mălĕfĭcĭum

impūnis ( inp-), e, adj. [2. in-poena], without punishment, unpunished (in the adj. very rare, and perh. only post-class.; but in the adv. freq. and class.).

Adj.:

impunem me fore,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 6:

mulier impunis rediit,

Sol. 27 med. (dub.; Mommsen immunis).— Hence,

Adv.: impūne (archaic orthog. impoene, Cato ap. Fronto, Ep. ad Anton. Aug. 1, 2 fin. Mai.), without punishment, without fear of punishment, safely, with impunity: ita inductum est male facere impoene, bene facere non impoene licere, Cato, l. l.: aliquid facere, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 100 Vahl.):

optimum est facere (injuriam), impune si possis,

Cic. Rep. 3, 14;

id Sextilius factum negabat, poterat autem impune,

id. Fin. 2, 17, 55:

aliquem occidere,

id. Leg. 1, 15, 42:

cum multos libros surripuisset nec se impune laturum putaret, aufugit,

escape unpunished, id. Fam. 13, 77, 3; so id. Att. 1, 16, 13; cf.:

non impune tamen scelus hoc sinit esse Lyaeus,

Ov. M. 11, 67:

si amanti inpune facere quod lubeat licet,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 21:

siquidem istuc impune habueris,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 18; 5, 2, 13; cf.:

neque tantum maleficium impune habendum,

be left unpunished, Tac. A. 3, 70:

majorum nostrorum labore factum est, ut impune in otio esse possemus,

with safety, Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182:

mercator ter et quater Anno revisens aequor Atlanticum Impune,

Hor. C. 1, 31, 15:

(capellae) Impune per nemus quaerunt thyma,

id. ib. 1, 17, 5; Verg. G. 2, 32; Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 135:

facta arguebantur, dicta impune erant,

Tac. A. 1, 72; [p. 911] 12, 54 Draeger:

recitare,

without retaliation, Juv. 1, 3 sq. — Comp.:

crederem mihi impunius licere,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 49:

libertate usus est, quo impunius dicax esset,

Cic. Quint. 3, 11; id. Deiot. 6, 18:

in metu et periculo cum creduntur facilius, tum finguntur impunius,

id. Div. 2, 27, 58. — Sup.:

impunissime Tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedes licet,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 2.

in-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 ( imp. induce for induc, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 18;

induxti for induxisti,

Ter. And. 5, 3, 12;

induxis for induxeris,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 46), v. a. [in-duco], to lead, bring, or conduct into a place; to lead or bring in (class.); constr. with in and acc., dat., acc. only, or absol.

Lit.

With in and acc.:

oves et armenta in rura,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 12:

aliquem in viam,

id. ib. 3, 2, 18:

exercitum in Macedoniam,

Liv. 31, 28, 2:

cohortem praetoriam in medios hostes,

Sall. C. 60, 5:

principes in cornua inducit,

leads against, Liv. 30, 34, 11; so,

Hannibal elephantos in primam aciem induci jussit,

id. 27, 14, 6:

in dextrum cornu elephantos,

id. 44, 41, 3; Caes. B. C. 3, 112 al. —

With dat. (mostly poet. and rare):

age, moenibus induc,

Stat. Th. 12, 326:

fossā mare urbi,

Suet. Ner. 16. —

With acc. only:

princeps turmas inducit Asilas,

Verg. A. 11, 620:

inducunt venti nubilum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 7.—

Absol.:

eā (portā) secundae legionis principes hastatosque inducit (sc. in urbem),

Liv. 34, 15, 6.—

In partic.

To bring forward, exhibit, represent in the circus or on the stage:

a me autem gladiatorum par nobilissimum inducitur,

Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 17; so,

aliquem,

Suet. Calig. 27 fin.:

elephantos in circum,

Plin. 8, 6, 6, § 17:

inducta est et Afranii Togata, quae Incendium inscribitur,

Suet. Ner. 11; id. Claud. 34; 45; id. Tib. 42; cf.:

pater ille, Terenti fabula quem miserum vixisse Inducit,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 22.—

To bring into or before a court (post-Aug.):

inducta teste in senatu,

Suet. Claud. 40:

Firminus inductus in senatum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 12, 2:

majestatis reos in curiam,

Suet. Dom. 11.—

To bring home, take into one ' s family:

carasque toris inducere Thressas,

Val. Fl. 2, 132:

intra undecim dies quam illi novercam amore captus induxerat,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 2. —

Transf.

To put on articles of dress:

si sibi calceus perperam induceretur,

Suet. Aug. 92:

umeros albenti amictu,

Stat. S. 5, 2, 67:

togam super membra,

Luc. 2, 387. —With Gr. acc.:

tunicāque inducitur artus,

Verg. A. 8, 457. —

To draw over, spread over, to overlay, overspread:

postes pice,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 142; Vitr. 7, 3:

colorem picturae,

i. e. to varnish, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 102:

parieti ceram liquefactam,

id. 33, 7, 40, § 122:

cuti nitorem,

id. 24, 8, 33, § 49:

varias plumas,

Hor. A. P. 2:

humanam membris formam,

Ov. M. 7, 642:

omnibus viris magnitudine sua inducturus caliginem,

to overspread with darkness, to darken, obscure, Vell. 2, 36, 1:

pontem,

to throw a bridge across, Curt. 5, 5:

scuta ex cortice facta pellibus,

to cover, Caes. B. G. 2, 33:

coria super lateres,

id. B. C. 2, 10:

pulvis velut nube inducta omnia inpleverat,

Liv. 1, 29, 4:

sed quae mutatis inducitur tot medicaminibus,

Juv. 6, 471.— With Gr. acc.:

(victima) inducta cornibus aurum,

Ov. M. 7, 161; 10, 271.—

To level the ground by filling up:

ita inducto solo, ut nulla vestigia exstent,

Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194; hence, to strike out, erase, i. e. to level the wax in writing by drawing over it the broad end of the style:

nomina jam facta sunt: sed vel induci, vel mutari possunt,

Cic. Att. 13, 14, 2:

senatus consultum,

id. ib. 1, 20, 4.

Trop.

In gen., to bring into, introduce:

seditionem atque discordiam in civitatem,

Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85:

aliquid in nostros mores,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 121: set magna pars morem hunc induxerunt, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 34:

morem novorum judiciorum in rem publicam,

Cic. Rab. Post. 4, 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 16, 9; Lact. Mort. Pers. 38, 4:

novum verbum in linguam Latinam,

Cic. Phil. 13, 19, 43:

pecuniam in rationem,

to bring into, set down in an account, id. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 106: agrum alicui pecunia ingenti, to charge in an account, id. Agr. 2, 26, 70:

exemplum,

Plin. Pan. 6, 2.—

To establish:

sublato judicum nomine potestas regalis inducta est,

Lact. 4, 10, 15:

quia nondum haec consuetudo erat inducta,

Sen. Contr. 5 praef. §

4: vetus disciplina deserta, nova inducta,

Vell. 2, 1, 1.—

In partic.

To bring in, introduce in speaking or writing (an expression borrowed from the stage):

hinc ille Gyges inducitur a Platone,

Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38:

gravem personam,

id. Cael. 15, 35:

Tiresiam deplorantem caecitatem suam,

id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—Of conversation, to introduce:

puero me hic sermo inducitur,

Cic. Att. 13, 19, 4:

hanc rationem Epicurus induxit,

id. Fat. 10:

consuetudinem,

id. Cael. 23, 58:

dubitationem,

Tac. A. 1, 7.—

To lead to or into; to move, excite, persuade; to mislead, seduce; constr. with in, with acc. or ad, with ut or inf.:

amici jacentem animum excitare, et inducere in spem cogitationemque meliorem,

Cic. Lael. 15, 59; so,

aliquem in spem,

id. Off. 2, 15, 53:

in rem utilem,

id. Inv. 1, 2, 2; cf. id. Q. Fr. 3, 4:

in errorem,

id. Off. 3, 13, 55:

animum ad aliquid,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 67:

aliquem pretio, gratia, spe, promissis (ad parricidium),

to mislead, Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 16:

multos in peccatum,

to seduce, Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29:

ad maleficium,

id. 2, 2, 3:

ad misericordiam, ad pudendum, ad pigendum,

to move, excite, Cic. Brut. 50, 188:

Carthaginienses ad bellum,

Nep. Hann. 8:

ad credendum,

id. Con. 3:

vide, quo me inducas,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 25:

in quos (affectus) inducendus est judex,

Quint. 11, 3, 58.—With ut:

aliquem, ut mentiatur,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46.—With inf.:

consulem promissis, sententiam promere,

Tac. A. 12, 9.—

Animum or in animum, to bring one ' s mind to, to resolve, determine; to suppose, imagine:

id quod animum induxerat paulisper non tenuit,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 8. — With inf. or object-clause:

animum inducere, contra ea quae a me disputantur de divinatione, dicere,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 22:

opes contemnere,

id. Tusc. 5, 10, 30:

id me commissurum ne animum induxeris,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 78:

in animum inducunt suum, Jovem se placare posse,

id. Rud. prol. 22:

ne tute incommodam rem, ut quaequest, in animum induces pati?

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 27:

oro ut ne illis animum inducas credere,

id. And. 5, 1, 15:

qui huic animum assentari induxeris,

id. Eun. 3, 2, 37:

mea causa causam hanc justam esse animum inducite,

id. Heaut. prol. 41; cf. id. Ad. 1, 1, 43:

ut in animum induceret ad easdem venire epulas,

Liv. 28, 18, 4; 1, 17, 4; 2, 18, 11:

postremo Caesar in animum induxerat, laborare, vigilare,

had determined, Sall. C. 54, 4:

in animum, ejus vitam defendere,

Cic. Sull. 30, 83; Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 5.—With ut, ne, or quominus:

inducere animum possum, ne aegre patiar,

Plaut. As. 5, 1, 5:

inducere animum, ut patrem esse sese, oblivisceretur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, 53:

in animum, quo minus illi indicarem,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 6:

quod consules in senatu ut pronuntiarent, in animum inducere non possent,

Liv. 27, 9, 9; 2, 5, 7; 39, 12, 3. —

To delude, cajole, deceive:

hic eos, quibus erat ignotus, decepit, fefellit, induxit,

Cic. Pis. 1, 1:

socios induxit, decepit, destituit,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 117: semper, ut inducar, blandos offers mihi vultus Tib. 1, 6, 1.—

To do any thing to one (post-class.):

injuriam adversus liberos suos testamento,

Dig. 5, 2, 4.— Hence, in-ductus, a, um, P. a., introduced, foreign, strange (post-Aug. and rare):

insiticius et inductus sermo (opp. patrius),

Plin. Ep. 4, 3 fin.; so,

nihil inductum et quasi devium loquimur,

id. ib. 5, 6, 44:

arcessita et inducta,

id. ib. 3, 18, 10.

impello ( inp-), pŭli, pulsum, 3 (archaic inf. pres. pass. inpellier, Lucr. 6, 1060), v. a. [in-pello], to push, drive, or strike against a thing; to strike, reach.

