers. 1, 1:

    inane abscindere soldo,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 113.— Plur.:

    dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet,

    id. A. P. 230:

    inaina famae,

    idle reports, Tac. A. 2, 76:

    inania belli,

    id. ib. 2, 69.—Hence, adv.: ĭnānĭter, vainly, idly, uselessly:

    exsultare,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

    moveri,

    id. Ac. 2, 15, 47; cf. id. ib. 2, 11, 34:

    pectus angere,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 211:

    medicas exercet inaniter artes,

    Ov. M. 2, 618.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > inanis

  • 18 natura

    nātūra, ae, f. [nascor], birth.
    I.
    Lit. (very rare):

    naturā tu illi pater es, consiliis ego,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 46; cf.:

    naturā pater,

    id. ib. 5, 7, 4.—
    II.
    Transf. (freq. and class.; syn.: indoles, ingenium).
    A.
    The nature, i. e. the natural constitution, property, or quality of a thing:

    quod autem animal est, id motu cietur interiore et suo: nam haec est natura propria animae et vis,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 28:

    ipsumque per se sua vi, sua natura, sua sponte laudabile,

    id. Fin. 2, 15, 50:

    ab ipsa natura loci,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

    quali esset natura montis, qui cognoscerent misit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

    loci,

    id. ib. 1, 2: tigna secundum naturam fluminis procumberent, according to the nature or natural course of the river, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: insula naturā triquetra, by nature, i. e. in shape, id. ib. 5, 13:

    naturas apibus quas Juppiter ipse Addidit expediam,

    Verg. G. 4, 149.—
    2.
    Of character, nature, natural disposition, inclination, bent, temper, character:

    cognitum per te ipsum, quae tua natura est, dignum tuā amicitiā judicabis,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 78, 2:

    prolixa beneficaque,

    id. ib. 3, 8, 8; Liv. 22, 59: mihi benefacere jam ex consuetudine [p. 1190] in naturam vertit, has become natural, Sall. J. 85, 9.—Prov.:

    consuetudo est secunda natura,

    August. adv. Jul. 5, 59 fin.; Macr. S. 7, 9, 7; cf.:

    voluptatem consuetudine quasi alteram naturam effici,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

    naturam expellas furcā, tamen usque recurret,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 24:

    facere sibi naturam alicujus rei,

    to accustom one's self to a thing, Quint. 2, 4, 17:

    desideria naturae satiare,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25.—
    B.
    The nature, course, or order of things:

    quod rerum natura non patitur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 55:

    delabi ad aequitatem et ad rerum naturam,

    id. Fam. 6, 10, 5:

    naturae satisfacere,

    i. e. to die, Cic. Clu. 10, 29; so,

    naturae concedere,

    Sall. J. 14, 15:—Personified:

    quis vero opifex praeter naturam, quā nihil potest esse callidius, tantam sollertiam persequi potuisset in sensibus? quae primum oculos membranis tenuissimis vestivit, etc.,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142:

    frui primis a natura datis,

    id. Fin. 2, 11, 34:

    homines rationem habent a naturā datam,

    id. ib. 2, 14, 45:

    et homini praecipui a naturā nihil datum esse dicemus,

    id. ib. 2, 33, 110:

    quae (membra corporum) ipsa declarant procreandi a naturā habitam esse rationem,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 62:

    omnis natura vult esse conservatrix sui,

    id. ib. 4, 7, 16; 5, 15, 41;

    5, 20, 56: illam partem bene vivendi a natura petebant, eique parendum esse dicebant,

    id. Ac. 1, 5, 19.—
    2.
    Nature, i. e. the world, the universe:

    Cleanthes totius naturae menti atque animo hoc nomen (dei) tribuit,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 14, 37.—
    3.
    Nature, i. e. consistency with nature, possibility:

    in rerum naturā fuisse,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 8, 24:

    hoc quoque in rerum naturam cadit,

    is a possible case, Quint. 2, 17, 32:

    judicatum est enim, rerum naturam non recipere, ut, etc.,

    that it is not in accordance with nature, not possible, Val. Max. 8, 1, abs. 13:—
    C.
    An element, thing, substance:

    Aristoteles quin tam quandam naturam censet esse, e qua sit mens,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 22: de naturis autem sic sentiebat;

    primum uti quattuor initiis rerum illis quintam hanc naturam... non adhiberet, etc.,

    id. Ac. 1, 11, 39:

    natura tenuis aëris,

    Lucr. 2, 232.—
    D.
    The natural parts, organs of generation:

    cujus (Mercurii) obscenius excitata natura traditur,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 55:

    quaedam matrona visa est in quiete obsignatam habere naturam,

    id. Div. 2, 70, 145; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 4; 2, 7, 8.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > natura

  • 19 per

    per, prep. with acc. (by solecism with abl. PER QVO, = whereby, Inscr. Miseni Repert. ex a. p. Chr. n. 159; Inscr. Orell. 3300) [kindr. with Gr. para; Sanscr. pāra, ulterior; Lith. pèr; cf.: parumper, paulisper; v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 269], denotes, like the Gr. dia, motion through a space, or extension over it.
    I.
    Lit., of space, through, through the midst of, throughout, all over, all along: per amoena salicta raptare aliquem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): inde Fert sese (equus) campi per caerula laetaque prata, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (id. v. 505 ib.): per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, id. ap. id. ib. 6, 4 (id. v. 177 ib.):

    per membranas oculorum cernere,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142:

    coronam auream per forum ferre,

    id. Att. 14, 16, 2:

    iit hasta per tempus utrumque,

    Verg. A. 9, 418:

    se per munitiones deicere,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

    per mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 46:

    per ignes,

    Ov. M. 8, 76:

    per Averna,

    id. ib. 14, 105:

    per caelum,

    Verg. A. 4, 700:

    per vias fabulari,

    in all the streets, Plaut. Cist. 5, 1:

    per totam urbem,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 11:

    qui per provincias atque imperium tuum pecunias ei credidissent,

    in the provinces, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 6:

    invitati hospitaliter per domos,

    Liv. 1, 9:

    via secta per ambas (zonas),

    Verg. G. 1, 238; 245:

    nascuntur copiosissime in Balearibus ac per Hispanias,

    in, Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 94:

    per illas gentes celebratur,

    throughout, Tac. A. 12, 12:

    gustūs elementa per omnia quaerunt,

    Juv. 11, 14.—

    Placed after the noun: viam per,

    Lucr. 6, 1264:

    transtra per et remos et pictas abiete puppes,

    Verg. A. 5, 663; 6, 692.
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Of time, through, throughout, during, for:

    quod des bubus per hiemem,

    the winter through, during the winter, Cato, R. R. 25:

    nulla res per triennium, nisi ad nutum istius, judicata est,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 13:

    nulla abs te per hos dies epistula... venerat,

    during these days, id. Att. 2, 8, 1:

    per decem dies ludi facti sunt,

    id. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    per idem tempus,

    during, at, in the course of, id. Brut. 83, 286; Suet. Galb. 10:

    per noctem cernuntur sidera,

    during the night, in the night-time, Plin. 2, 10, 7, § 48:

    per inducias,

    during, Liv. 38, 2: per multa bella, id. 8, 13:

    per ludos,

    id. 2, 18:

    per comitia,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    per somnum,

    id. ib. 45: per tempus, during, i. e. at the right time, = in tempore, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 6; Ter. And. 4, 4, 44; id. Hec. 4, 3, 16.—So distr.:

    per singulas noctes,

    Suet. Caes. 1; id. Calig. 22; cf.:

    per haec,

    meanwhile, id. Claud. 27:

    per quae,

    id. Tib. 52.—
    B.
    To indicate the agent, instrument, or means, through, by, by means of:

    statuerunt injurias per vos ulcisci,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 9:

    detrimenta publicis rebus per homines eloquentissimos importata,

    id. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

    quid ais? vulgo occidebantur? Per quos? et a quibus?

    by whom? and by whose command? id. Rosc. Am. 29, 80:

    quae domi gerenda sunt, ea per Caeciliam transiguntur,

    id. ib. 51, 149:

    quod nefarium stuprum non per illum factum est,

    id. Cat. 2, 4, 7.—Placed after its case:

    Exerce vocem, quam per vivis et colis,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 13.—Esp.: per fidem decipere, fallere, etc. (= datā fide): per fidem deceptus sum, through confidence, i. e. in my host who betrayed me, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 69; Cic. Inv. 1, 39, 71; Caes. B. G. 1, 46, 3.—So, per se, per te, through himself, by himself, of himself, etc.:

    homo per se cognitus, sine ullā commendatione majorum,

    Cic. Brut. 25, 96:

    per me tibi obstiti, = solus,

    by myself, id. Cat. 1, 5, 11:

    satis per te tibi consulis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 1:

    per se solus,

    Liv. 1, 49.—With ipse:

    nihil ipsos per se sine P. Sullā facere potuisse,

    Cic. Sull. 24, 67:

    ipsum per se, suā vi, sua naturā, sua sponte laudabile,

    id. Fin. 2, 15, 50.—To form an adverb. expression, in, by, through, etc.:

    non dubitavi id a te per litteras petere,

    by letter, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 2:

    per summum dedecus vitam amittere,

    in the most infamous manner, most infamously, id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

    per iram facere aliquid,

    in anger, id. Tusc. 4, 37, 79:

    per commodum,

    Liv. 30, 29, 3 (cf. II. A. supra):

    per commodum rei publicae,

    id. 10, 25, 17; 22, 57, 1; 31, 11, 2:

    per ludum et jocum,

    sporting and jesting, in sport and jest, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60, § 155; cf. id. ib. 2, 5, 70, §

    181: per vim,

    forcibly, Sall. J. 23, 1:

    per dolum,

    id. ib. 11, 8:

    per otium,

    at leisure, Liv. 4, 58, 12:

    ceteris copiis per otium trajectis,

    id. 21, 28, 4:

    cibo per otium capto,

    id. 21, 55, 1:

    per tumultum = tumultuose,

    id. 44, 45, 14. —
    C.
    To designate the reason, cause, inducement, etc., through, for, by, on account of, for the sake of:

    per metum mussari,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 12:

    qui per virtutem perit, at non interit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 32:

    cum antea per aetatem nondum hujus auctoritatem loci attingere auderem,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1:

    per aetatem,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 16 fin.:

    Druso propinquanti quasi per officium obviae fuere legiones,

    Tac. A. 1, 24:

    ut nihil eum delectaret, quod aut per naturam fas esset aut per leges liceret,

    Cic. Mil. 16, 43:

    cum per valetudinem posses, venire tamen noluisti,

    id. Fam. 7, 1, 1: per me, per te, etc., as far as concerns me, you, etc.:

    si per vos licet,

    Plaut. As. prol. 12:

    per me vel stertas licet,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 93; cf.:

    sin hoc non licet per Cratippum,

    id. Off. 3, 7, 33:

    fides publica per sese inviolata,

    Sall. J. 33, 3:

    per me ista pedibus trahantur,

    Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10:

    per me stetisse, quo minus hae fierent nuptiae,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 16:

    si per suos esset licitum,

    Nep. Eum. 10, 3:

    inspicere vitia nec per magistros nec per aetatem licebat,

    Macr. S. 1, 24. —Hence, in oaths, entreaties, asseverations, etc., by a god, by men, or by inanimate or abstract things, by:

    IOVRANTO PER IOVEM, etc., Tab. Bant. lin. 15: per pol saepe peccas,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 18; cf.:

    si per plures deos juret,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 13, 36:

    quid est enim, per deos, optabilius sapientiā?

    id. Off. 2, 2, 5:

    per deos atque homines,

    id. Div. 2, 55, 116:

    per dexteram te istam oro,

    id. Deiot. 3, 8; cf.:

    per tuam fidem Te obtestor,

    Ter. And. 1, 5, 55:

    nunc te per amicitiam et per amorem obsecro,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 26:

    per pietatem!

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 4:

    per comitatem edepol, pater, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 52.—In this signif. often separated from its object:

    per ego vobis deos atque homines dies, ut, etc.,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 1:

    per ego te deos oro,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 6; 5, 1, 15:

    per ego te, fili... precor quaesoque, etc.,

    Liv. 23, 9, 2:

    per ego has lacrimas... te Oro,

    Verg. A. 4, 314; 12, 56; Tib. 4, 5, 7; Ov. F. 2, 841:

    per vos Tyrrhena faventum Stagna deum, per ego et Trebiam cineresque Sagunti Obtestor,

