mānes

con-quĭesco, quĭēvi, quĭētum, 3 ( perf. sync. conquiesti, Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 1:

conquierit,

Cels. 6, 6, n. 34; 7, 19 fin.; inf. conquiesse, Liv. 30, 13, 12), v. n., to be wholly at rest, to rest, take rest, to repose (in good prose; most freq. in Cic., esp. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit., to rest, be at rest, to cease from exertion, to be idle or inactive, to be in repose, etc.

In gen.

Absol.:

videmus igitur, ut conquiescere ne infantes quidem possint,

Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 55; id. Fam. 1, 1, 1; id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

(in Tusculano) ex omnibus molestiis et laboribus,

id. Att. 1, 5, 7:

ante iter confectum,

to take rest, to halt, Caes. B. C. 3, 75; Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 8:

juvenem instigat, nec conquiescere ipsa potest,

Liv. 1, 47, 6; 21, 10, 3; 30, 13, 12:

qui non concoxit, ex toto conquiescere (debet), ac neque labori se, neque exercitationi, neque negotiis credere,

Cels. 1, 2 init. —

With ab or ex and abl.:

ex omnibus molestiis et laboribus uno illo in loco conquiescimus,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 7:

a continuis bellis,

id. Balb. 1, 3.—

In partic., of sleep, to take repose, take a nap:

meridie,

Caes. B. G. 7, 46: paulisper post cibum meridianum, * Suet. Aug. 78.—Hence, prov.:

de istac re in oculum utrumvis conquiescito,

i. e. you may be entirely easy, unconcerned, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 121 (cf. auris, I. A.).—

To give the voice rest, pause (in speaking): no tatur enim maxime similitudo in conquiescendo, [p. 425] Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 191.—

In gen., to pause, stop:

illam furiam pestemque... nec conquiesse, donec ipsa manibus suis nefaria sibi arma adversus hospitem indueret,

Liv. 30, 13, 12; cf.:

quia tu nisi perfectā re de me non conquiesti,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 1:

profecto numquam conquiescam neque defatigabor ante, quam illorum vias percepero, etc.,

id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—

Trop.

Of inanimate and abstract things as subjects, to stop, pause, rest, be quiet, to be at rest, be in repose, etc.:

quando illius postea sica conquievit?

Cic. Mil. 14, 37:

navigatio mercatorum,

is stopped, closed, id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15:

vectigal,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 21:

litterae, nisi quid novi exstiterit,

id. Att. 12, 39 fin.:

non manes, non stirps (ejus viri),

Liv. 21, 10, 3:

imbre conquiescente,

id. 24, 47, 1:

omnia bella jure gentium conquiescant,

Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42:

si Italia a delectu, urbs ab armis sine Milonis clade numquam esset conquietura,

id. Mil. 25, 68:

manes a posterorum execrationibus,

Plin. Pan. 53 fin. —In medic. lang.:

febris,

Cels. 2, 8:

inflammatio,

id. 7, 19 fin.:

sanguis,

id. 5, 26, 21 al. —

(Cf. acquiesco, II.) To enjoy entire repose, to find rest, recreation, pleasure in something.

Absol.:

habebam, quo confugerem, ubi conquiescerem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

nec nocte nec interdiu virum conquiescere pati,

Liv. 1, 47, 1:

nec conquiescere socios vestros posse, quoad regia Pergami sit,

be at peace, id. 42, 42, 6:

ubi aures convicio defessae conquiescant,

Cic. Arch. 6, 12:

ambitio non patitur quemquam in eādem mensurā honorum conquiescere, quā, etc.,

Sen. Ben. 2, 27, 3.—

With in and abl.:

in nostris studiis libentissime conquiescimus,

Cic. Fam. 9, 6, 5; so,

in amore atque in adulescentiā tuā,

id. ib. 2, 1 fin.:

in amici mutuā benevolentiā,

id. Lael. 6, 22.