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet.):

cavum conversa cuspide montem Impulit in latus,

Verg. A. 1, 82:

vocales impellere pollice chordas,

to strike, Tib. 2, 5, 3; cf. Ov. M. 10, 145:

aequora remis,

id. ib. 3, 657; cf.:

infidum remis marmor,

Verg. G. 1, 254:

impellunt animae lintea Thraciae,

swell, Hor. C. 4, 12, 2:

auras mugitibus,

Ov. M. 3, 21; cf.:

maternas aures Luctus,

Verg. G. 4, 349:

sensus,

Lucr. 1, 303:

colles canoris plausibus, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 175: cui patuere Alpes saxa impellentia caelum,

Sil. 11, 217: cum fretum non impulit Ister, does not strike, i. e. does not empty into, Luc. 5, 437:

impulsum ab eo dextri pedis pollice,

Suet. Calig. 57:

subitus antennas impulit ignis,

Juv. 12, 19.—

In partic., with the access. idea of motion, to drive forward, set in motion, urge on, impel (class.):

biremes subjectis scutulis impulsas vectibus in interiorem partem transduxit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 4:

(navem) triplici versu (remorum),

Verg. A. 5, 119:

puppim remis velisque,

Sil. 1, 568:

ratem (levis aura),

Ov. M. 15, 697:

currum,

Val. Fl. 6, 6:

equum calce,

Sil. 7, 697; cf.:

cornipedem planta,

id. 2, 71:

Zephyris primum impellentibus undas,

Verg. G. 4, 305:

fluctus (ventus),

Petr. 114:

aequor velis,

Tac. A. 2, 23:

praemissus eques postremos ac latera impulit,

id. ib. 2, 17: utque impulit arma, i. e. brandished, flourished, Verg. A. 8, 3:

remos,

id. ib. 4, 594:

sagittam nervo,

to shoot, discharge, Ov. M. 11, 325:

semen vehementius urinam impellit,

drives down, promotes the discharge of, Plin. 24, 19, 118, § 180:

praecipitantem igitur impellamus et perditum prosternamus,

give a push to, Cic. Clu. 26, 70; Tac. A. 4, 22:

procumbunt orni, nodosa impellitur ilex,

is overthrown, thrown down, Luc. 3, 440:

impulit aciem,

forced to give way, broke, Liv. 9, 40, 9; cf.:

hostem primo impetu impulit,

id. 9, 27, 9:

impulsis hostibus castra cepit,

Vell. 2, 70, 1:

impulit Vitellianos modica caede,

Tac. H. 3, 16:

quem (hostem) si inpellere maturasset,

id. ib. 4, 34;

78 al.— Designating the limit: in fugam atque in latebras impellere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 8, 22:

se in vulnus,

Vell. 2, 70 fin.:

inque meos ferrum flammasque Penates Impulit,

Ov. M. 12, 552:

ferrum capulo tenus,

Sil. 9, 382:

(Aufidus) in aequora fluctus,

id. 7, 482; 14, 429:

jamque diem ad metas defessis Phoebus Olympo Impellebat equis,

id. 11, 270.

Trop.

To move to a thing; to impel, incite, urge; esp., to instigate, stimulate, persuade (the predom. signif. in good prose); constr. usu. with aliquem in or ad aliquid and ut; less freq. with a terminal adverb, the inf., the simple acc., or absol.

Aliquem in aliquid:

nisi eum di immortales in eam mentem impulissent, ut, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 33, 89:

hic in fraudem homines impulit,

id. Pis. 1, 1; id. Lael. 24, 89; and:

in fraudem impulsus,

id. Deiot. 12, 32:

in sermonem,

id. de Or. 2, 89, 363:

in plurimas animum audientium species impellere,

Quint. 12, 10, 43.—

Aliquem ad aliquid (so most freq.):

ad quam quemque artem putabat esse aptum, ad eam impellere atque hortari solebat,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 126:

ad veterum annalium memoriam comprehendendam impulsi atque incensi,

id. Brut. 5, 19:

facile ad credendum,

id. Rep. 2, 10:

aliquos ad omne facinus,

id. ib. 6, 1:

ad maleficium,

Auct. Her. 2, 21, 34:

ad injuriam faciendam,

Cic. Fl. 34, 85:

ad scelus,

id. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

ad bellum,

id. Sull. 13, 36:

ad crudelitatem,

Quint. 8, 3, 85:

ad metum, cupiditatem, odium, conciliationem,

id. 3, 8, 12 et saep.—

With ut:

quae causa nos impulerit, ut haec tam sero litteris mandaremus,

Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 7; cf. id. de Sen. 21, 77:

Germanos tam facile impelli, ut in Galliam venirent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 16, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 166; id. Rep. 3, 2; id. Fin. 3, 20, 65; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51 et saep.—

With a terminal adv.:

dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 31:

impulit huc animos,

Luc. 8, 454:

voluntates impellere quo velit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30.—

With inf.:

fuerunt quos pavor nando capessere fugam impulerit,

Liv. 22, 6, 7:

quae mens tam dira Impulit his cingi telis?

Verg. A. 2, 520; Tac. A. 6, 45; 13, 10:

quendam impulit servilem ei amorem obicere,

id. ib. 14, 60; Hor. C. 3, 7, 14; Stat. Th. 10, 737; Just. 3, 1, 3; 5, 1, 4; 29, 4, 5.—

With the simple acc.:

ut forte legentem Aut tacitum impellat quovis sermone,

to arouse, address, Hor. S. 1, 3, 65; Val. Fl. 4, 486:

cum praetor lictorem impellat,

Juv. 3, 128:

quis modo casus impulit hos,

id. 15, 120:

vernacula multitudo, lasciviae sueta, impellere ceterorum rudes animos,

to instigate, stimulate, Tac. A. 1, 31 Ritter. (Nipperd. implere).—In pass.:

(ut) qui audiunt aut impellantur aut reflectantur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 312:

Bellovacos impulsos ab suis principibus ab Aeduis defecisse,

Caes. B. G. 2, 14, 3:

vel iratum vel impulsum ab aliis,

Quint. 11, 1, 71:

hac fama impulsus Chremes ultro ad me venit,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 72:

impulsus irā... Quibus iris impulsus,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 35:

furore atque amentia impulsus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 4:

hac impulsi occasione,

id. ib. 7, 1, 3:

Induciomari nuntiis impulsi,

id. ib. 5, 26, 2:

Cassandrae impulsus furiis,

Verg. A. 10, 68 et saep.:

quia et initio movendus sit judex et summo impellendus,

Quint. 7, 1, 10:

cum simul terra, simul mari bellum impelleretur,

Tac. Agr. 25; cf.:

impulsum bellum,

Luc. 7, 5; 7, 330.—

Absol.: cui (daimoniôi) sempel ipse paruerit, numquam impellenti, saepe revocanti, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 122:

qui nullo impellente fallebant,

id. Fl. 8, 20:

uno ictu frequenter impellunt (sententiae),

Quint. 12, 10, 48.—

To overthrow, subdue, destroy (rare): praecipitantem igitur impellamus, et perditum prosternamus, Cic. Clu. 26, 70:

miseri post fata Sychaei... Solus hic (Aeneas) inflexit sensus animumque labantem Impulit,

i. e. has completely subdued, Verg. A. 4, 23:

impellere ruentem,

to destroy completely, Tac. H. 2, 63 fin.:

inpulsas Vitellii res audietis,

id. ib. 3, 2:

inmenso Achaicae victoriae momento ad impellendos mores,

Plin. 33, 11, 53, § 149:

impulsum bellum,

i. e. brought near to a close, Luc. 5, 330:

impellens quidquid sibi, summa petenti, obstaret,

id. 1, 149:

tum leviter est temptatum,... et nunc maximo temporum nostrorum auctore prope inpulsum,

Quint. 3, 4, 2 Spald. N. cr.

impūnis ( inp-), e, adj. [2. in-poena], without punishment, unpunished (in the adj. very rare, and perh. only post-class.; but in the adv. freq. and class.).

Adj.:

impunem me fore,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 6:

mulier impunis rediit,

Sol. 27 med. (dub.; Mommsen immunis).— Hence,

Adv.: impūne (archaic orthog. impoene, Cato ap. Fronto, Ep. ad Anton. Aug. 1, 2 fin. Mai.), without punishment, without fear of punishment, safely, with impunity: ita inductum est male facere impoene, bene facere non impoene licere, Cato, l. l.: aliquid facere, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 100 Vahl.):

optimum est facere (injuriam), impune si possis,

Cic. Rep. 3, 14;

id Sextilius factum negabat, poterat autem impune,

id. Fin. 2, 17, 55:

aliquem occidere,

id. Leg. 1, 15, 42:

cum multos libros surripuisset nec se impune laturum putaret, aufugit,

escape unpunished, id. Fam. 13, 77, 3; so id. Att. 1, 16, 13; cf.:

non impune tamen scelus hoc sinit esse Lyaeus,

Ov. M. 11, 67:

si amanti inpune facere quod lubeat licet,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 21:

siquidem istuc impune habueris,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 18; 5, 2, 13; cf.:

neque tantum maleficium impune habendum,

be left unpunished, Tac. A. 3, 70:

majorum nostrorum labore factum est, ut impune in otio esse possemus,

with safety, Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182:

mercator ter et quater Anno revisens aequor Atlanticum Impune,

Hor. C. 1, 31, 15:

(capellae) Impune per nemus quaerunt thyma,

id. ib. 1, 17, 5; Verg. G. 2, 32; Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 135:

facta arguebantur, dicta impune erant,

Tac. A. 1, 72; [p. 911] 12, 54 Draeger:

recitare,

without retaliation, Juv. 1, 3 sq. — Comp.:

crederem mihi impunius licere,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 49:

libertate usus est, quo impunius dicax esset,

Cic. Quint. 3, 11; id. Deiot. 6, 18:

in metu et periculo cum creduntur facilius, tum finguntur impunius,

id. Div. 2, 27, 58. — Sup.:

impunissime Tibi quidem hercle vendere hasce aedes licet,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 2.

inscriptus, a, um, Part., from inscribo.

in-scriptus, a, um, adj.

