look round

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respecto, āre, v. freq. n. and a. [id.], to look back, look round or behind repeatedly or intently, to look or gaze about; to look at any thing (class.).

Lit.

Neutr. absol.:

quid respectas? nihil pericli est,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 3:

ubi respectantes hostium antesignanos vidit,

Liv. 8, 39; Quint. 12, 3, 2; Verg. A. 11, 630:

respectans abit,

Sil. 12, 729; Stat. Th. 3, 377:

ad tribunal,

Liv. 3, 48:

respecto identidem, ne senex, etc.,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 13; so,

identidem, ne,

id. Men. 1, 2, 51. — Poet.:

leti janua patet immani et vasto respectat hiatu,

Lucr. 5, 375.—

Act.:

dictatore arcem Romanam respectante,

Liv. 4, 18, 6:

funera respectans,

Lucr. 6, 1234:

sine fine Caesarem,

Vell. 2, 107, 2:

alium (alius),

Tac. Agr. 37 fin.:

suos,

Sil. 11, 594.—

Trop., to cast a look behind, to wait; to wait for, look for, expect; to care for, regard, respect.

Neutr.:

verum haec ita praetereamus, ut tamen intuentes et respectantes relinquamus,

Cic. Sest. 5, 13: animus non me deserens, sed respectans in ea loca discessit, id. Sen. 23, 84:

taciti respectabant somnoque sepulti, Dum, etc.,

i. e. waited, Lucr. 5, 974. —

Act.:

si qua pios respectant numina,

regard, Verg. A. 1, 603:

neque hoc liberis nostris interdicendum est, ne observent tribules suos... ne par ab iis munus in suā petitione respectent,

look for, expect, Cic. Planc. 18, 45:

meum amorem,

Cat. 11, 21.

ĕtĭam, conj. [cf. Gr. eti; with ending -am, as in quoniam, nunciam, etc.; cf. Brix ad Plaut. Trin. prol. 3], annexes a fact or thought to that which has already been said, and also, and furthermore, also, likewise, besides (syn. quoque).

In gen.:

hoc etiam ad malum accersebatur malum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 22; cf. Ter. And. 1, 3, 10; Cic. de Sen. 6, 16; id. N. D. 2, 52, 130:

tute istic (dixisti) etiam astante hoc Sosia,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 115:

sed etiam est, paucis vos quod monitos voluerim,

id. Capt. prol. 53; cf. id. Bacch. 3, 6, 17; Cic. Ac. 2, 12, 38:

atque alias etiam dicendi quasi virtutes sequetur,

id. Or. 40 fin.:

unum etiam vos oro, ut, etc.,

one thing more, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 54; cf. id. Heaut. 5, 1, 22; id. Phorm. 5, 5, 3; Verg. A. 11, 352; Suet. Caes. 24 al.:

etiamne hoc negabis?

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 128; cf. id. Bacch. 2, 3, 40:

mihi quidem etiam Appii Caeci carmen... Pythagoreorum videtur. Multa etiam sunt in nostris institutis ducta ab illis,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 4; cf. id. N. D. 2, 58:

hei mihi! Etiam de sorte nunc venio in dubium miser?... Etiam insuper defrudet?

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 38; cf. Suet. Caes. 10 fin.:

caret epulis exstructisque mensis et frequentibus poculis: caret ergo etiam vinolentia et cruditate et insomniis,

Cic. de Sen. 13, 44:

etiam tu quoque assentaris huic?

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 70; so,

etiam quoque,

id. As. 2, 4, 95; id. Ps. 1, 1, 120; 1, 3, 118; Lucr. 3, 292; 5, 517 al.; Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 3; Gell. 18, 12, 9; cf.:

quoque etiam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 30; 2, 2, 85; 121; id. Ep. 4, 2, 19; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 28; 5, 1, 7; Cic. Fam. 4, 8; id. Verr. 2, 3, 88 fin.;

v. quoque.— Esp. freq. in the connection: non modo (or solum)... sed (or verum) etiam: tenebat non modo auctoritatem, sed etiam imperium in suos,

Cic. de Sen. 11, 37:

inveteratas non solum familiaritates exstingui solere, sed odia etiam gigni sempiterna,

id. Lael. 10 fin.:

neque solum ut quieto, sed etiam ut magno animo simus hortantur, neque auxilium modo defensioni meae, verum etiam silentium pollicentur,

id. Mil. 1 fin. Conversely:

tantum... non etiam: si vultum tantum, non etiam animum accommodavimus,

Quint. 6, 2, 26:

periculum tantum, non etiam offensa vitatur,

id. 9, 2, 67; 7, 4, 35 al.; cf.:

quasi vero oratio rhetorum solum, non etiam philosophorum sit,

Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17.

