limus mundi subsedit ut faex

faex, faecis ( gen. plur.: faecum, acc. to Charis. p. 114 P.), f. [etym. dub.], grounds, sediment, less, dregs of liquids (cf. sentina).

Lit.:

omnis mundi quasi limus subsedit funditus ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 498:

poti faece tenus cadi,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 16; cf. id. ib. 1, 35, 27:

peruncti faecibus ora,

id. A. P. 277:

aceti,

Plin. 28, 16, 62, § 219:

sapae,

id. 23, 2, 33, § 68; Vulg. Ezech. 23, 34.—

Transf.

Burnt tartar or salt of tartar (cf. faecula), Hor. S. 2, 4, 55 and 73.—

The brine of pickles, Ov. M. 8, 666.—

Sediment, dregs, impurities of other things:

salis,

Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 92:

aeris,

id. 34, 13, 37, § 135:

plumbosissima stibii,

id. 33, 6, 34, § 103.—

Paint or wash for the face, rouge, Ov. A. A. 3, 211.—

Jestingly, the last remains of one's money:

si quid adhuc superest de nostri faece locelli,

Mart. 14, 13, 1.—

Trop.:

res itaque ad summam faecem turbasque residit,

to the lowest dregs of the people, Lucr. 5, 1140:

quota portio faecis Achaei,

Juv. 3, 61; cf.:

apud illam perditissimam atque infimam faecem populi,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 5:

apud sordem urbis et faecem,

id. Att. 1, 16, 11; cf.

also: in Romuli faece,

id. ib. 2, 1, 8:

legationis,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 39, § 99:

de faece hauris,

i. e. from bad orators, id. Brut. 69, 244:

faeces Israël,

Vulg. Isa. 49, 6:

dies sine faece,

i. e. unclouded, clear, Mart. 8, 14, 4.

līmus, a, um ( līmis, e, Amm. 20, 9, 2; v. infra), adj. [Gr. lechrios, lechris, loxos; Lat. licinus, ob-liquus, luxus], sidelong, askew, aslant, askance.

Lit.:

limis oculis aspicere,

to look sideways, look askance, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 2:

limis subrisit ocellis,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 33:

(leones) nec limis intuentur oculis aspicique simili modo nolunt,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52:

limibus oculis eos contuens,

Amm. 20, 9.—So, limis aspicere (sc. oculis), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53:

limi, et ut sic dicam venerei (sc. oculi),

Quint. 11, 3, 76:

oculi contuitu quoque multiformes, truces et limi,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145:

limi Di,

the guardian gods of obliquities, Arn. 4, 132.—

Transf., of persons, looking sideways: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, sed limus intra limites culinae, Varr. ap. Non. 133, 31; cf. id. ib. 442, 33.—Hence, adv.: līmō, sideways, askance:

leones numquam limo vident,

Sol. 27, 20; for which: limis oculis in Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52 (v. the passage above).

līmus, i, m. [root lib-; Gr. leibô, to pour; cf. Lat. lino; Gr. limnê, limên], slime, mud, mire.

Lit.:

atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum Confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 496: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 212, 16:

frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo,

Liv. 2, 5:

profundo limo cum ipsis equis hausti sunt,

id. 31, 27:

amnis abundans Exit et obducto late tenet omnia limo,

Verg. G. 1, 116:

amnes Felicem trahunt limum,

id. ib. 2, 188:

limo Turbata aqua,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 59:

veteri craterae limus adhaesit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 80.—

Transf.

Excrement in the intestines, Pall. 3, 31.—

Dirt, mire:

limumque inducere monstrat,

Ov. F. 3, 759.—

Trop., filth, pollution, etc.:

pectora sic mihi sunt limo vitiata malorum,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 17.

līmus, i, m. [perh. for lig-mus, from ligo], a girdle or apron trimmed with purple, which the sacrificing priests and other servants of the magistrates wore about the abdomen:

velati limo,

Verg. A. 12, 120; cf.: limus autem est vestis, qua ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudenda poparum. Haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam, i. e. flexuosam habet. Unde et nomen accepit. Nam limum obliquum dicimus, Serv. ad Verg. l. l.: licio transverso, quod limum appellatur, cincti erant, Tiro ap. Gell. 12, 3, 3.