fābŭla, ae, f. [fari], a narration, narrative, account, story; the subject of common talk.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose;

syn.: narratio, fasti, annales, res gestae, historia): additur fabulae, quo vulgo Sabini aureas armillas brachio laevo habuerint, pepigisse eam, etc.,

Liv. 1, 11, 8:

poëticae (opp. incorrupta rerum gestarum monumenta), id. praef. § 6: Ummidius, qui tam (non longa est fabula) dives, ut, etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 95; id. Ep. 1, 2, 6:

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur,

id. S. 1, 1, 70:

asinaeque paternum Cognomen vertas in risum et fabula flas,

the common talk, town's talk, id. Ep. 1, 13, 9; cf.:

heu me, per urbem Fabula quanta fui!

id. Epod. 11, 8:

fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urbe,

you are talked of all over the city, Ov. Am. 8, 1, 21; cf. Suet. Aug. 70; id. Dom. 15; Mart. 3, 14:

habes omnes fabulas urbis,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 11:

nova fabula,

the news, Juv. 1, 145:

semper formosis fabula poena fuit,

Prop. 2, 32, 26 (3, 30, 26 M.):

a diverticulo repetatur fabula,

let us return to our story, Juv. 15, 72.—

Transf., conversation (post-Aug.):

ut fabulas quoque eorum et disputationes et arcana semotae dictionis penitus exciperem,

conversations, Tac. Or. 2:

praeceptores cum auditoribus suis fabulas habent,

id. ib. 29; cf.:

cum inter fabulas privatas sermo esset ortus, quanti, etc.,

in private conversation, Lampr. Heliog. 25.—With a dependent clause:

ne id accidat, quod cuipiam Thraco venisse usu, fabula est,

is related, Gell. 19, 12, 6.—

In vulg. lang. (like the Germ. Geschichte), affair, concern, matter:

sed quid ego aspicio? quae haec fabula'st?

what sort of an affair is this? Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 11; Ter. And. 4, 4, 8.

In partic. (freq. and class.), a fictitious narrative, a tale, story (syn.: apologus, narratio): narrationum tris accepimus species, fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo, sed etiam a forma veritatis remota, argumentum... historiam, etc., Quint. 2, 4, 2:

haec res agetur nobis, vobis fabula,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 52:

peregrino narrare fabulas,

id. Men. 5, 1, 24:

num igitur me cogis etiam fabulis credere? quae delectationis habeant quantum voles... auctoritatem quidem nullam debemus nec fidem commenticiis rebus adjungere, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 55, 113; cf.:

fictis fabulis,

id. Mil. 3, 8:

antiquitas recepit fabulas, fictas etiam nonnumquam incondite,

id. Rep. 2, 10; cf.:

a fabulis ad facta venire,

id. ib. 2, 2 fin.:

minor fabulis habetur fides,

id. ib. 2, 10:

saepe fabulis fidem firmare (consuerant),

Suet. Rhet. 1 med.;

Liv. praef. § 6: non fabula rumor Ille fuit,

Ov. M. 10, 561:

fabulam inceptat,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 22:

quid tamen ista velit sibi fabula, ede,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 61:

fabulae!

mere stories! stuff! nonsense! Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 95; id. And. 1, 3, 19:

ne convivialium fabularum simplicitas in crimen duceretur,

Tac. A. 6, 11 fin.:

sufficiunt duae fabulae, an tertiam poscis?

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 9.—In apposition:

jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes (= fabulosi, inanes),

Hor. C. 1, 4, 16:

civis et manes et fabula fies,

Pers. 5, 152:

nos jam fabula sumus,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 14.—So of idle tales:

ineptas et aniles fabulas devita,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 4, 7 al.—

Of particular kinds of poetry.

Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.:

ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,

Amm. 28, 1, 4;

or, theatralis,

id. 14, 6, 20:

fabula ad actum scenarum composita,

Quint. 5, 10, 9; cf. id. 11, 3, 73 sq.:

Livianae fabulae non satis dignae, quae iterum legantur. Atque hic Livius primus fabulam, C. Clodio Caeci filio et M. Tuditano Cos. docuit,

produced, Cic. Brut. 18, 72; v. doceo, II. init.; cf.: fabulam dare, under do, II. H.; so,

facere,

Varr. L. L. 5, 8:

neque histrioni ut placeat, peragenda fabula est,

Cic. de Sen. 19, 70:

securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176:

neve minor neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula,

id. A. P. 190:

M. Pacuvii nova fabula,

Cic. Lael. 7, 24:

Terentii,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 21:

Attae,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 80 et saep.:

in fabulis stultissima persona,

Cic. Lael. 26, 100 et saep.— Transf.:

non solum unum actum, sed totam fabulam confecissem,

Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 34.—

A fable (cf. apologus):

fabularum cur sit inventum genus Brevi docebo, etc.,

Phaedr. 3, prol. 33:

quae (res) vel apologum, vel fabulam vel aliquam contineat irrisionem,

Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 25:

nota illa de membris humanis adversus ventrem discordantibus fabula,

Quint. 5, 11, 19 (shortly before, fabella) et saep.—Prov.: Lupus in fabula (like the Engl., talk of the devil, and he will appear), of a person who comes just as we are talking about him, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 21; Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4; so,

lupus in sermone,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 71.

făbŭla, v. fabulus.

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.

Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):

ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,

id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 3:

Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,

id. Att. 4, 3, 4:

omni nocte dieque,

Juv. 3, 105:

de nocte,

by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:

multā de nocte profectus est,

late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:

vigilare de nocte,

id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):

multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,

id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

ad multam noctem pugnatum est,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

sub noctem naves solvit,

id. B. C. 1, 28:

noctes et dies urgeri,

night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:

qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,

id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—

Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,

hac noctu,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:

noctu hac,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):

senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,

Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;

v. lux): in sereno noctu,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—

In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—

Transf.

That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,

nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—

Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:

talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,

Stat. Th. 10, 219:

abrupere oculi noctem,

id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:

nox vidua,

Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—

Death ( poet.):

omnes una manet nox,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:

jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,

id. ib. 1, 4, 16:

in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,

Verg. A. 10, 746.—

Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:

quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,

Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:

carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,

Sen. Ep. 82, 16:

taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,

Lucr. 4, 172:

imber Noctem hiememque ferens,

Verg. A. 3, 194:

venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,

Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:

veteris sub nocte cupressi,

the shadow, id. 1, 774.—

Blindness:

perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,

Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —

The shades below, the infernal regions:

descendere nocti,

Sil. 13, 708:

noctis arbiter,

i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—

Trop.

Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:

doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,

Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:

rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,

id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:

nox ingens scelerum,

Luc. 7, 571.—

Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):

quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,

Ov. M. 6, 472.—

Obscurity, unintelligibility:

mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,

Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.

Form nocte (rare but class.):

luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,

Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

in campum nocte venire,

Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:

in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,

Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:

nec nocte nec interdiu,

id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:

velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,

Quint. 7 prol. 3.—

Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):

noctuque et diu,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:

continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,

Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:

quā horā, noctu an interdiu,

Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:

nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:

noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

noctu ad oppidum respicientes,

id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:

noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,

Sall. J. 12, 4:

noctu profugere,

id. ib. 106, 2:

dum noctu stertit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:

noctu litigare,

Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—

Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:

hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,

Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.

Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):

ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,

id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 3:

Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,

id. Att. 4, 3, 4:

omni nocte dieque,

Juv. 3, 105:

de nocte,

by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:

multā de nocte profectus est,

late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:

vigilare de nocte,

id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):

multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,

id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

ad multam noctem pugnatum est,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

sub noctem naves solvit,

id. B. C. 1, 28:

noctes et dies urgeri,

night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:

qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,

id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—

Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,

hac noctu,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:

noctu hac,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):

senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,

Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;

v. lux): in sereno noctu,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—

In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—

Transf.

