mōbilitās

duplico, āvi, ātum, āre (duplex), zwiefältig-, doppelt machen, I) eig.: a) in zwei Teile spalten, -reißen, vesicam, auseinander zerren, Cels.: lamina duplicata lateribus, in zwei Blätter gespalten, Cels. – b) doppelt zusammenfalten = zusammenkrümmen, nos duplicat timos (= timor), Naev. tr. fr.: duplicatque virum (hasta) transfixa dolore, Verg.: duplicatus corruit, Stat.: duplicataque vulnere caeco est, Ov.: corpus frigore duplicatum, Val. Max.: duplicato poplite, Verg. – c) Wörter zusammensetzen, faciliore ad duplicanda verba Graeco sermone, Liv. 27, 11, 5. – II) übtr., verdoppeln, 1) der Zahl nach, a) übh. = um das Doppelte vergrößern, -vermehren, hoc, Varro: numerum dierum, Cic.: numerum patrum, equitum, Cic., civium, Liv., obsidum, Caes.: summam, Val. Max.: legata, Suet.: domini reditum (Einkünfte), Col.: copias, Liv.: exercitum, Cic.: vires (Streitkräfte), Liv. u.a.: vota, Verg. – m. Dat. (wem?), legionibus stipendium, Suet.: tributa provinciis, Suet. – b) insbes., als rhet. t.t., d. verba, unmittelbar nacheinander wiederholen (Synon. iterare, zweimal setzen), Cic. or. 35; part. or. 20. – 2) der Ausdehnung nach, a) extensiv = doppelt so lang (hoch) machen, um das Doppelte verlängern, -vergrößern, -erweitern, hastae modum, Nep.: crescentes umbras (v. der Sonne), Verg.: duplicata noctis imago est, die Nacht hat ein

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doppeltes Bild, Ov.: d. iter, Caes.: d. eius diei iter, Caes.: cursum, Caes.: imperium (Romanum), Plin. u. Val. Max.: duplicata scansio (Ggstz. scansio simplex), Varro LL.: duplicata nimbo flumina, Ov. – b) intensiv, verdoppeln, = verlängern, vergrößern, vermehren, erhöhen, mobilitas duplicatur et impetus ille gravescit, Lucr.: d. vires, Sil.: bellum, erneuern, Sall. hist. fr. 1, 26 (31). Tac. hist. 4, 54. Aur. Vict. de Caes. 33, 2: tenebras, Val. Max.: cognita in peius, doppelt gefährlich darstellen, Amm.: duplicari sollicitudines, Cic.: duplicatā gloriā discessissem, Cic.: duplicatā erga nos benevolentiā, Val. Max.: senectus, per se gravis, duplicat curam, Sall. fr. – ⇒ Parag. Infin. duplicarier, *Manil. 4, 248 (die Hdschrn. u. Jacob duplicari et).

im-perturbātus, a, um (in u. perturbo), ungestört, ungetrübt, os, Ov. Ib. 558: venarum imp. mobilitas, Sen. nat. qu. 6, 14, 2: imp. otia, Sil. 15, 58: imperturbata publicis occupationibus quies, Sen. ep. 73, 10. – v. Pers. usw., ohne Affekte, affektlos, ruhig, Sen. ep. 85, 2 sqq.: animus imp., Sen. ep. 66, 6: audio imperturbatus, interritus, Plin. ep. 9, 13, 8.

meo, āvi, ātum, āre, sich in einer bestimmten Bahn (Heerstraße, Flußbett, Kanal [Luftröhre] usw.) od. nach gegebenen Gesetzen mit einer gewissen Regelmäßigkeit, in einem Zuge fortbewegen, ziehen, wandeln, gehen, α) v. leb. Subjj.: means exercitus, Curt.: domus Plutonia, quo simul mearis, Hor.: in orientem comite Liviā, Tac. – acipenser, unus omnium piscium squamis ad os versis, contra quam in nando meant (sc. ceteri pisces omnes), Plin. – β) v. lebl. Subjj.: v. Wagen, interruptis angusto transitu iugis, ita ut vix singula meent plaustra, Plin. – v. Schiffen, cum triremes huc illuc mearent, Tac.: iter, quā (wo) meant navigia, Curt. – v. Flüssen usw., fließen, strömen, quod (flumen) specu mergitur alteque conditum meat, Plin. ep.: amnis libero cursu meat, Curt.: aquae meantis sonus, Curt.: Pontus semper extra meat in Propontidem, Plin.: Rhodanus fluvius ex Alpibus veniens per Lemannum lacum meat, Mart. Cap. – v. Himmelskörpern, meantia sidera, Planeten, Ov.: lunaris illa orbita ceteraque supra lunam meantia (sidera), Sen.: siderum cursus in occasum meantium, Lact.: quā sidera lege mearent, Ov.: circulus, per quem sol meat, Plin. – v. Atem, liberius meare spiritus coeperat, Curt.: interclusus spiritus arte meabat, Lucr.; vgl. anima diversa in membra means, Lucan. – von Luft u. Dunst, meat aura per quaedam velut organa, Quint.:

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vapor is, quem sol mittit, lumenque serenum non per inane meat vacuum, Lucr.: quaeve sit ollis (genitalibus materiai corporibus) reddita mobilitas magnum per inane meandi, Lucr. – ⇒ Lucil. 190 liest Vahlen² ›vera manet sententia cordi‹.

stabilitās, ātis, f. (stabilis), das Feststehen, die Festigkeit, I) eig.: dentium, Plin.: peditum in proeliis, Stetigkeit (Ggstz. mobilitas equitum), Caes.: stirpes stabilitatem dant iis, quae sustinent, Cic. – II) übtr., die Festigkeit, Standhaftigkeit, Unveränderlichkeit, amicitiae, Cic.: fortunae, Cic.: divinae mentis, Boëth.: sententiae, quae stabilitatis aliquid habeant, Cic.

tarditās, ātis, f. (tardus), I) die Langsamkeit, Säumigkeit, das zögernde Wesen in der Bewegung od. Tätigkeit (Ggstz. celeritas, mobilitas, instantia [Emsigkeit]), a) v. leb. Wesen, mula tarditatis indomitae, Plin.: plenisque in rebus gerendis tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est, Cic.: nosti hominis tarditatem et taciturnitatem, Cic. – Plur. = langsame Bewegungen, celeritates tarditatesque, Cic.: ne tarditatibus utamur in ingressu mollioribus, Cic.: regradationes siderum vel fortasse tarditates, Augustin. gen. ad litt. 2, 16. – b) v. sachl. u. abstr. Subjj., die Langsamkeit, langsame Bewegung, langsame Wirkung, langsam und schwer vor sich gehende Tätigkeit, Verzögerung, pedum, Cic.: navium, Caes.: veneni, langsame Wirkung, Tac.: aurium, Schwerhörigkeit, Plin.: so auch audientium, Plin.: sententiarum moraque rerum, Cic.: tanta fuit operis tardiras (es ging so langsam mit der Arbeit), ut etc., Cic.: tarditatem afferre bello, Cic. – insbes., der langsame, ruhige Gang der Töne u. Rede (Ggstz. cursus, der rasche Gang), tarditas modorum et gravitas canentis, Cic. de consil. suis fr. 3 Kays.: cursum contentiones magis requirunt, expositiones rerum tarditatem, Cic. or. 212. – II) übtr., die Langsamkeit, geistige Trägheit, Stumpfheit, das träumerische Wesen, ingenii, Cic.: animi, Gell.: hominum, Cic.: quid abiectius tarditate et stultitiā, Cic.

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artĭfex, fĭcis, m. [ars-facio].

Subst.

1.. One that is master in the liberal arts (while opifex is a master in the artes sordidae; cf. ars, I. B. 1.), an artist, artificer:

illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12:

reponendarum (tegularum) nemo artifex (i. e. architectus) inire rationem potuit,

Liv. 42, 3:

in armamentario multis talium operum (sc. tormentorum) artificibus de industriā inclusis,

id. 29, 35:

ut aiunt in Graecis artificibus eos auloedos esse, qui citharoedi fieri non potuerint, sic, etc.,