In partic.

To annex a more important idea, and even, nay, even:

quae omnes docti atque sapientes summa, quidam etiam sola bona esse dixerunt,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 37:

nos enim defendimus, etiam insipientem multa comprehendere,

id. Ac. 2, 47, 144:

si infantes pueri, mutae etiam bestiae paene loquuntur,

id. Fin. 1, 21:

quis mortalium tolerare potest, illis divitias superare, nobis rem familiarem etiam ad necessaria deesse?

Sall. C. 20, 11:

illiteratum, iners ac paene etiam turpe est non putare, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 8 et saep.—Freq. after negative sentences, for immo, potius, nay, rather, even: Mamertina civitas improba antea non erat;

etiam erat inimica improborum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10; id. Deiot. 11, 31:

hoc idem nostri saepius non tulissent, quod Graeci laudare etiam solent,

id. Or. 45, 153:

quid, si ne dives quidem? quid, si pauper etiam?

id. Par. 6, 1, 42 et saep.:

tantum abesse dicebat, ut id consentaneum esset, ut maxime etiam repugnaret,

id. Ac. 2, 9, 28; cf. Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 2; Cic. Fin. 2, 17; 5, 20 fin.:

immo etiam, hoc qui occultari facilius credas, dabo,

Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 29:

quin etiam insuper vestem omnem miserae discidit,

id. Eun. 4, 3, 4; v. immo and quin.—Freq. with comparatives for the sake of intensity, yet, still (in later Lat. replaced by adhuc): He. Mane, nondum audisti, Demea, Quod est gravissimum. De. An quid est etiam amplius? He. Vero amplius, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 22:

ut enim in corporibus magnae dissimilitudines sunt: sic in animis exsistunt majores etiam varietates,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 107:

sunt autem etiam clariora vel plane perspicua,

id. Fin. 5, 20:

dic, dic etiam clarius,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 75 fin.:

plusculum etiam quam concedet veritas,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; Quint. 9, 4, 36:

Athos mons est adeo elatus, ut credatur altius etiam quam unde imbres cadunt surgere,

Mel. 2, 2, 10.—Rarely with a comp. in contrast with its own posit.:

qui magno in aere alieno majores etiam possessiones habent,

Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18; id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. Cat. 4, 7, 14:

ad Alesiam magna inopia, multo etiam major ad Avaricum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 47, 5.—

With the demonstrative notion of the jam predominating, used as an affirmative, certainly, granted, by all means, yes indeed, yes:

ut sequens probabilitatem, ubicumque haec aut occurrat aut deficiat, aut etiam, aut non respondere possit,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 104; cf. id. ib. 2, 30, 97; id. N. D. 1, 25, 70; id. Rosc. Com. 3, 9: Jupp. Numquid vis? Al. Etiam;

ut actutum advenias,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 46: Th. Numquid processit ad forum hodie novi? Si. Etiam. Th. Quid tandem? id. Most. 4, 3, 8; Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 13:

misericordia commotus ne sis. Etiam,

Cic. Mur. 31, 65; Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 9:

Zeno in una virtute positam beatam vitam putat. Quid Antiochus? Etiam, inquit, beatam, sed non beatissimam,

Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 134; id. Planc. 26 fin.:

quid? etiam,

id. Att. 4, 5; cf. id. ib. 1, 13, 6; 2, 6 fin.; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 24: An. Num quid patri subolet? Ge. Nihil etiam, nothing at all, Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 10:

nihil etiam audio,

id. Heaut. 5, 5, 13. —

With the idea of time predominating, yet, as yet, even yet, still, even now:

etsi admodum In ambiguo est etiam, nunc quid de hac re fuat,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 193; cf. Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 8:

olim fano consumebatur omne quod profanum erat, ut etiam fit,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.:

cum iste etiam cubaret, in cubiculum introductus est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23:

invalidus etiamque tremens, etiam inscius aevi,

Verg. G. 3, 189; cf. id. A. 6, 485; Sall. C. 61, 4:

sed tu etiamne astas?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 89; cf. Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 55; id. Hec. 3, 4, 16; id. Heaut. 4, 4, 20:

quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?

how much longer? Cic. Cat. 1, 1.—With negatives:

quia tibi minas viginti pro amica etiam non dedit,

not yet, never yet, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 46:

non satis pernosti me etiam, qualis sim,

Ter. And. 3, 2, 23:

non dico fortasse etiam quod sentio,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 12:

nec plane etiam abisse ex conspectu,

Caes. B. G. 6, 43, 4:

improbum facinus, sed fortasse adhuc in nullo etiam vindicatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84:

nihil suspicans etiam mali,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 89:

hunc ego numquam videram etiam,

id. Eun. 5, 8, 6; 5, 9, 62:

quid egerint inter se, nondum etiam scio,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 117; 5, 1, 18; id. Heaut. 3, 3, 35; id. And. 1, 2, 30:

haec ego omnia, vixdum etiam coetu vestro dimisso, comperi,

Cic. Cat. 1, 4 fin. —

In familiar lang., in interrogations, esp. when made indignantly, like our what? pray? etc.:

etiam caves, ne videat forte hinc te a patre aliquis exiens?

are you on your guard, pray? Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

etiam tu, here, istinc amoves abs te?

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 124:

etiam clamas, carnufex?

what? do you bawl? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 220; cf. id. ib. 225; 2, 1, 21; id. Most. 2, 1, 30; Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 16; Petr. 21 fin. al.: is mihi etiam gloriabitur se omnes magistratus sine repulsa assecutum? what? and will he boast to me? etc., Cic. Pis. 1, 2; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 59; 2, 2, 42 fin. —

In familiar lang., with imperatives, again, once more: Tr. Circumspice dum, numquis est, Sermonem nostrum qui aucupet. Th. Tutum probe est. Tr. Circumspice etiam, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 43; 4, 2, 3:

etiam tu, homo nihili, quod di dant boni, cave culpa tua amissis,

id. Bacch. 5, 2, 70; cf. Ter. And. 5, 2, 8; id. Hec. 5, 4, 1.—In impatient questions:

scelerate, etiam respicis?

are you going to look round? Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 4:

etiam vigilas?

at once, immediately, id. Most. 2, 1, 35:

etiam aperis?

id. ib. 4, 2, 28:

etiam tu taces?

id. Trin. 2, 4, 113; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 11:

etiam tu hinc abis?

id. Phorm. 3, 3, 9; cf.:

etiamne abis?

Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 22:

etiamne ambulas?

id. As. 1, 1, 95.—

Etiam atque etiam denotes that an action is done uninterruptedly, incessantly; whence it also conveys the idea of intensity, constantly, perpetually; repeatedly, again and again, over and over; pressingly, urgently: temo superat cogens sublime etiam atque etiam noctis iter, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 73 Müll. (Trag. v. 246 ed. Vahlen):

etiam atque etiam argumenta cum argumentis comparare,

Cic. Div. 1, 4; cf. id. Fam. 16, 15:

optimus quisque confitetur, multa se ignorare et multa sibi etiam atque etiam esse discenda,

id. Tusc. 3, 28, 69:

dicere,

id. Fam. 13, 28:

commonefacere,

id. ib. 13, 72:

affirmare promissa,

Liv. 22, 13:

curare, ut, etc.,

id. 41, 19:

consulere,

id. 38, 9: se avertere, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:

queri,

Cat. 63, 61 et saep.:

te moneo, hoc etiam atque etiam ut reputes,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 48:

cogitare,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 11:

considerare,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19 fin.; Liv. 3, 45 fin. Drak.:

reputare,

Sall. J. 85, 28:

videre,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Ac. 2, 19, 62; Liv. 36, 28:

aspicere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 76 et saep.:

hoc te vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo,

Cic. Fam. 13, 5, fin.; 13, 28 fin.; cf. id. Verr. 2, 5, 72:

haec quamquam nihilo meliora sunt, nunc etiam atque etiam multo desperatiora,

constantly more desperate from day to day, id. Fam. 6, 22 (B. and K. read nunc atque):

quare etiam atque etiam sunt venti corpora caeca,

i. e. most positively, Lucr. 1, 295. Vid. Hand Turs. II. pp. 545-578.