That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,

nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—

Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:

talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,

Stat. Th. 10, 219:

abrupere oculi noctem,

id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:

nox vidua,

Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—

Death ( poet.):

omnes una manet nox,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:

jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,

id. ib. 1, 4, 16:

in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,

Verg. A. 10, 746.—

Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:

quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,

Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:

carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,

Sen. Ep. 82, 16:

taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,

Lucr. 4, 172:

imber Noctem hiememque ferens,

Verg. A. 3, 194:

venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,

Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:

veteris sub nocte cupressi,

the shadow, id. 1, 774.—

Blindness:

perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,

Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —

The shades below, the infernal regions:

descendere nocti,

Sil. 13, 708:

noctis arbiter,

i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—

Trop.

Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:

doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,

Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:

rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,

id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:

nox ingens scelerum,

Luc. 7, 571.—

Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):

quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,

Ov. M. 6, 472.—

Obscurity, unintelligibility:

mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,

Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.

Form nocte (rare but class.):

luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,

Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

in campum nocte venire,

Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:

in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,

Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:

nec nocte nec interdiu,

id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:

velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,

Quint. 7 prol. 3.—

Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):

noctuque et diu,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:

continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,

Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:

quā horā, noctu an interdiu,

Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:

nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:

noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

noctu ad oppidum respicientes,

id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:

noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,

Sall. J. 12, 4:

noctu profugere,

id. ib. 106, 2:

dum noctu stertit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:

noctu litigare,

Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—

Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:

hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,

Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.

Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):

ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,

in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,

id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:

dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 3:

Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,

id. Att. 4, 3, 4:

omni nocte dieque,

Juv. 3, 105:

de nocte,

by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:

multā de nocte profectus est,

late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:

vigilare de nocte,

id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):

multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,

id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

ad multam noctem pugnatum est,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

sub noctem naves solvit,

id. B. C. 1, 28:

noctes et dies urgeri,

night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:

qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):

concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,

id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—

Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,

hac noctu,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:

noctu hac,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):

senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,

Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;

v. lux): in sereno noctu,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—

In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—

Transf.

That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,

nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—

Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:

talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,

Stat. Th. 10, 219:

abrupere oculi noctem,

id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:

nox vidua,

Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—

Death ( poet.):

omnes una manet nox,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:

jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,

id. ib. 1, 4, 16:

in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,

Verg. A. 10, 746.—

Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:

quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,

Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:

carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,

Sen. Ep. 82, 16:

taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,

Lucr. 4, 172:

imber Noctem hiememque ferens,

Verg. A. 3, 194:

venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,

Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:

veteris sub nocte cupressi,

the shadow, id. 1, 774.—

Blindness:

perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,

Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —

The shades below, the infernal regions:

descendere nocti,

Sil. 13, 708:

noctis arbiter,

i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—

Trop.

Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:

doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,

Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:

rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,

id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:

nox ingens scelerum,

Luc. 7, 571.—

Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):

quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,

Ov. M. 6, 472.—

Obscurity, unintelligibility:

mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,

Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.

Form nocte (rare but class.):

luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,

Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

in campum nocte venire,

Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:

in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,

Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:

nec nocte nec interdiu,

id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:

velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,

Quint. 7 prol. 3.—

Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):

noctuque et diu,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:

continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,

Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:

quā horā, noctu an interdiu,

Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:

nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:

noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

noctu ad oppidum respicientes,

id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:

noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,

Sall. J. 12, 4:

noctu profugere,

id. ib. 106, 2:

dum noctu stertit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:

noctu litigare,

Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—

Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:

hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,

Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

nūmen, ĭnis, n. [for nuimen, root nu-; Gr. neuô, nod; Lat. nuo in re-nuo, etc], prop., a nodding with the head, a nod: numen quasi nutus dei ac potestas dicitur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.—Hence, trop., a nod, i. e. command, will.

