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(adj.) absent, missing, away, gone.

to be absent, be away, be missing.

defui

deesse

to fail, err, fall short, be missing, absent.

a hole, empty space / pond, pool / deficiency, loss.

missing letters, words, or phrases in a manuscript.

maim, mutilate, mangle / imperfect, not whole, missing a part.

dēsīdĕrātĭo, ōnis, f. [desidero], a desiring, longing for any thing; a missing (rare): voluptatum, * Cic. de Sen. 14, 47; plur. Vitr. 8 praef. fin. —

The question to be examined:

relinquetur desideratio, quid, etc.,

Vitr. 2, 6, 4.

dē-sīdĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. considero], to long for, greatly wish for, to desire something not possessed (freq. and class.—for syn. cf.: opto, requiro, expeto, appeto, affecto, cupio, concupisco, aveo, gestio, capto, volo).

In gen., with acc.:

Dies noctesque me ames, me desideres,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113:

quam tu filium tuom, tam pater me meus desiderat,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 66:

natura quid velit, anquirat, desideret,

Cic. Lael. 24:

nec sitio honores, nec desidero gloriam,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 3:

dum illa desideramus, ab aliis avertimur,

Quint. 10, 6, 7:

quid desideremus aut deprecemur,

id. 4, 1, 52:

nec nunc vires desidero adolescentis non plus quam adolescens tauri aut elephanti desiderabam,

Cic. de Sen. 9; Caes. B. C. 3, 74, 2:

desiderantem quod satis est,

Hor. Od. 3, 1, 25:

Sextilem totum mendax desideror,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 2 et saep.—

With acc. and inf.:

me gratiam aps te inire verbis nil desidero,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 10:

mihi dari haud desidero,

id. Merc. 1, 2, 37:

quo ullam rem ad se importari desiderent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 2.— With inf. alone:

mori,

Vulg. Apoc. 9, 6.—

With ab or in:

ab Chrysippo nihil magnum desideravi,

Cic. Rep. 3, 8; id. Att. 8, 14, 2; Quint. 3, 1, 2 al.:

ab milite modestiam et continentiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52 fin.:

in quo (Catone) summam eloquentiam,

Cic. Brut. 31, 118; id. Fin. 5, 5, 13; id. Fam. 8, 5, 1; id. Lael. 22, 82; Quint. 7, 2, 55 al.—

Absol.:

misere amans desiderat,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 30; id. Mil. 4, 6, 29; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 16 al.—

Of inanimate subjects:

desiderarunt te oculi mei,

Cic. Planc. 5, 13:

nullam virtus aliam mercedem laborum desiderat praeter, etc.,

id. Arch. 11, 28:

ut desiderat laus probationem, sic, etc.,

Quint. 3, 7, 4 et saep.:

desiderant rigari arbores,

Plin. 17, 26, 40, § 249.

With predominant idea of lacking, wanting, to miss any thing:

ex me audies, quid in oratione tua desiderem,

Cic. Rep. 2, 38:

si non est, nolis esse neque desideres,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 73:

quid a peritioribus rei militaris desiderari videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 61, 3 et saep.—Esp. with quominus:

praeter quercum Dodonaeam nihil desideramus, quo minus Epirum ipsum possidere videamur,

Cic. Att. 2, 4, 5. —

Meton. (effectus pro causa), to lose something; and more freq. pass., to be missing, to be lost:

in eo proelio non amplius CC milites desideravit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 99; cf. id. ib. 3, 71:

ut nulla navis desideraretur,

id. B. G. 5, 23, 3; 7, 11, 8 et saep.:

neque quicquam ex fano praeter unum signum desideratum est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44; Vell. 2, 52, 6:

ex peditibus triginta,

Curt. 3, 29, 27.—

With the notion of inquiring, searching; to investigate, examine, discuss (rare):

sequitur ut morbo laborantibus remedia desiderentur,

Col. 9, 13, 1:

examina,

id. 9, 8, 1.— Impers.:

antequam desideraretur,

before the question should be raised, Vitr. 2, 6, 4.—Hence,

dēsīdĕrans, antis, P. a., in Sup. desiderantissimus, in the later writers for desideratissimus, as a term of endearment, heart's desire, best beloved:

vale, domine dulcissime, desiderantissime,

Fronto Ep. 5, 40; M. Aur. ib. 1, 5;