per-curro, percŭcurri or percurri, percursum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to run through, hasten through; to pass through, traverse, run over, pass over or along class.; syn. peragro).

Lit.:

percurrere agrum Picenum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15:

labro calamos,

Lucr. 4, 588:

rapido percurrens turbine campos,

id. 1, 273:

pollice chordas,

Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27:

conventus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:

Tenchteros et Cattos,

Flor. 4, 12:

aristas,

to speed over, Ov. M. 10, 655:

percurrens luna fenestras,

Prop. 1, 3, 31:

pectine telas,

Verg. A. 7, 14; id. G. 1, 294:

ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos,

id. A. 8, 392: tempora nodo, i. e. to wind or bind round, Val. Fl. 6, 63.— Pass., Plin. 13, 12, 26, § 83:

hortus fontano umore percurritur,

Pall. 1, 6.—

Trop., to run through:

amplissimos honores percucurrit,

i. e. filled the highest offices one after another, Suet. Ner. 3:

quaesturam, praeturam,

id. Tib. 9; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 7.—In pass.:

percursis honorum gradibus,

Amm. 15, 13, 2.—

To run over in speaking, to mention cursorily:

partes, quas modo percucurri,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

quae breviter a te percursa sunt,

id. ib. 1, 47, 205:

multas res oratione,

id. Div. 2, 46, 96:

omnia poenarum nomina,

Verg. A. 6, 627:

celebres in eā arte quam maximā brevitate,

Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53:

modice beneficia,

to mention in a cursory manner, Tac. A. 4, 40:

paucis, quae cujusque ductu gens,

Vell. 2, 38, 1; Juv. 10, 225.—

To run over in the mind or with the eye, to scan briefly, to look over:

multa animo et cogitatione, multa etiam legendo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218:

atque id percurram brevi,

id. Div. in Caecil. 32, 94:

oculo,

to run over, Hor. S. 2, 5, 55:

paginas in annalious magistratuum,

to run through, to look over, Liv. 9, 18, 12:

pugnas,

Val. Fl. 6, 600.— Impers. pass., Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328.—

Of feelings, sensations, to run through, penetrate, agitate:

omnium pectora occulto metu percurrente,

Curt. 4, 12, 14. —

Neutr., to run, run along to or over any thing (class.):

curriculo percurre (ad villam),

run thither quickly, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 11:

ad forum,

id. And. 2, 2, 18: ad aliquem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 4:

per temonem (currūs),

to run along the pole, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin.:

per mare et terras,

Lucr. 6, 668.—

Trop. (very rare), to pass; with per, to run over in speaking, touch upon in succession:

nam per omnis civitates quae decumas habent, percurrit oratio mea,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100.

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con-volvo, volvi, vŏlūtum, 3, v. a., to roll together, roll up, roll round (first freq. in the post-Aug. per., esp. in Pliny the elder).

Lit.:

ignis semina convolvunt venti,

Lucr. 6, 200 sq.:

se sol,

Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46:

lubrica terga coluber,

Verg. A. 2, 474 (in acc. with Hom. Il. 22, 95: drakôn helissomenos):

rapta turbines,

Sen. Ep. 94, 67:

se venae arborum,

Plin. 16, 39, 76, § 198 al. —So in part. perf.:

convoluti in semet dracones,

Plin. 10, 72, 92, § 197:

aër ignavo globo torpet,

id. 2, 8, 6, § 33; 11, 37, 45, § 124 al.— Poet.:

gentes mare,

i. e. involved by inundating, Luc. 4, 623.—Medial: pennis convolvitur Ales, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 113.—

Esp.