In gen.:

ad numen mentis momenque moveri,

Lucr. 3, 144 (but id. 2, 632, and 4, 179, the correct reading is momine, v. Lachm.).—

In partic., the divine will, the will or power of the gods, divine sway (the class. signif. of the word):

numen dicunt esse imperium, dictum ab nutu: numina sunt, quojus imperium maximum esse videatur,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 85 Müll.:

deo, cujus numini parent omnia,

Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120:

multa saepe prodigia vim ejus (Cereris) numenque declarant,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 107:

di inmortales suo numine atque auxilio sua templa atque urbis tecta defendunt,

id. Cat. 2, 13, 29:

numen interdictumque deorum immortalium,

id. Pis. 21, 48: nox et Diana, Nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostiles domos Iram atque numen vertite, Hor. Epod. [p. 1225] 5, 54.—To Fortune:

nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia,

Juv. 10, 365.—Hence, transf., of the will, might, authority of powerful persons:

flectere tenta Caesareum numen, numine, Bacche, tuo,

Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 45; cf. id. P. 4, 13, 24:

annuite, Patres Conscripti, nutum numenque vestrum invictum Campanis,

Liv. 7, 30; cf.:

quanta potestas, quanta majestas, quantum denique numen, sit historiae,

Plin. Ep. 9, 27, 1.—

Godhead, divinity, deity, divine majesty, etc.:

numina Palladis,

Verg. A. 3, 543:

per Dianae numina,

Hor. Epod. 17, 3:

venerantur numina nymphae, Mygdonidesque nurus,

Ov. M. 6, 44:

audis... positas ut glaciet nives Puro numine Juppiter,

Hor. C. 3, 10, 8.—Concr., a divinity, deity, a god, goddess:

caeleste numen,

Liv. 1, 21, 1; Val. Max. 2, 4, 4; 5, 1, 3; Amm. 19, 1, 4:

summum,

Sen. Q. N. 7, 30, 4; Amm. 15, 8, 9; 17, 7, 3 al.:

templa et effigies numinum,

Tac. A. 1, 10; 1, 73; 3, 71; 15, 45; Suet. Calig. 22:

nos magna precati Numina,

Verg. A. 3, 634:

si quem Numina laeva sinunt,

id. G. 4, 7:

promissaque numine firmat,

i. e. by calling a god to witness, by an oath, Ov. M. 10, 430:

vadimus immixti haud numine nostro,

the divinity not with us, Verg. A. 2, 396, cf. sqq.:

hospes numinis Idaei,

Juv. 3, 138:

in contumeliam numinum,

Plin. Pan. 11:

Titus numinibus aequatus est,

id. ib. 35:

numinis loco habere,

Tac. G. 8:

numina quibus sacrificabat,

Val. Max. 5, 10, ext. 2:

ea numina, i. e. Apollo and Diana,

Tac. A. 3, 61; Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; 18, 13, 35, § 132.—Of the manes of a beloved person:

juro per illos manes, numina mei doloris,

Quint. 6 prooem. § 10 Spald.

1) до того, до такой степени, настолько, столь, так

2) для усиления при местоим. и нареч.

3) тем более

4) даже

5) кроме того, и притом

1) приходить, доходить, прибывать ( ad urbem C)

2)

а) вступать, входить (a. curiam L)

б) восходить, подниматься ( Capitolium T)

3) прибегать, обращаться (с просьбой, за советом) ( praetorem и ad praetorem in jus C); запрашивать (libros Sibyllinos L и ad libros Sibyllinos C; oraculum L)

4) объезжать, посещать (hiberna T; maria Mela, QC; urbes O)

5) приступать, брать на себя, предпринимать ( labores et pericula Nep)

6) нападать, атаковать (aliquem V, Cs; oppida Sl)

1) приводить в движение, двигать, возбуждать, волновать, потрясать, колебать (tonitru caelum ornne V; remos St)