Cic. Mur. 13, 29; cf. Ov. M. 11, 169 al.:

artifices scaenici,

Cic. Arch. 5, 10; id. Quinct. 25; Suet. Caes. 84:

artifex lignorum,

a carpenter, Vulg. 2 Reg. 5, 11; so,

artifex lignarius,

ib. Isa. 44, 13:

artifices lapidum,

masons, ib. 2 Reg. 5, 11:

artifex aerarius,

a worker in bronze, ib. 3 Reg. 7, 14 (often thus used in Vulg. for opifex).—Also absol.:

artifex,

Plaut. Am. prol. 70:

multi artifices ex Graeciā venerunt,

Liv. 39, 22; so id. 5, 1; 5, 7; 5, 2; 41, 20; so Vulg. Exod. 36, 4; ib. Isa. 40, 20; ib. Act. 19, 24 et saep.—So of a charioteer, as in Gr. technitês:

ne hoc gloriae artificis daretur (auriga standing just before),

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186.—Of a physician, Liv. 5, 3. —Of an orator or writer:

Graeci dicendi artifices et doctores,

Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 23:

cum contra talem artificem (sc. Hortensium oratorem) dicturus essem,

id. Quinct. 24 fin.:

politus scriptor atque artifex,

id. Or. 51, 172. —

Trop., a master in any thing, in doing any thing, etc.:

artifices ad corrumpendum judicium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 71:

artifex callidus comparandarum voluptatum,

id. Fin. 2, 35, 116:

Cotta in ambitione artifex,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 12, 47:

serendae in alios invidiae artifex,

Tac. H. 2, 86 al. —

A maker, originator, author, contriver:

si pulcher est hic mundus, si probus ejus artifex, etc.,

Cic. Tim. 2:

cujus (civitatis) artifex et conditor (est) Deus,

Vulg. Heb. 11, 10:

artifex omnium natura,

Plin. 2, 1, 1, § 3:

si indocta consuetudo tam est artifex suavitatis,

id. Or. 48, 161:

artificem (sc. malorum) mediis immittam Terea flammis,

Ov. M. 6, 615:

vadit ad artificem dirae Polymestora caedis,

id. ib. 13, 551:

sceleris infandi artifex,

Sen. Agam. 975.—Ironic.:

O artificem probum!

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 29.—Also for a sly, cunning contriver, inventor of a thing (cf. ars, II. fin.):

et mihi jam multi crudele canebant Artificis scelus,

Verg. A. 2, 125; 11, 407. —

Adj.

Act., skilled in a thing; skilful, practised, ingenious, dexterous:

Bomilcar et per homines talis negotii artifices itinera explorat,

Sall. J. 35, 5:

miles decollandi artifex,

Suet. Calig. 32:

artifex faber de silvā,

Vulg. Sap. 13, 11:

tam artifices saltationis,

Suet. Tit. 7.—Also of inanimate things:

artifices Natura manus admovit,

Ov. M. 15, 218:

Tellus artifices ne terat Osca manus,

Prop. 5, 2, 62:

artifex, ut ita dicam, stilus,

Cic. Brut. 25, 95:

mobilitas ignea artifex ad formanda corpora,

Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 187:

vir tam artificis ingenii,

id. 8, 16, 21, § 55 al. — Poet. with inf.:

venter, negatas artifex sequi voces,

Pers. prol. 11.—

Pass., skilfully prepared or made, artistic, artificial, ingenious:

quattuor artifices vivida signa boves,

Prop. 3, 29, 8:

tantae tamque artifices argutiae,

Plin. 10, 29, 4, § 85:

artifex dimicatio,

id. 8, 40, 61, § 150:

motus,

Quint. 9, 4, 8:

manus libratur artifici temperamento,

Plin. 12, 25, 54, §

115: artifex vultus,

Pers. 5, 40:

plaga,

Sol. 35 al. — Poet. of a horse, broken, trained, Ov. A. A. 3, 556.

dū̆plĭco, āvi, ātum, 1 (u long, Verg. E. 2, 67), v. a. [duplex], to double (class.)

Lit.:

numerum dierum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 22; so,

numerum,

id. Rep. 2, 20 (twice); Caes. B. G. 4, 36, 2; Tac. H. 2, 30:

modum hastae,

Nep. Iphicr. 1 fin.:

exercitum,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.

copias,

Liv. 7, 7:

fructum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 69, 1; cf.:

reditum pretio,

Col. 12, 52, 2:

rem,

Pers. 6, 78:

stipendium legionibus in perpetuum,

Suet. Caes. 26:

tributa,

id. Vesp. 16:

verba,

i. e. to repeat, Cic. Or. 39, 135 (with iterare); id. Part. 6, 20 sq.; also, to form a bipartite word, to compound (e. g. androgynus):

faciliore ad duplicanda verba Graeco sermone,

Liv. 27, 11.—

Transf.