To fasten together, interweave, interlace:

testudo convoluta omnibus rebus, quibus ignis jactus et lapides defendi possent,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2:

spartum convolutum osseis iligneisve conamentis,

Plin. 19, 2, 7, § 27.—

Of a written book or roll of manuscript, to unroll and roll up, as one reads; hence, to look over:

magnam partem (historiae),

Sen. Contr. 5 (10), prooem. § 8.—

Trop.: Gallograeciam quoque Syriatici belli ruina convolvit, involved, Flor. 2, 11, 1 (in Sen. Ep. 40, 2, the right read. is convellere).

hōra, ae (archaic gen. sing. horāï, Lucr. 1, 1016.—In abl. plur. HORABVS, Inscr. Orell. 4601), f. [kindred with hôra; Zend yare, year; ayara, day; orig. for Wosara, from Wear, ver], (lit., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, as in Greek).

Lit. (among the Romans, of varying length, according to the time of year, from sunrise to sunset being reckoned as twelve hours; cf.:

aetas, aevum, tempus, dies): aestiva,

Mart. 12, 1, 4; cf.:

viginti milia passuum horis quinque duntaxat aestivis conficienda sunt,

Veg. Mil. 1, 9:

horam amplius jam in demoliendo signo moliebantur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95:

īdem eadem possunt horam durare probantes?

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 82:

ternas epistolas in hora dare,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 1:

in hora saepe ducentos versus dictabat,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 9:

horas tres dicere,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:

primum dormiit ad horas tres,

id. ib. 10, 13, 1:

quatuor horarum spatio antecedens,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79 fin.:

quatuor aut plures aulaea premuntur in horas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 189:

non amplius quam septem horas dormiebat,

Suet. Aug. 78:

haec (cogitatio) paucis admodum horis magnas etiam causas complectitur,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

paucissimarum horarum consulatus,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 181:

hora quota est?

what o'clock is it? Hor. S. 2, 6, 44:

nuntiare horas,

to tell the time of day, Juv. 10, 216; cf.:

cum a puero quaesisset horas,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 182; Suet. Dom. 16:

si te grata quies et primam somnus in horam Delectat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 6:

hora secunda postridie,

Cic. Quint. 6, 25:

quartā vix demum exponimur horā,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 23:

cum ad te quinta fere hora venissem,

Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

ea res acta est, cum hora sexta vix Pompeius perorasset, usque ad horam octavam,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

hora fere nona,

id. ib.:

hora diei decima fere,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

hora fere undecima aut non multo secus,

id. Mil. 10, 29: prima salutantes atque altera continet hora;

Exercet raucos tertia causidicos: In quintam varios extendit Roma labores: Sexta quies lassis, septima finis erit, etc.,

Mart. 4, 8:

post horam primam noctis.... decem horis nocturnis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19:

prima noctis,

Suet. Aug. 76:

tribus nocturnis,

id. Calig. 50:

id quidem in horam diei quintam vel octavam spectare maluerint, i. e.,

towards that part of the heavens where the sun is at the fifth or eighth hour, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 84; 6, 32, 37, § 202:

hic tu fortasse eris diligens, ne quam ego horam de meis legitimis horis remittam,

of the hours allowed to an orator, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25:

hora partūs,

the hour of one's birth, natal hour, Suet. Aug. 94:

hora natalis,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 19:

mortis,

Suet. Dom. 14:

cenae,

id. Claud. 8:

pugnae,

id. Aug. 16:

somni,

id. Dom. 21 et saep.:

ad horam venire,

at the hour, punctually, Sen. Q. N. 2, 16:

clavum mutare in horas,

every hour, hourly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 10; id. C. 2, 13, 14; id. A. P. 160; Plin. Ep. 3, 17, 3.—

Prov.