2) издавать (gemitūs V; singultūs ore Ctl; voces truces Ap)

1)

а) спускать, опускать (usque ad talos demissa purpura C; antemnam O и armamenta Sen; aures H; calculum in urnam O; rami ad terram demissi Su)

б) спускать, сводить, переводить (agmen in vallem L; equites in inferiorem campum L; se in aequum locum d. Cs; castra ad ripas d. Hirt)

в) спускать, ввергать ( in inferiorem demissus carcerem L)

2) (тж. d. secundo amni L) пускать вниз по течению (naves V; classera Rheno T)

3) погружать ( se in aquam calidam CC)

4) вонзать (ferrum in pectus T; fladium in jugulum Pl, ferrum jugulo O)

5) втыкать, вбивать, вколачивать (sublicas in terram Cs; cuneum inter cortĭcem et materiem Col)

6) сажать ( arbores PM)

7) закладывать ( fundamenta in terram demissa QC)

8) рыть, выкапывать ( puteum alte V)

9) наклонять, нагибать (se ob assem d. H)

10) впускать, вводить ( fistulam in iter urinae CC)

11) валить, рубить ( robora ferro VF)

12) сбивать ( volucrem caelo Sil)

13) сбрасывать, ронять

14) низвергать, ниспосылать ( imbrem caelo V)

d. aliquem ad imos manes V (тж. Stygiae nocti O, Orco, morti и neci V, umbris Sil) — отправить кого-л. в царство теней, т. е. умертвить

15) отпускать, отращивать (barbam Lcr; demissi capilli O)

16) низводить ( vim dicendi ad unum auditorem Q)

17) вливать, наливать ( ternos cyathos alicujus rei Col); проливать, лить ( lacrimas Lcr)

18) допускать, принимать

19) отклонять, отводить

20) pass. demitti брать начало, происходить (Romanus Trojā demissus T; nomen a magno lulo demissum V)

21) доходить

1) выманивать (hostes ex paludibus Cs и in proelium T; aliquem domo H)

2) заманивать (aliquem ad proelium L); соблазнять, побуждать ( aliquem ad disputandum C)

3) пробуждать (e. misericordiam alicujus L)

4) призывать, вызывать магическими средствами, заклинать (inferorum animas C; aquas pluvias O; manes H)

5) добиться (e. alicui responsionem C)

6) исторгать ( alicui lacrimas Pl); вызывать ( sudorem PM)

7) извлекать ( sonos C); добывать ( ferrum e cavernis terrae C); выведывать, разузнавать (arcana alicujus L; causas alicujus rei C)

1) очищать жертвами, очищать от грехов (forum a scelĕris vistigiis C; aliquem Pl etc.)

2) умилостивлять, смягчать (numen, manes mortuorum C); отвращать, обезвреживать, делать безвредным (prodigium L; vocem nocturnam L)

3) (по)нести наказание, искупать ( scelus supplicio C); заглаживать, исправлять (incommodum virtute Cs; errorem PJ; cladem victoriis Fl)

1) молва, толки, пересуды, сплетни

f. fieri H etc. (тж. in fabulis esse Su и f. jactari O) — стать (быть) предметом толков

2) пустой звук, ничто, небытие (cinis et manes et f. fieri Pers)

3) беседа, собеседование, разговор ( fabulae convivales T)

4) рассказ, сказание, предание (inseritur hoc loco f. L)

(тж. f. ficta Ph) сказка, басня, вымысел ( poētica Q)

5) фабула, сюжет H

6) драматическое произведение, пьеса (f. ad actum scaenarum composita Q)

1) двигать, приводить в движение, шевелить ( maria flatu Sen); потрясать (terram, sidĕra O); уносить ( fluctibus moveri O)

2)

а) встряхивать, качать (caput O или vultum Pt; urnam V)

б) распускать ( crinem per aĕra O)

3) играть, бряцать (m. cithăram и nervos O); бить, ударять (tympăna m. O)