Unwritten:

unde et illa divisio est, alia esse scripta, alia inscripta,

Quint. 3, 6, 36; 7, 4, 36.—

Not marked or entered at the custom-house, contraband:

inscriptum pecus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16.—

Concerning which nothing is written (in the statutes): maleficium, Sen. praef. 3 Excerpt. Controv.

lēgo, āvi, ātum (archaic perf. legassit for legaverit, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 148), 1, v. a. [lex; and therefore qs. lege creare], a publicist's and jurid. t. t.

A publicist's t. t.

To send with a commission or charge, to send on an embassy, send as ambassador; to depute, despatch:

ne hoc quidem senatui relinquebas, ut legati ex ejus ordinis auctoritate legarentur,

Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

hominem honestum ac nobilem legarunt ad Apronium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114: eos privatae rei causa legari, id. Fam. 3, 8, 4:

juste pieque legatus venio,

Liv. 1, 32:

tres adulescentes in Africam legantur, qui reges adeant, etc.,

Sall. J. 21, 4:

quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum legaverant impetratum, etc.,

Gell. 7, 14, 8.—

Transf. to the commission itself (ante- and post-class.):

quae verba legaverint Rhodii ad hostium ducem,

what they told him through their deputies, Gell. 15, 31 in lemm. —

Beyond the official sphere:

quin potius, quod legatum est tibi negotium, Id curas?

committed, intrusted, Plaut. Cas. 1, 12.—

To appoint or choose as deputy (as the official assistant, lieutenant, of a general or governor):

eum (Messium) Caesari legarat Appius,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 9:

ego me a Pompeio legari ita sum passus, ut, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 2, 6:

istum legatum iri non arbitror,

id. ib. 10, 1, 4:

ne legaretur Gabinius Pompeio expetenti,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

Dolabella me sibi legavit,

chose me for his lieutenant, id. Att. 15, 11, 4:

Calpurnius parato exercitu legat sibi homines nobiles, etc.,

Sall. J. 28.—

A jurid. t. t.: aliquid, to appoint by a last will or testament, to leave or bequeath as a legacy (class.):

Numitori, qui stirpis maximus erat, regnum vetustum Silviae gentis legat,

Liv. 1, 3: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3:

usumfructum omnium bonorum Caesenniae legat,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

Fabiae pecunia legata est a viro,

id. Top. 3, 14:

cui argentum omne legatum est,

Quint. 5, 10, 62:

in argento legato,

id. 7, 2, 11.—

Aliquid alicui ab aliquo, to leave one a legacy to be paid by the principal heir:

uxori testamento legat grandem pecuniam a filio, si qui natus esset: ab secundo herede nihil legat,

Cic. Clu. 12, 33:

si paterfamilias uxori ancillarum usum fructum legavit a filio, neque a secundo herede legavit,

id. Top. 4, 21; Quint. 7, 9, 5.—Hence,

lēgātus, i, m.

(Acc. to lego, I. A.) An ambassador, legate, Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

legatos mittere,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

ad senatum legatos de aliqua re mittere,

id. de Or. 2, 37, 155; cf.:

missi magnis de rebus uterque Legati,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

legatos mittere ad indicendum bellum,

Liv. 31, 8; Ov. M. 14, 527.—

(Acc. to lego, I. B.).

An official assistant given to a general or the governor of a province, a deputy, lieutenant, lieutenant-general:

quos legatos tute tibi legasti?

Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

qui M. Aemilio legati fuerunt,

id. Clu. 36, 99:

Quintus frater meus legatus est Caesaris,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Off. 3, 20, 79; cf.:

Murena summo imperatori legatus L. Lucullo fuit, qua in legatione duxit exercitum, etc.,

id. Mur. 9, 20; 14, 32:

neque se ei legatum defuturum,

id. Phil. 11, 7, 17; Val. Max. 5, 5, 1:

hiberna cum legato praefectoque tradidisses,

Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

(Calvisius) duos legatos Uticae reliquerat,

id. Phil. 3, 10 fin.:

quaestorius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 56; Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.:

L. Caesar, cujus pater Caesaris erat legatus,

id. B. C. 1, 8, 2:

magnitudo et splendor legati,

Liv. 38, 58, 9:

in magna legatum quaere popina,

Juv. 8, 172.—

Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province by the emperor, Tac. A. 12, 40; id. Agr. 33; Suet. Vesp. 4; Spart. Hadr. 3 et saep.; cf. legatio, I. B. 2., and Orell. ad Tac. Agr. 9.—

Legati legionum, commanders, Suet. Tib. 19; id. Vesp. 4; cf.:

Caesar singulis legionibus singulos legatos et quaestorem praefecit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52; Tac. A. 2, 36; id. H. 1, 7.—Also called;

legatus praetorius,

Tac. Agr. 7.—

lēgātum, i, n. (acc. to lego, II.), a bequest, legacy:

legatum est delibatio hereditatis, qua testator ex eo, quod universum heredis foret, alicui quid collatum velit,

Dig. 30, 116:

Hortensii legata cognovi,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 9:

reliqua legata varie dedit,

Suet. Aug. 101; id. Tib. 48:

legatum peto ex testamento,

Quint. 4, 2, 6:

jus capiendi legata alicui adimere,

Suet. Dom. 8:

cymbala pulsantis legatum amici,

Juv. 9, 62:

legatorum genera sunt quattuor,

Gai. Inst. 2, 192; cf. sqq.

lĕgo, lēgi, lectum ( gen. plur. part. legentum, Ov. Tr. 1. 7, 25), 3, v. a. [Gr. legô, logos, logas, etc.; Lat. legumen, di-leg-ens, neg-leg-o, etc.; cf. Germ. lesen], to bring together, to gather, collect.

Lit.

In gen.:

oleam,

Cato, R. R. 144:

nuces,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

herbas collibus,

Ov. M. 14, 347: flores et humi nascentia fraga, [p. 1048] Verg. E. 3, 92; cf.:

roscida mala,

id. ib. 8, 38:

flores in calathos,

Ov. F. 5, 218:

spolia caesorum,

Liv. 5, 39:

quos (montanos asparagos),

Juv. 11, 69.—Of the dead who have been burned:

ossa,

Ov. H. 10, 150:

homini mortuo ossa,

Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: ossa filii, Sen. de Ira, 2, 33, 6; cf. Quint. 8, 5, 21; Lact. de Mort. Persec. 21, 11:

reliquias legerunt primores equestris ordinis,

Suet. Aug. 100. —

Esp.

To take out, pick out, extract, remove:

quibusdam et radi ossa et legi... quae sine totius pernicie corporis haerere non poterant,

Sen. Prov. 1, 3, 2:

ossa vivis,

id. ad Marc. 22, 3:

ossa in capite lecta,

id. Ben. 5, 24, 3:

ossa e vulneribus,

Quint. 6, 1, 30.—

To pluck, strip, gather fruit from (a tree, etc.):

oleam qui legerit,

Cato, R. R. 144, 1:

ficus non erat apta legi,

Ov. F. 2, 254.—

Poet.: legere fila, to wind up:

extrema Lauso Parcae fila legunt,

i. e. spin the last thread of life, Verg. A. 10, 815; cf.:

quae dedit ingrato fila legenda viro,

Ov. F. 3, 462:

stamen,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 40 (42).—

Naut. t. t.: vela legere, to draw together, furl:

omnis navita ponto umida vela legit,

Verg. G. 1, 373:

vela legunt socii,

id. A. 3, 532:

ipse dabit tenera vela, legetque manu,

Ov. H. 15, 215; Val. Fl. 2, 13:

prora funem legit Argus ab alta,

draws in, takes in, id. 1, 312:

ancoras classis legit,

is weighing anchor, Sen. Troad. 759.—

To take to one's self unjustly, to carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract (not in Cic.): omnia viscatis manibus leget, omnia sumet: crede mihi, auferet omnia, Lucil. ap. Non. 332 and 396, 4:

majus esse maleficium stuprare ingenuam quam sacrum legere,

Auct. Her. 2, 30 fin.:

sacra divum,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 117:

soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,

Verg. A. 10, 79 Serv. ad loc. (but Forbig. renders legere here as = eligere, sumere; cf. 8. infra).—

Of places, to go, pass, or wander through ( poet.):

nec me studiosius altera saltus Legit,

Ov. M. 5, 579:

pars cetera pontum Pone legit,

sails through, Verg. A. 2, 207:

vada dura lego,

id. ib. 3, 706:

freta,

id. ib. 3, 127:

aequora Afra,

Ov. F. 4, 289:

Ioniumque rapax Icariumque legit,

id. ib. 4, 566: vestigia alicujus, to follow one's footsteps, to track or pursue him:

subsequitur pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

id. M. 3, 17; cf.:

et vestigia retro Observata legit,

Verg. A. 9, 392:

tortos orbes,

to wander through, id. ib. 12, 481.—

To pass or sail by, to skirt, to coast along a shore, land, or place (mostly poet.):

Inarimen Prochytenque legit,

Ov. M. 14, 89; 15, 705; 709: primi litoris oram, coast along, i. e. not enter into details, Verg. G. 2, 44; id. E. 8, 7:

navibus oram Italiae,

Liv. 21, 51 fin.:

oram Campaniae,

Suet. Tib. 11; cf.

terram,

id. Aug. 16. —

Pregn., to choose from a number, to pick out, single out, select, elect (class.):

alia esse oportet forma quem tu pugno legeris,

pick out to fight with, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 160:

judices,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

omnia, quae leget quaeque reiciet,

id. Fin. 4, 15, 40:

scribam,

to elect, appoint, id. Clu. 45, 126:

condiciones nubendi,

id. Cael. 15:

cives in patres,

Liv. 23, 22:

viros ad bella,

Ov. M. 7, 669:

geminasque legit de classe biremes,

Verg. A. 8, 79: legit virum vir, each one singles out his man (of the combatants in a battle), id. ib. 11, 632:

senatum ad modum pristinum redegit duabus lectionibus: prima ipsorum arbitratu, quo vir virum legit,

Suet. Aug. 35; Tac. H. 1, 18: neque ejus legendam filiam (sc. virginem Vestalem) qui domicilium in Italia non haberet, At. Cap. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 8.—

With inf.:

fidissima custos Lecta sacrum justae veneri occultare pudorem,

Stat. Th. 1, 530.

Trop.

To catch up, i. e. overhear a conversation:

nunc huc concedam, ut horum sermonem legam,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 21 (cf. sublegere, id. Mil. 4, 2. 98).—

To catch with the eye, to view, observe, behold, survey, see.