In horam vivere, to care only for the passing hour, to live from hand to mouth, Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 25.—

Omnium horarum homo (amicus, etc.), ready, active, well disposed at all times, Quint. 6, 3, 110 Spald.; Suet. Tib. 42 (for which:

C. Publicium solitum dicere, P. Mummium cuivis tempori hominem esse,

Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 271).—

Transf., in plur.: hōrae, ārum, a horologe, dial, clock:

cum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram, ut horas,

Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97; Petr. 71; cf.:

videt oscitantem judicem, mittentem ad horas,

to look at the clock, Cic. Brut. 54, 200.—

Poet., in gen., time, time of year, season:

tu quamcumque deus tibi fortunaverit horam, Grata sume manu,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 22:

et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, Porriget hora,

id. C. 2, 16, 31:

neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 110:

qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,

id. ib. 1, 2, 41:

extremo veniet mollior hora die,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 16:

numquam te crastina fallet Hora,

Verg. G. 1, 426:

sub verni temporis horam,

Hor. A. P. 302;

so of spring: genitalis anni,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107:

flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 9:

(hae latebrae) Incolumem tibi me praestant Septembribus horis,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 16:

arbor ipsa omnibus horis pomifera est,

at all seasons, all the year round, Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 15.—

Personified: Hōrae, ārum, f., like the Gr. Hôrai, the Hours, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, goddesses that presided over the changes of the seasons and kept watch at the gates of heaven, Ov. M. 2, 26; 118; Val. Fl. 4, 92; Stat. Th. 3, 410; Ov. F. 1, 125; 5, 217; Hyg. Fab. 183.

Hō̆ra, ae, f. [perh. an old form for hĕra, lady], the wife of Quirinus ( Romulus), who was worshipped as a goddess (called, before her death, Hersilia, Ov. M. 14, 830): Quirine pater, veneror, Horamque Quirini, Enn. ap. Non. 120, 2 (Ann. v. 121 Vahl.):

Hora Quirini,

Gell. 13, 22, 2; cf.:

pariter cum corpore nomen Mutat Horamque vocat,

Ov. M. 14, 851.

hōra, ae (archaic gen. sing. horāï, Lucr. 1, 1016.—In abl. plur. HORABVS, Inscr. Orell. 4601), f. [kindred with hôra; Zend yare, year; ayara, day; orig. for Wosara, from Wear, ver], (lit., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, as in Greek).

Lit. (among the Romans, of varying length, according to the time of year, from sunrise to sunset being reckoned as twelve hours; cf.:

aetas, aevum, tempus, dies): aestiva,

Mart. 12, 1, 4; cf.:

viginti milia passuum horis quinque duntaxat aestivis conficienda sunt,

Veg. Mil. 1, 9:

horam amplius jam in demoliendo signo moliebantur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95:

īdem eadem possunt horam durare probantes?

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 82:

ternas epistolas in hora dare,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 1:

in hora saepe ducentos versus dictabat,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 9:

horas tres dicere,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:

primum dormiit ad horas tres,

id. ib. 10, 13, 1:

quatuor horarum spatio antecedens,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79 fin.:

quatuor aut plures aulaea premuntur in horas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 189:

non amplius quam septem horas dormiebat,

Suet. Aug. 78:

haec (cogitatio) paucis admodum horis magnas etiam causas complectitur,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

paucissimarum horarum consulatus,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 181:

hora quota est?

what o'clock is it? Hor. S. 2, 6, 44:

nuntiare horas,

to tell the time of day, Juv. 10, 216; cf.:

cum a puero quaesisset horas,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 182; Suet. Dom. 16:

si te grata quies et primam somnus in horam Delectat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 6:

hora secunda postridie,

Cic. Quint. 6, 25:

quartā vix demum exponimur horā,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 23:

cum ad te quinta fere hora venissem,

Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

ea res acta est, cum hora sexta vix Pompeius perorasset, usque ad horam octavam,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

hora fere nona,

id. ib.:

hora diei decima fere,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

hora fere undecima aut non multo secus,

id. Mil. 10, 29: prima salutantes atque altera continet hora;

Exercet raucos tertia causidicos: In quintam varios extendit Roma labores: Sexta quies lassis, septima finis erit, etc.,