    Sil. 12, 79 sq.; 1, 658; Stat. Th. 11, 367.—With ellips. of object:

    per, si qua est... Intemerata fides, oro, i. e. per eam,

    Verg. A. 2, 142; 10, 903:

    per, si quid merui de te bene, perque manentem amorem, Ne, etc.,

    Ov. M. 7, 854.—Sometimes to indicate an apparent or pretended cause or inducement, under the show or pretext of, under color of:

    qui per tutelam aut societatem aut rem mandatam aut fiduciae rationem fraudavit quempiam,

    Cic. Caecin. 3, 7:

    naves triremes per causam exercendorum remigum ad fauces portus prodire jussit,

    under pretext of, Caes. B. C. 3, 24;

    v. causa: per speciem alienae fungendae vicis suas opes firmavit,

    Liv. 1, 41 fin.:

    per simulationem officii,

    Tac. H. 1, 74.—
    D.
    In composition, it usually adds intensity to the signif., thoroughly, perfectly, completely, exceedingly, very much, very (very often in Cicero's epistolary style, and in new-formed words, as perbenevolus, percautus, percupidus, perbelle, perofficiose, pergaudeo; see these articles): pervelle, perfacilis, peramanter; sometimes it denotes the completion of an action, e. g. perorare, peragere;

    sometimes it is repeated: perdifficilis et perobscura quaestio,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1; so id. Rep. 1, 12, 18; id. Brut. 43, 158; id. Cael. 20 fin.; id. Fam. 9, 20, 3 al.;

    but also: perexiguā et minuta,

    id. Tusc. 2, 13, 30:

    percautus et diligens,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 18 al.; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. p. 410.—It frequently occurs in tmesi:

    nobis ista sunt pergrata perque jucunda,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205:

    per mihi mirum visum est,

    id. ib. 49, 214:

    per enim magni aestimo,

    id. Att. 10, 1, 1:

    ibi te quam primum per videre velim, = videre pervelim,

    id. ib. 15, 4, 2:

    Platoni per fuit familiaris,

    Gell. 2, 18, 1:

    per, inquit, magister optime, exoptatus mihi nunc venis,

    id. 18, 4, 2.—Per quam (also perquam), very, exceedingly, extremely:

    per quam breviter perstrinxi,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201:

    per quam modica civium merita,

    Plin. Pan. 60:

    per quam velim scire,

    very much indeed, id. Ep. 7, 27, 1:

    PARENTES PER QVAM INFELICISSIMI,

    Inscr. Murat. 953, 2.—As one word:

    illorum mores perquam meditate tenes,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 16:

    propulit perquam indignis modis,

    id. Rud. 3, 3, 9:

    erat perquam onerosum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 13:

    perquam honorificum,

    id. ib. 3, 4, 3.—Separated by an intervening word:

    per pol quam paucos reperias,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 1.—Placed after the word it governs; v. supra, I. fin. and II. B.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > per

  • 20 pulchritudo

    pulchrĭtūdo ( pulcr-), ĭnis, f. [id.], beauty.
    I.
    Lit.:

    ut corporis est quaedam apta figura membrorum cum coloris quādam suavitate eaque dicitur pulchritudo,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 31:

    simulacri,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 72; cf.

    corporis,

    id. Off. 1, 28, 98:

    pulchritudinis duo genera sunt, quorum in altero venustas est, in altero dignitas, venustatem muliebrem dicere debemus, dignitatem virilem,

    id. ib. 1, 36, 130:

    pulchritudinis habere verissimum judicium,

    id. Inv. 2, 1, 3:

    equi,

    Gell. 3, 9, 8:

    urbis,

    Flor. 2, 6, 34:

    flammae,

    Suet. Ner. 38:

    operis,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 46, 3.—
    II.
    Trop., beauty, excellence:

    oratoris,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71:

    verborum,

    Quint. 3, 7, 12:

    orationis,

    Petr. 2:

    honestum suā pulchritudine specieque laudabile,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 38:

    splendor pulchritudoque virtutis?

    id. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf.:

    ut Isocratis memorat pulchritudo,

    i. e. the charming writer, Amm. 30, 8, 6.—
    III.
    Transf., a beauty, i. e. a beautiful thing; in plur.:

    pulchritudines,

    i. e. beautiful jewels, Plin. 37, 9, 46, § 129.

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