In gen.:

tumulum capit, unde omnes longo ordine posset Adversos legere,

Verg. A. 6, 755 Heyne ad loc.; and cf. Verg. A. 6, 34.—

In partic., to read or peruse a writing:

ut eos libros per te ipse legeres,

Cic. Top. 1:

defensionem causae,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:

legi apud Clitomachum, A. Albium jocantem dixisse, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 45, 137:

aliquid studiose intenteque,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 1:

significas legisse te in quadam epistula mea, jussisse Verginium, etc.,

id. ib. 9, 19, 1: philosophorum consultorumque opiniones, Quint. 12, 11, 17:

liber tuus et lectus est et legitur a me diligenter,

Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1:

orationem,

Quint. 1, 1, 6:

aiunt multum legendum esse non multa,

Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 15.—With a pers. obj.:

antiquos et novos,

Quint. 2, 5, 23:

antiquos studiosius,

id. 3, 6, 62:

poëtas,

id. 1, 4, 4. —In pass.:

Horatius fere solus legi dignus,

Quint. 10, 1, 96:

si cum judicio legatur Cassius Severus,

id. 10, 1, 116:

dumque legar, mecum pariter tua fama legetur,

Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 5:

sepulcra legens,

when reading epitaphs, Cic. de Sen. 7, 21:

legentium plerisque,

Liv. 1 praef. §

4: opus nescio an minimae legentibus futurum voluptati,

to my readers, Quint. 3, 1, 2; cf. id. 9, 4, 2; 2, 5, 3:

nec Cynicos nec Stoica dogmata,

Juv. 13, 121.— Absol.:

legendi usus,

Lact. 3, 25, 9:

memoriam continuus legendi usus instruit,

Macr. S. 1, 5, 1.—

In partic.

To read out, read aloud, recite (esp. freq. in post-Aug. authors):

convocatis auditoribus volumen legere, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 51, 191: codicem pro contione, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 4, 8:

audio me male legere, dumtaxat versus, orationes enim commodius,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34:

obturem impune legentibus aures,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 105:

quem vero arripuit tenet occiditque legendo,

with recitation, id. A. P. 475:

quis dabit historico quantum daret acta legenti,

to read him the news, Juv. 7, 104.—

To find in an author or a writing:

ut scriptum legimus,

Cic. Deiot. 7, 19:

legi etiam scriptum, esse avem quandam, etc.,

id. N. D. 2. 49 init.:

ego vero haec scripta legi,

id. Planc. 39, 94:

praeterea scriptum legimus, Gallos in venatibus tinguere sagittas,

Gell. 17, 15, 7. relatum legere, Nep. praef. 1.— Pass.:

in aliis codicibus non peccato sed peccatis legitur,

Aug. Cont. Jul. Rel. 1, 22; id. Don. Persev. 6 init. al.—

A publicist's t. t.: legere senatum, to read over or call off the names of senators (which was done by the censors;

v. lectio, II. A. 2.): censores fideli concordia senatum legerunt,

Liv. 40, 51; 9, 29; 9, 30; 9, 46; 43, 15 al.—Hence, lĕgens, entis, Part. as subst. m., a reader ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose for lector), Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 25.— Plur., Liv. praef. 4; Quint. 3, 1, 2; Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44; Tac. A. 4, 33.—Also, lectus, a, um, P. a., chosen, picked out, selected; choice, excellent (class.): argenti lectae numeratae minae, good, i. e. of full weight, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 50; so,

argentum,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 3:

ut neque vir melior neque lectior femina in terris sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

lectissimi viri atque ornatissimi,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 15; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29:

uxor lectissima,

id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

(verbis) lectis atque illustribus uti,

id. de Or. 3, 37, 150:

nihil est aliud... pulcre et oratorie dicere nisi optimis sententiis verbisque lectissimis dicere,

id. Or. 68, 227:

juvenum lectissime,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 247; cf.:

viginti lectis equitum comitatus,

Verg. A. 9, 48.—Hence, adv.: lectē, choicely, selectly (very rare):

ab lego lecte ac lectissime,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.— Comp.:

lectius,

Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2 (al. lecta).

lēgo, āvi, ātum (archaic perf. legassit for legaverit, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 148), 1, v. a. [lex; and therefore qs. lege creare], a publicist's and jurid. t. t.

A publicist's t. t.

To send with a commission or charge, to send on an embassy, send as ambassador; to depute, despatch:

ne hoc quidem senatui relinquebas, ut legati ex ejus ordinis auctoritate legarentur,

Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

hominem honestum ac nobilem legarunt ad Apronium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114: eos privatae rei causa legari, id. Fam. 3, 8, 4:

juste pieque legatus venio,

Liv. 1, 32:

tres adulescentes in Africam legantur, qui reges adeant, etc.,

Sall. J. 21, 4:

quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum legaverant impetratum, etc.,

Gell. 7, 14, 8.—

Transf. to the commission itself (ante- and post-class.):

quae verba legaverint Rhodii ad hostium ducem,

what they told him through their deputies, Gell. 15, 31 in lemm. —

Beyond the official sphere:

quin potius, quod legatum est tibi negotium, Id curas?

committed, intrusted, Plaut. Cas. 1, 12.—

To appoint or choose as deputy (as the official assistant, lieutenant, of a general or governor):

eum (Messium) Caesari legarat Appius,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 9:

ego me a Pompeio legari ita sum passus, ut, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 2, 6:

istum legatum iri non arbitror,

id. ib. 10, 1, 4:

ne legaretur Gabinius Pompeio expetenti,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

Dolabella me sibi legavit,

chose me for his lieutenant, id. Att. 15, 11, 4:

Calpurnius parato exercitu legat sibi homines nobiles, etc.,

Sall. J. 28.—

A jurid. t. t.: aliquid, to appoint by a last will or testament, to leave or bequeath as a legacy (class.):

Numitori, qui stirpis maximus erat, regnum vetustum Silviae gentis legat,

Liv. 1, 3: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3:

usumfructum omnium bonorum Caesenniae legat,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

Fabiae pecunia legata est a viro,

id. Top. 3, 14:

cui argentum omne legatum est,

Quint. 5, 10, 62:

in argento legato,

id. 7, 2, 11.—

Aliquid alicui ab aliquo, to leave one a legacy to be paid by the principal heir:

uxori testamento legat grandem pecuniam a filio, si qui natus esset: ab secundo herede nihil legat,

Cic. Clu. 12, 33:

si paterfamilias uxori ancillarum usum fructum legavit a filio, neque a secundo herede legavit,

id. Top. 4, 21; Quint. 7, 9, 5.—Hence,

lēgātus, i, m.

(Acc. to lego, I. A.) An ambassador, legate, Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

legatos mittere,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

ad senatum legatos de aliqua re mittere,

id. de Or. 2, 37, 155; cf.:

missi magnis de rebus uterque Legati,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

legatos mittere ad indicendum bellum,

Liv. 31, 8; Ov. M. 14, 527.—

(Acc. to lego, I. B.).

An official assistant given to a general or the governor of a province, a deputy, lieutenant, lieutenant-general:

quos legatos tute tibi legasti?

Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

qui M. Aemilio legati fuerunt,

id. Clu. 36, 99:

Quintus frater meus legatus est Caesaris,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Off. 3, 20, 79; cf.:

Murena summo imperatori legatus L. Lucullo fuit, qua in legatione duxit exercitum, etc.,

id. Mur. 9, 20; 14, 32:

neque se ei legatum defuturum,

id. Phil. 11, 7, 17; Val. Max. 5, 5, 1:

hiberna cum legato praefectoque tradidisses,

Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

(Calvisius) duos legatos Uticae reliquerat,

id. Phil. 3, 10 fin.:

quaestorius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 56; Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.:

L. Caesar, cujus pater Caesaris erat legatus,

id. B. C. 1, 8, 2:

magnitudo et splendor legati,

Liv. 38, 58, 9:

in magna legatum quaere popina,

Juv. 8, 172.—

Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province by the emperor, Tac. A. 12, 40; id. Agr. 33; Suet. Vesp. 4; Spart. Hadr. 3 et saep.; cf. legatio, I. B. 2., and Orell. ad Tac. Agr. 9.—

Legati legionum, commanders, Suet. Tib. 19; id. Vesp. 4; cf.:

Caesar singulis legionibus singulos legatos et quaestorem praefecit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52; Tac. A. 2, 36; id. H. 1, 7.—Also called;

legatus praetorius,

Tac. Agr. 7.—

lēgātum, i, n. (acc. to lego, II.), a bequest, legacy:

legatum est delibatio hereditatis, qua testator ex eo, quod universum heredis foret, alicui quid collatum velit,

Dig. 30, 116:

Hortensii legata cognovi,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 9:

reliqua legata varie dedit,

Suet. Aug. 101; id. Tib. 48:

legatum peto ex testamento,

Quint. 4, 2, 6:

jus capiendi legata alicui adimere,

Suet. Dom. 8:

cymbala pulsantis legatum amici,

Juv. 9, 62:

legatorum genera sunt quattuor,

Gai. Inst. 2, 192; cf. sqq.

lĕgo, lēgi, lectum ( gen. plur. part. legentum, Ov. Tr. 1. 7, 25), 3, v. a. [Gr. legô, logos, logas, etc.; Lat. legumen, di-leg-ens, neg-leg-o, etc.; cf. Germ. lesen], to bring together, to gather, collect.

Lit.

In gen.:

oleam,

Cato, R. R. 144:

nuces,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

herbas collibus,

Ov. M. 14, 347: flores et humi nascentia fraga, [p. 1048] Verg. E. 3, 92; cf.:

roscida mala,

id. ib. 8, 38:

flores in calathos,

Ov. F. 5, 218:

spolia caesorum,

Liv. 5, 39:

quos (montanos asparagos),

Juv. 11, 69.—Of the dead who have been burned:

ossa,

Ov. H. 10, 150:

homini mortuo ossa,

Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: ossa filii, Sen. de Ira, 2, 33, 6; cf. Quint. 8, 5, 21; Lact. de Mort. Persec. 21, 11:

reliquias legerunt primores equestris ordinis,

Suet. Aug. 100. —

Esp.