Mart. 4, 8:

post horam primam noctis.... decem horis nocturnis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19:

prima noctis,

Suet. Aug. 76:

tribus nocturnis,

id. Calig. 50:

id quidem in horam diei quintam vel octavam spectare maluerint, i. e.,

towards that part of the heavens where the sun is at the fifth or eighth hour, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 84; 6, 32, 37, § 202:

hic tu fortasse eris diligens, ne quam ego horam de meis legitimis horis remittam,

of the hours allowed to an orator, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25:

hora partūs,

the hour of one's birth, natal hour, Suet. Aug. 94:

hora natalis,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 19:

mortis,

Suet. Dom. 14:

cenae,

id. Claud. 8:

pugnae,

id. Aug. 16:

somni,

id. Dom. 21 et saep.:

ad horam venire,

at the hour, punctually, Sen. Q. N. 2, 16:

clavum mutare in horas,

every hour, hourly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 10; id. C. 2, 13, 14; id. A. P. 160; Plin. Ep. 3, 17, 3.—

Prov.

In horam vivere, to care only for the passing hour, to live from hand to mouth, Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 25.—

Omnium horarum homo (amicus, etc.), ready, active, well disposed at all times, Quint. 6, 3, 110 Spald.; Suet. Tib. 42 (for which:

C. Publicium solitum dicere, P. Mummium cuivis tempori hominem esse,

Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 271).—

Transf., in plur.: hōrae, ārum, a horologe, dial, clock:

cum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram, ut horas,

Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97; Petr. 71; cf.:

videt oscitantem judicem, mittentem ad horas,

to look at the clock, Cic. Brut. 54, 200.—

Poet., in gen., time, time of year, season:

tu quamcumque deus tibi fortunaverit horam, Grata sume manu,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 22:

et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, Porriget hora,

id. C. 2, 16, 31:

neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 110:

qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,

id. ib. 1, 2, 41:

extremo veniet mollior hora die,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 16:

numquam te crastina fallet Hora,

Verg. G. 1, 426:

sub verni temporis horam,

Hor. A. P. 302;

so of spring: genitalis anni,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107:

flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 9:

(hae latebrae) Incolumem tibi me praestant Septembribus horis,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 16:

arbor ipsa omnibus horis pomifera est,

at all seasons, all the year round, Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 15.—

Personified: Hōrae, ārum, f., like the Gr. Hôrai, the Hours, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, goddesses that presided over the changes of the seasons and kept watch at the gates of heaven, Ov. M. 2, 26; 118; Val. Fl. 4, 92; Stat. Th. 3, 410; Ov. F. 1, 125; 5, 217; Hyg. Fab. 183.

Hō̆ra, ae, f. [perh. an old form for hĕra, lady], the wife of Quirinus ( Romulus), who was worshipped as a goddess (called, before her death, Hersilia, Ov. M. 14, 830): Quirine pater, veneror, Horamque Quirini, Enn. ap. Non. 120, 2 (Ann. v. 121 Vahl.):

Hora Quirini,

Gell. 13, 22, 2; cf.:

pariter cum corpore nomen Mutat Horamque vocat,

Ov. M. 14, 851.

hōra, ae (archaic gen. sing. horāï, Lucr. 1, 1016.—In abl. plur. HORABVS, Inscr. Orell. 4601), f. [kindred with hôra; Zend yare, year; ayara, day; orig. for Wosara, from Wear, ver], (lit., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, as in Greek).

Lit. (among the Romans, of varying length, according to the time of year, from sunrise to sunset being reckoned as twelve hours; cf.:

aetas, aevum, tempus, dies): aestiva,

Mart. 12, 1, 4; cf.:

viginti milia passuum horis quinque duntaxat aestivis conficienda sunt,

Veg. Mil. 1, 9:

horam amplius jam in demoliendo signo moliebantur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95:

īdem eadem possunt horam durare probantes?

