meretricium

mĕrē̆trīcĭus, a, um, adj. [meretrix], of or pertaining to harlots or prostitutes, meretricious.

Adj. (class.):

meretricia ornamenta,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 63:

quaestus,

Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44:

disciplina,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6:

domus,

a courtesan's house, Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 18:

amores,

Cic. Cael. 20, 48.—

Subst.: mĕrē̆trīcĭum, ii, n.

The art of a courtesan:

inmutari blandimentis, hortamentis, ceteris meretriciis,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 63.—

The trade of a harlot:

meretricium facere,

Suet. Calig. 40.—Hence, adv.: mĕrē̆trīcĭē, after the manner of harlots, meretriciously (ante-class.):

digne ornata, haud meretricie,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 58.

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mĕrē̆trīcĭus, a, um, adj. [meretrix], of or pertaining to harlots or prostitutes, meretricious.

Adj. (class.):

meretricia ornamenta,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 63:

quaestus,

Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44:

disciplina,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6:

domus,

a courtesan's house, Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 18:

amores,

Cic. Cael. 20, 48.—

Subst.: mĕrē̆trīcĭum, ii, n.

The art of a courtesan:

inmutari blandimentis, hortamentis, ceteris meretriciis,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 63.—

The trade of a harlot:

meretricium facere,

Suet. Calig. 40.—Hence, adv.: mĕrē̆trīcĭē, after the manner of harlots, meretriciously (ante-class.):

digne ornata, haud meretricie,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 58.

rĕ-pello, reppuli (less correctly repuli), rĕpulsum, 3, v. a., to drive, crowd, or thrust back; to reject, repulse, repel, etc., = reicere (freq. and class.; syn.: reicio, repono, removeo).

Lit.:

eum ego meis Dictis malis his foribus atque hac reppuli, rejeci hominem,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 19:

aliquem foribus,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 90:

foribus tam saepe repulsus,

Ov. Am. 3, 11, 9:

homines inermos armis,

Cic. Caecin. 12, 33:

adversarius, qui sit et feriendus et repellendus,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

aliquem ab hoc templo,

id. Phil. 14, 3, 8:

homines a templi aditu,

id. Dom. 21, 54:

Sabinos a moenibus urbis,

id. Rep. 2, 20, 36:

hostes a ponte,

Caes. B. C. 1, 16;

ab castris,

id. ib. 1, 75:

a citeriore ripā,

Front. Strat. 1, 4, 10:

aliquem inde,

Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63:

hostes in silvas,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28 fin.:

in oppidum,

id. ib. 3, 22 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 14 fin.— Absol.:

nostri acriter in eos impetu facto, repulerunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17. —Of impersonal objects (mostly poet.):

reppulit mihi manum,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 14; cf. Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 72:

telum aere repulsum,

repelled, Verg. A. 2, 545:

mensas,

to push back, Ov. M. 6, 661; cf.

aras,

id. ib. 9, 164:

repagula,

to shove back, id. ib. 2, 157:

tellurem mediā undā,

crowds back, id. ib. 15, 292:

navem a terrā, Auct. B. Alex. 20: serpentes,

Amm. 14, 2, 5. — Poet., of the apparent pushing back or away of the starting-point, in flying up or sailing away:

Oceani spretos pede reppulit amnes,

Verg. G. 4, 233; cf.:

cum subito juvenis, pedibus tellure repulsā, Arduus in nubes abiit,

spurning the ground, Ov. M. 4, 710:

impressā tellurem reppulit hastā,

id. ib. 2, 786;

6, 512: aera repulsa,

i. e. cymbals struck together, Tib. 1, 3, 24; 1, 8, 22; cf.:

aera Aere repulsa,

Ov. M. 3, 533.—

Trop., to drive away, reject, remove; to keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse, etc.:

repelli oratorem a gubernaculis civitatum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46:

aliquem a consulatu,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:

ab hoc conatu,

id. Or. 11, 36:

a cognitione legum,

id. Balb. 14, 32:

ab impediendo ac laedendo,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 14, 55:

ab hac spe repulsi Nervii,

Caes. B. G. 5, 42:

repulsum ab amicitiā,

Sall. J. 102, 13:

fracti bello fatisque repulsi,

Verg. A. 2, 13:

repulsus ille veritatis viribus,

Phaedr. 1, 1, 9:

hinc quoque repulsus,

Nep. Lys. 3:

per colloquia repulsus a Lepido,

Vell. 2, 63, 1. —

Of suitors for office,

Cic. Planc. 21, 51:

haud repulsus abibis,

Sall. J. 110, 8; Liv. 39, 32. —

Of lovers: saepe roges aliquid, saepe repulsus eas,

Prop. 2, 4, 2 (12):

proci repulsi,

Ov. M. 13, 735:

aliquam ad meretricium quaestum,

to drive, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 43.—

Of abstract objects: dolorem a se repellere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

furores Clodii a cervicibus vestris,

id. Mil. 28, 77:

illius alterum consulatum a re publicā,

id. Att. 7, 18, 2:

quod tamen a verā longe ratione repulsum'st,

removed, Lucr. 1, 880; cf. id. 2, 645; 5, 406:

tegimenta ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 6, 767: cute ictus, Ov. M. 3, 64:

pericula,

Cic. Mur. 14, 30; Caes. B. C. 1, 79, 2:

vim (opp. inferre),

Cic. Mil. 19, 51:

crimen (with transferre),

Quint. 4, 2, 26:

temptamina,

Ov. M. 7, 735:

facinus,

id. ib. 15, 777:

fraudem,

id. A. A. 3, 491:

verba,

id. P. 4, 1, 19:

ver hiemem repellit,

id. M. 10, 165:

conubia nostra,

to reject, disdain, Verg. A. 4, 214 amorem, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 76:

preces,

id. M. 14, 377:

diadema,

to refuse, reject, Vell. 2, 56, 4; Suet. Caes. 79; cf.

dictaturam,

Vell. 2, 89, 5:

ut contumelia repellatur,

be discarded, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 137.— Hence, rĕpulsus, a, um, P. a., removed, remote; once in Cato: ecquis incultior, religiosior, desertior, publicis negotiis repulsior, Cato ap. Fest. p. 286, and ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 287 Müll.