To take out, pick out, extract, remove:

quibusdam et radi ossa et legi... quae sine totius pernicie corporis haerere non poterant,

Sen. Prov. 1, 3, 2:

ossa vivis,

id. ad Marc. 22, 3:

ossa in capite lecta,

id. Ben. 5, 24, 3:

ossa e vulneribus,

Quint. 6, 1, 30.—

To pluck, strip, gather fruit from (a tree, etc.):

oleam qui legerit,

Cato, R. R. 144, 1:

ficus non erat apta legi,

Ov. F. 2, 254.—

Poet.: legere fila, to wind up:

extrema Lauso Parcae fila legunt,

i. e. spin the last thread of life, Verg. A. 10, 815; cf.:

quae dedit ingrato fila legenda viro,

Ov. F. 3, 462:

stamen,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 40 (42).—

Naut. t. t.: vela legere, to draw together, furl:

omnis navita ponto umida vela legit,

Verg. G. 1, 373:

vela legunt socii,

id. A. 3, 532:

ipse dabit tenera vela, legetque manu,

Ov. H. 15, 215; Val. Fl. 2, 13:

prora funem legit Argus ab alta,

draws in, takes in, id. 1, 312:

ancoras classis legit,

is weighing anchor, Sen. Troad. 759.—

To take to one's self unjustly, to carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract (not in Cic.): omnia viscatis manibus leget, omnia sumet: crede mihi, auferet omnia, Lucil. ap. Non. 332 and 396, 4:

majus esse maleficium stuprare ingenuam quam sacrum legere,

Auct. Her. 2, 30 fin.:

sacra divum,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 117:

soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,

Verg. A. 10, 79 Serv. ad loc. (but Forbig. renders legere here as = eligere, sumere; cf. 8. infra).—

Of places, to go, pass, or wander through ( poet.):

nec me studiosius altera saltus Legit,

Ov. M. 5, 579:

pars cetera pontum Pone legit,

sails through, Verg. A. 2, 207:

vada dura lego,

id. ib. 3, 706:

freta,

id. ib. 3, 127:

aequora Afra,

Ov. F. 4, 289:

Ioniumque rapax Icariumque legit,

id. ib. 4, 566: vestigia alicujus, to follow one's footsteps, to track or pursue him:

subsequitur pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

id. M. 3, 17; cf.:

et vestigia retro Observata legit,

Verg. A. 9, 392:

tortos orbes,

to wander through, id. ib. 12, 481.—

To pass or sail by, to skirt, to coast along a shore, land, or place (mostly poet.):

Inarimen Prochytenque legit,

Ov. M. 14, 89; 15, 705; 709: primi litoris oram, coast along, i. e. not enter into details, Verg. G. 2, 44; id. E. 8, 7:

navibus oram Italiae,

Liv. 21, 51 fin.:

oram Campaniae,

Suet. Tib. 11; cf.

terram,

id. Aug. 16. —

Pregn., to choose from a number, to pick out, single out, select, elect (class.):

alia esse oportet forma quem tu pugno legeris,

pick out to fight with, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 160:

judices,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

omnia, quae leget quaeque reiciet,

id. Fin. 4, 15, 40:

scribam,

to elect, appoint, id. Clu. 45, 126:

condiciones nubendi,

id. Cael. 15:

cives in patres,

Liv. 23, 22:

viros ad bella,

Ov. M. 7, 669:

geminasque legit de classe biremes,

Verg. A. 8, 79: legit virum vir, each one singles out his man (of the combatants in a battle), id. ib. 11, 632:

senatum ad modum pristinum redegit duabus lectionibus: prima ipsorum arbitratu, quo vir virum legit,

Suet. Aug. 35; Tac. H. 1, 18: neque ejus legendam filiam (sc. virginem Vestalem) qui domicilium in Italia non haberet, At. Cap. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 8.—

With inf.:

fidissima custos Lecta sacrum justae veneri occultare pudorem,

Stat. Th. 1, 530.

Trop.

To catch up, i. e. overhear a conversation:

nunc huc concedam, ut horum sermonem legam,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 21 (cf. sublegere, id. Mil. 4, 2. 98).—

To catch with the eye, to view, observe, behold, survey, see.

In gen.:

tumulum capit, unde omnes longo ordine posset Adversos legere,

Verg. A. 6, 755 Heyne ad loc.; and cf. Verg. A. 6, 34.—

In partic., to read or peruse a writing:

ut eos libros per te ipse legeres,

Cic. Top. 1:

defensionem causae,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:

legi apud Clitomachum, A. Albium jocantem dixisse, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 45, 137:

aliquid studiose intenteque,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 1:

significas legisse te in quadam epistula mea, jussisse Verginium, etc.,

id. ib. 9, 19, 1: philosophorum consultorumque opiniones, Quint. 12, 11, 17:

liber tuus et lectus est et legitur a me diligenter,

Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1:

orationem,

Quint. 1, 1, 6:

aiunt multum legendum esse non multa,

Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 15.—With a pers. obj.:

antiquos et novos,

Quint. 2, 5, 23:

antiquos studiosius,

id. 3, 6, 62:

poëtas,

id. 1, 4, 4. —In pass.:

Horatius fere solus legi dignus,

Quint. 10, 1, 96:

si cum judicio legatur Cassius Severus,

id. 10, 1, 116:

dumque legar, mecum pariter tua fama legetur,

Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 5:

sepulcra legens,

when reading epitaphs, Cic. de Sen. 7, 21:

legentium plerisque,

Liv. 1 praef. §

4: opus nescio an minimae legentibus futurum voluptati,

to my readers, Quint. 3, 1, 2; cf. id. 9, 4, 2; 2, 5, 3:

nec Cynicos nec Stoica dogmata,

Juv. 13, 121.— Absol.:

legendi usus,

Lact. 3, 25, 9:

memoriam continuus legendi usus instruit,

Macr. S. 1, 5, 1.—

In partic.

To read out, read aloud, recite (esp. freq. in post-Aug. authors):

convocatis auditoribus volumen legere, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 51, 191: codicem pro contione, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 4, 8:

audio me male legere, dumtaxat versus, orationes enim commodius,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34:

obturem impune legentibus aures,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 105:

quem vero arripuit tenet occiditque legendo,

with recitation, id. A. P. 475:

quis dabit historico quantum daret acta legenti,

to read him the news, Juv. 7, 104.—

To find in an author or a writing:

ut scriptum legimus,

Cic. Deiot. 7, 19:

legi etiam scriptum, esse avem quandam, etc.,

id. N. D. 2. 49 init.:

ego vero haec scripta legi,

id. Planc. 39, 94:

praeterea scriptum legimus, Gallos in venatibus tinguere sagittas,

Gell. 17, 15, 7. relatum legere, Nep. praef. 1.— Pass.:

in aliis codicibus non peccato sed peccatis legitur,

Aug. Cont. Jul. Rel. 1, 22; id. Don. Persev. 6 init. al.—

A publicist's t. t.: legere senatum, to read over or call off the names of senators (which was done by the censors;

v. lectio, II. A. 2.): censores fideli concordia senatum legerunt,

Liv. 40, 51; 9, 29; 9, 30; 9, 46; 43, 15 al.—Hence, lĕgens, entis, Part. as subst. m., a reader ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose for lector), Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 25.— Plur., Liv. praef. 4; Quint. 3, 1, 2; Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44; Tac. A. 4, 33.—Also, lectus, a, um, P. a., chosen, picked out, selected; choice, excellent (class.): argenti lectae numeratae minae, good, i. e. of full weight, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 50; so,

argentum,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 3:

ut neque vir melior neque lectior femina in terris sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

lectissimi viri atque ornatissimi,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 15; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29:

uxor lectissima,

id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

(verbis) lectis atque illustribus uti,

id. de Or. 3, 37, 150:

nihil est aliud... pulcre et oratorie dicere nisi optimis sententiis verbisque lectissimis dicere,

id. Or. 68, 227:

juvenum lectissime,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 247; cf.:

viginti lectis equitum comitatus,

Verg. A. 9, 48.—Hence, adv.: lectē, choicely, selectly (very rare):

ab lego lecte ac lectissime,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.— Comp.:

lectius,

Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2 (al. lecta).

lū̆crĭfăcĭo, fēci, factum, and in pass., lū̆crĭfīo, factus, fieri (also separately:

licet lucri dotem faciat,

Dig. 11, 7, 29:

me esse hos trecentos Philippos facturum lucri,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 26; id. Most. 2, 1, 7; id. Pers. 4, 4, 117; id. Truc. 3, 2, 22; usu. written as two words in recent edd. of Cic., etc.), 3, v. a. [lucrum facio], to gain, win, acquire, get (as profit).

Lit.:

pallium lucrifacere,

Petr. 15; Mart. 8, 10:

quid si ostendo in hac una optione lucri fieri tritici modios centum?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 111:

pecuniam lucri factum videtis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 75, § 174.—

Trop.:

quod lucrifecerunt hoc nomen turdi,

have appropriated, acquired, Varr. R. R. 3, 4: suum maleficium existimabant se lucrifacere, that they would escape the punishment of their fault, would get off with impunity, Auct. B. Hisp. 36:

injuriam,

to commit with impunity, Plin. 7, 39, 40, § 129:

traduc equum ac lucrifac censoriam notam,

i. e. think yourself lucky that you have escaped it, Val. Max. 4, 1, 10.— Neutr.:

lucrifecit,

made a profit, Mart. 8, 10.

noxa, ae, f. [for noc-sa, from noc-eo, like rixa from ringor], hurt, harm, injury, which one does or suffers (v. Döderl. Synon. 2, p. 153 sqq.; not in Cic., but cf. noxia; syn.: injuria, contumelia).

Lit.: QVANDOQVE HICE HOMINES... NOXAM NOCVERVNT, an old fetial formula in Liv. 9, 10 fin.; so, too, perhaps, SI SERVVS FVRTVM FAXIT NOXAMVE NOCVIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Dig. 9, 4, 2, § 1 (al. NOXIAMVE):

servus, qui noxam nocuit,

Dig. 35, 2, 63:

si eadem (terra) ad noxam genuit aliqua,

injurious, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 158:

tristes pellere a foribus noxas,

Ov. F. 6, 129:

ab noxā curculionum conditas fruges defendere,

Col. 1, 6, 15:

nihil eam rem noxae faturam,

Liv. 34, 19:

rempublicam non extra noxam modo, sed etiam extra famam noxae conservandam esse,

id. 34, 61:

sine ullius noxā urbis,

id. 36, 21: prava incepta consultoribus noxae esse, Sall. Or. Phil. contr. Lep.:

sine ullā noxā,

Cels. 7, 26, 4:

veram noxam concipere,

i. e. sickness, Col. 12, 3, 7.—

Transf.