Līmus, i, m., the god of oblique glances, Arn. 4, cap. 9.

līmus, a, um ( līmis, e, Amm. 20, 9, 2; v. infra), adj. [Gr. lechrios, lechris, loxos; Lat. licinus, ob-liquus, luxus], sidelong, askew, aslant, askance.

Lit.:

limis oculis aspicere,

to look sideways, look askance, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 2:

limis subrisit ocellis,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 33:

(leones) nec limis intuentur oculis aspicique simili modo nolunt,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52:

limibus oculis eos contuens,

Amm. 20, 9.—So, limis aspicere (sc. oculis), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53:

limi, et ut sic dicam venerei (sc. oculi),

Quint. 11, 3, 76:

oculi contuitu quoque multiformes, truces et limi,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145:

limi Di,

the guardian gods of obliquities, Arn. 4, 132.—

Transf., of persons, looking sideways: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, sed limus intra limites culinae, Varr. ap. Non. 133, 31; cf. id. ib. 442, 33.—Hence, adv.: līmō, sideways, askance:

leones numquam limo vident,

Sol. 27, 20; for which: limis oculis in Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52 (v. the passage above).

līmus, i, m. [root lib-; Gr. leibô, to pour; cf. Lat. lino; Gr. limnê, limên], slime, mud, mire.

Lit.:

atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum Confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 496: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 212, 16:

frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo,

Liv. 2, 5:

profundo limo cum ipsis equis hausti sunt,

id. 31, 27:

amnis abundans Exit et obducto late tenet omnia limo,

Verg. G. 1, 116:

amnes Felicem trahunt limum,

id. ib. 2, 188:

limo Turbata aqua,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 59:

veteri craterae limus adhaesit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 80.—

Transf.

Excrement in the intestines, Pall. 3, 31.—

Dirt, mire:

limumque inducere monstrat,

Ov. F. 3, 759.—

Trop., filth, pollution, etc.:

pectora sic mihi sunt limo vitiata malorum,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 17.

līmus, i, m. [perh. for lig-mus, from ligo], a girdle or apron trimmed with purple, which the sacrificing priests and other servants of the magistrates wore about the abdomen:

velati limo,

Verg. A. 12, 120; cf.: limus autem est vestis, qua ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudenda poparum. Haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam, i. e. flexuosam habet. Unde et nomen accepit. Nam limum obliquum dicimus, Serv. ad Verg. l. l.: licio transverso, quod limum appellatur, cincti erant, Tiro ap. Gell. 12, 3, 3.

Līmus, i, m., the god of oblique glances, Arn. 4, cap. 9.

1)

а) садиться, приседать ( adversus emissa tela L)

б) опускаться ( in genua Sen)

2)

а) засесть

б) находиться в засаде, подстерегать (devictam Asiam V, т. е. victorem Asiae, sc. Agamemnonem; leonem Sil)

3) ( о самках) отдаваться ( maribus Lcr)

4) оседать, селиться ( in Siciliā C)

5) оставаться, останавливаться, задерживаться (in castris Cs; in viā C)

6) застревать, садиться на мель ( in Nilo L)

7) оседать, опускаться ( pessum subsederunt urbes Lcr)

8) отстаиваться ( aqua Nili liquescit ac subsidit bAl)

9) опадать, схлынуть ( undae subsidunt V); убывать, ослабевать, прекращаться ( vitia subsidunt Sen)

10) уступать давлению, поддаваться

sub-sīdo, sēdi, sessum, 3 (collat. form acc. to 2d conj., subsīdent, Luc. 1, 646; Amm. 28, 4, 22), v. n. and a.

Neutr., to sit down, crouch down, squat; to set one's self down, settle down, sink down (class.).

Lit.