L. Aur. Verus,

ib. 2, 8; Inscr. Orell. 4644.— Adv.: dēsīdĕranter, acc. to no. I., with desire, eagerly (late Lat.):

appetere,

Cassiod. Var. 1, 4.— Comp.:

quanto desiderantius desideras,

Fronto Ep. ad Ver. Imp. 13.—

dēsīdĕrātus, a, um, P. a., wished for, longed for, welcome (very rare):

et veniet desideratus cunctis gentibus,

Vulg. Aggaei, 2, 8: blandissima et desideratissimi promissa. Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 2:

fratres desideratissimi,

Vulg. Philip. 4, 1;

and in inscrr. applied to a beloved person: FILIO DESIDERATISSIMO,

Inscr. Orell. 5068; id. Grut. 681, 2 al.

quaero (old orthogr. QVAIRO, Epitaphs of the Scipios, 6; for the original form and etym. quaeso, ĕre, v. quaeso), sīvi or sĭi, sītum, 3, v. a., to seek.

Lit.

In gen.: aliquem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 43 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 3:

te ipsum quaerebam,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 3:

escam in sterquilinio,

Phaedr. 3, 12 init. —

In partic.

To seek to get or procure, to seek or search for a thing, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 38:

rem mercaturis faciendis,

Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46.— Absol.:

contrivi in quaerendo vitam atque aetatem meam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 15; 5, 3, 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 57; id. A. P. 170.—

Transf., to get, procure, obtain, acquire a thing:

uxores liberorum quaerendorum causā ducere,

Suet. Caes. 52:

liberorum quaerundorum causā ei uxor data est,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 109; cf.:

quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 21.—

To seek for something missing, to miss:

Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

optatos Tyndaridas,

Prop. 1, 17, 18:

Phoebi comam,

Tib. 2, 3, 20:

amnes,

Stat. Th. 4, 703.—

To ask, desire, with ut and subj.:

quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem quidnam istis agendum putem,

Cic. Att. 14, 20, 4.—

Trop.

In gen., to seek, i. e. to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing:

dum id quaero, tibi qui filium restituerem,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 83:

quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus,

Sall. C. 33,5:

fugam,

Cic. Att. 7, 17, 1; id. Mur. 37, 80:

sibi remedium ad rem aliquam,

id. Clu. 9, 27:

de gratiā quid significares, mecum ipse quaerebam,

id. Att. 9, 11, A, 1.—With inf.:

tristitiae causam si quis cognoscere quaerit,

seeks, strives, endeavors, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 7; id. Am. 1, 8, 51; Hor. C. 3, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2 al.—

In partic.

To look for, seek to gain any thing; to get, acquire, obtain, procure:

laudem sibi,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 74:

salutem alicui malo,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 2:

negabant ullā aliā in re nisi in naturā quaerendum esse illud summum bonum,

Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

pudentem exitum suae impudentiae,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2:

invidiam in aliquem,

id. Rab. Post. 17, 46. —

Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, to demand, need, require, = requirere:

quod cujusquam oratoris eloquentiam quaereret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 29:

lites ex limitibus judicem quaerant,

Varr. R. R. 1, 15, 1:

bellum dictatoriam majestatem quaesivisset,

Liv. 8, 30:

quaerit Boeotia Dircen,

Ov. M. 2, 239. —

To seek to learn from any one; to ask, inquire, interrogate (cf.: interrogo, percontor).