(Acc. to duplex, I. B. 3.), to double, i. e. to enlarge, augment, increase:

mobilitas duplicatur,

Lucr. 6, 337:

duplicato ejus diei itinere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 76 fin.; cf.

cursu,

id. ib. 3, 92, 2:

et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras,

Verg. E. 2, 67; cf. Ov. M. 11, 550:

duplicata nimbo flumina,

id. Am. 1, 9, 11:

ut in dies magis magisque haec nascens de me duplicetur opinio,

Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2: curam, Sall. Or. Cottae, p. 245 ed. Gerl.; cf. sollicitudines, Lucei. in Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2: bellum, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 2, 67.—

In poets and in post-Aug. prose meton. (effectu pro causa), to double up, to bow, bend a person or thing: nos duplicat timos, Naev. ap. Non. p. 487 (Trag. v. 45 Rib.):

duplicato poplite,

Verg. A. 12, 927:

corpus frigore,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 1 ext.:

virum dolore,

Verg. A. 11, 645; Ov. M. 6, 293; Stat. Th. 3, 89; 6, 859.—

To double by dividing, to split in two, tear apart, tear (late Lat.):

capillum,

Cels. 7, 7, 8:

vesicam,

id. 7, 26, 2 fin. al.—Hence, * dū̆plĭcāto, adv., twice as much:

degredi,

Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 76.

lĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [1. levis], lightness, as to weight.

Lit. (rare):

plumarum,

Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745:

armorum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 34:

nulli fruticum levitas major,

Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—

Transf., poet., movableness, mobility:

Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,

Ov. F. 2, 673.—

Trop.

Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.):

quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?

Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9:

temere assentientium,

id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

in populari ratione,

id. Brut. 27, 103:

mobilitas et levitas animi,

Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,

lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

amatoriis levitatibus dediti,

frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62:

manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,

Quint. 10, 3, 17:

contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—

In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare):

opinionis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.

lēvĭtas ( laev-), ātis, f. [2. lēvis], smoothness.

Lit. (class.):

speculorum,

Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

intestinorum,

slipperiness, lubricity, Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.—

Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility:

Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,

Cic. Or. 31, 110:

verborum,

Quint. 10, 1, 52:

effeminata,

id. 8, 3, 6.

lĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [1. levis], lightness, as to weight.

Lit. (rare):

plumarum,

Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745:

armorum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 34:

nulli fruticum levitas major,

Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—

Transf., poet., movableness, mobility:

Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,

Ov. F. 2, 673.—

Trop.

Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.):

quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?

Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9:

temere assentientium,

id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

in populari ratione,

id. Brut. 27, 103:

mobilitas et levitas animi,

Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,

lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

amatoriis levitatibus dediti,

frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62:

manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,

Quint. 10, 3, 17:

contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—

In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare):

opinionis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.

lēvĭtas ( laev-), ātis, f. [2. lēvis], smoothness.

Lit. (class.):

speculorum,

Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

intestinorum,

slipperiness, lubricity, Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.—

Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility:

Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,

Cic. Or. 31, 110:

verborum,

Quint. 10, 1, 52:

effeminata,

id. 8, 3, 6.

palpē̆bra, ae, f. (collat. form palpē̆brum, i, n., Non. 218, 19; Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1), an eyelid (usually in plur.; cf. cilium).

Lit.:

palpebrae sunt tegmenta oculorum... munitaeque sunt palpebrae tamquam vallo pilorum, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: ipsae palpebrae, quibus mobilitas inest, et palpitatio vocabulum tribuit, etc., Lact. Opif. Dei, 10 init.; Lucr. 4, 952:

Regulum resectis palpebris vigilando necaverunt,

Cic. Pis. 19, 43; cf. Tubero ap. Gell. 6, 4, 3.—In sing., Cels. 5, 26, 23.—

Transf.

Plur., the eyelashes, Plin. 11, 37, 56, § 154; 25, 13, 99, § 156.—

Plur., the eyes (eccl. Lat.):

palpebrae ejus interrogant filios hominum,

Vulg. Psa. 10, 4.