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 82:

ternas epistolas in hora dare,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 1:

in hora saepe ducentos versus dictabat,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 9:

horas tres dicere,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:

primum dormiit ad horas tres,

id. ib. 10, 13, 1:

quatuor horarum spatio antecedens,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79 fin.:

quatuor aut plures aulaea premuntur in horas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 189:

non amplius quam septem horas dormiebat,

Suet. Aug. 78:

haec (cogitatio) paucis admodum horis magnas etiam causas complectitur,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

paucissimarum horarum consulatus,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 181:

hora quota est?

what o'clock is it? Hor. S. 2, 6, 44:

nuntiare horas,

to tell the time of day, Juv. 10, 216; cf.:

cum a puero quaesisset horas,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 182; Suet. Dom. 16:

si te grata quies et primam somnus in horam Delectat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 6:

hora secunda postridie,

Cic. Quint. 6, 25:

quartā vix demum exponimur horā,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 23:

cum ad te quinta fere hora venissem,

Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

ea res acta est, cum hora sexta vix Pompeius perorasset, usque ad horam octavam,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

hora fere nona,

id. ib.:

hora diei decima fere,

id. Phil. 2, 31, 77:

hora fere undecima aut non multo secus,

id. Mil. 10, 29: prima salutantes atque altera continet hora;

Exercet raucos tertia causidicos: In quintam varios extendit Roma labores: Sexta quies lassis, septima finis erit, etc.,

Mart. 4, 8:

post horam primam noctis.... decem horis nocturnis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19:

prima noctis,

Suet. Aug. 76:

tribus nocturnis,

id. Calig. 50:

id quidem in horam diei quintam vel octavam spectare maluerint, i. e.,

towards that part of the heavens where the sun is at the fifth or eighth hour, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 84; 6, 32, 37, § 202:

hic tu fortasse eris diligens, ne quam ego horam de meis legitimis horis remittam,

of the hours allowed to an orator, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25:

hora partūs,

the hour of one's birth, natal hour, Suet. Aug. 94:

hora natalis,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 19:

mortis,

Suet. Dom. 14:

cenae,

id. Claud. 8:

pugnae,

id. Aug. 16:

somni,

id. Dom. 21 et saep.:

ad horam venire,

at the hour, punctually, Sen. Q. N. 2, 16:

clavum mutare in horas,

every hour, hourly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 10; id. C. 2, 13, 14; id. A. P. 160; Plin. Ep. 3, 17, 3.—

Prov.

In horam vivere, to care only for the passing hour, to live from hand to mouth, Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 25.—

Omnium horarum homo (amicus, etc.), ready, active, well disposed at all times, Quint. 6, 3, 110 Spald.; Suet. Tib. 42 (for which:

C. Publicium solitum dicere, P. Mummium cuivis tempori hominem esse,

Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 271).—

Transf., in plur.: hōrae, ārum, a horologe, dial, clock:

cum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram, ut horas,

Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97; Petr. 71; cf.:

videt oscitantem judicem, mittentem ad horas,

to look at the clock, Cic. Brut. 54, 200.—

Poet., in gen., time, time of year, season:

tu quamcumque deus tibi fortunaverit horam, Grata sume manu,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 22:

et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, Porriget hora,

id. C. 2, 16, 31:

neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 110:

qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,

id. ib. 1, 2, 41:

extremo veniet mollior hora die,

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 16:

numquam te crastina fallet Hora,

Verg. G. 1, 426:

sub verni temporis horam,

Hor. A. P. 302;

so of spring: genitalis anni,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107:

flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 9:

(hae latebrae) Incolumem tibi me praestant Septembribus horis,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 16:

arbor ipsa omnibus horis pomifera est,

at all seasons, all the year round, Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 15.—

Personified: Hōrae, ārum, f., like the Gr. Hôrai, the Hours, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, goddesses that presided over the changes of the seasons and kept watch at the gates of heaven, Ov. M. 2, 26; 118; Val. Fl. 4, 92; Stat. Th. 3, 410; Ov. F. 1, 125; 5, 217; Hyg. Fab. 183.

Hō̆ra, ae, f. [perh. an old form for hĕra, lady], the wife of Quirinus ( Romulus), who was worshipped as a goddess (called, before her death, Hersilia, Ov. M. 14, 830): Quirine pater, veneror, Horamque Quirini, Enn. ap. Non. 120, 2 (Ann. v. 121 Vahl.):

Hora Quirini,

Gell. 13, 22, 2; cf.:

pariter cum corpore nomen Mutat Horamque vocat,

Ov. M. 14, 851.