An injurious act, i. e. a fault, offence, crime, = delictum:

noxae appellatione omne delictum continetur,

Dig. 50, 16, 238, § 3:

aliquem tenere in noxā,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 71:

hic in noxā est,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 36:

in noxā esse,

Liv. 32, 26; 7, 4:

noxae damnatus,

id. 8, 35:

reus ejus noxae,

id. 5, 47:

capitalis,

id. 3, 55:

neve ea caedes capitalis noxae haberetur,

id. 3, 55: qui in furto aut in latrocinio aut aliquā noxā sint comprehensi, * Caes. B. G. 6, 16:

graviorem noxam fateri,

Ov. P. 2, 9, 72:

noxa caput sequitur,

Paul. Sent. 2, 31, 8 sq.; cf. also Paul. ex Fest. under noxia init. —

Punishment (not ante-Aug.;

most freq. in jurid. Lat.): noxam merere,

Liv. 8, 28, 8 Drak.:

aliquem noxā pecuniāque exsolvere,

id. 23, 14, 3; 2, 59, 6; 26, 29, 4:

noxae dedere aliquem,

to deliver one up for punishment, Dig. 4, 3, 9; so ib. 7, 1, 17, § 2; cf. ib. 9, 4, 19;

hence: mergi freto, satius illi insulae (Siciliae) esse, quam velut dedi noxae inimico,

Liv. 26, 29, 4; and:

rem rusticam pessimo cuique servorum, ut carnifici noxae dedimus,

Col. 1 prooem.:

quod ajunt aediles: noxā solutus non sit (servus) sic intellegendum est, ut non hoc debeat pronuntiari, nullam eum noxam commisisse, sed illud, noxā solutum esse, hoc est noxali judicio subjectum non esse: ergo si noxam commisit nec permanet, noxā solutus videtur,

Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 17: non noxae eximitur Q. Fabius, qui contra edictum imperatoris pugnavit;

sed, noxae damnatus, donatur populo Romano,

Liv. 8, 35, 5:

noxae accipere aliquem,

to receive one for the purpose of punishing him, Dig. 7, 1, 17, § 2.— —

Concr., that which commits an offence, an offender, criminal (jurid. Lat.): noxa est corpus, quod nocuit, id est servus;

noxia ipsum maleficium, veluti furtum, damnum, rapina, injuria,

Just. Inst. 4, 8, 1:

aut noxiam sarcire aut noxam dedere oportet,

the guilty thing, Dig. 9, 1, 1, § 11; so,

noxae deditio,

ib. 9, 4, 4.

noxĭus, a, um, adj. ( comp. noxior, Sen. Clem. 1, 13, 2 dub.; al. obnoxior.— Sup. noxissimus or noxiissimus, Sen. Clem. 1, 26, 3 dub.; better, noxiosissimus) [id.].

Hurtful, harmful, injurious, noxious (used by Cic. only in archaic lang.; v. the foll.):

MAGISTRATVS NECOBEDIENTEM ET NOXIVM CIVEM MVLTA COERCETO,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6 (araneus) aculeo noxius, Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155:

afflatus maris (opp. utiles),

id. 17, 4, 2, § 24:

tela,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 22:

terrae halitus,

Quint. 7, 2, 3:

lingua,

Mart. 2, 61, 7:

aves,

rapacious, id. 10, 5, 12:

crimina,

Verg. A. 7, 326. —

Guilty, culpable, criminal: dictum oportuit. Lys. Non possum, ita instas;

urges quasi pro noxio,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 25:

nobilitas,

Sall. J. 42:

qui citati non affuerant, noxios judicavit,

Liv. 39, 41: corda, Ov. M. 10, 351:

omnibus omnium rerum noxior,

Sen. Clem. 1, 13, 2: reducto comā capite, ceu noxii solent, culprits, criminals (esp. those condemned to be thrown to wild beasts), Suet. Vit. 17; id. Calig. 27; id. Claud. 34; id. Ner. 12.—

With abl.:

Falisci, eodem noxii crimine,

Liv. 7, 20, 9. —

With gen.:

noxius conjurationis,

Tac. A. 5, 11:

facinoris,

Dig. 29, 5, 3, § 12.— Esp. as subst.: noxĭa, ae, f., hurt, harm, damage, injury (class.; syn. noxa).

Lit.: noxia, ut Serv. Sulpicius Rufus ait, damnum significat, apud poëtas autem et oratores ponitur pro culpā, at noxa peccatum, aut pro peccato poenam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.:

in re incipiundā ad defendendam noxiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

si ab eo fides sibi data esset, haud futurum noxiae futurum,

Liv. 8, 18, 4:

sive ullius eorum quos oderat noxia,

id. 41, 23, 14:

veneficiorum noxia,

Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 108:

vini,

id. 14, 16, 19, § 100.—

Transf., an injurious act, a fault, offence, trespass:

noxa est corpus, quod nocuit id est servus: noxia ipsum maleficium, veluti furtum, damnum, rapina, injuria,

Just. Inst. 4, 8, 1:

Tranioni remitte, quaeso, hanc noxiam causā meā,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 47:

manufestum teneo in noxiā,

id. Merc. 4, 3, 31:

noxiā carere,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 87:

noxiis vacuum esse,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 23:

in noxiā esse,

id. ib. 4, 3, 30:

amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam,

id. Trin. 1, 1, 1 and 4:

quod in minimis noxiis et in his levioribus peccatis id primum quaeritur, quae causa maleficii fuerit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 62:

si qua clades incidisset, desertori magis, quam deserto noxiae fore,

the blame would fall on, Liv. 10, 19: metum prorsus et noxiam conscientiae pro foedere haberi, fear and guilt served the participants as an agreement, i. e. brought them to an agreement, Tac. A. 6, 4. —Hence, adv.: noxĭē (post-class.), injuriously, perniciously:

multos petulca confoderat,

Sulp. Sev. Dial. 2, 9; Aug. Conf. 1, 7.

noxĭus, a, um, adj. ( comp. noxior, Sen. Clem. 1, 13, 2 dub.; al. obnoxior.— Sup. noxissimus or noxiissimus, Sen. Clem. 1, 26, 3 dub.; better, noxiosissimus) [id.].

Hurtful, harmful, injurious, noxious (used by Cic. only in archaic lang.; v. the foll.):

MAGISTRATVS NECOBEDIENTEM ET NOXIVM CIVEM MVLTA COERCETO,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6 (araneus) aculeo noxius, Plin. 9, 48, 72, § 155:

afflatus maris (opp. utiles),

id. 17, 4, 2, § 24:

tela,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 22:

terrae halitus,

Quint. 7, 2, 3:

lingua,

Mart. 2, 61, 7:

aves,

rapacious, id. 10, 5, 12:

crimina,

Verg. A. 7, 326. —

Guilty, culpable, criminal: dictum oportuit. Lys. Non possum, ita instas;

urges quasi pro noxio,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 3, 25:

nobilitas,

Sall. J. 42:

qui citati non affuerant, noxios judicavit,

Liv. 39, 41: corda, Ov. M. 10, 351:

omnibus omnium rerum noxior,

Sen. Clem. 1, 13, 2: reducto comā capite, ceu noxii solent, culprits, criminals (esp. those condemned to be thrown to wild beasts), Suet. Vit. 17; id. Calig. 27; id. Claud. 34; id. Ner. 12.—

With abl.:

Falisci, eodem noxii crimine,

Liv. 7, 20, 9. —

With gen.:

noxius conjurationis,

Tac. A. 5, 11:

facinoris,

Dig. 29, 5, 3, § 12.— Esp. as subst.: noxĭa, ae, f., hurt, harm, damage, injury (class.; syn. noxa).

Lit.: noxia, ut Serv. Sulpicius Rufus ait, damnum significat, apud poëtas autem et oratores ponitur pro culpā, at noxa peccatum, aut pro peccato poenam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.:

in re incipiundā ad defendendam noxiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 48:

si ab eo fides sibi data esset, haud futurum noxiae futurum,

Liv. 8, 18, 4:

sive ullius eorum quos oderat noxia,

id. 41, 23, 14:

veneficiorum noxia,

Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 108:

vini,

id. 14, 16, 19, § 100.—

Transf., an injurious act, a fault, offence, trespass:

noxa est corpus, quod nocuit id est servus: noxia ipsum maleficium, veluti furtum, damnum, rapina, injuria,

Just. Inst. 4, 8, 1:

Tranioni remitte, quaeso, hanc noxiam causā meā,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 47:

manufestum teneo in noxiā,

id. Merc. 4, 3, 31:

noxiā carere,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 87:

noxiis vacuum esse,

id. Merc. 5, 4, 23:

in noxiā esse,

id. ib. 4, 3, 30:

amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam,

id. Trin. 1, 1, 1 and 4:

quod in minimis noxiis et in his levioribus peccatis id primum quaeritur, quae causa maleficii fuerit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 62:

si qua clades incidisset, desertori magis, quam deserto noxiae fore,

the blame would fall on, Liv. 10, 19: metum prorsus et noxiam conscientiae pro foedere haberi, fear and guilt served the participants as an agreement, i. e. brought them to an agreement, Tac. A. 6, 4. —Hence, adv.: noxĭē (post-class.), injuriously, perniciously:

multos petulca confoderat,

Sulp. Sev. Dial. 2, 9; Aug. Conf. 1, 7.

săcer, sā̆cra, sā̆crum (ante-class. collat. form sacer, sacris, sacre; plur.:

sacres porci,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 16; id. Rud. 4, 6, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 20; 4, 16; sing. acc.: sacrem porcum, Fest. s. h. v. p. 318 Müll.), adj. [root sa-; Gr. saos, sôos, safe; whence Lat. sānus], dedicated or consecrated to a divinity, holy, sacred, = hieros (cf.: sanctus, augustus): Gallus Aelius ait, sacrum esse quocumque modo atque instituto civitatis consecratum sit, sive aedis, sive ara, sive signum, sive locus, sive pecunia, sive quid aliud quod dis dedicatum atque consecratum sit, Fest. s. v. sacer mons, p. 318 Müll.; cf.:

quicquid destinatum est diis, sacrum vocatur,

Macr. S. 3, 7:

sacrae (res) sunt quae diis superis consecratae sunt: religiosae quae diis manibus relictae sunt,

Gai. Inst. 2, 3.

In gen.