In gen.: agite nunc, subsidite omnes, quasi solent triarii, Plaut. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 89 Müll.; and ap. Fest. p. 306 ib.; cf.:

subsidunt Hispani adversus emissa tela ab hoste, inde ad mittenda ipsi consurgunt,

Liv. 28, 2:

partem militum subsidere in subsidiis jussit,

id. 1, 14; cf.:

poplite subsidens,

Verg. A. 12, 492:

alii elephanti clunibus subsidentes,

Liv. 44, 5:

subsedit in illā Ante fores ara,

Ov. M. 9, 297.—

Of things, to sink, settle, subside:

sidebant campi, crescebant montibus altis Ascensus: neque enim poterant subsidere saxa,

Lucr. 5, 493:

valles,

Ov. M. 1, 43; Curt. 9, 9, 19:

limus mundi ut faex,

Lucr. 5, 497; cf.:

faeces in fundis vasorum,

Col. 12, 50, 14; Sen. Ep. 108, 26:

in urinā quod subsidit, si album est, etc.,

Plin. 28, 6, 19, § 68: aqua subsidit, settles, becomes clear, Auct. B. Alex. 5: flumina, fall, subside (opp. surgit humus), Ov. M. 1, 344:

undae,

subside, abate, Verg. A. 5, 820;

hence, transf., venti,

Prop. 1, 8, 13 (15); Ov. Tr. 2, 151.— Poet.:

extremus galeāque imā subsidit Acestes,

remains at the bottom, Verg. A. 5, 498:

ebur posito rigore Subsidit digitis ceditque,

gives way, yields, Ov. M. 10, 284:

multae per mare pessum Subsedere suis pariter cum civibus urbes,

are sunk, Lucr. 6, 590:

terraene dehiscent Subsidentque urbes,

Luc. 1, 646: subsidere fata videbat, sink, like the heavier weight on the scales, Sil. 6, 28.—

In partic.

Pregn., to settle down, establish one's self in a place; to remain sitting, remain, abide, stay:

si (apes) ex alvo minus frequentes evadunt ac subsidit pars aliqua,

Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 36:

subsedi in ipsā viā,

Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1:

in Siciliā,

id. Fam. 6, 8, 2: multitudo... quae in castris subsederat, * Caes. B. G. 6, 36:

quosdam ex Vitelliis subsedisse Nuceriae,

Suet. Vit. 1 fin.:

in oppido Reatino,

id. Vesp. 1:

commixti corpore tantum Subsident Teucri,

Verg. A. 12, 836; Quint. 2, 1, 3.—

Of things:

in Nilo navicula subsedit,

ran aground, Liv. Epit. 112.—

To crouch down on the watch, to lie in wait, lie in ambush:

cur neque ante occurrit, ne ille in villā resideret: nec eo in loco subsedit, quo ille noctu venturus esset?

Cic. Mil. 19, 51:

si illum ad urbem noctu accessurum sciebat, subsidendum atque exspectandum fuit,

id. ib. 19, 49:

partem militum subsidere in insidiis jussit,

Liv. 1, 14, 7; v. II. infra.—

Of female animals, to yield, submit to the male ( poet. and very rare):

maribus subsidere (pecudes et equae),

Lucr. 4, 1198:

juvet ut tigres subsidere cervis,

Hor. Epod. 16, 31.—

Trop., to subside, decrease, abate (rare):

in controversiis subsidit impetus dicendi,

Quint. 3, 8, 60:

nec silentio subsidat, sed firmetur consuetudine (vox),

id. 11, 3, 24:

vitia subsidunt,

Sen. Ep. 94, 69:

formidata subsidunt et sperata decipiunt,

id. ib. 13, 12.—

To settle down:

hinc accidit ut aetas jam altioribus disciplinis debita in scholā minore subsidat,

i. e. is held back, Quint. 2, 1, 3.—

Act. (acc. to I. A. 2. b.), to lie in wait for, to waylay any one ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

devictam Asiam (i. e. Agamemnonem) subsedit adulter,

Verg. A. 11, 268:

leonem,

Sil. 13, 221:

copiosos homines,

Amm. 28, 4, 22:

insontem,

id. 16, 8, 3:

serpens foramen,

to watch, id. 16, 2, 4: regnum, Luc. 5, 226 Heyne and Mart. (dub. Lag. regno).