With ab:

cum ab iis saepius quaereret,

made inquiries, Caes. B. G. 1, 32:

quaero abs te nunc, Hortensi, cum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 191:

quaesivit a medicis, quemadmodum se haberet,

Nep. Dion, 2, 4:

a quo cum quaesisset, quo se deduci vellet,

id. Epam. 4, 5; cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60. —

With de:

quaerebat paulo ante de me, quid, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 9, 18:

de te ipso quaero, Vatini, utrum, etc.,

id. Vatin. 4, 10:

quaero de te, arbitrerisne, etc.,

Liv. 4, 40:

cura tibi de quo quaerere nulla fuit,

Ov. P. 4, 3, 18.—

With ex:

quaesivi ex Phaniā, quam in partem provinciae putaret, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 1:

quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18.—

With a rel.-clause:

ille baro te putabat quaesiturum, unum caelum esset an innumerabilia,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3:

natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est,

Hor. A. P. 409:

quaeritur inter medicos, cujus generis aquae sint utilissimae,

Plin. 31, 3, 21, § 31.—

To desire,

With inf. (post-Aug.):

e monte aliquo in alium transilire quaerens,

Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214:

qui mutare sedes quaerebant,

Tac. G. 2.—

Transf., of animals, plants, etc., to desire, prefer, seek:

salictum et harundinetum... umidum locum quaerunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5:

glires aridum locum quaerunt,

id. ib. 3, 15, 2; Col. 1, praef. §

26: lupinum quaerit maxime sabulosa,

Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 134;

so of the soil: ager aquosus plus stercoris quaerit,

demands, Pall. 1, 6, 15.—

To examine or inquire into judicially, to investigate, institute an investigation; with [p. 1502] acc. (rare):

hunc abduce, vinci, rem quaere,

Ter. Ad. 3 (4), 36:

non dubitabat Minucius, quin iste (Verres) illo die rem illam quaesiturus non esset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 72. —With de and abl. (class.; cf.

Krebs, Autibarb. p. 962 sq.): de pecuniis repetundis,

Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 27:

de morte alicujus,

id. Rosc. Am. 41, 119:

de servo in dominum,

to question by torture, put to the rack, id. Mil. 22, 59:

aliquid per tormenta,

Suet. Tib. 58:

legibus,

to investigate according to the laws, impartially, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 3. —

Transf.: si quaeris, si quaerimus (prop., if we, or you, look well into the matter; if we, or you, would know the truth), to say the truth, in fact, to speak honestly:

omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2:

at sunt morosi, et anxii, et difficiles senes: si quaerimus, etiam avari,

id. Sen. 18, 65:

si quaeritis,

id. de Or. 2, 62, 254; so,

too, si verum quaeris,

id. Fam. 12, 8, 1:

si verum quaeritis,

id. de Or. 2, 34, 146:

si verum quaerimus,

id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55: noli quaerere or quid quaeris? in short, in one word:

noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est,

id. Fam. 4, 4, 3:

quid quaeris? biduo factus est mihi familiaris,

id. ib. 3, 1, 2.— Hence, quaesītus, a, um, P. a., sought out.

In a good sense, select, special, extraordinary (mostly post-Aug.): epulae quaesitissumae, Sall. ap. Macr. S. 2, 9, 9 (Sall. H. 2, 23, 4 Dietsch); comp.:

leges quaesitiores (opp. simplices),

Tac. A. 3, 26:

quaesitior adulatio,

id. ib. 3, 57.— Sup.:

quaesitissimi honores,

Tac. A. 2, 53.—

In a bad sense (opp. to what is natural), far-fetched, studied, affected, assumed (class.):

vitabit etiam quaesita nec ex tempore ficta, sed domo allata, quae plerumque sunt frigida,

Cic. Or. 26, 89:

ut numerus non quaesitus, sed ipse secutus esse videatur,

id. ib. 65, 219:

comitas,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

asperitas,

id. ib. 5, 3.—

Subst.: quaesītum, i, n.

A question ( poet.):

accipe quaesiti causam,

Ov. M. 4, 793; id. F. 1, 278; Hor. S. 2, 6, 82.—

A question as a rhetorical figure, = pusma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 524.