Absol.:

quicquam (opp. profanum),

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 27; id. Trin. 2, 2, 8; cf.:

aedificiis omnibus, publicis privatis sacris profanis, sic pepercit, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 54, § 129; so,

locus sacer et profanus,

id. Inv. 1, 26, 38; Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; Quint. 5, 10, 38:

miscebis sacra profanis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 54; id. A. P. 397; Nep. Them. 6, 5; Sall. C. 11, 6:

villae signis et tabulis refertae partim publicis partim etiam sacris et religiosis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 31; so (with religiosus) id. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127; Suet. Tib. 61:

mores autem rapere properant quā sacrum quā puplicum,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 37:

(legum) genera sunt tria, sacri, publici, privati juris,

Quint. 2, 4, 33; cf. in the sup.:

deprecor hoc unum per jura sacerrima lecti,

Ov. H. 9, 159:

aedes,

Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 5; Cic. Fam. 13, 11, 1; Quint. 4, 2, 8; Ov. M. 14, 315:

lucus late sacer,

Verg. A. 5, 761:

arvum Martis,

Ov. M. 7, 101:

ara,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 20:

aurum,

Liv. 5, 50; cf.

pecunia (opp. privata),

Quint. 4, 2, 8:

arma,

Liv. 24, 21:

tus,

Ov. M. 14, 130:

sanguis (of the sacrificial victim),

Cat. 68, 75:

ales (so called from its use in augury),

Verg. A. 11, 721:

luces (with profestae),

Hor. C. 4, 15, 25; cf.

dies (with religiosus),

Suet. Tib. 61:

tempus,

Hor. C. S. 4:

commissum,

a crime against religion, Cic. Leg. 2, 9 et saep.— Poet.: vitis (as sacred to Bacchus), Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 149 Vahl.); Hor. C. 1, 18, 1; so,

laurus,

id. ib. 3, 4, 18; Verg. A. 7, 60:

robur,

Ov. M. 8, 752:

aqua,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 22:

fontes,

Ov. M. 2, 464; Verg. E. 1, 53:

focus,

Hor. Epod. 2, 43:

Tarentum,

id. C. 1, 28, 29:

fines,

Sil. 3, 501; cf.

montes (the Alps, because not to be ascended by men),

id. 4, 70;

vates (because dedicated to Apollo),

Hor. C. 4, 9, 28; Tib. 2, 5, 113; cf.:

sacer interpresque deorum Orpheus,

Hor. A. P. 391;

and (for sanctus) of the divinity itself: Vesta,

Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 11; so,

Cybebe,

id. 3 (4), 22, 3 (but in Liv. 3, 19: ut sacrosancti habeantur, quibus ipsi dii neque sacri neque sancti sunt, so used only on account of the lusus verbb. with sacrosancti;

v. the context).—Sacer Mons,

a hill about three miles from Rome, beyond the Anio, and on the right of the Via Nomentana, to which the Roman people retired during their controversy with the Senate, Liv. 2, 32; 3, 52; Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63; id. Brut. 14, 54:

os sacrum, quod imum ventrem sustinet,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4: Sacra Via, or ( poet.) Sacer Clivus, a street in Rome leading from the Forum to the Capitol, Cic. Planc. 7, 17; id. Att. 4, 3, 3; Hor. S. 1, 9, 1; id. C. 4, 2, 35; Mart. 1, 70, 5;

v. also via, I. A. 2.: sacer morbus,

the epilepsy, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4:

sacer lapis,

a stone landmark, a mere-stone, Liv. 41, 13: os sacrum, anatom. t. t., = Gr. hieron osteon, the lowest bone of the spine, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4, 24:

litterae sacrae (eccl. Lat.),

the Scriptures, Vulg. 2 Tim. 3, 15.—For its combinations with ignis, via, etc., v. those words.—

With gen. (class.):

ego te sacram coronam surripuisse scio Jovis,

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 38; so,

urna Veneris,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 16 (for which:

urna Veneria,

id. ib. 2, 5, 18):

Dianae celebris dies,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 20:

sepulcrum Batti veteris,

Cat. 7, 6; cf. Plin. 8, 21, 31, § 76.—As a predicate: terra, ut focus domiciliorum, sacra deorum omnium est (a transl. of the Platon. Gê hiera pantôn theôn), Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45:

illa insula (sc. Delos) eorum deorum sacra putatur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 48.—

With dat. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.

infra, II. A.): sacra Jovi quercus,

Ov. M. 7, 623:

esculus Jovi sacra,

Plin. 16, 4, 5, § 11:

Nymphis cervus,

Ov. M. 10, 109:

Cereri Polyphoetes (as a priest),

Verg. A. 6, 484:

pugionem templo Salutis detraxerat gestabatque velut magno operi sacrum,

Tac. A. 15, 53:

cupressus Diti sacra,

Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 139:

aesculus Jovi,

id. 16, 4, 5, § 11.—As a predicate:

Jani mensis, Qui sacer est imis Manibus,

Ov. F. 2, 52, quercus antiqua, quae erat Marti sacra, Suet. Vesp. 5 (al. sacrata).—

Transf., in gen., holy, sacred, awful, venerable (not till after the Aug. per., and very rare):

silentium,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 29:

laedere amantes,

Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 11:

lingua (Ciceronis),

Mart. 5, 69, 7:

Maro,

id. 8. 56, 3:

quaedam patris memoria,

Quint. 11, 1, 59:

O sacer et magnus vatum labor,

Luc. 9, 983:

heu sacri vatum errores,

Sil. 8, 100.—So used of the emperors;

disapproved of by Tiberius: (Tiberius) alium dicentem sacras ejus occupationes verba mutare et pro sacris laboriosas dicere coëgit,

Suet. Tib. 27.—But soon after Tiberius in general use:

auris Caesaris,

Mart. 7, 99, 4:

sacri lateris custos,

id. 6, 76, 1:

apud aures sacras mentitus est,

Amm. 28, 6, 26 (cf.:

se Imperatori mentitum,

id. 28, 6, 26, § 21); and hence, for ecclesiastical: domus, comitatus, scrinia, largitiones, etc., in the law books et saep.

In partic., with a bad accessory signif., devoted to a divinity for destruction, forfeited; and absol., accursed, criminal, impious, wicked.

With dat.: si quisquam aliuta faxit, ipsos Jovi sacer esto, Lex Numae ap. Fest. p. 6 Müll.; cf.: ut caput ejus Jovi sacrum esset, an ancient plebiscitum ap. Liv. 3, 55, 7:

non alienum videtur, de condicione eorum hominum referre, quos leges sacros esse certis diis jubent, quod, cum cetera sacra violari nefas sit, hominem sacrum jus fuerit occidi, etc.,

Macr. S. 3, 7.—

Absol.: homo sacer is est, quem populus judicavit ob maleficium; neque fas est eum immolari; sed qui occidit, parricidii non damnatur. Nam lege tribuniciā primā cavetur: si quis eum, qui eo plebei scito sacer sit, occiderit, parricida ne sit. Ex quo quivis homo malus atque improbus sacer appellari solet, Fest. s. v. sacer mons, p. 318 Müll.: PATRONVS SI CLIENTI FRAVDEM FECERIT SACER ESTO, LEX XII. Tab. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 6, 609;

in imitation: uter aedilis fuerit, etc.... is intestabilis et sacer esto,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 181:

eum, qui cuiquam nocuerit, sacrum sanciri,

Liv. 3, 55.—

Transf., in gen., accursed, execrable, detestable, horrible, infamous, etc. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Of persons:

ego sum malus, Ego sum sacer, scelestus,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 14; Afran. ap. Non. 397, 22 (with malus); Lucil. ib. 397, 27.— Sup., Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 67:

homo sacerrimus,

id. Poen. prol. 90; id. Rud. 1, 2, 69; Turp. ap. Non. 397, 29 (with pessimus). —

Of things: sacerrimum domicilium, Turp. ap. Non. 397, 30:

di magni, horribilem et sacrum libellum,

Cat. 14, 12:

hircus alarum,

id. 71, 1:

auri fames,

Verg. A. 3, 57 (for which:

aurum fame,

Plin. 33, 1, 3, § 6:

venenum (Medeae),

Val. Fl. 7, 165:

nox,

id. 8, 25:

arma metu,

id. 4, 185; cf.

pavor,

id. 1, 798:

insania,

Stat. Th. 10, 804:

morbus,

i. e. epilepsy, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4.—With dat.:

ut immerentis fluxit in terram Remi Sacer nepotibus cruor,

Hor. Epod. 7, 20.— Comp. and adv. do not appear (as for the comp. v. Varr. L. L. 8, § 77 Müll.).—Hence, subst.: sā̆crum, i, n., something consecrated; a holy or sacred thing, a sacred vessel or utensil; a sanctuary, a temple; a religious act, a sacrifice, etc.; in plur. in gen., sacred rites, religious worship, religion (both of the State and of single races and families; and even of individuals; v. infra, b; class.; most freq. in plur.).

Lit.

Sing.:

sacrum sacrove commendatum qui cleperit rapsitque parricida esto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22:

ubi sacro manus sis admolitus,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 24:

omne sacrum rapiente dextrā,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 52:

metuens velut contingere sacrum,

id. S. 2, 3, 110:

apud Cluacinae sacrum,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 10; Quint. 1, 4, 6:

Minervae,

Dict. Cret. 5, 12 fin.:

theatrum veluti quoddam illius sacri templum vocabimus,

Quint. 3, 8, 29: [p. 1611] quae (sacerdos Cereris) Graecum illud sacrum monstraret et faceret, Cic. Balb. 24, 55:

sacrum Herculi facere,

Liv. 1, 7:

facere Junoni,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 43:

facto per Magos sacro,

Suet. Ner. 34:

sollemne sacrum conficere,

Flor. 1, 13, 16:

ita se habet sacrum (Suovetaurilia),

Quint. 1, 5, 67:

arma lecta conici in acervum jussit consul sacrumque id Vulcano cremavit,

Liv. 41, 12:

sacrum piaculare fieri,

id. 29, 19:

sollemne Apollinis sacrum,

Suet. Aug. 94; Ov. M. 12, 33:

pyrā sacri sub imagine factā,

id. ib. 14, 80:

nec de lucernā fas est accendi sacrum,

Phaedr. 4, 11, 13:

neve initianto, nisi ut assolet, Cereri, Graeco sacro,

according to the Grecian rites, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 21; cf.:

vetabo, qui Cereris sacrum Vulgarit arcanae,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 26:

morientibus operire (oculos) rursusque in rogo patefacere, Quiritium ritu sacrum est,

Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150:

in sacro est,

id. 18, 12, 30, § 118.—

Plur.: sacra deosque penates.. ex aedibus suis eripuisse dixit, sacred vessels or utensils, holy things, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5, § 13; cf. Liv. 5, 40:

sacra omnia proferre, Auct. B. Alex. 32, 3: portabant canistris,

Ov. M. 2, 713:

Troïa,

Tib. 2, 5, 40:

velut qui Junonis sacra ferret,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 11; cf.

of the same,

Verg. A. 2, 293; 2, 717 Heyne; Ov. F. 1, 527; id. H. 7, 80; 7, 158:

cumque suis penetralia sacris,

i. e. the images of the gods, Penates, id. M. 1, 287:

jactata aequoribus sacra,

Hor. C.4,4,54:

pueri Sacra canunt,

sacred songs, Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 19:

sacra ordine in mensā Penatium deorum Ponuntur,

sacred gifts, offerings, Naev. B. Pun. 1, 11:

neve ulla vitiorum sacra sollemnia obeunto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

sicut in sollemnibus sacris fieri consuevit,

Sall. C. 22, 2:

qui (Mercurius) sacris anniversariis coleretur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 39, § 84 (for which:

sacrificiis anniversariis colebatur,

id. ib. 2, 4, 57, §

128: sacris e principum numero pontifices quinque praefecit,

id. Rep. 2, 14, 26:

(Romulus) sacra diis aliis Albano ritu, Graeco Herculi facit,

Liv. 1, 7; cf.:

sacra Jovi facturus erat,

Ov. M. 3, 26:

sacra Jovi Stygio Perficere,

Verg. A. 4, 638:

ipse (Numa) plurima sacra obibat,

Liv. 1, 20:

densi circumstant sacra ministri,

Ov. M. 2, 717:

arcana sacra,

Hor. Epod. 5, 52; Ov. M. 10, 436:

fera,

id. ib. 13, 454:

nefanda,

id. ib. 10, 228:

mystica,

id. H. 2, 42:

horrida,

Sil. 3, 140:

veneranda,

id. 7, 382:

casta,

Stat. Achill. 1, 370.