4) рыть, взрыхлять, вспахивать (agros V; humum PJ); ворошить ( aliquid spathā Scr) или взбалтывать ( liquorem Scr); вздымать ( fluctus V)

5) проплывать ( mare O)

6) колебать ( fidem alicujus O)

7) (тж. animo m. V) обдумывать, затевать, готовить ( funera Dardanae genti H)

8) представлять, разыгрывать

m. corpus ad numeros Sen или membra ad certos modos Tib, тж. se m. и pass. moveri C, H — плясать, танцевать

9) выражать, объявлять ( dii numen movent L)

10)

а) изгонять, вытеснять (aliquem de или ex aliquā re C, O etc.; aliquem possessionibus C)

б) удалять, исключать (aliquem de senatu C и senatu Sl, T; tribu aliquem C); вычёркивать ( verba loco H); выгонять ( armenta stabulis V); отводить, отвращать ( oculos ab aliquā re Q)

11) разубеждать, отклонять (aliquem de sententiā L, a vero Sl)

12) заканчивать ( bellum V — ср. 17.)

13) возбуждать (suspicionem C; litem J; jucundiores affectūs Ap); порождать ( discordias L); внушать ( misericordiam C)

14)

а) причинять ( dolorem Cato); вызывать (nocturnos manes V; sudorem CC)

б) исторгать

15) доставать, добывать ( vina O); взыскивать ( pecuniam ab aliquo C)

16) раскрывать ( fatorum arcana V)

17) возбуждать, начинать (по)вести (consultationem, actionem L; saeva bella O — ср. 12.)

18)

а) производить впечатление, волновать, действовать (на кого-л.)

б) поражать, потрясать (pulchritudo movet oculos C; moverat plebem oratio L; m. animos judicum Q; moveri morte alicujus C)

в) пугать, устрашать ( aliquem metu poenae C)

19)

а) побуждать, подстрекать, толкать (aliquem ad bellum L; illae causae me movent C; moveri aliquā re C); руководить, направлять (quem ratio, non ira movet Cld)

б) возмущать, восстанавливать (aliquem C; Hispaniam adversus Romanos L)

20) задевать, осквернять (triste bidental H); оскорблять, раздражать

21) менять, изменять (vultum V; fatum O; sententiam C)

22)

se m. или pass. moveri — уходить, удаляться, отправляться, выступать в поход (se m. ex urbe Nep)

23)

se m. или pass. moveri — смещаться, (о костях) (тж. moveri loco или sedibus suis CC) быть вывихнутым CC

24) pass. биться, пульсировать ( venae moventur O)

1) глубокий (mare C, QC; tenebrae AG; nox Erebi V)

2) подземный ( manes V)

3) высокий, бездонный (caelum V, VF; altitude L, T)

4) глубокий, крепкий ( somnus Ap)

5) безмерный (libido. Sl, C; avaritia Sl)

6) ненасытный ( gula Su)

7) густой, дремучий или огромный (silvae Lcr, QC)

8) густой, плотный ( grando Aus)

9) обильный ( merum St)

10) неиссякаемый, неистощимый ( os Pindări H)

1) (обожжённый) кирпич, черепица ( tectorum C)

2)

а) глиняный сосуд, горшок, кружка или кувшин ( vinum testa condĭtum H): плошка

б) урна (accipiat manes parvula t. meos Prp)

3) осколок ( dirumpi in testas PM); осколок кости CC; черепок ( venam testā aperire CC)

4) трещотка ( testarum crepĭtus J)

5) скорлупа, щиток ( testudĭnis Vr); раковина ( murĭcum PM): ледяной покров, слой льда (t. lubrĭca O)

6) улитка (t. marīna H)

7) pl. «черепицы» (на профессиональном языке клакеров особый вид рукоплесканий, изобретенный Нероном) Su

8) череп Aus , Eccl, CA

9) красное пятно ( testac in facie aliaque cutis vitia PM)