Divine worship or religion in gen.: publica sacra, quae publico sumptu pro populo fiunt, quaeque pro montibus, pagis, curiis, sacellis: at privata, quae pro singulis hominibus, familiis, gentibus fiunt, Fest. pp. 244 and 245 Müll.; Liv. 5, 52:

quo foedere (Romulus) et Sabinos in civitatem ascivit, sacris communicatis,

Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 13:

quod per populum errari fas non erat propter religionem sacrorum,

id. Agr. 2, 7, 18; so,

religio sacrorum,

id. Fl. 28, 69:

sacra Cereris conficere,

id. Balb. 24, 55; so,

Cereris,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 14 (cf. supra, a fin.):

Eleusina,

Suet. Claud. 23:

Junonis,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 11:

Orphica,

rites, solemnity, festival, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 58:

Bacchia,

Ov. M. 3, 518:

trieterica Bacchi,

id. ib. 6, 587:

Dianae,

id. ib. 7, 94;

15, 489: Isidis,

Suet. Oth. 12 et saep.—

The private religious rites of a gens, a family, etc. (observed by the Romans with the greatest care):

sacra privata perpetua manento,

Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 47:

an gentilicia sacra ne in bello quidem intermitti, publica sacra et Romanos deos etiam in pace deseri placet?

Liv. 5, 52:

ut ne morte patris familias sacrorum memoria occideret,

Cic. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

docebant (antiqui) tribus modis sacris adstringi,

id. ib. 2, 20, 49:

magnum est eadem habere monumenta majorum, eisdem uti sacris, sepulcra habere communia,

id. Off. 1, 17, 55; cf.:

ut qui natus sit, ignoret, cujus sanguinis, quorum sacrorum sit,

Liv. 4,2:

sacra interire illi (majores) noluerunt,

Cic. Mur. 12, 27:

sacrorum alienatio,

id. Or. 42, 144 (v. alienatio); cf. sing.:

sacrum familiare,

Macr. S. 1, 16:

nuptialia,

marriage solemnities, Quint. 1, 7, 28;

called also jugalia,

Ov. M. 7, 700; cf. respecting the sacra privata of the Romans, Savigny, in his Zeitschr. 2, p. 397 sq.—

Poet., poems (as sacred to the Muses):

mihi jam puero caelestia sacra placebant, Inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 19:

vatum,

Pers. prol. 7:

Maronis,

Mart. 7, 63, 5. —

Prov.

Inter sacrum saxumque stare, to stand between the victim and the knife, i. e. to be between the door and the wall, to be in great straits, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 84; cf.:

inter sacrum et saxum positus,

App. M. 11, p. 271 fin. —

Hereditas sine sacris, i. e. a great profit without trouble, = a rose without thorns, meat without bone, etc. (because the keeping up of the sacra privata was attended with great expense), Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 8, and id. Trin. 2, 4, 83; cf. Fest. p. 290 Müll.—

Transf., in gen. (the figure being borrowed from secret religious rites), in plur.: sacra, secrets, mysteries (not till after the Aug. period, and very rare):

sacra tori coitusque novos referebam,

Ov. M. 7, 709:

peregisse mihi videor sacra tradentium artes,

Quint. 5, 14, 27 (cf.:

omnes fere, qui legem dicendi, quasi quaedam mysteria, tradiderunt,

id. 5, 13, 60):

litterarum colere,

id. 10, 1, 92:

studiorum profanare,

Tac. Or. 11.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

vindĭco (on account of a supposed derivation from venum - dico, also written vendĭco), āvi, ātum, 1 (collat. form, acc. to the 3d conj., VINDICIT, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1 fin.), v. a. [vim - dico, prop. to assert authority, viz. in a case where legal possession of a thing claimed is refused; hence, transf.], to lay legal claim to a thing, whether as one's own property or for its restoration to a free condition.

Lit.: IN. IVS. DVCITO. NI IVDICATVM FACIT AVT QVIS ENDO EOM IVRE VINDICIT, i. e. eum in jure vindicat, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf., on the form of laying claim to disputed personal property, Gai Inst. 4, 16:

vindicare sponsam in libertatem,

Liv. 3, 45, 11; cf. id. 3, 48, 5; 3, 46, 7:

puellam,

id. 3, 46, 3:

ita vindicatur Virginia spondentibus propinquis,

id. 3, 46, 8.—

Transf., in gen. (freq. and class.; cf. assero).

To lay claim to as one's own, to make a claim upon, to demand, claim, arrogate, assume, appropriate a thing:

omnia non Quiritium sed sapientium jure pro suis vindicare,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 27:

videor id meo jure quodam modo vindicare,

id. Off. 1, 1, 2:

Homerum... Chii suum vindicant,

id. Arch. 8, 19:

ortūs nostri partem patria vindicat,

id. Off. 1, 7, 22:

maximam partem quasi suo jure Fortuna sibi vindicat,

id. Marcell. 2, 6:

ceterarum rerum quae sunt in oratore, partem aliquam sibi quisque vindicat,

id. Or. 19, 69:

quod neque summi imperatores... sibi umquam vindicare sunt ausi,

Quint. 1, prooem. §

14: partem oneris tui mihi vindico,

Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2:

majestatem sibi,

id. Pan. 42, 1:

partis sibi aequas potentiae,

Suet. Tib. 50; id. Tit. 5; Sen. Ira, 3, 30, 3; id. Cons. Helv. 3, 9; id. Q. N. 1, 1, 10; Val. Max. 4, 3, 1; 5, 3, ext. 2; cf. Plin. Pan. 8, 2; Val. Max. 4, 5, 3: iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est; prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur, Tac. Agr. 27:

victoriae majore parte ad se vindicatā,

Liv. 44, 14, 8:

decus belli ad se,

id. 9, 43, 14:

tanta tamen universae Galliae consensio fuit libertatis vindicandae, ut, etc.,

should be maintained, vindicated, Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

Trasimenum pro Tarsimeno multi auctores... vindicaverunt,

have adopted, Quint. 1, 5, 13; so id. 1, 5, 26:

vindicet antiquam faciem, vultusque ferinos Detrahat,

reassume, Ov. M. 2, 523.— Poet., with inf.:

vindicat hoc Pharius dextrā gestare satelles,

Luc. 8, 675.—

To place a thing in a free condition.

In libertatem vindicare, to set free, to free, emancipate:

in libertatem rem populi,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48:

ex dominatu Ti. Gracchi in libertatem rem publicam,

id. Brut. 58, 212:

rem publicam afflictam et oppressam in veterem dignitatem ac libertatem,

i. e. to restore, id. Fam. 2, 5, 2:

Galliam in libertatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

se et populum Romanum in libertatem,

id. B. C. 1, 22.—

To deliver, liberate, protect, defend:

te ab eo vindico et libero,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9:

nos a verberibus, ab unco, a crucis terrore neque res gestae neque acta aetas neque vestri honores vindicabunt?

id. Rab. Perd. 5, 16:

sapientia sola nos a libidinum impetu et formidinum terrore vindicat,

id. Fin. 1, 14, 46:

quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?

id. Fl. 17, 40:

aliquem a miseriis morte,

id. Brut. 96, 329:

a molestiā,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 2:

a labore,

id. Sull. 9, 26:

domum suam a solitudine,

id. de Or. 1, 45, 199:

laudem summorum oratorum ab oblivione hominum atque a silentio,

rescue, id. ib. 2, 2, 7:

sed ab hac necessitate egregie vos fortuna vindicat,

Liv. 37, 54, 10:

corpora a putrescendo (sal),

Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 98:

ebur a carie (vetus oleum),

id. 15, 7, 7, § 32:

capillum a canitie,

id. 28, 11, 46, § 164:

se non modo ex suspitione tanti sceleris, verum etiam ex omni hominum sermone,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

perpetienda illa fuerunt, ut se aliquando ad suos vindicaret,

might restore, id. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

quam dura ad saxa revinctam Vindicat Alcides,

sets free, Ov. M. 11, 213:

tandem absolutus vindicatusque est (reus),

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 1.—

With respect to some wrong perpetrated (cf. ulciscor), to avenge, revenge, punish; to take vengeance on any one; make compensation for:

omnia quae vindicaris in altero, sibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 4:

maleficium in aliis vindicare,

id. Sull. 6, 19:

facinus in nullo etiam,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

dolum malum et legibus,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61. acerrime maleficia, id. Rosc. Am. 5, 12:

consensionem improborum supplicio omni,

id. Lael. 12, 43:

eam rem quam vehementer,

id. Quint. 7, 28:

Ti. Gracchi conatus perditos,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

necem Crassi,

Ov. F. 6, 468:

offensas ense,

id. Tr. 3, 8, 40:

fortuita non civium tantummodo sed urbium damna principis munificentia vindicat,

Vell. 2, 126, 4.— Impers. pass.:

fateor non modo in socios, sed etiam in cives militesque nostros persaepe esse severe ac vehementer vindicatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 133:

vindicandum in eos,

Sall. J. 31, 18:

vindicatum in eos, qui, etc.,

id. C. 9, 4; cf.:

in quos (Venetos) eo gravius Caesar vindicandum statuit, quo diligentius, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 16.—

Transf. (after the analogy of ulcisci): vindicare se ab (de) aliquo, to revenge one's self upon one:

se ab illo,

Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 3:

se de fortunā praefationibus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 14.— Pass.:

quantā saevitiā opus erat, ut Sulla de Mario vindicaretur,

Flor. 3, 21, 19.